JC experienced a similar reaction when people fond out he ironed his jeans.
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A truly foul creature
22 novels and counting…. I like Barney.
Has someone been baiting the cats? Many years ago in Richmond, I think it was, a new Mayor from the…
If there wasn’t a Great Game no one would be playing!
Its raining in Melbourne, rained off and on all night and now a steady downpour.
Getting a little bit sick of it.
Assuming they have criminal defamation laws in the ACT, there’s no way she’s charged. Not a chance. IIRC, in WA the Director of Public Prosecutions himself (not the office – the top dog in the office) must sign off on a decision to charge anyone for criminal defamation. It’s rarely charged and by design. I’d be surprised if the situation was radically different in the ACT.
In my experience on a Vic County Court rape case the judge made it very clear to only assess based on evidence provided in court. No researching or visiting crime scene etc. Judges make it very clear of the seriousness of this direction being breached.
After we sent the dude down i read the next day in the paper two other cases were linked to the offender, one case did not get near court and the other alleged victim withdrew at the 11th hour.
Sorry, the Director of Public Prosecutions himself must sign off on a decision to *prosecute* someone for criminal defamation. I guess the cops could charge whoever they wanted for it.
Exactly. If this information is not provided during sex education classes to high school students, it ought to be.
It wouldn’t surprise me if that research paper was planted
Why is it appropriate for the ACT “Victims of Crime Commissioner” to stand smiling beside Britnee when she makes an inflammatory prepared statement that is plainly in contempt of court?
That stupid (or cunning) juror who deliberately disobeyed the judge’s directions about outside research needs their arse kicked until their nose bleeds.
It reinforces my opinion that a lot of the people selected for jury duty become like mindless sheep when taken outside their comfort zone.
Easier to stamp your foot when it’s the system, not the individual(s) who disregarded 17 directives. Seems to me the system is blameless.
rosiesays:
October 27, 2022 at 12:27 pm
Its raining in Melbourne, rained off and on all night and now a steady downpour.
Getting a little bit sick of it.
Welcome to Sydney – Rain about to continue again soon – has felt like London Mar- Dec 1970
Grey, Wet & Miserable and Cold (now starting to at least get a bit Warmer – Grandkids went in the pool yesterday for 1st Time – latest in a long time – usually end of August start)
Ya gotta hand it to young Brittany. Life sent a couple of lemons her way and the way she’s using them will put Sprite out of business. Luckily she didn’t have to grapple with personal integrity or anything like that.
I think that’s a distinct possibility.
A hung jury of 9-3 or 10-2 to acquit might have the DPP thinking about packing it in.
But a mis-trial due to juror misbehaviour almost guarantees a re-trial.
Like Pell, he could be convicted on an aggregate jury vote of 14-10 or 13-11 over two trials.
If the security guard asks if you need medical attention or an ambulance, take up the offer.
If the IPA concerned themselves with anything other than organising cocktail parties, they could busy themselves with a blockbuster book on the Higgins outrage.
The underlying intent of this trial is to extinguish men’s right to justice.
Some people just never think the rules apply to them.
Like wearing knickers on an evening out?
I should add that I was neither inclined nor disinclined to believe Hoggins’s account of what transpired that night until I read of her testimony at trial. That was my ‘wait, what the fuck?’ moment.
Hoggins’s? Damn, autocorrect is savage.
Caught a few minutes of Ray Hadley 2 hours ago.
He was talking about a Ch 7 segment on a far right religious candidate, McCoy, running for NSW seat of Castle Hill. Seems he has been selected over Police Minister David Elliot.
Handley upset because of his views : anti Vax, anti mandate, anti abortion, anti euthanasia and seems he has also mentioned Dr Peter McCullough who recommends ivermectin treatment.
Hadley probably had a fainting spell and no doubt going to spend remaining months before the election trashing his reputation.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
October 27, 2022 at 11:48 am
Viruses are old and busted, meet the new hotness:
New Disease X? WHO warns of ‘fungal threat’ to humanity (26 Oct)
Ive read this one.
Spoiler, it doesnt end well.
“…an enema”
Trivia/Humor:
You can get an MRI scan – heard of that one, right?
They used to call it an NMR – “nuclear magnetic resonance”.
But too many people said “I’m here for one of them NMR thingies”, and then afterwards said “Wow, medicine is amazing. They were checking me for brain cancer, and they stuck a hose up me clacker – don’t ask me how that works!”
Much less of an issue now it’s called an MRI.
Full disclosure: I actually did notice that autocorrect had changed “Higgins’s” to “Hoggins’s” but decided to leave it be because it’s kind of funny.
It will change “Hoggins” to “Higgins”, however. Not surprising because I’ve written “Higgins” before. But I’m not sure why it thought “Hoggins’s” was more likely to be correct than “Higgins’s”.
This has been the mantra of Seven-Nilligan and Co for a while and became even more shrill after Pell was acquitted.
“It’s just too hard to get a conviction in these (evidence free) cases.”
Err, that’s a feature, not a bug.
The young and single me says if that’s a rule, it’s a great one for young and single ladies to break. The middle-aged and married me has no opinion on the matter.
Explain to me how Hadley has been considered a ‘conservative’?
Erm no you didn’t. Much of what you said was inconsistent which doesn’t make it the truth. And you weren’t giving evidence for a week – in fact, you took several “days off!”
There actually used to be a brand of underwear called or at least marketed as such. Girls voice would say “I’m wearing no knickers”. I can’t get Google to locate however
The other alterative is one juror got sick of being stuck in the same room for six days not getting anywhere and deliberately “dropped” the material…
She really does not understand how this works.
She is not the prosecution. She is one of the prosecution’s witnesses. It is the prosecution that receives anything obtained in discovery.
Here ya go, PeterM.
And…they were very comfortable.
Tell the truth for a whole week? A full seven days? Not lie under oath for 6 sleeps?
Yeah, a tough gig. I’d be crying too.
PeterM says:
October 27, 2022 at 1:14 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu8RGcYdA84
ABCcess this morning breathlessly reporting on a brave protester willing to risk jail for his beliefs and how wonderfully wonderful it was.
A 10 minute interview where he outlined how something could have happenned, but didnt.
The cause???
Bum banditry.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/25/peter-tatchell-qatar-doha-lgbt-rights-protest
Tatchell said he and a colleague, Simon Harris, who filmed the protest, were arrested and detained at the scene but the Qatari government has denied this.
The veteran campaigner was holding a placard that read: “Qatar arrests, jails & subjects LGBTs to ‘conversion’ #QatarAntiGay.”
The Peter Tatchell Foundation said it was the first LGBT+ protest in Qatar or any Gulf state.
Funny cant find anything on their website about the Covid shit.
Scroll down on the Wiki to the section headed PIE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tatchell
This is the chap the ABCcess chose to give air time to.
Tatchell has written an obituary in The Independent for Paedophile Information Exchange founder Ian Dunn,[106] as well as an essay for a pro-paedophile activist and Paedophile Information Exchange member Warren Middleton in the book “Betrayal of Youth (BOY)”. The actor and activist, John Connors described Tatchell as a “paedophile apologist”
Snap, Calli!
Beat yiz, Nelson.
