Colonel, the problem with your stats is that they are anything but clear.
Quoting:
Six people aged under 65 years died with COVID-19. Of these, one was unvaccinated, one had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, three had received two doses and one had received three doses. All had significant underlying health conditions that increase the risk of severe disease from COVID-19.
• Reported deaths were classified as COVID-19 deaths if they met the surveillance definition in the
Communicable Diseases Network of Australia’s COVID-19 National Guidelines for Public Heath Units. Under this definition, deaths are considered COVID-19 deaths for surveillance purposes if the person died with COVID-19, not necessarily because COVID-19 was the cause of death. Deaths may be excluded if there was a clear alternative cause of death that was unrelated to COVID-19 (e.g. major trauma).
You would be hard put to suggest any of these actually died merely because of Covid.
There is no study of the danger of death from vaccine in this report – they are not looking for this at all.
I think that the safest deduction is the Omicron has reduced any real danger to background levels that we were all once quite comfortable with. So it is essentially virus porn now.
And it is very safe to say the long term effects of the vaccines are entirely unknown.
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It’s funny Lysander.
Dad’s family had a few St Pats & Marist Strathfield types but my GF was a chippy by trade. GM a seamstress but they sacrificed. My mums family not so lucky, none of them had private school education and yea I spent a bit of time in places like Green Valley, Bradbury, Campbelltown and Airds as a kid visiting relatives. Some of my cousins from said areas now own their own companies and are the salt of the earth. Sorry if I ramble but I smell BS every time these clowns pull the disadvantaged background.
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Oh God.
you rang?
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I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
She must be in Sussex Street sub basement five.
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but they only looked at her passport and didn’t request any supporting docs like covid certificate thing etc. Just went through.
My guess is they did the proper checks a couple of times. Created the mother of all paperwork and diplomatic messes. Let’s just stay in our lane and just do what we did before.
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I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
Plotting the traditional Aussie/ Albanian revenge, shoving two concrete eagles up his arse.
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My guess is they did the proper checks a couple of times.
It could be that they’re trusting electronic confo from the Aussies when she left.. perhaps, and do spot sampling to confirm compliance.
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Tebbutt is CEO of some mental health qango. She dumps, she goes.
It’s the Labor Way.
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25% of people who died with Covid in NSW hospitals in mid April were unvaccinated.remembering this includes people too sick or with significant medical conditions which meant they couldnt get a vaccination as well.
Doesnt change the main core issue.
People have been forced to undergo a medical procedure under directions from a government using emergency powers to make it legal.
That they ‘second handed” the enforcement to businesses is irrelevant.
That they violated one of the most basic tenets of medicine – no treatment without consent- is entirely the issue for me.
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The Irish gay midget who also happens to be the very best airline CEO in the world is ordering up big from Airbus and it looks like he’s shunning Boeing. Qantas has put in a huge order with Airbus focused around the Dreamliner competitor – Airbus’s A350-1000 . It’s supposed to be a great aircraft. Has anyone flown on one?
Tebbutt is CEO of some mental health qango. She dumps, she goes.
It’s the Labor Way.
She understands that. You won’t hear a peep out of her. See also: mafia wife.
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Ed-Mong engages in some casual abuse of Supreme court justices as a group.
That is what you meant Ed, or should I say HITLER.
It’s normal behaviour for that group.
Yeah, there are exceptions, but pour a coupla drinks into Clarence Thomas and see what happens next.
The Ed-Mong loves slipping casual little “ooh right wing nastyism” in and hoping it will slide through as people get sick of its vacuous vaporings and ignore it.
Dover this dickhead is seeding the blog with its troll pats ready for a 7:30 report exclusive on ‘the racist blog’…
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People have been forced to undergo a medical procedure under directions from a government using emergency powers to make it legal.
That they ‘second handed” the enforcement to businesses is irrelevant.
That they violated one of the most basic tenets of medicine – no treatment without consent- is entirely the issue for me.
the intersection of big government and big money has an uncanny resemblance to old school fascism.
all it took was a small orchestrated video campaign to trigger the total collapse of reason and sanity amongst our political class. and expose them for what they are, not just completely fucking useless, but outright dangerous to the entire edifice of western civilisation
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Qantas has put in a huge order with Airbus focused around the Dreamliner competitor – Airbus’s A350-1000 .
Got the same e-mail. Interesting. As much as Boeing has it’s issues I still have reservations about Airbus computers overriding pilots. Read QF72 recently and know of other incidents where the computer did something unexpected in Airbus planes. Fortunately those have been very small in number and Boeing seemed to have dropped the ball totally with the B787 battery issues & B737 Max.
IMO though the B787 is a good aircraft, passenger comfort wise anyway. I have flown in them a few times and they seem to have sorted the batteries catching fire.
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local oaf says: May 2, 2022 at 5:09 pm
I have some doubts about any statistics from a Govt which has previously inflated covid death numbers by deliberately including deaths with covid as well as from covid.
Yep, absolutely.
Brian says: May 2, 2022 at 5:26 pm
You would be hard put to suggest any of these actually died merely because of Covid.
Yes, absolutely. And to make that distinction in cause of death has never been standard practice, because whatever illness showed up in the last 5 minutes of life and finished off an already sickly person is what will be listed as the singular cause of death, and every other co-mobidity will be listed as just that. I think that’s kinda misleading too, but it is the standard.
There is no study of the danger of death from vaccine in this report – they are not looking for this at all.
That conclusion is a non-sequitur, it does not follow that because they are not looking for dangers of vaccines that therefore there isn’t any in the NSW Health report. There is some evidence of the non-danger of death from the vaccine in that report, which is the way the vaccinated are dying in ICUs at a rate less than the vaccination rate of the general population. Comparing 75% deadies to the 90% vaccination rate of the State, you could not conclude that 83% of jabbed people die from it because that would imply *millions* of deaths in NSW alone, which obviously did not happen. You might like to speculate what % of jabs will kill the jabbee and spread over what timeframe in order for your predicted rate of jab deaths to be compatible with the known fatalities in that report.
As shady and suspicious as the source of figures may be, surely you must admit that debating with figures is a huge upgrade from arguing with elephant pictures.
You can’t work if you can’t enter the premises, and you can’t enter unless… you know.
If there were any exemptions to the blanket rule (and there were, otherwise the Great State of Queensland would have collapsed) and folks could still go to work, albeit stabbed, then Struth’s ambit that everyone was ordered to ‘give up’ their jobs as a blanket order everywhere in Australia is utterly false.
Points and much respect to you for daring to check, where Struth can only escalate… 🙂
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Reality must yield – my latest on health now military experts in the media.
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My el cheapo parking has gone up from $20 a day to $24.
Inflation me dead.
What’s ScoMo doing for us battlers, eh?
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I seem to remember reading that one of the early Dutch/British/French accounts of landing in Australia mentioned the superabundance of flies.
In my experience the introduction of dung beetles seems to have had little effect on the fly population.
Hence the most plausible theory is that the little bastards are in fact immortal.
So-called “political correctness”? I am all for it.
And yes, of course, various commentators like to endlessly rant about the ills of “PC” and being “woke”, shrieking against a concept that is no more complicated than insisting we should all treat each other with respect*. All of that, however, is just a bonus, something guaranteed to provide great amusement on an otherwise dull day. Give me a dollar for every time a dinosaur with no clue the world has changed rants that something is “political correctness gone mad” and the Milky Bars will be on me forever more!
Just very occasionally, however, the worthy advocates of PC really do go a bit too far. A case in point happened last week when ministers and chiefs of staff of the NSW government were obliged to do a two-and-a-half course entitled “Respect at Work”. While much of the course made sense – don’t get drunk, don’t yell at people, always try to allow for cultural differences in your staff, don’t presume genders or sexualities**, etc – the consultant delivering the course lost a lot of them, including the premier, when she warned against the use of the word “mate”.
* Or be sacked, imprisoned, fined or run through a kangaroo court human rights mob
** hear that, thats the sound of an overton window shifting. Put in 2 things which are unremarkable and add a bit of crazy shit on the end as though they are the same.
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The Russian military sounds tops.
The Russian military = the Russian Harvey Norman of used used home appliances. FMD
When Russian tanks were shelling the nuclear core at the Zaporozhskaya power plant with live rounds, not all of the shells exploded because they were too old and decrepit. This story, told to me by Piotr Kotin, head of the company that owns the plant, is a metaphor for Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
The current Russian army is a replica of Joseph Stalin’s Red Army, designed to saturate minefields with bodies. During World War II, while U.S. generals were parachuting onto battlefields with their troops and sharing their hardships, Soviet generals stayed far from the front and sent wave after wave of doomed conscripts against impregnable defenses. So it is no surprise that their successors asked troops under their command to dig trenches in the highly radioactive soil of Chernobyl and sent units into the meat grinder of Chornobaivka.
The incompetent and corrupt Russian army blundered into this war. Soldiers picked the wrong roads. Broken tanks littered the thoroughfares well before contact with the enemy: mired in mud, out of fuel and, above all, lost. In the 21st century, with satellites dotting the sky, the Russian army was using outdated Soviet paper charts with towns that had changed names and roads that no longer existed.
Why weren’t Russian troops using the Global Positioning System or its Russian counterpart, Glonass? It seems, among other things, that the Russian army fell victim to its own propaganda. Before the war, Mr. Putin had been fascinated with the acquisition of new weapons. Among the most important were electronic countermeasures, or ECM. They were supposed to be a game-changer that could be used to black out GPS, disrupt communications, and take over drones or deliberately crash them into the ground.
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ECM units were indeed marching with all Russian columns as they entered Ukraine. But they didn’t work as planned. Instead of knocking Turkish drones out of the skies, the ECM units blacked out all communications, including the Russian army’s. “This is the problem of ECM. It either isn’t working, or, when it’s working, it’s wrecking your side much more than the enemy’s,” says Victor Kevluk, a military expert with Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies.
The Russian army blinded itself on foreign land, while the Ukrainians knew their way in the dark. So instead of relying on new technology, the Russians turned to an old tactic: mass terror. Russian soldiers raped Ukrainian women and executed Ukrainian men. Mariupol is being razed to the ground. Former Ukrainian General Staff Col. Oleg Zhdanov vividly described to me in an interview how, in Berezovka, “the dug-in tanks made a shooting range with fleeing civilian cars as targets.”
The mass terror was the direct consequence of mass lying, for it is easier to expend ammunition on a bunch of fleeing civilians than to engage a real military target. Even the looting has become organized. Ruslan Leviev, founder of the open-source-based Conflict Intelligence Team, claimed in an interview that soldiers are driving stolen cars laden with loot to Russia to sell them on improvised markets, and they pay part of the proceeds to their officers.
This is truly amazing. A modern army doesn’t loot. It is doubtful that the same army that left Bucha toting trophy dishwashers will be able to regroup swiftly to fight in the Donbas.
How did Mr. Putin think he could win this war? The answer has to do with state delusion. It is easy to mistake Russia for a military state. It isn’t. It’s true that the Russian state is run by siloviki (roughly translated as “the enforcers”), but those strongmen are from the Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, not the army.
Mr. Putin, himself a former KGB officer, has long been highly suspicious of a possible army coup. The incompetence of the Russian military is at least partly intentional—designed to reinforce that the FSB, not the army, was in charge of running Russian society. The FSB and its political allies told Mr. Putin what he wanted to hear: namely, that Russia had an extensive network of sympathizers in Ukraine who would hand the country to him on a platter. A state with this level of incompetence and delusion simply wouldn’t have survived in the 19th century.
Things are different today. Sanctions are much preferred to direct fighting. And while economic sanctions can isolate a rogue regime, they can’t crush it. Mr. Putin has gotten many things wrong in his current war, but he did get one thing right. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization won’t go to war over Ukraine. And this is perhaps the biggest reason why he must be crushed. If not, more Vladimir Putins will follow, including those with a much firmer grip on reality.
Ms. Latynina was a journalist with Echo of Moscow and Novaya Gazeta, Russian press outlets that have been shut down during Russia’s war with Ukraine.
WSJ
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I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
If I was in her shoes (yurk), I would have – in the right circles – loudly indicated that numerous ‘tell-alls’ would be made available in print, on the teev and on various other electronic forums.
Then I would have calculated the earning from all those interviews, multiplied the end number by seven and demanded all that from Fed Layba HQ – in cash – by X date.
Onya, ex-Mrs Albo. Smoke ’em while ya got ’em.
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Jupes. what do you make of the Russian war. Who’s winning and losing etc?
I’m hardly following it due to the amount of utter bullshit coming out of it. My guess is as good as yours but it seems to me the Russians are kicking arse.
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Mates Thai mrs always complains of Aussie flies, her words they are very sticky and get in nose, face, eyes. Could be something in that we natives don’t notice…
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Former Ukrainian General Staff Col. Oleg Zhdanov vividly described to me in an interview how, in Berezovka, “the dug-in tanks made a shooting range with fleeing civilian cars as targets.”
What?
The civvies watched as tanks were being dug-in (not an easy or quick task), in direct line of sight, and then waited till the job was finished before they decided to flee?
Yeah righto.
It only takes 10% of bullshit to ruin the other 90%.
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Yuri, grab the microwave and the KitchenAid. We’ve loaded up the dishwasher and the washing machine on the back of the truck.
Yuriy, voz’mi mikrovolnovku i KitchenAid. My zagruzili posudomoyechnuyu i stiral’nuyu mashiny v kuzov gruzovika.
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Was still laughing so hard I forgot to blockquote.
Totes whatevs.
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From Dover’s post on the main page:
This is of a piece with the reporting re COVID which was almost universally designed to exaggerate the risk of spread and disease at every turn, except that here the coverage is designed to present RUS’s position as underwhelming and near catastrophe while exaggerating the strength of the UKR’s position even to the extent of widely reporting the most fanciful nonsense (Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, and the like) again and again.
This is why I reckon the Ruskis are winning. The Uke bullshit is just over the top.
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feelthebernsays:
May 2, 2022 at 5:31 pm
I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
She must be in Sussex Street sub basement five.
The Imperial Media has not shown the same level of interest in her (even though she is a prominent ALP “personality”) as they did in the ex Mrs Hewson. Strange.
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JC
Any truth to the rumors the advance was stalled when fighting broke out over a thermomix?
“I’m up shit creek”, says the single mother of four who, in the midst of the pandemic, took out an interest-only variable loan of $510,000 – more than six times her income.
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Maybe the ex Missus Albo gets together with the ex Mrs Burke and the ex Mrs Shorten…and talks about how sweet it would be to be an ex Mrs Hawke or Keating, instead of a frontbencher’s cast-off.
They might even have a bit of a bitch’n’sticth at the salon with ex Mr Gillard. ..
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It must be a nightmare being a dictator. Imagine the risks. Every time someone comes in where you are you’d be wondering if he’s packing. You see one of your praetorian guards who’s obviously packing and you wonder if he’s going to take aim. It really must be a nightmare, but hey at least the money is good.
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Ed Case says:
May 2, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Chris Dawson wasn’t a “Rugby League Star”.
He played a few games for Newtown in 1971, that’s it.
Fact check status – bullshit.
Chris Dawson started playing league for Newtown after “defecting” from rugby one year after you called it. 1972.
He went on to play for the Newtown Jets for 5 years.
He was in Jack Gibson’s 1973 Wills Cup winning squad (although not the game day run-on side) which also won that year’s NSW RL club championship.
Easy to attach the word “star” to that success, longevity, and media attraction with his twin, Paul.
Anyway, the warning shouldn’t just be for the hair. I’d be more concerned with the layers of tatts wandering up and down the insides of both forearms.
Bet she’s got a massive front-of-thigh tatt as well. Hideous.
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“I’m up shit creek”
I bet the mortgagee/insurer is thinking the same thing.
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Warning! hair alert.
The photo of the house captioned as “Tara Higginson built her dream home in Brisbane’s outer suburbs”. Ms Higginson’s imagination exists under an impoverished set of horizons.
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I’d be more concerned with the layers of tatts wandering up and down the insides of both forearms.
Perhaps feathers tattooed onto the back of the upper arms as a playful visual gag on the concept of bingo wings.
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Wow, what a headcase and fiancé Max needs to run the other way. I do say that knowing her past but wow what a nasty piece of work.
That is what you meant Ed, or should I say HITLER.
Hi Cornholio
Stop DeepThroatin’ that bong immediately!
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The tatts are money well spent. Can’t repossess those.
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Imagine getting an interest only loan when your only upfront commitment was $20,000 out of your super account.
