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https://brownstone.org/articles/trump-calls-time-on-self-flagellation/ Techniques of information control and public messaging during Covid can now be seen for what they are with respect also to climate policies: the manufacturing of a scientific and policy consensus that censors, silences, and marginalises sceptics and contrarians; the conflation of empirical science with assumptions-driven modelling; the politicisation and corruption of scientific research and publishing; the long list of catastrophist predictions that never materialise; the role of profit maximising commercial interests in driving the narrative; the adoption of luxury beliefs by the global elite that profits off catastrophism while shifting the cost burden to the working classes; etc. Climate change policies have mostly impoverished and inflicted hardships on Western populations without solving the climate crisis if there is one.
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>…if there is one
Some crisis! Where is it? After 40 years it’s still not evident!
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Even to the IPCC! It’s all within natural variation but it expects the temperature increases to continue as they have been doing since the end of the LIA.
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Courtesy of MichaelSmithNews – The Babylon Bee on Trump funding cuts re pandemics.
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1887573964567793701
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I would add wars on drugs and terror to this list. I think some people would not know what to do with themselves if there weren’t any manufactured crises….
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Good graphic on global coal plant building boom re Oz:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4ee0b272-ec55-48f9-99f6-53ef65f43ad6_828x1069.jpeg?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
UK not listed but already zero.
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Not quite correct as QLD is planning to keep all of its Coal Fired Power Stations open. The other States are the problem, NSW and VIC especially.
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Nothing on the build list though. India and Indonesia are way ahead of us.
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Agreed. In fact, the whole World is ahead of Australia when it comes to energy. We are now having to import our own Gas which we export as LNG. LOL. What a farce.
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Just think of the ‘spillage” in that little caper.
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Not in Western Australia or Queensland.
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There is a coal plant in Western Australia at Collie. At the moment, on a cloudy, windless morning, it is supplying about 1/3 of electricity to the grid according to the NEM live website.
Out of the total ~3000MW, coal is supplying ~1000MW.
Western Australia: coal, 1,012; gas, 965; wind, 148; solar, out of a total supply of 3,014MW.
10am, WST.
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Sorry I left out Solar, about 1050MW.
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And Bluewaters is Australia’s most modern coal power station. Still, it’s strange that they have to import coal from Newcastle and Indonesia.
On these hot windless nights, sometimes Bluewaters steps up to provide over 40% of the WA SWIS grid power.
Home solar usually supplies around 50% of the grid power during the day.
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Expect an Australian boom in boomerang gas
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David I have done searches on US nat. gas pipeline maps and the country is criss crossed by them, a model that has served them well.
I have seen pics of the Keystone pipe being laid and it is big and expensive. Obviously the majority of them are much smaller, but how small? Could a three inch pipe transfer “useful” amounts of gas for a city and does it have to be steel, could the plastic pipe used in water reticulation [blue stripe here] be used?
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Plastic Pipe for Natural Gas
Polyethylene (PE) is the most commonly used plastic pipe for natural gas pipelines, especially for distribution applications.
It is preferred due to its cost-effectiveness and ease of installation.
Polyethylene pipes are available in various sizes, ranging from ½ inch to 24 inches in diameter, and can handle pressures up to 80psi for medium density polyethylene (MDPE) and up to 125psi for high density polyethylene (HDPE).
Other types of plastic pipes, such as PVC and fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP), are also used in specific applications, but polyethylene remains the dominant choice.
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Can 3 inch pipe supply city?
A 3-inch natural gas pipe can supply a city, but the capacity and efficiency depend on several factors such as …… it then goes into many obvious details.
Obviously cheaper than HV transmission lines.
I like this Brave AI search engine.
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How about a battery holding some hours of demand at the user end of a 100 NB pipe?
Few short years ago next to my house used to stand a largish gasholder, today of course it is big school …
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If the Murdoch Press would print this stuff the entire power game in this country would fall over in a day! Bowen would almost be locked away for protection against the reaction of the people for the hardship and destruction of industries and jobs he has wrought.
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I think it was here that I recently saw a post about what I call bloody minded sabotage at the Collinsville power station, which eventually led to its closure. It reminded me of Sydney’s Opera House.
I would like to find that post.
Albo has made that closure a feature of his election xampaign, blaming it on th LNP.
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I had a look for it last night and found an interesting piece by Hanrahan about the on ground situation at Collinsville,
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/05/tuesday-open-thread-57/#comment-2429574
This reminds me of the Union Mooments behaviour that resulted in the closure of Newcastle state dockyard. All the work was being done so well in south Korea at the time and their Uninism just made Newcastle unworkable.
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A mate I worked with married a Brunker from Collinsville, a nice girl, so I should not generalise. 🙂
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If the post to which you refer was a couple of years ago it may have been mine, I have a deep seated hatred of the unions that destroyed the power station and town.
I have never likened it to SOH though, I see no parallel.
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In about 1958 the Cahill ( ALP) government decided to build the Opera House. 3 years to build and 3 million pounds to cost.
