https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFG1OuZ-Hs “River dance”, anyone?
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A tune for poor ol’ Pol Dot, engaging as he is, in a bit o’ Kampuchean jungle languishing … 😕
32k crowd at the Test today. WACA held a max of about 18k. I enjoyed watching KL Rahul and the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93IXV6yeEfk La Marseillaise, on the bagpipes..
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/11/albanese-right-at-home-with-terror-leader.html Anthony Albanese slobbering over Yasser Arafat. Words fail me, they honestly do.
Your entire comment puts the lie to that.
I’ll have to read Macroscope again. Piers Anthony’s best SF in my unhumble opinion.
If Neptune’s orbit moves 0.1%, it could destabilize the solar system (21 Jul)
In the novel they plausibly steal the whole planet. A fine tale of space opera, games, the drawbacks of intelligence and the global surveillance state. Sadly I can’t see an electronic copy on sale – mine is a fat paperback.
The Energy Security Board’s proposed capacity mechanism makes clear that it’s design purpose is to bring new dispatchable capacity into the NEM – not to prolong the life of the coal fleet.
In fact the express objective is to hasten coal’s demise:
Translated: more subsidised renewables teamed with batteries = the quicker coal will fuck-up and die.
And the resulting higher electricity prices are a design feature, not a bug:
This is what market failure looks like when it is managed by highly-paid executives with nothing at risk…
Two young fellas from here are signing up…
Context to the latest Pell case
By Monica Doumit -July 22, 2022
I think we need to denounce Neptune for threatening our entire existence.
That would work.
Well.
I was really going to lay it into VicJack Inc just before over putting the screws on alibi witnesses, but I was Internal Server Errored multiple times before the entire thing shut down. No multi links either.
Suffice to say that these clowns fail to realise that no matter how ‘hot’ they think they can make the rapist and killer’s daughter while attempting to get her to recant her evidence, she is in a position to blowtorch VicJack Inc’s ashes into Bass Strait.
It is an embarrassingly transparent attempt, shot through with conflicts of interest (ie, one of the original investigating detectives was leading the charge to get Debs the Younger’s phones off over an $1800 grift) that showed zero self awareness, and zero match awareness.
They deserve everything they get.
Biden Tests Positive: Is It Still A Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated?
President Biden has tweeted a short clip to remind everyone he is “double vaccinated and double boosted” and to tell Americans to “keep the faith”?
As Techno Fog notes via The Reactionary, the whole thing has reached the point of absurdity. As we noted below, Biden said in July 2021 that if you’re vaccinated, “You’re not going to get Covid.”
Spot of spacechooking for literary minded Cats – Peter O’Brien’s new book “Villain or Victim – A Defence of Sir John Kerr and the Reserve Powers” makes interesting reading – it makes a useful counterpoint to the “Gough was robbed” slop that’s appearing these days.
OldOzzie says:
July 22, 2022 at 12:11 pm
Take a Guess at the Ethnicity of the Brawlers
As soon as I read your post, I said the N word plural. I have no problem using that word but don’t want to upset Dover. Having spent a lot of time in the USA I am aware that the blacks use that word to greet each other all the time.
Goes with the zeitgeist of uselessness.
And Neptune is an utter bastard.
But why?
A good take on Chatwins Songlines, pointing to a few deficiencies:
Christine Nicholls
Australian National University, Canberra
A Wild Roguery: Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines Reconsidered
True friends don’t say what you want to hear, but what you need to hear.
We had a cast iron Kosi heater when I was living in Sydney in the 1950’s, they were a very effective heater which burnt coke. They were built into the fireplace and chimney so they were properly ventilated.
True friends are content for their friends to live their lives and accept their decisions.
Manipulative friends judge them and belittle them.
Which one are you?
callisays:
July 22, 2022 at 1:05 pm
I think we need to denounce Neptune for threatening our entire existence.
That would work.
Maybe Joe Biden can make a public demand that Neptune stay in its proper orbit.
After all, that’s worked for US petrol prices hasn’t it?
Hasn’t it?
With electricity being so cheap why don’t they just put the oven on 200 with the oven door open. This should safely heat the whole house! Oh I forgot electricity is only cheap in the minds of left wing pollies.
Thank you Roger (and Dr Faustus) for the capacity mechanism explanations.
Don’t your children listen to any relevant facts you offer them regarding the vaccination of their children?
Hi Charlie!..
Everyone knows about the two warring Lib clans in WA:
https://www.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/cool-your-jets-wa-liberal-mp-calls-on-party-to-stop-public-spats-20220721-p5b3mg.html
But, somehow, I don’t trust the Wets’ desire/motivation for “making the party more democratic.” Sounds like a ruse to me.
Article now up.
Purveyors of renewables certainly seem very cranky about it.
They can kiss Uranus.
DrBeau…do yours? 🙂
But in answer to your question, yes. They listen respectfully, and sometimes agree. If they disagree, then that’s up to them.
This is vaxx specific, but also goes over into other areas. I have learned though that sprouting opinions unsought leads to instant volume control. Downwards.
