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Arky, Magpies adore having a shower under the sprinkler. Much fun to be had and better than tv.
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You seem to like fentanyl smuggling Monty. Why is that?
‘General disillusionment’: Albanese government under fire over social media age ban
And just to reiterate, in case a member or two of the so called conservative side of Australian politics is reading.
+1
The Reserve Bank of Australia said a planned software update involving its virtual servers was the cause of an outage that disrupted 800,000 transactions, worth almost a billion dollars.
The outage crippled real-time and overnight payments at banks during a four-hour window after the central bank’s fast settlement service and low-value clearing and settlement service went down between 7:21pm and 11:47pm on Wednesday.
The disruption frustrated commercial bank customers trying to send money via bank apps or websites, triggering a flurry of complaints.
The Reserve Bank confirmed to The Australian Financial Review the outage was not related to any cyber incident and had been caused by a process error in internal RBA systems.
Late on Thursday, it provided more detail, saying an error had occurred during a planned change to the software that manages its virtual servers, which are used to manage databases, which then disrupted some production servers processing payments.
This stopped the files containing payment information from being sent or received between RBA systems and stopped settlement messages relating to real-time payments being sent back to banks.
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Kept getting Internal Server error – Link – https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/rba-in-crisis-meetings-as-payments-systems-go-down-20221012-p5bpdd
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The outage stopped payments being made by bank customers via Osko, which uses the new payments platform (NPP) to send money in the retail market in real time. Banks took heat from customers, who were not sure that payments had gone through.
NPP Australia, which manages the real-time infrastructure, said the Osko system was fully operational once the RBA issue was revolved.
Questions on real-time payments
Payments experts said the outage raised questions about the rollout of real-time payments, which are set to replace the legacy direct entry system, while criticising the RBA for the delay in restoring the system.
Said Brad Kelly, managing director of Payment Services, a consulting firm: “The time it has taken to get it back up is too long.”
It is understood business payments were also hit as a 9:30pm “batch” was not fully processed by the BECS system, leaving many payroll operations not completed and employees without their salaries.
The RBA has said FSS was designed “to quickly settle individual transactions, including payments made by consumers and businesses, 24 hours per day and 7 days a week”. But it tweeted at 8:09am on Thursday saying: “The RBA experienced an internal system engineering issue yesterday evening. The issue has been contained. Impacted external services are now operational however there has been some delay to overnight processing of payments.”
RBA staff went into emergency meetings on Wednesday night that continued into Thursday morning, and are believed to be preparing a major incident report, which should provide more detail about how the outage happened. The RBA declined to say when this would be released.
In a statement to the Financial Review, NPP Australia said: “NPP staff, NPP participants and RBA staff worked in accordance with defined procedures through last night into the early hours of this morning to respond to this RBA system issue. This work will continue today across the industry to ensure all payments which were impacted through this incident are fully processed.”
Many consumers have taken to social media to express their frustration that payments that were supposed to be sent in real-time were not received.
“I’m still waiting for funds to land in my other bank after transferring out of Westpac last night. Any timeframe on this?” one customer asked Westpac on its social media channel on Thursday afternoon.
A Westpac staff member monitoring the channel responded: “Hi there, I’m terribly sorry to hear of any concern while awaiting your funds, and we’re certainly here to help guide you in the right direction. To ensure we can best assist, could you please send us a DM with further details on what’s occurred?”
The Reserve Bank has made commercial banks report outages to maintain confidence in the payments system. Banks are now considering how this outage will be included in the next set of outage reports to be provided to the RBA.
These reports, published quarterly, have not included the reasons for outages.
Payments experts said the outage raised questions about the speed of the rollout of real-time payments in Australia, including a new service known as PayTo, which the RBA is supporting to create an alternative to card-based payments over the NPP directly from bank accounts.
Said Mr Kelly: “This casts a shadow over the rollout of PayTo, which has still not done a transaction. In terms of consumer protections and risk, we need to discuss whether NPP is a suitable replacement for debit and credit cards, while the imminent retirement of ‘direct entry’ needs to be questioned because it is the only fallback.”
The last major RBA IT disruption was in August 2018, when it experienced a complete shutdown of all primary and back-up power supplies in one of its data centres. This was caused by the incorrect execution of routine fire control systems testing in the data centre by an external party.
That shutdown hit all the RBA technology systems, including the high-value settlement system used by banks and other approved institutions to settle their payments, which was down for around three hours.
Correction: An earlier version of this story said some Centrelink were impacted by the outage; the RBA confirmed all Centrelink payments went through on Wednesday night.
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Nah, has never happened before
My humbrest aporogy Ranga-san.
I brame auto-correct.
I don’t know if these specific incidents can be traced to foreign operatives but Australian corporates have been typically dull-witted when it comes to these matters. I recall when the CBA outsourced a lot of its cybersecurity around 5 years ago as a cost cutting measure an executive said they were “agnostic” as to where the new contractors were located. How dumb can you be?
The Ugandan Army Parachute Display Team are probably wishing
they’d never heard of the Ugandan Army Parachute Display Team.
I’m guessing Paypal is out as well?
Even predictive text is hysterical.
Type in BOM in a text message and you get ‘bomb’.
The Oz reporting that Lisa Wilkinson dropped as a witness from the Lehrmenn rope trial.
Was he leader at the time the development of gas off Newcastle was banned?
Why yes, yes he was.
Well, it seems the ‘4 Ka52s shot down in 10 minutes’ is questionable – once you realise they lied to you about 1 thing, you realise they lie about *everything*
I gather the Ukies have been blazing through their AD stock
trying to bring down flying Doritos.
Having gone out and bought a new designer outfit specifically for the occasion, she’s inconsolable.
More courtroom guidance for Duk.
– Ricardo Sun Tzu
Should be plenty of good Brittany updates if she reappears today. Witnesses, witness lists, the defence (possibly). Let’s see.
Did I mention that BTC is a non seizable, non censorable, non inflatable, private peer to peer money’?
and yes, you CAN buy stuff with it … OTR takes it, and they are effectively mini supermarkets.
Counsel: What do you have to say about last week’s testimony?
B: “I’m afraid it was all bullshit.”
