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Should German AFD supporters be denied organ transplants?
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-greens-probst-x-poll-no-organ-donation-afd/
Obviously anyone not thinking the right way should be denied organs and also surely hospital treatment in general. Severe toothache? Want to change the way you vote Mein Herr?
This brilliant idea needs to be extended to other rascals such as climate change deniers.
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The estimated total abortions in the UK for 2024 was 321,500, or almost a third of a million babies. So should German AFD supporters be denied abortions?
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That would greatly increase the number of Germans if applied there, as many children follow their parents it would presumably increase the nunber of AFD supporters.
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Should German AFD supporters be denied mRNA jabs, and only given horse dewormer?
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True, but it’d only be used briefly as they discovered that the dewormer was rapidly safe and effective.
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Fully woke Australia is ahead of the Germans.
In Australia, those who don’t follow the Official Narrative on covid “vaccines” that are “fully safe and effective” are also punished by being refused organ transplants, to this very day.
In fact, “authorities” would rather you die rather than get an organ if you refuse the covid vax.
She is trying to raise money to go overseas so she can get a heart transplant in a freedom and science respecting country:
https://donorbox.org/heart4vicki
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translplant Australia should be decimated by poll – any who support the compulsory jab OUT, DOWN, tar and feathers!
Same with any doctor or bureaucrat supporting that decision.
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Would there be a case here to sue?
I can’t understand how not having a vaccination for the wuflu could be used as the reason to refuse medical treatment.
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Because you’re very, very naughty.
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Looking at it slightly differently – would you want a lefty’s organ (likely heavily vaxxed) inside you?
Maybe Fauci’s liver?
Maybe we should discriminate, just differently. 😁
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“Should German AFD supporters be denied organ transplants?’
Tsk!
Call me a foolish serf for thinking we should all be equal
under rule of lw.
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“Should German AFD supporters be denied organ transplant? ”
Call me a foolish serf for believing in rule of law for all.
Tsk!
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Iran has had 2 mighty empires, The Persian and Parthian. It should be no surprise that they view themselves as a key player in middle eastern affairs but their religion and ethnicity often marks them out from their neighbours
https://rmx.news/article/irans-collapse-is-embarrassing-for-putin-too/
I visited Iran a year or so before it was grabbed by the original mad mullah -Khomeini-who instituted a death cult. I met the Former Shah and the youngster who is now the Crown prince at that time in the Shahs lavish palace. The population was very western oriented.
If Iran collapsed it is likely that some will look to him to fill the power gap although fundamentalism is so embedded that the fanatics might try to retain power. Generally the mullahs are hated and people still quite pro western but of course bombing by Israel will tend to unite them behind their government.
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The religious fanaticism of the current Iranian regime, what’s left of it, relates to Mahdism.
The destruction of the West is part of their theocratic lunacy to bring the Shi’ite messiah, or Mahdi which is an essential theocratic element of the regime. They regard their desired destruction of Israel as the opening battle in a series of domesday battles which will bring the Mahdi.
I find it disturbing that so many people in the West, support this brutal, tyrannical regime and not the Iranian people who want to be liberated from its madness and brutality. You even have homosexual groups advocating for the Iranians even though Iran hangs them if they don’t accept “gender reassignment”. They don’t use the traditional drop technique either, rather they hoist them from cranes whereby they take up to an hour to slowly strangulate.
Interestingly, in a strange alignment of Shi’ite religious fundamentalism and the Left, they both support supposed gender reassignment as a “treatment” for homosexuality
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Ok so all of you clowns are now middle east experts as well please stop cutting and pasting gibberish from the internet
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A report just coming in, the US has entered the war with blockbusting stealths.
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The Uk has been experiencing a “heatwave” over the last week with temperatures over 30C in some places
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weather/2071777/uk-weather-maps-show-date-temperatures-tumble
It isn’t as yet as hot as the summer of 1976 and temperatures are expected to tumble on Sunday.
Here in South Devon We have had temperatures of around 28C in Exeter, home of the Met office, no doubt happily proclaiming this is due to climate change.
However we are a few miles west of them right on the coast and the temperature has not been above around 22C. The reason? In winter the sea keeps us several degrees warmer than inland-the water generally falls to around 10C by the end of winter, making frosts rare.
In summer though it has the opposite effect. Despite lots of sun recently the water temperature is still only 16C, thereby effectively cooling those close by with temperatures up to 8C less than a few miles inland..
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Ah, not a ’76 yet, but still a chance it might be the hottest longest (solstice) day evah (2017 34.5C Heathrow)!
Currently met office has said Charlwood has posted over 33C, and Lakenheath was showing 34C on a map but not MO source.
In my location we only barely reached 30C twice in ’76. Didn’t happen again until 1990. Then about every 6 years on average, until recently we’ve hit 30C+ in 2018/19/20/22, 4 times both in the latter 2 years.
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The last time that I was back in the UK was in July 2018. And I was at a wedding at a nice Country place near Burton On Trent. It was around 30 degrees centigrade and the local beer was lovely. Apparently it hadn’t rained for nearly 3 months. I just said to my friends = “This is just like Australia” but not as hot”. LOL.
I migrated to Australia in March 1976 and I remember the 1975 Summer as it was good. The 1976 Summer which I missed out on was even better.
When I left School in 1969 it pissed down all through July and August in Kent where we lived.
Climate Alarmism sems to be a disease of the brain.
The weather and climate has always been changing. Just get used to it. The cold kills more people than the heat.
Try growing crops under a mile of ice in an Ice Age.
Next!!
