Erminia and the Shepherds, Eugene Delacroix, 1859
A tiny light in the darkness of stupid.
Open Thread – Weekend 5 Nov 2022
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
- Bumtree #3
Well the opposite is in this shire. The council without consultation of residents in a small community decided to turn…
“It was a bit disappointing yesterday to see the Opposition immediately out playing politics on this matter…” Playing politics. There…
I think you’ll find you’re the wrong “gender”/sex.
If I refresh the page here, it keeps “bouncing back” up to half way through the thread… which is really…
D’oh! Thanks, Calli. That’s what I meant to say.
Okay I will try to listen today.
Traitor Rod Barton last for me.
I emailed and politely told him when he voted for the Pandemic Bill.
Very interesting.
FBI WHISTLEBLOWERS: WHAT THEIR DISCLOSURES INDICATE
ABOUT THE POLITICIZATION OF THE FBI AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Republican Staff Report Committee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives
November 4, 2022 – 1,050 Page Report
Executive Summary
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, under the stewardship of Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland, is broken. The problem lies not with the majority of front-line agents who serve our country, but with the FBI’s politicized bureaucracy. The problem lies, for example, with the FBI hierarchy that spied on President Trump’s campaign and ridiculed conservative Americans. The problem lies with FBI bureaucrats who altered and mischaracterized evidence to federal courts, circumvented safeguards, and exploited weaknesses in policies governing investigations and informants to target politically disfavored subjects and to protect favored ones. The problem lies with the FBI structure that centralizes high-profile cases in D.C., in the hands of politicized actors with politicized incentives.
Quite simply, the problem—the rot within the FBI—festers in and proceeds from Washington.
Over the last year, a multitude of whistleblowers have approached Judiciary Committee Republicans with allegations of political bias by the FBI’s senior leadership and misuses of the agency’s federal law-enforcement powers. These whistleblowers have risked their careers out of fidelity to principle and a commitment to restoring public trust in the FBI. This report begins to tell their stories.
Even at this early stage, one startling conclusion is clear: the FBI and its parent agency, the Justice Department, have become political institutions.
This report details the problems, as recounted in whistleblower disclosures and other forms, that undermine the FBI’s fundamental law-enforcement mission. Whistleblowers describe the FBI’s Washington hierarchy as“rotted at its core,” maintaining a“systemic culture of unaccountability,”and full of“rampant corruption, manipulation, and abuse.” Whistleblowers describe how the FBI has abused its law-enforcement authorities for political purposes, and how actions by FBI leadership show a political bias against conservatives.
For example
Okay I will try to listen today.
Don’t do it to yourself.
Nasties.
Nasties everywhere.
Twinkle toed sock cuckers get wound up to eleventy over a kid in a DDR uniform
doing the commie thing.
Dot, twitter having it’s own payment gateway makes sense.
But the idea of what gets referred to as a “super app” is dead & buried.
I see why they work in gated ecosystems like China.
Super apps will never work in the west.
The Block guys are finding that out now.
Zyconoclastsays:
November 5, 2022 at 11:36 am
More proof that early morning jogging is bad for your health.
Homeless man with 25 prior arrests busted in r@pe of NYC jogger, is suspect in two other s3x crimes
Mr 13% at work
NYC tourist raped while jogging was choked so hard neck bones broke, ‘sex fiend’ held without bail
FBI is ‘rotted at its core,’ Republican lawmakers say
The agency has been politicized, corrupting America’s top law enforcement entity, a GOP report has claimed
America is no longer a country where citizens are afforded equal justice under the law, as guaranteed by their Constitution, because the nation’s top law enforcement agency has been corrupted by politicized leadership and a “woke, leftist agenda” being imposed from the top, Republican lawmakers have claimed.
The allegations were contained in a 1,050-page report released on Friday by Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee. The report, which was based on information gathered from 14 FBI whistleblowers who came forward to expose a pattern of misconduct, argued that the agency was “rotted at its core.”
“Quite simply, the problem — the rot within the FBI — festers in and proceeds from Washington,” the report said. “The FBI and its parent agency, the Justice Department, have become political institutions.”
The report detailed such abuses as a secret partnership in which the FBI receives private information on conservative users from Facebook, without seeking their consent or going though the legal processes that would normally be required to tap such data.
Whistleblowers also alleged that the FBI “looked the other way” on dozens of attacks against anti-abortion groups, even as the agency sent heavily armed teams of officers to arrest pro-life activists at their homes for alleged violations of selectively enforced crimes. Parents who spoke out at school board meetings over controversial policies were targeted by investigators as alleged terrorists.
At the same time, former FBI official Timothy Thibault “shut down” a probe into the overseas business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and attempted to keep the case from being reopened, the report said. Thibault openly displayed his political bias in social media posts that included his official title.
“America’s not America if you have a Justice Department that treats people differently under the law,” Representative Jim Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Friday. “It’s supposed to be equal treatment under the law. That’s not happening, and we know it’s not happening because 14 brave FBI agents came to us as whistleblowers and told us what exactly is going on here.”
The report also accused the FBI of inflating statistics on domestic extremism to help fuel a narrative promoted by President Joe Biden’s administration. FBI employees who have conservative views are being purged from the agency, it claims.
LOL. I’ve always been amused by the commies’ neo-brutalist take on the german WW2 bonce box.
Especially since Elon made his pile with PayPal, who are in the process of faceplanting right now in a most epic fashion. He may be detecting a business opportunity.
(I’m getting set to cancel my PayPal account also, they’ve gotten thousands from me over the years.)
There are 14 days left of diesel fuel, and no one is doing anything to stop it. The #DHSLeaks is a bombshell that shows the federal government working in lockstep with big tech companies like Facebook censoring content. The invasion of Haiti is just days away. Are they waiting for the election before they pull the trigger?
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Just had a moment of inspiration while out on my run and have (finally) come with a theme for tonight’s radio show, the penultimate one for the year.
Ukrainian Starlink units go dark over funding issues – media
Kiev is concerned about losing access to Elon Musk’s internet service if the US or UK doesn’t step in to pay
Some 1,300 Starlink satellite terminals went offline in Ukraine last week due to a failure to pay the military’s internet bills, deepening fears that the country will no longer be able to afford the pricey satellite service, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN on Friday.
The terminals, all part of a block purchased from a British company in March, began to go dark on October 24 for lack of funding, causing a “huge problem” for the military that depended upon them.
Aware the bill was coming due and that they would be unable to pay it, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense asked its UK allies for $3.25 million to cover the monthly cost and rotated the terminals out of use so they wouldn’t wink out at a critical moment. However, their request was turned down.
Starlink parent company SpaceX alerted the Pentagon in September that it could no longer pay the full cost of Ukraine’s Starlink usage, asking Washington to pick up the slack, according to CNN. With approximately 25,000 Starlink terminals in Ukraine, Musk estimated the military’s use of the service would cost nearly $400 million over the next 12 months. Fewer than 11,000 were being paid for at the time he wrote to the Pentagon.
