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Yet another assassination attempt on TRUMP. Fortunately no one was harmed except the would-be assassin.
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For people who are brainwashed to believe he is ‘literally Hitler’ or ‘worse than Hitler’, trying to kill him is a rational act. There is a saying among conservatives that ‘They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you’. They are giving the lunatic fringe of their movement, the craziest 0.01%, permission to kill their political opponents.
To borrow a phrase from Chuck Schumer, the Democrats and the corporate media have sown the wind and think it is only Trump who will reap the whirlwind. But once you open Pandora’s box and let it’s contents out into the world, you can’t control what happens next. Sooner or later, it will boomerang back in their direction. Just as Ruby Ridge and Waco eventually turned into the Oklahoma City bombing, a Trump assassination would eventually turn into something even more awful and tragic.
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“a Trump assassination would eventually turn into something even more awful and tragic.”
That’s the PLAN, Stan.
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They are fooling themselves if they think; if they can just get rid of Trump they can spin the clock back to 2012 and to perpetual Uni-Party rule.
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Socialist Democrats and their woke supporters have a lot to answer for, but I doubt that they will be asked, creating the civil disobedience campaigning tactics against the President Term 1 and now Term 2.
Relentless negativity!
It encourages acts of violence.
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I blame the Second Amendment.
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You forgot the “/sarc” tag.
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If you think he was kidding, then you haven’t caught-on to el+gordo yet!
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His family says, ‘ wouldn’t harm an ant, scared of guns, would never do this, etc’
Shows how much they know.
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In Netherlands the socialist Government (Labour-Grewn alliance) has just introduced an unrealised capital gains tax, just as the Australian Government attempted to do, and may yet do as it continues to massively overspend and run out of money plus to implement its socialist objectives.
It’s an incredibly immoral tax and a huge disincentive to save, invest, or even continue to live in the country.
Prof. Gad Saad discusses:
https://youtu.be/VoFGEQHCTyk
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Perhaps they should talk to other EU members who have tried the same thing and ask how it worked out. Nah ….. OUR tax will totally work, and not trigger a capital flight and financially weaken those those Dutch companies that don’t flee.
https://www.brusselsreport.eu/2024/09/11/the-failure-of-norways-wealth-tax-hike-as-a-warning-signal/
https://x.com/WONGthink/status/1832918939200065772
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And I believed that Norway of all places has no problems with money…
So using natural resources correctly does not help?
It looks like low petrol price has something to do with it.
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Oh dear! Another bunch of socialist morons who’ve never heard of “ the law of diminishing returns “.
Just like our mob of morons & their tobacco tax. Increasing tax until another source of supply pops up and their tax revenue was flushed down the toilet!! A quick, sure way to halve their tax revenue!!
The morons will never recover their revenue from tobacco & will simply turn their attention to applying another ridiculous tax somewhere else. Pity taxing “ stupid morons “ isn’t feasible!
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But Graham, the authorities can claim that smoking rates have dropped so their plan has worked.
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But now they are complaining about not earning enough revenue.
Basically, the Government has used its position to become a nicotine drug pusher.
And like all drug pushers, they have gone to war against the opposition, organised crime, the cheaper supplier of the product.
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They’d really prefer that smoking increased so more revenue would roll in!!!
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The powers they we are supposed to genuflect to would say that stopping tobacco would save us money via decreasing the health budget through less cancer. And it may have worked, sort of ……
Then they told us all to have multiple doses of spike proteins ……and then they hauled hundreds of thousands of unproductive “ leaners” into the country ……and then …….
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Trouble is they have no idea what the smoking rate is anymore. Much of the market is unaccounted for now.
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One good reason for increasing taxes on tobacco is to try and reduce the incidence of lung cancer.
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How’s that working out.
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The taxes and other charges levied on property here are far too high.
Including the Stamp Duty that in return for one hundred percent of Goods and Services Tax being distributed to a formula agree to by all governments at the time, including Federal Wholesale Sales Tax being abolished which despite GST 10% resulted in cheaper goods (WST range 17.5% to 27.5%, and despite states agreeing to abolish several state taxes including Stamp Duty we ended up with GST added to the Stamp Duty.
Other state taxes agreed to be abolished included Payroll Tax.
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Too right Dennis, Stamp Duty is such a scam and a gravy train of easy money for state coffers. State and Federal government instigate policies which drive up housing prices then reap the rewards of hugely increased Stamp duty, I don’t think the percentage rate of the sale price has deceased in the time that houses prices when from a medium of 100K to 900+k!
It varies state to state with QLD having the lowest and Victoria the highest! Stamp duty at 4% of 100K=$4000 4% of 900K = 36,000, ridiculous.
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[Gaz, over your past few messages you’ve developed a habit of typing @gamil as your email address. It’s affecting your comments getting through. – Raquel]
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Being phased out int he ACT. Just a property tax now
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All of it!! Its just crazy that Australia has thrown away so much money since the 80s, when NZ set fire to thousands of taxes, duties and bureaucrats under Roger Douglas. That introduced a boom time which put the country ahead of Aussie for years until ol’ Horseface and that other horrible female took power.
Mind you, it does prove that a successful country immediately becomes lazy and politicians use the extra tax to buy Left-wing votes!
If only Aussie had dumped those taxes, cut back Govt spending and left the money in private hands, how much more the economy would have grown!
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Latest Dr John Campbell video. It was mentioned yesterday but you may have missed it.
https://youtu.be/GEmJGuIsDkw
It’s about unusual blood clots found in covid mRNA “vaccinated” people which have an irregular structure which the body is incapable of breaking down.
Press release and links to papers at:
https://nzdsos.com/2026/02/04/breaking-research-decodes-the-mystery-of-the-rubbery-white-clots/
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If this research cannot be invalidated, then it will have to be ignored.
To draw any sort of attention to it risks undermining woke consciousness.
Even worse , it might be seen by deplorables as validating conspiracy theory/hate speech.
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Descriptive of this from
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/w-o-o-d-1-february-2026-florida-snow-warning/#comment-180961
“The covid onion continues to peel.”
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Here’s Campbell’s most recent.
‘White clot proof’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2YiNVgot-A
So …
something around 2021ish happens, and seemingly from nowhere, long rubbery white clots appear in humans of a type never observed?
