As of August, industrial production expanded by 4.5% year-over-year, indicating steady but not extraordinary growth.OK, so how does that wash…
Open Thread – Weekend 8 Oct 2022
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Only one thing I want to see on Inauguration Day-ZZ Topp playing an eighteen-minute medley from the foredeck of the…
Bother! I thought you left out “to”. With Kevni it has to be total surrender with penalties.
want -> won’t
we stopped using ANZ systems are archaic garbage
Q is retarded.
Greetings.
My work here is done.
Q is the Tim Cappello of theories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-cYIi97X8
This thread dedicated to Q’s fourth symphony, recently and authentically covered by Bucks Fizz.
God bless this thread and all who sail in her!
Brit neighs trial is turning into a shit show. No wonder pirates skank did a Logies preachathon. She may have had some inside scoop on what proper legal process may turn up.
Now Audioslave will send me to sleep.
Top 10 for a change
Ben Nevis was wearing his kilt today. The three commandos watching him were fully trewed.
the book’s “Idiotisms “:
“I am mUtlley, hear me bore!”
“There will be no carbon tax while my genitalia resembles mussels in a jar, I tells ya!”
“The rain that never falls will never fill our dams!”
“Gerbil worming is real and has been happening for over 34 years!”
Dusty:
The look of love
Again – the sparseness … 🙂
Interesting anniversary, Dover.
Here it’s still mid afternoon on the 7th.
Another
Look of love
Colorado baker who won Supreme Court victory over his refusal to bake a gay wedding cake challenges new ruling against him after he declined to bake a gender transition cake
My ol’ man told me that we were descended from those mighty Venetians that vanquished the islamists in that battle. He was a WW2 veteran who served with distinction in New Guinea.
We continue to haemorrhage important first hand historical knowledge as if it was utterly irrelevant.
But yeah, pronouns and pooftahs.
he declined to bake a gender transition cake
What’s one of them look like? Rainbow sponge with frosted spare parts on top?
Having dinner at the Cabana restaurant, sand floor, restaurant music selection is often neglected.
They’re playing this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhOPVlHupAg
The CCP were on fire today, got a lot done.
Using Google translate to do direct coms with the crew. They were doing some epoxy painting today. Stuffed if I know how it’s going to work out. 2:1 mix ratio, pretty sure they’d been mixing it one to one. Nor do I blame them, the instructions were shit enough in English.
What’s one of them look like? Rainbow sponge with frosted spare parts on top?
That’s sounds more interesting.
This is what they want
Autumn Scardina requested a cake blue on the outside and pink on the inside
Cross dressing freak requesting the nuking of the Poot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgO6sodPYgA
Sara Lee, former WWE ‘Tough Enough’ winner, dies at 30
“As a former “Tough Enough” winner, Lee served as an inspiration to many in the sports-entertainment world,” WWE said in a statement.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Graeme Bandeira.
Q is also very gay.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez. Spot on.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Al Goodwyn.
Bob Gorrell.
Ben Garrison.
Tina Norton.
P:
She got the lump removed and a course of radiotherapy which finished a fortnight ago.
Everything looking good.
Unfortunately her best friend died week ago from breast cancer but the terminal stage was really quick – up and about one day and died 48 hours later. Painfree, at home with family and the standard SC Morphine/Midazolam/Maxolon therapy.
So she’s a bit fragile but doing OK.
And yes, survivor guilt is a thing.
Ta for the prayers…
Salvatore:
I had a sheep at the clinic in McKinlay. Did a marvellous job of trimming the undergrowth from the trees – the place looked manicured.
Yes, goats are more trouble than they’re worth. I don’t like goats.
I don’t think I’m allowed sheep – which is why I’m tempted to get one.
OCO:
I admit I have been waiting for one side or the other to do the ‘catching thrown babies on their bayonets’ and ‘nuns with hobnail boots’ stories, ‘kittens nailed to doors and connected to booby traps’.
None yet, so I’m a bit disappointed.
Regarding the Starlink shutdown, I suspect this is on Musk’s orders.
Either way, it is clear that supporting Ukraine made Starlink a Russian target.
Koch filth
Chip Le Grand
@Melbchief
This is a great example of the new bully pulpit. David Koch invites the pastor at the centre of the Thorburn scandal on his program, verbals him, refuses to let him finish an answer and doesn’t acknowledge anything he says anyway.
BBC is part of the swamp.
Reported on OS program overnight:
Shady conservative election deniers are promulgating disinformation concerning the half term elections. They are sending letters out which make allegations about election fraud and alert people about what to watch out for.
This is happening despite there being no evidence of election fraud in 2020.
The BBC spoke to a “disinformation specialist” about this.
The real problem is outta control funding of Footy by Governments.
Bread & Circuses.
If Andrews pays the piper, why can’t he call the tune?
I’ve had the dubious delight of watching it for over two weeks now.
CNN with posh accents and bad teeth.
wash your mouth
When groomer school boards get confronted
“The GWW spokesperson said the Romsey Recycled Water Plant was undergoing upgrades, including increased storage to support the region’s growing population.”
recycled water, thanks no point no new dams Lisa Neville
Consequences?
Interesting name or two on the board of directors.
