That painting needs an update with a burned-out Tesla as the centre-piece.
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Black Ball, muntsac would be cheering on this tragedy. https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/female-iranian-volleyball-player-reportedly-arrested-after-showing-support-for-israel/
JJ Sefton at Ace Of Spades in his morning report: In all seriousness, the world has been destabilized, not only…
Something familiar, Something peculiar, Something for everyone: A comedy tonight! Next door at the Forum, I believe. 🙂
Notes: ? •program was not presented every day, but maybe two-three times a week •constant battle to keep supply of…
Mate!!
Unashamed Charger man. Used to have a VJ E55.
Good stuff.
‘Dr’ Jill really looks like a low life tramp
Crack whore.
“Alaska Is Ours” Sign Appears In Russian City, Internet Shocked
The threatening billboards appear just a day after Vladimir Putin’s ally said that Russia could reclaim the country sold to the United States in 1867.
KD, your refusal to acknowledge globalist enemies such as the WEF and it’s self declared and openly admitted to, operatives “inserted in ze cabinets” could have been taken at one time as just a failure of character, … wishful denialism.
You scoff.
Nowadays it’s virtually traitorous.
It’s a reality you are publicly denying like a Tokyo Rose of yesteryear.
Hi Charlie!
Re the rise of “working class people against the elites” beginning across the globe : as I said at the time, that is exactly what I saw with the 100,000 plus at the Canberra rally against the vaccines. All ordinary families with kids & pets.
Overnight Matt Taibbi has published two columns on crypto focussing on “stable coins”.
From the paywalled one, this paragraph stood out.
By early this year, with midterms firmly in sight, one saw politicians in every direction with their arms draped around crypto CEOs, sometimes literally. Just prior to the collapse of TerraUSD, for instance, the chair of the House Financial Services, Maxine Waters, invited a series of speakers to a panel on crypto. A photo was released showing Waters literally embracing some of the top heavies in the crypto market, including Circle’s Jeremy Allaire, FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, and Armstrong of Coinbase.
I don’t think Maxine Waters is up to understanding let alone having any oversight of the crypto universe.
If The Original Top Gun Had Been Made Today…Bottom Gun – 1 min 28 secs
plus Bottom Gun 2 – 1 min 07 secs
If The Original Top Gun Had Been Made Today – Part 2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5fx7Qbxjl8
Strange logic.
Chatting to a bloke I know that had a bad covid experience. Had to sleep sitting up for three nights because he couldn’t get air laying down and the cough reflex made him feel like he was chocking.
Said he’s getting the fourth shot as soon as he can because he doesn’t want to go through that again. Maths and PE teacher by trade.
Globalist enemies like Jessica Mauboy? Her real name is Eva Hapsburg, you know.
I see you’ve mellowed. Before it was just ‘traitorous’. Hopefully that means there’s less chance of being ‘arrested’ by ‘The People’ and brought to trial, held on a council basketball court somewhere.
I would like to see the REAL EVIDENCES put before the REAL JURDGE.
A person living in an apartment block feeding pigeons?
Body corporate should just apply cleaning charges like they would with any other resident contributing to a mess.
If they own the place, they’ll stop doing it when they see the charges.
If they rent the place, they’ll be given a notice to vacate by the landlord after a quarter of fees.
Similar to a tenant dumping rubbish outside the place.
It doesn’t have to be in their apartment for them to have to foot the bill for the cleaning.
From The Oz…
“Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced his resignation on Saturday, hours after a crowd of angry protesters chased him from his residence, as months of frustration brought on by an unprecedented economic crisis boiled over.
Hundreds of thousands of people massed in the capital Colombo to demand the government take responsibility for mismanaging the nation’s finances, and for crippling food and fuel shortages.
After storming the gates of the presidential palace, a throng of protesters walked through its rooms, with some among the boisterous crowd jumping into the compound’s pool.
Others were seen laughing and lounging in the stately bedrooms of the residence, with one pulling out what he claimed was a pair of Rajapaksa’s underwear.
At around the same time, the leader had boarded a naval craft at the Colombo port and was taken to the island’s southern waters, where he let it be known he was finally bowing to months of calls for his resignation.”
Who’d have thought, disastrous Green policies lead to Green death, Green murder and the inevitable……Green revolution.
Oh and a word of warning, Australia will not be immune.
There’s only one thing worse than feeding birds…..that’s talking about feeding birds.
https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-nitrogen-policy-will-decimate-canadian-farming/
Anybody still think what is going on is mere widespread incompetence?
Its probably Lavazza anyway as the have that regularly. I got through too much of it as I like it strong. Better watch what I say Ken will call us coffee snobs. He’s so meeeeeaan.
Being a MAFS fan girl?
‘bern at 9:04.
Behind all these stories there will be a slow escalation of “cease and desist” letters, ignored levies and charges and personal pleas not to be an arsehole.
But it is often presented as the sudden slapping of a yuuuge fine and the shocked resident is out on the street within 48 hours of first hearing about it.
Yes.
Mate!! Unashamed Charger man. Used to have a VJ E55. Good stuff.
My Uni ride was a VJ Regal, 318 with toploader 4spd (yes really!). I bought it for 1300 bux.
Favourite moment was when I was giving a lift to a couple of german exchange students who asked: ‘Ziss car, is it 2 leeeter?’.
I replied: ‘No, 5.2 litre’, and pushed the loud pedal.
I think the correct term is “viscously traitorious”.
Carries the death penalty.
To be carried out by The People.
In a Deaf Camp.
Obviously.
Speaking of Deaf Camps, I just got our gas bill.
Up 13%.
