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January 17th, 2025 | Tags: Unthreaded | Category: Big-Government |  Print This Post | | Comments (128)By Jo Nova The Los Angeles Fires seem to symbolize the great achievements of collectivist governance. It took decades to reach these Black Belt levels of incompetence: to weaponize the committees, neutralize the media, and to teach the people that fires are caused by hamburgers and stopped by solar panels. Currently 150,000 people are still under evacuation orders in Los Angeles and some 10,000 buildings are estimated to have been destroyed. To twist the knife on the pain, some insurance companies have recently abandoned Californian clients due to a 1988 law called Proposition 103. The State government regulates price rises in insurance. It’s a form of price fixing. It means insurance companies can’t adjust their premiums to take the higher risks into account, so they do they only thing they can — stop offering insurance. Then there is the irony that green activists have worked to stop fuel reduction burns. @MarioNawfal names the Sierra Club. The Californian situation by Dennis Presiloski In a form of Democrat maths — the LA mayor Karen Bass saved $18m from the fire department budget but the state lost $150 billion in damage (so far). “The bluest people on the planet are going to […] January 11th, 2025 | Tags: California, DEI, ESG, Fires | Category: Big-Government, Fire, Ideology, USA | Print This Post | | Comments (187)By Jo Nova Extraordinary. Four years ago a crowd armed with flags and a helmet with horns was taking part in the greatest fake insurrection that never was. But today, Kamala certified Donald Trump’s win. Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as Prime Minister of Canada and Elon Musk is publicly tearing strips off the Prime Minister of the UK. Twitter — X — is alive in a pile-on that has been building for a few days and is now breaking out into the real world. Finally, the worst depravity, the moral plague that infects the UK bureaucracy at every level, is being exposed. And even Keir Starmer is in the cross-hairs. He was director of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 – 2013. He secured some of these “token” prosecutions, but many cases were dropped, even with DNA evidence. It is as if years of corruption and a fake media are starting to unravel. In a testament to free speech, Musk has achieved more in a few tweets than twenty years of media investigation in the UK. Starmer has finally had to answer Musk in a press conference, and dismisses demands for a full inquiry as “jumping on the […] January 7th, 2025 | Tags: Big-Government, Corruption (Media), Free Speech | Category: Big-Government | Print This Post | | Comments (101)Subsidy farms are designed to suck payments from plumbers, bakers and mums and dads. By Jo Nova When failure becomes a commodity… Ponder for a moment how intrinsically unsuitable, maladapted, and worthless wind turbines are to a grid. Their failure is so comprehensive, multifaceted and inevitable, an entirely new and bizarre market was invented to reward their failures. Even when they generate electricity, if the time is wrong, the demand is low, or the network can’t handle it, they will still be paid. The grid can’t use the power, but the customer still gets slugged for something they didn’t use, or they couldn’t get. In the UK the costs for this useless power grew to nearly £400 million last year. The largest provider of useless power was SeaGreen wind plant which made nearly twice as much from being “constrained” than from being of service. The Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) reports that SeaGreen earned £100 million for making electricity, and £200 million for being “constrained”. Effectively, the useful electricity it made costs a shocking £2.70 a kilowatt hour, after the other payments are included. Obviously, when the government rewards failure, the market responds by planning to fail. It follows […] January 4th, 2025 | Tags: Free Markets, Wind Power | Category: Big-Government, Free markets, Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Let’s not put race politics in our science lessons Science has no race — it is true, or it isn’t. But once we start deleting one race or judging one scientific hero by the color of their skin, we can still make science lessons racist. It’s just another anti-white virtue-signalling thing. Instead of teaching children how the world works, someone thinks we should teach them topics that make the Minister sound good at UN cocktail parties. The UK Labour government wants to overhaul school science — if only they knew what science was. They got an “independent” review to tell them what they wanted to hear and invited the grovelling Royal Society’s of Science to sell out science to the latest