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I recently made an Infographic to show how human CO2 forcing only amounts to 1% of the total natural greenhouse forcing:
https://chipstero7.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/neon-maps-4.png
Hope it’s not wrong. Will welcome any corrections from the smarter people here if I missed anything obvious!
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The graphic is fine, except that it is based on unreferenced assumptions promoted by the IPCC.
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Yep, it’s based on the IPCC’s figures, that’s the a downside. I included a better description of the Infographic below that explains how I got to the warming of less than 0.4C:
https://chipstero7.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/neon-maps-8.png
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Hi Richard,
As Peter says, there are issues with the science in this matter.
The Unipccc has made complexification into an art form that can hide the real science.
The term “forcing” is but one example where it is used to imply that there is a turnaround of energy “up there somewhere which can be a danger to us.
The only danger to Earth is that we will fail to hold enough of yesterday’s solar insolation to allow us to survive.
Deep space is very good at drawing all our energy away: it’s about 1°C above absolute zero up there.
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CO2 is not a ‘forcing’ mechanism and it doesn’t cause global warming.
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Yes.
CO2 does not “force” anything in the atmosphere.
The misrepresentation of the Bohr theory of atomic physics is totally unscientific and this “debil gas” cannot do other than abide by the Universal Gas law and maintain equilibration with the other surrounding gases up there.
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This comment would have been unnecessary except that there are two red signs of disagreement with you.
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Its par for the course.
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Anyhow the science is settled as the IPCC told Christopher Monckton when he presented his audit of the climate hoax warming claim.
sarc.
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Texas floods death toll rises to 91, officials say, as storm warnings continue.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c04dv7x1qxzt
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Monday comes on Tuesday!
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There’s been a temporal anomaly due to a disruption of the space-time continuum.
I think it was caused by “climate change” – isn’t everything? LoL
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D you’ve hot it all wrong. It’s Trumps fault, after all he caused the initial problem of CC didn’t he!!
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https://www.bobgibsonfolk.com/song-to-morrow/
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ANOTHER time warp?
https://youtu.be/YC1E8yVJIS4?si=unElKJJWvkAS7MJz
Jo’s out spending all that choccy…
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Here is exciting first person video of Kilian Bron’s run in the 2025 Megavalanche downhill enduro mountain bike race in France.
It starts on a snow-covered mountain and descends 2600m vertically and 20km in length.
It’s an extreme race requiring very high skills and bravery as you will see. Not for latte-sipping purple-haired soy boys.
https://youtu.be/KmCdPQ2Xqhk
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Actually there is a section for them in these events. You will notice their bikes as the brake discs are nearly bigger than the wheels and there are streamers on the handle bars.
and a bell!! To warn the village ahead to have their soy latte ready.
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Great stuff. Those are not the bikes you buy at Big W for $300
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Amazing!
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Pretty amazing fitness doing all that at altitude
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I don’t think this was reported much in the Lamestream Media but all UN countries except the United States, the only country with any sense, have signed up to the Sevilla Agreement.
It’s basically a plan for more taxes and global wealth redistribution, I.e.. global Communism.
In the following video Jeff Taylor discusses it with reference to the UK but most issues will be relevant to fully woke, globalist, socialist Australia.
It has serious implications for us all but is ignored.
Video: https://youtu.be/HaEUY2gov7w
Quoting:
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“wealth redistribution”
proverb “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”
Besides, the USA is deep in debt.
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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day;”… however the UN administrators have their cut first and all the man gets is enough for a small snack.
“teach a man to fish and you feed”.. the UN for his lifetime!
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Here is António Guterres himself announcing it.
I think it’s maybe a rebranded Agenda 2030 or the financing thereof.
Same BS. The globalists just won’t stop.
https://youtu.be/Wh9SxgKKHmw
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In Victoriastan, unbelievably, the Sheeple are so indoctrinated (present company excepted) and the fake conservative Liberals are so unbelievably hopeless, that Labor would win a fourth term if an election were held now.
