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The news about the U.S. bases damage, is largely correct. The U.S. military themselves have admitted damage has been incurred at 13 U.S. bases in the Middle East, with DoW damage estimations of around US$800M. There are other reports saying the number of bases seriously damaged is actually 17, and the total repair bill for all the Iranian damage is likely to exceed US$3B - and more importantly, take years to rebuild, simply because of the complexity of the equipment in the bases, and the requirement for a lot of electronic replacements, that are still in short supply from COVID-era restrictions. Even many car manufacturers are taking shortcuts in vehicle manufacturing, and leaving out optional equipment that is electronics-heavy, due to the ongoing chip shortage. What our dopey Tangerine Toddler doesn't understand, is that Taiwan may now even make overtures to China to form an alliance, to prevent a Taiwan-China war. This is because Taiwan is starting to realise that their major ally is no longer a reliable ally - and is likely incapable of protecting/supporting Taiwan in the event of a Chinese aggressive military move on them. If that alliance happens, China will then control the majority of the worlds cutting-edge chip manufacturing, and give Trump and his sycophants another dose of heartburn, because America still hasn't got any local chip manufacturing sorted yet. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddq7j48p35o https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/us-bases-uninhabitable-iran-missile-strikes-centcom-force-posture-2026-war/

China has already won handsomely from Trumps impulsive war - the war in which he cannot now find any allies, as he abused and vilified nearly every ally, he formerly had. https://www.watoday.com.au/business/the-economy/china-has-already-won-trump-s-impulsive-war-20260326-p5zirv.html

Helium always was in short supply, this war is war driving home how little the Earth has, by way of Helium reserves. Because Helium is so light and inert, any Helium produced without capture, escapes into Space, and is lost forever.

That's what we've just enjoyed! - Heavy downpour.

Well, Narelle has pretty much burnt itself out, as it heads through the Southern Goldfields of W.A. as an ex-tropical depression. We've had a very nice 66mm of rain in Perth since early yesterday morning, nice steady soaking rain, and it's pretty much finished as far as the rain from Narelle goes. Most the W.A. wheatbelt has received between about 25mm to 40mm, a great start to the cropping season. I haven't got any recent news on storm damage in places such as Carnarvon (which recorded a wind gust of 133kmh yesterday afternoon, I guess quite a few banana trees will have been wiped out. Exmouth and Coral Bay have suffered some moderate levels of storm damage, but the buildings in those places are built to withstand cyclones, so they generally survive O.K. Learmonth copped a total of over 350mm in rainfall, so pretty wet there, some of the other places down the coast didn't get a lot of rain, Carnarvon only got 11.6mm in total.

Research the location.

"Jog on" is pure British slang. Never heard it used here.

You don't understand. The dairy farm was obviously a front for drug manufacturing and transport. The cows were the transport method. You just got to keep one step ahead of cunning drug lords!

What is the phrase description? I see "research the .... something". Not a very common phrase, IMO.

If you watch the European news, such as DW.com News, you'll get a more balanced world view of what is actually going on in the world. Australian news channels are all about making money from shock/horror/crime news. There's crime everywhere if you want to concentrate on finding it. We still live in a pretty safe country, IMO.

We can all relate to voice-operated devices, can't we?? https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1AdmvmD3x3/

A flash in the pan from disaffected/disgruntled voters, I'd call it. Let's see if ON gets more seats at the upcoming elections, or if people just see through ON as just another bunch of useless politicians pronouncing that they have all the answers to solve all the nations problems - which they haven't.

We've had 24mm of rain today (since about 6:30AM), a very nice refreshing amount of moisture. There's a little more to come this afternoon, in this rain band drifting in off the Indian Ocean, and tomorrow, we may get some more rain from the remnants of Cylone Narelle as it makes its way through the W.A. Wheatbelt. Narelle crossed the W.A. coast about 75kms S of Coral Bay as a Category 4 cylone about 1:00PM today (Friday 27th), but has now decayed to a Category 3 as it heads SSE to cross the Gascoyne River between Gascoyne Junction and Carnarvon about 7:00PM tonight. Gusts of up to 170kmh are likely to hit Carnarvon this afternoon and evening. There will be fruit and vegetable losses in Carnarvon, Carnarvons banana trees are susceptible to very strong winds. Narelle has picked up speed, and is now travelling at 33kmh (previously 18-20kmh). The W.A. Wheatbelt will start to feel the effects of the remnants of the Cylone as it degrades to a very strong low pressure system tomorrow.

Stop watching the local TV news, it's full of shock and horror news events that amplify the levels of crime. Australia is still a pretty safe place to live. However, if you're a member of a crime gang, a drug dealer, or a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang - then yes, Australia is pretty unsafe for you. The other gang members are definitely out to get you. Most killings are targeted, and carried out by criminals. The rest of us lead pretty safe lives.