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I remember 1975 very well. I worked in an office in central London and half the staff were going home at one o’clock because of the heat in the building.
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In my low part of the Victorian high country the forecast yesterday and today was severe frosts with temps down to minus 4C.
Yesterday was mild enough, maybe 2 or 3 degrees C, certainly no frost and this morning, well just the same. Not even any ice on the car windscreen. Maybe the day will get colder as the sun rises?
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I live in similar area, flat farm land at 400 metres, -4.9°. at 6.49 am. Eight kilometres away at 800 metres it was +3.4° at the same time. Both recorded with calibrated weather stations.
Lots of microclimates
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It’s still cold here but not with the frost you get with a clear sky.
We’ve already had the citrus damaging frosts this year…sigh.
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The great climate shift of 1976-77 had teleconnections in Europe and North America. A positive Pacific Decadal Oscillation was the main player.
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Yes, Heathrow is a reliable place for temperature readings as is Kew Gardens, close to the giant glasshouse.
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Total Australian Government debt, federal, state and local, now over $2.11 trillion.
http://australiandebtclock.com.au/
What, if anything, will stop them spending?
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Also, not that they care about this massive taxpayer burden, but I think that most politicians are so innumerate that they have no comprehension how large this number is.
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I guess that’s what happens when a government spends 2.25 times what it earns…
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While your sentiment is supported, the idea that a government “earns” $$$$ implies they have expended effort in a noble way. Earning through taxation is effortless and IMHO a bit misplaced. The only thing government has earnt is disgrace.
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fine, get it off your chest.
I should have worded it differently, but…I didn’t. Oh well.
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from Budget Paper No. 1: Budget Strategy and Outlook page 8…
Surely you are not suggesting that politicians would lie to me…?
Page 118 has an interesting summary of where the money goes.
All available here:
https://budget.gov.au/content/bp1/index.htm
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“Page 118 has an interesting summary of where the money goes.”
Basically-
Bribing voters & bludgers 37%
Slush fund 19%
“health” 16%
Propaganda for children 7%
Supporting America in their wars 7%
General public services 4%
Everything we don’t want you to know about 11%
The $24billion in debt interest will become $42billion in a few years.
The $24billion in disability payments will become $27billion at the same time.
There’s almost $100billion splashed around to make sure the States don’t get any funny ideas about going it alone and making a better job of it!
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They don’t care about government debt because they will just ‘inflate it away’.
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And inflation is a hidden form of taxation so everyone still loses.
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The gross Federal debt as at May 2022 was just below $900 billion and of that amount just over $400 billion was what Labor handed over in September 2013 including the 2013/14 Budget with no provisions to pay for major expenditure items including NDIS and Gonsky Education Grants to State Governments. The Abbott incoming government was forced to borrow to pay for Labor’s budget commitments and therefore that debt is effectively Labor’s debt.
Since May 2022 the $1 trillion gross debt amount Labor’s electioneering blamed the Morrison Government for creating, but that was Forward Estimate not Current Account debt, and now in 2025 the debt is forecast to reach $1.2 trillion Forward Estimate with back to budget deficits for 20225/26 and for at least another decade estimated.
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Excellent video about Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and the development of logarithms which were needed to solve complex astronomical calculations.
And Kepler is a wonderful example of going against the Official Narrative, something many modern scientists are afraid to do now due to the lie propagated by the Left that s scientific fact is established by “consensus”.
Also, despite Tycho Brahe being wrong with his geocentric astronomical model, he nevertheless made extremely accurate (for the time) observations of the orbit of Mars. Kepler had confidence that an 8 arcsecond discrepancy in orbital data was real leading Kepler to discover that planets orbited elliptically rather than in a circular manner.
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Interesting, but it clearly shows me how much I have forgotten about using logarithmic tables.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that the natural logarithm (base e) describes how most of nature and humans function – how plants grow, how we hear and see, etc. Base e also forms the basis of a lot of electronics, such as how capacitors charge over time.
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Kepler was also involved in astrometeorology.
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Here is another excellent video about the discovery and recovery of Archimedes’ lost work from a palimpsest using advanced imaging and other techniques.
Archimedes was way ahead of his time.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Palimpsest?wprov=sfla1
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Thanks David. Loved the very simple demo of liquid in a glass requiring Pi, but when tilted, only needs linear measurements. Should make a fascinating topic.
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Here is a video about the destruction of the environment in the pursuit of minerals for EV production.
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In an extremely rare event Flinders Island is currently running on 100% wind and zero diesel and the battery is flat as usual.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/flinders-island
Strangely King Island is zero percent wind and 93% diesel.
https://www.hydro.com.au/clean-energy/hybrid-energy-solutions/success-stories/king-island
I wonder which one they’re making up?
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“I wonder which one they’re making up?”
I tried to check the output of the Cherry Tree Range wind factory at Seymour, to see what that had produced over the last 2 weeks but all I could find was its ability to “power” 37 thousand homes. I would guess the last 2 weeks output would be very close to nothing. The remarkably calm weather has been quite enjoyable. Likewise I would love to know how the Winton array solar plant has performed on these short winter days with fog not clearing until early afternoon, just in time for it to settle again before night fall.
I did hear that the big dam up the road is still falling as the demand by the power companies for hydro is significant.
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If you want to see real time data on the solar factories, or other power generators, you can use this site.
https://anero.id/energy
I’m a couple of hundred metres, (in elevation), above the solar factories, in clear air. No fog. The Winton factories, are still partially fogged in at 8:45 this morning and may be for a couple more hours yet.
On some days, they just don’t come out of the fog.
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Seems close to 100% solar on one and shared between solar wind and diesel on the other. Strange.