Clearly you’ve never spent a winter in a Queenslander, mem.
😀
‘Did you talk over the woman?’ Caroline Kennedy chides Hugh Riminton
Old blokesays:
July 22, 2022 at 1:23 pm
OldOzzie says:
July 22, 2022 at 11:50 am
Four more people are rushed to hospital after burning COALS inside their home as the price of electricity soars
We had a cast iron Kosi heater when I was living in Sydney in the 1950’s, they were a very effective heater which burnt coke. They were built into the fireplace and chimney so they were properly ventilate
we had exactly that same heater in 50s in Cremorne as well as external dunny – originally serviced by night dunny man, torn sunday telegraph on hook for toilet paper (Coarser than Sunday Herald), copper wash boiler with 2 tub stone basin in external laundry and wire line propped up by prop purchased from Prop Man, Iceman for ice chest, Horse & Cart with milk tank measured in left out billy-cans, Cremorne Peerless Bakery Horse & Cart, Rabbito, Bottle O, Rag & Bone man
Times have moved on and changed – but great memories from a different lifetime away
Wow. What a deadshit Combet is. But in this he is really only being true to his entire political caste.
There is a non-problem called AGW. Government decides it has a solution. With nothing to solve the solution turns out to be another problem.
What to do? Well, it’s okay! Politicians have another solution. But since the original solution was a problem this new solution is based on that problem being a solution and, being thus misdiagnosed, the new solution will become a problem.
Now, the original non-problem cost us nothing. But each layer of solution adds costs, and at each stage the people who so monumentally mucked it up will be paid – will cost us.
And, finally, when they have spun layer after clunky layer of regulation around nothing, and regulations multiply exponentially like bacteria under a microscope, reporting requirements bloom like algae in the sea, and ministers announce ‘crackdowns’ on ‘cheats’ who are not doing what is ‘fair’ (really just people who don’t understand the Byzantine mess or who take a gamble in a last ditch attempt to save their business and their people’s jobs – but who is so nimble as to be able to sidestep a tsunami of bureaucrats!) finally the government will pat itself on the back, look the people in the eye with the scarcely restrained ebullience of the vindicated, and triumphantly proclaim their ‘market based solution’.
Boambee Johnsays:
July 22, 2022 at 11:44 am
GreyRangasays:
July 22, 2022 at 8:55 am
Rosie a religious upbringing does not confer a life of goodness.
Wasn’t Stalin a trainee priest at one stage?
I read that he was kicked out of the seminary or left of his own volition due to his violent tendencies.
To be fair to him, he does grasp that reliability of supply is crucial to ordinary Australians, including businesses, and that renewables are a long way from being able to provide it, if they ever will.
I’m not sure Chris Bowen understands that.
Actually, I’m convinced he doesn’t.
Openly fascist Republican Senator Josh Hawley literally the laughing stock of the 1/6 Commission. That’s footage of him running away from protestors like a coward, including a slow-mo replay, inducing immediate laughter in the audience.
originally serviced by night dunny man-liked the description
Who can forget the 16 Door Saloon (dunny truck) men with the cap and apron on
Having read the victim impact statements I immediately thought of all the victims of Vicpol over the last two years, and I have no sympathy for the police. All this was over a boy not wearing a mask outside.
Steven John Cleary jailed for brutal assault captured on police body cam
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-22/steven-john-cleary-sentenced-for-attack-on-warrnabool-police/101260268
Have we reached peak stupid?
From the AFL website:
“Learn the origins of one of the AFL’s newest traditions“.
I suppose that in a world where men can get pregnant, the idea that a “tradition” is something old is just ridiculous.
[In case you needed to be told it’s another confected indigenous thing of some sort.]
They were amazing guys. They’d grab the pan and hoist it onto their shoulder, then take off back to the truck at pace. Some sloppage was tolerated for speed sake. I have a huge amount of respect for those guys who serviced our outdoor dunny in 1970.
”Most People Have No Idea What Is Coming” | Jim Rickards
Oh ROFL. Monty you really are a joker when you put your mind to it!
Please continue, we are entertained even more than Rusty entertained us.
Australia is Screwed
Record number of appeals lodged against Woodside’s 50-year gas project extension
Frydenberg has been appointed an adviser to investment bank Goldman Sachs.
I’m not inclined to dismiss “ley” lines as completely bogus, there’s some truth about there existence. For example, a New Zealand commercial pilot named Bruce Cathie used to note where he saw UFOs flying about and marked his sightings on a map. He found that they flew on a grid pattern and he marked that grid on his map and extended it world wide.
Key points on his world wide grid map coincided with ancient sites as diverse as Stonehenge, the Giza pyramids, the Grand Potala at Lhasa, etc., so he concluded that the energy source used by these UFOs came somehow from this grid, that also explained why they were able to execute high speed 90 degree turns without slowing in flight.
He wasn’t the only person studying this phenomena as the US Government was also involved, he found that the US Omega communication bases were all sited on this grid.