Then they decided to pay for it with a lottery.
Then the unions decided that whilever the job lasted the lottery would pay their wages. The rest you can guess.
The Opera House then became the cutting edge for industrial relations state wide. Many firms were busted through graft. One of the unions’ favourite plays was interrupting concrete pours.
I called it the Opera House Syndrome
A substantial farm next to ours was owned by a bloke who had a city construction business. He was asked to tender for a job but didn’t want it. He needed to maintain relations, so tendered anyway. His digging machine was in WA. So he included the cost of bringing it back from WA and returning it when the job was over.
Having costed it thus, he doubled the price.
He got the job.
The Opera House took 15 years and $50 million.
That was how NSW operated in those days. And that “syndrome” is still showing in Albo’s crew today.
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Isn’t there only one cultural group responsible for Climate Change?
And that group is ‘victimizing’ all the others with carbon.
Therefore and ergo …. shouldn’t it be called …
Blanco-anthropogenic Catastrophic Climate Change?
Caused by people that look like me and inflicted on people that don’t look like me.
(Editor’s note: consider yourself fortunate if you do not look like me.)
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Just do as I do. Avoid mirrors. then it’s their problem, not yours.
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An old relative of the family did that. After aging for many years she found one of the covers had fallen off a mirror. Her shock left her staring at the image in the mirror and asking
‘Who the hell are you? I live in this house by myself!’
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I’m sorry. I should’ve been more precise.
My curse is I’m incredibly good looking.
If you look like me you will be unfortunately plagued by unwanted attention and debilitating jealousy from multiple genders.
I do avoid mirrors as to not be distracted by justified self admiration.
🙂
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It was Hunga tonga that did it. Warming traced to eruption
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/08/exclusive-sensational-findings-point-to-hunga-tonga-eruption-as-prime-suspect-behind-recent-temperature-spike/
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Nice, but no mechanism, just “anti-correlation”.
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That is news to me,
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The simple explanation (and they are the best) is that gaseous H2O (not liquid/clouds) is the major greenhouse gas on the planet. by 25:1 and 100:1 at high humidity.
The extraordinary summer rainfall in Australia’s dryest hottest summer(BOM prediction) was likely Hunga Tonga. But all that water was in the atmosphere, invisible but warming the place.
It shows how little understanding we have of the entire cycle of water, let alone CO2. The other major gas which lives 98% in the ocean.
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I still believe the more molecules of anything in the atmosphere slows heat escape primarily based on energy transfer from all the collisions. More molecules more collisions slower the upward heat movement. Any humid or cloudy night shows this effect in practice
The amount of the slowing down of heat due to CO2 should never be calculated in isolation of the amount of H2O in the atmosphere due to the massive overlay of infrared spectra. Isolation of the single CO2 15 micron band is useless if there is a rise or drop across the rest of the long range IR spectra which a large increase or decrease in H20 would do. Add to the impact that the bands are already saturated yet we still get a slowing of the temp drop at night when it is humid versus dry, shows something far more basic is in play that back radiation.
Some work was done on the OLR difference in two similar regions of the globe (Congo versus the Sahara-Sahel), one dry one humid which showed radiation escaping from the dry area at a greater rate than the humid region based on Ceres data
further reading https://okulaer.wordpress.com/2017/04/15/the-congo-vs-sahara-sahel-once-more/#more-4682
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Observing a marine heatwave in south east Pacific cutting off the Peru Current is amazing, it tells us El Nino will be active within a year.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-111.55,-0.81,265
They say the marine heatwave is caused by blocking high pressure, but I find that hard to believe.
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But can our Climate Scientists tell us what causes El Nino? Or is it more Druidic nonsense?
Perhaps we should sacrifice millions of sheep, as we did last year when the BOM announced the dryest, hottest summer in Australian history based on their prediction of El Nino. Only for heavy rains through summer.
And El Nino brings warm water to the surface, why not CO2 as well? Then warmth causes CO2. And we can stop blowing up power stations.
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And I am amazed that the clear evidence that CO2 is coming from the depths is flipped to become ‘ocean acidification’. Caused by increased atmospheric CO2. And of course no open ocean is acid or ever could be.
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Auntie Correlation was my favorite aunt. Mann I miss her…
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Its worth noting that El Nino was weak and world temperature spiked regardless, sort of unprecedented.
‘There was a weak atmospheric response for much of the 2023–2024 El Niño, evident in fluctuating cloudiness at the International Date Line and near-average Pacific trade wind strength.’ (BoM)
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The anti-correlation point may be easily explained if you look at clouds.
When there are clouds, (water vapour), high up in the atmosphere they will be responsible for absorbing some of the suns energy, they heat up and hence the high altitude temperatures will be higher. At the same time, if the sun’s energy is being absorbed at height, there is less for the ground to take up and therefore it is colder down at ground level.
And obviously, the counter situation exists too, when no water vapour up high, then there is more energy hitting the ground.
