Yep, a broken economy. and a broken national defense.
Solar is only ok for some areas for about 8 hours a day, on some days, Wind can be almost zero when solar is also zero. Both solar and wind REQUIRE almost 100 percent of name plate steady state on demand back up. Both a nations economy, manufacturing and national defense, depend on this.
That back up must come from Natural Gas, coal or nuclear.They have dmonised nuclear, and made a large percentage of the cost of coal and natural gas, far MORE expensive due to taking two thirds of their business away, as solar and wind get first sale, first right usage, depending on the variable climate. whenever they can, so, via regulation coal and NG revenue is way down, yet the are required to be ready to produce 24 7. (Reduced revenue, same or higher costs, harder on the equipment,) all simply due to forced government decree, and then the liars lie, and base the wind and solar costs on “name plate capacity” not actual production, (actual production is about 33 percent at best, zero at times) and true replacement costs (shorter life span for wind and solar, and the cost of crippling NG and coal is not passed to wind and solar as it should be.)
It is not that some steady state generation is required 50 to 60 percent of the time, but that wind and solar almost 100 percent fail for a percentage of the time, often at the most critical time, during a deep cold freeze, or hot drought, when demand skyrockets. All of this insanity for what end. Much of the rest of the world will continue developing coal, NG, and nuclear at a tremendous rate. The net effect on climate over the next 75 years, even with the IPCC super inflated numbers, is at best .3 degrees. Yet, while the benefits of CO2 continue to increase on a linear pattern with more CO2 meaning more food per acre with no more water required, the warming potential steadily diminishes as the CO2 bands are saturated, and occurs mostly at night meaning reduced frost damage.
The dems ought to be able to line up 50 plus government doctors to say that concerns over Biden’s health have all the earmark’s of Russian disinformation.
As a distant observer it seems clear to me that they managed to prop up the Commander in Chief for the last 4 years, but the rate of decline is accelerating and cannot be [hidden] contained any longer.This raised a chuckle…
Anyone who cares to look closely can see the Joe Biden warning signs of mental problems.
Some Wags were worrying that the debate showed the real, weak, Joe Biden to our enemies around the world, but they already knew Biden’s condition, they have been with him in person, so know very well what’s going on.
The American public are the ones in the dark about Joe Biden. The Leftwing Media has been telling us all along that Biden is just fine and really sharp mentally.
Then the debate happened, and all could see that Joe Biden is not up to the task of being president. It was said this morning that if a nuclear attack were underway on the United States, Joe Biden would have just seven minutes to decide what to do about it, and less time if hypersonic missiles are involved.
Can Joe Biden pull the trigger in his current condition?
Even if there were absolutely zero mental problems (which is only an assumption for the purpose of this post), given his physical frailty, what do you think his performance would be in a Cuban Missile Crisis. He did not survive the rigors of a 90 minute debate and had to be gingerly assisted by Jill down 3 steps, one foot at a time.
The issue should not be exclusively his mental acuity or lack there of, but also his physical stamina.
But wokesters think that we shouldn’t discriminate against elders- even if it’s the most important job on the planet. Good that they have that attitude as it’ll bring them down! We should all encourage them to keep Biden on the ticket!
It turns out that two of those 51 “intelligence” professionals who claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian Disinformation, actually were working for the CIA at the time of the letter coming out.
The new Republican Congress needs to look into this.
Biden needs to find and read the only good speech Lyndon Baines Johnson made, ”I will not seek, nor will i accept my party’s nomination….” (blah,blah, blah”.
The Guardian has always endorsed Labour. Its basically the house news sheet.
But the piece on pensions is really alarming. Will Hutton is well connected enough that what he is talking about could well be actual plans. Very difficult to make specific sense of what is being advocated but it seems to be the government directing the investment portfolio of defined benefit pension funds. And maybe consolidating them or merging them together?
The giveaway is in this quote:
….overall there will be the funds to resuscitate education, the NHS, local government, defence, the criminal justice system, the arts and welfare…
This seems to be raid pension funds of companies with fully funded pensions and spend the proceeds on causes the Guardian reader is expected to be enthusiastic about. Until they find its their pensions too that have been raided. Or maybe they all have civil service pensions, which are unfunded…?
Could be similarly well-said for the USA. Across the pond, we will be presented (as things now stand) this coming November with the choice for our President being between a person of obvious diminished mental abilities and a pompous, irreversible, unapologetic liar.
Above and beyond this, at the current rate of increases in the US national debt (caused by complicity of BOTH the President and the Congress), this country has only about 10 years remaining before it must be recognized as bankrupt, with a debt-to-GDP ratio then exceeding 2:1.
Yet here we are, discussing climate change™ as THE existential threat 😳
It seems to me that the mental and psychological impairment seen at the top goes all the way to the floor. How else could such rubbish be presented as viable and worthy candidates for POTUS
I love Trump. He gets things done. He sees the Big Picture.
I don’t hear all these lies that Democrats claim he says. Rather, I see a lot of distortions of reality when it comes to Trump and what he says and what he means.
Name a Big Lie that Trump made that would disqualify him from being president.
The table shows that in the many Federal trials brought to contest the 2020 Presidential election, an astounding 98% of the judges votes against Trump’s claim, with there being little difference if the judges were Republican or Democrat appointees.
Trump’s repeated and continuing refusal to acknowledge numerous court rulings is clear evidence that he thinks he is “above the rule of law” . . . and that, IMHO, disqualifies him from ever again being my President.
Most, if not all, of the cases were dismissed for lack of standing. That is, the judges said that there was no evidence to prove the charges. If a woman files a complaint for rape with the local police, she is not told to “go home and not come back until she has evidence that will convict her rapist.” Instead, they take the complaint at face value and do the investigation. That isn’t what happened in the case of a claim of voting fraud. Yet, despite US law taking the position of “assumed innocent until proven guilty,” the MSM has consistently referred to Trumps claims as being “lies.” That tells me that the MSM is biased and does everything it can to denigrate Trump. I don’t claim to know whether Trump’s claims are true or not. However, I believe he deserved his day in court, without the MSM hounding him for being a “liar.”
