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The regulators don’t appear to understand – Risk = Likelihood of an event occurring + Impact should an event occur.
It looks to me that they are only assessing the likelihood in this ‘risk assessment’.
As there are 14 ‘official’ deaths already, the Impact is not ‘some discomfort’ which is the TGA’s definition of ‘Low Risk’.
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/bombshell-australian-drug-regulator
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When do the arrests for the lies, injuries, deaths and criminality begin?
That’d make good xmas viewing, better than Lampoon’s Xmas Vacation repeat #30…
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Again – risk = likelihood + impact – https://declassifiedaus.org/2024/12/16/plans-to-protect-australians-in-nuclear-war-are-classified/ He rates the likelihood of a nuclear attack on Pine Gap or Darwin as low – China could strike using a cruise or hypersonic missile instead but in any case is likely to have higher priority targets, such as Okinawa or Guam, which both also host US military facilities.
However, were such an event to occur, “There is no possible effective defence of the civilian population principally because the thermal wave [of the blast] would so devastate the environment. It would be totally uncontrollable, with wide-band bushfires of great energy and many different fire sources”.
The only effective protection would be “total precautionary evacuation” before the strike. That’s obviously challenging for governments to think about but “if there’s no manageable civil defence response” then that’s an argument for not placing Australia “in a position to draw fire” in the first place,
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Oz isn’t even on the attack map.
Your pollies won’t be doing anything for you but they’ll have moved somewhere safe well in advance if they even suspect an attack.
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We aren’t going to have any natural protein left in Australians soon: https://lettersfromaustralia.substack.com/p/sydney-rna-factory-nearly-finished
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I disagree. There are plenty of kangaroos and rabbits in Australia.
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Make you right there – more by both numbers and also protein mass in total than people
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not much good them rabbits
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Dunno bout that, saw them in a supermarket in Canberra at $31, theiught that maybe I need to go into the rabbit trapping business.
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Rabbits got a LOT of people through the depression.
The local “fresh” rabbit vendor was known as the “Rabbitoh”, hence the name of that football team..
Referring to said team as “The Bunnies” is a linguistic and historical “perversion”, as one expects, in these days of mass cretinization..
Rabbits, those that survived various biological weapons, (Myxomitosos, Rabbit Haemoragic disieasse / Rabbit Calicivirus) and trapping and shooting, persist. (There seems to be no “natural” defence against traps and bullets). This being Australia. back in 2014, vets in Sydney, Australia urged owners of pet rabbits to vaccinate their animals against Rabbit Calicivirus.
Also, in the last depression, some folk dined (“illegally”, in some states) on field-shot venison.
Top tucker: low-fat beef. The mounted stag’s heads make handy hat, key and tie racks.
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Oh, I dunno.
Hmm!
Akubra hats.
14 rabbit pelts per hat!
Tony.
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Yep, the classic Australian army “slouch hat” (technically, “Hat, fur felt”) was made from rabbit fur, as per a genuine “Akubra”.
It ain’t like “Watership Down, out there, Bright-eyes. And BTW, rabbits are NOT “native” to Britain. Hares? Yes! Bunnies? “imported” from France, apparently.
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I covered this a while back, but:
https://foodstruct.com/food/rabbit-meat
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Particularly the “mal de caribou” aspects
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The Canberra mob will ban hunting them.
First they took the rifles, now they want to take our electricity so you won’t be able to cook them anyway.
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Chuck ‘em in the ocean ‘n’ boil ‘em brother, they be done in half-hour at 100 degrees.
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It’s got salt in it, it’s going to be over the 100 mark.
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Forgot the Camels, Crocodiles – both good eating meat, & in NSW Deer in Royal National Park outside Sydney and elsewhere, in NT Peacocks, NSW & Vic High Country Brumbies, Western NSW Feral Goats, Mid QLD Wild Donkeys
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OldOzzie,
You missed the (elephant) / whale in the (room) / Harbour. There are lots of them and one will feed many. They are better than Uber as they deliver themselves to your door at no charge.
