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Conservatives have come out in support of leftists in matters of principle but it rarely goes the other way.
Still no news on whether Tulsi Gabbard is getting a gig in Trump’s cabinet. I do feel she’s owed something…
Wasn’t it Mark Riley who asked Julia Gilliard “Prime Minister, what can we do to help?”
Cronkite at 3:41 pm But the poor thing would not lay so Grandma did what had to be done and…
Who needs Medicare telehealth when struth can provide an armchair diagnosis?
Take one cock and smoke it dinner time.
Meme from Andre Martyanov Blog.
You have now degenerated into a lewd troll.
An ornament to any forum you inhabit.
Bear, it’s not a smartarse answer.
Buyers and sellers set the price at any given time.
You have now degenerated into a lewd troll.
That’s actually a step up for Struth [or Sancho, for the more reality based].
Lolwut?
So why does the AEC post to my letter box, in my name an absentee voting form without fail for every pending State, Local and Federal Election, Grigory?
Regardless of whether I use it or not?
BatMong springs into action as he sniffs the risk some of that stream of unaccountable covid cash might dry up.
Covid funding to states should be extended, Daniel Andrews says
Victorian government wants extension of commonwealth funding arrangement to combat pandemic
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has reignited calls for the commonwealth to extend its increased health funding for Covid, warning the effects of the pandemic will not end after winter.
The commonwealth last month extended the Covid-19 National Partnership Agreement to 30 September. The agreement supports the state and territory health systems respond to the pandemic, with a further $982.5m committed in the March federal budget.
On Friday, Andrews said Victoria required the additional funding to catch up on deferred care such as elective surgery that had been pushed back during the pandemic.
“I would again, urge the prime minister and the federal treasurer to reconsider that $1.5bn cut to health that occurs in September,” Andrews said.
“This will not be over in September.”
Under the agreement – where the commonwealth funds 50% of Covid-related health costs – Victoria received an additional $1.56bn this financial year.
..
The state’s elective surgery waitlist ballooned during the pandemic, with 80,000 people on the elective surgery waitlist at the end of December. The Victorian president of the Australian Medical Association, Roderick McRae, has warned the waitlist may have risen to as high as 120,000.
…
So thats the rest of this year with all of Austfailure still having every state territory and commonwealth still under emergency acts then.
These people are insane.
180 or so people have died, in TOTAL for the whole of Australia in the 59 years old and under age group.
https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/case-numbers-and-statistics
Drop down to “Total deaths by age and sex if you think thats inaccurate.
Look out!
Stimpy has risen.
@ Mole-
His finances are in the pits, and claiming EmErGeNcY funding is easier than trying to slapfight all the other mendicants at COAG for GST handouts.
Or having Faustian pacts with the CCP torn up at the last minute by his Class Enemies…
You’re Special, Franger?
sfw:
A Bill of Rights is only of any use if it limits government actions and doesn’t have State of Emergency ‘get out of gaol free’ cards in it.
That one has been abused far too often.
#WeAreAllSancho…
I don’t smoke sufficient gypsum to qualify for the Short Bus like you do, Grigs. 🙂
Heliuummmmmmmm, on the other hand…
JC what have you done about the energiser car? Offer still stands for the gas guzzler.
The stuff you learn.
Bruce O’Newk:
Are we testing Chiinerrs ability to use inferior quality coal and iron ore it can get from inner Asia?
Because this kind of stupidity is going to do just that.
More importantly, your governing classes need to actually respect and adhere to the rules as written. Freshly-imposed Bills of Rights or not.
As the Cat’s myriad cynics and DeNiAlIsTs have understood long before raging against the power for upticks became popular in 2020, all the muh Constitution-ing in the world matters for naught if the folks entrusted with the responsibility of governance, are more interested in carrying out their personal agendas at all costs. And look for every means of subverting and supplanting the rules (and any pesky dissenters) they feel might get in the way of their Manifest Destiny.
You’ll have currawongs after you Calli. Here they finished off the figs in the nearby Port Jackson fig tree yesterday, so shifted across to the Cafe. I’ve being followed around by currawongs all day. Mince is yum! (Figs are yummier though.)
All of you against the resources tax, fair enough so tell us your plans for paying off the trillion and plans that you can sell to the electorate. If you can’t do that then all you are doing is shaking your hand at the sky, like Grandpa Simpson.
… and we seamlessly move from Truckonomics to Trucker Telehealth.
Equally adept in both fields of endeavour.
The blackouts they had last winter were a good taster.
Then there these videos from China’s biggest colliery a few years back.
Ignore the immediately appearing fact that the locos pulling it are powered by the mine’s slacks and dross- This is their domestic fuel at its worst (and it’s pretty bad).
