Interesting balloon floated by Trump re nuclear arms reductions talks.
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Not just birds but this sun fish missed the human visitors Tokyo: Sunfish that got sick after aquarium closed has…
Haw! 😀
And the strap on.
Deals like this all over. Which fund University activities in one way or another, so it isn’t a stretch to…
m0ntysays:
October 21, 2022 at 8:17 am
Truss is a ideologically a Whig.
Her only meaningful act as PM was a mini-budget full of tax cuts for the rich. That is what history will judge her for. The markets recoiled in horror at this classic piece of Conservative ideology, leading directly to her resignation.
I don’t care about the weeds, what matters is what she did in office. I suspect the next PM won’t make the mistake of proposing a supply-side budget straight out of Hayek.
m0nty-fa desperately burying yesterday’s stupidity.
Whilst I dont understand Russia trying to take Eastern Ukraine with such a small force (100k) – unless they truly believed they would be welcomed as liberators, their subsequent use of that force has made sense:
Turn the Ukes into the attackers, with the Ruskies withdrawing when confronted, using the numerical advantage of the defence and their artillery strength to atrite the ukes.
Certainly, the last 6 months or so of losses of Ukrainian manpower and materiel must have severely weakened them. In addition, much of their gifted hardware has been consumed and supplies of it must be waning. Note also the economic pain being felt by the people of Europe and the upcoming US Mid-terms. The mood for endless support for Ukraine may be waning. My sources still say expect an effective Russian winter offensive to commence before christmas.
With family, cutting off is the last resort, but sometimes it has to be done, at least selectively.
As for Rabz, I grieve for him, in the sense that cutting off forever from your blood is a very big step. He’s a sensitive soul, and it’s a not something to be done and forgotten just like that.
I truly hope for a reconciliation, if only with part of the family.
Apparently its size and shape makes it a very good stage accessory when you run out of ping pong balls.
Kevin Spacey had a win in court.
Rightly or wrongly, the #metoo backlash is alive and well.
Boris Johnson stuck in the Caribbean
Boris Johnson began the mad scramble to become UK Prime Minister (for a second time in around 50 days) with a simple problem: how to even get back to the United Kingdom.
Johnson found himself stranded on a Caribbean island when Liz Truss announced her resignation. With the Conservative Party hierarchy demanding a snap leadership election to replace the prime minister, Johnson remained with his feet stuck in the sand in the Dominican Republic, more than almost 7000 kilometres away from Westminster.
Friends of the former prime minister let it be known he was willing to stand if Conservative MPs would have him, reminding them that he had won the last election by a landslide.
It was a none-too-subtle hint that if Conservative MPs wanted to still be in their jobs after the general election in no more than two years’ time, then Boris was their man. Johnson will have woken up to the news Truss was quitting and set about sending out WhatsApp messages to potential supporters and replying to those orchestrating the cheer-leading on the ground.
As of yesterday, a group of loyal allies led by Nigel Adams, a minister in Johnson’s administration, were canvassing MPs for support. The Boris campaign, should it fully get off the ground, is being led by his “inner circle” of key friends in the Commons, among them Adams, who until Johnson’s resignation was a minister of state in the Cabinet Office.
Conor Burns, another key and reliable backer of Johnson’s, was understood to be kept out of the picture, having been sacked by Truss over an alleged groping incident that the former international trade minister denies.
With the telephone operation gearing up, Johnson contemplated how to get back to the UK in quick time. Under the compressed leadership timetable, there was little window of opportunity to meet, greet and persuade MPs in person to vote Boris.
Well-placed sources said that Johnson would not be returning until Friday morning (Saturday AEDT) on a scheduled British Airways flight through the night, with a stop en route in Antigua. The aircraft is due to land at Gatwick Airport at 9.30am on Friday (Saturday AEDT).
The alternative included flying back to the UK via New York on a US airline that would get Johnson to the Commons on Thursday evening (Friday AEDT), jetlagged or not in time to canvass in person. Or else, Johnson could somehow requisition a private jet to take him from the Caribbean island.
If gay men acting out their lust for young flesh becomes a serious crime, we’re gonna need a bigger Death Camp?
Monty – Plus approving fracking. Which has been fun bit of hypocrisy from the Left, since they squeal about earthquakes, yet say nothing about that issue regarding geothermal wells.
For dear Lidia.
🙂
In my time in the ADF, every time you came back from ‘somewhere nasty’, you had an ‘exit country’ health check which included a psych screen. I asked the shrink why it was that better people than me clearly got hurt by their experiences, tipping over into PTSD, whereas I always felt strengthened by what I had seen and what I had learned.
The shrink nodded wisely and said ‘ahhh… thats post traumatic GROWTH’.
I regard the last 2 1/2 years as a once in a lifetime opportunity for growth. I have learned how malleable and weak most people are (including so many of my colleagues and relatives), how little you can actually depend on them when the chips are down, and who the (very small) members of my true tribe are.
Viewed through that lens, I have nothing to ‘forgive’ all those who failed me. They have revealed themselves as unworthy. I dont blame them – no one knows how they will perform under fire until the bangs start. They were simply not up to the job.
A guide to the mayhem of Liz Truss’ doomed prime ministership
London | After 45 days as prime minister, the majority of which was spent clinging on for her political life, Liz Truss announced Thursday that she is resigning. Now she is set to become the shortest-serving occupant of Downing Street in 300 years of British history.
A disastrous series of self-inflicted wounds – which turned into a political death spiral – began with a misfired attempt by the Conservative Party leader to radically reorient the government’s economic agenda by slashing taxes without saying how the decision would be paid for. It sent the markets reeling, and Truss never recovered.
By the end, Truss had grown so unpopular that her fellow party lawmakers were publicly contemplating plans to replace her.
This is what happened:
Why was Truss so unpopular?
By the end of her tenure, according to a YouGov poll, Truss’s net favourability stood at minus-70 per cent. If that figure had continued its downward slide, she would have been on track to overtake Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has a net favorability rating of minus-84 percent among members of the British public.
Truss became prime minister on September 6 after being elected by members of the Conservative Party to replace Boris Johnson as their leader. Her first two weeks included the death of Queen Elizabeth II and were politically muted while the country entered a period of mourning.
But on September 23, her finance minister, Kwasi Kwarteng, made a fatal misstep: Without any warning to the markets, he unveiled a significant shift in the country’s economic strategy, promising to slash taxes for the highest earners and biggest corporations – with no plans to pay for it.
Almost immediately, the British pound’s valuation tanked, the UK’s central bank was forced to hike interest rates, and the cost of taking out mortgages soared.
Inflation – already at record highs – raised the cost of living further, shredding the Conservative Party’s reputation for fiscal responsibility. Working-class voters who were drawn to Conservatives by their embrace of Brexit were turned off by a renewed sense that the party represented only the interests of financial elites.
Truss made so few public appearances in the ensuing days that one of her ministers, standing in for her during a parliamentary grilling, told lawmakers that the prime minister was “not under a desk” hiding – a reassurance that succeeded solely in prompting people to picture her doing just that.
What did a fracking vote have to do with low confidence in Truss?
The fracking vote was the final straw for Truss.
On Wednesday, spotting the chance to strike a political blow, the opposition Labour Party put forward a motion in Parliament to ban fracking, an issue that has divided the Conservatives.
The Conservatives initially attempted to turn the vote into a show of strength for Truss’s government, threatening any lawmakers who did not vote against Labour’s motion with expulsion from the party.
But as reports of growing dissent within the party mounted, they appeared to row back on the threat shortly after. The result was a scene of pure chaos, with few lawmakers clear on the vote’s significance. Conservative lawmakers were “manhandled” into the parliamentary chamber to support the government, the Daily Telegraph reported.
The vote was eventually held with 40 Conservative abstentions – which, for some reason, included Truss herself. The Times reported an extraordinary scene of Truss apparently chasing the chief whip, Wendy Morton, across the Parliamentary estate and losing her own security detail in the chaos.
In a live television interview that evening, a visibly seething Conservative lawmaker, Charles Walker, described the situation as an “absolute disgrace,” blaming “talentless” colleagues for supporting Truss’s bid to become leader – “not because it’s in the national interest, but because it’s in their personal interest to achieve ministerial position.”
The public’s view of how the party handled itself is so dim that as many as half of all Conservative lawmakers could lose their seat in a general election, he said.
How many officials were fired or quit under Truss?
Three. Including 50 per cent of her most senior ministers in a single week.
First went Kwarteng, the architect of Truss’s vision for economic growth and a longtime political ally. Truss fired him and replaced him with Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s fourth finance minister in as many months. With the markets roiling in the wake of Kwarteng’s disastrous “mini-budget,” the decision did not come as a surprise for a prime minister searching for ways to stem the bleeding of her political authority.
