Don’t forget the Blood Moon happening tonight in Sydney at 8:50pm, Brisbane 7:50pm, Perth 7:04pm (on sunset). The peak ‘totality’ will occur 1 hr 15 mins later, and last an hour (so between 10pm-11pm EDT Australia). In the US it will be visible in the early hours before dawn starting at 4:50am on the East Coast, reaching totality at 6:04am EST (US time) .
Photo by Occultations April 2007
Trump’s USA military attack on Iran may well help with ‘Regime Change’ but it also helps to deny China Oil supplies.
The Venezuala attack also did that.
Who is next?
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China has been creating a massive oil reserve for some time.
But the thesis that this to a large degree about Trump attacking China appears to be gaining weight.
This Rabobank article is accurate about the consequences.
About the background motivation, it appears to be confused.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trumps-strategy-high-risk-high-reward-gamble
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I find it interesting that the possibility of a U.S.-Israel defeat is being seriously considered.
Whatever- it is too late now.
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If it is indeed true that the recent events are aimed at China, then China has every reason to become involved sooner rather than later, as does Russia , and the other BRICS.
And Starmer appears not to know if he is Arthur or Martha.
Anyway, the British base in Cyprus is under attack.
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But in Britain, Starmer can’t even stop the Iranian invasion of England. HMS Queen Elizabeth has broken down in Scotland and HMS Prince of Wales has broken down in Portsmouth. Neither Aircraft Carrier is able to defend England from an invasion of small boats. This is due to the ideology of left-wing progressivism, were scientists who say “it will never work” are sacked, and replaced with diverse woke progressive people who say its “safe and effective”.
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To be fair, aircraft carriers are not for defence, that’s for land based aircraft. They are for power projection and Britain has no power to project.
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Despite a couple of times at least in past years the British Government has consulted former Australian Prime Minister Abbott about border control, Operation Sovereign Border the Coalition introduced 2014 to deal with the increasing illegal immigrant/asylum seeker smuggler boat arrivals after Prime Minister Howard Coalition Government had effectively stopped the boats after 1996 they called Pacific Solution.
By the way, when Rudd/Gillard Labor 2007-2013 abandoned Pacific Solution deterrents and most important of all abandoned offshore detention processing of asylum claims the RAN designation SIEV – Suspected Ilegal Entry Vessel and arrival number and date – Labor changed that to SIEV – Suspected Irregular Entry Vessel.
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Starmer, I think, will invade Iran.
He absolutely is up for regime change.
But that can’t be achieved “from the sky” …
Logically, an invasion [Does Starmer remember the Falklands campaign?].
Three squaddies – all we have left – will invade and, assuming a successful conclusion, will be persecuted through the courts in 30 years by some Shiner lawyer and his Toolmaker’s Son accomplice.
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It would be great to see the Avro Vulcan fly again – for the very last time.
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The Iranian drones look like a scaled down version of the AVRO Vulcan!
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They will have to haul it down from the ceiling in the museum at Cosford.
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Going to war without Britain is like going deer hunting without an accordion. Apologies to General Schwarzkopf who didn’t say it anyway.
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Whoever wrote the Rabobank piece could usefully read the history from another perspective:-
https://www.rt.com/news/633475-washington-keeps-breaking-middle-east/
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How? There is no embargo on China buying oil on the open market. You may be lamenting that their sources of CHEAP oil are drying up.
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minus 1.3 deg. C. In Twizel this morning.
That’s gonna hurt.
farmerbraun shifted his milking herd to suitable forest cover last night , while the neighbour was having hay paddocks mown.Someone is misreading the auguries.
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We are madly slashing here, as grass is growing as we watch. The reason is much is the wretched African Lovegrass which becomes wirey, low value when it matures. We are gradually getting varied grasses as we slash over time. Meanwhile the rain is encouraging growth of other grasses. We are lucky , however, in not having the flooding of the north of Oz.
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Mildure was flooded yesterday. Many vineyards in the area under water. Big crop losses I think. On Monday, Mildure got more rain than all of last year.
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That’s odd. When I lived there the vines were flood irrigated. Even the Red Cliffs Golf Course fairways were flood irrigated.
