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We lve in interesting times. We should not assume that anything can’t happen.
Australia has been playing musical leaders for 15 years now, and they haven’t stopped yet!
Two days to go this wek. Will Bowen see them out?
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Bowen is the greasy footprint on the lounge carpet.
No one will admit putting it there and it’s not going away either.
You can scrub, you can bleach but nothing can get rid of that level of industrial stupid. Nothing.
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Good analogy, because with the amount of damage already done its going to leave a nasty mark.
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With apologies to internet search
“Out, damned spot” is a famous line from Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth,” spoken by Lady Macbeth as she sleepwalks and tries to wash away the imaginary blood on her hands, symbolizing her guilt over the murder of King Duncan. This moment highlights her descent into madness as she grapples with the consequences of her actions.
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I don’t know about your Bowen, but in the UK our Miliband doesn’t show any sign, yet, of guilt over the consequences of his policies and actions.
Maybe if we have a bad black-out this winter …
But if his actions are [as, per the Duck Rule, they seem to be] a real attempt at destroying the UK, economically, socially, militarily, then he’ll sleep soundly.
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‘Bowen to serve as COP31 president after ceding hosting rights to Turkey.
‘Under a highly unusual compromise deal, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will be appointed president and lead negotiator for next year’s UN summit.’ (Oz)
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Bowen as your President and “lead negotiator”? Does anyone need any more evidence that they are not a serious organization?
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There’s still one mor day and the weekend to go.
Who else can be running where?
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He stated: “…I will have all the powers..”. Certainly has an outsize ego. Commentators in The Australian have suggested that we are sending our biggest turkey to Turkey.
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There’s definitely a Turkey involved, I’m sure it’s Bowen In The Wind.
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He is going to be the “President of Negotiations” which I believe is a newly invented post to keep him busy and as a sop to his pride. What could possibly go wrong?
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Surely President of Prognostications would be a more appropriate title.
A career politician with a degree in Economics purporting to be an expert on climate change, let alone energy, is someone who should be utterly ignored,
Yet time and time again he appears on MSM with his short clips of BS and all the climate change devotees gobble it up.
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At 4:35 pm,he has a new job! Well, there you go now!
I’d say, Turkey beware!
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We live in a time when politicians write laws, laws which have no basis in science. And the media do not even comment. The 2023 Safeguard Mechanism 35% tax on CO2
depends in turn on a Gillard law for Agricultural Carbon Credits.
2011 Carbon Credits(Farming Initiative Act)
The main eligibility requirements for eligible offsets projects are as follows:
(a) the project must be carried out in Australia;
(b) the project must be covered by a methodology determination made under this Act.
“offsets project” means:
(a) a sequestration offsets project; or
(b) an emissions avoidance offsets project.
Sequestration offsets projects
For the purposes of this Act, a project is a sequestration offsets project if it is a project:
(a) to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by sequestering carbon in one or more of the following:
(i) living biomass;
(ii) dead organic matter;
(iii) soil; or
CARBON CREDITS (CARBON FARMING INITIATIVE) ACT 2011 – SECT 53
Emissions avoidance offsets projects
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a project is an emissions avoidance offsets project if it is:
(a) an agricultural emissions avoidance project; or
(b) a landfill legacy emissions avoidance project; or
(c) any other project to avoid emissions of greenhouse gases.
“agricultural emissions avoidance project” means a project to avoid any of the following emissions:
(a) an emission of methane from the digestive tract of livestock;
(b) an emission of:
(i) methane; or
(ii) nitrous oxide;
This is the same Julia Gillard who promised “there will be no carbon tax in a government I lead”.
So Net Zero is based on an Act of the Australian parliament which considers that humans can permanently reduce the amount of CO2 in the air by ‘sequestration’ in trees. Something which NASA disproved long ago in conjunction with our very own CSIRO.
Not that the report draws this conclusion. It reports a six country project observing tree coverage between 1988 and 2014. World tree coverage went up 13% while CO2 went up 13%.
What the CARBON CREDITS (CARBON FARMING INITIATIVE) ACT 2011 says is that if tree coverage goes up, CO2 goes down. Who proved that?
How can the Australian government write laws which contradict observations? Except that some people honestly believe that growing trees or anything at all will pull CO2 out of the air permanently, not the be replaced. Too bad about having hard evidence that CO2 promotes tree growth, the exact reverse. Clearly the CSIRO exists solely to confirm the arbitrary beliefs of politicians, ideas which are killing industries across Australia. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization could not care less about such laws or fantasy science. It’s not their job to speak out on real science.
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And we get more of the same blindness when the massive CO2 from Australian bushfires goes straight into the ocean. Our wonderful scientists again claim this is ‘fertilization’ just from iron atoms in the smoke. Ignoring the fact that the essential elements for blooming phytoplankton are CO2 and H2O in the ocean surface and there is no lack of H2O.
So once again, ‘fertilization’ explains everything, not CO2. Because to admit heavy low CO2 clouds produce an immediate phytoplankton bloom off New Zealand would be to admit that all the bushfire CO2 has gone into the water in a very short time, undermining the idea that CO2 is stuck in the atmosphere for the purpose of Gillard’s Carbon Credits.
It’s almost as if Australian Government scientists are at pains to hide the fact that CO2 is controlled by the world’s oceans, that CO2 is much heavier than O2 and 30x more soluble than O2. Why should science distract from taxation and fantasy sequestration projects and carbon dioxide taxes?
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Henry’s gas law explains it.Dissolved Co2 in the ocean will be in equilibrium with the atmospheric Co2.Warming of the oceans will increase atmospheric Co2,due to outgassing.No amount of above sea level addition of emissions, natural,or from burning fossil fuels,can alter this equilibrium.
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Actually it can. But not at the levels that the climastrologists believe.
If you were to get an atmosphere of 100% CO2 above the water and compare that to the current atmospheric balance you will see that the water takes up a little more CO2. But we’re really splitting hairs, it’s not tonnes, it’s grams. Equilibrium is a push from BOTH sides, with a balance point in the middle.
Henry’s law does cover it, often in a very simple relationship. It covers multiple aspects, including partial pressures and for different temperatures, etc, etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%27s_law
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Henry’s Law can be seen in action in the CO2 graph at Hawaii. Despite the commentary, peak CO2 is in the spring. What is also observable I believe is the response of phytoplankton to higher CO2, producing a typical e-kt response and distorting the underlying perfect sine wave oscillation. with period exactly matching the yearly seasonal cycles.
