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Dubai has been a place where many well heeled Brits have bought a home in and it seems to be a prime destination for up market holidays and “influencers”.
I can only imagine that most f this trade will cease for the indefinite future as Dubai becomes a very unsafe place
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/01/onslaught-on-dubai-enters-day-two-iran-attacks-emirate-with-hundreds-of-suicide-drones-and-missiles/
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It is no secret that the Iran totalitarian extremist religion regime has long been a threat to neighbouring countries, not only Israel.
I wonder if the attacks by Iran now will result in combined much larger military forces on the ground from other Arab countries help to complete the task of giving the people of Iran freedom and democracy again?
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Here is a possible framework for your wondering:-
https://www.rt.com/news/633367-jihad-is-coming-khameneis-death/
You may consider it helpful, or not.
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RT is fine as as long as you use it as an alternative viewpoint to western corporate media, but if you are using it as your primary source of information, you are going to be gaslit with the Russian perspective every bit as bad as corporate media gaslights with the western perspective. You should read both, and figure the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
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Totally in agreement.
Read widely, and from all perspectives.
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How does reading lies broaden your understanding? Differing opinions, yes, lies, no.
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As DCI Vera Stanhope said to a suspect in that TV series:
“Every time you lie to me, Luv, I get a bit closer to the truth.”
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Are you sure?
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So you have an omnipotent view on what are lies and what are not?
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‘How does reading lies broaden your understanding?’
The ability to differentiate is valuable in our search for the truth.
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Well, you just have to realize all side are telling you lies.
Somewhere in the middle is the truth.
You may sometimes be amazed at how much more plausible an alternative view may be.
That’s why you need to read widely.
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Middle East airspace seems to be totally shut down,
No flights over; Iran, UAE, Jordan,Iraq and Israel.
Was anyone flying on Emirates, Qatar airlines?
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We have never flown Qatar or Emirates deliberately. Not Qatar because of its refuge for Hamas and also its appalling treatment of Aussie women travellers in the “dead baby” incident at the airport. Emirates is a good airline, but again, we have no desire, as most travellers do, to shop in Dubai.
We did fly Gulf Air to Oman many years ago on their temporary air service from Oz. Sad to hear that Iran has also hit Oman – a lovely country that has always been pretty neutral amongst the machinations of Islamic politics in the ME.
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My wife and I were in Doha on a stopover of a few days when Israel bombed it last year. The windows rattled in our hotel room and we thought that the airport may be shut and we would be stuck there for some time. When caught our flight home to Australia a couple of days later, my wife and another woman were singled out for what they thought was very rude behaviour by security staff checking us through the boarding lounge onto the plane.
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An article that makes good points.
Religious zealots are myopic and beliefs die when they die. The tests for Iran are the survival of zealotry ord access to weapons.
I doubt Russia will have weapons to spare for Iran.
It appears China is already supplying arms by air into Iran.
North Korea has been and could be a source of weapons for Iran.
The IRGC is armed on the ground so the idea of an uprising of the people is unrealistic. And I doubt any IRGC tropps will surrender.
The US and Israel will need to neuter Iran’s ability for long range harm. That will depend on stopping the availability of weapons. Also good surveillance. Then it will become a confined ground war on Iranian territory that US may conscript Arab nations to prosecute given that Iran has already attacked them.
Certainly interesting times. Oil price bound to spike.
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I don’t think Venezuela was liberated simply because Their president is a drug dealing hick. I believe it had more to do with upcoming events which could interfere with world oil supply stability. Trump doesn’t act on impulse! .
Don’t ask what’s next!! He won’t reveal his plans! There is a plan, believe it!!
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It was a criminal act by the US despot against all international and US law.
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The Iranian regime is the criminal one.
Why would you want those monsters to remain in power?
Haven’t you seen the joy of the Iranian people dancing?
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International law is a furphy.
And, if USA laws have been broken their system will take action. But you fail to identify which US laws have been broken.
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Hi Rick,
Sorry off topic for this but wondering if you have overlaid “sun spots” on your planets distance from the sun work?
I am just wondering if the planets have any influence on sunspot generation.
Thanks
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There is little doubt that Mercury imparts a tidal influence on the plasma of the Sun.
In my last paper, I determined a resonance of the spin at 44 days and 29.33 days. These hare harmonics of Mercury orbit of 88 days. That was achieved without separating Mercury from the total gravitation field on the Sun CoM and a spinning point I used to represent the rotating plasma..
That detail is explained here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/22/changing-sunlight-sun-movement-and-spin/
I have been able to predict the level of solar activity based on the variation to the average velocity of the CoM but have not been able to work out why there is a delay. I now know the delay is related to the time to spin up or down primarily around the 29.33 day resonance.
I am currently working on 10 year intervals of Sun motion with 1 hour time resolution. I now have a very stable spin. I am sill to stringing these 10 year intervals into a longer interval with consistent spin between the end of one interval to the beginning of the other.
I have also done 1000AD to 2100AD at 5 day interval and can show reasonably clearly why the climate has changed and where it is going. I also have from 1900 to 2100 in 1 day intervals. Both these data sets use the variation in the velocity of the Sun as a proxy for solar activity.
The velocity of the spin can increase or decrease by around 0.7m/s over a decade due to the tidal resonance with Mercury. Imaginary concentric cylinders of the Sun do not accelerate uniformly so they develop shearing between layers that would produce turbulence. WE observe the turbulence as sunspots.
I do not have enough computing power to run the high time resolution spin model I need over multiple decades just using Excel to string decades together so I might have to go to VBA programming.
Establishing initial conditions for free body motion is inevitably a challenge.
The linked is some of the charts for 1100Ad to 2100AD. They show how max at 20 degrees and min at 40 degrees then use the difference as a proxy for advection.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QzfFnVuBbJhWgKV1Knl07ZMdMTd42SqA/view?usp=sharing
Advection in the NH bottomed around 1650. The SH has higher advection but has been declining. Increasing maximum sunlight and increasing advection in the NH are the primary cause of the globe warming up. It is also worth noting that the ocean heat content in the SH is decelerating while it is accelerating in the NH. Observations that fit with the observed changes in sunlight in the hemispheres.
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Thank you Rick,
Great analysis I raised the sunspot cycle because of the approximate 11 year cycle but also the increase and decrease of each cycle relative to each other.
Love your work.
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Get back to reality! Nobody knows the rue state of the IRGC. Over 500 targets have been reduced to rubble, among them military installations. How many weapons storage facilities, how many munitions manufacturing facilities.
What are munitions stockpiles levels & how much longer until the ammo runs out!
I bet Israeli intelligence & USA surveillance know more than they’ll let on. Speculation will not be answered with facts. Neither Israel nor the USA tell what their intentions or plans are. You’re not dealing with Obama who revealed plans 2 weeks ahead of their actions!
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US & British “intelligence” said that Russia would run out of weapons in a few months. They then claimed they were resorting to fighting with shovels. It is hard to take their claims seriously.
Given their track record, I think it is safe to say they know much less than they pretend to know … and/or they are just habitual liars with no regard to the truth.
