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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-14/fed-square-amyl-and-the-sniffers-concert-cancelled/106012558
“It was pretty punk, the whole thing.”
Um, no, this is the absolute opposite of punk. I imagine these were the punks that followed the arrows on the floor in the shops….and dutifully wore face masks. They make me sick.
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(Belated) Happy birthday Windows Task Manager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQykvrAR_po
30 years and still going strong, but it might not have happened – there were objections to including such ‘nerd knobs’.
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What is not explained is how my almost teenage laptop goes to 100% CPU use with fans furiously trying to cool the CPU whilst I am doing _NOTHING_. The fun bit is, as soon as I open Task Manager to try and find the processor Hog, it all dies down to 10% CPU (where it is expected to be). So it is a case of “I can’t let you do that, Dave” to try and uncover the shenanigans of Windoze 10. The hints of adding extra columns and creating widgets is kinda cute!
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Its difficult these days to decide whether our govt or cyber hackers do the most damage to the economy. We are powerless about both, until an election comes round to remove the former.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/11/13/cyberattack-on-jaguar-land-rover-so-bad-it-has-damaged-the-uk-economy/
As for the ever increasing numbers of cyber hackers, I often air my concerns here on the over reliance we place on the headlong digitalisation of the western world.
It has resulted in loss of freedoms, hacking of companies and individuals on a grand scale and the mindless staring at screens by much of our population, who seemingly become unable to think for themselves and seem to accept the loss of privacy of putting out there ever increasing amounts of private data which will lead to a shrugging acceptance of digital id, with all that implies.
Either a Carrington event or cyber hackers will finish off our increasingly energy dependent/digital dependent societies. I am betting the latter will do it first, unless we wake up to the dangers
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Just the gov. making excuses for the tanking economy caused by their policies and the destruction of UK manufacturing including the car industry.
If one company shutting down is that impactful, it just shows how little else is left!
The budget is coming up, there’s been endless chaotic speculation/kite flying leaks, they’re desperate for good economic news and it just won’t come. Now they’ve sent the borrowing rate up too.
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FWIW
Might be time to compare how the UK rates by GDP versus PPP then
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UN fights rising tide of reality:
https://www.cfact.org/2025/11/13/cop30-the-climate-empire-strikes-back/
By Peter Murphy
The beginning: “Wednesday afternoon at the COP30 Climate Summit, the United Nations declared war on free speech and scientific inquiry. Through its Orwellian-sounding Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change, the UN pushed back hard against “climate disinformation,” which was the very purpose for establishing this UN Global Initiative in June 2025.
Specifically, the Initiative issued a “landmark declaration” that “calls on governments, the private sector, civil society, academia and funders to take concrete action to counter the growing impact of disinformation, misinformation, denialism and deliberate attacks on environmental journalists, defenders, scientists and researchers that undermine climate action and threaten societal stability.””
Their concern over our “growing impact” has a nice ring to it.
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. .nice ring to it . . .
Going down slowly :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wovz9dKG7JE
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“disinformation, “- crime
“misinformation, “- crime
“deliberate attacks on environmental journalists, defenders, scientists and researchers”- crime
“threaten societal stability.”- crime
“denialism “- look like its soon to be a crime! Wrongthink will be punished!
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Apparently at COP30 there is a standoff between Australia and Turkey about who should host COP31.
I guess Australia will likely win because we are more desperate to throw away one billion dollars plus of taxpayer money.
Anyway, may the most stupid one win!
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The choice between Antalya and Adelaide. Go Anatya! Please.
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Surprised they keep picking coastal cities given apocalyptic unprecedented sea level rise. Perhaps they should host these events at altitude like Mexico City, La Paz, Salt Lake City, Nairobi , that sort of thing.
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I’d like to think that they pick a spot exactly in the middle of the two for the next conference.
BYO floaties.
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In Brazil, climate standoff between Australia and Türkiye remains as divided as their drinking habits
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Zohran Mamdani can’t pay for most of the “free stuff” he promised because he can’t raise taxes without state legislature approval and even though they are also Democrat, they won’t approve the required tax increases.
Dr Steve Turkey discusses:
https://youtu.be/j2PSXOR4NKU
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Sorry, Turley, not Turkey, an unauthorised spelling correction
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Extraordinary BS that women are so much more affected by imaginary climate change than men.
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Who is going to stand up for the furries.
