JohnH: Sweden has just under half our population. It built a conventional submarine, the Gotland, so stealthy the US navy…
JohnH: Sweden has just under half our population. It built a conventional submarine, the Gotland, so stealthy the US navy…
@CitizenFreePress DEMOCRATS HAVE ZERO SELF AWARENESS. Biden announces $1 billion gift to Africa to help the homeless displaced by non-existent…
Matt Taibbi Note on the FBI
Delaware Confiscates $100 Billion of Musk’s Wealth
Why is Dr. Scott Gottlieb so desperate to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. out of Trump’s cabinet?
Well done, lovely lady.
Jennifer Rush – The Power Of Love (Official Video) (VOD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_zHQ6kFuQ0
would urge
Good fortune to you Mother Lode
If you read up on what happens in TheStorm™, it’s crazier than Revelations. Mass public beheadings, ethnic purges, it’s a white supremacist’s wet dream.
‘bern, I was tidying up my FY22 Super Fund stuff today to send off for audit.
Found that Westpac buyback statement from February.
I got all misty over it.
I think I might frame a copy.
People would likely open up to Q if they knew WTF Q was banging on about.
WBC buyback nohm nohm nohm.
More precipitously and dangerously than most other places.
Gasp!
There’s a solar flare with your name on it.
If Q wills.
Try this one
Dot
For goodness sake, go and read the first 20 or so
We did three.
Westpac, Woolies and CBA.
All noice.
But Westpac was the tastiest.
…
Sorry.
…
I’m choking up again.
CBA was great because the all up exit was a tad over 120 bucks.
Compared to the 90 odd today.
I don’t think it would be unreasonable to ask Q for a realistic timeframe for something. Anything.
NSW plod have a lot to learn – $3k was the ask of Nigel apparently, back in Dan’s heyday, VIC plod had their hands out for $50k+ for event ‘protection’ I seem to recall?!
KD
Q sounds like a former intel dude taking the piss. I took a look from Indolent’s personal link. You know what, he actually sounds like AI.
For those who don’t know what Q is:
It is a set of short blog posts ostensibly from some secret operative who knows about a conspiracy of patriots to expose a separate but more massive conspiracy that runs the world.
There is supposed to be an event called The Storm where the rock spiders, cannibals and Satanists who run this larger conspiracy will be unmasked and put to death in televised mass executions.
Q posts appear at random intervals and rarely speak in anything other than cryptic passive voice. Q devotees spend endless hours deciphering meaning from seemingly innocuous sentence fragments.
If this all sounds insane to you… yes, yes it is. To describe it is to condemn it.
By the time they arrive, Russia will be dragging 90-year-old conscripts out of the stage 4 cancer ward and sending them to the front armed with toilet plungers. The war is going tremendously well for US hegemony (see the greenback go up, up!). Not so well for Putinists!
The whole Q thing (I think) is actually a thing.
It’s pretty massive if you really think about it.
Yes.
A couple I didn’t replenish the buyback stock afterwards.
I was thinking about that today and might think about piling in again soon.
If there is a hint that Chalmers might play with franking, we might see a welter of buybacks to get in first.
Vicplod didn’t collect. This makes NSW Plod smarter, coz they at least blackmailed $3,000 out of Farage.
I’ll stay till the top of the hour.
Well, i’m quite prepared to believe that rock spiders, cannibals and Satanists are running the world. The rest I’m not sure about.
Yes, I’m sure it massive as there are a lot of gullible twits around.
Michael Smith News.
JC your place at first is locked.
Fatboy, STFU. You too putting on these airs as though you’ve been immune to shit like this.
You were peddling Adam Schiff’s lies and bullshit for years here and the old Cat. You have nothing to be crowing about, you fat turd. Get back in the basement or Sutton will send the Basement Compliance cops around to weld you in. Go on scram.
Bruce Hornsby:
By Bruce Hornsby and the Range from their 1986 album The Way It Is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlRQjzltaMQ
Oh good. Thanks Custard.
Q
Q is a bot?
…
Q is a bot!
Yea, I’d never seen that shit before I linked onto Indolent’s stuff. It sounds like a bot, KD.
It’s not quite, but it’s like a random sentence generator focused on folks with certain political traits who are very gullible.
A bloke walking his dog.
********
Cash 2.0 Great Dane meeting new people in Marina Del Rey 20
woof bark growl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSZStvLR3w
Oh Good. Do you know if it’s going to be televised on FTA or a pay channel, Fatboy. I’d really like to watch the show live though.
One can only hope that other people would be more curious. You can’t wish for anything else.
The Russians did it!
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2013/0716/Putin-pays-an-underwater-visit-to-Oleg
Well maybe you could.
Like a Facebook algorithm. Yeah righto.
Free speech protection racket’: NSW Police send Nigel Farage $3000 bill for ‘security’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngGVe8Ynwas
You can’t even drive a car without causing an accident, JC. Have you still got your licence or did they take it away already?
Don’t be angry at the kids. They are just being kids.
Cash is one of the tallest dogs in the world and spins most people out.
Cool – and after enjoying that televisual feast, we then deal with various other monsters lurking in plain sight via some good ol’ fashioned HOP Time™.
Trigger warning: Hideously uglee execution worthy fascist imbeciles (BIRM)*
*No, I have not forgotten, much less forgiven. They’re on a very long list, for very sound reasons.
“Goodnight Irene“
It’s not quite, but it’s like a random sentence generator focused on folks with certain political traits who are very gullible.
I knew it: Q is a Turing Machine.
Tucker Carlson: Did The U.S. Blow Up The Nord Stream Pipelines? Of Course, We’re Blaming Putin
Full Transcript
From the Comments
– Which nation was doing naval exercises in that area around this time? There is your answer…seems as if nothing short of nuclear war is the goal of Biden & Co.
