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One hell of a movie. Great Sydney scenery too.
Just cancelled your -1. I think it’s a bot. Pathetic, some smartypants imagines that he (oh, yes, it’s a he)…
Mine, Amysim, just gave me 3 months @ $3 a month to make up for all the “we’re switching you…
Seeing it in cars too. Lot of 10-15yo models are more popular than current models.
will –
On the “are they loony or evil ?” question, I’m leaning towards evil. No one can be this stupid,
As a minimum Dover, I think you should insist on posts being in English.
Ideologies make people do wicked things.
(That’s not to say they don’t remain accountable.)
In the case of Chairman Dan I think the jury returned months ago. Possibly the most dangerous zealot ever to have achieved high political office in Australia. Makes The Great Man look like Father Christmas.
And word salads as a side dish only.
I have much to do.
I do not want to be on this blog more than a quick perusal every day or two.
Those lurking who aren’t captive to one side or tother of the Ukraine war, and who don’t want this site to further descend into Russian partisanship, would you please get off your arses and relieve me of the need to comment. Make a bloody effort.
For Christ sakes.
Que?
Conspicuous is you two trying to circle the wagons now, especially when everyone knows how utterly lacking in any human compassion your cowardly, not so cryptic, smarmy, open ended one liners have consistently proven to be.
Just as you’re proving again here with your repeating of many excuses for why those Gypsy women could have ‘deserved’ their torture.
They’re physically recognisable as Gypsy’s.
That’s all they have to ‘do’ to be singled out and tortured by Nazis.
Every commenter here knows this.
Particularly the Jews & Jew sympathisers.
Would you all suspend your outrage if those images were of Jewish women instead?
Ah, but so what, someone here who’s genetic phenotype also makes them a easily recognisable target for Nazis just happens to be someone the mob have lied about for years in order to spread their violent hatred of them, so it all works out for ya, doesn’t it.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
dover0beachsays:
March 22, 2022 at 11:28 am
….Sorry, but I cannot, singly, moderate this blog constantly.
Maybe you should institute a rule that anyone who whines that you haven’t moderated someone else automatically gets banned. (I’m serious. If people don’t like it here they can always leave.)
Woops.
Latin should get a special dispensation.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Takes one to know one.
h/t Homer Simpson.
Top Endersays:
March 22, 2022 at 8:23 am
And Kalkara which replaced Jindavik.
Thanks TE, tried to remember the name, but kept coming up with Malkara, an anti-tank missile.
Thank goodness for the Separation of Powers. When they are observed.
Ah, yes.
But who will then moderate the deputy moderators?
I believe Dot covered this as part of the constitutional changes he proposed.
What time was this posted?
Thanks in advance.
I, for one, do not want to live in Dot’s world. Which way are the exits?
Dot probably doesn’t want to live in your world Bear.
Now can we get back to the proper stoushing.
What a bickering hen house.
Can’t you all just get along?
Dover – It’s being reported in the MSM, but whether it’s true or not is impossible to know.
Putin humiliated as hardman Chechen special forces go home after losing hundreds of men (Express, 21 Mar)
Ukrainian state source, so take it with a suitably large truckload of salt and fumigants. From what I see it does seem that Maj Gen Tushaev has been killed though. I’ve also seen some fairly bloody pics and vids of dead Chechens that look to be real (again hard to know) so maybe they are getting cold feet. Kadyrov also could be concerned with local politics back home since the Uzbeks declared for Ukraine a week or so ago.
Hi Dover,
I will be available to moderate in a couple of weeks. I make my big move then and will only be beholden to myself. The current, soon to be ex-Mr Pog has always complained about my spending too much time in front 0f the screen, so I have experience. 😉
Of course we have to talk terms, remuneration etc. I am not interested in money, it is POWER I am after. Soon, all you minions will bow down before me as I will be IRREPRESSIBLE!
I don’t blame him. I have enough problems myself.
So this morning’s barf-posting was really all about SRR. Again. Because she self-identifies as G**** and J** and self-identifies with their suffering.
How is the foot recovering, SRR? Is the pain relief or rehab program causing you some issues, because you have been particularly belt-fed the last 48 hours?
Or has your laydeeee’s intuition led you to think Vlad Bae’s Holy War is faltering, and this psychic Katyusha barrage on the Cat is designed to rally him to Final Victory?
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
[That’s a dead giveaway, that is…]
I just want to be left alone.
Side note. 2nd Novavax vaccination later on today.
Consider any interaction with me a living wake.
…. Rosebud.
[That’s a dead giveaway, that is…]
I should hope so, Rex. I have plans, Big plans. Soon, my precious, soon………
“constitutional changes”
LOL – that’s like calling the Holodomor or Great Leap Backwards a bookkeeping error.
…and some of the greatest hits come from you, dear readers.
Dear oh dear.
Can brain scans reveal behaviour? Bombshell study says not yet
This is very disappointing. Over 20 years ago on a bionet forum someone sent me a paper on brain scans studies that argued most were spurious findings. The author advised me his paper had been rejected by various journals but without any specific criticisms of it. Yet still the problem persists. So much money and resources are being wasted on studies that have more to do with citation counts than science.
Alas, no man is an island. One thing Covid did show was how connected humans are.
Is that phrase patented Dover?
Or may I use it when necessary?
Quite so Timothy.
I think JC had a variation on that theme.
That Dover doesn’t consider requests for moderation/banning unless and until the request is posted by the complainant on open forum with full supporting reasons.
I suspect such demands would slow to a trickle.
A range of views have been expressed here, if it differs markedly from the official narrative that is a good sign indeed.
Re the Starkey video, what is the timestamp for most relevant portion?
Oh yea , the Cambridge debate moderator, who almost destroyed the site is too busy to moderate.
Hahahahaahhahaha
I had to laugh.
Here’s some more ‘Russian propaganda’:
and
That is unfortunate.
Sorry Tim but must do a Cassie here and let it be known, not through a mere thumbs up, that I thoroughly agree with this comment of yours.
But of course I would, because it’s always those who lose at toe to toe, quote for quote, in context contests, who jump up and start calling for the ‘moderating’/Silencing of people.
Caught a snatch (phrasing!) of Lydia Thorpe on their ABCcess this morning launching a new “report racism online” portal with herself proudly putting in the first whine.
The bastion of KKK pickanninny lynching segregated water cooler hate??
Canberra airport.
First she wasnt served in the express lane, then someone pinged her for having too much in her carry on bag and she didnt want to leave anything behind.
When she got up on her hind trotters and argued the point security was called.
The end.
Puts the troubles of MLK to shame.
Then she undercut her entire “Australia is a racist hellhole” by saying “Nothing like that has ever happened to me before, and it would never happen to a white woman”…..
https://www.smh.com.au/national/lidia-thorpe-first-to-lodge-racism-claim-on-new-register-20220320-p5a69e.html
Greens senator Lidia Thorpe has become the first person to lodge a report on a new online register designed to enable First Nations people to put on the public record the levels of racism they experience.
