Open Thread – Tues 19 July 2022


Woman on a Porch with Flowers, Robert Lewis Reid, 1906

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H B Bear
H B Bear
July 19, 2022 6:59 pm

How I loathe lawyers and ‘generalists’

He he, that’s me.

Winston Smith
July 19, 2022 7:01 pm

Zipster:

U S Marshalls raid AMISH over FOOD! Small homesteads next?

This will be what the laws introduced in Victoria were all about.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 19, 2022 7:01 pm

It takes a special sort of iodiocy to stuff up a country as naturally rich as Australia.

Coal, gas and electricity is taking us into new places.

Roger
Roger
July 19, 2022 7:02 pm

It takes a special sort of iodiocy to stuff up a country as naturally rich as Australia.

Only an idiot, or a traitor, would surrender our greatest competitive advantage: cheap and abundant energy.

Alas, there’s been no shortage of either type on both sides of politics over recent decades.

Winston Smith
July 19, 2022 7:03 pm

Dayum.
Hit the button too quickly.
… Anyone want to bet which Religion/Lifestyle growers/abattoirs won’t be hit?

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
July 19, 2022 7:03 pm

Just to prove that he’s an idiot, Prince Harry (the Ginge part of the Whinge and Ginge show) has denounced the US Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe Vs Wade as an attack on democracy. How does it supposedly undermine democracy? By returning to elected legislatures the law-making powers that an unelected and unaccountable judiciary had stolen from them by manufacturing so-called constitutional principles out of their fundaments.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 19, 2022 7:05 pm

You don’t end up with aluminium smelters on your doorstep without bloody cheap electricity at some point.

Cassie of Sydney
July 19, 2022 7:07 pm

“You cannot be Sirius!!
It is a faithful recounting of contemporaneous letters, reports and speeches from the day.
FMD.
Of course some of the content might be racist. The war was fought, at least in part, over slavery, for fuck’s sake. Surely people in 2022 are capable of watching it without reaching for the white hood and wooden cross.”

Sadly I am. Apparently we’re not to be trusted because as we’re toxic whities be indeed reach for the white hood and wooden cross. General Robert E. Lee was a remarkable man, a very decent man, the epitome of southern chivalry. He was a Virginian before he was an American…..a firm believer in state rights. He personally knew slavery was wrong but the south was economically dependent on it.

Burns’ Civil War remains one of the my favourite historical series of all times, along with The World at War. A few years ago the History Channel repeated it but that was before the summer insurrection of 2020 so I suspect we won’t see it on our screens for a long time.

We live in sad times.

Tom
Tom
July 19, 2022 7:08 pm

It takes a special sort of idiocy to stuff up a country as naturally rich as Australia.

If you pile incompetence on top of self-hatred, you have a national economic crisis.

Australia has substituted engineers for ideologues. It’s no surprise we have no solution to our energy problems when we are expecting people who have achieved nothing in their lives to provide reliable electricity.

calli
calli
July 19, 2022 7:10 pm

I think it’s this one Dover.

Mater
July 19, 2022 7:11 pm

The World at War. A few years ago the History Channel repeated it but that was before the summer insurrection of 2020 so I suspect we won’t see it on our screens for a long time.

Have the whole series on DVD.
Can’t match Sir Laurence Olivier’s dulcet tone.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 19, 2022 7:15 pm

I preferred it when you switched on the lights without knowing what AEMO did. Or even that it existed.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 19, 2022 7:15 pm

a firm believer in state rights.

The Australian Constitution was drawn by men who had seen a war fought over States Rights…

jupes
jupes
July 19, 2022 7:19 pm

I am fearful that this case will be a barometer of the change in the world view of current society towards the role of our military.

Like all recent change, it is an alliance between the elites – in this case ADF leadership and politicians – and the media, that is driving this self-defeating garbage. Don’t forget it was ADF itself that launched the ridiculous Brereton enquiry that has morphed into the Office of the Special Investigator. Set up by the SFLs, these arseholes have $40 mil and 80 ‘investigators’ looking into charging 19 warriors for doing their duty in Afghanistan, including BRS.

So far, after four years of Brereton and two years of the OSI, not one digger has been charged. Obviously they are waiting for BRS’s defamation trial to end before they make their next move. Regardless of how the judge rules in that case, I can’t see how they could get a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. That being said, look what happened to George Pell.

Disgraceful and sad times.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 19, 2022 7:25 pm

Can’t match Sir Laurence Olivier’s dulcet tone.

The ABC ran The World at War on Sunday nights when I were a young lad, a proper young lad. I remember watching it and going ‘fucking hell’ at the unsanitised* footage and stills, simultaneously developing a healthy respect for what people and industry can do once focused.

*Far more sanitised than some of the other footage would have been, but still remarkable for public TV at the time.

Winston Smith
July 19, 2022 7:48 pm

Calli:

Or is it a stupid ploy to rearrange the rules around “whites” to suit them? Because special.

They’ve taken a leaf out of the Islamist playbook.
Demand concessions because ‘special’. Then the demands never stop because the specialness doesn’t.
The decision to allow exceptions isn’t the end of it – it’s the first step on the way to the next round of demands.

Winston Smith
July 19, 2022 7:53 pm

Wodger:

Bring on the mid-terms; hopefully we’ll see the the mother of all electoral admonishments.

I have a horrid feeling we are going to see cheating from the Democrats so blatant, and the response from the voters so violent as to allow the imposition of Martial Law.
Scary as.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 19, 2022 7:55 pm

“It might be time to give Ken Burn’s “The Civil War” a re-run.
Good film-making and story telling never suffers with age.”
…..
Last I heard it’s been cancelled. Sadly I doubt it will ever be re-run.

I think you can stream it directly from the PBS website.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 19, 2022 7:56 pm

Winston refer to my Arizona comments earlier today.

Zipster
Zipster
July 19, 2022 8:00 pm

I have a horrid feeling we are going to see cheating from the Democrats so blatant, and the response from the voters so violent as to allow the imposition of Martial Law.

if they hadn’t stacked the military, a coup is in order

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 19, 2022 8:04 pm

As a Westworld watcher, I’ve put up with some real shit.
After series one it’s been hit & miss.
But then boom, this week’s episode part way into series four is a cracker.
Pure Nolan.

rickw
rickw
July 19, 2022 8:10 pm

The Australian Constitution was drawn by men who had seen a war fought over States Rights…

Looks like a better option give the current level of shitness.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 19, 2022 8:13 pm

Dr John Campbell has just posted a video that lacks all critical thinking.

Mater
July 19, 2022 8:14 pm

Dr John Campbell has just posted a video that lacks all critical thinking.

In that case, he’s joined a big club.

rickw
rickw
July 19, 2022 8:20 pm

Worksafe insider told me that they just had a “black tie” dinner for Melbourne based staff last week.

Open bar. Within 2 hours they had drunk all available spirits and the venue had to urgently order more.

They were all fucking maggotted and were a complete disgrace.

Animal Farm?

You’re fucking living in it!

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 8:25 pm

H B Bearsays:

July 19, 2022 at 7:15 pm

I preferred it when you switched on the lights without knowing what AEMO did. Or even that it existed.

And without thinking “Fuck! How much is this costing?”

132andBush
132andBush
July 19, 2022 8:28 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
July 19, 2022 at 2:42 pm

Dinner in the woolshed eh?
Apart from pikelets & jam, with mugs of hot tea, which all go down fine in the woolshed, for anything else the…er…. aroma isn’t exactly appetite-enhancing.

“I say, Panzer?”

“Yes, old bean”

“Which catching pen is the gents this year?”

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Open bar. Within 2 hours they had drunk all available spirits and the venue had to urgently order more.
They were all fucking maggotted and were a complete disgrace.

Worksafe are okay with employers holding work parties where everybody guzzles hard spirits & gets rolling drunk.

Useful info. Thanks.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 8:29 pm

‘Bern at 7:55.
Thanks for the tip.

rickw
rickw
July 19, 2022 8:32 pm

Magistrate agrees that corrective services has hindered Aussie Cossack’s access to legal services…

(Yes, we’re a third world shit hole)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJjprqOVzE

shatterzzz
July 19, 2022 8:36 pm

“It might be time to give Ken Burn’s “The Civil War” a re-run.
Good film-making and story telling never suffers with age.”
….. Last I heard it’s been cancelled. Sadly I doubt it will ever be re-run.

It’s available on most of the “pirate” download sites .. LOL!

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 19, 2022 8:37 pm

As for the Brits, so far the catastrophists have been disappointed, as temps have not broken records.

Ah the old ‘report the prediction as fact’ strategy … then never retract when it doesnt reach the number.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 8:40 pm

“Which catching pen is the gents this year?”

This is no B&S or ute muster.
Civilised facilities have been installed.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 19, 2022 8:41 pm

And what are the odds from his seat on the bench in the back of the chopper he could see it. It’s not like it’s a glass bubble nor were they doing a sight seeing tour, they were getting out of there.

Bugger all. You can see zilch from the back of a Blackhawk or Seahawk, esp. if it’s loaded up, unless you’re in the door.

Most of my helo flights in the sandpit were with the doors back or off …. affording a pretty decent view out….

132andBush
132andBush
July 19, 2022 8:48 pm

This is no B&S or ute muster.
Civilised facilities have been installed.

