Bother! I thought you left out “to”. With Kevni it has to be total surrender with penalties.
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The Cat has a mole?
Yes a malignant one.
Dover please ban bespoke for his gross offensiveness to the mole-Australian community.
Regarding the imported bacon – does the meat itself start in Australia, either as live animals or as the carnage from a sty apocalypse?
Maybe not the latter.
But it might turn out that if there is a large processing plant somewhere that does part of the processing locals might send it there – where it is cheaper, has less pervasive regulation, and where dipshit hippies aren’t gluing themselves to machine because pigs are people too.
Moles can’t link, lol.
Must be the tiny feet.
Latest non-news item according to the major press.
Protests paralyze Panama’s capital after negotiations fail
I could never understand it. Artie – the old blogger at the old Cat- used to find Bug Eyes cute. I find her revolting.
Okay, this is made-up but it’s not really far off the mark.
Get a load of this. Obviously a play on her fake arrest.
Protests paralyze Panama’s capital after negotiations fail
Zat, Dude!
These guys have a good list of Aussie pork retailers.
If in doubt, steer clear.
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Gary’s Meats (Prahran market) is not on the list, Calli. It’s therefore not a good list.
Bought some peanut butter the other day which had the kangaroo logo on it. Reading it at home the small print said made from less than 10% Australian ingredients. Turns out the peanuts were from South America and the salt (the only other ingredient) was from here.
Howdy JC.
Moles can’t link, lol.
Must be the tiny feet.
Would you believe it was a warning link??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzQ7Pn0Bbc
LOL!
Ah, yes. ‘Coles Assie Bacun’.
Weren’t they the ones who got busted a few years ago passing off bread from Ireland as Australian? (I still do not know how. Did they import dough frozen? Frozen loaves?)
Zat , are you in the US or oz these days?
It’s a list. It might be an incomplete list but it’s something rather than nothing.
My local butcher isn’t on it either. He says his bacon is Aussie…hmmmm…
*squints suspiciously*
Apart from the covid jabs the average chemist would be 90% full of crap made in China which doesn’t bode well for anyone worried about sterility, birth defects or carcinogens. Good luck trying to find out where things like vitamins are sourced from.
Local butchers in these parts stock locally produced pork products; sometimes cheaper than the supermarkets too.
Ditto lamb & beef.
All of it comes from within a c. 100km radius.
That bread is par baked in Ireland and finished off here. Cheats.
I’m in DeSantis country JC
You know, zero sympathy. That breed ought to be eradicated.
I would bepizz myself laughing if some genuine Aborigines showed up and exposed Pascoe for the fraud he is – I’ve seen the blazing contempt of “fullbloods” for faux “Aborigines,” and it was an experience best described as enlightening…..
Oh, so you’re in heaven on earth then. 🙂
That’s awesome.
For us going to a butcher shop is a treat. In our area they are all more expensive than supermarkets for some reason.
Big city rents must play a part.
bern
Seriously, it’s like the corporate media enjoy being spoon-fed narratives.
They like government advertising even more. Challenge the oh-so-precious “narrative”, and watch their share go elsewhere.
Zipster:
China is now reaping the results of not dealing with the corruption that is undermining its entire economy.
From dumping chemicals in rivers, forcing near slave labour wages, to corruption in building projects, the economy is starting to collapse as the costs begin to mount.
And we needn’t look too smug either. Our economies aren’t that far behind China that we can be complacent.
Root out the corruptocrats and the institutions that enable their graft, or our kids will pay the price.
@ Mole-
If your 4 year old is up to seeing them, we are steaming at Bassendean on the Open Day on October 9th. And then at Boyanup on the 24th of October and 28th of November.
All Sunday dates, if they fall at the right times for you… 🙂
Thanks for the link Calli @04:45pm.
Why the fark we would be importing pork products from China has got me farked.
Turtlehead is now a labor market economist. The RBA uses him to do labor market research.
He also doubles as a construction engineer called all over the world to review construction projects.
m0ntysays:
July 20, 2022 at 12:57 pm
Only three civilian deaths!
That’s apparently a win in some quarters.
Man who Neutralized Greenwood Mall Shooter Did in 15 Seconds What 376 Law Enforcement Officers in Uvalde Couldn’t Do in 77 Minutes
As my colleague Alex Parker explained, the killer came loaded for bear.
The shooter was armed with a Sig Sauer 400M 5.56-caliber rifle.
He had a Smith & Wesson M&P 15 5.56 on reserve in the restroom.
A Glock 33 .357 pistol was on his person.
He was armed with over 100 rounds.
He’d been frequently practicing at a range for the past two years.
The killer went into the bathroom near the food court, preparing for the attack. When he finally came out and started shooting, Dicken saw him and his rifle from 40 yards away and immediately understood what was happening. The shooter shot and killed three people. He injured two. The initial police report was that it took Dicken two minutes to respond to the shooter. But that wasn’t true. The police just corrected that. Dicken neutralized the shooter within 15 seconds of him starting to shoot, an astounding reaction, doubtless saving countless other lives.
BK
I don’t know for certain and have either read was told this. There are some heavy duty regulations applied to pork and chicken farms in Australia. Obviously, it’s about cost and the cost of these regs among other things are wrecking the sector.
We’re destroying ourselves with ‘vironmental regs.
Dover, Akismet’s got me again.
Apparently I can’t tell folks what dates a local Perth museum will be showing off its hardware for the public.