Woke intellectual fashion. Shame on them. Real science is about evidence, not the color of your skin, or the continent your last 1,000 ancestors lived on. It can’t be “de-Westernized” because it isn’t “Western” — the laws of physics work just as well in England as they do in Bangladesh. Hypersonic rockets don’t care what language you speak, penicillin kills streptococcus in the East and the West, and gravity sucks us all. Its universality […] January 3rd, 2025 | Tags: Education, JoNova's Favourites, Science, Scientific Associations, UK | Category: AGW socio-political, Big-Government, Global Warming, Psy-Ops, Science, UK | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova It’s become a flood It’s a good start to 2025 — just quietly, the money is exiting the Monster Banker Climate Cartel. Since the Trump win, the bankers are running away suddenly from the United Nations “Net-Zero Banking Alliance” (NZBA) which is a sub-part of GFANZ (the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) — the world’s largest and richest climate activists club. GFANZ is the public face of every kind of global financial-bullying-to-save-the-world. Economically, the monster collective could eat whole nations for breakfast. At one point the collective assets-under-management were as valued at the fantastical conglomeration of $130 trillion. It is the hydra-head hissing at superannuation funds and national treasurers that don’t comply with sacred green goals. Who cares what the voters want? The latest round of quiet banker departures started with Moody‘s and Goldman Sachs, a month ago. Only two days ago RealClear Energy took heart that ” U.S. behemoths Bank of America, Citigroup, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo were still in the NZBA”. But Wells Fargo quit a week ago, and under the cover of New Years Eve parties, the Bank of America, and Citigroup have jumped ship too. No one seems […] January 2nd, 2025 | Tags: Bankers, Climate Money, GFANZ, World Government | Category: Bankers, Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | … By Jo Nova In the ecosystem of civilization, the OECD is just another batch of multinational barnacles slowing the ship down. These invertebrate filter feeders use taxpayer money to bore the taxpayers kids into submission to The Blob. They presumably hope the kids will grow up to vote for the Big Government Blob, thus boosting the river of money that flows past the barnacles. In the end, improbably, a foreign committee is pretending it can save children in some of the wealthiest nations in the world from “misinformation”. As if the first world needs some remedial assistance teaching chemistry to their teenagers. The gargantuan arrogance of this is only surpassed by the intergalactic chutzpah. The OECD are, after all, just a bunch of economists, wiggling their finger at nations full of doctors and engineers, and telling them how to teach their kids science. The gibberish, it grows: What is “action” in response to “climate anxiety”? How to teach climate change so 15-year-olds can act The Guardian (of course). OECD’s Pisa program will measure the ability of students to take action in response to climate anxiety and ‘take their position and role in the […] December 27th, 2024 | Tags: Education, Propaganda, Psy-Ops | Category: Academia, AGW socio-political, Australia, Big-Government, Global Warming, Psy-Op, Psy-Ops | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova This will slow down the parasites The most exciting thing I heard today was that AI was used to find all the nasty surprises secreted away in the 1,500 pages of US legislation that was being pumped through Congress in the days before Christmas. Legal aides must have spent all year stacking the deck with tricks to enrich the political class. No human could unpack the fine print overnight, but AI could. Then, free speech saved the day, the Capitol Pork was exposed when Elon Musk spread the word to his 208 million readers. As Elon Musk says: I’m suspicious of laws that are longer than The Lord of the Rings. Huge implications for the use of AI. They used AI to “read” all 1,574 pages of that monstrosity and pull out the graft and corruption. This is a game changer. They can’t hide things in multi-thousand page bills anymore. — DJ Jones (@sgtdaviddjjones) December 19, 2024 No matter how corrupt you think Big-government is, it’s worse: Posters on X exposed some of the hidden surprises which included a payrise for Congress, funding for Bill Gates mosquito games, bioweapons research, vaccine […] December 21st, 2024 | Tags: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Corruption, Free Speech, US Politics | Category: Big-Government, Corruption, Free Speech, Lawfare, USA | Print This Post | | … By Jo Nova Here in crazy Australia, we have too many renewables, but both sides