The world could heat 1C tomorrow and no one would care or notice. But if the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism Iran starts producing plutonium, no one will sleep again. I had not realised they were so close. That’s not enrichment or replacing carbon fuels, that’s WWIII in a briefcase.
It’s nice to see the UN has finally passed a resolution that Iran should not have nuclear weapons. That will fix it. A more useless organization would be hard to find, 80,000 people who want to blow up the power stations in democratic countries. Military dictatorships are exempt.
Hyped for decades but so what?
They’re backed by 3 superpowers with about 10k nukes.
Hey bro, can you spare one?
Yup.
We all have around 20k nukes but dictate to sovereign countries they can’t have ONE.
Not pro-Iran but anti-hypocrisy.
Not forgetting the only country to use nukes in wartime was the USA.
To say I can have nukes but you can’t is hypocritical.
But note the difference. The ones with the nukes saying Iran can’t have them, are not openly stating they wish to annihilate a nearby country.
It’s the same as the police have guns and decide who else can and can’t. The ones who can’t have demonstrated they can’t be trusted.
Or like a parent telling a child not to do something the parent regularly does because it’s not safe.
It might ultimately be hypocrisy. But it’s not unreasonable in the circumstance.
As for the US being the only ones to use nukes in wartime.
Key things. It was during wartime and the US was brought into the war through an unprovoked attack. Iran, on the other hand, is actively initiating attacks on Israel. Directly and by proxy. Not simply retaliating to an unprovoked attack.
Was the atomic bomb the wrong thing to do? That’s up for debate. But it shows those who can’t use them wisely shouldn’t have them.
I’m sick of apologists on the TV saying Iran’s enrichment program is only for energy production and medicine, not weapons. If that’s the case, why did they hide the centrifuges 300ft underground?
Hi Yarpos,
Let’s be quite, quite clear.
There is one reason, and one reason alone, why a nation would go to the trouble and expense to enrich Uranium in U-235 beyond the 60-percent figure, and to produce Uranium in considerable quantities at that level of enrichment.
So to suggest they buried the enrichment plant deep underground merely because other nations told them not to proceed with this exercise is, well, to betray a certain level of innocence.
I wanted to protest about a large 5G mast being placed in an area of outstanding natural beauty so did some research. I was surprised to discover there is still controversy over radiation from mobile phones and 5G. The EU had carried out some research and said the technology needed to be examined further before it was rolled out but of course it was too late.
This latest bit of research casts further doubt on POSSIBLE harm. Still not proven. However interesting to see it linked with rising cases of cancer amongst the young and that it can POSSIBLY affect fertility/sterility. That would explain a lot as the birth rate has slumped as the use of mobile phones has soared
I reckon there’s more than that, growing up doing so much communication via the phone when you meet others in real life you have unreasonable expectations so back to your virtual friends.
I never knew there were so so many people for whom abuse is their first language until I got on line.
I bought the book years ago. The correlation between Nicholas Cage movies and drownings in backyard pools is a favorite. And the correlation between CO2 and global Warming looks so silly. The graph of real thermometer temperatures for Europe alone is far more significant with 12 turning points and a major low in 1870 which can be confirmed from the press of the day. Not so most of the rest of the world where thermometers, even people did not exist as 74% of the planet is covered by water anyway.
You would have to think the invention of a ‘world’ temperature is simply to achieve some sort of upwards correlation with CO2. And being 99% derived from theory rather than measured, it is in violent disagreement with the thermometer data in the only place which had thermometers over the same period. So even the very poor correlation is manufactured, not measured. And in 38 years of atmospheric computer models, the computer predictions have been wrong. Warmest years ever have been declared over 0.01C.
At the same time, CO2 has been a near perfect straight line, unperturbed by anything mankind has done. Or any impact of 500,000 giant useless windmills with random power output.
I acknowledge that medical technology is far better now than 100 years ago. But has anyone plotted the incidence of cancer starting from the time when electromagnetic waves started to be broadcast commercially? Yes that would be radio in the 1920s…
The law points out that that disagreeing with something or being offended by it is all part of the process of University and other points of view you don’t like shouldn’t be closed down..
It’s amazing that a government, any government can or should or needs to write such a law. America’s Second Amendment. The role of Westminster government is continually expanding its reach into our lives.
After defence and taxation, the growth of the government into social services, health, education, privacy and now speech is frightening. While not a bad law, it demonstrates the opposite can be legislated as easily, as with Australia’s e-safety commissioner or the faux human rights commissioners. The ability of Justin Trudeau to shut down the bank accounts of millions of people who simply disagreed with him was a watershed in absolute government control. Especially as he had no legal right to do so and the banks had no obligation to comply.
“A man has been jailed today after pleading guilty to posting grossly offensive messages on social media.
On or about 31 July 2024, Lee Dunn, 51, re-posted three images with captions which were grossly offensive, and which risked worsening community tensions.”
Analysis of satellite observations shows that in the past 24 years the Earth’s storm cloud zones in the tropics and the middle latitudes have been contracting at a rate of 1.5%–3% per decade. This cloud contraction, along with cloud cover decreases at low latitudes, allows more solar radiation to reach the Earth’s surface. When the contribution of all cloud changes is calculated, the storm cloud contraction is found to be the main contributor to the observed increase of the Earth’s solar absorption during the 21st century.
And hot off the press https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/9384/ This paper from Bangor Scientific and Educational Consultants – Confirming that Modern Global Warming is Predominantly Geomagnetically Driven and Seeking Other Drivers by Employing Latitudinal Bands. This goes a long way to confirming what a lot of us have been looking at for some time. “The hypothesis that most of modern warming is geomagnetically driven is tested and shown to be correct.” The fall in Earth’s magnetic field strength and the acceleration of magnetic pole movements screws with the energy balance of the planet. And on the claims of validity of the CSIRO from yesterday – https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-24/csiro-accused-of-sending-misinformation/101556858. Just saying
So that long article about the CSIRO’s brochure on fracking was because they said “methane may cause global warming’ instead of ‘methane causes global warming’.