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How dogs became domesticated:
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/bacon-meme-of-the-week-144/
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Milton Friedman once said of Friedrich Hayek:
“Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.”
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Spectator Australia article about UK solar dimming experiments.
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It’s hard to fathom the stupidity of spending a fortune to take sulfur out of the diesel fuels, (including shipping), just to spend another fortune to place it back into the atmosphere.
Who thinks up these scams? Obviously NOT the person paying for it.
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Most Australians have forgotten that before diesel was changed lead was removed from petrol and the related costs for oil refineries, motor vehicle engine manufacturers and vehicle manufacturers was substantial and continued development of technology to obtain the performance lost when lead was removed costs.
And of course the push from government to use more LPG and CNG for road transport, more expenses to be recovered from us.
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Here in Chilly Bendigo, we have had the coldest day on record.
The winter solstice was 0.1 min to 6.3 max degrees Celcius.
Needless to say there are no reporters writing of this!
BTW they predicted -3 as a minimum- wrong by 3 degrees.
Any guesses as to why this is not reported?
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True. Can verify.
Beautiful sunny Bendigo morning now though!
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Same here in the low part of the high country. Our max. temp. yesterday was also 6.3C at 1426. Min. was 0.6 at 0040. We are roughly 400m asl. It was foggy just about all day and there was no wind.
I was about to say no wind, of course, but I do remember pilot son remarking about flying small passenger aircraft around where he described the island as the ‘home of the 100mph fog’!
It’s 2.6C here atm, 1115, and foggy.
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The Central Tablelands.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/colder-than-antarctica-coldest-morning-in-a-quarter-century-for-nsw-act-/1890677
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Exactly as eggspurts predicted: Australia Will Suffer NZ’s Climate If You Don’t Build Sun And Wind Altars! [NB. 50:50 confidence].
Yesterday I was amongst (a few) swimmers who jumped in the Pacific Ocean at 2:42pm for the winter solstice refresher swim: 15*C air & sea temp and sunny. Today is the same but I invested my time brewing up a chicken curry (hot!) as families enjoyed another glorious winter’s day at the beach.
Disclaimer: down in the South Island it’s snowing to 1,000m with temps hovering around zero. Odd how the Greenhouse Effect doesn’t work too well in June on the shortest day up in the mountains.
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Video:
The United States’ first war on terror, against the Barbary Coast pirates from 1801-1805.
Hence the US Marine Corp hymm line “from the shores of Tripoli”.
And this is where the policy of the US never to pay ransom or tribute came from although Obama broke that when he handed billions of dollars in cash to the Iranians.
https://youtu.be/UJFdhJD2mMA
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Concerns in Norway about grid capacity. What was once plentiful and cheap is now exposed to German market levels courtesy of some interconnectors. All cloaked in concern about bitcoin mining. I wonder how much of the sovereign wealth fund they have blown through.
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/norways-government-explores-crypto-mining-ban-amid-energy-supply-concerns
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Bitcoin Energy Use: The Electricity Costs of Cryptocurrency Mining
When it comes to Bitcoin, most people think about its current worth or how to get in on Bitcoin trading. However, what you may not think about is the energy consumption of Bitcoin.
According to The University of Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, Bitcoin has an electricity consumption of 129.24 TWh per year – that’s more than entire countries such as Argentina and Ukraine, which consume 125.03 and 128.81 TWh each year, respectively. In comparison to Canada, Bitcoin uses approximately a quarter of the electricity that Canada would consume in a year.
Ever since Bitcoin reached a record-breaking high of over $50,000 USD earlier in the year, it’s been a trending topic on social media and news outlets.
Below, we’ll be detailing what exactly Bitcoin is and answering questions such as why Bitcoin uses so much energy and also what the environmental effects of Bitcoin electricity consumption are.
What’s the kWh use of 1 Bitcoin transaction?
The Bitcoin energy use isn’t a set number, since it is based on how much electricity miners use, and this number changes over time. Still, there are estimates of the kWh use of one Bitcoin. According to a Statista report, the average Bitcoin transaction uses 2,258.49 kWh. In comparison, 100,000 VISA transactions use 148.63 kWh.
Why does crypto consume so much electricity?
Bitcoin relies on a large decentralized network of computers (and thus, computing power) to verify and record every transaction made with cryptocurrency. Since it comes down to correctly guessing a number or hash in order to be rewarded with Bitcoin, that incentivizes miners to invest in more Bitcoin mining hardware as well as hardware that has more hash power for a better chance at being rewarded. That also means a tremendous amount of electricity being used by mining rigs, which we’ll explore later on in this post.
It’s also important to know that with time, the complex math problem that miners are required to solve also becomes more difficult, which also incentivizes miners to invest in and use more mining rigs.
One other factor to consider is that mining rigs also require cooling, which further adds to the amount of electricity they use.
60+ Bitcoin Mining and Energy Consumption Statistics For 2025
https://bitzuma.com/understanding-crypto/bitcoin-mining-explained-2025/
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Next propaganda wave starting-
“Got a solar battery? Why this next step could work for you- ..some states and territories have new incentives to encourage uptake of virtual power plants, or VPPs…When demand for electricity is high, the VPP pulls excess power stored in batteries, to increase the stability of the grid and reduce the need for big generators or what some call “baseload power”. In theory, it will lower power bills for everyone and reduce reliance on ageing coal-fired power stations.”
Of course to get you to buy a battery they bribe you, then they have to get you to sign up for the VVP.
