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Labor should build a large phallic symbol on top of Mt Kosciusko to signal the complete and utter failure that is/will be Snowy 2.0 and rename it Unicorn 1 or even Unicon
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But have you thought that the general population would call it Big Dick.
Confusion in the Labor Party as so many there think it refers to them.
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The last I heard was that Dan’s statue will be in Mogadishu on the Yarra.
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A well known family man was responsible for reviving the Snowy Hydro Scheme project now Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro that was abandoned for not being cost effective or practical.
However, family does invest in wind installation ventures and selling electricity to pump water up hill when not needed for the grid looked profitable.
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FWIW
“What price a vaccine against hypocrisy?”
“The newly constituted ACIP says it will ‘exercise independent judgment, refuse to serve as a rubber stamp and foster a culture of critical inquiry’. The ousted members claim that this was what they were doing all along. Well, clearly not, and the claim that the changes ‘have left the US vaccine program critically weakened’ will be music to the ears of those families struggling to care for the covid vaccine-injured.
Let us not mourn the passing of a committee that presided over one of the most controversial chapters in public health history. If the new ACIP genuinely embraces critical inquiry and transparency, it may yet restore some public trust. But that trust must be earned, not assumed – especially by those who once assured us that ‘the science is settled’ while real-world evidence told a very different story.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/what-price-a-vaccine-against-hypocrisy/
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FWIW
More pruning of “The mRNA Tree”
“A half billion here, a half billion there, and pretty soon it adds up to real money. This morning, the New York Times led with a headline to keep medical fetishists up at night: “RFK Jr. Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts.” And that’s on top of the $600 million in bird flu ‘vaccines’ that Kennedy canceled back in May.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/gasbags-wednesday-august-6-2025-c?
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The draft report on the NEM is open for consultation. This link is the report:
https://storage.googleapis.com/files-au-climate/climate-au/p/prj36f491a5284dc4c74959e/page/NEM_Review_Draft_Report_August_2025_Final_1.pdf
This link is the questionnaire for feedback:
https://consult.dcceew.gov.au/nem-review-draft-report-consultation/take-the-survey
I pointed out that the grid is in terminal decline – grid generation peaked in July 2008 – rooftops is the largest group of new generation. So the ever increasing costs are spread across an ever reducing volume. The worst possible situation for any business.
US EPA is addressing the climate scam and suggested Australia should do the same. Texas has made SB388 law, which sets a limit on non-dispatchable generation and excludes batteries as generators.
Made the point that an essential service has been turned into a gaming arena where the fastest and best programmed computer maximises profits for the participant. I suggested the scheduling interval should be extended to 24 hours and only bidders that can offer their capacity for all of that time should participate in scheduling.
The feedback web page gives the option to download your answers and you can upload files if you have something more formal to offer. You need to know the acronyms to make sensible responses. These are listed in the report. Many questions are related to better gaming rather than anything to do with reliable, low cost electricity supply.
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Bidding in 24 hour blocks would be a good start.
Especially if the bidding was for a day 30 days from now.
Let’s see the LCOE work it’s magic on that detail.
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FWIW
“Prison reform? Start with the basics”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/prison-reform-start-with-basics.html
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FWIW – truth in headlines?
Courier Mail on line just now
“Ghislaine breaks silence on Trump-Epstein connection
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is said to have told federal investigators all she knows about Donald Trump’s conduct during his friendship with dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.”
Behind the Murdoch wall
Or
“The Left’s Trump-Epstein Witch Hunt Implodes Amid Ghislaine Maxwell Bombshell”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/06/the-lefts-trump-epstein-witch-hunt-implodes-amid-ghislaine-maxwell-bombshell-n4942468
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It will probably be argued that a deal was made. She has been moved to the Bryan Federal prison camp in Texas. It is a low security prison for high class crooks:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/inside-ghislaine-maxwell-texas-prison-202404716.html
Sho could very well get a pardon in 2028.
No matter what the reason, it is another Trump victory. If Maxwell thought she could undo Trump then I expect she would have given it a good try. But she knows that Democrats are a spent force while Trump shies over the world.
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FWIW
“The ‘Science™’ Is Nothing but Organized Crime”
“There is “science,” and then there is “The Science.”