Most likely a bank complaint for giving the loan in the first place will get someone off the hook.
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She could sell one of the kids to the circus, they still offer good money right?
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He went on to play for the Newtown Jets for 5 years.
Not in A Grade though, and Newtown were bottom of the table every year anyway.
So, journeyman, at a stretch, but no star.
Anyway, I hope he walks and sues NewsCorp for a fortune.
Any madman can act out a preferred fantasy, either for attention or for self-gratification. Getting others to go along with that fantasy requires some guile and forethought. Getting an entire culture to accept this fantasy in the place of reality requires something more. It requires a society that is chock-full of sympathetic enablers who are willing to accept as fact what is obviously a fantasy.
Pozsar is saying the world is underestimating the impact of Ukraine’s production of everything being disrupted.
Judging by prices on offer the grain traders aren’t.
Eggs are going up here in the UK, and especially so is chicken meat.
Due to the price of Ukrainian grain on which they are fed.
There is also a shortage of HRT for menopausal women. As with many things medical, there has been a complete back flip on the use of HRT now, and it is said to improve mental agility, dismiss Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases, improve body strength and skin tone etc. I could have told them that. I still use it and take the benefits gratefully. Nothing wrong with looking 60 when you are 80 (more or less).
Just for info here for Struth re my howling whoredom, we decided to stay in the UK for this holiday early on as we have rellies here, and then as a bonus Boris lifted all restrictions. We can’t be bothered travelling elsewhere while the Covid panic has not yet sorted itself out internationally. There’s such a lot to see in the UK anyway.
Hairy’s College friend the other nite is taking in Ukrainian refugees into his large London house, and is collecting funds to send protective gear and ammunition to Poland for transfer by friends to Ukrainian fighters. He showed us pics of his guys in Ukraine wearing his gear. He discussed with us his idea of a media stunt taking a red London bus to Poland to pick up refugees – his wife dissuaded him from carrying out this particular plan. He is an interesting man of many talents though. The sense of that war being much closer here is palpable.
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It’s supposed to be a great aircraft. Has anyone flown on one?
Not on the A350-1000, but on the smaller A350-900 all the way from Melbourne to New York City with Qatar Airways. Qatar has bought up big with the A350, including the -1000 version (19 copies versus 12 for Qantas).
The A350 is a beautiful aeroplane, far better than than the shitbucket Boeing Dreamliner 787 with its narrower seats — about two inches skinnier in economy versus the Airbus.
The new QF non-stops from MEL and SYD to JFK and LHR will be a huge hit with business travellers, saving 2-4 hours each way. The only faster plane is the B747, which can also do the trip weight-restricted, but Boeing has basically given up on because accountants like the 787 better.
Zelensky’s top adviser explains how to manipulate Ukrainians
It works on Aussies, too.
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This week, Donald Trump’s favorite Latino food supplier, Bob Unamue, CEO of Goya Foods, spoke of an impending food shortage that we should all start to see by this summer.
I just brought a rotary tiller for Little Johnny with this in mind. But knowing Klaus I should have brought something horse drawn.
As soon as the oil refinery and the foundry’s finished will be 100% self sufficient with the exception of chip manufacture.
Also, what are they using to decide what killed those people – the PCR test that the CDC admitted couldn’t differentiate between the flu and covid?
Also, are they still showing people in the first two weeks after vaccination as “unvaccinated”, thus including vaccine injuries in the unvaccinated numbers?
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Remarkable bullshit in the face facts.
VIC Chief Health Dissembler Brett Sutton was on ABC radio the other day saying the vaccines “weren’t as good as we would have hoped” but were “extraordinarily good at reducing hospitalisation and death.”
Australia has had over twice the number of deaths this year as for the entire pandemic, despite vaccination rates that are rarely bettered in any other country.
Famed leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky has credited former President Donald Trump for being one of the few prominent statesmen in the West actively pushing for peace in Ukraine as opposed to escalating war with Russia.
Though Chomsky called the former president a dangerous figure for a host of reasons during a recent virtual interview, he did admit that Trump has proposed practical, peaceful solutions to ending the war in Ukraine. Chomsky said:
Well, there is, fortunately, one statesman in the United States and Europe, a high political figure, who has made a very sensible statement about how you can solve the crisis. Namely, by facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe, in which there are no military alliances, but just mutual accommodation.
Move towards negotiations and diplomacy instead of escalating the war. Try to see if we can bring about accommodation, which would be roughly along these lines.
His name is Donald J. Trump
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Hairy’s College friend the other nite is taking in Ukrainian refugees into his large London house, and is collecting funds to send protective gear and ammunition to Poland for transfer by friends to Ukrainian fighters. He showed us pics of his guys in Ukraine wearing his gear.
Wonder what he’ll think when a picture of his Uke buddies turns up committing a war crime “wearing his gear”.
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One very important thing to surface in the WZV debacle is the people who have rushed to the petite fascist train on their way to power.
Instructive, n’est pas?
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Artillery shells not going off? No problem, fire more shells to get the desired number exploding on target. This calculation is also used with ICBM’s. You don’t think that a bunch of ICBM’s fired off after sitting in silos for years, are all going to work do you, considering the love and care that is lavished on launch vehicles which still sometimes fail? Why you also send more than one missile to a target when you really care.
I was introduced to the military way of thinking many years ago when I was a civilian weatherman on a RAAF base. One morning the SAS were going to jump out of a C-130 and this SAS Sergeant kept coming into the office wanting to know if the wind on the ground was going to be more than 12 knots in the jump zone. On the third visit I asked why this mattered, to be told that under 12 knots nearly all the troops landed without injury. So I said what if the wind is 20 knots? “We’ll get 20% ineffectives after landing”. What if you rally have to go anyway? “We’ll put 25% more guys on the plane”.
It all went OK and sime tome later the guy got me a parachute for my glider and taught me how to pack it.
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This is why I reckon the Ruskis are winning. The Uke bullshit is just over the top.
I had a video pop up from a guy who’d done some interesting discussions on air combat. His topic in the video? The Ghost of Kyiv. FMD.
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Tom
I never thought I’d see the day that Airbus would have a better craft than Boeing, but taking your word for it , that day has arrived. Just sad.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
May 2, 2022 at 6:59 pm
Pozsar is saying the world is underestimating the impact of Ukraine’s production of everything being disrupted.
Judging by prices on offer the grain traders aren’t.
Eggs are going up here in the UK, and especially so is chicken meat.
Due to the price of Ukrainian grain on which they are fed.
Back in the 1980s, they were fed (at least partially) on fish meal, and tasted and smelled fishy.
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TFM says:
People have been forced to undergo a medical procedure under directions from a government using emergency powers to make it legal.
That they ‘second handed” the enforcement to businesses is irrelevant.
That they violated one of the most basic tenets of medicine – no treatment without consent- is entirely the issue for me.
Mostly agreed on all points. I would only add that:
* They obtained consent, but this consent was uninformed and not freely given, it was under duress and so inadmissible.
* The enforcement being outsourced to business is somewhat relevant to the deadliness of the vaccine (not only the mandates surrounding its use) because the same fascism that co-opted the private sector to create the segregated society also greased the rails to big pharma profit with a tokenistic no-penalty regulatory approval mechanism.
It has occurred to me that the documentation Pfizer provided was so extensive precisely to dissuade the regulator from actually reading it. The FDA were in a similar position that you and I are in when an installer pops up a 20 page EULA and asks you to read it before deciding to use the software. Probably the regulator clicked “I Agree” for the same reasoning we do.
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Jupes’ reponse reminded me.
Lol , anyone see this. Someone sent it to me awhile back
JC, the Boeing company is now run by accountants in Chicago. Most have only ever been to the company’s factories in Seattle and Charlotte SC on rookie familiarisations. Boeing hasn’t been run by engineers for 20 years. Most Airbus designers work on the floors above the main widebody production line in Toulouse.
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Zip
A barrister dude I know married one. She’s an absolute head turner.
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re: Jupes’
This is why I reckon the Ruskis are winning. The Uke bullshit is just over the top.
The first instance that I rejected was the story of Russia shelling the maternity ward. Must have been a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, accidents happen, but I doubt this even happened at all and Putin didn’t hold on to power all this time by being unable to foresee blowback.
re: RickW’s
Wonder what he’ll think when a picture of his Uke buddies turns up committing a war crime “wearing his gear”.
Uke
Just Do It.
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JC, the Boeing company is now run by accountants in Chicago. Most have only ever been to the company’s factories in Seattle and Charlotte SC on rookie familiarisations
“Airplanes? You mean the company makes airplanes” Rookie Boeing exec on visit to Seattle.
Tom, I read about it’s demise. According to the piece, Boeing went down hill with their takeover of McDonnell Douglas. Boeing took it over, but the Douglas crew to over and began to run things. That crew infected Boeing with all their terrible traits such as only showing concern for accounting tricks and cutting corners. The Boeing dudes were regular engineers of the highest caliber and never stood a chance against that crew.
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Tom
The 310 maybe a better machine ( I don’t know), but the Dreamliner is an excellent plane to travel in too. I’ve never felt so refreshed after traveling on a long flight before I flew in a 787. The pressurization is fabulous and the air is quite humid which actually does (at least for me) reduce the wear and tear from jet lag.
Wifey reckons she didn’t suffer much jet lag recently.
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Thanks, Tom certainly explains the companies decline from designing and building B707 to B767’s to what we have seen lately and sclerotic response with later models problems…
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but the Douglas crew took over
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Boeing is still in my never to sell bucket of investments. Man, it’s really hurt having come down to US$148 from US$381. I bought the thing at around $US45ish when I was putting together the never sell bucket. It’s up from that, but the fall from the top has really hurt.
Yep, that’s the piece Bill. Thanks for remembering and posting the link.
Hard to believe, they had 40,000 engineers at Boeing one time according to the link.
By the time I visited the company—for Fortune, in 2000—that had begun to change. In Condit’s office, overlooking Boeing Field, were 54 white roses to celebrate the day’s closing stock price. The shift had started three years earlier, with Boeing’s “reverse takeover” of McDonnell Douglas—so-called because it was McDonnell executives who perversely ended up in charge of the combined entity, and it was McDonnell’s culture that became ascendant. “McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing’s money,” went the joke around Seattle. Condit was still in charge, yes, and told me to ignore the talk that somebody had “captured” him and was holding him “hostage” in his own office. But Stonecipher was cutting a Dick Cheney–like figure, blasting the company’s engineers as “arrogant” and spouting Harry Trumanisms (“I don’t give ’em hell; I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell”) when they shot back that he was the problem.
When Russian tanks were shelling the nuclear core at the Zaporozhskaya power plant with live rounds, not all of the shells exploded because they were too old and decrepit. This story, told to me by Piotr Kotin, head of the company that owns the plant, is a metaphor for Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
I can’t believe the WSJ would publish this stuff.
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Got the same e-mail. Interesting. As much as Boeing has it’s issues I still have reservations about Airbus computers overriding pilots.
Umm, Rockdoctor, the most recent example of that was the 737 Max.
For what it is worth, I think Airbus is ahead of Boeing in getting the pilot/software balance right.
Tomsays:
May 2, 2022 at 8:04 pm
JC, the Boeing company is now run by accountants in Chicago. Most have only ever been to the company’s factories in Seattle and Charlotte SC on rookie familiarisations. Boeing hasn’t been run by engineers for 20 years. Most Airbus designers work on the floors above the main widebody production line in Toulouse.
The tyranny of generalist “managers”, who believe “managers” can do anything, even in the absence of actual knowledge of the system being “managed”.
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How do you know it’s bullshit?
The reactor core is enclosed in a building and I think below ground.
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dover0beach says:
May 2, 2022 at 8:42 pm
How do you know it’s bullshit?
The reactor core is enclosed in a building and I think below ground.
Presumably the core is housed inside a building/structure, so why would it be unbelievable to think the Russians didn’t hit it with artillery shells?
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Presumably the core is housed inside a building/structure, so why would it be unbelievable to think the Russians didn’t hit it with artillery shells?
Small edit change.
Presumably the core is housed inside a building/structure, so why would it be unbelievable to think the Harvey Normans didn’t hit it with artillery shells?
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Lizzie at 6:59.
Don’t even stray into that area of justifying yourself.
To anybody.
Least of all the bitter bus-driver.
Year seven and eight boys at St Kevin’s College have been caught rating female staff while other boys have been rating the sexual attractiveness of each other’s sisters, a female teacher has revealed.
Because that has never, ever happened before in the entire history of schools.
Both lists were brought to the attention of teachers during the week in March when International Women’s Day was held.
The senior school teacher says she and other female staff “don’t feel safe walking across the school yard” because of the school’s continuing sexist and misogynist culture.
I know this school has become an easy target of late, but this has ‘compo claim’ scrawled all over it.
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The senior school teacher says she and other female staff “don’t feel safe walking across the school yard” because of the school’s continuing sexist and misogynist culture.
KD, I’m guessing she scored very low in the ratings pyramid. 🙂
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KD, I’m guessing she scored very low in the ratings pyramid.
Back it in.
Solid 2.
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The Boeing dudes were regular engineers of the highest caliber and never stood a chance against that crew.
The 747 was probably they’re crowning achievement, the size, the time to design and build it, the safety record.
As an avid reader of Aviation Herald, watcher of Air Crash Investigation & frequent passenger, sorta agree Sancho. Boeing until the Max allowed pilot control to override the computer.
I have sent Bill P’s piece to a mate who is in aviation. Be interesting to see his response as someone I know is Boeing biased but thinks they are dropping the ball of late.
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Presumably the core is housed inside a building/structure, so why would it be unbelievable to think the Russians didn’t hit it with artillery shells?
She said tanks firing at the core. Not artillery firing at building/ structure. This is exactly the trajectory of news reports when the RUS took control of the reactor back in March. First, they were attacking the reactor. Then, the building. Finally, nothing more than small arms fire on the grounds at an admin building.
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JCsays:
May 2, 2022 at 7:48 pm
Tom
I never thought I’d see the day that Airbus would have a better craft than Boeing, but taking your word for it , that day has arrived. Just sad
Honestly JC, Boeing have been playing catch-up for two decades.
Or rather, they should have been, but they kept relying on someone on the top floor in Seattle knowing the likes of Geoff Dixon.
Geoff who?
It all culminated with the 737 Max debacle.
Yeah, 737s are not international long-haul, but that doesn’t matter.
That shit-show tells you everything you need to know about how fucked up the place is.
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It’s still there:
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There’d have to be some putzes dumb enough to keep paying for Bosi’s suits, even now.
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Can’t remember if it was Netflix or Stan but they had a good doco on the Douglas takeover of Boeing. Covered the two different cultures and how the accountants sidelined the engineers. It went into detail about crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
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Artillery or tanks. No biggie
I still don’t see how your comment invalidates the claim in the WSJ.
How many remember DC10’s, I loved those things until the doors started falling off. It was like after the first one they thought it would never happen again. A bit like Australia’s penchant for Royal Commissions. Can anyone tell me one that solved the problem instead of shifting it somewhere else. I reckon the scumbag elite go over every detail to make sure they don’t repeat the same mistakes.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
May 2, 2022 at 8:56 pm
Oh, fuck off. Just. Fuck. Off.
The Hun:
Year seven and eight boys at St Kevin’s College have been caught rating female staff while other boys have been rating the sexual attractiveness of each other’s sisters, a female teacher has revealed.
Exactly. It’s not even not news let alone being unnewsworthy.
It is about as interesting and important as Elbow’s Mum’s Aunt by marriage’s recipe for Tuna Casserole.
Although, I do proffer that the teacher was no Full Muffin Coquette.
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I woked for a company that was taking over another when our MD died of a heart attack and the bastards took us over instead. Went from being a great place to work to crap in about 18 months.
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Tomsays:
May 2, 2022 at 8:04 pm
JC, the Boeing company is now run by accountants in Chicago.
This is true, Tom.
But I think the problems pre-date that (which is also linked to the takeover of MacDonnell Douglas).
I was involved in a fleet upgrade deal in the 1990’s involving a major global airline and two separate divisions of Boeing.
The arse covering and overt hatred between the two divisions of Boeing was something to behold.
A sick organisation.
The momentum of their global monopoly of the 1960’s and 1970’s carried them further than I thought, but they are now definitely second fiddle.
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Woked = worked
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Some of you would have woked that out already.