“Consumers are either simply paid for participation in the VPP, or paid for the energy they feed into the grid. In NSW, there is an additional sweetener: the government will pay a household to join a VPP based on the size of its battery. For example, to connect an 11.5 kilowatt-hour battery to a VPP would earn a bonus of about $850. ”
“(Being in a VVP is) a bit like putting your money into a savings account that’s got an interest rate.”
The downside of having your battery drained somehow doesn’t get mentioned, after all its a bit like having your money in a savings account with an interest rate, but then the bank goes bust!
The only truth I can find is that most of the costs of changing to ruinables are being hidden by all layers of Govt! Subsidies of anything should be banned!
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/got-a-solar-battery-why-this-next-step-could-work-for-you-20250619-p5m8rc.html
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FWIW – What a welcome to summer!
“Y2Kyoto: Happy Summer Solstice Day!”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/snow-1024×490.jpg
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/06/21/y2kyoto-happy-summer-solstice-day/
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FWIW
“The United States Has Bombed Iran
June 21, 2025 | Sundance | 9 Comments”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/06/21/the-united-states-has-bombed-iran/
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I wonder where those kgs of ready nuclear material are? It makes huge sense to just leave them under a big target sign, where they will get bombed and buried? It might be an idea for the US to be very strict around it’s borders? I’m reassured that everything went so well.
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Good job. A concern for Fordow, which was deeply buried in a mountain of granite, and was where a lot of the highly enriched 60%+ uranium was, is that even if the entire facility and entrances are collapsed, the uranium will still be there. It will be just a “mining operation” to dig it out and restart their nuclear weapons program unless,the Iranian people rise up and overthrow the oppressive theocratic dictatorship so beloved by the Left.
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Why will it still be there David, is it not possible that it has been vaporised or otherwise widely dispersed into the surrounding areas?
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Are they worried about not getting regime change?
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Looks like I need to add pizza order stats to my global monitoring. 😁
Regime change or holy war? Depends how it plays out in upcoming weeks.
Forgive Trump oh sky dude, he knows what he’s done. So it begins.
The Vela Incident of 1979 ring a bell with anyone?
Let ’em have nukes. They’re outnumbered 10k to 1 anyway.
Only the dead know peace in the middle east.
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More warmongering from the usual suspects. Still, most can look forward to the latest NewsCorp or SKY one-eyed releases. Regime change be blowed.
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So… does that mean America has declared war on Iran? When some Iranians blow up the White House will it be a justifiable war action or terrorism?
This is America all over, just go and bomb some country they don’t like, and then walk away. Of course its likely that either it didn’t happen at all or it was a much smaller, different operation to what he says.
I’d say that’s the end of any chance for Trump to do what he was voted in for, he’s just part of the War Machine now.
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The swap is too deep and his advisers are neocons.
Aliens in orbit: ” they’re still killing each other over dirt and fake gods. Let’s come back in another century.”
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If a President isn’t allowed to use his armed forces regardless of provocation, why waste money on them?
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why waste money on them
What is this them to which you refer
Presidents
or armed forces?
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It was always US and Western policy that Iran was not to have nukes. It’s just that until Israel took the initiative, no one was prepared to do anything about it. And Obama was actually responsible for empowering them and weakening sanctions plus giving them literally palett loads of cash.
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The only problem with this fantasy world that you live in is that Iran is following the IAEA rules, that’s why we know about Thier nuclear program. Iran is a signatory of the nuclear non proliferation treaty.
Israel has reportedly the 4th largest nuke arsenal in the world, they refuse any IAEA inspection and they refuse to sign the nuclear non proliferation treaty.
Your steadfast resistance to acknowledge these facts demonstrates to everyone that you and those here like you are simply religious zealots and nothing more.
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As has been repeatedly pointed out to you, even the IAEA acknowledged that Iran had reached 60% U-235 enrichment.
There is no conceivable civilian purpose for doing uranium enrichment beyond the 2% to 5% required for civilian nuclear power.
They were obviously working toward a bomb and were nearly there and were prepared to use them.
They were in violation of the NNPT in working towards a nuclear bomb.
Israel allegedly has developed bombs because it is surrounded by countries who are vastly superior in population, land area and military size who have vowed to destroy it. Iran was one of those countries.
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you buy into Saddam’s WMD’s as well ?
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I do. No one was looking for nukes.
The ten petrol tankers of nerve gas which escaped Baghdad went to Syria and Assad. About three years ago they were destroyed by an incinerator ship off shore. A drop of nerve gas is instant death. Half a million litres of nerve gas, as made by both Libya and Iraq is enough to devastate countries, the poor man’s nuclear weapon in a warhead or as an aerosol. Nerve gases were developed after WW1 and there are many types.
But it has become very popular to say that there were never any nukes therefore no WMDs. That’s an urban myth. The nerve agents are unfortunately not hard to make, certainly compared to weapons grade uranium or plutonium. In the new story Hussein and Gaddafi were liars and never had the chemical factories. But the whole subject is so scary, it has been buried. No one touches it because no one wants to encourage chemical weapons. Or biological, like the Wuhan Flu. Apparently it was an accident at a wet market with a few bats. Or the Chinese version where it came in on frozen chickens with the American army in the army games in Wuhan in November 2019. Believe whatever you like.
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Did Iraq have WMDs? No.
Did Iran have a nuclear weapon development program? Yes.
See? It’s possible to believe one but not the other.
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I don’t understand why people claim Iraq had no WMD’s when it was extremely well documented that it did.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_representatives_Committees?url=pjcaad/wmd/report/fullreport.pdf
How many it had at the beginning of 2003 is a matter of controversy.
