how many sheets left on the dunny roll before you can leave it ? 3? nah 5? maybe 7? deffo
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Digger, 404 comes up.
Wuhan Lab Could Disguise Coronavirus as ‘Natural’: Report | China In Focus Dr. Anthony Fauci and an over $4 million…
Leave that to us.
Bishop and Cormann’s main role was hoovering up mining cash along St Georges Tce and sending it East while the Lieborals were in government. Imagine that has dried up to a trickle now.
It’s a pity we can remember Russia subjugating Eastern European countries and running a nuclear stare down for over forty years.
Another confusion of the USSR with current day Russia.
Gosh you’ve got a good memory Lizzie! I only did one year of Anthropology at Sydney Uni in the late 1960s, but I think I can recall (now that you mention it) Ian Hogbin. The now I remember was a dashing lecturer in Physical Anthropology named, I think, was Peter Wright. All the girls were madly in love with him. Unfortunately, I didn’t do as well in Anthropology to major in it, though I really loved it. Went on to major in Ancient History and English & had to choose between them for my 4th Yr Honours degree. I chose Ancient History, graduated & followed my thesis supervisor to Macquarie to do a PhD. A shame, because I was offered a Research Position with Prof. Dame Leonie Kramer in the English Department which depended, for me, on doing a PhD in English (The poetry of Australian poet A.D. Hope). Now she WAS a grand dame!
Should the govt, legislate them to lose 70% of their income in a single stroke, they may be able to organise every bit as well as the Dutch have.
The real question: Will Australian state police forces open fire on farmers?
Dutch police have fired live rounds into tractor cabs & using extremely aggressive & volatile body language to remove farmers from tractors at gunpoint.
Farmer Gezsays:
July 6, 2022 at 6:22 pm
bespoke says:
July 6, 2022 at 6:17 pm
Maybe learn to cook?
No!
Correct.
Women cook, men BBQ.
LOL. All the best Chefs are Men……………………
The “ONE” I remember! ……
Professor Collignon says the findings of the study also highlight the benefits for healthy people who are exposed to some illnesses.
“Some interesting data has become available which suggests that if you get immunised with the seasonal vaccine, you get less broad protection than if you get a natural infection,” he said.
“It is particularly relevant for children because it is a condition they call original antigenic sin, which basically means if you get infected with a natural virus, that gives you not only protection against that virus but similar viruses or even in fact quite different flu viruses in the next year.
“We may be perversely setting ourselves up that if something really new and nasty comes along, that people who have been vaccinated may in fact be more susceptible compared to getting this natural infection.”
Cold, Flu and COVID are tearing through the workforce in VIC. This is consistent with the professors comments.
Vicki, Hairy did a year of anthropology, under Edmund Leach and other greats such as Myer Fortes.
He didn’t like it, lol, so did economics in the Cambridge Social Science Tripos. Later on he studied early Computer Science and forged a career in that arena on the crest of various waves. He’s been quite varied in the things he has done. Worked in industry mainly on telecoms research in the UK, EU, Australia but quite a lot of managment too. Some of that involved giving back stolen bones to aboriginal tribes.
Well the Victorian police fired rubber bullets at the Vax protesters in Melbourne. I still get really upset when I see that footage.
Of course, farmers are one of the very few sectors in the community to still have guns………..
“We may be perversely setting ourselves up that if something really new and nasty comes along, that people who have been vaccinated may in fact be more susceptible compared to getting this natural infection.”
Professor Collignon was one of the very very few epidemiologists who said anything remotely akin to previous medical dogma in this country. Eventually, we heard little from him. Maybe he was silenced by the government.
But it is amazing to him him raise the issue of original antigenic sin arising from widespread vaccination in society.
The real question: Will Australian state police forces open fire on farmers?
Dutch police have fired live rounds into tractor cabs & using extremely aggressive & volatile body language to remove farmers from tractors at gunpoint.
Australian Police Forces will definitely open fire. It’s what they’ve been recruiting and training for at least a decade. Put it this way, if you open up on someone with a “non lethal device” from 5m and the safe distance is 100m, you don’t have far to go.
The more pressing question is when does the shooting back start? There’s a lot of people with no where left to turn, Dutch farmer suicides are a weekly occurrence. Sooner or later one of them is going to reach the logical conclusion of ending their oppressors, rather than ending themselves.
National Farmers Federation caused a few headaches back in the day.
Not exactly confusion.
The guys do have a habit of flying the flag.
Very romantic they are.
“Professor Collignon was one of the very very few epidemiologists who said anything remotely akin to previous medical dogma in this country. Eventually, we heard little from him. Maybe he was silenced by the government.”
Collignon has been a regular on Sky over the last two years, frequently appearing on Chris Kenny. He’s always spoken sense.
Given Putin’s nostalgia for the USSR, such confusion might be forgiven.
Open that box, and there’s no turning back (or winning).
Hitler and Stalin both understood that food is a weapon. Control that, control the situation.
If the government wish to interfere with the provision of food to the populace, stand aside and let them. Just make sure people know who is to blame, in order to retain popular support.
The interference won’t last very long.
There is ideology, and there is reality. Food is reality.
Vicki, rubber bullet snap!
Was the National Farmers Federation run by The Spooks?
I remember it got huge amounts of ABC publicity, during the Hawke/ Keating 13 wasted years, achieved fuck all.
As is the price of fuel & electricity.
Labor/left-Liberal governments across the land are headed for a collision with reality.
Isn’t there a Grey Nurse shark you could be molesting Groogs?
I was trying to remember his name, Vicki, so thanks for the prompt. All I could recall were my despairs co-teaching basic pre-history with the mercurial (read mental) John Clegg. Peter Wright, as you say, was seriously good looking, quite the heartthrob. He later became Head of Department for a while.
Doing first year in the late 60’s you might even have had me as a tutor! We must explore this. lol.
Think of the shortest mini-skirt and it was probably me.
In my u/g days in first year at SU you had to cover all bases – social anthropology, physical anthropology, prehistory and linguistics. I absolutely loved it. Completed an honours degree and on that basis received a p/g commonwealth scholarship for a PhD. I was lucky enough to have received an undergraduate c/wth as well, or I wouldn’t have been there at all. That good scheme meant you had to be a serious scholar to even get to university (although rich girls where Daddy paid up still did Matrimony 1, the useless ones exiting first year with a husband and three subject failures).
A far cry from the degraded system today where anyone gets in and standards are through the floor.
Pity they stumbled at the first sentence.
The Spanish and Portuguese were trading barbarian iron* with the Nipponese in the mid 1500s.
The Portugee kept it up after the Tokugawas shut the door.
* An example of Nanban tetsu.
Putin’s job has been to keep the lid on Russian Nationalism.
Lenin did that by creating Ukraine SSR in 1922, Kruschev by gifting Crimea to Ukraine in 1954.
He’s been under pressure at home to help the Russians in the Donbass, it’s better late than never.
A suspicious character.
