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very good report on real cost of renewables in the UK
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/kathryn-porter-the-true-affordability-of-net-zero/
Presumably the results would be better in Oz for solar farms but that doesn’t get away from the overall costs and shortcomings of renewables-lack of wind or sun plus the huge cost on infrastructure and upgrades to connect everything up and provide back up or base power.
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An interesting aspect of the price chart is that the household electricity price dropped from 1997 to 2003.
That drop is likely due to privatisation of asset, which began in the early 1990s similar to what occurred in Australia. The increase starting around 2003 aligns with the operation of the Blyth offshore wind farm in 2003. The 2MW units were the largest installed to that time anywhere and paved the way for thousands of these monstrosities killing bird life and stilling wind around the UK coastline.
UK households had to pay higher electricity prices but millions of birds have paid the ultimate price for this fantasy.
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Tommy Robinson released from prison
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tommy-robinson-to-be-released/
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Unfortunately another UK political prisoner was not released, Lucy Connolly.
She is in jail for 31 months because of an angry Tweet she made against illegal immigrants, she deleted after a few hours, that she made in a state of outrage after Axel Rudakubana (not an illegal) stabbed a bunch of young girls, murdering three, in Southport.
In the following video Jeff Taylor discusses the Tommy release and points out that the Herr Starmer regime can’t be trusted not to find an excuse not to put Tommy back in the Gulag.
https://www.youtube.com/live/XIpKV6Rsmfc
In my opinion Tommy should seek political asylum in the United States.
Not one word of the documentary he is in jail for making has ever been refuted. Elon Musk has vowed to keep it on X. There are numerous copies there. Not yet illegal to watch in Australia or in free countries. Here it is:
https://x.com/QWalesUK/status/1916844376086511846
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junk temperature readings from the Met office.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/20/exclusive-almost-all-extreme-temperature-highs-in-uk-now-being-recorded-at-junk-sites-with-massive-possible-errors/
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The Met gaslighting continues.
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Well, they do need an excuse to blot out the sun, after all.
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In Once Great Britain some conservative YouTubers infiltrated and filmed a once-beautiful historic building which had been infested with Leftoids who were squatting there and had vandalised the place and turned it into a cult compound, as they do.
And note the lack of diversity among them, they all look to be Anglos. Not the “diverse” crowd they pretend to celebrate.
Interesting.
https://youtu.be/T4EoWUgqZms
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What a pig sty, inhabited by pigs of course.
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Out of curiosity I’ve been listening to Their ABC Radio National (Australia) on the car radio a bit. I do it so you don’t have to.
It’s a 24/7 lovefest by Leftists for Leftists. At a cost to you, the taxpayer, of about one billion dollars a year.
For them there is no solution they can conceive of for any problem, real or imagined that doesn’t involve ever more taxes, laws, regulations, expenditure of vast amounts of taxpayer money, more restrictions of freedom etc.. And never, ever any questioning of the Official Narrative.
Also there is endless hatred of Trump and conservatives in general even though they have a legal obligation to be politically neutral.
And I find the “high rising terminal” speech pattern of typical Leftists that you hear on that station to be especially annoying. (That is, increasing the pitch of the last few words of a statement to make it sound like a question.)
According to Wikipedia a possible purpose of high riding terminal speech is:
We are going to get so much more of these things now that the Australian Sheeple have given the Left a mandate to do whatever they please with no limits on expenditure, regulation and control, removal of personal freedoms and support of every ratbag group you can imagine.
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If in Melbournistan you might want to listen to 3MP 1377AM or DAB+ digital radio or streaming, which has quality contemporary music from the 60’s and 70’s, so-called “easy listening”, no uninitelligable garbage music. Very nice radio station.
You can get your intelligent and informed political discussion and news from this blog, not Their ABC or other Lamestream Media.
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David, Victoria is the “State of Taxes”.
We live on a rural property, never had a rubbish collection EVAH. The government brings in new rules that require every house that a rubbish truck drives past must have a minimum of 3 rubbish bins and 4 if wanted. I protested this new ruling as we simply don’t generate much rubbish. ( we are oldies have an established household and have no need for endless new stuff). Wrote to the local shire, copied the local liberal MP, and finally got an answer from the shire. Essentially, Thanks for your letter, sorry the new bins are of no use to you don’t care if you don’t use them and we will charge you $480.00 per year in any case.
So, the alleged “saving of rubbish from going to land fill” really is just another money grabbing system. Increased fire services levee , increased insurances including GST increases,a rubbish collection fee that does absolutely nothing for the environment, power increase, yeah its easy living in Victoriastan, specially when you are on an ever decreasing income stream as self funded retirees.
P.S. The shire does have a few remaining public rubbish bins in the local small towns. These bin holders have a general rubbish bin side and a recycling side. Funny when the shire empties these they all go into the one truck.
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Yes it’s appalling Sambar.
Sorry that the socialists are trying to drive you and other farmers off your land.
If they are charging you for bin collection anyway, I would use the bins for farm storage such as for seeds or fertiliser. I use one of my unused bins in urban Melbournistan for garden implement storage and when they force a purple bin onto me to supplement the existing three I plan to fill it with water and use it for an emergency water supply, or perhaps non-perishable food in the event of a food shortage when the grid collapses.