However the general drift of the total CO2 equilibrium point is likely due to both cumulative sea warming at the peak of the solar De Vries cycle and the movements of currents in the AMO/PDO cycle which contain not just heat but also vast quantities of dissolved CO2 under vast pressure.
The idea that the long term CO2 balance between oceans and atmosphere is static is untenable. It is drifting about 0.4% per year. It’s odd that promoters of man made CO2 drift insist that humans must be changing atmospheric CO2 but deny without any reason that it could change slowly on its own.
And in passing the Mauno Loa curve is the usual one where the zero is removed and the scale set so the graph goes from bottom left to top right at 45 degrees, as if CO2 is rocketing. A slope of 0.004 is 14 degrees, not 45. As seen in the same curve around temperate zone New Zealand.
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Your claim to understand gas laws is undermined from your lack of knowledge about a gas formula. Co2?
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Gee, Gee Aye, nitpicky much?
I understand you are charter-bound to oppose everything in here, but is that all you’ve got?
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Repeating the error suggests the author has no idea.
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Michael,
As a chemist, I am cautious about sweeping claims of what Laws convey. The particular circumstances dictate behaviour. For example, Henry’s Law was devised with liquids in closed containers of fairly constant composition. The oceans are stratified, variously mixed at various depths, not the same conditions. Yes, Henry’s Law can be applied to natural systems, but caveats need expression. Geoff S
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True. And atmospheric pressure, not the vast pressure of oceans. And not gases which dissociate when dissolved.
However as pointed out above, the CO2 keeling curve around Hawaii does work perfectly at the ocean/air interface, despite massive input from waves and wind. And those hungry phtyoplankton which can grow explosively in just days.
What Henry’s Law does not explain is what happens well below the ocean surface given the amazing triple state of CO2, like water. At even 50 metres(6 atmospheres) and above 273K(0C) , CO2 gas is a liquid.
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Given the average depth of the oceans over 72% of the planet is 3.5kms, you will not find a beak in a laboratory 3500 metres tall. And there is no wind in the laboratyr where the rate of exchange of gases goes as the fourth power of windspeed. Plus waves and countless high area droplets. It’s a very complex situation, but there are still vast areas of calm flat water, light winds, few waves across the Pacific. And Henry’s Law is an observational summation of the kinetic exchange at the surface.
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This puts the cart before the horse. CO2 is not the problem, it only makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere and despite levels having increased by 25% since 2002, temperature hasn’t risen proportionally.
Instead of fighting the narrative, first destroy the fallacy of the underlying “science.”
If CO2 levels cause warming, why have there been repeated cycles of warming in the past when there was no anthropogenic contribution to the equation?
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That was just natural variation. But perfect weather was achieved in 1850 and it has only been burning of fossilised carbon that has caused climate change since then.
Since CO2 aligned with the perfect weather of 1850, there is now a big push to restore that level by not burning carbon based on the assumption that burning carbon and atmospheric CO2 are linked.
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I disagree on the first part of that particular point TdeF.
The laws are written by Leftist activists embedded in the public “service”. Most politicians would be too stupid to write laws. These activist public serpents are a result of the German communist Rudy Dutschke’s successful 1967 plan der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen, “the long march through the institutions” to embed communists in all institutions, public and private, throughout the Western world as he thought violent communist revolution was impossible to achieve because capitalism gave people too high a standard of living in the West, but he thought communism could be achieved slowly, as has happened.
And when politicians vote on laws written for them, they mostly vote without ever having read or understood what they are voting upon. They don’t have a clue. Nor do they care.
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It was a simplification. Of course the laws are written by others. I doubt most politicians read them. Or even could. Often neither side of politics. Even Prime Ministers take advice from Humphrey Applebees. And they could not care less but theirs is the ultimate responsibility and they hide behind party policies.
Except no one in the Liberal Party has any idea what their policy is. As for being the opposition their silence speaks volumes.
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It’s arguable that politicians don’t write laws. These days laws are increasingly written by lobbyists whose only interest is self interest, and it’s arguable that most politicians don’t understand the substance of the legislation at all.
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The long march through the institutions was instigated in the aftermath of decisions made at the Third Communist International, almost certainly planned by the Italian communist delegate Antoni Gramsci.
It has been going on since the 1920s and was the primary task of the ComIntern. It started to bear fruit with the recruitment of communists from the universities in the the late ’20s and early ’30s and produced people like the Cambridge Five in the British Intelligence services and Harry Dexter White, Aldrich Ames, Laughlin Currie etc., in the USA.
There were also a number of communist scientists involved in the Manhattan Project who were giving the data to the Soviets, and of course Oppenheimer himself who was an off the books member of the CPUSA.
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DM,
Years ago we noted that Australia, with a huge dependence on mining, did not have a Federal Mining Act. So, I hired a QC and together we wrote one.
I can confirm that it is not a quick nor easy exercise. There are many previous matters, precedents, to be dealt with and they can require rather more research than simply dealing with the ones you remember.
Finally, we bounced the draft Bill for a Mining Act off a few friendly pollies, all of whom declined to finish reading the first page of seventeen, too much concentration required in case there were any anti-policy traps embedded. (There were, naturally). Geoff S
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Thanks for regularly reminding people about this tax TdeF which will be the final death blow to our economy and standard of living, at least what little remains of it.
Most people, even people in the pro-energy, pro free enterprise, climate sceptical community are not really aware of it and it is not something ever reported in the Lamestream Media or understood by politicians including “opposition” Liberal ones who themselves are part of the scam.
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I always believed that the purpose of their Net Zero was to destroy capital.
The measure of their success would be. how much damage can we do before it crashes?
By my understanding they intend to tax Agriculture’s recycled emissions on the same basis as fossil emissions. That shows them up for what-they are.
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I am angry that the 6,000 full time salaried scientists in the CSIRO and many times that in Australia’s massive university industry are completely silent, if not totally publicly supportive of politicians science. And explicitly of the absurdity that ‘renewables’ mean far cheaper electricity. Until it is obvious to everyone that is a lie. But not to our CSIRO, BOM, ABC. As electricity prices go through the roof and industry, agriculture, mining, even energy output shuts down, they are enthusiastically complicit in destroying Australia while collecting their wages to do the exact opposite. Close them all. We Australians do not need fake science, fake news, fake temperatures and utterly wrong advice from political activists.
