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Video.
A look at US Navy mine clearance technology and why the Strait of Hormuz hasn’t yet been cleared of the 5,000 mines the Iranians planted there.
https://youtu.be/2NNZ2u2WDD0
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When the US does clear the mines (and Australia has sadly refused to offer help to our great ally whom we need more than they need us), the US should send the bill to the Iranians or seize assets to the appropriate value.
Incidentally, mining civilian shipping lanes is illegal under international law by the Hague Convention (VIlI) of 1907.
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Apparently Australia has recently acquired a quantity of sea mines!
I imagine the ideas is to mine our own ports and harbours.
https://www.australiandefence.com.au/defence/sea/navy-reveals-sea-mine-tests
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Iran is entitled to protect its waters from aggressors as all nations are. Mines are not proscribed weapons. They are employing them for good reason, irrespective of some who believe that we must hold true to powerful friends in all cases. Stop the conflict you started – even if you lose face, get to negotiations and open up the straits. Blow what Israel thinks.
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To reach that point the 25th Amendment would have to be invoked and J D Vance take the helm. He has been scathing of the Israeli leader for forcing an old sick man to start WW3.
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Iran has an absolute right to defend its own territory.
Somehow they did not do it in August 1941 against totally unprovoked invasion by British & Soviet Armies.
A bit strange Ayatollahs remember “sovereignty” and “International Law” after 46 years of undeclared war on the West.
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Iran has an absolute right to murder anyone, anywhere, anytime. But you already know that.
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“anyone , anywhere, anytime . .”
I reckon that there would not be more than a couple of dozen governments who claim and use the same rights from time to time as the occasion demands.
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Yes but they aren’t verified by a rolled gold white house press release, which is the real measure of truth
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As you presumably know perfectly well the British and the Soviets only invaded Iran to secure a route for British, Canadian and American aid to the Soviet Union via the Persian Gulf and to prevent any threat to oil supplies which were vital to Britain and some of the Commonwealth countries. In a world war action to defend vital interests is justifiable.
The route via the Cape of Good Hope to the Persian Gulf was one of the two vital routes by which military supplies reached the Soviet Union. The other was the Arctic Sea convoy route from the UK and Iceland to the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk. It was the shorter but far more hazardous than the Persian Gulf route. There was a third very important route across the Pacific to Vladivostok but that was used mainly for food, materials and other non-military goods because as the Japanese and Russians were not at war with each other until the closing stages of the Pacific war the Japanese allowed Soviet ships to carry non-military supplies across the Pacific. There were a few other routes for military aid to the USSR but they were relatively minor.
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But it’s not protecting its waters, it it? They’re mining international waters you knob
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Look at a map dolt.
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Oman and Iran own half each, so technically traffic could travel safely on the Iranian side. Assuming they are friendly towards the regime.
I’ll draw up a list.
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Also I researched the end of operating life of the RAN minesweeper fleet, the decision not to replace them was during Coalition governments terms and based on latest technology of smart mines and even smarter search and destroy technology, as in torpedo like guided underwater missiles.
And like RAAF and Navy helicopters and fixed wing search and attack aircraft
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@PaulyB: The mines Iran has reportedly laid are in the territorial waters that make up the Strait of Hormuz (primarily Iran’s side for practical deployment), not in distant international waters. No part of the strait is outside territorial claims.
And what is a knob? I thought it was a kind of handle.
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So is the taking of hostages which is a declared war crime, but it is never mentioned. Especially by those pushing ‘International Law’ like most of Europe. It’s been 211 years since Napoleon was defeated and 81 since Hitler. International law is irrelevant unenforceable nonsense.
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Former PM Howard once told journalists in reply to a question that international laws cannot be enforced in any sovereign nation unless the government in office permits it.
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Actually, it’s not such a blanket law.
Fixed mines, trackable and controllable, as is the case with Hormuz, are legal.
After all, NO ship could safely travel Hormuz otherwise..
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Interesting Video about Sea Mines.
According to the video, the USN can clear the mines but won’t do that just yet.
