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Plaudits to Dennis Richardson, the first man in the world to admit he was overpaid. Pentagon Penny says Australia is not at war. She’s clear about that. Donald goes to war on a feeling, Netanyahu says he has been dreaming of this for 40 years, and Albo shuts the door on thousands of Iranians while the media chases a diversion.
Then it is on to Queensland protest laws, the Robodebt inquiry fallout, super money into the US, Santos boss shares timing, the War Powers Bill, and why Australians keep getting dragged into other people’s disasters. Plus the latest Michael West Media investigations into Australian charities, the Israel lobby, and money flows that deserve a lot more scrutiny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUaL1J8ynYI
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The results of this poll are disturbing to those of us who have always thought of the US as a close Ally.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/poll-donald-trump-china/2026/03/15/id/1249579/
An increasing number of people believe they should move closer to China believing them to be a more reliable Ally than the US.
This is from well before the Iran war which is generally unpopular in Europe. This is mostly because of the lack of consultation no doubt allied with the recent talks with Putin and subsequent dropping of restrictions of them exporting oil. This, combined with the rise in petrol prices have given Russia a $500 Billion boost and seen the focus swing away from Ukraine to the middle East.
The threats to annex Canada and Panama, the imposition of tariffs and recent rapidly rising oil prices will likely make the disquiet over the US greater before things may swing back.
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Yep. If you want to lead public opinion just run a few leading opinion polls. Notice how the article doesn’t actually say what the poll questions were and what the responses were. All it talks about are the talking points for the day.
Following the link in the article to politico suggests that the poll may well have been based on a single question because you won’t find the actual question in their article either. And I can’t recall anything from politico being anything other than propaganda.
And remember that 97.3% of all statistics are completely made up including this one.
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A third of Australians still think China is a threat.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/more-unpopular-than-xi-trump-is-dragging-down-america-s-reputation-in-australia-20260219-p5o3n4.html
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Last orders from the DEI captain that sunk the NZ Navy ship.
https://youtu.be/zHUwmis4g_U
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Post – disaster , it was reported that Navy heads were adamant that the DEI hire was forced on them by political pressure from the government of the day.
That being the case, responsibility for this debacle is right at the top of the heap – we all know who that was.
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“New Zealand defence minister says a navy ship didn’t sink because its captain was a woman”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-11/new-zealand-defence-minister-hits-out-sexist-trolling-of-navy/104459964
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Hopefully the captain was at least female because with women these days you never can be too sure.
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It sank because the Captain ran it aground. Happens all the time, nothing to see here.
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So many questions which a crash investigator would want to answer to promote safe operations in the future. After all, safe operations is achieved one mishap at a time.
Has it been identified how the vessel came to be on auto-pilot and how the auto-pilot came to guide the vessel onto the reef?
And when the helmsman realised that the ship was unresponsive to control inputs? And when that led the helmsman to disengage the auto-pilot?
Talking of learning I was interested to see that at the time of the sinking the NZ Navy had 8 vessels. I didn’t even know NZ had a navy.
And as for the commander? Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn.
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The question that is not being raised – why were they in Fiji doing a marine survey with no qualified survey personnel on board.
Just curious.
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I find it amazing that a ship, perfectly equipped to find the bottom and map it in detail ,didn’t see it coming at them.
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Yep. Somebody farqued up.
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FG….8 ships in their Navy 5 of which were liferafts…………lol
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Evacuate !!
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Nice article on defending civilisation, even by those who had once sought to destroy it because they recognise its beauty. This is referencing the collapse of the western Roman empire which, with hordes of newcomers storming the borders and a Roman desire to tax and spend rather than defend itself and its values seems rather relevant to much of the West today
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/warrior-or-captive-which-do-you-want-to-be/
I found this Anglo Saxon poem to be very evocative and perhaps a parable of our own time as civilisation –certainly in the West-seems to be retreating not going forwards
“The Ruin talks about the former glory of a ruined Roman city and its decayed and broken buildings, such as towers, baths, walls, and palaces. The writing consists of forty-nine lines, some of which are illegible, and there’s an agreement that it refers to the Roman city of Bath, in Somerset, England. Part of it, “brosnað enta geweorc,” or “the work of giants is decaying,” was used by J. R.R. Tolkien for the tree-men Ents in The Lord of the Rings.” Here is a small part.
