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I dislike most polimuppets but Giles is a particular standout for me. Along with ‘Dr’ Emerson who hangs around the…
Andrews’ chickens coming home to roost. You’d have to wonder whether there’d be any federal electoral payoff in Albanese bailing…
What a joy it is to see Turnbull’s Guardian begging for money.
Musk signed a binding merger agreement at a particular price. Now he wants out, mostly because his stocks have tanked and he doesn’t like the price any more – the bot thing was always a furphy. Seems like Twitter has a legitimate case.
Corporate law is often silly, and often ends in settlement. Twitter is probably just lawfaring to add another billion onto the billion that Musk is already contractually obliged to pay.
Serves the dumbasses, who thought she was the answer to their political prayers, right. Shame about the collateral damage to those who didn’t.
Case in point re what I was referring to above.
Elbow could easily go the same way.
I know here that a fair few decry whet The Australian has become, but there’s 2 excellent articles today by Janet Albrechtsen and Chris Kenny which still helps me to justify subscribing to it.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/shaming-us-into-changing-our-constitution-could-backfire/news-story/6463a464814a96c7bffe6d50f54015ae
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/have-we-finally-hit-peak-stupid-on-climate-and-covid/news-story/41f73172224057c85cf8c3e583f7465f
Fatboy
He’s totally fucked Twitter, because he’s telegraphing to advertisers that they have nowhere near the eyeballs and users they claim.
Twitter could face a massive class action from Advert. STFU and get back in the basement.
He could end up buying the thing at 25 bucks a share.
Because obviously, even if it is true, this is something to do with the legalities of some twitter deal.
Have physicians lost their way in western democracies such as Australia? Have they forgotten their Hippocratic oath? Or conversely, are the dire consequences of scientific and medical honesty now too dear in what appears to be an authoritarian creep? That seems to be the case in a growing number of vaccine injury scenarios where the conditions linked to the COVID-19 vaccines are apparent and obvious, yet the health care professionals involved wiggle, squirm, suppress, and do whatever else is possible to avoid calling out the truth. Enter the case of Tyson Illingworth, aka “tyDI”, a well-known, award winning musician in Australia who is now partially paralyzed due to Moderna’s mRNA vaccine called mRNA-1273, or Spikevax, according to five doctors. The musician’s five different consultations led to the conclusion that there
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/moderna-mrna-vaccine-half-paralyzes-famous-australian-musician-claims-five-doctors-that-fear-loss-of-registration-415bb107
Okay, thanks.
Yeah that’s what smart entrepreneurs do, they decrease the goodwill around the asset they want to buy, then buy it because nobody likes it any more, then underpants gnomes, then profit!
Rog, he will. Of that there can be no doubt.
Which is why the illegitimate shits must be turfed in three years time.
Thanks for that KD, hadn’t heard about that one before. Just had a fine time looking at various papers on it. Richter 7.5 just offshore of Byzantine Phoenicia on a thrust fault, which is at the end of the transverse fault that goes right up the guts of Israel. That whole rift system from the Afar triangle up into Turkey is fascinating, if you like such things. Quite a lot of history has been driven by it too.
Have we finally hit peak stupid on climate and Covid?
Either we have reached peak stupid or it is impossible to contemplate the depth of inanity to which we will sink and the damage it will do to our country. The lack of logic and the deliberate shunning of rational thought in our national debate have reached a level that is obscene or absurd, depending on your mood.
Visiting the flood-devastated Hawkesbury-Nepean region of NSW on Wednesday, Anthony Albanese was asked whether he had any long-term solutions for responding to natural disasters. “Well, we are looking at long-term solutions,” the Prime Minister said. “My government has changed Australia’s position on climate change from day one.”
Instead of falling about the place laughing, the media pack stiff-armed the real world and followed up with more questions based on the fiction that natural disasters are now more common. In keeping with the digital age, nothing that cannot be summarised in a tweet is worth considering, and nothing that happened before the millennial journalists were born can be worth knowing.
Hence the easily accessible flood records of the Hawkesbury-Nepean are ignored. The data demonstrates regular cycles of flood and drought, and much higher floods long before the advent of the internal combustion engine or coal-fired power stations; but politicians and journalists prefer to see the world through the prism of their own recent experience and their commitment to the climate change narrative.
The ABC PM program interviewed Andy Pitman, one of Australia’s leading climate change experts, who previously explained our recent droughts could not be attributed to climate change (before retrospectively adding a qualifier lest he be associated with the sceptics who were quoting him). On PM, on the floods, he said there “isn’t any evidence that it’s climate change” and, despite pleas from reporter David Lipson to draw the climate link, he insisted “these weather events do occur naturally”.
But our politicians and media know better. Any natural disaster or “extreme weather event” is greeted with a chorus blaming climate change, no matter whether the “event” involves heat, cold, water or fire. We are expected to believe that the weather was once more congenial.
We have arrived at a point where the elected leader of a highly educated, First World nation can tell people, with a straight face, that it is his intention to change the climate to a more benign setting so they will no longer be troubled by natural disasters.
If he spruiked this as a commercial venture, he would be prosecuted for misleading advertising and accepting money under false pretences.
Before our country lost its senses, Albanese would have faced a series of matter-of-fact questions after making his claim. How can your climate policies change the climate when global emissions are rising? What possible difference could be made to global climate patterns through fiddling with 1 per cent of global emissions? How do you propose to change an entire ecosystem that has evolved from and adapted to a continent that is a land of droughts and flooding rains? Why do you pretend our weather patterns have suddenly become more threatening when the historical record does not reflect this? Even if you could single-handedly eliminate any anthropogenic climate change, would it not be the case that the Hawkesbury-Nepean would always experience flooding like we have seen this week, and worse?
Instead, most of the media swallowed his phantasmagorical nonsense and The Sydney Morning Herald lauded Albanese in an editorial for calling “a spade, a spade”. He had done nothing of the kind.
Rather, it would be more accurate to say Albanese had said his climate policies would make spades redundant because everything would grow where we wanted it and water would flow only where it was needed. Throw your spades away, he was saying, you will not need them in the thermostatically controlled nirvana of Albanese’s hydroponic Australia.
It is, of course, nonsense to suggest we can eradicate or mitigate natural disasters in this country through our own climate change policies. Anyone with a basic understanding of the scientific reality understands this; even our national chief scientist had to admit that eliminating all our nation’s emissions would have no discernible impact on anyone’s weather.
Even if you accept the alarmist versions of climate change activism, you know that our climate policy objective should be about Australia doing its bit, in concert with other countries, to lower global emissions and limit future human-induced climate distortions. It does not suit the political imperative to be frank about these aims – lest anyone notice the futility of our efforts or that increased worldwide emissions show there has been no gain from our pain.
