Open Thread – Weekend 10 Sept 2022


Road to Racquencourt, Camille Pissarro, 1871

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Rabz
September 10, 2022 12:01 am

A potential Pop Tart delivery mechanism …

Nelson_Kidd-Players
September 10, 2022 12:01 am

God save the king.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 10, 2022 12:07 am

If Prince Jug-Ears had chosen to be called King Edward IX, it would of saved them the cost of changing all the EIIR symbols on postboxes and Bobbies helmets.

calli
calli
September 10, 2022 1:47 am

Finally arrived at Dubrovnik – we passed over the new bridge (finished this July) that links Croatia with…Croatia. The original route used to go through the twelve kilometres of Bosnian coastline. The bridge is similar to the one in Normandy and very elegant and modern.

Visited Mostar – it’s the one with the stone bridge where you pay the locals EUR30 and they jump off. One idiot did just that as we watched from our restaurant table. About 30 metres and the water is freezing. Again, the water level is low for this time of year.

Our guide made an interesting observation. She had not been to Sarajevo for around six years. In that time, the Moslem population has shifted from mostly “secular” to orthodox and observant, made most obvious by the number of hijabis and letterboxes. Even our Moslem local guide expressed concern. It seems to be a worldwide trend.

Dubrovnik (like Venice) has been eaten alive by tourists. Moves are afoot to limit cruise ships which are the main culprits. The marina is packed with massive yachts. The Beloved calls them “Net Zeros”. I think that’s appropriate.

calli
calli
September 10, 2022 2:00 am

Had a glimpse at CNN when we arrived and quickly switched over to the BEEB.

It appears that the wise ones commenting in the USA don’t quite understand what the monarch does and what they can’t do. A casual observer would be surprised that Parliament actually exists.

calli
calli
September 10, 2022 2:13 am

It’s wall to wall coverage of the Queen’s death. Every single channel.

I’ll be over there in two weeks’ time. It may all still be going. Will report faithfully.

I also notice that all the masking and Covid crap is OVER. There is zero evidence here that it ever happened apart from general decay and business closures. And odd, forlorn, dirty stickers everywhere to wear masks, keep your distance and empty hand sanitiser bottles.

The caravan has definitely moved on.

Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:00 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:03 am

Mark Knight: best of QEII.

Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:04 am

Mark Knight: best of QEII #2.

Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:05 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:06 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:15 am
Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 4:16 am
Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 10, 2022 5:49 am

Thanks, Tom. The Her Maj cartoons are excellent, but how good is Johannes Leak? That is beautiful, elegant, powerful, yet totally his personal style.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 10, 2022 6:07 am

Dotsays:
September 9, 2022 at 8:16 pm
They couldn’t build a functional reactor during wartime because the allies sabotaged the heavy water supply.

They didn’t need heavy water. The US team got a chain reaction in a squash court by stacking bricks of uranium with graphite blocks.
It is said von Heisenberg didn’t understand fusion.
Don’t know what that has to do with anything. We are talking fission here. BTW, his name was Heisenberg. No von.
I posit that he was capable of learning from mistakes.
I’m certain he was. The Germans were so convinced of the importance of nukes that they placed the program in the hands of the Post Office. OK it was the German Post Office so likely ran well, but still.
On top of this, by say 1947, or 1949, with continued development of the V2 system, Germany could have reasserted itself with little to no resistance.
Would have depended on the surrender terms wouldn’t it? Inspectors all over the place. US with atom bombs and delivery means (B-29). Americans who knew about V-2, with giant industrial capacity to produce similar. At least some of eastern Europe not in Soviet hands.

But go ahead and get tens to hundreds of thousands of your own people killed by insisting on unconditional surrender and winding up facing an enemy as bad as the Nazis.

rickw
rickw
September 10, 2022 6:07 am

Jordan Peterson on The Queens passing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5os9bT9zuo

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 6:48 am

Eyrie says:
September 10, 2022 at 6:07 am
They didn’t need heavy water. The US team got a chain reaction in a squash court by stacking bricks of uranium with graphite blocks.

…and what functionality as a NUCLEAR REACTOR did that have? Is that the reactor they actually used at Los Alamos? Or the demonstration one at the U of Chicago?

The Germans needed heavy water. Now you’re saying the SOE and RAF, USAAF wasted their time bombing Trondheim?

It is said von Heisenberg didn’t understand fusion.

Clearly a typo or two. Calm down. They also had von Weiszacker (no idea how to spell this). They weren’t stupid people.

I posit that he was capable of learning from mistakes.
I’m certain he was. The Germans were so convinced of the importance of nukes that they placed the program in the hands of the Post Office. OK it was the German Post Office so likely ran well, but still.

??? You don’t think logistics is important during a war?

On top of this, by say 1947, or 1949, with continued development of the V2 system, Germany could have reasserted itself with little to no resistance.
Would have depended on the surrender terms wouldn’t it? Inspectors all over the place. US with atom bombs and delivery means (B-29). Americans who knew about V-2, with giant industrial capacity to produce similar. At least some of eastern Europe not in Soviet hands.

Sure, Hans Blix Snr swanning through Nazi Germany. A B-29 dropping one nuke compared to launching multiple ICBMs with nukes would have put Germany decades ahead of the USA.

But go ahead and get tens to hundreds of thousands of your own people killed by insisting on unconditional surrender and winding up facing an enemy as bad as the Nazis.

The Nazis were only interested in a conditional surrender when their entire army was destroyed.

They never would agree to inspectors snooping around once the Holocaust started. Don’t be silly.

“Why can’t we go to Auswicz?”

“It is a military secret, but, no nukes, auslander!

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 6:51 am

I also notice that all the masking and Covid crap is OVER

That’s the difference between having to deal with everyday priorities and the west thirst for confected drama out off bordom.

Cheers Calli

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 10, 2022 6:59 am

Covid repression set the template for climate repression, and the Ukraine’s nuclear power plant is being used as a new scare campaign against nuclear power.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:03 am

I mean, if we want to be hypothetical, Australia would have been better off at Federation unilaterally declaring a republic, sacking the GG and appointing a President (say Parkes or Dibbs if they were still alive) (this cutting diplomatic and military ties to empire) and setting us on a path of isolationism and military preparedness.

We may have had no reason to fight in any war thus far.

Rural Australia has been sick since World War One, we were also the richest nation per capita before the war.

As it has been proven here over and over again, Japan was not interested in Australia.

Struth
September 10, 2022 7:06 am

The most strident denialists actually feed off each other here.
As they embellish and exaggerate, they build on their own lies and believe them to be truths.
This is what happens when you live a lie.

No one talked about gas bar them.
No one.
Now there of course has been some whacky theories out there, but to try to group the obvious truth to these is what a sick mind does.
Over the last two years, we see those who are most cowardly at heart take offence at the world they find themselves in.
They see truth tellers as rebellion inciters.
They see the building of camps to hold innocent , once free citizens, as poppycock.
It’s just not happening …..but it is and it has.

Do not go down like these poor lost souls.
Accept the truth.

The globalists are at war with us, a different type of war, but one they have been preparing for and putting into place for decades.
They are communist in all but name.
Some are communist in name as well.
They have paid off and threatened and brainwashed the traitors in our parliaments.

Accepting this obvious fact is hard for many because you failed at the first hurdle and allowed them to inject you.
To believe the truth above means having to accept the truth of what you have done to yourself.
So you carry on in denial, becoming ever more removed from sanity by the day.

But when and if you ever do, you won’t be arguing about the piss poor performance of electric vehicles, you’ll see quite clearly that EV’s are only a way of getting you to own no car at all.

Many other issues are discussed here in lost gullibility due to denialism.

That’s right….our politicians are just stupid.
They’re just virtue signalling.

Yet those you mock told you many years ago now, that after covid comes the climate emergency propaganda in order to bring about the great reset.
It wouldn’t matter if the whole world other than the elites doing this to us, did not believe in Climate Change (by man)….they would continue the lie.

“They knew they were lying, we knew they were lying, they knew we knew they were lying, but they kept on doing it”
It only matters who has the guns….who has the ultimate power.
And they pulled this stunt, provoked by Trump, before they’d disarmed the yanks.
There is hope and a good chance we can win.
But not while even those that profess to be right wing, won’t allow the truth, the fucking obvious truth, to be told.
Sancho, Notafan, KD, the late choo choo (it seems) Notafan and a few others, are neither helping this nation nor doing anyone any good on this blog.
They never have.
They are nothing but sneering cowards.

2dogs
September 10, 2022 7:08 am

I mean, if we want to be hypothetical, Australia would have been better off at Federation unilaterally declaring a republic, sacking the GG and appointing a President (say Parkes or Dibbs if they were still alive) (this cutting diplomatic and military ties to empire) and setting us on a path of isolationism and military preparedness.

Prior to UK joining the EU, imperial, then commonwealth, preferences were valuable to the Australian economy.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 7:09 am

We may have had no reason to fight in any war thus far.

Australia is a country where the lost opportunities are only outweighed by the rent seeking.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:10 am
Struth
September 10, 2022 7:10 am

The caravan has definitely moved on.

Except for the excess deaths.
Especially in the working age.

As Klaus told us.
The tyrannies to follow will be blamed on man made climate change.
Those tyrannies will see us without power, without fuel, without food, and none of it, not a cracker, has anything to do with Ukraine.

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 7:11 am

Hi Charlie

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:12 am

I don’t think the UK would have cut trade off with us. Before the US took over after WWII, the UK was the obvious largest foreign direct investor here.

They had enough interests here to keep trade open.

Crossie
Crossie
September 10, 2022 7:12 am

Stiglich had it right this morning “Grief is the price we pay for love”. It’s been two years and I am still overcome by grief at times.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:12 am

Good morning, sneering cowards!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 10, 2022 7:15 am

Look, we we wear white coats, that makes us special.

Whitewashed sepulchres.

They were activists before they became climate “scientists”. That’s why they went into the field.

I traded my white coat for overalls after I finish postgrad and got a real job.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:20 am

I don’t understand Victorian Labor.
I know they are closing stations on the line near me, while at the same time allowing high density housing around the station area, what’s that think?
station elimination game , at the age, paywalled

Crossie
Crossie
September 10, 2022 7:20 am

White coats? Most doctors, either in their surgeries or in hospitals, just wear their normal clothes and scrubs when operating. The white coats are just theatre now.

Crossie
Crossie
September 10, 2022 7:21 am

By theatre I don’t mean operating kinds but the stage performance ones.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:21 am

Fish oil in normal to high quantities leads to heart problems (AF). Why aren’t all the Eskimos keeling over? Seems like BS!

Many drugs have herbal origins, for example aspirin (willow trees), MDMA (sassafras root), Placitaxel (yew trees) and preparations like Quercetin supplements (flavonoid), Irish Moss (Carageen (sp?)) and cranberry tablets (from the spotted Cranberry mouse).

Everything has side effects. We’re not being told the stupid overdoses people take, contraindications (like those disgusting “energy drinks”), underlying conditions or latent variables. The AF problem from fish oil seems like an underlying condition.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:22 am

I was thinking of you yesterday Crossie, it’s a hard thing that never completely goes away.
Family member that died recently lost their spouse 30 years ago, finally reunited.

Crossie
Crossie
September 10, 2022 7:22 am

Rosie, is it a safe Labor electorate? If it is they can do that because they will not be punished at the election.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 7:23 am

LOL, Jimmy Dore refers to something as a “load bearing narrative”.
So true.

Struth
September 10, 2022 7:25 am

Injected “herbal suppliments”…………

After all you have done, Notafan, you have no shame and feverishly attempt to erase and deny your behaviour in the first two years of the coup.
Pathetic.
One of the fuckwits here believes I won’t let go…..I’m like a dog with a bone.
You and yours, and the behaviour and things said in the first two years of this are not forgotten by those who have been of clear, unjabbed mind all along.
Let us relive those heady days back from the start of 2020, when this blog went psychotic and you were calling people like me Nanna Killers and asking how many people it was alright to kill so I can continue to play gigs in pubs.
Human detritus like you now expect the dog to leave the bone and come over for a pat.
Pure insanity.
I consider people like you traitors to my country.
Nazi pass traitors.

shatterzzz
September 10, 2022 7:25 am

Our” ABC getting all upset over a remark from a foreign pollie ..!
Strange! .. considering they were totally silent during two years of plod brutality on homegrown Oz citizens ….
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-10/sudan-minerals-minister-mohamed-bashir-abunammu-threatens-woman/101417562

Crossie
Crossie
September 10, 2022 7:26 am

Thanks Rosie. I was amazed that mum was fairly sanguine when dad died but he had been seriously ill for years so she had time to prepare. It’s much harder to accept a sudden death.

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 7:28 am

Crossie!

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:29 am

That article links to a paper that says more than 1 g of fish oil a day can lead to AF.

I hate this sort of stuff.

What is the ratio of trans and saturated fats?
What is the ratio of nutrient omega oils?
What anti-nutrient oils/fatty acids are also consumed?
Pre existing conditions?
Caloric load and patient lean muscle mass/BMR?

Native Americans such as the Inuit, Denali, Salish etc could easily consume more than 1 g of fish oils or similar fats in a single meal.

Genetic predisposition is also a factor these papers hardly look into.

Your cellular DNA directly interacts with food chemicals such as caffeine.

So yes, everyone’s biochemistry is slightly different.

shatterzzz
September 10, 2022 7:29 am

Well dun! .. Charles 111 great decision to start your reign off ..!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11197975/Kate-Middleton-Princess-Wales-Dianas-death-1997.html

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:35 am

Another thing to consider is how CoQ10 is linked to heart health.

The Inuit eat offal and a lot of fish oil.

Offal is high in CoQ10 and micronutrients like zinc and magnesium, maybe it is a deficiency of this protective molecule or a lack of balance in intake, or a deficiency in cellular signalling? It could be as much as zinc or magnesium deficiency stopping hormone regulation pushing T2 diabetes which prevents proper utilisation of fatty acids in the bloodstream.

A lack of sufficient sample sizes and population comparisons creates a paucity in the data.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:35 am

Why Shatterzzz
I thought the title upgrades are just the usual protocol as everyone shifts up a rank.
Camilla didn’t get Princess of Wales because of obvious circumstances.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:37 am

Yes Crossie, my family are all in agreement, no long painful suffering or sudden death, a few weeks notice would be great.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:38 am

Recent TV ads and nobody doctors.

Fish oil causes AF.
Get checked for shingles. ???

Yeah, they’re worried now. This isn’t normal.

I got a lot of shit at work for being the last holdout, but a few people got “Pfizer Arm”.

Fuck. That. Shit.

All I got from my army fall worm juice was a cold feeling and an intended itch during the night.

duncanm
duncanm
September 10, 2022 7:39 am

Another promising sign from King Charlie.

Charles III, wearing a black suit and tie, stepped out of the royal car just outside the palace’s famous gates in an impromptu move to greet cheering crowds of thousands of well-wishers. Mourners placed comforting hands on his arm and one kissed his hand.

He shook hands, received flowers and spoke to those who had gathered. A rendition of “God Save the King” broke out as clouds parted, and the sun shone through. Not since the death of Diana 25 years ago has a monarch so publicly grieved with their subjects.

The King could be heard telling people “thank you” during the nearly 10-minute walkabout on Friday afternoon local time. He accepted a red rose from another member of the public. He went along the entire line, shaking hands and talking to those cheering his name as those at the back held up their phones to record this remarkable moment.

Meanwhile.. trouble in Scotland

Jacki Pickett, the owner of Jaki Fish and Chip Shop in the village of Muir of Ord in the Scottish Highlands, shared a video of herself holding a sign saying “Lizard Liz Dead” and “London Bridge has Fallen”.