It’s not rocket science to find that link. What would be rocket science is to find the cause of WHY the water vapour levels change in the upper atmosphere and use that process to determine/forecast the temperature on the ground.
The volcano provided one test point for this suggested theory, now we need to find the more consistent, natural drivers and see what is making them change. Find the natural cause(s) and then you may find the reason for the measured atmospheric temperatures.
Maybe the cause is something we’re doing, maybe it’s not. It would be good to know, even if only to allow for better weather forecasts. OR, of course, to falsify this theory. All theories should be falsifiable, even the infamous CO2 as a climate driver.
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Ian,
Heat rises in our atmosphere – so any hot gas will go up . If its water vapour it will rise until it hits cooler temps or thinner atmosphere . When this happens it sheds its heat and as it cools it starts to descend . This makes it a heat transfer vehicle . When it become ice (clouds) it reflects heat , but will absorb some of the radiated heat . They are having enormous problems working out its nett effects on temps at ground level . The earths atmosphere is a mass of moving forces driven by multiple inputs and outputs . We can predict short term weather as it involves less variables , but long term forecasts are subject to increasing complexities and second order inputs and all errors compound . My 10c worth…
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Not all hot gases rise. And not all cold gases sink.
As a text book example, CO2 has a density of 48g/22 litres. Oxygen 32g/22 litres and Nitrogen 28g/22 litres.
Thus, CO2 sinks in air, (something we all know).
To make the CO2 the same density as our standard dry air mix, you have to heat the air to try and make the density around the 29g/22 litre mark.
If the atmosphere is at 20C, (293K), then it follows that to float that you add heat to the CO2, as per, 29/293 = 48/TCO2, (via gas laws).
This requires the CO2 to be about 211C.
And yet we don’t find all the CO2 at ground level, it’s well mixed. Why? Because they are kinetic molecules, transferring some heat into some kinetic energy that allows them to mix. If they didn’t, then we could make a fire burn better just be feeding it air enriched with oxygen from the bottom of a deep hole.
Some times the equations learnt, (eg ideal gas laws), are for ideal situations and ignore things that are often more relevant, eg mixing via kinetic means.
And if you don’t like this answer, then you could explain the temperatures experienced in our atmosphere from ground level till space. Sometimes hot, sometimes very cold.
https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/physgeoglabmanual1/wp-content/uploads/sites/1318/2021/03/atmslayers_temperature-1447×1536.jpg
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Ian,
Temperatures at height are generally cold – while you are correct about the CO2 gas as you point out its mixed with other gasses which often follow the convection process . When you heat air it rises due to falling density and its CO2 (and other gasses) don’t fall out . Same about cold air it doesn’t change much within normal temps and pressures . I was pointing to convection , particularly in H2O (but not limited to) being a heat transfer mechanism . The temperature changes are due to many factors including density, composition and prevailing air currents .
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And don’t forget the latent heat involved in the phase changes of H2O, in both directions.
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‘Spike’ Milligan would be making funny clucky noises if he was still with us, what with all these up-and-down dastardly spike things spiking everywhere.
Despite recent overheated claims, 2025 is now cooler than 2020, 2016, and 1998’s El Niño spikes, almost as if it’s reached a tipping point and there’s only one way down… until up pops Spike again!
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Hunga Tonga is almost in our front yard. We got big rain about a week later just where you would expect the effects of the eruption would be.
But I don’t recall “them” noticing Hunga Tonga till some months later.
It was as though their narrative had run out of puff and they needed a new one.
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Mealworm now allowed to constitute 4% of biscuits and cakes
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/02/08/the-great-climate-fear-factory/
Stop sending Jo those old fashioned gifts of chocolate to keep this site going, instead indulge her with delicious Mealworm cream teas. As in Devon, you spread the mealworm on first, then the jam on top. She will forever be grateful. Yum!
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I wonder if it will appear prominently on the label, just like the labels saying, ‘this package is made from recyclable plastic’. I think it’s more likely that the ingredient will be listed as a number, eg ingredients include wheat flour, butter(10%), 621 and chocolate solids.
So many people are against MSG that it just gets a number to avoid prying eyes. Will they do the same for bugs? Have they already?
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“MSG” All the little things that occurred without proof of anything, but they have all provided trial runs with the populace to get us where we are today.
MSG was blamed for “Chinese restaurant syndrome” and subsequently it was blamed for all sorts of allergic reactions without real studies being done. MSG became “bad” and yet it is naturally occurring in many products like tomatoes and cheese without any measurable effects on people what so ever. It was also used in oriental cooking in various forms for many decades without any ill effects. As you say these days it’s still used but with a “number” or the ubiquitous “flavour enhancer”. We have moved on from “Chinese Restaurant syndrome” to “gluten free” or lactose intolerant or a myriad of other complaints that people can self diagnose without proof and voila whole new industries can spring up.
Yes, I understand that there are people who genuinely do suffer from various conditions but the measured numbers are quite small, the people who imagine they have these conditions are quite large.
