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Green jobs make us poorer
Conclusion –
It is crystal clear that all talk of a “green revolution” is simply a pipe dream. These green jobs are only a façade, Potemkin jobs to give politicians and policymakers a good sound bite and make them feel good about themselves. The idea that we can move to “green prosperity” by subsidising each job to the tune of £192,000 every year is plainly absurd. These jobs are a drag on the rest of the economy, acting as a tax on energy. We need to end this economic fantasy.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/08/25/green-jobs-make-us-poorer/
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A short while ago I posted how the UK government declined to financially support the bioethanol plant in Hull so it’s closing.
Shell is also pulling out of a plant in Europe.
https://www.shell.com/news-and-insights/newsroom/news-and-media-releases/2025/shell-not-restart-construction-rotterdam-biofuels-plant.html
Those dreams of sustainable aviation seem more remote than ever.
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Agree but funny. A bioethanol plant is a plant plant. And makes no economic sense when fossil fuels including coal are essentially free. There’s only the cost of extraction, as with gold. Plus the fallacy that humans control CO2 levels when that is very silly.
The whole business is based on an obvious fallacy. CO2 is in world wide incredibly rapid equilibrium with the 98% freely dissolved in the ocean. All atmospheric CO2 is replaced in about 5 years. Like the American wood chips now used by the DRAX plant which used to run on coal. But scientists as a whole say nothing. No one listens. Politicians have their own science and legislate their fantasies.
Perhaps a Royal Commission into Man made CO2 would end this farce. There is zero proof that mankind controls CO2. And direct evidence that we do not.
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Agreed.
Would it be tactically sound to write an extended comment every time a certain term is used?
Example: Term “protection of the environment”
Extended comment: “the environment is a natural, fundamental property that has always existed whether humans are not present or not. It is powerful and self-correcting and not in need of protection by puny humans.”
Some other terms needing a treatment are –
Conservation of the environment
Anthropogenic climate change
Future climate projection/prediction
Climate sensitivity
Social cost of carbon.
….
The unwashed masses have captured terms like these, treating them as self-evident truths. Consequences follow, such as SCC is negative, ECS exceeds 5 units,etc.
Correct counter arguments need to correct the wordage to show how little is actually known, because these terms are now propaganda. Geoff S
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Crackpot heat network installation in a town near me. Nigh on 2 years of massive roadworks which are and have destroyed local businesses. All to save 0.004% of less than 1% of UK’s contribution to global CO2 emissions. Construction works that could not possibly be accomplished without heavy diesel plant, so how will it be extended in the fossil free future? If 1000 towns did this it would alter the climate not one iota. £Millions down the drain for nowt. Presumably this sort of nonsense is what will create all these wonderful new green jobs.
https://www.adur-worthing.gov.uk/worthing-heat-network/
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So it seems they are expecting cold winters for a while longer then? Building a heating network on a warming planet would just be silly wouldn’t it?
These systems are common in Russia also, but I guess that’s a banned word these days.
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“o it seems they are expecting cold winters for a while longer then? Building a heating network on a warming planet would just be silly wouldn’t it?”
Yes! That should be pointed out to the authorities at every chance… Posters on the road works and the local shop windows, local TV and radio. its like the rich buying seaside houses when they KNOW they’ll get flooded by 2050!
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“The Tory party is Dead”. Liberal party soon to follow.
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The fantasies of man made Climate Change, DEI, trans people, uncontrolled immigration all seem to have one purpose. The total destruction of Western Democracy and Commonwealth countries in particular. Slavery is an incredible lie, given that Britain was the only country which stopped historic world slavery and lost fortunes and 3,000 sailors in their fight. Now they are the villains? Not the slavers in Africa and the Arabs who ran the trade.
Only 5% of people suffer such incredible stupidity from their politicians. Iran is expelling 5 million Afghanistan refugees today. Australia accepted without question 3,000 people from the most violent place on earth currently, Gaza. When Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey would not accept them having suffered so much last time. Especially Jordan after the last war which cost 350,000 lives.
I am personally amazed at the weak and socialist Liberal/Tory leadership. Susan Ley is as far left as anyone in the Greens. And the Tory leadership are simply more Labor in waiting, expecting their automatic turn at power. BREXIT was what the people wanted, not the Tories. The same with the VOICE in Australia, destroyed by an actual Referendum. Maybe all Australian laws should be confirmed by Referendum because most of them are not supported by more than a tiny fraction of the population.
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I’m sure it’s not a new idea, but the fight against climate change serves the same purpose as the never ending war against Eur/Eastasia.
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“serves the same purpose”
Not to mention the war against “Covid”
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The VOice legislation wasnt destroyed. It was delayed, dismantled and is now being implemented State by State as looney enough politicians arrive on the scene.
