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This article below, was written in Oct 2025 - well before Lil' Donnys Middle Eastern adventure escapade..... https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/10/americas-scale-problem/

I reckon W.A. is heading into a wet Winter. The cold fronts are coming in strong, early for the season, and well up across the State.

The reason why Trump is into Iran, is because we as Aussies, fail to grasp just how important Israel and the Jews are, in the American Christian Fundamentalist psyche. Israel MUST be supported at every turn, according to the majority of God-fearing Americans (and there's a lot of them, and a lot in positions of great power). The Jews are Gods Chosen people in their view, and Fundamentalist Americans believe they alone have the greatest God-given power in the whole World, to ensure that the Chosen people survive the Great Evil of the End Days - and that great Evil is Iran, and the Islamic Empires. So every attack on Israel is an attack on every American Christian Fundamentalist. So when Netanyahu says he's under attack and needs to beat back the Evil Empire, the American can only reply with, "how much help do you need, and we'll provide it for as long as you want". Netanyahu knows full well the great benefit of having both a huge Jewish influence in America, backed by Christian Fundamentalists. Trump can only see huge Trump Inc gains in resorts and hotels in any of the "conquered" areas - so he's happy to go along with Netanyahu's aims. And Bibi's aim is to devastate anyone, or any organisation, or any country that is Islamic, and threatening Israel. Remember, Bibi's greatly loved brother was killed by Islamic terrorists at Entebbe, and he harbours a bigger and longer lifetime grudge against Islamics, than the grudge that GON harbours against politicians that favour conscription. Trump is an opportunist, constantly seeking adulation and personal glory and wealth gains, and anything that helps those agendas can only be good, in his feeble mind. Accordingly, he's happy to continue to support Netanyahu's adventures into killing multitudes of "nasty" Islamics, because Trump knows that's an agenda that's got a huge level of support in America - and any "wins" over nasty Islamic terrorists (who took a couple of hundred innocent Americans hostage, and who also tortured them in 1980-82, don't forget), is a huge win for Donald. But now, the American adventure into Eye-Ran is looking a bit messy - and besides, Donny just got told his military have just expended around 11,300 VERY expensive missiles, rockets and other hi-tech armaments - and that Damned Strait is STILL blockaded! - and he's also been told, it will now take about THREE YEARS to produce another 12,000 of those very expensive missiles and rockets, just to make up their basic ammo requirements - and American arms manufactures are RELIANT on that Straits being OPEN! - because American companies are now having problems acquiring the BASICS of many arms manufacturing materials - because quite a number of those basic supply-chain materials HAVE to come through those Straits! "Here is how materials passing through the Strait impact American manufacturing: Helium for Semiconductors: Qatar, which exports through the Strait, supplies nearly one-third of the world's helium. This is crucial for cooling in semiconductor wafer manufacturing, affecting the production of computers, vehicles, and electronics. Petrochemical Inputs: The Gulf region is a hub for petrochemicals, supplying a significant share of raw materials used in plastics, polymers, and single-use packaging. Disruptions affect production and increase costs for manufacturers in these sectors. Sulfur and Fertilizer: Nearly half of all global seaborne sulfur trade passes through the Strait. Sulfur is essential for producing sulfuric acid, which is used in processing critical minerals like copper and cobalt (for batteries and jet engines). Aluminum and Steel: The Middle East accounts for a significant portion of primary aluminum production, with Gulf smelters supplying material for construction, transport, and renewable energy industries. Energy Prices: About 20% of global oil and LNG flows through the Strait. A closure causes a dramatic surge in energy prices, impacting the cost of manufacturing and transporting goods in the U.S." So....... right about now, Donny is in a BIG bind! That AWE and SHOCK attack on Iran ain't working! Those GODDAM Islamic terrorists are still beavering away, and still controlling important things like the Straits!! I reckon Donny must be looking for a quick and easy way out, and expecting some of his LOYAL associates to come up with the ANSWER! But it ain't forthcoming, and things are getting to be a little too wild for him!! This being a World Hero ain't the easy ride, he thought it would be!!

The talk now is breeding up bees that have the ability to resist the varroa mite. Bugger the Americans, and their noxious imports!! We should send them something equally noxious in return.

Just a little out of date now, but still funny ...

A bunch of South Australian farmers moved into the "developing farm" region West of Ravensthorpe in the 1960's and 1970's. This area (roughly bounded by Ravensthorpe, Lake King, Lake Grace, Pingrup and Ongerup was the last of the "native bush" Crown Land in W.A. offered to applicants to clear and turn it into farmland on a Conditional Purchase arrangement. You could tell the South Australians in this entire area of "new land" farmers by the way they talked. They talked with a re-aal slo-oww draw-wl, compared to the locals. It was a very distinctive style of speech that became obviously fairly quickly, once you started talking to them for a few minutes. We were quite surprised at the regional differences in speech.