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Footage on SKY showing Israeli attacks. Ordinance is laser guided. What is interesting all the footage show the targets were lit from ground positions.
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During the 1980s when Labor PM Hawke was in office there was a demonstration by the RAAF that he attended to watch an RAAF F-111 swing wing fighter-bomber deliver a guided bomb to hit a target in the centre of a field in front of the viewing area and as they waited expecting to see the aircraft the target exploded.
It was explained that the bomb was guided from far away and accurate to within metres, an RAAF Officer told the PM that the RAAF could guide a bomb through a window in his parliamentary office suite.
No doubt the systems today are far superior.
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The first shots of Desert Storm AKA Shock ‘n Awe were guided bombs from F-117 Night Hawks down ventilation shafts of command centres. Worked a treat, and that was 1991.
I’m unsure if they were “fire and forget” or if the F-117 had to “illuminate” the target ’til detonation.
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Sensible , and appropriate to quote RT, which is a very credible news service IMV. More nuanced and balanced than the gleeful drivel coming from Australian press sources.
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Or the reverse, the neutering of the IRGC that is about to happen will bring a peace dividend, but how would I know.
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Better ask a leftist, they seem to know everything
sarc
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The leftists are all for transitioning, except when it’s Iranian naval ships being transitioned into submarines.
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“Floating on the bottom of the sea”
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I never really got why people feel so comfortable there. Its surrounded by troubled countries which people feel(felt?) somehow insulated from. Only been a couple times for business and was glad to be gone each time. Our esteemed cricket icon Brett Lee was recently in the press promoting Dubai after moving his family there. The tax regime is a drawcard I guess.
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Apart from the impact on the ex-pat population, a bigger issue might be reluctance on the part of international travelers to transit through Dubai on Emirates aircraft. It’s a very popular route for Aussies heading to Europe, but to be honest, I would be flying with an airline that uses some other hub, such as Singapore or Hong Kong, for a while at least. If there is a significant drop-off in traffic through Dubai, Emirates is going to struggle.
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Modern life often seems like a story by Kafka
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/its-not-paranoid-to-be-suspicious-of-our-masters/
Who are our masters, who are the corporations we have to buy from? How on earth do we contact them if anything goes wrong let alone get them to admit mistakes? Everything will get much worse once smartphones are the repository of even more details of our lives including digital i.d, hospital details and finance details. Where would you go for help if yours was stolen for its information and your identity sold on to an anonymous third party?
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If what I am seeing on Ventusky is correct , then farmers in NSW and Victoria must be dancing in their gumboots.
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As long as their gummies don’t get stuck in the mud otherwise they’ll be dancing barefoot or in their socks.
Meanwhile here at ‘ground-zero’ for CCC™️ warming:
https://www.craigeburn.co.nz/
(click webcam logo at top, scroll down to webcams, inland from Christchurch).
Due to the hot planet caused by man it commenced snowing on the 1st of March complete with Snowfall Road Warnings and sub-zero temps 🥶 and is still snowing today, even as far north as Mt Ruapehu in the North Island (-1.8*C at 0930 and snowing down to the base building at Tukino by the Desert Road).
Who says ‘the seasons are out of whack’ – perfect timing yet again – despite the self-described Chosen Ones [sick] celebrating their mythical Purim slaughter of Persians because of make-believe Esther/Ishtar and other fanciful stories.
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The thing farmerbraun likes about the Southerly wind, is that it doesn’t muck around.
It just slowly builds, the roaring intensifies until it hits peak pitch, and then it just holds the note.
None of this faffing about – gusts and lulls- no Sir.
Pedal to 11(it goes to 11), and then fade.
You can count on a Southerly.
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True that –
The Southerly: Won ✔️
The Urmil: Lost ❌
Ex-TC Urmil barely lasted 48-hours as Antarctica’s south wind roared up out of the depths (-53 C at the South Pole) and put a stop to the Carbon Conundrum Culture of Catastrophic Cyclonic Crying by CO2 knobs.
Beautiful blue sky day up here – apart from the southerly howling on 11. Guess all the bird-chomping wind turbines will be locked-down so they don’t explode or burst into flames.
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Jews wouldn’t exist, nearly an entire people were to be killed in ancient Persia. There is evidence for Esther. Shall you doubt all history? It’s repeated, so why doubt it?
They had the chance to kill the killers. You won’t rejoice? It’s ok for people to kill and you can’t kill killers? Only the killers were killed.
In the end the Iranian regime were killing their own people.
The entire intent of the Quran influenced Iranian theocratic regime – not the Persian people – as Israel very well knows, was to bomb Israel with an atomic bomb and / or failing that eradicate by slaughtering all – women and children. They said it in public, they built a monument – what in their Mein Kampf was not understood? What was not heard? But then nobody is wanting to bomb New Zealand with a nuke… to remove the entire people of New Zealand… then you may feel differently – please go dig deeper. For far less, New Zealand went to war! Did NZ rejoice when it ended?
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Sometimes, exceptional times, killing is necessary.
I would not be happy to kill anyone, especially someone who, in my view, is just brainwashed.
So I am happier as, again – it seems to me, since 7 October the civilised militaries aimed to kill more “generals” than foot soldiers.
Of course, it requires a lot of preparation and $$/kill but so be it.., hope it is real trend.
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It was rain in SA but now is a catastrophic rain event in Vic. LOL
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So Victoria not so rural these days?
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Adelaide on high-alert for rare and dangerous summer deluge | 9 News Australia. Flash flooding. Catastrophic rain / creeks overflowing / landslides etc.. I have no idea what the ABC forecast.
Adelaide got 6.4 mm for the year including 3.6 in January, and 6.0 mm on March 1, although Adelaide Airport got either 8.2 or 6.6 (depending where the gauges were).
Locally at Mt. Barker we got 10.8 mm March 1, but nearby Hahndorf got 15.4. But nearby Mylor got 6.0, Woodside got 6.8 (2 gauges) and Balhannah 8.4 so no sign of flooding in the creek.
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Advice from all you knowledgeable ones.
I’m driving from Sydney to Perth starting this Thursday.
Anny advice on road closures?
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According to the West Terrace site, Adelaide has had 30mm for the year up to today. It’s 1839-2026 rainfall average for the first three months of a year is around 65mm.
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Month’s total rain in January was 0.6mm. Month’s total for March is already 60.2mm. It is still raining and the date is only the 2nd of March!
Wellies ahoy!
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Here in the dry tropics we may have had only 5 dry days this year.
Our dam has been topping the whole time which is odd because we normally need a monsoonal deluge to fill it.
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Hi Annie,
A land of drought and flooding rains,
but still we love it, like the poem says.
bts.
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(Bumped.)
The Chicomms have identified (or created?) a coronavirus with a 100% death rate in transgenic mice.
They found a lethal mutant in a cell culture from pangolins and then cultured it.
It doesn’t even exist in nature.
Why can’t they leave these things alone?
https://youtu.be/Npf-B5Av7aQ
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Perhaps because someone has been funding them to do precisely that.
Who could it be?
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I thought that the revelations re US funding for gain-of- function vax experiments that are banned in the US had stopped clandestine experiments funded in Wuhan labs .
