By Jo Nova
We’re watching the slow collapse of the Net Zero, Gender identity bubble
Australia’s largest military ally announced a major change in direction yesterday — shucking the Woke Hair Shirt and baubles of diversity:
Hegseth boasted of “remov[ing] the social justice, politically correct and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department”.
He added: “No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction or gender delusions, no more debris.”
But most Australians won’t know that. The Australian ABC carefully buried this big shift inside a story on the US budget battle. The transformation of US military values was dismissed as just a “pep-talk” for generals. The ABC showed Trump making an inconsequential joke, and Hegseth discussing physical fitness and shaving. In other words, the ABC wants you to think this was a fitness campaign for a”dysfunctional” government which can’t even pay its generals today. How many Australians would join the dots that the country we depend on for protection just shot down twenty years of leftist fashion bubbles? Where were the interviews with the Australian Deputy Director of Navy Diversity & Inclusion (who knew we had one), Commander Prudence Hawkins-Griffiths? Last year, she was “doubling down” on diversity and inclusion. Where were the questions of whether our defense force is rethinking their Net Zero Strategy and Future Energy Strategy. As the Department of Defense said last year:
Climate change is a national security issue. It poses risks to Australia’s national interests and exacerbates geostrategic risks. The shift to net zero not only contributes to making Australians safer but also enhances Australia’s standing in the Indo-Pacific.
If the ABC was serving Australians it might have asked questions about whether our soldiers can change the global climate without losing any military edge? Can we have our cake, eat it, and stop storms with the same cake? We need to know…
By investing in clean energy, investigating opportunities for adopting lower-carbon fuels and preparing for future energy needs, Defence will contribute to a cleaner, safer environment and more resilient Australia, without compromising military preparedness or operational requirements.
— Defense Net Zero Strategy and Future Energy Strategy Released, October 25, 2024
For a lesson in soft propaganda from the ABC watch from 16 minutes on ABC iView. Most of the agitprop is that which is left unsaid. Only those who already know the news, know what they’re missing, which is why the ABC gets away with it.
So the more we share, the harder it is for them.
For those who want to see more, at what was an extraordinarily rare roomful of senior military heads:
ht/ David E, John Connor II, El gordo,
Image by Eynoxart from Pixabay
Much of the mainstream media can be classified as enemies of the people, acting against the national interest, and purveyors of untruths and deceptions.
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As with The UK and now with the US, the slide into irrelevance comes with bombast and jingoism. When will the US face its own version of the suez crisis. I’m bettering it will be Taiwan. For the third largest population becoming a third rate power is now almost certain
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Quite the opposite. The US was very jingoistic. Now half the left loath their own country and actively work against it.
As far as bombastic goes. Good that you think that the talk at least sounds impressive. But it will make a difference. A return to some values that are based in reality.
Not the unimpressive words of the Democrats who embrace the sort of fiction that weakens western culture.
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The US has many 3 and 4 star generals who are next to useless – forming a cohort of seat warming bureaucrats. That said Hegseth is a dick who knows bugger all about foreign policy or how to conduct a war. Frankly I agree with Peter, the US has no strategic advantage – either in the South China Sea, or in a full on nuclear slug out with Russia.
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Of course the US has no advantage in the South China Sea. It’s half a world away. But I don’t think Peter was talking about geography. He was talking about the US’s current actions and talk making them irrelevant and giving China more confidence to act.
China will act on Taiwan one day. They’re working on it. And they’ve seen we’re basically relying on Virgin pilots for local intelligence. The US kindly did a tour to show they’re still our friend.
But, the US’s current talk is not going to encourage China. If anything will, it will be when the US are making all their chips etc at home and Taiwan no longer being important to the US. Then China will know there’s little incentive for US involvement.
On a similarity to the Suez logistically. They’ve already sorted out the Panama Canal without the crisis.
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You either have no idea what you’re talking about or you are a paid disinformation agent. Given your long history on this blog, I pick the latter. NOBODY here is listening to you. What a waste of money.