Surely they feel the warmth more than others.
https://oursaferschools.co.uk/2023/04/24/furries/
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Non-woke Florida is funding research into generic and off label drug use like ivermectin and other alternative strategies for cancer treatment.
Great initiative!
Dr John Campbell discusses.
https://youtu.be/_6jy9hE75Do
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Breaking news.
Bus ramming terror attack in Sweden.
Tousi TV discusses.
https://www.youtube.com/live/VVf_fMelP-M
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And then CNN opened their storyline… It was a mostly peaceful bus. Only the front did any real damage.
Too soon?
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“Too soon?”
We will need the mass of the bus; the velocity at impact; the mass of the impacted; any friction associated with the impacted mass, and the change in elevation of the impacted mass .. …
Anything else?
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If you are doing an energy or work study of the impact, summing before and after, then you need to consider the inelastic events too. Sometimes momentum is not conserved. Thermal effects rule, eventually.
With regard to what you have included in your assessment, you could use the Bernoulli equation for before and after as a guide, ie don’t forget pressure.
And then there is always the chemical energy too. Pop a gas cylinder, spill some fuel, etc.
Beyond billiards, collisions are painful to assess, (and to live through).
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Has the media decided what sort of mental illness the driver suffers from yet? It’s usually a pretty quick process.
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More importantly what sort of mental illness is affecting the European / Scandinavian politicians that causes them to open their borders to these crazed migrants. You can bet your last dollar that there’s a migrant involved. In addition the electorate has a huge problem in electing those politicians!! 😒🤔🤔🤔🤔
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The annual climate parties also known as Conference of Parties,are attended by around 25,000 delegates and hangers-on costing taxpayers an arm and a leg, a quarter billion dollars every party, i mean conference.
We have funded 30 parties now at a total cost of 7.5 billion dollars to keep temperatures from rising. Mission failed.
Billions down the drain.
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You wouldn’t say it was money down the drain if the COP had been used to fund 30 wonderful holidays for you.
Ask a delegate, they think this grift is the best thing since sliced bread. And it’s all free.
I’d like to think that the UN print their own climate money and that all delegates pay for everything with UN money. Flights, accommodation, food, entertainment, everything.
All paid with unmoney. It’s got a ring to it. Unmoney, like unwashed or unclean.
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Must be all that “horizontal exercise”?
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How many hangers-on went from Australia?
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494 allegedly
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-have-sent-the-most-delegates-to-cop30/
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This is almost laughable! During COVID, when they virtually locked employees in their houses, companies were keen to facilitate WFH just to keep functioning and viable. During that period of ‘incarceration’ sex was the main form of entertainment the result of which was, approximately 9 months later, babies! Now companies are spending more on resources to manage the staff who prefer to WFH and want them back in the offices. The new mums and dads are resisting and who can blame them?
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Trump has not accepted the BBC apology. They provided a written apology with no settlement. And no negotiation. Trump needs a grovelling apology probably from Starmer. He knows their BBC is a far left propaganda arm of UK government. And he knows he is the best person on the planet to take down these radical organisations.
Trump usually starts with a large claim and it gets settled before court for much less but still substantial. So far he has recovered around USD100M in damages from media companies.
If BBC try to defend their defaming him without some real settlement it will get very expensive very quickly.
Then their is their ABC in Australia that did similar editing to portray Trump as a demagogue (their word) in rousing the January 6 march. It has already come to the attention of the US media.
When you see the effort that these radical left, government paid propaganda arms make to harm his image he has every right to seek massive damages. Look at this clown:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QxPDntDjh8
A useful idiot for the radical left in the USA.
It appalls me that their ABC Youtube feeds have comments disabled.. They do not want to see the truth. They are an organisation despised in Australia.
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FWIW – the next round
From today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
” BBC apologies for “errors in judgment” and “mistakes” in Trump speech edit, and then steps right on another editorial rake”.
Starts at
“Yesterday, the beleaguered British Broadcasting Company, or, affectionately, “the Beeb,” ran a typically snooty story headlined, “BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation.” It was their only play.”
“n the latest deceptively spliced clip, not identical, but very similar to the first one, Trump is falsely shown as saying: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol. And we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.”
And then, to make sure the audience was properly fooled, BBC presenter Kirsty Wark voiced over, “and fight they did,” switching straight to footage from the Capitol riots.
A scalded BBC said it was “looking into the matter.” Trump’s lawyers say the new clip proves a pattern and intent for defamation.
