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Exactly right, Cassie. The Academics Lawyers and Perverts’ party will probably give his (alleged) persecutor a medal.
I am glad to see Trump acting early on the chainsaw mechanisms re the bureaucracy, which is clearly bloated and…
This sounds much more like it. My only experience with publishing was via an academic friend who wrote a series…
The protesters, who appeared mostly middle-aged Bwahaha, I bet that one stings the shower-dodgers!
Hmmmm,
You’re not my youngest son by any chance?
I was going to get some pool cleaning stuff and safety goggles…
You can’t so you give people money to do nothing and we know what happens then, the old saying about the devil and idle hands. It is the money which is destroying the people. Traditionally these communities would be on the move for new sources of food and therefore too busy to cause as much mayhem.
Money enables alcohol purchases further debasing the idle population.
The only solution is moving remote communities to bigger towns where there are job opportunities and a chance for normal life as most of the world’s peoples know it.
Good morning, traitors.
I’m not seeing any real solution outside closing then down, that is government refusing to underwrite the continuation of their miserable existence.
If you stuck ANY group of people in this places and gave them heaps of free stuff in most cases it would degenerate into something particularly nasty.
I went to one place and a couple of the blokes with some get up and go had been provided with a dump truck and a bobcat. What where they doing with the machinery? Only reliable work they had was digging graves.
No, Remove the welfare and it will happen without force.
Native Americans have an average IQ that is not correlated to absolute poverty but often live worse off than other groups.
Welfare is the putative cause of their misery.
There is no way you can remove welfare payments, it’s just not happening but refusing to build replacement housing when existing homes are destroyed would force a move to towns.
Telegraph headline.
Honours for COVID heroes.
Sickening.
We are on the same page then. Remove the welfare.
Neither will happen though.
Now that the postal votes are all done, is the record low turnout a negative for Australian democracy or a positive?
You can have the best, most keenly priced goods in the world but if no one has money for discretionary spending eg. they’re spending all their extra cash at the bowser or on utilities or food, they won’t want that new toaster or whatever.
They’ll make do and hope for better times.
2022 is the third time since 2000 where US consumer credit growth (non-mortgage) has risen at the same time consumer sentiment has dropped.
This is generally viewed as consumers are being “forced” to borrow to maintain current spending/lifestyle.
The last two times that happened were not pretty.
Glancing at all the music posted overnight and guitar discussion reminded me of my little grandson. He has talent (I would say that wouldn’t I) and has a Gretsch Streamliner on lay-by. $200 to go and it’s his.
Makes a 13th birthday present easy. Cold, hard cash in a birthday card. 😀
That should be, for over a quarter (consumer credit up, consumer sentiment down).
I think the record low turn out is a net net negative as in my view most of the disaffected or couldn’t give a shit crowd will gravitate to the loopiest of promoters or chickenhawks.
It was always going to happen, bern.
Another version of the jackboot on the human face…forever.
The Jeanette Young one is particularly grotesque. I wonder what the poor devils who spent Fathers’ Day at the border barrier think of it. And the people turned away from medical treatment because “NSW”.
Calli, I always ask my grandsons cash or presents. The youngest one usually chooses presents but at least he wants to go with me to pick the presents, I tell him the sum he can aim for. I’m always amused by his choices, lots of little things.
Archbishop accused of promoting climate change denier’s views on anniversary of Pope’s landmark letter
Tasmania’s Archbishop has been accused of promoting the views of a climate change denier at the same time the global church is marking the seventh anniversary of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si: On care for our common home.
The May edition of the Catholic Standard included an article titled Exposing the ‘modern green religion’, a report of a speech given by geologist Professor Ian Plimer in Hobart at the invitation of the Christopher Dawson Centre, a think tank established by Archbishop Julian Porteous.
In the article, Catherine Sheehan, the Archdiocese of Hobart’s communications coordinator, wrote: “Professor Ian Plimer has written his most recent book on what he believes is a worrying trend in the debate of the science of climate change.
“He argues that the movement claiming human activity is responsible for global warming has been transformed into a ‘modern green religion’ filling the void left by the decline of traditional Christianity in first-world Western countries.
“For 25 years Professor Plimer has been asking fellow scientists to provide even one study that clearly shows human emissions of carbon dioxide are causing global warming. To date, he maintains no such proof has been offered.”
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RTWT
The Left waking up to the nightmare they’ve created?
Remember when it was trendy for Catholic clerics to question papal encyclicals?
I hope she wins.
Palin Nabs Early Lead in Alaska US House Special Primary (12 Jun)
They’re using some sort of preferential voting system apparently. With 48 candidates it’d be like the Senate voting bedsheet.
Crossie, the look on their face when the card is opened and it’s a green one. So much better for something substantial that they have to wait for.
They did a big cull of toys around a year ago – thousands of dollars worth of beautiful items. Fortunately, the best could be passed on to younger cousins, the rest I don’t know. I don’t think “toy libraries” are a thing any more. Definitely not since our Covid Heroes put an end to normal community interactions.
No such thing, they are in the process of sweeping it under the rug. The Right will have to right this wrong but only after it regains its cultural confidence.
The Left never wake up. We’ll do it right next time. The problem being they always do it left. Idealism with no idea.
Wrick- end grain sealers-
Bitumenous tree wound paint is the go. Doesn’t penetrate too much, natural antifungal, just makes a plastic cap.
And pick up a Bunnings pack of disposable 3″ paintbrushes and gloves too.
They do…but one by one.
Many conservatives were formerly Leftists.
Good morning, traitors.
And a Happy Queens Birthday Holiday Day (in NSW and some other States) to you.
Ms Rogers said that like abuse victims in the wider community, some Indigenous women were torn between love and hate for an abuser. They could also have mixed feelings about their own relatives, whom they loved but who might have banished them for reporting abuse.
“It’s a double burden for those who have to leave,’’ she said, as they dealt with their violence-related trauma and being exiled from close relatives – sometimes including a mother or grandmother. “It’s an enduring situation – the woman has to leave, never the man … in that way, it’s not unlike any other culture.’’
Bit pissed off with Justice Rogers here. A mind like hers hasn’t accidentally mixed up her double negatives, she’s actively sledging mankind, worldwide.
The mentally wet-left have to grow up and admit that Australian culture has always had, at its foundation, transparent process, evidence, justice, individual rights, and and end to slavery, superstition and savagery.