What a complete waste of everyone’s time, fighting over a lie!
A bit more info citing a previous paper – “The paper uniquely addressed both historic and modern warming and explained almost 90% of all post-industrial warming as seen in the GISTEMP v4 global average data set and it also simultaneously, seamlessly and successfully hindcast previous temperature changes for some 2000 years all without the need to involve CO2 or other GHGS in the model.” “In more detail, the theory advanced for most of the change was that as the pole moves northwards, energetic particle interactions (EEP) also change which has knock-on effects on polar stratospheric chemistry, the global electric circuit and hence global clouds and earth albedo.”
Does that mean that we are starting to understand clouds?
The last 25 years on this wholly permanent-grassland farm have been quite munificent – nothing that you could call a drought, not too wet or cold in winter, and plenty of Sun.
If it’s “the Sun wot dunnit” then it won’t always do it, so what’s next 25 years look like?
Gotta love living in Victoriastan, everything is so consistent.
So, if you are a farmer in this state, you are required by law to have biosecurity measures in place, signs warning that all visitors must register that they are on you property and the pain of penalties if these rules are not adhered to.
Victoria is currently in the process of passing laws that allow up to $12000.00 fines to be applied to any farmer that denies access to power line company employees . These power line company employees DO NOT need to seek permission to enter any property. Just another case of government over reach.
I’m sure the appropriate minister will make a public announcement saying that “community consultation ” took place
Having posted a similar link during the week but probably too late in the day, here’s the govt-approved release (which is just as damning) of a study which commenced in 2017 involving the Ministry of Environment and NIWA (the BoM’s clone).
That god-forsaken, uninhabited, edge-of-the-world wilderness called Fiordland – think glaciated valleys, impenetrable bush/forest, wild Tasman storms and moose-eating sandflies – gobbles more atmospheric carbon than all of New Zealand’s tiny population ‘emits’. Therefore, we’re due a massive refund from the UN and the likes of Guterres, Greta & Gore can go [redacted] themselves.
NZ’s native trees save the planet – science! So maybe now we can put a stop to those foreign investors planting pinusradiata all over what was once prime farm & crop land and children can sleep easy at night without suffering hellish nightmares… apart from rabid Ashkenaz! Z!on!sts attempting to fulfil their psychopathic doomsday prophecies of old.
‘Computer models suggest that 40 percent of the human-produced CO2 in the ocean worldwide was originally absorbed from the atmosphere into the Southern Ocean, making it one of the most important carbon sinks on our planet.’ (NASA)
NIWA did an experiment in the Southern Ocean, where phytoplankton growth can be limited by low Fe.
They put the iron on by ship which resulted in an extreme proliferation in a small area.
The plan was to then sink the phytoplankton , supposedly sequestering the carbon.
It wasn’t because he rec’d more primary votes than Labor usually gets. It was simply down to preference flows and fragmentation of voters on the right.
Yep, letter a day or two back announced electricity up from 30c a couple of years back to 40c now… Looking at food as well, 30% is probably a fair measure of Labor’s inflation.
Here is a question which someone may be able to answer.
This winter has started off quite cold with clear nights.
Ice forms on parked cars out in the street. Yet the overnight minimum, according to my nearest BOM station is still above freezing .
So do parked cars get colder than the adjacent air temperature? This morning was particularly interesting because 2 white cars had not frozen but a dark grey car next to them had ice on the roof and the windows. The overnight minimum temperature at my nearest BOM station was 2.7C at 0730, which was when I went out to check.
I am thinking that the cars must radiate heat into the clear morning air and get quite cold. Dew forms on the cold metal and windows of the cars and freezes.
The air temperature, quite likely measured by satellite so ‘somewhere’ in the atmosphere, has very little reason to be the same temperature as a solid surface emitting its energy as radiation.
What’s the chance of any particular infrared photon getting clear of the atmosphere without hitting an atom that absorbs it along the way. If nitrogen and oxygen are quite transparent to infra-red radiation they can retain their thermal energy while the emitted radiation escapes into space and cools a metal. Maybe the lag is considerable, but eventually you’d expect the air temp to match the car’s temp.
I see the same with the grass outside, ice on all the plants yet the BOM minimum temps not below freezing. Would a horizontal mercury thermometer lying outside covered in ice read the same as their official one in its insulating box?
Definitely black cars absorb and emit faster than white ones, physics is quite racist.
If Trump attacks Iran, presumably they’ll respond against regional American bases…
Will Trump be on the tarmac at the Airport to salute the “flag-draped coffins” as they come off the plane from half a world away?
That will be the “photo-op of the century”, won’t it! … “The ‘peace’ President who signed their Death Warrant, salutes the fallen”.
(At least he won’t be checking his watch like Biden did)
And the aircraft carrier–“Nimitz”–that he sent to the region (it’s old apparently; due to be scrapped)… five thousand crew members… Does that sound like a ‘sacrificial lamb’ he’s dangling out there?
‘Manufacturing Consent for War’ is the phrase for today. Discuss … (refer to events leading up the Iraq War of 2003 and the ‘Ne0cons’ and their hidden agenda, for extra points)
“refer to events leading up the Iraq War of 2003 and the ‘Ne0cons’ and their hidden agenda, for extra points”
Yeah, the ol’ ‘weapons of mass destruction’, ‘axis of evil’, same old same old BS to get the people into a war. Its their sickening ‘holier than thou’ hypocrisy that is so annoying, The Free World, The Rule of Law, Democracy, Sovereign Country… blah blah, when they are stating that Iran must not be allowed weapons?
