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On Farcebook I saw a video of British Leftists destroying a Tesla, presumably one they had purchased, not a random one in the street (but they do that too). Elon is saving US taxpayers money at DOGE and conquering space and has restored free speech at X. And the Left love their EVs. Why would anyone hate him? This just proves again that Leftism is a mental disorder. Oh, and the destroyed Tesla means Elon will have to build another one and make more money.
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I found a more complete version of the video on YouTube.
Clearly, the Leftoid participants are deranged.
And they vote.
https://youtube.com/shorts/f7X25qnYLw0
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This was a scrap car, not a working one . It would have been crushed at the breakers yard anyway.
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Would love to see the crushing if the battery was still in it….
AFAF
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Scrappies are not stupid.
Anything of value on late model vehicles ( engines, ancilliaries, computers, batteries, wheels,and fuel etc) are removed before crushing.
A Tesla, would have many valuable components for reselling.
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The curious thing – as a placard declares their anti-Fascist attitude, their intolerance(bigotry) gives them away. I have a long time friend who has finally declared an end To our friendship for my support for Trump and Musk, even though much is qualified. I’m sorry that it’s battle lines drawn and the political Left doesn’t recognise that they are the Fascists.
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“and the political Left doesn’t recognise that they are the Fascists.”
The Left doesn’t recognise they are the fascists because they are not fascists
Fascists are members of Fascism a far-right authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterised by a dictatorial leader, centralised autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Fascism is opposed to Marxism, democracy, anarchism, pluralism, free markets, egalitarianism, communism, liberalism, and socialism as conventionally defined.
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My take on the scene is that the extremes of political movements eventually come together on the other side.
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How many of you, also, can’t stand AI narrated videos?
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Yes. I hate them. Especially one particular popular AI voice. And the last one I saw pronounced “Saturn V” (the rocket) as “Saturn Vee”.
Surely the humans in the loop bother to check?
Or maybe they are just as stupid as the AI.
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What’s wrong with calling it the Saturn Vee. I always have.
Have you ever wondered what the Romans would have called it?
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quinque (kween-kweh)
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There are people here who know everything (no sarcasm….)
So how?
Have not Romans invented SPQR?
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Our diverse professional humans are in the same league: heard one talking about the ‘kay-nulls of Venus’ – her Italian guest, who grew up on the canals of Venice, politely let that one slide on by…
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I’ve always said the Senate and the people of Rome. Or something similar Vladimir.
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(Seen on a meme.)
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a disease
It’s a condition where objective thinking and rational judgment are entirely consumed by extreme hatred. Logic and reason are compromised by a false data set of bias and propaganda. Reclaim your mental clarity by turning off mainstream news and avoid the corrosive influence of left-wing propaganda and misinformation.
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I turned off Bolt on Sky yesterday. He was having an extended TDS session with Greg Sheridan and I thought the tv would be in danger of an axe through the screen if I tried to suffer it further.
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I fast forward instead.
They both have other good instincts but somehow can’t cure their TDS.
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Sheridan had a piece in the Australian going on about how we don’t love America anymore. This glued on individual has no flexibility and wishes for our undying support for all US foreign policy initiatives when it comes sanctions, bullying , bombing and invasions that they engage in. Bolt sems to be the only outlet on SKY to feature him. Bring back Cameron and Bernardi .
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I rarely watch TV “news” which I call “The Lies”.
But watching it this morning (because I pressed the wrong button), it’s just unbelievable that the masses actually watch this garbage.
And believe it.
And most voters base their voting decision on the simplistic, child-like statements of the two Uniparty leaders.
Al-bozo’s statements are especially simplistic and moronic.
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And The Lies just said people are turning away from Dutton because of how TRUMP is running the US.
What?
TRUMP is doing a fantastic job!
And in any case Dutton is nothing like TRUMP. I doubt whether he has any policies in common (except he said he’d have Jacinta Price look at Government waste).
Dutton and the Liberals aren’t even conservatives.
Why are they making the comparison?
And what’s wrong with how TRUMP is running the US anyway? One of the best President’s ever and the best modern one.
