The Temptation of Adam, Tintoretto, 1552
Mizzz Knickerless earned the money by her betrayal of Reynolds.
Open Thread – Tues 15 Nov 2022
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
- Bumtree #3
Don’t they realise that the “conversions” will be taken as real by the Mueslis? The girlies had better have their…
500 seats? Sounds Kirkupian.
Dreyfus and the Dept of Finance aren’t likely to want anyone taking too close an interest in that payment. Might…
Only the modern Tories could manage this.
I don’t think Trump will split the vote. He’s either the endorsed candidate, or he’s not, and he’s out.
If he concentrates on policies, and if Biden perseveres with Net Zero, the country will want Trump.
Biden, saying something sensible to actually lower tensions in the Ukraine/Russian war??
Poland missile ‘unlikely’ to have been fired from Russia, Biden says
US president says trajectory of missile suggests it was not launched by Russian forces waging war in Ukraine but will await results of investigation
Joe Biden has said the missile that landed in Poland, killing two people, was unlikely to have been fired from Russia due to its trajectory.
The US president was speaking at the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, after convening an emergency meeting of western leaders do discuss the explosion on Nato territory that has the potential to take the war in Ukraine into a new even more dangerous dimension.
Excellent news Lysander!
Thanks Monty (can’t believe I utter those words).
And thanks Liz. The numbers were pretty bad and I sent them to a respiratory doctor (who is my best friend) and he said “yup, almost a walking heart attack/stroke.” I’m happy to make a few lifestyle changes. Getting rid of ciggies forever fine. Getting of the Shiraz, just for a bit, that’s ok…
First order thinking : We must lock down to prevent wuhan lung rot killing people!!!
2nd order: What are the possible bad effects of doing so, and do they outweigh the benefits of locking down?
Answer is about here.
Europe faces ‘cancer epidemic’ after estimated 1m cases missed during Covid
Report says 100m screenings lost because of pandemic, which had ‘chilling effect’ on research
Experts have warned that Europe faces a “cancer epidemic” unless urgent action is taken to boost treatment and research, after an estimated 1m diagnoses were missed during the pandemic.
The impact of Covid-19 and the focus on it has exposed “weaknesses” in cancer health systems and in the cancer research landscape across the continent, which, if not addressed as a matter of urgency, will set back cancer outcomes by almost a decade, leading healthcare and scientific experts say.
…
“To emphasise the scale of this problem, we estimate that about 1m cancer diagnoses might have been missed across Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic,” they wrote in The Lancet Oncology. “There is emerging evidence that a higher proportion of patients are diagnosed with later cancer stages compared with pre-pandemic rates as a result of substantial delays in cancer diagnosis and treatment. This cancer stage shift will continue to stress European cancer systems for years to come.
“These issues will ultimately compromise survival and contribute to inferior quality of life for many European patients with cancer.”
The report analysed data and found clinicians saw 1.5 million fewer patients with cancer in the first year of the pandemic, with one in two patients with cancer not receiving surgery or chemotherapy in a timely manner. About 100m screenings were missed, and it is estimated that as many as 1 million European citizens may have an undiagnosed cancer as a result of the backlog.
Top…Men… did this… Top… Men…
Universities are ordered to go woke: Courses from computing to classics are told to ‘decolonise’ by degrees watchdog and teach about impact of colonialism and ‘white supremacy’
EXCLUSIVE: Universities are being told to ‘go woke’ and ‘decolonise’ courses
Quality Assurance Agency added critical race theory to its recommendations
It wants a range of courses to teach colonialism including ‘white supremacy’
You can never ever have too many American flags when you are making a speech in America.
Huge flags fly everywhere, especially above car sales yards, and little ones crop up all over the place.
The flag is something else to Americans. You have to understand this. It’s sacred.
National Review has published an editorial entitled No.
One of the largest flags is the single one flying on the corner part of Mar-a-Largo in front of the main house.
“Invasion Clause” Triggered In Texas As Migrants Overwhelm Border
Lysander says:
November 16, 2022 at 2:24 pm
Well Cats, it looks like you’re stuck with me for a little longer.
It’s a pleasure, not a chore. Good news – and I’ll bet those you did tell are also mighty relieved!!
yes but the ballots are what counts
So what? Let them do their worst, it will have no effect … because they’ve already done it.
Over and over and over again.
I’m hopeful that the Trump phoenix has truly risen.
No-one we’ve met, ordinerary voters Democrat or Republican, has seriously rejected his policies.
His policies produced a good result.
They all have negative views of Trump the Man though.
Time for this to change now?
ps Pelosi on Fox skit now, briefly.