A powerful board of directors including two senior public servants breached their legal obligations while managing Victoria’s multimillion-dollar investment in the failed start-up Eloque, in a sign of dysfunctional governance six months before the joint venture folded.
Fin review, paywalled.
‘Headed for failure’: Alinta CEO on energy transition
Hong Kong to offer 500,000 free air tickets to tempt tourists back
Guardian, where climate loons roam free
Energy crisis? It isn’t that we have too little oil and gas. It’s that we have too much
Pro-life people in Tennessee arrested by heavily armed FBI agents while Joe speaks about funding for abortions. The protest outside a clinic was a year ago, but the arrest of 11 stands in stark contrast to the treatment of violent protesters in numerous cities during the “get Trump” summer of 2020.
Link
The Australian says, in effect, never mind the crime wave and the wayward local government, New York is all fresh and welcoming for tourists!
The city famous for reinventing itself has evolved yet again with a string of designer hotels and attractions ready to welcome visitors back.
From rosie’s HK link:
I am not given to swearing (in print anyway).
But I’m sorely tempted.
Well it is part of China.
Rosie ever noticed that those prone to conning others are often conned themselves.
Poor buggers who still have businesses there. The ‘96 escapees to Oz must be thanking their lucky stars.
Indeed Min.
One pleasing thing post covid is qantas using Singapore as a hub again for Australians travelling to Europe, I didn’t particularly like it, bristling as it did with armed security but infinitely preferable to the cattle run schemozzle that is the UAE.
I fink I can see why they’re having a bit of trouble getting tourists to visit.
Yech, who’d want to suffer through all that.
“Range Anxiety” and the Realities of Electric Vehicle Dependability
There won’t be hurricanes anymore when everyone has switched to an electric vehicle.
Right?
For those of you who aspired to be the privileged class in an apartheid system. ………..
Tick, tick, tick.
Who’s next?
What they did to the women was unspeakable, what they did to the animals really upset me.
I know one person who flies domestic who’s prepared to catch a bus/train to the CBD then get local train to the burbs, no idea what a premium fare would be, presumably more than SkyBus but less than a taxi?
“Victoria’s auditor-general last month said the economic analysis surrounding Melbourne’s proposed $8 billion to $13 billion airport rail link lacked “transparency” and that the methodology used created risks that the project’s economic value had been overstated.
Now it has been revealed that the project will only be viable if “premium” fares are paid and the popular SkyBus service into the CBD does not directly compete with the new trains:”
Surprise!
All over the world, men to gather for Our Lady
For the first time, tens of thousands of men from around the world, including Australia, will unite at the same time to recite the Rosary.
Inspired by an international Catholic movement, the men from more than 40 countries including Argentina, Portugal, Ireland, the United States, Lebanon, India, Mexico and Malaysia, will gather on their knees in public prayer … to honour the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Instituted by Pope St. Pius V in 1573 for the Christian victory at the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571, the feast reminds us of the victory solely attributed to Our Lady’s intercession.
Held traditionally on the first Saturday of the month, the October event is a one-off uniting the men from all over the globe, to celebrate the Month of the Holy Rosary.
…
Sydney’s Worldwide Rosary Crusade at St Mary’s Cathedral will start Saturday, October 8, with 11am confession, Mass at midday and the Rosary Crusade at 1pm.
I cannot say the Commonwealth dept. my friend works, but this is true. All I can say is where he works, the Deakin telephony switchboards.
TE may be a WH.
KD could be a GG but we can’t confirm.
Suspect that JC and Thancho are globalists.
Is monty a BG or a crisis actor?
DB is probably the “big guy” around here.
Durham will sort them out after the IBA inducts them all for China virus complicity.
Can we trust Durham? He’s moving too fast!
I got vaccinated to keep my job but a well earned promotion I was told about in confidence was denied by a zealous (now sacked) a C suite douche, then put into the forgottery.
Did you not get vaccinated anyway, this morose jeering is just an act?
Right?
Dot is Q.
INDICTS!
FUCK YOU, AUTOCORRECT!
A decade ago, Australia was recovering from what has become known as the millenium drought. Now that the averages are recovering, it hasn’t stopped raining in much of Eastern Australia since February.
In the runup to the world’s richest race on turf, the the $15 million Everest on October 15, Randwick racecourse is a bog – a heavy 10 – and racing this weekend will be called off if it keeps raining. Randwick has had four inches of rain in the past week.
Meanwhile, Melbourne’s Caulfield is a soft 6 for this weekend’s group 1 Caulfield Guineas meeting – a prelude to the Caulfield Cup on October 15. Caulfield has had less than two inches of rain in the past week.
Caulfield isn’t far from the Melbourne sandbelt, whose golf courses are famous for their sand base which makes them super-absorbent of even rare heavy rainfall.
The weather and the respective climates of Sydney and Melbourne are a major reason that Peter V’Landys and Racing NSW are having little luck trying to upend the Melbourne spring racing carnival with the megabucks they’re throwing at Sydney’s new popup races like the Everest.
Trainers worry they could wreck the racing careers of young horses by letting them run in Sydney’s racing bogs.
Someone in the last OT pointed out it’d be interesting to know who the line-up of Higgins supporters were.
