We’ll see what happens when the tariffs bite, and we repudiate the postal service benefits that has enabled China to…
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There will be a plastic dog turd gap?
I’m humane. It’s cold in January in DC.
Thune, who is a pro-life evangelical Christian, spoke about his faith with EWTN earlier this year: Pro-Life Republican Senator John…
Brough is superior.
ParaPactum, the protection device for eminent people.
In the form of an umbrella, but in fact a true weapon of protection. Approved and embraced by the French Presidential Protection Unit (Groupe de Sécurité de la Présidence de la République – GSPR), the ParaPactum has no equivalent elsewhere in the world. Multidirectional protection, instant opening and fully operational, it has been recognised as a protection device for eminent people.
Made in France
Macron pelted with tomatoes in working-class suburb while on unity tour
London: French President Emmanuel Macron was pelted with tomatoes during a surprise visit to a working-class suburb north of Paris just days after he pledged to work harder to unify the fractured nation following his re-election.
The 44-year-old’s security detail was forced to deploy a special protective umbrella to protect him from the flying fruit, with bodyguards shouting “projectile!” as they tried to shield the leader.
The special Kevlar umbrella, known as the paraPactum, can withstand attacks with knives, dogs and hold back crowds. It is also waterproof and its makers insist it will not crumple in a headwind of more than 150km/h.
It was bought by the president’s special protection forces under Nicolas Sarkozy, costing around €10,000 ($14,700) and comes in a secure black briefcase. The material has been tested to withstand acid attacks.
Macron pelted with tomatoes in working-class suburb while on unity tour
Just like the anti tiger stone I carry in my pocket.
Joe Reacts to Elon Musk Buying Twitter
Biden to teachers, “They’re not somebody else’s children. They’re yours when you’re in the classroom.”
but let’s make sure nobody uses any mean words to describe the behaviour, now that would bring down the wrath of the justice system
Tribalism combined with state largesse creates Welcome to Communism.
Nobody owns anything so they don’t give a toss about its value or utility to another.
It’s a toxic mess that any honest psychologist could predict.
This social experiment is an abject failure that’s destroying the future of kids that could have a good productive life.
Years ago an indigenous bloke who trained kids to work on stations in the NT told me that the lack of English skills was a disaster and hamstrung any good kid from advancing in the job.
Solomon Islands: Can China afford to build a base in Australia’s backyard?Taiwan will be safer
The security agreement signed between Beijing and the small South Pacific nation of Solomon Islands is now weighing heavily on the minds of several of the world’s major powers. The agreement, which had previously been kept secret, was leaked on March 24, suggesting that China could deploy troops to the Solomon Islands and possibly establish a naval base there.
EXCLUSIVE: Joe’s missing millions! Financial records reveal Biden had $5.2million in unexplained income – as emails show he paid Hunter’s legal bills for one megabucks Chinese deal and was tapped as ‘big guy’ to get a 10% cut in another
Emails from Hunter’s laptop reveal Joe Biden agreed to pay his son’s legal fees for his deal with a Chinese government-controlled company
. Joe was able to pay the bills after earning millions of dollars through his and his wife’s companies after he left office as vice president
. But an analysis by DailyMail.com of the president’s financial records shows $5.2million is unexplained
. The ‘missing millions’ and emails on Hunter’s abandoned laptop suggest Joe would have a 10% share in . Hunter’s blockbuster deal with the Chinese
. The revelation ties the president even closer to Hunter’s overseas business dealings, despite the White House’s denials
WolfmanOz at the Movies #18 goes woke.
Faced with rising costs, Sam Fisher felt she had no choice but to lift the price of a large coffee by 20¢ to $5 and charge $6.50 for a double shot almond latte.
AFR continues its laser like focus on the real issues.
Elon gets Obama and Hillary to ATTACK Free Speech
Decoy Voice
The situation is deteriorating by the day.
US meeting with arms manufacturers to replenish stocks depleted by Ukraine proxy-war on Russia
The U.S. has been sending its Stingers to Ukrainian forces battling Russia.
It will be years before Raytheon Technologies can build new Stinger shoulder-fired missiles due to a dwindling supply of weapons parts, the company’s CEO said Tuesday.
The U.S. has shipped Stingers to Ukraine’s military, which has used them to shoot down Russian aircraft. But there’s only a finite supply as Raytheon has not made Stinger missiles for the U.S. military in nearly two decades.
“We’re going to have to go out and redesign some of the electronics in the missile and the seeker head,” Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes told investment analysts Tuesday during the company’s quarterly earnings call. “That’s going to take us a little bit of time.”
The company has “a very limited stock of material for Stinger production,” Hayes said, as it’s currently building a missile for a sole international customer.
Looks like Adem Somyurek doesn’t think much of the IBAC investigation:
Today, half of the world’s wealth is being created in jurisdictions that have committed to net zero, so those markets that have previously underwritten our state’s prosperity are changing,
Bullshit alert!
The markets that have “previously underwritten” that prosperity are the coal export markets.
Anyone who thinks that the Asian and Latin American countries which are our main coal markets are serious about “net zero” shouldn’t be trusted with sharp objects or flammable materials.
been there so long they are on google maps
Satellite view of fortified ukrainian positions around Popasna
dover0beachsays:
April 28, 2022 at 10:57 am
WolfmanOz at the Movies #18 goes woke.
Disagree – thought wolfmanoz summary of “Some Like it Hot” excellent – previewing in 1959 where Society is today – summed up by the 1 minute video – Some Like It Hot (1959) – Nobody’s perfect [HD] summed by the final taking off his wig. and saying “I’m a Man” – response – “Nobody’s Perfect”
Billy Wilder was asked about making another film with Monroe:
“I have discussed this with my doctor and my psychiatrist and they tell me I’m too old and too rich to go through this again.”