Think of the boom in the scrimshaw industry, plastic replacement in corsets and oil for lighting and heating.
A win/win!
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From MeAgain’s link.
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In response to my questions on the Wednesday thread RickWill provided an explanation of how he thought that the wind and solar scam is so embedded in Australia that electricity will remain expensive in this country for the rest of the century.
This is truly shocking and means that Australia will become a failed state as under TRUMP’s leadership, hopefully the rest of the world will return to sanity and cheaper electricity.
See comment at
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/wednesday-86/#comment-2819646
and preceding ones.
There seems to be no way to dismantle the scam.
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Don’t replace the wind towers and solar panels when they wear out.
Then, build more coal/gas fired power stations and nuclear as well.
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The current Dunkelflaute in Europe is causing some anxiety. Enormous jump in electricity prices, industries shutting down (possibly temporarily) and much annoyance with Germany.
The shortage of wind and solar have generated (pardon the pun) caused electricity prices to soar, from roughly $250 to $1500 per MWh although it ‘retreated’ from the high 3 day prices to just below $1200.
I remind you about inter connectors – higher prices at one end from short supply end causes energy flows there, followed by higher prices at the other end. Thus most of upper Europe is getting peak prices from the German Renewables failure. The gas plants in the UK are flat out feeding The Netherlands and Belgium as there electricity goes into Germany. The Norwegians & Swedes are furious as their hydro and nuclear is going (via Denmark) to Germany.
Curiously both Norway & Sweden have 2 separate grids (each) up north with low prices because they are not fully connected to Germany. This highlights the problem but also only that less of the population aren’t suffering (as only a few live northward) but Norway is facing an election next year and popular anger against Germany is rife. Sweden blames Germany for shutting down their own nuclear plants (Sweden is planning on building another 10 units).
And Germany? An election on February 23 with the electorate annoyed with enormous prices, loss of jobs etc. It is unlikely that The Greens will be a major party and certainly not many politicians will want to have them in a coalition. AfD would look far better.
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I thought that both Norway and Sweden were connected to Germany. That’s why they were both upset. That’s the impression I gained from the r3cebt article in WUWT.
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The south of both are connected to Germany via Denmark.
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Much earlier on, when I would leave comments at Renewable supporter sites, I left a comment saying that at end of their 25 year life, (or more accurately perhaps just 15 to 20 years) they needed to construct a complete new Industrial wind plant.
One response flamed me, (the usual response) and told me how much an 1d10t I was, and that they would just put a new nacelle on top of the existing tower.
You just have no response to ‘stup1d’, eh!
Tony.
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David Maddison,
I think you’re being a bit too credulous. When it comes to predicting 75 years into the future, I trust RickWill no more than I trust the weather models. Weather is impossibly complex; human actions more so.
75 years? The old expression is a week is a long time in politics. The stories from Argentina are probably a little on the rose-coloured glasses side at the moment, but all the same, Javier Milei’s policies seem to have done quite a lot for Argentina’s “basket case” economy in 52 weeks. Who predicted that? Maybe ask them about 75 years into Australia’s future.
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Argentina provides a very good example of where Australia is heading. In 1998, the ARS was on par with the USD. Today you need ARS1,022 to get USD1. So Argentina is a basket case. It had to get that bad for the voters to make a change that might give a better outcome.
Pre WW1, Argentina was recognised as the top 10 wealthiest countries. By 2013, Argentina could be described as third world. Its decline was clearly evident to anyone who cared to look.
My view is that Australia will need to get a lot worse before voters start electing people who can make a change for the better. Australia currently hangs off the coat tails of China’s economy. If China keeps plodding along Australia will be OK. But that fact has enabled Australia to become bloated and incompetent. Australia’s productivity is in sharp decline.
Trump’s first term arrested the decline of the USA. Europe and Australia have maintained their downward trajectory as the climate scam has been embedded throughout the economy.
