Pete's lenz

Politicians are self-serving careerist. The nation is really ruled by unelected and unaccountable woke leftist bureaucrats and judges. The nation is broken.

[Pete's lenz @RightLenz]

@TaxpayersUnion But that's the whole point of long term plans, with target dates set way out in the future - No one is accountable. The Marxists in the old Soviet Union failed spectacularly in delivering on their 5-year plans. Socialist planning has never worked.

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥 Jeremy Clarkson had a fiery clash with BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire at the farmers’ protest against Reeves’ inheritance tax raid on family farms.

Victoria went straight for the gotcha:

“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

Clarkson, visibly stunned:

“Classic BBC there, classic. The ‘fact’ that I bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax? The ‘fact’?”

Victoria doubled down: “You told The Sunday Times in 2021 that’s why you bought it?”

Clarkson, laughing in disbelief:

“These people… BBC. Let’s start from the beginning. I wanted to shoot. That’s even worse to the BBC. Which comes with the benefit of not having to pay inheritance tax.”

He pointed out the tax isn’t even an issue for him personally as he can simply put the farm in a trust, but he’s standing with ordinary family farms that will be hammered.

After sparring over the real numbers affected, Clarkson urged the government to U-turn.

Victoria: “And get the money from where?”

Clarkson: “Walk into any of the offices around here and if you don’t understand what somebody’s job is, fire them.” 😂

Classic Clarkson.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world's clean energy transition represents a colossal expansion of the world's mining industry.

To catch a diffuse energy source like sunlight or wind needs an unprecedented volume of physical machinery. A single solar farm requires roughly 30 times more total metal infrastructure than a conventional gas plant. We aren't moving away from mining; we're swapping enormous oceanic drilling rigs for vast open-cut metal mines.

The demand for heavy mining and rare earths is just as compelling as the downstream e-waste crisis, but the numbers are even more staggering. While solar cells rely heavily on high-purity silicon, silver, and copper, the broader 'green infrastructure' ecosystem demands far more.

The EV motors, wind turbines and massive national grids required to tie intermittent solar together are entirely dependent on an unprecedented surge in heavy mining and rare earth extraction.

This physical mining demand has simply exploded with the shift from conventional fossil fuel energy generation to wind and solar. Because wind and sunshine are so diluted and diffused, harvesting them requires a massive physical footprint, necessitating endless extra acres of complex machinery.

This translates into heavily vandalised landscapes and grotesque coastal settings. According to the IEA, replacing them world's fossil-fuel system with renewables increases the total volume of materials requiring extraction and handling by a factor of 10.

Solar alone is exceptionally copper-intensive, using roughly 850 kg per megawatt for intricate grid connections, inverters and cabling. Renewable energy is projected to drive 45% of total global copper demand by 2030. Yet, developing a new major copper mine takes an average of 16 years from initial discovery to first production.

The world faces a massive demand spike for a metal where the supply chain is notoriously slow, costly, and inflexible.

Solar panels don't use much in the way of rare earths, but wind turbines and the electric vehicle motors that back up the low-carbon shift are hungry for permanent magnets made from neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. Processing these elements involves intensive chemical leaching that produces vast amounts of toxic and radioactive wastewater.

Compounding the problem, China controls roughly 60–70% of the extraction and up to 90% of the refining for these specific elements.

This has created a massive geopolitical bottleneck.

Image: this massive chasm is the Bingham Canyon Mine (also called the Kennecott Copper Mine) just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It is one of the largest man-made excavations on Earth and the deepest open-pit mine in the world, stretching 4 kilometres wide and more than a kilometre deep.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Some people suggest that while green is expensive, the benefits are much greater

Well, no:

The benefit of net-zero is $4.5 trillion/year, but the cost $27 trillion

(much larger costs and benefits, because we're currently only doing a bit of net-zero currently)

https://t.co/j4wG0vrxJB

You can see all the references in my Twitter thread:
https://t.co/HfBtBL2mlK

[New Zealand Taxpayers' Union @TaxpayersUnion]

Enough is enough.