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Northern Territory Senate candidate Jacinta Price says “we shouldn’t be dividing ourselves along the lines of race” after an Australia-wide campaign called for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Tom, I read about it’s demise. According to the piece, Boeing went down hill with their takeover of McDonnell Douglas. Boeing took it over, but the Douglas crew to over and began to run things. That crew infected Boeing with all their terrible traits such as only showing concern for accounting tricks and cutting corners. The Boeing dudes were regular engineers of the highest caliber and never stood a chance against that crew.
That is a myth JC.
I have had dealings with both companies.
Presenting MD as asset-stripping profiteers who destroyed Boeing is largely bullshit.
Boeing commercial was fat, dumb and happy and should have diverted their DC lobbying money into aircraft development way before the MD takeover.
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Hitler up thread is busy pretending it didn’t just accuse all American blacks of being violent when drunk.
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feelthebern says:
May 2, 2022 at 5:31 pm
I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
She must be in Sussex Street sub basement five.
Carmel Tebbit still appears on the title of his residence and one of his investment properties according to his register of interests.
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Carmel Tebbit still appears on the title of his residence and one of his investment properties
Wonder if his property portfolio seem likely for someone with his salary. Wonder if someone will pry themselves away from shaming 11 year old boys rating teachers for long enough to ask him.
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Rockdoctorsays:
May 2, 2022 at 9:05 pm
As an avid reader of Aviation Herald, watcher of Air Crash Investigation & frequent passenger, sorta agree Sancho. Boeing until the Max allowed pilot control to override the computer
That is my point Rockdoctor.
Airbus have had depth of experience in “computer assist” and, yes, mistakes have been made.
But the 737 Max thing was an epic failure.
I still struggle to believe that they would introduce that level of computer control in the flight phase immediately after take off without bothering to tell the pilots what was happening.
The computer code was shit and guaranteed to result in a prang.
And any half decent pilot could have flown out of it if they were given a warning and the opportunity to override the shitty code and fly manual.
They weren’t given the opportunity to fly the aeroplane.
Boeing is guilty of some 700 cases of manslaughter.
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GreyRanga
I reckon the scumbag elite go over every detail to make sure they don’t repeat the same mistakes.
I would be encouraged if they did, but I suspect that they search only for ways to avoid being caught again.
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Northern Territory Senate candidate Jacinta Price says “we shouldn’t be dividing ourselves along the lines of race” after an Australia-wide campaign called for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
is this a green shoot in the libs? I don’t trust them on anything, personally.. (Jacinta excepted)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has ruled out holding a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the Constitution if he is re-elected, declaring it is not his government’s policy.
the prick is just as likely to pass it without a referendum and then tell us he didn’t lie about it.
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Bourne1879says:
May 2, 2022 at 9:18 pm
Can’t remember if it was Netflix or Stan but they had a good doco on the Douglas takeover of Boeing. Covered the two different cultures and how the accountants sidelined the engineers. It went into detail about crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The real issue is the big egos in the US system wanting to “beat the Europeans” and basically allowing Boeing to self-certify the 737-Max.
Shit, anyone with two eyes could see the potential issues as they stretched the 737.
The engines ended up so close to the ground they flattened the bottom of the intake nacelles.
Then they put those big mother-fucker fans on, pushed them up and forward and got some 22 year olds to cut some code to compensate for the fact that nearly every take-off was in marginal stall territory.
Madness.
I still don’t see how your comment invalidates the claim in the WSJ.
The claim they fired on the core is near impossible and she doesn’t know the difference between artillery and tanks but we should still have confidence in this claim? I mean, it’s not as if these facts alone call her claim into question. The idea that they would fire shells at the reactor building is preposterous.
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Why the fuck does a shittie murdoch rag think it has any business poking its snotty nose into a school’s day to day goings on. Have any laws been broken?
The claim they fired on the core is near impossible and she doesn’t know the difference between artillery and tanks but we should still have confidence in this claim? I mean, it’s not as if these facts alone call her claim into question. The idea that they would fire shells at the reactor building is preposterous.
The entire fucktard meja complex is just doing as instructed by the Washington DC abomination.
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Heartfelt thanks to those Cats who wished the Memsahib well for the forthcoming Chemo and radiology.
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Resident of #Mariupol:
“#Azov were hiding among schools, kindergartens, covered themselves with children, women, they were hiding behind maternity hospitals. And you call it
I think in time learning about what happened in Mariupol will be instructive.
Disendorse the bitch!? She should be stripped naked and thrown into the middle of the Simpson desert like every other leftie arsehole.
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Missed it, best wishes Zulu to you and yours.
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“Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 2, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Heartfelt thanks to those Cats who wished the Memsahib well for the forthcoming Chemo and radiology.
One chemo down, four to go…”
I hope all goes well, my thoughts are with you. Stay strong.
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The real issue is the big egos in the US system wanting to “beat the Europeans” and basically allowing Boeing to self-certify the 737-Max.
Shit, anyone with two eyes could see the potential issues as they stretched the 737.
It is almost as if Boeing’s leadership wanted to avoid the risk and cost of engineering a new design, where Airbus went and did exactly that.
Failure to innovate, even in the well-settled short to medium-ranged widebody twinjet game, is dangerous.
Hopefully Boeing has absorbed this lesson, as military aircraft and equipment sales alone won’t sustain a company of their size indefinitely.
Tough time ZK2A.
The treatment is (almost) worse than the disease.
But the cure rates are getting better and better.
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Looks like a couple of burglars got more than they bargained for when they broke into a farm in NZ.
From memory there was a case in Australia – the “Shaw case” that went all the way to the High Court. A couple went onto a property, smashed the lock on the fuel tank, and were filling up their car, when an irate farmer shot at the car. The driver was skidding all over the place, and his passenger was thrown out, and broke an arm. She sued the farmer, alleging excessive use of force.
The case went all the way to the High Court, who ruled that even though they were on the property without the knowledge of the owner, even though they were there to commit an offense, they were still owed a duty of care, and shooting at the car was an excessive use of force..
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Zulu,
Best wishes to you and your wife.
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I hope all goes well, my thoughts are with you. Stay strong.
Tough time ZK2A.
The treatment is (almost) worse than the disease.
But the cure rates are getting better and better.
The medics make no bones, times will be tough, but they are quietly optimistic – the tumor is localized, and hasn’t spread.
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Just started watching this, Severance. Corporate dystopian sci-fi. IMDB blurb:
Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
It has Christopher Walken and thus far would recommend.
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Best of luck to your both Zulu.
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Severance
slow burnerer
gets betterer
The 737 M,AX series was an attempt by Boeing’s Chicago accountants to market a Holden Commodore of an airliner that could be operated by shitbucket Third Word airlines in countries like Indonesia and Ethiopia with minimal crew training.
Indonesia’s Lion Air, for example, is one of the fastest-growing airlines in the world and, because of a global pilot shortage, has been recruiting drivers straight off long-distance coachlines.
The idea with the MAX is that it can be flown by onboard computers with minimal pilot input.
Until it was modified following crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed nearly 350 people, the MAX was an accountant’s perfect sales pitch – even though the potential for disaster horrified engineers like Phil Condit, the last Boeing engineer-CEO (1996-2003).
The MAX has only produced operational problems in the Third World – not in jurisdictions with proper flight training regimes like the USA.
As a result of artillery shelling of the ZNPP industrial site:
– the reactor compartment building of the ZNPP unit 1 was damaged;
– 2 artillery shells hit the area of the dry type spent nuclear fuel storage facility.
The fire, which broke out at night due to the enemy shelling of the ZNPP industrial site, severely damaged the training center building located in the immediate vicinity of the ZNPP industrial site.
In addition the external power supply to the plant was damaged.
It appears the damage to the reactor was not significant – and no radiation was released.
So, only gentle and well-considered shelling. Probably by highly trained artillery, thoroughly experienced in missing vital parts of a nuclear reactor during a night shoot.
Or, easily disproved misinformation.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 2, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Heartfelt thanks to those Cats who wished the Memsahib well for the forthcoming Chemo and radiology.
One chemo down, four to go…
Best wishes. Hope that, as sometimes happens, it isn’t too bad an experience, but more importantly that, as often happens, it’s a complete success.
But according to the Ukrainian nuclear inspectorate
Even if we accept the claims of the Ukrainians, a huge ‘if’ given their past dissembling, the tanks weren’t shelling the reactor core.
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rickw:
I just brought a rotary tiller for Little Johnny with this in mind. But knowing Klaus I should have brought something horse drawn.
Something tells me (a little birdee) Bankers and stock traders will be going at knockdown prices – along with mule harness for the rotary tiller. You won’t need fuel for it, Humans in Harness will provide locomotion and be far cheaper too.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 2, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Heartfelt thanks to those Cats who wished the Memsahib well for the forthcoming Chemo and radiology.
One chemo down, four to go…
Sending our very warmest wishes for a completely successful treatment, mate. Very best to both of you.
Bruce
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the tanks weren’t shelling the reactor core.
“The idea that they would fire shells at the reactor building is preposterous.”
I suspect that the tank gunners had very little idea what they were firing at.
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Sorry, Dr Faustus, my last comment was specifically to the author’s claim.
I suspect that the tank gunners had very little idea what they were firing at.
The report you link to refers to artillery fire.
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dover0beach says:
May 3, 2022 at 12:02 am
I find that the losing side always has more incentive to hide the truth.
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FemLib has unfinished business, and that is based embryo pods.
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God-damn Clanners. First with their obsessions with honour, then their weird traditions and pseudo-communist culture and then their artificial wombs and elevation of gene-edited decanted folks as superior beings.
Sorry, Dr Faustus, my last comment was specifically to the author’s claim.
Ok, to be very clear:
1) I strongly doubt that the journo would distinguish between core, containment, and reactor environmental building. Likely it would all be ‘shot up nuclear reactor’ to her.
2) I strongly doubt that the Ukrainian nuclear inspectorate would distinguish between artillery fire and tank fire. Likely it would all be incoming exploding (or not) shit to them.
It’s confusion in unfamiliar technical terms, used out of context, that leads to someone saying – ‘well we can safely assume that’s all bullshit, then’.
The woman who managed to get out of Azovstal told: the Ukrainian military did not allow civilians to leave.
A translation of the video would be great.
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Even if we accept the claims of the Ukrainians, a huge ‘if’ given their past dissembling, the tanks weren’t shelling the reactor core.
20 year dudes hammed up in a fire fight would know the building structure they were shooting at it housed a reactor core?
But this wasn’t the crux of the story. They were shooting dud rounds, which suggests they’re a mess of a military. Time and time again this has been shown to be credible. The Russian military is only good for running a Harvey Norman used appliance store. It’s fucking useless.
If they were halfway decent, it would have been over by now.
I think the Russians will likely win, but it’s not a given even now.
Read the story again, the idiots were getting lost taking wrong roads. It’s a fucking shambles.
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MiltonF:
Why the fuck does a shittie murdoch rag think it has any business poking its snotty nose into a school’s day to day goings on. Have any laws been broken?
I bet if we were to check we’d find there are no Politicians kids involved.
Which would be why that particular school was chosen.
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And Dover, nearly all your posts about the war are from Twitter. Why are your Twitter links accurate while everything else is bullshit? Is that because everything on Twitter is so honest?
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I find that the losing side always has more incentive to hide the truth.
Yes, because Russians have always been totally up front and honest about things -even through the Cold War.
The funniest thing I recall that came out after the Cold War was how Russian propaganda had totally hoodwinked the Americans to believe the Soviet economy was massive. It subsequently came out that if was on par with the Netherlands.
Yep, the Russians are honest brokers.
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The report you link to refers to artillery fire.
You appear to be stuck on this. It’s of no consequence to the integrity of the story if the firing was from artillery or tanks. It just doesn’t matter.
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It’s confusion in unfamiliar technical terms, used out of context, that leads to someone saying – ‘well we can safely assume that’s all bullshit, then’.
Sure, but there is also the matter about why there is incoming fire in that area. Were UKR forces situated at the nuclear plant? Where they firing on the advancing RUS? When you go and look at the paragraph it paints a picture of drunken Ruskies talking pot shots at the reactor like weekend hunters shooting the odd street sign of old. It’s not mere unfamiliarity with technical terms, it’s not mere embellishment, it’s tendentious rot. It’s akin to the following:
Invaders destroy the historical heritage of Ukraine
The #Russians destroyed the building of the 19th century #Lisichansk gymnasium, which was built by Belgian masters.
It was one of the most beautiful schools in #Ukraine.
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That is a myth JC.
I have had dealings with both companies.
Presenting MD as asset-stripping profiteers who destroyed Boeing is largely bullshit.
Boeing commercial was fat, dumb and happy and should have diverted their DC lobbying money into aircraft development way before the MD takeover.
Okay.
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Tell Dover, would you know what a building housing a reactor core looks like?
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Rex Anger:
Hopefully Boeing has absorbed this lesson, as military aircraft and equipment sales alone won’t sustain a company of their size indefinitely.
From the other links, it would appear not.
A poisonous admin vs engineer culture, some dodgy business decisions backed up by help from maaaates in government – I’d sell now.
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Tell Dover, would you know what a building housing a reactor core looks like?
I can tell the difference between a tank and artillery.
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Sure, but there is also the matter about why there is incoming fire in that area. Were UKR forces situated at the nuclear plant?
I’d bet there was security forces of some sort or another around a nuclear reactor. There would be in peace time too.
Where they firing on the advancing RUS?
Possibly. In fact most likely.
When you go and look at the paragraph it paints a picture of drunken Ruskies talking pot shots at the reactor like weekend hunters shooting the odd street sign of old. It’s not mere unfamiliarity with technical terms, it’s not mere embellishment, it’s tendentious rot.
Here’s the paragraph:
When Russian tanks were shelling the nuclear core at the Zaporozhskaya power plant with live rounds, not all of the shells exploded because they were too old and decrepit. This story, told to me by Piotr Kotin, head of the company that owns the plant, is a metaphor for Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
Doesn’t sound as though they were drunk as you suggest. The paragraph doesn’t attempt to make the Russian solders sound stupid either. The central point of the para is that they were firing duds.
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But seriously, I’d expect it to be one of the central buildings, close to cooling towers.
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I can tell the difference between a tank and artillery.
Great. But can you tell what houses a reactor or not?
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20 year dudes hammed up in a fire fight would know the building structure they were shooting at it housed a reactor core?
But this wasn’t the crux of the story. They were shooting dud rounds
If one was going to be charitable (or accurate to the weird and wonderful things that happen in combat), I would have assumed artillery overshoots from a fire mission on a target somewhere within the shells’ arc and the targeted location, but landing well outside it.
Overshoots are perfectly normal- Artillery is an area weapon, no matter how accurate the firing weapon is and what precision doo-hickery is strapped to the projectile.
That the shells shattered or failed to detonate on impact is a divine blessing. Or severely statistically unlikely but fortunate outcome, depending on how you swing. But perhaps not a very favourable assessment of the Russian logistics train to the point of firing, or its munitions manufacturers or the storage and handling procedures employed up to the moment the breechblock clanged shut and the primer ignited.
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But seriously, I’d expect it to be one of the central buildings, close to cooling towers.
Hammed up 20 year olds would say the same thing, I’m sure.
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LOL.
Sure, but there is also the matter about why there is incoming fire in that area. Were UKR forces situated at the nuclear plant? Where they firing on the advancing RUS?
We seem to have slipped away from correctly naming the parts of a nuclear reactor into whataboutism.
I really don’t know, but I’d guess that there was shellfire in the area because Russian troops were invading. Seems plausible, all things considered.
When you go and look at the paragraph it paints a picture of drunken Ruskies talking pot shots at the reactor like weekend hunters shooting the odd street sign of old. It’s not mere unfamiliarity with technical terms, it’s not mere embellishment, it’s tendentious rot.
That, there, is tendentious rot. The piece quoted above doesn’t suggest any of those things – specifically not pissed Russians on a whoopie shoot.
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The US 10 year bond is virtually at 3%.
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Rita Panahi: Labor’s shared equity housing plan is diabolically dumb
There was a time when such ill-considered tomfoolery would only come from a minor party but Labor has launched a policy so harebrained that Adam Bandt must be feeling jealous.
Rita Panahi
Labor’s shared equity housing plan is such a thoroughly and diabolically dumb policy that one could be mistaken for thinking the Greens came up with it.
There was a time when such ill-considered tomfoolery would only come from a minor party with no chance of governing but Labor has launched a policy so harebrained that Adam Bandt must be feeling jealous.
There are of course concerns with such schemes only pushing up housing prices further but there are greater issues with sharing ownership of your home with the government.