Let’s open the betting. My chips are on a $15 million settlement. You?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/strategic-misdirection-friday-november?
And other things
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I expect more like USD50M plus costs.
Trump is the only person in the world with global jurisdiction. He has difficulty getting what he wants from Russia but UK are not in that position. The smarmy radical left running their BBC are not used to bending over for anyone but royalty.
The harder they fight the worse it gets for them. Trump now has a letter admitting defamation. They should not have sent that letter prior to negotiating a settlement. And I expect Trump will require a grovelling public apology probably from Starmer because he is ultimately the head of their BBC.
KRudd actually got off lightly with his humiliation. He did not apologise in public so was spared that level of demeaning humiliation.
I know one person who has actually spent time with Trump. That person is no dill. He has the highest regard for Trump. He only have to look at how respectfully he treats most people. He was genuinely taken aback by the condition of Biden in that historic “debate”.
And yet here we are in Australia constantly bombarded about how bad Trump is. You can bet their ABC will view Trump as being a bad sport for going after their BBC after they have provided a written apology. They would think that a written apology was good enough as well.
Starmer should have contacted Trump as soon as Trump started the legal action and asked POTUS Trump – How can I fix this? KRudd was at least smart enough to make a private apology direct to Trump.
Anyone else care to make a prediction?
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It should also be noted that the damages payments go to TRUMP Foundation charities, not him personally.
The Lamestream Media don’t bother reporting that.
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The Left love tearing down statues of great men like Captain Cook, etc. but remain silent about the statue at the entrance of BBC headquarters of Prospero and Ariel from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, by an artist, Eric Gill, who sexually abused his daughters and others.
Even the extreme Left Guardian said:
But then went ahead with apologetics.
Yet another criminal degenerate held in high esteem by the Left.
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Especially Sarah Ferguson for me RW.
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in The USA but like as not something similar is developing in Australia
“70% of H1B visas go to India.
10–15% go to China.
80% are ENTRY-LEVEL jobs that should be going to young Americans”
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New snowfall record on Ottawa:
The dumping of snow across the nation’s capital on Nov. 9 broke a record first set in 1967. The weather agency noted that the Ottawa International Airport recorded 11.7 centimetres of snow on Sunday, smashing the previous record of 5.8 cm.
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/11/10/first-of-the-season-snowfall-breaks-over-50-year-record/
So much for the children of 2004 not knowing what snow is. Even the children of 2025 know what snow is.
UK and Europe are about to get their first decent dose of snow this season:
The UK could be set for a blizzard as a new forecast has raised the alarm for more than 60 counties across Britain to wake up to snow next week. Using the latest meteorological models, forecasts from WX Charts have shown the potential for up to 25cm of snow to fall in the worst-affected areas in just 10 days. According to the data, freezing air will sweep down from the Arctic north of the UK next week on Wednesday, November 19th, bringing an abrupt end to the wet and mild conditions seen recently.
This is what happens when there is higher than average simmer sunlight and lower than average winter sunlight. Poleward heat advection intensifies. I expect above trend total area snow coverage this boreal winter.
If the wind turbines stop spinning in the blizzard or are braked, the UK could suffer electricity shortages. Be prepared to survive without electricity. And please do not run your generators indoors.
This year should be a serious test for the weather dependence of the UK grid. I doubt solar panels will do any heavy lifting.
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Even in Australia my friend has just led a four day, eight person snow shoe walk and overnight pack carry across Australia’s high country. Rare to be able to do that this tine of year.
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It is due to go chilly for the UK next week, but not particularly cold. November is running almost 6C above average so far, crazy times, I’ve been on the beach in shirt sleeves on the south coast.
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The Trump effect hits Florida but this time in the form of global cooling:
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https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/weather/2025/11/11/florida-cold-temperature-record-broken/87209488007/
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Hanson cuts to the chase! “One Nation has set the agenda by demanding an end to net zero,”
The Liberal Party had better dislodge itself from their current 50/50 position on net zero and quickly or find a friendly proctologist
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Diagnosing TDS.
Parody. Or is it?
https://x.com/rams1130/status/1989398321753129184
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The Left are going ballistic over TRUMP deporting illegals, but how many did Obama deport?
Hopefully TRUMP will greatly surpass that amount.
