Things go better with Coke! https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1788241859623731519?t=gs-70L_-PCelf1pkmNp4tw&s=19
Open Thread – Tues 7 June 2022
The US united with President Biden. https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1788530079301013828?t=H1iVTYMwF3eWGdLxxiImcw&s=19
Yep. https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1788547966053044411?t=ysFZHEMGMi5f7-VOjhOOtw&s=19
Hamas, the nicest people. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h13py4vf0
The world leader. No not Joe. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1788564251931508966?t=mXOQZFvi-uhA4yioDJq58Q&s=19
gaslighting the vaccine inured
DarkHorse Podcast Clips
injured
An Australian airport has launched legal action to fight ‘appalling’ mask rules still in place inside their facilities despite them being scrapped elsewhere.
Canberra Airport CEO Stephen Byron said on Tuesday the mask rule was ‘discrimination’ and has no public health basis in fighting Covid.
‘We’re not (seeking) damages, it’s just to make it clear that this is illegal and it is beyond the Human Rights Act,’ Mr Byron told ABC Canberra.
‘It is a discrimination with no legal basis, there’s no health basis, there’s no data or evidence that requires this, everyone knows and agree (with) that.’
Mr Byron previously gave the ACT’s chief health officer Kerryn Coleman a deadline of 5pm Monday to revoke the mandate or explain why the strict rules must stay.
The mask rules is no longer in place in cafes, bars, pubs, gyms, cinemas or retail settings but it is still enforced Australia-wide on all aircraft and inside all airports.
On Monday morning, Mr Byron said he was still waiting for answers from the ACT government after the airport’s lawyers issued a letter last week threatening legal action.
‘There is no evidence the airport terminal is any more infectious than going to any nightclub or shopping centre in Canberra,’ Mr Byron told Daily Mail Australia.
‘The mandate is appalling, unnecessary, completely discriminatory and not based on any scientific evidence.’
Daily Mail
That hint made it easier to find.
That ish shum high-quality R. E. 9.
Damn, you’re right, it was too low-brow for me to bother seeing it.
Key word “was”, as I expect my brow has since fallen to the same level as The Waterboy, while Sandler himself wipes his tears with 400 mill. Don’t you see the beauty, the genius of it all, Mr Anderson?
aka the law
Which was completely useless when selectively applied.
Abbott and SloMo complete failures.
Telstra Wars Pt 3 result: four hours of working with a technician and we have fixed my email problem.
Pt 4 coming up – where I try to get $$$ out of them for being incompetent…
Russell Brand
5.67M subscribers
Davos is back! And now Klaus Schwab and the WEF want kids to learn all about curbing climate change…. in the metaverse! So, what are the WEF up to now, and how dangerous could their central role in the Metaverse be?
#klausschwab #WEF #thegreatreset
OpenAI’s DALL-E 2: Even More Beautiful Results! ?
Two Minute Papers
LOL. Suck it up!
Ba.5 is a “Variant for Boosted People”
Summary: The BA4/5 sister variants currently dominate two countries: South Africa and Portugal. South Africa is barely vaccinated (only 35% had a vaccine, 5% had a booster), whereas Portugal is 95% vaccinated and 70% boosted. The situations in these countries could not be any more different: while Ba.4 and Ba.5 were mere blips on the radar in South Africa, these same variants are driving a deadly wave of Covid in highly-vaccinated Portugal, with deaths among the Portuguese nearing January peak and showing few signs of abating.
Why are reinfections happening?
Because boosted people are unable to acquire proper immunity upon infection. Thus, they are forced to endure endless Covid reinfections, that further damage their immune systems, inviting more illness.
RTWT.
This is being shared around a group WhatsApp chat I’m part of.
Doctors are left stunned after cancer ‘disappears’ for EVERY patient in drug trial – raising hopes treatment is ‘tip of the iceberg’ and can be used to help people fighting other forms of the disease
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10890467/Doctors-left-shocked-clinical-trial-cancer-drug-cures-disease-participant.html
‘There is no evidence the airport terminal is any more infectious than going to any nightclub or shopping centre in Canberra,’ Mr Byron told Daily Mail Australia.
The point is well made, most airports aspire to be a shopping centre with a runway and some planes hanging off it.
big article about how manufacturing in Australia is going to be encouraged to alleviate the supply chain crisis.
Manufacturing needs electricity….
How will people react to COVID revelations? (Neil Oliver and Bret Weinstein)
UnHerd interview
Bret Weinstein: I will be vindicated over Covid
A timely reminder. Spend up big. Spend, spend and spend.
At some future point (between 10 and 40 months from now) death will spring from its hiding spot under the table like a cat after a laser pointer.
Shit.
I keep forgetting.
Or maybe it’s dEniAliSm.
Whatevs.
Party like it’s 1929.
Are the children going to be taught how to read, write and do their sums?
As much chance as nurses learning how to deliver healthcare.
https://mobile.twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1512800885352640516
Good lord, do these fear mongers and totalitarianism pushers ever shut up?
COVID-19 was detected in sewage in Spain from March 2019. NEARLY THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER….this absolute shit show of science-by-press release and degenerate orgy of authoritarianism continues unabated.
COVID-mania needs to be taken to the woodshed and to cop a merciful little .22 LR back behind the ear.
No more. It’s preposterous we have any mandates at all now.
From the Oz on BloJo:-
Err, it’s his “lightweight bonhomie” which is causing all the trouble.
Don’t get me wrong.
I like a bit of bonhomie as much as the next man.
It definitely has it’s time and place.
But that time and place isn’t guzzling claret through a funnel whilst you have your lockdown boot on the throats of the little people.
According to my GP, research suggests it’s been lingering around humans for 65,000 years. I would guess that large numbers of humans lived in caves at the time and hence there was some association with bats.