If anyone thinks I look even remotely like that eighty-plus year old female, kill me now.
I think she gives older ladies a very bad name for face-lifts and bad skin.
I am looking older than I was even five years ago, but not like that bitter old overdone sourpuss.
Chat with the doc on the way in this morning.
Those purple scooter you see around in some towns etc, are awesome.
Feraldton has them and its resulted in 70+ more wrist fractures than normal for the year.
Also the ethics of placing them outside the pub/nightclub in town is being called into question.
People too pissed to drive being provided with a means to hurt themselves.
Slugs and Grubs or any other legal firm should be all over this like a rash.
Apparently they had one young pissed lady brought in unconscious with an “exploded” collarbone and all she was worried about was because her phone was flat she couldnt cancel the charging function on the scooter hire.
Lots of extra medical cases from this ‘green” idea.
Here Come “Programmable Dollars”: New York Fed And 12 Banking Giants Launch Digital Dollar Test
B-17 / P-63 collision preliminary analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C342dfNPCyg
He’s already bleeding support. Even Murdoch has publicly stated he won’t support him and many of his former cheer leaders have asked him not to run. He will split the vote with other candidates because Trump loyalists won’t vote for someone like DeSantis or whoever else is in the primaries. It would be far better if he went away so his supporters can forget about him and throw their support behind other candidates.
The very long list of Dr Norman Swan’s doomsday Covid predictions that he got WRONG as he is forced to admit a major mistake – so why IS a man who hasn’t practised medicine in 30 years promoted as the expert in everything by the ABC?
Daily Mail
Lysander says:
November 16, 2022 at 2:24 pm
Doc says heart markers aren’t great and, if not attended to, would definitely result in some sort of CVD event in the “near future.”
As anyone with a working understanding of statistical inference can attest, no predictive-risk model of CHD/CVD can provide anything more than educated guesswork about the probability of an unspecified adverse event occurring at some unspecified future time.
What does p=0.4 of event X at t=2yrs mean?
Depending on the applicable distribution, it might mean a 50% chance of X happening at ~21 months.
This would make sense if applied to a large population (1000s) of individuals in the same risk-stratum and age.
But it makes no sense at the individual level, where a discrete event cannot be predicted, with any reliability, from calculations based on a continuous distribution.
This, as well as a basic understanding of Bayesian inference, which relies on disease prevalence in a specific population group, should be taught in high school, and would provide people with the appropriate level of knowledge necessary for an appropriate skepticism of most of the BS published in medical journals.
I would just ensure some regular exercise and weight maintenance, thus optimising insulin release response to carbs, and thus fat deposition. Your genes will determine the magnitude of success.
Lastly, something (almost) no doctor ever mentions: these days most mature-aged people in the West will end up with either symptomatic CHD/CVD or cancer.
Just enjoy life and pick your poison…
Actually, I’ve seen several that could easily qualify but how can you be sure? One in particular was a great shock. Someone I worked with for years who suddenly just dropped dead. No prior illness or warning. Early 70s.
The sides are rapidly coalescing into Establishment Republicans backing DeSantis and the base sticking with Trump. I’d rather have my money on Trump in that fight, given how 2016 went down. I know that was six years ago but much the same internal party dynamics are in play.
There will be two lanes: the Trump lane and the Establishment lane. DeSantis will have to fight off the likes of Haley, Youngkin, Pence, Hawley, Cotton and a bunch of other losers who will drag him down. No one can challenge Trump in his own lane. No one is going to get to the right of him.
The only thing I could see screwing this for Trump is if Carlson declares. That would shake things up.
In The Signal and the Noise, Silver argues that the abuse of statistics has become so problematic that some are arguing it should not be taught. I think that is going too far but like yourself he is a strong advocate for Bayesian statistics. Long overdue, I even have a 1974 paper by Tversky and Kahneman arguing for the same!
McCloskey has written some damning articles on the abuse of statistical significance. She also has this wonderfully titled paper …
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Fisherian “Tests” in Biology, and Especially in Medicine
The Nation Review article is churlish and is full of false assertions. This is one for example:
“A lesson of the midterms was that association with Trump and “stop the steal” were liabilities, and no one is more associated with both of those things than Donald Trump himself” In fact, those candidates endorsed by, or associated with Trump at the mid terms, had more than a 90% success rate. I got the impression that the article was written in a hurry and before Trump announced his run. So it’s already old hat.
