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Can we ask that everyone in Govt or has some sort of political power, has a little plaque on their desk?
“Si vis pacem para bellum”
For those not versed in Latin, perhaps a plaque reading ” Speak softly and carry a big stick-you will go far.”
The second was borrowed in 1900 by Theodore Roosevelt from the 4th century Latin quote above, by Roman Publius Renatus, which means “If you want peace prepare for war.”
How has this been so quickly forgotten?
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Ah yes! Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest American President, and probably the best there has been.
For anyone interested, there’s a 3 book trilogy (well there’s a tautology Tony) written by Edmund Morris, a Biography in three parts. (1979, 2001 and 2010) I have the first two of them, and I had to search for them, finally waiting some time to even source them from Booktopia.
The first of them, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize. Now, you can get Biographies on every President I might surmise, but this one would most probably be the most fascinating of all of them, and hey, and I’ve only read one of them.
In a time now when History has become, well, something from last week! we lose track of real History, and Theodore Roosevelt arguably was the first to bring the United States of America onto the World stage, and during his Presidency, he achieved so many firsts.
His, umm, page? at Wikipedia is just humungous.
There’s no way I can even begin to mention his firsts, but perhaps the greatest PR event of his Presidency was what became known as The Great White Fleet , which set sail on a World tour of 14 Months. I say PR, because the 16 Capital ships, the Battleships, were in the main obsolete, and all ships were coal burners, and they would consume in total (the whole fleet) around 100,000 tons of coal a month.
The fleet visited Australia, and in all, around a million people turned out to view this amazing sight around a fifth of the total population of Australia at that time.
The link is to my own 2008 Post on this fleet.
Every President has something they are known for. Theodore Roosevelt had too many to even begin to try and list.
Tony.
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We all have an interest in keeping the Straits of Hormuz open
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/britain-cant-remain-neutral-about-the-closure-of-the-strait-of-hormuz/
We all need to be very concerned about a totalitarian medieval and fanatical regime spurred by religious fervour wanting to develop a nuclear bomb. Whether they were a month away as Mr Trump claims or a year or two away is immaterial, there can be no doubt that becoming a nuclear power is their aim. The West has appeased them for too long but the Brits who know anything of History should know about Danegeld-money paid to the Vikings to prevent attack- and the appeasement of Germany in 1939.
Even the Romans appeased their enemies with large shipments of gold and silver as their power declined.
“Si vis pacem para bellum”
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Rudyard Kipling quote:
“Once you have paid the Danegeld you never get rid of the Danes”.
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Excellent quote. He wrote many good things but unfortunately is now very unfashionable.
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The past Kings and Queens of Denmark have been the senior “chiefs” of the Germanic Tribes of Scandinavia, the travellers and raider explorer tribes referred to as Vikings which means travellers etc.
Gotland Island now part of Sweden was home of the Goths tribe and fierce warrior “Vikings”, Gotland Island later became a trade centre in the Baltic Sea of many nations and the City of Visby now a tourist must visit for architecture and history. Germanic tribes scattered and settled in many areas, British Islands included, and the now Germany that the Roman Empire called Germania after one of their defeats at the hands of Goths.
Gotland Island was eventually culled of residents and land owners using a national “straw poll” to choose winners and losers, the losers agreed to leave and settle elsewhere and be paid for the land and assets left behind.
The kingdoms were a similar arrangement of lands as in Great Britain at that time in history.
My great grandfather and his various relatives immigrated to Australia from Gotland and Norway mid-1800s
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And apart from that, they are major sponsors of terror around the world, including Australia. In fact, it was so bad that even the fully woke Albanese regime expelled the Iranian Ambassador, something they no doubt reluctantly did given the religious ideology of the supporters they are enthusiastically importing as Labor voters for life.
It is unbelievable that so many Australians and Westerners in general lack the moral clarity to support the removal of the barbaric Iranian regime and liberation of its people.
The Australian Government’s failure to support TRUMP, a position supported by the fake conservative Liberals, by not sending a ship as requested, partly to protect our own oil supply lines, will have consequences. (We did send a Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft but that was by request of UAE, not TRUMP.)
Australia and Australians should not seek or expect the support of the United States when we need military help to protect our interests or we run out of oil.
Of course, the removal of the Iranian regime is in our interests in any case.