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And our useless politicians don’t want to fix this. They just want to get elected. While Labor and the Greens and the Teals are FOR net zero. The Liberals are strongly both for and against it. Against it to get elected and for it once they are elected. Like Morrison and Turnbull. Where is there a single University or government department which objects to Net Zero? And the United States are just deluded, apparently. Or led by a very bad orange man who stupidly thinks it’s all a hoax. And that China is a threat. What does he know that the CSIRO, BOM, ABC/SBS do not?
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All of the climate annd environment Australian scientists that I know think that Australia is not doing enough to reduce emissions. They are the domain experts and I respect that.
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Yes we all know that the Australian climate and environmental scientists are in indentured servitude and have been through an education system that taught them what to think, not how to think. We all know that stepping out of line and disagreeing with Big Brother is career suicide. So keep your head down, agree with the Ministry of Truth and collect your salary at the end of the month. Definitely don’t point out the data manipulation and massive inconsistencies in the “official’ data.
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Emissions Impossible.
Have a look at what Ian Plimer has been writing/saying. There are many others.
“In discussions on climate we are too often told we need to ‘believe in climate change’. Now, ‘believe’ is a word of politics and religion, not a word of science. In scientific literature it is very hard to find a contrary view in this field, which is why this book is so important,” said Professor Plimer.
Edited by Dr Jennifer Marohasy and Dr John Abbot, Climate Change: The Facts 2025 explores the natural variability of Earth’s climate, and the impact humanity has upon it. Some, but not all authors, believe humans have an influence on global temperatures.
https://ipa.org.au/research/professor-ian-plimer-launches-climate-change-the-facts-2025-in-perth
You might learn something.
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Please source some peer-reviewed scientific literature in a credible open journal and I will have a read. There is no way I am going to pay for something from a dodgy ‘think-tank’ who don’t tell us where their revenue comes from.
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I had a quick look but couldn’t find any credible scientific journals, they are all on the gravy train.
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Sorry but scientist’s wages are not a gravy train.
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A government funded gravy train.
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Simon describes why he can never escape from his echo chamber
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Simon does’t work for the Austraian Brainwashed Cooperative in the Ultimo Coffee Collective Comrades Club, does He?
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Presumably not those authors of the 2,923 articles retracted from publication by a major publisher just for 2024.
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Try that
https://scienceofclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/SCC-Vol5.3-Huijser-Balancing-Act.pdf
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Here is a brief abstract with a novel approach.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379430083_Scientific_proof_that_CO2_does_NOT_cause_global_warming
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Hmm.
If there was a slight temp.increase already occurring. (post LIA) , and it continued as before , then SO2 was not having the purported effect, as there was no change.
Shirley?
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True, it must be an unusually warm sun heating the planet, regardless of SO2 and CO2.
Or it might have something to do with our place in the barycentre.
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Simon. I do like your open mind. In one ear and out the other.
You need to read more widely and then retain the newly acquired knowledge somehow.
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Gold JR!
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A fossil fuel funded think tank at that.
The conclusion is already in the ‘thinking’, hardly honest or scientific.
Just follow the money.
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Simon,
Several times I have sent really simple data to our BOM, noting mistakes that require correction. Their usual reply has been that they could not consider inputs unless they are from a peer reviewed article in a scientific journal.
The fact that BOM are gatekeepers for some candidate journals is not raised by them.
Science progresses sometimes by the challenge to prevailing wisdom, not from the protection of it when it is shown to be wrong.
People who argue like you do are advocates or publicists or people on a mission, all of which are foreign to proper science. Geoff S
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I seem to remember the Catholic Church doing some sort of Peer Review on a few enlightened people many years ago. Copernicus comes to mind.
And then there was the Spanish Inquisition.
So, no more Flat Earth and no more Earth being the centre of the Solar System.
Seems like the Science won out once again.
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They are paid from the public purse, are they not, you know like their ABC.
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Simon, would you regard “Nature” as credible? At times, I wouldn’t.
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The IPA revenue comes from the Members.
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What about real scientists, not people who make their living from the scam?
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My point is also that you have to get the facts right before you can talk about the weather.
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As for peer reviewed, that’s a joke when they are all on the same pier.
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I also only trust scientists who refuse to be paid a wage for their work.
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So, all of the CAGW “Scientists” who got paid by Govts and Green/Marxist groups around the world, the UNIPCC, etc, are untrustworthy according to your definition.
Therefore, none of the “Paid Scientists” OR their published papers, are “trustworthy”
Thank you for that, Gee Aye. At least you admit the obvious.
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You might want to reread the thread
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What about politicians who refuse a wage, such as Donald J. Trump?
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I only trust bakers who refuse a wage for their baked goods.
The logic is impeccable.
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You don’t know enough scientists
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ROTFFLMFAO.
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No such thing as a climate scientist Simon. At best, they’re climate data analysts- and not very good ones, at that.
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Appeal to Authority. One of the logical fallacies.
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…have very few opportunities for employment and income, other than following the prevailing dogma.
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Simon,
Let us not be hypothetical about these scientists.
Name them and quote what they said.
That is how progress happens via open discussion.
Geoff S
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This is a bit off topic, but the comment about the silence of our scientists reminded me of a video l watched this morning by Dr John Campbell. It features this quote from MLK Junior.
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends“
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOgfU6IXts0
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The purpose of net zero depends on who is pushing it. There are three distinct types which together form a very powerful movement. The first is a huge army of ordinary leftists who see it as a means to destroy capitalism and install socialism. The second is a rag-tag bunch of greedy people in business, politics, science and the media, for whom the eye-watering sums spent on ‘global warming’ are an irresistible honey pot. The third, and most devious, is the CCP, which is largely responsible for funding much of the hyperbolic media nonsense, driving division on social media and bribing lawmakers/civil servants. They do this to damage the west but also to enrich China, the dominant supplier of all things ‘renewable’.
These groups aren’t coordinated but share a common interest in AGW for their own purposes. As George Carlin said:
“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.”
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Next time the Solar/Wind mob claim Big Oil gets all the subsidies, show them this article.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/11/18/analysis-fossil-fuels-do-not-receive-more-subsidies-than-solar-or-wind-power-in-the-u-s-solar-industries-receive-71x-more-in-subsidies-per-unit-electricity-generated-than-coal-168-5/
Solar gets 168 times more subsidy monies than natural gas and oil, per MW of power actually produced, in the USA.