Musk then appeared to change his mind about footing the bill for the service a few days later, tweeting “We’ll just keep funding Ukraine for free.”
However, a senior defense official told CNN SpaceX has continued negotiating with the Pentagon, adding that officials are eager to get Musk to commit resources in writing because they fear he will change his mind.
He has reportedly refused to operate Starlink in Crimea, fearing this would invite an escalation from Moscow, while Western media have accused him of hindering the network’s operation by Ukrainian troops in Russian-controlled areas, which Musk denies. Last month, he warned that even though the company has “diverted massive resources toward defense” as the Russian military attempts to take the system out, “Starlink may still die.”
Moscow believes Starlink is a legitimate target, reasoning that the US and its allies have been using “elements of the civilian space infrastructure, including commercial, for military purposes.” Because this “essentially constitutes an involvement in military action through a proxy,” the “quasi-civilian” satellite network is fair game, Russian diplomat Konstantin Vorontsov told the UN last month.
bern is off the pace.
Hoover are just fortifying old lizards like Hillary into a corner.
They’re pre-emoting a massive W for the MAGA Republicans.
So they are sowing the seeds to acculturate society to reject her claims as “conspiracy theories”.
If not, okay, they’re just off their bonce.
unless Matty is snapped in bed with a live goat and a dead boy before next Saturday.
You sound as though you have experience with such things crotchless.
I was seriously about to make an ‘off the pace’ remark.
Now I can’t. Thanks a bunch Dot.
Biden promises to shutter US coal power plants
(Mimicking Australian Federal Labor – Tanya Plibersek amd Anthony Albasleezy)
The US president wants to see “wind and solar” replace coal-fueled power plants
Speaking at an event in California on Friday, US President Joe Biden said his government intended to shut down coal-fueled power plants “all across America” and replace them with wind- or solar-powered generators.
Biden was in San Diego as part of a West Coast trip to fundraise for Democrats ahead of next week’s midterm elections. During a speech on Friday, the president reminisced about visiting a former coal power plant in Massachusetts, which had been repurposed to wind power generation. He said this happened because continuing to use coal was just too expensive – presumably due to the costs imposed by government regulations.
“We’re gonna be shutting these plants down all across America, and having wind and solar,” Biden told the audience.
Biden’s new mid-term campaign ad;
https://twitter.com/stclairashley/status/1588274340399042560
Ed reading the room and judging the temperature in Victoria, all the way from Queensland.
What can’t Google do?
The real question is who hasn’t he pissed off?
Ukraine, Batman and complex identities: Key takes from Vladimir Putin’s latest speech
The Russian president marked National Unity Day by speaking at a gathering of historians
Russian President Vladimir Putin honored the country’s National Unity Day by meeting with historians and dignitaries – including leaders of religious communities – and discussing the role of history in protecting national sovereignty, identity, and culture. Here are some key points from his speech and the subsequent discussion.
1. Conflict in Ukraine was “inevitable”
2. The West twisted Ukraine’s history
3. A civil war, just like 1917
4. Weaponizing the distortion of history
5. The colonial era is over
6. Batman, or historical heroes?
Putin also opted to broach a slightly less political issue. During the question-and-answer session, he noted that academic work won’t be enough without teaming up with popular culture and merchandising.
Russian children “know of Batman but not of our own heroes,” Putin said, noting that historical education starts from an early age. “There should be cartoons, films, children’s literature… All of these things are needed. That’s why we’re here today, to nudge this process forward.”
If not, okay, they’re just off their bonce.
After listening to their first episode, that is the only conclusion a sane man could make.
KD at 9:55
But for a brilliant run out by Maxwell followed by five minutes of panic by the Heroin Farmers, the Alintastralians would have gone down easily.
Any of the other semi-finalists would smash them in a canter.
It is telling that they went down by 89 to NZ, and they couldn’t make up that run rate shortfall in three matches against Ceylon, Ireland and Afghanistan.
In Affirmative Action Program, Starbucks Forced To Hire One Straight Male Barista
U.S. – In a groundbreaking affirmative action program aimed at diversifying its workforce, Starbucks has hired its first and only straight white cis-male barista.
“At Starbucks, we believe all people deserve the dignity of a good job, including straight white men, even though they are the worst,” said CEO Laxman Narasimhan. “We hope this paves the more for many other terrible, awful colonizers to find gainful employment with Starbucks Co. Even though they don’t deserve it and should probably just die. Ew.”
“This is a huge day for me,” said seventeen-year-old Milwaukee high school student Charles Smith. “I’ve never even made out with a dude or taken artificial hormones before. I can’t believe I was hired!”
Starbuck’s Chief Diversity Officer Raya Chugbot also applauded the decision, saying a straight cis-man would be a great way to round out their national workforce of gay people, trans people, and gay trans indigenous Skokomish people. “We welcome Smith to the team. Diversity is our strength!” said Chugbot. “Also, I hope he dies. Gross.”
Smith thanked Starbucks for the opportunity and said he looks forward to working with his local team of 28 members of the LGBTQ+ community.
UPDATE: After 4 months of employment, Smith is now gay.
Things have to get a lot worse before they can start to get better, history tells us the people only wake up when their bellies are empty.
There’s to much stupid out there for a quick and decisive turnaround.
Mr. Sulu says:
You sound as though you have experience with such things crotchless.
Another come on, eh?
You’ve got an obsession for rejection, Mr. Sulu.
Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder, perhaps?
Meanwhile – Twitter Employees Devastated To Learn Their New Boss Expects Them To Do Actual Work At Their Jobs
Meme;
Or this ol’ favourite.
The Dems don’t have our advantage of listening to their propaganda from outside the US: Voting is a threat to democracy!!! The left always treats voters like idiots. Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Its worse. Its take the drug or you are banned from society. I blame all the obese, lazy low IQ boomers who supported this shit.
the Herald Sun print front page in large print says, ‘It Stinks.’ ( The state of Victoria)
When the Herald-Sun turns against you you’re toast!
I’m getting set to cancel my PayPal account
Bruce, just do it – I cancelled mine a couple of weeks ago and it took all of about a minute.
Without Their Precious ‘ZuckBucks,’ Democrats Won’t Win Georgia In 2022
https://thefederalist.com/2022/11/04/without-their-precious-zuckbucks-democrats-wont-win-georgia-in-2022/
Georgia SB 202, signed into law on March 5, 2021, prohibits Georgia election officials from accepting private election funding, which was the basis of CTCL’s notorious $330 million grant program under the guise of the Covid-19 “emergency” known as “Zuckbucks.”
Whenever you hear people like Dana Perino use throwaway lines like “the Dems had a better ground game” it just shows they are so uneducated about 2020.
Or scared of losing their current status.
Or both.
Extraordinary. This alex guy is a piece of work. He begins his thread with ‘I don’t do much on Twitter’ but when he does he tries to destroy people’s lives.