Australia will be first who comes running for help.
And the US will have every right to refuse.
The Iranian regime’s intentions are clear, proven by statements over the last 47 years and they have (had) a major nuclear and ICBM program designed to destroy the United States, Israel and the West more generally.
The Iranian regime is based on fundamentalist Twelver Shi’ism and the belief that Imam Mohammed al-Mahdi, last seen in the year 941 and not considered dead by his followers, will reappear as a result of an apocalyptic war, hence the Iranian desire for war for the last 47 years. Apparently the Iran-Iraq war which killed one million didn’t do the job.
It is tragic that even tvough so many outsiders support the Iranian regine, the Iranian people hate it. And yet many woke Westerners support the oppressors of the Iranian people. Prof. Gad Saad calls this “suicidal empathy”.
The Iranians and other fundamentalists of that ilk must be happy that they have so many supporters among those who they consider their enemies in the West and who they wish to ultimately destroy.
Meanwhile Western Europe is undergoing great demographic change, some call it colonisation, coming to a country (including Australia) near you (except the US under TRUMP).
Incidentally, Harris Sultan just released a video about the changing demographics of Australia, and he is an ex-member of said demographic. See https://youtu.be/0tG4Qb2Vkdw
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FWIW – From today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
“The Iran War is blowing up —literally AND figuratively— but in a good way, despite corporate media’s mendacious framing. Here is what you need to know before diving into the hot takes.”
“And here’s a hot take: America controls the Strait of Hormuz.”
“For the better part of a week, corporate media has run one article after another about Iran’s “brilliant strategy” of closing the Strait of Hormuz, which in the media’s frame punishes America politically by increasing prices at the pump. But what if that strategy isn’t so brilliant? On Tuesday, the Hill ran a sharp story headlined, “Graham tears into European allies over Strait of Hormuz reluctance.” Put simply: NATO cannot afford to lose neocons like Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)”
“ut here’s the thing. The United States doesn’t need the Strait of Hormuz. Thanks to President Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” policies, we are now a net energy exporter. We produce 24.2 million barrels of oil per day, more than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Nearly zero American crude transits Hormuz. Seventy percent of the oil that does pass through the strait goes to Asia —China, India, Japan, and South Korea— and most of the rest goes to Europe.”
“Follow me here. The insurance companies that closed the Strait are European. The regulatory framework that forced their hand is European.
In other words, Europe’s own regulatory architecture turned off Europe’s own energy supply. And America, standing comfortably on the other side of the Atlantic with a full tank of gas, watched it happen.”
“Enter President Trump, stage right, asking ever so politely if America’s dear allies might consider sending a warship or two, not to fight, but just to help reopen the strait that their own economies depend on. Britain, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and even China were invited. The answer was a symphony of soft no’s.”
“Defense News ran the alliterative headline of the week: “European allies tell Trump ‘nein,’ ‘non’ and ‘no.’”
“The allies who refused to send minesweepers and escorts just handed the President the leverage to restructure the entire Western alliance on his terms— and they did it voluntarily, on camera, in front of the entire world.”
“You’re probably wondering how a humble coffee blogger can connect these dots, but the entire EU hierarchy in Brussels missed it. In fairness, they only missed it for 72 hours. Then Trump started tweeting. Now, they get it. With bells on. And they’re running back to daddy.”
“Hahahahaha! Two days ago, it was “this is not our war.” Yesterday, it suddenly became “the allies are working together on the best way to help.” By tomorrow, it’ll be “we were always planning to help.” And corporate media— what clowns. Not one of our top papers —with all their “experts” and subject-matter “analysts”— ever saw this leverage option. Clowns. Only President Trump did.”
And “Elbow” signed us up with this club –
Happy?
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/whose-war-thursday-march-19-2026?
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Brilliant.
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And
“”What If the U.S. Navy Isn’t in a Hurry to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz?” ”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/03/what-if-us-navy-isnt-in-hurry-to-reopen.html
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He writes well and explains WHY the Iranian military keeps pinging missiles at its neighbours.
I’m still looking for a good explanation of the HOW.
The best I can come up with is that eliminating the how is like tackling a mosquito plague with a fly swat.