These are two very different things. Science is a method that is used to determine certain kids of truths and facts about how things work; “The Science” is a method of extracting money and power out of the existing economic and power structure to benefit so-called “scientists.” ”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/08/06/the-science-is-actually-organized-fraud-n3805550
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The cost of power from the Renewable Energy Zone in Central NSW.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/cost-to-build-first-renewable-energy-zone-in-nsw-blows-out-to-5-5-billion/
It will cost 5.5 billion to get 4.5 GW of generating capacity, at 25% efficiency, that is 1.1GW unless the 4.5GW is actual generation and not just installed capacity.
Compare with advanced coal generation.
https://whitehavencoal.com.au/independent-report-backs-modern-coal-generation-for-australia/
• USC black coal is the lowest cost generation option at $40-$78 per MWh in (2017 prices) on a LRMC basis.
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Thanks for the links. It will take a while to peruse Whitehaven report, but there are two immediate issues:
1. The CFs for grid solar and wind are too high – solar should be 17%, wind 30%.
2. A $27bn battery doesn’t seem large enough to support the “National” grid for 60 hours.
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FWIW
“The Green Hydrogen Hype Is Fading”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/green-hydrogen-hype-fading
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No link shall be provided (don’t want to ruin anyone’s lovely Thursday morning cuppa, eh).
Is the BBC stuck in Groundhog Fog? For the past 3 days, whenever scrolling through the wasteland of ads/pop/pap/PR that is New Zealand’s radio airwaves, that whiny nasally Kermit-the-frog-like preachy monotone belonging to one of the world’s most self-important philanthropists [cough!] drones on-and-on in almost continuous replay as I pass by the Beeb’s frequency.
The young Anguish* interviewer, a true believer and obvious fan-girl of Windows, asked Bill how he felt about politicians “backsliding on their climate policies”.
Backsliding? Whoah – is this a modern-day revival movement or a return to the Universal Church where no individual thought is tolerated nor left unpunished? Backsliding? A most religious, almost cult-like, choice of word to describe those who no longer belong to the holy flock of Planet Savers Inc., now duly mocked as (in a huge linguistic leap backwards) sinners.
When pressed about his own penance/indulgences for flying around the world in his private jet(s), the Frog-like One piously explained he invested in ‘tree-planting schemes’ and aided starving children in Africa to assist in “taking carbon out of the sky”.
The young female English* BBC interviewer lapped it all up (as if it was gospel) while I was laughing my socks off: buffoon or shyster? Or is he really an off-the-world alien after all…
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Done it again…sorry Greg, meant green. I’d better stop trying to tick posts I like. 🙁
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How thick are Aussie voters… well, the test will come as politicians push for 15% GST that will “boost the budget by $28 billion a year while driving up the nation’s living standards…independent MP Kate Chaney has backed an idea ..to lift the GST from 10 per cent to 15 per cent and extend the tax on food, education, health and childcare services and water and sewerage.”
The bribe is $3300 per voter to make sure Labor stays in power, so the tax burden would fall on those who feel $3300 a year is peanuts. Which if it isn’t everyone right now, it soon will be! However the increased GST would just get bigger and bigger.
Still no talk of Govt cutting spending instead of cutting our standard of living! More lies-
““Our proposal would make our taxation system more efficient, make our economy more dynamic and provide the impetus for productivity growth,” he said.”
Taking money off productive people does NOT make the economy more dynamic, nor lead to any productivity growth! Quite the opposite, every dollar the Govt spends is generally wasted and reduces productivity growth! In fact, one participant noted- “research from McKinsey and the e61 Institute showing the non-market economy was holding back productivity. “If the non-market economy is going backwards, and it has seen virtually no measurable productivity growth in the last 20 years, then it is very hard for the overall economy to be growing productively”.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/a-super-sized-gst-with-a-3300-cheque-in-the-mail-for-all-20250806-p5mkov.html
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Interesting idea, but I don’t trust them to continue this redistribution of wealth beyond the political cycle.
‘The rebates would leave low- and middle-income earners up to $371 a year better off but slug the nation’s top 20 per cent more than $2200 annually, costing the government $68.8 billion. That would leave the Commonwealth with almost $24 billion a year to put towards other services, paying down debt or reducing personal income tax levels.’
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When Howard Government introduced Goods & Services Tax 1990s 10% as one part of major tax reforms Wholesale Sales Tax averaging 22.5% (up to 27.5%) was abolished, therefore goods became cheaper, services increased of course.
New Zealand Labour Lange Government introduced GST from 1985 at 10% and later 15%.
GST here is distributed 100% between States and Territories in accordance with a formula all must agree on.
States also promised to abolish various taxes but failed to proceed with some, payroll tax and stamp duties examples.