They have form, my state MP, the then SA Attorney General, Josh Teague, sent the boys around to have a chat with me due to my critique of the COVID nonsense.
https://rumble.com/vp8bxl-senior-australian-military-doctor-visited-by-police-after-contacting-mp-abo.html
Just closed my paypal account without incident. They obviously hadn’t twigged I’m an unrepentant purveyor of misinformation.
There is some hope for NZ
Although (for some unfathomable reason) the horse whisperer is still preferred leader, the “direction the government is taking the country” has tanked to 50+% ‘wrong’ and 35% ‘right’.
And the west is no different – they admit to inflation rates of around 6-10%, but have changed the formula (eg via ‘substitution’ – if the price of steak is up 20%, they drop it from the ‘basket of goods’ and say ppl will eat mince (which is only up 6%) instead, and ‘hedonic adjustment’ – they say you car went up 20% in price, but its a better car now, so we are going to adjust that increase downwards)
If you use the 1970s inflation equation, current inflation in the West is as bad as it was in the 1970s, ie nearly 20%.
Now compare that to their centrally planned interest rate of around 4-5% and ask yourself how high interest rates need to go to tame inflation (pro tip – interest rates have to be higher than inflation rates).
Karmov, yes impressive. Karmen, insane.
Folk may remember that bizarre beast the Karmen Huskie with its intermeshing twin rotors. It was used for many years as an airfield rescue helicopter.
I wasted many hours staring at that thing trying to understand how it could possibly work.
I read a comment from a Karmen pilot who claimed that the thing proved that God does indeed exist.
Apparently it was incredibly stable, but you needed fervent belief to fly it.
SE QLD’s dams are so full the government is effectively giving residents two weeks supply of water for free and encouraging them to make good use of it cleaning driveways, roofs, gutters, etc.
Why didn’t I get the Jab jab booster?………………………………………
The vaccine effectiveness numbers are quite disturbing particularly when reviewing the BA.2 vaccine effectiveness numbers 3 months or more after the 3rd dose with a 5% effectiveness rate in preventing emergency department admissions. The vaccine doesn’t work at this point.
The authors conclude that two doses of BNT162b2 provided only partial protection against BA.1-related and BA.2-related hospital and emergency department admission, highlighting the importance of the third dose due to a combination of product durability issues and a mutating RNA virus. Although three doses initially led to decent protection (?70%) against hospitalization, this performance degraded rapidly leading to a horrendous 5% performance at only three months or more involving emergency department admission
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/pfizer-mrna-vaccine-effectiveness-declines-to-5-preventing-emergency-dept.-admission-3-months-post-third-booster-6f71cb5c
Give money, whitefella, give more money.
to paraphrase Friedman: ‘Always and everywhere…’
Ok, scratch ‘effective’, but it was ‘safe’ right ? …right…??
You mean the ambulance chasers trying to make a name for themselves fitting up a bloke for a rape that never happened don’t want to call a media trollop who had to go and hide in NYC to discourage prosectors from charging her with contempt of court for her outrageous statements about the same case?
Hint: journalist/activist and town drunk Samantha Maiden has also been removed from the witness list.
It looks to me that the prosecution is now playing defence to stop the judge throwing the case out.
“Although three doses initially led to decent protection (?70%) against hospitalization”
So it did work, just not as well or for as long as people would like?
Hmmm …remind me … who was it here who said that COVID was merely a target of opportunity, and the klimate krisis was the real objective?
To many to list.
And, Winston, where did the Economist get their Soviet production data from?
The point was that any data was sourced from the No 5 Revolutionary Statistics Factory in Omsk, and was inevitably bullshit.
If all monarchs were clones, the office would have no value.
We’d still be ruled by the villainous Richard II.
Not as well or for as long as people were told, rather.
ZK2A:
These demands will never stop until the nation is broke.
I wonder where these petty gougers see themselves in 10 years time?
Contact in Italy, in the south, reports only allowed to do one load of washing a week, cook for one hour a day, electricity on one hour in the morning and one in the evening.
That might be just a local area thing.
Still.
“felt unsafe”?
Intimidation and incitement are serious matters but you should not be held accountable for something you didn’t do.
It’s also such a BS hand wave these days
Time already served then!! Off to the bar…
It’s all about the feelz.
Sancho Panzer:
From the CIA Yearbook.
Where else?
I thought I’d pointed out the CIA did one every year – from at least the 70’s as far as I recall.
Says the woman who told NSW parliament that until 1967 aborigines were classified as fauna.
Well, the Jan 6 witch hunt has subpoenaed Trump. The skank cheney read out the demands. The mid terms are stuffed.
Nope.
The absolute risk reduction in the original vaccine trial was 0.84%.
Out of every 117 people “vaccinated” just ONE infection prevented.
One infection, not hospitalisation or death.
And at 3 months, all this is wishful thinking with negative vaccine efficacy.
Although three doses initially led to decent protection (?70%) against hospitalization
What percentage of the whole population ever ended up in hospital? Also were the groups comparable?
Always check relative vs absolute risk. Same with statins, which also have bad side effects in many cases which are denied by the medical profession. We have a good friend who was a pharmacist who had many clients complain.
From the CIA Yearbook.
Where else?
I thought I’d pointed out the CIA did one every year – from at least the 70’s as far as I recall.
About what I thought. Yes they did.
I watched that Snodgrass video yesterday thankyou.
From what I understand la niña means we are more likely to get all the rain, and others miss out, Italy’s hydro electricity is in trouble, but it’s not climate change as one site I read claimed.
Waste of bandwidth.
flyingduk:
that video is really depressing.
A blank wall of officialese supported by state bully boy tactics and both are impervious to logic.
You are low hanging fruit to them – a combination of firearms licence holder and repetitive questioner of a politician.
Putting two and two together, they easily deem you are a potential threat. No need to analyse the issue or to question why you “came to the attention of police”.
Bastards.
Lisa Wilkinson dropped.
Too old
Too slow
For which she was never held to account. Also, from memory, wasn’t she telling the old tale about poisoned waterholes, but I have no doubt that a “truth telling commission” will regard both tales as Holy Writ.
Someone posted something from trial site which appears to contradict zero hedge and an earlier claim that vaccines did nothing at all.