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I avoid MSG as it makes me thirsty. On one occasion after a meal, l had to drink so much water to try and quench my thirst that it became very uncomfortable. So l always check packaging for no. 621 and sometimes ask staff at a restaurant if they use the flavour enhancer.
It strikes as a bit of a culinary cheat anyhow. A good chef can use seasoning and spices to create great flavours.
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Insects in Australia, one of the most fanatically woke countries, are already fed to kids in at least 1000 Aussie “schools”.
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I used to eat fairy bread which turns my stomach as a concept now (of course with margarine, not butter too)
As long as good steak is still on offer when they are 15 up, I don’t reckon there is any competition
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I was always told that to kill a cricket is to bring bad luck.
The way Australia is going currently I’m surprised there’s a cricket left on the continent.
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The British Admiralty conquered most of the world on dry biscuits spiced with mealworms … and a mug of grog with a squeeze of lime. All the food groups: carbs, protein, alcohol and vitamin C.
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‘Always choose the lesser of two weevils,’says Captain Jack Aubrey
in Patrick O’Brien’s Maser and Commander series.
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No toothpick required. Thus saving much expense to the Admiralty accounts.
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Wadya reckon Jo? 😆
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I would take jo’s silence as assent.
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Predigested.
How much energy left in it?
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Times are so tough that even “Kevin M Rudd” seems to have been working two jobs. One at night no doubt. Unless returning the payment for the job he was not doing is what should happen.
I don’t understand but people who click here and find payments back to 2016 may.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/133234632
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It’s not just a question of two jobs, but who is putting in the cash? China? Is our Ambassador to the US working for China?
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U.S.A.I.D.?
In today’s The Australian there is a defence action stating Rudd hadn’t received such aid. Will be interesting to see how that turns out.
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Good find Siliggy.
The $984,222 “compensation” Rudd received matches precisely the amount of money US taxpayers gave via USAID.
Perhaps Rudd was playing semantics when he said his organisation didn’t receive any money because it was him personally.
And the text at the link doesn’t allow copying and pasting but it does say the organisation provided fewer first class or chartered jet travel to its key officers.
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Correction: the word fewer doesn’t belong in the last paragraph. Not sure how it got there…
Rudd, as an Elite Leftist, wouldn’t expect anything less than first class or private jet travel. Here’s very important, in his own mind.
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Is there a link to that information in your first paragraph?
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https://x.com/DrWoofAus/status/1888178330698232211
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Ok thanks David. Why would the grant exactly match his salary? That’s unusual.
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https://datarepublican.com/officers/?officer_kw=Kevin+Rudd&nonprofit_kw=Asia+Society
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I couldn’t expand the diagram previously. That’s stretching an EXTREMELY long bow. To say that he was funded totally for a particular year from those contributions is a ridiculous claim.
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If you drill down on USAID Grant Flow you can see a complex chart of relationships where if you zoom in at the right that you will see that $444,083 of US taxpayer funds was given in 2022 and the rest presumably came from other unstated sources.
In any case Rudd is just another greedy socialist pig.
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Some of the income for them is listed here: https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/asia-society/
Also here: https://asiasociety.org/education/our-supporters
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“Perhaps Rudd was playing semantics”
It could be very easy to mix up the front with a possibly different back and sides. That is mix up ASPI and ASPI. One is a policy institute and the other is a policy institute.
See here. By clicking on “ASPI Funding: 2022 ~ 2023”. Then search the text for “Disinformation”.
Not hard to see that is completely different to Rudd’s non involvement with the people here in this photo with him. Click here “International development partnerships”
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Ambassadors are not required to register interests….
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Thanks Labor Dan, you’re a bloody idiot!
“The fast-track gas supply plan to fix shortfalls in SA, Victoria
Imported gas could soon be flowing into SA and Victoria and powering industrial users, as part of a plan to fast-track new supplies by a Dubai-based company.”
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We are importing gas at the same time as exporting gas at the world’s cheapest prices on a bizarre 30 year contract with no provision for inflation or market prices (see link below).
And drilling for gas or oil and fracking is banned over much of Australia. Fracking is even banned in Victoriastan’s constitution.
The Uniparty is trying to destroy the country.
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Liquifying natural gas uses a lot of energy, so we buy this stuff back from the purchasers and put it through a vapouriser to use in Australia, where it originated from.
If this isn’t proof we are governed by idiots, I don’t know what is.
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And given the tens of billions building useless Snowy II, we could have brought the gas East. And for that matter, some of the huge amounts of fresh water to feed the Murray Darling system.
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“so we buy this stuff back from the purchasers”
No it is worse that that Ronin, what we buy back is the gas stripped of all of the other components that are considered highly profitable, condensates, plastics feed stocks, pharmaceutical precursors etc etc etc. Sure we get “gas” but nothing else.
Years ago I knew a bloke in the meat trade and he used to tell me that when an animal was slaughter ALL the costs of production were covered by the stuff that people thought was rubbish i.e. hides, hoofs, horn, bone , the meat well that was just pure profit.
