Open Thread – Tues 4 Oct 2022
2,499 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 4 Oct 2022”
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Too good to leave on the old OT:
The Bee:
NEW YORK CITY, NY — After musical artist and professional twerker Lizzo made waves by playing James Madison’s crystal flute on stage, Beyonce? upped the ante by performing in Times Square wearing George Washington’s false teeth.
“Howth ethyone doointh tonighth?” yelled out Beyonce? to the confused crowd while adjusting the lead-tin alloy and horse teeth dentures. “We haf a great showth for youf!”
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An excerpt from Shannon Deery’s article outlining the spending on spin merchants in Victoriastan:
‘Just last month we learnt the Andrews government spent more than any other state on advertising in the first half of 2022.
Not only did it outspend other governments, it also outspent Harvey Norman, Woolworths, News Corp, Wesfarmers and Nine Entertainment.
On top of that, Victoria boasts more ministerial staffers than any other state. The last official figures showed it employed 286 full-time equivalent ministerial staffers.
A massive 86 of them report directly to the Premier’s private office.
And that doesn’t even include departmental spinners. You can add a couple of hundred more of those.’
FMD
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Some very weird attempts at explaining franking credits overnight.
It works like this.
Company makes $100 profit.
Pays $30 tax at corporate rate of 30%.
It distributes remaining $70 as dividend to shareholder.
The shareholder takes the $70 and adds back franking credit ($30) to determine taxable income. That is, back to the original company profit of $100.
Tax is calculated at shareholder’s marginal rate on the full $100, but they get the credit for the company tax already paid.
If the taxpayer’s marginal rate is zero, they get the $30 refunded.
If the taxpayer’s marginal rate is 46%, they pay $46 – $30 = $16. -
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Stefanovic slams Shorten over Syria rescue mission
Staff writers
STAFF WRITERSToday Show host Karl Stefanovic took aim at Government Services Minister Bill Shorten over the Syrian repatriation plan during an interview on Tuesday morning, declaring “there is no way in the world” the families in question should be allowed back into Australia.
“Bill, it requires a certain conviction to move overseas with your bloke and take part in Islamic State wars. How do you reckon that sits with most Aussies?” Stefanovic asked.
Mr Shorten insisted national security remained the chief priority, but pointed out some of the children in camps were younger than six years old.
When the frontbencher was quizzed on whether he agreed with the mission, Mr Shorten acknowledged he could “see both points of view”.
But Stefanovic maintained his stance, expressing concern the government could set a dangerous precedent.
“If you make a decision to go overseas with someone and fight for Islamic State, you are making a decision as a family – there is no way in the world you should be allowed to come back here,” he said.
“What do you do with the partners? (Do) they come back as well? You set a precedent saying, ‘Look, it is OK, go and fight, and you can come back at some point.’”
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Gina Bontempo: The Lies of Modern Feminism
“Higher education kind of destroyed me.” Gina Bontempo graduated Harvard University as an angry atheist taught to hate America. So much so that she abandoned her birth country for Australia. When a freak accident sent her back to the U.S., a video by Candace Owens, then others by Dave Rubin and PragerU, opened her eyes to the lies she had been believing all of those terrible years. This is Gina’s story of discovering truth and reclaiming her freedom.
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lotocotisays:
October 4, 2022 at 11:40 am
Someone explain to me how this unicorn fart works? If you’ve been driving your ev around, it’s gunna be flat and need charging…..When you get home in the evening, your solar panels will recharge the car battery
so you can run your home off it at night.
When you are asleep, the electricity you’d normally use when you’re awake
can then recharge the car battery.
Simples.So, essentially a Perpetual Motion Machine? Eureka, we have found it!
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rickw says:
October 4, 2022 at 1:13 pmNo links please! They usually include photos of the event.
I accidentally saw the video, just disgusting on about 10 different levels.
I’m in absolute agreement. I can’t understand why there is any public interest in anything which is so hideously and monstrously ugly.
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When you get home in the evening, your solar panels will recharge the car battery so you can run your home off it at night.When you are asleep, the electricity you’d normally use when you’re awakecan then recharge the car battery.
Simples.Not so fast, kemo sabe.
The government is currently planning how to access home solar and batteries to prop up the grid.Low hanging fruit, communidy batteries, too cheap to meter, no child without poverty by 2030…
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It’s true, they lied and it was d0ne out of malice, but it’s a very high bar in the US.
Trump Files Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN, Seeking $475 Million
Former president alleges the network is seeking to undermine potential bid for the presidency in 2024Former President Donald Trump filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against CNN, accusing the network of engaging in a smear campaign against him in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential race.
Mr. Trump’s suit, filed in a federal court in southern Florida, alleged CNN has sought to use its influence with viewers to spread false claims about him for the purpose of defeating him politically. He accused CNN of associating him with Adolf Hitler and portraying him as a Russian lackey and a racist. The network, he alleged, has been escalating these efforts recently in the expectation that he may run for president again in 2024.
Mr. Trump is seeking more than $475 million in damages. A spokesman for CNN declined to comment on the suit.