The National Federation of Fish Friers .. revoked her store’s membership.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:41 am

Jacki Pickett, the owner of Jaki Fish and Chip Shop in the village of Muir of Ord in the Scottish Highlands, shared a video of herself holding a sign saying “Lizard Liz Dead” and “London Bridge has Fallen”.

The National Federation of Fish Friers .. revoked her store’s membership.

One less pink adenochrome purveyor.

Millions of kids in tunnels rejoice.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:42 am

Intended itch?

intense itch

These Apple products are bogus!

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 7:43 am

The National Federation of Fish Friers

Snigger!

duncanm
duncanm
September 10, 2022 7:43 am

Fish oil causes AF.

Strange how it went from something that was thought to reduce AF a few years ago..

duncanm
duncanm
September 10, 2022 7:43 am

bespokesays:
September 10, 2022 at 7:43 am
The National Federation of Fish Friers

Snigger!

largest consumers of mars bars in Scotland.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:45 am

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-deaths-are-soaring-in-one/comments

Victoria. The place to be.

If you are an undertaker.

in August 2020, for reasons that are not clear, the state removed all data from before mid-2019.

Sounds legit.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 10, 2022 7:46 am

The squash court nuclear reaction was at University of Chicago 1942. To go from a few watts of power to 15k tons of TNT in 3 years is an extraordinary feat. Only exceeded by the Sneerer in Chief ability to abuse everyone here almost daily. If only we could harness the potential power for good.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:49 am

To go from a few watts of power to 15k tons of TNT in 3 years is an extraordinary feat.

It sure is. Now what could a post conditional surrender Germany do in five years?

Also, no one has explained how a conditional surrender would have “worked”.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
September 10, 2022 7:49 am

Dot

Are you okay?

Mater
September 10, 2022 7:50 am

Victoria. The place to be.
If you are an undertaker.

I’d love to get my hands on the age distribution of the increased deaths.
Might be quite telling.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:51 am

I have had too much fish oil.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 7:51 am

…Rosebud…

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 7:53 am

Dot
Are you considering adopting?

Boambee John
Boambee John
September 10, 2022 7:56 am

Dot

If you think that a V-2 could have been “developed” into an ICBM by the late 1940s, you are dreaming.

Even with von Braun on the team, it took the US well into the 1950s to achieve that result. Ditto for the Soviets, with “their” German engineers.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:57 am

I think Duncanm pointed out the other day that either Australian or was it NSW excess deaths were mostly due to covid.
He linked a page.
Why would Victoria be any different?

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:58 am

The spate of deaths of 52 year old celebrities seemed to have ended pretty abruptly.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 7:59 am
flyingduk
flyingduk
September 10, 2022 8:04 am

Strange how it went from something that was thought to reduce AF a few years ago..

The science is settled

Top Ender
Top Ender
September 10, 2022 8:04 am

Here in the USA, Government flags at half-mast everywhere for the Queen.

min
min
September 10, 2022 8:05 am

I had gall bladder problem in January and specialist told me that it was like the one Pregnant women get that is from by hormonal changes ! I believe . But seeing I am way past those hormones so vaccination ? I had a a mild dose of Covid a month ago did not take antivirals and only had first booster.
I have had 2 minor attacks where I get the pain in the back son a doctor purrs that down to diet I eat a low fat diet , high fibre etc,

Anchor What
Anchor What
September 10, 2022 8:05 am

In the UK people do not have copyright on their royal titles after death. The title Princess of Wales goes along now with the Prince of Wales as determined by the monarch, not by the tabloid press.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 10, 2022 8:11 am

Are you people aware of the basics of nuclear fission weapons? It is quite difficult. The bomb engineering isn’t too hard at all for gun type weapons. The Hiroshima bomb was the first of its kind. However they require U235 which is 0.7% of natural uranium (except at Oklo where the natural nuclear reactor used up some of the fissionable U235). It cannot be separated by chemical methods. The Americans used the uranium hexaflouride diffusion method (horrible) and electromagnetic separation (vast quantities of electrical energy required). The third is the centrifugal method which the Americans considered but rejected. In fact by war’s end the diffusion method hadn’t made much enriched U235 and only 5% of the Hiroshima bomb was made that way. SF writer and physicist Greg Benford wrote “The Berlin Project” which is an alternate history where the US chooses the centrifuge method. Lots of real physics and engineering detail in it. The protagonist was Benford’s father in law IRL.
The other way of making a bomb is the plutonium route. Bombard U238 with neutrons of the right energy and get Pu239 which can be separated from uranium chemically. BoN will have details I’m sure.
The problem is you can’t make a gun type weapon as it fizzles unless the velocity of the bullet is very high, which was beyond gun technology at the time. Just maybe, not now IMHO.
The spherical implosion method is a more difficult engineering problem and took a while to solve. The Americans weren’t actually sure they had solved it, hence the Trinity test.
Richard Rhodes wrote two books about the development of nuclear weapons. Worth reading.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 8:12 am

So what, in the interim they would have had short range and intermediate range missiles – no loss of research papers, resettlement etc.

No one thus far pushing this insane idea of a conditional surrender by Nazi Germany has explained how it would have worked, at least not how it would have created perhaps a German civil war between the “good, definitely not Nazi” Wehrmacht and the SS Waffen.

A weapons inspector wants to look at an extermination camp, what happens next?

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 10, 2022 8:13 am

The excessive deaths in queensland is due to the death camps. Ken runs interference but they still get through. Standing outside with his sign “the end end is nigh” doesn’t seem to do the trick. I know, berate unknown bloggers, that’ll do it.

NoFixedAddress
NoFixedAddress
September 10, 2022 8:15 am

Lizzie B

Take a break at the ‘yuk yuk’ furniture store,

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 8:15 am

The Germans (Nazis) wouldn’t have cared about how awful the processes were, they had disposable, “subhuman” slaves.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 10, 2022 8:16 am

The stupid is running high on this OT already.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 8:18 am

It sure is Eyrie, it sure is.

JC
JC
September 10, 2022 8:19 am

Can’t even do sneering well.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 10, 2022 8:19 am

SEP 9 • 25M
How Joe Biden Lost My Vote

The Democrats have Opted for Corruption over Democracy

Sasha Stone

Very Long but well worth the read

Mater
September 10, 2022 8:19 am

I think Duncanm pointed out the other day that either Australian or was it NSW excess deaths were mostly due to covid.
He linked a page.
Why would Victoria be any different?

Because the shit being pumped out by the government doesn’t add up.

https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/13/maters-musing-53-gee-this-looks-bad/

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 10, 2022 8:20 am

I hear appendicitis is up since the jabs.

shatterzzz
September 10, 2022 8:24 am

Why Shatterzzz
I thought the title upgrades are just the usual protocol as everyone shifts up a rank.
Camilla didn’t get Princess of Wales because of obvious circumstances.

Royal title upgrades are the prerogative of the reigning monarch not heriditary ..!

JC
JC
September 10, 2022 8:25 am

It’s a global appendicitis epidemic, Hallward. You know about this because for the past couple of years you’ve been peddling the view that every human malady can be walked back to the jabathon.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 8:25 am

The Germans had plans for the A9-A12 rockets in 1944-45.

The A-9 was actually tested and the A-10 was set for 1946 test launches.

The A-12 had a planned 5,000 km range.

They had a so far unsuccessful uranium enrichment programme.

What if they realised their mistakes?

The allies could not afford to let the regime continue.

johanna
johanna
September 10, 2022 8:28 am

rickw says:
September 10, 2022 at 6:07 am

Jordan Peterson on The Queens passing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5os9bT9zuo

Not bad, not perfect, but much better than the choice between tonguebathing and vilification currently on offer.

I get the impression that Peterson has good days and bad days. This was a pretty good one.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 8:31 am

I’ll wait for the double blind randomised clinical trial before I’ll comment on fish oil causing heart issues.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 8:32 am

I think that was my point regarding Camilla not getting Princess of Wales.
It’s usual to get given the upgrades, why would the new King not follow tradition?

