mmmm can’t say I approve
Open Thread – Weekend 15 Oct 2022
- From darkness to the promise of light
- Open Thread – Weekend 16 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 14 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Remembrance Day 2024
- The Sweetest Victory
Iron-deficient Mike looked almost as old as Trump.
An example of why I previously stated he has some BS crazy ideas. Fluoride concentrations in traditional and herbal teas:…
“We’re going to get the fluoride out the water, we’re going to get the chemicals out of the food, we’re…
He was in Melbourne – I begin to understand how Victoria has such bad government.
Couldn’t find work as a painter. The flop house was full.
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
– Thomas A. Edison
In news sure to generate some comment.
Midget cheating rangas rejoice, apparently you are the people imbued with ‘leadership’..
‘I’d take it with open arms’: But Warner to wait for captaincy ban ‘process’
David Warner would consider it “a privilege” to captain Australia in next year’s 50-over World Cup if the opportunity arose following the retirement of one-day captain Aaron Finch from the format.
Still under a lifetime leadership ban resulting from the Sandpapergate scandal in March 2018, Warner was heartened by Cricket Australia’s decision on Friday to commission a review of the code of conduct to allow for sentences to be commuted.
Dave Warner is the Alan Bond of cricket.
On recycling and why it will always be a fringe industry without massive government subsidy. An example:
The 82cm motherships have finally given up the ghost. Bent frames and seized zips from being drenched at the Galapagos and thumped around by Latam on our 2019 trip. Time to replace them.
American Tourister has an excellent range of soft shells called Applite. Reasonably tough, I’ve already broken in some mid sized ones (great for lugging onto trains) and they’ve stood up well to punishment. I find that there’s a newly released range called Applite Eco. The fabric is recycled PET. It is at least $30 more expensive per unit, two bags $60 +. There is no other difference between the products.
Sorry. I’m not paying more to virtue signal to baggage handlers.
Two elderly gentlemen from a retirement centre were sitting on a bench under a tree when one turns to the other and says “Slim, I’m 83 years old now and I’m just full of aches and pains. I know you’re about my age. How do you feel?” Slim says “I feel just like a newborn baby”. “Really!? Like a newborn baby!?” “Yep. No hair, no teeth, and I think I just pissed myself”.
Stan Grant makes Rod Dreher’s column:
The East Is … White? Xi Jinping Is A Cracker?
Chinese racism and imperialism is really a manifestation of Whiteness, says white Aussie broadcaster
I’m sure someone will point out to Dreher that Stan is part indigenous, but…yeah, well done, mate!
Putin is Not the Madman – Biden is Just Senile
From Armstrong Economics –
“I feel sorry for you for those who believe the propaganda put out to justify a war that Putin is this madman. Be careful what you believe and wish for. You probably think the government really cares about you and your future. You probably still wear masks driving alone, or even when you sleep, and possibly a condom just in case for good measure.
There are those of us who have REAL contacts and who understand REAL geopolitics and the way governments create wars by filling the minds of their people that there are weapons of mass destruction. Now even a former MI6 agent has come out and said the same thing. You better be careful what you wish for. Putin was selected by Yeltsin BECAUSE he was not a Communist and was moderate. Yeltsin was under siege from the communists who did want to resurrect the USSR and the oligarchs who wanted to strip mine Russia for themselves. If Putin was a communist, Yeltsin and his family would have been in prison.
I have all the declassified documents from the Clinton Administration that CONFIRM that Putin was nothing that the propaganda is all about. He NEVER sought to resurrect the USSR. As far as the KGB, he was never high-ranking and quit in 1991 as soon as Russia fell. All of the comments put out there by John McCain were outright lies. I have the security briefing he read and said the opposite because he was a Neocon who just wanted endless wars.
So you can believe all the BS. They need you to do that to wage war and offer your life on their altar of political agendas. If you think you will be an armchair general and watch this war on CNN, sorry. It will come to a neighborhood near you. I just thank God I am not 18. The future these people want is total insanity. The Weimar Republic in Germany took place because it was a revolution against the imperial government that always waged war. We face the same fate when the people realize this has been a mountain of lies for a political agenda. When Zelensky came to power, he promised peace. He was then instructed by the West that was not acceptable. The West promoted the civil war in Ukraine.
It is the hardliners putting pressure on Putin because he has been “too soft” on Ukraine. Replace Putin and we will get World War III. Zelensky better pack his high-heels in an emergency exit bag.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/putin-is-not-the-madman-biden-is-just-senile/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
In the tardies, tard in tardtown news….
Miners must stop mining to continue mining…
by
Peter Milne
Business Journalist
Mining must dump oil and gas to pick up younger workers
On the other hand coal, oil and gas face a decline that is both inevitable and necessary. Sure, there are big projects being built now, like Woodside’s Scarborough and Santos’ Barossa gas export developments, employing thousands in construction. But these are the last push of a doomed business model: something to end your resume with before retirement, not start a career with.
This sort of spacicity is deserving of one of those ‘in a decades time” bets, where he bets his house and major useable organs that oil/gas/coal consumption will be lower globally rather than higher.
The 2022 study by the Pew Research Centre showed that climate concern in Australia was highest among the young, the highly educated and women: exactly the type of people Australian mining needs more of.
….
The resources tag combines the businesses with the most to gain from a well-managed brisk energy transition in Australia with the companies most invested in delaying change.
Kind of like cutting your todger off with a cleaver is better than doing it with an oxy torch?
“Why did a Jew hating Austrian move into a unit in Randwick? An odd choice considering the already well established demographic in the 80’s. Jews have been living in the ES long before the end of WWII.”
The big influx of Jews into the Eastern Suburbs happened after World War II, because it was affordable. These people were survivors from Europe. Bondi, Bronte etc. were not the well heeled suburbs they are now. Prior to World War II, there were sizeable Jewish communities in the western suburbs, there’s still a synagogue at North Parramatta.
As for a Jew hater living in Randwick, there are Jew haters everywhere, in every suburb, in every state, and in every country. I saw Alex Ryvchin interviewed on Outsiders yesterday, I have a lot of time for Alex, but it was nice to see the panel pick up a lapse on his part when he was talking about Islamist and far-right Jew hatred, the panel quickly reminded him of the pervasive Jew hatred found among the far-left and not so far-left. And the far-left and not so far left Jew hatred is disguised as “I’m not anti-Semitic, I’m just anti-Zionist, and as one fuckwit here infamously wrote “those who have legitimate grievances”.
Daily Mail is out of the blocks:
Brittany Higgins blocked her accused rapist on social media in the wake of the alleged incident, a court has heard.
Meanwhile, her ex-boss Michaelia Cash said Ms Higgins was ’embarrassed’ that a story could come out that she entered Parliament late at night with Bruce Lehrmann.
Link
Bruce O’Newk:
The claim about thirty years ago was that the hydrogen would very quickly escape from a leak and float upwards.
OK. Good idea.
Then someone designed fuel air explosives where the tank was ruptured – not just leaking.
Oooops!
It is a good thing for an uneducated person to read books of quotations.
