Keir Starmer has just announced the UK will recognise Palestine as a state in September unless Israel withdraws from Gaza. France said something similar last week.
Can anyone tell me what the boundaries of such a state would be and who would be its government. A 2 state solution seems, to me, a very unlikely proposition.
The boundaries will be from the river to the sea. Actual Palestine, Jordan, wants no part of these people. Nor does Egypt, Syria, Turkey or anywhere else. They have been burned before.
Israel is a tiny country the size of Wales that is only 10 miles wide in places. It has 2 tiny enclaves of Palestinians. Gaza was part of Egypt then from 1967 part of Israel after the war that year who then vacated it in the early 2000’s when Hama* moved in. Bearing in mind they want to obliterate Israel and have put in a huge infrastructure to just that end -and have recently demonstrated they want to do so-I am mystified how anyone can suggest a 2 state solution. It was never viable even before the Hama* attack, certainly not viable now. As you say, the neighbours are not keen as they have been burned before
Two-tier Keir will also be aware (or should be) that a “recognized nation” is automatically subject to all the laws, good and bad, that attend such status.
Thus, were said “nation” to pull stunts like hamas has been doing for YEARS. the “rules of civilized war” apply. just as they did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
No doubt the well-heeled professional hand-wringers will be aghast at this, and will exceed their previous incendiary outrage by orders of magnitude.
Let’s see what the “peacenik” lawyers have to dribble about “proportionality”
Israel has expanded by creating “conflict” and then using the pretext of the conflict it created to illegally take over Palestinian land. So, almost all the land it now claims as “Israel” is in fact not Israeli under international law.
Under international law, the onus would be on Israel to prove ownership of land it seized … which is why Israel will never attempt to settle the conflict except by ethnically cleansing the indigenous people of Palestine and seizing their land.
So, any suggestion of “ceasefire” has nothing to do with settling the conflict.
Starmer is a big supporter of Israel’s illegal occupation. So, there is no doubt that this is just PR to try to quell the huge protests against the genocide … and give Israel time to complete its occupation of the current batch of illegally seized land … until the public have forgotten, and then it will trigger a new “conflict” using its controlled assets in Palestine.
My knowledge of international law is limited to:
There is no international law, and
the old Roman dictum- What you possess, you possess.
partly meaning- you own only what you can defend.
In general, if you have to force a society to adopt something it may not be evolutionary.
The music is about to stop and a chair is about to be pulled from the game.
US EPA is about to remove the endangerment finding . Imagine owning a common rail diesel engine that was not designed to clog itself attempting to reburn its own exhaust gas at around 65000 km.
No! We should not celebrate the return of the old technologies, and yes we should celebrate the AI (Actual Intelligence) of computer controlled fuel injection and timing in our high output engines, and yes, we should be joyous over the availability of cheap battery powered scooters, lawn mowers and other tools rather than the small smokey engines.
These technologies advance our civilisation whereas the mantra of the Green Religion was the return of the Dark Ages.
Today Andrew Forrest in the Australian is lauding benign China, source of his tens of billions. Of course. And others are arguing the costs of ‘renewables’.
What is utterly missing is any sign of science. Apparently everyone agrees and deniers are denied a forum.
No one has ever proved mankind can change CO2.
Everyone believes the atmosphere is just a big bucket in which CO2 piles up, even scientists. So much for science.
Meanwhile actual CO2 remains blithely ignorant of our ignorance. And if you look at CO2 levels for the last 55 years (ignore the typical commentary), there is no evidence of any human activity, even massive bushfires. As if CO2 is obeying its own laws of nature simply because 98% of it is in the ocean. But don’t tell anyone in the Australian or the media generally. They won’t believe you.
The Science is ‘in’. Humans control CO2 and Australia is the big problem. Facts be damned.
We Australians are evil and not spending enough and not fast enough to save ourselves let alone the whole world. And as that political giant Anthony Albanese strides the world of Climate Change, he will host the latest climate gabfest in Australia, a shining beacon of massive self destruction to the 95% of the planet waiting for our cash.
Forrest and Albanese, the dynamic duo of Climate Change, a capitalist and a communist showing the world how kowtowing* is done.
Twiggy needs to stay in his lane. There must be a limit how many of these “renewables” follies he can really afford without pulling his viable businesses down the drain.
His son runs his windmill company. Snouts in the trough. And windmills are going out of fashion. While hidden carbon taxes are soaring. But being an economist, he would not know that.
Oh dear God! I don’t know whee they get such clowns from!
“In fact, Professor Garnaut argued that they might be discouraging voluntary private sector investment. “Announcement of the extended CIS was one of several Commonwealth policy and other changes that led to a slowing of voluntary commitments to use renewable energy. The election of President Trump in November 2024 has been the latest of these developments,” he observed “The value of Large Generation Certificates has dropped, making investment in new renewables projects less profitable.”
How about.. private investors have seen that the scam is coming to an end and are looking after the security of their wealth. We will soon see money leaving Australia as the private sector realises a broke Govt can’t prop up money-losing schemes forever, followed by people leaving. We will be the Pacific’s South Africa, electricity unreliable and out of the budget of many people, the best of our people emigrating and being replaced by those from the 3rd world with no skills and a different view of how society should be run.
The Truth, The Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth.
When all of that is acknowledged by our “Leaders”, sometime in the future, there will be a need for deconstruction of the Global Warming Edifice and punishment for those who constructed it with evil intent.
And windmills were abandoned centuries ago across Europe. From Greece to Holland you can see them on hill tops.
They were abandoned because they were not reliable, commandable, adequate. And in most applications energy has to be utterly reliable and constant and adequate for the job.
In WWII a single fighter was a reverse windmill of 1,000 Horsepower. By war’s end, 2,000 horsepower. And the ME262 was 5,500 horsepower. The most horsepower won and winning was life and death for everyone, not just the pilot. It redefined adequate, commandable, reliable energy and showed the potential of fossil fuel. None were solar powered.
The industrial revolution, the transport revolution did not happen until we found reliable, commandable and unlimited energy.
The only reliable part of solar is that it will be off for half a day, 3/4 of a day in winter in most of the areas where half the people live. That’s unacceptable.
And the US EPA has repealed the CO2 endangerment warning, a perverse ruling using the Clean Air laws to permit the ripoff by wind and solar vendors, mainly China.
CO2 is NOT a danger to humanity. It is perfectly natural. And a near constant from pole to pole, room to room, kept in perfect balance in a planet covered by oceans where 98% of all CO2 is dissolved.
And given how windmills and solar panels are manufactured it is dirty, dirty energy in every way.
What now for windfarms and solar farms? All irrelevant given the Safeguard Mechanism, a 35% tax on carbon dioxide buried in everything that made or moving. Including even sewage. And no one knows it exists. The government no longer even needs to build windmills as the business types realise the 2001 RET scheme is nearing the end of its life. And the river of money flows overseas, the entire aim of the hoax by the UN/EU/China.
You will not read about it in the papers. Or hear it on the news. How many Australians know we have a massive CO2 tax at 10% ramping up 5% every year to 35%, an illegal government created money grab on everything that moves and buried secretly in your bills. Even from the MMBW, air travel, deliveries, cost of goods, cost of services. And the government is not held to account in a democracy because it’s illegally not even in the budget because it’s not a tax and not in General Revenue. It’s a mafia extortion scheme, created by the gnomes of Canberra and enforced by hundreds of thousands of public servants and major penalties all tied to secrecy, like the old and much loved Sales Tax.
TdeF:
The dutch windmills are near sea level because they were to pump water out to sea. As as I know that function ended in 1823 when the Dutch commissioned the largest steam engine (to that date) as more reliable than waiting on the wind.
Those windmills you see are largely retained for the tourist trade.
Yes, understood. Only a few remain, under 10. There were thousands. Pumping water is a perfect random application. But making bread is not. Manufacturing though requires constant energy, constant throughput, precise timing. But you also see the few remaining windmills in Spain and on Mykonos. Again a few from tens of thousands.
The other way they lowered the water was to time the sluice gates, opened on the low tide, closed on the low tide. This was reversed by the Belgians in WW1, which stopped the German advance in a meter of water and ruined half the country for 20 years. In time for the next German invasion but this time the Germans moved much faster.
And even before steam engines in the seventeenth century Millers in Brittany switched to tidal power. Very high tides there (variable but regular) Up to 16 metres. Capturing the incoming tide** meant that the output could power the grinding mills. Yes, tide times changed but were predictable so the millers changed their working days/night.
You could rely on tides whereas wind was a hit & miss thing. The first large tidal generator (Rance River) was installed about 1969. It has has problems with weeds but still going.
** let the incoming tide run up the minor valley and shut the gates at high tide.
Apart from being concerned about the luggage handling system at Heathrow, I am also concerned about the Germans recently stated goal to be the most powerful military in Europe. One doesn’t want to dwell on the past, but, we have been around that loop twice before and it didnt go well, twice.
Given the de-electrification and deindustrialization of Germany perhaps its just pollie waffle?
Germany is a spent force. German median age is 45.2 years. There are far more concerned about their old age than those wanting to wage war.
They are not permitted to mine their own fuels and no one is going to give them any so any export income goes into buying fuel to keep warm.
Their heavy industry is fighting for life. Steel making requires lots of CO2 so in precipitous decline.
Car manufacturing in Germany is in decline; down 33% from its peak just a decade ago.
Turning Germany into a war machine now would be harder than turning Australia into a war machine. Australia could not even make cardboard drones without imposing parts from China. But Australia has a lower median age and clearly more hinger for violence given the level off street crime.
G’day TdeF,
I knew this was being proposed, but has it been completed?
And the US EPA has repealed the CO2 endangerment warning, a perverse ruling using the Clean Air laws to permit the ripoff by wind and solar vendors, mainly China.
We could do the same in Australia with the Gillard Carbon Credits act on which later Acts rely. Just repeal it. (Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 )
And we could repeal Paul Keating’s Act which declared aboriginals were to be gifted the country because of farmer Eddi Mabo, of Melanasian descent who lived on an island in the Torres Strait and was completely disconnected from Australia culturally, historically, genetically, socially. Maybe then we could walk on Ayer’s Rock and Climb Mount Arapiles and visit the site of the first landing in Hobart, a derelict tourist attraction surrounded now in cyclone fencing since it was given to aborigines.
In a January 27, 2020, email, Fauci received talking points from an aide regarding Wuhan Institute of Virology research that was being funded by the disease division of the National Institutes of Health. The former chief medical adviser to the president then spoke about Covid-19 at a press conference later that evening.
The NIAID funded the gain-of-function research through the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which contracted the Wuhan lab “for the past 5 years,” according to the email.
“EcoHealth group (Peter Daszak et al), has for years been among the biggest players in coronavirus work, also in collaboration with Ralph Baric, Ian Lipkin and others,” Fauci’s chief of staff Greg Folkers wrote to his boss and other public health officials.