A debate that is supposed to be about “following the science” turns out to be the opposite. We are fed anti-science, anti-factual lines by a political/media class swept up in the zeitgeist.
Renewable energy and storage can power the world. There will be a green energy jobs bonanza. Electricity will be cheaper. Australia will become a “renewable energy superpower”. Floods will not be so high, nor bushfires so fierce or droughts so dry. Coastlines will no longer erode. If they could throw in an Adelaide Crows premiership, I would sign up.
The fearmongering about what is happening and the promises to dispense with it all conjure images of some pagan king keeping his people frightened and transfixed. While the Aztecs sacrificed virgins, Albanese (and his red, green, teal and blue comrades) will appease the angry climate by sacrificing affordable, reliable power, and countless jobs and opportunities.
This triumph of global warming rhetoric and virtue signalling over hard reality has led to daft policy priorities and choices. Prompted in part by predictions of “permanent drought” from former climate commissioner Tim Flannery, the governments of NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia spent more than $12bn constructing desalination plants. None of them have ever been needed and they still cost millions of dollars a week to keep on standby lest Flannery’s prognostication ever eventuate.
And while we have overstocked on desal plants, we repeatedly have rejected dam projects including the raising of the dam wall at Warragamba to turn it into a flood mitigation tool that would have prevented or significantly lessened the flooding this week. The higher wall was first proposed and rejected in the 1990s, and three decades later, after objections on environmental and Indigenous cultural grounds, work has not yet begun.
NSW Minister for Western Sydney Stuart Ayres drew attention to the project while the drought extended into 2019 by saying: “Noah built the ark before the flood.” Opponents scoffed at him – there have been four serious floods since.
While the digital media age should, in theory, enable maximum access to factual information and therefore encourage rational and practical policymaking, the opposite seems to be true. The digital age has amplified kneejerk and emotive reactions, encouraged misinformation, accelerated political and media response times, and led to irrational decision-making as politicians bow to the mood of the mob, driven by emotion and a slavish deference to the fashions of the moment.
We see the same in pandemic management where, despite Australia’s high vaccination rates, excellent healthcare and a case-fatality rate of about 0.12 per cent, the hysteria continues. Millions of Australians are subjected to vaccine mandates, not just in health and aged care but also in banking, retail and local government.
Until last week professional and volunteer surf lifesavers in NSW were subjected to a vaccine mandate. This came to light with reports lifesavers had lost their jobs at Bondi Beach because they were not vaccinated – imagine fighting for your life in an ocean rip and worrying whether your rescuer was vaccinated against Covid.
The medical evidence and countless experts have exposed vaccine mandates as redundant. We are one of the most vaccinated populations on the planet and yet the virus is everywhere.
Instead of celebrating our success and moving on, most state governments still impose emergency powers. Western Australia has them locked in until January.
We have politicians, media and some medicos calling for the reintroduction of mask mandates, while people fuss over vaccines for children under five, who face no serious threat from Covid-19. We have lost the plot.
Perhaps the digital age has inverted public debate in a kind of reversal of natural selection. Where once we elected and were led by the smartest and most rational, to whom we outsourced key decisions, we now expose our leadership to constant and instant assessment from the digital mob, whose ignorant and febrile responses drive our leaders in the wrong direction.
We are almost ungovernable, and therefore almost ungoverned. It is likely that all this will get much worse before it improves.
It seems that for a time we will spend all our energies trying to eradicate a virus and entrench perfect weather while our defences and economy wither, our most disadvantaged fall behind, and we leave our nation weakened and vulnerable.
Might be time to build an ark.
Even before WEF-bLIARite horse face was installed, I don’t know how anyone could make ends meet in Auckland- low wages plus expensive housing. I was offered $NS60k in 2015 and looking at the housing market was a very depressing exercise.
I do like how the place Twitter are suing is the Delaware Court of Chancery. Sounds like a location in Alice In Wonderland.
Was that an acknowledgement of the fact that Monty was spouting spurious shit, typically graceless though it may be. Why yes, yes it was.
Obama judge.
Elon is unperson.
GreyRanga says:
July 9, 2022 at 7:32 am
It’s this sort of skullduggery that strengthens my suspicion that Cook knew all about Port Jackson but only left Botany Bay on the maps to disguise the jewel he had found.
Which is why the illegitimate shits must be turfed in three years time.
well yes especially when it turns out that the opposition got more votes than these tired old campus marxists. It’s good though that Fraudenberg, Wilson, Falinsky, Sharma are gone.
Yes Monty.
A binding agreement means rescission and equity aren’t applicable.
Good lord you’re a joke.
The latter seems more likely.
It’s very Romans 1:18-32ish.
If we dump God, He dumps us.
Poll finds American doubts about Bible at all-time high (6 Jul)
m0ntysays:
July 9, 2022 at 11:12 am
He could end up buying the thing at 25 bucks a share.
Yeah that’s what smart entrepreneurs do, they decrease the goodwill around the asset they want to buy, then buy it because nobody likes it any more, then underpants gnomes, then profit!
m0nty you fat idiot.
Talking down the asset you want to buy is about the most commonplace occurrence in the whole of the world’s history of trading. Give me one example of someone who’s deliberately talked up their target while they were bidding.
Dot, face it, your boy Elon stuffed up again. Just like he stuffed up by calling the hero of the Thai cave rescue a “p3do guy”.
Musk is not going to buy Twitter and turn it into a libertarian utopia. Oh well.
nope
I thought the same NKP. Cook had his longboats out in NZ and I seem to recall the soundings in Fiordland charts were still used up until the 1950’s. Mind you he did miss Hawkes Bay on the east coast of the North Island.
It is absolutely not relevant to Twitter succeeding in a civil action.
Yes.
This practice, and the cloak and dagger antics associated with it, was used for the novel Shogun by James Clavell, although in that case it was a captured rutter, not a chart. The novel is set in 1600 though, well before Cook. A fine read!
Quite right Wolfman. Chris Kenny is a loon on the Voice but he’s on the money with this one.
Have just got home, I went to a Pilates class and on my way home dropped into my local IGA, this happened less than forty minutes ago, it provides an insight into the deranged minds of so called progressives, the same progressives who feign “compassion”. I’m standing in line to be served, I turn around to see who was directly behind me, an elderly queen, I smiled and he smiled, others in the queue could hear the following exchange.
He said to me…”Isn’t it terrible about Abe”.
I responded…”Yes, dreadful, just dreadful”.
He then said….”If someone had done that to Trump, he would have done us all a favour”.
I responded…..”How dare you say such a dreadful thing, I wouldn’t want that to happen to anyone, you need to take a good look at yourself for saying such a thing, oh and by the way, I liked Trump. It’s precisely that kind of rhetoric that inspires people to kill. You need to be more mindful of what you say, fancy wanting someone you disagree with dead.”
