Yes. Get a VPN (mullvad). Install a VM (virtualbox). Install a Linux live system in it (MX Linux or Puppy). Never post from anything else, never use it for anything else. And keep an offsite backup in a secure location. Make it using foxclone. Watch who you talk to.
You are speaking English, but you are living in East Germany.
I have the notion that HRH, and the Pope, will both soon be gone. Trump might want to focus on Prince William. Regarding the Pope, the next one is a carp shoot.
The King looked pretty good, the last time I saw him a couple of days ago..
The Pope looks a little frail, but he’s been in the hospital for an extended period of time, so that may be a contributing factor. And it’s not good to have double Pneumonia in lungs that are at 80-percent capacity to begin with.
It looks like Net Zero Thinking causes politicians to get very delusional. I guess you might say, it has driven them crazy, and causes them to do stupid things detrimental to those they represent.
Europe tried to scare the US, with help of the leftist Biden clique, into going down the black hole of expensive, highly-subsidized, weather-dependent, grid-disturbing wind/solar/battery systems.
The W/S systems would have produced electricity at about 15 c/kWh, about 2.5 times greater than from domestic US gas, coal, nuclear, hydro plants, which would have made the US even more uncompetitive in world markets
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European Conglomerates would finance, build, erect, own and operate almost 30,000 MW of offshore windmills, providing work for many thousands of European workers for decades, and multi-$billion profits each year.
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That ruse back-fired, because Trump was elected.
The European, hate-Trump elites are furious. Projects are being cancelled. The European wind industry is in shambles, with multi-$billion losses, lay-offs, and $billions of stranded costs.
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The US was saved from the leftist, woke folks by Trump, who declared a US National Energy Emergency, and put W/S/B systems at the bottom of the list, and cancelled their licenses and cut their subsidies, and put their rubber-stamp, environmental impact statements under proper scrutiny.
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Europe was using the IPCC, which claimed to own the science, to conjure up a global-warming/climate-change hoax, so the US would also deliver electricity to users at high c/kWh, to preserve Europe’s extremely advantageous trade balance with the US.
HIGH COST/kWh OF W/S SYSTEMS FOISTED ONTO A BRAINWASHED PUBLIC https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-kwh-of-w-s-systems-foisted-onto-a-brainwashed-public
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What is generally not known, the more weather-dependent W/S systems, the less efficient the other, traditional generators, as they inefficiently counteract the increasingly larger ups and downs of W/S output. See URL https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/fuel-and-co2-reductions-due-to-wind-energy-less-than-claimed
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W/S systems add great cost to the overall delivery of electricity to users; the more W/S systems, the higher the cost/kWh, as proven by the UK and Germany, with the highest electricity rates in Europe, and near-zero, real-growth GDPs
At about 30% W/S, the entire system hits an increasingly thicker concrete wall, operationally and cost wise.
UK and Germany have hit the wall, more and more hours each day.
The cost of electricity delivered to users increased with each additional W/S/B system
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Base-load nuclear, gas and coal plants are the only rational way forward, plus the additional CO2 is very beneficial for additional flora and fauna growth and increased crop yields to feed hungry people. https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine . Subsidies shift costs from project Owners to ratepayers, taxpayers, government debt:
1) Federal and state tax credits, up to 50% (Community tax credit of 10 percent – Federal tax credit of 30 percent – State tax credit and other incentives of up to 10%);
2) 5-y Accelerated Depreciation write off of the entire project;
3) Loan interest deduction
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Utilities pay 15 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from fixedoffshore wind systems
Utilities pay 18 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from floating offshore wind
Utilities pay 12 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from larger solar systems
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– Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement to connect distributed W/S systems, about 2 c/kWh
– A fleet of traditional power plants to quickly counteract W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, which leads to more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
– A fleet of traditional power plants to provide electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings, at night, snow/ice on panels, which leads to more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
– Pay W/S system Owners for electricity they could have produced, if not curtailed, about 1 c/kWh
– Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh
– Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh
– Disassembly on land and at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh Some of these values exponentially increase as more W/S systems are added to the grid
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The economic/financial insanity and environmental damage of it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in de-growth mode.
That economy has been tied into knots by inane people.
YOUR tax dollars are building these projects so YOU will have much higher electric bills.
Remove YOUR tax dollars using your vote, and none of these projects would be built, and YOUR electric bills would be lower.
We in France have been kept in the dark about the issue!
The “CSC” corrosion sous contrainte issue of the “never used” circuits d’injection de sécurité was actually an issue with tubes connected to the reactor and subject to temperature variations caused by changes in reactor power!
Those who vote for political parties abdicate their responsibility and their vote to the party. Parties are a collection of seriously damaged and dysfunctional people who should never be in a position of power. You get what you vote for.
I’m starting to realize that the Party is more important than the individual representatives in the UK. If the Party can require a representative to vote a certain way, then the power is in the Party not the individual representative.
Not much freedom of thought or action in the UK parliament.
I must say I like the American system much more than the European system. At least I can understand the American system.
The American system has its faults, like Lawfare and Judicial Overreach, but those things can be fixed.
We’ve dodge a bullet for a couple of years, but the radical Democrats have billions of dollars to spend and they are spending it to try to stop Trump’s and the American People’s agenda.
There are more Leftwing Billionaires than there ae Rightwing Billionaires.
The Radical Democrats want everyone to think Rightwing Billionaires are trying to take over the United States, but, of course, when dealing with Radical Democrats, you have to remember that reality is the opposite of how it is described by Radical Democrats. It is the Leftwing Billionaires who are trying to undermine Trump and the American People.
As an example, in an election to be held tomorrow in Wisconsin for a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Democrats have spent about $80 million dollars, whereas the Republicans have spent about $16 million, and that includes donations from Musk.
So, obviously, the Democrats are outspending the Republicans left and right, and that’s because the Leftwing Billionaires are bankrolling this spending and laundering the money through “ActBlue” and other Dark Money sources.
That’s what is worrying: The Radical Democrat billionaires are outspending the Republican billionaires. By a lot.
ActBlue is going to be under investigation by the Republican Congress. There may be some serious criminal activity going on with ActBlue. Not to mention Treason, when their purpose is to undermine the People of the United States and their leader, President Trump.
“Almost every day, more evidence arrives that the UK, and indeed Europe is beyond all hope.”
Why, have they been using Signal to chat about military secrets? I mean come on, that is about as amateur as one could get. It’s what happens when you appoint people with no experience in the job to positions of huge responsibility. They should all be “locked up.”
Shared what, secrets? I thought you said there were no secrets. I’m sure you will agree though it is to have enquiry from here to make sure it was all tickety boo? You know like Clinton did for her server.
“BTW, once again – what does the topic you’re responding to have to do with what you brought up?”
Rich Davis said Europe was beyond hope. I was pointing out the US is the same when they have clowns running the show who think it cool to share secrets on a chat… then invite a combative journalist to the group… And no one noticed, not when ho joined and not when he left. Unbelievable…….
Yes, I said there were no secrets, so I don’t think anyone should be prosecuted. But YOU seem to think there were (“share secrets on a chat”). If the reporter shared secrets with the public, he should be prosecuted, right?
There will not be an inquiry because Republicans control both Houses of Congress and consider this incident a trivial matter.
And it doesn’t matter if an inquiry is done or not, because President Trump is happy will all the participants in the conversation and has no intention of firing them, so that is the bottom line, no matter how much the Democrats whine and complain.
The Democrats are there to present Trump in the worst light possible. That is their sole purpose in life. It doesn’t matter, what they think because Trump is in charge, not them.
Oh come on, Simon. It’s perfectly obvious that a Deep State operative orchestrated this charade. The neocons are desperate to stop Trump from triggering a breakout of peace and an end to forever wars. There’s great hope in the US. Your team is losing.
I’m sure that Pete Hegseth is kicking himself though. If he would have just gotten 13 soldiers killed and abandoned $80b worth of weapons to a vicious enemy, that would have been a matter that you and your ilk would have had to consider completely understandable. (Since it didn’t trouble you when the same was perpetrated by a brain-dead puppet run by your team).
Europe is beyond all hope, banning candidates and running two-tier justice systems. Overrun by third world barbarians. The UK is stuck with a globalist totalitarian dork with no hope of relief until 2029.
“Oh come on, Simon. It’s perfectly obvious that a Deep State operative orchestrated this charade. The neocons are desperate to stop Trump from triggering a breakout of peace and an end to forever wars. There’s great hope in the US. Your team is losing.”
Medication time for you if you believe this shite.
Meanwhile on planet earth, Trump wants to steal Greenland. You ok with that?
Alaska was sold by the Russians, what’s your point? He is talking about taking / using force if he has to. What do you call using those tactics? I call it an act of war if he does that. Stealing is a kind word. Juvenile minimises how serious this is. A Nato Country attacking the autonomous territory of another Nato country. That is a serious outrageous action. I don’t think the US people will stand for it… do you?
Sorry Simon, I’m not interested in your bizarre clapping seal world. I’ll be here when it’s happened. There are 64,000 Greenlanders and they just changed their Government. Trump isn’t some weird mushroom dick-shaped dufus with orange skin or whatever your latest chant is – oh yeah, 34 felonies. In the US, people like you are in the trash can of history. Nobody of importance listens to your short pants University drop-out politics.
Most of Britain was ‘owned’ by the Vikings Simon. I suppose it was a grave breach of international law when Anglo-Saxons wrested it away and asserted their self-determination?
If the indigenous population want to declare independence from the Viking overlords with or without US support, I think they have the right to self-determination, don’t they?
Am I missing the part where Denmark compensated the US for 90 years of protecting Grønland?
You are missing an awful lot I’d say. Your comparison with Vikings and what was done thousands of year ago has no relevance here. Sure people behaved barbarically and still do, but is that where the USA has fallen to under this leader? Taking what they want? Incredible that you would even think it let alone say it.