Voice- Payback- Culture- Big Man politics- Skin Marriages- Shame- Black And White Australia- Truth Telling- Makarrata- Treaty- none of these “noble savage” myths can co-exist with Christianity, or a secular democracy.
Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua – 13th June 2022
Gospel Acclamation at Mass today – Ps119:105
Alleluia, alleluia!
Your word is a lamp for my feet
and a light on my path.
Alleluia!
Feminist collective boilerplate.
One suspects Justice Rogers wouldn’t have fared too well during the Stone Age.
The Alphabet Soup People dessert now released by Kraft for the month of June 2022.
Crosstie – you are absolutely right re the closure of the remote Aboriginal communities. It was Nugget Coombes’ idiot idea to “return them to country” that created this monstrous disaster. The brilliant movie “Charlie’s Country” illustrated this clearly enough.
Yes, they occasionally go bush for “bush tucker”, but predominantly they purchase rubbish food from the sponsored community shop. Consequently the standard of health is appalling. Combine this with no work & you have an aimless life. It’s not rocket science.
In some communities you also have clan rivalry because rival language groups were brought into these communities. Yuendumu, when I went through a few years ago, looked like Beirut with fires burning in the middle of streets & the town police compound & the shop surrounded by barb wire.
The source of the problem has been long forgotten – like all the sins of the Left in their pursuit of their idiot ideas.
Caroline Glick on the deep state. Well worth reading.
How to kill a democracy (12 Jun)
Also the chief protagonist for another idiocy – a treaty.
Eggington is on record as saying “First Nations people should be self governing..”
JCsays:
June 13, 2022 at 6:44 am
You mean goods are getting dearer, right?
I’d say the price of everything outside of Meat/Bread/Milk has at least doubled in the last ten years.
That would be a compound rise of 7%. I doubt it Mr. Ed.
Dickless said that he would “say” prices had at least doubled, he didn’t say that they actually had. He can “say” whatever he likes, unless he produces evidence, what he “says” has no more value than the other evidence-free rubbish he spouts.
Producing goods and offering them to the market IS the only reliable form of market research – surveying and focus grouping is only modelling.
I wonder what “truth” that is.
Is it the Truth truth, or is it the homogenised, pasteurised, bowdlerised truth?
Crossie
The only solution is moving remote communities to bigger towns where there are job opportunities and a chance for normal life as most of the world’s peoples know it.
Outside large urban centres (population over about 250,000) where are these “bigger towns where there are job opportunities and a chance for normal life” of which you speak?
If aborigines and their PC white admirers wish to retain “the world’s oldest living culture”, then they have to live it. Become nomads again, hunt with boomerangs and spears, initiate the young members of the “communidy”, and abandon all the western luxuries that they so lurrrrve.
Not going to happen, but the transition to reality will be painful, on all sides. An influx of unemployable young men into the towns and cities will be the least of the problems.
Insightful, Dr Duk
Real racism.
Star-studded LA high school is sued by Jewish father for its ‘racially divisive, anti-Semitic’ curriculum which branded Jews ‘oppressors’: Woke syllabus was ‘quietly ushered in’ after death of George Floyd
True. That’s why startups are so risky and often fail. What the budding entrepreneur thinks the market wants and what it really wants might be two different things.
Add a bit of public money into the mix and you get a distortion.
It is important to look at trends o/s (we are usually about 12-18 months behind in some product areas), and also to crunch the numbers realistically – no rose coloured glasses permitted, and add a good wodge of contingency money. And turn up – you won’t be successful if you’re not prepared to do 60-80 hrs per week to get things moving.
Many see Democrat double standard on political violence when it comes to Jan. 6, Kavanaugh threat
‘They’re Wiping Us From Earth’: Evading Russian Artillery With a Ukrainian Military Unit
The last Liberal Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett , proposed just that. The “Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance” closed down the CBD of Melbourne in protest.
Nanette Rogers was kicking over the traces when she kicked off the “Little Children Are Sacred” investigation. Shame she’s drinking the kool-aid now.
That “Little Children..” report should have been one of the last watershed moments that Australia ever needed, but, sure enough, it’s been pushed down the memory hole. A combination of cultural relativism, projecting of the guilt on to a willingly self-flagellating ruling class, and a Strong Man gentocracy which easily turned the focus back onto debbil debbil white man, aided by a Marxist Media, has led Australia, and our most vulnerable demographic- women and children in traditional communities, the chattel of the violent men- into a worse position than pre-Whitlam.
Wise words from George Christensen.
Dems Panic: Send in the Clowns!
U.S. Gov. reports prove COVID Vaccination can cause Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome & this is why we’re seeing “Sudden Deaths” & “Monkeypox”…
I keep reading about a new miracle cure for cancer. Colour me sceptical.
Scientists discovered a new molecule that kills even the deadliest cancer
Newly released Capitol Police timeline exonerates Trump, says Pentagon offered National Guard four days prior to Jan. 6
Are You at Risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest? Condition Kills 9 Out of 10 Victims
and cancer.
You do have to wonder.
Next they will be saying it is the spike protein!!!
re: remote communities.
We seem to be funding remote zoos to keep Aboriginals ‘connected to their land’. The problem is that their connection in these areas was traditionally 90% survival. Remove that by welfare, and you have idleness and decay.
The real solution is, I think we all agree, not to support communities where there is no productive purpose.
Assuming that’s not going to happen, put the people to some productive enterprise (even if its subsidised). Simple things: these places seem to have a real problem with fresh fruit and veg — so why are there not local gardens/greenhouses and orchards? etc? Yes, I understand it is often the desert and conditions are not suitable, but modern tech can work around this. It doesn’t need to be profitable; it provides food and training (ie: a future) for the locals.
Some places have made a success with tourism facilities, art etc.
I know that is was predictable, but the Queens Birthday Honours inclusion of the likes of Brendan Murphy, Kerry Chant, Jeannette Young and Mary-Louise McLaws, makes me livid.
Actually, it makes me worse than livid. This, and other bureaucratic delusions are steadily destroying my faith in this country.
Also the chief protagonist for another idiocy – a treaty.
And, who do you have a Treaty with? NSW was a Penal Colony run by the British at a time when the Continent had thousands of different tribes speaking different languages. There never was a First Nations People. The term “First Nations” has been pinched (stolen) from the Native Canadians.