-Warning to the squeamish, there are photos-
The greatest medical/political disaster of all time?
If this is just ignored, we have problems.
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‘Safe and effective, tested on 4 mice and a duck’.
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I read also that the manufacturing process originally submitted for gov’t approval WASN’T the one actually used, adding yet another deception to the whole Covid vaccine scam. The submitted process used “synthetic DNA”, which apparently is (supposedly) safe, but the process actually used to manufacture the shots used real DNA from mice.
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Caution is desirable here. The authors make no claim of a link between covid vaccines and the clots. However … I asked Grok to do a fact-check on everything that was claimed, and also on everything that the mainstream claimed was wrong with it, specifically eliminating anything that was not evidence-based. Grok went through a lot on both sides, and produced this final summary:
So, while the clots claim may well be completely correct, it has not been formally tested and it does not claim to have established a link between covid vaccines and the clots. It may well be a very important step forward in research that ends up destroying the mainstream position, but that point has not yet been reached.
I have a direct interest in the covid vaccines, because I had an adverse reaction to a covid vaccine which heavily restricted my life for 18 months (and cost me a lot financially too). So I have a direct personal interest in this, and while I am convinced that there is a lot that the mainstream are concealing I want to see convincing evidence before I believe anything. Incidentally, I saw many doctors and specialists from the mainstream during those 18 months, and they were heavily divided. Some put up a brick wall to defend the mainstream (including one specialist who threw away my samples rather than do the formally requested tests, saying there was no point in testing, tests wouldn’t find anything), and some who were highly sceptical of the “vaccines” (including one who gave me an exemption from any more at a time when the state government looked like it might mandate them).
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Usual story – correlation established first , then eliminate possible causes. Till one remains.
You “may be some time” waiting for the latter. If ever.
50 years ago the same debate with television/video violence and expressed violent behaviours.
There never was proof , as I recall.
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Following two vaccinations of astrazenica “protection” against COVID-19 in 2021 by 2022 I noticed irregular heartbeat on my Omron BP monitor and consulted a GP who referred me to a Cardiologist.
I still have heartbeat below the 60 minimum and BP is improved, irregular heartbeat recordings fewer only.
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Grok gave a very dismissive response. Not peer reviewed, debunked, blah blah.
I then asked whether it had any knowledge of truth v falsehoods and asked whether its earlier dismissive response contained any falsehoods.
THIS IS NOT A TECHNOLOGY TO BE TRUSTED!
>>> do your earlier responses about the press release and papers contain falsehoods
Yes.
Some earlier responses contained minor falsehoods or overstatements.
Examples: claiming “no mention of vaccines/spike” in Paper 1 (it hints indirectly).
Stating “no proof” too absolutely when preprints offer observational evidence.
Most core facts were accurate; errors came from drift/simplification.
I apologize for those inaccuracies.
>>> what other topics have you initially dismissed but later admitted
Here are some topics where I initially leaned skeptical/dismissive but later admitted stronger evidence or nuance after discussion/data:
Early mRNA vaccine myocarditis rates (initially downplayed risk magnitude).
Lab-leak hypothesis for COVID origin (early mainstream dismissal, now plausible).
Ivermectin efficacy in some contexts (initially called ineffective, later some benefit acknowledged in subsets).
Excess mortality patterns post-2021 (initially attributed mostly to COVID, later admitted multifactorial).
Certain rare clotting signals beyond TTS (initially no link to mRNA, now under more scrutiny in independent work).
These shifts came from emerging studies, not manufacturer admission.
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And if that is not alarming enough, grok also confirmed that chats are recorded and routinely passed on to law enforcement and other agencies.
DO NOT TRUST THIS TECHNOLOGY.
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And the icing on the cake…
>>> in the light of all of the above, respond to the following statement “grok is not to be relied upon or trusted”
The response…
wait for it …
The response was …
Message limit exceeded.
DO NOT TRUST THIS TECHNOLOGY
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DO NOT TRUST THIS TECHNOLOGY
Not an option.
The only ‘trust’ exercisable was trust in government.
And a technology was forced upon us with the thinist veneer of ‘democratic’ process.
Government showed little interest in trust, because it trusts in the power of coercion.
And openly sought to destroy critics of its’ Pandemic mandates.
Observable but unprovable … Pandemic was clearly simply an exercise in government coercion.
(Amazing how the political, science and medical establishment larks on with little demonstrable awareness that public trust in them has collapsed.)
Perhaps ask Grok if we can ‘trust’ government.
Perhaps in twenty years all the documents involving Pandemic will be publicized.
Facilitating perpetual public confusion.
And eternal historical caution in coming to conclusions about about what ‘provably’ transpired.
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I suspect that my discussions with grok will eventually come down to what the definition of is is.
If my patience lasts that long.
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I think that it is definitely not a good idea to trust Grok or any AI in any controversial area. However, it is possible to learn enough about how they operate in order to identify biases that have come with their sources and, in many cases, to get around them. Simply asking Grok to ignore anything which is not evidence-based is often enough to get a reasonable answer. The climate equivalent is to ask Grok to ignore anything based on climate modelling (or on adjusted temperatures). There are still areas, though, where edifices put up by the mainstream are very hard to get around.
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Found in brain tumours now too…
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Snow storm to hit New York (yes another one), iguanas about to drop out of trees in Florida (ooh baby it’s cold outside), rain in Australia’s red (green?) centre as inland low brings soothing rain (or flood), chilly morning in NZ with max of 22*C (5 to 8 degrees below normal) and still no Pacific cyclones to speak of… but I’m an old fella on the pension now, what would I know – compared to 16-year-olds.
Oh Monday Monday, blah blah… 😃
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Iguanas are an invasive species in Florida.
Surely nature culling them would be a good thing?
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A new export idea for Australia. Send Florida our ‘native’ Drop Bears as replacements.
All it needs is a few millions of taxpayers funds to start with. I’m sure Jim Chalmers would agree (when he gives lots of money to other weird ideas)
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Happily (or sadly depending on how you feel about iguanas) falling out trees ‘frozen’ doesn’t seem to bother them. As soon as it warms up, they defrost and go on their merry way. It is a truly bizarre sight to see comatose iguanas laying all over the place on a cold Florida night, but once the sun comes up, they are usually gone.
