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Someone responded to Canadian PM Mark “Carnage” Carney’s comment on X.
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Tech isn’t even the biggest loss. Europe has also largely lost their ‘primary sector’ industries which form the backbone of the modern manufacturing process. The UK is no longer self-sufficient in producing salt (where it was once the world’s #1 exporter), phosphates, natural gas feedstock for plastics, and shut down it’s last steel blast furnace. Germany isn’t in much better shape with the chemical giant BASF shifting jobs from Germany to Asia. The same story plays out over and over again in every western EU country. If China (or America or Russia) ever decided to stop trading with them, they wouldn’t be able to make anything or keep their existing infrastructure running. They are entirely at the mercy of their trading partners, which inevitably leads to their trading partners taking advantage of their lack of leverage in the relationship.
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That describes Australia.
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Describes all but the US.
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China and India are pretty self-sufficient.
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What in? Both are dependant on discount oil. China has to steal technology and India can answer the phone for the first world.
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Both have an internal train manufacturing industry, car manufacturing, aircraft manufacturing, ICBM manufacturing and spaceships lifting their own satellites in orbit..
How Aussie doing?
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China is TOTALLY dependent on the WORLD. They import, manufacture, export. Sounds to be classic
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TOTALLY
China possesses vast and diverse mineral resources, ranking first globally in reserves of 14 key minerals as of late 2025, including rare earths, tungsten, tin, molybdenum, antimony, gallium, germanium, indium, fluorite, and graphite. China also has significant reserves of coal (primarily in the north), iron, manganese, titanium, lithium, and zinc.
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And …..
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/05/honda-cancels-ev-plant-in-canada-despite-prior-deal-for-billions-in-subsidies/
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They’ll lead (and already are) the economic collapse.
First goes the fundamentaaly flawed project called the EU…
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‘… flawed project called the EU… ‘
In the beginning it seemed like a good idea, but regulation strangled it in the end.
And against the tide of opinion, the EU is not going to collapse at the end of hostilities. In fact the EU will experience a post war boom.
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In the beginning it seemed like a good idea, but regulation strangled it in the end
Do I recall correctly that one government leader declared that he wanted multiple regulations deleted/rescinded for every new regulation which was found to be required?
Opinion: He may have proceeded in excessive fashion in many areas, but he got that one correct.
Australia: How much of increased house building costs are due to the increase in building code requirements and other government regulations? Can one build a new home with the idea of moving into a partially finished house and complete the remainder “on the fly”?
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Over regulation is a bipartisan problem.
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I’m expecting the EU to collapse before the end of hostilities … especially when you consider the entrenched longevity of our current hostilities.
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Not true, they are leading in the demise of western civilisation, allowing themselves to become the third world. Australia, Canada and most other non European western countries following hot on their heels.
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‘Europe won’t lead anything.’
With Russia on its knees and American out of the picture, the Europeans have a long history in trade, as have the Chinese. So they will help to lead the world out of the wilderness.
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QLD attempts to retrieve a fraction of the State’s disastrous taxpayer losses from Labor’s irresponsible investment in billionaire buddy’s green energy scam.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/queensland-sues-mining-giant-to-recover-66-million-green-energy-grant-6020831
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Good news, but given that Australia no longer has a justice system but merely a legal system and that’s infested with Elite, woke, activist “judges”, I don’t like the chances of this taxpayer money being recovered.
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Sounds like an ideal gas (CCGT) power station site.
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Perhaps their should also sue the Qld Labor party and all it’s main players as well.
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On the IPCC front, Roger Pielke Jnr has posted an article on The Honest Broker. It starts off with:
“The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published the next generation of climate scenarios.
Big news: The new framework has eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades — specifically, RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, and SSP3-7.0. This is an absolutely huge development in climate science which will have lasting impacts across research and policy.
The future is not what it used to be.”
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/rcp85-is-officially-dead
The unravelling continues, but quietly, without much fanfare. The climate scientists of the world, it seems, are oblivious. Perhaps working on a transition from a global boiling future into projecting an ice age. It could be a lot of fun watching.
