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Isn’t it strange that this website is continually subject to DDoS attacks.
Why? What is the point?
None of us are going to physically disrupt lives, damage property or incite others to do so.
I am university educated. Yet I want to learn more. It is why I read this site. It is why I sometimes comment.
We are free to speak here. Debate, share personal knowledge, learn and sometimes disagree.
We have a diverse community of contributors. From all walks of life. Many of those whom are experts in their field.
Rather than someone outside wanting us to use free speech and debating freely.. They are trying to shut this site and therefore your free speech comments down.
Understand.. An attack on Jonova.com is also an attack on your free speech.
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The globalist Western intelligentsia have have become intellectually inbred.
Their insular world is threatened by the very principles of openness that produced them.
They blame Donald Trump and ‘populism’.
They are so devoid of self-awareness that they fail to understand that Donald Trump is not to blame for the coming of Donald Trump.
Their actions and attitudes conjured him.
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Excellent comment William.
If you don’t have time to investigate a matter to find out which side is correct, there is a simple way to tell.
The side that wants to shut down free speech is wrong.
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They attackers don’t care about free speech. Nor do they believe in it and neither does Australia’s Uniparty hence the “misinformation” laws which narrowly failed to pass but will no doubt be reintroduced, and Australia’s e Safety Kommisar, both inventions of the fake conservative Liberal Party.
The Left in general don’t believe in or want free speech. Notice Leftoids are allowed to come here to express their opinions, as wrong and as offensive as they may be, but most conservatives who post here who have tried to post on one of “their” sites have found themselves censored.
And just in the last couple of days Australia cancelled the visa of Hillel Fuld, an American-Israeli citizen, who was coming here to speak for a charity fund-raiser. He was banned because he also has strong anti-terrorist views (his brother was murdered by a terrorist).
I would have gone to the charity event to hear him speak. How dare Tony Burke (Minister who cancelled the visa) deny me the right to peacefully hear his opinion.
Now Mike Huckabee and the Trump Administration have rebuked Australia fir doing so.
And as is the case when the Australian Government bans conservatives from coming here, it’s always at the last minute after arrangements and bookings have been made. They even denied Donald Trump Jr coming here, his visa was eventually allowed, but only at the last minute which was too late for Trump Jr and venues had been cancelled etc. so he couldn’t come.
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“We are free to speak here. Debate, share personal knowledge, learn and sometimes disagree.”
There’s your answer Bill, someone doesn’t want us to have that.
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william x,
That strikes me as a side issue. How important is your ability to comment here? Or mine? Or David Maddison’s?
The *real* issue if Jo Nova’s gets blocked is depriving you, me and everyone else from reading what Jo says.
For perspective: I enjoy the EconTalk podcast. Looking at the comments there, there might be 50 active commenters, but the host recently mentioned that there are about 150,000 downloads of the podcast each week. 3,000 listers for every commenter! What are the proportions of active commenters to active readers at Jo Nova’s? You might remember Jo making special thanks to Edward in Ohio, and Rusty somewhere in Australia recently. Haven’t seen any comments by either of them.
Jo might be able to share the real statistics.
FWIW, here are some commenter statistics I’ve gleaned this morning from the ten articles from Sat 31 May to Fri 6 Jun:
Total comments: 1198
Unique commenter names: 168
Most prolific commenters (avg. 1 comment per day or more):
111 David Maddison
75 another ian
63 MeAgain
55 Hanrahan
49 John Connor II
49 TdeF
38 KP
38 OldOzzie
31 Ronin
26 Dennis
24 el+gordo
22 crakar24
21 RickWill
19 Vladimir
19 Yarpos
19 yarpos
18 Graeme4
17 farmerbraun
16 Broadie
16 Skepticynic
15 Geoff Sherrington
14 Ross
13 Eng_Ian
12 Honk R Smith
11 Annie
11 Strop
11 Vicki
10 Robert Swan
10 Tonyb
9 David of Cooyal in Oz
9 Earl
9 Gob
9 Graeme No.3
8 Forrest Gardener
8 Gary S
8 Peter C
8 Rowjay
8 wal1957
7 Bruce
7 Custer Van Cleef
7 PeterPetrum
7 Sceptical Sam
7 Simon Thompson
7 TedM
7 ozfred
(I see Yarpos would be up with OldOzzie and KP if he was consistent with his shift key)
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I am falling well behind Graeme No.4 – do I need to upgrade to Graeme No.5?
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Whatever happened to Graeme No 2?
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Don’t know. I selected No.3 when there was a spirited debate on an article in The Australian with 2 other Graemes in favour of some other (when I wasn’t) called I think Silly Filly, and I joined in.
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More like consistent with what option i select from the drop down list that appears when i select the name box. No typing involved.
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Curtailing free speech isn’t measured by how many are silenced. Whether it’s 1 or 1,000 it is still an attack on free speech.
Plus, when you consider that free speech is also associated with freedom of thought and freedom to consume free speech, the number of readers who read the comments (people who visit this site and don’t comment) makes it a far more significant issue than just the “50 active” commenters you list.
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Strop,
YES. YES. Those were the conclusions I wanted people to make from that comment.
It’s not the commenters that most people tune in for, it’s Jo. The one-week sample only had 168 commenters. Jo would likely have figures for page impressions from unique IP addresses (or some such). That’d give an indication of actual readership (though not when undergoing a DDOS attack; and web crawlers would inflate the figures too). I’m confident the numbers are a big multiple of 168…
It’s those people I was thinking about when I said:
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Obviously Jo is the drawcard. But we don’t know whether the comments section has a significant number of readers.
The actual majority of reading/viewing content is provided in the comments section. Jo writes say 7 articles a week. The comments section on each of those articles can have multiple links and info to expand Jo’s article.
The Daily threads have links to multiple articles, topics, commenter opinion and some debate.