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But without protest by the masses. Albeit quite quietly being pushed through parliament’s and the odd comments by the media are soothed over with, you know , truth telling and righting historical wrongs and it won’t affect anything. The fact that just settling up the secret committee to implement it in Victoria has allegedly cost $380 million beggars belief. All to the vast majority of these people not having to prove why having a tiny fraction of indigenous blood makes them different to the rest of the population.
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That’s just “consultation” with absolutely nothing physical to show for it.
Where the hell did the money go?
Why aren’t Liberals asking questions?
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“Maybe all Australian laws should be confirmed by Referendum because most of them are not supported by more than a tiny fraction of the population.”
Easy enough once we all have our unique age-verification for the internet later this year… I can just see the parasites letting us have a say on every vote!
We could do it locally for every MP, “Should your MP vote FOR or AGAINST? with a vote total on the page.
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When we get universal age verification laws, I’d imagine this could only work if you had age verification for every single site you might visit. It will be a nightmare, especially as the normal use of the internet involves rapidly jumping from site to site searching for information across dozens or hundreds of sites.
As usual, the politicians and the public serpents who tell them what to think, just don’t have a clue.
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Ah, Google will help there DM, for a small subscription they will front up for you as you go to any site and confirm you are over-age. ..or Facebook or any of the data-mining companies keen to pin down every detail of your life.
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I missed the “Baffled again?” post yesterday. Post and comments remindeded me of the following that applies to the climate-thingy.
Donald Rumsfeld famously said, “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
He died on June 29, 2021.
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Story of my life John!
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Yesterday I mentioned how climate “scientists” always seemed to be “baffled” when results don’t conform to the Official Narrative or their invalid (never-validated) “models” which have no forecasting or hindcasting ability whatsoever, and yet they persist with them because they are financially profitable.
If you do a Goolag search for the term “climate scientists baffled” with or without quote marks you will see the large number of instances of bafflement.
I don’t know any area of real science where bafflement is so frequent. Normally if results don’t fit the hypothesis an alternative hypothesis is formulated. That’s how science and the scientific method is done.
But climate “science” is a financially profitable political endeavour disguised as science (like “political science” and other pseudosciences), not traditional science.
Here is how the Scientific Method waa practiced back in the day when they had genuine scholarly institutions or even self-funded private scientists.
1. Make an observation.
2. Ask a question.
3. Conduct background research.
4. Formulate a hypothesis.
5. Design and conduct an experiment.
6. Analyze the data.
7. Draw a conclusion
8. Communicate your results.
Sadly, such a methodology no longer applies to taxpayer-funded climate studies or many other fields of inquiry related to wokeness (e.g. covid “vaccinations”).
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The problem is that your process doesn’t match the current state of climate research:
1. Make an observation.
2. Ask a question.
3. Conduct background research.
4. Formulate a hypothesis.
5. Design and conduct an experiment.
6. Analyze the data.
7. Throw out data that doesn’t support your desired conclusion.
8. Draw a conclusion
9. Rewrite the conclusion to fit current climate science pravda when it fails to align.
10. Communicate your results.
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1. Get biased AI to write a narrative-conforming paper.
2. Continue to get paid.
Why complicate things?
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Another Leake hits the spot in todays Australian! Despots galore including “Mini-Me” Dan Boy Andrews aka, The Spy Who Shagged AUKUS. Or should that be “Mini Xi”?
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Is this the one?
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/87dae75d547ffbfbfd6d5697f6eca336?width=1024
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It is with mixed feelings I watched the chairman Xi parade.
However I wonder, if the images of incredible Weapons of War are as close to reality as his words, which I tried to check:
As far as I could find –
a) it was World War 2, not anti-fascist war;
b) Chinese Army contributed to its end by fighting Japan, which was evil, but Imperial not Fascist;
c) The only Fascist state involved win that war was Italy, where most probably not a single Chinese soldier participated;
d) The Chinese (Maoist) Army, which Chairman Xi had in mind, in reality concluded “a temporary truce” with Japanese Imperial forces and had no representative at signing of Japan Capitulation on the 2 September 1945.
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It also appears China is morphing into more of a fascist state than pure communist these days, with big business and the party co-operating in the pursuit of world domination.
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Freezing here in Melbournistan.
5C at 639am.
Not only is that what the BoM says, I fact-checked it with my own weather station which agrees that is the correct number.
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It’s the CARBON what done it!
Oddly over here we’ve got our 1st heatwave of the coming summer: 20°C thanks to a roaring nor’wester out of the tropics. Sadly it will only last a day as a cold front is hot on its heels, bringing ‘thunder snow to 400m’ for parts of the South Island.
Even the weather is affected by climate change now.
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“We’re just getting so much weather these days”
(Brainless twits at Radio NZ . . . repeatedly).
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Safe to say Autumn has arrived in the UK, wind and monsoon rain aplenty.
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“5C at 639am.”
Luxury !!
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We had -0.6 at 0638 this morning. Nth Central Vic. There was frost.