But he also admitted:
“My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie ?”
And to top it all off the film has one of the best endings/last line in movie history as Jerry/Daphne has been wooed by the much-married and ageing mama’s boy Osgood Fielding III.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Next I’m buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in
Quadrant: Is Richard Marles the Neville Chamberlain of our times?
Shanghai lockdown has global ripple effect, EU firms start to feel China’s shipping delay | DW News
La Marseillaise, sung by Mireille Mathieu. American English subtitles.
Reading subtitles, sums up Ukraine today
Performance at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in 1989 for its 100th anniversary. Mireille Mathieu sings La Marseillaise, the French national anthem. According to reports at the time, “Mathieu sang the anthem of France so grandly and shrewdly that tears welled up across the country, many patriotic citizens even needed medical treatment.” Ten years later, she was awarded the Medal of the French Legion of Honor.
‘Keto’ molecule may be useful in preventing and treating colorectal cancer, study suggests
HB Bear,
I would like to buy your anti tiger stone.
Don’t be fooled by todays drop IBAC is protecting Dan
I wonder why so many are dedicated to protecting The Bat Eared Mong?
Nup. He’s just an opposition politician no-one outside Canberra has ever heard of who was once a junior minister in an unpopular government thrown out shortly afterwards. At least Chamberlain got to the cabinet room.
That is a very good question isn’t it? The imagination can run wild….
Tom, fair call. But I didn’t realise how bad his speech in China was!!!
He called for greater economic co-operation with China, including military cooperation!!!! Along with other crap like recognising China’s role in the South Pacific and respecting that…
Chamberlain genuinely believed that no – one in their right mind would ever unleash the horrors of another war on Europe. Marles has no such excuse.
Neville Chamberlain genuinely believed that no – one in his right mind would ever expose Europe to the horrors of another war. Marles has no such excuse.
From the “substance not spin” highly “progressive” Yarra City Council:
[From a report in a new local newspaper which looks like it’s somewhat leftist but not a total mindless PR tool]
“Yarra City has voted to ban fossil fuel company advertising on council property, even though the council already does not allow any commercial advertising on its property.”
BBC News Online, 26 March 2022
We have amended an article on the BBC News online site in Bristol about endometriosis to make it clearer to the audience how the condition affects women. The article was updated to remove an inaccuracy where we described symptoms as causes. Also, specifically, the word ‘people’ was replaced with the word ‘women’, and we removed the phrase “who are assigned female at birth”.
Did he lease the Port of Darwin to the Chinese?
God, I’m sick of the Churchill cosplay.
I know a bloke, wot knows a bloke, who was part of a Government programme to teach the Aborigines in the communities to maintain their houses. Nobody turned up after the first day – if “Whitefella” wanted them to live in “Whitefella’ houses, it was up to Whitefella to maintain those houses.
“Did he lease the Port of Darwin to the Chinese?”
That was a Liberal government.
Biden sets up ‘Disinformation Board’ to combat midterm fake news headed by Russia ‘expert’ who called Hunter’s laptop a ‘Trump campaign product’ and said she ‘shudders to think’ about Elon Musk taking over Twitter
. The Department of Homeland Security set up a new Disinformation Governance Board to tackle misinformation in minority communities
. It will operate under the Biden-era Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) and provide grants to help curb radicalization in the U.S.
. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandor Mayorkas did not disclose any powers that would be granted but said it would also aim at election misinformation
. Nina Jankowicz, a Russian disinformation expert, will head up the new board
. Jankowicz has previously questioned the validity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, calling it ‘a Trump campaign product’
. She also told NPR last week that she ‘shudders to think about’ more free speech on social media platforms after Elon Musk bought Twitter
No wonder they had to bury the Hunter laptop. The Chinese probably just wanted the cocaine snorting, hooker fucking slob for his thoughts on capital adequacy.
Mine is better. It also keeps off WuFlu at least as well as masks and vaccines.
How do you plan to pay for your retirement?
CL and Cassie,
I don’t recall Scomo or anyone else going to address the Chinese “parliament” and say we’ll be fully supportive of all your intentions and activities (you know, such as international rule/power, espionage, hacking, foreign interference); we just want peace… It’s ridiculous that Marles said this.
Agree the lease of Darwin Port was a massive fail. Mostly because of CLP and FIRB failures.
They’ve got the name wrong. It should be called ‘The Ministry of Truth’.
Lysander, Richard Marles is just another of many Manchurian Candidates. Where’s my brown paper bag? Traitors each and every one of them. Bring back the death penalty now. These people have Net Zero to add to humanity.
The CCP pays attention to how Ukraine is playing:
Taiwan’s annual military drill emboldens secessionists, but PLA’s operation ‘will be like thunderbolt’ if real war comes: expert
No, really.
Like a thunderbolt.
Unlike the situation in Ukraine.
So don’t get any fucking smart ideas.
Any of you.
#puckering
Don’t get me wrong – I encourage anti-Senate rants. I would just rate their effectiveness up there with shouting at pigeons.
I walked past the southbound bus stop at Spit Junction this morning and there was an infestation of Zali Steggall campaign volunteers wearing those shirts of hers and, in among them, the grate woman herself, in as long grey coat twiddling on her phone.
The volunteers were all aged snow-topped pensioner types. They were grinning like idiot asylum inmates overwhelmed by being allowed outside for the first time. They waved posters with Zali’s mug on them and pressing glossy little flyers into the hands of passers by. This was perhaps a kindness – the poor benighted morons would likely, had they not been given something to do, have wandered into oncoming traffic, or stood facing a wall and screamed that they were trapped and did not know how to get out. Or just spinning like tops until they fell backwards and threw up.
Anyway I popped into the coffee shop just nearby and, making small talk, asked if they had bought much coffee. The guy said “none” but the owner corrected that Zali had bought herself one at the beginning of the infestation.
