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That the plant at Kwinana?
Speaking of Justine… https://ace.mu.nu/archives/doof-rushmore.jpg
ALWAYS film the police
err, Matrix, you haven’t plumbed the full mighty depths of the karenesque idiocy:
The quote above is barely exaggerated. A variant was first heard (an reported here) about six months ago.
*What’s the count now, nazis – quadruple?
YESSSSSS !!
Top again.
Miss Anthropist says: January 26, 2022 at 10:32 pm
It may have been Lord Howe.
IIRC the civilian conversion of a Sunderland was called… (I forget what)
Though I think the Sunderland conversion really was an actual Sunderland with some changed panels & a slightly smoother look.
(Sorta like a Lincoln was really a Lancaster with the turrets removed & aerodynamically reshaped.)
Twitter put a poster in the sin bin because they tweeted a meme about Biden escalating the Ukraine situation to get back at Russia for killing Apollo Creed.
These Twitter bans are childlike.
Ivan kicke off, two weeks after Operation Overlord.
Amazing and beautiful.
IIRC the Rose Bay to Lord Howe run was the last RPT flying boat route in the world.
While I’ve never paid much (i.e. any) attention to the civilian conversions, I’m prepared to go out on a limb & declare they were all actual military Sunderlands, surplused out of service & remodelled as a civilian “airliner”.
Hate to think what the cost of running them would have been.
Surely that depends, old bloke. If you’re staring at the rear end of a semi trailer, it most certainly would be a complaint.
It’s great that FOI requests in the UK actually yield something.
In the US & Australia they are not provided or are redacted to the point of being useless.
Former Oz & Fairfax journo Anthony Klan has been doing independent research showing how so many government departments just don’t respond to FOI requests.
It’s quite comical.
JC – trust me on this – the English young women I saw in northern Perth in 2018 and 2019 are the opposite of semi trailers, if that’s any consolation. Skin cancer rates might be through the roof, though.
Good thing that lisping queen shut everything down there in March 2020.
AFR reporting a bumper agricultural year of A$78 billion value creation.
US$ 1.45 billion = 2022 at this moment’s exchange rate. That means the raw output is around 3.9% of GDP. It’s really tiny. I bet though that once some of this is processed and turned into food and you include transportation etc and indirect things like energy etc the actual impact of agriculture on GDP is closer to 20%
Rabz
I know, I’m just kidding. English girls are really nice looking on the whole. My kid married one and imported her here. She’s nice, but boy, like most English girls, she really has a freaking mouth on her. Their really mouthy.
As an aside… If you come here as a pretend asylum seeker the government pays you forever. You come here and have married and Australian the legal costs of going through the process of getting permanent residence is 10 grand. And this is someone from the old country who I reckon ought to get automatic rights.
Three cheers for the mining and agriculture inter-industry multipliers.
The lub and dub of the economy.
They’re….
Mrs C just told me that a friend of hers got the shingles jab 3 years ago. Same person got their booster jab (for the ChinaVirus) recently and caught….wait for it, shingles.
It’s not as nice here when it’s cloudy and you’re being harassed by a giant seagull.
Dot
The multiplier for agriculture would take it to around 15% at least no? This is why I get really pissed off with the stupid and thoughtless we make nafink crowd of imbeciles. When everything is stripped away we possibly have the highest standard of living in the world. Agriculture and mining aren’t just top class, they fucking well are at the top of the class and the prime reason we’re at the top standard of living wise. But hey, we need a Foxconn factory setting with miles of people sitting high up on chairs sticking chips into the bare carcass of a fucking smartphone. And that should be subsidized. Can’t fucking wait.
Which is wonderful when engaging in the beast with two backs with them. 🙂
Hey mum, when I grow up I want to work at Foxconn Melbourne as the job looks really interesting.
I was going to catch the number 5 bus to Parata which is supposed to be very beautiful.
But the bus (es) never came; all I saw was an altercation between a lady waiting with me and the driver going in the other direction.
To confuse me more they were yelling in Corsican which sounds like Italian (apparently very close to a Tuscan dialect)
Now trying for a boat trip across the bay in the other direction.
The civilian version of the Sumderland was called a Sandringham. Though probably not by many people.
Used to come thundering in low over Bellevue Hill a couple of times a week.
I doubt you’d get away with that sort of thing these days.
I’m rather surprised I can remember that.
Explain.
There’s nothing wonderful about a mouthy English girl – even good looking ones.
Looks like a really interesting job JC.
Someone I know used to put the tops on mint slices at the Arnott’s factory.
Developed a life long hatred of mint.
Interesting Are are Sardianian and Corsican dialects similar.
Sardinian has been classified as a distinct Euro language and very close to Latin.
Oh, yes there is. We obviously differ on this phenomenon, Squire.
JC
I think it is meant to infer what sort of use they put their mouth to.
Really Rabz. I don’t think this is that sort of blog.
Or is it?
Oh.
Now I’ve read about Sardinian, apparently it sounds Spanish to Italians.
Not surprising after the Spanish held Sardinia for so long.
I’m thinking Sardinia and Corsica are like the italy, France and Spanish intersection.
Sandringham. Thank you (doesn’t ring a bell though)
Were any civilian versions made, as such?
Strictly speaking, I believe they were all conversions. (i.e. an existing military Sunderland, with airframe hours logged, converted for civilian use.)