Combine this with their merchant shell-games to get Australian thermal and metallurgical coal off blockaded ships and onto docks, the aforementioned blackouts in a vicious 2021-22 winter and the fact they purchased all of Russia’s Siberian export coal productiom for 2022.
It isn’t a pretty domestic picture.
Sorry Winston, forgot the film-
Sandaoling Mine, from circa 2019:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pYqb1x21hWg
THE BIDEN YEARS, AN EPITAPH:
Took 14 months to go from “build back better” to “there will be food shortages.”
Whether it be AnAl or Bradbury who come out on top something they both could use in our build-back-better scheme(s) is some of this Ukrainian we-makes-’em-to-last-stuff .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/bF8qJZW
Biden made a 5,000-mile Earth Day round trip in AF1 to announce ‘climate friendly’ US military (and more WTF moments)
A message from head office.
Gutfelt was shit in your pants funny today.
Gutfeld! FFS. Shit in your pants does that to you.
This Disney affair has been instructive.
Biden announces every US military vehicle will be ‘climate friendly’ – “we’re spending billions to do it”
and
UPDATE – Johannes is onto him!
Given the last 2 attempts to impose blanket resource taxes failed amidst vociferous opposition from miners, political oppositions and thinking folks alike, what makes you confident the UAP’s proposal would stand up if they had the balance of power to introduce it?
Clive’s not a leftist, so it will work?
The speech Richard Marles vetted with the Chinese ‘we must explore political & defence co-operation’
I thought that was a shipment of Australian cars, sent as Civil Development Aid?
Got permanently suspended from Twitter.
Badge of honour.
All because I tweeted about the child of Mark McGowan who is in hospital ‘with’ ChinaVirus . I speculated that was it because of the vaccines.
I also attached a meme featuring Julie Andrews uttering the words
Super
Callous
Fascist
Risky
Experimental
Doses
Lol
Gosh Calli – that takes me back to my teenage years when I took my pony to the blacksmith to be shod. Sonny Bennett was the blacksmith’s name – and he looked to me like he was 70 “in the shade”. He had shod horses for so many years that he took no nonsense from them – he’d just whack them in the belly with his hammer if they played up! He still used the forge and made every shoe to fit the shape of the horse’s hoof and to rectify any gait problems. He used to particularly shape one of the rear hooves of my pony for a reason I now can’t recall – but the shape of the shoe had a slight bend on one side. I can even recall the price – 25 shillings for a set.
In the midst of Chermany’s authoritarian regime are rays of sunlight:
More than 400kph! Wow! 🙂
Knuckle Dragger:
Another link please?
Couldn’t get in and 12ftladder can’t break the paywall either.
Another link please?
They had a little museum out the back, featuring the Doctor’s buggy and an enormous, locally made wagon designed for grain haulage. I stood there imagining a team hitched up and ready to go.
The workshop itself was delightfully cosy – it would be terrible in summer. All around there were fragments of the past – farriers tools, a couple of cobblers lasts, some old woodwork items including planes and brace and bit, all sorts of good stuff. The floor was cinders.
The smith himself was a tall, slim man with a long silver pony tail. Most unexpected.
Today listened to a scary scenario put up by guru David Hunter on Adam Taggart’s Wealthion which predicts an initial 40% “melt-up” of global stocks in the first half of this year, followed by a catastrophic 80% “melt-down.” Given that P/E ratios are so out of kilter – maybe even more so than in 1929 – it actually seems possible.
They certainly were, Calli. I can still see in my mind the fire in the forge at the back of the smithy’s shop. You could feel the heat holding the pony at the front of the shop.
My great grandfather was smithy in the goldfields, his name was Smith.
Ah yes.
The very neat qualifier “that you can sell to the electorate“.
But isn’t that the precise cause of your Abbott Derangement Syndrome?
That he looked at policies through the lens of not only what he could sell to the electorate, but what he could get through his party room or through the Senate.
Suddenly populist retail politics is back in vogue because Fat Cloive is doing it.
Smith, eh?
Careful you don’t doxx yourself.
🙂
His workshop is still preserved as a tourist attraction.
Thancho, mother’s side of the family.
Winston Smith says:
April 23, 2022 at 5:14 pm
Micheal Smith News. No paywall.
Good punchup, i would have joined in.
All the talk of how to repay the debt is missing the point.
The debt will never be repaid, because it is too big now to be repaid.
Old Ozzie:
Here we go with the insurance aspect of world trade I spoke of six months ago. With this scenario, the Australian Government should be dusting off old WW2 plans to indemnify ship owners against loss of vessels and cargoes. But will they?