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I don’t think the flood irrigation was delivering water knee deep over the stem of the vines. One woman said they were going to try to pump the water out to get rid of it quicker than what the sun would do.
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the wretched African Lovegrass which becomes wirey, low value when it matures.
And the (micro sized) seeds will last in the ground 3 or 4 years.
And the Greenies recommended herbicide replacement of 50% bleach does not really work with Lovegrass.
Otoh the kangaroos will apparently eat it if nothing else is green.
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minus 1.3 deg. C. In Twizel this morning.
That’s gonna hurt.
farmerbraun shifted his milking herd to suitable forest cover last night , while the neighbour was having hay paddocks mown.Someone is misreading the auguries.
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I’m in Queenstown today. Bloody cold here too.
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February was another wacky month in the UK, especially England. In my area we had half the sunshine, almost double the rain, and zero frost. Zero frost in February! Mean temp was about 3C above average.
In the Central England Temperature series, the mean for February was 3.4C above average and it was the sixth warmest in almost 400 years. 6 of the 12 warmest are 1998 or later.
The UK didn’t post any record maximums for Feb. but it was close.
My pears didn’t quite blossom in Feb this year but the buds are about to burst. 4-6 weeks ahead easily.
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UK is the major beneficiary of the Gulf current. The surrounding ocean is trending warmer due to heat advection from the tropics trending up since 1700.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=8.02,48.35,700/loc=-41.854,45.547
So UK more winter rain on coastal regions and more snow on high ground away from the coast.
2025 was the peak in solar activity. SC26 will peak in 2033. So another boiling world then – maybe not because Guteras will be gone.
The temperature anomaly in the English Channel is presently 3.1C.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=8.02,48.35,700/loc=2.438,51.911
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This winter we were mostly stuck in the warm counter blast caused by the cold weather in Europe, occasionally enhanced by the cold plunges hitting N.America. It was very much a knife edge, the continental cold toyed with us in early Jan but never really established. Butterfly wings and all that.
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The Iran War was started by Ayatollah Khomeinei in 1979. Prior to that he lived in France and was 100% supported by both The Left in France as well as the Left in The United States. The Communists in Iran also supported him. When The Ayatollah took power he had the Communists in Iran executed. The totally crooked Iranian Regime claimed there were (2) enemies: The United States (“The Great Satan”) and Israel (“The Little Satan”)
The US has had a series of feckless presidents since then with exception of Ronald Reagan. Finally, on the brink of Iran getting the nuclear weapons they have sought, Israel and the US put an end to that program last year in “The 12 Day War.”
Iran’s Shia Regime are “Twelvers” – look it up – in essence their Shia religion requires their twelfth Mahdi who has been hidden in “occultation” for the last 1300 years or so to return and make the world wonderful.
To speed up the Mahdi returning, the Mullahs thought an atomic war would work well. They are totally and certifiably intent on harm, so Trump and Netanyahu, the adults in the room, have mutually decided their time is up. As the great Muslim Scholar, Bernard Lewis, once said, “To the Mullahs ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ by a nuclear war is not something to be prevented, rather it is “an inducement.”
Lastly, the hope is Persia might return as a free nation with its Islamic control tossed in the garbage dumpster. We’ll see on that one.
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This pretty much sums up the difference between Trump and the other presidential candidates.
https://x.com/thehoffather/status/2028272373951332615
Harris and Biden provide feckless, anodyne, one-word answers that are supposed to give off the appearance of toughness but could as easily be a plea. Don’t. Don’t? Please don’t.
Trump makes a crass, blunt declaration that is wildly undiplomatic and actually means it. Promises made, promises kept.
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Alastair Crooke is considered to be a reliable commentator.
This is his view:-
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/02/end-deceptive-trumpian-diplomacy/
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Alastair Crooke occupies a position on the left-of-center to progressive end of the political spectrum, characterized by a critical stance toward mainstream Western foreign policy, particularly regarding the Middle East and the “war on terror.”
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Deplorable!
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History records that on the 22nd of September 1980, Iraq invaded Iran in an attempt to seize the Khudestan oil- fields, which started an eight year war resulting in Iraq being driven out.
Is that the Iran war to which you refer?
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The Iran-Iraq war was under the auspices of Clinton’s “Dual Containment Doctrine” by which it was thought that if Iran and Iraq were busy killing each other, they wouldn’t bother anyone else.