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But it will have zero effect on any Lib/Lab* Australian Government who remain fanatically committed to the scam.
*Just to be clear, I don’t consider the Liberals to have extricated us from the scam until they loudly and proudly announce NOW that they will leave the Paris Agreement.
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They are not committed
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“They are not committed”… only to the point of never being committed to anything! I think they are easily pressured by other Govts/organisations, or maybe they just do as they are told, but they are only committed to staying on power as long as possible and making as much money through that as they can. You will never find greater hypocrites.
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Commonwealth of Australia created by Federation of State Governments that were colonial governments before 1900, and the Federation of States created Commonwealth or Federal Government.
Parliamentary system of government House of Representatives and States House of Review the Senate, Senators represent each State and later Territories.
State Governments have the most power and areas of responsibility for state affairs with federal funding grants as deemed to be appropriate and applied for and other funding agreements.
State Legislative Assembly with State Legislative Council reviewing legislation.
Anybody that believes everything is Federal responsibility does not understand the parliamentary system and constitutional laws.
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Anybody that believes everything is Federal responsibility does not understand the parliamentary system and constitutional laws.
Even more applicable in the USA and the Congressional system and its constitution.
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By the way, the One Nation candidate for the by election next weekend is another who tried to join the Labor Party and has been a donor to ALP in the past. The Independent Teal candidate is backed by Climate 200 vested interests in renewables and water scheme etc., and Union Labor GetUp activist organisation.
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The former Nationals member has admitted to flirting with the idea of joining Labor or running as an independent as he mulled how to best translate his policy ambitions into political success.
farrer comp main
Something has changed in Australia. The voters of Farrer may tell us what, and how much
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He even met the independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe, likely to be his closest byelection rival, to discuss water policy, a conversation that informed part of her final policy.
But now One Nation’s rise as a serious political contender has given Farley a chance at a seat in Canberra.
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Worst ever Presidents and PMs.
-Australia
Albanese
-USA
Biden
-Canada
Trudeau
-UK
Starmer
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I wouldn’t rank Biden as the worst US president. He’s bottom five for sure, but Woodrow Wilson and Andrew Johnson are my top two.
Wilson for creating the administrative state, for crapping the bed with the Treaty of Versailles (which sowed the seeds for WWII a generation later), and for creating an environment in the Oval Office that allowed his wife to run the country for over a year without anyone catching on after he suffered a debilitating stroke.
Johnson for abandoning Lincoln’s plans for a phased-in reconstruction after the Civil War under supervision of the army in favor of a quick restoration for all the rebel states and a removal of federal troops. This in turn led to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the creation of a patchwork quilt of Jim Crow laws to deprive blacks of their hard won constitutional rights that were paid for with Union blood.
Biden was an incompetent boob, but his failings were temporary and quickly erased by Trump 47, whereas Wilson’s and Johnson’s failings haunted the nation for 100+ years after they were gone.
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And don’t forget:
The OBAMINATION!
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LBJ was ‘orrible, crude.
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My article on the new push for a Treaty to phase out fossil fuels:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/05/hatching-a-fossil-fuel-phase-out-treaty/
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FWIW
“Last week, the Hill reported, “Trump says US government’s Intel stock made the country $30B in last 90 days.” Last year, President Trump made a national security investment in Intel Corporation —one of the last remaining fully domestic chipmakers— and that investment has now made up to $45 billion dollars. Compare that to prior Administrations, which always spend money on their programs. Trump is the first president I can remember whose programs keep making money and securing massive new investments.”
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“It’s so much more than the Intel investment. It’s not even just a trend. It is an America-first dealmaking philosophy. For another example, at the end of January, the Hill reported, “Argentina pays its debt: The US-Latin America strategy becomes clearer.” ”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/great-expectations-tuesday-may-5?
Concludes
“Why shouldn’t foreign aid, bank bailouts, development loans, and ‘green energy programs’ be required to be profitable? When did we start assuming the federal government can be nothing more than a parasitic money-sucking charity? It’s the hard bigotry of low expectations.