Trump and the US already have bases there. They have been offered the option of more. No need to take the land… except to take the wealth and minerals. Pretty obvious Tom.
I’m with the guy who said that there’s a 90-10 split between it being intentional and a bonehead error.
Use your head for more than a hatrack, Simon. Whoever made this ‘mistake’ is a traitor by definition. It’s like a guy accidentally texting his wife a picture of his mistress and him at an orgy. Does it matter that it was unintentional?
Someone had the phone number of an arch-enemy of the Administration on his phone as a contact. What possible innocent explanation is there for that? (Nothing nefarious, hon, we just have casual sex after work).
Or do you want us to believe that a random misdial just happened to be the right number for the most virulent TDS journalist under the sun?
As an aside: The Atlantic Magazine is one of the publications that was purchases by Steve Job’s billionaire, radical leftist widow. She is also supposedly best friends with Kamala Harris.
She is blatantly anti-Trump and all her publications are aimed at taking Trump down. She doesn’t have one good thing to say about Trump.
She is a Leftwing Radical Billionaire who is trying to take over the United States.
And she is just one of many. The Democrats are the Party of Billionaires now, not the Republicans. The Republicans are the Party of the People now, not the Democrats.
As to the secure chat: You want all of the participants fired? Other than the one person who mistakenly brought in the Atlantic Editor (supposedly, someone who worked under Waltz), who else is at fault? How were any of the others supposed to know that the Atlantic Magazine Editor was on the call?
And naturally, the Democrats blow everything out of proportion. It’s their job.
You can’t believe a thing these Democrat liars say. If you do, you are living in La La Land, with them.
The app they used is an open-source software, which probably makes it safer than other products.
“As to the secure chat: You want all of the participants fired? Other than the one person who mistakenly brought in the Atlantic Editor (supposedly, someone who worked under Waltz), who else is at fault? How were any of the others supposed to know that the Atlantic Magazine Editor was on the call?” This is why there has to be a formal enquiry. Do you agree? There was for Hilary and many would argue what they did here was way worse.
“The app they used is an open-source software, which probably makes it safer than other products.” Not safer no. Which is why this whole thing happened.
I heard today that no one questioned when the reporter was added to the chat, and no one questioned when he pulled himself off. That is crazy. Kids notice when people leave their chats…
Dumb? Possible. Hugely useful to detect hacks and buffoons in the commentariat. You will say “we in America already have explored that and know who is a hack”. Well, there isn’t just America. We need to detect more hacks.
My prediction is that Trump2.0 will be kind to her and the less-deserving Pelosi. I actually hope I’m wrong. The insurrection set-up is inexcusable in my opinion, but I’m guessing they have bigger fish to fry.
Yes, I know you have no idea what I’m talking about and I also know that you never will. Have a nice day.
Trump may leave Hillary alone, but the Republican Congress may not.
The Republican Congress has already said they are investigating former FBI Director James Comey and his secret investigation into Trump, supposedly done outside normal FBI guidelines.
So, Hillary Clinton is directly involved in this time-frame with her “Steele Dossier”, and will probably be the subject of an investigation, too. Along with investigating Obama and all his underlings, who were all knowledgeable about what was going on, and complicit.
They tried to make is so a Republican would never be elected president again.They wanted/want One-Party Rule and that’s is what they are attempting even now. They want a Democrat Dictatorship in the United States.
I still say Hillary should be in jail. She is a Traitor to the United States. Everything she does is an effort to undermine legitimate government.
She and Obama got together and started up the “Russia, Russia, Russia” Hoax, which hamstrung Trump’s first presidency. And that was the purpose. She should go to jail for this, and by all rights, Obama should be occupying the next cell. They are both Traitors to their Nation, along with a number of people in the Obama administration.
Yeah, it’s a good thing for them that I’m not in charge. They wouldn’t get off so easily.
But Trumps team was involved with Russia Tom. Many of his team had links. I have posted them here to silence. Happy to do again.
And I would love an answer from you re if Trump did use force to take Greenland. How would you feel?
We live down here on a rotating spherical surface which is mostly flooded with a massive excess of natural refrigerant that has a fixed vapor pressure-to-temperature response curve. The remainder, the land, is spritzed intermittently or dusted with frozen crystals. We are submerged under 10,300 kg per square meter of breathable compressible fluid, open at the top and held here only by gravity. It circulates freely throughout nearly all of its depth, as its self-emergent responses to daily doses of absorbed solar energy dictate. In doing so, it performs as a high-intensity energy converter and emitter ( see https://youtu.be/hDurP-4gVrY ) to end up giving back just enough longwave radiation to space through 4th-power response to temperature, to keep things livable down here as the seasons pass. Oh, and that natural refrigerant condenses and forms clouds to reflect back just enough of the incoming sunshine. Dynamic self-regulation all around. We can watch it work from space ( see https://youtu.be/Yarzo13_TSE ).
And knowing all this, climate activists, YOU ARE STILL TELLING ME to be concerned that an increase, say, from 0.03 percent to .06 percent of life-essential, photosynthetic-starting-material, IR-active CO2 in this fluid represents a harmful change in respect to “warming”?!? No, that is not plausible, given the overwhelming power of the circulation. Sure, the static radiative effect looking from the surface toward space might be a real thing, but the motion changes everything about where the energy involved in this minor change should be expected to end up as a result. Will this influence produce sensible heat gain on land, in the oceans, and in the atmosphere itself? No, that is not reasonable to expect to any detectable extent, and it is most certainly not capable of driving the climate system in a bad direction.
LW effects manifest from heat flows already in the system, and thus are embedded with dynamic response as you note – but, consider the system does not stabilize the incoming SW in the same way. There is no physical response (dynamic or otherwise) until SW is absorbed and incorporated into the energy pool of atmosphere. While the system can adjust internal processes to maximize LW emission using existing energy, it has no inherent mechanism to preemptively regulate SW variations until those changes have already altered the system’s energy state. Dynamic adjustments to spectral variation in the LW domain may well come at the expense of increased SW absorption. If so, it suggests a quite different mechanism than usually described.
“…the system does not stabilize the incoming SW in the same way. There is no physical response (dynamic or otherwise) until SW is absorbed and incorporated into the energy pool of atmosphere.” Agreed.
But there is a dynamic response to shortwave radiation—clouds and thunderstorms which are emergent convective phenomena. While it depends on initially absorbing SW at the surface, that surface may end up cooler.
Agreed. Also one could describe the time-dependent response of hard, dry surfaces to direct absorption of daytime SW as dynamic, i.e., the rapid rise and decay of 4th-power LW emission through clear skies to space through the “atmospheric window.”
more SW absorbed, more LW out. To generate more outgoing LW the internal energy must increase. That’s the point. The notion often described on WUWT that clouds should pre-emptively stabilize in the SW is not correct. Such a response can only emerge and persist after a change in the internal energy state has already occurred. The system has no inherent awareness of SW radiation passing through until it is absorbed. In contrast, LW emission is a direct consequence of the existing energy pool. Likewise, achieving stabilization through surface LW transmittance (following the fourth-power dependence on temperature) requires maintaining a higher surface temperature. The stabilization through mechanisms such as increasing LW out, or by developing emergent cloud response, simply stabilizes the new higher energy state.
This has been highlighted by the last 30 years of cloud reductions. Fewer clouds allowed more solar energy to reach the surface and the global temperature increased.
Instead of an increased cloud response all we’ve seen is increased OLR to limit the warming.
The cloud changes were most likely due to shifts in natural atmospheric circulation and/or volcanic emissions.
The point is, the view from many at WUWT assume a negative feedback to increases in GHGs will occur from increases in clouds. From the last couple of decades we can see that will not always occur.
Thankfully, mother nature created a more direct way of limiting warming from GHGs. Downwelling IR increases enhance tropical evaporation/convection which in turn reduce high altitude water vapor. This balances the increase in absorption by well mixed GHGs.
“To generate more outgoing LW the internal energy must increase.” Or the mass flow overturning rate adjusts. It’s not one thing. That’s why I tend to generalize, describing the atmosphere’s overall operation as “highly self-regulating” in response to absorbed energy.
yes it’s fine. But of course there cant be an increasing outgoing LW without the associated increasing SW absorbed. Ultimately you’re right, the stabilization in response must result one way or another.
To generate more outgoing LW the internal energy must increase.
Say what? Internal energy “must” increase?
The Earth has cooled over the past four and half billion years, and does so every night – losing all the heat of the day, plus a little “internal energy.”
Maybe you have been thinking “climate scientists” knew what they were talking about?
I appreciate the well-composed replies. One more thought about this part. “Dynamic adjustments to spectral variation in the LW domain may well come at the expense of increased SW absorption.”
On the other hand, increased SW absorption through cloud variation may well have nothing to do with spectral variation in the LW domain.
No one knows. But in any case, it’s not worth worrying about the minor computed LW spectral changes from incremental CO2, CH4, N2O, etc. when the non-radiative dynamics already overwhelms any ability to isolate one root cause from another throughout the depth of the troposphere.
Too bad we lost him- died at only 70- I saw him twice in concert- absolutely mind blowing too! Really, from the first second he walked on to the stage- marched actually- he was revved up like a Fourth of July fireworks and stayed that way for over an hour.
He basically killed himself through some combination of cigarettes, cocaine, alcohol and other drugs. It’s sad that it happens to too many such talents. I just saw the John Belushi movie, whose storied life ended similarly but much earlier.
The physical demands of live stage performances are such that many entertainers increase their stamina by using cocaine, and party thereafter…Very common, comes up in their bios sometimes as something they “usta do but regret”…and sometimes in their obits.
Not quite. Sure the summer solstice happens in the northern hemisphere at the same time that the winter solstice happens in the southern hemisphere. But it’s always the opposite season ‘simultaneously’. We don’t have late winter in one place and mid-Spring somewhere else at the same time. It’s late winter and early summer or mid-Spring and mid-Autumn.
