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Open Thread – Mon 16 Oct 2023
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Unreliable energy news
Please distribute to your network those sections which may be relevant. Regards, Bob King. QUICK SUMMARY OF WHAT IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:- LOCATED or ADVISED THIS WEEK 23/10/23 Victorian Offshore Terminal 24/10/23 &14/11/23 Guarantee of Origin 25/10/23 The Plains Solar and BESS, Hay 6/11/23 Paling Yards Wind, Oberon 13/11/23 SA’s transmission and distribution infrastructure 15/11/23 extended period Illawarra Offshore…
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‘Voice’ referendum thread
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Gaza-Israel Thread #1
As promised, given recent developments and the threat of the Gaza situation spiraling into a regional war its probably best to concentrate news and discussion of them into a single thread.
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Open Thread – Weekend 14 Oct 2023
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Open Thread – Thurs 12 Oct 2023
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Israel’s Tet Moment?
Shortly after midnight on January 30-31, 1968, during celebrations of the Lunar New Year (Tet) , NVA and Viet Cong (VC or NLF) forces launched the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam. The intel.gov site(*) includes pages on declassified Tet documents, and a 50th anniversary retrospective on the Offensive. According to the latter, 70-80,000 troops in…
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Open Thread – Mon 9 Oct 2023
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Rabz’ Radio Show Rocktober 2023 – Protest Songs
The big problem with protest songs, Cats, is if they refer too explicitly to a cause du jour, they will date. Badly. See just about every Midnight Oil song, ever – with the possible exception of Wedding Cake Island, given it’s an instrumental. That’s why the best protest songs are not obviously hitched to a…
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Me and My Aboriginal Cousins, Sharing Race and Ancestry
The marvels of modern technology allow us to restart a TV program which is already well underway. So it was on Wednesday that I rewound Bolt, so to speak. Bolt bled into Kenny. Swap channels? I kept watching for a bit, wondering what specious arguments du soir he’d come up. He didn’t disappoint. So far…