The Trump Doctrine is being revealed as the opposite of the New Deal and Great Society philosophies. Those eras framed federal action as insurance and redistribution: you “pay in” via taxes, and government “pays out” in services, safety nets, and public goods— but never cash returns. Admittedly, there are lots of potential pitfalls to avoid, such as the federal government distorting domestic markets, picking winners and losers, prioritizing lucrative conflicts over less profitable peace, and creating ethical hazards.
But we obviously need better expectations.
This lesson is an unexpected Trump 2.0 bonus— the Administration is proving the concept of profitable governance. Draw that line far enough, and you can see a point on the map where income tax becomes no longer necessary. What would you say if Trump ended the income tax for good?
Because we are headed in that direction.”
“Elbow”?
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FWIW
On-line Courier Mail headline just now –
“Jim, stop spending: Bullock pleads with Chalmers as rates keep rising
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has taken her most aggressive swipe at the federal government for fuelling inflation through high spending, warning Australians were becoming ‘poorer’.”
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A work colleague of many years ago retired early after four years with the private company I worked for and a much longer career in the RAAF with lengthy secondments in USAF and RAF; retiring as wing commander. He retired on a service pension and started an avocado farm in the Ballina shire. After a couple of years, he became a shire councillor and then mayor for six years.
During his time as mayor, he took over property development from the quick buck contractors who bulldozed the trees, put in low standard sealed roads and no service and made millions. The council ended up paying for all the services and digging up the roads to install them at ratepayers expense. Over time, the council’s property development arm was making so much money that they got close to paying a dividend rather than charging rates.
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Local government and property development and related business affairs have gone hand in glove for as long as I have been aware and informed.
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another ian,
Not keen on government getting into investment. Trump might be pleased with the $30B paper profit, but I remember a fair few local councils here who lost heaps in US sub-prime speculation back in the noughties.
Governments are not noted for being good at picking winners.
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“Governments are not noted for being good at picking winners.”
Yes, one only has to look at how they pour money into schemes that give no return at all, but someone makes a lot! The hydrogen fiascos, the whole ruinable industry, the smelters, Snowy11, the car assembly industry..
Maybe Trump got lucky, maybe its a show pony just to make him look good, or maybe he’d lose money if he did it again, but I’d NEVER let our clowns throw money away if I could stop it! If there were competent people advising politicians they would have got themselves better jobs in the private sector.
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And perhaps some presstitute might have the fortitude to ask Jacinta exactly what happened to that ‘missing’ 15 billion from the ‘Big Build’.
Spillage?
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And also bear in mind that Albanese Labor shut down the ABCC – Australian Building Construction Commission for the second time by a Labor Federal Government, the Coalition supported ABCC
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A report on all US Federal politicians (and families) investment activities overctge last 120 days would be interesting.
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FWIW – more on “Strait politics”
The video at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/prepping-done-oil-nitrogen-fertilizer-shocks-coming/#comment-181553
Could almost have a headline
“Tehran we have a problem”
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Also Chiefio on oil things down this thread after “prepping”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/prepping-done-oil-nitrogen-fertilizer-shocks-coming/
And
“UAE’s OPEC Exit: Pragmatic Oil Policy, Not ‘Stranded Assets’ Panic”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/04/uaes-opec-exit-pragmatic-oil-policy-not-stranded-assets-panic/
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Deadline for all hell breaking loose is June.
Imagine the world without oil…
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FWIW
“It’s Official: The Climate Scam Was a Scam All Along”
Concludes
“Even though it might be “purely anecdotal, the Daily Sceptic’s Chris Morrison believes that even the notoriously scaremongering BBC “seems to have moderated its wilder climate stories of late, with the ‘Climate’ topic on its News site relegated to the second tier of subjects,” effectively demoting climate scares to “rubbing shoulders with the picture gallery and the dumbed-down ‘Newsbeat’ offering.”
So while today’s news is good — maybe even great — it does leave me with two questions.
The first it whether the American news media will follow the BBC’s lead and stop scaring people with end-of-the-world stories.
The second is what the Left will use to scare us with next.”
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/05/05/its-official-the-climate-scam-was-a-scam-all-along-n4952514
Will “Their ABC” notice?
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Hanta virus?