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The US is on the road to serfdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom
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Did you not understand the book Simon?
Serfdom is due to the Left.
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the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through
central planningexecutive order.315
I was listening to a US Midwestern farmer detailing the tarif effect on his business:
Inputs up 10-15%, outputs zero as buyers are going to Brazil and other suppliers.
I wonder if The Donald would penalise Australia if buyers came to Australia to replace US farm exports?
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And the far right.
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It is very Simple Simon, if your education system trains your children so the only career they can work is in the service industries than they will be servants and will earn the income of servants. Forget the current last burp of our children’s future wealth being distributed under the NDIS, social security, bureaucratic bloat, warm fuzzy koala saving advertisements etc, these children are going to be born heavily in debt to the World’s elite with only the ability to clean AirBNB’s and make lattes despite the free Diplomas of International Business they were given.
They will be born ‘A person in bondage or servitude’. They are Serfs and are living on borrowed money.
The difference between you and Trump is that Trump is doing something positive about the disaster facing the future generations of his country.
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it maddened me in my childhood that the adults around did not see it.
OK, that was past Century and past society.
But it is still the rule here, today to say “public good” v “private profit” without explanation.
Without explanation ! As self-evident truth.
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Great observations Broadie…..oh so true
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‘Trump is doing something positive …’
I dispute that, he tried turning the clock back to a bygone era and it broke. Too much central planning.
Hayek argues that ‘society has mistakenly tried to ensure continuing prosperity by centralized planning, which inevitably leads to totalitarianism. “We have in effect undertaken to dispense with the forces which produced unforeseen results and to replace the impersonal and anonymous mechanism of the market by collective and ‘conscious’ direction of all social forces to deliberately chosen goals.” (wiki)
This exceptional democracy is at a crossroads.
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Free Trade only can only work in an ideal world. The world is anything but ideal.
The past 40years of open trading could only ever end in the way it has where politics of dictatorship versus democracies always ensured the dictatorships had cost and labour advantages in production which lead to the evisceration of the industrial heartlands of democracies which had made them so great where ideas were converted to ever improving and efficient products and growth of the knowledge base in all areas. The dictatorships romped home with the onset of the Climate warming debacle as even the authors of that movement freely admit; ‘it has nothing to do with the climate , stupid. It’s all about slowing the first world economies and wealth redistribution to third world nations.’ Pushed by socialist elites of Europe seeking increasing control over the world. It has worked a treat for China and India for that matter. Nations that are excused from the crap.
Trump has called a halt to it, having seen what the Democrats obviously turned a blind eye to: the financial devastation of the middle classes. Like true socialists and communists everywhere, that created increasing dependence on government and weakening of individual choice, freedoms and advancement of knowledge. It also passed democratic technological leadership across to the enemies of democracy.
I applaud Trump for terminating this destructive period for the West regardless of the future hardships that controlling import-export matters brings to the nation. Under the current system the world as we knew it was leading to a gross weakening of democratic nations which have lost much of their industrial base and we have put ourselves increasingly at the risk of war with the China-Iran-Russia-NK block which has prospered primarily from the global warming handicaps the mad democracies have placed on themselves.
In Australia our government races towards maximising a socialist base in this once proud nation of individualism. Our education system has undercut most of our values. Pupils see non democracies as superior to democracy. Trump is the last hope of regaining our places in the world and our future in freedom.
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“Free Trade only can only work in an ideal world. The world is anything but ideal.”
Too much democracy! When people can vote their hands into other people’s pockets, they do! Democracy will always fail, and that’s why the world is not ideal.
Take the power to tax away from Govts and make them ask the tax-payer for money and you will see a change! Stop the Govt having anything to do with buying and selling, local or international, and you will see countries bloom.
Developing countries will always have cheaper labour, that’s how they get rich and develop. Then its the turn of the next poor nation to make everything, and so it goes. Trying to have a first world country make stuff is never going to work, that’s why we borrowed billions to prop up uneconomic car companies here when we should have never put a public dollar into them!
If someone cannot see that Australia will suffer a massive drop in people’s wealth by making everything here, I see no hope for them.