It is unlikely that I will see 25 years out let alone 75 so it is a useless prediction in that regard. The test over the next 5 years will be some influential politician calling out the climate scam. All “renewables” projects shut down. Then a new coal fired power station coming into operation within 10 years.
These would be the sort of changes that could turn around electricity costs within 25 years and get back to where Australia was in 1999 – 2000. There is now 25 years of damage inflicted on the grid. It is a large and complex system that will not be fixed quickly.
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RickWill,
I’m not optimistic about Australia either, but (as mentioned before) I think you are a bit over-confident in your crystal ball. It seems particularly foolish for David Maddison, who wisely doubts the climate scientists, to mildly accept your oracular powers.
Few of us participating at Jo Nova’s would be expecting to notch up another 25 years, and there’ll be very few indeed around in 75 years’ time to say “Ah, so RickWill was right after all” as they live out their Mad Max existences.
I can’t argue with your reasoning: we certainly have a bunch of bloated, dismal bureaucracies, and a political class which doesn’t care about the nation’s interests. But I’m also aware that change can come from unexpected directions and happen very suddenly. It makes 75 or 25 year predictions a bit daft, no matter how good the reasoning.
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Chrystia Freeland Flees Trudeau and Tariffs –
“Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from her federal cabinet position. This may be perhaps the best thing that the Prime Minister has allegedly done for Canada. The fracturing of the left has become a contagion.
Freeland shared her resignation letter on social media platform X this Monday. “On Friday, you informed me that you no longer want me to serve as your Finance Minister and offered me another position in Cabinet. Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from Cabinet,” she added.
The shocking announcement came right before she was set to address the House of Commons to present the fall economic statement. Tariffs. Trudeau and Freeland were deadlocked in a debate over how to handle Trump’s threat to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods. Freeland believed the best-case scenario was to secure the Canadian border in an attempt to appease Trump, while Trudeau did not. Freeland said “costly political gimmicks” and “a coming tariff war” were reasons for her departure. Perhaps Trudeau has surpassed her in his alliance to the WEF.
“Her behavior was totally toxic and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada. She will not be missed!!!!” Trump said, who has had a tumultuous relationship with Freeland. They say that she even refuses to stand in the same room as him.
The left is self-destructing everywhere we look.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/canada/chrystia-freeland-flees-trudeau-and-tariffs/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Can’t come soon enough for Australia. Begone you Feral Marxist Guv’ment in 2025. Sicktoria at the next State Election.
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This is a repost from yesterday as I posted it late.
I think the TRUMP Revolution and the casting away of Leftist insanity has even influenced the following story.
There is absolutely no way prior to now that the Lamestream Media would have admitted a child undergoing a gender “transition” with possible sterilisation and mutilation would have been a mistake, let alone admitting to someone seeking justice for the crimes done to them.
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Baby steps are a good thing, but the headline is an impossibility.
In biology human girls do not transition into boys.
Discourse can only be improved with precision of language.
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Oh look.
More scary stories.
Just in time for the new Melbourne mRNA “vaccine” factory so the Government can make the covid “vaccines” compulsory again.
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Safe and Effective? Not the ABC. They are toxic.
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JN1 has been around for at least a year in Australia. As a result, many in the community will have probably have immunity.
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When being subjected to panic stories about massive increases in the percentages of cases “Increasing by 59 per cent over the past month” note that an increase from ONE to TWO cases represents a 100 percent increase.Give us the NUMBERS please !!!!!!!There are . .lies, damn lies and statistics.
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Oh how i detest the use of %s when what you need to see is the data !…
59% could be an increase from 2 to 3…..or, from 1000 to 1590..?
And is there a totally definitive diagnosis for covid-19 ?….or any incentives for doctors to specify covid ?
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Short comments on Phillips, JIS and Posidrive screws.
https://youtu.be/MXWSn8rMeEo
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Thanks – every day is a school day. And I will now know what the right tool for the job is. (while probably still persisting to use the wrong tool for the job being the one you find first, or the one that is closest to hand at the time)
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Yes. Many people wonder why they butcher screws on Japanese machines not realising the screws are not Phillips but JIS. A JIS screwdriver will work with Phillips but vice versa, not so much. And Posidrive are common in Europe.