A canvas screen and a bowl of potpourri?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The initial SAS chappy said that he didn’t see the incident

Nobody needs to know any more than this.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 19, 2022 8:50 pm

Magistrate agrees that corrective services has hindered Aussie Cossack’s access to legal services…

I had the same experience in the Canberra lockup … they give you a pamphlet advising you that you can meet with counsel anytime… then ban ftf visits due to ‘covid’ and also obstruct/ignore your requests to phone same. After my initial legal aid ‘representation’ on day 1, I didnt get to speak to a real lawyer until day 6 in solitary.

MatrixTransform
MatrixTransform
July 19, 2022 8:54 pm

What Is a Woman BEST MOMENTS

You wouldn’t understand without lived experience or Gender-Science qualifications

132andBush
132andBush
July 19, 2022 8:54 pm

Dr John Campbell has just posted a video that lacks all critical thinking.

Yes. A rather large elephant wandering around bumping into things and it gets studiously ignored, although there was a little barb from him at the end re the ivermectin.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Apropos of Sancho’s despicable & downright slanderous remarks earlier.
For the information of Mr. Panzer Biggles Takes it Rough, the title of the 77th Biggles book published, may not be an accurate indication of the adventures depicted therein.

shatterzzz
July 19, 2022 9:00 pm

Reading the stuff on Ken Burn’s Civil War & mention of Robert E Lee reminded me of a Power Point presentation and a piece I wrote for a CW site a dozen years ago ….. can’t put the PP up (not sure how) and the original site is now gone but this is the written part of the finale ..

The Myth of the Lost Cause
Following the defeat of the Confederacy and to lift the morale of a shattered people momentum gathered to enshrine the Myth of the Lost Cause which would transform the Southern soldier living and dead, into a veritable hero. In order to come to terms with defeat and a look of failure in the eyes of God, Southerners mentally transformed their memories of the antebellum South. It became a superior civilization of great purity which had been cruelly brought down by the materialistic Yankees.
At the head of this revival was the memory of Stonewall Jackson, closely followed by Robert E. Lee (who would rise to the prominent position following his death in 1870). Other generals of the Confederacy who had died during the war followed, as did those who would pass on later.
D.H. Hill, a friend of Longstreet published LAND WE LOVE, a magazine devoted to Literature, Military History and Agriculture. In 1869 Hill sold out to a Baltimore periodical, NEW ECLECTIC, which in the same year became the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE, official organ of the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. In 1871 it changed its name to the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE and together with a later periodical, SOUTHERN BIVOUAC kept the memory of the War alive and fresh in the public mind. Filled with poems and stories of loyalty to the LOST CAUSE sent in by veterans. Hill was Stonewall Jackson’s brother in law and he filled the magazine with stories, anecdotes and poems of the now legendary
general. Other Confederate heroes received their share of attention from a flood of material supplied by readers commemorating Southern dead and using religion to explain the defeat. Book – writing was prolific in the ‘70s & ‘80s mainly from veterans but much on the romanticism of the Cause from women.
The most prominent of the writer of the period was John Esten Cooke, who was related by birth and marriage to virtually all the prominent families of Virginia he helped enshrine the Confederate dead into chivalric knights and symbols of the LOST CAUSE. Cooke’s impressive literary output polarized Southern perceptions of the War transforming the stigma of defeat into a badge of honour that Confederate veterans could wear proudly. His portrayal of the War as a wonderful adventure, in which participation was an honour.
When Lee died on 12 Oct. 1870 he was one of a significant number of Confederate heroes running second to Jackson. Lee’s prominence changed quickly though when a group of his former staff officers and subordinates set about enshrining his memory in Southern history. Lee’s admirers built up Lee by attacking Longstreet and implying that he (Lee) was Jackson’s closest friend. Once the faults and failures Lee had been criticised for during the war were shifted to Longstreet. Lee emerged as a sort of snow-white, pure hero that Southerners embracing the rationale of the LOST CAUSE had come to expect.
After Lee’s death an argument arose over possession of his remains and the glorification of his memory. The Lee Memorial Association of Lexington and the Lee Monument Association of Richmond fought publically for support. Jubal Early headed the Richmonders and Lexington was led by William Pender, Lee’s former artillery chief. By 1872 Pendleton
and Early began to cooperate and over the next 20 years they carried out a carefully planned character assassination of former Lieutenant General James Longstreet. By using this tactic they focused first the South and then national interest on the Battle of Gettysburg creating the myth that it was the turning point of the War. Early had failed as a soldier but was to prove the pen mightier than the sword. Early had fled to Canada following the surrender fearing Federal retaliation after ordering the burning of Chambersburg, PA during a raid. Returning to the USA in 1869 he headed the Lee Monument Association and in 1870 became president of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia. 1872 he became vice-president of both the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION and the
Confederate Burial and Memorial Association. SO following Lee’s death he now wielded great power and influence. Whilst Lee was alive this hadn’t been possible as Lee only knew him as a former subordinate and ignored him to a great extent as he (Lee) considered him a very mediocre soldier. Now Early was able to claim a non-existent friendship and men who during the war had little reason to rgard Early as nothing but a failure started to respect his outspoken
opinions on the defence of the South during Reconstruction. When he attacked Longstreet in an 1872 speech on Jan.19 ’72 to commemorate the 2nd anniverary of Lee’s birthday claiming that on the night of July 1st, 1863 in a conference with Ewell, Rhodes and Early, Lee had stated he intended to
attack at dawn with Longstreet’s Corps. Had longstreet attacked at the hour Lee stipulated, Lee would have won the battle and the South gained independence. Longstreet ignored this rubbish and remained silent. The South was crying out for vindication and a scapegoat and the dye was cast. Longstreet could not now defend himself without besmirching Lee. Lee was now attaining Messiah status in the South and any assault on his memory would be suicidal.
From this time on the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION waged an unrelenting campaign to deify the South. In 1889 another former hero John B. Gordon took control of the ASSOCIATION and for 14 years wielded a power that was only second to that which Early had achieved. Gordon had founded the UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS ( UCV ) and by 1898 there were 1,084 chapters each named after a Confederate hero. At its apex in 1903 it had over 80,000 members, one third of all living Southern veterans and in conjunction with its sister organization, the UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE
CONFEDERACY published the CONFEDERATE VETERAN which printed the “’correct ‘ view of the history of the War for future generations. This view centred around Robert E. Lee. The SOUTHERN HISTORICAL PAPERS continued to be published until 1914 and followed the same vein of Southern Glory and Legend.
In 1918 the release of the movie BIRTH OF A NATION probably achieved more to aid the MYTH than even Jubal Early or John Gordon and over the intervening years the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE has assumed reality and is accepted as factnowadays.
The fact that the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE found its basis in Jubal Early’s ego which was to build him into something he wasn’t, A GOOD SOLDIER. Does not deter from the fact that he hit a nerve and used the pen to achieve success beyond his excessive imagination . As more and more organizations were formed in the South to extol the memory of the Confederacy the MYTH became fact and is now accepted. This is not to say that there is not a lot of truth in it, there is and the fact that it is more a matter of embellishment than fiction only serves to increase the belief.
I have , deliberately I might say, not mentioned the emergence of the KKK in this story as that organization does not belong on this page but have to accept that it played a significant part in the glorification of the MYTH and will leave it at that.
On a brighter note, I have studied military history for a lot of years and can honestly say that in dozens of books and hundreds of references concerning the Civil War I have read, never have I come across a criticism of the character of Robert E. Lee. To have spent so much of his life and death in the spotlight and to seemingly have been liked by all,friend and foe, is possibly the most remarkable character reference I can imagine. I like thousands of others ( I suppose) have a tendency to side with the South in my reading and narratives and for that I don’t apologise for I prefer the MYTH to the possibility that it was just another war. I have no axe to grind with the Northern participants but, basically, find that the prose written by Southern influence to be more ……………enjoyable ?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 9:03 pm

rickwsays:

July 19, 2022 at 8:20 pm

Worksafe insider told me that they just had a “black tie” dinner for Melbourne based staff last week.

Open bar. Within 2 hours they had drunk all available spirits and the venue had to urgently order more.

A rello of mine runs various building and construction accreditation courses in our town.
He says the same.
There are several two day seminars in Melbourne every year under the guise of “safety”.
He tells me they are late starts, followed by a couple hours of union tub-thumping and then long lunches which turn into long evenings and inevitably end up at tittie bars.
No-one puts a hand in their pocket.

Bluey
Bluey
July 19, 2022 9:09 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
July 19, 2022 at 9:03 pm
rickwsays:

July 19, 2022 at 8:20 pm

Worksafe insider told me that they just had a “black tie” dinner for Melbourne based staff last week.

Open bar. Within 2 hours they had drunk all available spirits and the venue had to urgently order more.

A rello of mine runs various building and construction accreditation courses in our town.
He says the same.
There are several two day seminars in Melbourne every year under the guise of “safety”.
He tells me they are late starts, followed by a couple hours of union tub-thumping and then long lunches which turn into long evenings and inevitably end up at tittie bars.
No-one puts a hand in their pocket.

sounds like an excellent opportunity for a muck raking journalist, but we know how that game works don’t we?

rickw
rickw
July 19, 2022 9:18 pm

Want one of these in my back yard!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evmuD06nlT0

rickw
rickw
July 19, 2022 9:23 pm

Kickass effort! Excellent distance shots with a handgun.

Uvalde PD were unavailable for comment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXOHsHkJV4

Dot
Dot
July 19, 2022 9:47 pm

jupessays:
July 19, 2022 at 7:19 pm
I am fearful that this case will be a barometer of the change in the world view of current society towards the role of our military.