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In April, the value of the U.S. dollar dropped significantly, which means that most buyers are moving to other countries. This is good news for Poland, since we buy armaments from the US.
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Ooh, a Simon post!
You know the drill – read the post then:
https://imgbox.com/RGbCI4VR
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If you had said, The “UK” is on the road to serfdom I’m sure you would have got a lot of green ticks Simon.
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I’d love to imagine that one day Oz could have a leader driven to eradicate waste in government programs, avoiding expenditure and fraud.
Strange that the two major parties aren’t bleating about this right now. There are some soft targets, welfare, NDIS, the funding for the race that stops a nation, green power to name just a few. You could always jump into the health or education department too.
The bigger question is WHY don’t the government want to remove the waste?
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Ian, let’s suppose waste was eradicated in government programs.
What if anything would remain?
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Public ‘servants’ handing around documents that no-one reads.
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NDIS housing funds ‘blown on cars, casino, crypto’
A receivers’ report into David McWilliams’ ALAMMC Developments paints a damning picture of the wild west of NDIS housing investment, where dodgy developers have been allowed to roam free and prey on investors.
Supercars, cryptocurrency, a Fijian resort, signed basketball jumpers and a country pub. That’s how one dodgy NDIS housing provider spent investor cash, instead of the promised houses for people with disabilities.
We’re talking about David McWilliams’ ALAMMC Developments group, which raised more than $90m from investors before it was put into court-ordered receivership last year after Queensland gambling regulators tipped off ASIC that McWilliams had punted some $39m over the tables at Star Casino.
Receivers Andrew Fielding and Helen Newman from BDO delivered their first report on ALAMMC to the court in late February, but a redacted version has only just been made available to the public.
Like fellow Queensland NDIS housing boondoggle Saorsa Health, the ALAMMC report shows a damning picture of the wild west of NDIS housing investment, where dodgy developers have been allowed to roam free and prey on investors – promising 45 per cent returns for doing good, but delivering nothing in return.
The BDO report is heavily redacted as ASIC is still investigating key parts of the group’s financing and operations – including McWilliams’ relationship with Saorsa Health boss Aiden Garrison. They were once co-directors of a company, according to ASIC records.
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Like a dog that turns dangerous, some people just need taking outside and shooting.. there is no other fix.
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EI, that very question has baffled me since Trump instigated DOGE. Who in their right mind wouldn’t like to see the rorts stopped…….rhetorical I know but surely I am not alone in wishing the monetary abuse would stop….. Jo’s article today on the IMO a classic example….once again Trump pulling out…..so sensible….Get us out of the UN, WHO, IMO, Net Zero and channel the money back into this once great Country.
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No need – that’s what 2032’s all about.
The end of the cycle of government fraud, incompetence, waste and totalitarianism.
Just like all cycles it’ll be the dawn of a new era, for those here to see it.
Just 7 years away.
I won’t be around to see it but I would have liked to.
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John Connor II
What cycle are you referring to?
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A few days before Xmas 2032 there is low probability of a hockey stick shaped asteroid hitting the moon.
‘The asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in December 2024 and had the highest Earth collision probability ever recorded for an asteroid of its size: one in 32 (3.1%). However, after careful observation and analysis of the orbital data, NASA estimated that there were only 0.00078% chances of an impact on Earth, ruling out the danger. However, the attention has now shifted to the Moon.’ (Digit)
Even if it does collide it will have no impact.
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TRUMP is doing a fantastic job!
Liz Truss – Trump has been proven right about pretty much everything
Net zero, trade with China, Covid lockdowns, mass migration: all have been disastrous
The American economist Thomas Sowell once wrote: “People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right – especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”
So it seems with President Trump. He has been proven right about pretty much everything and now he is trying to do something about it, the elite is howling with indiscriminate outrage.
It turns out that the Paris Climate Accords led to unilateral economic disarmament in the West, especially in Britain; that China has proved to be a malevolent force and is now eating our lunch; that the overly draconian Covid lockdowns were a mistake; that the “swamp” or “deep state” – call it what you will – is a real threat and was subverting democracy; and that mass migration has been an economic and cultural disaster.