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And around that
“How to Lobotomize Iran, Win the War, and Humiliate Europe in Two Easy Steps”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/03/19/how-to-lobotomize-iran-win-the-war-and-humiliate-europe-in-two-easy-steps-n4950822
And “Elbow” has got us in that wrong club too
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I don’t rate Elbow that highly. Like Ron Burgundy he will say whatever is on his autocue.
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‘And “Elbow” has got us in that wrong club too.’
We stand shoulder to shoulder with our biggest trading partners.
Your propaganda is illuminating.
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All of which makes an invasion of Australia by the CCP more likely, IMO.
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Albozo would be quite happy with the CCP takeover. He thinks he’d be President for life! 😳😳
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A vassal state objective?
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Invasion you say? Why invade when they can buy what they want or be given it as a gift?
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Why buy or lease something you can just appropriate?
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Because they are intelligent and have studied the Art of War.
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“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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To be frank, I wouldn’t expect much fighting if China did invade Australia. The citizenry is largely unarmed and would face overwhelming numbers of enemy troops both flooding in and already here.
As for our own small military, I am sure they would put up some resistance but it would be futile, especially considering the difficulties they would face figuring out who is friend and who is foe.
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We don’t need more troops, just highly specialised in drone and missile technology.
China is practicing soft power, sometimes it works, they have patience.
Getting rid of our alliances with the US won’t happen in a hurry, there would have to be a verifiable regime change in Beijing.
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The CCP has no intention of invading Australia, we are the best of trading partners.
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The term “partner” suggests some degree of equality.
LOL
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Ever heard of a “silent partner”?
Equality of what?
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Bargaining power.
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‘ … some degree of equality.’
We could say the trade relationship is deeply complementary.
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Serious doubts that Mr. Subianto approves it, even if the fifth column here would.
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Have the Iranians done anything as devastating to their neighbours as The Nakba?
To be on the level of Ben–Gurion & Co, they would have to invade their neighbours’ land and expel 110 million souls, steal or destroy their property… and do a few massacres along the way.
Where does The Nakba rank on your list of crimes against humanity?
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Somewhere near the aboriginal activist claims that Australia is stolen land.
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Not the same.
The records of land ownership in Palestine were very good. The Turks and then the British were very diligent on this. Land was measured in units called dunums.
The Balfour Declaration was supposed to guarantee everyone’s civil rights. That would include property rights. But in the end they were swept away for so many.
Even Murray Rothbard recognized the violation of property rights that occurred.
In contrast the Australian natives had no records of who owned what.
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You asked how it rated. I answered. You don’t like my answer? Tough.
But just for you I will change my answer. Somewhere BELOW the aboriginal activist claim.
Want to try for WAY BELOW?
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The 110 million figure is absurd and a blatant lie. In 1948 there were only about 1.3-1.4 million Arab “Palestinians” in mandatory Palestine, not 110 million.
Arab leadership told many of those Arab Palestinians to leave to make way for invading Arab armies.
850,000-900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries at the time.
Palestinians have consistently rejected a two state solution in 1937 (Peel Commission), 1947 (UN Resolution 181), 2000 (Camp David), 2001 (Taba), 2008 (Olmert Plan), 2020 (TRUMP).
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At the start of 1948 there were 1.8 million inhabitants in Palestine. Two thirds were Arabs.
There were around 600k zıonısts. Their militias expelled 750k Arabs.
So if you scale up 600k to today’s population of Iran, around 90mn, then 750k becomes at least 110mn.
Have you read Ilan Paape and Benny Morris?
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That 1947 Partition Plan was a bad deal.
The zıonısts owned 6 and a half percent of the land and were offered 56 percent of the land.
Obviously a bad deal for the Arabs so they rejected it.
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Word is that a bioweapon strike in the middle east is imminent, maybe a false flag, maybe not.
One can only hope that isn’t true…
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tonyb, #2,
____In this mad world, what was wrong with Mutually Assured Destruction? Could be said, the Persians are allowing their own spiritual niceties to hold themselves back from applying this modern(pfft) principle.
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US Debt will reach $40 trillion by the Time of the Autumn mid term elections
https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/gross-national-debt-us-surpasses-39-trillion-increases-1-trillion-less-6-months
Will that fact concern Americans, or like much of the Western world will they just shrug their shoulders?