What is this place? YouTube?
its a command economy, it can’t collapse. there might be revolution, but the ccp has its boot on the neck of the population, thats unlikely either
Franksays:
July 20, 2022 at 4:50 pm
Why are we importing “pork products” from China
Bought some peanut butter the other day which had the kangaroo logo on it. Reading it at home the small print said made from less than 10% Australian ingredients. Turns out the peanuts were from South America and the salt (the only other ingredient) was from here.
Jo Bjelke-Petersen rolls in his grave.
(Okay- I’m actually surprised Akismet didn’t hammer that one, too.
Who wants to play Akismet-Roulette? 😀 )
Zip,
Xi is slowly turning into a command economy, but it’s not at this moment and wasn’t before that creature took the reigns. I’d argue that in some ways, it’s actually more open than our economy. Chinese labor in the free market is nowhere near as regulated as ours. There’s no such thing as the bullshit “wages theft” we have to contend with and the huge number of labor rates we have to adhere to.
It wasn’t that long ago that most people thought that California was where you went for excitement and Florida a nice somnolent place where your life gently ticks away like an old watch until it finally lacks the energy to push the second hand one more tick.
Now…
Country of origin labelling in China is more accurate than it is here in Australia.
WTF is a “consciousness of guilt?”
Zipstersays:
July 20, 2022 at 5:15 pm
From dumping chemicals in rivers, forcing near slave labour wages, to corruption in building projects, the economy is starting to collapse as the costs begin to mount.
its a command economy, it can’t collapse. there might be revolution, but the ccp has its boot on the neck of the population, thats unlikely either
That’s what the East Germans, Poles, Romanians and other communist countries thought in the late-1980s too.
ABC News Photo Falsely Portrays AOC, Ilhan Omar as Being Handcuffed
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He looks guilty.
Yep Bern.
I really don’t get why people are like systemically shocked that China exports meat products particularly pork as I believe China is the biggest pork producer in the world. It surprised me for a second until I thought about it but I wasn’t shocked.
One of the smallest nations in Europe by land area ( Netherlands) is also a huge agri exporter.
We just elected a Liar’s Party government and Zip (himself) reported that the horridly stupid dingbat, Madam Tanya, is looking to increase the number of marine parks around the continent when almost the entire perimeter is a fucking marine park. That’s just an example of what we are contending with. And no, the Libs are no better, but neither are a disturbing number of Australians voters who put those stupid teal tarts in Parliament.
“Coles Australian Made Thin Sliced Streaky Bacon
Made in Australia from at least 98% Australian ingredients
Coles Own Brand pork, ham and bacon products solid (sic) in our supermarkets are Sow Stall Free . Always sourced from Australian farms
NGREDIENTS: Australian Sow Stall Free Pork (90%), Water, Salt, Sugar, Mineral Salts (451, 450), Antioxidant (316), Preservative (250). Wood Smoked.”
I have no particular regard for Coles and I do remember them trying to pass off the Irish bread as freshly baked, but if this is all lies I would have thought they’d have been found out by now.
It’s the fantasy you manufacture when you know you’re about to lose (because Nein’s lawyers were forbidden from interfering in the staff’s ideological warfare against their political enemies).
JCsays:
July 20, 2022 at 5:14 pm
Barking Toad says:
July 20, 2022 at 5:09 pm
Thanks for the link Calli @04:45pm.
Why the fark we would be importing pork products from China has got me farked.
BK
I don’t know for certain and have either read was told this. There are some heavy duty regulations applied to pork and chicken farms in Australia. Obviously, it’s about cost and the cost of these regs among other things are wrecking the sector.
We’re destroying ourselves with ‘vironmental regs.
Where’s the beef? Held back by the USDA
How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can’t buy meat?
At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of Wendy’s outlets ran out of hamburgers.
“How the hell can this be?” says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in my new video. “They [Wendy’s] were out of hamburger, yet you could see cattle from the drive-thru!”
It happens because of stupid government rules.
During the beginning of the pandemic, it was that market concentration that caused meat shortages when a few big meat processing plants shut down due to COVID infections.
“We made our food supply brittle,” says Massie. “One small disruption throws the whole thing off.”
When the processors shut down, some ranchers who couldn’t get to a federally approved slaughterhouse ended up killing their own animals. If only they’d been able to go to a local processor.
Massie takes his cattle to one. There, he can see the conditions himself. His local slaughterhouse meets state inspection standards.
But since it is not USDA-certified, Massie and other ranchers who have their cattle processed there may not sell you a steak. He can, however, give it to you or eat it himself. But he may not sell it.
I’m not particularly surprised that the Chinese are exporting pork, just that we’d be buying it.
And when they say “pork products” in a warehouse, my immediate thought goes to processed goods like sausages, salami and the like. For FMD “fragments” to survive on this sort of product beggars belief.
Unless it’s fresh meat.
I doubt he appreciates it. All it does is show him up.
Biden owes DeSantis, big time
Be amazed because I am too.
The Netherlands is the third largest agri exporter in the world by dollars. Absolutely amazing place. The densest nation in Europe and the third biggest agri exporter. When I say that population size is purely a function of technology, I’m right. The Netherlands proves my point. Never let anyone get away with the crap that we’re overpopulated.
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0712/top-agricultural-producing-countries.aspx
There are some heavy duty regulations applied to pork and chicken farms in Australia.
Ive mentioned before Ive examined doing a little sideline in black chooks.
Little problem.
It would, conservatively, cost me $40,000 to import fertilized eggs and put them through Australian quarantine.
Heres some of the actions from the import page.
