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Major Cyclone Forces Australian LNG Shutdown.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/logic-logistics-and-least-another-10-days
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Outages LIKELY caused by Narelle . . .
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4569761-australia-s-biggest-lng-plants-hit-with-outages-from-cyclone
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Is that true?
Anyone know?
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The ABC has this story. Some damage, no estimate of time to repair in this report.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-28/ex-cyclone-narelle-outages-chevron-woodside-santos-projects/106499548
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Mostly BS. Photos shown of “flooded houses” at Exmouth are not flooded at all – the houses are up on the banks another 3-4m above the water level. My son, who has recently returned from another holiday in one of those marina houses, confirmed that they are well above the water line. Deliberately built higher.
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And my son also said that the Exmouth derelict garage shown roofless has been derelict for years. A few trees blown down, but that’s normal.
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Was he the officer that caused the desert sand storm when the explorer crossing a desert by Camel was inconvenienced?
Major Bumsore
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Ports and rigs are shut down during cyclones. Standard practice.
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You want more farce?
Then try this. (for entertainment purposes only).
What?
You are not entertained?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWYlilDCKB2/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again
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Australia, once a land of plenty and freedom.
Now, neither of those.
A Leftist dystopia come true.
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“a land of plenty . . . . .”
In The Future Eaters, Flannery argued that the sustainable population of Australia was between 6 and 12 million.
If that figure is in the ball park , then clearly there was plenty at some time past.
And the first hunter-gatherers in OZ probably found plenty of relatively easy pickings.
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It was a land of plenty in the ‘dream time’.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666033422000144
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Clearly climate change.
2.5 deg.C warmer was always going to be fatal , especially with increased rainfall.
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The Hypsithermal was hot and wet, with CO2 extremely low, and it appears ENSO was not a major player. Yep, its climate change.
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“It was a land of plenty in the ‘dream time’.”
However in the “real time” it was still a land of feast and famine. One of the great limiting factors for aboriginal population growth was the availability of food. Nomadic because once the food supply of any area was depleted moving to a new area was required. Regardless of the Australian dept of agriculture having in its blurb that aborigines “practiced” agriculture for thousands of years , there is no real evidence of this. Dropping an undigested seed in a bowel movement probably rates highly with the academics but doesn’t pass real world tests . Infanticide was practised because not enough food could be sourced to raise multiple dependent children. Males favoured over females etc etc. but they still lived in utopia.
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‘ … but they still lived in utopia.’
In comparison to the Last Glacial Maximum, when it was dry and cold, the lakes were full and there was plenty of wildlife.
Walkabout would have continued when the climate changed for the worse, but showing resilience they sought out refugia along rivers and billabongs. Camping spots, nothing too permanent.
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In the first year of settlement of Adelaide (1836), Pastor Finlayson described that an indigenous mother (with two year male infant on the teat), gave birth to a female. The new born was left to die in the open and Mrs Finlayson took the baby girl and raised her. Terrible people these colonists!
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Dark Emu Black Seeds and the author researchers have alleged to be of UK ancestry and zero local indigenous
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Nothing alleged, proven that he is a liar with nothing but English ancestry.
None of the Aboriginal groups he claims to be part of acknowledge him.
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He really was scrapping the bottom of a dam
lol
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Those Kiwis love to beat Australia in a race.
Renewables? If only we could harvest the seemingly inexhaustible supply of hot air coming from Canberra.
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Lest you forget: she now resides in your once-fine country. If you like your cr!m!nals, you can keep your cr!m!nals [please, don’t let her out].
NZ was already c.85% ‘renewable’ before the Agenda™️ slithered in disguised as a smiling young comrade, thanks to manna from heaven (rain) and fires below (geothermal) and real engineers who knew their ship. To attain that mythical 100% Land of Unicorns with free train rides for everyone is a lesson in what NOT to do despite the model’s sales pitch.
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Mid April runout for most of the world.