I don’t think the Liberals are fixable. We badly need a conservative party to win. We already have Trumpets, One Nation, Libertarian etc., these need to join up into a new significant conservative party and Make Australia Great Again.
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The Liberals have lost their way on the national stage.3
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I suspect it really began when they accepted Malcolm Turnbull into their ‘broad church’, after he rejected Labor pre-selection (because he was told he had no pathway to leadership), never realizing (or ignoring) that he was an atheist in that church, rather a recoverable apostate.
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Their last ‘strong’ Liberal leader was Tony Abbott, whose strategy was to ‘seek forgiveness than ask permission’ – something the rabid leftie media would never, ever afford a conservative
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Et Tu Malcolm?
‘I have come to bury Abbott (& conservative values), not praise him’
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Liberal Party lost many members in NSW following the state executive takeover or infiltration by the LINO left faction led by Turnbull and them manipulating candidates and policies ignoring the branch membership.
A major issue has been selecting candidates for electorates, the traditional method was branch members meeting applicants who addressed the meeting explaining why they would be a good candidate. The members then pre-selected their choice by secret ballot.
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Video about running a car engine on olive oil. Will it work?
The car is a Polish Niki micro-car with an allegedly unbreakable ultra-basic engine. The car is based on a Fiat 126.
https://youtu.be/3vlR94GOJ-E
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Probably about as well as the one where he replaces his oil with Pepsi.
In Oz at least , its probably cheaper to use real engine oil especially if you wait for the inevitable 30-50% off sales. Olive oil is expensive these days.
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A diesel will run on processed cooking oil.
Look up bio-diesel.
Unprocessed oil will work as part of a blend.
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I should have stated that the olive oil is the lubricant, not the fuel.
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The Big Beautiful Bill included funding for US made ice breakers so the United States can secure their Arctic interests.
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I wonder if they will get Russia to build them?
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Russia has been buying ships from South Korean shipyards.
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” put America back in charge of the frozen frontier”
back in charge eh? The self-appointed ruler of the world, if only us pesky vassals would do as we’re told.. I don’t remember America’s borders going though the Arctic except for one coast on that little state they bought off Russia, its all Canada, Russia and Greenland.
This sounds like trying to start WW3 in the Arctic.
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Racing to waste billions.
U.S. “renewables” mad scramble to build is on
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/07/07/u-s-renewables-mad-scramble-to-build-is-on/
The beginning: “The big, beautiful new tax law creates a not-so pretty loophole that untold billions of dollars worth of renewable projects are going to try to squeeze through. Anytime you screw with the market, you get screwy results, and this is titanic screwing. Watching it could be great fun.
The specifics are simple enough. The massive federal subsidies for wind and solar will end soon, with one big exception. Any project that can get under construction in less than a year from now and come online by 2030 still gets all the goodies.
Given that the queue of proposed wind and solar projects tops a trillion dollars, there will be many billions worth that try to make the short-term construction deadline. That many of these likely will fail makes it especially interesting. It is a prescription for financial chaos.
Of course the huge immediate question is, what does it take to be under construction? The subsidies are in the form of investment and production tax credits so the IRS makes the rules. Happily, a similar but much smaller version of this issue occurred in 2013.
The IRS has a little rule book titled “Beginning of Construction for Purposes of the Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit and Energy Investment Tax Credit” here:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-13-29.pdf
The rules are only for wind projects, but the application to solar looks simple, at least for big projects. Rooftop solar might be much more complicated and something to watch.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
Projects falling all over each other should be fun to watch.
David
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I think if they can’t harvest their subsidies in the US the subsidy harvesters will come to fully woke Australia which remains fanatically committed to wind and solar and the destruction of power stations.
Tragically the technological ignoramuses in our Government and many of the Sheeple, believe, or pretend to believe, that you can run an industrial Civilisation on weather-dependent electricity.
