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Experts…
There are so many today. Thousands of them.
You can’t read a MSM media release without some proclaimed expert giving their expert view.
Am I an expert in my field? I don’t know. I would class myself as competant and forever learning.
After 30 years of experience and study in my field I have learnt so much… But there is so much more to learn.
I am not infallible, I can admit to mistakes, I have found that the science is never settled.
Yet your 2024 “experts” seem to know it all. They know everything about everything.
Sadly, I have found that, Imho, most of those all knowing “experts” are charlatans.
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That means they are stuck on age 18. I wish I was 18 again, at least physically, but knowing what I have learned, not going through all that again, and knowing I don’t really know much.
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As Bob Seger sang in; “Against the Wind”….
“Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqyxgvtBaRM
The line has turned up in at least one other song.
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVUQCtqLtOk
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https://drmcfillin.substack.com/p/never-trust-someone-who-is-incapable
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A quote from the article MeAgain supplied…
“The institutional pressure to have an answer for everything has corrupted the very foundation of expertise……
we’re witnessing the collapse of a system that punishes doubt and rewards false confidence, where admitting uncertainty has become professionally dangerous – and “I don’t know” is treated as a confession of incompetence rather than a declaration of intellectual honesty.”
Thankyou MA.
It may not apply to all, but it does to me.
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I don’t know, (or similar), should be as common or more so, than the alternative of ‘the answer is’.
Even the simplest of problems are often the result of statistical solutions learned through observation over long periods and multiple events. However, sometimes the rare events come to the fore, often when you least desire them.
Murphy was an optimist is closer to the truth than most expert witnesses that I’ve met. At least Murphy isn’t getting paid to answer in a specific way.
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“The surrender of personal power to institutional authority represents one of the most profound betrayals of informed consent in modern medicine. When we relinquish our right to understand, to question, to weigh evidence and make conscious choices about our children’s mental health, we don’t just abdicate our parental responsibility – we participate in a system that prioritizes compliance over healing. “
Ah, so much modern life in that one sentence!
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And yet, when the mistakes and lies of these fake “experts” are eventually revealed, there is no punishment or consequences for them. By then they have moved onto the next project, to be rewarded with another overpriced consultancy fee or salary.
How many “experts” who have caused such immense damage due to mismanagement of covid (and related lies and fra^d) and the outright fra^d of the anthropogenic global warming scam have been or ever will be prosecuted for their crimes? Tragically none (although hopefully in the United States TRUMP will give it a go).
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When it comes to global climate the “experts” are those who come up with the most extreme scenarios and supposed “solutions” as they get noticed and they get the funding. They become outstanding in their field based on fear.
More akin to being a scare crow rather than an expert to my mind. Just ask Dorothy.
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williamx mentions this: (my bolding here)
Huh!
As I have said so often (sorry people) when I was asked what to write about when I started blogging, and the site owner told me “anything you want to”, I thought, well, I’ll write about electrical power. At least I ‘know’ that ….. after 25 years working the trade, and six years actually teaching the trade.
I learned more in the following three Months than in those 25 years, and I was actually embarrassed about that, looking back on my ‘career’ in that trade. The only thing that those 25 years in the trade I saw as advantageous was that I understood what I was looking at, and it pretty much horrified me in fact. I knew so little!
And it didn’t stop there. I just kept on learning ‘new stuff’, and in fact I’m still learning about it, virtually every day.
Now I actually understand the phrase ….. ‘keep your brain active’.
I’m currently working on something new that might just kick offshore wind ‘down the road’. It was a hunch, and I’ve learned so much new information in the last couple of days ….. ‘my head hurts’.
Tony.
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This discussion on the rise of the power of ‘Head Girls’ in academia may interest you@ https://frenchinvaders.substack.com/p/eugyppius-the-traffic-light-coalition (after the run down on recent German political happenings)
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And someone, presumably Anthony Blinken, has decided to send another $20Billion to Ukraine. As a ‘loan’.