Either a country can do as it leaders wishes, or we have a world where the most powerful countries rule, there is no intermediate. Either America gets some balls and says “We’re in charge, you do as you’re told or we will nuke you’ and gives up this crap about free democracies, or they have to let other countries have what they themselves have, nukes included.
Trump is boasting about the $88bn he’s collected from tariffs!
Let me see if I’ve got this right (cos I don’t sell imported goods):
Money comes out of Americans’ bank accounts, initially business owners’ accounts, and goes into the government’s account… and the cost of that will get passed on to American consumers… And he thinks that’s good news?!
This year, Ford may retake the title. It recently issued a single recall for almost 1.1 million vehicles, and now there’s a new one that affects 197,432 Mustang Mach-E electric crossovers in America and another 120,000-odd from other markets.
According to the recall documents filed with the NHTSA, the problem occurs when the vehicle has a low 12-volt battery, and then “the electronic door latches may remain locked once the driver or front passenger exits and shuts the door.” If a child is left in the car when this happens, they may be unable to take advantage of the inner door release handles.
Worse still, the car may still not unlock when the 12-V battery is jumped. One Mustang Mach-E Forum user reported that his infant was locked in the car for 40 minutes because of this same sort of problem.
While Ford works on a remedy, it has issued a stop-sale recall, so there are likely still affected units at dealers.
A Simple Fix, But A Long Wait
Thankfully, the fault lies in the vehicle’s software, so this won’t require a physical fix at the dealer. Ford will update the affected 2021-2025 EVs’ powertrain control module and secondary on-board diagnostic control module C software at no cost, and owners should expect notification letters to be mailed on June 23.
Once Ford has figured out exactly what to do, it will send a second letter, but unfortunately, the automaker only expects the fix to be ready on September 29.
On the surface, software seems like something that shouldn’t only go wrong when the car reaches users, but test engineers don’t usually test new cars with old or weak 12V batteries. Ford’s general quality problems will take years to fix
Truffle harvesters are a happy bunch in the Canberra lowlands this winter – wind harvesters not so much.
Mean minimum temp of -2.1 °C so far this June, compared to 0.1 °C for June 2024.
Beautiful, still, sunny days though.
Jo just said that a “power cord” from a demolished wind tower might be reused. Considering that new tower is (always?) so much larger does it mean that original cable was grossly oversized? If so, does that oversizing continues all the way through the farm and grid?
A minor detail maybe but are those wind gusts which drive output to nearly nameplate value statistically long ? Like an hour or two?
Wind is a finite resource. A pic in Jo’s article on “repowering” showed an example of a line of 13 small towers being replaced by three larger ones. Being taller they get better wind but I suspect any gains achieved would effect capacity factor more than peak power.
There is a limit of electricity from turbines per square kilometre – sorry but I have forgotten it. But adding more turbines causes interference between them, so they have to be spaced out. The larger the turbine the less that can be installed per sq. kilometre.
A taller turbine will get “better wind” but there is a limit to their numbers. And taller units face stronger winds, hence higher construction & maintenance costs.
They found a rough average of 4 megawatts per square kilometer (about 10 megawatts per square mile). So a 2-megawatt wind turbine would require a total area of about half a square kilometer (about two-tenths of a square mile). https://www.sciencing.com/much-land-needed-wind-turbines-12304634/
Rainfall data for BOM’s Perth weather station is suspect of late. Last week there were no half-hourly records for 3 days, just a 24hour reading. Overnight, when it is raining, the half-hourly data flat lined at 10 pm at 17.2 mm and is still stuck there at 8 am. This is despite the rain radar showing precipitation most of the night. As a check the nearby weather station at Perth AirPort shows increasing readings through the night and is 10 mm more than the Perth station which is actually in Mt Lawley near to ECU. So the question remains: what does BOM do when there is clearly an issue with its gauge metering system. Do they ignore the fault and later tell us that Perth has lower rainfall because of climate change, or do they average the nearby station data and present it as “fact”. Of interest is the fact that the “Perth” station has moved location over the decades. At one time it was closer to the coast where sea breezes would have been more pronounced giving the impression that Perth temperatures have increased over the decades.
Not only for Perth Stanley. Our local tipping bucket regularly misfires and sometimes when it’s working, the rain that it does record does not make it to Climate Data Online. It simply gets ignored.
So it is our shortest day which, logically, should be the depths of winter but that, officially, only starts today. I think this is odd but I’m just a mechy/techy.
Cloudflare blocks record 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against hosting provider
This new attack, which is 12% larger than the previous record, delivered a massive data volume of 37.4 TB in just 45 seconds. This is the equivalent of about 7,500 hours of HD streaming or 12,500,000 jpeg photos.
The attack came from 122,145 source IP addresses spread across 161 countries, with the majority based in Brazil, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, and Ukraine.
The “garbage” data packages were delivered across multiple destination ports on the victim’s system, averaging 21,925 ports per second and peaking at 34,517 ports/second.
Austria’s Left Pushes for Jail Time For Those Opposing Trans Surgeries For Minors
According to a report by ServusTV, a draft bill promoted by the SPÖ (Social Democrats) and Neos (Liberals) parties would impose penalties of up to €30,000 or one year in jail on anyone who questions a minor’s “gender transition”—including parents, doctors, or psychologists. In other words, simply advising caution regarding an irreversible decision could lead to criminal liability.
BLM Org Asks ‘White Folks’ For Juneteenth Reparations As Finances Fizzle
“Commit yourselves to real reparations policies that hold accountable the government, white-supremacist capitalism, and white people — who continue to benefit from our generations of stolen labor,” the press release states. “Slide your Black friend some benjamins. Make a check out to Black liberation organizations, like BLM Grassroots.”