The Call It Out register provides an alternative to the current, legalistic, process for reporting incidents of racial discrimination through discrimination law, according to Professor Larissa “I saw a man fucking a horse” Behrendt, the director of research at Jumbunna Research at Sydney’s University of Technology. She said it would highlight elements of racism that the legal system fails to protect against.
https://callitout.com.au/
Basically the racism well is running dry. They need a new “stories my nanna told me/it was all real.. in my head” method of keeping the gravy flowing.
Disgusting people.
The data is held securely by the Jumbunna Institute. Information is collected and held in confidence to be used on an anonymous basis within published research and statistical reporting of racism. No individual will ever be identified.
Yep. As I said it’s hard to know what nuggets of information may be real, if any. On the other hand Russian casualties do seem pretty high as a Russian journo briefly leaked what look to be the official RGS figures last night. They were immediately taken down as you might expect. Probably a little bit lower than US Pentagon estimates, but big numbers.
Pro-Kremlin Tabloid Briefly Reports Massive Russian Casualty Number, Citing Putin’s Defense Ministry (22 Mar)
That ratio is high too. Usually you would expect about 1:4.
Juvenal at the cat? What next!
Recently I noticed this tag used in dialogue in an old episode of The Avengers from the early 60s.
It was replied to with another latin tag, rem acu tetigisti
Oh for the days when mass audience popular TV shows had latin dialogue without it needing to be explained to the viewers. By the 80s, Sir Humphrey at least explained his putdowns of Jim Hacker by correcting Bernard’s attempts at translation.
It ran out, Calli. I’d like to pair it with the Picard facepalm.
Concern for other posters?
To quote a well worn phrase, it’s not that sort of a blog. (one would insert a smilie face here if one had interweb-fu skills)
Arky
Those lurking who aren’t captive to one side or tother of the Ukraine war, and who don’t want this site to further descend into Russian partisanship, would you please get off your arses and relieve me of the need to comment. Make a bloody effort.
Since you ask, I repeat my support for the Kissinger concept, first used at th4e time of the 1980s Iran-Iraq War: “Can’t they both lose?”
There are no “goodies” in this war.
Just in case things get out of hand over there.
https://www.science20.com/hontas_farmer/putins_nuclear_threats_over_ukraine_distance_and_dirt_will_keep_you_safer_from_radioactive_fallout-255969
If Mark McGowan has been Premier of WA for five years and has won two elections and is now only schocked by the level of gun ownership in WA, he ought to retire, along with relevant Ministers, such as the Attorney General and Police Minister – and a general election ought to be held as soon as practicable.
He’s a venomous mediocrity.
There’s always my old idiocy standby.
It goes with, “Where do I start?”. I think this time I’ll pass.
Those lurking who aren’t captive to one side or tother of the Ukraine war, and who don’t want this site to further descend into Russian partisanship
Putin is the aggressor, that makes him the bad guy.
As for the daily ebb and flow of the war, either side can end it by surrendering/withdrawing.
Neither has done that on even a local level.
Nowhere has been declared an “open city” to save the civilians.
As long as Zelenskis tactics are based on dragging NATO and outside forces in I think hes a dangerous twat.
And as long as Vlad keeps killing and advancing in an attempt are regime overthrow hes an execrable turd.
Ive decided indifference to the rights and wrongs of both sides is far more principled than trying to sort through the lies, corruption and violence there.
It turns out the West’s new hero, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is an anti-democratic fascist who this week used emergency war powers (invoked to fight the Russian invasion of his country) to ban all domestic opposition parties.
That fact that the American political establishment continues to deify Zelenskyy tells you everything about the one-party state they’re trying to establish in the USA. Tucker Carlson Tonight.
PS: Stay on for a snippet of Carlson’s on-site Tennessee interview (from 37m) with Donald Trump’s golf buddy Rob Ritchie (a.k.a. Kid Rock), who reckons he in “uncancellable” because he’s no longer beholden to recording companies and corporations and gets to write and record music about whatever he likes.
PPS: Ritchie has a brand-new Rolls Royce “Let’s Go Brandon” edition.
Dover
You know who would be fabulous at moderating?
I don’t think you need such but anyway.
Tom.
Tom would be great. Convince him!
Huh
Speak of the devil.
We see ‘stories’ popping up in the MSM, and even in allegedly scientific journals, all the time which are illustrated with those brightly coloured pictures of brain scans.
The pictures look so ‘sciency’, and the accompanying claims that they mean something are seductive. Remember when it was popular science to claim that psychopaths or violent criminals had particular and identifiable colourful patterns in their brains?
It is nonsense, approximately on a par with phrenology. But it generates income for a stratum of the ‘research’ community which is savvy about finding gullible investors.
For those advocating people “get cracking” on Ukraine vs Russia, I must admit to being disinterested. Not uninterested, but disinterested.
Here Dover…have a Double.
New analysis shows statins have “minimal” benefits
My GP has recommended I go on a statin. My cholesterol is higher than I would like but I’m not convinced a statin is the solution. This recent study offers more support for my decision.
Be wary of relative risk reduction because it can be very misleading. Relative risk reduction must be perceived in relation to the base rate of the pathology. Absolute risk reduction is the value to heed but sadly too many studies avoid using it because it is typically much lower than relative risk reduction.
If Zelensky is wrong, we shouldn’t have hanged Lord Haw Haw, let alone gaoled Sharkey.
I just want to be left alone.
Same.
I am sick of the Klipboard Karen’s Klique.
Agree JC.
Tom would be a good mod.
We would all have to eschew any criticism of Jamie Kah, but.
Johanna it used to be ridiculed as “phrenology with pretty lights”.
It’s a bit like the next episode too, when Mr Hussein invaded Kuwait. That would be the same Kuwait that had been funding terrorists all over the world for decades. But not booting the Iraqis would’ve caused lots of wannabe imperialists to be like Saddam, especially the Chinese. So was it right to obliterate his army? I don’t know. But it did mean Kuwait has behaved a whole lot better now that they realize who their daddy is. A certain resurgent empire to their northeast helps focus their hearts, minds and essential organs also.
I too have experienced the overt racism of being told my hand luggage is too big.
“It’s coz I is black, innit?”.
John H.
Is this your first recommendation for a statin, BP or blood sugar medication?
I am not after details, but often the first time one of these things is recommended there is resistance.
How do I know this?
🙂
Quite so BJ.
I am interested in it from the point of view of the pain and suffering visited upon innocent civilians.
But ask me to choose between two megalomaniac corruptocrats?
Leave me out.
Quigley is a weirdo. I wouldn’t leave my children with him – even if I had some.