That’s 20,000 x $1Million. For what? And who gets the cash?
But then Anthony Albanese has sent 1000 x $1million to buy shares in a purely speculative Quantum Computing company in California. I would love to see the justification.
It’s amazing how democratic politicians spend our money like water. Without explanation.
Imagine that $1Billion spent on existing Australian manufacturing. No one knows to whom all this money goes, except that it vanishes forever.
What is the point of parliament?
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And a ‘near tears’ Albanese explains to Australians that hatred for Israel and hatred for Jews are two quite different things. We needed that special insight.
Plus Penny Wong has been a first hand victim of racism and discrimination, presumably because she is Chinese and lesbian. So the foreign minister is not a DEI pick, but carries victim status and knows what do do with Israel, from the river to the sea. The people who live there currently have no say in the matter. Australians have spoken. That’s so Wong.
Never has an Australian government ministry shown such contempt for Australians. We are all presented to the world as ignorant and full of hatred, total supporters of Hamas and China. How’s that AUKUS going? Especially with Trump’s best friend, Kevin Rudd representing us and Penny Wong in America.
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Don’t worry. $20Bn on Snowy II will fix our broken Climate. The Science says so.
The sooner a Federal election the better.
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Yes. But the replacement Government will be only SLIGHTLY less bad than the existing one.
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Nest election time, if I found a true conservative candidate I will vote for him rather than Liberals.
But I hear all the time that Howard “forbade nuclear power stations” in Australia and Morrison “threw away billions and locked us in needless quarantine”, etc,..
Factually it is correct, so?
Everyone remembers the circumstances around those times.
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All taxpayer money given away to all groups, foreign and domestic, should have as a precondition, full forensic audited accounts to be supplied of how it is spent, especially that it is not being used for terrorism or to promote terrorism or to go into the pockets of corrupt officials as Australian taxpayer was and is in Gaza, for example.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/editorials/taxpayers-must-be-sure-not-to-fund-mideast-terrorists/news-story/50d381e98201f16329d8c31b716e3bc5
https://www.dfat.gov.au/news/media/Pages/allegations-of-diversion-of-australian-aid-funds-to-hamas
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Don’t know about the full forensic part. All we need is transparency and record keeping , any competent auditor would be easily able to follow the money. The thing is to not what till after the fact and audit regularly.
Where I last worked the appearance of the internal auditors was a regular event. It was noticeable that our internal Auditors where much more demanding and knowledgeable that the external auditors, who seems superficial and in our area pretty pointless.
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Its not straight forward.
‘The US has given $20bn (£15bn) to Ukraine, funded by the profits of seized Russian assets.
‘The economic support forms a significant part of a $50bn (£39bn) package agreed by G7 member nations announced in June.
‘Funding the aid through frozen assets means Russia has to “bear the costs of its illegal war, instead of taxpayers,” US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.’ (BBC)
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That money is a loan against the interest being accrued by the frozen Ru assets.
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Anyone now not know why the USA is an economic basket case, on the very brink of collapse?
Hence their push for the big one…
In June 2019, GAO identified 10 critical federal IT legacy systems (i.e., systems that are outdated or obsolete) that were most in need of modernization. These legacy systems provided vital support to agencies’ missions. According to the agencies, these legacy systems ranged from about 8 to 51 years old and collectively cost about $337 million annually to operate and maintain. Several of the systems used older languages, such as Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL). GAO has previously reported that reliance on such languages has risks, such as a rise in procurement and operating costs, and a decrease in the availability of individuals with the proper skill sets. Further, several of the legacy systems were operating with known security vulnerabilities and unsupported hardware and software.
Of the 10 agencies responsible for these legacy systems, GAO reported in June 2019 that eight agencies either did not have documented plans for modernizing their systems or had incomplete plans.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106821
51 year old equipment?