I read his first book, Harmonic 33, in the early 1970s when there was discussions about the US building an Omega base in Victoria and I asked him if he knew where it would be. He replied that there were two or three possible locations and gave the longitude/latitude bearings for those locations, one of which was eventually chosen.
It appears that the ancients had some knowledge of these energy grids, it would be good to know more about them.
Interesting if true:
Britain is to send a fleet of nuclear submarines to the Pacific in a decisive move to thwart Chinese aggression in the region.
The dramatic decision could see UK subs based in Australia until 2040, operating within striking distance of China.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, the head of the Armed Forces, will agree the arrangement at a naval conference in Sydney next week. Assigning submarines to patrol the South China Sea will be Britain’s most assertive move yet against Beijing.
According to reports in Australia, Royal Navy submarines would be based at Perth on the country’s western coast and Australian submariners would be incorporated into British crews to improve their skills.
Daily Mail
From Roger’s link at 1:46 pm
Former carbon pricing mastermind Greg Combet backs proposed fix for Australia’s energy crisis
In a nutshell:
Which is what a market usually expects suppliers to do – without being paid to join in;
Also known as load shedding: when there isn’t enough supply because the market has been distorted – you get pay even more extra for your essential services;
The risk of which won’t effect pricing at all. Apparently.
Too cheap to meter…
not sure about this.
I can see the use of song as a tool to remember routes through the landscape.
Pretty important if you’re a hunter gatherer in a dry landscape with scarce resources.
I think I read the Hawkesbury and other sandstone-country aboriginals used a lot of rock art for this purpose. Much like drawing arrows on the ground.
better to pay them to switch off, than pay them for their goods, eh?
Hawley is SUCH a “fascist” that even Bernie Sanders (Mr Antifa himself!) has worked closely with him.
Watch out for the rakes deMunted.
Henceforth he’s Calamari, since that’s what you get when you fry dem squids.
Josh and the giant squid: Frydenberg heads to Goldman Sachs (22 Jul)
Soylent green NOW!
And the press complaining of UK’s belligerence will start in…?
Not sure if anyone at the ABC does irony anymore, but one of the following reports on AM was the severe labour shortage in the resources sector.
WA’s Ag Min has said beef and dairy will become cheaper if FMD reaches our shores.
What?
jesus H christ, tucker is just shooting fish in a barrel with a bazooka
Bruce of Newcastle says:
July 22, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Link to Macroscope
Magnificent perfomance (turn up the vol)!
https://twitter.com/father_rmv/status/1550246484318294019
A recent BBC Horizon doco on the Webb telescope was quite good.
To my surprise and relief, no mention at all of the “controversy” stirred up by the usual crowd attempting to get the telescope re-named.
I was expecting the worst of wokeness when the first three experts to appear were all black, but the director of the whole Webb project is black and Maggie Aderin-Peacock is a prominent British astronomy broadcaster, so it turned to be an excellent show. There are some corners of the BBC still turning out quality.
Can’t imagine an ABC doco would have ignored the “anti-gay” story.
Great, great stock. I thought I’d put it out there. It’s a wonderful stable stock with very devoted customers.
In my never sell bucket.
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She’s known as “Alannah Grogpickle” for a very good reason…
we are going to bottle cow farts and sell them to the whole world!
when a marxist tells you good times are coming, stock up on essentials and emergency supplies! venezuela here we come!
With the added ingredient of FMD! 😛
wot vicki said.
Re :Dr John Campbell
Have been listening to many of his podcasts for well over a year. As Dover says he is probably far more knowledgable that most GP’s in relation to Covid / Vax matters. Certainly compared to my GP whose only interest appeared to be to get the $32 per jab the Govt pays him.
I find him worth listening to because he analyses research from all around the world and presents it in a clear manner. He plays it straight down the middle and is definitely not anti Vax as is himself vaxxed.
Zipster posted the clip earlier about 5-11 year olds. This is based on research out of Singapore where they studied hundreds of thousands of 5-11 year olds. The conclusion was you are 4 X more likely to suffer serious adverse reaction to the Vax than from Covid itself.
I have listened to plenty of overseas Dr’s who advise against vaccinating kids. First started to pick up on it from Israli research mid last year where they were finding 16 X normal rate of myocarditis in young males after Vax. Good luck speaking out as a Dr in Oz.
The problem in Australia is the Government treats the population as though we all have the same risk factors from Covid when this is far from the truth. A young healthy male has a very very remote chance to be seriously sick with Covid compared to an 85 year old with comorbidities.
So whilst you might be happy with your jabs do a bit more research relating to kids as might be your grand kids they try to bring in mandates for.
we want to own nothing and be happy… eating bugs
Was listening to Julie Kelly on Viva Frei and they were talking about the January 6 “insurrection” cases and DOJ and the DC jury make up (DC votes over 90% Democrat). Basically no chance to get a fair trial by jury.
Made me think about a Federal ICAC. Would their court cases be tried in ACT ? Based on recent activities of FBI / DOJ we need to be very careful such an organisation is not biased towards one side of politics.
WA’s Ag Min has said beef and dairy will become cheaper if FMD reaches our shores.