Like all recent change, it is an alliance between the elites – in this case ADF leadership and politicians – and the media, that is driving this self-defeating garbage. Don’t forget it was ADF itself that launched the ridiculous Brereton enquiry that has morphed into the Office of the Special Investigator. Set up by the SFLs, these arseholes have $40 mil and 80 ‘investigators’ looking into charging 19 warriors for doing their duty in Afghanistan, including BRS.

So far, after four years of Brereton and two years of the OSI, not one digger has been charged. Obviously they are waiting for BRS’s defamation trial to end before they make their next move. Regardless of how the judge rules in that case, I can’t see how they could get a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. That being said, look what happened to George Pell.

Disgraceful and sad times.

I have a bad feeling they will concoct process crime charges out of this. What a vindictive exercise in mean girl stupidity.

rickw
rickw
July 19, 2022 9:56 pm

The great British heatwave.

“The measures to prevent the emergency actually created a sense of an emergency.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqB1lJ0B7fs

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
July 19, 2022 9:56 pm

Capt Flashheart would give Biggles a run for his money.

Woof!

Dot
Dot
July 19, 2022 9:56 pm

U S Marshalls raid AMISH over FOOD! Small homesteads next?

What jurisdiction do the US Marshals have over residents of States who are not fugitives, missing children, protected witnesses, Federal prisoners to be transported or to protect some Federal judges and officials???

Seizing assets of criminal enterprises. Um, what is going on here?

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 19, 2022 10:01 pm

If you join the Australian military now, after seeing how you are treated by the higher ups, you are a chump.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What jurisdiction do the US Marshals have over residents of States who are not fugitives, missing children, protected witnesses, Federal prisoners to be transported or to protect some Federal judges and officials???

Seizing assets of criminal enterprises. Um, what is going on here?

Amish farmer breaches Federal food standards, by slaughtering cattle in the exact same manner done by his fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, & so on.

..er.. and selling the meat – to people who first put it in writing that they fully understand they are buying meat that has not been federally inspected & has not been contaminated ..er.. treated.. with federally mandated substances.

As said above in comments, Amish (i.e. Christian fundys) are criminalized. What’s the chances of all religions being treated equally regards slaughtering practices?

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
July 19, 2022 10:05 pm

So far, after four years of Brereton and two years of the OSI, not one digger has been charged

Yet another nail in the coffin of traitor Morrison.

A true patriot would’ve swung the axe with zero notice on the basis that they’d achieved nothing and justice delayed is justice denied.

Dot
Dot
July 19, 2022 10:12 pm

Amish farmer breaches Federal food standards, by slaughtering cattle in the exact same manner done by his fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, & so on.

What’s next, regulating people fishing and cooking their fish caught, whilst camping?

Dot
Dot
July 19, 2022 10:13 pm

I still don’t get why US marshals were executing the warrants unless it was made from a court order…?

jupes
jupes
July 19, 2022 10:20 pm

What a vindictive exercise in mean girl stupidity.

Also note that these 80 ‘investigators’ are ‘investigating’ five days per week, 48 weeks per year, while being well paid by us, the taxpayers. After six years, you would think they have all the ‘evidence’ by now. What, exactly, do are they doing? No really, what does their working day look like?

In some ways it reminds me of the Essendon supplements saga. It started off with a pathetic political message designed to draw attention away from the incompetent Gillard government. Remember the ‘blackest day in Australian sport’. What a crock. Nevertheless, their investigative lackeys (ASADA) conducted a dodgy, unjust prosecution just to appease their political masters.

Here we had political announcements by SloMo and Linda Reynalds about “brutal truths”, “clear-cut murder” and an apology to the Taliban by the ridiculous Chief of the Defence Force. Now their lackeys will conduct a dodgy, unjust prosecution of 19 men, who are more upstanding Australians than any of the hacks harassing them, just so the elite class of politicians and their ADF toadies are spared embarrassment.

Thefrollickingmole
Thefrollickingmole
July 19, 2022 10:20 pm

Don’t worry if you missed Kens civil war series
They are doing a remake soon.

Much more modern footage.

If you catch my drift

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

What’s next, regulating people fishing and cooking their fish caught, whilst camping?

At this stage, only if they prepare (eg, fillet) the fish and then sell it.
Recreational fishing may be among the last to go, considering the sheer number of voters who fish.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Don’t worry if you missed Kens civil war series
They are doing a remake soon.

Much more modern footage.

“Military brotherhood” will be redefined onscreen in a manner not anticipated by the original participants?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Now their lackeys will conduct a dodgy, unjust prosecution of 19 men, who are more upstanding Australians than any of the hacks harassing them, just so the elite class of politicians and their ADF toadies are spared embarrassment.

Gay marriage was put to the people for a nationwide vote.

A similar vote on whether to prosecute or drop the action against the nineteen men… would likely be the most resounding “get stuffed” to the government ever seen at a ballot box.
If only it could happen.

The Beer whisperer
The Beer whisperer
July 19, 2022 10:28 pm

Concrete jungle breaks temperature record

Actual temperatures hit 2? lower than forecast, so they use airport recordings to support the narrative. Fucking liars.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I still don’t get why US marshals were executing the warrants unless it was made from a court order…?

The farmer had been told by a court to stop his slaughtering & farm sales of uninspected/untreated meat.

He continued. This will his major crime.
Giving a middle finger to a court is about 9 million times more serious than ignoring food standards.
Their Honours will be red-faced with rage at being ignored by a semi-literate peasant.

I’m on the Amish farmer’s side, & would be pleased to see him continue his business.

Dot
Dot
July 19, 2022 10:33 pm

Also note that these 80 ‘investigators’ are ‘investigating’ five days per week, 48 weeks per year, while being well paid by us, the taxpayers. After six years, you would think they have all the ‘evidence’ by now. What, exactly, do are they doing? No really, what does their working day look like?

So that’s 480 working years…

Another way of looking at it would be to put together the careers of 15 detectives who made detective at 25 and retired at 57. If they all over the course of their careers, could not even get a single arrest warrant or probable cause to place someone under arrest during an interrogation, it would be very alarming.

It would be so improbable, that it would be impossible.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

I think the methodology of the RBA dickhead quoted, is thus: “People can use savings and cash reserves to make up payments when interest rates exceed their income – so no problem”

‘Aussies can cope with rate rise pain’: Reserve Bank

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 10:37 pm

In some ways it reminds me of the Essendon supplements saga. It started off with a pathetic political message designed to draw attention away from the incompetent Gillard government. Remember the ‘blackest day in Australian sport’. What a crock.

Jupes, I got thinking about that the other day in another context.
The setting up of ASADA with it’s extraordinary coercive powers to extract statements from people with threats of financial and reputational ruin hanging over them is corruption in and of itself. Because it quickly became obvious what needed to be in those statements to escape the wrath of ASADA.
And for what?
To stamp out performance enhancing drugs and match fixing?
Really?
Undesirable activities, to be sure, but do they warrant greater powers than fighting terrorists or organised crime?
But these extraordinary coercive powers in the hands of bureacrats were the pre-cursors to broader powers being exercised by CHOs.
…..
Incidentally, interesting to see that Karma finally caught up with a key player in the ASADA saga, Fat Andy Demetriou (then aspiring Labor candidate and uber-spiv).

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 10:43 pm

Jupes, re ASADA.
We were assured at the time by Caro Wilson (and others “in the know”) that the samples taken from those players had been shipped to Germany for testing in the most advanced sports labs in the world.
With advances in testing we would know within 2-3 yeara what dastardly concoctions they had taken.
Nearly ten years on and … nothing.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

With advances in testing we would know within 2-3 yeara what dastardly concoctions they had taken.

VB, Carlton Draught, Sambucca, etc.

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
July 19, 2022 10:54 pm

When a Name Gives You Pause: Racialized Names and Time to Adoption in a County Dog Shelter

We find that dogs with White names are preferred relative to dogs with nonwhite names, presumably as a product of implicit racialized penalties and premiums. When a potential adopter observes that a dog has a consensually White-sounding name (e.g., Ben), their feelings toward that dog may be decidedly warmer than when they encounter a dog with a name that is less consistently perceived as White. These microlevel interactions may compound over time and across adopters, thus leading to the results we see here, such that dogs with consensually White-sounding names are adopted faster than other dogs. We further find that the effects of racialized names are concentrated among pit bulls—a breed that, according to prior research, is especially prone to racial fears. Among pit bulls, White-sounding names appear to assuage these racialized concerns, whereas Black- and (to a lesser extent) Hispanic-sounding names may stoke these biases. In addition, we find that dogs with consensually nonhuman names (e.g., Walrus) have relatively long times to adoption, perhaps because adopters feel less empathy toward dogs who do not have traditional human names.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 19, 2022 10:54 pm

Caro Wilson

The AFL’s preferred leaker.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 11:03 pm

H B Bearsays:

July 19, 2022 at 10:54 pm

Caro Wilson

The AFL’s preferred leaker.

That was a key problem with that whole thing.
Fat Andy inserted an AFL operative in the ASADA hearings (without any legislated right to do so).
Said operative promptly leaked slanted and selective stuff to Caro, who cited “sources close to” and went to print.
And the subjects of the leaks faced jail or monster fines if they corrected the record.
I seem to remember some at Sunc Cat dismissing it with a “Who cares? It’s just sport”.
Those very same people now bemoan the loss of freedoms.
First they came for the footballers, eh?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 19, 2022 11:04 pm

If you join the Australian military now, after seeing how you are treated by the higher ups, you are a chump.