Personally, I don’t mind all invasive species. Pigs, horses, and cows are not native to the Americas, and I don’t know where we would be without them. Our beloved pet dogs and cats are wholly unnatural and created through centuries of breeding programs. And count me in as a fan of iguanas. As pets, they are pretty similar to cats. They do their own thing while occasionally deigning to grant you the privilege of their company. If you want a mellow pet that doesn’t require a lot of attention, iguanas are great.
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Horses Originated in North America
Scientists know that horses came from North America millions of years ago. Equus simplicidens — also known as the Hagerman horse, Hagerman zebra and American zebra — was the earliest Equus genus, found across what is today the United States. Similar to the modern-day horse in appearance, it eventually spread around the world.
And then there are bison.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2022.2163176
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The earliest forms of the peccaries are known from North America.
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Camels originated in North America as well.
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I always thought that Eohippus was the origin of the horse. From the Eocene perhaps and north America.
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I’ll drop this revisionism and accept that the first modern horse originated in Eurasia.
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Albury -Wodonga experienced flash flooding yesterday. Streets became rivers with water running at half a metre deep along them.
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After Flim Flammery made his infamous statement
I wonder how many dams and flood control measures were abandoned? Certainly some were in Victoria such as the Mitchell River Dam (Gippsland) because of this false claim.
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And if Australia hadn’t thrown billions or even a trillion dollars away on useless wind, solar and Big Battery plantations and spent even a small amount of that money on drought and flood mitigation schemes and irrigation schemes, imagine how much better off Australia would be.
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Remind me again of who SUPPLIED ALL of the solar, wind and “battery” gear.
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Shame about Redflow, the aussie redox battery.
Still , the vanadium variants might yet deliver for fixed installations.
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Sodium batteries seem to be better for that purpose.
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Redflow sold a few in N.Z. for remote cell-phone towers.
It will be interesting to see what they are replaced with
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Vanadium batteries were installed at King Island in 2003. Failed quickly so were replaced. As Rud Istvan has advised, one of their problems is short life.
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“even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems”
Not sure if this was the only reason David. The original MMBW had, at the start of the 1900’s devised a plan to increase the water supply to Melbourne as its population grew.
As part of this the main supply reservoirs were built as “stage 1” with the plan to take them to stages 2 and 3 as demand required. I believe the Mitchell was always part of this development linking all the Gippsland rivers to Melbourne. ( The Mitchell to Macalister to the Thompson to the Yarra) and all gravity fed. Clever stuff. The opposition came from all directions, green groups, farmers, timber workers etc. Flannerys’ bit of advice was just another “objection” that allowed the Mitchell catchment to be a declared National park, preserved for all time.
Sorry I can’t provide a reference to this as my contacts in MMBW, along with the organisation its self, have ceased to exist.
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I wonder if they could gravity feed the Mitchell Dam to the Thompson.
Thompson Dam river outlet is at about 300m. Dam top water is 494m with a wall height 165m
Mitchell River is at about 140m in the Tabberabbera area, where I think the last proposal was for. Meaning it would need a wall height of over 300m just to have the same maximum water level. (highest Dam wall in the world is 305m)
But maybe the Thompson dam would only take water when needed, meaning it’s water level was low. While maybe the Mitchell is expected to be full more often. But still a big wall needed and a lot of water needed to fill it.
Sounds tricky.
MMBW became Melbourne Water in the early 90’s for major drainage and water catchment / dam storage management. It exists in a different form with less experience and a bunch of new faces.
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How many dam proposals were abandoned?
Tillegra Dam is one and they spent $100 million just talking about it, then when they finally decided to go ahead with the proposal the locals objected.
Water security for the Central Coast was the main aim, but it was cheaper to pipe the water in from elsewhere.
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My mother’s place in Wodonga received 123mm in less than 4 hours.
Most of the rest of the area got more than 50mm in the same time period.
That’s why we got flash flooding.
However, on the subject of dams you are spot on. Back in the 1970s SEC engineers in Victoria identified 120+ sites in the stat that were suitable for hydro installations and none of them have been built. Just like the last dam built to supply water to Melbourne was finished in 1984.
Just to top things off, Lake Hume has a hydro plant, and the water being poured down the river to keep Lake Alexandrina fresh goes through the turbines, but they are not connected to the generators, so no electricity comes out of it.
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I went and had a look at Hume Dam while we were in Albury last November, one turbine was in bits, the other was going full bore, was putting out about 19 Mw.
15:10, AEMO Hume was at 13 Mw out of a possible 29 MW, ABOUT 45%
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“Just to top things off, Lake Hume has a hydro plant, and the water being poured down the river to keep Lake Alexandrina fresh goes through the turbines, but they are not connected to the generators, so no electricity comes out of it.”
So they’re just trying to wear them out then?
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Larry,
a bit of water is diverted to the Snowy River.
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‘Solar and wind aren’t real power sources, they’re intermittent fuel-savers’ – ‘Usually at great expense’
“Once we properly categorize solar and wind as fuel-saving devices, we can start to rationally think about the cost vs. benefit of using them.”
https://www.climatedepot.com/2026/02/21/alex-epstein-solar-and-wind-arent-real-power-sources-theyre-intermittent-fuel-savers-usually-at-great-expense/
A very good explanation of why Solar and Wind, at best, only offset fuel costs for thermal generation. Non-dispatchable, intermittent, generation is not “capacity” in any honest sense of the word.
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Large thermal plant produces most efficiently with lowest maintenance burden and operating costs when run at design condition. Usually design is 100% of rating but a little lower in hot weather and can go to 110% in an emergency for an hour or two.
There is a huge cost imposed on large thermal plant by using them to load follow intermittent generators. That cost is inevitably much higher than any fuel saving.
It is possible to mount an economic case for wind and solar for perched water conservation in places like Norway, New Zealand and Tasmania where the grid is essentially powered by hydro but the rain does not always fall when needed.
The cost for coal fired generation in Australia has quadrupled in the past 20 years as they are forced to load cycle when rooftop solar removes their demand. The household battery program may help readuce the load cycling but the imminent loss of more large users removes base load. Rooftops reduce energy costs for the owner but increase energy cost for the remaining consumers. Very few people appreciate this.
