Steve Kelley.
Open Thread – Tues 5 July 2022
- Open Thread – Christmas Day 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 23 Dec 2024
- No, it is not all of the above, stupid!
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 Dec 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Dec 2024
Tom Stiglich.
A.F. Branco.
Christian Adams.
Brett Lethbridge.
Thought I was right the first time but self-doubt crept in.
Happens as the alcohol intake increases.
Only three celebratory glasses, but my centuries weaken after two.
They won’t.
He is being regarded by Torrie MPs with a level of suspicion akin to Prince Andrew waiting outside the gates of a girls school at 3:30.
How? He’s out on his arse. 50 MPs resigned. It’s all through the papers, and the UK picture wireless (Skah) has his cabinet feasting on his corpse and scratching around for a replacement. A ‘leadership election’ is said to be scheduled for Monday.
How is there any coming back from this?
Haven’t found the button for that yet.
lol
There is no button.
Just take your hands off the wheel and say, “Autopark!” in a firm tone.
Saddam Hussein had Comical Ali.
Boris has Lizzie.
He is still PM until he makes a trip to Her Maj and tells her that he has lost the confidence of the house in a vote in the Commons.
Britain has no Constitutional provision for a ‘caretaker’ Prime Minister.
Switch is on or off.
The Queen appoints the Prime Minister who commands a majority in the House of Commons. There has been no reason yet for the Queen to withdraw her commission of Boris Johnson as the Prime minister of the UK.
Boris Johnson has vacated the position of Leader of the Conservative Party and invited a spill (like Prime Ministers and leaders of our political parties in the last couple of decades). This may, or may not, result in Boris Johnson being replaced as leader of the Conservative Party.
This has happened with the agreement of Sir Graham Brady, Chair of the 1922 Committee of Conservative back benchers. This makes it extremely unlikely that a Motion of No Confidence would succeed in The Commons. Thus The Queen will not be asked to endorse a new PM shortly.
Boris lives to fight another day.
Boris has Lizzie and so far Boris has until September.
A lot can happen in those months.
His speech indicates he thinks that he has been subject to an internal beat-up, and so do I.
Cats seem to be falling for it.
I’m heading bedwards.
Cardiologist tomorrow. To mend my broken heart? lol
lol. Men and buttons.
Goodnight.
The Hun:
And:
*click*
Lizzie, the main game – symbolised by partygate as the ‘deep event’ – includes not only the deception of covid but also that of the deception of the intentions of warring against Russia.
He has only stood down as leader of the Conservative Party and was informing Her Maj as a matter of courtursy. He is still PM.
John Spooner.
Bob Moran. Brilliant.
Christian Adams.
Andy Davey.
Matt Pritchett.
Steve Bright.
Patrick Blower.
Al Goodwyn.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
From the Global Times (the CCP daily).
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1270031.shtml
Until the tone published in the Global Times changes, there is no change, regardless of how much The Australian says there is.
Good onya Tom
PJW on the Dutch farmers opposing the neo feudalist push to impoverish anyone but top tier government parasites and their cronies.
https://youtu.be/y-LXw7L1xTc
Nadal withdraws from British Open- Kyrgios to final.
Djokovic c’mon
A future British PM ought to slap King Charles every time he says something overtly political.
I’d arrest him too if he fought back.
Kyrgios!
It’s happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb2fjZa_L74
Lizzie 10.33 Dr Catherine Hamlin and her husband spent their lives repairing the damage done to Ethiopian women with obstetric fistulas caused by under age pregnancies.
It is interesting that nominated for the Nobel prize they decided that a life time of work changing the lives of women was insignificant to the work done by a nasty green teenager .
How dare you !
How dare you!
Nuclear power is now a green source of energy in the EU.
But there has been zero comment in the major financial press.
Even zerohedge has given it no love.
This now means the ESG pot of money will be able to invest in nuclear.
Structurally this is such huge news but it’s getting next to no coverage.
Good morning inmates.
Good morning, globalist traitors.
Combine harvester.
It turns out that one of the National Gallery glue stunters is a little rich girl with an enormous carbon footprint with a penchant for holidaying all over the world.
Do as I say, not as I do.
U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson is resigning as leader of the Conservative Party, but will remain on as prime minister until a new party leader is picked to succeed him, he announced on Thursday.
I see Sancho arrived swiftly this morning.
Everybody has the bing bong features on their vehicles these days.
But not EVs, as they cause range anxiety.
I’m reading Michael Connelly’s lockdown novel, he has LAPD with a fleet of BMW EVs put to pasture because of sudden stopping in inconvenient locations.
I wonder how often they are stolen as getaway vehicles.
Not me.
World leaders in predicting, as always
the climate council, doing what they do best, making predictions.
I’ve never heard of this bloke but I can see why someone thought he should publish his autobiography.
man shocked to find his autobiography reduced to $1 at kmart
Barnaby Joyce like a dog with a bone
“Kyrgios”
For the first time in my life I won’t be barracking for an Australian to win.
Bourne, last night:
There’s another gang in the same ‘town’ called Judas Priest. I shit you not.
They still do in parts of East Arnhem Land, and Groote Eylandt in particular. Eight foot minimum, shovel nose spears. Bastard things. One of the locals out there was killed with such a thing a few years ago during a traditional clan-based fight.
In the desert, a ‘working’ boomerang is between three and four feet long, with one end longer than the other so you can use it for ‘close-in’ work. Nasty bits of kit.
Dunno if they come back.
Indolent:
The Republicans need to start impeachment proceedings against Biden. They can’t succeed because they don’t have the numbers, however they must make the Democrats own this administration.