I watched Trump’s entire speech and thought he played it well. There was only one shock for me; that he would introduce the death penalty for dealing hard drugs. He quoted China and Singapore as countries that don’t have a drug problem and went on to say that one dealer on average is responsible for 400 deaths in the US. I’m not sure about the death penalty, not because I’m squeamish but I think there will be blow back from the religious and wokerati. And I don’t think trump needs more enemies. On the other hand it might be bait for the Democrats and the Media to slather over, rather than focus on his other policies.
Trump’s hair colour was less orange than before, so he looked less aggressive. His presentation was energizing and he looked and sounded like a man who will win.
m0ntysays:
November 16, 2022 at 2:44 pm
National Review has published an editorial entitled No.
To paraphrase Voltaire after he attended an orgy, once was an experiment, twice would be perverse.
Once of Creepy Joe is perverse enough.
Doesn’t your heart just bleed for the poor, hard done by widow?
thefrollickingmole says:
November 16, 2022 at 2:58 pm
Those purple scooter you see around in some towns etc, are awesome (for broken wrists).
I’ve mentioned previously that I ride an electric scooter (my own) and have been riding them for about 3 years or so. My scooter has substantial power and is capable of speed well in excess of the legal limit but having said that, they are an ‘acquired taste’ in many respects and are certainly dangerous for the foolhardy, even at slow speed. I often see people riding at inappropriate speeds (and accelerating) in circumstances that more experienced riders are well and truly backing off.
The Qld Govt have already reduced the speed limit for scooters on footpaths to 12km/h, and 25km/h elsewhere. I suspect the actions of a few will eventually see the footpath limit reduced further, maybe 8km/h in Brisbane CBD where they are especially prolific.
Trump will be out on his own but therein lies his problem. In the past he had solid media, public figure, and GOP members behind him. That’s rapidly vanishing. I think it is expecting too much of him to counter the emergence of so many enemies. They are enemies because they are not just dismissing him, they are often positively critical of him.
John H. says:
November 16, 2022 at 3:32 pm
Long overdue, I even have a 1974 paper by Tversky and Kahneman arguing for the same!
A famous paper, indeed!
Another great communicator on the misuse of medical stats is Dr Aseem Malhotra, who recently also “saw the light” in relation to COVID vaxxes…
his boyfriend works there?
Biden Asks Lame Duck Congress to Quickly Expedite Another $38 Billion for Ukraine Plus $9 Billion for Big Pharma
November 15, 2022 | Sundance
Wow. I didn’t know that.
Doc says heart markers aren’t great and, if not attended to, would definitely result in some sort of CVD event in the “near future.”
Lysander, I have just had a similar, depressing experience. After 3 years of Covid & no medical visits, GP wanted full blood count. All good except for total cholesterol – although the ratios of LDL/HDL et al all OK. This freaked her & she insisted on a Calcium Score. The latter showed some “calcification” of 2 arteries, which again freaked her out, although the risk assessment was “moderate”.
Cardiac opinion of issues of calcification seem varied. And the Calcium Score is a “risk assessment” only. Both parents lived to fair old age (even though one was a chain smoker until she died in her 80s), I get solid daily exercise on the farm, am not overweight and am in otherwise in good health as a result of a healthy diet and vitamin supplements.
Nevertheless, the GPs, with their forlorn faces & dedication to the herd beliefs, have the ability to convince you that you must see a cardiologist ASAP. Yet, I know damn well that the standard response will be to prescribe statins, which are highly controversial. Indeed, recently read an article which argues that there is scant data of acceptable effectiveness – certainly less than 10% improvement.
It seems people have already forgotten what Trump was up against in the Republican primaries of 2015-16.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
November 16, 2022 at 3:40 pm
Blanche d’Alpuget was a very successful writer and business woman in her own right. From all accounts she is an interesting and dynamic woman. She probably made more than Bob ever did even though he was PM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_d%27Alpuget
It will merely be a pro forma matter when ultimately they start announcing that Fluffy is the states First Cat.
Although, especially being California, it might also go under the guise of First Partner.
The anti-Trumpers won’t rest until he is no longer scaring them.
It’ll take more than DeSantis to fix the mess that the USA has become with decades of leftist chipping away at every foundation.
Alboesleazy is letting open slather import of fake LGBT’s to get permanent residence. Australia is a sick joke. ‘Gold Migration’ indeed.
Didn’t Blanche have a go at her own style of religion? I couldn’t help but be reminded of Stranger in a Strange Land, by Heinlein.
rickw, Juan Brown is clearly unhappy about the planning of the flight path for the airshow. I reckon I’d have everyone in formation at one speed just flying repeated ovals. Done right there would still always be aircraft flying past the crowd.
Ring the alarm boys, OZ Minerals (ASX:OZL) is in a trading halt pending the announcement of a change of control transaction.
