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nice
KaBLAM!
Oh great bern. Just great.
Berned!
It’s good to be king.
Meanwhile in the US, stuff is going nuclear.
Melania has been sewing “yellow cake” into her panties apparently.
It’s about as plausible as 0% inflation for the month.
Forget the Southern border. The Whitehouse and the media has a serious Fentanyl problem.
George III thought the same.
Dying rich and anonymous would be preferable to dying rich and famous.
Every day of the week.
It’s the “power” thing that fucks them up. Every. Single. Time.
Fame and fortune rarely collide. When it does, it generally results in arsehattery.
Hollywood (entertainment) and Politics are a perfect match.
Same skill set, but very few people in this world can actually do both. I’d probably include “Sports Stars” in that category. Very few can actually make that transition. It’s a bit weird when you think about it.
The very few notable exceptions are Reagan and Trump (to a small extent, actor wise). I can only conclude that “name recognition” and “brains/organisation” helped them along.
As far as the rest of the politicians go, it seems to boil down to “like ability”, and getting your face on the news.
Oh wait……now I get it.
First!!!
If he was in the USA, Gillian McLachlan would be a Democrat.
And I’m about eleventh.
Leak nails the imbecile Bowen.
Tom will have it up at 04:00am.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Steve Bright.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel. Brilliant.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Thanx Tom.
Mark Knight cartoon could also be Brisbane instead of Melbourne. City workers down to 50%. Not helped by Qld Premier, 2 weeks ago, saying Qld hospital cases were going to peak at end of August at 1660. When she said it cases in hospital were 1123. Today’s numbers are 543.
Trust the experts.
Up early and this article from Daily Mail caught my attention.
Salman Rushdie is in surgery after being stabbed 10 to 15 times – including once in the neck – on stage at NY literary fair: Airlifted to hospital 33 years after Iran issued fatwah on him for novel The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie, 75, has been airlifted to hospital after being stabbed up to 15 times, including once in the neck
He was attacked by a man who rushed the stage before ‘punching and stabbing’ the author multiple times in front of horrified witnesses at a literary fair in Chautauqua, New York, near Buffalo
Those attending the event quickly pinned down his attacker, with New York State Police confirming a man had been arrested
Blood spatter can be seen on the stage and chair close to where the the author had been intending to give his speech
His agent has confirmed that he is currently in surgery for his injuries, though wasn’t able to give an update on his condition
Rushdie wrote the Satanic Verses, which resulted in a culture war being sparked in 1988 in Britain, and he was issued a fatwa by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini in February 1989.
Sure Boonondara have plenty of money for climate boondoogles.
If I were an elderly ratepayer of thirty, forty, fifty years standing I’d be a little mifted.
the decision by councils to exit aged care services is as clear as mud. ‘Can’t make money from it?’
new Zealand house prices collapse (a slight exaggeration)
Also a trifle hyperbolic, same reporter, no surprise
https://amp.macrobusiness.com.au/?url=https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2022/08/property-listings-swell-as-buyers-strike/Aussie property listings swell as buyers go on strike
once again Labor identifies the real source of all Australia’s woes. Tax cheats.
Tax cheats will fund those 25% pay rises in aged and child care sectors.
Anne Heche brown bread.
Trump + espionage = firing squad.
A few recent tweets of interest:
BREAKING: Elon Musk offers to purchase the FBI for $100 billion. No word yet if the Clinton’s are willing to sell.
Washington Post reports that the FBI found the Ark of the Covenant in Trump’s basement.
Why would Trump personally sell nuclear secrets? Everyone knows if you’re going to cash in on international energy deals, you send your son who has zero energy experience and is a terrible painter to do that.
After days of silence, Merrick Garland he says ordered the Code Red and lectures us on distrust of the FBI. Five minutes later, we get leaks to the NYT about the contents of the warrant.
Crankie Frankie likes transsexuals-what next? It’s really decline and fall with an anti pope pollution the vatican
To save monty doing it, can someone post the most generic, low rent talking points about how Trump is going to jail & then accuse roger of posting talks?
I love the smell of gaslighting in the morning.
Welcome Traitors!
On such a lovely traitor-y morning!
Private sector workers in Australia are serfs.
A hearty good morning to all my fellow DeNiaLists!
Oops.
ML beat me to it with “Welcome to Country”.
Dot:
I wonder when the ‘lying flat’ phenomenon will hit Australia and what the government will do about it – apart from importing wukkas who will immediately go on the welfare rolls.
Merrick Garland will personally arrest Trump. It is going to be glorious.
No doubt Anne Heche stroked out over this delicious news. RIP.
I hope Garland is made Chief Justice for his loyalty to Joe Biden. Lots of little girls will sleep soundly now their President is safe from a ridiculous monster. A fake patriot who was colluding to genocide Americans with Putin and Xi. Let’s all hope Trump gets a military execution and is forgotten about!
American Girls Thank Their Uncle Joe:
https://youtu.be/V4PLSPvJ9BY
Almost make me proud to want to be American.
God bless that good, no, great man.
O7 🙂
I’ve been lighting the fire in the lounge so the smoking ceremony is coming along nicely.
Bowen gives stupidity a bad name. A worthy successor to Stephen Conroy.
Penrith beat the Bunnies.
Parra beats Penrith.
The Bunnies beat Parra.
You know it makes sense.
Dover I inadvertently reported comments last night. My phone seems to be a bit sensitive at the moment. You know the only thing I report.
Jan Ken Pon!
Teh Paywallian reporting Australian National Weirdo Harold Scruby loses $700k in a crypto scam. Which raises the question.
Bear, that’s why munty is so stupid. Trying to get into the political elite. A ready made minister.
Should ask Hillary that one, since she sold them the uranium.