But 11% is usage and only 2% is rate.
bespoke says:
July 10, 2022 at 9:10 am
There’s only one thing worse than feeding birds…..
Being a MAFS fan girl?
The Great Tit and the Brown Booby abound on MAFS.
Hornithogical pursuits. Best enjoyed with a Woodstocks.
Anyone who has learnt the nitrogen cycle understands that trying to disrupt it is insanity.
It isn’t misanthropic, it is antibiotic.
Give it a bit. Retailers are likely still operating on old contracts and hedges.
Bern
I got a load of WA truffles from someone in Sydney at $1.50 per gram. It was shipped down here wrapped in ice. Let me know if you want the name. She’s a nice gal.
Try truffles on top of filled pastas with burnt butter and sage. FMD it’s a great taste.
Also, scrambled eggs and bacon.
Yes, you’ve got to back out the tax component. Mine usually rises a few percent without any change in use.
It’s the Woodstock+can people!
Have a look at the size of the crowd – and Hiden Biden got 80 Million Votes?
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/09/president-trump-maga-rally-in-alaska-to-defeat-senator-lisa-murkowski-livestream-4pm-local-8pm-et/
Everything is better with Woodstocks. It’s like MSG for life.
Cassie via Michael Smith, good twitter thread here. President resigned, parts of the Cabinet and all in hiding. Crowd seems chilled to what I was expecting though:
https://twitter.com/Dailymirror_SL
Our cricketers are still there so obviously it is only members of the Government and Executive under any threat.
Good luck with that.
Yes, I am expecting the price rise letter to drop any day.
So how will it end in Ceylon? The Pres has absconded, probably with heaps of stolen money hidden away somewhere. The country has almost zero cash, almost no fuel or food. Even if the farmers get growing again without fertiliser and machinery their output will be small. Can a government be constituted and take control? Even if it can what can it do? I can see another “Live Aid” sort of thing happening for all its uselessness.
It seems The People are getting more traction in Ceylon than here.
The President has no standing.
We the people … usually get a better hearing when out rioting in the streets.
But not in Washington it seems.
Reports out of Colombo that The People’s uprising is being led by Ricardo Bosiwangasinghe.
Democrats gleeful at the harassment of Supreme Court justice Kavanaugh
So let’s cut to the chase:
thebradfordfile
@thebradfordfile
Let’s be honest. This White House wants some lunatic to kill a supreme court justice.
THE MORTON’S BACKLASH
I expressed admiration for Morton’s statement condemning the harassment of Justice Kavanaugh at the steakhouse chain’s downtown D.C. restaurant on Wednesday evening. Politico Playbook had sought and published Morton’s statement (quoted in the linked post) in its account of the events. Morton’s must of course be punished for speaking up on behalf of its customers (and its business).
I observed that the Playbookers seemed to think the whole thing was a big joke. A laughing matter. Something to have a little fun with.
Politico’s hilarity continues with the Playbook update this morning (links and bolding omitted):
These people and their supporters — you know who I mean — are sick.
They’ll elect another socialist government and try again.
Why is the 251s choir WHITE? .. LOL!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1545712108410753025
President Trump MAGA Rally in Alaska to Defeat Senator Lisa Murkowski, Livestream 4pm Local, 8pm ET
Roger, they’ve run out of money, the socialist game can’t be played for a long time, unless we foolish westerners bail them out.
Apparently getting elderly women to hand over life savings is standard operating procedure.
Leaving nqr son to look after poor old bankrupt mum?
quick google leads to the Moonie connection.
Charlie Kirk: Bills Gates, Like The CCP, Buying North Dakota Farmland To Control Food Supply
“Did you know that the Chinese [CCP] owns 100 million acres of farmland?”
Chrysler Charger Plasmamortar.
Noice, I used to work with a bloke who did FIFO from NZ and did them up for a hobby in his down time. He was scathing about Australian regs as he could make all sorts of road legal modifications in NZ for a fraction of the cost of what it would cost here. Reckoned we pay way too much for Rego as well.
You know it’s true.
Winston 3.26
According to the Newsweek link, the Netherlands is, after the US, the world’s largest agricultural exporter.
Some coincidence, then, that the Dutch government is first in line to implement EU dictates to throttle food supply.
It’s not called the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka for nothing.
sweden birthrate update: may data
updating the data and generating some testable hypotheses
spicy takes on global energy and geopolitics
getting serious about the deeply unserious ESG policies that made this mess
Frontier Services Group will kindly provide their overseas security experts to help out courtesy of Premier Xi.
“So how will it end in Ceylon?”
this time it will be different
Reports: Shops Launch Sales and Promos Across China to Celebrate Abe Shinzo Killing
Retired three-star Army general is suspended from mentoring job for mocking Jill Biden tweet slamming end of Roe v. Wade by replying: ‘Glad to see you finally know what a woman is’
This whole N use issue is farcical.
People, like the boy child in Canada, would have you believe farmers are spreading the stuff “ad libitum” on crops in greedy anticipation of ever greater profits.
The truth is of course just the opposite.
There is a law of diminishing returns wrt any nutrient use and N is the one most affected by that law. Best case scenario in my area used to be 5/1 return on judicious N application.
Proper use of N, which one has to do because it’s bloody expensive, helps build better crops and subsequent biomass which is returned to the ground in modern farming systems, slowly building soil organic carbon levels over the years.
Forcefully reducing N use will not have the effect they think it will. On a nationwide scale soil carbon levels will start decreasing.
Why?
Because over time the soil OC will be mineralised to supply the crops with N.
It’s a very complex issue with a lot of variables so no doubt the boy child and his ilk will screw it up.
Or maybe not…
… the ultimate goal here is for a lot less people on the planet and manufacturing a way to reduce food supply is certainly a good way of achieving that.
