JoNova
A science presenter, writer, speaker & former TV host; author of The Skeptic's Handbook (over 200,000 copies distributed & available in 15 languages).
Jo appreciates your support to help her keep doing what she does. This blog is funded by donations. Thanks!
Follow Jo's Tweets To report "lost" comments or defamatory and offensive remarks, email the moderators at: support.jonova AT proton.me
Statistics
No urea, and no Ad blue for OZ on present trends.
Does it matter?
farmerbraun uses neither to maintain his permanent grasslands.
What would be the economic consequence of no wheat production in OZ?
https://sonar21.com/choke-point-the-global-economic-consequences-of-the-persian-gulf-shutdown/
60
And a penn’orth from Rabobank:-
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/its-now-dual-attrition-race
10
Make Work-From-Home Great Again.
Maybe not a laughing matter.
30
When can a farmer not work from home?
Well at least the home property….
10
It was about Vietnam re-introducing work-from-home to conserve fuel.
Talk in Godzone today about carless days , rationing etc.
00
Farmers in USA buy codes for ECM to desmog their tractors so they run reliably without AdBlue (DEF). The story is the codes come from Australia, to turn off the ECM emmissions part.
90
That is the answer, and in Australia suspend emissions regulations requiring AdBlue, penalties for not complying are expensive
40
I just can’t help wondering really!
Why would a tractor have Electronic Counter Measures?
(And here, see how different people think in different ways, with my having been brought up in the Air Force, as that was the first thing I thought of)
Tony.
40
Someone in the UK did an experiment to see if you could replace AdBlue (32.5% urea) with water in their car. https://youtu.be/Jl2Ca0bYxfk
It works for the first 500km in limp mode but the engine says it will disable itself after that, not because of any damage though, just because it realises no AdBlue is being used and therefore NOx emissions will increase.
People discuss in the comments how (theoretically of course, it is illegal) you might get around it but it wouldn’t be easy for the hobbyist as you don’t have access to the ECU code. Some very naughty people have produced AdBlue emulator modules or offer an “AdBlue delete” service for private road, racing or agricultural vehicles only, illegal on public roads in the Nanny States like Australia or UK.
Australia (2024) imports 90% of its urea, 3.8 million tonnes for both fertliser and AdBlue. Supposedly there is a new urea plant being built in WA to open 2027. But like everything in Australia, I bet it will be more expensive than imports therefore all consumer costs will increase yet again. Also, taxpayer subsidised and claimed to be in an area of ancient rock art creating additional problems and no doubt tribute to be paid. What could possibly go wrong?
130
Where is the energy source for the proposed urea plant?
10
Pilbara natural gas is the feedstock plus I guess they’ll pretend it runs on wind and solar because they aim for Net Zero by 2050.
80
I heard Senator Matt Canavan recently discussing Urea and he pointed out that Australia’s last production plant has been shut down.
The climate politics and transition away from fossil fuels – Renewable Energy Targets and transition to renewable energy.
30
About to say the same. One of the world’s largest ammonia plants, Yara Pilbara fertilisers, is located in the Pilbara, close to cheap gas sources. And the Perdaman Urea Project, a A$4.4-$6bn project, is being constructed near Karratha, and is due to come online in mid-3027.
11
*2027
11
Glad you fixed that. 🙂
00
The Pilbara urea plant is being built next door to Australia’s first and now second largest export LNG terminal.
There is already ammonia and ammonium nitrate production plants in the same location.
Much of the urea production process is exothermic but the CERES project is fully woke so will be connected to the grid for additional electric power needs. There is a large solar project being pinned to the CERES project so it can claim to be NetZero when operational.
Australia also had urea production in Brisbane but it ended up being poorly sited for a high energy reactor and large ammonia storage facility. It was closed in 2022.
USA is now the largest LNG exporter thanks to Trump’s first term. Australia is now in thread place behind USA and Qatar.
Urea reaction vessels are close to the scariest reaction vessels I have seen. I note that the new ones are more like pipes than big bombs. They would likely release energy slower than lower aspect reactor that operated on Gibsion Island across from Brisbane Airport..
70
Recently pointed out by economists is that Australia exports more energy than imports
50
Sorry Rick, should have looked further down before replying.
00
Rick,
I was a Chemist in the start-up team for the urea plant that USA partners Dow Chemical and WG Grace built in 1968 on Gibson Island in the mouth of the Brisbane River.
Urea is NH2-CO-NH2. The nitrogen and oxygen came from the air, passed over an expensive catalyst with natural gas providing the carbon and hydrogen. The gas pipeline started somewhere near the Darling Downs.
It was located in Brisbane because of a cheap reliable City supply from coal burning. The big target market was cane sugar from coastal Qld down from Cairns to Brisbane, plus coastal northern NSW.
Over time, sugar became less sexy and demand fell I suppose, but that was well after my time. It lasted 50 years.
Over the river was an Ammonia plus Ammonium Nitrate plant for more fertilizer, but we ragged it because the Ammonium Nitrate could (and did) explode accidentally. It was the main explosive for East Aust mining.
Memory lane stuff. Somebody should write it down. My chemist mate Doug at the official opening wandered up to guest of honour Qld Premier Joh with a spare glass of beer and and asked him loudly if he was also here for the free grog. Should have seen the bureaucrat minder faces! That is the type of Aussie larrikin thing we often did in those days as a fun national attribute. But DEI killed it, dinnit?
Geoff S
20
I thought this an interesting and perceptive quote from Karl Popper drawn from experiences during the interwar years. It comes from his book “The Open society and its members”. He recognised that the liberal traditions of tolerance and freedom can be turned against you;
“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant (such as Nazi%) …the the tolerant will be destroyed and the tolerance with them”
160
My wife was talking to a Victorian school teacher this week who was recovering from a three day professional development course for State School teachers.