I sufficiently humiliated him. That’s how you deal with the progressive left, you don’t turn the other cheek, you don’t remain silent, you throw it back.
Oh and nobody has the last say with me.
“Just like he stuffed up by calling the hero of the Thai cave rescue a “p3do guy”.”
This line written by the same hypocrite who called the innocent Cardinal Pell a “rock spider”, a description he’s never apologised for or retracted.
I seem to remember some discussion on this site about whether Cook had Portuguese charts in his possession.
Tucker Carlson: This may have been the greatest crime in history
Maybe JC is narcissistic enough to buy a pair of $1800 shoes.
NT POLICE officer Zach Rolfe will be back at work in just over a week after being cleared by an internal investigation following his acquittal over the shooting death of Kumanjayi Walker.
The NT News understands Constable Rolfe will be back in the office in Darwin on July 18 but it remains unclear if or when he will re-don the uniform and return to the beat.
Rolfe has been on forced leave for more than three and a half years since fatally shooting the 19-year-old Aboriginal man during an arrest gone wrong in Yuendumu in 2019.
After Const Rolfe’s acquittal by a Supreme Court jury in March, evidence not admitted at the trial emerged in which prosecutors alleged he had “deliberately assaulted” an Aboriginal man while on duty and later “lied” about it under oath.
Crown prosecutor, Philip Strickland SC, had argued that the findings of Alice Springs Local Court judge, Greg Borchers, should be put before the jury but the application was denied.
“The finding was that the accused had deliberately assaulted (Malcolm) Ryder, the finding was that the accused lied in his evidence in relation to that matter,” he said.
Prosecutors had alleged Constable Rolfe “punched” Mr Ryder “to his head, grabbed his hair and slung his head to the ground”.
“The Crown alleges that the use of force was excessive because it was neither reasonable nor necessary,” Justice John Burns said in his pre-trial ruling.
“It further alleges that the accused’s use of force resulted in Ryder being rendered unconscious and sustaining a laceration to his right forehead requiring 13 sutures and a laceration to his left forehead requiring three sutures.”
But Const Rolfe’s barrister, David Edwardson QC, argued the allegations had never been substantiated and “no finding has been made against Mr Rolfe in respect of those issues”.
“There was no further disciplinary action, or action in any event, taken as against him, so they’re no more than an argument that was advanced by the prosecution, unsuccessfully, as to conduct imputed against Mr Rolfe which has never been substantiated,” he said.
It is now understood a formal internal probe into “use of force” incidents involving Const Rolfe prior to the shooting has cleared him of any wrongdoing, paving the way for his return to the force.
It comes after the NT News revealed NT Police had commissioned an external investigation into a senior member of its executive following claims he summarily ruled out any possibility of Const Rolfe being reinstated.
In response to questions about the external probe, Assistant Commissioner Bruce Porter refused to confirm the investigation, citing “confidentiality”.
“In line with our current practices we always maintain confidentiality on any report from the public for the purpose of the integrity of any investigation and for the wellbeing of the member,” he said.
NT News
Daily Mail.
The answer is a simple “no”.
Well said Cassie. It’s also ridiculous how people think they are expected to express sorrow about the assassination of a former politician in another country. Sure it was terrible but I’ve only heard of Abe- nothing more. Plenty more terrible things happening an our own shores- late term abortion for example.
Tom, in regard to cartoonists, the great majority are men and very few are women. Why do you think this is so? One could add some misogynist comments here and I’m sure some will but my question is serious. Why are there so few published women cartoonists?
Gez at 9:43.
Toot-Toots are the poor man’s Bing-Bongs.
Says who!
Never noticed that before. Must clean glasses.
Canadians are getting a Good Rogering
The Rogers outage is disrupting services across Canada. A list of what is affected
We need Tracey back for a “Say-off”.
Last time she was on the Cat she was experimenting with an air fryer. There may be a warning in that.
Yes that was me, I was mistaken about the Dutch charts, only thought Dutch due to their high accuracy for the time. Have a Lagavulin on me.
men are visual, women are verbal? But that is only a generalisation, and there are always outliers. I suspect that woman, as a group, have few outliers, whilst men have a far wider range of characteristics, from very poor to brilliant.
TikTok seems to be a gigantic mean girls club.
Parents sue TikTok after 7 kids die from profitable Blackout Challenge videos (8 Jul, via Instapundit)
On the other hand it just might be the saving of the human race, by weaning kids off adhering to every whim of the horrible girls who tell them to do this stuff. (Not thinking of Tanya and Penny at all, really I’m not.)
This monkeypox virus is still spreading like wildfire, the idea this virus is spreading by direct contact with lesions is imo BS. today’s total: 8230 reported cases.
10% spread per day suggests it’s not your normal hard to catch mpx virus
This is sad. I am sure we have all been unduly influenced by our peer group, especially when young.
Portuguese tarts.
Tarts.
His favourite morning tea snack.
It’s quite preposterous to say that phosphorous comes from the Bosphorus.
Kaz Cooke.
Next.
And, if he buys it to take it private he wouldn’t give a shit about the stock price because there would be no stock floating around the market. Of course he would talk it down to buy it lower.
Monster is a big fat imbecile.
Three-year-old colt Journalism (J: B. Avdulla; T: Waterhouse-Bott) ran last in the third race at Randwick today, even though he reportedly cost $1 million. I’d suggest a castration (which horse people call a “gelding”) is on the cards if Journalism’s owners don’t first send him to the knackery.
Haha. Surber entertainingly comments about this overnight.
I can’t do justice to his post though because WordPress hates me saying this is a gay venereal disease and crashes.
The rot goes deep.
Claim was made, a few years ago, based on the discovery of a set of Portuguese charts in a second hand Canberra bookshop , that the Portuguese had circumnavigated Australia, 250 years before Cook….
Fixed.
Because they’re not as funny as men.
PS: one of my favourite cartoonists is Lisa Benson, who’s very funny and very smart.
Fester, can one contract the monkeypox from “Amanda” the plastic sex kitten? Do you know?
Claim was made, a few years ago, based on the discovery of a set of Portuguese charts in a second hand Canberra bookshop , that the Portuguese had circumnavigated Australia, 250 years before Cook….
Did they find/locate any aborigines?
LOL, tried to post Surber’s text, and again got another “internal server error”. I’m suspecting the “internal server error” problem has nothing to do with software or hardware, and more to do about WordPress woke sensibilities.
Nah, WordPress is just shit software.
Hahahahaa
He should be in jail, but he’s right here.
https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/hunter-biden-calls-jill-an-entitled-c-t-in-texts/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
Results of farmers’ protests. One of the supermarkets in the Netherlands. Sad state for the people.