A decline in birth rates is a cause for celebration – it shows how far we have come
In fact, the only way to meaningfully bump up the birth rate would be to roll back women’s rights wholesale. Outlaw abortion, prevent women going to university, push them out of the work force, revoke the vote. Or we could simply accept that the birthrate will remain low, which is broadly a sign of something good
Zippy is actually onto something here because “ultra conservative Iran” has low fertility rates too.
chocolate rations will be increased from 40g to 20g
China ‘cushioning itself from sanctions’ ahead of threatened Taiwan invasion
FBI warns the communist state is drawing lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by trying to insulate its economy from economic reprisals
the author should consider self-immolation to further reduce the population and entertain us at the same time
Cassie, no one ‘barracks’ for a team anymore, except for older aussies who remember the culture and language of what was once Australia. Now they either ‘Go’ or ‘Root’ for a team. The ‘Rooting’ is popular with media types.
Doesn’t seem to have any coverage in Australia – possibly because it’s not a done deal, more likely because it’s so far away and a minority interest and too difficult to understand.
But it’s all over the EU, UK, and US press – including the financial press.
monkey pox shows no signs of slowing – continues to spread at about 10%/day
uk 1351
germany 1304
spain 1256
us 604
france 577
portugal 415
From the Oz:
Reciprocated.
Yes. So confident is the Beloved in our stupid stupid government and the energy suppliers providing uninterrupted electricity…he is looking at installing a battery. Can’t see us being out of the woods on supply for at least ten years.
Monkeypox still spreading
Dr. John Campbell
But it’s all over the EU, UK, and US press
WSJ had nothing.
Bloomberg had nothing.
I see James Caan passed away last night. A fine actor. I hope Wolfman does a post on his filmography some time soon.
At his best in Misery.
He may have also done some sort of Sopranos prequel.
so breeding uk whites out of existence is the goal of this moron. universal suffrage has been an unrelenting and unending catastrophe
zero interest in looking at vaers. shut up and die proles
WSJ
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Bloomberg.
China has infiltrated America’s Virus Labs to Feed Its Biowarfare Programs: Lawrence Sellin
Crossroads with JOSHUA PHILIPP
Putin says if West wants to defeat Russia on battlefield, ‘let them try’ | AFP
wow – 40% of domestic oil supply. The guy is a marxist loon.
Anyone else surprised about the EU tapdancing around nuclear now that a freezing winter with no heating is on the horizon?
No. I’m not either.
Greta is unavailable for comment. She’s rebooting.
LIBERTY QUOTE
We must recognize that we are living in an imperfect world in which human and superhuman forces of evil are at work and so long as those forces affect the political behaviour of mankind there can be no hope of abiding peace.
— Christopher Dawson
Meanwhile, the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is shipped overseas, including to China.
US Administration does a Sgt Shultz when questioned.
https://twitter.com/rodriQuez/status/1544851699038179329
Rollerball was the first James Caan movie I saw and it’s still the best but then I like the sci-fi genre better than gangster films.
Speaking of actors, fine or otherwise, browsing IMDB I noticed some bloke got an Oscars nomination for best performance by an actress in a leading role, back in 2007.
He played a high school chick who got knocked up.
Bastard patriarchy.
It’s hard to work up any emotion about Boris being knifed by the sub-continentals in his own party.
The “party” was symbolic of his government’s cynical attitude to the people and the lockdowns. Waxing lyrical about the green and pleasant land is never going to cover that “let them eat cake” style garbage.
It’s fitting that Wolfman reviewed Depardieu’s “Danton” this week.
I bet there’s one group that doesn’t get their gas restricted.
m0nty-fa
The fact that an edge case like this might not exist is obviously sending you round the bend, but it was inevitable. That is where your side wants it to be. Embrace it. Understand it. Know who you are.
Fixed for you.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
The map she’s using is of pigs per square kms—not nitrogen levels.
She’s a globalist, lying once again. Because that’s all the globalists know how to do—lie.
The reason they want to eliminate Dutch family farms is so they can sell the land to developers—THAT is what’s going on.
Dr F, at no stage this week was the nuclear news on the main pages of Bloomberg or WSJ.
Google as much as you want.
“…we don’t give two hoots about how much carbon we emit.”
I don’t care how much Co2 you emit.
Methane, on the other hand… just make sure you emit that somewhere else, not around me!
Dr F, the FTX news is pretty big today.
Tell me where you can see it on the main page.
https://www.wsj.com
Feel free to google.
Boris meme
https://substack.com/redirect/a0ce99fa-4b0b-4a0b-995c-d1d9e1d69a0e?u=29685295
all cause mortality effects of covid vaccines in european children and kiwi adults
That’s because nothing has changed.
The EU is still Klaus Schwab’s neo-communist Big Government black hole.
PS: if you think Australia’s own anti-business daily is full of neo-communist trash like David Rowe, check out London’s Financial Times.
Journalists are the problem, not what they’re writing about.
BOJO resigns: time to fence with chesterton?
gato polls the audience on what is to come next
“I will not have people making fun of my looxury car!
I will not!”
This one, then?
Malcolm Roberts sent an email with various items of interest. Here are just a few.
GOVERNMENT STUDY SOUNDS ALARM BELLS ON ELECTRIC VEHICLE CONSEQUENCES
WHAT HAPPENED TO GLOBAL ‘WARMING?
WIND AND SOLAR SUBSIDIES HAVE TO BE DITCHED
Don’t like the odds of the alleged Conservative Party choosing
a hard, pipe hitting conservative who’s prepared to go to the mattresses
over anything even mildly conservative, as the next PM.
“The Trabant-Swift slows and comes to a complete stop, all by itself…”
Trivia:
Beware fitting antennas (mobile phone, CB, etc) in cars with this – can cause issues if fitted in the view of the camera.
Ditto lane “wander” warnings and other “driver assistance” stuff.
Can’t post the article, but “The Times” last night had a very tongue in cheek article about moving out of No 10 Downing Street. Do you clean the decaying lettuce leaves out of the bottom of the fridge? Do you take the loo rolls? Do you leave your successor a note, wishing them all the best?
QLD GPs up in arms about the extension of a QLD Health pilot program which authorises pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics for urinary tract infections.
The QLD chief of the RACGPs claim that doctors carefully evaluate every new treatment before endorsing it and insufficient research has been done on this program & that there will be misdiagnoses of cancer cases.