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Half the problem these days is bits and screws made from powdered metal pressed in a mould and sintered, as opposed to machined from solid metal, hardened and coated etc.
The former can have very poor tolerances and strength.
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Phillips designed to strip the screw head.
Now it makes sense!
I like Torx the most.
I have one of those 100pc screw bit master sets with every type of bit including security types.
A must have, if you can find them…
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This World is really screwed up at the moment. Maybe Trump can unscrew it a bit.
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A hammer would work better.
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When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Apparently this is not a good policy in a watch repair business.
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When I was in Nepal recently I actually observed somebody hammer a screw into a piece of wood.
And in the regard to the standard of construction of everything I saw there, I didn’t see a single example of quality workmanship. Nowhere. No exaggeration.
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“A hammer…”
Also known as a “Birmingham screwdriver” in some parts…
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I hate Phillips heads! They’re so weak.
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And then there were Dassault screws. (like on our Mirage fighters from a way too far off life)
Kept Avions Marcel Dassault in billions.
Tony.
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When I was on the tools as an aircraft engine guy, Dzus fasteners were common for engine cowls. In contrast to the abovementioned Birmingham screwdriver, I had a London Pattern screwdriver, that I kept specially ground for the Dzus fasteners.
Don’t think you can buy one of those in Bunnings, or Home Depot these days.
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Here is a paper discussing whether compulsory voting in Australia favours the Left or the Thinking Community.
Both Lib and Lab factions of the Uniparty are committed to it because they think it benefits them but this paper shows it favours the Left by a significant margin.
Frankly, I don’t see why someone who has no interest in voting or no understanding of the political system should be forced to vote.
Sadly, Australia is stuck with it.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1816649
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2013, 8:
SEE LINK FOR REST
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It’s what the late Rush Limbaugh called the uninformed voter block. These apathetic potential voters are generally younger and poorly informed. They usually don’t vote where there is not compulsory voting. If they do vote, all they have to go on is their equally uninformed piers, or the propaganda media narrative. As they grow older and wiser, and become better informed, they don’t all vote left, though. The left has for decades been trying to tap into them while they remain uniformed and apathetic. In the 2020 US election they found a way to vote for them, and/or harvest their votes.
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” These apathetic potential voters are generally younger and poorly informed. They usually don’t vote where there is not compulsory voting.”
They know that voting changes nothing, all old farts are the same… Only when they become one do they want their own ideas implemented.
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Lara Trump giving the run down on how they out performed the Dems in getting out the vote, young and older. Basically they focused on training locals in voting law, door knocking, and backing up contact. It’s been a while since I watched it, but I think she mentions 100 000+ volunteers, and they had the organising down pat. 16 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bifl2xj-bs
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If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
And if it is broke then politicians are the very last people you would want involved in fixing it.
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But it is broke because it forces people to vote who have no understanding of the political system or interest in it and who just want “free stuff”.
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Its not broke and the broad electorate would vote even if it wasn’t compulsory. Council elections should be made non-compulsory to see what happens.
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Whoops.
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WTF are your pronouns.
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“Frankly, I don’t see why someone who has no interest in voting or no understanding of the political system should be forced to vote.
Sadly, Australia is stuck with it.”
Surely if it was put to a referendum, it would be ditched pronto.
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5% typical invalid ballots in each election?
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Also familiarize yourself with Secs 268,268A and 269 of the Electoral act (Formal an Informal votes in the Senate) where you will find that there is an alternative and legislated way to cast a formal vote that the AEC admits is true and legal but that you will NOT be told of its availability because this option is NOT printed on the ballot paper! To make this information available to all, requires an amendment to the ACT amending the wording on the form of the ballot paper shown in the act to include the required additional option.
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I remember a fellow was sent to prison for publicising that you could deliberately self-exhaust your preferences by numbering the boxes 1, 2, 3, 3, 3 (or whatever). That vote would only become informal when counting third preference. Wasn’t popular with the pollies.
