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“Says here in my history book that luckily the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?”
~ Norm MacDonald
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I’ll give Winston a call.
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“Says here in my history book that luckily the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds?”
~ Norm MacDonald”
More significantly who are the good guys? Without knowing that it is difficult to assess their “goodness”
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‘ who are the good guys? ‘
Obviously…. those who won! History is written by the winners, and we are extremely lucky to have lived through the short period where the internet allowed us to view more opinions than just those of a Govt. I find the winner’s view of history to be extremely suspect these days.
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Some of the non mainstream histories/perspectives of WW2 make interesting reading. Sometimes they make quite jarring reading compared to what is seen as the conventional winners history.
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History is written by the victors.
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Victor Hugo?
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Vector Victor?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBZf0QdKdE
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Orwell said the goal is perpetual war.
So did Douglas Valentine in “The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America”
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Yep, had a sliver a of positivity with Trump.
I guess MICBLOB is the one and true King.
And damn if it the same sh!te since 1099 or -480.
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Clemenceau said that war is far too important to be left to the generals seemed appropriate at the time; that said, the failure of diplomacy is a precursor to war and that was definitely the problem in 1914. Since WW2 power has shifted to cabals behind the curtains – noticeably in so-called Western democracies. The industrial/military complex and rich donors corrupt these democracies and challenge the old executive order of things. Still they repeat the virtue of freedom and democracy. A joke.
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Celine’s Laws
1. National Security is the chief cause of National insecurity
2. Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation.
3. Never trust an honest politician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine's_laws
Read the trilogy about 20 years ago – resonates still today
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History shows the US doesn’t win wars.
They spend trillions of taxpayers dollars losing wars against poor countries and farmers with rifles.
The US doesn’t win wars, they expend ammunition.
That impoverishes the American public infrastructure and creates wealth for the Military Industrial Complex.
We are witnessing the downfall of the USA courtesy of the Neocons and Israel.
It is said that Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires.
Biden thoroughly humiliated the USA in Afghanistan.
Now Israel and the Neocons are humiliating the USA.
They have succeeded in uniting the Arab world against Israel and destroying Trump’s peace promises.
If the USA doesn’t invade Iran, Israel is finished.
If the USA invades Iran then both the USA and Israel will be finished.
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Israel is not finished, it rules over Iran, the main supporter (in cash and arms) of the terrorist organisations in the Middle East.
Also, I think most of the Arab world quietly supports Israel. Iran is/was a pariah state and was more of a threat to them than Israel. Now it is headless and toothless, so we wait to see what arises from the ashes. Something better, we pray.
History also tells us that the US won the War of Independence, the Mexican-American War and greatly helped to win WWII against the Axis Powers. Korea might have been a stalemate but at least they stopped the communist takeover of South Korea, which many of their citizens are grateful for.
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“the US won the War of Independence, . . ”
The U.S. won the battle , but lost the war.
“Give me control of a nation’s currency , and I care not . . . . etc., etc. “
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Israel did what Europe silently wanted.
It is reported that at the G7 Summit German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said,
Source Welt TV.
Yet, our Penny Wong, doing her best Nev Chamberlain impression, said
The Israel Ambassador to Australia fired back,
Source: The Guardian
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“We urge de-escalation, we urge restraint, we urge dialogue and diplomacy.”
History has proven time and again… you can’t reason with tyrants.
If that’s the best Benny Pong can do, well, it’s a bit sad.
No wonder Donald bumped ‘Handsome Boy’.
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Israel and its lobby control the politicians in the US. Israel could not sustain a war without US military and technological aid, notwithstanding Israeli ingenuity. I would never trust the Us after their stunt in the 1980’s backing Saddam against Iran. Their duplicity and meddling will cost them.
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Israel leads US tech. Israel win wars even if nobody sides with them, as they are miracle. Living is winning. Making Iran look weak and as if it can’t win – is winning: ‘Strong horse’. Israel likely knows the thinking of people steeped in the dark ages religion of the 1979 revolution.. Israel doesn’t control the US. Israel’s God does – which is why it looks that way. If you go look, you find that the US has not been with Israel at all points (distance US policy from individuals actions) – rather the US uses Israel as a useful outpost to counter Russia, which used to be much more based in Syria.
Israel may well be unhappy that the US has inordinate influence in Israel to the point of controlling the politicians! NOT the other way about! The Israelis speak of refusing US aid… you may search this out and find it is true they have discussed it – which they can do.
Israel doesn’t trust the US – they even bombed one of their ships once. Nobody got to the bottom of it, but Israel may well have known what they were doing, though all deny everything.
Duplicity is needed to win wars – if you read the Bible or any history – such as the account of the Trojan horse – you will realise the truth of this.
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The US won the cold war too.
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You can’t beat the bucks. The US is in decline. It has a strong navy and air force that can project forward power. It should give up on fashioning the rest of the world in its likeness.
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America…’the main supporter (in cash and arms) of the terrorist organisations in the Middle East.’
They’ve spent all my lifetime invading an destroying countries in the Middle East, just to keep control of the world’s oil supplies.
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But remember, it’s Iran that is the pariah State.
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/s
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What about the main terrorist organisations of nation of the west? It’s the country that has caused more terror in this world than any other, think about it . .
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It’s only been 6 months since the US was defeated by the Houthis in Yemen and sent fleeing from the Red Sea!
If they can’t even beat the Houthis how in hell do they seriously hope to beat Iran?
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Just a little anti-USA.
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But his comment stands on its correctness.
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His opinion, and your opinion that it is correct.
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The war of independence
The 1812 war
The war against the Pirates of Barbary, the shores of Tripoli
The Civil war
The war with Mexico. Halls of Montezuma
WW1. Mainly with the Spanish Flu.
WW2. Massively supplying Russia through Iran. Russia would have lost.
Korean war. Against North Korea, then stalemate with China.
The cold war, detente, Collapse of the USSR 1992
And of course the economic war
Plus the world has had Pax America since 1945, not seen since Pax Romana
Detente, MAD, and mostly peaceful unlike the Democrat riots in US cities.
Now its
Si vis pacem, parabellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.
In a world filled with nuclear weapons, war is unthinkable, which is why China is undermining all Democratic nations, especially with Global Warming
But religious maniacs like the murderous Ayatollah are always different. Human lives are nothing.