This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it
courtyard pavements were smashed; the work of giants is decaying.
Roofs are fallen, ruinous towers,
the frosty gate with frost on cement is ravaged,
chipped roofs are torn, fallen,
undermined by old age. The grasp of the earth possesses
the mighty builders, perished and fallen,
the hard grasp of earth, until a hundred generations
of people have departed. Often this wall,
lichen-grey and stained with red, experienced one reign after another,
remained standing under storms; the high wide gate has collapsed.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/polycrisis-unique
[Please add a few lines, not just post links. The lines are the conversation, the links are just support. – Jo]
[EG: This Polycrisis Is Unique:
“Even if you’re skeptical of cycles (for the reason stated above, that timelines seem shoehorned into a model that doesn’t actually fit), it’s noteworthy that so many cycles have reached crisis points in this historical moment.
1. The Fourth Turning cycle of 80 years / four generations. (1781, 1861, 1841, 2021)
2. the 18-year stock market cycle. (1973, 1991, 2008-09, 2026-27)
3. Peter Turchin’s 50-year cycle (which occur in 50-year increments in long-wave cycles).
There are other cycles that might in play: sunspots, etc.” – Jo]
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In a similar vein – the lyrics of Keith Reid:-
youtube procol harum broken barricades
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76BO4FIkhu4&list=RD76BO4FIkhu4&start_radio=1
[Please post a point, a thought, a description. – Jo]
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A great song. Apparently this is its meaning:
“Broken Barricades” by Procol Harum is a poignant song that delves into themes of loss, decay, and disillusionment. The lyrics paint a vivid picture of a once-glorious world that has deteriorated over time, both physically and spiritually. The recurring phrases and imagery in the song play a significant role in conveying its underlying message.
The song begins by describing a world that was once adorned with “bright jewels” and “glittering sand,” symbolizing a prosperous and beautiful past. However, this idyllic picture has been marred by the destructive forces of the oceans, which have “ravaged” and “strangled” the land. This can be seen as a metaphor for the relentless march of time and the inevitability of change and decay.”
That is very much in the vein of The Ruin I posted above and the much better known Ozymandius by Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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And in the matter of free speech the song has these lines:-
“The presses are empty
The editors torn”
Ghastly!
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Excess deaths in Australia cannot be explained by any other mechanism other than the COVID shots: https://kirschsubstack.com/p/excess-deaths-in-australia-cannot
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I bet our new CDC can wave it away, or perhaps more simply just refuse to se it.
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Still bubbling along in the background. The other big step is Victoria has agreed to compensate businesses for the extended lockdown. AI response to search:
The Victorian government has agreed to pay $125 million in compensation to businesses affected by the state’s prolonged 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns, settling a long-running class action lawsuit. The settlement, reached on March 16, 2026, avoids a high-profile trial and acknowledges the severe financial hardship faced by businesses during the lockdown period from July to October 2020.
The Guardian report.
The Queensland Police case is still bubbling along post the “unlawful” court finding and this looks at the action taken against staff.
As one who lost their job after 15 years service the obvious question is how much potential redundancy money did businesses save where long term employees were let go – particularly businesses that were looking to reduce their business due to poor returns. My ungrateful mob already had closed a number of stores and apparently had a list of 20 more scheduled then covid hit and their (amazon type) on-line selling took off and it was boom times. Not so sure this is still the case what with the current cost of living and world events but no worries the redundancy figures were taken care of.
As far as the CDC fluff goes a good way to counter dis-information would be to make businesses that mandated the inoculation as a condition of employment to disclose how many were let go, how much their combined redundancy was worth AND what rates of absenteeism were experienced once ALL staff were inoculated and their stores were “Covid Safe” as their national tv adverts “proudly” claimed. It is a slow long process but for those who will never forget, never forgive its a journey that does have an end – compensation for business an important (proven) mile stone marker.