I never owned slaves and you never picked cotton.
You are entitled to nothing.
If black lives matter so much then stop occupying the top spot in FBI & DOJ crime statistics. 😎
I look forward to seeing the creation of a much-needed new movement: Black Babies Matter. It will be dedicated to ensuring that all black babies grow up with a father in the home.
‘A new gas find in the Bass Strait, which was presumed depleted, could potentially delay predicted shortfalls in east coast supplies and undercut the case for LNG imports.’ (Oz)
No, they are laughing themselves stupid! They know it will take decades to get political permission to do anything with it, endless reports, environmental studies, stakeholders conferences, local community consultation, changes of Govt, Court orders, High Court decisions… it will be forgotten about by then!.
Only ruinables get a fast-track and exemptions from all the laws meant to stop them doing what they do!
The eight Stratotankers tracked across the US and have now returned to base. That’s a lot of gas, too much for F-16s, must have been topping up heavily loaded B2s to cross the pacific. Just me, sitting in my shorts thousands of miles from nowhere.
Nope. The B-2 Spirit. Low visibility, can carry two 30,000lb MOPs. Such a heavy load means they would take off with minimum fuel hence the early drink before meeting more tankers from Hawaii. The last lot then fuelled north of Cairns and on to Diego Garcia. This long way round means they are not asking to overfly European airspace. Plane spotters say two flights of 4 today.
FWIW – the dark underside of illegal immigration –
“DECONSTRUCTING THE NYT: “The quote is presented in a context that feels intended to generate empathy for those who’ve been affected by the ‘increasingly aggressive raids.’ But that ‘landscaper’ — that is, person in the landscaping business — was, apparently, competing unfairly with anyone in that business who is dutifully following federal law and not hiring those in the country illegally.” ”
“I know of one landscaper that lost the whole crew he had, and he is just totally out of business, all of a sudden.”
That quote is featured at the beginning of yesterday’s NYT “Daily” podcast, An Interview With Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan.”
Its been 34 orbits, or 50hours in a cramped space capsule, to get to the ISS. Then they developed a 4-orbit system that takes 6hours, and people can suffer space sickness in the comfort of the station. Finally they can get it down to a 2-orbit system, but the problems are interesting-
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The world could heat 1C tomorrow and no one would care or notice. But if the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism Iran starts producing plutonium, no one will sleep again. I had not realised they were so close. That’s not enrichment or replacing carbon fuels, that’s WWIII in a briefcase.
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It’s nice to see the UN has finally passed a resolution that Iran should not have nuclear weapons. That will fix it. A more useless organization would be hard to find, 80,000 people who want to blow up the power stations in democratic countries. Military dictatorships are exempt.
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Hyped for decades but so what?
They’re backed by 3 superpowers with about 10k nukes.
Hey bro, can you spare one?
Yup.
We all have around 20k nukes but dictate to sovereign countries they can’t have ONE.
Not pro-Iran but anti-hypocrisy.
Not forgetting the only country to use nukes in wartime was the USA.
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To say I can have nukes but you can’t is hypocritical.
But note the difference. The ones with the nukes saying Iran can’t have them, are not openly stating they wish to annihilate a nearby country.
It’s the same as the police have guns and decide who else can and can’t. The ones who can’t have demonstrated they can’t be trusted.
Or like a parent telling a child not to do something the parent regularly does because it’s not safe.
It might ultimately be hypocrisy. But it’s not unreasonable in the circumstance.
As for the US being the only ones to use nukes in wartime.
Key things. It was during wartime and the US was brought into the war through an unprovoked attack. Iran, on the other hand, is actively initiating attacks on Israel. Directly and by proxy. Not simply retaliating to an unprovoked attack.
Was the atomic bomb the wrong thing to do? That’s up for debate. But it shows those who can’t use them wisely shouldn’t have them.
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I’m sick of apologists on the TV saying Iran’s enrichment program is only for energy production and medicine, not weapons. If that’s the case, why did they hide the centrifuges 300ft underground?
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because they were told to stop it and were threatened with destruction and have had facilities destroyed previously? stuff like that
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Yeah . . .wimps , those Persians.
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Hi Yarpos,
Let’s be quite, quite clear.
There is one reason, and one reason alone, why a nation would go to the trouble and expense to enrich Uranium in U-235 beyond the 60-percent figure, and to produce Uranium in considerable quantities at that level of enrichment.
So to suggest they buried the enrichment plant deep underground merely because other nations told them not to proceed with this exercise is, well, to betray a certain level of innocence.
Regards,
Paul Miskelly
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Amusing satire on Animal Farm which has been renamed Net Zero Farm
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/animal-farm-2025/
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I wanted to protest about a large 5G mast being placed in an area of outstanding natural beauty so did some research. I was surprised to discover there is still controversy over radiation from mobile phones and 5G. The EU had carried out some research and said the technology needed to be examined further before it was rolled out but of course it was too late.
This latest bit of research casts further doubt on POSSIBLE harm. Still not proven. However interesting to see it linked with rising cases of cancer amongst the young and that it can POSSIBLY affect fertility/sterility. That would explain a lot as the birth rate has slumped as the use of mobile phones has soared
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/at-last-they-admit-it-cell-phone-radiation-can-cause-cancer/
Still nothing definitive but 5G and the coming 6G should have been looked at in more depth before being rolled out.
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It’s predictable that the mobile phone will reduce the birthrate. It’s hard to get pregnant from virtual meetings.
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I reckon there’s more than that, growing up doing so much communication via the phone when you meet others in real life you have unreasonable expectations so back to your virtual friends.
I never knew there were so so many people for whom abuse is their first language until I got on line.