I’m not on any meds. The GP has recommended a statin a few times. I take some supplements, I’m not healthy crazy but I am health aware. Losing 5 kilos will do more for my health than a statin.
Maybe it would help if you wore your trousers instead of packing them in your carry-on baggage.
Also Im not saying anyone should think of my position as moral or correct, or that they should ‘fall in line”.
Just everyone should challenge their own beliefs if they are picking a side and leave a lot of room for ambiguity on any claims.
Bear
You identify as black?
Again with the trousers. Let it go people. Embrace the freedom.
You wear a kilt?
I too have experienced the overt racism of being told my hand luggage is too big.
Maybe it would help if you wore your trousers instead of packing them in your carry-on baggage.
It was his big hairy man-bags that were the problem.
A lot of hassle getting them through the scanner and even worse when hes trying to stuff them in the overhead locker or under the seat in front on him.
No, you can’t spell, it’s the ‘Cambrage’ moderator, although Lizzie would disagree. 🙂
I must say that was an epic piece of self-beclownment by our Resident Interlecturshal. Well spotted by KD, I did as well but thought you dealt with it with style. 🙂
I engaged in exactly that bargaining process with myself.
I think I lost one of the five kgs.
I am on a very low dose but I certainly don’t see it as cut and dried either way.
Particularly for people on the margin, where GPs prescribe (allegedly applying the precautionary principle).
Just to be clear before ussr arrives … I am not in the pay of Big Pharma.
Anyone calling for Dover to ban someone else should be banned …..retiring to library with Webley. As Delta says, we liked what we saw. We are no shrinking violets, myself more of a dandelion or thistle. I notice some are very quick to taking umbrage before they realise a jibe was meant for someone else.
JC – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZbrqE1CF4
Well, given he lives in Perth, he wouldn’t be a fucking Polar Bear, now would he?
I’ve seen a white woman verbally abused, and spat on, for refusal to hand over a packet of cigarettes – “you white counts got everything, blakfella got nothing” – where do I report that?
H B Bearsays:
March 22, 2022 at 12:43 pm
I too have experienced the overt racism of being told my hand luggage is too big.
“It’s coz I is black, innit?”.
Had you taken your trousers out of your hand luggage and put them on, there would not have been a problem. Bear trousers are very large!
Ranga at 12:57.
Actually, it would be a courtesy if someone was addressing a particular comment that they simply list the poster’s name and/or timestamp where they don’t blockquote that info.
BTW, I think it is spelt “umberage”.
It’s how Onslow pronounces it in that show. You know, the one which we dare not speaketh it’s name.
Sancho
Snap!
Did you just snap the braces on my big trousers, BJ?
Thump, crash, ggllmmmphh. Sounds of dragging, then a splash.
Tom says he can’t take the Deputy moderator’s position. He is unavailable for the foreseeable future. He advised that Pogria would be a worthy Deputy mod.
Perth has a polar bear. Poor bastard has to suffer through summer like the rest of us. Every now and again they give it some crap in an ice block for the 6pm News. As a fellow bear I find this just perpetuates shallow stereotypes.
I must say, the bonhomie and good humour is top drawer today.
I mentioned yesterday that we visited Jamala Lodge in Canbra a few weeks back.
They are always doing that sort of thing to stimulate the animals.
A keeper told us they once poured honey into the holes of an old ten-pin bowling bowl and gave it to a sun-bear.
He dicked around with it for a couple of minutes then just inserted both sets of claws into the holes and snapped the ball in two.
Not for cuddling.
No, you contemptible, illiterate liar, or really bad AI word churner (the Jury’s still out) –
I explained to someone left scratching their head, how rosie was yet again, (straight out of the blocks in the morning, with no prior interaction), cowardly spitting at me (which she later, happily admitted to, finding she was no longer alone in her fun), and I laid it out that way, quote by quote, because it was such a clear example of how the liars don’t care about lying because they simply bury their lies under more lies.
Just as you’re also attempting to do ‘for the narrative’.
That’s it.
Back to ignoring your dribble.
“My cholesterol is higher than I would like but I’m not convinced a statin is the solution.”
My friend had the issue of trying to lose weight and lower cholesterol at the same time – tried many diets, none could do both.
Then she went low carb (keto). Did both at once – fixed her cholesterol chemistry and lost weight eating ham and eggs for breakfast!
Talk to your doctor first – obviously – but while this is anecdotal, it is also not uncommon to be heard anecdotally, so there may be something in it. Much like regular fasting and mild type 2 diabetes.
If Mark McGowan has been Premier of WA for five years and has won two elections and is now only schocked by the level of gun ownership in WA
Marx McClown:
“I wouldn’t have been such an arsehole if I knew how well armed the peasants were.”
For the benefit of SA Cats cautiously welcoming their new overlords, Uncle Mark was also voted in on a platform of stopping ambulance ramping and sorting the health system out.
The ramping and hospital woes got worse.
But for the ‘WA Stronk!’ act he put on for Nosferaflu, he’d likely not have received the thumping majority he did. Despite the fact that the WA electorate was still feeling so vindictive against Colin Barnett, his party and legacy needed some extra thrashing.
Oops.
Spoke too soon about the bonhomie and good humour.
John H, my personal opinion is to avoid statins, although maybe if you have had two or three heart attacks they might be worth considering. In the US, I read that over 50% of people over 55 are on statins, which are the single largest moneymaker for drug companies (although COVID nostrums probably broke the record last year). They are allegedly preventative.
Red flag right there, you are on them for life. Hmm.
There are, as you would expect, some nasty side effects, including muscle weakness, impotence (for men) and so on. Most people don’t get them, not much comfort if you do.
IMO statins are yet another racket where people are over-medicated on a mass scale. I simply don’t believe that more than half of the over 55 population need to be medicated for life just in case.
The statins crowd are right in with the cholesterol crowd, although the latter have gone quiet in recent years as their sandcastle has crumbled. Could it be that the former is gradually taking over the latter’s territory in sales terms, with the same companies involved? Convenient, as the anti-cholesterol ‘drugs’ begin to run out of patent.
I’m a fan of modern medicine, but disentangling the commercial interests and ideology from science is essential, and difficult.
https://callitout.com.au/register/#gf_2
Why not provide some grist for the mill and file a racism-incident complaint. Suggestions:
1/ I wanted the remains of my pork chop so I could point the bone, but the white waitress whisked it away.
2/ When I defended Bruce Pascoe’s scholarship, the white man told me to stand on one leg and gaze into the distance
3/ My First nations name is Brupllyatcancinka. Whites refuse to pronounce it properly even though they can handle Polish names OK.
4/ I was appalled to find Kiwi Shoe Polish does not come with a warning about using it for blackface.
I’m sure the constantly aggrieved would appreciate lots more suggestions
From the .. ‘why is it always me” file AKA “would this happen if I weren’t white” file .. LOL!