People who claim he wants to emulate the Tsars are just regurgitating CIA talking points.
Gonzalo Lira
2022.07.05 The Netherlands Is On Fire
Another confusion of the USSR with current day Russia.
Not exactly confusion.
The guys do have a habit of flying the flag.
Very romantic they are.
Just maybe it was just the crew of that vehicle commemorating the great grandpa of one of them fighting Nazis to defend the Rodina. Or feeling kinship with those who did.
FFS.
Interesting how the attention has turned back to eliminating firearm ownership by The People. I think some realised that they moved a bit to far along the agenda, without have the “gun problem” properly wrapped up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uivkb1_B3TA
Ed,
Why is not providing details of the African slave trade to the Arab states such a huge issue for you?
Dickless
You’re understanding is wrong.
By the way,
why is this such a huge issue for you?
You haven’t offered any evidence for your assertions, but why is it such a huge issue for you? Don’t want to be associated with Africans?
Live by the canapès, die by the canapès.
Ed Casesays:
July 6, 2022 at 7:25 pm
Was the National Farmers Federation run by The Spooks?
Mr Ed’s obsessions for today are Spooks and Out of Africa.
The Flamers are feeling unloved.
People who claim he wants to emulate the Tsars are just regurgitating CIA talking points.
Dickless receives the daily email. He has to eat it after reading.
Winter is here. The health Nazi’s are resurgent. This shit is far from over:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhE-tGnhis
I’m a fully paid up member of West Australian Farmers Federation – does that make me a Spook?
The smart ones, really. They won by forfeit.
There really shouldn’t be any standards.
High school, which most university entry is based on is a joke*, most theory is available free online. All that matters is practical results and the ability to master the content to pass a final exam.
The utility of exams is very limited, but in the current environment, that’s all that counts, other than practicum for hands on disciplines.
Quite frankly if we keep exams we should be able to have open exams for any takers, subject marks 100% redeemable on the final.
Other than that, it should be self directed learning** and practical work.***
*What useful or marketable skills do high school students leave with now? This isn’t Germany where those who don’t go to university have an entry level trade certification.
**Universities would actually flip out if this really happened, despite the front they’ve had for decades.
***Like a maths student being an intern at a geology place modelling oil drilling.
Eyrie says:
July 6, 2022 at 7:03 pm
It’s a pity we can remember Russia subjugating Eastern European countries and running a nuclear stare down for over forty years.
Another confusion of the USSR with current day Russia.
Another Russian expansion while threatening everyone with nuclear destruction if they intervene.
Meanwhile we have another communist derived power threatening and bullying in our region.
Confusion is arguing over the breed of the dog that’s chewing your leg off.
Was the National Farmers Federation run by The Spooks?
I wondered why they made us use the Cone of Silence at meetings.
Mandatory boot phones.
Every great power has more or less acted like that. As to memory, the Germans had a large role in that, and the Hungarians and Romanians to a lesser extent.
calli earlier
My Sinny Eastern Suburbs S-i-L is a butter snob.
Won’t touch Aussie butter.
Always buys artisanal butter from her deli, but will use Lurpak at a pinch when travelling to the provinces.
She is not yet aware of the Great Western Star substitution scandal of last Christmas.
Every great power has more or less acted like that. As to memory, the Germans had a large role in that, and the Hungarians and Romanians to a lesser extent.
Acting totally independently of course.
NSW currently getting 95% of its power from non-renewables.
Mandatory boot phones.
We called them the RM BlackBerry
The failure is the fact that governments and the [ahem] ‘regulators’ have actively encouraged the process of handing out control of an undifferentiated essential service to our very own Aussie Oligarchs.
So, sorry, a big fuck you everyone for sitting back, slack mouthed and dull-eyed, expecting someone else to work in your interests. Go and talk to Zali, or any of the other useless fuckers you’ve just voted into power over your lives.
Governments are supposed to serve and represent the people. Now, they lord it over the people and the people have been given a Great Big Serve. Voting doesn’t change anything anymore. Maybe a Revolution will do it.
No, no. It’s all good.
We’ve got a free trade deal with the EU by giving away working electricity. Macron said so.
Oh. No we haven’t…
cohenitesays:
July 6, 2022 at 8:14 pm
That $400 million battery isn’t exactly carrying SA on its back, is it?
Obviously about $30 billions worth are needed. Plus the extra wind and solar to charge them.
Yes and No. Some European univerities (Italy so I’ve read) allow enrolment to occur freely and examinations prove the worth of the student. Even if not gamed, this still provides less than a good education. University education as I experienced it is also socialisation – which means learning about how the world works and discovering ways to operate in it yourself (a different concept to sociality, with which it is often confused). Families and schools provide an initial socialisation; the wider world has estaablished centres of learning precisely because they have served a complex world well. Over centuries. These institutions located in bricks bring people together and allow debate. A negative is that they can also be gamed, and groupthinks take over. But people together in interaction eventually arrive at some eternal verities.
Eventually.
Sancho
A production and quality manager for Sara Lee/Greens once told me that the baby formulas actually get very precise on what fatty acid chains are on each “fat” molecule.
From memory, they aim to have a shape where the longest FA chain is in the centre. It gives better mouthfeel apparently.
Milk also has a very complex fatty acid profile.
Don’t start me on this trans fat BS. That is such a stupid rabbit hole of regulation and marketing.
Lizzie, is it possible that I met you at Lorenzini’s in early to mid 1964?
???
How? Other than exams being not very good.
There’s no debate about linear optimisation. What an infinitesimal is maybe, but…nope, no debate that the divergence theorem works better than Stokes’ theorem sometimes.
1. Let your kids play outside.
2. (They) Get a job.
Viola! Socialisation!
I don’t believe in reform. I believe in survival of the fittest.
Hopefully private accreditation replaces all govvy. approved training, be it degree conferral or approved red tape courses.
Had that cardiac CT scan today. No result as yet. It started badly when the junior could find a vein and called in a senior, who finally got one. Then onto the machine and given a test run of holding my breath. Mask immediately discarded; this place was demanding masks from the moment you entered reception.
I was given some ‘nitrate’ under my tongue, which I was warned would be unpleasant and give me a headache. Which it immediately did. Related to Amyl Nitrate? Never did see the attraction of that.
Warned that the IV iodine ink would cause what Sancho described, a feeling that you were peeing. I felt that, but more concerned by the huge rush of blood to my flaming cheeks. Very heated.
Machine pounded away with its x-rays sounding rather like an MRI machine at times, but not claustrophobic as it was slightly less coffin-like on whole body insertion.
Hairy picked me up and I was a little disoriented. He’d parked in Westfields and we walked through Myers to the car: right through a big sale in the shoe department. I kept stopping to look at shoes, still befuddled, but pass a woman, even a confused one, though a shoe sale and what is she to do? Hairy settled into a sofa with his ipad and I bought a pair of sneakers on sale. Can’t ever have too many pairs of those, I reasoned. I don’t mind you buying some, he complained, but don’t keep on saying you’re just looking, going now, and then spying another table of goodies and stopping again to try some on.