I tried that in the sitting room. While the plastic straws make a nice smokey fire,
I can’t get the burnt polypropylene smell out of the scatter cushions.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/bombshell-evidence-shows-michigan-supreme-court-race-2020-flipped-election-audit-professionals-also-identify-numerous-red-flags-new-mexico-arizona/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-08-12
LOL
So predictable. Tim Pool reports:
MSNBC shill and fmr. CIA crime family boss demands Trump be murdered by other Democrats:
https://youtu.be/vO9rwGok4M8
ABC News Chief Investigative Reporter: Americans Who Are Angry Over Trump Raid Are ‘Neo-Nazis’ Because Merrick Garland Is Jewish
“As soon as President Trump put out confirmation on Monday that the raid had been done and was underway, we immediately started seeing factions on the far right, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, militia organizers calling for violence as they always have done against Jews — the attorney general is Jewish,” Margolin said. “Against the FBI, federal law enforcement, against other perceived enemies — enemies they perceive to be enemies of President Trump.”
If the US isn’t hopping mad about the way they are being treated, something is very wrong.
Winston just mentioned ‘Lying Flat’, there’s also ‘The Great Resignation’ and other phrases for the loss of the desire to work. I called it ‘The Great Malaise’. All around the world the desire to work and achieve seems to disappearing, from high school kids not wanting part time work to those who were once hard working, ladder climbing star employees.
It’s real and it’s a big problem. It seems to afflict mainly western societies and industrial Asian societies. I don’t know about the Asian side of it but in the west I believe that the last twenty years of no longer employing or promoting on the basis of excellence or the best person for the job is responsible. In the schools the kids have been constantly told how bad western society is and that white people are responsible for all the ills of the world and that every other culture is superior to western culture.
In places of employment both private and public, hard work, intelligence, ability and talent now are no longer considered essential or even desirable. Instead your sex, race, colour, beliefs and what you say are the primary factors in selection and promotion. It truly doesn’t matter how good you are, how hard you work, none of it matters, it’s all about the ‘Current Thing’ and whether you meet that criteria. So the bulk of the people are just giving up, they get what jobs they can, do the minimum and go home. It’s why so many or our institutions are hopeless, why much of our economy and industries are second rate. Our pursuit of the current thing does more damage to ordinary people everyday and both sides of politics are happy to go along with it.
Our elites have abandoned excellence and ability and have promoted sub standard people into positions of power and those sub standard morons continue the process. I have no idea of how this can be fixed.
Foul geriatric US political parasite of the dayMassachusetts inflicts some of the most disgusting filth on the US-Warren and Markey too. What a fucked place. Remember they kept sending Kennedy to DC after Chappaquiddick.
Bear, excellent news, couldn’t happen to a more deserving bloke.
Get a load of these evil old peopleHouse Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) on Friday reportedly pledged to raise taxes if the Democrats maintain control of the House after the midterm elections.
As a mad Uncle I wish Harold Scruby no ill will. He does offend my libertarian leanings though.
Not sure about this, because it seems to be way over the top. However I’d not put it past the Swamp.
This is not a path the Democrats want to travel down…
Sfw – A whole generation has also grown up being indoctrinated that the world is going to end in a few years. Why bother working for the future when there’s no future?
It’s pervasive. Even Sky yesterday had the story Anchor What mentioned, although they’ve just now taken it down.
Arctic warming four times faster than rest of the planet, study finds (12 Aug)
It’s total rubbish when you look at the NH cryosphere data, as I linked yesterday. But 99% of people wouldn’t know how to check such things, and if Sky News is carrying garbage like this you can bet your boots the rest of the MSM are ululating like crazed wolves.
The private sector are the only ones paying tax. Everyone else is subsidising the amount they have to pay. What is the total tax, levies, fees and charges we pay in the dollar, 45 cents? Whatever you do to avoid paying tax is ok by me. The public sector have no controls on how much they charge for doing nothing. Most are parasites. Most of the APS could be sacked tomorrow with no consequences to the rest of us. The more you do for yourself the less tax you pay. Tax is the biggest input cost of anything you buy. All to support the Public Sector lifestyle.
Jab jab booster……………………..
People that are vaccinated remain five times as contagious as those who are unvaccinated ten days after SARS-CoV-2 infection. Put another way, the vaccinated continue to transmit the disease significantly more than the unvaccinated should the data hold up across broader investigation.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/bombshell-study-vaccinated-5x-more-contagious-than-the-unvaccinated-10-days-after-sars-cov-2-infection-ae391446
Absolutely 100% spot on ! ! !
Great comment mate.
Can’t disagree with any of that Ranga especially seeing formerly productive parts of the public sector have been sold off.
The world is getting weirder.
Grandad left with huge bill as influencers take selfies on doorstep (12 Aug)
Most people have problems with rats and cockroaches, not influencers. Although there’s a similarity I suppose. He should put his house on the market, it might get a good price.
The thing is, indoctrination in school and giving kids a gloomy view of life was even going on when I was a schoolie in the 70s and 80s- nuclear annihilation, depressing novels like the Pigman by Paul Zindel. Nasty stuff. Marxists took over ejucashun in the 60s I reckon. Aussie history was still pretty upbeat then but the lionizing of Mao was extraordinary.
I was even taught about barefoot doctors fmd!
The pamphleteers at Seven Sunrise inform me of a new Covid variant that “it will be devastating to get if you get it twice”.
I suppose just getting it once would be too much to ask?
Taxing planning should always be assertive.
But never aggressive.
How two incompetent commanders got away with it – and the enthused captains of the small ships that sank two Japanese submarines were never rewarded.
Quadrant
Sidebar: 18 months ago I put recommendations in for Robert Rankin and Ron Taylor of HMAS Yarra for bravery medals. The process is ongoing. Will be doing the same for these chaps too.