And my boss at the time, Dr Peter Dunn, was one of the inspectors in the afternath of the Iran-Iraq war. I saw his pictures and reports of chemical weapons and stories about him and other inspectors being given the run around by Iraqis.
His files are listed here:
https://web.esrc.net.au/DUNN/DUNS0007.htm
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They bought in hook, line and sinker and are so stoopid they will buy into this one. Mind you they won’t go and fight Iran, oh no that’s for someone else’s children to do.
These people are grotesquely pathetic
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Tdef,
That is complete and utter BS, I watched Colin Powell on the floor of the UN building tell me and another 6 billion odd people Iraq had an advanced WMD program.
Of course it was BS none of what he said was real. None of it existed, there is however nuclear radiation now in Iraq especially in Falluja where the Americans dropped copious amounts of depleted uranium and killed 100’s of thousands of people. Even to this day Iraqi babies are born with defects due to this high dose of radiation.
Don’t be like David and talk smack just to sound relavent.
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Once again you have failed to address the issue that Iran is following the IAEA rules and your beloved Israel refuses to and yet you continually claim Iran is the aggressor etc as always you are FOS David
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Netanyahu has been getting what he asked for, and Trump has taken the bait.
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The Iranians were at the point of weapons grade uranium. More worrying was that they were also extracting plutonium. Which would fit nicely on one of their missiles for a briefcase size bomb which would kill everyone in Tel Aviv. But you would rather wait and see if they were serious?
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And you do NOT need to refine uranium if you just want a nuclear power station. Dubai now has nuclear power. There are six nuclear power stations in Serbia. They buy their fuel. But we are supposed to believe that the second largest oil country in the Middle East needed to refine their own uranium and extract plutonium for domestic power? That’s lethal gullibility.
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We’re not simply talking about nuclear proliferation. The problem is less about how many nations have these awful things but more about WHO can be trusted with them.
There is less than zero doubt in my mind that the insane Islamist regime would actually deploy nuclear weapons if they had them. No doubt in Allah’s name, glory be etc.
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Those guys are well known fringe group of nutters of a group known as Neturei Karta.
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Crakar,
The other day I replied to your claims of Iran complying with the IAEA rules with a UN article that Iran is not. You continue to make the claim and accuse others of ignoring facts.
I’m confident you would have seen it because it was a reply specific to your questions to me and reply.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164291
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164166
Religious zealouts?
Are you saying that those of us who are not Jews or Muslim are religious zealouts in a matter between a Jewish state and a Muslim state.
That makes no sense.
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I think this has been omitted from Crakar’s thinking –
“Deception, Lying and Taqiyya”
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/taqiyya.aspx
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Sorry for not replying to your incessant gibberish I was a bit busy burying my father so GFY
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FFS strop you and your ilk cannot be this stoopid.
Here is your position as I see it.
You are quite ok with religious fanatics having a secret comprehensive WMD program in Dimona, you are quite happy for these religious fanatics to refuse the IAEA entry to inspect this WMD program and you are quite content with the knowledge these religious
fanatics flat out refuse to sign the NNPT. In other words you agree completely that these religious fanatics do not need to follow international law.
On the other hand you are not happy that another group of religious fanatics does comply with international law, who has signed the NNPT and who does allow IAEA inspections and does not possess a nuke.
Ergo your position on this topic is indefensible and in light of the Palestine genocide I have no time for Israeli fan Bois like you so phuc off and don’t talk to me again
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You appear to be upset at being shown to have made false claims again. Maybe you should just correct your error and stop spreading false claims regarding Iran’s compliance with IAEA inspections, instead of directing your potty mouth at others.
It also comes across as if you have no genuine concern for deaths in Palestine from a humanitarian perspective. It seems it’s just an excuse to direct your hate for Israel and/or Jews. Otherwise you would have similar condemnation for Iran’s and other nations indiscriminate attacks on Israeli civilian areas.
As for indefensible. Would acts of knowingly making false statements fall into that category? Or can you defend it on the basis that anything goes if hating Israel?
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Still they reckon Hans Blix and Scott Ritter are liars. Inconvenient for some here just to defend Israel.
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Who would you hate if you didn’t have America?
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>Who would you hate if you didn’t have America?
America or no America, if you want to hate, I recommend hating hate.
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Oh, Israel and America.
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“Who would you hate if you didn’t have America?”
No doubt the next tyranny to step up and try to take the world over while smiling and talking about freedom and just policies and the international rule of law..
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Ya just don’t get on the wrong side of them. Sanctions?, no problem. We don’t like your popularly elected government. Overthrow it by financially and militarily funding terrorists – erstwhile enemies. We might get serious and just bomb you into oblivion. Then we get Halliburton to build up better.
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FWIW
“We’ve been in a war with Iran since 1979.”
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1936581854725070884
Via https://instapundit.com/727604/#disqus_thread
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Does anyone here dispute the influence (money) from THE LOBBY on US foreign policy. Geez who would have thought that the US is client state….
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Yes because they are Israeli firsters and religious zealots
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Follows closely on this (bumped from Saturday thread last night)
“FWIW
“Earthquake Near Iran Nuclear Site: Natural Event or Hidden Test?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/20/earthquake-near-iran-nuclear-site-natural-event-or-hidden-test/
Worry beads ready to rotate? “
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Your using WUWT as your go to for military updates now?
Jesus effing Wept Ian
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Please don’t swear Crakar. One of the good things about Jo’s blog is that people generally moderate their language.
I’m sorry that you lost your father but it doesn’t excuse abusive language.
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I was telling you last night that B-2s were on their way, across the Pacific, Nth Aus into the ME via Diego Garcia.