They’re not the same look with changed nose shape resulting from removal of the front turret.
JC says:
January 26, 2022 at 11:23 pm
Which is wonderful when engaging in the beast with two backs with them. ?
Explain.
It’s what we used to call Plan B when they didn’t want to partake in the beast with two backs and wouldn’t shut their mouth.
If Genoa hadn’t handed over corisa to France in 1769 Napoleon Bonaparte’s father would would have remained Carlo Maria Buonaparte.
I’m still coming to terms with seeing 3 generations of English women out nightclubbing together in Manchester during the 90s. There aren’t enough pints of Guinness that allow you to process that.
Anyway, at the risk of this esteemed blogue descending into the gutter (again), I give you an English Rose, of the sort we’d love to court …
Don’t have a link, but Sandringhams were flying between Rose Bay and Lord Howe Island until 1974…
Rosie
It’s not, there’s no intersection. Those islands, the French Rivera were all Italian or at least part of the Genovese republic mostly. The French just took it. There was some sort of ethnic cleansing in and around Nice in the latter half of the 1800s. My mother’s maternal side were thrown out and she used to talk about it as if it happened to her. It was very funny hearing it often.
kid #2 lived there for a couple of years
Really , where matrix.
There was an interesting sale of part of Sardinia by the Italian government to the Aga Kahn several decades ago. The family still owns it.
The were probably enough Sunderlands around to be converted. I would be surprised if any Sandringhams were purpose built.
Huh, he sold it.
Costa Smeralda
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Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Buys Costa Smeralda Resort area in Italy
Y’don’t need one.
That was the last operating RPT flying boat route in the world.
I’m certain enough to bet the farm on that.
As said upthread, I’d hate to think what they cost to run.
H B Bear,
If you are in a new environment the basic rule of thumb is go ugly go early.
Fmd
Sassari.
she went as on exchange for 6 months when she was 16yo
The old man was a lawyer and the missus was a doctor I think.
The family had a couple of kids about the same age
Went back after she finished Uni and stayed for a year or so before heading off to the mainland.
She bummed around Tuscany for another 18 months doing au pair and stuff.
Her Italian is good and she still keeps touch with her exchange family now
#3 spent six months at Prato as well but that was some sort of university exchange thing
Conversions of military aircraft to civilian airliners – wasn’t there a post war airliner that was basically a converted Lancaster bomber?
Lancastrian.
Mistakenly I above referred to it as a “Lincoln” – an similar but different aircraft.
Way back when, City of Sydney R.S.L., when the “fleet was in” provided some interesting text book examples.
FMS. I’ll bet they are all full bottle about the “Invasion of the First Nations.”
Dunno JC
The Corsicans say there was a war with the Genoans from 1729 for about forty years, the Genoans got help from France and in 1968 handed Corsican over to pay their debts.
Many Corsicans wanted independence (not all) but the French king was determined. The Corsicans make a big deal of the Corsican independence leader Paolo Paoli iirc who returned from exile when the French revolution happened.
In fact between 1794 and 1796 Corsica was ruled by a British Viceroy.
Though I really just meant, Sardinia and Corsica have strong influences culturally and politically from all three of their bigger and stronger neighbours.
Mussolini wanted Corsica back and I believe there might have been some sympathy for that view locally but of course it didn’t happen.
The Nice thing is very interesting too.
And I’m in a brasserie on the other side where they only sell black coffee.
Racists!
I’ve read a few articles along this line lately
The heirs of another estate are trying to get back a work by Camile Pissaro, currently in the Thyssen in Madrid, the Spanish government fighting through the courts to keep it.
The Louvre has just appointed a team to go through its vast collection to look for nazi era looted art.
Personally I have little sympathy for post world war two acquirers who didn’t enquire long and hard about provenance.
I’d assume it was, unless proven otherwise.
Not a single piece in the Fesch collection had the provenance noted and there were a couple of full sized portraits of Maria Teresa of Austria and her niece? that you sorta kinda thought might have come from unwilling hands in Spain.
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Johannes Leak. Brilliant.
Warren Brown.
Warren Brown #2.
Warren Brown #3.
Peter Broelman.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Dave Brown.
Patrick Blower.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Gary Varvel.
Robert Ariail.
Al Goodwyn #2.
Chip Bok.
Just read that Hypatia article.
Sounds like what happened had nothing to do with ‘Christians’ versus ‘reason’ but an act of violence against a ruling elite public figure that was sadly not that uncommon.
Breyer to retire.
Unless he backtracks, Biden will be nominating a black woman.
Huge freedom convoy organised by truckers themselves in Canada – too embarrassing for the leftist governments so now banned by social media!
Details at https://joannenova.com.au/
No heart of gold after all!
Ancient singer/songwriter throws tantrum about Spotify hosting Joe Rogan podcasts.
Heart problems from vaccines of no concern to him.
link
Today in “no evidence of voter fraud”:
Wisconsin legislature makes first move towards decertifying their electors for President and VP which were “fraudulently” certified.
link
The creeps want to rule the roost and the delcons are revolting:
Tinta, looks like NSW Liberals are just shuffling the deck chairs on the election Titanic.
Vic Liberal grassroots members are none too happy with the party’s leadership. Doesn’t bode well for the Libs.