You can tell Dave has a classical applied science engineering degree….not one of the new ones in geomatics, robotics or medical prosthetics, useful as they may be…but they tend to be lacking in thermodynamics and heat transfer….
The entire black hole UK Labour dubiously claimed to have inherited from the last government could be written off by one policy change – cancel all carbon capture efforts with immediate effect. £34 billion right there!
The £8 billion Dead Minibrain needs to insure against monetary risk and the risk of suffocating people with an uncontrolled release is just a part.
CCS is highly unlikely to succeed – which the government patently knows, and even if successful, won’t make any measurable difference to atmospheric CO2 levels.
“In introducing its current CCUS programme, it has learnt lessons from two previous failed attempts.”
“HM Treasury announced up to £20.0 billion of funding in March 2023 to support the early deployment of CCUS. In October 2024 it increased the funding to £21.7 billion over 25 years to cover the first five projects. At the same time, the Department recognised contingent liabilities with a maximum value of £34 billion to cover the risks it is underwriting for the programme.”
Oh I don’t know about that strat. Couldn’t Stalin create a quango to implement two-tier pricing and then claim there’s nothing he can do about the unfairness?
Your bills go up 2-3x and Labour voters get sweet subsidies.
Perhaps I should have been more precise in my language? The people who run Sir Stalin could set up a quango to help underprivileged people who just so happen to be Labour voters pay their bills.
Inexplicably, and totally unintentionally, straight white males would not have applied for the subsidies. Despite the fact that applications had been distributed at every Just Stop Oil and Anti-Elon rally.
Gas is 4 times cheaper than electricity in the UK and over 22m homes are on the gas network. It is no wonder that most of those homes are reluctant to switch.
Strange then that Vince seems to think that the price of gas is a problem. Perhaps he is looking at the situation with a jaundiced point of view 🙂
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March 30, 2025 4:59 am
Are Covid 19 (and the Pfizer/Moderna non-vaccines that do not clear the virus or prevent infection) causing an epidemic of cancer worldwide?
In an unrelated development, USAID funding of faux-conservative trolls paid to disrupt climate-realist online forums may have been disrupted by the evil DOGE minions.
SEATTLE, WA — In a beautiful, heartwarming call for universal peace, liberals took several stolen, burning Teslas and arranged them to spell out “Coexist.”
The fires burned for hours, sending massive plumes of smoke into the air, a signal to the world of the progressive desire for people of all backgrounds to live in harmony with each other.
“These torched cars show how serious we are about tolerance,” explained local liberal Geoffrey Wendt. “Every firebomb we throw is a call for us to love and accept our neighbors, regardless of their beliefs or background. Can you smell that burning gasoline? That’s the sweet smell of peaceful coexistence with all mankind.”
Conservatives across the country instantly saw the error of their ways after witnessing the beautiful message spelled out in flames. “Wow. Maybe we really can live together in unity,” said local man Bill Patton, as he watched his Tesla being burned. “It seemed like we were so divided as a nation. But, as I was dragged from car and beaten with a pipe, I finally began to realize that peace is possible.”
At publishing time, liberals had sent another poignant message by spelling out “Justice” with the bodies of assassinated CEOs.
Traveling to Singapore and WA about a year apart, I was impressed by how green it was (due to greater precipitation) south of Perth compared to last year.
Singapore used to be a relatively inexpensive place to convalesce for a few days from flying over the Pacific, but it is not now, especially the price of lodging and good beer. If you can stand the humidity, there are still a lot of enjoyable outdoor activities that are free. If you like Indian food, it’s a great place.
A relative dearth of mainland Chinese tourists in both places was obvious. The local economy around Margaret River seems to be vibrant.
Did a port call to Fremantle while aboard USS Kennedy. The walking street, the wine tasting boat cruises, black swans at the zoo, WA is very nice place to visit.
A highlight was a church service at a Wesleyan Church with a large pipe organ and duel pulpits to be admonished from. Thanks for reminding me of WA.
Completely off topic. Recently came on the Netherlands Bach Society on youtube. Two performances in particular: the Goldberg Variations, and Malov’s performance of the 6th cello suite, played on a violin-cello, a sort of cello held like a violin.
You probably think, if you’ve listened to the usual standard performances and recordings by the well known virtuosos of today and earlier, that you pretty much know these pieces, so what can be so different about yet another rendition. I rather thought that. And you may have thought there is not as much to the cello suites as there is to the violin suites.
Wrong. Listen to these two, and you will be hearing them for the first time, and you’ll hear all kinds of things which Bach had written, but which the standard renditions obscure. Amazing, wonderful performances.
The audio quality on these is very high, also. Much over youtube’s usual standard.
Europe is Not Our Ally
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Net zero by 2050 Euro elites tried to entangle the US, with help of the unpatriotic, leftist Biden clique, into going down the black hole of 30,000 MW by 2030 of expensive, highly-subsidized, weather-dependent, grid-disturbing offshore wind systems, which would need highly subsidized battery systems for grid support.
The wind systems would have produced electricity at about 15 c/kWh, about 2.5 times greater than from domestic US gas, coal, nuclear, hydro plants, which would have made the US even more uncompetitive in world markets
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Almost the entire supply of the projects would be designed and made in Europe, then transported across the Atlantic Ocean by European specialized ships, then unloaded at new, $500-million storage/pre-assembly/staging/barge-loading areas, then barged to European specialized erection ships for erection of the wind systems. The financing will be mostly by European pension funds.
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Hundreds of people in each seashore stare would have jobs during the erection phase
The other erection jobs would be by specialized European people, mostly on cranes and ships
Hundreds of people in each seashore state would have long-term O&M jobs, using European spare parts, during the 20-y electricity production phase.
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Conglomerates of Euro elites would finance, build, erect, own and operate almost 30,000 MW of the offshore windmills, providing work for many thousands of European workers for decades, and multi-$billion profits each year.
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That ruse did not quite work out, because Trump was elected.
The European, hate-Trump elites are furious. Projects are being cancelled. The European wind industry is in shambles, with multi-$billion losses, lay-offs and $billions of stranded costs.
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The US was saved from the leftist, woke folks by Trump, who declared a US National Energy Emergency, and put W/S/B systems at the bottom of the list, and cancelled their licenses and cut their subsidies, and put their rubber-stamp, environmental impact statements under proper scrutiny.
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Europe was using the IPCC, which claimed to own the science, to conjure up a global-warming/climate-change hoax, so the US would also deliver electricity to users at high c/kWh, to preserve Europe’s extremely advantageous trade balance with the US.
Lopsided Trade Agreements
Prior to NAFTA, Mexico always had annual trade deficits with the US
After NAFTA, Canada and Mexico have huge annual trade surpluses with the US.
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After NAFTA, foreign (and US) companies shipped parts to Mexico and assembled cars, with their entire production shipped into the US DUTY-FREE, that is not MAGA, but exploitation to the disadvantage of the US and US workers
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After NAFTA, Dutch companies shipped automated greenhouses, the size of airplane hangars, to Canada (which provides nearly free gas), with their entire production shipped into the US DUTY-FREE, that is not MAGA, but exploitation to the disadvantage of the US and US workers.
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Dutch/Belgian companies own more than 50% of the food supermarkets on the US East Coast; plenty of shelf space for European farm goods to the disadvantage of US farmers.
Europe has been doing the same since the Kennedy Round, which opened US markets, without the US getting lower tariffs from Europe.
Euro elites loved Kennedy
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Finally, the US has a hard-nosed businessman in the White House, who cannot be $bought, instead of a senile, grifting/grafting idiot, or a cackling word salad. https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/international-trade-is-a-dog-eat-dog-business
The rudderless Democrat National Committee, DNC, is in deep do-do with its newly appointed leadership.
Trump is tee-ing up for the mid-terms, which will see big gains in the House and Senate
I don’t know where you read that sh1t, Wil, but the average Canadian buys $7000 a year of US goods and services which includes Netflix, Crave, Starlink sat service, including Ford and Chevy cars and trucks, while US buys a couple of thousand bucks of Canadian goods which includes 30% of the aluminum in their beer cans, 20% of steel, 30% of their oil imports, 15% of their electricity, 40% of their ag fertilizer, 25% of their lumber.
if you take oil alone out of Trumps numbers (which U.S. would just have to buy somewhere else) Canada is at a trade DEFECIT with the U.S., a situation which one can agree with Trump as possibly unhealthy for jobs if a nation”s imports and exports are entirely hand made kids toys and home furnishings.
Then they take those raw products and multiply it by 10 times in valued added manufacturing and related costs and sell it to themselves at exorbitant prices.in their internal supply chain.
Don’t kid yourself, US companies buy their inputs where it is cheapest, and Trump’s efforts to make U.S. goods cheaper by bringing back manufacturing to MAGA won’t work economically in a climate of low unemployment which the U.S. already has. Sounds good to rust-belt voters though….
Look at Australia, 35% tariff by US on aluminum, cuz “Auz has an unfair advantage”, demonstrates Trumps thinking. Auz has an advantage cuz it is the largest producer of bauxite in the world…US has ZERO bauxite mining…of course Auz has an advantage which US takes advantage of by buying cheaply.
Bottom line…if big T can’t take it, like Ukraine’s rare earth mines, he’ll make sure the US tax department makes more off it than the countries that DO HAVE IT by putting US tariff’s on it, which mainly will increase the cost to US consumers, while beggaring their neighbors, soon-to-be-ex-friends.
I lived many years in the Netherlands, until I chose to live here, joined the US Army, etc.
Everyone in business in the Netherlands is keenly interested in international trade, already for at least 500 years.
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When Trump states the trade agreements are one-sided crap, I wholly agree with him.
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Canada would not be viable without the US as a neighbor
Same with Mexico
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Perot, a realistic Texas businessman, called NAFTA a giant sucking sound, sucking
wealth/jobs out of the US.