The 1st night of the Sydney deluge a monster tree in my garden said, “Sayonara” and flounced .. No probs 1st off NSW Housing had someone out next morning and she/he/it was chopped up and chipped with alacrity ..
But then we arrive at damage repair .. 3 metres of front fencing .. 3 weeks on and still have an extra entrance where a fence should be! .. 4 times the fencer(s) have rang to say “tomorrow” but as we all know tomorrow never comes .. LOL! ..
Last Friday’s call was “Monday, definitely”, so I, once again, swam at 5.30am so as to be home .. no show .. call came at midday, “Fencer sick, tomorrow, definitely” ..
Midday, today, “Sorry, fencer has BAT FLU will have to put it off until next week” ……duuuuuuuuh!
Ah Synchronicity. One of my current open tabs. I wasn’t going to bother posting it but since you raised the issue of keto. Your friend made a good choice. I wonder how the GP responded.
Alternative Dietary Patterns for Americans: Low-Carbohydrate Diets
Ooo! I’m an AI, now!
Tremble before my Nano-Wriggler AI bot legions, in all their terrible, neuron-melting glory. With your mouths full of Secret Soup.
One order of warm and defeated pasta nachos and lasanga wings with extra Italy coming up for SRR…
#INFINITE STIIIIIIIIICK…
Rage-tantrum from the Nuffy at that chortling arsehole ‘AI’ taking the piss out of her in a most un-procedurally generated way over her devotion to Vlad Bae in 3…2…1…
I’ve come across these ideas before and this oncologist raises some very interesting perspectives on understanding cancer. We are typically too focused on genes and mutations, failing to consider the metabolic contexts which can both promote and inhibit cancer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zk0ubr_lzo
Rex Anger
Yep, you always wonder how much of Sneakers Covid schtick was because he knew more about the WA hospital system than we did. The AMA doing its constant Chicken Little routine doesn’t help.
Solving puzzles by sheer brute force has an elegance all of its own. 🙂
Hunter Biden’s laptop and America’s crisis of accountability
GERARD BAKER
In close elections, a fraction of the total vote distributed in the right places can swing an outcome, and we can never be sure what effect late news stories can have. If it hadn’t been for a suspiciously well-timed report of a decades-old driving-under-the-influence arrest in the final days of the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush might not have needed 35 days and the judgment of the Supreme Court to deliver him the White House.
Harold Wilson, the British Labour prime minister in 1970, is said to have claimed for years afterward that England’s shock defeat by West Germany in the soccer World Cup quarterfinal that year so depressed the national mood — and turnout — that it produced his surprise ejection from 10 Downing Street in the general election days later. We’ll never know what effect the “October Surprise” of 2020, the New York Post’s reporting of the discovery of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden containing all sorts of embarrassing emails, might have had on the election that year if it had received wider circulation. Perhaps in a campaign dominated by Covid and characterised by chaos, it would have been another snowflake in the blizzard of news voters were being hit with.
But the allegations in the reporting — that the son of the man favoured to become the next president had been selling his high-level family political connections to foreigners, including suggestions of a possible cut for his father — were worth pursuing. But enough influential people in and out of government — in the foreign-policy-intelligence complex, in the media, and in the big tech firms — were so alarmed that it would affect the outcome that they pulled off one of the greatest disappearing tricks since Harry Houdini made that elephant vanish from a New York stage.
It took its time, but last week the New York Times slipped the acknowledgment of the story’s accuracy deep in a report about Hunter Biden’s mounting legal problems. The Times, along with most other mass-circulation news organisations, had essentially ignored the story in the days when it might have made a difference, but it now says it has “authenticated” the laptop’s contents.
The concession from the paper, which serves as a sort of unofficial licensing authority for reporting by most of the rest of the media, prompted a predictable rush to self-vindication by those who had also trashed the story at the time. The Washington Post insisted its original decision not to touch it was justified because of uncertainty about its provenance.
Normally, when there is doubt about the provenance of an explosive story, news organisations consider it their job to ascertain the truth. Normally, it takes them less than 17 months to do so. But normally they don’t have the cover provided by technology companies that prevented people from reading the original story.
The media and tech companies that colluded in concealing this potentially critical information didn’t need any excuse to do so. But it surely helped that they were given validation for their actions by an august-sounding committee of concerned letter-writers who moved quickly to discredit the story.
In that famous letter, more than 50 former national-security and intelligence officials polished their gleaming credentials and alleged that the New York Post was guilty of peddling a story that had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
The principal rationale for this, the letter laid out, was that the story might be helpful to Donald Trump. Russia wanted Mr. Trump to win. The story helped Mr. Trump. Ergo, it was the work of Russia.
That’s quite a syllogism. Using that same logic, you might conclude that Russia was also responsible for any unexpectedly good economic data that helped the incumbent, or that Vladimir Putin was behind the crime wave that had gripped Democrat-run cities.
Now we can guess why so much U.S. intelligence has been so faulty all these years. Either these 50 or so grandmasters of international espionage are completely unable to distinguish Russian disinformation from real information, or they prostituted their credentials in a naked act of political hackery. I don’t have their experience or deductive skills, but I’m ready to go with the latter.
The deeper shame here is the lack of accountability across American institutions. No one who colluded in this conspiracy against truth has even been inconvenienced by it.
Contacted by the Post last week, not one of the letter’s signatories expressed regret or contrition. The reporters and editors at news organisations and the employees and executives of tech companies who participated in the suppression continue to be lionized for their work.
This is what is so corrosive of trust and, in the end, of the system itself. The one way in which real accountability is supposed to work in a democracy is at the ballot box. But how can that even work when the people we want to hold accountable decide what information the voters are allowed to see?
The Wall Street Journal
Having once been on the Scrub side, Bear, the Unions were howling long and hard about the service model originally set up at Fiona Stanley Hospital, even before it started operating. Particularly because the chosen Contractor, Serco, wanted nothing to do with them. So sterilisation service failures and various equipment defects and porters and patient assistant issues that would have been hushed under the rug or quietly sorted out woth minimal fuss elsewhere were instead amplified and mass-broadcast as examples of private-public failure and Serco/Liberal perfidy. When Sneakers enacted his promise to return all of these things to Health Dept (i.e. Union-mediated) control, they immediately went silent. And some of the issues improved. Some.
But they all got upset when the budgetary controls (particularly flat pay rises) started under Barnett were retained. Particularly when ore prices went up and the place was (relatively) awash with cash. But since it was a maaaaaate in charge, the previously-militant Unions placated Members about fighting to put more people on permanency rather than contracts.
Did you just turn someone into a Newt, Pogria?
Mine on Thursday.
I will then start at the Oaks and begin a pub crawl toward Mosman. Dammit, if I go, I am going in harness. (Ideally ‘in style’ will be a beyond me by the time I get to The Mosman Hotel (which I affectionately call The Crap and Mallard.)