Disruptions to the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz over the past four weeks will unleash a “sequential” shock to global supplies that’ll run from east to west, with much of the world taking a hit in April, according to analysts at J.P. Morgan.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/timing-global-oil-shockwave-spread-jpmorgans-must-see-map-iran-war-fallout
Thought Covid was bad? If New Zealand runs out of diesel, Covid will look like the rehearsal. The effects on the economy, social cohesion, law and order and even life expectancy would be worse.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/economy/diesel-shortage-why-our-benign-isolation-is-now-a-brutal-risk-matthew-hooton/premium/KHP4FH5IMZCBFPZU2Z2DX7W6KU/
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are one and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
Must rewrite it sarcastically. 😁
Australians all let us cry in our beers,
For we are out of fuels;
With brainless pollies and bad advice,
We are all just led by fools.
Our land abounds in natures gifts
All taken back by the originals…
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“Mid April runout for most of the world.”
Strange how this can happen when only 20% of the oil flow is blocked. So cut supply by one fifth and the remaining 80% means we all run dry. I’m failing to comprehend
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Just in time inventory.
The Covid lesson was that this does not work with even the slightest perturbation.
Business that wanted to return to some semblance of resilience switched to “ just-in-case”.
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And the Australian Government does not mention US oil and fuel, exporting more than Saudi Arabia, from across the Pacific Ocean and Canada nearby, and Venezuela, and Mexico.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but the U.S. only exports light oils.
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Yep, but it gets its heavy oils from other places than the gulf.
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Mathew Hooton? Old Aunty Herald?
Please, JCII, I thought better of you than quoting those 2 cesspits of presstitution & fear-mongering schist (c)rock. Next suggestion please, otherwise I have some old tea leaves my grandmother kept for telling the future 😃
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ZH? A lot of fake experts no-one’s heard of zooming in on graphs claiming imminent doom, but a lot of good info too.
If you have a better “go to” site, let us know! 😉
NZ Herald was from a NZ friend and posted to show what the msm is reporting in NZ, and probably right too.
Still, we’ll all find out soon enough.
NZ fuel – 12 days worth in country, 12 days worth in transit.
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No threat to Shakespeare in that poem
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The NZ Government continues to insist that Godzone is supplied to at least the end of May.
They base this insistence on assurances from the fuel majors.
We’ll see who is right.
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Looks like they are talking about different things.
NZ has three weeks worth onshore, and another six weeks worth on the water.
Then it has six weeks worth of reserve “oil tickets” which can be cashed in at a cost of about $NZ 1 billion, and then refined at a suitable refinery , and then shipped.
So about 4 months if we call on that reserve.
Still not a lot.
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Ah, but how does Force Majeure factor into the refinery equation?
Lots cows in NZ though. Harvest that methane!
Who run bartertown? 😁
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It is easier to harvest just the milk and beef.
Let the methane go back into the carbon cycle and keep the CO2 level creeping up.
The cow is already returning a good half of what she eats into the soil microbiota to keep that humming along, while providing the nitrogen to kick grasses along.
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“The cow is already returning a good half of what she eats into the soil microbiota to keep that humming along”
And if your cow doesn’t those pesky termites and microbes will still do exactly the same job. Not as big, not as beautiful ( to some of us anyway, and I don’t mean in a New Zealand sense) but just as relentless at producing methane with no one to tax or blame.
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This article is from 12th March.
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“not fundamentally changed” since the conflict began.
That seems right.
You had none, and still have none.
Reserves are unchanged.
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And you WILL be happy?
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Sorry Rudyard.
If you can get your oil when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on Iran
If you can claim shipments will arrive to you
By simply ignoring the chance of a missile or two
If you can hide the truth behind the rhetoric you speak
Devoid of the honesty and action that the people seek
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of waffle and straight face
Yours is the next election and Canberra will remain your space
And – which is more – you are a typical politician, my son!.
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Apparently we cant handle the truth like a bunch of hardened milksop never had a real job politicians can
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“economic suicide”
Looks more like “Arkancide “ to me.
Australia is not alone in being “suicided”.
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Oil refineries, like all industrial endeavours, consume energy, thus are just another component of our deindustrialisation program.