It’s not a good idea when proposed by state or territory governments and it’s certainly not a good idea when pushed by the financially inept federal Labor Party which has not returned a surplus since 1989.
Yes, it’s been 33 years since Labor managed to deliver a federal budget surplus.
Labor’s key housing policy is scant on detail because the more you learn of the shared equity plan the more holes you can pick in the scheme.
Under the $329 million scheme qualifying home buyers would have up to 40 per cent of their home (for new property) or 30 per cent (for existing property) paid for and owned by the government.
Buyers would only have to contribute a two per cent minimum deposit and a cap of $850,000 would apply for Melbourne and major regional centres in Victoria, with a marginally higher cap for NSW.
Putting to one side the fact that there are sound reasons why financial institutions require prospective most home buyers to save at least five to 10 per cent deposit and think about the administrative nightmare Labor’s plan would unleash.
It’s one thing to have the bank own most of your house but something else for the government to own a percentage.
Unlike a mortgage the government’s ownership is calculated as a percentage of the home value, not the initial dollar amount invested plus interest, meaning when the property is sold, the government would take its portion of whatever capital gains have been made.
If the house is a sound investment which has been lovingly maintained the government stands to benefit but if the place is a dump in an area with little capital growth then the taxpayer’s investment will be questionable.
A massive bureaucratic mess awaits anyone involved in the scheme who renovates or extends the property.
A valuation must be performed if you renovate so the government doesn’t reap the benefits of your hard work and expenditure when you sell but anyone who understands the property market knows all too well a valuation performed when improvements are undertaken can be meaningless two years or twenty years later.
A pool may see your property increase 5% at the time it’s installed.
20 years later the impact of that pool may be a 15 per cent improvement or it may be negative five per cent if it makes a subdivision more difficult or more expensive.
How do we determine who gets what when a sale takes place years after capital improvements are undertaken?
How do we determine the value added by those who do not complete a large-scale renovation but maintain their property with regular painting, planting and loving care?
Or do homeowners have to complete a formal valuation after every single improvement whether it’s new carpets, a new fence, heating and cooling installations or other small upgrades?
The only redeeming feature of this policy is that it won’t be inflicted on every Australian unlike the monstrously stupid energy policies of Labor and their ideological bedfellows the Greens and the Climate 200 ‘independents’.
The policy gives voters an insight into the modern Labor Party.
They may be running a small target strategy by pretending they are fiscal conservatives who will mirror Coalition policies from border protection to economic management but once in power we can expect a very different beast.
Labor has learned well from losing the unlosable election in 2019; they know not to scare the electorate with a detailed policy platform but their shared equity plan gives a worrying insight into the hard Left values of modern Labor.
Pozsar is saying the world is underestimating the impact of Ukraine’s production of everything being disrupted.
Judging by prices on offer the grain traders aren’t.
Sancho, I guess I was just intent on highlighting his charming descriptor for me.
Something has gone seriously wrong with his head, I think, to be so disgusting to a woman.
It is these times. No-one is totally sane, and it’s even worse in Britain.
On Ukraine, I just sympathise with the human side of it, and mostly keep quiet.
On matters Covid and Climate, well, it’s difficult at Hairy’s brother’s place with The Times and BBC around all the time. Hairy made a valiant effort to get his bro to change perspectives on the basis of known facts, and he finally did manage to persuade him that it was generally accepted that the virus was manipulated in a lab. For a while bro was holding the fort that no, that was all right-wing nonsense. He had to admit defeat to Hairy’s major barrage, especially when he was invited to check it on the internet even with his favoured own suppliers of information and found Hairy was right. Hairy crowing at him about you didn’t get any of that information from your usual sources did you?
Checkmate and he conceded defeat. Just on that matter though. CO2 is still killing us slowly and Covid will resurge to do so too. That’s the British way these days. I pour on peacemaking oils, because this is family and resentments are not good.
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Sorry, blockquote fail there, RickW had added more to my original comment re the friend who is supplying Ukrainian fighters.
Anyway, I don’t pick sides in this war.
Speedbox in a main thread above provides an interesting Russian perspective.
For the past two years now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has aggressively lectured us about wearing masks, social distancing, vaccination, and even boosters.
We’re told repeatedly that “the science” says masks work, that the virus can’t travel more than six feet or while you’re eating food, that the vaccines are completely safe, etc.
As of right now, they’re recommending boosters every few months until the end of the world.
But while the CDC officially recommends all of us to get jabbed for eternity, as of April 12, there are nearly 400 employees at the CDC who have refused to get vaccinated. According to a report from the Epoch Times, 382 workers at the CDC are unvaccinated. Another nine have only had one dose of Pfizer or Moderna, meaning they’re technically not “fully vaccinated.” These unvaxxed employees account for 3.2% of the CDC’s workforce.
Okay, one could argue that a 96.8% vaccination rate is pretty darn high—and sure it is—but this is the CDC we’re talking about here. These people are (in theory) experts in the field and have access to more information than most … so why doesn’t the CDC have 100% vaccination?
Nothing wrong with my head Lizzie.
Having female genitalia does not prevent others losing respect for you ….. due to your own actions.
Everyone is due respect until they are proven to be unworthy of it.
And you know I used to show you respect.
I haven’t changed Lizzie.
My stance on this and my understanding of civic responsibility and duty to your fellow man have not changed.
So what’s changed Lizzie?
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I’ve been watching the Space Station for the last few days – it visibly passes over here (Canberra region) for an hour or two before sunrise. It’s unmistakeable, a very bright, kind of log-shaped thing in the roughly north-eastern sky.
A couple of mornings ago I thought I was seeing double because there were two bright things close together. However, nothing else was being seen in duplicate so I went to the website. Nada.
I just went out and there it is again, two distinct objects, very bright, only further apart. So much so that it couldn’t be a blackout in the middle. Back to the website.
Nada.
Whatever it is, since millions of people can see it just by looking up, secrecy is a bit pointless.
While I am here, I noted the discussion about flies and dung beetles yesterday. If you see footage of politicians being interviewed in front of OPH, or journalists pontificating there, during the 1960s and early 70s they are constantly being assailed by bushflies. It was a bad look, but it is understandable that having flies crawl into your eyes and up your nose required some sort of swatting/brushing reaction every few seconds.
Not a problem anywhere in the Parliamentary Triangle these days.
The CSIRO claimed credit for getting rid of them via the dung beetle program. I daresay it helped, but suspect that the ever-widening spread of suburbia and the decrease of livestock numbers in surrounding areas had a lot to do with it.
The surrounding areas of Canberra/Queanbeyan are now mostly hobby farms. Lots of smallholdings with a few Highland cattle or llamas or alpacas or rare breed sheep or free-range (insert creature here) – you get the idea – and many with just a few chooks and a pony for the kids, or no farm animals at all.
Not dissing the dung beetles, but there is a lot less dung anywhere near Parliament House these days. Of that kind, anyway.
While we’re on the subj. I would like to address the myth (IMO) that Canberra is the ruination of a good sheep farm. Having lived through two droughts in 25-odd years around here, my view is that while it is possible to raise sheep here in good years, it is impossible in bad ones, and bad ones are not rare, and come in succession.
Sheep farm? Yes. Good sheep farm? No.
Nevertheless, we have had day after day of magnificent Autumn weather – bright blue sunny skies, little or no breeze, and the trees colouring up. Almost reached zero the other night, won’t be long before the first frost.
Youse weaklings who need the ambient temperature to warm up your blood (looking at you, KD) need to be reminded by us descendants of the Norsemen that the history of civilisation does not favour those who loaf about the Equator chewing on mangoes, slurping coconut juice and hoping that a tropical storm will wash up some rum from a shipwreck. 🙂
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Do some reading of early exploration and you’ll find descriptions of bush flies and natives long before a hoofed beast ever arrived here.
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Seen that too the other night, johanna,
Thought is it a refection?
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Bacon and eggs thanks Johanna.
On toast.
Mushrooms too if you have them.
INSTANT coffee..Nescafe gold…white and none.
Get to it.
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Don’t remember flies being a problem in Canberra when I lived there.
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Instead of just building a property portfolio, Mike Cannon-Brookes is agitating for coal to exit the scene asap.
Someone should point out to him that when the blackouts come, IT will be useless. And, someone should inform the general public that all their solar power systems that are grid connected will shut down as soon as there is a blackout. It’s a safety measure to protect power workers.
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Just catching up on the ‘news’ and find an item about how ScoMo is supposed to have been served raw chicken at some ethnic do (no prizes for guessing the source.) There was a photo of a chicken dish where the meat had not been browned, but was boiled or poached. It was unquestionably cooked, as the PM said.
Leaving aside the lack of integrity by the ‘reporter’ – why on Earth would an ethnic group try to poison the PM with – drum roll – undercooked chicken?
Left media just can’t help themselves. The NYT is going full retard by doing two 9000 word hit pieces on Tucker Carlson.
He’s the most-watched cable news commentator in the USA because he does a brilliant job of skewering the mad left and their destructive policies. He does it with a nice, measured delivery and dashes of humour. Powerline has the story.
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Youse weaklings who need the ambient temperature to warm up your blood (looking at you, KD)
You’re kidding. It’s the start of The Dry, and it’s freezing up here.
24.5 degrees at present. Almost beanie time.
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Best wishes for Mrs ZK2A. Tough times but the alternative doesn’t bare thinking about.
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ABC News radio this morning had an item on Eid!
The announcer explained that Eid is the festive event marking the end of Ramadan, where muslims fast “from dusk to dawn”.
I look forward to their explanation of Yom Kippur being all about a war.
Not that the ABC is keen to publicise j-wish (pardon my tentative approch to a word banned at Old Cat site) religious days.
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Amazon slaves….I mean workers on Staten Island vote no to unionise.
Seriously, if Bezos wasn’t such a huge donor to the DNC the DOJ would be all over his union busting.
Just like when Obama set the DOJ loose on companies that were moving to right to work states.
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US 10 year hit 3%, now a tad under it.
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From The Oz. I like Aussie Cossack, he’s a shit stirrer, and now he’s a “Putin Pest”. LOL. But interesting how a so called major newspaper uses a description “Putin Pest” to describe someone.
A few salient points. Fiona Martin is the lightweight Liberal member for Reid (which encompasses the inner west of Sydney and as far west as Auburn (near Parramatta). Martin won the seat by a tiny margin (a few votes) back in 2019. She’s one of the “moderates” who crossed the floor earlier this year. Apparently “trans rights” are more important to her than “religious freedom”. She’s gonski, such is the level of her in the electorate towards her (my sister lives in the electorate. The electorate of Reid is not like the electorates of Wentworth, Warringah and North Sydney. It has a strong religious element and high pockets of ethnic groups, Chinese, Koreans, Lebanese (both Muslim and Christian) and so on. Martin is not liked in the electorate.
She’s a this from the Oz. Natalie Baini is now an independent running for Reid (she’s not one of Simon’s babes).
“Putin ‘pest’ Simeon Boikov
A close ally and personal friend of Reid independent candidate Natalie Baini is a founding member of a Facebook page spreading misinformation about incumbent MP Fiona Martin.
The Concord News and Gossip page has repeatedly posted videos made by pro-Putin pest Simeon Boikov – known as the “Aussie Cossack” – who is campaigning against Ms Martin in the inner-west Sydney seat.
Strathfield women’s Liberal branch president Liana Allan, who also uses the surname Ross, declined to clarify her involvement with the page but managed it when it was established in 2012.
Under a post about an Anzac Day ceremony at the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway in Concord West, group members talked about how Ms Martin was late to the event, forgot her wreath and walked across the stage during a prayer. Concord News and Gossip said: “Fiona was seen walking up to men in uniform asking them if they would stand in a photo with her.”
This prompted another user to remark “shameless”.
It is understood the staffer tasked with organising Ms Martin’s wreath contracted Covid and the venue organised a replacement for the MP. Her office denied she was late to the ceremony.
In a post sharing a story where Ms Martin criticised Labor senator Kristina Keneally for running in the electorate of Fowler, the page said it was a case of “Pot. Kettle. Black given that Fiona wasn’t a local in her area either”.
The fight for Reid is becoming increasingly toxic and Ms Baini’s supporters believe she has been betrayed by both the party and former member Craig Laundy. Ms Baini’s supporters view Ms Martin – a Scott Morrison captain’s pick – as an interloper and a fake.
Ms Baini, a former vice-president of the Liberals’ Reid branch, has claimed Mr Laundy blocked her preselection after she ended a two-year affair with him on learning he remained with wife Suzie. Mr Laundy bankrolled and Ms Baini worked on Ms Martin’s campaign in the 2019 election.
Underneath one Aussie Cossack video on Concord News and Gossip, one member said the Facebook page clearly didn’t like the Liberals. “Since when is Concord News and Gossip a place for political campaigning.”
Ms Allan, who is not campaigning for Ms Martin due to her friendship with Ms Baini, has also tweeted at least three times the invitation Mr Boikov relied upon when he gatecrashed the incumbent Liberal MP’s campaign launch at the Drummoyne Sailing Club on April 20. A Liberal Party spokesman confirmed Mr Boikov was not invited to the event launch, attended by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, by either the party or Ms Martin.
“Mr Boikov was not invited by the party or the member for Reid to the campaign event,” he said.
It is believed a local party member shared the event link with Mr Boikov, allowing him to automatically generate an invitation.
Mr Boikov has been encouraging his more than 155,000 followers to vote for Ms Baini instead of Ms Martin and claimed he is running a “counter campaign” in the Reid by-election.
He said he had never met and did not have any dealings with Ms Baini, did not know Ms Allan, and only wanted to question Ms Martin.
“Nothing should be interpreted as a threat or any sort of violence or intimidation against any candidate on my behalf,” he said.
He said he would share how he obtained the launch invitation during his court case against NSW Police for false arrest.
Mr Boikov said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was more of a “liberation” to “de-Nazify and demilitarise” that had evolved into a humanitarian catastrophe.
Ms Baini and Ms Allan did not return a request for comment.
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On the St Kevins non event, the lefties are pissed coz the boys aren’t deviants, just normal. I was 12, my cousins friend was a student teacher, she was hot. First time I realised this is what girls turn into, at least some of them do.
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File under durrrrrrrr….
From the WSJ.
Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years
Millions of Grindr users had their location data collected from the gay-dating app and sold for years, people familiar with the matter say.
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From Bespoke’s link.
Elon, you heavyweight champ.
NBC’s @mehdirhasan
on @elonmusk
: “If [the “neo-Nazi faction” of the GOP expands in Nov.], we may look back on this .. as a pivotal moment, when a petulant & not-so-bright billionaire casually bought one of the most influential messaging machines & just handed it to the far-right”
Elon Musk
NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis …
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people.
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Whatever it is, since millions of people can see it just by looking up, secrecy is a bit pointless.
It’s just possible Johanna that you’ve seen this happening live.
That was the threat a month ago. I wonder if the Poot has now told them to do it? I’m not seeing it in the news though.
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petulant & not-so-bright billionaire
That petulant and not so bright chap made himself a multi-billionaire by selling electric cars to hypocritical fantasists, and now a) runs a better space program than NASA, and b) just bought a closed-shop propaganda machine from the same people he squeezed for Tesla cash.
Define ‘not-so-bright’.
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Worst bodyguard ever (the Hun):
Johnny Depp’s bodyguard Travis McGivern said he first met Amber Heard in 2013 and witnessed “verbal arguments, yelling” between the couple with Heard typically calling Depp names.
These verbal assaults included “you’re f–king washed up”; “you’re a f–king cunt”; “you’re a f–king deadbeat dad”, said McGivern who claimed Heard even levelled verbal abude at him, calling him a “f–king yes man” for getting involved in her relationship with Depp.
And:
At some point I witnessed Ms Heard throw a Red Bull can that struck Mr Depp in the back. At some point Ms Heard threw something else, a purse or a bag, at some point she spit at him.
Then:
Depp threw down every rack of clothing belonging to Heard. He threw one rack of clothing down the stairs.”
Next thing he “saw a closed fist” belonging to Heard “come across and connect with Depp’s face.”
McGivern said he moved Depp down the stairs to the lower level “for his safety”. As they were leaving Depp pointed to the left side of his face and said, “That’s your fault.”
Believe all women. Also, check your bodyguard’s CV before you sign him up.
The General Director of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, confirmed the country will leave the International Space Station, according to a Bloomberg report.
…
On Saturday, April 30, two Russian state news agencies, Tass and RIA Novosti, reported that Rogozin said the decision had been made in an official capacity.
