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Talk about foreign intervention in a country's elections! Have you ever considered how Trump's agenda has influenced the coming Australian election?

I have only just noticed that a solar panel site has been created at the edge of my town. It is shielded from sight by the trees on the boundary of the paddock, and the dark colour of the panels camouflages them. I don't know who owns the site, or if it is just there to serve the town.

You will get as much information from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Knudsen as the video.

Not so much a caveat, but a plan. t would be a brave political party that put its foot down and declared that, come Hell or high water, it was going to pour funds into the establishment of these basic industries, and the training of personnel to create and operate them. However, the Party needs to acknowledge that it expertise is in governing, not manufacturing. Therefore it needs to engage an expert in manufacturing to direct the project. This is how the USA won WWII. Not through military ability, but by throwing a tsunami of manufactured goods at the Front Line. Remember what Churchill said to the American People in 1941, "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. That was before the USA entered the war, but the idea was put into practice for the aid of the British Empire, and ramped up when the USA came into military conflict with the Empire of Japan. This video is about 45 minutes long, but it shows how one man with expert knowledge fulfilled Churchill's plea.

I'm not a gun nut. I don't own a gun, and see no reason to do so. I do, however, like guns as examples of ingenuity of design. I cannot wait to get my daily dose of https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons The presenter is not some red-necked Second Amendment twit, but a person who has a deep love of the history of firearms. His access to many firearms museums and manufacturers worldwide is an indication of the esteem with which he is held in the field of firearms history. His presentations have a serious background, but are given with an air of a friendly chat. I have never heard him sprout any of that rabid Second Amendment stuff. At times he takes a firearm to a shooting range to demonstrate its action, and sometimes he will use a subject firearm in competitions. It is unfortunate that the rules for posting on YouTube prevent him from demonstrating firearms that can operate in fully automatic mode but, in his videos, that does not materially detract from what he is presenting.

I can't disagree with the particular example Nomad has highlighted, but I wonder if we are looking at a sort of 'chicken or the egg" situation. Toolmakers don't have tools to make until there is a factory to use them in. There is no need for a factory until there is a product to make, and the demand for that product. There is ne demand for a product until its price to the consumer makes it worthwhile to purchase. At present, I see the best approach for Australia to take is to value-add to its raw materials. Admittedly that is the bottom of the manufacturing ladder, but I suspect that it is the easiest to start with. Thereafter, it might be possible to develop a manufacturing base that uses those value-added raw materials. Then the need for other skilled trades would develop.

I was watching a video of a bloke restoring a Briggs & Stratton engine and he showed a gasket or something similar that he was going to put into the engine. The part was a genuine B&S part, but clearly marked on it, "Made in China". Apart from the problem of tariff damage to parts supply for Americans, it got me wondering just when did Western manufacturers begin moving their production to China. Was it in the 8s when the mantra of Wall Street was 'Greed is Good'? The kicker is at the end.

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While that part prevents Trump from gaining the presidency, it does not prevent him from gaining the vice-presidency. The Section 1 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States establishes the following: In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. That means that the Vice President becomes President without having been elected to that particular office This is followed up by Section 3 which says, Whenever the President transmits ... his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President. That doesn't specify that the President has to give a reason for being unable to do the job. Obviously it was meant to cover situations where the President was temporarily out of commission, usually due to a medical reason, but there are no restrictions on what made the President decide to declare being unable to do the job. Again, if Section 3 is invoked, the Vice-President virtually becomes the President without being elected to that particular office.

For years Hollywood has been pumping out movies with the the theme based on a post-apocalyptic USA resulting from some sort of military attack or authoritarian take-over. These movies suggested that the situations they depicted were due to the application of violence in some form. The results include the destruction of cities and Law and Order. What is unfolding now in the USA seems to be an apocalypse caused not by attacks on people but attacks on the economic structures on which the US society is based. Cities might not be destroyed, but the people will be reduced to a hand-to-mouth existence. The Law of the Jungle might be invoked.

It's a shame that America's display of manufacturing might is now simply museum exhibits. Recall, also that England has very many abandoned factories now.

What part of my earlier post can you not understand? And I was only clarifying the difference between "tonnage" as applied to ships and the "displacement" which relates to the amount of water a ship displaces when it floats. However, on reflection upon your last posting, am I correct in thinking that you were saying that more weight of steel was sunk than was used to make sheets of Marston matting?

Now, it appears the last two weeks (of the Australian election campaign) will be obscured by the funeral and succession of the only other man on Earth more famous than the first. And — for good measure — the funeral will be attended by both. Wouldn't it be great if they could arrange a double funeral?

If you are talking about the voting for the Senate, then your comment might only apply to your State. We would have to see if the same pattern exists in other States and Territories to see if the LNP did the same with One Nation across the whole country. However, it seem logical that the Parties of conservative nature would want to keep votes on that side of the divide.

It's got nothing to do with the actual cargo being carried. Tonnage is a VOLUME. A ship whose volume (tonnage) is filled with feathers has a different displacement (weight) from one whose tonnage is filled with lead. And I do know which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead.