Palmer’s Save Your Home billboard on Sandgate Rd Albion has been sprayed over with a Greens slogan.
Interestingly [or not]
Palmer’s northside boards state 3% Interest for 5 Years.
His Southside boards just state 3% Interest.

Green power couple… as referred to on the ABC at least.

“Green power”.
Does that mean he might suddenly experience a drastic drop of performance at which point she needs to rely on coal fired electricity to…
On second thoughts, never mind.

Another thing to note is that 500,000 – 3,000,000 million Germans died in expulsions, pogroms and forced labour after the end of WWII until the formalisation of postwar alliances.

HellStorm-The Death of Nazi Germany 1944-1947 claims the German Death Toll for those years as 11-19 million.

Aha! I knew I had seen the political trichotomy before!

That’s insane, Top Ender. The Qantas domestic system is in free fall with customers screaming for service and the airline’s chief customer officer is on holidays!

Feedback from the refuelling blokes is that airport operations is an absolute train wreck. Nothings working and nothings leaving on time.

Who would have thought that you just can’t switch a whole industry on and off.

Maybe QF could re-launch by taking the Bat Eared Mong for a one way flight!

‘Aunty + first name’ in many cultures tends to be an honorific when a younger generation refers to a woman who is a significant other of sorts or a woman who can not simply be addressed on a first-name – not a matter of blood relations at all. In Australia, the honorific was usually, ‘Mrs (or Miss) so and so’. Not so any more.

speaking of movies

Logan’s Run – Carousel- Renewal – 1976

The happy couple.

Warnings please!

Are you playing hard to get, or do you have other irons in the fire?

I got a new job two weeks after they fired my arse.

Launching a new department within an existing business, in my area of expertise.

I’ve seen reviews of Brave, but haven’t used it much.

Brave search seems to work for general stuff, but isn’t very useful for news stories.

Unfortunately both Brave search and DDG do not display any of Tony Heller’s articles even if you force it to search realclimatescience.com. It just gives zero results.

I suspect that means both are using Bing and that Microsoft has blocked Heller on their servers.

Dunno how you get around that, but searching on his own site gets up his articles.

(There are only two actual search engines: Bing and Goolag, as most big websites block webspiders from anyone else, at least from Western search-hopeful sites.)

I will persevere with Brave search for general stuff at least since DDG should be punished.

I’ll add that Russian radar seems to have a problem with on-the-deck targets. A fair few cases of Ukrainian helicopters evading detection by flying below 10 metres altitude, including the two that struck the fuel depot inside Russia. I saw somewhere that the Neptune can reputedly fly at a minimum height of 3 metres (iirc), presuming the weather and sea condition allows it to.

Subject to whether or not Moskva was refitted in the last 10 years or so, we are seeing that major Soviet/Russian Federation surface combatants were even more vulnerable to sea-skimming cruise missile attack than NATO analysts first thought.

I also recall that the development of the MiG-29 and Su-27 in the late 80s and early 90s, was accompanied with much interest in their Look Down/Shoot Down capabilities. It was felt that the best advantage Western Aircraft had when penetrating a Soviet-provided Integrated Air Defence System at the time, was to fly down on the deck. And these two new fighters would go a ways towards closing this gap.

This was before Desert Storm, and the alternative of tearing ragged holes in the system by jamming and knocking out radars in massed strikes was perfected. And the back-and-forth of operations over Serbia and the like came about.

From the Gateway Pundit:

The student then approached him and told Meriwether that he was transgender and wanted to be referred to him as a woman.

Merriweather has officially won the legal battle against the university.

Is There Snake Venom in SARS-COV-2?
Drbeen says no. hour long still watching

Rex Angersays:
April 16, 2022 at 9:01 pm
I’ll add that Russian radar seems to have a problem with on-the-deck targets. A fair few cases of Ukrainian helicopters evading detection by flying below 10 metres altitude, including the two that struck the fuel depot inside Russia. I saw somewhere that the Neptune can reputedly fly at a minimum height of 3 metres (iirc), presuming the weather and sea condition allows it to.

Subject to whether or not Moskva was refitted in the last 10 years or so, we are seeing that major Soviet/Russian Federation surface combatants were even more vulnerable to sea-skimming cruise missile attack than NATO analysts first thought.

Sea skimming anti-ship missiles have been around for decades so I struggling to believe Russians lack the capacity to track those missiles. On land it is a different matter because of ground clutter and masking but the open sea offers no cover. Perhaps the Moskva lacked that radar capacity because such a strike in the Black Sea was never anticipated. The Neptune can fly very low but is also slow so even the radar guided machine guns should have been able to take them out. The drone decoy idea is interesting, perhaps it was jamming the Russian radar?