A pity they didn’t express those concerns about covid vaccines & lockdowns.
We’ve seen this before but it’s particularly relevant at the moment.
K2
@kiansimone44
Last August, Dutch MP Gideon van Meijeren pressed Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on his relationship with Klaus Schwab and his book, The Great Reset.
MORE: http://FarmerRebellion.com
To summarise the shorter m0nty-fa overnight, don’t look at all the late term sex-selection and “lifestyle” abortions, look over there at what might (or might not) be one of an infinitesmally small number of possible births under the age of 11 years in many decades of medical records.
Wut!?!
So I’m not special?
I certainly felt special when the Oktoberfest beer wrenches were dancing to the Oompah Band.
Election Fraud Documentary “The Deep Rig” To Premiere in Naples Florida on July 21, 2022
Yarra City Council want to fly at least five different pride flags on town halls
The inner city council that spent $22,000 of ratepayer money on a banana sculpture, now wants to stop flying the Rainbow or gay pride flag above its Richmond, Collingwood and Fitzroy halls.
The controversial council instead wants to run at least five different pride flags up the poles of its municipal offices, on the recommendation of its “rainbow advisory committee”.
It also wants to fly the “international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons” flag at all three of his headquarters.
Councillors will next week vote on amendments to Yarra’s “civic flag policy and community flag schedule”.
“The consensus view of the rainbow advisory committee was that council should cease flying the rainbow flag,’’ an agenda item for next Tuesday’s meeting said.
“And move instead to the use of the intersex-inclusive pride flag for those occasions where council seeks to acknowledge the complete diversity of Yarra’s community.’’
In a statement to the Herald Sun, the council said about 10 per cent of its community identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer – almost double the Victorian average of 5.7 per cent.
“Yarra is a proud leader and advocate in this space and acknowledges that inclusivity and representation is vital to maintaining the health of wellbeing of our diverse community,’’ it said. The rainbow advisory committee – which is made up of two councillors and 14 community members – called for the rainbow flag to be replaced “to acknowledge the complete diversity of Yarra’s community”.
The report to be voted on by councillors suggests “council should cease the use of the rainbow flag to recognise the bisexual community on Bi Visibility Day and the intersex community on Intersex Awareness Day. And should instead fly the bisexual flag and the intersex flag respectively.’’
Council officers have also suggested additional pride flags be flown that were “not referenced’’ in its “LGBTIQA+ strategy adopted in 2020’’.
The lesbian pride flag would be flown on Lesbian Visibility Day and International Lesbian Day.
The pansexual pride flag would be hoisted on Pansexual Pride Day and the non-binary pride flag on International Non-Binary People’s Day.
The intersex-inclusive pride Flag would be raised on Wear It Purple Day and on Intersex Day of Remembrance.
The council, overseen by a Spring St appointed municipal monitor, does not intend to seek community input on the decision.
“Public engagement on this subject was limited to discussions with the rainbow advisory committee,’’ it said in the report.
“Officers advise that widespread community consultation is not required due to the narrow scope of the recommendations.’’
The council will also vote to “clarify” how footy flags flown above its town hall during AFL and AFLW grand final weeks should be separated from pride flags.
“The football club flag will be flown in one location, and the other flag will be flown in the other locations,’’ it said.
Herald-Sun
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Angelo Giuliano
@Angelo4justice3
Ukraine reconstruction conference, another huge money laundering scheme to enrich Ukrainian and Western elites.
Beyond pathetic.
Pippa Crerar
@PippaCrerar
EXCL: Boris Johnson and wife Carrie are planning big wedding bash at Chequers within weeks – with sources saying it’s part of reason he wants to stay as caretaker.
Rates, Roads and Rubbish..
Mila
@MilaKedrov
This is Devastating
Gas is also now green
The vote, which passed with a narrower majority than anticipated, means gas and nuclear energy will be included in Europe’s so-called green taxonomy starting next year
Oktoberfest beer wrenches
A spanner in the works?
Thanks Kneel.
The key phrase is “driver assistance”.
No way would I ever let that stuff drive the car. As I said, my foot was hovering over the brake pedal just in case.
All the comms is integrated and I don’t intend fitting anything to it, but these things can always fail.
Interesting.
I test drove the previous model a couple of years ago and the “lane keeping” was, let’s say, “very assertive”. In this model it is just a gentle pressure on the wheel, followed by a short vibration and really easy to override if you are swerving to avoid an obstacle.
Bing-Bong! End of review.
You will always be special, sancho.
When it comes to demarcation disputes, the white coat unions put the CFMEU in the shade.
Do the seatbelts give you a reassuring little hug when the car starts?
I like that feature. 🙂
One can only hope.
The Crash and Burn of Credentialism
Daily Mail. Diddums!
Probably nowhere.
But then it would be unusual for an obscure procedural issue in the EU Parliament, reported on the 6th, to still be WSJ headline news on the 8th.
I gave you a contemporary WSJ link; Google all you wish, your original comment – “But there has been zero comment in the major financial press” – was incorrect.
In good news, the Guardian is miffed.
Incidentally nuclear is the greenest of all, if the wicked carbon pollution is your care.
Putin rubbing hands with glee’ after EU votes to class gas and nuclear as green
When will the Hammer & Sickle get a look in?
Hi viz lezzos? WTF. FIFO lezzos? That’s all we need at the Perth QANTAS club.
Really annoying.
So much so, I threw my trousers out of the pamoranic sun-roof.
Austria and Luxembourg are appealing the decision.
Austria has a lot to answer for over the centuries.
When neon buzz-cuts just aren’t enough.
Isn’t it a panmoronic sunroof ?
more BOM bullshit.
The bad news for Sydney-siders is that floods have been happening to them for all of history and probably a lot of prehistory too, though the ABC and BOM don’t mention it. This week the flooding in Windsor appears to have peaked at almost 14 metres. But in 1867 the water peaked at 63 feet or an amazing 19 metres.