He openly and repeatedly and sincerely promises to murder six million Jews to settle ancient scores. There is no compromise.
Christians are next. As this week in Nigeria, 100 Christians machine gunned for being Christians. In such hands nuclear weapons are unthinkable.
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As for ‘winning’. Generally no one wins. Except the real long term objective is peace, a way of living, peace, removing a mortal threat, detente, not winning.
Since WWII, Germany has fully recovered along with Italy and France and most of Europe. Japan. Vietnam. Afghanistan is a mess, but it has always been a mess. Russia is a far better place to live and the absolute dictators of Eastern Europe have slowly vanished. (Except perhaps Ukraine)
But Iran is different. An ancient powerful empire occupied and oppressed for more than a millenium by religious Muslim Arab murderous extremists. The Persians want their freedom, their religion, their own proud history and their daily lives back from murderous extremist overlords who are not Persians. The Ayatollahs are the entire problem in achieving peace in the Middle East. The dictatorship of Iran is in the balance today and with it the future of the ongoing Islamic terror assault on world peace.
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TdeF:
Iran was Shia in the rise of the Safavid dynasty in the 16th century, which transformed Iran from a Sunni centre into the Shia stronghold of the Middle East.
in 1979, the Islamic Revolution in Iran produced a radical brand of Shia Islam that would clash violently with Sunni conservatives in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the decades to follow.
Islam itself is much split into various sects. Some are rejected as non-muslim e.g. the Druze who find it safer to live in Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches
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A casus bellum in launching a premeditated first strike based on a perceived existential threat has been used before. The Polish attack on the radio station at Gleiwitz led to the Germans attacking Poland on 1st September 1939.
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The missiles are real enough.
Hitler had form. Sudatenland. The night of the long knives. The burning of the Reichstag. The fake attack on the radio station was absurd and only for international consumption. Six million soldiers were ready to move. That’s a big part of the population, so everyone knew. Including Churchill and Stalin.
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So Israel is dealing with a “perceived” threat then?
Is that the same threat that Ayatollahs in Iran have been yelling out for decades ?
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Iran follows the Islamic promise that its ‘messiah’ will not come until the Jews are destroyed, so their intent is to speed this up. The mahdi is their equivalent of the messiah. This is left out of the West’s understanding. Makes interesting reading.
https://answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch04_the_mahdi.htm
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Interesting how the triumphal lists all peter out around 70 years ago
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War was a stable of life after the end of the Roman Empire. Every generation of young men, 25 years. Right up to 1945. Since then only proxy wars. Weapons testing on people who don’t matter. But we are facing medieval fanaticism with nuclear weapons when the rest of the Arab empire is at relative peace with Israel and Europe with the exception of Erdogan who is trying to undo Ataturk’s secular state and install himself as Sultan. It was Osama Bin Laden’s dream too.
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The United States did not win the 1812 War. Its attempt to conquer Canada was defeated. several American cities were attacked, despite the fact that Britain was preoccupied with Napoleon for all except the last few months of the 1812 War. the US trade with France was largely stopped. Quite a few Americans spent part of the war in Dartmoor Prison as did French soldiers and sailors. After Waterloo the Americans realised they would have no hope of victory if Britain decided to take the war against the United States as seriously as that it had waged against France and was ready to make peace. Having been at war with France for most of the time since 1793 onwards the British government had no great appetite for more war either and so peace was agreed.
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Further to my previous reply, the US victory over the Barbary Pirates, when the US was an ally of Sweden which was already at war with them, was short lived. They were not completely. crushed until 1816, the year after Waterloo and the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth led a combined British and Dutch which bombarded Algiers until Omar Agha, the Dey of Algiers, agreed to stop their piracy and release all their slaves. The Bombardment of Algiers was the subject of a famous painting by George Chambers.
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>the world has had Pax America since 1945…
Now its
Si vis pacem, parabellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.
The following is copied from Groks response to a question asking how many days of peace since WW2 when the USA has not been involved in wars somewhere around the world:
Quoting ancient Romans is no guarantee of truth.
Regardless of whether the USA wanted peace, they have been preparing for war constantly for the last 80 years without peace.
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Theocracies are dangerous and should be eliminated.
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On second thought, not all theocracies need to be eliminated.
‘In a theocracy, rulers act as representatives of the gods on Earth. Any human laws that may exist are subordinate to the will of the gods and do not stem from the will of the people. The Vatican and Iran are contemporary examples of theocratic governments.’ (World Atlas)
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Have you told Saddam that?
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>Have you told Saddam that?
There were no winners resulting from the Iraq war. Neither the USA nor anyone else except maybe the bankers and shareholders of the armaments manufacturers.
Iraq was a debacle. The US blatantly lied to the world about WMDs as justification to invade, murder Hussein, destroy a relatively stable country, massacre and displace millions of citizens, and siphon-off & launder trillions of taxpayer dollars.
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I’m told there were ‘No Kings’ protests … in the United Kingdom.
As I have said … we may not have enough naturally occurring sarcasm to meet increasing demand.
Or sufficient shark populations for jumping.
Fear not.
I Honk, will expend all to provision the 20 Old Men of Jonova with sarcasm for the duration.
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Hey, what about the old women Honk?
Grumpy old Annie.
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Deepest apologies Annie.
I sense the force is strong with you.
We could just make you honorary old men.
It’s the latest thing.
I think the kids call it ‘gender fluid’.
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🙂
I was born grumpy, sarky and cynical Honk.
Annie the Grumpy Old Woman. No need for any ‘gender fluidity’!
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‘I think the kids call it ‘gender fluid’.’
Makes a mess of the sheets…
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Who are these 20 of whom you speak?
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Israel is said to have air superiority over Iranian airspace, so not long now.
Where is the crazy Ayatollah.
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He might be dead or he might be on his way to Russia where Putin has offered him refuge.
Either case it would be good because hopefully the good ordinary people of Iran, most of whom hate the regime, will be able to cast off the brutal theocratic dictatorship and establish freedom, especially freedom for women.
But notice Leftists never complain about the mistreatment of women or anyone in Iran.
Notice also that the Leftist approach to homosexuality is the same as Iran. Unlike in Arab countries (including Gaza) where homosexuals are usually killed, the Persians forcibly subject them to “gender reassignment” which is more or less what the Left advocate in the West. “Queers for Palestine”, indeed.
