@know_tru@brightooth@FloppingAces Bollocks.
They don't need ICBM.
With material for 10 bombs they'd either,
A. Smuggle one/multiple into Israel, Saudi, Europe, US. Detonate to try and end 'big & little satans', or
B. Hold Gulf States hostage to nuclear threats. Regional and world chaos, or
C. Both.
Result. WW3.
@JulianHillMP We want the same as the Japanese people.
A mostly homogeneous, mono culture, high trust society.
Are they vile racists, too?
You ask why, but don't seek to understand.
Instead you insult, "vile", "garbage" etc.
It's so boring.
You actually just want to pull Australia apart.
A while ago, I watched the infamous 47-minute video documenting the atrocities of October 7th — the one not made publicly available, to protect the privacy of the victims.
The worst part of this video is not what it displays, but who is displaying it: the perpetrators themselves. Gleefully. Sadistically. Unabashedly. Most of the footage was filmed by Hamas terrorists on their GoPro bodycams, some also by ordinary Gazan civilians on their cellphones.
Even the Nazis tried to cover up their atrocities, but Hamas brags about theirs for the entire world to see. The killers are euphoric throughout the massacre, and their relentless, ecstatic cries of "Allahu Akbar" (punctuated by the occasional "Kill the Jew!") are simply nauseating.
Some images are seared into my memory forever. I will never forget the two boys in their underwear — one with his eye socket hanging out of his face — asking his brother whether he thinks they're going to die, while the Hamas monster who had just thrown a grenade in their saferoom helps himself to a drink from their fridge, taking a casual break from the slaughter.
Neither will I ever forget the terrorists playing football with a severed head. Or the Thai migrant worker whose head is viciously hacked off with a garden hoe — another "Zionist colonizer" getting what he deserved, right?https://t.co/JvfJEtk8LA
Or the throngs of Gazans crowding around pickup trucks loaded with the mutilated corpses of Jewish women, filming and spitting on the bodies. Or the woman in Kibbutz Mefalsim, crouching and begging in vain for mercy.
There is some evidence of sexual violence in the video — the charred corpse of a young woman with her legs splayed and her genitals exposed — but not much. Apparently even Hamas draws a line somewhere: they are not as proud of raping Jewish women as they are of murdering them. Or, more likely, they simply didn't want to embarrass the delicate sensibilities of their legions of useful idiots in the West.
But yes — there was rape. Not "rape" in scare quotes, as the apologists would have it, but sadistic, murderous sexual violence, documented in a new damning new report by The Civil Commission, an independent Israeli women's rights NGO. (video summary here: https://t.co/LTTjiO1s7E)
Across its 180 pages, the report describes "a recurring pattern of rape and gang rape; sexual torture; mutilation; targeted shooting to the face, head and genital area; forced nudity; binding and restraint; genital burning; objects inserted into intimate areas; post-mortem sexual humiliation; and execution during or after sexual assault."
And it was premeditated and organized. The terrorists crossing into Israel carried printed Arabic-to-Hebrew phrasebooks with handy expressions like "take off your pants," "lie down," "spread your legs," and "don't make trouble." I wonder why they expected to need those particular phrases?
I know one thing: no civilized country on earth would tolerate the existence of an organization like Hamas on its border after October 7th. Not one. This includes every self-righteous Westerner currently lecturing Israel from thousands of kilometres away, without an inch of skin in the game.
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Energy expert Dr. Lars Schernikau: It sounds simple… until you do the math.
• 1 GWh battery = 700,000 tons of mined materials
• Takes 450 GWh to build (450x its capacity)
• Stores as much as 400 tons of coal
Hours of storage. Massive mining, degradation & risks.
This doesn’t fix intermittency, it multiplies the destruction.
‘Batteries are an environmental nightmare’.
Rat cunning only gets you so far, as #JanetAlbrechtsen wrote in the Australian.
Now Albanese is painfully out of his depth , and the whole nation can see it.
*Finally. .
Yes, it’s true that only 34% of Australians voted for this vain, shallow fake of a human being.
The preferential electoral system did the rest and we ended up with this ghastly little cartoon character pretending to be our leader.
We all know the story of his upbringing, the movie tear-jerker about his single mum and the public housing.
But perhaps there’s another little thing that everybody’s missed .
He only ever had a real job for 12 months .
*That’s right .
He had a job working in the Commonwealth Bank and then Voila! he was ushered into the labour apparatchik system where bright young boys are nurtured for a political career..
Albanese has never been part of the struggle like all the rest of us.