Of course not. They’ll send it to a Parliamentary Committee to investigate – after working out just who gets the allowances for doing the job.
Then the Maritime Wukkas Union will demand war rates for their members on the ships, while threatening a nation wide strike if foreign crews are allowed on board in Australian waters.
Then – Concession #1 – the Chinese crews on those vessels will have to be members of the appropriate Union – at appropriate War Time Union rates of +10,000% normal.
Again – 🙂 joking.
Sorta.
Is it hard ball time yet?
You know, hard ball or die?
I heading o/s in a couple of weeks and will figure it all out when I get back. I keep going back and forth about making a huge change vs what I know – petrol cars.
Oh wow. Anyone else look at the link to the age article in the sidebar? When you’ve got the likes of the age muttering against mandates, and the commenters don’t see the reasons anymore, I reckon you should be running for the exit plan.
Please make this stop. It’s too painful to read.
Oh, and sister koala has brought a Tesla, new, no idea of the model.
Dad was sort of impressed, but described the interior as reminiscent of a 1980s Mitsubishi Magna.
Rather plastic and small.
ScoMo is certainly giving grass roots Liberal members reason enough to resign.
One of his “captain’s picks” in SA has in the recent past supported BLM, defund the police and said sending criminals to gaol was too expensive. Since being nominated she’s deleted her social media twitterings, but I’m willing to speculate that she has’t had a road to Damascus like conversion to mainstream Australian values.
I suppose you could say she’s a small government advocate!
Let me repeat myself.
…if people don’t understand how this is so, they haven’t looked at government finances in depth.
Yes. Cut spending, largesse and the gravy train. That’s the part that is hard to sell.
All I can say is if debt gets to 1.2 trillion and we have bond rates at 6%, we’re literally ruined.
Not only could we not pay it back, after a mere five years, it would be like losing 12 years of 3% trend real GDP growth, but at a higher per capita rate.
It could literally ruin us and end us as viable country.
That’s at least sort of true.
er…that wasn’t supposed to happen….
Roger, could you please name this person. All South Aussies need to know.
What do you do with serial burglars & car thieves then?
By all means give first offenders in property crimes an opportunity to reform, but when the criminality becomes habitual, what then?
TheFrollickingMoll:
What would happen if China were to cancel all Australian iron ore purchases, and import from Russia which has atm 5 mines delivering 80 million Tpa.
What would happen if China were to cancel all Australian coal purchases and import from Russia?
We are about to discover that buying of resources in China is a political decision, not an economic one.
They would buy the other 640 million tonnes from us.
Anna Finizio in Hindmarsh, Delta.
Doctor in Law, apparently, and quite the budding reformer.
She’s presently in furious denial, of course.
Oops, that ~620 million tonnes of i/o from us.
By all means give first offenders in property crimes an opportunity to reform, but when the criminality becomes habitual, what then?
These are the Lumpen Proletariat, they’ll always be a burden on productive people and they breed at a good clip too.
Police are superfluous, because we’ve already got the Sheriff’s Office.
That might need to be enlarged, out of work cops can be sent to the ADF.
Struthonomics 101.
How’s that Abronayzee basement action panning out so far, Cats?
I’ve been off the air. 😕
Who do people think will end up with a working majority in the house?
Labore and the greenfilth
Leavened with some teal coloured personages …
Winston – In that summary the only iron ore resources able to be shipped by sea are the Kola area ones and the Kerch ones. The former probably only can be shipped in the height of summer, otherwise it’s a long long way 3/4 around the globe. The latter is a long way away too, and has to go through the Bosphorus, Dardanelles and the Suez Canal, all pretty tight shipping lanes.
All the rest have to be railed, and there’s no capacity. The eastern Siberian ones might work with dedicated rail, but the capital investment would be huge. Weather in winter would also be tough.
At the moment China is buying as much metallurgical coal from Russia as they can, but it’s only a small amount – probably because of the capacity constraints. Iron ore would displace that coal – and since you need the coal to make steel it’d be a catch 22,
He made the mistake of sending Jason Clare out as a sub.
Now all the women voters are saying “Why can’t he be Labor leader?”
If any Fat Cloives get elected they will fall towards the Liars.
The pork is better over that side.
theyll send it back one day
Watch Albanese justify accepting Greens support………
Next one after this one, you deep thinking democracy lovers. 🙂
I currently test positive for covid.
I took the tests because I have several comorbidities, including age and cancer, and I wanted to be as sure as possible. I have not sought medical treatment or reported the tests. In all probability, I caught it from my children and grandies, and I’ve probably passed it on to DiL.