You pay for them, I pleaded, because I don’t think I have the strength left. lol. He paid up. 🙂
Boris supporters falling like ninepins, as it were, on the TV right now.
Wollombi Brook and the Macdonald river are also heavily in flood.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Macdonald change in significant ways — maybe it’ll become navigable again.. or become even wider and shallower?
Farcebook links:
Wollombi Tavern up to the roof: https://www.facebook.com/Wollombi-Tavern-166773500005226/photos/pcb.6000113326671185/6000113170004534/
Macdonald was way up and flooded the Settlers arms.. on its way down now
https://www.facebook.com/Wollombi-Tavern-166773500005226/photos/pcb.6000113326671185/6000113170004534/
Several of Mrs Ds cronies in Budgewoi have been evacuated… Water coming into the house. One of them has lived in the same house for over 70 years. First time in her life the lake has come into the house.
Nitroglycerin.
I know a number in the community wish to rename ‘Australia Day’ , ‘Invasion Day’. I would like to respond with ‘You’re welcome Day’.
See this NAIDOC week is helping me think clearer.
Watched Roman Dean sit in for Andrew Bolt this evening. Re the flight chaos in the country he interviewed a Jetstar pilot who is part of a class action against Qantas for sacking them as they would not get the vax.
A major cause of flight delays cancellations are due to insufficient numbers of pilots ( cos they kicked quite a few out Nov 16,2021. Plus there are quite a few current staff who did want to take the vax but could not afford to lose their jobs. They are not happy and are actively working against the airlines or doing the bare minimum or staying away if they get the sniffles..just in case.
These causes seems to be more consistent with what I experienced over the past few days.
Amyl nitrite is more likely to make you loosen your eliminations.
The misinforming and misleading ABC.
Police in northern Friesland said Wednesday that no one was hurt in the incident that involved warning shots and direct targeting of a tractor that broke free from a line. Police said there was an attempt to drive into their vehicles and officers.
There’s an unfortunate video that shows no such thing happened.
They’re lying, we know they’re lying, they know they’re lying but they don’t care.
Australia is the first nation to be established on this continent, so I guess that makes me a proud first nation man 🙂
A major cause of flight delays cancellations are due to insufficient numbers of pilots ( cos they kicked quite a few out Nov 16,2021.
I would also be wondering how many of their jabbed pilots are actually airworthy given the exactly requirements and the vax’s proven ability to chuck a spanner in the works.
Note: Fuel at Tulla seems to be working relatively well. Down due to vax injury but the unvaxxed returned last week, contractor didn’t terminate the unvaxxed, just stood them down.
Not sure what you mean. I meant that the Russians had experienced two majors wars, the last of them a war of annihilation which, setting aside ideology, is going to leave you somewhat sensitive to matters of security.
If you want to read 10 pages that’ll blow your mind about the academic dishonesty surrounding Aboriginal history, try this:
THE FABRICATION OF ABORIGINAL HISTORY – Keith Windschuttle
Inconceivable…and not a good reflection on some of our more noted academics.
Timothy Neilsonsays:
July 6, 2022 at 8:24 pm
cohenitesays:
July 6, 2022 at 8:14 pm
That $400 million battery isn’t exactly carrying SA on its back, is it?
Obviously about $30 billions worth are needed. Plus the extra wind and solar to charge them.
As per a recent Article in Quadrant Online –
“It would take 696 power reserve storage centres the size of Hornsdale in South Australia to provide just four hours of backup power for the Australian grid—at a cost of $50 billion. Batteries, in other words, are largely useful for regulating voltage and frequency, but are a very expensive means of providing storage on any extended basis.”
And as you say, “Plus the extra wind and solar to charge them.” God knows what the cost of that would be. But more and more billions of dollars.
Then there is the cost of the Connecters that need to be built to connect to the National Grid. Estimated cost 20 billion dollars or so.
Think how many reliable coal fired HELE Power Stations that could be built for all of that money. More than we would need.
The ‘Pollies’ and their so called Advisers are absolutely stark raving mad. This is never going to work.
Finished, via Youtube, 3 hr 40 mins interview of Erik Prince by Shawn Ryan – Shawn Ryan Show 29 – Rise and Fall of Blackwater
Ryan, like Prince, is an ex SEAL and was a CIA contractor who also worked at Blackwater. A very interesting interview covering Blackwater, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Africa, China, Taiwan, Ukraine and even pirates.
Some highlights :
US playing checkers but Iran playing chess
AC 130 gunship, $250 million, but wont fly in daylight !
Mentioned lawyers in the military and compares to the political guys in Russian military.
Goes into the nasty death of 4 BW contractors in Fallujah and the subsequent firefight that caused his contractors to be put on trial in Washington.
Then the multiple agencies who then went after BW. ie. Ag Dept due to export of dog food, investigation into gift of two guns to King of Jordan (on behalf of CIA).
His public naming by head of CIA (Panetta) means he is willing to say some things about CIA work.
One Govt security contract he put in a bid for was returned as too cheap. Added 60% and then approved !
Russians invited him to Moscow to discuss setting up a BW type operation. Declined but 2/3 years later Wagner Group popped up.
Weaponisation of Govt agencies
He met the CEO of the Chinese State company that built the islands and says what was told about Obama administration.
USA biggest threat is internal.
There is also a podcast with the 4 guys who were involved in the shootout (17 civilians died) that led to fall of BW. 1 sentenced to life and the other 3 for 30 years. Nearly 6 hours that one.
Every country fighting against the Axis went through that, but they’re not threatening their neighbors. France is not threatening Luxembourg every other day.
Looks like the petty and vengeful imprisonment of Aussie Cossack is getting plenty of publicity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Cw468n-Hw
RickW,
Great to hear you are back at work.
I’m reading an account of the Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917 – 1921.
Cite you the Russian General who took his private brothel, and grogcellar, complete with cellar master, to war with him….
Someone at Hydro Tasmania must read the Cat tea leaves.
Power prices in the NEM have bobbled around $500-$700/MWh all evening, as the mainland generators gorge on the cold and wet.
Tasmanian power has been bid at a rocksteady $290/MWh.
Still $200/MWh more than a few months ago. But top marks for pretending to be embarrassed.
academic dishonesty
Two words that now seem synonymous.
Vickisays:
July 6, 2022 at 7:07 pm
Readings at SU included Spencer and Gillen, plus Strehlow, Basedow, and the earlier trained anthropologists, such as Elkin, Hiatt, Berndts, Meggitt, Beckett and many others. I was taught by, and later taught with, both Ian Hogbin and Margaret MacArthur and in Prehistory worked with the explosive John Clegg. Long time passing.
