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It is so good to see the US Capitol Police are still so good at their job. NOT. https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/01/23/man-arrested-for-gun-in-capitol-n2184734
Would this be available through an aged care package? Luckily I was spared dealing with navigating the aged care system…
The Madman of Ukraine in High Heels
From Armstrong Economics –
“COMMENT: Hi Martin
It is obvious that Zelensky does not have a brain and is being controlled by outside forces. Is it Schwab or is he just a front also? You probably know more than what is going on than anyone else including intelligence.
Thank you
All the best
MW
REPLY: I cannot say everything without compromising some sources. These people have played a dangerous game. Putin never intended to wage war on Ukraine. He was there to do what he said, protect the Russian population in the Donbas and Crimea, which have NEVER been occupied by Ukrainians. Zelensky should go back to dancing in high heels and leave the real world to serious people.
This launching of 83 missiles is the biggest attack on Kyiv since the war began. That in itself proves he was never trying to conquer Ukraine. This propaganda is all strategically being put out to create war. Europe needs this because it can no longer fund itself on the same basis of endless borrowing with no intention of ever repaying the debt. The failure to have consolidated the debt from the outset is tearing Europe apart. These people think (1) they can defeat Russia and chalk one up for climate change since 50% of Russia’s GDP is energy, and (2) a war will allow them all to default and create another Bretton Woods while reducing the population. These are real objectives.
Putin never struck Kyiv because that was the home of the Russ, where the Russians began. Only the destruction of Kyiv in 1240AD by the Mongold resulted in them settling in Moscow. Kyiv to Putin was more or less like London has been to the United States. This attack on Kyiv is what I have been warning about. Putin has been criticized by the hardliners for being too soft on Ukraine. They are not as nostalgic about Kyiv as Putin has been.
The West is pushing Russia and they will get what they want – war. This is just insane. The Ukrainian people need to overthrow Zelensky – NOW! He is not putting their best interests first. It has been confirmed he has already stashed more than $100 million offset and he will fly away on a private jet leaving the death and destruction behind. Maybe then he will change his shirt.
In the meantime, Russia can take down the power grid of Europe with a handful of missiles. Without alternatives, Europe’s current energy shortfall will worsen this winter. If Russia attacks the satellites, without GPS, most people will be lost today. Things can get really messed up without nuclear war.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/the-madman-of-ukraine-in-high-heels/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Razey
I love my adopted country and everything it’s given me. I’m not going to abandon it until it becomes clear that there no return from the woke rubbish. That time is still has not come.
Shades of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, 1962.
From that little acorn of 30 advisors grew our longest war and Australia’s largest force contribution to a foreign conflict since the Second World War. (Wiki).
History. Learn from it FFS Marles.
Cherish the opportunity to help them maintain cadence on any hilly bits.
Carmen Lawrence? Where have I heard that name before?
Did Marles say he was considering sending troops?
He could send some of the 400-odd Geelong Turks he branch-stacked to oust Gavan O’Connor and snatch pre-selection.
Are you suggesting rank politics may be involved here?
Who is this ‘we’ you reference?
I see that this comment was reported.
Can’t be criticising our Resident Saint. No, no.
It’s fun watching GWGB in action. The woke never learn, never give up, and always, always faceplant.
It’s Darwinian.
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Keep on burning through money, woke creative peoples, I’m sure you’ll finally find something to match unwoke Top Gun: Maverick’s $1.6 billion in takings.
Clearly, this is “freemasons run the country, I call it the Spruce Moose, I said get in, Smithers” levels of delusion.
The Ukes made me infiltrate their government, they made made declare them as not having a right to exist, they made me invade the Crimea, they made me wage a covert war and infiltrate their eastern districts, they made me invade in an attempted blitzkreig, they made me retreat and they made me bomb civilians.
Poor old Vlad.
He will save the west and Christendom by bombing other Slavs!
How do you know?
Unless it was you.
Commenters can only see their own reports.
Nope.
BBS, as I said, Brand new thread now and a change of pace and mode. I have had my say, just as you solidly had yours on that previous thread. And yes, my aggression was a little more subtle and passive than yours. Overt or covert, the above was not always directed entirely at you either, for I have also been intent on a general explication of past histories; so let’s call it quits.
Come and have an arvo tea together one day when you are in Sydney.
Very nice coffee shop in the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Quay.
Or it’s an easy 20 minute ferry ride out to Watson’s Bay from Circular Quay and a short harbour and bush walk up to ours. Meeting each other can offer new perspectives.
However I fully understand if you don’t wish to engage IRL. Many don’t.
I respect your contributions here regardless.
Who is this ‘we’ you reference?
Since its supported by the uniparties, at least as a general ‘vibe’ thing it must reflect the plurality of the populous.
Embrace the suck.
Carmen Lawrence? Where have I heard that name before?
I dont recall?
I scrolled back to BBS’s comment.
Not showing as “reported”.
Sancho Panzersays:
October 11, 2022 at 10:29 am
I see that this comment was reported.
How do you know?
Unless it was you.
Commenters can only see their own reports.”
Correct.
Understanding the Roots of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
Gave you an uptick there for your patriotism and capacity to endure, Bespoke.
I feel the same way.
I don’t see anything wrong with what BBS has said above.
It is her right to point out things she sees in what I say.
And for some of it she is quite right.
She is not being uncivil.
Same, but iv seen others. The code isn’t perfect as you’ve demonstrated.
Single file unless passing should be it.
Infuriating to be stuck behind two fat solicitors on bikes discussing their share portfolios at 15 kmh.
Yep. There are cheap, lightweight, short range FM headsets if they want a conversation. Also MUST use bike lane if one is available.
I really liked the TOP Gear episode where the boys wrote bike safety ads for the BBC. Take away line was “buy a car”.
Don’t play ya games with me Elizabeth. Save it for the needy.
My lying eyes showed it as I reported.
Do you think I made it up?
Lizzie, has Beta packed your false eyelashes yet?
so Asians?
This seems to be a Victorian quirk / idiocy / oversight.
In NSW, you are allowed to cross the double lines when passing cyclists.
eg: NSW legislation: https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2014-0758#sec.144-2
Old School Conservative says:
October 11, 2022 at 10:12 am
Training is one of the measures that is being looked at
Shades of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, 1962.
From that little acorn of 30 advisors, 1962.
OSC,
was trained by a number of the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam WOs -amazing guys – some could vocalise situations, other by example
In good ol’ woke St Albans, a dormitory city just outside the M25, the local government have banned cars from overtaking bicycles – period.
The local anti-everythings use the stupidity to cause traffic chaos every morning as workers attempt to get to the railway station or to work.
Coming to a Green/Labor city near us.
Read carefully Johanna.
If you report it, it will show on your screen as reported, but no-one else’s.
I will demo it for you.
Reporting test.
BS!
If GPS gets taken out the world’s financial system grinds to a halt. GPS provides a position, velocity and timing solution. The timing bit is used by the financial system.
If I was doing that, I’d be using Galileo, Beidou and Glonass as backups.
Taking out the opposition’s navigation aids isn’t always smart. I read once where a Brit military bloke in WW2 was asked why they didn’t take out a German navigation transmitter on the shore of the Bay of Biscay, which was being used by their anti shipping aircraft. He said “yeah, we can easily do it, but we like using it ourselves.”.
Taking out all four systems plus IRNSS plus the Geostationary/Geosynchronous satellites is a big ask. Well over 100 satellites. Taking out the 3 GPS ground control stations is easier. I’m sure the Russians and Chinese havenukes aimed at them.
Currently I have 58 GNSS sats in view above 5 degree horizon mask angle. Ten each GPS, Galileo, Glonass and 24 Beidou.