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Same roots …. UN ….. Lima Protocol 1975, Agenda 21 – Sustainability 1990 and so on
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I’m still wondering if the farmers themselves should share some of the blame. Did the refineries close because farmers were buying cheaper overseas fertiliser? If this was the prime reason, then perhaps the farmers should have a rethink about supporting local industries.
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I suspect that the fuel crisis will tilt the Farrer by election away from Independent candidate Michele Milthorpe. Milthorpe is a Climate 200 supporter, ie Climate Change.
If the voters of Farrer are not talking about fuel supplies and energy security right now there is something wrong with them.
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How is One Nation progressing in its seat count in the lower house in SA. Is there still some prospect of One Nation being the official opposition?
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No.
Liberals probably 5 seats, One Nation probably 4 and Independents 4.
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ON currrently have 2 seats..potentially 2 more to come when postal votes are finalised
Libs/ nats have 5 seats already, ……so remain the formal opposition party.
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If uncommon sense changed to common sense they would do a deal now and form an alliance in SA, determined to get rid of Labor in VIC and 2028 Federal Labor
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FWIW
“A Turning Point For Europe: Historic EU Parliament Votes Signal Rightward Realignment On Migration, Privacy, And Transatlantic Ties”
“This might be one of the worst days in history for the EU Bureaucrats:
– Mass deportation proposal passed
– Chat surveillance proposal rejected
– All tariffs on US goods dropped
The centrists have begun voting en masse with the nationalists…
This has never been seen before.”
https://x.com/Inevitablewest/status/2037214663117566295
Via https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/turning-point-europe-historic-eu-parliament-votes-signal-rightward-realignment
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FWIW
“Alberta Joins Solar/Wind Bust (uneconomic energy hits political risk)”
““Why not state your real concern in plain English. ‘The profitability of my company and others in the renewable energy business is being negatively impacted by the refusal of the citizens of Alberta (aka ‘the government’) to financially subsidize transmission.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/27/alberta-joins-solar-wind-bust-uneconomic-energy-hits-political-risk/
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And
“Renewables Are Cheap Myth”
“I have long been meaning to address the myth that renewables provide the cheapest electricity. This myth has achieved “everybody knows that” status which means that a rebuttal must have strong supporting arguments. A series of articles at the Science of Doom blog by Steve Carson explains why this myth is not true. He sums it up: “We built a lot of cheap intermittent energy, and now the expensive part is making the system work when that energy isn’t there.”
Carson explains why cheap renewables don’t automatically produce cheap electricity in a reading guide to his recent renewables posts. Fellow traveler Francis Menton and I have long argued that before continuing with New York’s renewable energy madness that a test jurisdiction should implement the transition mandates so we can see what happens. Carson wrote 14 posts “starting with a broader look (including China and Europe), then drilling into South Australia as the most useful real-world laboratory for high renewables” that examines the reality of other jurisdictions.
I recommend the entire series. Carson suggests that if you’re new to this series, the best way to read it is in time order. Each post stands alone, but “together they build a clear picture of why “cheap renewables” doesn’t automatically produce cheap electricity, and why the system ends up paying for flexibility, backup, and wiring.” ”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/27/renewables-are-cheap-myth/
https://scienceofdoom.substack.com/
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Starfleet academy gets cancelled
Paramount has announced that Starfleet Academy is now cancelled and the show will end after the release of the second season (which has already been filmed). It might be shocking to hear, but gay polyamorous Klingons, lesbian space professors and fat sarcastic crew members with low-IQ Reddit-level vernacular just didn’t lure the fanbase to subscribe to Paramount+
Many critics thought it wasn’t possible, but Starfleet Academy might have topped Disney’s Star Wars “Acolyte” series as the biggest woke implosion of all time.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woke-star-trek-series-cancelled-after-embarrassing-critical-failure
Is the world healing yet?
