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Fatal Spitfire crash, part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn00yzjy5xqo.amp
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Lest we Forget
On 13 February 1945, British aircraft launched an attack on the eastern German city of Dresden. In the days that followed, they and their US allies would drop nearly 4,000 tons of bombs in the assault.
The ensuing firestorm killed 25,000 people, ravaging the city centre, sucking the oxygen from the air and suffocating people trying to escape the flames.
Churchill and Bomber Harris would have been hung for Crimes Agaist Humanity if the Allies had lost the war in Europe.
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After starting that horrible war and all the dishing out of industrial murder and destruction the Krauts are a bit rich to start complaining when they copped a fraction of it back.
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Hardly “a fraction”
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it’s just a fraction of the six million. Remember those?
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6 million?
When the Germans invaded Poland, if you were circumcised you were classified a Jew.
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Or 20 million plus Russians
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You can hardly complain about a thrashing if YOU started it.
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Suggested reading;
Bomber Command by Max Harris.
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Max Hastings, I think.
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Having lived in Swansea in 1944 I can tell you the Germans were trying to do the same to us but, luckily, were not so successful. London copped a bit more though.
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Aloha!
WE HAVE A DRESDEN EVERY OTHER WEEK IN THE USA
Humans love war its our condition! These days 25,000 is nothing when you count fentanyl, cartel violence, gang gun murders, Ukraine, Gaza, Chicago, LA, NYC! We just had covid19 where 1.1 Americans died since 2021 under a BidenWH vaccine mandate and not even a blink of the media’s eye! We are still dying from the long covid and related excess deaths.
Still if you need a war to count bodies then try this!
The dollar costs are in 2019 USD. Most costly in dollars is listed first.
THE TOP TWELVE US WARS
1- WW2 lives lost 405.4K cost $4.7T duration 3Y 9M
2- IRAQ lives lost 4.4K cost $1.1T duration 7Y 5M
3- AFGHAN lives lost 2.3K cost $910.5B duration 22Y
4- VIETNAM lives lost 58.2K cost 844B duration 18Y
5- KOREA lives lost 36.5K cost $390B duration 3Y1M
6- WW1 lives lost 110.5K cost $381.5B duration 3Y
7- PER GULF lives lost 383 cost 116.6B duration 7M
8- CIVIL WAR* lives lost 640K cost $91B duration 4Y
9- SPAN/AM lives lost 2.4K cost $10.3B duration 4M
10- AM REV lives lost 4.4K cost $2.75B duration 8Y5M
11- MEX/AM lives lost 13K cost $2.72B duration 1Y 9M
12-WAR 1812 lives lost15K cost $1.78B duration 2Y8M
*CIVIL WAR
UNION – Lives lost 371.2K Cost $68.2B
CONFED – Lives lost 268.7K Cost $22.9B
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Very sad.
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Also on that page, an interesting article on the perils of modern spyware-
“Sara needed some chocolate – she had had one of those days – so wandered into a Home Bargains store. “Within less than a minute, I’m approached by a store worker who comes up to me and says, ‘You’re a thief, you need to leave the store’.”
Sara… was wrongly accused after being flagged by a facial-recognition system called Facewatch. She says after her bag was searched she was led out of the shop, and told she was banned from all stores using the technology. “I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… I thought, ‘Oh, will my life be the same? I’m going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I’ve never stolen’.” Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error. ”
“we joined the police as they positioned a modified white van on the high street. Cameras attached to its roof captured thousands of images of people’s faces.
If they matched people on a police watchlist, officers would speak to them and potentially arrest them. Unflattering references to the technology liken the process to a supermarket checkout – where your face becomes a bar code. ”
“Mr Thompson, who works for youth-advocacy group Streetfathers, didn’t think much of it when he walked by a white van near London Bridge in February. Within a few seconds, though, he was approached by police and told he was a wanted man. He was asked to give fingerprints and held for 20 minutes. He says he was let go only after handing over a copy of his passport. But it was a case of mistaken identity. “It felt intrusive… I was treated guilty until proven innocent,” he says. “
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If you use a Coles self checkout your face is displayed on the screen (and scanned). If you go into Bunnings your face is scanned. However if you shop at the Farmers Market or IGA you don’t have such problems.
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You can wear sunglasses … but yeah generally I’ve been aiming to shop at the smallest local stores wherever possible.
Not sure what Aldi is doing … they usually have the best prices, for the stuff that they actually do keep in stock.
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For those who, like me, want to repeat this story to others:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945
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Even though the Battle of Britain flight aircraft are very old they are maintained to a high standard.
Therefore pilot incapacitation comes up as a possible cause of the crash.
A few weeks ago a motor glider dived into the ground at Mount Beauty while on the final approach to landing. Same issue.
Pilots have been dying suddenly since the start of the Covid vaccination campaign.
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The “Battle of Britain” is overly hyped.
Herr Hither had no real intention of invading the UK.
Herr Hitler saw the UK as a potential ally in his fight against the common enemy of Communism
The Duke of Windsor met Adolf Hitler during a 1937 and many of the landed ruling class in Britian supported the fight agaist Communism.
Hitler professed an admiration for the imperial might of the British Empire in Zweites Buch {Hitler’s Secret Book} as proof of the racial superiority of the Aryan race, and British rule in India was held up as a model for how the Germans would rule Eastern Europe.
It is the victors who write history.
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CO2 Lover,
Geopolitics has always been complicated . They still are – just take a dive into where oil is being sourced and sold even with the “sanctions”. The Russians are still driving BMWs and audis even though they are being attacked by German supplied weapons . Russian weapons are being used in the SMO on both sides .Third parties are supplying both sides . Its a bonfire that everyone is pouring fuel on . This time we might all get toasted .
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The UK saw Hitler as a potential ally in the fight against Communism … that’s why they signed a peace treaty.
All he had to do was avoid invading Poland … not such a big ask when you look at how much else was left open to him. Trouble was after the UK got stabbed in the back once, well what other choice did they have after that?
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Correct Tel, had Hitler made a mutual protection treaty with Poland and then attacked Russia after a “Black Flag” event he would have taken Russia with the full support and blessing of the western powers. What may have happened after he consolidated his control over the vast population,territory and resources of Russia would have been very “interesting”.
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“No deal. That was the message for World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Friday after his proposed global pandemic treaty was rejected after two years of closed-door meetings in Geneva, Switzerland.”
Wow. We dodged a bullet.
This is the man who declared the Wuhan Flu military virus was “not infectious, person to person”. An Eritrean communist revolutionary appointed by President Xi and the first non medical person in charge of the WHO, he should be in jail for crimes against humanity and millions of deaths. But the UN CCJ court is too busy trying to jail the democratically elected President of Israel for fighting UN backed declared terrorists and their supporters.
Even more dangerous than Alabanese’s attack on our Constitution, Tedros could take over world governments when Xi releases another viral surprise. Both ideas pretending to help but schemes for absolute power.