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Someone mentioned Proton pulling out of Switzerland due to privacy laws. By coincidence this was published today and I dare say its contents will apply to most western countries who are enacting so called Online safety bills, that will instead only endanger adult users by exposing their data..
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/18/they-said-it-was-to-protect-kids-now-your-passports-on-the-dark-web-and-your-nhs-record-is-next/
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Good article, thanks.
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Yet the law’s architects had overlooked a simpler truth.
Teenagers, long accustomed to borrowing their parents’ Netflix passwords, proved equally adept at borrowing their parents’ VPN subscriptions.
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From the Daily Sceptic article, this is really scary:
On the very day the Act took effect, a little-known American app called Tea — marketed as a “whisper network” for women — suffered a catastrophic breach. An unsecured Firebase bucket spilled 72,000 images, including 13,000 government-issued identity documents and facial selfies, across 4chan. Three days later, a second Tea breach exposed 1.1 million private messages, including location data. Three months later, Discord followed. A third-party verification firm, contracted to handle British age appeals, lost control of 70,000 passports and driving licences. The Information Commissioner received breach reports and began assessments, but the damage was irreversible, leaked IDs quickly surfaced on dark web forums like BreachForums, ready for resale.
Aus will have this boot-in-the-face stamped on us within about 3 weeks. Literally the end of the Net as we knew it. “Climate Science” will be declared a no-go area – for security, of course.
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Does the covid jab cause extra deaths? Governments seem reluctant to divulge data.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/11/18/does-the-ukhsas-refusal-to-release-covid-vaccine-excess-deaths-data-give-the-game-away/
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It does look like there is something bad which is being protected.
Remember the vaccine data which was revealed by the New Zealand health department analyst Barry Young aka Winston Smith.
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This letter to TCW has evoked lots of adverse comments-well worth reading them all.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/letter-of-the-day-160/
The town the writer comes from is close by me and well known for its Bohemian wokeness. Even then, surely the writer is intending to be satirical.
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tony – thanks.
Digital ID:
Certainly has TCW readers agitated.
And with our Governments’ lamentable – I am being full of charity! – record on IT roll-outs, I quite understand why.
Are we to assume Fujitsu already have the contract … and Beijing and Moscow already have the details?
But the outcome of all this control is likely to be a Chinese take-over, as they have been doing this for years, and the drawbacks for inefficiency in THEIR state bureaucracy seem to include exile and execution; so they will be pretty good at it.
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I think that the government could actually make a note of who responded in the negative to that letter and put them on the naughty list.
It would be very simple for the government to bait the masses like this. Make the lists and then roll out the restrictions, targeting only the non-compliant.
It’s a little like signing a petition against the government. They’ll thank-you for self identifying.
How many here are on the E-Karen’s naughty list. I bet I am.
And if they are reading… Ponder this. I have the primer key. See if they can crack it.
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I just received my home and car insurance renewal notices. The home insurance premium has gone up 40% and the car’s has gone up 12%. Obviously I am misreading these notices, because, as we all know, inflation is only 3% or so. 😒
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Yep.
They are lying about the official inflation rate of “only” 3.2%.
I like to ask people who actually do their own shopping and who have to stick to a budget, unlike politicians or senior public serpents, how much they think it is and they typically estimate 25% to 30% for real purchases.
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Because I am an awful worrier about our finances, and a compulsive ‘planner’, I have run a household financial spreadsheet for seven or eight years now. It enables me to see EXACTLY what we were spending on various things across that period.
I haven’t converted the older years from Mac to PC yet, so I can only easily look back as far as 2023, when we spent 220/wk on groceries. This year, we’re so far spending $400/wk.
That’s 35% per year.
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I should add that, due to our diet comprising mostly fresh produce (fruit, veg, meat and fish), the majority of what we buy was produced in Australia. Increases in costs elsewhere, and long distance shipping, are not a factor – only ‘domestic supply chain’ cost increases.
I would like to see how much farm gate prices have risen in that time.
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Sure inflation is only 3.2%, just walked past a butcher’s shop and there in the window was a “red hot ” special, Ox tail, the last bit of the bloody cow for a mere $31.50 a kg.
Cheap at half the price!
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I had huge increases last year in both home and car insurance in uk.
This year car insurance went down 10% whilst home insurance went up 2%
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The Corrupted Price Index (CPI) is not a very good measure of YOUR inflation.
Your Food Bills, Energy Bills, and other Service Bills are (Insurance, etc.).
3% pa is laughable along with the manipulated Unemployment Rate.
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Home & Contents Insurance 2023 35% Increase, 2024 29% Increase, 2025 34% Increase
NSW Rego just received 10% Increase, Rego Inspection $37 Nov last year, $51 Nov this Year – 39% increase
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Demands from COP30.
Australia, being fanatically committed to the anthropogenic climate change scam will no doubt comply.
Notice how the objective is how much money to be spent, not what it is to be spent on.
It’s typical government department mentality. The head public serpents demand a certain amount of money in a budget, then they make sure it’s all spent, even if it has to be wasted to get rid of all the surplus funds.
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” I called on all actors in the international community— ”
So, this REALLY is a movie.
Who wudda thunk it?
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And not very good actors at that.
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Bit long but explains the agenda and the process. All brave new world stuff, they even have a recording of Huxley telling the world about fiction becoming reality.
Great explanations of how the march to one world government has been planned, how the very things that they say about saving the planet are what are being used to simply remove individual rights . All in the name, not of democracy but of corporate profits. Scary interesting, and oh so obviously underway!
If the link doesn’t work its called “The agenda, your future”
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.facebook.com/100064888650063/posts/the-agenda-your-future-is-our-democracy-under-threat-new-feature-length-document/1104807481692197/&ved=2ahUKEwjUpoTCkv-QAxXU1zgGHcHJCSoQFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1OpzDDhJbkwfO_NddOU7I1
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More fence sitting from the fake conservative Liberal Party, fence sitters who believe in absolutely nothing.
Comment copied from Farcebook.
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I’ve just watched Pauline Hanson’s CPAC speech.
Wowsers.
DO NOT TRUST anything OTHER parties say.
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David “Liberal Party, fence sitters” are the epitome of empty vessels making the most noise. Even though the so called Liberal Parties appear to have a handshake deal to have a consensus the truth is it’s barely skin deep. The subcutaneous factions will soon emerge as PHON et al impact their numbers.
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Is the whole Trump Administration being impeached? This would be unprecedented.
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“They” stop at NOTHING.