Michael Smith identified PR and political messaging advisor Emma Webster, a former Kevin Rudd staffer and these days a big bucks Hawker Britton Labor-aligned spin artist
Here’s another; that dashing young lezzo is “support worker” Heidi Yates.
Ah – support worker. You know, some lowly functionary from the local women’s shelter.
Oh contraire!
That would be Heidi Yates, ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner and alphabet and social justice law reform champion.
A military intervention would have to come from the Colonels Ranks – the O’Biden/Harris stacking and purging of the upper echelons has been incredible.
Followed by treason trials, convictions and mass hangings of Generals and Admirals. Should be amusing.
Either way, it is clear that supporting Ukraine made Starlink a Russian target.
Just turn it off over the whole area, Elon. You don’t need the grief. I wondered what would happen after the Ukes trashed Elon over his peace proposal.
Wish it was a drought so I can get on with grafting.
Dot, Struth told us he is unvaxxed.
Still no real answers from anyone over just what was done to make a corona virus vax that was “safe and effective”. Throwing billions at it doesn’t count. If it did we’d have cheap commercial nuclear fusion by now.
…And a perpetual motion machine.
I haven’t forgotten St Ruth’s Freudian slip about being vaxed a few months ago.
P is Q.
“Michael Smith identified PR and political messaging advisor Emma Webster, a former Kevin Rudd staffer and these days a big bucks Hawker Britton Labor-aligned spin artist
Here’s another; that dashing young lezzo is “support worker” Heidi Yates.
Ah – support worker. You know, some lowly functionary from the local women’s shelter.
Oh contraire!
That would be Heidi Yates, ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner and alphabet and social justice law reform champion.”
As Tom alluded to two days ago on the old fred, the Higgins tale IS a conspiracy, a most fabulous, fantastic and mythical concoction of lies and nonsense all designed from the beginning to derail and terminate the Morrison government, and because the stupid fucking Liberals were (and remain) so craven, so spineless and so useless, it worked.
A woman friend I spoke to last night, someone who’s usually quite circumspect in her analysis, described Higgins as “bloated dumb bimbo”.
By the way, remember how Senator Linda Reynolds last year, when confronted by the fantastic Higgins story, said of Higgins that she was a “lying cow”. For that accurate description, she was forced to apologise by that fraud Scumbag, who was never one to side with his own. But there’s one thing that already clear, Reynolds was right.
Rabz:
“There will be no
carbon taxspeech on misogyny while my genitalia resembles mussels in a jar, I tells ya!”FIFY
“Reynolds previously said she had made the comment in response to claims Higgins did not feel supported after coming forward with her allegation – not in response to the claim of having been raped.”
She would have been bending over backwards to support her.
Q is Major Boothroyd.
Q is Warwick Capper.
The other night I was invited out for a night with the “girls”. I told my husband that I would be home by midnight “I promise!”
Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily. Around 3 am, a bit loaded, I headed for home.
Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hallway started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realising my husband would probably wake up, I cuckooed another 9 times.
I was really proud of myself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution, in order to escape a possible conflict with him.
The next morning my husband asked me what time I got in? I told him “MIDNIGHT”… he didn”t seem pissed off in the least. Whew, I got away with that one! Then he said “We need a new cuckoo clock!” When I asked him why, he said “Well, last night our clock cuckooed three times, then said “oh shit” cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another three times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted”.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
– Leo Tolstoy
Professor Ian Frazer from April 2020:
We’ve never made a successful vaccine for a coronavirus before. This is why it’s so difficult
At best what we got was Codral equivalent which worked on a particular strain, and at worst, a concoction which made things worse, caused heart problems, and might have greater detrimental medium and long term effects.
Either way, it had the desired political effect, so all’s good. Let’s keep injecting it.
Two drunks in a cab, one decides he just has to call in at work, for reasons that only made sense to the drunk, the other follows him inside for reasons.
Drunk two passes out on in an office while drunk one fiddle faddles about, what to do? Can’t think so he leaves her to it.
Drunk two does what drunks do, throws up, takes clothes off, eventually wakes up and makes an exit.
State of office means explanation required.
Drunk one gets the sack, drunk two mumbles something about unwanted sexual behaviour, employers see trouble brewing, and no doubt are genuinely concerned, offer services, opportunity to make formal report, drunk two mumbles reasons and does nothing, keeps job of course.
Down the track career trajectory not going as well as planned, new ‘partner’ cobfabs, opportunities present themselves, narrative constructed, dossier prepared, political and media vultures primed, snowball starts gathering speed, and here we are.
It really must have happened, after all.
Reynolds was forced to say that by Morrison.
I think the intent of her original statement was that Britnah was a serial fantasist and liar.
Plenty of examples have surfaced during this trial of her inventing tall tales to avoid scrutiny or advance her cause.
The best illustration was her telling her boss she had a three hour PTSD episode in the dunny when, in fact, she was out on the piss at a long lunch.
Virginia’s Fairfax County Office of Elections has stopped using Konnech’s PollChief election officer management software, said director and general registrar of the county’s electoral board, Eric Spicer.