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Its the south westerlies on the underbelly of high pressure, Tasmania is also taking a battering.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/heavy-spring-snow-paints-tasmania-white/1890853
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Under Australia’s Apartheid laws, non-indigenous Australians and visitors are banned from taking photos of certain areas of Ayers Rock.
Non-indigenous races are already banned from climbing it.
Why bother visiting at all? Go overseas where you can see big tocks elsewhere, and probably cheaper anyway. Maybe El Capitan in Yosemite US, or in Australia Mt Augustus, WA, which is claimed to be the world’s largest rock.
Video: Isaac Butterfield discusses the ban. Language warning.
https://youtu.be/aMCeR-FLnOw
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“Non-indigenous races are already banned from climbing it.”
Note that climbing Ayers Rock did not actually involve “climbing” in the mountaineering sense but simply following a defined pathway. In so many other national parks world wide, climbing by securing ropes and fixing safety points is actually encouraged as there are a number of benefits to things like economies where this is allowed.
Here in Oz every natural feature of interest suddenly becomes a sacred site and is automatically closed from public access.
Had to laugh out loud when an indigenous camp in the middle of Melbournes Kings Domain, was described as a “Sacred site” on the evening news!
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We visited Ayers Rock in August 1984. All the menfolk in the family climbed it, although our youngest son turned back after a while and joined our small daughter and me at the base. That climb was an experience our older sons, especially the eldest, have never forgotten.
Our eldest, the pilot, said he would fly there one day and I said he could take me with him. Alas, despite his being a commercial pilot for many years, it never quite happened.
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As per the last three paragraphs, for once the fake conservative Liberals actually said something right.
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Liberal Senator Jane Hume said Andrews’ decision to do so displayed an “extraordinary lack of judgement”.
An astounding example of ‘weasel words’, but sadly what we have come to expect from our so-called ‘conservative’ party. Calling Andrews’ attendance a mistake is extraordinarily disingenuous, so much so that I strongly believe Hume is actually covering for Andrews. Our Liberals are nothing more these days than ‘controlled opposition’. Not that this would surprise many of Jo’s subscribers.
Hume should have slaughtered Andrews over this. Going to that celebration was nothing short of treason, and a broad daylight admission by Andrews that his paymasters are the CCP.
But the same just happened in the UK (surprise!). The Labour government’s Housing Minsiter and Deputy PM, Angela Raynor, who heads various new policies aimed at extracting yet more tax out of homeowners, has herself been caught wriggling out of property taxes herself. This left the goal wide open for the leader of the Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, to land a knockout punch at a recent PM’s Question Time. Instead, she barely mentioned it!
Absolutely extraordinary, and confirmation that conservatives are no longer represented by the main parties.
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Fair enough Steve. Perhaps I was too complimentary of Hume. But because the Libs virtually never do anything right, it’s easy to get excited when they do something that is even a little bit in the right direction…
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I am now reasonably certain that the Libs don’t want to get elected.
Why would they?
Their beliefs are barely distinguishable from Labor, the few left have mostly secure jobs, they get excellent pensions and employment conditions, they get taxpayer funded holidays which they call “fact finding trips”, they get invited to lots of cocktail parties, they are not taxed intellectually, in fact they don’t need to think at all, and they don’t have to do much work, their office staff do that for them – and even they don’t do anything useful because they don’t generally bother to answer emails from constituents.
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As long as some one, some where keeps filling the trough. I have a hound that will do anything for the right reward, Of course the dog doesn’t understand ” Morals” that’s a totally human concept. Apparently not universally understood to mean the same thing by everyone.
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I am simply stunned.
I just heard on ABC Radio National, taxpayer funded far Left propaganda organisation, actually questioning whether it was a good idea for Andrews to go.
For once they allowed the expression of an alternative opinion.
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Comet 3l/ATLAS is emitting a blue tail pointing towards the sun due to being ‘drenched’ in CO2 – or Colorado-squared to unenlightened ex-spurts. This is why Earth is blue and it’s ALL OUR FAULT!
https://spaceweather.com/
Word on the street is… He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy!
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‘3I/ATLAS’s tail points toward the sun–a twist that astronomers don’t fully understand.’
They should ask Quantum AI.
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Did you know a signal from a VLF radio station with Morse Code was inadvertently picked up and recorded in the original recording of Tubular Bells?
From Goolag AI:
You can see how you can isolate it with a computer and free software at:
https://youtu.be/L2W1x6Rb9hI
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And if you play it backwards and skip a track or two, it says “the devil is coming for dinner”.
Or maybe not.
When I was still at uni, I was working at a recording/voice over studio in South Melbourne, right next to the tram tracks. I always wondered if the tracks could one day be replayed, looking purely at the very low bass rumble from the passing trams, and work out if they were on time or late.