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Trump is doing the right thing with tariffs to increase US production of goods and services that will employ tens of millions of workers, build strong families and communities, snd will reduce imports of goods and services, and will reduce the wealth/job-sucking trade deficits to trade surpluses to MAGA
Yes, free trade sucks if you think your neighbors’ resources and labor should profit your tax department as if you mined it or farmed it or made it yourself. But you didn’t.
Yes, facts do matter, like the fact that the Canadian dairy tariffs only apply to US imports over a certain volume. How many times has that volume been exceeded and the 290% tariff been applied? Zero, so those tariffs have been, historically, irrelevant.
This isn’t to defend trade restrictions of any form, but if that’s the reason for Trump to be taking all these actions that are hurting both Canadians and Americans, it’s pretty feeble. It’s something that could be brought up in the 2026 renegotiation of NAFTA 2.0, but does not need drastic action at this time.
Those tariffs were designed to be an unsurmountable roadblock to increased US dairy sales, the reason sales stayed below them.
It is not rocket science to me.
My electric bill is from a Canadian company
My propane bill is from a Canadian company
My checking account is at a Canadian bank
Canada FORBIDS American banks in Canada
Try to import Vermont cheddar cheese into Norway.
I was told by the embassy, we already have too much cheese.
NOT TRUE, there are SIXTEEN US banks operating in Canada. You can check yourself how many Canadian Banks there are. Most of the US banks operate in the commercial business area because they don’t like the Canadian rules on how much liquidity is required to be street corner mortgage and car loan banks. Same rules that left Canada mostly unscathed through the last real estate and financial crises, although the government still came up with several billion to lend to US auto manufacturers with factories in Canada.
Canada would not be viable without the US as a neighbor
Don’t be ridiculous, there is no reason to expect Canada would be less “viable” than any of 165 or so countries of its population size or smaller in this 195 country world. And more “viable” than most due to its available natural resource base…Other than we’d be short a couple of ocean ports to move our goods to other countries, but that is easily overcome.
While I’m not sure about the ‘ex-friends’ thing, there’s certainly a lot of blow back along this line here in Canada. Part of the problem is that Trumps advocacy of protectionism for certain kinds of jobs is inherently confusing, it seems to me. If the focus were on adjusting things to avoid any persistent trade deficits, that might be some sort of good economic theory. What I seem to see is a focus on tariffs as ‘good’, which seems to go well beyond this? Are tariffs the one ‘good tax’ that’s an end in itself, the ‘holy tariffs’ now, is that where we’re at?
If we are to love tariffs generally, don’t a lot of contradictions begin to stem from this? Just on energy alone, a 10 percent tariff on Canadian oil and gas kind of gets in the way of building new trans border pipelines, doesn’t it? To resolve this kind of thing in general, could we compare the situation to what it was back in 2017 when something like this happened, starting with a tariff challenge from Trump? Things then went back to normal after some negotiating, and jobs weren’t guaranteed by tariffs much, it just seemed like an inevitable conclusion.
To the extent that Europe (primarily NATO countries) steps in to replace arms, ammunition and battlefield intelligence to Ukraine that Co-President Trump now refuses to send to them, your statement is not true despite what the current Administration would have you believe.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
— old proverb
Actually, the suspension of US satellite battlefield data/images and target selection/co-ordinates for US personnel-operated, long-range HIMARS missiles was lifted after a few days, because the Ukraine Armed Services would have even more of a tough time without that.
True, and I think Trump will increase military support to Ukraine and increase sanctions on Putin, if Putin doesn’t agree to a complete ceasefire very soon.
1) Zelenskyy has no control of his armed forces
2) Those rogue forces violated the energy infrastructure cease fire agreement 6 times, so far.
3) No nation, including Russia, would sign any additional “bait and switch” agreement with Zelenskyy
If you think you are winning militarily…a cease fire is a dumb idea. it just gives the other guy a chance to re-supply munitions, move troops, analyze strategy, gather intel and reinforce their positions.
Accepting a cease fire is for when you think you are losing politically. And you can fake a cease-fire to confuse things politically as well. Putin is very pragmatic in such things.
Zelensky may well be right that Putin won’t live much longer…but that might also be interpreted as thinking the war will last as long as Putin is alive…so could be years.
These HIMARS missiles are not ballistic.
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They follow complicated trajectories for hundreds of miles to avoid being shot down.
End-to-end encrypted ground knowledge of Russian defense and targets is fed from US satellites, to BLACK BOXES, to missiles operated by only US armed services personnel.. That personnel controls the entire trajectory!! https://www.rt.com/russia/614983-us-nato-ukraine-conflict/
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Those black boxes are part of the crown jewels of US command/control of everything.
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No Ukrainian is allowed near them, as otherwise they might disappear on the black market, etc.
The US has missile bases in Poland and Rumania.
Many black boxes
No Poles and no Rumanians are allowed on the bases for any function, only US armed services personnel.
You can easily why Russia, the US, and other NATO countries do not want Ukraine, with rogue armed services, to be in NATO.
These HIMARS missiles are not ballistic.
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They follow complicated trajectories for hundreds of miles to avoid being shot down.
End-to-end encrypted ground knowledge of Russian defense and targets is fed from US satellites, to BLACK BOXES, to missiles operated by only US armed services personnel.. That personnel controls the entire trajectory!!
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Those black boxes are part of the crown jewels of US command/control of everything.
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No Ukrainian is allowed near them, as otherwise they might disappear on the black market, etc.
The US has missile bases in Poland and Rumania.
Many black boxes
No Poles and no Rumanians are allowed on the bases, only US armed services personnel.
You can easily why Putin does not want NATO in Ukraine with rogue armed services.
The genocide killing, and culture erasing, was started by the Ukraine armed forces in East Ukraine, because these people had been Russians for hundreds of years, and did want to live by the rules of the Kiev regime installed by the US in 2014.
Euro elites tried to entangle the US, with help of the unpatriotic, leftist Biden clique
In other news, a nefarious flea on a dog’s tail was caught trying to wag the poor helpless dog again. In the same vein, something something Israel.
Ireneusz
March 31, 2025 1:38 am
This is not the end of severe weather in the US. Arctic fronts will continue to push westward on the US, bringing thunderstorms to the central and eastern US.
State of the nation.
Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were led away by cops after raising concerns over the way the new head teacher at their daughter’s school had been recruited.
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The couple were escorted from their home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, by six police officers before being trapped for eight hours in a cell.
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A councillor that had been trying to help the couple was also threatened with a police investigation. Hertfordshire County Council member Michelle Vince said the case had raised serious questions over the power for the police to “take away democratic rights” from elected representatives.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34141297/cops-councillor-parents-arrested-complaining-primary-school-whatsapp/
And no, the Police refused to tell them what the crime actually was. Kafkaesque or what?
No, it’s the new “normal”.
Yes he definitely needs to keep up but alas it’s not for the layman-
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(a bong or two might help)
YES, and “it’s the new normal”
Yes. Get a VPN (mullvad). Install a VM (virtualbox). Install a Linux live system in it (MX Linux or Puppy). Never post from anything else, never use it for anything else. And keep an offsite backup in a secure location. Make it using foxclone. Watch who you talk to.
You are speaking English, but you are living in East Germany.
Pen and paper, dead drops etc.
Sometimes old tech is better
invisible ink 🙂
Sir Honecker sagt ,,Schluß mit Ihrer Islamophobie!”
“You are speaking English, but you are living in East Germany.”
That’s what it sounds like.
We’ll have to sic JD Vance on these totalitarians.
Trump will be visiting soon. He might have something to say about it, too.
Is Trump still on to visit His Royal Highness?
I have the notion that HRH, and the Pope, will both soon be gone. Trump might want to focus on Prince William. Regarding the Pope, the next one is a carp shoot.
The King looked pretty good, the last time I saw him a couple of days ago..
The Pope looks a little frail, but he’s been in the hospital for an extended period of time, so that may be a contributing factor. And it’s not good to have double Pneumonia in lungs that are at 80-percent capacity to begin with.
Almost every day, more evidence arrives that the UK, and indeed Europe is beyond all hope.
The situation is worrying.
It looks like Net Zero Thinking causes politicians to get very delusional. I guess you might say, it has driven them crazy, and causes them to do stupid things detrimental to those they represent.
“those they represent”
Those they lord it over.
Europe tried to scare the US, with help of the leftist Biden clique, into going down the black hole of expensive, highly-subsidized, weather-dependent, grid-disturbing wind/solar/battery systems.
The W/S systems would have produced electricity at about 15 c/kWh, about 2.5 times greater than from domestic US gas, coal, nuclear, hydro plants, which would have made the US even more uncompetitive in world markets
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European Conglomerates would finance, build, erect, own and operate almost 30,000 MW of offshore windmills, providing work for many thousands of European workers for decades, and multi-$billion profits each year.
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That ruse back-fired, because Trump was elected.
The European, hate-Trump elites are furious. Projects are being cancelled. The European wind industry is in shambles, with multi-$billion losses, lay-offs, and $billions of stranded costs.
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The US was saved from the leftist, woke folks by Trump, who declared a US National Energy Emergency, and put W/S/B systems at the bottom of the list, and cancelled their licenses and cut their subsidies, and put their rubber-stamp, environmental impact statements under proper scrutiny.
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Europe was using the IPCC, which claimed to own the science, to conjure up a global-warming/climate-change hoax, so the US would also deliver electricity to users at high c/kWh, to preserve Europe’s extremely advantageous trade balance with the US.
Add-on
HIGH COST/kWh OF W/S SYSTEMS FOISTED ONTO A BRAINWASHED PUBLIC
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-kwh-of-w-s-systems-foisted-onto-a-brainwashed-public
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What is generally not known, the more weather-dependent W/S systems, the less efficient the other, traditional generators, as they inefficiently counteract the increasingly larger ups and downs of W/S output. See URL
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/fuel-and-co2-reductions-due-to-wind-energy-less-than-claimed
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W/S systems add great cost to the overall delivery of electricity to users; the more W/S systems, the higher the cost/kWh, as proven by the UK and Germany, with the highest electricity rates in Europe, and near-zero, real-growth GDPs
At about 30% W/S, the entire system hits an increasingly thicker concrete wall, operationally and cost wise.