The entire Western establishment can’t bear to admit how wrong they have got it – and that their self-serving Davos groupthink has left our countries in a terrible state.
Bill Clinton allowed China to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on developing country terms. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, supported by Ed Miliband, outsourced huge powers to unelected officials while expanding the state and embedding human rights laws, climate change targets and DEI ideology.
The only viable strategy is the one that Trump is employing of “flooding the zone” – of using shock and awe to challenge opponents and upend the status quo. Those wanting serious change must understand we are in a fight with an unelected establishment that will do all it can to stop change happening.
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TRUMP is doing a fantastic job!
Surely you jest. Trump is losing hand over fist as he pushes the US further and further into the economic mire with his lunatic policies.as the voters turn away. According to Rasmussen Reports daily polling, Trump has enjoyed over a steady job approval rating over 50% on any given day since his inauguration — until April 3 — the day after the sweeping tariff. His rating has since slipped lower every day to a current 47% approval and 51% disapproval.
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You mam are an ID10T
Nothing you say is true or correct.
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You should have read that more carefully…
/heh…
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I wonder when Anthony Albanese and/or Peter Dutton are going to tell the Australian people that
Australia became a Republic in October 2024 when King Charles was in Australia?
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Mods – check suggested
FWIW –
“Therapeutic Albanese caption contest!”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/04/albanese-caption-contest.html
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https://www.petersweden.org/p/you-wont-believe-this-crazy-climate
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BUY them from China, more likely !
So not just a waste of money, but supporting the biggest emitter in the world !
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Is all this what they mean when they chant “climate justice now!”?
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FWIW
For “Elbow’s Shopping List”
“Bombshell Reports: “German Weapons Not Made for War”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/bombshell-reports-german-weapons
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Bombshell Reports: “German Weapons Not Made for War”
The report cites “an internal paper of the Bundeswehr” about the real practicality of Germany’s top weapons. We can assume that the very same results extend to the entire constellation of NATO weaponry in general, since they are virtually all constructed with the same design philosophies, often even with interoperable systems
But just as many in the Russian sphere had long suspected, such ‘dazzling’ workmanship and technology usually leads to high maintenance and reliability costs, as anyone who’s owned a BMW can probably attest.
KAMAZ trucks have dominated the Dakar Rally, a premier off-road race, for many years.
The Russian manufacturer has won the truck category of the Dakar Rally a record eighteen times as of 2022, making it the most dominant manufacturer in this category.
Kamaz Trucks for Agriculture
KAMAZ trucks are known for their durability and ability to operate in harsh conditions, which reflects the pragmatic approach of Russian engineering. These trucks are designed to handle tough agricultural and industrial tasks, ensuring longevity and reliability
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‘dazzling’ workmanship and technology usually leads to high maintenance and reliability costs, as anyone who’s owned a BMW can probably attest.
I have been watching ATTEMPTING TO DRIVE THE PORSCHE GT3RS THAT WENT SWIMMING and the Tech in the vehicle is frightening – road testing New 4WDs across Australia for a 4WD Journo mate in the later years with loads of electronics, the number of times 4WD went into limp mode or totally cut out, made them dangerous on CSR & Simpson
For Example – PORSCHE GT3RS
do have a problem though for some reason the battery’s gone completely flat like it’s it’s dead like the windows don’t even drop when I try and open the door and I’ve got nothing in here like literally it’s completely dead and you think oh I’ll just put a jumper on it well I can’t even open the Bonnet because to open the Bonnet is it’s a button right apparently just here I remember in my Cayman it had the same thing if you pull this out there is a little terminal there we can put a positive bit off the battery on there should give us power to pop open that so jumper pack let me grab a jumper pack
it’s a lithiun ion battery and it’s got an ECU in it which like turns off when it thinks the car’s draining the battery or drops below a certain voltage you need a special charger to charge it you need a lithium iron charger so they do you in all different directions don’t they they do you in all different directions and always the source of the problem is electric
we always are going to with flood damaged cars but a lot of this has been replaced the battery being one of them but I think that’s probably our issue cuz it’s been replaced it probably needs code into the car right jump pack on the front see if we can spring some life
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German tanks are failing in Ukraine for the same reasons they lost the Second World War
The Leopard 2 is a technical marvel, with echoes of the German Tiger tank in WW2: perhaps the most dangerous tank of the war.