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Tasmania’s government has released a preliminary draft legislation and a discussion paper for its proposed state-owned insurance company. Critics say the proposal lacks financial modelling and could risk the state’s budget position. Not a world away from building AFL Stadia
State ownership of insurance and banking should be a No No! How quickly Politicians forget South Australia’s banking farrago that forced its collapse after nearly 100 years of service. Why can’t Politicians stick to the basics of collecting tax from unsuspecting citizens and disbursing it equitably? Dare I repeat the 1887 phrase “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,”
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This theatre was meant to cost $188 million. The real price is almost double
The redevelopment of western Sydney’s main performance space, the Riverside Theatres, has blown out to nearly double its original cost, forcing councillors to consider scaling down the project.
In 2024, the City of Parramatta costed the transformation of the beloved, ageing Riverside Theatres into a world-class complex at $188 million, including a new 1500-seat Broadway-style theatre, a 325-seat black box theatre and a smaller cinema. But tender applications have returned to the council with a price tag of $355 million, according to three sources.
The blowout follows warnings from the state’s audit office, revealed by this masthead, about the “extreme risk” associated with the plan. It forces councillors to discuss how to reduce the cost of the build. Options include using cheaper materials and removing the planned black box theatre, the cinema and the rehearsal spaces, which are considered critical for the local performing arts sector
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The redevelopment of the North Sydney Olympic Pool has experienced a significant cost blowout, with the projected final cost now estimated at $122.2 million, up from an original budget of $64 million.
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And to think that I designed an indoor pool/gym/aerobics facility in SW Vicdanistan in the early 1990’s that came in at $1.25M.
Inflation is a real problem these days, seems every tradie has to be a millionaire before they reach 30. I guess those tattoos don’t grow on trees.
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Or OO, just get rid of the Unions represented on site. There’s 30%+ to begin with…….I haven’t checked if the Unions are there…..but it is a Guvvy site !!!!! CFMEU and multiple flags waving around in the breeze ?? Sydneysiders may be able to confirm or not ??
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The A.W.U. is running that jobsite, Amphibian. As in Victoria’s North East Link tunnel – CFMEU above ground, AWU below. ( Eldest son is leading hand in the tunnel). You need to know whose back wants scratching.
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The Lamestream Media didn’t report this much if at all when announced 29th August.
Sounds like a great idea.
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Australia Today
At 0849 – the Tax Office
This service is undergoing maintenance We are currently undergoing scheduled system maintenance and apologise for any inconvenience. To find out when our online services are expected back online, refer to system maintenance
Trying to check whether a Tax Payment had been recognised, after 35 Mins on Hold yesterday to find out why Payment Recognition Number in link to Tax from Mygov Site was different from one on printed Tax Assessment
Tax unable to answer, said use one from printed assessment, and gave reference number
My concern was if payment made using wrong Payment Reference Number, could that put that Account Number in Credit?
What makes it even more concerning, is going back today over a number of years in Bank & Tax Payment details, the Payment Reference Number has always been the same as was on the printed tax assessment and as advised to use by Tax.
So why was Online Tax showing a incorrect different number on Tax Online Pay Site, and as I said, concern that Tax People, including going off to Supervisor, did not know.
if Payment had gone to that number putting that account in Credit, could that Credit be withdrawn?
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You could put in a complaint Tax Ombudsman but I wouldn’t because you might be marked for future “special treatment” by some vengeful public serpent.
Don’t forget our entire Government including its administration is regularly lying to us (on the public record, not an unfounded claim) and without an effective opposition party, they are unaccountable, just like in any other One Party State.
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Dave, I am guessing the one down vote is a guvvy employee…….otherwise it is a mistake ???
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When dealing with ANYONE from the government, always ask for all correspondence in writing. Explain it like you have a learning disability and need to seek advice on everything.
You might be surprised by how many government officials back down when they have to put their incorrigible claims into writing. Something which you can later play back to them.
If you are wanting something from them… best of luck.
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FWIW
“Green Dreams Turn To Rust”
Napa Valley College is not far down the road from me, a small community college in the wine country of California. So let me lay out the sunny saga of Napa Valley College’s solar field—a green fantasy that was supposed to be a model for the nation, and ended up as a million-dollar weed patch. This is the kind of story that only seems shocking if you weren’t paying attention to how the solar “revolution” actually works: splashy ribbon cuttings, loud political speeches, wild promises…and then, about a decade later, the sound of crickets and the sight of public money quietly composting.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/14/green-dreams-turn-to-rust/
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Amother Ian,
Thanks again for that – made it as a comment in
Make coal great again or China gets your data, says Pauline Hanson
Green Dreams Turn To Rust – Precursor for Australia or a Warning?