3 conditions must be satisfied:
1. Faucet must be shut off, ie Iranian capacity to lay more mines,
2. Protective bubble required for the mine countermeasure forces,
3. Optimum timing politically.
1 is almost complete. 2 is on the way (USS Tripoli). 3 is the subject of much speculation. Iran is losing revenue but US allies(eg EU, UK, Austrtalia) have not fallen into line yet. Maybe that is the real holdup.
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Gee , seeing we know there are 5000 we must have counted them , so we so where they are. This will greatly simplify clearing them.
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Big climate show premiers March 29:
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/climate-unsettled-real-story/2026/03/27/id/1251014/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Is it any good?
Preview features Bill Gates and Greta Thundberg first up!
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I have not seen it but it includes a bunch of heavy duty skeptics. Most are lukewarmers however so they wrongly accept that we are causing a significant amount of the warming.
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Here is a nostalgic video from 1960 when Australia had a “can do” attitude and a bright, energy-rich future.
Well, we are energy-rich, but just not allowed to use energy resources ourselves, which are mostly exported while Australians get to use some of the most expensive electricity in the world due to the fanatical and insane commitment ti wind and solar.
And now we’re running out of liquid transport fuels despite this being a foreseeable problem for decades. What were all the highly over-paid government “consultants” (from the “Big Four”) and senior public serpents who are meant to keep an eye on these things doing all that time?
The video is about the search for oil in Australia and its then-territory of Papua New Guinea which Whitiam gave away long before the inhabitants were ready for self-governance.
Australia really was an upbeat place, back in the day.
https://youtu.be/YLj077OTPPs
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That is how we still think if it from far far away in America.
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Yes, but you have a leader who cares.
We don’t. Our “leader” is both a simpleton and a genuine, actual communist*.
* Book: Comrade Prime Minister: Anthony Albanese’s 40-Year Alliance with Australian Communism Trevor Loudon.
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Our senate’s report has declared war on us:
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And SMH also has the story, supportingly, paywalled:
Fossil fuel money funds climate lies. Then ‘AI slopaganda’ spreads it https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/fossil-fuel-money-funds-climate-lies-then-ai-slopaganda-spreads-it-20260325-p5xa36.html
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Really? Whom are receiving those fat checks?
That’s turning things upside down and inside out. Trillions have been given away in the name of fighting global warming over 40 years and it has done nothing. Well, it has enriched grifters.
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Sorry Dave,
That sentence is the headline, not my opinion. I should have put it and the link in a block quote.
Cheers,
Dave B
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Oh, I knew that was the headline and not your opinion. I was responding to the headline.
Cheers,
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The lies and propaganda is think! The up-front assumption is that you know which side is which when they state things like-
“climate falsehoods are also spread by vested interests representing the fossil fuel industry, community members with genuine concerns but misguided beliefs, and sites serving clickbait to drive advertising revenue.”
“So, in a nutshell, climate misinformation is not only undermining our ability to tackle the most pressing problem of our time, but the collateral damage includes community cohesion, political discourse and democracy itself.”
““In addition, false and misleading information about climate change or the environment was one of the top misinformation topics encountered by Australian audiences, with levels of disinformation tending to spike around extreme weather events.””
I’d apply those to the ‘CO2 is bad’ mob, but I’m sure they are directed at the ‘CO2 is harmless’ side. Overall their conclusion is correct, even if they are causing the whole problem themselves- The brighter public are cynical of the whole global warming scam, the naive public believe it like a religion, and the distance between them is greater than any other subject.
“What do we have to thank for this toxic cocktail of consequences? Why, the same fossil fuel interests that caused the greenhouse pollution behind global warming in the first place.”
So the battle for minds is intensifying, a forerunner of the expected censorship of any dissenting view.
“The committee’s recommendations include joining global efforts to combat misinformation, strengthening the role of regulators to tackle greenwashing, ensuring greater transparency in campaign materials, providing more funding for social science and independent monitoring, and greater oversight of corporate involvement in school systems. ”
..and the latest target for the anti-Capitalists gets jammed in there too-
“Big Tech has stolen our attention, mental health, children’s wellbeing, livelihoods and elections. Now it’s coming for reality. We shouldn’t fall over ourselves to help it.”
Its a great time to be alive!
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From the SMH article, journalist writes:
Personally, l find it depressing that so much purported climate science is presented by MSM as unequivocal scientific truth. Any conclusion arrived at by the scientific method which does not concur with the climate change narrative is branded as misinformation or disinformation. How convenient, all the nay sayers can be plunked in the same pigeon hole.