In addition, the university acknowledges Meriwether’s right to choose when to use, or avoid using, titles or pronouns when referring to or addressing students, and pledges to never force him to use anyone’s preferred pronouns, including when a student requests pronouns that don’t align with his or her biological sex

So it wasn’t just go away cash. He got them to capitulate, good.

In WW2, the Japanese pearlers who were based in Darwin, would go out to sea from Darwin and act in support of Japan by strategically placing their boats as a visual marker guiding the ememy planes onto Darwin to kill our people and destroy our property.

Bollocks.

See Watch off Arnhem Land, by Haultain.

If you’re not in the FBI or CIA, you shouldn’t worry. Otherwise, why are you paying a bunch of layabouts to play computer games? They have never defended anybody against anything.

I am not happy because Easter and especially it’s liturgical Triduum culminating in the Saturday Vigil Mass (tonight’s) with its fire and then darkness bursting into light and its music of serious choral works reflecting amazing mysteries expressed in words and sound are no longer available to the unjabbed who are persona non grata in the choirs. It’s not that the choirs as such matter but rather that the music was truly another way of praying twice. Once will have to do.

Sea skimming anti-ship missiles have been around for decades so I struggling to believe Russians lack the capacity to track those missiles.

I meant in terms of age and equipment/software sophistication, John H.

The threat of sub- and supersonic sea skimmers was a headscratcher since at least the late 1960s and early 1970s. The US naval program that culminated in the F-14 Tomcat, its AWG-9 radar and the AIM-54 Phoenix missile was a means of killing Russian cruise missile-launching bombers before they reached their launch envelopes. And the Oliver Hazard Perry class of frigates was designed at the other end as a second line of air defence, and ultimately a cheap sacrificial picquet ship that would hopefully catch any incoming missiles before they got the carriers or bigger fleet units.

The coming of the AEGIS radar system towards the very end of the Cold War and the development of the Phalanx CIWS filled in the gaps Western Navies had had up to that point, spurred and enhanced by the UK’s experience of the sinkings of HM Ships Glamorgan, Newcastle and Galahad by Argentinean Exocets in 1982.

Thus, Iraqi Silkworm cruise missiles were a source of concern by the time operations in the Persian Gulf in 1990-91 came about. And Aegis and its equivalents, combined with the Standard SAM and Phalanx CIWS have proven themselves as capable cruise missile killers over the last 30 years.

By comparison, the Soviets and their descendants have never really quite had the same experience or spurs to git gud, so to speak, with their missile countermeasures. It’s just not been the same threat to them.

To simplify it right down, I think that an Arleigh Burke or even Spruance in the Moskva’s position would probably have swatted the distraction/target designator drones and Neptunes well out from the danger zone, and not thought any more of it beyond the ammo expenditure.

By comparison, the Soviets and their descendants have never really quite had the same experience or spurs to git gud, so to speak, with their missile countermeasures. It’s just not been the same threat to them.

To simplify it right down, I think that an Arleigh Burke or even Spruance in the Moskva’s position would probably have swatted the distraction/target designator drones and Neptunes well out from the danger zone, and not thought any more of it beyond the ammo expenditure.

Thanks Rex. That means every Russian ship is very vulnerable. The Russian navy can’t enter a modern warfare environment because even a penguin missile barrage could take them out.

rickw:

Launching a new department within an existing business, in my area of expertise.

Excellent stuff, Rick.

Bruce of N

The site I found had current items, but Bing seems now to have caught up – it won’t re-appear.

I think that an Arleigh Burke or even Spruance in the Moskva’s position would probably have swatted the distraction/target designator drones and Neptunes well out from the danger zone

As I mentioned upthread the USS Mason (an Arleigh Burke) swatted 5 Silkworms in a salvo. That was off Yemen in 2016. They’d been targeted with two salvos of two missiles each in previous days.

UAE lost a big fast catamaran transport the day earlier I think – it was one of the ones built in Tassie. One Silkworm turned it into a burning wreck of twisted aluminium.

Silkworms aren’t great, but it was a real surprise attack, and supposedly in peacetime. Under Iranian orders of course.

Bing seems now to have caught up – it won’t re-appear.

Very curious.

In case it was my imagination I just tried the search on Brave search and DDG again – still doesn’t come up on DDG but does on Brave search (but not any articles). They sure have it in for Tony.

My first use of Brave. I feel brave

Is There Snake Venom in SARS-COV-2?
Drbeen says no. hour long still watching

He doesn’t address the conotoxin issue, nor properly address the snake venoms other than to say we produce some of the same proteins. Its entirely possible the virus triggers elevated quantities of these toxin in the victim, either through immune reaction or through interaction with other viruses or bacteria. This could entirely be a feature of this virus.

He admits conotoxins are not produced by the human body. where did the conotoxins come from, he can’t say. (methinks he has a channel to protect.)