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Karens with small tits are incensed about the second mermaid statue in Denmark. “A statue of a mermaid with big breasts will be removed from its location in Copenhagen after complaints that it is “pornographic” and vulgar.”
“Sorine Gotfredsen, another journalist, wrote in the newspaper Berlingske: “Erecting a statue of a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like is unlikely to promote many women’s acceptance of their own bodies.””
The man who designed it says- ““The mermaid has completely normal proportions in relation to her size. Of course the breasts are big on a big woman,””
No complaints about the statue of David??
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/denmark-to-tear-down-copenhagens-pornographic-mermaid-statue-20250806-p5mkqf.html
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Apparently the big mermaid was made in. China. Iw would appear that the model was not of Asian origin based on the facial features.
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FWIW
Willi E. has a look at
“Why Is Cheap Electricity So D@mn Expensive?”
“We’ve been told over and over by very serious people that wind and solar are far cheaper than natural gas and coal … and yet the more renewables we add to the grid, the more our electricity bills keep going up and up. Ever wonder why that is?
If you want to see how to lie with numbers while wearing a suit and a straight face, look no further than Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy—LCOE, for those fond of acronyms and allergic to reality. LCOE is the financial world’s favorite energy cost yardstick: strip-mined of context, it tells you—supposedly—how much it costs to generate a megawatt-hour from any shiny new wind turbine, solar panel, or gas plant, averaged over its life.”
“In reality? It’s financial alchemy, the spreadsheet version of Schrödinger’s Cat: deeply misleading, and possibly dead when you open the box.
Here’s the pitch. LCOE claims to offer a one-stop number: capital, operations, maintenance, fuel, and some sparkling optimism about the plant actually running at the output you wish it did.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/06/why-is-cheap-electricity-so-dmn-expensive/
Concludes
“If energy policy were ever honestly debated, LCOE would be confined to the footnotes, right next to unicorn sightings and promised Powerball payouts.
But as long as reality is subordinate to narrative and the cost of electrons is calculated by the people selling you the next miracle, the first thing to get blacked out will be the truth.”
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LCOE is useless when the point of generation is multiple kilometers from the point of use.
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And also totally useless when comparing different energy sources with different lifetimes and different other requirements to make them reliable.
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In comments there there is this on LCOE
“I used to work closely with electricity grid planning engineers in my engineering economics role for a major electric utility. LCOE was only used after the level for dispatchable capacity in MW (with operating reserve for contingencies) was first determined. LCOE was then effectively the tie-breaker between say the potential for hydro, coal or gas-fired units that were required to maintain a reliable system under the worst case conditions of peak demand. As wind and solar cannot be relied upon for any capacity MW it is pointless to assess them with any LCOE measure.
Unfortunately the LCOE metric has been hijacked by activists without any understanding of its supplementary nature or the need to first address system conditions under certain contingencies (which often include weather conditions such as high or low winds or may occur overnight). This has led to many politicians and institutions being fooled by the thinking that only the average amount of energy delivered over the year will suffice for system planning!
Signing up for a wind farm to provide system energy on the basis of its low LCOE is like signing up for an apparently cheap taxi service that offers a low price but only turns up about 30% of the time in random vehicle sizes ranging from a motorcycle to a bus (and then has to be paid to go away)!”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/06/why-is-cheap-electricity-so-dmn-expensive/#comment-4102875
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Is this the real Thursday or should we wait in case another one appears?
Nova Scotia bans walking and camping in the woods, with $25k fines
https://x.com/tiffanyrg9/status/1953094656209678606
That’s the way – ban it for all because of a few idiots.
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The US State Department said that the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act undermines free speech and that it is “completely unacceptable” to suppress criticism of mass migration.
The mass rape of British children by immigrants has been ongoing for decades, with estimates of up to a million child rape and abuse victims of Muslim gangs in Britain, 1,000,000 is one in 25 white women, who have been raped at least once by a Muslim male. England and Wales has the second highest count of Rapes in the World at 1,173 per 10,000. According to the charity Rape Crisis, only 15% of rape victims chose to report the crime to the police. So only around 66,667 white women have ever reported rape by a Muslim male to the Police. In one month, 167 white women reported being raped by Muslim men in Bradford. So police estimate that 1,113 white women are raped by Muslim men in Bradford every month, some ending up in a hospital that my sister works at.