Folkers then went into detail, specifically regarding the research’s findings. With the financial backing of Fauci’s agency, approximately 10,000 bats and about 2,000 other mammals were sampled from 47 sites across the South China Sea, he wrote. This area was a prime location for discovering the closest relatives to SARS-CoV-2.
There are so many documents that do not fit the statement above. If covid was a chinese bioweapon it appears to have shown statistically to have have been more a ‘biocure’. The covid fear meme worked simply by shutting down travel and appears to have been the greatest saviour of human life in 2020 with ‘All cause mortality’ reported worldwide as going through the floor. Hospitals were empty, nurses were dancing on tik tok and the only deaths were in large public hospitals where panicing patients were treated with ventilators and emergency use medications.
Having followed the events this is my best conclusion:
It seems very likely that Fauci funded research in Wuhan because it was not allowed in the US, and that that research led to an accidental release of covid.
The Chinese government then tried to hush it up in China. The US government tried to deny it was anything to do with them. And, governments worldwide, hearing of the release of a potential bio-weapon then all panicked like it was the end o0f the world. That panic and the reactions from that government panic almost certainly killed a huge number of people and did a lot of damage. For example, people died of dehydration in nursing homes, almost certainly because staff were too afraid to go into room with supposed “covid patients”, patients, only diagnosed by a PCR test which was not fit for purpose and almost certainly identifying ordinary flu as “covid”.
Indeed, the only people who could not “isolate” were those already sick and elderly who needed support. So, the way everyone else hid, meant that the epidemic was iniitally focused in the group who were most likely to die from covid … and because the epidemic was massively lengthened by long time it took to get herd immunity, far more in those vulnerable groups died than ought to have died.
The covid jab … came out and the stats show it made no obvious difference to the mortality in the first weeks. However, it is reported that many people died weeks and months after getting the jab. So, it is more than likely that the jab was a net killer. it was NOT safe and effective.
The failure of the jab and the harm it did was then covered up … because it would be extremely embarrassing for governments to have to admit they continued the hugely damaging lockups awaiting a jab, that then did more harm than good.
Yes, but more relevant to the point- the vax came before the virus. The vax was a product of US big pharma working on a military project. They were certain that the vax was what was wanted, so they had to design a virus for the vax to cure. Hence Fauci and the incorporation of China’s WuHan lab.
Woah hey TdeF, every time I turn on the wireless or plug into the interweb there’s some Doctor Doolittle spouting every fraction of a degree creates more storms, causing more droughts and more floods, less snow then more snow – something they call ‘extreme’ which is such a quaint outdated 1980s term, dude.
What these ‘doctors of science’ call NEWS™️, I refer to as deluded ‘orrible opportunism or DOO… big stinking piles of it.
Only 6 months ago these ****s were crying DROUGHT (in high summer), now they’re wailing FLOODS (in the middle of winter), so much so that Auckland’s dams are now overflowing thanks to 1 metre of rain to date in 2025. Yet, as with Australia, have we constructed any more dams as a backup?
That is the vapour pressure. It’s how physical chemistry works. Some molecules evaporate. Some absorbed. Being 30x more soluble than oxygen, most CO2 is in the ocean but a little remains, about 2%. At the surface, Henry’s Law. We can only estimate the total of course but it’s 50:1. Much lower for O2 which all life in the ocean needs to breathe. (Most) Sharks, lacking gills, have to keep swimming to get O2 or suffocate. Yes, fish drown in water without oxygen. And they breathe out CO2,like all living things.
The way people talk you would think life started on land as did weather. But there were no plants, no animals, just rocks. The sea invaded the land. Which is why we carry our sea water with us in our blood, the salt content of ancient sea water. And animals cannot survive long without both fresh water and salt. And as the ocean is 3.5km deep on average, that’s 350x the volume of the air and CO2 is still a very gas even in the ocean. Unfortunately sea creatures have learned to combine CO2 and Calcium to form shells and the oceans are covered in deep limestone like the White Cliffs of Dover. The Nullabor plains. Even cities like Odessa, Ukraine are on plateaus of limestone and French cities like Paris and Rheims are built on limestone. The caves used for Champagne were dug by Roman workers and provided shelter two thousand years later when the Germans reached Verdun. At least making concrete releases CO2. Bowen will have to find a substitute for concrete.
So yes, the ocean ‘decided’ to leave some CO2 in the air. From which all our food and our bodies are made, every tree, every blade of grass, every bacterium, fungus and elephant. And we hope never to run out of CO2 or it would all have to start again.
Truly your first paragraph is unscientific waffle. Please rewrite it with maybe just one citation.
Second paragraph is irrelevant mansplaining in which somehow you lump a government minister in with the early evolution of life.
Third paragraph is where you leave my question unanswered. This ocean that mops up all the new CO2 somehow doesn’t. See if you can bring yourself to use the word equilibrium.
Yup, GA. You are the resident expert in unscientific waffle as demonstrated by your usual complete BS, no citations or references and irrelevant b*llocks
I had answered your question. How do you know gender? We haven’t been introduced. You don’t even know my pronouns. Shouldn’t it be peoplesplaining?
I answered your question in the first line. Yes, Henry’s law describes the static laboratory equilibrium position, but the ocean is a different matter, 3500 metres deep with waves and wind and droplets and vast pressure changes and of course CO2 dissociates massively, unlike O2, N2. Wind is very important as it doesn’t exist in a beaker and the rate of exchange goes as the fourth power of wind velocity, which is why you get stagnant pools in billabongs,anaerobic water where nothing can live.
In fact like H2O, CO2 has massive phase change potential as well, from gas to dissociated ions, to liquid to solid with pressures in excess of 1100 atmospheres in the Marianas trench, average 350 atmospheres at the bottom.
And if you know about equilibrium, why did you ask the question?
And once you accept rapid equilibrium of CO2, agreed in the 36 papers (Click on Table1) here
This scientist concludes
(1) The adjustment time is never larger than the residence time and is less than 5 years.
(2) The idea of the atmosphere being stable at 280 ppm in pre-industrial times is untenable.
(3) Nearly 90% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide has already been removed from the atmosphere.
I would only disagree with (3) as the figure is demonstrably higher. There is provably only 2.0% fossil fuel CO2 in the air. But we have reached 1% contribution per year, so perhaps as much as already exists which is 50x. So the amount which remains in the air is 1/25th of what has been emitted or 4%, so 96% has been removed.
And anthropogenic is the wrong term, as humans also breathe. I would stick to fossil fuel CO2. No one cares about breathing, even if 1.4Billion Chinese people breathe out more CO2 than the whole of Australia generates. So I have no idea why we bother with Nett Zero when the extra 1 billion Chinese are the problem.
Unfortunately sea creatures have learned to combine CO2 and Calcium to form shells and the oceans are covered in deep limestone like the White Cliffs of Dover.
But if we could claim Carbon Credits for that then perhaps it wouldn’t be quite as unfortunate.
So, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Panama are all capitalist countries now. Wow, did not see that coming. Power failures in the countries with a mad rush to net zero. Wow, did not see that coming. Internet outage in countries that are ruled by leftwing ideology rather than true capitalism. Wow, did not see that coming. Left wing control over free speech through control of internet access. Wow, did not see that coming. China unaffected by CrowdStrike probably because they orchestrated it. Wow, did not see that coming. [Snip]
More media gaslighting or, as we say, lying by omission.
A story in the UK papers concerned a violent attack on a couple, who were severely beaten. There was video of the attack, in which it could be seen that the couple was white while every single attacker, including at least one woman, errr how shall I put this … wasn’t white.
Had the situation been different, the paper would have had no problem whatsoever calling it a racially-motivated attack, yet for some reason that wasn’t the case in this purely ‘random’ incident. I don’t know how they could tell.
I commented to this effect only for my comment to be deleted.
With the ridiculous social media ban effecting the way adults (never meant to keep kids safe) use the platforms for free speech….I’ve got an idea, if we are forced to use facial recognition to prove our age (Chinese technology, thanks Albo!) how about we all get an Albo mask to use as proof of age? Personally use a VPN which am sure the overlords will ban too!
UK Government Admits Online Safety Act Will Monitor Anti-Immigration Opinions
In an interview with GB News on Monday 28 July, Labour MP Barry Gardiner ackowledged that the law, framed as a measure to protect children, is also aimed at targeting “harmful” adult discourse online.
He said the law also aims to identify and restrict content deemed “harmful,” including expressions of “sentiments contrary to immigration.”
The CO2 endangerment finding is open for public comment.
It will be challenging for Federally funded bodies to submit comments supporting the finding at risk of exposing their true colours. The table has turned.
Lee Zeldin is clearly a highly invested EPA administrator. Openning for comment is a smart move.
Both models and experience suggest that CO2-induced warming might be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and excessively aggressive mitigation policies could prove more detrimental than beneficial [Chapters 9, 10, Section 11.1]. Social Cost of Carbon estimates, which attempt to quantify the economic damage of CO2 emissions, are highly sensitive to their underlying assumptions and so provide limited independent information [Section 11.2].
U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays [Chapter 12].
The report is from Luke warmers; some benefitting from climate funding. But they are all highly regarded.
“undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate” to “zero impact on any weather”
There is no Global Climate. No artificial intelligence has been harmed in this translation. Although a number of reputations have been seriously damaged.
Following on from yesterdays posts on the latest CSIROs “Gencost” report…and my reply..
…… the report suggest the CSIRO now realises that batteries and Pumped Hydro will not cut it for “firming” (storage) to ensure uninterupted supply from Solar and Wind.
..SO now they are proposing the use of ThermalSolar systems to provide at least 10 hrs of storage ?…
This when by their own data the is under 7.0GW of that technology operating from 100 sites worldwide ! ……( none in Australia )
They claim to be working with .. https://www.vast.energy/upcoming-projects
BUT,..what makes them believe that the best back up for lack of solar power, ..is MORE Solar power ??
If there is a bad weather day with little sunshine, how do they expect a Solar Thermal plant to function instead of the PV system.
Further, if there is insufficient sun to power the Thermal plant, how do they expect to keep the thermal salt medium molten ?….. use external power maybe ??
And all this based on a technology with a history of big failures and financial collapse !
Subtle difference in the use of the words “electricity” and “power”. All sorts of systems produce electricity, but it’s only big thermal plants utilising fuels that produce high levels of heat that produce “POWER”. Well, actually the steam provides that, because in terms of electricity production we largely still live in the steam age. When my parents back in the 1950’s paid to have the “power” connected it was described as “.. we got the power put on in 1951”. No mention of electricity. Power is what drives modern industrial societies not electricity. The CSIRO don’t appear to understand that basic fact.
Yes, accepting the problems of new technology, the basic facts dont stack up..