There is no defined path for high and low pressure systems, just a general Eastwards movement at lower latitudes and Easterly at higher latitudes. Cyclone Narelle isn't unusual in its path, many cyclone before it have hit Qld, gone through the N.T., crossed W.A., then reformed in the Indian Ocean off the Kimberly coast, and then travelled South. Narelle has clobbered Onslow, Exmouth and Learmonth and it look like Coral Bay is going to take a hammering. Learmonth and Dampier radar systems have gone down, Learmonth recorded 200kmh winds, Barrow and Thevenard Islands recorded 160-170kmh winds and a lot of places have had 150kmh winds. Plenty of rain with it, Learmonth has had over 200mm and Karratha over 100mm. We're getting a bit of light rain in Perth, as the Indian Ocean is producing a lot of moisture from the cyclones warmth, and it's coming down from the N and NW. The W.A. wheatbelt has had more rain than Perth, and the inland areas NE of the Wheatbelt, the Murchison and Goldfields have had some decent rain. There's more to come over the next 3 days.

There's a huge difference between armaments in 1945 and armaments in 2026. His comparison is meaningless. The Iranians are not the Japanese and the Americans control airspace right throught to all the satellites they own. The bulk of Iranian rockets and drones are shot down. That's an expensive drain on their economy. They may inflict some damage on American equipment, but nothing like Okinawa.

First off, I'd like to know who "CTO Larsson" is, and does he have any credibility as regards accurate reporting? From what I see, he doesn't. He's a Swedish engineer, pissed off at immigrants.

Well, I have a great piece of positive news. My Hilux is suffering from noisy rear wheel bearings, so I thought I'd get a couple of new ones. I started looking around, and you have to buy a kit with seals and collar, as well as the bearing. The best price I could find was around $104 each. Now, I'm a bit fussy with bearings, and I much prefer to buy German, American, Japanese or even Taiwanese bearings, as I consider them superior bearings to Chinese, and even Thai-made bearings. As my Hilux was built in Thailand, I suspect it has Thai, or even Chinese bearings. I think that's the reason they haven't performed as well as I'd expected (the Hilux has done 190,000kms and has done a lot of heavy hauling). So I kept looking around, and I was amazed to find a website throwing out Timken bearing kits to fit my Hilux - on "clearance" - at - wait for it - $4.89 each!! The company is in Doncaster in Vic, so I ordered them last night - and blow me down, they were delivered this afternoon!! The two bearing kits cost me a grand total of $25.79 including delivery!! The company is Precision International, and I reckon they must have packaged them at first light, and run them out to the airport to catch the early morning flight to Perth!! What is even better - I opened one of the packets and the bearings are actually Made in Japan!! Bonus! So this little exercise has made my day!! Thank you muchly, Precision International!

We have been blown inside out here on the left coast for the last 4 days. It seems a very large and very intense high pressure system in the Bight is responsible for it. I can't recall such vicious and constant SE/E winds for so many days, in a long time. But this afternoon, the wind died away to virtually nothing, and it is a total relief to be able to do something outside without getting turned inside out.

Yeah, but could you have matched the mental rambling??

Red, your link is a Faecesbook scam site, designed to suck in anyone who believes everything they read. There is no $5M contribution to a homeless centre by Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson, it's all TOTALLY FAKE NEWS. Just like the FB stories and photos of Pauline Hanson collapsing in Parliament, 100% lying, total BS.

Yeah, I bet it's a Big and Beautiful Gold Present. A golden bomb in the shape of Donald, specially delivered to him in person, by an Iranian courier! They know just how much he loves getting personal, gold-plated presents!

They are defunct as a political party, just as they have done to themselves in W.A. They've simply lost touch with the voters, the current makeup of the Nation, and the everyday persons desires. And by far the biggest problem all parties will have to address soon, is the unaffordability of housing, the thing that is uppermost in the everyday voters mind. Too much overseas investment money allowed into our housing market, the Chinese must own over a quarter of Australian housing at present. There's a house just around the corner from me, it is brand new, it is ten years old, and has never been lived in. It is owned by Chinese investors. They need to be taxed out of the market.

Trump is BS Central. There wouldn't be two consectutive words come out of his mouth with an element of truth in them. To Little Donny, the big surprise is the Iranians didn't come begging for him to stop as soon as his bombing campaign started - but they have turned into the best guerrilla fighters the Middle East has seen in decades. Something the Americans can never understand, nor can they adopt any strategy, that works to defeat a guerilla campaign. There is no "big present" to the U.S., it's all Trump BS, trying to make himself look like a winner in the third week of fighting, when we all know war is a protracted and costly business. Just ask his best mate, Putin.

GON - In nearly 30 years, they've never even looked like achieving any effective status, let alone "major party" status.