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Your sacrifice is duly noted.
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As the Americans would say, thank you for your service.
My question though is that leaving aside the irritant and an appalling waste of tax payer’s money, how influential is their ABC?
Do you see it as a keystone in the arch without which the whole house of cards might collapse? Or perhaps the queen termite without which the drones will abandon the nest?
I don’t know because apart from watching re-runs of a limited selection of comedy I have nothing to do with their ABC.
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This story appears to lend credibility that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump
https://thepostmillennial.com/bernie-sanders-says-dems-rigged-the-2016-primary-against-him
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It might seem a good thing that the seemingly-conservative Nationals split from the Labor-Lite Liberals but consider the following.
George Christensen wrote this:
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Just as I thought! Proud of little!
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Yes, and a little weary of the ‘nuclear as a backup for renewables’ crap.
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Look at it this way. If a complete backup can be built then the intermittent energy infrastructure can be abandoned or better still blown up.
Backup? I’m all for it!
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Video.
The history of Once Great Britain continues to be rewritten by the Left.
For example, children are being taught that Stonehenge was built by black people and other obvious lies. There were no sub-Saharan Africans in Britain at that time.
Or that Nero married a “trans” “woman”.
While actual British history is not taught.
And the teaching union wants to bring the “Palestinian struggle” into the classroom.
https://youtu.be/hHZoSkmt60U
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It’s a worry but kids have excellent BS detectors.
There are always the Gretas of this world but there is a much larger number of natural sceptics.
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FWIW
“The Five Biggest Questions of the Biden Health Cover-Up”
“So be patient, boys and girls. This is a developing story. We’re nowhere near the end of it. To paraphrase Churchill, “This is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end — nor have we reached the end of the beginning.” This scandal is still in its infancy.”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/05/20/the-five-biggest-questions-of-the-biden-health-cover-up-n4939967
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The Science now says that we should all be dweebs. https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/20/working-out-is-right-wing-and-thats-a-good-thing/
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FWIW
“Putin-Trump Phone Call Deadend, AFU Brigade Mutinies Surge, & More Updates”
“Today Putin and Trump held a long-awaited phone call, which ended up lasting over two hours, by all accounts. Despite both sides drumming up the call’s significance as a good step forward toward normalizing relations, it achieved nothing. The reason: Putin again repeated to Trump that “root causes” of the conflict must be addressed, and shortly after, Zelensky declared in a press conference that Ukraine will never demilitarize and never give up its territories; the impasse stands as before.”
More at
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/putin-trump-phone-call-deadend-afu
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Have to love the “Russian Dude” for a novel summary of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and peace attempts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpaHbARvClc
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FWIW
“Trans kids: the must-have accessory for A-list celebs”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/18/trans-kids-the-must-have-accessory-for-a-list-celebs/
Hmmm! – if that is a measure of “success” – – – –
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I think we need a world war. Wipe the slate clean & let’s start from scratch.
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Still no word in our media about NSW’s floods (nor commuter train closures in Sydney) so I had to bite my tongue and check Their ABC. The NEWS™️ here is too busy Trump-bashing and Pope-praising (who knew NZ was so Catholic?) or reporting another meth-addled gang shooting or something called the Cost Of Living – which Princess Ardern denied existed right up to the point of her resignation and fleeing the country.
My brother’s place missed the worst of the weather (apart from wind & rain on Monday) but having spent Christmas there, I was surprised how much of the Hunter / Mid North coastline was swampy river-delta floodplain barely above high-tide mark.
We took a roadie inland up to Armidale then down Waterfall Way to Coffs (to visit nieces) then back south to Port Stephens via a few spots out on the coast: fertile flatlands but as beowulf mentioned the other day, all reclaimed peat/swamp floodplains which are now the epicentre of the runoff… no wonder ‘house-boats’ are a thing around there.
Climate whackos and young people are probably shouting the usual ‘never seen before!’ but as anyone who knows a little history or geography (there’s a few old volcanoes & lava flows & semi-tropical valleys up that way) it ain’t nuffing new, round and round…
Stay high, and dry, if you can.
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Next time you go up that way Greg, check out Burning Mountain.
It’s been producing wonderful CO2 for about 6000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain?wprov=sfla1
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The Liberals lost all but two seats in South Australia.
Here in Mayo, formerly the safest Liberal seat in Australia, they came third (after the Independent and Labor).
They keep saying they will win back seats, and many are trying to get rid of the number one on their Senate selection, because he isn’t WOKE.
A regular lot of comments about “religious takeover of the party”.
Senator Alex Antic on Sky News
Liberals need to ‘shift back to the right’: Antic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3X-l6WoDrY
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FWIW – the covid scene
“No Trial Data, No Vax: FDA Demands Gold Standard Testing For Any New COVID-19 Vaccines”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/no-trial-data-no-vax-fda-demands-gold-standard-testing-any-new-covid-19-vaccines
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FWIW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfNUM2CbbM
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FWIW –
Well darn – Jo and contributors missed the cut!
“Are Scientists who Contest the Climate Emergency “Publicity-seeking Contrarians?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/20/are-scientists-who-contest-the-climate-emergency-insincere-publicity-seeking-contrarians/
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