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There are indications that the funding had moved to the Ukraine, post Wuhan.
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I hadn’t read that. But certainly there were always rumours that gain-of-function work has been going on there for years.
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He did say “indications” Vicki. Weasel word.
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Yes, the Russians were very clear about the biolabs they found in the Donbass, and even the Yanks had to admit they were abandoning them in front of the invasion.
There were videos the Russian soldier posted up as they toured them, and the Yanks sent samples of what they were working on to Melbourne for safe-keeping…. or maybe to continue the work, who knows?
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Got a link to “even the Yanks had to admit they were abandoning them in front of the invasion.”?
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https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/ignoring-real-biowarfare-threat
I posted the biolab map before, but here it is again.
https://www.globalbiolabs.org/map
How much has now been exposed as true even though governments claimed over and over it’s not?
You buy a large remote property and get to work.
No-one knows or sees anything until it’s too late.
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This is beyond the joke – even in Russian blogosphere they are laughing at combat mosquitos, trained by NATO in those labs.
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Well, soon there’ll be Gaza. What is Trump’s deal there?
I fear that the job s just too big.
We, that is Trump and us and everybody else, are looking down the barrel of war in Iran, Ukraine and China..
Has he tackled Iran now so that he doesn’t have them all at once later?
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After the Midterms he’ll be a lame duck, so this is his only window of opportunity.
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Well mate , he’s abandoned his hard-core supporters ( me included) and sucked over to slime balls in the swamp ( if I had Lindsay Graham in a golf buggy he wouldn’t last long) much to the chagrin of MAGA. Still we have that odious lobby that bribes Congress and corrupts the US completely. A long road to travel .
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Because if they can develop such a virus, if sufficiently contagious and once they have an effective vaccine, is the holy grail of bioweapons. With something like that, a nation could be destroyed or incapacitated while leaving all assets and infrastructure undamaged.
As the saying goes, “We’re screwed.”
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It’s amazing seeing the Iranian people dance in the streets in Iran and elsewhere celebrating the destruction of the Khamenei regime (and women removing their hijabs and burkhas), whilst Leftists are outraged and mourning it.
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I do not begin to understand so called liberal feminists who side with the misogynist males demanding women conform in their dress and be subservient nor the so called “Queers for Palestine” who side with those who would not let them exist for five minutes back in that country.
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Priestly garb no longer a thing where you reside?
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Does the Catholic Church allow unveiled women to work around the altar these days?
Can women celebrate the Mass?
No idea.
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Women and girls have been part of the mass for decades. Girls often serve as altar “boys” and lay women serve as communion assistants distributing wafers and wine. Women and men both read lessons. There are no Catholic women as priests and probably never will be. Nuns and priests usually work in civilian clothes to make people feel more at ease.
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No surprise In Orthodox tradition – yes, priest is the pinnacle of the Church structure, but daily work is done by women.
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Way back in 1977 we used to have an occasional drink in the pub with the nun who was the Principal of the local Catholic girls high school.
She used to turn up in a mini skirt.
The first few times we met her we had no idea she was a nun. Colour us surprised when we turned out for a Confirmation and got introduced to Sister X. 😀
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Yes, Tony, These liberal feminists and QU-for-Ps seem not to be familiar with Aristotle’s Law
of Contradiction (or Non-Contradiction) as a foundational principle of logic and metaphysics, stating that
contradictory propositions cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense. It asserts that “it is
impossible for the same property to belong and not to belong at the same time to the same thing and in the
same respect”.
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What would Aristotle say today?
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And the ÀBC reporting it, amazing!
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Just watching the body language on Albo Akbar and Mr Wong tells you everything.
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Useless fleet of hydrogen buses to be scrapped in Aberdeen (UK), just to be replaced by nearly as useless battery ones.
Here’s an idea, why not try diesel?
MGUY Australia discusses:
https://youtu.be/TG45e_dGlg8
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I heard that the Labor Green gaslighting is now green hydrogen fuelled, and has become even more explosive
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Interesting video about India’s $800 motorcycle, the Hero Splendor, which has sold millions and 10,000 per DAY are produced. I think these are used in Africa and Nepal and other places as well.
https://youtu.be/wt8yCGqsOhY
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It would be great to see India take over the rights to manufacture what were once British Leyland tractors, now that China and Korea make Perkins diesels.
I doubt that Charnleys in the U.K. will ever have the heft to resurrect the manufacture.
Tractors without electronics are a very good thing.
And tractors that can be serviced on farm are highly desirable.
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I wrote about the “right to repair” in the following article and mentioned how the Russian Belarus tractors with a Cummins or Caterpillar engine are popular for their ease of DIY repair.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/SC/2021/June/The+Right+to+Repair+%28and+Modify%29
Also, it would be nice if India got the rights to produce 1940’s to 1950’s Ferguson tractors. Not sure if they’d be suitable for a modern Australian farm though.
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Ok for hobby farms and developing nations.
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We’re getting there.
People in farms has never been a bad thing.
In both Australia and N.Z. , a lot of social capital was built, and a lot of physical capital was able to be deployed profitably, and arguably more viable long-term what we see in many places now.
And it was done with farm labour to a far greater extent than now.
I wonder if a future generation might perceive good prospects in a life on the land , where food is grown, shelter is available, with clothing a valuable perk.
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My city based family only see the farm as a fun place to bring their friends occasionally. Daughter is frightened of snakes, and only likes small animals!
But they are lucky. Not one of them anticipate hard times and turbulent world events – especially future action from China. So the farm remains, as long as we can maintain it, as a backstop for uncertain times. For us, it is hard, but joyful work in a stunning environment.
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My five years old son visiting his godfather’s rural pastoral property with us and I took him riding on a farm dirt trail bike and drove around a small dam with a fence on one side quite close but following a well used track, he first said as we approached stop it Dad and when the track was completed he said you’re just showing off.
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Apart from the great famine in USSR when the citizen workers decided to down tools leaving crops in the ground rotting as a protest not requiring crowd demonstrations.
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I think they would prove to be adequate where there was a sufficiently large farm community to ensure efficient operations.
It has been done before.
It still comes down to EROEI.
Those tractors are still running at more than 50 years.
Still , farming systems could change.
N.Z. cropping farmers in the South Island are seriously considering their futures at present, if we can believe the reports.
There is an argument that more of the land in a long-rotation pasture could give better returns.
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Also, it would be nice if India got the rights to produce 1940’s to 1950’s Ferguson tractors. Not sure if they’d be suitable for a modern Australian farm though.
The low compression engine of the 1940s TEA20s did have some advantages. But replacing it weight for weight with a modern diesel engine would provide the power to run the slightly larger PTO equipment that is now being sold.
a slasher/rotary hoe that is 1800 wide is more useful than a 1200 one.
Yes I have a TEA20.
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The Perkins D3-152 motor that was used in the Ferguson 135 and 145 became more versatile when Leyland took it out to 47 h.p. and matched it with the 9 forward 3 reverse synchro gearbox.
The 10 forward , 2 reverse gearbox that it replaced lacked a really slow reverse gear, that was needed when backing heavy trailers.