Not one of us has been dramatic about this. We expected to catch covid at some stage and we did. For some – the kids, mainly – it was as rickw described his son’s symptoms ages ago: one day feeling off, runny nose and temp. Fighting fit on day 2.
Best man and I had more severe symptoms, longer lasting, but not bad enough for bed rest. Interestingly, we have had all the ‘bad cold’ symptoms – congestion, body aches, fever, headache, sneezing and heavy cough, but not in the order that one expects from a cold. I’ve recovered three times now, only to be hit again with one of the above.
When this is over, I shall have natural immunity from this highly contagious and very real virus. I never succumbed to the media and political fear mongering. From the moment “vaccines” became mandatory I, and all my immediate family, refused to have one. That was our choice. Some in our extended family disagree with our decision. Fortunately, they don’t nag about it, and having stated my opposition to the “Vax”, neither do I.
Still too early for predictions.
The road to The Lodge goes through Queensland and Palaszczuk, Elbow’s proclaimed model premier, is very much on the nose here atm.
Another field in China is “stuck neck”, more serious than chips? Highly dependent on foreign seeds
Shanghai is in the grip of an outbreak that has led to a complete lockdown of its 26 million people. Which city would Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping visit to show his concern? It isn’t Shanghai. He visited the southernmost province, Hainan province, which is home to one of the country’s most important seed production bases.
Food security is an issue that has been repeatedly mentioned by the Beijing authorities in recent years, and they are focusing on the research bottleneck of the seed technology.
China’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has also told the official media that “seeds are the ‘chips’ of agriculture, and arable land is the ‘lifeblood’ of food production, and only by seizing these two key elements can we fundamentally ensure national food security.”
From earlier in the thread …
I’m surprised that after being on fire for 16 hours the fire crews were able to do anything at all! (I just lurv today’s standards of journalistic writing.)
Struthonomics …
As was played out in 2019.
Labore stalled there and it was all over (just).
Don’t discount Victoria. When, as I posted above, you’ve managed to get the likes of the age questioning a Labor premier there’s a good chance Labor are in serious trouble.
Ask Big Clive. He wants to whack an additional 15% tax on Australia’s iron ore in order to get rid of the wild-spenders Covid and other debt. An admirable aim, but not one that is particularly going to work.
Our quality iron ore is tempting to China, but they can manage without it, especially if there is an economic incentive to do so to add to the political one.
Recovering tonight from a great time last night of fast-flowing noisy converse with like-minded Cats at a deliciously tempting home-cooked dinner party. Hence,obviously, not held at our place. 🙂
Nor at Cassie’s. Cassie is having a break from commenting but I told her she is missed here.
With the exception being Craigo Kelly, being the big fan of the liars that he is.
Talk about throwing your hat into the wrong ring. He could have joined Shambles in the LDP.
But yeah, spivs of a feather, flocking together – err, without meaning to sound unnecessarily judgemental, Cats.
+1
.1 Incarceration
.2 Incarceration
.3 See .1
No, they can’t. At least they think so. That’s why they are paying $140 a tonne for it, while hating our guts. Get real.
Latest on Deves:
Samantha Maiden is checking thru those 6,000 Tweets The Devester deleted.
Certainly is.
Thanks, Graeme!
And a climate loon.
Never heard of Andrea Dworkin?
You have now.
https://rumble.com/v11vs9f-president-trump-speaks-at-heritages-annual-leadership-conference-in-amelia-.html
You could cut government spending in half with no discernible difference to outcomes or even military preparedness.
The problem then would be “unemployment” .. since Krudd and, maybe, even longer one of the let’s-not-mention-it-out -loud initiatives has been the explosion of numbers in the Federal Public Service not only creating hundreds of “NGO”s which are 100% reliant on gummint funding but the enlarging of existing and creation of new Depts. .. add -on the, apparent, need for ALL ministers & members of Parliament, both Houses, to need numerous gummint advisors most in their early twenties with in many cases NO experience in “real” workplace environment but “political” or family connections ..
and now the BAT FLU era has shown that controlling the printing of money isn’t a gummint priority anymore there is no incentive to reel in spending ..!
But enough about what makes her the “ideal” gliberal feral erection candidate …
Broad churches, peoples …
Congratulations Custard, on attaining Twitter’s Trump-level account status.
Coupla interesting pics of Katherine Deves, she rocks that dress Sonia McMahon wore to the White House.
https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/secret-docs-lift-the-lid-on-katherine-deves-past/news-story/fc702e46b119fcc54972ae419acbbefb
I’d say she’s LBG Friendly but the Trannys in sport is a bridge too far.
Presently in Witness Protection by the Liberal Party.
shatterzzz says: April 23, 2022 at 7:09 pm
There’s a shortage of Fruit Pickers.
So no problem.