The former president’s suit must clear a high legal bar. To win a defamation lawsuit, public figures must prove that a news organization acted with actual malice and either knowingly published a false statement or showed a reckless disregard for the truth.
Mr. Trump’s campaign sued the New York Times in February 2020 accusing it of knowingly publishing false and defamatory statements in an opinion piece on the 2016 election and Russia. A New York state court judge dismissed the case.
In legal documents, Mr. Trump alleged that CNN has repeatedly attempted to associate him with Hitler and Nazism and argues that comparing him to one of the most heinous figures in modern history shows the network was motivated by malice.
The former president also criticized the network’s use of the term the “Big Lie” in reference to his false claims of widespread voter fraud during the 2020 election.
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I personally think the RBA will go for 25 basis points and that this will be a deliberately conservative approach given they’re “under review” by Labor Labor Labor… (nice tactic to make them be conservative!).
But, as with all predictions, I wouldn’t take it to the bank.
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In Justice Seen to be Done news:
Former prime minister Scott Morrison’s chief of staff, John Kunkel, and former Coalition ministers Linda Reynolds and Michaelia Cash could be called as witnesses in the criminal trial against former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann, as the judge hearing the matter warned “party faithful” against becoming jurors in the proceedings.
You’d hope that stricture applies equally to “party unfaithful”.
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It seems those Syrian war brides have continued to find new husbands and make more babies in the camps.
I also recall some at least left Australia as single women intent on finding husbands and settling down in the new earthly paradise of El Sham.
The previous government’s decision not to put Australian lives at risk rescuing them remains valid.
Not a single one wouldn’t have citizenships in countries from Lebanon to Turkey to Pakistan.
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Linda Reynolds and Michaelia Cash could be called as witnesses in the criminal trial against former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann
Hopefully the cleaners will be called too, having steam cleaned the Minister’s office after a certain person allegedly chundered in it. Reminds me of a certain Dead Kennedys track.
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I suppose there’s an ME voting block in Western Sydney and Northern Melbourne who got promises.
Too right: federal seats with muslim voting majorities; look how many are liar party seats! What a shock; FGM anyone.
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Trouble on Scotland Island?
The police constable son of former Labor senator Kristina Keneally has been ordered to front court on allegations he allegedly fabricated false evidence.
The proceedings against Constable Daniel Keneally follow allegations that he fabricated evidence against a civilian, Luke Moore, who was then imprisoned for three weeks before being given an official apology by the state.
Mr Moore, who had been wrongly accused by Keneally of threatening to kill a police officer in a telephone call to Newtown Police Station last year, is now suing the State of NSW for damages.
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The GayBC and the Hunchback leading the latest campaign to burn the heretic, this time at Essendon.
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““If you’re a member of the party faithful, if you have formed a preconceived idea about this case, which you do not think you can stand back from in light of the evidence, you should come forward and tell me that,” she said.”
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. A man’s whole life hangs in the balance. The trial is completely prejudiced and should not proceed.
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So, essentially a Perpetual Motion Machine? Eureka, we have found it!
There is a bloke in the US who runs a very good tech channel. I like him because he’s not only good at tech explanations but he press gangs his kids into helping do some of the demonstrations. (Just for munty, he’s African American).
He did a basic segment on ev efficiency and inherent efficiency limitations. He had over 10,000 comments on how ev efficiency could be improved by installing alternators (!), flywheels and all kinds of shit.
It got so insane in the comments that he ended up doing a whole episode on this which was basically engineering 101 on the difference between power, torque and speed. Engineering 101.
The key takeaway from this is that there is a vast army of Mongs commenting on and directing energy policy when their knowledge is such that they would get a F in first year engineering and a recommendation to pursue a career in basket weaving. The failure of the education system is having real policy consequences.
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We live in a clown world.
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From what I’m hearing, Elon Musk is not simply expressing his own view but transmitting a concrete proposal—wrapped in a threat—from Putin himself. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…Indeed. Musk is now, allegedly, Putin’s envoy.
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“The police constable son of former Labor senator Kristina Keneally has been ordered to front court on allegations he allegedly fabricated false evidence.”
Now that her son is facing serious charges, I do hope Ms Keneally has rediscovered that quaint old fashioned principle of “presumption of innocence”, a principle she conveniently forgot, when it came to the case against Cardinal George Pell, when she was more than happy to join in the lynching of Pell.
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Mmm…is she just dumb or much smarter than we give her credit for?
Plibbers has stepped outside her portfolio to criticise Truss’s now abandoned tax cuts.
Reports suggest she was “non-committal” when quized on whether Labor should continue with its own promised tax cuts.
PM ‘I fight Tories’ Elbow has not yet commented.
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If it wasn’t for family I’d be off to Asturias in the north of Spain.
La Coruna would be my choice. Cheap housing and living. Quite a few manufacturing businesses there. There was a filter pressure vessel manufacturer there that was one of the few in the world that had decided to comply fully with one spec requirement when everyone else had ignored it “because it was hard”.
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Dear Employee,
As a result of the reduction of money budgeted for department areas, we are forced to cut down on our number of personnel. Under this plan, older employees will be asked to take early retirement, thus permitting the retention of younger people who represent our future. Therefore, a program to phase out older personnel by the end of the current fiscal year, via retirement, will be placed into effect immediately.