Then went Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who quit October 19. This resignation was unexpected: ostensibly, it was over a technical breach of the ministerial code after Braverman sent secret documents from her personal email. But in a blistering resignation letter, Braverman made clear she was unhappy with the direction of Truss’s government.
If losing two ministers in Britain’s four Great Offices of State in less than a week wasn’t enough drama, British outlets reported the same day that Truss’s top aide, Jason Stein, had been suspended after anonymously criticising fellow Conservative lawmakers to reporters.
Truss’s press secretary refused to comment on staffing matters Wednesday but said the prime minister believed certain media briefings about parliamentary colleagues had been “completely unacceptable.”
What’s next for British politics?
The bitterly divided Conservative Party will now vote on who among their lawmakers should replace Truss.
“We’ve agreed that there will be a leadership election to be completed within the next week,” Truss said in announcing her resignation. “I will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen.”
It is not clear whether the process will be limited to the party’s parliamentary lawmakers or whether grass-roots members will be invited to vote, as well. The latter seems unlikely given the short timeline outlined.
Names such as former finance minster Rishi Sunak, who in September lost the contest for Conservative leadership to Truss, and cabinet minister Penny Mordaunt have been touted as front-runners.
If they cannot decide within their party, the UK could go to a general election. This has been favoured by the Labour Party, which has seen its popularity soar in recent weeks thanks to Truss. It would also allow the public a democratic say, given Truss was never elected by the popular vote and was nominated by Conservative members.
What has lettuce and tofu got to do with the drama?
Vegetables have entered the stage, people.
Earlier in the week, Home Secretary Suella Braverman lambasted the “Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati” while speaking in parliament.
Her comment, meant to insult left-leaning liberals, spawned songs, online memes and jokes, adding fuel to culture wars.
When she was forced to resign a day later, Twitter had a predictable field day.
And as Truss’s credibility crumbled, British newspaper columns poked fun at her, predicting that her career would have “the shelf-life of a lettuce,” which is about 10 days.
One tabloid, the Daily Star, went a step further, setting up a 24-hour live video of a head of lettuce (at times dressed in a wig or glasses) next to a picture of Truss, asking viewers which would wilt first.
On Thursday, the lettuce won.
As Gilas said. The sooner the better.
CDC advisory group votes to add COVID-19 shot to child vaccination schedule
These people are perfectly prepared to knowingly sacrifice the next generation for financial gain and personal advancement. There are no words bad enough to describe them.
While dealing with a family Probate matter in NSW, I learnt that:
A) The Land and Titles Office is now a fully private concern, ie. Pty Ltd under the “oversight” of the Dept. of the Registrar General.
B) Paper Property Title Deeds no longer exist. Haven’t been usable since November 2021.
They are now only suitable for framing on a wall.
C) There are two/three (depending on the State) private companies which hold property Title information, in digital form only, on their own, private databases.
I don’t know where the servers are located, Chaynerr maybe??
and
D) The only information of this having happened appears to be online, in the form of a homogenised press-release in perfect bureaucratese.
No MSM articles.
No MSM details, questioning, outrage.. nada.. zip!
My lawyer confirmed all of the above.
Were Cats aware of all this?
On Kevin Spacey.
That whole thing was a variation on the Hollywood starlet thing. Aspiring young actor engages in an enthusiastic romp with older, influential industry figure, hoping for career progression.
Older man reneges on deal.
Young actor becomes angry and retrospectively withdraws consent.
What we got here is possibly a civil case for breach of contract, not criminal assault.
The laughable thing was Spacey playing the “I now choose to live my life as a gay man” card.
I was once a part of a 2 man CFS turnout to cut up a tree across an Adelaide Hills Road. The local ‘traffic’ police turned up as well, and sat in their car with the beacons on upstream. I had to stop cutting, and take a ‘stop-go’ sign up to them and suggest that they get out and do their jobs!
I grew up in PNG. Young and gormless despite having three kiddies in tow. Saw stuff I wish I could unsee, experienced some horrible goings on including riots outside my front gate.
What you say is true. The exoskeleton is resilient but there’s still a fair bit of marshmallow still inside. Which is probably a good thing.
Not a bit of it, Gilas. What happens if the data is hacked/deleted?
why the world has become unfun
and how to reclaim our joy
Oh, and a process that would take a few minutes, and cost less than $100 (in 2009), now can take up to three weeks and cost close to $1000.
And it was all done in secrecy… in jolly bi-partisan camraderie, by the SFLs.
Yes. People get very funny about paper titles. Under a Torrens Title system they are about as valuable as a photocopy. There have been a few frauds under Torrens title but on the whole it is pretty good compared to the alternatives.
Bluddee hell – Trussed lasted so long I never even had an opportunity to denounce her as a fraudulent incompetent bimbo.
Chiple Jay news mentioned that fat mop headed imbecile might try and make a comeback.
Beyond Vaudeville, beyond parody. Political wasteland doesn’t even come close to describing that sorry cavalcade of preposterous bloated buffoons.
Because the only thing you excel at is wrongology, Monty, it goes without saying you’re shit at politics and economics.
It hasn’t occurred to you and your audience of Twitter parrots that there is no such thing nowadays as a tax cut for the poor because the poor pay no tax.
In fact, the only people who pay tax nowadays are the rich.
In other words, the only tax cut that is now possible is a tax cut for the rich.
The rich are now the only people who make government possible.
The Top 1 Percent Pays More in Taxes than the Bottom 90 Percent.
63k people had died within 7 weeks of receiving a Booster COVID Vaccine Dose in England between January & March 2022
Gilassays:
October 21, 2022 at 8:45 am
While dealing with a family Probate matter in NSW, I learnt that:
A) The Land and Titles Office is now a fully private concern, ie. Pty Ltd under the “oversight” of the Dept. of the Registrar General.
B) Paper Property Title Deeds no longer exist. Haven’t been usable since November 2021.
They are now only suitable for framing on a wall.
C) There are two/three (depending on the State) private companies which hold property Title information, in digital form only, on their own, private databases.
I don’t know where the servers are located, Chaynerr maybe??
Were Cats aware of all this?
Yes, Sister passed away Nov 2020 and as joint owners of an investment property had previously chasing Title Deed from Solicitors and was advised now irrelevant – went online and CT – just 1 sheet of paper with not alot of Information – no mortgages, no prior dealings as on the Old Paper Deeds.
Still chasing to get Old Title Deeds as a memory
https://online.nswlrs.com.au/wps/portal/six/find-records/!ut/p/z1/hY7NDoIwEISfhSfYLT_tciw2yo9KEROhF8OBKEYQE4OvbzUmntS57cy3kwEDFZihmbpDc-suQ3O2d234PtSMWERuiowIZVZE_sadMyQOu3-AsTF-kUT7b17IbCFjXyyt6ZOLiYpiJcIVYsLfwI-O2m4Qnw15qgOUZaFzyTIPUUD57LhCrTR5yLmA9fbY9i2MfYWnYJzu0nEesLEyFg!!/dz/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/#
ACIP committee approves mRNA vaccines for the childhood schedule 15-0
cats, the answer to “a lack of truss”?
lettuce see what happens when we add a little malign creativity
I’m def. one of your tribe Ducky. There aren’t many of us for sure.
Calli, this reminds me of the songs newlyweds choose for their first dance at the wedding reception. Some are very relevant, some poignant and some just bizarre. The main thing is that these obviously have deep meanings to the happy couple.
Ioannidis: The median IFR for kids is just 0.0003%
If your kid gets COVID, the risk is 3 in 1 million that your child will die from COVID. And that is likely an over-estimate because today all early treatment protocols are suppressed worldwide.
Lawmakers look to pass massive Ukraine aid package before a new, redder Congress meets in January
Suspect we haven’t heard the last of Thorpe and Bandt. The weasel will carry a few scars after this.
US reassures OPEC that the Russian oil price cap won’t be replicated to also target the cartel, report says
promising to slash taxes for the highest earners and biggest corporations – with no plans to pay for it.
I expect nothing less from the AFR, but we should waste no opportunity to restate that a government reducing the amount of money it seizes from an economy is in no way an expense, a cost, or a gift
Yep. Yet another ridiculous decision by our beloved “conservative” NSW government*.
*Soon to go the same way as the gliberals/nationals in WA, SA and Victoria
Did Henry Ford’s Success Come About Because He Demanded the Execution of Horses?
Now that neither side of politics cares about debt, Taxation is only used now to punish citizens and shape behaviour. If *part* of the budget can be funded by inflationary money printing, *all* of it can be. (Yes I know this goes tits up eventually and the currency collapses).