Still catching up on the old fred…
shatterzzz says:
July 5, 2022 at 10:51 am
My stamp collection was developing steadily until I got my Commodore 64 and it’s been languishing ever since (as has the Commodore, come to think of it). Mum, who is still the unofficial custodian, asked about its fate the other day.
Anyone interested? I’d drop it of to you, Shatterzzzzzzzz, but I’m unlikely to be passing by anytime soon en route from Melbourne.
ZK2A I’ve got a book written in the 1980’s about it.
Love Lisa Benson’s toons, especther hilarious Demonrat donkeys.
Megan says:
July 9, 2022 at 11:04 am
The Beamer 180d that replaced it was, by far, my most very favourite car. Almost 100% reliable, fun to drive and service support was consistently fantastic. The current Beamer is ultra reliable but as boring as the ABC on a good day. Crook joints entailed a move to a vehicle I could actually get in to.
Megan,
Son had Beamer 180d Station Wagon in Switzerland and I enjoyed driving it around Switzerland, Italy and Austria – great pickup from diesel motor
like you – Crook joints entailed a move to a vehicle I could actually get in to. and have been looking to replace Wife’s 2006 Honda Jazz which she loves for small, 9.4m turning circle and incredible space with Magic Seats, but it runs like new
The most logical replacement re slidability in is Suzuki Ignis GL Auto – least computer things that can go wrong and small and agile with 9.4m turmimg circle and Made in Japan
Other 3 contenders are
Yaris Cross GXL 2WD Hybrid on test starts at $31,990 plus on-road costs, a $2000 premium over the non-hybrid GXL and a handy $3000 more affordable than the ‘eFour’ all-wheel drive hybrid version. -again Made in Japan – tossing up re Hybrid
2022 Kia Seltos Sport+ review – Auto FWD CVT Model (like CVT from 2 Honda Jazzes) – Made in Korea
finally
Mazda CX-30 G20 Pure with Vision Technology – Made in Japan
WordPress just responded: I get no respect. No respect.
The US Industrial Complex Is Starting to Buckle From High Power Costs
Surging bills are forcing companies to scale back industrial operations, threatening a greater drag on the economy.
Volodin proposed to ban the promotion of non-traditional values ??after Russia’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe
According to Volodin, after Russia withdrew from the Council of Europe, demands to legalize same-sex marriage in the country “gone to the past”
????????? ?? ???:
They can use mobs because they are protected.
Under Biden, U.S. Pushed Further Back in Latin America
. China is now Latin America’s largest trading partner (excluding Mexico).
. China’s relationships with Latin American countries however, are about far more than trade.
. “It is not necessary to show malevolent PRC intentions with respect to its activities in Latin America and the Caribbean to conclude that the current and long-term implications of that engagement are grave for prosperity, democracy, and liberties in the region, as well as the security and strategic position of the United States.” — Professor Evan Ellis, US Army War College, “Testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission,” May 20, 2021.
. China also has another advantage: No regard for human rights or democracy. It is more than happy to invest in and trade with authoritarian dictatorships like itself.
. “… U.S. influence has been diminishing in the continent.” — Martha Bárcena, former Mexican ambassador to the United States, The New York Times, June 9, 2022.
. The odds of Biden’s new plan winning over Latin American countries — where China has already massively invested in building roads, railways, harbors, bridges and a host of other infrastructure and communications projects, with no questions asked on the environment, climate or “inclusivity” — are probably low. Even Biden administration officials do not seem to harbor any illusions about the new plan’s ability to change facts on the ground….
. “As long as China is ready to put its cash on the table, we seem to be fighting a losing battle.” — U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, Reuters, June 8, 2022.
. “Latin American governments complain that there’s a lot of talk but ask ‘where is the money’?” — Welber Barral, Brazil-based partner at BMJ Consultores Associados, Reuters, June 8, 2022.
. “The U.S. is losing Latin America to China without putting up a fight, Ecuador’s ambassador to Washington told Axios.”
. “And China is waiting, saying, ‘We’re here. We’re giving you money.’ They want control of course, but they don’t say that.” — Ivonne Baki, Ecuador’s ambassador to the US, Axios, September 23, 2021.
The Agenda Against Farmers and Fertilizers Is What’s Creating the Global Food Crisis | Crossroads
Governments are placing restrictions on farmers and fertilizers under the claims of fighting global warming, but these restrictions are what’s actually creating the global food crisis we now face.
I’d be interested in knowing the title, thank you.
Old Ozzie, I have a Yaris Cross Urban on order. Bought specifically to allow my elderly mother and father to get in and out easily.
The CX3 Mazda, a beautiful car, was just way too low. The Beloved’s Prado too high.
Dad’s driving days are over.
After the first child died from self-strangulation while attempting a recommended “Blackout Challenge,”
Adult enough to have hormone blockers though.
The science is clear.
A more recent take on this is ‘Beyond Capricorn’ by Peter Trickett.
It’s a highly contested theory, not surprisingly.
Manufactured Food Crisis: Elite’s “Great Reset” Plan to Take Farmer’s Land, Convert it to Housing
Facts Matter with Roman Balmakov
With little outcry, Chicago’s bloody weekend eclipsed Highland Park toll
“Our babies see people get shot while they’re at a playground, and there’s no counseling,” one South Side resident said.
CHICAGO — No new counseling resources were announced this week on this city’s impoverished South Side, even after a man was shot to death in broad daylight, feet from a playground, days before July
There are no crowdsourced charity drives raising millions for victims’ families in Chicago, where the holiday weekend death toll reached at least 10 with 62 injured — numbers that exceed the toll from a July Fourth parade shooting in nearby Highland Park, Ill.
IIRC, wasn’t he the author who found the charts in the secondhand bookshop?
Yes, that’s him.
Dover,
If you read Sirico’s wiki, it suggests that he became a Catholic priest and libertarian later on in the 80s. He’s had an interesting life too.
Wokdoctor:
Of course. If we aren’t allowed to discriminate against a Kiwi with multiple convictions for violent assault, how can we not refuse citizenship to a boatload of Nigerian males, all from the same gang?
That would be racist!
It could be that the WordPress people are acolytes of the Cult of Titus, and are very picky about what and who they engage with.
They can use mobs because they are protected.
It’s breathtaking Dover.
The cognitive dissonance displayed by this foolish equity vessel is monumental.
Arguing freedom of protest can happily co-exist with judicial independence just as long as they don’t physically abuse the judges.
Those who value legal officers having immunity from intimidation should follow Jean-Pierre everywhere she goes and disrupt her life.
Base little muppet.
