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Here is a fun one. They want to build an enormous lithium battery storage facility just outside of Boston. This article, which I advised on, says that is a very bad plan because these things spontaneously explode or burn and cannot be extinguished.
https://www.massfiscal.org/hazard_warning_for_everett_s_lithium_battery_park
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Delusionists pushing lithium b.s. into people’s lives and neighbourhoods need to be prescribed lithium to calm their manic erratic episodes (MEE) – the grandeur is all in their heads, as is the boiling and the melting and the runaway tipping points…
Besides, are there any witches left in Boston in 2025?
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CO2 is the new witch.
The parallels are amazing.
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Doesn’t Pocahontas Elizabeth Warren live there?
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If/when there is a fire, there’ll have to be mass evacuations , the emissions from a lithium battery fire are very toxic.
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Xi Jinping’s energy plan for China: Everything, everywhere, all at once
WILL GLASGOW
Solar projects as big as Singapore. Eleven nuclear power stations signed off in a single meeting.
A fleet of more than 1000 thermal coal-fired power stations … and still growing.
As Australia heads to a federal election that pitches nuclear power against a ramp up of renewables, China is taking an everything, everywhere, all at once approach to its electricity mix.
To travel around China is to witness a rollout of renewables on a scale beyond anywhere else in the world. You can see it from the window of every domestic flight or fast train trip.
Yet all this new solar, wind, hydro and nuclear power is still not enough to meet the growing electricity demands of China’s 1.4 billion people and its economy that remains for so many products the “factory of the world”.
New thermal coal-fired power stations continue to make up the difference.
“Forget about kicking thermal [coal] out of the mix,” David Fishman, a Shanghai-based energy consultant, says. “China is just trying to cover its demand growth with renewables.”
Chinese energy experts call it the country’s “ ‘two-way’ growth trend”, a simultaneous rollout of renewables and coal. Privately, many are aware it is becoming increasingly conspicuous.
Unlike in Australia or the rest of the rich world, China’s gargantuan electricity demand is still growing — even as the Chinese economy slows. This year it has risen by some 7 per cent, a rate that has surprised many long-term analysts of China’s energy market.
The sums in China are staggering. Just the growth in Chinese electricity usage this year was around three times Australia’s entire electricity consumption.
For all the hype about its raft of “world’s biggest” renewable projects, China is transitioning its electricity network at a far slower rate than Australia.
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Desire to dominate
Xi Jinping outlined his approach in a major speech in 2022 at a twice-a-decade party congress. “We will advance initiatives to reach peak carbon emissions in a well-planned and phased way,” he told senior comrades.
Xi said China would follow “the principle of building the new before discarding the old”.
As is Australia, China is blessed with huge coal reserves. Unlike Australia, Beijing is unapologetic about making the most of them and the same with its gas reserves.
“Coal will be used in a cleaner and more efficient way, and greater efforts will be made to explore and develop petroleum and natural gas, discover more untapped reserves, and increase production,” said Xi in that same keynote speech.
It’s not as catchy as Donald Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill” catchphrase but it’s the same idea.
Beijing has set a renewables target of 40 per cent for 2030, a modest increase from the just over 35 per cent it now derives from hydro, wind, solar and nuclear.
The Albanese government has set a target of 82 per cent by 2030, twice the current level.
China is changing its energy mix but the world’s mightiest one-party state is doing it on its terms.
There are no university students or former government ministers in kayaks blockading its coal ports.
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NICK CATER
Cold, hard energy lessons for Australia in UK’s grim winter’s tale
Britain’s last coal-fired power station closed at the end of September, throwing households to the mercy of the weather.
Sadly, Britain’s green activists have no plans to follow coal into retirement. The curse, or joy, of being a fighter for progressive causes is that your work is never done.
“The priority now is to move away from gas as well,” Friends of the Earth’s Tony Bosworth told the Guardian. Friends of the Earth, like every other international green activist group, also opposes nuclear power.
This begs the question:
How will Britain keep the lights on without the three sources capable of providing baseload power?
Bosworth’s clownish answer is posted on FoE’s website. “We have an abundance of natural resources like wind and solar,” he says.
“They’ll go on forever, and we won’t be reliant on expensive gas and oil.”
Last week, an Arctic front hit with a vengeance, reducing temperatures to as low as minus-20 and burying parts of England in snow.
The diminishing number of Brits who could afford to do so turned up the heating.
[SNIP]
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OldOzzie,
This bit was interestingly worded:
They say this like it’s the most natural thing in the world that our electricity demand isn’t growing. Australia’s electricity demand would skyrocket if prices came back down to 15c/kWh.
If they came down to 5c/kWh we might even get some industry back. But forget industry, we’ve become a service economy (which apparently means we get worse service than ever before).
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The first report said Australia’s power use has increased 31% since 2000. China’s has increased 560%.
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A service economy with unaffordable wage rises and IR rules that making service available becomes limited to impossible at the price. Price of coffee up plus wage costs, rents, leases, energy and everything dependent on it sky rocketing. It’s poverty most Australians are looking at, made worse by having a Treasurer intent on forcing Australian investors into a combined Government-Private enterprise (billionaires) existence. Sounds totally marxist to me. Venezuela?
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Eleven nuclear power stations signed off in a single meeting. A fleet of more than 1000 thermal coal-fired power stations … and still growing.
From the Comments – The Idiocy of The Australian Labor Party/Greens/TEALs Writ Large – led by Labor PM ElbowEasy, Blackout Bowen & Disaster Economics Chalmers
“None so Blind as Those Who Will Not See”
Backed by Loony Warringah TEAL – Zali Steggall told Sky News this week that base load power is “an antiquated idea”. “Our grid is evolving and changing,”
“The old-fashioned concept of base load power is proving to be more and more a thing of the past.”
Steggall may or may not be surprised to learn that at 5.15 am on Friday, 92 per cent of NSW’s electricity was provided by antiquated base load generators. What’s more, they were burning what she calls fossil fuel and the rest of us call coal.
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Someone should ask Zali Zealot whether the people of Broken Hill think the idea of base load power is “antiquated” after transmission lines damaged in late October saw them left without power for 10 days. $650 million worth of renewables and a 50MW battery were useless without a supply of good old-fashioned electricity.