Gosh you’ve got a good memory Lizzie! I only did one year of Anthropology at Sydney Uni in the late 1960s, but I think I can recall (now that you mention it) Ian Hogbin. The now I remember was a dashing lecturer in Physical Anthropology named, I think, was Peter Wright. All the girls were madly in love with him
Sound like Peter Simpson Chemistry 1 for Sydney Uni Engineers 1962 with 4 girls in 396 Eng year 1 students – Our lectures always full of Girls
RickW,
Great to hear you are back at work.
I’m not working back there. I put in a bid for some minor engineering work there, so I had been on site.
After being terminated they black banned me for 6 months. This has now been lifted, I subcontract there to fill in the gaps in the new jobs workload.
“I’m reading an account of the Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917 – 1921.”
What is the book called Zulu?
Lizzie
I was given some ‘nitrate’ under my tongue, which I was warned would be unpleasant and give me a headache.
That probably was glyceryl trinitrate, once known as nitroglycerine. It expands the blood vessels, when it wears off, they contract, causing a headache. I doubt that they gave you enough to clear your sinuses, had you sneezed!
feelthebernsays:
July 6, 2022 at 4:54 pm
Old Ozzie, sorry to hear that.
Were they symptomatic on all occasions?
Basically all with bad Colds – Granddaughter 3rd time really cheesed as she is down in Snowy and unable to train with great snow – playing puzzles with Mum in Apartment
Keith Windschuttle wrote three very good articles in “Quadrant”, back in 2000, on the subject of the “Myths of the Frontier massacres in Australian History” – how successful he was in making his case, may be gauged by the lengths the “Industry” went to, to discredit him. He was going to write more on the matter in a forthcoming volume of “The Fabrication of Aboriginal History ” series, but the book never appeared.
“Russia – Revolution and Civil War 1917 – 1921” By Anthony Beevor. Interesting reading, if not rather depressing, in places.
I trust you are making them pay.
Yes, a depressing read, but enlightening.
““Russia – Revolution and Civil War 1917 – 1921” By Anthony Beevor. Interesting reading, if not rather depressing, in places.”
Thanks, it’s on my list. I’ve read Beevor’s Stalingrad and Berlin, The Downfall.
It reinforced a point that was made some time ago – no matter how brutal, bloody and reactionary the Tsars were, the Bolsheviks made them look enlightened by comparison.
RickW,
So you can work there as a sub contractor but not full time. Hypocrisy much as surely if you are plague infested it does not matter.
Beevor’s wife, Artemis Cooper, is also a very good writer. Artemis is the daughter of the writer John Julius Norwich and the granddaughter of the great Edwardian beauty, Lady Diana Cooper.
CM, Tele and HS have article about approval of 4th jab.
Has a poll : Would you take the 4th jab. Currently 63% saying yes but that is contrary to the flow of comments. Probably the votes are coming from the same guys who voted for the hospital name change in Brisbane (ie. within Qld health offices).
No mention of mandates but needless to say health workers and Qld Police and Defence will be coerced accordingly.
Does that make her the granddaughter of the great Edwardian lecher and “Bon Vivant? ” Alfred “Duff” Cooper? He who went to a diplomatic reception at the Soviet Embassy, and who needed a week in bed, to recover from the resulting hangover?
Lady Diana Cooper?
Didn’t P go to school with her?
“It reinforced a point that was made some time ago – no matter how brutal, bloody and reactionary the Tsars were, the Bolsheviks made them look enlightened by comparison.”
No doubt about it.
A few weeks ago Peter Hitchens wrote, in relation to Beevor’s book, that Beevor neglects to mention how it was Germany that nurtured the Bolsheviks, it was Germany that sent Lenin on the train to Russia, it was Germany that succoured the Bolsheviks with the signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
ZK2A, Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday you’re a spook, Friday Saturday Sunday you’re a flamer and Monday not an African. The days can be interchangeable, if not happy with the arrangement complain to Special Ed, but then you’ll be Karen.
My brain hurts…
welcome to country day
Good lord that is based, King.
Watching Wimbledon – real ladies- tomljanovic v rybankia – I have enjoyed a game like this in years – no groaning scqueeling or grunting. Poise grace and playing their shots.
Cracking game.
RickW,
So you can work there as a sub contractor but not full time. Hypocrisy much as surely if you are plague infested it does not matter.
Yep, they finally got a new manager in place, my replacement, so just odds and ends required.
I trust you are making them pay.
Oh yes!
Cassie – way up fred around 06:18pm.
Beautifully excoriating skank Bishop.
Lovely fucking darts!
Welcome to the modern world, beyond the Stone Age…
“My brain hurts”. That’ll be the days you’re not a flamer. So I’m told.
She is the Dems gift to comedians, seriously :
Vice President Kamala Harris just spoke at the scene of the Highland Park mass shooting.
“We have to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously,” she said.
They were every other day before it culminated in WW2. But the above had in mind Germany, Hungary and Romania which were Axis powers.
Guts effort, one and all!
I would be happy with Invasion Day if we were allowed to march in a parade wearing red coats and carrying Union Jacks and a Brown Bess.
dover0beach says:
July 6, 2022 at 10:46 pm
Every country fighting against the Axis went through that, but they’re not threatening their neighbors. France is not threatening Luxembourg every other day.
Where Romania, as usual, changed sides as soon it was clear who was winning.
What the hell is this? It looks like a hypnosis session for world leaders. Big Brother calling.
MarkFriese The Grizzly Patriot
@MarkFriesen08
The ones responsible for the destruction of western civilization. Remember them as they are themselves dictated to by WEF and UN.
Former Aussie Qantas Pilot Alan Dana – Are Pilots Safe to Fly?
The Great Reset | Klaus Schwab, Elon Musk and Yuval Noah Harari Explain “The Great Reset” In Their Own Words
Martin Geddes
Are you sure you have this 100% right?
Tasmanian Aboriginal leader Michael Mansell will campaign against the “assimilationist” voice to parliament and is instead urging the allocation of six Indigenous-elected Senate seats.
The veteran activist told The Australian the voice was a “second-grade” option and “completely counter-productive”, as it enshrined an advisory-only body in the Constitution, rather than actual power for Indigenous Australians.
“The voice is purely assimilationist and it’s a second-grade model,” said Mr Mansell, chairman of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania.
The lawyer and attendee of the Uluru gathering that led to the Statement from the Heart said had the voice proposal been put forward by non-Indigenous people it would be have been widely condemned as “racist”.
“This has come from a very conservative section of the Aboriginal community itself so they can get away with it,” Mr Mansell said.
“It can’t force government to negotiate. Whereas, six Aboriginal delegates out of 76 in the Senate can actually vote on legislation, speak openly about Aboriginal rights and can use their voting power to negotiate deals for the Aboriginal community.”
So it’s really about power then?
Johannes Leak.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
So Mickey the blonde, blue-eyed descendant of the Bass Strait sealer is OK with 6 or so elected representatives – as is the case now – but wants his relos to get another 6 senate sets unelected.
I want six for my convict relos too – unelected, I’ll pick some mates.