Not the slightest bit interested in some tenuous link to ‘statins’, whatever they may be.
Par for the course:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/treasury-department-investigating-desantis-illegal-immigrant-flights-to-marthas-vineyard_4792038.html?utm_source=News&src_src=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-10-13-2&src_cmp=breaking-2022-10-13-2&utm_medium=email&est=l%2BrK06lez2EYuWhZa2v%2FwW7V41VjbDtE56BoGflp%2BaD35njpUUOTcP%2B0ftFeaqDd
I wonder if the Democrats have considered this use of the arms of the government to punish people it doesn’t like may be alienating swinging voters?
Oh, Jesus wept.
All … ALL … Soviet era data (even CIA guesses*) was proven to be bullshit after the wall came down.
You claimed to have developed a theory about a correlation between beef prices** and grain production, based on “Soviet watching”.
But if the hypothesis was founded on undeniably dodgy data, it is worth zero.
….
* Would the Intel community have inflated the Soviet data to over-state the threat, and chisel more funding out of Congress? Why, yes they would.
** Explain “prices” in Soviet terms and how they might be set.
rosie says:
October 14, 2022 at 9:55 am
“Although three doses initially led to decent protection (?70%) against hospitalization”
So it did work, just not as well or for as long as people would like?
I will refrain from personal abuse, but only because I don’t like the abuse on this blog.
Rosie if you think the risks associated with this jab are worth 90 days protection from hospitalization I have a bridge for sale.
Went down that rabbit hole myself many years ago after being badgered by GP into taking a statin. Felt like shit, got gaslit, changed to another one, still felt like shit. GP denied it was a problem. I did my own research and stopped worrying about cholesterol.
After that, I told a number of patients with statin side effects: the cholesterol theory is BS, and why would you take a ‘medicine’ that makes you sick?
I wonder why AHPRA never chased me for that heresy?
Cohenite:
Why would that mean the mid terms are stuffed? I’d have thought it would have enabled President Trump to make a case for himself?
He was a good dude. Smashed the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. Then:
TyraNny!
Well, obviously, I do think the risks associated with the jab are worth it if you are in the at risk category for covid.
Apparently I’m not the only one.
Nahhh bro. The leftard war against what plants need to grow is what’s gonna send us broke.
Of course, Hallward was a famous Sovietologist too.
The MSM will be wall to wall TRUMP IS A CRIMINAL. Or something like that.
Lies told over and over. Even Fox will get in on the act since their bosses hate Trump.
As for the election, some limp moves have been made to reduce ballot stuffing, but the software is all still in place, with agencies apparently supporting them. “Close enough to steal” is suffering from inflation like everything else.
Looks like covid and flu season is arriving in the US
USA pharmacy news expecting influx of patients seeking covid 19 boosters and flu shots on the horizon
So Rabz you didn’t really close your account.
The only valid epidemiological data is incidental data. Every piece of medical data in history that has been collected for a specific purpose is worthless (for that purpose). That is because of the fundamentally circular nature of medical statistics.
Whatever doctors believe will always manifest in data irrespective of whether doctors are correct.
If you get sick, get treated, and die, that’s because you didn’t get enough of the treatment and you didn’t get it early enough. So the next patient with the same symptoms has to have double the dose. Soon, 100 per cent of people with your symptoms ends up dead. So the disease has a 100 per cent fatality rate.
That is the case with rabies. If you’re suspected of having it, then you will be put in a coma and plied with copious drugs until you die (the Milwaukee protocol). Doctors will of course then blame the virus for your death. Your one hope is if you are vaccinated because, then, doctors probably won’t use the Milwaukee protocol on you and so your odds of surviving are greatly increased (the vaccine is dangerous, but not as dangerous as the MP).
Hence, the vaccine works!
In the “Black Death” tens of millions of people were murdered by doctors through arsenic drinking, glass eating, bleeding, sepsis (rubbing feces into wounds) and other insane practices.
Every single last one of these deaths were blamed on rats and fleas. As though rats and fleas existed in the 14th century but not at any other time.
Every piece of data you ever encounter on medicine is worthless unless it was collected for a completely different purpose.
That’s why you can’t use polio diagnoses to assess whether the polio vaccine worked – doctors simply refuse to dx polio in the vaccinated. You can, however, use paralysis rates as they are collected for a completely different use.
When you use the latter, it is patently clear the polio vaccine is an abject failure. Not as dangerous as the covid vaccine sure but every bit as useless.
Sure.
The generation that will lead us in 30 years?
HSC students are now so crippled by anxiety about their performance during exams that an extraordinary one in 10 claim the right to have a rest every 30 minutes.
NSW Education Standards Authority data reveals 6732 students claimed special dispensation for either having an “anxiety disorder or concentration issues” or experiencing “pain” or simply having difficulty completing an entire exam.
That figure has surged by 51 per cent in just three years, going from 4433 to 6732 students last year.
Daily Tele
Even if true (a big if), Ventolin reduces symptoms and keeps people out of hospital for short durations, but we don’t call it a vaccine.
Some rooster over on the Oz wants the voting age lowered to 16. Most comments support raising it to 21. Good idea, says I, and, restrict the franchise to those who pay tax and own property!
Indeed, He did weep, because you’ve now moved from criticizing his seeming inability to actually ‘watch’ estimates of Soviet production to, well, he might have been watching them but these estimates were dodgy given the circumstances of their production. I think that criticism applies to every intelligence estimate, economic outlook, PhD and the like relating to Soviet/ Eastern Bloc economic, political, military affairs or similar produced between 1945-89.
As to whether this ‘discussion’ belonged on the OT or not, I think the manner in which it was conducted indicates the latter.
Re the availability of the Factbook (Wiki):
Yes, the internet age is creating a lot of anxious youngsters. The human, built for hunter gathering, is now cooped up inside all day on some sort of screen. Now we are starting to see the consequences.
As a property owner and taxpayer I say no.
I really really hope it works.
SpaceX stacks Starship and Super Heavy on launch pad ahead of orbital test flight (13 Oct, via Instapundit)
Unfortunately Murphy just loves first-time rocket launches.