Can’t say I’m surprised. At a time when they desperately needed to show some balls and kick heads they barely showed up.
Reckon they’re going to rue the day they barred any of their MP’s from going to the protests against the pandemic laws. It reeked of “oh, no. we don’t want to actually have to deal with the proles”.
There’s nothing wonderful about a mouthy English girl – even good looking ones.
First hand experience:
You need to stop mouthing off when we’re out.
Why? I’m just speaking my mind!
When you speak your mind it makes them want to punch me in the face!
Battery woes continued…
Mercedes owner ‘horrified’ to discover new battery will cost more than car is worth (26 Jan)
That eight year number keeps coming up. And nearly $30,000 Aussie for a new hybrid battery pack is pretty pricey!
Daily Telegraph front page today reports that people in southwest Sydney are sick of the possibility of being caught in gunfights at Macca’s or the local servo, or waking to find a burnt out car in their street.
Ain’t non-discriminatory immigration grand?
Spooking spooks.
Report: Activist Uses Apple AirTags to Uncover Secret German Intel Agency (26 Jan)
Haha, sprung! I suspect intel agencies rather dislike AirTags (except when they use them).
We know Hillary went to the Whitehouse in November for a meeting with Kamala.
With Breyer resigning this will allow Biden to appoint Kamala to the Supreme Court and ….wait for it, Hillary becomes VP.
They then take out Joe under the 25th and Hillary becomes POTUS.
I’ve been thinking about Australia Day, it was a quiet day yesterday, perhaps due to Covid, perhaps not. Both Qantas and Virgin refused to celebrate the day, no lamingtons or tim tams for us evil white racist colonialists. Other corporations also joined in to spruik the indigenous bullshit. We even received lectures from various AFL clubs about the crap that is “always was always will be“* and even a lecture from the nongs at Essendon Football club about “equity”…..hmm seriously you couldn’t make this gunk up. I wonder what the chief executive of Essendon Football Club earns? If they’re so concerned about equity then they might need to institute a level playing field when it comes to what people who work and play at Essendon earn….because that’s equity, that’s Marxism.
But given what the left excel at, it won’t be long until most Australians, through sheer complacency, through sheer weariness, succumb to the nonsense that is “change the date”. It’s the same template the left used with SSM, what they do is successfully bully and coerce until people simply give up. I give it another five or six years before this happens. By then ordinary Australians, tired of the arguments, disputations and the violence (I do predict violence…not from Aboriginals but from white activist scum) will do what they did with SSM, they’ll simply shrug their shoulders and say “okay, I give in, let’s move on, let’s move the date”. The same will occur with the “republic” and the same will occur with the dangerous nonsense that is a First Nations voice to Parliament. But by giving in too many Australian fail to realise that all they do is empower the left….and the left are now very powerful……..all thanks to us. Of course it doesn’t help that so many conservatives and Liberals have vacated the public square when it comes to fighting these issues. Too craven, to cowardly…in the fact cowardice is endemic on the right. We saw this with SSM and it’ll happen again.
And when the date is changed, what will happen? Will the activist scum clap their hands and say “we’re satisfied now”. Don’t be ridiculous, nothing will change of course…..because it isn’t about the “date”. Activist scum will then move on to reparations, to forcing citizens to pay an indigenous tax, to changing names, the victimhood wailing will go on and on and on. All this will do is line the pockets of the inner-city very white “Aboriginal” activist class. Meanwhile brown skinned Aboriginal women and children will continue to experience horrific domestic and sexual violence, meanwhile the squalor and poverty in indigenous communities will continue to grow (despite the billions thrown at them) but they don’t matter to the activist scum. If that isn’t real racism I don’t know what is.
Nothing is sacred in this country any longer. The left have taken control….helped by MSM scum, social media sewers, unscrupulous and moronic corporations and also by complacent Australians who’ve shrugged their shoulders and given in. It’ll be another win for the left. We often have arguments here on these pages about whether this country is now a shithole. I don’t believe the country is a shithole but I do believe that this country now has far too many shits living in it. These shits run around bullying, lecturing, dictating and threatening ordinary Australians as to what to think and believe.
* always was always will be only applies to the kangaroos, the koalas, the platypus, the wombats, the cockatoos, the kookaburras and all the rest of the unique animal life that live on this continent. They were here first. Aboriginals, like the rest of us, arrived later, much later. They didn’t originate here. Either they’re part of the magnificent human story or they’re not. They walked here or came by boat or raft.
And finally, I’m indigenous, born on Gadigal land in the mid 1960s at St Margaret’s Hospital Darlinghurst. I spent my early years on Gweagal land in what is now known as Cronulla…aka the “Shire” until my parents bought a house in Bronte…back on Gadigal land. You see, I’m going to start appropriating their language…and I couldn’t care less if they don’t like it.
Sorry about the early morning rant.
We can only hope the DRats are brazen enough to try it, custard.
That may be a catalyst. For something…
Pelosi will be VP under Hillary
Don’t think for one single second that the MSM disaster porn merchants aren’t putting the feelers out for the next calamity, and before this one is finished.
Bushfires in February. That’s always a good one.
They could push the scamdemic for decades and the sheep would still believe in it.
The mother of schoolgirl Charlise Mutten has finally been interviewed by detectives – and claimed she believed her daughter was safe and well up until the morning she called police.