As a writer in the Sunday Times commented last week about British Debt;
“Do we not see the symptoms of the late Roman Empire, where now was prioritised over later, spending over survival? Borrow, print, promise, postpone, the eternal pattern of civilisational decline.”
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Sadly, the shoulder shrug is the answer. Voters are too innumerate to care and think the public coffers are bottomless. They may not know what modern monetary theory is … but they subconsciously subscribe to it.
The only saving grace is that despite how utterly irresponsible western democracies have become with the public spending, we are blessed with adversaries that are even more insane than we are. As bad as our situation is, China’s is worse. So it is unlikely our adversaries will be in a position to take advantage of our pending collapse.
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On all that superimpose the fertilty rate and SSM.
That will put a date on it. Soon, starting ten years ago.
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Australian total government debt, federal, state and local, now over $2.25 trillion.
Enjoy.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
Back in the day, even the fake conservative Liberals used to express concern about the level of government spending of taxpayer dollars. Now…silence.
I think part of the problem is that politicians and The Sheeple are now so dumbed-down and innumerate that they have no comprehension of the size of that number.
Let’s put it this way. An Australian $100 bill is 0.14mm thick. If stacked on top of each other, $2.25 trillion would make a pile 3150km thick, almost the driving distance Melbourne to Perth.
It won’t end well.
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With all the fuss about fake conservatives, I haven’t heard anybody mention a miserable ghost.
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USA is the biggest oil and LNG exporter in the world and has shares in the largest known oil resource on the globe. They are doing quite well out of high oil prices.
Texas is booming. The USA is on target to hit record income from energy exports in 2026.
POTUS Trump 5 moves ahead of everyone else. He warned all those assembled at the UN last year that they were tanking their economies by following the UN Climate Change™ hoax. Took less than a year to be proven right again.
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Australia, Lib/Labs, remains fanatically committed to the Agenda and will remain so until we elect a conservative party
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I can remember an explanation somewhere that, as long as the US Dollar retains its position as primary reserve currency, the US treasury can just keep on printing money (or adding zeroes to the balances in the computers).
I don’t know enough to support or argue but it struck me as plausible.
The problem would be if non-primary reserve currency nations tried the same trick.
Thank goodness it could never happen here!
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That explanation is referred to as “exorbitant privilege”.
The idea is constrained by the inflation it will cause, loss of trust in the currency, and the availability of alternative currencies like Euro, Yuan or gold.
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https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-final-humiliation-for-everyone
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It is beyond forgiveness.
They were warned numerous times and chose to ignore the warnings.
They were offered and refused many possible alternative treatments but banned those, even before a “vaccine” was released, and compulsorily administered in Australia.
They even mocked the idea of correction of Vitamin D deficiency as a way to make people more resistant to covid or its affects, a likely contributing reason for the high mortality in nursing home and other Vitamin D deficient individuals.
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget. Prosecute.
And the “fact checkers”:
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Interesting to me was that my GP’s most recent advice was that early intervention after infection would be his approach. Part of his reasoning was that covid like diseases mutate faster than the injections can keep up.
I didn’t get him to identify what interventions he had in mind.
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In a draft decision on Thursday, the Australia Energy Regulator (AER) proposed a price reduction for customers on standing electricity plans – known as the “default market offer” – of between 1.3% to 10.1% for residential customers, and between 8.5% and 21.2%
Solar and batteries are the reason
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But Peter, that’s nothing.
Before John Howard initiated the destruction of our energy supply, we has among the cheapest electricity in the world and paid about one third current prices.
And the true cost of that reduction needs to take into account the massive investment in solar and batteries to achieve that modest reduction. The money could have been spent on useful and productive things instead.
It’s absurd to triple the price and then offer a modest reduction and claim electricity is now cheaper. Classic marketing propaganda.
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But it sounds so good!
“Household electricity prices to fall as much as 10% after green energy surge
Households could start to feel relief from rising electricity bills within months as authorities move to cut prices on the eastern seaboard by as much as 10 per cent, potentially wiping off hundreds of dollars a year for some customers.”
If we just green surged a bit more it would be free!
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UN Lima Protocol and UN Agenda-21 are the first and second steps.
Howard Government 1996-2007 attended Kyoto COP 1997 and signed the emissions reduction target agreement but made it clear that no damage to the economy would be acceptable, and provided a suggestion box for technologies and other emissions control mechanisms, not compulsorily imposed by Free Enterprise to decide.