Elon Musk’s UK rival crashes rocket in sea after Iceland test fails spectacularly (13 Oct)
Musk really needs a success since the alphabet agencies are going for him. That’s the problem with saying stuff they dislike.
Curious, the ME and Europe are at Defcon 2.
DEFCON 2, or Fast Pace, is a red colored condition level similar to a ‘red alert’ warning level status. Defcon 2 means we are at the next step to war or a nuclear threat. During this alert level the United States Armed Forces are ready and prepared to ship out in 6 hours time or less, hence the name “Fast Pace”.
Defcon 2, or Fast Pace is the second highest condition level in the warning system, with only alert level 1 being higher. The alert status may be changed to this level after intelligence findings indicate a risk for an impending attack, such as the case in the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 when the alert status was changed to Fast Pace for the Strategic Air Command.
Defcon 2, or Fast Pace has been reached only once for the SAC, or strategic air command during the cold war Cuban missile crisis in October 26, 1962 after soviet missile pads were found in Cuba, but changed to alert level 3 after a short time. Taken from Defcon Level Warning System: https://www.defconlevel.com/levels/defcon-2.php
What the hell is going on?
Quote function didn’t work. All of first and second are quotes – before I get accused of plagiarism.
Why would that mean the mid terms are stuffed? I’d have thought it would have enabled President Trump to make a case for himself?
There will be a criminal referral to the DOJ. Trump will be arrested. They have to do this. As for Trump making a case for himself; he’s done that; there’s video evidence of him telling the people to go home peacefully. He offered the National Guard to pelosi and was refused. There’s miles of video tape of official connivance of guiding the protestors in and so on. The evidence is there. Trump appearing before the committee will make it easier to arrest him.
Not quite Dover.
I am saying you cannot formulate a hypothesis about the relationship between beef prices and grain production in a market economy in 2022 using “observations” of pre-1990 Soviet data, no matter what the source.
That subpoena and $3 will get them a medium coffee at most maccas.
It’s called separation of powers for a reason and that’s exactly what Democrat President Harry Truman told Congress when they tried to do it to him back in 1953.
I tend to agree with this.
The covid vaccines didn’t meet the level of performance that we have grown to associate with the word “vaccine”.
This doesn’t mean I think they were useless, just the benefits were oversold.
“Rest” in this case meaning “check cheat notes”?
Gee that must have looked nasty first off.
restrict the franchise to those who pay tax and own property!
and to post-menopausal women.
Reminder: first thing the US did after women got the vote was bring in Prohibition.
That worked well.
Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency
Dover
Where was this year book made available?
Was it in state libraries or given to government institutions only?
Accessing information was very difficult prior to what we have now.
So someone would have to have gone to say a state library off working hours in the late 70s and 80s to check what was going on with Soviet meat production and the harvest season and base that on sketchy estimates.
It’s possible although highly unlikely.
Let’s keep in mind that we were told first the information was gleaned from the CIA website which wasn’t around then.
Also, the Yearbook would not have carried enough detail to make any assumption of what he was suggesting . In fact it’s close to impossible.
Via OldOzzie
He’s telling the right truth. You have done nothing. Tulsi Gabbard has shown guts where you’ve shown cowardice. I believed in you and you became the very same thing you sought to fight against. That’s what you’ve become. You are the establishment
A description of AOC that matches our very own lackey of the fascist establishment, m0nty-fa.
Here’s what I initially said in response to an Old Ozzie Post:
Old Ozzie:
This is what started it all off. JC was so quick to piss on me that it has now consumed a damned large part of the Open Thread.
A simple question in farming economics has been blown out of all proportion.
And yes DB it belongs in the Duelling Thread.
Cronkite
If they arrest Trump why would that have an impact on the mid terms?
soy boy has earned the rakemeister title many times over
From the Oz…
“Confronting alleged rape with doctors ‘really big deal’
Remy Varga
Ms Higgins has conceded she told AFP officers she had gone to see a doctor when she hadn’t, telling the court she “wasn’t perfect”.
An emotional Ms Higgins told jurors she made appointments with doctors with the intention of going but couldn’t go because she was depressed and not coping with her alleged rape.
“Going and confronting it [alleged rape] with a health professional was a really big f—ing deal for me,” she said.
and the risks were ignored
I am beginning to think the choice to unleash this technology was so that the elites could mass genetically edit populations to enforce certainly policies
Cohenite:
They have to know this will have dire consequences, don’t they?
Good news!
DC CANCELS bisexual superman: Publisher pulls series about Kal-El’s son coming out and fighting climate change deniers after 18 issues as sales plummeted to just 34,000 last month
Daily Mail
JC
The CIA website wasn’t available before the World Wide Web and also no one would have accessed CIA data before the website came into existence.
The CIA used to publish an unclassified world data compendium in the 1980s. I expect that the historical data would have been loaded onto the unclassified CIA website when it was set up.
Hmm, lying to the AFP isn’t exactly looked highly upon.
Good thing she’s a special magic person, or she’d be in some trouble.
They aren’t going to arrest Trump. Particularly not before the mid-terms.
One thing the Left doesn’t do often enough is commit one-stroke political suicide.
Arresting Trump would cause a bloodbath at the polls that the Ds might never recover from. Ever.
Nobody expects you to be perfect, Ms. Higgins, just truthful.
Episode 7 is out now and he did go through Bramwell Junction. He still hasn’t got to the tip of the cape, this is taking forever.
Every Man for Himself – Milk Run Eps 7.
No one helps.
Regardless of the outcome of this trial, Brittany Higgins and her partner illegally taped private telephone calls. My question is, will she and her partner face charges or will they, like Cane Toad Wilkinson, get a free pass?
True. It was available in most public and many school libraries in the US from 1971 on. The first classified edition of Factbook was published in August 1962, and the first unclassified version in June 1971.
“Because the unclassified Factbook is in the public domain, people are free under United States law to redistribute it or parts of it in any way that they like, without permission of the CIA.”
Go on. Arrest him and see what happens. You must be feeling lucky punk.
Just closed my Paypal account too, with the following comment:
Surely it can be confirmed that appointments were made? If contemporaneous evidence for these appointments (sourced from the clinics, not from Higgins) is provided, that would be fairly persuasive evidence. If such evidence existed, one would think we’d already know about it.