The nine-year-old’s body was found last week in a barrel which had been dumped on the banks of the Colo River, northwest of Sydney.
Police later alleged she had died from a gunshot wound and Justin Stein, 31, her mother’s new fiancé, has been charged with her murder.
Kallista Mutten alleged to police Charlise had been left with Stein for nearly 48 hours between January 11 and 13 at his parents’ Wildenstein property at Mount Wilson.
Ms Mutten had several phone calls with Stein on Thursday January 13, the day he allegedly drove around with the young girl’s body in the back of his ute, police said after she was formally interviewed after spending a week in hospital.
Daily Mail
Will the 50-50 Senate confirm Kamala?
With the pandemic showing us that a significant segment of our population would be OK with putting non-compliant citizens into concentration camps here is another sign that we are reliving the 1930s, Chinese genocide Olympics.
Kamala gets to cast the tie breaking vote. Wouldn’t it be fun if she votes herself to be a Supreme Court Judge?
I doubt she really wants all the hard work associated with being on Scotus, but she also is an inveterate climber. There’s no higher destination than Scotus.
Oh I dunno.
Concubine-In-Chief? The fringe benefits are apparently shit hot.
All it takes is one RINO to make a simple majority which is allowable.
Another theory going around that because 50/50 and Kamala can’t vote for herself is that a democrat Senator will be charged by Durham and forced to resign.
Tim Paine in Virginia perhaps, would have been VP if Hillary won in ‘16. He resigns, Youngkin appoints a republican to replace him.
Republicans now have majority in Senate.
Then the arrests start
Biden
Pelosi
Grassley
Then the flip!
I love a good conspiracy theory in the morning.
Cassie, activists need the indigenous to continue suffering to bolster their case. Fixing the problem would weaken their case considerably.
“I am struggling to work out whether the answer to the last question here was sarcasm.”
Nope.
Governments in debt in their own currency (like the USA) love inflation – they can borrow a lot of money and then pay back less in real terms. The elite borrow lots and buy appreciating assets like land, bitcoin etc, which protects them from the effects of inflation, while the plebs who are lucky to have $1k in the bank lose out, while being told the Gov is “helping” them by giving them handouts that increase inflationary pressures. Plus they can quote nominal wage growth while hiding real decreases in spending power.
So it increases the wealth transfer – transfers assets from the plebs up to the elites, and elites debts down to the plebs. meaning all the “experts” and “advisors” love it too. As do the (minority) wokeists on social media and in the legacy MSM. So that’s all our “leaders” hear – praise.
No sarcasm in that – at all. But sufficiently ambiguous that they can claim it is later, when things go pear shaped.
A Clinton, people obstructing the Clinton path.
I know what happens next.
I suspect the Dems convinced Breyer to resign because of exactly that: they fear that after November the GOP will have a majority in both houses despite every dirty election trick they can come up with. So either he goes early enough to get up a liberal replacement, or Scotus nominally becomes 7-2.
Whoever is vice-president this week has the casting vote.
Given that the 50-50 Senate split was achieved through the fraudulent Januarry 2021 supplementary Senate election in Georgia, it would be the ultimate up-yours to the American public if that device was used was used to temporarily fix the Biden junta’s image problem — so it’s odds-on the Dems will try it.
Indeed, it’s not about the date at all. It’s about the fact that white Australians are celebrating their achievements over the last 230 years. Changing the date won’t affect that, they’ll still be celebrating whatever the day happens to be.
What the protesters want is for Australia Day to be abolished altogether!
Well said.
And lets all not think for a moment that ANZAC Day is not in their sights.
I shudder to think what damage Dan’s best mate Albo has planned for Australia.
Will take me a couple of days to get through a 4 hour listen!
I have however listened to the first 45 mins of this – Jordan Peterson and Brian Peckford discuss Canada’s Constitutional Crisis
Custard, please, you MUST listen, it’s fascinating. Canada has the same issues as Australia regarding the abrogation of responsibility of the media and the law and the medical profession. They seem to be actually DOING something about it in Canada, or planning to try anyway, wheras we have NOTHING going on here.
The High Cost of Disparaging Natural Immunity to Covid
Wall Street Journal – paywalled
Genuine question.
Would you prefer a very smart liberal, Kagan?
Or a retarded liberal, Sotomayor?
After Rich Brown Gravy hung on and on and on for that historic wahman preznit
nominating a wahman justice photo op to end all photo ops ended in tears,
they’d be idiots not to go early.
Zulu
Ivan kicke off, two weeks after Operation Overlord.
On 22 June 1944, exactly three years after Barbarossa started. Stalin liked symbolism.
If I was ranking the current SCOTUS on intellects, it would go something like this.
Thomas at the top, daylight second.
Then Roberts, Alito, Gorsuch, Kagan.
Then another gap.
Then the special kids, Breyer, Sotomayor & Kav.
Too soon to rank Barrett.
Maybe I’m being too harsh on Breyer lumping him in with the other two.
But Kav & Sotomayor are least impressive justices in quite a while.
Cassie, I’m a proud Cabramatta (Cabrogal) woman, though born on Liwura Gundidj land.
My mob, being nomadic, lived for many years on Cammeraygal land, then to Wallumedegal territory and finally the lands of the Dharug people.
My final resting place will be Worimi.