Remember, THEIR lives depend on it.
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What spurred that question ?….. Epstein files release ?
Just as likely to affect the Dem’s
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Not the Epstein Files, something to do with a high court ruling on tariffs. The emergency powers being unconstitutional.
Anyway, impeaching the Trump Administration would be a nightmare.
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/19/labour-net-zero-levies-now-main-driver-of-rising-energy-bills/
The contents of this item from WUWT concern British power costs but it transfers quite easily to Australia. The Bowen bird has no clothes and that will be emphasized by Jim Chalmers in his next budget. Although there will be a concerted disingenuous effort to minimise the damage by blaming people who refuse to accept the Labor narrative.
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Australia is quite different to the UK. The direct levies in Australia are now very low – LGCs now at $7/MWh; negligible. The other costs are now coming from general revenue and there are carbon imposts on industry to cover some of those payments.
Australias has rooftop solar owners and battery owners who pay nothing or close to nothing for energy. That means the high costs associated with idling coal generation get spread across much reduced demand.
Back in July 2008, coal generation peaked at 23.8GW average for the month and run almost constantly because there was not a lot of intermittent energy. Yesterday, coal generation was as low as 7.7GW duding the middle of the day. Rooftops managed 14.2GW at midday.
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=1d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed
There have been a few coal fired power stations lost to the system and no longer costing the system but the remainder have lower utilisation and rising costs because they have to operate over a wide range of output. So higher costs spread across reduced output. Hence unit costs go up.
I know many people who do not have energy bills or they are negligible.
Also the wholesale price of electricity that you see in the NEM has very little relationship to the retail price because it excludes a whole raft off generator costs associated with grid stability. Then there are all the costs of additional infrastructure to get energy from remote location into the system and rooftop solar back up there system. None of this infrastructure is well utilised but it all costs.
Absolutely no one has a grasp on the system cost. If they dd they would just stop investing in utility scale wind and solar. Private investors can see that these are stranded assets but Blackout is still putting government money into these assets. It is all wasted.
Victoria has only radical left socialists now in parliament. So the lowest cost fuel source in the world will remain in the ground.
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Everyone on the grid pays at least a daily charge. That cost seems to be rising as more and more overheads get added, another interconnector here, another HV substation there, etc.
It seems that the only people not paying for the grid upgrades are the businesses causing it. How much should a solar factory pay for a HV grid interconnection? And will a high volume electric car charging station be granted a ‘free’ connection?
With regard to the lack of solar factory sales during the day and them being a loss making asset, how come we are still seeing more being built and more being commissioned. Something does not add up. I would have expected that the negative income during the day would have been the end of them. Maybe the numbers from that website aren’t correct.
I’d also like to know HOW they can tell how much a solar factory is being constrained? Only the metered output is provided. I can only guess that they are using the MW rating of the installed panels and doing a simple subtraction from the energy being sold to the grid. A process I bet they are also doing for domestic solar installations.
Maybe the numbers being quoted are rubbery/over estimates and hence the solar factories are still making money. We really need more info or we really need to find out HOW these solar factories are being funded, the data suggests that it is not via energy sales.
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Is does not need to add up. This is where Australia is getting like the UK. Taxpayers are paying for something that can never delivery energy. All the AEMO contracts have government guaranteed return on capital. So the government makes up the difference. They are commercial-in-confidence so no one but a few involved know what the deal is. Union super funds could be in there with a guaranteed return of 15% but all from taxpayers because their ability to sell energy is limited.
The RET has essentially gone and been replaced with a guaranteed return. That is how the poles and wires have always operated but now it is the generators as well.
Build own operate is the essence of the belt and road deal that has been locked in for the new SA super battery. The risk is building it to the agreed value but from then on they get a guaranteed return even if now power is sent out. That cost will not appear on electricity bills but on taxpayers and then inflation as all the wasted investment sits idle but still costing money.
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It’s Taxpayer Money and NOT Guv’ment money.
Other than that, Top Stuff IMHO.
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Yesterday someone noted that they were depressed due to Australia’s current economic situation.
I replied that this was a common feeling among conservatives.
I guess it doesn’t mean clinical depression (although it might) but a general feeling of sadness as we watch the entire country be destroyed by bad Government policy plus watch our own personal financial achievements be destroyed as well or inabilty to retire when desired or on a satisfactory income, also due to Government policy.
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I reckon rates of reported, and hidden, depression and anxiety have soared since Covid. I believe this isn’t because of Covid itself, but due to how the so-called pandemic was handled and hijacked. Many, many people now have less confidence in society’s resilience, also the rule of law. They consciously or subconsciously feel less secure, less able to rely on the once-great institutions of law, medicine or science. Governments have never before been so openly authoritarian and totalitarian.
It feels like, unbeknown to most of us, we have been transported to North Korea.
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I suspect that a part of that is the prism that we are meant to see things through.
Here, obviously, the absolutely totally not institutionally biased BBC.
You have the equally wonderful ABC, I understand.
The BBC – as we know – completely accidentally edited a speech by President Trump to show – inadvertently, we are assured – an opposite to the truth.
Twice, once for ‘Panorama’; and again, differently [again ‘by accident’ the BBC panjandra have assured us] for Newsnight.
Not being sure of anything you read or watch or hear is – and perhaps is Intended To Be – destabilising.
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FWIW – UK
“Labour net zero levies now main driver of rising energy bills”
“Labour’s net zero levies will become the main driver of household energy bills next year, overtaking gas prices for the first time, analysts have warned.
Green taxes as well as upgrades to the electricity grid will account for 60pc of energy bills from April 2026, Cornwall Insight said – far outweighing the actual cost of energy.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/19/labour-net-zero-levies-now-main-driver-of-rising-energy-bills/
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Some good news. CSIRO to cut over 1100 jobs – more than Abbott managed:
Up to 350 CSIRO research redundancies were confirmed on Tuesday following an all staff and union meeting, but exactly which roles will go remain unclear.
It is the largest loss of permanent researchers resulting from the CSIRO’s one-off pandemic funding ending, which has already resulted in cuts to more than 800 temporary and support service roles.
https://www.innovationaus.com/sad-day-for-publicly-funded-science-csiro-guts-research-teams/
When there is no industry, there is not much point in doing Industrial research.
When you look at what their ACCESS climate modelling team produce, it is no wonder they are useless. None of it is science. Look at how their associate BoM has fiddled data.