Old School Conservative:
I referred to this a couple of days ago and it reminded me of the Red Guards terror in China.
The tactics are the same and the results will be the same unless we fight back.
LOL
See also: MontyPox
Testing.
Monkey pox is a gay venereal disease.
BoN.
It isn’t some sinister censorship.
For Titus’ sake, man, don’t go the full St Ruth.
Just because the clunky software or fuzzy comms cause your comment to fall over, it isn’t evidence of some great Woke Conspiracy.
Many of us have had comments inexplicably eaten over the last few days.
the interview with the dutch MP is worth a listen to. this western anti-farm agenda is not going to have a happy ending
Indolent:
Bill Gates is currently in the category of “Old Man In A Hurry”. He will now overreach.
He’s such an idiot. Such an idiot. He’s actually the woke equivalent on the right.
So the science is well and truly settled on this one then? Fester?
That’s why I referred to St Ruth.
The monumentally stupid post a week or so ago …
“Dover, why am I blocked from posting here?”
Err, you just did.
it wouldn’t let me make comments on the uke shrimp, got the 500 error
bespoke says: July 9, 2022 at 8:16 am
Twitter stopped me.
My account was deleted a year or so ago.
My account no longer exists.
Furthermore, any other account is insta-deleted (permanently) if it logs in via any device that has used my google ID.
I’m now totally unable to open/use a twitter account.
My sin; telling Victoria Police they were overdoing it by opening fire on normals.
(In slightly strong languge – however not much stronger)
Dot, Elon was never buying Twitter. It was a troll, and you fell for it.
Twitter is suing him to make him pay the toll. It will be at least a billion, and probably a lot more.
Update From WordPress/Automattic on Treehouse Deplatforming…
November 16, 2020 | Sundance
Monster
You really get into more and more trouble when you get into the prediction business. How’s wussiagate coming along?
Indolent:
This is part at which I started to smell something really fishy.
Why would you go to a shootout with ammunition in BOXES? Why not have them in magazines, ready for use? It’s not as if magazines are difficult to get.
No. This is misdirection and we’ll just have to wait to see what the other hand is doing.
Victorians could soon be given a public holiday in recognition of National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee Week under a new plan to celebrate the history and culture of First Nations peoples.
Already have it. It is called Australia Day.
The vaxx ghouls obviously scour the msm for deaths of people aged 53 and under which they can attribute to vaccines
How far does someone’s head need to be up their own arse to not realise that there’s a serious problem with these vaccines?
FYI – It looks look an ongoing vaccine mandate will be effectively installed in Victoria via the back door – WorkSafe.
callisays:
July 9, 2022 at 12:58 pm
Old Ozzie, I have a Yaris Cross Urban on order. Bought specifically to allow my elderly mother and father to get in and out easily.
The CX3 Mazda, a beautiful car, was just way too low. The Beloved’s Prado too high.
Dad’s driving days are over.
Good choice – I have to pull. myself up into 1994 Series 80 4WD, but once there Recaro Seats are very comfortable
Having spent a lot of time in Japan and Korea only looking at made in those 2 places as workforce monoethnic and can speak to each other – 2006 Honda Jazz Thai Built again monoethnic workforce
Choice will be my Wife’s but I will do nudging – like Toyota Kinto concept – but only Yaris but renting Yaris for 24 Hours can give wife a feel of car
Thai Built again monoethnic workforce
Probably quite a few Burmese involved actually.
china in focus
00:58 Japan’s Ex-Leader Abe Assassinated in Public
04:09 Newsham: Abe’s Lasting Role in Japan’s Influence
09:32 Hateful Posts on Chinese Social Media on Abe’s Death
11:24 Pop Song Censored in China After Abe Assassination
12:15 U.S. Ambassador Faces Online #Censorship in China
13:44 Sen. Scott Visits Taiwan, China Sends Jets
16:06 China, Russia Ministers Met in Bali on #G20 Sidelines
17:40 China’s Interactions Amid G20 Meeting: Roundup
19:10 Q&A: Automaker Byd Sells Electric, Hybrid Cars
Munty you idiot, do you really think Musk was going to drop a Bill not to buy twatter. Thats your hero Dan of the Dead territory. Do yourself a favour and take a day off. Stupidity is cumulative, its a long way back for you. It is possible but in your case probably not.
Twitter is really in a pickle if they’ve been lying about their viewership. If it goes to court Musk’s lawyers are going to demand seeing a complete audit. Then the cat is out of bag and the potential for a class action. In that setting the stock price isn’t going up.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte are “golden pin-up boys” for Klaus Schwab and the globalist fantasists of the World Economic Forum, says Sky News host Rowan Dean.
What Is Canada’s Dystopian “Online Streaming Act”?
Jordan B Peterson
ZK2A, The Secret Discovery of Australia by McIntyre. I see it was written in 77, I picked it up in the early 80’s secondhand.
Talking last night to friends who live in Broome.
They told us about a group of “local” teenage girls who stole a $150 000 Chev Silverado from a tourist park, then used it to ram police vehicles until it was a write-off. It only had 11 000 km on the clock.
Two nights before, they’d been woken up in the middle of the night by loud explosions. They later found out some “locals” had pinched a car, thrashed the cr@p out of it, then driven it out along Port Drive and torched it.
Our friends have their house on the market; they’ve had enough.
No one really knows but Elon. Yes he was trolling. Who knows what he will do?
Ah yes, the anti trolling provisions of US corporate law. It negates fraud, apparently.
Troops prepared for ‘massive attack’ on Norway-Russia border
Following up from previous comments.
Zipster at 9:35 referred to French study into myocarditis. I remember almost exactly a year ago from Israeli info that myocarditis was 16 X normal rate in young males. Some may have seen the Tucker Carlson interview with a immunologist from Boston who mentioned it as he was not happy his son, who had already had the virus, had to be vaxxed to go back to college in August last year.
Earlier this week we actually had newspaper articles mentioning reason why 4th booster should not be for under 30’s was due to possible heart issues. The heart issues from Vax for young males basically outweigh the danger to them from Vax. Naturally this is not something the press had previously noted as all their favourite experts are only interested in pushing the next Vax. Has to be said but the 4th is same as first three but best not to mention that in MSM.
So in view of above at what point will Defence and any other Vax mandate employers drop the Vax requirement for at least under 30’s. RickW mentioned they will use Workplace Health and Safety to implement Vax mandates. So how about under 30’s?
I see NSW finally realised the stupidity of banning lifesavers for being unvaxxed. Qld dropped their lifesaver mandate 3 months earlier. I know from a good source SES NSW lost 5,000 to the mandate. But hey who needs SES volunteers when flooding is causing people to be evacuated from their homes.