Matt Margolis.
Oops sorry Tom
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Indolentsays:
July 6, 2022 at 11:56 pm
Martin Geddes
Are you sure you have this 100% right?
Very good. I never knew that there were so many ‘Are you sures’.
I used to be indecisive, but now I’m not so sure.
Dot
One alternative is to strip universities of clubs, sports, shops ect that can be served outside uni. We have a problem with the burocracy trying to turn Australia into a giant campus.
If Australia was ‘invaded’ then this is not a settled land it is a conquered land and therefore to the victor the spoils as was international law in the 18th Century, that’s what I was led to believe by a Law professor who came to speak in our lecture theatre back in the 1996 when he said that the Native Title Act was a basically a con job – back when freedom of speech didn’t get you cancelled.
Indolentsays:
July 6, 2022 at 11:51 pm
Former Aussie Qantas Pilot Alan Dana – Are Pilots Safe to Fly?
Wow! This whole drug jabbing (alleged vaccine) mandate BS just keeps looking like blackmail/extortion.
Looks like QANTAS and all other Corporates who implemented the mandates are on dodgy ground legally. Can’t wait to see the outcome of the Court Case.
Bourne1879says:
July 6, 2022 at 10:39 pm
She is the Dems gift to comedians, seriously :
Vice President Kamala Harris just spoke at the scene of the Highland Park mass shooting.
“We have to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously,” she said.
Gobbledygook. Gibberish. And she can’t spell either.
https://www.news.com.au/world/vp-dunce-kamala-harris-ruthlessly-mocked-after-awkward-spelling-error/video/380015d512272061ad0a544ef52a24fa
WATCH: Trump previews the return of his iconic Boeing 757
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
July 6, 2022 at 10:37 pm
welcome to country day
Welcome to the modern world, beyond the Stone Age…
I prefer to call January the 26th, 1788, ‘Settlement Day’. I will now get some proof that I have some Aboriginal blood in me somewhere and apply for my settlement with the Australian Federal Gov’ment. I think that a settlement of around 5 million Australian Dollars should do me quite nicely.
From the LAYDEES.
Set your gaslighting power level to OVER 9000!
“It’s different when we do it”
Is Women Hating Men Really the Same Thing as Men Hating Women?
One is a rage against patriarchal power, the other a network of practices
https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/is-women-hating-men-really-the-same-thing-as-men-hating-women-b11d4c2ec842
1. Starts talking about “incels” after hand waving for a few moments. Something something muh pussy.
2. I don’t hate men but misandry isn’t as bad as misogyny!
3. Has never collected garbage, cleaned gutters etc. Is the patriarchy (“a network of practices”) stopping you changing the oil on your car or getting a real STEM degree?
(Cue “math is racist imperialist homophobic bigotry PS I can’t use flux integrals…”).
Huh! Men, amirite!
rickwsays:
July 6, 2022 at 9:19 pm
A major cause of flight delays cancellations are due to insufficient numbers of pilots ( cos they kicked quite a few out Nov 16,2021.
I would also be wondering how many of their jabbed pilots are actually airworthy given the exactly requirements and the vax’s proven ability to chuck a spanner in the works.
Pilots need to have an extensive yearly Medical as part of their Pilot Licence renewal I do believe. So for all of those ‘jabbed’ Pilots the Medical is likely to show up something untoward. That will likely mean less Pilots getting their Licence renewed. And, in need of ongoing Medical treatment. This is not looking very good at all.
APTA were predicting a pilot shortage in early 2021, looks like they were right
I wonder if the pilots flying the private planes have been vaxxed. Would we ever know? Or rather, would we ever know the truth?
Like elsewhere, the Australian aviation industry is experiencing pilot shortages but it’s not necessarily the biggest airlines feeling the most pain.
If you read industry articles it doesn’t appear that ‘the vax’ has anything to do with the pilot shortages, which predate covid, though the pandemic does.
The ABC in October 2021, obviously Boeing expects to have a massive electric plane industry by 2040.
In its latest outlook report, Boeing forecast 600,000 more pilots would be needed by 2040.
JS ask bruce pascoe where he got his aboriginal ancestors. I believe there’s a trough connected to taxpayers that sells them.
From the link:
1. Equal pay – do the same hours.
2. Glass ceiling – do the same hours.
3. Adequate medical care – this must be why the ladeeeees live longer, aren’t damaged from physical labour for decades and don’t kill themselves nearly as much.
The writer’s bio indicates that she is yet another fat English scrag recruited for her excellence in the traditional British pastime of whinging.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government is finding a “long-term solution” to increased flooding by changing Australia’s position on climate change.
“Australia has always been subject of floods, of bushfires, but we know that the science told us that if we continued to not take action globally on climate change then these extreme weather events would be more often and more intense,” he said.
“And what we’re seeing, unfortunately, is that play out.”
Well, Albo. Guess what. Floods and Bushfires in past years have been much worse.
The January 1939 Bushfires in Victoria is just one example where 75% of the State was effected to some extent (by fire, smoke, etc.). 71 people died when the population was far less than what it is now.
There were also major bushfires in the 1800s.
The Hawkesbury River has flooded at much higher levels in the past. The river at Windsor reached a peak height of 19.68 metres in 1867. The highest on record since 1799.
So, where is this ‘science’ that you talk about? The ‘science’ from Tim Flatulence and others of his ilk? The UN?
We really do need some proper science with all of this. And we need it now to nip this Climate Change Alarmism in the bud once and for all. Will we get it? NO!
In startling news the ABC have identified that firefighters face cancer risks by inhaling toxic fumes.
Fighting fires is dangerous to your health, I did not know that.
We are governed by unemployable campus marxists who still play the same games they did back at the uni.
I see it’s abortion sob story time again for the meja- “I was doing arts at Macquarie…” sort of thing.
In other firefighting news.
Fire Rescue Victoria, the bastard creation of TaliDan, is manufacturing work for itself by not recognising previous training and demanding new training days.
Do I know how to pull a fuse from a power pole with a tool? Yes.
Is that now recognised? No.
The union wants to get rid of volunteers and TaliDan created an authority to do it.
Get fucked on your fiftieth birthday Dan, you disgusting excuse for a man.
Re “the unprecedented”floods in the Hunter:
I have two lovely old colonial era chairs rescued in the terrible Singleton flood of the 1950s by my mum and lovingly restored by her. I tell their story to all who remark upon them.
During the Hawaiian ‘I don’t hold a hose, mate’ bushfires a couple of years back, somebody (and to my great shame, I cannot remember who) commented that – paraphrased:
Gender equality doesn’t put out bushfires. Toxic masculinity does.
One of the greatest comments on this or any other iteration of the Cat.
Gez sending Dan birthday wishes.
Very touching.
Farmer Gezsays:
July 7, 2022 at 7:10 am
In startling news the ABC have identified that firefighters face cancer risks by inhaling toxic fumes.
Fighting fires is dangerous to your health, I did not know that.