I hope for the sake of the US your Government and the IRS won’t allow these loopholes to be exploited.
David, can you write to TRUMP and advise him about these loopholes?
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The Senate version loophole was flagged early on but in the rush to pass the bill by July 4 it was not stopped by the House. They just passed the loopy Senate version.
For example https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/07/02/uh-oh-green-lobbyists-planted-a-poison-pill-that-should-be-removed-or-will-the-green-new-scam-have-life-everlasting/
Unfortunately renewables are booming globally so this has little to do with Oz or any other country.
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I must say I am extremely disappointed.
I thought after the election of TRUMP, the world would see a revival of conservative values, traditional morality, reason, (un)common sense, science etc and the casting away of Leftist values.
Unfortunately, almost all Western countries seem to be rapidly accelerating in the opposite direction.
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On the contrary populist parties have risen rapidly in some countries.
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People in the West are frightened by the instability produced by US right wing conservatism and will naturally turn away.
The POTUS has created a new world order, be grateful for small mercies.
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‘People could have died’, Belgian report warns for radicalisation of climate movement
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/07/people-could-have-died-belgian-report-warns-for-radicalisation-of-climate-movement/
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The transition to intermittent wind and solar energy is impossible and everyone needs to know why. It’s the wind droughts, stupid!
Imagine if weather reports include the amount of wind and solar in the grid at the time, especially at breakfast and dinnertime to demonstrate how often the meal would be served cold in the absence of coal.
Voters could confront their local representatives and warn them to defy the vested interests that are driving the policies of both parties and vote responsibly on energy issues or they will not be in the House after the next election.
At 6.30 ton Monday wind accounted for 8% of the power supply and the sun supplied zero. The wind capacity factor was 15% which is half the average and nowhere near a severe drought.
Its all over, Red Rover, its way past time to start planning to exit net zero!
This appeared in 2023.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/looking-for-the-net-zero-exit-sign
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Public swimming facilities are very popular in many European countries, including Germany. In recent years, sexual assaults on women and children have become outrageously commonplace and the perpetrators almost are universally immigrants. The last incident I read about involved a group of young Syrian men. In another example, a 10yo boy was sodomised by an Iraqi immigrant who was convicted of assault but then freed by a judge who decided the poor immigrant knew no better.
But at least the German authorities have at last decided to address the problem – with a poster campaign. That’ll sort them out and keep the children safe …
However, inexplicably (ha!), the posters rather confuse the issue. You see, in every single one of the four posters, the attacker is white and the victims brown-skinned, the complete reverse of what’s happening:
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https://x.com/HayoPhei/status/1941831284818403838
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An Interview With Vaclav Smil on Small Nuclear Reactors, a Fertility ‘Crisis’, and More
By Ross Pomeroy , Vaclav Smil – July 05, 2025
The 81-year-old Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba has been researching how humanity has developed, transformed, and used energy for over a half-century.
Smil’s up-to-date and encyclopedic knowledge on humanity’s energy use, coupled with his longevity in the field, make him uniquely positioned to render learned prognostications on the future of Earth’s ever-changing energy, material, and environmental systems.
He graciously took the time to answer a few questions for RealClearScience on topics ranging from small nuclear reactors, to climate adaptation, to humanity’s much-debated fertility “crisis.”
RP: Transitioning power generation to renewables garners most of the attention when it comes to addressing climate change, but you’ve pointed out that there are other major processes besides power generation that are extremely important and even more difficult to decarbonize. What are a few of these?
VS: Decarbonizing electricity generation is technically straightforward, with known conversions (now dominated by wind turbines and PV cells) and system arrangements (substantial storage and transmission).
And there are other effective choices: the world still has a huge untapped hydro capacity and a new generation of fission reactors could supply base demand.
