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https://asiatimes.com/2025/03/the-end-of-capitalism-or-the-end-of-civilization/
And yet Herrmann argues that there is no choice other than radical and seemingly unimaginable change if we are to survive in anything like a civilized condition:
There is no alternative for the industrialised countries. Either they end growth voluntarily, or the era of growth will end violently, when everything that forms the basis of our way of life has been destroyed.
For what it’s worth, I agree. I am not a climate scientist, but I recognize that there is an intellectual division of labor that is a central component of modernity. None of us is capable of knowing everything about the increasingly complex world in which we live.
But if something like 99% of climate scientists agree on the causes and likely consequences of climate change, I am happy to take their word for it. What possible basis could I have to disagree?
She also wrote Get older, dare to do something new (2008) – about breaking retirement stereotypes.
Grumpy old people telling the young they are ruining everything and the end of the world is just around the corner is a stereotype I have. Just sayin’
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Remarkably pure silliness.
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“if something like 99% of climate scientists agree”
Uff da! Where did the 99% come from? I’m not sure what a “climate scientist” is but likely the percentages ought to be reversed.
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One source of many: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966
There hasn’t been a paper questioning the efficacy of greenhouse gases in a premier journal for years.
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Yes, the peer review system is 100% pure propaganda.
What’s amazing Simon is that you think this looks scientific?
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Peer review has been a key step in scientific advancement for over 200 years. Do you really have a better methodology?
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Jo didn’t say peer review wasn’t a good method. Jo said “the peer review system” is propaganda.
The issue isn’t peer review. It’s the rigour not required by the current peer review system that is the issue.
Peer review should involve replication. This does not occur because it’s not sexy enough for others just doing other scientist’s experiments to see if they get the same result, and funding likely doesn’t provide for it.
The peer review system needs to be at least two tiered. The current version could be called “Cursory Reviewed”, which is just when a peer casts their eye over the work to see if something jumps out as a gross error. And then we should have “Replication Reviewed” where a peer not only audits all of the original study, but actually repeats the study to ensure results are replicated and so the reviewer is intimate with the study/experiment and can critically review all aspects.
Of course “Cursory Reviewed” should have no standing in having verified something.
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Gee Simon, the Peer Review, key step that you talk about suffered an almost fatal wound in the “Climategate” scandal of over a decade ago.
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That GHGs are real is not the issue. The 97% claim is that the CO2 increase is at least a partial cause of the warming. Nothing about “consequences” or a need for action which is what is said above which is truly silly.
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The “Greenhouse Effect” is a religious doctrine. It is unrelated to physics. The so-called “greenhouse gasses” are correctly termed EMR responsive gasses. And all gasses play a minor role in Earth’s energy balance.
Water controls Earth’s energy balance through its phase changes primarily to a solid at 0C in the atmosphere and -1.7C on the ocean surface. Water has maintained Earth in a remarkably stable surface temperature range throughout 4Gyr of development from its molten state.
Climate change is the result of the amount of ice stored on land. The oceans would raise by 70m if all the current land bound ice was to melt, which will not happen because the next net storage phase is already under way. It will reach its end phase in 75,000 to 100,000 years time when oceans are 100m lower than present and land north of 40N is piled high with ice.
The warming of the northern oceans needed to generate the snow is already being observed. The increasing snowfall is being observed. Greenland is already regaining permanent ice extent and the summit gaining elevation. The ice is returning to Greenland and some of the northern slopes near the Arctic Ocean.
Ice controls Earth’s energy balance directly in the form of reflective cloud and insulating sea ice and is the dominant factor in climate change through the accumulation and loss of land bound ice.
Ice is so reflective that the tropical sunlight cannot melt it. Ice exists on tropical mountain above 5,000m where the thin air cannot transport enough heat to melt it.
Climate science is primarily the study of ice stored on land. Absolutely nothing to do with CO2. The notion CO2 alters Earth’s energy balance and can alter the amount of ice stored on land is misdirection for dummies.
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Consense isn’t Science, period.
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Consensus is a key step in the formation of a scientific paradigm. You need to find a better paradigm than the one currently endorsed by > 99% of the scientific community. Good luck!
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We’ve seen what consensus does in the medical industry. Old consensus practises are being thrown out all the time. Small groups or even individual dissenters who were ostracised are shown to be correct.
Although in the medical industry doctors have to take a stab because someone presents with an identifiable problem. They do this either adopting a practise from consensus approach or, within permitted bounds, by adopting their own treatment. If the consensus group doesn’t take away their license for doing the latter.
The issue with climate is, we don’t have a confirmed identifiable problem. We, at best, have a consensus that their might be a problem. Then we’d need consensus on the cause of it. Then we’d need consensus on how to deal with it or live with it. The other problem is the group who claims to have a consensus has stopped looking for an alternative. And that is a real problem for science because science just doesn’t do consensus, but politics does. And politics has infiltrated science.
Imagine where we’d be with medicine if consensus meant you don’t keep looking and don’t revisit.
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Michael Crichton put it very succinctly, saying: “…the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
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Simon, the letter you reference is entitled “Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the peer-reviewed scientific literature”.
We have repeatedly pointed out that “consensus” is not a part of the scientific method.
Consensus is not science and does not decide scientific fact.
Why do you and your comrades keep raising that?