I have been a hunter/gatherer of all that’s best in this little part of the great continent, as my ancestors were before me.
😀
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Border Closuresays:
January 26, 2022 at 10:51 pm
IIRC the Rose Bay to Lord Howe run was the last RPT flying boat route in the world.
While I’ve never paid much (i.e. any) attention to the civilian conversions, I’m prepared to go out on a limb & declare they were all actual military Sunderlands, surplused out of service & remodelled as a civilian “airliner”.
The Sunderland might have been based on the pre-war C-Class flying boats, which were civil air transports. QANTAS had several, some of which were taken over to do patrol and transport work in the SW Pacific Area.
I shudder to think what damage Dan’s best mate Albo has planned for Australia.
And the rest of the Albanese package more so – Wong, Dreyfus, Chalmers, Bowen, Plibersek, Kenneally, the green slime lurking behind them, to name just a few…. each worse than the others!
We’re in for at least 6 years of hell.
Cassie – great rant and no need to apologise. I can always scroll on by if I wanted to.
PS you left out the “proud” descriptor of your heritage. (insert smiley face here)
Fun thought: Kamala on Scotus would drive all the other justices mad. And the support staff. Her cackling and abrasiveness would be like a stink bomb let off in a cathedral.
I wasn’t too disappointed when my Qantas frequent flyer points extinguished. Now no reason to fly with them ever again. It’s a shame in a way as they were quite a good airline but once they start ramming cultural marxism down your throat aka lecturing and insulting you, no way will I ever fly with them again. Ex Qantas people tell me they were terrible to work for btw.
I had to laugh at that aboringlish piece posted by Dot last night.
If you’re going to whinge about cultural appropriation, don’t appropriate mine.
Hard to tell what’s worse. The R-G-R deadwood or the rising stars? Dreyfus v Chalmers is too close to call.
And the rest of the Albanese package more so – Wong, Dreyfus, Chalmers, Bowen, Plibersek, Kenneally, the green slime lurking behind them, to name just a few…. each worse than the others!
I never get the feeling that they mean well to me, quite the opposite. They’re not normal people either.
Yup. Me too.
That was McGowan/interpreter-class fancy, designed for the edification of goats’ cheese noodle-armed albino fiction enthusiasts.
Cassie
I wonder what the chief executive of Essendon Football Club earns?
About a tenth of what he/she/xe is paid?
I have a gazillion of them*. JAL first class to Amsterdam later this year. As one does.
No need to fly RedRoo.
* thanks Big Concrete
So when are they going to hand their valuable grounds over to the local mobs?
And pay them for the privilege of training & playing on them?
Put up or shut up!
cool Calli
kd wrong as elder spokesperson.
Tintarella di Lunasays:
January 27, 2022 at 7:12 am
The creeps want to rule the roost and the delcons are revolting:
Legal shots fired amid fracturing factional Liberal war
NSW Liberal state director Chris Stone has been threatened with legal action by a member of his party’s state executive as grassroots members say attempts to stitch together a shadowy factional deal to bypass preselections in vital seats will “cripple our campaign effectiveness”.
Australia is stuffed. Rub and tug will get in and make what is happening in the US under that disgusting POS biden look like perfection.
Although I doubt I’ll be going anywhere. If the Covid nonsense is still running hot, the ffps (and the holiday) will have to wait.
I’m not going to be at the mercy of “big needle” and their assorted pricks while overseas.
Mate of mine experienced the same but had a solution.
He was a mad keen international traveller so he just focussed on doing his job well and using the long haul 10% fares to his and his family’s advantage.
Holidays, international travel, discounts on partner airlines, cheap accommodation while travelling due to Qantas privileges, access to the company database to work out which undersold flights would give him business class seats, first dibs on heavily discounted holiday offerings etc etc.
Then he left (retired early) after 11 years and continued to get all the above for a further 11 years. Extended for 2 years because of the shut down of flights recently.
So he put up with work problems to live his dream.
A bit like buying green technology shares because you see a government-funded share price rise in the future, despite being an advocate of low-cost coal power.
Which is wonderful when engaging in the beast with two backs with them. ?
Explain.
There’s nothing wonderful about a mouthy English girl – even good looking ones.
All you need to know about english girls in one short post.
JC will have flashbacks.
Been in their sights since the mid 1970’s.
Ahahahahaaaaaaa!
Snork. Haha.
RUSSIA, UKRAINE, AND MORAL RECKONING
by George Weigel
1 . 26 . 22
I’m a proud Székely man of the Magyar people born on Gunai land, and currently living on Gubbi Gubbi. My mothers mob were Lombardii of the Germanii.
Australia could send extra gas to Europe as Russia cuts supplies due to Ukraine tensions
But probably not.
The chickens are coming home to roost after squawking for 40 years.
In the 1980’s, Reagan warned against Europe developing a strategic energy reliance on the Soviet Union. Ignored: stupid Ronnie Raygun.
In the 1990’s, ‘cheap’ Russian gas flowed into Germany, started to displace North Sea production – and pulled the rug out from small/marginal gas exploration projects. Industry concerns were easily ignored as ‘talking their own book’.
Suddenly everyone was hooked on $1.50/btu Gazprom – and through the 2000’s gas started to displace coal and nuclear electricity generation through the EU. It was part of the transition to Energiewende and a clean Green future. (And how the smart folk laughed at the state corruption and the clownish Russian oligarchs, EU-dependent, living large on the back of the peasants.)