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Yes, discussion in support of anthropogenic climate change scepticism will become a crime.
It will likely be included under the recent all-encompassing censorship legislation.
They have already banned children accessing alternative opinions on that or any other matter.
And since when does scientific opinion need protection in the form of censorship? That’s the whole absurd Leftist idea of “consensus science” or “settled science”. If an idea is based on those concepts then it’s not science, it’s propaganda and/or ideology.
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Lysenko-ism?
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Central planning?
Command economy?
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We see the web they weave. The globalists and Fabians are seizing the moment as they eliminate all dissent or plurality of thought. It will not surprise that the Liberals have taken aboard key elements of the Bill as they are ridden with this plague. A mix of sadness and disgust as I reflect on the future of Australia.
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This is the link to recommendations:
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Information_Integrity_on_Climate_Change_and_Energy/ClimateIntegrity/Report/List_of_recommendations
The first two are obedience to the UN dictates on gagging free speech.
This is a link to Malcolm Roberts dissenting report:
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Information_Integrity_on_Climate_Change_and_Energy/ClimateIntegrity/Report/Dissenting_report_from_Senator_Malcolm_Roberts
This is why Australia needs One Nation in control. It is worthwhile reading.
The top two recommendations confirms Robert’s point on the UN global control.
If One Nation gains authority over the bureaucrats in Canberra, there will be a lot of high paid morons out of work and not harming the Australian economy.
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FWIW
Some Sunday reading relevant to that in today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/the-leverage-plan-saturday-march?
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Yes, very good.
I have started reading Jeff Childers regularly.
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More proof of UN interference in Australian government’s policies!!
Why are government ( the dreaded Uniparty) implementing UN dictats on not just climate change but immigration & no doubt all the woke ( communist inspired ) nonsense we are plagued with!
The Uniparty, ( policy agreements between LNP &ALP ) are the fruits of the UN & WEF
are foisted upon the electorate without reference to the wishes of the electorate.
Australian voters do not for UN administration of our democracy. Time to tell both parties we the voters have had enough nonsense! If the 2 major parties cant be honest with the electorate, the electorate will get rid of them!!
Time to end the nonsense! Pauline Hanson’s One Nation will never bend to the UN dictats or anyone else’s nonsense, without express support of the Australian electorate as a whole!
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If the CSIRO (Australia’s premier “scientific” research organisation, roughly equivalent to US National Labs) had been doing its job over the last several decades, they would have been researching cost-effective technologies for coal and gas to liquid fuel conversion*.
They would not have been supporting and promoting the anti-energy agenda of the Lib/Labs, Greens and Teals.
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*In fact, they do have or have had some research in those areas but it is not promoted because it does not fit the Official Narrative of a utopian all-electric transport wind and solar-powered Australia.
E.g. they have developed direct injection carbon technology to run diesel engines on coal slurry (DICE), coal gasification to make syngas, catalysis processes to turn syngas into diesel, and SynCat technology to convert gas into liquid transport fuel.
However as of the CSIRO strategic overall of late 2025, there has apparently been a shift away from fossil fuel conversion to “low carbon” (sic) synthetic fuels. E.g. focus is now on electricity to liquid fuels like ammonia(!) and biogenic fuels, not conversion of fossil fuels.
Ammonia as a transport fuel is absurd.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2026/March/Liquid-Fuels
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From the linked article, we have the following gem:
“Australia uses more energy from diesel alone than from electricity.”
This alone illustrates the low-level intellects powering our flagship national research institution,
Somewhat reminiscent of excerpts from school essays about clean energy stating “we should be using clean energy such as electricity, not dirty energy such as coal”!
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A while back I saw an article which explained that the third world uses per year about as much kerosene for heat (avoiding fuels like wood and dung and their problems) and light as the US does jet fuel.
Hence not so interested in abandoning fossil fuel
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In the late 60s a kero heater was our only home heating in Sydney. Used to be my job to soak and light the metho wick and then pump the thing up to fire up. Did a good job for a large lounge area.
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an inverted bottle of kero which fed the pool or ring which contained a wick. Flare ups were the go often.