Not to dismiss any of the suffering of the current flooding in Sydney, because I’m sure it’s horrible. Just people need to know the Bureau of Met isn’t telling them the whole truth, and climate grifters are exploiting their pain so they can nab a few more grants, or sell some solar panels.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/the-long-forgotten-floods-of-windsor-and-sydney/
I was in Coles the other day…I noticed all the grumpy older female staff had rainbows on their ID tags.
In contrast, at the local Woolworths they have pleasant Indian girls who greet me with a smile and call me “sir”.
For some reason, I’m increasingly frequenting the latter establishment.
Henry Ergas has a column on vax is good in the Oz.
Curtin beat them to it.
1943
1944
1945
Real Rukshan
Farmers in their tractors & heavy machinery in the Netherlands have taken to the streets, blocked distribution centres, sea ports, airports and border crossing in a protest aimed at the Dutch Government’s push to force the industry to cut nitrogen emissions by 40%.
The policy means that farms would either have to scale down operations or shutdown completely to meet targets in the short term. The policy also aims to reduce livestock in farms by 30%, as well as impose restrictions on the fishing industry to meet requirements to be granted a nitrogen emission permit to operate.
Police have started to crackdown on gatherings of farmers by infiltrating protests and using aggressive tactics including drawing and firing weapons at farmers.
I’m gonna need a bigger tractor.
Katie Hopkins. Just before Blojo blowup
England is headed for massive civil unrest. Increasingly people feel they have nothing to lose
So the ‘carbon accounting’ is beginning to crumble under its own insufficiency and ludicrous inputs.
Before we know it coal will be back on the list of ‘usables’ as a ‘temporary’ measure. It already is in some countries. Britain has been looking thoughtfully at its old coal mines.
How long is temporary? Like a piece of string.
Noticed all the women have rainbow flag pins at Coles, contrast to what i reckon is 1/4 of the men. Fear of social exclusion is stronger with womxn- and the fellas mostly being the higher-up microphone wearers tells me that if you don’t wear the gay badge, you don’t get the good shifts.
For fun, I like to ask them what “Flybys” is when they ask me if I have it. It’s amazing how many simply cannot compose a meaningful answer.
Discrimination!
Where’s the union?
Good article on BloJo the slime at C.L.’s place
https://thecurrencylad.com/2022/07/07/an-inverted-pyramid-of-pfeffel/#comments
I’m thinking someone walking out front with a red flag, like in at the start of the horseless carriage era….
All that beautiful alluvial soil didn’t arrive at Lowlands by magic.
Watching Australian Ninja warrior last night and a 15 years old schoolboy weighing 45kgs & 1.5mts tall qualified for the Final .. on the way he topped the 4.5mts wall .. in-bloody-credible!
Dinner last night with my GP.
There’s a looming storm in GP-land over the status of contract doctors operating under the umbrella of an independently owned practice.
It appears that 70% of GP’s classify themselves as contractors rather than employees – but they bill under the practice ABN.
As of 1 July, these doctors either start billing under their own ABN, or get classified as employees of the practice – with all the HR and tax implications which go with that.
The problem is that the RACGP only recently let it’s members know. So it appears that, for the next few months, thousands of GP’s will be paying more attention to their business admin than their patients.
What did you expect? The world, well the supposedly civilised part of it, just went through the whole month of “pride”.
ABC host argues with Health Minister – wants more Covid control
Sancho Panzersays:
July 8, 2022 at 8:59 am
Beware fitting antennas (mobile phone, CB, etc) in cars with this – can cause issues if fitted in the view of the camera.
Ditto lane “wander” warnings and other “driver assistance” stuff.
Thanks Kneel.
The key phrase is “driver assistance”.
No way would I ever let that stuff drive the car. As I said, my foot was hovering over the brake pedal just in case.
All the comms is integrated and I don’t intend fitting anything to it, but these things can always fail.
Interesting.
I test drove the previous model a couple of years ago and the “lane keeping” was, let’s say, “very assertive”. In this model it is just a gentle pressure on the wheel, followed by a short vibration and really easy to override if you are swerving to avoid an obstacle.
Bing-Bong! End of review.
For all Cat Merc Owners
Mercedes From Hell – Last I’ll Ever Buy
Posted on 7 July 2022 by E.M.Smith
I’ve been a happy Mercedes Benz driver for about 40 years now. A couple of the old mechanical diesels (built like a tank and many going 1/2 million to 1 million miles); a couple of gas wagons, a “baby benz”. The latest is the newest, a 2008 ML320 Diesel (CDI) bought to be a Tow Vehicle (there was a long mulling over in prior postings).
A long and depressing read re Computers in Modern Cars today
Will stick with 1994 Toyota Series 80 Landcruiser GXL 4WD and 2006 Honda Jazz both running like new
Partygate in Britain was very much a press beat-up. Of course many people responded in anger given this sort of emotional press manipulation but it was common knowledge that many ordinary people also bent lockdown rules. He could have survived his limited involvement in that. The press get-Boris reporting reminds me of the left attacks on Abbott here and Trump in the US. Small sins beaten up.
On policy, I thought Boris was gone when I saw Grimsby and how little was being done for the Red Wall regions, largely due to the climate cult which racks Britain with its ideological fervor taking up all funds – but Boris did offer a lot of financial compensation for that to poorer citizens. I still don’t think he is done and dusted in political life yet; he is a persuader. Without him, the hapless Conservatives will lose bigtime. The Conservatives won’t have his reach and charisma with his ‘great British public’ and Labor will win on a ‘change’ wave, as we’ve just had here.
Boris’ strength is in his patriotism and representation of the bulldog. His patriotism includes them all as Britons new and old and they seem to know it intuitively. His ledger has successes as he maintained in his announcement, and he can rally a crowd.
Carrie is the albatross around his neck though.
Still, maybe all that’s required of her is to report what exactly is happening there to counteract Western Media’s full-on propaganda.
I spoke to a lady who was born and raised in Crimea (Sevasptopol) and immigrated to Australia in early 2000s. She said that she hasn’t heard people speaking Ukrainian language even once until 1991, when it was forced on all TV and radio stations. She said people in Crimea always wanted to be part of Russia. Puts to rest the lie that the Crimean referendum was rigged.
