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It's not anti-Semitic to criticise the government of Israel for human rights abuses and war crimes, when they have done this. Or do you think Israel should get a free pass for anything they do, no matter how abhorrent?

We export 100,000 tonnes of carrots (mostly from W.A.) to the rest of the world annually, and 48,000 tonnes of that goes to the Middle East. But the blockage of the SoH has effectively blown up that market, with $2M worth of Australian carrots currently on the water, unable to reach its destination. There will be serious losses for Australian carrot growers if the blockade continues, and there will be a lot of people in other parts of the world who will go without food, because of the blockade. I'd rather be here, than in a place relying on Australian produce, right at present. And we have no need to import frozen veggies, we can grow all we need right here. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-20/middle-east-conflict-may-end-some-carrot-farmers/106474078

Excellent. Nev

Netanyahu's strident Interference HERE affected my views. All People who kill other People have something to answer for and there's a Question of Proportionality and care not to Kill Women and children Medical people and Journalists. Nev

I think the 0ctober 7 attack was the straw that boke the camels back.

I tend towards the view that BP guidelines are a bit like BMI guidelines - they were decreed many decades ago, without taking into account, enough of the factors that affect them. I've seen people who lived with high levels of hypertension for years, whereas others with relatively modest levels of hypertension, keeled over early.

Expect many lines of groceries to become scarce, especially frozen vegetables. Frozen veggies are now mostly imported, and that requires ships which require fuel.

Can't remember if she put IR up before the fuel thing but l reckon rates should be dropped again right now bc everything's gonna be going up 12mths now. Bc as typically , even if the war ended tomorrow well in this case it would take time to get things flowing again, providing Chump doesn't blow all that up to butttt. Our mobs whether it be supermarkets, fuel, food, hardware , everything, always milk these events for all they're worth and take triple time to drop prices later so if things could be normal again in 3 mths , they'll keep ripping us off 12, you can guarantee that. And the Gov will take 12mths to react to the continuing ripping off. They all know that and play us like a fiddle soooo. Long and short of it , struggle home owners especially, do not need interest rates on top of it it's so not fair , they'll already be getting hit from 50 angles from here.

Nobody mentions the sectarianism that is rampant in India. Hindu -v- Muslim, with the Sikhs and other minorities thrown into the mix. The partitioning of India and Pakistan was supposed to ease tensions, but there are still heaps of Muslims in India for Hindus to target.

That's mine, too. But they still say I have hypertension. You start to think that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand knows.

According to the movie old Neddy boy really copped it too.

Nah , he didn't go through all that just to land in jail. He was done.

Several of my friends didn’t make it to 80 but I plan on doing better. Five pills a day for me at present.

They have two farm properties about 100km apart and need to move machinery and trailer rams etc between them. They spend a lot of time on the road.

Peter, is your daughter going to be towing with it? I remember a few years back (about 25 years) a couple of blokes I worked for had Ford F-250's. One had an extended chassis, custom dual cab and lazy axle and was used as a supply run truck. The other one was stock standard with a well back like a typical yank pickup truck style. It had the 7 litre diesel with the 6 speed manual transmission, and the owner used it as a combination work ute and personal vehicle. It had a lot of power and when I asked him about fuel consumption he told me he got around 15 mpg whether he was empty or towing a big van, it didn't make any difference. That's about the same mileage I used to get from petrol 4 litre Patrols and Landcruisers back in the day. Those F-250's from twenty years ago look small in comparison to some of the big trucks we see getting around these days.

It probably depends what you mean by `terrorist attacks'. I don't think the Israelis are terrorists but their relentless killing of the ordinary civilian population in Gaza and the property destruction they have carried out to make the place virtually uninhabitable borders on genocide. Netanyahu would certainly like to get rid of all the Palestinians, both in Gaza and the West Bank. Of course, most of Israel's neighbours would like to get rid of the Israelis too. Nevertheless, as far as Gaza is concerned, Israel's reprisals against the Palestinians for Hamas's October 7 attack have gone well beyond what Hamas did to them. Also, when it comes to carrying out targeted assassinations, the Israeli intelligence services are pretty ruthless and efficient.

Too much antisemitic nonsense here. Why accept the propaganda of inherently evil regimes?

I appreciate that and there can be the perception of a blind spot given what I wrote. Working now, but will respond more fully later. I wasn't aware of the Turkish journalist attack, but will do some research on it (Wilipedia can't be taken at face value and one event does not necessarily mean a systematic targetting). I am not saying Israel is perfect or should not be held to account.. I am saying there seems to be a lot levelled at it which is more based on belief than fact.