I don’t know how many people have seen pictures of life in Iran before 1979 but it looked like any Western country with women dressing as they do in the West and even wearing bikinis at the beach etc.. This is not a lifestyle the Left want them to revert to. They want the brutal dictatorship to be maintained.
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Hi David, you are correct. I traveled through Iran on my way to Australia in 1974. In the cities especially Tehran women dressed in very fashionable western clothes but in the countryside they were much more conservative.
Fashion in Iran before and after the revolution.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef6bd132e857612853ad370/t/603ef2f9b28557610fb79523/1614738170331/Fashion+In+Iran.png
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/df/70/16df703681b49f885b6f1bf730ad05ab.jpg
https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2022/10/iranbeforeshah-1600×840.jpg
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Thanks Rex.
I find it extraordinary that the Left, who pretend to support women’s rights, actually support the present regime.
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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
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There were dramatic changes after 1979, now it’s the women who have the most to gain from an overthrow.
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“now it’s the women who have the most to gain from an overthrow.”
I think a lot, both inside and outside the Muslim religion, would not agree! What has the last 70years done for Western women?
They lost the chance to not work and cruise around at home with the kids, and now have to work a full-time job AND chase the kids…
They lost the chance to toss all the hard decisions at their husband and now have to take responsibility for themselves and other people, the constant stress every day of gathering data, making decisions then seeing if they were the right ones.
They suffer for their lifetime from having to keep up with the richest/best-looking/most well-dressed other women from high school to old age, its a constant war of expensive clothes and cosmetics.
Sure, they’re allowed to drive, but that’s only to run the kids around and buy food. Life must be much simpler for women in Muslim countries.
I am unconvinced that women’s lib has advanced the West, its certainly advanced the welfare state and Govt control, as per the divorce rates, solo parents, badly-behaved children and disassociated society.
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I was worked by in Tehran in June 1978, the last year before the Shah was deposed. I saw at first hand the freedom of women to wear jeans, to drink wine in sidewalk cafes, to chat with men – trashed by severe punishment. Our Iranian manager, Harvard MBA, was shot in the shoulder with Medivac to London lessening the damage. The murderous zeal of the religious set took a lovely country back to the Middle Ages in under a year.
We had a pet Army Colonel who knew which side fellow officers would take. It was so depressing to see him proved right and to see them using brutality on citizens. I saw an armoured personnel carrier stop in a city square, the drivers sitting on the turret chatting, throwing sweets to kids, then picking up the big machine gun to fire into the crowd. Military people showing power to the masses.
Beware of political ideology, no matter who preaches it. Such people have dangerous mental problems, even the ones we know today like some in the Federal Government. That is what drives them to politics. Geoff S
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We had friends based in Teheran who lost everything when they fled.
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Left wearing Bikinis? It’s hilarious. So there is the answer. Cover it all up – in black.
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Trump calls for ‘unconditional surrender’ from Iran, says U.S. knows where its leader is hiding
President Trump on Tuesday said the U.S. knows where Iran has hidden Ayatollah Ali Khamenei while Israeli bombs drop.
“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there — We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.”
In another post Tuesday, he called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender” in all caps.
He said earlier, “We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran.”
He added, “Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived and manufactured ‘stuff.’ Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA.”
This is the first time he used “we” to refer to the attacks on Iran, which is a shift from his previous attempts to distance the U.S. from Israel’s campaign.
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They have DOMINANCE. Their jets can loiter over Tehran waiting for scientists, generals and missile launchers to appear.
The US is being miserable with their support of friends, they are sitting in the war rooms of Ukraine and Israel hoovering up valuable information on how the next wars will be fought without their own troops in harm’s way and still resent spending money.
Ukraine has proven the value of cheap drones vis-a-vis high tech ones and Israel has shown Musk to be wrong when he said piloted aircraft are obsolete. They went toe to toe with a missile force and stealthy aircraft are, ATM, winning.
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Surprisingly enough H, we agree!
“The US is being miserable with their support of friends, they are sitting in the war rooms of Ukraine and Israel hoovering up valuable information on how the next wars will be fought without their own troops in harm’s way and still resent spending money.”
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Quotes of the day, especially for the Leftist/warmist anti-scientists who think scientific fact is decided by consensus.
Unknown source, but often misattributed to Einstein
And:
If you think scientific fact is decided by consensus, you’re not doing science, you’re doing politics.
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The last para sounds like something Michael Crichton, medical doctor and world-famous science fiction writer said: “I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.
I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means the he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”
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Sometime in the 13th or 14th centuries, Muslim clerics declared, ‘there are no more questions, we have answered them all.’ Could have been a bad call?
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TRUMP has repeatedly said that Iran is not to have an atomic bomb.
E.g. TRUMP said on truth social yeastday:
Ever since the first Ayatollah, it was always the policy of the West that Iran SHOULD NOT have a nuclear weapon.
Iran has vowed to destroy Israel, the United States and by implication the rest of the West who they regard as evil. The destruction of the West is part of their theocratic lunacy to bring the Shi’ite messiah, or Mahdi which is an essential theocratic element of the regime, Mahdism. They regard their desired destruction of Israel aa the opening battle in a series of domesday battles which will bring the Mahdi.
There is no question that Iran was acquiring nuclear weapons.
Even the extremely anti-Western, anti-Israel, pro-Iran IAEA which answers to the UN admitted that Iran had enriched uranium to 60%, see link. They have been blind to what Iran was doing for decades.
There is no conceivable need for any U-235 enrichment beyond 2% to 5% for civilian nuclear power.
And as TdeF said yesterday, there no need for Iran, as an oil and gas rich country to have nuclear power. Regardless, if they did need it they could have purchased it off the shelf. And why make your own fuel before you’ve even built a reactor core, pressure vessel, etc.? None of it makes sense.
Iran was obviously making a bomb.
Obama weakened the sanctions designed to stop them getting a bomb plus sent them billions in cash and Biden further weakened the ones that TRUMP put in place.
The world should be thanking Israel for stopping the Iranians getting a bomb which not only would have been used against Iarael but other Western countries as well. Instead there is just hostility. It shows how weak the West is and how far it has fallen morally (except the US).