If such evidence hasn’t been able to be gathered, she’s probably lying. Her explanation in isolation is not implausible, but it sits alongside all of her other behaviour immediately after the alleged rape which doesn’t at all bespeak a violated female. It is far more indicative of someone trying to hide something. And then there’s her cashing in on the whole affair. This trial screams reasonable doubt.
Sancho Panzersays:
October 14, 2022 at 9:59 am
And, Winston, where did the Economist get their Soviet production data from?
The point was that any data was sourced from the No 5 Revolutionary Statistics Factory in Omsk, and was inevitably bullshit.
Paul Dibb, who had intelligence connections, wrote a book in the late 1980s with a title like “Soviet Union, the Incomplete Superpower”, all about the dodginess of Soviet economic statistics. The general data was “out there”, just a matter of knowing where to look.
areff at 11:00 – please report to the manager
Winston Smithsays:
October 14, 2022 at 10:05 am
Sancho Panzer:
And, Winston, where did the Economist get their Soviet production data from?
The point was that any data was sourced from the No 5 Revolutionary Statistics Factory in Omsk, and was inevitably bullshit.
From the CIA Yearbook.
Where else?
I thought I’d pointed out the CIA did one every year – from at least the 70’s as far as I recall.
Catching up, didn’t see this earlier.
Calling Trimp might prove to be a mistake.
Imagine trying to shut him up.He will use the forum to his advantage.
If they don’t let him answer even better.
All must have prizes….
“If such evidence hasn’t been able to be gathered, she’s probably lying. Her explanation in isolation is not implausible, but it sits alongside all of her other behaviour immediately after the alleged rape which doesn’t at all bespeak a violated female. It is far more indicative of someone trying to hide something. And then there’s her cashing in on the whole affair. This trial screams reasonable doubt.”
Yep.
Consumer power is always preferable the political solutions.
The other name for vaccines was ‘immunisations’ (because they conferred immunity!) … the mis application of the word ‘vaccine’ to the various COVID ‘jabs’ is nothing more than medical stolen valour.
Notwithstanding what I said above, I reckon that not only will she get a free pass, but the accused will be found guilty. Considering the politicisation of this matter, is a Canberra jury really going to let this guy walk? And a Canberra judge is going to throw the book at him – again, in consideration of the political climate.
Market economics. Vote with your dollars and your feet.
OTOH, lying *by* the AFP is now apparently standard practice.
A lot of the language used during Covid was “loose” to give its most favourable interpretation.
You can formulate it, whether or not its wise is another matter.
CIA World Factbook – a great resource.
Just sailing out of San Diego now. Captain announces please wear masks indoors ‘out of an abundance of caution’. Not many comply. We don’t.
Given the ubiquity of surveillance now undertaken by the state, I have long since regarded the risks of me doing the same to well outweigh the benefits.
The open contempt that Missy directs towards the Defence Counsel is shocking for normal and reasonable people but is typical of the filthy political culture that she revels in.
Hopefully, the jury will be equally disgusted.
They’ll turn his microphone off. Technical troubles, so sad.
Of course if he refuses the FBI will send a SWAT team in at 5 am (with mysteriously arriving abundant CNN cameras from every angle) and will arrest and shackle him.
The US is not a free country, the elite class though is striving to avoid it becoming free.
Btw Kurt Schlichter’s 7th novel in the series came out yesterday.
I hope I’m wrong. I want justice for victims as much as anyone. If he did it, he needs to do serious time. However, I suspect he’s going to do serious time regardless (unless some extraordinary evidence emerges pointing towards innocence). That’s not justice and it makes him the victim.
Hell, if he didn’t do it, he already is the victim. Even if the jury finds him not guilty, he’ll come out of this trial with nothing and very limited future prospects. And probably broken.
“Just sailing out of San Diego now. Captain announces please wear masks indoors ‘out of an abundance of caution’. Not many comply. We don’t.”
Enjoy Lizzie.
Morsie:
I doubt the Democrats have even thought of where this is going. They must think they have the Generals in their pockets, but I’m not sure even General Millie will go along with this.
It was for sale to the public since 1975. Most universities would have had them in the reference section or general collections as undergraduates and postgraduates would have wanted access to them. State libraries would have had them. Non-fiction works would have made reference to them. Other reference works would have used their tables, figures, etc.
Fatty Trump wouldn’t need a mike in an indoor hearing anyway. He’ll just start shouting.
cohenitesays:
October 14, 2022 at 10:08 am
Well, the Jan 6 witch hunt has subpoenaed Trump. The skank cheney read out the demands. The mid terms are stuffed.
Trump Exposes House J6 Committee as a ‘BUST’ in Response to Final Hearing
The House Democrats and RINOs behind the theatrical January 6 kangaroo court on Thursday put on their final and most dramatic act before the upcoming November midterms, concluding the hearing with a unanimous resolution to subpoena former President Donald Trump, as if that’s the magic ticket to saving Democratic candidates across the country who are already in line for the slaughter.
Regardless, the hearing sparked a near-immediate response from the former president, who, in a series of three Truth Social posts, responded to the main topics of today’s hearing, excoriating them in the process.
Thursday’s House J6 Committee hearing marked the ninth such event since the entire charade began earlier this year.
Trump first responded to the sham committee’s airing of never-before-seen footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.y.) huddling in the basement of the Capitol building during the Jan. 6 protests. The committee highlighted several scenes in which Pelosi can be seen consulting with various officials regarding a military and police response to the protests.
It’s thought by some that the House committee aired the footage to sort of vindicate the Democratic speaker, who many still believe is responsible for the chaos that occurred that day due to a lack of proper response before and during the unfolding dangerous event,
as Trump noted in his post.
This footage was shot by Alexandra Pelosi, the Speaker’s documentary filmmaker daughter, who was present to capture her mother during the historic day, per person familiar w the footage…
https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/13/jan-6-committee-hearings-live-updates/
“Why didn’t Crazy Nancy Pelosi call out the ‘troops’ before January 6th, which I strongly recommended that she do. It was her responsibility, but she ‘didn’t like the look.’ Crazy Nancy failed the American People!” Trump wrote.