The guy then went on to say he had seen a gang of Zali-pensioners at another coffee shop, all sitting together chittering and clicking in their insect-like language. He said that Zali came in and did not acknowledge them at all. But most striking is that they did not respond to her either. He said it was as if they did not recognise her or know who she was.
I went to the local shopping centre (Bridgepoint) but there were Zali-Zombies at the front entrance. I went around to the back entrance and there were more. I knew of one more entrance – an unremarkable door near the ramp to the carpark – there were more.
Now I am in a state. I keep expecting to find more of them wherever I turn. Just now when I opened the cupboard to get a tea bag I expected one to be in there. I turned on the tap to put water in the kettle and almost shatted a cup – and no, that is not a misspelling. I almost shat a cup. I know I am going to lie in bed tonight straining my senses into the dark, springing bolt upright at the odd sounds that attend night. And in that half-awake state I will feel myself pinned and immobile in my bed and imagine a Zali-Zombie bobbing toward me like a Macy’s Parade figure, smiling at me but to himself, the infinitesimal but powerful particle of evil at his core bending all its malice like a lens to its one thought of burying me under Zali pamphlets.
I am going to get some water from the fridge now. Wish me luck.
The Liars will always be soft on boats and the Chinese. It’s in their DNA.
I suspect that there is the reason that the Administration is stand up on a chair, shrieking, and clutching its skirts.
The prospect of free speech about issues happening in minority communities – and the consequences, in terms of burned cities – is not conducive to re-election.
Echoes of Shanghai Sam!
Fiends of the ALPBC. GetUp tea ladies.
Snowcone was there?
In better news, I hear Obummber lost 300,000 followers on twitter….
Port of Darwin was leased at 30x EV/EBITDA.
At that price, I’d lease everything I could.
I have heard people pick up followers when the shadow banning was finished and they became broadly visible again, but how did he lose followers? Were the numbers inflated? Were there those farms such as Rudd used where fake followers are generated?
Keen to know.
there it is, russians need a good strong firm hand to protect them from wrongthink
Old Ozzie, I was teasing.
Putinism seems to be morphing into a death cult.
Russian state TV is priming viewers for a nuclear war if they lose in Ukraine, but not to worry – Russians “will go to heaven whereas [their enemies] will simply croak.”
I wonder what they imported that was worth that price
Fake accounts, ML.
Mother (do you think they’ll drop the bomb)
I saw James Wood tweet that he picked up 50,000 followers yesterday…. definitely something going on. Perhaps “tidying” up the paperwork before Musk tries to access to all emails and DMs…
Gee, I’m sounding like SRR today!!!! 😛
That line is from the New Yorker in 2018.
“Boambee Johnsays:
April 28, 2022 at 8:10 am
Cassie
Good article in Quadrant On-Line about the contest in Wentworth.
The photo of Allegra Da Big Spender with her mother, sister and baby grand piano is a perfect illustration of the modern wealthy “liberal” green, totally disconnected from the need to struggle to put food on the table, clothes on the body and a roof overhead.”
Yes, I’ve just read it. I disagree with the writer about “holding his nose” and voting for Sharma. No, I can’t in good conscience do that, not after Sharma crossed the floor. It is clear to me that Sharma doesn’t have a Menzian Liberal bone in his body. I’m now resigned to Allegra Da Big Spenda winning. The electorate of Wentworth, like the electorate of Warringah, will reap what it sows.
I’ve long thought that the Liberals need to say farewell to electorates such as the one I live in. Three years ago, on election day in May 2019, I campaigned for Dave Sharma (what a fool I was), I spent hours hours on my feet, at one point I was the sole Liberal handing out HTV cards at the booth whilst surrounded by a phalanx of hostile forces, Phelps’ volunteers, Greens, GetUp and Friends of the ABC, all breathing fire at me. I had an altercation with one of the Friends of the ABC when he tried to enter the polling booth. I pulled him up, which of course he didn’t like very much and I told him if he did that again I’d report him to the AEC. I only had someone to talk to when the Labor people arrived….it’s funny but I’ve campaigned on election day many times and I find the only people that I get along with are usually Labor campaign workers. They’re always quite nice and up for a chat, there’s usually some cordiality. Anyway I digress, I had been left there by my fellow Liberal, also a resident of Wentworth who popped away to attend to some private business. Early in the day we were chatting and I remember his face when I said to him that “one day, sooner or later, the Liberal Party will have to walk away from electorates like Wentworth”. He was clearly bothered by my statement and he recoiled and said “Noooooo”.
Well, I’ve been proven right. Sharma will lose the seat to a grifter and puppet who’s also a very rich, entitled eastern suburbs moron who doesn’t give a shit about anyone west of Pyrmont but you know what? Nor does Sharma so now I don’t care if he loses. There’s no difference between Sharma and Spender in terms of ideology. Both are greenies, both are “progressives”, both are equally vacuous, and as you correctly wrote above, both are “totally disconnected from the need to struggle to put food on the table, clothes on the body and a roof overhead “. Such obscene selfishness sums up the electorates of Wentworth, Warringah, Kooyong, Goldstein, North Sydney, Curtin, Higgins and a few others. It’s encapsulated by Da Big Spenda’s campaign slogan, a slogan which everyday, when I’m walking to the bus and back, and I can’t stop laughing when I see her posters (which are everywhere) emblazoned with the following words….”Let’s create a better climate for Wentworth“, which is basically the following message to all those who don’t live in Wentworth, “we’ll continue lining our pockets with subsidies for ruinables so that we can continue to live our marvellous existence, to go skiing every year, to drive our SUV’s, to renovate our huge mansions, to travel overseas twice a year and to send our children to private schools and you, the great unwashed…..you all need to shut your fucking mouths because we know what’s best for you”.