I talked the next generation of the clan out of enlisting.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 19, 2022 11:13 pm

Selling of Nazi memorabilia sparks calls for national action

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A regional NSW collectables store selling Nazi memorabilia has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and ignited calls for a nationally consistent approach to outlawing the public display and sale of Nazi symbols as fears grow about the rise of white ­supremacism.

Campbell’s Store in Morpeth, which is selling Nazi flags, war hats, posters and photographs of Adolf Hitler, is the latest shop to have sparked calls from Jewish advocacy groups for state and territory governments to adopt uniform rules banning the sale and display of Nazi memorabilia.

It has also prompted calls for the federal government to ban the importation of Nazi memorabilia, with advocates arguing it would be a crucial step for Australia to stamp-out the “ghoulish” trade.

Victoria in June became the first jurisdiction to criminalise the display of the swastika, enabling police to remove and confiscate items that breach the ban.

NSW is preparing to introduce its own laws to ban the symbol after a parliamentary inquiry in February unanimously recommended a ban on the symbol’s public display.

Under the proposed legislation, the maximum penalty for an individual flouting the ban would be an $11,000 fine or imprisonment for six months or both.

Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich, who has long campaigned against the sale of Nazi memorabilia, said profiteering from its sale was shameful.

“This profiteering from the proceeds of history’s most evil crime is beyond depraved and we should remember there is a ­direct connection between these ­objects and the atrocity we saw in Christchurch since white ­supremacists are driven to acts of violence by this type of ­memorabilia.

“Anyone offering these ­cursed, bloodstained items is desecrating the memory of the victims and should be ashamed. Now is the time to act.

“This grisly trade has to stop, and we urge all state governments, as well as the federal government, to immediately stamp out this ghoulish practice by criminalising the sale of this memorabilia and banning its ­import.”

Vic Alhadeff, a prominent member of the Jewish community, said the display was “objectionable to anyone who cares about global history and about Australia’s history.”

“Twenty-seven thousand Australian soldiers lost their lives fighting Nazi Germany and six million Jews were murdered by that regime.

“While the swastika and the evil it represents are an integral part of history, there is a difference between the responsible sale of such memorabilia and the promotion of its horrendous message.

“This display crosses that line.”

A commonwealth parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security was investigating the criminalisation of extremist materials including Nazi memorabilia and the ISIS flag before the dissolution of the 46th parliament, as part of its inquiry into extremist movements and radicalisation in Australia.

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation director-­general Mike Burgess told the inquiry that children as young as 13 were “embracing extremism”, which was often occurring with “religiously motivated violent ­extremism”.

“A few years ago, minors represented around 2 per cent to 3 per cent of new counter-terrorism investigations,” Mr Burgess said. “In the last year, though, the figure’s been closer to 15 per cent. And perhaps more disturbingly, these young people are more intense in their extremism.”

The owner of Campbell’s Store did not wish to comment.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 11:17 pm

The science is settled.
Biggles makes Liberacé look like Clint Eastwood.
Gay as.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

… we should remember there is a ­direct connection between these ­objects and the atrocity we saw in Christchurch …

Just in case anyone was wondering which way the authorities will go if you’re a “genuine” collector of historical artifacts & memorabilia.

Reading the wrong Commando comic on the train will be a crime. (unless you glue plain paper over the cover.)

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Victoria in June became the first jurisdiction to criminalise the display of the swastika, enabling police to remove and confiscate items that breach the ban.

Well, that’s at least two of Sancho’s first edition Biggles volumes confiscated by the Vikstasi.
The loss of those cherished tomes will be overshadowed by the $11,000 fine and the prison time.

As a thought-prisoner, Sancho can expect a particularly rough time in the Danistan Hoosegow.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 19, 2022 11:43 pm

Just in case anyone was wondering which way the authorities will go if you’re a “genuine” collector of historical artifacts & memorabilia.

A young couple in Perth, many years ago – an elderly relative moved in with them, and when he passed away, he left behind a trunk full of uniforms and memorabilia, relating to his service with the Foreign Legion, in Indochina?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 19, 2022 11:49 pm

Well, that’s at least two of Sancho’s first edition Biggles volumes confiscated by the Vikstasi.

Err, not quite correct.
Not even close.
The law deals with “deliberate public displays of the Nazi symbol”.
Not private collectibles.
From The Age …

Exemptions will also exist for educational and artistic purposes, such as in museums, news reports and educational workshops, and the trading of memorabilia.

Read carefully before panicking.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Exemptions will also exist for educational and artistic purposes, such as in museums, news reports and educational workshops, and the trading of memorabilia.

Nothing to worry about then. * phew *
You can trust the government.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
July 20, 2022 12:19 am

Two things:-
.1 If the whole East Coast gas market is dependent upon the Iona storage reservoir, that is a worry;
.2 If Iona is running on empty in mid July, that is even more worrying.

Two more things:-
.1 Pumping into and out of storage reservoirs isn’t terribly efficient.
.2 Having a gas reservoir surrounded by untapped and unexplored onshore gas fields isn’t terribly clever.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 20, 2022 12:41 am

Vic Alhadeff, a prominent member of the Jewish community, said the display was “objectionable to anyone who cares about global history and about Australia’s history.”

No it’s not. I care about global history and Australia’s history, and I find a display of Nazi memorabilia merely weird. And I’d like the names and addresses of anyone buying them, to find out why. They might have good reasons. Or they might be neo-Nazi whackos. In which case I’d like pictures of them, please.

Just banning the things is stupid.

Winston Smith
July 20, 2022 1:42 am

Roger et al:
The Civil War series is available at the Internet Archives site.

Winston Smith
July 20, 2022 2:56 am

American voters know that Hunter Biden was involved in some shady business deals and they believe Joe Biden benefited from these deals. A survey coming out this morning at 11 am from Rasmussen Reports confirms America’s perceptions of the Bidens.

Americans know about Hunter Biden’s corrupt deals overseas in Russia, Ukraine, and China. We have reported on these deals over the past few years. We never thought a family could be as corrupt as the Clintons but the Bidens may actually be.

Winston Smith
July 20, 2022 3:07 am

Already days before the July 22 European “Doomsday” when the scheduled Russian 10-day maintenance of the crucial Nord Stream pipeline to Germany is slated to end – but which was thrown into deep doubt given Gazprom recently said it can no longer guarantee its “good functioning” due to crucial turbines being previously held up in Canada related to sanctions – the Russian energy giant has declared Force Majeure to one major European customer.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-declares-force-majeure-will-halt-gas-flows-germany-indefinitely?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=790

Winston Smith
July 20, 2022 3:12 am

What has already been a year from hell for Germany, which is suffering energy hyperinflation as a result of Europe’s sanctions on Russia, and which is “facing the biggest crisis the country has every had” according to the president of the German employers association, is about to get even worse as the declining water level of the Rhine river, which has historically been a key infrastructure transit artery across Germany, continues to fall and as it does, the flow of commodities to inland Europe is starting to buckle threatening to make an already historic crisis even worse.

It seems the Europeans are in a bit of strife.

Winston Smith
July 20, 2022 3:48 am

Joe Biden has the worst economy in decades. According to Mark Levin at FOX News, Biden’s actions to destroy the economy are from the Marxist playbook.

The Biden Economy is a total disaster. Last week inflation was reported at the highest level in more than 40 years and many believe it is actually higher.

Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 4:13 am
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 20, 2022 4:33 am

Thanks Tom.

rosie
rosie
July 20, 2022 4:45 am

“Iran has the world’s second-largest gas reserves after Russia, but U.S. sanctions have prevented access to extraction technology and slowed development of gas exports”
Oh dear all our hard work saving the planet might be for nought.
.Gazprom, Iran Sign Tentative Energy Deal Worth $40 Billion

rosie
rosie
July 20, 2022 4:53 am

Temporary for how long?
Til they can build a billion windmills?
France builds all her new nukes?

rosie
rosie
July 20, 2022 5:05 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 5:27 am

Median rents in Manhattan (excluding rent controlled places) has hit $US1k per week (or 4k per month as they quote it).
Apparently this is the first time it’s hit that mark.
From memory I think George Costanza was paying or looking to get an apartment for 800/m in the mid, later 90’s.

bespoke
bespoke
July 20, 2022 5:45 am

DrBeauGansays:
July 20, 2022 at 12:41 am
Vic Alhadeff, a prominent member of the Jewish community, said the display was “objectionable to anyone who cares about global history and about Australia’s history.”

No it’s not. I care about global history and Australia’s history, and I find a display of Nazi memorabilia merely weird. And I’d like the names and addresses of anyone buying them, to find out why. They might have good reasons. Or they might be neo-Nazi whackos. In which case I’d like pictures of them, please.

Just banning the things is stupid.

I would be curious too but if some Karen got hold of the names the condemnation will be indiscriminate.
I’m more interested in testimonials from the people that committed the atrocities and how they were gradually nudged into doing so.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 5:47 am

Ted Nugent is 73 and is part way through a tour where he’s playing 33 gigs in just under 2 months across the US.
How many 73 year olds do you know that go out every second night let alone traveling every second day & putting on a gig.
No drinking, no smoking, no drugs is the secret to a long productive life.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 5:56 am

Nugent was a “COVID skeptic”.
The howling & preemptive grave dancing was sickening when when he got COVID.
Considering his current tour it would show that he’s bounced back post COVID better than most.

bespoke
bespoke
July 20, 2022 6:00 am

No drinking,

I’d rather be dead.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 6:06 am

Same.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 6:07 am

AOC pretending to be hand cuffed when she was arrested today was some next level larping.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 20, 2022 6:16 am

Sanctions are starting to bite.