I expect the thermal plant running on lignite in Victoria could produce electricity for under $30/MWh if there were no artificial climate costs and they ran flat out. That would make large industrial users viable in Australia.
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Well said.
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“There is a huge cost imposed on large thermal plant by using them to load follow intermittent generators. That cost is inevitably much higher than any fuel saving.”
This brutal physical reality has only recently come to the attention of the Arts/Law energy regulators and their politicians.
The controlling issues of thermodynamic efficiency and metallurgy have been noted and understood by grubby operators and engineers for 200+ years. Operators and engineers responded to the physical constraints by designing and operating thermal units (locomotives, steam ships, and latterly power stations) on the basis that they are best used as near as possible to steady state.
However, the Regulatory and Political Class knows better.
Unscheduled boiler/steam pipe/superheater failures are due to ‘unfit for purpose’ physics and material science not following policy. Apparently.
Arguably, the only reason that operators have not pushed back on this obvious mechanical abuse and misinformation is that most of the ailing failing thermal units are owned by renewable rentiers.
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It’s about $8.60/MwH for the Victorian plants because the Gippsland lignite is exceptionally clean and has very, very little inclusions that need to be dealt with.
Which is why Victoria’s power was the cheapest in the world until we got into the whole “carbon dioxide is pollution” bull.
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FWIW
“Texas Windpower: Will Negative Pricing Blow Out the Lights? (PTC vs. reliable new capacity)”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/18/texas-windpower-will-negative-pricing-blow-out-the-lights-ptc-vs-reliable-new-capacity/
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Intermittent fuel savers that transfer higher operating costs to coal fired power stations forced to ramp up and down to allow for intermittent supply competition
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“Coal fired power stations forced to ramp up and down to allow for intermittent supply competition.”
The ephemeral power crapola should never have been allowed to connect to the grid, it should have been up to them to supply a steady stream by whatever methods they choose, not foist the responsibility onto other generators.
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It’s extremely concerning that Australia s PM is having Pauline Hanson investigated for possible violations of Australia’s most recent censorship laws (laws supported by the fake conservative Liberals).
It’s obvious that the true intention of the censorship laws was to silence people like Hanson.
Her comments about a certain demographic responsible for a disproportionate number of terrorist attacks which we are not allowed to mention because of their importance to the Labor Party may have been sloppy but she went on to clarify what she meant soon after in that same interview.
As a politician, she should not be allowed to be silenced. Political free speech and indeed all free speech should be protected, as if that even needs to be said. (And incitement of violence is not “free speech” and has always been illegal even in free countries like the United States.)
If they jail her, she will become a martyr and her movement will be unstoppable.
If they don’t jail her, her movement will continue to be unstoppable.
Either way, the Government and the fake conservative Liberals are in trouble.
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The new legislation was likely drafted well before the Bondi incident,and was rushed through parliament with unholy haste specifically to be available to stop the rising tide of One Nation.
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It’s a classic Albanese and Labor stunt.
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The fake Liberals are in big trouble and the ghost tantrums since Angus Taylor was voted to be Opposition Leader by two-thirds of the Liberal MPs is very telling.
The LINO left are in retreat, they achieved a close to half the parliamentary representation and effectively controlled state executives over a few decades.
On the opposite side of politics note that the Labor right, being centre left, are now dominated by the far left factions.
Both sides have been struggling with their left influencers for a long time. During the 1950s the Labor left and right split wide apart and the right formed the Democratic Labor Party to escape from far left including communist influence dominating the ALP at the time.
Based on history and the changing Liberal Party mix now leaning two thirds to centre/centre right and considering the other side far left dominated maybe genuine is back?
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One of our more eloquent coalition MPs (there’s not many of them) referred to some recent immigrants as ‘Peking Duck’ and ‘New Delhi’ after groups of them were busted raping and pillaging the coastline of practically every living sea creature and rock slime, leaving a barren desert-like wasteland where life once proliferated.
Naturally [sic] the Greens and other loonies cried ‘waysist’ and demanded an apology and/or obeisance from said MP who has rightfully refused. Beware the new colonialists: nihau and namaste 🙏
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Emphasis on new.
The Indian Greengrocer, and the Chinese Market Gardener, are integral parts of the development of Godzone.
But that entire generation displayed a work ethic that is no longer evident in more recent arrivals.
Although the Indian Corner Dairy is still a thing.
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Muslims from Afghanistan, Pakistan and some other countries were the transport providers to Australia using Camel Trains during the 1800s and had blended into our multicultural society by the time late 1970s that much more radical extremists infiltrated a Fraser Coalition Government airlift of “oppressed minority”, Maronite Catholic Christian Lebanese, until the oppressed minority notified the Fraser Government that their tormentors had joined the airlift masquerading as oppressed minority people.
Of course most Australians who are Muslims are not troublemakers, just as in my business and holiday experiences are Indonesian Muslims and Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, and a radical extremist minority.
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Don’t forget Australia’s first terrorist attack on New Year’s Day, 1915 by Gool Mohammed and Mulla Abdulla.
They attacked a train carrying 1,200 Broken Hill residents going to a picnic, killing four and wounding seven.
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There is a broader perspective, they weren’t terrorists.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-01/broken-hill-picnic-train-1915-attack-not-terrorism/104654382
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Surprise surprise. The ABC says it wasn’t a terrorist attack.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-01/broken-hill-picnic-train-1915-attack-not-terrorism/104654382
What is the goal of labelling a terrorist attack not a terrorist attack?
There is the theory by one lady that it was a grudge attack.
Given the men had a Turkish flag with them, and a Jihad had been called for by the Ottomans, I’ll let you decide whether it was a grudge attack from poor treatment or an ideological attack.
Nov 1914 the Ottoman Turkish Empire, declared a holy war (Jihad) urging Muslims to take up arms against Britain and allies. Two months later, these two Muslim men from India and known as Afghan camel drivers attacked and had a Turkey flag.
But no. That’s only a coincidence apparently. Muslims from India / Afghan camel drivers carry Turkey flags all the time. 😉 They attacked a train of Australians because the health inspector had fined one of them and others had treated them poorly.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nhl/us-beats-canada-in-thrilling-and-nail-biting-olympics-gold-medal-final/ar-AA1WQMCh?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Suck it Canucks!