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Australia cannot make a ‘Treaty’ with the UN as the UN is not a Sovereign Nation/Body. The Australian Constitution only allows Australia to make a Treaty with another Sovereign Nation Body.
This is the same reason why the Feral Guv’ment cannot make a Treaty with the so called ‘First Nations’. There is only one Nation on the Australian Continent and that is Australia represented by the Australian Constitution and Feral Guv’ment. The States/Territories cannot make a Treaty so any State/Territory ‘Treaty’ with the ‘First Nations’ is an Agreement only.
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Victoria wants to make a “treaty” with “First Peoples”.
https://www.firstpeoplesrelations.vic.gov.au/treaty
But which “First Peoples”?
Mungo Man? Kow Swamp Man? Tasmanians? Pygmies of North Queensland?
And which of 500 or so disparate tribes?
And which nation as Aborigines did not have a concept of statehood, or even the geography of Australia as a whole.
And apart from all that, states are prohibited under the Australian Constitution of making treaties.
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“The Mabo Case was successful in overturning the myth that at the time of colonisation Australia was ‘terra nullius’ or land belonging to no one.”
Terra Nullius was not overturned in the Mabo Case. It was upheld.
The case was about Eddi Mabo who was not an aborigine on Mer in the Murray group of islands, a truly tiny island in the Torres Strait with 400 people.
The decision was that Eddi was NOT an aborigine but a Torres Strait islander, principally Melanesian and his family had farmed the land for hundreds of years. They had settled by any definition. The court agreed.
Even today for a population of around 4,514 people or postcode in Melbourne we are still told the Torres Strait people are different now with their own Nation and even their own flag flown in offices around Australia. Why? Are they oppressed? Aren’t they Australians?
The Torres Strait islands were never connected to Australia but annexed by the state of Queensland in 1879. So they became part of Australia by default in 1901 even though some of them are just off the coast of New Guinea.
Paul Keating’s government took an opportunity to grandstand and passed a law overruling Terra Nullius and granting historic ownership of 53% of Australia to hundreds of disconnected and unsettled tribes of hunter gatherers spread across as vast continent. These were not settled people or farmers but nomadic hunter gatherers. It is as illogical as it is utterly unworkable.
So this is all leftist fantasy of oppression and colonization. Today 26 million Australians have to endure a flag from a few thousand islanders off the cost of New Guinea, a nominal Nation 1/3 the population of Nauru. We even had to pay for the flags.
It was all very expensive virtue signalling by the Keating Labor Government. These were not nations or settlers. It is all bien pensant fantasy which has done no good for aborigines at all. They don’t see the $42Billion a year spent somewhere no one seems to know. And the thousands of Torres Strait Islanders flags across the country are just nuts. There should be a traditional cash burning ceremony.
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There are more TI flags than there is TI’s.
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If I remember correctly, at the time of the Mabo decision, John Dyson Heydon was said to have commented to a staffer “have you seen what the Communists have done”or words to that effect.
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The land claim of Eddie Mabo would be upheld by any civilised court following common law.
He and his family had defined property boundaries which were indicated by stone walls or markers.
He even had a map:
https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/images/hand-drawn-map-mer-murray-island-eddie-mabo
Any Anglosphere court would consider that a land title.
It was absurd to apply that logic of settle, land titled farmers to Stone Age hunter gatherers who had no concept of land ownership or it’s settled use.
Like everything the Left dies, that turned it upside down and back to front and reversed the true meaning.
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Without DNA testing how do you determine who is really of “Aboriginal” descent from those who just self-identify as a “First Nations People” so as to jump on board the Gravy Train?
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In Ancestry DNA, they can trace my minute changes in heredity and traits in single generations. But no one can come up with an absolute system for determining aboriginality in 50,000 years of history? It’s a protection racket industry. As if the Scots and Irish and Welsh do not have a history of oppression. But they don’t count because they are British? When do the Irish or Scots or Welsh expect reparations? And ownership of half of Australia and America? We could have a drinking ceremony and it wouldn’t be tea.
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Prior to European Settlement there was no nation on the Australian continent. Even after settlement it was only a proto nation being a set of British colonies. The Aborigines did not have a federal parliament, nor a constitution, nor written laws, nor democratic institutions. As such they did not have a nation. Europeans occupied Australia in the same way that Aboriginals did – no different than occupying Mars or the Moon. The treatment of the Aborigines is a whole separate story however they have a far better life post European colonisation and nationhood.
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It’s time to scrap the UN! Let’s hope Trump tells them to clear their desks & get the hell out of USA. Take their Marxist ideologies & organised crime agencies & set up in some 3rd world city. No funding from USA or any Western Democracy!
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ICJ, IPCC, WHO. Scrap the lot as all abject failures, interested only in grabbing power and controlling people. The UN was never created to be a world government but to prevent would be world governments.
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Brussels could have them! Like Canberra, a city full of non-productive snivel servants passing pieces of paper to each other.
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G’day TdeF,
Do you have a source/link for that please? It sounds almost too good to be true.
Thanks,
Dave B
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Sure. All the news on Breitbart.
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Thanks, but it sounds like he hasn’t given up at all.
” Addressing a sullen final day of negotiations, the W.H.O. chief insisted, “This is not a failure.”
“We will try everything — believing that anything is possible — and make this happen because the world still needs a pandemic treaty,” Tedros said. “Because many of the challenges that caused a serious impact during COVID-19 still exist.” ”
I’ll just have to keep my fingers crossed in hope.
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The entire point of a World Health Organization is to stop Pandemics. And it was the WHO behind it. When elected Tedros’ first move was to thank President Xi personally in Beijing. It tells you everything. He was put there to represent world communism and a huge attack on the health of everyone else. Unfortunately for Xi, once you open Pandora’s box, it blows back.
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Tedros is the man whose removal from WHO was requested in a petition signed by a million people. The petition was simply ignored.
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TdeF – Oh dear! They are just going to have to put their avian flu back in the box for the next time they try!
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I’m really heartened by that news. I contacted my local MP about pushing the government to opt out of the proposed pandemic treaty. Complete waste of my time. I got a fridge magnet calendar, a birthday card and an email prior to Xmas telling me how important it is to catch up with family at that time of year. It was really concerning to hear Dr Tedros talk about how well digital covid passports worked in Europe and how that model could be applied internationally.
https://www.who.int/news/item/05-06-2023-the-european-commission-and-who-launch-landmark-digital-health-initiative-to-strengthen-global-health-security
Love how he mentions the principle of “privacy” in the third paragraph *sarc*
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New Paper from Henrik Svensmark on Supersaturation and Cloud Condensation Nuclei
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News from the People’s Republic of Victoriastan
The Victorian government has been negotiating similar extensions as NSW with EnergyAustralia, the owner of Yallourn, and AGL, which operates Loy Yong A.
The 1.48GW Yallourn power station, was due to shut in 2028
Replacing a 1480 MW generating power station with a 350 MW battery (which lasts for 4 hours) is good idea according to “our” ABC!