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Temperatures have regularly and routinely risen to current levels
https://dailysceptic.org/2026/03/16/scrap-net-zero-dramatic-new-ice-core-evidence-shows-current-century-warming-common-throughout-the-last-400000-years/
Trouble is you can mention to believers that during the Holocene and before, weather has been warmer/colder stormier/calmer wetter/drier and sea levels higher/lower than the current era and you get blank looks as “97% of scientists” apparently say otherwise.
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‘Moving away from the tortured stats measured over a few cherry-picked months, it has recently been discovered from ice core records that rises of 1.1°C in the current interglacial, which started about 20,000 years ago, occurred in about one in six centuries.’
The Holocene started 10,000 years ago.
Its not generally known that Sydney Harbour (18,000 years BP) was a creek and Bondi Beach was 10 kilometres east of where it now resides.
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One of the biggest misconceptions, or more correctly lies, of the Left is that the climate is static abd never changes. When challenged, the less badly informed and slightly less dishonest ones will admit that there has been past climate change such as Ice Ages although the Medieval Climate Optimum was edited out of their beloved Hockey Stick graph. And then they might say that the rate of change of the present climate is “unprecedented”. But that’s not true either.
Discussed at about 1 min to 3.5 mins in the following video:
https://youtu.be/DL6ocJcfLqA
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Yes, but only some are being dishonest. Most are clueless.
Another of my favourites is that the weather is changing BECAUSE of climate change.
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Animal’s knowledgeable inherited behavior
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2026/03/16/animals-knowledgeable-inherited-behavior/
“I normally study human cognition, especially the structure and dynamics of complex issues. But as a farmer and backcountry horseman, I also study cognition in wild animals and horses. After much research, I have something for interested people to watch for in animals, which I call knowledgeable behavior. This means that what the animal does requires a great deal of knowledge. What is especially interesting is that this knowledge is often instinctive, not learned. Animals often exhibit complex inherited knowledge. This has implications for conservation policies.”
A different way to look at animals.
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Animal behaviour is a fascinating topic. I sometimes wonder what is passing through the minds of zoo animals in particular.
Just the other day I had an interesting conversation with one of the keepers at Australia Zoo about the cheetas they have there. They spend much of the time with what appears to be a fixed gaze into the distance. The keeper explained that this is observed in the wild where they spend much time carefully observing their environment for any changes.
And yet these animals show the behaviour even though they have never been in the wild.
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Back in school (usually during New Maths) I too stared outside with a fixed gaze into the distance, observing clouds and wondering why/how they took on such wonderful shapes, until a well-aimed piece of jumbo-chalk would snap me back to ground-level reality.
Years later, having learned some of my ancestors were backcountry shepherds and horse breeders (NZ and Aus) made sense of the aphorism, every cloud has a silver lining, as I’d been instinctively continuing an age-old family tradition: nephology.
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I think hunting is a complex knowledgeable instinct in cats big and small.
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Inciteful commentary from one of the Russian newspapers (via Steve Rosenburg) on the current kerfuffle in Iran.
It could also be interpreted as a swipe at Russia’s own leadership over their “special military operation”
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Well gosh! This is unexpected!
“Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has not ruled out the possibility of fuel rationing as the ongoing war in the Middle East places pressure on supply and prices here in Australia.”
The unexpected part (NOT!) is that some second-rater is pushed forward to announce it and take the blame, rather than Elbow or his Minister of Energy, both of whom are missing in action recently!
https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/us-iran-war-live-updates-trump-hits-out-at-allies-who-rebuffed-his-calls-for-help-to-secure-strait-of-hormuz-israel-continues-to-pound-iran-and-lebanon-20260316-p5ob16.html?post=p5a3we
Of course mentioning that rationing might happen will drive the last of the public to the gas stations with containers…
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Surely China will send its navy to ensure the passage of oil destined for Oz.
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Have they done it yet?
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China has just cut off our jet fuel until the end of the war, this is true brinkmanship.
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Serial?