I forget the specific term, researchers have human DNA dating back tens of thousands of years as it’s trapped in solidified tree sap (what’s the name for that?). DNA from that time shows humans having the COVID virus connected to our ancestors DNA.
According to the Doc, this isn’t new in human history. What is new is the level of focus we’ve put into it over the past couple of years. It’s unhealthy.
Solidified tree sap is called , “amber”
Human DNA has been found in 65,000 amber.
You guys ever sleep?
It’s lunchtime here. Bespoke.
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Please someone shoot me. I don’t think I can stand another minute of the gerbil warming crisis.
Dear Lord, please make it stop.
Fare enough, JC. Babysitting a little girl that just woke up is my excuse.
Back to sleep good. So am I.
65,000 year old.
Oh God. Just mummify her and we pretend she’s alive.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Christian Adams.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom.
Cohenite:
The US is in a sorry state at the moment.
The predictions of the mid term elections being stopped by a state of emergency or similar are looking decidedly correct.
Bruce O’Newk:
Remember the Taiwanese building that was built using steel contaminated with Co60?
It pretty much proves the radiation hormesis theory.
Hope not Winston. That would be the tipping point for most.
So Boris attended a lockdown party against his own rules. This was referred to the police and he was subsequently fined. His party was none too happy about it and forced a vote on his leadership. He was then granted a pass by his colleagues. I expect his voter support has taken a hit. However isn’t it time for the meja to move on Including cartoonists? Surely there are more important issues for the meja to review? Or Does the illegal festivus have another 12 months 24/7 meja life ahead of it? If so the meja party hackitudes really are on display.
Fair Shake says:
June 8, 2022 at 5:46 am
My thoughts exactly, I never thought the matter important in the first place, and the ruling elite didn’t seem to care about the covid rules as far as they were concerned.
For good reasons, they knew it was a scam.
Storm in a teacup, if that.
its a mental crisis
Not really, no.
Our leaders spent several years outdoing each other from their respective pulpits, preaching that those stupid, fashionable, counterproductive restrictions were absolutely essential to save lives – because covid would kill us all. As Nick Coatsworth – who is now largely regarded by the medical bureaucracy as a traitor – said:
The lives of untold millions were irrevocably and unnecessarily changed for the worse by these people, with Johnson at the front of the pack.
What he did was ostentatiously demonstrate that the life-crushing rules he demanded of the ordinary citizen didn’t apply to him, his stupid gap-toothed greenie missus or any of his inner political circle.
If anything, there hasn’t been nearly enough scrutiny of Johnson and his counterparts. The Poms should have rioted out the front of No. 10 for weeks. There are no more important issues than this, and the more it’s held up to the light the better.
Zipster:
Our Brahmin Class is undergoing an hysterical cult formation.
Jim Jones has nothing on these fools.
In the Soviet Union they would have been denounced as ‘wreckers’ and sent to basement of the Lubyanka Building for ‘processing’.
Dilbert
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“Fox News won’t air the January 6 hearings because they prefer their sedition made fresh on-site,” Hillary Clinton
Surprisingly good article from the peanut gallery.
https://medium.com/@phystro/yes-amber-heard-is-a-victim-hear-me-out-e8b92cf48249
What’s irritating about the meeja class though is that Starmer did exactly the same thing. And has been let off by them, whereas Boris is pilloried day after day. I’m no fan of Boris but I hate the MSM’s hypocrisy much much more.
And after the pommy cartoonists have been going on and on about this for months I’m not happy with Leak for not adding Starmer to the conga line. That’s all it would’ve taken to play it straight.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/dhs-releases-bulletin-citing-concerns-heightened-threats-violent-months-ahead-supreme-court-ruling-midterms-approaching/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-06-07
In Emergency Break Glass news:
Technical Note: Tony, making transfer payments is not the same thing as ‘driving prices down’.
Very good indeed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/not-just-gas-prices-electricity-rates-77-233-last-year-democrats-declare-war-us-middle-class-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-06-07
Hahahaha…it’s emerged that three large solar power plants haven’t been connected to the NT grid for two years because if they’re connected the grid will collapse.
Solar farms not providing power in Northern Territory (8 Jun)
All exactly what we’ve been saying here. There’s apparently a big battery in Alice Springs but it too is having problems. Maybe M0nty could comment on this story, seeing he was going on and on yesterday about how wonderful renewables are.
The “jobs boom” is merely inflation clearing the labour market.
So Yellen filth with her degree and doctorate says she was wrong about inflation. Doesn’t say much for degrees and doctorates. My senior High School economics told me that was going to happen. Or maybe she is being disingenuous? I see she’s 120 years old as well.
Sadly, for of us who actually think, this kind of crap on crack is just the beginning. It’s going to be rammed down pur throats for the next 3 years at least.
Unless reality asserts itself first.
Interest rates should have been slowly increasing to a more normal level and not sat at the lowest of low emergency levels for so long. Yet somehow the media stories show surprise at these rate rises.
The good news is the Reserve Bank is going to reduce world fuel and food prices by Australian mortgage holders paying more in interest, on top of the inflation. Same people and their employers are going to pay more for power to bring equalibrium to the planet. Our utopia is nigh.
On Boris and his rotten party.
It has now formed a blatant, easily understood motif for the cruelty to and unequal treatment of the British people during the seemingly endless lockdowns and restrictions and mandates. The take-away from it is that the puny and the evil knew the danger was a mirage, even as the people were being shut in their homes and punished for socialising.
One of the products of this is seen in Britain right now – restrictions removed and normal life resumed. There’s no going back from this exposed shyte. Complicit colleagues giving him a pass is meaningless, and the people know it.
I want the cartoonists to ride this sucker to the bottom.
Sorry. Knuckles got there first and said it better. I have to pay more attention to the “newer comments” at page end and not just assume Cats are still abed. 🙂
The point is well made, most airports aspire to be a shopping centre with a runway and some planes hanging off it.
rickw, I suspect the airport management is thinking “if only we could get rid of the planes and the runway”.