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News from the US, from PolitiBrawl.
I can hear the Left screaming “racist” from here…
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How do the drivers pass their driving test if they don’t have proficiency in English?
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“How do the drivers pass their driving test if they don’t have proficiency in English?”
At their local accredited Driving School, run by Indians…. or their local ‘buy a fake licence’ run by the same… or drive for their local Indian trucking company who don’t look at licences.
The supermarkets and warehouses have signs in Punjabi for them to find their way around.
Maybe after the Yanks have cleaned out the truck driving problems Europe will look to their own immigrant problems in a wider sense too. Are they builders? Acting as engineers? Pilots? In the medical system? Do we wonder why strange accidents are happening in the West, all pointing to a drop in standards?
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In a number of Demokkkrat controlled States they are quite happy to hand them out to just about anybody who can see over the dash, especially if they are illegals.
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What driving test ?
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A suggestion that Israel’s leadership may have an issue.
https://sonar21.com/postponing-armageddon/#comment-382867
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Sorry wrong number:-
https://sonar21.com/postponing-armageddon/#comment-382878
This is the correct number.
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It is just a suggestion.
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Yes it is an observation based on the anti -government protest that was put down by Israeli police yesterday.
AI is your friend.
🙂
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‘This is the inevitable outcome of a failed strategy.’
True.
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Recommendation number 1 on UN global principles says all . Vote One Nation.
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FWIW –
California can – – –
“OMG! Just when you think California and Gov. Nuisance can’t get more stupid…
A law has been passed and is now in effect which bans Small Offroad Gas Engines starting in 2028. That means no chain saws and no emergency generators under 25 HP.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/w-o-o-d-8-march-2026-global-shit-show-in-ot/#comment-181201
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So it will be electric powered generators.
I wonder why no one has thought of this before.
You run the generator by plugging the generator motor into the generator output. It will run on back generation just like the Greenhouse Effect is powered by back radiation.
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Just plug it into a currant bush.
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“OMG! Just when you think California and Gov. Nuisance can’t get more stupid…”
Shhh, Gov Newsance will take that as a challenge.
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A 25hp generator can produce around 15kW or so of electrical power.
I guess people will just buy those instead, even if they only want 1kW or 2kW.
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25 hp electric start V twin, mmmm. yeah.
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Since the Australian Government always searches the world for the very worst of the worst ideas of other losers, I wonder how long before they introduce such a law here?
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Should be simple to make some revised HP rating stickers
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FWIW
On the other hand
“Great News: Oil Majors Are Backing Down on “Green” Energy Projects”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/28/great-news-oil-majors-are-backing-down-on-green-energy-projects/
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Australia has only two elderly oil refineries to service the country, Viva Geelong which is 72 years old and Ampol Lytton which is 61 years old, we are unlikely to get any more built, so Australias future will still depend on imported fuels and crude oil.
Is that as good as it gets.
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How long can those aged refineries keep going, even with substantial taxpayer subsidies?
Soon we will be 100% dependent on imported, refined fuels, just like any other Third World country.
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* would readers please note we sorta like NZ, and don’t consider it a 3rd world country.
Just yet.
😆
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If we maintain and update like should have with coal plants they should be able to operate well into the future while new ones are built.
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Seeing as how Rudolph Diesel originally intended his invention to run on peanut oil, rather than bother about coal to oil projects , why don’t we just grow oilseed crops to make biodiesel from.
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Don’t forget to turn your lights out at 8:30 tonight for Earth Hour! Ha, ha, ha!
I thought Australia would be doing quite well in the NetZero stakes. I expect Australia is in Earth Month or three.
My neighbour thinks he will be cancelling his NT/WA caravaning trip that was planned to start in June. So it could be Australia’s Earth Six Months.
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If our streetlights do not turn off at 8:30, I will be complaining to the local woke council that they are not serious about the Climate Change Emergency™ they have signed on to.
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The ACT Government declared a Climate Change Emergency™ in May 2019.
So how about NSW celebrate Earth Year by turning off the power lines to the entire ACT rat hole at 8:30 tonight for a year and let them be self-sustaining. After all they claim to be 100% “renewable” energy. And there is no limit to hot air.
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I will be turning on everything I’ve got.