Because you are not zero risk, Zatara, nobody is.
The lesson from late 1930s Germany is that there are no “good people” and “evil people” as the capacity for both good and evil exists inside every person.
My 2c worth for it’s worth & being even more disconnected from Victoria in NQ but having spent August and September there, as well as having family still there.
Dan will win, despite mass corruption but I think there will be a large protest vote to independents and some may be sitting in the next parliament. I also think the Teals will strip a few blue ribbon seats off Guy. When I was there I just didn’t see any enthusiasm for the Liberals, Dan they despise but Guy is viewed as absolutely hopeless. I spent most of my time in the north central/north eastern regions.
Googlery at 10:12
And how long have you been having these thoughts?
Because their rights as citizens are apparently everything.
OTOH, my rights as a citizen, 12 months ago, were less so.
I hope they are vaccinated!
I bet they were asked, but I guarantee it wasn’t mandatory….
The Dems “surprise” might come from the Fed. A new iflation target, 3%?;
Maxine Waters (ewww!)
Wadey has only had 1 game as captain and he won it.
Finchie, basically, doesn’t understand Bowling.
He’s not alone there, though, Justin Langer didn’t understand bowling either.
“but when he does he tries to destroy people’s lives.”
Those on the left do this every minute, every hour, everyday. They breathe hate and destruction.
And how long have you been having these thoughts?
Good question, Sancho.
The answer is, every time I see your name.
When I was there I just didn’t see any enthusiasm for the Liberals, Dan they despise but Guy is viewed as absolutely hopeless.
What?! No enthusiasm for a used beige Toyota Corolla that pulls badly to the left?!
Jorge:
When are these nancy boys going to wake up to the fact that an overly emotional copper doesn’t look ‘human’ when he emotes over a road accident victim like the media minders have told him, it makes him look weak and incapable of doing the tough parts of his job?
FFS, ‘top Victorian Traffic cop’, it’s not about you – it’s about the poor bastard who got hit.
Zipster:
From China Uncensored, those islands look horribly vulnerable to wave action from – say – a meteor weighing 10 tons and made from steel, and travelling at 24,000 km/hr.
No?
And would explain his foray with DOGE earlier on.
That’s the safe bet, RD.
However, I do think there’s the slim possibility of a Trump like upset.
Perhaps we’ll just get rid of Dan, but keep his malignant crew.
I hope Bernie Finn is reelected.
Steady on, Rosie.
Lately ‘Traitor’ has turned into a pretty respectable club.
The ‘ready to die on this hill’ brigade, whose last stand would have been all the more valiant if only they were in the thick of things rather than shouting out how brave they are from the periphery (and mostly ignored) and how everyone else is doing it wrong, are the obnoxious ones.
Like vegans who are always busting to tell you they are vegans and then spray you with how heroically virtuous they are and what a miserable worm you are.
Rockdoctor says:
My 2c worth for it’s worth & being even more disconnected from Victoria …
Has there ever been a Labor Government that you haven’t shilled for, Rockley?
All bullshit for the punters. These Vikplod grubs were having a ball pepper spraying grannies, attacking young women, terrorizing old dears in the park, breaking into pregnant mums homes and cuffing them, stomping on mentally challenged citizens heads, firing rubber bullets into Vic protesters – during covid.
They deserve the deepest loathing.
We need to bring back the death penalty for extreme situations. Eg. Dealing with psychopaths like the Hunchback.
Bernie Finn tried to sabotage Guy and Matty expelled him.
That’s when I knew the Victorian Liberals had turned pro.
VicJack Inc CEO Shane Patton, who incidentally signed off on the ‘nothing to see here’ red shirts debacle before his elevation, indicated the other week that his organisation had quite a bit to do to bring the public back into the fold.
If you will, compare the above excremental display with Fat Luke Cornelius telling the public ‘don’t take us for fools’ during the lockdowns, along with crowing about ‘rings of steel’ and all that other horseshit.
In all likelihood, the most recent snivelling is a poorly-thought-out attempt to ‘refold’ the average punter by displaying them as human, etc etc etc rah rah.
It’s not working, and it won’t work. Several generations will live and die before that politically-charged rabble garner any form of realistic public support.
Fuck off.
A very good afternoon to St. Ruth.
Rabz – I’m making sure I’ve sorted alternative payment routes first. Looking forward to the gig tonight!
As in ‘Prostitute’?
As in no morals?
As in capable of selling themselves?
I wholeheartedly agree with you, Ed…likely for the first time.
All the fat boomer cowards needed to do is stand up and say no.
Those assholes failed, as they have as a generation of sheep.
Consider MARS Coin.
I think Elon has talked about it too.
Speaking of putting your money where your mouth is…….
Hai!
Dover, that ‘New Amsterdam’ clip at the Twit link is just bizarre.
Actually, my first thought when it opens and the guy is looking at his darling daughter might have been meant to communicate his apprehension for his daughter’s future.
Maybe.
My immediate thought at the sight of his daughter, adorable and doing cute kiddy things, was that she could have been snuffed out. That she, so the logic would go, and for all of the richness of her existence, had no inherent right to exist. She needed her parents’ permission to exist, which permission could be withdrawn with no recourse and for even trivial and selfish reasons.
I suppose these people really are wired differently. Lots of short circuits, I think.
Interesting, some 3 way contests going on Euroa is one of them. Betting market has lumped the Liberals and Nats together, saw the Nat’s candidate at the footy in Seymour at a GVFL Semi Final. She is the one they are taking odds on, another journalist who owns what looks like a hobby farm up in the ranges out the back of Seymour. The Liberal candidate seems to have more runs on the board than she does.
Surely there would be better candidates around Euroa than her? She looked still very wet behind the ears for my liking.
Premier Daniel Andrews under pressure from Greens and independents ahead of Victorian election, NewsPoll suggests
Beautiful prose about a sick organisation. Hear hear!
Makka – if you weren’t a bigot who doesn’t find Maxine Walters attractive, I would be urging you to consider running for your Local Council, Federal or State Parliament.
Examine your bigotry first, sir.
Ugh
Try being funny and you end up writing gibber.
Waters 🙁
Hi Mater
Pro as in Professional.
Let’s break this down:
grass roots Anti Abortion people are mostly genuine and Christian, but they’re used as catspaws by Labor Fronts to blackwash the Liberal Party with left leaning potential Liberal voters.
Bernie Finn made it obvious when he attempted to triangulate Matty over the issue.
The only correct response was to flick Finn and put the issue to rest.
That’s what they did, and the result is that Labor have given up in Victoria.
Hey, if Labor wanna run in 2026 on restricted access to Abortion, good luck to them.
But there isn’t a chance in a million that they will.
financial times on Canadian government ordering Chinese miners to divest.