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” Zali Zealot ” ! I like that , she should change her name to that officially !
Out at Broken Hill they had modern up-to-date solar and wind generation with a nameplate capacity of about 10 times the actual load . They also had a brand new grid scale battery with the latest ” grid forming ” inverters . They also had some standby diesel generation that should have helped kick-start their ” grid ” .
It would have been a massive PR coup if they could have stood up a small ” renewables only ” grid . This was their chance .
But they failed .
The only thing they did prove is that without the 300 to 500 ton spinning mass of baseload generation , you don’t have a grid ! Period !!
And now they want to do that to the entire Eastern grid !
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Yep. If the climate loons get their way soon base load generation WILL be a ” Thing of the past ” .
The thing is , if there is not sufficient ” Base load power ” to stabilized the grid you don’t have a grid !
Without the 300 to 500 ton spinning mass of the base-load generators you DON’T HAVE A GRID !!!!
Maybe that is the plan ?
As they found out in LA , when there is no grid supply of electricity , the ELECTRIC pumps that supply water to the fire hydrants don’t run . Probably no water in hi-rise apartments also . I wonder how the sewerage system would work without ELECTRIC pumps ? City life for those green and teal voters may just become a bit unpleasant if it takes over a week to “Black-start” the grid .
A lesson , for those who want to learn , was demonstrated in Broken Hill the other day .
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Unfortunately for Western propaganda, this is what he will be remembered for in the future, the man who electrified China!
People aren’t that fussed about freedom or democracy when they can turn a stove on to cook with under an electric light.
However, Elbow’s legacy will be quite different…
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I bet they don’t have unionists with blow up three eyed fish demonstrating outside their nuclear facilities. Only in Australia is such idiotic behaviour tolerated.
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So which coal fired plant is going to charge the battery?
Hasn’t anyone in government joined the dots yet? Batteries don’t make energy. At best they just absorb some for later consumption, (after losses).
Batteries for the grid are like a 20,000 litre tank placed in a desert for the purposes of providing drinking water for a town with a population of a 10,000.
The tank can meet the drinking water demand for the people for a couple of hours but after that they soon realise that the tank is empty. There is nothing to fill it. And the people are wondering why it cost $20B.
And now the government want to install more batteries.
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China’s Control Over Electric Vehicle Batteries and the Threat to the European Automotive Industry
China is emerging as the primary threat to the European automotive industry, not just because of its strategy to dominate the electric vehicle (EV) market but also due to its complete control over the raw materials necessary for production.
In a world transitioning to cleaner energy, Europe’s dependence on Chinese batteries for electric cars exposes a dangerous vulnerability. While Brussels celebrates its green transition, Beijing plays geopolitical chess, putting the European Union in check.
– China: A Monopoly Disguised as Progress
– Tariffs and Retaliation: A Suitable Measure for Europe?
– The Destruction of European Industry: NorthVolt’s Collapse
– China’s Strategy: A Game of Geopolitical Power
– Is Europe Truly Autonomous?
The EU must question whether its decarbonization and energy transition policies are built on solid foundations or if, in the end, its ambitions will crumble, subject to the decisions of an authoritarian and opaque regime.
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We are living in an age where spending real money for imaginary benefits and real risks is seen as a virtue.
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Fire officials say that homeless camp wildfires doubled from 2020 to 2023 to 13,909. There were 24 “homeless related” fires in LA County responded to every day of 2021. https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/01/08/what-started-las-firestorm-we-have-some-ideas-n4935774
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Something that you get with a ‘Sanctuary City’, demorat idiocy knows no bounds.
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The likely arsonist of the 2021 Palisades fire was one homeless Ramon Santos Rodriguez, 48.
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ABPI figures in fact indicate that between 2020 and 2023 the RCGP received more than £500k from Pfizer.
Having failed to disclose that it had a financial relationship with Pfizer, @rcgp gave unequivocal, supposedly independent, advice and encouragement for the CMOs to deploy Pfizer’s product to children across the UK: “The Royal College of General Practitioners have consulted widely across GPs, and there is a strong consensus in favour of vaccinating 12-15s”
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/our-institutions-are-hollowed-out-1cd
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https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/waste-is-great-food-waste-is-better
Consider that in our battle against waste (or more specifically, litter) we have outlawed disposable plastic straws.
Now, we get paper straws that are packaged in plastic to protect them during distribution to get perfectly preserved paper straws that don’t even perform the function that we value.
Surely this is more wasteful, economically and in terms of what we value, than a straw that does work, regardless of the material it is made from.
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The purpose of banning plastic packaging and convenience products in Australia was not to stop an imaginary litter problem but part of the Left’s strategy of lowering our standard of living by the removal of convenience products (apart from many other strategies).
Leftists claim that plastic in oceans comes from Western countries like Australia and therefore convenience products should be banned. Anybody who has ever been to a Third World country knows exactly where plastic in oceans comes from. Littering and throwing rubbish in rivers is a behavioural problem in Third World countries. That’s the true problem that needs to be addressed.
And in Australia where container deposits schemes operate, that has meant that all products sold in a plastic or glass container have increased in price and continue to do so because of the rising cost of the scheme. And most people continue to put their containers in the recycling bin as they did before because it is not worth the effort to collect and store (using a large amount of space) a large enough number of containers to take them to a deposit centre. So they lose their “deposit” anyway. Who actually does get it anyway?
And the Left also told numerous lies in their campaign to ban supermarket plastic bags. For a start they were biodegradable anyway. Secondly they lied (as the Left do whenever they open their mouths) by calling them “single use”. Everyone I know had a multitude of uses for three bags such as small garbage bin liners and many other uses.
There is no demonstrable problem in Australia that banning these plastic convenience products have actually solved. We just get daily reminders of how the Left destroy EVERYTHING they touch.
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On the topic of plastic I saw this 2 weeks ago.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sp63akvRLY1y9d09t.mp4
Biodegradable sources are available to replace plastic containers now, such as fungi and bamboo, and the average plastic container can take 400 years to fully breakdown.
There’s already an Idiocracy size garbage pile in the oceans.
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Could you point me in the direction of this mass on google earth please?