If it’s links etc then clearly the info is available via other content providers. So if it wasnt posted in the comments it would still be available at its original source. But readers would have to look for it and be familiar with many sources. It’s somewhat condensed for reference via the comments and is an accessible expansion of Jo’s article and some relevant debate at times.
So while no doubt Jo and her articles are the attraction. I wouldn’t downplay the amount of reading engagement by the silent majority with the comments content.
You can see the thumb count on some comments well exceeds 100. I bet majority don’t bother to thumb. So engagement well exceeds the “50 active” and your list didn’t include popular contributors like TonyfromOz. Who no doubt provides data and comments that people find interesting.
There could be a point where Jo finds comments and moderating too legally onus, and the govt laws changing to censor/silence punish bloggers to the extent Jo needs to end comments.
That would be a “real issue” for free speech and the DDOS has that effect.
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Small number of people to garner so much attention and effort.
We must be important.
I’ve never been important before.
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WilliamX
“I am university educated.”
You shouldn’t brag about your intellectual disabilities. It will get you no sympathy here.
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Sharp!!
..but I’ll bet it was from before Unis went woke and became useless!
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It’s interesting that this blog has, according to Jo, been targetted by the top 3 DDOS sources in the world (for those that didn’t know).
USA is #1, followed by China at #2, then Vietnam.
The heavy hitters are all out against this blog.
At least it should give Jo a sense of pride, standing up to the regime.
Given that their motives are socio-political, they won’t be going away.
Truth hurts those whose future depends on those truths not being exposed.
Maybe it’s time to start posting the things I hold back from posting, and that’s a lot.
Go for broke! 😉
Only 2 years left. May as well.
Lessee now…ah yes, France…oh dear, oh dear…your finances are worse than Germany.
A bit broke are we? Military as weak as watered down water? Maybe I’ll start there.
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A look at the background of Rolf Gardiner as he got involved in youth culture movement through the Scout Association as a child and morris dancing at Cambridge, arguably influencing the Hitler Youth. At university he also got interested in Social Credit, a new economic philosphy devised by retired army major C H Douglas. In trying to promote his student journal overseas, Gardiner imparted knowledge of Social Credit to leader of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, John Hargrave. Hargrave’s movement shifted to regard Social Credit as necessary if people were to have the economic security required to reconnect with nature and become healthy again. He started campaining alongside the unemployed with his rebanded movement, The Green Shirts of the Social Credit Party calling for an end to capitalism and for Social Credit to lead Britian to a post-industrial ecological utopia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiL6cgPC8QI
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A partial SUCCESS as Britain is post-industrial.
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There is much caterwauling about the US national debt, and how it presages disaster.
Balderdash by attention-seeking charlatans!
The debt is an issue only within the arcane world of how government’s are managed….
as enterprises that take in lots of revenue, sucked from the private economy, and waste most of it,
fully crediting the GDP with government expenditure as if it were worthwhile.
Let’s do a little thought experiment about what happens when it looks like its gonna be hard to borrow more …
that the coffin corner of interest on the debt has been reached.
The crisis is only because only tax revenues are used to finance government. Whoever is elected as the turn-around artist to fix the
mess will, finally, in an emergency, be able to look at the balance sheet, not just the income statement. ANd the balance sheet of the US government is
very healthy indeed, as it is an organization with vast assets that, nonetheless, hoplessly undervalues them and depnds instead almost wholly on
income confiscation for funding. Considering only the mineral rights on federal land more than covers the debt, not to mention the value of the land itself.
Fees for real usage of real assets, rather the confiscation of income from the private sector, provides a vastly different picture of the US government’s
financial position.
Which is part of the reason folks will buy US bonds for quite a while yet.
The US has turned the corner on energy before grid failure and shortages. We can produce food for ourselves plus surpluses…..huge surpluses if we make the dumb
corn to ethanol non-business disappear. There is virtually no commodity needed not without our jurisdiction should we chose to extract it, and the rare-earth
kerfuffle with China is bringing some rationality to that process. I’m banking on young people unlearning the drivel taught in schools and learning about capitalism
when they finally get a job and are faced with real life issues …we’ve allowed many a long federally funded delay that is no on the budget cutting block.
The US has begun the process of adaptation to its self-inflicted issues.
Europe?
China?
AUs?
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The debt issue isn’t simply solved by having more assets than debt. Having assets to cover your debt just solves a problem for the creditors when you can’t service your debt.
The US spends almost a trillion dollars per year just on interest on its debt. Approx 18% of revenue goes on interest.
So while you might be very happy with the “balance sheet”, spending about a fifth of revenue on interest while increasing that debt and interest bill is not sustainable.
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The “vast assets” you mention are illiquid assets –items that cannot be quickly or easily sold for cash. Further, they can only be sold once. However, year-after-year non-discretionary expenses in the U.S. include mandatory spending programs such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, federal civilian and military retirement benefits, and interest on the debt, and a few others.
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Agreed.
Those assets have zero real monetary value because no government is ever going to sell national parks, important government buildings and lands, military assets etc..
They should not be included in any government balance sheet.
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Umm, speaking of U.S. National Parks, the subscription streaming service DocPlay (part of Prime, and they only show Documentaries) has finally released the Ken Burns doco on National Parks. I saw the last few episodes of it it back in 2010, hidden away on SBS on Sunday mornings, and I’ve been looking for it ever since, and it’s only recently shown up on DocPlay.
I disagree with Ken Burns politics, (he’s a very staunch ‘yellow dog’ Democrat) but his documentaries are just brilliant, and I’ve seen around eight of them now, just so comprehensive.
I recommend this one, well, all of them really, and Country Music is another good one, in reality, the history of American Music.
Tony.
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Queensland Opera, Tony ?
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Huh!
Don’t knock Queensland.
Which other State has it’s beer signed by four famous residents?
Tony.