The EU on the arse.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 20, 2022 6:21 am

AOC arrest reminds me of when Killary came under fire in Bosnia.

This rewriting history in real time will not wash.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 20, 2022 6:36 am

Lia Thomas?

I’d forgotten about that bloke.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 20, 2022 6:47 am

In the video message, the chancellor expressed regret that Germany is set to fire up 16 dormant fossil fuel power plants and extend the operating permission for 11 more.

Shows we’re dumber than Germans.
They mothball them, we blow them up.
At least they have some to restart.

Cassie of Sydney
July 20, 2022 6:50 am

Test

Cassie of Sydney
July 20, 2022 6:52 am

Genuine question, is there any issue on which the Victorian Liberals oppose and differentiate themselves from Victorian Labor? I know that the Liberals supported the Andrews’ government on abortion, conversion laws and lockdowns, I even suspect that if the Andrews’ government tomorrow outlawed opposition parties, Groundhog Guy and the Liberals would agree with it.

By the way, last night on Sky, I think it was Credlin, it was mentioned that Victorian state Liberal MP, James Newbury, prior to the this latest suicide note from the state Liberals, had lunch with the sinister Svengali Simon aka the sinister Simon Holmes a Court. Is Svengali Simon now running the Victorian Liberal’s energy policy? Have the Victorian Liberals learnt anything from May’s federal election? As I’ve written before, Groundhog Guy is a tinpot, thin lipped nasty mediocrity who is leading the Victorian Liberals to another four more years of opposition. Actually, make that an eternity of opposition.

They will reap what they sow.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 20, 2022 7:09 am

The ‘Tiser:

Neighbours close to Charlie have told of their fight to save the “the most beautiful girl” — both on the night she died and when authorities were called in the past

Another little girl that never stood a chance.

Malnourished and stick thin, finally dying in a stinking Adelaide houso flat in which she lived with her mother and five other kids. The father (of that particular girl) is in jail after repeatedly stabbing mummy 18 months ago, in that flat and in front of those kids.

The ‘residence’ was so cluttered and full of shit that the paramedics had to drag some of it to the front door and throw it outside so they could work on her. Four separate ‘support’ agencies had over 500 notations that the family was fucked, and were apparently gripped by paralysis and/or a belief that the other agencies were doing something.

The overwhelming odour, according to reports, in that place was of cat piss. It was also strewn with cat shit.

I will take a wild leap here, and suggest that the mother was drug-fucked because that’s the excuse they generally come up with later. Criminal neglect is now apparently in play.

Of course the agencies concerned are at fault. If you want to be a hand-patter, be prepared to do something about it if you actually joined those organisations because you care about people. If you just want to wave your occupational virtue around at social gatherings, fuck off and do something else.

The mother, though. That woman – whoever she is, because she is conveniently unnamed at present – has deliberately made a series of choices over quite some years that put her own children – regardless of who they were fathered by – her own children in positions where their lives were hanging by threads.

This particular thread, named Charlie, snapped. Every time this happens there is the usual circular firing squad among hand-patter agencies, and commentary similar to ‘slipped through the cracks’ and ‘safety net’ appears in the papers.

While all of that may be true, none of it is relevant because the blame for this must rest squarely at the feet of the person responsible for raising a healthy child in an environment as safe as possible, and who utterly – and deliberately – failed to do so.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 20, 2022 7:17 am

There may be some discussion later about how terrible ‘addiction’ is, and how it creeps up raaaah rah rah not really their fault it’s society wah wah rah.

It really is this simple:

If you would rather get on the crystal pistol than feed and raise your child, your skin deserves to hang on display over the nearest Off Ya Tree shop as a warning to others. The rest of you may be conveniently ripped apart by dogs.

Mater
July 20, 2022 7:20 am

A regional NSW collectables store selling Nazi memorabilia has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and ignited calls for a nationally consistent approach to outlawing the public display and sale of Nazi symbols as fears grow about the rise of white ­supremacism.

It’s about time these were taken off the road.
Those that collect them are a blight on our society (and traffic).

Goanna
Goanna
July 20, 2022 7:21 am

Guy and the Liberals are hoping to slide into power on Andrew’s unpopularity.

It’s as if they have chosen to not differentiate themselves from Labor but their appeal to voters is as a new team.
Just different faces.(It is Victoria.)

I visited Melbourne yesterday. The place is half dead and the roads were reminiscent of the early seventies, that quiet.
Even the seagulls have deserted the place.

Mask formation psychosis is abroad with M95 plague masks trending. It is a dismal climate of fear.

This is all fertile ground for a serious recession.

johanna
johanna
July 20, 2022 7:25 am

They will reap what they sow.

Not sure that they are ‘sowing’ anything, Cassie – that implies effort and purpose.

The only effort they seem to be interested in is internal manoevering for safe seats. Oh, and kicking out that dissident Bernie whatsisname, presumably because they imagine that his voters will automatically transfer to whichever favourite son/daughter/trannie that Head Office puts up.

There is no sign of purpose in the sense that a political party should have a purpose. Principles, schminciples, as some might say. Can anyone name a single principle relating to public policy that they adhere to?

They have been sitting in a target-rich environment while rolling over like King Charles Spaniels. Imagine what the original Jeff Kennet would have done? Let alone Henry Bolte. It would have been a bloodbath.

The World’s Most Liveable City (which I always thought was a crock) is crumbling before our eyes.

Mater
July 20, 2022 7:28 am

BTW.
Anyone who’s even done the most cursory reading about Soviet Russia would have similar feelings about the Hammer and Sickle, as that invoked by the Swastika.

Yet, we had a Labor Prime Minister running it up the flagpole of all Commonwealth buildings in this country, and we (even today) have that abomination rubbed in our faces on public streets.

I don’t support the ideology of the National Socialists anymore than the International Socialists, but do try to maintain some consistency whilst clutching the pearls.

Mater
July 20, 2022 7:34 am

Anyone who’s even done the most cursory reading about Soviet Russia would have similar feelings about the Hammer and Sickle, as that invoked by the Swastika.

For a refresher:

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2021/08/28/maters-musings-13-the-art-of-two-socialisms/

johanna
johanna
July 20, 2022 7:35 am

Yeah, KD, I commented on that yesterday – how there will be ‘learnings’ and so on, and nothing will change.

These sadly repetitive stories remind me of the pathology of the recent school shooting in the US. There were literally hundreds of law enforcement officers around the site, but no one would take charge and no one would take responsibility.

So the blame shifting and the myth of collective responsibility lives on to claim the next victim(s).

Cassie of Sydney
July 20, 2022 7:45 am

“A regional NSW collectables store selling Nazi memorabilia has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and ignited calls for a nationally consistent approach to outlawing the public display and sale of Nazi symbols as fears grow about the rise of white ­supremacism.”

Firstly, there’s that tedious canard “white supremacism“….if you didn’t laugh you’d cry. That’s just code for “the right”.

Secondly, Vic Alhadeff is someone who I and many others in the Jewish community have zero respect for and he does not speak for all Jews.

Thirdly, the growth of Jew hatred in this country isn’t coming from the far-right, it is coming from the far-left, the not so far-left and their buddies, but just remember, as that creature who frequents this site likes to so delicately and quaintly put it, those people have “legitimate grievances”.

Fourthly, if we’re going to outlaw the public display and sale of Nazi symbols, then we need to also outlaw the public display and sale of Communist and Socialist symbols such as the hammer and the sickle.

Finally, there’s going to be a big conundrum here, one of the favourite tools of the far-left and their religion of pieces buddies, whenever there’s a anti-Israel demonstration (protests that many Labor and Greens politicians like to attend), is to hold up placards and pictures of the Swastika superimposed over the Star of David…..a comparison which is utterly obscene and designed to deliberately insult and denigrate Jews and the state of Israel. I’ve never heard one Green complain about this. So I ask, next time this happens will the police move in and charge these people? Now why do I doubt it? I’ll tell you why, because charges will only ensue depending on WHO is holding the “hate symbol”.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 20, 2022 7:47 am

Anyone in Brisbane this week might want to go see the docos that Peter Ridd and Jennifer Marohasy have put together. Sunday at 2pm. The details are at WUWT, I can’t link them as I’m getting internal service errored.

calli
calli
July 20, 2022 7:53 am

I’m trying to recall seeing Nazi flags for sale at Campbells Stores – and believe me, I’m sensitised to this sh*t. It must have been a very small display, in conjunction with other war memorabilia from various lands.

It’s one of those “full of stuff” shops, from silver forks and buttons to spools of old lace and doilies.

Morpeth has morphed from a sleepy little riverside town into a rural “suburb” full of human warehouses. Shops range from cafés and pubs to dress shops selling linen lagenlook for larger trendy arty females. Campbells and the bakery are worth a look because they’re old originals.

Cassie of Sydney
July 20, 2022 7:59 am

Oh and the outlawing/banning and criminalising of this stuff just sends it underground.

And we all know the next thing on the list, the outlawing/banning and criminalising of speech.

BTW, the Weimar Republic had strong laws against “hate speech”. Fat of lot of good that did.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 20, 2022 8:01 am

Continually making bad life decisions doesn’t make a victim, it makes a fool of immeasurable proportion. Today claimed victimhood is worn as a badge of honour. These people have never grown up and will be coddled forever. I cannot contemplate nor imagine not being responsible for my actions little holding others to blame for my self-induced incompetence. But here we are with a disease of the psyche.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 20, 2022 8:08 am

I think a Greens placard with the swastika on it would drive the scum nuts, but after all isn’t that where the green movement came from?