In his second post, Trump took another jab at the “Unselect” committee for completely ignoring the possibility that voter fraud could have taken place before, during, and after the 2020 election.
“The Unselect Committee knowingly failed to examine the massive voter fraud which took place during the 2020 Presidential Election – The reason for what took place on January 6th,” Trump wrote.
The former president, in his third post, asked a question echoed by several pundits in the wake of today’s hearing, which was technically reclassified as a “business meeting.” Why did the committee wait until its final hearing to call Trump forward as a witness? That’s pretty much the opposite of the entire point of an investigation.
“Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting? Because the Committee is a total “BUST” that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly – A laughing stock all over the World?” the former president wrote.
Any honest observer can deduce that the House J6 committee used the subpoena vote as a political weapon to muddy Trump’s name ahead of the midterm elections, and especially ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump will likely let out a hearty laugh when he tears their subpoena in half and tosses it in the wastebasket, as the J6 committee is widely predicted to be disbanded after Republicans take majority control of the lower chamber. No matter what they try in the meantime, Trump will cite executive privilege or, worst case, take the Fifth to avoid testimony, and that will spark legal battles that will outlast the life of the committee itself, proving this is nothing less than a massive waste of taxpayer time and money.
CNN, MSNBC, and a handful of establishment media outlets will run with the story for a day or two, but at the end of the day, a majority of Americans are far more concerned with President Joe Biden’s record-high grocery and gas prices than they are with something that happened nearly two years ago.
I’d tell the J6 committee, “nice try,” but it really wasn’t.
Broken record stuff, but this should have been sorted out as part of the prosecution brief as corroborative evidence. It is simple stuff. It is not complex.
When you (allegedly) investigate a claim of this nature, and in circumstances of this type where you have one primary witness – i.e., the victim – and no forensic evidence, and any evidence from other witnesses potentially clouded by intoxication, you need to provide as much certainty as you can to the victim’s claims.
If the victim says she made doctors’ appointments, it is very easy to corroborate this part of her story at least by checking with the clinics. You (apparently) get around the privacy screeching from fat nosy receptionists by executing search warrants for records correlating to only her, and only for the dates she claims.
If it’s not in the brief it’s either incompetent investigative work, in which case it should never have gone to trial, or it’s a bullshit story.
Party time for sailout, cocktails for all. Hairy holding mine while I tell you guys this major US naval base has probably 20 times the Australian Navy fitepower here. Three massive aircraft carriers in view as we sail past. No masks at all out here on deck and few indeed inside. People seem very over it. Two big naval helicopters just flew over especially for us. Fun times.
A blonde suspects her boyfriend of cheating on her, so she goes out and buys a gun. She goes to his apartment unexpectedly and when she opens the door, she finds him in the arms of a redhead. Well, the blonde is really angry. She opens her purse to take out the gun, and as she does so, she is suddenly overcome with grief. She takes the gun and puts it to her head. The boyfriend yells “No, honey, don’t do it!” The blonde replies “Shut up, you’re next!”
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Speaking of the world-beatingly efficient AFP:
Australian Federal Police operations hacked (Sky News, 14 Oct)
Don’t expect any sympathy.
There was never any scientific basis to discriminate against the clot shot hold outs. Class action in coming.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1580709507893645312
I disagree with Zulu:
I do not know why you would prevent a renter from voting just because they were not in a position to buy a place somewhere permanently.
The condition should be that you are paying your way in life and are also a net payer of tax.
It gets a bit murky with private sector employees on government contracts, but as long as that was an open competition with multiple bids it would be okay too.
Where, bookshops?
It was the feminist movement that supported it.
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What I don’t get is this: US inflation is due to shortages pushing prices up – supply side.
How does ramping interest rates solve a supply side problem ?
Rents rise because interest rates make realestate less affordable so more people rent. The rising interest rate worsens the inflation problem.
Yes, please, I’ll take that Nobel now. Make way, Bernanke.
Based on my observations as a school cleaner, I predicted several years ago that the school hall, normally used for masses of year 12s doing the HSC, would be reserved for those doing “special provisions” and small rooms set aside for the balance of the student cohort.
Bruce O’Newk:
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/crime/australian-federal-police-operations-hacked/video/6bb37e4591fc7ab63ef20a2cdf936b59
The only data that can’t be hacked is the data that isn’t collected. Otherwise the collection points are just a one stop shop for thieves – a bit like banks and cash.
Last-Minute Entrant ‘Head Of Cabbage’ Surges To Lead In Pennsylvania Senate Race
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Despite both candidates facing issues with voter enthusiasm, the race for the open Senate seat in Pennsylvania has narrowed in recent weeks. Polling was showing Dr. Mehmet Oz catching up to John Fetterman until a head of cabbage entered the race and exceeded both candidates in popularity.
“We’ve seen ‘dark horse’ candidates upset Senate races at the last minute, but this was something special – only these two could face an inert head of cabbage as a serious challenger just weeks before the election,” said political analyst Dan Greenfield on his daily podcast. “An upset victory of a head of cabbage would be a barrier-breaking first for vegetables being elected to the Senate. To be fair, however, this would also be the result if Fetterman won.”
The Fetterman campaign has flailed at the unexpected challenger, unable to effectively counter the stoic sobriety of the cabbage head. Fetterman’s campaign manager, Brendan McPhillips, emphasized in an interview that Fetterman would outperform the cabbage in facing down dangerous adversaries abroad. “Look, these dictatorial foreign nations will be cowed into submission when Senator Fetterman intimidates them with his requests for closed captioning. We make a motion even now that John be tapped to lead the Senate foreign relations committee if elected, to make use of his imposing stature and confident speech.”
…Lisa Wilkinson dropped… Joe Burns?
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Sure.
Like when she took a whole day off work for a doctor’s visit, was then too distraught to go, but not so distraught that she couldn’t go to the gym and hang out with her then current support puppy.
Californians Move to Texas | Episode 2: The Cookout
Science news.
Research links IQ and betting on horse racing (12 Oct)
Listen! Birdsong is good for mental health (13 Oct)
That covers Tom and me, the rest of you can find your own poison.