Aiko desho?
I suppose just getting it once would be too much to ask?
Same.
On matters taxation let Kerry Packer be your guide. A little advice and forward planning can save a lot of grief down the track.
I think a minimum wage worker pays at least 40% tax all up.
Middle class to wealthy, at least 55% tax, all up.
Genuinely well off and have sinful tastes: possibly over 70% tax, all up.
The sun is (finally) out and the garden beckons. Pissaro, our thread artist, did a series of paintings of women out and about planting turnips and cabbages and other garden-ey things. Bent double, long skirts kilted.
Well, no skirts for me, just cheapy KMart trackie daks, but the same posture and the same hard work and satisfaction of a job well done.
No “laying flat” in this neck of the woods.
Never forget:
The tax component of a new home can be 45-46% of the sale price.
What’s the tax rate on this? Simple maths: 46/54 x 100 —> over 85%!
Could you imagine paying 85% income tax or CGT!?
Meme;
I find this chap’s bible history to be fascinating.
His channel is one for a rainy day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvre1MNat-8
That is because hot air rises and if you look at a map you can plainly see the Arctic is at the top.
Sometimes the scientific illiteracy on this site beggars the most extreme pessimism.
How many people, I wonder, understand that the sun is a fusion reaction, not fission? It turns hydrogen into CO2, which is why it is hot and why roper cannot breathe there.
Jab jab booster………………………Meme;
I see that the CDC has removed their completely unworkable Covid guidelines, particularly for schools.
That sound you hear is the swelled throats of a million Karens bursting with indignation. So loud it carries across the Pacific.
In local news, masks are still in evidence at the shops, mostly among the elderly. If you wanted to guarantee getting the rotten thing, wear the dirty old rag then handle it before your café cuppa. But be sure to put it on before rising to go about the rest of your shopping, as the virus lurks exactly 1250mm above the ground level.
Trust The Science.
Usual evasion about the Rushdie attack. The MSM hates having to report such stories.
Newsmax has this:
Salman Rushdie in Surgery After Being Stabbed Onstage; Suspect ID’d (12 Aug)
Unclear eh? Pull the other one it has bells on.
burning it all down? mound of skulls, salt the earth…. that sort of thing
Miltonf I remember in the 60’s at high school being told to turn away from the nuclear blast and put your head between your legs. Ha. Even then thought the teachers were tossers.
From The Telegraph…
“Salman Rushdie stabbed in neck on stage at a New York writers conference
New York Police have arrested an Iranian Government sympathiser after he stabbed Salman Rushdie in the neck as the author walked on stage during a writers conference.”
Trump search warrant plus some other shit.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/here-is-the-trump-search-warrant
As per the Federalist tweet, they could seize anything found near anything named in the warrant.
What a fishing expedition.
Glad to hear you’re planting turnps calli, Baldrick would be proud. Is that to feed the black pigs?
or for the next cunning plan?
The NY Post is even better.
They hedge aroooooooooooound it, but just can’t bring themselves to nail it.
Calli – at the moment husband had Breakfast TV on – as his unacceptable, but tolerated habit. I just overheard some despicable tame epidemiologist harlot reproving a female announcer for suggesting that a particular anti-virals seems to induce rebound Covid.
No!no! he insisted. It will prevent serious illness. Clearly the dills here have no intention of agreeing with the CDC renouncement of their position on the virus/vaccines/mandates.
We are a backwater here – reinventing the old characterisation of us as a remote colony. It sucks.
What a strange place is Australia and what a worry are Australians.
We do not have a single dissenting voice in the public domain denouncing terror and corruption.
The Cossack at least tried.
Kerry Packer is still one of my favorite Australian public figures. Gina too. I hope to add Jacinta Price to the list. Its not a long list.
bending the first amendment past breaking
state sponsored extortion of media as policy and praxis
the left always accuse their opponents of what they themselves do
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert’s House mic is CUT during attack claiming Democrats are ‘sacrificing American families at the altar of climate change’ and using the ‘federal government for armed robbery’
SAY WHAT? Obama Took 30 Million Documents From White House…FBI Never Raided Any of His Mansions
flyingduk says:
August 13, 2022 at 8:20 am
The only problem is the incoming rulers, sometimes we don’t get what we rebelled for.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC Admits It Gave False Information About COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance
Anthony Fauci Jokes About Origins of the Coronavirus: ‘I Developed the Ancestral Model Strain’
Top Biden aide Anita Dunn reveals conflicts of interest in multi-million dollar fortune
Was the fatwa on Rushdie ever rescinded?
He was born after the fatwa was issued, so it can’t be that.
Which leaves mental issues caused by the Orange Man Bad islamophobia years.
Calli – re your gardening efforts:
Yep – sun out yesterday (not today) & after returning from a nerve racking visit to computer guru in local town (hate computer issues) I tackled the annual pruning of house garden shrubs. Got the Gator out to provide a platform (by way of the tray) to stand high enough to trim with the (very damn heavy) battery clippers. Had to concentrate in climbing up as conscious that advancing years are hazardous. Managed to do half of trees/shrub needing a trim & hope husband will do the rest if drizzle eases today.
We have bought a terrific cultivator gadget that rips up the weeds in the vege garden. These things are expensive but relieve the amount of hard work. We are keen to get the garden producing in these uncertain times. Meanwhile the hens are the hardest working operatives on the farm. We reward them by allowing them free range ( & kitchen treats) when we are at the farm & they keep up a relentless supply of eggs for us, family & neighbours who don’t have hens.
The joy of this place relieves the despair I have for our current society and the world in general.
In local news, masks are still in evidence at the shops,
Out here in Fairfield the SE Asians still luv ’em about 80% still masked and quite a few with additional welders helmets on too .. LOL!