– The lunatics appear to be running the asylum. Scary times ahead. We are a nation that is being run by incompetent ideologues that are driving us into both poverty and WWIII. November can’t come fast enough
Thursday Cartoon: Thank Joe Biden for the Fentanyl Crisis
To put it in some perspective, the Vietnam War killed over 58,000 Americans in the second longest war in American history. In 2021, COVID claimed the lives of just over 21,000 Americans in the 21-45 age, demographic. In the same year, Fentanyl overdoses killed almost TWICE that number — yet we shut down the economy, but wouldn’t shut down the border. At present, 154 Americans die every day from fentanyl.
Joe Biden refuses to do anything productive to stop the flow of illegal fentanyl across the southern border.
Biden isn’t just a border “coyote.” He’s also a drug dealer.
The African American 13% go the wrong man!
THE IRONY: Recent Temple University Graduate Gunned Down in Philidelphia Was 2020 Democrat Election Organizer
23-year-old Everett Beauregard was seen on video walking up to his South Philly apartment on Thursday, September 22 just after midnight when a gunman shot him to death.
According to police, the murder suspect had been circling the neighborhood on foot for one hour before he randomly shot and killed Everett Beauregard.
Now it turns out per a cursory review of his work profile, Beauregard was a Democrat Election organizer in the 2020 Election.
– The lunatics appear to be running the asylum. Scary times ahead. We are a nation that is being run by incompetent ideologues that are driving us into both poverty and WWIII. November can’t come fast enough
November is never coming.
And on that depressing note a cute owl.
Ford 3o2- Windsor.
Throttle to around 8000rpm and do no let up. Cleetus and James are not even close. I will say the Americans are catching up fast. A shame shipping costs are through the roof. We’d be over saying hello and mangling them all.
SICKO WINS THE BURNOUT MASTERS AT SUMMERNATS 32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAQkeS9hlQE
Mark Dice:
Joe Biden Sees a Ghost.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rLS2xKxzN8
Reverend Simon Sideways:
She’s a bitch.
Jacinda Ardern , free speech is our enemies weapon!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2yLSPsNmbc
Yecch. Nothing remotely womanly about that … thing.
And now he’s dead, dead, dead, courtesy of a process known as natural selection.
Zero sympathy.
Great song:
Barry Manilow – Copacabana (At the Copa) (Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKR2n-G-wdM
Cleetus:
I am banned from the other joint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjkDL1A80UI
Markets looking bearish in US.
This bloke just wrecks cops.
Power To The Proletariat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24PnonPsdk
Marvellous day of blue skies and sunshine in Edinburgh today.
Staying in the Grassmarket in the shadow of the Castle walls. The place where they hanged the Covenanters, so I have to watch my step. Of which there are many and steep up to the Castle. Right at the top is the war memorial, its shrine sitting on the highest piece of natural rock from the plug. The story of Scottish sacrifice is overwhelming.
TE, did you know there’s a line on HMAS Sydney and the Emden in the memorial?
A piper was skirling on the way down, the first I’d heard. Stirring stuff at the head of the Royal Mile which I dutifully walked. On the way is St Giles with its stone crown. Inside is a huge array of memorials to Scottish notables. Saw this one for DocDuk:
The Scots were well and truly punching above their weight when it came to medicine and education in general. Shame I can’t understand half of them!
The Mile is flanked by some remarkable architecture, quirky and grubby and all needing a good tub. My theory – grime is holding it all together. The parliament, opposite Holyrood, is diabolically ugly, brutalist modern in the “style” of Fed Square. The new wave of Scots giving the middle finger to the giants who preceded them.
I mentioned “the plug” – Cats most likely know the castle is built on an extinct volcano.
Which had me thinking…they built a massive fortress on the thing without a care in the world. We aren’t even allowed to climb Mt Warning.
Aussies like the Scots were once used as shock troops in battle. These days we couldn’t battle our way out of a paper bag.
And I tried to tempt the Beloved to purchase a kilt. Nothing doing! The tartan is quite striking and bright, almost Hi-Viz.
A proper, good quality one was well over $1K, so he passed. 😀
Have a squiz.
FULL INTERVIEW: Dr Jordan Peterson sits down with Piers Morgan.
Clinical psychologist and public intellectual Dr Jordan Peterson has sat down with Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan for an insightful and emotional interview discussing his work, free speech and the world today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpnvGA-wJIE
I think it’s hate speech to reference the trans status of the alleged traitor.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11263375/Armys-trans-officer-wife-INDICTED-trying-pass-medical-records-Russians.html
Scrolling the main pages of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ & Bloomberg, there is no coverage of the alleged trans traitor.
Not even zero hedge.
Phil Collins & Genesis have sold their catalogue to a label that is ultimately owned by a life insurance company.
Sad.
Two stories on Nord Stream 1&2.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/another-nord-stream-leak-detected-swedish-coastguard-says
https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2022/09/28/who-gains-most-from-nord-stream-sabotage/
Keep stocking up on fire wood Europe.
The USA has the means and the motive, the only question is, are Biden or his handlers that stupid? Or that under the thumb of China?
Probably yes to both.
Tom is late!
Johannes Leak.
Bob Moran.
Andy Davey.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Steve Kelley.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Tina Norton.
Thanks Tom.
“randomly”
so it was a hit like Seth Rich.
you deplorables shouldn’t start any conspiracy theories, ok?
Dilbert
Thanks, Will.
Indolent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-FdX0djxAE
I don’t think these people have a clue as to what they’re doing.
Apposite of Payne’s cartoon, maybe someone should do an IPO for a horse breeding and cartmaking business. Their products would be very popular!
Chinese EV Maker Leapmotor Flops in Hong Kong Market Debut (WSJ, 29 Sep, paywalled)
Down 42% first day after pricing at the bottom of the range eh? The Chinese market was pretty flat yesterday, so it wasn’t the market. Maybe all those stories about lithium and copper shortages are starting to bite…
A Good Word for the ‘Culturally Unsafe’ Daniel Andrews
From the Quadrant Online –
“My hands tremble over the keyboard as I type this, but fairness obliges me to offer a few good words for Daniel Andrews. I may be the first writer ever to do so in the pages of Quadrant, come to think of it, though I promise I won’t turn this spirit of inclusion and charity into a habit.