Cassie, that was worthy of a post.
If the teals hold the balance of power the nation, particularly the wealth producing regions, will reap what the electors of Wentworth, Warringah and so on have sown.
Remember, these are the same people curating the ‘reports’ about Ukraine that appear every news cycle in newspapers like The Australian. Hot off the Langley presses.
“dover0beachsays:
April 28, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Cassie, that was worthy of a post.”
Please post Dover.
Really?
I’ve just watched the clip from Russian TV and my Russian is still good enough to work out what was said.
china in focus
01:08 Will Musk’s Twitter be influenced by China?
03:30 Quiet streets as Beijing races to detect virus cases
04:52 Video: foreigner collapses amid #ShanghaiLockdown
07:09 Foreigners facing more challenges in Shanghai
10:09 Chinese smartphones dependent on U.S. chips
12:06 U.S. automotive #Microchip maker to leave Shanghai
12:44 Aus politician’s ‘Nazi’ remarks anger Beijing
“Let’s create a better climate for Wentworth”
That not only reveals a very selfish attitude, it’s also quite stupid.
Reminder, we haven’t seen a single piece of evidence that RUS airborne transports were taken out over Gostomel airport. No pics or footage of the plane/s in distress, debris or wreckage following the crash. And only yesterday the claim of several was revised to one by the Pentagon.
Cassie, your election insights re Sydney should be main-page posts.
ghost of gostomel
Lysander..
@zubymusic is also up
Rand Paul DESTROYS Blinken’s Ukraine War LIES
Yes. I’ve tried to find something about that specifically and can’t. The most credible information I was able to come up with was the Russians suffered 17KIA. Even the claims about logistics, where they were supposed to be struggling, armchair warlord has a good thread on the scale of what they’re moving just to feed the artillery.
Like almost anything reported in media, it’s all rubbish.
Yesterday, Top Ender mentioned wandering through Tullamarine Airport maskless, and with no wankers accosting him.
I’m en route to the airport, bound for a reunion. I will run the same experiment and see what happens.
Exactly what I see here Cassie.
‘Climate Action now’ on so many of the upper middle houses in the upper middle suburbs.
Even in the window of the Carlton wine bar on Alexander Parade where one goes to get one’s carefully curated local and international beverages.
Climate conscious is never having to worry about paying your electricity bill.
I did the same a couple of weeks ago at Tullamarine, when I picked up offspring, not a peep.
S-217622 – Japan’s Oral COVID-19 Drug Under Review for Approval
Shionogi’s Ensitrelvir (S-217622) is an oral pill with 3CL/Mpro inhibitor mechanism. It is under review in Japan for COVID-19 management. Let’s review its trial results/reports.
Drbeen Medical Lectures
Yes, they’re like some species of demented rodents. Her gormless mug is plastered up wherever you go and,if that wasn’t bad enough the sad sack supporters are everywhere around here(lower Northern Beaches).
Some time ago and, in all seriousness one of the neighbours told me that-
‘Zali’s doing great things!’
With a certain amount of sarcasm I asked-
‘What in particular?’
‘Getting groups together to teach them composting! ‘
Composting, I shit you not.
Mr Vanderluen is having a good day today, when he hits his stride he is very good.
Noted In Passing: Galileo, the Finger. Galileo’s preserved middle finger of the right hand, as per a religious relic mounted under glass. Captioned as “Some people always have to have the last word.”
On the issue of Amazon wanting to fix Matt Walsh’s books.
WokeProg Report:The Syphilis Spirochetes have reached their brain.
Russia has launched a hunt for British SAS forces allegedly fighting in western Ukraine. Kremlin’s Investigative Committee will look into “the facts of the activities of British SAS saboteurs in Ukrainian regions”. Russian President Putin’s forces are searching for at least two SAS squads that may have been deployed to Lviv. The Kremlin’s investigation is based on alleged revelations made by captured Ukrainian soldiers.
This too. I’m open to the claim that they had some problems with personnel in logistics who might have been green and cocked-up resupply to some extent, but as Bluey says, RUS artillery is operating day and night along what must now be close to a 1000km front from Kherson to Kharkov. The details from ArmchairWorld’s thread. I think they are doing OK, logistically.
dover0beachsays:
April 28, 2022 at 12:10 pm
Old Ozzie, I was teasing.
S’OK – Wife says I am a bit slow in recognising Sarcasm
Next time you see her, tell her composting produces methane which has a “global warming potential” (“GWP” for the initiated) 28-36 times that of carbon dioxide. That should shut her up.
Anyone seen the billboard featuring that vacuous Tink bimbecile above the corner of Falcon St and the Pacific Hwy, Crows Nest?
Had the misfortune to see it the other night driving home from the Wolf Alice gig.
Ginourmous is an understatement. No need to bother asking who’s bankrolling her “campaign”.
If the Russians find British squads in Ukraine, this is an act of war.
I was borne in Britain, and although I’ve never been big on patriotism, I’m currently feeling more sympathy for Putin than BoJo. Not that it’s much, they’re both shits. But BoJo is marginally shittier.
Harlequin
Some time ago and, in all seriousness one of the neighbours told me that-
‘Zali’s doing great things!’
With a certain amount of sarcasm I asked-
‘What in particular?’
‘Getting groups together to teach them composting! ‘
Composting, I shit you not.
There are multitudinous books in bookshops and libraries and magazines in newsagents that can be read on this subject (assuming that your neighbour is at least vaguely literate).
Exactly how is that Lawryesque hypocrite gong to achieve this? As the writer of the Quadrant piece noticed, that part of Sydney already has an extremely pleasant climate.
These people are too stupid to even warrant being noticed, yet given their overweening smugnorance it’s effectively impossible to do so (the Tink billboard and Steggles’ demented drones being classic examples).