The Sri Lankans are getting a feel of Belt and Road financing. Victoriastanis next.
U.S. media repeats Chinese propaganda about assassinated ex-Japanese leader
WEF is just paving the way for the century of chinese rejuvenation and the herding of the architects of a century of humiliation to the “re-education” camps
Ed,
What’s your take on it all?
The IMF bailout is already in the works and at the end of June the USAID) funded “Program for a Democratic, Prosperous Sri Lanka with the Ability to Survive Amidst Disasters” was announced. Credit lines from ME countries for fuel supplies are being extended.
Normal service will soon be resumed.
Precious few ‘dispatches’ from the A1 crew in recent times. Perhaps the donation tin, aka the Bosi Family Superannuation Fund is full. However, a cursory glance at the site reveals a descent into the usual, including (but not limited to):
I recall a TV series once called Ripping Yarns. It was a cracker.
Tucker Carlson pointed that out this week — that the US media was happy to parrot Chinese Communist Party propaganda on Japan. It’s almost as if the US media and the CCP share a common ideology.
I mentioned a few days ago the good interview with Erik Prince. He mentioned FSG activity in Africa but missed out one important point.
He was founder and Deputy Chairman. Very interesting considering his former very close ties to three letter agencies. Wiki for more.
“Effective April 13, 2021, Erik Prince resigned from his positions as executive director and deputy chairman of the company.”
I do hope some journalist does an investigation of Little Miss Scowler’s charity in a year or two. Methinks it will make for interesting reading.
Wishful thinking .. the media does not do “in depth” investigating of “maaates” .. LOL!
Charity status bestowed by Labor, for services rendered.
Tame is the latest meja anti-hero
At around the same time, the leader had boarded a naval craft at the Colombo port and was taken to the island’s southern waters, where he let it be known he was finally bowing to months of calls for his resignation.”
And elsewhere in the joint cricket test matches are being played without any problems .. weird! .. LOL!
FMD. Outsiders just played a clip of Elbow promising to change the weather with “action” on climate change.
Ideology slaves like Elbow are the dumbest people ever born.
Here, again, it is important to note the difference between volume production and high-value production. The Netherlands is a tiny country; its presence on the list is due to the high value of flowers and live plants (the Netherlands supplies nearly half of the global total) and vegetables (the Netherlands is a leading supplier of tomatoes and chilies)
… the ultimate goal here is for a lot less people on the planet and manufacturing a way to reduce food supply is certainly a good way of achieving that.
And some think it is mere widespread incompetence.
Remember: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
Roger, they’ve run out of money, the socialist game can’t be played for a long time, unless we foolish westerners bail them out.
Well noted for their generosity towards those less fortunate than them the Oz cricket team will, no doubt, be donating their Sri Lanka match earnings ( minus sandpaper costs) into a relief fund for struggling Sri Lankan folk .. (sarc)
Apparently, 4chan have now hacked Hunter Biden’s phone.
Let’s see how it correlates with his laptop.
Reading that to and fro between Hunter and Jill Biden one can’t help but note how Hunter is at pains to point out how thick she is, among other things. Coupled with Joe’s need to continually praise his smarts it starts to look like he has a bad case of little big man syndrome with respect to his intellect.
miltonfsays:
July 10, 2022 at 8:44 am
‘Dr’ Jill really looks like a low life tramp. Filth is an understatement.
This skank and barry are the brains behind biden’s empty skull.
Pigeons around apartment blocks are an absolute menace.
My sister’s apartment block became infested with bird lice because pigeons decided its nooks and crannies were ideal roosting and nesting spots – and nobody was feeding them. The whole building had to be fumigated, and those wire spikes that stop them from landing installed everywhere.
They are not called flying rats for nothing.
Say what you like about the Liars, they look after their maaaates.
This!
Look out, Otto Scholz is on the skids, date rape drugs/girls/party.
At least he isn’t going out like Abe?
A judge in Uruguay made an unprecedented move issuing an injunction to suspend the administration of the COVID-19 vaccines temporarily in children. Judge Alejandra Recarey seeks to inquire into the safety and quality of the vaccines for children including whether there are any so-called nanoparticle elements in the products. Now the judicial branch of this South American nation has put both the Ministry of Public Health, the State Health Services Administration, and the Presidency itself on notice—all centers of executive branch power must submit all documents associated with the COVID-19 vaccines within a 48-hour period. A hearing was planned for Wednesday. The Uruguay media emphasized the meeting was mandatory for the named parties. On the agenda of the court are the potential liabilities for adverse effects associated with the COVID-19 vaccines in the context of government procurement agreements. Moreover, the court will probe for vaccine ingredients or elements not heretofore disclosed, including graphene oxide or nanotechnological elements.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/uruguay-judge-suspends-all-covid-19-vaccinations-for-children-under-13-to-probe-for-risks-quality-issues-bb16e40c
Very proud of my wife today. She went to church wearing a jacket but left without it.
Sitting next to a very old lady who was shaking due to the cold so gave lady her own.
Lucky it was an old one.
bespoke, unfortunately it is coordinated incompetence. We know they all get together and sign on to the same agenda. They are either like criminals (or are criminals) who can’t see beyond the moment, or they understand the consequences of their actions and are evil.
Fits in well with the Gospel reading at Mass today: Luke 10:25-37
Mark Steyn on the movie Zulu – interesting. It couldn’t be made today of course.
Reports out of Colombo that The People’s uprising is being led by Ricardo Bosiwangasinghe
That magnificent bastard.
He finally found a place where he had standing above all others.