Leopard 2 has a very complex fire control system, an outstandingly powerful MTU power pack (the engine to the “non tankies”), and an excellent 120mm smoothbore gun.
However it is very susceptible to drone and “top” attack and very difficult to fix if damaged or broken down.
The first issue identified is how difficult it is for Ukraine soldiers to mend these tanks and keep them battle worthy. If the engine breaks down it must be taken hundreds of miles for repair in a specialist facility, whereas the old, simple engines of the Russian tanks can be easily fixed by any automotive mechanic, in situ if necessary.
The first tank I commanded was a Chieftain, designed in the 1950s, which had a “London bus” engine to power it. The engine frequently stopped when the fuel injection solenoid got stuck shut. This was simply remedied using a clothes peg to keep it open! A similar problem with a Leopard 2 or CR2 would require a new engine.
Secondly, these multi-million-pound tanks have become very susceptible to the ubiquitous $500 drones, which destroy them at an alarming rate. The Leopard 2 and CR2 were designed when there was no drone threat.
To a certain extent the metal cages now being welded onto the Leopard 2s and CR2s do counter the drones, but it is not until these tanks are fitted with the developing defensive aid suites, which will include multiple anti-drone lasers and other weapons, that this threat will be reduced to manageable proportions.
The third shortfall is ‘mass’ or numbers, simply put. The Germans lost WW2 because they could not match the mass the Allies could generate.
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Russians… not known for worrying about vehicle emissions or the effects of burning oil, so there is no need to update a 1980s turbo-diesel tank motor.
We run a 1990s 2litre rally car with over 800ft-lb of torque, and apart from that tech moving down the to smaller cars that manufacturers now make, they haven’t added anything useful to a car since then!
What have they done to improve heavy truck diesels apart from make them more expensive, harder to maintain and likely to break down more often..
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You must have supporting evidence for that wild statement.
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Every Marine A Drone Pilot: Individual Lethality To Go From Meters To Kilometers
General highlights how drones and small guided munitions are about to give each Marine exponentially more reach than the traditional rifle.
The increasing prevalence of weaponized drones, especially first-person-view (FPV) kamikaze types, and other man-portable precision munitions could lead to a change in the U.S. Marine Corps’ famous mantra of “every Marine a rifleman,” according to the general who oversees the training of the service’s new recruits.
“And one of the initiatives we partnered on here is this Marine Corps Attack Drone Team,” the TECOM commander continued. “It started down at Quantico, with the partnership between [the] Marine Corps Warfighting Lab[oratory] and [the] Weapons Training Battalion, and they are using FPV drones, first-person-view drones. And they are paving the way for some of the policy, technology, and fiscal challenges into how we bring these in, at scale, and we turn a rifleman into somebody who cannot just kill an adversary with a precision weapon at 500 meters, but can do it out at 15 to 20 kilometers.”
“The creation of MCADT comes in response to the rapid proliferation of armed first-person-view drone technology and tactics observed in modern conflicts, particularly in Eastern Europe. As emerging threats continue to evolve, the Marine Corps is prioritizing the integration of FPV drone capabilities to enhance lethality and operational effectiveness across the Fleet Marine Force,” according to a press release the Marine Corps put out in March.
“MCADT’s impact extends beyond competition. FPV drones offer squad-level lethality up to 20 kilometers for under $5,000, compared to more expensive weapons systems with less capability. This provides a cost-effective and scalable solution for modern combat.”
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Pauline, Katter, and Canavan talking sense.
Don’t you wish all politicians were this honest?
Pauline Hanson claims cost of living is ‘driven’ by Labor’s renewables push
Sky News Australia
4 minute video
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Chinese investors aren’t to blame for the death of British Steel. Net zero is
Nationalisation will force the Government to finally face up to the real costs of green utopianism
The British Government has made a historic intervention to save the final remnant of the nation’s steel industry.
