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Age verification laws coming to a phone and computer near you, soon
https://reclaimthenet.org/pause-social-media-age-verification-privacy-risks
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This whole woke move to get children under 16 away from alternative online information sources, pioneered by fully woke and dumbed-down Australia, is to ensure children have no access to alternative points of view to the One Official Narrative. Indeed, it prevents them access to all sorts of other information as well, such as history, hobbies, literature reviews, whatever. In other words it prevents them pursuing any interests they may have, apart from the single approved Official Narrative. They will become dullards.
On top of all that, there is also moves in Australia and other dumbed-down woke countries to lower the voting age to 16. Thus a child of 16 will be expected to vote, never having been exposed to any alternative viewpoints beyond approved narratives.
Except in Australia there’s fewer and fewer machines left to run as there’s not much industry left. What will people do?
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Let’s go back to the 60’s when there were no censorship rules and kids could do what they liked.
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Let’s go back to working for our employer during office hours.
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Near to the address of the manufacturing company factories and business I managed and was employed by for 25 years before choosing early retirement there was a food shop and many administration and factory employees purchased from that shop. One lunchtime I went there and the shop owner’s wife asked me if I was the boss across the road, and then commented that the employees are like a family and interact so nicely and politely regardless of position in the business.
It was a profitable and above Dun & Bradstreet reports operating profit so before tax business compared to the industry average, and remained profitable averaging about two thirds of long term average profit during the from 1990 recession period of years.
In my view and experience teamwork pays very well, and team members need to be together and even for interstate or overseas branch people to visit occasionally, example an annual sales conference but inviting other areas of employees to the dinner night, and holding Christmas restaurant meals for every branch operation at each location, and many other examples of bringing people together. And most importantly telling all of them including factory people about annual budget targets and talking language understandable to people who are not financially trained.
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Then there is Beetaloo and the Amadeus basin in NT, so the only state not covered is Tasmania.
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Sorry, meant to tack onto 4.1.1.1.
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Anything they want! The WEF animal farm dream.
Recreational pursuits, crocheting, walking from one side of their 15-minute cities to the other side. Anything!
Except anything intellectual, creative, inventive, the things that advance a race.
When the govt is your daddy, there’s no incentive to do anything.
Welcome to the new christian dark ages.
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Mmmm WEF Christians, got it.
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Yup. Neither live in the real world.
Both couch deceit in platitudes.
Both want to rule the masses.
Only their beliefs are the true ones.
Non believers are to be purged.
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other dumbed-down woke countries to lower the voting age to 16. Thus a child of 16 will be expected to vote,
If you are entitled to vote, you would no longer be considered a child. Consider how this might have changed the prosecution of Mr. Epstein with a change of the age of adult responsibility.
People asking for this change might want to be careful what they are asking for.
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Anyone got a Samsung Galaxy phone? Seems like your privacy is being compromised.
https://reclaimthenet.org/perplexity-samsung-galaxy-s26-privacy-risks
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The unpopularity of Windows 11 ought to be a lesson in why not to put unremoveable AI into an OS. That’s why I’m gradually moving to Linux. You need much less computer to do the same job as well. And no pop-up “recommendations” or presumably spying on you. I was going to upgrade my phone soon. I normally buy Samsung so will now have to reconsider.
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I asked AI a Q last night and it seems that windows into the PC market is only 5% of Microsoft’s market. DAMN. I had hoped they could lose more’n that. They are evil.
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I run W11 Pro and it’s buggy compared to totally dependable Windows 7.
Unremoveable? Rubbish! Done effortlessly.😁
With all the recent grief, Microsludge is finally knuckling down and tackling the issues.
Bloat and spyware are trivial concerns, both easily removed.
Linux market share still sits at 2.8% (and has for years) as it simply doesn’t support software that people want, and isn’t likely to in the forseeable future.
Power user? Totally forget Linux.
Samsung? Well, kernel-level AI integration is a no-no.
No reason to “upgrade” to the latest and greatest phone, not that there ever was.
I use a 5yo phone. Does everything I need. No AI, no risk.
Plus, you can always root your phone and install a different kernel…
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My win 8.1 computer complains on start up that the hardware is not suitable. Apparently this is because it is capable of running win 11. 🙂
An upgrade that will never happen if I have a choice.
And sooner or later I need to rebuild an XP (standalone) computer due to some proprietary software only running on XP.