The CSIRO lost its integrity when it started sacking climate deniers.
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Good news, but isn’t it just the removal of extra staff that shouldn’t be there in the first place but were only “employed” to absorb the extra covid funding? And why were they given extra funding during covid anyway when they would just be following the Official Narrative, not science?
Also, as per usual public “service” practice, they will make redundant any useful people, if any, and keep the useless ones.
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During the COVID bollocks, the CSIRO was granted money to research cheap repurposed drugs for treatment. Anyone here on this blog could have identified at least half a dozen worthy candidates for free. The CSIRO should be funded on a 50:50 government/ private split only. You want research – you help fund it. If government wants some particular research initiated, it has to be matched by a supporting industry or sector. We can stop any Climate funding immediately. Particular any research that is based on CO2 emissions because as advised, both sides of politics have gone down the emissions reductions pathway. So, we don’t need any more experts telling us to artificially inflate our energy pricing.
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You only have to watch ‘Yes Minister’ to observe how govt works.
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..”Utopia Australia” ..and what happens…
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I have no doubt that there will be a big impact on what many scientists see as unimportant support services such as business development (which they see as the ‘dark side’), contract and project management, legal and communications.
What inevitably follows is a reduction in external funding, over-runs on delivery targets, scope creep across projects, loss of IP through poor contract and legal management, more disputes with partners, and further deterioration in reputation due to all the aforementioned.
Any loss of real business development expertise will be most sorely felt, though the white coat mob won’t admit it. “So what if we’re three years late and you didn’t get what we promised?”
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They should give whole departments the flick, such as the one watching sea level rise.
https://www.cmar.csiro.au/sealevel/sl_about_us.html
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The thought police in Germany in all their glory. 4 minutes duration.
Paul Joseph Watson tells us about a man that posted an innocuous tweet. Then his home was raided, electronics confiscated, he was photographed, fingerprinted and they even wanted a blood sample for his DNA.
Meanwhile real crime is on the rise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNvC3boK74M
Has South Park done an episode on this garbage? If not, they should.
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It looks like they’re returning to their National Socialist ways. They have already embraced wind power which itself was a National Socialist idea.
http://en.friends-against-wind.org/realities/how-renewables-and-the-global-warming-industry-are-literally-hitler
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex. Rupert Darwall.
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DM
Have a read of Sefton Delmer’s “Trail Sinister” and “Black Boomerang” and see how things like that just ballooned over WW 2 and into the post WW 2 West German constitution
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Hiding behind a rape allegation is the lowest of blows by this PM. Anthony Albanese was confronted with a test of leadership, credibility, accountability and decency over his government’s role in weaponising Brittany Higgins’ allegations against Linda Reynolds. He failed on each front.
Anthony Amnesia there’s ‘No parliamentary privilege’ out here in the daylight. Please tell us how and why you approved a 2.4 million $$$ ex gratia payment to a female who alleged rape. I saw this person willing entering Parliament, probably illegally certainly improperly, and running down the hallway to catch up with her alleged attacker. On the basis of a “balance of probabilities” she seemed like a willing participant.
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On August 25, 1939, the New York Times ran a front-page story by Otto D. Tolischus titled
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considered “a conspiracy theory” by most of media.
WW2 started next week.
60 years on, in the USSR dying days – voila ! It was not a theory after all.
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FWIW
“Trump’s Eisenhower Moment: COP30 and the End of Europe’s Green Agenda”
“As the world’s climate delegations gather in Belém for COP30 (November 10th-21st), they do so under a very different geopolitical sky. The United States has withdrawn from the UN’s climate process altogether, and its diplomats have just led a successful rebellion at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to block a global carbon tax on shipping. The episode marks not only a turning point for global climate policy but a moment of historical resonance. Europe’s effort to impose its moral and regulatory hegemony on the world has been checked by the US. As in 1956, when President Eisenhower forced his European allies to abort their attempt to take over the Suez Canal, Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” approach to energy policy in 2025 has re-asserted the primacy of national interest over imperial pretension.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/18/trumps-eisenhower-moment-cop30-and-the-end-of-europes-green-agenda/
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But then
“COP30 Demands $1.3 Trillion / Year, $3.2 Trillion by 2035”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/18/cop30-demands-1-3-trillion-year-3-2-trillion-by-2035/
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FWIW
“Jobs: the irresistible force meets the immovable object”
“The big challenge everyone’s talking about today is how to get the millions of unemployed Americans back to work – create enough jobs that they can fill, and ensure that they have the necessary training to do those jobs.
However, that ignores the fact that all over the world, more and more people – particularly younger people – are desperate for jobs, but they aren’t there to be found. The US economy is no more than a microcosm of a much greater conundrum. That same oversupply of job-seekers is fueling international illegal migration. When young people face economic ruin at home, they’ve got nothing to lose by trying to move to a country where more jobs are available, even though the journey may be very dangerous and they may not be welcome at their intended destinations.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/11/jobs-irresistible-force-meets-immovable.html
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There also needs to be an imperative. That is to say, employment must provide a substantial increase in income vs welfare. I don’t know what the situation is in America, but I do know many people here in Australia say they will be worse off if they get a job, especially if they have children.
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No different here in the US.
Most cities have an ever growing welfare base that often self subsidize with criminal behavior.
The cities governments depend more and more this group as their voter power base.
That’s why “defund the police” became a campaign theme.
Gangsters are cool, Martha Steward promotes household products with Snoop Dog.
People with jobs and kids that do their homework are fools.
This of course drives out the productive middle class tax base.
So cities like mine, look more and more like dilapidating Appalachian former coal towns and former factory towns throughout the South.
I can drive a mere hour out from DC into northern Virginia.
And observe two sharp contrasts, either a deteriorating small town, or a small town that has been developing as a retirement community for the Swampsters … this is how you find a Starbucks.
Once producing farms now are boutique farms for retired Deep State mandarins.
The Fall of the West is basically this.
There world we have known for the last 100 years was built on a fiat credit card system that depends on price inflation.
Works very well as long as middle class income increases.
Also rises the faux intellectual elite classes and the developing contempt for the productive middle class.
And the the productive middle become “MAGA deplorable populists”
And accused of racism because they anger at the ever increasing tax burden of supporting the faux intellectual fantasies of the vacuous elite.
Such as renewable energy and men can give birth.
This begat Trump.
Trump being the only effective counter to this trend.
More a last gasp than a revolt.
UK gets digital ID whether they like or not.