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https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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I bought the book years ago. The correlation between Nicholas Cage movies and drownings in backyard pools is a favorite. And the correlation between CO2 and global Warming looks so silly. The graph of real thermometer temperatures for Europe alone is far more significant with 12 turning points and a major low in 1870 which can be confirmed from the press of the day. Not so most of the rest of the world where thermometers, even people did not exist as 74% of the planet is covered by water anyway.
You would have to think the invention of a ‘world’ temperature is simply to achieve some sort of upwards correlation with CO2. And being 99% derived from theory rather than measured, it is in violent disagreement with the thermometer data in the only place which had thermometers over the same period. So even the very poor correlation is manufactured, not measured. And in 38 years of atmospheric computer models, the computer predictions have been wrong. Warmest years ever have been declared over 0.01C.
At the same time, CO2 has been a near perfect straight line, unperturbed by anything mankind has done. Or any impact of 500,000 giant useless windmills with random power output.
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I’m sceptical of all the new causes of cancer being discovered. It’s almost like EVERYTHING causes cancer except …
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As per the old Joe Jackson song
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I acknowledge that medical technology is far better now than 100 years ago. But has anyone plotted the incidence of cancer starting from the time when electromagnetic waves started to be broadcast commercially? Yes that would be radio in the 1920s…
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” However interesting to see it linked with rising cases of cancer”
Was linked to rising brain cancer by the Europeans decades ago, but brain cancer overall is not a big problem compared to what our food does to us.
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New law comes into force in the UK forcing Universities to accept Free Speech
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/06/19/be-ready-to-be-shocked-and-offended-at-university-students-told-as-free-speech-law-comes-in/
The law points out that that disagreeing with something or being offended by it is all part of the process of University and other points of view you don’t like shouldn’t be closed down..
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It’s amazing that a government, any government can or should or needs to write such a law. America’s Second Amendment. The role of Westminster government is continually expanding its reach into our lives.
After defence and taxation, the growth of the government into social services, health, education, privacy and now speech is frightening. While not a bad law, it demonstrates the opposite can be legislated as easily, as with Australia’s e-safety commissioner or the faux human rights commissioners. The ability of Justin Trudeau to shut down the bank accounts of millions of people who simply disagreed with him was a watershed in absolute government control. Especially as he had no legal right to do so and the banks had no obligation to comply.
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So Universities, not the general public?
“A man has been jailed today after pleading guilty to posting grossly offensive messages on social media.
On or about 31 July 2024, Lee Dunn, 51, re-posted three images with captions which were grossly offensive, and which risked worsening community tensions.”
https://www.cps.gov.uk/north-west/news/man-jailed-offensive-social-media-posts-wake-recent-disorder
I guess whoever decides the definition of ‘gross’?
Gladly I’m not British, my wife might have me in jail.
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Now there is a novel approach, being allowed to be offended!
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Contraction of the World’s Storm-Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth’s Sunlight Absorption
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL114882
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Over the past 24 years its plain to see that less cloud has produced global warming.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_May_2025_v6.1_20x9-1-scaled.jpg
CO2 has no part to play.
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And hot off the press https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/9384/ This paper from Bangor Scientific and Educational Consultants – Confirming that Modern Global Warming is Predominantly Geomagnetically Driven and Seeking Other Drivers by Employing Latitudinal Bands. This goes a long way to confirming what a lot of us have been looking at for some time. “The hypothesis that most of modern warming is geomagnetically driven is tested and shown to be correct.” The fall in Earth’s magnetic field strength and the acceleration of magnetic pole movements screws with the energy balance of the planet. And on the claims of validity of the CSIRO from yesterday – https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-24/csiro-accused-of-sending-misinformation/101556858. Just saying
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So that long article about the CSIRO’s brochure on fracking was because they said “methane may cause global warming’ instead of ‘methane causes global warming’.
What a complete waste of everyone’s time, fighting over a lie!
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The weather report indicates 1 degree C here tomorrow night. I’m in the NH… Summer Solstice party by Mother Nature?
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“1 degree C here tomorrow night. I’m in the NH . . . . .”
Is that usual in your parts? You’re not in Alaska are you?
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Nope, not in Alaska. Cold snaps during June are unusual but do happen.
Actually, Alaska would have the Midnight Sun this time of year, so would be warm and mild 24 hours.
This would be the reason for reduction of sea ice, too. Nothing to do with climate change.
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A bit more info citing a previous paper – “The paper uniquely addressed both historic and modern warming and explained almost 90% of all post-industrial warming as seen in the GISTEMP v4 global average data set and it also simultaneously, seamlessly and successfully hindcast previous temperature changes for some 2000 years all without the need to involve CO2 or other GHGS in the model.” “In more detail, the theory advanced for most of the change was that as the pole moves northwards, energetic particle interactions (EEP) also change which has knock-on effects on polar stratospheric chemistry, the global electric circuit and hence global clouds and earth albedo.”
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“and hence global clouds and earth albedo.””
Does that mean that we are starting to understand clouds?
The last 25 years on this wholly permanent-grassland farm have been quite munificent – nothing that you could call a drought, not too wet or cold in winter, and plenty of Sun.
If it’s “the Sun wot dunnit” then it won’t always do it, so what’s next 25 years look like?
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Gotta love living in Victoriastan, everything is so consistent.
So, if you are a farmer in this state, you are required by law to have biosecurity measures in place, signs warning that all visitors must register that they are on you property and the pain of penalties if these rules are not adhered to.
Victoria is currently in the process of passing laws that allow up to $12000.00 fines to be applied to any farmer that denies access to power line company employees . These power line company employees DO NOT need to seek permission to enter any property. Just another case of government over reach.
I’m sure the appropriate minister will make a public announcement saying that “community consultation ” took place
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Dept Statistics say Vic and NSW lost people to WA and Qld… I wonder why?