Funny watching monty clutch his pearls suddenly because I retweeted an interesting thread on the war and its possible paths. The memeing, postage stamps, selfies, and self-congratulation following the terror strike on the Kerch Bridge certainly evaporated pretty quickly. But as to his claims that striking the energy infrastructure of UKR is a war crime (instructive that striking the energy infrastructure of GER and RUS isn’t), if so, US/NATO were guilty of this in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yugoslavia. The strikes yesterday also targeted the SBU, telecommunications, among other things. Again, US/ NATO targeted these like institutions in each of the above.
As for Kesslerization, I don’t want to see that occur at all but it is certainly a point on the escalatory knob that you were unware of only this weekend when you couldn’t imagine where RUS could go between the SMO as it stood then and nuclear weapons.
Let’s not worry about cyclists. If Darwin was anywhere near right then rsol cyclists will cease to exist within a generation or two.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
October 11, 2022 at 10:03 am
As we departed New Zealand all passengers passing through security saw a bin offering FREE!! Covid test kits. I took two because I can never resist a freebie; Hairy observed askance. They weren’t disappearing like hot cakes. Obviously New Zealand was feeling rather oversupplied with these, most likely going out of date soon, as with the various Covid medications Australia has purchased in huge amounts.
My wife was walking through the local mall 2 0r 3 weeks ago and was handed 10 RAT test packs. The government was giving them to everyone who wanted them. We were given 20 kits as close contacts a few months ago so now have 22 kits left. Obviously McClown purchased too many.
If London is as I remember it, there are Tour de France-like pelotons screaming from red traffic light to red light during peak hour traffic. Funny to watch.
Governments censoring voices by working in conjunction with social media giants (Ramsey Ramerman)
DarkHorse Podcast Clips
Johanna.
I reported my own comment.
Go back to that original 10:58 comment.
What do you see?
:Roll eyes:.
It’s their homeland.
I didn’t know that!
Nonetheless, seems bizarre.
Double white lines are supposedly put in places because it’s too dangerous to cross onto the other side (lack of vision, blind corners, etc), but apparently not if the reason is cyclists. The road rule version of hypocrisy.
Personally, I’m not fussed what the rule says (double white lines, or 1.5 metres), I can the law with the best of them. It’s about practical safety for myself, my family, the cyclist, and any family in the oncoming traffic. Cyclists tend to ride on roads that are incompatible for mixed traffic, because picturesque, and I say this as a cyclist.
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Well sure db, I was not aware that Russia had plans in place to rain kinetic missiles down from space after spreading space junk to bring down satellites. It’s still merely a theory at this point anyway, much easier said than done.
If all your options between the level of escalation now and where you want it to be are war crimes, you’re probably losing the war.
Shoppers go wild for handy IKEA gadget perfect for watching movies while travelling – and it’ll only set you back $1
My phone outer casing has a built-in pop out stand on the back ……
Jim Chalmers R.U.O.K?
What a sad depressing fukn treasurer he is.
Programmed by the WEF and IMF, no doubt.
America being America:
Texas Pete hot sauce faces lawsuit for being made in North Carolina (10 Oct)
On the other hand the renown Carolina Reaper chili pepper comes from the Carolinas, so a true aficionado of such things wouldn’t mind that hot sauce came from Nth Carolina not Texas. And anyway why if he’s so unhappy is he suing in Los Angeles?
OTOH maybe he’s just a guy who likes paying a million bucks in legal fees for a bottle of hot sauce.
It should be underlined how much of a coward Putin is. He is getting his arse kicked by the Ukraine army, so he turns his guns onto civilian targets who don’t fight back. A natural extension of the current political era where small men try to bully their way past their own shortcomings.
The Kindle version of that book sells for 0.99c on the US site but $5.99 here.
Go figure.
That’s Dr. Jim Chalmers…for a doctor in Paul Keating he is.
Keep drinking the kool Aid.
BoN
I’m not as critical of the litigious US.
They have what we don’t.
The ability to sue departments for negligence.
Since they’ve pretty much telegraphed that Christians will potentially be fined US$2500 for being Christian I think the exodus will become rather large. PayPal has been an excellent way to support OS Christian charities. They’ve gotten a lot of fees from me. I’m thinking about making for the exit too.
The Refusers “Dementia” – Official music video
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-10-10/dimentia-you-know-thing
Just sayin’ to alpha male that I should not reinvent the to-take list every time we travel but keep it my computer to print out and adjust as necessary. There are no false eyelashes on what I’ve remembered for the list so far; haven’t actually worn them since the sixties when I have some photos of of me with humdingers. Just like everyone else back then. A friend of mine has had those fake ‘woven in’ eyelashes, but they do tend to drop hairs into the soup. I’ve just had my eyebrows re-tattoo’d so the eyes are well catered for now with just my usual make-up purse.
You’re looking well, people say, not realising what the renewed eyebrows can do. I have become more interested in TV presenter’s eyebrows since having had mine re-done. They’ve all had them done, including a lot of the men, either with tattoo or with specialist plucking and colouring. Rita Panahi keeps hers arched and trim. Mine are dark and thicker, because my natural eyebrows are still dark, although more sparse than they once were, so the tatooing helps these days. You don’t really notice worked eyebrows until you start to look; and then they are everywhere! I am not giving you Nana eyebrows, declared my tattooist. Some older ladies are apparently very shy of a little drama.
Should also say that our flight is early tomorrow morning, so we are staying at an airport hotel tonight to avoid morning traffic in Sydney’s East. Attapuss is getting perturbed as he sees the suitcases on the bed once more; poor little fellow has had a lot of separation anxiety over our last trip. He’ll try to crawl under the pillows on our bed to hide, I suspect in the vain hope that we’ll pack him in too.
He has not warmed to my catsitter son. Apart from Hairy, whom he tolerates, he hates men. 🙂
It’s a rare example of allowing sensible discretion for the driver.
Double lines are designed around relative speeds of cars (100 kmh vehicle passing 90-95 kmh vehicle), where a lot of time and distance gets chewed up on the wrong side of the road.
It is far safer for cars to zip around a cyclist or tractor than have traffic bank up at 20kmh on a winding, undulating road.
I am frequently pass tractor obstructions over double lines (presumably Farmer Gez).
I check my mirror for suss looking Beemers which might be Plod.
In most cases you could pass a convoy of five-six of them in a few seconds with zero risk.
Monty appears to be both projecting and signaling hes in an unsafe space.
Does anyone want to give him a hug?
A friend of mine emailed recently that Ita has had a terrible eyebrow job done.
I haven’t managed to see her on TV or in the flesh so I can’t comment. It’s a big step and one where you have to have supreme confidence in the operator, so I hope my friend was exaggerating – although maybe in Ita’s case its karma for her laxness at the ABC.
Neither can anybody else find one.
Razeysays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:53 am
m0ntysays:
October 11, 2022 at 8:49 am
Online Christian soldiers who have been fluffing Putin now have to reckon with the stark realisation that they really are the baddies.
Nope. Anyone the USA supports is automatically the baddie by definition.
That used to be the leftist philosophy, but now, as with so many other things, the left has swapped sides. While Creepy Joe is in the White House, whatever the US says is by definition “Correct”.
right – So when there’s an obstruction on a road with double lines, you think everyone should just sit diligently behind it until its cleared.
There’s an exemption for that too, if you didn’t know.
Do you have to Indian to cook Indian food?
The battle lines are drawn for civil war. Many of us simply will not accept the Woke Left ideology.
Rosie, how many overseas workers have you sponsored?
The process is tedious, expensive, time consuming, frustrating, and very very very tied to the one candidate you choose.
He either sticks with this particular person, or starts the entire process all over again.
When you reach the point where a candidate is chosen, it can be another 18 months before they’re approved.
(You never know how long, time frames I know of have ranged from a fortnight to Five years)
duncanm
He’s a smart bloke, and I quite like him, but his politics are surprisingly rigid and way out there – he will not countenance any discussion on alternate views.