I would comment but I am not a biologist.
Johnson is a serial liar who was inept at governance.
Most Britons will be glad to see the back of him…when he finally goes.
AGW always was a luxury. Idle hands with idler minds craving something to make themselves feel important.
As the economy begins to tank AGW is being pretty quickly kicked down the list of priorities for all except those wealthy enough not to have to worry about power and food prices (or don’t understand how those problems with catch up with them).
I owned a couple of 80 Series, and did like them, but both suffered annoying front diff lash which produced ‘clunking’ with power on or power off. I did a survey at a 4WD drive dealer by crawling under half a dozen and checking for free play in the front drive shaft – all had it.
Watch Paranormal Park guys.
Totally normal having a trans teen and a trans parent in the same household.
On the iPhone and can’t link to YouTube.
Can a Cat share the link to Jimmy Dore on the Highland Park shooter?
This guy was so well know to the cops.
Yet passed 4 background checks.
It’s almost like they wanted a dangerous person to have guns.
A long weekend of truffles awaits.
flyingduksays:
July 8, 2022 at 10:31 am
Will stick with 1994 Toyota Series 80 Landcruiser GXL 4WD and 2006 Honda Jazz both running like new
I owned a couple of 80 Series, and did like them, but both suffered annoying front diff lash which produced ‘clunking’ with power on or power off. I did a survey at a 4WD drive dealer by crawling under half a dozen and checking for free play in the front drive shaft – all had it.
ARB Air Diff Lockers Front and Rear seemed to solve that problem
Smoking Gun? Biden’s Sale of Oil From Strategic Reserve Went to Chinese Company Connected to Hunter Biden
Now, there’s more. Joe Biden is selling oil to a Chinese government company that is also continuing to buy Russian oil.
Biden’s Energy Department in April announced the sale of 950,000 Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels to Unipec, the trading arm of the China Petrochemical Corporation. That company, which is commonly known as Sinopec, is wholly owned by the Chinese government. The Biden administration claimed the move would “address the pain Americans are feeling at the pump” and “help lower energy costs.” [….]
The Biden administration also claimed the Unipec sale would “support American consumers and the global economy in response to Vladimir Putin’s war of choice against Ukraine” and combat “Putin’s price hike.” But as the war rages on, Unipec has continued to purchase Russian oil. In May, for example, the company “significantly increased the number of hired tankers to ship a key crude from eastern Russia,” Bloomberg reported. That decision came roughly one month after Unipec said it would purchase “no more Russian oil going forward” once “shipments that have arrived in March and due to arrive in April” were fulfilled.
That would be bad enough — selling to a company directly owned by the Chinese government and basically helping China build up their reserve while depleting our own stores. But the company is also connected to Hunter Biden.
My now 6year old chopped 200 Series with 110,00km so far is ok
Treasury Dept. blocking probe into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, says top GOP lawmaker
The Treasury Department has been accused of stonewalling lawmakers’ requests into the business dealings of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, said Treasury officials refused to hand over suspicious activity reports, or SARs, unless the committee’s Democratic leaders signed off on the request.
“Despite Treasury’s assertion in the press that it ‘provides SARs to Congress in a manner that enables robust oversight,’ Treasury is refusing to release SARs connected with Hunter Biden or his family and associates — including the President,” Mr. Comer wrote in a letter Wednesday to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
61% of Australians believe we should pause net-zero as Germany has done.
And the pain hasn’t really begun to bite yet.
Elbow & Bowen are going to get mugged by reality if they don’t start listening.
Yeah, well.
Wait until your involuntary eye movements are monitored and reported 24/7 by Indians via nanocamera, and in a giant warehouse full of Indians. In India.
A representative of The People will turn up to your house and confiscate six random socks.
Knuckle Draggersays:
July 8, 2022 at 10:48 am
A representative of The People will turn up to your house and confiscate six random socks.
That happens every time my socks go into the wash
The government’s “science” behind Monkeypox is hilarious
Through the pandemic, public health officials have taken some ridiculous actions with their “health” powers.
In some cases they barred people from accessing their own property, and in others locked them inside their homes.
They threatened to cut off utilities to businesses which didn’t shut down, threatened to separate families, and tried to force parents to be vaccinated to keep custody of their kids.
Don’t even get me started on Australia’s COVID concentration camps and walled-off towns.
It was all supposedly in pursuit of following “the science”.
COVID Warlord Anthony Fauci was the leading cheerleader in the US for mandatory mask policies and draconian lockdowns.
But when Texas refused to shut down or mask up, Fauci shrugged and said he was “not really quite sure” why COVID cases in Texas didn’t skyrocket, as he had ominously predicted. Yet despite being a man of science, Fauci wasn’t interested in finding out why he was so wrong.
Now these same public health officials (and their media lapdogs) are responding to the scariest new threat: monkeypox!
“The science” shows that the disease is spreading mostly through skin to skin contact at places like raves and orgies.
Both the CDC and UK Health Security Agency say that the disproportionate majority of cases have thus far been found among gay men.
And by the way, according to the Chinese World Health Organization, Monkeypox has a fatality between 3-6%, which is higher than COVID-19.
So, given the specific risks to the gay community of this extremely fatal disease, you’d think that the government would have followed their own COVID playbooks and canceled gay pride month.
Or at least they would have banned all the pride parties and parades held throughout June, which was the peak of the Monkeypox outbreak. That’s what the “science” said.
But of course they didn’t do that. Canceling PRIDE MONTH would have been extremely un-woke.
So instead, the CDC released guidelines on “Social Gatherings, Safer Sex and Monkeypox.”
One section is entitled, “How can a person lower the chance of getting Monkeypox at places like raves, parties, clubs, and festivals?”
Unlike with COVID where the CDC demanded we all cower in fear at home, with Monkeypox during Pride Month, they had a totally different answer.