Doesn’t the Constitution restrict the right to make treaties to the Commonwealth?
Fine…
That means you raise your own revenue and decide how to spend it and nobody else is responsible for how things turn out but you.
It’s enough to make one become a republican, except to date that discussion hasn’t gone far enough in this country.
What would a republican ethos look like?
For starters, I’d say it’s one where citizens don’t get gongs for merely doing their job…and especially not for doing their job in an egreguiously poor manner that trampled the rights of their fellow citizens.
Chuck Todd Shocked That No One in America Trusts Government
Big brother
Major U.S. city’s plan to spy on citizens draws fierce opposition
The extra u in egregiously is u, Jeannette Young!
re: remote communities.
Nothing will happen now. They will stay that way forever.
The Left like them as cultural aquariums, as they serve as a nice reference point of whitey’s invasion. The Right are too scared of being called racists to do anything about them.
Vickisays:
June 13, 2022 at 9:02 am
I know that is was predictable, but the Queens Birthday Honours inclusion of the likes of Brendan Murphy, Kerry Chant, Jeannette Young and Mary-Louise McLaws, makes me livid.
Actually, it makes me worse than livid. This, and other bureaucratic delusions are steadily destroying my faith in this country.
The honours system has long been perverted into the service of fascist leftism. Few of those who get an AM or higher award did anything worthy of award. The Chants of today did, very badly, the job for which they were paid a very high salary.
Well might these latest perversions contribute to their eventual abandonment in their current form. The only awards granted should be for those who risk their lives to help others.
This has, of course, been tried. I have seen locals, in a uniform of sorts, tending to local infrastructure – sweeping paths, mowing grass etc – in Halls Creek, for example. And I have heard of Aboriginal Ag enterprises in the NT. At times you see them featured on Landline, but if they were commonplace I think you hear more about them.
One of the very best Aboriginal enterprise stories I have seen has been featured on Outback Ringers on the ABC – that of Clarry & his family who muster rogue buffalo for the international buffalo meat market. Wow – this is one lovable bloke who works his butt off in “country” making a very very tough living.
Roger at 0911
Snap.
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties
– David Burge aka iowahawk
Another viable form of enterprise for Aborigines has been art. Now – before the cries of exploitation are made – one has to acknowledge that both art dealers and family members arguably exploit these artists.
Re art dealers – I’m sure this happens (and happened more in the past), but, on balance, I think there is more protections these days.
Re family exploitation of successful artists – like Emily Kame Kngwarreye & Clifford Possum & others – this should be seen in the larger picture of a culture which has always required the sharing of food and other trophies. Yes – families of these artists enjoy their new Landcruisers etc and this has always been the way, as much as it offends our sense of “fairness”.
I’m with Top Ender.
While you can use the plight of Aborigines to bludgeon your political enemies, nothing will change. Even Aborigines who call it out will be marginalised and labelled tools of whitey.
The entire racist charade is organised cruelty and to my mind, devilish in origin. The most vocal perpetuators are the worst, blaming others for their own wickedness.
How about a diamond?
Yes please! ?
Sorry. but I’m fresh out of diamonds at the moment. I still have my hard teeth, however, I’d like to hang onto them for eating the steak and chips every now and then……………………….
Sweet Baby Cheeses, there are some garbage commendations in Madge’s birthday list.
I realise it’s a struggle for penguins to find roles worth noting, but really?
Reminds me of a discussion with lefty academic. His solution was to give them “indigenous jobs” apart being incredibly patronising. What are those jobs?
Bottom line. Few want to be the bad guy.
Carmen Lawrence’s gong represents the (last?) head pat and tummy rub for eating a giant WA Inc shit sandwich for the Liars. See also: KK.
We used to call this segregation.
We did a consulting job for an aboriginal art dealer. He seemed to genuinely want to help them. From memory we didn’t get paid but the boss picked up a lesser Rover Thomas for the boardroom. They are still trading and I wander through their gallery occasionally.
“First time” – well, since at least 2017, anyway.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/808888/Orca-takes-on-100ft-blue-whale
Mary-Louise McLaws spends her days being cared for by her family and friends.
in January her world suddenly changed, no longer providing advice but taking it, after she was diagnosed with brain cancer.
ABC
oh.. and 2019 and 2021 off Australia.
All that money to the ABC and they can’t afford a proof reader.
Queens honours for standing up and reading a script for a few weeks. FFS.
oh they’ve got them.. and I bet they’re well paid.
“When you know your shit” vs. “When you know you’re shit”.
And locking them in their homes for no apparent benefit – two weeks becoming over three months. Mandatory masks ditto. And “passports” to get anything other than food.
What “service”! What kindness and compassion!
Covid gong is small biscuit. In WA the reward – $400k and free accommodation on St Georges Tce.
Top Ender’s pre-dawn link:
It’s not banishment. The women reporting their rape and floggings are quite free to go back into their own community, after the rapist and basher is sent to prison.
Where she will be beaten to death by that man’s relatives – his skin group – as part of the traditional payback process.
In four weeks, the restriction on unlimited amounts of grog pouring into those communities will be lifted because the Federal Intervention’s legislation prohibiting it expires. From 2007 to now, grog runners risked not only the loss of said grog, but having the cars used to run it seized, and then being prosecuted after that.
The yuuuuge profits made the risks worthwhile for some. With no risk involved any more, wait and see what happens to the already peaking domestic rape and murder rates. Once again, it will be someone else’s fault.
You’re goddamned right.
These flu shots are disappointing the punters. Lots of people locally with a nasty dose and all jabbed.
The experts say they covered two strains with the vaccine but a third is the problem and they can’t put three into a shot.
Viruses doing what viruses do.
And then she went on holiday overseas. Because she could.
I have no words for the contempt I hold for her.
I hope that gong is a millstone…the damage done to infants and youth is enough to qualify it as one.
It was beyond that normally expected…
The Big New Flu and the toll it’s taking might be a product of isolation and lockdown. Four children dead so far, but they don’t seem to matter.
Imagine if it was Covid!
Whatever the latest flu shot contains it doesn’t work on the latest snot promoter.
My daughter had a shot very recently to work with kids and she’s got it full bore.
Apologies for repeating:
The ‘operating provisions’ of the Uluru Statement From The Heart have no settled meaning:
No detail. Wide open for interpretation.