BTW, the figure that used to be quoted was 97% and that waa also thoroughly debunked. See https://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/cooks-97-consensus-is-a-case-study-of-agnotology-ignorance-and-misinformation/
Also note:
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Simon
I know for a fact that the UK Met office would not sanction their scientists writing articles that might question the notion of man made climate change. There is group think involved plus analysing “man made” climate change is where a lot of their funding is intended for, that comes from the Govt. Not everyone at the Met Office is 100% convinced but they wouldnt dare question the consensus.
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Says a lot about the quality of so called “premier journals” doesn’t it?
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Be a better bot.
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The 99% is a misstatement of several questionable studies claiming to find that 97% of published climate scientists accept that the CO2 increase is causing some of the warming. None actually polled scientists.
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Nonsense. The number of contrarian climate scientists can be counted on one hand, Jo and others here reference them often. They are the extreme outliers and in no way represent the climate science community.
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The other 1% do not have to rely on agreeing with the “consensus” because their employment demands it.
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More stupidity. Unfortunately stupid people believe it.
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I stopped at “climate protection”.
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I’ve always thought it was the grumpy young telling us old folk that we are greedy and have “used up” the earth and left nothing for them.
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My latest strategic analysis:
EPA questions 31 major energy regulations
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2025/03/15/epa-questions-31-major-energy-regulations
EPA has launched a huge regulatory reform process reconsidering 31 of its biggest energy related regulations.
A lot of the war on coal is under the gun plus some really bad automotive stuff. Much of it is climate related so including the bogus CO2 Endangerment Finding is very important. If that goes away a lot of the rest might be easily killed. Examples include coal and gas killing CO2 limits on power plants. Then there are the impossible CO2 limits on cars and trucks that are designed to force people into electric vehicles.
The really good news is the scope is way broader than just climate. It includes sweeping rules like the completely unscientific PM2.5 limits. There is also my personal favorite the rule on mercury emissions from coal fired power plants where EPA said there was no evidence but we are going to regulate it anyway.
Each of these “reconsiderations” will require a full scale rule making so there is a huge amount of work to do. Who will do this work is an interesting question given the pending job cuts plus the fact that most EPA folks love these bad rules. New hires and contracts may be coming but these multiple rule making processes will take a year or more to play through.
I think EPA has at least three different strategies for killing these bad rules. Some are easier than others and which is best for each case remains to be seen.
The most laborious strategy is a rule making based on new science. This involves a lot of research and a completely new set of technical support documents. It may well be required for reversing the Endangerment Finding but since it was done in 2009 there is plenty of newer science to draw on. That the predicted harms failed to occur is especially useful.
The somewhat easier second strategy is to simply compile the arguments against the questionable rule that were filed as comments during its rule making. In this case the new finding is that the prior finding was mistaken. It may be necessary to throw in a bit of new science but most of the research has already been done.
Mercury from coal is a likely prospect here as EPA previously admitted that they could find no physical evidence that the minor mercury emissions from coal burning were the cause of the mercury found in some lakes. The filings against this foolish rule were extensive.
The wacky PM2.5 rule is another likely candidate as PM2.5 is not even a specific substance, just a particle size. There are whole books about how ridiculous this EPA rule is.
These first two strategies use scientific arguments while the third uses a legal argument. In this case EPA simply says it did not have the legal authority to issue the rule in question. Administrator Lee Zeldin has repeatedly said that prior EPA’s have gone way beyond their mission and statutory authority. This sets the stage for rescinding prior rules as illegal.
Interestingly the recent Supreme Court rejection of the prior “Chevron doctrine” makes this legal argument stronger. That doctrine basically said the Courts must defer to the Agencies when it comes to interpreting the law. It follows that EPA rules previously deemed allowable under Chevron may no longer be allowable and EPA itself can make that determination.
Then too if the Endangerment Finding is repealed the other climate rules might all lose their legal basis. Endangerment is a necessary condition for regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act.
What is certain is that 31 big fights lie ahead making this EPA combined action a truly breathtaking event. Stay tuned to CFACT as this supreme battle unfolds.
Please share this article.
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I think that during the rulemaking process, when the EPA has finished collecting data, it can issue a “dear colleagues” letter, stating that rulemaking is underway,
that the preponderance of the evidence indicates the rule will be repealed, and therefore the agency is adopting a position of non-enforcement until the actual rule is promulgated.
This will greenlight producers starting the processes on hold due to non-compliance, like auto model planning, with less risk and some comfort for financing. The method was used to intimidate industry by the prior administration, even for rules that later didn’t pass court muster. Administrators have a great deal of power regarding enforcement intensity, or forbearance.
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Let the new rule making begin!
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Yes, I’ve been following this.
A real battle is joined. CFACT is maintaining updated reports. This is a major consequence of the recent US election results, where the newly appointed EPA Director is unafraid of being “cancelled” while examining fact vs fiction.
As an aside, the old deflection of coal as the only source of “free” mercury is raised. None of those who push that notion have ever examined the chemical analyses of wood, nor do they appreciate that coal is lithified wood. There are petrologists (I am not one such) who are able to examine thin coal sections through a polarised microscope and determine where the original plant material likely grew (pollen grains etc), then compare chemical analyses of the paleosoils from that area with related coal deposits.