And market speculation is already pointing to word of an agreed tie-up with the venerable old man of Australian mining BHP (ASX:BHP), which was callously knocked back by OZ in its attempts to secure the target for $25 a share (a tidy $8.4 billion) back in August.
The new deal would likely need to come in higher than that, with copper prices rising off positivity about China’s potential reopening from Covid and OZ’s shares trading at $26.30.
It is a level that suggest shareholders expect a larger payout for their stakes in the mid-tier copper miner, owner of the Prominent Hill and Carrapateena mines in South Australia’s Gawler Craton.
BHP has previously taken a hardline stance on calls from both OZ and analysts to present a more attractive offer, with Mike Henry again calling OZ “nice to have, not must have” at its AGM in Perth last week.
The deal would consolidate the major mines in that region for BHP, along with its giant Olympic Dam deposit, where it also produces gold and uranium.
It would also see BHP secure additional nickel feed for its BHP Nickel West business. OZ has approved the construction of the $1.7 billion West Musgrave nickel and copper project on WA’s border with South Australia.
A study on an extra step at West Musgrave, to produce mixed hydroxide precipitate for nickel sulphate battery suppliers, could be developed after the mine enters production in the latter stages of 2025.
The project would be one of the largest standalone nickel mines to be developed in WA, challenging Glencore’s Murrin Murrin and BHP’s Mt Keith operation for scale.
BHP has made copper and nickel the centrepiece of its plan to diversify from fossil fuels and bulks, even though iron ore and coal made make up the largest chunks of its earnings in FY22.
Comm Bank agrees however they say they won’t return the paper title we gave them as security at time of loan. They say that they will convert it to a digital title, whatever that is and that the Title Office (Vic) will hold it.
saw – yes, sadly that is true. Title Offices no longer produce the wonderful paper title deed of the past. I was mortified when we bought our last investment property – the first for which we were denied the official Title Deed.
He had a football team in front of him in 2016, and bowled them over like OJ Simpson. He revels in that stuff, particularly when his opposition is soft-shoed Establishment pantywaists.
Trump is going to bash DeSantis, and I suspect DeSantis is not going to play his game… until he realises that he has to, as he will be losing support among the base. By then it may be too late.
It’s not as if the media is going to suddenly wean themselves off the Trump story. He’s too good for clicks. How can the likes of Carlson turn on Trump after all this time? Pretty tough to square that circle, particularly when Trump has declared so early. Carlson was obviously waiting to see what the base’s reaction will be. We know everyone else is lined up against Trump, but that was true in 2016 as well and the base roared.
The problem for R in 2024 is how many working class voters can DeSantis get out in WI, MI or PA? The other problem for R is how many establishment R voters can Trump get out in AZ and NC? How much of a profile does DeSantis have with low turnout voters? Can Trump overcome negative profile with establishment R?
Counter to both questions is can R machine mitigate this by engaging in a well-run ballot collecting operation in these states?
Thanks for keeping us in the loop Lysander. My advice is the same as Gilas’, without the expert technical stuff. Enjoy every day to the max – but you’ll do that anyway.
That goes for the lot of you too, okay? 😀
Vicki, don’t go down that GP’s rabbit hole. Statins are useless unless you’ve had a heart attack. Even then the benefit may just be as a blood thinner. Take aspirin instead. Go read Dr Malcolm Kendrick.
Perhaps already posted;
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Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
You’re never going to guess who funded Together trial which concluded ivermectin was ineffective to treat COVID: Democrat donor Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt scam of a company FTX. Oh and Sam’s brother is the director of a non-profit called “Guarding Against Pandemics”.
https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1592597971727962113
What are your trigs and HDL, Vicki? Trigs low, HDL high is good. Of course HDL is added to LDL for total but via a weird little formula. Go figure.
Vicki,
I’m about to have a fight with my new GP who appears to be a real herd animal. I’m going to see if he has the courage to have his belief challenged and offer him a lend of my copy of the book below.
I will never take a statin ever again.
There are a number of books debunking the cholesterol myth. One I’d recommend is:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Great-Cholesterol-Malcolm-Kendrick/dp/1844546101
He also has a website that is well worth a read imho.
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/
Eyrie. snap.
Check out the NR covers for 2016, particularly Feb 15.
Thanks Vicki and Gilas
Firstly, Gilas – I don’t think there’s anything wrong with seeing some bad blood numbers and having a change of heart (so to speak). But I agree that much of it is beyond science at present. Family history, history and the way you’ve treated your body do count.