UK and Germany have hit the wall, more and more hours each day.
The cost of electricity delivered to users increased with each additional W/S/B system
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Base-load nuclear, gas and coal plants are the only rational way forward, plus the additional CO2 is very beneficial for additional flora and fauna growth and increased crop yields to feed hungry people.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine
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Subsidies shift costs from project Owners to ratepayers, taxpayers, government debt:
1) Federal and state tax credits, up to 50% (Community tax credit of 10 percent – Federal tax credit of 30 percent – State tax credit and other incentives of up to 10%);
2) 5-y Accelerated Depreciation write off of the entire project;
3) Loan interest deduction
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Utilities pay 15 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from fixedoffshore wind systems
Utilities pay 18 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from floating offshore wind
Utilities pay 12 c/kWh, wholesale, after 50% subsidies, for electricity from larger solar systems
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Excluded costs, at a future 30% W/S annual penetration on the grid, based on UK and German experience:
– Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement to connect distributed W/S systems, about 2 c/kWh
– A fleet of traditional power plants to quickly counteract W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, which leads to more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
– A fleet of traditional power plants to provide electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings, at night, snow/ice on panels, which leads to more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
– Pay W/S system Owners for electricity they could have produced, if not curtailed, about 1 c/kWh
– Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh
– Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh
– Disassembly on land and at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh
Some of these values exponentially increase as more W/S systems are added to the grid
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The economic/financial insanity and environmental damage of it all is off the charts.
No wonder Europe’s near-zero, real-growth economy is in de-growth mode.
That economy has been tied into knots by inane people.
YOUR tax dollars are building these projects so YOU will have much higher electric bills.
Remove YOUR tax dollars using your vote, and none of these projects would be built, and YOUR electric bills would be lower.
We in France have been kept in the dark about the issue!
The “CSC” corrosion sous contrainte issue of the “never used” circuits d’injection de sécurité was actually an issue with tubes connected to the reactor and subject to temperature variations caused by changes in reactor power!
Nuclear reactors should operate at steady output to minimize fuel bundle and temp control issues inside the reactor.
Ramping output up and down to counteract the up/down outputs of wind and solar is an absolute no-no.
All this has been confirmed by testing in the US during the late 1960s
Those who vote for political parties abdicate their responsibility and their vote to the party. Parties are a collection of seriously damaged and dysfunctional people who should never be in a position of power. You get what you vote for.
I’m starting to realize that the Party is more important than the individual representatives in the UK. If the Party can require a representative to vote a certain way, then the power is in the Party not the individual representative.
Not much freedom of thought or action in the UK parliament.
I must say I like the American system much more than the European system. At least I can understand the American system.
The American system has its faults, like Lawfare and Judicial Overreach, but those things can be fixed.
Yeah, 1984 was supposed to be a warning but it’s become a blueprint instead. For the time being, we’ve dodged a bullet quite literally in the U.S.
you think??
We hope.
We’ve dodge a bullet for a couple of years, but the radical Democrats have billions of dollars to spend and they are spending it to try to stop Trump’s and the American People’s agenda.
There are more Leftwing Billionaires than there ae Rightwing Billionaires.
The Radical Democrats want everyone to think Rightwing Billionaires are trying to take over the United States, but, of course, when dealing with Radical Democrats, you have to remember that reality is the opposite of how it is described by Radical Democrats. It is the Leftwing Billionaires who are trying to undermine Trump and the American People.
As an example, in an election to be held tomorrow in Wisconsin for a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Democrats have spent about $80 million dollars, whereas the Republicans have spent about $16 million, and that includes donations from Musk.
So, obviously, the Democrats are outspending the Republicans left and right, and that’s because the Leftwing Billionaires are bankrolling this spending and laundering the money through “ActBlue” and other Dark Money sources.
That’s what is worrying: The Radical Democrat billionaires are outspending the Republican billionaires. By a lot.
ActBlue is going to be under investigation by the Republican Congress. There may be some serious criminal activity going on with ActBlue. Not to mention Treason, when their purpose is to undermine the People of the United States and their leader, President Trump.
Nah, you are being set up for the next round of complacency. “Yeah, but now we can use plastic straws again!”
“Almost every day, more evidence arrives that the UK, and indeed Europe is beyond all hope.”
Why, have they been using Signal to chat about military secrets? I mean come on, that is about as amateur as one could get. It’s what happens when you appoint people with no experience in the job to positions of huge responsibility. They should all be “locked up.”
Dumb, yes, but no secrets, despite what you’ve been told.
Or should the reporter be arrested, since he shared them?
BTW, once again – what does the topic you’re responding to have to do with what you brought up?
Shared what, secrets? I thought you said there were no secrets. I’m sure you will agree though it is to have enquiry from here to make sure it was all tickety boo? You know like Clinton did for her server.
“BTW, once again – what does the topic you’re responding to have to do with what you brought up?”
Rich Davis said Europe was beyond hope. I was pointing out the US is the same when they have clowns running the show who think it cool to share secrets on a chat… then invite a combative journalist to the group… And no one noticed, not when ho joined and not when he left. Unbelievable…….
Yes, I said there were no secrets, so I don’t think anyone should be prosecuted. But YOU seem to think there were (“share secrets on a chat”). If the reporter shared secrets with the public, he should be prosecuted, right?
I think we should let an enquiry decide all this stuff (whether anyone including the reporter behaved in a way that requires action)… agreed?
There will not be an inquiry because Republicans control both Houses of Congress and consider this incident a trivial matter.
And it doesn’t matter if an inquiry is done or not, because President Trump is happy will all the participants in the conversation and has no intention of firing them, so that is the bottom line, no matter how much the Democrats whine and complain.
The Democrats are there to present Trump in the worst light possible. That is their sole purpose in life. It doesn’t matter, what they think because Trump is in charge, not them.
No because the information about when and where attacks were to be made was secret before the attacks were made but not afterwards!
Oh come on, Simon. It’s perfectly obvious that a Deep State operative orchestrated this charade. The neocons are desperate to stop Trump from triggering a breakout of peace and an end to forever wars. There’s great hope in the US. Your team is losing.
I’m sure that Pete Hegseth is kicking himself though. If he would have just gotten 13 soldiers killed and abandoned $80b worth of weapons to a vicious enemy, that would have been a matter that you and your ilk would have had to consider completely understandable. (Since it didn’t trouble you when the same was perpetrated by a brain-dead puppet run by your team).
Europe is beyond all hope, banning candidates and running two-tier justice systems. Overrun by third world barbarians. The UK is stuck with a globalist totalitarian dork with no hope of relief until 2029.
“Oh come on, Simon. It’s perfectly obvious that a Deep State operative orchestrated this charade. The neocons are desperate to stop Trump from triggering a breakout of peace and an end to forever wars. There’s great hope in the US. Your team is losing.”
Medication time for you if you believe this shite.
Meanwhile on planet earth, Trump wants to steal Greenland. You ok with that?
Simon says:
Look over there a squirrel.
Nobody looked Simon
It’s because he didn’t say “Simon says” at the beginning phil. 😆
Trump wants to steal Greenland is a juvenile lie Simon.
Alaska, Hawaii and are US States and Puerto Rico is kinda half one. I don’t see anyone complaining there.
Why do you clapping seals chant this garbage.
Alaska was sold by the Russians, what’s your point? He is talking about taking / using force if he has to. What do you call using those tactics? I call it an act of war if he does that. Stealing is a kind word. Juvenile minimises how serious this is. A Nato Country attacking the autonomous territory of another Nato country. That is a serious outrageous action. I don’t think the US people will stand for it… do you?
Sorry Simon, I’m not interested in your bizarre clapping seal world. I’ll be here when it’s happened. There are 64,000 Greenlanders and they just changed their Government. Trump isn’t some weird mushroom dick-shaped dufus with orange skin or whatever your latest chant is – oh yeah, 34 felonies. In the US, people like you are in the trash can of history. Nobody of importance listens to your short pants University drop-out politics.
Name calling. Classy. Can’t answer the questions huh? I’ll try again.
I think you are letting your imagination run away with you, Simon.
Favor Reality over Imagination. Imagination will lead one astray.
Think: Art of the Deal.
Most of Britain was ‘owned’ by the Vikings Simon. I suppose it was a grave breach of international law when Anglo-Saxons wrested it away and asserted their self-determination?
If the indigenous population want to declare independence from the Viking overlords with or without US support, I think they have the right to self-determination, don’t they?
Am I missing the part where Denmark compensated the US for 90 years of protecting Grønland?
You are missing an awful lot I’d say. Your comparison with Vikings and what was done thousands of year ago has no relevance here. Sure people behaved barbarically and still do, but is that where the USA has fallen to under this leader? Taking what they want? Incredible that you would even think it let alone say it.
Trump wants to protect Greenland.
Trump wants to do business with Greenland.
Trump wants to make Greenland Great.
Trump and the US already have bases there. They have been offered the option of more. No need to take the land… except to take the wealth and minerals. Pretty obvious Tom.
I’m with the guy who said that there’s a 90-10 split between it being intentional and a bonehead error.
Use your head for more than a hatrack, Simon. Whoever made this ‘mistake’ is a traitor by definition. It’s like a guy accidentally texting his wife a picture of his mistress and him at an orgy. Does it matter that it was unintentional?
Someone had the phone number of an arch-enemy of the Administration on his phone as a contact. What possible innocent explanation is there for that? (Nothing nefarious, hon, we just have casual sex after work).
Or do you want us to believe that a random misdial just happened to be the right number for the most virulent TDS journalist under the sun?