And the replacement of ground drive hay rake / tenders with p.t.o. Implements , and the replacement of sickle-bar mowers with discs and drums running at 540 rpm pto required more medium range work gears.
There are lots of both makes still working on farms today.
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“tedders”
If predictive text is an example of ai at work , then there is a long way to go.
It appears to be totally ignorant of context.
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I’ve been in the Lockyer Valley and there would still be a place for the Grey Fergy or the newer 35 there. Anything simple with a three point hitch.
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I was watching a bloke using a Grey Fergy to dig post holes for his exhibit at a field day way back in BC.
His comment was that the only thing that they missed was a two stage clutch.
Probably the MF 135 if you were reviving a line.
IIRC Mahindra has links back to International Harvester –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahindra_Tractors
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I remember reading about Ralph Sarich of I think WA who invented a rotary engine and a fuel system for 2-stroke engines that eliminated the emissions from petrol/oil mix.
A point made was that pollution in many Asian countries is from 2-stroke engines?
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The Sarich engine failed due to insurmountable sealing issues and manufacturing complexity.
However it’s fuel injection system was a huge success and licensed by many manufacturers.
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Outboard motors for example
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Sarich sold the engine technology for $500m, then moved into property building as Cape Bouvard Investments, and did far better. They built the townhouses I’m now residing in.
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Another problem is that there is a hot side and a cold side causing thermal imbalance.
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Can cheap Asian 2-strokes run reliably on 50:1? Japanese and American engines can. There is no smoky exhaust from my ECHO brush cutter.
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Sky News Australia- Albo’s demeanour a little off during announcement of Khamenei’s death – its almost as though he feels sad he has to make the announcement- after all, the Albanese regime rewarded Iran’s proxy, Hamas, for their Oct 7th atrocities by recognising Fakestine.
https://youtu.be/5PWb8FitYxo
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No surprises there.
Australia is not in a position to have an independent foreign policy.
Some fence -sitting in Europe, but mostly toeing the party line.
https://www.rt.com/news/633168-world-reacts-us-israel-attack-iran/
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David, Minister Wong was even more sombre in interview on Ch9. It was so obvious that the interviewer almost lost her train of questions. Wong offered little ongoing commentary on the ME crisis. It’s almost as if they don’t want to commend the US and Israel from overturning the Iranian regime. Wong resorted to mentioning Iranian interference here and the expulsion of the ambassador.
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It is understandable, there being no evidence that the Iranian regime has been overturned, and so far little evidence that it will be.
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Sky News Australia’s Rita Panahi is herself a victim of the Iranian regime and has a few words to say.
(Trigger warning for Leftists.)
https://youtu.be/XxQjrtJHBRY
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You can get an inside look at Iran from this book –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Without_My_Daughter_(film)
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David, Minister Wong was even more sombre in interview on Ch9. It was so obvious that the interviewer almost lost her train of questions. Wong offered little ongoing commentary on the ME crisis. It’s almost as if they don’t want to commend the US and Israel from overturning the Iranian regime. Wong resorted to mentioning Iranian interference here and the expulsion of the ambassador.
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Concerning TRUMP’s negotiations with Iran.
The negotiations have concluded…
A good outcome for the West and the rest of the world.
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That the negotiations were a total sham, and the majority can now see that clearly, is the only good thing about the outcome.
I doubt that Iran was not fully aware of that fact.
Same as it ever was.
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Whatever TRUMP’s plan was, it was good for the people of Iran who will now have freedom and good for the people of the world in general. I don’t understand those who advocate that the Khamenei regime should have been kept in place.
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I have never met anyone who favoured theocracy.
But then plutocracy and gerontocracy have never been popular either.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.
A flawed government that doesn’t suppress dissent by slaughtering it’s citizens in the tens of thousands would be a major upgrade for Iran. They can worry forming a more perfect union later.
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Benevolent dictators are hard to find.
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I had friends who travelled Iran and Central Asia for a few months and found Iran to be quite prosperous – aside from economic restrictions imposed. No restrictions on travel, though they took bus tours to Isfahan and to the Caucasus. Found the people friendly but very angry towards the US. Then again it depends on who you talk to I guess.
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When Iran is negotiating remember “Taqiyya”
“Deception, Lying and Taqiyya”
“Does Islam permit Muslims to lie?
Muslim scholars teach that Muslims should generally be truthful to each other… unless the purpose of lying is to “smooth over differences” or “gain the upper-hand over an enemy.”
There are several forms of lying to non-believers that are permitted under certain circumstances, the best known being taqiyya (the Shia name). These circumstances are typically those that advance the cause of Islam – in some cases by gaining the trust of non-believers in order to draw out their vulnerability and defeat them.”
More at
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx
FWIW – summarised
“The Strategy of Taqiyya”
https://gatewayhispanic.com/video/strategy-taqiyya/
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but illegal according to both international and US law.
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How do you negotiate with a terrorist regime when they are not interested in negotiating anything, force is all they understand.
The UN was formed for just this role but they are missing in action/ useless.
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“How do you negotiate with a terrorist regime when they are not interested in negotiating anything, force is all they understand.”
You’re talking about Trump there I assume..
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Not illegal under US law. The President can wage war for up to 60 days with a 30 day possible extension without Congressional approval.
And UN law is always going to favour the enemies of Civilisation, not Civilisation itself. TRUMP is rightly ignoring that. And in any case, if the UN had enforced its own laws, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. Very selective concern and enforcement
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The president can send the U.S. Armed Forces into action abroad only by Congress’s “statutory authorization”, or in case of “a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces”.
Neither has happened.
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The Iranian theocratic regime has been attacking the US for the last 47 years, just in case you haven’t noticed.
This just happens to be the first time the US has had a President who has actually decided to do something about it.
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The point is that Trump said ; no wars. I’m sure Trump knows only too well that they usually stuff things up.
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Hilarious..
There was in all history – what ‘law’? .. on what planet or reality? Law of the jungle, survival of the fittest! What rules did Iran obey?
As one commentator said the idea of ‘rules basted order’ was always a myth. It was always power by hegemony. The question was whether it was soft (by agreement) or hard (by force).
In all of your life have you always seen laws applied equitably? Oh, how blessed? May I live your life!
Law can be a weapon or an oppressive power structure.
Even kids in first year uni used to say “oh they don’t have to abide by rules they are the protected species!” oh! how lucky you were to never see this! To think all the rules are good and the rules are always right, and the rules never to be broken?!
I give you Anglo “case law” – and that even that now is based on money for the best lawyers! Have the poor even had a chance?
The winners make the rules.
The wise think well as to what the rules of the order are – and work out how to run around them.
But none can escape the God of the Bible’s rules. We break those, all the time, so we need grace.
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The consequences are uncertain and unstable. The one thing we do know is that oil prices will sharply rise, it’ not a good thing to be dependent upon imported fossil fuels. Everytime Western powers meddle in the Middle East, they end up making things worse.
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Freedom for oppressed people is never a bad thing, Simon.
I know Leftists would love to see the Iranian people return to a state of oppression and women in compulsory head and body bags, but it’s not going to happen.