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China has no intention of compromising its industry and economy in order to mitigate any claimed climate change.
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/03/europe-is-finally-waking-up-to-the-fact-that-china-has-no-intention-of-letting-climate-action-harm-its-industries/
Well, surely everyone reading this blog knew that, even if our governments don’t.
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But it was explicit from the outset , that China did not have to do that.
In return , China agreed not to say that Climate ChangeTM was 100% you know what.
Were you asleep at the time?
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During the COP in Copenhagen delegates from China explained to other delegates that China has experienced three warmer periods than present time during from memory 3,600 years of civilisation records at that time. Each warmer period resulted in greater prosperity as crop yields increased and other benefits.
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Your claim that governments do not know that is patently false.
.Effectively you are saying that you believed their lies.
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Putin has decided to give Europeans a helping hand achieving: Nut Zero
“Vladimir Putin suggested that Russia may consider halting gas supplies to Europe already now and redirecting them to other markets. According to him, this would help avoid a complete ban in the future.”
In other words, Putin is more than happy to stop supplying gas to Europe.
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Crazy as it sounds , but Australasia is going to need that gas.
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Why? Surely Australia has more than ample gas supplies, if they were prepared to use them.
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Offshore notably North West WA, SA already at Moomba Gas Fields and not far away much larger untapped reserves under Coober Pedy, and another under Gippsland VIC and nearby Bass Strait oil and gas fields now decades old.
Add large shale bearing oil deposits, notably NSW and QLD.
And 20% of fuel today refined in the remaining two oil refineries from locally pumped oil supplies.
Various other known oil fields and some capped wells from the 1930s drilled by Commonwealth Oil Refineries, around Roma QLD for example.
Australia also produces an excess to requirements of LPG, a reason why the Howard Kyoto Agreement emissions reduction response included LPG/CNG fuel conversions and subsidies cancelled by Rudd Labor after 2007, meaning phased out.
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IMO, it’s an empty threat.
Selling energy is no different than selling anything else. If you have a strong market share you protect it at all costs and never give it up voluntarily. Because if you force your customers to find alternatives they will stick with them and you will never get that market share back.
Inertia is a powerful market force. It is what has kept Europeans buying Russian energy even as they are in a proxy war with them. It was simply much easier to keep using Russian gas than go out and find new sources and build a new supply chain. But if Russia cuts them off? Then they will HAVE to go out and sign long-term contracts with other sources and build new supply chains. And once they do, inertia in favor of that new supply chain will start working against Russia, and they’ll NEVER get that market share back. Once Russia pulls their foot out of the European door, it is going to slam in their faces and get nailed shut. And Russia’s gas oligarchs are smart enough to know that, and will make sure Putin knows it too.
Russia faces another existential energy fuel issue in that it’s current customer base in the global south has become accustomed to paying discount prices for their product. Europe was/is a cash cow because they pay/paid full price. If they lose Europe, no one is going to pay full price anymore, and they’ll have to piss off their customers in the global south by jacking up their prices to keep their profit margins topped off.
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On the other hand it is said that it is high energy prices that are crippling European industry.
It may just be an indication to Europe that they should pull their heads in on a couple of fronts.
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AND gas supplied by pipe is almost 100% profit. Shipping costs and in the end, although the buyer writes the cheque, the seller pays.
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Australia has already installed a gas pipeline network, I remember working on fencing in a farm paddock NSW 1970s and we were given a fright when an RAAF F-111 swing wing fighter-bomber passed over at just above tree top level on an exercise run for low level navigation purposes.
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A gas pipeline being installed not far away on that property as part of the pipe network
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Easy to run gas pipelines long distances through the centre of Australia to link gas fields, or to supply gas anywhere bar Tassie. A heck of a lot cheaper than running transmission lines.
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Dennis, Imagine what it was like for the pilots, sitting there hands off, trusting the RADAR NOT to fly into that hill not so far away.
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A lot of western hubris. Markets and pipelines exist elsewhere to places much easier to do business with.
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It’s not as easy as you think to find a new supplier on a national scale. Those other places already have contracts in place to sell what they produce. It’s not like they can just go in the stock room and get more. They’ve got to produce more to sell more, and upping production can take years. In the meantime, you’ve got to cobble together a supply chain buying the dribs and drabs from a bunch of different sellers who have some excess production, then work out the logistics of getting all those purchases where they need to go. It’s a huge undertaking, which is why European countries opted to continue to suckle from Mother Russia’s teat.