Biden did this on purpose to America: Missouri AG
The farmers in the extended Panzer tribe operate this way.
Always tweaking fertiliser and chemicals to optimise usage vs return.
132andBush at 10:08 – soil is very complex. One part of my garden, very heavily mulched with lots of worms, is virtually waterlogged over winter despite basically being Perth sand. Another part just swallows compost and six months later is back to sand. The old man was a big fan of lupins when he was farming. Not sure what their economics were like.
the WEF is trying to engineer a smooth handover to the CCP, so the billionaire class can maintain their lifestyles
They don’t think they have the same agenda just playing the same game with the rest of us being pawns is how I see it Eyrie.
At the of day it matters not, only how people push back against it.
Don’t have a link, but Michael Caine declared he would never make another film in South Africa, as long as the apartheid regime was in place.
Clearly Steyn’s been reading the Wolfman critiques.
One of the cats posted up Chris Kenny’s article in the weekend Oz on peak stupid.. I would like to copy this and send it to a mate O/S but can’t find it among the many postings. Can someone please point me to it or post another copy? Would be ever so grateful.
Wow, mind blown.
Peter Gray on unschooling is pretty good.
Smash the state, etc.
Sri Lanka: PM resigns amid unfolding catastrophe
Global politics is in free-fall, but no government is falling faster than that of Sri Lanka.
Breaking news this morning as Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe agrees to the demands of protesters and has announced that he will step down once the parties have decided on how to form a new government.
The news came after he summoned an emergency meeting with Parliament recalled.
In the meantime, the Parliamentary Speaker will take over the leadership role and assist with the formation of an interim government in the hopes that the catastrophic political situation in the country can be overcome.
At the time of writing, a spokesperson for the Prime Minister admitted that they had no information on the whereabouts of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He fled shortly before the Presidential residence in Colombo was swarmed by a furious human tide. Other prominent government locations were also overrun by protesters, including Old Parliament House.
As far as anyone knows, VIP vehicles were seen speeding in the direction of the airport while the President’s luggage was loaded onto a waiting Naval vessel moored in Colombo Port. It appears that he has gone into hiding following hundreds of thousands of protesters across the country turning against the Presidency.
After months of serious unrest, unbridled chaos took over as streets full of protesters descended on the Presidential residence, tearing down barriers and overwhelming security forces who – after firing above the crowd – abandoned their positions. They watched as the fortified building was quickly breached and ransacked.
Several protesters were injured, some critically. Protesters in their hundreds were caught on film rummaging through the President’s bedroom, offices, and even swimming in the pool. It was a moment of indulgence in luxury after so many have endured months of poverty.
Previously, widespread curfews had resulted in similar mass protests where police shot at crowds while using tear gas and water canons. With near-constant media blackouts, the extent of these protests has been difficult to gauge, but more than once the government appeared to be on the verge of losing control.
As footage went viral on social media of the overrun palace, an air of celebration surfaced.
‘The siege is over. Your bastion has fallen. Aragalaya and peoples power has won. Please have dignity to resign now!’ Tweeted Sanath Jayasuriya, former Sri Lankan cricketer.
One protester said:
‘We have seen very little change from the government – very little real action. The call today is unanimous. We, the people of Sri Lanka, have no choice to make this call, to be here on the road today. What we have experienced is unprecedented. No one in our lifetime, our parents’ lifetime, or even our grandparents’ lifetime has seen a crisis like this with so little effort from those in power to make real change. So we, as people, are claiming back our power.’
This is the worst economic crisis for Sri Lanka since its independence in 1948. It has been reported that three in every ten households are experiencing critical food shortages, although this figure is expected to keep rising. Sri Lanka is a nation dealing with widespread food insecurity, fuel shortages, media silence, and lengthy blackouts.
Children have been locked out of schools with the country unable to afford basics like paper, let alone fuel. Thousands of residents were seen queuing for petrol in recent days only to be turned away. The World Bank estimates that half a million people have suddenly fallen below the poverty line.
While the United Nations bemoans the reality that this will stop Sri Lanka reaching its ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ – it is the climate policy encouraged by the UN that acted as the first domino to disaster.
Since May, Sri Lanka has been surviving on aid handouts from India with regional leaders trying to determine if a bailout deal with the International Monetary Fund would be possible.
Sri Lanka has $51 billion in foreign debt and, flirting with bankruptcy, has suspended repayments on foreign loans. At least $7 billion of this is owed to China in Belt and Road projects – a situation that makes observers nervous after Sri Lanka already ceded control of the Chinese-built Hambantota Port in a widely publicised debt-trap situation.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made campaign promises during the 2019 election that he would ‘go green’ by forcing farmers to transition into ‘organic’ agriculture. This meant the imposition of a nationwide ban on synthetic fertilisers and pesticides that – almost immediately – resulted in a ruinous 20 per cent cut to rice production in six months. Other industries, such as tea production, all suffered similar fates.
Sri Lanka had a famous fertiliser subsidy program, described as:
‘The fertiliser subsidy program is one of the longest-lasting, most expensive, and most politically sensitive policies implemented to promote rice cultivation in Sri Lanka. It was initiated in 1962 (that is, at the onset of the Green Revolution) with the main objective of encouraging farmers to switch from traditional rice varieties to high-yielding varieties (HYVs) that are highly responsive to chemical fertilisers. Since then, however, the provision of the subsidy has become customary, and successive governments have been under tremendous pressure to continue the subsidy despite budgetary constraints.’
It may have been controversial, but its importance to continued food security is now undeniable.