Anyway, those ruinable gravy trains aren’t going to ride themselves, as we’re about to discover over the next three and a bit years.
“going to” …
This report is from overnight.
U.S. intel helped Ukraine protect air defenses, shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds of troops (28 Apr)
Names not given for security reasons, but the journo obviously knows who they were who told him on the record. You can believe what you like but the report strongly implies that the US defense establishment do themselves think at least one transport was shot down. Since the Kiev sector has now been finished with by both sides I don’t see why they would fake it this long afterwards, normally they’d just stop talking about it (like the amazingly reincarnated Snake Is guys).
A farewell to Sharma by Cassie up.
Shionogi’s Ensitrelvir (S-217622)
an anagram of Shionogi Ensitrelvir is…
O – S O – I V E R N E G T I N – S H I R L I
Say it like shorty in Breakfast at Tiffany’s-
Ah, So! Ivermectin, surely!
A sad reflection on the voters here in Warringah, there are many out there like her.
Feelthebern/Zipster:
Unless you have your gold and silver in your possession, it is one Regulation away from being forcibly obtained by the government at a rate of its own choosing.
What happened to Windmills For Warringah?
A few larrikins with some styrofoam turbine props could have a lot of fun with the teal-and-twin-set set.
Zipster,
It’s believable that they would be there.
I understand that elements of the UK SAS were fighting in Afghanistan during the USSR’s occupation.
“From the get-go, we leaned pretty heavily forward in sharing both strategic and actionable intelligence with Ukraine,” a U.S. official briefed on the matter told NBC News. “It’s been impactful both at a tactical and strategic level. There are examples where you could tell a pretty clear story that this made a major difference.”
So with the US bragging & actively supporting/supplying the Ukrainian side how long will it be before Russia retaliates and strikes a US or affiliated target ..
Bruce of N
Since the Kiev sector has now been finished with by both sides I don’t see why they would fake it this long afterwards, normally they’d just stop talking about it (like the amazingly reincarnated Snake Is guys).
Since the Kyiv sector has now been finished with by both sides, finding and displaying the wreckage should be easy. Given the mess an aircraft that size would make when it crashed, the crash site should already have been located on Google Earth.
Activist Pamela Moses will not face a second trial over illegal voting registration accusations, the Shelby County District Attorney announced Friday.
Moses was sentenced to six years by a judge in January, after she was found guilty of making or consenting to false information on an election document.
But that same judge later granted her a new trial, saying information about a previous conviction should not have been considered by the jury, and that a document from probation officials was not disclosed at trial. A trial had been set to start April 25.
Friday, District Attorney Amy Weirich said her office was dismissing the illegal registration case and the violation of probation against Moses “in the interest of judicial economy.”
guess theyll need it when they have to start growing potatoes on the balcony
If the Russians find British squads in Ukraine, this is an act of war.
If this sort of info is being released via the media then we can assume the Russians have been aware for a while .. If they were there they should be gone by now cos Boris couldn’t survive (politically) the propaganda coup any proof would unleash ……
It was about ten years ago that Gerald Celente was preaching loudly about taking possession of the metal and don’t rely on ownership documents, then he lost his money as he didn’t actually hold the metal. Governments can take it, crooked dealers can take it, and you will be left with worthless paper.
Observing whiteness in introductory physics: A case study
3. Whiteboards
Entangled with the above is the use of whiteboards as a primary pedagogical tool.
Though whiteboards have been shown to have a number of affordances when they are used as a collaborative tool that all members have access to [88], in this episode, they also play a role in reconstituting whiteness as social organization.
In particular, whiteboards display written information for public consumption; they draw attention to themselves and in this case support the centering of an abstract representation and the person standing next to it, presenting.
They collaborate with white organizational culture [89], where ideas and experiences gain value (become more central) when written down.
End of the All-Male, All-White Cockpit
Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, April 23, 2022
S-217622 – Japan’s Oral COVID-19 Drug Under Review for Approval
I was in contact yesterday with a counterpart in Japan who now works for Fender(!). He couldn’t believe what had happened. We did a lot of work together helping PAJ become more aligned with the international standards for aircraft refuelling equipment.
A lot of it consisted of “what the heck does this mean?!”, me taking a photo of an example and sending an explanation, “oh, is that all”.
He really did an amazing job. He invited me to his house to have dinner and to meet his family, a great honour. He also organised a trip to a sword shop after he found out I had an interest in them. Great sense of humour to, we tried to get him and his mate to climb into a Mitsubishi tank in Saipan with their hard hats on, then he realised that it would give us a great piss-take photo so he told us to get stuffed!
Musk slams Twitter censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story
fox
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/liberal-party-attack-ad-therapeutic-albanese-as-dan-andrews-little-puppet.html
Light humor or the real thing?
This signals a notable message about the folk in Warringah.
In almost any other electorate the people don’t need someone on $200,000+ per annum to show them how to throw their potato peels & lawn clippings onto the garden.
Former US President Donald Trump says the world is going to be “blown to pieces” if America doesn’t get some “smart leadership”.
piers
Donald Trump: Angela Merkel’s reputation ‘should be shattered’
piers
The performing teals are being given acres of airtime on their ABCcess.
Apparently speculating on possible votes for a brand new political party/independents bankrolled by daddy carbonbucks gets you near equal airtime with both the majors.
Evidence: driving all day yesterday with bugger all else to listen to.
Also: of interest to Lizzie.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-28/homebuyers-flip-ageing-church-into-home-and-are-mortgage-free/100996892
It’s a very traditional activity in such circles.
Happy National Compost Your Girlfriend Day (23 Apr, via Instapundit)
🙂
Just a Reminder – The Shift Change
THE GEEK IN PICTURES: WAGES OF WOKERY EDITION
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has thrown her support behind the Labor Party, pushing its supporters to preference Labor ahead of the Liberal Party in certain marginal seats.