Why Global Elites Won’t End War in Ukraine Until Russia is DestroyedWhy Global Elites Won’t End War in Ukraine Until Russia is Destroyed
Br relevant wedding song in the comment above I meant that these were obviously wedding or love themed themed songs. On the other side, I have been to a wedding where the newlyweds danced to “You will never walk alone”. I thought that was so obviously right only to be later told that the reason it was chosen is that both of the newlyweds were Liverpool fans.
Nonsense, Tom. If you had said income tax you would have been right, but the prevalence of consumption taxes these days puts a lie to your assertion.
Truss’s tax cuts were unfunded and would have blown out the budget deficit. This is a time-honoured tactic by conservatives to eventually defund government welfare and other progressive measures. It has been 40 years since Reagan, the jig has long since been up on that one.
Recently bought the farm in WA, yes all titles are “online” here now. Fresh certificate of title was handed over to the bank for mortgage, now it’s all gone.
Haven’t chased it up yet, because I’m terrible at getting important stuff done, but I’d be interested if they’d issue any type of receipt or holding statement.
Dr. Robert Malone
ACIP Votes to ADD COVID-19 Injections to the Childhood Schedule
Public Trust is gone.
13-year-old died ‘sudden cardiac death’ after collapsing at football match
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
– William Shakespeare
I generally enjoy “The Mocker’s” weekly columns in the Australian…but today he has outdone himself with a delightful takedown of ParrotFace Bowen.
One of the best weapons in the conservative and/or classical liberals’ armoury, is ParrotFace..
Indolentsays:
October 21, 2022 at 9:10 am
Why Global Elites Won’t End War in Ukraine Until Russia is Destroyed
But we need to go back further…
BRICS nations challenge the dollar
Enter Trump
Trump is a traditional American economic nationalist, not a globalist. He knew there was more money to gain in peaceful cooperation than antagonism, opting for neutrality against the Russians rather than conflict.
The global elites threw everything they could to discredit Trump and remove him from office, or a least twist public opinion to limit Trump to a foreign policy of aggression against Russia. Eventually, they did get rid of Trump because when he lost the 2020 election.
Fast forward four years later, with Joe Biden in power and post-pandemic, we are on the brink of total economic collapse as America and the west continue to throw billions of dollars at Ukraine as we struggle to heat our homes amid soaring energy costs and inflation.
So what now?
They do not want peace. It is terrible what Putin is doing in Ukraine, but it is also undeniable he is a thorn in the side of the globalists, hence why he has become the nuclear bogeyman of our time, similar to how Trump became the ‘orange man bad’ during the four years of his presidency, despite not starting any wars.
To understand the play of the global elites, you have to think in terms of inversion; everything is either projection, perverted, back to front, the opposite of what they say….with a smidgen of truth thrown in to confuse you even more. But there is a much bigger game at play; a 5D chess game most people simply cannot fathom.
One thing is for sure; people are rapidly waking up to the inner workings of this sinister agenda. As these unelected rulers race towards their finish line of total global enslavement, more of us are hearing the increasingly loud clunks of the prison doors being slammed shut. The more desperate the global elites become, the faster we wake up.
‘The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.’ – Julian Assange
Gilas @ 8.45 am
Yes I was aware, but I am in the profession.
The “privatisation” was flagged back in 2017 and 2018 and I attempted to raise the alarm at my local National Party branch meetings and FWIW we did at that branch pass a Motion in protest and urging better consideration of the implications.
Obviously that made no impact in Macquarie St.
And my Nats membership lapsed in 2019.
I see Liz Truss has done what she does best and thrown herself under a bus.
Two of the ABC’s points of analysis:
She was a victim of “the glass cliff” – organisations experiencing difficulties put a woman in charge and set her up to fail.
She was the victim of her “unfunded” tax cuts .
Your tax dollars at work.
It only makes no sense if you are in denial or living under a rock.
It makes perfect sense to those that have been trying to tell you what’s going on for the last 2 and a half years.
The ones who told you not to take the jab which is killing an average of 600 people a week in Australia alone according to ABS’s own figures.
A coup happened a long time ago.
Paddy goes to war with France.
The French President, is sitting in his office when his telephone rings.
“Hallo, Mr. Macron” a heavily accented voice said “this is Paddy down at the Harp Pub in County Clare, Ireland. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring war on you!” “Well, Paddy” Macron replied “this is indeed important news! How big is your army?” “Right now” says Paddy, after a moment’s calculation “there is meself, me cousin Sean, me next door neighbour Seamus, and the entire darts team from the pub. That makes eight!”
Macron paused.
“I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100,000 men in my army waiting to move on my command”. “Begoora!” says Paddy “I’ll have to ring you back”.
Sure enough, the next day, Paddy calls again.
“Mr. Macron, the war is still on. We have managed to get us some infantry equipment!” “And what equipment would that be, Paddy?” Macron asks. “Well, we have two combines, a bulldozer, and Murphy’s farm tractor”.
Macron sighs amused.
“I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 6,000 tanks and 5,000 armoured personnel carriers. Also, I have increased my army to 150,000 since we last spoke”. “Saints preserve us!” says Paddy “I’ll have to get back to you”.
Sure enough, Paddy rings again the next day.
“Mr. Macron, the war is still on! We have managed to get ourselves airborne! We have modified Jackie McLaughlin’s ultra-light with a couple of shotguns in the cockpit, and four boys from the Shamrock Bar have joined us as well!”
Macron was silent for a minute and then cleared his throat.
“I must tell you, Paddy, that I have 100 bombers and 200 fighter planes. My military bases are surrounded by laser-guided, surface-to-air missile sites. And since we last spoke, I have increased my army to 200,000!” “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!” says Paddy “I will have to ring you back”.
Sure enough, Paddy calls again the next day.
“Top o’ the mornin’, Mr. Macron, I am sorry to inform you that we have had to call off the war”. “Really? I am sorry to hear that” says Macron “why the sudden change of heart?” “Well” says Paddy “we had a long chat over a few pints of Guinness, and we decided there is no fookin’ way we can feed 200,000 prisoners.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
– William Shakespeare
Nolte: MSNBC Compares Trump Supporters to ‘Lice, Fleas, Blood-Sucking Ticks’
MSNBC’s ongoing and relentless Nazi-style dehumanization campaign against Trump supporters took an especially ugly (but not unexpected) turn this week when the far-left outlet compared Trump supporters to “the lice, the fleas, and the blood-sucking ticks.”
This comes on top of what the Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson aptly described as MSNBC’s Rwanda-style race hate:
You don’t want to live in Rwanda, but in MSNBC, they’re already there. Now, you probably knew about Joy Reid, the race lady who’s been fixated on race hate for years now, but MSNBC has a new host, someone called Tiffany Cross, who hosts a show called “The Cross Connection.” Here’s a selection:
Scapegoating an entire race or class of people, wide swaths of human beings, comes straight from the Nazi Playbook used against the Jews.
Trafalgar Night
Today an age-old tradition of the Royal Australian Navy will be observed. We will always do well to remember Horatio Nelson, the greatest fighting sailor who ever lived, and one who should serve as a model for naval people everywhere.
Daily Mail.
Good news for the day.
Atlassian getting close to the old lows again.
All we need is quarterly result that is badly received and the stock will halve. Please God.
If you are all taken up with the theatre the globalists have provided as an excuse to destroy the west, that being the Ukraine war, you are doing exactly…EXACTLY…what they want you to be doing.
Once communists take over, …and you can call them what you want, they can call themselves what they want, but they are indeed communists, and from communist backgrounds, you have history to help you work out what is happening.
A few more of you denialists need to tune in to people who know it, like Neil Oliver.
It may stop you being so fucking thick, and get you back to a position to see things clearly, untainted by your recent brainwashing into denialism.
These pages , due to a few here, are an embarrassment of ignorance, due to NOT WANTING to know the truth.
New Zealand mandates jargon cutback
The Plain Language Bill will appoint ‘plain language officers’ to police politicians’ speech for sesquipedalianism
Government officials in New Zealand will be required to cut back on jargon and “complicated English words” in their public-facing messaging, under the Plain Language Bill passed by Parliament on Wednesday. It requires royal assent to take effect.
The legislation defines plain language as “clear, concise and well organized” language that is “appropriate to the intended audience.” All reporting agencies will be required to appoint “plain language officers” responsible for ensuring compliance and interfacing with the public. These speech police will report to the Public Service Commissioner within six months of the law taking effect with their findings, and will deliver yearly compliance reports.
The measure aims to create a “more inclusive democracy” by ensuring those who speak English as a second language, who are marginally literate, or have disabilities can participate in government. Backed by the Labour, Green, and Maori parties, it has met with opposition from the National and ACT parties, with National MP Simeon Brown describing it as “a solution looking for a problem.” The legislation will create bureaucracy by adding an unnecessary layer of civil servants at a time when the state employs a record number of people, critics said, complaining about a lack of enforcement protocols and arguing that a law shouldn’t be needed to motivate officials to speak plainly.