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The B-2’s were also observed to need refuelling soon after take-off implying they took off with low fuel loads due to a heavy payload, presumably MOPs.
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Precisely. The published bomb load is 40,000 lbs, two MOPs are 60,000. They can fit two MOPs in their bomb bays.
MOPs are guided so they could put multiple ones in the one spot to get the depth needed. A very expensive exercise indeed.
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I was wondering if a B-2 could use afterburners, with their engine exhausts so hidden so I searched and the answer is “No”. That would limit Max TO weight.
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Wondering further: If they don’t have afterburners they would need a base with a long runway. Whiteman has 12,400ft, the same as Kingsford Smith, wiki says is the longest in Australia
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FWIW
“President Trump Sent Multiple Decoy Bombers Over the Pacific Ocean to Trick Iranians”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/president-trump-sent-multiple-decoy-bombers-pacific-ocean/
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“reportedly”
Sounds like a load of rubbish to me. If they were decoys they would be flying light and could fly direct to Hawaii without refuelling, nor would they send 8 of them.
They did a similar sortie a while back, crossing north of Cairns on to Diego Garcia. Forget the target that time. So heavily loaded I doubt they would land before unloading. I admire the dedication of the aircrew.
B-2 Cockpit Size
The B-2 Spirit cockpit is described as compact and minimal, designed for two crew members: the pilot and the mission commander.
Despite its small size, it includes some creature comforts for long missions, such as a fold-up cot for sleeping, a toilet, and a microwave.
The cockpit is equipped with a color, nine-tube, electronic flight instrumentation system (EFIS) that displays flight, engine, and sensor data.
The layout is not overly crowded, with a focus on mission efficiency.
However, the space is limited, and pilots often mention that there is not enough room to stand up straight.
The cockpit’s design is mission-focused, with automation handling many routine tasks, allowing the crew to concentrate on critical operations.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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POTUS was possibly influenced subconsciously by endless replays of Beach Boys songs in the wake of Brian Wilson’s death……Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran…
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According to media reports, six 30,000 lb. massive ordinance penetrators (MOPs) were dropped by B-2 stealth bombers on the Fordow facility, and 30 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles targeting Iran’s Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, fired by submarines.
BREAKING: US Federal district judge just ordered Trump to unbomb Iran.
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If accurate Video – look at the overall ground shake and it looks like a Atomic Funnel, as I assume blast comes from underneath the ground
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1936608660240646457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1936608660240646457%7Ctwgr%5E1b7a0bf8a920c82571deb653ab8b2cdca2d36c50%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F727650%2F
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Just to point out that 99.9% of Iran was not bombed
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Iran is mostly peaceful then.
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Told them I’m a scrap metal artist. “Yeah, but what’s your real job?”
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_sy7d9zQA231z23obp.mp4
Awesome!
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Damm I was looking for that spanner the other day, I wondered where I lost it!
Definitely awesome!
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No 10mm’s were harmed in the manufacture, but we still don’t know where they are. 😉
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Why are some people extremely talented and apparently, I am not!
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FWIW – more Willis E. explores AI
“The Emergence of Emergence”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/06/21/the-emergence-of-emergence/
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The political fate of Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, may rest on a dog’s breakfast. Jose Luis Abalos, the Socialist leader’s former right-hand man, was the subject of a police raid at his home last week. While officers questioned him, he asked his companion to take his dog for a walk and passed her some “breakfast” for it. An officer, on seeing that she was hiding “something” in her trousers as she left the house, found that the dog’s breakfast was in fact a computer hard drive.
The discovery, and the media revelation that his companion is a 32-year-old former porn actress whose professional name was Letizia Hilton, has fuelled a scandal that involves prostitutes, lies and claims of sleaze at the highest levels of government.
Mr Sanchez now faces allegations of systemic corruption in his inner circle. A police report showed his two successive right-hand men, Mr Abalos, 65, and Santos Cerdan, 56, had allegedly taken kickbacks on multiple state contracts.
Hmmm? Are the police planning a raid in Canberra? Or are they waiting until there is a blackout causing people to wonder if any policies are true.
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Was there any independent confirmation of Iran bombing?
In the war both sides lie.
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I’d be infinitely more inclined to believe the US over the Iranians. And if Iran wasn’t bombed, it would be easy for the Iranian regime and their many supporters in the West to prove it. Just post some time-stamped pictures or satellite imagery.
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Confirmed by Meteosat-9 video.
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I wonder if Wong will be offering refuge to the Iranian regime since she’s so concerned for the Iranian leadership? And she would have the full support of the Left if she did so.
Canada is equally stupid to Australia and has become a favourite destination for Iranian officials.
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Is Australia a signatory to the ICC? If so they wouldn’t come here.
Searched before posting and we are.
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Problem is H that our governments just do what ever they want, Voice rejected by 60% of the population, no worries just have state treaties. Illegal immigrants in Australia, no worries, provide them with endless resources to go through the legal system, convicted criminals with dual citizenship, don’t deport them unless they are NZ’ers or poms. If you are of the right background and faith, just stay etc etc etc.
Sorry my faith in government to do the right thing by its citizenry or morally was shattered years ago.
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No argument from me. Thing is they are always virtue signalling to international bodies and would prolly comply with ICC extraction requests.
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“extraction”? Try extradition.
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I see Trump is appointing a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of the alleged 2020 stolen election circus. Let the alternative facts come to light.
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Well, they could get you to lead the investigation. That way we know it would be a complete load of bollocks before it got published.
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20,000 fake licences printed in China is worthy of investigation.