Another GenX (Y) loser?
refusing a half million dollar donation
OMG! Jason Whitlock GOES THERE! “Nancy Pelosi Spent Her Money on Pair of Cans and All Her Husband Wants to Do Is Play Hide the Hammer” (VIDEO)
Jason Whitlock: What I have to stand up and defend, I’m outraged for Nancy Pelosi. This woman has taken the hard earned money she’s made from insider trading and invested it on a pair of cans at 82-years-old and comes home to find out her husband’s playing hide the hammer with a Black Lives Matter guy! You talk about disrupting the nuclear family. The black lives matter crew must be ecstatic because this guy’s doing it and so is Paul Pelosi. I’m upset for Nancy on a pair and he’s not interested…
…Are you suggesting that my information that she spent her money on a pair of cans, are you saying that’s bad information? I’ve seen a lot of evidence I’m feel real comfortable. She’s trying to entice her husband but he’s interested in playing hide the hammer on a Friday night with some weirdo!
He really went there!
That’s one segment for the history books.
Sancho Panzer:
How do you go broke?
Slowly at first, then all in a rush.
My immediate thought at the sight of his daughter, adorable and doing cute kiddy things, was that she could have been snuffed out.
The spin was that the guy was devastated that his daughter might have no access to Abortion in her future.
Since he is portrayed as a Medical Professional, that’s nonsense.
Ditto for the other concerned Doctors.
A realistic ad would have those Doctors weeping over some black crackwhore with 5 kids under 7, but that would raise a whole lot of uncomfortable questions.
As Ruth Bader Ginsberg said back in 1973.
Richard Cranium at 1308
Please translate from Ed-gabble into something vaguely resembling the King’s English.
Sure, spongeBob
Your team is fucked in Victoria and Matty Guy will be Premier at about 6:10 pm next Saturday.
Thank you rickw, for the article on the 30mm fully-auto Mauser. As flyingduk says, a little unwieldy for snap shooting, but just the trick to have mounted on the back of the Toyota for those occasions when a mob of 40 or so pigs presents itself, & you haven’t a hope of dropping more than 3 or 4 before they make cover.
And particularly for the clip on Pooley-Wilkinson swords.
Ed Case is Mark Textor.
Responses for today’s toons.
Leak – Yep, they aimed to make fossil fuels more expensive then acted shocked and outraged when that actually happened.
Knight – Tom cut off the right side of the image but I guess the hungry dog is emblazoned with the title of Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission of Victoria. Great, but illegal activity is only half the story, how about everything the VicPubes did that was totally legal and yet wrong relative to community standards? In the full picture there would be a ravenous rottweiler of IBAC and a curt chihuahua of community standards.
Broelman – I get Chris Bowen is going to COP27 held in Egypt but I don’t know why he would apparently be broaching a metaphorical wedding to some kind of Cleopatra of Climate Change. Albo has already wedded the country to Net Zero, there’s nothing left to be married off.
Moran – Bleakly superb. Self-appointed amnesties ring hollow at the best of times, but when the scars in education, public health, and institutional goodwill were between long-lasting and life-ending, it is a very bad joke.
Christian Adams – So the Santa-esque Musk will be delivering some kind of Twitterverse Christmas present perhaps, but the significance of the “eP45” on the screen is a mystery. Possibly the P45 is reference to The Orange Man, but the “e” muddies the waters.
Margolis – Yes well when Clarence Thomas backs decisions convenient to the Republicans he is lionised by the conservatives and when he lets any of the Dems off the hook for any reason he is suddenly recast as their puppet.
Goodwyn – Daylight savings time may not be a convenience to her personally in her lifestyle, but that does not mean there are no reasons for it.
Garrison – Perhaps only Gen X and above will infer this possible reference to the movie Joe Versus The Volcano. The true size of the Red Wave is still to be determined and a clean sweep by Republicans would not qualify as a Mega Maga Volcano unless the margin was huge.
Chum
“Its time to leave earth” (current day end).
By John Talks
https://youtu.be/ha-Oa2ZzI_M
Has an almost sexy Maxine Waters moment.
Richard Cranium
I don’t have a team in Victoria. Do you? Why?
Edition!
(edn.) is common!
Fack you, autocorrupt.
SFW:
Did you know some bastard under the name of Stephen Williams is posting using your Gravatar?
Berka, it was Rowe, not Broelman.
At least he’s drawing them clothed. Baby steps.
Iron lady.
‘I’m not suicidal’: Kari Lake reacts to Hillary jab with ‘Clinton Body Count’ joke (3 Nov)
87% of Networks’ Coverage of GOP Is Negative — Kari Lake Scores 100% (3 Nov)
DeSantis may have to lift his game.
And the Moran will go into the Remembery, along with this piece of cartoon excellence.
And loathing they shall have.
And loathing they have and for a very long time shall they have.
I don’t have a team in Victoria.
That’s okay, SpongeBob.
Your team in New South Wales is fucked too.
Speaking of cartoons.
Everyone involved in the ‘transitioning’ of minors should face a Nuremberg-like tribunal.
calli says: November 5, 2022 at 1:46 pm
Argh, was off by one in the author list.
[Effie voice] Ohmagord. How embarrassment.
Tucker Carlson: This is laughably absurd
Body of a woman and a child under 10 found in a pond in Canberra – second child missing.
RiotACT
Goes to show how invested PMC is to cultural program of the Regime. I wonder how much bloat is involved in other major corps.
Just rechecked my candidates in my electorate.
We have the Liberals Labor Greens Teal and Animal Justice.
Any suggestions other than informal?
Mud wrestling with machinery.
Just pulled the SP boomspray out of a bog with a 50 tonne rated strap, a 100t rated strap both connected for length, with an 80t chain hooked to the pull points on the front of the machine.
We’re back rolling.
Just ordered 2 T-shirts and some bumper stickers.
Shirts say “global Warming is a scam.” 2 stickers the same. 2 stickers “reduce your carbon footprint, stop breathing”
These orders are after the response to my “I love global warming” and “I love C02” as the weather has finally warmed up enough to wear them on my morning walk, lots of thumbs up and friendly smiles!
I’ve got a bumper sticker that says “Don’t welcome me to my own country.” I’ve passed on five of them so far……
Mud wrestling with machinery.
Gez – we are a small outfit compared to you. But at the moment machinery is certainly under stress. Husband went out with flail mower on tractor into one of the few paddocks dry enough to cut and mulch the knee high grass. Was half an hour into job when the flail mower broke some bolt and fell apart (almost) behind him. Will have to use the slasher until we know whether the flail mower is recoverable.
But he is now at a neighbour’s farm trying to weld up a broken part on my ride on lawn mower that collapsed the housing underneath. Whew!
5M illegals to lubricate the voter rolls
Get this intaya, Morsie, stop obsessing about voting Labor.
[Twitter]
Just rechecked my candidates in my electorate.
We have the Liberals Labor Greens Teal and Animal Justice.
Any suggestions other than informal?