In contrast, decarbonizing what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization -– ammonia, steel, cement, and plastics -– is hard as there are no readily available technical fixes combining the needed output scale with affordability. Basic calculations reveal the extent of these global challenges.
Without Haber-Bosch synthesis of ammonia we could not, even with assiduous recycling of organic wastes, feed more than about half of humanity.
This synthesis is now responsible for less than 2% of global CO₂ emissions, mostly from the production of hydrogen by natural gas reforming.
Steel and cement are the two largest, indispensable infrastructural materials.
Primary steel production is responsible for 7-9% of global CO₂ emissions, above all from blast furnaces fuelled by metallurgical coke.
Cement production (calcination process) generates 7-8% of global CO₂ emissions. And now ubiquitous plastics add 4-6% of global CO₂ emissions from the energy-intensive production of petrochemicals used as feedstocks and energy sources.
Together, these industries contribute 20-25% of total global CO₂ emissions. And then there are non-energy uses of fossil fuels as feedstocks required for plastics production as feedstocks and for lubricants (5-6% of total global primary energy use).
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VS: Contrary to common impressions, there has been no absolute worldwide decarbonization. In fact, the very opposite is the case.
The world has become much more reliant on fossil carbon. Global fossil fuel consumption rose by 62% between 1997 and 2025 while the share of fossil fuels in global energy consumption has decreased only marginally and it remains above 80 percent.
Moreover, the first global energy transition, from traditional biomass fuels to fossil fuels, which started more than two centuries ago, remains incomplete, as about two billion people still rely on traditional biomass energies – mostly on fuelwood and crop residues in the countryside but also on inefficiently and destructively produced charcoal in cities.
Replacing these energies will require even greater increases of renewably generated electricity.
In large-scale affairs, scale always rules. Wishful thinking may set the dates (usually years ending in zero or five) for specific national, regional or global decarbonizations (EU: no new internal combustion engines in 2035; world: net zero in 2050) but after increasing our reliance on fossil fuels by more than 60% during the past quarter century the chances of completely eliminating this dependence during the next 25 years appear extraordinarily unlikely.
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A ‘royal’ commission into the ‘crown’ virus? Money for jam and nothing will come of it:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/566267/watch-live-royal-commission-of-inquiry-into-new-zealand-s-covid-19-response-public-hearing
USA-based ex-PM Comrade Ardern has been asked to take a break from her busy schedule of TV talk shows, book-signing tours, and occasional appearances in lecture halls at indoctrination centres across New England, to appear before the inquiry to answer [cough!] certain questions.
Lest we forget: this WEF-trained ex-President of Internationale Socialist Youth’s election promise was to lift all New Zealand children out of poverty – or as she mangled it, ‘poverdee’ – yet all she left behind was a train wreck.
[insert maniacal laughter] Zee plan vorked!
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Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that’s alarming doctors and scientists
“If there’s not bowel cancer in your family, how come you’ve got cancer and how come you got it at a young age?”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/cancer-diagnosis-rates-under-50s-rising-causes-four-corners/105495620
Obviously global boiling!
I had to read an ABC article because DM didn’t.
/now I have to shower to feel clean again.😁
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Daily Mail – What is causing a huge spike in early onset cancers among Aussies? The data that everyone needs to see – as the country leads the world in one type of the disease
From the Comments
No cancer before covid. Highest jab rate in the world. Now highest cancer rate in world. Coincidence?
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What a surprise.
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Interesting time sample – 2000 to 2024. Pity they don’t show the numbers for each year, maybe even show us a graph?
I’m not a great gambler, but I’d bet there was a real hockey stick effect around 2021.
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After 9,000 layoffs, Microsoft boss has brutal advice for sacked workers
Microsoft has laid off about 9,000 workers in the midst of a newly-announced $80 billion AI investment — and apparently, those who just lost their jobs should be talking to ChatGPT about it.