I asked a couple of weeks ago this economics question:
If dumping a product on a market means the manufacturer is transferring costs to its regular customers in the form of higher prices doesn’t that mean if I buy a 4Tb USB stick for $1.30, when similar products here cost $48, then buying the Chinese product means a loss of $46.70 to China?
So if I buy 10,000 4Tb USB sticks from China, I can cause nearly half a million in damages to a factory there?
Eddles – the Dworkin is quite possibly the most hideous human creature to have existed on this planet, evah.
She makes gollum look like the Ratajkowski.
Otherwise a small criminal element makes life miserable for the law abiding majority as their unchecked behaviour inevitably becomes more brazen. That’s how you end up with “no go” areas where police are hamstrung.
Sacré bleu, mes amies! 🙂
Depends … is it printed on Sorbent quality paper?
There’s a shortage of Fruit Pickers.
So no problem.
Yeah, pick apples at Red Hill for a month, hitch hike to Yandina and pick Ginger for a fortnight, head out to Stanthorpe and prune Nectarines in -13 with the wind screaming up from Guyra, it’s a great life.
Dickhead.
Exactly.
Deranged moron.
Yes, Ted mentioned he’s naming his own wage as a banana picker.
Don’t do it, Lizzie, don’t do it, was the general opinion last nite about us buying the familial church, reworked over centuries, which is not in good condition. Sad, because there has been a church on site there since at least the Domesday Book and it still has many Listed C15th aspects to it. We too are wavering, because it is not the original costs we fear but the ownership legalities for heritage repairs that we might be up for forever, given we would have no intention of changing it from being a public place nor of on-selling it in any way.
Undaunted, I am now preparing other ways of ensuring that it still lives, even though the competition for heritage funding is fierce. I’ll need to find a heritage organisation with half a million Ozzie dollars (circa 250 British pounds) to fix the roof and underpin the foundations and so give the spirit of the place somewhere to reside between the two. A tall order.
Luckily, I have had a brainwave. What is it that is the most difficult thing to find in Britain? Answer: somewhere to park! The graveyard could be commissioned for that, and parking fees put into a trust fund that we could kick off with A$50,000 which could provide for the ongoing general maintenace of the church but not repairs. It is located in the middle of nowhere, which you might think would not work; but it would, because it is in the middle of farmland with no parking for miles, but stands at the head of a Great British Walk, the pride and joy of The National Trust, where there is NO PARKING. That, plus a little moral pressure from some old statutes I’ve obtained, might work. Win-win.
Unless they try to knock it down to provide more parking when it becomes so successful.
Hoist on my own petard? Have to get something written into the Trust Fund against that.
Thinking, thinking …
Yeah, Rabz, but … the Ratajkowski has had plenty of ‘enhancements’.
Otherwise, she’d look more like
The Dworkin
I’m discounting Victoria. If it isn’t over after Qld, WA will seal it this time around.
Why would it get dumped?
Why wouldn’t they just sell more units domestically at a higher price?
They’re already losing money. It’s more about recouping losses at that point.
A lot of “dumping” in the past probably wasn’t. If Australian wheat has a really good growing year and nowhere else has a bad year, are we dumping?
It’s likely the world price would have lowered domestic prices significantly in the first place. The losses to producers are already baked in.
Rog, there was a ground breaking study conducted in the 2000s by a collectivist mate of mine* (a statistician) who after studying much data, came up with the wholly unexpected conclusion that the more hardened criminals that were languishing in gaol, the safer the community was.
Who’da thunk it. 😕
* While in the employ of a certain NSW “statutory authority”
The Trump speech I linked to above is worthy of mention.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Trump free range so much.
Whatever
You gain a lot of skills, get paid more if you work harder, can have a low cost of living, meet a lot of people (young babes 🙂 ), it can be a foot in the door into viticulture or agriculture generally and you see a lot of the country, plus you work outside which can be a lot more healthy for you than an office cube farmer position.
You can also buy a car for cash and buy a jumper & a beanie.
Top Endersays:
April 23, 2022 at 2:38 pm
Abolish all Federal PS jobs which duplicate State/Territory services…
Have a national driving licence not eight separate departments…
Have a national teacher registration board not eight separate departments…
Have a national police force not eight separate departments…
And so on.
No. De-centralise schooling, driving licencing and police to regions, more along the US practice. Too much power in the centre can be used to exert greater control.
Back to picking the bananas, eh?
I heard he’d been sacked from the packing shed.
Couldn’t get them all in the box with the bends facing the same way.
AUD 500,000 is c250,000 British pounds. That would cover the immediate major repair costs and would require heritage funding. Eye-watering amounts, and not ones we want to have constantly being required as more underpinning may be required.