Flash back to 2006. Napa Valley College, fueled by $7.5 million (half from taxpayers via a bond, half from utility incentives paid for by us poor ratepayers), launches what is then the nation’s fifth-largest solar project.
Local and national press swarm, a congressman champions the cause, and the administrators beam with pride.
This masterpiece was going to power 40% of the campus, save $300,000 a year, run “virtually maintenance-free” for 25 or 30 years, and serve as a postcard for college sustainability reports everywhere.
By 2017—barely a decade on—output has cratered, maintenance costs are climbing, and the system is barely limping along. In 2018,
SunPower (the system’s new corporate overlord after a straight-out-of-silicon-valley company shuffle) discovers major faults and charges an extra $160,000 to patch the system together. No one seems to know—or wants to explain—when the panels finally gave up the ghost, but sometime between 2019 and 2021, the weeds won.
SunPower goes bankrupt and vanishes, leaving the school with zero support, zero warranty, and a $7.5 million monument to wishful thinking.
How did it fail? Let’s count the ways.
The 25- to 30-year “lifespan” was always a myth, an industry fairy tale pulled out of thin air and sold to unprepared bureaucrats.
Central inverters—then the industry standard—didn’t have the staying power, leading to cascading technical failures and “planned obsolescence” on the scale of a college football field.
Maintenance became a patchwork, as installer, module supplier, inverter company, and maintenance contractor all vanished into the bankruptcy fog one by one.
The final insult? The only “fix” on offer is a $1 million bid just to haul the dead system away
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This story is the kind of scenario I half expected my low cost Chinese made off-grid solar system to follow. I actually find it hard to believe how the low cost inverter has kept going. It does its job every day and every night for the past 13 years.
Melbourne is a relatively kind climate for electrical stuff. Quite a narrow temperature range and never really hot or seriously cold.
All the electrical gear that we used in the iron ore industry was specifically designed for the high ambient temperature and all of the electrical substations eventually air-conditioned to improve component longevity. It was lower cost to replace clapped out commercial air-conditioners than fault finding control gear failing regularly due to high temperature. And it made electrical work in the substations more amenable.
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At lest they now say it’s a “green” installation.
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Andrew Forrest is betting on renewable energy in Queensland’s coal heartland.
Forrest jetted in from overseas to cut the ribbon at Clarke Creek, the biggest wind farm opened in Australia this year. Nearly 100 wind turbines dotted along the Broadsound Range, between Rockhampton and Mackay. The massive wind array is set to include battery storage, solar and another 88 turbines by the time it’s complete. They also need to build the infrastructure required to pipe the wind produced energy into The national grid, or somewhere.
There is every chance that this ‘Forrest’ farm of steel poles could be redundant before it’s complete and all on borrowed Australian Tax $$$
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The grid should support any dispatchable source. A wind/solar/battery facility paired with a gas turbine would be a dispatchable source. It could come into the market as a peaking plant where the wind/solar charges the battery and it gets consumed during periods of peak operational demand.
But I agree it is stranded because there is already enough rooftop in Queensland to charge the battery and to get paid for it most days so there is little point having additional wind or solar to charge the battery.
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…”paired with a gas turbine”. Except the gas turbine is a dispatchable source all on its own. Unless through some miracle Wind+Gas is cheaper than Gas, (?) then why burden the gas plant with the wind-handicap?
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The only thing Twiggy Forrest is betting on is the continued stupidity of governments to direct huge subsidies into his money vault. Of course, government in turn adds the equivalent of the subsidy money it outlays onto your power bill. The country is in the very best of hands. Not.
Meanwhile the Federal environment department has provided $4.5 M to the Fitzroy Basin Association to repair pristine woodland in the Clarke-Connors (= Broadsound) Range country and so restore the habitat of endangered koalas (and greater gliders). Yes, this is the same habitat that Twiggy’s Squadron Energy is ripping up with his 250 m high horizon destroying bird choppers (sea eagles love to ride the updrafts generated on the coastal plain to the east). No doubt the death rate of these magnificent birds (and bats) from collisions with the whirling c.100 m long blades on each turbine tower will be highlighted in Squadron’s annual reports?
