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All Souls’ Day, Jules Bastien-Lepage, 1882

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Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 12:40 pm

sfw:

I’m happy to be who I am, relatively almost unknown and just love my country and family and despise our major parties for their destruction of Aussie culture and society and loading us with debt at the same time.

Same here – I like the definition of a superpatriot as someone who loves their country, but just cannot stand 90% of the people infesting it.
🙂 (best I put in a smiley before it gets construed as something else.)

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 12:41 pm

CBS Shows John Fetterman’s Gigantic Computer System He Needs *With Stenographer Typing Out Questions in Real Time* In Order to Speak (VIDEO)

CBS showed Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman’s gigantic computer system he needs in order to hold a somewhat normal conversation.

Fetterman can barely speak after his massive stroke in May.

John Fetterman needs giant monitors and a stenographer typing out questions in real time in order to conduct an interview.

There is no way this man can serve in the US senate.

Is Fetterman going to carry around a monitor and his own personal stenographer with him everywhere he goes if he wins the open senate seat in Pennsylvania?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 12:42 pm

the insurgents maxim – ‘low tech is the cure for high tech…’

The Ukrainians, or someone, knocked out a bunch of alligators near St Petersburg this week. They infiltrated an unguarded airbase and planted some low tech explodey stuff (albeit with mid-range tech 6 hr timer-detonators).

Also the drone attack on Sevastopol naval base is starting to look more like Taranto than a faceplant. The Russians are admitting to four ships damaged including the Makarov (which admittedly has been destroyed several times in this war so far, funny that).

Lot of resistance stuff seems to be going on under the radar. I think that’s a symptom of insufficient rear-area security, due to a lack of warm bodies.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 12:44 pm

Libs of TikTok: No f’ing way we give COVID amnesty

Libs of TikTok–the often banned and often revived Twitter handle of Chaya Raichik–has an epic Twitter rant about why the COVID fascists deserve no quarter nor forgiveness.

And she is right. The Left used COVID as a tool to oppress us and seize power, and some things only God can forgive. And too many unforgivable things were done during the pandemic. A reckoning must come before we move on from this dark period.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 12:45 pm

On instantly recognised gravatars, also pick one that really really annoys lefties. Because they imagine they own it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
November 4, 2022 12:46 pm

m0ntysays:
November 3, 2022 at 10:48 pm
Geez the Hun is desperate if they are dredging up something from 2013 on Andrews. Gutter journalism at its finest.

How far back did US j’ismists go with Kavanaugh? Even finer gutter j’ism?

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 12:50 pm

Monty

m0ntysays:
November 3, 2022 at 8:16 pm
On my police/ASIO records

Ooooooh, look at Winston the big man.

This is what I mean – you cannot even make a damn joke these days without some idiot using it as an excuse to piss on someone else.

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 12:57 pm
Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 12:57 pm

Oh, and without reading up, it seems that the Diet Wars have broken out again.

The contrarian in me suspects that our pre-historic ancestors did not subsist on a “paleo” diet. There may have been exceptions due to local factors, but most would have had a mixed diet out of necessity. Even the eskimos forage in the countryside in summer.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
November 4, 2022 1:00 pm

Old Bobby Numbers is flying the flag for TaliDan on the Michael Smith site.

He could explain how a kid on bicycle could “T Bone” a big SUV as Dan stated in his wife’s defence.

An 8kg bike with maybe a 75kg teenager on it, versus a 2,000kg Ford Territory another 250kg of people and stuff inside.

“I don’t recall”

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 1:00 pm

https://globalhealth.duke.edu/news/what-can-hunter-gatherers-teach-us-about-staying-healthy

But Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist who studies modern-day hunter-gatherers, says traditional diets vary widely, and the vast majority of them include a high percentage of carbohydrates.

Despite their carb loading, though, hunter-gatherers are among the healthiest people on Earth. Pontzer, whose research focuses on energy expenditure, has spent much of his career trying to figure out the mechanisms behind their good health, including food intake and physical activity. He believes we have a lot to learn from hunter-gatherers about what constitutes a healthy lifestyle.

Similar to our Paleolithic ancestors, today’s hunter-gatherers source their food entirely from the earth and wild animals, and they’re physically active for most of each day. For instance, the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer group in northeast Tanzania that Pontzer has studied for the past ten years, spend their days walking eight to 12 kilometers, climbing trees and digging for root vegetables. Their diet consists of various meats, vegetables and fruits, as well as a significant amount of honey. In fact, they get 15 to 20 percent of their calories from honey, a simple carbohydrate.

Exercise does little to reduce weight. Nonetheless it is vital to our health. Last night I was looking at studies on myokines, molecules released by muscles during exercise. There is emerging evidence these benefit the brain. One study I read showed one such molecule, irisin, reduces the levels of alpha-synuclein, the protein that causes issues with Parkinson’s disease. Another study showed irisin had benefits for those with cardiac hypertrophy.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 1:02 pm

m0ntysays:
November 3, 2022 at 10:48 pm
Geez the Hun is desperate if they are dredging up something from 2013 on Andrews. Gutter journalism at its finest.

Good to see m0nster being owned after that via a number of examples, including Pell and Abbott maybe punching a wall.
Might I add his hand-wringing over the allegations (also from 2013) over alleged waaacism at Hawthorn Football Club.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 1:03 pm

But Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist who studies modern-day hunter-gatherers, says traditional diets vary widely, and the vast majority of them include a high percentage of carbohydrates.

Hello!

LOL.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 1:03 pm

Rogersays:
November 4, 2022 at 12:57 pm
Oh, and without reading up, it seems that the Diet Wars have broken out again.

The contrarian in me suspects that our pre-historic ancestors did not subsist on a “paleo” diet. There may have been exceptions due to local factors, but most would have had a mixed diet out of necessity. Even the eskimos forage in the countryside in summer.

You nailed it:

We are not biologically identical to our Paleolithic predecessors, nor do we have access to the foods they ate. And deducing dietary guidelines from modern foraging societies is difficult because they vary so much by geography, season and opportunity

Arky
November 4, 2022 1:03 pm

Exercise does little to reduce weight.

..
Depends on the volume of the exercise.
Try upping your expectation of what a minimum daily volume of exercise should be.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 4, 2022 1:03 pm

How far back did US j’ismists go with Kavanaugh? Even finer gutter j’ism?

In all fairness – they were already in the gutter. Have been for years.

duncanm
duncanm
November 4, 2022 1:04 pm

Despite their carb loading, though, hunter-gatherers are among the healthiest people on Earth.

.. for the length of their short lives, I’m sure they are.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

How long will M0nty last if we start punching commos?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 1:07 pm

our pre-historic ancestors did not subsist on a “paleo” diet

Our paleo ancestors tended not to live beyond age 25.
Beer bellies and atherosclerosis probably weren’t common problems.

I’ve been reading through the official history of Aussies in WW2 as you know. Gavin Long set out right at the start to include in the footnotes short bios of everyone mentioned – date of birth, rank, service highlights and age at death. Sixty was old. Many ex-servicemen were goners in their fifties. I suspect the thing that made the big difference was invention of penicillin.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
November 4, 2022 1:07 pm

for the length of their short lives, I’m sure they are.

Longevitist.

(That is the knee-jerk word when you want to accuse someone of something and all you have is the last thing they said – in this case the life expectancy of different groups, isn’t it?)

/lefty

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 1:08 pm

You nailed it

Question everything!

(I understand the “paleo” diet is not necessarily low carb but tends to be in practice.)

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 1:08 pm

Anyway, thanks John H.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 1:11 pm

Many ex-servicemen were goners in their fifties.

My paternal grandfather (WWII) & two great uncles (WWI) were.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 1:12 pm

duncanmsays:
November 4, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Despite their carb loading, though, hunter-gatherers are among the healthiest people on Earth.

.. for the length of their short lives, I’m sure they are.

Perhaps. The average lifespan is short because of very high child mortality. That relates to infections. Our immune responses are very susceptible to unexperienced pathogen exposure. Another big cause is violence. Even in the Middle Ages if you survived well into your teens and lived in the same locale lifespan could reach 60 years or more.

Nonetheless my view is that because energy production declines with age, especially past 60 years of age, reducing carb intake is a good idea. Boosting antioxidant intake is also worth considering because our body antioxidant defenses decline with age. There are claims that boosting protein intake is beneficial for older people, something I find paradoxical. I have no idea why that is beneficial.

Razey
Razey
November 4, 2022 1:14 pm

Our ancestors….

Also died in there 30’s. Why base a diet on them?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 1:14 pm

On diets.
It seems to me that the ‘confirmation bias’ diet is the most popular.
“I like x, y and z, and here is the evidence that x, y and z are good for you, or at least do no harm”.
I have very sad news for a lot of Cats.
I was bemoaning my inability to unload that last 3-4 kgs to a medical specialist earlier this year.
Her reply was devastating.
“Alcohol is the thing stopping that, Sancho.”
So I cut back alcohol. Not totally dry, but 5 AFDs a week and averaging about 1 drink a day over six months.
Food intake largely unchanged except replacing incidental “snacking” sugars with fats.
Weight gone.
Lost 4-5 kgs.
Probably only about 1-2 kgs heavier than I was when I was eighteen.