A Maintenance Trust Fund of AUD 50,000 giving circa BBP25,000, which we could cover, invested at 3% it would provide circa GBP750 a year for general upkeep.
That would work, with parking fees added.
Winston – Cheap chips from China may well come loaded. Stolen data from a virus infection would easily pay for the cost of a thumb drive.
I was amused by this story today.
Millions of Windows laptops infected with ‘unremovable’ malware – are you affected? (22 Apr)
Lenovo, Lenovo, now where have I heard that name before? Of course one person’s bug could well be another person’s designed-in back door…
That’s a point that’s usually overlooked.
A recent Quadrant had an article arguing very much the same sort of thing.
Thefrolickingmoll:
Two questions:
.1 Will the towing vehicle be Malcolm Campbells “Bluebird”?
.2 Can the unprotected human body remain intact as it passes Mach 1?
Will there be a video?
Have a national driving licence not eight separate departments…
Have a national teacher registration board not eight separate departments…
Have a national police force not eight separate departments…
No, just agree that a qualification obtained anywhere in Australia is good nationwide without time limits or residence qualifications. Likewise car rego. State with lowest prices gets the business and revenue. Competition Commission charges and jails anyone colluding, government or not.
All quiet on the Deves front, though Samantha Maiden is on the scent of something.
I just hope there’s no rooting happening anywhere.
Countries with the Highest Crime Rates
The countries with the ten highest crime rates, expressed in per 100,000 people, globally are:
Venezuela (83.76)
Papua New Guinea (80.79)
South Africa (76.86)
Afghanistan (76.31)
Honduras (74.54)
Trinidad and Tobago (71.63)
Guyana (68.74)
El Salvador (67.79)
Brazil (67.49)
Jamaica (67.42)
Link
The majority of violent crimes are perpetrated by a small number of persistent violent offenders, typically males, characterized by early onset of violent criminality, substance abuse, personality disorders, and nonviolent criminality.
Winston – your comment about dumping and tariffs makes no sense whatsoever.
Please reword. I’ve just wasted about 10 minutes trying to figure out what the fuck your question was.
Hint – “dumping” means dropping into a market a significantly lower priced good than those previously available. The dumped good is invariably subsidised (by a foreign government for example) – which you seem to have completely ignored in your query.
Don’t they cut the hands off of thieves?
You’d think that might be a deterrent.
I think that (76.31) might be the Murder Rate, Bruce.
Calli:
I hereby nominate Calli for role of the “Farmers Dorper.”
🙂
Venezuela (83.76)
There’s something in common about those Countries [apart from Afghanistan] that I can’t quite put my finger on.
The stupid here…it burns.
Struth-o-nomics and truck-o-nomics is agreeing with somebody that knows how to make more money than all the dumb bastards here slinging off at him, combined.
Dot, who pays off the debt according to your plan?
And our resident pussy stroking upper class housewife from next door to Malcolm’s place reckons the Chinese don’t need our iron ore.
Cassie calls me a troll for calling her idiocy out and other women swear they’ve had covid while describing a cold.
The damage done to your brains seems irreparable
They’re still hanging blokes in South Africa, Jamaica, Trinidad, PNG and Guyana, so, while Capital Punishment may or may not be a deterrent, look on the bright side …
And so the blundering has commenced …
https://youtu.be/AbszNcn0NFo
Russia says it plans full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine; Moldova protests
Obviously protecting Russian-speaking Moldovans from Nazis, pooves, and Klaus Schwab.
In a Christian outreach sort of way: the Salvation Army with artillery.
Rex Anger:
I remember you posting several videos of similar. The night shots are spectacular, but don’t the carriages of coal ever catch on fire?
It certainly looks like a huge risk…
The last person hanged in South Africa was in 1989. The death penalty was abolished in 1995, although there are calls for it to be reinstated.
Blundernomics?
Sancho, you were destroyed today.
Length of time hanging on this thread does not change things.
You moronic space cadet.
Seriously St Ruth.
Who is feeding you this bullshit?
Very few are up to picking bananas.
It is difficult work, up there with wheat lumping.
Nor is it for the squeamish or faint-hearted.
Farmers used to place realistic job ads for Banana Pickers.
Apply if you are a;
“Strong, Fit, Mentally Durable, Male taller than 1.8metres”
In the olden days (when there were backpackers in Australia) they’d read these ads & the backpacker chicks, pumped full of equal rights & grrrls can do anything, (but with utterly no idea of what the job involves) would report the ads to the Fair Work Ombudsman, for “discriminatory hiring” or somesuch bullshit.
Don’t know the rot that went on, but when the dickhead caste gets involved it can be tedious.