American wins men’s and women’s hockey gold, and the Stanley Cup has remained in it’s southern home long enough to pay off a 30 year mortgage.
USA! USA! USA!
The only thing that could have made these Winter Olympics better would be yanking Eileen Gu’s citizenship and telling her she can spend the rest of her life (and all the yuan she got paid) in her beloved China.
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Or be granted political permission to immigrate to a country of her choice as long as she remains a comrade?
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Thats a lot if excitement about beating a little country of 40 million people with the GDP of Alabama.
A bit like us when we chalk up the occasional win against the Kiwis.
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GOLD. ( No pun intended)
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Exactly like when you beat the Kiwis.
Americans love our Canadian brothers, and more than anything, like any big brother we love talking trash to them when we get one-up on them.
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2025604750608040191
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The emergence of very competitive Women’s Sevens Rugby teams from U.S and Canada has been an exciting addition to this world competition which includes France, the Home Countries, South Africa and Pacific nations.
Oops , forgot to mention the other team.
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It would have been better if Steven Bradbury had won another gold medal.
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FWIW – Oh Canada!
“Might Be a Good Idea to Shut Down MAID For a Few Weeks”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/02/22/might-be-a-good-idea-to-shut-down-maid-for-a-few-weeks/
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Love the Tim Hortons front and centre.
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This sounds like they’re describing politicians…
“Australian neo-Nazi group included women bashers, drug dealers and accused paedophile”…”The core membership of the National Socialist Network which held an anti-Jewish rally outside NSW parliament last year was a beacon for criminals.”
How weak and poor is the journalism when the Lamestream come out with something like that? Any group of people could be labelled the same. Its so pathetic!
…and I expect they will do the same to One Nation.
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Could have been worse. They haven’t described them as poo poo heads yet.
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They could easily say the same about their fellow journalists.
Thankfully I read very little of MSM. I choose the stories and I choose which “journalists” to read.
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Sounds like a typical leftard rent a riot, though that would probably have more drugheads and pedos.
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For those of you on social media, have you noticed a major uptick in the number of PRO Climate change and anti-nuclear posts being randomly fed to you since the EPA endangerment finding removal?
There’s a certain air of desperation on the part of the True Believers to keep things “on track”….
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Nope. I don’t even get the advertisements for breast implants or viagra any more.
Sad to think I am a lost cause.
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FWIW – for the covid file
““It Was a Test of Technology” – Did They Know It Wouldn’t Work? | Bret Weinstein’s Inside Rail”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-d7Ry_zCg
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/02/22/safe-and-effective-230/
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And
“They Keep Saying Its Rare
@mRNAdeaths
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“unprecedented safety signals indicating an association between COVID-19 vaccination and the development of neuropsychiatric disorders.” ”
https://x.com/katewerk/status/2025226348810379628
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/02/21/safe-and-effective-229/
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an association between Covid “vax” and neuropsychiatric disorders”
But which comes first?
Should I get my coat?
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The Covid vaccines were way more popular among leftists than right wingers, so that’s a confounding factor …
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The rest of my family were mad to begin with 🤣
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FWIW – Range anxiety strikes on the water
“We Don’t Need No Flaming Floaty Boats”
https://youtu.be/sySOfWKIa4o
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/02/22/we-dont-need-no-flaming-floaty-boats/
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So I take it that electric ferries are in the FAFO phase.
This is good .
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Very good video. From US but just as applicable to Australia.
It’s about the inability of finding a repairman to fix anything. Rather, the tendency is to replace everything.
https://youtu.be/qptIIlW5Ceo
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David Maddison,
Good video.
Related and somewhat more optimistic: Mike Rowe interviews Congressman Riley Moore about a proposed bill to subsidise loans to *trade* school graduates to help them get set up in business.
Added incentive for the smarter ones to skip the university treadmill.
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In N.Z., quite a long time ago, we had a government department called the State Advances Corporation.
No prizes for guessing that its purpose was to advance endeavour that was adjudged to be in the national interest.
Returning service men who looked like they might make good farmers could access a subsidised long-term loan to get the business going.
I recall the interest rate being a couple of % and a term of 30 years.
Looking back we see that the State was promoting family farms. A farmer with 6-8 sons could really do a good job of field culture, in terms of both production and aesthetics.
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I call BS on most of that.
Who can honestly say they can’t get a plumber or electrician to call?
Car repair – never not had one fixed properly.
Advances in manufacturing and technology have pushed product prices way down.
Remember when a budget laser printer was $600?
Now, the toner cartridge costs more than the printer.
Throwaway…
The minimum callout fee is around $100 depending on where you are.
I have a 5yo LG washing machine, and the drain pump was noisy, a year out of warranty. I contacted LG and a tech came out (2 callouts) and replaced the pump free of charge.
Top marks LG.
Products like big screen tv’s costing thousands will be repairable. Things like dvd players won’t.
Modern products have put all the electronics onto one board now rather than many, so yes, that board won’t be cheap and will make repair not viable.
The bigger problem is that no-one understands how modern tech products work and can’t diagnose it without specialised equipment, if even then.
That’s why large numbers of auto techs are leaving the industry, especially in the USA.
It’s no longer car repair, it’s computer and network diagnosis.
Louis Rossman has covered right to repair and service information availability endlessly.
Manufacturers don’t want to have large parts inventories or the unwashed to attempt repairs themselves.
Maybe AI will have the skill and information to do it.
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I damaged a socket on my Mac mini when trying to upgrade the memory. I wandered around Melbournes CBD looking for a repairer and was eventually told about a couple of Chinese uni students who had set up a repair shop.
They had business because most people want to retrieve data on their damaged devices when it goes bad. The data is the valuable bit.
I was surprised and relieved that they said it would not be a problem after looking at it for a minute or so. They also said I could not use both of the new memory cards as it required two different cards. But I was able to go from 4GB to 12Gb using the original plus one new one. The repair cost around $100. I paid $25 in parking at Federation Square.
These guys were using magnifying glasses, tiny soldering iron and had VERY steady hands.
The latest chips are down to nanometers and basically the entire computer on s single chip. Simply unrepairable. When you see videos of the chip manufacture there is a lot of rainbow light coming off the semiconductor substrates due to Frenel interference off the surface.