Maybe it was generational trauma from the Crusades.
Baris is saying Cheney will definitely lose her primary this week.
Big test for his data.
He’s called every primary so far this season where he’s been active.
JC
Yes, and Wussiagate makes a return to the stage with a new Leftwing narrative. Trump was hiding nuclear secrets in order to sell them to the Wussians.
Didn’t Bill Clinton approve the sale of missile re-entry vehicle technology to China? If so, how do the two compare? Will he and Trump get “his and his” electric chairs?
JC
Under Xi , China is pretty much a fascist regime. It’s not communist in the real sense. The ironic thing is that we saw, over the space of 25 plus years, a communist regime seamlessly converting from communist to fascist . Meanwhile the Western left is willfully blind to this move from one totalitarian room to another in the same house.
Liberty quote.
Gilassays:
August 13, 2022 at 8:18 am
Boambee John says:
August 12, 2022 at 5:57 pm
I care because his idiocies must not go unchallenged. I would rather not have to do it, but the only worthwhile alternative is a total ban on him. The blog should not become a source of lying leftist propaganda.
What would Montz do if his BS comments were ignored?
Why not try it?
He only comments to rub our noses in it, and some of us happily respond, in highly predictable, Pavlovian fashion.
He wins.
End of story.
And how did that work out, as the fascist left infiltrated all of the institutions of society?
To a degree, I agree with you, but are we collectively ready to take to the streets, and in the immortal words of m0nty-fa, “Punch a Nazi”? m0nty-fa is either too stupid to see what he has become, or did so willingly. Are we ready to join him?
Thankyou Tom for your continuing work in getting true recognition of our military history and real heroes. As an aside I had the privilege of working on the Kuttabul wheelhouse display at the AWM.
Mark Levin reacts to Trump raid ‘cover-up’ search warrant
Not raining here in Sydney, in fact it’s warm and the sun is shining, and I just enjoyed English Bible Translations Family Tree | Which Version Is Best?
Thank you. A nice start to my day.
Sean Hannity: We’re fully immersed in another anti-Trump witch-hunt
One day we’ll find out what Sandy Berger stole on behalf of the Clintons.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/06/10/crisis_at_the_national_archives_137241.html
And marginalia may be the key to solving the puzzle of just what the late Sandy Berger, acting as former President Bill Clinton’s representative, was destroying during his 2005 trips into the National Archives, where he stuffed papers into his clothing. Berger only got away with this twice before archive personnel kept tabs on him, but the first trips involved as yet uncatalogued material so no one really knows what he took. But there seemed to be copies in the archive of everything they caught him with. And archival libraries dependent upon physical papers are vulnerable.
Cross-river rail and all those new green bridges will entice them back!
Mr Rushdie has fallen into the trap of hanging around writers for too long.
Everything’s theoretical to them, and as far as I know there’s no sunset clause on a fatwa.
Last I checked she was 22 points behind her challenger.
Would be a miraculous come back.
It’s not about the polls.
It’s about DNC operatives gaming the system.
There is another reason for countering his idiotic claims, it is an opportunity to share and spread true information which can be used to counter the ignorance his sort of click bait leftism feeds on.
One advantage of having the fat creep here is it’s imbecility is frequently encountered out in the real world. It’s good to be prepared for it. The stupidity could render you speechless. It’s always good to have something to hit back with.
P, you there’s a video on his channel on how many books in the bible didn’t make the final cut.
The Ethiopian Jews were given the rough end of the pineapple having all their stuff binned.
It is the fatwa, under Islamic Shia law, the fatwa lasts an eternity. Only the person who issued the fatwa can rescind it and he is dead.
I have wondered, given the bullshit definition on employed, what proportion of the Aussie population actually are genuinely employed in a role that might be livable.
Take out everyone who works less than 30 hours a week, everyone who works for government at any level. Whatever’s left is the ones supporting pretty much everything, because I don’t think mining royalties cover that much. I’d doubt it’s more than 40% of the population.
The new job I’ve got is about a 40% bump in hourly pay over the last one, but I don’t see anything like that after tax. Then once you think about excise, GST, etc. etc. it gets a bit aggravating.
Anne Heche fails to do a Tiger.
Feelings can run high at writer’s festival’s.
Particularly over missplaced commas.
As I reported earlier in the week, Democrats have been asking their registered voters to switch and support her. But I just don’t think Wyoming is up for those shenanigans.
Have any of you read Lewis’ Perelandra? The trick (Weston, or whatever inhabited Weston) was to raise and prosecute an absurd and false idea. When it was countered with reason, he seamlessly moved to the next “argument”. This was designed to wear down his interlocutor, Ransom.
It succeeded, because Ransom grew weary and needed sleep. Weston did not. Here there is an advantage. There are many “Ransoms” and only one “Weston”.
I’m not proposing that we do as Ransom did, and break Weston’s jaw.
C grade actrix Anne Heche dead, after her final attempts to garner attention which involved fanging around suburban streets at 145 while shitfaced, and before launching herself into someone else’s house which burned down as a result.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
The poor punter whose home was Heche-ified has yet have the damage paid for by Alec Baldwin.
FBI Raid Warrant Demanded Seizure Of Literally Any Record Trump Ever Saw During 4-Year Presidential Term
So much for Garland’s claim that the search warrant and the search was “narrowly scoped”.
This was big game fishing at its finest.
Always a few car accident folk at the acquired brain injury rehab place along with the strokes. Often not in great shape. Take care.
Garland lied?
I’m shocked.
The other thing is the IRGC has been under a lot of pressure lately.
Their senior guys in Islamic Jihad were topped last week – the full set. They tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Bolton a few days ago to take revenge for Soleimani, who was sliced and diced too.