Posted 10 Mar 2021
You have to laugh!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-10/yallourn-power-station-early-closure/13233274
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You can bet your last $$ that the Victorian LNP & most of LNP In Canberra will be in agreement!
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” close by 2025 ”
Using my fingers, I estimate that is 7 months. Or do they mean by the end of 2025?
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No extensions.
Let’s get this madness over and done with quickly, not slowly.
The faster the power stations are shut down, the sooner this insanity will be recognised and the faster we can get back on track with coal, gas and (gasp!) nuclear power stations.
I would say real hydro (not SH2) as well but there is not much potential for hydro in Australia which has not already been exploited except for perhaps a modified Bradfield Scheme which might have some run-of-river potential. But the Bradfield Scheme is nation building so won’t happen with any current Uniparty Government.
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Agreed, providing of course that the plants are not demolished and can be brought back online promptly after people come to their senses.
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Please don’t forget that the Queensland government wants to build, and is already doing much preliminary work and land purchase, the “world’s biggest pumped hydro scheme” in genuinely untouched forest and unique cloud forest habitat for many rare and even unique native species at Eungella, just to the west of Mackay. Apparently there will be adjacent wind and solar installations, and recently come to light that “green” hydrogen will be made there as well.
This will be and incredibly destructive massive industrial build, but is only a part of what is planned for and already happening here in Queensland. The entire length of the Great Dividing Range and adjacent land – more previously untouched forest and productive farmland – is already being bulldozed and torn up for wind turbines in particular. 60 metre wide roads, no runoff control, substations, batteries, transmission lines … Apparently environmental rules don’t apply to these things that are supposed to “save” the planet.
If all this is allowed to go ahead, you’ll almost be able to drive from south of Gympie to Cairns at night, and see the clearance lights of wind turbines all the way. By day you’ll have the gigantic towers visible.
Some of the solar arrays proposed and approved will be square kilometres in area. At least one will be surrounded by a six-foot high chain link fence, trapping wildlife or excluding it from natural habitat and water sources.
There was even a proposal for an offshore wind turbine installation up here off the coast near Gladstone – within the Great Barrier Reef area. Fortunately, that one has been disallowed.
This is intentional environmental destruction on an enormous scale – government sanctioned and approved, supported by taxpayer money via subsidies and promises of payment even when these monstrosities produce no electricity.
And yet – if a primary producer cuts down one tree that the government declares “protected”, clears a firebreak to protect land from fires, he or she can face financial ruin.
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clean energy?
Very short term
Unpredictables
uncommandbles
unreliables
unserviceables
unfit for purpose
Reguiring vast amount of CO2 to be generated in their production and 10,000km of otherwise unnecessary transmission lines.
This massive disruption and immense cost purely on the basis of a childish scare about very slight warming and that warming being caused by allegedly man made Carbon Dioxide, a statement which is demonstrably false. History will show all this as insane and overall an ecological disaster.
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Global health officials and the medical establishment may have won the climate debate for us.
Yay.
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The Spitfire crash and pilot’s death MrGrimNasty mentioned at #1 is tragic. Unfortunately the traditional British values that existed in WW2 and led to British and Allied victory over the National Socialists no longer exist in many or even a majority of people living in Once Great Britain today. Indeed, such values are completely alien to many younger people and recent immigrants to that country. If Britain were in a similiar situation today, it’s frightening to think that many people would welcome, or at least not be hostile to any enemy invasion, and would not fight, especially as it already has an open borders policy and many people no longer think traditional British culture exists, nor do they value it.
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This was a war started By the nazis who I don’t need to remind you killed 6 million Jews and countless millions other in their ruthless assaults.
Dresden was a hugely strategic place with a very large number of military workers and was a major rail junction.
It was quite close to the advancing Russians and it was hoped the bombing would disrupt German evacuation of troops from the eastern front and shorten the war
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I don’t disagree with any of that, Tony.
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It was also what Stalin demanded at Yalta.
And Stalin won the war on the ground at unbelievable cost in Russian lives.
The final short battle of Berlin alone cost 250,000 Russian lives. Plus over 20million civilians alone in what was a war of exermination of Russians and Jews by Germany and its allies.
Total UK deaths in WWII in WWII were 384,000 soldiers killed in combat and 70,000 civilians.
Total US deaths in WWII were 418,500
And Dresden was not the only German city obliterated for zero military strategic gain. As in the Blitz on London.
Vengeance is a great motivator, the basis of most Hollywood plots. Every Clint Eastwood film. And for John Wick, his dog. As in Gaza.
It is however illegal.
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“Total UK deaths in WWII in WWII were 384,000 soldiers killed in combat… Total US deaths in WWII were 418,500”
They better not play around with Ukraine, they could easily lose that many again.
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Its only brinkmanship.
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Further fighting in Ukraine & elsewhere can be avoided by arresting the Israeli PM . According to the ICC all war & genocide is caused by Israel!
Lock Netanyahu up & all problems will be solved, the Palestinians will build a great nation & live in peace with their Arab neighbours who won’t accept one single Palestinian “ refugee “ !
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Vengence was Churchill’s
On the night of 24–25 August 1940, stray German bombs accidentally fell onto two civilian boroughs in London during a Luftwaffe air raid. Churchill immediately greenlit a retaliatory blow against Berlin by Bomber Command.
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And perversely that single action saved Britain from invasion in Operation Sealion.
Hitler was so outraged and Goering so embarrassed that Hitler directed all bombing to London. Otherwise the Luftwaffe would have eliminated the RAAF airfields and there would have been no Battle of Britain.
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An extra “A” there I suggest
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Stalin also played a pretty big hand in starting the whole mess. The situation per August 1939 was tense but stable. Germany had occupied the remainder of Czechoslovakia in March of that year. UK and France said no more.
Hitler wanted to go into Poland (the nation with the most concentrated population of people of Jewish descent at the time) but couldn’t risk a two front war assuming the British and French were serious this time. The Germans had to consider the western Allies to their west and the Russian communists to their east. This situation was because Germany was part of the Anti-Communism Pact of 1936 with Japan and Italy. This was not the Axis, that did not come until the autumn of 1940. The Anti-Communism Pact was to oppose the communist forces in the Chinese civil war, and in the Spanish civil war. Hitler had been allied with Chiang Kai-shek since 1934. Chiang’s troops were dressed in German style uniforms and had German weapons. They had also been trained by German military advisers. But during 1937 Chiang re-aligned with Mao and created the United Front with the Chinese communists to oppose the Japanese. It was really a proxy war in behalf of Stalin and Mao, but also supported by the Western Europeans and by FDR.
The Soviet Union was also presented with a possible two front war situation at the time, because they had the Germans to their west and the Japanese opposed to communism in the Far East. Stalin wanted to force the Japanese to withdraw from Manchuria so it could be occupied and reclaimed by Russia. The Japanese had moved into western Manchuria to thwart the Soviet’s agenda in Mongolia and to cut off communist supply routes to the Chinese communists in Northern China. Since 1937, the Japanese and the Russians had been in effect fighting an undeclared war across the border between Mongolia and Manchuria. Mongolia was a Soviet puppet state since 1924 and had been occupied by the Red Army since 1935, and had put to death 25,000 Mongolian Buddhists who had demanded religious freedom.