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 1:14 pm

Zipster:

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches classified Space Force satellites, nails landings

It’s like watching your toddler taking it’s first steps…. almost indescribable.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 1:17 pm

I suspect there is a clue in the term ‘hunter gatherers’.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 1:22 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
November 4, 2022 at 1:14 pm
On diets.
It seems to me that the ‘confirmation bias’ diet is the most popular.
“I like x, y and z, and here is the evidence that x, y and z are good for you, or at least do no harm”.
I have very sad news for a lot of Cats.
I was bemoaning my inability to unload that last 3-4 kgs to a medical specialist earlier this year.
Her reply was devastating.
“Alcohol is the thing stopping that, Sancho.”
So I cut back alcohol. Not totally dry, but 5 AFDs a week and averaging about 1 drink a day over six months.
Food intake largely unchanged except replacing incidental “snacking” sugars with fats.
Weight gone.
Lost 4-5 kgs.
Probably only about 1-2 kgs heavier than I was when I was eighteen.

That might depend on the beverage. Some drinks are high in carbs. Alcohol also generates inflammation which in turn can cause insulin resistance that causes inflammation because of high glucose plasma leading to inflammation.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22320914/

Chronic alcohol exposure inhibits insulin and insulin-like growth factor signaling in the liver and brain by impairing the signaling cascade at multiple levels.

zyconoclast
zyconoclast
November 4, 2022 1:24 pm

ken morrison
@morrisonmkts

@TheStalwart
It cost about $88/metric ton to ship a loaded grain barge from St. Louis to New Orleans. Transfer the cargo from barge to vessel and it can travel to Japan for $62/ton.
A year ago, the St. Louis to New Orleans trip was $18/ton and New Orleans to Japan was $80/ton.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 1:27 pm

Time for some good news:

Atlassian shares down 22%.

Rabz
November 4, 2022 1:27 pm

Here we go again – labore now accusing the coalition of “repatriating” ISIS slags and kiddies in 2019.

Does anyone know if this is true? It was certainly kept quiet if so.

will
will
November 4, 2022 1:34 pm

largely eliminating carbs and going to a carnivore diet resulted in a 16kg weight loss, moderation of most of my chronic inflammatory ‘co-morbidities’ (eczema, irritable lungs, achy muscles and joints, hypertension) and NO HUNGER.

and massive constipation and digestive issues

zyconoclast
zyconoclast
November 4, 2022 1:36 pm

Here we go again – labore now accusing the coalition of “repatriating” ISIS slags and kiddies in 2019.
Does anyone know if this is true? It was certainly kept quiet if so.

From the BBC June 219

Eight children, including six taken by their Australian parents to join the Islamic State (IS) group, have been evacuated from a Syrian refugee camp.

The group includes three orphaned children of notorious Australian militant Khaled Sharrouf.

The government was able to evacuate the children in secret in conjunction with aid groups, Australian media say.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirmed they had been freed from a “bleak and complicated” situation.

“The fact that parents put their children into harm’s way by taking them into a war zone was a despicable act,” Mr Morrison said. “However, children should not be punished for the crimes of their parents.”

He added that the decision had not been made “lightly”.

“Australia’s national security and the safety of our people and personnel have always been our most important considerations in this matter,” he said.

Earlier this year he insisted he would not endanger lives to extract Australians from camps.

JC
JC
November 4, 2022 1:38 pm

Roger:

Fuck, it fell in the after hours by 22% plus! I looked at the closing and it was up just under 2%. I didn’t look at the after hours and it was absolutely keelhauled. It’s going to end up at 20 bucks when it’s all said and done. Great news.

Let’s see the beard put up that sniggering little smile he does in all his pics. Let’s also see him terrorize AGL when Atlass is 20 bucks a share.

JMH
JMH
November 4, 2022 1:38 pm

Delta Asays:
November 4, 2022 at 12:35 pm
From The Oz:

Billions wiped from Atlassian’s valuation amid results miss
Shares in the software company led by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar slumped by more than 20 per cent in after hours trading.

You just have to love it.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 1:39 pm

Does anyone know if this is true? It was certainly kept quiet if so.

The three Sharrouf children and five other orphans.

Don’t recall any adults being included.

JC
JC
November 4, 2022 1:42 pm

I think it was Sanchez who mentioned that a large part of employee comp is done through stock. I’d imagine there’s a ton of happy campers (working from home of course) today.

Razey
Razey
November 4, 2022 1:44 pm
Rabz
November 4, 2022 1:44 pm

Gee thanks, you foul gliberal imbeciles. Those poor li’l ISIS kiddies.

For any normal person it would have been “world’s smallest violin” time.

Thanks to those who checked the story.

JC
JC
November 4, 2022 1:47 pm

Lol… it’s the headwind, nothing to be worried about at all. Zero. Not a thing, just a slight headwind.

S

hares in Atlassian were already down more than 54 per cent in the year to date amid a broader downturn buffeting technology stocks.

Atlassian posted an operating loss on Friday of $US34m ($54m) for the first quarter of financial year 2023, compared with operating income of $US56.5m a year earlier, while total revenue was up 31 per cent to $$US807.4m. It posted a net loss of $US13.7m, from a net loss of $US411.2m a year earlier.

The company’s co-CEOs blamed macroeconomic headwinds for dual trends of fewer “free” instances converting to paid plans, and shrinking paid user growth from existing customers. They decreased their revenue guidance for the full-year

Just wait till we get that frisky tailwind.

“Companies in nearly every industry are facing headwinds, and we’re beginning to see the impact on our business,” co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar wrote in a letter to shareholders.

“The two trends are the result of companies tightening their belts and slowing their pace of hiring. In other words, Atlassian is not immune to broader macroeconomic impacts. Our outlook assumes these trends will persist, but we’ll monitor, respond, and keep you updated accordingly.

We’ll monitor the headwind though.

Arseholes.

Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 1:49 pm

“AI researchers …”

… should be well aware that Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Rabz says: November 4, 2022 at 1:27 pm
Here we go again – labore now accusing the coalition of “repatriating” ISIS slags and kiddies in 2019.
Does anyone know if this is true? It was certainly kept quiet if so.

As others say above, it was just a half dozen or so brats.
Including IIRC one of those who’d been photographed holding up chopped off heads.

There was quite a bit said about it (though nothing like the current furore) & the backlash gave the SFL’s such a scare they didn’t dare try it again.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 4, 2022 1:51 pm

“The Burden of Guilt – How to Dismantle the Aboriginal Industry and Give Hope to It’s Victims” by Gary Johns makes interesting reading.

“Aboriginal children have mobile phones and access to the internet, they have access to the world. Why would they want to live in the closed world of their great – grandparents? ” Page 69.

“A man shows he cares for his wife by becoming angrily jealous now and then. Unless he, at least, threatens, if not inflicts, jealous violence on his wife, he doesn’t really care. The upshot of all this violence and infidelity is the constant lying, or hiding of the truth, the constant gossip and threat of public exposure that keeps everyone in a state of stress and tension. Normal life in the communities and town camps. Page 72.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 1:52 pm

“Companies in nearly every industry are facing headwinds, and we’re beginning to see the impact on our business,” co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar wrote in a letter to shareholders.

If this is just the beginning, lads, prepare to be wiped out.

struth
struth
November 4, 2022 1:53 pm

Getting close to the Yanks working out you can’t vote commos out of power once they’ve taken it.

And so the next stunt will be pulled.
Election corruption or WW3…to them it’s all on the table.
Losing now and going peacefully is not an option.
So you jabbed who are about to die….and you are….won’t be newsworthy at all.
Like Choo chooing off un noticed.
As 2000 extra Aussies are doing a month As I type.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 1:54 pm

I suspect there is a clue in the term ‘hunter gatherers’.

The term is a modern concoction.

Try wandering around your typical aussie bush or, worse still, the deserts around Pt Augusta and tell me just what you are expecting to ‘gather’ – at best it would be some pretty unimpressive native ‘fruits and berries’ and these would only be a few weeks a year, and in competition with all the birds, possums etc. I know my fruit trees get pre-emptively stripped each year as soon as the fruit is even thinking about ripening.

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 1:55 pm

“Alcohol is the thing stopping that, Sancho.”

Alcohol is a carb sancho….

struth
struth
November 4, 2022 1:55 pm

Tick tick tick……but they speak of diets after being jabbed!

struth
struth
November 4, 2022 2:04 pm

Britain, NZ, Canada are now officially being governed by the WEF.
That’s now undeniable.
As are many countries like Holland.
France.
Germany.
Etc.
All by official graduates of the WEF young global leaders program and all socialists.
Communists.
The USA is also being governed by these global elites and just like Australia when they say jump our elites ask how high sir
If you can’t see this now and are still intent on calling me a conspiracy theorist….you are wilfully blind.
That same stubborn ignorance that got you jabbed.

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 2:13 pm

co-CEOs Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar

and the undersea electric cable from the NT solar boondoggle to Singapore?

Farquwits!

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
November 4, 2022 2:14 pm

I am drinking a Cab Sav aged in a Bourbon barrel. It is very soft, with a strong kick.

A nice nightcap here in a place called Biloxi on the beach of a spur going out from the Mississippi Delta. Getting here from Florida’s Panhandle, where I thought the many islands joined by causeways and and bridges were a major infrastructure investment, is a memory now beggared by the absolutely ginormous set of concrete over-the-swamps roadways that circle the bay at the base of Mobile in Alabama, and then the bridges and causeways of the Mississipi Delta. Prior to these improvements, getting around in these sinkhole swamp regions must have been difficult and explains the insularity of these places.