Much ado about nothing, Simon.
As an aside: The Atlantic Magazine is one of the publications that was purchases by Steve Job’s billionaire, radical leftist widow. She is also supposedly best friends with Kamala Harris.
She is blatantly anti-Trump and all her publications are aimed at taking Trump down. She doesn’t have one good thing to say about Trump.
She is a Leftwing Radical Billionaire who is trying to take over the United States.
And she is just one of many. The Democrats are the Party of Billionaires now, not the Republicans. The Republicans are the Party of the People now, not the Democrats.
As to the secure chat: You want all of the participants fired? Other than the one person who mistakenly brought in the Atlantic Editor (supposedly, someone who worked under Waltz), who else is at fault? How were any of the others supposed to know that the Atlantic Magazine Editor was on the call?
And naturally, the Democrats blow everything out of proportion. It’s their job.
You can’t believe a thing these Democrat liars say. If you do, you are living in La La Land, with them.
The app they used is an open-source software, which probably makes it safer than other products.
“As to the secure chat: You want all of the participants fired? Other than the one person who mistakenly brought in the Atlantic Editor (supposedly, someone who worked under Waltz), who else is at fault? How were any of the others supposed to know that the Atlantic Magazine Editor was on the call?”
This is why there has to be a formal enquiry. Do you agree? There was for Hilary and many would argue what they did here was way worse.
“The app they used is an open-source software, which probably makes it safer than other products.”
Not safer no. Which is why this whole thing happened.
I heard today that no one questioned when the reporter was added to the chat, and no one questioned when he pulled himself off. That is crazy. Kids notice when people leave their chats…
Dumb? Possible.
Hugely useful to detect hacks and buffoons in the commentariat.
You will say “we in America already have explored that and know who is a hack”.
Well, there isn’t just America. We need to detect more hacks.
Is Hillary in jail yet?
No but you all thought she should be. And there was an enquiry and it probably cost her the election.
My prediction is that Trump2.0 will be kind to her and the less-deserving Pelosi. I actually hope I’m wrong. The insurrection set-up is inexcusable in my opinion, but I’m guessing they have bigger fish to fry.
Yes, I know you have no idea what I’m talking about and I also know that you never will. Have a nice day.
Trump may leave Hillary alone, but the Republican Congress may not.
The Republican Congress has already said they are investigating former FBI Director James Comey and his secret investigation into Trump, supposedly done outside normal FBI guidelines.
So, Hillary Clinton is directly involved in this time-frame with her “Steele Dossier”, and will probably be the subject of an investigation, too. Along with investigating Obama and all his underlings, who were all knowledgeable about what was going on, and complicit.
They tried to make is so a Republican would never be elected president again.They wanted/want One-Party Rule and that’s is what they are attempting even now. They want a Democrat Dictatorship in the United States.
They are all Traitors to their Nation.
I know you have no idea what you are talking about… that’s enough.
I still say Hillary should be in jail. She is a Traitor to the United States. Everything she does is an effort to undermine legitimate government.
She and Obama got together and started up the “Russia, Russia, Russia” Hoax, which hamstrung Trump’s first presidency. And that was the purpose. She should go to jail for this, and by all rights, Obama should be occupying the next cell. They are both Traitors to their Nation, along with a number of people in the Obama administration.
Yeah, it’s a good thing for them that I’m not in charge. They wouldn’t get off so easily.
But Trumps team was involved with Russia Tom. Many of his team had links. I have posted them here to silence. Happy to do again.
And I would love an answer from you re if Trump did use force to take Greenland. How would you feel?
“non-crime violation” perhaps? They don’t seem to need an actual crime anymore.
It sounds like it is time for Britain to have its own version of a ‘Tea Party.’ Perhaps with a rallying cry of “Legislation without representation.”
Ah, so that’s how it looks when someone stubbornly clings to the hallucinations after the trip ends.
DAVE’s 2025 climate assessment.
We live down here on a rotating spherical surface which is mostly flooded with a massive excess of natural refrigerant that has a fixed vapor pressure-to-temperature response curve. The remainder, the land, is spritzed intermittently or dusted with frozen crystals. We are submerged under 10,300 kg per square meter of breathable compressible fluid, open at the top and held here only by gravity. It circulates freely throughout nearly all of its depth, as its self-emergent responses to daily doses of absorbed solar energy dictate. In doing so, it performs as a high-intensity energy converter and emitter ( see https://youtu.be/hDurP-4gVrY ) to end up giving back just enough longwave radiation to space through 4th-power response to temperature, to keep things livable down here as the seasons pass. Oh, and that natural refrigerant condenses and forms clouds to reflect back just enough of the incoming sunshine. Dynamic self-regulation all around. We can watch it work from space ( see https://youtu.be/Yarzo13_TSE ).
And knowing all this, climate activists, YOU ARE STILL TELLING ME to be concerned that an increase, say, from 0.03 percent to .06 percent of life-essential, photosynthetic-starting-material, IR-active CO2 in this fluid represents a harmful change in respect to “warming”?!? No, that is not plausible, given the overwhelming power of the circulation. Sure, the static radiative effect looking from the surface toward space might be a real thing, but the motion changes everything about where the energy involved in this minor change should be expected to end up as a result. Will this influence produce sensible heat gain on land, in the oceans, and in the atmosphere itself? No, that is not reasonable to expect to any detectable extent, and it is most certainly not capable of driving the climate system in a bad direction.
The planet will be fine.
LW effects manifest from heat flows already in the system, and thus are embedded with dynamic response as you note – but, consider the system does not stabilize the incoming SW in the same way. There is no physical response (dynamic or otherwise) until SW is absorbed and incorporated into the energy pool of atmosphere. While the system can adjust internal processes to maximize LW emission using existing energy, it has no inherent mechanism to preemptively regulate SW variations until those changes have already altered the system’s energy state. Dynamic adjustments to spectral variation in the LW domain may well come at the expense of increased SW absorption. If so, it suggests a quite different mechanism than usually described.
“…the system does not stabilize the incoming SW in the same way. There is no physical response (dynamic or otherwise) until SW is absorbed and incorporated into the energy pool of atmosphere.” Agreed.
But there is a dynamic response to shortwave radiation—clouds and thunderstorms which are emergent convective phenomena. While it depends on initially absorbing SW at the surface, that surface may end up cooler.
Agreed. Also one could describe the time-dependent response of hard, dry surfaces to direct absorption of daytime SW as dynamic, i.e., the rapid rise and decay of 4th-power LW emission through clear skies to space through the “atmospheric window.”
more SW absorbed, more LW out. To generate more outgoing LW the internal energy must increase. That’s the point. The notion often described on WUWT that clouds should pre-emptively stabilize in the SW is not correct. Such a response can only emerge and persist after a change in the internal energy state has already occurred. The system has no inherent awareness of SW radiation passing through until it is absorbed. In contrast, LW emission is a direct consequence of the existing energy pool. Likewise, achieving stabilization through surface LW transmittance (following the fourth-power dependence on temperature) requires maintaining a higher surface temperature. The stabilization through mechanisms such as increasing LW out, or by developing emergent cloud response, simply stabilizes the new higher energy state.
This has been highlighted by the last 30 years of cloud reductions. Fewer clouds allowed more solar energy to reach the surface and the global temperature increased.
Instead of an increased cloud response all we’ve seen is increased OLR to limit the warming.
The cloud changes were most likely due to shifts in natural atmospheric circulation and/or volcanic emissions.
The point is, the view from many at WUWT assume a negative feedback to increases in GHGs will occur from increases in clouds. From the last couple of decades we can see that will not always occur.
Thankfully, mother nature created a more direct way of limiting warming from GHGs. Downwelling IR increases enhance tropical evaporation/convection which in turn reduce high altitude water vapor. This balances the increase in absorption by well mixed GHGs.
“To generate more outgoing LW the internal energy must increase.” Or the mass flow overturning rate adjusts. It’s not one thing. That’s why I tend to generalize, describing the atmosphere’s overall operation as “highly self-regulating” in response to absorbed energy.
yes it’s fine. But of course there cant be an increasing outgoing LW without the associated increasing SW absorbed. Ultimately you’re right, the stabilization in response must result one way or another.
Say what? Internal energy “must” increase?
The Earth has cooled over the past four and half billion years, and does so every night – losing all the heat of the day, plus a little “internal energy.”
Maybe you have been thinking “climate scientists” knew what they were talking about?
Bad mistake.
I appreciate the well-composed replies. One more thought about this part.
“Dynamic adjustments to spectral variation in the LW domain may well come at the expense of increased SW absorption.”
On the other hand, increased SW absorption through cloud variation may well have nothing to do with spectral variation in the LW domain.
No one knows. But in any case, it’s not worth worrying about the minor computed LW spectral changes from incremental CO2, CH4, N2O, etc. when the non-radiative dynamics already overwhelms any ability to isolate one root cause from another throughout the depth of the troposphere.
Cue George Carlin.
Too bad we lost him- died at only 70- I saw him twice in concert- absolutely mind blowing too! Really, from the first second he walked on to the stage- marched actually- he was revved up like a Fourth of July fireworks and stayed that way for over an hour.
He basically killed himself through some combination of cigarettes, cocaine, alcohol and other drugs. It’s sad that it happens to too many such talents. I just saw the John Belushi movie, whose storied life ended similarly but much earlier.
The physical demands of live stage performances are such that many entertainers increase their stamina by using cocaine, and party thereafter…Very common, comes up in their bios sometimes as something they “usta do but regret”…and sometimes in their obits.
“…a high-intensity energy converter” transporter “and emitter…”
By the way, the seasons don’t “pass”, they exist simultaneously.
Otherwise, great post!
Thank you. “It circulates freely throughout nearly all of its depth…” = transport.