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A couple of decades in Asia taught me that when well informed, intelligent people make ridiculous decisions and then stick to them in the face of all evidence, someone, somewhere connected to said decision-maker is pocketing a whole lotta cash, or has a longterm reward of some sort promised.
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You want one?
“1 PetaFLOP, 200B parameters, $3000 Desktop”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/1-petaflop-200b-parameters-3000-desktop/
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4 bit calculations. Hardly precise.
Imagine using that to get to the moon. 1 part in 16 precision, so you’ll probably miss by a little bit but it’ll do the calculations at a rate of 10^15 per second
I just can’t think of a simple sum that 1 part in 16 could be considered useful. eg the area of a circle with a unit, (cm), radius. The answer should be pi sq cm.
But from this machine, the answer will be 11.00, (in binary), which is 3 in decimal. I’d call that wrong.
Give me a call when they get at least 32 bits of precision, even at half that speed.
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4 Bit calculations? A single decimal digit or one Hex number. This is not floating point. Floating point needs two numbers or there is no need for the decimal point. And certainly not the common 16 decimal digits or 64 bits available on most PCs. That’s a FLOP. This is useless for engineering.
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There was a comment on Hacker News:
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Ian,
I doubt that it will improve modelling as they require accurate inputs and correct assumptions .(GIGO) It will probably help create “smarter” AI’s but the human brain will still have abilities that AI’s lack…
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Bruce Pascoe’s son won an $860,000 grant for university research. For overseas readers, Bruce Pascoe has UK ancestory but has made an entire career out of “identifying” as an Aboriginal Australian.
Andrew Bolt comments:
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Canadian singer dishonored for supposedly fake indigenous ancestry claim.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290971/buffy-sainte-marie-stripped-canadian-honor-indigenous
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Awwww, quite the fan back in the day. Interesting how subtle changes can alter the situation. So Santamaria, a Hispanic style surname simply becomes Sainte- Marie, a French sounding name and, the French influence with the Cree in early Canada, all sound perfectly plausible. Ah well the problem with waking up, it generally shatters the pleasant dreams!
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There’s $$$ in identifying as a POC or victim if historical slavery or such.
It’s estimated the UK owes $107 TRILLION in slavery reparations accumulated over centuries.
Probably explains their 1984-on-steroids mentality.
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Maybe they should be instead seeking reparations from the Africans and Arabs who were the main ones who captured and sold the slaves, and who still engage in such practises.
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England’s Royal Navy lost many ships and men fighting the slave trade. It is never enough.
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FWIW
“President Trump Has Begun Discussions with President Putin
February 9, 2025 | Sundance | 269 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/02/09/president-trump-has-begun-discussions-with-president-putin/
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Dutton needs to grow a pair and stop saying what he thinks people want to hear.
He needs to have moral clarity and say what needs to be said such as, for example, that he will exit the Paris Accords, that there are only two genders, and he will reduce the size of government, government waste and corruption and deregulate.
He will be given a hard time by the Leftist Enemedia anyway so it doesn’t matter.
The Liberal (fake conservative) win in Prahran, Victoria, over the weekend proves that even in a toxic Leftist-oriented electorate full of purple haired freaks, people are sick of the Left and their lies and nonsense.
Dutton just needs to go for it.
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“people are sick of the Left and their lies and nonsense.”
David, I haven’t read the full analysis but I believe that the Libs only won on preferences with an almost 50 50 split on primary votes between the greens and libs so no great epiphany by the general population to change alliances. Of cause one way to rig an election is to stack the ballot with “independents” that then feed their preferences to the agreed parties. At this stage I don’t care about the system, just pleased that ‘however” the the system works the greens lost.
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David, I wonder what would happen if a copy of your coal powered electricity generators was sent to every non Labor/Green politician in all our Parliaments. Independents could take it up with nothing to lose and everything to gain electorally. Pressure could be applied to the coalition to expose the sham of coal being toxic, especially as Australia makes a big percentage of its income from exporting the stuff – which makes Australia totally hypocritical in its regards re AGW. This moment in time , relative to the election cycle, seems to be the sweet-spot to cause a political bonfire.
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Meanwhile The Cook Islands, previously an NZ protectorate, signs on to CCP Belt and Road scheme! Xi to visit and address a collective Pacific Islands pact next week. Where’s Albo-Tross? Reviewing possible tenants for his new NSW pad.
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I’m sure the natives will enjoy the debt for equity swap that comes with Belt’n’Road and the subsequent Chicomm military base(s) which will no doubt please our traitorous PM Al-bozo and Foreign Minister Wrong Wong.
Meanwhile the Government is asleep at the wheel as it’s importing some of the world’s most uneducated, violent, fastest breeding and anti-Western people so they can win a few seats in Sydney and Melbourne.