– Winston Churchill
And, ladies and gentlemen, we finally get to what this trial is all about.
Nothing embarrassing about being found naked on a couch in the morning; I’m sure we’ve all done that.
“IQ peaked in the 1975 cohort. “
This is, of course, impossible.
When you do an IQ test (any one), the results are normalised such that average IQ of your sample is 100.
That is, by definition, what “IQ” means.
Should you wish to say that “intelligence” peaked at some point, that would certainly be possible, although I would be suspect if that is based on the results of any particular “IQ test”.
But not IQ – “average IQ” is always 100. By definition.
Good to see Jackson Warne doing well.
Jackson Warne opens up on the shock death of his cricket legend father Shane in a touching life update on social media (Sky News, 17 Oct)
Makes me feel quite inadequate. Keep it together sir, and you will do very well. Maybe try for NIDA, you could easily be the next Chris Hemsworth. (He’s been on SAS Australia, which is pretty damned serious.)
No wonder miners are moving as fast as they can towards more automation.
Diogenes:
Very little said about that act of bastardry by the Allies, which contributed to the hatred which festered into the second world war.
Are you of average IQ kneel?
Looks like a front-engine vehicle, that’s a lot of weight there, plus the (usually) heavier armour at the front.
Whatever happened to forward mounted turret with high mounted gun so you can peak over terrain and shoot without exposing most of the vehicle?
Such a pity schooling no longer requires map drawing where all the main rivers of Victoria (or your State) are named, and a bit of regional geography, plus exercise walking up hills and looking out over valleys, identifying fault lines and landslips and even discovering fossils. All replaced by TikTok on screens. All lost because “curriculum” I read in last weekend Australian no longer seems to exist.
I understand the post war influx Cassie. The old Central Synagogue was built in the early 20th century, and the Elizabeth Street one in the 19th.
The point was simply that Jews have been in the ES for a very long time.
I’ve had the delight of attending a wedding in the original Central Synagogue and my future sil read the Torah in it’s replacement. The best bit was throwing sweets at him from the gallery and watching all the little children come in and collect them up!
Speak for yourself! 😀
In Cost of Living Crisis news:
I have just returned from the local Colesworth: Voss Artisan Water ($9.33/litre) and Zero Alcohol Gin ($50/bttl).
You wouldn’t waste a drop…
Um, they need fitters and boilermakers not the “highly educated” who are useless. They don’t really need women, except for diversity targets. Women hate working at site.
As for the young if they want to pour coffee for $50 k rather than work on something real for $120 k that’s their business. Darwinian selection of the underclass.
Seriously, who cares? You might want to consider this in the light of the blue cheks that were speculating about Xi being arrested a month ago seamlessly, and without apology, move on to speculating about the overthrow of the mullahs being imminent in Iran, once the previous claim turned to dust.
The big meanie!
*So what.
**The military in general, or rifle
menpersons in particular.***They’re not allowed to not be praised.
It’s enough to drive one to drink!
Not in some parts of the world where we are sourcing many of our ‘cheap imported citizens’
India (81)
Iraq (86)
Afghanistan (80)
Sudan (70)
Sri Lanka (79)
and sadly, its an ‘inconvenient truth’ that a country’s average IQ largely determines the nature of its society
What is with the Warner shit? He is lucky to be playing cricket at all. The end is nigh (35 yo?) so Shirley there are other options
He has videos/photos?
There are artisans who make water? That’s impressive.
Do they start with triple purified green hydrogen gas? Then combine it with lovingly selected oxygen atoms? Done only in certified and patented reactors of sure providence. Sounds expensive. Um, OK yes, at $9.33/L even all that could be profitable. Holy moly, nine bucks a litre for water…
Michaelia Cash denies knowing of alleged rape of Brittany Higgins 18 months before it became public
So, not really getting any better for the prosecution. The summing up will have to either convince the jury that Ms Cash was either deeply mistaken, or lying.
$2.66/L diesel here in Kerang
This occurred to me too.
We have a long way to fall yet.
Daily Mail. Words fail me, they honestly do.
Dare I suggest that you could rotate the turret 180 degrees and reverse up the hill for peeking over the peak of the rise?
If the prosecution are not wanting to call Lisa Wilkinson and Sam Maiden wouldn’t it mean it would be good for the defence to call them?
Don’t sweat it Kneel, you can’t help being born after 1975 and being of sub-par IQ 😉
Probably depends on the placement of the hands.
Thomas Mitchell came through Victoria on a very wet year and recorded endless expanses of water and swamps through the flooded countryside.
The party went through Swan Hill then Cohuna, Kerang and then headed SW crossing the Loddon and Avoca rivers.
They were heartily sick of trudging through water and couldn’t find anything higher than a tree to get a bearing to avoid more water in the flat terrain.
Unprecedented they say, except for 1836.
Cash was a lawyer, wasn’t she? She worked in the AG’s dept. for a bit didn’t she?
This will be pure popcorn.
They could have one forward and five reverse gears like Italian tanks in WW2.
(Hear that one in primary school long ago. 😀 )
He was a KGB colonel.
“Not a communist”
KEK
Very underrated is Mitchell Gez
Robin Williams had a coke fueled rant on Letterman once about being so poor he had to push hydrogen and oxygen atoms together to make water, it was solid gold.
calli says:
October 17, 2022 at 9:52 am
There you go, promising to kill weeds again.
I did think that they would add very little to the prosecution case but would present a “target rich environment” for Whybrow KC.
Maybe the DPP saw that too.
FIFY
” average IQ” is always 100. By definition
Not in some parts of the world…”
Always and ever – I repeat, by definition.
“IQ” is NOT an absolute term, it’s a RELATIVE one.
Someone who scores 100 on an IQ test (after normalisation) is “average” for THAT test.
The tests themselves are also not absolute – they measure what the writer of the test believes makes people intelligent, not actual intelligence.
A test written by “first world” intelligentsia may (probably WILL) under-estimate the intelligence of “third world” people, and visa-versa.
“Are you of average IQ kneel?”
I suppose it would depend, as above, on what “IQ test” I were to take. Certainly I am better at some things than most other people, but also much worse at other things. I don’t consider myself particularly “smart”, if that’s what you mean, although if you will excuse the hubris, more than a few people whom I consider “smart” think that I am too – not for me to judge myself in that regard, IMO, too easy to get wrong (either way).
Interesting.
It doesn’t prove Armstrong right. He is demonstrably incorrect.
IIRC, she was Attorney General at one time.
The fact that the left don’t immediately recognize the irony of that headline is breathtaking and indicative of just where the problem lies.
If military women can’t defend themselves how can they be relied upon to defend the country? Especially from the “brutish “masculine” militaries of Russia and China.”
Here’s a clue Sec Wormuth. The kind of people you need to be recruiting into the military are ones dedicated to something that doesn’t have a broad appeal in peacetime. The “swaths” that you are worried about alienating likely don’t belong in the service in the first place and trying to appeal to all is exactly why you aren’t getting the type who want to do something unique and special.
and sadly, its an ‘inconvenient truth’ that a country’s average IQ largely determines the nature of its society
Is it science fiction to think that a country driving down its IQ- by every child gets a trophy learning and positive discrimination appointments in industry- will result in a diminished society?