But there’s always money for corrupt congressmen and other political denizens of le swamp, billions of it.
Endless billions for wars, invasions, weapons research.
Still billions more funding foreign proxy wars like Ukraine.
Still billions more for massive data centers spying on 7 billion people searching for offensive memes.
Billions more on tens of thousands of illegals living in 4 star hotels and unending benefits as military veterans sleep in tents in the street.
Billions more on the global child slavery racket, and that’s a big club, and its child mutilating and degeneracy off shoots, as the USA mirrors the last days of Rome.
Nope, time the show, or should that be circus, ended.
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Compared to whom?
Our A$ has slumped 5% recently and long term exchange rate is a voting machine on the fiscal competence of the gov.
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Our A$ has slumped 5% recently
Could this be a reason why the RBA is reluctant to lower the official rate? 5% might be conservative?
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FWIW
“The “refugee” masquerade is coming unraveled”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-refugee-masquerade-is-coming.html
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“79 percent of refugees in Sweden had vacationed in their countries of origin.”
That figure seems a bit low.
In Australia refugees usually retire to their country of birth on Australian pensions.
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What’s more, I have seen many examples on the ‘Border Control’ TV genre where a ‘refugee’ from some war-torn country is heading back there for a holiday, with huge sums of undeclared cash. What’s worse is the person carrying all that money is out of work and receiving benefits. There is never, AFAIK, a follow-up investigation to uncover HOW that person got the money, much less how it can be safe for them to return to the place they fled in fear.
They really are running rings around our idiotic leaders.
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Yes, there was a Sudanese refugee at our work. He went to Sudan to find a wife. No one at work thought that was odd, in fact they hadn’t thought about it at all until I brought it up. No response was given. They just thought he was a funny guy and the thinking didn’t go beyond that. Australians are their own worst enemy.
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And the other “elephant” in the room is the education one. Back in 2016 it was reported that Ugandan and South Sudanese parents were sending their children back to Africa for their education ostensibly to save them from a “life of crime”. This was despite Dan’s claims that Melbourne did not have an African gang problem.
So might also be an interesting exercise to see if the practice is still occurring and how many (by now well settled) asylum seeking families sent their kids back “home” for a better education.
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A refugee comes to Australia and gets a good paying job and is off government assistance, but man cannot live on bread alone.
The government believes he is going home to get a wife and return to the lucky country, becoming good citizens with many children, keep in mind the demographics.
The refugee program has bipartisan support to weed out dodgy characters.
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I imagine he is not of South Sudanese heritage, they are over-represented in Victoria’s criminal justice system.
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And no one seems to question how these “refugees” have usually crossed multiple safe countries to get to the ones with the most welfare benefits and who never ask those difficult and obvious questions. Stupid countries like Australia and those of Western Eurooe but soon not to be TRUMP’s America.
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Latest news from the Gippsland offshore wind folly:
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2024/12/10/australian-state-looking-for-partner-on-2-gw-transmission-project-to-grid-connect-offshore-wind/?%7B%24UTM%7D=&cdmwt=QQAABBAE0DCAUAlakGuWIQRYk3Sqk7AMhCtiCg
2GW is a lot of transmission but the target development is 25 GW.
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An area with untold gas riches and 300 years of coal. Why?
The answer, they say, is blowing in the wind. Like the windfall cash.
Remove the free money stolen legally and compulsorily and secretly from our electricity prices and this farce would stop immediately.
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I see the deadline for Expressions of Interest is February 13, 2025.
Trying to see if anyone is interested? Or getting the ‘project’ going before the next pssible Federal Election?
In any case who would think that the Victorian Government is, and won’t be for many years, able to fund it?
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I wonder if this has made their radar?