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Outrage at Australian Mosques Mourning Death of Ayatollah Khamenei: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/03/02/outrage-at-australian-mosques-mourning-death-of-ayatollah-khamenei/
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And, in Londonistan, at UCL –
https://order-order.com/2026/03/02/exc-henry-jackson-society-writes-to-ucl-and-dfe-after-students-mourn-unimaginable-loss-of-ayatollah/
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Apart from “the war” and the “missing heat”, what’s the verdict on Shingles and the jab for it: last vax shots I had were back in the 1980s when typhoid & cholera were rampant in China & India (the doc hit me with a rabies & hep shot too).
Survived it all… now I’m retired, the Shingles Shot (SS) is “free” for the next 12 months. My mother had a bad dose of it (either naturally or induced by the shot) plus I’ve heard some other horror stories: any advice from wiser souls than me would be appreciated.
To take, or not to take: that is the question.
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https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1347932387352082&vanity=maryanne.demasi.1&http_ref=eyJ0cyI6MTc3MjQ3NzEwOTAwMCwiciI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbVwvIn0%3D
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I had a jab for shingles.
No side effects, to date.
FWIW.
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I had a jab. for shingles about 8 years ago. No side effects except rage about the BOM getting money.
They predicted 80 mm (in Adelaide) on March 1 and floods across SA especially in the Adelaide Hills.
Adelaide got 6.0 mm and Mt. Barker 10.8. Woodside 6.8, Balhannah 8.0mm so the creek didn’t flood.
Still there was some thunder. One of my sisters reports that her dog “protected her” by running out into the backyard and barking at the sky.
The other sister’s dog protected her by hiding in her bedroom.
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In order to test the jab’s efficacy, you should have it removed and then wait to see if you contract shingles.
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I had shingles a couple of years ago, no big deal. No idea if causation or correlation but I am always well tanned, ergo good levels of D3.
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A good carpenter builder is the one with a good tan
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Had my first shingles jab this morning. Was warned that the after-effects could last two days. We’ll see. Need a second jab 2-6 month’s time.
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I hope you are OK. Guillaume Barre is said to be rare after Shingrix.
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Thanks, but no after-effects so far. And seeing what shingles can do, I’m quite happy to have the needle in this case.
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G’day Greg,
I can’t comment on the jab for it, but did capture some info about shingles last year, and it supports Hanfahan’s comment above. My notes:
The words “immune system ” point to vitamin D3 to me, and “virus” says zinc and quercetin ( and IVM if you can get it).
If you go the D3 route, don’t forget its cofactors and vitamin C in particular.
Cheers,
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Even though I think that Iran will be fully liberated and free soon and the oil will start flowing freely, remember that Australia doesn’t have any reserve oil supply and exploration for oil and fracking is banned in many places in Australia as part of its comprehensive anti-energy policy.
Also remember that the modest reserves purchased in 2020 (a mere 1.7 million barrels, less than 2 days supply) and kept in Texas, a mere 3 weeks sailing time, because there was nowhere to keep it here, was sold by the fake-conservative Liberals under the Morrison regime in 2022.
Another energy disaster brought to us from the Libs.
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Oil is fungible. A tanker on the high seas can be diverted and our Texas reserve reduced.
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That US oil reserve was purchased by PM Morrison with POTUS Trump during his 2019 trip to Washington where he was given a State Dinner at the White House and then spent a weekend in discussions at Mar-a-Lago that resulted in the AUKUS partnership signed 2021. There was an understanding that Australia could have more US oil in the future when new storage facilities had been constructed here.
Wasn’t the oil reserve sold by Albanese Labor Government after May 2022?
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For a world now secure with windmills and solar panels, closing the Strait of Hormuz and even with Iran’s allies the Houthis, the Red Sea would anger every country in the world and simultaneously stop any cash flowing to Iran. Especially now that China is locked out of Venezuelan oil. We will see how countries react to the lights going off as they crank up their solar panels in a blizzard. International and financial pressure on Iran will be overwhelming, especially now the income from the rocket and drone factories is stopped. The absurdity of replaceables will be stark if there is a standoff in the Middle Easts.