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‘I’m bettering it will be Taiwan.’
Highly unlikely, regime change is coming to Beijing and its good news for the US, peace in our time.
That is only one layer, the generals were gathered together because of the unprecedented behaviour of 3I/Atlas.
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How about this
Or this
Or this
Of course, your news sources may disagree
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3I/ATLAS?! You’re not supposed to mention this ” comet” as its may be a source of alarm and revelation. Keep under wraps for now.
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Thanks for today’s LOL moment.
Hegseth being a [snip] is a more likely theory.
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Projecting again.
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Gee pete your comment is 5 years too late; it would have been applicable when the walking corpse, joe biden cheated his way in to the Presidency. Trump has been literally a God Send and is methodically and brilliantly overturning the damage biden, or rather his puppets (especially obama) did.
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Peter, ” now” with the US was then, under Obama Biden in the slide, nay collapse to incompetence and off shoring essential production for both manufacturing and defense requirements, and making the military PC with inane LBGT insanity, while spending and losing track of trillions on incredibly expensive unreliable arms that can be destroyed by miltary means costing way less then 1 percent of the cost to make them. Of course arming the Islamist and leaving them with well over 100 billion dollars of military equipment did not help either.
Peter are you daft to not see this?
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Hopefully there will be a lot of early retirements of the mentally ill, wokesters and traitors from the US Department of War.
Recall what Mark Milley (fired by TRUMP) said:
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There is still a chance the traitorous General Mark Milley will be recalled to uniform and court marshalled.
His main defence is a presidential pardon signed with the pen stamp. The first step is to invalidate those pardons.
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New domain name of U.S. Department of War:
https://www.war.gov/
Incidentally the Department of War is the traditional name of that department and was only changed in 1947 to Department of Defense.
Department of Defense remains the official legal name and needs an act of Congress to change it.
Department of War is a secondary title,
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[Combining with your previous comment. – Raquel]
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Incidentally the Department of War is the traditional name of that department and was only changed in 1947 to Department of Defense.
Department of Defense remains the official legal name and needs an act of Congress to change it.
Department of War is a secondary title,
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Does Australia have any EV tanks or planes yet?
Ah, but our nuclear subs are only a decade away, maybe.
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We do or did have an electric hybrid fire truck in Canberra. Does that count?
Even Their ABC admits to huge problems and costs so it must be bad.
And their is the Bushmaster electric protected mobility vehicle for the Army.
Even fully woke Gulag AI admits there are problems:
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It would be ironic for an EV Fire Truck to catch on fire with having a battery issue.
Only in the ACT.
Would the ABC report on it if it ever happenened?
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The best use of an EV Bushmaster may be to remotely drive it, much like a terrestrial drone, into an enemy base and blow it up. That is if the enemy doesn’t have EMPs to stop it’s approach.
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M5 delays after lorry transporting electric cars catches fire
Image shows burnt out electric cars after fire rips through HGV on motorway
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/huge-mushroom-cloud-engulfs-motorway-after-lorry-catches-fire-as-drivers-hit-by-long-delays/ar-AA1NFCNj
MSN – A huge mushroom cloud towered over the UK M5 this morning after a lorry carrying nine electric cars burst into flames, causing hours of chaos for drivers.
‘On arrival, a car transporter carrying nine electric vehicles was fully involved in fire.’
It is believed the EVs were from the Chinese manufacturer BYD.
National Highways warned of delays of up to 40 minutes, while police shared images of the blackened wreckage left behind.
Devon and Cornwall Police’s Road Policing Team posted a picture of the aftermath of the fire, which has now been extinguished.
The picture shows the charred cars still attached to the lorry as firefighters kept watch nearby.
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I wonder how much loss of range a Bushmaster towing a diesel generator trailer would have?