The West did not want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but were too weak and lacked the moral clarity to do anything about it. But now Israel has finally done something about it, and as an added bonus, likely liberated the oppressed people of Iran, I can’t help thinking there are also elements of antisemitism involved in opposition to Israel’s brave and bold move to destroy the Iranian nuclear weapons program (as we see in Australia and other Western countries with the large and increasing number of antisemitic attacks, at historic highs in Australia).
Links to IAEA report and analysis:
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/25/06/gov2025-24.pdf
An analysis of the IAEA report can be seen here:
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/analysis-of-iaea-iran-verification-and-monitoring-report-may-2025/
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Yeah, don’t blame Trump or BB.
Furthermore, Biden was BHO’s point man for the Ukraine.
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In fact Obama was proud with his administrations negotiation strength that resulted in “…a comprehensive, long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon”.
I was surprised to find this Obama/Biden propaganda piece was still available on Youtube.
So as you correctly point out don’t blame Trump or BB this mess was put in train back in July 2015 and I believe Obama himself was quoted as saying “his” actions had bought the world a good 10 years of extra time. Well that 10 years are up and Trump is making sure there is no negative dividend.
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Well said. In the mood of the day on quotes, ‘there are none so blind as they who will not see!’ The Western democracies have fallen so far. Cash rules all, and all values are subordinated to it. China sees this in the West and is laughing its head off. The brilliant brains that gave the world the enlightenment and all that followed have been dulled by success and hubris from too much of it over the last 50years. Wealth, profits and luxury from automation have buried perspective, ethics and sensible caution.
The stupidity is seen in this country when our leaders have become so incautious that they appease China. China, due to our leaders’ favourite theme of the day ( a crazy notion from idle minds, destroy the basic source of our prosperity, cheap energy, and send all our major heavy industry overseas to China for cheap goods) they’ve seen develop into a gargantuan economy which has been used to develop major armed forces and become the major threat to our pleasant existence.
Our leader adores our nemesis. How stupid are we? Our people even reelected him. We reflect all the West except for the USA – thanks to Trump! Our leaders paint Trump as the problem. There can’t be any greater definition of this aberration of the West than being ssen as being mass hysteria with suicidal intent.
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Our not-so-dear Leader Albanese was left high and dry at the G7 when TRUMP didn’t meet him. And why would TRUMP meet with him at all when Albanese and his most important goons, Foreign Minister Wong and Ambassador to the US KRudd all have severe TRUMP Derangement Syndrome.
It’s also a huge insult to the US and embarrassment for Australia that Albanese didn’t recall from Washington the TRUMP-hating KRudd when TRUMP was re-elected.
And here’s an article about why KRudd wants to keep the job.
It seems KRudd is quite a Washington party boy. See pictures in above article.
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Also, I saw it suggested that TRUMP not meeting Albanese might be payback for when Australia banned the visit of Donald Trump Jr to Australia.
(Permission was eventually given but so late the events were already cancelled. Australia has a nasty habit of banning conservatives, even TRUMP’s son.)
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The most recent conservative (that we know of) who was banned from Australia was American-Israeli citizen, Hillel Fuld, just last week, who was to come here for a charity fund-raiser.
Australians are missing out on in-person talks from so many conservatives.
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I would suggest that Trump couldn’t see any reason to waste time on Albanese when he had more important things.
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Aide: Mr President Anthony Albanese is on the line.
Trump: Anthony who?
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Albo only went to meet one person..
“Trump left the G7, and Albanese, in the lurch. But the PM salvaged something- Anthony Albanese embraced Volodymyr Zelensky at the summit, showcasing his bond with the leader of the war-torn nation.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/trump-left-the-g7-and-albanese-in-the-lurch-but-the-pm-salvaged-something-20250618-p5m8ao.html
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Everyone has to hug Volodomir. Touching. Notice the dog in the bottom of the picture cocking its leg on them!
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What was Zelensky doing at the G7? Giving the begging bowl another outing?
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Albo would have been more usefully employed going to Beijing and then Europe, like the NZ prime minister.
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Sorry but with my electricity bills rising (it’s Global Warming You Know!) I have no money left to subscribe to the SMH although I am told that it is good for rapping rubbish.
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Modern music…
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correct spelling is actually “C R A P”, but the C is silent.
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I think Krudd is still in DC because Handsome Boy doesn’t want him causing mischief back here.
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On the other hand in 2019 Prime Minister Morrison and Mrs Morrison appointed 2018 was honoured with a State Dinner at the White House Washington hosted by President Trump and Mrs Trump at the White House.
During the following weekend they held private discussions at a retreat and one of the decisions was AUKUS Pillar One and Pillar Two then future long term projects between the three partners. For 60 years the UK was the only allied nation with access to US nuclear technology and Rolls-Royce UK have been manufacturing nuclear reactors for Royal Navy warships.
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From PolitiBrawl:
So much for TRUMP being against the interests of working people huh?
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House prices are falling, its not a healthy sign.
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Gee, it’s been so long since us Americans did a round of nation building.
So long since the last “you broke it you bought it”.
Public Health and nation building.
I think one has PhDs.
Both have NGOs.
Both stellar.
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Looks like another “far right conspiracy theory” coming true, huh?
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The more totalitarian a government becomes, the more radical the ideas of liberty will seem.
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Norway’s Trainwreck – How Taxing Unrealized Gains Has Caused an Entrepreneurial Exodus
From hagaet the substack of Fredrik Haga, co-founder of Dune
Norway Shrugged
Recently, my story as a Norwegian entrepreneur facing an unrealized gains wealth tax bill many ties higher than my net income went viral, amassing over 100 million views on X.
A few years ago I publicly called out that this tax is both impossible-to-pay and nonsensical, but no politician would listen.
So I made the difficult decision to leave my home country.
I still don’t know how I was supposed to pay the tax, but I recently found myself plastered on the “Wall of Shame” at the Socialist Left Party’s offices.
In this post, I’ll delve into why there’s an entrepreneurial exodus from Norway, how we got here, and what the future might hold.
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Norway: A real life Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged paints a vivid picture of a dystopian society where government overreach and socialist policies kill innovation and demonize entrepreneurs.