Should be easy to find, it will be beside the hole in the ozone layer, next to the global warming.
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I have looked but never found it. Even searched NOTAMs because a floating island of plastic must be a hazard to ships’ cooling systems.
Nothing yet.
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That looks like a trawling net in that video. How did they net all that plastic without seemingly picking up any fish or other sea creatures?
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Of course the biggest worry is that your plastic straws will end up polluting the beaches of Bali, and the rest of the Orient, where nobody gives a damn about pollution or helping to prevent pollution .
https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/worst-trash-wave-huge-amounts-of-rubbish-washes-ashore-at-balis-jimbaran-beach-as-locals-clean-up-the-mess/news-story/1ec9037f87a6e49aedb877273ded9d0c
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Here is a very good video from Craig Kelly talking about the Australian federal government’s fuel economy tax which will dramatically increase the cost of larger vehicles and also reduce the range available in Australia.
What a disgraceful tax.
Have the fake conservative Liberal Party said they’ll remove it if they get elected?
https://youtu.be/9j7MgPahA2w
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I’d vote for Elmer Fudd in preference to either Labor or Liberal.
Both parties have us on the path to net zero wealth.
The only difference appears to be which party will get to that goal first.
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Elmer Fudd could quite easily hold a cabinet position in the Albanese government. “Wets make wenewables a wong waasting wesource for Austwalia. Mwehehhehhehheh.”
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That tax will be spent on further subsidies for EV’s.
I want Dutton to end subsidies on all EVs and dump all subsidies on renewables.
Everyone wants a “ level playing field “ so Dutton can level the playing field with 2 simple actions against subsidies. Question is how much stronger is he than the current weak one??
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You could just vote AGAINST the party taking your car choice from you. It is that easy.
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The disconnect from reality, scientific and engineering knowledge, and basic human decency of 99% our politicians is staggering.
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99% of our politicians are just that ….professional politicians. !
…rather than normal, people with some useful life experience and the ability of logical thought to consider what is best for the population and the Country.
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As Gerald Celente would say:
“Politics is just show business for ugly people”
It’s all a circus and the people always pay for it.
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More good news from the US.
More fightback against the Left.
Victims of childhood “gender transitions” are now suing the doctors who mutilated and sterilised them.
https://youtu.be/THjQz045H4k
And TRUMP has said he’ll ban transgendering of children.
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Here is a video by a person who describes himself as a MAGA supporting LGB comedian.
He’s talking about the outbreak of free speech in the US due to the TRUMP Revolution and how ultimately nothing bad will come from it.
He makes a lot of sense despite his unconventional looks with a lot of facial tattoos and piercings.
https://youtu.be/3ECLowaNfsY
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Lionel Nation talks about the DEI disaster and the LA Fire Department.
https://youtu.be/m1u1w1FR_7Y
Matt Walsh talks about the DEI disaster and the LA Fire Department.
https://youtu.be/7gKqeKLx_HU
Clinton Jaws talks about the DEI disaster and the LA Fire Department.
https://youtu.be/pFFjiCcc1Qc
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In the US companies who are responsible to their shareholders and also for safety reasons are rapidly dropping their skin colour and gender based employment policies, otherwise known as DEI.
But in one of the wokest countries on the planet, Australia, we continue with a vengeance.
I have a friend who was in a major Australian Government department who, upon being offered a redundancy package, was advised to take it because as a white male there was virtually no chance of promotion. In a section meeting it was also stated that they were aiming for a staff mix of 40% male, 40% female and 20% “other”.
In the same department my friend worked for, a head of division was appointed who was in her late 20’s and had an impossibly long list of scientific publications for that age, supposedly authored by her. Rather than personal authorship, it’s likely that as she was being groomed and promoted through the ranks as the DEI star, she would have demanded her name be put on any publications produced by her staff, regardless of her not being personally involved in the work or even understanding it.
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‘Promotion, I don’t want no promotion, I just want to stick around and annoy the idiot DEI faction.’
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They may drop the policy, but will they fire or demote those people hired under it…? Do we still get airliners crashing because the same people fail to do the same jobs?
South Africa still struggles under the burden of people hired for their skin colour, “..here’s your office, here’s the keys to your BMW, please keep quiet and don’t try to do anything..”
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Did she have a phobia of bananas? Just asking for a Swedish friend…
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FWIW
News for “ElBowen”
“Europe Dominates Global Nuclear Energy Investment”
“The vast energy potential and clean nature of generating power through nuclear reactions have caused a surge in global demand, with nearly every region increasing nuclear energy investment by at least 50% over the last five years.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/europe-dominates-global-nuclear-energy-investment
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This is the stuff Albo and Bowen think doesnt work and is unaffordable. They need to send the rest of the world a memo. Wont anybody say “oh noes! We are falling behind” on this one?
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/europe-dominates-global-nuclear-energy-investment
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Australia is notably absent.
Australia with about 28% of the world’s uranium has zero percent of the world’s nuclear power.
Don’t forget it was the fake conservative Liberals that banned nuclear power twice. First they stopped a nuclear power reactor already under construction in 1971. Then Howard banned nuclear power in law in 1998.
The cluelessness of our Uniparty politicians is staggering.
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They probably never imagined that anyone would be stupid enough to be shutting coal fired power plants.
But here we are.
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Actually Howard set this in motion with the introduction of renewable energy certificates. I read about this in the Australian in about 1998 and I knew that this would not end well!
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From recent polling it appears people living in the areas where nuclear power plants have been proposed, will not be voting conservative.
Andrew Gee (Independent) has a good chance of retaining his seat of Calare.
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And your source is…???
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Forgotten the name, Climate Council? Not exactly an unbiased poll.
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Having uranium in the ground is irrelevant. If you want to burn coal for power you really should have the stuff in the ground, you don’t want to ship it across the oceans but yellowcake is cheap and light relative power density so it doesn’t matter where it’s mined, it’s cheap to ship. We have uranium. So what?
Australia must try to raise itself over being the lucky but dumb country that can dig dirt [I am in favour of mining, it’s good business] and progress to nuclear because we underutilise our native intellect. We don’t need to import any more than the seed brains who then help educate our own youngsters.
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has known a number of very bright people who could handle more intellectually demanding tasks.