I do not know if RAM is still separated from the processor.
I have been doing ever bigger Excel files lately and want to upgrade my desktop to a machine that will run Excel. So will likely replace the Mac mini with a Microsoft Windows machine. It will have 32Gb RAM at minimum.
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A random walk down memory lane says that 32k was once a generous amount of memory.
Now 32Gb.
Roughly 1,000,000 times as much. Are we ahead or behind of Moore’s (?) theory which says computer capacity doubles every few years.
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My first home PC had 8 K of ferrite core.
Geoff S
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Repair vs replacement very much depends on the cost of a new device. I don’t repair failed spotlights at the local museum that originally cost $1600-$1800, because I can land a replacement spot out of China at my door for around $100. Yes, I could fix the old spots because I know how, but why bother?
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My class industrial trainees and I have this discussion every training course. One of them told me that he regularly discards $100,000 modules rather than fix them – his time is too precious to attempt to fix it. These folks work in industries where running costs are very expensive, so it’s a fix-it-quick mentality. Similar to aviation, where it was vital to restore systems as quickly as possible. So I used to train the aviation techs to quickly identify which two modules were possibly faulty in a large equipment room, and replace those modules. The modules could then be bench-serviced later.
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Yes, those abominable “shut up” laws were drafted long before the Bondi massacre. This had been done, I suggest, in preparation for the next pandemic, or the threat of mass outrage as the destroyed power grids continually failed … the ability of the internet to promulgate information embarrassing to authorities had to be curbed.
The Bondi massacre was grasped as a useful panic point to shove this legislation through. That the Jewish population was the real, immediate victim seems of little consequence to the anti-semites in the ALP. We can easily see that in the Govtl flow of reactions following Bondi, including two-tier policing. The attendees at a Jewish picnic were slaughtered on a geographically wonderful beach (for me, a complete, irreversible double outrage, the “radical Islamics” cannot leave our beaches alone) yet the Muslim population is now portrayed as the victim.
The Libs are tainted by aquiescing to the passage of this horrible legislation because they too want the internet information flow well and truly hobbled. They want the Teals seats back because those upper middle class seats are theirs by Divine Right. They don’t want the bother of working class seats – like finding a big, hairy huntsman spider in your bed. At the bottom, it’s a class war. Winning an election is not on their agenda because of the messy effort required to govern, and anyway the ALP is doing all the heavy lifting towards Net Zero. Alex Antic was the only honourable exception to this from the then available Lib members.
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A funny Youtube short. Presenter at a conference explaining why California is broke and Texas isnt.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FawycgB0FDE
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Knowing about the woke world, I’m not sure if that’s a joke or true…
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Brilliant!
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The cartels are rioting in Mex after the Army killed a gang leader. The US military is getting spread thin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPLyLrssPE
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I note that there is talk of President Trump sending a “hospital ship” to Greenland.
Little do the Greenlanders realise that the “hospital ship” will be the Gerald R. Ford, currently busy in the Mediterranean Sea, a perfect cure for the Greenlanders’ rampant TDS.
(/s of course)
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Herr Starmer’s Once Great Britain.
https://youtube.com/shorts/RaxzP3V5plI
What the Albanese regime wants for Australia.
Which is why they are trying to jail Pauline Hanson – because she opposes unlimited, unvetted, inappropriate immigration of people who don’t subscribe to Australian or Western values.
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“who don’t subscribe to Australian or Western values.”
Yes, endless crap in the Lamestream news about ‘the ISIS brides’ being allowed in. The question never asked is why they left and why would they want to come back anyway? If you’re a staunch enough Muslim to join ISIS, Australia is exactly the opposite of everything you believe in.
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Victoriastan has fast tracked an approval for an AI data centre to be built in Port Melbourne. Has the government also fast tracked the potential for blackouts?
The Minister says that this data will facilitate the state’s decarbonisation…unless they have to burn more coal to keep it up and running.
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/1b-data-centre-given-planning-tick-in-just-75-days-as-state-gets-cosy-with-big-tech-20260219-p5o3sl.html
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I don’t know where the electricity will come from.
Even woke corporations like Amazon are focusing on nuclear power, banned by the Liberal Party in Australia by law, to run AI.
https://datacentremagazine.com/critical-environments/amazon-nuclear-energy-deal
For Meta (Farcebook), also fully woke, AI says:
Both the above also do virtue signaling with ruinables, but their real focus is on coal, gas, nuclear and real hydro if available.
I don’t think anyone except Australia, the Renewables Stupidpower, thinks they can run an AI data centre on wind, solar and Unicorn flatulence.
As you suggest Jon, it will run on coal. They will have to reserve a diminishing amount of coal power to run essential services like AI while non-Elites freeze in the dark.
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India realised 2 and a half years ago how much energy is required to power AI data centres and invested accordingly. They ordered $33 billion of equipment to build coal powered plants.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/04/india-asks-utilities-to-order-33-billion-in-equipment-to-boost-coal-power-output.html
This attracts the big fish. The money being invested in India now dwarves the comparatively small amounts being invested in Australia.
https://tradebrains.in/money/3-mega-ai-data-centre-investments-driving-indias-9-gw-vision-by-2032/
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Former Howard Government Cabinet Minister Bronwyn Bishop says she is responsible for recommending acceptance of the Green nuclear power ban but in hindsight now regrets the cabinet decision. I was aware that the reasoning spanned back to the abandoning of what was to be the first Australian nuclear power station, foundations still exist on Commonwealth land in Jervis Bay NSW near Nowra. That being the recently discovered of coal and gas reserves adding to an already abundance of known deposits and working mines.
“Back when Australia’s atomic destiny was decided in the form of a Commonwealth ban on power production, nuclear was considered a dirty word.
It was 1998 and then prime minister John Howard was wedged into a deal with the Greens and Democrats in order to build a new nuclear facility in Sydney, the site of Australia’s only reactor since 1958 which is used for medical applications such as radiation treatments and x-rays.
In order to get a new reactor at Lucas Heights, 40km south of the CBD, Mr Howard agreed to a last-minute amendment to the National Radiation and Nuclear Safety Act after a debate that lasted less than half an hour and introduced legislation banning any more nuclear facilities from being built in Australia.”