If re-elected at the November state election, the Labor government has pledged to rebuild and expand Maroondah hospital in Melbourne’s east. A new hospital needs a new name, the Premier has sensibly argued, and his proposal strikes me as a jolly good one: the site is to be named in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. Two — ah, dash it, make it three — cheers for Daniel Andrews and his tribute to our late monarch.
The Victorian First People’s Assembly and the Greens, however, aren’t all that frightfully keen on the idea, and they’ve registered their objection in a typically fatuous manner. Assembly co-chair Marcus Stewart trotted out the line that every sooky activist and politician would learn and recite: with this name change, the Premier has created a “culturally unsafe” environment for Victorian Aboriginals.
As of this writing, there hasn’t been much journalistic curiosity about such a claim. How, exactly, will the new signage create a threat to potential patients? Unsurprisingly, Aboriginal South Australians have made use of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide’s western suburbs for some time, and yet we’ve never heard any whinging about its dangerous name. Perhaps Mr Stewart and his co-aggrieved have been a bit insincere about their bruised feelings, and an enterprising journalist might even call out their inanity. I’d even settle for a follow-up question at this point, but I shouldn’t raise my hopes. After all, those rattling on about safety and whatnot can usually get away with being less than consistent on such matters.
Senator Lidia Thorpe, for example, had her whole day ruined by the Andrews announcement and asserted that she had felt colonised yet again. Poor thing. I mean, she’s gone through life and ascended to the Senate with such a limited vocabulary, which basically consists of “colony” and its derivations. Anyhow, let us recall that safety certainly wasn’t Thorpe’s major concern when she cheered on the protestors who set alight Old Parliament House in December last year.
Thorpe’s enthusiasm for arson is matched by her passion for intimidating elderly Aboriginal ladies, as I’ve just learned from the Sydney Morning Herald. Apparently, Thorpe’s ex-chief of staff David Mejia-Canales spent some part of the work day dashing off apology emails to Thorpe’s victims of abuse. In a 2021 meeting at Parliament House, Thorpe left Aunty Geraldine Atkinson, a woman in her 70s, in such an emotional state that she needed medical attention from a nurse onsite. The other attendee and apology recipient was — oh, interesting — the aforementioned Marcus Stewart of the First People’s Assembly. Perhaps he does know something about workplace safety after all. If only he would direct his ire at a target more deserving than a hospital entrance sign.”
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/sicktoria/2022/09/a-good-word-for-the-culturally-unsafe-daniel-andrews/
Starting to see some serious angst in Europe as winter approaches and energy prices inflict pain.
‘Czech First’ Thousands flock streets of Prague in furious anti-EU protests (29 Sep)
If Labour really has a 33-point lead, the Tories face ‘complete wipe-out’ in next election (29 Sep)
May not be a great time to call an election Tory peoples. The voters have their cricket bats ready.
From an email Matt Taibbi sent out to subscribers this morning.
YouTube Demonetizes TK Content
A brief note to subscribers about YouTube’s decision to demonetize TK material, saying Matt Orfalea’s factual video “isn’t suitable for all advertisers”
The real nugget is how quickly it happened.
Meaning that YouTube is monitoring certain accounts in case they post anything that is contrary to the approved narrative.
This is the video YouTube is suppressing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMfIkz7v6s
Democrat’s “Stolen” Election Claims | “Stolen” 2016 Election
Think about it. Que, I shake my head.
The paranoid world of Stacey Abrams
Two IT guys were chatting in a pub after work. “Guess what, mate” says the first IT guy “yesterday, I met this gorgeous blonde girl in a bar”. “What did you do?” says the other IT guy. “Well, I invited her over to my place, we had a couple of drinks, we got into the mood and then she suddenly asked me to make her feel special”. “You’re kidding me!” says the second IT guy. “I then I lifted her and put her on my desk next to my new laptop”. “Really? You got a new laptop? What is it?” “It’s a Razer Blade 17, i9, with 32Gb of RAM, GeForce video card and…”
From one of FTBs links:
6 meters! Bullshit. You can operate using a standard Dräger rebreather down to 10 metres, without even adding Nitrox B to it. That’s considered shallow.
I’m not saying a submersible wasn’t required to do the job, but the author proves himself to be as qualified as Monty to talk on the subject.
Fuck you Bank of America, downgrading my apple.
How dare you.
Still got a market cap of 2.3 trill though.
Congratulations, Australia. You’re Already at Net Zero
From the Quadrant Online –
“Achievement of Net Zero in Australia is a no-brainer. Australia is, has been, and continues to be, a net greenhouse gas sink (GHG) with natural sequestration which exceeds domestic emissions. To achieve net zero all that is needed is to do nothing and permit any increases to occur until at some distant future time, they might rise enough to reach net zero.
1/ The cost of wind and solar power is being grossly misrepresented by citing only the cost of generation when about half of cost of power is in the distribution. The remote scattered nature of wind and solar farms will require a major increase in grid infrastructure.
2/ Worse still, the highly variable and unpredictable nature of wind and solar will require at least a 400 per cent excess of installed generating capacity, plus full back up in dispatchable capacity running in standby mode.
3/ Managing all this and accommodating a huge increase in demand from electric vehicles is going to impose operational complexities orders of magnitude greater than the relatively stable dispatchable power generation and predictable demand of the traditional system.
4/ In addition to the operational challenges, this greatly expanded grid will also entail a significant increase in vulnerability to risks from equipment failures, storms, solar flares, accidents, sabotage, and digital hacking
5/ The necessity for vast areas of unused land for energy farms is going present even more major difficulties. In the North where solar is much stronger and less seasonal solar farms will risk damage from cyclones and occasional multi-day collapses in output due to heavy cloud cover from monsoon troughs in the wet season. Further inland they might escape these. but will then be exposed to occasional violent thunderstorms, hailstorms, and dust storms. Having to clean the dust off thousands of hectares of solar panels will be a decidedly non-trivial task.