All leftists are completely rigid, and follow the “narrative” without question, even when it reverses course. See m0nty-fa, Dick ‘Ed Case, and Homer P over at CL’s blog for examples.
Jim Chalmers ” the global economy is a dangerous place”
That’s a WTF moment.
LOL. What an unfortunate name.
https://twitter.com/RebelNews_AU/status/1579614111360421889?cxt=HHwWgsCo3ciq9esrAAAA
Whatever happened to Timothy Leary & “Question Authority”?
Oh, that’s right…the Prog Left became the Establishment. Man.
No show.
Brittany Higgins unavailable for Bruce Lehrmann rape trial in Canberra for second consecutive day (11 Oct)
Still ashing her hair:
Brittany Higgins again unavailable in ACT Supreme Court on sixth day of Bruce Lehrmann’s trial.
This is an utter disgrace.
Led by low rent idiots.
‘Team Australia or team greed?’ Husic tells gas companies to cut prices
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/team-australia-or-team-greed-husic-tells-gas-companies-to-cut-prices-20221009-p5bocd.html
Note to Mr ‘sic.
Your governments State and Federal, are restricting the volumes of supply necessary for the lower prices.
Yours sincerely: not a Mong.
Eg:
heres a chance to sink the slipper into the previous iteration of the uniparty government, and assist with long term supply.
Reverse this.
Federal government rejects permit renewal for oil and gas drilling off NSW coast
The federal government has refused a controversial oil and gas drilling permit off the NSW coast, saying a “methodical process” was undertaken before arriving at a decision.
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Yes, yes, truck bombs are not terror.
We spent a night there on our recent UK trip, Bons, in the C14th hotel opposite the main Abbey entrance, the run-down one with C14th plumbing to match and unwarranted tabs on itself, tho’ the bar area is good for a drink. I left behind a favorite warmie poncho in the room, black with silver threads. Won’t ask you to pick it up for me. 🙂
If you walk down from the Abbey Church you come to a Very Old Pub where you can imagine Uhtred might have imbibed with Finan and his friends. That’s a bit run down too. You’ve no doubt discovered that there is not much left of old Verulamium but the museum is worth a look. 🙂
m0ntysays:
October 11, 2022 at 9:32 am
Anyone the USA supports is automatically the baddie by definition.
Has this site turned into 1990s-era Green Left Weekly?
Why not? All the (fascist) leftists here have become raging neo-cons.
I have been thinking about this phenomenon of right and left supposedly changing sides when it comes to US military adventures.
My conclusion is that the right is being consistent in supporting the bully, while the left consistently supports the less powerful. Thus in the Bush era the right was all in for both Gulf Wars, even when in the remake it was America being a bully with little to no moral right to be waging war. Now the Trumpists support Putin because they think he is on their side culturally, and they love it when he bullies Ukraine.
The left is now on the side of the US military-industrial complex, which makes for some strange positions by pundits with long histories. But the US are supplying arms for a defensive war, making it justifiable in the eyes of those who don’t want to be ruled by despots.
If the winter is bad for Europe and they start talking about sending NATO troops in, the dynamic might change.
He could teach an Aussie to cook Indian in that time.
Although I hear cooks/chefs can just about name their hourly rate atm.
Perhaps that’s the problem?
Yes.
Biden
Dan Andrews
David Elliot
Michael Gunner
278th! You bastards even ate the halftime oranges.
Good morning all.
You’re confusing “the right” with “neo-cons.”
They aren’t necessarily the same.
There are plenty of “neo-cons” (in quotes because there’s not much that is conservative about them) in Biden’s State Department.
Whereas “the right” in the US are patriotic but also in increasingly isolationist.
It’s simpler than that. What ever the Woke Left supports shall not be supported by the right and vise versa. The center is getting smaller, you will eventually need to pick a side.
Way to go Monts! Redefine reality until it has a framework you like. How does that apply to Gukurahundi?
Thus in the Bush era the right was all in for both Gulf Wars, even when in the remake it was America being a bully with little to no moral right to be waging war.
So those refugees were all faking it then and should never have been admitted to Australia?
The marsh Arabs had it coming?
etc. etc…
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/IraqCoverage/story?id=2761722&page=1
The exact number of deaths attributable to Saddam Hussein may never be known, but estimates range as high as half a million. There is evidence of more than 250 mass graves dating to his rule.
Following is a list of other crimes Saddam is accused of. The most notorious is his genocidal campaign against the Kurds in the north. The trial for those murders, and for others, will now continue with the remaining defendants.
…
You greasy little Quisling.
Viewing this conflict through the lens of the culture wars is simplistic.
There are several layers to it.
Neither of us , nor Anatoly, is aware of any plans, the point is that you weren’t aware of the possibility. The debris would did little to no damage on the ground, the purpose is to degrade satellite communications of the military.
These aren’t war crimes, they involve targets of the sort that the US struck on Day 1 of operations in Yugoslavia and Iraq, not 8 months in.
This is just cope and seethe. Operations on the front have stalled, the window of opportunity for UKR is narrowing, there have even been tactical advances in favour of RUS, but we are supposed to pretend that yesterday’s operation was a sign of desperation and that the tank is nearly empty.
I supported both back then so you have a point monty.
You live an learn from mistakes.
Iv also avoid being suckered into bind political oppositionism.
Give it away mUnty. You’re no good at it.
Monty is terribly confused because righties extend the whole spectrum from supporting Russia to supporting Ukraine. Lefties would never have such diverse opinions. As everyone here knows I’m not a fan of either side, so that makes me a centrist or something.
So the reason if any for her absence isn’t made public, but while the trial continues, we aren’t allowed to know what is being discussed or admitted? Seems very advantageous to Higgins.
EDITORIALS – The US must warn Ukraine over assassination antics
by Washington Examiner
Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia is important for America. Were he able to conquer and absorb Ukraine into his ideal of a greater Russian superstate, Vladimir Putin would strike a great blow against the post-1945 understanding that underpins the democratic rule of law. As he contemplates his own war of conquest against Taiwan, Chinese leader Xi Jinping must see that the United States retains its traditional world leadership role and will not allow Putin’s aggression to triumph.
Still, the foreign policy interests of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and those of the U.S. do not entirely intersect. As Ukraine continues to make very welcome progress toward the dislocation of Russian forces from its territory, the Biden administration and Congress must make clear to Zelensky that he cannot expect a perpetual blank check.
That said, the Biden administration should not allow Ukraine to draw the U.S. into an association, however indirect, with terrorism against the Russian state. Such actions do not serve American interests nor comport with the American way of war. Indeed, they threaten U.S. national security.
In turn, Biden should remind Zelensky that America’s overwhelming support for his government and people comes with some basic expectations. One is that Ukraine cease plotting any actions, such as Dugina’s assassination, that undermine allies’ trust while offering no military or strategic benefit.
Another is that Ukraine keep the CIA station in Kyiv fully apprised of any plot that might risk dramatic escalation with Russia. The third is that, while Zelensky has every right to rule out talks with Russia until Putin has left power, America’s policy in Ukraine isn’t static. If Russia was prepared, for example, to withdraw its forces from the Ukrainian mainland and cease military operations, but Zelensky refused to negotiate with Putin, the U.S. would have no obligation to continue its scaled-up support.
The U.S. objective is Ukraine’s assurance of democratic sovereignty and territorial integrity — not necessarily whatever Zelensky feels like doing in any one moment.
The U.S. signed up for the liberation of Kherson and Kharkiv. It did not sign up to be associated with car bombs and civilian killings in Moscow.