Jerry, I agree with you most of the time, but it really looks like you have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_journalists_in_the_Gaza_war If they killed almost 300 journalists "by accident" then they must be the most inept military ever. So which is it?

There have been as many white people in Aus, and nore in the US committing terrorism as Muslim. Sadly, any anti-solcial behaviour is not the preserve of one or a subset of nationalities or religions.

Allowing no reporting - by Israel? Are you serious? Journos were killed.. Were they actually targetted as journalists? How much reportng do you get from Iran once the protests started and before the war? What evidence do you have that journalism is systematically suppressed where it is physically safe (i,e, they are not going to be directly in the line of fire) by Israel? I have to admit, I am flummoxed by these assertions.. But if you can provide evidence to support that position, I am fine.. otherwise, are they not rabid? Re essentials of life - it is the UN who had decided not to enter Gaza nor allow the other organisation to distribute their supplies.. on what premise? As I understand, it is alleged what UN essentials were being distribnuted were ending up in Hamas' hands largely and not the people. Of course, that could be wrong because the press don't report these things all the time. But, that is my point.. A lot of aspersions are cast with scant evidence, and sensationalistic reporting by the very journos Israel are supposed to suppress. The default position is Israel is wrong, and I will challenge it if the facts don't fit (on anything). Sorry. I am an argumentative SoB. BTW, we all criticise the Iran war, and rightly so given the US objectives. But so far, the one Iranian I know (and it is only one) is still supportive of it. And I prefer to take people with their experience of it on the ground than us armchair experts. Oh, and by the way, she thinks Israel has gone too far on accoasions, but is generally supportive of Israel. They give her reiligion a home free of prejudice, which cannot be said of the Iranians, where the religion was born.

Sorry... What? OK.. the milita of a country invade your country... but don't target your military - but your defencelss and well separated from the military civilians.. illegally under intenational law; you legitimately retaliate and target their mitilary assets, which they hide behind cilvilan assets - and you target their military assets legally, but because they use civilians aas part of their defence (which is not really even contested by them) and, by the way being totally legal under the rules of war as long as they are targeting legitimate military assets - and Israel is the terrorist? Yeah - they took the West Bank - but not through some arbitrary decision - it was the resuilt of a war waged on them.. Or have I missed something. And in exchange for peace, the Palestinians (which even Arabs don't class as a separate Arabic identity) were offered 96% of it back, but rejected it at the last minute.. Now, there are tensions, because Ramalla is a Palestinian controlled territory on the West Bank, and tensions in a war between Israel and Gaza are going to surface. Is it right? No! But no country has never been hostile to those of "enemy" ancestry in their territory (which I know, the UN doesn't sanction, but at the end of the day, it was territory siezed as a result of a war perpetrated on Israel). And did they actually target the journos and NGOs, or was it a) friendly fire or b) mistaken identity - IN A WAR, FFS.. I think in Kosovo (BTW, an illegal war as there was no direct threat to NATO states, and there was no UN security resolution, and humanitarian reasons ions not a defence), journos and NGOs were killed by firendly fire, as was that in Afghanistan, and the list goes one. In fact, the betrayal of firendly Afghans by the west doesn't need to be brought up again, eoither. What terrorism did Israel actually commit. Where, without procvocation, did they go in and wantonly kill people as a country/defence force? Sorry dude - you and I live in a different world when it comes to this. (Apologies, that was condascending and I take it back) You may disagree with what they are doing - and I don't agree with it all, either, but it is not terrorism.

Response to changing Power demand it the Name of the Game today. Prices for Nuclear and Coal NEW are out there in the Market and build time and costs are high. When you ask for People willing to build such expensive things you Offer a figure which is realistic or you Have to doit with Gov't Money Which Dutton wanted to do and is the Main reason why He is not around as a Politician today. (Thank Dog). Nev

I don't think many people will care.

Filling him full of Lead is Not a good Look. Nev

The police here copy the Americans. In the Bonnie and Clyde ambush, U.S. police let rip with 130 rounds, Bonnie Parker had 26 bullet entrance wounds, Clyde Barrow had 17 bullet entrance wounds. And the U.S. police didn't use popguns, they used .30-06 Browning automatics, .35 Remingston semi-auto, and a range of heavy police revolvers, .38's and .45's.

My daughter is looking for a big Yank ute. I told her to wait a couple of months and people will be giving them away.