Net result was prolly that the growers were forced to advertise generically for “banana pickers” & applicants who were not “strong fit durable male 1.8m” simply wasted their time submitting applications & making farm visits.
Including yours.
Not Cassie. Calli.
I guess we all look the same don’t we.
Yeah, pick apples at Red Hill for a month, hitch hike to Yandina and pick Ginger for a fortnight, head out to Stanthorpe and prune Nectarines in -13 with the wind screaming up from Guyra, it’s a great life.
Dickhead.
I don’t know whether it still happens but there used to be a “permanent” workforce who’d travel the eastern seaboard from cane plantations in Queensland to apple orchards in Tasmania.
It may not have been an idyllic rustic nirvana but the people who did it didn’t seem to be miserable or oppressed.
I now await being “dealt with” for my insolence.
And I understand why Cassie is having a break.
Just put on your gardening boots Calli, very effective against those chihuahua ankle bites.
Being a bitch doesn’thelp your argument, calli.
Please let us know, seeing we live in a high trust society when it comes to our health and medical industry, how you know your specialist is a specialist in covid, and what yout credentials consist of that makes you sure you can guarantee he isn’t misled, or just F O S.
Does a medical degree or similar insulate you from fear propaganda and brainwashing?
Haven’t you Queenslanders ever heard of bulk handling?
I don’t know whether it still happens but there used to be a “permanent” workforce who’d travel the eastern seaboard from cane plantations in Queensland to apple orchards in Tasmania.
Yeah, there was a play about that, Summer of the seventeenth doll.
Mechanisation replaced labour on the Qld canefields around 1964.
No, not going to happen.
When you’ve got Notafan on your side Calli, you’d probably want to take a good hard long look at yourself.
Just sayin’…………
And I understand why Cassie is having a break.
Cassie has been commenting like a trooper on C.L.’s blog today.
China in Focus – NTD
01:05 Chinese oil giant’s $4B debut in Shanghai
03:33 17 Chinese firms forced to delist in U.S.
05:20 Chinese court sentences U.S. citizen to death
05:56 Northeastern China residents struggle to find food
08:52 Why China’s sticking with ‘zero COVID’
12:02 Q&A: Current status of China’s #UndergroundChurches
No struth at C Ls.
As is that good lady’s right, Eddles.
As evidenced today.
Fat Cloive is having a laugh.
He knows his “policies” (including the mining tax and capped interest rates) are bullshit, solely aimed at reaping the dim-bulb vote.
And it appears to be having some effect.
I’m confused.
The FruitLoop known as Struth is a Vax Sceptic, so is Cassie.
What’s the stoushing about then?
Jim’s Mowing.
Kenn’s Diagnostics and Pathology.
I remember last time Clive stood some Queensland pensioners thought he was going to fund a pension increase from his own pocket.
Not even Clive’s that rich.
a few years back we bought a couple of hundred memory stacks from china.
over-printed with the company logo
for gifts.
the memory sticks simply didn’t work
their factory was fine and we got a tax-deduction
win-win
Again, for a change.
Eddles, stick to your lanes, Squire, flamers and spooks.
You know you want to.
Haha. Wheat lumping wasn’t such fun that anybody tried to keep it going once bulk handling was viable.
Sugar was the last holdout.
Then the workforce went on strike one year.
So farmers loaded the sugar onto ships.
After that it was bulk handling.
Smart work you union dickheads.
Sancho’s Business Consultancy. 😉
St Ruth’s Byron Bay Hypnotherapy Retreat and Wombat Petting Zoo
Deterence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation are all secondary to retribution.
Similar situation in Western Australia in the late 1970’s – wharfies refused to load live sheep. A group of the younger generation of farmers – well prepared for an all in brawl – ran the picket lines, and loaded the sheep at three times the speed that the wharfies could ever do.
This blog is disappearing up it’s own pompous, CINO, sneering orifice, thanks to the little club of fuckwits, and that’s sad for the rest here.
The little country club conservatives who, without the slightest proof ever found,, regarded themselves as superior beings from the very start of the separation of the catallaxies, and tried to control the membership from the Untermenschen .
Completely insulated, dopes of submission is what they really are.
The coffee club of self importance.
I take great pleasure in confronting many here daily with their own intellectual failings and lack of character..
If they weren’t such self impressed sons of suction, (who underneath lack confidence) it wouldn’t be nearly as satisfying.
Especially as their low character and lack of concern for their fellow man seems is going to take their lives early.
And if not, they’ll always know , by their own lack of courage and morals when it counted, they failed, and any second……..any second……..Warnie.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of fuckers.
Not real bright.
Naive to say the least.