We were headed for a small historic port town called Ocean Springs, founded 1699. Arriving late, sixish, we looked for a likely place to stay, but it was like Noosa main street, all boutique trendiesville, an over-egged historic village reminiscent too, in its old cottages turned trendy, of Pearl Beach, the place for very well-heeled ‘villager’ poseurs on Sydney’s Central Coast. The accommodation in Ocean Springs was elsewhere, on the highway, except for a few B & B’s, all full, because they only had a few rooms. We ended up spending the nite in a greasy carpet and bad plumbing motel that had once seen better days. Quite stylish in fact, for 1968. We were philosophical about it, for travel our way is like that sometimes.

A benefit was I did get to meet the man in charge, who would stand in well for Big Jim in Gone With The Wind. Very black indeed, a large man with a willing and gentle manner, and slow to move. I like your accent, he said to me, and, after we’d done the paperwork, I said to him I like your accent too. It’s country, ma’am, he said, ah’m from up country. As we left he wished us y’all have a safe journey now, if ya don’ mind me sayin’ so, ma’am, and I caught a hint or whiff of a deference, almost a whine in the tone, that had come down the generations from the slave days.

A local trendy had warned us off Biloxi as a Casino haunt only, out on the beach spur, but we thought we’d explore it for our second nite, to eschew another greasy nite with a four lane highway at the front and a rail-line at the rear. The Hard Rock Casino in the high rise casino area would delight Rabz, with its thirteen story guitar outside to bring in the players. We drove by a Hiatt and a Hilton, both looking likely for a nite, not casinos, but as the beachfront road turned into large houses with ante-bellum architecture, we ended up settling on an ante-bellum style hotel called The White House, which is situated just down from where Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, was more or less exiled to live after the Civil War. The White House is beautiful, with a fabulous pool where we swam, and is worth US$1000 a nite for a suite in high season, but we got it for much less. Tomorrow we are going to get pics of Jefferson Davis’ house with its line up of Confederate Flags flying uncensored outside.

This Gulf of Mexico part of the US seems very little visited by the usual run of international tourists, but we are finding it fascinating. Cigar chomping good ole boys in fancy pick up trucks abound. One trick with the smaller jeep like vehicles is to have the wheels neon red and the front jacked up way above the wheels outlined in red neon too, at night like a dragon on the prowl. Plenty of Mustangs warming Hairy’s heart, and today a beautiful early 60’s Thunderbird throating its way down Government Street at our lunch back in Ocean Springs.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 2:15 pm

JCsays:
November 4, 2022 at 1:38 pm
Roger:

Fuck, it fell in the after hours by 22% plus! I looked at the closing and it was up just under 2%. I didn’t look at the after hours and it was absolutely keelhauled. It’s going to end up at 20 bucks when it’s all said and done. Great news.

Apologies to DeltaA.
I saw that comment and thought it was old news from yesterday being picked up by the Oz.
Just to recap … Atlassian got pounded on Wednesday (NY time), dropping from $192 to $172.
Like you, I looked this morning and saw it had basically flat-lined on the Nasdaq Thursday NY time.
Obviously the after hours reporting has had more than a few shareholders hitting the speed-dial to their brokers.
And not surprising.
The excuse sheet put out by the dual Messiahs was tone deaf bullshit.

Let’s see the beard put up that sniggering little smile he does in all his pics. Let’s also see him terrorize AGL when Atlass is 20 bucks a share.

The Friday on-market session on Nasdaq will be telling. If it continues on down to $120 or lower, I reckon it will be a total rout. It is a thinly traded stock which has helped on the way up, but equally it will be lead in the saddle-bags on the way down.
I reckon there will be lots of margin call notices being pumped out on TEAM* over the last couple of days.

* Yep. That is their Nasdaq code. It should be WNKR.

Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 2:16 pm

“I’m not confident that’s the whole answer.”

Seems obvious to me that, while we were evolving from lower primates, there was a distinct evolutionary advantage to being able to consume lots of hi carb food which is seasonal and “boom/bust” (in pre-argricultural times) and use it to put on weight – fat you can use to sustain yourself when little or no food is available. As in, if there is a grove of fruit trees, they likely will all fruit and ripen at or near the same time and typically only once per year, so “use it or lose it”.
Meat, on the other hand, is available most of the year (hard sometimes, but usually available if one is clever and patient), and if you don’t gorge yourself on it, others of your genotype (extended family and “tribe”) have a better chance of survival too, so it makes sense that you feel “full” earlier on this kind of food intake.
So both the “eat carbs, get fat” and “eat meat, don’t feel hungry” are “designed in” by evolution – or so it seems to me.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 2:18 pm

JCsays:
November 4, 2022 at 1:42 pm
I think it was Sanchez who mentioned that a large part of employee comp is done through stock. I’d imagine there’s a ton of happy campers (working from home of course) today.

I don’t think it was me.
Maybe ‘bern?

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 2:25 pm

Well that shut everyone up!

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 2:26 pm

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
November 4, 2022 at 2:14 pm

Love your commentary Lizzie.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 2:26 pm

Note to self – refresh page before beclowning.

Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 2:31 pm

“If you can’t see this now and are still intent on calling me a conspiracy theorist…”

Not at all – but since I am “part of the problem” and “not worth standing with”, and perhaps most importantly “tick,tick,tick…”, seems you’re on your own.
Don’t blame me, that was your choice – you could have had support until the “tick,tick,tick..” got me, but you refused it. Stop whinging about what you did to yourself. I’m “owning” what I feel I was coerced to do, but you still want to blame everyone else, so STFU or FO with your “poor me!” BS – it’s no different from the “I had to sell my toys, but you lot who didn’t have the resources to do the same put ME in a bad spot, so I’m not playing with you any more, you big meanies!” Grow the fuck up and deal with it – life isn’t fair, never was, never will be.

“God give me strength to change the things I can’t accept, the patience to accept the things I can’t change, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill because they really pissed me off!” – (unattributed).

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 2:33 pm

Kneelsays:
November 4, 2022 at 2:16 pm
“I’m not confident that’s the whole answer.”

Seems obvious to me that, while we were evolving from lower primates, there was a distinct evolutionary advantage to being able to consume lots of hi carb food which is seasonal and “boom/bust” (in pre-argricultural times) and use it to put on weigh

A geneticist has found that one of the key changes from humans and other primates is a x4 increase in sugar transporters in the brain.

rickw
rickw
November 4, 2022 2:38 pm
struth
struth
November 4, 2022 2:38 pm

Fuck off kneel.
You’re right.
You’re not worth standing with.
You didn’t stand.
I’m not looking for support from failures.
Why would anyone do that?

And what makes you think I’m on my own?
There’s millions of unjabbed out here.
Millions.
We told you guys.
Again and again.

Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 2:39 pm

“…a x4 increase in sugar transporters in the brain.”

Hmmm…
Higher energy requirement for more cognition?
Reduction in mouth size due to consumption of more energy dense foods? (compare chimp mouth size to human) means you now need that?
Bit of both?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 2:40 pm

JC at 1:47.
That was my point.
Absolutely tone deaf.
The results were no more or less shithouse than previous results, but it shows their aggressive “buying market share” strategy is falling apart and will never deliver profits.
Two key things which jumped out at me:-
.1 They talk about ‘free trials’ of software not converting to subscriptions. Faaark! They are using the newspaper ‘try before you buy’ model; and
.2 They are talking about ‘pursuing the best talent’. Err, they claimed to be ’employer of choice’ and now they are looking at more high-end hirings? I wonder if they are stupid enough to pick up the Twitter detritus as a virtue signal?

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 2:41 pm

“God give me strength to change the things I can’t accept, the patience to accept the things I can’t change, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill because they really pissed me off!” – (unattributed).

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
German poet, journalist

struth
struth
November 4, 2022 2:41 pm

When the jabbed claim the unjabbed are whinging about what we did to ourselves….when we didn’t do anything. …we find the leftism inherent in living a lie comes to the fore again……projection.

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 4, 2022 2:42 pm

Re the stupid Director ID, I just rang them and they did it in a few minutes over the phone. My accountants been hounding me for months to get it done.

That said, I can’t see that it will improve anything for anyone, except the new coterie of public servants who will set up a new directorate to administer the stupid thing.

John H.
John H.
November 4, 2022 2:48 pm

Kneelsays:
November 4, 2022 at 2:39 pm
“…a x4 increase in sugar transporters in the brain.”

Hmmm…
Higher energy requirement for more cognition?
Reduction in mouth size due to consumption of more energy dense foods? (compare chimp mouth size to human) means you now need that?
Bit of both?

There are studies showing that a sugar hit improves some aspects of cognition.

On the continuous performance task, accuracy and sensitivity were higher (ps < .05) and false alarm rate was lower (p .05). The findings suggest that sugar intake in the form of HFCS[high fructose corn syrup] may benefit certain cognitive processes, such as those that require sustained attention, but that the expectation of sugar intake is not sufficient to produce such benefits. (PsycINFO Database Record

HFCS is one of the worst things we can put into our bodies. Too much sugar, too much omega 6. In this study it was used for the sugar content. I’ve read other studies with like outcomes.

Brains can use ketones and there is evidence of benefit for some forms of child epilepsy. It may also be relevant to some types of dementia, probably because of “Type 3 diabetes”, a term used to describe brain insulin resistance, which occurs in some dementia types.

Speedbox
November 4, 2022 2:49 pm

Pure Hydrogen’s efforts to build the hydrogen economy have borne fruit with the signing of a terms sheet with Aus Ships Group for the delivery of hydrogen fuel to the marine sector.