Booking the facility
On or before 30 April for bookings in the following two calendar years
….
Apply for import permit
Six (6) months prior to import
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Submit operational plan to government facility manager for approval
At least four (4) weeks prior to import
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Advise the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP – formerly AAHL) of the testing schedule
At least four (4) weeks prior to import
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Submit a Notice of Intent to import fertile hatching eggs (NOI) form
Include the transport plan and transport contingency plan for movement of the eggs from port of arrival to the facility.
Note: If egg boxes will be moved individually at any stage of transport until entry into the post-arrival quarantine facility in Australia, the first air container packing option in Health Certificate 1 (boxes to be individually placed in plastic bags or have plastic lining) must be used. The import permit holder must make the exporter aware of which packing option is required based on the transfer arrangements to be used in Australia.
1-2 weeks prior to import
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Submit the NOI Appendix A: Pre-export compliance statement and any necessary attachments (e.g. laboratory reports) for pre-export compliance assessment prior to uplift.
The department will not provide approval for the eggs to be uplifted until satisfied that pre-export compliance has been demonstrated.
At least three (3) working days prior to scheduled uplift
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Submit the final complete first veterinary health certificate fully endorsed by the Official Veterinarian.
On arrival at airport^ or government quarantine isolation facility
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Submit the second veterinary health certificate
Prior to hatch
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Importers are advised that they are required to pay all costs associated with the importation and quarantine of imported eggs, hatched birds and sentinels. Fertile eggs are a high-risk commodity. Importers will be required to pay all costs, even in the event that the consignment does not meet import requirements, is diseased and/or needs to be euthanized and disposed of.
You think they wouldn’t do it here, if they thought they could get away with it?
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CHINA – Shanghai.
20 million residents will be tested this week after 500 positive cases were detected through the vaccine passport QR system.
Homes are being raided and residents forcibly removed to camps.
Eyes on China.
Same situation here. Curtis Springs just off the Stuart Highway had their own abattoir. Processed on the spot, no stress of transport for animals, good quality meat. Along comes “government” and shuts them down.
Now the animals are loaded, shipped far away in all weathers and processed. Then they can buy meat back to serve in their restaurant.
Idiocy and cruelty and high costs – that’s government for you.
Curtin
She is just saving it for when the Chinese fishermen get around to plundering it, ALDI bags and all.
Must be beat the Chinese day.
CEF, controlled environment farming.
Allows you to grow the highest margin products & not worry about the weather.
The stuff of nightmares
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Imagine 1000 of these, assaulting a town. Imagine they are autonomous, and are networked with one another to coordinate attacks on the ground.
This is probably the future of warfare. I give it not more than 10 years.
And that’s how they had their baby formula debacle, too.
Regulations too hard, byzantine and expensive for all but the biggest and best-connected. Combined with a semi-absent bureaucracy (covid rules, baby! Nobody here! :D) and a knee-jerk reaction to stop an entire factory’s production over three baby deaths from suspected bacterial contamination that was subsequently found to be from the domestic water used to prepare their feeds.
A terrible enough outcome for those three families, but beyond proportion for everyone else affected by the bureaucrats.
Glowball warming!
It was 37C in Durham UK yesterday where England and Serf Effrica played a ODI cricket match.
No deaths reported, but have a go at all the “cooling down” precautions taken by Durham Cricket authorities. Gasping for air.
There were many many bright red Poms in the crowd (Saffas won by 65 runs)
Australia.
Good food, good weather (usually).
Not much more than that going on.
They are all small fry compared to china so where the soviets. china is preping for war, which will mean a total breakdown of western supply chains. A little pain reorganising is expected. ppl have been predicting china collapse since I can remember. It has learnt from the mistakes of the ussr. Just enough capitalism under absolute state power. The only way china can collapse is if the people rise up against the ccp. No chance of that.
Some of these US exports surprised me.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-the-top-us-exports-by-state/
It’s a couple of years old, but the Netherlands has a really interesting agricultural export mix.
That’s a lot of tulips! 😀
The stuff of nightmares
What we all saw in Victoria over the last two years came pretty close. Those Victorian police officers behaved like they had the moral compass of squat, mindless robots.
calli, I first read that as Neanderthals!
Privacy gone too far:
A friend I have known since I was 12 years old was admitted to hospital on the weekend. I spoke to him on Monday and could tell by his voice and language that he is in very bad shape. I rang today but it went to answering machine. Today I rang the hospital for an update but they won’t release any information because I’m not a relative. He’s dying, I know that, and because he is in ICU I can’t see him. His relatives cannot contact me(unless they can hack his phone). So he could die and I won’t even know about it Effing hell this is frustrating.
Don’t diss dem Neanderthals! I have red head children. 🙂
Just got a call from the bloke I shared a room with at the ski club lodge over the weekend. He has the spicy cough and wanted to let me know. He’s a bit of a chardonnay socialist and said “I don’t understand how I’ve got it, I’ve had 4 shots.” I said “maybe it’s because they were designed for variants that no longer exist.” I may have created a light bulb moment.
Zip
The US could easily “collapse” China. Take a look at a map. China access to raw materials and energy is very tightly condensed to relatively narrow sea lanes. This is why the fuckers are really antsy about those silly islands they’ve “manufactured” in the South China Sea. Most of them are currently sinking.
The US submarine fleet would just have to ensure those sea lanes are blocked and China is totally fucked. I wouldn’t put a war with China at zero, but I really don’t think it’s too high.
Are any of the teal tarts attractive at least?