On her back, no less. Detail mentioned by security guard. ‘Sprawled’ not mentioned.
My great uncle served against the Italians in North Africa. He described the infantry as “not being particularly interested in dying for Il Duce,” but you only ever underestimated their artillery once – the last time.
Dr F.
This is the long retreat.
Their only hope now is to create the impression of “no justice for Britnah” because the dirty Liberals blocked her from going to the cops.
Even if you stand on your tippy-toes, you can’t see “beyond reasonable doubt” from there.
http://www.bom.gov.au/vic/warnings/flood/loddonriver.shtml
ie: not exceed 2011
.. and then we have: https://www.loddon.vic.gov.au/News-and-public-notices/News-articles/10-year-anniversary-of-the-2011-floods
.. and trove unearths this little nugget
Mitchell’s diary.
Of the natives in our party it was arranged amongst themselves that Tommy Came-first and the widow, who most required a rest having sore feet, should remain with Mr Stapylton, and that Piper and Tommy Came-last should accompany me. When about to set out I observed that the widow Turandurey, who was to remain with Mr Stapylton’s party and the carts, was marked with white round the eyes (the natives’ fashion of mourning) and that the face of her child Ballandella was whitened also. This poor woman, who had cheerfully carried the child on her back, when we offered to carry both on the carts and who was as careful and affectionate as any mother could be, had at length determined to entrust to me the care of this infant. I was gratified with such proof of the mother’s confidence in us, but I should have been less willing to take charge of her child had I not been aware of the wretched state of slavery to which the native females are doomed. I felt additional interest in this poor child from the circumstance of her having suffered so much by the accident that befell her while with our party, and which had not prevented her from now preferring our mode of living so much that I believe the mother at length despaired of being ever able to initiate her thoroughly in the mysteries of killing and eating snakes, lizards, rats, and similar food. The widow had been long enough with us to be sensible how much more her sex was respected by civilized men than savages, and, as I conceived, it was with such sentiments that she committed her child to my charge, under the immediate care, however, of Piper’s gin.
rickw says:
October 17, 2022 at 1:49 am
Thanks for the link, stupid I know, but I watched it to the end.
Wish I could build something like that.
This was reinforced for me at uni 40 years ago. Did a “standard” IQ test and scored in the 130s, and the class mean was 105.
Then we did an IQ test that was written for American inner urban negros*. I was the only person in the class to score above 100. I didn’t understand half the questions and answered those randomly. The class mean was only 80something.
* One question was repeated in both. Windows have … (4 options). In the standard test the correct answer was glass. In the other one the correct answer was plywood.
A story for the truth telling commission?
Great post Gez
“Is it science fiction to think that a country driving down its IQ- by every child gets a trophy learning and positive discrimination appointments in industry- will result in a diminished society?”
By using “every-one gets a prize” and “you get this because of who you are not how good you are at this”, we are certainly increasing “entitlement” attitudes, and decreasing the work ethic (“work hard to get ahead”). That is very likely, IMO, to result in a “worse” society.
Life is hard.
Life in unfair.
For everyone.
Get over yourself.
“Find the heaviest thing you can carry and carry it!” as Jordan Peterson says – if you are not challenging yourself, you are not doing as well as you could.
If you are not making mistakes, you are depriving yourself of the chance to learn and become better than you were.
If you offend no-one, you will please just as many.
Regarding IQ:
Rank / Country / IQ / 2022 Population
1 Japan 106.48 123,951,692
2 Taiwan 106.47 23,893,394
3 Singapore 105.89 5,975,689
4 Hong Kong 105.37 7,488,865
5 China 104.1 1,425,887,337
6 South Korea 102.35 51,815,810
7 Belarus 101.6 9,534,954
8 Finland 101.2 5,540,745
9 Liechtenstein 101.07 39,327
10 Germany 100.74 83,369,843
11 Netherlands 100.74 17,564,014
12 Estonia 100.72 1,326,062
13 Luxembourg 99.87 647,599
14 Macau 99.82 695,168
15 Cambodia 99.75 16,767,842
16 Canada 99.52 38,454,327
17 Australia 99.24 26,177,413
18 Hungary 99.24 9,967,308
19 Switzerland 99.24 8,740,472
20 United Kingdom 99.12 67,508,936
21 Greenland 98.89 56,466
22 North Korea 98.82 26,069,416
23 Slovenia 98.6 2,119,844
24 New Zealand 98.57 5,185,288
25 Austria 98.38 8,939,617
26 Iceland 98.26 372,899
27 Denmark 97.83 5,882,261
28 Belgium 97.49 11,655,930
29 United States 97.43 338,289,857
From https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-iq-by-country
I find that excerpt hard to believe Gez.
Not a single mention of jet propulsion, hovercraft or underground carparks by the widow.
It certainly appears that way.
I’m a wedding planner, not a lawyer, but it seems to me this is not quite how you would expect the State to run a case.
Unless Linda Reynolds breaks down on the stand when grilled about her ‘Lying Cow’ comments, it’s hard to see how Drumgold KC is going to save DPP face from here.
Mark Levin’s excellent weekly show Life, Liberty and Levin has an hour-long interview with Benjamin Netanyahu today not only about the former Israeli’s prime minister’s political leadership, but his reforms that have enabled Israel’s economic revolution.
Thankfully, Netanyahu is running for office again. You can order his new book via the book’s website, bibimystory.com.
Here’s a snippet.
Kneel, my idea is that diminishing achievement will effectively drive down the IQ of a country
The first Mensa test was a doozy. Did it remotely under my anglicized name. English language test to the nth degree, those who had not studied an English degree at university would be hard pressed to pass.
Wrote to ’em afterward, heavily pointing this out, that they were measuring the degree of study of English, rather than intelligence.
The following year in Brisbane did it under my birth name (had to show ID, driver’s licence)
It was not the same test. Instead the test was “which of these 4 triangles is the odd one out?” & that sorta thing.
So easy a bloke didn’t have to concentrate. My dog could have passed that test.
Coz “cultural difference” (i.e. not Anglo-Saxon)
Tim Blair:
There’s always a bright side. If you’re sufficiently insane, there are even reasons to celebrate Vladimir Putin’s vicious war against Ukraine.
Sure, the war has killed tens of thousands of people, including at least 7000 Ukrainian civilians. But leftist online journal Politico last week found an upside — the war is turning Europe green!
“By launching a bloody invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has done more than almost any other single human being to speed up the end of the fossil fuel era,” Politico announced, putting the Russian madman at No. 1 on its list of “28 power players behind Europe’s green agenda”.
“It took a war criminal to speed up Europe’s green revolution,” Politico continued. “Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not — clean energy is now a fundamental matter of European security.”
Well, isn’t that just dandy. It turns out ol’ Vlad is just a weaponised version of Greta Thunberg.