If people are going to pile into sweaty, steamy mosh pits, “where there is minimal clothing and where there is direct, personal, often skin-to-skin contact” the CDC advises to “avoid any rashes or sores you see on others and consider minimizing skin-to-skin contact when possible.”
Recently the WHO said it will change the name of Monkeypox after scientists wrote a letter on the “urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for Monkeypox virus.”
Yep. This is their priority. It’s like these public health officials are trying to destroy any shred of public confidence they had left.
As Fauci said, it’s about authority. And supporting whatever ridiculous political agenda happens to be popular at the moment.
If Biden shuts down the Permian basin oil in Texas the great Nation of Texas may decide to leave the Union.
Civil War 2.0
There’s your problem, right there.
No tatts, nose rings or danger hair in the original Nipponese version.
Ms Lipp’s sponsor, who apparently invited her to Donetsk just before the tanks rolled into Ukraine, is Maria Zakharova.
Ms Zakharova is Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
I expect she selected Fräulein Lipp for her ability to report exactly what is happening there, free from the shackles of propaganda. It’s a noted characteristic of the Russian Government.
m0ntysays:
July 7, 2022 at 10:16 pm
That Twitter thread on the 10-year-old rape victim is full of whining about how unfair it is that the story exists, but nothing in the way of actual evidence that the story is false.
What evidence do you want that something DIDN’T happen?
The total evidence in favour seems to be the word of an abortionist. Gee, m0nty, do you think that someone might have an incentive to keep the cash rolling in by making up some bullshit that can’t be checked because of “confidentiality”?
As against that there’s the dog that didn’t bark in the night. Wall to wall coverage in the media of the supposed abortion. No-one has been able to produce one single media mention of “police are requesting assistance from the public” or “a man has been arrested” or anything else to verify that the supposed rape actually occurred. Nothing.
That’s not proof of a negative but there’s a strong odour of rodent.
On a statistical basis the story is improbable, though not so much so that that would justify dismissing it. But given the poor evidence for the story and the smoking gun lack of evidence for the backstory, it’s worth noting that it’s not something one would expect to have happened.
The CDC says pregnancy rates among 10-14 girls are 0.2% per 1000 per year. Ohio’s population is a bit under 12 million, so say 6 million females. A life expectancy of about 77 gives us about 390,000 10-14 girls. That’s about 78 pregnancies a year among that age group.
The story came out within 3 days of the Dobbs decision. The story was very specific about the pregnancy being 6 weeks and 3 days. Let’s be generous and allow the full three days as a potential period. It’s probable that there’d be one 10-14 age group pregnancy in Ohio during that 3 days. There’s nothing particularly improbable about the possibility of there being even more than one. But what are the odds of a 10 year old falling pregnant in Ohio in that three day period? Given the menarche stats it would look like something about 5 to 1 against on the raw numbers, even assuming that the girl was close to 11 years of age, and considerably less if she wasn’t. And that’s not accounting for the likelihood that sexual activity (including rape) is skewed towards the 14 year end of the spectrum.
All in all there’s nothing at all likely about the story, the evidence for it is weak, and no-one has been able to explain why it appeared out of nowhere with zero evidence of the crucial first cause.
ABOUT THAT 10-YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM
Over the last week, we have been barraged with stories about a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio who was unable to obtain an abortion in that state and had to cross the line into Indiana to terminate her pregnancy. If you Google “10 year old abortion Ohio,” you get 33,100,000 results. The story is everywhere, internationally.
But did it happen? It turns out that the story originated with an abortionist who is also a media figure, seemingly working full-time to promote abortion. And if a 9 or 10 year old was raped, it was a heinous crime. Where is the criminal prosecution of the rapist? There doesn’t seem to be any record of one, and in fact, no Ohio newspaper has endorsed the story.
Megan Fox has questions. You should check out the thread. Is it possible that a 10-year-old was actually raped, impregnated, and went to Indiana for an abortion? I suppose so, although 9 or 10 is awfully young. But did it actually happen? The girl’s name, if it did happen, is of course protected, but not that of the rapist. Where is the prosecution?
The alacrity with which this uncorroborated story, pushed out by an abortionist and left-wing media hound, has been uncritically adopted by news outlets around the world–as far as one can tell, without doing any investigation at all–illustrates what is wrong with today’s liberal media landscape: 5% facts, 95% narrative. If the story turns out to be true, it will be purely coincidental.
I must be naive…I was wondering how the likes of Ms. Lipp just up sticks and transit to a war zone in one of the poorest areas Europe and find food & lodging there. Not to mention a good internet connection.
Damn that is low.
Done.
Two other things about the 10 year old abortion story.
Ohio and Indiana both have mandatory reporting of child abuse, so it’s prima facie implausible that the rape story was somehow unknown to the authorities. Yet there’s still nothing about the supposed rape.
Also, even if the underlying facts are true, is it even remotely possible that a doctor in Ohio who was willing to do abortions would refuse to use the “danger to the mother” exception for a 10 year old, given all the World Health Organisation and other data on the health risks involved in such a case? If so, maybe to create a drama for propaganda purposes with the 10 year old as the stage prop in the “flight to Indiana” scene?
Totally bogus, or stage managed for politics, are the two outstanding odds on front runners here.
Dr Faustus says:
July 8, 2022 at 11:19 am
I expect she selected Fräulein Lipp for her ability to report exactly what is happening there, free from the shackles of propaganda. It’s a noted characteristic of the Russian Government.
As opposed to all other governments, I suppose you mean?
This was bound to happen.
Apparently this is from 2011.
RETVRN.
How the RBA duped Aussie households
Martin Place risks destroying economic prosperity with some of the most aggressive rate increases in the world that are based on forecasts not worth the paper they are written on.
Christopher Joye Columnist
One of our finest institutions, the venerable Reserve Bank of Australia, is in turmoil. Riddled by extreme group think and a hierarchical and tenure-based organisational structure that suffocates dissent, the RBA is once again blindly repeating mistakes that have plagued its policy decisions
It is on a path to impose one of the most aggressive interest rate hiking cycles in the developed world on the globe’s most interest rate sensitive economy despite not having clear evidence that Australia has a protracted core inflation problem.