NATO is around 66% of the world’s military power. China is not going to fuck with that.
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Prescott Bush (father of George H.W. Bush, grandfather of “Dubya”) put Hitler into power and financed the Nazi war machine, even after the start of World War II.
Very very interesting timeline of events leading up to the present day. Eugenics and Malthusianism still at work. Not to mention greed.
We should join NATO along with Japan and Sth Korea. The more the better.
Cannabinoids are easier on the brain than booze, study finds
That’s not news to me.
New study suggests no one under 40 drinks alcohol and is nothing sacred?
Bloody Safety Nazis. We’re gonna die, get over it.
Lucky I’m to lazy to look, JC. But I am sure you said AOC was hot.
Trump certainly stood up to the Chicoms which was another reason the politico-meja establishment wanted him gone
JC at 5:14.
Exactly.
Activists insisting on sows being given a two bedroom apartment with water views have killed it.
Ship the industry off to China where they will be certified free range, sow stall free, organic, home-schooled, you name it.
And guess what?
No activist will dare question Chinese certification.
Surly pooches.
A convoy of tipper trucks converged on Parliament House in Victoria bringing parts of the city and adjoining freeways to a standstill as the group protested against the government’s lack of interest in implementing a fuel levy to ease the pressures being put on tipper business operators and their families by the high price of diesel.
Looks like the FMD warehouse product was some sort of packaged, “cooked” meat. Hmmmmmm…
The other from Indonesia was some creature bringing in raw meat. Did they imagine it couldn’t be bought here?
Amazing. The name BSA motorcycles stands for Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd.
We were talking about internal economic collapse, not a war. In any event china is preparing for the latter.
Many Chinese ‘companies’ are owned by the CCP.
eg
China Communications Construction Company, Ltd. (CCCC) is a majority state-owned, publicly traded, multinational engineering and construction company primarily engaged in the design, construction and operation of infrastructure assets, including highways, bridges, tunnels, railways (especially high-speed rail), subways, airports, oil platforms, and marine ports. CCCC has been a contractor for numerous Belt and Road Initiative projects.
which now fucking owns John Holland
You clearly don’t watch enough Australian Border Patrol or whatever it is on telly… 😉
TEALS driving TESLA are not attractive in the LEAST.
Some letter recycling there.
They can never win the war, Zip. They would be history. It would be a NATO vs China war they could never win. The US would engineer it in a way to invoke NATO.
You know what would fuck China and send them around the bend? Australia, Sth Korea, Japan and, and wait for it… Taiwan joining the NATO alliance. The fuckers would go apeshit.
I know I keep going on about this, but Howard’s treachery by giving Australia Michael Trumble really is unforgivable. Was it not Trumble who signed us up to all that Paris crap?
Fellas, forget the Teal politics. Any port in the storm on a late Friday night. Are any of them well… fuckable? I’m sorry if it sounds coarse.
I wish it was true, JC. But NATO couldn’t even win a war against some goat herders in Afghanistan.
What does your wife think?
On dodgy imported food.
I have horrid visions of elderly, tubercular ladies coughing and spluttering while hand peeling the prawns that are then frozen and imported and labelled ‘Packed in Australia from Imported Ingredients‘. These visions are strong enough to turn me into a domestic tyrant on the subject of cheap prawns.
So we are supposed to believe that a trace gas in the atmosphere at 400 parts per 1,000,000 has caused record heat in the UK. If only the remaining 999,600 parts per million was at 999,800 parts per million the weather there would be much cooler.
And ‘Product of China’ garlic.
Don’t ask about the growing medium.
Ballet has been dropped from auditions at leading dance schools as staff say it is rooted in “white European ideas”.
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD), which aims to be a “progressive institution”, has reviewed the “elitist” art form as part of a diversity drive that has seen the introduction of new policies relating to gender and race.
Ballet has been ditched as a requirement for school-entry auditions because of its “contentious nature”, with teaching staff explaining that the traditional mode of dance comes with the baggage of “white European ideas”.
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Changing the subject completely: About 12 hours early but it is July 20th. Fifty three years ago, for the first time and forever, men from Earth walked on another world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8C3xeC3Eo
$109.99 Wow!
AEMO forced to intervene as Victorian gas supply falls
Nup. Might be my darling adopted Singhalese niece. Indian wedding, 2 weddings, first one Hindu the second one Christian; the second wedding with twelve bridesmaids, twelve groomsmen, 150 international attendees and the bride left him after a year.
Cultural differences. She was an Aussie girl. He was less of an Aussie bloke than she thought.
Great grandmother was born in the year of Custer’s Last Stand. She watched the moon landings..
I can be a bit of a sucker for layout tools, but not for US$109.99.
And particularly not when:
John of Mel:
Gilly’s Pork and Ham
The only stuff I will buy.
When bacon is marked as <10% Australian product, you can't be sure.
Yes. My birthday date is auspicious for this, and also for another reason: on the 20th of July 1944, when I was turning two, Hitler was nearly placed in his grave, which sadly had to wait for a while after that.
It was known a Von Stauffenberg’s July 20 plot. It failed, as we know. Over 4500 people were murdered in retribution by Hitler for it.
Old Bloke:
I give in, I’ll play your stupid bloody game. Why the Hell aren’t we seeing people hanging from the street lamps yet?
This kerfuffle over Barilaro’s failed job in New York is just mystifying. Jobs for the boys have been happening my entire life with Labor being the bigger offenders and yet we are supposed to care.