“The decision has been taken already, we’re not obliged to talk about it publicly,” he explained on state television. “I can say this only — in accordance with our obligations, we’ll inform our partners about the end of our work on the ISS with a year’s notice.”
The other thing is they announced they would work with China on such things:
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has said that it is exploring the option of cooperating with Beijing on manned missions as the two countries are on course to ready space stations in zero gravity.
China already has a space station in orbit. I wonder if the segment connections are compatible? That would be a neat trick: sail the Russian segment from the ISS over to the Chinese space station and connect it up.
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The not so bright billionaire is a brilliant narrative isn’t it?
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“Elon Musk
NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis …
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people.”
A Trumpian response. This is what you do with lying progressive hypocrites, you throw it back at them.
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Australia News
Federal Election
Former Labor secretary Cameron Milner says a ‘rat in the rank’ spoiled Anthony Albanese’s campaign launch
Former Queensland Labor secretary Cameron Milner believes a “rat in the rank” tipped the Coalition off about Labor’s PBS pledge allowing them to make the announcement first.
I favour the James Bond circa 1956 breakfast – bacon, eggs, toast, coffee and orange juice.
I’ve ordered it it many hotels without a flicker of recognition, I suppose that the Machine would crunch down on any joint that offered a ‘Bond Breakfast.’
Can’t say that any of them have been very good, generally passable to abysmal. Cold eggs, slimy undercooked bacon, orange cordial.
When I was staying at a hotel in Parramatta a few years ago, I went to the Maccas down the road for one of their bacon and egg thingies rather than face the rubber ‘scrambled’ eggs and cold plywood ‘toast’ on offer for breakfast downstairs. It was not a cheap hotel, either. Not at all.
That was before the council completely messed up the town and you could get bacon and eggs and a Bloody Mary for a late breakfast in the restaurant precinct. Very civilised.
Alas, since closing off one part of the town had turned it into a boarded-up wasteland inhabited by drug dealers and muggers, the council decided that this just proved that cars are evil. So they proceeded to devastate more of what was all the things they claim to support – a people friendly strip of restaurants and shops and bars and cafes with outdoor seating. It was humming, everyone was happy.
This could not be tolerated, so now it has been closed off to cars, and there are plans for a tram at humungous expense. Combined with COVID nonsense, this formerly enjoyable and thriving piece of Sydney is now almost dead. Pity the poor buggers who worked and put their savings into it.
Seriously, ten years ago you could wander along a couple of blocks and get six different cuisines including Assryian and Hmong, with outdoor seating, and you could smoke.
Oh, well.
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Forget the Ghost of Kyyv.
The best fighter pilot with the best plane at the time was named DICK BONG – and he actually existed.
Maybe Cock Spliff wasn’t such a stupid name for my son – the ex wife ex GAA pro field hockey player, Miss Ireland, flautist, equestrian and PhD in mathematics ought to know that, after she split with the kid and Our Maserati.
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“40 fit, smart and young Asian men were smoked by Dick Bong…”
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I favour the James Bond circa 1956 breakfast – bacon, eggs, toast, coffee and orange juice.
Brilliant, swap in a croissant and add in a proper hot chocolate with a cigarillo, Monsieur Bond ala Riviera Francaise.
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The best fighter pilot with the best plane at the time was named DICK BONG – and he actually existed.
Amusing name, but his 40 kills were shaded by the WW2 Luftwaffe, which produced over 100 aces with 100 victories, and more than a dozen with over 200. Many survived the war, having flow more or less continuously in combat for years.
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Seriously, ten years ago you could wander along a couple of blocks and get six different cuisines including Assryian and Hmong, with outdoor seating, and you could smoke.
have to agree a pleasant stroll down from the station to Wanderland/Parradise to games has has been turned into a drudge of “for sale/lease” signage/boarded up businesses and detouring around the, ever movin, construction barriers .. and when it is all finished no one will care cos most of the businesses will be long gone .. Peter Wynn’s Score once a, must visit, shrine to fitba/footie fanatics on game days and always packed is now struggling for customers and opening on, severely, reduced hours ………
The latest survey shows the Coalition’s primary vote is at 36% – down from 37% a fortnight ago and back to where it was at the beginning of April, while Labor’s primary support is unchanged at 35%.
At the beginning of April, Labor’s primary support was 36%.
But while primary support is flatlining, Labor retains a lead over the Coalition of 49% to 45% on a two-party preferred “plus” measure.*
The challenge to connect with disengaged voters is also highlighted by the fact that 17% of people say they have not been paying any attention to the news, advertising or updates from the federal election campaign, and 33% saying they have only been paying little attention.
So, a very similar result to the Newspoll and Resolve polls:
• a big chunk of the voteherd loathes the Uniparty and all who sail on her;
• nobody cares much for the minors;
• indies are in for a good showing;
• Labor’s campaign toppled off the launch pad;
• the question is, which Bradbury?
Small mercies: At least this poll isn’t showing 15% for the Greens.
* the calculated 2PP+ excludes the ‘undecided’ picked up in the poll.
Begin preparing now for the appearance of “even more fatal” variants of coronavirus in the future. That’s the advice from billionaire globalist Bill Gates who warned Sunday that international health surveillance driven by increased funding for the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is one way to forestall pandemic outbreaks.
Bill Gates told The Sunday Times that he made a “huge mistake” in meeting with convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
The Microsoft founder’s ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, in March criticized her ex-husband for having met multiple times with Epstein, the financier accused of child sex crimes who committed suicide in 2019 while awaiting trial.
Multiple times eh? How interesting. Bill is increasingly sounding like exactly the sort of person who I would not like as a health nazi enforcing looney ideas from WHO on all of us.
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Someone should point out to him that when the blackouts come, IT will be useless.
cloud farms have ample backup generators
BoN, sailing the Russian Space Station modules over to the Chinese one has a major problem. Orbital inclination differs by 10 degrees or so. You need to find over 1 km/sec of Delta V. That would require a substantial rocket stage.
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Bill Gates told The Sunday Times that “at the time, I didn’t realize that by having those meetings it would be seen as giving him credibility.”
“I had several dinners with him, you know, hoping that what he said about getting billions of philanthropy for global health through contacts that he had might emerge. When it looked like that wasn’t a real thing, that relationship ended.”
So, best case, either:
• A user;
• Sucked right in;
• Unbearably stupid;
• Young and naïve beyond his years.
another little Aussie battler comes out for Elbow
LOL!
Prime Minister Albo.
Has a certain ring to it.
Shark One becomes Rabbitoh One.
Colonel, the problem with your stats is that they are anything but clear.
Quoting:
Six people aged under 65 years died with COVID-19. Of these, one was unvaccinated, one had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, three had received two doses and one had received three doses. All had significant underlying health conditions that increase the risk of severe disease from COVID-19.
• Reported deaths were classified as COVID-19 deaths if they met the surveillance definition in the
Communicable Diseases Network of Australia’s COVID-19 National Guidelines for Public Heath Units. Under this definition, deaths are considered COVID-19 deaths for surveillance purposes if the person died with COVID-19, not necessarily because COVID-19 was the cause of death. Deaths may be excluded if there was a clear alternative cause of death that was unrelated to COVID-19 (e.g. major trauma).
You would be hard put to suggest any of these actually died merely because of Covid.
There is no study of the danger of death from vaccine in this report – they are not looking for this at all.
I think that the safest deduction is the Omicron has reduced any real danger to background levels that we were all once quite comfortable with. So it is essentially virus porn now.
And it is very safe to say the long term effects of the vaccines are entirely unknown.
It’s funny Lysander.
Dad’s family had a few St Pats & Marist Strathfield types but my GF was a chippy by trade. GM a seamstress but they sacrificed. My mums family not so lucky, none of them had private school education and yea I spent a bit of time in places like Green Valley, Bradbury, Campbelltown and Airds as a kid visiting relatives. Some of my cousins from said areas now own their own companies and are the salt of the earth. Sorry if I ramble but I smell BS every time these clowns pull the disadvantaged background.
you rang?
I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
She must be in Sussex Street sub basement five.
but they only looked at her passport and didn’t request any supporting docs like covid certificate thing etc. Just went through.
My guess is they did the proper checks a couple of times. Created the mother of all paperwork and diplomatic messes. Let’s just stay in our lane and just do what we did before.
I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
Plotting the traditional Aussie/ Albanian revenge, shoving two concrete eagles up his arse.
It could be that they’re trusting electronic confo from the Aussies when she left.. perhaps, and do spot sampling to confirm compliance.
Tebbutt is CEO of some mental health qango. She dumps, she goes.
It’s the Labor Way.
25% of people who died with Covid in NSW hospitals in mid April were unvaccinated.remembering this includes people too sick or with significant medical conditions which meant they couldnt get a vaccination as well.
Doesnt change the main core issue.
People have been forced to undergo a medical procedure under directions from a government using emergency powers to make it legal.
That they ‘second handed” the enforcement to businesses is irrelevant.
That they violated one of the most basic tenets of medicine – no treatment without consent- is entirely the issue for me.
The Irish gay midget who also happens to be the very best airline CEO in the world is ordering up big from Airbus and it looks like he’s shunning Boeing. Qantas has put in a huge order with Airbus focused around the Dreamliner competitor – Airbus’s A350-1000 . It’s supposed to be a great aircraft. Has anyone flown on one?
A $7bn shot of confidence as Qantas plans for growth
She understands that. You won’t hear a peep out of her. See also: mafia wife.
Ed-Mong engages in some casual abuse of Supreme court justices as a group.
That is what you meant Ed, or should I say HITLER.
It’s normal behaviour for that group.
Yeah, there are exceptions, but pour a coupla drinks into Clarence Thomas and see what happens next.
The Ed-Mong loves slipping casual little “ooh right wing nastyism” in and hoping it will slide through as people get sick of its vacuous vaporings and ignore it.
Dover this dickhead is seeding the blog with its troll pats ready for a 7:30 report exclusive on ‘the racist blog’…
the intersection of big government and big money has an uncanny resemblance to old school fascism.
all it took was a small orchestrated video campaign to trigger the total collapse of reason and sanity amongst our political class. and expose them for what they are, not just completely fucking useless, but outright dangerous to the entire edifice of western civilisation
Qantas has put in a huge order with Airbus focused around the Dreamliner competitor – Airbus’s A350-1000 .
Got the same e-mail. Interesting. As much as Boeing has it’s issues I still have reservations about Airbus computers overriding pilots. Read QF72 recently and know of other incidents where the computer did something unexpected in Airbus planes. Fortunately those have been very small in number and Boeing seemed to have dropped the ball totally with the B787 battery issues & B737 Max.
IMO though the B787 is a good aircraft, passenger comfort wise anyway. I have flown in them a few times and they seem to have sorted the batteries catching fire.
local oaf says: May 2, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Yep, absolutely.
Brian says: May 2, 2022 at 5:26 pm
Yes, absolutely. And to make that distinction in cause of death has never been standard practice, because whatever illness showed up in the last 5 minutes of life and finished off an already sickly person is what will be listed as the singular cause of death, and every other co-mobidity will be listed as just that. I think that’s kinda misleading too, but it is the standard.
That conclusion is a non-sequitur, it does not follow that because they are not looking for dangers of vaccines that therefore there isn’t any in the NSW Health report. There is some evidence of the non-danger of death from the vaccine in that report, which is the way the vaccinated are dying in ICUs at a rate less than the vaccination rate of the general population. Comparing 75% deadies to the 90% vaccination rate of the State, you could not conclude that 83% of jabbed people die from it because that would imply *millions* of deaths in NSW alone, which obviously did not happen. You might like to speculate what % of jabs will kill the jabbee and spread over what timeframe in order for your predicted rate of jab deaths to be compatible with the known fatalities in that report.
As shady and suspicious as the source of figures may be, surely you must admit that debating with figures is a huge upgrade from arguing with elephant pictures.
If there were any exemptions to the blanket rule (and there were, otherwise the Great State of Queensland would have collapsed) and folks could still go to work, albeit stabbed, then Struth’s ambit that everyone was ordered to ‘give up’ their jobs as a blanket order everywhere in Australia is utterly false.
Points and much respect to you for daring to check, where Struth can only escalate… 🙂
Reality must yield – my latest on health now military experts in the media.
My el cheapo parking has gone up from $20 a day to $24.
Inflation me dead.
What’s ScoMo doing for us battlers, eh?
I seem to remember reading that one of the early Dutch/British/French accounts of landing in Australia mentioned the superabundance of flies.
In my experience the introduction of dung beetles seems to have had little effect on the fly population.
Hence the most plausible theory is that the little bastards are in fact immortal.
The cock with ears speaks.
The ‘mate’ debate: Why our beloved appellation must be cherished
Peter FitzSimons
So-called “political correctness”? I am all for it.
And yes, of course, various commentators like to endlessly rant about the ills of “PC” and being “woke”, shrieking against a concept that is no more complicated than insisting we should all treat each other with respect*. All of that, however, is just a bonus, something guaranteed to provide great amusement on an otherwise dull day. Give me a dollar for every time a dinosaur with no clue the world has changed rants that something is “political correctness gone mad” and the Milky Bars will be on me forever more!
Just very occasionally, however, the worthy advocates of PC really do go a bit too far. A case in point happened last week when ministers and chiefs of staff of the NSW government were obliged to do a two-and-a-half course entitled “Respect at Work”. While much of the course made sense – don’t get drunk, don’t yell at people, always try to allow for cultural differences in your staff, don’t presume genders or sexualities**, etc – the consultant delivering the course lost a lot of them, including the premier, when she warned against the use of the word “mate”.
* Or be sacked, imprisoned, fined or run through a kangaroo court human rights mob
** hear that, thats the sound of an overton window shifting. Put in 2 things which are unremarkable and add a bit of crazy shit on the end as though they are the same.
The Russian military sounds tops.
The Russian military = the Russian Harvey Norman of used used home appliances. FMD
WSJ
If I was in her shoes (yurk), I would have – in the right circles – loudly indicated that numerous ‘tell-alls’ would be made available in print, on the teev and on various other electronic forums.
Then I would have calculated the earning from all those interviews, multiplied the end number by seven and demanded all that from Fed Layba HQ – in cash – by X date.
Onya, ex-Mrs Albo. Smoke ’em while ya got ’em.
I’m hardly following it due to the amount of utter bullshit coming out of it. My guess is as good as yours but it seems to me the Russians are kicking arse.
Mates Thai mrs always complains of Aussie flies, her words they are very sticky and get in nose, face, eyes. Could be something in that we natives don’t notice…
What?
The civvies watched as tanks were being dug-in (not an easy or quick task), in direct line of sight, and then waited till the job was finished before they decided to flee?
Yeah righto.
It only takes 10% of bullshit to ruin the other 90%.
In Russian
That is what you meant Ed, or should I say HITLER
A genuine ‘snork’ moment!
Here
Was still laughing so hard I forgot to blockquote.
Totes whatevs.
From Dover’s post on the main page:
This is why I reckon the Ruskis are winning. The Uke bullshit is just over the top.
feelthebernsays:
May 2, 2022 at 5:31 pm
I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
She must be in Sussex Street sub basement five.
The Imperial Media has not shown the same level of interest in her (even though she is a prominent ALP “personality”) as they did in the ex Mrs Hewson. Strange.
JC
Any truth to the rumors the advance was stalled when fighting broke out over a thermomix?
LOl Mole.
FMD…
Warning! hair alert.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-02/borrowers-home-loans-mortgage-stress-interest-rate-rise-election/101026362
Tara Higginson pulls no punches when asked what will happen if interest rates rise on Tuesday, off the back of soaring inflation.
“I’m up shit creek”, says the single mother of four who, in the midst of the pandemic, took out an interest-only variable loan of $510,000 – more than six times her income.
Maybe the ex Missus Albo gets together with the ex Mrs Burke and the ex Mrs Shorten…and talks about how sweet it would be to be an ex Mrs Hawke or Keating, instead of a frontbencher’s cast-off.
They might even have a bit of a bitch’n’sticth at the salon with ex Mr Gillard. ..
It must be a nightmare being a dictator. Imagine the risks. Every time someone comes in where you are you’d be wondering if he’s packing. You see one of your praetorian guards who’s obviously packing and you wonder if he’s going to take aim. It really must be a nightmare, but hey at least the money is good.
Fact check status – bullshit.
Chris Dawson started playing league for Newtown after “defecting” from rugby one year after you called it. 1972.
He went on to play for the Newtown Jets for 5 years.