As we all saw, the IOC has banned fake women now too from future olympics…
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“As we all saw, the IOC has banned fake women now too from future olympics…”
And the best part about that decision JC? It only took them TWO years of study to determine that men are stronger than women. Ignore accumulated knowledge from the dawn of human kind, ignore a simple observation of the real world where in “Mammalia” males are generally bigger, stronger, more aggressive etc. No no, fund a study, take two years then tell us what the real world has understood sort of automatically. At least now we have proof positive, until the next 2 year study comes to a
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FWIW
“If the young victims of climate education suffer a nervous breakdown, how can educators “truly equip young people for life and work in a changing climate”?”
“Why emotional resilience should be at the heart of climate change education”
“The mental health effects of climate change are receiving growing attention, including how children and young people are uniquely affected. Supporting young people to build and sustain good mental health and wellbeing, and to feel prepared for life and work in an uncertain world, has never been more urgent. However, action is still lagging behind need – including in education. ”
Concludes –
“Only climate activists seem to think it is necessary to indoctrinate young children with the full horror of their apocalyptic fantasies.
Even worse, when faced with evidence climate education is causing significant distress in children, instead of pausing, maybe suggesting a deferral of climate education until kids are old enough to cope, the climate educator response appears to help kids integrate this distress into their lives by turning the kids into little activists.
One day there will be an accounting for this brutal mistreatment of our children.”
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Tiger Woods involved in a roll-over car crash in Florida, condition unknown. Seems he can’t drive a car as well as he can a golf ball.
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Golf superstar Tiger Woods was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after being involved in a rollover car crash in Florida on Friday, law enforcement officials said.
Woods was uninjured in this latest twist in a turbulent career. He was detained after the vehicle he was driving clipped a truck and flipped over while trying to overtake on a residential street near his home on Jupiter Island. Apparently he was breath tested and no alcohol found, but refused to take a urine test.
As far as I know he didn’t blame the crash on Climate Change.
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100+ for the last sentence.
Luckily I didn’t have a mouthful of coffee.
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I came across this story
https://share.google/pWyWhweOykAgQ5ARE
I don’t know if NYT Crossplay’s computer is AI but it cheats. Its NYT Scrabble like game that I started playing because Scrabble online has ads that freeze my old tablet. The hard setting is very easy to beat. I rarely won against the Master in Scrabble. I’m good but not fantastic yet was easily beating the CP computer. Then I noticed I was getting very bad random tiles Then last night, I noticed it played FOVEA, but also made FI, VG and EO. These were not its dictionary but it let it’s self use them. Possibly a bug but weird
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Its only weather.
‘In Brisbane, the temperature dropped to 14.1°C this morning, making it the coldest March morning in 18 years. It was also the coldest temperature recorded in the River City since early October.’ (Weatherzone)
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Gerbil Warming???
I’m sure there will be some spin on this to “prove” gerbil warming is the culprit.
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While everyone was looking to the west, a sneaky little cold snap slid up the east. When I spoke to my brother and sister yday (Newcastle area) they were both complaining of the cold and having to put on extra layers while / humble brag / boardshorts & 25C was the order of the day here 🌞
http://reg.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60281.shtml
Map of now-ex TC Narelle’s travels across the northern half of Aus from 17-28 March, RIP.
Meanwhile the Mediterranean Sea is getting hammered by yet another storm creating huge waves on all coasts along with snow on all mountains, from Algeria & Tunisia in N Africa to Italy, the Alps, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey…
https://www.snow-forecast.com/maps/static/europe/next3days/snow
Yet I thought 2001 was ‘the end of snow’, ho ho ho.
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According to Tunisia News the cold spell will go into April.
‘Speaking to Tunisie Numerique on Friday, March 27, 2026, Hentati said the current conditions are being driven by a large polar low-pressure system that is both deep and cold, extending into the upper layers of the atmosphere. The system has already affected Europe and is now centered heavily over Algeria, where snowfall has been recorded in areas above 2,000 meters.’
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Early season heat dome building up over the whole continental US. In fact its a large blocking high pressure clearly out of place.
They are already reporting that humans are responsible for this looming disaster.
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Saturday funny
A Scotsman and his wife walked past a swanky new restaurant.
“Did you smell that food?” she asked. “It smells absolutely incredible!”
Being a kind-hearted Scotsman, he thought, “What the hell…, I’ll treat her!”