If they weren’t in politics, they’d be stacking shelves, and doing a shit job at it. FMD, oldest stock at the front you idiot!
My information is that Trump offered National Guards well before the 6th but that Pelosi and Bowser refused it. But now we have the Committee To Get Trump (and substantial elements of our own media) going along with today’s narrative that Trump didn’t stop the riot soon enough.
This completely ignores the side story of probable FBI agents provocateurs in the crowd, not just Ray Epps, who is on video trying to rouse people on the day and before, and it appears that journos on Sky have no background in what really happened that day. This includes Adam Creighton who just appeared clueless on Sky, which made him no worse than all today’s Sky anchors.
Steven John Cleary jailed for brutal assault captured on police body cam
Looks like he gave the Vikpol scum a pretty fair flogging.
ban condensed milk now!!!
Openly fascist Republican Senator Josh Hawley
As our resident fascist, m0nty-fa[scist] is probably not the best person to decree that someone whose politics m0nty-fa hates actually has the same political opinions as m0nty-fa himself.
Old Bloke
He found that they flew on a grid pattern and he marked that grid on his map and extended it world wide.
I hope that he used spherical trigonometry, not a Mercator’s map.
Big users, such as manufacturers, can also be paid to pare back demand or switch off entirely when required.
They seem to be under the impression that manufacturer’s use electricity just for fun.
real Rukshan
@therealrukshan
Klaus Schwab’s newly appointed man in Sri Lanka has deployed the military to disband peaceful protesters. Not too dissimilar to actions taken by other authoritarian leaders like Trudeau and Daniel Andrews using their police force to target civilians.
Frydenberg has been appointed an adviser to investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Trough transfer success!
Toddlers have died from the mRNA jab
Pfizer Vaccine Reaction Report Shows 1,223 Deaths in First 90 Days
Damage control incoming. Lessons from the 1976 swine flu vaccine.
Klaus Schwab’s newly appointed man in Sri Lanka has deployed the military to disband peaceful protesters.
Interesting that in a country where it takes ages to get anything done, they were able to deploy a QR code driven app for petrol rationing in short order.
Straight from the WEF subjugation and control App Store?
Pfizer Vaccine Reaction Report Shows 1,223 Deaths in First 90 Days
Damage control incoming. Lessons from the 1976 swine flu vaccine.
What happens when you buy your gear from a vet.
Technically incompetent and morally bankrupt.
I see people appear to continue to misconstrue my comments about an authentic Catholic upbringing.
As for Stalin, apart from the fact that he was Orthodox not Catholic, it appears his entrance to seminary in 1893 after having already declared himself atheist in 1892 may have been motivated by other considerations. I can’t imagine the son of a separated alcoholic shoemaker and a devout but penniless mother had many options about where he might get an education.
In fact reading about the seminary itself it appears that he wasn’t the only student attending who had no great interest in the priesthood, other than as a career option.
rickw says:
July 22, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Steven John Cleary jailed for brutal assault captured on police body cam
Looks like he gave the Vikpol scum a pretty fair flogging.
No more than they gave a 70 year old granny among others.
Once again, taking responsibility for yourself and assisting others turns out to be a better idea than putting faith in the state.
Especially when the state consists of Dickhead Dan and Vikpol.
“…we want to own nothing and be happy… eating bugs…”
Where’s the pod?
I can’t eat bugs, own nothing and be happy without my pod to live in!
Can George Christensen read?
“Unsure if patient was enrolled in clinical trial. Patient administered vaccination, observed for 15 minutes left the clinic then returned one hour later on 02Feb2021, presenting as skin cold, clammy and with chest pain, cardiac arrest event then developed, patient stabilised and transferred for further medical treatment”
Apart from the fact that the report from February is of a person who had a cardiac arrest but did not die, it seems very doubtful it was a two month old, but is more likely an incorrectly imput report from a ‘foreign’ location.
The US only approved vaccines for six months to five year olds in June so where would two month old be getting vaxxed in February.
Truly tragic. I feel for these people.
the grimmest night of my life
“This is the grimmest night of my life,” she said.
Darn! The inquisitor general has left the building.
So looking forward to some witch burning.
Actually that vaers report dates back to February 2021 making it even more unlikely it was a 2 month old.
He said while standing in front of our new wind generator manufacturing plant.
Oh hang on, no he wasn’t. We just BUY THEM FROM FUCKING CHINA you pillock!
here’s the VAERS report.
ok – so what I don’t get – is what exactly in the form of renewballs does Aus have that parts of China don’t ?
Sun – nope
Wind – nope.
Where’s our cost advantage?
Combet is a pillock.
For Bear.
Q: How many lawyer jokes are there?
A: Only three. The rest are true stories.
VoterGA Uncovers Massive Election Fraud in Georgia
The stolen 2020 election data is still hiding in plain sight
Watch: Dems Openly Admit Gun Control Bill Will Confiscate Firearms In ‘Common Use’
Bespoke, I left a reply this morning to your comment.
For rosie.
Daily Mail.