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Do you remember the Howard Government (Liberal National) Joint Strike Fighter programme investment that resulted in design and delivery of Generation 05 stealth jet fighter F-35 Lightning, the RAAF has about 70 at this time, another 30 ordered were cancelled as part of Albanese Labor budget cuts and surplus bragging resulting.
The second stage of JSF is Loyal Wingman large unmanned jet fighters that are designed to fly alongside airforce aircraft as force multipliers and to perform attacks without risking pilots lives.
Boeing Australia has built several of these large drones and delivered to the RAAF for development, new name Ghost Bat after an Australian predatory bat.
Ghost Bats were delivered during the Morrison Coalition Government terms, and they also ignited the large unmanned submarine version called Ghost Shark. The first Ghost Shark has been built in Sydney by Anduril, a US firm that relocated to Australia. The RAN plan to buy several Ghost Sharks.
Of course the above are not EV.
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Bear with me. Some years ago a regional grocery chain in the US wanted to “Go Green” and use electric trucks, so it initiated a feasibility study. it was already determined to “Go Green”. The study was just in case the board was missing something to cover off all avenues of due diligence. Whoops!
First, the electrical connections to the grid need to be resized. Not just a few thousand dollars. Millions! Huge cables to carry the load. Back to the drawing board. Okay, they’ll put in diesel generators instead. To recharge the batteries on one truck would require a diesel engine the same size as the engines on existing trucks to run for about 1.5 times as long as the running time of the current in-truck engine. The entire plan was dropped shortly after.
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It comes as quite a shock that anybody bothered to do a cost-benefit analysis before embarking on an insane policy. Must be about the only one.
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We’ve lived in delusional times and anyone who told the truth was hated by the eco-loons and left wing donkeys.
Hopefully more people will follow the data and convince the public that so called CC is a load of BS and in fact we now live in the safest period in Human history.
It’s very simple really just look up the evidence and start to think.
It’s not that difficult, but you have to want to understand the evidence and just spend a few minutes online for yourself.
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The US was rather public in the intent to reform it’s troops, harking back to the ethic of an earlier date and time.
We have been far less public in advertising the state of our weapons systems.
The tip of the spear is sharp and effective, (example, Iran), and it is generally considered that
our nuclear deterrent is maintained & ready, but its not at all clear our conventional forces can, or would, defend
Aus if China came calling. We don’t have a lot of boats, we don’t have a lot of active troops, and its not clear how the local forces would
be fairing. Granted the presumption is that the Chinese focus is Taiwan but the size of the population to be subdued would be almost
exactly the same if the target were Australia…and it would be much easier for Taiwan to devalue itself in doomsday mode by blowing up
Taiwan Semi and a few others, while the Aus minerals and farmland just sit ripe for the taking.
Perhaps the US isn’t the only place that should have been paying attention.
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Hmm!
I wonder if this Admiral was in the room.
She/her? transitioned in 2011.
Her position in the U.S. Public Health Service is the umm, equivalent of a Four Star Admiral, so she/her gets to wear the dress and blouse of a 4 star Admiral, even though she never served a day in the military.
For someone who actually served 25 years in the military, this makes me …..
Blah blah blah, You should stop now Tony.
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Gosh Tony I’m sure that particular Admiral would cause Putin, Xi, Iran, nth Korea and most of the non Woke countries to have some enjoyable belly laughs.
But why do so many loons still want to vote for these clueless Demorat donkeys?
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Because they are “LOONS” as you say.
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I note as well that she has two children from a previous marriage.
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I also shudder each time I see him in an undeserved uniform.
Having also served (20 years RAN, out in 1986), I’ve watched the military devolve into a farce rather than a force.
A few years ago a female, Muslim navy captain expounding that there are too many white Anglo-Saxon males in the navy and the forces should better reflect the distribution of male/female/racial characteristics of the general populace especially irked me.
I should also stop now
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Exactly what Hegseth is changing instantly. No Committees, no hearings, no dudes in dresses, and his line that if “this speech makes your heart sink, best hand in your commission now and leave the room”. Great work Pete Hegseth, would have warmed the hearts of the real warriors in the room.