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And the fake ballot forms
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All investigated and shown to be bollocks.
Facts do matter
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Facts do matter, except to you. Fake bollocks is your go to and when you can’t support the rubbish, you resort to personal attacks.
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Reckless spending, last year two brand new Boeing 737 Executive Jets were delivered to the RAAF VIP Fleet to replace two purchased during the Howard Government terms 1996-2007, the two for Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers use on government business trips.
The present Prime Minister Albanese continues to fly in an RAAF operational air to air refuelling combination passenger Airbus A340 jet which is much larger than a Boeing 737 and not VIP Fleet markings.
Obviously the operating cost is much higher for the Airbus and the two Boeings are still on standby in Australia
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Nothing will stop them spending.
And those Howard jets would have relatively low hours on them so they would probably be OK.
In any case, back in the day, not that long ago, cabinet ministers travelled on commercial flights. I was even on the same flights as some.
Why do they insist on private jets when they all claim to care about catastrophic global warming? They should go on commercial flights or better still, walk, take the bus, or if going overseas, go by sailboat like Thunberg.
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I have no problem with them flying away in private jets.
Its just the fact that they come back that enrages me!
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FWIW – more of that “looking after the environment”
“DAM IT! The Left Coast’s $600M Fish-Killing Grift”
“NGOs and connected insiders have made a small fortune on “green” initiatives. As dam removal projects fail to deliver on the restorative promises of west coast governors, devastated agricultural communities are beginning to follow the green trail and ask, “Cui Bono?” ”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dam-it-left-coasts-600m-fish-killing-grift
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And
“West Coast, Messed Coast™ — Holy Environy! Trump Just Saved the Pacific Northwest from Energy Suicide”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/06/20/west-coast-messed-coast-trump-just-saved-oregon-from-itself-n4940996
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What rock type did the bunker buster bomb have to penetrate a few hours ago? I assume it to be fresh igneous?
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granite
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Rocks appear to be Plutonic, metamorphic.
Not Granitoids,
Crests are sharpish, not rolling as in Granitoids.
Spoil from tunnelling appears to confirm this.
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Reinforced concrete. Iran is said to have a particularly strong concrete mix.
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Not any more! 😆
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I accept that it was hit but still waiting for the satellite pics before declaring it a roaring success.
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…and in breaking news, Iran says it will target all Americans, civilian and military, along with all bases within range as payback.
Your move Donald.
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Who’d a thunk it!
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Iranian state media claims the facilities were emptied before Trump’s strike so nothing was destroyed.
Strait of Hormuz to be closed.
No oil for the EU. At least they have solar.
The sheep will not be happy.
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Oil was up 20% over the month to the 20th, Friday, so lets see how Monday looks.. Well, you can block the Straits of Hormuz but Russia is still selling, lets see if Elbow is willing to talk to Putin when the price has doubled or tripled.
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The IAEA reports there is no radiation leak at Fordow which suggests this is in fact accurate. Trump bombed an empty facility.
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It may not be empty perhaps the facility was too deep to be bombed
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As opposed to what they and their proxies have been doing the past 40+ years?
Seems like more of the same.
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I hate to hear that Trump has engaged in what effectively takes America into a war, even though I can’t think of any other way the insane, murderous Iranian regime could have been deprived of nuclear weapons. Trump explicitly stated his anti-war position in the election campaign, so this is a very clear broken promise.
But rather than see this as deception, I see it as a promise he should never have made. Sadly, war and violence are almost unavoidable, so without a fully functioning crystal ball, Trump couldn’t have known whether America would need to do something like this during his term.
But, like I said, I’m behind America on this nevertheless. We can debate the rights and wrongs of Israel’s actions to infinity and beyond, but for me, that doesn’t change the fact that Iran has a despotic, deranged, violent government that openly hates the west – America in particular – and is unhinged enough to actually deploy nuclear weapons ‘in the name of their religion’.
Another thing. America shouldn’t be calling the raids a success just yet. Firstly, it’s impossible to know if the actual weapons development facilities have actually been destroyed, even if half the mountain is missing. Secondly, having made it pretty obvious that they were going to bomb the place, who knows if the important equipment and personnel was still there? My guess is that it was dismantled and moved days ago (assuming that is possible). Will it just be set up somewhere else? Even if it was indeed destroyed, did the Iranians have enough radioactive material offsite to make a few dirty bombs of the conventional type? They wouldn’t need many in order to render the tiny nation of Israel uninhabitable or, for that matter, Washington.
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Donnie completely ignored the War Powers Act and just did his own thing.
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Just like Obama did. Just like Clinton did. Every president since Dubya Bush has used the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to bypass Congress’ war powers. So Congress has no one to blame but itself for delegating that power to the executive branch.
Even before 9/11, American presidents were ‘declaring war’ without ‘declaring war’. How many wars has American been embroiled in during the post-WWII era? Too many to count. How many involved a formal congressional declaration of war? ZERO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_United_States#Formal_Declarations_of_War
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“Iran has a despotic, deranged, violent government that openly hates the west – America in particular – and is unhinged enough to actually deploy nuclear weapons ‘in the name of their religion’.”
Drinking the Koolaid a bit deep? Every word in there is American propaganda to make sure the stupid know who the bad guys are.
Why didn’t Trump just ignore Iran, it will be some other President’s problem further in the future,and that’s what politicians always like to do. No, his ego is so big he thinks he can solve the Iran ‘problem’ and be famous for it.
Anyone who thinks Trump did the right thing should examine their opinions on Putin doing the same thing. If you can’t hold a constant philosophical viewpoint on attacking another country because they are threatening you, you have a problem.