Most, if not all, of the cases were dismissed for lack of standing. That is, the judges said that there was no evidence to prove the charges.
You’re right about the first part, but the second part isn’t quite right. “Lack of standing” doesn’t even look at the evidence – it’s a determination that the person bringing suit isn’t qualified to do so.
According to Cornell, there’s a 3-parte test for qualification for standing:
The plaintiff must have suffered an “injury in fact,” meaning that the injury is of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent
There must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct brought before the court
It must be likely, rather than speculative, that a favorable decision by the court will redress the injury
Note that none of these address evidence in any way.
So every Democrat has claimed the election was stolen when they lost. When Trump claims that, he’s an evil dictator? There were numerous irregularities during the 2020 election. He was told if he did as well as he did in 2016, he would win. He did far better and lost in the wee hours of the night. If it’s not voter fraud, then nobody knows what voter fraud is.
Judging by the election posters in people’s gardens I reckon this week’s general election will have a low turnout. There’s no difference between four of the parties, five for Scotland and Wales, coupled with disillusionment should see to that. The FPTP system means Reform are unlikely get more than a handful of seats. So no incentive to actually vote for a lot of people.
Unlike France where they’ve had a very high turnout, biggest for 40 years.
Maybe I should have Danish with my coffee this morning.
Is the rising concentration of CO2 capable of suppressing the accumulation of ice on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet? No. Right now, after the “hottest year on record” in 2023, the June peak of the Surface Mass Balance matches the mean for the baseline period 1981-2010.
This doesn’t mean the ice sheet is not losing mass from iceberg calving and melting at the coasts. But it shows that the atmosphere is not driving it.
What mass of ice is equivalent to 1 mm of sea level rise? 360 gigatons. Just the range in this record, at the end of the annual cycle for the Surface Mass Balance, is more than that.
This doesn’t mean the ice sheet is not losing mass from iceberg calving and melting at the coasts. But it shows that the atmosphere is not driving it. ______________________________________________________________
On the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets it’s below freezing nearly everywhere nearly all the time. It can’t melt.
speaking as an American, I suspect that a little (real) Russian interference would be a good thing. However, it appears that Putin and company clearly see the destructive path the west is on, and are content to watch it all happen —probably with the occasional belly laugh.
And yet, it is the far-left Labor and Tories that are the ones playing right into Putin’s hand by destroying their economy and transferring manufacturing to “anywhere-else”.
Whenever a country supports the Net-Zero scam.. they are supporting Putin, XI, UN, WEF…
… because that is what Putin and Xi, WEF and the UN want.
Unless their claimed 20% of voters are concentrated in pockets they won’t get a thing; they’ll split the Tories’ natural vote so the Tories get burnt to the ground. Obviously that means a Labour win with a stupendous majority and the ability to get almost anything through parliament (eventually). But on the bright side, a new right-of-centre party can emerge. The one that currently fills (or blocks) that niche needs a stake through its heart and I’ll call that the “win”. (I am pretty sure nothing else Labour may do would get filed under under win!)
From the jurisdiction of claimed 100% Renewables (Australian Capital Territory in Oz) comes the latest power cost notification for the coming year from our supplier.
Cheap renewables sure are expensive.
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June 30, 2024 5:14 am
David A…Good points. A suggestion to consider:
Right point about 100% dependable generation…Prefer that called ” on-site make-up generators”, obviously gas/oil/etc, to assure full nameplate capacity of wind/solar. Make-up generators would continuously fill-in the sporadic deficiencies of wind/solar capacity during the assured variability of sun and breeze.
Make-up capacity would follow wind/solar output on site instead of the grid’s load following.
Thus the output capacity of the site and produced energy could be dispatchable as predictable and reliable output.
In the least it would make the “green” site more equivalent to the output of reliable generators and acceptable to the grid without major electrical adaptations.
Thoughts?
Former President Trump wiped the floor with President Joe Biden during the presidential debate the other night. Of course, wiping the floor with Biden is like fighting with a one-armed man.
The Leftwing Media spin to deflect attention from Biden’s numerous gaffs is to claim that everything Trump said was a lie.
The truth is, everything Biden and the Leftwing Media say is a lie.
I think this debate is the end of Joe Biden’s political career.
Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.
Billionaire Bill Ackerman is now blaiming Joe’s wife Jill for hiding Joe’s condition from the public and advising him to stay in the presidential race.
I hear Hunter is also advising Joe to stay in the race. Joe can’t pardon Hunter if he is not president.
Trump is going to be the next President of the United States. _________________________________________________
The Democrats are going to do what they did in 2020 and they have had 4 years to make improvements. One of the things that was noticeable in the 2020 race here in Wisconsin was a lack of TV ads for Biden. Democrats were spending their money somewhere else. Use your imagination to figure out where that might have been.
As it stands, they’ll have to ramp up the cheating just about everywhere. The problem for them in 2024 is that a Biden win would be unbelievable. I doubt they have had that foresight.
The lies upon upon which the Biden admin are built have much in common with the lies upon which global warming is built. I’m hopeful that this revealing becomes universal.
“The Democrats are going to do what they did in 2020 and they have had 4 years to make improvements.”
Yes, the Democrats are going to cheat as much as they can, but the Republicans are making a huge effort to try to prevent this from happening, and Trump is leading substantially in all the Battleground States, and he is turning Blue States into Red States. Trump’s desire that the election turnout for him is “Too Big to Rig” may come true.
The political movement has been towards Trump for weeks, even before the debate, and the poor debate showing by Biden, imo, puts Trump over the top.
Biden has the serious medical condition, persistent atrial fibrillation which curiously
the dems and the media never discuss. A retired nurse with years of experience & knowledge
on the condition told me that Biden’s mental state is consistent with someone
having had mini or silent strokes. The man is a mental basket case on several levels, with
son Hunter the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.. Add to that his blatant pathological lying and
the obvious fact that he would never be able to hold any position in the private sector
let alone president. Orwell need to become fiction again..