The basis of the course was that teachers could no longer use the following three words in the classroom – STOP, NO, and DON’T.
On her first day back in the classroom after the course one of her little darlings was attacking his table with a pair of scissors. She was momentarily paralysed trying to think of how she should explain to the little darling to stop what he was doing before just taking the scissors from him without a word.
Some primary school kids in Victoria go to school armed with a knife. There are young teenagers having machete fights in shopping centre4s. These are not playful assaults, they are occasionally ending in death. But teachers should avoid using negative words like STOP, NO and DON’T.
I may not live long enough to see if Trump’s war against clerics results in a less violent world. For now, violence seems to be winning over kindness.
180
I accidentally watched an SBS television programme in which the interviewer walks the floor talking to guest participants and this was about settling down in Australia, racism and similar topics. A thirty something year old male from Columbia South America spoke about migrating when he was a teenager and with parental consent as they wanted their son to have a safer and better life future. He was very complimentary about his experiences here, very positive outlook, but explained that too many ethnic groups stick together in one district and try to continue their lives as if they never left their country of origin but taking advantage of the economy and benefits here.
He hastened to add that he would expect the same from his people if they migrated, human nature.
And then said he was determined to become Australian and assimilated.
50
As the new immigrants try to assimilate they form loose collectives, which then become suburbs more culturally in tune with their original homeland. In Australia its perfectly natural.
They are not enclaves, the children of these immigrants will gain a profession and move to a beach side suburb.
14
I worked in Sydney Bankstown District of suburbs for 25 years in manufacturing industry and where many children and grandchildren continue living
11
Yeah the working class don’t wander far, but the opportunity is still there. Great food festivals.
Language is a barrier to quick assimilation, but once that hurdle is overcome they feel more Australian.
11
I hasten to add that I grew up in Greenacre and understand the situation.
00
“Pause your action immediately!” ? 😁
30
This unfortunately seems to demonstrate the correctness of Karl Poppers observation I made at 2.
https://rmx.news/austria/austrian-teen-suspended-for-a-week-for-complaining-about-muslim-roommates-waking-up-at-3-a-m-to-eat-in-their-dorm-room-during-ramadan/
60
What was the nature of his complaint?
Did he allege nuisance?
00
Obviously the female student was unable to use forbidden words such as STOP, NO, DON’T. Or their Austrian equivalent.
10
Working in retail in the dock unloading pallets with shift 2-10p. Next staff member rostered for 4-10p and I noticed that from 5pm he was constantly taking out and looking at his phone screen. Thought he was expecting an important call. Just before 6pm he left the dock for some 15 minutes.
Over the course of 3 shifts found out that he was checking the time so that when the sun had officially set he was “allowed” to eat so he went out to the food court and bought stuff and ate it walking back. My roster gave me my break at 6pm after four hours of work he got his at 7pm after…
10
Is the West too weak to fight a war, both as a feminised society and through having armed forces that are too weak?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/conspiracy-theorists-cant-see-that-the-west-is-already-at-war/
112
It’s ironic that conservative women are supposedly against the “feminisation of politics and society”.
418
Why? Because they’re women? Something definitely gone awry with the thinking process there. Women in general are supposed to want feminisation because they’re women? Not in my experience.
73
Skepti,
Nor in my experience.
Women, like men, foremost appreciate being wanted and forming friendships and even romances.
Recently, say last 20 years, there has been a rise of a minority (thank heavens) of woman who strive for dominance over men, including in careers, as if they are incomplete unless they top their mental greasy pole.
Sad for them. They would better spend their time in practical classes on how to make babies.
Geoff S
00
Conservative women recognize that males and females are yin and yang. Both bring different things to the table and you need both to achieve balance. Woke feminists see men as ‘toxic’ and think masculinity is best done away with by training boys to behave like girls, and boys who don’t conform are treated as defective girls.
Equality or even feminine dominance works in some jobs and not in others. But when it comes to matters military, feminized dominance degrades effectiveness, and for the past half-century a creeping feminization of the military has been happening in the western world. Some of it was long overdue, like cracking down on sexual harassment of female troops (who can still serve a vital purpose in administrative and support roles). But when it started creeping into war fighting roles, with lowered physical standards and greater emphasis on diversity and equity (while eschewing emphasis on killing the enemy), it becomes a problem. Running the armed forces like an HR department doesn’t make it a more efficient at removing threats to a nation state via violence, and that is ultimately the only purpose of having an armed forces.
150
Leftist women are constantly describing men as inherently violent. That would then seem to make them admirably suited to fighting wars to protect all fellow countrymen, even lefty countrywomen.
31
That’s what testosterone-driven men have historically done.
Plus, women would forget where they parked the tank. 😁
10
Simonic?
00
Simon, you always feel the urge to comment before you understand what you are talking about, don’t you?
00
Despite being peak cyclone season, BoM is calling for FREEZING SNOW to 1,000m in Tasmania today, while MetService is calling the same for NZ’s Southern Alps tomorrow, Friday the 13th, the 2nd so-called Black Friday in a row, except in 2026, due to so-called carbon pollution, they should now be called White Fridays because, y’know, freezing and snowing in summer is a sign of colonial heatwave catastrophic invasion run amok – or simply nature doing its thing.
Besides, talking about the weather is a pleasant change from USRAEL’s never ending insanity.
66
Well, that shows that those Climate SCIENTISTs were right in the 1970’s about the World heading into a New ICE Age within 50 years.