And I even had a Product Review. Which would be highly disturbing if it came from you. 😀
lol you can bet the farm that’s going absolutely nowhere. Her tirade was written for her by professionals who would have had a risk/reward calculation in mind, and I think they calculated correctly. It would have been written a long time ago, alongside the speech she would have given in the event of a guilty verdict. Probably very little difference between the two, really. The latter probably contains a few shout-outs to the judge, the jury, the sisterhood, the Academy etc but the rest would have been the same.
the AFP prosecution team is full of hairy armpited near bald lesbians eager to castrate young white males, why would they be interested in this?
Lol. Telling the truth was such a strain that she couldn’t keep it up for a whole week & needed a Six day hiatus curled up in a foetal ball to cope.
Gee, those lawyers were quick out the blocks with the prepared statement. Almost as if they knew what was to happen.
PeterMsays:
October 27, 2022 at 1:14 pm
There actually used to be a brand of underwear called or at least marketed as such. Girls voice would say “I’m wearing no knickers”. I can’t get Google to locate however
NO KNICKERS United Kingdom Trademark Information
By Pacific Brands Clothing Pty Ltd
The NO KNICKERS trademark was assigned an Application Number #UK00001275705 by the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO). Trademark Application Number is a Unique ID to identify the NO KNICKERS mark in UKIPO.
The NO KNICKERS mark is filed in the category of Class 025 Clothing, footwear, headwear. . The legal correspondent for NO KNICKERS trademark is Jones Day , London EC4Y 0DJ, UNITED KINGDOM . The current status of the NO KNICKERS filing is Dead.
Based on Pacific Brands Clothing Pty Ltd, the NO KNICKERS trademark is used in the following business: Knickers and briefs, all for women, all included in Class 25. .
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/celebs-no-knickers-flash-wardrobe-17002420
While you don’t necessarily have to wear underwear underneath your clothing, it’s generally accepted as the done thing. With plenty of excellent no-VPL knickers out there, as well as barely-there thongs, the need to go commando has almost been rendered obsolete.
Well, we just walked out from the second performance of the comedian who was OK and funny last time just the other nite. He started off getting a little more raunchy, and going on about fun ‘edibles’, and that was reasonable, it’s a joke show etc and we’re all adults etc. But of dear, then he got onto climate change and turned his platform into a rabid rave about how can people be so totally against 98% of scientists? etc. and he laced that lot with a serve about those living below the Mason-Dixie line who still ‘go on’ about the Confederate flag mimicking accents and making fun of them. He really got worked up plying the Democrat line at this stage in the mid-terms, which was totally out of order in a show drawn from many retired people who’d have a range of views, and he was geeing up some loudmouths in the audience who were egging him on.
We found this all totally disrespectful of people living in the southern states, like my rellies in Louisiana. He’d asked for a show of hands who came from the South and while we know some from the South were in the audience, they were far too put down and intimidated in the climate he was generating to raise their hands; so he felt he had license to spruik his views at everyone.
Let’s go, said Hairy to me loudly, and out we walked.
If anyone asks us we’ll say Australians won’t sit and listen to climate crap paid for by our money.
So many people are still influenced and cowed by this sort of mediated anti-conservative culture.
I hope beyond hope that the mid-terms can put a bit of egg on the faces of comdedians like this.
In fact, there are a heap of zero VPL pants on the market here in Oz. My girls always wore them, first as little girls in ballet under the leotard.
There are very few reasons why anyone would go underwear-less in this day and age. The only two I can think of is being fat, which will show anything, and having ready access for intercourse. Take your pick.
Other alternate, likely raised above, trend was not guilty and a snowflake knew how to disrupt that…
And Now for Some Spooky Fun: Hysterical Halloween Costume Memes Take Over Twitter
Oh, there’s another.
If you’re Marilyn Monroe standing over a grate and wish to titillate the audience.
Sounds like her five day “truthy streak” was a new PB.
I think I even know the grate. It’s in the low 50s either 53rd or 52nd street and Lexington Ave. Most of the grates blow out hot air in the summer.
You know that loitering around that grate is a misdemeanour under NYC by-laws, right?
Oh come onsays:
October 27, 2022 at 12:30 pm
Criminal defamation is available in the ACT (Crimes Act 1900 – sec. 439). With civil defamation save brittany has several possible defences. One of the interesting ones would be absolute privilege; if save brittany can claim her comments outside the court were still part of the court proceedings she is safe.
She was wearing a longish dress, I don’t read anything onto her decision to want to avoid a visible panty line, it’s irrelevant.
What a shame the response of the Britannia Panopticon audience to dud acts has gone out of fashion:
Bring it back, I say!
Cronkite, you’re really letting the blog down. Where are the book titles? Stop with it with the laziness.
Sign the petition to tell Peter Dutton and the Coalition you want cheaper power
Posted yesterday but too good to drop.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/26/what-has-all-that-investment-in-renewables-actually-bought-us-n505881
“At the end of last year, overall fossil fuels represented 81% of energy consumption. 10 years ago, they were at 82%,” says Jeff Currie. “$3.8 trillion of investment in renewables moved fossil fuels from 82% to 81% of the overall energy consumption.” pic.twitter.com/VhQN0S9oo9
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) October 3, 2022
Only 81 x 3.8 = $307.8 trillion till we have power to cheap to meter!
I read plenty into it rosie.
But that’s just me.
Others may think as they wish.
Electron transport chain
It is an amazing thing. Possibly the most efficient energy generating process in existence. The principle means of generating the energy molecule ATP.
Cronkite, you’re really letting the blog down. Where are the book titles? Stop with it with the laziness.
I’m in serious mode today head prefect. I’m trying to interpret some court orders at my usual fee of $5oo per hour and distracting myself here; I haven’t got time for book titles but in respect to your prominent position here is a cute owl. Stuff it, here’s another one.
Bon you would do well to do some research on what the IPA does before taking a swipe at it. I support a lot of their activities https://ipa.org.au/
calli….’nobody is coming out of this smelling of roses.’ Not even the dress?
Higgins referred to the AFP:
Just to get you started, Cronkite.
There you go, Lorelei. Just to get you started.
You can usually tell who’s had one. After that you tend not to see the funny side.
Twitter chatter says “not guilty” was imminent – whereupon a scrap of paper was produced as a pretext to abort.
Kev
Do something useful and make me a sandwich!
cohenitesays:
October 27, 2022 at 1:46 pm
but in respect to your prominent position here is a cute owl. Stuff it, here’s another one.
owl 1 – would bounce you with. those stomach muscles, owl 2 – you would just bounce
I am well aware of what the PA does Mem. I have been a member on and off for decades.
The reality is that activity does not equate to outcomes and there are precious few influential outcomes emerging from IPA activity.
Influencing the nominally conservative elite has been irrelevant to our political scene for a long time.
Interesting story … and I admire the lassie in the last picture:
Chance encounter leads Berry couple to help organise inauguration for ancient Buchanan clan in Scotland.
Cronkite, there’s nothing attractive about muscled up gals. Enuff.
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
– Aesop
Clearly the process is the punishment.
Good luck to Mr L.
one of the most astounding things about this is that right next to her during her public statement, is Heidi Yates, the ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner.
Surely someone of that standing knows the consequences?
What a shit show.
My missus crashed her car into some guy last night. She told the police the guy had been on his mobile and drinking a beer from a can at the time. The police said he was entitled to do what he wanted in his own front garden.