Mais les portes des magasins de tout Paris le sont!

Peter, that's a 100% BS "fake news" article - Albo has said nothing of the kind attributed to him in that article. I don't know why you keep posting these garbage "news" sites. It's all made up.

The photo quality is pretty good, when you consider the technology of the time for taking and sending photographs from the moon. I can recall a site saying the computers on Apollo 11 had less power than a 386 computer. But they did have 4 of them, so I guess that helped. I wonder what those computers cost in 1969? Millions of dollars, I'll wager. I have a copy of the front page of an American newspaper, printed the day after the Moon landing, the article about the Moon landing took up all the front page.

Nothing has changed with control of the news for many centuries. Buy up all the cheap newspapers you can find, to ensure you get maximum control of the Press.

My SIL had a female blue heeler that would be at the door, the instant SIL picked up her purse. The dog knew it was "ride in the car" time.

Which one are we going to send Trump and Musk to, on a one-way trip? Musk want to go live on Mars - just any closer planet will be fine by me, as long as he stays there, incommunicado.

No-one ever went broke, paying huge amounts of tax. Just saying.

Trump is an economic moron with zero maths skills, zero personal skills, zero diplomacy skills, and no training or education in economics. His primary aim is to get fabulously rich, get his rich supporters even richer and become King of the World. He's so full of BS and hot air, it's a wonder they don't have to tie him to the ground to stop him from floating away. He promised to Make America Great Again. He's done nothing like it. The U.S. national debt has soared under his Presidency. Inflation is taking off again in America, thanks to all of Trumps "economic policies", and his major decision-making directional changes that change by the minute, not by the day. Fuel prices have doubled in the U.S. (despite the fact he reckons "America doesn't need ME oil", the price is governed by oil futures traders and pure speculation). So much for stability in energy prices. He says, "Drill baby, drill", like that is going to yield a "GREAT" benefit to America. He's so thick, that he doesn't even understand that oil companies only live to make HUGE PROFITS for themselves, and f*** everyone else! When was the last time America had an "oil-company-led, economic miracle"? There never has been one. America got rich on dirt cheap oil in unlimited quantities in the 1920's and 1930's, and even at that, the oil companies were making huge profits. Nowadays, there's no cheap, plentiful oil - and even fracking is high cost - and lots of fracking wells are currently on care and maintenance. Look at Trumps tariffs - on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again - like a teenage girl changing outfits. His tariffs have only caused reciprocal tariffs, so Americans can't sell half the stuff they used to. He buggered American farmers more effectively than any President in history before. The Chinese simply refused to buy American soybeans and went and got what they wanted from Brazil. Now American silos are bursting with soybeans they can't give away. So he had to bail out American farmers with American TAXPAYER-PAID subsidies, to the tune of $37 BILLION!! "As of December 2025, the Trump administration announced a $12 billion aid package to assist American farmers affected by low crop prices and trade-related tariffs. This includes $11 billion in direct payments for row crops and $1 billion for other crops to provide financial relief for operating costs. Key details regarding the aid: Purpose: The aid is designed as a "bridge" to assist with financial losses stemming from ongoing trade disputes and tariffs. Funding Source: The administration stated the funds are generated from tariff revenues. Distribution: The funds are expected to be available by early 2026 to help farmers prepare for the next season. Additionally, it was reported that farmers had previously received $23 billion in separate assistance to manage trade tensions with China" And this is the MORON you want running your economy?? Give me a break, the bloke would go broke running a lolly shop outside a girls school. He'd put all his clients off buying anything, by abusing the s**t out of them first, then suing them for not buying anything off him!! This imbecile is the greatest embarrassment the world has ever seen, running the worlds primary superpower. He selects all his people by demanding absolute loyalty to him and no-one else, with no requirement to show any credentials for the job. He demands all foreign dignitaries stay in Trump-owned hotels, thus making him one of the most corrupt Presidents ever. He's turned graft into an art form. He ignores Congress at every opportunity, claims every decision he makes is based on some fabricated outstanding emergency, and only appoints judges to the Supreme Court that will make decisions in his favour every time. He is the biggest oxygen thief on the planet. Trump is going to go down in history as the President who brought America to its knees, economically, and morally and ethically.

The most common silent letter is "E", because it is often found at the end of words, and isn't pronounced there (see, I just gave you an example!).