The plant’s prospects were ruined by policies that successive British governments have imposed willingly, mainly in the realm of energy policy. There have been damaging regulations specific to steel production, such as the coking coal ban, but it’s what has been done to British Steel’s domestic market that should now be the government’s focus.
Britain’s exceptionally high commercial electricity prices have recently gained media attention, but this has been a chronic problem over many years.
This is not merely an unfortunate overhead that makes firms less profitable; year after year it has seen entire sectors rendered completely uncompetitive in Britain.
After years of decreases since the 1980s, British energy prices began rising after the passage of the Climate Change & Sustainable Energy Act of 2006. This began the process of imposing the cost of renewables subsidies onto consumers. They have steadily risen ever since. Despite the claims of renewables campaigners, who point to the low price of wind and solar power during the specific moments when they are at their most productive, it is the huge costs of back-up, balancing and subsidies that are imposed onto the system by intermittent generation that is responsible for these increases.
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The problem is that it’s not just labor/green policies driving the rising cost of every single thing in our lives and driving businesses broke or offshore.
Remember that the libs/nats are just as on board as the others, in fact it was Howard who began the creeping and increasing push to “renewables”.
Canavan seems to be a good bloke, but – like Gerard Rennick – he’s trying to make change from within the coalition. That never works.
Gerard Rennick lost his lib Senate endorsement because he wouldn’t toe the party line and he spoke too much good sense. He’s since formed his own party (people first, I think it’s called) and is gathering a decent amount of support.
Will good sense and reality gain enough support to make a difference? We can only hope so – and do all we can to support those candidates who are trying to salvage the country and make life better for us all.
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Whilst a sensible statement, unfortunately very few voters will listen to her
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FWIW – tariffs and beef
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/us-imported-beef-trade-in-state-of-paralysis-is-it-the-calm-before-the-storm/
https://www.beefcentral.com/news/trump-tariffs-and-tight-supply-open-new-doors-for-aussie-beef/
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Not much that lady doesnt know about the global beef industry, thats quite an overview.
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FWIW
“Archive: Emails, Privilege Logs Suggest EPA’s Endangerment Finding Was Unlawfully Predetermined, Review Needed”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/04/14/archive-emails-privilege-logs-suggest-epas-endangerment-finding-was-unlawfully-predetermined-review-needed/
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I had DEEPSEEK review the electricity price across the 20 nations with GDP in excess of USD1tr to provide a regression line of price verse wind and solar penetration used to forecast the retail cost of electricity at 80% penetration.
The regression line (Price = 0.0065 × Wind+Solar% + 0.092) forecasts that Australia’s electricity price would reach $0.92 AUD/kWh (0.61 USD/kWh) at 80% wind and solar penetration based purely on the observed relationship between renewable share and retail prices across the 20 largest economies, without accounting for potential cost reductions from grid interconnections, storage, or future technology improvements.
This is where Labor is taking Australia. There are already schemes in place to hide the real cost. The real cost will be spread across the service fee that consumers pay and from general revenue that taxpayers pay and will be highly inflationary.
We have to thank DJT for offering an alternate that the rest of the world can eventually aspire to reach.
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Or $61 MWh.
Did I post this before?
Remember when we were told that wind and solar would always get cheaper? Well, that hasn’t been the case since 2018 for wind or 2020 for solar. According to the JP Morgan Chase Report, power purchase agreement (PPAs) prices for wind have more than doubled since 2019, and solar PPAs are near $60 per megawatt hour.
..for every megawatt of wind or solar installed in various regions, it only offsets 10 to 20 percent of gas capacity
JPMorgan full report:
https://assets.jpmprivatebank.com/content/dam/jpm-pb-aem/global/en/documents/eotm/heliocentrism.pdf
All the pink unicorn dreams of a green utopia are being crushed by reality.
Everywhere.
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USD0.61/MWh is USD610/MWh.
The USD60/MWh you quote is what the wind needs to get to make money. It is far, far removed from the retail price. Like an order of magnitude.