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 8:33 am

What’s your status JC?
Stapled up & waiting to go home?
How long before you can have a sweet sweet cigarette.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 8:34 am

I’ll wait for the peer reviewed double blind block randomised clinical trial with country, income, gender and ethnic pairwise comparisons before I’ll comment on fish oil causing heart issues.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 8:35 am

I prefer to withhold judgement until there are randomised double blind trials too.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 8:38 am

LOL, I’d hate to be cooped up in a hospital craving the sweet sweet taste of tobacco.

JC
JC
September 10, 2022 8:41 am

Bern

It’s the third day and still waiting. They’re totally banked up. Hospitals, private or public, appear to be a shitshow with massive under-staffing. I was about the leave and head to another hospital but my GP reckoned they’re all in the same boat.

How it looks

ER is totally banked up. A significant percentage of ward beds are empty.

I tell you, we better start importing workers in otherwise we’re fucked.

JC
JC
September 10, 2022 8:42 am
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 8:42 am

I’d love to get my hands on the age distribution of the increased deaths.
Might be quite telling.

Let’s go with the premise that the stats haven’t been distorted into fairy floss, as the BOM does with temperatures, and let’s also go with an undisputed rise in all-cause deaths.

Age distribution, as noted by Mater will be the key.

It will be the key because the stupid and unnecessary lockdowns restricted access to medical treatment by the ordinary punter, who by the age of 30 onwards becomes more susceptible to the kaleidoscope of cancers, tumours, blockages and all the other things that will kill them.

These are also the things that early identification and medical intervention will keep at bay for years, and sometimes decades. The lockdowns gave all those diseases and medical conditions a two-year (at least) head start, and allowed them to become so established in the host that dropping off the perch became inevitable.

Add suicide, caused by the social isolation of people who were vulnerable to that anyway, and the feelings of hopelessness of those who saw Andrews and Pallashay and the others destroy their entire livelihoods, and those of their families that were lifetimes in the making.

And that will be why all-cause deaths are up. This particular curve won’t flatten for another five years or so.

At some future point, this will be identified and placed squarely at the feet of Morrison and the Premiers, of whom all will be retired or in the ground by then. The rationale will be ‘it was the best health advice at the time’, which is also what they said about taking eye of newt while staring at the full moon.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 10, 2022 8:44 am

I think that was my point regarding Camilla not getting Princess of Wales.
It’s usual to get given the upgrades, why would the new King not follow tradition?

Don’t want the peasants revolting.

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 8:44 am

tonguebathing and vilification currently on offer.

Bad enough when it goes in a family but strangers virtue singling, gross.

johanna
johanna
September 10, 2022 8:46 am

Dot says:
September 10, 2022 at 7:21 am

Fish oil in normal to high quantities leads to heart problems (AF). Why aren’t all the Eskimos keeling over? Seems like BS!

As dot later concedes, populations adapt to their diets. If it doesn’t work for them, they don’t thrive and the people who do thrive multiply. It’s not a difficult concept.

Dietics, which makes astrology look like nuclear physics, keeps generalising in the face of evidence.

‘Carbs are bad’ – tell that to billions of Chinese and South East Asians and Indians. Seriously, are you telling them that their staple food is poison? That their health is hanging by a thread?

If rice and noodles are fatal, there wouldn’t be many people left in SE Asia and China.

When it comes to food faddism, it’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 8:47 am

What a shit show.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 10, 2022 8:47 am

KD – and then your RAT test can join the wrist gel mouse pad in the spare room.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 8:47 am

LOL, I’d hate to be cooped up in a hospital craving the sweet sweet taste of tobacco.

I’m just sparking up now bern. Second of the day, out in the fresh air. About 26 degrees. Under cover. Slight breeze.

Man, that’s good.

Damon
Damon
September 10, 2022 8:47 am

“all the masking and Covid crap is OVER”
Not in Queensland. We’re still as backward as ever.

Bruce
Bruce
September 10, 2022 8:48 am

Eirie and Dot;

Regarding the WW2 German nuclear programme:

It was a lot bigger than most folk understand.

At least one “device” was “trialed”, successfully, (more of a “BIG fizzle” than an earth-shattering KaBoom), during the war. The location of that event is, to this day, a closed military “proving ground”. That one event was also an object lesson in the effects of radiation, even from a “fizzle” on living tissue.

There are also the remains, often quite substantial, of small reactor sites in several locations in Germany and also in what used to be “East Prussia”, now Poland.

The Post Office got the gig, probably because they had lots of interesting “innocuous” locations on their books, but they were also world leaders in electronic research, partnering with huge private firms like Siemens. Whole new fields of instrumentation and miniaturization were required for the nuclear projects and the rocket / “V” weapon programmes.

Both the US and the Soviets had more than in inkling of what was going on; Hence, the path followed by Patton’s army as it charged across southern Germany and beyond. Ditto some of the Soviet advances. The French and the Brits were also in the hunt. Furthermore, Italy was also a “player” in the nuke biz before the fall of Mussolini.

Luzu
Luzu
September 10, 2022 8:49 am

As to William becoming the Prince of Wales, that title belongs to the heir apparent, which he now is. It is not based on the monarch’s choice but on primogeniture (I think that’s the term but please correct me if I’m wrong). Young George has moved to heir presumptive, a position recently held by his father. If anything were to happen to him, the title would go to his sister, Charlotte.

Upgrades, people!*

*A line from one of my favourite movies, “Robots”.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 8:50 am

Even Ebay has a condolence post up for the death of the Queen.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 8:53 am

This will be good.

At least the chum is rich.

https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/why-are-so-many-people-convinced-1950s-housewives-led-happy-fulfilled-lives-975a3dad3494

Why Are So Many People Convinced 1950s Housewives Led Happy, Fulfilled Lives
And that feminism has robbed us of all that ‘bliss’

Yep…every housewife in the 1950s was raped every day.

Margaret Atwood didn’t write science fiction…she was the pre-eminent historian of a newly liberated America.

Thank god she documented the horrible crimes of the 1950s.

Sure, feminism is about choices…and being subsidised by men with a gun to their heads.

Because rape is bad.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 8:53 am

JC are they making you fast every day in anticipation of surgery?
If so do they reset the clock each night?

P
P
September 10, 2022 8:55 am

Good and Faithful Servant Queen Elizabeth II

To some, the signing of an ecumenical declaration may have seemed insignificant. However, Her Majesty The Queen was the first monarch in 500 years, since the bloodied, pain-filled Reformation that still ripples in pockets of British society and across the Commonwealth today, to attempt to unite Christian factions.

She was the first British monarch since that great divide to offer to a Catholic bishop the personal gift of the Sovereign – the Order of Merit, which is restricted to a maximum of 24 living recipients from the Commonwealth realms. In this case, it was to Cardinal George Basil Hume about whom she spoke of affectionately as “my Cardinal”. Never before had such intimate words been uttered from the mouth of the Head of the Church of England in reference to a leading Catholic prelate.

Diogenes
Diogenes
September 10, 2022 8:55 am

Ditto for the Soviets, with “their” German engineers.

Have a look at Mark Felton’s video on those Germans. The Russians would not let them do much after an initial knowledge transfer because they didn’t want them knowing what they were doing. Unlike the Septics.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 8:55 am

KD – and then your RAT test can join the wrist gel mouse pad in the spare room.

Only ever had the one Bear, and that was prior to getting on the plane to Vicco in early December for family reasons. nobody actually asked me for one on the way back, so I didn’t bother and haven’t since.

Colesworths here still flog them, although now they’re in bargain bins near the checkouts instead of in the ‘health’ aisle.

Don’t get tested and you’ll never get covid.

Johnny Rotten
September 10, 2022 8:56 am

From now on, I will pronounce the name of King Charles the 3rd using an Irish accent.

So, King Charles the Turd it is then.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 8:56 am

reasons. nobody actually

Oh my word.

I promise I’m not doing that fashionable ‘no capitals’ thing.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 10, 2022 8:57 am

The spate of deaths of 52 year old celebrities seemed to have ended pretty abruptly.

Probably none left!