Carr NSW Labor Government implementing Agenda-21 made provisions to sell state electricity assets power stations and transmission lines (NSW Electricity Commission). Keneally NSW Labor sold the “first tranche”, VIC and SA followed and commenced privatisation sale of assets, and Coalition State governments after them had to continue the process well underway.
Rudd Federal Labor Government and then Gillard Federal Labor Government adopted transition away from fossil fuels, RET 32% legislation law and regulations adopted by the State governments.
Abbott Federal Coalition Government 2013-2015 attenuated to repeal the RET legislation and were blocked by the hostile Senate majority opposed, they did agree to abolish Labor Carbon Tax.
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The default offer is not the cheapest price. It could be lower simply by that fact alone.
But it’s not all good news as it’s based on oversupply at a point.
The market regulator says, “The risk is that where people can’t shift when they use electricity, they may actually face higher charges and bigger bills.”
So this is just a shifting of when costs are applied. Cheaper when there is a glut of supply, and dearer when people actually want to use electricity in the peak times.
All because solar disappears and wind is intermittent and we have to pay for two systems. A reliable one and an unreliable one. And limited opportunities for suppliers to recoup cost. It’s why we’ve seen renewables increase the price so much above any claimed discount now. It’s a case of 100 price steps forward (prices up) and 1 step back. Instead of lamenting the 100 steps you celebrate the 1 back.
No, we will always have to have two systems. The cost of trying to make the unreliable reliable will always exist.
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Please show the evidence for this conclusion Peter. Are you making the claim the Government will be reducing the rebates on solar and batteries thus lowering the cost to the consumer or will the increasing number of smart meters allow the demand to be turned off during periods when there is no renewable supply and power is at a premium.
Where is the saving coming from?
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FWIW
“Storing Green Energy to Last Germany 10 Days Would Require A 60-Million Tonne Battery”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/15/storing-green-energy-to-last-germany-10-days-would-require-a-60-million-tonne-battery/
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“Actung Spitbatterie!!!”
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Blinkers firmly on. Reducing off a highly elevated base. Costs have balloned after the arrival of so called “renewables” claiming this is progress is like being happy with the 30% off sale at Coles for something they added 50% to a couple of weeks ago.
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FWIW – another way of “government accounting”
“Making History”
“This is not the kind of history that any level of government should be making. But I guess it’s okay, as long as we call the spending “investment”.
The New Brunswick government says its investments in health care have helped push the budget into a record deficit. Introduced on Tuesday, the budget’s $1.4-billion deficit is the largest in the province’s history, according to Finance Department staff.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/17/making-history/
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My cost for electricity has gone up. I got my first electricity bill in 14 years this week.
So loss of subsidies and need to lean on the grid for secure supply comes with a cost.
All wind and solar farms are dead assets. Every land owner can hasten their demise by buying a battery and putting solar panels on their roof.
I doubt One Nation will provide subsidies for rooftop solar and batteries. So the investment window is likely to close. They will just make grid power a lot cheaper by removing subsidies.
If Australia had base load power at $23/MWh it could have a lot of new viable industry.
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Interesting commentary on the whereabouts of President Vladimir Putin:
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Yeah being cautious I guess and why not!
Trump has revealed himself to be a snake: he can smile in your face and shake your hand… while planning to stab you in the back.
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Name a politician who is any different. Anybody EVER?
Did Trump steal your girlfriend or something?
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Indeed Rowjay. Bumping off your opposition (or blowing them up) is all very well but what happens next?
And engaging unknown nobodies to do the job and take the fall is no better.
I think the Maduro capture was a much better option for both sides.
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More than likely the threat will come from within.
‘A popular pro-Vladimir Putin blogger has suddenly turned on the Russian tyrant – calling for his resignation and the toppling of his regime.
‘In an unprecedented move, Ilya Remeslo, 42, delivered a scathing criticism of the despot – demanding that Putin be put on trial as a war criminal.’ (The Sun)
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To any Australian having conscription age sons / grandsons:
Pray daily for this US/Israel military strategy of the War Against Generals.
I do – for Ukrainians to be half as good.
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Anything for a click…
That’s the CIA’s Youtube page you’re on.