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‘Selling energy is no different than selling anything else.’
Back in the day slaves were regarded as useful energy, but the industrial revolution put an end to that.
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The alternative is to use their own gas short delivery radius etc etc.
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But that would entail admitting that AGW etc was all lies.
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Allowing for the “fog of war” etc., it appears that Iran was more than ready for the “kick-off”.
Will the U.S vassal states in the M.E. finally come to the realisation that the U.S. cannot protect them, assuming that the U.S. ever intended to do that?
Can the published satellite imagery of the destruction of radar vital to the U.S. be trusted?
And are Russia and China providing back -up guidance systems for Iranian missiles?
No idea.
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Fog of war or not, I think the clearest evidence that Iran’s defenses are pretty much nonexistent at this point is the fact that B-52s are now a major part of the bombing campaign. For those that don’t know, B-52s are 1950s technology that are slower than molasses and have a gigantic radar footprint (but carry a huge payload and have a long range which is why they are still in use). You would never use them unless you have total air superiority, because it is the easiest plane in the American arsenal to target and shoot down. So if they are flying around over Iran, it means the Americans aren’t worried AT ALL about Iran’s air defenses.
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That would kind of suggest that, to paraphrase Steppenwolf, the Iranians have fired all of their guns at once and are about to explode into space.
I hope so. Come on guys. Are you a real death cult or are you just pretending.
Those goats and virgins are waiting but they won’t wait forever.
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Iran’s impotence at shooting down aircraft was exemplified by an Israeli F-35 flying over Tehran in daylight. low and slow, being filmed dropping a bomb but no SAMs in sight.
BTW The plane that can’t dogfight just scored it’s first air/air kill. Don’t get excited though, it was a two seat trainer. lol
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Vassal state? Now there’s a term I haven’t heard for a while.
I was wrong when I thought that the Iran regime would fall as quickly and neatly as the Venezuelan one.
It does look like they had some sort of MAD in mind. Dr Strangelove lives!
That is sort of the line the US regime is pushing. That the Iran regime wanted to make themselves unattackable and use that as a cloak for developing nukes. That’s why the US had to attack right now and not wait another minute. And Israel didn’t push the US. No, no, no. It was the other way round.
Or something.
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They are totally committed to ride that bomb, like Slim Pickens. A frigate was sunk near Sri Lanka with heavy loss of life. Something/nothing to the mad mull@s.
ps First submarine – torpedo kill by a US boat since WWII. A night of firsts.
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Not a chance.
Venezuela was run by a bunch of Godless communists, whose only concern is the here and now. Their top priority will always be to protect their own skins, and if that means abandoning the ‘glorious revolution’ and becoming a capitalist pawn, so be it.
Iran is run by religious zealots who consider themselves in a holy war and are prepared to become martyrs for their God and spend the rest of eternity diddling virgins. Like the Japanese in WWII, there will be no surrender until you either kill enough of them that their people can overthrow them, or drop an artificial sun (or two) on them.
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Agreed on the big difference between Venezuela and Iran. But were they serious or just pretending for power and profit.
There are those who maintain their faith to the bitter end and reckon they will get lucky at last albeit with goats and virgins. Others have been known to lose their religion at the most inconvenient times for their comrades in arms.
It’s probably a bit early to tell what the proportions are in that place in that worst of all “religions”.
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This piece is clearly labelled “opinion” , so no cause for excitement.
But it is quite noticeable in recent years that headlines such as “What we know”, and “What you need to know”, frequently presage incoming horse manure.
Whatever.
Here is an opinion:-
https://www.rt.com/news/633794-iran-schoolgirls-murder-media/
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I don’t mind the What we know headlines so much because frequently the authors know SFA.
I do find the What you need to know headlines more than a little presumptuous.
The Why this is important headlines rank right up there with other political hubris.
Sorry. I didn’t get to your linked article. The source just makes me go meh.
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“meh”
The Canadian writer?
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I used to say True blue dinky di aussie mate.
Now I live in Queensland and say True blue dinky di aussie mate eh?
But the eh? seems less common than it once was.
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I seldom say or hear it. Only when deliberately being ocker.
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I wonder what overseas readers make of ” being ocker”? 🙂
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I saw this clueless comment on X.
Where does affordable wind and solar power come from?