Iran could have nuked Israel years ago if they wanted to, do you think they aren’t friend with Pakistan? They could have invaded Israel and over-run it, as could most of the Arab countries. But no, the invasions and wars are always when the West goes into the Middle East to steal the oil.
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It is being reported by the Red Crescent that there were no deaths in the destruction of the three nuclear sites. Unbelievably. No one died on any side. What war?
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Surely they had infidel insurance?
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And “The world’s greatest oil producer is the United States. In 2023, the US produced an average of 21.91 million barrels of oil per day, making it the top producer for the sixth consecutive year”. What oil are they stealing?
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And Iran only started mining uranium in 2018. They are a very small producer, just enough for a weapons industry. Refinement of their own uranium is completely unjustified economically. The purpose is clear.
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If your nuclear efforts are totally peaceful, why would you bury them deep in a mountain?
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Because others have told you that you can have them, threatened you and have physically attacked you in the past.
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As before, Iran is the second largest oil country in the Middle East. They have no need for nuclear at all. And many countries have nuclear without any need to have refinement of uranium to weapons grade or the production of plutonium. There is no other purpose than the development and production of nuclear weapons along with their advanced missile and drone industry along with North Korea.
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If israels nuclear efforts are totally peaceful why do you refuse to sign the NNPT and why do you refuse IAEA weapons inspectord access to your nuclear enrichment sites?
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FWIW
“The Unlikely Alliance That Just Declared War on Drug Middlemen”
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/06/21/the-unlikely-alliance-that-just-declared-war-on-drug-middlemen-n4941037
Effects if any on prices in Oz?
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FWIW
That likelihood gets mentioned in the section on “The Heritage Foundation” here
Concludes
“I may be overstating the case to a modest degree, but it seems to me that, if Heritage joins the fight, the covid mRNA vaccines’ days are numbered. I was encouraged, and you should be, too.”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/missile-measuring-contests-friday?r=1vxw0k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&tried
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Building infrastructure like this in Australia really puts the “artificial” in artificial intelligence.
Lets hope their backup generators are rated for continuous operation…
https://infrastructuremagazine.com.au/fishermans-bend-ai-stronghold/
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Green steel superpower, Green energy superpower, Green hydrogen superpower, solar panel superpower, quantum computer superpower and now AI superpower. As hidden taxes, off budget spending and hidden carbon taxes soar, is there anything else this wild spending Green socialist government can do by sending our cash overseas before we are completely bankrupt? What happened to productivity as we import millions of unskilled migrants to be supported by everyone else?
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If you want to know just how FITH US politicians are in relation to Israel and WW3 watch this.
And my God gave mercy on our souls
https://youtu.be/smemFVe0l5E?si=KmGq66JS4ttAARd4
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” US President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.” This comes as Amwaj.media has learned that Washington notified Tehran of the strikes. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a high-ranking Iranian political source confirmed that the Trump administration on June 21 conveyed that it did not seek an all-out confrontation, and only intended to strike the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. Importantly, the senior source also confirmed that the targeted sites were evacuated, with “most” of Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium kept in secure locations.
The Pentagon claims that 30 cruise missiles were fired from submarines against Iranian nuclear sites near Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow. The main strike was allegedly by three B-2 heavy bomber which dropped six bunker buster bombs on the buried enrichment facility in Fordow. There are doubts that this indeed has happened: “My theory for the evening? I think this was a low-risk, low-impact attack entirely conducted using submarine-launched cruise missiles, and the DoD is simply lying about heavy bomber involvement for propaganda purposes.”
We will have to wait for before/after satellite pictures and/or video from the ground before assessing the attack.
What we do know for sure is that the U.S. has launched an unprovoked, illegitimate attack against another country. The attack was also in breach of the Non-Nuclear Proliferation Treaty. Iran could, and now maybe should, resign from that treaty and reject inspections by IAEA personnel. ”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/
and
https://amwaj.media/en/media-monitor/exclusive-iran-given-advance-notice-as-us-insisted-attack-on-nuclear-sites-is-one
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Over 20 years of Israeli BS that for some reason people seem to gobble up as facts.
https://youtu.be/Ke7p3bLgvKs?si=COOF-pYJZk9WkBTc
This reminds me of the roger waters song “the bravery of being out of range” there are many, many keyboard warriors here who think a new ME war won’t affect them
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I confess to a tiny bit of nervous this morning, as I can see US central Command (10 kliks away) through my kitchen window.
Those having the most difficulty today seem to the Mullahs in Iran and the democrats in our Congress.
The United States has removed the nuclear threat to the world posed by a nation whose thought patterns produce young women who hope their sons will die as martyrs.
The United States has controlled it’s border, thus reducing massive internal instability. It will return to the ordinary allowance of a couple of million immigrants,
and additional programs for study and work, that benefit both the US and rest of the world.
The United States is likely returning to a manageable financial state (in the longer term) through growth. When the US attacks its internal financial problems through the
growth of the energy, food, and mineral production process, the world prices of these commodities go down for the rest of the globe as well.
The Energy farce is over in the US.
The US is likely returning to actually trying to help in some of the world’s most impoverished regions, rather than siphoning aid money off to political operatives domestically.
In a contentious world there will very loud opposition — from those out of power or seeing their economic succor dribbling away. But actuated common sense is usually an 80-20 issue;
stupidity and cupidity work well for many in a talk only circumstances, but when action is taken, reality can effectively negate those flogging mythica narratives.
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Nobody asked you to be the world police, stop blowing up other people’s countries, it does not make the world a safer place.
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