Brandon is a mental basket case. Has been since he campaigned the first time.
(They used covid as the excuse to hide him in basement.)
BUT there’s not a Dem that didn’t support everything “he” did.
If the Dems run someone else instead, the same disasterous policies will continue.
They’ll blame the all the bad results on Brandon but nothing will change.
“BUT there’s not a Dem that didn’t support everything “he” did.”
That’s right, and keep that in mind, if the Democrats manage to put someone in Biden’s place, because that someone supports every bad policy that Biden supports.
A change in personnel will not change the destructive Democrat policy and their destructive World View.
Danger to Democracy .. Biden wants to run as a Democrat, and the party is powerless to stop him. Why are Democrats organized so much top-down? How about Communism, or NSDAP?
I compare the two candidates to glasses of water: Trump is half full, good domestic policies but stinking foreign policies. Biden is just an empty glass.
Trump lied and exaggerated so often it was almost unbelievable.
He is out of touch with reality.
Not from mental decline, like Biden.
Trump is a blowhard salesman who accomplished little as president. But he acts like he was the best president in American history.
His greatest accomplishments were three SCOTUS appointments but leftists in the Deep Administrative State have many ways to ignore SCOTUS, bypassing their rulings. SCOTUS does not have a police force or an army, so can not enforce any decisions. Anti-Trump lawfare by Democrats ignores many items in the Bill of Rights. Democrats don’t care about a constitution.
Biden has gotten away with the most family corruption of any VP in history, AND IT DID NOT END IN 2016.
Republicans in Congress watched Biden completely ignore border laws and failed to impeach him for that. He should have been impeached every year, even though that would not lead to a conviction
Here are some of the Trump lies and exaggerations:
Trump’s repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth,
that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned,
that there were no terror attacks during his presidency,
that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency,
that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has,
that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators,”
that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes,
that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021,
that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries,
that Europe accepts no American cars,
that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress,
and that fraud changed the results of the 2020 election (maybe true but not proven).
Trump also added some new false claims, such as his assertions that the US currently has its biggest budget deficit and its biggest trade deficit with China.
Both records actually occurred under Trump.
This debate was pitiful on both sides, compared to two intelligent men debating, such as Richard Nixon and John Kennedy.
For the first time – I believe – I agree with you.
The best thing Trump ever did (from my viewpoint in the SH) was pull out of Paris. But the ”debate” the other night just brought home the fact that Americans will need to wait another 4 years (at least) to get someone they deserve in office.
RG is obviously a Democrat. I would discount anything he says. His comment is clearly all Democrat talking points. Democrats say Trump lied–well all politicians lie. But Biden has been lying since his uncle was eaten by cannibals.
“that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021,”
We know that at least three people acknowledged (including treasonous General Milley) that Trump authorized the National Guard. We also have Nancy recently stating that she regrets not approving the National Guard. And we have a written document by the DC mayor refusing the National Guard. I guess you’re quoting the usual Democrat talking points. I would fact-check your other nonsense points, but I refuse to waste my time.
In fact, Trump offered the ten thousand National Guard troops to Nancy Pelosi on two different occasions, and she turned him down both times.
Would an Insurrectionist offer 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol Building? I don’t think so. It doesn’t make sense, does it. That’s because Democrats don’t make sense.
Both Sgts at Arms, House and Senate, declined to approve Nat Guards with identical “bad optics” replies. Pelosi was scrambling for shelter at the time. Check the phone records. I am willing to bet the Sgts at Arms had standing orders and neither called Pelosi. Pelosi was their direct report and she was in charge of Capital security. Curious that both resigned their positions the next day.
Trump authorized 10K Nat. Guards to the acting Sec. Def. several days before the riot with instructions to use as needed.
The riots and violence started ~13 minutes before Trump concluded his speech. He started 50 minutes late.
RG says:”Trump’s repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth,”
I am sorry you’re not able to remember why the Democratic governor of Virginia lost his election to the now Republican Governor. The democrat discussed the killing of already born children.
I am also sorry you haven’t heard Cash Patel discuss how Pelosi, who was responsible for security at capital, along with the mayor of DC turned down the national guard troops.
“The democrat discussed the killing of already born children.”
He sure did, and Trump named him specifically when talking about the subject.
Richard must have missed that part.
So there’s one “Trump lie” that is not really a lie. If you dig a little bit, you will find that most of these claims of Trump lying fit in this “fake lie” category.
The Democrats misinterpret everything Trump says in order to put Trump in the worst light possible. The key to understanding what Trump says is to actually listen to his words. Listening to an interpretation of Trump’s words by partisan Democrats will take you away from the truth.
Snippet is a wonderful tool for keeping facts but making them non-factual by altering the context.
Change one word:
Headline: He corroborated the statement.
Take from the report that noted: He corroborated most of the statement. Easy to do and AI isn’t needed at all.
SCOTUS tossing Chevron is great news. Already the whackos at Columbia are crying about how this is going to derail US regulator’s ability to impose their climate agenda. We can only hope they’re correct.
It was reported yesterday that during the Reagan administration in the 1980’s, the federal government had created about 3,500 rules and regulations up to that time, and that in 2024, there are about 350,000 federal rules and regulations.
It time for Trump and his regulation cuts.
During Trump’s first term he cut taxes and government regulations, and Trump said he would ask business owners which one was more important to them, tax cuts or regulation cuts, and Trump said most of the business people said the regulations cuts were more important to them, although they also favored tax cuts, but less so.
Most likely can never be reused either. The embedded hold-down boils are subject to fatigue and corrosion like the rest of the structure.