Vicki – No statins or anything like that recommended. Just a cut down in ciggies and a bit more exercise really, which never did anyone any harm…
These are for me, either way, benchmark figures now (never had them done before), we’ll see which way they go in 3 months.
What are your trigs and HDL, Vicki? Trigs low, HDL high is good.
Rubbish.
Low Triglycerides doesn’t matter, High Density Lipids/ LDL ratio is the important number.
Vicki, don’t go down that GP’s rabbit hole. Statins are useless unless you’ve had a heart attack. Even then the benefit may just be as a blood thinner. Take aspirin instead. Go read Dr Malcolm Kendrick.
Oh Eyrie! We are on the same page! I have read much of Malcolm Kendrick’s work – but he is regarded as a heretic by the medical profession. The trouble is – that it is not just the GPs who believe the statin rubbish. My husband has less arterial thickening than I do – yet his cardiologist prescribed statins (which he doesn’t take).
But we have seen during Covid how difficult it is to battle with the medicos. So much has been revealed in the last two years – particularly (& terrifyingly) in relation to the fraud perpetrated in lauded medical journals. But what do you do? I think the technical competence and advances in surgery are spectacular. But the pharmaceutical industry and it’s sinister influence?
You know there are at least two types of LDL? One of them is the problem.
Yes, trigs do matter. Low is good.
And not for the first time either.
On second thoughts, be like Larry.
He’s baaaaaack. And oranger. Feel the panic.
Dover
Counter to both questions is can R machine mitigate this by engaging in a well-run ballot collecting operation in these states?
unless the Repubs can either nobble or replicate the DemonRat electoral rorts, it will not matter who they run in 2024. The extended counts will always produce enough ballots, many, if not most, with no verifiable provenance, to beat someone playing the game fairly.
That’s very good advice, 2dergs.
Especially since the entire premise of the ad is based on a lie. None of those conversations ever remotely took place in any form whatsoever.
Except maybe the tuna and celery. That I can believe.
Counter to both questions is can R machine mitigate this by engaging in a well-run ballot collecting operation in these states?
The obvious answer is the correct answer.
Trump is a Democrat Trojan Horse.
Let’s say running Tshibaka against Murkowski was legit.
Okay, Tshibaka didn’t quite get there, the right thing to do, considering the peculiar Alaskan voting system, woulda been to endorse Murkowski.
What’s happened now is that the 4th place Republican, who endorsed Tshibaka and the Democrat will now get behind Tshibaka in the runoff and defeat Murkowski.
How long before Tshibaka patches over to the Democrats?
About 5 minutes after Trump loses 2024.
And she’ll still have 4 years of her term left and a D in the White House.
It seems people have already forgotten what Trump was up against in the Republican primaries of 2015-16.
Democrats won it for him in States with Open Primaries.
Yeah, the base love him, but the base were fooled by TR too, he ended up pulling the rug out from under Taft in 1912.
Groogs, have you left the lid off the chloroform again? Mother has told you about this.
I think the technical competence and advances in surgery are spectacular. But the pharmaceutical industry and it’s sinister influence?
They are good at plumbing. Chemistry, not so much.
Off topic, but relevant to Victorians.
In the past two days I have had to explain to three Aussie born and bred people in their 50’s and 60’s what vote preferences mean. All three thought that a candidate that they preference as One can give their preference to another candidate. I explained that the preferences that the voter puts on the ballot paper is what is counted. They were stunned. I kid you not. Literally millions of people out there don’t know how our preferential voting system works. God help us in Sicktoria in 10 days.
🙁
What again? Last time they did a whole issue. It got them so much flak and lost them so many subscribers that it sounds like they’re trying to sneak a limp editorial out there and hope the blowback isn’t too bad. Haha, good luck with that.
Tough but fair.
5th time lucky!
Lizzie:
Hahaha!
Do you know what changes I made after my transplant?
I bought better scotch.
Really.
That’s it. That is the only change I made.
Livestream of the NASA boondoggle rocket here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbX2VuOwJGk
Lets consider the States Trump won in 2016.
For the first time in living memory, the Democrat machine didn’t deliver for their candidate in Pennsylvania.
Similar in Michigan and Wisconsin.
2020 & 2022, back to the status quo.
How about that?
Literally millions of people out there don’t know how our preferential voting system works. God help us in Sicktoria in 10 days.
3 people equals millions?
Pull the other one, it plays Jingle Bells.
Bottom line:
Andrews has lost NewsCorp, he’s fucked.
realistically, we are in military coup territory
BTW, if this is how it goes over the next year, I doubt DeSantis will even run in 2024. I hope he doesn’t anyway. He should complete his net four years as FL Gov and run in 2028.