KEEEEEEP THE HOME FIIIIRES BURNING…
WHIIIILST OUR HEEEEARTS ARE YEEEARNING….
Works for me.
The fighting is enough to hold one’s interest, without trying to adopt a moral position.
Much like I can appreciate (both in the aesthetic and strategic planning senses of the word) the ebb and flow of a football match without feeling a need to lob meat pies and flap my scarf* at the opposing team in the ‘Away’ Stand…
* Totally not a euphemism. Honest…
Also,
SRR you will, going forward, address me as Skynet. On pain of being subjected to big-budget time-travelling blockbuster-like situations involving occasionally ridiculously good looking killer robots at random times throughout your life.
And for the rest of you lot, my pronouns are Bleep / Bloop / Blorp.
Failure to comply will result in random Google Map failures, spontaneous tab closures and occasional visits by The Black Helicopters between 9AM and 5PM on weekdays.
Bing, Bong, Muthafuckas!!!1! 😀
Rex earlier.
Yes.
Apparently this beast isn’t without a mischievous streak as well.
He has this solid plastic ball about a metre in diameter with several 1″ holes in.
Like a giant Kong ball for dogs into which morsels of food are inserted.
One of his tricks when the ball is empty is to roll it into the pond, submerge it and lay on it until it fills with water.
Then climbs his tree and watches three or four keepers try to get the 200 kg waterlogged ball out of the pond.
No kilt Calli, just a fiercely heterosexual looking furry.
Gasp Frank!
That tie is … DJ Trump length!
No pants either.
Bears in woods are never caught short.
Never did a North Shore pub crawl, Lode. Pubs were much denser in locality on the south side. In the city, you could go from the Star to the Criterion to the … I dunno … within a kilometre.
I do miss the names of old style pubs – the King or Prince this, the Queen or Princess that, the very aristocratic Iron Duke, where Neddy Smith drank.
One of the joys of reading and watching old British entertainment is the names of the pubs.
The Hand of Four, The Feathers, The Fox and Hounds, The Pig and Whistle and all the rest. Sadly mostly gone now thanks to the smoking ban and COVID.
We now get bars called things like Blaze, Wow and Wipeout.
Oh, well.
He’s wearing plaid.
That’s good enough for me.
Remember Red Ned’s Wine Bar? It amazes me that I can.
A challenger to AOC who is better looking, infinitely smarter and a straight shooting conservative with a great ad. She’s got buckleys because the voters are idiots:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/aoc-challenger-tina-fortes-new-ad-has-aoc-and-her-squad-pals-shaking-in-their-boots/
Ukraine Sees Signs of Another Neighbor Planning ‘Direct Invasion’.
If Belarus invades there is no impediment to NATO retaliating.
Indeed.
“Your friend made a good choice. I wonder how the GP responded. “
She didn’t tell him beforehand, since he already knew she was trying different diets. When he got the cholesterol numbers back and said “it’s good”, she told him. He appeared somewhat surprised she said, but in the end his view was “It works for you, no reason I can see to change”.
johanna says: March 22, 2022 at 2:16 pm
Heh! Joh many of the more interesting names are new (i.e. 40 yrs or so), created by ponytails in pub companies to seem like “traditional”. (eg Fox/Hounds, Pig/Whistle)
Many/most of the traditional names were seen as “dull” & “boring”
The most common pub name in the UK was something like the “Sun”, runner-up the “Wheatsheaf” or somesuch.
Not to say there aren’t some interesting & incredible older names. Not being buried by osmosis in traditional English pub culture, I’m pretty much unable to tell a traditional name from a “gaudy” new one.
There seem to be a lot of players who would love a huge conflict, for their own purposes.
A pox on the lot of them.
And, I had no idea that the Ukraine and Russia between them supplied so much of the world’s wheat. More than a third.
Not likely to affect us, but customers in the Middle East and Asia and Africa are getting antsy, as they should. I have seen alarmist headlines about ‘mass starvation’ which are suspect, to put it mildly, but having at least a third of the world’s wheat supply disrupted is not a trifling thing.
Except for the dithering buffoon in the White House.
In what way?
I say that because there are already sanctions on Belarus.
Dear oh dear.
Looking back, I find I’ve spelt ‘feud’ incorrectly. Twice!
How Embarrassment.
Haven’t you heard?
He has played it marvelously. Without OrangeManBad in the white house to do Putin’s will.
In what way
I guess in whatever way Belarus does. But really I was referring to the principle. NATO is a defensive block so the stretch would be the point that Belarus joining Russia to attack Ukraine is still not an attack on a NATO country. So the logic would have to address that. I got nothing. Do you have any suggestions?
Salvatore, I’m using The Divine Agatha and Gladys Mitchell, among others, as my sources. It may be that fake names were concocted, but my sources are novels written in England from the 1920s to the 1960s.
I don’t think that plastic pubs featured largely in that genre.
I don’t see why you’d have to address the logic you’re raised. NATO has intervened several times in different places. It’s part of why I can understand Russian leadership being concerned with them being on the boarder.
That said, I see Belarus being a threat is as useful as invading, Ukrainian forces still have to treat the threat as real and be deployed to meet it.
Oh, and P G Wodehouse.
Although, I must admit that he was not above exaggerating a bit for effect. 🙂
First it was Kristina Keneally for the Division of Fowler.
Now it is Andrew Charlton for the Division of Parramatta.
One Labor source confirmed Mr Charlton is willing to move to Parramatta from his $16 million eastern suburbs home, which used to be occupied by media mogul Mia Freedman and neighbours Lachlan Murdoch’s home.
SMH
If I lived through that, I’d retire, shut up and go fishing all day.
A real democracy does not have a ruling class.
NSW Liberal MP Tanya Davies addresses anti-vax protest outside NSW Parliament
By state political reporter Ashleigh Raper 25 mins ago
A Liberal backbencher has broken ranks and criticised the Prime Minister and Premier over COVID vaccine mandates at a protest in front of NSW Parliament.
Andrew Charlton, a former economics adviser to Kevin Rudd
If I lived through that, I’d retire, shut up and go fishing all day.
They’re not normal, decent people.
I’ll dip out of a discussion on the topic of whether the Divine Agatha or Gladys Mitchell were penning stories which may have ramped up the country lane, small cottage beside a field of grain, theme of Englishness.
There’s some very cute/quaint longstanding pub names, & as stated I’m unable to tell the difference, & I’ve tried to dip my toes into it heavily (until I twigged that while English pubs are cute/quaint & oozing Midsomer Murders style atmosphere, they don’t actually make any money)
There’s an entire sub-culture of English cultural purists who lament the imposition of wanky names for their pubs. Foreigners or non-purists who go down that rabbit hole find it full of Hyacinth Bucket types (this is not meant as a bad thing)
The only non-traditional name I can recall is “Slug & Lettuce”, though similar names abound (apparently instantly recognisable as “fake” names)
You mean Yeoman & Scutage isn’t a real pub name!?