Can never rule out the former but I suspect it’s the latter. If so, this needs to be hammered relentlessly by the defence as it’s pretty damning. She said she made appointments – that is an eminently falsifiable piece of information. If she’s lying about this, it should really be the end of the matter. It would mean she’s not a credible witness. Why would you believe anything else she says?
Sure, people can act strange when under stress but that is peculiar. I would counsel prudence in the immediate aftermath before speculating about public events, but given this detail:
the more you conceal about a public event from the public the more they will speculate about it. And as the article notes, had that Connecticut law applied in Texas, we would still be unaware of the shitshow that was the emergency response in the Uvalde shooting.
Farmers, even those without a TV reception, party line telephone service, & weekly mail delivery, usually had a reasonable arm’s length grasp of the general direction things were going in the Soviet Union.
That is my point.
Not that some sort of data didn’t exist.
More that Soviet era economic data is 100% useless in trying to develop a hypothesis about the inter-relationships in a modern market economy.
There will be a criminal referral to the DOJ. Trump will be arrested.
They have to know this will have dire consequences, don’t they?
They are banking on it.
They shot a lady in the white house in the hope all the “insurrectionists’ they were sure were armed would pull out their weapons and give them an excuse to gun down the 6th protesters.
They want this to happen.
They need an armed group of MAGAS to prove that they arent a bunch of hallucinating panic merchants.
if I was to go full tinfoil Id be guessing a last minute attempt at getting Trump perp walked followed by glowies bombing something to cancel the mid-terms/ energize the dems.
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Democrat Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig: “I will never stop standing up for Big Pharma and standing against my constituents!”
To be honest, I don’t know why anyone would trust the CIA with anything. They’ve been wrong when it counts for the past 50 years. Now they’re just a political organisation tied to the demonrats.
Dover
Other reference works would have used their tables, figures, etc.
Other reference works? Maybe even the Economist?
Zatarasays:
October 14, 2022 at 12:10 pm
Californians Move to Texas | Episode 2: The Cookout
Love Babylon Bee – “The Meat just fell into my mouth”
Bruce O’Newk:
We won’t be able to speak to Armadillo without doffing the cap, will we?
Just a passing thought.
Will the AWM be setting up exhibits for the whites killed during the “frontier wars”?
The speared shepherds, the shipwrecked crews and isolated homesteads?
If not why not?
Whatever happened to We’re From The Sweeney, Son episode 296.
Misinformation can have consequences.
Magazines would have certainly used it.
Will the AWM be setting up exhibits for the whites killed during the “frontier wars”?
Frollicking, take yourself outside, and give yourself a severe uppercut. You know better than that!
Nailed:
Here is Ron Paul 8 YEARS AGO talking about Russia and Ukraine.
The nineteen – unarmed – men, women and children, murdered at Cullien La Ringo? Mrs Fraser, and her daughters, raped and murdered at Hornet Bank?
I hope somebody is shielding Infidel Tiger from the word “panties” in the Higgins reportage.
Looks like Higginses Handmaids have timed their mid-week hiatus perfectly to claim the all important friday night – saturday morning headlines.
A father walks into a book store with his young son. The boy is holding a quarter.
Suddenly, the boy starts choking, going blue in the face. The father realises the boy has swallowed the quarter and starts panicking, shouting for help.
A well dressed, attractive and serious looking woman, in a blue business suit is sitting at a coffee bar reading a newspaper and sipping a cup of coffee. At the sound of the commotion, she looks up, puts her coffee cup down, neatly folds the newspaper and places it on the counter, gets up from her seat and makes her way, unhurried, across the book store.
Reaching the boy, the woman carefully drops his pants; takes hold of the boy’s testicles and starts to squeeze and twist; gently at first and then ever so firmly.
After a few seconds the boy convulses violently and coughs up the quarter, which the woman deftly catches in her free hand.
Releasing the boy’s testicles, the woman hands the coin to the father and walks back to her seat in the coffee bar without saying a word.
As soon as he is sure that his son has suffered no ill effects, the father rushes over to the woman and starts thanking her saying “I’ve never seen anybody do anything like that before, it was fantastic. Are you a doctor?”
“No” the woman replied. “Divorce lawyer”.
Trump Spokesman Releases Statement on Sham J6 Committee Subpoena of President Trump
On Thursday evening Trump Taylor Budowich, the Director of Communications for Save America and Donald J. Trump, released a statement on the continued harassment of President Donald J. Trump.
Taylor Budowich: Today, 26 days before the Midterm Elections, America is truly a nation in decline. Inflation is out of control, the crime rate is at an all time high, and the crisis at our southern border has never been worse. However, instead of using their final days in power to make life for Americans any better, Democrats are doubling and tripling down on their partisan theatrics. Democrats have no solutions and they have no interest in leading our great nation. They are simply bitter, power hungry & desperate. Pres Trump will not be intimidate by their meritless rhetoric or un-American actions. Trump-endorsed candidates will sweep the Midterms, and America First leadership & solutions will be restored. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
– Imelda Marcos
I see Russia’s puppet governor of Kherson has posted a video pleading with his backers to evacuate him and his cronies because the Ukrainians are closing in fast. Putin can’t even evacuate his soldiers, he’s not going to be able to do much about his apparatchiks.
Given the ubiquity of surveillance now undertaken by the state, I have long since regarded the risks of me doing the same to well outweigh the benefits.
Have you got that the right way around Dr Duk? I would have thought that with the combination of a surveillance state and their own lizard hands on the release valve, the importance of a citizen having a cheaply made, easily verified and honestly gathered documentation in the toolbox would be kinda handy-
Only to be disclosed in argument of fact, of course
Heh. Not always.
On Cossack’s video Fiona Martin called the police before she was asked questions or heckled.
Apparently Senator L Cheney (R) Wyoming is not going to return to her constituency prior to the election.
That’s strange. Apparently the high plains folk have indicated that there are a number of matters that they are keen to discuss with their elected representative.
I’m amazed that ‘erhonner didn’t censure Higgins for her foul language. Is that permissible in courtrooms these days?
Who were the people on this site (the old one) who were completely convinced Pell was guilty?