of politics still want more Here in the Renewable Crash Test Dummy Land, both sides of politics think we should use our national grid for weather control which is good for President Xi, but bad for Australians. The Opposition is pointing out that the 82% renewable purity target is bonkers, and we should add nuclear plants, while the Labor party are hell-bent on running the world’s first experiment in wind and solar with not much hydro, no nuclear power and no extension cords to a international market that can rescue us. Literally no nation on Earth is this recklessly ambitious. With an election coming, and domestic electricity prices approaching escape velocity, both sides are sparring with economic reports. The government claims it can do a national wind and solar miracle grid for just $122 billion. But Frontier Economics put the cost at $594 billion. The opposition, meanwhile, has finally revealed the first serious costing of their big new nuclear power plan is $331 billion (which is $260 billion cheaper), but it’s still $300 billion we don’t really have. Awkwardly for Labor, both […] December 13th, 2024 | Tags: Australian Politics, Electricity Grids, Solar Energy (PV) | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming, Politics, Renewable | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova The Australian electricity grid is not-fit-for-purpose. And failure is being normalized. Last Wednesday, during the near-miss of a blackout in Sydney, the AEMO spent $3,558,000 on “demand reduction” which means they paid productive industries to stop working to save the grid from a blackout. Translated: poor electricity users in New South Wales paid $3.5 million to businesses to do nothing, because the grid didn’t have enough energy, and the people in charge really didn’t want any embarrassing blackouts so close to an election. So renewables are wonderful, clean and cheap but your workers, assets and capital will sometimes need to sit around and do nothing so we can stop some storms in the 22nd century. In political spin, planned blackouts can also be called “Virtual Power Plants” “Demand Management” is a smarmy marketing word for a lot of little Blackouts. In the lexicon of a failing grid, all the bad-words get tortured into iced doughnuts — if your company has agreed to be ready to shut down at a moment’s notice on a warm day, that’s not being on “Standby to Close”, instead your business is a ““pre-activated” extra reserve.” In Renewable-World-Psychosis bad is good: your […] December 7th, 2024 | Tags: AEMO, Big-Government, Blackouts, JoNova's Favourites | Category: Big-Government, Renewable | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Going Green with Diesel Back in February, South Australia was the Renewables Wonderland basking in the thrill of driving two diesel plants out of business. The remarkable transition had claimed two new fossil fuel scalps. But the farce of last week’s near blackout in Sydney must have scared the management in South Australia. Suddenly this week, the government announced it wants to change the rules and force those mothballed diesel plants back into action. The Frankenstein economy fails (again) The government created a monster — an artificial market that favoured random energy and drove dependable power out of business. So, not surprisingly, now they have to do emergency market surgery and spend even more money, to force Engie to reopen these uneconomic plants. The fact that essential plants are “uneconomic” only shows what a Quasimodo market this is. If the rules favored the cheap reliable electricity (that customers want) instead of hobgoblin-electrons that change the future weather (maybe), no one would have to order Engie to restart the plants. They wouldn’t have gone out of business. Instead, a bunch of unreliable wind farms and fields of glass would never have been created. No one could afford […] December 4th, 2024 | Tags: Blackouts, Renewable Energy, SA (South Australia) | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova Finally, twenty years too late, Australian leaders are talking about the galactic cost of making a spare energy grid that might, maybe, hopefully one day reduce world temperatures by one thousandth of a degree. Sadly they are still not talking about why that’s a pointless quest, why CO2 feeds the poor, warmth is good, humans emissions are irrelevant, or how science has become a turgid swamp patrolled by dead sacred cows. But it’s a start! We got the trifecta: Our car-crash energy bills, the revolution of common sense in the US, and the appearance of our own election on the horizon have set off the Air-raid sirens to wake a sleeping nation. It’s only half a trillion dollars The Minister for Energy says the cost of renewables by 2050 will be $122 billion (AUD). Not convinced, the Opposition commissioned