To my mind – considering that the drivers behind this document are sophisticated, seasoned, educated, political activist/players – the principal objectives are likely to be to:
• install an indigenous elite into an all-care-no-responsibility tier of Commonwealth government;
• establish a parallel system of governance, somehow embedded into Australian society; and
• create a permanent funding arrangement, supporting an unspecified range of rights and benefits, to be conferred on the basis of a claim to membership of a racial group.
Now, as a stupid, racist Neanderthal, I could easily be completely wrong about this. Perhaps the objective is simply a “fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia” and a side serve of Unicorns all round.
However what worries me is that Snotbubble Albanese has promised to implement the Statement “in full”. Which suggests he has a clear idea of what that entails.
So, what is it: Apartheid? Unicorns?
Something else?
Or just another instance of the dissembling Canberra bubble, speaking with a forked tongue, while the fucker navigates the politics. Politics that even Michael Turnbull saw as divisive, toxic shite…
Exactly my thoughts after reading Gezs’ post.
Let’s have a daily tally of the deaths!
No?
Why?
Look over there, an energy crisis.
TE again, at 9.15:
The Left and the uninformed like them as cultural aquariums. There is an immense difference between the fullbloods living in saltwater country and the desert in eastern and northern WA, the NT, the SA pitlands and western QLD and NSW and those living everywhere else in the country.
A vast, yawning abyss of a difference. The urban and mostly regional ones (the ‘halfies’ – a term the interbred indig refer to themselves in the NT, at least, regardless of how many generations ago that happened) are flag wavers, and their rates of criminality and domestic violence are really no different to any other ethnicity. They just draw more attention to ‘but indig’ when caught.
For the fullbloods it is their way of life. They have been allowed to continue down this path by decades upon decades of the various Land Councils running their affairs being pandered to, and the fear of successive governments of receiving bad press as a result of actually doing something.
On cultural aquariums – someone mentioned ‘bush tucker’ earlier. That is horseshit designed for the tourists, for people getting off cruise ships and the Ghan. Does anyone really think the indig go out in the scrub and collect enough ‘bush tucker’ to actually feed themselves – and their families?
Of course they don’t. The average roo shooter knows the same or more about it.
The reality is, in this day and age that ‘bush tucker’ is chicken wings in roadhouse bains marie.
Interesting you say that. We had a boatman at Kakadu who was talking about this myth. He says he gets around 1/4 of his food from “country” (presumably from the vast quantities of available fish) and the rest from Woolies. I doubt whether he rustles cattle for steaks or grows his own tomatoes. 🙂
The Left like them as cultural aquariums, as they serve as a nice reference point of whitey’s invasion.
Acute.
Fish don’t often make it out of aquariums and back to the wild.
Unfortunately it’s similarly unlikely that the outworking of 18th Century colonialism and 230 years of history is ever going to be stuffed back into the bottle.
“Nice” find by CL:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/battle-ukraines-east-rages-zelenskiy-vows-retake-territory-2022-06-07/
Image four has “Ukrainian resident inspects his van damaged by Russian fire” is the caption. Zoom in and the man has a large swastika tat on his arm…
Think that was me, KD. But I wasn’t suggesting that bush tucker was these days part of their regular diet. Far from it. It is the product of the occasional foray into the bush.
But I agree that there is a vast difference between fullbloods in the interior and those living in regional country towns.
This would be fine, except that because sharing of things also includes income from employment, it also offends my wallet, along with 20 million other wallets.
The expectation is that if a member of a skin group has money when nobody else has money, that money is everyone’s – and that concept is used flat out, all day every day.
There is almost no incentive to work and earn, because the punters who do not work and earn are entitled to the worker’s cash when the government cash and the royalty cash runs out. The worker then gets ‘humbugged’ – ie asked for, then yelled for, then having your car damaged, then having rocks thrown on your roof at night, and then having your stuff set on fire – until you give it to your ever-lovin’ skin group.
So almost nobody works. The very few that make it on their own do so exclusively by moving away from their family, away from the humbug, and into larger functional places where they can make something of themselves.
It will be interesting to see if Jacinta Price continues to advocate Aboriginals pull their collective fingers out and fix their own problems and what McCarthy (Liars) says, give us more money.
My grandmother told me how her uncles used to go hunting on country for tucker.
They shot rabbits to put meat on the table during the Great Depression.
Proud men of the Anglo-Australian tribe, they were.
No matter what scenario you audition for the Australian Aborigine, whether British or French or Portuguese or any other “discoverer”, it was never going to end in a perfect world for either.
To think in those terms is childish and cruel.
Even left to their own devices and isolated from progress, if such a thing was possible, their lives would be short and brutal. There was no sunshine, lollipops and rainbows everywhere in Australia, just as there weren’t in Georgian England. Just hardscrabble for the poor and plenty for the Big Men.
Many years ago, JIT was a staple syllabus item in most high school and TAFE Business courses.
No criticism of it was ever formalised, but the students overwhelmingly were wary.
“What if” questions abounded in their active, practical minds, yet not one syllabus writer ever answered those questions honestly.
Just a small example of the globalisation hoax being thrust on us.
PS remember the breathless and syncophantic reporting on “Davos” just a few years ago? More grist to the globalisation mill.
From “country”, hah! Reliant upon (and paid for by) the whitefellas made tinnie, outboard motor, hooks, lines, sinkers and nets. Putting to good use their “magic” secret native knowledge of fish habitats and such handed down over the noble generations.
He’s probably a devout Buddhist.
Moving on…
Calli, this similarly proud grandfather is very happy to see one 13 y-o granddaughter blossom socially as she improves her guitar work. Once painfully shy, she now performs in public in a band and has become quite gregarious in many social settings.
I trace her changes to good genes of course.
It is really clear, if you aren’t blinkered by Leftist thinking, that customs like payback and expectations of sharing spoils, will continue while the continuation of “culture” is celebrated and encouraged by the Romantics on the Left who believe in “the noble savage”, and financially support the remote communities.
I recall the revelations of Nanette Rogers, an NT Public Prosecutor, many years ago about the extent of child abuse and serious injuries to women in the Territory. They shocked the sensibilities of urban Australians, and led, I believe, to “The Intervention”, which attempted to protect the vulnerable. Sadly, the latter was opposed by not only the perpetrators of the crimes, but many of the Aboriginal women themselves.
I’m assuming Brett Sutton will be transitioning to a “female” as he missed out on a gong.