We need to smarten up. Norway and Sweden [just examples] don’t have smarter DNA than we do but they leave us for dead in technology.
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FWIW – more covid scene
“The Appalling Treatment of Covid Vaccine Whistleblower Dr. Byram Bridle”
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/01/11/the-appalling-treatment-of-covid-vaccine-whistleblower-dr-byram-bridle/
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From a balcony above St Peter’s Square an old man mumbles “Suffer the little children” – oops wrong quote, that was Joe Biden – from the Vatican Il Papa said “I am close to the people of Los Angeles … I pray for all of you”, via Reuters/RNZ.
How ‘close’ he is could be taken many ways: he has friends in high places (webcams as well?), he respects all lifestyles, he loves Moses and rainbows too, and he admonishes sinners to ‘save the planet’ from a fiery end by becoming action heroes for Mother Earth…
Yeah but there’s no water in the hydrants.
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But that’s not important.
The important thing was that they were painted with woke rainbows.
Only a “MAGA supporting redneck far right uneducated racist” (/sarc) would expect water in fire hydrants and not rainbows painted on them.
https://x.com/ryancduff/status/1877026575117361307
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Colourful but totally useless, now who does that remind me of.
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I was “triggered” with that clever meme of the lg+bt+etc painted hydrant with (LA?) fires raging in the background into immediately thinking how DEI, oops sorry, D U M B it would be to paint them that way. Given that when walking your pooch in USofA fire hydrants are the very popular alternative to trees (which Aussie pooches love) to stop, sniff and cock a leg at all those photo opportunities to use as a statement surely must number in the trillions. Particularly if people did the likes of a Tik Tok survey (challenge?) to take a pic of what color of the rainbow the dog found it’s greatest level of relief. Might also be an indicator of whether your dog was trans, gay bi etc etc.
While the search provided the fact check that the LA hydrant one was “satire” and all the other results rambled on about how popular hydrants were to dogs etc there was not a one of a rainbow watering.
Oh and to reinforce even more as to who has the power typing the letters l g b t in smalls gets it underlined in red until you type it in capitals. lol.
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Yes, and that they can say, is that it is all God’s Will. Wot’ a load of rubbish. So wot’ is this will of God? Please explain.
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Don’t forget “Inshallah”
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Labor’s UK Ambassador Stephen Smith, appointed by Labor PM Tennis Albo, going into Bat for Australia
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Just like the KRudd going in to bat at number 10 in a Cricket Match in Washington DC. Wot’ a Plonker.
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Just Like Prince Harry at KC??? Coronation Street show Rudd will be parked out of sight behind a lady wearing a big hat!
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Everyone needs to relax. The World is still going on and spinning around our Life saving Giving Sun. The centre of of our Solar System is not Planet Earth. It is the SUN.
Copernicus knew it in the 1500s. Smart Man. And the Catholic Church who were the worst Astronomers ever got it WRONG. It has taken so long for the Vatican to having so many worldly treasures to get it right. How about selling all of that wealth into a World Trust Fund where the income helps the POOR? How about that?
The Church like the Climate Alarmists now don’t want to know any facts. LOL. Or help the Poor.
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I have lived in the Philippines and have seen the Catholic Church at work.
All of the Priests eat at the best eating places and drive the latest model cars. The Churches are very well looked after. And the poor people who are so poor and who are so brain washed into the Religion, they still give money to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church gives peanuts back to the Poor and sends a load of money to the Vatican.
The Vatican has massive wealth. Do they need it. Would God and Jesus want them to have it? LOL. It is a Racket just like the Mafia.
What a load of Rollocks……………..And you know what I mean. The letter B for an R
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Did anyone notice that the poorest countries are usually the most Catholic, are they Catholic because they are poor or are they poor because they are Catholic.
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Well, we all know the answer to that one. I think. Maybe not Simon or other Left Wing Nut Jobs. LOL
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What if I had said Right Wing Nut Jobs?
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Most of the west is Catholic isn’t it.
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J.R.
Parts of South America look like that too.
IIRC there is a Pope on record with something like this –
“Let us enjoy the splendors of this fable of Christ”
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SMH running another hit piece on Musk, this time by some woman who was running campaigns for the Greens in Germany and the Libs here. Her company is called “Agenda C”.
“Having, in his own estimation, rescued American democracy, his disrupter instincts are searching for opportunities elsewhere….We don’t need him to disrupt the stinking little hypocrisies in our politics – we know what they are. We can and should be doing it ourselves, without the pitfalls of misinformation that come from relying mainly on X for information.”
Her overall picture is that he is given too much credence by ordinary people when he disrupts politics, while she would rather the politicians handled it all themselves and continued to pay her millions of dollars for their campaigns. Musk might look too hard at what she does!
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/meddling-musk-should-discover-his-limitations-he-s-not-the-messiah-20250110-p5l3fg.html
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KP, she appears on Sky at times as the token Lefty…..comes across as very bitter, no sense of humour and arrogant as all get out.
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There are two groups who have nfi – Those who know Trump so well they know what he’ll do, even before he has thought about it and those who understand Musk
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Shouldn’t be too hard for NSW Police to round up the usual suspects in Newtown Syn@gogue attack
Here’s the CCTV from police. It appears to be a magnified image from very early in the video.
If you can lift a better image, please do. pic.twitter.com/P6cL1mA5PN
— Dr David Adler (@DrDavidAdler1) January 12, 2025
Anyone else think the smaller person in the Video is a Female?
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Shouldn’t be too hard for NSW Police to round up the usual suspects in Newtown Syn@gogue attack
Surely the Question should be why isn’t NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns putting this Image enlarged out to all media – Newspapers/TV etc?
Chris Minns says ‘an accelerant’ possibly used during Newtown Syn@gogue attack amid ‘massive escalation’ of antis@mitism
James Harrison Business Reporter
Authorities are concerned an accelerant was possibly used in an attack on a Sydney syn@gogue as the NSW Premier lamented a “massive rise” in antis@mitism.
“Obviously this is an escalation in antis@mitic crime,” Mr Minns said.
“Police and the government remain very concerned that an accelerant may have been used in Newtown on Saturday morning.
“This would lead everyone to believe that this escalation is very concerning not just for the J@wish community but for the wider community.”