“They love the Aussie dollar”
Apparently its size and shape makes it a very good stage accessory when you run out of ping pong balls.
Exclusive footage here….
/go on click it, click it…. CLICK IIIIIT!
no doubt monty would also back the imminent cancellation of the stage 3 tax cuts, despite the top income decile in Oz paying over 50% of income tax revenue.
Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I’m the Irish comedian with seven and a half fingers.
– Dave Allen
Don’t have a reference, but apparently the French Navy are in the habit of drinking a toast to the sharpshooter who inflicted the fatal wound…….
I thought she was selected by Tory Party members.
sesquipedalianism
Yes, I had to look it up – Shakespeare and Upstart Crow would have approved
A cold northern winter might be the impetus for a great reset
a good deal different to the great reset.
ABC: Another $200 million to ‘save’ Great Barrier Reef.
Several years ago a rello worked in Land Titles when it was restructuring as a Quango.
As a mid-level manager at the time, she qualified for:
a) NSW public service working conditions of flexitime, gold plated superannuation/retirement benefits, short working hours, tenure, HR protection etc etc AND
b) private enterprise salary levels which had to be “competitive” i.e. huge.
Win-win for the rello, lose-lose for the taxpayer.
Once communists take over, …and you can call them what you want, they can call themselves what they want, but they are indeed communists, and from communist backgrounds, you have history to help you work out what is happening.
There are no communists on Planet Earth as communism doesn’t work. There are plenty of Gangsters though…………………………….
Trouble at t’BOM:
The Grauniad
Tanya won’t be able to laugh this one away.
Let’s seriously look at what happened in the Ukraine with the understanding that Putin is part of Davos and still is, not that he has told them to F off.
Putin could easily come out and tell the world he is fighting the WEF/Davos elites…but he does not.
He keeps criticisms to nations of “the west” and “NATO”.
But a leader would not sacrifice his own troops for a bit of globalist theatre ……..don’t be absurd say the denialists.
Yet these same leaders have just committed a slow genocide, via injection, against their entire populations, so is anything on the cards or is it all too much for the hurty heads of denialists.
First you would have to stop living in denial about the jab you took to be able to see things clearly.
You’re dealing with communism.
Tax cuts are a Whig policy.
“I thought she was selected by Tory Party members.”
That is my understanding too.
FMD.
The English PM is removed because she wasn’t going to toe the globalist’s line and agenda.
It’s obvious.
To those who are not in denial.
ABC bosses’ fat cat salaries revealed
It’s been a challenging year for the ABC’s key management personnel, with a growing tide of criticism over the lack of younger talent and its safe programming. But there’s nothing boring about the generous salary packages of key executives revealed in the latest annual report released on Thursday.
Managing director David Anderson’s base pay increased from $897,596 in 2021 to $901,145 this year – although his total package fell from $1.09 million to $1.03 million because of a reduced long-service leave figure.
Nobody can accuse Aunty of ageism when it comes to pay – the broadcaster’s octogenarian chair Ita Buttrose’s salary rose from $195,350 to $205,631.
Director regional and local Judith Whelan’s total package also rose from $485,957 to $511,207.
According to the fine print, that’s because the ABC started working at-risk pay (bonuses and the like) into key management personnel’s base salary, rather than listing it separately.
Still, this all comes against the backdrop of a simmering debate about whether the national broadcaster has a problem with promoting young talent and bringing even a whiff of freshness and risk to its samey programming.
This is criticism Buttrose has bristled at, but which has resonated among the scores of underpaid producers on insecure short-term contracts. We’re sure that group of disgruntled ABC employees are thrilled to learn just how much their bosses are earning.
I wonder what emotive prognostications the ladies of the jury will ponder today.
It should have taken a cuppa and a cupcake time to work out reasonable doubt.
New Zealand mandates jargon cutback
First point of order: in the English speaking world, a mandate, noun or verb, can only come after a deliberate plebiscite. A capricious act of parliament, regulation or order is not a “mandate”, it’s a command.
Second- can they start by explaining what the hell Three Waters means?
Daily Mail.
According to Ladbrokes:
Rishi – 1.62
Borka – 4.00
Those willing to raise their heads above the parapet prefer Borka.
CARDIMONA…
The Editor
unsafe working hours and a lack of fatigue management.
50 years ago that was true. Last time I talked with any BoM forecasters they were on a 3 x 12 hour shifts every 7 days. Sitting in a comfy chair in front of a large computer screen. With automation a lot of the old drudge work would have gone away. No doubt the fatigue will be fixed by a larger salary.
Truss wasn’t boned because she was disobedient to the Lizard People, she just looked weak and silly in a country with a good ol’ fashioned hungry press corp.
She was so obviously a pissweak Whig, and a floozy to boot.
Same for Boris, I still can’t figure out the exact transgression why he fell on his sword at the time he did, apart from the fact that he couldn’t keep his pecker up any more.
Truss will be replaced by someone who does better on screen.
Might be Badenoch.
Great Aussie car advertising of the 1970s
Sun, sex, and Shakespeare formed an unholy alliance in the world of car advertising in Australia in the 1970s. Here are some of our favourites.
Thanks P and TE.
When I become Supreme Benevolent Dictator of Australia, this piece will be required reading in all Australian schools and progression to higher years will be granted only on the student getting 100% in a “Nelson Exam”.
Drummer I know went to work for BoM in Perth. He was a maths whizz, as lotsa drummers are for some reason, bit malcontent mentally but had the brain for the workload.
Even he says that the office is full of high-functioning Autism and mass-murderers-in-training.
Video: World’s fastest-accelerating electric ‘car’ record set by German students
A team of German university students have designed and built the fastest-accelerating electric ‘car’ in the world, capable of reaching 100km/h from a standstill in a claimed 1.416 seconds.
areffsays:
October 20, 2022 at 11:09 pm
Frustrating times, areff. Hope everything is soon sorted, and especially that baby granddaughter has a speedy and full recovery.
FACTCHECK 100% TRUE: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine…
and its not just conventional wars – theres also:
The war on drugs
The war on poverty
The war on terror
and now, The war on viruses..
Too conservative for the wokerati.
The Beeb would consider her unacceptably populist.
It’s absolutely gobsmacking coming to this blog.
People have a better grip on reality on twitter.
WELL, IT’S MADE FROM BEANS AFTER ALL: Coffee: Just As Healthy As Vegetables.
“Coffee is as nutritionally valuable as practically any vegetable, something that should be given the same respect as kale, chard, lima beans, broccoli, or any of the other traditional powerhouse vegetables nutritionists (including me) are always attempting to shove down your throat. Coffee is probably the main supplier of polyphenols 43 in the American diet, and probably the rest of the world’s diets, too.
Accordingly, it’s one of the healthiest things you can pour down your gullet.”
‘Davos/NWO elites’ depend entirely on unipolarity. Putin in his latest speech promoted multipolarity. The West/ NATO are the chief promoters of the former. You cannot have a ‘world order’ if there is no single hegemonic power.
Spins the wheel of oppressions…
Todays oppression is brought to you by….
Which woman hasn’t been bombarded by unsolicited help from men?
Rebecca Solnit
men offering help to layyydeeeees unsolicited…
It’s not impaired by one clown, but I’ve had hundreds or maybe thousands of experiences like this, of unwanted, unsolicited intrusion in the form of help, advice, and granting approval (or its opposite). It all too frequently takes the form of some man saying “correct” when I or other women say something aloud or online, as if we needed their approval, as if they were the authorities in the room, as though it wasn’t true or right until it had their imprimateur. When I wrote a social media post about the phenomenon, the response was like that scene in Giant when they drill for oil and it spouts skyward. Torrents of stories from other women gushed out.
…
what it brings to mind is the time when, as a young grad student, I had a flat tire outside my apartment. I dug out the car manual, read the instructions on changing a flat, pulled out the spare and the jack, and began working through the steps, feeling capable and proud of myself for doing it. Just as I was tightening the last lug nuts – in the proper cross pattern, just like the manual said – my middle-aged-dude neighbor came out and gestured for me to hand him the wrench. I kick myself for it now, but at the time I automatically responded to the gesture by handing him the wrench, and he proceeded to go through the motions as if tightening the bolts himself, though they were already fully tightened. He said, ‘Good job’ and handed me back the damned wrench as if he were a priest conferring some kind of patriarchal benediction I never asked for. Decades later it still rankles, because it was the first time I’d ever changed a flat and I was enjoying the feeling of accomplishment before he inserted himself.”
…
I sometimes cringe at doing the simplest things in public, bracing myself for some guy to come along and supervise me tying my shoes or instruct me on locking my bicycle, both of which they have, by the way.