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mine yesterday no money in the account and closed immediately
Yep. You can’t help thinking Brittany is getting a rails run. Not a good look.
m0ntysays:
October 11, 2022 at 11:30 am
It should be underlined how much of a coward Putin is. He is getting his arse kicked by the Ukraine army, so he turns his guns onto civilian targets who don’t fight back. A natural extension of the current political era where small men try to bully their way past their own shortcomings.
m0nty-fa
How are you going with developing your understanding of explosion dynamics and photo interpretation? Or have you “moved on” from the Kerch Bridge attack? Not going to “circle back”?
And speaking of “small men try[ing] to bully their way past their own shortcomings”, have you enlisted for the war against Wussian imperialism yet?
Marles, not the brightest of bulbs at the best of times, let something slip in his presser on sending Australian army advisers to Ukraine. He said he was at the Ukrainian embassy when the news came in. What would the Australian Defence Minister be doing at the Ukrainian embassy if not discussing further military aid, such as specialised training? In which case he’s using the Russian missile strikes on civilian targets and the understable reaction against them in Australia as cover for something that was already under discussion and possibly decided.
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Terrorism is designed to terrorise civilian populations for a political outcome. Hijackings civilian airliners, bombs at civilian sites, targeting civilians.
A main supply route for your enemy’s army is a legitimate target.
It is not terrorism, whatever the method of delivery, and I suspect you full bloody well know that, otherwise you would have to condemn most of the special forces operations we celebrate such as Q ships, Z force, etc etc etc.
Why are liberals less happy than conservatives?
Ambivalence about marriage and the family is bad for mental health
Liberals, especially liberal women, are significantly less likely to be happy with their lives and satisfied with their “mental health”, compared to their conservative peers aged from 18-55.
This is the big takeaway from the 2022 American Family Survey, a striking new poll from YouGov and the Deseret News, which found that liberals are about 15 percentage points less likely to be “completely satisfied” with their lives.
Why are liberals less happy than conservatives?
Ambivalence about marriage and the family is bad for mental health
Liberals, especially liberal women, are significantly less likely to be happy with their lives and satisfied with their “mental health”, compared to their conservative peers aged from 18-55.
This is the big takeaway from the 2022 American Family Survey, a striking new poll from YouGov and the Deseret News, which found that liberals are about 15 percentage points less likely to be “completely satisfied” with their lives.
Two family factors have a lot to do with this ideological gap: marital status and family satisfaction. Given that conservatives aged 18-55 are about 20 percentage points more likely to be married, as well as 18 percentage points more likely to be satisfied with their families, the lesson here is obvious. Marriage and family are strongly linked to happiness and to personal mental health in particular.
Spot of spacechooking for Cats with an interest in military history. I’m listening to Paul Ham’s book on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Ham repeats the old claim that Japan was already defeated by the blockade, and the bombs were only dropped to show Joe Stalin who was boss, but he makes the claim that the German atomic bomb programme suffered from the problem that Hitler had no idea of the power of atomic weapons. Ham also claims that German cities were off the target list for atomic attack as early as May, 1943. First time I’d heard that one…
I’m amused that the NSW Government has found that NSW drivers take notice of road signs.
NSW government succumbs to public pressure as the state backflips on warning signs for mobile speed cameras (Sky News, 11 Oct)
There you go, road signs do work. I wonder if there’s an election coming soon?
Oops missed duplicate – Mea Culpa
All this talk of overseas trips is going to send sometime pub singers across the nation into conniptions.
https://www.amazon.com.au/events/bigsmilesale/2
Theoretically.
Two chicanes in that:
a) the time frame is not known, approval may never be granted, or approval may be granted tomorrow.
b) Words have meanings, “skilled” means someone who is job ready & skilled up. Assuming for discussion’s sake that an Aussie can be found who’s prepared to learn to cook Indian, an overworked small business operator who hasn’t the time to see their own family, certainly does not have the time to devote to bringing a greenhorn from ab initio standard through to highly skilled.
Unless a job is able to produce higher dollar yield than the hourly rate, that job is uneconomic.
This is the problem for many small businesses in the current labour market.
& why many consumers are finding after a day of snow-skiing, travelling, whatever, their only dining option is to have had the forethought to have purchased cup noodles the day before & boil them with the jug in their motel room.
You could run this argument had they not used a civilian truck packed with explosives but rather conventional weapons.
adds to the depression no doubt by looking the mirror each morning and seeing Gomer Pyle
You can’t help thinking Brittany is getting a rails run.
What should happen – put in extremely simple terms – is that if the prosecution (ie, Team Brih-nee) cannot or will not provide sufficient evidence to the requisite standard of proof, then Lehrmann walks.
Should.
Have you got him hiding in your basement stuffing his face wit Krispy Kremes throughout the greatest fake pandemic ever? Oh no that was you.
Yes. Unless she is suffering a genuine and serious medical situation it is simply an attempt to garner sympathy combined with avoidance behaviour. It could be tantamount to contempt of Court.
We should note that this situation has proved traumatic for both participants. The young accused 24 year old had to be hospitalised to recover in the more immediate aftermath.
She is not the lone sufferer here.
Blockquotes!
Apologies. I was regurgitating some chockies just then.
Is it Richard Marles, or one of the other federal ALP roosters, who is part Ukrainian?
I saw a side by side of be-spectacled Albo and Captain ‘Wally’ Binghamton of McHale’s Navy fame — the likeness is uncanny — I can’t find it to put it up but very good
Bruce of Newcastle says:
October 11, 2022 at 12:24 pm
I’m amused that the NSW Government has found that NSW drivers take notice of road signs.
NSW government succumbs to public pressure as the state backflips on warning signs for mobile speed cameras (Sky News, 11 Oct)
Had Mobile Speed Camera on the Wakehurst Parkway on last Friday 1300 on way back from Tuncurry, – lots of oncoming drivers flashing lights before as warning, and was running Radar Bot App on Samsung Note 8 and warned about that mobile camera as well
https://radarbot.en.uptodown.com/android
Brmmm Brmmmm Brmmmm.
Hizzoner Salvatore J, to the court: “You pair of bastards in Captain Cook wigs; My chambers, NOW!
You: Get your bloody witness into my courtroom! She’s the accuser & she has to make her case, which ain’t gonna be happening when she’s hiding under the bed at home. When we come back from lunch she’s either in here ready to take the stand, or I’ll discharge the defendant. See y’all @2pm when it’ll be one way or t’other”
I’ve read Paul Ham’s book on Vietnam.
It’s mostly historical but with a big dose of the author’s opinion on the reasoning behind decisions made or the character of the individuals involved.
He makes his case but others could validly disagree with his assertions on timelines and motivations.
Or pour a pre-bought take away curry into the jug to reheat.
I hear that’s a thing!
Hotel room electric jugs get used for all sorts of things.
A routine part of the full clean after a guest checkout is we put secret stuff in them & boil them, so they’re clean & hygienic ready for the next pig to challenge us with anything from gluey casserole to mum’s ashes.
You’ve got me…I think one set of Matthew Guy’s grandparents were Ukrainian.
But he’s on the other wing of the Uniparty.
Pity they don’t have hanging in this country – I’d like to see you handing down a death sentence!
Ham teaches narrative history at Sciences Po in France and has a Master’s degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) degree from Charles Sturt University and attended The Scots College, Sydney. In his spare time, Ham organises an annual poetry recital, The Big Fat Poetry Pig-Out, the proceeds of which go to selected charities. Taken from Wiki. I think the narrative history is all I need to know about him.
Any good electric jug recipes out there?
We could have a rival for the thermomix.
So another bandanna guy.
Wish I’d said that.
Zulu, that’s exactly the speech that came to my mind.
Just watched your vid, Dover, and it is heartbreaking.
I’d say the young woman still has some sort of ambivalence regarding what she did to herself or what was done to her. Wearing female clothes again would be a start to properly de-transition, and so would using a wig. A lot of laser hair removal could also happen – between the eyebrows for a start and elsewhere on the chin and body (note the very hairy arms, so sad, such a lot of testosterone must have been administered). Perhaps too this young woman had pre-existing polycystic ovarian syndrome, which might lead a young girl to wonder (quite wrongly) if she was more hairy than most women because she was ‘turning’ into a man already, when the issue was a correctable hormonal imbalance.
