Unthreaded
Turning Maui into Texas
Sounds like pressure building and the bureaucrats resisting at every turn .....
- for nefarious purpose?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGwdt3Z8zWA
tomo
DaveS,
fourth-rate politicians devolve powers to sixth-rate politiciansYes, a retirement position for sixth-raters sounds about right. Another place where highfalutin goals are set is local government. Amazing how many councils around Sydney have policies on Israel, nuclear disarmament, etc. This might be the nursery for the sixth-raters.
tomo,
I wonder if such brazenly partisan judges have always been there, but now the net brings them to light. The solution is obvious: no need to get rid of the bad judges, just stop people looking in from the wrong end of the telescope.
Ross Lea,
As you say, that biomass article is on the weak side. Comments were better, especially:
How about actually doing something, like completely eliminating the biomass subsidies? You know, the "billions of pounds in government subsidies have consequently been handed to bioenergy generators ..."
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Very good, and correctly predicted that I'd never heard of him. It must have been bitter for him to watch the decline. I feel a quatrain coming on:
And if the wine you drink, the lip you press,
End in the nothing all things end in, Yes,
Then fancy while thou art, thou art but what thou shalt be:
nothing, thou shalt not be less.
Enjoyed Brendan O'Neill interviewing Michael Shellenberger. O'Neill had a good spray along the way:
There seems to be a new culture of irrationalism on the rise. You have a situation where people are compelled to repeat the mantra 'trans women are women', even though that's not true. Or when we're forced to accept that, for example, black people and white people are entirely different and will never really understand each other: white people have to check their privilege; black people have to wallow in their pain. There are these new ideas emerging which seem to me to directly counter what would have been considered liberal/left/progressive ideas just a few years ago -- certainly a few decades ago -- when people were more interested in sexual equality, the end of racial politics, not the rehabilitation of racial politics, a vision of the future which was about equality and freedom rather than the kind of divisiveness and hysteria and irrationalism that so called "left-wing" wokeness seems to have unleashed.Yep.
Another thing I enjoyed was Delingpole in a fairly combative interview with John Robson. I'm much nearer to Robson than I am to Delingpole who, unfortunately, seems to have slipped into a rather paranoid mindset.
robertswan
The greatest man you've never heard of died this week on Wednesday, September 6th.Marcel Boiteux built the French nuclear fleet as head of national utility EdF, making superb, far-sighted decisions against powerful entrenched interests.
Decisions such as abandoning the poorly-performing French gas reactors for outstanding Westinghouse technology.
And insisting on ruthless standardization that allowed true learning-by-doing, with his teams completing several reactors a year for more than a decade.
His fleet provides 70% of French electricity, and but for the sabotage by his weak, stupid successors inside and outside French government, it should be making half again as much electricity as the 56 reactors do today.
Boiteux's reactor fleet (plus a few more units after his retirement) cost about $150 billion. Compare this to Germany spending about $500 billion on their mess of an "energy transition" which requires them to keep almost all of their coal and gas plants in service.
As a young man Marcel Boiteux refused to accept France's defeat and at age 21 in 1942 as an elite university student he escaped Nazi-occupied France while escorting downed Allied pilots over the Pyrenees mountains to safety in Spain.
Brass. Balls.
This episode revealed the pattern for the rest of his life.
After the war, he studied economics and wrote *the* foundational paper in electricity economics, on how to price electricity service in a way that covered system costs while being fair and sustainable.
He completely understood liberal economics, and knew it did not apply to electricity grids and service. He built cheap power for all, then after his retirement watched as a bunch of pathetic hack economists broke the grid with idiotic "markets" that are failing all over the world.
He rapidly rose in public service after university graduation, and after appointment to the head of Electricité de France, successfully built the most astonishing energy system in the history of the world, proving for all time that a country could truly rely on its own fleet of standardized nuclear reactors producing low-cost emissions-free energy.
Anti-nuclear terrorists exploded a bomb outside the door of his family home in 1977 but he kept building.
It must have been torture for this truly great man to watch twenty years of silly, unserious leaders damage and begin to destroy his beloved EDF and its fleet of reactors, leading France straight into its worst energy crisis since the oil crisis of 1973 that triggered Boiteux's nuclear fleet construction in the first place.
But he didn't come up with the idea of a nuclear fleet powering a total electrification of the economy because an oil crisis hit. He was too prophetic to be a mere reactionary. Rather, he declared the slogan "All nuclear, all electric" months before the OPEC embargo hit in 1973.
Marcel Boiteux died this week at the age of 101.
Few Anglophone obituaries I fear - especially at the effin BBC.
Stolen from HERE
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On the biomass scam; it's a start but needs to be more forcefull.
https://conservativehome.com/2023/09/07/pauline-latham-the-conservative-case-for-a-biomass-pause/
Ross Lea
If the Federal Justice system in the USA didn't have enough problems with crazy thuggish partisan judges ...
tomo
Phil "There's nothing amiss with Joe Biden he's got a stutter you ableist" Clarke opines.
I see Arwa had to rewrite some parts the opinion piece article, likely as somebody in the GMG legal department got a couple of phone calls / emails.
An advertising consultant opines...
tomo
Phil,
Its been a bit of an open secret that Barry is a taker. Probably more of a taker than he ever was a giver.
Mailman
A litany of failure : When will the penny drop on this scam ?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/failed-prediction-timeline/
Ross Lea
Robert
The judges ...
of course there have been others times and places
But not challenging them is a path to torment and far, far worse - the individuals involved seem devoid of any scruples - not something to be shrugged off I feel. Give 'em an inch etcetera.
Robert Barnes covers it on Rumble tonight - can't link to time until the stream is archived...
The bent judges appear to be running as fast as they can and trying to intimidate any challengers or indeed arbitrarily lock challengers up. The abuse of process is quite astonishing.
Some interesting commentary on the mifepristone abortion pill case - stuff I've not heard elsewhere (not that I've looked in earnest)