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I watched The Civil War and Vietnam and enjoyed both. As you say his politics are staunch Dem however is is an intelligent an creative guy. I have much more regars for him the the fleet of hectoring, mouthy Hollywood “stars”
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Power stations, ports, Leopard II tanks, have no real monetary value? Not any more – they’ve been sold.
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Except for those who offered them as security as part of certain plandemic contracts.
Shock, horror!
Now, who could that be?
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America is rapidly moving from having the only reserve currency to being one of several, with the rise of Brics. They also don’t suffer from huge debts nor take funds that were deposited with them.
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Another way to look at this is the the Countries holding the US debt are the ones in real trouble.
In the words of J Paul Getty
Japan is deep Doo Doo. If I was them I would be negotiating for the purchase of Alaska in exchange for the bonds they hold.
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I recall the father of a friend of mine being called in to see the bank manager. The manager says ” Mr. B I am very worried about your overdraft”. Mr. B replied ” That’s good because I haven’t the time to worry about it.”
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It was John Maynard Keynes who said that.
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“Which is part of the reason folks will buy US bonds for quite a while yet.”
I think it all works for as long as the American dollar is the reserve currency for the world, or more importantly, the enforced currency of trade, especially oil.
For decades America has been riding on the back of the compulsory oil trade and demand for dollars to facilitate them. They just print dollars and buy stuff from other countries with them, giving them an easy ride to world power. Anyone standing up against them is crushed if small enough, or thrown into the ‘axis of evil with Iran and N. Korea. If BRICS can move most the world trade out of America’s grasp then the $US dollar won’t be in demand and bonds will not seem so attractive. Past empires like Britain and Spain show America’s future…
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Irony: German Town Cancels Climate Heat & Drought Event – Due To Cool, Wet Weather!
From the NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on 7. June 2025
To combat climate change, German towns and cities are busily implementing “heat plans”. Germany has ambitious climate neutrality goals, aiming to be climate-neutral by 2045. The lives of millions of people are at risk!
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The town of Mühlacker (near Stuttgart) has taken the Heat Plan act seriously and thus have organized a Heat Action Day, scheduled for June 6th. The aim was educating the public about heat, drought and climate change and provide tips on how to protect against heat.
Ironically, the event yesterday had to be cancelled due to “forecast weather conditions,”,the above newspaper clipping reports.
The heat action day has been postponed to Friday, July 25, 2025. The weather yesterday, June 6, in Muehlacker was indeed rainy and cool, with highs not even reaching 20°C – obviously too harsh for the organizers!
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/07/irony-german-town-cancels-climate-heat-drought-event-due-to-cool-wet-weather/
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Reminds me of those first photos – was it almost 10 years ago now? – of a special needs child in Sweden, wrapped in beanie / scarf / jacket / gloves / ski pants / boots, sitting on the cold pavement holding a sign warning about ‘heat’ … in Stockholm!
As Homer Simpson yelled as he fell into a black hole as the universe collapsed all around him in glorious 3-D: Crack! Crack! Crack!
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Of course, now she’s moved on to supporting Hama%
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14792229/Freedom-flotilla-doubles-says-not-turn-Israel-issues-chilling-warning-vowing-Greta-Thunberg-wont-make-Gaza.html
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Senator Lindsey Graham says “I hope Greta and her friends can swim!”… yeah, calling for a violent response.
Will the response be closer to:
1. A bit of sabotage like the drone strike weeks ago near Malta.
2. The ship “Marмara”. Nine civilians murdered including one American.
3. USS L¡berty. 30-plus American sailors killed, over a hundred wounded.
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Too bad she was exploited as a child actress by her selfish parents and they never let her complete a proper education.
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It’s deeper than that. She is successful. The whole world knows her. More successful than Joan of Arc. What’s common sense, science or an education when you are so famous. An uneducated peasant girl. Stage managed by her father. Who has stolen her childhood but given her eternal fame.
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Like Elizabeth Taylor or Judy Garland or Jane Fonda in Barbarella. Is there anything Hanoi Jane is not against? She still gets press for their opinions. As does Mia Farrow. Both in their 80s.
Actual knowledge or intelligence is quite a different thing to fame. Or we would not have so many musicians like Bono and Geldof lecturing the world on ethics.
Where’s Barbra Streisand’s view on Ukraine/Gaza? And who cares what Whoopi Goldberg thinks about anything? As Ricky Gervais roasted at the Academy Awards, most actors are high school dropouts and no one cares what they think.
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Ricky was on the money. When he told the crowd the rules for accepting their awards they were not sure whether he was serious or not. They reminded me of a flock of sheep when the kelpie goes home.
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I reckon you could build a pretty good Black Mirror episode out of Greta’s activities
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Coal Is the New Bridge Fuel
By Bernard L. Weinstein
Once again, the consensus of government and private weather forecasters is that this coming summer will witness above-average temperatures in most parts of the United States.
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The North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) summer reliability assessment published on May 18 cited the 15-state Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) as the regional grid most likely to see a meltdown this summer.
NERC’s warning proved to be prescient. On May 25, more than 100,000 customers in and around New Orleans lost power for most of the day when electricity demand exceeded supply
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The strains on America’s power grids are easy to explain. After remaining relatively flat for a decade, electricity demand is now projected to jump 50% over the next 10 years.
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At the same time, construction of new base-load power plants—natural gas, nuclear, and coal—has plummeted. Driven by federal, state, and local tax incentives, wind and solar have accounted for the lion’s share of new installed generation in recent years. The problem, of course, is that these power sources are intermittent, which is why New Orleans lost electricity in May and why the Iberian Peninsula suffered a blackout in April.
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Since 2010, 300 “always on” coal-fired power plants have been closed, reducing its share of generation from 45% to 16% nationwide. Only about 200 remain on the regional grids today.