The above are just examples of how the media has failed us.
monty isn’t mad that a rich guy did shareholder activism.
monty is mad he isn’t part of the leftist cult.
The left are no longer “the Cathedral”, it has become “the Magisterium”.
Did read the book years ago – some douchenozzle borrowed the book and never returned it..
JC at 1:56.
I see this as the first shot in the battle. Musk will eventually force the Twatter price down to below $30.
An audit will turn up some really interesting stuff. Remember KRudd joined Twatter and instantly had 100,000 followers. A vast majority were less than 30 days old, had never posted anything and seemed to be domiciled in Eastern Europe.
Multiply that by thousands of egotistical politicians and CEOs worldwide and you’ve got a trainload of fake accounts.
So it’s mid winter and very cold, after being very wet all year. … I live 1200ks from the next big smoke. That’s a long way to haul everything….
The Woolies and the IGA are stocked as usual, with fresh F+V dirt cheap (big avos $1, sweet spuds $1.50 Kg, Apples, Oranges, Bananas etc very cheap). Chicken and pork also very cheap. fish too (not salmon)….pasta, rice, flour etc etc all as usual. Tin of baked beans 65c. tinned corn beef $2.50. nescafe espresso $16 for a 500g tin = $3.20 for 100g.
When do we begin to starve? DO NOT BE GASLIGHTED!
Of the three articles in the Weekend Australian today on the growing threat of China, I thin this analysis of John Lee is the most perceptive and relevant to Australian defence preparations.
Blueprint to become masters of our destiny
China pushes a line of inevitable rise, but we still can shape the region’s future
JOHN LEE
Also on Twatter advertising.
How are advertising contracts struck?
If ad revenue is based on raw numbers of users, current management could be in a world of pain if there are large numbers of those.
If it is based on specific te-tweets and eyeballs on a tweet and they have been salting those with fake activity, that is “go-to-jail-do-not-pass-Go” territory.
Fraud, pure and simple.
You can’t tell me that operatives within Twatter on advert revenue bonuses haven’t been doing that.
Raw numbers of those = dummy accounts.
Hard to imagine the sort of person that would be impressed or influenced by someone like Rudd having that many followers. Then it occurs, a journalist, of course.
What do you expect from the party of the Klan!
An audit will turn up some really interesting stuff.
They have a very big problem with their business model. If you’re going to ban everyone except NPC’s like munty….
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The last communication my husband received from the RFS (Rural Fire Service) insisted that vaccination was still required for all members attending fires/ meetings etc. A previous notification indicated that here were some periphery and menial tasks that the unvaccinated were permitted to perform.
They have to be joking.
Boambee John:
I suggest the ‘Gentle Cycle’ on your washing machine. Use lux flakes as well.
You have a front or top loader?
One – or both – may give you loading issues.
I play word games online, not Wordle, too boring. I was having a purple patch, that was when I discovered they were running bots. I had gone from 1st to 5th in one game that I did so quickly and they had done several games more. Bet the advertisers didn’t know.
To Old Ozzie & Megan:
Do NOT give in to “crook joints”!!!! The pain is transient – when you settle into the damn car seat….the pain subsides.
Kunckle Dragger:
Ask and ye shall receive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAMO1m3esBc
Bloody ‘ell. That’s a lot of money and hopes going up in flames.
Sorry about the book ZK2A, I was living in Perth at the time and I can’t recall how I got it.
Spooner does not have it that involvement in the affairs of the Ukraine war is one of the spectres dooming Boris and the ship of state.
Huh?
Take a squiz at the anchor.
That’s Zelenskyy with his arms in the air playing piano with his cock.
The Left seem to have abandoned attempting to argue that Gun Control works. The argument now seems to be “because we can”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISeJjdOlh8
I suggest the ‘Gentle Cycle’ on your washing machine.
I’m guessing here but being a carpet someone might .. need a BIGGER washing machine .. LOL!
Find your nearest pet store or track down this product online; “Urine Free all-in-one Odour and Stain Remover”. Spray on the stained area until slightly damp then cover with white kitchen absorbent towel then put something flat and heavy on top overnight eg brick or old Yellow pages book. Repeat this until stain is totally drawn up into paper. Remove paper and let dry naturally. Don’t rub. Works on most stains on carpet.
Boambee John:
How can peppermint tea stains be removed from carpet? See my post above.
All of social media is like this. It gets a pass because thirsty dudes wanna stalk and Queen Baes gotta Queen Bae. That and they basically run your photos gallery for you.
Funnily, a lot of people hate Facebook, and are only on it because their footy club insists on using it to announce teams and official gossip.
That is always their argument in power. I remember debating abortion law with some leftist on the old Cat about a decade ago and she in the end simply reverted to ‘we can kill the child in utero because the law allows it right now and there is nothing you can do to stop us’.
Mark Riley – the TV “journalist” who did a hit job on PM Tony Abbott (about the time that the Paywallian’s “associate editor” John Lyons, now at the ABC, made up a story that Abbott wanted to invade Iraq) — will air a loving portrait of the old Trotskyist hack now in the Lodge at 7pm tomorrow night on Seven … just so you know 90%+ of Australian journalists aren’t in the tank for the Liars and the Filth.
I understand Riley will also publish the out-takes 0f him gagging on Elbow’s cock.
“Rather than a public holiday that rubs salt into our community’s wounds, a NAIDOC Day public holiday would be inclusive
Why would the 251s need a, it’s ours, public holiday when everyday is a “public holiday” for 95% of them .. FFS!
Why did the people in the Hunter vote for Labor? Why did the people on the floodplains vote Green? People may be “angry” but they’re also stupid.
32.58% voted liars; many rusted on. 35.69% LNP, mainly optimists. The filth and the teal tarts, 17.54%. PHON was 4.96% and the remaining 9.33% complete fucking weirdos.
So, just over 40% real or nominally conservative and sane. The evidence is therefore irrefutable that the electorate in this shithole are terminally stupid.
Victorians would be given a public holiday in recognition of NAIDOC Week under a new plan to honour the state’s first people and create a unified future.
With this year’s NAIDOC Week drawing to a close, the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria have launched an official petition calling for the day.
The group, which are the elected voice for Aboriginal people and communities involved in Treaty discussions with the state government, say a recognised public holiday would help to promote real and lasting change towards a better future.
The petition states: “We have public holidays for horse races, invasions, footy games, wars and the birthday of foreign monarchs, but we don’t have a day to share and celebrate the history and culture of First Peoples.”
Assembly Co-Chair and Bangerang and Wiradjuri Elder, Aunty Geraldine Atkinson, said the day of celebration would be “well placed” to coincide with NAIDOC Week….