Previously, Sri Lanka’s food production had been the envy of Asia, with the country a mass producer. With an immediate food shortage, it was forced to turn around and attempt to import rice with money it didn’t have because their exports in tea, rubber, and coconut production had been decimated for the same reason. When the government backtracked on policy and tried to hastily buy fertiliser and pesticides to recover the problem, they found a global shortage caused by the war in Ukraine.
The damage to Sri Lanka from idiotic green policy out of the UN went from a month-long crisis to a complete domestic collapse.
With its export market destroyed and treasury empty from trying to buy food, the currency toppled and inflation became unmanageable. Like Western governments that ruined private businesses through Covid policies, the Sri Lankan government started throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at farmers in compensation in the hope that they could recover the situation. As usual, government appears to have no idea how agricultural systems work. Food production cannot simply be ‘reset’ when civilisation is in a shambles.
Perhaps Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe may regret his article in the World Economic Forum in 2018 proclaiming that ‘this is how I will make my country rich by 2025’. The way things are going, Sri Lanka will be lucky if it makes it to 2025 with a functioning democracy.
Changing the government will quiet public outrage – for a while. But revolutions only work if the underlying problem is solved. Once broken, there is no easy fix for an economy.
Given the severity of people’s situation, hunger and desperation is unlikely to give the new government much time to find a solution before the next round of protests begin.
The Spectator
Mem – article for you:
Have we finally hit peak stupid on climate and Covid?
Chris Kenny
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.
Can I just say that calling certain, unpleasant public figures a ‘princess’ or ‘little miss’ this-that-or-the other may be a form of reproducing whatever PR machinations are at play regarding those same public figures because, really, all such honorifics manage to belie the reality that the persons in question are rude, ignorant and, really, ‘most unattractive individuals’ – said with a Slavic accent.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/07/09/president-trump-maga-rally-in-alaska-to-defeat-senator-lisa-murkowski-livestream-4pm-local-8pm-et/
What a Crowd they are outside the Stadium where the Rally is taking place in the picture down the bottom- they just scanned around the inside of the Inside Stadium – Packed
Top comment:
Top Endersays:
July 10, 2022 at 11:29 am
Mem – article for you:
Have we finally hit peak stupid on climate and Covid?
Many thanks top ender. You are a champ!
BLM, meme.
God help us there are some stubborn bastards determined to stay ignorant.
Or determined to keep others that way.
We have Klaus telling us quite clearly they have “penetrated ze cabinets” etc, and all the absolute following globally of a centralised “Build back Better”agenda not at all being hidden, and still we have rabbits here with their fingers in their ears “la la” ing all over the place.
As I said……it’s now beyond blaming their lack of character or smarts, to now questioning their motives.
We need someone to lead the way.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxp6OG8izQg
Struth says:
July 10, 2022 at 11:49 am
God help us there are some stubborn bastards determined to stay ignorant.
Or determined to keep others that way.
Ignorance is bliss!
from the photos I have seen, they appear to be facing inward toward Abe, not outward to assess threats. Very bad form.
Is Klaus really such a Bond villain though? In some senses he comes across as a carnival barker and judging by the calibre of his acolytes he doesn’t seem to be recruiting from the top of the barrel. His aims still appear malignant however, regardless of the underlying reality.
Will all the henchmen of Klaus Gates please step forward.
Extract from this week’s Specie leading article-
Is this what happens when governments get infiltrated by globalist activist politicians who have supped at the feet of Klaus Schwab in Davos? If that sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory, you’d be right. But alas, that is the claim of Mr Schwab himself back in 2017 when he boasted in an interview of how many world leaders today are graduates of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program, and went on to claim how proud he was to have successfully ‘penetrated the cabinets’ of governments around the world, including claiming that ‘more than half’ of the Canadian cabinet were WEF acolytes.
The evil old grub should be a sick joke but he is actually very dangerous. I know Hunt and Bragg are WEF girls. Maybe Hockey? Would love to get a complete list.
Will all the henchmen of Klaus Gates please step forward.
The bicycle is the slow death of the planet. A banker made the economists think this when he said:
“A cyclist is a disaster for the country’s economy: he doesn’t buy cars and doesn’t borrow money to buy. He don’t pay insurance policies. Don’t buy fuel, don’t pay to have the car serviced, and no repairs needed. He doesn’t use paid parking. Doesn’t cause any major accidents. No need for multi-lane highways.He is not getting obese.Healthy people are not necessary or useful to the economy. They are not buying the medicine. They dont go to hospitals or doctors.They add nothing to the country’s GDP”.
As convenor of the annual Davos summit, Schwab guarantees Big Business compliance with Big Government’s plan to take over the world on behalf of the global neo-communist movement, which includes the Chinese Communist Party.
The Western left are his useful idiots.
President Trump from Alaska:
I’m in favour of Guns, God and Oil
We will also keep men out of women’s sports
IMO this rally is one of his best. Sarah Palin was also very good.
Franksays:
July 10, 2022 at 11:56 am
Is Klaus really such a Bond villain though?
If I was Klaus I would’nt employ independent thinking ‘young leaders’. I’d employ bright ‘young leaders’ with good public speaking skills , can be managed and have ambition more than intelligence.
Germany embracing self destruction. Gotta get it done somehow. Klaus will be ecstatic;
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/whats-unfolding-europe-recent-days-fresh-big-negative-supply-shock
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/social-peace-great-danger-germany-quietly-shutting-down-energy-crunch-paralyzes-economy
Tomsays:
July 10, 2022 at 12:08 pm
Is Klaus really such a Bond villain though? In some senses he comes across as a carnival barker and judging by the calibre of his acolytes he doesn’t seem to be recruiting from the top of the barrel.
As convenor of the annual Davos summit, Schwab guarantees Big Business compliance with Big Government’s plan to take over the world on behalf of the global neo-communist movement, which includes the Chinese Communist Party.