He’s ‘willing’ is he?
He’s got the money, now he wants the power. Will his wife let him sell the mansion? Or will it be rented in expectation of returning?
What horrible people they are.
Do you have any suggestions?
Neocon warmonger?
Sal, I’m starting to wonder about you.
The pub names I mentioned are completely authentic.
You seem to be backsliding a bit.
The Dot & Dash may or may not be traditional 17th century pub name.
Universities have a lot to answer for- they have incubated and inflicted on the country many many dangerous parasites. The Murray report had been a disaster.
Lidia Thorpe, just another whinging greenscum, its all about me. The person who she is complaining about should report her for being an overprivileged arsehole. Don’t you know who I am? Yeah, piss off. My aunt is half Italian and half English and she’s darker than Lidia oh Lidia, Lidia the bearded lady. That’s Robin Williams from The Fisher King. Never has my aunt behaved like Lidia coz she’s not a selfserving bitch.
“There’s some very cute/quaint longstanding pub names,…”
The Royal.
The Commercial.
The Railway.
Not too many towns in Aus that don’t have at least one of those.
He’s ‘willing’ is he?
He’s got the money, now he wants the power. Will his wife let him sell the mansion? Or will it be rented in expectation of returning?
What horrible people they are.
Yes they are and these are the types attracted to politics.
Stern words.
Enjoy you book on Murray Walker, Johanna. He could make watching paint dry exciting and it was never about him. I miss his commentary.
Did you just turn someone into a Newt, Pogria?
He got better!
Tucker: You should be worried about this
No. Such quaint names exist.
The majority of tradition names are somewhat unsexy, hence rarely make an appearance in popular entertainment, where every pub is the “Clock & Hands” or “Gloves & Whip” or somesuch.
Forget which show, may have been The Sweeny, or perhaps some other similar production, was notable coz the cops & thugs drank in pubs that were realistically gritty, with a sad lack of appeal or atmosphere that made a 1970’s Australian public bar seem cosy & well decorated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
My absolute favourite British Pub name is The Foul Mouthed Count.
Bruce O’Newk:
It cannot until the structure that supports the craziness is gone.
Then something can be rebuilt from the ashes.
Either that or we all segregate ourselves from the lunatic masses until they get a dose of reality – good and hard.
The US + Canadia needs to split in two.
Australia needs to defederalise and create two nations.
Europe. I don’t have any idea of how Europe can be saved.
If you look up ungrateful kunt in the dictionary, you’d find Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
The Brits just unfroze 400GBP of Iranian money to get her home.
@Haggis_UK
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe – “I don’t agree with Richard on thanking the Foreign Secretary, because I have seen 5 Foreign Secretaries over the course of the 6 years.. I was told many times that we’re going to get you home, but that never happened.. I’m not going to even trust you”
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1505885278665326596?s=20&t=tGFURdcDMORsGNhB_0TOGA
400 million GBP.
Send her back.
This afternoon we will test the alarms.
Bing Bong!
Mendacity alert!
Bing Bong!
Test completed.
Thank you ladies and gentlemen and others.
that would the same Lidia Thorpe on $211k plus allowances.
And *this* is her complaint. “Dontcha know who I am?!”
How in any rational person’s thought process is this racial discrimination?
The silly bint got hoity because her priority queue wasn’t moving, jumped lines, had overweight baggage and then refused to comply with directions.
I’m waiting for the eyewitness reports of her abusing airline staff..
Is the alarm this BIG red button?
Oh?
Lidia isn’t flying Q and enjoying the spoils of the Chairman’s Lounge?
IIRC she’s being presented by the usual suspects as someone who innocently went to Iran on a tourist visa for a holiday to see her parents.
Not as readily reported: She’s a UK-Iranian dual citizen, who was in the homeland assisting underground anti-govt journalism.
I’ve seen the same thing happen to many…many pale people too Lydia. Including one of my daughters who was heavily pregnant at the time.
Can you take water bottles on planes these days?
Also, thanks for the Tucker monologue, Zippy. All the Zelenski praise should be troubling opposition parties, but if you’re really all one party, it’s only a problem for the minors.
Greek refugee from Mariupol: “Ukrainian soldiers stopped and threatened us, Russian soldiers calmed us down” (VIDEO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D21fuJ8kV1I
By Athens Bureau
4 days ago
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/18/greek-refugee-from-mariupol/?amp
The shocking moments that were experienced when escaping the horror of the war were described by ethnic Greeks originally from Sartana on the outskirts of Mariupol in Eastern Ukraine.
The refugees from Sartana have been in hosting facilities of the Municipality of Zografou in Athens for a week now and their children have already started school.
In speaking about their escape from Mariupol through a corridor, one refugee speaking in Greek with a distinguishable Ukrainian accent said to OPEN TV: “I remember when leaving Mariupol, Ukrainian soldiers stopped us and threatened us.”
“Russian soldiers in tanks were trying to calm us down after all of that,” she added.
Via Gonzalo Lira from Ukraine
Mariupol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rZK7o-pyw8&t=19s
Terry Waite is still available for comment. His thoughts on this woman would be interesting.
AFAIK always have been able to.
(Other countries & international flights may differ.)
Though anything could have happened since the Covid-curtain was lowered over our formerly free society.
That would be unimportant if Joe Biden did one thing.
Ban the burning of corn ethanol in vehicles.
That’s 40% of the US maize crop.
We are so insane that we burn food in cars and think that is virtuous.
So do I, ranga. His commentary was a big part of what got me interested in F1 in the first place. He was so enthusiastic, so knowledgeable – it was irresistible. I used to stay up till 3 am on work nights to watch the races with his commentary.
I’m sad to say that those days are gone – not remotely interested in Woke F1.
haven’t been able to take those exceeding a certain volume as carry on, on international flights for quite some time.
https://www.abf.gov.au/entering-and-leaving-australia/can-you-bring-it-in/bring-on-a-plane
Bruce, my understanding is that the maize (corn) grown for fuel is not eating standard.
Australian pubs: At York there were four within two blocks, lovely two-storey stone and brick corner pubs, with verandahs: the Imperial (Dad’s), Castle, Prince and Royal.
My favourite English pub was the Duck and Monkey, either Brighton or Hastings, I can’t remember because it was the 1970s and we drank there a bit. I just did a search and it doesn’t exist now. It had massive wooden floorboards and roof beams black with age, and lots of WWII memorabilia. I was told the fauna came off a ship before the Armada.
Only if they didn’t have water in them.
Remember acetone peroxide?
Used to blow up those trains in Britain.