A proper medical overhaul should be her next step. Rebalancing of hormones, surgery to reopen parts of her larynx (difficult but possible), and an insulin-resistance work up.
She should be offered as much support as possible to psychologically and medically cope.
Those were war crimes too, db. Of course no one will ever be put up on charges, just like how Colin Powell and the Bushies were never charged over going to war based on outright lies.
The new Russian head of the Ukraine operation has a long history of war crimes. He is just doing what Putin wants him to do. That is all he knows.
The lass still has a pretty and heart shaped female face.
You go for it girl. She can be a girl again.
Perhaps somebody can post the article but Herald Sun and Courier Mail running fake news again.
Article is about new research from “independent” scientists about origin of Covid. Main info is from a Melbourne Dr connected to Docherty institute. However says part of team of 12 international scientists. Their research shows not from the lab.
A simple search on the group of 12 shows Peter Dazack and two others (one is Aussie Hume Field) from Eco Health Services are named as conducting the research.
That would be the Dazack who funded the gain of function research.
The Melbourne Dr Anderson previously worked in the Wuhan lab so he would be totally independent like Dazack!
Done!
I have now deleted by a PayPal account.
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I’m not “running an argument”.
Q ships were made up as civilian freighters.
If you condemn a bomb concealed what appears to be a civilian truck you also condemn a gunboat concealed in as a freighter.
Science news.
Why you should train your cat, and how to do it (Phys.org, 10 Oct)
What follows is a long article of totally inane rubbish. I’m amazed at what passes for science these days. Anyway everyone knows that you don’t train a cat, the cat trains you.
We all lived through the era of the PLO and the IRA.
Don’t come the innocent and act like no one knows what terrorism is and what it looks like.
Let’s guess. Almost certainly an anxiety attack following her previous appearance and the defence’s questions.
They’re taking great care with her clothing. Feminine, understated elegance, attractive in a quiet way, very trad. The whole effect somewhat spoiled by the two Bull dykes flanking her as she moves through the snappers outside the entrance.
m0ntysays:
October 11, 2022 at 11:59 am
I have been thinking about this phenomenon of right and left supposedly changing sides when it comes to US military adventures.
My conclusion is that the right is being consistent in supporting the bully, while the left consistently supports the less powerful.
An entirely self-justifying conclusion who has now become a tool of the establishment. And also not particularly accurate.
You can with shovel just like moles and armadillo’s.
Is it possible that, after last week, there is a feeling that other prosecution witnesses might be a little less sympathetic to Britnah’s cause than they might have been previously?
This way, Britnah can bat last and get a bead on what has gone before, and avoid trip ups.
mole
So those refugees were all faking it then and should never have been admitted to Australia?
The marsh Arabs had it coming?
The marsh Arabs particularly deserved those mustard gas attacks?
As Our Brinny gathers her composure, off stage left, it’s possibly worth remembering the former PM’s contribution to the miscarriage of justice:
I don’t think he meant to imply “nightmare” = ‘monumental hangover’. But perhaps the jury might take it that way.
The US didn’t go to war for the marsh Arabs.
What rhymes with “Nazi Pass”?
Apart from “Mardi Gras”.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
October 11, 2022 at 12:12 pm
Monty is terribly confused because righties extend the whole spectrum from supporting Russia to supporting Ukraine. Lefties would never have such diverse opinions. As everyone here knows I’m not a fan of either side, so that makes me a centrist or something.
We centrists need to stick together.
Regarding Britnee’s (entirely unsurprising) no show at the kangaroo court, has any reason been given? Or is everybody just assuming she’s pretending to be “ill”?
Reminds me of scientific observations made by having my own children.
When I was newly married the tilty-headed University women had a ‘war toy buyback’ outside the Subiaco Library.
The popular claim at the time was that boys became boys because when they begged for pink clothes, dolls and lipstick they were given fighter jets and green soldiers. And girls who begged for AR15s and Tonka bulldozers were given baby dolls, Barbies and Paris Hilton toy sunglasses.
Yeah right.
From Day 1, the offspring demand what makes them happy and we are hardwired to deliver. And that accounts for 90% of what we complain about in the most recent two generations.
Arky
Q ships were made up as civilian freighters.
If you condemn a bomb concealed what appears to be a civilian truck you also condemn a gunboat concealed in as a freighter.
Q ships were required by the laws of war to show their true colours before opening fire. (See also the Sydney/Kormoran battle). Did the truck carrying the bomb (I note that m0nty-fa has given up on the “frogmen” story) display a Ukrainian flag before the bomb went off?
If you want to argue that concealing a bomb in civilian transport with or without the driver of the cargo’s knowledge is legitimate or at the very least not terroristic because Q-ships then fine.
Sore Arse.
100% this !!!
WTF is going on. Why hasn’t the judge dismissed the case yet ?
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Which they did all in one movement as they dropped the disguise and opened fire in a split second.
Maybe the truck did that too. You wouldn’t know because both the truck and the Q boats gave the enemy no chance at all once oil range.
In
Bespoke – just had a fine time with door cockie about 20 minutes ago.
Door cockie has worked out that I will hear him go *thump* onto my screen door, whereupon I will come out and give him Coles bread. Which he likes.
I did that. Opened the door a little and reached around and handed him a quarter slice of bread.
This became an intense philosophical question. He could hold onto the bread by his beak, but to hang onto my screen door he needed both feet. So he couldn’t hold onto both the bread to eat it and the screen door at the same time. The inevitable happened – he dropped his piece of bread onto my doormat.
I then did the same again and handed him another quarter slice. Much cogitation then followed, but he still didn’t have enough appendages to hold on, hold the bread and eat it all at the same time. Dropped bread onto doormat next to the other piece of bread.
Then I opens the door and edge out, cockie still hanging on, looking sheepish. Here’s another piece of bread. This time he ate it with me holding it up. I having supplied the extra appendage needed. But he still wanted to be in control, so extracted it from my fingers. Shortly later that piece of bread was also on doormat.
I know he’s a he because his mate was in the camellia – she has a dirty red-brown front because she’s the one doing nesting duty in gum tree somewhere. She accepted a piece of bread also.
Meanwhile door cockie is getting embarrassed, and to justify his place on the screen door he climbs up and down and side to side on it. Every so often he turns to look to see if I am watching. It’s funny, he’s like a small child. Finally I go back and I hold out my arm so he can climb off the screen onto it. No, hairy human arm is icky. He launches off up into the jacaranda. I am not sure he’s trained me or I have trained him, so I’ll call it a 1:1 draw.
Ducked in for a covfefe to keep me awake in the tractor going round and round, opened an ear to ABC radio. Some soyboy ex sportsperson yipping about how musical theatre allowed him to be his authentic self, now he wants the kids to come on in-
Quotes 99% accurate:
“musical theatre is full of creative and vulnerable people”
“it teaches kids thst there’s no such thing as binary truth”
“It’s creating a more authentic masculinity because it’s shining from all over the spectrum”
Tell me that aint grooming.
Spring doesn’t seem to have sprung – though everything is the garden is growing like topsy
Like wild oats, barley grass and corkscrew geranium setting seed at a million miles an hour.
A good defence barrister will want the last impression of Britnah to be unfavourable so will save a killer blow until last. He might skate over this point early on and leave it, which is designed to unsettle the witness. I suspect Team Britnah has got a whiff of what zingers the defence have up their sleeve, and are desparate to shut down further “distressing questioning”.
Despite legal restrictions, anyone who thinks the DPP’s office isn’t in contact with Britnah is dreaming.