Word for the day:
Kakistocracy: means “government by the worst.” Read particularly liked James Russell Lowell’s definition: “a government… for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools.”
Cheers Dover.
rickw says:
July 22, 2022 at 3:16 pm
Steven John Cleary jailed for brutal assault captured on police body cam
Looks like he gave the Vikpol scum a pretty fair flogging.
No more than they gave a 70 year old granny among others.
The abc is reporting he faces up to 20 years in the slammer. During his arrest he was heard saying he was the king and the wallopers were Roman dogs. The wallopers were arresting a 15 years old boy for not wearing a mask. The boy called Cleary who came to defend him.
Bruce from Newcastle migjt like to try this link.
https://au1lib.org/book/1803723/7b0dee
No. Neither of them take any notice of my opinions or any relevant facts. About anything. We’ve given up on each other.
Steven John Cleary jailed for brutal assault captured on police body cam
Is the footage available?
FTB is suffering from a hangover.
Too much frivolity yesterday.
Michael Smith.
Is there a vid as I’d love to see Vicpol’ers copping a well deserved hiding.
Well, there’s a valuable learning experience for a young and inquiring mind.
I now know that an ‘Abrosexual’ is not just a typo.
Snap, Bern. Great minds think alike.
Smart kids.
One must be careful lunching with chaps who are rarely allowed out of the house.
They use their ticket o leave to it’s full extent.
Sickening!
Five years old is about the right age to discover that there are twisted sickos in the world. As long as their parents can reassure the kids that the twisted sickos are a small if vociferous minority.
I’ve moved from bed, to couch, to bed, to couch.
3 berocca so far & it’s not looking much better.
Frydenberg has been appointed an adviser to investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Anne would have had a field day with this.
Coals to Newcastle.
Interesting.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-20/steven-john-cleary-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-police/101254520
You owe me head prefect.
Gee thanks, Cronkers. Made the evening.
What was that stick thing he was using on the cop? Also what was the yellow crap all over him?
Rightfully, the court ought give him a commendation and jail those idiots for 20 years.
Wow.
You see some taser footage when they drop immediately.
For a 50 year old chap I’m surprised he held up as well as he did.
That guy is an idiot.
Also what was the yellow crap all over him?
That’s the pepper spray.
Ben Fordham said it was too soon for five-year-olds to be taught about gender
They’re not being taught, they’re being indocrinated.
Child abuse.
S,M,L or XL? mutley has claimed the XXL
Also, if she knew they just reported an excellent , excellent quarter too. The stock was up 10% at one stage on the day they reported the bang up result.
Gold Sach is fully owned by the Rothschilds and the Fed. Which reminds me, whatever happened to Ted Bundy?
Dover, did you kill Ted the banana picker? If you did, there are far worse contenders.
Celebrities. Is there anything they don’t know? That was the lament of Homer Simpson although he was referencing rock stars and Lisa’s vegetarianism at the time. Rock stars and celebrities are to an extent interchangeable. They probably sit higher up on the scale than your regular celebrity because unlike actors, Instagram influencers and reality TV contestants, most of them can play musical instruments.
Regardless of vocation, celebrities share a propensity to look out over the great sea of the unwashed, feel immediately disappointed and urge them to change their awful ways.
“Climate change is real”, Kim Kardashian tweeted in January 2020, concluding with a tearful emoji. What better way to depict an existential threat to the planet than with cartoon tears?
This week, Kylie Jenner – one of the Jenner-Kardashian clan who has reached that point in her lives where she is a celebrity purely by Instagram influence and regular appearances of a kind of sort-of reality TV show that portrayed a family battling with relevance and wretched excess – took off on her private jet in a flight that lasted just four minutes. The trip was from Camarillo to Van Nuys, California – 60km in all – and would have been a 40-minute drive by car, an hour on the bus.
Movie mogul Stephen Spielberg, who gave us friendly aliens, haunted houses and man-eating sharks cast in white, middle-class suburbia, has lectured the general population on climate change.
“I’m terrified of it. It’s not a political trick. It’s a true piece of real, measurable, quantifiable science. And people have to come around to believing, we’re going to have a kind of confrontation with destiny unless we do something about it today,” Spielberg said in an interview in 2018.
Spielberg’s use of the first-person plural pronoun, the all in this together, band of brothers and sisters committed to fight the good fight, could easily be exchanged for the second-person plural. He doesn’t mean he has to do something about climate change today. He means the rest of us have to do something about it because today he’s kind of busy, jetting around in private planes, often over incredibly short distances by plane.
This week Spielberg took a 24-minute flight in a private jet burning 772 litres of avgas and dispatching an estimated two tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It was a 130km journey from New Jersey to Long Island, NY that might have sucked up as much as two hours of his valuable time.
Spielberg is not doing something about climate change today because he is a giant, fluming human smoke-stack and we really should be following him around with a broom and a vacuum cleaner.