Most of the fatigue failures are occurring on the blade root connection but the towers are also showing fatigue problems. Reusing the embedded bolts would probably be an unacceptable risk as it would be difficult to assess the condition of the bolts down in the concrete. This paper looks at some of the bolt fatigue issues associated with the more common turbine failures. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350630722006033
Global warming can only be portrayed as a serious threat, by claiming that it will increase weather extremes, particularly major heatwaves. The Met Office UK climate projections estimate that European heatwaves like in 2003 and 2018, will occur every other year by 2050. I can take this as the most certain proof, that they are the very least likely to ever look for the solar drivers of such major heatwaves.
Climate of fear
The election looms and so does our ruin
Labour needs billions to fund its plans – and I know where it can be found. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/30/labour-needs-billions-to-fund-its-plans-and-i-know-where-it-can-be-found
Raiding pensions – again…
Keir Starmer must win. Only his government can shape the future we want to see.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2024/jun/28/the-guardian-view-on-the-general-election-2024-a-labour-victory-would-be-a-reason-for-hope
Yes, we know exactly the kind of future the 6th formers at the Guardian have in mind
Yep, a broken economy. and a broken national defense.
Solar is only ok for some areas for about 8 hours a day, on some days, Wind can be almost zero when solar is also zero. Both solar and wind REQUIRE almost 100 percent of name plate steady state on demand back up. Both a nations economy, manufacturing and national defense, depend on this.
That back up must come from Natural Gas, coal or nuclear.They have dmonised nuclear, and made a large percentage of the cost of coal and natural gas, far MORE expensive due to taking two thirds of their business away, as solar and wind get first sale, first right usage, depending on the variable climate. whenever they can, so, via regulation coal and NG revenue is way down, yet the are required to be ready to produce 24 7. (Reduced revenue, same or higher costs, harder on the equipment,) all simply due to forced government decree, and then the liars lie, and base the wind and solar costs on “name plate capacity” not actual production, (actual production is about 33 percent at best, zero at times) and true replacement costs (shorter life span for wind and solar, and the cost of crippling NG and coal is not passed to wind and solar as it should be.)
It is not that some steady state generation is required 50 to 60 percent of the time, but that wind and solar almost 100 percent fail for a percentage of the time, often at the most critical time, during a deep cold freeze, or hot drought, when demand skyrockets. All of this insanity for what end. Much of the rest of the world will continue developing coal, NG, and nuclear at a tremendous rate. The net effect on climate over the next 75 years, even with the IPCC super inflated numbers, is at best .3 degrees. Yet, while the benefits of CO2 continue to increase on a linear pattern with more CO2 meaning more food per acre with no more water required, the warming potential steadily diminishes as the CO2 bands are saturated, and occurs mostly at night meaning reduced frost damage.
Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Viva la Revolution.
“Wind can be almost zero when solar is also zero.”
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Here ya go:
Aviation Weather Forecast at
Timmerman Airport, Wisconsin
Three major capital cost expenditures, when only ‘one’ (the ‘reliable option)is required. This kind of stupid waste can ‘kill’ any society.
How much of this can they get away with in the present political climate? Perhaps another short lived PM. Over hear Trump is looking good.
We wait with baited breath
Biden won’t last 4 months
The dems ought to be able to line up 50 plus government doctors to say that concerns over Biden’s health have all the earmark’s of Russian disinformation.
As a distant observer it seems clear to me that they managed to prop up the Commander in Chief for the last 4 years, but the rate of decline is accelerating and cannot be [hidden] contained any longer.This raised a chuckle…
“”European Officials Say They’ve Seen Warning Signs of Biden Deteriorating Age Prior to Presidential Debate“” – Breitbart News
They are funny.
50 former senior intelligence officials, a pangolin and bat, enter a bar…
Anyone who cares to look closely can see the Joe Biden warning signs of mental problems.
Some Wags were worrying that the debate showed the real, weak, Joe Biden to our enemies around the world, but they already knew Biden’s condition, they have been with him in person, so know very well what’s going on.
The American public are the ones in the dark about Joe Biden. The Leftwing Media has been telling us all along that Biden is just fine and really sharp mentally.
Then the debate happened, and all could see that Joe Biden is not up to the task of being president. It was said this morning that if a nuclear attack were underway on the United States, Joe Biden would have just seven minutes to decide what to do about it, and less time if hypersonic missiles are involved.
Can Joe Biden pull the trigger in his current condition?
Will Jill Biden pull the trigger – she seems to be in charge.
New passcode on the nuclear football, “1, 2, 3.”
Hey, that’s the code on my luggage!
OK, maybe it’s really a nuclear suitcase.
Go to ludicrous speed!
White House aides say Biden is great from 10AM to 4PM. (Like solar power?)
Good thing the job only requires 6 hours a day of cogency.
Whereas, PJDT is ‘great’ for about 20 hours a day.
Even if there were absolutely zero mental problems (which is only an assumption for the purpose of this post), given his physical frailty, what do you think his performance would be in a Cuban Missile Crisis. He did not survive the rigors of a 90 minute debate and had to be gingerly assisted by Jill down 3 steps, one foot at a time.
The issue should not be exclusively his mental acuity or lack there of, but also his physical stamina.
“Biden is not up to the task of being PRESENT”
You need to see John Campbell’s “Dementia Awareness” video. In particular he goes over the symptoms of Lewy Body dementia.
Dems are becoming the party of dementia and there are several in the republican ranks as well.
But wokesters think that we shouldn’t discriminate against elders- even if it’s the most important job on the planet. Good that they have that attitude as it’ll bring them down! We should all encourage them to keep Biden on the ticket!
The wokesters are adamantly against meritocracy.
We’re making progress! The Left was only able to get 16 regime economists to vouch for Bidenomics.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/very-model-modern-major-bidenomics-economist
Yes, one would think more flies would land on that shit.
It turns out that two of those 51 “intelligence” professionals who claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian Disinformation, actually were working for the CIA at the time of the letter coming out.
The new Republican Congress needs to look into this.
One of them was a lead writer for the Russia Collusion report in 2016 and was also one of the debate panelists.
Biden needs to find and read the only good speech Lyndon Baines Johnson made, ”I will not seek, nor will i accept my party’s nomination….” (blah,blah, blah”.