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2022 8:15 am

This happened last month, not last year. According to the article, they were let in by Adam Schiff.

Trump Responds To Charges Against Colbert Staffers Being Dropped – “Were Treated So Differently”

I bet they didn’t spend a single night in prison, while the tourists from January last year are still locked up with access to any legal process.

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2022 8:16 am

Without access

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2022 8:18 am
Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2022 8:19 am

Your pain is not in vain.

Buttigieg: ‘The More Pain’ You Feel at the Gas Pump, the Higher the Benefit of an EV

Like everything else, this is being done to us deliberately.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 20, 2022 8:20 am

Let the vicious infighting begin!

Ownership of Sydney Harbour’s historic Goat Island is about to be handed to the “wrong” Aboriginal people, many of whom come from western NSW and have no cultural connection to the area, ­descendants of the harbour’s original inhabitants say.

It would be culturally offensive for Goat Island, or Me-Mel, to be awarded to the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council “because it is controlled by foreigners”, said Ash Walker, a member of the La Perouse Aboriginal community.

“There’s a large population of people who are descended from the traditional owners of coastal Sydney who are the rightful owners of Goat Island,” he said.

Oz – and so on for many many paragraphs

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2022 8:21 am

The possible implications are terrifying.

Small explosion at the Hoover Dam in Nevada

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 20, 2022 8:23 am

Today, Rep. AOC was arrested along with other members of Congress outside the Supreme Court for protesting in support of abortion rights.

Shows how she thinks it works. The Supreme Court is there to ensure the constitution is adhered to – not to proclaim that it says things which it does not.

There is simply no right to an abortion in the Constitution.

But AOC thinks if she shouts loud enough, and if enough progressives intimidate Supreme Court justices, then she can get her way. The Constitution is an impediment to her agenda.

Many leftists think that way.

Bluey
Bluey
July 20, 2022 8:24 am

Cassie, I reckon about the only real difference between the Vic libs and labor is the complete lack of a spine. Same policies with different faces, but labor make pronouncements and have a like it or lump it attitude.
Liberals? Oh no! Someone who’d never vote for us was critical, we’d better bend over backwards to accommodate them!

Unless it’s one of their own showing some principles of course.

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2022 8:24 am

This has already been largely covered. They knew what they were doing.

FOIA reveals Pfizer & Medicine Regulators hid dangers of COVID Vaccination during Pregnancy after Study found it increases risk of Birth Defects & Infertility

More and more such things are coming to light but, as far as I can see, not only is nothing being done about it but it’s not even getting any widespread coverage.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 20, 2022 8:26 am

Hypocrite Harry’s clueless speech reveals he really is the wokest link

Never fear, the private jet loving Prince Harry is here to tell us about climate change and abortion while revealing a few things about a certain elite mindset along the way, writes James Morrow.

James Morrow

Prince Harry says “our world is on fire” in an address at the United Nations in New York for Nelson Mandela Day. “As we sit here today, our world is on fire, again,…

You have to hand it to old mate Harry, Duke of Sussex.

Not everyone can win the lottery of life that is being born a literal prince and parlay it into a gig as a sort of B-list celebrity wokester trolling for gushy headlines and his wife’s approval.

If you think this is a bit over the top, consider Prince Harry’s latest foray into the public debate.

Speaking at the United Nations (of course), Harry decided it was his place as an English royal to hop in to every lefty cause from climate change to abortion, referring to “the rolling back of constitutional rights right here in the United States” as being part of “a global assault on democracy and freedom.”

Obviously an Eton education is not what it used to be; barely two weeks ago Americans ate hot dogs and shot off fireworks from sea to shining sea in celebration of their right not to be tut-tutted to by English prats.

And as far as democracy is concerned, perhaps the Prince has been downloading too much content from the ABC.

The “constitutional right” to abortion he referred to was made up out of whole cloth by an activist Supreme Court in the 1970s and the only thing that’s changed is that rules governing the procedure are now a matter for America’s state legislatures.

Pretty much like it is in Australia but never mind.

Of course the Prince didn’t just have nasty Bible-bashing Republicans in his sights.

“Big oil companies” who were “wreaking havoc” on the planet also made Harry’s naughty list.

Again, curious for someone who has reportedly taken at least 20 private jet trips and lives in a nine-bedroom California mansion that cost well over $20 million.

“Right now, water is rising all around us, quite literally,” he said, perhaps quoting himself on the phone to the pool guy when the overflow drain clogged that one time.

About the only thing that was missing was a call for a global mask mandate (though you know there are probably some neurotic lunatics out there working on it).

Nominally the speech was given to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela but Harry had much grander visions in mind than just honouring the man who basically ended apartheid.

The Prince demanded “daring transformative decisions to save humanity,” saying, “the right thing to do is up for debate.”

And what celebrity’s charge into politics would be complete without a word salad sounding like it was composed by Vice President Kamala Harris’s chef, er, speechwriter.

“Reject old ideas and past prejudices, [and] heal from the past and build resilience for the present and future,” he said.

“Legacy does not belong to the self, it belongs to those it impacts”.

Deep.

One really has to wonder what the end game for the Prince is here.

Some have speculated that this is all in service of setting up his American actor wife, Meghan Markle, up for – and this really is last days of Rome stuff – a tilt at some sort of elected office in Washington.

Readers would also be forgiven for thinking Harry was just trying to get a good audition tape together for a fill-in spot on The Project, now that Lisa Wilkinson appears to have been benched for the time being.

But while the speech was just a catalogue of trendy fluff, dig a bit and there is a lot to dissect here that tells us a lot about just how awful the attitudes of those believe they run the world really are.

That he pulled off this speech at that great respecter of human rights and women’s bodily autonomy, the United Nations, whose current human rights council includes such bastions of liberty as Cuba, Kazakhstan, and Iraq is telling.

After all the very thought of honouring Mandela at a joint that also thinks Havana should have a seat at the table to discuss human rights is about as off as, well, lecturing the world about carbon emissions when you use Gulfstreams like Ubers.

Hypocrisy may be the tribute that vice pays to virtue, as the old saying goes.

But listening to the Prince wrap Ukraine, climate change, and how America deals with abortion up with a pretty pink bow and lump them all together as global assault on freedom, you begin to think he means it.

Having been marinated for years now in the intellectual puddle of Hollywood thanks to the good offices his wife, and not – let’s be frank – being clever enough to read the room, he has given us all a window into the remake of George Orwell’s 1984 a certain sort of so-called “elite” has in mind for us.

Private jets fight climate change, democratic legislatures are anti-freedom, and shut up and don’t debate, because it’s not We the People but We the Harry’s know what’s best for you.

God help us all.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 20, 2022 8:29 am

She was not arrested of course. She was escorted away from an area. You see as much at football games.

Her fans consider that it is still, essentially, indistinguishable from being arrested.

And she a member of Congress! (Who seems not to understand separation of powers.)

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 20, 2022 8:29 am

Victoria in June became the first jurisdiction to criminalise the display of the swastika, enabling police to remove and confiscate items that breach the ban.

Lucky every one I have is a Sauwastika

The word swastika comes from Sanskrit: ????????, romanized: svastika, meaning “conducive to well-being”.[16][1] In Hinduism, the right-facing symbol (clockwise) (?) is called swastika, symbolizing surya (“sun”), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise) (?) is called sauwastika, symbolising night or tantric aspects of Kali.[1] In Jain symbolism, it represents Suparshvanatha – the seventh of 24 Tirthankaras (spiritual teachers and saviours), while in Buddhist symbolism it represents the auspicious footprints of the Buddha.[1][17][18] In several major Indo-European religions, the swastika symbolises lightning bolts, representing the thunder god and the king of the gods, such as Indra in Vedic Hinduism, Zeus in the ancient Greek religion, Jupiter in the ancient Roman religion, and Thor in the ancient Germanic religion.[19] The symbol is found in the archeological remains of the Indus Valley civilisation[20] and Samarra, as well as in early Byzantine and Christian artwork.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#:~:text=The%20term%20sauwastika%20is%20used,turned%20in%20the%20other%20direction.%22

Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 8:32 am

… the growth of Jew hatred in this country isn’t coming from the far-right, it is coming from the far-left, the not so far-left and their buddies, but just remember, as that creature who frequents this site likes to so delicately and quaintly put it, those people have “legitimate grievances”.

I’ll go further: the 21st century left is the modern home of racist bigotry that begets violence. And, though it’s a mental illness, leftism is very popular, so it’s very easy to be a parrot for the latest fashionable bigotry.

I’m speaking from experience, especially on Jews. Despite its history of death, violence and genocide, anti-semitism has become an essential marker of your political fashionability. I thank God I escaped the tribe of hate that is leftism.

calli
calli
July 20, 2022 8:38 am

Victoria in June became the first jurisdiction to criminalise the display of the swastika, enabling police to remove and confiscate items that breach the ban.

They’ll have to burn the illustrated 1st editions of the Just So Stories, then.

The ironing will be lost on them though.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 20, 2022 8:40 am

He disputed the Walkers’ claims of traditional ownership.

“As of today, not one person has been proven to be verified traditional custodian or owner or descendant,” Mr Moran said.

From the article Top Ender linked to.