Time to change ideas (and scares) yet again
Climate Doom Archive II: The 1970s Cooling Scare. CDN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdDdmQCneQA
31
An active MJO is causing the floods in central Australia.
https://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/wet-start-to-autumn-continuing-for-parts-of-australia/1891258
00
Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS. You can’t make this up
217
Aa you have been repeatedly told, when road taxes are not collected from transport fuels used on private property such as farms or mining operations, it is not a subsidy but a rare case of something sensible being done with appropriate collection of taxes so that only users pay, not non-users.
180
Green Labor apologists claim fuel tax rebate is a subsidy, following the propaganda stories of course, completely ignoring that the fuel excise is levied for maintenance of roads and bridges and therefore when used off public roads can be refunded on application.
140
No – It takes some really distorted accounting to make it up. I am not that dishonest.
81
Actually organisations such as that DO make up these subsidies. One example is classing pensioner energy rebates as fossil fuel rebates. Another is adding port renovations and expansions to the fossil fuel subsidy list. But the worst example is generating models that list presumed examples of problems when using fossil fuels, then assume a dollar value for these “problems” and add them to their subsidy list.
If you believe that fossil fuel subsidies are significant, then please list them for discussion.
50
“If you believe that fossil fuel subsidies are significant, then please list them for discussion.”
That is the only important point, the line that Fitzroy wrote is meaningless otherwise.
20
Soon as you said Australia Institue PF, I turned off. I think they state they’re bi-partisan but we all know they’re “left-leaning”.
40
When we were in NZ last Christmas it was interesting to note that diesel was around $1 cheaper than petrol per litre. So they must fund their road infrastructure in other ways?
10
This is in Victoriastan, Australia.
I’m sure it’s nothing like her predecessor Dictator Dan Andrews who spent over $280,000 of taxpayer money to get Facebook “likes”.
90
Latest news on Sky that VIC Government has paid $50 million of taxpayer’s money to fund a court case to stop pandemic inquiry evidence being made public knowledge.
140
A leading member of the Bondi commission has resigned.
My vain hope is that he reads this blog and understands – it is not “our jewish community” who needs the protection.
It is us.
111
Of course Jews need protection. The Government created the problem, they have to fix it, but won’t. (And in Australia, private citizens aren’t allowed the means to protect themselves.)
But more generally, both Jews and non-Jews, who are considered to be “infidels/kafirs” by a certain demographic, need protection.
Australia never had a significant problem with antisemitism until 1) it underwent dramatic demographic change due to the mass importation of future Labor voters of people who do not subscribe to Judeo-Christian, Western or Australian values and 2) we had the most anti-Israel Government in Australia’s history, breaking the traditional bipartisan support for Israel and where anti-Israelism is always transformed into antisemitism.
241
3) Our education sector became anti western culture, and teaching that successful nations only achieve through oppression.
81
Protection from whom ?.
20
Iran proxies in Australia, see recent Bondi shooting massacre, various Synagogues fire bombed, street demonstration against Israel and Jews using Palestine as the focus point, suburbs where the Jewish population is large harassed by transient people of certain ethnic backgrounds and religion, and more
As I posted yesterday security intelligence sources have admitted they intercepted coded messages sent out of Iran to worldwide locations of “sleeper cells” calling on them to commit acts of terrorism asap
Former Israeli Mossad Intelligence senior officer recently interviewed by Sky via Israel made many worrying comments about the terrorist network or tentacles of the octopus terrrorist central Iran. And much more background briefing, like how Mossad agents have infiltrated (embedded) throughout Iran Government and Military for decades.
91
You.
00
You.
00
Sky News website
10
There is either Rule of Law in the country or there is not.
20
Of course. What is your point?
20
The point is as follows: laws were invented at the start of civilisation to deal with crime and criminals, not with the subjects of their crimes.
(Please, let us not go into “no win – no fee” advertising…)
Ethnic & religious bigotry in Australia, like in everywhere else, existed since the year dot. Ask yourself how the society held for 2 centuries without special Commissions and Commissars.
The answer is simple – existing laws were applied.
Nominating a small group of citizens for special protection is a sure sign of state in decline.
51
On other words, Oz is becoming more like the UK every day.
The PVA’s (Professional Victims Associations) always expect special treatment for the “wrongs” against them.
31
“Nominating a small group of citizens for special ”
Oh, that’s SO last century!! Any modern white society knows that you have to afford special privileges to the natives in all aspects of life!! (The natives being the people who were there when the whites arrived, even if they had eaten those before them!)
Only when you have satiated the natives can you start stratifying the immigrants for special treatment.
10
FWIW – re AI
“The AI Conundrum: Markets Detonate EITHER WAY”
“Read this from Fortune:
For months, the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) replacing human workers has hovered over the American economy like a distant storm. But this week, the storm made landfall, as viral doomsday essays seemed to become reality.
The various “scenarios” paint varying pictures of doom. I’ve read most of them and with more than four decades of experience in the tech sector under my belt I suspect I’ve got more chops in terms of analysis in this regard than most.
Let’s take the two possible “endpoint” scenarios under consideration given the known facts which is that an utterly-insane amount of spending is in fact going on in this space to build out that which currently produces very little revenue. In other words, to be succinct, everyone is operating at a net loss whether they’re admitting it or not, and worse, their build-out plans require monstrous amounts of capital expenditure none of which they have, thus they’re either borrowing it formally or getting people to front it to them in various forms.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=255058
And
“DON’T BE SO QUICK TO REPLACE HUMANS WITH AI:”
“Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about AI breaking its systems. The official framing is “part of normal business.” The briefing note describes a trend of incidents with “high blast radius” caused by “Gen-AI assisted changes” for which “best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established.” Translation to human language: we gave AI to engineers and things keep breaking?