6/ Concerns about methane emissions encompass another cloud of misinformation. The IR absorption spectrum of methane is overlapped by that of water vapour, which is also about 10,000 to 20,000 times more abundant in the atmosphere than is methane. No matter how little or how much methane is in the atmosphere, all of the IR in its absorption spectrum is already being absorbed and there can be no additional heating no matter how much methane is present.
7/ Also, the generation of methane by the decomposition of plant material is similar in quantity on vegetated land whether or not it comes from livestock or microbes. The Amazon rainforest is a major global source of methane emissions. In Australia every ant mound is a methane generator assuring that any plant material not eaten by livestock will still be consumed by other organisms and result in methane.
8/ Small modular reactors (SMR) will be an eminently effective solution and their development is well underway. The only real obstacle is unfounded ignorance and ill-informed environmental concerns. However, these will simply evaporate as the increasing costs and blackouts of unreliable RE begin to be the new norm.
9/ The advantages of SMRs will be manifold. In addition to cost and reliability, the ability to easily be located close to wherever power is needed vastly reduces the entire assemblage of massive regional grids along with all their costs, complexities, and vulnerabilities. Better still, full back up could be accommodated by a few mobile units on ships, rail cars or trucks which could quickly be dispatched to provide any emergency need.
10/ Such units are already under development by the US Defence Department (Rolls Royce is a prime contractor). As all of the necessary technology already exists and has an excellent operational record, there is little uncertainty regarding its successful development and initial adoption in the near future.
11/ Acceptance of a necessity for nuclear power has already begun to reach majority status in opinion polls. The main resistance is not the public. It is primarily those with vested interests in RE and among the academically indoctrinated cadres of mainstream media, academia, social activists, and ill-informed politicians pandering to what they think is still a popular position. The widespread availability and adoption of SMR technology will be assured by necessity, economics and the fading of an ideological opposition which has been popular primarily in the more effete politically correct sectors of the developed world.
Net Zero is almost surely destined to become a meme synonym for mindless adherence to impossible aims naively proposed by drones seeking an appearance of virtue and a feeling of ethical superiority. The physical practicality, environmental benefit, economic outcome, and intellectual rigor of the entire drive for renewable energy can indeed be aptly summed up as being a Net Zero.
Somehow, the resonances between Putin’s War, The War on Carbon. and a March of the Lemmings also seems hard to ignore. All are driven by mindless passion at immense cost and no reasonable expectation of any achievable benefit. The path is opening for some new leadership to replace the current herd followers who have somehow stumbled into the vanguard. They need to be shuffled back into the herd where they won’t block every fresh idea.
It appears unlikely that any of the current political parties may be able to get past their accumulated ideological and political baggage to genuinely consider any truly fresh approaches. What is probably needed is an entirely new RE party, but one based on Reason and Evidence, not on fantasies of powering the world with sunbeams and summer breezes.”
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/09/congratulations-australia-youre-already-at-net-zero/
Mater re the quantum of explosive needed, the zh one references TNT.
How much of a newer, more advanced compounds are needed?
Are we talked a suitcase size ?
Or a shoe box ? or smaller?
The Swedish geoscientists recorded Richter scale tremors. So it wasn’t the minimum needed.
Another breach has been found btw.
Swedes Report New Fourth Leak in Nord Stream Pipeline ‘Sabotage’ (29 Sep)
J. Rotten,
Quadrant would benefit from clicks. No need to post whole articles from that august journal.
Truthfully, FTB, I wouldn’t hazard a statement on this. There are many factors at play. The tamping effect of the water, shaped charge (or otherwise), etc. My experience with underwater demolitions is limited. Digger would be a wealth of knowledge in this area, if he’s listening.
Between the wall thickness of the metal and the concrete encasement, the pipeline sounds to be a solid bit of gear. Whoever did it was going to get only one chance at it, so you’d want to over do it rather than under cook it.
Big clues should evident at the site. It’ll be interesting what they find (if we ever get to know).
KD’s been hacked or got a new job.
More football clubs behaving horribly, just horribly (the Hun):
Swan was just another young buck who’d had a couple of chances, and who was just about to get the arse from the Pies after being found shitfaced outside Flinders Street Station, jumping on the roof of a parked car. He was living with a couple of mates in a rental joint covered in empty stubbies and pizza boxes, as one does.
Mick Malthouse intervened at the last moment because he (correctly, as it turned out) saw something in the kid. Part of the deal that let him stay at Collingwood was ‘you are not to live with those fuckheads any more. Show some maturity and commitment, get out of there and buy something’.
The Pies gave Swan a choice. He made his choice. Other people made different choices, and suddenly those other people became terrible victims.
Of course, this is beside the very obvious point that every single person that AFL clubs gave these choices to were adults.
Army tanks! Mass beheadings!
It’s Happening!
Think about that!
Chuckle!..
A Federal Judge has ordered the production of Seth Rich’s laptop.
The FBI “improperly withheld” the laptop under the Freedom of Information Act – and the FBI must produce the laptop within 14 days.
https://technofog.substack.com/p/court-orders-production-of-seth-rich
Betcha they’ll go away for a while, then come back and say “we’ve mislaid it, it’s vanished mysteriously yer Honor”.
The Piers Morgan interview with Jordan Peterson is very worthwhile. I am left with two comments. Firstly, the art of listening is so so clever when it allows the person talking to expose their idiocy. Secondly, it is astonishing to me how cruel people can be towards others just to elevate their own self-esteem, I specifically refer to the lofty attitudes held by self-entitled women towards ordinary men, especially poor and young men.
Late breaking!
Arky just texted me and said because all he had was fertiliser, it was more like a 44 Gallon drum.
He said it was a bugger to haul into the water, and even more inconvenient to swim with. He reckons mixing the Diesel with the Ammonium Nitrate, at 80 metres, was even more of a dick around.