He was in Jack Gibson’s 1973 Wills Cup winning squad (although not the game day run-on side) which also won that year’s NSW RL club championship.
Easy to attach the word “star” to that success, longevity, and media attraction with his twin, Paul.
Outstanding analogy. Explains a lot.
Don Quixote and the Trans Madness
Didn’t just buy it. Built it.
Anyway, the warning shouldn’t just be for the hair. I’d be more concerned with the layers of tatts wandering up and down the insides of both forearms.
Bet she’s got a massive front-of-thigh tatt as well. Hideous.
I bet the mortgagee/insurer is thinking the same thing.
The photo of the house captioned as “Tara Higginson built her dream home in Brisbane’s outer suburbs”. Ms Higginson’s imagination exists under an impoverished set of horizons.
Perhaps feathers tattooed onto the back of the upper arms as a playful visual gag on the concept of bingo wings.
Wow, what a headcase and fiancé Max needs to run the other way. I do say that knowing her past but wow what a nasty piece of work.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/grace-tame-blocks-shorten-rape-accuser-kathy-sherriff.html
That is what you meant Ed, or should I say HITLER.
Hi Cornholio
Stop DeepThroatin’ that bong immediately!
The tatts are money well spent. Can’t repossess those.
Imagine getting an interest only loan when your only upfront commitment was $20,000 out of your super account.
Most likely a bank complaint for giving the loan in the first place will get someone off the hook.
She could sell one of the kids to the circus, they still offer good money right?
He went on to play for the Newtown Jets for 5 years.
Not in A Grade though, and Newtown were bottom of the table every year anyway.
So, journeyman, at a stretch, but no star.
Anyway, I hope he walks and sues NewsCorp for a fortune.
This applies to many things.
“Our starting point has to be that we respect China and deeply value our relationship with China. We must seek to build it. And not just in economic terms, but also through exploring political co-operation and even defence co-operation. To define China as an enemy is a profound mistake. To talk of a new Cold War is silly and ignorant.”
Richard Marles, Deputy Labor Leader and formerly Shadow Minister of Defence, has just handed the Federal Election to the Liberals.
Eggs are going up here in the UK, and especially so is chicken meat.
Due to the price of Ukrainian grain on which they are fed.
There is also a shortage of HRT for menopausal women. As with many things medical, there has been a complete back flip on the use of HRT now, and it is said to improve mental agility, dismiss Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases, improve body strength and skin tone etc. I could have told them that. I still use it and take the benefits gratefully. Nothing wrong with looking 60 when you are 80 (more or less).
Just for info here for Struth re my howling whoredom, we decided to stay in the UK for this holiday early on as we have rellies here, and then as a bonus Boris lifted all restrictions. We can’t be bothered travelling elsewhere while the Covid panic has not yet sorted itself out internationally. There’s such a lot to see in the UK anyway.
Hairy’s College friend the other nite is taking in Ukrainian refugees into his large London house, and is collecting funds to send protective gear and ammunition to Poland for transfer by friends to Ukrainian fighters. He showed us pics of his guys in Ukraine wearing his gear. He discussed with us his idea of a media stunt taking a red London bus to Poland to pick up refugees – his wife dissuaded him from carrying out this particular plan. He is an interesting man of many talents though. The sense of that war being much closer here is palpable.
Not on the A350-1000, but on the smaller A350-900 all the way from Melbourne to New York City with Qatar Airways. Qatar has bought up big with the A350, including the -1000 version (19 copies versus 12 for Qantas).
The A350 is a beautiful aeroplane, far better than than the shitbucket Boeing Dreamliner 787 with its narrower seats — about two inches skinnier in economy versus the Airbus.
The new QF non-stops from MEL and SYD to JFK and LHR will be a huge hit with business travellers, saving 2-4 hours each way. The only faster plane is the B747, which can also do the trip weight-restricted, but Boeing has basically given up on because accountants like the 787 better.
The Impending Economic Crash
I thought the solution was selling them all for medical experiments?
Nolte: Biden’s Dominatrix of Disinformation Is Freaking Me Out
Zelensky’s top adviser explains how to manipulate Ukrainians
It works on Aussies, too.
This week, Donald Trump’s favorite Latino food supplier, Bob Unamue, CEO of Goya Foods, spoke of an impending food shortage that we should all start to see by this summer.
I just brought a rotary tiller for Little Johnny with this in mind. But knowing Klaus I should have brought something horse drawn.
As soon as the oil refinery and the foundry’s finished will be 100% self sufficient with the exception of chip manufacture.
How does the virus evolve inside an infected person – we commence this story with a new demonstration in a vaccinated patient, and relapse to a well-documented history in COVID-19 patients, and how antibodies can be contributing to such viral evolution. This also leads us to a hypothesis as to why evolving variants might show up in wastewater prior to taking over a population. We conclude with how the BA2 variant of the Omicron is different from the BA1 variant, demonstrating continuous uninterrupted evolution of the virus.
Also, are they still showing people in the first two weeks after vaccination as “unvaccinated”, thus including vaccine injuries in the unvaccinated numbers?
Remarkable bullshit in the face facts.
VIC Chief Health Dissembler Brett Sutton was on ABC radio the other day saying the vaccines “weren’t as good as we would have hoped” but were “extraordinarily good at reducing hospitalisation and death.”
Australia has had over twice the number of deaths this year as for the entire pandemic, despite vaccination rates that are rarely bettered in any other country.
By what measure are vaccines reducing deaths?
Noam Chomsky: Trump the ‘One Western Statesman of Stature’ Pushing Peace in Ukraine
Famed leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky has credited former President Donald Trump for being one of the few prominent statesmen in the West actively pushing for peace in Ukraine as opposed to escalating war with Russia.
Though Chomsky called the former president a dangerous figure for a host of reasons during a recent virtual interview, he did admit that Trump has proposed practical, peaceful solutions to ending the war in Ukraine. Chomsky said:
Well, there is, fortunately, one statesman in the United States and Europe, a high political figure, who has made a very sensible statement about how you can solve the crisis. Namely, by facilitating negotiations instead of undermining them and moving toward establishing some kind of accommodation in Europe, in which there are no military alliances, but just mutual accommodation.
Move towards negotiations and diplomacy instead of escalating the war. Try to see if we can bring about accommodation, which would be roughly along these lines.
His name is Donald J. Trump
Hairy’s College friend the other nite is taking in Ukrainian refugees into his large London house, and is collecting funds to send protective gear and ammunition to Poland for transfer by friends to Ukrainian fighters. He showed us pics of his guys in Ukraine wearing his gear.
Wonder what he’ll think when a picture of his Uke buddies turns up committing a war crime “wearing his gear”.
One very important thing to surface in the WZV debacle is the people who have rushed to the petite fascist train on their way to power.
Instructive, n’est pas?
Artillery shells not going off? No problem, fire more shells to get the desired number exploding on target. This calculation is also used with ICBM’s. You don’t think that a bunch of ICBM’s fired off after sitting in silos for years, are all going to work do you, considering the love and care that is lavished on launch vehicles which still sometimes fail? Why you also send more than one missile to a target when you really care.
I was introduced to the military way of thinking many years ago when I was a civilian weatherman on a RAAF base. One morning the SAS were going to jump out of a C-130 and this SAS Sergeant kept coming into the office wanting to know if the wind on the ground was going to be more than 12 knots in the jump zone. On the third visit I asked why this mattered, to be told that under 12 knots nearly all the troops landed without injury. So I said what if the wind is 20 knots? “We’ll get 20% ineffectives after landing”. What if you rally have to go anyway? “We’ll put 25% more guys on the plane”.
It all went OK and sime tome later the guy got me a parachute for my glider and taught me how to pack it.
This is why I reckon the Ruskis are winning. The Uke bullshit is just over the top.
I had a video pop up from a guy who’d done some interesting discussions on air combat. His topic in the video? The Ghost of Kyiv. FMD.
Tom
I never thought I’d see the day that Airbus would have a better craft than Boeing, but taking your word for it , that day has arrived. Just sad.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
May 2, 2022 at 6:59 pm
Pozsar is saying the world is underestimating the impact of Ukraine’s production of everything being disrupted.
Judging by prices on offer the grain traders aren’t.
Eggs are going up here in the UK, and especially so is chicken meat.
Due to the price of Ukrainian grain on which they are fed.
Back in the 1980s, they were fed (at least partially) on fish meal, and tasted and smelled fishy.
TFM says:
Mostly agreed on all points. I would only add that:
* They obtained consent, but this consent was uninformed and not freely given, it was under duress and so inadmissible.
* The enforcement being outsourced to business is somewhat relevant to the deadliness of the vaccine (not only the mandates surrounding its use) because the same fascism that co-opted the private sector to create the segregated society also greased the rails to big pharma profit with a tokenistic no-penalty regulatory approval mechanism.
It has occurred to me that the documentation Pfizer provided was so extensive precisely to dissuade the regulator from actually reading it. The FDA were in a similar position that you and I are in when an installer pops up a 20 page EULA and asks you to read it before deciding to use the software. Probably the regulator clicked “I Agree” for the same reasoning we do.
Jupes’ reponse reminded me.
Lol , anyone see this. Someone sent it to me awhile back
War is coming. Adopt a Ukrainian ref.
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aGzE40z_700bwp.webp
professional gold diggers
JC, the Boeing company is now run by accountants in Chicago. Most have only ever been to the company’s factories in Seattle and Charlotte SC on rookie familiarisations. Boeing hasn’t been run by engineers for 20 years. Most Airbus designers work on the floors above the main widebody production line in Toulouse.
Zip
A barrister dude I know married one. She’s an absolute head turner.
re: Jupes’
The first instance that I rejected was the story of Russia shelling the maternity ward. Must have been a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, accidents happen, but I doubt this even happened at all and Putin didn’t hold on to power all this time by being unable to foresee blowback.
re: RickW’s
Uke
Just Do It.
JC, the Boeing company is now run by accountants in Chicago. Most have only ever been to the company’s factories in Seattle and Charlotte SC on rookie familiarisations
“Airplanes? You mean the company makes airplanes” Rookie Boeing exec on visit to Seattle.
Tom, I read about it’s demise. According to the piece, Boeing went down hill with their takeover of McDonnell Douglas. Boeing took it over, but the Douglas crew to over and began to run things. That crew infected Boeing with all their terrible traits such as only showing concern for accounting tricks and cutting corners. The Boeing dudes were regular engineers of the highest caliber and never stood a chance against that crew.
Tom
The 310 maybe a better machine ( I don’t know), but the Dreamliner is an excellent plane to travel in too. I’ve never felt so refreshed after traveling on a long flight before I flew in a 787. The pressurization is fabulous and the air is quite humid which actually does (at least for me) reduce the wear and tear from jet lag.
Wifey reckons she didn’t suffer much jet lag recently.
Thanks, Tom certainly explains the companies decline from designing and building B707 to B767’s to what we have seen lately and sclerotic response with later models problems…
but the Douglas crew took over
Boeing is still in my never to sell bucket of investments. Man, it’s really hurt having come down to US$148 from US$381. I bought the thing at around $US45ish when I was putting together the never sell bucket. It’s up from that, but the fall from the top has really hurt.
JC
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing-lost-its-bearings/602188/
Snappos
Yep, that’s the piece Bill. Thanks for remembering and posting the link.
Hard to believe, they had 40,000 engineers at Boeing one time according to the link.
I can’t believe the WSJ would publish this stuff.
Umm, Rockdoctor, the most recent example of that was the 737 Max.
For what it is worth, I think Airbus is ahead of Boeing in getting the pilot/software balance right.
How do you know it’s bullshit?
the more things change….
How Elites Lie to You: Propaganda & Manipulation by the Government & the Press – Noam Chomsky (1991)
Tomsays:
May 2, 2022 at 8:04 pm
JC, the Boeing company is now run by accountants in Chicago. Most have only ever been to the company’s factories in Seattle and Charlotte SC on rookie familiarisations. Boeing hasn’t been run by engineers for 20 years. Most Airbus designers work on the floors above the main widebody production line in Toulouse.
The tyranny of generalist “managers”, who believe “managers” can do anything, even in the absence of actual knowledge of the system being “managed”.
The reactor core is enclosed in a building and I think below ground.
Presumably the core is housed inside a building/structure, so why would it be unbelievable to think the Russians didn’t hit it with artillery shells?
Small edit change.
Presumably the core is housed inside a building/structure, so why would it be unbelievable to think the Harvey Normans didn’t hit it with artillery shells?
Lizzie at 6:59.
Don’t even stray into that area of justifying yourself.
To anybody.
Least of all the bitter bus-driver.
Pelosi commits the United States to Ukraine’s victory
Oh, fuck off. Just. Fuck. Off.
The Hun:
Because that has never, ever happened before in the entire history of schools.
I know this school has become an easy target of late, but this has ‘compo claim’ scrawled all over it.
KD, I’m guessing she scored very low in the ratings pyramid. 🙂
Back it in.
Solid 2.
The Boeing dudes were regular engineers of the highest caliber and never stood a chance against that crew.
The 747 was probably they’re crowning achievement, the size, the time to design and build it, the safety record.
Heading for an election wipeout, Joe Biden is doubling down on every failed policy
Nina Jankowicz, 2020: Government Should Not Be in ‘Business’ of Policing ‘Disinformation’
As an avid reader of Aviation Herald, watcher of Air Crash Investigation & frequent passenger, sorta agree Sancho. Boeing until the Max allowed pilot control to override the computer.
I have sent Bill P’s piece to a mate who is in aviation. Be interesting to see his response as someone I know is Boeing biased but thinks they are dropping the ball of late.
She said tanks firing at the core. Not artillery firing at building/ structure. This is exactly the trajectory of news reports when the RUS took control of the reactor back in March. First, they were attacking the reactor. Then, the building. Finally, nothing more than small arms fire on the grounds at an admin building.
Honestly JC, Boeing have been playing catch-up for two decades.
Or rather, they should have been, but they kept relying on someone on the top floor in Seattle knowing the likes of Geoff Dixon.
Geoff who?
It all culminated with the 737 Max debacle.
Yeah, 737s are not international long-haul, but that doesn’t matter.
That shit-show tells you everything you need to know about how fucked up the place is.
It’s still there:
There’d have to be some putzes dumb enough to keep paying for Bosi’s suits, even now.
Can’t remember if it was Netflix or Stan but they had a good doco on the Douglas takeover of Boeing. Covered the two different cultures and how the accountants sidelined the engineers. It went into detail about crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
Artillery or tanks. No biggie
I still don’t see how your comment invalidates the claim in the WSJ.
How many remember DC10’s, I loved those things until the doors started falling off. It was like after the first one they thought it would never happen again. A bit like Australia’s penchant for Royal Commissions. Can anyone tell me one that solved the problem instead of shifting it somewhere else. I reckon the scumbag elite go over every detail to make sure they don’t repeat the same mistakes.
Exactly. It’s not even not news let alone being unnewsworthy.
It is about as interesting and important as Elbow’s Mum’s Aunt by marriage’s recipe for Tuna Casserole.
Although, I do proffer that the teacher was no Full Muffin Coquette.
I woked for a company that was taking over another when our MD died of a heart attack and the bastards took us over instead. Went from being a great place to work to crap in about 18 months.
This is true, Tom.
But I think the problems pre-date that (which is also linked to the takeover of MacDonnell Douglas).
I was involved in a fleet upgrade deal in the 1990’s involving a major global airline and two separate divisions of Boeing.
The arse covering and overt hatred between the two divisions of Boeing was something to behold.
A sick organisation.
The momentum of their global monopoly of the 1960’s and 1970’s carried them further than I thought, but they are now definitely second fiddle.
Woked = worked
Some of you would have woked that out already.
Northern Territory Senate candidate Jacinta Price says “we shouldn’t be dividing ourselves along the lines of race” after an Australia-wide campaign called for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Sky News
That is a myth JC.
I have had dealings with both companies.
Presenting MD as asset-stripping profiteers who destroyed Boeing is largely bullshit.
Boeing commercial was fat, dumb and happy and should have diverted their DC lobbying money into aircraft development way before the MD takeover.
Hitler up thread is busy pretending it didn’t just accuse all American blacks of being violent when drunk.
feelthebern says:
May 2, 2022 at 5:31 pm
I can’t believe we haven’t seen or heard from the ex Mrs Albo.
She must be in Sussex Street sub basement five.
Carmel Tebbit still appears on the title of his residence and one of his investment properties according to his register of interests.
