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Are renewables causing the UK grid margin problems that are allegedly being covered up?
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15982181/amp/UK-near-blackout-wind-power-Neso.html
There’s an attempt to make it seem all power sources were to blame, but CCGT is only slightly less efficient at an ambient temperature of 40v20C, perhaps down 10%. That’s compared to 30GW or so combined wind/solar electricity production that may rapidly come or go.
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Tommy Robinson Podcast: Australian political veteran, Pauline Hanson, joins Tommy for an unfiltered conversation about three decades on the front line of politics.
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Got a link?
I haven’t been able to find one.
Thanks
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On 9 News last night the news reader appeared to rejoice at revealing Pauline had appeared with “far right” activist Tommy Robinson.
Tommy has been more right than he has been wrong.
The MSM in this country is woeful.
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Aunty gave it a run.
‘Pauline Hanson has singled out the end of the White Australia policy as the beginning of migration issues in Australia.
‘In an interview with convicted felon and far-right activist Tommy Robinson, she suggested without evidence migrants came to Australia “purely for the welfare system”.
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When the Left report on Tommy they nearly always feel obliged to say “whose real name is…”. Well plenty of people including Leftist activists change their name but that never rates a mention.
As for being a “convicted felon” his main “crimes” have been thought crimes in the Orwellian sense and for exposing what is happening in Once-Great Britain.
Others crimes related to stupid decisions on his part in his youth for which he paid his price to society. Is he not able to be reformed? And if he was not white, Christian or working class he likely would never have been convicted of anything.
It goes without saying that like most prominent conservatives who question the Official Narrative on climate change, covid or social engineering he is banned from entering Australia. Australians will never get to see him in person.
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I’m sure many of the sophisticates here are way ahead of me on this.
I just learnt a new fun acronym today.
SaaS
SaaS stands for Software as a Service, which is a cloud computing model where software applications are delivered over the internet on a subscription basis, allowing users to access them without installing or maintaining them locally.
Uncle Jed, Jethro, Granny, and I think this sort of thing may be driving Data Center mania.
You will own nothing and be happy or else.
Your car will just be the hardware you rent so that you may turn it on after you set the monthly deduction from your social credit account.
Heat, well that’s extra.
An acquaintance claims he bought a new truck and found out he can’t replace any light bulbs (LEDs?) without paying the manufacturer for the on line unlock to the light housing.
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BMW already have this junk on their cars, options by subscription, want the heated seats to work in winter, pay up and we’ll enable it for you.
John Deere is the acknowledged leader in this extortion in farm equipment, and they are finding out by plummeting sales that large farms are peed off with this setup and are madly buying up pre-electronic equipment by the acre.
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It’s this kind of stuff that makes the DSA attractive.
The productive middle getting leeched from both ends.
The progressive governments demanding handouts for handing out.
And globalist corps constructing forced extraction at the other end.
And the average trapped citizen goes for anything but.
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He’s probably lucky he can replace the bulbs, in some vehicles they are sealed and you have to replace the entire unit for about 5K, at the dealer.
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FWIW
Today’s Coffee & Covid newsletter looks at Trump’s speech of last night
“Shortly before last night’s historic speech, at least three of the alphabet networks reneged on their agreements to give Trump prime time. Then corporate media sullenly refused to link to certain parts of the story that are arguably more than a little important.
So, here are a few helpful resources before we dig in:
A PBS streaming video on YouTube of Trump’s entire speech. I put an index to the video with topical links below.
The new White House Election Integrity website. It should be titled, “Here is the evidence.”
Not one single “news” platform published a transcript of the whole thing. So I did it. The unedited transcript is included at the end of today’s post, along with helpful subtitles for easier navigation.”
New York Times coverage gets “inspected”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/trump-card-friday-july-17-2026-c?
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i asked Grok to fact-check (as in FACT check) Donald Trump’s address. It found all true or maybe, none false. No claim of fraud was found proved, so all those issues are still open. One interesting follow-up was that the late postal surge in Democrat votes was a one-off – it hasn’t happened before or since. Democrats would say it was because of Covid. I say you can’t tell whether it was Covid or a Democrat plan to subvert the election, the facts fit both. I feel that if Donald Trump can’t produce the smoking gun he loses this one even though so many facts line up for him. What he is doing, though, is to try to tighten up the electoral process against fraud, and obviously all honest parties support that.
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FWIW – for the “Might File”
“Seizing the Day
Will Trump invoke the Guarantee Clause to impose election integrity? A prediction.”
More at
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/seizing-the-day
Via https://instapundit.com/810709/#disqus_thread
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“Statistics of hot summers”.
Here’s a snapshot from The Observer newspaper 1852. A compilation of hot and dry weather events and periods over a few centuries in Europe.
https://postimg.cc/BXQxLThS
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FWIW – the outline of a “saga”
“New York Court Refuses To Block State’s Plan For A “Renewables” Program”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/17/new-york-court-refuses-to-block-states-plan-for-a-renewables-program/
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FWIW
“Climate truths the IPCC rejects”
https://harryr.substack.com/p/climate-truths
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‘CO2 changes lag temperature changes. It is impossible for the cause to be the effect. ‘
Like it.
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There is much to discuss and our colleague leaf will undoubtedly offer a critique.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/07/17/new-study-highlights-the-dominant-role-of-aerosol-cloud-interactions-in-shaping-climate/
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FWIW
“So much for meat and water!”
“I’m sure most of my readers have grown used to vegetarians vegans anti-meat activists trumpeting that it wastes far too much water to produce a pound, or a kilogram, of beef, compared to just eating vegetables and fruit. Turns out they’ve been fudging the numbers, to put it mildly.”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/07/so-much-for-meat-and-water.html
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What’s their beef ?
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FWIW – re voter ID in USA
“Democrats Mocked After Olive Garden’s ID Policy Goes Viral- Stricter Than Some Blue State Voter Requirements-‘Pasta Deals Are Literally More Secure Than Our Elections’ ”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/democrats-roasted-after-olive-gardens-id-policy-goes/
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Used to be the same for renting a video back in the day.
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