It all depends now on the attitude of the military in Iran if they realise they need to change sides and stop killing Iranians or face the consequences. Even the UK and France are realising the profound implications and opportunities and have stopped attacking Trump. And Russia has lost its source of drones, the modern artillery in the war in Ukraine.
In all this the UN leadership has been instantly anti US and anti Israel as usual, but China needs that oil too and the trade with Europe. The pressure for regime change in Iran is overwhelming. And all those senior officials in Iran wiring billions out over the last month will have to walk out of the country because they cannot fly.
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Meanwhile completely absurd Hollywood anti Trumpers claim it is all about Epstein. When will the press stop caring what Mark Ruffalo says? Or is it just click bait?
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There are two armies in Iran, the IRGC which is the Praetorian Guard, well funded and loyal and Artesh, not so much. Lets hope Artesh balk at killing their brothers and sisters.
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The decision by US allied nations in nearby countries, after Iran attacked them, to support with military assets IDF and US targeting in Iran could also mean Arab speaking troops to assist the people in Iran gain freedom and democratic government
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“assist the people in Iran gain freedom and democratic government”
Why bother, its done nothing for us! We don’t have free speech, and I have yet to find someone who doesn’t complain about the Govt that was democratically elected!
This democracy-is-great is an illusion pushed by the Uniparty, the ones who get a free ride through life because of it. A dictator or a king that had Australia to look after would have done better!
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Huge numbers of people are overweight, many dangerously so.
It’s not hard to lose weight but it requires discipline.
I think the keys to effective weight loss are to minimise carbs and non-animal fats, minimise the number of meals to one or two per day, eat plenty of meat and animal fats and absolutely no snacking on sweets or any other carbs but if you must snack make it meat or animal fat like cheese and no sugary drinks. (Artificially sweetened drinks may or may not be OK, that’s questionable.)
Not medical advice, just my observations.
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Rubbish! 😁
Losing weight IS hard!
Ask anyone who’s tried it. Or done it. I have.
1kg of body fat is around 9,000kCal.
That’s about what your would burn in routine metabolic processes in 4 days.
Don’t eat for 4 days and drop a kilo?
Not that simple. Never is.
Losing weight is an unnatural thing for the body to do.
It likes stability and consistency.
Say someone weighs 70kg – they’d burn around 350kcal for a 1 hour brisk walk.
Obviously, weighing more means more calories burned.
So a daily brisk walk would burn 1kg of fat in a month, assuming other factors like diet and rest are controlled properly.
Want to drop 20kg? That’s a year and a half of diligent exercise.
A lot of people are extremely overweight, maybe 50kg – 100kg.
Join a gym?
Nope. Waste of time and money at that stage.
They’ll only lose that weight from diet.
Exercise would put considerable orthopaedic stress on their joints, making injury likely.
I’ve seen a lot of such people…3 fat rolls around the ankles…
Then there’s the body’s self-protection mechanism that reacts to calorific reduction after around 4 weeks, slowing metabolic processes down, because the body thinks it’s starving.
This is the main reason diets fail, and fitness instructors (typically never having walked the walk) blaim their clients.
You’re not eating right or you’re not resting properly.
Nope, just biology at work.
The dieting craze/fad is based on false science going back a century.
Remember – rapid fat loss = rapid fat gain.
I always liked the Concept rower – hard work (at maximum resistance) but really pushes the body, builds strength and burns calories the best.
Again, it takes many months or years.
Scales? Waste of time. If you can’t tell from looking at yourself how you’re doing then you’re not doing well enough.
You can gain 1kg of muscle and burn 1kg of fat but the scales read the same.
The type of food, amount and timing are key factors too, but this getting to be a long post, so another day.
Don’t reject entire food groups (carb bashing) or you’ll be depriving yourself of essential nutrition.
Calory reduction and high intensity (HIT) training will get you there. In time.
Yes, I do have multiple qualification, awards, experience and results, so this is medical advice.😉
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From 2019 while caring for a friend in my home who was dying from inoperable lung cancer, a non-smoker, I decided to stop drinking alcohol for health reasons but also to ensure that I was alert 24 hours each day ready to help if needed. I was not a heavy drinker but I was a deep sleeper. And I also decided to reduce food intake and after she passed away I increased my walking time to almost every day. I studied healthy diet and received advice from my GP. I was already food conscious because of medical conditions not life threatening, yet.