There is nowhere on the planet where grid scale wind and solar is truly cheaper (with honest accounting) than coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro (not SH2).
And the anti-energy lobby keeps telling us how cheap wind and solar is except the more we get, the more we pay for electricity and the more industry shuts down and goes to a country with cheap coal, gas, nuclear or real hydro like China.
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In the event that coal/oil/gas power was priced out of reach of the average peasant, then the only relatively affordable wind /solar power would have to come from distributed small scale wind/solar plant with adequate safe and non-polluting batteries for those who cannot tolerate intermittent power.
That was 20 years ago that we considered it for our farm, but it was far too expensive.
Today it appears to be a viable option .
If power prices continue to rise, and the network becomes increasingly fragile and unreliable, then it may be time to act, given that the plant is now much cheaper, and batteries are much better.
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farmerbraun is located in one of the most consistently windy places in the world, as Vesta has found out to the detriment of their windmills.
A small VAWT is all that is required, maybe one or two solar panels.
Feathering of the turbine blades during the not infrequent gales is a must- 160 kmph wind gusts happen.
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We have a 10kw solar system in the home paddock of our farm. It actually brought in a modest amount from our electricity company as it contributed excess power to the grid. As roof systems across the state proliferated so did our return dwindle, as the power company became progressively less generous.
In view of the dwindling returns, but more importantly, the possible future threat to supply, we are now preparing to install an adequate battery to guarantee our energy supply, especially as our bore which supplies water to our cattle, depends on constant power supply. We do, as most properties, have a generator. But if fuel supplies become an issue, as the current situation in the ME, and the threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan ( and the fuel supply via Singapore) imply, we cannot depend on our petrol supply.
Husband has been very reluctant to spend the considerable amount for this battery, but “muggins” (me) has been right on previous events, so , with accompanying muttering, he has finally agreed. Incidentally, we are also “over” having to rely on a camera in the bore shed to monitor an aging pump when we are away for a few days. OK when the dam is full and they have access to it, but this is not always the case.
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And yes, we have a creek, but the cattle have limited access at various times of the year.
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We have four generators, and a major river on three sides plus a creek which flows half the time.
But in Godzone it is not permitted for cattle to drink from waterways.
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“But in Godzone it is not permitted for cattle to drink from waterways.”
And it is better if they don’t, they damage backs and foul the water.
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Cattle are heavy and do break creek banks. The creek is better if fenced and water pumped to troughs. If the creek is flowing a hydraulic ram is free, if noisy. A drone can check the troughs and fences every morning.
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If the creek is flowing
Gravity might work?
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David:
Cheap wind and solar comes from the wishful ‘thinking’ of those who don’t think.
3 days of overcast weather with little wind and SA goes dark, apart from the coal fired electricity imported by those States who aren’t quite that delusion.
Oh! We do get a little electricity from the diesels sitting in the desalination plant (installed in panic by ‘our politicians’ because a charlatan said Adelaide would run out of water) and never used to produce much water.
That was Labor. Meanwhile the Liberals are heading for close to wipeout by promising a NEW Gas-Fired plant would be installed by them to make electricity cheaper. Readers here will know that there is a 5 to 7 years waiting list for such because of other (more sane) countries boosting their reliable electricity.
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What the medical establishment did to Vicki Derdarian, the Melbourne lady who died just over a week ago because she refused the covid vax and was thus denied a heart transplant (even to this present day) was extremely cruel and sadistic and shows how far the establishment is prepared to go to enforcement the Official Narrative.
It beggars belief that years after the plandemic ended they still demanded she have the covid vax for her to be eligible for a transplant.
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The number of people, mostly elderly, who are still accessing Covid boosters, is astonishing. No doubt many may suffer cardiac and other problems which will simply be ascribed to their age.
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Every visit to my local shopping centre,I still see people (mostly elderly but the occasional younger person) wearing face masks. These people will be never be untriggered. The jabs- well they’re free and you get to talk to some nice doctor or nurse as well. Fills in the day.
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My GP asked me recently and I said no thank you, and she did not argue with me.
Since two vaccinations 2021 and in 2022 my BP Monitor for the first time recorded irregular heartbeat and after that Bradycardia uneven out of recommended range BP and too low heartbeat, down to 30-40 last year but now 40-50 and sneaking over 50 at times after some medication adjustment. I have an appointment soon with the Cardiologist I consulted by referral in 2022
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If it was America the person who made the decision that she would not get a transplant would be charged with second-degree murder, as was the man who bought his son a gun that the son used to shoot people at his school.