Of course, the key to getting rid of the bass noise from the trams was to place a steep high pass filter on the recording device, cutting everything below around 100 Hz at such a steep rate that the tram noise ended up in the tape hiss.
It’s so easy to filter out radio frequencies NOW from audio devices, mostly because we have good quality capacitors that leak the noise to ground. Unfortunately, especially in the past, a good quality capacitor often had high levels of parasitic inductance, which resulted in the device acting more like an inductor, (wrt frequency based impedance), above it’s internal resonant frequency. And of course…. an inductor from the signal path to ground will not act as a high pass filter. Thus radio frequencies can pass through the filter, (as designed), due to the imperfect nature of the devices incorporated into the build.
Oops…. Did I just go too technical?
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No.
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No, is interesting. I recall as a pup at the TAB , my boss derived low speed teletype connection to hundreds of agencies using broadcast lines that distributed race calls when they all werent on TV. He put the encoded signal at the bottom of the frequency band and notch filtered it out of the signal that went to the in agency amplifier. Saved them a lot of money and gave a couple of guys a great gig touring around doing the in agency work.
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UVB-76 DM…😎
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4625 USB
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After the record player stylus arm finishes the final track – “A Day In The Life” on side 2 of The Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band vinyl record it tracks toward the centre of the record where, if the turntable doesnt have an automatic return mechanism it is held by an inner grove that repeats the phrase “this is a recording” with every continuing rotation of the record. There is also a dog whistle tone included in this groove.
The tone is pitched at approximately 15 kilohertz, which is at the upper limit of human hearing but within the range that dogs and cats can hear.
The addition was reportedly suggested by John Lennon as a humorous touch, intended to make dogs react when the record was played.
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No wonder I missed it. My upper limit is half that , on a good day
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Video from Pakistan showing the melting and processing of scrap steel with primitive equipment and no safety equipment whatsoever.
https://youtu.be/gye7JLdyZ3M
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I sometimes watch a YouTube channel called ‘Itchy Boots’. It’s essentially a travel blog run by a Dutch lady, who tours some of the most dangerous places on Earth, solo, on a motorcycle. Only a couple of days ago, I watched her ride through remote parts of Pakistan, where if the locals don’t get you, the mountain roads certainly will.
I seriously don’t know how she does what she does. I can’t decide whether I think she’s absolutely amazing, or suicidally foolish, but she’s been doing this for years. The fact that she’s riding alone in these areas, as a Western female, gives me the heebie jeebies, but I’ve also watched her squeeze between a huge truck and a 1000ft drop, through gaps barely wider than the bike, on a muddy surface 😮 I wouldn’t do it.
Then she stops at a grubby little, half collapsed roadside building manned by three or four local gentlemen. Apparently, it’s some sort of roadside ‘diner’. There, she has a cup of tea and some dish served on flatbread, uses the ‘facilities’, then waves off, back on the road again. How does she not spend the next few days with her head down the toilet, like I would have to do? She must have a cast iron constitution, as well as no nerves.
Amazing young woman. But I fear for her.
By way of irony, she does this kind of thing with little drama yet, when she recently toured the UK, she had her bike stolen in Wales …
Nuff said?
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Its an interesting topic, the whole business of where people draw the line with real personal risk and then also how they regard others who have their line in a very different place.
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Sounds like the tv series World’s most dangerous roads.
Yes, I wouldn’t go on those roads either!
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I just discovered her recently too. She is totally focused on the journey. If you want lots of historical buildings, or interactions with people, this isnt the blog. But to just sink into the road, has it’s joys too. She also has a drone that she will send up on most days, and there are just stunning shots. An episode where she travelled through back roads in the Taurus Mountains, in SE Turkey; here she did stop for a huge 2nd century Roman amphitheater, in an area totally unpopulated now. Getting to the highest pass, she unleashed her drone, and it was magnificent. This area was known, back in the AD 800-900s, by Islam, as ‘The Land of War’. The place to go to speed up your journey to loot, or to martyrdom. It’s a win win. I’ve never come across decent pics of this area before.
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As a motorcyclist myself, I find the riding and roads, along with her interactions with locals, fascinating. She makes it all look so easy – always the trademark of a REAL expert.
I get the jitters whenever I hit a well-groomed gravel road. Mind you, at 69yo I don’t bend as easily as I once did – things snap or tear instead. Also, if I did drop the bike and somehow managed to avoid injury, I would for sure end up in hospital after trying to stand the thing up again!
I put my back out many years ago when I had to pick a GSX1100F lard-arse up. Urrrgh. Hmmmph. Aaaaagh!
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Video from the dirtiest country in the world, Bangladesh.
It’s places like this where ocean plastics come from.
Why should we in the woke West have the Left ban our convenience products like supermarket plastic bags when they are disposed of correctly and in Bangladesh they throw rubbish wherever they please?