Oct 11 = Durham’s court case vs. Danchenko start
Oct 13 = deadline for FBI to produce Seth Rich material
Oct 17 = Elon Musk vs. Twitter court case start
Next month gonna be juicy
https://t.me/techno_fog/440
Further on the subject of Swan, and the broader topical issues:
Nobody, and I mean nobody, is going to confuse Swan with a monk or noted teetotaller. Swan – like countless other people who played sport at these levels – realised that he was being given an opportunity to financially set himself up for life after a 10 or 12 year football career, should he choose to take it. Or, he could become yet another of the thousands of players roaming around bush leagues around the country getting a few free beers here and there on the strength of having ‘yeah, I played a few’ AFL matches.
In Swan’s case, he turned it into 258 games over a 14 year career. The cult following he developed was a bonus.
Nobody asked him to join Scientology, or to sell Amway.
Yes, footballers can be ponces with excessive hair product and targets for aspiring influencers and prize fuckwits. The processes and routines embedded in elite sports, however, require discipline – lots and lots of discipline over a protracted period of time.
You either embrace the discipline and reap the rewards if you’re good enough, or you don’t. If you don’t it is exactly the same as any other job. You discover you are not irreplaceable, you are replaced in a heartbeat and the Big Machine rolls on without you because there are hundreds of people banging on the door wanting the job you no longer have.
‘“The United States is committed to severely restricting Iran’s illicit oil and petrochemical sales,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson; “
So long as Iran refuses a mutual return to full implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the United States will continue to enforce its sanctions on the sale of Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products.”
As Iran continues to accelerate its nuclear program in violation of the JCPOA, we will continue to accelerate our enforcement of sanctions on Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical sales under authorities that would be removed under the JCPOA.
These enforcement actions will continue on a regular basis, with an aim to severely restrict Iran’s oil and petrochemical exports. Anyone involved in facilitating these illegal sales and transactions should cease and desist immediately if they wish to avoid U.S. sanctions.’
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0980
It’s almost like there are two governments at work here.
Oct 11 = Durham’s court case vs. Danchenko start
Is over before it starts.
As per the Federalist reporting for the last month.
Another case of Durham running dead.
I’ve been talking to Jesus
All my life
Oh yes he’s my broker
and he’s telling me everything gonna be underwritten yeah!
If governments have a right to sell drugs and be standover men, good luck enforcing another sovereign nation to stop selling energy commodities.
America will never go to war with Iran, it is too far removed, they are spread too thinly and they’re shit scared because Iran has hundreds of genuine fanatics in disciplined and well resourced divisions (about 15 divisions or 200,000 men IIRC).
You can’t beat the Taliban; you won’t beat Iran (unless something drastically changes).
Shouldn’t America encourage the Iranian petroleum industry anyway? As to divert their economy away from nuclear?
Sky
Australians warned to prepare for one of the most severe weather seasons on record
Binary explosives are very small, easy to handle, hard to make and well within the capability of the US. Its what they do. Hard for amateurs to get hold of but these days anything is possible. A tethered submersible maybe?
Hurricane Ian Update – The Cleanup Begins
“If Labour really has a 33-point lead, the Tories face ‘complete wipe-out’ in next election (29 Sep)
The idea that Sir Keir Starmer’s party has 54 percent to the Tories’ 21 percent is actually mind-boggling and would guarantee Labour would far outstrip the historic three-figure majorities even achieved by Sir Tony Blair in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
May not be a great time to call an election Tory peoples. The voters have their cricket bats ready.”
And why wouldn’t they? UK voters, many of whom had never ever voted Conservative in their lives gifted the Tories an 80 seat majority in 2019, only to see the Conservatives under Blob Johnson squander voter trust and goodwill, and instead pursue…
1. Hard-left green ideology with the result being the UK’s current energy crisis. Boris spent months waxing lyrical about “green energy” from windmills, but of course he would wouldn’t he? His wife and her crony toff mates have investments in renewables. Still, then came the embarrassing energy crunch last year, in late October to be precise, when all the world’s leaders were flying in by private jet to Glasgow for a wankfest, yet all across the UK the wind stopped blowing and there wasn’t any energy for the hypocritical wankers at the Glasgow wankfest.
2. A blanket refusal to fight the culture wars. When baying mobs were rioting and running amok in London streets in 2020, all because they were upset about the death of a lowlife grub 8,000 miles away, daubing statues of British heroes with graffiti, such as the statue of Winston Churchill outside Whitehall, with the result that the Churchill statue had to be covered up for months, Johnson and co said nothing, nada, zilcho. When British police took the knee in front of frenzied BLM mobs, Johnson and co said nothing, nada, zilcho. When UK plod prefer to spend their time trawling through people’s social media for perceived “hate crimes” rather than dealing with real hate crimes such as surging knife crime, pandemic leveals of burglaries and sexual assaults, Johnson and co have said nothing, nada, zilcho. So, whilst ordinary Britons have spent years crying out for someone to stand up and speak up for them, there’s just been stony silence.
3. A complete unwillingness to arrest immigration, both illegal and legal (over 300,000 immigrants arrived in the UK in 2020 alone, even during the so called Covid pandemic), so that now floods of middle eastern and sub-continent men (funny how there are no women crossing the channel on these boats…but then again, what woman of sound mind would get into a boat with 20 middle eastern men) are flooding across the channel, landing on stony Sussex and Kent beaches. The ghosts of the Armada must be looking down with a combination of jealousy, bafflement and bemusement. The Tudors managed to seal and protect England’s borders, yet the Conservatives can’t.
4. And then there were the Covid lockdowns. Boris and his government caved to unelected scumbag bureaucrats over lockdowns and so businesses were forced to close, people were shut in their homes, pubs (which didn’t close during the Blitz) were closed up. The economic devastation is palpable.
5. And then we come to the hypocrisy, Boris, his wife, unelected top bureaucrats, and many in UK Labour (such as Starmer) refused to apply Covid laws to themselves, because as we all know laws are for little people, and so whilst people were forbidden to have even family over during lockdowns, whilst the late blessed Queen sat ALONE in St Georges Chapel during the service for her dead husband of seventy-three years, yet the night before Blob, his wife and their entourage of slimy bureaucrats partied away at Whitehall….tally-ho!