Makes the death marches of Sandakan look like a weekend jaunt it does…
The parliamentary party presents members with two candidates to choose from.
Mehmet Oz Now Running Neck And Neck And Neck With John Fetterman
calli says:
October 21, 2022 at 8:54 am
Were Cats aware of all this?
Not a bit of it, Gilas. What happens if the data is hacked/deleted?
The bureaucratese reassures the proles that this is an unqualifiably positive development, no discussion on consultation, “stakeholders”, security concerns etc.. etc..
It’s all for our own good.
One forum discussed the possibility of third parties placing caveats and other legal saddles on the digital record. without the Title owner ever knowing until the Sheriff, Bank or other unnamed creditors came knocking.
It’s always, always, all for our own benefit.
Hey, Charger!
You’re clearly in denial, dover.
Funny how they waited a strategic interval after Chief Druid Albo was elected before asking for their cut of the pie.
Incidentally their model runs ‘way too hot:
50-Year U.S. Summer Temperature Trends: ALL 36 Climate Models Are Too Warm (20 Oct)
Given how NOAA’s temperature series has been adjusted into a pretzel it’s amusing that they still can’t get the models to fit the warmed up “data”.
Meanwhile in Darwin:
E-scooters are having a “significant” impact on the Top End’s health system, a new study has revealed, with more than 100 presentations to ED in just eight months.
Of those, all who were admitted to hospital were intoxicated while riding.
The research, which involved Royal Darwin Hospital and Charles Darwin University experts, found that about a quarter of patients also required an operation.
What exactly do you understand to constitute Whiggism in the year 2022, db, especially in the English context?
EDITORIALS
PayPal and all others need to stay out of the social credit business
by Washington Examiner
Most people don’t read the fine print. Fortunately, in the case of PayPal’s new terms of service, somebody did.
The online financial transfer company attempted to slip past its users terms that would have allowed it to fine them as much as $2,500 for “the sending, posting, or publication of any messages, content, or materials” which “promote misinformation.” Although this would have supposedly been limited to conduct in the use of its own app, it never seems to work this way on other social media platforms. Patreon, for example, is notorious for imposing its woke morality on content creators who say controversial things on other platforms.
Against all those who would use the “misinformation” as an excuse for suppression of free speech and tyranny, this must be said: It is not a crime to be wrong. This is not said often enough. We don’t recommend that anyone spread false information on purpose, but it is still not a crime. This is part of what freedom of speech entails.
Moreover, the disinformation police are seldom fair in what they decide to be disinformation. The political Left has effectively weaponized the very idea of misinformation as a means of stamping out dissenting opinion. It is very unlikely that PayPal’s corporate decision-makers will seize money from the New York Times and the Washington Post for their multiple Pulitzer-winning false reports on the Russia collusion hoax. It is doubtful that PayPal would steal money from Stacey Abrams for claiming she won an election that she lost fair and square by 55,000 votes in 2018. PayPal is extremely unlikely to steal money from Joe Biden’s account for falsely claiming that inflation is zero, that Republicans want to put black people or anyone else “back in chains,” or that men can become women by merely affecting effeminate mannerisms.
It is well and good that PayPal has abandoned this disastrous idea. But it would be foolish to accept its explanation that this was a “mistake.” A mistake is taking the wrong exit on the highway, misspelling “Tennessee,” or dropping a fly ball. This was clearly deliberate — the company’s only mistake was getting caught. Like many other corporations nowadays, Paypal thought it had found a way to impose its corporate woke morality by holding your money hostage.
Yep, totally trustworthy and the perfect person to be hearing intel about bikie gangs. Not.
Shacked up with a climate parasite.
In a Senate of 100, I suppose that she is vaguely representative of the population.
Unfortunately Dover is in denial.
Think about what you just put forward as an argument, Dover.
You are actually quoting what a commo , a tyrant, says as if it’s the truth.
To the Immortal Memory slides in between
the loyal toast and To a Willing Foe and Sea Room.
(Followed by a stampede to the heads.)
Top Endersays:
October 21, 2022 at 10:16 am
Meanwhile in Darwin:
E-scooters are having a “significant” impact on the Top End’s health system, a new study has revealed, with more than 100 presentations to ED in just eight months.
Of those, all who were admitted to hospital were intoxicated while riding.
Darwin Award Seekers in Darwin!
Which means Oz is in front.
Or, worse, they look at their watch.
H B Bear says:
October 21, 2022 at 8:58 am
Were Cats aware of all this?
Yes. People get very funny about paper titles. Under a Torrens Title system they are about as valuable as a photocopy. There have been a few frauds under Torrens title
That was the reason given for the secret change. When I asked four lawyers, they parroted the online blurb, provided no data on frauds committed.
Just like everything else current EVIL Governments do, they only need a vague casus belli to enact far-reaching oppressive/controlling changes to things that worked almost seamlessly for centuries.
If this was such a necessary and useful change, why not scream it to the four winds BEFORE legislating it??
After one of the worst atrocities, arguably the worst, against the human population of the world has taken place, and all achieved by the use of straight out lies, people in denial are still quoting what these people are saying.
You’re being played and you’re playing along.
Pong busy distributing her golden stream around the pacific.
Albanese government to give $900m budget boost to Pacific countries
Funding will help tackle poverty and shore up security in the region and make Australia ‘more influential in the world’, Penny Wong says
It doesn’t surprise me that a man who ‘works in climate change’ gets cucked.
RCI’s Left-to-Right Guide to Politicized Capitalism
Invisible Hand or Iron Fist? RealClearInvestigations’ Guide to Politicized Capitalism
By The Editors, RealClearInvestigations – October 20, 2022
Introducing RealClearInvestigations’ Guide to Politicized Capitalism
American capitalism has been undergoing a dramatic transformation: Businesses across the economy are wading into politics, largely in a progressive direction. Although corporations have long supported candidates and causes in pursuit of policies that benefit their bottom lines, in recent years corporate America’s political activism has extended far beyond issues directly tied to profitability. They’ve done so consistent with the influential Business Roundtable’s 2019 redefinition of the purpose of a corporation from maximizing shareholder value to a much broader social mission that includes environmental sustainability, demographic diversity, and “dignity and respect.”
Some have termed this an “awokening.” It has manifested itself most notably in companies’ embrace of “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) policies. One survey shows that some 82% of large U.S. corporations devote space in regulatory filings to demonstrate their ESG bona fides, such as instituting “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) initiatives, and reducing their carbon footprints. Every Fortune 100 company today endorses DEI. The world’s largest and most powerful banks and other financial services firms are allied in their desire to do their part to get to “net zero” carbon emissions – and have leveraged their market power to encourage businesses across the global economy to do the same. Companies have also taken public positions on hot-button issues from guns and abortion to immigration, voting rights, and criminal justice.
The triumph of “wokeism” over capital was supercharged by the racial activist fervor that followed George Floyd’s death. It has recently spiked again as corporations responded to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade with policies aimed at supporting employees seeking abortions.
A smaller coterie of companies has come out for more traditional, conservative values, or at minimum called for neutrality on political issues. A backlash is also brewing among red state politicians and executives, especially over the channeling of public pension dollars into ESG-supporting concerns.
Commerce, in short, has become an arena for ideological battle outside the electoral sphere on a scale and intensity never seen in this country. Its societal impact is substantial: Given the increasing political focus of business, nearly every dollar Americans save, spend, and invest can increasingly be seen as serving as a de facto political contribution to one or several causes to which many may have no affinity at all. Where one works might qualify as an in-kind contribution.
With this in mind, RealClearInvestigations has aggregated an array of resources spanning the political spectrum for readers to judge how corporations are influencing society from outside the voting booth, and being influenced themselves.
To browse the guide, which will be continually updated, click the links in the dashboard above.
at the BoM?
What – might spill coffee on their keyboard?
I think the implication was they might make a forecasting error (no joke!).
But the one that caught my eye was unpaid overtime.
Stunningly brave Dorito huntress misfires.
Will be easy to get a rise out of Thorpie in the Senate from now on.
Just make vroom vroom noises whenever she walks past.
What’s she gonna do?
No, I did two things. I stated that ‘NWO elites’ need unipolarity and that the West/ NATO are its chief promoters. I also said that Putin explicitly came out against unipolarity in his latest speech. Now, I could discount his claim, but his actions and the actions of the West/ NATO before and after 2022 indicate that his claim is consistent with reality.
If certain people regard Twitter as reality, I would assert that not all those people’s dogs are barking.
Trusted Twitterers. The new black.
Confession through projection?