Penny Wong’s newly touted Australian partnership with Indonesia to fight global warming will be, I think, the same sort as Abbott and Costello, or Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin: There will be the straight man who is played off, and then there will be the comic who delivers the comedy.
Indonesia will be the straight man, natch. They will sign agreements with Australia but remain aloof and inert while comical Australia makes a fool of itself, tying itself in knots, running in circles, talking fluently in logic-defying promises and pratfalling into economic damage.
As well as Starmer, let’s not forget that pos Ferguson, who while advocating lockdowns and social distancing for his fellow Brits, sneaked out to visit his lover in contravention of his own “rules”.
They disgust me.
Well said Calli- it’s been a shocking five years as our political class here, in Canada, the US and yookay have shown their true colours. Trump, Brexit and the China bug. I had no idea how rotten they were and the degree of contempt that they hold the electorate in.
RacerX – We aren’t experiencing inflation. If it was inflation the price of gold would be rising. It isn’t.
What we have is an artificial restriction on energy, which forces up prices due to normal supply and demand responses since energy feeds into everything.
Consequently I can’t see increasing interest rates doing much since they aren’t addressing the real problem. Or at least not the realest problem, since government expansion of money supply has been going on too.
The likeliest thing that will happen is that a recession will occur and the RB will backflip with alacrity.
The issue will continue while the elite class keeps on pushing imaginary rubbish. I note today that Bowen has called an energy crisis meeting. I bet the answer will be more of the same rubbish that is causing both the energy crisis and the pseudoinflation.
Energy ministers to address energy crisis (8 Jun)
Futile until he recognizes what the problem actually is – for which just watch the NT solar panels video I posted earlier.
Boris ain’t the only one who went on the magical lockdown tour. The meja chair-led the whole fn COVID disaster and they refuse to revisit their ridiculous hysteria. Our overlords then followed the populous panic. We know the rules were and are only for underlings, they prove this time and again. I expect Boris will be smyted but Das voters when his time comes seeing as his colleagues would not. cakegate has become another noise issue like Heard v Depp to drown out real issues like the ruinable energy strategy to make the underlings lives hopelessly expensive. But if cakegate continues to sell views, papers and cartoons my low expectations are met…again.
In Be of Good Cheer news:
Energy ministers are meeting to discuss rising prices. But they’re not likely to fix energy affordability in the short term
Translation: We’re in deep shit, with a bag of fading promises, so it’s time to unleash Commonwealth OPM to attract those ambitious and innovative
carpetbaggersrenewalists who are currently insufficiently ambitious and innovative to play in a rigged market.Springtime for AGL and Origen
ACT energy minister Shane Rattenbury said.
The who, says what?
The ACT should be shut down and the savings spent on lollies for the kiddies.
Interesting comment by JC last night about the DNA in amber and Covid.
Perhaps, like my thick skull, resistance to Covid proves I’m more Neanderthal* than HS. 🙂
* red headed children might be another pointer
Fester
Gold is no longer an inflation indicator and the idea only exists in your fervid imagination. Several things are happening in Australia and the western world.
Folks , this is what’s going on.
1. Choked supply lines because of COVID
2. Energy supplies choked because of the very sick fuck in the Kremlin
3. While those r two things (above) are occurring, our useless governments are attempting to transition to carbonic neutral by 2050 while halving emissions in 8 years thereby making us reliant on totally unreliable, un-scalable, expensive technology.
Rising prices as a result of these factors is not inflation though. Inflation is and always will be a monetary issue and in this case western central banks should have reacted to inflationary impulses in the second half of last year. Nominal GDP in the US grew ~10% in the last two quarters of 21, which is an extraordinary thing not to react to.
Stop talking about gold, Fester and stop talking about this stuff. Stick to telling us the COVID shot caused a chemical reaction in our bodies that turned metallic.
Calli
I was relating what my doc said, so I can’t confirm it. He is quite well read and up with the latest research though.
JCsays:
June 8, 2022 at 3:12 am
Oh God. Just mummify her and we pretend she’s alive.
Worked with RBG, m0nty-fa even got you to pay out a bet that way.
B John
I’m really loathe to support a republic for the reason Australia is actually one of the world’s oldest and stable democracies, so what isn’t broken don’t fix. But by lord, if there’s anyone that would encourage me and I’m sure others too, it would be floppy ears as king. He’s just there in a ceremonial position, but he stupid comments do have influence.
Labor and their union sires and dams have surely been a force that has destroyed more jobs in Australia than any other. Even plain old competition between businesses means one loses but the other gains, and jobs flow in that direction. But the unions have made us uncompetitive, governments (both stripes nut more in the DNA of Labor and the Libs since Trumble have been more Labor than anything else) impose regulations reduce productivity, and the unchallenged sovereignty of the Greens who can have projects scuppered merely be invoking the name of a species of frog or butterfly. What is the government going to do? Hand out money?
Oh, Tony Berk with his cash payments – more money for the same level goods. That is a recipe for inflation, not ‘downward pressure on prices’. I suppose someone he knows has told him that when there is more money then businesses increase supply – a sacred tenet of Keynesianism.
And in another brilliant thought bubble, the government will be handing out a special $400/month payment to heroin addicts so they can afford to find alternatives to heroin.
There is a simple logic here:
1) Fix upon something that would be nice.
2) Assign an (optimistic) cost to and vague ( but generous) funding to connected entities.
3) Assume that if you spend money the problem will be fixed.
4) Announce that you are finally tackling a problem ignored by your predecessors and bask in MSM glory.
5) Never really talk about it again. If you must, only talk about how much money has been spent – record sums – and certainly more than the other guys and certainly proving commitment.
A little something they should trial in Adam Bandtland.
Agree JC. Apart from the Queen, I’ve really developed a deep dislike of the Windsors but the ‘republicans’ here are even worse. There not republicans at all of course and are zero accomplishment elitists of the worst kind.