The response for now? Junior and mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code without a senior signing off. AWS spent 13 hours recovering after its own AI coding tool, asked to make some changes, decided instead to delete and recreate the environment (the software equivalent of fixing a leaky tap by knocking down the wall). Amazon called that an “extremely limited event” (the affected tool served customers in mainland China).”
More at https://x.com/lukOlejnik/status/2031257644724342957
“Always, always, always keep a human in the loop.”
Via https://instapundit.com/781658/#disqus_thread
30
And
From Chiefio
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/w-o-o-d-8-march-2026-global-shit-show-in-ot/#comment-181112
20
As somebody much wiser than me once said, anybody who can be replaced by a computer should be.
Just don’t let a computer make that decision.
And good luck figuring out in advance who really can be replaced.
There be dragons!
50
And AI to the rescue
“A very useful cost-saver that works for everyone”
“Last summer, a man’s brother-in-law suffered a fatal heart attack. The hospital bill for four hours of emergency care: $195,628.
The man’s sister-in-law was ready to pay it. He asked her to wait. He requested an itemized bill with CPT codes, the universal billing codes hospitals use, and fed the whole thing into Claude, an AI chatbot.
Within minutes, Claude found duplicate charges, services billed as “inpatient” even though the patient was never admitted, supply costs inflated by 500% to 2,300% above Medicare rates and charges for procedures that never happened. He cross-checked with ChatGPT. Both AIs agreed. He wrote a six-page letter citing every violation by name.
The hospital dropped the bill to $33,000. An 83% reduction. Zero medical training. A $20 app.”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-very-useful-cost-saver-that-works-for.html
110
And Biden did speaketh to the redundant masses and said “Learn to code!”
And AI did learn to code, and it was good. 😁
/mostly
20
“The February 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at US Central Command (CENTCOM) created the target co-ordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), people briefed on the investigation said.”
Well, I dunno about an apology, but the Yanks have admitted killing the 175 schoolgirls.
So, the arguments that Iran killed their own children were Just Israeli/American propaganda, as expected!
These are the sort of people we are aligned with!
Just like the people on the other side, the Mad Mullahs, the Religious Dictators, the Butchers of Tehran..
Here’s someone to blame, Claude!
“While Claude, the large language model created by Anthropic, does not directly create targets, it works with the NGA’s Maven Smart System and other software to identify points of interest for military intelligence officers.”
The truth only came out because Trump is Trump and the Lamestream media are keen to find anything to discredit him.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/us-responsible-for-strike-on-iranian-school-preliminary-inquiry-says-20260312-p5o9nu.html
44
Regardless of who is to blame for that tragedy (assuming 175 people really were killed) it is standard practice of this enemy demographic to co-locate schools, hospitals, apartments, UN headquarters etc. with military facilities.
82
Americans killed 175 kids in a pointless and expensive vanity war. Your efforts to whitewash it in this internet backwater are pathetic.
626
What time do you start work?
101
And yet you show up every day dropping your spiteful grenades. Rarely a positive contribution.
The difference in your so-called backwater is that every opinion is accepted. I have been banned from the alarmist backwaters where they only ever get the view they like.
Their ABC often post on Youtube but comments inevitably turned off because they do not want to hear other opinion outside their echo chamber.
191
this is incorrect. My comments are vetted and many have not gone public.
.
[Opinions are accepted. Not every comment is, for various reasons. There’s a difference. With 13,000 comments I don’t think you’re finding it too restrictive. I’d say you’re even enjoying this backwater. Maybe we should call it a spa. Cheers – Raquel]
65
Can you add more Chlorine? The nasties are still present.
60
Not a vanity war but 47 years in the making.
The Iranians (regime) daily call for the destruction of both Israel and the United States whom they regard as the “Little Satan” and the “Great Satan” and the rest of the West more generally and have developed the means to do it (ICBMs) or were developing them (nuclear weapons).
They have numerous terrorist proxies all around the world including Hamas and Hezbollah and even have terrorist agents in Australia which was enough for even the sympathetic Albanese regime to kick out the Iranian Ambassador after one of the synagogues burnings.
Religiously they are motivated by the return of the 12th Mahdi who is their messiah.
The Iranian regime’s very purpose of existence is to destroy Israel (and then the rest of the West). Their Shia theocracy posits belief in the 12th Mahdi, Imam Muhammad al-Mahdi, the final and twelfth Imam in Shia Islam, whom they believe to be the redeemer and having died in 868 will be resurrected and will return only after the Iranians destroy Israel in an apocalyptic war. Hence Iran’s obsession with destroying Israel directly and via Hezbollah and Hamas proxies, not to mention other terrorists and the useless idiots of the Left.
Did you ever hear the Left complain about human rights abuses in Iran? Of course not. The Left supported it and similar regimes within the context of the Red-Green Alliance. They are useful idiots of each other as both want to destroy Western Civilisation.
It’s excellent that the US and Israel are doing these so-called “decapitation strikes” to remove the regime to let the Iranian people replace it with one of their own choosing who will respect human rights and also allow women to discard their hijabs and burkhas, those instruments of female oppression which strangely some Western “feminists” have claimed are “empowering”.
And while Iranian people march in the streets celebrating their forthcoming (hopeful) freedom, Leftists oppose this war which will liberate them. Leftists support the regime.
160
Thatnks for the mansplaining waffle.
316
Don’t forget it’s Hammond Organ recital night today Gee, at the old peoples home.