How is Macron going to deal with the anti vax mandate, anti tech censorship lefties that are having a grand old time during the parliamentary elections?
PS, what happened to the American left?
Brett Sutton left the reservation some time ago. A tuck and tape won’t fix that.
A tacit acknowledgment that it might be ripped off him later, courtesy of SlugGate.
Still, he’ll always have his doona covers. His return to the mediocrity from whence he came has been, so far, most enjoyable.
Adam Tooze put this out overnight.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-128-mission-command-natos?s=r
The modern parts are debatable, but there are some NATO comments that caught my eye.
Like this one.
Already in the 1950s the Americans had relied heavily on lessons to be learned from Wehrmacht. Under the leadership of Franz Halder, chief of Army staff under Hitler, the German Military History Program rewrote the Wehrmacht’s World War II combat history for purposes of incorporation into NATO doctrine. For a brief period in the early 1950s NATO envisioned a mobile defense against the Warsaw Pact on the lines of the Wehrmacht after 1942. When the Military HIstory Program was wound up in 1961 President Kennedy awarded Halder the United States Meritorious Civilian Service Award for ‘a lasting contribution to the tactical and strategic thinking of the United States Armed Forces’.
Interesting read.
Will be a starting point for more reading.
I knew we were fcuked when I discovered NATO had a blonde, female, gender equity adviser in Kabul in 2012
There is a lot of coal-fired generation out of the system at the moment. About equivalent to what the east coast position will be when Liddell and Eraring are ‘retired’.
Last night AEMO intervened in the Queensland electricity market (no link, the AEMO portal is down):
• Capping the wholesale price at $300/MWh – against 5 bids of $10,000/MWh;
• Ordering “a market participant” to generate and sell power to maintain system stability.
This morning, AEMO gave notice that load shedding for interruptible customers in Queensland would be likely this evening.
Australia is being gamed by the fuckers of the Australian Energy Council – who no longer care about keeping up appearances.
Welcome to the Turd World.
The Tooze substack is free & nine times out of ten I skim & delete.
Then that one time out of ten he collates a pretty decent read.
Bitumenous tree wound paint is the go. Doesn’t penetrate too much, natural antifungal, just makes a plastic cap.
Thanks! Any ideas on how much over length they should be cut?
ensuring equality in casualties ?
I am often left laughing at all the white fellas that continue to call the mob “custodians of the land”.
Every community I have been to has been a rubbish tip, every item is dropped where it is finished with, this includes human waste, motorcars, food packaging and on and on.
I also note that most women over 15 have severe facial scaring and teeth missing while their male counterparts look like models for the MSN.
cleaning bodily fluids off the mattresses
shooting the odd croc or roo doesn’t count, I think.
Speaking of ‘they’d be better off if whitey hadn’t arrived’, I wiki’d uncontacted peoples.. and got this fluff.
Maybe someone with a higher degree in bullshit can unpack this for me?
Proud Rabbito Man?
The boatman was being honest. He knew he couldn’t survive “on country”.
He had a good job talking about his home and the comment about food was a reference to the abundance of fish that he could catch. A job, kids in school, a house, a respectable life in anyone’s measure given the limitations of location and opportunities.
On the skin groups and humbugging, we met a guy a few years back in Wilpena – his job was to manage the resort. The manager had to be indigenous, but they couldn’t afford a local because of all the baggage. This guy was brought in from from Queensland. Well educated, well spoken and clearly wanting to make a go of it. I sometimes wonder how he’s going.
fact check: TRUE
Public Service Medal. Federal.
Ms Michelle Julie Curry ACT.
For outstanding public service in promoting the respectful use of of the Ngunnawal language across ABC Canberra.
Wouldn’t want to be dis-respectful now would we.
One of the initiatives of General Morrison? Those mandatory videos….I can’t find the words.
Isn’t it nice how all the republicans just lurve to get an Honour. Hypocrites all.
Coatsworth didn’t get one.
Tells you everything you need to know about both him and the awards.
A day will come when not receiving an “honour” will be a mark of pride.
A New York Times article from forty years ago.
Carmen almost retains a sense of shame/awareness.
Almost.
However, Dr Lawrence said in many ways it was getting tougher for women in politics.
“In a funny kind of way, the more women come closer to real power the more savage the response seems to be,” she said.
“If there had been social media during my time in politics, it would have been, I think, intolerable.“
Because everyone would have had full knowledge of just what a lump of shit you were.
Also did she ever release that “study” she speculated she would do where everyone in a meeting testified she ordered the Easton thing aired while she was a blank on it?
And a touch more detail on Lawrence.
Our old skipper shagged it as a teenager.
Sent him off to a life of drugs and dissipation…
Didn’t she front the courts on a charge of committing perjury to a Royal Commission, only to be found “Not Guilty” on a technicality?
Oh yes. “Belonging to a family”.
Like the rest of the little houses in the village of Stanley, belonging to a family. Who were forced out and re-housed cruelly in a hall while the Argies occupied said houses and crapped all over them. When they were forced out, the families had to hose them out.
The Fog of War.
She’s resisted for this long with others trying to add there own agendas.
I fixes it for her. A great practice run for entering politics would be to wade from one end to the other an Olympic length swimming pool filled with alligators. If you can manage that you might be capable of handling politics.
duncanmsays:
June 13, 2022 at 9:52 am
Queens honours for standing up and reading a script for a few weeks. FFS.
Dr Chant … her most notable contribution to the people of NSW was her commitment to providing COVID updates at the daily press conferences.
That was her bloody job, FFS. I gave many briefings over the years, I never expected (and would not have accepted) a gong for doing my job!
OSC
PS remember the breathless and syncophantic reporting on “Davos” just a few years ago? More grist to the globalisation mill.
Remember in the 1990s and 20noughties, when the left rioted in the street about globalisation. Then they saw the riches to be gained, and suddenly became the fascist left, great maaaaaates of Big Business and the Davos crowd? No? Neither do they, it has been written out of the “narrative”.
Because they need some specific “technology transfer”, natch.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1267913.shtml
Knuckle Dragger says:
June 13, 2022 at 10:30 am
The very few that make it on their own do so exclusively by moving away from their family, away from the humbug, and into larger functional places where they can make something of themselves.