In fact, this break in evidence is probably being used as an excuse to not comply with that restriction.
Z Force likewise on occasion used captured civilian vessels in order to conduct attacks.
‘Terror’ attacks, ie attacks made with the assistance of a disguise are just another form of attack, particularly when in a conventional war. The Chermans did it and caused quite a bit of damage in the Battle of the Bulge’s early stages. It is impossible to think that the Poms et al didn’t launch some of their commando attacks in France and Norway singing ‘Rule Brittania’ as they did so.
Without being an expert on maritime law*, I would suggest that the practice of running down the fake flag and putting the real one up before you open fire is a convention rather than a necessity.
Because we haven’t (thankfully) been neck-deep in a war of this type for eighty years doesn’t necessarily mean we must revert to Napoleonic tactics, let along further back when battles were arranged by both belligerents to start at set times. You use what you’ve got where you think it will do the most damage.
*Snork.
Gracias!
Oh, there’s another one.
This tune is coming together.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-11/covid-19-transmission-human-animal-transmission/101519434
My summary: Need more research funding, more control, greater emergency controls across world and pandemics will get worse because of climate change. What a load of tosh.
Tintarella di Lunasays:
October 11, 2022 at 1:41 pm
Spring doesn’t seem to have sprung – though everything is the garden is growing like topsy
In our case weeds – Just said goodbye to my Australian/Greek Lawn Mower of over 20 years – Big Hug and 1 Bottle Penfolds Bin 407 2000 & 1 Bottle MAJELLA Shiraz, Coonawarra 1999 for early Xmas Red Gift to remember me by, as have done Xmas in July Red and Xmas Gift Red every year over the 20 years.
Sold his run here and bought run Kiama, moving with wife down the Coast
Today’s Worst Australian:
Maths evolution
Like Gary Reynolds (Letters, 8/10) I too believe that mathematics is the perfect language. So much so that I have spent my entire working life — 53 years and still counting — teaching the subject to high school students.
I suspect that Mr Reynolds may have had some dodgy mathematics teachers if he was ever taught that 3+2×6 was equal to 30. To my knowledge, the BIMDAS rule has always been in place.
What has changed over the years is what we expect of our mathematics students.
Teaching maths In 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
Teaching maths In 1970: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
Teaching maths In 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
Teaching maths In 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? (There are no wrong answers).
Greg Williams, Bicton
https://edition.thewest.com.au/html5/Default.aspx
link
Lol Gez. Google is your friend.
There is an entire genre of websites on “How to cook in your hotel room”
Recipes can be quite imaginative & cooking usually revolves around using the electric jug & the clothes iron.
You’d have to be a hard-core road warrior whose boss/client ain’t paying the tucker bill, or who can’t get room service.
Or in a country where you’re not game to touch the local tucker.
FBI: Over Twice as Many Killed with Knives, Cutting Instruments than Rifles
The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) shows over twice as many people were killed with knives and other cutting tools than were killed with rifles in 2021.
The UCR shows that 447 people were killed with rifles, while 1,035 people were killed “with knives or cutting instruments.”
The elevated number of stabbing deaths over homicides by rifle fluctuates by degree year to year, with knives and other cutting tools being used in homicides far more than rifles in recent years especially.
For example, Breitbart News noted that the UCR also showed more than 3.5 times more people were killed with “knives or cutting instruments” in 2020 than were killed with rifles. The UCR showed that 454 people were shot and killed with rifles in 2020 while 1,732 were stabbed or hacked to death with “knives or cutting instruments.”
In 2019, the FBI’s UCR indicated over four times as many people were stabbed to death in 2019 than were killed with rifles of all kinds. The figures for 2019 were 375 killed with rifles versus 1,525 stabbed to death with “knives or cutting instruments.”
On September 30, 2019, Breitbart News reported that the FBI’s UCR for 2018 showed a similar finding, with over five times as many people stabbed to death with “knives or cutting instruments” than were killed with rifles.
They gave quite a good impression of not being defeated by the blockade when they failed to surrender after the fire bombing of Tokyo and dozens of other cities. Not to mention waiting for a week after the second atom bomb before throwing in the towel!
Donald Trump: Bring Back Columbus Day!
Columbus Day is a national holiday celebrated in the United States, along with other continental nations, to commemorate the day Italian explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas on October 12, 1492. The voyage would be followed by three others in 1493, 1498, and 1502.
Some far-left radicals have since tried to cancel Columbus Day in the United States by replacing it with “Indigenous Peoples Day.” “Indigenous Peoples Day” was proclaimed a holiday by the Biden administration in 2021.
From the Comments
In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
and in 2022, we have a President without a clue!
“Big boy’s game, big boy’s rules?”
Aussie dollar looks gonsky. 62.70!
Mid to low 50’s is now a possibility I reckon.
Everything is in the public interest. Everything. The public have a right to know everything, and the journos are only doing their job fearlessly reporting everything. They’re the real heroes here.
Until they’re not (the Hun):
Disappointed Tracey is disappointed. Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
Mr. Paul Goes to Washington
The Kentucky senator presses on with his fight against the federal government’s Covid response.
For all its virtues, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington has never been considered a realistic film. Critics complain that Frank Capra’s movie is at once too corny and too cynical: one brave senator singlehandedly defending the public good against the thoroughly corrupt political and journalistic establishments. But we’ve been seeing a version of that plot for two years now, thanks to Senator Rand Paul’s lonely battle against Anthony Fauci, the Centers for Disease Control, and the mainstream press.
Like the politicians meekly following orders in the film, most of Washington has bowed to the CDC’s Covid edicts, but Paul has never tired of challenging the agency’s futile policies and dubious science. Like the movie’s media baron Jim Taylor, Fauci’s cheerleaders in the press and on social-media platforms have shamelessly pushed the party line—and worked hard to squelch opposing views, though they prefer to use “fact-checkers” rather than the street thugs whom Taylor hired to silence a rival newspaper. Journalists have smeared Paul, and censors have removed some of his scientifically accurate heresies from YouTube, but no one can stop him from regularly berating Fauci at the televised hearings of the Senate health committee.
The U.S. has also been an outlier in pushing vaccines on kids. The European Union, unlike the U.S., has not yet approved Covid vaccines for children under five. Except for Austria, European countries have not followed the U.S. in recommending a booster shot for healthy children under 12, and most don’t recommend it for healthy adolescents, either. Some countries have decided to stop even offering vaccines or boosters to young people outside the high-risk groups: the United Kingdom’s exclusion applies to children under 11, while Sweden’s extends up to age 18, and Denmark’s goes all the way up to age 50.
Young people have never been at serious risk from Covid, and now that most of them have natural immunity, there’s less reason than ever for them to get vaccines with rare but serious side effects. Those side effects led Florida’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, to recommend against vaccinating healthy children under 18, and on Friday he went further. Citing new evidence in Florida of an increased rate of cardiac-related mortality among young men shortly after receiving the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, he recommended against these mRNA vaccines for men between 18 and 39.
If Republicans regain a majority in the Senate this election, Paul stands to become chairman of the health committee, and he has promised to subpoena Fauci’s records and bring Fauci out of retirement to answer more questions.
Excellent dinner last night with some former colleagues:
https://macelleria.gr/
JCsays:
October 11, 2022 at 2:04 pm
Aussie dollar looks gonsky. 62.70!
Mid to low 50’s is now a possibility I reckon.
Bloomberg
Fed Officials Won’t Relent on Path to 4.5% and May Move Higher
The US Army recruitment campaign failed to sign up 25% of required recruits, there is now talk of a need to restart the draft.
Europe won’t be keen on sending their armies to fight the Russians, (apart from the Poles), the European reluctance will become more stark as winter progresses and the Europeans are reminded of their cold and unemployed situation due to the US sabotage of the gas pipelines, therefore any NATO forces sent to the Ukraine will come mainly from the US.