Crescent Dunes is a 110MW (nameplate) capacity generator costing initially over $2 bn Au
But never manages to produce more than 196 MWh per year (22% CF)
So, in order to be anything like an effective “firming” support for our 20+ GW of overnight demand,..many, many, facilities of that type would be needed .( possibly 300+ ?..)
Hence possibly $600bn capital cost ?…😳
Well all my lights are LED. Nine have been in for about ten years now and only one needed replacing and that was in the kitchen where they are on almost constantly. I have recently added 4 more cheap Chinese ones in the bathroom to replace halogen lights, so far so good.
If you use dimmers perhaps your dimmers are faulty.
Also had the residence completely changed over to LED lighting in 2018, when I moved in. Only had to change one light since. Some cheap LED lights don’t have sufficient heat sinking.
You’re definitely correct Yarpos. The introduction of all these “green” measures was supposed to reduce our electricity bills. So LED’s, energy efficient appliances, various forms of insulation, split systems, heat pumps, water saving shower heads, etc, etc. They weren’t marketed as reducing your electricity consumption, they were marketed as reducing our bills. Recently the Vic government paid a contractor to come to my house and put covers over my roof aircon ducts. Also, gave me some new shower heads which I had used 20 years ago in the centennial drought. I can guarantee it wont make a jot of difference to my bills.
Have close to 100 LED globes in the house. Some for more than a decade. I have had 1 fail after a year or so; replaced a few years back and same globe still working.
I have a dual oven and have replaced the incandescent globes in those every year or two. Am yet to find a high temperature LED globe.
If you have high frequency noise on your power line, it could be killing the voltage controller in the LED. A friend living near the water in Sydney had a dodgy power supply that caused a lot of electrical damage. The issue was eventually traced to a corroded neutral connection at a nearby supply transformer.
You should expect LED lights to outlive you in most household uses. If they are failing frequently then you likely have a power supply problem and should have it investigated. Keep track of failures over a few months and ask your poles and wires to investigate when you have some solid numbers to give them. Tungsten filaments are devoid of sensitive electronics – unlike LED globes.
The trick with incandescent globes is run them at reduced voltage. This greatly increases their lifespan. Before LEDs, had to design a system with a ten-year globe lifetime, so simply used higher-power globes run on half voltage. Also run two Aldis signalling lamps with 10V globes at the museum on a 5volt power supply. They will run forever at that voltage.
We have been in our townhouse for 26 years – 3 bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and living area. All ceiling halogen downlights and only about 7 replaced over that time. Cannot complain!! North facing so plenty of light; neighbours put in LEDs a few years ago but minimal impact on bills….
Watch Big Clive on YouTube (while you still can) … he explains that LED technology should last a long time but they are usually set to run far too hot. An after-market unofficial upgrade is available, which somewhat reduces the brightness in exchange for a significantly longer lifespan and cooler running.
Interesting. A very simple circuit, and as he says, easy to change to reduce light output and perhaps lengthen lifetime. Wrong about LED forward-biased volts though, it’s only 2-3 volts.
I haven’t pulled one apart and done the measurements … I probably should out of interest
It’s hard to beat Big Clive’s knowledge on LED or any lighting circuit. As you could see there’s only five actual LED elements on the board in the video … and they have 240V in the UK so 3V times 5 is only 15V … nowhere near enough.
However there’s some tricks where they jam more and one PN junction into a single component to get the voltage hight. He mentioned that (briefly) partway through. You know the guy has thousands of videos where he pulls all this stuff apart and reverse engineers it? He has gone through almost every small electronic device you can buy from anywhere.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
On Friday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet’s most common security checkpoints by clicking Cloudflare’s anti-bot verification—the same checkbox that’s supposed to keep automated programs like itself at bay.
And Paul Kelly, Australian Editor at Large, “Rejecting net zero will condemn Liberals to electoral oblivion”
No. The Liberals would romp home, as Tony Abbott did. Wrong about Trump, wrong about the carbon dioxide hoax, we are Running out of objective commentators even in the vaguely Conservative media.
And if good spokespeople like Moira Deeming or Jacinta Price turn up, they are treated very badly, especially Moira Deeming. The fact of outrageous defamation of Ms Deeming has been approved explicitly by three former Victorian Liberal State Premiers. And the Liberal party tore down Tony Abbott. Why?
Tony was torn down because of his stance on climate change science, replaced by a green woke zealot who also became a casualty.
‘Malcolm Turnbull is a man who lost his job because of climate change. Twice. But the former Prime Minister said not being able to enact policies that would reduce emissions remains his number one regret.
“Australia really needs to address climate change. The need is more obvious than ever. We’ve battled the forces of climate denialism in our Parliament and in our political life,” he told Hack. (ABC)
Exactly. I agree. Torn down by a Labor party Green Woke Zealot, posing as a Liberal because the Labor party would not have him.
But Tony was by far the most popular Prime Minister according to the voters. Malcolm Turnbull was incredibly unpopular and was reelected by only one seat, destroying the Coalition huge majority. And he hung around long enough to put Morrison into the job, still elected in the hope that he would be true to Abbot’s line, but Morrison signed us up to Net Zero. And Malcolm gave his wife $444 Million cash to spend as she pleased. The only thing which they could say was that it would cost $135Million to ‘administer’ the 7 1/2 tons of gold with six people.
So the people have been betrayed time and time again. By the Liberal party. That continues today. As in the Voice, where Dutton had to be dragged kicking and screaming to suggest people vote NO.
No wonder the Liberal/Nationals are at their lowest ebb in history. They cannot be trusted by anyone.
Politicians are a great disappointment, but in a democracy there is always an outside chance that things might improve.
‘There is a better way’: Sussan Ley hits out at Labor’s renewable charge.
‘Opposition Leader Sussan Ley discusses Labor’s net zero rush, emphasising how much Australia needs an energy grid which “works”.
“You have to have a grid that works and that is the most important thing because we are not going to stand by … and see this government trash energy policy in this country,” Ms Ley told Sky News Australia.
I agree, there is no greater disappointment in recent years than Sussan Ley. Except perhaps that Malcolm Turnbull should have joined the Greens, not pretended to be a conservative. And he needs to hand back the $444Million, less his $135million ‘administration’ fees. The $14Million interest on his misappropriated hundreds of millions is always in the budget though. When did Australian Prime Ministers become Kings?
” but in a democracy there is always an outside chance that things might improve.”
Rubbish! There is no evidence that things might improve, outside or inside. The people have spoken, and they have said.. ‘we are as thick as pigsh1t and will vote for fuzzy feelings and more giveaways’ ..and there is no reason at all to think that will change. Same with the corrupt politicians mentioned above, its not the person that links to corruption, its the fact they are a politician!
PRE-PLANDEMIC EVENT revealed by UK could be foreshadowing of upcoming scamdemic infection release
The United Kingdom has announced Exercise Pegasus, the largest pandemic response drill in its history, scheduled to run from September to November 2025. Unveiled in Parliament on July 8 by Minister for Intergovernmental Relations Pat McFadden, the exercise is framed as a sweeping preparedness measure in response to shortcomings exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations from the 2024 UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
While governments assert that these simulations and policies are essential for protecting public health, experts like Dr. David Bell caution that preparedness must not become a vehicle for authoritarian control. As public memory of the COVID response remains raw, Exercise Pegasus is likely to face intense scrutiny over how it balances genuine readiness with individual freedoms.
As Bowen and Albanese now push “Carbon capture” to reduce the world’s CO2. Once again billions to be made! A carbon capture superpower!
But you have to wonder if they would be better off showing off by just banning
Yeast, cheese, leavened bread, sodas, coca cola, champagne, beer, meat packing, hothouses, use in medicine, use in refrigerants, MIG welding, …
When the American company which produced fertilizer/ammonia in the UK closed, there was a huge shortage of the major byproduct CO2.
This produced a critical meat shortage in the stores.
CO2 has been a major product for companies like BOC for a century. It is too expensive to capture directly from the air, but what would they know?
So why not cut out the middle man, save a fortune and just pass a law banning beer and bread and cakes? Surely that would be popular with the Labor party. Far cheaper than carbon capture. Spend the savings on circuses, like COP31?
“The Malinauskas Labor Government will invest more than $8 million to begin preparations for Adelaide to play home to one of the world’s biggest events – the COP31 climate change conference to be held in November 2026.”
Perhaps it would be better to hold the carbon dioxide party in Cairo. Then at least it would be in denial because mankind cannot change CO2 levels.
Near constant CO2 is a fact of life on earth from pole to pole, summer to winter, at every point in rapid equilibrium with the vast oceans. As NASA found, even if you grow a trillion trees, more CO2 comes out of the ocean.. More CO2 means more trees but more trees does not mean less CO2.
So it is pointless anti-science to capture CO2. It’s just the constant vapour pressure of a dissolved gas. All life on earth is made directly and wholly from CO2. And H2O, a far more dangerous gas which kills vast numbers every year. Both are evil industrial products of the combustion of fossil fuels. Ban them both.
Australian politicians know more about science and business stuff than anyone. And everything they do is supposed to make tens of billions. Hydrogen superpower, renewables superpower, Quantum computing superpower, now carbon capture superpower employing over 5,000 people and making $66 Billion. You have to wonder where they get the figures?
What I find hard to understand is how the pushers of man made CO2 and CO2 made warming and warming made disaster get away with it? There has never been a debate. A parliamentary inquiry. Evidence called? And as most practicing scientists outside the medical field work for the government, perhaps it is no mystery.
But we remain the only country in the world to have made Nuclear Power illegal. The smart country? No.
And they are still planning to blow up what was left to us by the previous generation who saw the long term need for adequate, reliable, commandable power. Not a national grid of windmills controlled by Canberra. And wind and solar are not solutions, let alone long term solutions. Only an idiot would keep coal in the ground.
Bowen is openly concerned that Australia will shut down completely if he cannot get enough wind power for the day when they blow up the power stations? It’s a kind of madness, not logic or science.
And even then a wind drought means the place will shut down completely from time to time. And someone might just blame him.
United States page:
Magnitude 8.8 Scale: Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI)
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake
2025-07-29 16:24:50 (UTC-07:00)
20.7 km deep
Australia page: https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/
The preferred magnitude is Mww –
Moment Magnitude Scale
Four scales are reported. No clue about this.
Civil Defence here are going OTT as per usual – friends all around NZ received emergency alerts on their phones… 5+ hours after I heard an item on the radio while parked at the beach watching perfect 3-5ft (1-2m) waves & hordes of riders enjoying themselves in the sun (it’s been raining for 2 days solid).
Parts of Russia’s Far East coastline were inundated, Japan had a few surges, the waves have arrived in Hawaii as I’m sending this – RNZ is reporting a (very precise) “6.92 feet high tsunami wave” in Maui, via some Hawaiian outlet – as the pulse heads east towards California.