Under the agreement, the two companies will form a joint venture to deliver hydrogen fuel cell generators, hydrogen fuel supply and/or fuel cells to the sector.

Aus Ships Group is a well-established marine company that designs, builds and maintains marine vessels for a range of applications including passenger transport, tourism, government and pleasure.

Pure Hydrogen (ASX:PH2) will initially supply a hydrogen fuel cell generator in mid-2023 to recharge batteries for a battery-powered marine vessel.

Future developments are expected to include the delivery of fuel cells to replace internal combustion generators and reduce the number of batteries.

The company will also supply the hydrogen and refuelling options at marine locations. Aus Ships, which is committed to developing efficient, low and zero emission marine vessels, is looking at designing boats or ships in the future with the hydrogen fuel cells on board the vessel so that electricity can be generated on board without the long recharging times at the wharf.

Both companies are looking to revolutionise the marine mobility market in Australia and New Zealand by providing green hydrogen fuel and hydrogen fuel cell generators to help reduce emissions and cost.

The immediate goal is to have 100% clean domestic hydrogen fuel replacement in Queensland by 2032.

Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 2:52 pm

“Fuck off kneel.
You’re right.”

Good – then stop already.
We all know how you feel about it – you repeated it enough times already that even YOU might have noticed, were it anyone else being so stupid and repetitive. But apparently not when you do it yourself.

And FYI, I don’t want you on my side either – no fucking use to anybody, too busy whinging about what might have been “if only everywan was as bwave and stwong as widdle ol’ me”.
You managed to avoid being jabbed, so what exactly is your problem anyway?
That I didn’t?
Because I didn’t have the resources to?
But you don’t want my help in stopping it happening again?
Why is that?
Because you’re just a “holier than thou” selfish moron, if you ask me.
Not that you would, I know that. So I thought I’d tell you anyway. You’re welcome.

struth
struth
November 4, 2022 3:00 pm

You had the resources to kneel.
I only repeat myself here.
Because of denialism.
There are very sick minds here.
Reality has left them.
So…..
Tick tick tick….
Where’s choo choo.

And kneel, sunshine always remember you reap what you sow.
So shut the fuck up pretending that all were innocent here for the last two years.
Now those arseholes…who acted like arseholes have been proven wrong.
Dead wrong.
And they just don’t want to hear it.
Should have thought about that before acting like arseholes first.

Speedbox
November 4, 2022 3:00 pm

The new company set up by Musk to enable the equity for cash swap was just simply called ‘X’ and X became the sole owner of Twitter on 27th October 2022, with Musk as its sole director.

Banks involved: Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, Société Générale, Mizuho Bank, and BNP Paribas. And looking at the stats for the deal, they come out like this:

$20 billion in cash equity from Musk, via cash sales of Tesla holdings
$7.1 billion in equity from 19 independent investors (into ‘X’)
$7 billion of senior secured bank loans
$6 billion in subordinated debt
$6.25 billion in bank loans to Musk personally, secured by $62.5 billion of his Tesla stock
Income last quarter was $1.18 billion vs $1.32 billion
237.8 million registered users

Can you imagine the fees involved? And for one man to pull all of this off is quite extraordinary.

You have to take your hat off to him, sit back and really let all those stats sink in.

Now, Musk wants to introduce a US$8 monthly subscription with added benefits, which I can imagine could include a free set of mats for your new Tesla or a reserved seat for your trip to Mars.

Ironically, Netflix are going the other way and are going to offer free subscriptions, with annoying adverts (please don’t tell Gerry about this one). They currently have 233m paying subscribers worldwide and they are currently valued at US$119bn. They spend about US$17bn a year on content, whereas Twitter must pay an elephant’s wage of peanuts.

So, that’s Elon’s dilemma. Can he squeeze out more income, as he is going to need it to pay for all of that interest on all of that debt?

And over here we have Mr and Mrs Jones worrying about paying their $1m mortgage. Elon’s interest bill will come in at over US$1bn next year alone – and he doesn’t even own a house!

At least they will be able to see the Netflix drama on Elon for free, when it comes out in two years time, even if peppered with annoying Harvey Norman ads. The title will either be ‘What a Twit?’ or ‘Twit a What?’

I guess time will tell.

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 3:02 pm

Pure Hydrogen (ASX:PH2)

https://purehydrogen.com.au/

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 4, 2022 3:04 pm

Re the stupid Director ID, I just rang them and they did it in a few minutes over the phone.

Naive question, I know. How do you furnish the support documents?

rickw
rickw
November 4, 2022 3:15 pm

We need to DuPont our political elite:

https://www.dupont.com/news/safety-at-our-core.html

Not mentioned in this article is the fact that DuPont adopted an approach of putting worker accommodation in very close proximity to their gunpowder manufacturing facilities. This helped focus everyone on working safely as a mistake had very wide and obvious ramifications.

DuPont Canberra.

Every single one of their “ideas” needs to be comprehensively tested in Canberra before being rolled out elsewhere. Want Isis brides? The live in Canberra. Want only EV’s? Canberra first. 100% renewable power? Canberra first.

Every single commentator and journalist should be throwing “Canberra first” in the face of this imbeciles.

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 3:17 pm

Speedbox says:
November 4, 2022 at 3:00 pm

LOL

Talk about X marks the spot!

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 3:19 pm

Does Atlassian getting pounded mean it’s now time to buy AGL?

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 3:23 pm

rosie says:
November 4, 2022 at 3:19 pm

Does Atlassian getting pounded mean it’s now time to buy AGL?

LOL

Good question rosie!

Zipster
Zipster
November 4, 2022 3:26 pm

Does Atlassian getting pounded

grindr style?

Zipster
Zipster
November 4, 2022 3:27 pm

Re the stupid Director ID,

its not stupid, it’s creeping fascism

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 3:27 pm

Zipster says:
November 4, 2022 at 3:26 pm

Does Atlassian getting pounded

grindr style?

Teal Duck style.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 3:29 pm

I don’t know about Port Augusta but there is plenty of evidence that female Aborigines, particularly on the coasts spent plenty of time gathering and preparing edible fruits, grasses and roots.
I watched something, ages ago, that the invention of cooking was an enormous evolutionary step for humans, increasing the nutritional value of foods, iirc the presenter suggested that a person needed to eat five times as many raw carrots as cooked for the same net benefit.
we probably started eating cooked root vegetables 170,000 years ago

Zipster
Zipster
November 4, 2022 3:30 pm

I never seen so military jet exercises out of the local airbase

Indolent
Indolent
November 4, 2022 3:30 pm
Indolent
Indolent
November 4, 2022 3:31 pm
Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 3:32 pm

“You had the resources to kneel.”

No, I didn’t.
As I said, I held out as long as I could.
You managed to out-last it all – good for you.
I couldn’t – too bad for me, eh?
Shitney isn’t the same as Bumfuckistan, QLD – cops weren’t “looking the other way” here. They walked through my workplace at least once a week during the lockdowns to make sure we were obeying the rules – no joke. They were in the shopping centre, looking for people not wearing the burka mask and handing them fines.
Yeah, I was an “essential worker” – at least until they had their vax. Until then, I was “allowed” to come in and work, but as soon as they had that, suddenly I wasn’t so essential any more. Which tells you all you need to know, doesn’t it?

But you won’t band together with me to stop it happening again, because you think I somehow “caused” it.
Right.
Well, I’ll tell you this much – if it does happen again, you’ll have no-one but yourself to blame, because you were too busy telling me how bad I was, instead of helping me do something about it. So by all means, keep on whinging about how tough it was for you, what you had to sacrifice and all that. But don’t expect anything except derision from this little black duck, because you have no idea what I sacrificed or how hard I tried to avoid this bullshit, but in the end just couldn’t hold out any more – and nor will you hear it from me, because it’s none of your business what I do with my life and how.

Nor do I care what you think of me. I have done what I have done and will live (or die) with the consequences. That is an end to it. My life, my choice. You should have the same, as far as I am concerned. As should everyone. If you don’t want help to combat the morons who think they know better than me what is best for me, then fine – don’t. You can still get any benefit I may manage to get from it, the same as everyone else – I don’t begrudge anyone that, I’m not trying to stop these people for me or for my personal benefit, but on principle. But you’d never understand that, would you? It’s all about YOU, isn’t it? As I said, grow up – or perhaps, think a bit first. I know that’s hard for you, but try it, you might learn something.

And that’s an end to it at this point – with apologies to other Cats. Sorry guys ‘n’ gals, just had a bad day is all.

feelthebern
feelthebern
November 4, 2022 3:33 pm

Ironically, Netflix are going the other way and are going to offer free subscriptions, with annoying adverts (please don’t tell Gerry about this one).

Not exactly.
They will be offering a cheaper version in some markets with the ads.
Not free.
Just not the full freight.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 3:36 pm

I understand, kneel.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 3:37 pm

“As others say above, it was just a half dozen or so brats.
Including IIRC one of those who’d been photographed holding up chopped off heads”
No, only Karen Nettleton’s three surviving grandchildren and three infant great grandchildren .
The one photographed holding a head was killed along with his brother.
The two girls (the oldest ‘married’ to her father’s best mate at age 13) and their youngest brother was only two when his idiot mother Tara Nettleton dragged them over there came home along with the oldest girl’s three children from three different lions of islam.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
November 4, 2022 3:40 pm

Women hit harder by tough on crime policies: report
Stephen Lunn
SOCIAL AFFAIRS EDITOR
@lunns
12:00AM November 4, 2022

Australia’s tough on crime approach is not working as growing numbers of people, disproportionately women and Indigenous Australians, cycle in and out of prison despite billions of dollars being spent on corrective services each year, a new report warns.