a study that estimates it’s more like $650 billion. But what’s a half a trillion dollars when you have hope, faith, and a fantasy to make storms a bit nicer? It’s a horror show. The Labor Government wants every family of four to spend something like $100,000 on their wind and solar vision over the next 25 […] November 19th, 2024 | Tags: Electricity Cost, JoNova's Favourites | Category: Australia, Big-Government, Cost, Global Warming, Renewable | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova All the world waits When you use AI to replace every mention of “our democracy” with “our bureaucracy,” everything starts making a lot more sense. pic.twitter.com/XZ65HXfN9H — Bill D’Agostino (@Banned_Bill) November 5, 2024 As The Babylon Bee says: If Trump Is Elected It Will Be The End Of Bureaucracy As We Know It Politics · Nov 4, 2024 · BabylonBee.com Other Democrats agreed that another Trump presidency would likely spell doom for lucrative but wasteful government programs, with increased efficiency and reduced tax revenue taken in by the government would have a devastating effect on their ability to become wealthy. “Our system of government has never faced a more imminent threat,” said Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. “The days of elected officials getting rich from kickbacks, secret bribes, and insider trading may be over. Serving the public should never be the motivating factor for entering public service. I fear for our nation… and my life.” The gap between the media and the voters continues to grow: Or, to put it another way, the media had to be nicer to Kamala than to any candidate in history Newsbusters reports that this is the […] November 6th, 2024 | Tags: Elections, US Politics | Category: Big-Government, Politics | Print This Post | | Photo by Ansalmo Juvaga By Jo Nova Seen on X Spare a thought for the people of Cuba The situation went from awful to something much worse. They ran out of working electrical plants ten days ago, and endured blackouts lasting for four straight days, including one hurricane. Reports coming out suggest that though electricity is partly restored, it’s often only for four hours a day. Not surprisingly, the country is semi-paralyzed — schools are still closed and “labor services” are largely non-existent, apart from hospitals, funerals and efforts to repair the damage caused by Hurricane Oscar. Soon they may run out of people. People were fleeing Cuba before things got this bad. The big blackout began on Friday October 18th. In the next four days they restarted the grid three or four times only to have it crash again, and while power is sort of mostly restored the structural problems appear to be dire. Nothing really sums the state of the communist economy better than one line on Vox news which described the moment the big blackout began: “Seven of the country’s eight thermoelectric plants, which generate power for the island, were […] October 29th, 2024 | Tags: Blackout, Communism, Cuba | Category: Big-Government, Renewable | Print This Post | | Broken Hill Solar Plant | Photo by Jeremy Buckingham By Jo Nova The lights went out in Broken Hill. A storm blew seven transmission towers over disconnecting the area from the national grid on October 17th. About 19,000 people live there, and with a 200MW wind plant, a 53MW solar array and a big battery, plus diesel generators it was assumed they’d be OK for a while without the connection to the big baseload plants, but instead it’s been a debacle. They’ve had nearly a week of blackouts with intermittent bursts of power, barely long enough to charge the phone. The fridges in the pharmacies failed, so all medications had to be destroyed and emergency replacements sent in. Schools have been closed. Freezers of meat are long gone… Emergency trucks are bringing in food finally and hopefully the schools will reopen today. But the full reconnection will not happen until November 6th. Western NSW blackout ‘a green power warning’ By Joanna Panagopououlos and Alexi Demetriadi, The Australian Mayor Tom Kennedy said state and federal governments “needed to learn” from the experience, and how wind and solar energy are “almost useless” in a crisis without […] October 28th, 2024 | Tags: NSW (New South Wales), Renewable Energy, Solar Energy (PV), Wind Power | Category: Australia, Big-Government, Grids, Renewable, Solar Power, Wind Power | Print This Post | | Image by SAIF 4 from Pixabay By Jo Nova Government funded science is not so much a search for truth as new chapter in the Communist Manifesto It’s a form of cultural warfare. These funds are not just diluting science, but actively sabotaging it. They enable experts who “decolonize geoscience” and offer a million dollars to the kind of people who say “white supremacy permeates … STEM education”. It is the antithesis of the dispassionate