Not quite. Sure the summer solstice happens in the northern hemisphere at the same time that the winter solstice happens in the southern hemisphere. But it’s always the opposite season ‘simultaneously’. We don’t have late winter in one place and mid-Spring somewhere else at the same time. It’s late winter and early summer or mid-Spring and mid-Autumn.
You can tell Dave has a classical applied science engineering degree….not one of the new ones in geomatics, robotics or medical prosthetics, useful as they may be…but they tend to be lacking in thermodynamics and heat transfer….
True story.
The entire black hole UK Labour dubiously claimed to have inherited from the last government could be written off by one policy change – cancel all carbon capture efforts with immediate effect. £34 billion right there!
The £8 billion Dead Minibrain needs to insure against monetary risk and the risk of suffocating people with an uncontrolled release is just a part.
https://x.com/NetZeroWatch/status/1905597120251334845
CCS is highly unlikely to succeed – which the government patently knows, and even if successful, won’t make any measurable difference to atmospheric CO2 levels.
“In introducing its current CCUS programme, it has learnt lessons from two previous failed attempts.”
“HM Treasury announced up to £20.0 billion of funding in March 2023 to support the early deployment of CCUS. In October 2024 it increased the funding to £21.7 billion over 25 years to cover the first five projects. At the same time, the Department recognised contingent liabilities with a maximum value of £34 billion to cover the risks it is underwriting for the programme.”
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmpubacc/351/report.html
Why would they do that? Climate-concerned low information, calculator-free voters wouldn’t vote for them if they did that.
Sunday funny
Labour will lose the next general election if they do not lower Britons’ energy bills, one of the Party’s biggest donors has warned.
Green entrepreneur Dale Vince told how net zero sceptics Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage would be taken “more seriously” if the Government fails to slash costs of gas and electricity.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2034447/labour-dale-vince-keir-starmer
No chance.
No chance that Labour will lower costs or that Badenoch (Uni) or Farage (Reform) would be taken more seriously?
No chance bills will come down – whatsoever.
Oh I don’t know about that strat. Couldn’t Stalin create a quango to implement two-tier pricing and then claim there’s nothing he can do about the unfairness?
Your bills go up 2-3x and Labour voters get sweet subsidies.
Starmer couldn’t think his way out of a paper bag.
Perhaps I should have been more precise in my language? The people who run Sir Stalin could set up a quango to help underprivileged people who just so happen to be Labour voters pay their bills.
Inexplicably, and totally unintentionally, straight white males would not have applied for the subsidies. Despite the fact that applications had been distributed at every Just Stop Oil and Anti-Elon rally.
He’s created another 27 quangos…
Labour axes one quango – after creating 27. – The Telegraph
Gas is 4 times cheaper than electricity in the UK and over 22m homes are on the gas network. It is no wonder that most of those homes are reluctant to switch.
Strange then that Vince seems to think that the price of gas is a problem. Perhaps he is looking at the situation with a jaundiced point of view 🙂
Are Covid 19 (and the Pfizer/Moderna non-vaccines that do not clear the virus or prevent infection) causing an epidemic of cancer worldwide?
https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1904941620283253060
Where in the world is Richard Greene!?
Maybe he’s on vacation.
Charm school?
In an unrelated development, USAID funding of faux-conservative trolls paid to disrupt climate-realist online forums may have been disrupted by the evil DOGE minions.
Be thankful for whatever the reason he is absent.
He’s still alive. https://honestclimatescience.blogspot.com/
Or not. An automated bot program could assemble what’s seen there until it’s turned off.
“He’s still alive”
That’s what I was wondering. 🙂
Good! Alive and kicking. Except here at WUWT for some reason.
Liberals spell out COEXIST with burning Teslas –
SEATTLE, WA — In a beautiful, heartwarming call for universal peace, liberals took several stolen, burning Teslas and arranged them to spell out “Coexist.”
The fires burned for hours, sending massive plumes of smoke into the air, a signal to the world of the progressive desire for people of all backgrounds to live in harmony with each other.
“These torched cars show how serious we are about tolerance,” explained local liberal Geoffrey Wendt. “Every firebomb we throw is a call for us to love and accept our neighbors, regardless of their beliefs or background. Can you smell that burning gasoline? That’s the sweet smell of peaceful coexistence with all mankind.”
Conservatives across the country instantly saw the error of their ways after witnessing the beautiful message spelled out in flames. “Wow. Maybe we really can live together in unity,” said local man Bill Patton, as he watched his Tesla being burned. “It seemed like we were so divided as a nation. But, as I was dragged from car and beaten with a pipe, I finally began to realize that peace is possible.”
At publishing time, liberals had sent another poignant message by spelling out “Justice” with the bodies of assassinated CEOs.
I love the Bee!
MTBBR (Mean Time Between Bee and Reality) is dropping rapidly.
Not only Bee. https://www.kukuruyo.com/comic/triggerhappy-satire-is-dead/
Could have linked to the story.
. . . or have linked to this coming Tuesday.
Traveling to Singapore and WA about a year apart, I was impressed by how green it was (due to greater precipitation) south of Perth compared to last year.
Singapore used to be a relatively inexpensive place to convalesce for a few days from flying over the Pacific, but it is not now, especially the price of lodging and good beer. If you can stand the humidity, there are still a lot of enjoyable outdoor activities that are free. If you like Indian food, it’s a great place.
A relative dearth of mainland Chinese tourists in both places was obvious. The local economy around Margaret River seems to be vibrant.
Did a port call to Fremantle while aboard USS Kennedy. The walking street, the wine tasting boat cruises, black swans at the zoo, WA is very nice place to visit.
A highlight was a church service at a Wesleyan Church with a large pipe organ and duel pulpits to be admonished from. Thanks for reminding me of WA.
Duel pulpits — sounds dangerous! Choose your weapons, reverends.
Don’t get caught in the crossfire. Best to sit in the back pew.
Maybe the messages beared repeating?
Or an early version of stereophonic ?
Yes, this chapel brought to you by Henry Repeating Arms
Maybe they would have dual gun cases with dueling pistols and semiautomatic rifles in each pulpit.
😛
I think it was because sinners like me required extra assistance.
There are too many Kamala Harris clones.
https://twitchy.com/warren-squire/2025/03/30/line-dancing-the-tesla-vandals-protestors-secret-weapon-n2410680
At first, I read this as “clowns.” My bad.
A decent presentation about the net zero madness in the UK, from the Tom Nelson UT channel:
Completely off topic….
Completely off topic. Recently came on the Netherlands Bach Society on youtube. Two performances in particular: the Goldberg Variations, and Malov’s performance of the 6th cello suite, played on a violin-cello, a sort of cello held like a violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbH3JYfRjOQ&pp=ygUebmV0aGVybGFuZHMgYmFjaCBzb2NpZXR5IG1hbG92
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtOPiG5jyk&pp=ygUsbmV0aGVybGFuZHMgYmFjaCBzb2NpZXR5IGdvbGRiZXJnIHZhcmlhdGlvbnM%3D
You probably think, if you’ve listened to the usual standard performances and recordings by the well known virtuosos of today and earlier, that you pretty much know these pieces, so what can be so different about yet another rendition. I rather thought that. And you may have thought there is not as much to the cello suites as there is to the violin suites.
Wrong. Listen to these two, and you will be hearing them for the first time, and you’ll hear all kinds of things which Bach had written, but which the standard renditions obscure. Amazing, wonderful performances.
The audio quality on these is very high, also. Much over youtube’s usual standard.
Beautiful music but sadly it made me think of NPR.
Meanwhile, fascists in NY state want to punish Tesla. https://modernity.news/2025/03/29/does-it-get-any-more-un-american-than-this/
Europe is Not Our Ally
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Net zero by 2050 Euro elites tried to entangle the US, with help of the unpatriotic, leftist Biden clique, into going down the black hole of 30,000 MW by 2030 of expensive, highly-subsidized, weather-dependent, grid-disturbing offshore wind systems, which would need highly subsidized battery systems for grid support.
The wind systems would have produced electricity at about 15 c/kWh, about 2.5 times greater than from domestic US gas, coal, nuclear, hydro plants, which would have made the US even more uncompetitive in world markets
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Almost the entire supply of the projects would be designed and made in Europe, then transported across the Atlantic Ocean by European specialized ships, then unloaded at new, $500-million storage/pre-assembly/staging/barge-loading areas, then barged to European specialized erection ships for erection of the wind systems. The financing will be mostly by European pension funds.
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Hundreds of people in each seashore stare would have jobs during the erection phase
The other erection jobs would be by specialized European people, mostly on cranes and ships
Hundreds of people in each seashore state would have long-term O&M jobs, using European spare parts, during the 20-y electricity production phase.
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Conglomerates of Euro elites would finance, build, erect, own and operate almost 30,000 MW of the offshore windmills, providing work for many thousands of European workers for decades, and multi-$billion profits each year.
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That ruse did not quite work out, because Trump was elected.
The European, hate-Trump elites are furious. Projects are being cancelled. The European wind industry is in shambles, with multi-$billion losses, lay-offs and $billions of stranded costs.
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The US was saved from the leftist, woke folks by Trump, who declared a US National Energy Emergency, and put W/S/B systems at the bottom of the list, and cancelled their licenses and cut their subsidies, and put their rubber-stamp, environmental impact statements under proper scrutiny.
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Europe was using the IPCC, which claimed to own the science, to conjure up a global-warming/climate-change hoax, so the US would also deliver electricity to users at high c/kWh, to preserve Europe’s extremely advantageous trade balance with the US.
Lopsided Trade Agreements
Prior to NAFTA, Mexico always had annual trade deficits with the US
After NAFTA, Canada and Mexico have huge annual trade surpluses with the US.
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After NAFTA, foreign (and US) companies shipped parts to Mexico and assembled cars, with their entire production shipped into the US DUTY-FREE, that is not MAGA, but exploitation to the disadvantage of the US and US workers
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After NAFTA, Dutch companies shipped automated greenhouses, the size of airplane hangars, to Canada (which provides nearly free gas), with their entire production shipped into the US DUTY-FREE, that is not MAGA, but exploitation to the disadvantage of the US and US workers.