I’m thinking we’re sweet down here (I’m parked 20ft above high tide at the beach) but if you don’t hear from me tomorrow…
“Must Watch – Tucker Carlson Interviews Richard Werner
July 29, 2025 | Sundance | 61 Comments”
“This is one of those interviews that simply must be watched in its entirety. It’s long, almost 3 hours, but take the quiet time to watch and absorb the information provided by economist Professor Richard Werner.”
“Werner discusses something absolutely vital to understand about the nature of economics and the banking system that underpins it. You have often heard me say “there are trillions at stake” when describing the elements aligned against President Trump. Well, Werner gives context to what lies behind those trillions.”
“I cannot recommend this interview enough. However, don’t sell yourself short. Find a quiet place, quiet time, and take notes as you listen to Richard Werner outline the true and unspoken nature of how money is created.
When you understand what Werner is saying, everything the FED and Central Banks do starts to make sense. ”
“Experts say the likely reason for the decline in gang-gangs has been the destruction of the big old, hollow-bearing trees that they nest in up in mountainous areas, from native-forest logging,”
Another part says-
“The gang-gang cockatoo will be added to the threatened species list after climate change and bushfires impact populations.”
..and their current problem is that they are freezing to death, due, I suppose, to not having a hotel to hide in, and climate change bringing freezing winters…
In Sydney right now it’s very cold and very wet. Growing up in the north of England this shouldn’t be a problem for me, but it is. Talking to my friends at the pub tonight everyone was saying this must be the coldest winter in 20 or 30 years. Just asking for my friends the Gang-Gang Cockatoos.
“Once perched atop the climate movement’s moral high ground, the self-anointed “climate hawks” are now watching their influence dwindle, and nowhere is that retreat more visible than in California. Long the epicenter of progressive climate ambition, the Golden State is now backpedaling. Democrats who once championed aggressive environmental mandates are hitting pause, reworking regulations, and distancing themselves from policies that have driven up energy and housing costs. A post-2024 reality check has swept the party: climate may still poll well in theory, but not when it collides with affordability.”
I have found TDS in the banking and finance community, particularly those with US connections. Their hatred of Trump is visceral. And their stories are second or third hand.
I find at least two things they do not know and don’t want to hear. Firstly that his mother is Scottish, from the outer Hebrides. She could not speak English until after high school. He is as British as Winston Churchill, who had an American mother.
The his older brother was an alcoholic. Donald Trump has never had a drink of alcohol in his life.
And I have to say that while married three times with an amazing set of children, quite remarkably none of his wives have had a bad thing to say about him. That’s almost a world first.
While the press try to infer that Melania hates him, that is a ridiculous interpretation of looks, walks in photographs. You could say more about Macron. The attack on wives and spouses is a very low approach and not based on facts. Especially when you consider the stress of a 24/7 job like the US President living in the White House where the walls have bugs and every look, word is recorded. It’s a wonder any President stays married.
It also turns out that the prosecutors who harried Trump through the decades are the problem. Schiff, Abrams, James, .. are all heading to grand juries. Plus the occasional judge. I don’t think any President has had the analysis of his affairs as Trump. Remember the CLintons and WHitewater? The Clinton Foundation and unprotected server in the garage for the Secretary of State. The Biden laptop. The Weiner laptop. The Steele dossier. The FISA lies on oath. The head of the FBI wearing a wire into the White House. Tapping Trump’s phones when he was only a member of the public.
And Trump is supposed to be the crook. It is looking like there are plenty in the CIA/FBI. Then the unmissable assassination attempt at Butler, where the local Butler police had to shoot the shooter, not the FBI/CIA who dispatched him once he had fired eight times and had no gun.
The suits against the 51 signatories to the Hunter Biden laptop is a fake story have committed crimes on record, interfering with an election.
And there is still the business of the missing 5 million additional voters in the 2020 election.
And the networks losing defamation cases, interfering with election cases. Paying tens of millions. The assault on Trump, the endless ridicule has been funded.
The View is on ‘hiatus’. Fallon, Kimmel and Colbert, all subsidised to attack Trump. Colbert’s late show lost $140million and the show is gone. The View belittled President Trump’s press secretary as getting the job on looks only. They are facing defamation, a case clearly proven. And Mortgage fraud for Letitia James and Adam Schiff.
Big business vs Trump has been an ongoing battle. And the media are in full retreat. Inflation is down, petrol (except California), the price of eggs.
The aooroval rate in the Republican party is over 90%. And approval of Democrat leaders is 20%. They were just the anti Trump party.
And JD Vance is in the wings, a Yale graduate, like 20 years of US Presidents.
Yet I meet Australians who are clearly indoctrinated by the Australian media too and years and years of US media.
As Jay Leno asks, why would a nightime host and entertainer deliberately alienate half his audience?
“A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the eighth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-8), a cargo spaceplane built by Boeing on behalf of the U.S. Space Force in cooperation with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The mission, also referred to as USSF-36, will demonstrate space-based communications using laser links between the spaceplane and “proliferated commercial satellite networks in Low Earth Orbit.” Officials haven’t said if this will involve SpaceX’s Starlink constellation or the Starshield satellites developed for government use. It will also demonstrate what USSF calls “the highest performing quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space” in order to show navigation capabilities without the use of the GPS satellite constellation. ”
Now, why would the Yanks want to develop a system for navigation without GPS, I wonder?
Russia’s only nuclear submarine base in the Pacific — Vilyuchinsk — may have just been crippled by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami waves over 4 meters/13 feet high.
Perhaps with the amazing idea that invisible and harmless CO2 essential for all life and from which all life is made is no longer ‘dirty air’ pollution, we can start to change some names.
For example Clean Energy Finance, gifted another $19Billion of our money.
“Home … We have reported a record year of investment activity to catalyse an unprecedented $25.7 billion worth of clean energy projects. CEFC finance is working ”
“We invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies, via the $11.5 billion CEFC General Portfolio; the $19 billion Rewiring the Nation Fund; the $1 billion Household Energy Upgrades Fund™; the $500 million Powering Australia Technology Fund; the $300 million Advancing Hydrogen Fund and the $200 million Clean Energy Innovation Fund.”
What about the “just as dirty as everything” else fund?
Or the “Public Ripoff based on an absurd lie Finance Corporation”? It has a certain charm to it.
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Keir Starmer has just announced the UK will recognise Palestine as a state in September unless Israel withdraws from Gaza. France said something similar last week.
Can anyone tell me what the boundaries of such a state would be and who would be its government. A 2 state solution seems, to me, a very unlikely proposition.
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The boundaries will be from the river to the sea. Actual Palestine, Jordan, wants no part of these people. Nor does Egypt, Syria, Turkey or anywhere else. They have been burned before.
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Israel is a tiny country the size of Wales that is only 10 miles wide in places. It has 2 tiny enclaves of Palestinians. Gaza was part of Egypt then from 1967 part of Israel after the war that year who then vacated it in the early 2000’s when Hama* moved in. Bearing in mind they want to obliterate Israel and have put in a huge infrastructure to just that end -and have recently demonstrated they want to do so-I am mystified how anyone can suggest a 2 state solution. It was never viable even before the Hama* attack, certainly not viable now. As you say, the neighbours are not keen as they have been burned before
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Its a zero sum game, may I suggest that a settlement in Australia’s Simpson Desert should be considered.
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Please not.
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The locals will say its their country, mainly dunes, and they aren’t interested in having refugees take over the place.
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Dover to Hadrian’s Wall?
Westminster?
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Bill Clinton: “Palestinians Rejected Their Own State!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTC5bq-lfoI
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Two-tier Keir will also be aware (or should be) that a “recognized nation” is automatically subject to all the laws, good and bad, that attend such status.
Thus, were said “nation” to pull stunts like hamas has been doing for YEARS. the “rules of civilized war” apply. just as they did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
No doubt the well-heeled professional hand-wringers will be aghast at this, and will exceed their previous incendiary outrage by orders of magnitude.
Let’s see what the “peacenik” lawyers have to dribble about “proportionality”
Dresden by the Sea?.
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“a “recognized nation” is automatically subject to all the laws,”
Yeah right.
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Israel has expanded by creating “conflict” and then using the pretext of the conflict it created to illegally take over Palestinian land. So, almost all the land it now claims as “Israel” is in fact not Israeli under international law.
Under international law, the onus would be on Israel to prove ownership of land it seized … which is why Israel will never attempt to settle the conflict except by ethnically cleansing the indigenous people of Palestine and seizing their land.
So, any suggestion of “ceasefire” has nothing to do with settling the conflict.
Starmer is a big supporter of Israel’s illegal occupation. So, there is no doubt that this is just PR to try to quell the huge protests against the genocide … and give Israel time to complete its occupation of the current batch of illegally seized land … until the public have forgotten, and then it will trigger a new “conflict” using its controlled assets in Palestine.
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My knowledge of international law is limited to:
There is no international law, and
the old Roman dictum- What you possess, you possess.
partly meaning- you own only what you can defend.
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Can you explain, my Scottish “friend”, where this international law draws its legitimacy and enforceability from?
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Worldwide Deaths from the weather continue to decline
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/28/lowest-six-month-human-death-toll-from-bad-weather-since-records-began/
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In general, if you have to force a society to adopt something it may not be evolutionary.
The music is about to stop and a chair is about to be pulled from the game.
US EPA is about to remove the endangerment finding . Imagine owning a common rail diesel engine that was not designed to clog itself attempting to reburn its own exhaust gas at around 65000 km.
No! We should not celebrate the return of the old technologies, and yes we should celebrate the AI (Actual Intelligence) of computer controlled fuel injection and timing in our high output engines, and yes, we should be joyous over the availability of cheap battery powered scooters, lawn mowers and other tools rather than the small smokey engines.
These technologies advance our civilisation whereas the mantra of the Green Religion was the return of the Dark Ages.
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The climate religion only has one enemy: reality.
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Ironically the head of the EU had to fly to Brexit Britain in order to agree a trade deal with Donald Trump.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/trump-eats-von-der-leyen-for-breakfast-eu-caves-on-trade-deal/
It seems that most EU countries are not impressed
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I think you mean Germany and France. Who else matters? Expect Mustangs on the Autobahn soon.
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Once there were Mustangs over the Autobahn.
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Once upon a time there were Cannibals
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Uncle Bosie got eaten by some in PNG apparently………..
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How sensible does a Mustang appear compared with the bloated behemoths with batteries included that Mercededs, BMW and Audi produce.
The Mustang is a far more sensible use of resources. It comes in at 1.8t. A Mercedes EQE sedan comes in at 2.3t.
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It is only fitting that the EU meet Daddy at his European home.
The Trump family are developing property in Belgrade so maybe next time he will meet EU reps there.
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Today Andrew Forrest in the Australian is lauding benign China, source of his tens of billions. Of course. And others are arguing the costs of ‘renewables’.
What is utterly missing is any sign of science. Apparently everyone agrees and deniers are denied a forum.