You know there are at least two types of LDL? One of them is the problem.
Yes, trigs do matter. Low is good.
Yes Eyrie – and my trigs are low. The only problem that I see, in my case, is the question of stress – which is not a good complement for a healthy heart. It is my weak spot. The millennial Drought, the subsequent Gosper fires, and now the floods (fences wiped out, though no loss of stock)- plus a strange series of adverse familial events – have reactivated my poor stress response.
It is annoying that the medical intervention is actually exacerbating the stress.
Good news Lysander. You know you will pay for being nice to Munty. I tried going off statins foe 2 weeks. Not good. Went back on them and felt a lot better.
If Trump sticks to this positive message, he’ll romp home in the primaries only to get smashed by the Democrat ballot harvesting machine in the Presidential election.
Biden/Fetterman 2024 – an unbackable winner!
(with Klaus Schwab the real power behind the throne)
Great news Lysander. See, only the good die young.
My doctor just gave the gravest news possible.
Stop eating chocolate.
So I had a farewell to chocolate last night with a Tim Tam orgy.
John H:
That’s a Big Fat Hairy Plus, John.
Murdochs name attached to Trumps is drag on Trump.
Good, maybe the Libs have an ovary thats transitioning towards a testicle.
Minor party candidate who called for Daniel Andrews to be hanged preferenced ahead of Labor by Liberals
In a Twitter post from July, Ms Spelman said the premier should be “arrested, tried, found guilty and hanged”.
Footage of an anti-lockdown rally earlier this year appears to show Ms Spelman saying “I want to say hang Dan Andrews … but I know that’s not allowed”.
The Liberals’ group voting ticket – how parties allocate preferences on behalf of voters who vote above the line on the upper house ballot paper – puts Ms Spelman in 13th spot out of 56 candidates.
Which seats are in play, who’s in the race when Victorians head to the polls? Check out Antony Green’s complete guide to the November 26 election.
Freedom Party candidates are placed behind Family First, UAP and the Liberal Democrats.
The ALP are placed dead last.
dover0beach says:
November 16, 2022 at 4:30 pm
Three U.S. officials told the @ap that preliminary assessments indicate the missile that struck Poland had been fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile.
That can’t be right Dover. Zelensky said it was the Russians. He said it was an attack on all Europe and Poland should consider invoking Article 5 of NATO. There were a lot of retired Generals and other experts also saying it was Russia.
It was on the TV and the ABC and news.com.au so it has to be correct ……..oh, wait……so now it wasn’t fired by Russia? Whew, that was close, from the way Zelensky was talking, I would have sworn be wanted NATO to get involved.
Ed case, get your hand off it.
We see the reason the right fails every time when we look at John H’s comments regarding Trump.
In the elitist GOP….he is considered a populist and so is he in the Democrats.
Like Australia these parties or “clubs” are no different to each other and work for the top end of town.
Which detest democracy.
The peasants are very revolting and they know better than these disgusting and dumb hords.
Trump is what they call a populist.
Which is the elites word for letting the people decide through democracy.
So the party won’t get behind Trump because they hate you.
De Santos can go for the top job later.
There needs to be a fight.
Who else?
Fuck the republican party.
They’ll be voting for a President not a party anyway.
It’s quite something how quickly the news claimed it was a Russian missile. This was the Sky News tweet this morning:
I wonder if Bolt will mouth off this evening saying exactly this having missed the updates.
What’s happened now is that the 4th place Republican, who endorsed Tshibaka and the Democrat will now get behind Tshibaka in the runoff and defeat Murkowski.
Actually crotchless, the demorat will support murkowski:
A large share of Chesbro voters are believed to have ranked Murkowski second, preferring her moderate position on abortion rights and willingness to work with Democrats.
How ironic; the demorat colludes with the RINO to defeat Trump’s choice.
Mem:
Not a shock for me – that would be a plus.
He’d be standing up for the parents of America who appear helpless against the onslaught of Chinese Narco Wars.
And it would enrage the Democrats who believe in the right of drug fucked Gangstas to target people who they see as ‘collateral’ in their war against America.
Get behind Trump in every verbal battle.
Get behind him all you can.
As I said..the fight against this disgusting globalist takeover attempt will take place in the USA.
It will effect the entire west.
Now is not the time to be worrying about fucking Murdoch or other dolts.
You don’t have a choice.
Do you see the Republican party up in arms about the Arizona steal?
No?
Why?
eat shit and die
Vicki – my trigs and non-HDL (and others) were way off the charts. There were more reds than the Barossa Valley….