The West has already lost the South China Sea to the Chicomms due to Obama/Biden and TRUMP won’t go to war to get it back (to international status). Is the West prepared to lose the Pacific to the Chicomms as well? I think the present regimes in Australia and NZ will be OK with that, especially with their DEI navies.
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We seem to have lost Diego Garcia too thanks to another Marxist/Labour clown currently in charge of The United Kingdom. Trump is ropable over this one!
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FWIW
There is
“Obama Judge Temporarily Blocks Musk’s DOGE Access to Important Treasury Dept. Payment System – Orders IMMEDIATE Destruction of ALL Data Obtained Since Trump’s Inauguration – Musk Responds to Ruling with Fire”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/obama-judge-temporarily-blocks-musks-doge-access-important/
And there are “close inspections” – including
“Garbage In, Garbage Out”
“So having now read the entire complaint from yesterday (which managed to get read, processed by a judge, and a TRO issued in less than 24 hours), ex-parte no less, and totaling 60 pages of pleading I have to say that this is one of the biggest steaming loads of bull**** I’ve ever seen — and I’ve seen some big ones.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=252800
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Nonetheless, Democrat-appointed activist judges will be a big part of constant deliberate lawfare actions for the next 4 years.
Added to this will be Democrat State Governors and AG’s. Democrat Senators will be curdling up constant impeachment scenarios.
Sure, Trump will push back hard, but all of this is designed to slow things to the flowrate of cold treacle.
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Styx….666 says Trump’s only remedy is to march in with the Marines to protect the data. He would then be impeached for that, but they will try to impeach him anyway so why does it matter?
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Former Australian PM, present US Ambassador and fake intellectual Kevin Rudd claims the Asia Society of which he was chairman received no USAID money, $984,222 to be exact, while he was chair. That may or may not be true. But if you go to the following link you will see USAID has funded them or projects they were involved with in the past.
https://asiasociety.org/search/google?keys=Usaid
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I have searched for links but found none, except the joint USAID Catalyze project in the Philippines. Can you be more specific?
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TRUMP’s new Secretary of Energy says it like it is.
When are Aussie politicians going to wake up, including Dutton who remains fanatically committed to the Paris Accords and ruinables and nuclear reactors which couldn’t be built in massively over-regulated and lawfare oriented Australia is less than 20 years, if ever.
https://x.com/MarcNixon24/status/1887214153020100950
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You would think that if the world is going to spend trillions on CO2 reduction (not emissions) they should first have to conclusively prove there is a problem and one we can solve.
Consensus science is not proof. It is at best opinion and generally uninformed opinion. What happened to science?
What should be proven
1. the CO2 increase is not natural
2. the CO2 increase is causing the entire temperature rise
3. the temperature rise is significant let alone dangerous or not desirable
3. that altering CO2 ’emissions’ from fossil fuel will impact CO2 at all.
What is certain is that 300,000 windmills and billions of solar panels, the explosive rise of CO2, the 2020 world wide lockdown have not changed CO2. This picture of CO2 over the last 50 years says man made CO2 driven rapid Global Warming is rubbish science.
The CO2 increase is a dead straight line of low slope. Nothing done in the last 50 years has any effect on CO2 levels. So 37 years since the world was going to end and everything has been a complete waste of money. Let’s double down!
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Yeah but it’s working, in a simulated modelled forecast kind of way: had a little scroll around BoM’s site for a laugh today and SNOW is on the way this weekend for Tasmania, Victoria and NSW’s high country alpine areas.
February 15 & 16 “snow falling above 1900 metres” for Thredbo, NSW with merely snow showers for Mt Hotham, Victoria and Mt Wellington, Tasmania as a deep-seated cold southerly flow aims for Canberra… maybe.
Nothing like seeing ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ blue snowflake symbols for Australia, in summer, during the hottest year ever mannipulated by whatever means it takes. The offer of warm blankets is still there if you need them…
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Today’s hit piece headlines from the Socialist Morning Herald-
“Trump and Musk are emotional time bombs, lashing out in the crudest and cruellest ways- To elect one emperor of chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the government is simply asking for it….Presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk have merged their cult followings, attention addictions, conspiratorial mindsets, disinformation artistry, disdain for the Constitution, talent for apocalyptic marketing and jumping-from-thing-to-thing styles.”
…and, most unusually, some common sense from George Brandis-
“If ‘hate speech’ laws go too far, we will lose essential freedoms”
..but not for the reasons you might be thinking. He’s worried that Jews won’t be able to insult Muslims..
“Jewish Australians who demand such laws should reflect that those laws protect their tormentors too, limiting their capacity to call out Islamofascism for what it is.”
..however he does illustrate the inevitable mission creep that the Police always practice-
“Will a priest preaching his church’s teaching against abortion be at risk of committing the crime of inciting hatred? A sportsman explaining his refusal to wear a Pride flag? A politician railing against the evils of the CFMEU?”
The joys of dumb politicians always wanting to be seen to do something….