After the Great Witch Hunt against shooters of 1996-1999 I felt very alone in a country apparently full of people prepared to punish the innocent to make themselves feel better.
Browsing a newsagent’s racks for the Economist, I picked up an IPA Review.
I realised that I was not entirely alone, there were some people who tried to be rational and were prepared to write about it.
Sadly, a shot time later one of their writers was busted over a routine American hate story against Jane Fonda that went beyond the awful-enough truth. I didn’t trust them any more.
I used to be a big follower of English soccer/EPL but no anymore. It’s morphed into a greed league where only a handful of clubs compete . . . the rest can please themselves. It’s an abomination.
I’m the opposite as one of those folk being born into the black & white of Toon I’m luvvin’ the fact that having been taken over by the Saudis we can now afford to compete wiv the “big” boyz .. the EPL is run on money and only the clubs with access to lotz of dosh can dominate .. sad fact of English “fitba” but getz quite enjoyable when you become a BIG fish .. LOL!
I’m not hypocritical enuf to condemn the Saudis for what they do or don’t do wiv their money & influence .. the world is full of nasty folk/gummints who do as they like to whom they dislike and criticism comes down to who likes/dislikes what getz dun and which ‘side” your supporting this week ..!
Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers refer Brittany Higgins to the POLICE and urgently seek legal advice over whether she should be charged over her fiery speech outside court – after trial was aborted
. Jury has been discharged in rape trial of Bruce Lehrmann without a verdict
. Brittany Higgins gave an emotional speech as she left the ACT Supreme court
. Mr Lehrmann’s legal team have confirmed they are seeking legal advice
. They are in discussions with police over whether her speech is contempt of court
Bruce Lehrmann’s legal team have referred Brittany Higgins to police over whether her emotional speech after the trial was aborted constitutes contempt of court.
Ms Higgins spoke to reporters outside the ACT Supreme Court on Thursday morning after the jury was discharged, because one brought prohibited documents into the jury room.
Despite being broadcast on live TV, much of Ms Higgins’ speech could not be published in print for legal reasons.
Oops Link – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11359365/Bruce-Lehrmanns-lawyers-refer-Brittany-Higgins-police-TV-speech.html
Ha,
My daughter just got the ‘hello mum’ scam text.
Unfortunately for the scammer having a 2 year old and a 4 month old means she didn’t fall for it.
By the way “No Knickers” Hoggins is definitely looking like the name in the Photos outside the court
Wouldn’t the prosecution have warned her off shooting her mouth off to the press?
I’m coming to this realisation, too.
The fact that the ACT Victims of Crimes Commissioner – who (legally) knows damn well that after the judges warning that “things should go quiet before the retrial in February” that Higgins should stay schtum – stood by Higgins while she made that statement, suggests very strongly that there’s a coordinated push to change the law on prosecution of sexual assaults.
Dark days.
Ask by what means she is profiting. Maybe the currency she seeks is ‘You go grrl!’ praise in the media.
“She claimed: ‘My life has been publicly scrutinised, open for the world to see. His was not.’ ”
She’s a piece of work, the only reason she is in the public eye is because she made sure she was.
She could have been completely anonymous.
I have worn R.M Williams boots for years, they last forever, and were good ol’ country style.
Then Twiggy bought out the business and went all trendy and upmarket.
Have a look at this latest abomination from the R.M factory at an eye watering $699.00!
Behold the Risden Boot.
If anyone believes that the court officer “accidentally” did anything, they are a complete fool. That the jurdge expects us to swallow it tells us all we need to know.
Me thinx the ‘jerdge’ was desperate for an out after 5 days and someone, conveniently, provided it .. LOL!
Michael Smith News.
Actually, how come a research paper on the prevalence of false accusations was not already part of evidence from the defence anyway?
a well earned promotion in the bugmen globohomo empire
Hadley attitude towards Vax is similar to his view on the Pell case. If you don’t agree with his view then you are not worth listening to and will not be given chance to air your opinion. Facts simply don’t matter to him.
I only listen to him during car trips. Sometimes might get something of interest but more than likely going to get him :
reading about court cases,
or him having private conversations with mates talking about events that happened years ago going on about horse racing or country music.
It is very noticeable that his show won’t let on callers who might disagree with him. If they do get on he will shut them down quickly.
He must be about to take his 5th jab such is his level of intelligence and research.
“Explain to me how Hadley has been considered a ‘conservative’?”
not allowed, neither is anything about the accuser’s pre and post sex life.
I get a new set of RMs every decadal birthday. Wear them nearly every day.
I can’t see those Risdons lasting ten years.
Rooster
If you’re complaining so much about the idiot, then why are you listening to him? Stop whining and stop listening. It’s real easy.
Honestly – the whole Higgins saga is being orchestrated for an outcome nothing to do with this particular case.
1/ Jury lengthy deliberations – likely heading for ‘not guilty’ based on complete lack of evidence and sketchy accuser stories..
2/ not-guilty derailed by ‘accidentally’ uncovering research by juror
3/ judge says ‘keep your mouths shut’.
4/ pre-prepared speech fed to media about how unfair it all is, with ACT VoCC (lesbian mafia) standing right there supporting Higgins.
I’d love to see if anyone on the prosecution side had contact with that particular juror.
An indefinite stay of proceedings would feed right into the narrative. Not guilty would not.
RM Williams boots or any boots that are similar are terrible for your back as the heel promotes spine distortion and therefore back problems.
Wearing them would be a punishment. Nyuk, nyuk.
oh, here’s a bit of advocacy from dear old Heidi. She has no agenda to push. None at all!
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7732805/advocates-urge-funding-for-sexual-assault-reforms/
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7549074/system-is-failing-act-sexual-assault-victim-survivors/
JC, if you’re a Labor-Greens voter like Britnah, laws like defamation and contempt of court don’t apply to you.
Laws apply only to people who vote the wrong way. It’s the same here as in the US.
Someone reckons we’ve reached peak absurdity on the left. Fetterman and Hiden’s mental issues are one example of the many.
Other examples are males pretending they’re females playing on female sports teams. Something decent has begun to stop that. One Carolina team (forget which Carolina) has forfeited a game because the other side had a pretend female playing.
JCsays:
October 27, 2022 at 2:17 pm
Wouldn’t the prosecution have warned her off shooting her mouth off to the press?
Choosing to lean over and whisper in her ear with the ACT ‘victims commissioner” standing alongside would be a (In the best Yes Minister tradition) courageous move.
And WTF does a victim commissioner do, hand pats and sooky looks or is it the Krays brother model where they assault people at random?
I’m just guessing, but it would be a dyke?
Yep
I’m beginning to think some of the old coots here find young, fit women threatening. I, on the other hand, embrace core strength, glutes and abs. A good pair of deltoids goes a long way.
Why would ‘under oath’ be an additional burden unless she was going to lie?
I suspect she only included that in her lamentation to her suffering because it makes it sound more burdensome.
How many days did she take off during the trial? Three, was it?
Helps with the housework. 🙂
Panties are overrated. Pants too.
I doubt she has the nuance for this but I can’t help feel that “required to tell the truth” should have been “I told the truth”.
Cronkite
Fitness for a gal doesn’t mean looking like Arnie at his peak. I know you’re regional, but please demonstrate a little taste.