That’s why Fire Services are issued with appropriate breathing gear and masks…………………..For a reason don’t cha’ know.
Climate Change alarmism is no longer “in the bud”.
It is as widespread, as damaging, as useless and expensive as a continent overrun with prickly pear. It pops up everywhere, ruins everything.
We need a shedload of Cractoblastus cracktorum to rid us of the madness.
Fuel up, electricity up, gas up, food up, interest rates up, growth slowing…
This is a man about to get mugged by reality.
Patience, Cats. The website crashed (again) during the 0400 ‘toons upload. Thankfully, Doverlord has the software issues in hand.
Not long ago I visited the Warrunbungles where the visitors information boards explained that a few weeks after after lightning caused a devastating bushfire in 2013, torrential rain caused flash flooding and collapsing inside the rim of the ancient volcano which has eroded significantly over the last several million years.
The only reason flooding in NSW is worse is because of urbanisation and lack of necessary flood mitigation works, not some poofery about car exhausts.
This is a man about to get mugged by reality.
And it couldn’t happen to a better Mug. And oh wot’ a mug he has on ‘im.
Albo and Turtle Head Bowen make a right pair of left wing nut jobs when they are shown together.
Incidentally what is the issue with the facial tissue?
I visited a supermarket in a nearby suburb with a significant Chinese presence (who incidentally seem to be very keen on facial masks again) and the paper goods aisle was a travesty of pillaged cartons.
Vicki am interested as I have lived in the area twice.
Can’t find any news on it unless I subscribe to a news publication or rely on the ABC which is more regional. 12ft wall doesn’t even work on smaller operators anymore. Bloody frustrating as I am not subscribing for one article.
I believe I have commented before but corner of Bridgeman rd and The New England Hwy they built a new Mobil service station. Everyone in the area was gobsmacked they would put a servo there. One of the lowest points in the area and always floods. I can’t find any photos of that intersection now but it would have to be underwater. We rented up in Hunterview for a reason as even the town goes under average of every 10-20 years.
Tomsays:
July 7, 2022 at 8:00 am
Patience, Cats. The website crashed (again) during the 0400 ‘toons upload. Thankfully, Doverlord has the software issues in hand.
It was that Gremlin ‘Head Case’ trying to post more ‘crapola’ that likely caused the website to crash again while you were posting your ‘toons.
Oh and Germany wants me to register for some importers licence some blah about recycling of packaging material.
If I don’t I may not be able to sell goods to Germans no more.
I guess I don’t care enough about the one or two items I might sell there annually to bother.
I’ve also noticed bubble wrap is being replaced by some brown papery packaging material.
The tentacles of the climate monster and its insidious creep.
Rosie, the correction pronunciation is: CHER-mans.
Chers Tom.
Classic panic buying and FOMO characterised by experience of genuine shortages.
It has to be cultural. Even in Goroka, where certain lines would often be in short supply, it was unheard of for expats (and even Nationals) to buy massive quantities and clear the shelves.
If Australia was invaded, was there ever a people who mounted such a futile resistance, or were conquered so utterly? Conquered peoples don’t get to dictate terms…
I think people make such decisions based on a belief of the ‘it’ll never rain again’ bullshit. Hence they are migrating into, and developing in, traditionally questionable area. Questioning government propaganda seems beyond their ken.
Same thing with Lismore. There’s been a big song and dance about Lismore, but the reality is, Lismore floods very regularly. Yes, this one was the biggest, but the fact remains, if rain falls in the catchments of the Wilson and the Richmond simultaneously, it floods.
A very regular event, and the locals know it…days out. The height varies, but the event is consistent. The McDonalds isn’t built on stilts in Lismore for no reason. It doesn’t have a newly constructed levy bank for no good reason (which incidentally changed where the water actually goes and took some by surprise).
Now we even have supposed ‘conservatives’ like Credlin pushing to have people compensated (by the government) for purchasing homes in known low areas (because the risk is factored into the price), so they can move to higher areas. ‘The Government must save us from our stupid decisions!’.
If this isn’t a tell of the extent the government might be calls upon when things get expensive and mortgages get unaffordable, I don’t know what is.
Peoples belief in the Climate Change rort has done more damage to the regular Joe than just expensive electricity and gas. The belief that the government can, should and will save them from every decision they make, which doesn’t pan out to their liking, is more concerning to me than the water. Especially when ‘Conservatives’ peddle it.
The government is broke. Covid ensured it.
Georgia Guidestones have been destroyed. What a great day. May God protect those who took the initiative to destroy that Satanic globohomo (but I repeat myself) monument.
For all of the Dick Heads that you know, just send them this song to show how you feel about them……….And please don’t send a copy back to me…………..LOL
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/QgrcJHsBvFDfSnDLHnxdWRhncnCjMfjFqXV?projector=1
Comment, from the Oz, on Michael Mansell’s proposals for the Senate. Weren’t there separate electoral rolls, based on race, in South Africa?
I wonder if the pilots flying the private planes have been vaxxed. Would we ever know? Or rather, would we ever know the truth?
About the same percentage as the vaxxed in the general population I’d say. The question wasn’t asked on my last Class 2 medical a year ago. The Class 2 is essentially useless anyway and does not have any beneficial effect on accident rates.
However not all pilots in Australia have aviation medicals. Glider pilots and ultralight pilots (aircraft up to 760 Kg) have to have a State private motor vehicle licence that allows them to drive in daytime at least (the aircraft aren’t allowed to fly at night).
Australia thus has three separate private aviation systems – the CASA one for general aviation aircraft, the gliding one for gliders and motorgliders and the RAAus (Recreational Aviation Australia) one. We all fly in the same airspace, so it is lunacy.
Peoples belief in the Climate Change rort has done more damage to the regular Joe than just expensive electricity and gas. The belief that the government can, should and will save them from every decision they make, which doesn’t pan out to their liking, is more concerning to me than the water. Especially when ‘Conservatives’ peddle it.
The government is broke. Covid ensured it.
The Intelligence gene is being bred out of the Human Race. Some Races more than others. And some Caucasians appear to be the first in line.
Apparently, one of the statistics to come from the 2021 Census is the rise in “aboriginality” amongst folks .. the numbers identifying as 251s rose 25% compare dto the previous Census .. Seems the “experts” are dithering over this sharp increase with lotza wonderful reasons including .. PRIDE .. not a stigma like it used to be ect …..
Strangely enuf NONE came up with the simpler explanations .. “freebies/free money” ….!
shatterzz – don’t you worry.
Those with their noses in the trough know its a threat to their income stream.
Gez at 7:22.
Instead of Dan’s birthday, it might be more appropriate that we pause to think of Jane Garrett, who was threatened by Peter Marshall and sidelined by Hunchback simply because she dared question the FSV deal.
Presumably Andrew Bolt isn’t doing the verification and authentication. It will be like trying to get into Royal Sydney Golf Club.