But what’s the choice for UK voters? Another verminous hypocrite like Starmer who, when asked a simple question, refused to define what a woman is and who insisted that it’s “wrong to say that only women have a cervix”. And Starmer is the boring, acceptable face of a party that’s now hard-left on almost everything. You wouldn’t trust anyone in UK Labour.
The problem is, by getting their cricket bats out and installing Labour, the British will gift the nation something far far worse, just like what happened here in Oz in May, when people were right to vote out the useless, craven, spineless Morrison and his government, yet now we have Albanese and co pursuing their sinister agendas such as the voice (and that’s just the start). So, just like Morrison wrecked the Liberal party for at least a decade, Boris Johnson has also wrecked the UK Conservative Party.
Winter is coming.
In which Ron Klain finds a yummy job for his wife.
Meet Monica Medina: Biden’s new plant and animal ambassador (29 Sep)
I have no idea what a plant and animal ambassador does, but maybe Mr Klain needs extra help house training Joe and Kamala.
(Both faceplanted yesterday in ways that would be major scandals if they’d been Republicans.)
Hundreds of thousands.
Signed.
A man who identifies as a cervix owner.
Warren Mundine on this and that.
Warren Mundine: My Indigenous ancestors fought for their rights by being stoic warriors – not by curling up on the floor because of a name…The sale of Origin Energy’s Beetaloo Gas assets in the Northern Territory to co-owner Tamboran Resources got the usual crowd jumping up and down and cheering, thinking that would be the end of gas operations in the Beetaloo Basin.
Unfortunately for them, they missed the press releases that quite clearly said operations would continue as normal with the support of the Native Title holders and traditional owners.
That’s right — with their support.
This MIGHT be getting somewhere.
HOWEVER
Can I wipe a hard drive to US DOD standards, as in randomly wipe/rewrite each possible byte or bit of data 35 times? In 14 days?
Probably 4 – 5 times on a 200 GB SSD.
Bleach Bit can do this selectively whilst Windows is running in a fraction of the time.
Quite right KD, clubs only persist with dickheads if they show promise and the dickheadedness can be tamed. Andrew Walker in Rugby was my favourite player after Joe Roff and George Smith. He could change a game in minutes coming on as a reserve. Problems of family, hangers-on and getting on the piss ruined him. It was so sad to see. He was no dummy but couldn’t handle the pressure of off the field.
The US Marshals as the US Federal court officers ought to seize it off of the FBI.
Nobody’s talked about rogue octopi or giant spider crabs yet.
Excerpt from the Nordstream Construction Sub-Focus Group (Accessories) Emergency Meeting:
‘For the record, I told this forum it was unnecessary to coat the pipe in soap and lamb kidneys.’
“The next European war will be fought with gas and oil and pipelines”
– Peter Hitchens, 2008
Seems a bit under-engineered to be Jerry.
Andrew Walker in Rugby was my favourite player after Joe Roff and George Smith
George Smith was awesome, back when rugby was fun to watch.
When Walker was at the Roosters they had a dietitian do checks on his kitchen.
They invested a lot of time to manage his weight.
dOT:
I may be wrong but isn’t the court order just for the information, not the actual hard drive? In which case, get ready for a 20k page printout.
Mater
I’m not saying a submersible wasn’t required to do the job, but the author proves himself to be as qualified as Monty to talk on the subject.
Speaking of whom, m0nty-fa’s trolling has been very low energy over the past day or so. The toughest he could come up with was a continuation of his sexist, misogynist, attacks on the new Italian PM.
The key word. Invested.
Football clubs invest a shit tin of time, infrastructure, man-hours and cash in their players.
If there is little or no return on that investment, said investment is then justifiably regarded by a club as better spent elsewhere.
That does not automatically confer victim status on that failed investment.
The BBC is now saying NS resembles the hose on a slip’n’slide.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63071552?mc_cid=5689b8dc6f&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da
Honoured guest Supreme Leader of New Zealand, Jacinda, brings great joy and wonderful gift of free speech. Please do not share video to protect free speech.
https://twitter.com/therealrukshan/status/1575435182986756096?cxt=HHwWgICgifb8iN0rAAAA
Brandon released the Kraken?
Mercedes Woman filling Car with Petrol – 1 Min 32 Secs
From the Comments
She would win the Darwin Award in a instant!
Hi Calli – yes, have been to Edinburgh castle. Hope you gave Mons Meg the cannon a pat.
Blonde
She’s been deceived because the South Pacific Islanders arguably had it worse.
“Justice Jagot is married to former NSW Supreme Court judge and royal commissioner Peter McClellan.”
Ah yes, Peter McClellan, the so called “Chief Royal Commissioner of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse”, when in reality his actual title was “Witchfinder General into Cardinal George Pell and the Catholic Church”.
Another woke judge on the High Court. But of course, how could it be otherwise?
Q is reddit/trump and 4chan fed to open source gpt3 producing pseudo-haikus
Blonde – new biopic on Netflix – not well received:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11263649/Blonde-viewers-TURNED-Marilyn-Monroe-biopic-watching-just-20-minutes.html
We watched “The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe” the other day – two-parter which portrayed her as pretty much in command of her own destiny. And beautiful and talented.
I expect the order to harass Nigel Farage over police protection fees came straight from the commissioner, something like that would have to be as it is an exception to the rule.
I know a cop who tells me that the rank and file are, shall we say, less than impressed with Madame Commissioner. Morale is not great.
The patriots watch
I glow, high intensity
Efforts are wasted
Institute of Public Affairs were running a campaign, featuring Jacinta Price and Anthony Dillon, urging a “NO” vote for the “Voice.” Facebook have pulled said campaign…..
They aren’t even trying to hide their corruption anymore. The lame stream media is fully on board.
The Sheep(TM) don’t care.
The only thing people need to know about Mabo was it was wrongly decided then enacted into legislation by Keating.