Welcome to Vlad’s Squirrel Grip.
If you go to a Midnight Oil concert you get a) told off, and b) lectured:
Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett says the “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie … oi, oi, oi” rally cry is dumb.
“When we first started making music, Australia was a more egalitarian nation,” Garrett said at the band’s concert earlier this week.
“That came about because we had a bit of respect for our history, not the dispossession, but some other aspects of it, and we knew we could do a little better.”
When somebody in the crowd tried to fire up an “Aussie … oi” chant, Garrett stopped him.
“If anyone’s dumb enough to go ‘Aussie … oi,’ I want to hose him down here and simply say this.
“Those of you that have kids under the ages of 21 … their lives are going to be a lot harder, a lot shittier … than the lives of the baby boomers that, regrettably, those of us standing on the stage are.”
Later, Garrett called for “compassion”, “caring”, “fair tax breaks” and “decent education” for everyone, not just society sectors where “all the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few … and the rest of us have to listen to music and watch footy.”
Midnight Oil’s 2022 tour will be the band’s last. Garrett said the Oils have strived to stay true to causes and experiences that have affected them.
God bless McClown, and all who sail in him.
‘Thrown into chaos’: thousands of international students left in limbo as WA border stays shut
Western Australia’s universities warn they will continue to bleed revenue while other states scoop up stranded students
Western Australian universities have “been thrown into chaos” by the decision to keep the state’s border closed, industry insiders say, with thousands of international students caught in limbo by the snap decision.
The state was set to reopen its border to travellers without quarantine from 5 February, but at a late-night press conference last week the premier, Mark McGowan, announced that had been postponed due to the spread of the Omicron Covid variant.
The announcement has caused a furore in the university sector, which argues the decision means it will continue to bleed revenue while other states, which have open borders, scoop up enrolments from stranded students.
At the end of 2021, more than 30% of all international students studying in Western Australia – just under 7,000 – remained outside the country. But the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) warned “hundreds” of students had already arrived in the country and were now stuck in the eastern states.
….
Phil Honeywood, the CEO of IEAA, said because universities were “given an iron-clad promise by Mark McGowan” that overseas students would be allowed in, many of them had already arrived in the country.
“Acting on this promise, they now have hundreds of students who have arrived in Sydney and Melbourne waiting to cross the state border,” Honeywood said. “There is no fallback plan from the state government as to what should be done with these now stranded young people.”
He said the organisation was working with the Department of Home Affairs and had received assurances that course commencement dates would be extended for any student who had to stay in the eastern states until they could get into WA.
Home affairs declined to comment, saying only it was not sure how many students expecting to travel to WA had arrived.
You fucked up, you trusted him…
Hungarians.
My fate in life was to always be surrounded by them. And now they’re family too. 😀
Just received this in email from a Kiwi in NZ :
“The Govt has just grabbed all the RAT test in the country and told private companies to hand them over or else. Suppliers have been told they can’t sell them to anyone else but the MOH or face suspension of their import licences. You can imagine the out-cry”.
Hungarians.
My fate in life was to always be surrounded by them.
Sudden flashback to Mr Gormley and the headmasters “Hungarian”
/Its a Brazilian
One of the ouens up here swears that Midnight Oil did a concert tour of South Africa in the early Nineties, and donated the proceeds to the A.N.C…
Here’s the story.
A combination of stupidity and authoritarianism. Although it’s hard to separate the two. As usual, the private sector is ahead of the game, while the government cocks up.
calli says:
January 27, 2022 at 9:40 am
From February 1st, all tourists to the Netherlands will be required to have a minimum of two covid shots and a third shot if their second was more than 270 days previous.
Midnight Oil is basically Cold Chisel with the sanctimony turned up to 11.
HZHOUSEWIFE mentioned Brian Peckford.
A former long time Premier of Newfoundland who has a very good blog.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/26/nearly-100-potential-human-burials-discovered-british-columbia-school-indigenous-people
They even parrot the debunked “100 graves found” at the other place.
“Our team has recorded not only stories regarding the murder and disappearance of children and infants, they have listened to countless stories of systematic torture, starvation, rape and sexual assault of children at St Joseph’s Mission,” he said.
Sellars said the investigation had found evidence* of children’s bodies being disposed in nearby rivers and lakes and evidence the school’s incinerator had been used to dispose of children. Murray Sinclair, who led the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, previously told the Guardian of similar reports.
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Canada’s legacy of residential schools has come under renewed scrutiny since the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation announced last May that it had discovered what was believed to be more than 200 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian residential school.**
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Sellars said the community would hold discussions over whether to excavate the sites, a fraught question that many nations across Canada are dealing with***
*Stories presented as fact by any chance??
** That would be the debunked/unproven one, fated to live on as another leftist zombiefact https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/in-kamloops-not-one-body-has-been-found
*** Allow the zombiefact to roam the land continuing to eat leftist brains or roll the dice and run the chance of it being proven to be bullshit…
Pace George Weigel.
Aside from his historic and strategic lacunae, Weigel also fails to take into account the philosophical and theological – or, rather, anti-theological – origins of the animus of the Western liberal establishment towards Russia. It’s the same animus displayed against Hungary, another historically Christian nation that refuses to rubber stamp the West’s liberal agenda.