Wonder if his property portfolio seem likely for someone with his salary. Wonder if someone will pry themselves away from shaming 11 year old boys rating teachers for long enough to ask him.
That is my point Rockdoctor.
Airbus have had depth of experience in “computer assist” and, yes, mistakes have been made.
But the 737 Max thing was an epic failure.
I still struggle to believe that they would introduce that level of computer control in the flight phase immediately after take off without bothering to tell the pilots what was happening.
The computer code was shit and guaranteed to result in a prang.
And any half decent pilot could have flown out of it if they were given a warning and the opportunity to override the shitty code and fly manual.
They weren’t given the opportunity to fly the aeroplane.
Boeing is guilty of some 700 cases of manslaughter.
GreyRanga
I reckon the scumbag elite go over every detail to make sure they don’t repeat the same mistakes.
I would be encouraged if they did, but I suspect that they search only for ways to avoid being caught again.
is this a green shoot in the libs? I don’t trust them on anything, personally.. (Jacinta excepted)
the prick is just as likely to pass it without a referendum and then tell us he didn’t lie about it.
The real issue is the big egos in the US system wanting to “beat the Europeans” and basically allowing Boeing to self-certify the 737-Max.
Shit, anyone with two eyes could see the potential issues as they stretched the 737.
The engines ended up so close to the ground they flattened the bottom of the intake nacelles.
Then they put those big mother-fucker fans on, pushed them up and forward and got some 22 year olds to cut some code to compensate for the fact that nearly every take-off was in marginal stall territory.
Madness.
Geller
Jihad Watch
The claim they fired on the core is near impossible and she doesn’t know the difference between artillery and tanks but we should still have confidence in this claim? I mean, it’s not as if these facts alone call her claim into question. The idea that they would fire shells at the reactor building is preposterous.
Why the fuck does a shittie murdoch rag think it has any business poking its snotty nose into a school’s day to day goings on. Have any laws been broken?
The White House correspondents’ dinner: Jokes about Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump take the limelight
BJ that’s what I actually meant but got ahead of myself with the submit button.
speaking of Boeing
The FAA appears to have delayed Starship launch approval AGAIN!! What’s more surprising, is the fact that NASA is still doing business with Boeing after piles of technical errors and fishy business practices.
The claim they fired on the core is near impossible and she doesn’t know the difference between artillery and tanks but we should still have confidence in this claim? I mean, it’s not as if these facts alone call her claim into question. The idea that they would fire shells at the reactor building is preposterous.
The entire fucktard meja complex is just doing as instructed by the Washington DC abomination.
Heartfelt thanks to those Cats who wished the Memsahib well for the forthcoming Chemo and radiology.
One chemo down, four to go…
Yes best wishes ZKIIA
Looks like a couple of burglars got more than they bargained for when they broke into a farm in NZ.
Some rough justice administered by the farmer and son.
Burglar 1 is said to have weighed 140kg FFS.
ZK2A, hoping for the best for your wife and yourself.
I think in time learning about what happened in Mariupol will be instructive.
Labor should disendorse NSW Senate candidate Mich-Elle Myers after she tweeted anti-Catholic slurs and denied that the 2014 Lindt Siege was a terrorist attack, says Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Disendorse the bitch!? She should be stripped naked and thrown into the middle of the Simpson desert like every other leftie arsehole.
Missed it, best wishes Zulu to you and yours.
“Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 2, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Heartfelt thanks to those Cats who wished the Memsahib well for the forthcoming Chemo and radiology.
One chemo down, four to go…”
I hope all goes well, my thoughts are with you. Stay strong.
It is almost as if Boeing’s leadership wanted to avoid the risk and cost of engineering a new design, where Airbus went and did exactly that.
Failure to innovate, even in the well-settled short to medium-ranged widebody twinjet game, is dangerous.
Hopefully Boeing has absorbed this lesson, as military aircraft and equipment sales alone won’t sustain a company of their size indefinitely.
Tough time ZK2A.
The treatment is (almost) worse than the disease.
But the cure rates are getting better and better.
From memory there was a case in Australia – the “Shaw case” that went all the way to the High Court. A couple went onto a property, smashed the lock on the fuel tank, and were filling up their car, when an irate farmer shot at the car. The driver was skidding all over the place, and his passenger was thrown out, and broke an arm. She sued the farmer, alleging excessive use of force.
The case went all the way to the High Court, who ruled that even though they were on the property without the knowledge of the owner, even though they were there to commit an offense, they were still owed a duty of care, and shooting at the car was an excessive use of force..
Zulu,
Best wishes to you and your wife.
Thank you, Cassie.
FemLib has unfinished business, and that is based embryo pods.
seen via shoe0nhead
The medics make no bones, times will be tough, but they are quietly optimistic – the tumor is localized, and hasn’t spread.
Just started watching this, Severance. Corporate dystopian sci-fi. IMDB blurb:
It has Christopher Walken and thus far would recommend.
Best of luck to your both Zulu.
slow burnerer
gets betterer
The 737 M,AX series was an attempt by Boeing’s Chicago accountants to market a Holden Commodore of an airliner that could be operated by shitbucket Third Word airlines in countries like Indonesia and Ethiopia with minimal crew training.
Indonesia’s Lion Air, for example, is one of the fastest-growing airlines in the world and, because of a global pilot shortage, has been recruiting drivers straight off long-distance coachlines.
The idea with the MAX is that it can be flown by onboard computers with minimal pilot input.
Until it was modified following crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that killed nearly 350 people, the MAX was an accountant’s perfect sales pitch – even though the potential for disaster horrified engineers like Phil Condit, the last Boeing engineer-CEO (1996-2003).
The MAX has only produced operational problems in the Third World – not in jurisdictions with proper flight training regimes like the USA.
Moscow residents react to the West sending weapons to Ukraine
very interesting
Yes it is.
But according to the Ukrainian nuclear inspectorate:
In addition the external power supply to the plant was damaged.
It appears the damage to the reactor was not significant – and no radiation was released.
So, only gentle and well-considered shelling. Probably by highly trained artillery, thoroughly experienced in missing vital parts of a nuclear reactor during a night shoot.
Or, easily disproved misinformation.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
May 2, 2022 at 10:16 pm
Heartfelt thanks to those Cats who wished the Memsahib well for the forthcoming Chemo and radiology.
One chemo down, four to go…
Best wishes. Hope that, as sometimes happens, it isn’t too bad an experience, but more importantly that, as often happens, it’s a complete success.
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Even if we accept the claims of the Ukrainians, a huge ‘if’ given their past dissembling, the tanks weren’t shelling the reactor core.
rickw:
Something tells me (a little birdee) Bankers and stock traders will be going at knockdown prices – along with mule harness for the rotary tiller. You won’t need fuel for it, Humans in Harness will provide locomotion and be far cheaper too.
Sending our very warmest wishes for a completely successful treatment, mate. Very best to both of you.
Bruce
“The idea that they would fire shells at the reactor building is preposterous.”
I suspect that the tank gunners had very little idea what they were firing at.
Sorry, Dr Faustus, my last comment was specifically to the author’s claim.
The report you link to refers to artillery fire.
dover0beach says:
May 3, 2022 at 12:02 am
I find that the losing side always has more incentive to hide the truth.
God-damn Clanners. First with their obsessions with honour, then their weird traditions and pseudo-communist culture and then their artificial wombs and elevation of gene-edited decanted folks as superior beings.
I’d normally leave this until May 20th, but everyone needs a timely reminder that these weirdos, for all their eugenics, martial prowess and superior technology, got vibe-checked by a godamn telecom company with guns…
#PayYourBillsFucko
#NeverForget
Ok, to be very clear:
1) I strongly doubt that the journo would distinguish between core, containment, and reactor environmental building. Likely it would all be ‘shot up nuclear reactor’ to her.
2) I strongly doubt that the Ukrainian nuclear inspectorate would distinguish between artillery fire and tank fire. Likely it would all be incoming exploding (or not) shit to them.
It’s confusion in unfamiliar technical terms, used out of context, that leads to someone saying – ‘well we can safely assume that’s all bullshit, then’.
A translation of the video would be great.
20 year dudes hammed up in a fire fight would know the building structure they were shooting at it housed a reactor core?
But this wasn’t the crux of the story. They were shooting dud rounds, which suggests they’re a mess of a military. Time and time again this has been shown to be credible. The Russian military is only good for running a Harvey Norman used appliance store. It’s fucking useless.
If they were halfway decent, it would have been over by now.
I think the Russians will likely win, but it’s not a given even now.
Read the story again, the idiots were getting lost taking wrong roads. It’s a fucking shambles.
MiltonF:
I bet if we were to check we’d find there are no Politicians kids involved.
Which would be why that particular school was chosen.
And Dover, nearly all your posts about the war are from Twitter. Why are your Twitter links accurate while everything else is bullshit? Is that because everything on Twitter is so honest?
Yes, because Russians have always been totally up front and honest about things -even through the Cold War.
The funniest thing I recall that came out after the Cold War was how Russian propaganda had totally hoodwinked the Americans to believe the Soviet economy was massive. It subsequently came out that if was on par with the Netherlands.
Yep, the Russians are honest brokers.
You appear to be stuck on this. It’s of no consequence to the integrity of the story if the firing was from artillery or tanks. It just doesn’t matter.
Sure, but there is also the matter about why there is incoming fire in that area. Were UKR forces situated at the nuclear plant? Where they firing on the advancing RUS? When you go and look at the paragraph it paints a picture of drunken Ruskies talking pot shots at the reactor like weekend hunters shooting the odd street sign of old. It’s not mere unfamiliarity with technical terms, it’s not mere embellishment, it’s tendentious rot. It’s akin to the following:
Okay.
Tell Dover, would you know what a building housing a reactor core looks like?
Rex Anger:
From the other links, it would appear not.
A poisonous admin vs engineer culture, some dodgy business decisions backed up by help from maaaates in government – I’d sell now.
I can tell the difference between a tank and artillery.
I’d bet there was security forces of some sort or another around a nuclear reactor. There would be in peace time too.
Possibly. In fact most likely.
Here’s the paragraph:
Doesn’t sound as though they were drunk as you suggest. The paragraph doesn’t attempt to make the Russian solders sound stupid either. The central point of the para is that they were firing duds.
But seriously, I’d expect it to be one of the central buildings, close to cooling towers.
Great. But can you tell what houses a reactor or not?
If one was going to be charitable (or accurate to the weird and wonderful things that happen in combat), I would have assumed artillery overshoots from a fire mission on a target somewhere within the shells’ arc and the targeted location, but landing well outside it.
Overshoots are perfectly normal- Artillery is an area weapon, no matter how accurate the firing weapon is and what precision doo-hickery is strapped to the projectile.
That the shells shattered or failed to detonate on impact is a divine blessing. Or severely statistically unlikely but fortunate outcome, depending on how you swing. But perhaps not a very favourable assessment of the Russian logistics train to the point of firing, or its munitions manufacturers or the storage and handling procedures employed up to the moment the breechblock clanged shut and the primer ignited.
Hammed up 20 year olds would say the same thing, I’m sure.
LOL.
We seem to have slipped away from correctly naming the parts of a nuclear reactor into whataboutism.
I really don’t know, but I’d guess that there was shellfire in the area because Russian troops were invading. Seems plausible, all things considered.
That, there, is tendentious rot. The piece quoted above doesn’t suggest any of those things – specifically not pissed Russians on a whoopie shoot.
The US 10 year bond is virtually at 3%.
Rita Panahi: Labor’s shared equity housing plan is diabolically dumb
There was a time when such ill-considered tomfoolery would only come from a minor party but Labor has launched a policy so harebrained that Adam Bandt must be feeling jealous.
Rita Panahi
Labor’s shared equity housing plan is such a thoroughly and diabolically dumb policy that one could be mistaken for thinking the Greens came up with it.
There was a time when such ill-considered tomfoolery would only come from a minor party with no chance of governing but Labor has launched a policy so harebrained that Adam Bandt must be feeling jealous.
There are of course concerns with such schemes only pushing up housing prices further but there are greater issues with sharing ownership of your home with the government.
It’s not a good idea when proposed by state or territory governments and it’s certainly not a good idea when pushed by the financially inept federal Labor Party which has not returned a surplus since 1989.
Yes, it’s been 33 years since Labor managed to deliver a federal budget surplus.
Labor’s key housing policy is scant on detail because the more you learn of the shared equity plan the more holes you can pick in the scheme.
Under the $329 million scheme qualifying home buyers would have up to 40 per cent of their home (for new property) or 30 per cent (for existing property) paid for and owned by the government.
Buyers would only have to contribute a two per cent minimum deposit and a cap of $850,000 would apply for Melbourne and major regional centres in Victoria, with a marginally higher cap for NSW.
Putting to one side the fact that there are sound reasons why financial institutions require prospective most home buyers to save at least five to 10 per cent deposit and think about the administrative nightmare Labor’s plan would unleash.
It’s one thing to have the bank own most of your house but something else for the government to own a percentage.
Unlike a mortgage the government’s ownership is calculated as a percentage of the home value, not the initial dollar amount invested plus interest, meaning when the property is sold, the government would take its portion of whatever capital gains have been made.
If the house is a sound investment which has been lovingly maintained the government stands to benefit but if the place is a dump in an area with little capital growth then the taxpayer’s investment will be questionable.
A massive bureaucratic mess awaits anyone involved in the scheme who renovates or extends the property.
A valuation must be performed if you renovate so the government doesn’t reap the benefits of your hard work and expenditure when you sell but anyone who understands the property market knows all too well a valuation performed when improvements are undertaken can be meaningless two years or twenty years later.
A pool may see your property increase 5% at the time it’s installed.
20 years later the impact of that pool may be a 15 per cent improvement or it may be negative five per cent if it makes a subdivision more difficult or more expensive.
How do we determine who gets what when a sale takes place years after capital improvements are undertaken?
How do we determine the value added by those who do not complete a large-scale renovation but maintain their property with regular painting, planting and loving care?
Or do homeowners have to complete a formal valuation after every single improvement whether it’s new carpets, a new fence, heating and cooling installations or other small upgrades?
The only redeeming feature of this policy is that it won’t be inflicted on every Australian unlike the monstrously stupid energy policies of Labor and their ideological bedfellows the Greens and the Climate 200 ‘independents’.
The policy gives voters an insight into the modern Labor Party.
They may be running a small target strategy by pretending they are fiscal conservatives who will mirror Coalition policies from border protection to economic management but once in power we can expect a very different beast.
Labor has learned well from losing the unlosable election in 2019; they know not to scare the electorate with a detailed policy platform but their shared equity plan gives a worrying insight into the hard Left values of modern Labor.
Herald-Sun
Does that qualify as good or bad, JC?
I.E. A good investment? Or avoid?
Sancho, I guess I was just intent on highlighting his charming descriptor for me.
Something has gone seriously wrong with his head, I think, to be so disgusting to a woman.
It is these times. No-one is totally sane, and it’s even worse in Britain.
On Ukraine, I just sympathise with the human side of it, and mostly keep quiet.
On matters Covid and Climate, well, it’s difficult at Hairy’s brother’s place with The Times and BBC around all the time. Hairy made a valiant effort to get his bro to change perspectives on the basis of known facts, and he finally did manage to persuade him that it was generally accepted that the virus was manipulated in a lab. For a while bro was holding the fort that no, that was all right-wing nonsense. He had to admit defeat to Hairy’s major barrage, especially when he was invited to check it on the internet even with his favoured own suppliers of information and found Hairy was right. Hairy crowing at him about you didn’t get any of that information from your usual sources did you?
Checkmate and he conceded defeat. Just on that matter though. CO2 is still killing us slowly and Covid will resurge to do so too. That’s the British way these days. I pour on peacemaking oils, because this is family and resentments are not good.
Sorry, blockquote fail there, RickW had added more to my original comment re the friend who is supplying Ukrainian fighters.
Anyway, I don’t pick sides in this war.
Speedbox in a main thread above provides an interesting Russian perspective.
I Wonder Why Hundreds of CDC Employees Aren’t Vaxxed
For the past two years now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has aggressively lectured us about wearing masks, social distancing, vaccination, and even boosters.
We’re told repeatedly that “the science” says masks work, that the virus can’t travel more than six feet or while you’re eating food, that the vaccines are completely safe, etc.
As of right now, they’re recommending boosters every few months until the end of the world.