While serious crime rates are falling, incarceration rates, recidivism and spending on prisons are all rising, the Committee for Economic Development Australia study finds, at considerable cost both to the taxpayer and to the future prospects of too many individuals and their families.

The CEDA report “Double Jeopardy: The economic and social costs of keeping women behind bars” says the over-policing of minor offences and tougher bail and sentencing laws are having a particular effect on women, with female incarceration rising faster than for males.

The number of female prisoners has grown by more than 60 per cent over the last decade compared to 45 per cent for men. This is despite many incarcerated women posing a low risk to the community, and many not even being sentenced. More than 50 per cent of female prisoners in Victoria are unsentenced, the report notes.

“Tough on crime policies such as rigid approaches to bail come with considerable economic and social costs,” CEDA chief executive Melinda Cilento writes in the report. “One unintended consequence is that too many people, in particular a growing number of women, are becoming trapped in a system that is perpetuating the disadvantage that brought them into the system in the first place.”

The report highlights the burgeoning cost of corrective services to Australian governments, $5.4bn in 2020-21 up 5.1 per cent from the year before and heading toward $7bn by 2030 on current trends.

“Every night a woman spends behind bars for a crime for which she was not convicted, or for which she was sentenced to less than time served, is clearly a waste of taxpayers’ money,” Ms Cilento said.

The CEDA report comes as the Australian Bureau of Statistics publishes the latest prisons data, which shows the imprisonment rate increasing from 128 per 100,00 in 1994 to 214 per 100,000 in 2021.

At 2021 there were 42,970 prisoners in Australia, up from 16,946 in 1994. More than one in three prisoners were unsentenced in 2021, compared to 11 per cent in 1994, the ABS data shows.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander imprisonment rate increased from 1,690 per 100,000 in 2006 (the earliest data collection) to 2,412 per 100,000 in 2021.

The CEDA report recognised that criminal justice reform is “complex and politically charged.”

But public money can be better spent, it says, finding that if 50 per cent of sentenced women could be diverted from prison, by 2030 governments would save around $400m.

It calls for policy changes to achieve this, including raising bail release rates, providing better support to those released on bail and eliminating short sentences for minor offences.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

The one photographed holding a head was killed along with his brother.

Heh.

Arky
November 4, 2022 3:40 pm

Anyone have any interactions with this mob:
Aeris Resources Ltd?

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 3:41 pm

And lol.
The ‘Paleo diet’ is a modern concoction.
Reminds me of two idiot customers who claimed to be druids bagging other people who didn’t have their superior knowledge of druidism.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 3:43 pm

I was sympathetic to the Nettleton/Sharoueff children.
Adults,male or female who went of their own volition in the hopes of living in El Sham, zip zero nada.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 3:43 pm

I spent the morning with a family who have exactly two hours of electricity daily when the genset is operating, such is the price of diesel where they live.

No TV, no internet, no Netflix. No devices. They have to go into town for those things which are at the library. They have just come out of a covid lockdown that has crippled the country in which they live. Yet they remain cheerful and upbeat, talking about maybe getting some panels and a battery to allow them a little more flexibility in energy supply. It’s places like that where the cost of fuel is going to hit most cruelly.

But the greenies will just shrug their shoulders – eco tourism will supply them with their dive site and the means to get there and enjoy it.

cohenite
November 4, 2022 3:45 pm

Lock up your plastic; the NSW LNP tards are coming for it.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 3:46 pm

We argued relentlessly about the Sharouff/ Nettleton case here at the cat when it happened.
I was possibly the only pro repatriation proponent?

Zipster
Zipster
November 4, 2022 3:48 pm

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches classified Space Force satellites, nails landings

It’s like watching your toddler taking it’s first steps…. almost indescribable.

still cant over the pinpoint landing. the rocket is hurtling towards the ground at 4500kph at 45 secs out. mind blown

Zipster
Zipster
November 4, 2022 3:48 pm

Lock up your plastic; the NSW LNP tards are coming for it.

its the uniparty, change my mind

Zyconoclast
Zyconoclast
November 4, 2022 3:49 pm

UK spy agencies will no longer seek candidates with at least one British parent under new recruitment rules.

MI5, MI6 and GCHQ will hire applicants who have the “right mix of minds and skills” to tackle threats to the UK.

“By recruiting people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, we can innovate, challenge established ways of thinking and welcome the very brightest and best people to join us.
“The parental nationality rule unnecessarily stopped brilliant* people from applying to work with us.

Diversity is now an operational priority

* why would a brilliant person want to be a low level spook?

Zipster
Zipster
November 4, 2022 3:50 pm

I was possibly the only pro repatriation proponent?

rosie rosie rosie

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 3:51 pm

You may have been, rosie.

I definitely didn’t want them back here unless there was a guarantee that they came in unradicalised and would remain so. Buckleys to none, given the family background.

It would be interesting to see how they are travelling, if only to prove me wrong. I hope I am. The chances of getting anything other than a pro-Islam puff piece from the press is pretty slim.

cohenite
November 4, 2022 3:52 pm

I was possibly the only pro repatriation proponent?

Why?

Zipster
Zipster
November 4, 2022 3:53 pm
duncanm
duncanm
November 4, 2022 3:56 pm

Atlassian got pounded on Wednesday (NY time), dropping from $192 to $172.

.. from a high of $440 this time last year. ouch!

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 4, 2022 3:56 pm

Just to mess up the diet and weight arguments:
My weight has not changed (up or down) by more than a kilo or two since I stopped growing.
Constant. I get flabby or muscly and weight stays the same.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 3:57 pm

I keep learning new words!

I had scrolled past the Mosman Witch yesterday re

Lisa Wilkinson questions whether victims of ‘stealthing’ really stand a chance of getting a conviction under new laws that could result in offenders of the sexual practice going to prison for LIFE

I just assumed “stealthing” was someone stalking by text,

then I saw today

South Australian state to criminalize ‘abhorrent’ sex trend

The act of removing a condom during sex without the partner’s consent could lead to a life sentence under a new law

An Australian state has voted to pass a bill that would introduce harsh penalties for men who remove condoms during sex without the consent of their partner, an act colloquially known as ‘stealthing.’

The South Australian (SA) parliament passed the bill on Wednesday, joining other Australian states including ACT, Tasmania, Victoria, and New South Wales, which have also outlawed the practice. Anyone convicted of stealthing could potentially face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The legislation, dubbed the Criminal Law Consolidation (Stealthing) Amendment Bill, was introduced by SA MP Connie Bonaros, who described ‘stealthing’ in a statement as a “repugnant” and “disgusting act of betrayal.”

“Such grotesque acts of indecency deserve to be treated in the same manner as rape and a crime punishable by terms of imprisonment,” Bonaros said.

A study of 10,000 people conducted by the Australian Institute of Criminology last month reportedly found that as many as one in three women and one in five gay men had been stealthed at least once.

While it’s expected that the introduction of criminal liability for the act of “stealthing” may deter potential offenders, some have raised concerns that not many people are even aware of the term.

some have raised concerns that not many people are even aware of the term.

Yep Definitely Naive and not aware of the term!

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 4:01 pm

The Lunacy of The Australian Labor Party at Work

Coal and gas projects could be BLOCKED by Anthony Albanese’s government as it announces it will ‘reassess’ 18 major businesses based on climate change impacts

. Climate impacts of planned coal and gas projects the basis of legal actions
. Eighteen projects in Queensland, NSW and WA to be reviewed in legal action
. Power prices could jump 20 per cent this year and another 35 per cent in 2023

Anthony Albanese’s government could block new coal and gas projects on climate grounds even though soaring energy prices are set to dramatically worsen.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has approved an environmental group’s legal bid to have 18 projects reassessed with increased focus on their climate impacts.

The Environment Council of Central Queensland (ECoCeQ), represented by Environmental Justice Australia, took legal action in July to have 19 projects reviewed.

duncanm
duncanm
November 4, 2022 4:01 pm

DuPont Canberra.

Every single one of their “ideas” needs to be comprehensively tested in Canberra before being rolled out elsewhere. Want Isis brides? The live in Canberra. Want only EV’s? Canberra first. 100% renewable power? Canberra first.

indeed. This was mooted some time back for the universal ID card.

It is a universally good idea.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 4:01 pm

mind blown

And they can program the two boosters to land on separate pads only a couple hundred metres apart, from the look of it. The vid was like watching ice dancing at the Olympics.

Btw good on the Chinks for completing their space station yesterday. Btw bad on the Chinks for dropping another rocket on our heads. Tiny chance it will hit Canberra, which gives me mixed feelings.

“Here We Go Again:” Out-Of-Control Chinese Rocket Expected To Crash On Friday (4 Nov)

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 4:02 pm

“Stealthing” is another product of loveless, mechanical, objectifying intercourse. You go grrrrrrrls!

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 4, 2022 4:02 pm

Apparently, just over the border from us in Parliament House, Canberra, some activist has just glued himself to a painting. Protesting over something or other.

Having seen some of the “artwork” in there, he’s welcome. Then again, maybe it was the portrait of Gough Whitlam.

incoherent rambler
incoherent rambler
November 4, 2022 4:05 pm

maybe it was the portrait of Gough Whitlam.

lips glued to his dick.

Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 4:08 pm

“Australia’s tough on crime approach is not working as growing numbers of people, disproportionately women…”

Well, you know, “equity” demands that those in prison should be proportional to their “group” numbers in the wider community, and by that measure men are over-represented in prison, so you know – suck it up, princess. It’s what you said “should be”, and when it works against you, suddenly it’s “bad”. Funny that. So now you know what’s its been like for white, straight, middle-class men for years. Not nice, is it? But hey, you said these were the rules. You said if we didn’t go along with it, we were racist, misogynist, trans-a-phobic phobaphobes or something – you know, we were “dethpicable” as a certain cartoon character duck might opine to his rabbit friend.

Wait – I know. Lots more trans offenders. There ya go! You can still blame men! Oh wait, no you can’t – they’re not men any more, they’re women now. That’s the new rules too – put on a dress, cut your hair and wear makeup and you’re a woman, that’s the new rules. Your rules, that ones the sane amongst us actually didn’t want, but you insisted . Oops.

Looks like there’s no way out of this – if you really want “equity” this is what it looks like.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 4:12 pm

I reported yesterday that two generating units at QLD’s state owned & run Callide power station were off line due to structural failures. It seems this morning all four generators were down.

The union claims scheduled maintenance is not being carried out.

Palaszcuk today denied this, saying such outages are to be expected, which is an astonishing act of clairvoyance given that she won’t receive the engineer’s report until Monday.

Black Ball
Black Ball
November 4, 2022 4:13 pm

Zulu, when you post articles about crime, I’m always reminded of Fletcher Reed

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 4:15 pm

Top Ender says:
November 4, 2022 at 4:02 pm

Apparently, just over the border from us in Parliament House, Canberra, some activist has just glued himself to a painting. Protesting over something or other.

I am a firm believer in cutting the glued protesters hands off at the wrist… with a chainsaw.

Imagine the future value of owning a ‘masterpiece’ with hands stuck to it?

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 4:16 pm

Sancho:

Will they include the massive death toll from Razey-san son’s school?
That seems to have gone very quiet since details were requested.

Zipster:

might be funny to you sandshoo but ppl are dying, ppl who foolishly trusted and believed government lies and big pharma propaganda.

SanchO:
Just because someone doesn’t answer your question, doesn’t mean they are lying. Perhaps it means they think you were just a piece of dogshit on their shoe and having noticed it was there, have scraped it off on the grass verge and gone on with their life.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 4, 2022 4:23 pm

Bruce of Newcastle says:
November 4, 2022 at 4:01 pm
Oh, goody! Skylab II!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 4:25 pm

I am a firm believer in cutting the glued protesters hands off at the wrist… with a chainsaw.

If it’s Blue Poles the sprays of red will also add to the atmosphere of the work.

MatrixTransform
November 4, 2022 4:25 pm

By all means argue the case.
But don’t make shit up.

well lets be honest here.
yesterday sancho took something uttered simply and gave it a whole new context out of thin air.
just so he could posture and piss-take

ie … he just made.shit.up

again .

poisonous old clown

Kneel
Kneel
November 4, 2022 4:26 pm

“…some activist has just glued himself to a painting. Protesting over something or other.”

Take the VW approach – say “Oh, OK.” Then turn the lights and the aircon off and go home.
You did it, you deal with it.
Works for me.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 4:26 pm

Apparently, just over the border from us in Parliament House, Canberra, some activist has just glued himself to a painting. Protesting over something or other.

Fossil fuels.

The AFP made the mistake of springing into action instead of saying they’ll get to it some time tomorrow. Maybe.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 4:27 pm

duncanmsays:

November 4, 2022 at 3:56 pm

Atlassian got pounded on Wednesday (NY time), dropping from $192 to $172.

.. from a high of $440 this time last year. ouch!

The quote above said it was down 54% year-on-year.
Looking just over one year, it hit a high of $458.13 on Oct 29 2021.
At the close of Thursday on market trading in NY it was $172.40, which is a drop of 62.5%.
The latest after hours price I can see is $134.73, which is a drop of 70.6% in a tad over a year.
As IT would say, my tumescence is difficult to control.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 4:27 pm

Snap, Kneel.

Johnny rotten
November 4, 2022 4:27 pm

Mrs Stencho Pantyhose is a piece of shite. Leave her alone to stew in her own dog shite…………

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:28 pm

Why Cohenite?
Because they were children when they were taken over, the oldest at the time was only 12, they were Australian citizens, both their parents were dead, their two little brothers were dead, and they had an Australian grandmother who wanted to take care of them.
A different set of facts to adults who went of their own volition with their eyes wide open.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 4:33 pm

No Winston.
Razey-san made an outrageous claim that a kid had died at his son’s school and implied that it wasn’t the first one by use of the term “another one”.
Unfortunately for him, I have a way of cross-checking and I call bullshit.
The challenge stands.
Name the school and the approximate dates of the previous incident(s).
Otherwise we can safely file it under “S” for “Stuff what never happened”.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:34 pm
Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 4:34 pm

Wodger:

Fiona Patten is running for the Vic upper house on the slogan “If you’re an old white male, you might have to go to the back of the queue for a while”.

So she’s an ageist, a racist and a misandrist?
She doesn’t sound very reasonable.

Wasn’t there a country once who decided that a particular group of people didn’t really deserve to be anywhere in the queue at all?
Actually there were a couple of them.
One lost a major war, the other lost a major peace.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 4:34 pm

And a jolly good afternoon to you too, Mr Rotten.

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:35 pm
Johnny rotten
November 4, 2022 4:37 pm

And it is NOT The Albersleazy Guv’ment. It is the Australian Federal Guv’ment you twats………….Get it right FFS.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
November 4, 2022 4:39 pm

You seem upset Winston.
Was it something I said?

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:40 pm
rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 4:43 pm
Dot
Dot
November 4, 2022 4:43 pm

The act of removing a condom during sex without the partner’s consent could lead to a life sentence under a new law

If you use a condom, there is no way on earth you want to risk an STI or pregnancy.

File under shit that doesn’t happen.

Johnny Rotten
November 4, 2022 4:43 pm

Happy Fryday Stencho………..

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 4:44 pm

Poll: Public Support for Aid for Ukraine Drops, Particularly Among GOP Voters

American support for sending additional assistance to Ukraine has dropped from March, particularly among Republican voters, according to a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) poll.

According to the WSJ, the percentage of respondents who believe the Biden administration is doing too much to help Ukraine rose 24%, from a low of 6% in March to 30% now.

The change was most pronounced with Republican voters. In March, only 6% of Republican respondents said the U.S. is doing too much. Now, it is 48% of Republican respondents.

Overall, the poll found that a majority of 57% still favor sending additional aid to Ukraine, with 37% opposed. An overwhelming 81% percent of Democrat respondents said they supported additional financial aid, versus 35% of Republicans and 45% of independents.

From the Comments

– We need to protect our own border instead of protecting everyone else’s.

– This article isn’t being honest. There was NEVER any support for this adventure. This thing was sparked by the coup, in Ukraine, in 2014, led by the Ukraine Clique at the State Department. It was that same clique that attempted to impeach President Trump when he attempted to get to the truth of it. This is just a continuance of a globalist woke dream. We never, ever supported it.

– Don’t count on it. McConnell and Graham are all in on funding Ukraine to the last Ukrainian.

Dot
Dot
November 4, 2022 4:46 pm

“Stealthing” is pure projection by man hating harridans.

Women are far more likely to sabotage birth control.

Johnny Rotten
November 4, 2022 4:48 pm

There is the Old Joke where a bloke goes to a Fancy Dress Party with a condom on his nose. The lady at the door asks him what he has come as and he says, Fuck Knows……………

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 4:49 pm

more ABC hand wringing about horrid white settlers

From the piece:

In the mid-1800s, there was a very popular — and “very white” — idea of nature as separate from culture.

It’s those devilish white people again.

How dare they reject the self-evidently superior belief system of totemism!

Cassie of Sydney
November 4, 2022 4:49 pm

My worry with the recently returned ISIS sprogs is that they’re like Manchurian Islamists or perhaps another description is that they’re akin to a dormant volcano that could go off at any time. It’s quite likely that one of these children will go on an Islamist decapitation rampage in a few years. We just don’t know, we’re taking a huge risk because they have returned with their poisonous and very evil mothers (none of whom are innocents). These women are still the primary care givers of the children and no doubt still indoctrinating them. Plus, the children won’t just be further influenced by their mothers but also by the community they live in and let me tell you, the Muslim communities are places like Lakemba here in Sydney aren’t known for their tolerance and moderation.

The Sharrouf/Nettleton children were orphans and were returned here to live with their grandmother, both mother and father thankfully dead (and I hope they’re rotting in hell) but even with them we just don’t know what psychological damage has been done and what Islamist leanings they still have.

Arky
November 4, 2022 4:55 pm

Toyota has recently expressed doubts about the transition to electric vehicles, reports the Wall Street Journal. The company reiterated its stance saying that it “believes that there is more than one option for achieving carbon neutrality,” in a statement.

“It also believes that the means of reducing CO2 emissions as much as possible and as quickly as possible while protecting the livelihoods of its customers vary greatly depending on the country and region. With such in mind, Toyota will continue to make every effort to flexibly meet the needs of its various customers in all countries and regions by offering multiple powertrains and providing as many options as possible,” the company said in the statement.