On August 23rd 1939 it was announced that a non aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union had been reached. From Stalin’s point of view it was brilliant, because he was now free to move against the Japanese in the Mongolian situation, while getting a piece of Poland in exchange, and not worrying about German intervention on behalf of the Fins to boot. Germany Invaded Poland a week later followed by the declarations of war by Great Britain and France.
72 hours before the pact was announced the Russians began an intensive artillery bombardment of the Japanese troops defending the Manchurian border. Three hours after the announcement the Russians sent in two armies, spearheaded by tank divisions, in a pincer attack against the Japanese troops still pinned down by the artillery bombardment. The scale of battle was huge. 100,000 Russian troops. 80 Japanese fighter pilots KIA, 190 Russian fighter pilots KIA. About 500 Russian warplanes destroyed. 7000 Japanese troops KIA. 10,000 Russian troops KIA. By way of comparison the Normandy Invasion had about 12,000 KIA.
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Yes, few know about this. It gave Japan pause. But in late 1941 they were preparing to simultaneously attack the Phillipines and Indochina, Singapore and Pearl Harbour to conquer from India to Australia to America’s West coast, Aleutians to South America. Which naturally took all their focus off Russia totally. That information allowed Stalin to move all the surviving Siberian divisions and tanks to the fight at the gates of Moscow. It saved Moscow. For everyone it was a multi front war, a giant chess game. And often a complete gamble.
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This incident helped to bring about the later Japanese Southward Expansion strategy and the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere of which you allude. A southward expansion strategy had laid dormant among the officer’s corps of the Imperial Japanese Navy for some time, but was opposed by the Imperial Japanese Army and by the civilian side of the government. The IJN was concerned about the lack of resources in the home islands which were critical to the operations of a modern navy. Namely fossil fuels. They worried about their dependency on the west and pined for self-reliance in such matters. When the west started applying sanctions and threatening embargoes if the Japanese continued to prosecute the war, using modern weaponry, in China, this was seen as an existential threat by the IJN. The nasty experience with the Red Army on the Manchurian frontier caused the IJA to start to come around to the IJN’s way of thinking, because obtaining resources long term in northern Asia without a full scale, and costly conflict with Soviet Russia was put into question.
The Japanese began to see a southward expansion as a way of bringing the war in China to an end in their favor. Cutting off the west’s supply routes through French Indochina and Burma to the Chinese would put the Chinese in an unstainable situation and force them to terms. As it was, the Chinese had really been defeated after Shanghai and Nanking and had withdrawn into the vastness of central Asia awaiting the West and/or Stalin to bail them out. The Japanese had offered terms to Chiang after Shanghai, if he would join the Anti-Communism pact, but this was rejected. The continuous sending of money, military aid, and weapons to the Chinese by the West was just prolonging the war at this point, in the view of the Japanese.
When Germany overran Western Europe in the Spring of 1940 it opened up the question of what would become of Europe’s South East Asian and Western Pacific colonies. Especially the oil rich Dutch East Indies. Japan entered the Axis alliance because it gave them a legal pretext to take control of the defeated Western European colonies. It was just Realpolitik.
FDR really messed up when he imposed the oil embargo on the Japanese during the summer of 1941 after the Japanese occupied French Indochina. He seriously misjudged how the Japanese would react. Instead of forcing the Japanese to back off, it convinced the civilian side of the Japanese Gov and the emperor that they had no choice but to take the Dutch oil fields. Which of course meant the British and the American Western Pacific holdings would be involved also.
Remember at that time, summer, and fall of 1941, it looked like the Soviet Union was finished.
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Fact Check:
The news that Britain was at war was broken by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at 11.15am on Sunday 3 September 1939.
Poland was originally part of Prussia and there were 800,000 German speakers in what became Poland after WW1
Germany repeatedly contested the interwar border and even Poland’s existence itself, as stated by Chief of the German Army Hans von Seeckt already in 1922.
This is similar to the situation that exists in the Ukraine where Lenin “gave away” Russian speaking provinces as part of its settlement with Germany in WW1 with the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
It is the victors who write history.
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Any guesses who lifted the Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1529″
It was an army led by a bloke named John? Sobieski. This is hardly a “German” name, probably because he and most of his army were, in fact, Polish.
What used to be “East Prussia” had previously been a Polish-speaking piece of real estate until “real politik” kicked in. Silesia was still part of East Prussia during WW1. Interesting Oz link:
“Under Hill 60” is all about mining and counter-mining in trench warfare. Basically, a lot of miners from Silesia (East Prussia) were sent to the Western Front to blow up the Brit / Australian lines. To counter this, a large number of Welsh and Australian mining specialists were sent in to literally “undermine” the German tunnels and really ruin their day. The ends of the deep tunnels were filled with prodigious amounts of high-explosive. Setting it off was to really ruin the German’s day.
Just for giggles, there are believed to be several such allied “loaded” tunnels that failed to explode as expected. NOBODY knows the state of the “surprise packages”, or in some cases, their exact location, and the locals are “wary”.
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An underminer, used extensively in castle sieges was a sapper. From the French saper. So the French used sapeurs and we used sappers. And Australians with a gold rush background were excellent experienced diggers. Like the British from the coal mines.
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CO2 Lover,
Unless you go further back, when the story is different. And then you can go further back again. And again. It’s supposed to be better to learn from history than to repeat its mistakes, but it seems far more popular to do a selective scan of it to nurture today’s grievances and/or to justify today’s atrocities. It’s obvious that, whatever is done today, the past won’t be changed by it.
Better to look at what’s actually happening in the present than to listen to dodgy justifications dredged from history books. Mr Putin claims that the action was required to save Russian-speaking Ukrainians from genocide; he was de-nazifying, etc. Hasn’t his action actually caused a big jump in deaths amongst Russian-speaking Ukrainians? Perhaps he has other reasons than the ones he gave. Either that, or he’s not very competent at saving Russian-speakers.
My own view on the Ukraine war is that it’s a “baddies vs baddies” war and we would have been wiser to have kept our distance.
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That’s totally wrong.
Prussia and Poland have always been separate people, but the balance of power has shifted at various times throughout history. The Germanic influence was largely due to the Northern Crusade and the military/monastic dictatorship of the Teutonic Knights. Gdańsk changed hands many times, and gained and lost independence at various stages.
None of this justified additional violence and re-conquest of that region.
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You could say the same about Australia. Where did those Bronzed ANZACS go?
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Buried in distant military cemeteries?
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I think Australia is in such a mess, including debt, that even if we had a conservative party capable of forming government plus a Donald Trump style leader, it would be decades of sustained effort to get Australia on the road to recovery. But that wouldn’t happen anyway, because the West in general is now weak and powerless and won’t be able to resist the expansionist plans of China and their new Allies Russia and possibly the Arab world.