FWIW
“Dead Calm: Denmark Receives Zero Bids in Largest-Ever Offshore Wind Auction”
https://gcaptain.com/dead-calm-denmark-receives-zero-bids-in-largest-ever-offshore-wind-auction/?subscriber=true&goal=0_f50174ef03-5b378f7f91-170307950
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I’m afraid that as TRUMP shuts down the whole wind and solar scam, all the grifters, subsidy harvesters and fraudsters are going to look for new stupid people to exploit and will come to the Stupid Country, Australia, that has vast amounts of taxpayer and borrowed money to throw away on such insanity.
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Economy on edge amid serious economic woes in Victoria
I’m going to explore possible recovery avenues for the committee tasked to fix Victoria. It’s not a hopeless task, as Premier Jacinta Allen has already flagged massive deregulation as a first step.
Robert Gottliebsen Business Columnist
Australia’s biggest single domestic problem is the near collapse of the Victorian economy – our second-largest state by population.
This week, in a remarkable development, the Premier Jacinta Allen has tacitly recognised the mess she and her predecessor Daniel Andrews have created and has summoned a committee of its top people to help the state – and the nation – get out of the quagmire.
I was overwhelmed of the high positions held by the people who are prepared to put their name forward to offer unprecedented help.
But that would not have happened if the Premier had not promised a total turn around in energy policy and recognised that gas was an essential part of Victoria’s future.
Remember, gas hatred was so deep that Daniel Andrews gave $40m to a committee to declare the Victoria had no onshore gas.
It was an expensive total political document because the committee was not allowed to look where the government knew there was gas,
Given there will be Green protests and seats will be lost, the gas policy again underlines the crisis realisation at the top levels of the Victoria government.
I will return to gas later.
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This would require someone like Trump to emerge in Victoria. The only one that comes to mind with a reasonable grounding is Peta Credlin. And I do not think she will be interested.
Peta is Victorian Liberal’s Trump card: I do not know why she is not campaigning. She has done more to expose Danial Andrews than any Liberal politician.
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Childcare changes: blatant vote-buying, ignoring the evidence
JUDITH SLOAN Contributing Economics Editor
A highly subsidised and regulated industry dominated by private provision is about to get even more taxpayer money thrown at it. And users will be expected to contribute less and do less to qualify. This is the scenario for the childcare industry.
Anthony Albanese has flagged his intention to make childcare the centrepiece of his campaign for re-election.
Now most sensible people would think enough is enough, but when a prime minister is in the hunt for votes, spending more taxpayer money looks like an easy option.
Albanese clearly thinks that he is on to a winner, albeit with a quite narrow group of voters, offering guaranteed subsidised childcare for three days per week with parents no longer required to meet an activity test.
The cost of the change is estimated at $430m over five years.
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Subsidy masked as early learning
The Australian EDITORIAL
Anthony Albanese is using a pretence of policy to explain his latest election giveaway.
On Wednesday, the Prime Minister announced that if re-elected, his government would provide three days of subsidised childcare for parents who met a not especially onerous family income means test of $530,000.
That is all parents, not just those who meet the present requirement that they are working or studying.
The $1.47bn for the “universal early education system” is similar to the government’s recent commitment to another target group of voters, university graduates.
If Labor is re-elected, it will waive 20 per cent of HELP scheme study debt regardless of individuals’ incomes.
Outgoing NDIS Minister Bill Shorten calls it help with the “cost-of-living crisis” – a euphemism for a pre-poll gladhanding giveaway.
The same applies to the expansion of early childhood care.
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Yep, there goes the future fund; this’ll be our version of the Malaysian 1MDB looting.
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If 25GW of wind was paired with a 200GWh battery, you could pull a steady 2GW. So almost enough to replace existing Loy Yang A with its 2.2GW rating.
The cost for such a system would mount up to about $200bn if it had a smooth passage through the minefield of construction in Australia that ranges from severe weather to environmental lawfare.
If the battery is not installed then the 2GW transmission line is good for an average of 400MW given an optimistic CF of 20%. So poor utilisation of the asset.