This program will be known as SLAP (Sever Late-Aged Personnel) Employees who are SLAPPED will be given the opportunity to look for jobs outside the company.
SLAPPED employees can request a review of their employment records before actual retirement takes place. This review phase of the program is called SCREW. SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired Early Workers). All employees who have been SLAPPED or SCREWED may file an appeal with the upper management.
This appeal is called SHAFT (Study by Higher Authority Following Termination). Under the terms of the new policy, an employee may be SLAPPED once, SCREWED twice, but may be SHAFTED as many times as the company deems appropriate. If an employee follows the above procedure, he/she will be entitled to get HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel’s Early Severance) or CLAP (Combined Lump Sum Assistance Payment) As HERPES and CLAP are considered benefit plans, an employee who has received HERPES or CLAP will no longer be SLAPPED or SCREWED by the company.
Management wishes to assure the younger employees who remain on board that the company will continue its policy of training through our (Special High Intensity Training) SHIT. We take pride in the amount of SHIT our employees receive. We have given our employees more SHIT than any company in this area. If any employee feels they do not receive enough SHIT on the job, see your immediate supervisor. Your supervisor is specially trained to make sure you receive all the SHIT you can stand.
Once again thanks for all your years of service to us.
The Management
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JR I worked for multinational for 5 years, they were great to work for. Got taken over by a bigger multinational coz we were eating their lunch. They fitted the description perfectly. After about 18 months I walked. All the management that gave me grief got sacked not long after. None of them could get a position like they had.
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It does seem a bit weird Trump suing CNN. Lawsuits are a sordid affair, and CNN’s (inter alia) frenzied and feverish reporting has actually been an asset for Trump. It has enabled him to affix the term ‘fake news’ to them.
I wonder if the intention is not to hobble CNN (and the rest) in the lead up to the mid-terms. Obviously he is not running but if they try to smear the candidates he endorses by slandering him it could exacerbate the case against them.
Afterward it would be a fun exercise to compare how the CNN characterises him normally, and how much more muted they are when they think they might be held accountable.
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Higgins texts outlined in court
Remy Varga
REMY VARGABrittany Higgins told a fellow political staffer that she didn’t think Bruce Lehrmann believed she’d consented to sex in a text sent days after the alleged assault, a court has heard.
Crown prosecutor Shane Drumgold outlined the prosecution’s case against Bruce Lehrmann on Tuesday before the ACT Supreme Court.
He said Ms Higgins texted Ben Dillaway, then a political staffer for Steven Ciobo, that she’d woken “half naked” in the office of then defence minister Linda Reynolds on March 23 in 2019.
A couple of days later Ms Higgins, then 25, texted Mr Dillaway that she had been “barely lucid” and that she didn’t think “it was consensual at all”.
“If he thought it was okay why did he just leave me there?” Ms Higgins texted on March 26.
Mr Lehrmann has plead not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent and recklessness towards whether Ms Higgins was consenting.
The court heard Ms Higgins, then a media adviser to Steven Ciobo, and Mr Lehrmann, then a political adviser to Linda Reynolds, were out drinking with other staffers on the evening of March 22 in 2019.
Ms Higgins consumed about 10 drinks at The Dock in Kingston before the group went to the 88mph bar. Mr Drumgold said Mr Lehrmann was recorded on CCTV purchasing three beers and a clear drink, which he gave to Ms Higgins.
Mr Drumgold said the relevance of Ms Higgins’ intoxication was both the “absence of her consent and the accused’s recklessness towards it”.
The pair then shared an Uber, which Ms Higgins believed was taking them to their respective homes. The vehicle then dropped them off at Parliament House at about 1.40am after Mr Lehrmann said he needed to pick up something from work.
The court heard Mr Lehrmann told police he’d forgotten his apartment keys.
Parliamentary security will give evidence that Ms Higgins was highly intoxicated, had grass stains down her dress and was unable to put her shoes on. Mr Lehrmann will be described as intoxicated, but not “staggeringly drunk”.
Ms Higgins then passed out on the couch due to a sharp pain in leg that she alleges was from Mr Lehrmann’s knee, which left a bruise she later photographed.
Ms Higgins will tell the court when she woke, her underwear was removed, her dress bunched around her waist and Mr Lehrmann was penetrating her.
Mr Drumgold said Ms Higgins said no about six times before Mr Lehrmann stopped, looked at her and left. Mr Lehrmann booked an Uber and was recorded on CCTV walking through parliament one minute before the ride-share vehicle arrived.
Security will tell the court that he appeared hurried.
Mr Drumgold said Mr Lehrmann missed six phone calls from his then girlfriend of five months and said the crown would argue that the alleged rape took place during the period in which the phone calls were made.
Mr Lehrmann, who denies sexual intercourse took place, took notes in a notebook during the hearing.
Ms Higgins was later found sleeping on the couch in Ms Reynolds’ office before she woke and ate chocolates before vomiting. She then pulled herself together and left Parliament House.