My weight had been over 100 kg when I retired early 2000s, I got down to low 90s and then for a year to high 80s, but slowly increased again to low 90s. I am now 83 kg and continue to very slowly lower my weight with a target of 80 kg a little higher than charts recommend but I also lift weights regularly and muscle of course weighs more than fat.
One of my tactics has been to buy nutritious food frozen and chilled delivered every two weeks for evening meals and each serving for older people. And eat fruit every day but not too much. Avoid sugar but do not cut completely, same with salt.
My GP commented recently when we met for a consultation and about six months from the last, keep young !!!
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As I wrote 12 years ago, there are many benefits to sudden weight loss. Some people who spent years of diabetes drugs essentially restored their insulin sensitivity in just three weeks of “crash dieting”.
Humans evolved with enforced fasting during a feast and famine lifestyle. Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
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Years ago I was diagnosed pre-diabetes and then Diabetes 2 but no drugs prescribed. Since then and as I posted diet, no alcohol, exercise my blood tests remain out of the danger zone.
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Note to Hollyweirdos (from a meme):
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That especially applies to Hanoi Jane, but plenty of others as well.
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As an impressionable teenager I listened intently to Barbarella. It didn’t make much sense then but I think she was from another planet. Later I learned that she often went by another name. Then she put all her clothes back on and I lost all interest.
It all seems so long ago.
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My Sun spin model has yielded a major insight.
The plasma of the Sun has a dominant tidal lock to Mercury’s 88 days. The plasma in the region of radius 5.7E8 can generate the most torque and spins at the 3rd harmonic; completing a revolution in 29.33days.
So do the maths and you arrive at a spin velocity of 1413.28M/s.
But give or take a considerable number of days the Sun orbit has a period of 4333 days if it was just synchronised to Jupiter. In one Sun orbit, the plasma will do 4333/29.33 = 147.73 orbits. However the plasma has only circulated the Sun CoM 146.73. The corresponding velocity relative to the CoM for that at radius 5.7E8 is 1403.72m/s.
The time for the Sun to complete an orbit has wide variation but the plasma is essentially locked to Mercury so the spin is undergoing periods of acceleration and deceleration as the Sun orbiting angular velocity increases and decreases.
SC23 was spin braking, SC24 was spin accelerating and SC25 is spin braking. The bigger the change in angular velocity of the Sun the greater the change in spin velocity, which causes more viscous shearing between concentric rings because the concentric rings do not all spin up at the same rate. The tidal force is small so there are lags in the spin response.
Sunspots solved!
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Nice work again Rick
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FWIW
You reckon?
Today’s on-line Courier Mail
“Why your next car is a matter of Australia’s national security
COMMENT: Aussie motorists can take action to limit theirs and Australia’s exposure to the Middle East conflict.”
https://www.couriermail.com.au/motoring/motoring-news/why-your-next-car-is-a-matter-of-australias-national-security/news-story/846a5241b92f79b414599f43dfce45f5
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PT Barnum was right. There really is one born every minute.
And there are those who seek nothing more than to profit from them.
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But EVs themselves, especially Chinese ones, are a national security risk which is why parking them in military or other sensitive facilities is banned in many jurisdictions (Israel, Poland, UK, USA), or even senior military or public serpents are banned from using them.
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While drinking coffee at a cafe today a shop assistant commented to me about the electric bikes increasing in number in our area, she said it’s not just young people, older too are buying the fat tyre type because they are much cheaper local transport than motor cars. We were discussing the rise in petrol and diesel prices here displayed at the service stations and the possibility of rationing, that I believe is not yet reaching the critical decision point.
Of course the cost of living crisis since 2022 increasing is a big influence, look at the supermarket shelves, I noted today bottled and cask water stocked now shelves not as well stocked and larger 5 litre plus casks are missing.
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The obvious way to limit our exposure to the loss of supply from the middle east is to drill baby, drill. We can run all our vehicles on our own oil and l.p.g. That tanker coming from Texas with a paltry two days supply would be a sitting duck in any conflict, as would any ships bearing battery toy cars.