Among the PollChief products purchased by the county was the PollChief Worker Management System, PollChief Worker Self-service Portal, PollChief Asset Management System, and the PollChief Help-Desk Management System.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-virginia-county-stops-using-konnech-election-software-following-ceos-arrest_4780364.html
@KanekoaTheGreat
Still no vaccine for HIV despite literal billions thrown at that.
Stefan Molyneux discussed the reasons why war propaganda does not just paint the enemy soldiers as fellow humans who are on the ‘on the wrong side’ but rather as evil subhuman nun raping baby killers – its to help overcome one human beings natural aversion to killing another – its easier to do if they are regarded as animals.
They went some way down that track with the unvaxxed – painting them as idiots and granny killers.
who is Q,, you decide
mRNA to the rescue?
NIH launches clinical trial of three mRNA HIV vaccines
“Sancho Panzersays:
October 8, 2022 at 8:29 am”
Yep.
Rosie at 8:28.
Your jokes are far better than Rotten’s recycling of Benny Hill.
Mater
What happened to Marter?
What do you call a skinny feminist?
Photoshopped.
Marter was a little too ‘rough and tumble’. It’s a Jekyll and Hyde thing!
He’s safely back in the bottle…for now.
From the SMH piece.
On the Tuesday after the alleged incident, Lehrmann was sacked summarily for his role in the security breach of their after-hours visit to parliament.
On Wednesday Higgins went the assault story.
As much as many will deny it the stench of that remains, particularly in a small town.
Just over 50mm all up, Gez.
How did you go?
Drowning in pools of blood in their lungs…!!!
Geez, cool it with the rhetoric, Hitler.
Are you seriously posting that as a response?
1. “The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating three experimental HIV vaccines based on a messenger RNA (mRNA) platform—a technology used in several approved COVID-19 vaccines.”
2. “Finding an HIV vaccine has proven to be a daunting scientific challenge,” said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. NIAID director. “With the success of safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines, we have an exciting opportunity to learn whether mRNA technology can achieve similar results against HIV infection.”
Far out.
Rosie at 8:28.
That is a fair summary of what probably happened.
Once the box of half-digested Roses choccies was discovered on the Minister’s carpet in a pool of vodka, she had to think fast.
Bruce was for the high-jump anyway, so why not invent a little #metoo tale to save her career?
What’s the harm?
It’ll stay in-house among three or four people and she might even score a pity promotion out of it.
But the story doesn’t stay in-house.
It leaks.
By now Britnah is quite enjoying the attention and recounts the story time and again. But no names, so no harm done, right?
Her new friends intimate that the already half-written book won’t fly unless she talks to the cops. No biggy. They aren’t going to lay charges, are they?
And here we are.
rosie says:
October 8, 2022 at 8:34 am
mRNA to the rescue?
If Fauci’s (+ his main men, Collins, Dazak & Baric and his many PIs – principal investigators) previous decades long “search” for the “Great Vaxx Panacea” is anything to go, not in any of our lifetimes. So don’t hold your breath.
(Having read Kennedy’s book, any research, including clinical trials with the backing of Fauci and the NAIAD, are not worth the paper they’re printed on.)
True, but the pastor should have anticipated that when he received the invitation to be interviewed.
Koch is hardly a disinterested journalist seeking the truth. The pastor was invited on for sport.
The soft soap SMH piece about the trial highlights to me the extremely lax nature of security at Parliament House.
How or why did they allow drunk people inside the building and into ministerial offices?
Drunk people do stupid things and familiarity with Lehrmann and Higgins is no excuse for not exercising caution and proper process.
Lehrmann said he wanted to get his keys. Security could have performed that task without the couple setting foot in the building.
Is security at parliament union protected?
I suspect mRNA vaccines for HIV will be even more dangerous than the Covid mRNA ones. HIV mediates cell fusion, which is where AIDS comes from – the T cells all clump together and stop working. So lining one’s blood vessels with HIV coat spikes is likely to strip the T cells out of your blood and glue them onto you blood vessel lining cells. Not good.
exactly.
Lehrmann apparently “broke security protocols” when an officer escorted them inside and opened the office for them.
Are the officers not privy to the protocols? Do they have no authority over lowly political functionaries?
Maybe that’s by design.
Not actually a free ticket then.
“I’m a very important person in the government. Do you want to keep your job?”
34mm here bush and lucky we didn’t cop more in a very heavy storm that clipped us. Next week looks poor.
We’re hoping we can get back onto beans before the next event. Beans that missed a spray are basically stuffed. Lentils do not like wet feet. Every hollow or mixed soil patch has died.
Apart from that the rest is still OK and will do well if it ever stops raining.
From Rosie’s link on a trial of a new HIV Vaxx:
Like so many failed NAIAD Fauci sponsored trials, there is no control group (or, in the case of the covid jabs, the control group is unblinded and asked if they want the jab).
#nocredibilityleft
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
– Every Climate Alarmist
We’ve no shortage of evidence that parliament house is full of psychopaths, narcissists and entitled assholes whose behavior in the workplace would not be tolerated elsewhere.
Security is basically there to protect them from the public, not to protect the institution.
Security at Parliament House is designed to keep out the great unwashed, not to regulate the comings and goings of those with passes.