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I think NOAA wants us to stop cooking…
NOAA study says cooking contributes substantially to ozone pollution in L.A. area
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2025/03/13/cooking-ozone/4191741900746/
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Nonsense stories like this might be a last desperate attempt by NOAA to make themselves appear worthy and useful as this woke agency is soon to be subject to massive job and funding cuts by TRUMP and DOGE.
Tony Heller has documented data fraud at NOAA.
https://www.tftc.io/us-temperature-record-adjustments/
Most news reports about cuts to NOAA make out it will be the end of the world but they’ll just have to learn to do their designated job honestly and efficiently and not engage in global warming propaganda.
https://apnews.com/article/noaa-job-cuts-weather-forecasts-trump-doge-musk-7e35e9d5d757d8fc3f0f50b2bd71c87d
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Climate Change is people.
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https://youtu.be/4UPDUpjkHg0
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One of the more important prophecies after the Python Prophecies.
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And the WEF want’s us to stop growing our own Vegies
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-demands-global-ban-home-grown-food-meet-net-zero/
It would be nice if a stray comet might accidentally strile one of these meetings and take the whole Davos mob out.
I think more than half the worlds prblems would be taken care of if this did happen.
Oh well I can at least dream.
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The Misdeeds of AHPRA
The Australian Medical Professionals Society and the Australian Doctors Federation are holding a conference in Sydney on Saturday 03 May to examine wrongdoing by the health regulator, the Australasian Health Professionals Regulatory Authority (AHPRA).
https://www.accountabilityaustralia.com.au/
Registration is now open.
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AMPS has done a courageous job over the past few years in contesting the gross overreach of AHPRA. They have been both ignored and vilified by the medical bureaucrats. Maybe there time has come as the world is realising how terribly wrong the response to Covid was. But I won’t hold my breath waiting…….
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I am not expecting front page coverage of the event by the SMH or the ABC.
I hope to report on the proceedings here on Jo’s blog.
The participation of the ADF in the conference is significant. They previously refused to take a stand against vaccine mandates and lockdowns but there seems to have been a change in their thinking.
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AHPRA- where good doctors go to die.
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Just when many sensible organisations are abandoning woke, now chess.com wants to go woke and rename the bishop chess piece.
https://x.com/chesscom/status/1900630055677497379
It may not surprise you to know that chess.com is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
And why stop at the bishop? There are gendered names like the king and queen and the knight…
Styxhexenhammer comments:
https://youtu.be/b98u6sFAvfM
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Can I suggest a name too?
I wonder what others would come up with for the Bishop, following the scandals that the church has faced over the years.
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Spell-CHEKA won’t let me write ‘Pawn’ nor ‘Horse’ – ah well, you get my drift [grift]. I wonder what the original Cyrillic Slav names were for the ‘pieces’.
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Chess players say Figura for a single and Figuri for plural pieces.
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Wasn’t he the 1st man in space:
Figuri Gagarin?
Thanks V.
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Update on the Mann vs Steyn case:
Trial of Mann v. Steyn: Post-Trial Motions Edition
From THE MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN
Francis Menton
Way back in the ancient year of 2012 — before this blog had even been started — Penn State climate “scientist” Michael Mann brought a lawsuit for defamation against Mark Steyn and Rand Simberg, as well as against two websites (National Review and CEI) that had hosted the blog posts of those two individuals. Mann asserted that his reputation had been damaged by the Steyn and Simberg posts, which had compared Mann to fellow Penn Stater Jerry Sandusky.
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In the succeeding years, the case went through a truly unbelievable history of procedural twists and turns, including multiple motions to dismiss and appeals.
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So the contours of the “final judgment” in this case are coming into view. Mann will be awarded $1001 against Simberg, and $5001 against Steyn. NR will be awarded $530,000 against Mann, and Simberg and Steyn will be awarded some additional tens of thousands from Mann [for legal misconduct by Mann and his lawyers]. Mann will be in a very substantial financial hole, with the defendants having little incentive to compromise with him, and every incentive to go after his bank accounts and his house.
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Publicly, Mann will go forth continuing to claim that he “won” the case by virtue of the jury verdicts.
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The most fitting end to this case will be when whoever in the federal government pays for the University of Pennsylvania “climate science” centers pulls the plug on all the funding. That can’t come soon enough.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/16/trial-of-mann-v-steyn-post-trial-motions-edition/
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According to real-world experience wind turbines’ life span is just 15 years. The first wind turbines installed in Germany 15 years ago are being dismantled.
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Unfortunately they never remove the massive concrete foundations so the land, which is usually prime agricultural land, is permanently degraded.
The foundations can interfere with groundwater flows and cause contamination.
https://www.windconcerns.com/winds-assault-on-our-water/
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Plus that concrete continues to emit co2. (that’s actually a good thing but people think co2 is bad but not bad enough to not over look it)
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I understood that the hardening process of concrete involves the absorption of carbon dioxide. The gas is emitted during the creation of the constituents in the calcination kiln process. Regardless the failure to remove the concrete foundations of spent wind turbines is conveniently overlooked by the woke brigade.
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Poisonous Blades!
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Come to think of it, I recall reading that the larger shredded particles also pose an ingestion hazard for animals or can be picked up by machinery during harvesting of vegetables so the land might be rendered permanently unusable for that reason as well.