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Twitter schaden-boner update.
Still no signs of abating.
Have a small hint as to why the NDIS might be blowing out a bit.
Lady tells me shes on disability pension (and subsequent NDIS).
Cause of disability.
Traumatic stress disorder.
Cause of traumatic stress.
Menopause.
If they are granting disability for effectively ‘getting older’ we are so rooted.
I don’t understand the righteous anger angle and huffing about ‘Acts of War’ at allegations of perfidious NATOist saboteurs running about.
For the last 8 years, it was patently obvious that the Donbass insurgencies were being run, directed, supplied and even manned in some instances by Russian line troops, militiamen and Spetsnaz. In the absence of a formal Russian declaration of war on Ukraine on the rebels’ behalf at the time.
The terrible unintended consequences of the Biden presidency (unless they were intended)
From the moment Donald Trump rode down that escalator, the American left began its campaign to destroy the man and prevent him from being elected. Leftists’ efforts included falsifying a fraudulent banking scheme, wiretapping his phones, and the fabrication of the Russia hoax. Despite all their devious and illegal plans, to their horror, Trump won the election, so they doubled down, determined to drive him from office.
For nearly three years, with the aid of the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA, they sought to make absolutely certain he could not be re-elected. The Clintons, the Obamas, and their activist worker bees in and out of Congress worked tirelessly to destroy Donald Trump. For four years, Marc Elias traveled state to state to get election laws changed to facilitate the cheating they planned. Nancy Pelosi let the cat out of the bag when she said, “I feel very confident that Joe Biden will be elected president on Tuesday. Whatever the end count is on the election that occurs on Tuesday, he will be elected, on January 20th he will be inaugurated President
She knew the fix was in. David Bossie’s film Rigged lays out how Mark Zuckerberg funneled at least $400 million into numerous states for the drop boxes that, as Dinesh D’Souza’s film 2000 Mules will show, were used to submit false ballots by the thousands.
Thanks to investigative journalists Peter Schweizer and Miranda Devine, we know that Biden and his son Hunter are congenitally corrupt and virtually owned by the Communist Party of China. They also used Ukr@ine as a financial playground, as did the Clintons.
Donald Trump was the best president in modern American history. If he were still in office, if the election had not been fraudulent, we would still be energy independent. He would have ended the lockdowns and the mask and vaccine mandates, and the economy would have begun recovering much sooner. The southern border would be secure. There would be no war between Russia and Ukr@ine.
When Obama came to office, he liked to think he was elected to manage our decline. It was Obama who weaponized the FBI, the CIA and the DOJ. Obama hated America; he set back race relations at least fifty years.
Can all this damage done be chalked up to stupidity and incompetence, or is it by design? Is the Biden administration being run by his handlers in China and the arms dealers here who need war to line their pockets?
Does anyone know?
texas!
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Civil rights attorney Harmeet Dhillon shared with ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ how Elon Musk can solve Twitter’s free-speech problem.
#FoxNews #TuckerCarlson
Um, is a shared toilet stall running out of paper a genuine reason?
Is Kamela Harris sicker than admitted?
Watch act 1 of the Hillary Succession to the Presidency commence.
Act 2 will be Kamala doing a frog imitation, followed by
Act 3 Hillary becoming VP.
Act 4 will be Bidens Life Insurance Policy being cancelled.
I suspect if you turn over a rock in Kiev right now all sorts of “security services contractors” would scuttle out from under it. It’d be a feast time for them.
PMC wiki
If they are granting disability for effectively ‘getting older’ we are so rooted.
They grant the rorters for anything if your ethnicity is of the right sort .. I live in a houso street with 90% of the adults (around 60 in total) on the rorters .. only one person has a visible disability that would, obviously, affect working (wheelchair bound) .. I’ve been told by several boatfolk (over the years) here that they were told (on arrival) that they would have to get by on the dole for several months before they could be transferred onto the, higher paying, rorters cos it would annoy other folk if it were dun straight away ..
There’s a blog I read occasionally who spent about 10 years doing that stuff, mainly Iraq, who had an extensive post about there’s no advertisements anywhere he knows of that’s even hinting at PMC jobs in Ukraine. Doesn’t mean there aren’t, but it does make me lean toward it being “PMC’s”.
Russia Stops Gas Supplies to Poland and Bulgaria Amid Ongoing Ukraine Battle
April 27, 2022 | Sundance
Maybe they’ll give Kamala Remdesivir to bump her off.
all of the above, the interests substantially overlap
I dunno, Zipster.
Lots of folks moving there. Including many unreconstructed California Democrats bringing their ingrained ideological dysfunctions, social neuroses and rusted-on voting patterns with them.
Why not somewhere truly neutral (i.e. in the Middle of America), scenic and could do with the infrastructure boost?
Somewhere like a midsize to reasonably large town in Indiana, Idaho, Montana or Wyoming?
Arizona, even?
(Pick your Reddest County and go! 😀 )
Bruce of Newcastle says:
April 28, 2022 at 2:31 pm
100%. And all contractors so there is no direct involvement of an outside nation Plausible deniability if you like.
The report of British SAS previously on the ground in Ukraine may/may not be true but if so, they may well have been ex-SAS rather than serving soldiers as that would be an enormous risk to the UK if one or more were captured.
Alternatively, it may have been false information so Russia expended time/effort. Wouldn’t be too hard to seed the UKR troops with stories of British SAS in country in the knowledge that some UKR will eventually be captured and subsequently release info to the Russians.
A mind game, perhaps.
Corporations and NGOs already brought their quietly contracted security staff in?
Even the UN and its Quangos have their own internal bids and preferred operations.