Morsie:
you’ve got Labor and 3 Labor Stooge Parties [Green, Teal & Animal Justice] versus the soft left nationalist Liberals.
It’s a no brainer, dude.
Boomer?
(Warning: bit of a rant about whether vaccinated people can still be moral. (Answer is ‘yes’.) SBe warned so you can sroll if you wish.)
I’m not a boomer.
Here is another thing I note when people blanket denounce those who took a vaxx: an obstinate refusal to understand the people they condemn.
I have previously set out the reason I took the vaccine (well, A vaccine). Suffice to say I was motivated purely by compassion for someone else. I will say no more than that because recounting their misery to try to resuscitate some atrophied organ of humanity long since pronounced dead in the heart of some so-called ‘pure blood’ is just too sordid.
But I will as this: my reasoning – which extended beyond reason itself – was fobbed off by someone from ‘buffets and hutches’ as…sophistry.
What a ridiculous accusation. What kind of a person has a soul so base and narrow that there is no thing or person they will not put before themselves; that they will not take a risk to themselves in order to support or succour someone else?
I believe these Lords High Justices who pass judgement upon we lesser beings aren’t up to the office they have assumed. ‘Boomer!’ They don’t arraign real people and their particular circumstances. Instead they prosecute figments if their imaginings.: a whole vast species of uniform traitors, cowards, and general misanthropes.
But why? Why do they do this?
Is it because these dreadful people are in such dire need of judgement? Well, no. Because they aren’t real.
The imposture is that purebloods have pure minds. In reality I believe these people have, shall we say, ‘simple’ blood. They create these bogey men so they can indulge themselves, and tell themselves how important, and worthy of the concomitant respect, they are.
It is an ancient and undignified craving.
I shall finish with this observation. If you are condemning people for not saying ‘no’ (regardless of their particular inescapable situation) on the basis that if everybody had said no the government overreach would have been stopped in its tracks – that is, if your strategy would depended on millions of people without any knowledge of your scheme and coordination in executing it nevertheless falling into line with your plan, then you didn’t really have a workable plan to start with, and any judgement you issue on that basis is worthless.
And makes you look more than a little silly.
Want to understand why I think Fox News polls are contemptible trash(apart from the advice of Baris and Barnes)? See below:
Will Lucy Move the Football Again?
Most Americans over the age of thirty are familiar with the long-running Charles Schultz comic strip Peanuts, depicting the everyday experiences of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, Peppermint Patty, et al. One of the recurring skits involved Lucy holding a football and getting the ever-hopeful but achingly gullible Charlie Brown to kick it; at the last minute, Lucy would jerk the football away and Charlie would kick nothing but air, ending up on his back, humiliated again.
Year after year this skit would appear around the beginning of fall, with a supposedly wiser Charlie at first refusing to participate, but eventually succumbing to Lucy’s pretty lies and blandishments, only to be fooled again when she’d snatch the ball away at the last minute.
Republican voters are painfully familiar with this scenario, for it has been inflicted upon them by the Republican Party in real life in election cycle after election cycle. Despite their ongoing treachery, the reality of the nation-destroying policies of the Democrat Party — and the GOP’s pretty promises and frightening visions of life under continuing Democrat control — usually convinces GOP voters to hold their noses and again vote for Republican career politicians. Then the cycle repeats: feckless, cynical Republican officeholders again ignore their hapless voters and support all manner of unconstitutional policies and laws, often playing “bipartisanship” with the very Democrats they so demonized during the campaign.
And there is hope, for some of those running for House and Senate seats are not the “good ol’ boys” of the GOP establishment like Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Kevin McCarthy, et al. If they’re to be believed, J.D. Vance, Blake Masters, et al, actually recognize that it has been Republican inaction and malfeasance that has helped lead to this destruction. Should they win the Senate, their first move must be to ditch McConnell as majority leader, and start us on the path of undoing the damage of the past two years caused by the Democrats (with the help of the GOP establishment).
But they had better not “move the football” again. If this new breed of GOP politicians “go along in order to get along,” that will be the death knell of the Republican Party. More importantly, if the Republicans win majorities in the House and Senate and don’t immediately, actively, and decisively roll back the Democrat idiocy of the past two years, it will be the end of this nation.
So, the ball is teed up… we, the voters, are going to “kick the football.” What are you going to do, Republicans?
Indolent:
That’s a very good point, unfortunately it looks like the oligarchy are making enough money to 1. Stop customer based competition to enter the market, and 2. The current model is satisfying the current demand.
Dear Liberals, How Many Of These MSM Hoaxes Did You Fall For?
How many recent mainstream media hoaxes did you fall for? … and/or still believe?
. Russian collusion
. Trump called neo-nazis “fine people”
. Jussie Smollett
. Bubba Wallace garage pull
. Covington kids
. Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot
. Kavanaugh rape
. Trump pee tape
. COVID lab leak was a conspiracy theory
. Border agents whipped migrants
. Trump saved nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago
. Steele Dossier
. Russian bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan
. Trump said drinking bleach would fight COVID
. Muslim travel ban
. Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation
. Andrew Cuomo best COVID leadership
. Trump built cages for migrant kids
. “Austere religious scholar”
. Trump overfed Koi fish in Japan
. Build Back Better will pay for itself
. Trump tax cuts benefited only the rich
. Cloth masks prevent COVID
. If you get vaccinated you won’t catch COVID
. SUV killed parade marchers
. Trump used teargas to clear a crowd for a bible photo
. “Don’t Say Gay” was in a bill
. Putin price hike
. Ivermectin is a horse dewormer and not for humans
. “Mostly peaceful” protests
. Trump overpowered secret service for wheel of “The Beast”
. Officer Sicknick was murdered by protesters
. January 6th was an insurrection
. BYU students hurled racist insults at Duke volleyball player
And don’t forget “democracy is under threat…”
Brague’s The Kingdom of Man: The Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project is available at Amazon for only $14. Highly recommended. Anything by Brague is worth reading. I bought it myself yesterday as prices like that for hardcovers, let alone paperbacks, are very rare now that the dollar as gone south.
/PillowGuy moment
Just had an interesting conversation with a FIFO worker who is former soldier.
Was one of the soldiers who had to take a malaria drug before going to Timor. He blames a particular female officer from the Army Malaria Unit. Says drug came from USA but modified here. Says he and many others had a bad reaction and that there is a class action in relation to it.
He says Timor veterans have far more issues than Afghanistan ones.
More recently been a FIFO working going into WA. Due to Timor experience did not want to take Vax but had to for work. He mentioned problem of 2 weeks quarantine for WA workers. Says got to point where was causing so much problems that Santos pretty much got their workers an exemption to quarantine.
I Googled the Timor case and quite a lot of articles about it. Naturally Army fought the case and would not admit a problem. Former battalion commander says informed consent an issue in Army as pretty much have no choice. Can’t find a recent article about any legal case.