No one has ever proved mankind can change CO2.
Everyone believes the atmosphere is just a big bucket in which CO2 piles up, even scientists. So much for science.
Meanwhile actual CO2 remains blithely ignorant of our ignorance. And if you look at CO2 levels for the last 55 years (ignore the typical commentary), there is no evidence of any human activity, even massive bushfires. As if CO2 is obeying its own laws of nature simply because 98% of it is in the ocean. But don’t tell anyone in the Australian or the media generally. They won’t believe you.
The Science is ‘in’. Humans control CO2 and Australia is the big problem. Facts be damned.
We Australians are evil and not spending enough and not fast enough to save ourselves let alone the whole world. And as that political giant Anthony Albanese strides the world of Climate Change, he will host the latest climate gabfest in Australia, a shining beacon of massive self destruction to the 95% of the planet waiting for our cash.
Forrest and Albanese, the dynamic duo of Climate Change, a capitalist and a communist showing the world how kowtowing* is done.
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*kowtowing Kneel and touch the ground with the forehead in worship or submission as part of Chinese custom.
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Twiggy needs to stay in his lane. There must be a limit how many of these “renewables” follies he can really afford without pulling his viable businesses down the drain.
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Yes!!
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Garnaut isn’t even pretending it’s not all about money
Reintroducing a carbon price the ‘most economically efficient tax reform’ to repair budget
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/ross-garnaut-says-now-is-the-time-to-reintroduce-carbon-price/105586282
What about the average working Australian? What of our own personal budgets, when will we get a chance to repair them?
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His son runs his windmill company. Snouts in the trough. And windmills are going out of fashion. While hidden carbon taxes are soaring. But being an economist, he would not know that.
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Oh dear God! I don’t know whee they get such clowns from!
“In fact, Professor Garnaut argued that they might be discouraging voluntary private sector investment. “Announcement of the extended CIS was one of several Commonwealth policy and other changes that led to a slowing of voluntary commitments to use renewable energy. The election of President Trump in November 2024 has been the latest of these developments,” he observed “The value of Large Generation Certificates has dropped, making investment in new renewables projects less profitable.”
How about.. private investors have seen that the scam is coming to an end and are looking after the security of their wealth. We will soon see money leaving Australia as the private sector realises a broke Govt can’t prop up money-losing schemes forever, followed by people leaving. We will be the Pacific’s South Africa, electricity unreliable and out of the budget of many people, the best of our people emigrating and being replaced by those from the 3rd world with no skills and a different view of how society should be run.
[Fixed error in email. – LVA]
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There is another way to restore the budget.
STOP SPENDING money that you do not have.
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But how else will they fund their re-election and post-politics comfort?
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Humans cannot change CO2 levels.
Highly soluble heavy CO2, 30x more soluble than O2, is absorbed almost immediately by the ocean and controlled by the ocean, not mankind.
So emissions have nothing to do with CO2 levels.
Growing trees does not reduce CO2. NASA proved it.
CO2 has nothing to do with warming. The very small CO2 effect is exhausted.
Warming does not increase the number of storms or hurricanes, they decrease. That’s a given in meteorology.
Droughts happen. Especially in Australia. We have observed this for 250 years.
The Great Barrier Reef is fine. Bleaching happens regularly.
The Crown of Thorns starfish is a critical part of the reef ecosystem.
The polar bears are fine.
500,000 windmills have done nothing except make electricity expensive.
Solar doesn’t work at night.
Snowy II is a complete waste of money, now at $12Billion.
In a land of droughts and flooding rains, dams are a very good idea. And we have not built one in fifty years.
Australia has no defences.
Renewables are short lived replaceables like the original windmills. And hopelessly inadequate and expensive.
The Chinese Army created the Wuhan virus as a military weapon in their virus laboratory in Wuhan. And lied about it.
Australia has the highest carbon taxes in the world and growing rapidly, all illegally outside the budget to totally avoid democratic scrutiny .
But you would know none of this if you read the news.
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The Truth, The Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth.
When all of that is acknowledged by our “Leaders”, sometime in the future, there will be a need for deconstruction of the Global Warming Edifice and punishment for those who constructed it with evil intent.
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And windmills were abandoned centuries ago across Europe. From Greece to Holland you can see them on hill tops.
They were abandoned because they were not reliable, commandable, adequate. And in most applications energy has to be utterly reliable and constant and adequate for the job.
In WWII a single fighter was a reverse windmill of 1,000 Horsepower. By war’s end, 2,000 horsepower. And the ME262 was 5,500 horsepower. The most horsepower won and winning was life and death for everyone, not just the pilot. It redefined adequate, commandable, reliable energy and showed the potential of fossil fuel. None were solar powered.
The industrial revolution, the transport revolution did not happen until we found reliable, commandable and unlimited energy.
The only reliable part of solar is that it will be off for half a day, 3/4 of a day in winter in most of the areas where half the people live. That’s unacceptable.
And the US EPA has repealed the CO2 endangerment warning, a perverse ruling using the Clean Air laws to permit the ripoff by wind and solar vendors, mainly China.
CO2 is NOT a danger to humanity. It is perfectly natural. And a near constant from pole to pole, room to room, kept in perfect balance in a planet covered by oceans where 98% of all CO2 is dissolved.
And given how windmills and solar panels are manufactured it is dirty, dirty energy in every way.
What now for windfarms and solar farms? All irrelevant given the Safeguard Mechanism, a 35% tax on carbon dioxide buried in everything that made or moving. Including even sewage. And no one knows it exists. The government no longer even needs to build windmills as the business types realise the 2001 RET scheme is nearing the end of its life. And the river of money flows overseas, the entire aim of the hoax by the UN/EU/China.
You will not read about it in the papers. Or hear it on the news. How many Australians know we have a massive CO2 tax at 10% ramping up 5% every year to 35%, an illegal government created money grab on everything that moves and buried secretly in your bills. Even from the MMBW, air travel, deliveries, cost of goods, cost of services. And the government is not held to account in a democracy because it’s illegally not even in the budget because it’s not a tax and not in General Revenue. It’s a mafia extortion scheme, created by the gnomes of Canberra and enforced by hundreds of thousands of public servants and major penalties all tied to secrecy, like the old and much loved Sales Tax.
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TdeF:
The dutch windmills are near sea level because they were to pump water out to sea. As as I know that function ended in 1823 when the Dutch commissioned the largest steam engine (to that date) as more reliable than waiting on the wind.
Those windmills you see are largely retained for the tourist trade.
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Yes, understood. Only a few remain, under 10. There were thousands. Pumping water is a perfect random application. But making bread is not. Manufacturing though requires constant energy, constant throughput, precise timing. But you also see the few remaining windmills in Spain and on Mykonos. Again a few from tens of thousands.
The other way they lowered the water was to time the sluice gates, opened on the low tide, closed on the low tide. This was reversed by the Belgians in WW1, which stopped the German advance in a meter of water and ruined half the country for 20 years. In time for the next German invasion but this time the Germans moved much faster.
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And even before steam engines in the seventeenth century Millers in Brittany switched to tidal power. Very high tides there (variable but regular) Up to 16 metres. Capturing the incoming tide** meant that the output could power the grinding mills. Yes, tide times changed but were predictable so the millers changed their working days/night.
You could rely on tides whereas wind was a hit & miss thing. The first large tidal generator (Rance River) was installed about 1969. It has has problems with weeds but still going.
** let the incoming tide run up the minor valley and shut the gates at high tide.
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Apart from being concerned about the luggage handling system at Heathrow, I am also concerned about the Germans recently stated goal to be the most powerful military in Europe. One doesn’t want to dwell on the past, but, we have been around that loop twice before and it didnt go well, twice.
Given the de-electrification and deindustrialization of Germany perhaps its just pollie waffle?
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NATO was designed to keep the USSR at bay and Germany weak, that seems to have worked out okay.
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Germany is a spent force. German median age is 45.2 years. There are far more concerned about their old age than those wanting to wage war.
They are not permitted to mine their own fuels and no one is going to give them any so any export income goes into buying fuel to keep warm.
Their heavy industry is fighting for life. Steel making requires lots of CO2 so in precipitous decline.
Car manufacturing in Germany is in decline; down 33% from its peak just a decade ago.
Turning Germany into a war machine now would be harder than turning Australia into a war machine. Australia could not even make cardboard drones without imposing parts from China. But Australia has a lower median age and clearly more hinger for violence given the level off street crime.
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Their industrial production peaked in 2017, and has been steadily declining since then.
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Re the age thing. In Ukraine the oldies (40ish) went first
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yarpos 5:43 pm Re the age thing. In Ukraine the oldies (40ish) went first
Where’d they go?
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G’day TdeF,
I knew this was being proposed, but has it been completed?
Cheers,
Dave B
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No. There are still formal steps to the rescinding of the 2009 endangerment finding.
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Now WUWT has a post saying it has gone.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/29/skeptics-win-endangerment-finding-axed-truth-finally-prevails-in-the-climate-wars/
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Some more on the steps in # 11
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It has been announced but not finalized.
We could do the same in Australia with the Gillard Carbon Credits act on which later Acts rely. Just repeal it. (Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011 )
And we could repeal Paul Keating’s Act which declared aboriginals were to be gifted the country because of farmer Eddi Mabo, of Melanasian descent who lived on an island in the Torres Strait and was completely disconnected from Australia culturally, historically, genetically, socially. Maybe then we could walk on Ayer’s Rock and Climb Mount Arapiles and visit the site of the first landing in Hobart, a derelict tourist attraction surrounded now in cyclone fencing since it was given to aborigines.
“Statement by the Prime Minister, the Hon Paul Keating – Commonwealth Response to the High Court Mabo Judgement, Canberra 18 October 1993”
https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdb/au/legis/cth/consol_act/nta1993147/
MABO proved nothing of the kind. It was a Jupiterian decision by Keating and friends.
It would be great to get DOGE into Australia to investigate where the $42Billion a year for ‘aborgines’ goes.
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Not to sure about this one?
Are Fauci, Daszak, Folkers etc Chinese army enlisted prior to 2014 from when the Autopen granted immunity to Fauci?
There are so many documents that do not fit the statement above. If covid was a chinese bioweapon it appears to have shown statistically to have have been more a ‘biocure’. The covid fear meme worked simply by shutting down travel and appears to have been the greatest saviour of human life in 2020 with ‘All cause mortality’ reported worldwide as going through the floor. Hospitals were empty, nurses were dancing on tik tok and the only deaths were in large public hospitals where panicing patients were treated with ventilators and emergency use medications.
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Having followed the events this is my best conclusion:
It seems very likely that Fauci funded research in Wuhan because it was not allowed in the US, and that that research led to an accidental release of covid.