Good luck in sorting out any “Voice” to Parliament…

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 8:43 am

“As of today, not one person has been proven to be verified traditional custodian or owner or descendant,” Mr Moran said.

what the hell is a “custodian of the land”, classic woke hyperbole.

the woke must be relegated as nothing more than a foot of insanity in the history books

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 8:44 am

footnote

rosie
rosie
July 20, 2022 8:44 am

“daring transformative decisions to save humanity ”
From itself?
I’m getting a hint that he wants things like ICE cars, air travel for the great unwashed, gas heating just banned , forthwith.
Perhaps compulsory abortion is also in his mind of mix.
All hail Caesar Sparkle

rosie
rosie
July 20, 2022 8:48 am

I like the way Matthew Guy styles himself Leader in his email.
His canned reply is from ‘office of the leader’
we love the leader

JC
JC
July 20, 2022 8:50 am

Cassie

There’s no such thing as the far right in the context you suggested. It’s just a form of leftism. Go the far right on the political spectrum and you end up with ultra libertarianism with people wanting no government.

It’s not a full circle, it’s a straight line.

Antisemitism, racism is all on the left. Show me an example of anyone on the so-called far right who doesn’t support more freedoms.

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 8:50 am

war is inevitable

Russell Brand

The US were warned over 10 years ago about a potential Russian assault on Ukraine says the award-winning journalist Aaron Maté. #Russia #Ukraine #war

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 8:51 am

Facing unprecedented economic difficulties, China Textile Industry Orders flow to Vietnam, India…
China Insights

China’s textile and apparel industry is not only highly labor-intensive but also heavily dependent on foreign countries. This industry is crucial to ensuring China’s foreign exchange reserves and solving employment problems in society.
The scale of China’s textile industry is the largest in the world, with annual fiber production alone accounting for more than 50% of global output; textile and apparel exports amount to US$316 billion, accounting for more than one-third of total global exports.
Now with a large number of orders moving out of China, the textile and apparel industry in China is experiencing unprecedented challenges in more than 20 years.

Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 8:52 am

Eight and a half hours SYD-LAX (including a fuel stop en route): delivery from the tyranny of distance is at hand:

Supersonic aircraft developer Boom has introduced a new design for its Overture flagship aircraft, which it hopes to fly for the first time in early 2026.

“It’s kind of like if Concorde and 747 had a baby,” said chief executive Blake Scholl at the Farnborough International Airshow on 19 July.

The new aircraft design now features four engines, instead of the two originally envisaged. It also includes a higher-aspect ratio gull wing, larger wingspan and a contoured fuselage – wider in the front and slimmer towards the back. All of the changes are designed to improve aerodynamic efficiency.

Scholl says the company has gone through 50 design cycles, including wind-tunnel tests, since the company presented the first draft of Overture five years ago.

“We have learned so much over the last few years that we saw a real opportunity to improve the configuration,” Scholl says. “Overture delivers not just on speed and noise, but also safety and sustainability.”

The aircraft is slated to travel at Mach 1.7 over water, and 0.94M over populated areas, never creating a sonic boom. It will have a range of 4,250nm (8,056km) and will seat 64-80 passengers. From nose to tail the aircraft measures 61.3m (201ft) and 32.3m (106ft) wingtip-to-wingtip.

First deliveries are planned for 2029, he says.

Boom aims to allow more people to go more places, more often, Scholl adds. The aircraft will be capable of running on 100% sustainable aviation fuels, with no blends or additives, and operations will be net-zero emissions.

“We want to completely remove sustainability as a reason not to travel,” he says, adding that the aircraft has the potential to be used for “hundreds” routes worldwide. A trip from North America to Europe could be completed in as little as 3h30 minutes, or across the Pacific in 4h30min.

Boom has also added Collins Aerospace, Eaton and Safran to its top-tier suppliers for Overture. Collins will provide major aircraft systems and components, Eaton will develop fuel distribution, measurement and inerting systems and Safran will build the landing gear for the supersonic aircraft.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 8:56 am

you end up with ultra libertarianism with people wanting no government.

I have a mighty erection.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 9:00 am

From twitter & the LA Times, a lady called Ciara Walter (33) got herself sterilised (paywalled so I don’t know what doctors did) after the Dobbs decision was leaked.
Doctors operating on the mentally ill is so England one hundred years ago & so Germany eighty years ago.

Mater
July 20, 2022 9:01 am

There’s no such thing as the far right in the context you suggested. It’s just a form of leftism. Go the far right on the political spectrum and you end up with ultra libertarianism with people wanting no government.

This!

It’s not a full circle, it’s a straight line.

Yep!

Show me an example of anyone on the so-called far right who doesn’t support more freedoms…

…and I’ll show you a leftist!

rickw
rickw
July 20, 2022 9:01 am

Eaton will develop fuel distribution

We did a presentation to Eaton ground fuelling yesterday on our new test device.

Mater
July 20, 2022 9:02 am

There’s no such thing as the far right in the context you suggested. It’s just a form of leftism. Go the far right on the political spectrum and you end up with ultra libertarianism with people wanting no government.

This!

It’s not a full circle, it’s a straight line.

Yep.

Show me an example of anyone on the so-called far right who doesn’t support more freedom

…and I’ll show you a leftist.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 9:03 am

We did a presentation to Eaton ground fuelling yesterday on our new test device.

Hopefully it started with a welcome to country.
And taking a knee.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 20, 2022 9:06 am

Jab………………………………

In April of this year, TrialSite reported that Taiwan’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) awarded a woman in Taiwan the largest non-death-related payout due to a COVID-19 vaccine related injury. The woman received $85,730 in compensation due to the suffering of a blood-clotting disorder caused by the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. Now, VICP has awarded $116,877 (NT$3.5m) to the family of a deceased woman from the city of Tainan—the death was linked to a COVID-19 vaccine. Specifically, this person based in Tainan died due to intracerebral hemorrhage after just one dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/healthy-womans-death-linked-to-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-taiwans-vicp-awards-116.8k-to-family-b8ea172c

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 20, 2022 9:07 am

Farmers warn against land grab after environment report
Sarah Ison
Political Reporter
9:00PM July 19, 2022
111 Comments

Farmers have cautioned the government against “locking up land” after Tanya Plibersek declared Labor would protect almost a third of Australia’s land and oceans by expanding national parks by the end of the decade.

The Environment Minister defended Labor’s emission reduction target despite a damning new State of the Environment report released on Monday revealing the full extent of ecological damage in Australia, and said going beyond a 43 per cent cut to emissions would be “breaking an election promise”.

It comes ahead of the government attempting to legislate its emissions reduction target when parliament resumes from next week amid demands from the Greens and teal independents for Labor to negotiate on its climate goals – including scaling up its 43 per cent target and limiting new gas and coal projects.

But Ms Plibersek said Labor would not bend on its target and ruled out standing in the way of coal and gas.

“We’re not going to start breaking promises,” she said at the National Press Club in her first major speech in the portfolio.

Ms Plibersek also said she would respond within six months to the Graeme Samuel review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, which calls for both better environmental protections and more streamlined approvals for projects.

Ms Plibersek stopped short of ruling out a climate trigger, which would result in coal and gas projects being assessed on the extent to which their emissions would affect the environment, and said she believed there were already laws in place that made the measure unnecessary.

But she stressed the government would continue the “proud Labor story” of protecting significant places as it had done in the past for Kakadu, the Daintree, the Great Barrier Reef and more.

“Our government will set a goal of protecting 30 per cent of our land and 30 per cent of our oceans by 2030,” she said. “We’ll explore the creation of new national parks and marine protected areas.”

Tom
Tom
July 20, 2022 9:07 am

Eight and a half hours SYD-LAX (including a fuel stop en route): delivery from the tyranny of distance is at hand

I forgot to add that Boom Supersonic has done all of its market modelling based on business class-equivalent fares — i.e., SYD-LAX $15K return.

feelthebern
feelthebern
July 20, 2022 9:08 am

I am not well read on the constitutional conventions but I have read parts primarily promoted by Michael Malice.
There’s no denying parts of the US constitution isn’t all that enlightened but that’s why they set a process in place for changing the thing.
But large parts of it show how smart they were with framing the thing.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 20, 2022 9:09 am

Firstly, there’s that tedious canard “white supremacism“

Please understand.

All white people are to be suspected of being Nastis.

But they have nothing to do with the white people who defeated the Nastis.

Indolent
Indolent
July 20, 2022 9:09 am

Gonzalo Lira is holding regular Roundtables with different guests. Today’s is mainly on the situation in Europe plus the UK leadership contest.

Roundtable #2: Dubovikova, Kurten, Szamuely

Bluey
Bluey
July 20, 2022 9:10 am

rosiesays:
July 20, 2022 at 8:48 am
I like the way Matthew Guy styles himself Leader in his email.
His canned reply is from ‘office of the leader’
we love the leader

Bah. I didn’t even get that.
God help me, but I’m giving serious through to voting Labor next state election. Before you all attack me with pitchforks let me explain.
Anyone with a brain can see the disaster coming home to roost of energy policies, amongst all the other rubbish Andrews has foisted on us. The Liberals are in no way equipped to even make an attempt to change that, even if they weren’t opting to do the same things but harder.
Therefor, I’m thinking it’s far better to make Labor wear the problems they’ve created, rather than letting them slip out from under and pin it on someone else.
Maybe, just maybe, if we go full accelerationist there might be enough pain for a change in course.

My gut says I’m too optimistic though, and Victoria will be more like a permanently failed state where Labor don’t care so long as they’re top of the heap.

johanna
johanna
July 20, 2022 9:16 am

TheirABC has lined up a bunch of the usual suspects to talk down the Betaloo Basin gas reserve:

The Northern Territory’s remote Beetaloo Basin was former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s gas-led recovery poster child, and the plan to develop the region has been wholeheartedly backed by the Albanese government.
Key points:

The gas industry is arguing that the Beetaloo Basin should be developed to help end the energy crisis
Analysts doubt its economics will stack up before the emissions reduction window closes
Appeals from farmers and traditional owners for and against development are becoming more strident

The gas industry is now holding it up as one essential solution to Australia’s energy crisis.