Labor doesn’t waste opportunities.
The next UK election does not need to be held until 2025, does it?
It gives them time for policies of tax cuts and cheaper energy to bear fruit.
If they held an election this year they would win some good will doing so in winter – when the pilot lights are going out all over Europe (and we shall not see them lit again in our life time).
The Bigger the Government
You are obviously not talking about the Wallabies, are you.
A voice for plants & animals, eh….what about a voice for unborn humans then?
Thats the Canadian trans shop teacher – and it has to be troll!
m0nty says:
September 29, 2022 at 9:47 pm
Thanks M0nty, so Q is today’s equivalent of Nostradamus bar the quatrains?
We already have that with the post 9/11 security powers and ACIC, not to mention the unreasonable seizure powers the State Crime Commissions have.
Currency markets are about to learn a lesson in defying economic gravity
Sterling is under pressure, but rates are rising and the fiscal burden is soaring elsewhere
This spring, just after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Washington’s Institute of International Finance made a bold and idiosyncratic prediction: the euro was about to weaken dramatically from its $1.11 level because the region was heading for a current account deficit.
Not many investors agreed. Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission suggests that there was a net “long” speculative position in the markets then — in other words, investors were betting the currency would strengthen — because the European Central Bank was raising interest rates.
But the euro is now worth $0.98, and Europe’s traditional trade surplus has indeed turned into a current account deficit, due to the soaring cost of energy imports and falling industrial exports.
The IIF’s projections about sterling have been equally prescient. In recent months, Robin Brooks, IIF chief economist, has also warned that the pound looked overvalued at its then $1.35 level, since markets were ignoring that the UK current account deficit had quietly risen above 8 per cent, from the 3 per cent levels seen in recent years.
This week the British pound duly crashed to near-parity with the dollar, after the UK government unveiled a surprise tax-cutting plan. “These moves [in the euro and sterling] aren’t irrational or overshooting,” argues Brooks. “The fair values of both have shifted to reflect higher energy costs and far weaker trade balances.”
Indeed, Brooks thinks that at present levels “the euro is still 10 per cent overvalued [and] the pound is 20 per cent overvalued”. Yikes.
Moreover, his model suggests that the Turkish lira and New Zealand dollar are also overvalued (by 15 and 22 per cent respectively), while the Chinese renminbi, Brazilian real and Norwegian krone are undervalued by 11, 13 and a whopping 47 per cent.
Investors should take note. Some foreign exchange analysts might mutter that this type of analysis looks very retro. Economics 101 has always argued that current account balances affect currency values because they determine the degree to which a country has to attract external financing.
After all, arguably the best way to frame this week’s sterling crash is to think of the Wile E Coyote cartoon character. Just as that animated figure runs off a cliff and keeps pedalling at the same height — until he looks down and panics — investors have spent most of the year acting as if the pound were destined to stay elevated, because they trusted British policymaking and rising UK rates. Now economic gravity has taken hold.
That quote reminds me – there is apparently a new movie version of All Quiet on the Western Front.
I think I shall certainly be giving that a shot. (No pun intended.)
My sources indicate he is trolling as he used to drop red pills at school.
He wants a showdown with school administrators and a payout, you win in clown world by out crazying the crazies.
All the ships are sailing in the same direction now…about to arrive at their common destination in the month of RED OCTOBER.
Durham revelations.
Trump Raid.
Seth Rich.
Ukraine biolabs/Nazis.
Nord Pipeline sabotage.
Maxwell’s international sex trafficking ring.
Financial crisis.
Biden Crime Family investigation.
Iran Deal shenanigans.
Fentanyl drug smuggling.
Open border crisis.
9/11 revelations.
Massive election fraud being facilitated by foreign controlled EMS run by CCP agents.
Trump & his team doing even more openly public blatant endorsements of the Q community.
Buckle thyself up and gird thy loins in proper fashion. It’s going to be biblical.
The Hunters Become The Hunted.
HT Brian Cates
AOC Says Abortion is an ‘Economic Issue’ Because Raising Kids Forces Parents to ‘Work More Against Their Will’
“Abortion is an economic issue,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Forcing poor and working-class people to give birth against their will, against their consent, against their ability to provide for themselves or a child, is a profound economic issue and it’s certainly a way to keep a workforce basically conscripted to large-scale employers and to employers to work more against their will, to take second and third jobs against their desire and their own autonomy.”
That’s the third, then – the classic made in the 1930’s and a made for TV version in 1980.
Psst!
Don’t tell noone, but the brains behind ‘Q’ is actually…Arky!
What if nothing happens?
Can any Cat Female tell me why this is celebrated in America?
Lizzo puts on a VERY cheeky display as she debuts BACKLESS leggings soon arriving to her line of Yitty clothing
More patronising garbage.
Working class people can earn six figures here and in the US.
A couple in that demographic having a baby isn’t coercive (rape) and Cortez is unhinged for suggesting such a depraved belief.
Thanks for putting me off my breakfast!
The aerial pictures that show the scale of devastation caused by ‘biblical’ Hurricane Ian as it hit Florida ‘like a wrecking ball’
The Western world today faces a serious risk of slipping into another Great Depression…
The collapse of Europe will take place because Europe no longer has access to sufficient energy for its economic needs…
With insufficient access to energy, the price of energy in Europe will remain extremely high for years to come. European industry, for which energy is a key input, will become uncompetitive…
This will put European manufacturers out of business, Europe will haemorrhage key jobs, the rot will spread as would-be manufacturing employees have no wages to spend in the economy, and we get a depression in Europe….
The decisions made that led to the great European energy war of 2022 will likely go down in history as some of the greatest economic and geopolitical miscalculations in the history of mankind. They will join the Treaty of Versailles and the tariff wars of the 1930s in the basket of policy pariahs that future generations will be taught to avoid at all costs.
The next Great Depression?
Above extracts should be in quotation marks.
Mater- please stop minimising potential cheating with goofy comments. It doesn’t work.
And you really need to try harder if you want to be funny.