Harry Potter is hardly in the realm of literature
If memory serves from the nights attempting to read Rowling’s sentences to the fruit of my loins, there’s not an infinitive she does fit or a participle she won’t dangle. In the end, I told Junior that if he wanted to find out how the story ends he had better read it himself. Which he did, so there’s that.
But on the whole he got more out of Kipling and, because there was a copy of Biggles in the Baltic that Mum had sent across with my old gollywog and Hopalong Cassidy outfit, a brief parental introduction to WWII. It was the only Biggles book he read, but he liked it.
As to the crap reading lists they inflicted on the poor kid at school — the crippled boy who wanted to become a dancer being one memorable entry in their stuff-young-male-minds initiative — no boy born without a an aberrant in interest in soft furnishings and decor would enjoy. It was all misery, injustice and woe.
For what my parenting expertise is worth, trump the school reading lists at home with the likes of Jack London. No 12-year-old is going to put down White Fang or Call of the Wild once he starts.
As to what girls want to read, well that’s the syllabus list already.
should be ‘doesn’t split”. Grrr
KD, Twitter and Telegram are great sources of info. I find out what’s happening, depending on the event, hours or days before they appear on the MSM and with far less filter. But, but, you have to be judicious, and where the alleged news item appears implausible, look for corroborating sources.
The ugly truth that the BOM and other national weather outfits are facing is that anyone with access to their data, and other data, can make forecasts.
Private weather outfits have mushroomed all over the world.
Competition, baby!
They are not taking it well.
Petulant re-branding is a symptom. The soldiers who said that the place is run by a totally disconnected management are spot on.
Also Twain, lots of Twain.
The NWO elites don’t need unipolarity just yet.
They need enemies to blame.
Be it the weather or other humans like Putin.
Or a virus.
They are working toward unipolarity by using division and fear.
Lies and theatre.
Same old commo play book.
We have history which tells all.
The left (extreme left being communism and fascism) only care about destruction.
Is it not fascinating how one little war in the Ukraine can bring the west to it’s knees?
Wake up.
Get back to the cricket, oh jabbed and submissive one.
Nothing is happening.
It’s all over…..
tick, tick, tick…
Oi!
It’s what they want girls to read.
Settle.
Any French speakers here, please confirm or deny the accuracy of the translation.
I’ve seen this happen a few times on French TV when correspondents in the field talk about events in Donetsk, etc.
Bwa hahahahahahahahah, cop that Bowen!
The scariest thing is that a communist dictator seems more sensible than any democratic one.
He’s a tyrant, true, but one that can add up numbers. So it has come to pass that the largest coal fired nation in the world will burn even more coal because energy security today is more important than theoretically slowing storms in 2100 AD. China makes no secret of it, but hardly anyone is even talking about it.
In other news from the CCP convention, unlike the West, China won’t blow up their coal plans until the new replacement energy is ready to use. Which is handy if the replacement turns out to be a trillion dollar lemon.
Rather soberingly, for transition-fans, China makes 80% of all the solar panels on Earth but that’s not enough to dent the growth of Chinese coal demands. If these solar panels were so cheap and effective China would ban the sale of them.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/china-says-cheap-energy-is-more-important-than-climate-wish-list/
Amazing.
I’ve just got back from a road trip to Adelaide (Mclaren Vale area) where if I believed what the ABC was saying about the weather, I would have only made it in a boat.
And now we, apparently, are going to have food shortages Australia wide because Echuca got flooded and the water crossed the road south of Narrandera.
Many here are incredibly old.
Do you remember there being food shortages in 1975?
NWO elites/ Davos crew/ etc. only entered the lexicon in the unipolar moment. From the early 90s to the present. Without it, they are done.
Absolutely Dover.
The internet is, of course, an excellent information source – this august journal of record being part of it. However, if you concentrate on the whacko wompus bits to the exclusion of everything else you run the risk of letting the confirmation bias run free.
As an example, American Thinker cannot be compared to the Daily Expose (two days to go before it’s shut down by Big Everything).
A Mother had 3 virgin daughters who were all getting married in quick succession.
As the mother was concerned about their first experiences, she made them all promise to send a postcard from the honeymoon with a few words about what transpired.
The first girl sent a card from Bali two days after the wedding. The card said nothing but: “Nescafé”.
The mother was puzzled at first. She went to her kitchen and found the Nescafé jar. It said: “Good till the last drop”.
Mum blushed, but was pleased for her daughter.
The second girl sent the postcard from Thailand a week after the wedding; and the card read: “Rothmans”.
The mother found her husband’s cigarettes, and she read from the pack: “Extra Long. King Size”.
She was again slightly embarrassed but still happy for her daughter.
The third girl left for her honeymoon in New Zealand.
Mum waited for a week – nothing.
Another week went by and still nothing.
Then after a whole month, a card finally arrived. Written on it with shaky handwriting were the words “Air New Zealand”.
Mum took out her latest YOU magazine, flipped through the pages fearing the worst, and finally found the ad for Air NZ. The ad said: “Ten times a day, seven days a week, both ways”.
The party members were only given a choice between the final 2 chosen by the MPs.
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work – and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
– Dave Allen
Some enterprising local has spied a business opportunity.
Spotted a new 4wd this morning advertising diesel storage solutions, generators and off-grid solar.
Said the sacked tour bus driver, on his way to work for Big Corporate.
Leather jacket day.
First sitting day every month.
While the frogs are slowly being brought to boil……
When you go to war with a country you destroy it’s power, it’s food production, it’s infrastructure and kill it’s patriots.
We are at at war and some choose to believe the enemy when they tell you they are on your side.
Denialism.
Death to traitors.
Fantasist….explains a lot.
The shocking hidden costs everyone should know before buying an electric car – with replacement batteries alone costing up to $43K
– Some electric car replacement batteries cost as much as half the vehicle
– Lexus UX electric SUV costs $82,5000 but batteries are priced at $43,476
– Manufacturers say cost of batteries will come down significantly over decade
While I’m not incredibly old I do remember 1974/5.
I don’t recall food shortages, but then a lot was produced more or less locally.
If I looked out the window of my nan’s house, where we were stuck because the highway to Brisbane was cut, I could see the market gardens across the valley. Dairy and meat were also produced locally. The only shortage threatened would have been beer, as the local brewery had closed a decade or so before.
I imagine that scenario would have been repeated across Australia at the time, on the eastern side of the continenet at least.
Calls for Lidia Thorpe to RESIGN from Parliament as firebrand senator faces allegations she only communicated with bikie boss lover via encrypted messages and wiped the texts weekly
. Senator Thorpe and bikie Dean Martin used encrypted messaging app Signal
. Deleted their messages at the end of each week, according to staffer’s diary
. Staffer warned of ‘catastrophic’ risks of not disclosing the pair’s relationship
. Ms Thorpe heard highly secretive information on police ops against bikies
. Opposition leader Peter Dutton has called for her to resign from parliament
. Senator Thorpe is expected to face a parliamentary censure motion next week
Eco morons glue themselves to the floor of Volkswagen’s German factory… so staff turn off the lights and heating and go home leaving the protesters moaning they can’t order food or go to the toilet ‘in a decent manner’
. Nine demonstrators have complained about their treatment during a protest
. They glued themselves to the floor of a Volkswagen dealership in Germany
. Staff turned out the lights and switched off the heating and left them inside
. Activists have complained they ‘weren’t given a bowl to urinate or defecate in’
Maybe you could get a job as senior bullshit artist for a woke corporation ………
Maybe you have one.
However, “only entered the lexicon in the unipolar moment” is comical.
You can take that shit too far.
They are a collection of the old commo hacks from way back and have been at this for years.
Dating back to the club of Rome.
Maybe you could get a job as senior bullshit artist for a woke corporation ………
Maybe you have one.
However, “only entered the lexicon in the unipolar moment” is comical.
You can take that shit too far.
They are a collection of the old commo hacks from way back and have been at this for years.
Dating back to the club of Rome.
And the Frankfurt school
You don’t need to sprech deutsch to versteh deutsch.
EXCLUSIVE: Two years AFTER Meghan quit Deal or No Deal for feeling like a ‘bimbo’ she took raunchy 90210 cameo giving character Ethan oral sex in a car, newly resurfaced clip shows
Meghan Markle has stated that she left her job as a briefcase babe on Deal or No Deal because it made her feel like a ‘bimbo’
. ‘I didn’t like feeling forced to be all looks. And little substance,’ she said
. But less than two years later she took on a tiny cameo on 90210 where she was seen giving oral sex in a car to actor Dustin Milligan who played hunky Ethan Ward
. That scene has now resurfaced on social media as Meghan is called out for hypocrisy
. ‘She must have forgotten she was BJ girl in that show AFTER she left her briefcase girls stint due to being objectified,’ wrote one user
. Markle says she didn’t want to take on the small role but felt ‘struggling actresses can’t be picky.’