As Roger says, the phrase most commonly heard would be “Do you know who I am?”
Snap Roger.
Rosie. It will end up like the Sydney Airport rail link. Cheaper for a taxi load of a family of 4 to get from Central to Domestic Terminal than the train.
The Sydney Rail link has more than paid for itself so why the fares so expensive. Apparently a private railway from what I am led to believe, who’s the consortium involved in the Melbourne link? If Transurban is anywhere near it expect to be ripped off for generations.
Replying to Bluey on the old OT:
Putin may have been a moderate before he started the war, but he’s not one now. What more could a replacement do, apart from drop a nuke? He’s already started a mobilisation and devoted 20% of Russia’s GDP to it, it’s not as if there is a cigarette paper’s difference between him and some random Mad Pyotr.
Any thought of Putin having a legitimate beef with Europe about their moves to discourage him from invading countries were snuffed out when he started the invasion. He kind of proved them right, didn’t he? Turns out he actually was a threat that they should have made moves to counter.
I doubt the bdb* had thought that there were those in the know who did not want to see the railroading of a man by a serial liar and fantasist – the dbd didn’t want to go the way of the bloke who’d breached security so made up the sexual assault out of whole unsullied cloth
*bdb: bloated dumb bimbo
Going to be pretty smelly in Europe in a couple months time.
Polish Households Burn Trash To Stay Warm As Sanctions On Russia Backfire (7 Oct)
To think if they had clean HELE plants or nuclear plants, not only would be cities smell nicer but the net emissions would be much lower too.
Government reports confirm 1 in every 110 COVID Vaccinated people had died by January 2022, compared to just 1 in every 187 Unvaccinated people
I seem to remember in the aftermath of the Great Chocolate Regurgitation, there were “growing calls” for Parliament House to become a “dry” workplace (like 93.1% of other workplaces around the country).
That proposal seems to have gone down the back of the filing cabinet with the empty Roses Choccy box.
the grand confluence of torpor
living loud lives of desperation
So, a delivery method with increasing evidence of causing immune system damage is to be used to ‘vaxxinate’ against a disease that causes immune system damage?
Good way to hide the side effects I suppose.
Dr. Evil is at it again.
Dr. Fauci: A new, more dangerous Covid variant could emerge this winter
Austria’s WIFO slashes 2023 GDP forecast, warns of stagflation
Has it come to far for the bdb to pull the pin on the whole thing and egg-in-the-face the entire conspiracy and all the players therein? How historic would that be? to be remembered for playing a part in bringing down a government, whilst also bringing down the bestiary behind her BS.
There are options for her – still a great book deal in the offing, she could write it whilst in gaol for her crimes against the course of justice, with the proceeds thereof to fund compensation at civil law to the man she so wronged, and the truth would metaphorically set her free whereupon release there would be an option to join an enclosed order as repentance.
Stock market news live updates: Stocks tank, Treasury yields spike as jobs report dashes hopes of Fed pivot
Higgins high status Labor support team are there to make sure she doesn’t crack and the truth comes out.
They don’t really care about you sweetheart.
Better late than never, I guess, but pretty pathetic.
Doubts increasing in scientific circles on Big Pharma’s beastly mRNA jab claims…
sampling bias – vax rates are higher in the more elderly and vulnerable/sick.
OPEC Humiliates President Biden On A Global Stage
sampling bias — this is the wrong term to use. But there’s a correlation in there which explains the different death rates.
Lehrmann, BDB and the two “security” idiots should have all been summarily sacked as of 9:00am the following Monday morning. Guess which of the four was the only one that suffered that fate?
Daily Mail
Husband of Kamala Harris’s key advisor is accused of bribery and corruption in ‘backroom deal’ with Nevada’s Democratic Governor in a $1BILLION lawsuit that could bankrupt county that covers Las Vegas
OK I have no dog in the Ukraine vs Russia fight, as an Aussie I prefer we stayed focused locally in Asia Pacific. The below is through an ex Army mate.
He’s heard through his network big counter offensive going on in Kherson. Ruski’s are levelling grid squares and mopping up with armour later. Same round Khakiv. Nothing really concrete in media yet except a News.com article alluding to it.
https://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/russianbacked-forces-claim-gains-near-bakhmut-in-east-ukraine/news-story/7fef5d53127aec4b3303f47ca37de282
Not much chance of that, given the preposterous lies she’s been spraying around like vomit in a ministerial office at 2:00am on a Saturday morning.
For a place where Flannery said we would get bugger all rain, sure is a lot of water about.
Between Pyramid Hill and Bendigo a lot of dry creek beds aren’t dry anymore. And I also notice that the Loddon River will flood.
And we pay for this man’s work.
I think so.
What started as an ill-advised career saving strategy is now in the realms of serious perjury.
At every step she thought it wouldn’t go any further.
Make a police statement, but expecting no charges.
Oops, charges laid, but the DPP will probably chuck it out.
Oops, maybe it won’t survive a committal hearing.
The good news is, it looks like Britnah is having no trouble keeping her Roses chocolates down these days.
Boy oh boy, does he miss the mark.