Can the media now stop with the pearl clutching and hyperventilating. I don’t care.
I’m an animal, and getting wilder about what’s happening. It’s a purely rational calculation for me. If hanging a thousand parasites would reverse the collapse of the West, it would be a great deal.
It’s only ok if Labor-Greens do it Crossie.
An interesting post on Jo Nova’s blog refers to a theory in respect to the alleged success of the vaccines in preventing serious illness after contracting Covid. :
“….. the Mensa debating forum reveals just how the jab works. The evidence is emerging that the only protection that the mRNA jab gives you from Covid, is by suppressing your immune system to protect you from the allergic reaction. The same protection children get from having an immature immune system. Something called a cytokine storm which results in rapid deterioration of lung function is in fact an allergic reaction to fragments of spike protein, as the virus is killed off. It occurs on average, on the 8th day after the first onset of symptoms and is unrelated to the severity of the initial infection. Death occurs on average a couple of weeks later. Its why children with an immature immune system are not effected. So this immaturity is replicated by the mRNA jab of adults. There is evidence the mRNA jabbed immune system is degraded by the mRNA jab, making the mRNA jabbed more susceptible to other viruses, but giving them a few weeks protection from death, until their immune system recovers. Then they get a second jab, a third jab and so on, each jab protects them from the cytokine storm, but brings them closer to death from every other cause of death.”
This observation regarding the the allergic reaction to the spike via the cytokine storm on the 8th day is exactly what Dr. Shankara Chetty found in many patients.
It seems logical that the apparent “protection” of the vaccines from serious development is related to the suppression of this reaction. However, if that is provided at the expense of a diminished immune health in relation to subsequent infections – to hell with that. Shankara & others have found that steroids, aspirin and even anti-histamines can control the allergic reaction of the 8th day.
Now that is something. I also consider me learning to use the old style typewriter in 1973 and 40 years later possessing the miracle device of smartphone that not only replaced that typewriter but every communication device before it – telegraph, telephone, telegram, radio and television.
MiltonF:
Because the people who infest the upper echelons of the companies that used to provide jobs and product from Australia realised their bonuses would be higher importing cheap and dodgy shit while trading on the old brand name, sacking their supply chain here and getting rid of 80% of their workforce was way more profitable.
The model has been used to hollow out our industry while leaving in place middlemen who are now buying Alfa Romeos and complaining about servicing costs while waiting on spare parts from European Manufacturers who have outsourced to China.
My eighty summer’s birthday has extended now for more than a week of celebrations with the last one being on Friday for another lunch, girlfriends only. Hairy has just now extended things into next week too, for he has booked us in to see Il Trovatore. Ole.
We’ve just returned from a family dinner last night on the south coast and a lunch today.
My phone has been running hot. Two little grandies from Brisbane rang to say they were baking a cake for me when we come up for the eldest girl’s birthday (she’s eight!) in ten days time. The six year old was bursting with enthusiasm to tell me a very ‘rude’ joke: What do you call a dinosaur’s fart, grandma? A blast from the past! she exclaims excitedly before I can think of a response. I read it in the newspaper, she tells me proudly. That’s very clever, I say advisedly.
Newspapers have changed a bit since my day.
The COVID-19 Treatment Conspiracy – How millions of lives were lost
The most important COVID-19 breakthrough occured in June 2020 through the RECOVERY trial (Oxford) by identifying dexamethasone..
Calli:
I also hope that we never do, but what do you think will happen when the grid goes down?
You need to prepare for the possibility.
I’m enjoying it.
When it comes to political troughers getting a well deserved public comeuppance I’m an equal opportunity kind of guy.
If you haven’t seen the CNN made movie “Apollo 11”, do so. Outstanding film making using all original footage. The moment the movement stops and Eagle has landed is remarkable.
Yes you’re right Roger- Barilarlo turned out to be a complete phony- a state government version of Joyce.
Incidentally, although I know that many abhor anecdotal evidence, this one unnerved me:
Much loved grandson yesterday reported that he and another saved a mate’s life a day ago by administering CPR when he stopped breathing suddenly in their college accomodation. He said, in his words, the mate (19 years old) suffered a heart attack.
As most of you could predict, I once again counselled the beloved grandson NOT to have a booster. And yes, like my grandson, the afflicted boy is an athlete.
Barnaby Joyce on Bolt talking about what the result of the reduction of emissions will be for food prices etc here.
This bloke has no credibility on this subject unless he denounces his deliberate and conscious sell-out of the nation for the thirty pieces of silver of increased funding to the bush that the Nats received when he supported Morrison’s trek to, and supplication at, the altar of global warming last year at Glasgow.
interesting I posted something to that effect back in april
Zipster that was some considerable time ago. Prednisone has long replaced Dexamethasone as the steroid of choice in many ICUs.
It is also now believed by many frontline physicians that steroids should be withheld in the early stages of Covid. I don’t really understand why.
And BTW I think many of the same frontline physicians will still vow that Ivermectin is the drug of choice, and has led to recovery of patients that many hospitals had failed to help.
Joyce has just been one let down and betrayal after another- for starters, he should have refused to serve under Trumble
It was 37C in Durham UK yesterday where England and Serf Effrica played a ODI cricket match.
Gotta laff ..! As a kid growing up in County Durham we used to count any days you could take your jumper off as a “hot” Summer’s day .. generally, about 5 times, usually, in August ! LOL!