Fitness for a gal looks like this: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/beautiful-fit-young-woman–791507703230246312/
Not something resembling this.
https://www.muscleandfitness.com/athletes-celebrities/body-work-complete-evolution-arnold/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11359365/Bruce-Lehrmanns-lawyers-refer-Brittany-Higgins-police-TV-speech.html
Despite being broadcast on live TV, much of Ms Higgins’ speech could not be published in print for legal reasons.
Daily Mail show 58 Secs of speech
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/a-most-unwise-statement.html
show 3 mins 26 secs
From the Comments
– That was obviously a long and well prepared in advance statement. Contempt of court any day of the week.
– Absolutely incredible that the MSM could publish in any form her emotive, rehearsed and well planned attack. To suggest that the defendant never said a word, never had to explain etc is to contemptuous to believe. He (or she for that matter) are entitled to the presumption of innocence and are entitled to remain silent) for her to emotionally suggest otherwise is wrong and her Counsel should be dragged back before the Court and lashed publicly by her Honour.
I’ve got no doubt this will just add a further chapter to her book that will obviously be bound over until after the new trial. But her conduct is deplorable.
– “I chose to speak up against rape”.
Like the vast majority of Australians. Quite a few even spoke up for Kathy Sherriff. Higgins was not one of them. It kind of would have been good to speak up on how courts should believe all women back then, bugger the trial.
– How entitled is this person? She believes the whole justice system is against her just because she didn’t get the outcome she expected. The accused has the right to silence. It is the prosecution that has to present evidence to convince the jury that the accused is guilty. It has been like this for a very long time but when Ms Higgins and the backing of the Great Wilkinson tribe they think the system should change for her. Maybe she realises how bad it will look for her if the accused is found not guilty.
– RIGHT after Judge said THIS below:
“I would expect after reporting the outcome of today, that reporting of the matter should fall silent,” Chief Justice McCallum said.
…..Crikey and Higgins do the very opposite. Trial at risk of being stayed again, maybe permanently.
“JC, if you’re a Labor-Greens voter like Britnah, laws like defamation and contempt of court don’t apply to you.
Laws apply only to people who vote the wrong way. It’s the same here as in the US.”
Correct, and this was clear, very clear, back in July when the Amphibian of Mosman prejudiced the trial. Any charges laid? Nope, because the amphibian is a darling of the progressive left. Yet if that had been you, or me, or Andrew Bolt, or Tim Blair, or Rowan Dean, or Rita Panahi, or any other conservative sucker, charges would have been laid the following day.
The whole thing has been a disgrace, from beginning to end. I’m glad Lehmann’s lawyers have referred Higgins to the Federal Police.
Is that Mr & Mrs Red bandana?
anything involving a penis (or a person with a penis) is assault by definition.
rosiesays:
October 27, 2022 at 1:39 pm
She was wearing a longish dress, I don’t read anything onto her decision to want to avoid a visible panty line, it’s irrelevant.
What is relevant is how that “longish dress” could have been moved up to or above her waist without either her cooperation, or some damage if she were unconscious.
Bespoke:
That would be the parrot, Bespoke. I have a strong suspicion his demand for a printed copy of the page has less to do with intellectual curiosity and more with a need for differently coloured lining of his cage.
Shallow bastard of a cocky that he is.
They would go down a treat if they move Diggers & Dealers to Sydney.
“Is that Mr & Mrs Red bandana?””
Yes, both are.
lol
“The whole thing has been a disgrace, from beginning to end.”
Actually it hasn’t ended because there’ll be another trial in February. They won’t rest until they convict him and send him to prison…a la Pell.
My sympathies lie with Bruce Lehmann.
Repeat after me…
BRUCE LEHMANN IS THE INNOCENT VICTIM HERE.
BRUCE LEHMANN IS THE INNOCENT VICTIM HERE.
BRUCE LEHMANN IS THE INNOCENT VICTIM HERE.
I’m sorry, I’m very angry.
I expect they are from the RM Wiliams Don Dunstan signature collection. For the urban Brokeback Mountain crowd. Ride ‘em Twiggy.
That doesn’t make sense.
A juror has admitted introducing the the document to the jury room.
If it was planted by an over-zealous court official why would a juror admit to it?
If it was a juror, they could simply stymie a not guilty verdict until the cows come home.
It is more likely that it was leaning heavily towards not guilty and a juror has been advised that an aborted trial is “better” than an 11-1 hung jury.
“Better”, as in, a higher chance of re-trial.
Okay, Okay
A lady comes home from her doctor’s appointment grinning from ear to ear. Her husband asks “Why are you so happy?” The wife says “The doctor told me that for a forty-five-year-old woman, I have the breasts of a eighteen year old”. “Oh yeah?” quipped her husband “What did he say about your forty-five-year-old pussy?” “Your name never came up” she said.
Lehmann was swamp. But, yes, he is being screwed.
If the screw Swamp, they’ll screw us.
As noted up thread, this isn’t about L. It’s about changing the law, particularly in accusations of rape. Young men have to be very careful right now. They’ll have to be even more vigilant in the future.
The reason I don’t wear long nightdresses, as was the fashion years ago, is because in the normal course of tossing and turning in the night, the fabric ends up around my waist uncomfortably.
What a load of bleepin’ malarkey. How very very very convenient. This was the only way to avoid a ‘hung jury’ for which the deliberations were heading. So that, despite the judge’s clear warning, the BDB, continues to traduce and defame a man not yet found guilty of any crime for which he is charged; and to which charge he pleads not guilty. Britney No-Knickers certainly isn’t eschewing or seeking “respite from the intense glare of the media that has been pervasive throughout this trial.”. she stepped right into it empassioned, tearful and fully-rehearsed.
hzhousewife
Thanks, but how much tossing and turning does a drunk comatose woman do?
Don’t answer if you don’t want to.
threatening, yes… but in a sexual way.
Or am I revealing too much?
“she stepped right into it empassioned, tearful and fully-rehearsed.”
Brittaaaaneeeeee the Knickerless is next up for a Logie.
America’s brittle consensus on Ukraine will soon break
The pressure on Biden to negotiate with Putin is bound to grow, especially after Republicans win the midterms and with a US recession looming.
Edward Luce Columnist
“Diplomacy” is a taboo word in American politics right now. The speed at which progressive Democrats this week disowned their call for Joe Biden to talk to Russia is testament to that.
Only Ukraine can decide when and how this war will end, the legislators insisted. The group was clearly shell-shocked by the savagery of condemnation from their own side.
Yet, they were guilty only of speaking out too soon. Wars end in one of two ways: with the unconditional surrender of one party or in a negotiated settlement. As the world’s equal largest nuclear power, Russia’s full capitulation is almost unimaginable.
That means the West and Ukraine will eventually have to negotiate an end to this war. That moment has not arrived. But it is probably nearer than most people think.
It would be madness to open ceasefire talks with Vladimir Putin at a time when Ukrainians are recapturing territory. Today’s urgency is for the West to give Ukraine enough firepower to regain Kherson and what they can of the Donbas before winter. The stronger Ukraine’s military position next spring, the likelier Putin’s “partial mobilisation” will fail to reverse the war’s direction.
But the situation on the ground – the American ground, that is – will have changed a lot between now and then. Two big factors will weigh on when Biden will try to bring this war to an end. The first is Republicans’ probable capture of one or both chambers of Congress in midterm elections in two weeks.