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Imagine the blackouts if EV now not large fleet here even doubled
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Imagine the blackouts if EV now not large fleet here even doubled
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A relative from pioneer family settled in the Roma Region of QLD told me long ago about capped oil wells in that area, Commonealth Oil Refineries drilling and capping because at the time 1930s new Middle East oil was cheaper to access.
I wonder if those reserves remain locked up?
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Buy a battery car, starve an Arab.
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Oil supply electric shock
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Kuwait managed to down 3 US F-15s, that was an expensive mistake.
https://youtu.be/ocwkL95tF8U
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Fortunately the crews are shaken but not stirred.
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Well at least they can hit things
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When your planes have been shot down by an enemy you are supposed to be completely dominating, then you have to blame allies….
How stupid do these guys think people are?? Oh yeah, F15s, recognisable anywhere, with transponders, get shot down in spite of their fancy anti-missile systems, and its all by accident from friends who are in constant communication with the Yanks on where the planes are and how many there are?? Pull the other one! They’ve suddenly found out how good Russian missiles are..
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FWIW
In comments at Chiefio
“This is a very interesting video about an open source DIY ion exchange membrane, potentially useful for mineral separation, fuel cells, flow cell batteries, and environmental clean up. It may well be pertinent for mineral extraction from seawater. The posted comments below it are worth a read also.”
https://youtu.be/luulTI1RKHE
Via TTN at
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/w-o-o-d-1-february-2026-florida-snow-warning/#comment-181042
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FWIW – noticing!
“Former Radical Green New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is Relocating to Australia”
“This isn’t fair – take her back New Zealand, she’s your problem.”
Concludes
“And now she’s coming to Australia to work. While relocating to Australia is the choice of many New Zealanders fleeing their train wreck economy, including some good friends, I think I speak on behalf of a large number of Australians in saying we’ve already filled our quota of radical green lunatics.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/26/former-new-zealand-pm-jacinda-ardern-is-relocating-to-australia/
Something like the e-Commissar post becoming vacant?
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It would be an extremely bad thing if she became the e Safety Kommissar, but censorship is one of her pet loves. It seems highly likely that she’ll be it.
Both Arden and the current one hate their own countries, why bring them here to harm ours?
The e Safety Kommissar was a creation of the fake conservative Liberal Party but if they’re serious about winning the next election they should immediately announce abolition of this harmful position, not just sit on the fence as usual (“look into it”).
(Yes, NZ citizens can become Australian public serpents.)
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Australia sux.
NZ nil.
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I see that oil is in the news again. Hmm! Wonder why.
I especially love these two images showing the distillation process, and keep in mind here these are simplified.
You see so many basic looking diagrams, but these two show it best I think.
Oil Distillation One
Oil Distillation Two
Tony.
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Both diagrams seem to leave out bunker fuel (heavy fuel oil) which is the fraction just above bitumen. (One shows fuel oil (FO) and a ship but not heavy fuel oil (HFO) and it shows it as the fraction above lubricating oil. FO is a broad category, HFO is specific.)
But I agree that oil is a wonderful commodity. Top bad Australia’s anti-energy policies restrict its exploration, extraction and use.
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If below exposed land meaning not underwater land it is state owned public assets and states also have the rights to approve development applications including for exploration.
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Odd that fuel oil is above lubricating oil.
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I had a neighbour who has since moved away who had equipment set up in his shed to produce biodiesel using components second-hand and assisted by a retired oil refinery engineer to design and build. He started using used vegetable oil from shops and then joined a buying group from the district and they ordered in bulk to share unused vegetable oil.
He had a diesel engine Nissan Patrol 4WD SUV and when travelling most often to visit mates in QLD he carried spare fuel, one of his QLD mates also produced biodiesel and a service station in Kempsey NSW had one biodiesel fuel pump.
Performance was no different to using commercial supply distillate
Another option is Diesel-Gas, LPG and Diesel mixed via an injection system into the fuel injector system, for say a typical 3 litre diesel engine 20-25%
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FWIW
“How Iran Trying to Punk President Trump on a Deal Went Terribly Wrong, and Why No One Should Try It”
https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/03/02/how-iran-trying-to-punk-president-trump-on-a-deal-went-terribly-wrong-and-why-no-one-should-try-it-n2199750
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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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I wish Western leaders understood these concepts but under Australia’s censorship laws they can’t be vigorously discussed, if at all.