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 10, 2022 8:59 am

Fascinating about the lady smelling Parkinson’s, Rosie.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 8:59 am

I was at a boardroom breakfast during the week, about dozen or so were there.
I was the only one who hadn’t had COVID yet.
Also, I was the only one who didn’t have kids.
Based on that sample size, kids should be made to pay reparations for COVID.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 9:00 am

I can’t bring myself to get a ‘free account’ for some of the ladypages.

I know I should though.

rosie
rosie
September 10, 2022 9:00 am

They all had their birthday and are now safely 53.

JC
JC
September 10, 2022 9:02 am

JC are they making you fast every day in anticipation of surgery?
If so do they reset the clock each night?

It’s an abortion. I was fasting for about 18 hours until lunchtime yesterday when it was obvious I wasn’t going to get on the slab. I had lunch, dins and now breakfast and I’m now fasting hoping to get in this afternoon. I just saw the doc and his “HOPING” there’s a slot. Even today is not a done deal.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 9:03 am

It’s pretty funny.

Left whinging about the 1950s has been going on in the US since around 1988 and here in Australia since around 1990.

feelthebern
feelthebern
September 10, 2022 9:03 am

Hmmm…the best race on the Australian racing calendar is the QEII stakes in the Autumn (the Cox Plate is a close second).
So does that now become the Charles the third stakes?

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 10, 2022 9:04 am

Sneakers is giving away 20 free RATs to grateful sandgropers. Our Saviour.

JC
JC
September 10, 2022 9:05 am

GreyRanga says:
September 10, 2022 at 8:59 am

Fascinating about the lady smelling Parkinson’s, Rosie.

Sure Ranga, but it’s pretty useless though because Parkinson is a slow locomotive coming at you and you can’t stop it.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 10, 2022 9:05 am

I think Duncanm pointed out the other day that either Australian or was it NSW excess deaths were mostly due to covid.

So, a grand total of 14.000 deaths from/with covid in the last 2.5 years, mostly in the ‘elderly – comorbid’ demographic with little time remaining, explains an onging 20% spike in death rates amongst the young/middle aged group now?

Sounds legit.

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 10, 2022 9:06 am

Unless your child has just died in Emergency at the Perth Childrens Hospital.

Indolent
Indolent
September 10, 2022 9:06 am
OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 10, 2022 9:07 am

SEC chairman’s role in Steele dossier payments adds to questions about Trump probe conflicts

House Intelligence Committee testimony identified Gary Gensler as having final approval for funding discredited dossier.

Gary Gensler, President Joe Biden’s Securities and Exchange Commissioner, had final approval authority for the Hillary Clinton campaign’s payments for the discredited Steele dossier, according to congressional testimony that is adding to concerns about conflicts of interest as the SEC investigates Donald Trump’s social media firm’s merger request.

Questions surfaced last month about the SEC’s probe of Trump’s Truth Social when RealClearInvestigations journalist Paul Sperry reported that Gensler, as SEC chairman, previously served as the Hillary Clinton campaign’s chief financial officer.

In addition, Sperry reported that SEC Associate Director of Enforcement Melissa Hodgman was married to Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who led the much-criticized Russia collusion probe and was fired in 2018 for anti-Trump texts on his official bureau phone.

The SEC declined comment when Just the News inquired about Sperry’s report, the role, if any, that Gensler and Hodgman are playing in the Truth Social investigation or whether the two SEC executives offered to recuse themselves from the inquiry.

In addition to the connections to Trump, Truth Social is run by former House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, who played a key role in exposing Strzok’s conduct during the Russia probe, the Clinton campaign’s connections to the Steele dossier, the inaccuracies of the dossier and the FBI’s reliance on the former British spy Christopher Steele to obtain FISA warrants targeting the Trump campaign and adviser Carter Page.

In the end, Nunes’ probe exposed that the FBI ultimately determined that most of the allegations Steele placed in the dossier and shared with the agents were disproven, uncorroborated or meaningless Internet rumor and that the FBI misled the court about the reliability of the information.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 9:10 am

Left whinging about the 1950s has been going on in the US since around 1988 and here in Australia since around 1990.

Well yeah, but at least the COWS knew their place then.

Right St. Ruth?

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 10, 2022 9:11 am

The caravan has definitely moved on

Meanwhile the perpetrators (Premiers, CHOs etc) in Australia are quietly trying to slink backwards into the bushes and avoid all mention of excess deaths, adverse reactions, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, bankrupt businesses, traumatised and backward children, proof that Ivermectin works, proof that masks don’t work, and proof that house detention was a retrograde step. Desperately trying to avoid the opprobrium that comes with launching a tyrannical rule over democratic Aussies.

If only we could go all Maximus Decimus Meridius, And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 10, 2022 9:11 am

I prefer to withhold judgement until there are randomised double blind trials too.

I think you will find the gold standard for health research now is the ‘Randomised – double blinded – pal reviewed’ study now – as per klimate science

H B Bear
H B Bear
September 10, 2022 9:13 am

Aunty and the UN show how you create a nuclear incident when you aren’t even at Fukushima levels of danger. Hint: revise your conditional verbs and adverbs. Maybe cut and replace some climate change reports.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 9:13 am

As Neddy Smith explained, apropos of the ladeeees, in the timeless Blue Murder:

Women like it straight up. None of this continental stuff – it just makes them confused.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 10, 2022 9:14 am

Chris Dawson bought teenage girl sweets before sex

exclusive
David Murray
National Crime Correspondent
6:09PM September 9, 2022

Chris Dawson would buy chocolate for a teenage student before they had sex in his car, and slept with the girl while his wife Lyn was asleep or in the shower.

Throughout 1981, the convicted killer’s sexual encounters with the girl, known as JC, continued in his school office, the university where he was studying and his twin brother Paul’s home.

New details about Dawson’s pursuit of JC are revealed in NSW Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison’s published judgment, which culminated in the former high school physical education teacher being found guilty of Lyn’s murder.

A section of the judgment dealing with Dawson’s relationship with JC was not read aloud by Justice Harrison on the day he delivered his verdict.

Nor had some of the evidence emerged publicly during the trial, because the court was closed for part of the time JC was in the witness box.

It is not uncommon for a witness giving sensitive personal evidence to do so in closed court.

JC had a school bag which Dawson had bought her, and she “regularly found notes of love and affection from him” in the bag when she had biology, Justice Harrison wrote in a summary of her evidence.

By 1981, it had developed into a sexual relationship.

“Mr Dawson would pick her up and drive to Manly,” Justice Harrison wrote.

“He would stop at a convenience store to buy her chocolate and they would have sex in his car at Manly Point.

“They had sex at his home, at New England University, at his brother Paul’s house and at her sister’s home. They also had sex at his office at school and at 2 Gilwinga Drive when Lynette Dawson was asleep or in the shower in the evening.”

The trial of former teacher and rugby player Chris… Dawson for the alleged murder of his wife Lynette has heard witness testimony from a friend of Mr Dawson’s babysitter, known to the court as JC. The then-teenage babysitter allegedly entered into a relationship with Mr Dawson while at More

JC said that when she left her marriage in 1990, Dawson told her to destroy his love notes and cards.

“She kept the originals of the notes, but cannot now find them all,” Justice Harrison wrote. “She showed these notes to police officers, lawyers and friends.

“Photocopies of some of these notes were tendered in these proceedings.”

Justice Harrison rejected JC’s evidence that Dawson had discussed wanting to get a hitman to kill Lyn.

It was “improbable” the married father-of-two would have shared that information when he was trying to convince JC to marry him.

However, the judge was satisfied her evidence “was otherwise truthful and reliable”.

He added: “I was struck by her evidence concerning the development of her relationship with Mr Dawson while she was still at Cromer High School.

“I was left with the impression that JC felt that she had been, and that she had in fact been, swept up in circumstances over which she had only limited control.

“She was confused and conflicted. On the one hand, Mr Dawson offered her friendship, stability and guidance as a well-respected and charismatic male figure of a kind that had been lacking in her life.