Blundering Biden goes full Ebenezer Scrooge on coal, days before the midterms
In a move that surely had his tapioca dealers talking themselves back from the ledge, the President stated that they would be shutting down coal-fired power plants ‘across America’.
West Virginia may be the first state that comes to mind when one thinks of coal country, but Pennsylvania is a close second and is home to one of the key senate races of this election.
Democrat senate hopeful, Fetterman, was likely stunned by Biden’s recklessness … and her husband probably was too.
You hear that, Pennsylvania? He’s coming for your coal plants.
How many recent mainstream media hoaxes did you fall for? … and/or still believe?
Russian collusion
. Trump called neo-nazis “fine people” He called Antifa terrrorist “fine People”, that’s not in dispute
. Jussie Smollett
. Bubba Wallace garage pull
. Covington kids
. Governor Whitmer kidnapping plot
. Kavanaugh rape Kavanaugh is as dodgy as fuck.
The Dems keep his balls in a drawer somewhere.
. Trump pee tape Golden showers in Moscow.
I wouldn’t rule that out.
. COVID lab leak was a conspiracy theory Yeah, America made the Virus at Fort Detrick and released it in Wuhan, that’s not in dispute.
The only saving grace for the liberals in Victoria is their platform includes the repeal of the Pandemic legislation.
It’s the only reason I plan to hold my nose and vote for them in the lower house.
Bonus, any vote for the libs will peeve Dan.
20% of US power generation. Do it Biden, please.
Poetry in motion Mother Lode.
Bourne
Mefloquine. My mate took it when did a tour, gave him lethargy and depression that he didn’t note he had till he came off it. Apparently Army still trialled it even though it had known psychotic effects, US & UK stopped using it after a few marines went off the deep end.
Flungduk:
OK, whatever has happened, it’s too late to do anything about it apart from refusing to have anything to do with the Vaxxine.
However it’s not too late to start getting evidence at the media and government level to present at our Nuremberg 2 / Australia trials.
We may not win, but we’ll be able to present video evidence of these bastards lying to us as they try to walk back their positions.
I’ll start my file with the name – LYING BASTARDS WALKING BACK THEIR BASTARD LIES.
Snappy, huh?
Indeed. A lot of things going on re Kanye, not the least the use of handlers in Hollywood.
Rockdoctor
Dark green for Gaia love and yellow for cowardice in failing to defend conservative values.
These are the colours of the Nationals and Annabelle will be no different to Stephanie Rice, Daniel Andrew’s willing Covid gopher.
Don’t let it worry you Mother Lode.
This morning I realised it is a form of virtue signalling, with extra sauce. And that sauce being not only am I more moral than you, you’re also going to die really horribly and really soon. Gloat gloat.
Your reasons are just that – reasons. Not excuses.
not really, treatments are available and are being ignored by tga, etc. this is criminal
Lode at 2.42:
That’s all very well – but you see, Nazi bar staff and boats.
I trust this has been instructive.
I remain confident that the gloaters will find themselves bitterly disappointed.
Roch ‘N’ Horse (J:J. Mott; T: M. Moroney; $23) defeats Nature Strip (J: J. McDonald; T: C. Waller; $1.80 fav) in the Group 1 $3 million Darley Champions Sprint (1200m) at Flemington. Everest winner Giga Kick (J: C.Williams; T: C. Douglas, $5.50) sweated up and was never in the race.
Zhengzhou Foxconn workers keep on fleeing and now China locks down area around ‘iPhone city’
Across the street from Foxconn employees, a human wall of special police in white hazmat suits is standing by. On some sections of the road, there are large trucks blocking the road, trying to intercept the workers. What would happen?
Facts are facts. Only the Sheep took the clot shot.
Suck it up.
Bathe in your virtue. But make sure it isn’t too deep. You might drown.
Old Ozzzie:
Until these queue jumpers are sent back to their home countries with what they had when they arrived there, the problem isn’t fixed.
And frankly if that requires calling out the armed forces of each nation – US, GB,Australia, Germany, France and all the others who are being invaded – as well as citizenship genetic tracing, then that’s what it will take.
We are talking about cultural genocide and invasion here and it’s about time we made our leaders ware of it.
U.S. Troops Now ON THE GROUND In Ukraine Admits Pentagon
The Jimmy Dore Show
Rafiki:
Those old chooks will have ’em sussed out in the first meeting.
The second meeting will have a report on exactly what they were doing ‘back home’, how many Yazidi slaves they had, and how many of them were raped by their husbands and sons. (Said sons, if they were old enough) would have been treated to, as the Koran states, the joys of ploughing the fields of these captive women and children.
We don’t want that kind of group thinking near our children.
The Victorian Liberal Party has unveiled a new campaign modelled entirely off CFMEU election posters which refer to Daniel Andrews as a “prick”.
The 15-second advertisement, to initially run on social media platforms, takes inspiration from the powerful construction union, which warned members that “Dan might be a prick, but he’s a prick who’s delivering for construction workers”.
The Liberal’s rendition includes footage of angry construction workers taking to the streets in their hi-vis in protest of lockdowns during 2021.
“Remember when we hit the streets to protest against Daniel Andrews world record lockdowns?” the advertisement states.
“Remember when Andrews forced us to get the jab or lose our jobs?
“Now even our own unions are admitting he’s a prick.
“Don’t let him get away with it. Put Labor last.”
The advertisement comes just a week after the CFMEU’s ad was plastered on social media.
Herald-Sun
Italy, September 2019
Dr. John Campbell
China in Focus – NTD
Former US Military Pilot Worked With Chinese Hacker; Intel, TSMC Exempt from Biden’s Microchip Ban
00:55 Former U.S. Military Pilot Worked with Chinese Hacker
02:41 Intel, TSMC Exempt from Biden’s Microchip Ban
04:31 Germany’s Scholz Makes Short Visit to Beijing
07:30 EU Foreign Policy Chief: China Getting More Assertive
08:09 Airbus Wins Order from China, Boeing Still Shut Out
09:16 U.A. FCC Commissioner Visits Taiwan to Discuss Cybersecurity, Telecoms
10:39 Tiktok Admits to Sharing European Data w/ China
11:22 European Lawmakers Visit Taiwan to Show Support
12:31 CBC Shutting Down Beijing News Bureau
13:26 Taiwan Needs Military Treaty with U.S.: Sloan
Notable that Dutton has gone on record saying the advice he received as Home Affairs Minister from several security agencies in 2019 in regard to the IS four women and their children whom Labor have repatriated is that they presented an unacceptable security risk to Australians.
What’s changed in three years except the government?
the manchurian president strikes again
Somehow I don’t see that one getting a run on Seven, Nine or Ten.
True though.
Alligator Blood (J: T. Clarke; T: Waterhouse-Bott; $6) wins the Group 1 $3 million Kennedy Champions Mile (1600m) at Flemington.
Is razey compliant?
Am I allowed to chat with him?
The Hun:
Oh righto. It’s not just me, then.