One good thing about Covid – it showed the division of global societies based on ideology, both on display and bubbling beneath the surface, waiting for a trigger.
Left/right, climate doom, religious etc – every personal belief, rational or not, catered to.
Freedom of choice or society-destroying delusions?
41
Hammond organs are dam hard to maintain.
15
Conflating killing children with a bomb versus a global pandemic. This is a positive contribution.
210
Bombs have killed and maimed civilians since bombs were invented. My grandad was fortunate to survive when blown through the front doorway and half way up the stairs of his little terrace house by a blast which levelled several houses. The Germans had decided that leftover bombs from the attack on the docks would hinder their escape velocity, so it was better to release them over the residential part of town.
6,000 incindiaries, several 1.000kg bombs and 3,000 butterfly bombs, intended to attract children to pick them up.
52
So basically a privileged few can stomp around the world attacking countries because they don’t think like us, have our values , may do something that they imagine and propagandize via their msm.
Gee good to know. We better behave ourselves.
20
GA, it is likely that “school tragedy” was simple propaganda.
Surrounding buildings were hit “dead center”, not on the corner. How are all targets center of mass except this one?
Missile attack profile was from the East. Improbable from anything launched from the US ships in the area.
Missile attack angle was not within operational profile of a Tomahawk missile. 80+ degrees versus max angle of 70 degrees.
A Tomahawk has a 450 kg payload. That would be much greater than what is purportedly shown to be delivered.
20 min video. Dissects these issues. https://x.com/angertab/status/2031364124051980450
also see: https://www.usasupreme.com/new-video-nyt-claims-u-s-hit-iranian-elementary-school-but-close-up-photos-of-the-projectile-tell-a-very-different-story/
63
What motivates an apologist?
310
“also see: https://www.usasupreme.com/new-video-nyt-claims-u-s-hit-iranian-elementary-school-but-close-up-photos-of-the-projectile-tell-a-very-different-story/”
That guy is a CIA shill!! He puts up a video of the missile strike, and photos of Iranian missiles only!! If you look up a Tomahawk you can see it looks much more like the missile going in than any of the Iranian ones!
Anyway, the Yanks have admitted they did it and we await Trump’s apology… not more of ‘blame the victim’.
10
PROVE that.
These unsupported claims give me the Tom Tits.
61
you know how to access sources. Look up the ongoing military investigation that has a preliminary finding of incorrect targeting.
btw “prove that” is not how this works. No one here is “proving” anything.
38
YOU make the claim YOU support it.
52
Did you look it up? Was I right or wrong?
35
Too many examples of propaganda spread to capture public opinion and proven many times that Iran is behind proxies and misinformation, Hamas related in Gaza Palestines, example Hamas claim Israel bombed a hospital and a while later the truth, that a Hamas rocket launched from nearby had a fault and crashed into the hospital.
00
So the Iranians forced the US to bomb the school?.
Such an empathy free statement.
24
You still haven’t posted any supporting evidence of your claims.
43
Lies, damn lies, statistics and war news…
21
I’m with leaf on this, a missile went off course and there was collateral damage. Not deliberate, or an act of god, just warfare in the modern era.
00
Claim and counter claim on WHOSE missile it was. Anyone saying it was a US one NEEDS corroborating evidence. I believe it was Iranian but have not made that claim because I don’t know. How could any of us know for sure?
Okham is pushing anti-American propaganda and this forum is fertile ground for that.
13
No, you’ve made the claim because you think you know, then you say that none of us know for sure . You’re applying your climate scepticism logic skills here .
There is video evidence implicating the US, that’s not propaganda .
32
STOP LYING! I have made no claim.
I don’t reference RT or Al Jazzeera.
32
H
You just said that you believe it was Iran, yet concede that you have no evidence . Good luck with that approach.
12
Again I ask: Where is your evidence? You have none, you are talking sheet, lying.
11
It’s on all the networks you don’t look at.
Conversely , where is your evidence ?, while you’re at it, include evidence for why scientists are wrong about agm .
44
I would guess the IRG also have children, like most people do … and therefore it is convenient to have a place near work where you can drop them off.
I would further presume that someone on the Western side figured this out … and knew perfectly well that those children would be close family members of key IRG officials … and that’s exactly why the school was hit.
War is about hurting the enemy.
In this case I’m fairly sure that the intention was to ensure an energetic retaliation and long standing grudges because there’s been plenty of opportunities to negotiate. Heck Obama had the JCPOA already figured out and all it needed was Senate approval (which Obama couldn’t be bothered with). As Secretary of War Hegseth explained, “We are playing for keeps.” Do not doubt the man, he is serious.
00
FWIW – another entry in “The race to collapse”
“No, Earth.org, Grasslands Are Not on the Brink of Climate Driven Collapse”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/07/no-earth-org-grasslands-are-not-on-the-brink-of-climate-driven-collapse/
Another “Production by PIK”
“The article relies entirely on a modeling study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research projecting a contraction of what it calls “safe climatic space” for grazing. The study defines narrow thresholds for temperature, rainfall, humidity, and wind speed and then projects that future warming will push large regions outside those bounds. That is not measurement, it is model-driven extrapolation layered onto emissions scenarios extending to 2100. No global dataset is presented showing that grasslands have begun to shrink by anything close to these figures under the roughly 1.2°C of warming experienced since the late nineteenth century.”
40
Anyone who has to mow their own lawn should know that there is no threat to grasslands, quite the opposite…
120
Yeah, I most certainly do, after our recent heavy rainfall, 100+ mm in 24 hours, I’ve had to mow my lawn 3 times in the last week to keep it under control. I was worried on green bin day that my bin was going to be too heavy for the truck to take it away. I actually dry the lawn clippings before I bin them to try and reduce the weight. There was one mowing I couldn’t dry because it was just too wet.