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The era of tearing down existing, well-operating power plants before reliable replacement capacity is built and connected to the grid is over. The on-demand power plants already in service are more valuable than ever. While coal’s long-term future remains in question, its near-term importance is clear. Our existing fleet of coal plants can help us manage the transition to a more reliable and resilient energy future as we build the next generation of base-load resources.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/08/coal-is-the-new-bridge-fuel/
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There is an idea of using nuclear explosives for peaceful engineering purposes. It has been around since the late 1950’s.
Look at Project Plowshare in the US.
In Australia there was the Cape Keraudren Atomic Harbor Scheme.
https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/cape-keraudren-the-forgotten-nuclear-harbor-plan-in-australia
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The Soviets did, in fact nuke some gas wells to extinguish fires:
From Goolag AI:
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As the great Red Adair said
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And the Americans used Atomic explosions to engineer peace in ’45.
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Interesting video about Neanderthals and the now-extinct animals they hunted.
https://youtu.be/DFnThonHSW4
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As it continues to rain in Melbournistan I am reminded how Australia wastes all this rainwater.
Instead of throwing away hundreds of billions of dollars to the wind and the sun and destroying the economy, it should have been spent on something useful like dams for irrigation systems, flood mitigation and some hydro where possible. We could have reliably irrigated vast areas and mitigated floods.
Of course, Australia no longer “thinks big” and you can forget about nearly any big project due to regulatory hurdles and lawfare, except for expensive, wasteful and useless “green” projects like SH2 where environmental destruction is acceptable.
Another lost opportunity for Australia!
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it should have been spent on something useful like dams for irrigation systems
What ever happened to the Ord River scheme?
Did it get sidelined when someone proposed a fresh water pipeline to more southern WA?
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It seemed that the Ord River Scheme was hit by lots of unintended consequences, such as growing crops that the local birds loved, causing an explosion in their numbers and devastating the crops.
The plan to dam the Fitzroy River in northern WA and transfer the water via a canal to Perth vanished with a change of state govt. Then was finally killed off by the locals vowing to prevent the planned dam. Perth then switched to building desal plants that use cheap electricity, which are working very well.
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During the 1980s I was flying overseas and on the seat alongside was an Australian mining engineer who lived on the NSW South Coast, at the time a new sewage outfall was being constructed to dump further out to sea from the Sydney coastline. He explained why that was a waste of money and of stormwaters and sewage, that tunnels should be constructed under the “Blue Mountains” to the West (Great Dividing Range) and waste pumped to the Western Plains to a “farm” to purify the water for agricultural purposes, and even for human consumption.
And at the same time tunnels for road and rail to bypass the mountains highway and suburbs.
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“I don’t care, I’ll swim Bondi” said Tom undeturd.
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And because Sydney does not treat its sewage, just pumps it out to sea, you get Bondi Cigars and Churchill Bream.
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You don’t swim at Malabar, you just go through the motions.
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I think it’s a myth Left over from the 1960s that Australia is a free and rational-thinking country.
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I had an unsatisfactory encounter with my bank’s AI yesterday and it couldn’t answer a simple question and it kept on thanking me for my question and it asked could it help me with some else even though it never answered the question.
I had to keep asking to speak to a human which I eventually did but the AI took some convincing. The whole encounter was typewritten, not speech.
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Sounds exactly like Microsoft online support!😆
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I was impressed with Goolag AI yesterday.
I asked it to check my answer to the question:
what is impedance of series rlc circuit with resistance 100 ohms capacitive reactance 50 ohms and inductive reactance 100 ohms
And it got the right answer, with workings. 111.8 ohms.
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Of course it is an easy sum.
It’s just vectors. Just working out the length of the diagonal from a point, (0R, 0J), to a point 100 away on the R axis and a point (100-50), away on the J axis.
It’s not like you were doing anything complex. Pun intended.
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Man! Try teaching vector diagrams to new students, and these are electrical trainees anyway. Very long and slow process.
CIVIL helped a lot in working out parallel and series circuit vector diagrams.
So did the Casio fx-100C, and part of the process was teaching the students how to use the vector ‘resolution’ process on that calculator, hence those particular calculators were standard issue for every electrical trade student, and I still have mine on the desk beside me here, used every day since I was issued with mine back in 1986.
True Power, Apparent Power and Power Factor.
It was hard work teaching electrical trainees, so it’s a ‘virtual’ ocean trying to even scratch the surface of electrical matters with people who have no background whatsoever ….. hence the adage that electrical power ….. well, it just comes out of the hole in the wall!
Tony.
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I’m lucky. My students are mostly industrial electricians with many year’s trade experience, who understand power factor, ohms law, etc. Makes the job a lot easier to expand their knowledge.
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At a pop up in one of the shopping malls recently (and what do you have to do to try and studiously avoid them) one of the talking heads assailed me, and asked, hey mate, do you know what true power is?
Hmm, I replied, that would be cos theta, and then I walked away. When I looked back, the look on his face was priceless.
And I wasn’t going to go back and apologise because I got it wrong. (Cos theta is the Power Factor)
Tony.
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Well done Tony! He is probably still trying to figure out what you meant.
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I get the sense that what passes for AI will follow a similar path to wikipedia. Quite useful and reliable for factual information. Utterly contaminated and worse than useless for anything which can be contaminated by the anti-rational blob.
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Absolutely.
Garbage in, garbage out, still applies.
And most AI has a built-in strong Leftist political bias.
I just asked it a relatively simple question to see if it understood it and could answer.
It’s getting better by the day, but I will never rely in it or believe anything it says unless I already have a rough idea of the answer.
I have found too many errors in it.
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I find it dominated by words, not comprehension. I am sure on Quora people use AI to find counter arguments but while the words appear to be right, the rationale is wrong.
What they find are wrong graphs, wrong conclusions which have been published somewhere by someone and quote them as known fact. That’s because a lot of statements on the internet are wrong and you get an average which is closer to what could be called consensus science. Which is not science at all. The average of right and wrong is not right. It is confusion.