Republicans on the warpath
Kevin McCarthy, the likely next Speaker of the House of Representatives, has warned that Republicans will not provide a “blank cheque” for Ukraine’s self-defence.
Fifty-seven House Republicans and 11 senators voted against the $US40 billion ($62 billion) Ukraine aid package earlier this year. That money is depleting fast.
In the Republican quest to make a scorched earth of Biden’s presidency, nothing will be sacrosanct, including Ukraine’s military pipeline. The pro-Putin wing of the Republican Party remains a minority. But almost every Republican will back McCarthy’s likely efforts to impeach Biden and hold the US debt ceiling hostage to their demands.
It is naive to assume the Ukraine consensus would survive what both US parties see as an existential battle for the republic.
The second is that the US will be entering a recession. Economists are virtually unanimous that America will not escape that fate in 2023. This will pose an acute threat to Biden’s – or to another Democratic nominee’s – chances of defeating Donald Trump, or a Trump-like Republican, in 2024.
Congressional Republicans will be working in tandem with the recession to darken Biden’s electoral clouds. As the 2024 reckoning looms, Ukraine’s fate will take a back seat to America’s.
The imperatives confronting Ukraine and Biden are still the same. The faster Ukraine can roll back Russia’s military, the better for everyone. Biden and the US’s allies still have a window to tilt the advantage further in Ukraine’s favour.
Interests will diverge by 2024
But American and Ukrainian interests will diverge as 2024 looms. Critics of the US-led coalition say they are fighting Russia down to the last Ukrainian. Yet, as both paymaster and quartermaster, America’s support is indispensable. Fiscal metrics do not capture the real cost of a war that is stoking the inflation that is so harmful to Democratic prospects.
The White House maintains it will be Ukraine’s choice how this war comes to an end. That will be true until the moment it is not.
The question remains why Democrats are so quick to shut down debate in their ranks. The intensity of liberal hawkishness has caught even the White House by surprise. The answer has as much to do with the US republic’s uncertain future as with Russia’s threat to European peace.
These spectres are stamped with the faces of Trump and Putin. Biden framed his democracy versus autocracy line on the campaign trail to highlight Trump’s threat to US democracy.
Trump’s “semi-fascist” leanings (in Biden’s words) are even more menacing today than they were when he lost the election. There are hundreds of Republicans on the ballot who back Trump’s claim that Biden stole the presidency.
The return of Trump in 2024 would be Putin’s ultimate “get out of jail free” card. In the past eight months, Putin has united the West and forged a lasting sense of Ukrainian nationhood.
His ineptitude has been epic. But peak western unity has probably been reached. Democracy’s biggest existential stakes are still in the US. In addition to surrender or deal, war has a third outcome – indefinite suspension. The hotter America’s politics becomes, the greater the temptation to freeze Ukraine’s.
Beautiful.
I love Opal.
US, UK may soon pull back on arms for Ukraine
US elections and UK austerity could reduce the flow of weapons to Ukraine just as the war’s tide had turned in its favor
By ANDREW SALMON – OCTOBER 26, 2022
Political developments in Ukraine’s two most important suppliers of arms could significantly plug the weapons pipeline – just as Kiev has regained the operational initiative in a war that has been raging since February.
In the UK, newly inaugurated Prime Minister Rishi Sunak – whose professional experience is in the economic rather than the geostrategic sphere – has already pledged to rein in public spending.
In the US, President Joe Biden may well lose control of Congress and/or the Senate at November 8 mid-term elections, with opposition Republicans vowing to cut back on US arms shipments to Ukraine.
Both could have a serious impact on Kiev’s war-making capabilities given the importance of the two Anglosphere democracies in aiding Volodymyr Zelensky’s government. The US and UK are, respectively, the number one and two arms suppliers to Kiev and the first and third providers of financial and humanitarian aid.
If a slowdown in US and UK arms shipments is significant, it would play into the hands of an embattled Vladimir Putin, whose decimated and undermanned forces are on the back foot across most of the Ukrainian warscape.
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy tracks multiple nations’ arms exports to Ukraine.
The institute’s data shows that between January 24 and October 3, 2022, the US pledged the largest amount of military aid worth 27 billion euros followed by the UK with promises of 3.74 billion euros.
The next largest suppliers of military aid fall well behind Washington and even London. EU institutions pledged 2.5 billion euros worth of arms over the period, while Poland promised to supply arms valued at 1.82 billion euros.
In terms of humanitarian and financial aid, the institute found that the US was, again, the largest donor, with pledges of 24.7 euros, while the UK was in third place pledging 5 billion. EU institutions were in second place, promising 13.7 billion to Kiev.
Overall, both Washington and London have pledged 0.2% of their respective GDPs to support Kiev, the institute found.
Condolences to all the farmers and householders badly affected by this awful weather. We have been relatively lucky having only lost fencing, and not stock or crops, or indeed, housing.
Even so, with all this lush green fodder the risk of grass tetany is real for our older cows. I hadn’t thought of this when we released them into a creek paddock (now clear of overflow) that they had been eyeing off this morning. Got them out after an hour or so. One overweight black Angus cow is a bit of a worry as she seemed a little stiff in one of her legs.
In spite of a BOM forecast for only a brief shower, around midday the heavens opened once again – about 50mm. The driveway to the house is a river which proceeds further down to flood the cattle yards 700m away. Thankfully I did the house grounds with the ride-on before the deluge. But the garden weeds which I spent hours removing a week ago have been replaced by even higher growth.
Husband spent part of afternoon watching Parliament. He is a gluten for punishment. I can hardly bear it. The Liberal Party squandered every opportunity to restore energy independence of this nation and now criticises their opponents for continuing the flagrant and stupid denial of the energy disaster that awaits us.
Indolent:
I would be enraged at that piece of economic sabotage.
Who am I kidding?
I am enraged.
If the Brits put up with this Globalist Coup, they deserve every bloody thing they get.
I remember after Tobruk fell the first time, Churchill screamed at his CoS “Will they never fight?” I can understand his frustration.
China’s ‘electromagnetic sled’ is almost supersonic
High-speed rail system zooms at 1,030 kilometers per hour, zipping past the top speeds of China and Japan’s current maglev trains
Referred to as an “electromagnetic sled,” the train has a top speed of 1,030 kilometers (640 miles) per hour. That’s 2.4 times faster than the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train, which tops out at 431 kilometers per hour on a 30-kilometer elevated track to and from Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
than the Shanghai Transrapid maglev train, which tops out at 431 kilometers per hour on a 30-kilometer elevated track to and from Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Yep, been on the trip out & back and have photo showing 431 Km/hr
Of itself, nothing in this case has changed the law of anything. The law has been changed in a number of cases, primarily to make the trial process less intimidatory to the accused. I would not expect an informed person to have an issue with the changes that have been made.
BTW one of the hazards of having fencing washed away in the floods is not only losing your own stock (we didn’t as we closed off the creek paddocks before the Big Wet) – but acquiring your unwanted neighbours’ stock. We have the unenviable situation of having an absentee owner adjacent who recently acquired a dozen “weaners” which subsequently got into our property via said creek paddocks with washed away fences.