Mr Minns said if these attacks were to continue there would be additional government support for security at J@wish institutions and highlighted “comprehensive criminal investigation” examining these antis@mitic attacks, which included Counter-Terrorism Command, State Crime and local resources.
“This is obviously a fraught time in the city’s history, but we need to stick together,” Mr Minns told reporters.
When questioned on claims from pro-Palestine groups the government was giving disproportionate attention to the rise in antis@mitism compared to isl@mophobia, the Premier noted the intense rise in bigotry against J@wish people since late 2023.
“I want to make it clear however that the information that we’ve been provided by security agencies is that there’s been a massive escalation in antis@mitic hate crime in Australia since the 9th October two years ago,” Mr Minns said.
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Mr Dutton also promised to lead a national crackdown on youth crime and ensure foreign criminals or terrorist sympathisers do not come to Australia.
Mr Dutton said he would go back to basics on the school curriculum and Indigenous affairs, accusing Labor of being beholden to “activist-driven agendas”.
He also committed to calling Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “in the first days of a Coalition government” to mend Australia’s relationship with the J@wish state, accusing Mr Albanese of being partly responsible for the 700 per cent rise in reports of anti-S@mitism.
“Every incident of anti-Semitism can be traced back to the Prime Minister’s dereliction of leadership in response to the sordid events on the steps of the Sydney Opera House,”
Mr Dutton said. “Anti-S@mitism should have been stopped there and then. This government is so morally confused it treats our ally, Israel, like an adversary.
“Moreover, its push for Palestinian statehood at this time would reward Hamas’s use of terrorism to achieve political ends.”
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Are we sure it wasn’t communion wine?
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As I posted yesterday, most fires are caused by arsonists.
https://saltbushclub.com/2025/01/10/wildfires-climate-or-criminal/#more-2917
Check it out…………
Just a few days into January 2025, the season has already started, with a major fire in Los Angeles; typically, the usual “catastrophic” fire season begins around May. Seven fires, including on the iconic Sunset Boulevard, have created significant damage, with tens of thousands evacuated, and only two under control (am 9/01). The city, with a population of 4 million has a massive urban sprawl, resulting in an area 50% bigger than New York.
The cause is yet to be evaluated, with temperatures as low as 3 degrees it is difficult to relate it to excess heat, no doubt some will try; strong winds are exacerbating the damage, with already (Day 2) a thousand homes lost. The timing of onset of fires, and their multiple inner-city sites, are all strongly suggestive of arson.
The Northern Hemisphere summer bushfire outbreak in 2024, had begun in Portugal, the Government declaring a state of emergency, and the massive scale needing help from outside countries. The Government believed many fires were started by accident or intent, Reuters reported 14 arrested, with 125,000 hectares, burned.
Major bushfires in Greece threatened Athens in August 2024, and again, led to requests for help from other countries; the inevitable cry of “global warming” ensued. The previous year’s summer fire-storm in Greece, in 2023, had led to 140 arrests, officials had blamed negligence or arson for the majority of the blazes. Estimates are that 60% of fires in the Italian summer of 2023 were also intentionally lit, with 22 arrests. Spain’s Asturias region was hit by 90 fires that year, most believed to be lit by arsonists, labelled “fire terrorists”.
Of over 6000 fires in 2023 in Canada, were blamed on climate change, half were believed to result from human accidents, some shown to have been caused by arson. Interestingly, a Canadian man, who claimed fires were deliberately started by government agencies, was, in January 2024, himself convicted of starting 14 fires the previous year. The all-time record holder, inevitably from the US, is John Orr, believed to have lit over 2000 fires between 1984 and 1991.
There were no lightning strikes in September 2023, when a series of small fires in the East of Australia joined up into a mega event, most were man-made. In the New Year, before the rains came, an outbreak in North Adelaide was a suspicious event, and an arrest made, several fires near Geelong in January 2024, were again being treated as suspicious. Fires, in March on the outskirts of Perth in WA, resulted in arrests made. There were also suspicious fires on the Sunshine Coast and the Whitsundays. In the Northern Territory one man was charged over 18 fires, with dozens more suspected, arson was reported in central NSW, with 24 charged. Fortunately, and unanticipated by BoM, rain stopped play!
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If all the arson fires were stopped, and non fuel reduction continues, we are just going to end up with mega fires anyway? It’s going to burn, the longer time without a fires is just adding to fuel load. There is never fuel reduction in national parks, and then it is so so sad when they go up.
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There are sick puppies scattered all though our society, then there are fire bugs, some join the MFB or the Rural Fire Brigade to be closer to the action, and perhaps ‘respond’ to their handiwork.
It’s a real sickness and there’s heaps of them.
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Mel Gibson – the conspiracy theorist on LA fires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tEpCj_yvxU
Listening to this, I wonder if he voted for Harris or Trump.
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Mel Gibson is a T W A T
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Why?
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>Mel Gibson is a T W A T
He has intelligence and talent but he believes in some wacky ideas. Unfortunately he was brainwashed at an early age and hasn’t found his way out of that maze yet. Crazy guy.
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Anyone so averse to kiddy f1ddlers can’t be all bad.
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Peter Dutton is dead right. We need migrants to integrate.
I did as a Pommy Barstard and married a Scottish woman.
LOL
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“We need migrants to integrate.”
Of course, and it will happen as Muslims take over and we all become one. You don’t really think anything typical of Australian culture will be left with our current immigration rules do you? Don’t expect to see shrimps on the barbie and cold beers, you will get gang wars between religions, cultures and countries of origin!
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Does she keep moving the furniture.
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The time has passed when we need migrants – period. At least for a while.
Australia is richer, especially culturally, for post-war migration, but they were mainly European.
Unassimilated “Persians” have been with us for some time though.
Battle of Broken Hill
1915 shootings in New South Wales, Australia
The Battle of Broken Hill was a fatal incident which took place in Australia near Broken Hill, New South Wales, on 1 January 1915. Two men fired with rifles at a passing picnic train, killing four people and wounding seven more, before being killed by police and military officers.
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Biden, Trump and the Meaning of Stupidity
In politics as in life, the stupid person causes others to lose and gains nothing for himself.