DEEPSEEK kept trying to make a case for wind and solar by suggesting that Germany had done it badly while Australia had done it better; citing the penetration and cost in South Australia. I pointed out that SA relied on interconnectors so was not a good example.
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Plunging used electric car prices costing fleet businesses ‘hundreds of millions’
This is because demand for used electric cars is ‘struggling to keep pace’ with the volume entering the second-hand market at the end of fleet, lease and rental contracts – something that is predicted to increase by 178 per cent over the next three years.
An oversupply into a used market lacking EV appetite and riddled with public scepticism means preowned electric cars have lost more than half their value in the past two years, depreciating faster than any other fuel type.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-14607043/Plunging-used-electric-car-prices-costing-fleet-operators-hundreds-millions.html
That’ll be the least of your worries by then, trust me.
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A quick squint at Carsales.com suggests that sellers are quoting the original range figures for Teslas that are 4-6 yrs old. My understanding is that, though good quality, Tesla batteries DO lose capacity over time, so the practice of simply quoting the manf’ spec is misleading buyers. No doubt people selling Chinese EVs do the same.
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I have a friend who bought the first Prius model (NHW10) second hand over 20 years ago. It has undergone a few battery repairs that required cell replacements but overall very low cost car. That became his wife’s car.
He recently bought a 4 year old KIA EV6 for around 25% of the original cost to replace an old Falcon sedan. He is prepared to live with the limitations of an EV and felt the price was too good to pass up. I have since noticed that he paid much less than the price you see for second hand EV6s so I do not know why it was so low cost. It may have been a hire car that had travelled a long way for its age.
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The EV my friend has is one of the first Kia Niro full BEVs into Australia. Not an EV6.
Price he paid was around 30% of the original. These cars were not as popular as the EV6 and I did not know they existed as full BEV.
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The Niro EV was Kias first EV in Au, predating the EV6 by a year or two.
Base model Niro EV S could be bought for $30,500 in 2021
If your friend picked up a 2021 model for $10k,… he did well !
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184 Million People, 4 Landmark Studies: COVID-19 mRNA Shots Are NOT SAFE FOR HUMAN USE
https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/1911541826730729702
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When is a cyclone more a psyche-lone?
Most punters are calling Tropical Storm 11F in southern Vanuatu a ‘deep subtropical low’, however Fiji Met has classified it as Category 1, albeit with no official ‘name’ yet:
https://www.met.gov.fj/ should open on their Warning page.
Numerous models have ‘11F’, or as Windy.com calls it, No.30, dropping towards us tomorrow then veering to the west of NZ to park-up in the mid-Tasman Sea for the weekend. Northeast gales and torrential rain for the NE of the North Island (yours truly) thanks to a ‘squash zone’ resulting from a stubborn 1035 hPa High to our east.
Drought-stricken farmers’ prayers being answered? Hydro-electricity generators cursing because lakes will soon be overflowing (no excuse to hike prices)? Families on school holidays hoping the kids’ phone batteries last and the tent/caravan or AirBnB house survives the onslaught?
It was snowing in the South Island this morning, now we’ve got a troppo eyeing-up the North: standard weather for April at these latitudes, yet if hexspurts & mayors & councils are ‘caught by surprise’ as so often happens, the Climate Derangement Syndrome will crank-up to ‘11’ and Oh! The Hugh Manatee!
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Tropical Cyclone Tam, Cat 1, is now official, between New Caledonia and Fiji, heading south for New Zealand, yeehaah!
As we are still in ‘cyclone season’ until the end of this month, this is not out of the ordinary, it is what is called ‘the climate’ for these parts, 100% natural. Let the Derangement begin!
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FWIW – riddle you this
“Oh Dear – Energy Is Not Conserved In Long Time Scales”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/oh-dear-energy-is-not-conserved-in-long-time-scales/
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Does any know of comparative investigation into dog-loving?
Besides “Into Your Tent I’ii Creep”, that is…
How various cultures and social groups differ in that respect.
Naturally a “working dog” can be loved but I am after somewhat less practical, like love of cricket.
For instance, which society is 1st on the list of number of dog grooming salons per 100k of human population?