No Kushner this time around. Huge!
Dopey channel 7 has the teaser for tonight’s “news”: were the Russians responsible for the missile strike on Poland?
Beneath contempt.
Re the missile, UKR would have known it was theirs but rather than let Duda know they milked it for PR purposes.
Seven doubles down: tensions flare as Russian made rocket crashes into Poland.
dover0beach says:
November 16, 2022 at 5:38 pm
It’s quite something how quickly the news claimed it was a Russian missile.
Indeed. But you know how it is – the MSM feed directly on the media releases of assorted ‘experts’. I was a little unsettled by Zelensky however. He was strident and really seems to want NATO involvement. He seems to have this vision of NATO forces sweeping across Ukraine and into Russia …… propelling Putin into obscurity (or the Hague, or death) and he (Zelensky) will emerge victorious from the Kremlin after a chastened Russian Republic has bowed to his omnipotence. It’s like a fairy tale – I wonder whether he has come to believe his own media releases.
Just looked at Trump. He has a healthy glow. He lives in Florida.
Take that! pasty faced bugmen. Reeeeeee!
Zipster:
It’s a horrid thought because looking at the Obama appointed General Milley, that may not be a safe pair of hands.
Then it really may be down to the Colonels to supervise the count.
The world is slowly. ..too fucking slowly….waking up to what is happening.
Maybe you might ask yourself WHY Trump has announced his run so soon.
What we do…Trump and the people. ..before rhe 2024 elections will be more important than the elections themselves.
The fight …..and the exposing of truths must be done way before the campaigns begin.
That’s why the Dems have been working so hard to co-opt the officer class and knobble the lower ranks through woke purity tests and Covid mandates. It’s been successful.
Erdogan did exactly this before he made his move – purged the military of Kemalists so that his takeover would not be knocked over by a coup, like al-Sisi did to Morsi in Egypt.
Unfortunately with the military, justice system, macroeconomics and health under the control of the Democrats there’s now no going back. It’s 1453 and Emperor Biden is fiddling while the barbarians are at the gates. I won’t say though what Biden is fiddling.
Actually it’s the opposite…. all* the traditional inputs to the cardiovascular risk algorithms (age weight, sugar profile, blood pressure etc) are, at best, indirect measures because NONE actually measure the presence of the disease itself
* I left cholesterol out because it IS NOT a risk factor at all – definitely re a d McKendrick and have Dover connect you with me if you want to discuss – I have had a calcium scan.
The calcium score, however, does actually demonstrate actual coronary disease because calcium is laid down inside the scars of the plaques themselves. There are plenty of people with high ‘risk factor’ scores but NO ACTUAL DISEASE, and vice versa.
Australian media doesn’t seem interested in the January 2022 huge Hunga Tonga explosion that launched water vapour, dust and gases way up into the upper atmosphere and (very likely) kick-started the amazing rainfall patterns we have been experiencing ever since.
Doesn’t suit the narrative.
Chris Kenny doesn’t quite know whether he’s Daytime Sky or Sky After Dark.
He’s (i) all in favour of The Voice, and (ii) ardently anti-Trump.
PS .. on way home now after 3 day post convoy trial in Canberra – decision reserved for a few days but hoping for acquits on all 4 charges. My defence shredded them and they didn’t lay a finger on us – their losing the body cam vision which exonerated me (flat battery – waddayagonna do?) was described as ‘curious’ by the judge when my own film was played instead. They made the mistake of presenting all 4 prosecution witnesses (3x AFP) with identical stories – which my own film refuted.
Great, now we have Muntster, Head Case, Sancho and John H. doing their best to denature the blog.
Excellent news Duk. Look forward to hearing you have been exonerated.
To be fair Sky News had a good article about it several weeks ago as I recall. But I wouldn’t call Sky a part of the Aussie MSM, at least not yet. The swampies at Newscorp are clearly trying to elastrate them though.
Hope all ends well for you Duk.
My pas-a-deux Trump line is
“no, he’s not a nice person… but, by God, he’s right about everything. Everything.”
Good stuff Dr Duk.
Can we look forward to a guest post summary of the incident, trial and aftermath?
flyingduk – did your case look Perry Masonish with the prosecution dealing all their cards only to be trumped at the last minute by your video, refuting said testimony?
(asking for a video maker friend)
Russian made rocket, eh?
Heheh, Channel 7.
The war is fake.
Yeah, I know, soldiers are getting killed.
It’s still a fake war.
I see both Elbow and Wendy Pong made fools of themselves today condemning the Russian missile attack on Poland before waiting for the real story. The country is in the very best of hands.