FREEDOM is the desired state of the human condition, as much as Leftists hate it.
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“FREEDOM is the desired state of the human condition”
Rubbish DM, look at the way they vote here!!
Caged and cocooned is the desired state by humans, looked after by Mummy State from the cradle to the grave… safe as houses!
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For once I agree with you Simon. Yes, develop our oil and gas, and build new coal fired plants that emit less CO2. Or did I get you wrong?
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We need to be energy independent. It is the foundation of national security.
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Indeed . That is why Jacinda saw to it that Godzones only refinery was shut down , and the pipe work was filled with concrete.
One of the first tasks of the current government was to salvage what tanks were left, and try to build a strategic diesel reserve.
We may be about to find out how successful they have been.
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There is a very strange numbering system used in Nepal and India reflected in the use of the comma to separate thousands.
For example one hundred thousand is written as 1,00,000 not 100,000.
Ten 10 Ten 10
Hundred 100 Hundred 100
Thousand 1,000 Thousand 1,000
Ten thousand 10,000 Ten thousand 10,000
Hundred Thousand 100,000 Lakh 1,00,000
Million 1,000,000 Ten Lakh 10,00,000
Ten Million 10,000,000 Crore 1,00,00,000
Hundred Million 100,000,000 Ten crore 10,00,00,000
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Not really strange, that’s how it has always been done by the folks that invented the concept of zero as a place holder.
“Arabic numerals” are actually “Indian numerals”.
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Qatar B777 stuck at Canberra airport since Saturday.
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Some people travelling Sydney – Doha had the pleasure of a 10hr return flight to somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Just to add a bit of spice they returned to Melbourne not Sydney. Curfew I guess.
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That is what happens when you fly with a national airline of a nation which harbours Hamas terrorists.
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At least 2 Qatar jets at Brissy airport parked up this morning that I saw
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What does one do with old books? I would hate to throw them away. But of my thousands of books I have a 1400 page+ tome which I no longer use and no one else is ever likely to want or read due to its highly specialised subject matter. Plus it is also available free online as a pdf.
I have a lot of additional culling to do as well, but this seems a good starting point.
What would you do?
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David,
I get rid of books I no longer want by donating to the local Kiwanis bookshop, or other charity one.
Re your Selected Values (which copy I get rid of about 2 years ago) I found a bookshop in Woodside (SA) where he takes all sort of things. I don’t know if is a full-time occupation or merely a retirement hobby (only opens Fri, Sat & Sun). Occasionally I browse there so my stock hasn’t been reduced that much.
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Thanks Graeme. I do volunteer for an Op Shop (US = charity thrift store) and I give them books of a popular nature, and I also put some in street libraries (“give a book, take a book”), but my problem is with these more technical volumes with about zero popular appeal. Nice to know someone else who also had a copy of Selected Values….
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Libraries in WA aren’t accepting book donations. And I’m hearing many seniors residences are also not accepting them. At the local aviation museum, I believe they have also stopped book donations. No idea what will happen to my collection when I’m gone, I’m guessing the local tip. If I now want to cull my collection, it will have to be the recycling bin.
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I have managed to give some books to the State Library but only rare Australian books that they didn’t have in their collection.
My local used book dealer used to put books which he felt were too specialised in a box outside his shop to give away free and people took them all every day. That is until the local council threatened him with a fine. He protested that it was a green council and this was recycling but they said they didn’t care. From then on he threw them away. Tragic.
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Burn the books comrades
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I have an aversion to throwing away or burning books because that’s what the National Socialists and International Socialists.
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My local Kiwanis second hand bookshop puts unwanted books and DVDs outside and requests a (nominal) payment if taken.
Presumably the Mt.Barker Council isn’t quite as Green as yours. (There recently prosecuted a manure recycling(?) firm for pollution).
What they don’t want they get rid off to a local charity (next town) who run a bookstall every few months where the $1 a book (or less) gets them money.
(I’ve had to stop going to these sales as it doesn’t reduce my book holdings.
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My solicitor told me about a full set of Reader’s Digest leather bound books from a deceased estate and the beneficiaries donated them to a Salvation Army store, thankfully the donors were known to the staff.
Sometime later the staff contacted them and told them a person had purchased the full set and had returned a couple of weeks later with a bundle of cash to hand in, notes placed between book pages and amounting to a lot of cash.
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Yes, sitting behind me in the study I have an IKEA bookshelf of academic and work reference books, which I don’t refer to any more. Some of my original academic books I’ve kept, because it’s good to occasionally go back to basics. But for the work books, they are nearly all out of date. For up to date work tech info, its the internet/ Google/ AI, these days. 9/10 books I now read online. Got a couple of paper books for Xmas and when finished I’ll gift them to family members. Book shops might go the way of the Video store very soon.
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Sorry, didn’t answer your question. What would I do? Maybe eBay for those tech books. Facebook market if you can be bothered. Increasingly, much of my old stuff is now going to the tip. Although it’s not the tip anymore. My local Recycle depot/ubbish disposal site is now becoming very onerous to visit. Was a time you could take a mixed load, a bloke would do a quick inspection on the way in and you would hand over your council ticket or pay. Went on Saturday and there are new operators. Each load was extensively searched, many questions and the employee had to log everything into the computer. Each vehicle took at leat 5-10 mins to process. It was crazy!! Was a time going to the “tip” was fun, even cathartic. Not any more, the fun police strike again.
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>very soon
They’ve been slowly going extinct for the last few decades.
I went to a bookshop in China, it was vast. I can’t remember if it was 4 or 5 stories, (no pun intended), and full of nothing but books. Escalators too. It was like a department store.
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‘I went to a bookshop in China’
At least you could read from top to bottom.
OK, I’ll leave quietly now 😃
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The Chinese do well academically because they know their texts back to front.
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An old story but highlights China’s trickery yet again.
The Tianjin Binhai fake library:
https://youtu.be/ZiZEiRX1Ilo?si=OgzOm4cAgNPcxttw
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Sadly, I believe so.
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One of our local shopping malls has a community book shelf where people can donate their books. It was great when Big W was doing their books for kids thang and we got quite a collection of The Wiggles and Australian author kids soft cover books. Hung on to them till December and put them in mint condition into the book area with the thought/hope that at least some little ones would get a book for Christmas.
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FWIW – Iran’s turn
“Some memes about Iran at Sarah Hoyt’s place:
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/03/01/memes-we-waited-42-years-for/ ”
Via a comment at Chiefio
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The one of Homer Simpson carrying 100s of flags (Ukraine, Palestine, Save The Planet, rainbows, and now Iran) was a hoot. Memesters are getting faster all the time: does so-called ‘AI’ possess a sense of ironic humour?
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And from the other direction comes this one :-
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-03-01/smell-cheeseburgers-morning
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China won’t be happy, 80% of their oil goes through the Straits of Hormuz, and they’ve lost Venezuela as a source thanks to Donald, could get interesting.
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Quite a coincidence eh? Venezuela and then Iran. Nothing to do with oil though. Strictly drugs and freedom.