And has anybody heard of the Wagner Group operating in Ukraine, yet?
Must be some sort of campaign happening. There was a parade of specials in town today with defend our NDIS banners. Chanting, but with speech impediments. Not laughing.
That pseuduephedrine isn’t going to import itself.
Feeling is mutual.
Texas Gov. Abbott Invites Elon Musk To Bring Twitter To Texas Alongside Tesla, SpaceX (27 Apr)
Rex Anger says:
April 28, 2022 at 2:55 pm
And has anybody heard of the Wagner Group operating in Ukraine, yet?
Yes, but only allegations. Wagner deny it (of course) and no proof offered up by those making the allegations (of course).
I think your earlier comment: Corporations and NGOs already brought their quietly contracted security staff in is likely spot on the money.
A mind game, perhaps.
Might be harder than at first look. I’d say both sides have good humint on the ground.
The Twitter algorithms will be interesting. A look under the bonnet of the Deep State.
I’d start by plastering the coastline – South Head through to Clovelly – with windmills.
They should go nicely with the sculptures by the sea, and that’s where the most reliable breeze in Sydney is.
Nobody does legalised corruption quite as well as Oz (OK, maybe the US).
I should have added various nations’ government consulates and embassies to that list also, Speedbox.
Not everyone has detachments of uniformed troops at their sites, a la tje US Marines.
DFAT, for example predominantly contracts its security staff- It was PMCs at the Australian High Commission in Nairobi who tagged the first Somali terrorist as he ran past the locked front gate of the compound on his way to enact murder and bloody mayhem at the DusitD2 shopping centre in 2019…
duncanm says:
April 28, 2022 at 3:07 pm
“Let’s create a better climate for Wankworth”
I’d start by plastering the coastline – South Head through to Clovelly – with windmills.
They should go nicely with the sculptures by the sea, and that’s where the most reliable breeze in Sydney is.
Better idea, give it back to the Aboriginals, and pay no compensation to the current residents. Move people from central Australia and resettle them.
Hopefully only the good ones.
Those overgrown desk fans that catch fire randomly, maim birds and are utterly useless for power generation outside a very narrow ‘Goldilocks Band’ of wind speed and direction are a Hague-worthy offence…
Elon Musk sitting back & having allegations of a threesome with Amber Heard & Cara Delevingne aired is a major flex.
Oh please don’t read out the text messages in court.
Ol’ Elon “Br’er Rabbit” Musk.
So manly he straightened out an avowed lesbian and rendered a vicious spitfire sane and stable?
Is there anything this man cannot do?!*
(* Aside from run for POTUS, of course. Not native-born…)
I was once a “rep” on a Redevelop Subiaco working group. We got in some local indigens and asked them how to indigefy the place up a bit to recognise history.
Well there were songlines, stories, art works, sorry memorial etc…
My suggestion that these measures simply weren’t enough was very warmly welcomed. My 2nd suggestions that 50% of apartments to be built in the area be allocated to indigens wasn’t so warmly welcomed…(I wasn’t invited back either).
Musk is a role model for other African Americans to follow.
Hanson has just put out a press release saying she’s only targeting left leaning Liberals. Said she’s happy to work with most of the Nats.
Fuck me, you can’t win!… Apple and Google (read Stalin and Goebbels) are threatening to take Twitter off the app store.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/26/musk-twitter-free-speech-00027748
The SFLs will be wiped out in Warringah, just as they have been in WA,SA & Victoriastan. They deserve it and I couldn’t care less. The Liars will be a disaster as usual.
Not recommended. Most domestic compost will not reach temperatures to kill pathogens.
An enterprising campaigner would have a host of large “Let Them Eat Cake” stickers for an extra adornment. Applied late in the evening. So much more up market than a spray paint daub.
When are we starting Election Bingo Dover?
Oh, and greetings from Erldunda Roadhouse. Right smack bang in the middle of Australia.
The recent rains have greened up everything. A pleasure to drive through.
Photos or it never happened.
Who used to collect that? Carpe Jugulum, I think. You know what to do.
Names not given for security reasons, but the journo obviously knows who they were who told him on the record.
Because journo’s are sooo honest.
Victoria stands down 420 public school teachers over vaccine mandates, the Guardian
Ok ok ok…. 😛
Who wants to get started, tell me:
-Which party gets how many seats. I’ll keep a running tally but let me know if I miss you.
GO!
I think this is exaggerated. I’m keen on getting an historical account of the First Donbass War. Seems from what I’ve already gathered a largely homegrown affair, which isn’t to say that there was insignificant involvement from RUS, but the leaders and most of the fighters were largely local, often UKR army that switched sides, and they used whatever equipment they managed to gather from UKR armories or source themselves.
(And once your count is locked in, you canna change it captain).
I’ll go first…
-Lysander: 80 seats for ALP.
180 pre-existing from last year, 240 for no booster.
Climate Action now’ on so many of the upper middle houses in the upper middle suburbs.
I wonder why no one is pointing out the hypocrisy of Labor over their “climate” policy(s) cos I can assure folks that out here in south west Sydney (rusted on Labor seats) no one is talking/thinking “climate” .. out here it is, the same as usual who’s-offering-the-most-enticing-freebies .. (sadly for BRADBURY his $250 will be both spent & forgotten by May 21 .. LOL!).. lotza folk liking UAP & Pauline but know they aren’t gonna be in a position to give anything away sooooo …!
Labor is playing the “climate” game in the media to, hopefully, sway folk in “middle” marginal seats cos they ain’t doing it in south west Sydney .. then again. other than the occasional & pointless swipe at KK out here (she will have no problems getting in .. that’s why FOWLER was selected .. LOL!) outside of the media there is little mention of an election .. even the corflute & bill posters mob(s) are scarce ……
The only electoral interest really is who is gonna be most on the noze, come the day .. BRADBURY or AnAl ..!
and whoever wins can have my hand drawn drawing of ALP Vic HQ that is signed by Joan Kirner, Bracks and Jon Cain (I can’t seem to give it away so this might be good chance…).