Films on X are exposing the cover-up to the world. Which is why Starmer wants to arrest Elon Musk. One film ‘Silenced’ had 33 million views on X before protests. It exposes Justice Matthew Nicklin, as the world’s most famous ‘bent Judge’. The US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, & Labor (DRL) stated that the UK’s Online Safety Act “undermines the right to free expression by imposing censorship on vague grounds. Suppression of criticism of illegal immigration or the criminal justice system is completely unacceptable in a free society. We are monitoring free-speech developments in the UK closely and with great concern” a US official wrote.
The US House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Jim Jordan (R-OH) complained that the “UK Government tried to censor critisicism of itself and debate about immigration during large-scale riots in August 2024”. Britain’s orwellian sounding ‘Online Safety Act’ allows for the UK,s broadcasting censor Ofcom to impose fines of up to £18 million or ten per cent of an American social media platform’s global revenue, and has already resulted in restrictions being placed on political content, such as footage of anti-mass migration protests.
There have been no high-profile resignations or sackings of police chiefs, council officials or Members of Parliament. Worse still, the British establishment has enabled Pakistani Muslim rapists by using non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to silence witnesses and victims of rape.
It’s estimated that 1 in 11 Pakistani descent men in the UK have taken part in child rapes, with recorded rapes increasing tenfold in the last 20 years. Yet, the government is increasingly censoring discussion of the issue, with laws like the Online Harms Act, the Online Safety Act and the Crime and Policing Act allowing for imprisonment of those who speak out about the mass rapes, such as Tommy Robinson: https://expose-news.com/2025/08/06/muslim-rape-gangs-the-worst-race-based-crime
Tommy Robinson was imprisoned for bravely breaking a court confidentiality agreement to reveal how abuse was hidden by the system. Watch his documentary ‘Silenced’ to see the shocking abuse and cover up, with non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) silencing school staff who feared what would happen if they spoke up: https://youtu.be/h0z7rVP2glk
US officials believe that GCHQ is under orders from the Marxist Idiots section 5 (MI5) to demonstrate compliance with the demands of the Government to hide the rapes from the public and to assist the Defence and Security Media Advisory Committee (DSMA) to use D Notices to censor information on behalf of the Office For Censorship Obedience & Manipulation (OFCOM), as well as the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT), the 77th Brigade Domestic Psyops Team, the Cabinet Office Behavioural Insights Team (BIT). This is so that the British Governments Counter Disinformation Cell could stop ‘Online harms’ to the honourable respected British Government, inflicted by rape victims who tell everyone ‘Disinformation’ harmful to the British Government.
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Trump announces 100% tariffs on chips and semi’s
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1953207040614252904
Taiwan will be happy. Not.
Someone tell him why manufacturing left in the first place.
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That will push along TSMC’s $100bn investment in the USA. USA getting back intellectual property that it squandered to China.
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Taiwan might find the tariff-free market in China gives better returns than being screwed by America. They could volunteer to become part of China again and get free access to the BRICS.
Of course they would find out they are a strategic industry of the Yanks and have to be protected by an invasion force of marines to ensure their safety, or maybe help change the Govt in a colour revolution.
So this is how America treats its ‘friends’?
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The world is realigning and the winner will be China, they are repositioning to woo the West with a reform strategy.
General Zhang now holds the military in his hands and has ordered an elite group to the north east near the Russian border. Shang will also lead the parade on September 3 and Xi won’t attend. He who holds the gun could rule, but Zhang has no ambition to become General Secretary.
Democracy is coming to China and by this time next year Australia might consider joining BRICS, once Putin has gone.
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I can almost guarantee you that Taiwan will have favourable terms. Some of the 45 White House people refer to Taiwan as ‘Silicon Valley West.’ I would also be surprised if TSMC haven’t set some kind of (high-end ultrascale ~16nm) fab up in Arizona or a similar location by now and bringing over the IP.
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Consumers are broke now so goods doubling or tripling in price will do WHAT, Mr Trump?
So Apple says they’ll make screens in the USA now. What about the rest of the product?
Remember the chip shortage a while back seriously affecting auto manufacturers?
Taiwan doesn’t want the auto manufacturer business as it’s all old tech, like comparing a VCR to a Bluray player.
Auto manufacturers need to go high tech and fast, but there’s no indication of that even on the distant horizon.
So why would anyone start a manufacturing business to turn out old tech?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Trans influencer attacked by you know who in Brussels
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1953140065430884566
Awww…here, let me furnish you with a copy of a certain book that will help you understand.
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Meanwhile in Birmingham, racists are everywhere!
https://x.com/TheBritLad/status/1952664949999698082
Flying the British flag? Quick, call the police that hate their own country and people!