The economic value isn’t the point of this project. It’s to get the fat overpriced contracts done, keep the backhanders going, keep the maaates employed and kicking back, keep the factions sweet for the coming election, maintaining all the snouts in the trough. Victorian taxpayers will be getting fleeced long after these parasites have left office.
Black Ball.
There’s some very poor soil types from Pyramid Hill back towards Bendigo.
Do the crops look healthy or yellow and sodden?
Don’t mention the protocols. It sets mUnty off.
They look ok Gez but noticed water in some of them. Hopefully they aren’t ruined.
Matersays:
October 8, 2022 at 8:09 am
Throwing billions at it doesn’t count. If it did we’d have cheap commercial nuclear fusion by now.
…And a perpetual motion machine.
We already have the perpetual motion machine. It involves an EV, solar panels and a household battery. the electricity seems to cycle between all three with no losses and perpetual availability.
Been watching Norman Stanley Fletcher run rings around the screws at HMP Slade.
These days, the trigger warnings for Ronnie Barker’s gentle humour
would run longer than the show.
Hey Fletcher, what’s he mean by a practising homosexual?
One who ain’t got it right yet.
Victoria will never recover from the damage caused by the Hunchback fascist.
Not sure what what Prof. Flim Flammery is up to these days.
The sustainability institute at Melbourne Uni listed as his employer on his Wiki page closed last year.
At that time he was unrepentant; we know that because disinterested seeker of truth Peter FitzSimons interviewed him for the SMH. Seems the narrative needed bolstering in the midst of La Nina.
Healthy 23 Yr Old EUTHANIZED As INSANE Trend Grows, The Great Reset Leads To Population Reduction
tim pool
. In Canada Euthanasia is becoming more common with the government even making recommendations that sad people die.
Yes dot
You submitted to be part of the privileged class letting others do the dirty work.
Many still are.
We are a divided society.
Those who submitted made it so.
Donald Trump calls Boris Johnson ‘woke’ as he defends Liz Truss over taxes
gbnews
extremely lax nature of security at Parliament House
From what I’m told security at Parliament House only applies to “outsiders” .. ie: keeping the vote-herd & tourists in check .. security guards that question/intrude on any “member” or parliamentary staff, generally, have short careers …. “we is all equal, except!” ………
From the radar images it look like the poor buggers in Central Western NSW are going to cop it again.
National Math Conference Trains Teachers to Push Anti-Racism, Social Justice in Classrooms
“Much is lost when we do not politicize Black girls’ math education. Centering Black girls as knowledge producers through a critical analysis of their experiences is necessary,” Nicole Joseph, an associate professor of mathematics education at Vanderbilt University, wrote in her pitch to attendees.
AWM chair Brendan Nelson last week vowed to present a “much deeper depiction” of the history of Australia’s frontier wars
“Frontier Wars” brought to you by the same folk that cannonized “welcome to country” into the 251 mythology .. LOL!
Confirming that tonight’s gala dinner for the Privileged Class will be held at the club.
The foie gras has arrived on a private flight from Lyon this morning, and Klaus Schwab is bringing the Maine lobster on his jet this afternoon.
Until then … toodle-pip!
Putin may have been a moderate before he started the war, but he’s not one now. What more could a replacement do, apart from drop a nuke? He’s already started a mobilisation and devoted 20% of Russia’s GDP to it, it’s not as if there is a cigarette paper’s difference between him and some random Mad Pyotr.
Any thought of Putin having a legitimate beef with Europe about their moves to discourage him from invading countries were snuffed out when he started the invasion. He kind of proved them right, didn’t he? Turns out he actually was a threat that they should have made moves to counter.
m0nty-fa moves on from failed economist, through j’ism, to fantasy football, and finally to fantasy international relations.
But avoids the path to fantasy soldier in the war he wants so desperately to see start.
“Much is lost when we do not politicize Black girls’ math education. Centering Black girls as knowledge producers through a critical analysis of their experiences is necessary,”
What a “woke” world we live in when such a gobbleygook word salad,actually, gets accepted & publicised ..!
As benign as a cake blue on the outside and pink on the inside is, if you can demand someone make it for you, then you can demand a depiction of agiant cock and arse on a cake, or a disemboweled puppy.
If it’s not on the shelf, you cannot demand it.
I haven’t forgotten St Ruth’s Freudian slip about being vaxed a few months ago.
You possibly could read it that way but I think you misinterpreted it.
Struth could settle the matter.
it’s almost done cooking in the lab
Will General Custer make an appearance? I heard he came over to fight the Frontier Wars after he fought at the Alamo.
You know it makes sense!
As benign as a cake blue on the outside and pink on the inside is, if you can demand someone make it for you, then you can demand a depiction of agiant cock and arse on a cake, or a disemboweled puppy.
Based on recent monkey pox stories, the three decorations you described are very factual options.
big endian logic as applied to Mr potato head.
Their handiwork is evident in Mz Higgins’ revealed terror of a late night visit from Nosferatu:
Quite so.
As everyone knows, she could so easily have become just another bloodless corpse found discarded in a ditch.
China threatens Elon Musk: ‘He will be taught a lesson’
Coming out cake ?
Difficult when you’re a species who is all* male
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmzGfSDeqME
* – ok, not all.