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I find ChatGPT really useful in sorting out my VBA errors.
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“I get the sense that what passes for AI will follow a similar path to wikipedia.”
I’m not sure about that. I read recently, and I’m sorry I can’t remember the reference, of two cases in the UK where lawyers had used AI for research of previous cases and came up with fake information, much to the disgust of the presiding judges. Providing false info to a court is a criminal offence, but no charges were laid and both were referred to their professional body.
As a JP sitting on the desk at my local shopping centre last week I was presented with a Statutory Declaration prepared by ChatGPT. It met the requirements, so I approved it. However, it makes me wonder how many people using AI for such matters, have the necessary knowledge to know whether the in formation generated by AI is accurate or not.
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The US Department of Justice has written to Wikipedia threatening its tax-deductible status because it has become a biased political propaganda platform not a neutral source as required for its favourable tax status.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNyx34Et19sKtlta0bTPPzSPcpi375T/view?usp=drivesdk
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But a very funny answer if you request the ‘resonant frequency’ of the same circuit:
She tries to solve with all the usual workings and necessary formula but then simply answers:
“Oops, something went wrong.”
It’s hard to get good AI help these days.
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Happy King’s Birthday to all on the West Island (that big chunk of flat red rock to the west of New Zealand) oh, apart from Queensland and Western Australia where you should all be working hard in the mines to keep the *king* happy & wealthy.
* I hear his son is having a Nice time preaching to the Climate Choir about saving the oceans and something called the Blue Economy (BE) … is ‘Green’ now out of fashion, like last year’s favourite toy?
Would love to see what was on the French menu: Aussie King Prawns? NZ Blue Cod? Antarctic Tooth Fish? Giant Squid Rings?
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I think he or his son will be the last King and last “defender of the faith”.
Given the demographic change in Once Great Britain the next monarch may well be a Caliph, maybe even Sadiq Khan himself.
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The crusades start in a couple of years. And the masses are going to insist that they are at the front.
Now that’s a concept. Let’s have the front line of all protests filled with the politicians instead of the police. Spectator sports, they have their place.
We could also ask for the Allen Key to front up to the machete ‘gangs’. Note, ‘gangs’ is not the politically correct word, it just fits the observations.
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Thank you Greg, I for one always appreciate some acknowledgement from Elysium Oceania.
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FWIW –
Re the Los Angles riots
I guess this finding wasn’t expected – by either side!
“Just so you know, the pro-illegal immigration riots in Los Angeles are government-funded”
https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1931584160637796530
Via https://instapundit.com/724537/#disqus_thread
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More on that –
“Who Is Neville Singham?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/08/who-is-neville-singham/
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And
“Who’s Paying for the Violent L.A. Protests Against ICE? You Are. And It Gets Worse From There”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/06/08/whos-paying-for-the-violent-la-protests-against-immigration-enforcement-aw-you-guessed-n4940580
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“Who is going to clean our pools, be our maids, mow the lawns, do the gardening”.
Undocumented immigrants, that’s who.
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This weekend in the USA should be interesting…😉
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FWIW – “Another day, another mRNA”
“Safe and Effective®”
Dr John Campbell – “NIH confirms our fears”
https://youtu.be/ZqH-9kZZcqA
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/08/safe-and-effective-207/
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The take home message –
“Two or three Nobel Prizes away from safe use”
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Safe and effective. Now there are three words which will go down in history, but not the way the propagandists intended.
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And on medicine in general
“Dueling Feedback Loops = BAD THINGS”
“Folks the reality of this situation is that the medical, pharmaceutical and “insurance” system gives zero ****s for anything but money. While I’m sure there are people who honestly believe they’re helping humans in those fields the fact is that individual belief does not matter in the fullness of the system and the people of this nation.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253414
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FWIW – fits here (IMO)
“It’s All Been A Pack of Lies”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/11/19/its-all-been-a-pack-of-lies/
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Stranded in snow? In Australia? Can’t be possible with climate warming, can it? Must be AI generated propaganda!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-09/vic-mount-hotham-snow-rescues-continue/105392862
BTW, how are the heat pumps coping with this extended cool period in SE Australia?
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They keep telling us there will be much less snow. But we just keep getting more!
What is this “climate pollution” they talk about? It must be the insane rantings of warmists!
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They perhaps need to specify its Australian National University Science so the acronym reflects what they’re producing.
I’d like to see them model the scenario where Australia achieves reduced emissions targets but China and India continue increasing theirs. That’ll show the futility of our targets.
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The joys of logical thinking.
Australias ski industry is under threat from global warming. A solution to this problem is to manufacture snow. To manufacture snow the temperature needs to at zero of lower. To make this snow very large pumps atomise water and spray it into the air where it freezes and falls as snow. To power these pumps, which for a host of reasons work mainly in the dark, large quantities of electricity are required. Over 80% of this electricity is supplied by coal or gas plants. These coal or gas plants contribute to global warming which is a threat to Australia’s ski industry.
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Extended cool period? Surprising how winter can be like winter. 😉
Our heat pump hot water service is performing well. Near Ballarat with Max daily temps of 10-11 last few days. (About average) One morning of 1 deg but thanks to this much needed rain in the last couple of nights the cloud has kept the nights a bit warmer.
Very happy with our heat pump hot water.
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The day that will get the most sunlight at 30S this year is December 23. It will get a daily average dose of 496.11W/m^2. The day that gets the least is June 21 – so not far off. It will average just 208.14W/m^2. I am going out on a limb here and suggesting the reduced sunlight will cause it to be cooler despite the CO2 continuing to increase. I know that is counter to The Science™ but it something I feel in my aging bones.
Just for comparison, I looked at what the Sun was doing in 1700 at 30S. The lowest day was 270W/m^2. The highest was 477.07W/m^2. I would not be surprised if some of the high ground in Australia has more snow this year than in 1700. And summer is probably going to get as bit warmer this year than in 1700.