Have a feeling that was a NSW state election in the early ’80s.
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“Finally, comparing across OECD countries, I find that Australia’s adoption of compulsory voting significantly increased turnout……”
Wow! really Sherlock? ya think? Thank you for sharing this wisdom Harvard.
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My filling is that today’s Proletariat often have degree in Arts-like subjects, never worked in his/her life and vote more often Green than Labor.
On the opposite side uneducated professionals, like plumbers & bricklayers might vote Labor or LNP, depending on how many houses they accumulated so far.
On that basis I believe, shutting down half of our Universities will not only improve the country economy but also social and physical health.
The voting pattern has changed in the last 1/4 century both ways so it stayed about the same in absolute numbers.
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I hope that I will be remembered as the man who invented a weapon to defend the borders of his own country and not a weapon for terrorists. The weapon now has a life of its own independent of my will … of course when I see Bin Laden on television with his Kalashnikov, I’m disgusted, but what can I do about it? Terrorists aren’t stupid: they too choose the most reliable weapons! https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/film/ak-47-the-gun-that-changed-the-world/
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It’s a brilliant, low cost reliable design intended to be operated by primitive people although not up to the standards of quality and precision of Western engineering.
Nevertheless, it does exactly the job it was intended to do, very well – spread the evils of Communism, Leftism in general and terrorism and is also particularly favoured by the terrorist followers of a certain 7th century warlord.
I’m not sure if Mikhail Kalashnikov thought he was building a weapon to defend his homeland or to spread evil throughout the world or both.
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That was a fascinating article in Quadrant. Lithgow Small Arms museum has an AK47 on display, along with the Israeli Uzi and an amazing collection of other historical weapons.
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Do they have an Owen Gun though? No miltary museum is complete and comprehensive without one 😉
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I visited a Pacific War museum in Fredericksburg in Texas, there they had several examples of the Owen gun and a diorama praising its functionality, they said American troops in New Guinea would trade anything and everything to get hold of one, they reckoned it was a ticket home.
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Fired one on the range once.
Like a fire hose really. Had to hold tight, as it tended to move up and right.
The Bren was a truly wonderful weapon for the Military though.
(Huh! Now I suppose I’m a ‘gun nut’ then, eh!)
We had to go ‘on the range’ once year for weapons proficiency. Always wondered why, as Aircraft ‘Techos’, we had other responsibilities. You had to shoot an SLR from different positions and distances. On the final shoot of the day (the test) you had to score 15 out of 35, (shots on target)and one year I got 32. I was sure the guy next to me was shooting on my target.
Tony.
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Can’t recall, MichaelB.
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In the 90ies I read in a memoir of an Izhevsk bureau workman about Kalashnikov drinking and general insignificance, and German prisoners who did most of the work. Of course I did not believe a word of it, it was such iconoclastic time, everyone who we used to admire was smeared with dirt or worse.
But now it seems Wiki tries suspiciously too hard to disprove those vicious rumours, provides too many details…
There is a theory about Hugo Schmeisser’s participation in the design and development of the Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle due to its visual similarities to the Sturmgewehr 44.[Note 1] There are two main reasons why this theory may not be true: Firstly, the AK-47 was designed and its first experimental specimen was produced at Factory No. 2 in Kovrov, the same factory that hosted the design bureau of Vasiliy Degtyaryov.[6] Kalashnikov moved to Izhevsk only in 1948, when serial manufacture of AK-47 was ordered for troop trials.[7] Secondly, when production of the recently adopted AK was transferred from Factory No. 524 to Factory No. 74 in 1949, the official orders explicitly prohibited German engineers working there from access to classified developments, including the AK.[7] However, the Soviets were under no obligation to disclose to Schmeisser the purpose of the work they employed him to compl
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“I’m not sure if Mikhail Kalashnikov thought he was building a weapon to defend his homeland or to spread evil throughout the world or both.”