There is no shortage of research into these, most of which is coincidentally classified
Conotoxins: Potential Weapons from the Sea
Potential methods of using of conotoxins in terrorism include contamination of food sources or aerial dispersal in a concentrated population area. The most likely method of dispersal would be as an aerosol [27]. Information on the inhalation effects of conotoxins is not available in the public domain. The onset of effects from inhaling conotoxins would probably be much faster than from cone snail stings assuming adequate absorption of the toxin in the lungs. Conotoxins are not volatile and need to be aerosolized. One barrier is creating the conotoxins as an aerosol is the developing the optimal particle size of 1 to 3 ?m [30].
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who would have thought to code the conotoxin into a cold viruses…

The U.S. Army has calculated the LD50 of CTxs to be as low as 5 ?g/kg

a virus isn’t going to deliver this much toxin however it still may cause localised paralysis.

I posted the paper that linked the GP120 HIV protein earlier
Interestingly there is a tweet showing the GP120 HIV proteins on the ccp virus are right at the corners of the spike protein. how convenient. GP120 is used by HIV to gain access to immune cells which it then damages, causing immune deficiency syndrome. Don’t know how real it is as I can’t find it now.
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I think the best predictor of what is fake and what isn’t, is unless we can prove otherwise, to generally take the exact opposite views of the MSM narrative and fact checkers.

The U.S. Army has calculated the LD50 of CTxs to be as low as 5 ?g/kg

that is 5 micrograms

Could be ISP related BoN. Just guessing.

Bespoke – Good comment since that’s why I use the VPN. Blazing Cat Fur is still blocked by my ISP but no problems via the VPN server. Hence why I tried with the VPN on then again with it turned off.

All he does is put up vaccine info and climate data that we routinely discuss here. Never anything even remotely naughty. What else aren’t we seeing that we don’t even know is being censored?

NBA Brooklyn Nets’ owner Joe Tsai tied to China; Chinese labor camp detainee describes ordeal
01:08 NBA Brooklyn Nets’ owner Joe Tsai tied to China
04:40 Shanghai residents describe living under lockdown
08:38 Chinese labor camp detainee describes ordeal
10:56 #TikTok revenue to surpass Twitter, Snapchat combined

‘Zelensky Youth’ Ukraine’s young ‘soldiers’ being sent to the front – Inside Russia Report

Golda Meir and the blessed Saint Margaret Hilda Thatcher were unavailable for comment..

And both of them short-circuited potential further violence by doing so…

Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

This one on your radar Rabz?

In a regional city.
Thought I’d scope out which venues might be happily lax in enforcing jab mandate, so thinking like a spook on a special op, i asked at the vape shop.
Yeah nah says the bird. Big sting last weekend, with a pig entering every pub and restaurant simultaneously, and serving warning to every spotty servant in an apron (and mask) that it’s $2000 for them and $10k if they’re caught out.
I kinda hate this country now. Me owing about maskless with not a peep from the sheep just cements my view that all these lemmings are just begging for the jackboot.

Sorry Rabz I’m on the phone.
Band of Skulls
The Devil Takes Care of His Own
Available in all good youtubes

Our friends the Ukrainians:

Ukraine using ClearviewAI facial recognition to identify Russian war dead

Identify Russian war dead AND THEN TRACK DOWN THE FAMILY OF THE DEAD SOLDIER AND TAUNT THEM WITH THE IMAGES OF THEIR DEAD KID. (Read the article, it’s true. WaPo knows how shameful this behaviour is, as evidenced by their excluding the most repugnant details from its headline. Protect the Narrative!)

Now this was reported by WaPo, not RT. So I think it’s credible. If you’re on the Ukraine train* – these are your comrades?

That’s pretty fucked up, bro.

*not saying you need to jump into bed with the Russkies. Although you may want to consider breaking it off with Ukraine, which is in a deeply undesirable quadrant of the crazy/hot matrix

Thanks Tom. Bit weak this week.

Good morning Cats, a very good Easter Sunday morning as the dawn light just starts to show the blue of a clear and cloudless sky over the Cafe!

After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life and be satisfied;
by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.

– Isaiah 53: 11-12

Ach

*Ranavalona was that bad.

Christos anesti!

Happy Easter Cats and Kittehs!

Belarus morally has less of a right to exist than Ukraine, but we already know it is a Putinist puppet state.

BIDEN ECONOMY: Price Controls Won’t Stop Biden-Inflation – Biden Now Considering Jimmy Carter’s Failed Price Control Policies

This is economic amnesia. We tried all these government manipulations in the 1960s and 1970s. The ruinous price regulations on industry made inflation worse. Back then we had Soviet-style central planners imposing price limits on everything: long-distance phone calls, oil and gas, airlines, rail service, trucking and banking services.

Dot thats the same as Danistan, a CCP puppet state. Kill em all I say that’ll learn em. I have an acquaintance from Minsk, considers themselves Russian.