Yes, that move on Johnson’s part was a big surprise at the time.
I thought that was one of his 2020 campaign promises, one term, transition President.
Maybe Biden will, last as long as Obama wants him to.
“They” are going to replace him…or not.
The Guardian has always endorsed Labour. Its basically the house news sheet.
But the piece on pensions is really alarming. Will Hutton is well connected enough that what he is talking about could well be actual plans. Very difficult to make specific sense of what is being advocated but it seems to be the government directing the investment portfolio of defined benefit pension funds. And maybe consolidating them or merging them together?
The giveaway is in this quote:
….overall there will be the funds to resuscitate education, the NHS, local government, defence, the criminal justice system, the arts and welfare…
This seems to be raid pension funds of companies with fully funded pensions and spend the proceeds on causes the Guardian reader is expected to be enthusiastic about. Until they find its their pensions too that have been raided. Or maybe they all have civil service pensions, which are unfunded…?
Eventually, socialists run out of other people’s money to spend.
Not soon enough for me.
Could be similarly well-said for the USA. Across the pond, we will be presented (as things now stand) this coming November with the choice for our President being between a person of obvious diminished mental abilities and a pompous, irreversible, unapologetic liar.
Above and beyond this, at the current rate of increases in the US national debt (caused by complicity of BOTH the President and the Congress), this country has only about 10 years remaining before it must be recognized as bankrupt, with a debt-to-GDP ratio then exceeding 2:1.
Yet here we are, discussing climate change™ as THE existential threat 😳
This succinct explanation of the situation seems accurate.
https://rumble.com/v54n7rp-david-sacks-explains-the-evils-of-the-democrat-party.html
It seems to me that the mental and psychological impairment seen at the top goes all the way to the floor. How else could such rubbish be presented as viable and worthy candidates for POTUS
“How else could such rubbish be presented as viable and worthy candidates for POTUS”
The Democrats have control of about 90 percent of the U.S. news media. They tell lies that benefit the Democrats and harm the nation.
Without the lying Leftwing New Media, the Democrats would not be a viable political party.
“and a pompous, irreversible, unapologetic liar.”
I love Trump. He gets things done. He sees the Big Picture.
I don’t hear all these lies that Democrats claim he says. Rather, I see a lot of distortions of reality when it comes to Trump and what he says and what he means.
Name a Big Lie that Trump made that would disqualify him from being president.
Simple question, simple answer: that the 2020 Presidential election was “stolen” from him through voter/election fraud or malfeasance.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/exhaustive-fact-check-finds-little-evidence-of-voter-fraud-but-2020s-big-lie-lives-on
Also, see the attached table, extracted from this article:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trumps-judicial-campaign-to-upend-the-2020-election-a-failure-but-not-a-wipe-out/
The table shows that in the many Federal trials brought to contest the 2020 Presidential election, an astounding 98% of the judges votes against Trump’s claim, with there being little difference if the judges were Republican or Democrat appointees.
Trump’s repeated and continuing refusal to acknowledge numerous court rulings is clear evidence that he thinks he is “above the rule of law” . . . and that, IMHO, disqualifies him from ever again being my President.
Most, if not all, of the cases were dismissed for lack of standing. That is, the judges said that there was no evidence to prove the charges. If a woman files a complaint for rape with the local police, she is not told to “go home and not come back until she has evidence that will convict her rapist.” Instead, they take the complaint at face value and do the investigation. That isn’t what happened in the case of a claim of voting fraud. Yet, despite US law taking the position of “assumed innocent until proven guilty,” the MSM has consistently referred to Trumps claims as being “lies.” That tells me that the MSM is biased and does everything it can to denigrate Trump. I don’t claim to know whether Trump’s claims are true or not. However, I believe he deserved his day in court, without the MSM hounding him for being a “liar.”
Most, if not all, of the cases were dismissed for lack of standing. That is, the judges said that there was no evidence to prove the charges.
You’re right about the first part, but the second part isn’t quite right. “Lack of standing” doesn’t even look at the evidence – it’s a determination that the person bringing suit isn’t qualified to do so.
According to Cornell, there’s a 3-parte test for qualification for standing:
Note that none of these address evidence in any way.
Can you provide any unbiased reference/link to support that assertion?
So every Democrat has claimed the election was stolen when they lost. When Trump claims that, he’s an evil dictator? There were numerous irregularities during the 2020 election. He was told if he did as well as he did in 2016, he would win. He did far better and lost in the wee hours of the night. If it’s not voter fraud, then nobody knows what voter fraud is.
As anyone can clearly see, I never stated that Donald Trump was or would be “an evil dictator”.
Facts matter.
Then what stupid point were you making?
You probably don’t know, but Hillary Clinton still thinks the election was stolen from her.
Can you provide any unbiased reference/link to support that assertion?
Seriously? Just put Hillary Clinton Election denier into any web browser.
Judging by the election posters in people’s gardens I reckon this week’s general election will have a low turnout. There’s no difference between four of the parties, five for Scotland and Wales, coupled with disillusionment should see to that. The FPTP system means Reform are unlikely get more than a handful of seats. So no incentive to actually vote for a lot of people.
Unlike France where they’ve had a very high turnout, biggest for 40 years.
Look at the bright side – if they do as bad a job as we all fear, they’ll never win elective office again, or so we can hope.
Maybe I should have Danish with my coffee this morning.
Is the rising concentration of CO2 capable of suppressing the accumulation of ice on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet? No. Right now, after the “hottest year on record” in 2023, the June peak of the Surface Mass Balance matches the mean for the baseline period 1981-2010.
This doesn’t mean the ice sheet is not losing mass from iceberg calving and melting at the coasts. But it shows that the atmosphere is not driving it.
What mass of ice is equivalent to 1 mm of sea level rise? 360 gigatons. Just the range in this record, at the end of the annual cycle for the Surface Mass Balance, is more than that.
http://polarportal.dk/fileadmin/polarportal/surface/SMB_curves_LA_EN_20240629.png
This doesn’t mean the ice sheet is not losing mass from iceberg calving and melting at the coasts. But it shows that the atmosphere is not driving it.