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The Lord works in mysterious ways – maybe current POTUS indeed has a PLAN.
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TRUMP does have a plan as Graham R. mentioned above. Venezuela can now make up any shortfall of oil while Iran gets back in its feet. And it’s also a good backup in general for ME oil. And the world badly needs oil.
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It is intellectually lazy to say everything the US does is OIL! but getting Venezuelan oil back on the market is a win win. There are refineries in the US south set up to refine the cheaper (because of quality, not politics) bituminous V oil. It is now available to them and V has a legitimate market where they get market price. Better than giving it to Cuba.
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Why? The oil is still on the market at market rates AFAIK. Shell/Haliburton can even help improve production.
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FWIW
“Seven Lies We’re Told About Climate Change | Michael Shellenberger ”
“Michael Shellenberger is one of the best communicators I have come across. Here he unpicks a lot of the myths around climate change.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/26/seven-lies-were-told-about-climate-change-michael-shellenberger/
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FWIW
“Surprising Discovery: Sahara Is Greening…Billions of Trees Where Once Thought To Be Barren”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/25/surprising-discovery-sahara-is-greeningbillions-of-trees-where-once-thought-to-be-barren/
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Reckon that SLATS and the like take account of this?
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Try RichWill. Movement of the sun. Extra heat, more rain (from Atlantic monsoons) and the Sahara will return to about 10-12,000 years ago.
(they may have to import elephants, hippos and giraffes).
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Although this article postulates many reasons for the new vegetation, I do recall experimental attempts years ago to “green” the Sahara. It would be wonderful if this was a continuing, and natural, trend. There are rock paintings in the Sahara depicting wild animals and hunting opportunities from prehistoric periods.
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The original source was NoTricksZone, but I looked last week and the papers were 2016 and 2018. It was a bit misleading to call it a surprising discovery. I mean, it was a good pair of studies, but I’m pretty sure skeptics have discussed it all before.
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Certainly has been discussed a few times.
18 September 2002: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2811-africas-deserts-are-in-spectacular-retreat/
25 April 2016: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004
11 June 2018: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04616-8
13 July 2019: https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/13/alarmists-red-faced-as-satellite-image-analyses-show-globe-has-greened-markedly-over-past-4-decades/
7 May 2021: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/05/09/fantastic-findings-german-study-shows-added-co2-has-led-to-14-more-vegetation-over-past-100-years
11 November 2023: https://notrickszone.com/2023/11/11/sahara-expert-says-desert-shrinking-calls-alarmist-tipping-points-complete-nonsense/
And of course NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth-study-finds/
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I am so glad he did not promise to be the president of war.
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He promised to function as an agent of peace.
That sometimes requires superior firepower.
A time honored method.
I once hoped the bomber jet planes would turn into butterflies above my nation.
And that peace would guide the planets and love would steer the stars.
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It is better to have a gun and not need it.
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…and in breaking news, Trump is renaming the Department of war to the Department of peace, love and cute kittens*
*subject to neocon approval
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What’s your real beef Leaf? Is it…..
A/ Trump did it.
B/ The peace loving Iranians should be left alone.
C/ Using the military is NEVER justified.
D/ None of the above.
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D
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Did he not rename the Dept.of Defense?
Did it not become the Dept.of War?
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Operation Epic Fury.
It’s already being dubbed Operation Epstein Fury.
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Who cares about facts? Not their ABC who claim Australia’s support of the Iranian people is ‘political propaganda’.
In the US we have the usual furious very aged celebrities, something I find quite puzzling.
Why does anyone publish the opinion of 88 year old Jane Fonda. She was born before WWII! And it’s hard to know what she learned at acting school which gives her such a reputation as offering worthwhile insights into world politics? Maybe her time as interstellar babe in Barbarella where she fought the Great Tyrant. “ruler of the evil city of Sogo, often appearing as a “one-eyed wench” or through a monitor. She is known for her sadism, specifically in her treatment of the blind angel Pygar, and she utilizes various sexual-torture devices.
Still along with Mia Farrow her mad opinions are routinely reported. I note that Barbra Steisand has stopped commenting after the public wanted to know where she lived, producing the ‘Streisand’ effect where the more you try to hide something, the more interested the public becomes.
It’s a shame we cannot get an opinion from the man who started the disaster which is Islamic extemist theocracy Iran, Jimmy Carter. it has taken 48 years to undo the damage he did. And then muslim Barack Obama who seemed determined to find ways to give missiles and nulear weapons to Iran, for peaceful purposes. Unless you accept that the country with the larest oil reserves really wanted nuclear for household heating. And needed to enrich uranium themselves, not buy it from Russia or China.
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Nation Building has some similarities to Communism and Renewable Energy.
Attractive ideas that are only yet to be properly executed in actual practice.
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FWIW
“REAKING:
Regime television has been hacked and is now broadcasting messages from President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.”
https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/2028188258933395593
Via https://instapundit.com/779591/#disqus_thread
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FWIW – Canada and native title
“Are you ready for a referendum now, British Columbians?
Canada hands control of Vancouver to Musqueam Indian Band. (link fixed)”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/01/we-are-all-treaty-people-35/
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Now there’s a blast from the past.
That used to be a big thing in revolutions.
Take over the radio and TV stations.
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Oops. Missed!
I need no help from the so called AI to make me look silly. I can do that all by myself.
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The world is full of people who only see problems…..and thankfully, there’s a whole big bunch interested in solutions and good times. Who do we want to have in charge?
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Musk…
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Hmmm. A little from column A and a little from column B.
I wonder what the solution is?
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“I wonder what the solution is?”
No leaders… we have enough laws now, we don’t need anymore, and we don’t need thugs forcing us to pay our wages to other people.
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The Far Left NY Times’ headline was predictable:
Like all Leftists, they mourn the removal of his barbaric regime.
Should have been:
Also see:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-called-out-headline-ayatollah-khamenei-calling-supreme-leader-hard-line-cleric
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Good heavens. I thought that was a meme mocking the NY Times.
What about the headline about the British politely asking if they can be next to be saved from the moo slim scourge.
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Yes Forrest, I also first thought it was a meme.
As I’ve said, the Left have become a parody of themselves.
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Life has never been tougher for satirists.
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He regretted he had only one life to give, will he get to meet the 17 virgins.
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“will he get to meet the 17 virgins.”.. at 86 there would be no point…
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May you speak only for yourself
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This is the right moment for red-green mob to stop and review their achievements.
This morning Tom Elliot very aptly mentioned the Law Of Unintended Consequences.
Children should not play with matches.
On the 7 October you went euphoric, now start counting your chickens… “Oh, God ! The whole ME can become Western-friendly !”
A note to Labor stars Wong, Bourke, Bowen and especially J. Allan – hubris comes before the collapse.
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My message to Wong, Bourke, Bowen and the whole of the Labor intelligentsia is simple. And to public serpents too for that matter.
Cheer up. Your day will come!
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I wonder what the protected electorate voters are thinking right now, the mostly moderates and including people from Iran?
Are they going to continue to vote for their electorate Labor MP?