In Rand’s world, working hard and taking risks is not celebrated, but looked at with suspicion. As the government tightens its grip, mandating how businesses should operate, the nation’s entrepreneurs begin to vanish and are nowhere to be found. People get poorer while the state keeps growing. Step by step the functioning of society starts to crumble. The trains first go off schedule, then start crashing and eventually stop going all together.
Present-day Norway mirrors this dystopia in unsettling ways. Taking risk with your own money, working hard and then making a profit is frowned upon.
While politicians spending the people’s money on non-viable green projects, and delivering dysfunctional public services at high costs has the moral high ground. The government is spending 35 Billion NOK on offshore wind that industry experts think is financially unviable. This is about the same amount as the total wealth tax revenues. Norway spends 45% more than Sweden on health care per capita with approximately the same health outcomes. Norway has 2,5 times bigger share of the working population on sick leave than Denmark. Norway spends ~50% more than Finland on primary and secondary school with worse results.
With unshakeable ideological conviction, socialist politicians are rapidly undermining Norway’s wealth creation.
They’re imposing taxes that explicitly disadvantage Norwegian business owners, and are often straight up impossible to pay.
When confronted with the reality that you can’t pay taxes with money you don’t have—or that loss-making businesses can’t afford massive dividends just to cover owners’ wealth taxes—the response is vague moralism like “Those with the broadest shoulders must bear the heaviest burdens.”
Any argument against any part of the system is by default invalid because there’s free health care
Norway’s entrepreneurs are now indeed disappearing from society. In the past two years alone, a staggering 100 of Norway’s top 400 taxpayers, representing about 50% of that group’s wealth, have fled the country to protect their businesses.
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That sounds just like Britain in the ’70s, 90% income tax and the Beatles singing about it..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zaebtU-CA
..which is why they moved from Britain to a ‘tax haven’, propaganda name for a reasonable country. Still, Norway has always been the most Socialist of the Northern Euro welfare states, while Switzerland is wealthy with its maximum amount of tax anyone pays in a year.
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The response is vague moralism like “Those with the broadest shoulders must bear the heaviest burdens.”
Meanwhile in Labor Victoria
‘They can afford to pay’; Symes doubles down on land tax
The owner of a Dandenong sandblasting business that’s worked on some of Melbourne’s biggest construction projects has been left reeling after his land tax bill spiralled from $8700 to more than $203,000 in the past decade.
Jaclyn Symes has defended a 2300 per cent land tax hike on a Victorian small business owner, saying that businesses have a greater capacity than ordinary households to cough up taxes.
The Treasurer doubled-down on the government’s tax hikes after the owner of a Dandenong South sandblasting business that has worked on some of the biggest construction projects in Melbourne, including the MCG, was left reeling after his land tax bill spiralled from $8700 to more than $203,000 in the past decade.
Asked about the tax hit on Thursday, Ms Symes said the land tax payable by property owners was directly attributable to the value of their land.
“We want to ensure that we get the balance right in relation to the levies and taxes that people pay, we want to ensure that we have the revenue for the services that Victorians rely on to be delivered,” Ms Symes said.
“We don’t want impacts on those that are suffering cost of living pressures, ordinary households and the like, that’s why we set our tax settings with consideration of those that have the greater capacity to pay.”
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I wonder what happens to land value when the cost of having it gets so high that people don’t want it. Alternatively its just an on cost that will get loaded onto bids that will make work more expensive or lose bids to places that aren’t as heavily penalized by the geniuses in Spring St.
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Crikey, our Labor government must be modelling itself on Norway!
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I wondered how a farmer is supposed to pay the tax, they’re usually asset rich and cash poor, sell up and find another job??
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Farmers: A for assets, Z for income
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You can take it to the bank that the clowns that voted this leftist govt into power, sure aren’t anywhere in the upper level of taxpayers, rather they would be a net drain on the coffers.
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‘You can take it to the bank that the clowns that voted this leftist govt into power, sure aren’t anywhere in the upper level of taxpayers, rather they would be a net drain on the coffers.’
Of course! That is the reason every democracy becomes a welfare state, and every welfare state eventually collapses from every subject being on welfare..
Its what democracy does!
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage”. ~ Alexander Fraser Tytler
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I’ll leave it to the people here to decide which stage we are currently in.
Personally I think we are in the selfishness to apathy stage although I hope I’m wrong.
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The Great Depression gave Hitler a leg up, but on this occasion China (in economic depression) is throwing off the CCP yoke and embracing democracy.
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I was in a Services Australia office a few months ago trying to sort out some confusion for my mildly disabled brother in law. At the time there was an apparently drug affected guy in there sucking up all the oxygen with three people attending to him, all the time muttering about ” his entitlements”
Entitlements
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I’d say we are into-
“apathy to dependence”
Especially when welfare recipients have entitlements! …and are ‘clients’ of the bureaurats giving them our money!
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The Berlin Wall Exit Tax:
Another Tax on Unrealized Gains
After witnessing a mass exodus of top taxpayers, the Norwegian government had a golden opportunity to reassess its policies.
The wealth tax contributes less than 2% to the state budget; eliminating it and marginally increasing capital gains, corporate, or dividend taxes could have halted the entrepreneurial bleeding without affecting government budgets.
Instead, the government doubled down on what’s not working, introducing an exit tax on unrealized gains.
Now, if you choose to move from Norway, you’re immediately liable to pay 38% of the total market value of your assets upon departure.
It doesn’t matter if you have no liquidity, if your assets are high-risk and could plummet in value, or even if your company does fail after you leave—you still owe the tax.
Previously, entrepreneurs could at least relocate if the wealth tax became too burdensome.
Now, they’re incentivized to leave before they even start their businesses.
The government could have listened to the tornado of negative feedback and adjusted course, but instead, they doubled down on what’s not working.
When the Berlin wall was created it was clear which side of the city had the better system – the one that didn’t have to build a wall to retain its citizens.
Instead of trying to attract and retrain capital and talent by making Norway a better place for business the Norwegian government chose to build its very own Berlin Tax Wall with yet another tax on unrealized gains.
Trapping not only entrepreneurs, but anyone with more than $270k of wealth wanting to move their life abroad for whatever reason
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That’s a very good article OldOzzie. Once the Labor government gets away with an unrealized capitol gains tax on super they won’t stop there and we all know it.