I wonder if the Earth’s changing relationship with the Sun could be altering the climate rather the CO2 – I know it is heresy but could it be so?
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Correction – the 1700 figures above are 20S not 30S. The figures for 1700 should be 496.74W/m^2 highest and 207.7W/m^2 lowest. So less winter solar EMR in 1700 but more summer solar. So this year a tad less snow and not quite so warm in summer.
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Our heat pump hotwater kicks in at 11am. Last week, there were three days when it showed up on the demand so was not being served by solar. The lowest sunshine day, it consumed 1.5kWh metered power plus a few watt-hours from solar. The grid battery is not yet switched on but it would have been unlikely to have reduced the demand because there have been three consecutive days when there has not been much solar export. I do not think it has been less than 10C when the unit has kicked in.
There has been a couple of mornings when the house has been below 16C and we ran the reverse cycle aircon. Outside temperature on a couple of days was around zero on those morning. There was frost on some of the shaded grassy areas. It is the first time we have seen the aircon go into dF mode and wondered what it was. The temperature display went from the 18 setting to “dF”. The manual advises that is “defrost” mode. It sat there for about 2 minutes then just worked away normally until we turned it off. There was not much solar at that time of day so most of the 2kW demand for the living area being heated was imported.
Anywhere in Australia near sea level would get good value from heat pumps. That would be over 90% of the population.
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Rowjay, via your link:
“We look at people driving and we wonder about their thought processes…” – there’s your 100% Net Zero right there: brain disengaged or malfunctioning. Glad NZ’s not the only place with lost in lalaland drivers out in the backcountry with T-shirts and high-heels on: Blizzard? What blizzard?
David, re ANUS’ less and shorter seasons, via ABC:
There was “heavy snow on Mount Buffalo which was uncommon this early in winter” [my bold] meaning more and longer in the real world?
Once camped in a tent by Lake Hume near the border towns of Albury-Wodonga in early June (1983) and woke to a freezing gale coming down off the freshly snow-covered Mt Buffalo, so maybe it’s no so ‘uncommon’ after all?
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It has become so naturally cold (I agree that it is winter after all) that I’ve had to put on my kiwi-sourced possum-lined jumper – thanks kiwiland.
A bit about (Australian) possum fur;
I wholeheartedly agree – a fabulous product. I wish that I could use the fur from the one that sits in my carport and pees on my car.
As an aside, my son is currently undergoing chemo and one side effect was cold extremities – possum socks fixed his feet!
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If you take the possum’s hollow fibres, how do they stay warm?
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Possums are an introduced species into New Zealand, therefore have no protection as thought of as a pest.
Much like several Australian politicians.
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Had to think about that. 😀
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Polar bears have hollow fur. Why they are so comfortable in the water.
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“BTW, how are the heat pumps coping with this extended cool period in SE Australia?”
Finally gave it up today, walked outside in the snow and turned the gas tap on at the meter then fired up the gas ducting. Yesterday was windy & sleety and the 2-way struggled, but when I woke up late into a complete lack of traffic noise I figured it had snowed. The chickens didn’t want to come out..
Pretty well all gone by noon, the drizzle melts it away.
Looking forward to a week of ‘frost then sunny’, the best part of Aussie winters.
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“But SES Regional Duty Officer James Boler said half a dozen were forced to spend a second night in their vehicles.”
Not a great spot to be stranded in a BEV.
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FWIW
“Recent Devastating Floods Failed to Convince Climate Skeptic Aussie Farmers”
Jo gets quoted in comments
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/08/recent-devastating-floods-failed-to-convince-climate-skeptic-aussie-farmers/
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More like natural water-borne alluvial sedimentation – that’s why it is so flat out there. Think of salt lakes. Water enters, evaporates or runs out – more salt left behind. In the case of central Australia, it’s mud and silt.
While on the subject of salt lakes, those of us liking the “Worlds Fastest Indian” movie where a kiwi genius built his own motorcycle engine and broke world speed records for his class, I came across a four-wheeled equivalent. This time an American, who built his own V12 motor and broke world speed records for his class using it. The sound of the engine is phenomenal – Tesla should record it for it’s stealth cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jUNmhZ-iU
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I recently spent some time in the hills of the New South Wales colony and drove along the shore of Blowering reservoir, one component of a REAL energy system – the Snowy Mountains scheme, luckily built during the time when Australia was capable of such things without interference.
Some of us are old enough to remember Ken Warby and his jet-powered boat, Spirit of Australia setting speed records on that lake in the seventies.
I was surprised to discover that his world water speed record of 511.11 kmh! still stands unbroken 47 years after being set in 1978.
Two great Aussie achievements in one place – wouldn’t happen today would it?
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Nobody is saying why the jet streams in both hemispheres are meandering and causing very high pressure blocks.
Would anyone care to ask AI?
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Better to ask RickWill.
Researchers have been looking at what our solar system planets do to our sun for decades – there is no doubt that the fiery red ball gets dragged around with many calculations of angular momentum etc being made, but who knows which direction the sun is being dragged about. RickWill is the first AFAIK that has calculated the dynamic sun-earth distance and declination leading to evaluating its potential effect on our climate. The only problem is that Rick’s calculations need to be taken out to about 2,500 years to cover the whole Bray cycle – the cycle that represents the time taken for all of our solar system to get back to a similar planetary start position – the cycle will repeat but will never be quite the same as the geometry of our solar system planetary orbits precludes this.
A link to RickWills ground-breaking research:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/04/high-resolution-earth-orbital-precession-relative-to-climate-weather/
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Thanks, its above my pay grade.
I propose that a quiet sun impacts the jet stream.