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Why would anybody graze livestock or grow crops under a wind turbine?
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Concrete footings of the sizes used pose a real environmental problem, but the spongers ,grifters, rent seekers and the ignorant won’t care or know about it.
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A short life and not a productive one. The out-put of energy during the life
of this Ozymandius does not equal the energy that went into the wind turbine’s creation.
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I can see a wind facility from where I live. It went on-line 19 years ago.
I suspect the 15 to 20 year number comes from the economic analysis — return on investment — or something.
Elsewhere, the earliest models were smaller and frequently replaced. Wild Horse Wind & Solar (east of Ellensburg, Washington) is in my sightline, 15 miles SE. Tours are available, that I’ve done twice with visitors.
See David #7.1: Contracts for many such places require, open closing, that the top 4 feet of the concrete be removed and soil replaced.
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A couple of green/woke Aussie surfers are ‘doing their bit’ to save the planet from turgid toxic turbine trash:
https://tracksmag.com.au/josh-kerr-and-dane-hamilton-transform-wind-turbine-blades-into-surfboards
Trigger Warning: article contains reference and image of your Munster for CCC and Lack Of Energy sporting a pair of up-cycled (?) turbine-trash sneakers.
The bulk of the process is grinding down the blades’ fibre to dust then impregnating that [toxic] powder into the final resin coat for “added strength” to the board… whatever. Virtue Signal Surfboards?
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Last thing you would want to do if BPA was used in the expoxy.
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You wouldn’t get Captain Goodvibes using a recycled board. You know, the pig of steel.
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Captain Goodvibes for Aus P.M.!
Your present PM is a pig in a trough – at least the Pig of Steel [POS] has standards (is that what you call them?) or is it skills…
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“The bulk of the process is grinding down the blades’ fibre to dust ”
Dust is a reinforcing material?
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The first wind systems in Australia, installed at Esperance WA on the southern coast, were dismantled after 15 year’s operation. Codrington will have had around 20 years. Hywind offshore system only lasted seven years before having to be towed into port for “major maintenance”. Hibeki, the world’s first offshore wind system in Japan, also lasted only seven years.
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Here is the full story.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/03/16/germanys-first-offshore-wind-farm-to-be-dismantled-after-just-15-years-of-operation/
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So the subsidies ran out and it wasn’t profitable to continue. I suspect that would be the same result for ALL wind systems.
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ABC have just put out this story re Sydney’s hottest min temp for March.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-16/sydney-swelters-hottest-march-night-record-149-years/105056792
Yet the official min temp for that night was 25.4C which only equals the 1876 record as shown on the official BoM website.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW2124.latest.shtml
How do you tell the ABC that they are ‘misinforming’ the public? Anyone know?
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A saying about leading a horse to water comes to mind when it comes to their ABC.
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There is “The whore to culture” version
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So few people view or listen to ABC stories that’s it’s not even worth bringing up the subject.
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ABC has a complaints process. It is described here:
https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=6354974197519
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Complaints process? Good to see they are still doing comedy as it should be done. Absolutely straight faced.
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Thanks, Rick. I’ve sent it on messenger to ABC news but no answer yet. Will try your link if nothing happens.
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Is not ‘m!s!nform!ng’ the public part of their core vision? The SNOW in Tassie looked wonderful on the webcams this moaning, however it doesn’t appear to have made it farther north to the mainland, as per BoM’s 99% consensus throw-of-the-dice call 2 days ago. Ah well, better luck next time.
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Tony Thomas could append it to his ongoing catalogue of ABC travesties.
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Since the ABC is unaccountable for what they say or print it matters little. Only for left wing , inner city, non- productive types.
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The highest minimum temp in the data you linked was only 24.5 and not 25.4.
So it’s even worse for the ABC’s reporting.
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Whoops. Thanks Strop. Got the 4 and the 5 mixed up. 24.5C is correct.
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Appropriate treatment of a lowlife politician. From 2023.
Good to see some Aussie spirit left.
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Brereton should have told the arrogant prick he’d not be seen dead in a photo with with a Labor politician!
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Good for Dermott Brereton.
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The staggering cluelessness of the Left.
A US Demonrat senator sold his Tesla to protest against Musk and bought himself a gasoline car instead…
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Yes with the woke disinvesting in Tesla vehicles, and the realists not investing in Tesla vehicles, the secondhand market, along with the new market should be tanking by now.
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What second hand market?
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So many heroes of the Left and especially the Labor Unions, Mexicans and Blacks and women have jumped ship in a National 5% swing to the Right that many Democrat politicians are publicly shifting to the center.
Even Gavin Newsom (Newscum) claims he never used ‘Latinx’. A blatant lie. Some rats have not jumped ship but just run to the Starboard side, torching their old words and electric cars. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have gone silent, pretending to be Conservative while checking the exit door.
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Newscum has even adopted the “far right extremist” (sic) point of view that it is “deeply unfair” for men to compete in women’s sports. The Left are in meltdown. Their meltdown is made even worse after TRUMP declared “only” two genders, and removed funding for organisations that allow men in women’s sports and banned transgendering children.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsoms-viral-latinx-claim-crumbles-amid-scrutiny-online-records
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/gavin-newsom-trans-people-sports
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What Newsom says now and what he does in the future will be 2 entirely different things. He’s the worst of politicians. He’s only saying this now because he understands that his real opinions are unpopular.