Meme.
http://patriotpost.us/memes/89576-pretty-serious-2022-07-05
Having finally overcome the shock of discovering the two way nature of sanctions,
Uschi von der Karenhair finally announces a plan to work out how to
overcome the two way nature of sanctions.
Victoriastan firefighters is one of the most egregious maaates deals done by Chairman Dan and rubber stamped by Victoriastanis.
I’m starting to get a guilt complex! .. according to “our” ABC I am fast becoming a rarity in Oz and if I turned up the toes, fell off the twig or just up and died the only “official” reaction would be, “Good riddance, he’s skewered the “statistics” fer long enuf” .. LOL!
It’s my fault, of course! .. apparently, all this swimming & bike riding, being un-jabbed, no, significant, medical history fer years has left me for the moment ….. God Forbid! .. HEALTHY .. !
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2022-07-07/health-australians-living-longer-but-with-more-chronic-disease/101213626
Let me guess: more stupid renewables.
Like the answer to the failure of socialism is always more socialism.
Have never played Royal Sydney. If it’s anything like Karrinyup or Royal Adelaide life is pretty sweet if you make it inside.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
July 7, 2022 at 8:27 am
If Australia was ‘invaded’ then this is not a settled land it is a conquered land and therefore to the victor the spoils as was international law in the 18th Century,
If Australia was invaded, was there ever a people who mounted such a futile resistance, or were conquered so utterly? Conquered peoples don’t get to dictate terms…
I always quote 1066 – “The Normans invaded England and the Saxons didn’t get anything back”
and as John Cleese said “What did the Romans give us when they invaded Britannia?”
APTA were predicting a pilot shortage in early 2021, looks like they were right
Couple of moths ago the RFDS pilot who is looking to move to commercial/jets was telling us how he couldnt even book a qualifying course in Australia till the end of the year.
And even then they wouldnt give him a date or time just a “ok you are on the list and we will let you know”.
He was going to go to Singapore instead where they could get him in within 2 weeks of booking.
I dont know what agency is responsible for the passout or if its private, but its pretty piss poor.
My mail (a rumour via a QantasLink turbo-prop pilot) is that rumours are circulating that Q are looking to import already qualified pilots to run the Q/Jester fleet, rather than transition turbo-prop pilots.
Save on training.
Ahahaha!
That’s up there with Christine LeTan.
Weird. Stigma before whom?
Census documents are confidential, aren’t they? Were people with Indigenous heritage fearful of marking it on the last census? It is not like anyone else they knew would find out.
Of course the experts are befuddled. God, save us from approved ‘experts’.
Indeed.
The thing that I notice with a lot of these events is the zero fear that the police will arrive promptly, that the law is even something to worry about, or that these establishments have security or employees that are armed or prepared to respond with force.
Things Brits don’t like about living in Oz:
Distance to events
Expensive flights to anywhere
Lack of quality pubs
Christmas in the heat is weird
Driving is appalling: No roads manners (a little wave to say thank you is considered polite, rather than staring at you like you’re an alien)
Always referred to as a Pom
Cold houses as no double glazing and decent insulation
Rules, regulations and high levies (aka taxes)
Nanny country which stifles you
Flies
High UV
Extreme weather
Will say G’day but won’t wanna be friends
Will always feel foreign no matter how long you live in OZ
Things Brits DO like about living in Oz:
Laid back
Affordable childcare
Better work life balance
Higher salary
Bigger houses
Beaches
Coffee
Summer weather
Free outdoor activities
Great beaches
Good wages
Large houses
Good coffee
More space
Good for retirement
Wide open spaces and endless blue skies
Showers that actually pump water at a decent rate
Daily Mail
Stupidest hot take of the year??
Australian hospital wards may not be segregated but we need to decolonise healthcare*
Mariam Tokhi
Three brown children have died in the past year waiting for an escalation of medical care they never received
In recent years, Brown doctors have started to publish on dermatological conditions in Brown skin. When a medical illustrator drew the Brown foetus last year, the internet went wild**. Had we even noticed that our textbook anatomy models were white?*** In the age of Covid the makers of pulse oximeters are still scrambling to make a device that accurately detects hypoxia in people of colour.****
….
We must commit to decolonising healthcare to unlearn patriarchal, settler understandings of care,***** and to look to Aboriginal and Brown ways of listening, yarning and journeying with our patients.******
…
* So goodbye germ theory, antiseptic conditions and antibiotics then??
** Didnt happen.
*** Have you ever noticed that Chinese medical textbooks have Chinese models in them?
**** Curse light for behaving differently with dark pigmentation… Phisics is racist.
***** Science and rationality, rather than juju and witchdoctor magic?
****** Magical “yarning” is there anything it cant do?
Glancing down the comments on Dover’s link was this:
Not sure about “violence” but definitely the threat of consequences from the property owner should no help arrive.
A couple of neatly aimed rounds of saltpetre in those amply twerking behinds would have had them hopping.
Speaking to a colleague in das Germany last night. Tells me their Big gas pipeline is offline due to maintenance…concerns it may not come back on line again.
Being prepped by das media for coming winter…expect hot water available only 2-3 hours per day, heating max 16-17c.
Electric vehicle sales are on the wane as there is now concern you may not be able to recharge them.
I told him what did they expect living in a 3rd world country.
Insanity Now!
Humphrey, I’d love to see the official stats: I’m betting that Victoriastan has the nation’s highest proportion of tax thieves (net tax-takers). For them, voting Labor is a package deal that doesn’t, for example, rely on Emperor Dan-Xi destroying the Country Fire Authority to suck up to his union mates.
Dan-Xi and the tax thieves have correctly worked out that he’s giving them someone else’s money (the someone else being taxpayers who had no say in the transaction).
The Marxist bachelor of arts from Monash University is happy to have dedicated his life to achieving nothing else but the destruction of democracy a la Alexis de Tocqueville via whatever it takes (© the Liars party).
Japan warns Queensland over rise in coal royalties
Japan’s ambassador to Australia has warned that the Palaszczuk government’s sudden and hefty increase in coal royalties could spook future Japanese investment.
In a pointed intervention, Shingo Yamagami said the decision risked harming long-standing relationships with the state, arguing mining giants such as Mitsubishi and Mitsui had been good corporate citizens and paid billions in taxes and royalties over the years.
“What concerns me is the damage that it could deal to this trust and goodwill that Japanese business has built up with Queensland over the years,” Mr Yamagami told an audience of mining students at the University of Queensland on Wednesday.
“I fear that this may have widespread effects on Japanese investment beyond the coal industry.
“The companies … are involved not only with minerals but hydrogen infrastructure and a variety of cutting-edge technology.
“The success in the partnership between Japanese business and Queensland in these crucial areas is contingent upon the strength of mutual trust between both sides.”
The Palaszczuk government announced in last month’s state budget an overhaul to coal royalty payments, designed to capitalise on surging coal prices, that will raise $1.2 billion over four years.