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Yes, my only concern is they should not be asked to leave the room. “TOLD” is a better word.
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Tony,
No need to stop. It is quite ok to note and discuss the Nature designed differences like voice between male and female.
We both served, where drill is a way of life.
Can you imagine a full pomp and ceremony British bearskin parade to honour a visiting head of state, when a comparatively thin, weak, high pitched order is given “Parade, general salute, present arms!” It is so not right that people would giggle.
Importantly in actual close combat there are often life and death times when a loud, authoritative, commanding voice matters.
Vivre la difference ,-, but do not misuse it.
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I think we need to stop using the ABC as some yardstick of media integrity. I stopped consuming anything from the ABC probably 15 years ago and feel so much better for it. Around the time, I signed up to Twitter( now X). These days I go to my X feed, get the real version of news events, then sometimes may hear the MSM version of the same event and it’s like chalk and cheese. Same for Hesgerths and Trump’s address to their military leaders. Pretty well the same for every aspect of CLIlMATE CHANGE, COVID, Ukraine war, GAZA or anything to do with US or Australian politics. Chalk and cheese, Venus and Mars.
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Ross, the reason the ABC is still worthy of being a yardstick, even if the masses aren’t watching, is that all the journalists of Seven Nine SBS and Ten are. And the political staffers take their cues…
The highest paid jobs in the media have their own drawcard and influence beyond what you imagine.
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Remember when Harris said the Marines could power their radios on solar panels? The cluelessness was simply staggering.
Thankfully TRUMP is now in charge or the US military would be full of soy boys and other soy things of indeterminate gender and inappropriate technologies.
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Essentially, Hegseth just reoriented the US military to prioritize line troops who actually put themselves in harm’s way rather than staff REMFs who hang out in Washington DC or in the field HQ.
As it should be. Too many people are unwilling to face the ugly reality of what a military’s job is … to kill the enemy. It’s supposed to be a rabid, remorseless, starving dog that you unleash on your enemies, not a kinder, gentler bureaucracy that strives for gender inclusion, racial equity, and a small carbon footprint. You don’t keep a standing army around as a jobs program for fat transwoman lesbians of color. You keep it around to make sure your enemies know that you have a nasty junkyard dog chained up and ready to be unleashed at the first sign of danger.
Bogging troops down with a bunch of useless managerial theories and social science mumbo jumbo is counterproductive. Grunts aren’t post-doctorate students. They’re killers who are incredibly good at thinking on their feet and improvising new and exciting ways to kill the enemy.
Hegseth gets that. So do most generals and mid-ranking officers. But a substantial minority don’t, and through political maneuvering in Washington DC they have acquired an disproportionate amount of influence in military leadership. Hegseth and his staff are doing their damnedest to disempower that recalcitrant minority and where possible, drive them out of the military entirely. A big part of that is making sure that EVERYONE in the chain of command knows that the big boss is not playing those games anymore, and if he catches you playing those games, it will cost you.
That’s what the ‘All Hands’ meeting was meant to convey. And not just to generals. He also invited their top ranking enlisted officers there, so that they convey the same message to the enlisted ranks that he expects the generals to deliver to the officer ranks. Now, no one can say they missed the message.
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One of the points that I picked up from hearing snippets of Hesgerths address was his experience at the Pentagon. He must spend some time there and he was very unimpressed with the appearance and demeanour of the staff he observed walking around the building. Basically a bunch of very unfit, poor body style personnel who would do little to inspire those they commanded.
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Meet Gunnery Sergeant Hartman(49 sec)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yFMAB2xa1c
Because when things get rough, there’s no time to wish you’d trained better or washed out the “can’t s” .
We Were Soldiers – The Final Battle Scene (4:58)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeu2h0E1RBU
You’re either capable and ready, or you’re dead.
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Gunnery Sergeant Hartman hurt my feelings.
Said the woke.