With that logic every car manufacturer should be jailed for the deaths of road accident victims, they’ve already tried charging gun manufacturers, every doctor who prescribes a medicine that kills a patient and every drug manufacturer who sells drugs with side effects… the few of us not in jail would have an over-whelming responsibility in trying to feed the millions inside!
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every car manufacturer…
I continuously wonder whether a stronger more winnable case against the users of speed cameras might not be easier to prosecute. Speed cameras are installed with the specific purpose of “capturing” speeding drivers because as we all know and are constantly told speed kills. What degree of negligence can be claimed since an authority “captures” a speeding driver in an unlawful act but “releases” them despite their breaking of the law and if, further down the road this same speeding driver collides with another vehicle resulting in the death of the driver or passenger in that car. Has the purpose of the use of the camera been served as far as the greater purpose of making roads safer and protecting life? If negligence due to the failure to physically and immediately stop/apprehend an identified and statistically proven potential killer can’t be claimed then surely false advertising that taking a photo makes our roads safer could be?
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In a similar vein Earl, I was wondering if an over-weight truck is allowed to leave a weighing station with a fine. If you speed in a car and have your licence removed instantly by the Highwaymen, you are not allowed to drive that car away, same with being over their alcohol limit. It appears an overloaded truck just gets a fine and drives away, overloaded! So an overloaded truck is not a public danger…
I was admiring the alligator cracking in the wheel tracks of a new area of hotmix, not 6months old, and wondered just how many trucks are running over their axle weights.
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KP thanks for the heads up expansion. Quick check and, are you sitting down, apparently one option that is applied in Australia is the weigh station may send the truck back to the shipper to get the problem sorted…. I assume they ensure that going back doesn’t involve travelling on roads or bridges that the truck may have to cross (again) on the return journey.
And this to make it curiouser and curiouser:
The NSW Bridge Policy Circular BPC2007/07 explicitly states that signposting of individual lanes may be required when “the controlling minimum clearance for the road under the bridge in a specific direction of travel is exceeded in other lanes with the same direction of traffic, by at least 0.2 m in the signposted clearance.”
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In NSW some heavy vehicle highway speed and time monitors are now targeting all vehicles speed, and for seatbelts and phone use.
I understand that the National Road Safety decision is for this to be extended to all highways with additional overhead monitoring point locations.
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More self-identifying candidates to be first up against the wall after the revolution.
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Chinese police reach into Australia, as we already knew.
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At first I wondered when riding on prized animals became a thing. Then I wondered why they didn’t get a feed first. Then I wondered why they would go on strike. And finally I thought good for the Chinese police for protecting the animals.
Some days I need to sleep in a bit longer.
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Feel the hand of fascist oppression.
“Some riders received calls and explained the situation to the police, saying, ‘Hungry Panda is in Australia, and we’re striking in Australia.’ The police then replied, ‘That’s fine, as long as you’re not causing trouble domestically,’” she said.
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Looks like Trump has done a Belgrano.
I hope there was a very convincing justification because at the moment this is all looking way out of control and very dangerous.
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Bit more detail?
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A U.S.sub torpedoed an Iran frigate off the cost of Sri Lanka. 87 dead.
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And Ukraine taking out a Russian oil tanker in international waters?
Rubio now saying “eight weeks to flatten the “ something.
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Who was the boxer who said everybody has a plan until you get smacked in the face?
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Search Assist
Mike Tyson is known for many memorable quotes, including “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth,” which highlights the unpredictability of life and challenges.
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DDgo search assist
The ARA General Belgrano was an Argentine cruiser sunk by the British submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War on May 2, 1982, resulting in the deaths of 323 Argentine sailors.
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Well the previous claims of having destroyed the Iranian Navy had to made good, and we know that it’s open slather in international waters these days, so all good.
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When at war you kill the enemy wherever, not in an arena. I see no problem.
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Even when you’re not at war according to America.
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Listen and watch carefully to what US and Israel leaders are saying, the latest Iran mission is primarily to finish nuclear development, Iran has been tunneling into the bombed locations and building a deeper underground beneath a mountain new facility and transferring any equipment,ent worth salvaging, and the weapons grade uranium stock has not yet been located. The fear is that Iran’s radical regime continually threatening to wipe out US and Israel, and allies, and track record to date of attacking and using proxies (Tentacles of the Octopus Iran) and killing US and Israeli citizens regularly for decades past reached crisis point.