We arrived from Sydney after husband had been released from hospital after a substantial operation to find these young heifers had broken down our internal fences and were about to join our herd. We also found our neighbour on our property, but unable to unlock the padlock on the one adjoining gate on our boundary. In spite of his condition, husband had to take carriage of the whole situation as the neighbour has zero understanding of cattle – especially of “weaners” which are crazy at the best of times. After unlocking the gate, husband and I carefully rounded them up – but then found the neighbour’s wife standing at the gate they needed to enter. In spite of yelling at her to move – skittish cattle will never enter a gate when someone is standing beside it – she insisted on staying “because I want them to go into an adjacent paddock”. Hell is having to negotiate with people like that.
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Beautiful.
I love Opal.
Stupid stupid people.
Here’s part of Briiiittaaaaaneeeee the Knickerless’ speech today…
“You walked with me everyday in the courtroom and faced them. I want to thank the people of Australia who have rallied behind me, those who chose to attend the March for Justice and I want to thank the workers and Canberra’s healthcare system without whom I literally wouldn’t be here today.
“Again, thank you to the DPP, my family, my friends, my mum, the ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner, Heidi Yates, Leon Zwier – who I have stolen from his family for a really long time – and Emma Webster and my partner, David.”
Firstly her cry “I want to thank the people of Australia who have rallied behind me”…,
NO, most people haven’t rallied behind her.
Secondly, another interesting angle, no father to thank. Clearly he isn’t around.
Thirdly, as for Leon Zwier, my views about him are unpublishable, and that’s saying something.
YET.
lol
I’ve been drunk, but never comatose drunk. Threw up in public once ( think retsina in a big square in Athens with backpackers 1975).
Weapons sent to Ukraine appearing on black market – Putin
The Russian president has warned that portable air defense systems and high-precision armaments may fall into the wrong hands
Western weapons flowing into Ukraine have begun to make their way onto black markets, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with the heads of security and special services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries on Wednesday.
The Russian leader called on the participants of the meeting to bolster cooperation in anti-terrorism efforts and noted that there were “serious challenges” posed by the emerging black arms markets in Ukraine.
Putin claimed that “cross-border criminal groups” were actively involved in smuggling weapons to other regions and that it wasn’t just small firearms. “There is a persistent risk of criminals getting hold of more powerful weapons, including portable air defense systems and precision weapons.”
The president’s statement comes after Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, warned last month that corrupt Ukrainian officials had established channels to deliver Western-supplied weapons onto the global black market.
Meanwhile, the West’s top military officials have admitted that it is nearly impossible to effectively track where the billions of dollars worth of arms delivered to Ukraine actually end up. Pentagon Inspector General Sean O’Donnell told Bloomberg in August that there was almost no fidelity as the Ukrainians still used paper “hand receipts” to trace supplied weapons.
CBS News also reported that some 70% of weapons supplied to Ukraine never make it to the front lines as they have to pass through a network of “power lords, oligarchs and political players.”
“There is really no information as to where they’re going at all,” Donatella Rovera, a senior crisis adviser with Amnesty international told the outlet, adding that it was “really worrying” that the countries supplying these weapons do not find it necessary to put in place robust oversight mechanisms.
CBS was later pressured, however, to pull the documentary and amend the story after the channel was accused of spreading “Russian propaganda.” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak has insisted there is “no proof” that weapons entering the country were unaccounted for.
Ukraine has insisted that an uninterrupted flow of Western weapons is the key to the country’s survival on the battlefield. Russia, meanwhile, has warned on multiple occasions that pumping Kiev with weapons will only prolong the conflict.
strategic communications advisor.
Fitness for a gal looks like this: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/beautiful-fit-young-woman–791507703230246312/
She needs a feed. And what’s with putting up some photos of old Arnie. At that stage he didn’t know much about steroids and shredding. His water retention was terrible; he looks like a South African rugby front row forward. Now, just clear your old, congealed mind, head prefect, and look at these, admire the effort they put in (which you couldn’t) and consider if you were out with this and some young punks got fresh, you wouldn’t have to do anything except pay the bill for dinner and make sure the Merc was fuelled and ready to go. Remember; strong is the new sexy.
hzhousewifesays:
October 27, 2022 at 3:51 pm
think retsina in a big square in Athens
Syntagma Square in Athens?
PS I like retsina, definitely an acquired taste as is ouzo
Arguments around evidence in sexual assault cases have been around for decades. Brittany has given them a higher profile than they typically receive. I would not be bunching my panties just yet.
H B Bearsays:
October 27, 2022 at 3:57 pm
Arguments around evidence in sexual assault cases have been around for decades. Brittany has given them a higher profile than they typically receive. I would not be bunching my panties just yet.
You’re not going Commando then?
I believe there are a few glutens for punishment at the cat.
Thirdly, as for Leon Zwier, my views about him are unpublishable, and that’s saying something.
Wise. Zwier is a corporate and commercial litigator. I don’t know what he’s doing in this bog-fest.
Save brittany, the whole shit-fest, belongs to scomo who is rivalling turdball as the worst conservative PM this convict colony has had.
Lol Cronkers, look I appreciate your attempt at recruiting people, but really I have zero interest in same sex coupling as you appear to. I’m not judging by the way.
Time for some fact checking.
It’s a moratorium, not a ban, in place until investigations into earth tremors said to be associated with fracking in the UK are complete.
It is, in fact, Conservative Party policy, developed in 2019 in reponse to local community concerns expressed to Tory MPs. Labor favours a complete ban on fracking.
Fracking would have no immediate impact on the price of gas in the UK, which is laregly set – as it is here – by the international market. Further, as Kwasi Kwarteng conceded when Truss lifted the moratorium, it would take 10 years for fracking to put any negative pressure on domestic gas prices.
And, lastly, Truss’s fracking policy still required local community support for any project to resume or begin. Given that only c. 17% of Brits support fracking, according to the Truss government’s own polling, that support was likely to be thin on the ground.
So, whatever we may think of the wisdom or otherwise of this decision, it is clearly one that has been taken in response to local and domestic politis rather than any putative globalist agenda.
politics
He is a gluten for punishment.
Common WA wheat farmers complaint.
Try 10 oz of Magnesium Citrate
Interesting Comment from
Zelensky gets ‘message’ from Putin
The president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo, told his Ukrainian counterpart that the Russian leader was open to talking
From the Comments
– Oleksiy Arestovich: “The situation in Kherson is changing unpleasantly for the Ukrainian forces” Confession from the adviser of the Ukrainian president. The adviser of the Ukrainian president V. Zelensky, Oleksei Arestovich admitted today what the real tactical situation is on the Kherson front and that it is not good at all for the Ukrainian forces. In recent days the Western media have attempted to portray Ukrainian forces as already victorious in Kherson despite the fact that there were many clear signs that the Russians have stabilized the front. Western media have also tried to portray the departure of thousands of residents from the region as a sign that the Russians are losing and evicting Russian-speaking residents.
But the truth was that the residents were leaving to protect themselves from the Ukrainian bombardments and the Russians wanted there to be no civilians in the areas they would hit with all their power. Ukrainian losses are constantly increasing as the fortified and reinforced Russians no longer take a step back, as a result of which Ukrainian attempts to re-occupy territories that now belong to the Russian state fall into the void and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Oleksii Reznikov tries to justify himself by saying that for it’s all the fault of the… mud.