What does that mean for the Hardie-Ferodo 500? King of the Waterslide!
“Nobody Cares About Ukraine” Admits NATO Advisor
The Jimmy Dore Show
“Lived experience” has nothing to do with maths (we pronounce it right and the Yanks are wrong, period), but worse, demonstrates a fundamental ignorance of what maths is, which is at its very core objective. Lived experience is subjective by definition, so belongs anywhere but in maths.
rosiesays:
October 8, 2022 at 7:02 am
Fin review, paywalled.
‘Headed for failure’: Alinta CEO on energy transition
Australia has almost run out of time to head off an energy transition “train wreck” with action on policies to spur investment in firming capacity and achieve emissions targets lagging ever further behind what is needed, according to one of Australia’s leading energy bosses.
Alinta Energy chief executive Jeff Dimery said announcements last month of earlier coal power station closures by AGL Energy and the Queensland government and higher but sometimes “hollow” targets for renewables and storage have him worried, with consumers to pay the price.
“I’m sure I’m not the only one just observing the gap that’s really opening up between the certainty of what’s coming out and the uncertainty of what’s replacing it and going in,” Mr Dimery said ahead of his participation in The Australian Financial Review Energy & Climate Summit on Monday in Sydney.
“I personally don’t believe we can achieve the transition based on what we’re seeing to date that is going to be delivered; I think we’re headed for failure unless things change significantly.”
Mr Dimery’s concerns will be largely echoed by EnergyAustralia CEO Mark Collette and Origin Energy boss Frank Calabria who will also speak at the summit.
“I am more concerned about a smooth energy transition than a year ago,” Mr Collette told The Australian Financial Review on Friday, describing the challenge as “enormous”.
“In eight years, we need to build roughly three times the renewable capacity we built in the last 20 years, plus grid to connect the renewables and flexible capacity and storage to make sure the system works in all weather conditions.
“And all this needs to happen at a time there is limited capacity for new infrastructure delivery amid record-low unemployment and an international landscape of rising energy prices.”
Mr Collette said Australia’s rapid energy transition was still possible if the transition was made “one of Australia’s national priorities” but that without the needed policies in place to support efficient new investment at scale the transition would be “slow and disorderly”.
While some say the bosses of traditional power generators are only talking their book, Grattan Institute energy program director Tony Wood said the concerns were justified: “Yes there’s a real risk, and yes, it’s got worse,” he said, describing the looming price increases for customers as “really scary stuff”.
“I don’t think it’s impossible to get this moving in the right direction, but this is not going to happen they way we are going now,” Mr Wood said, urging federal and state energy ministers to absolutely commit to the partnership they agreed to in August to support the transition, and for action to implement the policy framework.
Mr Dimery said that despite the warnings from the Australian Energy Market Operator of potential supply gaps opening up in some states from 2023, the message still was not getting across about the urgency of putting in regulatory settings to spur investment in firming capacity to support rising renewable energy.
Work around the controversial “capacity mechanism” that would improve the economics of investments in batteries, pumped hydro and other on-demand generation appears to have lost momentum over the past few months, pointing to delays of six months of more that the market cannot afford.
Meanwhile, the policy tools to back up the targets and aspirations on clean energy announced by state governments are mostly lacking, while progress on the grid build-out is slow.
‘Red lights flashing’
“I’ve got red lights flashing, and that’s against the backdrop of consumer energy prices escalating rapidly,” Mr Dimery said.
“And if we look ahead, based on the regulatory tests that have been done to determine tariffs, the increases next year are going to be much larger than the increases [this] year. It’s a massive issue.”
AGL, under huge pressure from its largest shareholder, tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, last month brought forward the closure date for its newest coal power station, Loy Yang A in Victoria, by up to 10 years to 2035. The same week, the Queensland government pledged to end its use of coal power by 2035, also up to a decade earlier than planned, as part of a $62 billion plan to connect 22 GW of new renewable projects.
Mr Dimery named numerous hurdles to the many aspirational projects that companies want to build, including local community issues, regulatory settings and tests, and the build-out of the grid.
“If you were to go through and look at the Australian energy market, and think about all the aspirational projects that people and companies want to build, there are so many impediments under the current broken regulatory settings for the development of those assets,” he said.
“There’s been a lot of talk about that changing, but there’s been absolutely no action. So you’re seeing lots of action on the closing and no action on the development. It’s kind of stuck.”
He said every day was critical, let alone months that added rapidly up to half-year periods of delay given the months are counting down to reach 2030 targets.
“The clock is absolutely ticking here. And again, all we’re getting is more and more closure announcements, and less and less clarity around a future operating environment so that the replacement program can get on with it,” he said.
That means the new Labor government cannot afford to sit around but needs to push forward on the critical policy settings to achieve decarbonisation goals.
“The new government have bold aspirations. They’ve made a number of announcements around investing in transmission, etc. Rubber on the road, unfortunately, at the moment, not much traction. But, you know, to be fair, it’s early days,” he said.
The comments come after energy ministers in August took back control of work to redesign the National Electricity Market from the Energy Security Board as some stakes baulked at any measures that may support coal-fired power.
But since then, there has been no evidence of any progress on the reforms.