The Chinese government then tried to hush it up in China. The US government tried to deny it was anything to do with them. And, governments worldwide, hearing of the release of a potential bio-weapon then all panicked like it was the end o0f the world. That panic and the reactions from that government panic almost certainly killed a huge number of people and did a lot of damage. For example, people died of dehydration in nursing homes, almost certainly because staff were too afraid to go into room with supposed “covid patients”, patients, only diagnosed by a PCR test which was not fit for purpose and almost certainly identifying ordinary flu as “covid”.
Indeed, the only people who could not “isolate” were those already sick and elderly who needed support. So, the way everyone else hid, meant that the epidemic was iniitally focused in the group who were most likely to die from covid … and because the epidemic was massively lengthened by long time it took to get herd immunity, far more in those vulnerable groups died than ought to have died.
The covid jab … came out and the stats show it made no obvious difference to the mortality in the first weeks. However, it is reported that many people died weeks and months after getting the jab. So, it is more than likely that the jab was a net killer. it was NOT safe and effective.
The failure of the jab and the harm it did was then covered up … because it would be extremely embarrassing for governments to have to admit they continued the hugely damaging lockups awaiting a jab, that then did more harm than good.
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Yes, but more relevant to the point- the vax came before the virus. The vax was a product of US big pharma working on a military project. They were certain that the vax was what was wanted, so they had to design a virus for the vax to cure. Hence Fauci and the incorporation of China’s WuHan lab.
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“Warming does not increase the number of storms…”
Woah hey TdeF, every time I turn on the wireless or plug into the interweb there’s some Doctor Doolittle spouting every fraction of a degree creates more storms, causing more droughts and more floods, less snow then more snow – something they call ‘extreme’ which is such a quaint outdated 1980s term, dude.
What these ‘doctors of science’ call NEWS™️, I refer to as deluded ‘orrible opportunism or DOO… big stinking piles of it.
Only 6 months ago these ****s were crying DROUGHT (in high summer), now they’re wailing FLOODS (in the middle of winter), so much so that Auckland’s dams are now overflowing thanks to 1 metre of rain to date in 2025. Yet, as with Australia, have we constructed any more dams as a backup?
So many eggspurts yet such little knowledge.
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Expert- “X” an unknown quantity. “Spurt” -a drip under pressure. (Xspurt)
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How did the Ocean decide to leave 280ppm in the atmosphere all those years ago?
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That is the vapour pressure. It’s how physical chemistry works. Some molecules evaporate. Some absorbed. Being 30x more soluble than oxygen, most CO2 is in the ocean but a little remains, about 2%. At the surface, Henry’s Law. We can only estimate the total of course but it’s 50:1. Much lower for O2 which all life in the ocean needs to breathe. (Most) Sharks, lacking gills, have to keep swimming to get O2 or suffocate. Yes, fish drown in water without oxygen. And they breathe out CO2,like all living things.
The way people talk you would think life started on land as did weather. But there were no plants, no animals, just rocks. The sea invaded the land. Which is why we carry our sea water with us in our blood, the salt content of ancient sea water. And animals cannot survive long without both fresh water and salt. And as the ocean is 3.5km deep on average, that’s 350x the volume of the air and CO2 is still a very gas even in the ocean. Unfortunately sea creatures have learned to combine CO2 and Calcium to form shells and the oceans are covered in deep limestone like the White Cliffs of Dover. The Nullabor plains. Even cities like Odessa, Ukraine are on plateaus of limestone and French cities like Paris and Rheims are built on limestone. The caves used for Champagne were dug by Roman workers and provided shelter two thousand years later when the Germans reached Verdun. At least making concrete releases CO2. Bowen will have to find a substitute for concrete.
So yes, the ocean ‘decided’ to leave some CO2 in the air. From which all our food and our bodies are made, every tree, every blade of grass, every bacterium, fungus and elephant. And we hope never to run out of CO2 or it would all have to start again.
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Truly your first paragraph is unscientific waffle. Please rewrite it with maybe just one citation.
Second paragraph is irrelevant mansplaining in which somehow you lump a government minister in with the early evolution of life.
Third paragraph is where you leave my question unanswered. This ocean that mops up all the new CO2 somehow doesn’t. See if you can bring yourself to use the word equilibrium.
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Yup, GA. You are the resident expert in unscientific waffle as demonstrated by your usual complete BS, no citations or references and irrelevant b*llocks
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Henry’s law. What’s unscientific about that?
I had answered your question. How do you know gender? We haven’t been introduced. You don’t even know my pronouns. Shouldn’t it be peoplesplaining?
I answered your question in the first line. Yes, Henry’s law describes the static laboratory equilibrium position, but the ocean is a different matter, 3500 metres deep with waves and wind and droplets and vast pressure changes and of course CO2 dissociates massively, unlike O2, N2. Wind is very important as it doesn’t exist in a beaker and the rate of exchange goes as the fourth power of wind velocity, which is why you get stagnant pools in billabongs,anaerobic water where nothing can live.
In fact like H2O, CO2 has massive phase change potential as well, from gas to dissociated ions, to liquid to solid with pressures in excess of 1100 atmospheres in the Marianas trench, average 350 atmospheres at the bottom.
And if you know about equilibrium, why did you ask the question?
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And once you accept rapid equilibrium of CO2, agreed in the 36 papers (Click on Table1) here
This scientist concludes
(1) The adjustment time is never larger than the residence time and is less than 5 years.
(2) The idea of the atmosphere being stable at 280 ppm in pre-industrial times is untenable.
(3) Nearly 90% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide has already been removed from the atmosphere.
I would only disagree with (3) as the figure is demonstrably higher. There is provably only 2.0% fossil fuel CO2 in the air. But we have reached 1% contribution per year, so perhaps as much as already exists which is 50x. So the amount which remains in the air is 1/25th of what has been emitted or 4%, so 96% has been removed.
And anthropogenic is the wrong term, as humans also breathe. I would stick to fossil fuel CO2. No one cares about breathing, even if 1.4Billion Chinese people breathe out more CO2 than the whole of Australia generates. So I have no idea why we bother with Nett Zero when the extra 1 billion Chinese are the problem.
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But if we could claim Carbon Credits for that then perhaps it wouldn’t be quite as unfortunate.
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Yes, she sell sea shells for carbon credits.
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Internet outages becoming common in western capitalism , not common in the global south. That’s not a bug, it’s a feature
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So, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Panama are all capitalist countries now. Wow, did not see that coming. Power failures in the countries with a mad rush to net zero. Wow, did not see that coming. Internet outage in countries that are ruled by leftwing ideology rather than true capitalism. Wow, did not see that coming. Left wing control over free speech through control of internet access. Wow, did not see that coming. China unaffected by CrowdStrike probably because they orchestrated it. Wow, did not see that coming. [Snip]
[Fixed error in email. – LVA]
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There is a point buried in there somewhere
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FWIW
Demonstrating that we haven’t reached “Peak” yet!
“International Courts Rule That Fossil Fuels Are Illegal”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/07/29/icc-rules-that-fossils-are-illegal-n3805238
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What a joke.
The world shuts down if fossil fuels are illegal.
The ICC proving yet again that it is irrelevant virtue seeking rabble.
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Did those “learned judges” consider that they will also have to walk?
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No Another Ian, they will expect to be carried in Sudan Chairs.
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It was the International court of justice … which isn’t anything, not the international Criminal Court that ruled Israel is committing genocide.
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More media gaslighting or, as we say, lying by omission.
A story in the UK papers concerned a violent attack on a couple, who were severely beaten. There was video of the attack, in which it could be seen that the couple was white while every single attacker, including at least one woman, errr how shall I put this … wasn’t white.
Had the situation been different, the paper would have had no problem whatsoever calling it a racially-motivated attack, yet for some reason that wasn’t the case in this purely ‘random’ incident. I don’t know how they could tell.
I commented to this effect only for my comment to be deleted.
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I’ll guess you are referring to the attack in Cincinnati, OHIO.
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With the ridiculous social media ban effecting the way adults (never meant to keep kids safe) use the platforms for free speech….I’ve got an idea, if we are forced to use facial recognition to prove our age (Chinese technology, thanks Albo!) how about we all get an Albo mask to use as proof of age? Personally use a VPN which am sure the overlords will ban too!
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UK Government Admits Online Safety Act Will Monitor Anti-Immigration Opinions
In an interview with GB News on Monday 28 July, Labour MP Barry Gardiner ackowledged that the law, framed as a measure to protect children, is also aimed at targeting “harmful” adult discourse online.
He said the law also aims to identify and restrict content deemed “harmful,” including expressions of “sentiments contrary to immigration.”
https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1949927197310894442
VPN signups are up 1800% in the UK and banning VPN’s is being considered.
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Great Southern Firewall … no doubt the Chinese have supplied blueprints.
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FWIW
“Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: Zeldin to Overturn 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding on ‘Greenhouse Gases’ ”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/07/29/ch-ch-ch-changes-zeldin-to-overturn-2009-epa-endangerment-finding-on-greenhouse-gases-n3805264
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This is big news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTMHqizIIJg
The CO2 endangerment finding is open for public comment.
It will be challenging for Federally funded bodies to submit comments supporting the finding at risk of exposing their true colours. The table has turned.
Lee Zeldin is clearly a highly invested EPA administrator. Openning for comment is a smart move.
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This is the EPA report that reviews impact of COP2 on USA climate:
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf
The Executive Summary ends with:
The report is from Luke warmers; some benefitting from climate funding. But they are all highly regarded.
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Let me translate the political language.
“undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate” to “zero impact on any weather”
There is no Global Climate. No artificial intelligence has been harmed in this translation. Although a number of reputations have been seriously damaged.
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Following on from yesterdays posts on the latest CSIROs “Gencost” report…and my reply..
…… the report suggest the CSIRO now realises that batteries and Pumped Hydro will not cut it for “firming” (storage) to ensure uninterupted supply from Solar and Wind.
..SO now they are proposing the use of ThermalSolar systems to provide at least 10 hrs of storage ?…
This when by their own data the is under 7.0GW of that technology operating from 100 sites worldwide ! ……( none in Australia )
They claim to be working with .. https://www.vast.energy/upcoming-projects
BUT,..what makes them believe that the best back up for lack of solar power, ..is MORE Solar power ??
If there is a bad weather day with little sunshine, how do they expect a Solar Thermal plant to function instead of the PV system.
Further, if there is insufficient sun to power the Thermal plant, how do they expect to keep the thermal salt medium molten ?….. use external power maybe ??
And all this based on a technology with a history of big failures and financial collapse !
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Subtle difference in the use of the words “electricity” and “power”. All sorts of systems produce electricity, but it’s only big thermal plants utilising fuels that produce high levels of heat that produce “POWER”. Well, actually the steam provides that, because in terms of electricity production we largely still live in the steam age. When my parents back in the 1950’s paid to have the “power” connected it was described as “.. we got the power put on in 1951”. No mention of electricity. Power is what drives modern industrial societies not electricity. The CSIRO don’t appear to understand that basic fact.