Does China take this AUKUS thing seriously?
Or is there something else in play?
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Nothing to do with AUKUS, this is a high stakes game to convince Australia that the American Alliance is so last century.
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Oh dear. The computer has said no.
I’m off to talk to the cows. They never say no.
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Her cows do say no on occasion, sometimes even alleging cruel and inhumane treatment when farmerbraun mis-allocates pasture.
But cows never say no to the grass on the other side of the fence.
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Being right doesn’t mean you won’t get fired..
“Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting billionaire CEO was a ‘rich jerk’”
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/atlassian-says-it-had-right-to-fire-engineer-for-suggesting-billionaire-ceo-was-a-rich-jerk-20260317-p5ob31.html
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Goodness gracious, I wonder how the engineer got THAT idea?
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FWIW – for the covid files
From today’s Coffee and Covid newsletter
“On Saturday, the New York Times published a story headlined, “Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms.” After spending five years publishing story after story explaining that concerns about covid vaccine injuries were dangerous misinformation, anti-science hysteria, and a threat to public health— it has now platformed the federal government’s own advisory committee saying: actually, the injuries are real, there’s no system to track them properly, there’s no diagnostic code to document them, there are no clinical guidelines to treat them, and the report was “written with a sense of urgency.” ”
“The leaked report was written by the COVID-19 vaccine workgroup advising panel, ACIP— the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The workgroup is currently chaired by MIT professor Retsef Levi, whose credentials don’t matter, since he doesn’t toe the line.
The leaked report criticized both the covid vaccine approval program and all the studies purporting to show that the jabs were safe, for two key reasons:
The “study periods” were constrained to a narrow window, starting 14 days after the first shot and ending at 60 days— only about a 45 day-span overall, which the report called the “acute period.”
No serious effort has ever been made by the agencies to study medium- and long-term vaccine injuries, which is why evidence remains thin.”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/bird-chiggers-monday-march-16-2026?
with links
And a phrase that could be used more widely IMO –
“That was all the Post thinks we need to know about the terrifying Patient Zero. A little string of delicate euphemisms topped with confusion. ”
In describing the latest “super monkeypox report”
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Tomorrow’s breaking news:
“Trump asks Switzerland to send its navy.”
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Curiously, Switzerland has a small navy. Mostly to stop unwelcome imports from Italy across lake boundaries.
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I hear they keep dwarves and trolls in the tunnels to rebuff unwanted advances – or was it to halt the theft of watches, chocolate and gold bars?
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Nice one centurion 🙂
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FWIW
“It’s Started – Push Back On Age Snooping”
““Ageless Linux” Enters The Legal Field For Battle”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/its-started-push-back-on-age-snooping/
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Germany currently has a battery capacity of approximately 26 gigawatt-hours (GWh), the majority of which (approx. 20 GWh) consists of private home storage systems. Currently, these could cover only about 5% of summer electricity demand for 1.5 hours.
To achieve just 10 hours of buffer, a capacity of 600 GWh would be required – 24 times the current inventory To bridge a ten-day “Dunkelflaute” in winter with a 50 GW load, 12,000 GWh would be needed. This is 2,800 times the current large-scale storage. A modern factory (like CATL in Thuringia) would theoretically need 857 years to produce this amount.
Germany experienced a “Dunkelflaute” in when on 12 December 2024 wind fell to 6% of supply – for 12 days and another in January 2025 It was rescued by electricity imported (via inter-connectors) to Denmark (which acts as a conduit of Swedish nuclear, and Norwegian hydro) and some supplies from coal in Poland and (grudgingly) some from French nuclear. Prices went up 5 times to $A1465.
Wind droughts lasting about 2 weeks occur roughly every 5 years. From 72 years data UK researchers.
So the UK and Australia want to become Net Zero. At least we have a bit of solar, although in Jan 26 this year, close to midnight on a hot night South Australia nearly avoided a major blackout over 3 hours. Batteries were empty due to a hot day. Fortunately there was just enough natural gas for fuel to complement imports from coal-fired Victoria..
