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...and Rupert Murdoch's father had convinced our PM to sack him, but when Hughes got to Europe he found a very different story to what he'd been told.

But Monash had the last laugh. He was the first General in 200 years to be knighted on the Battlefield by a reigning English Monarch.

The reason for this:

and in fact the Japanese eventually came to an agreement with the USSR that they would not attack it

was this

Battles of Khalkhin Gol - Wikipedia

Where Zhukov used close to Blitzkrieg tactics against the Japanese

An excellent resource that should be made available to our history teachers.As one of them, we were led to believe that Australian soldiers were never executed, because they were all volunteers. The logic of that escapes me; surely men who were conscripted to fight, often against their will, were more worthy of leniency than those who had volunteered to be there.

The story I heard was that Australians Authorities were so incensed at the Brits in the Boer War, in executing Breaker Morant and co, that they passed legislation that deleted the Death Penalty from Australian Military legislation and in the future (post Boer War) all Australian Troops would be under Australian Military jurisdiction.

Speaking of chemtrails, I noticed on the title graphics for Aussie Border Force, (Channel 7), they show a twin engined jet silhouette with four chemtrails.

Dual toilets, eh. That's pretty fancy.

Aren't they supposed to be pumped out on the ground?

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This one accidentally fell off a tree near the Dubbo Zoo. (just happened to have a ladder in the trailer that day ...)

 

David

We solved that problem over here in the northern New England Region. A few of us who know our way around airports and thems who fly into and out of 'em had a bit of a chat to the ChemTrails loaders. We got them to put in a smaller hopper and wire it up then fill it up with liquid Viagra. So when they approach our area and the atmospherics are right (well, they aren't Pilots flying these monsters for nothing are they), they flick the switch and the ChemTrails stuff is turned off and our "brew" turned on.

We're all pretty happy with that arrangement.

We got that idea off a Port Stephens oyster farmer who fed his Asia bound oysters a mixture of fish meal and Viagra. Apparently some people in Health and Fisheries weren't impressed.

I doubt anyone knows the answer, but things are changing rapidly up north.

The Arctic - big changes, super-fast

And to our South.

Following on my post above a natural extrapolation is for some bright spark to guesstimate just how many sqillions of megatonnes of Coal the earth holds in reserve. The do the same projections for what we have already extracted and burnt.

Then divide one by the other to work out approximately how much of that 60 million years of stored energy we have released "un-stored".

Is it 100 years; 1,000 years; 1,000,000 million years? If its anywhere up in the last one, then I think we are steadily marching towards serious atmospheric issues.

Apart from climate change, there are all sorts of reasons to transition to renewables. Coal oil and gas are stored energy, in fact, they are solar energy. I once saw a science talk by a physicist who kept referring to coal as buried sunshine, the energy they hold came initially from the sun. Another way of thinking about it is that coal, oil, and gas are like our bank account savings. It is imprudent to live off your savings and waiting for them to run out before seeking out some income. Renewables are like income.

Another point that almost no one mentions is that coal oil and gas provide us with chemicals drugs plastics etc. I am sure if we don't change our grandchildren will wonder why the hell we burnt this substance which has so many uses.

I was elsewhere recently where all sorts of drivel was being sprouted, so I decided to have a look at Coal's background. And that was interesting.

The Carboniferous Age when most of the coal seams were laid down lasted 60 million years.

Atmospheric Oxygen saturation was up to 35% and CO2 was 800ppm (approx twice today's levels, or 3 times pre-Industrial level). So "things" plant and live, grew very well. The reason these seams were laid down was that the bacteria responsible for lignin breakdown hadn't yet evolved.

And it takes approx 40 tonnes of plant matter to compress down to 1 tonne of coal. So the 180 million Tonnes of Steaming Coal Australia exported in 2015 (the latest year I could find data for) represents some 7.2 billion tonnes of original plant matter

So the amounts of energy stored then, and being released now are astronomical. We cant help but overwhelm the fairly finely balanced natural equations for the interchange of gases around the planet

Taken in Beijing Jul16 about a block from Tienanmen Square. I dunno what it means but obvious a few Chinese do