He never had troubles at work, lost his job, never had to sit around the kitchen table with the family and talk about hard times and a budget .
The party was always looking after him .
When you’ve only had a real job for 12 months he never did learn to apologise, never had to admit you were wrong, never had to be humble like everybody else .
Ordinary life has a way of bashing that into you.
The truth is that weedy-weasel Socialist party boy was stroked and groomed and preened enough times by enough party faithful to believe that he was born to be king
And the life of political system and the thousands of hand picked spin masters did the rest .
And then one day a couple of religious lunatics started shooting people on an iconic Australian beach - and the nation suddenly woke up, rubbed their eyes and saw the terrible reality of the situation.
When they really needed leadership, they realised what the labor party - remember their slogans - do whatever it takes, win at all costs - had done to them.
A long time ago when we were young there was a movie called Love Story with Ryan O’Neill and Ali McGraw..
The line was ‘love means never having to say sorry.’ .
I wonder if that’s true this time around ?
I wonder if Albanese really, really loves us so much he doesn’t have to say sorry?
Not to anyone?.
Or do we have a pandered and preened little *Socialist King who thinks he can do whatever he likes ?
*Pehaps the truth is simple: we witnessing the most disappointing and disgraceful Prime Minister that this nation has ever elected to office.
— Cry the beloved country.
We are so much better than this. 👍🏽
A single intercourse with one of the virgins of paradise will last seventy thousand years.
The Islamic afterlife isn’t about communion with God, spiritual enlightenment, or divine wisdom, it’s a carnal, male-centered fantasy of unlimited sexual gratification.
Islamic texts describe these women as perpetual virgins, untouched, and designed solely for the pleasure of men.
“Indeed, We have produced the women of Paradise in a [new] creation. And made them virgins, devoted [to their husbands] and of equal age.�� (Quran 56:35-37)
“Fair ones reserved in pavilions. Untouched before by any man or jinn.” (Quran 55:72-74)
Hadith collections affirm that after every act of intercourse, these “virgins” miraculously return to a state of virginity so the process can be repeated endlessly.
These heavenly beings are not just virgins, they are physically exaggerated to fulfill male fantasies:
Large, round breasts:“Indeed, for the pious there is a triumph… full-breasted companions of equal age.” (Quran 78:31-33)
The Arabic term kawa‘ib in 78:33 literally means “firm, swelling breasts.”
Big, lustrous eyes:“They will have maidens with intensely white skin and large black eyes, as if they were hidden pearls.” (Quran 52:20)
Glowing, hairless, smooth skin:“If one of the women of paradise were to appear to the people of the earth, she would fill the space between heaven and earth with light and fragrance.” (Tirmidhi, 2538)
Muhammad explicitly stated that men in paradise will have endless sexual stamina, never experiencing fatigue.
The virgins, in turn, never get tired, never say no, and are always ready for intercourse.
The Prophet was asked, “O Messenger of Allah, do we have sexual intercourse in Paradise?” He replied: “Yes, by the One in Whose Hand is my soul, a man will have sexual intercourse with a hundred virgins in one morning.” (Ibn Majah, 4337)
Another hadith states that men will be given the strength of 100 men in sexual performance. (Tirmidhi, 2536)
According to Al-Suyuti, a famous Islamic scholar:
“The believer will be given such and such strength in paradise for intercourse… A single intercourse with one of the virgins of paradise will last seventy thousand years.” (Al-Suyuti, Al-Haba’ik fi Akhbar al-Mala’ik)
These “virgins” don’t need to poop, pee, or sweat, they exist for one purpose: eternal male pleasure.
“They will neither urinate, defecate, nor suffer from phlegm or mucus. Their sweat will be musk.” (Muslim, 2834)
“They will be hairless except for their eyebrows and eyelashes.” (Tirmidhi, 2536)
A believer doesn’t get just one virgin, he gets dozens, or even hundreds.
“A martyr will have 72 virgins.” (Tirmidhi, 1663)
“The lowest rank of a person in paradise will have 80,000 servants and 72 wives.” (Ibn Majah, 4337)
While men are promised an endless supply of sex slaves, the fate of women in Islam’s paradise is nonexistent or humiliating.
Women in Islamic eschatology exist only for men’s pleasure, nothing else.
While other religions speak of enlightenment, unity with God, or transcendent joy, Islam offers a pornographic fantasy land where men indulge in endless sex, alcohol, and servitude.
What kind of God rewards faithfulness with an eternal orgy?
What kind of religion reduces the afterlife to a hypersexualized playground?