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Meanwhile the USA is demolishing Thermal Solar stations – nothing to do with Trump, they didn’t get anywhere near the claimed output.
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Maybe our CSIRO should investigate Crescent Dunes solar-thermal power plant, a Hussein Obama era failure costing $2.2B US.
Learn from others mistakes.
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Yes, accepting the problems of new technology, the basic facts dont stack up..
Crescent Dunes is a 110MW (nameplate) capacity generator costing initially over $2 bn Au
But never manages to produce more than 196 MWh per year (22% CF)
So, in order to be anything like an effective “firming” support for our 20+ GW of overnight demand,..many, many, facilities of that type would be needed .( possibly 300+ ?..)
Hence possibly $600bn capital cost ?…😳
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That should be ..
“ but never manages more than 196 GWh per year “
Where has that Edit function gone ?
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LED bulbs. Are they yet another part of the green fantasy that is expensive and short lived?
Maybe its my imagination but it seems to me that I change a lot more light bulbs since LEDs became the new normal.
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Well all my lights are LED. Nine have been in for about ten years now and only one needed replacing and that was in the kitchen where they are on almost constantly. I have recently added 4 more cheap Chinese ones in the bathroom to replace halogen lights, so far so good.
If you use dimmers perhaps your dimmers are faulty.
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We are much the same, all LEDs, or at least a passing parade of them. No dimmers, clearly its a localised global warming issue.
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Also had the residence completely changed over to LED lighting in 2018, when I moved in. Only had to change one light since. Some cheap LED lights don’t have sufficient heat sinking.
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You’re definitely correct Yarpos. The introduction of all these “green” measures was supposed to reduce our electricity bills. So LED’s, energy efficient appliances, various forms of insulation, split systems, heat pumps, water saving shower heads, etc, etc. They weren’t marketed as reducing your electricity consumption, they were marketed as reducing our bills. Recently the Vic government paid a contractor to come to my house and put covers over my roof aircon ducts. Also, gave me some new shower heads which I had used 20 years ago in the centennial drought. I can guarantee it wont make a jot of difference to my bills.
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Have close to 100 LED globes in the house. Some for more than a decade. I have had 1 fail after a year or so; replaced a few years back and same globe still working.
I have a dual oven and have replaced the incandescent globes in those every year or two. Am yet to find a high temperature LED globe.
If you have high frequency noise on your power line, it could be killing the voltage controller in the LED. A friend living near the water in Sydney had a dodgy power supply that caused a lot of electrical damage. The issue was eventually traced to a corroded neutral connection at a nearby supply transformer.
You should expect LED lights to outlive you in most household uses. If they are failing frequently then you likely have a power supply problem and should have it investigated. Keep track of failures over a few months and ask your poles and wires to investigate when you have some solid numbers to give them. Tungsten filaments are devoid of sensitive electronics – unlike LED globes.
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The trick with incandescent globes is run them at reduced voltage. This greatly increases their lifespan. Before LEDs, had to design a system with a ten-year globe lifetime, so simply used higher-power globes run on half voltage. Also run two Aldis signalling lamps with 10V globes at the museum on a 5volt power supply. They will run forever at that voltage.
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We have been in our townhouse for 26 years – 3 bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and living area. All ceiling halogen downlights and only about 7 replaced over that time. Cannot complain!! North facing so plenty of light; neighbours put in LEDs a few years ago but minimal impact on bills….
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Watch Big Clive on YouTube (while you still can) … he explains that LED technology should last a long time but they are usually set to run far too hot. An after-market unofficial upgrade is available, which somewhat reduces the brightness in exchange for a significantly longer lifespan and cooler running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTa2jVi_rc
Not difficult but requires some manual dexterity and basic knowledge of electronics.
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Interesting. A very simple circuit, and as he says, easy to change to reduce light output and perhaps lengthen lifetime. Wrong about LED forward-biased volts though, it’s only 2-3 volts.
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I haven’t pulled one apart and done the measurements … I probably should out of interest
It’s hard to beat Big Clive’s knowledge on LED or any lighting circuit. As you could see there’s only five actual LED elements on the board in the video … and they have 240V in the UK so 3V times 5 is only 15V … nowhere near enough.
However there’s some tricks where they jam more and one PN junction into a single component to get the voltage hight. He mentioned that (briefly) partway through. You know the guy has thousands of videos where he pulls all this stuff apart and reverse engineers it? He has gone through almost every small electronic device you can buy from anywhere.
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
On Friday, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent, which can perform multistep tasks for users, proved it can pass through one of the Internet’s most common security checkpoints by clicking Cloudflare’s anti-bot verification—the same checkbox that’s supposed to keep automated programs like itself at bay.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/
https://imgbox.com/rxPIBsus
😆
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And Paul Kelly, Australian Editor at Large, “Rejecting net zero will condemn Liberals to electoral oblivion”
No. The Liberals would romp home, as Tony Abbott did. Wrong about Trump, wrong about the carbon dioxide hoax, we are Running out of objective commentators even in the vaguely Conservative media.
And if good spokespeople like Moira Deeming or Jacinta Price turn up, they are treated very badly, especially Moira Deeming. The fact of outrageous defamation of Ms Deeming has been approved explicitly by three former Victorian Liberal State Premiers. And the Liberal party tore down Tony Abbott. Why?
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Tony was torn down because of his stance on climate change science, replaced by a green woke zealot who also became a casualty.
‘Malcolm Turnbull is a man who lost his job because of climate change. Twice. But the former Prime Minister said not being able to enact policies that would reduce emissions remains his number one regret.
“Australia really needs to address climate change. The need is more obvious than ever. We’ve battled the forces of climate denialism in our Parliament and in our political life,” he told Hack. (ABC)
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Exactly. I agree. Torn down by a Labor party Green Woke Zealot, posing as a Liberal because the Labor party would not have him.
But Tony was by far the most popular Prime Minister according to the voters. Malcolm Turnbull was incredibly unpopular and was reelected by only one seat, destroying the Coalition huge majority. And he hung around long enough to put Morrison into the job, still elected in the hope that he would be true to Abbot’s line, but Morrison signed us up to Net Zero. And Malcolm gave his wife $444 Million cash to spend as she pleased. The only thing which they could say was that it would cost $135Million to ‘administer’ the 7 1/2 tons of gold with six people.
So the people have been betrayed time and time again. By the Liberal party. That continues today. As in the Voice, where Dutton had to be dragged kicking and screaming to suggest people vote NO.
No wonder the Liberal/Nationals are at their lowest ebb in history. They cannot be trusted by anyone.
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Politicians are a great disappointment, but in a democracy there is always an outside chance that things might improve.
‘There is a better way’: Sussan Ley hits out at Labor’s renewable charge.
‘Opposition Leader Sussan Ley discusses Labor’s net zero rush, emphasising how much Australia needs an energy grid which “works”.
“You have to have a grid that works and that is the most important thing because we are not going to stand by … and see this government trash energy policy in this country,” Ms Ley told Sky News Australia.
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I agree, there is no greater disappointment in recent years than Sussan Ley. Except perhaps that Malcolm Turnbull should have joined the Greens, not pretended to be a conservative. And he needs to hand back the $444Million, less his $135million ‘administration’ fees. The $14Million interest on his misappropriated hundreds of millions is always in the budget though. When did Australian Prime Ministers become Kings?
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” but in a democracy there is always an outside chance that things might improve.”
Rubbish! There is no evidence that things might improve, outside or inside. The people have spoken, and they have said.. ‘we are as thick as pigsh1t and will vote for fuzzy feelings and more giveaways’ ..and there is no reason at all to think that will change. Same with the corrupt politicians mentioned above, its not the person that links to corruption, its the fact they are a politician!
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Why?
The blob in action?
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Tony Abbott had to go because he threatened the rivers of subsidy gold from solar and wind generation. Turnbull lives by those rivers.
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PRE-PLANDEMIC EVENT revealed by UK could be foreshadowing of upcoming scamdemic infection release
The United Kingdom has announced Exercise Pegasus, the largest pandemic response drill in its history, scheduled to run from September to November 2025. Unveiled in Parliament on July 8 by Minister for Intergovernmental Relations Pat McFadden, the exercise is framed as a sweeping preparedness measure in response to shortcomings exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and recommendations from the 2024 UK Covid-19 Inquiry.
While governments assert that these simulations and policies are essential for protecting public health, experts like Dr. David Bell caution that preparedness must not become a vehicle for authoritarian control. As public memory of the COVID response remains raw, Exercise Pegasus is likely to face intense scrutiny over how it balances genuine readiness with individual freedoms.
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/pre-plandemic-event-revealed-by-uk
So 2026 then…
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I suppose this could be taken a couple of ways.
‘Public Health’ types fleshing out their new status and power.
Or …
‘Public Health’ types failing to realize that their public is tuning them out.
Shall I mention again my assertion that the Western managerial intelligentsia are losing touch with reality?
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Wednesday funny: Victoria in a year’s time
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNW5tPu2xcM
/repost but a goodie.
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FWIW
“Bitter Tea & Men Making Their Own Peaceful Space”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/bitter-tea-men-making-their-own-peaceful-space/
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As Bowen and Albanese now push “Carbon capture” to reduce the world’s CO2. Once again billions to be made! A carbon capture superpower!
But you have to wonder if they would be better off showing off by just banning
Yeast, cheese, leavened bread, sodas, coca cola, champagne, beer, meat packing, hothouses, use in medicine, use in refrigerants, MIG welding, …
When the American company which produced fertilizer/ammonia in the UK closed, there was a huge shortage of the major byproduct CO2.
This produced a critical meat shortage in the stores.
CO2 has been a major product for companies like BOC for a century. It is too expensive to capture directly from the air, but what would they know?
So why not cut out the middle man, save a fortune and just pass a law banning beer and bread and cakes? Surely that would be popular with the Labor party. Far cheaper than carbon capture. Spend the savings on circuses, like COP31?
“The Malinauskas Labor Government will invest more than $8 million to begin preparations for Adelaide to play home to one of the world’s biggest events – the COP31 climate change conference to be held in November 2026.”
Perhaps it would be better to hold the carbon dioxide party in Cairo. Then at least it would be in denial because mankind cannot change CO2 levels.
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Near constant CO2 is a fact of life on earth from pole to pole, summer to winter, at every point in rapid equilibrium with the vast oceans. As NASA found, even if you grow a trillion trees, more CO2 comes out of the ocean.. More CO2 means more trees but more trees does not mean less CO2.
So it is pointless anti-science to capture CO2. It’s just the constant vapour pressure of a dissolved gas. All life on earth is made directly and wholly from CO2. And H2O, a far more dangerous gas which kills vast numbers every year. Both are evil industrial products of the combustion of fossil fuels. Ban them both.