I also recommend a book by an Australian, Harry Richardson, The Story of M*******, I**** Unveiled, ISBN-10, 1496019334 ; ISBN-13, 978-1496019332 .
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I haven’t been able to access the Richardson Post for several weeks.
Has it closed down?
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Maybe is was shut down by the e Safety Kommisar under Australia’s censorship laws?
I noticed when I purchased his book it had to come from overseas.
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My mistake, the Richardson Post was by Graham Richardson, the book was by Harry Richardson.
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There was a dapper chap on the net over ten yrs ago who explained the 15 hundred year war with animated maps. He knew his stuff but there is no place for truth today. Could that have been Harry Richardson?
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Hanrahan, are you maybe thinking of Bill Warner, now retired for health reasons? He wore a bow tie.
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Spot on David, thanks. His blog was enlightening.
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Richardson Post is by Harry Richardson. It was formerly the Pickering Post.
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This works
https://richardsonpost.com.au/
Thanks to a previous poster here who posted the change
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Thanks
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A Trust Us offer too good to refuse:
Iran would not develop nuclear weapons because Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has banned them, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday, adding that “the religious leader of a society cannot lie like politicians.”
“When he announces that we will not have a nuclear weapon, it means we won’t have it,” Pezeshkian said ahead of a third round of nuclear talks with the US, which has continued to accuse Tehran of seeking a nuclear weapon.
Khamenei issued a fatwa, an Islamic religious decree, banning the development of nuclear weapons in the early 2000s.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202602267062
Hmmm, 450kg of 60% U325 says otherwise.
Perhaps they somehow, unaccountably, accidentally left the cyclone banks running overnight – and ‘Oh my goodness, just fancy that…’
Fun Fact: The heavy work in enriching Uranium is from natural 0.7% U235 to ~20%. After that, progress to weapons grade is comparatively quick.
Naturally, the Iranian negotiators were trying to wood-duck the American side into accepting the need for 20% U235 for its 100% peaceful ‘research’ reactors. Unfortunately, the lead negotiator running this cunning stratagem, Ali Shamkhani, was vaporised the very next day – so we may never know how that might have worked out.
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And the point made here –
“He tries to describe events in Iran without bringing Islam into it, and therefore misses the point entirely. This revolution .. if it is one .. is a people fighting to rid themselves of an ancient movement with global ambitions. Islam doesn’t allow for secession; any peoples trying to leave the Ummah infuriates true believers. We are fortunate that many Muslims today are living their lives without strict adherence to what is laid down in the Koran, supposedly the incontestable words of Mo and will see the downfall of the Islamic order in Iran as encouragement to quietly slip away themselves. Islam, everywhere under rule by Imams, is a coercive tyranny, well described in principle by the above speaker but far beyond the power of any tin-pot dictator. Any number of Muslim leaders can be exterminated with more joining the cause as a result .. the “faith” doesn’t rest on any one individual or even a cadre; it is an organism that would have to be weeded out all the way down to its tap root. If we are seeing a demonstration that a people will no longer tolerate the coercion, then Islam, not just an Ayatollah or Mullah, is in trouble.”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/01/the-system-that-cages-the-people-iran/#comment-2091283
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FWIW – progress!
“The LAX airport train is now 3 years late and will probably not open in time for the World Cup, but at least the rolling stock is made from 98% recycled material and it uses solar power.”
https://x.com/marcjoffe/status/2028137435662540991
Via https://instapundit.com/779849/#disqus_thread
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I wonder if that train running on “solar power” is like Melbournistan trams or Canberra which also claim to be running on
“renewables” but it’s just a devious accounting trick. If they really ran on ruinables they would be disconnected from the grid and have their own batteries, not rely on coal or gas.
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As with the ACT (Canberra) Government claiming the Territory is powered by renewables, it is not, they are relying on shareholding in wind and solar businesses and ignoring that
electricity cannot be separated into technology supply source
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And more railway
“I Want A New Country”
““$9,000 for every single Canadian family of four across the country”
Construction of regional high speed rail is a $90 billion catastrophe for taxpayers, says an MP whose constituency is on the route. Conservative MP Scott Reid (Lanark-Frontenac, Ont.) yesterday warned of “ruined lives” and wasted billions as the Commons passed the High Speed Rail Network Act: ‘Why on earth should people in British Columbia, Alberta or Newfoundland pay for this?’ ”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/02/i-want-a-new-country-168/
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Three years late? And commuters in Australia think our public transport has problems.