Foisted upon us because because the fiat system has hit its’ inevitable wall.
Climate Change and Pandemic were simply the magnificent last looting of the productive social class by those that placed themselves in charge of the system.
Ironically both threatened and hastened and facilitated by the Internet.
Take us here, will we be silenced because we lose, or because we win the argument?
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“younger people – are desperate for jobs, but they aren’t there to be found.”
Of course there aren’t, Govts all across the West have interfered with the employment market and ruined it completely. If you want jobs then burn every law, regulation and code pertaining to employing people, and let them take some self-responsibility.
Hire and fire instantly on a daily basis, no restrictions on wages, no super taken out, no company registration and paperwork, let a free market reign. Surprisingly, that is how Australia was built before WW1, everything we have right now is a product of that employment system, and all we’ve done is strangle it.
Everyone I talk to as employers can’t find decent employees, and its too hard to take on people like extra courier drivers for Nov-Dec. The regulations are punishing and the unemployed don’t want to work.
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FWIW
“When Grades Stop Meaning Anything”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/11/19/when-grades-stop-meaning-anything-n3809030
That “American Educational Dream” that we’ve been chasing?
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My youngest son was talking about the mindset of a teal in Victoria. These people are essentially sitting on gold mines but drawing government pensions or part pensions. Their middle aged kids are now eyeing the gold mine and waiting for their parents to pass. They are teal voters as well.
His point was that the lack of taxes on property but high taxes on production are screwing Australia’s economy. I think he has a point.
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There is a very good reason not to tax property but instead to tax income.
Imagine you own a factory, worth a million dollars, and you produce a profit after employing 50 people, etc, etc of $1000.
Tax is paid on the $1000 and of course the wages.
Should you tax that property, let’s say 10%. Guess what, you have to sell just to pay the tax. The business ends and now 50 people are unemployed.
In the UK they have inheritance taxes that are ending farm ownership. Once the land holder dies the children have to sell just to cover the tax debt. The result is one less small farm, the land often going to someone not interested in farming, especially with the drive for solar factories.
Taxing property is not the answer. If it was, then council rates would be 100%. And we’d all own nothing, working for the state until they believe that we have no further value. What then….?
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Many teals also own the factory buildings. If not directly, in their retirement fund. The occupant producer pays a rental fee. The higher the the value of the property, the higher the rental.
If property was taxed then the value of the property would reduce and the occupant would pay less rental.
My son’s point is that Australia has the balance wrong. It is skewed toward property owners. Rooftop solar has skewed it even further. If you do not own a roof, you have to pay as you go for energy and that is now 2 to 3 times more expensive than making your own.
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RickWill,
If you strike a different balance between taxing property and taxing income it will lead to a different balance between people openly owning property and openly making income.
Adding an annual assets tax/death duties/whatever would result in a frenzy of lawyer work to make assets legally invisible. Remember Alan Bond not hurting too badly during his bankruptcy, with Mr Bollag in Switzerland funding things like Bond’s daughter’s lavish wedding. Where did middle-class Bollag get all that money, and why did he feel so generous?
I can understand your son eyeing your wealth enviously, but he really should take a look at the expenditure side of the government’s ledger. Might find some opportunities for savings there.
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I worked bloody hard to buy my house with mortgage rates close to 10%, why do I owe reparations to the young today?
I accept council rates, I should pay for services I appreciate and for my city to be maintained but not taxed, Descartes style, on an “I am, therefore I am taxed” basis.
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I accept council rates, I should pay for services I appreciate and for my city to be maintained but not taxed, Descartes style, on an “I am, therefore I am taxed” basis.
Has anyone obtained the data which would determine what percentage of local council/shire expenses are incurred ONLY to satisfy state and Federal regulations?
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FWIW – o the “BBC Front”
“Exclusive — FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Launches Probe into BBC for ‘Intentionally Distorting’ Trump Speech”
“The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman included PBS and NPR in the investigatory letter because the two outlets distribute BBC programming in the United States.”
More at
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2025/11/19/exclusive-fcc-chairman-brendan-carr-launches-probe-into-bbc-for-intentionally-distorting-trump-speech/
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High energy costs make their way into every product bought at the supermarket, departmental store, service station coffee shop and metastasise incrementally and all are compounded by GST!.
Labor has lost the war but battle-on
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Turkey beats Australia to host COP31 2026 and the Albanese government breaths a sigh of relief!
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But, but, but…Bowen is going to be president! 😂
It really is a clown show.
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Um not quite. The West Australian.
“What is Bowen’s new COP31 gig?
As part of the compromise between rival Turkey and Australia’s bids for the COP31 climate summit in 2026, Climate Minister Chirs Bowen has been appointed as a “COP president”.
After years of negotiations the nations have come to the deal that the Pacific hosts a “pre-COP” event, Mr Bowen receives a significant presidency role but Turkey ultimately gains hosting rights of the climate conference.
While the host nation always gets the COP presidency rights at the event — meaning Turkey will have that this year — Mr Bowen has been appointed president of negotiations in the lead up to the summit.
It means he’ll attend various engagements globally, deliver speeches and help shape debate in the lead up to the next COP summit.”
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That is assuming that the COP31 is actually held.
France, the UK and Germany are all heading for a change of government. Canada possibly too.
There is a change coming in politics as more and more voters realise that Net Zero is impossible. Once some bureaucrats find that their “safe and sure” employment is unlikely to continue – well quite a few may not want to join the Gaedarine swine. Their puppets, of either parties, will be advised against it.
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The brief headline and summary at the Australian also says that Bowen thinks he’s now entitled to the job of heading COP 31 instead.
The ego and hubris of these people is actually stunning.
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I wonder, did Turkey damage their manufacturing capacity more than Australia’s to get have got the nod for COP.
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Seems like plenty of “Made in Turkey” white goods on sale in Oz – how many “Made in Oz” ones?
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Aussie gets beaten up for importing petrol from India, made from Russian oil.
Turkey gets COP31 while it burns Russian gas to generate electricity…
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Thankfully Turkey won COP31, saving us millions of dollars.
Meanwhile Govt is trying to ban the Neo-Naz1s from forming a political party and registering before the next election. The last time they tried to ban the Communist Party in 1950 they were told by the Courts that it was unconstitutional.
Meanwhile the Govt is being embarrassed into stopping oil imports from India that ‘might’ be from Russia via the grey market.
