2nd!

Rubes who thought Durham would do anything apart from being an annoyance to the Washington blob are now asking why his lead prosecutor has just withdrawn from the biggest case in his career.

Revisiting exceptional singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon.
Via Powerline

The plea must be working

I can’t believe this is still going on.

Electrical Brain Stimulation Improves Memory, New Study Shows
Scientists have found a way to improve memory in older people. Zapping the brain with electrical currents enhanced short-term memory, a new study shows.

I know someone who underwent ECT here in Australian about 10 years ago.
They have the worst memory of a middle aged person I know.
It’s butchery & should be banned.

First comment in Bruce’s Fauci link:

Science has left the building.

It’s interesting that the “self criticism phase” has been identified.

And of course it’s controlled, same as it is here. I’m seeing Morrison as a convenient scapegoat for the lot, focussed mainly on the multiple ministries, not the principal culprit – ceding unfettered power and money to state premiers to operate local fiefdoms.

They say never meet your heroes (the Hun):

Michael Slater’s ex-girlfriends say he’s a “serial abuser” who is using his “status” and mental health grounds to manipulate the system and avoid punishment for his behaviour.

One:

The mother of three, who doesn’t want to be identified, said Slater pulled her hair and threw her to the ground, threatened to publish personal images without her consent in an act of revenge porn, stalked her and bombarded her with abusive messages from various burner phones.

He also repeatedly threatened to kill himself if she broke up with him or didn’t get back together with him once they separated.

And:

On one occasion police were called to her house after Slater became intoxicated at a sporting event. He waited in an alleyway behind her house, tried to stop her from leaving her home and was arrested by police.

“He’s a narcissist who gaslights, manipulates and has coercive control over his victims. He has abused multiple women … the term ‘serial abuser’ should be used to describe him,” she said.

Another:

the Herald Sun has obtained a copy of an AVO of another former partner of Slater’s, from Sydney, which states that he controlled her, sent her hundreds of text messages in a row, abused her and caused her to be fearful of her safety.

He also went through that ex-partner’s garbage for proof she was cheating on him and cut her off from friends and family, the AVO against him reveals.

And:

The Victorian woman said the former cricketer, who is believed to be in a Sydney mental health facility again after breaching bail conditions, is manipulating the system by using mental health grounds as an excuse for his behaviour.

“The days of him being referred to as a legend are long gone,” she said.

“Labelling him a legend and star creates a flattering picture and places him on a pedestal when in real terms he is a serial offender who abuses women and is continuing to reoffend without sufficient consequence … because of his ’status’ and public profile.”

And:

Since 2021, Slater has faced multiple assault, intimidation and harassment charges, but has repeatedly avoided jail and has instead been placed on bail on mental health grounds.

He has been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, alcohol addiction, borderline personality disorder, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Slater has repeatedly broken bail conditions that barred him from using alcohol or drugs and stopped him from contacting a number of people who have domestic violence orders against him.

Slater’s point of view, sent via texts:

In the aftermath of their break-up, emails and texts seen by the Herald Sun show Slater telling her his behaviour is all her fault.

“I am going to do my best to make you feel my pain,” one message warned.

“I’m now completely over you and going to bring you down. No one deserves the treatment I’ve received,” ­another said.

Yet another good thing Justin Langer did for crikkit was replacing Slater at the top of the order during the 2001 Ashes, reportedly (in part) because Slater was putting the hard word on his teammates’ other halves.

Another argument for a permanent ‘no dickhead’ policy.

Knuckles the no dickheads policy is right. The only problem is that only leaves me and you. I’m not too sure about me.

Can anyone interpret this word salad from the BOM about their new rainfall predictor app?

They claim that they junked the old one because when they said there was a 70% chance of rain, people thought this meant 70% of the predicted amount of rainfall. I find this very, very hard to believe.

So, they are up to something (apart from wasting our money). But what?

Alan Joyce apologises to Australians for causing lost luggage, long queues to check in, cancelled flights, late departures and arrivals – with a patronising and demeaning $50 return flight credit.

To add insult to injury, and Qantas’ eternal shame, the web site processing the credits crashes!!!!!

A heartless observer would laugh out loud.

He also repeatedly threatened to kill himself if she broke up with him or didn’t get back together with him once they separated.

So you’re saying there’s still a chance?

The targeting of Morrison is classic deflection

Cassie, I don’t think there’s any logic behind Elbow’s attack on Morrison.
Just instinctive reflex aggression from a pencil neck whose raison d’être is to “fight Tories”

Now, here’s an app that could be constructively used by conservatives:

In what appears to be one of the latest instances of such an ideological push, students being taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) were told to use a digital reporting system put in place by the school to anonymously accuse teachers and tutors of committing “microaggressions”.

To do so, The Telegraph reports that a student could scan a QR code located in the institution’s classrooms, which would direct them straight to the school’s “Micro-Aggression Reporting Form”, where they would reportedly be able to not only describe the alleged instance, but what they would like to happen to the supposed perpetrator.