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Vladimir: Quite off topic but if you want tasty fruit these might help your backyard garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc_2CejZC2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsWEgduF5Rc
A bit USA in tone but…
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And in breaking news, transgenders across the USA breathed a sigh of relief as the latest mass shooter turned out to be just a good old fashioned Moo slime terrorist.
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FWIWs from Chiefio
“Oh Boy! Billy Boy Gates is bringing petroleum like synthetic “butter” to the world via F-T processing…. you know, the same one used to make Diesel & gasoline… but without all those pesky vitamins in it… Why? Um, “climate change”… and The Evil Cows….”
https://youtu.be/pj48hgxuRN4
“Just Say NO…. no, wait, just say Hell No.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/w-o-o-d-1-february-2026-florida-snow-warning/#comment-181026
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And following down comments
“AAaand Kalifornia Strikes Again…
The Idiots running California passed a bill, which Gov. Nuisance signed into law, requiring ALL Operating System Providers to build in an age verification system to “protect the children” (shades of UK Idiocy…). This will never work (people will just code around it in Linux, or just say “not for California users” – as they already are doing).
This is supposed to be an always active always available API that ANY program which might need mandated age limits can check with. Good luck with that.”
More and links there
Concludes “The idiocy, it burns.”
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And TTN on
“A bit more about nicotine. Here is a 2020 reference that nicotine may confer resistance to Covid19 by binding to the ACE2 receptors, the same site used by the Covid virus.” And more.
And Dr Campbell on “100% death rate SARS virus
https://youtu.be/Npf-B5Av7aQ
Concludes
“Hmmm… I may order a box of nicotine patches for the medicine chest, just in case.”
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Regarding flu, colds and COVID 19 like infectious diseases- there’s a lot about those ACE2 receptors that we’ve not been told, or the medical science community have ignored for profit reasons. One of the modes of IVM is to also bind to those ACE 2 receptors. Hence, the reason for early dose intervention. Seems like there’s more money in trying to elevate antibody levels, although arguably they’re not the best way to protect against infection of the nasal passages. Also, antibodies via vaccines only reach an effective level for too short a time frame. But like IVM, nicotine is cheap, off patent. So, their use cant be developed. Might cause vaccine hesitancy.
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IVM and ACE research is out there and not hidden. I guess you don’t know this?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53086-0
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So? If you’ve read or researched anything about IVM, it’s common knowledge that the pharmaceutical industry contracted trials during 2021/2022 to sabotage this very effective anti-viral. This may be another in a long line of these types of trials? Maybe try reading a book called War on Ivermectin (Dr Pierre Kory) who outlined all the tricks the industry performed. If I had the time to read this supposed “paper”, a good chance I could find some adverse methodology. “our results suggest”, is not a very conclusive statement, by the way. Actually, very inconclusive.
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No thanks. Maybe try refuting evidence?
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These days if it was published in Nature it is probably evidence of something
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There were claims about Ivm needing to be at much higher doses in 2020, but I also heard that it turned out that ivm ended up more concentrated in the tissues that matter in vivo so dose guesstimates based on lab tests weren’t that useful. If I recall ivm ended up in lung tissue especially….
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It certainly makes Trump’s worrying about Iran making an atomic bomb seem extremely childish!
One bomb, one city gone, one virus… one whole race gone!
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I repeat myself, why did Obama agree that Iran could enrich uranium? With more oil than Saudi Arabia, they do not need nuclear power. And you can buy enriched uranium.
Worse, Biden’s decision to free up $6Billion for 6 hostages immediately preceded Oct 7 and the seizure of 250 hostages.
Why did no one question these decisions? Everything since then is a direct result of Obama/Biden giving Iran everything they wanted. Without the slightest attempt at explanation.
Twelve years of Obama(Biden) have taken the world to the edge of nuclear war. As has Ukraine.
And the same people criticize Trump for having to solve the problems. These people hate America. And the UN war on affordable energy and Israel and the US reflects their attitude to America. The UN has already condemned Trump for trying to solve the problems and stop nuclear armageddon. Extreme socialist opportunist Gutteres is not happy.
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My previous point was also about hostages. Biden paid $1Billion per hostage. And weeks later Hamas took 250 hostages. That was the whole point of the massacre and no one commented that mass murder was just incidental. The Hamas apologists saw it as justified. But it was always about the money.
Under the Geneva Convention of 1949 it is a War Crime to take hostages. But nothing was said about these crimes as if somehow Hamas was exempt from responsibility. Even when they had their captives dug their own graves.
“The act of taking hostages is a grave violation of international law and is prohibited at all times and in all places, as stipulated in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols. This prohibition is a core tenet of international humanitarian law and is considered a war crime”
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And refining it to about 50% when power stations use about 3 to 5% , it is obvious to all what they intended.
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Why did Kennedy agree that the Zionist occupiers of Palestine could have the nuclear bomb?
He didn’t, instead he was killed. And then they got it.
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That’s nonsense. The UN decided to establish the state of Israel in 1948. In what way did that make Jews occupiers? It was a solution proposed by Russia. There are 1.2 million Arab citizens of Israel today.
The exile of Arabs followed the seven separate wars waged by Arab states against Israel, starting in 1948. As for the bomb, most of the physcicists involved, even in Germany, were Jewish. And by 1963 Russia and China already had the hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful. Then India and Pakistan. But only Islamic Iran stated repeatedly and publicly that they would wipe Israel off the map as their primary objective. And America, the Great Satan, as well. The Islamic state is the sworn enemy of all Arab states, as is now obvious. If only because of religion, Shiite vs Sunni.
What is also true is that Iran is not an Arab state. Nor is Egypt or Turkey. Iran was a great Persian Empire thousands of years ago. It is an Arab occupied theocratic state, unlike the others.
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The link between milk and Parkinson’s Disease
Is the brain damage associated with milk consumption due to the banned pesticide heptachlor or the milk sugar galactose?
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative brain disorder that affects millions of people. What causes it? Well, if you look at lifestyle factors associated with Parkinson’s disease, dairy consumption is the strongest dietary factor associated with an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease. In fact, dairy products are the only food group consistently linked with a high risk of developing Parkinson’s. Five large prospective studies have confirmed the link. This includes the two Harvard cohorts, the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, which followed more than 100,000 people combined for decades in “the largest analysis of dairy and PD [Parkinson’s disease] to date,” analyzing more than 1,000 newly diagnosed cases.
https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/the-link-between-milk-and-parkinsons-disease/
I remember I was breastfed as a baby as we were too poor to afford real milk from the store. 😆
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Many articles contain something like: “… a positive association between low-fat dairy products, mainly skim and low-fat milk”
Why would that be?
My main dairy: ice cream and some cheese.
My guess (and I played a doctor in a six-grade play) is there is a confounding “something” yet to be found.
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Natural state in moderation suits me
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The difference between A1 and A2 kappa casein is still being considered a likely candidate for a confounding variable.
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That should be beta- casein.
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Only one country wanted to start this war of choice.
Americans were 70 to 80 percent opposed. That’s Cenk Uygur’s summary of several polls.
And now 3 dead service personnel are going home to America. Will the Draft Dodger who signed their Death Warrant be there on the tarmac to salute them?