‘The panel has high confidence that Solar Cycle 25 will break the trend of weakening solar activity seen over the past four cycles. “We predict the decline in solar cycle amplitude, seen from cycles 21 through 24, has come to an end,” said Lisa Upton, Ph.D., panel co-chair and solar physicist with Space Systems Research Corp. “There is no indication we are approaching a Maunder-type minimum in solar activity.”
“While we are not predicting a particularly active Solar Cycle 25, violent eruptions from the Sun can occur at any time,” Biesecker added.’ (weather.gov)
Thinking ahead, a warmer sun should stop the jet stream from meandering and high pressure in the Austral winter would return to the latitude of Byron Bay.
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Can you believe this BS?
And the fact that he received this award from a Labor Government suggest he was a Labor plant all along, just like Turnbull.
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Barf bags on standby.
Leading us through an orchestrated non-crisis.
Wow. Amazing what pollies can do these days.
/sarc
His reward should be mandatory shots and boosters, administered by the families that have lost loved ones to this lie needlessly.
Yeah, jab it in. Really hard. 😁
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If you really mean to hurt with a jab.
From my father’s experience with WW2 jabs.
He the jabbee 6’3″ high, the jabber not much over 5′. As the needle was extracted the jabber pulled down on the barrel of the needle.
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FWIW – a sign of the times
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/80k32lbbtx4f1.jpeg?w=638
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FWIW – captured in one image
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/1776299990822428672.jpg?w=1013
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A often repeated talking point on this site suggests the best thing for the people of Gaza is for Hamas to be free to bring freedom to the people of this area. Here is another opinion of the story of murder by the IDF of desperate Gazans attempting to feed themselves.
Reverend Johnnie Moore explains:
Y’day, someone was literally arguing w/me that there was no evidence that Hamas had stolen aid, sold it or used it for nefarious purposes. The UN itself has admitted this & UN drivers went on strike b/c of it…this video has some of the receipts.
Appears we were being subjected to ‘Projection’ again with Hamas actually doing what they accused the Israelis of. Hopefully Greta will find she has been exploited as a ‘useful idiot’ and step in to support Moore and the GHF in bypassing the apparent criminal extortions run by aid agencies in co-operation with Hamas
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HIV and AIDS cases surge 500% in the Philippines.
Department of health pushing for national emergency.
https://x.com/toobaffled/status/1931649278197530884
Too many baffled idiot doctors.
I know – climate change caused it!
Or maybe buttering bread on the wrong side. 😆
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Before it became non-woke during the plandemic, that naughty drug ivermectin waa thought to have potent antiviral activity, including against HIV. It was even published in now fully-woke Nature.
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Westinghouse Targets US Nuclear Expansion After Trump Order
Nuclear equipment supplier Westinghouse is in talks with U.S. officials and industry partners about deploying 10 large reactors, in response to presidential executive orders, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing the company’s CEO.
President Donald Trump’s executive orders, which were published on May 23, directed the government to cut down on regulations and fast-track licenses for reactors and power plants to shrink a multi-year process to 18 months.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/nuclear/2025/06/08/id/1214033/
Renewables not cutting it then?
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Only in Australia do people pretend that it is the best and cheapest form of electricity generation.
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You are leaving out the competition from New York State and City –
“Can Anyone Save New York From Its Coming Self-Inflicted Climate and Energy Disaster?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/07/can-anyone-save-new-york-from-its-coming-self-inflicted-climate-and-energy-disaster/
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“Only in Australia do people pretend that it is the best and cheapest form of electricity generation.”
Over the last 24hours I’ve thought about what a disaster having no electricity would be. It was sub-zero outside due to wind, single-digits inside before heating, and if there’s no electricity the gas heating can’t run, the hot water isn’t there, the kettle won’t work and neither can the stove.
At that stage it becomes life-threatening for most people, I think I’d drive around to my local MP’s place and demand he share his house!
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My firewood heater operates without electricity or gas.
It warms/heats the whole not large house, former farmhouse.
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I recently posted about the first of original wind turbine installations in VIC closing down because of end of operating life reached and the owners will remove them but will not replace them.
The owners said repowering was not a cost effective option.
There are of course many wind turbine installation locations around Australia that were built from soon after the Labor Renewable Energy Target of 32% was legislated by the Federal Government and supported by the States.
It will be fascinating to find out how many of the business shareholders are prepared to invest in removal and replacement costs for maybe another 20-25 years of operation.
Will governments in desperation allocate more taxpayer monies to fund repowering?
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J C II
Check the ownership
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company
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“LIBERATE Los Angeles from the migrant invasion”
https://x.com/w_terrence/status/1931829145484636569
A deliberately orchestrated invasion to destabilise the country, as we all now know.
Thank Captain Sniff and Autopen for that.
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The start of the next civil war…
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Blowback from defunding the swamp creatures subversion of “DeMocracy” I guess. Wouldn’t be too hard to find out who is paying the astroturfers to protest. I would love to know who was controlling the auto pen. A great test would be for Biden to briefly be shown each order he “signed” then be asked to give a coherent summary of what it encompasses- if he fails then it is quashed automatically.
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“A great test would be for “ANY POLITICIAN” to briefly be shown each order he “voted for” then be asked to give a coherent summary of what it encompasses- if he fails then it is quashed automatically.”
Brilliant idea!
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>Wouldn’t be too hard to find out who is paying the astroturfers to protest
Seems like an attempt to replicate the astroturfed 2020 summer of riots and blame Trump for the chaos.