Previously, the top royalty was 15 per cent for prices above $150 a tonne. But under the new regime, which began on July 1, a royalty rate of 20 per cent applies for prices above $175 a tonne; 30 per cent for prices above $225 a tonne; and 40 per cent for prices above $300 a tonne.
‘Huge shock for Japanese companies’
Treasurer Cameron Dick argued last month it was time miners paid more, given coal prices were above $500 a tonne – much higher than the $150 a tonne when the existing royalty scheme was created.
However, the resources sector argues the government has dramatically underestimated what the royalty increase will raise.
Mr Yamagami said the increase would have a huge impact on mining companies’ bottom lines, “including Japanese companies that have operated in Queensland for decades”.
“Make no mistake, this is a huge shock for Japanese companies. The future of the successful partnership between Japanese businesses and Queensland as a competitive investment destination could be at great risk.”
Since taking up his post as ambassador, Mr Yamagami has sought to strengthen ties between Australia and Japan commercially, diplomatically and militarily.
‘Keen to work … in good times and bad’
He delivered a reminder of Japan’s recent support for Australia in its trade stoush with China.
“When Australia started to face economic coercion from China, Japan stood by Australia and so did Japanese businesses,” he said.
“Likewise, when Japan was subject to economic coercion from China, and the supply of rare earths from the country was blocked, Australia stood by Japan.
“Japanese business is keen to work with Australia during the good times and the bad times.”
Mr Yamagami said Japanese companies were good corporate citizens, and that coal firms paid more than $2 billion a year in taxes.
It is understood that even though Japanese miners knew an increase in royalty rates was in the pipeline, they were angry about a lack of consultation over such a large rise.
They are also worried about the precedent and that governments may target other industries for tax increases, such as the emerging hydrogen industry, which is critical to the clean energy transition.
“There is fierce competition for foreign investment in these projects. And this makes it all the more vital for Queensland to maintain business confidence,” Mr Yamagami said.
Just had a bit of luck. The small freezer I keep all my soup in stopped going. Noticed a couple of drops of water, checked the top shelf, still had frozen bits in it. Am about to head off to the coast for a few days. Managed to fit it in the main freezer.
Of course not. Why should sacking a whole bunch of pilots have any effect? And, as Alan Dana explains, they do tend to be critical thinkers. Not to mention the ones who did take the shot and now don’t meet the medical requirements.
Well, maybe a few glimpses of sanity or, in the case of the first one, self-defence.
EU Parliament declares Nuclear Power and fossil fuels as ‘green energy’…
Ned Ryun
@nedryun
NASA admits climate change occurs because of changes in Earth’s solar orbit, not because of SUVs and fossil fuels.
Davison may have just set himself apart from the field with an ad that’s lighting up the internet. It’s already garnered more than a million views.
Davison is a former Arizona State University and NFL running back, according to his campaign website. He’s also been a pastor since 2005. But the ad wasn’t about his football career or his work as a pastor; it was on our Second Amendment rights and how wrong Democrats are to tell us what we “need” when it comes to guns or magazines. That’s a common theme from folks like Joe Biden, who tells us we don’t “need” an AR-15 and we don’t “need” thirty rounds.
Who can forget this classic piece of ignorance from Joe Biden? “….[F]ire two blasts outside the house,” Joe urged. “Buy a shotgun.”
Biden in 2013: “If you want to protect yourself, get a double-barrelled shotgun… as I told my wife… I said: ‘Jill, if there’s ever a problem just walk out on the balcony here, walk out, put that double-barrelled shotgun & fire two blasts outside the house.’ …Buy a shotgun.”
But Davison has a banging response. “Democrats like to say that no one needs an AR-15 for self-defense, that no one could possibly need all 30 rounds,” Davison’s ad intones. But that’s when he lays out one example of when you might “need” it.
Jerone Davison for Congress #AZCD4
@Jerone4Congress
Make Rifles Great Again ??
“But when this rifle is the only thing standing between your family and a dozen angry Democrats in Klan hoods, you just might need that semi-automatic and all 30 rounds,” he finishes.
Tucker Carlson: You Are Not Supposed To Notice That Psychiatric Drugs Are Driving Young American Men Insane
Dr. John Campbell
2.38M subscribers
Why are people dying more than normal?
UK, excess deaths
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/05/excess-deaths-rise-not-covid/
Hundreds more people than usual are dying each week in England and Wales
Not from Covid
Covid deaths, UK
w/e 24 June, 346
w/e 17 June, 309
Total deaths registered in the UK
12,278
15.9% above the five-year average
Latest breakdown, (England and Wales)
Excess deaths = 1,540
Covid deaths, 285
58.2% of this 285 gave covid as the underlying cause
So, 166 from covid
119 with covid
Non covid excess deaths, 1,540 – 166 = 1,374
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/articles/coronaviruscovid19/latestinsights
uk gov desperately trying to work out how to sweep it under the carpet
These people are meant to be an elite class.
They really seem to think sanctions actually only work one way – when they refuse to buy gas from Russia (so the hated Russians don’t get the money) they don’t consider that it also means they themselves will not get gas either.
This is more of a wish list but just stop and think how far down this path they’ve already gone. I’m thinking in particular of British airports that look more like cattle yards.
UK Gov 2019 Report states all UK Airports must close within the next 10 years, beef and lamb is to be banned, and construction of new buildings must cease in the name of “Climate Change”
I suspect many of these would be cancer cases that went undetected in the early stage due to lockdowns.
Some people really can look into the future.
Wall Street Silver
@WallStreetSilv
Ayn Rand …
You mean to say the sun is the chief factor that determines climate?
Pfft.
“The science told us…” says Mr. Overseasy.
This has been a massive mistake by the Palacechook Government.
The tiered royalty was cobbled together by an Excel-wielding wonk as part of the 2021 Budgetary process – essentially low-hanging fruit to plug a hole – and simply dropped on the coal industry.
The impact on Japanese companies far exceeds the economic.
1) A massive loss of face cascade:
• The local senior Japs, humiliated – too insignificant to be consulted, even by Queensland Government functionaries;
• Tokyo senior men, humiliated – failed to predict a major policy shift, not what is expected of senior men;
• Supervisory Board members embarrassed – a Japan Inc system failure on their watch.
2) How to predict that this sort of thing won’t happen again? Who to trust? Are we having our pants pulled down in public?
Turd World stuff.
Operation Lockstep
The 1st Phase has been well and truly implemented.
Judge Sides With Parent, Strikes Down Los Angeles School Vaccine Mandate
And Cameron Dick was supposed to be the smart, sensible one.
I expect Palaszczuk will be on a plane to Tokyo shortly to undertake some apologetic ojigi.
Just had phone consult with GP, two days late due to strange unexplained heavy workload and shortage of staff.
Urged me to get the mRNA jabs, safe etc. Very effective he says!
Sounded a bit surprised upon examining my bloods to find all were in good order, seemed a tad disappointed.
30%: Slidin’ Biden hits new approval low in Civiqs poll