“Unfortunately, for the new government, they don’t have any time; They’re out of time,” Mr Dimery said, voicing doubts about the decision by ministers to take responsibility for the reforms.
“I’m not sure that a bunch of bureaucrats are going to be able to add anything other than politics to the discussion,” he said.
Mr Dimery has consistently supported the ESB’s proposal for a capacity mechanism, but critics point out that it would favour Alinta’s portfolio, which includes the Loy Yang B coal-fired power station in Victoria. Loy Yang B has a rated life through to about 2047 but Mr Dimery said it would close earlier than that.
Still, Victoria absolutely still needs its coal power plants, he said, pointing to them as the reason the state’s wholesale electricity prices have not risen as high as elsewhere.
Alinta also has an offshore wind project on the drawing board, and a pumped hydro project, but without policies such as the capacity mechanism in place, the economics do not add up.
Mr Dimery called for policies to support the state energy targets to get those sorts of projects off the ground.
“It’s important that we get to the next level of detail in the discussion, and we need to get there quickly, in light of what is can only be described as a looming catastrophe,” he said.
Nicole Joseph
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I expect this year’s shenanigans to be the most entertaining ever. I’m popcorn ready!
Oh SH*T, something big is happening to our food supply thanks to the WEF | Redacted w Clayton Morris
From the radar images it look like the poor buggers in Central Western NSW are going to cop it again.
Gez – I can’t imagine how they are coping. We are on the NSW Central Tablelands & the paddocks are as saturated as I have ever seen them. Husband and I attempted to do a walk this morning & examine the damage. To start with, we had to drive the Gator a way up the driveway from the house, as it was running like a creek. Dams are overflowing and contributing to the saturation. Got down to the creek at the boundary of our property in the Gator and found it raging in rapids. Don’t know how the feral pigs are crossing it, as there is evidence of their nightly visits in uprooted turf on some slopes. The damn fox that got our chooks a few weeks ago was stalking one dam as it is harbouring quite a few ducks which are loving the weather. Didn’t have the gun. The grass is growing like crazy and it will be weeks of good weather before we can get the tractor and slasher out. A month or so ago the tractor went right down on the side of a paddock where the water lay under the ground like a cushion. Wouldn’t dare take it anywhere near there now.
You have reminded me of the giant phalluses in the windows of chocolate makers in Bruges.
I had to quickly explain to Mrs OSC that they were representations of reality, not actual re-creations.
There was a far away look on her face for days.
Ted Cruz: Everything the Biden administration has touched has gone to
garbageshit“Frontier Wars” .. a stunning diarama recreating Ayres Rock circa 1789.. the “Masada” of the 251
Razeysays:
October 8, 2022 at 9:45 am
Victoria will never recover from the damage caused by the Hunchback fascist.
Tri-Continental, State Savings Bank, Mother Russia and Stairman Dan. Alongside that lot, reconstructing Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hamburg and Dresden was but a moment’s work.
Perhaps a power bill strike might inject a dose of reality into the brains of our political leaders?
At least in QLD it’s the state government that will be directly impacted.
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/57690329-2594-4ab7-8874-b57e2a06d18b?r=ho9bj
Rosie and Thancho description of the young and innocent britknee, summarised what really happened. Any thing else is spin.
Correct on both counts.
The appropriate technical term to use is deliberate misrepresentation. But you’ve correctly picked the sleight of hand.
On the bright side, the Exposé is now back to 28 days to live.
Hallward, you really are too stupid for this blog and that’s saying something with some of the competition. Fusion is no longer a scientific dream, you clown. The scientific side of fusion has been bedded down and it’s now an engineering problem, which appears to be systematically solvable. Go play with your model plane and pretend you’re flying (inside) it, you dickhead. Every single engineering/scientific discovery is a function of the resources thrown at it. You fucking idiot, if only you kept the promise to fuck off over to the Lollipop blog where you go to denigrate this place. You’re despicable.
Meme;
https://substack.com/redirect/eab23565-49ad-41ae-bd2a-4ef9b7e14485?r=ho9bj
I bought one of the beautifully crafted Bruges sets of chocolate boobs for a ‘he he ha ha ‘ raffle prize at our outfit’s Paris office Friday night drinks.
A visiting Australian HR thing stacked on a monumental tanty and loudly demanded my dismissal.
She was howled down, but the fuss went on for a while.
For me it was the first inkling of what was happening to Australia.
The Left cannot create; it can only destroy.
JC, take it to the abuse thread.
My math knowledge, its accepted 1+1=2. Woke math, 1+1/life story = whatever I want it to.
Probably one for the Duelling Thread.
Shit, meet the fan.
https://twitter.com/SamanthaLaDuc/status/1578413935128023040/photo/1
How easy do we get conned ..? Is it just me? .. a week ago I’d never heard the phrase “frontier wars” in relation to the never-ending, more-money-pleeeze, whinge-ing of the 251s yet now we have the War Museum extolling the virtues of adding a display to to ‘commemorate” these, must’ave ‘appened cos we sez so, “battles” ..
BLM.
Hold on, is Nelson suggesting that a separate arm of the War Memorial be dedicated to the ‘Frontier Wars’?