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FWIW
“Beautifully said Spike Milligan. Incredibly moving. Lest We Forget.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/?__cf_chl_tk=90rDUh1jpymqvYedP.H6NxeW4wg_8vBi.nuuanT._UM-1744315810-1.0.1.1-JvlacAmK30PgfI2HjgOMBqmaV6mXGdMUasoMU4wZRAQ
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” In the calendar of arms, they are indeed, a mighty people”
Poor Spike would turn in his grave if he knew how we have degenerated into the greatest mishmash of disparate minorities evah. A country not even proud of its national flag. ( Note that this lack of pride seems to be limited to the chattering, self important groups. I notice that at all gatherings with “the people”, the NATIONAL flag is honoured, many of us even know both verses of the National anthem)
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Saw a triumphant post on LinkedIn earlier.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew-blakers-ao-58a90224_south-australian-wind-solar-was-above-100-activity-7337607191052406785-_1OJ :
Click the link to see the professor’s whole statement and accompanying source histogram.
You will also see some of the reply comments. It only took an hour for people to start pointing out it was a short period and that imports are still often needed.
It’s fair to contrast this with the widely reported blackout in Spain. One question that then arises is: was the SA stability because all the generators and loads were running smoothly, or were there spikes and fluctuations that were nonetheless smoothed out by synthetic inertia? In other words is this a reliable grid or did it just get lucky?
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The very fact that it drew a remark shows that it WAS remarkable.
What was he saying during the last few week’s wind drought?
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The grid in Spain ran perfectly well also, right up to the moment it didnt. Celebrating a few days of renewable supply is a bit like punching the air because you got your underpants on without falling over
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Amazing nature: volcanic activity in Guatamala and rare red sprites in Tibet
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sxj2omRW2t1z23obp.mp4
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sxj2acKQQn1z23obp.mp4
I love sprites!
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Andrew Blinkers?
None so blind as those who will not see. Wonder what could possess anybody to be this enthused by a few windy days?
Oh?
I would love to see the frequency and power factors recorded during this period.
Why would his mates not help to bring him back to reality?
Oh?
What if?
Imagine all the car plants, cement works, foundrys, smelters etc were still running if not expanding in a country where Universities were turning out innovative engineers and brown coal was turning out reliable power at 8 cents a Kilowatt.
Unfortunately this story is over, the ending is known and Andrew Blakers AO is looking forward to closing the book.
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FWIW
What you can get with unthinking enthusiasm –
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/as-city-walks-back-show-us-your-regina-some-other-odd-tourism-slogans
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Dutch government admits it is obligated to follow a secret NATO agenda
Public acknowledgement from the Dutch Cabinet that NATO is in charge of all EU Member States via classified “Resilience Goals” including public health, pandemics, climate among others.
The cabinet has recognized that it implements policy based on NATO objectives that are secret. The objectives are related to making society resilient to disruptive events such as war, pandemics and natural disasters ‘. Member of Parliament Pepijn van Houwelingen of Forum for Democracy speaks of “a huge black hole in our democracy ”.
https://deanderekrant.nl/kabinet-erkent-navo-is-de-baas/
The pollies are all bought and paid for the truth buried and protected by “national security” protocols to cover their selling out their populace.
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Build Back Better, you will have no assets but be happier.
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“you will have no assets but be happier.”
And the beatings will continue until you realise that you are “happier”
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FWIW
“GROAN! [expletive deleted]”
“There is no such thing as a climate disaster!
From Tufts University “School of Nutrition Science” and the “weather is not climate” department, comes this inanity dressed up as peer reviewed science.
A forward-looking approach to climate disaster preparation”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/08/groan-expletive-deleted/
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“Featured Comment”
“Yesterday, in this post, I pointed out that a clear majority of American men will not vote for the Democrats, while the vast majority of Canadian men would absolutely vote for the Democrats, if they were allowed to vote in the U.S. I asked for an explanation why Canadian men think this way.
To my great delight, ‘The Phantom’ share a most eloquent and detailed answer which is well worth a read:”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/09/featured-comment-34/
Try the Oz comparison as you read
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I think Canadian men are more like Australians, we have been raised on American propaganda for over a century and find it wanting.
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FWIW
Meet the mayor of Los Angles
“Obama. SHOCKER! DataRepublican DROPS Bombshell Thread on Who Karen Bass REALLY Is (Gets SOOO Much Worse)”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/06/08/karen-bass-datarepublican-thread-n2413937?bcid=5e02542952a6f353fe3eb471afa8be92bb58af8cf6e9d760bc00bc9f16dd300d&lctg=28968094
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FWIW
“The Ten Warning Signs
A huge change is coming”
“Would you believe me if I told you that the biggest news story of our century is happening right now—but is never mentioned in the press?
That sounds crazy, doesn’t it?
But that is often the case when a bold new worldview appears.”
The 10 points discussed here-in
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9c55a95a-5957-4baa-8083-9a7a79179269_1652x1338.png
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ten-warning-signs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=wm1qp&triedRedirect=true
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Early this year I came to the conclusion that 2025 might be an historic year, that will stand out in history. I may not be disappointed. All three super-powers and the EU are undergoing generational changes.
Zi Jinping is being ousted in a soft coup right now. While the CCP is doing this discretely in the corridors of power, chaos is breaking out in the streets. Covid [?] is killing millions, millions of others, including government workers, have not been paid for months and China has no labour protection laws, housing is collapsing sending millions of others bankrupt. Lie flat is consuming the young. It’s all happening here, folks!
Putin is not as close to the precipice but he has a tiger by the tail and he can’t let go, damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t. Spiderweb did more damage to his despotic rule that to the bomber fleet. This chapter may take to next year to play out, but it will be Putin’s end.
In the US Trump is disappointing many followers. He can’t be toppled but another Summer Of Love beckons.
Ukraine is forcing many in the EU to get real. There is a distinct shift to the right and Russia is forcing uncomfortable bedfellows to present a united front.
Meanwhile Australia is sleepwalking to the precipice. We will go out with a whimper, not a bang. England is already lost.
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How dare you!
Yes, little Greta has been arrested and detained.
https://x.com/_PalestineFree/status/1931880598567850278
/Plays world’s smallest violin…
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Was it here that someone said that she and her crew will be forced to watch a 45 min vid of the massacre?
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