Victoria stands down 420 public school teachers over vaccine mandates, the Guardian
What about the other 2 580 the media has, confidently, been forecasting?
No words.
The Uncomfortable Truth Behind Economic Inequality | Jordan Peterson & Glenn Loury
Liberals 75 for me.
and whoever wins can have my hand drawn drawing of ALP Vic HQ that is signed by Joan Kirner, Bracks and Jon Cain (I can’t seem to give it away so this might be good chance…).
Swoon …….!
methinx, sadly, UAP/PHON won’t make it soooo BRADBURY with 86 ……… but hopefully, the pair, between them, will pick up several Senate seats to make things interesting …..
I don’t ask much! … soooo .. pleeze GOD .. fill up lotza Senate boxes ! ..
Thanks Rosie. So far we have:
-Lysander: 80 seats for Labor,
-Rosie: 75 seats for Libs.
Monique Ryan’s slogan is that” the climate in Kooyong is changing”
Could it be more vacuous?
-Lysander: 80 seats for Labor,
-Rosie: 75 seats for Libs.
-Shatterz: 86 seats for “Bradbury”
from what’s been reported they mostly play advisory role to troops in the field
The Russian Army’s 53rd Anti Aircraft Brigade may respectfully beg to differ.
Ditto the quite nasty folks operating in the Rusich Neo-Nazi militia from St Petersburg.
And the Russian Army’s 200th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade in Luhansk in 2014.
At smh.com.au it’s big news that the LNP is directing prefs to PHON in QLD.
But it isn’t news that PHON will be directing prefs to the ALP in a range of lower house seats.
Sounds more like Election Sweepstakes than Election Lotto.
Election Lotto will be a 5 x 5 square chart, with pithy predictions like
“Jacqui Lambie calls someone a dog”,
“Crabb throws to Turnbull”
“Star candidate quits UAP”
“Bitter concession speech retracted”
” ‘Teal Wave’ ”
etc etc.
Your predictions below please Cats. The funniest will make my chart, with shots of hard liquor to be placed upon, to be downed by their sponsor when and if they actually occur on my non-denominational election night pissup.
Bern, PHON clarified that this arvo. They are preferencing Labor over Liberal “lite” candidates only.
I had no idea I was a walking time bomb ..
makes me feel more awesome than usual! .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/gwfQJLt
Wally, here’s my prediction.
Someone with a profile like Kyle or Jackie will as ScoMo did he really shit his pants at a Cronulla Macca’s (as per the urban legend).
LEAKED RAW AUDIO: Full Twitter All-Hands Call 04-25-22
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Umm….
AnAl will get down on his knees the night before the polls open, and publicly beg Australia to vote for him cos he’s been really patient and honest and it’s his turn and we all know it.
Really, that’s all I’ve got. The whole shitshow has been to egregious I’ve more or less completely tuned out.
For anyone interested in Russian thinking. One February and one April 2022
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-transcript-vladimir-putin-s-televised-address-to-russia-on-ukraine-feb-24
https://thesaker.is/president-putin-and-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-meeting/
ABC to remain curiously unalarmed by the prevalence of “dark money’ funding the “Performing teals”
(Picture of clapping Teals)
Wanna buy a piece of a shot down Su-34?
Here’s a Fun Way You Can Stick It to Putin (27 Apr)
It doesn’t say if you can choose a bit of an Il-76 instead though. Maybe for that you have to ask American officials.
Elbow to be ambushed by the Chaser Boys with a mobile rub ‘n tug shop manned (newhalfed?/Ladyboyed?) by one of his old “masseuses”.
Scomo to be endorsed by the church of Satan
ABC compere to announce its a great win for US- erm I mean LABOUR at some stage in the broadcast.
We had blackboards when I went to school, the teacher used to write on them with white chalk. I never saw blackboards as “reconstituting blackness as social organization,” maybe I wasn’t paying attention during class.
Zipster:
I wonder if they are like the oil filled trenches that Saddam was going to ignite when the US attacked?
Turned out the oil had seeped away months before and the trenches were just a mirage.
Eight thousand of them is a lot of advisors. Less now though.
Nearly 3,000 of Russia’s notorious Wagner mercenary group have been killed in the war, UK MPs told
(22 Apr)
Very dangerous advisory work it seems.
rickw:
Because they are implicated in the corruption is my guess.
The bureaucrats are trying their best to make it fail by blowing the costs out to billy-oh
Peanut Head comes out and says he’s been living a lie. Nominates for Warringah.
the disinformation governance board would be the american “ministry of truth”
Warren Enech seconds Peaut Head’s nomination. Denies rumours and says he has only been pig shooting with Bill … once.
Have nominations for the election closed?
Chortle.
The Beloved had to go out to the car to get a suitcase and on his way ran into a fellow who had just moved in to the next door unit. A second take, the Beloved said to him, “You look familiar – I think I know you. Are you from xxx?”.
“No. I’m from Tasmania. I’m probably familiar because I headed up the Greens.”.
Bob Brown.
The Beloved, unfazed, shook his hand and remarked, “Well, at least you know who you’ll be voting for”.
😀
Here’s another bloke who finds he’s no longer in Twitter jail.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2022/04/27/twitter-we-knew-the-game-was-rigged-but-damn/
I forgot to add the Pelosi Monster is going to be the wild card.
I forgot to add the Pelosi Monster is going to be the wild card.
Add in Dr Jill to the reckoning.
Keep an eye on Bob Brown. Don’t forget to report him to the strata company if you see his Tesla in a visitor’s bay.