Graham Richardson said “whatever it takes” when it came to the re-election of the Labor party in Oz. That appears to be what Newsom is doing in a nutshell.
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Somewhere else there was the observation of them going the full circle “back to gas guzzling SUVs”
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Let’s Add anoither Australian Clinmate Change Hypocrite!
Climate activist tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes laments ‘deep internal conflict’ over purchasing private jet
Climate activist and tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes said he felt “deep internal conflict” over his recent decision to purchase a private jet.
Mike Cannon-Brookes, the co-founder of Australian software giant Atlassian, took to LinkedIn on Thursday to explain his decision to purchase a Bombardier 7500, an aircraft believed to cost upwards of US$75m (AU$119.2m), according to Business Insider.
“I’m not denying I have a deep internal conflict on this,” Mr Cannon-Brookes wrote on LinkedIn.
“There’s a couple of reasons I’ve purchased a plane. Personal security is the primary reason (an unfortunate reality of my world), but also so I can run a global business from Australia, and still be a constantly present dad.”
The Atlassian founder’s plane purchase comes as he has championed many environmentally friendly causes and initiatives over the span of his career.
In 2022, he made an $8b bid alongside a consortium led by Canadian investment firm Brookfield to purchase Aussie power giant AGL Energy and shut down its coal operations and replace them with renewable projects.
He has backed a renewable energy project called SunCable which, in 2024, won government approval to build the first phase of an undersea cable between Darwin and Singapore to deliver solar-generated electricity.
Mr Cannon-Brookes has also backed green philanthropic fund Terra.do which aims to shift 100,000 Australians into clean energy roles by 2027.
With the many green moves under his belt, the Atlassian founder noted the jet purchase was a “trade-off” he decided to make.
“Although private aviation is far from a big contributor to global emissions, it is a carbon-intensive way to travel,” he said.
“Aviation is one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonise due to the distance of flights and the energy density of fuel.”
PS – Atlassian has become the title sponsor and technology partner of the Williams Racing team in Formula 1
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FWIW – more covid lab leak blowback
“THE PASSIVE VOICE IS SURE DOING A LOT OF WORK HERE: ‘We Were Badly Misled’ Says the New York Times As They Admit COVID Lab-Leak Theory Was True.”
“We Were Misled’ Says the New York Times As They Admit COVID Lab-Leak Theory Was True”
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/03/16/nyt-admits-covid-came-from-lab-with-passive-voice-headline-we-were-misled-n2409903
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_2619-613×800.jpeg
Text from there –
“Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
The New York Times has a piece out today claiming everyone was duped
about Covid’s origins. What they conveniently leave out is that they were
the ones doing the duping.”
More at
https://instapundit.com/708677/#disqus_thread
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Yesterday’s ‘conspiracy theory’ is today’s historic fact. And Pelosi called Trump Xenophobic for stopping flights from China and 750,000 Chinese flew to the US after the virus was out of control. Plus Wuhan’s sister city in Milan. With friends like these who needs friends?
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I am waiting for the misled article on CO2 induced climate change.
A measure of Trump’s success will be the NYT having a front page spread on how it was scammed by the climate scammers.
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FWIW – popularity rated!
“They’re selling Kamala ‘Miss Me Yet?’ t-shirts at the airport in DC.
I asked the sales lady how many they’ve sold.
Sales lady: “Zero” ”
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1900913160044892426
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Obviously incorrect. They have a display stand wth t-shrrts with those words that no one has any interest in buying.
Their potential market is not DC. They need to go to MAGA territory. They might get some takers on their ‘good-for-a-laugh’ value.
Or wait until the production run gets dumped.
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FWIW
“WATCH: This Is the Strongest Case for Trump’s Tariffs I’ve Heard Yet”
“Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy opinion editor of Newsweek, made one of the strongest, most effective cases yet for former President Donald Trump’s tariffs during the latest episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.” She broke down exactly why these tariffs are necessary, and by the end, she left Bill Maher flustered.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/16/this-is-the-strongest-case-for-trumps-tariffs-ive-heard-yet-n4937969
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Is she a clairvoyant?
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I was involved with a designer/business owner in the USA working on parts for a pet project of mine. He had established a factory in China that he owned 50% of to make the stuff he designed primarily for data centre cooling system.
He grew to literally hate Trump in his first term because the trading issues with China destroyed his business.
I have no doubt that USA has lost manufacturing capacity. All of Europe is in the same boat. I expect the word Ungar-Sargon was searching for in her list of five was electronics. The world can do without solar panels and flat screens TVs but other electronics are vital in so many businesses today and I doubt USA will recover dominance there.
The USA could never match the dominance China holds in steel or aluminium production.
China is already dominant in automotive manufacture and they have only been at it seriously for a couple of decades. And still have quality issues because quality is not deeply seated in their value set like Japanese and possibly Koreans.
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The discovery of wind droughts in Australia could have been the most important discovery in the 20th century.
Discuss.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
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Yet again Rafe I refer to – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) – By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
‘Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
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Written about the ITCZ (InterTropical Convergent Zone) off the northwest coast of South America.
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Albo Tross is no Ancient Mariner more like a tatty marionette
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Commonly known as the doldrums.