Hungarian – Cauliflower and spicy sausage soup
Where is old foundland?
They’re surprised that a Socialist would confiscate private property?
What short memories people have.
Thanks for that – the Memsahib was born in the Netherlands, and we are planning what may be our last trip there when – if – all this nonsense ever ceases.
thefrollickingmole says:
January 27, 2022 at 10:12 am
News reports that McClown has backtracked on student access to WA.
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan has backflipped on his decision to let international students enter the state, allowing them in if they are vaccinated and quarantine for 14 days once they arrive.
Thousands of international students were caught in limbo by the premier’s latest border shutdown, sensationally scrapping the February 5 reopening date due to the spread of the Omicron Covid variant.
The January 20 announcement made it impossible for students to organise to arrive at international airports in various other states before travelling to Perth ahead of the start of the university year.
However the government has quietly revealed a complete policy backflip in a document released on Tuesday called the Returning Students Directions (No 2). It states that returning international students are allowed to come into Australia and cross into WA from other states if they are fully vaccinated and agree to self-quarantine for 14 days.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/international-students-allowed-to-enter-western-australia-in-last-minute-border-backflip/news-story/267aa5aa13029014cc19a06b483e9b40
I saw the Oils in London, circa 1982. Shocking show! Garrett spent 90% of his stage time singing into the wings, not the audience. Apparently, there was as a photographer he mistakenly thought was from Rolling Stone, so, like most of the the ambulatory haemorrhoid’s actions and pronouncements ever since, he was posing for maximum effect.
Zulu – Not just Netherlands. Much of EU.
See link.
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/countries-that-will-soon-only-let-travellers-in-that-have-received-three-doses-of-a-covid-vaccination/news-story/0a8a214616973bd3459dadb86341b0ca
Bugger. I’ll be 23 days past my use-by date for enprickening.
But nine months is a looooong time in Zombieland. Things may change by then.
Soon to be in Australia at a place near you!
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2022/01/26/this-is-not-the-master-race-i-was-promised/
All “allegedly” so far.
Disgraced former television host Andrew O’Keefe will face court on Thursday after he allegedly attempted to choke a potential business partner.
Police say the one-time White Ribbon ambassador met the woman at his home on Kent Street in the Sydney CBD on Tuesday afternoon.
“A verbal argument ensued between the pair, before the man allegedly assaulted the woman – grabbing her by the throat, pushing her to the ground and punching her.
“The man allegedly assaulted the woman a second time – punching and kicking her – before she left the unit.“
The former host of Weekend Sunrise was arrested by police at his home in the early hours of Thursday morning, after the woman reported the allegations to police on Wednesday.
Mr O’Keefe is currently inside the CBD’s Day Street police station, where he is being charged. He is expected to appear in court later on Thursday.
Even then, if you have a +ve RAT, it’s “no fly” time and the holiday is buggered.
Unless the object of the stupid game is to stop all forms of tourism, the thing has to be eased off.
Heh. Big Nambas’ link sums up the dilemma perfectly.
“Rogersays:
January 27, 2022 at 10:26 am
Pace George Weigel.
Aside from his historic and strategic lacunae, Weigel also fails to take into account the philosophical and theological – or, rather, anti-theological – origins of the animus of the Western liberal establishment towards Russia. It’s the same animus displayed against Hungary, another historically Christian nation that refuses to rubber stamp the West’s liberal agenda.”
Agree although don’t forget the animus towards Poland too. I found Weigel’s musings in the piece P linked to simplistic at best….particularly re. the Russian Orthodox Church, which has simply reverted back into the same role it performed under the tsars.
Way back when, Little Sis had the occasional sit down with chrome dome in Canbra.
A) A bit dim.
B) His “legacy” the primary concern.
C) Not as bad as that Wong chap.
Unless the object of the stupid game is to stop all forms of tourism
Of course it is. Got to save the planet by cutting back on emissions.
Statement from Mr O’Keeffe:
‘My personal beliefs require me to choke out, belt and kick women.
‘Naturally, any criticism of my own deeply-held principles, as demonstrated over time is bullying, failure to accept my status as the real hero here, and actionable.
‘This press conference is over.’
“Disgraced former television host Andrew O’Keefe will face court on Thursday after he allegedly attempted to choke a potential business partner.
Police say the one-time White Ribbon ambassador met the woman at his home on Kent Street in the Sydney CBD on Tuesday afternoon.”
Is Grace Tame available for comment?
And all mad as meat axes I’m sure :-0
But of course, Diogenes. And all very, very clever. Too clever by half.
news.com.au is a naked propaganda paper.
It did exactly the same ‘articles’ with the original “vaccine passports”. Started by introducing the population to the idea of them for needing to travel, and look all the overseas cool kids are doing it, then later let everyone know that you would have them domestically to enter a hospital too.
So too its stupid stories about ‘boosters’. It’s letting you know that you’re going to be getting mandatory boosters in Australia soon tied to your ‘passport’, and here’s the first article about requiring them to travel, letting you get used to the idea. Exactly the same articles as this time last year.
The little swine has told us.
More Government!
Bigger, better, smarter Government – more inclusive Government. Government in detail, planned and comprehensive; a free RAT in every pot. Radical, reforming Government: fixing the mistakes of the past.