Leftists should go to these countries and dedicate their miserable lives to picking up rubbish and teaching the locals not to litter. It will give Leftists a genuine purpose in life and something useful to do.
https://youtu.be/nzpJhjDaegs
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Ooohhh…I have a bookmarked travel vlogger in the EU that does the same thing.
Exposing the crime, filth, frauds, culture and lack of it.
Truly unique stuff and bizarre.
China? OMG…
Maybe I’ll post it one day. Too much for most people.😁
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I attended a conference in Beijing back in 05 or 06 I think it was. While there, I had a few meetings with clients and one of them took me out into the ‘countryside’. I think the biggest culture shock was the public conveniences, but the filth and litter was an eye opener. I was with a bunch of geologists and we visited an important site alongside a river. I was astounded by how polluted the river was. Apart from the rubbish floating past, I couldn’t believe how ‘grey’ the water looked. It was an open sewer.
Then, when we got back to Beijing, we went to a tiny restaurant that was in a building hundreds of years old, immaculate and very impressive. The food was amazing and staggeringly expensive.
China truly is a land of contrasts, the gap between the ‘haves and have nots’ is extraordinary, especially out in the sticks.
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Come on Steve, it’s a communist paradise ain’t it?
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EVENING GRIDWATCH THURS 4 SEPT
AT 7 PM EASTERN TIME IN AUSTRALIA THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 15% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST.
AND 5% IN THE WEST.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
3.30 AM WIND 25% SOLAR 0
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
9.40 AM WIND 21% SOLAR 9%
MORNING GRIDWATCH FRI 5 SEPT
AT 7 AM AUSTRALIAN EASTERN TIME THE WIND WAS CONTRIBUTING 17% OF DEMAND IN THE EAST
AND 30% IN THE WEST
BTW If you think we are doing well when you see big numbers for the penetration of wind into the grid, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Look at the weakest link in the chain, the lowest point of the fence, dam and flood levee.
Wind and sun will not carry the grid through windless nights because we have effectively next to no grid-scale storage. Don’t be impressed by the number of batteries being installed, do the arithmetic find out the cost to get through 16 hours with minimal wind and solar generation.
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/RenewEconomy/
TEXAS
https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot
4 PM WIND 7% SOLAR 35% WIND DROUGHT PERSISTS
BRITAIN
https://grid.iamkate.com/
10.05 PM WIND 32% SOLAR 0%
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FWIW
“The arrest of Graham Linehan is an abomination”
“This is the militarisation of cancel culture. A full fightback is now needed.”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/03/the-arrest-of-graham-linehan-is-an-abomination/
Via SDA
And
“When are we going to treat the UK as a tyranny it is?”
https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/when-are-we-going-to-treat-the-uk
Via https://instapundit.com/742252/#disqus_thread
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He needs to write another comedy, perhaps titled Fuehrer Ted. Only a different name to Ted.
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More on that
Instapundit lead in
“OUT ON A LIMB: Graham Linehan’s arrest shows we need a UK First Amendment.”
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1963648008840462415
And more
https://instapundit.com/742322/#disqus_thread
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And
“J.K. Rowling Blasts Britain as ‘Totalitarian, Utterly Deplorable’ for Arresting Comedian over Transgender Posts”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/02/j-k-rowling-blasts-britain-as-totalitarian-utterly-deplorable-for-arresting-comedian-over-transgender-posts/
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FWIW
“Getting complicated
“Land Acknowledgements ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ Take Them Down”
https://www.newenglishreview.org/land-acknowledgements-globalize-the-intifada-take-them-down/
Via “Land Acknowledgements” at https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/04/thursday-on-turtle-island-163/
Going to be interesting when tribes like this start laying claims to Oz!
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I see power companies promoting “virtual power stations”.
I know we discussed this recently.
The grid operators want YOU to pay for and fund a battery THEY will use and wear out but YOU will pay to replace.
It saves them having to invest in expensive and short life battery plantations.
Not a bad economic model for the company.
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They are offering $1/kWh for up to 200kWh per year. Clearly it would only be used when they would be paying more than $1000/MWh so not that often as the moment. Hardly worth the effort for most battery owners.
For the average household battery of 10kWh, it would be no more than 20 deep cycles cycles a year. The battery is good for at least 2000, deep cycles and multiples of that if only used for partial cycling.
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The Swiss claim their Apertus AI is private
https://cyberinsider.com/switzerland-launches-apertus-a-public-open-source-ai-model-built-for-privacy/
A Public, Open-Source AI Model Built for Privacy
According to ETH Zurich’s Imanol Schlag, technical lead of the project at ETH Zurich, Apertus is “built for the public good” and is a demonstration of how AI can be deployed as a public digital infrastructure, much like utilities or transportation.