Rabzsays:
April 17, 2022 at 12:54 am
An anthem from the nineties, essaying the joys of inebriation …

Of which I am entirely unaware of, Cats. ?

Worth reposting.

With a $250 budget, she said living in a share house had become a necessity rather than a choice: “There’s no way I could live by myself,” she said.

“I’m going to uni, I have a job, and I’m struggling to get by. I’m studying to be a teacher. That takes five years … you have to make so many compromises, lower your standard [of living] just to live somewhere, and you have to say thank you.”

Absolutely nothing there that’s different to students of fifty years ago re housing and rent. Possibly a shortage of dilapidated terraces around Chippendale and Redfern.

But what’s with the “and you have to say thank you”? Be grateful you’re in uni with the prospect of an excellent salary on leaving? Be thankful you have a roof over your head and food to eat?

There’s a weird form of entitlement going on here. What was a natural rite of passage for her parents is now twisted into deprivation and truculence.

There’s a weird form of entitlement going on here.

Sure is calli. Starts with them calling the dole ‘pay’.

It’s all the other good things that come with work, including self esteem.

My children worked their way through uni, and the apprenticeship. Youngest worked before she was legally allowed to. All now remarkably successful in their various endeavours.

Heh. The Beloved and I were reminiscing about his first job the other day – choir boy at 50c a wedding. The church was one of those great neo-gothic north shore piles – the type that all the local nabobs got married in. A nice little earner. My own brother was in on it too. 😀

The total idiocy of using an “Uncle”….the term coming from the practice of aboriginal people not having wedding ceremonies, holding a wedding ceremony is so ridiculous in the extreme, and such ahistoric lunacy, it fits well with the year 2022.

Dawson split between Townsville & Mackay and ditto Capricornia Mackay/Rocky.

Dawson was only created in 1949, prior to that Capricornia adjoined Herbert.
At the 1974 Election, Nerimbera [about 6 k East of Rockhampton Post Office] was part of Dawson.
Still didn’t help the Labor Party, Patterson was tipped out in the anti Labor swing in Qld.

“Social wage.”
Sutre.
It’s not some 16 year old kid’s fault that Whitlam abolished Tariffs overnight on Clothing and Footwear, putting 500,000 people on the Dole.
His parents coulda made the decision to be Childless since there’s not much future for kids [plenty did], or they can be paid a Dole.

“Social wage.”

Still has the conintations of something earnt, Zulu.

“Charity” is out as it needs to be given without force.

This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Up from the grave He Arose

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/17/aec-alarmed-at-dangerous-voter-claims-spreading-before-australian-election

The AEC said it was monitoring growing misinformation claims spreading online around voter integrity. The AEC is concerned at this conversation being “imported” from America, following widespread baseless claims about voter fraud in Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss.*

“While many of the posts simply encourage people to ‘bring a pen’ and ‘fill in a stat dec’, the inference often being made is that the counting process is somehow subject to manipulation. This is simply not the case,” an AEC spokesman told Guardian Australia.

* If thats what they sad, as opposed to gruinaid editorialising then our electoral system is open to some of the same abuses the US one was.

Would the AEC like vote harvesting, privately funded ‘drop boxes” for votes and other ‘fortifying” measures?

What could possibly drive people to not trust the spastic mongloids in government after 2 years of lockdowns, mandatory medical experimentation and still running never to be repealed emergency acts??
Its a veritable turducken of mysteriousness.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-15/senate-ballot-boxes-may-have-fallen-off-truck-committee-finds/6395716
The nearly 1,400 Senate ballot slips that disappeared in Western Australia during the last federal election may have literally fallen off the back of a truck, says a federal parliamentary committee.

That was a block quote fail of mine Kneel.
Some of after “god bless you” were my words in answer to you.

Kneel, my “plan of attack” was not my plan.
it was what the right wing people of the world understood what needed to be done in the face of tyranny.
The most peaceful way is to disobey it.

Me mentioning this gave KD kittens.
Right at the start.

For a century of dawn services had past where , according to KD, people were using diggers to promote themselves and promote their own politics by turning up to them.
Well, when told we could not do this anymore by tyrants, disobeying those tyrants was, according to KD, a dispicable act of self promotion, and using diggers to promote oneself.
You can see how easily the Vicplod could have been brainwashed into firing on unarmed citizens.

However disobedience is still the peaceful key.
Are you going to have a booster?
Are you going to wear a mask?

We’ve had these arguments to death here.
By disobeying you lose somethings short term
By obeying you’ll lose everything including your life and the lives of others who have not submitted.

Sounds overdramatic, but is it?
No fucking way.
And that’s why we must call out the people here with no political conviction other than to want to belong to a club.
A club they don’t actually belong to.
Political conservatism and right wing convictions.
Their just here for the country club membership, as they see it.
And when a person of right wing conviction speaks up they hiss like the snakes they are.