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While we’re citing recent studies showing the $C@M to be exactly that:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/564407/scientists-may-have-found-a-big-mysterious-carbon-sink-in-the-south-island
Having posted a similar link during the week but probably too late in the day, here’s the govt-approved release (which is just as damning) of a study which commenced in 2017 involving the Ministry of Environment and NIWA (the BoM’s clone).
That god-forsaken, uninhabited, edge-of-the-world wilderness called Fiordland – think glaciated valleys, impenetrable bush/forest, wild Tasman storms and moose-eating sandflies – gobbles more atmospheric carbon than all of New Zealand’s tiny population ‘emits’. Therefore, we’re due a massive refund from the UN and the likes of Guterres, Greta & Gore can go [redacted] themselves.
NZ’s native trees save the planet – science! So maybe now we can put a stop to those foreign investors planting pinus radiata all over what was once prime farm & crop land and children can sleep easy at night without suffering hellish nightmares… apart from rabid Ashkenaz! Z!on!sts attempting to fulfil their psychopathic doomsday prophecies of old.
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I think that CO2 sink they are talking about is the entire southern hemisphere.
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The whole Southern Ocean is one big sink.
‘Computer models suggest that 40 percent of the human-produced CO2 in the ocean worldwide was originally absorbed from the atmosphere into the Southern Ocean, making it one of the most important carbon sinks on our planet.’ (NASA)
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NIWA did an experiment in the Southern Ocean, where phytoplankton growth can be limited by low Fe.
They put the iron on by ship which resulted in an extreme proliferation in a small area.
The plan was to then sink the phytoplankton , supposedly sequestering the carbon.
https://niwa.co.nz/climate-and-weather/iron-hypothesis
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At the Last Glacial Maximum there was lot of iron going into the Southern Ocean.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07366-4
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“Ashkenaz! Z!”
I resemble that remark !
🙂
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Our “genius” PM just announced on Farcebook:
The cluelessness and disconnect from reality is simply staggering.
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How in Gods name did this chump get back in?
I think ……………………………🤬
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Because conservatives will not vote for the lesser of two evils, because they are not perfect.
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It wasn’t because he rec’d more primary votes than Labor usually gets. It was simply down to preference flows and fragmentation of voters on the right.
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Yep, letter a day or two back announced electricity up from 30c a couple of years back to 40c now… Looking at food as well, 30% is probably a fair measure of Labor’s inflation.
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I wonder how he thinks less frequent but larger increases will help anyone?
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Check your spellnig Jo!
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Here is a question which someone may be able to answer.
This winter has started off quite cold with clear nights.
Ice forms on parked cars out in the street. Yet the overnight minimum, according to my nearest BOM station is still above freezing .
So do parked cars get colder than the adjacent air temperature? This morning was particularly interesting because 2 white cars had not frozen but a dark grey car next to them had ice on the roof and the windows. The overnight minimum temperature at my nearest BOM station was 2.7C at 0730, which was when I went out to check.
I am thinking that the cars must radiate heat into the clear morning air and get quite cold. Dew forms on the cold metal and windows of the cars and freezes.
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The air temperature, quite likely measured by satellite so ‘somewhere’ in the atmosphere, has very little reason to be the same temperature as a solid surface emitting its energy as radiation.
What’s the chance of any particular infrared photon getting clear of the atmosphere without hitting an atom that absorbs it along the way. If nitrogen and oxygen are quite transparent to infra-red radiation they can retain their thermal energy while the emitted radiation escapes into space and cools a metal. Maybe the lag is considerable, but eventually you’d expect the air temp to match the car’s temp.
I see the same with the grass outside, ice on all the plants yet the BOM minimum temps not below freezing. Would a horizontal mercury thermometer lying outside covered in ice read the same as their official one in its insulating box?
Definitely black cars absorb and emit faster than white ones, physics is quite racist.
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As a youngster, when walking barefoot to the beach in the hot sun, I had the choice of walking on concrete or asphalt.
The black asphalt was too hot while the whiter concrete edge-gutter was bearable.
Blek absorbs more solar than white.
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FWIW – one way of looking at it
“Iran So Far Away”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/06/19/iran-so-far-away/#comments
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..and using the other eye would give him a quite different way of looking at it.
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Re “and using the other eye would give him a quite different way of looking at it.”
It would – the author is Sarah Hoyt
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If Trump attacks Iran, presumably they’ll respond against regional American bases…
Will Trump be on the tarmac at the Airport to salute the “flag-draped coffins” as they come off the plane from half a world away?
That will be the “photo-op of the century”, won’t it! … “The ‘peace’ President who signed their Death Warrant, salutes the fallen”.
(At least he won’t be checking his watch like Biden did)
And the aircraft carrier–“Nimitz”–that he sent to the region (it’s old apparently; due to be scrapped)… five thousand crew members… Does that sound like a ‘sacrificial lamb’ he’s dangling out there?
‘Manufacturing Consent for War’ is the phrase for today. Discuss … (refer to events leading up the Iraq War of 2003 and the ‘Ne0cons’ and their hidden agenda, for extra points)
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“refer to events leading up the Iraq War of 2003 and the ‘Ne0cons’ and their hidden agenda, for extra points”
Yeah, the ol’ ‘weapons of mass destruction’, ‘axis of evil’, same old same old BS to get the people into a war. Its their sickening ‘holier than thou’ hypocrisy that is so annoying, The Free World, The Rule of Law, Democracy, Sovereign Country… blah blah, when they are stating that Iran must not be allowed weapons?
Either a country can do as it leaders wishes, or we have a world where the most powerful countries rule, there is no intermediate. Either America gets some balls and says “We’re in charge, you do as you’re told or we will nuke you’ and gives up this crap about free democracies, or they have to let other countries have what they themselves have, nukes included.