Ms Higgins and Mr Lehrmann communicated a few times in the days after the alleged assault as part of their work, including to exchange a media summary and discuss a distribution list.
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JCsays:
October 4, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Sancho Panzer says:
October 4, 2022 at 12:59 pmSome very weird attempts at explaining franking credits overnight.
It works like this.Can you also help out with explaining GST. Some people don’t appear to know how it works
It’s complicated.
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Mother Lode says:
October 4, 2022 at 2:42 pmIt does seem a bit weird Trump suing CNN. Lawsuits are a sordid affair, and CNN’s (inter alia) frenzied and feverish reporting has actually been an asset for Trump. It has enabled him to affix the term ‘fake news’ to them.
It’s pretty obvious that Trump’s accusation is right on that CNN has been malicious and dishonest, but it’s has to be proven that it was intentionally (malicious and dishonest). That’s a hell of a bar to jump unless he has proof.
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City Journal is always good value.
Nice piece.
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How to fix Australia’s homeless wimmin with kids and dogs crisis?
…send Louise Milligan into Parliament house with her filofax and RBF.
My wild guess is, she’ll posit the nationalization of church property, and ignore covid quarantine camps.
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Read the business section of the Paywallian at the coffee shop today.
It said that container shipping movements were plummeting, thanks to the China lockdowns, fears of inflation, and high inventory levels.
If the story is accurate, the average cost of shipping a container has fallen from a high of $14,500 in 2021 to $3,900 now.
I had no idea that shipping costs were so volatile. Does anyone know more about this?
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a clear drink
What, a clear drink with ice and a swizzle stick?
A 25mL clear drink?
A drink, completely clear but for a pimento olive on a toothpick?
Fark they just can’t help themselves. I’d reckon the “clear drink” mystery could be cleared up pretty quick by looking at the accused eftpos records, subtracting the price of the “three beers”, and inserting a guess into the remainder.
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Making me nostalgic The finest instrumental ever.
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Wally Dalí says:
October 4, 2022 at 3:11 pmHow to fix Australia’s homeless wimmin with kids and dogs crisis?
…send Louise Milligan into Parliament house with her filofax and RBF.
My wild guess is, she’ll posit the nationalization of church property, and ignore covid quarantine camps.
Thanks, ABC. Nailed it again.I notice that TheirABC’s sob stories about housing are nearly always about single mothers. There is never a mention of the father(s) of these children, or the circumstances that caused these one parent families. The narrative is simple – other people should pay more tax so that these ‘victims’ can live decently.
Without getting into the Family Law debate or any of that, I do question why the ace reporters never provide any context, or explanation of why the fathers of the poor little urchins are not in the picture and providing towards their support. Or, are they? We don’t know, because touching on those questions is verboten in The Collective.
There is a genuine housing shortage, but in the best tradition of the Left, no catastrophe is being allowed to go to waste when there are opportunities to push the agenda.
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US President Congratulates Coast Guard Hero Before Firing Him
From Armstrong Economics –
“Technician Second Class Zach Loesch, worked on the frontline during Hurricane Ian, risking his life to save others. Biden was told to call numerous rescue swimmers from the US Coast Guard to thank them for their service. “I told him how proud of him I was and thanked him for all the work he and his Coasties are doing to save lives,” Biden said of his call with Loesch in remarks the White House published Friday.
“The President thanked them for saving lives and asked for a report on the work that continues to rescue Floridians. He also asked if they needed any additional support that he can provide to accelerate successful rescues; they indicated they have gotten what they need to execute their vital mission.” Biden failed to even work with DeSantis for hurricane relief efforts. He doesn’t care about Floridians because he knows we are not voting for him.
There is one major thing Biden could do for Zach Loesch and countless others – end the vaccine mandate. Loesch had his religious exemption request denied and will be discharged from the service in 30 to 60 days. I cannot imagine a more disrespectful phone call than hearing the president congratulate you for your heroic work before firing you. Unbelievable.”
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JCsays:
October 4, 2022 at 2:51 pm
Dunno, Sanchez. Let me think of a really, really hard one. Let’s take say gambling.
Wut?!?
You cannot be serious!
Gambling is the most highly regulated activity anywhere.
If you don’t know your gambling revenue down to the last farthing, GST is the least of your worries.
Your licence will be gonski, toot sweet (h/t Rabz) if you can’t tell me that at the press of a button. -
I had no idea that shipping costs were so volatile. Does anyone know more about this?
Yes, a pal in mining once saved my skin. I was long shipping companies and it was in November when we met up for dinner. I casually mentioned to him that very long shipping and had made some decent paper profits. I cautioned me to be very careful as rates were perhaps the most volatile prices in the world. I actually listened to him and got out ASAP. Subsequently, from the beginning of January to the end on the month, shipping rates had collapsed and when I say collapsed they fell off the cliff and kept going. I had never see a collapse like that. This was about a decade and have never traded since.
During the Covid years there was huge demand for steel out of China and little demand for shipping. Ship owners began to sell their old freighters for scrap to take advantage of the scrap metal prices vs a large part of the freighter fleet being inactive. When we came out of the Covid thing the world was suddenly short of freighters.