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What is a climate scientist? So many MSM articles I see ( or skip ) concern effects of climate change, real or postulated, discuss this and then at the very end, mention we need to cut back on fossil fuels.
So in my view there are those who call themselves climate scientists and really only have articles about a climate changing, naturally ( the bulk of the 97%). Those that discuss causes of climate change such as links to earth orbit, sunspots, earthquakes, volcanoes etc are very very much fewer in number.
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The study of Earth’s climate is primarily the study of the amount of ice stored on land and why it changes. If you nail that, you have nailed climate change.
The biggest climate question of our era is – Is the amount of ice on land increasing or still decreasing. And it follows, if not increasing, when will it begin increasing because that is bound to happen within the next 200 years if not already happening.
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I’d be happy just to see an example of where the climate has changed. Anywhere.
You know the idea. What was the climate say 30 years ago. What is it now. What are the changes.
Just put the models to one side for a moment and start over again with some facts.
Sadly it can’t be done in my town on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland because the weather station shut down when its volunteer maintainer retired.
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I had a house built in Melbourne in the 1990s and fitted an evaporative cooler because they were quite effective. Last month, I replaced the evaporative cooler and gas heater with a multi-head reverse cycle system. The main reason was that the government (taxpayers) paid for half of it. But it was not the sole reason.
I had noticed that the evaporative cooler was becoming less effective in Melbourne. Not because of anything to do with the cooler operation but being not as effective as it was when installed. I live in outer SE Melbourne the is influenced by nearby bodies of water. Like most Australia, the rate of summer evaporation in our part of the country is declining due to atmospheric moisture increasing and lower maximum temperature:
http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/trendmaps.cgi?map=evap&area=aus&season=1202&period=1970
Another factors in the performance of the evaporative cooler was the improvement that we had made to insulation and shading. If we close up the house whenever the outside temperature is above 20C we can keep the house temperature from rising above 28C on the hottest of days. It can be 40C at 2pm and the house will not get above 28C. The evaporative cooler will not drop the temperature by 12C in Melbourne so it was better to keep the house closed rather than using the cooler. We mainly used the cooler to bring in night air that was below 20C out of the cooler to cool down the house as quickly as possible.
We have lots of western facing windows and have found mirror tinting on these more effective than heavy drapes. Although we use both now. If I was building now, I would look closely at double glazing.
The air-conditioning can be turned on in the afternoon and cost no grid power because it runs off solar panels.
So I have detected the slight reduction in evaporation rate in our part of Australia. Family and friends living in Brisbane have found they are also more inclined to use their air-conditioner to cool bedrooms and living spaces in the afternoon rather than using ceiling fans.
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Love the evaporative cooler as it draws outside air constantly and you don’t get that retained stale air feel. I take your point about outside humidity reducing effectiveness, but we find that the air circulation/breeze generated still makes you feel cooler. Sometimes at night, we only run the fan to bring in the cooler outside air.
It would be an interesting exercise to monitor indoor CO2 levels on hot days with the house sealed up for reverse cycle/heat pump cooling.
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I actually have a CO2 monitor. I bought it because it has CO, particulates and a number of other air quality indications so I could see if our wood burner altered indoor air quality. The fact that the wood burner creates a slight negative pressure helps maintain very good air quality inside. The flu is two storied so builds good draw once warm
In summer when the house is closed up, the only place that show a slight increase in CO2 is at the desk. Right now it is showing 435, where it usually shows 407 when I am not at the desk. Sometimes a little lower in the mornings.
If I open a bottle of acetone in the house, the Tvoc alarm goes off. If my wife does not run the cooktop vent fan when cooking stir fry, the particulates go off.
After looking at the air quality in the house on what appears good days, we bought an air purifier and run it in the bedroom before going to bed. A couple of times that I have not turned it on, my wife has awoken with a blocked nose. She no longer needs to take pills for alergies.
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Surprised evap coolers worked at all in Melbourne. Had one in Perth, but it struggled on hot or humid days, so gradually fitted reverse-cycle air cons to the rooms. Wouldn’t buy an evap system for Perth these days, as summers are now more humid, with the morning breezes now mostly coming from SE instead of NE, which were straight from the hot dry interior.
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The pan evaporation map of Australia also shows this part of the country has declining evaporation rate. Given that the maximum temperature is likely the same or declined, you will be experiencing higher humidity. Have you noticed an increase in muggy days?
Make suggestive comments to people that you find the humidity is more oppressive – or it is not as muggy as it used to be. See which way they lean on the matter.
As far as climate change in Australia goes, the increasing atmospheric moisture is possibly the most noticeable. The small trends in temperature are likely not apparent to most humans. The reduction in cyclone activity across the top end may be noticeable for people who have spent their entire life in those communities.
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‘So many MSM articles I see …’
That is precisely the problem, until the MSM tell the whole truth then nothing will change.
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Even The New York Times has finally worked it out – 16 March 2025
We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives
Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks.
Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China.
And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology — research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world — no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.
So, the Wuhan research was totally safe and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission: It certainly seemed like consensus.
We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story.
And as for that Wuhan laboratory’s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions may have been terrifyingly lax.
Five years after the onset of the Covid pandemic, it’s tempting to think of all that as ancient history. We learned our lesson about lab safety — and about the need to be straight with the public — and now we can move on to new crises, like measles or the evolving bird flu, right?