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Quote from Wastebook:
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But as has been said over and over, the majority of the sheeple are still asleep and there’s no party worth voting for that has the relevant skills and isn’t pushing their own agendas.
Which is why what’s coming has to happen and is unavoidable.
/people only wake up at the precipice
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” the majority of the sheeple are still asleep and there’s no party worth voting for that has the relevant skills and isn’t pushing their own agendas.”
Democracy at its best…
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Starlink satellites reentering Earth’s atmosphere in increasing numbers, creating artificial meteor showers
Starlink satellites are re-entering Earth’s atmosphere at an increasing rate, with 120 burning up in January 2025 alone. This has created nightly artificial meteor showers and raised concerns about aluminum oxide accumulation in the atmosphere.
A typical 250 kg (550 lb) satellite can produce approximately 30 kg (66 lb) of aluminum oxide nanoparticles during reentry. These particles can persist in the atmosphere for decades, potentially affecting atmospheric chemistry.
In 2022, the total amount of aluminum released from all satellites reentering from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) was approximately 41.7 metric tons (46 US tons), exceeding the natural contribution from micrometeoroids by 29.5%. This resulted in the formation of about 16.6 metric tons (18.3 US tons) of aluminum oxide in the mesosphere that year
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280
With MANY thousands more planned for launch, and around 12,000 in orbit now.
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They are deliberately deorbited as they reach end of life or become obsolete.
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Of course, but not the issue.
Can see the headlines in 10 years – new health crisis from nanoparticles from satellites worse than nanoplastics were.
😎
/your heart problems were due to satellite nanoparticles not the vaxx, no doubt…
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I doubt anyone would be complaining about the alleged nanoparticles if they didn’t come from Musk.
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Just came in side for a while, winds blowing and all those bloody nanoparticles are making me sneeze. It’s a fair bet that I just inhaled about half of the 108 or so naturally occurring elements and some of their less desirable compounds. Who can I blame, more to the point who can I sue!
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” I just inhaled about half of the 108 or so naturally occurring elements and some of their less desirable compounds.”
Quite likely radioactive if you are East of Woomera and its a westerly wind… Don’t worry , they’ll blame your lung cancer on cigarettes and your skin cancer on sunshine.
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Yup, and when the school milk used to be tested for strontium 90 after the Big Bang tests way out west.
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Well ahead of 10 years – there was one last week on elevated levels of aluminium IIRC
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David,
According to what I have seen they have about 5 years before reentering the atmosphere. I would leave them for as long as I could as they cost $122,400 to launch and that doesn’t include the actual cost of the satellite . Januarys loss is 14.5 million plus hardware – that’s murder on ROI…
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Inside a wind turbine!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_srem9rvdrD1z23obp.mp4
That sway!!
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That shows why they have a finite fatigue life. Just like the wings on aircraft. Throw in a little corrosion and the life is even shorter.
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Steel won’t fatigue if it’s below its fatigue limit in which case it can endure an infinite number of cycles, unlike aluminium which has no fatigue limit.
However, with that level of deformation, it’s unlikely to be below its fatigue limit.
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The covid “vaccine” disaster reminds of the controversy of the Judy Wilyman 2016 PhD thesis case (“A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its vaccination policy”).
Before covid, I was a strong advocate of vaccination, and still am if there is evidence of efficacy and safety but after covid, and RFK’s evidence of no adequate testing of childhood vaccines, I am not so sure.
It makes Wilyman’s thesis worth reconsidering.
Thoughts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Wilyman?wprov=sfla1
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They had to change the definition of “vaccine” so that the mRNA covid jabs could be called “vaccines”.
Here is a “fact check” that claims the definition wasn’t changed but actually shows that the definition was changed.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/30/fact-check-merriam-webster-changed-vaccine-definition-accuracy/6354415001/
“The editors changed “artificially increase immunity” to “stimulate the body’s immune response” because they believed it would be more helpful to readers”
But then, we all know how unbiased “fact check”s are.
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PS. I read your Judy Wilyman Wikipedia link. I found the following reported criticism of her interesting:
“Wilyman’s “references to support these outrageous comments are from the bottom dwelling literature that includes 50-year-old discussions along with well-established, thoroughly debunked pseudoscience. At no point does she mention any of the vast scientific literature that includes large clinical and epidemiological studies – or attempt a critique of it.”
“It is [a] litany of deceitful reveries. How it could possibly pass as a piece of Doctoral level work is inexplicable and it has made no contribution to knowledge. Shame on you University of Wollongong.”“.
I note that it starts with an ad hom, and ends without having made any specific argument against Judy Wilyman’s comments.
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I read the Wikipedia entry, and was reminded of the fury with which establishment opinion mounts a response to any individual (or group) which dares to challenge the accepted wisdom.
Of course, many of the world’s finest epidemiologists, virologists and other experts were personally and professionally vilified when they challenged any aspect of the official Covid policies. This was a salutary lesson to anyone daring to use freedom of expression and debate to examine “the consensus”.