Assembly Co-Chair and proud Nira illim bulluk man of the Taungurung Nation, Marcus Stewart, said Victoria should follow in the footsteps of New Zealand, which recognises the anniversary of the signing of the Waitangi Treaty.
Is it compulsory now to call every bloke “proud”? Herald-Sun, with a ridiculous picture of some “aboriginal dancers” who look like they’re wearing Hawaiian costumes. Comments have been allowed, and so far haven’t seen one that agrees.
Nelson_Kidd-Playerssays:
July 9, 2022 at 12:38 pm
Still catching up on the old fred…
My stamp collection was developing steadily until I got my Commodore 64 and it’s been languishing ever since (as has the Commodore, come to think of it). Mum, who is still the unofficial custodian, asked about its fate the other day.
Anyone interested? I’d drop it of to you, Shatterzzzzzzzz, but I’m unlikely to be passing by anytime soon en route from Melbourne.
I’m guessing it’s mainly pre-decimal if it’s around C64 era then .. LOL!
I’ve got a daughter in Melbourne (Bentleigh East) who could take it into care until I’m next get down there ..
good story bro
Is Mark Riley the one that pretended to be reporting deep behind enemy lines in Iraq during the gulf war only for it to be footage of him standing in front of a sand dune in the carpark of some hotel in another country? Or maybe that was the chase for Skase guy.
aboriginal dancers” who look like they’re wearing Hawaiian costumes
BRADBURY supporters then!….. LOL!
Civility.
Is this a result from the Norwegian naval blockade of the Russian community in Svalbard?
Everyone wants to poke the Russian bear these days.
In WWII the Russian Army took over north-eastern Norway and were moving south against the Wehrmacht. This was advantageous to the allies as the Kriegsmarine was forced to move the Tirpitz from its unreachable northern base to a southern fjord which brought it into British bomber range.
Prospective 2022 wooden-spooners North Melbourne Kangaroos, languishing of the bottom of the AFL ladder, are on top of the seventh placed Collingwood Magpies in the last quarter at the MCG. A victory would be only the Roos second of the season.
Roos coach David Noble is almost certain to be sacked in the next few weeks. A Roos victory wouldn’t head off Noble’s sacking, but would make the optics interesting.
Floods in the south have multiplied 8 times in recent years/Xi made one mistake
China Insights
The Pearl River runs through Guangdong Province. It’s the second largest river in China, after the Yangtze River. With a basin area of about 440,000 square kilometers, it is six times the annual runoff of the Yellow River.
Speaking to the Chinese media, the General Executive Deputy Commander of the Pearl River Defense, said that since late May this year, the Pearl River basin has been hit by 7 consecutive floods and Typhoon Chaba. It’s rare in history. It has experienced the test of the great flood of the ??Beijiang River and the flood control situation is extremely serious. That is to say, compared to a few years ago when flooding occurred once a year, the flooding of the Pearl River has multiplied eight times as of July 5th.
The flood situation in the Pearl River system is actually a snapshot of the major water systems in China. So, why has the flooding in China deteriorated to such an extent?
maybe shades of “Tiny” Rowlands who brought down the Bond empire, which was supported by 100% debt. In Twitter case, by 100% (almost) fake accounts.
so 50.12% are terminally stupid. A majority!!!!!
Here’s Jeff Clark in his shorts.
It’s a storm in a teacup.
MiltonF:
Look at LiFePO4 batteries as well – there are distinct advantages.
HAARP. Man.
Carried from the old fred.
Cronkite: I wasn’t explaining something that was too difficult to understand. What you made money on was the appreciation of the land. Houses generally have a 40 life before major work needs to be done. Sure one can live like a swine or be a slumlord. The 40 year life would also mean that works were likely carried out over the 40 years period too. Stop being an obtuse divorce lawyer and or slumlord.
If you buy a property with a house on land that hasn’t been worked on for 40 years, you’re basically buying it land value. See the point. Stop arguing with facts.
Collingwood won by seven points. Poor old Norf.
Now that I’m permitted to work outside the home in the people’s republic of victoriastan, I’m running into the problem that many employers are requiring proof of vaccination against covid. Even something like being a container monkey laboring job.
Yep. Even as they’re screaming they can’t find anyone to work. Yay.
So do I become a dole “bludger” or do I leave the state, and the responsibilities I have here? Elderly parents being one.
And Cronkite, 2.5% = 40 years. I thought I’d note that in case you didn’t understand.
And the class actions will commence pretty soon.
many employers are requiring proof of vaccination
PhotoShop is your friend.
Megan:
I was looking to trade in the 380 last year, but listening to the tales of European vehicular woe here, decided it just wasn’t worth the gamble on getting a good one.
What on earth has happened to European – especially German – design and engineering?
I’m lucky my boss didn’t ask. For most in the same industry it was mandatory.
You know, these white people are destroying America. Here’s a bunch of white teenagers mugging a 72 year old man who died from the beating.
Just can’t help themselves.
Absolutely, I think the vaccines have been a problem for some people but that doesn’t mean I agree that every Shane Warne, Kimberley Kitching and any other post vaccine death has anything to do with vaccines.
Especially not those where the deceased has jumped off a tall building (French rugby player) or drug paraphernalia has been found at the scene (another omg recently linked).
The gun used to kill Abe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdqufrO30mE
Megan
How long was the warranty period? It sat inside that three years, no?
I used MS paint…
Stick with Toyota or Subaru.
Personally, I run a 75 series Landcruiser as a daily, it’s loud and it’s slow, but it never stops.
WolfmanOz:
Thanks for the post, WolfmanOz.
No we haven’t reached peak stupid on the climate or the Wuhan Zombie Virus.
Peak will be when we uncomplainingly allow the Brahmin Class who have engineered this folly accept our pleas to save us.
We are currently being led by a cohort that have NO intention of solving any of the problems THEY have created – just making it appear they are trying.
Adobe writer works to produce something more authentic, even fooled me
A bit puzzled, Lizzie.
Was it a cock in a frock? Or just an odd person of elderly years?
FMD. I’m laughing out loud watching the TV.
Because those who call themselves “creatives” in the advertising industry are fashion sheep who refuse to (or are afraid to because of the consequences) think for themselves, literally every frigging TV commercial must now feature a brown-skinned woman.
Nothing to do with demographics. It’s all about ideological compliance.
Australians who don’t vote for the Liars and the Filth simply are no longer represented in local TV advertising.
Nobody has told these clowns that demonising half your market may not be a good idea.
Advertising people can’t conceive of life beyond the goat cheese curtain.
elderly queen= XXXX/G&T drinker, Winston.
Just like the town hall that took a hit, harbouring a UKR command post. And the countless civilian buildings hit when the squares outside harbour Ukr missile launchers. What to expect from a people who shoot POW’s in the legs for fun.