‘what they would like done to the supposed perpetrator’ opens endless possibilities to conservatives offended by microagressions like assuming that male and female, black and white, gay and straight are all interchangeable in drama.

I’m talking head shaving, the stocks (with rotten fruit and eggs supplied), pond-dunking, shunning, blacklisting, and a whole host of other options up to and including HOPS.

Be careful what you wish for, dickheads.

feelthebernsays:
August 23, 2022 at 6:51 am
I can’t believe this is still going on.

Electrical Brain Stimulation Improves Memory, New Study Shows

It was only the start – World Economic Forum Recommends Humans Become Cyborgs, Implant Brain Chips: There Are ‘Solid, Rational’ Reasons For Children To Be Microchipped

Hang the expense! Oh, and I think the figure of $800 million-ish is complete bullshit:

The Victorian Greens has announced an ambitious plan to boost the frequency of public transport in Melbourne, enabling commuters to catch a train or tram every 10 minutes or less, on most of the network.

The election pledge would see trains run every five to 10 minutes, seven days a week, on every line except the Cranbourne, Williamstown and Upfield lines.

The frequency of trains would double on the Dandenong, Pakenham, Clifton Hill, Mernda, Hurstbridge, Werribee, Craigieburn, Sunbury, Newport and Glen Waverley lines, with commuters only having to wait for a maximum of 10 minutes for a train, between 7am and 7pm.

The party’s flagship transport policy has been independently costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office at $821.5 million, over the next four years.

The Parliamentary Budget Office has apparently been infested by greenies who introduce things like ‘cost of carbon’ into their sums. Otherwise, how could $200m a year possibly be true? Additional rolling stock, maintenance, more staff, penalty rates blah blah – if they were investment advisors, they’d be struck off.

” It’s like they think ScoMo has some kind of Trumpian grass roots support and needs to be taken out of the race.

I doubt it’s anything as strategic as that.

Morrison is dead meat, politically. Not a trace of Trump about him; no lingering love from the punters.
Goorne.
Twisting in the breeze.

Looking at the performance – and the narrative pushed by the supporting commentariat – the goal seems to be to stamp in the puddle to splash dirt on the Liberal shadow front bench.

The endless theatre of shitty retail politics. Gathering up the groats and mites of political advantage.

Pillsbeserk reversed her ruling on the Burrup fertilizer plant.
Good news.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/23/tanya-plibersek-backs-contentious-fertiliser-plant-on-burrup-peninsula

The federal environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has ruled a controversial $4.5bn fertiliser plant near ancient rock art on Western Australia’s Burrup peninsula can go ahead after being told it had the support of a local Aboriginal corporation.

Plibersek visited the peninsula, in the Pilbara in the state’s north, earlier this month to meet with the two First Nations groups and representatives of Perdaman, the multinational company behind the development.
…
Plibersek said she had decided not to grant the request for an emergency pause on the project – made under section 9 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act – because it was not supported by the corporation and its circle of elders. She said the corporation was recognised “as the most representative organisation on cultural knowledge for the five traditional owner groups in the region” and had agreed with Perdaman on the appropriate cultural treatment of the sites.

What is this sudden interest in nitrogen all about?

The nitrogen cycle, like the water cycle, is a closed system. But, unlike water which can be polluted, nitrogen returns to the atmosphere to be reused over and over by plants. Have atmospheric nitrogen levels increased, and by how much? What exactly am I missing here?

And the G-G.

Good point.

So you’re saying there’s still a chance?

Ahaha.

Good to see Channel Stokes gave Slater the lemon and sars after his very public display of ingratitude while ‘imprisoned’ in the Maldives on his way back from the IPL last year.

He found out very quickly that openly trashing the ex-squeeze is very different to trying it on with experienced TV sharks.

Russian government shocked at political assassination.

There seems to be nobody with half a brain in ukraine, what do they think will happen when you put out a hit on a member of a mafia cartel?

Daily wail so pop up city.

But this is news to me.
I would have thought the US would have snatched all this demand up.

Tanker carrying first Australian gas shipment to Europe in more than five years will dock in UK before most of it is piped into continent to storage sites

Neil Oliver: MSM pretend the elephant is not in the room over excess deaths

biden’s weimar republic

Next Wave of Stimulus Checks Coming, Despite 40-Year High Inflation

If you want to know about how much rain and when, look at the radar.

I have a window of about six hours before the heavens open. Or, as is often the case, the rain will slide on past to the south and Newcastle and CC will get a drenching.

Gardening time.

Good old Q&A from Uncle Milt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94jGTWNWsA

A degraded and unserious population will enable a government to ruin it.

flows down the Murray have been kept artificially high

Flinders sailed past the Murray’s mouth and didn’t notice it, being closed at the time.

Thanks ‘mole.
“We have met the enemy and they is us” – Uncle Milt explaining why politicians keep spending like drunken sailors.

Well said, areff.