I wonder if any of them want to come here and post some lunatic rationalisations as to why we should believe Higgins?
‘Leaving in a hurry’ isn’t necessarily indicative of being guilty of sex without consent, it could be what was I thinking going to the minister’s office in the middle of the night with someone as drunk as a carrot who’s now ‘passed out’ on the couch in the minister’s office.
158 mm of steady rain here in north central Victoria. That’s over one quarter of the average annual rainfall in only two days.
Falls of half as much again up on the Strathbogie Ranges.
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As Freidman observed: Inflation is always, and everywhere, a monetary phenomenon.
Translation, if the money supply rises compared to the supply of goods, there is more money to chase those goods, so prices rise.
‘Money’ comes from 2 sources:
1) the Central banks create it out of thin air by buying bonds created by governments.
2) the retail and commercial banks *multiply* the above by lending out 5 or 10x as much as actually exists by creating credit (aka loans). Interest rates are meant to influence demand for loans by making them more expensive. This influences the ‘multiplier’ of the money supply, but not the original money supply itself. Raising interest rates thus reduces the ‘money supply’ by reducing loans made.
The world is nearing the end of a 50 year orgy of money printing, enabled by Nixons closure of the gold window in 1971. Since then, the supply of ‘money’ (actually credit) has well outstripped the supply of goods.
For a long time, this was (partly) hidden by the effects of globalisation which made goods more plentiful and cheaper.
Now, its the opposite – 2 years of reduced production of goods due to covid, combined with accelerating money creation to continue paying people who werent able to work.
We are late stage in this – the collapse of the worlds fiat currency system is a mathematical certaintly – winter is coming….
Im not sure if COVID was an intentional COVER for this, or just a handy scapegoat (to add to Trump, Putin, Globull Warming, white men, transphobia etc etc etc
Other than Monty and Grigs and a couple of wishy-washy fence sitting wishing it were truers, no-one I can recall.
I think one lawyer type tries to justify the appeal decision.
fcuk … yes, the benefits exceed the risks!
“Who were the people on this site (the old one) who were completely convinced Pell was guilty?”
Only the usual suspects…Monty, Vietman and one or two others.
Here’s my prediction, I reckon Lehmann’s gone.
““Who were the people on this site (the old one) who were completely convinced Pell was guilty?”
Only the usual suspects…Monty, Vietman and one or two others.”
I should also add that those suspects, Monty, Vietman and so on no doubt still think Pell is guilty.
Brittany Higgins is grilled over text messages to her boss and her choice of clothing on the night she was allegedly raped – after blowing up at Bruce Lehrmann from the witness box
1.
Mr Whybrow then referred Ms Higgins to her interview with federal police where she spoke about an attempt by Lehrmann to kiss her ‘before March 22’ in 2019.
‘Yes I recall being definitive. I don’t know if I should gave been so definitive,’ Ms Higgins replied.
She said the attempted kiss would have occurred during a sitting week, and on a Wednesday, because ‘that’s when we went out as a team’.
Mr Whybrow said: ‘I put to you this incident did not occur – there was no occasion where Mr Lehrmann tried to kiss you.’
Ms Higgins replied: ‘That is incorrect.’
Mr Whybrow responded: ‘I put to you that it did not happen between March 22 and March 26… there was no sitting week between March 22 and 26, 2019.’
‘I just know that we went to the Kingo [Kingston Hotel] and he made an attempt to kiss me during that week,’ Ms Higgins replied.
2.
Ms Higgins was asked whether she told Lisa Wilkinson on January 21, 2021, that Lehrmann removed her underwear.
‘No. I didn’t wear underwear that night with the dress on the basis that it had lines. I’m a 20-year-old girl, we care about stuff like that.’
Ms Higgins was shown a Q&A between her and Channel 10 TV host Lisa Wilkinson on January 21, 2021 – before her interview on The Project was recorded.
Mr Whybrow asked if she recalled being asked by Ms Wilkinson: ‘So he removed your panties?’
‘And you said “Yeah”. Do you recall giving and answer to that question?’ he asked.
Ms Higgins responded: ‘Yes. yes I do but it was wrong. I didn’t wear underwear and I was embarrassed but that wasn’t the interview itself and there was no stat dec [statutory declaration] on that… I was embarrassed by it… I continue to be embarrassed by it in front of a court.’
3.
Mr Whybrow also asked Ms Higgins about a photograph of a large bruise on her thigh, which was shown to the court last week. He asked why Ms Higgins didn’t mention the photograph in conversations with police.
Mr Whybrow then said the photograph didn’t come up until police did ‘extractions’ of her phones in January 2021.
‘In those extractions there is no reference to this bruise before January 2021,’ he put to Ms Higgins.
Ms Higgins replied: ‘I don’t think I sent it to anyone. I sent to to [News Corp journalist] Samantha Maiden and Lisa Wilkinson… but until I was making a police complaint, why would I send that around?
Mr Whybrow: ‘I put to you that the bruises and injury you sustained is a fabrication.’
Ms Higgins replied: ‘I reject that completely.’
4.
When Mr Whybrow asked Ms Higgins about doctor appointments she told police she attended, she lashed out.
‘I put it to you that you did say to both those officers that… you had doctors’ appointments,’ he said.
Mr Higgins responded: ‘Going to the doctor was a really big f**king deal for me… Yes, I agree [that I told police I went to medical centres]. I wasn’t perfect.’
Happy to be proved wrong, but I’m with you. I’ll also bet good money that the case goes to the High Court.
Brittany Higgins is grilled over text messages to her boss and her choice of clothing on the night she was allegedly raped – after blowing up at Bruce Lehrmann from the witness box
That’s it, everyone, Kherson will remain in RUS hands.
Flyingduk:
That’s what I always thought but there’s always someone – like socialism – who claims “It’s different this time.”
I’ve thought that Quantative Easing was just another weasel word for print more money, and I strongly suspect I was right.
CL, add Cohen, Mearsheimer, etc., its quite a list.
Cassie:
I think you’re right.
Grubby j’ism.
Ringing Lehrmann’s new boss.
Now why would they do that?
It wouldn’t be to hound him out of any job he gets and make him unemployable, would it?
I don’t Winston.