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My uncle died from Leptospirosis, contracted from a fishing lake in England. Spread via water rat urine.
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The beclowning of the Royal Navy continues ….
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/royal-navy-crisis-just-five-37109841
… and here is a full rundown of the Royal Navy clown show over the past couple of months.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/05/keir-starmer-should-have-looked-in-the-harbor-before-signing-those-ukraine-loan-papers-n3814618
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From that HotAir article, we hear that the Royal Navy spent GBP103M on refitting/refurbing an old ship, only to take it out of service just three years later, quietly stripping it for parts.
And still nobody gets sacked.
We’re doomed.
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Technology and warfare is radically changing, they didn’t see it coming, not on the radar so nobody to blame.
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Aussies are disappearing
Australia is now 32% foreign-born and Indians are the largest immigrant group for the first time, overtaking those from England and more than doubling in 10 years, new official statistics show.
https://x.com/NoticerNews/status/2049717116656599396
Meanwhile in NZ…same thing.
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Yeah, but, they make a mighty tasty hot Lamb Madras curry 😋
PM Luxon & his suits have just signed (last week) a new Free Trade Agreement with the most populous nation on earth, India, citing the Democrats old trope: we have to sign it to see what it says.
Blind Willy meets Pandora’s Box 2026?
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Ask a Fijian
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Indians arriving in Australia speak good English and play cricket, they should blend in nicely.
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The DCS saga ends
https://youtu.be/XJ2jjQN-9xg?si=eQLqG2eN0NmueNFs
As readers may recall, this was a humble youtuber (Stefan Fischer) doing a battery review that copped a lawsuit from the battery “manufacturer”.
It went viral globally, a prime example of the Streisand effect.
The little guy won and the big guy was exposed for the lying crook he was.
Yay!
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Posted the other day about hypochlorous acid (HOCl). Doing the rounds on social media at the moment and today is apparently ” World Hand Hygiene Day”- so don’t forget to wash your hands after doing your business.
In addition, HOCl is quite relevant due to that cruise ship MV Hondius with the hantivirus outbreak. 3 dead and the ship was refused to dock in Cape Verde.
Hypochlorous acid (HOCl) is a powerful broad-spectrum antimicrobial that the human immune system naturally produces in white blood cells to destroy bacteria, viruses, fungi, and biofilms. It works through multiple oxidative mechanisms (membrane disruption, enzyme inactivation, nucleic acid damage, and biofilm breakdown) and shows no documented resistance. We can now make stabilised versions of HOCl, so it is commercially applicable and practical.
HOCl could have advantages on cruise ships (as well as many other situations) :-
*It can be fogged or sprayed in occupied spaces without evacuating passengers or requiring PPE — ideal for ongoing daily cleaning in cabins, dining areas, corridors, and HVAC systems while the ship is at sea.
*Safe for food-contact surfaces, high-touch areas (door handles, railings), and even wound care if needed.
*No toxic residues; it degrades into water and saline.
*Superior to bleach for routine use: Bleach requires higher concentrations (and PPE/fumes issues) for tough pathogens, while stabilized HOCl achieves strong results at 50–200 ppm for many viruses.
Several major cruise lines already use electrolyzed HOCl systems for sanitation precisely because it controls norovirus and other outbreaks more safely and effectively than traditional chemicals.
Anyway, not affecting me, there is no way in hell I’m ever going on a cruise. For me, and the wife, they just look like floating microbiology experiments. No thanks. Yuk! But, It might be good if more hospitals would start using it. Sounds like it has great promise.
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Published: 13 March 2026
Superextensive electrical power from a quantum battery
Abstract
Superextensivity, where the response of a physical system scales super-linearly with size, originates from collective quantum effects and provides a promising route to augment next-generation quantum technologies.
While recent work has demonstrated superextensive behaviour in the coherent dynamics of quantum systems, these effects typically occur on short timescales, prohibiting their practical utility.
In contrast, triggering steady-state superextensive effects in, for example, a generated electric current, remains unexplored despite the immediate impact on photovoltaic technologies.