Large miners first lock in shipping rates because prices are so volatile.
People should read the Shipping Man. It’s based on reality and very funny. The shipping/freighter business doesn’t make sense. It’s not rational.
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feelthebernsays:
October 4, 2022 at 3:03 pm
This time last month the RBA effectively said expect 50bps hike for the foreseeable future.
Later that week, Lowe said expect 50bps for the meeting or two but the rate of hikes will slow.
Today, 25bps hike.
They are all over the shopThey sure are.
And the mistakes go way back.
They should never have cut rates to effectively zero in the first place.
If things are stagnating, anyone who thinks cutting rates from 1% to 0% is going to make a difference simply doesn’t understand business*.
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One of the funniest books I’ve ever read. The Norwegian owner essentially runs his business with almost no use of his own capital and the ships are free through financial ducking and weaving.
The Shipping Man
Matthew McCleeryWhen restless New York City hedge fund manager Robert Fairchild watches the Baltic Dry Cargo Index plunge 97%, registering an all-time high and a 25-year low within the span of just six months, he decides to buy a ship.
Immediately fantasizing about naming a vessel after his wife, carrying a string of worry beads and being able to introduce himself as a “shipowner” at his upcoming college reunion, Fairchild immediately embarks on an odyssey into the most exclusive, glamorous and high stakes business in the world.
From pirates off the coast of Somalia and on Wall Street to Greek and Norwegian shipping magnates, the education of Robert Fairchild is an expensive one. In the end, he loses his hedge fund, but he gains a life – as a Shipping Man. Part fast paced financial thriller, part ship finance text book, The Shipping Man is 310 pages of required reading for anyone with an interest in capital formation for shipping.
Without knowing,it would be one of the most irrational, funniest businesses going. It’s bizarre.
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Me mate in NZ owns his own container, the sort of work he does makes it worthwhile with shipping materials and semi finished goods both ways as some processing and machining things are cheaper done in each country including transport. The container has hardly any wear on it and sits in his yard when not being used. Still worth a lot more than he paid for it. Don’t ever think when moving countries that the container you saw at your place is the same one at your destination. When he moved to NZ some furniture went missing. Turns out it went through 5 different containers. They never found the furniture.
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Zipster:
The really chilling point was the media push about people remarking “How clean the air was” when people had to work from home.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: New ‘Biomedical Security State’ Will Be Deployed to Tackle Other ‘Crises’ | CLIP
American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times
Watch this come into play in NSW/Victoria when the next bushfire season happens.
First will be the media campaign about rises in respiratory issues.
Then comes the rise in stories about childhood asthma.
State of Emergency will be declared.
Schools are closed because ineffective aircon/global warming.
Then will be the advice to work from home for the affected.
Then will be the lockdown to ‘flatten the curve.’Remember that the legislation to enact this State of Emergency has never been repealed, and now you know why.
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A mother, accompanied by her small daughter, was in New York City.
The mother was trying to hail a cab, when her daughter noticed several wildly dressed women who were loitering on a nearby street corner.
The mother finally hailed her cab and they both climbed in, at which point the young daughter asks her mother “Mummy, what are all those ladies waiting for by that corner?” The mother replies “Those ladies are waiting for their husbands to come by and pick them up on the way home from work”.
The cabby, upon hearing this exchange, turns to the mother and says “Ah, c’mon lady! Tell your daughter the truth! For crying out loud! They’re hookers!”
A brief period of silence follows, and the daughter then asks “Mummy, do the hooker ladies have any children?” The mother replies “Of course, Dear. Where do you think cabbies come from?”
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@ Top Ender:
“Reminds me of the time I had to briefly work with James Galway – the rudest flautist ever born.”
As opposed to Don Burrows; one of Natures most talented gentlemen. He played a serious clarinet and saxophone, too. Sadly, we lost him in 2020.
Jane Rutter was a pretty cool flautist to work with, too, back in “the day”.
Utter professionals who will let you know what they need, technically, and what they expect in a performance, then go away and leave the crew to do their part of the “magic”.
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GreyRanga says:
October 4, 2022 at 3:20 pmMaking me nostalgic The finest instrumental ever.
Big call.
That said, it is a masterpiece (John Williams playing the Asturzia (sp?) thing. Just astonishingly beautiful.
What struck me was how he played the individual notes cleanly while the strings were still vibrating after a strum. Don’t know much about guitar playing, but that is not easy, to put it mildly.
Nice one!
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Rasputin better be a good duck and weaver as he’s going to end up with a bullet to the head.
Russia appears to be doing splendidly.
Ukraine Pushes South Into Strategic Kherson Region
The new gains come as Kyiv presses its offensive in the east after taking Lyman back from Russian forcesKHARKIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces broke through Russian lines and made new advances in the southern Kherson region, while expanding their rapid offensive in the eastern part of the country, retaking areas that Moscow now claims to be part of Russia.
Pushing some 20 miles south in Kherson, the new Ukrainian advance secured a corner of the only Russian foothold on the western bank of the Dnipro River, which bisects the country. Ukraine has in recent months destroyed all the bridges to that enclave, which includes the regional capital, Kherson, making it increasingly difficult for the large Russian military contingent there to be resupplied with fuel, ammunition and food.