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This morning calls to save the diesel for agriculture rather than useless trips by school mums and shopping brings up a question:
did Victorian Government checked the relative effect of their AntiGas War on poisonous CO2 reduction as compared to electrification of VLine ?
Would the cost of Poles and Wires for VLine be equal, much smaller or much bigger than that of 26 km u/g Metro to Box Hill ?
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Why it’s called the Buy-bull
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sv7z7xwIIP1si9kpz.mp4
It’s a l-o-n-g list. 😆
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Tuesday funny, aka how did zey ever vin ze war
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_tbz2eqcBER1ai6hzy.mp4
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I called the Tinnitus help line the other day.
No answer, it just kept ringing…
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FWIW
“The Best Quote on Islam That You’ve Never Heard – Winston Churchill Predicted Europe’s Fall to Islam All the Way Back in 1899”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/best-quote-islam-never-heard-winston-churchill-predicted/
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With all respect to Churchill-thinker, I need to share the explanation given by a relative through marriage:
our problems flow out of tradition to raise boys at female half of the house, then at 14 to move boys to men’s half, that is overnight to change from subordinate to ruler mode, and so – not everyone learn to act like man-to-man .
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“Elbow” probably rates it as a great day when Jo has to moderate Winston Churchill!
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Canavan is already out on the hustings and picking up good numbers.
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/10161-federal-voting-intention-march-17-2026
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Looks like Statistical fluctuation to me, ups and downs week to week.
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He has a populist message, so I see it as the thin edge of the wedge.
Attacking Pauline is not a good look, but politics is a dirty game.
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Happy St Patrick’s Day, to those who care
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The Irish part of me does! Thankyou 🙂
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How can there be any Irish left in Ireland? All us English descendants in the colonies have some Irish ancestry.
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Time for the free world to get off their (esp London) derrières and contribute some skin to the oil game in order to help Trump organize armed escort convoys of oil tankers through the Straits of Hormuz.
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Why?
Let more knowledgeable colleagues correct me but Chinese oil tankers are still passing through Hormuz, though not as many but still…
Just get in the keelwater behind them.
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Trump has asked Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Australia and others …. they all said NO (or the diplomatic version of ‘I’m washing my hair that night’).
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Almost like the US didn’t expect this to happen
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Trump started preparing for it as soon as he took office in 2016. USA has no reliance on Gulf oil and now control the largest known oil resource on the globe.
Trump warned the UN stooges at the general assembly last year not to be scammed into the Climate Change™ garbager. They needed to be self-sufficient in energy. That point is now being rammed home by the belligerence of the unholy lunatics in Iran.
Those depending on the Gulf for oil need to get their navies prepared to sweep for mines and prevent fast attack boats and drones from coming at the tankers. Why should the USA and Israel do all the heavy lifting. They have prevented Iran from making a nuclear bomb. Surely those countries dependent on Gulf oil should be prepared to send naval vessels to clear the Strait of Hormuz ready for merchant fleets.
India has already offered assistance with escorts. It has 37 Indian flagged vessels and 1100 crew stuck in the Persian Gulf.
UK is sending mine sweeping drones. Better than nothing!!!
US is already clearing mines. As well as preventing more being set.
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” now being rammed home by the belligerence of the unholy lunatics in Iran.”
I know! Wasn’t it terrible!! Iran suddenly bombed and missiled Israel and America for no reason at all… Then they assassinated America’s leader of both country and church, and then bombed everything they could find for the next three weeks…
Unholy lunatics indeed!
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You don’t get it. Of course he did. He has made his point: America first.
I don’t like it but he proved his point.
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Japan and China are the most dependent on Gulf oil.
USA has no dependency on Gulf oil.
The clerics have sleepers everywhere and all other countries but USA and Israel are scared mindless. They opened their borders to terrorists as all good UN stooges have done. Sleezy, Blackout and Wrong the there stooges.
There is no point trying to have a sensible conversation with religious zealots. They have to be gone. USA and Israel are the only ones prepared to do the good work of ridding the world of this rot.
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When madmen of different faiths go to war its best to keep our boys safe at home.