Wrong.
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As we all now know, governments KNEW early on it came from the WIV not the claimed wet markets, but lied to their people anyway.
Bird flu – no crisis.
Measles – no crisis.
The MSM really needs to stop lying so much.
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I give Govt a D- pass on knowing where it came from.
I’m angry about all the schist that came after.
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Electric cars too heavy for Britain’s motorways could smash through outdated barriers
The Vehicle Restraint Manufacturers Association (VRMA) says the metal fences that line roads and bridges are designed to 1998 standards, and capable of stopping only traditional 1.5-ton petrol or diesel cars.
Electric cars can weigh up to twice as much due to their hefty batteries.
Meanwhile, a study by the University of Nebraska last year found that electric vehicles, which can be up to 50 per cent heavier than petrol cars, have a lower centre of gravity due to heavier batteries and are capable of smashing through crash barriers in the US.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14503493/Electric-cars-heavy-Britains-outdated-motorways-smash-barriers.html
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Is your soy sauce FAKE? Warning as some brands of condiment are discovered to contain almost NO soy
In the viral video, Helen, a nutrition health coach, who boasts 79,000 Instagram followers, warned that soy sauce ‘should not contain sugar, syrup or caramel, never mind the additives’.
Such products were merely ‘overpriced sugar water’, that should be avoided, she added.
The best one that I could find was Kikkoman which only contains water, soybeans, wheat and salt,’ she added.
‘Why would you spend money on a product that contains less than 20 per cent of what you’re trying to buy?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14499635/soy-sauce-FAKE-Warning-contain-ultra-processed-ingredients.html
Sugar water indeed.
Buy quality, read the labels.
Most labelling is fraudulent:
“High in protein” – reads label – 10%. Hhhmmm.
“Low in carbs” – reads label – 30%. Hhhmmm.
High = 10%, low = 30%. Must be a DEI company.
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In a similar vein,try reading the ingredients on the labels for “Pickled Onions” Only ONE in my supermarket quoted vinegar. The remainder specified “Acidity Regulator”Otherwise known as Acetic acid.Same goes for a number of other products normally containing vinegar as a component of the ingredients!!!!
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Monday Funny…
– The cartoon, the rest is no laughing matter but you have to hand it to the incredibly innovative Ukrainians – shotgun drones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf1bW2DOCj8
To those that say Ukraine should lay down and accept their Russian fate, I say that you should also lay down and accept our net-zero fate (or not?).
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The Genome for SARS-CoV-2 is a “Consensus Sequence.”
“What they set for the control for the PCR ‘test’ is a consensus sequence, which means they took AI, they averaged out a section of the genome that they want as that test, and they set it for that. So it doesn’t even exist in nature anywhere.”
The pharma insider adds, “What they upload to GenBank is… averaged… And once it’s averaged, it’s no longer pathogenic anything.
It’s just a model.
And then for PCR, it doesn’t test the full genome. They do these, like, snippets, and then whatever snippet you wanna set it to, you will find it, and that’s how they find… positive COVID. So all of this is total BS.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/reminder-the-genome-for-sars-cov
/Always was BS.
A very interesting video to watch:
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/discussion-with-zowe-smith
How to fake a pandemic.
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PCR does not work as a diagnostic tool with variable 3′ ends. A consensus sequence is just the most common base for each position in the sequence. It is vital to do this to find a region of the genome that does not vary to give the robust PCR needed for PCr to identify the covid virus. The primer sequences are then tested against the entirety of genbank to chedk that they are unique and wont amplify some other DNA.
Basically everything you cited is ignorant nonsense.
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Gee Aye, you could have been more diplomatic, but thank you.
I stress to skeptics again — the real threat we face is that it’s a lot easier to create a real pandemic today than to create a fake one.
There are 36,000 (known) scientists working on it.
Be wary of “pharma insiders”, and people feeding “PCR hate”. We are in an information war, and strategically, it would make sense if the bad guys were feeding youtube with silly ideas that fog up debate, waste skeptics time, divide skeptics, and make us look silly. Keep the skeptical hat on. Look, I know it’s hard in a field full of jargon. Guys like Pierre Kory, Paul Marik, the UNFCCC team and so far RFK Jnr say things that make sense.
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Measles: then and now
https://x.com/jimmy_dore/status/1900741391346790413
Please save me (and everyone else) with a clot shot!
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Meanwhile in the UK, sanity tries to make a comeback
https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1900718175601242584
Yes, but can the UK recover in the time left?
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Want a new BMW dirt cheap? Tell the government you have a mental health problem.
If you want a brand new BMW i4 M Sport, you have two choices. The first is to lay out the full £52,770. The second is to tell the DWP that your mental health makes it hard to leave the house, claim the enhanced mobility rate of the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), fork out a down payment of £7,999, and get the Government to lease it for you.
In exchange for the mobility component of your benefit, you’ll get a new BMW every three years, your insurance and accident breakdown paid for, your servicing and tyre replacements covered, and your choice of “conventional metallic paint option”.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-funded-bmws-epitomise-britain-080000204.html
BMW – bleh!