The Ukrainian losses since the beginning of the great counter-offensive, and especially since September 1, reach 15,000 dead and they are trying with every soldier and mercenary to carry out the American instructions for attacks continuously until the mid-term elections, as a result of which they fall in front of the Russian “wall”.
Referring to the Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces in Kherson, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov stressed that this counteroffensive is proving more difficult than the one in the northeast due to wet weather and terrain.
H B Bearsays:
October 27, 2022 at 3:57 pm
Arguments around evidence in sexual assault cases have been around for decades. Brittany has given them a higher profile than they typically receive. I would not be bunching my panties just yet.
Our very own m0nty-fa, KC, Master of Laws, BEc (Failed), B J’ism, joined in the debate this very day. His panties were very bunched.
Haven’t found a brand that lasted more then two.
Boy I wonder who the lucky groom will be…
MAFS hits bottom of barrel, keeps scraping.
/This is the MAFS forum isnt it?
US scales back plan for Russian oil price cap – Bloomberg
Washington has reportedly been forced to pursue more “loosely policed” market controls
President Joe Biden’s administration has reportedly been forced back to the drawing board on its plan to cap international prices for Russian oil, having failed to secure enough commitments to control how much Moscow is paid for the bulk of its crude exports.
The US and the European Union will likely have to settle for a “loosely policed” pricing cap, enforced by fewer buyers and at a higher price than envisioned, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified people familiar with the plans. The original goal was to drastically reduce Russia’s oil revenue – the latest effort to punish Moscow for its military offensive in Ukraine – by imposing a strict price lid to which a broad “buyer’s cartel” of nations would adhere.
Instead, only G7 nations and Australia have committed to honoring the price cap, Bloomberg said, attributing failure of the original plan to investor skepticism, volatile financial markets and efforts to tame inflation around the world. The cap level also might need to go higher than a previously targeted range of $40-$60 per barrel.
Biden’s administration has denied that its plan would fall short of throttling Russian oil revenue. “The White House and the administration are staying the course on implementing an effective, strong price cap on Russian oil in coordination with the G7 and other partners,” White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson told Bloomberg in a statement.
Russian officials have said the country won’t sell oil or other commodities under price caps or unprofitable market conditions. Nor will Moscow supply energy to nations that adopt trade policies contradicting the terms of their existing oil and natural gas contracts, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak said earlier this month. A cap on crude wouldn’t be viable because prices are driven by the global supply-demand balance, he added.
The G7 price cap is scheduled to go into force on December 5, along with an EU ban on imports of seaborne Russian crude. Reuters reported last week that after December 5, Russia would still be able to ship the vast majority of its oil exports at market prices because it would have ample access to tankers and other services. The outlet cited a US Treasury official as saying that between 80% and 90% of Russian oil would continue to flow to buyers outside the cap mechanism.
Russia would have access not only to its own oil tankers, but also to Chinese and Indian ships, Reuters added. Traders and insurance companies from Russia, Asia and the Middle East would provide the necessary transactional services. Brent crude, a leading international oil benchmark, is currently selling for around $95 per barrel.
Russia can dodge G7 oil price cap – Reuters
Between 80% and 90% of Russian crude could reportedly continue to flow after December 5
That may explain the three days absence.
Hinting that cross examination led her to a half hearted suicide attempt?
I guess being unexpectedly caught out in a few lies must have been traumatic.
Look what he’s putting me through!
And that’s another point of difference with the Cardinal Pell case.
At every step she’s had a bully pulpit.
Sadly yes.
Pfizer Price Hike
From Armstrong Economics –
“Our computer indicated that Pfizer was heading down. They’ve already convinced or coerced everyone eligible to take the vaccines. Those who have held out are unlikely ever to accept the vaccine at this point. Only 5% of those eligible in the US received a booster shot as skepticism is rising. Numerous studies have revealed the hidden dangers of the vaccine. Transmission and infection are still possible with the vaccination, eliminating the intended purpose. A Pfizer representative recently admitted that they never even tested the potion for transmission. Worse, new studies determined that the vaccine produces a negative effect and makes people more susceptible to COVID. There is no medical basis for taking them.
Still, there are those who will line up to receive another booster. To compensate for the lack of willing participants, Pfizer announced plans to quadruple the price of its COVID vaccine. Pfizer will now charge around $110 to $130 per dose, and this comes at a cost to governments who are willingly paying to distribute the poison to the public. The US government helped Pfizer create the vaccine under Operation Warpspeed by providing them with billions in funding.
“We are confident that the U.S. price point of the COVID-19 vaccine reflects its overall cost effectiveness and ensures the price will not be a barrier for access for patients,” Pfizer executive Angela Lukin said. The US was previously paying around $30 per jab. Coincidentally, once the COVID emergency order ends, private insurance companies will be forced to pay the increased price for a faulty product. Lukin believes the private sector will not take over the bill until Q1 2023 “at the earliest.” It will be interesting to see if insurance companies are willing to eat the cost of the vaccine. More than likely, they will expect some incentive from doing so, or Pfizer and others will offer some rebate program funded by the government that continues to support this agenda.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/pfizer-price-hike/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Britnnne the grundyless may be caught in an awful quandary of really believing she was assaulted, but not having any memory of it.
Instead she wakes in a pool of her own vomit, naked, in her bosses office and knows shes fucked up big time.
That awful feeling of fucking up is transformed by the coven in Canberra into “it must have happened”, and prompting creates dodgy memories.
Or she got shitfaced and was rooted by an opportunistic swine.
Labor to cut $2.4b over four years state public hospital funding.
The cut is based on reduced reported activity in hospitals.
That reduced activity is the result of covid impacts on elective surgery and clinics, which one might reasonably expect will return to pre-2019 levels of activity well within that 4 year period.
While this may provide an impetus for the states to examine wastage in hospitals, which would be welcome, it’s a pretty stupid decision that belies the claim that Labor will always look after public hospitals and the people who rely on them.
John Helmer: “The US signals readiness to launch nuclear strike against Russia”
Interesting assessment
This principle is called “mutually assured destruction”. It was this, and not anything else, that guaranteed the absence of major wars on our planet since 1945.
However, today the situation is somewhat different. The number of nuclear warheads has become such that the exchange of nuclear strikes cannot lead to the guaranteed death of all living things. The number of carriers of nuclear weapons has fallen to such numbers that even after a massive, all-out strike, wildlife, untouched cities and towns, and people will remain in the Northern Hemisphere. A nuclear war without the death of all participants has become possible.
The second problem is the combat stability of the Russian nuclear forces in their current configuration. Russia was able to revive the Missile Attack Warning System (SPRN). The missiles that are supposed to retaliate and counter-strike are regularly updated.
But now our fleet has fewer ships than Japan. There is no possibility to intercept or block all dangerous waters with the operations of Russia’s anti-submarine forces. And this means that, as in the case of the Arabian Sea, the Americans and the British who can hold the area, will be free to manoeuvre there in order to strike from locations where the missiles can reach us too quickly. For example, in the Northern, Norwegian, Barents, Mediterranean and Arabian Seas.