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Transporting a giant wind turbine blade
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t0kaz1qRos1z23obp.mp4
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Whilst the end product may be a joke, you have to admit that some of the engineering solutions are genius !
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For those with nothing else to do & Jo’s UK Contributors – Street Map uses, I think, Ordance Survey Maps
https://www.streetmap.co.uk/map?x=496695&y=144178&z=120&sv=godalming&st=3&tl=Map+of+Godalming+Station,+Surrey+%5BStation%5D&searchp=ids&mapp=map
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Gosh, a proper map.
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FWIW
Obviously we haven’t reached “peak” yet
” Australia: Land of Sun, Surf and Pregnant Men”
“Australian trans activist Roxanne Tickle is as likely to get pregnant as the late Dame Edna Everage. This isn’t a jab at his dating prospects – it’s simply an acknowledgement that he’s a man. Yet Australia’s sex discrimination commissioner, Anna Cody, has in effect told a court that Tickle is perfectly capable of giving birth. In fact, Cody has argued that Australia’s pregnancy-protection laws should cover Tickle – and any other man who declares himself a woman.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/06/australia-land-of-sun-surf-and-pregnant-men-n3805542
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How utterly daft; in fact offensive to sane beings.
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It’s not science, it’s voodoo.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/569228/devastating-cyclones-to-get-20-35-percent-wetter-with-fossil-fuel-emissions
Earth Sciences NZ, formerly known as NIWA (warning!) and the CCCCC clowns at the University of Waikato, “used new, more precise climate modelling” to show that, despite cyclones not becoming more frequent – regardless of earlier predictions – they are however going to become wetter in 75 years’ time (based on their worst-case scenario) by which date these charlatans will be long gone and six-feet-under.
Technically speaking, not one ‘cyclone’ has ever reached NZ, as by the time the storm arrives here, albeit with ‘extra-tropical cyclonic winds’ (beyond or out of the tropical zone) it is otherwise known as an ex-cyclone or a mid-latitude low: the baddest of them all being the 1969 Wahine storm, or ex-TC Giselle, which collided with a cold front roaring up out of the Southern Ocean, the two systems meeting directly above Wellington Harbour, hence the deadly shipping disaster and loss of lives.
No troppo since has beaten this 1969 record-breaker, as too with our hottest day ever recorded, 42.4*C, waaaaaaay back in Feb 1973. If anything, our ‘climate’ has been improving over the ensuing half-century… Climate Comfortable as I now call it. Even so, a degree or 3 or 4 more would be appreciated.
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Trump has been in office for his second term 6 months now. Fox News gives and update:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSgMOUIfFKM
Warning – it is a litany of success; incomprehensible to lefties everywhere.
This guy has put individual health and wealth above saving the planet – just a terrible person. Totally at odds with Australia’s great Sleezy.
Apparently he has already three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. He should also be nominated for physics and medicine because he has put the USA miles ahead on those fronts.
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New Zealand to scrap fuel excise but track every car…
National will introduce blanket road user charges for everyone, removing the excise component from the fuel pump, and instead will use private corporations to electronically monitor your car. Bishop hasn’t clearly detailed how this will be done, but earlier releases suggest a electronic tracking device will be fitted to everyone’s vehicle which will transmit real time data to the ‘third party” provider which will let them know, distance travelled, and also real time location of your vehicle at all times.
Legislation is slated for 2026, with roll out expected by 2028 – ‘definitely before 2030’
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360782053/petrol-tax-getting-scrapped-road-user-charges-expand-all-vehicles-2027
My favourite year again. 😆
The digital noose tightens pre-collapse…
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But does that mean that EV’s will finally have to pay for their share of the road use or will they be excused the tracking tag. Don’t get me wrong I’m against any tracking of any type.
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“But does that mean that EV’s will finally have to pay for their share of the road use ”
Yes, and that is the perfect excuse for what is happening. So, how much money can they generate by blackmailing people seen in vehicles in places they shouldn’t be, perhaps visiting a mistress? ..and if you’re just a plain ol’ gang member, how long for the police to try and catch your car with its transponder removed once you’ve driven under a checkpoint?
The next will be the kill switch activated in every car so they just turn it off when you haven’t paid your road toll.
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National will introduce blanket road user charges for everyone
I wonder what the charge would be on the Canning Stock Route or the Gibb River road? Or when driving in the middle of a multi thousand hectare station?