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Treasurer Chalmers was a staffer in the office of Labor Treasurer Swan, Rudd-Gillard Labor governments, and handled media briefs.
At that time Treasurer Swan proposed a super profits tax on mining and met with strong opposition from the mining industry, opposition and even from within the Labor Party.
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There is one difference if these sorts of measures would be introduced in the USA.
The USA uses citizenship based “income” taxation rather than resident based rules. So only moving out of the states does not eliminate the requirements for filing (and paying).
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https://www.10yearsofjacinta.com.au/Uploads/38675881002111141IZR_10-years-of-jacinta/10-years-of-labor-booklet.pdf
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So after a lifetime of noisy pastimes, sports and for a period employment, I found myself inceasingly deaf.
The usual problems with conversations in noisy backgrounds and apparently muffled dialogue on TVs. Tests confirmed my hearing rolls off rapidly at higher frequencies. I knew this at 18 when playing with oscillators, and comparing my response with others. However I had moved from impaired to profoundly deaf at higher frequencies (high only being 5kHz)
Hearing aids it is then. Just had them fitted and am going through the aclimatisation phase. The world has become quite a noisy place again. It was fascinating going through the process of testing and tuning the aids to my disability profile. Very clever systems to get it close to what I need and do the final yweaks to personal tastes.
Can recommend it if you have been thinking about it, as you get back bits of you life you have slowly lost over the years. Also if if have a partner, they get a lot less “what?” everytime they speak.
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Hearing (of the successful type) is also based on context. Even if “heard”, a new subject is often not “understood”.
The other side is that loud competing sound sources become far more destructive in the ability to understand the quiet conversation.
The commercial hearing tests seldom examine the lower frequency ranges (male speech?).
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When I first got hearing aids about 7 years ago they were OK but not brilliant. My audiologist explained that my audio cortex would have to relearn to recognize the missing frequencies that it hadn’t heard for years and to ware them as much as possible. It took me months until I got the full benefit from them.
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The most important point that I’m tying to make is that although you can hear higher sound frequencies with your aids than you have heard for many years and which also makes everything sounds initially overwhelmingly loud, that that will eventually settle down and everything will sound normal again. My aids are the best money I have ever spent. Period.
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Those who only watch the MSM will probably not have heard much about the grooming gangs scandal in the UK and the attempts to whitewash the scandal.
PJW with a 12 minute video that should have all of us shaking with anger at the obvious failings of those who are there to supposedly protect these kids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxX63EVw6Y
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ has always been on the case
Search Telegraph UK – grooming gangs
Showing 183 results from newest to oldest
Allison Pearson
No jail sentence is long enough for the cowards who covered up for the Pakistani r@pe gangs
This week’s report by Baroness Casey revealed what many of us already knew – political correctness allowed systemic abuse to go unpunished
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You’re correct Ozzie. A very small number of very decent people have been reporting and/or investigating this for many years. And being villified as waascists or far right nut jobs for doing so. I just hope that people in authority are prosecuted for the coverups or what they allowed to occur under their watch.
Unfortunately I won’t hold my breath.
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Yes. It was known for years, but political correctness and the fear of violating the rules of PC cowered the authorities into a massive coverup. This will always be a blight on British decency and courage. It will also always be an indictment of so-called “multiculturalism” which in the UK sanctioned abandonment of their own culture.
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Why did we ignore the evidence from Lomborg’s PR study after the Paris COP 21 BS and FRA-D agreement?
Here’s Lomborg’s study including full data and graphs etc and backed up by his team including Nobel prize winning Scientists etc.
Paris climate promises will reduce temperatures by just 0.05°C in 2100 (Press release) | Lomborg
Then we had Dr Hansen’s effort calling the Paris COP 21 meeting just more BS and fra-d. Again, why are we about to WASTE 7 to 9 TRILLION $ on the unreliable, toxic W & S rubbish and repeated every 15 to 20 years?
Again here’s Dr Hansen’s comments in 2015. COP21: James Hansen, the father of climate change awareness, claims Paris agreement is a ‘fraud’ | The Independent | The Independent
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Conspiracy theory # 2047/14/B. Xi is done, and being eased out. It’s not the first time it has been alleged. Supposedly the soviet block have had the message. 11mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRE0NPFabrI&t=61s
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An interesting philosophical question – how does criminal structures work?
Juntas work, no question but there are pros and cons in numbers.
Year Approx. Members in Ruling Body
1919 5 Lenin’s Politbureau
1925 7
1935 11
1952 25 (Presidium enlarged by last Stalin’s effort to purge old guard)
1960 20
1970 21
1980 25
1985 23
1990 20
1991 8 (State Council) last year of USSR
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The useless generation
Nearly 50 per cent of Gen Z feel unprepared to manage basic household chores.
30% have never mowed a lawn.
45% don’t know what to cook.
24% have never cleaned an oven.
39% take dirty clothes to their parents.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/what-is-wrong-with-people-gen-z-lack-basic-life-skills-new-research-reveals/video/e72113912558ab6c56928fc0c92140ec
Never mind, AI will do it all for you.
My local takeaway does a very nice crumbed chicken pieces in Aioli sauce which I asked the teen behind the counter about.
She replied she refused to learn how to prepare it as it was all too hard.
Seriously!?
Crumbed chicken is hard?
No future for you kiddo.
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30% have never mowed a lawn.
Living in a high rise apartment?
Moving into a new minimal size suburban lot which is too small for a 5 meter tall tree?
24% have never cleaned an oven.
Air fryers are quicker than an oven? And easier to recycle (throw out) and replace?
How many have cut fire wood so as to heat the house?
Or even picked fruit off of a tree?
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Relatives have told me that the modern young person prefers to order Uber food delivery to their place of residence.
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I moved into this house 15 yrs ago. At the time the youngest of the neighbours three boys was born. They still live there but the only thing any have ever said to me is “Can we get our ball?”
Is this a result of living in the electronic age?
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I fondly recall making my 12 year old cut up an uncooked chicken. She grimaced and struggled at first, but ended up fascinated by tendons and joints!
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Mind you, I don’t recall having done any of those things until I moved out of my parents’ home. My mum worked outside of the home very infrequently, and so did all of those chores while I was at primary and secondary schools, and, for a time, ay university. When I left home, it was a big learning curve.