In 1941 he was defending his homeland against the evil spreading across the world, the invading Capitalists determined to destroy Russia, and nothing has changed…
That gun is still used against those who wish to impose their central bank financial system on the world. The peasant’s weapon against the billionaires.
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The beauty if the AK47 is that has a sloppy mechanism so can tolerate dirt and grit far better than other weapons with tighter manufacturing tolerances.
That was why Colt added the bolt assist to the M16 as it kept jamming and the bolt had to be forced into lock.
Styling wise though the M16 is the hands down winner!
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I owned an AK (and its cousin the SKS) for a few years when I lived in a country where it was legal to do so. They are an amazing simple design, incredibly robust and reliable. Not terribly accurate, but for there intended use plenty good enough.
A female colleague from Kazakhstan could field strip and reassemble one in a couple of minutes. They used to practice in PE lessons at school.
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It’s fascinating observing all those Leftists with TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
One day it will be studied by scholars and even incorporated into the DSM.
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More good news. It wouldn’t leave happened were it not for the TRUMP Revolution.
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Why isn’t Cassidy Hutchinson being charged with lying under oath?
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Kudos to you Peter C. There’s always one more really good question to ask.
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And Dr Fauci for lying to Congress.
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Looks like this year’s Sydney to Hobart yacht race Tasman Low will form earlier than usual, though big southerly swells and a headwind will linger for the start on Boxing Day.
Odd how no climate justice worrier has written a thesis on the consistency, the regularity, the lack of ANY change, in the formation of the southern Tasman’s end-of-year blow… then again, apparently CCC/AGW doesn’t affect wealthy white men.
Gentlemen start your engines – or more appropriately, hoist your sails and head for the Heads!
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Pun? Especially in the nautical context!
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Aye-aye Skipper… though I could never figure out Americans shouting “Heads Up!” when heads down was a much safer manoeuvre – then again, a lot of things are back-to-front in the northern hemisphere, eg. waxing/waning moon.
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“Autism Massive Increase” from the year 2000 to 2020 by doctor John Campbell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr4xo2Or_7o&t
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I don’t know whether Campbell mentions it, but this correlates well with glyphosate usage.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/glyphosate/glyphosate.html
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Putting coal back on the table.
America needs a subzero blackout prevention program
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/18/america-needs-a-subzero-blackout-prevention-program/
The beginning:
“Cold kills and America is at great risk of deadly subzero blackouts. Renewables are part of the problem but gas is the biggest part. We now know that the supply system that feeds our gas fired power plants can be unreliable in extreme cold weather.
Switching from coal to gas has made us vulnerable to cold weather blackouts. We need a program to address and cure this vulnerability. Action at both the State and Federal levels will be needed. New coal fired power may be part of the answer.”
Lots more in the article. Please share it.
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How do they prevent the cooling towers from freezing.
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Because they are hot?
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NDIS appears to be a bigger scam than ever and is probably Australia’s biggest scam after wind and solar and any work done on Victoria’s public infrastructure.
I know of someone who is in receipt of NDIS funding who has just received nearly $250,000.
This is for a person who can walk, talk and feed, toilet and shower themselves and has no significant physical or mental disability apart from having given up on life at the age of 60 and now living in a nursing home. The NDIS does not pay for the nursing home which is self-funded. The funding is for people to take him for walks and shopping and cups of coffee and counselling.
It’s an unbelievable amount of money especially considering that people won’t come every day but even if they attended 365 days that would be about $680 per day.
And we’ve all heard about other NDIS rorts like $600 to mow a lawn or $250 to change a light globe etc..
There is no effective (or none at all) spending control, auditing or oversight of the whole rotten system.
Your taxes at work.
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“There is no effective (or none at all) spending control, auditing or oversight of the whole rotten system.”
Friend of mine is a carer for a dangerous psychotic. They run a 24/7 system of carers with this guy in a nice 3-bed home, take him shopping, take him on outings, and generally help him lead a very pleasant life… all on the taxpayer!
We’ve come a long way from ‘One flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”, but we are getting closer to the dead end in the road we took.