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We would still be in trouble because about 30% of the electorate are brainwashed by the idiot-box in the corner of the lounge room and wouldn’t vote for a good conservative party. Andrews and Albanese showed that’s all you need to win an election in an ostensible democracy with the preferential system.
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Who’d have thought smashing things was now an organised “fun” commercial activity?
https://thesmashroom.com.au/
The idea is you grab a crate of smashable items like crockery or electronics and a bat and smash things.
Is this genuine fun or a sign of societal decay? I.e. is destroying considered more fun than creating something? Is it representative of what’s happening in our society as a whole as everything traditional is torn down both figuratively and literally?
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Last time this was “popular”, was the i970a; a “Car Bash” was often a feature of school fetes and such.”Educational”? Or a “recuiting tool for the forces of darkness?
Destruction is easy.
It is creation / building that is HARD by comparison
ANYONE, be they “government” or individual, who encourages wanton destruction is to be “avoided”, at least. It is all a bit redolent of the classic socialist mantra about omelettes and eggs.
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David, with respect that comment is not correct. . Of course people would not welcome or not be hostile to a foreign invasion.. Of course they would fight.
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When I see London streets and voting dominated by a certain demographic with values hostile to traditional British ones, I do wonder, Tony.
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I haven’t been to London For 20 years. As our leaders and media residing there constantly discover, London does not represent the UK
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Traditional British values like those exhibited when landed gentry lord it over a peasant underclass? Hopefully those are long gone.
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Hopefully not to be replaced by a legion of overlords and their commissars, with an industrial killing machine, aimed at anyone who pokes their head up?
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Feudalism is not “British” in any sense … Feudalism is how most of the world operated for most of recorded history. Indeed, many parts of the Middle East are still running on an extremely hierarchical top-down structure, even today.
Communism had been far worse than Feudalism and all of the various different flavours of Socialism has led to disaster and the deaths of millions.
The UK was in fact, one of the first nations to restrict the absolute power of the monarchy and enshrined a Parliamentary system. They were also early adopters of a Bill of Rights … maybe if you would read a little more you could understand these things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
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Simon, it’s the Left who are trying to return us to feudalism, pre-Enlightenment, pre-Scientific Revolution and pre-Industrial Revolution times.
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No doubt you welcome the name change from Londinium to London to Londanistan.
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Yay! Another Simon post!
Rummage, rummage…ah yes!
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sct2u3uKAG1y9d09t_720.mp4
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Yes they would fight. Problem is, many that exist within the castle, would fight against the castle because they are of the enemy. A passport does not by loyalty.
A problem once solved by internment during war. Now, well, the numbers are so great that is impossible, as well as morally reprehensible to our soft anti-western endemic population. All good until the trouble starts, then all hell, chaos, will reign.
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Turning a meme into words as we can’t post pictures.
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One of my favourites.
I wonder how rat burgers compare to beef, illegal in the future?
Remember how sex (eewww!) was outlawed and it was simulated by VR mind link helmets?
Remember how the automoton-like rigid thinking citizens couldn’t cope with significant disruptions to their society and how in the end it all fell apart and they all went back to being normal free people?
And what year was it set in? 2032 !!!!!
DM would be fined 2 credits for a violation of the written morality standard by offending fat moomoo wearers.😁
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I am still seeking an answer about what how, if pretend conservative Dutton and his Liberal Party plan of building a nuclear reactor comes true (knowing such a thing would never happen in Australia within less than 50 years if ever), will pricing work?
There is no way the subsidy harvesters profiting from wind, solar and Big Battery plantations will allow their fundamentally defective product to have its price undercut by cheap, reliable nuclear power.
What is the pricing mechanism?
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This is all hypothetical of course, but from recent experience the nuclear power would need to price match the solar, wind and battery power supplies. Remember reliable power must be sold at less than zero if the unreliable power is being sold at less than zero.
The idea that dispatchable power can only be used as backup is THE bad idea at the centre of current problems (pun intended).
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The cost of Big Batteries to make unreliable wind and solar reliable is around A$6 to A$10 TRILLION without and coal, gas or nuclear.
So there is your answer.
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Correct. The price I was talking about was not the cost of providing the electricity which is extortionate, but the spot selling price which routinely goes negative. I would expect that at those times nuclear power stations would have to pay money to supply electricity to the grid.
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You do realise of course that at this stage of the game they can promise anything they want because it’ll never reach fruition in the time left…
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In ten years the Chinese will sell and install small nuclear generators undercutting all other dispatch able sources
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In Vallejo, California, Copper Thieves Have Stolen Copper From the Tesla Charging Stations Making Them Unusable!
https://twitter.com/Kambeitz9/status/1794759308527427921
Video.
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Pete Buttigieg has a VERY tough time trying to explain why “only 7 or 8 [electric vehicle] charging stations have been produced with the $7.5 BILLION investment that taxpayers made back in 2021”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/watch-cbss-margaret-brennan-shocks-buttigieg-when-she/
🇺🇸ColonelMAGAMark under the second X video:
And when the copper is stolen it will be $ 1 Billion per [non-]charging station.
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Bidenomics
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Question: Why don’t EV charging stations include a lines price?
Here’s NZ pricing:
EV Public Charging: Stations, Prices, and Operators
https://evdb.nz/chargers
The NZ Govt has been hiking up the domestic fixed lines charge from 33c/day to $1.20/day now to $2.00/day eventually i.e. domestic consumers are subsidizing EV charging stations.
The charging stations are charged a one-off connection fee initially for new works:
EV charging infrastructure
Connecting fast chargers to our network
https://www.powerco.co.nz/get-connected/ev-infrastructure
But no on-going lines charge at EV charging stations?
Unless a lines component is included in the per kWh charge but where is the disclosure?
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Any big project has a phase were things are slow, not much to see, and lotso money is being spent.
I am sure Petey has 10’s of thousands of these things on the verge of going live. Some say it will be a tipping point, unprecedented in fact.
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FWIW
“The real reason why U.S. and French troops have been in Niger for Years”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/real-reason-why-u-s-french-troops-have/
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I can hear ABC Australia radio in the background.
Now the Left are trying to outlaw the word “Lubra” and also rename a place called “Lubra Creek”.
It used to be a word for Aboriginal female. I even saw it in museums, back in the day before Australian museums became indoctrination centres.
The Left have redefined the word to be offensive but according to the OED:
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New Immigrants may wish to have “Wagga Wagga” outlawed for the same reason
The word Wagga Wagga comes from the Wiradjuri word Waga meaning a place to dance.
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I suspect the problem is that the left can no longer define what a lubra is.
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Shock horror, the Shell garage down the road used to have a ‘Lubra-torium’.
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There was also an “Ampol” joke
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“The Energy Transition Won’t Happen”: Big Tech Embraces Energy Guzzling AI
Essay by Eric Worrall
The driving ambition to stay on top appears to have completely overwhelmed former tech company commitments to green virtue signalling.