Reality smacking them in the face, the ABC degrades the ALP’s 3rd WA senate seat from Likely to Ahead.
You may care to preserve the premature gloating commentary underneath before it is memory-holed.
She deserves a headline but only getz a “way-down-the-page” mention .. media 2022!
Vale .. Andrée Geulen-Herscovici
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10892689/Belgian-teacher-saved-300-Jewish-children-Nazi-death-camps-dies-aged-100.html
Racer X
Read the comment correcting Fester.
Also
Monetary policy should have been tightened last year. However, we’re in a good position to argue that our average inflation over the longer term 10 years or so will hit the RBA target.
It’s good you highlighted this. I mentioned before what I believe is happening to out energy prices and therefore food costs. It’s important though not to confuse these price spirals as inflation as it’s not. These hikes are a direct consequence of government policy choking energy supplies as a result of deliberate resolve to meet the carbon emissions targets. Therefore look at this as a drop in real living standards by restricting energy supplies. Inflation is the result of the central banks not acting earlier and allowing nominal GDP to go through the roof.
A cautionary tale:
Australian traveller strip-searched, held in US prison and deported over little-known entry requirement
Essentially, the kid didn’t have a valid onward ticket.
Always remember: US Border Agents are unrelenting arseholes. Always be polite, pretend they are helping you to comply with their requirements, and attempt no humour.
Take a second look … its been broken for years, see Exhibit A, the last 2 years…
Bruce of N
All exactly what we’ve been saying here. There’s apparently a big battery in Alice Springs but it too is having problems. Maybe M0nty could comment on this story, seeing he was going on and on yesterday about how wonderful renewables are.
ROFLMAO! Let us hope that he does. I suspect that m0nty-fa’s knowledge of the technical aspects of power generation could be inscribed on a panadol tablet using a cold chisel without damaging the logo.
I’m glad to see Rowe has continued to focus on the government of the day, but he continues to have dull, ugly cartoons.
1.5 trillion rand…
Hahahaha…a journo rents an EV for a road trip, which goes just as well as you now expect.
WSJ Electric Vehicle Road Trip a Disaster (7 Jun)
I got a notice yesterday from my old mum’s electricity provider that the c/kWh rate is rising 17.35% next month, which is less than I expected. Seeing that electricity prices lag gasoline prices I think that saving she made is about to vanish also.
Interest rates are a price – the rental price of money – and like all prices, any attempt to centrally fix them only leads to market distortions which grow steadily in size until the self correct, regardless of what our wise central planners try to do.
Look at where we are now: official inflation rate is about 5% (you can at least double that for the real world figure) yet its all doom and gloom because the ‘official cash rate’ just popped up to 0.85%. This shows how heavily the people are addicted to their hit of ‘free money’. Even at current levels, rates need to be over 10% just to be neutral – does anyone see that happening any time soon?
Decades of central government ‘price fixing’ the rental price of money has resulted in a rotten, counterfeit economy at every level from the individual wallet to the nation…. this WILL self correct at some point …. winter is coming.
To think Boris’s problem is the party is to miss the point.
Today at 8.30 am according to the AEMO dashboard South Australia was producing little renewable energy .Only 7% solar and 1% wind. It was keeping the lights and heaters on with gas 77% and liquid fuel (kerosene?) 15%. It was also importing 396mgw from Victoria produced by brown coal. This is our so-called renewable future.
As I said, it’s a “motif” for the ruling class and lockdowns. The tip of the elitesberg afflicting most of the world.
On EVs – met a couple in Qld who had a “second car EV”. Didn’t dare take it on long road trips after running out of battery at night 11km out of Grafton. Forgot that headlights deplete the battery and shorten range.
When I opined that it was a dangerous, expensive piece of junk, they doubled down – no, no! It’s great for the city!
Mosman. Where your brain goes to die.
KD and calli beat me to it.
I am not having any of this “let’s move on” and “Starmer done it too” bullshit.
Fuck Boris.
I hope he is pilloried mercilessly to the point where he can’t stick his nose out the front of No 10.
I hope he gets turfed out of the job by a no confidence motion in the Commons (not just the party room). Then I hope there is a push to keep him out of all those juicy directorships he might normally hope for.
It is important because self-interest drives most politicians and my hope is that he will serve as a reminder for a generation or two of politicians what happens when you cynically overstep the mark.
And it isn’t just the piss-ups. It’s the outright lies – “At the end of a busy day I passed by a meeting room where staff were having a drink. I popped in for five minutes and then continued with my busy schedule.”
Strangely, the thing which pissed me off the most was the announcement of a reversion to imperial weights and measures.
He thought he could pull the wool over the eyes of all those dumb-arse Nationalist flag-waving Brexiteers out there and win them back. And cynically timing it for just before the jubilee. I’ll bet he and his Sloane Ranger missus had a good cackle over a glass of Bollie as they came up with that one.
Fuck him.
Feels a bit like the 70s with Jimmy Carter and Whitlam on steroids. I might go and buy some flares.
Take a second look … its been broken for years, see Exhibit A, the last 2 years…
very true but I don’t think getting rid of the Saxe-Coburg tampons will address this problem. If the current Australian establishment wants it, it has to be bad for everyman.
Mem, what happened to SA’s big battery?
Is it not operational yet? Or is it a dud like the wave machine?
After lying flat, a new trend among China’s youth is to “let it rot (bai lan)” which worries CCP
China Insights
Recently, the term “bai lan ” or “let it rot” has become popular among young people in China. Prior to this trend, it was “tang ping” or “lying flat.”
On the Chinese social media platform Weibo, topics related to “bai lan” have generated hundreds of millions of reads and discussions since March 2022.
Frustrated by the growing uncertainty and lack of economic opportunities, young Chinese are resorting to this new buzzword, bai lan, to express their attitude toward life.