“We will look back at this situation in 10 years’ time,” Simone Tagliapietra, a researcher at some Brussels think-tank, told Politico, “and see, OK, that was the moment where we really got serious about the green transition and we really had the big green acceleration.”
So it’s all for the best, if you’re the kind of climate obsessive who puts the holy cause of greenism ahead of mass human slaughter.
Of course, some were unimpressed by this elevation of a bloodthirsty maniac to eco-visionary.
“The wives and mothers of Ukrainian soldiers will be pleased to know their loved ones died for a righteous progressive cause,” the Washington Free Beacon sarcastically editorialised.
“Russian conscripts are understandably reluctant to fight and die in what seems like a pointless war. Morale should improve once they realise they are fighting and dying to heal the planet by facilitating a ‘green revolution’ in Europe, where civilians bracing for a brutal winter amid soaring energy prices will take comfort in the fact that their suffering is making a difference.”
Even Politico, a 15-year-old, 900-employee enterprise that sold last year to a German publisher for more than $1.6 billion, confessed that Putin’s green advancement wasn’t all solar panels and cuddles.
“The green acceleration,” it admitted, “doesn’t mean Europeans will avoid a succession of brutally cold and expensive winters.” Or perhaps, in an absolutely worst-case scenario, one or two nuclear detonations.
Still, what’s a few more thousand deaths when freezing Europe can rejoice over the promised rise of renewables?
In fact, Politico’s reframing of the Ukraine war as planet-saving “green acceleration” calls for a historic review of other atrocities and their ecological benefits.
Given the Politico treatment, even the deadliest conflicts and most obscene acts of inhumanity can be recast as great leaps forward in the green revolution.
The Nazis, for example, sent millions to their deaths in concentration camps, but at least they used trains. Progressive!
Likewise, certain Japanese provocations led in 1945 to a rapid reduction in urban sprawl across Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the eventual creation of leafy “peace parks” in both cities.
Osama bin Laden is mostly remembered for murdering 3000 people on 9/11, but green activists might prefer to focus on his urgent environmental warnings.
“You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history,” the deranged Islamic terrorist wrote in a 2002 letter to the US.
“Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and industries.“
If bin Laden had been born in Stoke Newington rather than Saudi Arabia, he might have joined London art gallery climate churchies who last week threw tomato soup at van Gogh’s Sunflowers.
Philistinism aside, it would have been a better option than throwing jets at the World Trade Centre.
“Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury,” bin Laden said in 2010. “All of the industrialised countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”
One year later, in 2011, bin Laden did his bit to cure global warming by assuming room temperature following a US raid on his Pakistan compound.
Unfortunately, his body was then dumped at sea — marginally increasing the rise in ocean levels.
But back to Ukraine, and how Putin’s war might further advance the green cause. Hey, how about using all those thousands of corpses to create useful organic fertiliser?
There’s precedent for this kind of earth-friendly recycling. According to a University of Glasgow study released this year, the bones of soldiers slain in the Battle of Waterloo were subsequently sold as a crop growth-enhancer.
“European battlefields may have provided a convenient source of bone that could be ground down into bone-meal, an effective form of fertiliser,” lead researcher Tony Pollard told reporters.
“One of the main markets for this raw material was the British Isles.”
The Brits might be in the market for similar substances as they freeze for warming this winter.
Get grinding on those bones, Vlad, and you’ll be in line for another eco award in 2023.
Credentials alone never do. As to demonstrably incorrect, probably too strong. His ‘no negotiations with Putin’ condition is dangerous indeed. Zelensky certainly missed an opportunity of at least seeing in mid-Sept what Putin might have offered in the midst of the ground ceded near Kharkov and pre-mobilisation/Nord Stream/ Kerch Bridge in a ceasefire deal if anything at all. But, no, now he faces over 300K further troops, a new overall military commander where one was lacking previously with what appears to be a greater degree of freedom, a now deliberate effort to degraded the power infrastructure, AD system, and transport network, and an offensive in the South and east that already looks to have culminated without having achieved any great victory. And right now, the initiative seems to be shifting swiftly to RUS.
Paris this weekend. Unrest in Moldova too.
“European battlefields may have provided a convenient source of bone that could be ground down into bone-meal, an effective form of fertiliser,” lead researcher Tony Pollard told reporters.
“One of the main markets for this raw material was the British Isles.”
One of the more shocking “crimes” of oldde England and the continent was the raiding of Roman and other burial grounds for corpses.
I did one in the 80s which iirc, comprised both tests – linguistic and symbolic logic.
Did pretty well on the language based test, but “failed” the other. Your dog would have beat me to get into mensa if that was the only way in. 🙂
Black Ball, thanks for posting the Tim Blair piece at 1.34pm. He’s Australia’s wittiest social observer — sadly now locked inside a paywall.
He doesn’t work for the zombie media , who give away their stuff for free — because, apart from the fact that it thumbs its nose at the public, the zombie media’s content is worthless.
I may have used hyperbole for purpose of emphasizing the point.
Somalia?
Here’s hoping for the mildest northern hemisphere winter in a 100 years.
The poorest in Europe aren’t hoping.
They’re praying.
Heard of an event recently with 300 Somalians fighting each other, completely hushed up in the media. Informant was running part of the entertainment, TOTALLY upstaged. Have to ask him where.
Anyone heard of such a thing?
I may have used hyperbole for purpose of emphasizing the point.
One of the greatest moments on Australian TV was when the smug members of “The Panel” debated how hyperbole was pronounced.
I think the show ended shortly thereafter.
Rob Sitch.
So, so smug.
Sitch played some funning characters though.
Shit Scared took Super Dave to a whole new level.
Does anyone understand what was the DPP’S intent in calling Cash?
I miss much of Tim Blair since he went behind the pay wall. That was brilliant, sarcastic prose.
callisays:
October 17, 2022 at 11:28 am
Oh, and I haven’t been looking at canines hungrily. Not even the sausage dergs. I draw the line.
calli,
you will be pleased to know that in Korea, as explained to me by the Korean People I worked with in Seoul, that
Euphemistically known as “dangogi,” or sweet meat, dog has long been believed to be a stamina food in North and South Korea and is traditionally eaten during the hottest time of the year, giving a sad twist to the old saying “dog days of summer.”
The dates are fixed according to the lunar calendar and dog meat consumption centers around the “sambok,” or three hottest days — July 17 and 27, and Aug. 16 this year. Demand appears to be especially high this year because of a heatwave in East Asia. Temperatures in the North have been among the highest ever recorded, hovering near 104 degrees Fahrenheit in several cities.
As is the case with almost everything, good statistics are not available for how much dog is eaten in the North.
But in South Korea, where even President Moon Jae-in has dogs as pets, at least 2 million canines are slaughtered and eaten each year even though its popularity as food is waning. While many older South Koreans believe dog meat aids virility, younger people generally are either against the practice or indifferent to it and there has been increasing pressure to ban it altogether.
On both sides of the Demilitarized Zone, dogs used for their meat are raised on farms for that express purpose.