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And it isn’t even an Insurance Scheme. It’s a scam to rob Peter (The Australian Taxpayer) to pay Paul (the recipient).
Socialism at work.
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Labor have a phone video advertisement of Bill Shorten praising the NDIS that he was responsible for creating and first announced in the Labor 2013-14 Budget, but with no provision to pay for that commitment or several other budget commitments that were left to the Abbott Government to fund with debt.
The obviously intended for next election now fake campaign underway Shorten mentions in passing that there are still many problems with NDIS but generally it is very good. There are some people and service providers abusing NDIS he admits.
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DOGE (Australia)?
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The BOM forecast for Mareeba on 17th Dec was “chance of a shower”. So I went up the range and
I’ve neevr seen so many cars pull to the side because you just couldn’t see the road. Wicked.
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Storms, bit hard to predict exactly where and how much, but thats the tropics for ya.
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Killing time on the Smoking Deck at airport waiting for my boarding call, and ABOM™️ are calling for SNOW on Tassie’s hills Monday 23.
Snow-forecast.com are calling for SNOW on Mt Cook (NZ) Saturday 21, supposedly ‘summer solstice’ AND Christmas Day, Wednesday 25, half-a-metre of the stuff thanks to another roaring NWer off the Tasman. Play it again Sam:
I’m Dreaming Of A White Christmas 🎶
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Smoking Deck!
What Smoking Deck? That sounds way too civilised. The last time I went to the airport the smokers were enclosed in a sort of cupbord with no ventilation. The air was thicker than a 1960’s pub.
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Hi Jo,
Have you seen this? https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/children-living-near-nuclear-plants-have-double-risks-of-leukemia-doctors-5778342?src_src=Aomorningbrief&src_cmp=Aomb-2024-12-19&cta_utm_source=Aomorningbriefcta&est=gfvrXRQBT1X72e1b%2Bvs55uKaBOqZXJZUhYPWcGWNlIGb3rkvRgPn3UrNEmeAqNdx0T8nzb3R
It’s obviously a political thing that Plibersek or Albanese will try to use against Dutton.
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As no radiation from nuclear reactors is measurable beyond background levels, by what plausible mechanism does this radiation cause leukaemia in children?
I think these studies that purport to show a connection are politically motivated and flawed.
This sounds like a reversion to the same anti-nuclear nonsense that was being claimed in the 1970’s. And of course they have to invoke emotional issues like “children” and “cancer”.
Besides, your dose of radioactivity from coal power stations will be higher because of radioactive elements in coal.
From Goolag AI with search “coal power plant radioactive” without quotes:
Of course, not even that’s bad because the earth, soils and minerals can be or are naturally radioactive. All life has evolved to cope with natural radiation, it’s even required to generate rare mutations to drive evolution.
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I agree!
The same study found that the radiation workers (as opposed to the surrounding residents) had decreased cancer rates.
That accords with the theory of radiation hormesis (small amounts of radiation are associated with decreased cancer rates).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
The residents may be suffering from a lack of radiation in their area.
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The Left don’t want us to have coal or gas power plants and the only other viable forms of inexpensive power generation are with hydro (not SH2) or nuclear. In Australia and most Western countries just about all viable hydro sites have been used leaving nuclear as the only practical way to generate electricity. And they don’t want us to have that either. They really do want us (non-Elites) to freeze in the dark.
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What study?
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40572-024-00453-8
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IIRC, one study of ‘clusters’ near nuclear sites in the UK, suggested that the apparent linkage may have been more to do with an influx of ‘strangers’ – the construction workers – coming to a ‘relatively’ isolated community to build a power station.
Again, IIRC, the piece I saw – probably in the press, in those days – suggested that similar clusters could/would be found around similar construction projects [even if they were of, say, bridges or motorways – so obviously non-nuclear.
And, no, I have no idea where [or when, beyond, perhaps, last century] I read this.
Let alone if that hypothesis still might be valid . . .