Electric vehicles and the evacuation of Florida
It is fortunate that as of the current moment, electric vehicles constitute only about 100,000, out of nearly 8 million vehicles registered to drive on Florida’s roads. What if they all were electric, the (impractical) dream dream of greenies?
Depending on how heavily loaded they were, even assuming everyone had a full battery charge, cars from southern Florida would start running out of juice after 100 – 250 miles. They would then have to spend hours at recharging stations, which would rapidly be clogged with other cars and trucks waiting their turn, since an electricity “fill up” can easily take an hour or more, as compared to a couple of minutes for gasoline. Cars waiting to be charged would spill onto the highways, potentially blocking traffic.
Those cars that ran out of juice on the highway would block traffic. Even assuming that emergency service vehicles could get to them (unlikely if the entire fleet were electric cars), towing a portable generator (powered by fossil fuels, of course) and recharging the stalled vehicles would take plenty of time, as well, further blocking traffic. The stranded cars would, of course, have no air conditioning, no wipers, no GPS.
In all likelihood, the highways would become vast parking lots, trapping their passengers wherever they happened to be stalled, waiting for the storm and flood waters to reach them, unable to get to safety.
It’s not me, JC. Honest!
I reckon Arky has hacked my account!
I’ve got no real evidence, and no real reason to think so, but I feelz it in my water.
India: Court Date Set for Bill Gates to Answer to Victims’ Family for Daughter’s Murder by Vaccine
Pierside bar & grill. Ft Meyers, Florida. Before, during, and after hurricane Ian September 28, 2022
Mater
Seriously dude , you ought to get a staring role Days Of Our Lives with all the cheap histrionics you’re performing.
Valley News – Letter to the Editor
Asia’s richest man sees growing isolation for China
It’s the ‘Indian Bar Association’ again.
Who haven’t they ‘indicted’ in their make belief court?
Thanks for the daily dump from the Daily Expose.
Exclusive: Europe braces for mobile network blackouts
Durham Prosecutes FBI Informants, While Protecting Their Handlers
You’re right. Blaming Arky for everything (without reason or evidence) does sound pretty fucking stupid and childish…doesn’t it!
Levin Torches ‘Dummy’ Biden Forcing U.S. to Commit ‘National Suicide’ Over Climate Change
England records another 1000 Excess Deaths in a single week bringing the total to 26k since April; Evidence suggests COVID Vaccines are to blame
Blaming Libertarians for everything is goofy too.
This has been discussed on the Cat – Blak men find big bottoms attractive.
They’ll always have Russia.
And South Korea.
Two dwarfs go into a bar, where they pick up two prostitutes and take them to their separate hotel rooms. The first dwarf, however, is unable to get an erection. His depression is made worse by the fact that, from the next room, he hears his little friend shouting out cries of “Here I come again ONE, TWO, THREE… UUH!” all night long. In the morning, the second dwarf asks the first “How did it go?” The first mutters “It was so embarrassing. I simply couldn’t get an erection”. The second dwarf shook his head “You think that’s embarrassing? I couldn’t even get on the bed!”
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Agree – Mass Formation Psychosis.
This seems appropriate –
Catturd ™ Retweeted
Jack Posobiec XLV
@JackPosobiec
It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers?out of unorthodoxy
– George Orwell, 1984
Hi Q.
(Okay, so ‘Q’ is not actually pronounced ‘-ku’. But 9 can be ‘ku’ or ‘kyu’ so I will pretend that is sufficient justification.)
Trump wins another round in court fight over documents
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday scored a major win in the ongoing court battle pertaining to the FBI’s seizure of documents from his Mar-a-Lago estate in early August.
“There shall be no separate requirement on Plaintiff at this stage, prior to the review of any of the Seized Materials, to lodge ex ante final objections to the accuracy of Defendant’s Inventory, its descriptions, or its contents,” wrote U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in the Thursday ruling.
Special Master Raymond Dearie, whom Cannon appointed to independently review the documents the bureau seized, had sought to require that Trump substantiate his claims that the FBI planted evidence during the raid. Trump repeatedly suggested such on social media posts but his lawyers stopped short of making the claims in formal court filings.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
– Aldous Huxley
Like us, they have access to plenty of energy – but are following the green dream instead – its an own goal im afraid, and as HL Mencken said ‘good n hard’.
EV’s in a natural disaster are like a torch with flat batteries in a blackout.
Buy a horse.
‘The NSW Government recognises that land title is central to the development of a new model for Aboriginal joint management. Accordingly, it is anticipated the new model will provide for the potential handback of title to all NSW national parks – covering nearly 10 per cent of the state – over a 15 to 20-year period, subject to the land being leased back (long-term and for nominal rent) to the NSW Government for its continued use and management as a national park…Included in the deal is ownership of parks bordering our majestic harbour, the iconic vistas of the Blue Mountains, world-class caves at Jenolan, sub-tropical rainforests in the north, rolling outback dunes, and the entire Snowy Mountains in the south.’
Marc Hendrickx, The Spectator Australia, 29 September 2022
Mater
Respect the wishes of the blog owner and take your gripes over to the duel shed. Unless of course , you own the blog.
I’m happy to deal with your childish tantrums there . Thanks .
Mind the step though.
And yet this woman has an economics degree from Boston University.
Let’s unpack her meanderings. Privileged women like her cannot be expected to have children, it is too great a burden (pun intended). I’m fine with that, her kind can be taken out of the gene pool.
She is in favour of unlimited immigration to fill the shortage of people and workers meaning those little people can have the babies and work two or three jobs to provide for them.
This is worse than the old aristocracy who had wet-nurses to breast feed their babies so the noblewomen did not need to be bothered with it. At least the noblewomen actually did have the babies.
It’s called “Appeasement.” Didn’t work in 1938, won’t work today.
A future Green-Labor govt will decide that nominal rents are unjust.
You’ll end up paying entrance fees for the privilege of enjoying “national” parks.
Higher education ain’t what it used to be, Crossie.
Graduates come out with their innate stupidity weaponised.