The only way any private company would enter into a partnership like this would be for the government to give it a guaranteed return. Such schemes are huge burden on the next generations of Victorians. To put the AUD200bn in perspective, China is building new 2GW coal fired power stations for CNY8.5bn – about AUD1.8bn.
It has to be clearly apparent to anyone involved in electricity supply in Australia that the grid is heading for collapse as an economic good. It will be the domain of the underprivileged who do not have the capital to leave the grid. Some States in the USA now have a declared “public benefit” element of electricity bills that includes – quote:
https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/pura/landing-page/pura-faqs—august-2024.pdf
It has components for subsidising the goodies for the wealthy and covering costs of the poor. Australia is different because the wealthy can just leave the grid so those left will have to be subsidised through general revenue because the wealthy that can afford the subsidies have left the grid.
Who thinks the retail price of electricity is coming down in Australia?
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FWIW on the cost of that “Free Energy”
“UK: When the Winds of December Turn Gnarly”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/12/11/uk-when-the-winds-of-december-turn-gnarly-n3797781
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When’s the last time a coal or gas power station was destroyed or even reduced output because of high winds?
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A gas power station in NI was put out of action in the same storm, chimney bent over.
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A chimney blown over? Brick chimneys from 200 years ago are fine. Chinese steel?
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FWIW
“AMD’s trusted execution environment blown wide open by new BadRAM attack”
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/new-badram-attack-neuters-security-assurances-in-amd-epyc-processors/
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I would have thought deliberate misreporting of machine hardware status is an obvious attack route, and I seem to recall that being done before many years ago.
As usual these days, inadequate testing by lazy programmers and hardware engineers; and the consumer is now expected to find these defects the hard way.
At least in this case it was a rare case of being discovered by third party testing. These are the sort of backdoors into a PC that could be engineered by the Chicomms or other hostile players at the factory or other distribution point.
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I did not understand any of that, but it confirmed my view that I should not put any of my data or files onto “The Cloud”.
Everything I keep is on my own physical device, ie USB stick or hard drive.
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Where’s our Global Warming gone in Melbournistan?
Bring it back!
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mmmm you may get a pulse of heat on Monday after WA and SA are done with it
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We are done with it now thanks. All yours. Last night in Perth was very warm, and naturally no wind all night, so the grid operators ramped up coal power to over 50% all night, with gas supplying most of the rest. Thank goodness for reliable fossil fuel power.
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Relying on weather-dependent generation in the age of ‘extreme’ and ‘worsening’ weather – who are the saboteurs who claimed this was a grand way of ‘moving forward’? More a case of future-spoofing rather than ‘-proofing’.
Lately there’s been a proliferation of direct north or south winds – compared to the more usual NW, NE, SE or SW wind flows – here in NZ, east coast Aus, the UK, and in the USA this week a frigid north wind from Canada is mainlining all the way south to central Mexico (freeze/frost Florida?) before switching round next week to a roaring warm southerly: as if the vagaries of weather aren’t anything new.
No doubt expert know-nothings will claim the standard Triple-C ©️©️©️ is to blame, as marine biologists did when they discovered a male humpback whale had travelled from Colombia in the Pacific to Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean and back again… Our fault? Or the dude simply enjoyed travelling to foreign shores and singing & frolicking with lady whales.
The planet is fine – some people are xxxxed!
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Further to above:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/arctic-blast-blanket-us-below-freezing-temperatures-story?id=116683222
See? Boiling causes freezing! All the way down to Texas & Mexico and possibly even Florida, while parts of Alaska are ‘warmer’ than the above-mentioned places. The Danish Met (DMI) has the Arctic / North Pole on a balmy -23C with sea ice doing what it does best: freezing solid.
Hawaii’s Maunakea summit was bang-on 0*C when checked 30 min ago (still daylight albeit a day behind us) and CLOSED due to howling NE gales, a -10 windchill with a ‘chance for fog and ice’ overnight. Aloha to the Big Island 🤙 brrrrrrr…
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Here’s the latest ABC so called debate from B O Bowen and Ted O’Brien about our future energy system.