So it would not be surprising if this kiddie was acting under orders.
I read on Twatter, in a thread about the raid, that it was not a raid, because they didn’t have to break the door in.
My considered opinion that counts for nothing, that Xi pooh bear Jinping was selected due to his facial appearance to the West of being a sympathetic character. China returning to the ways of old communism shows a power struggle. For the last 20 years China has been eating our lunch and would have continued to do so. The Chinese Bat Virus has put the brakes on economic prosperity hence the return to the old ways of belligerence. This is a simplistic view but as in most things, simple is the beginnings of complex, leading to chaos. The more people involved the more complex things become but doesn’t make the premise more complex.
From the old OT
.6 Musk is not an engineer – but he depends on them being able to realise his ideas.
Musk doesn’t have an engineering degree but he’s an engineer. Have a look at the walk around videos at Boca Chica with Tim Dodd.
There were plenty of engineers before university degrees were invented. See also Irv Culver at Lockheed.
Why the silly credentialism?
I reckon Bluey is right, if I think about most adults I know, including my customers then maybe 30% are employed in private business or self employed. The rest are on pensions, welfare or work in gov or semi government. I guess the resources industries are paying a lot of tax. If we lose them then the tax burden will fall heavily on the 30%, game over.
Washing almost done…then the garden.
A weed has appeared in the garden that I call the Covid Weed. It appeared in the last two years, seeding itself everywhere. It is easy to pull out, doesn’t do much harm but it infests with a passion. So far I am unable to identify it against any of my hort examples.
My theory is that it came out of a Chinese lab.
I’m sure Rushdie’s stabber can claim “legitimate grievances”.
Mmm…does it have a lace like form, and dark green leaves tinged with purple?
Here is the Trump Search Warrant
Hat tip to Posobiec
Not a great time for weeds. Everywhere a sea of yellow with oxalis which is nearly the perfect weed. Bindii flowering madly to make barefoot life in summer impossible. Thistles and other windborne winds laugh at attempts to mulch them out of existence.
I doubt very much Xi is threatened. China at present has some serious economic issues it’s dealing with internally and not just covid related. But altogether, large portions of the populace are feeling pretty disgruntled. That’s got the CCP quite worried. China has also spent heavily the last decade or so on massive military upgrading and expansions. Along with that comes the bombast and chest beating – ” we’ll show them”. Along comes Pelosi to Taiwan and blows all that out the window so Xi puts on a big show of bluff and bluster.
What we are witnessing is plain old deception. The external “crisis” rallies patriotic sensitivities , which the CCP needs while they wade through these internal issues. All theatre, as if Pelosi (whose family for decades has deep China ties) was asked and agreed to accommodate the “crisis” narrative.
Boambee John says:
August 8, 2022 at 8:05 am
Catching up on the old thread. Thanks for the insights, BJ.
No Roger. It has a soft rosette of leaves, hairy underside, with a single tap root. The flowers are borne in series on a single stem, pale yellow and nodding. The seeds are tiny and feathered, similar to dandelion. Many…many seeds.
It has infested the Bay, according to the maintenance guys.
It’s the CCP. I just know it. 😀
The plant it most resembles is the English Cowslip, Primula veris.
He mistook Rushdie for Fatty Trump? Easy mistake to make.
P.S. Dover, I can no longer post comments with links in them. Anyone else having this problem?
If I had the time and knew where to look digging into the ABS stats it’s would probably yield the answer. Government probably knows, just shit scared of anyone else finding out.
Nope, I just did one.
Re masks . . .
I do quite a bit of soccer refereeing for private high schools and this week I had 2 games where the goalkeeper was wearing a mask whilst playing.
FFS.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
August 13, 2022 at 7:42 am
Sfw – A whole generation has also grown up being indoctrinated that the world is going to end in a few years. Why bother working for the future when there’s no future?
It’s pervasive. Even Sky yesterday had the story Anchor What mentioned, although they’ve just now taken it down.
Arctic warming four times faster than rest of the planet, study finds (12 Aug)
6pm Channel 7 News was sprouting the same last night
China isn’t returning to communism, the lefties who have some smarts know that true communism won’t work, What they’ve have worked out is that fascism works very well, very close to communism but the state and big business work together to keep the population under control and allow no opposition. Funny sounds like the US under the Democrats and both sides of politics here.
Communism will always eventually collapse, a planned economy and state ownership of everything just can’t sustain itself in the long term. Fascist systems can, they may stagnate but there isn’t an obvious way to collapse the system short of tumbrils and guillotines. That will probably be the way they end and it isn’t good for anyone. The only way I can see out of the mess is for the US (and us) to split into separate nations, One side can pursue their social justice schemes and fascism and the other needs to be a bullet proof nation of freedom and responsibility.
How can we make it happen here?
OK. I’d be no help identifying, I’m afraid.
Could indeed be a furriner.
Mar-a-Lago Search Warrant Unsealed, The Most Urgent, Critical, National Security Issue in the History of All Time, had 14 Days to Execute
August 12, 2022 – Sundance
…. and the DOJ/FBI had already reviewed the documents in June 2022.
I think we already know what documents the FBI and DOJ were on a mission to retrieve, and they had nothing to do with nuclear secrets {GO DEEP}. Try to avoid the shiny things, the pushed narrative, and keep the full context of the last SEVEN YEARS of DC targeting operations as the primary intellectual filter.
Donald Trump held evidence of a politically weaponized U.S. intelligence and justice system. To include an extensive paper trail showing how the DC apparatus under the Obama-era intelligence system, Dept of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Security, Dept of Justice and FBI coordinated with the Hillary Clinton campaign to install her into office {Go Deep}. THAT is the top-secret classified intelligence that must NEVER reach sunlight.