If it wasn’t blowing a gale straight off the North Sea, “Hughie” sayin, “Hi”, or lotza “white stuff” .. it was SUMMER .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/MG2StzY
I haven’t watched Sunrise/Kochie since 2007 when that moron Joe Hockey appeared on that program with Kevni not realising that by doing so he was enhancing Rudd’s credibility and thus making him electable.
Wow, you were 19 when i was 2 days old.
so is Hockey a WEF ‘young leader’?
Because we’re a civilised people who believe in Laura Norder (channelling Calli).
his kerfuffle over Barilaro’s failed job in New York is just mystifying. Jobs for the boys have been happening my entire life with Labor being the bigger offenders and yet we are supposed to care.
The downside is this is just a media “3 days ” event .. by the weekend it’ll be off the radar and 2 maybe 3 months down the track there’ll be a small snippet in the “mediocre” section of the news mentioning his appointment to some other well-paid “maaates” position ….!
It’s how the “club” worx and nuttin’ is gonna change it … !
“Short answer – because we haven’t turned into wild animals yet.
And I hope we never do.”
Agree calli, but I’ve said here before, given what we’ve endured over the last two and a half years, the manufactured fear, the Covid tyranny, the trampling of our rights and freedoms, the sneering hypocrisy from elites who enjoy thumbing their noses at ordinary Australians, I now understand how revolutions happen and I now understand how populations snap. Only the other night I had the misfortune to hear the sneering voice of that utterly revolting lesbian and all round parasitic cockroach, ABC hack Patricia Karvelas, bemoan the fact that last weekend she went to the snow to ski and at the ski lodge she was outraged by the fact that most people were not wearing masks.
You see, if I was to lose it I’d start with MSM scum like Karvelas.
And while we’re on the topic, what a first rate nincompoop Perrottet’s turned out to be.
He may be a decent bloke in private, but politically he has no idea.
“Barnaby Joyce on Bolt talking about what the result of the reduction of emissions will be for food prices etc here.
This bloke has no credibility on this subject unless he denounces his deliberate and conscious sell-out of the nation for the thirty pieces of silver of increased funding to the bush that the Nats received when he supported Morrison’s trek to, and supplication at, the altar of global warming last year at Glasgow.”
Well said BBS.
Great to see Kate Bush (super fox) is being discovered by a new generation with her song Running Up That Hill topping the charts after being used in the hit TV series Stranger Things.
I’ve pointed out to my kids that the current rubbish has no music behind the voice. You couldn’t identify the song if lyric was stripped away. The definition of formulaic shit music.
If Parrotet had been a proper Catholic, he would have resigned from the ministry when Gladishocklian brought in her barbaric abortion laws. The only Liberal who has actually stood up for principal is Bernie Finn.
The thing is that the Third World may save the First World from themselves/ourselves. There is no spare fat in most developing countries so elevated oil and energy costs will bite much quicker and harder. When people have nothing to lose they tends to do desperate things like bring down their governments.
You don’t want to live in a country in perpetual turmoil, ask my parents.
Still a lot to be thankful for and a chance to change things.
Good to see that people in Melbourne are turning off Virginia Trioli, Cassie. Maybe Karvelas will feel their opprobrium in similar portions to her distain for them.
Tanya Davies gave it all she had and lost a portfolio due to her opposition to the barbaric abortion law.
And this month’s DARWIN Award goes tooooo ……!
There’s penis enlargement gimmicks and then there’s this .. LOL!
https://www.facebook.com/465010963917466/photos/a.465032920581937/1527700630981822/
Had forgotten about her Crossie. Thank you.
**proportions**
Vickisays:
July 20, 2022 at 7:28 pm
The most important COVID-19 breakthrough occured in June 2020 through the RECOVERY trial (Oxford) by identifying dexamethasone..
Zipster that was some considerable time ago. Prednisone has long replaced Dexamethasone as the steroid of choice in many ICUs.
It is also now believed by many frontline physicians that steroids should be withheld in the early stages of Covid. I don’t really understand why.
Oi Rabz! Gez is dissing Miss Ellie!
*Slips $80 over the bar for Gez and sneaks away…*
#FrontBarUrger
Having attended a few weddings, usually stuck down the back on the “singles”table, you can’t have too many bridesmaids at a wedding.
Doc Faustus:
My understanding of the Italian tomato industry is that it is controlled by the Mafia and just repackages bulk tomatoes from China.
Whatever – I don’t buy Italian tomatoes any more.
Because we’re a civilised people who believe in Laura Norder
Which will last about three days after the food in the supermarkets runs out.
It must be said that this is not an entirely unique phenomenon to latter-day popular music.
Take the example of the Prussian Hohenfreidburger and Fredericus Rex marches.
The opening notes of each piece of music are so close that I’ll often start to hum the latter and crash headlong into reciting the former…
#Verdammt
Milton, when was the last time a front bench politician resigned over of a matter of principle?
Does anyone know why, when I put something up to listen to – example just now from Rex – I can’t hear it? (Volume is not turned down, btw)
Lucky you.
Missus went to the bank today to deposit a cheque in my name into my account. Bank says no.
WTF?
Is Australia the most irritating and stupid country on earth?!
very good question BBS
I’ve just discovered that I can be a Lord of Glencoe for about thirty quid.
The big question is, would I be Dr. Lord Beaugie of Glencoe, or Lord Dr. Beaugie of Glencoe? Until I find out, I’m not going to cough up the money.
“The big question is, would I be Dr. Lord Beaugie of Glencoe, or Lord Dr. Beaugie of Glencoe? Until I find out, I’m not going to cough up the money.”