The “Energy Transition” Won’t Happen
Foundational innovation in cloud technology and artificial intelligence will require more energy than ever before—shattering any illusion that we will restrict supplies.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/26/the-energy-transition-wont-happen-big-tech-embraces-energy-guzzling-ai/
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And now the scions of software are discovering that both virtual reality and artificial intelligence, which emerge from the ineluctable mathematics of machine-learning algorithms, are anchored in the hard reality that everything uses energy.
This is especially true for the blazing-fast and power-hungry chips that make AI possible.
Nvidia, the leader of the AI-chip revolution and a Wall Street darling, has over the past three years alone shipped some 5 million high-power AI chips.
To put this in perspective, every such AI chip uses roughly as much electricity each year as do three electric vehicles.
And while the market appetite for electric vehicles is sagging and ultimately limited, the appetite for AI chips is explosive and essentially unlimited.
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Each datacenter—and tens of thousands of them exist—has an energy appetite often greater than skyscrapers the size of the Empire State Building.
And the nearly 1,000 so-called hyperscale datacenters each consume more energy than a steel mill (and this is before counting the impacts of piling on AI chips).
The incredible level of power use derives directly from the fact that just ten square feet of a datacenter today has more computing horsepower than all the world’s computers circa 1980.
And each square foot creates electric power demands 100 times greater than a square foot of a skyscraper. Even before the AI revolution, the world was adding tens of millions more square feet of datacenters each year.
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https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-energy-transition-wont-happen
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Sam Altman-Backed Oklo Signs Deal To Power Another Data Center
BY TYLER DURDEN MONDAY, MAY 27, 2024 – 08:40 AM
Sam Altman backed nuclear startup Oklo inked a deal to supply 100MW of nuclear power to data center company Wyoming Hyperscale, it was announced last week.
The news sent shares of NYSE-listed Oklo up more than 30% in trading on Friday.
The companies signed a “non-binding letter of intent outlining plans for the PPA, which will last for 10 years,” according to industry publication Data Center Dynamics. This comes on top of the revelation that, last month, Oklo signed to supply up to 500MW of power to another data center, Equinix.
“Wyoming Hyperscale is building a data center campus on 58 acres of land,” the report says.
Jacob DeWitte, co-founder and CEO of Oklo, commented: “As the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence increases, Oklo remains dedicated to providing clean, reliable, and affordable energy solutions to meet the needs of our data center partners.”
Last month, we published a lengthy report discussing why even as the AI trade may be fizzling, the “electrification” trade, aka the “Power-Up America” trade – so urgently needed to run all those electricity-gobbling data centers needed to run AI – is just getting started and has in fact outperformed substantially both the broader AI and Data-Center Equipment baskets over the past two months..
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I am curently reading “The Prize – the Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize).
The petroleum industry vertually did not exist in the 1850s.
Natural occurring “rock oil” found in Oil Creek Pennsylvania would be skimmed off the surface or soaked up in rags or blankets.
This was then processed to make kerosene for illumination, where the more expensive whale oil was widely used.
It was “Colonel” E.L. Drake who lead a drilling party in Pensylvania and struck oil on 27 August 1859.
How our lives have been changed since August 1859.
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FWIW – for your amazement!
“Judge Says New York City Jury Doesn’t Need to Agree on Predicate Crime to Convict Trump of Guilt
May 26, 2024 | Sundance | 367 Comments”
“Yes, you read that correctly…. The jurors do not need to believe a crime was committed in order to convict Trump of unlawfully hiding a crime he never committed. Let that insufferable Lawfare logic sink in.”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/05/26/judge-says-new-york-city-jury-doesnt-need-to-agree-on-predicate-crime-to-convict-trump-of-guilt/#more-260823
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To raise your amazement to astounment –
“Case Calls for Jury Nullification (A Deep Dive)”
“There are two particular rights in that jumble that we want you to focus on. The first is that ‘In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a … trial, by an impartial jury.’ Second, it states that the accused also has a right ‘to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation’—in other words, you have a right to know the charges against you.
And that right is not merely to be told what specific crime you are accused of. It is not sufficient under that clause to say ‘the defendant committed murder, in the last ten years, against someone, somewhere.’ If you faced a charge like that, you might literally have no idea what they are talking about, and have no ability to prepare a defense. That is why you have a constitutional right to know in detail what you are being accused of.
Except, according to Turley, Alvin Bragg hasn’t had to do that. Trump is being charged with falsifying records in order to cover up another crime. We call that other crime a ‘predicate offense,’ and that has to be filled in, too. And it hasn’t. From the article:”
More at
https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2024/05/27/what-prof-turley-documents-in-the-trump-case-calls-for-jury-nullification-a-deep-dive-n2396643
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Pour yourself a big one as there is a lot of wadeing in that!
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FWIW
“Of Heat Engines and Refrigerators”
“Weather is made possible because transfer of heat also makes available some amount of mechanical work. ”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/26/of-heat-engines-and-refrigerators/
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Bird flu – the next pandemic – must be getting close to flying the coop as I hear over the ditch in NZ there was a test of the telephone screech warning system – used during covid – last week? Can any Kiwi Cuzzy confirm the test? Cheers Bro.
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And Brits were advised a week or two ago to stockpile food and water because of reasons. Clearly something is afoot.
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UK Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron has said it is up to Ukraine to decide how to use British weapons and insisted it has the right to strike targets on Russian territory. During a visit to Kyiv, he said the UK would provide £3bn ($3.75bn) per year for as long as necessary.3 May 2024
Russia should now cut all the interconnectors between the UK and Europe.
Interconnectors have out-competed new gas plants to become the go-to source of back-up power, and the UK is now so keen on them that their role in the country’s generation mix is (was?) expected to rocket from 6% in 2017 to 22% in 2022.
https://www.europeanmovement.co.uk/counting_the_cost
It would be game, set and match if Russia cut the interconnectors (perhaps even the CIA!)
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I seriously doubt those long range strikes can be carried out without NATO involvement. For some reason Cameron seems intent on bringing consequences home.
The chorus of western mouthpieces mouthing these words teminds me of the “build back better” chant that spread around the world. It seems quite orchestrated and intent on triggering a wider regional war or ww3.
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Mass cullings of chickens here in Oz – better stockpile chicken!
Mass destruction of bee hives in Oz, even those free of Varroa mite. Why???
Meanwhile, with the looming destruction of real food, Aldi has the answer:
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1794027678787416414
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And across the ditch the campaign to establish (roll over) acceptance of a national cull of chickens is in full swing as evidenced by this report from last month obtained under the Official Information Act.
The comment at the end of this news item is a curiously interesting one:
“There have been nearly 900 human cases of the H5N1 virus globally since 2003, according to the World Health Organization.”
If we apply the standard of “rare events” as set by the authorities pre and post covid which identified the widespread reporting of heart issues, clotting, sudden deaths etc as “rare” why the hell are we in a flap over an average of 45 people per year (less than 1 a week) getting bird flu in the last 21 years??
As the backyard industry of having a few chickens is stamped on how long will it be before fish flu is discovered as people convert their backyard pools to fish farms? Nothing like a pit of eel pate at the end of the day.