To defend is not an illegal act when provoked, and Iran has provoked over and over again, and killed thousands.
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Its a crusade.
‘US troops being told Iran war intended to bring about Armageddon, watchdog says.
‘He urged us to tell our troops that this was ‘all part of God’s divine plan’ and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation,’ anonymous officer says in complaint to watchdog.’ (AA)
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Anonymous officer? Complaint to watchdog?
Yeah. Right. Imagine that. The public serpents just can’t help playing politics can they?
Just another doofus who reckons this is their big chance to bring down the man. That’s if it is even real.
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Oh the luxury of quibbling over terms.
And of course Korea was a “police action”.
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FWIW – Iran
Today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
“The most succinct status of the five-day-old war in Iran appeared in a New York Times story this morning. It confirmed what we’d already concluded yesterday: “Now, Israel and the United States own the skies over Iran and are steadily blowing up its ballistic missile infrastructure and arsenal.” Four days in. That is promising for prospects of a reasonably quick war. But the biggest and most promising development popped up in the New York Times this morning as I was writing the post.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/fraud-and-outreach-wednesday-march?
And other things
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That just means, as I forecast from the beginning, that Iran will become another Gaza, just on a vast scale. Iran has been under the influence of radical Islam for decades, even longer than Hamas has existed, so I fully expect those still faithful to the mullahs, plus the evil Revolutionary Guard, will merely go ‘underground’ and thus a guerilla war begins. Remember, Hamas, despite Gaza being more or less flattened, is still in control of the population, by force.
The only was the IRGC can be weakened sufficiently to bring a semblance of peace will be through ground-level, chest to chest fighting, and for that ‘the allies’ will need to put a huge number of boots on the ground.
And even then, don’t hold your breath waiting for a democracy to be formed. They don’t do that sort of thing in the Middle East.
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And that is where Zoroastrianism steps up. This religion was the dominant religion of the Persian Empire for over a millennium being the official faith of the state and Persian kings. It was a tolerant religion as it allowed the many conquered peoples, Mesopotamians, Egyptians and Central Asians to retain and continue their own religions – Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism etc.
Once Islam conquered Persia (633-654) Zoroastrianism declined and believers fled to India although some remained and today is still culturally significant in both Iran and India. The core regions of Persia – Fars, Yazd and Kerman were primarily Zoroastrian and (according to AI) despite legal restrictions and social pressures there has been a growing interest amongst young Iranians in reconnecting with their pre-Islamic heritage.
As far as boots on the ground to fight the final (chest to chest) goes that is where the Yazidis step up. While they do not follow Zoroastrianism their religion does incorporate some elements and has allowed influences from Christianity, Judaism and ancient Mesopotamian as well as Islam (read Islam) to be incorporated.
Yazidis have been persecuted not just in Iran but also Iraq, Turkey and Syria and I saw a comment in one report of the current conflict that Israel was actively bombing the Iranian “defence” fortifications built to contain the Yazidis i.e. the Islamic State (ISIS) didn’t kill enough of them in the genocide of 2014.
So the prospects of having Iran shed Islam and re-embrace Zoroastrianism that is more accommodating of other religions and ethnic groups particularly say the Yazidis who themselves have incorporated some “Zoro” in their system bodes well for a future western orientated and friendly society in the future.
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Wikipedia
The Baháʼí community was mostly confined to the Iranian and Ottoman empires until after the death of Baháʼu’lláh in 1892; at that time, he had followers in 13 countries of Asia and Africa.|
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Baháʼís continue to be persecuted in some majority-Islamic countries, whose leaders do not recognize the Baháʼí Faith as an independent religion, but rather as apostasy from Islam. The most severe persecutions have occurred in Iran, where more than 200 Baháʼís were executed between 1978 and 1998
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Nah
Gaza’s citizens support violent Islamist extremism. They voted Hamas into power back in 2006 because they felt the PLO and Fatah weren’t radical enough. They may be regretting that decision after 20 years of Hamas rule, but they still would rather wipe Israel off the face of the earth (from the river to the sea) than coexist. There is a reason no other country in the region are willing to take them in as refugees. They already tried that back in the 1960s and all they got for was a bunch of attempted coups and terrorism.