We saw the edifice of western learning teeter in those years. It shattered many fond beliefs regarding the sanctity of free and honest debate.
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I dunno, I am starting to think the ol’ vaccines have always been a bit of a protection racket.
When they started, there were many that argued (mainly veterinarians) that once you started, you couldn’t stop – the growing schedules of childhood vaccines seem to reflect this. When is it just too many needles to stick in a tiny baby?
https://rumble.com/v5at3bh-dissolving-illusions-disease-vaccines-and-the-forgotten-history-roman-bystr.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
https://rumble.com/v5dvgej-dissolving-illusions-disease-vaccines-and-the-forgotten-history-part-2-roma.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp
Part 2 is pretty gross when it shows the start of vaccinations – not for with a meal.
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My fear though is a knee jerk political answer – you just can’t stop vaccinating – the vaccinated are a risk to the unvaccinated babies (not, as they tell us, the other way around).
It is a really thorny problem
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https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/exclusive-internal-emails-reveal – this one was given to young boys to stop older women getting cancer in future….
Now that seems protection racket-ey to me
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The snow storm that hit Japan is still unabated. So much for your kids won’t know what snow is. 3 meters so far in Yamagata. Tokyo got an additional 50cm yesterday. From Hokkaido all the way down to Kyushu. Kind of a long video but after a few minutes you will get the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebPCgdFsQeY
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My mate, who lives in Japan, says:
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Taylor Swift gets booed at the Super Bowl, while Trump gets cheered
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1888747340929917083/video/2
No more shallow hypocritical rubbish celebrities and their jets.
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Boone NC officials have confirmed that 62 members of the Pennsylvania Amish community have completed the construction of 12 tiny homes in under 48 hours.
The total cost of the project for #WNC was over $300,000, all of which was donated by the Amish community.
Meanwhile your local council takes 9 months to reseal 100m of bitumen, do some paving and plonk in a few plants..
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Has the building code issue been resolved?
Can the new houses be legally occupied
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FWIW
Chiefio runs up periscope and has a look at the world –
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/w-o-o-d-9-february-2025-a-i-cometh-eu-economy-collapses-this-year/
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President TRUMP has ordered that pennies stop being minted as they cost two cents to produce.
Unfortunately, it is due to the currency being devalued by Leftist Governments. Australia has already done away with 1c (1992), 2c (1992) and $1 (1984) and $2 (1988) notes, many years ago.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888793967786946846
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FWIW
Another verse to “The song of Solar”
“WY Family’s Solar Darkness”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/02/09/wy-familys-solar-darkness-n3799654
As Baxter Black put it –
“The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away”
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FWIW
“Trump Claws Back $4 Billion That Was Headed to Ludicrous UN Climate Fund”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/trump-claws-back-4-billion-that-was-headed-to-ludicrous-un-climate-fund/
Via https://instapundit.com/701688/#disqus_thread
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And more to come –
Instapundit lead in – “HOW MUCH IN THE THINGS THEY JUST PAID WITHOUT ANY TRACKING? ”
“Treasury Employees Estimate Fraud in Entitlement Payments at $50 Billion Annually”
“Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/02/treasury-employees-estimate-fraud-in-entitlement-payments-at-50-billion-annually/
Via https://instapundit.com/701684/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Fat terrorists.”
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1888686811511447607
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/02/fat-terrorists.html
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FWIW
A Super Bowl commercials review
“Bikinis, Clydesdales, and … Goggins Goggles? The 2nd Annual Twitchy Super Bowl Commercial Awards”
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/02/09/the-best-and-worst-commericals-of-super-bowl-lix-n2407904
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FWIW
Tossing ‘Elbow” a hint?
“Attorney General Pam Bondi Directs Investigation Into Support of Hamas in the United States”
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/09/attorney-general-pam-bondi-directs-investigation-of-us-support-of-hamas-n2185386
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https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-police-denies-sanctioning-sexual-9924581
“In addition, the policy goes on to state that an individual who identifies as genderfluid (also not a legally recognised status) may hold two warrant cards to reflect their different genders on different days. Presumably, said officer could identify as male on Monday and female on Tuesday, with access to women’s facilities on the days he decides he isn’t identifying as male.”
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Remember the early messaging about Southern Italy: https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/did-the-trucks-of-bergamo-carry-only?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
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“Optical Dazzler Interdictor Navy (ODIN) systems have been installed on eight Arleigh Burke(DDG-51) class destroyers. The first ODIN installation reportedly was done on the destroyer Dewey (DDG-105) in 2019.”
https://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2025/02/us-navy-lasers.html
I read a great little SF story 60years ago where the main character was passing lines of soldiers walking off the battlefield, hanging onto the shoulder of the man in front. The Govts had decided blinding soldiers with lasers was better than killing them as the enemy had to look after them for the rest of their life..
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Any Au/Ag bugs out there will be feeling good ATM.
Please don’t tell me nothing goes straight up but while the Disruptor In Chief is disrupting, I’d let the trend be your friend.
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