A tweet bot that measures private jet flights has uncovered the secret movements by air of celebrities and the news is dripping in waste and extravagance. A Florida man, Jack Sweeney, created the automated Twitter account that tracks the flights of celebrities including Spielberg, Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Mark Wahlberg, Oprah Winfrey and Floyd Mayweather. Not all of them harangue their fans and the general public about climate change but many do.
In July, Canadian rapper Drake with an estimated net worth of $250m, announced he had signed a partnership with a climate change activist company, Aspiration, to create a climate-friendly travel plan. Aspiration is a “green bank” that tut-tuts at other banks’ urging customers to come on over because the other banks might just be climate criminals.
A joint statement issued at the time declared, “Aspiration, self-proclaimed to be a world leader in ‘sustainability as a service’, will be aiding Drake in calculating his carbon footprint with his travel and other events. Using these numbers, the company alongside Drake will later devise a plan to reduce his impact as part of the company’s reforestation program”.
It must be some program because on Tuesday, Drake travelled a mere 500km from Nice to Barcelona by private jet that burnt 5775 litres of avgas and crammed 4.6 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere above some lovely Mediterranean scenery.
Floyd Mayweather hasn’t said anything remarkable about climate change. It’s hard to know if he’s for it or against it. It’s possible that if he ever found out about it, he would want to punch it. Left, right. Goodnight. Floyd flew in one of his private jets from one side of Las Vegas to the other. It was a trip he might easily have taken in a car, and I’m guessing he has nice cars. Mayweather may be a distinctly unpleasant fellow, but he doesn’t babble sanctimoniously about climate change. As far as I can tell he’s not a hypocrite.
We shouldn’t get into cheap shot territory. There’s often a bit of finger pointing when the great and the good assemble to discuss action on climate change having jetted in at a cost to the environment. The Twitter bot has also calculated flights taken by Elon Musk but as Sweeney says, it is far more understandable for a businessman to need to attend in person meetings and Musk employs thousands and makes millions in minutes.
But these celebrities are just skylarking, like children let loose at a theme park. The smug displays of wealth might be ugly but the cant; the sheer hypocrisy of those who demand something be done about climate change while doing everything within their meagre powers to make matters much worse is simply breathtaking. Maybe they think like Homer, who once also famously said, “Stupidity got us into this mess and stupidity will get us out”.
Oh really? I thought pepper was dark brown. How gay is that – blasting the dude with pepper spray.
No kidding, where’s Ted Bundy these days? I don’t think its peak banana season so he’s not traipsing around plantations. Lord, he was one stupid mother…..
bacon and eggs should fix it
We are not going to get a rebuttal of gender ideology from the likes of Ben Fordham. If the best he can muster is, “too soon, how does 12 years old sound? See how moderate I am”, he will simply fall at the first hurdle. These people are empty suits.
Dover
Where’s Ted? You have to tell us.
This was the rationale for why their super was so generous:
It was hard for politicians to find employment post-parliament.
I’ll always remember Ted fondly. He must have bumbled his way onto a finance conspiracy site where they were bellyaching misery about the Fed and Ted picked it up. He was absolutely obsessed with the Federal Reserve.
How many years did the scum vic cop who dropped the guy at the rail station and cracked his head get?
Gez
Annie was really great value. You saw in real time how someone graduates to different levels of insanity. Between Annie and Bird, I estimate there are about 8 levels and then you finally reach full retard insanity.
3 berocca so far & it’s not looking much better.
Hair of the dog FTB – it’s the only restorative.
Start with port wine & brandy.
I miss Stimps.
She’s right.
FMD in Australia = no livestock = no beef or dairy to buy = zero cost.
FTB, this invite to Christopher Tolkein’s son’s 21st was doing the rounds on Twitter earlier in the week. The last 2 lines are perfectly apposite.
Bundy just hasn’t commented JC.
Yea, Stimson was amusing.
Artie was always good value too although the Bear makes up for him a little.
You just don’t want funny people around though. You want complete loopers like Bird and Annie around just to add that little extra spice of full retard. Me Ed is really trying to fill the gap and hopefully he’ll make it beyond level 8. He’s at level 3 now so there quite a ways to go.
Oh, he’s either busy with banana picking or hiding from the Federal Reserve. Failing that he could be deadsky, but I hope not because he was graduating up the ladder… but slowly as he wasn’t very bright.
Link doesn’t work db.
Was it Anne or srr who post to daily stormer adjacent web sites ?
Oh yea, how could I forget USSR. USSR could turn a discussion on house renovation into a conspiracy about child sex trafficking. Everything in life to her was about child sex trafficking. She was past level 8 but in a very nasty way.
I can’t recall, but someone mentioned USSR is busily posting at the furniture store?
Which also reminds me.. Did the truck driver finally give up on saving the world and went back to delivering donuts for the bakery?
chocolate rations will also increase from 40mg to 20mg
You’re a jabbed moron, JC.
You have no right to judge anyone’s mental capacity.
USSR never got over Pizzagate.
Oh there his is lurking in the shadows. Stuth, is USSR at the store these days?
I know, I know. I’m sorry, Stuth. Is USSR at the store?
Tailgunner
Two flyovers from Charlie today, cool.