I wonder what that is in chinese or farsi?
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Pretty sure Col Hal Moore or Sgt Hartman could tell them. In no uncertain terms involving lots of spent brass.
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Lance, You may know the soundtrack song behind the battle scene you linked to is called ‘Sgt. MacKenzie’, written and performed by the great-grandson of Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a Seaforth Highlander and a true hero of the Great War. A truly moving story.
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To be really cynical, it’s better just to severely injure them.
That ties up far more resources, as well as taking the wounded out of action.
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Steve,
Good passionate points.
However I still cannot understand how do many weird groups gained so much attention and were accommodated by the older mainstream. The penetration was so deep that the President and Minister for War were called in to finally stop the nonsense.
We see this same activist minority penetration rather often in the present decade. One part of me imagines this was the use of big money and compliant media and advertising and what youngsters were taught. But, to be fair, another part of this says it is democracy in action when I am getting to be the holder of a minor view, so I should shut up and go with the flow.
Do others have similar competing views?
Geoff S
Geoff S
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There are many, many, many upsides of civilian control of the military.
Unfortunately, there is also a downside … woke politicians in the executive branch can mandate military policies, create incentives that reward beahaving in a certain way, and recruit people who fit the new vision for the military.
Up until Trump, there had been a one-way ratchet where the military has been watered down repeatedly by every Democratic administration since the Vietnam era, and while Republican administrations often canceled those policies while those are in power, they never took the hard step cutting out the rot.
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White House Announces $8 Billion in ‘Green New Scam’ Cancellations amid Democrat Shutdown”>”White House Announces $8 Billion in ‘Green New Scam’ Cancellations amid Democrat Shutdown”
And
“Nolte: 154,000 Bureaucrats Finally Exit Federal Payroll This Week”
It’s started. The shutting down of Carbon Crazies, DEI, Woke and vast padding of the public service.
The same Labor/Green policies as in Victoria and Australia generally, ‘hire a voter’ or ‘import a voter’ to stay in power forever. Bribery, corruption, featherbedding as a form of perpetual government, until you run out of other people’s money.
And the Liberal and Country party have become new Labor. Menzies ‘broad church’ no longer represents Conservatives or workers (people outside the public service).
It’s really bad when mines, manufacturers, gas suppliers, power stations, jobs are vanishing while taxes are soaring (massive hidden CO2 taxes) and 80% of new hires are by the government, faking economic growth and employment.
Where are they going to get the money? Elbow is backing Communist China in their dispute with BHP over iron ore prices. Of course.
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I honestly don’t know what the Dems were thinking forcing a government shutdown. Under normal circumstances, it’s incredibly hard to fire public employees. But during a shutdown, it’s much easier to lay people off and shrink the government. Trump may or may not have wanted the shutdown, but he sure as heck is going to take advantage of the opportunity to reminisce of his days on The Apprentice and tell a bunch of bureaucrats You’re Fired.
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The video in my browser has a white rectangle over it and the video behind just makers circles.
This is a link to the full speeches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhGeNPJlIK4
Hegseth was impressive. Trump was a bit rambling.
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Australian Government propaganda says:
Aa usual with Leftist propaganda the opposite is true.
It is the legislated shift to Net Zero Energy that is seriously endangering the safety and security of Australia.
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I give that statement a zero in fact and a zero in logic. Climate Change is a national security risk is an absurd statement.
And even if we achieved some made up target for CO2 output, what difference will it make to Australia or anywhere else? It’s nonsensical.
Enhances Australia’s standing? No, it makes our Prime Minister look like an idiot. As is his latest claim that he pressured Hamas into a settlement by giving them what they wanted for nothing.
I know he’s an avowed lifelong communist, but it is becoming quite clear that he is a buffoon as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c
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So, now we’re happy with government telling us there are things we can’t do?
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As Meatloaf said:
“no I won’t do that”.
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If you’re referring to what Hegseth said. That’s the government saying what the government and defence employees won’t or can’t do. Not everyone else.