It means voluntarily giving up the pursuit of life goals because they realize that they are simply unattainable. “Someone has to be a loser. Why not me?” It has become the iconic slogan of the “waste” group. Similar Chinese expressions include “to smash a cracked pot”or “dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water.”
I’ll bet good money on the Albanese Government being a re -run of the Whitlam years.
That will get The Bird wound up.
no. no. no. you have to delete victorian coal from this picture to see the future.
Confidential Pfizer Documents reveal Covid-19 Vaccination is going to lead to Depopulation
This is what Naomi Wolf was talking about, in more detail.
Oh, and it’s a stable democracy …THAT IMPRISONED 26Million people within it’s borders like NK, and allowed them o further than 5 k’s from their homes.
Sick minds of denialists.
Meanwhile…report after report
Is it laziness or cowardice that makes you shy away from hitting back at those that have killed you, ..and they have, it just looks too obvious if you all cark it at the same time.
tick, tick, tick…..
Once upon a time, I used to think Jimmy Carter was ok (just ok) but he has also revealed his true spiteful, grifting self in the last 5 years.
Roger says: June 7, 2022 at 7:16 pm
It seems not: (from The Australian)
< < <Mo Hussain, operations director for the restaurant Varanasi, … said Depp had paid more than the usual £20,000 fee to hire the entire restaurant > > >
He seems to have had rose-coloured corneas grafted onto his eyes. There are in fact quite a few things worthy of comment in the new government – the cracks in their AGW/energy agenda, or the ‘upsets’ in portfolios etc. But they are invisible to Rowe.
I often wonder if one of our lady commentators here is Stephanie who used to call up 2GB back in its glory days- she was brilliant and incisive.
the CDC has always been deeply unserious and poorly calibrated
you just never noticed it before because they did not have the power to force it on you
And apropos –
U.S. CDC removes mask recommendation from monkeypox travel notice to avoid confusion
“would you trust the vaccine?” 2020 edition
Stephanie had a really cultured voice, north shore or eastern suburbs (or possibly the Epping/Beecroft corridor, but not as likely).
She had a way of getting straight to the point, no waffle or shilly-shallying.
2GB all over again
Soros-Backed Leftists to Buy Historic Anti-Communist Miami Station in Radio Shopping Spree
She will most likely be living in a Teal electorate now. Poor woman.
Yea, stuth, you’re right. With you as a citizen, it’s an unstable democracy, you mentally unstable redneck. Get back to the furniture or go practice engine braking, you dipshit.
Rasmussen Poll: Majority of Americans Say Depression Ahead
Sauce for the goose.
Ketchup at risk from climate change (7 Jun, via Climate Depot)
I wonder if they realize that truss tomatoes, which in Coles are now cheaper than general tomatoes, are grown in greenhouses with a CO2 concentration of 1,100 ppmV and a temperature substantially higher than outside?
Talking about prices at the club is so vulgar.
You lose all rights to judge anyone regarding smarts, …….you’re jabbed.
Stupidity, cowardice and panicked “self preservation” at the expense of your countrymen made you do that.
You’re a grub.
I’m on a crusade of scare tactics. Whenever a friend suggests moving to a republic, I wholeheartedly agree and say “It would enable average Australians to vote in their millions for a Ron de Santis or a Trump.”
Surely this will rebirth the Lethal Weapon franchise.
Arjun Rudd, step up. He is by far the worst movie villain ever, because he had Patsy Kensit thrown off a pier.
Idiots. Tomatoes, like so many of our fruit and veggie crops, need heat. As Bruce points out, in colder climates they are greenhouse grown.
You know, that old chestnut “greenhouse effect”.
If the weather is warming up in Italy, all they need to do is open the greenhouse windows to lower the already high internal temperature. Or dispense with the things all together and field grow them.
But they won’t because it isn’t actually true.
From the RAAF report on how a Super Hornet ran off the runway at Amberley in 2020, resulting in $1.5m of damage, after the pilots ejected:
“Upon noticing the heading deviation, it is likely the pilot suffered an acute stress response followed by a short duration of impaired cognitive performance.”
That’s one way of putting it.
Thankfully nobody was seriously injured.
Question asked.
Is it ethical to purchase a lithium battery powered EV? (7 Jun)
Agenda pushing in sport, UK style.
Presumably they played the homophobia and racism cards to blur the sordid demise of wendyball’s first eva! and black too! player for that Hall of Fame spot.
Rogersays:
June 8, 2022 at 9:35 am
From the RAAF report on how a Super Hornet ran off the runway at Amberley in 2020, resulting in $1.5m of damage, after the pilots ejected:
“Upon noticing the heading deviation, it is likely the pilot suffered an acute stress response followed by a short duration of impaired cognitive performance.”
Now Officer Commanding runway sweeping?
Ahaha! Google is my friend. Stephanie Millar of Kirribilli. She had a run-in with the odious Mike Carlton some years back. I won’t link the slobbering, malicious Crikey article on the subject.
Apparently the attempted take off was a cock-up from the beginning, which accounts for why he didn’t notice the plane was veering off the runway at maximum speed – he was distracted by an instrument warning. The weapons systems officer then hit eject, which cut the power, leading to the jet eventually rolling to a stop some 900m away.
The Super Hornet was returned to service; the sections of the report released don’t mention whether the pilot was.
Millar is the lowland scots spelling of Miller iirc
I like not being a first-adopter.
There is a Tesla charging station at Daylesford as you would expect
hows that jab jab booster booster going for you?
while organized medicine completely disagrees, Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph Ladapo, at the end of last week went on the record with very strong language concerning COVID-19 vaccine safety, or the lack thereof. In a recent press release sharing the news about a deal with the Special Olympics to lift the vaccine mandate, Dr. Ladapo actually committed professional heresy in today’s professional environment, raising doubts about the COVID-19 vaccine safety profile and suggesting they may not be safe to use.