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I always park my vehicle in the shed, lights off
sarc
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FWIW
On the one hand – today’s Courier Mail on-line headlines
“Thousands protest in anti-Trump rallies across the US; Houthis join war with strikes on Israel
Huge crowds are flooding America’s big cities in rallies against US President Donald Trump, as Yemen’s Houthis attacked Israel, sparking fears the oil market could be pushed into deeper turmoil. Follow live updates.”
https://www.couriermail.com.au/
On the other
“The No Kings Protests Were Even More Insane Than You Would’ve Thought”
“No Kings Day has come around once again, and it is just as cringe as last year. Of course, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone younger than the age of 60 wasting their time away at these things, and they really haven’t done much updating to their schticks as we’re still looking at the Handmaid’s Tale garbage in 2026. Anyway, here is some of the best (or worst) of what we have seen from No Kings 2026.”
More to marvel at
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/03/28/the-no-kings-protests-were-even-more-insane-than-you-wouldve-thought-n2673597
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Probably one of the few western nations with fuel to get to protests.
The woke world of Canberra is safe from any fuel or accompanying food protests. But State governments probably close enough to the action to be concerned.
9 News had DeNiro as their most visible celebrity voicing the No Kings mantra.
Meanwhile POTUS Trump held a press conference on the onerous new legislation requiring voters to present proof of identity and citezenship to vote
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And
“Fun Media Talk on the ‘No Kings’ Crowd Numbers As Springsteen, Jane Fonda Come Out in Minnesota”
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/03/28/highlights-of-no-kings-protests-spread-rather-than-density-n2200741
Check the videos – looks like “An airing of AWFULS”
“Five Quick Things: The Tyranny of the AWFULs
Affluent White Female Urban Leftists — need I say more?”
https://spectator.org/five-quick-things-tyranny-awfuls/
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Should that be ‘effluent’.
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FWIW – seems to go with “No Kings Day”
“Ayishat Akanbi
@Ayishat_Akanbi
It’s naive to think that you wouldn’t
have taken part in historical
atrocities once considered normal if
you embrace all the trendy ideas of
today”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/hedvjybxkaeujpe.png
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From the land of kings, their BBC ran a photo op of the mass therapy session for those suffering TDS and everywhere north of Georgia showed folk wrapped up in puffer jackets, beanies, scarves & gloves in the style of that Swedish child actress despite loads of sunshine.
Has CO2 lost its ability to retain, magnify and existentialinize heat because if it wasn’t for the shouting and arm-waving those people would’ve frozen to death.
I hope they wake up tomorrow feeling better but sadly there’s no jab for hysteria nor ignorance of history. Time for their 1776th booster.
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FWIW
There are crowds and there are crowds –
“While Idiots Marched, Trump Quietly Delivered a Major Victory Over Real Tyrants”
https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2026/03/28/while-idiots-marched-trump-quietly-delivered-a-major-victory-over-real-tyrants-n4951179
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The official numbers aren’t in, but its a fair indication Donnie will get a drubbing at the Midterms.
‘Huge crowds have rallied against US President Donald Trump from coast to coast in what organisers hoped would be the largest single-day protest in US history.’ (ABC)
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Nope.
2 main reasons.
Those screaming idiots were in cities that Trump didn’t win in 2016 or 2024, but where in cities where the rabid batshit crazy left can turn out thousands in hours on any pretext.
The numbers are also vastly overstated, as they always are when the leftard psychotics hit the streets, just as any conservative numbers are massively undercounted.
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The biggest crowd was in London, the numbers in the US were down on last year in almost every place they tried.
It was only the third world disaster on the rise that is Milwaukee that actually got a big crowd.
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The US 1st Amendment does not grant me free speech, I am not American.
I am, however, an Australian citizen of good standing with a clean record so there is nothing preventing me from obtaining a visa and visiting. Once in the US can I march in a No Kings rally, loudly abuse various religious groups making veiled threats against those I dislike and then claim immunity under the 1st? If so, Why?
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There might be a difference between ‘free speech in America’ and ‘free speech for Americans’.