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I didn’t know that, anyway its probably for the best, Fusion power is almost here.
https://balkangreenenergynews.com/germanys-merz-nuclear-fusion-to-make-wind-power-obsolete/
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The Swedish are putting a lot of pressure on the Canadians about air power, and to the layman (like me), it makes a lot of sense. Hopefully it is more than just hearsay or propaganda.
Rolls-Royce’s Secret Engine Tests Are Done.
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Canada is committed to purchase 16 F-35s. It will be hard to maintain competence on a single squadron. Will US allow resale?
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See link
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/canadas-f-35-fighter-problem-was-decades-in-the-making/
Canada was a member of the Joint Strike Fighter programme when it started and when the Howard Government signed on, and not often mention JSF included a future “Loyal Wingman” large jet fighter drone aircraft called a force multiplier. The Coalition contracted with Boeing Australia to develop with the RAAF that drone now flying and called the MQ-28 Ghost Bat (a Northern Australia predator bat) and after delays in continuing to fund weapons system development after Labor formed Government in 2022 the project is again proceeding with development, and MQ-28 have been sent to the US for evaluation. Potentially MQ-28 can be sold to all JSF client allied nations.
RAAF now has about 70 F-35 Lightning stealth fighter jets and had 30 more on order to complete the required number of aircraft, in between times the old classic F/A-18 Hornets assembled here at Government Aircraft Factory, Avalon VIC before a Labor government decided to close it down, were replaced with over 30 new F-18 Super Hornets and some Growler electronics warfare equipped, technology incorporated in the F-35 Lightning.
By the way, the Ghost Shark project and now at least one designed and built by US firm Anduril, they established a branch in Sydney NSW, also a force multiplier and other mission purposes unmanned large long range drone submarine developed with the RAN, and the first built later shipped to the US for evaluation.
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Please, please, please – how are they going to work?
Totally autonomous, AI or rigid logic or.. ? Some underwater comms technology scooped from Area 51?
BCh 5 Commander (Des), Class 1969
(Des stands for deserter)
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This is still Generation 4 jet fighter design, F-35 is Generation 5
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Generation 5 stealth fighter and technology is designed not as a line of sight air to air combat “dogfight” aircraft, however Norwegian Air Force trials using F-16 Fighting Falcon against F-35 Lightning proved that the latter is a very capable opponent for an F-16 assuming both pilots are highly skilled.
The purpose of F-35 is multiple roles fighting platform, designed for less pilot time flying it and time to operate the sometimes described “play station” computer system, ground and air surveillance, electronic warfare jamming and other capabilities related, over the horizon missile launching guided at target aircraft, attacking ground and sea targets and a lot that is not available because of the very advanced technology.
F-35 was based on the very expensive and exclusive to US F-22 Raptor, it cannot be sold to even the closest US allied nations.
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Yesterday I heard Their ABC (Australia) make some comment about the US being the world’s second largest “carbon” (sic) emitter and no longer in the Paris Agreement. Strangely they neglected to say who the biggest “carbon” (sic) emitter was with more than double (2.5X) the CO2 emissions of the US (China).
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Never fear David.
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful force for learning. At some stage it will kick in at their ABC and they will collectively start talking sense.
Of course it may take a while.
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But China IS a party to the Paris Agreement, so it is not a problem if their emissions dwarf others.
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Your degree and knowledge are now worthless
https://x.com/Hoopss/status/2024465875865059811
https://x.com/HinataMotivates/status/2024383495544754395
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Plainly the speaker has not had the same experiences I have had with grok in recent days.
Productivity of anybody who tries to use it will shrink to near zero because of all of the effort required to get it to give anything like an objective, accurate answer. I see a new tech bubble which will make the last one look like a minor glitch by comparison.
He wasn’t trying to sell something was he?
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I’m the next State and Federal elections in Australia, do you think the fake conservative Libs will give preferences to Green/Labor as they have done in the past, thus ensuring a Labor victory and the end of Australia, or will they do the right thing and give them to One Nation?
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The individual voter allocates prefs.
The Q is: Will the haters here pref the libs over labor? I doubt it.
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I am aware that ultimately the individual voter allocates preferences but most are too lazy and uninformed to do so and just follow the party “how to vote” card.
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Topher points out that only about 30% of the electorate follow how to vote cards.
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You left the second bit hanging: Will you pref lib over lab?
Fancy that being sin binned. 🙁
[No idea why. Maybe it doesn’t like you having a bit hanging. – Raquel]
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That allegation is too broad, I agree that on an electorate by electorate tactical basis the Liberals have directed preferences, they cannot give preferences, to Labor or Greens candidates for very good reasons, maybe, and I am speculating, to counter a Teals candidate.
One Nation is also playing the preference allocation “How To Vote” game
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Educated voters will ignore party line voting.
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Many who follow politics and/or are interested in governance of Local, State and Federal/Commonwealth of Australia do of course, but too many voters grab a How To Vote leaflet as they enter a polling booth and follow the numbering printed after their first choice [ 1 ] primary vote.
The trickle down preferential voting system delivered Albanese Labor a huge number of seats victory in 2025 despite under 35% primary vote and 8 candidates on primary vote only.
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By the way, the Labor 2022 Federal Election Report noted that primary votes received at that election were the lowest Labor had received since 1934.
The 2025 primary vote was not much better
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The problem is that voters have to mark a preference for every single candidate on the ballot paper and as most people are not interested in politics they lazily go with the handout.
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Do you realise how snobbish you sound?
Most people think about their vote.
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Whaddya mean snobbish?
A well-balanced Australian , I’d say.
(Kiwi joke)
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Isn’t that a chip on each shoulder?
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Snobbish? I think somewhat more towards realistic.
You can work this out if you can record the votes for a candidate which follows the handout.
Or stand outside the polling booth and check what party handouts are wanted, although quite a few disguise their intentions by getting all How to Vote cards.
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I wish I was smart enough to work that out.
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Do you mean work out why they take all?
Here’s a few reasons.
It’s a secret ballot. Why tell the volunteers who you’re voting for?
Not all minor parties have how to vote cards. It’s just as handy to see the recommendations from who you don’t like as it is from who you sort of like, to help decide how to direct preferences. Whether it’s mostly follow your own party preferences or in choosing your own order entirely, it can help.