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I notice that TheirABC’s sob stories about housing are nearly always about single mothers. There is never a mention of the father(s) of these children, or the circumstances that caused these one parent families. The narrative is simple – other people should pay more tax so that these ‘victims’ can live decently.
The reality is that nowadays gummint (state & fed) operate on “feelinz” .. issues involving individual or groups of folk aren’t decided by priority but by ethnicity .. those with the loudest “bleeding heart” operations go 1st .. lotza, whingeing, access to media especially TV ensures your place in the queue not your “need”..
Take most , if not all, of the daily “homeless” sob stories the media present .. “white” folk! .. WHY? .. because gummint knows that if it doesn’t immediately solve it for an ethnic then the relevant BH mob is howling “wacism boo hoo” across the media post haste .. and ALL gummint agencies are warned, from above, solve the ethnic problem 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 6th .. NO PUBLICITY .. or else! ….. -
Court played video of Higgins’ first police interview
Remy Varga
REMY VARGABrittany Higgins told police she had a “strange adversarial relationship” with Bruce Lehrmann prior to the night he allegedly raped her inside a ministerial office.
The court is being played the video of the first interview Ms Higgins gave police at 1.31pm on February 24 in 2021.
In the video, Ms Higgins said Mr Lehrmann was territorial and tried to “carve out space” in the office where they worked.
She said at drinks at The Dock Mr Lehrmann was being quite responsive to her and the evening had been going well.
When they later went to the 88mph club, Ms Higgins – at that point quite inebriated – fell over and Mr Lehrmann helped her up.
Ms Higgins said she thought their relationship was improving so she was “quite accepting of his help”.
Ms Higgins said in her interview that she first disclosed the rape to Fiona Brown, then chief-of-staff to then defence minister Linda Reynolds.
Her interview with Ms Brown took place shortly after Mr Lehrmann left the office.
“She was the first person I told after that I had a bit of a breakdown and I had to re-sign the ministerial code of conduct,” she said.
In Ms Higgins first interview with police, she wears a white shirt and appears composed, gesticulating with her hands as she recounts the alleged series of events.
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Canadians Not Willing to Hand Over Guns
From Armstrong Economics –
“The Trudeau Administration wants to eliminate all freedoms. Provinces are fighting back at Trudeau’s gun confiscation, deemed a “mandatory gun buyback” for assault rifles. As usual, the government put this plan in place without a plan for enforcement.
Two years ago, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, in the video above, explained that firearm ownership is already under strict regulations. Only law-abiding citizens must adhere to these regulations. He accused Ottawa of using the people as scapegoats for their gun confiscation plan instead of cracking down on gangs and criminals who actually commit gun crimes. Now, Trudeau is going after the people and pointing at events that occurred outside Canada as a reason to ban citizens from legally owning assault rifles.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Alberta Justice Minister and Solicitor General Tyler Shandro reminded the Liberal Party that Alberta taxpayers pay C$750 million annually to fund the RCMP. “We expect that those dollars not be wasted to pay for a confiscation program that will not increase public safety,” Shandro said after calling the program disturbing. “We will not tolerate taking officers off the street in order to confiscate the property of law-abiding firearms owners.”
Manitoba Attorney General Kelvin Goertzen quoted from a letter that he wrote to Canadian Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, said the law “unnecessarily targets lawful gun owners,” as criminals are still going to be in possession of firearms – obviously. “In Manitoba’s view, any buy-back program cannot further erode precious provincial police resources, already suffering from large vacancy rates, from focusing on investigation of violent crime.”
Saskatchewan’s Minister of Corrections, Policing, and Public Safety Christine Tell also called the mandate a waste of resources that is not supported. “The Government of Saskatchewan does not support and will not [authorize] the use of provincially funded resources for any process that is connected to the federal government’s proposed ‘buyback’ of these firearms,” she declared.
Banning any form of firearms is a method to control the people. The government and criminals will be the only ones with power, with the average law-abiding citizen helpless. Gun confiscation has occurred countless times in RECENT history and has not ended well.”
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As someone who lived and worked closely with Ministerial staff in Canbra for many years, I can assure readers that paralytically drunk sexual encounters in Ministers’ offices in the middle of the night are nothing new.
It was a bit of a badge of honour to be able to boast about having sex on the Minister’s desk – and we have documented examples, going back to John Brown’s desk.
It’s a nothingburger.
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KHARKIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian forces broke through Russian lines and made new advances in the southern Kherson region, while expanding their rapid offensive in the eastern part of the country, retaking areas that Moscow now claims to be part of Russia.
But they paid for it. This will go on for another few weeks before it settles down for RUS. UKR has to make the best of it while they can. I’ve seen a lot of RUS military equipment on trains lately.
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If you wanted to get the best outcome on a fixed rate loan, you had to act in 2021 & disregard everything the RBA was saying.
If you wanted to get the best outcome on a term deposit, you had to act over the past month & disregard everything the RBA was saying.Zero consequences for the RBA.