“It’s been our national food since olden times,” explained Kim Ae Kyong, a waitress at the Pyongyang House of Sweet Meat, the largest dog specialty restaurant in the North Korean capital. “People believe that heat cures heat, so they eat dog meat and spicy dog soup on the hottest days. It’s healthier than other kinds of meat.”
The restaurant’s menu lists more than a dozen dog dishes, including ribs, hind legs and boiled dog skin.
Like their neighbors to the South, North Korean attitudes toward dogs are changing.
PS I never ate dog in Korea
“Kneel, my idea is that diminishing achievement will effectively drive down the IQ of a country”
I tend to agree, Wally (ignoring the IQ thing, and substituting “intelligence” instead, as that appears to be the “common” usage) – as I said, challenging yourself is important in many ways, and benefits the individual at least as much as it benefits society. And “losing” is a great motivator for those willing to keep trying, and/or to challenge “conventional wisdom” – we have many great advancements because of people who did what everyone said was “impossible”.
The trouble, I believe, is too many rules and regulations – you need a piece of paper from some authority or another to do way too many things, and the safety N*zi’s have gone overboard too. The entire balance of these things has gone – we need the balance back. As in: “Look before you leap” vs “He who hesitates is lost”. Extremes do not help, and there needs must be a balance. That some may be injured or even die, while regrettable, can never be entirely “fixed” – try to make things “idiot proof” and people just become more idiotic, in my experience. Helping people to avoid mistakes is useful, forcing them to is detrimental.
Motive then:
Ms Cash told the court that Ms Higgins was concerned the issue of the security breach, in March 2019, would be made public because the media enquiry was from a journalist from the Canberra Times.
‘She was embarrassed because it was in relation to herself and a security issue,’ Ms Cash said.
‘She and another staff member returned to the office after drinking … They were potentially intoxicated.
‘Ms Higgins fell asleep on the couch and I believe security found her the next day.’
Ms Higgins did not publicly accuse Lehrmann of raping her that evening until February 2021.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
– Winston Churchill
What on earth is Sam Maiden doing at news.com.au reporting on the Higgins Case? How can be expected to report in a fair manner?
Discipline not a dirty word in a child’s education
KATHARINE BIRBALSINGH
The Michaela model offers a ‘proven concept in how to overcome the educational odds’, writes principal Katharine Birbalsingh.
It should go without saying that for students to have the best chance of learning, schools need to provide them with a calm, orderly and supportive environment. This isn’t always the case in Australian schools.
The OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) ranks Australia as having some of the least orderly schools in the world – at 70th of 77 on its disciplinary climate index.
In a survey of 15-year-old students, two in five say their classmates don’t listen to what their teacher is saying and nearly half say there’s noise and disorder in most or all lessons.
And data from the OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey shows the majority of graduate teachers are not confident in managing the classroom.
That’s no small matter. It unnecessarily robs students of learning and wellbeing.
The OECD estimates that 15-year-old students in poorly disciplined classes are about seven months behind in their learning, compared with their peers in more disciplined classes. They’re also more likely to feel like they don’t belong, are less satisfied with life and are more likely to suffer from bullying.
If the national behaviour crisis is to be turned around Australian schools must tear up the progressive educational playbook.
It doesn’t need to be this way. At the Michaela Community School in North London, of which I am principal, we embrace traditionalism. And this leads to success for our students.
At this free secondary school, our teachers do the teaching – it’s not outsourced to the students. We have clear rules and expectations that are understood by all our students, staff and parents.
Our desks are in rows and the teacher stands at the front of the class where they drive the learning. This requires teachers to provide sharp explanations and monitor for understanding.
Our belief is that the teacher is the authority in the classroom. We do not have grouped desks where children are facing each other, or where children are leading the learning while the teacher is more a facilitator of learning,
The result is that our students are engaged, they learn, and they flourish. When you provide consistently fast-paced and highly interactive but traditional lessons, while maintaining high expectations of pupils, and offering a supportive school culture, excellent outcomes follow. We’re not without our critics and naysayers. But their objections to what we do are ideological, not empirical.
A good many of our critics wouldn’t know the first thing about schooling – especially in challenging school contexts. Many are well intentioned but misguided about how students need to behave in order to learn successfully. And self-proclaimed social justice advocates may echo all the right slogans, but most have little understanding about how to actually combat educational disadvantage.
This is the undeniable truth: without the schooling they need, poor students will simply remain poor. That’s why it’s no understatement that we’re transforming the lives of our students. We’ve shown that disadvantage doesn’t need to be destiny.
But you don’t need to take my word for it. We have thousands of guests from all around the world every year. They get a glimpse of what we do. They take with them insights to adopt in their own schools.
Britain’s independent school inspectorate, OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills), awarded us an “outstanding” rating in all performance categories.
Our students’ academic results are among the best in the country. As a result, our graduating students are now attending the world’s best universities. Above all, we produce students who are kind-hearted, community-spirited and well-rounded.
I know Australia can be home to many Michaela-like schools. But that will take overturning the progressive educational orthodoxy so entrenched in school systems like Australia’s.
Discipline can no longer be a dirty word in schools. Structure, predictability and processes allow students to be confident about everything that’s going on and what’s expected of them.
We don’t do this – despite what my critics seem to think – because we hate children. To the contrary, it’s because we love them that we provide the scaffolding they need. While we may be badged “Britain’s strictest school”, our motto is to “work hard and be kind”.
I was recently encouraged to hear that the NSW government plans to appoint a schools behaviour adviser. Since we followed a similar process in Britain, it has helped empower many more teachers and principals to improve practice. While this doesn’t mean results will turn around overnight, it does go a long way to putting schools on a better track.
The first obligation of educators is to provide all students the opportunity to learn. The Michaela model offers a proven concept in how to overcome the educational odds. Schools in Australia – in fact, anywhere in the world – can do the same.
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Katharine Birbalsingh is principal and founder of London’s Michaela Community School. In recognition of her accomplishments in redressing educational disadvantage, Birbalsingh was appointed chair of Britain’s Social Mobility Commission. She will address the Centre for Independent Studies in a public event in Sydney on Sunday, October 23.
Oz
This should not be news to anyone reading this blog.
Family member got burglaried over the weekend, by professionals it would seem.
Police report made, apparently they are very busy with looters in Maribynong.
Some people.
One of the two N2 pipelines is undamaged.
If only VicPlod were as good with looters as they were pepper spraying an old lady or arresting a pregnant bogan for a facebook post.
If only VicPlod were as good with looters as they were stomping on a mentally challenged chaps head or snatching nanna’s phone.
If only VicPlod were as good with looters as they were body slamming that chap at the railway station or dragging that young bird out of her car.
A pipeline explosion in a LNG producer in Texas two weeks ago.
Two further producer shutdowns, one in Texas, one in Oklahoma.
No more LNG exports to Europe. No more fertiliser manufacture for European farmers. Food shortages (used to be called famine) inevitable.
& who could forget, if only VicPlod were as good with looters as the unmarked VicPlod driver was getting out of dodge when the protest took an unexpected turn up his street.