Next time i’m in LA I’ll take a taxi or hire a car.
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A friend who lived with family in a Los Angeles wealthy residential suburb told me that with a group of friends she travelled into LA to go to a theatre performance and they were robbed by an armed man on board the public transport bus.
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FWIW
“You Can Keep The Wire”
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2026/03/you-can-keep-the-wire.html
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/01/well-this-is-awkward/
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FWIW
“The Biggest Surprise, So far, Within Operation Epic Fury
March 2, 2026 | Sundance | 209 Comments”
“At least from my limited perspective, the biggest surprise coming from Operation Epic Fury so far is the counterstrike reaction from Iran toward the rest of the region. I have reached out to several people about this, and everyone has a different response.
Within a few hours of the operation against Iran beginning, the Iranian regime began firing counterstrikes against the entire Arab region. Instead of their traditional approach toward striking back at limited U.S. military bases in/around Iraq and/or Israel, Iran began firing missiles and drones into the UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/03/02/the-biggest-surprise-so-far-within-operation-epic-fury/
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So where were the U.S. troops who stood down from their bases hanging out when the fireworks started?
Were they all still in the country that had the base?
Did anyone hear that they were all repatriated?
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It is being reported that senior U.S. military commanders in the Gulf States are being accurately targeted wherever they are holed up.
If this is so there will be unavoidable “collateral damage” to civilian and commercial assets.
A bit like Gaza really.
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“senior U.S. military commanders ”
Possibly Iranian commanders.
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You mean deserters?
But where are the U.S. grunts?
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Pardon me for asking but is that two chips on shoulders to appear to have a well balanced opinion?
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Where? By whom? You must stop this crap.
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What my mother used to refer to as “The Great Anonymous They”
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What former PM Abbott the day he lost the leadership to Turnbull late 2015 told journalists in Parliament House, do not accept leaked and other anonymous sources information unless your source is willing to be named and is named in your published or broadcast news story.
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https://x.com/TheBritLad/status/2028422696682373275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2028422696682373275%7Ctwgr%5E30942fc7df8a0d68bfb91ec1d50ea2518d82f5d0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fmilitary%2Fairports-data-centers-skyscrapers-power-plants-are-desalination-plants-next-targets-us
It’s not me . I’m just reporting what is being written.
Don’t read it if it upsets you.
Do your own research if you have time on your hands.
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Comments under that suggest the video is pure AI. Look closely and two cars overlap on the road. The “conjoined twin cars”.
“. It’s from a parody/ spoof account (MojtabaSpoof) using Al-generated or edited video of the Burj Khalifa on fire.”
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This is Ryan McBeth debunking another video that fb may feel inclined to post.
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But I could write something on hot copper chat site and then reprint it here saying “It has been reported”.
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Best you have it out with the British Patriot.
Ever heard of the fog of war?
It is all lies until proven otherwise.
Fire away if you have the good oil.
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Carney (Canada) vs Albanese (Australia).
Which is worse? Satire (or is it?)
https://x.com/i/status/2028567900085453106
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Heads you lose, Tails you lose
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Damage is being done to both countries
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Don’t forget the Blood Moon eclipse tonight. Added to the post. Australians get a good view at very civil hours.
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Totality is same time in Melbournistan as Sydneystan, 1004pm.
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We are getting pelted with rain here on NSW central Tablelands – so won’t see it. A pity because the moon rising between the mountains here is an incredible sight.
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I hope you are right Jo but I just looked it up and “they” said it was last night. We might have a clear sky, it’s been cloudy all year.
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Just had a look. It was hiding behind trees and not very red. Just going out again.
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We had an open view but the thin overcast meant it was like watching on an old B&W TV, no colour. 🙁
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Had a good view through the bino’s until it clouded over so looked at the Orion Nebula instead!
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At last! DEI hires responsible for sinking the NZ Navy ship charged!
I hope they don’t get a woke judge.
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