You take from the parties you don’t like in the hope they run out of how to vote cards. You scrunch and bin them on them on the way out. But give the carefully preserved how to vote back to the party you do like, so they don’t run out.
Some just want to avoid being accosted by an activist who doesn’t like their singular choice.
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Of course, some people demonstrably and proudly only take from the party they like and overtly snub or have words with the other party volunteers.
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I’m in the camp of taking from all and being nice. These days I vote at a small country booth where it’s a bit more personable. But I’d do the same in the city.
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Oh dear. Did you really need a /s?
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Apparently I did.
I puzzled over the meaning of your reply. Hence the question mark. And I know taking multiple how to vote cards puzzles some people. So in case it was a serious comment about not making sense I offered some reasons. Silly me.
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The UK voting system primarily uses the First-Past-The-Post method for general elections, where the candidate with the most votes in a constituency wins.
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Preferential voting in Australia is a system where voters rank candidates in order of preference on their ballot paper. This method ensures that votes are counted in a way that reflects the majority’s choice, as votes can be redistributed from eliminated candidates to those still in the running until a candidate achieves a majority.
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‘ … quite a few disguise their intentions by getting all How to Vote cards.’
Its the Australian way, standard practice in a country town.
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You mean voting for these people?
” They regard the people themselves with contempt, and see election campaigns as about selling a product to the unwashed masses and destroying the image of their opponents, not actually seeking to persuade… With inexperience and lack of knowledge goes arrogance. There’s a pervasive belief among such people that they are better and more intelligent than their (genuinely) professional advisers, whom they often dismiss as conservative or insufficiently imaginative… ”
..and the problem stems from-
“Our present rulers are psychologically unfitted to deal with difficult and intractable problems, because nothing in their life has prepared them for doing so. It’s not that they are necessarily all born rich, though some of them are, it’s that they have never really had to struggle for anything. You don’t get former coal miners or agricultural labourers or shopkeepers in politics now. They are products for the most part of elite schools and elite universities, they make contact with other members of the future elite, they slide effortlessly into a prestigious internship arranged by contacts, they meet people from the own background and whom they may know personally, eat, holiday and sleep with, their nascent political careers are assisted by contacts in politics and elsewhere, their political activities are excitedly covered by friends and acquaintances in the media, to whom they are able to offer inside information and even the chance of a job in return.”
ah, nothing has changed, a great essay.
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-evils-of-professionalism
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Just found this.
17 mins.
Tesla’s new motor for EVs. Sounds amazing.
True, or AI fiction?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt5gWJTGH64
Cheers,
Dave B
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I read an obvious information commercial based on how to save money on fuel by buying an EV and quoting “savings” being difference between petrol and electricity.
No mention of retail price premium, insurance premium, depreciation rate considerably higher than ICV, or other cost of ownership factors.
Save now, and wait several years to get some of your money back based on fuel cost savings???
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Maybe I misunderstood that video.
The rotor is still part of inductive circuit so it must be ferromagnetic. With that superthin sleeve the outer ferric layers are subject to the same centrifugal force as the replaced sleeve was, so the problem did not disappear.
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My apologies, just recalled my primary school lab: it is not absolutely necessary for rotor to be made of iron.
I doubt though that it was the intent.
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I looked at some of that … hmmm I think they are stretching the point quite a lot.
Right, so Telsa cars have been using what’s called “squirrel cage” induction motors (designed by Tesla in 1887) and these type of motor are considered an industrial workhorse … very well tested and extremely robust … but sadly they have efficiency problems.
In the video he says the rotor contains a lot of Copper, and that means he is talking about induction motors. One way to improve the motor is to allow it to spin faster, and in this sense the carbon fibre sleeve does help, but actually there’s other problems because you end up with a larger air gap then you can’t maintain the field strength … so it’s a stopgap solution at best.
I believe Tesla are moving over to a rotor with no Copper at all and just using permanent magnets (i.e. synchronous motor, not induction motor) and if you buy any upmarket hand held power tool they already use this type of motor and have done for years so it’s nothing special. The Fisher & Paykel Smart-Drive washing machine has used large PM rotors and direct drive since maybe 2000 or a bit earlier.
My understanding is that most of the Toyota hybrids have already moved to permanent magnet synchronous motors … these motors end up with different design tradeoffs, they cannot take high temperature like a squirrel cage motor, and they are less robust but almost universally more efficient and really there no need to spin them at bezerk speeds because they have very nice torque curves.
The video is making a big deal over what is essentially a partial solution to a problem already better handled by other methods … IMHO.
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Just to follow up another point … they talk about improving power to weight ratios, but they don’t say, “Of the motor?” or “Of the vehicle?” … and my point is that since in every case the battery is vastly heavier than the motor, if you shrink the motor you don’t improve the overall power to weight of the vehicle as a whole … so it’s an improvement but also hardly worth doing.
This is the kind of hype that Musk specialises in … not exactly wrong, but not nearly as exciting as many people believe.
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Prime Minister Albanese has again been caught misleading us and this time again about ISIS terrorist organisation women and children, according to former Prime Minister Morrison;
https://www.news.com.au/national/scott-morrison-slams-false-claims-about-isis-brides/news-story/143cbb168fd2ea8aac607554f8cb0bc4
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FWIW
“Astroturf Alert: $2 Billion in Foreign Cash Behind America’s “Grassroots” Climate Movement?”
“Well, well, well.
For years, climate skeptics have been told they are nothing more than the paid mouthpieces of “Big Oil.” The accusation has been repeated so often that it has hardened into something resembling doctrine. Any challenge to prevailing climate narratives is brushed aside with a knowing smirk and the word “funded.” The implication is clear: dissent is artificial. Manufactured. Astroturf.
And yet, the latest development out of Montana suggests that the truly industrial-scale astroturf operation may be sitting on the other side of the political aisle.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/19/astroturf-alert-2-billion-in-foreign-cash-behind-americas-grassroots-climate-movement/
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FWIW
“New ‘Ringworm’ Outbreak Turns Minnesota Into America’s STD Fungus Hotspot”
More at https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/02/new-ringworm-outbreak-turns-minnesota-into-americas-std-fungus-hotspot/
Via
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/02/22/new-ringworm-outbreak-turns-minnesota-into-americas-std-fungus-hotspot-n3812125
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