Yes, you read that right: a Microsoft boss was telling those just laid off by the tech giant that they should use chatbots — run or funded by the company that just fired them — to avoid crying on a company shoulder.
https://futurism.com/microsoft-boss-ai-advice
Lost your job under Biden? Learn to code!
1 year later, AI makes coders redundant.
Cry on a chatbot cybershoulder…
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Learn how to mine?
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AI is replacing 491 workers per day. Klarna cut 40% of staff. CEOs admit hiring is frozen. But who buys the products when no one has a job?
The AI arms race is accelerating. Companies are pouring billions into infrastructure, chips, and software with one clear objective: replace human labor. Not assist. Not augment. Replace. The shift is already visible. Amazon, Duolingo, Shopify, Salesforce, and Klarna have all issued internal memos or public statements confirming that AI is now doing work once handled by employees. Klarna cut 40% of its workforce. Salesforce says AI handles 50% of its internal tasks.
The paradox is brutal. If AI replaces most jobs, who’s left to buy the products? The consumer base shrinks. Disposable income vanishes. Even B2B firms eventually hit the wall when the end customer disappears.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/ai-is-replacing-491-workers-per-day-klarna-cut-40-of-staff-ceos-admit-hiring-is-frozen-but-who-buys-the-products-when-no-one-has-a-job/
Would AI PLEASE replace the ABC, BOM, TGA etc.
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We’ll all have to live simply, without ostentation or massive consumption.
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When Albo visits Beijing next week they will request that he lift the ban on Chinese AI model DeepSeek.
Pretty boy is bound to say we’ll look at the situation again a year down the track, long after Xi has left the stage.
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Peer-reviewed study identifies 86 serious neuropsychiatric safety signals linked to mRNA shots
Psychosis – 440× more likely
• Dementia – 140× more likely
• Schizophrenia – 315× more likely
• Suicidal thoughts – 150× more likely
• Homicidal ideation – 25× more likely
• Brain clots – 3,000× more likely
• Depression – 530× more likely
• Violent behavior – 80× more likely
• Cognitive decline – 115× more likely
• Delusions – 50× more likely
https://t.co/2CDFhKu9I6
Yes, now vaxxed loony lefties are far more loony. Oh joy.
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Watched Liam Neeson’s latest film Ice Road:Revenge yesterday and it was disappointing. Like so many films out of Pedowood it’s just predictable mush.
I’ve always liked Liam as an actor since I first saw him in “The Grey”, and became a big fan after that.
Obviously Schindler’s List, the hard hitting “Taken” trilogy, K-19 The Widowmaker, The A-Team, Unknown, Battleship, and “In the land of saints and sinners” are some of his best and top viewing.
More like Squid Game S3 please!!!
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Tuesday (Monday in WA) retro tech corner
10MB hard drives released!
https://imgbox.com/Uw1hEc2J
Bonus CP/M drivers!
I just bought a 22TB WD for $1k so that’s 2.2 million times the capacity, 1/4 the price, the old transfer speeds of 10MB/s now around 200MB/s (SATA) and obviously ridiculously small comparatively.
Unfortunately a 22TB SSD is around $15k so not justifiable…
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Interesting points from “Sword and Scimitar” around the siege of Vienna. Because of the Catholic / Protestant thing going on in Europe at that time, the Protestants pretty much sided with the Muslims. Elizabeth I had a treaty with the barbary pirates, and provided them with armaments against Spain, Protestant Hungary threatened to attack Poland if they went to help Vienna. Sobieski let them know that would not be a good idea. Louise XIV was Catholic, but was just being a megalomaniac, and more interested in attacking the Holy Roman Empire, and French troops took part in the siege! The Grand Vizier was so avaricious, that he wouldn’t allow an all out assault, and tried to take it bit by bit, because the terms for an all out assault involve allowing the army 3 days of looting, and he wanted first pickings. Vienna was rubble, and the stench was so bad everyone just left for a while. In the aftermath the Holy League was joined by Orthodox Russia, and over the next 15 years they fought 15 battles with the Ottomans, winning 12 of them, and that ended the major threat to Europe. Piracy and slaving continued for another 150 years.