So, they walked past it again!
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FWIW
“Jimmy Kimmel’s Swipe at Markwayne Mullin Helps Explain Why Elitist Dems Have Lost the Working Class
“Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t think Markwayne Mullin is qualified to be the Secretary of Homeland Security because he used to be plumber, “Before he was elected to the Senate, Markwayne Mullin was a low-level MMA fighter and a plumber. That’s right. We have a plumber protecting us from terrorism now. It worked for Super Mario. Why not Markwayne?” ”
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/03/25/jimmy-kimmels-swipe-markwayne-mullins-resume-helps-explain-why-elitist-dems-have-lost-the-working-class-n2426434
Then
“Nice Backpedal, Bro! Jimmy Kimmel’s Attempt at Damage Control on Markwayne Mullin Flops Spectacularly”
“Jimmy Kimmel tried to clean up his comments about Markwayne Mullin being a former plumber, but he tried to have it both ways. First he doubled down ignoring Mullin’s management experience with his plumbing company “[Trump’s] apple polishers are all in a tizzy because I made light of the fact that his new head of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, before he was a senator, was a plumber. And now he’s the head of Homeland Security. Which is not necessarily the kind of resume you might hope for, for the person in charge of protecting us from terrorism” ”
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2026/03/27/jimmy-kimmels-attempt-at-damage-control-on-markwayne-mullin-flops-spectacularly-n2426517
And (IIRC) way back in BC there was a Reader’s Digest short take –
“When almost everyone has a Ph D the last plumber is going to make a killing”
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If you are a one trick vacuous talking head , its hard to contemplate others may have had wide ranging career paths and have many skills. Then you have that disdain for people who can do real things , even though you cant do them yourself and have to pay through the nose for their work. It’s a weird mindset.
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FWIW
“British Defense Minister Outlines How the U.K Navy Will Defend the West, as Soon as They Locate Their Ships
March 27, 2026 | Sundance | 214 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/03/27/british-defense-minister-outline-how-the-u-k-navy-will-defend-the-west-as-soon-as-they-locate-their-ships/
And the comments that go with that
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Any truth in the rumour that Nelson’s ship HMS Victory is being upgraded in the weapons compartments to become the new RN Flagship?
😉
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After all, wind powered ship so renewable energy
sarc
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Still in active service, I understand. I once spoke to a former sailor who was standing guard duty on the Victory when he was asked by an American tourist whether the cannon balls were real – ‘No sir,’ he replied, ‘The French have all our real ones.’
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When I was last there a dinner was held regularly on board HMS Victory by senior RN Officers and sometimes invited guest/s
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FWIW
“Starmer: It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/27/starmer-its-up-to-miliband-whether-we-drill-in-north-sea/
A model for “Elbow”?
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A bit IIRC here – it was way back in BC when I read Winston Churchill’s “Great Contemporaries”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Contemporaries
In the chapter on Lord Asquith it was mentioned that a requirement as a good prime minister was “to be a good butcher”.
Sounds like Starmer would have trouble butchering a lettuce leaf
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FWIW – in comments there
Take a gander at this!
“Factcheck: Nine false or misleading myths about North Sea oil and gas
https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-nine-false-or-misleading-myths-about-north-sea-oil-and-gas/“
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FWIW – padding “Elbow’s repertoire?
“Y2Kyoto: Blunder Down Under”
“Turns out, net zero was easier to reach than anyone dared dream: Australia has 403 billion barrels of shale oil — 17.5 billion of which is immediately recoverable. But it banned fracking. So now it’s begging for diesel from countries that don’t have a gallon to spare 🤡
Mais oui, it was finalement, euh, within zee reach, non? French energy giant TotalEnergies says it will no longer aim to reach net zero emission targets by 2050
More: I’m out of diesel. All the farmers are out of diesel.”
And the comments
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/27/y2kyoto-blunder-down-under-4/#comments
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FWIW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_in_Australia
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FWIW
“How Dante’s Inferno Was a Fiery Act of Political Payback”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/03/27/how-dantes-inferno-was-a-fiery-act-of-political-payback-n3813265
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