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I doubt very much that POTUS decided which aircraft carrier to send.
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Irrational. TDS sufferer.
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Custer Van Cleef, #15,
____So, we can expect Nimitz to be sent to Davy Jones – cheapest recycler there is?
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Trump is boasting about the $88bn he’s collected from tariffs!
Let me see if I’ve got this right (cos I don’t sell imported goods):
Money comes out of Americans’ bank accounts, initially business owners’ accounts, and goes into the government’s account… and the cost of that will get passed on to American consumers… And he thinks that’s good news?!
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Faulty Door Locks Could Lead To Fallout
When it comes to recalls of cars sold in America, Ford, Stellantis, and Tesla led the way in 2024 with the most.
This year, Ford may retake the title. It recently issued a single recall for almost 1.1 million vehicles, and now there’s a new one that affects 197,432 Mustang Mach-E electric crossovers in America and another 120,000-odd from other markets.
According to the recall documents filed with the NHTSA, the problem occurs when the vehicle has a low 12-volt battery, and then “the electronic door latches may remain locked once the driver or front passenger exits and shuts the door.” If a child is left in the car when this happens, they may be unable to take advantage of the inner door release handles.
Worse still, the car may still not unlock when the 12-V battery is jumped. One Mustang Mach-E Forum user reported that his infant was locked in the car for 40 minutes because of this same sort of problem.
While Ford works on a remedy, it has issued a stop-sale recall, so there are likely still affected units at dealers.
A Simple Fix, But A Long Wait
Thankfully, the fault lies in the vehicle’s software, so this won’t require a physical fix at the dealer. Ford will update the affected 2021-2025 EVs’ powertrain control module and secondary on-board diagnostic control module C software at no cost, and owners should expect notification letters to be mailed on June 23.
Once Ford has figured out exactly what to do, it will send a second letter, but unfortunately, the automaker only expects the fix to be ready on September 29.
On the surface, software seems like something that shouldn’t only go wrong when the car reaches users, but test engineers don’t usually test new cars with old or weak 12V batteries. Ford’s general quality problems will take years to fix
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Truffle harvesters are a happy bunch in the Canberra lowlands this winter – wind harvesters not so much.
Mean minimum temp of -2.1 °C so far this June, compared to 0.1 °C for June 2024.
Beautiful, still, sunny days though.
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High today here was 35 C, and bright sunshine.
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Nice!
It’s now midday and the temp. is still only 4.8C here in the low part of the high country in Victoria. No sun, no wind, both stoves going.
Happy Solstice!
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Jo just said that a “power cord” from a demolished wind tower might be reused. Considering that new tower is (always?) so much larger does it mean that original cable was grossly oversized? If so, does that oversizing continues all the way through the farm and grid?
A minor detail maybe but are those wind gusts which drive output to nearly nameplate value statistically long ? Like an hour or two?
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Wind is a finite resource. A pic in Jo’s article on “repowering” showed an example of a line of 13 small towers being replaced by three larger ones. Being taller they get better wind but I suspect any gains achieved would effect capacity factor more than peak power.
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There is a limit of electricity from turbines per square kilometre – sorry but I have forgotten it. But adding more turbines causes interference between them, so they have to be spaced out. The larger the turbine the less that can be installed per sq. kilometre.
A taller turbine will get “better wind” but there is a limit to their numbers. And taller units face stronger winds, hence higher construction & maintenance costs.
the direct land use for wind turbines comes in at three-quarters of an acre per megawatt of rated capacity. That is, a 2-megawatt wind turbine would require 1.5 acres of land.
https://www.sciencing.com/much-land-needed-wind-turbines-12304634/
They found a rough average of 4 megawatts per square kilometer (about 10 megawatts per square mile). So a 2-megawatt wind turbine would require a total area of about half a square kilometer (about two-tenths of a square mile).
https://www.sciencing.com/much-land-needed-wind-turbines-12304634/
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Rainfall data for BOM’s Perth weather station is suspect of late. Last week there were no half-hourly records for 3 days, just a 24hour reading. Overnight, when it is raining, the half-hourly data flat lined at 10 pm at 17.2 mm and is still stuck there at 8 am. This is despite the rain radar showing precipitation most of the night. As a check the nearby weather station at Perth AirPort shows increasing readings through the night and is 10 mm more than the Perth station which is actually in Mt Lawley near to ECU. So the question remains: what does BOM do when there is clearly an issue with its gauge metering system. Do they ignore the fault and later tell us that Perth has lower rainfall because of climate change, or do they average the nearby station data and present it as “fact”. Of interest is the fact that the “Perth” station has moved location over the decades. At one time it was closer to the coast where sea breezes would have been more pronounced giving the impression that Perth temperatures have increased over the decades.
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Not only for Perth Stanley. Our local tipping bucket regularly misfires and sometimes when it’s working, the rain that it does record does not make it to Climate Data Online. It simply gets ignored.
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18 hours on the Perth weather station is still failing to record rainfall. It has ceased to be.
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Dying Democrats desperate play to attract the braindead voters
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1935800686945407136
Bye bye Democrat party. And stay out!
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The (D) base will believe it is happening. Nothing is too absurd to imagine Trump doing it.
BTW Where did they get the money for that? I thought they were broke.
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Didn’t the Senator sniff her hair at the end? Do they think all men in power do that?
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They should have their hand in – haven’t they’ve been practicing with grave-dead ones for a long time?
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Inside Iran’s one of a kind missile launch system
https://youtu.be/lrp9Tvv5wME?si=dM5X79-aVGmdYaMe
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Happy solstice indeed.
So it is our shortest day which, logically, should be the depths of winter but that, officially, only starts today. I think this is odd but I’m just a mechy/techy.
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“I think this is odd .”