Here, we utilise a microcavity quantum battery as an experimental platform that superextensively captures light energy and converts it to an electric current via the incorporation of charge transport layers into the resonant microcavity.
This architecture enables, for the first time, a complete quantum battery charge-discharge cycle.
We demonstrate that strong light–matter coupling induced by the microcavity leads to superextensive scaling of the steady-state electrical discharging power under low-intensity, incoherent illumination.
Our results provide the first experimental demonstration of superextensive light-to-charge conversion in steady-state, highlighting the feasibility of leveraging strong light–matter coupling for enhanced energy harvesting under low-light conditions.
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The latest DEI hire…
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2051446368611262526
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Disappearing microbes: species your grandparents had that you don’t
Somewhere in the last hundred years, the Western gut lost something it had carried for hundreds of thousands of years. Ancient bacteria.
Entire species that co-evolved with humans across millennia. They are gone – and the chronic disease epidemic that has grown in their absence may not be a coincidence.
The Hadza comparison has been replicated across every non-industrialised population studied. The finding is consistent across continents, cultures, dietary traditions, and methodologies: the more industrialised the lifestyle, the lower the gut microbial diversity. And the lower the gut microbial diversity, the higher the burden of the diseases that define modern Western medicine.
Researchers at Stanford who led the Hadza sequencing study identified 124 gut-resident species vanishing in industrialised populations. Industrialised gut microbes were found to be enriched in genes associated with oxidative stress, possibly a result of microbiome adaptation to inflammatory processes.
https://principia-scientific.com/disappearing-microbes-species-your-grandparents-had-that-you-dont/
Let’s all go Amish!
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Years ago I heard the case made that babies born by CS do not get inoculated with the microbiota that populate the mother’s birth canal. Made sense to me, a mechanic.
We overuse antibiotics. No good bacteria on the skin equals body odour.
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No mention of life expectancy in the article. Gut diversity may have been exchanged for longevity.
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There was a short article on a news website that I frequent, stating that there might be a referendum in a Canadian province in October. The subject of the referendum would be leaving Canada (presumably to form an independent nation). I regret I was pressed for time; can any one here shed enlightenment upon the report?
Thanks,
RG
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Alberta was seeking to leave. I believe that’s now on hold, because the Canadian govt has agreed to most of their demands.
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Some on that here
“Meanwhile in Alberta, Canada, They Just Gave Carney the One-Finger Salute”
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/05/04/meanwhile-in-alberta-canada-they-just-gave-carney-the-one-finger-salute-n4952502
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Welcome to Australia the land of hypocrisy and how to make people think that the government is doing something while in fact doing nothing.
Along with the BRS saga where a man trained to do a job, then sent to do that and on return being prosecuted for doing the job we now have 3 child protection workers stood down over an absolute tragedy that has taken place in Alice Springs for apparently not doing their job.
Oh well, any tourist to Alice Springs would notice a strange social mix of haves and have nots. The have nots are mainly indigenous people that MUST have their traditional rights respected. To remove children deemed to be in danger is considered “stealing” them from their heritage. Then, of course, once it all goes to hell, scapegoat the people that probably wanted to do something but couldn’t due to cultural sensitivities then bingo, they clearly failed to do their job.
https://www.news.com.au/national/northern-territory/child-protection-workers-sacked-for-their-handling-of-case-of-a-fiveyearold-girl-allegedly-murdered-in-alice-springs/news-story/bc0a24d64efb8f5acd06fd0ddf5ab3b5
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So Albo is going spend $10 billion dollars on fuel and fertiliser storage. Now I have no idea how much it would cost to build a refinery along with a fertiliser production facility but surely you could get close to this goal for $10 billion. We can after all spend up to $40billion on Snowy 2 for NO REAL BENIFIT. Surely $10 billion on something that would actually produce a return on investment would be a better idea.
https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/dacked-treasurer-grilled-on-rba-governors-warning-about-tax-cuts-in-the-budget/news-story/dff64b0297cbd51c09349aa93021361f
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FWIW
Material for the SDA thread heading “If women ruled the world”
“PROPAGANDA IS PROPAGANDA:”
cherry_blossom
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May 4, 2026
@blossom77520
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Follow
– “women don’t start wars”
– “28 European queenly reigns from 1480 to 1913 and found a 27 percent increase in wars when a queen was in power, as compared to the reign of a king.” ”
https://instapundit.com/794703/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Hatching a fossil fuel phase out treaty”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/05/hatching-a-fossil-fuel-phase-out-treaty/
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The plague of too fast rising on footpaths and other public walking tracks e-bikes, this morning on my morning walk I was just about to turn from left side of footpath to a bench seat in a park on my right, I somehow sensed danger and hesitated as an e-bike raced past missing me by not much.