But while the CDC officially recommends all of us to get jabbed for eternity, as of April 12, there are nearly 400 employees at the CDC who have refused to get vaccinated. According to a report from the Epoch Times, 382 workers at the CDC are unvaccinated. Another nine have only had one dose of Pfizer or Moderna, meaning they’re technically not “fully vaccinated.” These unvaxxed employees account for 3.2% of the CDC’s workforce.
Okay, one could argue that a 96.8% vaccination rate is pretty darn high—and sure it is—but this is the CDC we’re talking about here. These people are (in theory) experts in the field and have access to more information than most … so why doesn’t the CDC have 100% vaccination?
Curious, isn’t it?
John Spooner.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Steve Bright.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Al Goodwyn.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Al Goodwyn #2.
Ben Garrison.
Nothing wrong with my head Lizzie.
Having female genitalia does not prevent others losing respect for you ….. due to your own actions.
Everyone is due respect until they are proven to be unworthy of it.
And you know I used to show you respect.
I haven’t changed Lizzie.
My stance on this and my understanding of civic responsibility and duty to your fellow man have not changed.
So what’s changed Lizzie?
I’ve been watching the Space Station for the last few days – it visibly passes over here (Canberra region) for an hour or two before sunrise. It’s unmistakeable, a very bright, kind of log-shaped thing in the roughly north-eastern sky.
A couple of mornings ago I thought I was seeing double because there were two bright things close together. However, nothing else was being seen in duplicate so I went to the website. Nada.
I just went out and there it is again, two distinct objects, very bright, only further apart. So much so that it couldn’t be a blackout in the middle. Back to the website.
Nada.
Whatever it is, since millions of people can see it just by looking up, secrecy is a bit pointless.
While I am here, I noted the discussion about flies and dung beetles yesterday. If you see footage of politicians being interviewed in front of OPH, or journalists pontificating there, during the 1960s and early 70s they are constantly being assailed by bushflies. It was a bad look, but it is understandable that having flies crawl into your eyes and up your nose required some sort of swatting/brushing reaction every few seconds.
Not a problem anywhere in the Parliamentary Triangle these days.
The CSIRO claimed credit for getting rid of them via the dung beetle program. I daresay it helped, but suspect that the ever-widening spread of suburbia and the decrease of livestock numbers in surrounding areas had a lot to do with it.
The surrounding areas of Canberra/Queanbeyan are now mostly hobby farms. Lots of smallholdings with a few Highland cattle or llamas or alpacas or rare breed sheep or free-range (insert creature here) – you get the idea – and many with just a few chooks and a pony for the kids, or no farm animals at all.
Not dissing the dung beetles, but there is a lot less dung anywhere near Parliament House these days. Of that kind, anyway.
While we’re on the subj. I would like to address the myth (IMO) that Canberra is the ruination of a good sheep farm. Having lived through two droughts in 25-odd years around here, my view is that while it is possible to raise sheep here in good years, it is impossible in bad ones, and bad ones are not rare, and come in succession.
Sheep farm? Yes. Good sheep farm? No.
Nevertheless, we have had day after day of magnificent Autumn weather – bright blue sunny skies, little or no breeze, and the trees colouring up. Almost reached zero the other night, won’t be long before the first frost.
Youse weaklings who need the ambient temperature to warm up your blood (looking at you, KD) need to be reminded by us descendants of the Norsemen that the history of civilisation does not favour those who loaf about the Equator chewing on mangoes, slurping coconut juice and hoping that a tropical storm will wash up some rum from a shipwreck. 🙂
Do some reading of early exploration and you’ll find descriptions of bush flies and natives long before a hoofed beast ever arrived here.
Seen that too the other night, johanna,
Thought is it a refection?
Bacon and eggs thanks Johanna.
On toast.
Mushrooms too if you have them.
INSTANT coffee..Nescafe gold…white and none.
Get to it.
Don’t remember flies being a problem in Canberra when I lived there.
Instead of just building a property portfolio, Mike Cannon-Brookes is agitating for coal to exit the scene asap.
Someone should point out to him that when the blackouts come, IT will be useless. And, someone should inform the general public that all their solar power systems that are grid connected will shut down as soon as there is a blackout. It’s a safety measure to protect power workers.
Just catching up on the ‘news’ and find an item about how ScoMo is supposed to have been served raw chicken at some ethnic do (no prizes for guessing the source.) There was a photo of a chicken dish where the meat had not been browned, but was boiled or poached. It was unquestionably cooked, as the PM said.
Leaving aside the lack of integrity by the ‘reporter’ – why on Earth would an ethnic group try to poison the PM with – drum roll – undercooked chicken?
Absurd and desperate.
‘Sh*t JUST got real’: Elon Musk swings back at ‘lovely people’ at MSNBC in a big way for calling all Republicans ‘Nazis’ and OH HELL YEAH
Left media just can’t help themselves. The NYT is going full retard by doing two 9000 word hit pieces on Tucker Carlson.
He’s the most-watched cable news commentator in the USA because he does a brilliant job of skewering the mad left and their destructive policies. He does it with a nice, measured delivery and dashes of humour.
Powerline has the story.
You’re kidding. It’s the start of The Dry, and it’s freezing up here.
24.5 degrees at present. Almost beanie time.
Best wishes for Mrs ZK2A. Tough times but the alternative doesn’t bare thinking about.
ABC News radio this morning had an item on Eid!
The announcer explained that Eid is the festive event marking the end of Ramadan, where muslims fast “from dusk to dawn”.
I look forward to their explanation of Yom Kippur being all about a war.
Not that the ABC is keen to publicise j-wish (pardon my tentative approch to a word banned at Old Cat site) religious days.
Amazon slaves….I mean workers on Staten Island vote no to unionise.
Seriously, if Bezos wasn’t such a huge donor to the DNC the DOJ would be all over his union busting.
Just like when Obama set the DOJ loose on companies that were moving to right to work states.
US 10 year hit 3%, now a tad under it.
From The Oz. I like Aussie Cossack, he’s a shit stirrer, and now he’s a “Putin Pest”. LOL. But interesting how a so called major newspaper uses a description “Putin Pest” to describe someone.
A few salient points. Fiona Martin is the lightweight Liberal member for Reid (which encompasses the inner west of Sydney and as far west as Auburn (near Parramatta). Martin won the seat by a tiny margin (a few votes) back in 2019. She’s one of the “moderates” who crossed the floor earlier this year. Apparently “trans rights” are more important to her than “religious freedom”. She’s gonski, such is the level of her in the electorate towards her (my sister lives in the electorate. The electorate of Reid is not like the electorates of Wentworth, Warringah and North Sydney. It has a strong religious element and high pockets of ethnic groups, Chinese, Koreans, Lebanese (both Muslim and Christian) and so on. Martin is not liked in the electorate.
She’s a this from the Oz. Natalie Baini is now an independent running for Reid (she’s not one of Simon’s babes).
“Putin ‘pest’ Simeon Boikov
A close ally and personal friend of Reid independent candidate Natalie Baini is a founding member of a Facebook page spreading misinformation about incumbent MP Fiona Martin.
The Concord News and Gossip page has repeatedly posted videos made by pro-Putin pest Simeon Boikov – known as the “Aussie Cossack” – who is campaigning against Ms Martin in the inner-west Sydney seat.
Strathfield women’s Liberal branch president Liana Allan, who also uses the surname Ross, declined to clarify her involvement with the page but managed it when it was established in 2012.
Under a post about an Anzac Day ceremony at the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway in Concord West, group members talked about how Ms Martin was late to the event, forgot her wreath and walked across the stage during a prayer. Concord News and Gossip said: “Fiona was seen walking up to men in uniform asking them if they would stand in a photo with her.”
This prompted another user to remark “shameless”.
It is understood the staffer tasked with organising Ms Martin’s wreath contracted Covid and the venue organised a replacement for the MP. Her office denied she was late to the ceremony.
In a post sharing a story where Ms Martin criticised Labor senator Kristina Keneally for running in the electorate of Fowler, the page said it was a case of “Pot. Kettle. Black given that Fiona wasn’t a local in her area either”.
The fight for Reid is becoming increasingly toxic and Ms Baini’s supporters believe she has been betrayed by both the party and former member Craig Laundy. Ms Baini’s supporters view Ms Martin – a Scott Morrison captain’s pick – as an interloper and a fake.
Ms Baini, a former vice-president of the Liberals’ Reid branch, has claimed Mr Laundy blocked her preselection after she ended a two-year affair with him on learning he remained with wife Suzie. Mr Laundy bankrolled and Ms Baini worked on Ms Martin’s campaign in the 2019 election.
Underneath one Aussie Cossack video on Concord News and Gossip, one member said the Facebook page clearly didn’t like the Liberals. “Since when is Concord News and Gossip a place for political campaigning.”
Ms Allan, who is not campaigning for Ms Martin due to her friendship with Ms Baini, has also tweeted at least three times the invitation Mr Boikov relied upon when he gatecrashed the incumbent Liberal MP’s campaign launch at the Drummoyne Sailing Club on April 20. A Liberal Party spokesman confirmed Mr Boikov was not invited to the event launch, attended by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, by either the party or Ms Martin.
“Mr Boikov was not invited by the party or the member for Reid to the campaign event,” he said.
It is believed a local party member shared the event link with Mr Boikov, allowing him to automatically generate an invitation.
Mr Boikov has been encouraging his more than 155,000 followers to vote for Ms Baini instead of Ms Martin and claimed he is running a “counter campaign” in the Reid by-election.
He said he had never met and did not have any dealings with Ms Baini, did not know Ms Allan, and only wanted to question Ms Martin.
“Nothing should be interpreted as a threat or any sort of violence or intimidation against any candidate on my behalf,” he said.
He said he would share how he obtained the launch invitation during his court case against NSW Police for false arrest.
Mr Boikov said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was more of a “liberation” to “de-Nazify and demilitarise” that had evolved into a humanitarian catastrophe.
Ms Baini and Ms Allan did not return a request for comment.
On the St Kevins non event, the lefties are pissed coz the boys aren’t deviants, just normal. I was 12, my cousins friend was a student teacher, she was hot. First time I realised this is what girls turn into, at least some of them do.
File under durrrrrrrr….
From the WSJ.
Grindr User Data Has Been for Sale for Years
Millions of Grindr users had their location data collected from the gay-dating app and sold for years, people familiar with the matter say.
From Bespoke’s link.
Elon, you heavyweight champ.
It’s just possible Johanna that you’ve seen this happening live.
Russia Releases New Video Of Detachment From ISS, Blames The West For Aggravating Ties (7 Mar)
That was the threat a month ago. I wonder if the Poot has now told them to do it? I’m not seeing it in the news though.
That petulant and not so bright chap made himself a multi-billionaire by selling electric cars to hypocritical fantasists, and now a) runs a better space program than NASA, and b) just bought a closed-shop propaganda machine from the same people he squeezed for Tesla cash.
Define ‘not-so-bright’.
Worst bodyguard ever (the Hun):
And:
Then:
Believe all women. Also, check your bodyguard’s CV before you sign him up.
I’d comment but
A bit more on the space station, from today:
Russia will reportedly ditch the International Space Station (2 May)
The other thing is they announced they would work with China on such things:
Snubbed by West, Russia to work with China on manned space missions (26 Apr)
China already has a space station in orbit. I wonder if the segment connections are compatible? That would be a neat trick: sail the Russian segment from the ISS over to the Chinese space station and connect it up.
The not so bright billionaire is a brilliant narrative isn’t it?
“Elon Musk
NBC basically saying Republicans are Nazis …
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Same org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it & built Matt Lauer his rape office. Lovely people.”
A Trumpian response. This is what you do with lying progressive hypocrites, you throw it back at them.
Australia News
Federal Election
Former Labor secretary Cameron Milner says a ‘rat in the rank’ spoiled Anthony Albanese’s campaign launch
Former Queensland Labor secretary Cameron Milner believes a “rat in the rank” tipped the Coalition off about Labor’s PBS pledge allowing them to make the announcement first.
how to get $250 from Dan Andrews oops taxpayers
ABC cries out on behalf of Australians caught up in Shanghai lockdown. As expected it’s all scomo’s fault. We want more repatriation flights!
Heart attacks don’t wait for you to turn 52, they can strike at any age, at any time
I favour the James Bond circa 1956 breakfast – bacon, eggs, toast, coffee and orange juice.
I’ve ordered it it many hotels without a flicker of recognition, I suppose that the Machine would crunch down on any joint that offered a ‘Bond Breakfast.’
Can’t say that any of them have been very good, generally passable to abysmal. Cold eggs, slimy undercooked bacon, orange cordial.
When I was staying at a hotel in Parramatta a few years ago, I went to the Maccas down the road for one of their bacon and egg thingies rather than face the rubber ‘scrambled’ eggs and cold plywood ‘toast’ on offer for breakfast downstairs. It was not a cheap hotel, either. Not at all.
That was before the council completely messed up the town and you could get bacon and eggs and a Bloody Mary for a late breakfast in the restaurant precinct. Very civilised.
Alas, since closing off one part of the town had turned it into a boarded-up wasteland inhabited by drug dealers and muggers, the council decided that this just proved that cars are evil. So they proceeded to devastate more of what was all the things they claim to support – a people friendly strip of restaurants and shops and bars and cafes with outdoor seating. It was humming, everyone was happy.
This could not be tolerated, so now it has been closed off to cars, and there are plans for a tram at humungous expense. Combined with COVID nonsense, this formerly enjoyable and thriving piece of Sydney is now almost dead. Pity the poor buggers who worked and put their savings into it.
Seriously, ten years ago you could wander along a couple of blocks and get six different cuisines including Assryian and Hmong, with outdoor seating, and you could smoke.
Oh, well.
Forget the Ghost of Kyyv.
The best fighter pilot with the best plane at the time was named DICK BONG – and he actually existed.
Maybe Cock Spliff wasn’t such a stupid name for my son – the ex wife ex GAA pro field hockey player, Miss Ireland, flautist, equestrian and PhD in mathematics ought to know that, after she split with the kid and Our Maserati.
“40 fit, smart and young Asian men were smoked by Dick Bong…”
Brilliant, swap in a croissant and add in a proper hot chocolate with a cigarillo, Monsieur Bond ala Riviera Francaise.
Amusing name, but his 40 kills were shaded by the WW2 Luftwaffe, which produced over 100 aces with 100 victories, and more than a dozen with over 200. Many survived the war, having flow more or less continuously in combat for years.
Seriously, ten years ago you could wander along a couple of blocks and get six different cuisines including Assryian and Hmong, with outdoor seating, and you could smoke.
have to agree a pleasant stroll down from the station to Wanderland/Parradise to games has has been turned into a drudge of “for sale/lease” signage/boarded up businesses and detouring around the, ever movin, construction barriers .. and when it is all finished no one will care cos most of the businesses will be long gone ..
Peter Wynn’s Score once a, must visit, shrine to fitba/footie fanatics on game days and always packed is now struggling for customers and opening on, severely, reduced hours ………
In Polltime for Allegra and Za-aleee news:
Guardian Essential poll: Labor maintains lead as major parties struggle to reach disengaged voters
So, a very similar result to the Newspoll and Resolve polls:
• a big chunk of the voteherd loathes the Uniparty and all who sail on her;
• nobody cares much for the minors;
• indies are in for a good showing;
• Labor’s campaign toppled off the launch pad;
• the question is, which Bradbury?
Small mercies: At least this poll isn’t showing 15% for the Greens.
* the calculated 2PP+ excludes the ‘undecided’ picked up in the poll.
rickw
This article explains that diesel will be expensive and in short supply for a long time, just wondering if you think he’s right.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/diesel-prices-soaring-beyond-crude-gasoline-and-likely-to-stay-that-way
Gates:
Bill Gates Wants Global Surveillance Pact with W.H.O. to Forestall ‘Even More Fatal’ Coronavirus Variants (2 May)
Also Gates:
Bill Gates: ‘Huge Mistake’ to Meet With Jeffrey Epstein (2 May)
Multiple times eh? How interesting. Bill is increasingly sounding like exactly the sort of person who I would not like as a health nazi enforcing looney ideas from WHO on all of us.
cloud farms have ample backup generators
BoN, sailing the Russian Space Station modules over to the Chinese one has a major problem. Orbital inclination differs by 10 degrees or so. You need to find over 1 km/sec of Delta V. That would require a substantial rocket stage.
So, best case, either:
• A user;
• Sucked right in;
• Unbearably stupid;
• Young and naïve beyond his years.
performing teals ring master crying poor
Nigel Farage boaties doing what boaties do
Who are you?
I need to knoooow!
🙂