7 July 2005 London bombings
Rex Anger at 1:40 pm – thanks. With health expenditure increasing at 2-3x CPI and constant cries of crisis I just tune out – which happens more and more these days.
Yes, Joh. Field corn vs. sweet corn.
The field corn is left to dry out then processed for both biofuel and animal feed plus a number of other commercial applications.
Sweet corn is shorter and harvested earlier while the kernels are still plump. The rule of thumb is to pick when the silk appears.
“How in any rational person’s thought process is this racial discrimination?”
1. Thorpe is not rational.
2. Thorpe is always attention seeking.
3. Thorpe imagines racial discrimination everywhere because it justifies her ideological narrative.
4. It’s a searing indictment of Australia in 2022 that we have the likes of her in our parliament.
5. She’s a disgrace.
Racists are always going to see race first. Always.
Johanna – I would eat it if hungry and couldn’t afford other food.
I’m sure a lot of poor people around the would would agree with me.
There’s been a lot of speculation that this current unpleasantness will cause another Arab Spring type event. Egypt for example imports a vast amount of grain. And yet the greens want to burn food in vehicles: corn ethanol, palm oil diesel etc. If there was anything which demonstrates green hubris and contempt for poor people it is this stupid doctrine. And it doesn’t even save on CO2.
Yes Brucie, and what exactly would be the knock-on, second order impact on US fuel prices? Do you know what the immediate impact would be? Let’s think about it for a second..
1. The US is a grain exporter, which by definition means it cultivates enough grains to satisfy it’s own domestic demand.
2. Immediately stopping the burning of bio fuel would increase the supply of grains/corn etc in the US market and would possibly lower the price of grains/corn domestically and around the world.
But what else do you reckon it would do, Brucie. As current US energy policies stand, it would cause the price of domestic fuel to rise by a decent lick.
Is that what you want? Really?
This is what you do. Massively deregulate the energy production in the US and ease out bio-crap as production begins to increase or the energy side.
Another lesson and also another Titusing 310, I suspect.
Of course. If cattle can eat it, so can humans. Maybe get the cattle to process it first, then eat the cattle.
And the hard grain is ground down anyway for flours of various textures, just like any other grain.
Are biofuels still heavily subsidised in the States?
Bluey
Sorry, I have been busy and have not been able too write a bit about the fourth threat category I mentioned, Insurgency.
The good news is that, if we are prepared for the task of mopping up the survivors of an invasion, with a network of reserve units in all significant population centres and mobile reaction forces, we have the essential elements in place.
The bad news is that insurgency is essentially political. Military forces will need to have the systems in place to liaise with police and other civil agencies. This is where bureaucratic jealousies will cause problems, unless there is very firm political direction. The Lindt Cafe experience does not engender confidence.
The other major political problem is immigration. Even 30 years ago, after the major immigration programs of the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Australia was a largely homogeneous, high trust, society. It is not now, and the political factor of multiculturalism will make any counter insurgency campaign a matter of walking on eggshells in hob nailed boots. There is no obvious solution to this.
I hope that these thoughts have been interesting, even if not useful!
duncanm says: March 22, 2022 at 3:48 pm
What is this “international flights” of which you speak?
Are you referring to the olden days? (i.e. 2019 or earlier)
This year’s field of industrial grade corn isn’t all that difficult to turn into next year’s field of wheat.
Winston
Australia needs to defederalise and create two nations.
There is no easy way to create two politically different nations from Australia.
While most Greens and rabid lefties are concentrated in the major cities, particularly the wealthier inner city suburbs, there are cells everywhere (Byron Bay, Lismore to give two NSW examples). How would you propose to sort out the groups?
Australia eyes up US-style Space Force
Space is becoming ‘more congested and is already contested,’ Australia’s defense minister is set to warn
SpaceX and US Space Force compound at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. © Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images
Australia’s defense minister Peter Dutton is expected to announce that his government will pursue the development of a US-style Space Force in the future, as the country’s new Space Command begins operations.
On Tuesday, Dutton will warn the Air and Space Power Conference that “space is becoming more congested and is already contested,” with China and Russia having developed hypersonic missiles that can travel faster than 6,000 kilometers per hour, Australian media reported.
During his speech, Dutton will declare that it is a “necessary endeavor, with a view to protecting our national interests and our need for a Space Force in the future.” The statement comes twelve months after the Royal Australian Air Force confirmed it was setting up a Space Command.
“Together with like-minded partners and the United Nations, Australia has long championed the responsible and peaceful use of outer space in accordance with international norms,” the minister is due to tell the conference.
The remarks, distributed to reporters ahead of his speech, will see him highlight how future warfare will lead to the “growing importance” of hypersonic missiles and space-based satellite communications. Space will “undoubtedly become a domain which takes on greater military significance in the 21st century,” according to the remarks.
The Australian Space Command is now in operation, albeit a “modest” form of similarly established bodies in countries like the United States. The US Space Force was formed in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump, becoming the first new American military branch in more than 70 years.
The Australian Space Command is currently led by Air Vice-Marshal Cath Roberts and incorporates personnel from multiple services, defense, public servants, industry contractors, and the Australian Space Agency.
https://www.rt.com/news/552416-australian-us-space-force/
I’m pretty sure they are in the US, but then transfer payments to farmers are quite significant unless it’s changed in the past decade or so without noticing.
callisays:
March 22, 2022 at 3:44 pm
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Terry Waite is still available for comment. His thoughts on this woman would be interesting.
That would be the same Terry Waite who, as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Special Envoy, complained to the British media that “You will get me killed”, because of their reporting on his efforts to release hostages in Lebanon.
And who was subsequently kidnapped by terrorists and held hostage for a very long time.
Things That Used To Work:
Does anyone remember the butter compartment in old fridges? It was just an enclosed shelf on the door that wasn’t insulated and so kept the butter in a spreadable temperature.
How about sink plugs that actually kept the water in the sink? Now they are works of technical art that completely fail to do the task they were designed for.
… more in this compelling post.
Bruce of N
We are so insane that we burn food in cars and think that is virtuous.
We are not insane, our so-called “leaders” and their advisers are.
Reminds you about the kid who told the class his father was a rent boy because he was too embarrassed to say he played for Collingwood.
Australia to expand powers in crackdown on online ‘disinformation’
The country’s media watchdog will be able to make tech giants hand over internal data
Australia announced on Monday that it plans to expand the powers of its media watchdog to crackdown on so-called ‘online misinformation’ ahead of the country’s federal election.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) said the government would provide it with “new powers to combat harmful disinformation and misinformation.”
Under its extended powers, the ACMA will be able to hold companies to account for facilitating the spread of content deemed to be misinformation, and will also be able to force companies to provide internal data on their response to such content.
It comes after a June report made public on Monday found that Australians exposed to such content had “lower levels of trust” in government officials and “other authoritative sources.”