And naturally the koalas and greater gliders will enjoy the daytime shadow flicker extending out for c. 1 km to the east & west of each tower (depending on time of day) that are situated on the range peaks . Infrasound? No worries there are no people living in this prime wildlife habitat because of its steepness and inaccessibility. Presumably marsupials have no hearing. And what about all the access roads bulldozed for turbine erection and ongoing maintenance? The local & visiting 4WD adventurers wet dream – finally they have got access to some of the most pristine wilderness left in Queensland. And as you look out to the east from the kilometres of disturbed dirt tracks you can enjoy the vision of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, which in due course, will readily accept most of the erosion products from these gross disturbance tracks carved into the sides of the hills. A monument to Twiggy’s PhD – in the field of marine ecology!
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And quiet flows the Don. Meanwhile further to the north of Twiggy’s subsidy harvesting goldmine lies Lotus Creek. Possibly until recently the best habitat and most populated by koalas and greater gliders in Queensland. The Miles Labor government’s qango CS Energy acquired this bird chopper site from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners for c. $1 billion in State funds in August 2024. Sadly, the new Crisafulli LNP government has continued to support this sacrilegious development since coming to office. “Don’t do what I say, do what I do”. When it comes to wind “farms” hypocrisy seemingly has no bounds. And it doubles down with confirmation bias & gas lighting. Welcome to the brave new world of Albo & B.O.B., and the cheapest most reliable electricity evah!
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I really despise this absolute grifter of a human……constantly taking taxpayer $$$$ and then buggering off.
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The Twigster is developing quite a portfolio of green fails. Sun Cable, green hydrogen AU, green hydrogen USA. Pretty soon he may work out whats going wrong.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban Publicly Calls Out the Ukraine Corruption and Western Money Laundering Operation
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has had enough.
The European Union is consistently targeting him for his position against the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and western elements of the intelligence apparatus have been trying to undermine Orban’s government for years.
Against the most recent revelations of direct corruption connected to the government of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Orban says, “enough.”
Prime Minister Orban – “The golden illusion of Ukraine is falling apart. A wartime mafia network with countless ties to President [Zelensky has been exposed. The energy minister has already resigned, and the main suspect has fled the country.
This is the chaos into which the Brusselian elite want to pour European taxpayers’ money, where whatever isn’t shot off on the front lines ends up in the pockets of the war mafia. Madness.
Thank you, but we want no part of this. We will not send the Hungarian people’s money to Ukraine. It can be put to far better use at home: this week alone we doubled foster parents’ allowances and approved the 14th month’s pension.
Anyhow, after all this, we certainly won’t give in to the Ukrainian president’s financial demands and blackmail. It’s high time Brussels finally understood where their money is really going.”
PM Orban and President Donald Trump are allies and personal friends. No doubt they both spoke about this.
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Nothing new under the sun, but after hostilities they’ll have to clean up their act.
‘Corruption in Ukraine has been a persistent issue since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The major types of corruption include bribery, political corruption, judicial corruption, and corruption in the public sector.
‘This has hindered economic growth and has been a barrier to Ukraine joining the European Union. Despite some anti-corruption efforts, progress has been limited, and the country continues to face significant challenges in combating corruption.’ (KKC)
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Victoristan Premier Jacinta Allan (or someone) had Hansard, the formal, legal, written record of Parliamentary proceedings, altered.
How were they cleared of altering the transcript? There were plenty of witnesses plus presumably audio and video recordings of what she said.
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FWIW
On the other hand
“Just in time for COP30: Brazil Shatters Crude Export Records in October”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/14/coulda-had-a-pipeline-25/
Mixing metaphors but
“Playing the other horn of an hypocrisy?”
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“Elbow” will have to hunt around to match that if Adelaide gets the next one
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Top 8 exports from Brasil include crude oil, refined oil products and beef. They need to give themselves a stern talking to.
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It is now time to end the Australian Federation…each State to their selves be……true.
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And let the “spirit ov Victoriastan” loose all over?
You should have trouble selling that!
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In the blink of an eye, Queensland her own Nation be.
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China could buy Tasmania, Xi said he likes the island. Better to stick with the system we have.
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I prefer a government crunch up – No States, Federal to Council.
States were handy administratively while we were in ink and quill stages – subsidiarity needs reassessment.
Why is aged care a federal responsibility, for example?
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We can do this.
‘The Liberal Party has gambled on voters changing their minds on climate change by the next election … and the stakes could not be higher.’ (Oz)
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FWIW – weekend reading
“Free Sex Costs Everything: How the Sexual Revolution Broke Marriage, Men, and Women”
https://pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson/2025/11/14/free-sex-costs-everything-how-the-sexual-revolution-broke-marriage-men-and-women-n4946000
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Another Ian,
Excellent Read – Interesting it was written by a Woman.