Will the US left’s eagerness to support the military complex wane when its drafted US servicemen and women who are sent to the front?
I wonder what Numbers thinks about such a probability.
Surely Brittany’s absence will be explained as the difficulty in re-living the crime – thus they will try to present her reticence as even greater proof of the crime.
That her being subject to questioning would be tantamount to her being ‘raped again’ will be the refrain.
Will they conscript women?
Britnah.
New plan #176
– Acme anvil
– Cliff ledge
– Lehrmann stops for a coffee.
Genius!!
Flush my mouth out but I have to agree with Marles that the parlous state of Defence is the fault of the LNP. At least in the mid-term. The Libs simply followed the Liars policy of diverting maximum Defence dollars to employment exercises such as base building and impossible weapon development projects plus fun and profitable highjinks like Vichy subs.
They are guilty also of not immolating the treasonous Defence People Group arm of the HRC.
Where Marles is completely wrong is his claim that the Department was not at fault. They are totally at fault.
The Libs fault lies in appointing incompetent, disinterested and lazy Ministers such as the truck stacker and the pretend Brigadier, who didn’t bother to question and supervise the Marxist PS operators. That is enough to condemn the Libs.
The fact that they will never again be elected is a positive for our security.
regurgitated vodka cranberries and Roses chocolates on the carpet can do that to the best of cleaners.
artzy farce
Aussie dollar looks gonsky. 62.70!
Mid to low 50’s is now a possibility I reckon.
If it hits 50 I’m borrowing $10 million US bucks.
No worries. 23% interest rates will lift the aussie to new heights.
Is that sub contract in $US ? Of course it is.
BoN – you’re a man of the birds.
Something has been shitting on my car from a great height in the angophora in my front yard.
The shit is always white – and I had a mate at work swear blind that this indicates its a powerful Owl.
Went out the other night and there’s a Kooka settling down on a branch.
Any ideas what a bachelor (or spinster) kooka does at night? Do they have a favourite perch to themselves? I find this a bit hard to believe, as they generally run around in family groups and I had assumed they also settle in trees close to each other.
Maybe they’re spread out – which explains why they feel the need to check on each other’s welfare at 4 in the morning.
‘Traitorous shallow cock smoker.’
Could be a drop bear?
Pesky Russians.
MASSIVE “Russian” CYBER ATTACKS HIT USA – AIRPORTS SHUT DOWN
I’m not “running an argument”.
Q ships were made up as civilian freighters.
If you condemn a bomb concealed what appears to be a civilian truck you also condemn a gunboat concealed in as a freighter.
Lets not lose sight of why rules around this were put in place.
To use the “q’ ships example.
Subs were generally behaving as per the rules of war where they would surface (if it was an unarmed civilian ship not trying to run etc), send over a crew to see if the ship was flagged properly/ not carrying war goods etc, then the ship would be sunk/ sent on its way, either way the crew was spared a sudden sinking.
The Germans werent fond of this as it was slow, and exposed the sub to danger etc, but in general it was how non-belligerent flagged ships were treated.
Then the Admiralty decided that because arming merchants just got them torpedoed outright (as allowed) and it should instead set traps of disguised armed merchants to sink subs instead.
Result was it helped pave the way for unrestricted sub warfare, no captain could assume a vessel was safe to board anymore.
But even after the tactic was shown to be almost completely ineffective at stopping or sinking subs they persisted with it…
/puts on tin foil tighter…
German mongs declare unrestricted sub warfare rather than lose subs
More neutrals/ Yank ships sunk.
Result eventually being America is drawn into the war by the horribleness of unrestricted sub warfare.
This is a very long winded way of saying allowing civilians to be mixed with actual war units is an old and deliberate tactic, and ANY side engaging in it is just a piece of shit willing to crow on a pile of their own civvies bodies that they are the moral party.
Could even be a pesky Russian drop bear.
Arkysays:
October 11, 2022 at 1:46 pm
Z Force likewise on occasion used captured civilian vessels in order to conduct attacks.
But they put on their uniforms for the final paddle into Singapore Harbour.
You are trying too hard, Arky.
Michael Smith News. Don’t forget to book your copy.
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If your reply runs five paragraphs to a simple point, you don’t have anything coherent or succinct.
It wasn’t terrorism. Terror is a political tactic. See PLO, IRA or the various aloha Admiral Ackbars. This was a military target, and Russia doesn’t like the method of delivery because it successfully delivered.
No doubt Russia has some sleepers in Kiev too. If they succeed in knocking out military infrastructure, good on ‘em. That won’t be terror either.
Duncan – No real idea, but I’ve seen bachelor and/or spinster kookas from my lot sitting right on the edge of another tribe’s territory for long periods. Seems to be a “here I am I’m available” behaviour.
I was out walking after lunch today: the kooka nest in a termite mound I mentioned couple days ago has survived the deluge and there was a kooka visible in it. Not sure if she’s the Cafe matriarch or the one in the next territory.
Monty 11.59am
Blair was the thilthiest liar in the Weapons of Mass Destruction. To me it on him and the turmoil it creatred.
Libia is o teh Democrat Party – did not like Gadaffi wanting to set up an African Bank – too much of a hole for the US banking system to plug.
What were the Dems doing in Syria?
No Ukrane -its on the Dems.
The Dems do not represent the small guy, all you are is the teenages of upper middle income families who are frightened of the real world – hence your targets are from your outdated teenage years.
Look at the Dems.
Julia Louis Dreyfus is a fifth generational billionaire heiress.
Her family own Louis Dreyfus commodities. They’ve just bought Emerald Grain. They’re yuuuge.
She has been a massive backer of Biden.
We used to execute trades for Dreyfus. Huge currency risk takers too at the time.
Family bonds, a beautiful thing.
On the train once more and pulled up at the station to pick up some passengers.
Young boy, maybe 3, crying uncontrollably on the platform because his grandparents boarded the train. I say grandparents because you could see the boy’s mouth say ‘poppy’.
If you don’t have those bonds, someone who you can count on when shit goes down, then you will be pushing the proverbial uphill.
It’s the same with a politician’s bond with their electorate they purport to represent. If polly has little to no interest in the seat, they lose that bond. Particularly in the last 2 years.
Interesting – Which means he just dismissed Fortescue’s company-transforming strategy as a pile of poo.
An MIT PhD has an explosive hydrogen lesson for Andrew Forrest
Saul Griffith knows how to make an arrival.
On Tuesday the Wollongong engineer and climate evangelist – imagine if Elon Musk and Mark Carnegie had a son raised by Bob Brown – arrived at Sydney’s Fullerton Hotel on a one-wheel electric skateboard, a recyclable coffee cup dangling from his belt and a wild head of hair barely contained by a plastic helmet.
Griffith had an important message for the climate industry, which had gathered at The Australian Financial Review Energy and Climate Summit. He used the f-word and a speaking style of a man almost drowning to deliver it: Andrew Forrest’s plan to make Australia a hydrogen superpower is misguided, not feasible and downright dangerous.
“We do not have a viable technology for green steel,” Griffith said. “Green hydrogen is not going to temper any domestic emissions this decade.”
Forrest plans to spend about $9 billion through Fortescue Metals Group to, among other things, use solar power to create hydrogen from water. The hydrogen will replace coal in the production of steel and petrol in vehicles.
Griffith accused Fortescue of signing “fake contracts” with European energy companies for hydrogen that might not be delivered, and said Australia had “drunk the Kool-Aid”, a reference to a mass suicide at the direction of American preacher Jim Jones in 1978.
Climate celebrity
The Sydney-educated Griffith isn’t well known in his home country. He became a bit of a climate celebrity in the US, where, after completing a PhD in engineering at MIT, he launched a campaign to switch the entire country from petrol and gas to solar, wind and other forms of renewable energy.