I’ve reduced the amount of lawn in my place because I hate mowing. I’d ripped out the front lawn and put in a native garden and have reduced the amount of lawn in my backyard by adding more garden beds. Still takes me half an hour to mow what lawn is left.
30
I never collect grass clippings, I leave them in place to rot and nourish the soil.
I quite like mowing the lawn, I like the smell of the cis-3-hexenal and cis-3-hexenol (the freshly cut grass smell) which is released by the grass as a distress signal. I’m not sure why this distress signal is released, what’s the grass going to do to defend itself against a herbivore – or a mower for that matter…?
Oddly, humans are particularly sensitive to this smell, can detect it at 0.25 ppb. Why? (A possible aid for early humans to forage, has been suggested.)
30
It’s like the smell of newly tilled soil. They’re called “geosmins”. If you ever drive through the major broadacre cropping areas during main seeding time, (April/May/June) the whole air seems to reek of it:-)
00
I have a mulching mower. Solves the problem.
However you need to de-thatch every few years.
Warning: may attract vegans who will munch on your lawn!
00
Warning: may attract vegans who will munch on your lawn!
Around here at the moment, that would imply the neighbors’ sheep have gone under the fence.
Not a whole lot (ie none) of green feed.
00
From The Australian
Draft figures released by the Essential Services Commission propose a 3 per cent reduction on the Victorian Default Offer (VDO), which is the maximum households will pay for electricity.
Under this proposal, households will save about $46 a year.
Small businesses are set to save 5 per cent or $172 a year.
If the power prices get through a final consultation period by April 10, households and businesses will start saving from July 1, 2026.
Is the Victorian Government facing an election this year?
40
I won’t believe it until we find it after the election.
And in the overall scheme of things $46 is nothing.
We should be paying about a third of current prices if fully running on coal, gas and real hydro as per pre-John Howard. No wind, solar, Big Batteries or diesel.
60
Anyone seen the BYD add? https://www.adsoftheworld.com/campaigns/everything-else-feels-old-fashioned. I didn’t watch it, saw it and thought more BS.
Parents dropping their kids off at a school “New Horizons Primary” All the old school parents are bringing their kids to school riding their horse and buggy etc, while the smug BYD driver passes them all in their fancy new EV.
“The film humorously contrasts the effortless modernity of the SEALION 6 with the disarray of outdated transport methods, from horse-drawn carriages to penny farthings, all converging at a school drop-off. As the sleek SUV glides through the chaos, it stands as a clear emblem of progress in a world reluctant to move forward”
In reality modern cars are all the same, all with the idiotic iPhone screen for car controls, all with their idiotic safety systems because humans are too dumb to make a decision and react in an appropriate amount of time.
The only real difference between modern ICE cars and EV’s is the power train and that EV’s, “have you seen how fast they go?” Seems to be the selling point a lot make, so, they go fast, but you’re only allowed to do the maximum indicated speed limit. Take off faster, you may be more prone to hitting something or someone.
41
BYD are trying to steal a march on Toyota, who for years pioneered hybrids. In fact Toyota did some advertising where they got stuck into EV’s ( or BPV’s). You needed a long lead etc. But then Toyota went woke and down the EV path. The irony is Toyota probably still do the best hybrids and it’s amazing they’ve never done hybrid Hiluxes. Which BYD now do – the Shark, and there’s lots of them on the roads in my part of the world.
00
Latest Nanny State insanity.
The whole point of these second generation rodentcides is that rodents developed immunity to the first generation.
What could possibly go wrong?
40
Australia will be over-run with rats, and I’m not talking about politicians or Leftists.
20
The problem with baits is that they kill everything that eats them or that eats the dead rodents, and had animal lovers up in arms for years.
Rodents and I are old enemies, just like Jackjumpers.
There are countless traps out there, thousands of designs based on the classic spring trap, and a lot of useless ones as always.
It can feel like the film “Mouse hunt” at times – the rodents are smarter than the Road Runner and you feel like Wile E. Coyote. 😁
There’s a very good channel on uselesstube by Shawn Woods covering traps. Well worth bookmarking for the rodent-afflicted, and I have no doubt a lot of people here are; the joys of country life.
https://www.youtube.com/@ShawnWoods-Homestead
00
There are far more serious problems with cats in native forests and the Government won’t generally allow recreational hunters to go in and shoot them, and who would likely do it for free in any case.
And the soon-to-be-banned 2nd generation rodentcides will still be allowed to be used by “professionals”. What difference is it a rodent killed by a professional or a home owner with a 2nd generation. pesticide?
Also, what home owner, farmer or property owner will be able to afford a professional to control rodents which might require a monthly visit?
11
There’s an aussie uselesstube channel called Edge of the outback, about rodent control on farms, mainly airgun whack-a-moleing rats en masse. Strangely enjoyable, although the city slicker rat lovers moan.
No reason why such licensed shooters can’t do the same with feral cats, but cats are far more wary of humans and harder to spot.
The TNR (trap, neuter, release) approach works albeit slower.
Like the cane toad problem, it’s widespread and no easy answer on the horizon.
10
Shooting cat seems to be an Aussie ‘thing’. NZ has cat problems with wildlife, yet no-one suggested shooting cats over there.
At the local range we are not allowed to use human heads as targets, but using cats pictures as targets is fine.
Of course if you shoot the cats, you will get mice and rats…
00
In Australia there are thousands of feral cats (and dogs including domestic gone wild) attacking farm animals and for example when PETA mob accused cattlemen of using cattle dogs to bite cattle it was pointed out the biting is not tolerated by cattlemen and the culprits are wild dog attacks. And notably on properties with public land and including green land (land acquired by Green advocates) previously farming land.