I see what she describes, besides in Western Society, in the Korean & Japanese Netflix & Viki series that I watch.
I was lucky, engaged at 20 to my wife 18, and married at 22 & 20 – Marriage is about Lifelong Companionship, and am pleased that my 3 kids have married excellent partners, and have hopes for the same future for my 9 Grandkids
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FWIW
“RFK Jr. May Revive Food Pyramid Focused On Whole Foods”
https://www.zerohedge.com/food/rfk-jr-may-revive-food-pyramid-focused-whole-foods
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Cheetos and Doritos go naked with new products free of artificial colors and flavors – November 14, 2025
Doritos and Cheetos SIMPLY NKD are made with no dyes or artificial flavors.
Some Cheetos and Doritos products will soon be available without bright artificial colors, but the the same iconic flavors.
PepsiCo, Cheetos and Doritos’ parent company, announced a “reinvention” of the two iconic snacks on Thursday with the launch of new Simply NKD Doritos and Cheetos flavors, additions to the two brands’ already beloved lineups of snacks.
The NKD products will be available in four flavors: Doritos Simply NKD Nacho Cheese, Doritos Simply NKD Cool Ranch, Cheetos Simply NKD Puffs and Cheetos Simply NKD Flamin’ Hot.
PepsiCo said its research and development teams brought the products to life from concept to completion in just eight weeks.
“The result? Same crunch. Same flavor. Same joy — just without added color,” PepsiCo said in a release.
Hernán Tantardini, CMO of PepsiCo Foods U.S., said in a statement included in the release, “Doritos and Cheetos are pioneering a snacking revolution, or a renaissance, if you will. We are reinventing our iconic — and most famous — brands to deliver options with the bold flavors fans know and love, now reimagined without any colors or artificial flavors.”
Fans of the more traditional Cheetos and Doritos products will still be able to purchase their favorite snacks, PepsiCo said this week.
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FWIW – latest Kustler
“”Our Democracy” (I’m Sure)
“How do empires fall? Not by war, but by unbalanced minds disconnected from reality.” — The Vigilant Fox on “X” ”
https://www.kunstler.com/p/our-democracy-im-sure
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another ian,
actually supports your post above re “Revolution Broke Marriage, Men, and Women”
All of that sound, fury, and roguery is now dedicated only to staving off the party’s collapse and thwarting Mr. Trump’s attempt to restore something like regular order in public affairs, which the Democratic Party calls “authoritarianism.”
Regular order is something that healthy male psychology takes an interest in, since it entails defense of the culture, in this case, Western Civ and its heritage.
That implies the uses of strength as opposed to the stratagems of weakness.
It must acknowledge and rely on classic virtues such as fortitude, prudence, and a preference for what is — as opposed to wishes and fantasies.
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As I’ve I’ve mentioned, I live in walking distance from a major STEM Uni.
This is the thing I notice everyday.
The odd disconnect of the educated leadership classes from practical reality.
Such as, Climate Change true believers ferrying their toddler children in bicycle side cars on roads where the police seldom enforce traffic laws, much less criminal law.
And a commoner population that consider Stop signs mere suggestions.
The trendy coffee shop, recently taken over by the Communist/Queer (their words not mine) which allow the homeless to gather in the place as they hand out free artisan coffee and baked goods. Driving all the paying customers, that want avoid exposure to lice and TB, away.
Multiple new constructions on a campus (including a massive new Architectural Digest like school of “Global Democracy” … literally surrounded by an ever more dystopian graffiti covered boarded up store front landscape.
And a student population that is largely foreign.
But there is no more foreign.
No human is illegal.
A “Be Kind” Rainbow flagged great big inclusive Global Utopia.
As the planet savers cut a four lane hi-way through virgin rainforest for a one-time Climate meeting.
The (actual) Pandemic insanity of the Western managerial intelligentsia has forced that big Black Pill down my throat.
And Now trump is rehashing ‘Bidenomics’ by telling us that inflation is down.
Trumponomics.
(Even he can’t fix the unfixable fiat system.)
Nearly everything I buy has gone up dramatically in just the last couple of months.
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You must be in Seattle
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FWIW – the power of Trump!