Their ABC presenter always stops O’Brien just when he’s trying to enlighten them about Nuclear energy and so it goes.
Again all the projected credentialled costs of toxic W & S tell us it will cost Aussies trillions of $ to complete and only last about 15 to 20 years.
If you can endure their ABC for about 20 minutes here’s the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e4TVLvJ5n4
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Chris Bowen’s reliance on coal slammed by Coalition as ‘dishonest’
GEOFF CHAMBERS
Bowen backs state powers to delay closure of coal, gas plants to keep lights on
Chris Bowen has backed new state powers mandating the extension of retiring coal-and-gas-fired power plants, sparking Coalition warnings Labor is being ‘dishonest’ about longer-term reliance on thermal generation.
Ahead of Peter Dutton releasing his long-awaited nuclear costings, The Australian can reveal federal, state and territory energy ministers ticked off on “initial rules” for an Orderly Exit Management Framework, giving states powers to delay closure of coal and gas plants in order to keep the lights on.
The OEMF, first proposed under the Morrison government and agreed to by ministers last year, includes provisions for governments to “enter voluntary negotiations” with a generator to change its closing date and mandate the extension of retiring coal or gas-fired generators.
A communique released following an Energy and Climate Change Ministerial Council meeting in Adelaide last Friday said: “For jurisdictions that opt in, the OEMF will provide an important additional capability to better manage the retirement of thermal generation.”
Amid concerns over blackouts and energy reliability, the NSW and Victorian Labor governments have already intervened to push out closure dates for the Eraring, Yallourn and Loy Yang coal power stations.
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“Fewer people are visiting NSW emergency departments with non-urgent conditions, but staff are overwhelmed with a record number of seriously ill patients.
“Patients are getting sicker,” More patients visited NSW hospitals with immediately life-threatening conditions such as stroke, heavy bleeding and severe chest pain than any three-month period since 2010, hospital data for July to September showed.”
Followed by a load of BS about who’s fault it is, who should be treating these patients, and how long they have to wait as no hospital is treating them within the time limits they boast about..
..and not a sound about WHY so many people are so sick with myocarditis, stroke and heavy bleeding.. Nor any suggestion of research into this epidemic!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/revealed-how-our-hospitals-fail-half-their-seriously-ill-patients-20241210-p5kx5s.html
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I’m seeing reports (outside of the MSM) of a huge escalation in China’s aggressive actions against Taiwan. They have commenced a largely naval ‘exercise’ around Taiwan, as they do more and more frequently but, this time, they gave Taiwan no warning and the scale of the exercise is way larger than any before it, involving around 100 warships. There is also a larger airborne component and 1000s of troops.
For me, this suggests I have been right in forecasting that Xi will attack Taiwan should domestic unrest look likely and/or his own position be threatened. Both of these conditions have been met recently with widespread public anger about the economy and government censorship, while stories have been emerging about Xi’s weakening hold onto power, particularly with respect to China’s military. China being China of course, it’s hard to know if these stories about Xi etc are true.
By giving no notice and increasing the scale of these exercise, China is paving the way for an actual invasion, by attempting to deceive Taiwan into thinking future large-scale movements are just more exercises.
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They will probably make their move before TRUMP comes to power.
When TRUMP is President he will warn them not to invade and place sanctions, but because he is anti-war, he will not go to war to remove them if they invade before his Presidency.
And the Left are doing everything in their power to start wars and even WW3 before TRUMP is in office.
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I LUV the way everyone can predict with absolute certainty how Trump will react in certain circumstances. World leaders with big staffs don’t know.
I’ve been a Trumpster from the first day and I have no bloody idea.
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How many voters understand that “The Government” has no money of its own. It only has what it steals or otherwise takes from taxpayers or borrows.