Iran’s citizens never got to vote for the Islamic revolution, anymore than they got to vote for the Shah. Depending on what poll you read, between 60% to 70% of them want their own government gone, not Israel. The problem is that the minority who support the government are well armed and not the least bit squeamish about murdering their fellow citizens who disagree with them.
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1. Who wiped Pa1estine off the map?
2. From the following list of violent extremist groups, how do you rank them?
Irgun
Lehı
Haganah
The Palmach
Hamas
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Could not resist, guys.
Living inside 1984 for 40+ years breeds human species who are happy to live inside 1984.
Eight and a half people out 220 million population went to Red Square In August 1967, holding A4 pieces of paper:
” Hands off Czechoslovakia!”
” Motherland is in danger – our tanks are on foreign soil !”
“We are loosing our best friends!”
There was 1 poet and 1 deeply Christian person – N. Gorbanevskaya, the other seven were obviously mad in some other way…
Half of a person was Gorbanevskaya’s child in the pram she pushed.
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Yes, Iraq, Libya, Syria.. Some American listed out the 7 countries in the Middle East that they were going to invade and destroy. So long as there is American control of the oil fields they would prefer an unpopulated land.
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Behind the times? America doesn’t need Middle East oil these days.
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Even though AI is usually fully woke, AI facial recognition sticks to biological reality, not people’s delusions. There are well documented morphological differences between male and female faces, driven by testosterone or estrogen at puberty.
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A few points I’d like clarified.
Is a trans woman a man in a dress or the other way around? Off the top of my head it seems to describe a woman who doesn’t want to be.
It’s probably in the article, but what’s this misidentified her as male thing? It correctly identified him as male.
What is it with the allegations of phobia? The software doesn’t fear anything. It is the man who fears being identified as male.
And a comment.
A turning point for future technological developments? I’ve seen AI in action. Getting more things intentionally wrong is not what it needs.
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Not AI’s fault she’s androgenous.
A “trans woman” is considered male at birth, so a gorilla in a frock. 😆
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So trans means fake. Got it.
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Anyone interested in Lyme disease?
Robert Malone reporting on Substack today.
Which means another conspiracy theory might be coming true 🙂
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A not so quiet death
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Have just discovered that One Nation has announced a candidate for my electorate of Calare – Jennifer Hughes.
Not much detail so far except she likes what Senator Malcolm Roberts has to say. A big plus in my view.
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DEI
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Definitely Earnt It.
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My money is on Andrew Gee retaining the seat.
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Who?
Oh wait, I see his ads when I go over to Orange.. you mean, he’s my MP?
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>Andrew Gee
Is that our mate Gee A?
The fig leaf himself…?
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A coincidence and a gender change
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FWIW – more “good oil” that wasn’t
“What Would We Do Without Medical Journals?”
“At Retraction Watch: The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/04/what-would-we-do-without-medical-journals/
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If ever there was an application for the so called AI taking over the role of peer review would be it.
And peer reviewer who can be replaced by a computer should be.
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FWIW – in current “fashions of the field”
“Pants on Fire”
“David Clinton- Canada’s Federal Government Generates Disinformation at Scale
What are we supposed to think when official government statements contain obvious disinformation or, as it used to be known, lies?”
https://www.theaudit.ca/p/canadas-federal-government-generates
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/04/pants-on-fire-10/
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Just swap the word Canada for Australia every time you see it an the article is just as true. Elbow has been wanking on about how we musty get closer to Canada, but I reckon its hard to find the differences.
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FWIW
“Oh, The Humanity!”
“If you think electric vehicle charging infrastructure is complex and expensive, which it is, you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/04/oh-the-humanity-6/
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Wednesday funny
A truck driver used to amuse himself by running over politicians he would see jogging on the side of the road. Every time he would see a polly jogging along the street, he would swerve to hit him. After hearing the loud “THUD,” he would swerve back on the road.
One day, as the truck driver was driving along he saw a priest alongside a broken down car, so he stopped to pick him up
The priest climbed into the passenger seat and the truck driver continued driving. Suddenly the truck driver saw a politician jogging up ahead, and immediately regretted picking up the priest. “Surely I can’t run over a polly with a priest in the truck!” he thought.
Then he had an idea. He would pretend to fall asleep. The driver pretended to nod off, the truck drifted to the left, and he heard that satisfying “Thud.”
“Did I hit that polly?” the truck driver asked, pretending to wake up suddenly.