The Western left are his useful idiots.
In the interests of honesty in [mis-]government, we should refer to the Chinese Communist Party as the Chinese Fascist Party, with the WEF as its obedient pseudo-industrial wing.
Over on Michael Smith. Grace Tame displays all the style and grace of a farting contest.
True.
Did a 10 year old rape victim from Ohio get denied an abortion?
The entire story is confected, much like the original Roe case where the lawyers and the assorted people pulling the strings lied about her being raped.
Testing.
This is the same organisation which has the responsibility to investigate adverse events from the drugs they approve.
Corruption has been institutionalised in Australia.
As a number of us were alluding to at the time.
Monty owes people an apology.
Yes indeed.
I thought the problem was NO, not N. And ammonia. Not so much from crops but intensive animal farming.
On starving people to reduce populations…surely the best way to lower birth rates is to increase wealth and standard of living? This has been a proven tactic in the West (leaving out the grim reality of abortion). Well off people generally have fewer children.
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Well off people generally have fewer children.
All other things being equal, no, they have the number they can afford.
How many Doctors and Dentists stop at 2 children?
Not many.
A magnificant storyteller, with most of his speech ad lib.
He covered so many topics so well today.
Did people notice that while the Netherlands is the world’s second largest exporter of agricultural produce, that is by value, not quantity.
The world is not going to starve to death because they have been deprived of cut tulips and potted hyacinths.
Not in any way endorsing the move by the Dutch government.
LOL. Your wrongology is so reliable, Head Case. It’s Montyesque.
On starving people to reduce populations…surely the best way to lower birth rates is to increase wealth and standard of living?
Here’s the reality:
The World Bank only loans to Third World Countries to grow crops for export.
If they gave out Loans for growing food for the domestic market, famines would be rare.
In this sad attempt at smart arsery we see the truly lost make even bigger dildos of themselves than you could have thought possible.
The pure ignorance is staggering.
Gross!
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Sky News host Rita Panahi says New Zealand is implementing a “radical” set of policies that are “fundamentally changing the country”.
Calli is absolutely correct that wealth is the greatest contraceptive.
AnAl says: “hold my beer”
How many times have people here been accused of being paid agents of Soros.
What, never?
Calli is absolutely correct that wealth is the greatest contraceptive.
What are you talking about?
Japan, 1990s:
Economy nosedived, didn’t recover, birthrate followed suit.
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Imagine for a second what governments or organizations would benefit from having available the personal information of 1 billion Chinese.
President Trump speech today included the use of BS (full word) more than once. He also said the f word in a quote which almost brought the house down with cheers and laughs.
I think this Sri Lanka uprising for the moment is fairly well localised to the government and their minions.
Columbo Airport still accepting and dispatching flights. Plenty of shipping off main ports. International Cricket still being played. Where it does become interesting seeings now the PM has resigned and the speaker taking over is when the protester’s go home. Also if they are disappointed with the new Government also is another known unknown.
So far the Armed forces and police have walked a tightrope well. Not too many casualties and they have yeilded to the crowd when it could have became ugly. Army Commander has been in India as well, arrived back last night our time. This has been building for a while and it is where Albo could be increasing our street cred in this neck of the woods. Instead of gavanting around battlefields that have nothing to do with Australia. Guess New Delhi isn’t inviting as Paris.
Interesting footnote my research has revealed Sri Lanka has been relatively untouched by Military overthrows of governments unlike some of it’s neighbours. They generally sort things out among themselves, if you leave the Tamil War out of it anyway.
Ed Casesays:
July 10, 2022 at 1:05 pm
Calli is absolutely correct that wealth is the greatest contraceptive.
What are you talking about?
Japan, 1990s:
Economy nosedived, didn’t recover, birthrate followed suit.
Do tell us more, Dickless. Most of us might have missed Japan’s plunge to impoverished Third World status since 1990.
Spot of spacechooking for Cats with an interest in matters military. Don Tate’s book “Crucible – The Australians in Action In Vietnam” is a collection of events taken from the Narratives, Unit histories, Press reports involving the Australian forces in Vietnam 1964 – 1972. He’s fairly scathing about the command performance at the Battle of Long Tan, and the standard of the high command overall, but it makes interesting reading.
Public anger over economic crisis: Sri Lankan PM’s private house set on fire | World News | WION
Monty owes people an apology.
If the fat turd had any honour he would be fighting in the Ukraine.
12:56 pm
magnificent
Japan…..last I read was that Japan was the only country with a negative population number…
You know, if you both went over and each joined the other side, one of you could legally kill the other. I think you should both go there.
Re Trump , Alaska rally…..at the nd of the rally did anyone else notice the song being blasted out?…’Hold on I’m Coming’…was playing.
Calli,
Yes, you would think so and that’s what the data show.
However we are dealing with people whose core ideology is the one where humans are considered a virus on mother earth.
I’ll try and dissect their arguments when I have more time (and my new pooter which is hopefully ready tomorrow).
Back in April. Using DEBT to force Climate Change policies down the throats of nations. BTW, Australia’s foreign debt now just shy of $1 Trillion. Not a bad lever for those willing and able to use it;
And to get IMF handouts, Sri Lanka needs a debt restructure deal built around climate change conditions……
Japan is actually number 9 in the list of countries with declining populations.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/to-avoid-bankruptcy-sri-lanka-might-need-to-get-tougher-on-climate-change
We need someone to lead the way. I know of someone, ……………. wonder what this detour is for?
dover0beachsays:
July 10, 2022 at 12:33 pm
Did a 10 year old rape victim from Ohio get denied an abortion?