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Dover
In the past month say… let’s call it an approximate month.. have to you read anything suggesting the great and glorious Soviet .. I mean Russian.. revolutionary military has met with any successes? It’s becoming a little problematic for the great and glorious revolutionary army , no.. Rasputin deserves a bullet in the temple region or perhaps a little seasoning of Polonium-210 with the evening meal.
On a serious note, I wonder who the poor fucker is tasting Rassie’s food each day testing for poison.
I would list that right now as the most dangerous job in the world.
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Russia is mobilising 300,000 civilians and forcibly vaccinating them.
Penalty for avoiding the vaccination?
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Plasmamortar say:
Food, Water, Fuel, Medical Supplies and Ammo will be the big th kings everyone needs
Do not forget ze zteroidz.
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All the Putin lovers here must be wringing their hands!
Ukrainian forces have broken through Russia’s defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, reclaiming more territory in areas annexed by Moscow and threatening their enemies’ supply lines.
Key points:The push marks the biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began
Ukraine has gained ground in two of the four regions annexed by Russia
The retaking of Lyman means Ukrainian forces will have improved access to DonbasMaking their biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began, Ukrainian forces recaptured several villages in an advance along the strategic Dnipro River on Monday, Ukrainian officials and a Russian-installed leader in the area said.
The southern breakthrough mirrors recent Ukrainian advances in the east despite Moscow trying to raise the stakes by annexing land, ordering mobilisation, and threatening nuclear retaliation.
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Ed Casesays:
October 4, 2022 at 5:38 pm
informal statement to police 27 March, not pursued at the time.Yeah, because certain Liberal Party identities put the heavies on Brittany.
Those chickens came home to roost for the Liberal Party on May 21.Unless she had not had a shower since 22 March, or (like Monica L) she kept, unwashed, the clothing she was wearing at the time, there is no DNA. That is her problem, not the Liberal Party’s.
Her choice to delay, her choice not to pursue the matter at the time. Her choice to put her ambition first, until it became clear that the ambition was leading nowhere.
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In the past month say… let’s call it an approximate month.. have to you read anything suggesting the great and glorious Soviet .. I mean Russian.. revolutionary military has met with any successes? It’s becoming a little problematic for the great and glorious revolutionary army , no..
RUS had a slow but good few months while UKR took the hits over summer. In that time, when RUS was on the offensive, UKR went defensive and built up their reserve which they’ve used pretty well over the last two months of autumn offensive. RUS has pretty much be on the defensive all autumn outside of Donbas. All they need to do now is keep their nerve until the rains arrive which will make any offensive action difficult, then they can integrate and deploy their reserve. Then you would have to say that RUS forces in south (no DPR or LPR militia here) were successful in holding Kherson given that UKR has thrown a lot at them there for over a month for little return.
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Recall the words of JFK:
I’m not finished with a woman until i’ve had her 3 ways.Much good it did Kennedy in the end – he’d injured his back cavorting in the swimming pool at the White House, and he was wearing a fairly substantial back brace, which severely restricted his ability to duck, or take any evasive action, as Lee Harvey Oswald used him for target practice.
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Maybe the Victorian Libs need to do something different, like not trying simultaneously to be Labor and Green.
Victorian Liberals are ‘absolutely clueless’ (Sky News, 4 Oct)
Several senior Victorian Liberals ousted (Sky News, 4 Oct)
Victorian Liberals beset by more departures ahead of election (Sky News mainpage headline, 4 Oct)
So dire that they’re now jumping ship even before being voted out. It’s the definition of insanity to do the same thing over and over expecting a different result, Lib peoples. How about getting your Thatcher steel-capped work boots on instead? Couldn’t be worse than now, and maybe some of the base might then actually vote for you.
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Ed Casesays:
October 4, 2022 at 5:56 pm
No, she was heavied by senior Liberals not to rock the boat in the runup to the 2019 Election.
She put the Party [and Australia] first, a noble thing to do, but she was entitled to go to the Police again once the Election was over.Then she must accept the consequences of her decision to put her ambition first. That decision gravely weakened any case she might actually have.
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Cali thanks for the link & yeah I have been intermittently lurking when time permits. I remember Huttons Uncomformity from first year subjects. Hope Europe is nice.
In transit again atm and very busy but within Oz. Every plane I have been on sold out, including a squeezey ride MEL-TSV in a Q’link B717.
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Bouncer is jailed for knocking out a US marine with a massive slap after the soldier refused to leave a bar and said: ‘I could kill you, I’m a trained killer’
Darwin bouncer Hayden Summers sentenced this week for hit on US Marine
The soldier, Glen Thomason, was thrown out of Monsoon bar in the NT capital
He refused to leave telling bouncers he was a ‘trained killer’ and swatting the air
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RUS had a slow but good few months while UKR took the hits over summer. In that time, when RUS was on the offensive, UKR went defensive and built up their reserve which they’ve used pretty well over the last two months of autumn offensive. RUS has pretty much be on the defensive all autumn outside of Donbas. All they need to do now is keep their nerve until the rains arrive which will make any offensive action difficult, then they can integrate and deploy their reserve. Then you would have to say that RUS forces in south (no DPR or LPR militia here) were successful in holding Kherson given that UKR has thrown a lot at them their for over a month for little return.