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On the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets it’s below freezing nearly everywhere nearly all the time. It can’t melt.
Time to recycle an old comment.
“When glaciers calve, alarmist have a cow.
That explains all the bellowing!”
Greenland actually sits over part of the active Icelandic magma sac.
There is no easy way of knowing how much basal ice melt comes from this or how much it varies.
It does help to explain why there are pockets of melting, rather than uniform melting.
1 mm ? “The sky is falling”!
BBC Update
Another heavily biased audience…
Farage announces BBC boycott in wake of Question Time bias rowReform UK leader says he is awaiting an apology from the broadcaster.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/29/farage-announces-bbc-boycott-question-time-bias/
The Farage threat to the political establishment has reached Trumpian levels.
Roll out the Russian interference story…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13584611/Tories-call-investigation-gravely-concerning-claims-Russian-interference-general-election-Moscow-boosting-Nigel-Farages-Reform.html
Faceache
What a surprise.
speaking as an American, I suspect that a little (real) Russian interference would be a good thing. However, it appears that Putin and company clearly see the destructive path the west is on, and are content to watch it all happen —probably with the occasional belly laugh.
But you have to admit this was hilarious:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240630170415/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/06/30/nigel-farage-speech-interrupted-huge-banner-vladimir-putin/
from Wayback to avoid the paywall.
And yet, it is the far-left Labor and Tories that are the ones playing right into Putin’s hand by destroying their economy and transferring manufacturing to “anywhere-else”.
Whenever a country supports the Net-Zero scam.. they are supporting Putin, XI, UN, WEF…
… because that is what Putin and Xi, WEF and the UN want.
… the destruction of western economies.
How does it look for Reform? They should pick up some seats.
We live in hope. You can’t trust media or reported polling.
Quite right but the trend seems widespread.
https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html
There may be a surprise on Thursday, though. Just a feeling.
I plan to drink a flagon of grappa, making myself comfortably numb.
Then comes the 5 year hangover.
Unless their claimed 20% of voters are concentrated in pockets they won’t get a thing; they’ll split the Tories’ natural vote so the Tories get burnt to the ground. Obviously that means a Labour win with a stupendous majority and the ability to get almost anything through parliament (eventually). But on the bright side, a new right-of-centre party can emerge. The one that currently fills (or blocks) that niche needs a stake through its heart and I’ll call that the “win”. (I am pretty sure nothing else Labour may do would get filed under under win!)
Cheap Power??
From the jurisdiction of claimed 100% Renewables (Australian Capital Territory in Oz) comes the latest power cost notification for the coming year from our supplier.
Cheap renewables sure are expensive.
David A…Good points. A suggestion to consider:
Right point about 100% dependable generation…Prefer that called ” on-site make-up generators”, obviously gas/oil/etc, to assure full nameplate capacity of wind/solar. Make-up generators would continuously fill-in the sporadic deficiencies of wind/solar capacity during the assured variability of sun and breeze.
Make-up capacity would follow wind/solar output on site instead of the grid’s load following.
Thus the output capacity of the site and produced energy could be dispatchable as predictable and reliable output.
In the least it would make the “green” site more equivalent to the output of reliable generators and acceptable to the grid without major electrical adaptations.
Thoughts?
Former President Trump wiped the floor with President Joe Biden during the presidential debate the other night. Of course, wiping the floor with Biden is like fighting with a one-armed man.
The Leftwing Media spin to deflect attention from Biden’s numerous gaffs is to claim that everything Trump said was a lie.
The truth is, everything Biden and the Leftwing Media say is a lie.
I think this debate is the end of Joe Biden’s political career.
Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.
Get ready to go back to Common Sense.
The Dems claim Biden started the show weak but ended strong. Of course no one was watching by that time.
Seems big Biden donors are justifiably nervous:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/28/biden-staffers-seek-to-calm-donors-after-debate-00165887
Billionaire Bill Ackerman is now blaiming Joe’s wife Jill for hiding Joe’s condition from the public and advising him to stay in the presidential race.
I hear Hunter is also advising Joe to stay in the race. Joe can’t pardon Hunter if he is not president.
“The Dems claim Biden started the show weak but ended strong.”
Yes, that was Kamala Harris’ line. She got a little testy when the reporter kept questioning her about Biden’s poor performance.
brandon, it has been reported, was “overprepared”.
Trump is going to be the next President of the United States.
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The Democrats are going to do what they did in 2020 and they have had 4 years to make improvements. One of the things that was noticeable in the 2020 race here in Wisconsin was a lack of TV ads for Biden. Democrats were spending their money somewhere else. Use your imagination to figure out where that might have been.
As it stands, they’ll have to ramp up the cheating just about everywhere. The problem for them in 2024 is that a Biden win would be unbelievable. I doubt they have had that foresight.
The lies upon upon which the Biden admin are built have much in common with the lies upon which global warming is built. I’m hopeful that this revealing becomes universal.
https://nypost.com/2024/06/29/opinion/pres-bidens-debate-disaster-reveals-a-campaign-of-lies/
Biden wins in 2024 = CIVIL WAR
I applaud your enthusiasm, but no, Americans are too lazy & ‘comfortable’.
(and are unfamiliar with ‘pain’)
Even Farage is getting the ‘Russian’ interference treatment.
It’s the go to when you haven’t a hope.
“The Democrats are going to do what they did in 2020 and they have had 4 years to make improvements.”
Yes, the Democrats are going to cheat as much as they can, but the Republicans are making a huge effort to try to prevent this from happening, and Trump is leading substantially in all the Battleground States, and he is turning Blue States into Red States. Trump’s desire that the election turnout for him is “Too Big to Rig” may come true.
The political movement has been towards Trump for weeks, even before the debate, and the poor debate showing by Biden, imo, puts Trump over the top.