But I suspect it is the same for many adolescents after leaving school. My granddaughter is still at living at home while at university, and her parents do most of the cooking and have a weekly cleaning service. But my grandson is sharing a house with mates, and has learned the hard way that cooking one’s own meals and cleaning (sporadically!) the place yourself is cheaper.
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My Wife’s greatest regret – I got married out of home and was not house trained – even at John’s Sydney Uni, totally looked after!
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Knowing how to do stuff is soooo overated. I mean if you really need to know you just ask Siri, Alexa, Gemini, Grok or similar.
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Umm,
Let’s actually pretend Offshore wind gets the go ahead here in Australia.
We’ll be competing with Europe for the specialised vessels to actually do the construction work. Europe is already hopelessly behind with their own vessels required for what is planned. The construction vessels need a ten years or more certainty to cover the immense cost of the vessels. As turbine size increases, then, earlier vessels become useless for the task. The vessels are designed for localised work, and not long distance ocean going travel.
So, in effect, Australia will be competing with Europe for these vessels ….. and as I mentioned, Europe is hopelessly behind in construction of them, needing around 200 of them, (read that again, two hundred vessels, just for Europe alone) and here consider some of these offshore plants require 50 vessels for a two year construction process.
Again, let’s pretend here in Australia we can compete for their services. (I mean we have no ship building capability on this scale here in Australia) The cost of hiring them is around $USD250,000 ….. A DAY, so 1 million every four days, and if all goes to plan, a two year construction, so there’s almost $200 Million ….. for just the ONE Vessel, mind you. (and that’s a base rate now two years old)
A number of projects in Europe have already been delayed for many years now, just due to the lack of availability of these vessels, hopelessly short on supply.
Then there’s the ports infrastructure not just to handle all the wind turbine stuff, but the vessels themselves.
See now how offshore wind here in Australia might not just be a case of head nodding and spruiking from Mr Bowen, eh!
The article at this link is two years old now, so in fact, the situation is even more problematic now, and umm, more costly as well.
See now how wind power is so ….. cheap!!
Bigger boat is almost an understatement, eh!
Tony.
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An even bigger problem will be how to get rid of the darn things after they’ve served their short lives harvesting subsidies.
They last even less time than land based ones due to erosion of blades from seaspray and birdlife impacts, higher overall structural and fatigue loadings due to higher winds and corrosion.
Someone mentioned here the other day that they will become too dangerous to dismantle and will be just left in place with a “do not sail” zone declared around them, forever.
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Do they need to to do a full cleanup? On land it all should be removed but at sea any anomaly on the sea bottom becomes a fish habitat, an artificial reef. As long as they are marked on charts trawlers can avoid them.
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I was recently told by a retired UK engineer that the offshore wind turbines being taller and having much longer rotor blades have many problems relating to gears, bearings and shafts wearing not only from rotation but also the many forces applied from wind variations and corrosion.
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Always wondered – is concrete recyclable?
I mean in both – monetary and environmental sense.
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Yes it is – actually old concrete is really good in new – but it’s heavy – the transport is a cost- with cheaper fuel, recycling concrete is good. It comes back as aggregate for new. The machines for crushing it have to be able to cope with the reo in it. Very few site machines can break all the reo out of it first.
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Situation normal: Almost anything is possible if you have ample CHEAP energy. Our governments are treasonous pricing energy as they do.
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Spot on there Hanrahan. Why bother even making the present coal electricity generators more efficient when CO2 is good for the planet and (like Victoria) you’ve got 500 years supply. Most other problems with coal were already well managed anyway- particulates in air and ash burdens. I notice that Dan Tehan ( opposition spokesperson on Energy etc) calls himself the Opposition Minister for Energy and Emissions Reductions. How’s about he just called himself the Minister for Cheap, Reliable Energy instead?
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Recycled concrete is often used as a compactable subgrade for paving, etc. The Alex Fraser Group in Melbourne recycles concrete and asphalt.
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Decades ago I read of using crushed glass in the top layer of road bitumen. It is hard and once the surface tar is abraded the glass will be softly luminescent in car lights. Never heard another word about it. It sounded good at the time.
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Any new hotmix applied near me has glitter in it, could be old ground up CD’s though.
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Tony, I understand that construction of shipbuilding facilities are likely to begin soon at HMAS Henderson on the southern coast of WA. Also not sure – but I though that there were also facilities at Sterling.
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Sorry – I thought the initial comment referred to construction of ocean vessels!
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Wednesday gen Z teaser: what is it?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/86461b741f6fa44359f8040d80b3423e/bc16926daa29f350-34/s540x810/040cccbcd5d887fa4f74297a688cc3dee3cf825c.jpg
1. A rotary engine.
2. An ancient printing press.
3. A cat’s toy.
😎
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Astrolabia
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Is that similar to a mirkin?
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Vladimir is smikin?
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theodolite
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Breaking news: Victoria declares screwdrivers to be lethal weapons. Ban looming.
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sy0ca4GhMR1z23obp.mp4
No-one needs to own a screwdriver! 😆
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Chopsticks are Okay.
And Drumsticks. Only one per person though.
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Here’s Lomborg’s peer reviewed study of the COP Paris agreement that I tried to link to earlier.
Graphs are included and also based on the delusional RCP 8.5 lunacy.
IOW we’re basing our WASTE of 7 to 9 TRILLION $ on total BS and fra-d. Just ask the then head scientist at NASA GISS, Dr Hanson.
BTW Lomborg uses the same IPCC MAGICC software to check the so called warming by 2100.
https://lomborg.com/paris-climate-promises-will-reduce-temperatures-just-005degc-2100-press-release
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Then again Lomborg thinks the present warming is human induced and a problem. A fence sitter if there ever was one. Then again he’s an economist.
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Here’s NASA’s head scientist Dr James Hansen’s opinion of the Paris agreement and he states “it’s just BS and fra-d”.
Lomborg finds just 0.05 c temp reduction by 2100 if every country carried out their promises.
So Aussie’s reduction would be just 0.0005 c by 2100.