“Al Gore: Did Fear of Trump Force Bill Gates to Abandon Climate Activism?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/11/14/al-gore-did-fear-of-trump-force-bill-gates-to-abandon-climate-activism/
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This recent paper explicitly states that CO2 is a great fertiliser.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/11/13/new-study-suggests-co2-levels-were-necessarily-as-high-as-today-10000-years-ago/
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More gaslighting in the UK media. This time, an article covers the Labour government’s proposal to abolish the two child benefit cap. It gives an example of how much more money a couple with five children might get. As I’ve pointed out before, birth rates/family sizes among the ethnically English have dropped off a cliff, while immigrants from the Middle East are having many more children, often to (illegal) polygamous relationships. Some of these are known to include FIVE wives, each of whom are entitled to government housing.
And yet the article includes, as an example of a large family set to benefit significantly, a white British couple. This has got to stop.
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As expected, my comment to this effect on the DM site wasn’t published.
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This is an excerpt from the link:-
Or look at Gaza. Israel is systematically destroying an entire population—bombing hospitals, schools, refugee camps, killing journalists, aid workers, children by the thousands. The International Court of Justice is investigating genocide charges. They issued arrest warrants. Yet the same Western leaders who thundered about Russian war crimes provide Israel with weapons and diplomatic cover for atrocities that shock the conscience.
When you can watch children being deliberately starved and bombed while your government calls it “self-defense”, something fundamental breaks in your worldview. The system reveals itself as not just flawed but actively evil.
This moral bankruptcy accelerates the Fourth Turning’s institutional collapse. When people see their governments supporting genocide while preaching human rights, enabling war crimes while demanding justice, destroying countries while claiming to protect democracy—they don’t just lose trust in leaders. They lose faith in the entire Western project.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/deep-fourth-turning-darkest-hours-are-dawn
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Don’t worry, the Donald will redevelop it all and the Palestinians will have luxury condos.
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Here is the link
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/deep-fourth-turning-darkest-hours-are-dawn
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https://publications.iadb.org/en/when-can-lotteries-improve-public-procurement-processes
We show that adopting a two stage approach in which bureaucrats first negotiate with a small number of bidders to assess their eligibility and, next, rely on a lottery to award the contract reduces corruption risks often observed in negotiated procedures. For rule-based procedures, we show that a “third-price lottery” in which the two highest bidders are selected with equal probability and the project is contracted at a price corresponding to the third highest bid can reduce limited liability, renegotiation, bid rigging and collusion risks.
We love to gamble, why aren’t we doing this?
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FWIW
“Take Your Tech Profits”
In there –
“Worse, their Chairman has said China is going to win. Well of course they are. China has several hundred coal-fired power plants under construction. Energy is life for an economy and the Chinese not only understand this they won’t compromise it for other, non-economic reasons.
China’s residential power rate runs around 8 cents/kWh, compared with 17 cents/kWh in the United States — more than double. There is no state in the union that has a lower state-average rate than China has on a national basis.
You won’t win a power-hungry economic contest when your price for power is double your competitor’s.
Further, China has Huawei and others that can (and will be) making the chips and other infrastructure components. But irrespective of that they will be able to operate them at half the electrical cost compared with the US and Europe because they put the power consideration first and the non-economic ones later or not at all. And, it can be argued, they have driven the claims (in both fear and hype) for alternatives (e.g. “non-carbon fuels”) and the supply of said materials and equipment on purpose knowing it was uneconomic by comparison, deliberately intending to goad other nations into relying on them and their much-higher all-in operating costs for equivalent reliability.”
So much for “Elbow’s AI revolution”
And more there
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254401
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FWIW
“Keir Starmer’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and this isn’t footage from some backward reservation in British Columbia.”
“RIVER CHERWELL IN OXFORD HAS BECOME SUPERDUMP
A 20 ft deep, 500 ft long mound of rubbish has been dumped into the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire.
Import the 3rd world
Become the 3rd world
Out country was so beautiful once.”
https://x.com/BasilTheGreat/status/1989385758336323912
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/11/14/keir-starmers-britain-25/
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“I know by trying to improve something we seem to have made things a little bit worse.”
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/your-new-recycling-red-bags-10641068
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Victory is sweet.
‘After the battle was won on Thursday night, a banner at the bottom of Peta Credlin’s show on Sky News screens crowed: “Moderate Liberals lose net zero fight”.
‘For Sussan Ley, it might be only the first battle in a long and bitter war.’ (Guardian)
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