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The eye of Cyclone Narelle appears to be crossing the coast just south of Lockhart River. Maximum wind gust so far as recorded at the airport was 106km/hr. The glass has fallen to 988.8hPa at MSL and the town may have missed the peace and quiet of the actual eye. Everybody can start looking for the kiddies trampoline shortly and the Community elders ‘past, present and future’ can stop sweating. Their live crays and dugong steaks will arrive at their favorite Noosa restaurant as usual.
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From da bom…
At 7:00am category 4, sustained winds near the centre of 195 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 270 kilometres per hour.
Google weather says Lockhart River currently has winds of 55kmh
And this was going to be the largest cyclone EVAH.
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Current Courier Mail on-line headline
“‘Hard and fast’: Tiny town of 300 in direct path of Narelle’s 270km/h destructive winds”
https://www.couriermail.com.au/
They seem to have a fascination with things that spin
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Federal Government has given $1bn of your tax dollars to Snowy Hydro so they lower the cost off electricity supplied to Tomago smelter to save 5,000 jobs.
I expect it will be an annual requirement. $1e9/5000 is $200k per job. It would be cheaper to put them on the dole.
It is pointless saving non jobs. Those workers are doomed to be working with dated technology and requiring taxpayers to support them.
Under Trump. USA is building its first aluminium smelter in 40 year. It will be world class and world scale. Almost as large as the biggest in China and using the latest technology. USA is investing in old industries to renew them. Australia is keeping old industries alive in a soviet era spiral into economic oblivion.
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Its complex, but our national security interest is part of their thinking.
https://theconversation.com/government-reveals-taxpayer-funded-deal-to-keep-australias-largest-aluminium-smelter-open-how-long-we-will-pay-271943
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“but our national security interest is part of their thinking.”
Yup! Can’t have Aussie running out of beer cans!! Otherwise, completely irrelevant as a commodity, we can export the ore and buy back the product cheaper!
Tomago will be Holden and Ford all over again, pour in billions of dollars to make shareholders rich, and eventually face reality and close it. Typical corrupt politicians! What’s a ‘worker’ worth? $70K, plus $130k for the shareholders..
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Its now a marginal seat, so its standard uniparty behaviour. Pathetic.
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FWIW
“Daily Wire
@realDailyWire
This might actually be Trump’s funniest moment 😂
Japanese Reporter: Why didn’t you tell us before you struck Iran?
Trump: “Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” ”
https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/2034669919392989509
Via https://instapundit.com/783872/#disqus_thread
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Prescripted by his staff?
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At the risk of being sucked in by a fake video…
I don’t care who you are THAT was funny.
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I think he regretted making that point almost immediately. His guest is a fine lady and he gives me the impression that he sensed it was not the right moment for that comment. His efforts too down play the comment sort of made it worse.
It would be a smart reply to a Japanese journalist but not in the presence of the Japanese PM.
But that is why Trump is loved. He mouth is sometimes faster than his brain. Not uncommon for a New Yorker familiar with trash talking..
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Possibly but as you say he is incorrigible.
Next will be a dispute with a german journalist about always talking about the war.
What are the odds he says that they started it by invading Poland?
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Criminal migrant is allowed to stay in Britain after fighting deportation by arguing his son disliked foreign chicken nuggets
The case of convict Klevis Disha, 39 – who entered Britain illegally under a false name and lied in a failed asylum claim – sparked outrage when it emerged a year ago.
Disha was 15 in 2001 when he ‘entered the UK illegally as an unaccompanied minor’, judges were told.
Two days later he made an asylum claim on the basis of political persecution. He stated, falsely, that he had been born in the former Yugoslavia in 1986. It also appears he gave a false name.
Last year, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: ‘Bogus asylum seekers are exploiting human rights laws and weak judges.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15659427/Criminal-migrant-Britain-fighting-deportation-chicken-nuggets.html
What next? My home country’s chips are the wrong shape?
Not amphibious landing craft shape? 😆
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FWIW
More on “Joe Kent”
“Was Joe Kent Candace Owens’ mole in the US government, feeding her information about the Charlie Kirk investigation?”
https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/2034492685336404438
Via https://instapundit.com/783778/#disqus_thread
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I’ll wait for the tell all book and leave it for others to spread the word.