Many years ago I was friends with an aboriginal bloke who was one of those that ‘made it’. He achieved a Commerce degree and then followed that up with an MBA. But it wasn’t easy- he struggled to achieve his academic results but pushed on with sheer determination.
Anyway, the results came and he got a good job with a major company with a solid paypacket to match. What also came were the requests and then demands for a share of that paypacket by assorted kin. He told me that he didn’t mind, and was happy to, send some money to his mother (father dead) but he also got requests from assorted extended family, friends of cousins, people he barely knew (!).
He selectively played the game for a while but only to insulate his mother from conflict as she still lived in an outback settlement. After his mother died, he stopped sending any money and he told me he could never go back as he would be ‘beaten up’ or ‘speared’. I asked him if he was joking and he said that “some of those black fellas are crazy – I don’t know what they might do”.
I’ve never forgotten that conversation. I was aghast and he was 100% serious. So, instead of cheering him on and holding up his success as an example, there were some who just wanted his money and there was now a lingering threat of violence when the cashflow stopped.
Haha, my aching sides!
Study: In most cases entities behind Renewable Energy Certificates are not doing much for the climate (Phys.org, 10 Jun)
Careful Concordia researcher peoples, the last time someone published this sort of thing, on a door with a nail, it caused Europe to fight like hyenas for two hundred years.
It worked fine when we were free until 2020.
*What if the government goes nuts and wants medical apartheid (and East Germany for you, if you are Victorian)?*
Well shit, that won’t happen or I will leave separately to society?
Richard “Please sir may I have another” Marles.
The Australian Defense minister who has his speeches vetted by Beijing?
That one?
Taxpayers paid for Labor deputy leader Richard Marles to conduct meetings in Beijing organised by the Chinese government and to give a pro-China speech he cleared with the Chinese embassy before he left Australia.
Mr Marles has also breached parliamentary rules by failing to disclose the sponsored section of his trip to Beijing.
While Mr Marles did not disclose the trip, he did charge Australian taxpayers nearly $6200 for the first part of the overseas visit when he had meetings with a senior CCP official and gave the speech that called for closer military ties between Beijing and Australia.
The Australian has confirmed the Chinese embassy in Canberra organised both the meeting and the speech.
Mr Marles’s accommodation and return flight home from China was paid for by controversial think tank China Matters, which has since been stripped of its Australian government funding over concerns about its agenda.
The three-day study tour, from September 23-26, 2019, included meetings with PRC government officials and was “endorsed” by the Chinese ambassador to Australia at the time, Cheng Jingye.
According to the think tank’s website: “China Matters covered the travel expenses of the participating parliamentarians.”
This morning, AEMO gave notice that load shedding for interruptible customers in Queensland would be likely this evening.
I wonder who or what those interruptible customers are.
Speedbox, same thing happened in PNG. Our two house girls asked the Beloved to open a bank account for them and put their pay in, rather than cash money.
Reason – they’d be accosted outside our gate by bums wanting beer money. If they had no money, they were beaten up. The Beloved fixed that by building them a boihaus in the backyard where they lived. Word got around ( 😀 ) that anyone caught worrying them would go straight to the lockup.
Poor girls. All they wanted to do was to save enough money to send their children and nieces and nephews to school.
Marles’ first step on road to Chinese cocksmoking
Beijing has ended its diplomatic deep-freeze of Australia after a breakthrough meeting in Singapore between Richard Marles and his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe.
He can now be briefed by his handlers all out in the open.
Smart bloke have done the same myself.
calli says: June 13, 2022 at 11:48 am
Calli, that timing is right for the missile fired from HMS Avenger that killed three local (Falkland Islander) women inside a house in Port Stanley.
Fester
Go feed to magpies.
Everybody knows only a transitioning tranny is capable of this crucial job
Go feed the mapies.
Geebus! JC.
I suspect the Chinese would get a better reception from the locals than Albo.
PM to visit Gladstone for first regional cabinet meeting (13 Jun)
Memo to the minders: don’t let any local anywhere near the PM, unless they’re a senior union official.
Why is it so, so cold? It starts with a ‘tonguebath’ from Antarctica
Everybody knows only a transitioning tranny is capable of this crucial job
And I always thought that Transphobia was a fear of travelling on all forms of Public Transport……………..
Yes, Top Ender. I heard the story when I was there.
I was just amused at the spin from both the Argies and the NYT.
If you haven’t been, put it on the Bucket List.
Sorry. Not TE. Sal the Martyr.
We’re still doing the finer planning touches for our USA trip. This is not part of it:
New York City has spent over $200,000 since 2018 hiring drag queens to read to students at public schools
Apparently parents were kept in the dark…more at the Daily Mail
First sentence: unimpeachable.
Second sentence: not at all the way China presents things.
Take it away, Global Times:
There is no way that China would use a functional minister and a WTF non- entity like Marles to take Australia out of the freezer.
The message is clear: Abronese, you’ve had three weeks to get your shit together.
Time for some ‘balls on chin’ kow tow, get your media under control, some quick strategic distance with the Yanks, stop the lesbian doing Pacific shit, a bit of begging for some BRI goodness, and start laying out your strategic assets for Chinese investors.
Or out in the rain – just like Mollison.
Global warming latest:
La Nina climate cycle could last into 2023: UN (Phys.org, 10 Jun)
This was foreshadowed by climate realists many months ago, eg Ryan Maue as I recall. It’s interesting that the climatistas are increasingly saying the same thing. Suggests the real world climate indicators are now so strong they’re overwhelming the warming bias in the climate models.
Home school.
ZK2A:
Then they can be self funding as well.
This was foreshadowed by climate realists many months ago, eg Ryan Maue as I recall. It’s interesting that the climatistas are increasingly saying the same thing. Suggests the real world climate indicators are now so strong they’re overwhelming the warming bias in the climate models.
The narrative is:
(a) heat is caused by “climate change”;
(b) “extreme weather events” that are cold are caused by “climate change”;
(c ) normal cool weather is caused by …. well, La Nina’s as good an excuse as any.
But check with Titus first.
Boambee John:
You cannot send effective assistance into an earthquake zone until the ground stops shaking and the buildings stop falling.
You must wait or you lose the resources you send in.
cohenite
I wonder who or what those interruptible customers are.
Electorates held by the LNP?