While Kiwis are cutting back with the cost of living, MPs continue to enjoy a long list of taxpayer-funded perks.

If politicians want to rebuild trust, they can start by living under the same rules as everyone else.

Our petition means to:

1. Change MPs expenses to cover out-of-pocket costs rather than tax-free cash entitlements.

2. Allow only arm-length transactions, so MPs can't rent back their own properties on the taxpayer.

3. End Parliament's gold-plated superannuation scheme that pays $2.50 for every $1 an MP contributes.

No special perks. Sign the petition and help us put an end to it! 🇳🇿

[Pete's lenz @RightLenz]

@KeeganLangeveld @nzfirst So, what's happened since Winston and his then best mate, Ardern, signed up to Net Zero Carbon and banning oil and gas exploration?

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

@ECOWARRIORSS Could they now? Then again, they probably won't. This sort of guesswork didn't work anymore. We've all, seen the code red apocalypse fear campaign. All the warnings of the impending crisis failed to occur. They are never going to happen to satisfy a political agenda.

[Ewen Ritchie @Ewenr]

Why is it that every major planning project ends up with Maori interference? Santana are planning to mine gold. Maori have said they will agree to the plan subject to a 1 off payment of $180 million and then $500k per annum in perpetuity. That is extortion and corruption.

[Pete's lenz @RightLenz]

@OpinionistNZ Yes, but we must never forget that Winston and his then best chum Ardern delivered us the Net Zero Carbom nonsense.

[Pete's lenz @RightLenz]

@LASHFORD_17 @chrislynchmedia Yes, but then Opportunity is Marxism's latest recycled version, so nothing new in strong media support for that.

[The Consultant @TheConsultant18]

🟣 Legacy media Journalist Thomas Manch hits BLOCK faster than a deadline?

One had a simple question so I asked a NZ 🇳🇿 journalist & he blocked me, but why ?
I was perplexed why do leagcy media journalists use pidgin english that only 5% of NZers can understand and referenced Thomas Manch's post on a Maitangi carriage.
What is a Maitangi carriage you may ask ? , which I also asked.
So why do legacy media journalists fear the truth and why do they fear simple questions generated from their own stories by citizens?
Perhaps @TheConsultant18 was to factual?
@businessdesk_nz

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Dismantling coal, oil, and gas without a viable substitute may be the costliest policy error in human history.

Temperature predictions of a 5-degree rise by 2050 have been withdrawn. Yet, the rush to manufacture and install the equivalent of 1.3 million wind turbines and 7 to 8 billion solar panels over the last forty years has made little difference to global temperatures.

Instead, we're witnessing the results of a severe lack of careful planning and foresight in the mounting e-waste graveyards of aging renewable structures worldwide.
Because these wind and solar networks require full replacement every couple of decades, the additional pressures placed on global mining capacity and manufacturing resources are incalculable.

This furious agenda of tearing up the earth to mine and build has caused genuine environmental degradation. Our once beautiful landscapes, coastal vistas and rural farmlands are being despoiled at an accelerating rate.

Image: The physical footprint: Tonnage and decommissioning realities of wind infrastructure. Source: Sven Loeffler / Getty Images

[Foundation for Economic Education @feeonline]

“Rightly understood, capitalism is simply the name for the economic component of the natural order of liberty.”

- Robert Sirico

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1

[Pete's lenz @RightLenz]

RT @1nzmw: Council DEI policies cost $130-240m p/a - around $4,000 per household.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

This is exactly why people do not trust the legacy media anymore.

Look at the difference between these two articles.

One is pushing anti-white propaganda and the other is pushing anti-white propaganda.

[Ximene @dellavaris]

NO statement by the New Zealand Government on the racist murder of Henry Nowak.

A stark contrast with Ardern's chest-beating over the suicide-by-overdose of US criminal, George Floyd ⬇️
https://t.co/ZdE4ONpfKP

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Suffragent @Suffragent_]

Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.

Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.

She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.