Ha! Next year looks like my Year of Volcanoes.
Iceland in June, then tucked in before the Northern Lights…a stop off in Rome, Naples and over to Sicily. Ten days of southern Italy.
Hope there isn’t an earth-shattering Kaboom while I’m there.
M’lud, I rest my case.
Flungduk:
It takes a lot of balls to do something like that, O Great Airborne Mallard, and there have been many here who displayed their moral courage.
But be aware the Brahmin Class bastards are trying to rewrite history – or at least their part in it.
Collect evidence, videos, news clips etc so when they do try and trot out “I was part of the Resistance” bullshit, you have something to show them.
I’ve started a file: “LYING BASTARDS WALKING BACK THEIR BASTARD LIES.”
Daily Mail.
Thank you, db. Too good an opportunity to pass by at that price.
Top story at Daily Mail Oz. posted for the benefit of his “fan” club. Like many here any news about this moron losing money is good news.
How Atlassian boss Mike Cannon-Brookes pays ZERO tax for his $53b company in Australia – while telling Aussies to drive electric cars and eat insects from his $100m mansion
Pauline Hanson accuses Aussie tech giant Atlassian of ripping off ‘taxpayers’
Atlassian pays no local company tax despite generating $1billion in revenue
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes uses his wealth to fund activism
He lives behind the walls of a $100million mansion and has large land holdings
Fucking hilarious.
The word walls of twisted logic and lies in an attempt to justify submission and failure.
Dover Beach, please ban Calli for what is a ‘Dad Level’ joke about Randwick race course.
Amen.
Facts.
1
You claim no one knew they should not have submitted because they didn’t hear of the plan?????
There was never a plan.
A plan was not needed.
It’s called doing what was right.
Yes. Yes, they do. Among various other possible fates …
Oi, KD – that’s “Planet Cornelius” to you, thanks Squire.
The monstrous useless bloated sack of protoplasm deserves his proper title, if nothing else.
Like drinks lined up on the Micklegate Bar, Rabz.
The ABC News app’s headline:
Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s clever ploy saved his life. But US politicians fear what’s to come
What was the “clever ploy”, you might be thinking. Well…
If you believe this story, you probably aren’t allowed to interact with strangers unmonitored because such credulous people are easily taken advantage of. So somehow this guy successfully broke into Fortress Pelosi in order to confront Nancy (who was, unsurprisingly, in DC) but encountered hubby instead and held him hostage with a hammer. But also was totally cool about letting him have an unsupervised bathroom break. The official account of what happened is laughably implausible.
However, if you thought picking up rough trade in San Francisco these days is entirely free from risk, the Paul Pelosi saga will disabuse you of this belief.
Second fact.
While attending supermarkets and corporations allowed to remain open, you let the tyrants tell you to stay away from your local cenotaph and not gather on Anzac day to pay your respects to those who served and sacrificed for the freedom you gave away with your submission.
Disobeying the unlawful communist government of Australia is a duty.
You owe it to the Anzacs.
But this action was horrifying to the skid marks of humanity here and was declared to be “inciting rebellion” and other such nonsense.
You can attempt to character assassinate the person speaking the truth all you want…..but as the days go by …..the truth is the truth…..and you fell at the first hurdle.
Some like KD are offended and frightened by anything other than compliance
And you claimed to be right wing!
Still stinking the place out I see St Ruth
Ahem …
Pure muscle memory, it seems.
Sacre bleu, FFS:
Rabz says:
October 30, 2022 at 8:35 pm
Nope. However, this does offend me:
You are no different to Liability Bob. Cloaking yourself in, and attempting to steal the glory of better men than you or I.
Find your own glory. Oh right. You tried that. It turned out to be all mouth, and no action aside from copy-paste protest songs and revolutionary motherhood statements.
Gallery cavoodle. Yip yip yip.
Old Ozzie:
https://www.scribd.com/document/605112786/Hjc-Staff-FBI-Report#download&from_embed
Thanks for the address.
I’ll spend a couple of days reading it – >1000 pages!
For clarity:
Don’t tell me what to do St. Ruth. Particularly on ANZAC Day, Mr ‘Socialism has sat me on my arse.’
St Ruth – just give it rest.
Blundering on here and abusing all and sundry, as you are prone to doing, is not a productive use of your time, let alone anybody else’s.
No one here is remotely happy about what we were subjected to over the last several years.
You are not some special personage, as much as you’d like to imagine you are.
So get off your high (stuffed) equine.
Enough.
Zaaki (J: J. Kah; T: A. Neasham, $8.50) wins the Group 1 $3 million Mackinnon (Champions) Stakes at Flemington.
What a champion. Good girl, Jamie.
Fact.
Mother lode may wish to know we are very real and in our millions.
And those millions stood their ground and lost everything.
While notafan flashed her good Nazi pass and went on holidays to Europe.
Note well that when I bring up this FACT…I am abused for doing so.
People who are now just complete filth in my eyes actually defend her.
And you wonder why I remind you about your deal with the devil.
He’ll be looking at collecting what is owed to him real soon.
Tick tick tick.
Donald Trump: ‘We’re Going To End Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s Political Career’
forbes
“…a stop off in Rome, Naples and over to Sicily. Ten days of southern Italy.”
Calli copy cat, lol.
I’ve already booked those, though I’m planning to go to Malta after Sicily then over to Spain.
Yip yip yip. 5 to 35 months, right?
Cats, the above statement bears no resemblance to reality, even coincidentally …
Are you catching the ferry Naples to Sicily?
Because you’re a fundamentally inadequate little nobody mouth frothing in the middle of nowhere about his many, many inadequacies?
Old Ozzie:
As above, the FBI/Justice Department:
This was Obama, “reaching across the aisle to reunify the nation.” That man was a monster and the damage he caused to Western Civilisation will take generations to repair – if it can be repaired.
Fuck off Rabz.
Here we have a moron…..an over emotional one that can’t keep it logical.
Claiming others let down the Anzacs by allowing tyrants to stop them gathering to remember them has nothing to do with me cloaking myself with them.
Anyone with half a brain can see that’s just total incoherent, illogical nonsense from an over emotional fuckwit.
Rabz I come here rarely these days.
A lot more rarely than you.
So how about you give it a rest.
Enough.
COP 26 highlights:
1) Europe switches from gas to coal as energy cost crisis deepens
Euro News, 3 November 2022
2) Coal was meant to be history. Instead, its use is soaring
Bloomberg, 4 November 2022
3) China is burning more coal than the rest of the world combined
The New York Times, 3 November 2022
4) Green Britain running out of money for nuclear energy funding
The Mirror, 4 November 2022
5) Britain faces worst squeeze on real incomes since WW2
Daily Mail, 4 November 2022
6) China’s cheap electric cars are flooding Europe’s markets
Bloomberg, 3 November 2022
7) Fracking ban driving up CO2 emissions as LNG imports increase
BBC News, 3 November 2022
8) Europe risks huge gas shortfall next summer, IEA warns (Fracking, anyone?)