The entire story is confected, much like the original Roe case where the lawyers and the assorted people pulling the strings lied about her being raped.
It’s not absolute proof that the story is false. Doctors in Ohio hadn’t needed to worry about abortion laws for close to 50 years because of Roe v Wade, and it’s possible that the doctor believed wrongly that there was a hard date 6 week rule. Unlikely, given the screaming media coverage of abortion laws in the weeks leading up to the Dobbs decision being published, and the attention that a doctor in Ohio who performed abortions would be expected to give to the issue, but possible.
But it’s yet another layer of improbability on top of all the ones that have already been discussed on this thread.
Of course m0nty hasn’t even tried to answer any single one of those evidentiary matters, so presumably won’t address this either.
And in any case it does somewhat undercut the chattering classes’ pants-wetting hysteria about “OMG 6 weeks and 3 days” that m0nty’s been going along with.
You know, if you both went over and each joined the other side, one of you could legally kill the other. I think you should both go there.
A really dumb idea. Anyway, you broke bread with him; you could have poisoned him and blamed the cooking.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has just declared the “Unlock” Boxes, or Ballot “Stuffing” Boxes, to be ILLEGAL. Everybody knows what went on with the $417,000,000 that little Mark Zuckerberg “INVESTED” in the corrupt 2020 Presidential Election, and that doesn’t even include the big Wisconsin Nursing Home Scandal where close to 100% of the residents voted (always is MUCH lower number). It’s now up to Robin Vos to do what everybody knows must be done. We need FAIR and HONEST Elections in our Country.
Other States are looking at, and studying, the amazing Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring Ballot Boxes ILLEGAL, and that decision includes the 2020 Presidential Election. Speaker Robin Vos has a decision to make! Does Wisconsin RECLAIM the Electors, turn over the Election to the actual winner (by a lot!), or sit back and do nothing as our Country continues to go to HELL? Brave American Patriots already have a Resolution on the Floor!
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Highly respected former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who has headed a major investigation into Voter Fraud, has strongly suggested that State Legislatures seek to decertify the Election results. The victory for Republicans was, without doubt, substantial, as opposed to the very close result that was reported, with Biden eking it out. Other States are finding likewise, and some want to correct the situation. With corrupt Elections and Open Borders, we don’t have a Country.
“In the opinion issued Friday, Justice Bradley compared Wisconsin’s elections to contests rigged by dictators in Syria and North Korea and questioned whether past elections in the state had been legitimate. “Thousands of votes have been cast via this unlawful method, thereby directly harming the Wisconsin voters, she wrote. “The illegality of these dropboxes weakens the people’s faith that the election produced an outcome reflective of their will.
The Wisconsin voters, and all lawful voters, are injured when the institution charged with administering Wisconsin elections does not follow the law, leaving the results in question.” I hope other States that have been likewise corrupted, are studying the Wisconsin decision. RINOs beware, America is watching!
Groogs still auditioning for a Visiting Professor position at the Van Wrongselen School of Wrongology I see.
America tip toes closer to a crisis….
Hackers have got into Hunters iCloud account
Jack Posobiec
4chan has apparently cracked Hunter Biden’s iPhone backup password and are now leaking everything
Here’s a true duck feeding story…
Many years ago when Dad retired, he took Mum on the obligatory world tour. They spent about a year in the UK, Dad bought a car when they arrived so they travelled all over the country staying at B&Bs along the way. On one expedition along the east coast of England they stayed overnight at a country pub which had been converted into a B&B in a small village in Norfolk.
In the morning their host said that he’s getting their breakfast ready so Dad took some slices of bread and walked down to the small lake at the rear of the B&B to feed some ducks he saw there. While he was there, a farmer driving his tractor, pulled up for a chat. He was interested that Dad was from Australia and he wanted to know about ducks and water fowl in Australia.
They were having a good chat when the B&B host called Dad back for breakfast. When Dad & Mum were having their breakfast, the host said that he saw Dad chatting with the farmer, and he asked Dad if he knew who he was? Dad said that he introduced himself as Farmer Giles and that he was apparently very knowledgable about ducks and waterfowl.
The host pulled an old local newspaper from the top of a dresser and gave it to Dad to read, it was an article about this Farmer Giles. He was, according to this newspaper article, the illegitimate son of George VI who lived on the Sandringham Estate which bordered the village and the lake. He, the Queen’s half brother, was given charge of wildlife on the estate.
You never know who you might bump into if you go and feed the ducks.
And in any case it does somewhat undercut the chattering classes’ pants-wetting hysteria about “OMG 6 weeks and 3 days” that m0nty’s been going along with.
Are you completely stupid?
A ten year old goes to the Doctor for a pregnancy check, how likely is it that she doesn’t know the date that conception happened?
Or are you saying that the Doctor didn’t know the day’s date when the consultation occurred?
Prof van Wrongselen presently meeting with lawyers to determine whether Channel 10 can require him to appear in drag and have Peter Heliyer call him “Lisa” in the hope viewers won’t notice.
Nice story old bloke
ZH has a Hunter thread thread up and commenters are posting from the 4chan leaks.
Here’s one. LOL , what a wanker!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-selling-oil-reserve-hunter-biden-tied-chinese-firm-impeachable-republicans
If you Google “wealth and fertility decline” you’ll find any number of articles about the phenomenon.
Cherry picking a couple of “wealthy” professions as a subset within a comparatively wealthy environment is useless as a measure of a population trend. You could also pick plumbers or computer wizzkids and come up with…something.
There is also a wealth/education nexus, particularly when the female is more highly educated than her peers.