Say what you like, I’m not you.
I’m not jabbed, and I still have all my faculties.
Unlike the jabbed denialists here.
Adam’s blog got most of the better folk.
This one could be good to.
But the sneering nobodies with nothing to add, bring the whole place down.
Then comment there.
While you stick with zero covid and tyranny.
And net zero.
FFS
See above.
Crikey Struth, I prescribe some introspection (Dr. Salvatore’s surgery)
We’re not all traitors.
How about just lay low for a year or so, then when the rest of us are dead from the suicide jab & the population is down to a pre-Eureka Stockade level, none of the traitors will be still alive to sell-out Australia and you’ll be in high demand, both as a breeding sire & a skilled hands on bloke.
Something for you to look forward to. 😉
Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.
Odd isn’t it.
Mr Freedom made it quite clear, some time ago that ‘the country club conservatives’ wouldn’t be welcome at the blog with no name, then flounced over to Adam’s a month ago eagerly anticipating an influx of the ‘better people’ (whoever they are) and now is back here again abusing everyone who dares have a contrary opinion while pretending he is a victim of the mean meanies.
If all the upticks are yours 🙂 why not simply comment at you own place where you and your army of lurkers don’t have to put up with all of the dreadful traitors?
So why are you and myself here, St Ruth, given your obvious hostility and my regrettable and subsequently retracted suspicion of Doves?
I am the son and the heir … 🙂
Lol. That shut everyone up Rabz.
err, that wasn’t my intention, Squirette! 😕
Oh in all the tumult I forgot.
Delta A get well soon.
The Maniacal Mask Crisis Tyrants
I would suggest the same is true for Australia.
And this is 100% true –
The next radio show, peoples – I’ve taken a unitary arbitrary vote and decided that it will essay the Sixties (1962- 1971).
If anyone disagrees, then feel free to state your case. A theme that will hopefully elicit at least 50-100 comments (most of which won’t be mine) on a Saturday night. 🙂
May 7 2022, 7:00pm (AEST).
Both coaches at Optus Stadium are masked… inside their boxes.
And at a glance, 20% of the crowd.
Embarrassing.
The Formidable Cool … 🙂
Dr. Fiona Martin .. does BRADBURY know?
https://ibb.co/WPg3LtJ
Big Nambas:
Excellent stuff!
Was it numbers?
I expect the AFL are stuck with the Covid protocols struck during 2020 and 2021 when it posed a threat to humanity. Now they look rather silly in 2022 when it ranks with carpal tunnel syndrome.
Dot:
You don’t even need to look that frigging hard, Dot.
Just look at Government Pages in the Phone Directory.
Seems that Riccardo Bosi is running as an independent for a seat in New South Wales.
Roger:
The lash.
And I’m serious.
JC:
The Tea Ladies.
I hope he wins.
It’ll make parliament interesting, especially when they both start courting him to support them into a minority government.
When Singapore sentenced that spoiled yankee expat brat to Six-of-the-Best for vandalising autos, it really focused minds, all around the world.
Heh!
I pinched this from Michael Smith News.
Laugh out loud funny:
The truth behind Gillard’s fall in India.
Rabz:
OK. Scamdinavia makes Poofle Valves at $1 each and sells them for $2 in Scamdinavia.
I can buy them online direct from the factory for 50c.
This is the definition of dumping, yes?
Dumping raises costs to the dumping nation, while the buying nation gets the benefit because each Poofle Valve I buy raises the cost to the Scamdinavian buyer.
Isn’t this damaging to the Scamdinavian economy?
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Do you remember the European butter mountains?
..
..
How would you like that shit dumped on you if you were an antipodean dairy farmer?
calli says:
April 23, 2022 at 9:03 pm
” Adam’s blog got most of the better folk”
What?
All five of them are the better folk?
Hate say this Struth, but you are not losing it, you actually lost it.
Read back your rants to yourself before you post, I’m sure you are intelligent enough to realise how stupid most of them are.
Of course, when totalitarian regimes create the same “glut” effect with slave labour, stolen intellectual property and export incentives around manufactured goods, the same people who would never allow tonnes of French butter to land here start going “competitive advantage, old man”.
Which electorate?
And can someone explain why he still has a “donate” button on the A1 website touting for funds “to register as a political party”?
Jim’s Mowing.
Kenn’s Diagnostics and Pathology.
Mr. Worth’s Economics Tutorials for Professional Economists and Brokers by Pub Singers.
Formerly known as Capable Kenn’s Constitutional Law Interpretative Service.
Which was formerly known as Private* Kenn’s Guide to Military Ideology.
*Pending.
Private-elect?
Private-in-waiting?
…
“It’s hard ball or die time”.