The official wage price index has expanded at an anaemic 2.4 per cent over the last year, well below the 3-4 per cent the RBA claims is required to sustain inflation within its target 2-3 per cent.
Real-time wage data from CBA deriving from salary payments into 300,000 bank accounts tracks the wage price index very closely. It indicates that in the period since the last official release, Aussie wages have continued to run at a modest 2.5 per cent.
Yes, we have lofty headline inflation care of an unusual series of supply-side shocks, which have conspired to push up the price of food, fuel, building materials and other items. And yes, consumer inflation expectations have unsurprisingly climbed in lockstep. But this should pass, like a pig through a python.
Given Australia’s robust economic growth powered by high export prices, the low jobless rate and evidence that wages are climbing off an insipid base, there is a compelling case to start normalising the cash rate towards a cost of capital that is neither contractionary nor expansionary.
The problem is that although the RBA has repeatedly alleged that this “neutral” level is at least 2.5 per cent (or a chunky 175 basis points above the pre-pandemic cash rate), the truth is the RBA has no idea where “neutral” really is. You only know once you are there.
Worthless forecast
The 2.5 per cent estimate the RBA is bandying around is yet another forecast that is not worth the paper it is written on – much like its view in early March 2020 that the pandemic was not a big deal and then its excessively pessimistic subsequent forecasts for a deep recession.
Given the unparalleled sensitivity of Australia’s economy – dominated more than any other by a preponderance of variable-rate, rather than fixed-rate, debt – to interest rate changes, a prudent policymaker would be gradually lifting the cash rate in standard, 25-basis-point increments every month and “nowcasting” the real-time data flows to assess the impact. That might get you to 2.5 per cent, or you might have to stop well short of that mark.
Ironically, this was precisely the logic the RBA employed to rationalise its first 25-basis-point increase in May, which was at variance with the 15- or 40-basis point increases expected by economists and the market. The RBA explained that it rejected 15 basis points because this would be “inconsistent with the historical practice of changing the cash rate in increments of at least 25 basis points”. And it knocked back 40 basis points because a 25-basis-point move would “help signal that the board was now returning to normal operating procedures after the extraordinary period of the pandemic”.
So should consumers conclude that the RBA is signalling that they face an inflation crisis that warrants radically higher rates given that it has napalmed their budgets with two consecutive, and highly unusual, 50-basis-point hikes and an extraordinary total of 125-basis-point increases in just two months (or over three meetings spanning May 4 to July 6)?
The crisis is apparently so bad that the RBA is further conditioning households via the media to prepare for an unprecedented, third 50-basis-point increase in August, meaning rates would have risen by a staggering 175 basis points in merely three months (or over four meetings).
The last time this happened was in 1994 when the level of the RBA’s cash rate was about five times higher than its starting point this year (the proportional change in interest repayments was, therefore, a lot less). And in 1994, the household debt-to-income ratio was only 44 per cent of its current level. Put simply, Australians were a lot less sensitive to interest rate changes 28 years ago.
CBA’s economist Gareth Aird says that “despite the 3.9 per cent unemployment rate, actual wage outcomes are their lowest on record for a tightening cycle”. “And yet households are wearing the most aggressive interest rate increases for decades combined with deeply negative real, or inflation-adjusted, wage growth.”
Economic crisis
The economy could crater as a consequence. There are already worrying signs in the higher-frequency data. Consumer confidence has plunged towards the record lows observed during the GFC and in March 2020. House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are falling at a double-digit annualised rate, likely to accelerate if the RBA delivers a third 50-basis-point increase.
Arguably the biggest concern is the withering shock to household expectations delivered by the RBA. Martin Place spent all of 2020 and 2021 telling every Australian that it all but guaranteed rates would remain low for long.
Through 2020 and much of 2021, Governor Phil Lowe implored consumers, businesses and governments to leverage up to take advantage of ultra-cheap money safe in the knowledge that the RBA would protect them against the risk of higher rates.
Australian households responded by boosting their debt to disposable income ratio to a never-before-seen 187 per cent. The value of housing leapt 37 per cent – or to a record 656 per cent of disposable incomes – reinforcing its role at the largest source of household wealth.
The RBA’s low-rates-for-long guarantee was explicitly underwritten by its bold interest rate peg whereby it kept the yield on the 2024 Commonwealth bond fixed at the same 0.1 per cent as its overnight cash rate. This was to publicly demonstrate that the cash rate would stay at 0.1 per cent until at least 2024.
As recently as late last year, the RBA was dismissing calls for rate increases in 2022 as implausible. “I would like to repeat a point I made a couple of weeks ago — that is, the latest data and forecasts do not warrant an increase in the cash rate in 2022,” was Lowe’s comfort to consumers on November 16.
Aussie consumers are being hammered by the fastest interest rate increases in a quarter of a century that are crushing disposable incomes; a massive reduction in real wage growth as a result of a huge, one-off increase in inflation; the spectre of a record decline in the value of their largest asset; the biggest fall in superannuation savings since the GFC; and the prospect of higher unemployment as rate hikes crush demand.
For years the RBA has been pilloried for maintaining core inflation below its 2-3 per cent target and for keeping unemployment at an excessively high level that failed to support decent wage growth. As a consequence, both sides of politics have agreed to an independent review into why the central bank failed to meet its mandate.
And yet at the first sign that the RBA might finally satisfy its twin legislated objectives of full employment and price stability, Martin Place risks throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Over at Quadrant on “the Voice to Parliament”:
…the statement remains silent on anything that does not support this one-sided view of Australia’s past.
One such incident is the silence on Aboriginal tribal warfare prior to and during European Settlement. Historian Geoffrey Blainey in The Story of Australia’s People, (Which won the prime ministers literary award in 2016) remarks,
The new and very large Cambridge History of Australia … rightly denounces the massacres of Aborigines in the sheep lands but ignores the massacres of Aborigines by neighbouring Aborigines in the near and distant past.