That’s a guaranteed ZERO measurable change for weather and climate and a WASTE of 7 to 9 TRILLION $ FOREVER and a bankrupt Aussie economy.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/cop21-father-of-climate-change-awareness-james-hansen-denounces-paris-agreement-as-a-fraud-a6771171.html
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That’s a 10 year old story. He is now 84 and rich, with lots of awards. If still mentally sound, he may be having difficult days watching the climate scam implode.
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FWIW
“The Carbon Isotope Fingerprint Just Got Smudged – and I Owe Some of You an Apology”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/17/the-carbon-isotope-fingerprint-just-got-smudged-and-i-owe-some-of-you-an-apology/
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How a Chinese-Owned Battery Maker’s Bet on U.S. EVs Went Wrong
AESC poured billions of dollars into electric-vehicle battery factories before stopping work
AESC, a Chinese-owned company, halted work on a $2 billion EV battery plant in Bowling Green, Ky., after receiving more than $100 million in state funds.
Slack EV demand, Trump’s tariffs and policy uncertainty are causing car companies to pull back on EV investments and battery projects.
AESC paused construction on a similar $1.6 billion plant in South Carolina, while a Tennessee plant now produces industrial energy storage batteries.
AESC’s struggles illustrate the ripple effect that slack EV demand and President Trump’s trade war are having throughout the auto industry. Car companies are pulling back on EV investments and costs are rising as a result of tariffs, hurting the financial case for many battery projects.
At the start of the decade, billions of dollars were invested in EV manufacturing across the U.S., with the promise of more than 100,000 jobs.
Now, EV growth has stalled. Republicans are targeting clean-energy subsidies. Emissions regulations that pushed automakers into electrics are being rolled back. And Trump’s tariffs are making it more expensive to equip factories with machinery from China and elsewhere.
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‘The disappearance of another high-ranking Chinese military official has demonstrated that no-one is indispensable to President Xi Jinping in achieving his goals.
‘Even those among his closest allies.’ (ABC)
Aunty is behind the times, the person in question disappeared because he was an ally of Xi. The reformers are back in power.
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Xi’s power has reportedly been fading since his stroke. He will be replaced. Belt & Road will wither & die. Zhang Youxia is apparently the powerbroker now.
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The massive power cut that plunged huge swathes of Spain and Portugal into chaos earlier this year was caused by a miscalculation, the Spanish government has said.
Today Spain’s energy minister said the issue was a miscalculation by the Spanish power grid operator REE.
Sara Aagesen said REE did not have enough thermal power stations switched on during peak hours of April 28 when the surge caused a chain reaction leading to the power outage.
“The system did not have sufficient dynamic voltage control capacity,” she said.
Electricity grids in Europe are kept at 50 Hertz frequency in order to maintain stability – and even a slight deviation can lead to damage.
Power plants “should have controlled voltage and, moreover, many of them were economically remunerated to do so. They did not absorb all the reactive power that was expected in a context of high voltages,” Ms Aagesen said.
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The major miscalculation was to switch to “renewables”.
As the SA blackout, the Texas blackout, the Broken Hill blackout and now the Spanish blackout proves that “renewables” can’t work without substantial conventional generators.
OR POSSIBLY the major miscalculation was to have politicians design the electricity supply.
Choose either.
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‘The Committee has identified a sequence of events that allows for the establishment of a chronology of the incident, from which several conclusions can be drawn.
PHASE O: Voltage instability.
PHASE 1: System Oscillations (12:00–12:30 p.m.)
PHASE 2: Generation losses (12.32.57 – 12.33.18)
PHASE 3: Collapse (12.33.18 – 12.33.30).
https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2025/06/17june-newsrelease-blackout-on-the-iberian-peninsula/
https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2025/06/17june-fullreport-iberianblackout/
Even the news release link is “heavy reading”
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Air Force One First Officer to President, Mr President there is a RAAF Airbus following us call sign Tonto
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Iran assassinates Trump at Mar-a-Lago golf course
https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/1935187089446068537
Proper Gander.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-18/queensland-logan-council-pulls-out-of-carbon-neutral-program/105429060
Logan Mayor Jon Raven said leaving the program would save the council about $1.5 million, which it is spending on overseas carbon credits each year.
“I don’t believe we were carbon neutral when we were just sending money overseas to projects no one could confirm existed.
“We were certified with a piece of paper. It was a green tape box-ticking exercise.”
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Science aside, the approach and warped incentives created that drive poverty in ‘towards net zero’ are criminal and inhumane.
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I admire this guy’s use of the words ‘green tape’ which has previously been deployed as a term to mean the slashing of environmental regulations to support development (including net zero ‘development’)
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I was at a conference in the late 198’s where one of the main speakers was from the NZ Dept of Environment.
His handouts were tied with real green tape.
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It is interesting the latest conflubsion in the Mid East.
Of course, it’s been nothing but conflubsion for centuries.
What’s old is new again.
IMHO the turning point is Plandemic.
And it was planned.
By the Global Self Declared Knowledge Hierarchy.
“You will submit to Science!”
And it failed utterly.
And they collapsed their own ‘hierarchy’ to now be perceived by many as fools.
‘Science’ has become a target for meme mockery.
The cultural obsolescense of Mr. Spock and the slam shutting door of the Final Frontier.
Science becomes oppressor and not liberator.
It’s Reformation dawn of a techno Dark Age.
War and Rumor of War.
(I witnessed my first public defecation in the parking lot of my neighborhood grocery. The police will do nothing. Were he to use my yard and I chased him away with a stick, the police would arrest me.)
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Amazon doesn’t want to pay HGV rates for their drivers – so new laws increase the weight of vehicles you can drive on a ‘B’ class licence – but only for those driving EVs or hydrogen vehicles
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/2067197/uk-driving-licence-rules-had-quiet-change-week-impact-could-big
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It’s the viruses wot done it: In this systematic review and meta-analysis, the findings suggest that common, often vaccine-preventable, respiratory viral infections are associated with an increased risk of acute cardiovascular events.
https://academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cvr/cvaf092/8164343?searchresult=1
Not the COVID, it’s all the other ones: A clear triggering association could not be identified between SARS-CoV-2 and AMI, based on 12 studies reporting on the association.
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“increased risk of acute cardiovascular events.”
Well, I’m sure they studied this over the last 100years and have a good baseline of before vaccinations. No doubt acute cardiovascular events have been decreasing since we started vaxxing everyone and stopped them getting respiratory viral infections…
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