Bet they won’t do it again but.
Tom
Because the only thing you excel at is wrongology, Monty, it goes without saying you’re shit at politics and economics.
Well, he did fail Economics 1. And his political wrongology has been on display whenever he comments on anything, including the weather.
Spot the Good News!
Elon Musk vows to fire 75 PERCENT of Twitter’s workforce – after admitting he and investors are paying too much in $44billion deal
. Elon Musk told prospective investors in his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter that he plans to get rid of three-quarters of its 7,500 workers
. That would leave the company with just a skeleton crew of just over 2,000 employees, which experts say is not enough to tamp down on misinformation
. Current management had already been planning to layoff a quarter of its employees after spending $1.5 billion on personnel last year
. Musk has previously said that he spent too much to buy the company
All food is produced locally, to somebody, somewhere.
Trucks bring it to you.
There is enough of it to feed Australia at least three times over and is produced locally all over Australia.
Lack of fertilizer and price of it is way more of a concern than any one flood.
This happens to be good finishing off rain to many a farmer.
But the floods will be used as an excuse, along with the war in Ukraine, global warming, mean words and the Salmon mousse.
m0nty-fa
Truss’s tax cuts were unfunded and would have blown out the budget deficit. This is a time-honoured tactic by conservatives to eventually defund government welfare and other progressive measures. It has been 40 years since Reagan, the jig has long since been up on that one.
Whereas leftard “Modern Monetary Theory” is never going to affect the viability of government expenditure?
– Manufacturers say cost of batteries will come down significantly over decade
Haha. Just checked the Li2CO3 price plus exchange rates. At about 10 kg of lithium (ie Li not Li2CO3) per car that comes to A$6,330 worth of lithium alone. I would not be surprised if that triples because of the long lead time for supply to catch up with demand. Going to take much more than a decade for that to happen, especially with ICE ban hammers hitting all over the Western world.
So what they might save on manufacturing costs they’re going to lose immediately in lithium costs. And cobalt is going to be even worse since it’s so rare – which means using even more lithium for LFPO batteries to make up for their lower energy density.
This is going to be fun to watch. Green marxists are being mugged by free market capitalism.
Nation first
Well done! Let them freeze, in the dark, in their urine soaked trousers!
You missed my point…back then a lot was was produced locally for local consumption.
And there were fewer trucks on the road too.
At least in Queensland, the most decentralised state, every region had its own domestic economy.
Just to let youse all know.
I’m in denial.
In denial about what, I hear you aksk.
Well, what have youse got?
Thorpe having a short relationship with convicted criminal, bad. Plibbers having a very long term relationship with convicted criminal, good.
Rabzsays:
October 21, 2022 at 8:58 am
Bluddee hell – Trussed lasted so long I never even had an opportunity to denounce her as a fraudulent incompetent bimbo.
Chiple Jay news mentioned that fat mop headed imbecile might try and make a comeback.
Beyond Vaudeville, beyond parody. Political wasteland doesn’t even come close to describing that sorry cavalcade of preposterous bloated buffoons.
I don’t know if His Majesty actually has the power to do so but calling in all the party leaders and hierarchy and giving them a blast to sort out their crap and start working for the country wouldn’t go astray and would probably raise his stock a few points with the people.
Ha, crosschecked the silver price: about A$910 per kg, so lithium is now two thirds of silver in value.
So it’s like having nearly 7 kg of silver in your EV right now – and rising to 20 kg if the price goes up as seems likely. If you said to anyone that cars should be built with 20 kg of silver in them they’d look at you like you were insane.
Vegetables are NOT healthy – they are vital plant parts which cost the plant money to make. Plants do not want you eating their body parts (fruit being an exception – fruit is a seed dispersal system) hence make it harder for your to do so by way of physical or chemical defences – think the hard coating on a nut, the spines on a rose etc etc.
Coffee beans, aka coffee SEEDS are similarly protected by infusing poisons into them – caffeine is a neurotoxin and widely used as a pesticide.
By all means admit you like coffee and you find the toxic effect of caffeine an agreeable hormetic challenge, but don’t compare it to vegetables because NEITHER are health foods.
Typed whilst downing the 2nd latte of the day btw….
areff
But on the whole he got more out of Kipling and, because there was a copy of Biggles in the Baltic that Mum had sent across with my old gollywog and Hopalong Cassidy outfit, a brief parental introduction to WWII. It was the only Biggles book he read, but he liked it.
Younger grandson loves the Arthur Ransome “Swallows and Amazons” series.
Paypal lost my business over this – that plus their ongoing defunding of the Expose 🙂
One for the Christmas stocking.
Doc Faustus/Bespoke:
Another couple of names to be added to the looong list of classless Interlectuals needing to be sorted out after the Revolution.
lol, bring your own bowl in future, lovies !
Shy Ted: I’m not sure that “convicted criminal” is a correct descriptor of Lidia’s ex-boyfriend.
Dean Martin has no criminal convictions but had a 25-year-plus association with the Rebels. He stepped down as Victorian chapter president in 2018 after his brother Shane Martin — the father of AFL star Dustin Martin — was deported to New Zealand over links to the Rebels and Shane’s criminal history. (msn)
Still, he had a great singing career before he met our Lidia. Volare, Dean.
It’s worrying when they are small, new, helpless and being subject to big surgeries, areff, but she will pull through because Western medicine excels at these things. Trials of travel are always there, but at least you have found the smoker’s compensation in ciggies the price they used to be.
Hope you are enjoying a little hold of her soonest in America before hitting the mid-terms .
Our first grand-daughter of the two is now eight and hasn’t stopped being a charmer.
Nor has her little sister – although they are not at all alike in nature and personality.
Enjoy the feeling, grandpa.
Ah crud: and right after I just barely survived the great Echunga (my old home town) dam scare from October – this was a bout a 2 acre dam, it didn’t collapse, and I got concerned messages from the UK about it!
https://www.9news.com.au/national/dam-failure-echunga-south-australia-evacuation-warning/e9d25bae-b0c0-4c8b-b5a2-f07025b83476
me too. I wonder how many users (%) they are losing.
Before I cheer Krautmobile, I will await news of punishments dished out to these wonderful and inventive staff members.
They are the true heroes. 😀
What could have been the attraction ?
I mean, there she was with a fella who ‘worked in climate change’. Not at all a deeply boring man whose every thought could be predicted hours in advance.
As opposed to the beefy thug with a whiff of violence about him.
‘Tis a mystery, the ‘uman ‘art.
I was thinking about this.
While they were very naughty, I couldn’t think of any charges that would stick.
Unlike the protesters…
BJ: Never did Swallows and Amazons, but we got through a lot of Lawson and Adam Lindsay Gordon’s verse, which to my surprise really struck a note. At about 13, he was so fond of Wolf and Hound he had half-memorised slabs of it:
All silent — if he was there he slept
Not there. All dark as the grave.
Through the crack I could hear the leaden hiss!
See the livid face through the flame!
How strange it seems that a man should miss
When his life depends on his aim!
There couldn’t have been a better light
For him, nor a worse for me.
We were coop’d up, caged like beasts for a fight,
And dumb as dumb beasts were we.
Flash! flash! bang! bang! and we blazed away,
And the grey roof reddened and rang;
Flash! flash! and I felt his bullet flay
The tip of my ear. Flash! bang!
Bang! flash! and my pistol arm fell broke;
I struck with my left hand then —
Struck at a corpse through a cloud of smoke —
I had shot him dead in his den!
I gather kids no longer learn rhyming poetry, which may explain a few things about that lost sense for words that a good, rollicking rhythm instills.
Same same, I *twice* traversed the Horsham ‘red zone’ in recent days with narry a splash, but then again, my foolhardy foray through 2″ of water at Ararat last week had fortified me. (VICPOL told me the road was closed – I walked it to check and made my own decision).
Chuckle!
Making fun of a leftist?
BREAKING: John Fetterman doesn’t speak at event with Biden in PA
“John, thank you very much for running, I really do appreciate it. And Gisele, you’re going to be a great, great lady in the Senate,” Biden told the Fettermans.
Undoubtedly, this was planned. Fetterman can rarely if ever string together a coherent sentence, and Joe Biden is, well, Joe Biden, as evidenced by the way he wrapped up his appearance in this video from Fox.
After a somewhat coherent end to his speech, Biden either became confused or briefly danced the hokey pokey before turning himself about and finding his way off the stage:
No one–and I repeat, NO ONE–who had anything to do with planning this event wanted Fetterman to do anything but stand there in a suit that looked as if it was borrowed for the occasion or had been fished out of the back of his wardrobe after years of disuse. Had those two engaged in conversation, or if both had spoken, Tucker Carlson, Greg Gutfeld, and everyone at PJ Media and the rest of the Townhall affiliates would have had enough material to last until next Wednesday. Glenn Beck would have gotten an entire hour out of it, and Sean Hannity would have talked about it in his own non-stop fashion for at least a segment and a half. Breitbart would have put it on the front page, and God only knows how far the Daily Wire would have taken it out for a ride. Ben Shapiro would have talked his lips into traction over this. He would have needed reconstructive surgery at the end of that monologue.