Natural variation is the enemy of greenies, who imagine a Nirvana based on yesterday, or today, or sometime in the future.

That some things are out of their control brings them out in a rash.

Better than Tom’s Toons:
Wikipedia is asking for donations so they can keep providing “reliable, neutral information”.

Hey Bush,
I’d like the rain to push off for a few weeks. 30mm here in the past few days and it’s hard to get dry ground for spraying fungicides.
How’s the countryside in your parts?

More great humour from America’s newspaper of record:
“Pentagon mandates monkeypox vaccine, but only for Navy” (the Bee)

( With so many women in the armed services, the navy’s biggest problem is pregnancies.)

Just Emailed my local Liberals:

I felt utterly betrayed by the Morrison Government mainly on it’s ridiculous climate change policy, but also for not stepping up and challenging the premiers and bureaucrats over-reach on the COVID responses. I’m not alone, as I think much of the Liberal Party base has been alienated.

I’m looking for a party that supports nuclear power generation as the only sensible and non-destructive approach to reducing carbon emissions. The party should also strongly oppose “The Voice” as the obscene racist scam that it is.

Are you that party?

Are your federal counterparts that party?

Don’t be shy, let people know.

Has anyone got a copy of the Constitution handy?

Don’t.
Fkn don’t.

‘We’re in the Matrix’: U.S. On a Trajectory That’s Not Going to End Well, Warns David Morgan
Stansberry Research

The Inflation Reduction Act passed last week does almost anything except address inflation, says David Morgan, author of The Silver Manifesto and founder of TheMorganReport.com. The “misnomer bill” only accelerates the current trajectory of the U.S., “and it does not end well,” he tells our Daniela Cambone. Based on the current geopolitical landscape, “globalization is breaking up and is basically a failure,” Morgan concludes.

Dover – I just report what I see, with caveats as befit. It’s very well known that there was up to three teams in place in Kiev in February to attempt assassination of the Ukrainian leadership. One of those I recall were Wagner employees, the other two I can’t recall off hand who they were. Zelenskyy at the time said publicly he wasn’t sure how long he’d remain alive. I suspect that was because of the attempts which were foiled.

Now we are seeing several things that are new in the last week or two.

One is Ukrainian special forces active in Crimea in particular, such that traffic was prevented from leaving Sevastopol a couple days ago as the Russians searched for the SF team which carried out a short range drone strike on the Black Sea Fleet HQ. Dunno what its outcome was but it stirred up the Russians. And today we’re seeing an APB put out in Moscow for a Ukrainian special forces woman who is the alleged attempted assassin of Dugin.

So why is there such black stuff going on by the Ukrainians now, after six long months? The behind-the-lines military strikes are logical. The assassination attempt isn’t. But it is if the Russians are again trying decapitation operations. If they are then this car bomb was a message to Putin that he should stop, and that two can play the game. Dugin was just who you would pick in such a scenario. Sadly his daughter chose that day to drive dad’s car when he was going with someone else – which also makes complete sense since they’d want the car to drive home in.

There is nothing in the Constitution that touches on the appointment of Ministers.

To be more precise there is nothing which specifies what portfolios one individual can or can’t hold. (See ss 61-70 in general.)
There may possibly be something in an Act of Parliament that defines a particular portfolio and restricts who can hold it, but I’m not aware of any such provision and I very much doubt one exists.

If that talking point turns into the narrative turns into action, I wonder who’s a relatively new appointment at the AAT.
If this happens, it is one of the most punitive actions taken by a new government ever.

ScoMo appointing himself to those ministries, five of them, can only be because of advice from the pandemic team. It doesn’t make sense otherwise. He’s so terrified of public opinion he’d never do such a thing unless he was told to. And by someone he wouldn’t be able to defy, ie health department nazis in the middle of a supposed pandemic.

It also makes sense why he wouldn’t fess that this was the case because the pandemic provision stuff they developed back in 2008 (iirc) is so fascist that they keep the details quiet so as not to stir up the plebs. We’ve seen some of it come out, but not all of it.

Timothy Neilson says:
August 23, 2022 at 11:01 am

There is nothing in the Constitution that touches on the appointment of Ministers.

To be more precise there is nothing which specifies what portfolios one individual can or can’t hold. (See ss 61-70 in general.)

You are not being ‘more precise’, you are shifting the goalposts.

Don’t think you will get away with that shit here.

It’s like they think ScoMo has some kind of Trumpian grass roots support and needs to be taken out of the race.

No this is all squirrel. ScoMo is the furry bait to distract the proles from the green policy pain that Albo is putting in place. Energy prices, inflation, shortages and running roughshod over international gas contracts. Giving something the MSM can fill pages with without having to report the real stuff that actually affects people.

Tautology alert: green fascist.

LOL. Someone should ask nice Mr Kotsko whether his plan should apply to aboriginal people too…

There is no reason for Australia to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. None. To do so, is to agree with Green propaganda.

Exactly, we shouldn’t be co-opted into half measures, the whole thing is bullshit, no need for ANY change.