By Barton Swaim
Last year I picked up a little book titled “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity,” by the Italian economic historian Carlo M. Cipolla (1922-2000)
The copy I bought was published in 2019. On the back of this handsome edition are two epigrammatic quotations. The first is by Bertrand Russell: “The trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” The second is by Donald Trump: “Trust me, I’m, like, a smart person.”
The Trump quotation is of course meant to be ironic. He’s “like, a smart person,” ha ha. We all know he’s stupid, nudge nudge.
Yet if the marketers had bothered even to skim this short volume, they might have realized that Mr. Trump, whatever else may be said about him, can’t possibly be considered stupid by Cipolla’s definition.
Cipolla divides people into four categories: helpless, bandit, intelligent and stupid.
In any normal interaction between two people, he contends, the helpless person suffers a loss while the other gains.
The bandit exacts a benefit while levying a loss on the other.
The intelligent person gains while enabling the other person also to gain.
The defining trait of the stupid person is that he gains nothing while obliging the other to take a loss.
Mr. Trump’s fans can argue with his despisers about whether he belongs in the category of bandit or intelligent, but he definitely can’t be classified as stupid according to Cipolla’s definition.
The astounding fact of recent years, however, is that Mr. Trump’s chief political opponent—Joe Biden—is a perfect specimen of Cipolla’s idea of stupidity.
For four years, Mr. Biden has made decisions and pursued policies that made his supporters, party, country and foreign allies worse off, and in almost every case he has gained nothing and very often suffered commensurate political losses.
You could make a cogent argument that Mr. Biden belongs in the category of helpless, so often do his decisions benefit his political adversaries, chiefly Mr. Trump, and not himself.
But those blunders—principal among them his insistence that he was capable of running for re-election—have exacted massive costs on the rest of the country.
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Every few days, when the memory of my last visit has faded I go to a very political forum where the owners don’t care much what is said as long a lot of people say a lot of things. Clicks rule!
The TDS sufferers absolutely insist that Trump is dumb. Ask the Q “If you’re so much smarter, why aren’t you rich”. the A is “He had a rich father”.
Blessed are the stupid people for they do not know they are stupid.
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This video of Joe Rogan predicting the LA fire devastation last year is now a top pic on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONwjYOrCBV0
It gives some of the background for relocating to Texas.
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There is NO GOD, Get real
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You are in a position to know that? Really?
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And I an still being JT
JR
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Do you think you’re JT or JC??… just askin’
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The only JT I know is Jonathan Thurston, and to Cowboys fans he sat on JC’s right hand.
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Incomprehensible.
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Im a climate denier of many years standing but I think there are other ways of looking at this LA fire.
Firstly – I think its a cheap shot to blame the LA Fire Department – Yes they are a pack of incompetents but even the best resourced, best trained fire service would be unable to do much. I say that as a South Australian CFS life member.
In particular I note the number of totally inadequate houses – they seem to have all been built of flammable material since they seem to have burnt down to the slab – in an area that is a high bushfire risk zone. You cant blame fire fighters for that!
The fact that the Insurance companies were quitting the scene months ago tells you that somebody knew what was on the cards.
It strikes me that LA is the heartland of the Climate Change religion – so I wonder just why they dont appear to have believed their own rhetoric and done some really serious long term strategic thinking.
Clearly it has become obvious that more windmills aren’t going to make any difference especially with China and India doubling down. At what point would we expect them to accept that the whole net zero project is a waste of time and money and start spending money on adaptation?
Im writing about LA but Im thinking about Australia. When are these people going to start acting like they actually believe Climate Change is a threat – if thats what they think – and tell us what their plan is.
Windmills? nuclear power stations? Quite frankly a few DEI hires is a cheaper option and to my mind just as effective.
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Alistair, to be fair, they use wood because it is an earthquake zone, and bricks and concrete crack up too much. And the insurance companies abandoned the area because the CA government tried to do price fixing, “to keep costs down” thus forcing teh companies to choose to underchanrge or run away.
Conditions were awful to be sure, but it they had reduced fire loads AND had fire hydrants with water, things might have been a lot better.
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Okay, it had to happen sooner or later.
Heard an article on AM this morning. Umm! I like an occasional ‘talking head’ while I have some Brekky. If I’m eating, then I’m not yelling at the radio. (It’s funny really, once upon a time, I seem to remember that the purpose of the radio was to ….. play music. Colour me old fashioned, but I wish that was still the case. Now it’s all just blah blah blah!)
The article was ostensibly about the largest religious gathering on the Planet, in India, the Kumbh Mela, where up to 400 million people gather to cleanse themselves in the Ganges across the 45 days of the festival.
The talking head ABC correspondent in Prayagraj (by population, 1.1 Million, the 42nd largest city in India) mentioned that number of 400 million was around a quarter of the population of India, and it revived something I’ve been (sort of anyway) watching over the last year or so.
So, I went and checked.
The population of India has now surpassed that of China, and now India is the most populous Country on the Planet.
India – 1.458 Billion people
China – 1.418 Billion people
Tony.
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Not sure how they’ll get clean bathing in the Ganges, must be spiritual cleansing.
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My “talking heads” are podcasters. If I’m in the kitchen at breakfast I have my headphones on [I’m alone then, not rude]
Two people, totally different, Peter Ziehan and Lei of Leis real talk say China’s population is down to 800,000 and collapsing. They are certainly battling a deflationary spiral, even noodle sales have dropped 30%, so I assume that is the reason for a massive spend Xi has announced. I have not caught up on that so may be wrong.
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FWIW
I doubt that this will float many worry beads here!
“Peter Fitzsimons declares he’ll “call out” Australian Trump and Musk fans.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/peter-fitzsimons-declares-hell-call-out-australian-trump-and-musk-fans.html
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He should do what I recommend all Leftists do now that we are experiencing the end of Leftism and wokism as they will no longer have anything to do.
I would like to see them do something genuinely worthwhile.
He should go to a Third World country like Nepal (where I was recently) and personally pick up litter plus also teach the locals not to litter and to put rubbish in bins or collection points where it belongs.
They should continue to work at minimal or no wage until they are deemed to have worked off their debt to society for the huge damage that their promotion of Leftism and wokism has caused.