“Government money” is YOUR money.
I’m sure most people here know this, but Joe and Joanne Sixpack do not.
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Someone has to print the money … otherwise where would new money come from?
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Sounds like the beginning of a money vs currency lecture
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Bitcoin, which is neither, is above US$100,000 and A$160,000. Another thing I have no bloody idea about.
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WA gas scams. Ex Premier walks into mining company job.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngeZLyfTBIQ
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Interesting. Still wondering why Mark McGowan quit as premier of WA. Some commentator recently tried to claim that WA gas prices were the same as eastern gas prices, so looked at the same article that was being shown, which of course showed a considerable difference. And others state that Labor introduced the gas reservation scheme, but it was Charlie Court from an earlier Liberal govt – a later Labor govt placed the agreement into legislation.
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A solo yacht race mentions Southern Annular Mode.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/everest-of-the-seas-races-through-aussie-waters/1890197
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I was comparing the IMOCA monohulls of the Vendee Globe race and the Ultim trimarans that go after the JulesVerne trophy.
The IMOCAs are looking more like a durable but scaled down version of the America Cup monos but are not quite full foiling yet.
The Ultim tris are full flying machines up to about 30kts of wind. The fastest of the Ultims have circled the globe in 50 days not far behind the multi-crewed record of 42 days.. They have done up to 8000nm in 10 days. So averaging 33 knots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kSTD4Wr_kM
The IMOCAs are truly impressive, the Ultims are beyond spectacular in terms of engineering.
These high performance sailing boats could outrun most nay vessels in the Southern Ocean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYe2tkXgPqs
There is merit in being able to fly above the waves and/or pass through them because things that go up have to come down. Modern ship design is tending toward low buoyancy bows so they pass through waves rather than pitching and heaving.
One of these powered boats could stay with an Ultim until it ran out of fuel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IigzQjjslr8
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David Maddison, #12,
____”but Joe and Joanne Sixpack do not.”
____This couple is also quite shy if told guvmint misdeeds can only be our own fault because we were too ignorant to protest.
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Protest is so 2020, all you have to do is write your grievances in the comments section of a blog and all will be fixed.
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Victoria and Australia now have an extra White Elephant. It’s that brand new Moderna mRNA plant at Monash University. Able to pump out 100m doses , supposedly . Add it to the list – desalination plant, Snowy II etc. Hell , Victoria even has a prison built 2 years ago that won’t have any inmates until next year, but is fully staffed. Cynics call it the Ghost Prison. Back to Moderna. Their latest RSV vaccine is s complete dud, with the treated arm of the RCT having more infection than the placebo group. That Victorian factory was supposed to be producing RSV vaccines. RSV is that new virus thingy that I think we once just called a “ cold”. People already showing greater hesitancy over COVID boosters and flu shots, now this. Ghost vaccine factory will be its new name.
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‘Moderna’ isn’t modern-a.
It’s Mode RNA.
Got it? Hopefully not, and you never will.
They haven’t got me yet.
Good luck to all of us!
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You will notice that their signage these days tends to accentuate the “Modern” part. Geez, these guys even sponsored the US Tennis open a couple of years ago. My prediction – the company will get rebranded with a new name very soon and the RNA bit will disappear.
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Can we hope it will be tasked with making other medically necessary items? Sterile saline solution comes to mind.
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Brits pay ‘highest power prices in the world’
A third increase in energy bills in six months is on the cards as analysts predict another rise in April.
The price cap set by the industry regulator Ofgem rose by 10 percent in October, taking it up by the equivalent of £149 a year for a typical household to £1,717 and it is set to rise to the equivalent of £1,738 a year from January 1.
Now analysts at Cornwall Insight are predicting the figure will climb to £1,762 ($3,500 AUD) per year from April 1 through to the beginning of July on the back of higher wholesale gas prices and changes in how the cap is set.