“It’s Already Too Late, Things Are Getting Serious” | Jordan Peterson 2022
A nice summary of the VicPlod violence from Rita.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvVaKFB65lw
Protecting citizens from looters?
Nah, not our job mate.
To crash their own case?
You’ve gotta wonder what they were thinking. Surely they knew what her responses would be.
This happened in my very first job. The boss was charged & tried (Pell style) for a crime that never happened.
He’d supposedly done it in the presence of all the men who worked for him.
Prosecution called every one of us as a (prosecution) witness.
The prosecution never spoke to us before they started putting us on the stand. They were stunned when we all said there was no crime & what they’d charged him for had never happened.
These wallies actually believed their own case. It never occurred to them that the cops had made the whole thing up, totally, out of thin air.
Remember this VicPlod?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvhLDEb6Ms
“Here we go, boys”.
Victoria’s finest.
A post worthy of the top of the page.
It is important for men to remember that, as women grow older, it becomes harder for them to maintain the same quality of housekeeping as when they were younger. When you notice this, try not to yell at them. Some are oversensitive, and there’s nothing worse than an oversensitive woman.
My name is Rod. Let me relate how I handled the situation with my wife. When I retired a few years ago, it became necessary for Andrea to get a full-time job, along with her part-time job, both for extra income and for the health benefits that we needed. Shortly after she started working, I noticed she was beginning to show her age. I usually get home from the golf club about the same time she gets home from work.
Although she knows how hungry I am, she almost always says she has to rest for half an hour or so before she starts dinner. I don’t yell at her. Instead, I tell her to take her time and just wake me when she gets dinner on the table. I generally have lunch in the Men’s Grille at the club, so eating out is not reasonable. I’m ready for some home-cooked grub when I hit that door. She used to do the dishes as soon as we finished eating. But now it’s not unusual for them to sit on the table for several hours after dinner.
I do what I can by diplomatically reminding her several times each evening that they won’t clean themselves. I know she really appreciates this, as it does seem to motivate her to get them done before she goes to bed.
Another symptom of aging is complaining, I think. For example, she will say that it is difficult for her to find time to pay the monthly bills during her lunch hour. But, boys, we take ’em for better or worse, so I just smile and offer encouragement. I tell her to stretch it out over two, or even three days. That way, she won’t have to rush so much. I also remind her that missing lunch completely now and then wouldn’t hurt her any (if you know what I mean). I like to think tact is one of my strong points.
When doing simple jobs, she seems to think she needs more rest periods. She had to take a break when she was only half-finished mowing the yard. I try not to make a scene. I’m a fair man. I tell her to fix herself a nice, big, cold glass of freshly squeezed lemonade and just sit for a while. And, as long as she is making one for herself, she may as well make one for me, too.
I know that I probably look like a saint in the way I support my wife. I’m not saying that showing this much consideration is easy. Many men will find it difficult. Some will find it impossible! Nobody knows better than I do how frustrating women get as they get older. However, Guys, even if you just use a little more tact and less criticism of your aging wife because of this article, I will consider that writing it was well worthwhile. After all, we are put on this earth to help each other.
NOTE: Rod, died suddenly on April 21st of a perforated rectum. The police report says he was found with a Calloway extra-long 50-inch Big Bertha Driver II golf club jammed up his rear end, with barely 5 inches of grip showing, and a sledge hammer laying nearby. His wife was arrested and charged with murder. The all-woman jury took only 10 minutes to find her Not Guilty, accepting her defence that Rod, somehow without looking, accidentally sat down on his golf club.
He needed singling out by the hard boys in the protest mob, for special treatment to be administered when the crowd surged forward.
Yet bern, Andrews will be re-elected because ‘he kept us safe’. FMD.
If Cook gets up and wins Mulgrave, all is not lost for Premier Fuckface.
Most likely be parachuted into a safe Labor seat here in Victoriastan.
It’ll be a big shame job for him though.
We have to take wins where we can find them in hard-core ALP zones.
School is a joke, Top Ender.
At best, it’s a racket.
They aren’t. They’re starving and freezing for Gaia.
Vlad is just a convenient squirrel for the elites to blame.
Europe has enough coal to power itself for about 20000 years.
It is building a narrative as to why Britnah took nearly two years to report it to the cops.
It wasn’t because of the urging of her new besties (Mrs Bandana and Sam “I’ve only had one occifer” Maiden) or the lure of the book deal.
It was because the evil Liberals threatened her career if she did.
So it goes like this:-
Yet bern, Andrews will be re-elected because ‘he kept us safe’. FMD.
It will be a landslide.
Not a WA size one, but a big one all the same.
Dan wins, calls time in a year or so.
Goes off to an industry super board, maybe some Linfox work too, in time.
Finally, spending some time on the board of the MCG trust (is that a big thing in Victoria like it in NSW?).
Chicken or egg?
The west was built by Western European christians with a strong work ethic and an average population IQ of 100.
For a long time, their ‘5 eyes’ diaspora prospered because IQ is strongly genetic and what your society looks like depends upon its average IQ.
if you doubt that, explain this graphic:
https://images.app.goo.gl/PZfVTnHy6u6fBvUS9
Decades of deliberate policies which reward failure (aka the welfare state) and an immigration program which preferences arrivals from low IQ countries has pretty much broken the West now. No country with a national IQ below about 92-95 is capable of remaining a civilised democracy.
Or switches to Federal.
I don’t know how big his ego is.
If his is as big as I think he will do that.
Great read in Spiked on Merkel’s long term incompetence, ‘flexible’ political morality, poll driven disasters (nuclear), and taking down EU states to preserve German interest (borders, the European crisis etc).
They slam her for her insane hatred of the US, and her placing Europe into Russian hock, but not as severely as the bitch deserves.
Sandshoe Sancho. Great analysis, Sir.
Great read in Spiked on Merkel’s long term incompetence, ‘flexible’ political morality, poll driven disasters (nuclear), and taking down EU states to preserve German interest (borders, the European crisis etc).
They slam her for her insane hatred of the US, and her placing Europe into Russian hock, but not as severely as the bitch deserves.
She certainly was a very effective KGB/Stasi sleeper agent. You can take the girl out of Communist East Germany but you can’t take the Communist out of the girl.
never forgive, never forget, and not just regarding Vicpol. Include EVERYONE who facilitated this – the doctors, the AMA, the unions, the media, the ‘experts’, everyone – and that includes all the ‘good germans’ who remained silent and complied. This would have ended within days if enough ppl said no.
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Wouldn’t this depend upon Michaela Cash singing the prosecution tune, i.e. that she proactively discouraged Britneh from going to the cops?
What the heck caused the prosecution to think Ms Cash was going to back their story?
Reached out to my wife yesterday to open the gates but she wasn’t home.
test
Have I come to the party late or am I a bit thick? Maybe I shouldn’t speculate like that around here.
It was my understanding that Bruce and Brittany went back to Reynolds’ office in various states of intoxication with Brittany at the higher end of the scale. It was reported that she had face planted at the function they had attended.