If the content of the documents was so urgent, so vital to national security, so critical to safeguard “nuclear weapon information” from potential exposure…. Then why did the warrant have a 14-day window to execute? That narrative is a hoax, a cover story intended to justify the DOJ and FBI throwing a bag over the documentary evidence that shows the same DOJ and FBI wrongdoing.
The DOJ-NSD warrant, and the subsequent raid on Mar-a-Lago can only be related to records the U.S. government deems “classified” and material vital to national security interests. Hence, DOJ National Security Division involvement.
In prior outlines we have exhaustively covered the details of President Trump’s desire to publicly release information about DOJ and FBI conduct in their targeting of him during the fabricated Trump-Russia claims.
To understand the nature of the content of the boxes, first review the declassification memo provided by President Trump to the DOJ upon his departure from office.
The risk to the fabric of the U.S. government is why we see lawyers and pundits so confused as they try to figure out the disproportionate response from the DOJ and FBI, toward “simple records”, held by President Trump in Mar-a-Lago. Very few people can comprehend what has been done since January 2009, and the current state of corruption as it now exists amid all of the agencies and institutions of government.
Barack Obama spent 8 years building out and refining the political surveillance state. The operators of the institutions have spent the last six years hiding the construct.
President Donald Trump declassified the material then took evidence to Mar-a-Lago. The people currently in charge of managing the corrupt system, like Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, Chris Wray and the Senate allies, are going bananas. From their DC perspective, Donald Trump is an existential threat.
Given the nature of their opposition, and the underlying motives for their conduct, there is almost nothing they will not do to protect themselves. However, if you peel away all the layers of lies, manipulations and corruption, what you find at the heart of their conduct is fear.
What do they fear most?…
Not as such. The stock market has plummeted, so you could risk buying low and hoping it picks up again at some point soon, but you’re stuck with the shares for at least a year if you don’t want any capital gain taxed at 50%. The lowest risk would be to plonk it in some sort of term deposit that pays something other than a negative interest rate, although you’d still be going backwards given inflation – and if you earn over a certain amount in interest that would be taxed.
There’s always crypto, or mUttcoin™ if you’re feeling particularly adventurous (or foolhardy).
Via the long overdue implementation of HOP Time™.
Great comment sfw.
Not sure how we can remedy here in Oz, due to the nature of our political “democracy”and the way both major parties game the system to preserve their status.
Correct.
If you are a writer, you know that 90%+ of all writers are leftards, 9% are closet leftards and the other 1% is a statistical error.
Apart from being a magnet for leftards, writers festivals are a magnet for the left’s useful idiots, like muslims, and the human garbage that imagines the headlines if he makes a spectacle of himself attacking an enemy of the left.
Because he has survived decades of a muslim fatwa, Rushdie has forgotten that 99% of the people at writers festivals want to kill him. And so some simpleton with a grudge weaponised by his religion comes after him with a knife.
As he lies in that NYC ICU, it’s cold comfort to Rushdie that thousands of people could have told him his life was always in danger and that he should never venture into a festival of his enemies.
David Maddison
August 13, 2022 at 9:44 am · Reply
https://blackout-news.de/en/news/firewood-theft-increases-massively/
Firewood – theft increases massively
April 30, 2022
Energy prices are rising, not only heating oil, natural gas and petrol are becoming more expensive, but also firewood. Now, firewood thefts are becoming more frequent in state forest enterprises. Several state-managed forest enterprises have registered an increase in wood thefts in recent months. The wood thieves are even taking whole logs out of the forests with trucks. The district foresters increasingly assume that the thefts are professionally planned.
Emigrate once the US has sorted itself out.
OK – here’s a test.
So they finally got Rushdie and Trump had the bomb.
Full time private sector employment in Australia is about 32% of the population.
…and how many of them are NET taxpayers?
We have lords and serfs of many different income levels.
Occasionally I run out between deliveries. Popped into a servo in town to pick up a couple of bags to tide me over for a few days. They used to give you the key to the cage and you’d help yourself. No longer, too many bags unaccounted for.
Roger, if I was 20 years younger I would but the missus would never leave the kids and grandkids, I really wouldn’t want to either. This could be the wealthiest greatest country on earth, but our elites have created a shithole. I really think Donald Horne got it right when he described us, except those in charge aren’t even third rate.
“Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.”
Boambee John says:
August 13, 2022 at 8:53 am
And how did that work out, as the fascist left infiltrated all of the institutions of society?
To a degree, I agree with you, but are we collectively ready to take to the streets, and in the immortal words of m0nty-fa, “Punch a Nazi”? m0nty-fa is either too stupid to see what he has become, or did so willingly. Are we ready to join him?
Forgot about the new thread (Doh!), so most of my comments are mired in the ether…
My reply to Cohenite’s post from last night discussed this.
Pavlovian responses to a lonely troll will not win any wars, of any kind, ever.
But it does make some feel better.
We all, deep down, know what needs to be done..
And posting on a blog isn’t the answer.
Alternatively, we could hibernate, wake up in a few centuries… and hope that someone else has done the job for us.
Wow! Just wow! The latest fill-in for Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson Tonight is former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard (who’s still in the military and understands warfare).
I think Gabbard is a future US president, even though she now has a target on her back among the Democratic Party’s feral left.
Plus, as of today, she has outed herself as a Trump-gauge troll.
I think Tom has said it best re. Sal Rushdie. On a lighter note, I wonder if Larry David will do a Curb your Enthusiasm episode on Sal’s stabbing at a writers festival? David can find humour in any situation.
Let’s see the affidavit!
Defund The FBI!
I & I Editorial Board August 12, 2022
No, that headline’s not a joke. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, once so popular it had its own TV show solely dedicated to its heroics, has become a hyper-politicized, jackbooted bully that no longer serves the American people or the U.S. Constitution, which its employees are sworn to protect. It has become, instead, the intelligence arm and domestic enforcer of the far left.