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FWIW –
More on Florida’s vaccine mandate removal
“In Monday’s C&C post, headlined “Pharmapocalypse,” I discussed President Trump’s historic Truth Social post questioning the covid shots — for the first time— and considered the potentially epic implications. Well, it only took two days. Yesterday, the Washington Post ran a story headlined, “Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates.” Surgeon General Ladapo and Governor DeSantis didn’t just push back against jabs; they re-framed the entire debate in moral terms instead of scientific jargon. The freakout was stupendous.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/battle-cry-of-freedom-thursday-september?
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FWIW
“My Response to the CDC Whiners”
“There is an ongoing revolt at the Centers for Disease Control over Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s moves to clean up the agency.
Six years ago, I would find their criticisms of Kennedy shocking and worry that the wide-scale revolt indicated that Kennedy really should be fired. When there is such wide-ranging dissent from medical professionals–especially aimed at a person who is, essentially, a medical layman–I would be persuaded that they were likely right and he likely wrong. ”
“No longer. That was before the COVID fiasco and the ascendence of gender ideology. What I have learned over the past half-decade is that all our institutions are fundamentally corrupt and in desperate need of reform, and that reform must come in the form of a wholesale cleaning out of our institutions. ”
More at
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/09/04/my-response-to-the-cdc-whiners-n3806452
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FWIW
A master class effort in “feeding the chooks”!
The left in defence of gun rights!
“Trump Waited in the Tall Grass for This Moment on Gun Rights. It’s Going to Be Brilliant.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/04/trump-waited-in-the-tall-grass-for-this-moment-on-gun-rights-its-going-to-be-brilliant-n2662776
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/straight-out-of-central-casting-liberal-senator-alex-antic-floats-neonazi-theory/news-story/26277943ebbefba7bbf85d7520f0342f
Australia’s answer to ANTIFA?
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Nothing will surprise me about justice system in Victoria.
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Well, I read all that and the only question I had at the end was..
Were any of the people brawling with the NSN guys also arrested?? or does it only take one person to brawl in Victoria?
Of course I do remember way back when trouble-makers, terrorists and people with generally anti-Govt views were all Leftists and had the Police and secret service spying on them. Same laws, different target..
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Latest from Gad Saad.
Note to Liberal Party (fake conservative).
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Mark Carney is impressive.
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FWIW – “Castle Law” in Canada
“When it comes to protestors in Canada the police will:
“spend months tracking you down. There will be charges and financial sanctions”
When it comes to murderous home invaders?
“its best to comply with the criminals” ”
https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/1963347343375569079
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As Fred Colon always said in Terry Pratchett’s ‘Nightwatch’ series of books…
“You proceed to the scene of the crime, you don’t want to rush or you might get there before the criminals leave, and you blows your whistle so they knows you’re coming..”
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FWIW
Alberta – wind on another winner
“Who needed power on Labour Day, anyhow?”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/04/who-needed-power-on-labour-day-anyhow/
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NAB users will no longer issue Debit Cards for your savings accounts from 31 October 2025. Users will no longer be able to use their money without a Digital Wallet.
https://x.com/QBCCIntegrity/status/1963511183404658834
Recent Terms and Conditions updates at all Banks in Australia will force (under threat of closure) the acceptance of new T&C’s.
The changes are being disguised as “ENHANCED ACCOUNT MONITORING”
For your safety, of course, to comply with recent changes to laws.
https://x.com/QBCCIntegrity/status/1963511255055860168
In 2022, VISA and Mastercard networks enabled Carbon Footprint tracking in its products.
The intent is that every item running across the payment system network, accurately calculates the “environmental impact”
https://x.com/QBCCIntegrity/status/1963511293047943408
…and more…
No more bank specific cards.
How convenient that all those cybersecurity incidents in recent years caused the masses to push for and gleefully accept seriously tightened security from banks, especially in account monitoring…
https://www.banktrack.org/ourproject/tracking_the_net_zero_banking_alliance#banks_pagenr=7
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So what are you meant to use?
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“So what are you meant to use?”
Something more expensive of course!! The Banks need more profits!
Basically Paypal by the looks of it, something as a digital wallet with no physical buildings where you put money in, they hold your money earning interest on it and speculating with it, and you withdraw for electronic purchases only. Wait… that sounds just like a bank now!
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AI spending frenzy: Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pour $400 billion into projects producing no profit as enterprises report zero returns
The illusion is unraveling. The AI boom isn’t growth. It’s a public hemorrhage disguised as inevitability, a silent collapse dressed in corporate slogans.
That number doesn’t represent growth. It represents panic. The kind of panic where half a trillion dollars is poured into a black box, not because the product works, but because the collapse behind it is too threatening to acknowledge. Money doesn’t flow this way for innovation. It flows this way when the entire market is pretending survival is optional.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/ai-spending-frenzy-alphabet-microsoft-amazon-and-meta-pour-400-billion-into-projects-producing-no-profit-as-enterprises-report-zero-returns/
As I’ve said, it’s a fad, not real AI and hitting a wall.