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Later News, even Californians are celebrating
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WOW Cenk Uygur doesn’t like it. I’ve changed my mind. 🙂
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TRUMP gave no advance notice of the Iran operation to the Australian Government.
The operation would have been severely compromised if he told the Australian Government in advance.
This is the same Government that rewarded Iran proxy terrorist group Hamas for their October 7th atrocities.
Trump did the right thing as the Albanese regime can’t be trusted.
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Each Way caught out again;
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During the recent Liberal leadership changeover Angus Taylor received two-thirds of the Party Room Liberal MP votes, the highest on record for leadership ballots for many years.
PM Albanese and his colleagues tried to revive their “Liberals have problems with women” taunts until many voters responded and reminded him about 2009 when Kevin Rudd forced changeover from PM Julia Gillard to himself returning to that position he held from 2006 as Labor Opposition Leader and she was the Deputy.
Anthony Albanese MP and Cabinet Minister acted as Rudd’s second and lobbyist for him to replace Julia Gillard.
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Need to know basis.
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Exactly.
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Trump was supposedly negotiating with the Iranians. He then started an illegal criminal action against Iran. He is the one that cannot be trusted.
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Mike
Have a read about “taqiyya” in #10.1.2
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This is a DEI story that refuses to go away.
Followers are advised to have plenty of popcorn on hand.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360945713/charges-laid-sinking-hmnzs-manawanui
The hilarious detail is the fact that it has now been established that there was nobody on board who was competent to undertake the hydrological survey that the vessel was ostensibly undertaking in the first place.
Having completed the survey the ship was then sailed into the reef that it had just mapped, and sank.
The NZ Navy pointed out at the outset of the inquiry that the captain had not been hired for her proven expertise, and that government pressure had been instrumental in making the appointment of the former shepherdess as captain of the vessel.
This promises continuing entertainment.
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Q/ Are F1 teams having trouble flying to Australia?
A/ Yes, F1 teams are experiencing significant travel difficulties flying to Australia due to the Middle East crisis.
Major flight disruptions have occurred following U.S.-Israel airstrikes on Iran and retaliatory strikes by Iran on Gulf nations, leading to the closure of key air hubs like Doha (Qatar), Dubai (UAE), and Bahrain—critical stopovers for flights from Europe and the UK to Australia.
As a result, up to 2,000 team personnel have had to rearrange flights, with many now rerouted via Hong Kong, Singapore, or direct flights to Perth followed by domestic connections to Melbourne.
Ferrari has postponed its travel and is exploring charter flights, while McLaren and Mercedes staff were also reported stranded in Bahrain.
Despite the chaos, the Australian Grand Prix is confirmed to go ahead as planned on March 8, 2026, with essential personnel, drivers, and team principals prioritized for arrival.
F1 officials, including CEO Travis Auld, have confirmed that all necessary flights have been rescheduled, and no impact is expected on the race schedule or event operations.
Cars and equipment were shipped to Melbourne ahead of the disruption, minimizing risk to the race setup.
While travel is chaotic, the event remains on track.
There may be some cheap grandstand tickets on eBay. lol
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Also the price of petroleum products is about to rise sharply.
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Trump hasn’t closed any sea lanes. Your friends are doing that.
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‘Fortescue slashes wind farm plan, rejects ‘high cost’ green hydrogen.
‘Iron ore miner Fortescue has halved plans for a major wind farm in WA in a move it says will reduce the environmental impact.’ (Oz)
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“You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind.”
Jed Babbin, former deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration.
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You can make of this what you will- it is going to be some time before the smoke clears.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/02/end-deceptive-trumpian-diplomacy/
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Israeli News Live is reporting damage to Dimona Nuclear facility, and that there is radiation leakage.
Sorry can’t get a link to work.
The suggestion is that things are not going swimmingly well for the Donald.
Do your own research.
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I do not expect Israel had any choice. A year ago Iran was close to having atomic weapons, even dirty bombs to pair with their long range missiles. That was a threat to the whole world. They still have the highly enriched uranium, enough to make a dozen bombs. Buried in the site they are excavating with intent. That was the problem. Today the threat is now vastly diminished, but so much depends on the headless Army and police forces inside Iran.
All internal revolutions require the soldiers if not the army on side. Power grows out of the barrel of a gun but a popular uprising can change the landscape if the soldiers rebel. At present anyone who pops up as a leader is executed, including unfortunately tens of thousands of young people. The stage is set for new leaders, but will they dare stand up? It’s possibly time for a government in exile, as happened in France after WWII. America will not put boots on the ground and more Arabs are not welcome. It has to come from the Iranian people who are quite distinct. A government in exile based on the Pahlavi son of the former emperor might work.
I did not red thumb your comment. Damage at Dimona is not good, but predictable. Aiming missiles at a nuclear power station, any power station is standard practice.
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Perhaps you will be as mystified then by this latest announcement as are many others.
Did Trump order the targeting of the Ayatollah and his family or not?
No idea.
Was the ayatollah really the most evil person to ever walk on this planet , as Trump stated?
I doubt that.
https://www.rt.com/news/633507-turner-regime-change-iran/
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Trump and hyperbole? But Trump did not target the Ayatollah or order it. If only because US and international law explicitly forbids targeting of foreign leaders. Even Hitler would have been protected. Reagan used his F111s to destory the house next to Gadaffi’s house. And Gadaffi backed off with his chemical weapons. In Middle Eastern protocol, intentionally hitting the wrong house would be absurd.
But the Israelis do not follow these rules, so you can be sure they did the job. As with Hezbollah and the pagers, Mossad have people on the other side. It is standard Eastern practice to infiltrate, the principle of the Golden Dagger an Islamic invention. I have read that Khomeni was dead an entire day before it was announced with certainty by Trump. How did he know? And so with all the senior management and announced successors. To be appointed head of the Iranian government seems to mean instant execution. This level of intelligence was long in the planning, by matter of absolute necessity.
However there is nothing stopping Trump from gloating and letting the world think otherwise. Trump means what he says. It builds his carrot and stick image greatly.
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But then the abduction of foreign leaders like Maduro is also forbidden, except in time of war which is a legal chicken and egg argument and possibly why Trump is declaring a war on drugs and the department of Defence has been renamed the Department of War. Trump is clearly arguing as Commander in Chief that a ‘state of war’ exists even without Congressional approval, a much harder argument in the case of Iran so the ‘War on Terror’. It also lets him off the hook that Iran has chosen to wage de facto war on most Arab states as well as US bases. The foreign minister is now trying to claim that was a mistake down the chain of command.
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I am still amazed that no one seems to remmber the deadly 1980-1988 Iran/Iraq war in the marshes East of Basra. Perhaps 500,000 young men dead, Saddam and the same Ayatollah Khomeini. The world did not care! But the news followed every day of the war in Gaza with worldwide demonstrations in suport of the poor Gazans and Hezbollah and Hamas, funded and supplied by Iran. It shows the old adage, no Jews, no news.
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Dedicated followers of fashion.There are almost no Ukrainian flags being waved in Godzone currently.
The madness of crowds?
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