..and Ukraine is being ‘encouraged’ to accept the peace proposal from Russia and America, which means giving up the Donbass and some missiles in exchange for peace, although the SMH wouldn’t ask Putin’s opinion on that article! With Zelenski’s closest friends being hunted for corruption I feel it is all coming to an end.
https://www.smh.com.au/
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There’s two billion bucks we taxpayers won’t have to borrow, but spare a thought for the knock shops and red light ladies of Adelaide, does anyone care about their potential loss of future income.
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I guess they can apply for “reparations”?
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“Meanwhile the Govt is being embarrassed into stopping oil imports from India that ‘might’ be from Russia via the grey market.”
Get ready for fuel price increases due to ‘ shortages of supply’.
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Apparently, there is a technicality.
Australia’s imports of Refined Oil from India originally sourced from Russia as Crude Oil do not break any Sanctions.
That is because India imports Russian Crude Oil. That Oil is then refined in India. Australia then buys that Refined Oil. So Australia is not breaking any Sanctions. LOL. Still the same Oil though.
Or as John Laws said, “Oils Aint Oils”.
Don’t you just love the Rules Based International System when you make the Rules. LOL.
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I’m surprised Labor has taken a chunk out of the CSIRO budget. The ALP is usually good for services rendered.
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Apparently snow is falling in London – and it is still November. The Met has an ‘amber; alert. I guess it is not as bad as a red alert:
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/met-office-issues-amber-snow-warning-with-nearly-a-foot-set-to-fall-in-areas-amid-12c-arctic-snap/ar-AA1QGvtg
It appears they are now getting what was forecast for yesterday. Better late than never. (If you like snow)
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Plenty of coal underground to keep the Home fires burning.
Oh dear, no more coal mines. So Solar and Wind, the Ruinables, and electricity imported from Norway and France.
Energy Security anyone?
In the Winter of 1963, it was King Coal that saved the UK.
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But the winter of ’63 was before history [aka the invention of the interweb].
So it is utterly irrelevant.
So I would not be surprised by blackouts …
I know the UK has a Department of Energy Security and Net Zero [DESNZ], but the words beginning with E and S are. like the winter of ’63, irrelevant to the Mendacious Mr. Miliband, the Secretary of State for DESNZ.
The very same Miliband who flew out to COP 30 – TWICE!
One lot of CO2 emissions not enough, obviously!
Oh, it also appears to be received fact that, in the recent Cabinet reshuffle, after Big Ange went – in a matter of minutes – from ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ to ‘Property Speculator who skipped taxes’, Sir Starmer was not ‘able’ to ‘move’ Mr Miliband …
Sir Starmer is still, in some circles, described as “Prime Minister”.
The Number 11 Bus of Destiny is widely expected to meet Sir Starmer after the Budget, next week …
Any hopes of improvement to the UK’s standing, after that event, need to be viewed through the prism of the utter awfulness of most of the current House of Commons …
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I hope this isn’t a continuation of the old ‘weather equals climate’ bs ?.
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“Under a highly unusual deal, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will be appointed president and lead negotiator for next year’s UN summit in Turkey.”
Ha! Our very own home grown turkey in Turkey. In a world where Newcastle is not supposed to ship coal.
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Or to paraphrase Paul Keating, the souffle is still rising. Hot CO2 will do that.
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FWIW
“@Jim2:
The only reason wind and solar are “cheaper” than nuclear or carbon fuel based is that they force a capital intensive power plant to run as a load following peaking plant (i.e. incredibly inefficient and stupid high cost mode) instead of running as a base load plant (i.e. maximum efficiency and lowest cost mode).
Rather like saying a hamburger is cheaper than a 24 oz Porterhouse IFF you slice 2 oz off of the porterhouse and only eat the 2 oz but have to pay for the whole thing… just because the burger has a 2 oz patty in it.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w-o-o-d-27-october-2025-hurricane-melissa-whacks-jamaica-russia-accelerating-in-donbass-eu-uk-imploding-donald-dithers/#comment-179889
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Yes – they should run the wind and solar as peaking plants!
But hang on, in winter there is no sun during the evening peak. And there is not wind every day during the evening peak.
Dedicating wind and solar to peaking duties to get the lowest cost reliable generation would underline how useless wind and solar without storage. Once storage is added, they become very expensive.
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A thoughtful piece on how we take “the plumbing” of modern day life for granted
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/age-forgotten-infrastructure
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And as President of COP31, Chris Bowen will be very, very busy. So what happens to his job saving Australia from Global Warming?
I assume super energized Bowen can stay on Australian minister for Global Warming while climates all over the planet.
Why not? If we could afford $2Bn to host COP31, we can afford that.
And the last thing we need is another all powerful Australian domestic Climate minister. In fact it’s embarrassing enough that we have a minister for the Climate Control Department. Modelled on King Canute’s Tide Control Department.
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But perhaps another person could fix Turnbull’s Snowy II which is now 10x budget and 5x time. Already more expensive than the Panama Canal and twice the time of the English Channel, we cannot wait to pump water uphill at the low cost of 40% loss of energy. Who needs batteries when you can lose 40% just in storage? The only question remaining when we finish this engineering marvel is whether we can be a pumped hydro Superpower?
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As Australia grows lots of food to feed Australia and others in the World, we should start making lots of soups and become a “Soup-a-Power”.
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FWIW
“How Islam Caused — and Is Again Causing — a Dark Age in Europe”
“In the following brief video, I discuss the events that led to – and even caused – Europe’s “dark age.” And these events are ongoing, even if under different names and titles, such as “migrant crisis”: ”
https://youtu.be/D9CxKWkDVqk
https://pjmedia.com/raymond-ibrahim/2025/11/19/how-islam-caused-and-is-again-causing-a-dark-age-in-europe-n4946185
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FWIW
“Letter of the day”
“Dear Editor
Robert Worms, somewhat tongue in cheek I suspect, asks why anyone would oppose digital ID, mass biometric surveillance, universal DNA databases, and the conversion of citizens into trackable system-objects.
The answer is straightforward: because ‘identification’ and ‘identity’ are not the same thing and every argument he makes collapses that distinction.
This collapse is the definition fallacy at the heart of the digital ID agenda.”
More at
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/letter-of-the-day-161/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-11-20&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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FWIW
“Heart Attack Risk Halved In Survivors Taking Tailored Vitamin D Doses, Researchers Say”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/heart-attack-risk-halved-survivors-taking-tailored-vitamin-d-doses-researchers-say
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