Biden has the serious medical condition, persistent atrial fibrillation which curiously
the dems and the media never discuss. A retired nurse with years of experience & knowledge
on the condition told me that Biden’s mental state is consistent with someone
having had mini or silent strokes. The man is a mental basket case on several levels, with
son Hunter the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.. Add to that his blatant pathological lying and
the obvious fact that he would never be able to hold any position in the private sector
let alone president. Orwell need to become fiction again..
Brandon is a mental basket case. Has been since he campaigned the first time.
(They used covid as the excuse to hide him in basement.)
BUT there’s not a Dem that didn’t support everything “he” did.
If the Dems run someone else instead, the same disasterous policies will continue.
They’ll blame the all the bad results on Brandon but nothing will change.
“BUT there’s not a Dem that didn’t support everything “he” did.”
That’s right, and keep that in mind, if the Democrats manage to put someone in Biden’s place, because that someone supports every bad policy that Biden supports.
A change in personnel will not change the destructive Democrat policy and their destructive World View.
I have to say I was gobsmacked by the whole chirade.
On any other planet a man as obviously non compos mentis and vagued-out as Biden would have been stopped from continuing and taken into medical care.
He was punch drunk. But they let it go on just the same. It’s beyond bizarre.
It’s “Weekend at Bernie’s” at the White House.
The PTB wanted this to happen, so that ‘they’ can/will replace him with someone (they think) has a chance against PJDT.
Danger to Democracy .. Biden wants to run as a Democrat, and the party is powerless to stop him. Why are Democrats organized so much top-down? How about Communism, or NSDAP?
Likely the campaign money plus arcane Democrat Party rules and regs.
“Danger to Democracy”…. that’s o.k., the USA is a REPUBLIC.
You equate “Common Sense” with Donald Trump? How dare you.
Yes, I dare to do so.
We can argue about it if you want. Be specific.
I compare the two candidates to glasses of water: Trump is half full, good domestic policies but stinking foreign policies. Biden is just an empty glass.
Trump lied and exaggerated so often it was almost unbelievable.
He is out of touch with reality.
Not from mental decline, like Biden.
Trump is a blowhard salesman who accomplished little as president. But he acts like he was the best president in American history.
His greatest accomplishments were three SCOTUS appointments but leftists in the Deep Administrative State have many ways to ignore SCOTUS, bypassing their rulings. SCOTUS does not have a police force or an army, so can not enforce any decisions. Anti-Trump lawfare by Democrats ignores many items in the Bill of Rights. Democrats don’t care about a constitution.
Biden has gotten away with the most family corruption of any VP in history, AND IT DID NOT END IN 2016.
Republicans in Congress watched Biden completely ignore border laws and failed to impeach him for that. He should have been impeached every year, even though that would not lead to a conviction
Here are some of the Trump lies and exaggerations:
Trump’s repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth,
that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned,
that there were no terror attacks during his presidency,
that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency,
that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has,
that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators,”
that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes,
that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021,
that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries,
that Europe accepts no American cars,
that he is the president who got the Veterans Choice program through Congress,
and that fraud changed the results of the 2020 election (maybe true but not proven).
Trump also added some new false claims, such as his assertions that the US currently has its biggest budget deficit and its biggest trade deficit with China.
Both records actually occurred under Trump.
This debate was pitiful on both sides, compared to two intelligent men debating, such as Richard Nixon and John Kennedy.
For the first time – I believe – I agree with you.
The best thing Trump ever did (from my viewpoint in the SH) was pull out of Paris. But the ”debate” the other night just brought home the fact that Americans will need to wait another 4 years (at least) to get someone they deserve in office.
“. . . to get someone they deserve in office.”
The idiots that voted for Biden got what they deserved in office.
RG, the leftist, out-of-the-closet TDS sufferer and AGW zealot.
Yep.
RG is obviously a Democrat. I would discount anything he says. His comment is clearly all Democrat talking points. Democrats say Trump lied–well all politicians lie. But Biden has been lying since his uncle was eaten by cannibals.
“that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021,”
We know that at least three people acknowledged (including treasonous General Milley) that Trump authorized the National Guard. We also have Nancy recently stating that she regrets not approving the National Guard. And we have a written document by the DC mayor refusing the National Guard. I guess you’re quoting the usual Democrat talking points. I would fact-check your other nonsense points, but I refuse to waste my time.
He’s just regurgitating standard Democrat propaganda put out by their propaganda wing.
yes, I agree!!!!
RG regurgitates a whole lot of Democrat and AGW propaganda.
It is his job.
In fact, Trump offered the ten thousand National Guard troops to Nancy Pelosi on two different occasions, and she turned him down both times.
Would an Insurrectionist offer 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol Building? I don’t think so. It doesn’t make sense, does it. That’s because Democrats don’t make sense.
Both Sgts at Arms, House and Senate, declined to approve Nat Guards with identical “bad optics” replies. Pelosi was scrambling for shelter at the time. Check the phone records. I am willing to bet the Sgts at Arms had standing orders and neither called Pelosi. Pelosi was their direct report and she was in charge of Capital security. Curious that both resigned their positions the next day.
Trump authorized 10K Nat. Guards to the acting Sec. Def. several days before the riot with instructions to use as needed.
The riots and violence started ~13 minutes before Trump concluded his speech. He started 50 minutes late.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/06/reminder-the-parliamentary-motive-behind-the-j6-fedsurrection/
key: “regitiger”
‘Pelosi was scrambling for shelter at the time’
Not… see “regitiger”, in post below. lol
RG says:”Trump’s repeat falsehoods included his assertions that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth,”
I am sorry you’re not able to remember why the Democratic governor of Virginia lost his election to the now Republican Governor. The democrat discussed the killing of already born children.
I am also sorry you haven’t heard Cash Patel discuss how Pelosi, who was responsible for security at capital, along with the mayor of DC turned down the national guard troops.
You are wrong again.
“The democrat discussed the killing of already born children.”