Jacob Ogles, writing for Florida Politics, reported on the matter, noting that the Surgeon General made such claims with “anecdotal evidence” at best when he suggested that the COVID-19 vaccines generate more side effects than other vaccines.
Dr. Ladapo declared, “People will say oh, you know, millions of people have taken these vaccines, they must be safe.” He continued, “Well, you can’t know the answer to that when it is taboo to talk about having a reaction to vaccines.”
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/florida-surgeon-general-opening-questioning-safety-of-covid-19-vaccines-b9af0ce3
The EV promoters are in a bit of a bind over Tesla.
They have to hate Elon forevah because he stole the Precioussss…
But they have to love his cars because Gaia.
Long Covid Doesn’t Cause Heart Issues
vaccine does
A couple of short vids of Stephanie from July 21 on the Chris Smith show.
(I’m not on Facebook but can open this)
Police charge big pharma boss with falsifying his Covid vaccination statusJose Maria Fernandez Sousa-Faro, president of European pharmaceuticals giant PharmaMar, has been charged by police with being falsely vaccinated against Covid-19. Dr. Sousa-Faro has been caught up in a scandal in Europe involving people being added to the National Immunization Registry in exchange for large sums of money, with many of them familiar faces and household names.
Police allege that Sousa-Faro arranged to be injected with a saline solution instead of a Covid-19 vaccination and paid thousands of dollars to have his name added to Spain’s immunization register, as confirmed by police sources and reported by El Periodico de Espana.
Dr. Sousa-Faro is among more than 2,200 celebrities and European elites on the list drawn up by National Police of those falsely vaccinated against Covid.
Pardon my ignorance of all things EV, but is spontaneous combustion, along with the occasional immolation of a driver unaware of the manual escape lever, a special feature of Teslas or are other makes known to do it as well?
It would certainly add some frisson to the Sunday drive in the country.
Now why would he do that if it is “safe, effective and free”?
Does he have some inside knowledge that has been kept from the rest of us?
Roger
The Super Hornet was returned to service; the sections of the report released don’t mention whether the pilot was.
Many years ago, when the first of the FFGs was coming into service, she ran aground during trials. The CO, sensibly, when he realised it was too late to turn away (the error made by the Titanic, which ripped a long gash in her side), ran straight onto the shoal, damaging the bow, but not wrecking the ship.
A First of Class CO can be assumed to be an “up and coming” officer. A few months later, I noticed him in the Defence Functional Directory. I have long since forgotten the formal job title, but it could be summarised as “Officer-in-Charge of launches and liferafts”. He might have moved ahead later, but the grounding was a big setback to a promising career.
To be fair, that was Indolent. And I think it was tiny metal particles in the vaccine which replicated in the body to the point where they could be detected by airport security x-rays.
I know right.
Although it must be said that the resident metallurgist was slow to make comment on this lunacy.
Head prefect doing some good work in the wee hours:
JCsays:
June 8, 2022 at 3:12 am
Oh God. Just mummify her and we pretend she’s alive.
Just when you thought climate-change fanatics had reached peak insanity, word comes that none other than the heir to the British throne is backing a plan that would have cows wear special face masks to combat methane emitted by rumination.
A British startup company, Zelp, which designed the bovine mask, was recently awarded the Terra Carta Design Lab award, founded in part by the Prince of Wales along with designer Jony Ive.
When the great Betty goes her idiot son will drive the Royals into the ground and the Republicans will be on steroids. How ironic that this bovine, inbred twit should be focused on masking cows. Article here.
The Poms should have rioted out the front of No. 10 for weeks. There are no more important issues than this, and the more it’s held up to the light the better.
Too busy partying for the Monarch who has been in place for 70 years during the entire period of cultural destruction, demographic displacement and ending of any religiosity she swore to protect.
For all the criticism of Charles, he could not have for a worse job for the UK or a better job for the globalist elites than what his mummy did.
I just hope Her Maj can keep going for many more years, at least until Anal is just a bad memory. After she goes I don’t believe anyone can fill her shoes.
I am seeing similar behaviour in two important policy areas. In climate change those who are climate change fans, in the face of rapid electricity price rises, are asking for yet more renewables when clearly not working.
Then we have the Vax scenario. They clearly don’t work as advertised, and even if they do they wane, yet our “experts” keep telling us to take the next one. Aided and abetted by a pathetic media who clearly have no interest or ability to investigate and report on what many can clearly see.
“ACT energy minister Shane Rattenbury said.
“For too long, the previous, climate-sceptic federal government held back ambition and innovation on cutting emissions and shifting to a zero-emissions energy system.”
“We now have a chance to make up for lost time and get Australia back on track to lead the world on renewable energy.”
For all the criticism of Charles, he could not have for a worse job for the UK or a better job for the globalist elites than what his mummy did.
yes I often wonder what she thinks about the trashing of her country over that last 60 years.
“Energy ministers are meeting to discuss rising prices. But they’re not likely to fix energy affordability in the short term” This report from the ABC which continues the fallacy that more renewables, increased renewable infrastructure and quicker closure of coal will fix our energy problems. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-08/energy-ministers-meet-to-discuss-rising-prices-gas-electricity/101133630
I wonder if any of the Ministers attending has realized yet that renewables are the problem and not the answer. And, from now on unless they address this, it will be on their heads and not the previous government if the grid crashes out.
Or, to put it more succintly, “He/she/ze panicked”.
Which was the likely diagnosis offered shortly afterwards by a friend who is also a former Hornet driver.
This is what happens when panic-merchants overreact to “Bing-Bongs” in the cockpit.
The most important lesson for the monarchy is every time you feel the need to say something controversial go open a fete or visit an old peoples home. I doubt Charles is bright enough to take that advice.
Rattenbury is Canbra personified
A rattenbury in the ranks.