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Even fast food is becoming unaffordable:
https://youtu.be/QECsPqhQL6k?si=n_qQsPODaIniCQqo
When dollar stores close, junk food doubles in price, and California pushes for $30/hr wages, bug burgers will be the future…
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I guess there i sort of positive there – most of us won’t be able to afford junk food
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FWIW
“Russia Names Terms”
“You don’t do that when you’re losing, by the way.”
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251376
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If you can’t beat ’em, join them-
“Photo of the process of recruiting the first Ukrainian prisoners into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after the signing of the law allowing their mobilization. According to the Ukrainian authorities, as part of this process, 350 people serving sentences have already been released and will go to the army; another 4.3 thousand applications are being considered. In total, as part of the initiative, the Armed Forces of Ukraine plan to recruit up to 20 thousand prisoners . ”
Marine drones seem to be the next big thing, all the countries are working flat-out on them. Turkey’s small system weighs over 2tons and move at 40knots, the big ones over 20tons, and I’m sure they’ll be cheap enough for third-world dictators to buy. Asymmetric weapons may upset the apple-cart for the next decade now. The ukies are taking out over-the-horizon radar well inside Russia’s border, the ones the Yanks want destroyed for their nuclear war.
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/milinfolive?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB
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KP,
The question is how many “prisoners” are in jail because they refused to fight ? Asymmetric warfare is guerrilla warfare rebadged. In the current battlefield any concentration of troops or resources is a target which will get hit . “How to remain concealed” is not just a monty python sketch…
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At the moment the marine drones are expanding faster than the measures to block them, so people like the Houthis can use them to sink American warships if they want to. The missiles don’t do enough damage usually, anything that flies is lighter than something that floats, and radar picks missiles up immediately.
A couple of tons of high explosive at 40knots can sink an aircraft carrier.
The cheap airborne drones with cameras have made Ukraine a very different war,as you say. Hitting Russia’s nuclear radar stations is a giant step up, but its want the Yanks want for when the nuclear missiles fly. They certainly won’t make any difference to the war in Ukraine.
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Green Hydrogen’s Progress Faces Some Challenges
Quote of the Week: “I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.” – Jules Verne
The vision for a hydrogen economy sees H 2 , the most abundant molecule in the universe, as the primary means of storing and transporting energy. This would allow most of the world’s energy to be generated from renewable sources when available, and then used when needed.
This week we are checking in on the prospects, opportunities and challenges facing this industry.
The Hydrogen Economy: Inevitable Or Wishful Thinking?
As we’ve mentioned recently, the clean energy transition faces numerous challenges.
Perhaps the biggest of these is energy storage. Wind and solar power can only be generated when it’s windy or sunny, and the batteries available today are expensive and require vast amounts of lithium and other minerals.
This makes the idea of a hydrogen economy compelling. Hydrogen can be produced using renewable energy, it can be traded, stored and transported as a liquid or gas, and then it can be turned into electricity or heat when needed.
Efficiency
The most glaring problem is energy loss on both ends of the chain. Energy is lost when electricity generated from wind and solar is turned into hydrogen, and then it’s lost again when hydrogen is converted back into electricity. In addition, significant power is used to store and transport the gas, and to build the infrastructure.
The result is that only 20 to 30% of the power initially generated can be used to power a vehicle, home or factory. When it comes to heating buildings, the losses relative to electric heat pumps are worse.
Energy Density
Because hydrogen is a gas, its energy density by volume is inherently low. Even liquid hydrogen only contains 25% of the energy of an equivalent amount of gasoline. To store and transport hydrogen it needs to be compressed (which requires energy), or liquified, which requires even more energy.
Either way, the low energy density by volume means it’s relatively expensive to store and transport – but a lot of research and development is going into lowering these costs.
Scarce Resources
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.Jules must have been talking about the Bomb
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Nuclear power on the political agenda.
https://stopthesethings.com/2024/05/26/new-age-nuclear-perfect-answer-to-weather-dependent-wind-solar-chaos/
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After 12 months living in the UK, last week I flew back into Sydney. Our approach took us south from around Parkes towards Goulburn, over the wind farms around Crookwell. I had watched some of these being built over the years as I trucked up and down the Hume, but I had no idea of the extent of them. From 30000 feet they stretch as far as the eye can see. Equally,from 30000 feet it was glaringly obvious that not a single one was turning. I have watched the same thing happen from Liverpool where the Irish sea is jammed with them. Standing on the shore with a reasonable wind in my face but not a single turbine spinning offshore.
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In the People’s Republic of Victoriastan 3 days of little or no wind has been forecast.
But there will be plenty of solar at noon when it is not needed.
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Marines Battle-Tested a Mysterious Suit of Armor From 3,500 Years Ago
A Bronze Age armor suit, one of the oldest of its kind, has finally proven itself some 3,500 years after it was forged.
The suit was discovered in 1960 after a foiled looting attempt in a richly furnished tomb for a fallen warrior, excavated at an archeological site near the village of Dendra in southern Greece.
Thought to be one of the oldest complete armored suits of the European Bronze Age, the Dendra panoply, as it came to be known, has puzzled archeologists in the 60-odd years since it was found.
Wholly intact, it looked solid but early experiments with replicas suggested it wasn’t suited for use in long battles. So was the suit purely ceremonial or only for those who rode to battle in chariots, archaeologists wondered?
Not so, according to a new study from researchers who had a group of 13 marines from the Hellenic Armed Forces test the suit in an 11-hour-long simulation of battle conditions recreated from historical texts. They found the Dendra suit would have been “entirely compatible with use in combat” and the demands of war.
Historical reenactors will go mad for the researchers’ efforts. They extracted information about warfare and battle tactics in ancient Greece from a well-accepted translation of the Iliad, a lengthy poem about the final throes of the Trojan War, which took place around 1300 to 1200 BCE.
“As no historical accounts or descriptions survive from the Greek Late Bronze Age regarding the scope and use of armor of the Dendra type, we turned to a key – and only – detailed early account of warfare, battle, and single combat: Homer’s epic account of 10 days in the Trojan War, the Iliad,” the researchers explain in their published paper.
The team analyzed the text and reviewed other literature, looking for details of battlefield environments, how long daily battles in the Trojan War typically lasted, what warriors ate and drank, and the types of maneuvers, combat techniques, and weapons typically used.
They combined this with published sedimentology and geomorphology data that situates the final battles of the Trojan War in a low-lying 4 square-kilometer (1.5 square miles) area of swampy plains near the Scamander River, which encircled the city of Troy.
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EV’s will soon plug into trees to recharge
Gravity, an infrastructure startup for electric vehicles, has released DEAP Trees, a series of chargers with mounting and cable systems planted on the streets and curbsides so EV owners can fully charge their vehicles in 5 to 13 minutes while they’re on the road. They developed these for their 200kW and 500kW Distributed Energy Access Points, or DEAPs, which they have already unveiled to the public in March 2024.