On a mate’s sheep and wheat property of 16,000 acres I once went hunting for a very large small to medium size dog dimension cat which he shot but there were others to be hunted and the homestead cats often suffered lead poisoning (shotgun) when their numbers in a nearby bush became a nuisance, otherwise tolerated because they keep unwanted creatures at bay.
00
Vitamin D3 works very, very well as the active ingredient in rodent bait.
00
I use that, as they say, ‘rats”
00
Has anyone else dramatic and distressing change on Melbourne streets ?
Instead of attractive young ladies holding the “Slow-Go” signs there are rough-looking, big belly old men…
10
A need to cut the accident rate!
00
Vladamir, you didn’t complete your sentence.
Being Victoria did the complete sentence end “rough-looking, big belly old men … in dresses”?
10
FWIW – on maps. Long
“In Theory”
“Recently on X someone posted a thing about how the Biden State Department had been very busy trying to make the maps gay.
You can’t say that sentence with a straight face. You also can’t read it with a straight face. It also wasn’t exactly what they were doing but what they were doing was both as ridiculous and more alarming.
You see, what they were doing was “queering the maps.” If you’re at all humanities adjacent, have a humanities degree taken in the last… oh, fifty years, or keep up with the insanity of academia, you know that “queering” encompasses gay, but isn’t exactly gay.
It’s more of a “turn everything upside down” type of thing, part of the absolute belief that if Western Society collapses Utopia ensues. This belief is both bizarre and widespread and is causing a lot — as in a lot — of suffering, death, cultural dissolution and horror the world over. For quite literally no good reason.
Before I get into it, let me explain what they LIKELY meant by “queering the maps.” You see, maps are weird things. Turns out it is really hard to translate a spherical (or really slightly pear shaped) object into a flat surface. This is why we have several methods of projection that give us the maps we’re familiar with. The important thing, when these maps were created being “To facilitate world navigation” in an era with no GPS or satelite guidance.”
“Now try to imagine the minds that believe — absolutely believe — that the shit show in the third (and much of the would-be-first) world is because their countries aren’t “proportionately represented” in this flat projection which most of us study in schools and is only really important and relevant for life to navigators, pilots and the like. (And less so, in a time of GPS.) They heartily believe that at the heart of the cultural dysfunction and to put it mildly the failure to thrive of millions of people is…. that they felt humiliated when they looked at maps in elementary school.
In the history of projection, this one is a planet-sized IMAX. First word problems whose major trauma was being laughed at in elementary school think problems caused by tribalism, barbarism, dysfunctional culture, dysfunctional beliefs and, yes, Marxism (the worst ever colonial export) can be cured if we just make third worlders feel better about the size of their countries.”
More at
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/03/09/in-theory/
20
I’m wondering if the current use of the US-English term “regime change” is a euphemism for “conspiracy to murder”?
21
Why would murdering murderers be wrong? SOP for millennia.
10
“Why would murdering murderers be wrong?”
Dunno, should they have another shot at Trump?
If we’re looking at ‘an eye for an eye’, should an ‘interested third party’ in another country be allowed to enact vengeance for someone wronged by a murderer, or is it limited to the victim’s family only??
01
Incredible agitprop. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/australias-summers-are-getting-longer-with-more-extreme-heat/106419414
A one degree increase in averages is most likely changes to instruments and local surroundings, but they portray it as making heat waves more likely. As if there are now more heat waves combined with freezing cold snaps so that the average is only a degree up. Surely even ABC diehards smell the fishiness?
One degree is not the difference between a sunny afternoon and a scorcher, but that is how the statistics are analysed to come up with scary numbers. It’s dishonest.
51
It is clearly a scam. Trump right again.
20
No matter what they print about the world getting hot, none of it count when I get dressed in the morning!
When my local weather is notably hot for enough years I’ll believe in it, but when I’m putting a pullover on in ‘summer’ I have no time for their nonsense.
00
Florida makes Ivermectin OTC and restores freedom of choice
The Florida Senate passed a bill creating a “conscience exemption” for vaccine requirements for children in K-12 schools and allowing ivermectin without a prescription for sale to adults 18 and older in the upper chamber this week.
Known as the Medical Freedom Act, SB 1756 aims to give parents more relevant and timely information regarding their children’s health, including specific material before a vaccine is given and when applying for an exemption.
https://floridianpress.com/2026/03/florida-senate-clears-medical-freedom-act-over-the-counter-sale-of-ivermectin/
Meanwhile here…
50
Australian politicians agreed to ‘keep quiet’ about the country’s fuel crisis – now regional servos are running dry
‘We have heard the government and the Energy Minister say to Australians that the fuel supply situation in this country is under control,’ he said.
‘But Australians are telling us it is out of control. The situation is out of control, and we have asked questions in Parliament over and over and again about Australians who are not being able to get access to the fuels that they need.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15637259/Fuel-crisis-Australia-government.html
Public service – we don’t elect people to rule or even lead us. We elect people to serve us.
Has this concept been lost?
40
Which is a sure indication that it is not under control.
10
On a related subject I listened to the news service on my oldies radio station explain that the reason petrol prices were high was …
wait for it …
panic buying.
… and if only people would stop panic buying prices would return to lower levels.
Yeah. Nothing to do with a sudden price rise with a likelihood of more jacking up prices to come to get people filling up. And it all could have been avoided had petrol wholesalers just resisted the temptation to gouge motorists. But that’s not what the news said.
