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Gees, just come across a YT on Iran - Real Iran - behind the scenes of chaos nobody realises-Tok discovery. Bloody hell, seem like lovely people something like l wish Aussies were and a lovely country too. They actually really look after their people , another thing l wished happened in Aus. Dig it up on YT if interested , really surprised.

Starts in 7 minutes. Nev

The Bats in the trees are Probably safe, unfortunately. Nev

This is Lindsay street in Katherine from 19 hrs ago. The Katherine K-Mart K-hub and the BP servo and adjoining shops are under water, to about waist-deep, by the look of it. The Katherine River peaked at 19.21M on Saturday night and has dropped back to 18.9M at 10:30AM this (Sunday) morning. Google Street View will give you an idea of what it looks like normally! https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lindsay+St,+Katherine+NT+0850/@-14.4635718,132.2654121,1052

That change to the power system has caught Oscar out, resulting in a crash putting him out of the race before it starts. Crashed in the formation lap.

The Americans have slowly woken up to the massive cost to their economy, of their ever-more-expensive weaponry. https://theconversation.com/the-us-is-using-repurposed-iranian-drone-technology-to-attack-iran-a-military-expert-explains-why-277397

An even bigger irony is that the US manufactures it’s own version of a Shahed 136 drone called LUCAS. They reverse engineered a Shahed.

Iranians are Shiite. Not the Most radical group by any means. Saudi ( the Kingdom) are an offshoot of Sunni (wahabi) but may now go under another name are the Most extreme in interpreted doctrine. Nev

if you live in Godzone country why bother with $#!thole Places? Nev

All the Iranians here, that I have ever dealt with, are pleasant people to deal with, hard workers - and all despair at the state of the country they left. The original Iranian Farsi (Persian) culture was held in high esteem for its civilised level, and the Farsi's reached high levels of sophistication in arts, poetry, mathematics, and numerous other fields. They treated others in a civil manner, and social etiquette was well developed, and they were admired for centuries for their cultivated outlook. But somewhere along the way, the cultured Farsi allowed other cultures to infiltrate their nation, and those cultures were Islamist fundamentalist rock apes, who worked on religious violence, religious repression, and subordination by devious means - and the artistic and highly educated Farsi's were overwhelmed, and their ability to deal with poor leadership was constantly beaten down. One would hope, that soon, the cultured and educated Farsi's who believe in religious tolerance, and who formerly had good governmental processes, will gain the upper hand. But I cannot see that happening unless there is much more major bloodshed to come, as the Islamist religious rock apes are still in too high a number, to allow that to happen. They extend throughout many Islamic countries, and support religious repression and extreme murderous violence, at every attempt to remove them from power.

The 1.7M barrels of oil purchased in 2020 as part of Australia's storage reserves, and stored in a Texas salt cavern, was severely criticised by opponents after it was purchased, with opponents claiming it would be of little use to us in the event of a war, because of the time lag in accessing/shipping it (2 to 3 weeks), and the risk of loss via enemy attack in shipping channels, when on its way here. The message must have been heeded, because that oil reserve was sold off in 2022. I have no idea whether a financial loss or gain was incurred in the sale - but it may been sold at a profit, as oil prices spiked in 2022, thanks to the Ukraine invasion by Russia. Regardless, the simple fact remains, we still do not have the stipulated 90 days of oil reserves in hand, as required by the IEA. Our fuel reserves are currently around 34 to 36 days, and that should be of great concern to every politician with more than one functioning brain cell. Unfortunately, we have quite a number of politicians who seem to lack any functioning brain cells.

That was arranged By ANGUS TAYLOR. 80 Mil worth of crude if I recall correctly. Nev

That seems a pretty dumb place to store our crude given the geographical distance. We probably have no means to refines it here anyway but the yanks always do whatever they like irrespective of agreements and/or water tight contracts.