“On the other hand, JC appears to have found herself in an emotional bind with a man whose enthusiasm for their relationship was not matched by hers.

“I found that JC’s insistence during her evidence that she was at the time only a child to be an evocative description of her predicament with wider metaphorical implications.

“I refer to these matters in order to indicate that I do not consider that JC’s evidence has been corrupted by the influence of her separation and divorce.”

Big_Nambas
Big_Nambas
September 10, 2022 9:14 am

Meme;……………………………..substitute ASIO for CIA.

flyingduk
flyingduk
September 10, 2022 9:15 am

If only we could go all Maximus Decimus Meridius, And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

One of my favourite boss moments in movies!

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 9:15 am

As Neddy Smith explained, apropos of the ladeeees, in the timeless Blue Murder:

Women like it straight up. None of this continental stuff – it just makes them confused.

Who says romance is dead?

shatterzzz
September 10, 2022 9:17 am

Breaking news from the Panthers Eels game last night ….. following on from the NRL delaying the suspension of Panthers player, TAYLAN MAY cos it wouldn’t have been fair on Panther ssupporters if he’d missed last night’s game …….. LOL!
the Eels will be petitioning the NRL to have the loss deferred to round 1 next season… for the fans

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 10, 2022 9:20 am

Regarding the WW2 German nuclear programme:
It was a lot bigger than most folk understand.

Bruce, do you have a link for that? Read “Heisenberg’s War”.
https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/thomas-powers/heisenbergs-war/9780306810114/
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780394514116

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 9:24 am

I remember when Parramatta were the best team that didn’t cheat in 2010 and still didn’t win a premiership.

(Even if they win next year)…it’s actually longer between drinks now as it was for the Tigers (1969 – 2005).

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 9:28 am

2009! Hello, senility.

Really, they should have won in 2002, 2005. Tigers in 2010.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
September 10, 2022 9:31 am

BOMBSHELL: “Jack-Booted Gestapo Has to Show Up at Their Door!” — Steve Bannon Tells Charlie Kirk 35 Trump Allies Had Homes Raided by FBI on Thursday (VIDEO)

Steve Bannon: You saw from the demonic speech that Biden gave in Philadelphia that this is a dying regime. That was a primal scream. And here what they’re trying to do, no matter who it is whether Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. There were 35 FBI raids last night. Right. And there’s another grand jury coming together on January 6th, the Washington Post reported it. THIRTY-FIVE Senior Members of MAGA! of Republicans, supporters of Donald Trump that the FBI rolled in on. When they didn’t need to do it. Right? All these people have lawyers. The jack-booted Gestapo has to show up at their door and make a big display of this.

This has never happened in American history!

The evil regime has gone rogue!

This is the Gestapo!

As Paul Sperry said back in August: “The FBI is now acting as both the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party and the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party.”

UPDATE– Attorney Harmeet Dhillon confirmed the report.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 10, 2022 9:33 am

Bruce, do you have a link for that? Read “Heisenberg’s War”.

Thanks for that – I’ve bagged a copy of that title.

Rabz
September 10, 2022 9:37 am

She slogged on as her body wore out, and always rejected any notion that, like the Dutch and Spanish monarchs, she should take early retirement and enjoy her last years with the dogs and horses whose company she, entirely reasonably, preferred to most of her ministers

Steyn on QE II.

Shy Ted
Shy Ted
September 10, 2022 9:38 am

From Rosie’ link to the ABS provisional-mortality-statistics –

COVID-19 includes all deaths where the underlying cause of death is assigned an ICD-10 code of U07.1 or U07.2.

2022 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code U07.1 COVID-19
and
U07.2: COVID-19, virus not identified
Leaving aside the fact that there’s no diagnostic test for Convid, a dodgy test that said you had Convid and a dodgy test that said you didn’t have Convid, well, you died from Convid.
But like the BOM erases those naughty high temperatures –

2020 is not included in the baseline for 2022 data because it included periods where numbers of deaths were significantly lower than expected.

While I’m on a rant, deaths due to dementia in at no 2 again. Someone remind me how you die of dementia. Ooh, look at that, they don’t.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 9:43 am

Woman BEHEADED Publicly In California Ignites CRIME WAVE Panic, Democrats Panic As Voters REVOLT

From Tim Pool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxDJ-6UzSn0

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 10, 2022 9:44 am

Dotsays:

September 10, 2022 at 7:12 am

Good morning, sneering cowards!

And the scoffers.
Good morning scoffers and sneerers.

Makka
Makka
September 10, 2022 9:44 am

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/scariest-paper-2022-reveals-terrifying-fate-bidens-economy-millions-are-about-lose-their

It’s gonna be a trainwreck. When the USD tops out, buy anything coming out of the ground.

local oaf
September 10, 2022 9:45 am

The Post Office got the gig, probably because they had lots of interesting “innocuous” locations on their books, but they were also world leaders in electronic research, partnering with huge private firms like Siemens.

Perhaps some analogy with Bell Labs in the USA. When the phone company produces 9 Nobel Prize winners, they’ve got something worth considering.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 9:45 am

Early promise (the Tele):

Prince Harry was reportedly told he could not take his wife Meghan Markle to Balmoral to see the Queen before she died.

The young royal cut a lonely figure as he was photographed on his was to the Queen’s Scotland retreat alone, with Meghan staying in London. Tragically, he arrived too late to say goodbye to the Queen.

Now The Sun reports Prince Charles told his youngest son “it wasn’t right” for Ms Markle to be in Balmoral at such a sad time. “Charles told Harry that it wasn’t right or appropriate for Meghan to be in Balmoral at such a deeply sad time,” a source said, according to The Sun.

Followed by a very thinly-disguised backhander during the King’s address:

“I want to also express my love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas,” the King said.

Oho. KaBam.

Tom
Tom
September 10, 2022 9:45 am

You wonder what rates on Australian TV? Why the British royal family, of course. The Seven Network has six hours from midday today on the death of QEII, Nein has two hours from 2pm ‘til 4pm and Their ABC is running and rerunning a four-hour special on the life of QEII around the clock all day.

The only network that has no interest in the subject is US-owned Ten – the CBS network’s tax dodge Down Under which, since it’s a tax write-off, is chasing the financially disastrous millenial demographic .

The only competitor for Ten’s Australian audience is the ABC, whose funding by government is not tied to its ratings. Even the ABC has a better understanding of its audience than Ten, which does not even have an Australian program director.

P
P
September 10, 2022 9:47 am

A Tribute to My Queen
As a spiritual mother and grandmother to millions, it seems fitting that she should have passed on the feast of the Nativity of Our Blessed Mother, the Queen of Heaven.

70 years of Queen Elizabeth II
Watching her supremely dignified and gentle discharge of so many tedious official duties, one was put in mind of Belloc’s lines:

Of Courtesy, it is much less
Than courage of heart or holiness
Yet in my walks it seems to me
That the grace of God is in Courtesy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 10, 2022 9:48 am

St Ruth earlier ..

Human detritus like you …

I see Dover’s call for higher standards is working.

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 9:49 am

In “Inflation and the Scariest Economics Paper of 2022”, Furman summarizes a paper written by Johns Hopkins macroeconomist Larry Ball with co-authors Daniel Leigh and Prachi Mishra of the International Monetary Fund released by the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, whose conclusion is as follows: “To bring price increases down to 2%, we may need to tolerate unemployment of 6.5% for two years.”

It may be true because a lot of uneconomic loans are going to get called in.

It probably isn’t though. Why are we giving the Phillips Curve any credibility? It’s busted.

Of course Brookings are pushing the debunked inflation-unemployment tradeoff, they’re left wing Keynesians.

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
September 10, 2022 9:49 am

Charles 111 great decision to start your reign off ..!

i’m not as well versed as you shatterzz in Royal titles, but I think this “decision” is more a formal, established process than King Charles’ personal decision.
Sine he has been “promoted” to King, then his former title of Prince of Wales is vacant and his heir moves up one peg and takes that title. Therefore Kate become Princess of Wales.