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Trump’s felonies? Yeah right. Very interesting. 7 mins. ToM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RmSiSvJmukk
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Thanks for this great post Rick
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2025/03/monday-97/#comment-2837155
Worth reading.
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Reality
Lest anyone think judicial insurrectionists like Russiagate co-conspirator James Boasberg are plowing new ground with regard to deportation of hostile foreign enemies, they are not.
In fact, Boasberg is maliciously violating the law as part of a corrupt conspiracy to seize the powers of the presidency for himself.
We know this because the Supreme Court ruled in 1948—long after World War II was over—that the Alien Enemies Act gave the U.S. president absolute authority to detain and deport a German who had been in the U.S. legally since the 1930s.
In the case of Ludecke v. Watkins, the Supreme Court ruled explicitly that not only could the president deport legal foreign residents even if they weren’t members of a foreign army, but that the courts had no authority to even review the president’s decision to do so.
“The Alien Enemy Act precludes judicial review of the removal order,” the Supreme Court ruled, years after World War II had ended.
“Such great war powers may be abused, no doubt, but that is a bad reason for having judges supervise their exercise, whatever the legal formulas within which such supervision would nominally be confined,” the Supreme Court majority declared. “Accordingly, we hold that full responsibility for the just exercise of this great power may validly be left where the Congress has constitutionally placed it—on the President of the United States.”
The Founders in their wisdom made him not only the Commander-in-Chief but also the guiding organ in the conduct of our foreign affairs,” the Supreme Court ruling continued. “He who was entrusted with such vast powers in relation to the outside world was also entrusted by Congress, almost throughout the whole life of the nation, with the disposition of alien enemies during a state of war.”
In the current instance, the president on January 20 declared a national emergency at the border, noting an ongoing invasion by hostile and violent foreign enemies.
“This assault on the American people and the integrity of America’s sovereign borders represents a grave threat to our Nation,” the president declared. “Because of the gravity and emergency of this present danger and imminent threat, it is necessary for the Armed Forces to take all appropriate action to assist the Department of Homeland Security in obtaining full operational control of the southern border.”
The president further designated multiple violent foreign drug cartels, including the Venezuelan organization Tren de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations, putting them in the same category as ISIS and al Qaeda. And to protect the safety and sovereignty of the United States, the president ordered the immediate detention and removal all Venezuelan individuals associated with that violent enemy force.
In the Ludecke case from 1948, the petitioner being detained and removed was a German writer who had legally resided in the U.S. for over a decade with no history of violence and no direct ties to any German military or paramilitary unit, years after the war with Germany was over. And in that case, the Supreme Court said the president’s authority under the law and the Constitution was absolute and could not even be reviewed, let alone blocked, let alone reversed.
Compare those facts to the current case: the president is removing foreign aliens who are members of a violent foreign terrorist organization who entered the U.S. illegally for the purpose of committing illegal and often brutally violent acts the United States in the midst of a national emergency at the border and ongoing military action against the drug cartels.
It is simply impossible to look at the law and the facts in this case and somehow conclude that a single inferior and unelected judge with a long history of conspiring against the president and the United States somehow has the authority to personally direct the elected Commander-in-Chief on how he is to prosecute a war to protect our sovereignty from a violent invading force. The Supreme Court ruled that no judge has the authority to do that.
Yet James Boasberg, the corrupt federal judge who also personally made sure a key Russiagate hoaxer and felon whose own fabrications he oversaw never spent a day in prison, is now trying to extort the Commander-in-Chief into pre-emptively submitting all presidential decisions—including individual flight plans—for him to review.
This isn’t just a constitutional abomination. It is an attempt by an inferior and unelected judge to corruptly seize the powers of the presidency from the Commander-in-Chief on behalf of a hostile foreign invading force.
For this reason, Boasberg needs to be placed under criminal
investigation, any security clearances currently granted to him must be revoked, all his communications must be seized and reviewed, and he must be removed from the bench until the criminal investigation into his activities is concluded.
The law is clear, and Boasberg is maliciously ignoring it, putting the safety and sovereignty of the entire country at risk. It’s time for him to be held to account for his actions.
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FWIW
If UK was still on your tourist list maybe better think again –
“E.M.Smith says:
17 March 2025 at 12:44 am
Oh Boy! UK to punish creators and fine platforms for legal speech that “might be harmful” or hurt someone’s feelings….”
https://youtu.be/z-lZx76PWnE
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/w-o-o-d-9-march-2025-jihadis-gotta-jihad-eu-pushing-war-germany-joining-the-debt-club-poverty/#comment-175887
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Who would have thought?
The CFMEU exposed yet again for the criminal enterprise it is.
SMH reports. 5 minutes duration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfuP0Fh2J2Q
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Word of the day:
Whippletree
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Some of the world’s air forces are getting more than a little nervous at committing to US armaments and hardware, specifically F35’s. No point having them in the fleet if the US won’t sanction their use.
With the Trump/Vance team gearing themselves to be there for a decade or so, it’s no wonder European countries are realising that they will need to look elsewhere for their defense – in fact they have been ordered to by the current US administration.
The Swedes, as well as the Ukrainians, are a clever engineering bunch. The Swedes have designed and built an impressive Gen 4 fighter – the JAS 39 Gripen. Can’t think of any other modern fighter that can land and take off from a highway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bbk-9kzMh4
Some of the comments from the above presentation:
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