And the speed was well in excess of what was the legal maximum without pedalling 7 kmh. And no warning bell or voice.
Only recently I read about a war veteran in his eighties killed this way.
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‘I somehow sensed danger and hesitated …’
Built into our DNA over millennia. There needs to be a test case where one of these bike riders is incarcerated for manslaughter in the first degree.
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July 2025
Teen charged with manslaughter after woman, 59, killed in ‘high-powered’ e-motorbike crash at Perth park
https://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/teen-charged-with-manslaughter-after-woman-59-killed-in-highpowered-emotorbike-crash-at-perth-park/news-story/5918bc2e33cfb82b01286aebc759180b
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Umm! Has a lightning bolt of sudden reality ever hit you?
It just hit me (figuratively speaking) half an hour back now.
And I’ll get to it a little further down, but first I need to ‘paint the picture’ so to speak!
Now you all know I’m a bit of a ‘nut’ when it comes to electrical power generation.
Anything at all, really.
Now, what enamoured me about the Chinese is that ….. ‘boom’ ….. they went ‘all in’.
Not just tentatively, with say, a little wind here, a little solar there, a little coal fired power, maybe even a coupla nukes. You know, just quietly bringing their Country into perhaps the 20th Century, (where we in the already Developed World thought WE were) and then realising that they in fact were leading the World ….. literally ….. into the 21st Century, and here I mean advancing the technology of electrical power generation hand over fist, and at a blinding pace.
So, back in 2008, I started all this, and found that the Chinese were in fact leading the way, when it came to any form of power generation.
Not just with new tech coal fired power (All in multiplied by a thousand) but in new tech hydro, and before you think there’s no real ….. new tech hydro, think again.
We have (the original) Snowy Hydro with a wonderful seven Hydro power plants with a Nameplate of 4500MW.
China has ten single hydro power plants EACH with a Nameplate larger than the whole total of Snowy Hydro.
Snowy Hydro’s largest Unit is around 300MW. (give or take)
The Chinese have SINGLE units now of 1000MW and I’ve also heard of 1200MW, and six or so of them in the one turbine Hall, umm, constructed INSIDE a mountain.
So then, back in 2014, I noticed something a little out of left field about China Hydro (and I had already done a four part series on the huge Three Gorges plant back in 2008) and it was in Tibet. I ‘speculated‘ on what it might be, umm, considering the ‘thought bubble’ said a Nameplate of, umm, 60,000MW, and with a projected power generation of 300TWH a year. (and all of Australia only consumes 260TWH a year, AEMO plus WA)
So, blah blah blah, I speculated, I wrote a Series about it, three parts in 2014, and three parts in 2024, and I keep looking at it once a week, to see if there’s anything new.
Then here I am today, and I’m sitting here, not even thinking about it, and the proverbial ‘lightning bolt’ of reality hit me.
Here’s this huge project, in perhaps one of the single most inaccessible places on Planet Earth, a project no one gets right, and it’s a bit vain of me to say I ‘got it’ ten years ago.
Okay, so the Chinese are going to build this monster hydro plant in the Mountains of Tibet ….. well ….. ‘through’ the Mountains of Tibet, and it’s going to cost a whopping $137 Billion. And, umm, what do they get for that humungous amount of money?
60GW of ‘once through’ Nameplate.
And the lightning bolt?
Snowy Hydro at $42 Billion for 2GW.
So, for a little more than three times the cost, they are getting THIRTY times the Nameplate, umpteen times the actual power delivery, and Snowy Hydro consumes more power than it actually generates with the water flowing over the turbines.