He sure did, and Trump named him specifically when talking about the subject.
Richard must have missed that part.
So there’s one “Trump lie” that is not really a lie. If you dig a little bit, you will find that most of these claims of Trump lying fit in this “fake lie” category.
The Democrats misinterpret everything Trump says in order to put Trump in the worst light possible. The key to understanding what Trump says is to actually listen to his words. Listening to an interpretation of Trump’s words by partisan Democrats will take you away from the truth.
Snippet is a wonderful tool for keeping facts but making them non-factual by altering the context.
Change one word:
Headline: He corroborated the statement.
Take from the report that noted: He corroborated most of the statement.
Easy to do and AI isn’t needed at all.
RG has an obvious lack of Critical Thinking skills. It is so much easier to accept what those ‘really deep divers’ in the msm spout.
Are you going to vote for Biden, Richard?
RG, any comment on the most disgusting lie of the night, when Biden claimed that “no troops died” during his term?
I’ll do another one:
“that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned,”
As I remember many legal scholars said that Roe vs. Wade was incorrectly reasoned. And it includes two interesting individuals:
A younger Joe Biden said Roe vs. Wade was incorrectly reasoned. I guess he was against it before he was for it.
And
Justice Ginsburg was for Roe vs. Wade but said the legal premise was wrong.
Really, Just Stop Oil should make Stonehenge their headquarters as they want to take the rest of us back to the Stone Age.
Yeah word gets around fast from the first road test guinea pigs-
Concerns ‘first electric vehicle could be your last’ (msn.com)
This shouldn’t be new to anyone, trees cause air pollution and breathing problems too:
https://www.sciencealert.com/trees-have-become-a-hidden-source-of-air-pollution-in-los-angeles
Folks living in the People’s Republic of Boulder should not dictate what is done in Wyoming. After all, it’s very easy to get lost in the wide open spaces:
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/07/hageman-tells-la-la-land-cities-to-give-up-fossil-fuels-if-theyre-so-evil/
What? Bad geo-engineering won’t stop rich, first world guilt?
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/19/flubbed-climate-test-rich-donors-altering-sky-00164011
Budget cuts prevent NZ Climate Funding? Nah…
https://theconversation.com/budget-cuts-to-climate-funding-mean-nz-may-now-struggle-to-meet-its-international-obligations-232245
Wyoming vs. the BLM, popcorn and insomniac rading anyone:
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/06/18/in-954-page-letter-wyomings-powder-river-basin-blasts-blms-war-on-coal/
I wish I could find the source, but I think the real rise in “climate related risks” in Colorado is a new regulation on insurance companies:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/colorado/news/climate-change-blamed-rising-insurance-rates-colorado/
I think this is good news, the so called Chevron rule has been overturned:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/06/28/chevron-doctrine-supreme-court-republicans-business.html
SCOTUS tossing Chevron is great news. Already the whackos at Columbia are crying about how this is going to derail US regulator’s ability to impose their climate agenda. We can only hope they’re correct.
It was reported yesterday that during the Reagan administration in the 1980’s, the federal government had created about 3,500 rules and regulations up to that time, and that in 2024, there are about 350,000 federal rules and regulations.
It time for Trump and his regulation cuts.
During Trump’s first term he cut taxes and government regulations, and Trump said he would ask business owners which one was more important to them, tax cuts or regulation cuts, and Trump said most of the business people said the regulations cuts were more important to them, although they also favored tax cuts, but less so.
Another no kidding Sherlock, life and fungus/bacteria will find a way. I do agree we should do a better job on land of preventing plastic pollution:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/plastic-eating-fungus-pacific-garbage-patch
Here is some true research that can use some help:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/health/phage-superbug-killer-life-itself-wellness/index.html
The great walk back of EVs continues:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/mercedes-is-walking-back-its-all-ev-future-to-invest-in-high-tech-combustion
I wish I could get my hands on one of these with the right buildout.
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/06/30/the-13k-toyota-pickup-you-cant-buy/
I suspect the forming and strengthening of Beryl is only a surprise to anyone with limited experience:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/29/hurricane-beryl-record-hot-oceans/74255415007/
rhs, have you considered starting your own blog?
Not really, I get these in my Google feed and if something applies to a story at hand, I’ll pass a link.
Otherwise, I save for an open thread.
I saw how much steel goes into the concrete foundation of a large turbine. It’s mind boggling. There forever. It can never be removed.
Is it “carbon” steel?
Most likely can never be reused either. The embedded hold-down boils are subject to fatigue and corrosion like the rest of the structure.
Most of the fatigue failures are occurring on the blade root connection but the towers are also showing fatigue problems. Reusing the embedded bolts would probably be an unacceptable risk as it would be difficult to assess the condition of the bolts down in the concrete. This paper looks at some of the bolt fatigue issues associated with the more common turbine failures.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1350630722006033
So it’s not possible to dig them up, cut them into smaller concrete blocks, and then use the smaller blocks to finish out the southern border wall?
Tucker in Oz is fun:
Loved Tucker’s speech! Thanks!
Global warming can only be portrayed as a serious threat, by claiming that it will increase weather extremes, particularly major heatwaves. The Met Office UK climate projections estimate that European heatwaves like in 2003 and 2018, will occur every other year by 2050. I can take this as the most certain proof, that they are the very least likely to ever look for the solar drivers of such major heatwaves.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQemMt_PNwwBKNOS7GSP7gbWDmcDBJ80UJzkqDIQ75_Sctjn89VoM5MIYHQWHkpn88cMQXkKjXznM-u/pub
Remember how the AGW cult was going on about high sea surface temperatures during the 2023 El Nino, which followed the HT eruption…
They are heading down again.
Global governance, WEF, New World Order, UN, IPCC, NASA, NOAH.
All in it together?
Discuss.
NASA and NOAA are only following government mandates.
The rest, in it together, the evidence makes it seem very likely.
story tip:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/07/01/vast-salt-caverns-to-store-hydrogen-under-former-royal-navy-base/