This is not spiritual. This is not divine. This is the theology of a man who designed an afterlife to justify his own sexual obsessions.
And yet, Muslims claim Islam is the most moral and pure religion.
Islam’s paradise is nothing more than a cosmic brothel.
Let me aske the un-askable question.
If respecting indigenous culture is so important, why are white, oppressive colonisers denying indigenous Australians their version of justice?
The victim is indigenous, the accused is indigenous, the crime was in an indigenous community, and the mob gathered outside the hospital is made up mostly or perhaps entirely of indigenous people...
But we're imposing white-man, colonial, oppressive ideas like... 'innocent until proven guilty', like a 'jury of your peers', like having a day in court and a proper defence and not being murdered before trial by a mob of angry locals.
Where are the lefties who supported the voice? The ones who condemn us if we question the 'welcome to country'? Those who insist that indigenous culture is inherently virtuous because it got here first... and English civilisation is inherently evil because it took over later?
Where are they? When will they speak up in support of handing the accused over to the angry mob?
Because right now members of the indigenous community would like to carry out their culturally appropriate form of justice in this case, and it's the evil white man who is stopping them.
How dare we!?!
But actually the real question is this... if we're all going to agree that western justice is more civilized, that mob justice isn't acceptable even in such an emotionally charged case as this one... then doesn't that means we should also be allowed to ask whether perhaps western civilisation is better in other ways too? Doesn't it beg the question whether English civilisation actually improved Australia?
And if not... then why not just hand the accused over the mob? It would stop the riots after all...
Yeah, I know, I'm 'evil' just for pointing out the hypocrisy, come at me in the comments.
Imagine if all the fuss over the Welcome to Country Ceremonies were turned to:
- Aboriginal women being 34-80 times (times, not percent) more likely to be the victim of DV and 12 times more likely to be murdered;
- underage girls being 30-60 times more likely to have an STI
- Alice Springs being the stabbing capital of the world;
- Katherine and Tennant Creek having the highest murder rates in the world - yes, higher than the USA with 400,000,000 guns.
- School attendance rates of under 5%
- Towns where 90% of children have been sexually abused
- Toddlers being raped
- Regular inter-tribal riots in Wadeye, Aurukun, Peppimenarti, Kununurra, etc
- The rate of removal of in-danger children having more than doubled since the Rudd national apology for the Rescued Generations.
Imagine. Just imagine.
Dear Muslims of the Australia.
My family and I have decided to move to a Muslim country. We haven’t picked which one yet — we’re still shopping for the best benefits package.
Obviously, all my neighbours want to come too. And their neighbours. And their mates. And their mates’ mates. Before you know it, half of Australia will be turning up with suitcases and a vague sense of entitlement.
As a large Christian community, we’ll need a few small adjustments:
Please start building churches immediately. Proper ones with bells. Loud bells.
We’ll also need certain streets closed once a year for our processions. Don’t worry, it’s not five times a day — we’re not animals.
Every supermarket must stock proper pork, bacon, sausages, and baked beans. We are a minority now, so you’ll just have to be understanding and accommodating of our way of life.
We’re bringing all the dogs. Expect many happy Labradors shitting on your pavements. You’ll need dog parks, and you’ll need to smile while we walk them past your mosques.
While we’re at it, your religious holidays are a bit… much. They might offend the Christian community, so we’d appreciate it if you could quietly bin them. Thanks.
In schools and workplaces, our children and staff must be allowed to wear large crucifixes, eat ham sandwiches in the canteen, and generally radiate Christian vibes without anyone clutching their pearls. We also demand prayer rooms in every building, plus translators because we can’t be bothered learning Arabic.
If any of this is refused, please send a list of police station addresses so we can report you for discrimination, Christianphobia, and general nastiness.
One more thing: if my kids burn your flag because Australis just won at football, please be understanding. I’ll give them a really stern telling-off. Maybe even make them write “sorry” 50 times.
Finally, we’d like generous benefits, free housing, and pocket money while we “integrate” over the next three generations. Work is optional, obviously.
Appreciate your tolerance in advance. After all, diversity is our strength!
Yours faithfully,
A Very Reasonable Christian
JUST IN: Iran just pulled a thirty-year-old empty supertanker out of retirement and began towing it toward Kharg Island. She is moving so slowly that a voyage that should take a day and a half is taking four days.
Her name is NASHA. IMO 9079107. Built 1996. A two-million-barrel very large crude carrier that has been anchored empty off Kharg for years. TankerTrackers confirmed her reactivation yesterday. Gulf News, Iran International, and Fox News all picked it up within hours.