Behind the chatbot crap, REAL AI however is moving along at a brisk pace.
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“That number doesn’t represent growth. It represents panic. The kind of panic where half a trillion dollars is poured into a black box, not because the product works, but because the collapse behind it is too threatening to acknowledge. Money doesn’t flow this way for innovation. It flows this way when the entire market is pretending survival is optional.”
Sounds just like global warming, wind and solar alternatives!
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Greece closes 766 schools as collapsing fertility and birth rates trigger demographic ‘Death Spiral’
More than 1 in 20 schools now fall below the minimum number of pupils, turning once-bustling schools into ghostly reminders of a shrinking nation afflicted by negative fertility and birth rates.
“The data reveal a stark trend: In the 2018-2019 school year, 247 primary schools and 312 kindergartens were non-operational; for 2025-2026, those numbers will rise to 324 and 358, respectively.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/greeces-fast-falling-population-closing-schools-across-country/
Climate change strikes again
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If it was a richer country then the Gimmegrants would all be moving there and solving that problem!
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St John has busiest winter on record
St John says its had its busiest winter on record, with respiratory-related emergencies soaring.
This comes as data shows community illnesses are being reported at a high level for this time of year.
“Most winters, you expect to get at least one sickness go through the family,” Wellington mum of four Fay Ingrey recently told Stuff.
“However, this year has literally been a cycle where every four to six weeks one person will get sick and we’ll all come down with it.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360811298/st-john-has-busiest-winter-record
Climate change strikes again!
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Does anyone here know anything about this subject matter below concerning vit D3?
Was taken aback the past few days after discovering something about Vit D3 that i was not aware of.
Was aware of the subject matter concerning Hypercalcemia, and also that vitamin K2 is important, although i am not a doctor or health practitioner.
An article recently on substack ( https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/the-vitamin-d-paradox-what-they-dont ) begins with..
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Rodents are more susceptible to Vitamin D than humans and the dose given is much higher.
Debunked here:
https://fullfact.org/health/vitamin-d-rat-poison/
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It is almost always junk reasoning in biochemistry to reason by association with a bad thing (eg, paint, industrial solvents, rat poison). Every molecule is a poison at the right dose. People have died from drinking pure water (during marathons it can ruin electrolyte balance). Even pure Oxygen can kill.
It takes about 300,000IU of Vitamin D to kill a rat (or 40mg/kg). A 70kg human therefore might be killed by 3g of Vitamin D (if the dose is equivalent, and we won’t know til someone runs that unethical experiment). To put that in perspective 3g of Vitamin D3 is 120 million IU. Does that help? You’d have to take the full contents of 2,000 bottles of 60 x 1,000 IU.
Even if you broke into Chemist Warehouse and ate every bottle, I don’t think you’d get there.
High dose daily Vitamin D can be detrimental (as is true of every vitamin). In the short term people do fine (or benefit from) doses of 100,000IU or in hospital even 300,000. But what we don’t know exactly is the optimal dose of D3 as a daily thing for years on end. The data I’ve seen recently suggests that 1,000 or 2,000 may produce the most optimal long term outcomes, but it will vary from person to person. And yes K2 is essential with D3.
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5000iu/day for a few years now and I’m still around and causing trouble.. The worst thing was my supplier ran out so I’ve switched to 10,000iu every two days.
If you get sick each year try it. Maybe it makes no difference, I don’t get sick now year in and year out, but I never really did beforehand either.
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I limit my comment here and above to that of someone who has just found out that D3 is also in rat etc poison…the comment was simply to highlight that it was the first time i had ever heard of vit D3 was the active ingredient in certain rodent poisons which was surprising and yet confusing as well. I was stunned and shocked and interesting as well which is why i am asking anyone here if they had heard of this usage of D3. Indeed it is a paradox, but then warfarin is also used in certain rodent poisons and yet it is also a medicine, if memory serves me correctly.
It seems logical to me that if something is harmful in a certain amount, then a warning should be printed on the label concerning what is the maximum safe dose. i don’t use D3 or even vitamin c or other supplemtents being a bit of a Ludite, but had a full bottle from decades ago that does not show any warnings
Like the link above, i have no way of knowing a safe dose is.
these website talks about dose etc.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/vitamin-d-toxicity/faq-20058108
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/diseases-conditions/hypervitaminosis-d
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-much-vitamin-d-is-too-much#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4
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Given the dose that might kill is so high, a safety message might do more harm than good. People might come away thinking that rat poison wasn’t so deadly, or that vitamin D wasn’t good. The rat-poison-D3 link has been floating on X for a week or so. I almost wonder if Big Harma sent it out…
But thanks yes, it is interesting to discuss for sure, and some people who take high dose D for a long period with Calcium, and without also taking K2 might not know there are risks. They should probably print that on the bottles.