If you were an American making free speech, there would still be a big difference between a Republican’s allowable free speech and a Democrat’s. The difference between inciting a riot on Jan 6th leading to jail and actual riots in black cities not being looked at…
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That would make you a steeenking furriner meddling in US internal affairs. Your feet may not even touch the ground as you accelerate towards your deportation flight ( a large cage in the pet transport section of the next QANTAS flight)
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I am quite surprised that most people, present company excepted, are not outraged at the appalling condition Australia is in, in all aspects.
I don’t even think most people understand the seriousness of our predicament.
The party is over. Decades of incompetent mismanagement of Australia is all coming together now and Australians will soon start to experience real pain such as with fuel and following that food and other shortages.
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Will Australia experience serious food shortages? Here’s what Gulag AI thinks:
https://share.google/aimode/sUP67ALHrzwzmdXQu
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Well, that’s a boilerplate state-the-bleeding-obvious response from AI, and clearly shows why I never use it…
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A very unimpressive response. Once again!
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“While the nation (Australia) technically produces enough food to feed its population several times over, …”
Gosh, if only food were vaccines, distribution would be a gubmint priority.
I think people should lose their jobs, and have their bank accounts shut down for being food hesitant or anti-food.
I think when it comes to food we must Follow The Science.
Praise be upon It.
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Most people do not understand the extent to which Australia has de-industrialised. We have become so used to the import of cheap OS goods that we have neither noticed, nor cared, that manufacturing has declined pitifully. Until recently, Australians have pursued “the good life” with high wages and plentiful jobs in the service industry. Only the steeply climbing cost of housing seems to have got their attention.
Suddenly, the fuel crisis generated in the Middle East has revealed with terrible clarity, our dependence on imports of refined oil to supply the petrol and diesel required for mining and agriculture – the remaining sources of our general prosperity. Quite frankly, I am not sure if, faced with Chinese bully boy tactics to exploit our fragile independence, we will have the cajones to defend the lifestyle that came too cheaply.
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Thought for the day:
You won’t see it for what it is until you stop looking at it through the lens of what you want it to be.
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Mark Twain in his 1892 novel The American Claimant refers to The Scheming Colonel Mulberry Sellers who comes up with his grandest plan yet for making a fortune: He will change the weather and charge people for their use.
The central character, Colonel Mulberry Sellers, is an irrepressible, buoyant mad scientist, Mason writes, “brimming with harebrained ideas. Nothing is impossible for him…. He’s totally loopy.”
Given that most Climate Scientists have no scientific achievements but are irrepressible and brimming with harebrained ideas, one wonders whether this might have been the start of the AGW cult. After all Svante Arrhenius wrote later in that decade.
Apparently 3 movies were made from this.
Try Amazon USA if you want a copy.
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A brilliant idea I had during Millennium Draft was to organise team competition for a first (or biggest) iceberg to be delivered to Perth.
My manager smiled first, then said – he could give me more work if I had too much free time.
OK, I was not serious, but watching under duress 13th (Thirteenth !) season of Married At First Sight, may be I should have been.
The revenue stream I thought of was not from selling million-year old Antarctic water but from TV rights.
What do we watch if the “Married” is not on – the war !
So, I checked ROI for:
1. Real Industry
Upfront capital: often $100M → $10B+
Lead times: 5–15 years before profit
Requires permits, infrastructure, workforce
Average ROI: 5% – 15% annually
2. TV / Internet Blogging / Content Creation
Capital: $0 – $10,000 to start
Typical ROI
Most creators: $0 or negative ROI
Small success: $1K–$50K/year
Top tier: $100K → millions annually
ROI for successful creators: 100% → 10,000%+
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Sorry, forgot to mention: the plan did not envisaged actual trip to Antarctica, enough drama could be created by preparations only.
A real thing would be a bonus for our comfortable retirement.
Reminds you, does it not?
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With the third desal plant soon starting, Perth is now OK for water. And there is an aquifer around six metres down that helps to keep our lawns green through the very dry summers.
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UK about to start energy rationing?
The government has a top secret “DFS” (no not the sofa company) schedule. Demand Flexibility Service plan in motion. It will start in one week.
What’s that? it means that there will be rationed fuel, and “balancing” of power (aka turning off power in certain areas). This allegedly means having electricity for only 3 hours a day!