I wonder how many energy ministers know E = 1/2*m*v^2 = V*I*t. We are governed by dilettantes and this is a big part of what is wrong with Australia. It’s actually get worse over the last 30 years eg let’s put a meja executive in charge of the Rail Access Corporation
miltonfsays:
June 8, 2022 at 10:47 am
I just hope Her Maj can keep going for many more years, at least until Anal is just a bad memory. After she goes I don’t believe anyone can fill her shoes.
The only Royal who seems reasonably sane is Princess Anne, who is nowhere near the line of succession. The sanity might be a product of that reality.
Hey!
I represent that remark!
Sancho – I did so many times, from early 2020 up to as recently as yesterday or Monday (which was re thulium). You seem not to understand what I actually did say and have been saying, or you mistook it somehow, certainly that’s the implication I’m getting.
Mosman is very nice. So long as you are driving through it and the Spit Rd bridge is not up.
“What is a Woman” Review
The Catholic Weekly – Mathew De Sousa -June 8, 2022
My memories of Military Road are perpetual traffic jams. Just ghastly.
There was a big push in the 90s to ‘de-engineer’ many responsible positions.
William seems sensible, doesn’t he? Whatever his thoughts might be I get the feeling that he detaches them from his role and is reasonably likely to want to maintain institutions.
If so, he could perhaps even revive one long in abeyance but which would answer the call of the times – bumping off the old man and taking the crown for yourself.
And, just like that, arbitrary removal of another’s rights is a good thing.
The Beaches Link and Warringah Freeway upgrades should lighten things up a fair bit.
I should mention that the ABC has apparently announced that both projects have, for some bizarre reason in an election year, been canned.
I have not heard that anywhere else.
So, Bruce, to be clear, you are calling bullshit on the “metals replicate in the human body” stuff posted by Indolent a while back?
Please don’t come the “you don’t understand line”. You posted some sciency sounding gibber at the time designed to deflect attention.
So.
It’s bullshit?
Yes or no.
The whole point of living on the Northern Beaches and the North Shore is not having to deal with Sydney traffic.
You are doing it wrong.
it is likely the pilot suffered an acute stress response
I believe ground crew said “It was like 3 am hose out time at the Calcutta curry emporium for those with acute bowel syndrome (free Nann bread night)”
In spite of our descent into the idiocy of destroying our economy to appease gaia (i.e., fixing a non-existent climate problem), I have detected signs of intelligent life*: a tropical space launch company has been set up to partially replace the 1000 jobs lost in Rio Tinto’s closure of the Gove Alumina refinery in Arnhem Land:
*I’m assuming government was not the primary driver of this development and that it is not a make-work scheme for public service incompetents.
This is it.
This is the level of legal mongdom Austfailure is sinking to.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-08/high-court-finds-immigration-detention-of-brendan-thoms-legal/101134452
The Federal Court found that Mr Montgomery was an Aboriginal person and could not be deported after time in jail, despite his lack of a biological link to any Indigenous person.
Forget angels dancing on the heads of pins, here we have pinheads ruling that biology doesnt matter to “race”.
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I was going to say sounds like a euphemism for “he shat himself” but I thought it a little early in the day.
Removal of said rights will be conducted – no doubt – by The People.
Or a committee speaking for The People.
Not an elected committee, though. The people on these committees don’t do well in elections.
Just people for The People. The loudest of The People will do.
With no biological link to an indigenous person, who from that community vouched for him?
Or is the HC now overlooking what it has previously determined was an essential facet of indigenous identity – recognition by the indigenous community? If so, how convenient “moving forward.”
Was just reading up about it. It’s a private company, but it did get $5M in funding from the NT Labor government. There’s another one called Southern Launch getting ready in SA but that’s outside the equatorial launch zone so I guess it would be less popular.
It appears to be a real thing, albeit, just sub-orbital launches for now. Good news all round I reckon.
I learnt from Sky News UK this morning that UAF has the RuAF right where it wants them, ‘pinned’.
Cute, and then in comes his fellow cock smoker, all emotion, no substance as well.
Serious issues understanding who is supposed to be in charge of who in a representative democracy.
No matter how hard you try to deflect, you still have to look at yourselves in the mirror.
Try not to make eye contact.
Sancho I am unable to respond fully to your demand because of certain religious requirements, which if you have been paying attention you will know about.
I will make a narrow comment in reference to the question of aluminium and thulium which was raised this week. I said that in principle there’s nothing particularly special or controversial about such, as the adjuvant is designed to increase immune response. I recall that aluminium hydroxide is often used in adjuvant mixes. That is for all vaccines, not just the Covid ones, since all vaccines contain an adjuvant.
I think the question was about aluminium as a toxic metal re Alzheimers. I didn’t comment on that, however I think that’s getting the cart before the horse – the aluminium is a symptom not a cause. A paper is out this week which supports that view.
Neural ‘Poisonous Flowers’ Could Be The Source of Alzheimer’s Plaque, Says Study (5 Jun)
Aluminium found in the plaques has been behind the view that aluminium is bad. Which lead to aluminium saucepans going extinct. It would not be the first time that experts have added two and two together, gotten 22, then banned something innocent. That’s not to say aluminium or thulium are good or bad (thulium is a REE and REEs are fairly innocuous healthwise) but it does say that they might be. In all cases the adjuvant has been a part of the permitting process, but as we have seen that has been very problematic for the Covid “vaccines” rollout process. Given though that aluminium hydroxide is extensively used in other vaccines I’d suggest it isn’t the problem here.
My personal view with the vaccines is that the real problem is the spike protein. It’s just nasty*. Yesterday there was a story that the FDA has warned that Novavax can cause myocarditis, which is a new observation. That suggests direct interaction by the spike protein is the cause of the inflammation not the expression of it in heart cells by the mRNA vaccines, since Novavax is the spike protein attached to a support particle – and is not mRNA based.
* I could write an extensive referenced explanation of this, but it’d take a couple hours and I doubt anyone would read it.