Funny story from today.
One of my neighbours runs marathons for fun.
Zero fat on her.
Ran into her out the the front as my uber eats order of pure filth was turning up.
“Big night?” she says.
I say “Please don’t judge me”.
Seriously I looked like death & I can only imagine the stench wafting off me.
I’m the type who, upon seeing a friend with a noose around his neck and about to kick the chair away, attempts to stop him doing it.
You are obviously the friend who is comfortable and content with his decision.
Ftb, I’ve fixed the link.
lol.
that’s gold db.
This interview is from November last year and may have been posted before but it’s highly relevant now, as well as fascinating. Robert Kennedy may be hard to listen to but he’s well on top of his subject and a fount of information.
TUCKER CARLSON’S EXPLOSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Makes a change from attending the live trade protests…
I hadn’t seen old mate next door for a week or so.
He turns up this morning for coffee and a yarn.
Seems the Coof has been getting a good run through the Barcy community (Population @1500) – he’s had it, and from what he says, just about half the town has had it as well. The curious thing? Only the jabbed have caught it.
He doesn’t know anyone who is unjabbed that has caught it.
Stuth
Focus for a second and answer what I asked. Is USSR at the store now?
I reiterate. Manipulative.
Fancy using a suicide scenario to demonstrate “friendship”. You are a showman, so I suppose drama is always going to be the default setting.
“They’re not being taught, they’re being indocrinated.”
Nope…worse, they’re being groomed.
Nope…worse, they’re being groomed.
Yes Cassie.
The inquisition continues.
Looking at resource maps for solar and wind energy you see that Australia does decently on fundamentals, but nowhere near enough to be a standout. In fact Saharan Africa and the West Coast US do pretty much as well.
Then you think about the high cost of doing anything, and the tiny population, and transport distance, and the dead hand of government…
And suddenly, you realise that Combet is a pillock…
m0nty says:
July 22, 2022 at 1:47 pm
I think we need to denounce Neptune for threatening our entire existence.
That would work.
They can kiss Uranus.
Monty wants to spread Monkeypox.
So Combet is still shacked up with Juanita Phillips, the ice queen. Presumably he is the one with a sense of humour in that coupling.
100 is too soon to be taught about gender.
I posted the link to vicpol beating with video at 2.02 PM
Steven John Cleary jailed for brutal assault captured on police body cam
The man was off his meds and thought he was king of Norway.
VicPlod very disappointed they were unable to manage the mentally ill man in the usual manner – knock him down with a patrol car and stomp on his head.
Here’s Townhall’s investigation into the exploitative environment surrounding 10-year-old rape victim
Wasn’t he the guy wearing red underpants on his head? Definitely a pillock!
During his arrest he was heard saying he was the king and the wallopers were Roman dogs.
I saw the footage on the nein news yesterday.
Immediate thought was ‘why are they taking an obviously mad person to court”?
ZK2A:
Ring China and tell them their gas supplies may not eventuate.
Watch the Politicians suddenly getting new yachts/cars/holiday homes etc, and the Burrup activists go away.
He got a few good clouts in.
7 News has a clip on Youtube showing lots & lots of claret all over the 21-yr old copper, & looking like a copped a few concussive-grade wallops to the head.
Are some of the rancid fruits of the lockdown coming home to roost??
National Survey of Mental Health reveals young women at greatest risk
Among young women, the rate was even higher, with almost half found to be living with a mental illness during the same period, compared to roughly a third of young men.
…
Stop press, sexually weird people arent normal..
Australians who identified as LGBTQI+ also had elevated rates of mental illness, with almost half experiencing symptoms of a mental health disorder in 2020-2021.
Nah, better run some more articles on a melting planet, ecological catastrophe, racism/sexism/anti-poofterism certain death from covid while telling them their ancestors are all mass murdering pommie hobos.
But more.
Note that TheirABC described him in the headline as an anti-vaxxer, the least of his alleged delusions.
They are really ramping up on calling for the Good Old Days where all you had to do was sit at home in your PJs and regurgitate government press releases.
What if she’s right? Makes a change from heading to Crown or Macquarie.
“Note that TheirABC described him in the headline as an anti-vaxxer,”
That’s one of their favourite smears, along with far-right, white supremacist and Nazi.
Ftb, ambulance or wheelbarrow for you this morning?
Others here may recall the killing of a teenage boy in a Melbourne park by VicPlod.
The lightly built lad had a knife but was in a high level of distress.
They shot him dead.
Pondering …Considering the coof is supposedly ripping through Qld schools, how come only 2 out of the the 120 or so I am currently teaching have it?
Old Ozzie:
There’s a third option, OO.
The destruction of the US Military.
And when you look at all the actions taken by the Democrats over the last decade or so, this is the ultimate aim.
Bullshit, almost half of young women and a third of young men are not mentally ill.
They may have been told they are mentally ill because they are not perfectly happy 24/7. Not the same thing.
In the usual jostling for recognition and public funds, the ‘mental elf’ crowd have worked their way to the front in recent years.
It has nothing to do with reality.