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Agreed!! in my opinion where you say above
.. Also, when my mum went to hospital for a trans catheter heart valve replacement i asked the heart specialist about K2 contraindications with respect to blood thinner and he explained that there are no contraindications from taking vitamin K2 with the new generation blood thinners and that this may once have applied to the use of warfarin if at all. In short, K2 is not a problem with the new generation blood thinners, however the ordinary GP doctor in the main tend to veer on the safe side which might explain why there is so much vitamin K2 hesitancy as it were. That’s my anecdote on K2. My mum eats natto/hawaijar/kinema/axone/chunggookjang type fermentation and so no need for supplement K2 pills. About 4 tablespoons of Natto contains between 700-1200 micrograms of K2. After 1200 micrograms, is expelled and not used by the body from memory.
A quote and source material concerning inaccurate dosage labeling and manufacturing irregularities concerning Vit D3
From: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5980613/
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Warfarin works directly against Vitamin K. That is its mode of action. It’s very bucket-chemistry when our best medicine is simply neutralizing an essential vitamin, but that’s how it is. https://www.clinpgx.org/pathway/PA145011114
….”actual doses of up to 2.6 million IU day–1.”
Wow. It is an absolute scandal that the FDA does not randomly test supplements often enough so that those kind of errors don’t happen. That’s what a government watchdog should be doing. Let us choose what we use, but the government should make sure the playing field is honest.
It works out well for Big Pharma if there are headlines about harm caused by vitamins…
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Bumped
“Don’t Buy The Nutso”
“This is making the rounds and was sent to me — and since its a slow day, what the hell.
The same molecule in your morning vitamin D supplement is the active ingredient in rat poison.
Not a similar compound. Not a chemical cousin. The exact same molecule: cholecalciferol. At 0.075% concentration, it kills rats. In your supplement bottle, it’s supposed to make you healthier.
And?
Want me to boil it down to one sentence?
In the concentration 1,000 times higher its a poison. So what?”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253889
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Quick question, if anyone can answer – As a badly Colourblind Person in the Australian Army, when they found being Colourblind I could not see camouflage, I got put as lead scout in the Platoon – Is it possible to program Colourblindness Charateristics into AI in a Drone re below specifically in AI-targeting identifying camouflaged enemy units
SITREP 9/5/25: Rumblings of New ‘Major’ Russian Offensive as Elite Units Regroup
On that note—a brief digression. The Russian Lancet drone has showcased its AI targeting capability again recently, specifically in AI-targeting identifying camouflaged enemy units. Southfront reported on it:
Artificial intelligence is now helping Russian Lancet loitering munition recognize carefully camouflaged targets in the special military operations zone in Ukraine, ZALA Aero Group, the producer of the system, revealed on September 4.
“The loitering munitions of the Lancet family, equipped with an intelligent guidance and target recognition system, are capable of detecting carefully camouflaged enemy equipment,” the company said in a press release posted to Telegram.
Read this section in particular:
In July, the company announced that both the navigation and targeting systems of the loitering munition received upgrades enabling artificial intelligence features and improving resistance against jamming.
Footage released by ZALA along with its latest press release showed two successful Lancet strikes on carefully camouflaged howitzers of Kiev forces in the Dnipropetrovsk direction. In both cases, the AI-powered target recognition function of the Lancet’s electro-optical system was able to automatically recognize the howitzers which were then hit with pinpoint accuracy.
The footage:
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“the claim that Russia has redeployed several elite units from other regions in preparation for the next series of strikes..They are commanded by General Akhmedov, who is known for his failed first assault on Ugledar.”
I’m amazed he is still alive, failure that big usually means you accidentally fall out a fourth storey window in Russia. He lost something like 30 tanks in a minefield in open country trying to attack Ugledar head-on a few years back.
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This paper by Willie Soon is a bit old, but offers clear scientific proof that CO2 is a harmless trace gas.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/09/05/new-study-co2-does-not-precede-temperature-nor-does-it-control-temperature/
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I listened to a local talk radio show yesterday
The host declared that “nobody ever said the vaccine would you keep from getting sick with COVID.”
An 81 year old gentleman called in and said he had all the COVID shots, and had subsequently gotten COVID three times and was hospitalized twice… then attributed his survival to the ‘vaccine’.
Vaccine?!
What has happened to us?
I don’t recall anyone ever saying the polio vaccine wasn’t intended to keep you from getting polio, it only provides the possibility of having a milder case.
I also have several friends that have come down with the flu.
They take a COVID ‘test’.
Then announce they have COVID.
It’s not so much we are just as capable of absurd belief as historical people.
A sophisticated and organized system of mass psychological manipulation has been constructed by an obscured political power faction.
Anti-Vax?
I’m just against false labeling and mass language murder.
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FWIW
“Dad’s Army caricatures capture life in Britain today”
https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2025/09/03/dads-army-caricatures-capture-life-in-britain-today/
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