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I note in the past week health “officials” in a couple of states (WA and Vic) issuing warnings regarding the rise in COVID cases & hospitalisations etc. Usual scary, click bait stuff. Its not far off 5 years since Australian scientist (some would say Ivermectin expert) Kylie Wagstaff, Monash Uni Victoria published reports that “Lab experiments show anti-parasitic drug, Ivermectin, eliminates SARS-CoV-2 in cells in 48 hours”. Yet, to date, there has been no TGA or medical institution initiative to run any large scale trials confirming its efficacy. Even though IVM is actually approved for human use in Australia (scabies, Rosacea). We’ve had 3 years (2022,23,24 ) now since COVID has become endemic in the population. The recommendations regarding COVID are still stay at home if you’re sick and seek further medical assistance if your conditions worsen. Maybe go to GP and get a script for Paxlovid, with its 44 contradictions and resultant COVID rebound. The TGA in particular have a lot to answer for. They’re presently involved in scientific warfare regarding the DNA contamination of COVID mRNA vaccines. Their response to queries from well established researchers ( Buckhaults, Mc Kenna) and others regarding the matter is almost embarrassing. Their knowledge base appears to be out dated and they are still in the “safe and effective ” denial mode.
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Now we have this breaking news:
BOMBSHELL: Australian drug regulator knows DNA fragments in mRNA vaccines can enter nucleus and integrate into genome, internal emails show
https://news.rebekahbarnett.com.au/p/bombshell-australian-drug-regulator
Note particularly the internal email traffic, which shows that the TGA are aware of the potential problems but deny this to the public!
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Rebekah Barnett’s been doing a great job, along with Maryanne Demasi.
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Furthermore;
Pfizer hid vaccine deaths, research team alleges
https://sentinelksmo.org/pfizer-hid-vaccine-deaths-research-team-alleges/
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Any ‘official’ acceptance that Ivermectin DOES work would open a can of worms they would rather bury. Confessing they were not only wrong, but wrong in the face of compelling evidence, would obviously open the door to, “What else were you wrong about?”
I keep saying, they won’t give an inch on the whole scamdemic crime. They dare not.
It angers me almost every day to read yet more excuses for the sudden rise in cancers, especially in younger people. This morning it was air pollution, even though air quality is better than it’s been for decades. Yesterday it was processed food, the day before that it was obesity. NONE of these factors are new or have increased in impact over the past few years.
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A couple of months ago the Albanese Labor Government signed an agreement in Indonesia signed by 14 countries from Indo-Pacific Region approving nuclear power stations for the region.
A couple of days ago I was told that Albanese Labor back flipped after the Minister signed the agreement in Singapore and advised Australia withdraws support.
Meanwhile one of the signatory nations Indonesia have announced …
https://x.com/Nuclear_BP/status/1869062919230734511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1869062919230734511%7Ctwgr%5E7ce08b6a558cb2a2358547a501354961e141a6c2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelsmithnews.com%2F
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Major Study: ‘Unvaccinated Are Healthiest People on the Planet’
A major peer-reviewed study has concluded that chronic illness and deadly diseases, such as cancer, are virtually non-existent in people “who’ve never received a vaccine in their life.”
In the “Abstract” section of the study, the author notes that “those refusing vaccines are thriving while those accepting them are being injured and met with a multiplicity of grave injuries as well as sudden unexpected death.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/major-study-unvaccinated-are-healthiest
No sh#t Skip!😎
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The human brain is actually really slow!
We all like to think of ourselves as quick-witted, but a new study from Caltech calculates that our brains process information at the extremely slow speed of around 10 bits per second. This leisurely pace may have long evolutionary roots, despite our sensory systems gathering data about 100 million times faster.
“Every moment, we are extracting just 10 bits from the trillion that our senses are taking in and using those 10 to perceive the world around us and make decisions,” said Markus Meister, corresponding author of the study.
https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0
Wonder what a lefty’s brain speed is? 😆
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That’s not really fair because the processing is massively parallel and there’s access to vast amounts of instantly recallable memory and intangibles like “feelings”.
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