So much Government that you’ll never have to do, or think about anything ever again.
I think O’Keefe’s fame by proximity might be coming to an end. The equivalent of being picked up by the Gold Coast Suns in the mid season draft.
I’m thinking that it is one of:
1. Side effect/unintended consequence
2. Only the very subservient/compliant can travel (or work)
3. They need to kill tourism (no idea why)
4. Desperate attempt to get rid of the unjabbed (null hypothesis) comparative statistic.
Eyriesays:
January 27, 2022 at 10:40 am
Unless the object of the stupid game is to stop all forms of tourism
Of course it is. Got to save the planet by cutting back on emissions.
Not all forms of tourism, only those allowing the serfs to enjoy places that should be reserved for the elite (and their servants).
““A verbal argument ensued between the pair, before the man allegedly assaulted the woman – grabbing her by the throat, pushing her to the ground and punching her.”
And let’s remember this sanctimony from O’Keefe…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQxC7iCP6Ac
He actually did a pretty good job of mindless FTA TV. No wonder Larry Emdur could step in seamlessly.
Such as the “Frontier massacres” – “Maybe two, maybe three hundred people shot and burned” that were fully investigated, and found to be nothing more then “stories my Nanna told me?”
Always a danger when an ideologue is trying to make current events fit his Procrustean bed.
We need a level playing field. In the 9th year of all cars’ lives, registration costs increase twelve-fold.
Get to it National Cabinet.
I see that news.com.au are on board with abolishing Australia day – the European peoples founding myth and legend of day one our country on this continent, too.
Like I said a few weeks ago, if conservatives don’t start standing up for themselves and getting on the wrong side of the cult of nice occasionally, in five to ten years in this very place it’ll be all “yeah well Captain Cook was actually a leftist and it was Labor who thought up Australia Day because they’re the real racists and here’s an Spectator article proving it!”.
After the speculation on drones being used in war.
Mexican cartels are onto it.
WATCH: Mexican Drug Cartel Modifies Drone, Drops Bombs
You would think Garrett would be at least slightly chastised by his own inept spell in the halls of power.
For years he sung about Australia’s evils, haranguing us all and goading his audience with how obvious and simple the solutions would be.
And then he got in, and found himself suddenly up to his neck in a poorly conceived, easily rorted, yet fatal program. Now, a lot of that came down to the corrupt vying for prestige, shifting loyalties, contesting egos, and cynical manipulation of the public by the government – but he was at the centre of it because just being pure of heart never was the solution. And he never really diagnosed the problems either. He went in thinking he would be able to change them. Instead they changed him.
And less than 1/100th have heard of the 100 million dead under Stalin and Mao (not detracting from the horrid tragedy endured by the Hebrews).
Is Grace Tame available for comment?
Grace Lame.
Let’s not forget this Andrew O’Keefe YouTube classic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MagtXy1Exwo
And it wasn’t even Logies night.
We’re in for at least 6 years of hell.
Likely actions from an Albo government once in…note will not match promises, for as Peter Garrett once told someone, words to the effect of once we get in, we’ll do what we like:
• death duties
• the end to negative gearing
• compulsory welcome to country everywhere, all the time
• treaties everywhere with whatever “indigenous” pressure group is screaming
• Bruce Pascoe for GG
• batteries batteries, batteries for cities connected to wind farms. Massive power bills for all to pay for it
• electric cars at subsidised prices
• cancel any nuclear subs ideas.
And in year two….
Actually, more to this…
So, back in the 80’s we were more egalitarian, huh?
Whose influence has grown since then? Whose influence has carved us up into demographics at war with each other? Who has decided who is to be pushed down and who is to be elevated?
Why…people like Peter Garrett!
And he still won’t own it.
Miss Tame is currently undergoing remedial training with her media advisor.
Can I claim refugee status in North Korea?
We’re in for at least 6 years of hell.
Another great reason to not be in the Greatest Country with The Worst Mongs.
Rickw @7.44
Yes. I can remember several instances of this.
Thanks for starting an old curmudgeon’s day with a smile.
Garrett is already quite wealthy.
A mere custodian for future generations. Death duties, now!
Michael Smith News
“Labor on the other hand says we can do something about cost of living; we can bring down the cost of childcare for 97 per cent of families, we can bring down power bills with cheaper, cleaner renewable energy and the cost of electric vehicles. And do something to bring wages up.”
Translation: we are sooooo fucked.
Kicked Garret out of the Surf Club for spitting. Disgusting personal habits.
So typically a Knox Old Boy.
WA not working for you Zulu? Is it the heat?
Just hold Albo to his promise to cut immigration and wages will rise, Tanya.
Then, with the unions on side, start adddressing bars to increasing productivity.
Calli, the object is not only to end all forms of tourism, but all forms of commerce. Backed by its useful idiots in the public service, the left’s revolutionary war against free marker capitalism. is now underway with little pretence about the objective.
The CCP’s Kung Flu release was the trigger. The communists think they can smell final victory.
I expect it will be a 3 year wonder. Like the Lieborals in Victoriastan.
But yes.
Pfizer is despicable.
Another certainty with Albanese is that the National Cabinet will be engorged and polished.
And the Premiers are focussed on the economy and not interested in buck passing?
Sure Buddy…