On Japan’s plummeting birth rate, I’d be interested in ideas as to why this is happening. Is it a reaction to the post war rebuild and authoritarianism and a growing hedonism in younger generations? Delayed adulthood? The highly urban nature of Japanese society? They’re all features of western society, and the Japanese never seems to do anything by halves.
I think this is the most disturbing one so far.
New Zealanders ‘seeing through’ Jacinda Ardern’s ‘performative caring’
What was that you said Benny? “Thanks for the ALDI bag”. I thought thats what you said.
….. kiss our commo arses if they want better relations.
Now let’s see how Albo, Wong and Marles respond in coming months. My bet is we’ll see a lot of conciliatory leaks and commentary leaked from Canbra to our marxist media, lots of fluff pieces about the positive Chinese immigrant contribution to Aussie life yadda yadda..
ALPBC will be getting the strategy memos already.
I look forward to watching the Trump Rally in Alaska. Gives one heart. This discussion
is an hour well spent also
Douglas Murray and Peter Boghossian – Full conversation on Woke ideology.
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Cherry picking a couple of “wealthy” professions as a subset within a comparatively wealthy environment is useless as a measure of a population trend.
Dentists and Doctors make the big bucks, can reasonably expect to continue making the big bucks and have the most kids, it ain’t Rocket Science.
You could also pick plumbers or computer wizzkids and come up with…something.
Yeah, like their future prospects are uncertain, their wife works, and they’re not real likely to have the 6 kids that the Doctors do.
This has been discussed before. Women who go through higher education or have high powered careers have the lowest birth rates, many completely miss their fertility window and have no children.
The idea of male female equality is a civilisational ending trend.
Been belatedly watching House Of Cards (USA) and got to the eleventy hundred episode when all of a sudden watching eleventy hundred & one the recent president had died.
WTF? Had I gone to sleep before the previous episode finished? Went back and checked – nope.
Then it twigged – Kevin Spacey had been excoriated from the series because of supposed penchant for little boys botties.
I missed his portrayal of the scheming machiavellian politician. Subsequent episodes have become boring. Maybe should have watched the original UK version.
Yes it has. Many times.
Getting back to my initial comment, if you want populations to decrease, why starve them? Simply educate the females.
On Japan’s plummeting birth rate, I’d be interested in ideas as to why this is happening.
I’ve already told you, the Japanese Economy crashed in the 1990s and their Birth Rate took a dive too.
Abe tried to get it going again by working constructively with Russia, that’s down the drain now too.
I read somewhere that, increasingly, young Japanese men don’t have steady jobs. 40% rely on casual or part-time work with no benefits and relatively poor salaries, so they don’t feel they can marry or father children. We see the same phenomenon in Western countries.
Yes. Yes you have Ed.
I remain unimpeachably, without-a-doubt, indefensibly, assuredly, positively, absolutely, incontrovertibly, indisputably, undeniably, beyond doubt and by-all-odds* “told”.
* thank you Google
Women who go through higher education or have high powered careers have the lowest birth rates, many completely miss their fertility window and have no children.
Sure, what choice do they have when the Economy has been hollowed out.
Reinstate Tariffs, the Economy will slowly improve over a Generation, so will the birthrate.
You’re not thinking straight as usual. If I was caught contaminating his food with cyanide or whatever, I’d be up on a murder charge. Whereas if you confronted him in Ukraine and shot him dead, that’s war and you wouldn’t be touched.
When dealing with Groogs a simple “Fuck off” or “fuckwit” will suffice.
Getting back to my initial comment, if you want populations to decrease, why starve them? Simply educate the females.
You’re not talking about First World societies here, are you?
That’s funny, because you’re never shy about calling out Racism.
….. kiss our commo arses if they want better relations.
More like Albo kissed French arse and are moving on to try some Chinese. So far CCP appears quite happy with their Aus selected Government.
ZK2A:
China’s Foreign Minister said Australia should follow Beijing’s four-point plan for improving the relationship.
The Chinese Foreign Minister can go f*** him/her/xir self.
The UK version of House Of Cards is just as good as the USA one, if not better.
Why do I click on links?
FFS!
Note that Spacey got me tooed (and a marginal one at that) after he played a character that told the public watching the series about Bohemian Grove.
Nixon was right.
with a shared ideology who is surprised
There’s nothing like a looming economic collapse to make the scales fall from your eyes.
What was the nature of the list of demands that Wong presented to Wang Yi one wonders.
Roger says:
Median age
Japan : 48.4 Fertility rate: 1.36 births per woman (2019)
Germany: 45.7 Fertility rate: 1.54 births per woman (2019)
Italy: 47.3 Fertility rate: 1.27 births per woman (2019)
It’s like the Axis Pact is dying out.
If you look at the fertility rates around the world, the advanced countries are dying out if the replacement rate of 2.1 is correct. I’ve never understood though how the replacement rate has remained stationary at 2.1 while longevity has moved steadily higher. Does anyone get that?
Housing affordability is driving demographics more than many people realise.
Dogs.
I’m not sure that affordability would be a problem in Japan. Real estate values have fallen since the late 80s and won’t recover with the state of the population decline.
I expect a few winter gas bills will have a similar result for Gaia concerns.
I was at a friends last night watching All Black play Ireland. I had a crack at st Jacinta during play. The look of shock on the faces of friends was something to behold. I had a supporter in the room and we set about dismantling Jacintas attributes starting with her teeth.
Each pair of humans need to generate another pair + make up for loses along the way to maintain the population. Without modern medicine, you may needs 3-4 offsprings to ensure an average of 2 survive to actually breed. So it has only been stationary in modern history.
One thing I earned in prison was the right to tell my ex wife …
‘the sex was better in prison…’
even if I was in solitary.