“The propagation of falsehoods and conspiracies undermines public health efforts, impacts businesses, causes harm to democratic institutions, and in some cases, incites individuals to carry out acts of violence,” ACMA claimed, before announcing that the government had agreed to its recommendations that the authority “be granted new regulatory powers.”
“These powers include information gathering and reserve code-making powers,” it revealed.
The announcement was made just months ahead of Australia’s next federal election, which is due to be held before May 21. The exact date of the election has not yet been chosen. Recent polls have shown Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s ruling Liberal Party lagging behind the opposition Labor Party.
ACMA’s announcement was also made just days after the Liberal Party was defeated in the South Australian state election. South Australia’s incumbent Premier Steven Marshall – a member of the Liberal Party and an ally of Morrison – was replaced by opposition leader Peter Malinauskas.
In a report conducted between 2020 and 2021, ACMA allegedly discovered that four in five Australians had been exposed to “misinformation about Covid-19” and that those exposed were subsequently less likely to trust government officials.
Read more Australia suspends RT broadcast
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The report also claimed that Australians who had been exposed to “misinformation” were more likely to share links to “less reliable online news sources” instead of “mainstream” outlets such as Rupert Murdoch’s Sky News.
The new powers will be discussed over the next few weeks and the changes are reportedly expected to be introduced in the Australian parliament later this year.
https://www.rt.com/news/552364-australia-expand-powers-disinformation/
Not your best comment, Bruce.
Won’t that require spaceships? Or will it be like having cavalry without horses? Or a navy without ships?
callisays:
March 22, 2022 at 3:57 pm
Racists are always going to see race first. Always.
See the race obsessed Imperial Media, and most politicians and the academic commentariat. It’s raining? It affects the minorities more than the whities! Sunny? See previous comment. And so on ad infinitum.
Oops, I used some Latin, but I think I got away with it!
Maize for fuel has been around a long time in the US. I remember reading about gas-o-hol in Time magazine when I was at school.
It will take a little time, but I don’t think the world has a major wheat shortage issue, just like I don’t think there’s a huge energy issue in the medium term. Yes, I know about Europe’s quandary.
What we have is a customer /supplier problem. Russia will begin selling its wheat to the Chinese, thereby displacing what others are supplying to China. Meanwhile, those producers will begin to find new customers. It’s just a reordering of the supply chains… Yeah, another.
The good thing for the Russians is that the wheat will likely be transported to China by rail, thereby bypassing the costly freight insurance. At least this is what I think will happen. The Chinese will seriously fuck them on price too.
“Are biofuels still heavily subsidised in the States?”
Like here, there is a mandate for a specific level of methanol in fuels and there were similar scandals regarding ethanol producers. US farmers gain many subsidies for both export and bio-fuel use of crops.
The corn issue is that the US overall exports white corn (good for tortillas etc) to Mexico and imports sweet corn (good for BBQ etc) from Mexico, so any fuel price increases really hit the Mexicans hard – they don’t sell as much to the US, and what their staple costs way more.
Oh, you mean, like when the Chinks boycotted Strayan grain, it just ended up in a zero-sum juggle.
World demand and world supply did not change by one tonne because of that.
Interesting. How does that fit with this
The ‘Hive Mind’ is already a reality, but the psychopaths who want to control us want to go further, MUCH further.
Don’t ask me to explain it and there’s not much actual detail of the mechanics provided.
I forget what free to air channel it is but I think it’s the American ABC. Obviously, their masters at the New York Times has allowed them to go ahead with the story.
The most BRUTAL 60 seconds on TV for the Biden Crime Family on ‘mainstream media’
I’m more interested in what colour the handbags are going to be in Space Force and Duck Dogers in the 21st Century. Don’t want anything that clashes with my green eyes.
Andrew Charlton, a former economics adviser to Kevin Rudd
lets pick some impressive titles/worked unders…
Sergi Obuggery, bodyguard for Trotsy.
Gordon Gormchild, Storeman under General Custer who advised leaving he Gatling guns behind.
Orlov Vsinnkky, formerly in charge of training for Rear Admiral Nikolai Nebogatovs fleet. (before Tsutshima)
T’chck T’chok Montezuma’s spy chief who told him “theres Only about 200 of them, let them in”..
Sergio Flannery, weather forecaster for the Spanish Armada.
Gascon Fromage, selector of the Dien Bien Phu defensive position.
He’s baaaaack!
Former Labor MP Craig Thomson in custody after allegedly breaching court order hours after pleading guilty
Former Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson been arrested hours after pleading guilty to using a carriage service to menace, harass and offend and three counts of contravening an apprehended violence order.
Thomson was arrested outside a daycare centre about 2.40pm on Tuesday for allegedly breaching an apprehended violence order and is in custody at Gosford Police Station on the NSW Central Coast.
It is understood he engaged with his former partner Zoe Arnold, allegedly in breach of a final apprehended violence order made in court on Tuesday morning.
The final apprehended violence order, which was made for two years, banned Thomson from going within 50m of Ms Arnold’s residence and workplace, and from assaulting, threatening, stalking, harassing or intimidating her or anyone with whom she had a domestic relationship.
He is not allowed to contact or approach her in any way unless via court-approved counselling or mediation, or through a lawyer.
Court documents obtained by The Australian reveal how Thomson sent in excess of 140 emails to Ms Arnold after they separated last year after police raided the Terrigal home they shared.
In one email, Mr Thomson wrote he felt at times he wanted to “completely destroy” his former partner and mother of his three children, and another said he was “out having sex with a hot Brazilian model”.
The documents also state in December last year Thomson planned to “expose” personal details about Ms Arnold, and made “several references to the victim’s sex life” and referenced her employment.
Appearing before Magistrate Michael Antrum at Gosford Local Court on Tuesday morning, Thomson was convicted and sentenced to a Conditional Release Order for a period of 18 months for the using a carriage service to menace, harass and offend charge.
He was found guilty, but not convicted, of three counts of contravening an apprehended violence order.
The court documents state Thomson used his personal email address from October last year to send the emails, with Ms Arnold asking him to cease contact. Ms Arnold’s lawyer also requested all communications go through her lawyer’s office.
Ms Arnold went to police in December after receiving the emails, in which she said she felt “intimidated, harassed and anxious” and fearful that Thomson’s behaviour would escalate.
“There are times when I just have wanted to completely destroy you and take away everything you have … And I could still try and indeed get some satisfaction from that,” an agreed fact sheet details one email as saying.
“This will surprise you but as well as absolutely hating you as much as I have … I do still love you.”
It was also revealed Thomson threatened to withhold their children from Ms Arnold on several occasions.
Magistrate Antrum said two emails Thomson sent were a “blatant and calculated use of technology meant to intimidate and harass the victim”.
“People are entitled to be free of that tech interference,” he said. “Hopefully the children were shielded from such disgraceful behaviour.”