The company has been known to take a more cautionary stance on the world’s move to EVs, with executives questioning how quickly the transition will happen due to the industry’s shortage of minerals and materials that go into making EV batteries. The Journal reports that Toyota believes hybrid vehicles are a better solution for regions that lack sufficient EV infrastructure and rely on fossil fuels to create electricity.

“As much as you want to talk about EVs, the marketplace isn’t mature enough,” Jack Hollis, executive vice president of sales at Toyota Motor North America, told journalists, according to a recent article in the Journal.

Hollis believes that the high cost of EVs and lack of an EV charging infrastructure will deter consumers from widely adopting EVs. In addition, the increasing cost of EV batteries for vehicle manufacturers will likely inflate the cost of a battery-powered vehicle.

“I don’t think the market is ready for what the rhetoric is saying,” Hollis said.

However, Toyota is still investing billions in EVs and their components, and Hollis said that is because Toyota wants to be prepared for when the world does eventually adopt electric vehicles.

..
https://www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2022/Sep/1/1-Toyota-Invests-in-EV-Battery-Plants-EVs

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 4:55 pm

Cassie of Sydney says:
November 4, 2022 at 4:49 pm

DFAT

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 4:59 pm

Like Elizabeth Warren? Checking American Indian Box Based On “Family Lore” Slammed At SCOTUS Affirmative Action Argument

During oral argument of affirmative action case, lawyer for UNC agrees with Justice Alito that “family lore” doesn’t provide basis to claim American Indian status, in a pretty clear reference to Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Justice Alito was questioning Ryan Y. Park, North Carolina Solicitor General, arguing for UNC, when I heard the term “family lore.”

That got my attention.

At pages 97-99 of the transcript, Justice Alito questions how much ancestry was needed to check a box. Is one grandparent enough? One great grandparent? One great, great grandparent?

JUSTICE ALITO: Let me just ask one more related question, and that is the circumstance — and this is a real problem, and I’ve heard it described to me by people who face it, when can a student honestly claim to fall within one of these groups that is awarded a plus factor? So let’s say the student has one grandparent who falls within that class. Can the student claim to be a member of an underrepresented minority?

MR. PARK: Yes, we rely on — on self-reporting. And — and we don’t give any —

JUSTICE ALITO: All right. One great grandparent.

MR. PARK: If that person believes that that is the accurate expression of their identity, I don’t think there would be any —

JUSTICE ALITO: One —

MR. PARK: — problem.

JUSTICE ALITO: — great-great grandparent? Are you going to make me continue to go on?

MR. PARK: Right, right, right. I think that as we go on, I agree that it would seem less plausible that that person would feel that this is actually capturing my true racial identity but the same is true for any of the other diversity factors that we rely on.

Justice Alito then turned to family lore (emphasis added):

JUSTICE ALITO: It’s family lore that we have an ancestor who was an American Indian.

MR. PARK: So I — I think in that particular circumstance, it would be not accurate for them to say based on —

JUSTICE ALITO: Well, I identify as an American Indian because I’ve always been told that some ancestor back in the old days was an American — was an American Indian.

MR. PARK: Yes, so I think in that circumstance, it would be very unlikely that that person was telling the truth. And the same is true for — you know, we rely on self-reporting for all the — the demographic and other characteristics that we ask for. And there’s nothing special about the racial identification on that score, Your Honor.

Same Question should be applied to Aboriginality in Australia!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 5:02 pm

Opportunity knocks
Saudi Arabia courts Australian miners for $170 billion plan

They’ve been trying this for a long time, but my impression over about 30 years of watching is Saudi doesn’t have very much in the way of prospective ore deposits. Rock Doc or Pedro probably know the dirt better than I.

I suspect they’d get a better return by putting money into increasing recovery from their depleted oil reservoirs, since only about 30% is ever actually extracted, as I recall. Big upside with better extraction tech.

rickw
rickw
November 4, 2022 5:02 pm

It’s quite likely that one of these children will go on an Islamist decapitation rampage in a few years.

Leb Muslims 2.0

Still shit after 3 generations.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 5:04 pm

Biden Gave $1 Billion Via USAID to Afghanistan After the Taliban Took Over and Now Won’t Share Where It Went

Biden Admin Stonewalls Watchdog Seeking Accountability For $1 Billion Aid To Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover

The government body tasked with monitoring U.S. reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan said in a recent report it encountered insurmountable barriers from Biden administration agencies in its attempts to hold them accountable for over $1 billion in aid.

The Treasury Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) refused to comply with transparency requests from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) “in any capacity,” while the State Department selectively released information regarding the $1.1 billion in aid sent since August 2021, according to SIGAR. That violates SIGAR’s congressional mandate and undermines the American people’s interests, the organization claimed in a quarterly report, released Wednesday.

“SIGAR, for the first time in its history, is unable this quarter to provide Congress and the American people with a full accounting of this U.S. government spending due to the noncooperation of several U.S. government agencies,” the report said. “USAID and State legal counsels’ claim that SIGAR’s jurisdiction does not include such matters is not only contrary to the law, but a gross deviation from over 14 years of precedent set by three prior Administrations.”

The $1.1 billion assistance in question comes from the State Department and USAID for “food and cash support, nutrition, healthcare, protection for women and children and agricultural inputs,” according to a Sept. 23 USAID statement. (RELATED: US Prepares $3.5 Billion Fund For Foreign Country)

“The State Department was selective in the information it provided pursuant to SIGAR’s audit and quarterly data requests, sharing high-level funding data but not details of agency-supported programs in Afghanistan,” the report said.

The agencies have thwarted other congressionally mandated SIGAR reviews regarding the collapse of Afghanistan’s government, ongoing humanitarian programs and State and USAID safeguards against the Taliban seizing aid intended for the Afghan people through noncooperation, the report alleged. For example, one of the audits described in the report found that the State Department did not appropriately account for up to $32 million in assets transferred to the former Afghan government, which are now believed to be in Taliban hands.

JMH
JMH
November 4, 2022 5:05 pm

Off topic r3efeelthebernsays:
November 4, 2022 at 3:33 pm

Ironically, Netflix are going the other way and are going to offer free subscriptions, with annoying adverts

Off topic re Netflix but a major reason I turn SkyNews off is because of the moronic adds – particularly the mindless exercise crap.

JMH
JMH
November 4, 2022 5:07 pm

I think I should have typed Advertisements.

My bad.

Razey
Razey
November 4, 2022 5:07 pm

free subscriptions, with annoying adverts

Supplementing Groomer programming with Groomer adverts.

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 5:07 pm

Lakemba is Muslim Lebanon?

Johnny Rotten
November 4, 2022 5:07 pm

The voters of Australia did not let these ISIS people back in. The Corrupt Australian Guv’ment did with an Italian Prime Minister. This would never have happened in Italy……………FFS

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 5:09 pm

“It’s quite likely that one of these children will go on an Islamist decapitation rampage in a few years.”
But any more likely than any of the other radicalised Muslims living in Australia, some of whom have already demonstrated their capacity for committing acts of terrorism?

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 5:09 pm

At least with the Forbes flooding report they’re using a local datum (possibly the riverbed invert) rather than the local AHD.

At 280 odd metres altitude, perhaps someone might laugh.

Razey
Razey
November 4, 2022 5:09 pm

rickwsays:
November 4, 2022 at 5:02 pm
It’s quite likely that one of these children will go on an Islamist decapitation rampage in a few years.

Leb Muslims 2.0

Still shit after 3 generations.

Behead those who say Islam is violent!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/33611963@N06/7299733026/

Mater
November 4, 2022 5:10 pm

During oral argument of affirmative action case, lawyer for UNC agrees with Justice Alito that “family lore” doesn’t provide basis to claim American Indian status, in a pretty clear reference to Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Ah yes, “Family lore”.

That’d be the equivalent of Numbers’ “family narrative” which gave a particular story about the when’s and why’s of his father’s enlistment, a story which turned out to be complete bullshit when his Service Record was examined.

“Family lore”, “stories my aunty told me”, and “family narratives”…the last refuge of the scoundrel.

rickw
rickw
November 4, 2022 5:10 pm

Why Cohenite?

Compassion contrast:

“the unvaccinated can suffer the consequences”

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 5:11 pm

OldOzzie says:
November 4, 2022 at 5:04 pm

Biden Gave $1 Billion Via USAID to Afghanistan After the Taliban Took Over and Now Won’t Share Where It Went

But the poppy fields are looking good.

Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 5:11 pm

My worry with the recently returned ISIS sprogs is that they’re like Manchurian Islamists or perhaps another description is that they’re akin to a dormant volcano that could go off at any time.

The notion that these children are like slates that can be wiped clean and have a new story written on them is indeed naive.

They have been indoctrinated into a violent form of Islam while at the most impressionable age.

I doubt there is any expert in the field who would agree they can be deradicalised without a doubt.

Do we even have such experts in Australia?

(Besides Dr. Anne Aly, of course.)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 5:13 pm

but even with them we just don’t know what psychological damage has been done and what Islamist leanings they still have

That’s the worry: what Lenin said.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Several variants on this from different authors going as far back as Aristotle. But it’s clear that those poor children have been solidly indoctrinated into a homicidal millennialist religion as Lenin espoused. Deprogramming them would be very hard. And no one will dare try that because it will be seen as an attack on Islam. So unless God is gracious to them (not Allah) they are going to be in a very bad place for the rest of their lives, poor kids.

It might be different if there was a solid rehabilitation program, but as I said that is totally not possible in the current political climate.