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/claim-united-kingdom-to-begin-fuel-and-electricity-rationing-in-one-week
Presented as a talking point only…
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A Doc about the Falklands War came up today in passing. What would the UK do today? What could the UK do today?
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During the 1990s I was in the UK on business and spent an Easter weekend with people I knew and one was a former SAS Officer and then DEA Officer attached to Scotland Yard and INTERPOL. He spent many weeks embedded on the Faulklands gathering intelligence information living rough and therefore keeping out of sight. He said that experience was good training for his drug law enforcement deployments.
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“living rough…”
I guess he never ate penguin nor albatross stew ever again. Was he disguised as a rock or a clump of grass, or the rear end of a cow? And who ended up getting all the offshore oil – or is it still there waiting…
/jest [just in case].
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He a few years later was returned home deceased on active duty
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FWIW – the latest try
“From Cow Farts to Protein Shakes: The Latest Climate ‘Solution’ Brewed in a Vat”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/28/from-cow-farts-to-protein-shakes-the-latest-climate-solution-brewed-in-a-vat/
But questions asked
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Oops, how embarrassing… I came here to give a quick reminder that ‘Earth Hour’ is 8.30 PM today, and encourage everyone to light up the night to signal opposition to those who would keep us in the dark.
Of course, I checked my facts- apparently it was LAST night.
It’s encouraging that it went past without any visible sign around me. But sadly, there are still places going dark.
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Hunanoid robot soldiers are being tested on Ukraine’s frontline.
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Believe it or not.
‘Avi Loeb, the Harvard astrophysicist known for theorizing about the origins of 3I/ATLAS, is intrigued by new data showing the receding interstellar object has a concentration of deuterium, an isotope essential for nuclear fusion.
“Deuterium and tritium are the best fuel for nuclear fusion, and what we see around 3I/ATLAS is an abundance of deuterium at a level that is a thousand times larger than the average cosmic value,” Loeb told “NewsNation Prime” on Saturday.’
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A few isotopic ratios have proven to be very different to the values typically seen in our solar system. It’s not surprising, given the interstellar origins of 3I/ATLAS.
That’s not to say it isn’t a bunch of aliens on a Contiki tour during their gap year, but I think it’s just a fascinating ball of rock and ice.
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Very little recent news about Helium-3 and planning to mine the moon and base robot automated factory and earth moving equipment there utilising the heat of day and the cold of night for processing moon soil, extracting Helium-3 and preparing LHG for transport.
One space shuttle load would power via a reactor of new technology US for a year I read.
China calls it the perfect fuel, and I understand the race is on to get that project in operation.
And now the first trip in decades announced and plans for a space station base.
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I think it’s all going to take a very long time!
US boots on the ground in 2028, maybe…
No more NASA “gateway” space station, just lunar bases eventually… maybe….
It will be very interesting to see what China does.
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FWIW – upping the ante on daylight saving time –
“Georgia Found the Craziest Possible Way to Stop Changing the Clocks”
https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2026/03/28/georgia-found-the-craziest-possible-way-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-n4951170
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FWIW
A late addition to the “No Kings Rally” post at #14
“Dozens Of Injuries Reported At ‘No Kings’ Rally After Multi-Scooter Pileup”
https://babylonbee.com/news/dozens-of-injuries-reported-at-no-kings-rally-after-multi-walker-pileup
Via SDA
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FWIW
“Why No One Under 30 (with an IQ over 60) Trusts Legacy Media”
“Nick Gillespie and Adam Carolla have a great discussion on the state of “journalism” in America. News flash: Canadian “journalists” are arguably much worse.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ9miltHxss
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/28/why-no-one-under-30-with-an-iq-over-60-trusts-legacy-media/
Don’t worry – the YSM will ignore any hints they might have picked up here
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In comments
“No one should ever trust the media, and this has been true since the 1800s
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5737
“I will add that the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. he who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false” ”
Pretty devastating for “quotability quotients”
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FWIW
From comments at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/03/28/tensions-surface-between-secretary-marco-rubio-and-insufferable-eu-foreign-affairs-rep-kaja-kallas/#more-282012
“I recommend reading the books “Queen Bees and Wannabees”…there is some pretty good insight…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Bees_and_Wannabes
Canberra?
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the BBC take on One Nation’s success in South Australia
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2j4q60wlgo
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