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DEEPSEEK offered this table for pet grooming industry by country:
1 United States $10–12 billion
2 China $3–5 billion
3 Japan $2–3 billion
4 United Kingdom $1.5–2 billion
5 Germany $1.2–1.8 billion
6 France $1–1.5 billion
7 Australia $0.8–1.2 billion
8 Canada $0.7–1 billion
9 Brazil $0.5–0.8 billion
10 Italy $0.4–0.7 billion
China might be a surprise but they have low child count these days.
Australia would likely rank #1 on a population basis.
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“Does any know of comparative investigation into dog-loving?”
I expect there will be some porn pages that will know all about it!
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Holy water brimming with Cholera compels illness cluster in EU
European tourists who toted home bottles of water from a holy well in Ethiopia were likely hoping for blessings and spiritual cleansing—but instead carried an infectious curse and got an intestinal power cleanse.
Three people in Germany and four in the UK fell ill with cholera after directly drinking or splashing their faces with the holy water. Two required intensive care. Luckily, they all eventually recovered, according to a report in the journal Eurosurveillance.
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.14.2500234
Bottled water – dumb
Bottled holy water – dumber
Bottled holy water from Ethiopia – be ready to meet your maker.
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What about that “Irish high test holy water”?
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Irish People Try Poitín (Irish Moonshine) ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZzei0yzG0g
By the way it’s bloody awful.
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Must have recognised you as a sinner?
Some is not bad
Using a great uncle’s “Rum Scale” – “all rum is good. However some is better than others”
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Was ill for three days on dark rum. Took me about 40 years before I could drink it again. Have re-acquired a taste for it.
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The tropical cyclone is moving southeast toward New Zealand.
https://i.ibb.co/DgPNV8rV/himawari9-ir-30-P-202504150220.gif
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We got ourselves a troppo, yeehaah! Except the blocking high to our east will push TC Tam to our west, into the Tasman, meaning Australia gets the good waves/swell while we get the rubbishy onshore mush: where’s Climate Justice™️ when you need it!
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https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/sat/satlooper.php?region=30P&product=ir
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Human induced CO2 has no effect on climate change.
https://notrickszone.com/2025/04/14/new-study-finds-the-anthropogenic-pressure-on-climate-is-too-small-to-play-a-dominant-role/
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FWIW
Instapundit lead-in
“GOOD: Trump Withdraws US From International Maritime Organization’s “Decarbonization” Negotiations.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/trump-withdraws-us-from-international-maritime-organizations-decarbonization-negotiations/
Via https://instapundit.com/714541/#disqus_thread
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And
Instapundit lead-in
“US OUT OF THE UN, UN OUT OF THE US: White House Proposes Drastic Cuts to State Department and Funding for UN, NATO and Other Groups.”
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-14/white-house-proposes-drastic-cuts-to-state-department-and-funding-for-un-nato-and-other-groups
Via https://instapundit.com/714550/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Australia’s Oldest University to ‘Indigenise’ Courses”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVokQl1eyOM
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And
“Go woke, go broke, or vote for a different Bloke! In my view, LNP & ALP/Greens have failed Australia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7EWYo_0QfU
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Did anyone here watch Four Corners last night?
Full of bold claims.
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FWIW – more covid saga
““Criminal referral requests for charges including murder and medical terrorism against Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx and other top COVID officials have now been filed in seven US states.”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/fauci-birx-and-other-covid-officials-pursued-for-murder-and-other-charges-in-seven-states
Via SDA
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FWIW
More sleepless nights in Democrat USA
“A TOOL TO FIND OUT IF THE NGO GETS GRANTS FOR WHAT THE NGO’S STATED PURPOSE IS? Today I’ve been deep in the guts of something ambitious: a system to cross-check Form 990 data, audit reports, and federal spending to flag when an org’s stated purpose doesn’t match where the money’s actually going.”
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1911934321344253984
Via https://instapundit.com/714556/#disqus_thread
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Wonder if you guys can help: I think somebody posted on here a while ago a graph showing the financial growth per capita of OECD countries or something, with most countries having a decent upward curve and Australia being the outlier and going south fairly badly. Can you direct me to it again please?
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