The Wall Street Journal, 3 November 2022
9) Europe’s climate warming at twice rate of global average, claims WMO
Not A Lot Of People Know That, 4 November 2022
10) Rex Murphy: Energy crisis the inconvenient consequence of demonizing the oil and gas industry
National Post, 3 November 2022
St. Ruth, on the phone: ‘Hey, are you hosting Christmas this year?’
Every single member of St. Ruth’s family, one after the other in successive calls: ‘Ahhhh, no.’
Rabz dear. ..bluster all you like.
The truth is the truth.
I’m well aware you don’t want to hear it ……
That’s why it’s so important to keep saying it.
You’re little den of denialism is collapsing.
You can’t hold back the truth forever.
Ask Choo Choo…….oh…
Sounds like Larium? which was known for its ‘rages’.
It appears to have been Dark ‘N Stormy O’Clock for quite some time now.
It also appears to be the case that there’s nobody in Quenthland within rantshot.
It needs to do that AND prevent anything like it ever being pulled again AND make sure there are no ‘work arounds’ – in SA for example they used workplace regs etc to continue vax mandates in certain industries after the Emergency Dec ended.
Pointing out your irredeemable idiocy (again) is not bluster.
KD.
Who can’t keep a woman.
Learn this well.
Being a man is not being a boof-o Vicplod bully.
Going shopping before the crikkit comes on.
If the milk says Made in China, I’m not buying it.
Memes
Sad useless compliant c….nts.
Attacking those that did the right thing.
That nerve I touch is raw.
As it should be.
Indeed, I told both my state MP (Attorney General Josh Teague) and Federal ( Sharkie) that I knew they weren’t going to listen to my concerns, but I had now established a sufficient ‘message trail’ to damn them at some future Nuremberg trials.
Sharkies COS had a literal screaming fit at me over the phone when I said that, and Teague sent the police around.
Flak is always heaviest over the target 🙂
Zero-sum, hostage-taking games: What you need to know about COP27
More than 35,000 delegates are expected to attend the event in Egypt. For a year in which no major decisions are officially expected, it’s a substantial gathering.
World leaders will meet in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 6 for two weeks of climate negotiations as nations struggle to cut greenhouse gas emissions amid a global energy crisis, war in Europe and rising inflation.
Where is COP27?
The meetings are being held at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort town on the Red Sea coast. There are two main sites for the event: the Blue Zone and the Green Zone.
The Blue Zone, based at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre just south of the town centre, is where the official negotiations will be held. That space will be managed by the United Nations, and is subject to international law.
Across the road in the Peace Park Botanical Garden will be the Green Zone. That area will be run by the Egyptian government and will be open to the public.
What is COP27?
COP stands for Conference of the Parties, with “parties” referring to the 197 nations that agreed to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992.
The 197 parties, including the United States, ratified the treaty to address “dangerous human interference with the climate system” and stabilise levels of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
The UN climate body convenes those governments once a year to discuss how to address climate change together. This is the 27th time countries have gathered under the convention – hence, COP27.
What is the goal of COP27?
The ultimate goal of this year’s conference is in dispute. Wealthy countries want to focus on ways to help developing nations phase out fossil fuels and transition to renewable energy. Developing countries want a commitment on money they need to address the climate-fuelled disasters they are experiencing.
Specifically, poor countries want a new fund to pay for things such as relocating vulnerable villages or simply making up the economic growth lost to worsening floods, storms and heat waves. Industrialised nations, including the United States, have opposed a new fund in part because they fear being held legally liable for the increasing amount of damage caused by climate change.
This is the first climate summit in Africa since 2016. Many diplomats hoped it would be an “African COP” in focus as well as location, given that African nations face some of the worst effects of climate change.
Who will be at COP27?
More than 35,000 delegates are expected to attend the event, including US President Joe Biden and more than 100 heads of state, according to the UN climate body. That is smaller than last year’s summit in Glasgow, which brought together 120 world leaders and more than 40,000 registered participants. But for a year in which no major decisions are officially expected, it is still a substantial gathering.
Did countries do what they said they would do at COP26?
No. But some have begun to do so. The United States, for example, passed a law this year to invest $US370 billion to pivot the country away from fossil fuels and toward emissions-free energy such as wind, solar and nuclear power. It is expected to get the US close – though not all the way – to its target of cutting emissions at least 50 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025.
Who should pay for those and other costs, and how?
Those questions could spark intense debate at COP27.
You say that like it’s a bad thing. As it happens, I keep two*, of which neither are full time because a) I quite like doing my own thing, and b) I’ve been on that ride before.
Didn’t want to appear to be ‘that bloke’, but since you keep mentioning it you deserve an honest answer.
Sorry, porky. That line of attack’s not going to be a winner.
*Both home grown.
Barefoot and preggers in the kitchen …
You are a true Renaissance Man, St Ruth.
One of the last grate Romantics.
It was worse than that – they actively suppressed said treatments and criminalised Drs who spoke about them. AHPRA sent me a list of COVID crimes to respond to, including ‘the promotion of Ivermectin on social media’.
Nuremberg indeed
PS.. regarding amnesty – no way, not now, not ever!
Here, St. Ruth. Have an eclair.
Perhaps it will displace some of the inadequacy.
So am I.
10k of middling quality pre 1943 sterling silver Australian coins.
That’s our bet.
The Australian population won’t fall even 5% excluding immigration by then.
Less than three years and I get my loot.
No. The Beloved has no shame in expending Carbins. He wants to fly to Palermo.
some future Nuremberg trials
err, “trials”?
A public recitation of their many indisputable crimes before their summary execution will suffice.
Has the Indian Bar Association tried and executed Albert Bourla yet?
He’ll pay you off in Midnight Oil songs.
flyingduksays:
November 5, 2022 at 5:29 pm
Was one of the soldiers who had to take a malaria drug before going to Timor. He blames a particular female officer from the Army Malaria Unit. Says drug came from USA but modified here. Says he and many others had a bad reaction and that there is a class action in relation to it.
Sounds like Larium? which was known for its ‘rages’.
Probably a Dumb question, but why not HCQ which is what we, as a family, took when visiting my sister & Family in Port Morseby New Guinea in 1978, and no problems whatsoever?
Like spending two and a half years in a virtual prison, being treated like an untouchable and shunned by your family?
That sort of “attacking” oh, sanctimonious one?
Enough with your preposterous egomania, you obnoxious flatulent bore.
Go take a dump through a truck cabin floor in the middle of the grate sandy desert while listening to Slim Dusty cranked up to eleventy …
Blah blah … tyranny… blah blah Anzacs … blah blah … stand or fall … blah blah … delusional … blah blah … I loved that boat.
AccaDacca and S.A.S
Keep your eyes peeled for “S.A.S. Rogue Heroes”.
Something went wrong at the BBC.