Stretching across an area more than twice the size of Tasmania, the basin contains enough shale gas to power Australia for an estimated 200 years.

“The way to tackle energy needs today to is have a secure supply [and] the Beetaloo Basin can offer that secure supply,” Cassandra Schmidt from the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association said.

So far, so good.

But, the rest of the article (which is many times longer than the introduction) is all about why this is a bad idea.

For example:

While the industry argues extracting the Beetaloo’s gas for electricity could generate thousands of jobs, and a billion dollars in revenue for the NT government over the next 20 years, some experts have questioned the economic benefits as countries set more ambitious climate targets, and what it would mean for the domestic market.

There are also concerns around whether all carbon emissions could be offset, as the federal government looks to set a more ambitious emission reduction target.

Grattan Institute energy analyst Alison Reeve said increasing pressure to decarbonise, and the costs of that, means a business case for the Beetaloo isn’t likely to stack up without big government subsidies.

“Internationally and in Australia we are going to see people moving away from gas,” she said.

“It is not going to be a growth industry between now and 2050, so you would be putting subsidies into what is effectively going to become a stranded asset.”

That ‘stranded asset’ thing again, like how coal would be dead by 2030. Wishful thinking where fact is completely the opposite.

A lot of it is about how governments (they hope) will ensure that gas projects can never make money, like:

Rick Wilkinson, a consultant at EnergyQuest, which provides strategy advice to the gas industry, also believes gas companies could struggle to find enough long term investors, as the emissions reduction window closes.

“As we start to get within the net zero carbon commitments of governments, it doesn’t take long before you start bumping into areas where the off takers are more reluctant to commit to the 20-plus years that normally underwrites a project of the size of the Beetaloo,” he said.

There follows the usual list of grifters, superstitionists and virtue signallers.

Does anyone in TheirABC realise where the wealth that pays their well padded bills comes from?

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 20, 2022 9:17 am

Boom Supersonic might get to sell a few aircraft for the elites to travel in and the cost won’t matter because only the poor bloody taxpayers will be paying.
The new design is now aerodynamically quite different from their XB-1 demonstrator.
With the economic problems coming largely caused by green and woke ideologies I can’t see there being any mass air travel in 2029 anyway.
My prediction is that they will run out of money before flying the full scale prototype.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 20, 2022 9:17 am

Coal is dead……………

Europe should burn more coal and oil for power generation now so that it can conserve gas in case Russia cuts off supplies this winter, the International Energy Agency has said.

Immediate action is needed to cut gas demand so that storage facilities can be filled to reduce the risk of rationing over winter months, Fatih Birol, the agency’s executive director, warned.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/758baaf6-06cc-11ed-a986-fc91b4ad48f0?mc_cid=1181b1174e&mc_eid=30fe4a4429

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 20, 2022 9:19 am

Grattan Institute

The poor man’s Ponds Institute.

rosie
rosie
July 20, 2022 9:20 am
H B Bear
H B Bear
July 20, 2022 9:21 am

Waiting for Nord Stream like a little kid on Christmas Day …

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 20, 2022 9:22 am

Let’s hope batteries are included.

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 20, 2022 9:25 am

A good read, no paywall.

Does that seem somehow persuasive to you? If so, you might consider looking at the most recent report of the global satellite temperatures from UAH, which shows that the overall temperature anomaly for the most recent month (June) was +0.06 deg C, barely above the 1991-2020 average, and significantly down from a most recent peak of +0.7 deg C back in 2016. If we are having unusually hot weather in Texas and California, yet the overall world temperature is just about average, then clearly it must be well below average somewhere else. And sure enough it is. From Roy Spencer at UAH:

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-7-17-when-will-they-figure-out-that-reducing-us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-is-pointless?mc_cid=1181b1174e&mc_eid=30fe

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 9:25 am
Roger
Roger
July 20, 2022 9:26 am

a business case for the Beetaloo isn’t likely to stack up without big government subsidies.

Just like renewables then.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 20, 2022 9:26 am

Top Ender any chance posting this OZ article by James Kirby

So exactly how much super did you say I needed?

Universal calculations for how much is required to retire are misleading – how you steer between the government pension and self supporting super may be much more important.

I think it is probably a reaction to the AFR Article that I posted here yesterday

As youngest daughter is back at work and kids at school – have to go downstairs and babysit 15 Month Neurotic Female Beagle. who does not want to be outside in Cold and Rain, and disgraced herself by eating small hole in lounge (as daughter said 11 years old and will in the end get rid of that lounge – other OK) – so will protect rest of room – Take turns with Wife, Dog Sitting

10 Year Old wants to get a Snake – we have said “No way Jose” – I am happy playing with Funnel Webs but Snakes freak me out

Speaking of Cold Daughter in Melbourne sent photo showing Malvern 0.9C feels like -2,8C – today Min 1C Max 14C

Whilst Son is on Grand European Tour with Eldest Grandson and Eldest GrandDaughter and could not have picked better weather

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 9:29 am
Roger
Roger
July 20, 2022 9:31 am

If we are having unusually hot weather in Texas and California, yet the overall world temperature is just about average, then clearly it must be well below average somewhere else.

Come to my neck of the woods.

Meanwhile, English climate scientist interviewed by ABC:

“The fingerprints of global warming are all over this extreme weather.”

Well…he would say that, wouldn’t he?

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 9:35 am

“Our government will set a goal of protecting 30 per cent of our land and 30 per cent of our oceans by 2030,” she said. “We’ll explore the creation of new national parks and marine protected areas.”

Australia has one of the longest coastlines in the world, yet the price of seafood is astronomical and the quality often dubious as a result.

More “marine parks” will make seafood only affordable to the elites, which no doubt is the game plan.

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 9:39 am

Today, 71 per cent of east coast gas exports go to China and two of its state-owned firms, Sinopec and CNOOC, are part-owners of the LNG assets.

the federal gov is too busy sucking little chinese dicks

Roger
Roger
July 20, 2022 9:39 am

“Our government will set a goal of protecting 30 per cent of our land and 30 per cent of our oceans by 2030,” she said. “We’ll explore the creation of new national parks and marine protected areas.”

With hunting and fishing rights exclusively for the indigenous.

Mater
July 20, 2022 9:41 am

With hunting and fishing rights exclusively for the indigenous.

Happy with that…as long as it’s limited to traditional weapons.
No nylon fishing line, rifles, or anything else made of metal.

Zipster
Zipster
July 20, 2022 9:44 am

So exactly how much super did you say I needed?

given most city property barely ekes out 2-3%, which is 20-30k/million. its not hard to work out that a million in retirement is a recipe for retirement poverty and an enforced spend down plan.

rosie
rosie
July 20, 2022 9:47 am

What traditional tucker they hunt for?
Deer, goat, water buffalo, pig, camel, horse, that kind of thing?

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
July 20, 2022 9:50 am

What no tinnies with outboards? No fish finders with sat nav? no 30 caliber rifles?
No nylon nets with styrofoam floats and lead sinkers?
Why do I identify as Aboriginal if I cant use them?

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
July 20, 2022 9:51 am

Hypocrisy of African Americans

CANCEL CULTURE COMES TO ANCIENT EGYPT

Angel Blue is an African-American opera singer, who I assume is very good. She made news a few days ago when she walked out on a production of La Traviata being staged by the Verona Theater because–not in her opera, but in a different production at the same theater, Aida–a Russian singer was slated to play the title role in “blackface” makeup. The Telegraph reports:

Well. Aida is one of the world’s popular operas. It is set in ancient Egypt, and the title character is an Ethiopian princess. Her racial heritage, as of 5,000 years ago, is unclear. I believe that Ethiopians today are largely semitic, but 5,000 years ago, who knows? The tradition has been to portray Aida in some kind of makeup. This is how the Russian singer who will play the part in Verona looks, assuming she is not canceled:

And how about this: Angel Blue wasn’t contracted to perform in Aida, she had the prized role of Violetta in La Traviata. But wait! Is Violetta black? No! She is a courtesan in 19th century French society. Violetta is French and, as best I can tell, white. So it is fine for a black soprano to play a white Frenchwoman, but horrifically exploitative for a white actress to play an ancient Ethiopian princess?

Sorry, but this makes no sense.

Roger
Roger
July 20, 2022 9:53 am

Sorry, but this makes no sense.

Think of it as a workplace demarcation dispute.

johanna
johanna
July 20, 2022 9:54 am

“Our government will set a goal of protecting 30 per cent of our land and 30 per cent of our oceans by 2030,” she said. “We’ll explore the creation of new national parks and marine protected areas.”

Based on what? Have any of the pressitutes asked them? What is magical about 30%? More importantly, at what election did they ask voters to potentially lose 30% of GDP?

I well remember the consequences of Carr in NSW and his photo ops where more and more of the State was declared parkland or nature reserve. Undergrowth just waiting for a spark, wild pigs rampant, feral cats and dogs, yada yada.

They don’t have a clue about ‘the environment.’

Rabz
July 20, 2022 9:56 am

“The fingerprints of global warming are all over this extreme weather.”

Just as its fingerprints are all over this extremely cold winter in Sydney.

There will never be enough pretentious dishonest pseudo-intellectual knobheads on this planet for the ALPBC.

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