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Note to call centre operators:
You can’t *always* be experiencing a higher number of calls than average.
That’s not how averages work.
Why don’t you put all those accumulated “training purposes” recordings to good use!?
😁
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Well said!
I never get a wait time less than half an hour, which is purely to make the average person hang up and put up with whatever outrageous charge some corporation is charging them.
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Did you know?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) had a budget of just $319,000 financed by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Elton John, and Jethro Tull.
Studios refused to back it, so rock legends stepped in.
The result? A low-budget cult comedy that made cinematic history.
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And still funny today, as is ‘Life of Brian’. That era is sorely missed, because modern comedy is no laughing matter.
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We NEED some global boiling!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sz16o1EPaQ1z23obp.mp4
Those ducks!😆😆😆😆
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It’s undoubtedly cold but it says the temperature is -81 at Yakutiya but the record low temperature there is -64.4°C. Unless this is a new record low. However if it is meant to be -81F then that’s -63C.
The coldest temperature ever recorded on earth is -89.2°C at Vostok in Antarctica.
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Interesting (I thought) article about lack of standardization of(or even total lack of) accessible emergency power cut offs at EV charging stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ZwgzMG1bQ
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FWIW
“Take a political time-out, Elon Musk: ‘America Party’ rant proves even your genius has its limits”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/opinion/america-party-proves-elon-musk-needs-a-political-time-out/
Evidence that “The Peter Principle” does not have an upper limit?
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And – the latest Kunstler
“Cage Match
“. . . [W}e are closing in on more disclosures and fixing past wrongs to personnel. We’re making sure this is done correctly. But it’s absolutely getting done.” Dan Bongino, Deputy Director, FBI”
“Who knows what to believe these days? Well, what would you expect after years, even decades, of anti-reality operations by everyone from the CIA to The New York Times to Harvard U? Is it any wonder that reality-optionality is making the people both apathetic and insane?”
More at
https://www.kunstler.com/p/cage-match
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Elon doesn’t have to get into power, he only has to influence the parties fighting each other now. If the public get behind his ideas for reducing Govt debt, it will become a race between the two major parties to take those votes.
Like Aussie, America will not elect a third party to run the country, but a couple of MPs from a minor party can have a large influence.
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What is MAGA really about?
See United Nations Lima Declaration signed by Whitlam Labor in 1975 for Australia
https://www.unido.org/sites/default/files/2012-10/Lima%20Declaration%20and%20Plan%20of%20Action%20on%20Industrial%20Development%20and%20Co-operation_26.3.1975_0.PDF
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What is the Lima Declaration?
https://cirnow.com.au/what-is-the-lima-declaration/
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UN Lima objectives admitted by a UN Official 2015
06:43 PM ET 02/10/2015
Economic Systems: The alarmists keep telling us their concern about global warming is all about man’s stewardship of the environment. But we know that’s not true. A United Nations official has now confirmed this.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.
Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is capitalism. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.
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“The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.”
Actually, the politics was probably irrelevant, the big step forward was in energy per person. Steam power and then electricity gave us modern civilisation, as we will all find out when electricity becomes a commodity for the rich.
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Up at #1 Richard says that he hopes there’s nothing wrong with the presentation, then Peter says that the graphic is fine, but, was being polite in referring to “unreferenced assumptions”.
That’s putting it mildly. Essentially there is no scientific mechanism behind all the complex Unipccc propositions. They appear sciency, but are simply junk.
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“the precedent of Australia’s continued military involvement in the Ukrainian Conflict can be spun as the pretext for NATO’s European members involving themselves in a future AUKUS+ proxy war on China, which can be sold to the public as “paying back the favor out of solidarity”. ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/australias-latest-temporary-military-deployment-europe-connected-containing-china
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‘ … Australia government nowadays considers China to be an adversary …’
China is out biggest trading partner and they are sending 600 troops to Russia to gain some military experience. Australia is doing the same and showing solidarity in a just cause.