I gathered that on the Monday the shit hit the fan ostensibly because of the state of the office. It now appears that it was the next day, Tuesday.
I’m not sure when the actual cleaning took place with some reports indicating on the weekend. If security had arranged cleaning on the weekend then Brittany has certainly not made any complaints about sexual assault or rope. Preservation of the crime scene would have been the first priority. Brittany had just pulled herself together and went home.
On Tuesday, Bruce is called in to face the music. The major issue being the mess the office was left in requiring extensive cleaning. Bruce gets the bullet.
He has cordial interactions with his “victim” prior to his termination.
So then it’s Brittany’s turn to face the music. She’s for the high jump as well as she made the big mess. My understanding is that here she makes the rope allegation. The Chief of Staff takes a step back and Brittany holds her position.
Here it gets a bit murky. Cash has now testified that the first she heard of the rope allegation was almost 2 years later. Higgins had been shifted to her office but nothing was said to her by either Reynolds or Higgins.
I understand that the cops were involved shortly after the event but she chose not to proceed with the complaint. Bruce was kept in the dark until 2 years later when a journalist sought comment from his new employer.
How does Cash not know about this for 2 years?
Netherlands shuts down rich natural gas field amid energy crisis
Is the west really this suicidal?
Presumably the prosecution will explore this in cross-examination.
We’ll know soon enough how Cash handles this line of questioning.
One detail – IIRC it wasn’t the so much the state of the office that triggered the sacking (including her having a pretty good chunder) but the fact that they were there at all, i.e. in a secure area when they weren’t supposed to be.
Is the west really this suicidal?
Some parts, yes.
Good point – that’s been overlooked so far.
Even late intervention will not be able to resuscitate the west.
TheyWe are done.The hole we find ourselves in just tooooo deep.
Seems extraordinary that no one from the DPP’s office interviewed Ms Cash before putting her on the stand.
The same level of extraordinary that appears to have led the prosecution to showcase repeated instances of Brinny’s wobbly truthiness and strange behaviours.
As a New Idea reader, I can only assume the case was considered to be a slam dunk due to celebrity and the Parliamentary apology.
Maybe Europe needs a long, cold, harsh winter to cure them of their Green madness. Frankly for inflicting lead free solder on the world they can end up a roving cannibal gangs, clad in animal skins in a radioactive wasteland for all I care. Fuckwits.
Clearly you’ve never played with an inattentive teenager.
Dr Faustus’ analysis will be spot on:
Anyone who liked Rogue One (almost the best of the Star Wars movies) should give the Andor series a go.
It’s really good.
Is the west really this suicidal?
YES!
Maybe Europe needs a long, cold, harsh winter to cure them of their Green madness.
Maybe the West needs a long, hard lock down to cure them of their acceptance of creeping authoritarianism…oh that’s right.
Yeah, but that could cause subsiding in which case the Dutch would have to build dykes n shit.
How much of this is to believed. Digiknees had first mover advantage.
From commonground.org.au
“First Nations people adapted quickly, often employing guerilla warfare tactics. That is, fast-moving, small-scale actions including ambushes, sabotage and raids. First Nations people used traditional weapons as well as guns. Fire was used to burn off crops. Fire and dingoes were used to scare away cattle and sheep. Dingoes were also used to attack British soldiers. First Nations people also used their deep knowledge of Country to aid them in battle – they had the home ground advantage. “
Not me, ir. Close family and friends are worth fighting for.
First Nations people adapted quickly, often employing guerilla warfare tactics
Wakanda forever !!
Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity says:
October 17, 2022 at 3:13 pm
How does Cash not know about this for 2 years?
Presumably the prosecution will explore this in cross-examination.
We’ll know soon enough how Cash handles this line of questioning.
One detail – IIRC it wasn’t the so much the state of the office that triggered the sacking (including her having a pretty good chunder) but the fact that they were there at all, i.e. in a secure area when they weren’t supposed to be.
Cash has been put on the stand by the prosecution. The defence hasn’t had its go at her yet.
Security let them in. I gather there was no action taken against the security officers so it’s not unusual for after hours access. Being pissed and chunderous was most likely more the problem.
Mandalorian is good.
First nations peoples were the first to develop faster than light travel by using vibranium arc reactors.
True story.
Sorry, I missed where First Nations dictated the terms of the surrender?
I’m sure Germans would love that Russian gas this winter.
And then whitey stole all the vibranium and then the Jews stole the vibranium from whitey.
And that’s what funded Wall Street in the beginning.
Therefore, the first nations people of Australia are entitled to Wall Street.
You know it makes sense.
So, in Cash’s terms, a MINISTERIAL ADVISER who ignores all of the rules of probity and goes out on the piss with DEFENCE CONTRACTORS is a “very, very good employee”.
There is your explanation of why we are fucked, right there.
Yes, and below most Sth Australia they built a Hadron Collider that makes CERN look like a toy.
Most get plucked out pretty early, Senior Associate level or thereabouts. Bishop was an exception- already a partner at Clutz Perth office.
.. and why hasn’t the security guard who checked on Higgins’ first thing in the morning been called up?
So, in Cash’s terms, a MINISTERIAL ADVISER who ignores all of the rules of probity and goes out on the piss with DEFENCE CONTRACTORS is a “very, very good employee”.
There is your explanation of why we are fucked, right there.
She wasn’t a ministerial advisor. She was a media flunky.
Yes, and below most Sth Australia they built a Hadron Collider that makes CERN look like a toy.
It’s below Olympic Dam.
Just don’t tell anyone.
Expect replicas of the Brih-nee dress ten deep during Cup week.
Don’t tell me whoever made that one hasn’t been hawking it all over the A-list Insta sites for months.
I thought she stated that Higgins refused medical help, or an ambulance?
Can’t see the Federal Liars warehousing Chairman Dan. Suspect Peanut Head still has the say so on who gets up in Victoriastan.
Netty News II (the Tele):
Gina’s made the call, it would seem.
Huh? Here I was believing she was one of those who gave testimony in camera during Britney’s six days of anxiety attack.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
October 17, 2022 at 3:46 pm
. and why hasn’t the security guard who checked on Higgins’ first thing in the morning been called up?
I thought she stated that Higgins refused medical help, or an ambulance?
And what about the CCTV. Wot’? No cameras working in the Building?
Abdul and his friend Mohammed are trying to migrate to Australia as skilled workers.
They go to the Australian embassy in Lahore and start filling out the application. Mohammed goes into an interview room with an embassy officer and they start discussing his work experience and whether he qualifies as skilled labour.
“So what do you do, Mohammed?” says the embassy worker. “I work in a women’s underwear factory and I cut out the underwear fabric before its gets stitched up”. “I’m sorry” says the embassy guy “but that’s not skilled labour. We can’t give you a visa”.
A dejected Mohammed went back to the waiting room and waited for Abdul.
A few minutes later, Abdul comes out so excited. He got his work visa! He’s going to Australia!
Disappointed, Mohammed asked the embassy worker why Abdul got a visa and not him.