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Dutch/Belgian companies own more than 50% of the food supermarkets on the US East Coast; plenty of shelf space for European farm goods to the disadvantage of US farmers.
Europe has been doing the same since the Kennedy Round, which opened US markets, without the US getting lower tariffs from Europe.
Euro elites loved Kennedy
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Finally, the US has a hard-nosed businessman in the White House, who cannot be $bought, instead of a senile, grifting/grafting idiot, or a cackling word salad.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/international-trade-is-a-dog-eat-dog-business
Come on, Wil, tell us what you really think about the DNC! 🙂
The rudderless Democrat National Committee, DNC, is in deep do-do with its newly appointed leadership.
Trump is tee-ing up for the mid-terms, which will see big gains in the House and Senate
I don’t know where you read that sh1t, Wil, but the average Canadian buys $7000 a year of US goods and services which includes Netflix, Crave, Starlink sat service, including Ford and Chevy cars and trucks, while US buys a couple of thousand bucks of Canadian goods which includes 30% of the aluminum in their beer cans, 20% of steel, 30% of their oil imports, 15% of their electricity, 40% of their ag fertilizer, 25% of their lumber.
if you take oil alone out of Trumps numbers (which U.S. would just have to buy somewhere else) Canada is at a trade DEFECIT with the U.S., a situation which one can agree with Trump as possibly unhealthy for jobs if a nation”s imports and exports are entirely hand made kids toys and home furnishings.
Then they take those raw products and multiply it by 10 times in valued added manufacturing and related costs and sell it to themselves at exorbitant prices.in their internal supply chain.
Don’t kid yourself, US companies buy their inputs where it is cheapest, and Trump’s efforts to make U.S. goods cheaper by bringing back manufacturing to MAGA won’t work economically in a climate of low unemployment which the U.S. already has. Sounds good to rust-belt voters though….
Look at Australia, 35% tariff by US on aluminum, cuz “Auz has an unfair advantage”, demonstrates Trumps thinking. Auz has an advantage cuz it is the largest producer of bauxite in the world…US has ZERO bauxite mining…of course Auz has an advantage which US takes advantage of by buying cheaply.
Bottom line…if big T can’t take it, like Ukraine’s rare earth mines, he’ll make sure the US tax department makes more off it than the countries that DO HAVE IT by putting US tariff’s on it, which mainly will increase the cost to US consumers, while beggaring their neighbors, soon-to-be-ex-friends.
I lived many years in the Netherlands, until I chose to live here, joined the US Army, etc.
Everyone in business in the Netherlands is keenly interested in international trade, already for at least 500 years.
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When Trump states the trade agreements are one-sided crap, I wholly agree with him.
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Canada would not be viable without the US as a neighbor
Same with Mexico
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Perot, a realistic Texas businessman, called NAFTA a giant sucking sound, sucking
wealth/jobs out of the US.
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Trump is doing the right thing with tariffs to increase US production of goods and services that will employ tens of millions of workers, build strong families and communities, snd will reduce imports of goods and services, and will reduce the wealth/job-sucking trade deficits to trade surpluses to MAGA
Yes, free trade sucks if you think your neighbors’ resources and labor should profit your tax department as if you mined it or farmed it or made it yourself. But you didn’t.
Free trade?
Canada has a 290% tariff on US dairy products
Italy has a 100% tariff on Harley Davidsons
It is important to know facts
Yes, facts do matter, like the fact that the Canadian dairy tariffs only apply to US imports over a certain volume. How many times has that volume been exceeded and the 290% tariff been applied? Zero, so those tariffs have been, historically, irrelevant.
This isn’t to defend trade restrictions of any form, but if that’s the reason for Trump to be taking all these actions that are hurting both Canadians and Americans, it’s pretty feeble. It’s something that could be brought up in the 2026 renegotiation of NAFTA 2.0, but does not need drastic action at this time.
In the case of Canada, I think the tariff is because Trump isn’t satisfied with how the Canadian government is handling the Fentanyl problem.
Those tariffs were designed to be an unsurmountable roadblock to increased US dairy sales, the reason sales stayed below them.
It is not rocket science to me.
My electric bill is from a Canadian company
My propane bill is from a Canadian company
My checking account is at a Canadian bank
Canada FORBIDS American banks in Canada
Try to import Vermont cheddar cheese into Norway.
I was told by the embassy, we already have too much cheese.
NOT TRUE, there are SIXTEEN US banks operating in Canada. You can check yourself how many Canadian Banks there are. Most of the US banks operate in the commercial business area because they don’t like the Canadian rules on how much liquidity is required to be street corner mortgage and car loan banks. Same rules that left Canada mostly unscathed through the last real estate and financial crises, although the government still came up with several billion to lend to US auto manufacturers with factories in Canada.
The last time I was in Canada, very few places would accept my Discover credit card.
Don’t be ridiculous, there is no reason to expect Canada would be less “viable” than any of 165 or so countries of its population size or smaller in this 195 country world. And more “viable” than most due to its available natural resource base…Other than we’d be short a couple of ocean ports to move our goods to other countries, but that is easily overcome.
While I’m not sure about the ‘ex-friends’ thing, there’s certainly a lot of blow back along this line here in Canada. Part of the problem is that Trumps advocacy of protectionism for certain kinds of jobs is inherently confusing, it seems to me. If the focus were on adjusting things to avoid any persistent trade deficits, that might be some sort of good economic theory. What I seem to see is a focus on tariffs as ‘good’, which seems to go well beyond this? Are tariffs the one ‘good tax’ that’s an end in itself, the ‘holy tariffs’ now, is that where we’re at?
If we are to love tariffs generally, don’t a lot of contradictions begin to stem from this? Just on energy alone, a 10 percent tariff on Canadian oil and gas kind of gets in the way of building new trans border pipelines, doesn’t it? To resolve this kind of thing in general, could we compare the situation to what it was back in 2017 when something like this happened, starting with a tariff challenge from Trump? Things then went back to normal after some negotiating, and jobs weren’t guaranteed by tariffs much, it just seemed like an inevitable conclusion.
To the extent that Europe (primarily NATO countries) steps in to replace arms, ammunition and battlefield intelligence to Ukraine that Co-President Trump now refuses to send to them, your statement is not true despite what the current Administration would have you believe.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
— old proverb
Sun Tsu, The Art of War.
Actually, the suspension of US satellite battlefield data/images and target selection/co-ordinates for US personnel-operated, long-range HIMARS missiles was lifted after a few days, because the Ukraine Armed Services would have even more of a tough time without that.
True, and I think Trump will increase military support to Ukraine and increase sanctions on Putin, if Putin doesn’t agree to a complete ceasefire very soon.
Putin will rationally explain:
1) Zelenskyy has no control of his armed forces
2) Those rogue forces violated the energy infrastructure cease fire agreement 6 times, so far.
3) No nation, including Russia, would sign any additional “bait and switch” agreement with Zelenskyy
If you think you are winning militarily…a cease fire is a dumb idea. it just gives the other guy a chance to re-supply munitions, move troops, analyze strategy, gather intel and reinforce their positions.
Accepting a cease fire is for when you think you are losing politically. And you can fake a cease-fire to confuse things politically as well. Putin is very pragmatic in such things.
Zelensky may well be right that Putin won’t live much longer…but that might also be interpreted as thinking the war will last as long as Putin is alive…so could be years.
These HIMARS missiles are not ballistic.
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They follow complicated trajectories for hundreds of miles to avoid being shot down.
End-to-end encrypted ground knowledge of Russian defense and targets is fed from US satellites, to BLACK BOXES, to missiles operated by only US armed services personnel.. That personnel controls the entire trajectory!!
https://www.rt.com/russia/614983-us-nato-ukraine-conflict/
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Those black boxes are part of the crown jewels of US command/control of everything.
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No Ukrainian is allowed near them, as otherwise they might disappear on the black market, etc.
The US has missile bases in Poland and Rumania.
Many black boxes
No Poles and no Rumanians are allowed on the bases for any function, only US armed services personnel.
You can easily why Russia, the US, and other NATO countries do not want Ukraine, with rogue armed services, to be in NATO.
These HIMARS missiles are not ballistic.
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They follow complicated trajectories for hundreds of miles to avoid being shot down.
End-to-end encrypted ground knowledge of Russian defense and targets is fed from US satellites, to BLACK BOXES, to missiles operated by only US armed services personnel.. That personnel controls the entire trajectory!!
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Those black boxes are part of the crown jewels of US command/control of everything.
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No Ukrainian is allowed near them, as otherwise they might disappear on the black market, etc.
The US has missile bases in Poland and Rumania.
Many black boxes
No Poles and no Rumanians are allowed on the bases, only US armed services personnel.
You can easily why Putin does not want NATO in Ukraine with rogue armed services.
Is Putin our Ally? (God help us).
Nobody said that on here as far as I can see. Must have been a voice in your head.
No, Putin is not an ally of the West, or Trump.
Putin is someone that has to be dealt with to stop the killing.
Like Trump says all the time: Nobody has been tougher on Putin than Trump.
Europe is a tit-sucking, useless, pathetic ally of the US
The genocide killing, and culture erasing, was started by the Ukraine armed forces in East Ukraine, because these people had been Russians for hundreds of years, and did want to live by the rules of the Kiev regime installed by the US in 2014.
«The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy, no more, no less.» – Maxim 29.
Oh, c’mon . . . let’s no be shy about providing the source for that quote
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries by Howard Tayler.
I choose not to be a mercenary, efficient or otherwise. You?
In other news, a nefarious flea on a dog’s tail was caught trying to wag the poor helpless dog again. In the same vein, something something Israel.
This is not the end of severe weather in the US. Arctic fronts will continue to push westward on the US, bringing thunderstorms to the central and eastern US.