Kherson will most likely fall during this offensive. Ukraine seems to be closing the pincer movement, they took another outlying town today.
There is talk of attacking the corridor to Crimea while they still have the advantage, but that might come too late.
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Ed Casesays:
October 4, 2022 at 6:02 pm
Then she must accept the consequences of her decision to put her ambition first. That decision gravely weakened any case she might actually have.Brittany Higgins has no Rights, SpongeBob, is that what you’re trying to say?
Don’t verbal me, Dick Head. She had the absolute right to make a complaint to the police immediately after the incident. She chose not to. Her reasons for that choice seem likely to include personal ambition.
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On the situation at the front, all the same bitter questions and bewilderment
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Haha, you need something like twice as much gas to run an electric heater compared with a gas heater. That’s because gas is used to produce the peaking electricity at an efficiency of no more than 60%. Deduct 10% for transmission losses and Germany is going to be in an even bigger hole…
Germans Panic-Buy Electric Heaters As Authorities Warn Of Winter Gas Shortage (4 Oct)
German authorities have issued another dire warning about a possible shortage of natural gas over the winter, with fears that German households might be left in the cold, driving sales of electric heaters to soar in a spree of panic shopping.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck told Deutschlandfunk radio on Sept. 30 that the country is in an “extremely tense situation” when it comes to energy supply.
On the other hand tumbrils and guillotines are entirely manually powered. Perhaps German pollies should read up on history a little before they get to try them out.
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She had the absolute right to make a complaint to the police immediately after the incident.
Gee, that’s big of you.
She chose not to.
Justice carries a stopwatch?
Her reasons for that choice seem likely to include personal ambition.
You’ve got no way of knowing that, but even if it were so, so what?
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Defence lawyer Steven Whybrow said the Mark Twain quote “never let the truth get in the way of a good story” rang true in this case.
He told the jury there were “massive holes” in the version of events Ms Higgins gave to the police.
Mr Whybrow said while violence against women was an “under-reported and under-prosecuted scourge on our society”, the story Ms Higgins had told was not true.
“This verdict in no way affects the conversations and the focus that is being turned to these issues,” he said.
“If we assume because someone has made an allegation that it must be right, we no longer have a presumption of innocence in this country.”
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Germany Hits Record Population Growth
From Armstrong Economics –
“There are now 84 million people living in Germany, according to the German Federal Statistical Office. This has nothing to do with the birth rate, which is on the decline. Instead, the number of Ukrainians seeking refuge in Germany caused the population to grow by 750,000 this year.
The population in Germany grew by 0.1% or 82,000 in 2021. In 2022, the population has already increased by 1% or 843,000 people. Germany has not experienced such a large influx of refugees since 2015 when Angela Merkle welcomed all Syrians into Germany. Nearly one million people entered Germany in 2015, mostly fleeing war in the Middle East. It proved to be a disaster as Germany did not have the means to care for all the new arrivals, and the cultures did not integrate well.
Germany is not likely to see as strong of an influx since other European nations are opening their borders to Ukrainians. Poland has already permitted 6.56 million Ukrainians to enter their borders. Yet, Poland has reported that tens of thousands of Ukrainians who fled are now returning. Those returning are likely men who want to fight. Germany reported that most of their new refugees are women (501,000) as well.
The culture integration is easier compared to the 2015 refugee crisis, but do these European nations have the infrastructure and financial means to support so many additional people? Those who fled Syria had nothing to return to as their nation did not receive endless funds from the West. On the other hand, Ukrainians who fled likely plan to return once the war is over. The question becomes when can I return as everything indicates that this war is only getting started.”
That’s a lot of people to keep warm this Winter in Germany without the proper Energy Security.
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Bruce of N
On the other hand tumbrils and guillotines are entirely manually powered. Perhaps German pollies should read up on history a little before they get to try them out.
Germany was still using the guillotine during WW II. Among others, the White rose group from Munich were executed by guillotine, as were some of the 20 July conspirators.
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If only everyone could live in a shipping container.
The silliest fucking trend in house construction ever, without exception.
Length? 20′ or 40′. Maybe works.
Highness? 8’6″. Just makes it, but on the low side.
Width? 8′. Fucking useless for anything but a small bathroom.
Which means you are then stuck with lots of cutting and welding to make it work. They have zero insulation which means more battens etc.
And you still need foundations and a proper roof.
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rosiesays:
October 4, 2022 at 6:27 pm
Don’t fall for it John. No idea case has no idea why she chose not to pursue the matter.
The discussion was around the lack of physical evidence which no-one heavied no-one about.Indeed, but Richard Cranium is choosing to ignore that, so he can grind a political axe.
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Thorburn quits. From the Oz….
Essendon’s new chief executive Andrew Thorburn has resigned one day after he was appointed in an embarrassing and extraordinary bombshell for the embattled club.
Wimp….this is how they win. And so it will continue, these progressive silencers, these progressive cancellers, these progressive totalitarians only win because we let them by appeasing and capitulating.
Australia 2022…what a disgrace.
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The question no one will ever be able to answer is “why…”
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