Australian politicians know more about science and business stuff than anyone. And everything they do is supposed to make tens of billions. Hydrogen superpower, renewables superpower, Quantum computing superpower, now carbon capture superpower employing over 5,000 people and making $66 Billion. You have to wonder where they get the figures?
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What I find hard to understand is how the pushers of man made CO2 and CO2 made warming and warming made disaster get away with it? There has never been a debate. A parliamentary inquiry. Evidence called? And as most practicing scientists outside the medical field work for the government, perhaps it is no mystery.
But we remain the only country in the world to have made Nuclear Power illegal. The smart country? No.
And they are still planning to blow up what was left to us by the previous generation who saw the long term need for adequate, reliable, commandable power. Not a national grid of windmills controlled by Canberra. And wind and solar are not solutions, let alone long term solutions. Only an idiot would keep coal in the ground.
Bowen is openly concerned that Australia will shut down completely if he cannot get enough wind power for the day when they blow up the power stations? It’s a kind of madness, not logic or science.
And even then a wind drought means the place will shut down completely from time to time. And someone might just blame him.
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enough wind power for the day when they blow up the power stations?
Then why blow them up?
Reminds me about a”joke” involving a man with a headache and a doctor….
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Major quake off EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA RUSSIA.
BOM says 6.8
US says 8.6
Big difference, do they use different scales?
http://www.bom.gov.au/tsunami/national.shtml#nationalBulletin0
https://www.tsunami.gov/
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United States page:
Magnitude 8.8 Scale: Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI)
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake
2025-07-29 16:24:50 (UTC-07:00)
20.7 km deep
Australia page: https://earthquakes.ga.gov.au/
The preferred magnitude is Mww –
Moment Magnitude Scale
Four scales are reported. No clue about this.
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Perhaps a more neutral source?
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/today.html
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Civil Defence here are going OTT as per usual – friends all around NZ received emergency alerts on their phones… 5+ hours after I heard an item on the radio while parked at the beach watching perfect 3-5ft (1-2m) waves & hordes of riders enjoying themselves in the sun (it’s been raining for 2 days solid).
Parts of Russia’s Far East coastline were inundated, Japan had a few surges, the waves have arrived in Hawaii as I’m sending this – RNZ is reporting a (very precise) “6.92 feet high tsunami wave” in Maui, via some Hawaiian outlet – as the pulse heads east towards California.
I’m thinking we’re sweet down here (I’m parked 20ft above high tide at the beach) but if you don’t hear from me tomorrow…
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FWIW – economics for the day
“Must Watch – Tucker Carlson Interviews Richard Werner
July 29, 2025 | Sundance | 61 Comments”
“This is one of those interviews that simply must be watched in its entirety. It’s long, almost 3 hours, but take the quiet time to watch and absorb the information provided by economist Professor Richard Werner.”
“Werner discusses something absolutely vital to understand about the nature of economics and the banking system that underpins it. You have often heard me say “there are trillions at stake” when describing the elements aligned against President Trump. Well, Werner gives context to what lies behind those trillions.”
“I cannot recommend this interview enough. However, don’t sell yourself short. Find a quiet place, quiet time, and take notes as you listen to Richard Werner outline the true and unspoken nature of how money is created.
When you understand what Werner is saying, everything the FED and Central Banks do starts to make sense. ”
Much more at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/07/29/must-watch-tucker-carlson-interviews-richard-werner/
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“Gang-gang cockatoos suffer hypothermia, frozen wings in Victorian Alps”
from: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-28/gang-gang-cockatoos-frozen-wings-and-tails-victorian-alps/105568878
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One part says-
“Experts say the likely reason for the decline in gang-gangs has been the destruction of the big old, hollow-bearing trees that they nest in up in mountainous areas, from native-forest logging,”
Another part says-
“The gang-gang cockatoo will be added to the threatened species list after climate change and bushfires impact populations.”
..and their current problem is that they are freezing to death, due, I suppose, to not having a hotel to hide in, and climate change bringing freezing winters…
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In Sydney right now it’s very cold and very wet. Growing up in the north of England this shouldn’t be a problem for me, but it is. Talking to my friends at the pub tonight everyone was saying this must be the coldest winter in 20 or 30 years. Just asking for my friends the Gang-Gang Cockatoos.
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JC2 bookmark #5
DIY Solar power with Will Prowse, a channel for DIY offgrid power.
https://youtube.com/@willprowse?si=jqgbb6ClBT83wnAb
Today’s video -OMG!!!
How to do EVERYTHING totally wrong!
Soldering busbar lugs! Noooooooooooo….
Spent $25k on batteries when he could have spent $5k?
https://youtu.be/0sktmbmaJqY?si=p0y5cc-SuPxOxdJA
A must watch video to learn everything NOT to do! 😆
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Trump UNLEASHED: Putin Outta Time, Obama Outta Luck, Rosie GONE
Pod Force One with Miranda Devine
Miranda Devine is an Australian conservative columnist, writer, and commentator. She was born on July 1, 1961, in New York City, United States.
Devine is the eldest daughter of Frank Devine, a New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor and journalist, who passed away in 2009.
She attended school at Loreto Kirribilli in Sydney and the International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo.
Devine holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Macquarie University and a Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University.
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FWIW
“No Country for Climate Hawks”
“Once perched atop the climate movement’s moral high ground, the self-anointed “climate hawks” are now watching their influence dwindle, and nowhere is that retreat more visible than in California. Long the epicenter of progressive climate ambition, the Golden State is now backpedaling. Democrats who once championed aggressive environmental mandates are hitting pause, reworking regulations, and distancing themselves from policies that have driven up energy and housing costs. A post-2024 reality check has swept the party: climate may still poll well in theory, but not when it collides with affordability.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/07/29/no-country-for-climate-hawks/
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We had polls published in the Australian, like the VOICE polls and the Kamala’s going to win in a landslide polls.
70% of Australian hate Donald Trump
60% want renewables
60% say we are moving too slowly to get rid of coal and get wind and solar.
And 75% say pigs can fly, if the Labor/Democrats say so. And pay with endless government cash.
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We had polls published in the Australian, like the VOICE polls and the Kamala’s going to win in a landslide polls.
70% of Australian hate Donald Trump
60% want renewables
60% say we are moving too slowly to get rid of coal and get wind and solar.
And 75% say pigs can fly, if the Labor/Democrats say so. And pay with endless government cash.
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There is a lot of smart arse males in the Media particularly the West Australian who think it is clever to sledge Donald Trump
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I have found TDS in the banking and finance community, particularly those with US connections. Their hatred of Trump is visceral. And their stories are second or third hand.
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I find at least two things they do not know and don’t want to hear. Firstly that his mother is Scottish, from the outer Hebrides. She could not speak English until after high school. He is as British as Winston Churchill, who had an American mother.
The his older brother was an alcoholic. Donald Trump has never had a drink of alcohol in his life.
And I have to say that while married three times with an amazing set of children, quite remarkably none of his wives have had a bad thing to say about him. That’s almost a world first.
While the press try to infer that Melania hates him, that is a ridiculous interpretation of looks, walks in photographs. You could say more about Macron. The attack on wives and spouses is a very low approach and not based on facts. Especially when you consider the stress of a 24/7 job like the US President living in the White House where the walls have bugs and every look, word is recorded. It’s a wonder any President stays married.
It also turns out that the prosecutors who harried Trump through the decades are the problem. Schiff, Abrams, James, .. are all heading to grand juries. Plus the occasional judge. I don’t think any President has had the analysis of his affairs as Trump. Remember the CLintons and WHitewater? The Clinton Foundation and unprotected server in the garage for the Secretary of State. The Biden laptop. The Weiner laptop. The Steele dossier. The FISA lies on oath. The head of the FBI wearing a wire into the White House. Tapping Trump’s phones when he was only a member of the public.
And Trump is supposed to be the crook. It is looking like there are plenty in the CIA/FBI. Then the unmissable assassination attempt at Butler, where the local Butler police had to shoot the shooter, not the FBI/CIA who dispatched him once he had fired eight times and had no gun.
The suits against the 51 signatories to the Hunter Biden laptop is a fake story have committed crimes on record, interfering with an election.
And there is still the business of the missing 5 million additional voters in the 2020 election.
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And the networks losing defamation cases, interfering with election cases. Paying tens of millions. The assault on Trump, the endless ridicule has been funded.
The View is on ‘hiatus’. Fallon, Kimmel and Colbert, all subsidised to attack Trump. Colbert’s late show lost $140million and the show is gone. The View belittled President Trump’s press secretary as getting the job on looks only. They are facing defamation, a case clearly proven. And Mortgage fraud for Letitia James and Adam Schiff.
Big business vs Trump has been an ongoing battle. And the media are in full retreat. Inflation is down, petrol (except California), the price of eggs.
The aooroval rate in the Republican party is over 90%. And approval of Democrat leaders is 20%. They were just the anti Trump party.
And JD Vance is in the wings, a Yale graduate, like 20 years of US Presidents.
Yet I meet Australians who are clearly indoctrinated by the Australian media too and years and years of US media.
As Jay Leno asks, why would a nightime host and entertainer deliberately alienate half his audience?
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“A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the eighth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-8), a cargo spaceplane built by Boeing on behalf of the U.S. Space Force in cooperation with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The mission, also referred to as USSF-36, will demonstrate space-based communications using laser links between the spaceplane and “proliferated commercial satellite networks in Low Earth Orbit.” Officials haven’t said if this will involve SpaceX’s Starlink constellation or the Starshield satellites developed for government use. It will also demonstrate what USSF calls “the highest performing quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space” in order to show navigation capabilities without the use of the GPS satellite constellation. ”
Now, why would the Yanks want to develop a system for navigation without GPS, I wonder?
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
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FWIW
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FWIW
“5,500-Year-Old Blade Workshop Unearthed Near Biblical Gath Reveals”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/29/5500-year-old-blade-workshop-unearthed-near-biblical-gath-reveals-n3805259
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Russia’s only nuclear submarine base in the Pacific — Vilyuchinsk — may have just been crippled by a magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami waves over 4 meters/13 feet high.
Oops!
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Perhaps with the amazing idea that invisible and harmless CO2 essential for all life and from which all life is made is no longer ‘dirty air’ pollution, we can start to change some names.
For example Clean Energy Finance, gifted another $19Billion of our money.
“Home … We have reported a record year of investment activity to catalyse an unprecedented $25.7 billion worth of clean energy projects. CEFC finance is working ”
“We invest in renewable energy, energy efficiency and low emissions technologies, via the $11.5 billion CEFC General Portfolio; the $19 billion Rewiring the Nation Fund; the $1 billion Household Energy Upgrades Fund™; the $500 million Powering Australia Technology Fund; the $300 million Advancing Hydrogen Fund and the $200 million Clean Energy Innovation Fund.”
What about the “just as dirty as everything” else fund?
Or the “Public Ripoff based on an absurd lie Finance Corporation”? It has a certain charm to it.
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