observer, instead the observer is all that matters. If you can’t see your oppression, it’s because they didn’t give you enough money… Two billion dollars buys a lot of loud shouty voices, amplifying their messages through impressionable teenagers. These pseudo experts don’t just waste offices, they get invited to sit on committees, they raise PhD students, and their words can be used in legal cases and “fact checking” situations. Not to mention, their output trains AI engines too. It legitimizes a whole twisted way of thinking. Under the Biden-Harris government The US National Science Foundation is gradually being converted to a Neo-Marxist PR machine. A US Senate Committee Report shows that in the first quarter of 2024 more than a quarter of all […] October 11th, 2024 | Tags: Junk Science, Science (funding of) | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | 8.8 out of 10 based on 22 ratings The Ministry of Truth will control your every online conversation By Jo Nova The Censors are always the bad guys The only way to fix misinformation is with better information. Dear Australians, we only have until Monday to lodge a submission against the proposed amended Misinformation bill. It’s a bill so bad warnings are coming from the far side of the world The Cato Institute warns that if Tech companies take the simple route and comply with the Australian proposal Americans using mostly American companies may be effectively subject to misinformation rules set by foreign governments (and that may be the point, eh?) The great leftist global machine gets “help” with every country conquered by censorship glue. Why do the guys with galactic megaphones need to shut you up? Suppose misinformation was harming Australians, what stops the government giving us the correct information? They have the billion-dollar ABC, the billion-dollar CSIRO, the entire tamed academic sector, every school in Australia (they’re all funded and controlled by the government) — and yet somehow against this, an unfunded mum or dad writing on Facebook or a blog might harm trust in government institutions and therefore must be shut down, before […] September 25th, 2024 | Tags: Free Speech | Category: Big-Government, Free Speech, Global Warming | Print This Post | |
Battery bombs in the suburbs? By Jo Nova You think exploding pagers was a wicked trick…. Hypothetically, suppose you were distracted while you tried to change tropospheric jet streams, and accidentally gave away your national manufacturing to a foreign adversary. Next thing you know, you’re buying the batteries they make, and installing them in essential grid infrastructure and thousands of homes. You’re patting yourself on the back for getting a cheap deal (never mind the slaves) and it all seems dandy until one sunny day, a leader who was cheesed off with a trade deal, quietly switched off the “overcharge protection” on all of them remotely. At that point, millions of solar panels are pumping excess electricity into batteries that have no safety cut off. A few houses start to go off like popcorn, and an hour later we’re all living at the Western Front. Brian Craighead – chief executive of Energy Renaissance, has come to warn us — it’s a hidden threat to national security. He says Australia has already installed 220,000 batteries that were made in potentially unfriendly places, and each home battery has roughly 7,500 times as much energy as a pager. As he […] September 24th, 2024 | Tags: Battery, Cybersecurity, Defence | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | By Jo Nova In Great Achievements of Government mismanagement, there is a $1 trillion dollar boom in LNG infrastructure around the world, and Australia is one of the top three exporters of LNG, far ahead of the rest, yet we’re about to run out of gas to keep the lights on. It’s so bad we probably have to import gas. As if anyone needed another example of how small-minded-dictocrat-decrees can screw up a free market and achieve the exact opposite to what they tried to arrange, feast your eyes on Australia. It takes real planning to start this far ahead and still bollix this up: Australia was literally the worlds largest LNG exporter in 2020 One of our large energy companies APA Group says a vital Queensland gas pipeline was already running at capacity this winter, and things are so bad, gas power stations here may have to run off diesel, which is stupid on many levels at once. Not only does it lose triple points in Climate-Scrabble, being a dirty high emissions fuel, it’s one of the only fossil fuels we aren’t swimming in. We have 300 years in proven reserves of coal and if we’re lucky, just […] August 29th, 2024 | Tags: Big-Government, Gas | Category: Australia, Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | |
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