Tom at 3:16 – I expect “Shit Happens” will give Albo the sort of soft soap treatment that normally costs him hundreds.
I’ve just been reading a fine article about gaslighting, which was picked up by ZH:
Gaslighting: The Psychology Of Shaping Another’s Reality (9 Jul)
RTWT it’s very good. The stuff about William Sargant is interesting.
Then I got to this bit at the end:
Ok, so I follow the link to see who Rising Tide Foundation is. Lots of good stuff on their site.
So I looked at their about page:
Oh. Wow.
It turns out the article warning us about gaslighting is from a bunch who are gaslighting us.
What you made money on was the appreciation of the land. Houses generally have a 40 life before major work needs to be done.
Head prefect, you are an expert shorter; if I want advice about shorting you’re the shorter I’ll go to. But I do real estate. Old city houses can be goldmines. I put a third story on a Newcastle terrace and the roof braces, which had to be replaced, were made out of rare hardwood. They were like cement. After negotiating with the builder he took the beams and did the third story for nothing. In another terrace where I put on a balcony both the ceiling and floor were cedar. I had to chose one to be replaced; again the builder took the floor (the ceiling had an engraved painting on it and had to stay) and did the terrace for nothing.
Sure a lot of old buildings can have problems, rising damp for instance, but they were built to last. Your problem is you like sparkling, poofie inner city apartments which are built to be replaced in 40 years.
A final point: most inner city old terraces effectively have no land and you often have a 2 or 3 story house which has twice or more the floor space of the land area.
Will 3.19pm . Why did the Hunter vote Labor, because they are born and bred to vote Labor . The coal miners could more easily knock off granny before they could change their vote .
You know, these white people are destroying America. Here’s a bunch of white teenagers mugging a 72 year old man who died from the beating.
I’ve told you , you don’t do irony.
rickwsays:
July 9, 2022 at 1:45 pm
Thai Built again monoethnic workforce
Probably quite a few Burmese involved actually.
rick,
again did successful business in Thailand in 80s/90s – very matriarchal society like Singapore (can tell some fascinating tales of joint venture with Japan/Korea/Singapore – 2 MCP’s versus Dominant Singaporean Women)
Thailand Demographics
Estimates claim that of the total population, 75% were Ethnic Thai, 14% were Thai Chinese, and 3% were ethnically Malay. The remainder of the population falls into small minority groups including hill tribes, Khmers and Mons.
Nationals from Myanmar make up the largest migrant worker population in Thailand, with recent estimates putting the figure at 2.3 million individuals.
So yes, not as monethnic re language on production line but probably beat Europe
Will 3.19pm . Why did the Hunter vote Labor, because they are born and bred to vote Labor . The coal miners could more easily knock off granny before they could change their vote .
You had an LNP which was determinably anti coal and did not confront and expose the cultural ideology of the liars. Then the media concentration on gerbil warming and scomo’s pathetic weakness and unlikability.
It was three years from memory. Also from memory mine was a product of the disastrous merger of Daimler-Benz with Chrysler. Almost everything inside the cabin broke, stopped worked or fell off, in that first two years, including the radio and CD/cassette player and the sunroof. The brakes were completely redone twice in four years -you could argue I’m too hard on them but none of my vehicles before or since have needed the brakes doing that often. The auto transmission was an utter disaster, failing in its fifth year with barely 80k on the clock. Cost me over $5K and the engine needed to be removed in order to get at the necessary components. It was replaced and failed again immediately I drove it out of the dealership. This time it cost them as somehow, despite bench testing it prior to installing, it was the version B* instead of version A which was required for my model.
Never so glad to see a car disappear permanently from my life,
*Not technical term. I have buried these memories deep in the forgettory.
? Russian Soldiers Crazy Way To Dispose Of S-300 Anti-Aircraft Missiles
So the guy who shot Abe. Was he an ultra-nationalist? A communist? An aspiring rap artist?
ML speaking of Abe, may his soul rest in peace. Get a load of this hyperbole from Karen Andrews:
https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/a-matter-of-time-horror-warning-for-australia-after-shinzo-abe-shooting/news-story/ed68b2b0df007b59dc64a7acdf5bdcb7
His this bint has never heard of John Newman…
“You had an LNP which was determinably anti coal and did not confront and expose the cultural ideology of the liars. Then the media concentration on gerbil warming and scomo’s pathetic weakness and unlikability.”
Yep…Hunter is winnable but it won’t be won by the Liberals or the Nationals, because both parties have shown themselves to be inveterate cowards when it comes to dealing with the climate con. They both lack the courage to stand up and say that climate change is a con. I watched Barnabus Beetroot Juice on Sky the other night, I can’t remember if he was on Kenny or Bolt, but he was asked why the Nationals agreed to “net zero” last year and he was asked if the Nationals should abandon the target. He evaded the answering the questions directly, instead talking about what the Nationals extracted from the Liberals at the time and then he talked about nuclear.
The damage done to the Liberals and the Nationals, by wets such as Katie “I love Obama” Allen, Rent Zimmerboy, Dave Karma Shama, Jason Foolinsky and others, when they persuaded Scumbag Morrison to commit to “net zero emissions” can never be repaired, unless they grow a pair and abandon the policy, but they won’t.
Hunter is winnable by One Nation and they should choose a local candidate within the next year and he/she can campaign on Albanese’s climate change hysteria and obsessions….and I reckon Hunter will be won by One Nation in 2025.
That’s what I said earlier. Hunter has been Labor continually since 1910. Except the coal miners nearly voted in the PHON tradie election before last. Which gave Joel such conniptions he became a coal convert in the ALP Party Room. Much fun then resulted.
Alas Joel has departed, being replaced by a faceless Laborite whose name I can’t ever recall. At least I won’t now get Christmas cards covered with 14 grinning Joel photos. His mailouts were always hilarious for the number of photos of himself on them.
LOL – so you did watch the Maggie Rogers videos.
Lizard people?
Saw that, RD.
“It’s all about us politicians.”
“Mother Lodesays:
July 9, 2022 at 6:05 pm
So the guy who shot Abe. Was he an ultra-nationalist? A communist? An aspiring rap artist?”
Andy Ngo sent out the following tweet a late last night..
“Some of the most bitter opposition to former conservative Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated today, came from members of Japan’s Communist Party (?????). They’ve repeatedly called him a fascist & Hitler-like spawn who should be crushed.
It’ll be interesting to find out the ideological background of the alleged assassin.
Err, is there a missing ‘s’ in the comment above – or am I just being a pedant (again)? 😕
I doubt we will, for the same reason we’re not hearing anything about the Chicago parade shooter.
Except for mental illness. Seems to be the default when the perp is a lefty.
Shatterzzz:
Well, one person got it.