Flu season is here in Australia. So far 27 attributed deaths and over 700 hospitalized. Most at risk are under 4yrs.Too early to assess if vaccine working but appears one of the 3 strains here in Vic isn’t being prevented. Flu reports fortnightly available here; https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-surveil-ozflu-flucurr.htm
Global warming latest:
La Nina climate cycle could last into 2023: UN (Phys.org, 10 Jun)
This was foreshadowed by climate realists many months ago, eg Ryan Maue as I recall. It’s interesting that the climatistas are increasingly saying the same thing. Suggests the real world climate indicators are now so strong they’re overwhelming the warming bias in the climate models.
Wait until the alarmists discover we’re in a negative PDO with La Nina dominating and which may last another 20 years
Mem, Mr Three and Miss Seven have both had it. They have never been so unwell, with the 3yo having a trip to Emergency. Parents taking it in turns to sit with them overnight.
But Covid!
I am one of them.
So, tall, bronzed, steely-eyed, devilishly handsome – on Tariff 33, using less than 100 MWh pa of power in a business that can survive up to six continuous hours of no electricity in any 24.
little adam pnecil neck schit is on the case
Jan. 6 Committee Appears to Lay Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has brushed off questions about Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton after he failed to make the Queen’s Birthday Honours list while his interstate counterparts did.
Sky
I see the sanctification of the various Elf hangers-on continues via the Honours gongs.
Some might say this is an irrelevant side-show, but I think we are seeing a dangerous side to this.
We see sick people not being admitted to hospital in the UK “to protect the NHS”.
The world over they are elevating “frontline wukkas” to the level of tin god deitys and they must be protected at all costs, even exempting them from doing what would normally be considered a core part of their job.
The tragic and perverted end result of this mantra of “protect our frontline wukkas” is a bunch of doughnut munchers sitting outside Uvalde primary school while kids are executed inside.
Better late than never.
Whatever the latest flu shot contains it doesn’t work on the latest snot promoter.
My daughter had a shot very recently to work with kids and she’s got it full bore.
It can’t as the yearly flu shot is only a “stab in the dark” (no pun intended……lol……) trying to predict the next variant. I have never had a flu shot and the first and last time that I had the Flu was in 1972 in England at age 20 years.
I remain “unjabbed” for this Virus thingy as well and have yet to get infected. That Virus will mutate as well. However, right now I do have a bit of a head cold and ticklish cough. Well, it is Winter time now in Sydney.
All of these are forms of Coronavirus and there is no drug/vaccine for the Common Cold that has ever been developed (so far).
The reason being that it is just not possible to develop a vaccine to target a virus that can move from animals to humans.
Fact Check = TRUE
So the whole Virus Crisis PanicDemic was a complete waste of time. Yes, try and protect the elderly and the vulnerable but fit and healthy people along with people like me with a Great Immune System were not really in very much danger.
These MRNA Jabs have most probably weakened the human immune system by all accounts. We shall find out as the years pass by……………………….
Now, back to that glass of red wine after my lunch on a nice sunny but cold Queens Birthday holiday Monday…………………Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe it’s the red wine that works (along with the garlic).
Larry Summers sees likely U.S. recession in next 2 years, says GOP support of Jan. 6 Capitol riot worsens inflation
It’s been doing the rounds on twitter for a few days. The problem for the UKR, beyond the seeming ubiquitous Nazi tatts, is that the UAF is always using civilian vehicles for operations, so seeing them shot up is only to be expected.
My father, as a young boy, would travel from Sydney to Helensburgh with his father for a day’s shooting of rabbits. They would catch the train back home (Lavender Bay) with a brace of rabbits and an old kero tin full of blackberries. I think grandmother would have preferred a takeaway meal.
My mother remembered her childhood near Coogee Beach where unemployed men used to sell freshly caught fish on the beach. There was an armada of small rowboats, the men would go out fishing early in the morning and sell their catch to make ends meet.
Hate crime investigation underway after alleged Proud Boys storm Drag Queen Story Hour at Bay Area library
Because THAT’S not shady AF: What ID police officer leaked to media about Patriot Front says SO much (and ain’t none of it any good)
shatterzzz – our new prophet.
After his description of the day-by-day media dramas of the Bileoa mob, sure enough, the next day TheirABC ran a story about the five year old’s birthday party.
This is national and international news, apparently.
Grrr.
Gabor says:
June 13, 2022 at 5:13 am
Running out of food?
“Killer Whales” Killer whales spotted for the first time killing blue whales
“First time” – well, since at least 2017, anyway.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/808888/Orca-takes-on-100ft-blue-whale
Killer Whales often follow female Whales with their calves and pick the calves off after separating them from their Mothers. Mother Nature I’m afraid.
Eat bambi, save da planet!
Eat bambi, save da planet!
‘Bordering on preposterous’: Government food strategy tells public to eat venison instead of beef to save planet
Oh Deer !!!!!
Yet they still demand exemptions from conservation restrictions on harvesting dugongs, turtles, fish, abalone etc even though they do it using modern technology. And they get them.
The pretzel logic of the Left at work again.
Ha! Nice banner Dover.
That’s the look I give naughty children. “I’m watching you. Don’t push it!”
Reserve Bank called on to cut NZ’s money supply – fast
7 two has a doco on thr QE2 and it’s roll in the Falklands War.
My word it is.
Imagine how many graves of those would ruin her and hers she’s danced on since 1952. You can see it in her eyes:
‘You’re next, FitzSimons.’
7 two has a doco on thr QE2 and it’s roll in the Falklands War.
It certainly had a roll or two on those South Atlantic waves and played a key role as well…………..LOL
Finding out that vaccinologists had been trying for 25 years to find a successful vaccine for corona viruses & had only succeeded in killing a lot of experimental animals was but one of the reasons I refused to accept a vaccination. The nature of the genetic technology developed by Prof. Kariko & others was another. So, too, the realisation that they also could not develop a vaccine for HIV AIDS, but were able to successfully contain the infection by way of combination drug treatments.
Interestingly, I have recently tried a new nasal spray developed in Germany by Vicks. It is called “First Defence” & contains Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, Zinc, Eucalyptol & other additives. The manufacturer claims that it is effective because, if applied in the very early stages of infection, it may arrest the replication process. Since it is clear that CV19 infects through aerosol & the pharynx is the first port of call, I figured it was worth a go. Attended a real estate premise recently & the proprietor informed us that he had a bad “flu” or some such, and then, helpfully came very close to us to show us a document! As soon as we got back in the car, I produced said “First Defence” & squirted it up my nose and husband’s.