And Note
Joe Biden, in calling Gisele Fetterman a “great lady in the senate,” he stumbled upon the reality that she is basically the candidate at this point. There’s a lot of Jill Biden in her.
See for yourself. Here she is refusing to let reporters talk to her husband at the campaign event with Biden. Also, in case you were wondering, Fetterman didn’t even speak at his own rally.
Totally normal stuff on display.
A reporter attempts to ask John Fetterman a question.
Jersey Gisele immediately jumps in and goes “We’re not doing interviews.”
Interesting, a fellow free thinker in Adelaide just let me know he is now welcome back at work (Op theatres in major public hospital) after a year out for being part of the control group.
He said he hoped I too was returning – I said, no I suspect not, I think my concise ‘got fcuk yourselves with a pineapple’ may not address all the issues they raised in their ‘show cause letter’ regarding my COVID disinformation crimes.
So, no changes there then?
Struth:
And you Struth, can go and get stuffed, you pompous over the top, shrill, two pot screamer.
Onya George Christensen!
“Works in climate change” my arse.
Nobody “works in climate change.”
He’s a full time hard left political propagandist whose other “passion” is indigenous affairs.
(There’s a joke in there somewhere but I’m not touching it.)
In a Senate of 100, I suppose that she is vaguely representative of the population.
Ms Thorpe is not in the US Senate which has 100 members.
The Australian Senate has 76 members. 6 States at 12 each = 72. 2 each from the ACT and NT makes 4. 76 in total.
People claiming Aboriginal ancestry are over- represented in the Australian Senate compared to their share of the population. There are at least 5 that I can think of, and I have missed some.
Perhaps Ms Thorpe should resign in order to make the Senate more representative of the population in general.
I have heard it said that Ms Thorpe has 1/16th Aboriginal background. If that is right, then she has more of an indigenous background that the faux American Indian Senator Liz Warren.
Liberalism’s alibi.
Hairy and I are agreed: Guatamala is a surprise. It’s not a shithole, like some parts of Mexico that we’ve seen. It has a right of centre government, has huge stacks of black coal on the wharfside for electricity generation, is going gang-busters with textile production for South Korea and major Euro fashion houses (Italy’s textile industry is busy collapsing due to energy prices), and has to the relief of all now banished Covid restrictions (Nicaragua has not so was cancelled for this cruise).
We travelled today for two and a half hours by bus from Puerto Quetzal in the Pacific side of Guatemala for a tour of ‘ancient Mayan archaeological site with traditional calendar interpretation’ and it was a hit: a highly informative trained archaeologist woman as a tour guide, a top aircon bus for the long drive, and an amazing site of world heritage significance to explore over some acres when we got there. You had to be nimble as those steps up and down the pyramid terraces still extant were, in professional stair talk, high on the riser and narrow on the tread. No railings of course.
We saw the three major ball game courts at this site- a traditional piece of Mayan religion, where the leader of the winning team always lost his head, for these people took heads, slitting throats, rather than gouging out hearts like the Aztecs did, in spite of the film Apocalypto, about Mayans, muddling them up, so we were told. It might have made for some slow very games, pondered one wit near me, who shall be nameless. Apparently though it was a privilege to offer oneself up for the good of the community, especially if the rains were poor and crops were lacking, so there might have been some competition for this top spot – or to get rid of a disliked captain. But in some games, all of the winners were sacrificed. Another favoured sacrifice involved criminals, who were strapped around with rope, arms by side, and then tossed down these perilous stairs a dozen or more times until they were deemed done for, when they may have been lucky enough to have their throats cut. Half-way up a set of those stairs and definitely when coming down them I felt rather at one with these prisoners for one false step might have sent me, unbound and flailing, to enjoy a culturally immersive experience.
Guatemala has a population of around 19 million, with 2 million ‘overseas immigrants’ who send back remittances in US$, which the government taxes. The economy is based largely on tropical agriculture, but innovative, including a lot of growing under greenhouse plastic – they even send flowers and palm fronds to florists in Amsterdam. The land is forested, mountainous and useful parts are cleared and exploited for agri and horticulture. The cars are old and the roadsides contain many wrecking yards of old cars to keep the country supplied with spare parts (shades of my own teen years there). Old US school buses are run as private transport – called ‘chicken’ buses, you see why when you see them playing chicken on the road, and the accidents are legion. The locals encourage this speeding as they are a people busy going somewhere. It’s definitely third world, but with some energy and drive, and a sense of optimism.
What is little known is that 9,000 people died in a 2018 volcanic eruption. We drove through that area today, seeing the destroyed villages, and a place where a huge pyroplastic flow evaporated a river and put it on another course. As we passed between two active and huge volcanos, the one that erupted in 2018 was starting to pour out ash on our vehicle, and I was lucky enough to see a towering atomic ash plume spout up from the central core; it is rumbling heavily again. Drive on, said Hairy to the bus driver, a sentiment echoed by everyone else in the bus. Also not much recalled is the dreadful earthquake which hit Guatamala in 1976 killing 23,000 people. This country has had a lot to put up with, has divested itself recently of a leftist government and I really hope it has a good future ahead.
one has to wonder what’s going on in the Lehrmann jury room .
There has to be one or two ‘all women must be believed!’ in there.
On the lack of education of some Americans: one guy asked the tour guide as she was explaining Mayan cosmologies with ideas of four directions, and orientation to the sun, whether the directions of the sun stayed the same everywhere in Central America – I mean how do they get the same pattern in different places? he asked, perplexed. The sun, she told him, rises in the east and sets in the west worldwide.
It seemed like news to him.
So the rumors of Struth’s death were somewhat premature, or has his identity been stolen?
Bush poets breakfast here, last year, young bloke stood on stage and recited “Clancy of the Overflow” and another “The Man From Ironbark.”
Everyone looking at their phone and waiting to start a nice weekend in a hotel at ACT government expense?
From a daily media bulletin I receive:
Laura Gartry awarded Donald McDonald Oxford Scholarship
Digital Producer at ABC’s Four Corners, Laura Gartry, has been awarded the 2023 ABC Donald McDonald Scholarship.
Laura will be heading to The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in the United Kingdom for three months to produce research into news avoidance and discoverability of public interest content.
The Journalist Fellowship Programme brings 30 high-calibre, experienced journalists from around the world to Oxford to tackle key subjects in greater depth than is possible under deadline pressure.
So, after a lustrous spell packaging Gullible Sarah’s Russiagate three-parter and any number of 7nilillag’s ‘lib caught with pants down’ confections, the reward is a taxpayer-funded spell at Oxford to work up the new narratives with like sorts from all over.
Journalism did better when newsrooms were full of pisspots, cynics, outsiders and worldly sorts with whom you would not want to play Trivial Pursuit, especially for money.
Joe Biden releasing millions more barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a bid to provide some price relief before 8th November.
Let’s hope our barrels are clearly marked.
“The government said the power station had reaped billions in profits from Victorians.”
You mean, the ones the government used to own before you sold them off to pay for some shiny white elephant? So government could have had those billions itself, if you hadn’t sold them off? Those power stations? And those greedy private companies, reaping billions, eh?
And when your fantasy “renewables only” grid is ready, how much extra will you need to spend creating the state interconnectors that will keep the lights on in Vic? And how do you think you’ll be able to import power from SA, NSW and QLD if they all follow the same ridiculous path to blackouts that you have? Then again, I suppose it doesn’t really matter does it? After all, it’s enough in the future that you’ll probably be retired on a nice index-linked government pension well before the brown stuff hits the twirly thing, won’t you? It’ll be somebody else’s problem, right? And no doubt they’ll say the problem is the government ownership and want to sell that lot off as well.
Ours was only the second cruise ship into Guatemala since February 2020 and everyone was so pleased to see us, the tourists, back. Big smiles of welcome everywhere, for tourism was the second major ‘export’ for this country and they have had none to speak of for two or more years now. And still they are pulling round.
This is an extremely dangerous way to handle property records particularly in view of the data exposures at Optus and Medicare Private in the last few weeks. Could it be that one morning we wake and find out that none of us own our properties?
We cannot expect anything better from Beryl Gladyschlokian, this is one woman that has caused so much damage to NSW. Didn’t I read somewhere that she is now with Optus? What a coincidence.
I love you too.
By the way, it’s only screaming in your mind.
This is communication by the written word.