Pasture plants, at least here in Godzone , find the idea quite absurd.
As if sunlight is not the driving force for growth.
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Cloudflare blocks record 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against hosting provider
This new attack, which is 12% larger than the previous record, delivered a massive data volume of 37.4 TB in just 45 seconds. This is the equivalent of about 7,500 hours of HD streaming or 12,500,000 jpeg photos.
The attack came from 122,145 source IP addresses spread across 161 countries, with the majority based in Brazil, Vietnam, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, and Ukraine.
The “garbage” data packages were delivered across multiple destination ports on the victim’s system, averaging 21,925 ports per second and peaking at 34,517 ports/second.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-blocks-record-73-tbps-ddos-attack-against-hosting-provider/
Feel better now, Jo? 😁
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Austria’s Left Pushes for Jail Time For Those Opposing Trans Surgeries For Minors
According to a report by ServusTV, a draft bill promoted by the SPÖ (Social Democrats) and Neos (Liberals) parties would impose penalties of up to €30,000 or one year in jail on anyone who questions a minor’s “gender transition”—including parents, doctors, or psychologists. In other words, simply advising caution regarding an irreversible decision could lead to criminal liability.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/austria-spo-liberals-greens-legislation-gag-law-protecting-minors-gender-reassignment/
Someone make it stop!
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BLM Org Asks ‘White Folks’ For Juneteenth Reparations As Finances Fizzle
“Commit yourselves to real reparations policies that hold accountable the government, white-supremacist capitalism, and white people — who continue to benefit from our generations of stolen labor,” the press release states. “Slide your Black friend some benjamins. Make a check out to Black liberation organizations, like BLM Grassroots.”
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/06/19/blm-org-asks-white-folks-for-juneteenth-reparations-as-finances-fizzle/
I never owned slaves and you never picked cotton.
You are entitled to nothing.
If black lives matter so much then stop occupying the top spot in FBI & DOJ crime statistics. 😎
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I look forward to seeing the creation of a much-needed new movement: Black Babies Matter. It will be dedicated to ensuring that all black babies grow up with a father in the home.
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Brainteaser Saturday
Does God have a belly button?
If so, why.
If not, why not.
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Hang on, let me check
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Cain and Abel had belly buttons, but not Adam snd Eve.
God is divided into a Trinity and we can assume that Mary’s son had a belly button.
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Anti government meme of the day
https://imgbox.com/41XNd3hg
Totally! 😆
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Pretty soon, everyone gets a free EV
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-admits-trump-right-china-problem-beijing-unleashes-global-ev-dump
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The gods are smiling on us.
‘A new gas find in the Bass Strait, which was presumed depleted, could potentially delay predicted shortfalls in east coast supplies and undercut the case for LNG imports.’ (Oz)
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“The gods are smiling on us.”
No, they are laughing themselves stupid! They know it will take decades to get political permission to do anything with it, endless reports, environmental studies, stakeholders conferences, local community consultation, changes of Govt, Court orders, High Court decisions… it will be forgotten about by then!.
Only ruinables get a fast-track and exemptions from all the laws meant to stop them doing what they do!
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If it is “presumed depleted” then all that happened decades ago.
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‘ … it will be forgotten about by then!.
Not likely, there is money to be made.
https://www.sgst.com.au/news/kipper-compression-boosts-gas-production
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The USAF is restless. It is all happening with what might be the B2s with tankers heading across the Pacific.
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The eight Stratotankers tracked across the US and have now returned to base. That’s a lot of gas, too much for F-16s, must have been topping up heavily loaded B2s to cross the pacific. Just me, sitting in my shorts thousands of miles from nowhere.
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I presume you mean B52’s and not a resurrected fleet of ghosts from WW 2?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-25_Mitchell
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Nope. The B-2 Spirit. Low visibility, can carry two 30,000lb MOPs. Such a heavy load means they would take off with minimum fuel hence the early drink before meeting more tankers from Hawaii. The last lot then fuelled north of Cairns and on to Diego Garcia. This long way round means they are not asking to overfly European airspace. Plane spotters say two flights of 4 today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-30000-pound-bomb-and-plane-that-could-be-used-to-strike-iran/ar-AA1H3cph
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FWIW
“Great White Sharks Were Scared From Their Habitat by Just 2 Predators”
https://www.sciencealert.com/great-white-sharks-were-scared-from-their-habitat-by-just-2-predators
Via https://instapundit.com/727357/#disqus_thread
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FWIW – the dark underside of illegal immigration –
“DECONSTRUCTING THE NYT: “The quote is presented in a context that feels intended to generate empathy for those who’ve been affected by the ‘increasingly aggressive raids.’ But that ‘landscaper’ — that is, person in the landscaping business — was, apparently, competing unfairly with anyone in that business who is dutifully following federal law and not hiring those in the country illegally.” ”
“I know of one landscaper that lost the whole crew he had, and he is just totally out of business, all of a sudden.”
That quote is featured at the beginning of yesterday’s NYT “Daily” podcast, An Interview With Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan.”
More at
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2025/06/i-know-of-one-landscaper-that-lost.html
Via https://instapundit.com/727456/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Earthquake Near Iran Nuclear Site: Natural Event or Hidden Test?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/20/earthquake-near-iran-nuclear-site-natural-event-or-hidden-test/
Worry beads ready to rotate?
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Israel using atomic missiles to hit the Iranian research centers, but denying it…
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They haven’t denied it. Nothing to deny.
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Its been 34 orbits, or 50hours in a cramped space capsule, to get to the ISS. Then they developed a 4-orbit system that takes 6hours, and people can suffer space sickness in the comfort of the station. Finally they can get it down to a 2-orbit system, but the problems are interesting-
https://spec.tass.com/iss-express/two-orbit-scheme
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