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 5:13 pm

A lot will depend on the stories these kiddies are told on mum’s knee. “Your dad was a fighter of dirty infidels and died in the heroic cause” might not be altogether healthy, particularly for their fellow school chums.

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 5:14 pm

and the Taliban have female letterbox police now.

progress!

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
November 4, 2022 5:14 pm

via Sky
> ‘Rather something Australian’: Treasurer snubs King Charles III
> Treasurer Jim Chalmers has snubbed King Charles III as the Reserve Bank considers
> whether the new monarch should take his late-mother’s spot on the Australian $5 note.

How about the Yellow-billed kingfisher?
It’s nearly green-and-gold, native to Cape York, and eminently kingly.
That particular artist’s illustration makes it out to be quite a happy chappy that I wouldn’t mind seeing in glorious colour on a fiver.

rickw
rickw
November 4, 2022 5:18 pm

But any more likely than any of the other radicalised Muslims living in Australia

Once you have one infection you should just stop worrying about additional ones….

Winston Smith
November 4, 2022 5:19 pm

Will:

and massive constipation and digestive issues

Yes.
Dropped off 9 kilos, and had to stop because of (above)

Razey
Razey
November 4, 2022 5:19 pm

“the unvaccinated can suffer the consequences”

Of not being the Governments bitch?

rickw
rickw
November 4, 2022 5:20 pm

The Corrupt Australian Guv’ment did with an Italian Prime Minister.

Isn’t he Albanian?

Johnny Rotten
November 4, 2022 5:21 pm

I am very happy to remain unjabbed and to take the consequences of being very healthy and living a full life. I will take my own poison thank you very much. Red wine, white wine, port, whisky, vodka, gin, etc, etc, etc……….lol

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
November 4, 2022 5:22 pm

There Can Be No ‘Amnesty’ On Lockdowns Without A Reckoning

Letting people off the hook isn’t amnesty. Amnesty requires an admission of guilt and a commitment to repairing the wrongs done.

– Yes, the Data Was Available to Reject Lockdowns

– Supporting Mass Violations of Human Rights Isn’t Just an ‘Oops’

– Amnesty Requires Admitting What You Did Wrong

– We Want Justice and Mercy, Not D@dges

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 5:23 pm

there is plenty of evidence that female Aborigines, particularly on the coasts spent plenty of time gathering and preparing edible fruits, grasses and roots.

Fruits are seasonal (and sparse in deserts and temperate zones), grasses are indigestible, and roots are damn hard to find and dig up. The only way to fuel the (large, expensive) human brain was to outsource the initial consumption & digestion to a herbivore, and eat the resultant meat. Name one herbivore with a similar sized brain to a human?

JMH
JMH
November 4, 2022 5:25 pm

MatrixTransformsays:
November 4, 2022 at 4:25 pm

By all means argue the case.
But don’t make shit up.

well lets be honest here.
yesterday sancho took something uttered simply and gave it a whole new context out of thin air.
just so he could posture and piss-take

ie … he just made.shit.up

again .

poisonous old clown

I think our dearly-beloved little ‘Mexican’ is likely to be someone with multiple personas (i.e. socks – or much worse)

Anything it types should be taken with a large grain of salt.

Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams
November 4, 2022 5:26 pm

Zulu, re Directors ID, from memory I think they just wanted my D/L number and medicare card no.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
November 4, 2022 5:27 pm

NFAsays:
November 4, 2022 at 5:11 pm
OldOzzie says:
November 4, 2022 at 5:04 pm

Biden Gave $1 Billion Via USAID to Afghanistan After the Taliban Took Over and Now Won’t Share Where It Went

I’d say about 10% went back to the ‘Big Guy’.

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 4, 2022 5:27 pm

The brother of champion boxer Jeff Fenech has been hit with historical rape charges amid allegation he sexually abused a 13-year-old boy at a home in Sydney’s north-west.

Paul Godfrey Fenech, 65, is facing multiple child sex and molestation charges after a man, now aged in his 50s, made a statement to police last year alleging he was raped and assaulted at Fenech’s Berkshire Park farm in 1980.

Fenech has spent the past three months locked in a legal battle with The Daily Telegraph seeking to keep details of the case against him secret after successfully applying for bail in the NSW Supreme Court.

He took his fight all the way to the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, however the court ruled in favour of the media on a judgment handed down on Friday morning.

The Telegraph can now reveal police will allege the sexual assault occurred one night in October 1980, however Fenech was not arrested until February this year.

He was charged with 15 offences, including a count of detaining a person for advantage after he allegedly held a 12-year-old girl against her will during the same alleged incident.

Fenech was refused bail and spent six months behind bars on remand before being released on bail by the NSW Supreme Court in August.

The Telegraph has been prevented from publishing any details of the alleged incident or Fenech’s bid for bail until now.

Meanwhile, Fenech received a warm greeting upon his return home, with The Daily Telegraph witnessing several neighbours embracing Fenech as he walked from his home to a nearby cafe in the company of an unknown woman.

During the bail hearing, defence lawyer Sam Karnib told the court prosecutors had withdrawn the eight most serious charges against Fenech.

The remaining seven charges include counts of buggery and indecent assault on a male.

Mr Karnib said the strength of the case against his client was only “moderate” and claimed it would be unfair to have Fenech languish in jail on remand when he was unlikely to receive a trial date until the end of next year.

Justice Nicholas Chen agreed to grant Fenech bail, noting he suffered from several medical conditions which required treatment.

Under the terms of the bail, Fenech was to live at an address in St Peters, report to police daily and abide by a curfew not to leave his home unless for medical or legal appointments.

The telegraph can reveal Fenech breached the bail a week later and was remanded in custody overnight before being granted strict conditional bail again in Newtown Local Court.

A date for the sexual assault charges is yet to be set but a trial is expected to occur sometimes next year.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
November 4, 2022 5:27 pm

Lakemba is Muslim Lebanon?

Lebanon is in more than the usual mess this week.

Lebanon in political vacuum as president Michel Aoun accepts government resignation (30 Oct)

Lebanon was officially in another power vacuum on Sunday as Michel Aoun left the presidential palace but with parliament yet to decide on his successor.

The divisive 89-year-old leader signed a decree accepting the resignation of the government a day before the end of his term.

“This morning, I sent a letter to the House of Representatives in accordance with my constitutional powers and signed the government’s resignation decree,” he wrote on Twitter.

His departure comes despite no agreement on his replacement, after MPs failed to elect a successor in four attempts in Lebanon’s deeply divided parliament.

Lebanon is being run by a caretaker government as political divisions have prevented the creation of a new Cabinet since parliamentary elections this year.

No formal government and no President. Hezbies in effective control, inflation off scale and the banks are refusing to let customers withdraw their money. Sigh.

Johnny Rotten
November 4, 2022 5:27 pm

I want to know if these fuckers are going to live in LayBore Electorates or not. And if not why not………….How about next door to Albo or Turtlehead Bone Head Bowen…………..FFS

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 5:27 pm

I am a firm believer in cutting the glued protesters hands off at the wrist… with a chainsaw.

now *that’s* what I call performance art

(PS, Van Gough says ‘hold my beer’)

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 5:28 pm

I’m very happy that my food is vegetarian. Happy to supplement it with delicious colourful raw stuff. In winter I’ll even bake it. Mmmmm…

Top Ender
Top Ender
November 4, 2022 5:28 pm

Dan under the bus?

Daniel Andrews has been heckled by two men at his press conference at a dog park on Friday.
The Labor leader did not respond to the hecklers, who both said he was a “disgrace”.

“Why are you running away?,” one protester yelled as he followed the Premier to his big red campaign bus.

“Can I get on the bus with you?

“I hope he’s not driving, or his wife.”

The disgruntled man accused Mr Andrews of having ruined the state.

Another man screamed “you’re a disgrace” just moments before the Premier began speaking.

On both occasions, Mr Andrews refused to address either of the men.

JMH
JMH
November 4, 2022 5:28 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
November 4, 2022 at 4:39 pm

You seem upset Winston.
Was it something I said?

I very much doubt it.

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 4, 2022 5:31 pm

“Mind the stairs, Dan!”

flyingduk
flyingduk
November 4, 2022 5:33 pm

police will allege the sexual assault occurred one night in October 1980, however Fenech was not arrested until February this year.

FFS If the Lehrman jury was hung a couple of years after a ‘he said, she said’ cSe, how can there be ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ evidence after 42 years???

Nelson_Kidd-Players
November 4, 2022 5:36 pm

Channeling Burt Bacharach:

“Do you know the way to Ridley Street?”

calli
calli
November 4, 2022 5:38 pm

Okay. What’s sauce for the goos is sauce for the gander.

If a 42 year old offence can be pursued, it’s time to re-visit Kathy Sherriff’s complaint. If not why not?

rosie
rosie
November 4, 2022 5:40 pm
Roger
Roger
November 4, 2022 5:40 pm

If a 42 year old offence can be pursued, it’s time to re-visit Kathy Sherriff’s complaint. If not why not?

Forget it Jake. It’s Victoria.

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 5:42 pm
Ed Case
Ed Case
November 4, 2022 5:47 pm

Name one herbivore with a similar sized brain to a human?
Elephants.
They never forget.

NFA
NFA
November 4, 2022 5:49 pm

Ed Case says:
November 4, 2022 at 5:47 pm

Name one herbivore with a similar sized brain to a human?
Elephants.
They never forget.

easiest to kill

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