Hearse.
johannasays:
July 22, 2022 at 6:39 pm
You may indeed have the right end of the stick on that story.
But a 24/7 drumbeat of doooooom! from kindy to uni cant be helping.
Fai point, Mole. But look at kids who went through the First and Second World Wars, and the Depression.
Sure there were some terrible casualties among kids, with good reason. It was happening, in real time, all around them.
Nothing like the confected nonsense for kids in rich, peaceful countries under discussion.
Months ago there was an article in The Conversation which argued the huge increase in mental health services and rapid rise in antidepressants had done nothing to reduce the rates of anxiety and depression. In the relation to the antidepressants an analysis this week revealed depression is not about low serotonin. No shit Sherlock.
Most depression diagnoses are made by GPs who wouldn’t even able to list off the DSM criteria.
Contemporary schools teach (white) kids to hate themselves and that the weather will kill them. Money is pouring into the mental health industry, and funnily enough, there are more loons and suicides. A sick society produces sick kids.
Foam. Allegedly the spray fucks off and is useless in the slightest breath of air. On this occasion, the foam was as well. If you happen to be properly Radio Rental, it won’t work. If you’re full blown rsrsrsr-level booey, it’s coin flip time with a Taser as well. Sal, just now:
Well he was sitting up and talking. It wasn’t that much claret – you used to get worse playing footy. I also noted the product in the (short, potentially peroxided) hair.
One thing you apparently don’t do at any point is curl up in the foetal position, even if a mental dude’s trying to pinata you with a bat. I saw that pair of pretty boys on TV going to court saying ‘I thought I would die’ aaand so on, surrounded by hand-patters.
The Police Association sniveller Wayne Gatt, who by the way said fuck all about mandated vaccinations was almost in tears himself, telling the presser people how horrible it all was and asking ‘if it was safe’ for the cops to do their job.
Here’s a clue, Wayne and you pair of princesses. IT IS NOT SAFE TO BE A COP, NOR SHOULD IT BE.
If you sign up for that line of work not expecting to cop a fair share of decent clouts across the chops you’re kidding yourself. On this occasion it was a mental king. The next day it might be a couple of iced-up giant second-rowers, or more, smacking up passers-by in the street.
That. Is. Your. Fucking. Job.
Lose the victim cards, boys. You’re happy with the nice uniforms and cars and toys and pick-up lines it gives you in pubs. It comes with a cost, so either pay it or fuck off.
Perhaps he should try vabbing to improve his odds.
Knew a bloke in the cops in what is now Mongyang. A while back now. Driving around on his own at night time.
Got in a chase with a largish bloke in a stolen car later found to be full of other people’s stuff. Bl;oke eventually stacks the car, gets out, runs away, and is chased on foot. Is caught. Punch-on.
Coppers gets his nose broken for the fourth time, along with a cheekbone. Returns the favour, plus some kinetic dental work on the crook who finally sits down. Then he gets cuffed, and eventually taken away in an ambulance with one of the cavalry who got there later.
Copper is covered, and I mean covered in the red stuff. Gets driven to hospital shortly after. Whilst walking through the ED ward he is spied by the crook, who is in a bed – uncuffed – in the same ward. Round 2. Same result, same winner.
No time off work. No press conferences. No social workers. No ‘is it safe?’ because it used to be a stupid question.
Evil slags r us
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) sent out a press release urging her supporters to “RSVP” to her Republican challenger Rep. Lee Zeldin’s (R) upcoming campaign stop, just hours before a man rushed the stage at one of Zeldin’s events in a failed attack.
Filthy bitch.
Who says there’s no such thing as a witch?
Bruce O’Newk:
It looks like someone has been playing with Universe Sandbox.
I see that airlines are producing the worst performance metrics ever in Australia:
Sacking all those employees (from pilots to baggage handlers) who didn’t want the jab turned out not to be such a good idea. Fancy that!
People being stuck in Darwin because their flight was cancelled and the next available seat is several days away is no joke. It’s not like they can just hire a car to get them home.
It’s not just here. Airlines all over the world have paid the price for believing COVID hysteria. Now, their customers are paying the price as well.
Looking forward to a journalist asking Elbow when he’ll reduce power prices, as promised in his election campaign, so recent migrants who know no better won’t have to poison themselves while trying to keep warm because their electrickery bills have risen by 95%.
Any day now…
He fights Tories.
KD those cops shows with them giving lectures shit me. Just give the ticket and shut up!
From Advance Australia-
There are at least two woke Liberals considering backing Albanese’s legislated 43 per cent emissions target – even if their party opposes it.
Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer (an inveterate floor-crosser who helped sink religious freedom laws) and NSW Liberal senator Andrew Bragg reckon they’re open to backing Labor’s climate change lunacy
We know Bragg is a WEF plant ofcourse.
Fraudenberg off the Goldman Sux I see, following in Trumble’s footsteps. These people are not missed.
And it’s not just airlines.
It seems many folk in the twighlight of their careers got a taste of retirement courtesy the lockdowns and decided they just didn’t need the stress of work.