Griffith doesn’t suffer from shyness about his opinions or achievements. On Tuesday he mentioned that he had operated a nuclear power reactor, was a world leader in hydrogen-storage technology and had inspired the Biden administration’s signature policy, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Oh, and his plan to electrify the entire economy is the greatest investment opportunity in history.
Purchases of petrol-powered cars need to stop, immediately, followed by gas water heaters, and everything else must run on fossil fuels, he said. This was the only way to reach Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions targets.
Hydrogen will be great for Griffith personally, but won’t save the planet.
“We miss the thing that is going to win the game, which is electrification, if we over-focus on hydrogen,” he said.
‘We’re about to squander a decade’
Griffith did the maths. To produce hydrogen for $2 a kilogram, Fortescue will need access to electricity for 2¢ a kilowatt hour from renewable energy, he said. The $2 is a government target, and necessary because that is about the cost of producing hydrogen in a process that releases carbon dioxide.
The 2¢ electricity would be used for electrolysis, which separates hydrogen and water, compressing the gas and converting it back into electricity and water in a fuel cell. The result would be electricity that is four to six times as expensive as electricity straight from a solar panel or wind farm, according to Griffith.
“I can’t say it harshly enough,” he said. “We have drunk the Kool-Aid and we’re about to squander a decade. If hydrogen works I will make more money than all of you because I built the hydrogen tanks that all of the world’s auto-makers have licensed.
“I have shot large-calibre bullets into hydrogen tanks in the desert. I have watched them explode. I have owned two hydrogen cars. It was the scariest, most horrible experience of my life. I feel qualified to say a lot about hydrogen. I understand the physics and thermodynamics.”
Forrest has previously denied a draft hydrogen sales agreement with German energy group Eon was a public relations stunt. “They have asked for 5 million tonnes and they are going to get it,” he said in July.
Hydrogen created from solar or wind power isn’t entirely useless, according to Griffith. He said Australia could use the elements to supply all the world’s ammonia, which is used in fertiliser.
“That would be a great idea,” he said. “That would be a $90-to-$100 billion export opportunity for us.”
Which means he just dismissed Fortescue’s company-transforming strategy as a pile of poo.
You would have gone broke by now but I would always be inclined to short Twiggy.
Ukraine and the Malevolent Legacy of the Obama-Biden Administration
The United States is shackled by a near decade of Russian reset and the aggression it invited on February 23, 2022.
By Victor Davis Hanson
During the current Ukrainian war, the media has created a mythology that the Left was tough on Vladimir Putin’s Russia. And thus, now it simply continues its hard-nosed efforts in Ukraine.
But nothing could be further from the truth. Aside from Biden’s original panic of evacuating American diplomatic personnel from Kyiv, offering a ride out of Ukraine for the Zelenskyy government that would have effectively collapsed his nation’s resistance, and hesitation in selling Ukraine offensive weapons, there is also a prior legacy that had done a great deal of harm.
Indeed, many of America’s current difficulties in Ukraine originate from the Obama-Biden Administration’s former disastrous policies toward Russia birthed between 2009-2016.
Remembering the Reset Disaster
Remember the initial premise of Russian “Reset”—the idea and the term were first used by Vice President Joe Biden (“It’s time to press the reset button”)—was based on the myth that the “cowboy” George W. Bush had been too tough on Putin after the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. To Biden and Obama, Bush had unduly sanctioned Vladimir Putin following his opportunistic absorption of South Ossetia in 2008 and attack on Georgia. And thus, the Russian dictator would easily then be wowed by Obama’s legendary charisma and charm from needless hostility to accommodation.
Accordingly, the reformist hope-and-change Obama Administration would rebuild a friendly relationship with Russia. Thereby they would win strategic help from Russia with Obama’s new ambitious agendas for Iran and Syria in remaking a more “equitable” Middle East. Translated that meant “balancing” the region. Thus, by weakening our former overdog allies in the Gulf and Israel while empowering our former underdog terrorist-sponsoring enemies in Tehran and Damascus, Obama sought to create strategic tension.
What followed was an utter disaster. Hillary Clinton in March 2009 at the comical “reset” ceremony in Geneva with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov greenlighted outright Russian aggression. In response Moscow’s policy was soon to be against whatever the United States was for. In the Russian mind, the more an appeasing Obama looked the other way at Putin’s cyberattacks or later the dual invasions in 2014 of eastern Ukraine and Crimea, the more Washington compensated for its impotence by shrill sermons and empty lectures on Russian human-rights violations.
For Putin, nothing was emptier than the loud moralistic harangues of the Obama-Biden Administration that was also carrying a mere twig. During those eight years, Russia, after a near half-century hiatus, was invited back into the Middle East as a “guarantor” that its client Syria’s WMD stockpile would be destroyed (it was not). Russia instead became a formable promoter of the Iranian, Hezbollah, the Assad regime, and Hamas axis, an obstacle to Israeli responses to cross-border terrorism, and a deterrent to any Western notion of preemptively destroying Tehran’s nuclear potential.
– The Trump Hiatus
– The Obama Russian Quid Pro Quo
– Russian appeasement and the Iran Deal
– “Don’t Underestimate Joe’s Ability to F–k Things Up.”
Wars?
I will preface this by saying Australia would have been better off declaring independence unilaterally as a republic at Federation, with a strong nationalist defence policy, isolationist foreign policy and a commitment to free trade and free enterprise…we should have ideally avoided every single conflict bar World War Two.
Boer War – bad, but we were a colony.
WW1 – no real winners, we would have been better off not being involved, we didn’t really have a choice.
WW2 – we didn’t have a choice. We had strong economic ties to Europe. We had a moral right to fight Hitler, but not an obligation. As we were attacked, we were always going to be involved eventually. Hitler would have drawn us in as America was.
Korea- justified. Back when the UN did some good.
Vietnam. A strategic victory for the West. With limited aims and rules of engagement, it made the effort tactically pointless. It was in our interest to fight as in Borneo but if the public could no longer stomach it then so be it. I am suspicious of the “peace” and NMD movements. Vietnam with no draft? Could have been different.
1991 Gulf War. America and Britain fucked up here. US Ambassador tells Hussein they had no interest in Kuwait. Dodgy PR programme by Kuwait. Saddam had no right to really invade, financial differences could have been negotiated- he may have fought the Ayatollah for the Arabs but just wanted bits of Iran. Australian involvement was actually insipid. We could have deployed F-111s. Like the Korean War, totally justified. Not deposing of Saddam was a huge error.
Afghanistan – justified but nation building was a fail.
2003 Iraq invasion. So many lies. Backyard ICBMs. Uranium in “coke cans”. Saddam really did have WMDs, but they were chemical weapons he’d use on his own people. Then you had the Iraqi defector feeding the US absolute BS. Saddam had no right to rule let alone live. He didn’t have nukes but he was even involved in anti Israeli terror, paying families of militant suicide bombers. The US should have waited and built up a bigger coalition and committed more forces. The postwar mess could have largely been avoided. On those conditions it was justified as a multilateral effort.
I think the real motivation to invade Iraq was geopolitics. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Syria would then be all flanked by (better) US allies and occupied territories.
Syria and Libya – sure Assad and Gaddafi were not terribly nice but what is the justification for the west in deposing foreign authoritarian regimes? They may have forfeited their right to govern or live but…what was the actual war aim? This started the current and ongoing migrant problem in Europe. Australia had no interest in this.
ISIS – Trump won largely by air strikes where Obama wouldn’t do that. Trump ended Daesh and made the war significantly shorter by being decisive. Assad’s father funded the antecedents of ISIS and without backing the Arab Spring it would not have happened where they could fill a power vacuum. Australia had no interest in this.
Ukraine – you cannot be serious. We have no interest or right to be involved.
So we need to listen to this jerkoff with this soft soaping lather?!