The reason she is moving at all is that Iran is running out of places to put the oil.
Kharg Island handles roughly ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports. Its onshore tanks had about thirteen million barrels of spare capacity when the US blockade began on April 13. Net inflow since has been running at one million to one point one million barrels per day because exports have collapsed to single digits of vessels while upstream production continues. The math is mechanical. Roughly twelve days of spare capacity. The calendar says that window closes this week.
NASHA is not a strategy. NASHA is what you do when you have run out of strategy.
A two-million-barrel floating storage vessel buys Iran approximately forty-eight hours of continued upstream production. After that, either the wells get shut in or the crude goes somewhere else. The parallel options being pursued, ship-to-ship transfers in the Riau Archipelago, AIS-dark transits, sanctioned VLCCs returning home through the blockade line, are not enough. Lloyd’s List Intelligence has tracked roughly twenty-six Iran-linked vessels evading since April 13. That cannot absorb a million barrels a day.
The wells will shut in. The question is which wells, for how long, and whether they come back.
The Asmari and Bangestan carbonate formations that sit under most of Iran’s giant southern fields are high-permeability, strong-water-drive systems. The Society of Petroleum Engineers literature on this specific reservoir class is unambiguous. Remove continuous pressure support for a prolonged shut-in and four damage mechanisms activate simultaneously: water coning upward through the fracture network, fines migration into pore throats, formation compaction under increased effective stress, and clay swelling under altered salinity and pH. The damage is not theoretical. It is documented. And it is measured in months to years of recoverable production capacity, not days.
Maleki and Gordon estimate three hundred to five hundred thousand barrels per day of permanent capacity loss if the current shut-in trajectory completes. That is a directional estimate, not a lab measurement, but the direction is not in dispute.
NASHA is the archaeological signature of the clock.
When a country with the world’s third-largest oil reserves reactivates a thirty-year-old retired tanker to float on top of its main export terminal and buy forty-eight hours of time, the institutional systems designed to absorb shocks have already failed. The insurance market, the shadow fleet, the diplomatic channels, and the reservoir physics are all converging on the same conclusion at different speeds, and NASHA is the one that shows up on satellite.
The market is pricing a ceasefire.
The Pentagon is pricing six months of mine clearance.
Iran just pulled a corpse out of the Persian Gulf and asked it to buy two days.
That is not how a reversible crisis looks. That is how a regime tells you, operationally, that it has run out of options between the blockade and the shut-in. The reservoir does not negotiate.
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Here’s what drives people nuts on both sides: Trump is not the cartoon character. Not the genius his fans worship, not the idiot his critics need him to be.
He's just a stubborn, calculating guy who creates chaos the way a magician creates misdirection. While you’re distracted watching the fireworks, he’s already three iterations ahead with furious execution.
And he doesn’t bluff the way people think he bluffs. He just couldn't care less about the part of diplomacy where everyone pretends to be polite while lying to each other’s faces. He skips that step entirely, which looks unhinged if you’re used to the old choreography but is genuinely disorienting if you’re the guy on the other side of the table who had a whole manipulation strategy mapped out.
Iran found this out the hard way.
What gets lost in so much noise is that Trump doesn’t actually want war. He sees it as the ugly price tag on a bigger purchase. His math on Iran is cold but not complicated: ninety million people living between poverty and the lower middle class, ruled by an elite whose entire business model depends on keeping them there.
The nukes were the urgent priority, but his bet is that removing the lid will let Iranians rebuild the way Germany did after the rubble cleared. You can argue whether that math checks out, but it’s not the reasoning of someone who just wants to watch things explode.
Obviously, Iran isn’t the only file on his desk. Venezuela already got the treatment. Cuba’s probably next. Syria hasn’t been forgotten either, no matter how quiet things look. By this point, few should be surprised that he circles back to unfinished business with the patience of a guy who knows he’s holding better cards and just needs to wait for overconfidant tyrants to overplay theirs.
The part his opponents keep getting wrong is treating “Make America Great Again” like a bumper sticker.
Wrong.
It’s a *doctrine* now. It has always been.
Whether you love it or find it terrifying, MAGA is the very operating system behind his relentless drive. This not just some random pixellated banner which will fade away in the next couple presidential terms.
Nah, this is the right stuff that will outlast the man who built it.