Russian strategic submarines are few in number today compared to the Soviet times. Together with the qualitative superiority of the US Navy, this creates an environment where the Americans can destroy our submarines immediately before the attack begins. This, alas, is a fact known to specialists. At the same time, 44% of all strategic nuclear warheads in Russia are placed on submarines. And almost all of them are in two (!) fleet bases vulnerable to the first strike. The Russian strategic aviation has never learned to fight like the American one, and it is not a means of guaranteed retaliation.
The combination of these factors creates a technical opportunity for the United States to launch a successful disarming nuclear strike against Russia without receiving a significant blow in response. At the same time, the intensity of anti-Russian propaganda is such that the western man in the street will not have to justify anything — from that perspective everything is already prepared. And right now there is the hint of the possibility of such a strike when the West Virginia surfaced in the Arabian Sea.
Chinese factor, flight time and impact mechanics
It’s all very complicated, and the risks of loss of surprise are very high. But their chances of success are not zero. With the visit of West Virginia to our ‘soft underbelly’, the Americans clearly show how far they are willing to go if they deem it necessary. The Americans are sending an extremely clear signal – for them, nuclear war is no longer unthinkable, and not impossible.
Rogersays:
October 27, 2022 at 4:19 pm
I want to thank the workers and Canberra’s healthcare system without whom I literally wouldn’t be here today.
That may explain the three days absence.
If it does, then I wonder will she be willing to face another trial.
And if she isn’t, then it would seem a safe bet that her maaate the Victims of Crime Commissioner will use this to demand changes to the law, to ensure “justice” for future complainants (but not for future accused).
Oops Link – John Helmer: “The US signals readiness to launch nuclear strike against Russia”
Total bollocks. Here’s why:
Energy crisis lifeline as UK urged to tap into huge potential for geothermal technology (20 Oct)
They are pushing geothermal energy which causes earth tremors SIMULTANEOUSLY with trying to ban fracking “because” of earth tremors. Hypocrisy on stilts.
(Reykjavik regularly gets tremors up to Richter 4 or so when the geothermal plant nearby is doing water injections, and they show up on the IMO earthquake map.)
Cutting an Opal. FFS
If you think this doesn’t go against our Community Standards let us know.
Her claim here that Lehrmann is a rapist is highly defamatory.
Perhaps.
She should be prosecuted.
Uh huh.
Never heard of a case where the Injured Party declined to give Evidence, so this would be a First if it went ahead.
Davos in the Desert
From Armstrong Economics –
“Some of the biggest players have gathered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the annual Future Investment Initiative (FII). The conference is often referred to as “Davos in the Desert,” as they are competing with the World Economic Forum to be the largest economic conference of the year. Washington’s relationship with Saudi Arabia is at a standstill, but that is not preventing Wall Street’s chief names from attending.
“American companies will make their own decisions about their presence and where to invest, taking into account a range of factors including legal constraints, the business environment, and reputational concerns that can arise from public policy choices made by host countries,” said Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary.
Former Treasury Secretary Mnuchin and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who both run private funds backed by the Saudis, were in attendance. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Goldman’s David Solomon spoke at the event along with Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and investor Ray Dalio. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried also spoke at the event. No one associated with the Biden Administration was in attendance as Washington is re-evaluating its relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia’s economy is rapidly growing. The event is Prince Mohammed’s opportunity to show that the kingdom is ready to be seen as a financial powerhouse beyond its energy sector. The private sector is making it known that they are willing to invest in Saudi Arabia despite Washington’s reluctance.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/davos-in-the-desert/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
That juror should be made to bear the costs of the trial, that would be a warning to all others not to disobey a judge’s orders.– imagine how much all of this has cost the accused to say nothing of the ACT taxpayers. What an absolute travesty
JC,
Whenever you see a post by somebody you don’t like how about instead of reacting with a smartarse comment you just scroll by? It’s real easy.
“Rooster
If you’re complaining so much about the idiot, then why are you listening to him? Stop whining and stop listening. It’s real easy.”
Paging Tim Flannery
thot. Literally.
No, it’s just politics, Bruce.
Perceptions are everything, and a government trailing the opposition by c. 30 pts can’t afford to hang to unpopular policies.
Indeed it was right from the start, Tinta.
My thought too.
But without a guilty verdict the book and speaking engagements aren’t likely to happen.
Higgins full statement: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/brittany-higgins-full-media-statement-20221027-p5btjm.html
choice tidbits.. tell me this is not orchestrated
I’m not judging by the way.
That’s lucky.
The wording of that sentence is telling — ‘required’? Seems to me that requirement may have been ignored — she was also required by the judge not to make statements to the media – seems that requirement was also ignored.
I was amused today by Libs of TikTok, she got herself banned within 20 minutes of signing up to a new lefty social media platform.
At least she didn’t say anything about opals, then it’d’ve been even quicker.
ASIC Will Finally Face The Music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjPNpjRZONk
It is more likely that it was leaning heavily towards not guilty and a juror has been advised that an aborted trial is “better” than an 11-1 hung jury.
“Better”, as in, a higher chance of re-trial.
If it was 11-1 Not Guilty, why waste time trying for 0-12 Guilty second time around, because it will never happen?
Very likely it was 11-1 Guilty and the ringer brought the material in himself to wreck the Trial.
Juror misconduct.
“Accidentally bumped a box on the floor”
Bullshit on stilts.
The ladies are always looking for someone to blame for their lack of professional conduct.
How fortunate to be able to blame a single juror for a mistrial after this fiasco.
The jury should have been dismissed days ago.
From the “Hun.”
Pell redux.
Very likely it was 11-1 Guilty and the ringer brought the material in himself to wreck the Trial.
Fantasising again ed.
In your dreams.
The wording of that sentence is telling — ‘required’?
Yeah.
As in, Higgins woulda preferred that the whole World didn’t know that she didn’t always wear pants under a dress, but having taken the Oath, that wasn’t an option anymore.
Seems to me that requirement may have been ignored
You’ve got absolutely no idea, and are joining a pile on.—
she was also required by the judge not to make statements to the media – seems that requirement was also ignored.
During the Trial.
Trial finished today, Higgins addressed the Media later.
Good on her.
Always. Unless there is a SW strong wind warning forecast.
So they dumped a policy of allowing cheaper energy in favour of causing blackouts across Britain in winter, and freezing pensioners who can’t afford gas heating. Contemptible.
Unplug the fridge: UK gears up for hard cold winter and BBC secretly plans for a national blackout (27 Oct)
Warming hubs. How about that? Do oldies have to trudge through sleet to get to one, just so they can camp out overnight and not freeze to death?
Higgins may not need to appear as a witness again if the parties agree the second jury can watch a tape of her evidence instead.
Pell redux.
Some of Pell’s second trial consisted of video, particularly the complainant’s evidence. I’m not sure Pell’s side agreed with this.
Higgins may not need to appear as a witness again if the parties agree the second jury can watch a tape of her evidence instead.
The defence better insist on another cross examination.
Embrace the Dark Side. If the World is ending you don’t want to be at the back of the queue.
Warming hubs. How about that? Do oldies have to trudge through sleet to get to one, just so they can camp out overnight and not freeze to death?
If anyone dies from these policies the pollies should be tried for murder. Yeah I know, Tinkerbell is real too.
Perhaps Britons will change their mind about fracking after this winter, but the fact still remains that it won’t make gas cheaper anytime soon.
Another Britnah production.
The Hangover! Part Deux.