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Boaties/farmers exempt as they’re ‘off-road’ vehicles – see Terms & Conditions for upcoming expiry date: We vill monitor effry moofment!
No matter who you vote for, the Government gets in: it’s another ‘slow boil frog’ operation so the proles only hear CHEAPER PETROL while they’re BACK ON TRACK as PM Luxon promised in his election bribe.
It also divides (and conquers) Electric Heads from Petrol Heads – or diesel in my case – now the grifting free-riding EV mob have to pay for road upkeep & maintenance (what’s that!) like the rest of us hydrocarbonistas do.
Always thought the CCP & USA were already monitoring motorists as they silently whizzed along in their computer on wheels, Bladerunner-style. There’s no AI in my 4×4 😃
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EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum
A controversial European Union proposal dubbed “Chat Control” is regaining momentum, with 19 out of 27 EU member states reportedly backing the measure.
The plan would mandate that messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram, must scan every message, photo and video sent by users starting in October, even if end-to-end encryption is in place, popular French tech blogger Korben wrote on Monday.
Denmark reintroduced the proposal on July 1, the first day of its EU Council presidency. France, once opposed, is now in favor, Korben said, citing Patrick Breyer, a former member of the European Parliament for Germany and the European Pirate Party.
Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Italy and Spain are also in favor, while Germany remains undecided. However, if Berlin joins the majority, a qualified council vote could push the plan through by mid-October, Korben said.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-chat-control-plan-gains-support-threatens-encryption
The more things fall apart, the tighter the digital noose.
They can’t stop the collapse, and they’ve only got 6 years left…
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Fascinating science
A snowflake under an electron microscope:
https://imgbox.com/qadGKGBr
/ No, no, it’s self-assembling nanotech! LOL.
A cutaway of a hand grenade:
https://imgbox.com/Y5aDLJUI
/dyk about 50 people were killed or injured developing the grenade?
Satellites in the night sky. A composite taken over 1.5 hours:
https://imgbox.com/uY16cT5V
The only known animal that doesn’t need oxygen:
https://imgbox.com/Lq9YueyS
The parasite H. salminicola, that has lost all genes for respiration.
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Nats leading the charge.
‘Barnaby Joyce and other leading opponents of net zero by 2050 want Australia to build new coal-fired power plants, focus on gas and nuclear energy and abandon all efforts to cut carbon emissions.
‘As the former Nationals leader pushes a private member’s bill to block net zero – sparking new divisions within the Liberals and Nationals this week – he said any long-term emissions reduction from renewables would not make a meaningful difference to the climate and would cost households too much.’ (Guardian)
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Most households can get by with solar and battery for time being. Industry cannot so it is disappearing and taking productive employment with it.
Australia depends on farming for food and mining to buy all the Chinese made stuff. There are only two productive sectors. Heavy industry and manufacturing have been flushed away.
He should be sprucing the highly regressive nature of the transition and the obvious loss of industry.
Electricity was once regarded as an essential service. In Australia. It is now a crapshoot where the players are making money at the expense of a reducing consumer base.
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FWIW – a comparison
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gxmkr_3awAQOHXa?format=jpg&name=small
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Rename the areas to California and Texas?
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Ah, more Terminator..
” In the Kharkiv region, soldiers from the 3rd Assault Brigade carried out a successful mission without a single infantryman on the ground. Using only FPV drones and ground robots, they attacked enemy positions, destroyed fortifications and captured Russian soldiers who surrendered to the machines. The remaining Russian troops were directed toward Ukrainian positions by drones overhead and were then taken prisoner. “This is the first confirmed successful assault in modern warfare conducted exclusively by unmanned platforms,” the 3rd Assault Brigade claimed.”
An article about a woman who designs robotic systems for Ukraine.
“Shipovich stated that “the idea that robots can fully replace infantry is both true and false. Today, they cannot, but that should be our goal.” She added, “We must get people out of the trenches and off the front line. Robots can do the dirty, dangerous work.””
When the robots are hunting down the last humans, we can blame her..
https://asiatimes.com/2025/08/the-woman-bringing-battlefield-robotics-to-ukraines-front-lines/#
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It’ll soon be the drones and robots fighting against drones and robots.
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FWIW – a model but – –
“Five easy options for a government with a brain: (3) The BBC”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/five-easy-options-for-a-government-with-a-brain-3-the-bbc/
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FWIW – re first aid
“Tourniquets: they work, but they have dangers of their own”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/08/tourniquets-they-work-but-they-have.html
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