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‘Peter Fitzsimons’
Who is he and should I know of him?
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He wears a red bandanna so he is one of yours.
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Curious how California had 3 dikes but no water.
/sarc
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Curiously, three of the senior management are of that persuasion and all have some variation Kristin as their first name.
Chief Kristin Crowley, salary US$439,722
Diversity (Equity Bureau) Chief Kristine Larson salary US$399,000
Assistant Chief Kristina “Kady” Kepner salary US$264,468
All DEI hires. And it shows.
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FWIW – embroidery
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/gg0gkgjwqaaxcfe.jpg?w=680
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No boys to stick their fingers in them….
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Prisoners are helping fight the LA fires.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-11/loophole-puts-prisoners-on-the-frontlines-of-la-fires/104801390
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Excellent reformation I would think – returning criminals to society with a new sense of moral values, purpose and a sense to contribute to society
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As other parts of the world move towards AI for weather forecasting I gather our BOM refuses to have anything to do with it. Is that because the BOM has trapped itself by alterations in the measured data to meet the Climate-Change-due-to-humans requirements and would be exposed. I gather AI working on scattered data patterns and outcomes requires accurate measured inputs and outcomes to learn its patterns for forecasting. Hence the folk of the BOM, to get into AI forecasting, may have a problem. Presuming(ha ha) the BOM actually possesses the essential original unadorned data for AI, wouldn’t it then be exposed for manipulating the original data over many years to meet the AGW theory outcomes it so avidly seeks and preaches?
AI forecasting would probably kill the AGW theory very quickly, and that would create chaos all around official government, financial and big business circles. All trust would die in the lot of them. Is this what is recognised behind the screens? Trump would do them all a favour by rolling out of the AGW movement based on his own opinion that its all a hoax. He would wear the odium engendered by the ‘earth will boil crowd’ using their media supports saying he was responsible for the ensuing financial and markets problems. He needs to be clever by exposing it all step by step.
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“AI forecasting would probably kill the AGW theory very quickly,”
Not a chance! BOM would insist on being the ones to run the computer and input all the data! We would be putting on pullovers while the weatherman told us that it was a record-breaking heatwave…
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AI would likely show them up for the woke clowns they are.
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Eggs now qualify as ‘healthy’ food, FDA says
While eggs haven’t historically been considered a “health food,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now classifies them as a “healthy, nutrient-dense” food, according to a new proposed rule.
The FDA’s “healthy” designation for food labeling purposes has been in use since the early 1990s.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/eggs-now-qualify-healthy-food-fda-says-heres-why
Eggs have ALWAYS been quintessential nutrition and the lies of old are falling away now.
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It’s strange how, just as there is an admission that eggs are a healthy food, all the chickens are being murdered, supposedly to combat bird flu, leading to massive egg shortages in Australia and the United States.
It’s also odd too how gain of function “research” is being done on bird flu to make it easier for humans to catch.
Just do a Goolag or other search for “avian flu gain of function research” without quote marks.
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Why do we murder all the chickens to prevent bird flu?
According to Dr Peter McCullough most of the birds will recover from bird flu and develop immunity to it,
It seems illogical to respond by killing all the birds!
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It’s an engineered war against the food supply.
It’s utter stupidity to kill the chickens. They should breed the ones that survive to make a resistant flock.
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Baby chick – Was I born?
Mother chook – No you were hatched
Baby chick – Do humans get hatched?
Mother chook – no only chickens and birds get hatched which happens after they have been laid.
Baby chick – Laid? So, do humans get laid?
Mother chook – Some do, some are chicken.
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Pickled three dozen eggs this week – feeling ready for the crunch
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Bacon!
Bacon’s roots trace back to ancient China, not Europe. As early as 1500 BCE, Chinese cooks salted pork belly in a preservation technique called ‘ba- kwan’. This method spread along trade routes, evolving as it reached Rome and eventually medieval Europe, where bacon became a dietary staple and cultural phenomenon.
Also, believe it or not, spaghetti wasn’t born in Italy! It was brought over by Arab traders who introduced Chinese noodles in the 8th century. Italians turned them into the classic pasta we love today, adding their own delicious twist over the centuries.
And pizza has been around since 600BC, when Persia had flatbreads with toppings, with flatbreads going back to 7,000BC, probably without toppings.
Similarly India, China, Egypt and all mediterranean countries.
The modern form of pizza goes to the Italians (to keep them happy).
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The Italians also added tomato, capsicum, corn/polenta, rice, potato, chilli all from the new world after the Italian Christopher Columbus went to America. What the original Americans lacked was Italian cuisine. And it only took 20 years for Chilli to reach Western China, changing whole cuisines on the way as no one had refrigeration and the need to kill the taste was great.
And even today, in the villages, no part of a pig is wasted.
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And hamburger was an American invention, not a resident of Hamburg. Tikka Marsala and Balti are British inventions. But it took John Kennedy to announce ‘ich bin ein Berliner’. I am a doughnut.
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Should have omitted the “ein”.
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Hello John Conner II
I am writing to you again from the future. 🙂
Before the industrial revolution, nearly all foods were in some way salted, fermented using specific microorganisms, and combinations of techniques including the use of salt.
During the industrial revolution, many fermentation techniques evaporated into thin air, and then fermenting certain foods like natto, kinema, chungguk jang, was looked down on and only poor people without fridges maintained the traditional techniques. In India today, the landlord will quickly evict a tenant if caught fermenting beans to make Axone as it is called there. There is a movie about this kind of discrimination by the same name, Axone.
Here in our almost completely lost civilisation, the Bacilis ‘Subtilis’ has completely been disregarded or somehow ignored amongst those who promote so called ‘probiotics’ which usually die in stomach acid because that is what the stomach is designed to do amongst other things. Depraved situation.
But all is not lost, and beans are easy to ferment without the need to go out and purchase a starter culture.
Fishfarms for salmon now use around 75% fermented soy beans and B Subtilis is also added to chicken food which increases the length of the villi in the gastrointestinal tract and thus the farmer is able to deliver more nutrition to the chicken as well as allowing the farmer to cut down drastically the amount of antibiotics being fed to his flock…win win.