Tell 24/7 Sancho of the slip lane to go and research this shit himself, Bruce.
Fucking arrogant wanker with tickets on itself and with no reason.
Don’t let lying shit like that give you “demands”
He’s not worthy of your spit.
A little man in all ways.
A 24/7 tragic in nowheresville.
Do it..
Do iiit!!!
DO ITTTTTT!!!!!
If Australia taxed windfall gas profits we could invest billions in renewables and get off fossil fuels for good
Richard Denniss
Usual dishonest shit.
There’s no shortage of coal or gas in Australia, there’s a shortage of generation capacity and the infrastructure to move energy to where it’s needed. Just as the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, Australians have now learned the hard way that the coal trains don’t always run and the coal-fired power stations often break down.*
In the last month, more than 30% of Australia’s coal output went offline as ageing infrastructure buckled under pressure and coal output hit record lows. Last year Queensland’s Callide coal power station exploded, causing blackouts from the New South Wales border to Cairns. In just the last seven days, there have been further coal outages in Victoria and Queensland.
….
Renewable energy with storage is not just cleaner and more reliable than gas and coal, it’s cheaper as well. The Coalition would embrace this free-market competition, if it weren’t captured by the gas industry.**
…
The “Canberra bubble” is cold at this time of year, but thanks to the ACT’s farsighted policy of sourcing 100% of its electricity from renewable energy the average electricity bill in the nation’s capital will fall this year while other jurisdictions face eye-watering price rises of up to 140%. Who’d have thought that there would be benefits for citizens when their governments make long-term plans and stick to them?***
….
Luckily for Labor there is one simple policy they can implement today that will help smooth the transition forward: a windfall gains tax on the extra gas profits that the Ukraine war is delivering to the companies exporting so much Australian gas overseas.****
*Piranha Brothers monstering and setting closing dates and pillaging profits to gift to Unreliables, does what to maintenance spending and recommissioning?
** Lying liar lies lyingly.
*** So the parasites are burrowing in deeper, making sure they are on a special deal despite their energy being produced “offsite” and from the same places getting hit with those 140% price hikes.
**** Parasite sees an appendage on the host not withered away from its attentions yet, slithers over to correct that oversight.
Saudis want to live forever.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/07/1053132/saudi-arabia-slow-aging-metformin/?truid=511cda4596687ad1e8c0a33a5309beb3&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=06-07-2022&mc_cid=fc2fd71903&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da
Roger
With no biological link to an indigenous person, who from that community vouched for him?
Or is the HC now overlooking what it has previously determined was an essential facet of indigenous identity – recognition by the indigenous community? If so, how convenient “moving forward.”
Has the High Court now opened the way for anyone and everyone to claim indigenous status?
I’d want to read the judgment first, BJ.
Some things are never forgotten.
Way back when, some 16 year old did a bit of grinding work with an AWB 40.
Nearly thirty years later in the wardroom of HMAS National Holiday
when a new CO was announced:
Anyone know anything about this bloke?
That’s Captain Slipway!
Every suicide over the long term norm should be prosecuted against the people responsible for the lockdowns and brutalization of the populace via a non stop propaganda and coercion campaign waged for 2 years.
Suicide-related ambulance calls rose by more than 50% during Covid, Australian study finds
Suicide-related ambulance presentations in Australia increased by more than 50% in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, new research suggests.
Analysis of ambulance data between March 2020 and March 2021 found a significant and sustained increase in attendances for suicide attempts, suicidal ideation and self-harm compared to before the pandemic.
Chuck Grassley sails through in Iowa and Kristi Noem wins in South Dakota.
All the evidence points that way. incelldx now provide a blood test that measures how much spike protein is trapped in your blood.
I wonder if people still stuck in the early 2000s are waking up yet? “Dude, that could never happen. What are you even on?”, “Achually, that’s a slippery slope fallacy, dumb-dumb”, and so on.
Perhaps in Europe. Everywhere else it’s the Basement Dummy turning off the tap.
I read that whole thing out to Mrs P.
Me : “What does that mean?”
Mrs P : “He shit himself?”
Righto.
More ducking and weaving.
The claim can be summarised as follows:-
.1 A 5ml vaccine dose contained fragments of metal, small enough to fit down the appeture of the delivery needle;
.2 These fragments replicate in the human body;
.3 Within weeks, there is enough replicated metal in the body to be detected by airport security metal detectors.
Is this in any way plausible?
Yes or no?
No questioning my TruStEd SouRcEs from the innernet, OK.
How are those Death Camps going?
“Well, what else was I supposed to conclude?”
🙂
Sancho – You should read the Bible. Might save your life. I am not able to address your questions for unalterable reasons which are not negotiable until certain results occur. They have not. So I cannot address your comment. I suggest you ask someone else.
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It’s bad enough that I can’t get my ozempic, now they are coming for my Metformin.
There’s a popular gif on Twitter where Mike Tyson is literally slapping his thighs with laughter. It came to mind very quickly and can’t get it out of my head thinking of how many idiots will have to learn the hard way.
OK.
We’ve all had a good laugh at that, but it raises serious questions about the selection processes for RAAF fast jet pilots.
If someone is going to develop “an acute stress response” to a few Bing-Bongs in the cockpit on taje-off from Amberley and bang out, what will they do way out over the Pacific if Wing Commander Ping Pong starts playing chicken with them?
They might need to revisit this meme from that time.
How does the Bible interfere with your ability to answer simple questions of physics, Bruce?
Did you ever tell your employer you couldn’t answer questions related to metallurgy “because the Bible forbids it”?
2dogs, that meme didn’t age well. Was the author a libertarian?
Metformin.
That’s the one my mate was talking about with the Doc giving him the third degree over a lost prescription.
Apparently there is a black market for fatsos using it for weight loss.
And now the Saudis think it is the fountain of yoof?