Does it come with a tartan and will you wear a kilt?
But I am already Lord of Glencoe .
Biggles, Lord of Glencoe. But just call me m’lud.
Why did the bank refuse to bank the cheque? and Yes is the answer to the last question.
Carpe/Lizzie:
20th July was my transplant day 2014.
8 Years ago.
Interesting choice – fertiliser, for raising food crops, or cave paintings and song lines – relevant in the 21st century?
A neighbour just received his certificate from the US he is now a pastor.
Probably, and No.
I get a crest with a rather hideous design though.
Bespoke:
Certainly we have a lot to be thankful for, and we may yet dodge this bullet. (The odds aren’t really flash, but they are there.)
Do you mind letting us know where they were?
Tanya Plibersek pauses $4.5bn works on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has told proponents behind a $4.5bn urea project on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula to pause any construction work while her office assesses concerns over the project’s potential impact on Indigenous rock art and sensitive sites.
Ms Plibersek’s office is understood to have sought an assurance from Perdaman, a Perth-headquartered fertiliser company headed by Vikas Rambal, that no work will be carried out until there has been a decision on whether to grant a formal 60-day freeze of work at the site.
The massive project is expected to create up to 2000 jobs and will produce fertiliser for the agricultural industry, but opponents say it will require the removal of three rock art sites and will impact multiple other sacred sites.
One of those opposed to the project, traditional custodian Josie Alec, said she had been personally assured her application for ministerial intervention was being considered. She said she was encouraged by the news but had been burnt before by government promises.
“You never know with these guys because they’ve done it to us so many times, so I take it with a grain of salt until we get something on paper,” she said.
The scrutiny of the Perdaman urea project comes a day after Ms Plibersek used the launch of the latest state of the environment report to pledge an overhaul of environmental laws and vowed to significantly expand the amount of Australia under protection.
The stop-work request will give federal regulators time to assess whether to exercise powers under section 9 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act. Should that be exercised, Perdaman would be barred from carrying out works at the site for two months without additional approvals and management plans.
Save Our Songlines, a group of traditional custodians opposed to the project, tried unsuccessfully earlier this year to have then-federal environment minister Sussan Ley intervene. The request was rejected after Ms Ley said she was not satisfied the area was under “a serious and immediate threat of injury or desecration”.
WA’s Department of Water and Environmental Regulation last week granted final works approval for the plant, clearing the way for work to begin.
Save Our Songlines earlier this week wrote to Ms Plibersek and federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney urging them to intervene.
The Perdaman plans have proved divisive in Indigenous communities with ties to the Burrup.
The support for the project from the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation, the body set up to represent the different Aboriginal groups of the region, prompted Raelene Cooper and Patrick Churnside to step down from the group and help establish Save Our Songlines.
Ms Alec said she hoped to see the urea project shifted to a different nearby site where it would not directly impact on the Burrup’s rock art. “There’s a designated area they could move it to 20km down the road where they wouldn’t have to remove any rock art, and they definitely do not have to put all these emissions into the air either because there are new ways to reduce carbon emissions,” she said.
“The desecration of the rocks, that’s already happened over the past 20 years and it can’t happen any more.”
The Burrup Peninsula houses some of Australia’s largest industrial projects, such as the North West Shelf and Pluto liquefied natural gas plants and Yara Fertilisers’ Pilbara ammonia plant.
Yet the peninsula and the surrounding Dampier rock art precinct is home to the largest concentration of rock carvings in the world, with many examples relocated or destroyed by earlier developments. There have long been concerns that emissions from that industrial activity could damage the engravings.
The Perdaman project is expected to produce more than two million tonnes a year of urea, a fertiliser widely used for food production. In 2018, Perdaman secured a deal that would see it supplied with gas from Woodside Energy for 20 years.
Ms Plibersek’s office, Mr Rambal and MAC were contacted for comment.
Earlier this year, Mr Rambal told The Australian his company was working “very closely” with MAC, which he said was satisfied with the consultation and the way forward for the project.
Oz
Short answer – because we haven’t turned into wild animals yet.
And I hope we never do.
What if we do it slowly and ceremoniously, and have a Victoria style mock trial at the front end?
If you’re on a mobile device, Youtube will sometimes auto-mute, and you have to tap on the video to get it to sound.
My Brave browser on my laptop automatically mutes its tabs, and requires a right click to unmute.
Snap Zulu!
Not yet
Great minds, Top Ender. A fertilizer plant, on hold, citing song lines and cave paintings, FFS.
South Africa, Winston.
Why did the bank refuse to bank the cheque?
I believe “Because we’re irritating wankers” was the answer. Missus was flabbergasted: You can do this in any third world country, what problem are they trying to solve with this rule?
FACTCHECK: True
(I have the T shirt)
The Australian Media really are absolutely corrupt, anyone hear about this protest?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRgRlhFeX8w
You behave- It’s not like I turn the haubitzen on you lot all the time…
***Preussens Gloria intensifies***
While many people think covid is mild, my view is that everybody has long term effects. The preponderance of evidence is that it is a bioweapon that has numerous mrna motifs that are not part of the evolutionary process (and more are discovered constantly) that gives the spike access to major parts of the body including vascular, neurology and reproductive.
The spike protein persists in most people for a very long time through two mechanisms discovered so far: persistent micro-clots and damaged monocytes that attempt to consume and degrade the spike and fail.
What I have notice is that it is possible to have no effects for a very long time and then be pushed over the edge by stressing the physiology well above baseline. This could be through another virus or physical exertion or even aggressive dieting. At which point the body enters a state of escalating auto-immune cascade, potentially leading to death or disability.