“Well” said the embassy guy “Abdul is a diesel fitter, which is the kind of skilled labour we need in Australia”. “What do you mean?” says Mohammed. “Abdul works at the same factory as me. I cut the underwear’s out, and then when the ladies come in to buy them from the shop, he holds up the underwear’s and says ‘These’ll fit her’”.
Apparently cctv is only at the security point.
It is “not necessary” to surveil the corridor antics of ministers.
and why hasn’t the security guard who checked on Higgins’ first thing in the morning been called up?
Was in the witness box last week.
And ScoMo knew all this. Unimaginable that Reynolds and Cash did not tell him.
It pays to be the piper.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
– Winston Churchill
More on the Frontier Wars , it’s happening still today.
“The Frontier Wars may seem like they happened a long time ago. But the trauma of what happened to First Nations people has been passed down through the generations. It is important to remember that just because Europeans stopped killing First Nations people under the Frontier Wars, it doesn’t mean that First Nations people have stopped dying as a result of British invasion and the ongoing processes of colonisation. First Nations people are still dying at an alarming rate today.”
When Big Business Went Woke
Dying at the rate of one death per person – same as everybody else.
I loved Rogue One.
But…if it’s on the Disney channel I ain’t watching.
If their average life expectancy is above 27, they are smacking it out of the park.
The teacher asks Johnny if he knows his numbers. “Yes” he says. “My Daddy taught me”. “Can you tell me what comes after three?” “Four” “What comes after six?” “Seven” “Very good” says the teacher. “Your dad did a very fine job. What comes after ten?” “A Jack” answers Johnny…
Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Includes Illegal Immigrants
From Armstrong Economics –
“An Illinois county is paying illegal immigrants for making it across the border and winding up in the mess that is the Chicago area. US taxpayers already pay around $20 billion annually to support those who entered illegally, but that amount is expected to rise significantly. Although impossible to forget, this is occurring on the backdrop of serious inflation and a looming global recession. Now, lawmakers are promising Guaranteed Basic Income to this same group.
The Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot is testing Guaranteed Basic Income on 3,250 households across the county. They will each receive $500 per month with “no strings attached.” Again, free money is never free. Those eligible must be adults 250% beneath the federal poverty line or households over four earning under $69,375.
It is estimated that 36% of county residents will be permitted to apply. “Participants are free to spend the money however they see fit to meet their needs, within the bounds of the law,” the website states. “This pilot is open to all residents of Cook County, regardless of your immigration status. This means that if you are undocumented, or your household is a mixed-status household, and you meet the eligibility criteria above, you are eligible to participate. We will not share information on immigration status with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).”
They claim the funds will come from the American Rescue Plan Act, an act funded by Americans that was intended for Americans. Welcome to modern-day America where individual counties are permitted to practice socialism at your expense.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/guaranteed-basic-income-pilot-includes-illegal-immigrants/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
It is “not necessary” to surveil the corridor antics of ministers.
Bit ruff! .. taxpayers expecting their elected betters to be as accountable as them! .. where does it stop! ..
No alcohol in Parliament House and driving electric cars .. the horror!
ah – during the media blackout?
btw, Reynolds knows the sting was in.
I presume that Niki was Savva.. known Lib hater.
Stolen.
So did I.
Elon Musk Revoking Ukrainian Aid
From Armstrong Economics –
“Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. SpaceX founder Elon Musk came to Ukraine’s rescue when they lost access to the internet. Musk’s sent Ukraine 20,000 Starlink satellite units at the cost of $80 million. After Elon Musk posted a poll regarding allowing the Ukrainian people to vote on the matter of joining Russia and upholding the referendum, Ukrainian diplomat Andri Melnyk publicly tweeted, “Fuck off is my very diplomatic reply to you.”
So now, Elon is considering doing what Melnyk proposed. Musk was concerned about the cost of operations long before Melnyk’s insult. “We are not in a position to further donate terminals to Ukraine, or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time,” SpaceX said in a letter to the White House dated September 8. The company was urging the Pentagon to fund the project, which they estimate will cost $120 million for the remainder of 2022 and $400 million for the next 12 months. Ukrainian General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, meanwhile, is requesting 8,000 additional Starlink terminals.
Now Musk is considering back peddling and removing his funding to Ukraine. He stated that his company could no longer afford the costs to fund this endless war. When he received negative feedback online, he replied, “We’re just following the recommendation,” and replied directly to Andri Melnyk. This is what happens when you bite the hand that feeds you.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/elon-musk-considers-revoking-ukrainian-aid/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
FTB,
I did like Rogue One but it is telling that I was more emotionally invested in a robot than any of the human characters. I said I would never watch another Star Wars after the infuriating Obi Wan.
I will give Andor a go on your recommendation. But if I have to through another remote at the TV, I will hold you personally responsible.
Really trying to elevate black fellas above titans such as Newton et al aren’t they? Just give it a rest you academic flogs.
Is that what Stan Grant gets done every other week?
You too? I thought I was the only one. 😀
Live a Third World Lifestyle…..
He seems to have a lot of time on his hands…is he writing from prison?
cavemansays:
October 17, 2022 at 3:24 pm
The Waffen Redcoats, elite commandoes of dooom!!, all 130 of them vs proto-wakanda worriers, who would win?
Good villain in Rogue One.
So you reached out to him?
“I presume that Niki was Savva.. known Lib hater.”
Which means Turnbull was involved.
No, but my kids bought be a K2SO bobble head for my desk.
High excess deaths in Australia
Dr. John Campbell
100%?
Funny…that’s the same rate as white people.
Well, that’s one gap we don’t have to fret about.
Vax status?
Potential headline of the year:
Doctor’s bizarre ‘no hips’ excuse after he’s accused of dropping his pants mid-surgery, ‘mutilating’ a dad’s penis and blowing his nose on an operating theatre curtain
To be fair we’ve all had days like this.
This trial is just like Russia v Ukraine. What happens on the surface is practically irrelevant.
Not me.
“Aboriginal Nation – Never Was, Never Will Be.” “I don’t need to be welcomed to my own Country.”
Seems mine are in the mail…
Big, if true!
cavemansays:
October 17, 2022 at 3:24 pm
How much of this is to believed. Digiknees had first mover advantage.
From commonground.org.au
“First Nations people adapted quickly, often employing guerilla warfare tactics. That is, fast-moving, small-scale actions including ambushes, sabotage and raids. First Nations people used traditional weapons as well as guns. Fire was used to burn off crops. Fire and dingoes were used to scare away cattle and sheep. Dingoes were also used to attack British soldiers. First Nations people also used their deep knowledge of Country to aid them in battle – they had the home ground advantage. “
Yet still they lost, or more accurately, more of them preferred white man’s lifestyle to roving the bush looking for forage.
bonssays:
October 17, 2022 at 3:36 pm
So, in Cash’s terms, a MINISTERIAL ADVISER who ignores all of the rules of probity and goes out on the piss with DEFENCE CONTRACTORS is a “very, very good employee”.
What has never been made clear is who was paying for the booze. Anyone care to guess?