Talking of running out of fuel I refilled when I returned home and watched as a perplexed land cruiser driver struggled with the diesel nozzle. I was worried that he might be trying to put diesel in a petrol car so I went over to have a chat. Yes it was a diesel car but his usual pump was out of order. It turned out that the one he was using was a high flow pump which had a bigger nozzle.
So not only are normal diesel nozzles bigger to prevent diesel fuel going into petrol cars, there are at least two different sizes of diesel nozzle.
You learn something every day.
10
My first age verification request today!
Looks like sites are increasingly geolocating people in Oz and requiring age verification for access. Thanks Albo!
Choices – face scan, credit card or 3rd party verification service.
I don’t think so. Changed location to Argentina.
Access granted.
Time taken: 10 seconds.
00
What VPN do you recommend?
Also, it looks like “age verification” is spreading far and wide for Australians.
It means your identity will be linked to any of your posts, even beyond the sites they originally claimed they were banning for under 16’s to prevent them having access to alternative opinions.
Totally as the “far right conspiracy theorists” (i.e. conservatives) predicted.
What site asked for your age?
It looks like yet another “far right conspiracy theory” came true.
21
I had something similar. When I saw the suggestion I might give my credit card number my suspicious mind immediately thought no way in hell and I giving you that or anything else.
Although I might get a photo of the Prime Minister in frilly underwear to hold in front of the camera next time. As soon as I figure out who the PM is.
The bad guys really are trying one on.
10
Breaking News that the Federal Government has “found” a large amount of diesel fuel to be here shortly.
The reason I am posting this is the attached commentary, it’s not good for the environment because of the Sulphur content level.
The transition and renewable energy farce propaganda continues
30
My local servo had no diesel yesterday. It must be tough for truckers trying to make a living.
10
The next badly needed government decision must be to lift the emissions regulation that demands AdBlu be added to diesel fuel on engines without other approved emissions systems.
00
…followed by removing GST, the ‘tax on a tax’ that will be going up daily as the price goes up.
00
The ABC has produced a story:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/petrol-quality-relaxed-100-million-litre-boost/106446796
10
Minister Bowen told Parliament that the Clean Air Act is being suspended to enable us to use Ampol Australia oil refinery diesel they produce for export to “countries that do not have Australia’s emissions high standards”.
10
Thinking that Clean Air Act and sulphur content diesel not for sale here but produced and exported by Ampol Australia.
Obviously that is a reason that one of two or both oil refineries still in operation here are surviving, producing cheaper to produce sulphur content diesel fuel for export markets.
Now consider this and as another reason why all the other oil refineries have closed down, the last four leaving two from 2022 to 2024. Obviously planned closures over years earlier.
10
That is good news for older injection systems where the S content helped their lubrication
10
Yeah but what about newer European cars with catalytic converters? Not only can higher sulphur petrol impede their working – hence the suspension of the clean air act cause more bad stuff will come out of the exhaust – but also “This (higher sulphur) can result in reduced emissions control, increased tailpipe emissions, and potentially trigger warning lights or engine performance issues.”
Stand by for all those increased demands on NDIS subsidies because someone has to pay for the repairs to the expensive european cars used to get to physio and doctors appointments.
10
Toyota International still has a factory dedicated to manufacturing the old technology 4WD range of light trucks, SUVs and troop carrier vans for third world developing countries.
Consider climate change politics and impositions in developed countries and the disregard for emissions reduction elsewhere, including the export from Australian by Ampol of oil pumped here and exported as “old fuel” specification
10
I acknowledge the public health reasons for emissions control
10
Your “always were always will be” moment as far as emissions go lol.
Just another thought though what about new (petrol hybrid) car warranties? I’m assuming the manufacturer warranty designates what grade of petrol should be put in the car so if this is voided who’s going to drive you home with your car stuck at the repairers ’cause they wont fix it without you agreeing to pay for non-warranty work.
00
FWIW – more things that weren’t
“I’m glad to hear that the chemical imbalance theory of mental illness isn’t really debunked…..turns out it was bulldust the entire time……
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mood-swings/202210/has-the-serotonin-hypothesis-been-debunked ”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/03/08/w-o-o-d-8-march-2026-global-shit-show-in-ot/#comment-181113
10
FWIW
“WE’RE A GREAT COUNTRY STRANGLED BY STUPID REGULATIONS: American manufacturers pay 3x more to finance equipment than their global competitors. It has nothing to do with pricing or tariffs, it’s a regulatory accident from 2008 that no one has bothered to fix until now.”
https://instapundit.com/782086/#disqus_thread
Oz probably said “Here! Hold my beer!
10
Who said that? Why? Is there corroborating evidence?
01
Now THIS will get some backs up! Rule #1 of war i that you don’t attack banks!
“Last night Israel and U.S. fighter jets destroyed Bank Sepah’s data center in Tehran. Bank Sepah does the salaries payment for Iran’s military personal.
Following the strike Iran announced that it would target U.S. and Israeli banks in the region. Citibank and HSBC instructed staff in Dubai and other Gulf countries to evacuate their offices.
This is another step in the retreat of the U.S. from the Middle East.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/03/war-on-iran-bank-attacks-mine-fakes-price-manipulation-more-thaad-to-destroy.html
10
Jeez, you talk sheet, Rule 1 is : Kill the enemy.
Higher in the unwritten laws would be something about attacking embassies.
11
Rule 1 is : Kill the enemy.
and first you must define who the enemy is.
When confronting a culture that says EVERYONE must attack the non-believers?
00
The enemy is those who want to kill you. That’s not hard is it.
Found anything believable that Israelis shot that rocket yet or are you still lying?
11