- @Knesix
Sky News Au
The Loy Yang A power station in Victoria's Latrobe Valley generates 2210 megawatts of electricity. Around the clock. Every day. Rain hail or shine. It supplies roughly 30 percent of Victoria's entire electricity needs and powers over two million homes. It has been doing this since 1984.
The active coal pit that feeds it covers 650 hectares. The total site including everything around it is 6000 hectares. To put that in perspective for anyone in regional NSW that is roughly the size of a decent family farm.
In 2023 AGL spent 92 million dollars refurbishing one of its four generator units to keep it running reliably until its scheduled closure. The station is not worn out. It is not running out of coal. It is being closed by a political decision not an engineering one.
Now here is the part that should make every Australian stop and think.
The coal is not running out. The Loy Yang mine has reserves of 168 billion tonnes of brown coal. At current usage of 30 million tonnes per year that is enough coal to last roughly 500 years on that one site alone. Geoscience Australia calculated total recoverable brown coal reserves across the entire Latrobe Valley at more than 76 billion tonnes. At current production levels those reserves are expected to last more than 1000 years.
And getting at it is not difficult. The layer of dirt covering the coal seam is only between 5 and 24 metres thick. The coal seam below it averages 180 metres thick. You remove a thin layer of topsoil and there it is. The Victorian Government has already extended the mining licence to 2065. The mine was originally planned to operate until 2048. It is being deliberately closed 13 years early.
So what does it take to replace it.
To generate the same amount of electricity from solar panels during daylight hours you need somewhere between 14000 and 16000 hectares of panels. That is more than 20 times the land area of the entire Loy Yang site including the mine. And after all that solar produces nothing at night. Nothing on heavily overcast days. And nothing at all after a hailstorm tears through the installation.
So you need wind turbines to cover the nights and the cloudy days.
Australian wind turbines have a real world capacity factor of around 30 to 35 percent. That means a turbine rated at 6 megawatts only generates an average of around 2 megawatts of actual power across a full year because the wind does not blow consistently. To replace 2210 megawatts of around the clock coal power with wind you need installed wind capacity of roughly 6500 to 7000 megawatts. At 6 megawatts per turbine that is over 1100 wind turbines.
The Sapphire Wind Farm in NSW has 75 turbines and covers 8921 hectares. Scaling that up to 1100 turbines you are looking at roughly 130000 hectares of wind farm sprawling across regional Australia.
And even then it still cannot guarantee power on a calm cloudy night. For those periods you need batteries or pumped hydro storage which requires yet more land and yet more billions.
So to replace one coal power station and its mine covering 6000 hectares you need approximately 14000 to 16000 hectares of solar panels plus approximately 130000 hectares of wind farm plus thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines to connect it all to where people actually live plus battery storage or pumped hydro for the gaps.
That is a total footprint of somewhere between 130000 and 150000 hectares against 6000 hectares for Loy Yang. More than 20 times the land area. Mostly on prime agricultural land across regional Australia. And it still cannot guarantee a single watt on a calm cloudy night.
The transmission lines needed to carry all this electricity are already blowing out catastrophically in cost before they are even built. The Central West Orana transmission zone near Dubbo started at 650 million dollars and is now confirmed at 5.5 billion. Eight times the original estimate. The VNI West project connecting Victoria and NSW went from 3.9 billion to potentially 11 billion. Project EnergyConnect from South Australia to NSW went from 1.53 billion to over 4 billion. Every dollar of every blowout goes onto your electricity bill for the next 30 to 50 years through network charges.
Australian taxpayers and electricity customers have already paid more than 29 billion dollars subsidising the renewable energy industry over the past ten years. The 2024 federal budget committed another 22 billion on top of that. That is over 50 billion dollars and counting.
For a fraction of that money Australia could have built several modern high efficiency gas or coal power stations that would generate reliable electricity around the clock on a fraction of the land. Or we could have a serious conversation about nuclear power which France has used for decades to generate cheap reliable around the clock electricity on minimal land with zero carbon emissions.
Instead we are deliberately closing a perfectly good power station that was just refurbished for 92 million dollars. Walking away from a coal reserve that would last 500 years. Covering tens of thousands of hectares of prime agricultural land with solar panels made in China using coal fired electricity. Building 1100 wind turbines across farming country that still cannot keep the lights on after dark. And spending hundreds of billions on transmission lines that blow out to eight times their original cost before the first pole is in the ground.
We are closing a 6000 hectare power station and mine that has powered Victoria for 40 years to build 150000 hectares of solar and wind infrastructure that cannot match what it replaces.
And the people making these decisions do not farm a single acre of the land they are covering with panels and turbines.