However, the Supreme Court has ruled against certain DEI practices. Which does mean others outside of government can’t do certain discriminatory things.
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Sorry Jo, I’ll have to skip the lesson in ABC propaganda, ABC iView requires a log in and there’s no way I’m signing up with them to help them with viewer numbers.
Anyway, my ABC BS meter is pretty well calibrated, I can usually spot it within about 1 minute of listening to or watching any ABC radio or TV program.
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incorrect.
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[If I try on web browser it asks me to login. I’m sure the App on smart TV required a log in too when we looked at Muster Dogs. Have you been logged in for so many years now that it doesn’t prompt you? – Raquel]
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I tried to access iView and it requires a log in. Your ACB mate.
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Google AI says…
“Yes, you need to log in with a free ABC Account to watch programs on ABC iview”
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I am staggered at how mad the Democrats seems at the moment. Trump posted a joke and they have exploded. Putting a sombrero and moustache on Hakeem Jeffries has offended him terribly.
He and Schumer are incredibly thin skinned. Especially when you consider all the stuff aimed at Donald Trump over twenty years.
But they have exploded and Jeffries calls this bit of trolling satirical comedy a “Xenophobic Stereotype“. So you have a cartoonist simply drawing a sombrero on a black politician and he is very offended. It’s just silly, but who’s the total hypocrite?
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The left are a mob of snowflakes (or is that a blizzard?). They wake every morning to a world filled with opportunities to be offended.
As the saying goes: Offence cannot be given, only taken.
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When former SASR Captain Andrew Hastie MP commented about the need for physical fitness and capabilities must be a priority regardless of the gender of an applicant for military service he was howled down, despite him saying that woman can and do carry out many roles in the ADF.
When I watched the precision marching and discipline of Chinese soldiers broadcast during the military parade in China and compared to the sloppy US Military during the President Trump arranged military parade I thought how times have changed.
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So why have extreme weather death rates dropped so much over the last 64 years, while population has SOARED from 3 billion in 1960 to 8.2 billion people at risk today?
Here’s OWI Data global death rates per 100,000 people around the world since 1900.
IOW we can definitely state that Humans now live in the safest period since the start of the Industrial Revolution and also over the last 300,000 years.
As Dr John Christy has stated, that before the Industrial Revolution Human lives were brutal and short.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates?country=Wildfire~Flood~Extreme+weather~Extreme+temperature~Drought
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Again, why has there been such a big drop in global death rates from fires and burns since 1980?
Australia now has about one third the death rates of other high income countries and even lower than NZ.
But all countries have seen death rates fall since 1980.
Again why is it so and why are we much safer today than we were 41 years ago and after a huge increase in population that has put many more billions of people at risk?
The graphs are active, just hold the mouse on the World or countries of choice.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fire-death-rates?tab=line&country=OWID_WRL~OWID_LIC~OWID_HIC~OWID_UMC~OWID_LMC~NZL~AUS~African+Region+%28WHO%29
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BTW World population at risk in 1980 was about 4.4 billion and about 8.1 billion in 2021.
And Africa’s population in 1980 was 481.5 million and about 1390 million in 2021. And over 1500 million in 2025. Here’s Macrotrends for Africa since 1950 to 2025. And they use UN and World Bank etc data.
Just unbelievable but true.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/afr/africa/population
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US Navy pilots are marked on every landing. One of the first female pilots, Kara Hultgren, was consistently marked poorly. She died when she went over the side in a Tomcat, a plane that was itself on the dangerous side of good. Her poor performance was clearly noted in a CMR report. Another female pilot’s performance was also noted.
I don’t believe women could have flown combat WWII but with modern fly by wire that no longer holds true. Being lighter and smaller may even be an advantage as long as they are flying with the mindset to kill the enemy, not to be the first at anything.
https://cmrlink.org/data/sites/85/CMRDocuments/CMRRPT09-0695.pdf
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