“No,” said the priest. “But I got him with the door.”
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Reminded me of the joke about the four nuns who drove to Sydney to attend a religious event and while accommodated in a Convent there sighted an antique chamber pot that they thought would be nice to install at their home base Convent far Western NSW. Driving home in their car the car ran out of petrol so two nuns hitched a ride into the nearest town using the chamber pot to carry petrol.
Back at the car the four were standing near the petrol tank filler tube trying to pour from the chamber pot into the small opening, a car with two Anglican ministers passed by, the passenger said to the driver did you see what those nuns were trying to do and he replied that he did and commented that we must admire their faith.
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FWIW
“Delightful 180 – Mosque Holding #Sadz ‘Khamenei Iz Dead’ Service Has Loud, Angry Iranians Outside”
Manchester
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/04/delightful-180-mosque-holding-sadz-khamenei-iz-dead-service-has-loud-angry-iranians-outside-n3812529
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Went and saw Jimmy Carr live last night, he’s still not cancelled despite the content of his show!
He’s the guy that says if you’re easily offended then WTF are you doing here, eff off.
About 20 mins into his show he paused and said something along the lines of, oh sorry, I’ve forgot to do the traditional acknowledgment of the land. There was a collective groan among the audience, he smirked and made some remark (can’t recall exactly now), but continued, and made his version of the acknowledgment of the traditional owners of the land he was standing on, he placed his hand on his heart and then said “the Queen.”
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His crowd work is outstanding.
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FWIW
“Semaglutide May Reverse Damage Caused by Osteoarthritis, Study Suggests”
https://www.sciencealert.com/semaglutide-may-reverse-damage-caused-by-osteoarthritis-study-suggests
Faster, please
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Greg Williams (former AFL star/ dual Brownlow medallist) is treating his osteoarthritis with a horse product. Quick, don’t tell the FDA* or Australia’s TGA, they might brand it horse medicine and ban it. 🙂 Osteoarthritis affects one in 11 Australians, and while many resort to joint replacements, GW former AFL star has avoided the drastic measure. He has been living with a dodgy knee since his playing days in the 90’s. Ten arthroscopes later, his arthritis wasn’t going away – until he took a treatment called Pentosan Polysulfate Sodium (PPS). He claims the injectable drug – taken twice a week, over four weeks – has worked wonders – so much so, he’ll no longer need a knee replacement. It acts as a chondroprotective agent, stimulating joint repair and inhibiting destructive enzymes. * To be fair, the FDA did actually approve this drug ( ZYCOSAN ), such as shame they wont do the same for Ivermectin. No doubt ZYCOSAN probably has profit still in it.
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Waging war is a tricky skill… The ‘selfie’ generation might be too focused on the photo shoots to get it right.
” Meanwhile, satellite imagery released over the past 48 hours shows that despite the US/Israeli air campaign, the Iranians are systematically destroying our air defense network across the region. We’ve lost key radars in Kuwait, the UAE, and Qatar. Yesterday the Iranians fired a single missile at an unknown target in the Negev, which was likely one of our few remaining THAAD radars. We’re unlikely to receive any proof of what happened there.
The single most important theater right now is the Gulf, where the Iranian drone campaign is continuing. Qatar announced they’re stopping *all* production of natural gas this morning. They’re the world’s second largest supplier and this could have severe ramifications for the global economy. Tanker traffic is down over 90% in the strait, and the Iranians continue to hit ships that attempt transit. Trump’s wild suggestion that the USN might provide escorts through the straight was immediately shot down by the Navy itself.”
..and its not an easy equation to get things back to normal-
” As it stands, if their drone campaign stopped today and the strait reopened, it would take around a month for exports to return to normal. This allows a path to de-escalation. But with a Kurdish ground invasion of Iran looming, the Iranians can choose to take another step up the escalation ladder and start systematically destroying oil production sites instead of just hitting them with pinprick attacks to keep them offline.”
For the Yanks-
“The US’s brag about maintaining ample supplies of lower level munitions like JDAMs may mean something insofar as the Iranian war, but it sets the US back by years and perhaps even decades against other actual near-peer powers like Russia and China as the US will never be able to fully replenish its stocks of major prestige systems which the US has simply lost the ability to build at scale. ”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/us-set-to-escalate-war-into-ground
As Bloomberg says, “Putin is the Iran War’s one sure winner”
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You must be praying for an American disaster.
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