Now, the startup takes their chargers further by implementing their curbside installations. Gravity is attempting to grow a network of on-street DEAP Trees charging, more expansive than Tesla’s current Supercharger network, as the startup aims to become ‘the largest fast-charging network in the US.’
https://www.designboom.com/technology/deap-trees-fully-charge-electric-vehicle-us-gravity-rangr-studio-05-23-2024/
Better than loose cables I suppose, but no mention of payment.
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Mass exodus of political rats? More than 120 MPs have decided to quit ahead of the next general election – including likes of Angela Leadsom and Theresa May
The UK will go to the polls in July after Rishi Sunak announced the date for the next general election – but scores of high-profile MPs will not be facing the electorate after deciding to stand down.
Housing secretary Michael Gove and former business secretary Andrea Leadsom became the latest Tory MPs to announce they would not contest the next election, as the number of Conservative MPs deciding to stand aside hit a new post-war record. In his letter to constituents, Mr Gove cited the “toll” of public office as he said it was time to let “a new generation lead” following a political career spanning nearly 20 years.
As of 25 May, more than 120 MPs have said publicly they were either standing down from parliament or not contesting their seat at the general election. Some 78 out of those were Conservative – a record number for the party. Veteran Tory MP John Redwood – notorious for once mumbling his way through the Welsh national anthem – also joined the list on Friday.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-standing-down-general-election-tories-b2551407.html
Abandon the Covid/vaxx/war/collapsing economy ship while ye can me hearties! Aaarrr!
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Tawdry Anhydros Gibberish has been mentioned in several posts today.
As TdeF indicates, he is so obviously compromised at the maco level that it should be easy to find seriously indictable offenses to charge him with.
The only difficulty will be to find a jurisdiction that isn’t controlled by Xi.
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Ah, German beer. Nothing like it.
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1793945557263679757
I’ll pass.
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Try Belgian and Czech Beer.
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It’s a Guinness for me
Even the ZERO % Guinness is not bad – but then no more drunk Irishman jokes.
Paddy was driving home, drunk as a skunk, suddenly he swerved to avoid a tree, then another, then another. Officer Muldoon pulls him over as he veers about all over the road. Paddy frantically tells the cop about all the trees in the roadway. Officer Muldoon replies “For God’s sake Paddy, that’s your air freshener swinging about!”
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“Young man,” said the judge, looking sternly at the defendant.“It’s alcohol and alcohol alone that’s responsible for your present sorry state!”
I’m glad to hear you say that,” replied Murphy.”Everybody else says it’s all my fault!”
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Bud Light has been known as “P*ss Water” for a long time
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/bud-light-sales-down-30-year-over-year-rivals-continue-climb
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Turns you gay. And Transvestites aren’t what they used to be.
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The state of the conservative parties worldwide-
https://garricktremain.nz/
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The English seem fond of Declaring War on their neighbours
July 28, 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
August 1, 1914 Germany declares War on Russia.
August 3, 1914 Germany declares war on France.
August 4, 1914 Britain declares war on Germany.
August 6, 1914 Austria declares war on Russia.
August 23, 1914 Japan declares war on Germany.
August 25, 1914 Austria declares war on Japan.
April 6, 1917 The U.S. declares war on Germany.
December 7, 1917 The U.S. declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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Maybe that’s why Rishi wants to make national service compulsory for 18-year-olds 🙂
Either that or he is trying his level best to ensure a landslide victory for Labour.
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Leak brilliant on Australian Greens Leader Bandt
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It’s tragic how communism was thought to be permanently abolished in the 80’s and 90’s but is now back with a vengeance and under different names due to the dumbing down of the education system. All those millions died for nothing, it seems.
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Here ya go DM:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sbdzrhgiTt1zlxqpx.mp4
A good teacher shows you where to look but not what to think.
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“Australian Labor Party” being one of these
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Medical myths Monday: the “Spanish” flu
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9cb43b06ce919673ce540c5fef2ebe85/e7ff1f668397bb7d-e5/s500x750/de6b79448beef338ac935468b5fa63a8dc3535c6.jpg
Cover up those legs! 😆
Not as bad as Chlorine gas to treat a cold..
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Bird flu 2024:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/36325be764e29859bef6cf663f06a7ab/5fe8fe16dd4b106d-2a/s640x960/578837c348f11e87eadf824cbe49958afbaedcfb.jpg
It’ll happen again because the people haven’t changed.
Bird flu will be the scapegoat for the Fakevax ™ injuries.
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Another good reason for Russia to regain lost territory
Kaliningrad Oblast had a population of roughly 1 million in the Russian Census of 2021. The territory was formerly the northern part of the Prussian province of East Prussia; the remaining southern part of the province is today part of the Warmian–Masurian Voivodeship in Poland.
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Even horses are better than Teslas!
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Twitter has died on my computer recently, I just get a message on a black screen saying “Something went wrong”
Underneath is a note “Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com”
..but I have Firefox tracking set to ‘standard’ not ‘strict’. Standard blocks tracking cookies by containing the cookies to the site you are on, which suggests Twitter has just started using tracking cookies.
Anyone else noticed this? I’m not a Twitter member, its just for links from here or other sites.
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Brave Browser
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Actually I have Brave Kim, I use it for images which is where my Startpage on Firefox is weak. I might just have to use it more.
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Market reversal: fewer people would now choose an EV
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Based on that guy’s experience, and assuming tread depth on EV tyres is the same as for conventional tyres, EVs must shed five times as much rubber into the environment for the same distance traveled. But EVs are ‘green’, right?
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“Miraculously, They’re Still Alive”
Text from cartoon
“IT’S BEEN THREE YEARS. SHOULDN’T ALL THE UNVACCINATED BE DEAD BY NOW?”
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Just how much money does Hollywood have? At the moment, it seems to have a limitless supply, so much so they can keep making bombs that lose enormous sums of money. Theyy’ve been making cr4p ‘woke’ movies for a few years now and it’s very clear that movie fans don’t like them, yet they make more, and more and more. One particular favourite for them is the ‘girlboss’ story, which aims to demonstrate that, while women are graceful, empathic, smart and beautiful, they are also tougher and stronger than mere males.
Is your town under attack by a mob of heavily armed terrorists? You need a gun toting super soldier (who happens also to be a supermodel AND a doting mother). Evil aliens? What you need to fight them is a skinny blonde with wonderful hair, a kind spirit and a BIG EFFIN GUN who shouts a lot. See? Girls are simultaneously victims of horrible men but also hard as toughened steel (plus cleverer).
The latest nonsense is, as is often the case, a hijacking of a popular franchise, this time Mad Max. They already dumped Max for Maxine the last time out, but ‘Mad Max Furiosa’ takes girlbossing to olympic level absurdity, plus the female lead is almost, maybe, could be a bit ‘boyish’ (nudge nudge wink wink woke). It needs to make $400M to break even but, so far and despite launching across a long holiday weekend, it sold just $59M.
So when will the money run out? Does the good stuff (if it still gets made) make enough to cover these losses?
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