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  Big Win in Supreme Court of the U.S. today for all of the 2nd Amendment folks

  by StoneWall in

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  i'm so happy about this.this will have major implications for states such as california and their laws not only new york.let freedom ring!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv70otfd8ck.

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  Rivergang

  I lived for several decades in a certain crime-ridden Third World country, whose capital city is regarded as one if the more dangerous places in the world. Furthermore, some of its outlying districts - such as the one I lived in - are even worse. In common with most expatriates who have experienced that country, I could go on all day with stories which fit the category of “The truth is stranger than fiction.”

  From that experience, I have serious reservations about the level of protection afforded by carrying a firearm on ones person.

  The only persons whom I knew who got shot were both carrying a 9mm automatic (which both of them knew well how to use).

  Maybe the Australian country singer John Williamson got it right in one of his songs - a stanza of which reads “ The way to get shot is to carry a gun”.
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

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  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  Jeffro,

  Covering some now common ground, your observations about nuclear energy are of course very correct.

  Interestingly, Finland's Green Party has recently done a complete reversal in its stance, and now endorses nuclear power.

  Finland’s Green Party supports nuclear power - Nuclear Engineering International (neimagazine.com)
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
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  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  You said I was wrong,

  Where did I say you were "wrong"? More Straw Man stuff - and bloody good deflection, I will grant you that!

  I did say you ought to at least produce an up to date list of which coal powered plants are still generating in this country; which so far, you have avoided doing.

  
  
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
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  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  This pretty much sums the situation up (albeit in language a little less moderate than some other commentators might use!)

  https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/australia-has-become-an-international-laughing-stock-over-energy-crisis/ar-AAYrcUU?ocid=msedgdhphdr&cvid=b5f564334eb54200980fb097302394bd
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  I never claimed that they had all closed - talk about the "Straw Man" argument!.

  YOU, however, claimed that "over twenty" were still in operation.

  YOU should therefore be the one producing an up-to-date list demonstrating that this is still the case.

  (Instead of citing figures which are six years out of date).

  PS: Also, never assume that a power station's "Installed Capacity" - i.e. the total sum of what is written on the nameplate of each of its generators - is what it is capable of sustaining. This is by no means always the case. (Speaking here as a former power station superintendent, I can only say "I wish").
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  Jeffro,

  That list you provided which is claimed to show that there are “still over twenty coal fired power stations operating in Australia” is in fact quoting the situation as it was six years ago. Those statistics have no relevance now, during the winter of 2022.

  What was planned and what has actually happened are not always the same thing!
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  That list of coal-fired Australian power stations was the case when published - but that was six years ago

  i.e. 2016.

  Even then, nine coal-fired plants had already been de-commissioned in the six year period prior to that,

  
  

  Source: Australian Energy Council, Submission 44, p. 6.

  Working for an electrical engineering company which is frequently engaged in trying to pick up the pieces which all too often happen after rushed attempts to "go renewable", I am all too aware of its pitfalls. All is not what it may seem!
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  Aussies closed all the coal power plants...now we have blackouts no electricity!

  by Witness 007 in

  1. jw
  2. experiences

  so we have been "green" blowing up all our coal power plants now they are saying we are like north korea...expect regular power blackouts.

  who is running this show?.

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  Rivergang

  The pinch is going to hit during the evening peak load, which typically occurs between 18:00 and 20:00 hrs. Not much solar energy available by that time of a winter evening!

  Bloody ironic when this country has vast reserves of coal, large amounts both coal-seam and natural gas, as well as the world’s largest known deposit of uranium (at Olympic Dam, in South Australia).

  However, not all is necessarily lost. Even some of the greenies now agree that nuclear energy may not be such a bad idea after all!
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  Remembering back

  by Hellothere in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  anything you remember that went in org that you feel embarrassed now?

  i remember back in the 80s how seems like every magazine was about bashing other group's.

  how holy and faithful watchtower was compared to catholic church.

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  Rivergang

  Every magazine was bashing other groups

  Yes, they used to particularly target the Catholic Church and its abuse of children. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
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  14 kids dead and one teacher at Texas school shooting.

  by jojorabbit in

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  another shooting, this time 14 kids dead more wounded and a teacher dead.

  i am all for the second amendment and this does not change my mind.

  but i do hate this kind of thing, makes my stomach turn.

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  Rivergang

  and evidence of why civilians need to be armed to protect themselves from their government.

  That the rebels at Eureka Stockade were so easily defeated was the result of indiscipline (the good old Aussie tradition of wandering "off to the pub" !) Successful armed conflict requires more than just access to weapons - any one with any military experience would be quick to point out that without discipline, "all you have is an armed mob".

  This was an edge the American militia forces had at Concorde and Lexington, and noted by the British commanders in their after-battle reports (namely that the British troops displayed a noticeable lack of that same discipline). Those countries which to this day maintain effective militia forces (such as Switzerland) subject their militia members to a rigorous and continual routine of training. (Swiss friends have often described their country's routine for training of its militia - and an annual holiday camp it certainly isn't !)