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More
“President Trump Just ENDED Joe Kent’s Entire Career With One Brutal Screenshot of an Old Tweet”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/president-trump-just-ended-joe-kents-entire-career/
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Hats off to Trump!
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Trump right again. Greatest leader in history.
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Lol! If there’s anyone left after the Middle East goes up in flames he will not be remembered as that…
The man who destroyed Western Civilisation!
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Trump: spelled Netanyahu / Meleikowski.
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Bumped from Thursday
“FWIW – more on Canada’s wonderful health system
“Health Canada caught funding “booty bumping” kits with your tax dollars.
Nearly $3 million tax dollars went to a Toronto organization in the name of “harm reduction”.
One of the funded services was kits to help people insert hard drugs through their rear end.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/18/tommy-douglas-not-dead-enough-20/
And
Yesterday I saw a post listing waiting times for health services in Canada. It also moted that there was only one such service in Canada with no waiting time. It was paywalled and didn’t list the service but I’d say that you can take a pretty good guess at which one”
Today
“Offered Death Before Treatment: Canada’s Euthanasia System Under Fire Again”
https://pjmedia.com/michaelcantrell/2026/03/19/offered-death-before-treatment-canadas-euthanasia-system-under-fire-again-n4950845
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Surely it is just a matter of combining the two stories.
There are such things as suppositories but …
Taking hard drugs at all is pretty much a death wish. The paperwork for taking them up the back passage could easily have a box for euthanasia on the same form. Pre-ticked to make it easy for the druggies.
Two birds. One stone(d).
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FWIW – the route planner hated cyclists?
https://www.facebook.com/share/1B7yCf1U8e/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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come on now
When in London I used to take great joy in watching young ladies riding their bikes on the cobblestone paths
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The headline tells the story, phasing out Germany’s nuclear power was a monumental mistake.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/03/18/energy-expert-germanys-nuclear-phaseout-was-a-500-billion-euro-mistake/
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The dumbing-down is complete.
I just went to a medical specialist’s office and the receptionist needed a calculator to compute $214.80 + $20.00 .
No wonder so many Australians vote Labor/Green/Teal.
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Better get your surgery done while the doctor can still get petrol for his Porsche…
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The actual weapon deployed against Western Civilization is a drone!
Analysis: Nearly Half of Immigrant Households in U.S. Are on Welfare
Welfare War 3 (WW3) is an attack on the savings and retirement income of the middle class. One interpretation of WW3 may be the Middle Class pitched in and fostered the manufacture of the ‘Drones’ in the Third World and then graciously picked up the tab for the food and lodgings and that of the associated carpet-baggers by buying with their retirement funds the securities that were manufactured to hold this debt incurred by the Third World. The Drones were then shipped to the target to finish the process of eating them out of house and home.
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3I/Atlas has used Jupiter as a slingshot and is disappearing fast.
‘The passage of 3I/ATLAS on a retrograde orbit within 5 degrees of the ecliptic plane provided an ideal opportunity for a spacecraft to intercept its path, take a close-up photograph, collect a sample from it, or even plant a capsule full of technology or life-as-we-know-it in its belly and hitchhike it to interstellar space at 60 kilometers per second — twice as fast as our fastest rockets. We missed all of this rare opportunity.’ (Avi Loeb)
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It didn’t “use” Jupiter as a “slingshot” (i.e. nothing more than a ballistic trajectory, path of least resistance), it just happened. It’s just a rock. No flight planning was needed. Not a planned manoeuvre. All standard orbital mechanics.
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There has been 15 anomalies associated with this rock, its not a comet.
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With the reporting of cyclone Narelle, someone mentioned to me that climate change is causing more cyclones and they’re more severe.
I went to send them the BOM’s chart of Australian cyclones starting in the 70’s, which shows a decline in the number of cyclones over the years.
I found this BOM page https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/cyclones/australia/#tabs=Past-seasons with a chart of the number of cyclones for each year. But, to my surprise, the chart has been changed to start at 1980 instead of their old one which started at 1970.
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So my questions are.