The UK, which relies heavily of imports of gas around the world both to run household central heating and generate electricity, suffers the highest power prices in the world, which has been a disaster for households and businesses.
https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1987278/energy-bills-UK-ofgem-cap-rise-prices-april-2025
Leave the country, paint yourself another colour, then come back. Everything’s free then and only true brits pointing out your crimes get arrested. Amazing!
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78% of refugees in Sweden were found to have taken hollidays back in their original homeland (you know – those they fled because of horrible or life threatening conditions).
If Sweden ever brings itself to cut those on Welfare they might have a (self) selected volunteers who can go.
I wonder how many “refugees” in Australia could be included in this category?
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Why do you think Melbourne has a catastrophic problem with machete-armed teens?
I suspect not many of their fathers stayed in Australia.
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A $30,000 audio pre-amp?
https://youtu.be/gJYIhLQJtTs?si=_rE98MLgmusyYKaO
Can we spell damage control? 😆😆
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Another hidden report floats to the surface regarding the jabby jabs and heart troubles
he Hidden Pfizer Report That Shows Heart Conditions in the Vaccinated Getting Worse Over Time
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/12/11/revealed-the-full-hidden-pfizer-report-that-shows-heart-conditions-in-the-vaccinated-getting-worse-over-time/
Prosecute and hang the b*****ds
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Trump being presidential:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKgcaAKL0w
The comments make good reading.
A lot riding on Trump’s presidency. Will we see the end of the UN oppression? Will the UN Project 2025 be dead and buried by the end of next year?
Will UN idiots realise that their mission against misinformation is against the UN charter of human rights. Listen to Flemming (I dare you) talk about what is misinformation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCJEca_XUjc
Can Trump turn all this around in just 4 more years.
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A bit more on Trump, Biden and Paris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxCq6WZH7M
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The one thing I respect Jill for is her confidence in her womanhood to wear dresses, not needing the power of a pants suit. She could have asked Melania for some tips though, I’m sure it would be forthcoming and in confidence. 😀
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I may not agree with her politics, but there are lot of younger women that could use her sense of self health care and fashion style.
Consider photos of your grandmothers at age 73
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In previous years the (D)s would be trying to charge Trump with Hatch Act violations. Their heart just isn’t in “resistance” anymore.
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Really impressive involvement of Dr Phil with Tom Holman at the US-Mexico border:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBzCHcJAWE4
Australia offers a great example of how important the message is. Sheriff Dannels in Arizona says the leadership from Trump is already having an impact.
The only thing that works is zero tolerance. It makes it clear to everyone that no matter the price you are willing to pay, even your life, you will not get into the USA unless it is through legal means.
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Your ABC tax dollars at work. Did you realise real lions are not like Disney lions?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-12-08/lion-king-movie-simba-fact-fiction-pride-africa-behaviour/104624002
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A preview of our future if Albo and Bowen get their way.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/germany-economic-model-what-not-do
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AEMO spot in Qld and NSW has just dropped from nearly $10,000 to a mere $1,000/MW. At least Qld is exporting 1gW so picking up a little on the side. lol
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FWIW – you’re suprised?
“Biden Regime Quietly Extends COVID-19 ‘Emergency Declaration’ to Shield Big Pharma and mRNA Vaccine Makers from Liability Until 2029”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/biden-regime-quietly-extends-covid-19-emergency-declaration/
A “Melbourne Moderna-Shield” in there somewhere?
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“Pfizer hid vaccine deaths, research team alleges”
https://sentinelksmo.org/pfizer-hid-vaccine-deaths-research-team-alleges/
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FWIW – dawning!
“Wind Power Has Hit Its Limits In Europe”
“Brian Vad Mathiesen, a professor at Aalborg University in Denmark, commented: “We cannot have an electricity system that’s based solely on wind and solar. There are stark technical and economic limits to how much we can integrate into the grid.” ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/wind-power-has-hit-its-limits-europe
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