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 10, 2022 9:52 am

flyingduksays:
September 10, 2022 at 9:05 am
[I think Duncanm pointed out the other day that either Australian or was it NSW excess deaths were mostly due to covid.]

So, a grand total of 14.000 deaths from/with covid in the last 2.5 years, mostly in the ‘elderly – comorbid’ demographic with little time remaining, explains an onging 20% spike in death rates amongst the young/middle aged group now?

Sounds legit.

“With covid”. Quite. Anyone who happens to be covid positive when they die is automatically counted as a covid death unless it was a car accident or something like that.
If we’d kept common cold death stats in the past the way we’ve been keeping covid death stats for the last 3 years, we would have concluded that the common cold was the most lethal virus ever to afflict humanity.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 9:54 am

I see Dover’s call for higher standards is working.

Bonhomie!

Makka
Makka
September 10, 2022 9:55 am

It probably isn’t though.

By Q2 next year we’ll see dotty. The process may already be underway.

Visualizing Major Layoffs at U.S. Corporations
Hiring freezes and layoffs are becoming more common in 2022, as U.S. businesses look to slash costs ahead of a possible recession.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/major-layoffs-us-corporations-2022/

duncanm
duncanm
September 10, 2022 9:58 am

flyingduksays:
September 10, 2022 at 9:05 am
I think Duncanm pointed out the other day that either Australian or was it NSW excess deaths were mostly due to covid.

So, a grand total of 14.000 deaths from/with covid in the last 2.5 years, mostly in the ‘elderly – comorbid’ demographic with little time remaining, explains an onging 20% spike in death rates amongst the young/middle aged group now?

Sounds legit.

duk – I’m just going by the numbers which are publicly available. Yes – covid deaths account for a large chunk of the increase in deaths, but not all.

Look here: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provisional-mortality-statistics/latest-release

2022. Deaths peak at about 930/month above the average in Jan’22. 3870 vs. baseline 2940. That’s about 30% above average.

Further down – Covid deaths for Jan’22 are 501. So 55% of the increased mortality.

If you download the data and average it out, 30% of excess deaths for 2022 so far are ascribed to covid, and 20% for the second half of 2021.

From the notes on that page, it is clear that people are dying due to lack of healthcare during lockdowns. Cancer being the big one (+5.5% is about 200/month).

Other causes of death
– Deaths due to dementia including Alzheimer’s disease were 16.4% above the baseline average in May, and 20.5% above the baseline average for the year to May. The age standardised death rate for May was 3.9 per 100,000 people, compared to a baseline average rate of 3.6.
– Deaths due to cancer were 5.5% above the baseline average in May, to be 6.0% above the baseline average for the year to May. The age standardised rate for May (12.6 per 100,000 people) was below the baseline average rate of 13.0.
– Deaths due to diabetes were 18.7% above average in May, and were 20.0% higher than the baseline average for the year to May.

Or maybe those cancer deaths are the vaxx! \

Have a look at

duncanm
duncanm
September 10, 2022 9:59 am

comment filter mucked up by </sarc&gt tag

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 9:59 am

It’s gonna be a trainwreck. When the USD tops out, buy anything coming out of the ground.

I am getting a report from Roszencrag.

I am accumulating oil & gas in my super. Made money on WDL on day 1.

Holding KAR, BPT, WDL & STO (and JMS, FMG, AMI…). Also moving to accumulate more CAD personally as they are cheap with good nickel mineralisation and a trial float separator with Mt B possibly being finalised/approved soon. Thousands of samples going to the labs from Highway (ni, cu, co, [pd!])& Roberts Hill (gold/silver).

HotCopper keeps on spamming me to buy Metgasco.

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 10:00 am

Woman BEHEADED Publicly In California Ignites CRIME WAVE Panic,

A bag, keys ect is all it takes to distract someone attacking another with a knife.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
September 10, 2022 10:01 am

I hope players appeal ref’s decisions coz its not fair. Shirley the Fucking Useless NRL will back them up. FUNRL is not to be confused with the Stupid Fucking Liberals. Maybe hard to tell at times. In other news West’s Tigers didn’t come last, they won the race for the Wooden Spoon. Reminds me of Queen Victoria when observing the 100 Guinea’s Cup and America winning, asked who came second? Your Majesty, there is no second. The cup went on to being The America’s Cup.

Delta A
Delta A
September 10, 2022 10:01 am

I accidentally clicked on the Rowe cartoon – usually give him a miss. I found it quite touching.

Thanks for bringing us the toons every day, Tom.

MatrixTransform
September 10, 2022 10:01 am

Bonhomie!

a surfeit thereof

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 10:02 am

By Q2 next year we’ll see dotty. The process may already be underway.

Visualizing Major Layoffs at U.S. Corporations
Hiring freezes and layoffs are becoming more common in 2022, as U.S. businesses look to slash costs ahead of a possible recession.

It is already underway as inflation is the problem, not nominal CB rates.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 10, 2022 10:06 am

JC at 9:02.
I’ll get a copy of “Surgery For Dummies” and a really good socket set and we’ll give it a go.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 10, 2022 10:07 am

Calling bakery racist for chasing a thief costs university in Ohio $37m
Will Pavia, New York
Saturday September 10 2022, 12.01am BST, The Times

A liberal university in Ohio is to pay $36.6 million to a local bakery after students and staff falsely accused it of racism because an employee chased and restrained a black student he had seen shoplifting.

On Thursday Oberlin College’s board of trustees said it would pay damages awarded by the Ohio Court of Appeals, ending a five-year dispute that triggered a nationwide debate over race, criminal justice and free speech. The court upheld a jury verdict that Oberlin was liable for libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress and interference with a business.

Oberlin College students staged demonstrations outside Gibson’s Bakery in November 2016 a day after three black students were arrested and accused of attempting to steal from the store. Allyn Gibson, a grandson of the owner, said he saw one of the students, a young man, hiding two bottles of wine in his coat. Gibson chased him across the street and tackled him. Two young female students then attacked Gibson, according to a police officer.

All three students were arrested and later pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges. At his sentencing Jonathan Aladin, who pleaded guilty to attempted theft, read a statement acknowledging that Gibson was justified in trying to restrain him and that his actions had not been racially motivated.

However, his initial arrest, which came the day after Donald Trump was elected president, caused outrage on a campus with a long, proud history of progressive activism. Students and staff believed the trio had been attempting to purchase alcohol under-age with fake identification.

Oberlin, founded in 1833, was America’s first interracial and co-educational college. It was also a stop on the Underground Railroad, which helped escaped slaves. In the past its canteen has become embroiled in a revolt against its servings of sushi and a General Tso chicken sandwich after allegations of cultural appropriation.

In the aftermath of the students’ arrest, a flyer circulated calling for a boycott of the bakery, which it described as “a RACIST establishment with a LONG ACCOUNT OF RACIAL PROFILING and DISCRIMINATION.” It accused Gibson of racially profiling the young man and improperly chasing and assaulting him.

Several hundred students protested outside the bakery in the two days that followed. The student senate passed a resolution making similar claims that they posted in a student centre.

During its libel action Gibson’s Bakery said that the college vice-president, Meredith Raimondo, had attended the protests, calling a witness who said he had seen her handing out flyers and telling students that they could make more copies in the college’s conservatory office. The college also instructed the company supplying its dining hall to stop ordering food from Gibson’s Bakery, according to court papers.

The college maintained that Raimondo had a duty to attend protests off-campus to ensure they took place peacefully, and argued students had a right to exercise freedom of speech.

Lawyers for the bakery, who sued the college alleging defamation, presented text messages between members of staff at the college in which they expressed support for the protests. The college’s interim assistant dean attended the court hearing where the three students were convicted, calling it “the most egregious process” and adding, “I hope we rain fire and brimstone on that store” in a text message to Raimondo. After a retired professor at the college criticised the way it had handled the incident Raimondo texted another administrator saying: “F*** him. I’d say unleash the students if I wasn’t convinced this needs to be put behind us,” according to court papers.