Did we say defund? Yes. But we don’t mean simply to cut its funding, as leftists have disastrously proposed for police forces across the country. We mean tear down the entire rotting edifice of the FBI and replacing it with a new agency that respects the Constitution and holds itself accountable to all Americans, not just the woke far left.
The raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound may be the breaking point, but it’s only the latest FBI outrage. In recent years, under Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, the Bureau has acted overtly to aid one political party over the other, demonizing those who oppose the Democrats’ “woke,” “progressive” agenda for America.
To be sure, this has been going on for some time now, starting with the FBI’s feeble investigation of Hillary Clinton’s home-based server, which intelligence sources say was almost certainly hacked by the Russians, the Chinese, or both. It was a clear violation of the law, exposing America’s secrets to our worst enemies.
And the FBI did nothing.
The FBI was also improperly involved in the 2016 presidential election, allowing itself to be used by the Democratic National Committee, the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democrat law firm Perkins Coie to launch a spying operation against Trump and his campaign.
The FBI initially denied any impropriety, naturally, but in fact sat up a “secure work environment” at Perkins Coie offices to coordinate its investigation with its Democrat allies.
At one point, in April 2016, FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok brazenly told colleague (and lover) Lisa Page, “we’ll stop” Trump’s election. He subsequently launched “Crossfire Hurricane,” the investigation intended to sink Trump’s presidential hopes. Strzok called it the FBI’s “insurance policy.“
Or, as historian Victor Davis Hansen recently noted, “The FBI is beyond redemption.”
The CYE episode where he decided to wear the MAGA cap provides such an insight. He wore it not because he was Fatty Trump fan (heaven forbid), but purely to piss off various sanctimonious twats he couldn’t stand.
Yes, once you’re settled it’s quite a wrench to up sticks, sfw.
As great as this country potentially is, I’m just afraid the default setting of Australians is no longer freedom & personal responsibility, if it ever was.
The Americans have quite a different founding narrative they can draw upon for inspiration.
I’m riding this sucker to the bottom. The US has buckleys and bugger-all of sorting itself out.
There may be something useful I can do here before the end.
On stuff from Trump’s safe, the list.
No 7 is my personal favourite.
I can think of two billion reasons.
as someone whose assets are currently in cash, any suggestions about what to do?
Same thing .. no worthwhile interest around so why lock-it-up! .. I dug a hole in the backgarden .. stuck it all in a tin & buried it* .. mind living in “houso” that’s a fairly safe option .. excessive effort even for a few bob is frowned on out here!.. LOL!
*keep a few hundred around the house to save me digging too often .. LOL!
I read that as Lachlan and Paul Ryan softening up the punters for a more palatable (to them) alternative to that nasty terrible man Tucker.
She’ll never be President. No centrist can be elected these days and she’s centre-left anyway. And that’s even assuming there’ll be elections, which increasingly isn’t looking likely.
Item 7 hand written note will be the Permissive Action Link generating algorithm he copied onto the back of the Declaration of Independence with a Sharpie.
It’s the secret nuclear weapon secret that’ll get him shot and hung at Leavenworth.
mØnty to confirm.
2024
What needs to be done Gilas?
The Bee strikes again …
Why would Trump personally sell nuclear secrets?
He wouldn’t, of course but it fits the demon-rats narrative .. The Don (all hail!) is, probably, the most patriotic pollie in the US of A so, personally, profiting from the country’s secrets is a definite NO, NO!
I disagree (politely!).
There’s already a sorting going on via internal migration.
And it’s going to accelerate as things get worse in the blue states.
Another Huge Red Flag in the Trump Raid Story
When he spoke to the media on Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland took offense to those who questioned the professionalism and integrity of the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Well, Mr. Attorney General, if they’re so professional and full of integrity, can you explain why the Wall Street Journal apparently knows the contents of all the classified documents and supposedly “top secret” documents removed from Trump’s home and has apparently reviewed some of them?
Gee, if these documents were so incredibly sensitive and secret that the FBI had to conduct an armed raid of Trump’s home in order to retrieve them, how come the press is allowed to know the nature of the documents? These documents are apparently too sensitive for Trump to possess but not so sensitive that FBI agents can’t show them off to the media.
Here’s the context to my comment:
Fox boss Lachlan Murdoch privately levels harsh criticism against Trump, sources say (CNN, 10 Aug)
Might be a mystery to a CNN kiddie, but it never has been to me. Lachlan and James are wet as oceans (James is worst). And Paul Ryan is notorious. When it came out a couple weeks ago that Fox is banned from having Trump on I assumed it was due to these guys, although it was reported to be a Rupert Murdoch decision.
On stuff from Trump’s safe, the list.
No 7 is my personal favourite.
I’ll go with No.5 ..The kickstand for Biden’s bike: Sneaky! .. LOL!
Founding narratives are still important.
Just look at how the prog-left is attacking them; e.g. the 1619 Project in the US & “Invasion Day” here.
Let’s have forensic accounting of Trumps, Obamas, Clintons, Pelosis and Bidens.
It’s for everyone’s benefit.
Companies that generate income with very low capital input.
Certain commodities (strategic metals , REE and miners thereof). Very wary of i/o at present but very interested later.
Solid dividends outside i/o world.
Energy stocks – soon, not quite yet.
AUD , once confirmation the USD has topped.
DYOR, just my opinion.
14 Things The FBI Found In Donald Trump’s Safe
The FBI raided former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and found incriminating evidence that he was once President of the United States of America! While they were there they spent over four hours cracking open a solid gold safe.