In this regard its worth noting that Beijing is going to give Russia the flick before Xmas, to curry favour with the Europeans.
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Vladivostok comes under attack.
https://united24media.com/latest-news/blasts-near-vladivostok-disrupt-critical-supply-lines-to-russian-pacific-fleet-unit-9650
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While this is cute for those considering Russia an enemy, we will live in a world where seemingly random destruction takes place in nearly all countries once Govts consider it normal to send special forces to cause destruction on their rivals. Naturally the West will be all “Russia and China have such poor workplaces and technology all these explosions are carelessness”, while train derailments and explosions in the West are ‘just accidents’.
Rather like the French sending their soldiers to NZ to blow up the Greenpeace ship…
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Wealthy Europeans looking to set up camp elsewhere will be hit with an exit tax.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/07/05/in-bid-to-curb-outflow-of-wealthy-citizens-green-new-deal-europe-levying-exit-taxes/
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‘Taxpayers spent more than $1.6m sending at least 75 public servants and two ministers to a UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan last year. The average cost for the public servants was $20,000 per head.’ (Oz)
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For years here, well it seemed like years, the use of vaccines against Covid-19 was excoriated by virtually all those posting plus Jo’s pieces;. In an unexpected turnaround a pregnant physician who was denied a Covid-19 vaccine is suing the Trump administration alongside a group of leading doctors’ associations, charging that the administration sought to “desensitize the public to anti-vaccine and anti-science rhetoric”, according to their attorney.
The lawsuit specifically takes aim at health secretary Robert F Kennedy’s unilateral decision to recommend against Covid-19 vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children. Kennedy’s announcement circumvented expert scientific review panels and flouted studies showing pregnant women are at heightened risk from the virus, and made it more difficult for some to get the vaccine.
//www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/pregnant-doctor-covid-19-vaccine-rfk-jr-
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Excellent point.
“studies showing pregnant women are at heightened risk from the virus”
It is commonly understood in evolution, risk to the parent preempts risk to the offspring.
I suggest testing this principle with say … grizzly bears.
Walk in the woods carrying a rifle.
If you stumble on grizzly bear cubs, the grizzly mom will observe you as a greater threat to her safety and run away and hide.
Then you are safe pet the cute cubs.
There are studies that support this.
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That’s not an unexpected turnarond. Medical groups taking legal action against RFK Jr, HHS, and/or the Trump administration was expected. Whether it’s based on sound medical science, protecting drug company interests, or just another attack on Trump / RFK Jr doing what they said they’d do, it was going to happen, has been happening, and more will happen.
Will be interesting to see if the case can have a non-political judge and what “experts” are willing to say under oath.
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For the Neanderthal followers
“Ancient Neanderthal ‘Fat Factory’ Reveals How Advanced They Really Were”
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-neanderthal-fat-factory-reveals-how-advanced-they-really-were
And
“Neanderthal DNA Exists in Humans, But One Piece Is Mysteriously Missing”
https://www.sciencealert.com/neanderthal-dna-exists-in-humans-but-one-piece-is-mysteriously-missing?utm_source=SA_article&utm_campaign=related_link
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“Eh? Gawd!”
“King, Conqueror, and Cultural Makeover: The BBC Did It Again”
“So how many black guys do you think fought during the Battle of Hastings at a place called Hailesaltede, in Sussex, England, nearly a millennium ago?”
Moreat
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/07/07/bbc-black-soldiers-fought-in-1066-britain-n4941500
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Can’t wait for the BBC remake of ‘Zulu’.