Attorneys for the Gibson family cast it as a victory for David over Goliath and said they were grateful that the court “recognised the rights of individuals rather than the bullying tactics of the big institutions”.

JC
JC
September 10, 2022 10:11 am

Sancho Panzer says:
September 10, 2022 at 10:06 am
JC at 9:02.
I’ll get a copy of “Surgery For Dummies” and a really good socket set and we’ll give it a go.

Non-Chinese socket set please.

P
P
September 10, 2022 10:11 am

NSW COVID-19 cases, deaths and testing statistics
Changes to COVID-19 reporting
From Friday 9 September, routine COVID-19 reports will occur weekly. NSW Health also provides detailed reporting and analysis of the latest COVID-19 data in its weekly respiratory surveillance reports

MatrixTransform
September 10, 2022 10:11 am

once, common as muck

Variable Speed Drives
7.5 kW
gone from $1040 to $1340
lead time 8 Weeks

now rarer the rocking horse shit

people living 50 storey up a residential tower
best you start hording bottled water

just in case

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 10:12 am

I’ll get a copy of “Surgery For Dummies” and a really good socket set and we’ll give it a go.

I’ll donate a staple gun and some aluminium from my portfolio.

MatrixTransform
September 10, 2022 10:13 am

grr … rarer than

multi-focals have broken my keyboard

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 10:13 am

MT

Have you seen more VSDs blow with increased dirty, solar power?

bespoke
bespoke
September 10, 2022 10:18 am

Matrix

Raspberry Pi’s want from $120 to almost $400 in some places.

The chip shortage is a huge problem.

Roger
Roger
September 10, 2022 10:19 am

…it is clear that people are dying due to lack of healthcare during lockdowns.

It’s somewhat of a surprise that ABC RN AM has been following and reporting on this.

A physician pointed out the obvious re undetected cancers & a geriatrician said the increased death by dementia rates were due to residents in nursing homes not being fed due to staff shortages.

No wonder the politicians don’t want a Royal Commission.

MatrixTransform
September 10, 2022 10:22 am

Dotty, I hadn’t thought about it

at a guess, I don’t think so
the DC side kinda filters that harmonic rubbish out

the capacitors flog out sometimes but mostly usual attrition down to dust, old thermo-conductive paste, failing IGBTs etc

just old and worn out

we still have some old ones in service … 20yr old …sometimes older
many new drives are IP54 or better and its rare to see a failure in a new drive.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 10, 2022 10:23 am

Knuckle Draggersays:

September 10, 2022 at 9:45 am

Early promise (the Tele):

Prince Harry was reportedly told he could not take his wife Meghan Markle to Balmoral to see the Queen before she died.

I have no doubt Betty 2.0 left very explicit instructions about final visits, seating at the funeral, who gets Gran’s good doilies, etc.
Not just to Chuck, but everyone in the Royal Protocol food-chain.
And it appears the Firm are standing firm.
They know that, had she been at Balmoral, the Oprah stuff would have started up again:-
“Queen’s Deathbed Racism Confession”.
“Queen’s Final Plea to Meghan to Return”.
No false claims are possible if you keep her at arm’s length.

Makka
Makka
September 10, 2022 10:26 am

It is already underway as inflation is the problem, not nominal CB rates.

The process I refer to is rising IR driven UE. And you can bet nominal CB rates will become a very real problem at some point if CB’s maintain their current trajectory without Govt’s addressing the supply side.

Jorge
Jorge
September 10, 2022 10:28 am

How are ya, Dot ?

What does this mean ? Translate please.

All I got from my army fall worm juice was a cold feeling and an intended itch during the night.

P
P
September 10, 2022 10:29 am

For the first time since 1952 –

‘God Save The King’ Sung Officially for First Time

Makka
Makka
September 10, 2022 10:29 am

… and the Fed knows this of course..

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
September 10, 2022 10:30 am

JCsays:

September 10, 2022 at 10:11 am

Sancho Panzer says:
September 10, 2022 at 10:06 am
JC at 9:02.
I’ll get a copy of “Surgery For Dummies” and a really good socket set and we’ll give it a go.

Non-Chinese socket set please.

Of course.
Only the best.
Is your appendix attached with metric or Whitworth fasteners?
Left or right hand thread?

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 10:34 am

All I got from my army fall worm juice was a cold feeling and an intended itch during the night.

Novavax. All I got was a cold feeling in my arm the first time and that night my scalp was very itchy, it woke me up in the wee hours.

The second shot, IIRC, I don’t think anything happened.

Roger
Roger
September 10, 2022 10:35 am

No false claims are possible if you keep her at arm’s length.

Preferably on another continent.

MatrixTransform
September 10, 2022 10:37 am

The chip shortage

JIT aint soon enough

I said to the missus yesterday that we are all in some very deep trouble
and that people who dont understand electrical/electronic/programming have a clue quite yet

my private joy is that we can simply pass on the increases so that we always get future dollars

when the power goes off
the machine stops pinging
when the impeller fails to move the excreta
I am Lord

they dont know it yet but
us dumb sparkies rule the world

now, kiss my ring

Timothy Neilson
Timothy Neilson
September 10, 2022 10:37 am

duncanmsays:
September 10, 2022 at 9:58 am

If you download the data and average it out, 30% of excess deaths for 2022 so far are ascribed to covid, and 20% for the second half of 2021.

duncanm, your key phrase here is “ascribed to”. The Queensland health department instructions have been shown on this site a number of times and no-one has produced anything to suggest it’s different anywhere else. If someone is covid positive when they die then, unless it’s a car crash or something similar where it’s impossible for covid to be the cause, the death MUST be recorded as a covid death, and the certifying doctor’s only discretion is whether covid is listed as the cause of death or only as a “contributing factor”.

Or maybe those cancer deaths are the vaxx! \

Don’t dismiss the idea. The Queensland health department instructions have been shown on this site a number of times and no-one has produced anything to suggest it’s different anywhere else. Certifying doctors are forbidden from putting the vaxx as a cause of death or contributing factor without first contacting the government for “advice” – by contrast they’ve got total liberty to sign off without mentioning the vaxx, whatever the circumstances.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
September 10, 2022 10:38 am

Charles III, translated:

‘That gold-digging publicity whore is coming nowhere near my mother on her death bed.’

Dot
Dot
September 10, 2022 10:38 am

The Kings indeed, but the village idiots in the town cesspits still get paid better.

Eyrie
Eyrie
September 10, 2022 10:39 am

The chip shortage is a huge problem.

Sure is. Mrs Eyrie scored some rather common voltage regulators the other day. Otherwise middle of 2023. These are not high end. They’ve been around for 40+ years.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
September 10, 2022 10:45 am

Calling bakery racist for chasing a thief costs university in Ohio $37m

They haven’t apologized and won’t stop. The Left are like terminators.

Oberlin continues its slander (9 Sep)

Lorna Gibson wrote in the New York Post, “We hoped that, with time, the kids who started all this would graduate, and that new students would come in and that the whole drama would fade. But I’m told that freshmen are still told to boycott us. Parents who come in tell me that their kids have been brainwashed to hate us.

Alas, there are no adults in the rooms of Oberlin. Carmen Twillie Ambar, president of Oberlin, issued no apology.

Instead, she sent a letter to the college’s staff and students

Ambar is a crybully. She also is the first black president of Oberlin. Apparently by virtue of the color of her skin, she is the sole arbiter of racism. Democrat Bull Connor thought the same thing 60 years ago in Birmingham, Alabama.

According to Lorna Gibson, the racist harassment against the bakery continues.

None dare speak out against this injustice.

I hope she gets riot insurance because history shows the next protest — and there will be one — won’t be as nice as the last one.

By keeping Ambar as its president, Oberlin’s board made it clear that the war on the Gibson’s Bakery is not over. It no longer is about race. It is about Gibson’s Bakery being independent of the college.

Baker peoples, it’s time to sell up and enjoy your money on a beach somewhere in Florida or Texas, far far away from the BLM dudes who will be coming with molotov cocktails soon.

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