Regarding oil. I believe that Australia's reserves of crude oil are stored in Texas. If the USA cannot import crude oil due to the war, how long would it be before Trump commandeeers our stored crude?

I travelled through Iran to Afghanistan in 1975 before the Shah was deposed. I found most locals polite but border officials etc were not. I even hitch hiked from the Turkish border to a small town & then took a bus to Tehran. The main roads were good having been built by the US but the rest was quite poor then. I was only there for a week & saw some amazing architecture & ancient sites. If the place wasn't run by Islamist fanatics it would be great. The Shah was very wealthy but most people were poor. One of the reasons for the original takeover. Back to the sinking of the Iranian warship. US military sources stated it was the first sinking of a an enemy ship by a submarine launched torpedo since WW2. Well No. There have been 4 since and of course that included the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinking the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano in 1982 during the Falklands war. The Yanks don't get much right especially history that they continually re-write to suit their narrative. As for fuel prices it doesn't bother me as they have yet to figure out how to tax the sun.

No, that's an incorrect assumption. The article says "$700M worth of agricultural exports". That amount would be comprised largely of agricultural machinery. We have no tractor industry left in Australia, so we import American-built tractors, harvesters and tillage equipment by the shipload. And they are all big-ticket items. Some of the headers and tractors are now approaching the $1M mark for purchase price. The amount of American beef shipped to Australia can barely be measured, they can't supply enough beef to Americans, so they ship in ... wait for it ... AU$5.2B worth of Australian beef each year! The level of American shipments of beef to Australia is estimated to be around US$1M to US$2M at a maximum - a drop in the ocean compared to the AU$19.5B worth of beef that Australia exported in total in 2024. https://globalaginvesting.com/australia-opens-market-to-u-s-beef-imports-after-two-decades/

Tehran is at a high altitude and a long way from the SEA. Iranians are very well educated.. Nev

The new cars are smaller, lighter & are hybrids with a 50/50 split between internal combustion & electric power & use 100% sustainable fuels. The drivers have to manage the power split now. I've watched the Formula E cars a couple of times & they have incredible acceleration but races are shorter due to battery constraints but now the Gen 3 versions are 4WD & allow for fast charging pit stops of 600kW

Iran is already nearly out of water, thanks to bungling Islamic Fundamentalist leadership. They have only just very recently opened a desalination plant to provide them with water - I guess this may be the one hit? The water situation was previously so dire, the Ayatollahs were discussing moving Tehran to some place where there was adequate water. Where that place was, is anyones guess. There's going to be a lot of thirsty Iranian war refugees flooding into other countries soon. https://e360.yale.edu/features/iran-water-drought-dams-qanats https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iran-launches-key-water-transfer-project-from-gulf-of-oman-t (Ignore the news articles on Al Mayadeen, showing massive American losses. Al Mayadeen is a Beirut-based, Lebanese pan-Arabist satellite news channel, a propaganda mouthpiece for Hezbollah).

Most of the beef we export to the USA is lean beef mixed with fattier US beef for hamburgers, you know Trumps favoutite big Mac. The US cattle herd has been in decline for decades reaching a low of 86.2 million down from over 90 million a decade ago. It has been in decline for over 75 years.

I don't know why we import beef, but if you study Free Trade agreements, you'll probably find the answers.

Foreign corporations have feedlots here and the beef is exported. I think it's cheaper to produce it here. Aussie farmers got shoved aside once again.

Up till now the McLarens had it almost to themselves. I will have to watch it because it IS the Ultimate technology with the Worlds best drivers. Nev

Ours is much better so why would we import? Nev

I see that USA imports billions of $ worth of Australian beef, annually. Now I see that USA has exported $700,000,000 worth of beef to Australia. https://www.beefcentral.com/news/us-beef-officially-re-enters-australia-after-23-year-absence/ Can anyone explain how this makes sense? Are we exporting so much beef that we left our local market short? We do that with our gas exporting. Doesn't all this shipping back and forth push up the price to the public?