And this incredibly important true probiotic, Bacillus Subtilis is also used in agriculture to prevent brown rot, and other plant fungal diseases….
As far as nutrition goes, if B Subtilis is not taken in some way, or the spores that it forms when it is dormant, then i fear we will continue to live in the nutritional dark ages… good to hear farmers have at least begun to figure this out.
Another example is that B Subtilis makes K2 for the entire animal kingdom…nature frequently outsources. The effect is that the K2 activates osteocalcin and so peoples who consume these fermented foods typically have amazingly white and healthy teeth.
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Further note, errata..’nutritional dark ages’ indeed 🙂
From Google search using the criteria “k2 dentist discovered”
Google result amongst other ‘first page search’.
https://www.google.com/search?q=k2+dentist+discovered
Quote:
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No matter how idiotic government decisions in Australia are, the UK manages to beat them.
“Net zero primary school will never open because of lack of children
DfE pulls funding from project as only ‘a handful of families’ live in new 350-home development”
A Nett zero primary school to save the planet. Except the catchment area is for young singles with no children or retirees.
And it looks to be completely finished, even to the lawns. So ‘pulling the funding’ is a bit late. A complete waste of CO2 after all. Net pointless.
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But then Los Angeles now has hundreds of fire hydrants with no water. Dams with no water. And in the middle of the fire, the domestic supply was turned off too.
The fire chief says it was not their fault there was water in the hydrants. Apparently when there are no fires, they are very busy people. Clearly checking such things needs a special budget.
Meanwhile the police have arrested an illegal migrant with a blowtorch. Who was already on probation. And is likely on probation again.
Why does WOKE mean fast asleep?
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(See quoted material below.)
He’s certainly saying the right things.
I am not sure I believe him. There are very few cases of Leftists reforming themselves.
It’s amazing how having your cojones in a vise can change attitudes though. After all, he is in business survival mode ever since TRUMP told Big Tech that if they didn’t stop censoring conservatives he’d remove their Section 230 protections.
If Zuck wants to be forgiven he will have to devote the rest of his life and the power of his business to fight the huge harm of the wokeness and Leftism his platform has spent years promoting.
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FWIW
Add the red tape
FWIW
“Scott Adams Asks Important Questions as California Faces a Post-Fire Recovery”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/scott-adams-asks-important-questions-as-california-faces/
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A Christmas present from the IMF: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/CR/Issues/2024/12/20/Australia-2024-Article-IV-Consultation-Press-Release-and-Staff-Report-559811 Australia remains vulnerable to geoeconomic fragmentation risks and faces a critical transition to net-zero emissions.
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“expenditure rationalization at all levels of government could help reduce aggregate demand and support a quicker return of inflation to its target.”
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Annex IX. “Future Made in Australia”—Shaping the Design of the Authorities’ Industrial Policy (IP) Strategy and Incorporating Guardrails – is of key interest to this crowd.
465 industrial policy measures, amounting to subsidies worth 19 billion USD, which have been introduced in Australia since 2023.
“Good design of green industrial policy measures is crucial. The FMiA’s targeted governmental interventions or policies, which seek to reshape the production landscape in Australia to develop specific domestic industries, might mark a significant shift away from Australia’s enduring
commitment to market-based principles. If not well designed, such policies could risk the adverse effects of “picking winners,” granting a competitive edge to local producers, and may pose administrative hurdles.” in IMF terms “administrative hurdles” = corruption risks
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The IMF also suggests using work from home to lower wage increase demands (my own translation of): “Shifting preferences may provide opportunities for Pareto improvements in wage setting. Surveys suggest that the average Australian worker is willing to forego 4–8 percent of annual wages for remote work flexibility, with significant heterogeneity in preferences: one fifth of workers appear willing to forgo as much as 16-33 percent wages for remote work flexibility (Vij et al, 2023).
Differing worker preferences for remote work could allow employers and employees in sectors where remote or hybrid models are feasible to negotiate Pareto-improving contracts (starting from a one-size fits all baseline).
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“In light of longterm spending pressures from ongoing demographic headwinds, coupled with climate change, expenditure reforms should aim at enhancing efficiency and containing structural spending growth at all levels of government” – love how they just throw the occasional ‘climate change’ in the middle of things!
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Sorry – this should be attached to 40 above
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To avoid undue distortions, both domestically and internationally, green industrial policy (IP) initiatives should be confined to narrow objectives—where externalities or market failures prevent effective market solutions—and be consistent with the country’s international obligations. A stable climate is a global public good and the transition to a greener economy is a collective global responsibility, which requires a mix of mitigation, adaptation, and transition policies. Achieving Australia’s ambitious emission reduction goals depends on addressing construction bottlenecks and community engagement, with potential solutions like an economy-wide carbon price or targeted sectoral policies.
Additionally, Australia’s voluntary participation in reviewing transnational corruption sends a positive signal that could inspire improvements in global governance. – and it would be great if we could all do something about corruption in this new Green Industrial Policy, yeah?
Just look at the page space devoted to fighting climate change versus the little comment about corruption. It is not just the waste in the Climate Change fight, it’s the opportunity cost!
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Having a rough time lately in Broken Hill: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-13/fire-at-broken-hill-perilya-mine-reignites/104813252
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Among them, the ignition time for optical fibers was the shortest, with a TTI of merely 8 s. Additionally, the heat release rate per unit area (HRRPUA) of the four cables remained relatively unchanged but reached their first peak earlier. This phenomenon was attributed to the cables experiencing higher external heat radiation, causing a rapid increase in the surface temperature and promoting thermal decomposition of the outer layer materials, leading to accelerated combustion reactions and an increase in heat release, resulting in a faster rise in the heat release rate per unit area. Furthermore, the peak heat release rate (PHRR) of the four cables showed varying degrees of increase. The total heat release (THR) for the cable exhibited a slight rise. Moreover, the mass loss rate (MLR) for all four cables was accelerated, and the proportion of mass loss for cables and wires was lower compared with those of network cables and optical fibers, with a maximum difference of 54.23%. This discrepancy primarily arose from the larger proportion of non-combustible components in cables and wires. https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/11/431 – I read this as in a catastrophic fire event, fiber will combust quicker than copper and more of its mass will burn up?
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