And Joanne, if you want some background for a comparison, I have what you need, and it’s infinitely more detailed and accurate than what ANYBODY else has on the subject.
Tony.
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So the fed can pull 45 billion out of the budget for the inland railway because we can’t afford it, yet we keep throwing $$, now around 42 billion, at Snowy 2, pull the pin NOW and save a further 8-10 billion, or more…I think the inland railway will do more for the country than a Snowy White Elephant.
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Next Sunday’s sermon could be a little different.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/religious-leaders-told-prepare-now-for-ufo-disclosure-to-unleash-bible-changing-revelations/ar-AA22ss2L
Search Assist
‘Pastors have been advised to prepare their congregations for the upcoming government disclosure of UFOs and potential evidence of alien life, which could challenge traditional biblical narratives. This warning comes from a meeting with U.S. intelligence officials who expressed concerns about the spiritual impact of these revelations on believers and non-believers alike.’
Considering the release of the ‘JFK files’ and the ‘Epstein files’, my expectations for release of the X-files are low.
Interesting that it’s 2026 (A. you know Who.) and the ‘challenge’ to biblical narratives is only now a challenge.
Will any other narratives be challenged?
I remain a committed Styrofoamian.
The ant living in the discarded Styrofoam cooler is not capable of comprehending the true origin or purpose of the cooler.
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>The ant living in the discarded Styrofoam cooler is not capable of comprehending the true origin or purpose of the cooler.
I’m not so sure about that.
Ants are pretty clever.
My first live theatre role was as a representative human in the 1953 stage play, Under the Sycamore Tree.
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FWIW
“The Long Knives Are Out for Starmer and the Fool Is Still Sharpening Them Himself”
“Three days. Two and a wake-up. That’s all Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has left until the local council elections on May 7 across the length and breadth of the UK, which are expected to at long last put paid to the painful and expensive farce that has been his tenure as Prime Minister.”
(My bold)
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/04/the-long-knives-are-out-for-starmer-and-the-fool-is-still-sharpening-them-himself-n3814569
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New Zealand’s plan for Govt to take control of all the businesses.. fuel rationing and who gets it first!
“The fuel plan is not a fascist document. It is not even a particularly radical one by contemporary standards. That is precisely what makes it worth scrutinising carefully.
It is the latest iteration of a governance model that has been quietly consolidating for decades: the state and large capital as co-administrators of the economy, with small business and the individual citizen positioned as residual claimants on whatever resources remain after the primary beneficiaries have been served.
Call it economic fascism, corporate statism, or crony capitalism — the label matters less than the mechanism. And the mechanism is, once again, hiding in plain sight inside a document described as emergency planning.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/covid-playbook-returns-energy-rationing-and-politics-crisis-control
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..and Aussie Govt mandating more data theft- From my accountant… they already know who I am, and this sort of rubbish really peeves me!
“If you ask us to carry out a designated service after 1 July 2026, we’ll need to complete some identity checks before we can proceed. This is similar to what happens when you open a bank account or apply for a loan – it’s a standard process that applies to everyone.
Here’s what that might look like:
We’ll verify your identity; either electronically or by sighting your original photo ID (driver’s licence or passport)
We may ask a few questions about the service you’re seeking and the purpose of the engagement
We’ll need some basic details; your date of birth, residential address, and up-to-date contact information
If the service involves entities (companies, trusts, SMSFs, partnerships), we’ll also need the relevant registration documents
In some situations, we may also ask about where the funds for a transaction are coming from, or whether you or a close family member hold a senior public position. These are standard questions required by law and not a reflection of any concern about you or your business.”
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“”Updated El Niño forecast for this summer/autumn is ‘off the charts’ EXTREME with ‘boiling red’ map colors along Equatorial central and eastern Pacific Ocean,” meteorologist Ryan Maue wrote on X. He said this is “code red the Earth’s climate system going into Summer 2026,” which only means “suppressed Atlantic hurricane activity.” ”
Ho hum..same old story..
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/meteorologists-sound-alarm-over-el-nino-plume-racing-across-pacific-freight-train
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