‘ … ridding the world of this rot.’
That is a monumental task and don’t believe it can be achieved.
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They are energy neutral but they import a little oil, countered by net LNG exports. That little bit can easily be found in their own hemisphere.
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A lot of people in South Australia have already voted.
https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/se2026-daily-tally
Are we going to see a wipeout of the Lib/Nat coalition?
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I am in Kavel electoral district.
It has been “engineered to be Mt. Barker and subsidiary areas North, with some parts headed to the (next door) Liberal seat (held by their Deputy Leader)”.
I haven’t met anyone who thinks the Liberals will win. Obviously, I am not a Liberal Party Member.
As I pointed out in the Local Paper the Liberals major claim is that a new gas powered plant would make electricity cheaper (despite the 5 to 7 years waiting list).
As for Labor I pointed out that Net Zero obsessions had made blackouts closer than ever in Europe and only avoided by inter-connectors to neighbours who use hydro, Nuclear and coal-fired users. Australia has no inter-connectors. The Labor candidate (whose name I’ve forgotten) will do well if he finishes third.
OHH! in the last State election, the Liberals lost to the Independent (after preferences) by just under a mere 50+%. Not bad for what used to be the safest Liberal seat in State or National voting.
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One past Saint Patrick’s Day, I heard a lass with a lovely soft Irish accent on talkback radio.
She said to the DJ, “You have been telling Irish jokes all morning. Here is an Irish question: how do you make an Irish girl pregnant?”
DJ said “Oh, I don’t know. Tell me. How do you make an Irish girl pregnant?”
The soft voice replied “Aye, and you think that the Irish are stupid?”
…
Game, set & match to the girl. Geoff S
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Fact: Irish use the “f” word over breakfast.
A young Irish accountant in Mrs H’s office was typical. In the pre PC days awards were given at the Christmas function. He got a soap on a rope.
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Or the proud Irish guy who listed his blood group as O’.
Geoff S
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Pat and Mick showed up at the construction site.
“What’s your name” the foreman asked the first lad.
“Pat” he said.
The foreman boxed him around the ears “Patrick! You are named after our Saint”.
“And what’s your name?” he asked the second.
“Mickrick”.
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Can anybody help me out to find the illegal war international law applicable, various claimants ignore requests for the detail?
Isn’t defence using military defence force and including combined allied nations defence forces legal, after all Iran and proxies have a 40 year track record of aggression including missile and rocket attacks, terrorist acts, invasion and all types of massacring innocent victims, latest but not first example here in Australia Bondi Beach massacre, Synagogue fires, harassment of Jewish Australians and other examples.
US military support for Israel IMF now is also payback for US assets attacked and citizens killed.
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To have international law you need an international policeman.
I rest my case.
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Meant green Dennis, apologies.
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Oil shipments from Saudi Arabia surging through its Red Sea port of Yanbu. The big winner of the war. Not sure if Iran has missiles left able to reach that far.
India and Pakistan are the most likely countries so far to send naval escorts to the Strait of Hormuz. Most the others are weal kneed about upsetting their internal terrorists.
India has 37 flagged vessels with 1100 crew stuck in the Persian Gulf. They will need to be resupplied or given escort out.
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Donnie prepares for the Cuba invasion.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/donald-trump-can-take-cuba-oil
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“Donnie” is a self made billionaire President, TV star. You are sitting in your underpants, a keyboard warrior, as far from the seat of power as physically possible but feel you are entitled to belittle him. OK.
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Just saw a good one on YouTube.
The silliest people in Australia are –
In Chris Bowen’s electorate. They keep voting for this incompetent fool.
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FWIW – review of “Science under siege”
“The Scientists Who Declared War on Half of America
Michael Mann and Peter Hotez call scientists into a partisan fight”
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-scientists-who-declared-war-on
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FWIW
“FROM THAT TO STARSHIP IN A SINGLE CENTURY: 2 seconds that changed the world: Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today.”