The cause is the spike protein keeps the body in a state of mild inflammation and sufficient stressor pushes it to full inflamation where it brings in the heavy guns with resulting adverse events. The spike protein is buried in clots or dysfunctional monocytes and escapes detection by the immune system tricking the immune system to attack nearby parts of the body and develop autoimmune issues with potential serious adverse events. Such as kids dying from autoimmune kidney destruction or athletes dying from heart attacks.
All cause mortality rising certainly provides evidence for what is going on. The distance between an adverse event, which can be months and possibly years and the initial dose of spike protein provides plausible deniability as to cause and effect.
My suspicion is that this bioweapon is in fact part of a multi virus system, priming the recipient for further intervention. We are under continued attack.
The monkeypox virus is ripping through the gay community, in the last 10 days it has gone from 8200 cases to 14500 cases. It is doubling about every 2 weeks. This is not a normal monkeypox virus, looks more like a test run.
Flu does not create long-flu. Covid on the other hand creates persistent issues to various degrees in a significant part of the population. Note there are many people on long covid forums that have had long covid since 2020. The spike protein is very good at long term survival.
Governments show no interest in addressing long-covid or vaccine injuries, yet continue to want to inflict this toxic stew into an ever younger population. In the words of Klaus Schwab, “nobody is safe until everybody is vaccinated”. Governments also all did a 180 on avoidance to acceptance almost simultaneously.
One has to carefully consider the raison-d’etres for the “vaccine”, as it turns the recipient into a spike protein factory with even worst resulting outcomes than covid.
The solution is obviously not the fake mrna “vaccine” but antivirals, since avoiding the virus is near impossible.
Rex, thank you.
Dr BG, don’t go near it; next you’ll have a Nigerian email scam filling up your inbox.
I was thinking of offering to fight you for the sole right to the title; after all that’s how titles originally got sorted out. Then I discovered that there are an awful lot of lords ( and ladies) of Glencoe, so it would just take up too much time. I’d win of course, I have a surefire method.
It’s called ‘cheating’.
I thought they were off to present a long-term domestic fix to the AdBlue crisis as well?
Leftism (TM). When you need an inescapable genetic and cultural cul-de-sac, accept no substitutes. Available at all reputable universities, public bureaucracies and multi-national NGOs near you…
Nope.
They are probably using LIDAR to navigate. That, and with the networking, means a huge EM signature. You may as well fit them a homing beacon.
Easily picked up by signals from 25 km away and promptly destroyed by artillery.
Bespoke:
Bloody lucky to get out of there with the family and skin intact. SA had so much going for it…
Isn’t there a movement to settle all the whites into one smaller area?
Weirdo!
“A consciousness of guilt”, you say?
So among our politicians, would that phenomenon be described as an “unconsciousness of guilt”?
Comments on that article aren’t running too strongly in favor of the cave paintings and song lines..
My perents are still over there Winston.
Unrealist fantasy.
On top of the fact that no drone-heavy warfare (or testing) has yet occurred in a theatre of war in which any side has mounted any serious anti-drone EW efforts.
My perents are still over there, Winston.
C’mon, that video of the music sync’ed to the Panther’s inertia starter was awesome!
If I may ask, whereabouts?
Unrealistic fantasy. Out gunned and out numberd.
Alberton
Eyrie,
I watched ‘Apollo 11 live’ last night. It was riveting. Some observations:
Footage of the crowd and car parks.Some super cool cars in pristine condition.
Combi vans with pop tops galore.
Some great mini skirts
Everyone had a smoke pipe or cigar in mouth at some point
The media sure did love themselves way back then
Mrs Armstrong telling a journo ‘no’ to stupid question.
Leftist dimwits got plenty of airtime back then as well.
Great footage all round.
The Australian Media really are absolutely corrupt, anyone hear about this protest?
It’s Soviet style suppression now- enemies of the people
Was having a conversation with my dentist this morning.
Well, as much as you can with a gobful of stainless steel.
Anyway, carrying on from yesterday’s conv about gender science he’d obviously been considering things.
His loose thesis is that we don’t really have any interpersonal connection anymore anywhere. And that we are effective digitally brokered by bots.
Sexless bots
Genderless bots
You know…machines, right.
And that the whole gender-tech thing with the kiddies these days might really be just an alignment to fit better with with the robotic way things are done now.
Cyborgs’R’us
I asked him how we gonna breed and what happens when the power goes off ?
Prolly won’t get an answer until November
All the best to them – South Africa was a country with a lot to offer, and it’s being turned into another Third World shithole, courtesy of the A.N.C.
Wow, whats the odds of their ABCcess coordinating an interview with Mrs “ I hunt food the traditional way, at Woolies” the same day the junkies missus announces a stop to work?
The Economist weighs in
In Sleep Tight news:
Australia almost no chance to buy any submarine from current US building program, experts say
I have exactly zero content knowledge about submarines. But I do have a high degree of confidence that Australia could end up spending well in excess of $200 billion on eight boats. Four times the original cost estimate and twice the delivery seems about right for government projects.
Perhaps his new Chinese besties might be able to help?
Bespoke, you’re delusional. I’ve always found Bug Eyes PARTICULARLY unattractive. Stop spreading fake news.
JC
According to occasional cortex you stating you don’t like her means you want to jump her bones.
Rifles, yes. Motorbikes, no. With them it stands for Bastards Stopped Again.