No sign of cold or flu as a result of contact – but may have been not sufficient contact, sheer luck, good immunity, or……the damn thing works.
For those who like to revel in the awfulness, and the occasional brilliance, of older British cars, I commend this piece at The Conservative Woman (an excellent site.)
The comments are replete with funny anecdotes about the chronic failures of many popular models, usually in the worst possible circumstances.
My only complaint is that they did not sufficiently vilify the Triumph Herald. I have previously mentioned that the owner of one of these abominations needed at least two – one for parts.
da klimate dunit!
Haha indeed, John.
Qld at risk of blackouts amid price cap
The national energy market operator is having to direct electricity generators in Queensland to switch on plants to avoid blackouts, after the introduction of controlled prices in the state left some generators unprofitable.
Despite the orders, Queensland is at risk of potential blackouts later on Monday because of a deficit in supply, the Australian Energy Market Operator signalled, by forecasting a level-three “lack of reserve” notice.
“The wheels seem to have fallen off the energy market,” said power market watcher Paul McArdle at specialist information service Global-ROAM. He noted AEMO has forecast that 1454 megawatts of demand could be “interrupted” at 5.30pm, a load “about the size of Brisbane”.
An extended period of extreme electricity prices triggered a rarely-used cap on wholesale power prices in Queensland on Sunday evening, of $300 a megawatt-hour.
“As a consequence of the administered price cap in Queensland, AEMO has seen generation bids reduce and has issued Lack of Reserve (LOR) notices in both Queensland and New South Wales, signalling a reduction in pre-determined electricity reserve levels,” AEMO said in a statement on Monday.
“To maintain power system security and reliability, AEMO has directed some generators to continue meeting consumers’ demand to improve reserve conditions. At this time, there is no impact to consumer supply.”
AEMO said it would “take available actions” to deliver extra supply or reduce demand to try to keep electricity supplies secure.
The crisis has been driven by multiple outages of coal power units along the east coast over the past several weeks, combined with very high gas prices.
Several coal-fired power stations are out of action due to technical faults, coal supply problems and other issues, with AGL Energy on Friday advising of outages at its Bayswater generator in NSW’s Hunter Valley and a delay in repairs needed at its Loy Yang A generator in Victoria. Electricity demand in Queensland hit a record on Thursday amid cold temperatures.
Gas prices in two states are already being controlled by AEMO at $40 a gigajoule for similar reasons amid a jump in demand for gas for electricity generation and for heating during the cold snap, and high international prices for LNG.
Federal and state energy ministers held an emergency meeting last Wednesday to discuss the crisis, drawing up an 11-point plan, which included efforts to get coal plants back online and commitments to progress work urgently on electricity and gas market reforms,
Under AEMO rules, generators directed to run their plants to avoid shortages are eligible for compensation to cover their costs.
But Josh Stabler, managing director of energy adviser Energy Edge, said that even if directed to run, some generators may not have fuel available,
“The other major concern will be fuel availability,” he said. “If participants don’t schedule the gas to be delivered, then the assets won’t be available even under a direction.
“The co-ordination of gas producers, pipelines and generators will be critical to a successful path through this crisis.”
The controlled price was introduced in Queensland after the rolling total of seven days of prices topped the set limit of $1.3591 million. It was the first time that the price cap has been imposed in Queensland.
NSW is the next closest state to the cumulative price threshold, with the running total reaching north of $1 million on Monday morning, said Dylan McConnell at The University of Melbourne’s Climate & Energy College.
little adam pnecil neck schit is on the case
Jan. 6 Committee Appears to Lay Out Road Map for Prosecuting Trump
There is this:
Exclusive: FBI finds scant evidence U.S. Capitol attack was coordinated – sources
Would a German-style tenancy model work in New Zealand?
Here’s what the Germans have…
World War II led to the destruction of most of Germany’s housing stock, and it was rebuilt by government organisations and financial institutions. Large corporations still own and manage hundreds, or even thousands, of rental properties.Now, nearly 50% of the population rents, but tenants are well-protected by rental laws.
While fixed-term tenancies are available, most rental agreements are indefinite, and a landlord can only end one by evicting the tenant through the courts or giving at least three months’ notice.
But a tenant can contest a notice, and a landlord has to prove it is for good reason. Tenants can usually give three months’ notice.
Landlords can increase the rent up to 15% within a three-year period, but increases have to be justified, and the tenant can contest them. Some cities, such as Berlin, have limits on the amount rent can be increased.
There is a national tenants association, with local branches, and, once a tenant joins, they get advice and support, and any legal costs from a dispute with a landlord are covered.
But while rentals can come furnished, most are unfurnished. And that means no floor coverings, curtains, built in cabinets or closets, or light and other fixtures. Many don’t even have kitchens installed.
Instead tenants have to install and maintain household fixtures themselves. Tenants are also allowed to decorate, including paint. But they must restore the property to its original state before moving out.
Pitchforks soon in Europe?
their war
European leaders crave for their war, so they can´t think of a better way to provoke it than by applying ever larger and ´meaner´ sanctions on Russia as if (a) sanctions were effective and (b) as if Europe could win such war (not).
Accordingly, we now have yet another set of spanking new EU “sanctions” in package No. 6 that will eventually backfire flat on Europe´s face – like all the others — such as banning the insurance and financing of oil tankers that carry Russian oil.
Accordingly, the EU is now trying its very best to
(1) bankrupt the successful Western oil tanker insurance business by reducing the number of participants
(2) induce higher shipping and insurance costs worldwide by reducing the number of participants
(3) foster the development of yet another Russian import substitution service namely oil tanker insurance & financing
(4) seriously hinder the world´s economy by not allowing deliveries of any oil tankers carrying Russian oil anywhere (EU or non-EU) thus cutting off some 15% of the world´s oil supply from the world market and necessarily sending its price yet higher with yet more EU-induced inflation as if we had not had enough already, please brace for it.
(5) force the construction of a new Russian-Chinese-Indian oil tanker fleet leaving idle part of today´s fleet
(6) tempt Russia to embargo strategic value-chain upstream items with captive consumers cascading into multiple failures thru lack of nat-gas, rare earths, inert gases, potash, sulfur, uranium, palladium, vanadium, cobalt, coke, etc.
It’s almost like something has trashed everyone’s immune system… could it be da klimate or something else??