“2 seconds that changed the world: Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today”
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/2-seconds-that-changed-the-world-the-1st-liquid-fueled-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-today
Via https://instapundit.com/782946/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“SECOND-WORST GERMAN CHANCELLOR IN A CENTURY:”
““You don’t understand, I had to import a million billion migrants from third world hellholes who refuse to assimilate; the alternative was that AfD might win.”
“What’s their platform?”
“Not importing a million billion third world migrants, mostly.””
And
“Angela Merkel admitted she flooded Germany with third world foreigners for the votes.
She said it was to stop the AfD party!”
https://x.com/fleshsimulator/status/2033512711460450581
Via https://instapundit.com/783140/#disqus_thread
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There – RIGHT the F THERE – is the MAJOR failure of REPRESENTATIVE democracy.
DIRECT democracy fails for different reasons, mainly to do with the madness of crowds.
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I was workin hard, drinkin hard at the time but I’m +ve Blair admitted as much some years after leaving office.
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The news hot off the press: There is a gayatollah and Bibi has shown proof of life drinking coffee. [maybe]
Never a dull day. 🙂
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“The news hot off the press: There is a gayatollah ”
Howe can they believe any sane person would take that story seriously?? I can’t decide if the American propaganda experts think the public have an IQ in single digits, or they have an IQ in single digits, but the rubbish they push about Iran is just amazing.
Besides, if Mojtaba is homosexual the Western Press won’t be allowed to comment on it anyway!
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Show where I asked you to take it seriously. Methinks you doth protest too much.
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Why is it so hard to believe? There are gay people in Iran ….. if they’re not found out.
But you don’t have to believe it. If it’s true, our believing it doesn’t matter. It’s the fact that he’s outed is the thing.
If it’s not true, then it’s simply hilarious that we’ve now got to a point where one side says, “Your leader is gay”, and the other says, “Is not”.
Given the penalty in Iran can be death and the US is trying to kill him, it’s worth a shot at letting his own side do it.
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I hear they tossed a cardboard cutout off a roof.
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I meant to reply to KP. But you prob figured that out.
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FWIW
“A Costly Mistake from The Bank of England?”
“We are yet again paying the price of another ‘woke’ rebrand; this time, the burden will fall on our own pockets. British banknotes are set to change as the historical figures will be replaced by images of wildlife. This spells the end for the figures who have featured on the notes for over 50 years. A panel of experts will create a wildlife shortlist to put before the public, who will vote on their desired image. This came amid a survey of themes in which nature emerged as the most popular, winning 60% of the vote — historical figures came third with 38%. The Bank’s governor, who believes it is time to celebrate another ‘important’ aspect of the nation, will make the final decision on what will be displayed on the notes. They will be put into circulation in a few years’ time. The suspense is palpable.”
“Why try to fix something that is not broken? For more than 50 years, the Bank has proudly showcased many inspirational historical figures who have helped shape national thought, innovation, leadership and values on its banknotes. These figures include Winston Churchill, Alan Turing, JMW Turner and Jane Austen; without their influence, Britain would not be the great nation it is today.
Winston Churchill was introduced on the five-pound note in 2015 and the Governor of the Bank at the time stated: ‘it seems entirely appropriate to put Sir Winston on what is probably our most popular note’. Why has the Bank now decided to scrap him? Churchill is the greatest Prime Minister in Britain’s history. He was vital to victory in the Second World War, providing resolute, defiant leadership that prevented British surrender. His inspiring rhetoric boosted national morale during periods of crisis, such as the Blitz, while his strategic alliance-building secured crucial support from the US and USSR. We should be grateful for him, not neglectful.”
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“Who was Bank of England governor in 2015
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The Governor of the Bank of England in 2015 was Mark Carney, who served from July 1, 2013, until March 15, 2020.”
bankofengland.co.uk Wikipedia”
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Conclusion there –
“Oh Well. Stupidity is rampant in the Political Kindergarten Class.”
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Nah- the new Governor realised they would have to start putting more current politicians on the banknotes, and no-one wanted Blair or Boris or Starmer or…
Better to bail out of the whole idea and represent the politicians with wildlife, so rats, stoats, snakes, weasels…
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