Is the old chart still available on the BOM site? (I didnt fnd it)
If it isn’t, would it be because the 1970’s had even more cyclones than the 1980’s and the decline in numbers is even more pronounced when including the 70’s? (surely it’s not that 55 years doesn’t fit across the page when 53 years did easily)
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Here’s the old chart which I got from this blog. Same as the one the BOM had.
https://joannenova.com.au/wp-content/aus-tcs-per-year-dec-2-2023-bom-768×502.png
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The prediction is fewer cyclones so they have no reason to hide it.
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The biggest decline from one decade to the next was 70’s to 80’s with a 15% decline.
That is a 40% bigger decline than from any other decade change on the chart.
The number of “severe” cyclones is also down.
Averaged 6-6.5 severe cyclones per year across the 70’s to 90’s. Average 4 per year across 2000 to present.
The BOM says, “Future cyclones may be fewer but stronger”.
If it’s not to “hide” data, what is the reason for its removal from the chart?
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It is now generally agreed that global warming reduces cyclone numbers and intensity. Rejoice.
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Also more cyclones, more rain, less rain, higher temps, lower temps, more variation, less variation, more snow, less snow, more male babies, more female babies, fewer penguins, more penguins …
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War! What is it good for?
Sorry Edwin Starr, you were wrong.
It is, like Covid TM , another way to justify an emergency response , requiring all sorts of jiggery-pokery to cover for a bankrupt U.S.A.
Follow the money . . . In this case the massive debt . . . negative money :-
https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/a-planned-crisis-iran-debt-the-digital?r=25fc37
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Of course you need a unique digital wallet , even if it has no money in it . . .for now.
It is purely for your convenience. . . . yeah right.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360954006/users-new-government-app-will-soon-be-able-drive-or-buy-alcohol-without-needing-physical-id?cx_testId=80&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=0#cxrecs_s
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So Albanese and Burke got booed and ridiculed at the mosque. They’re so naive. They were set up for the pratfall by the immams who must have relished the opportunity so show Islam’s dominance of Labour politics.
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Israel’s main refinery hit by Iranian missiles, an F35 downed, it seems Iran may not be as easy as thought beforehand. Iran will sell passage of the Straits, say $10/barrel, and make oil cheaper than it is now. That will give them $50-$100million per day to rebuild the country. They can start with the 140million barrels they have stored while Trump embargoed it, and now he’s pleading with them to release it to drop the price. Seems these embargoes are a two-edged sword..
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/03/war-on-iran-refineries-hit-oil-passage-toll-to-pay-for-iranian-damage.html#comments
https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/2034662873943679101
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FWIW
MAKE IRAN ZOROASTRIAN AGAIN: Defiant Iranians celebrate ancient fire festival despite war.
As dusk falls across Iran on Tuesday, bonfires, fireworks and street gatherings take place to mark Chaharshanbeh Suri, an ancient fire festival that has also become a public act of defiance, this year unfolding under war, heavy security and fears of bloodshed.
Iranian authorities have issued stark warnings ahead of Chaharshanbeh Suri, pointing to what they describe as wartime conditions and the risk of unrest.
Nevertheless, Iranians celebrated the festival.
I guess stark warnings don’t mean much right now.
https://instapundit.com/783329/#disqus_thread
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Zoro rides again 🔥
Long live the eternal flame.
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FWIW
“IRAN WAS A MAJOR BITCOIN MINER: How Iran Turned Sanctions Into a Bitcoin Gold Mine, and Why It Just Collapsed. Iran Mined Bitcoin in Secret for Years, and the US Just Blew Up the Operation.”
https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/operation-epic-fury-may-have-done?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2
“That probably explains why Israel bombed its gas field and why the IRGC was so upset that they did.”
https://instapundit.com/783982/#disqus_thread
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But perhaps not the only explanation.
As always, it is about the money, and the usual suspects:-
https://deanhenderson.substack.com/p/south-pars-genie-oil-and-the-rothschilds
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How things change.
How will MBS (House of Saud) respond?
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/178534
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FWIW –
“10–18 Days Until Australia Runs Dry
The Clock has already run out and Australia Is Running on Empty.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-190912396
Via https://instapundit.com/783978/#disqus_thread
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Apparently, that’s what Albanese calls being “over prepared”.
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In comments there – rays of faith
“It is alarmist, but our federal government is Jimmy Carter level incompetent so we can expect them to make a bad situation worse.”
(/s shouldn’t be needed but in case)
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I learned a new word today:
And hello to you, climate science.
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