Link
Something more recent but probably more along self defence than the burger store footage:
https://rumble.com/v1bfp31-nyc-bodega-stabbing-bodega-employee-charged-with-murder-after-stabbing-atta.html
CTH’s Sundance covers here, comments below are illuminating especially on the DA:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/07/facing-public-backlash-manhattan-da-lowers-bail-for-61-year-old-convenience-store-clerk-jose-alba-in-clear-self-defense-case/#comments
Christopher Joye Columnist
Cry me a river, dickhead. We’ve had negative real interest rates for a few years now.
If anyone thinks inflation was a couple of percent they have rocks in their head.
The only target the RBA should have is keeping the currency stable. All else flows from that. Shrinking the measuring stick doesn’t help.
Not a problem for me. 🙂
Fox News host Tucker Carlson weighs in on the rise in crime and the right to self defense on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ #FoxNews #tucker
Japan’s plan to reopen nuclear power plants due to record-breaking heat – BBC News
Anyone who reckons inflation creates prosperity is living on another planet.
It is an economic fallacy that has been debunked so many times.
Real wages are determined by the price level, a lower price level means higher wages!
Good news from Japan!
“All the comms is integrated and I don’t intend fitting anything to it…”
For people in the country, many will fit a cellular “amplifier” to the car (or even house, if required) – we sell one called “Cel-Fi”. These can increase the range by a fair bit – with a good antenna, Choice says anything up to 45km more coverage (depends on terrain etc) in a car.
Since no-one really likes drilling holes in the car any more, and since it is “country” folk, many will attach these to the bull bar, which as I noted can affect camera-based driver assistance devices.
Especially if the antenna is white – for some reason, black antennas appear to be less problematic.
Also need to watch out for this even using the “on glass” antennas – check where the cameras are before you install an antenna!
Since level 2 tech support for these devices is part of my job, should any Cats require advise on these, please ask Dover for my email address – more than happy to discuss this with you.
My understanding is that they’re not open for individual travellers, rosie.
I want to spend one night landside as a transit passenger. Need a visa plus an authorised person to accompany me and stay with me until I return airside. They can go jump.
I have made other arrangements, unfortunately not pointy end.
I don’t differentiate.
I also don’t believe the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is any less deep into agitprop than any other government agency.
The Tripp Story lit up the conspiracy corners of the English language internet with a yummy meme:
• German Jackboots stamping on a citizen journalist;
• Bank account seized;
• Dad’s bank account seized;
• Found guilty of crimes without due process;
• Sentenced in absentia to 3 years jail.
Repeated as fact all over the place – including right here.
A quick glance at the German media suggests none of it is exactly 100% truthful.
Wasn’t Blainey pilloried by the “industry” for pointing out that, in parts of Australia, the annual death rate, from inter tribal warfare, was up there with the armed forces of the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany, during World War Two?
A quick glance at the German media suggests none of it is exactly 100% truthful.
OTOH the German media is likely 100% untruthful about anything.
LOL!
Now here is a very strange and spooky thing.
If I turn my head to the right, the SatNav map adjusts to show more of the roadways and terrain to the right. Likewise to the left.
There must be eyeball monitoring somewhere in the dashboard.
I think it does have fatigue monitoring but I haven’t triggered it so far.
In other words, I still have my trousers on.
“I would comment but I am not a biologist.”
It’s simple, Dot.
A “Woman” is an adult female human.
A “female” is a member of the species that produces non-mobile ova.
Many are confused however, as the Daily Wire’s “What is a woman?” documentary shows.
That is what happens when you try to force reality to comply with your desires instead of the other way around, and when a large number of vocal people support that desire – reality doesn’t actually change of course, but people insist you should act like it does. Down that path lies madness – and it is already apparent that there are plenty who do not care that it is madness, as long as you comply and publicly state their insanity is actually reality. That many of those insane people are in charge of much of “social media” and the MSM is more than a little concerning.
Sure.
Which gives you a free pass to believe whatever shit you like.
My youngest had to do the same thing going to the US the first time, calli.
It’s a hight thing, don’t take personality.
You won’t hear a word of this on Planet America or the Oz MSM.
Wife sick with covid now. Geebus!
Another good news story .
Calli:
Can you let us know how the search goes, please?
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
Video is clear on what happened – the (white) bloke was defending himself against the (black) bloke.
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
The old bloke is in gaol, the young bloke is on a slab.
Justice half done – the old feller should be given a medal for disposing of another violent criminal.
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
woke purity is a process not a destination
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
She is not facing charges for stabbing Jose Alba – But Jose Alba is facing a second-degree murder charge for fatally stabbing Austin Simon – AFTER the assailants stabbed him and violently attacked him.
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
Video is clear on what happened – the (white) bloke was defending himself against the (black) bloke.
Possible Vision Whiplash – BREAKING: Tucker Carlson Reveals Culprit Behind Guidestones Monument Destruction in Exclusive Footage (VIDEO)
I keep getting an internal server error on some links. I’ll try dissecting a post to see what triggers it:
OK.
It seems the complete post is what is being rejected/causes the internal error.
Using Brave browser Version 1.25.72 Chromium: 91.0.4472.101 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 7.
DoverBeach, that’s the limit of my Google Fu.
For an informed take on the global crises afoot, I have discovered interesting podcasts of smart news analysis:
https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-duran-podcast-the-duran-8sUIOLnDQTN/
Shinzo Abe has been shot while making a stump speech in Nara
I fondly thought that Mike Pompeio might have a tilt on the Presidency & be an acceptable face of Reason. However, his speech to the Hudson Institute a few weeks ago destroyed that illusion. Just another Neocon who is happy put aside uncomfortable truths about dubious allies and enemies alike.
https://www.hudson.org/research/17914-transcript-of-pompeo-speech-on-ukraine-and-a-global-alliance-for-freedom
Another TV Series with a vast discrepancy between critics and audience score.
My wife and I are enjoying it. One episode to go.
The strongest recommendation comes from Buzzfeed:
I blame xxxx.