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FWIW
“Spain’s blackout wasn’t a glitch – it was a warning…”
“Lights Out, Europe: The Cost Of Brussels’ Energy Fantasy”
“This episode is far more than an isolated incident. It is a metaphor for the erratic direction taken by the European Union’s energy policy. In the name of climate change, Brussels has embarked on a radical overhaul of its energy model driven not by technical or economic realities, but by an ideological agenda imposed by political and bureaucratic elites. What was marketed as a smooth transition toward renewable energy has turned into a forced green agenda, with no viable alternatives and little regard for its impact on competitiveness, system stability, or citizens’ well-being.
At the root of this drift lies the REPowerEU plan, launched after the start of the war in Ukraine with the stated aim of “fully decoupling” Europe from Russian energy. What initially appeared to be a justified geostrategic measure quickly became, in the hands of the European Commission, a pretext to push through renewable energies at any cost. This led to a rushed and uneven transition, with citizens and businesses footing the bill.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lights-out-europe-cost-brussels-energy-fantasy
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Its not rushed and even, its failed. Another word the like is volatile. Its not volatile, is failed. Failed is the word they are looking for. There is no transition and with the current technology set, there will be no transition.
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FWIW – for the EV files
““Comically Unsuited to a Vast, Cold Country like Canada” ”
“Spiked- The madness of Canada’s electric-car mandates
Like all green ploys, Carney’s won’t come cheap. The Canadian government has invested upwards of $52 billion in its plan, much of that going towards subsidising the manufacture of EVs in Canada. Who will purchase those EVs is another question.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/07/07/comically-unsuited-to-a-vast-cold-country-like-canada/
Maybe
““Comically Unsuited to a Vast, Hot Country like Australia” ”
would also work?
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FWIW
Re that Topher Field video on the absurdity of the “Tradie’s Ute Tax”.
I was telling a friend who is a professional concreter that his likely next work truck would be a Ram 3500 Crew Cab or equivalent.
Obviously the word is out because he replied “I wondered why I am seeing a lot of those around work sites lately”
And there seem to be quite a few on the road in front of caravans at the moment.
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Zohran Mamdani is in the thick of it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/is-the-new-york-times-trying-to-wreck-zohran-mamdanis-mayoral-bid
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Speaking of ‘Science’ … remember Oumuamua?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1I/%CA%BBOumuamua
“Oumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object …
ʻOumuamua is a small object estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 metres (300 and 3,000 ft) long, with its width and thickness both estimated between 35 and 167 metres (115 and 548 ft)”
Now we have 31Atlas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3I/ATLAS
Excepting, the new one is 12 miles in length.
Heading directly to our neighborhood.
Totally coincidental rare object immediately followed by another totally rare coincidental object.
I’m getting a scout ship, followed by invasion force troop carrier vibe.
But ‘Science’ assures us it’s just a new kind of ‘comet’.
I have no reason not to trust ‘Science’.
I have learned …
coincidence counts in some ‘Science’ but not in other ‘Science’.
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Clearly its the mothership.
Voyager 1 & 2 have triggered something and Cassini has also made a discovery.
The Chinese are shocked by what they found on the dark side of the moon and now crop circles, past and present, are being reanalysed by AI.
They have been communicating for years, but we are so dim witted that it went over our heads. NASA (Deep Space) is trying to keep a lid on all of this and have advised their staff to put a sock in it.
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Just as we have no evidence that observed warming is ‘not’ caused by anthropogenic CO2, we have no evidence it is ‘not’ the Mothership.
Simple logic.
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Not only that el,
we must shut down everything and prepare until we know that orbital curve does not flatten, and the Mothership isn’t headed straight for us.
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The puzzling question is how did Oumuamua become reenergised by the sun?
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There has been an accident in Dysart, part of the Bowen Basin coal precinct or so it seems.
Out of curiosity I regularly open up flightradar to see what’s happening it is surprising haw often the State rescue chopper is flying but tonight there were two flying out of Mackay with the one Flight No. They have just landed in Dysart. ABC News hasn’t any headlines on it so who knows.
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