Here’s what they found:
1. Thousands of McDonald’s receipts: Immaculate record keeping!
2. Three pallets of Norvell Premium Sunless Tanning Solution, Dark 1: Only the best for our President!
3. World’s best president mug: The mug has been detained for questioning.
4. Barron’s Xbox controller because he’s grounded from Xbox: This is a relief. We thought he was ghosting us on Xbox Live.
5. The kickstand for Biden’s bike: Sneaky!
6. Obama’s actual birth certificate: Everyone was wrong. He was born in Zap, ND. Weird.
7. A note that reads “You FBI guys are low IQ. Sad! Not good!”: This was found in a safe within a safe.
8. Free verse, reflective poems: So sensitive!
9. Several dozen copies of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York: Probably the inspiration for all the booby traps federal agents had to evade.
10. The actual nuclear codes and not the fake ones he slipped to Biden: Wait a minute, wouldn’t the real president have the nuclear codes?
11. Little tiny shampoos which were stolen from the White House bathroom: Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!
12. Over a million unsent tweets: Carefully recorded and cataloged on papyrus scrolls.
13. A signed agreement between Trump and Pence that he would not “mean tweet” Pence: Appears to be scrawled in crayon on a KFC napkin.
15. The Mirror of Erised: When he looks into it he sees world peace.
Yeah. The glorified librarian said so (that’s how laws are made in ‘Murica) and the former CIA crime family boss he needs to be taken out to the woodshed.
The very best of people.
As with all public records finding the data that hasn’t been tampered with is next to impossible. The series have been manipulated all the way through to reflect the desired outcome. Without the raw data anything else is meaningless. I tried to do a 20 year simple analysis of Total Tax Receipts and where they originated from so I could isolate private from public. No data that hadn’t had the methodology changed. I don’t have the ability to recreate the previous series to reflect the changes. I know the National Archives will have it but I really do have more interesting things to do.
We all need to become singing, truck-driving Consty experts.
Trust the experts.
Greg Gutfeld: FBI’s seizure of classified records from Mar-a-Lago sounds like every hoax we’ve heard before
Gregg Gutfeld called the FBI’s affidavit a ‘gaffe-davit’ as the Trump raid search warrant was unsealed
GREG GUTFELD: If he actually went home with extremely sensitive material, and now he won’t give them back, why do you think he would do that? Do you think he’s planning on selling these secrets to Russia or is he going to build his own missile in Bedminster? He already has the bunkers (it’s a golf course joke). But this doesn’t sound at all hysterical, does it? This is not an affidavit. It’s gaffe-davit. I just coined that phrase. You can’t take anything seriously when it sounds like every hoax that has come before it.
So to your point, Dan, this is going to be about process. It’s going to be the most boring thing ever. A he said-she said about paperwork. The dullest violation you will ever, it’s another process crime. Wonderful, an administrative goof. He didn’t follow the process because he thought he was the process and off it goes to court. Meanwhile, all you’re left with is Merrick Garland looking like a depressed owl cartoon and Donald Trump absorbs all that energy, and he decides, “I’m going to run again,” and he’s going to use all that energy to win, or maybe he won’t.
All I know is the guy that’s coming out on top right now is him, because this just looks hilarious.
Regarding above ,before I found this piece, my general thoughts were well into this direction. But I wanted to distill all that into actionable measures.
It might be helpful for those considering a rising or higher interest rate world ahead. 40 years of down trending IR’s had to end at some point and I happen to think we have reached that turning point. Time will tell!
https://horizonkinetics.com/app/uploads/INFL_SemiAnnual-Commentary_FINAL.pdf
Alan
@A1an_M
A thread.
I have an engineering degree. Engineers spend their lives solving problems. I’ve also got some experience in crisis management. So when SARS-COV-2 reared its head I remember asking myself: if I was managing the response, what would do first, what would I prioritise?
Paying specific attention to how, with the exception of Trump, they all entered politics with little money in the bank but are all multi-millionaires now.
How does that happen on a Congress/Senate/Presidential salary?
Don’t.
REE aren’t rare. There’s a huge amount of them around. The problem is not the mines it’s the processing. Think “chemistry set on steroids”. They make any other metal look like kindergarten stuff.
That’s why China has a lock on REE. They have lots of cheap chemical engineers to look after the process (eg. the 120 separate and different solvent extraction stages). Furthermore REE hang around with radioactive elements and they aren’t usually able to be preconcentrated like copper, zinc and lead.
The same goes for lithium. Do not invest in lithium miners. If you do you will be captive to Chinese metals policy, because processing of the lithium available in Australia is energy intensive and produces a humungous amount of acidic or alkaline waste. Roughly ten to thirty times more than red mud from the aluminium industry, and the spodumene has to be heated in a kiln to about 1500 C for processing…using coal or gas. Hence China will have a lock on lithium as well as REE.
After them there ain’t many “strategic metals” other than copper, and as we know BHP has just lobbed a big takeover offer at Oz Minerals. So you’re back to BHP, who do at least pay decent dividends even if woke.
My 2c.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Good thread on the Zaporozhya nuclear power plant situation. Bottom line, this is a war crime being committed by the Zelensky regime. And everyone in the West knows that they are doing it — but refuse to condemn it.
So much for Western bullshit talk of “Muh human rights!”
Catherine Herridge @CBS_Herridge · 1h
Then President #Trump issued this memorandum 1/19/2021 on declassification FBI Crossfire Hurricane records. Circulated to AG, DNI, CIA. May now be relevant once full holdings from Monday search at Mar-a-Largo catalogued.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/memorandum-declassification-certain-materials-related-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1558234912360206343
It doesn’t. Just like here.
It’s the ultimate in Insider Trading. That’s how it happens in the Third World too.
The world’s best clown show, compete with tooting horns, comic cars and oversized shoes