Duk, I’m so glad for you. Well done.
I recall that movie The Sum of All Fears. It wasn’t great but I loved the motive:
A rogue Nazi group, not affiliated with any country, is determined to pit US against Russia by blowing up a nuke in the US to “reset” the system.
Shit acting and terrible screenplay. The script really loses the plot but I thought it had a good start.
Great, now we have Muntster, Head Case, Sancho and John H. doing their best to denature the blog.
Huh?
Monty provided balanced coverage of the MidTerms, Sancho is The Plague and what has John H written, one way or the other?
Well well well…
https://nypost.com/2022/09/30/china-has-opened-police-stations-in-us-and-canada-to-monitor-chinese-citizens-report/amp/
Over 100 Chinese “police stations” opened in non-Chinese countries…
Duk, the pigs lost the evidence, huh? Seen that game played before. Saw a rape trial once where the pigs “lost” the original transcript of the complaint but the pig concerned swore that what she provided to the court later was word for word.
Lysander, the Tom Clancy novel had a much better plot line and bad guys. Changed for the movie, for the much worse.
My pas-a-deux Trump line is
“no, he’s not a nice person… but, by God, he’s right about everything. Everything.”
Trump had a mandate to build the wall. What did he do?
Nothing.
Trump promised to lock Hillary Clinton up. What did he do?
Nothing.
Trump promised to end the Wars and bring the boys home. What did he do?
Nothing.
Trump promised to bring the jobs back from China. What did he do?
Nothing.
Seeing a pattern here?
Trump is on the long game. He knows that between now and 2024 elections a lot will change. All it will take is for a couple of Governor swaps, after all there are deaths and resignations, and voting procedures could change as they did in Florida. Also given the trajectory Of Biden /Democrat policies and their impact on Americans as a whole he could wipe out much resistance. As he says he is there for America and the people.
Good work Duk. Get up those Keystone Kops.
The calcium score, however, does actually demonstrate actual coronary disease because calcium is laid down inside the scars of the plaques themselves. There are plenty of people with high ‘risk factor’ scores but NO ACTUAL DISEASE, and vice versa.
Thanks for that duk! I had read somewhere that the danger arises when the plaque breaks off for some reason……with the result of thrombosis (?)
I guess my next step would be to have an echo/stress test to assess blood flow through the two suspect arteries. My score, I think, was 160/400 – which apparently is regarded (with other factors?) as “moderate plaque burden” or an Intermediate Risk.
Thank you for the offer to discuss through Dover. I will take you up on that.
Absolutely. Each of the 4 prosecution witnesses went first in order. Each read their prepared script – in particular all the cones, flashing lights, traffic signs etc which I crashed through whilst deliberately charging at the road worker – each was asked if they had a good view, a clear recollection etc, and if they were SURE about their recall – then struggled to find even a single cone when shown my vision of the scene.
Fun fact, the driver of the AFP unit which just happened to be in the right place at the right time to ‘witness’ me crashing the mythical roadblock was, in an amazing coincidence, seconded to the COVID Taskforce at the time.
More in a few days.
Lysander says:
November 16, 2022 at 6:47 pm
I recall that movie The Sum of All Fears.
That was on TV (again) a few nights ago. Yeah, acting is ordinary but the premise is good. Had the potential to be a terrific film…..
Not quite – they lost the evidence of my innocence…. lucky I didnt
Duk good news. Why does the beak have to deliberate for 3 days when your video evidence refutes the prosecution as liars. Just another case that never should have got anywhere near a court. Do you get costs for a false accusation.
Re Dover’s questions above:
Trump is on the long game. He knows that between now and 2024 elections a lot will change. All it will take is for a couple of Governor swaps, after all there are deaths and resignations, and voting procedures could change as they did in Florida. Also given the downward trajectory Of Biden /Democrat policies and their impact on Americans as a whole, he could wipe out much resistance. As he says he is there for America and the people.
Just got a call from the local liberal candidates office.
Used my 18 minutes to politely give them a serve over Morrison’s and state liberals gutless response to covid, and their metoo climate crap.
Made it very clear I and my family hate Andrew’s stinking guts but liberals hadn’t done enough and they should have given more prominence to their commitment to overturn pandemic legislation and that metoo on solar panel rebates etc wasn’t ever going to give Victorians cheap reliable energy and what we really needed was more, cleaner, coal power.
Let them know I’d voted minor parties and if they were lucky they might pick up preferences.
If you show they are obviously lying, can you sue them? These scum need to be punished back to the stone age.
It’s obvious corruption. The police have conspired to pervert the course of justice.
What does the Beak do? No wonder they need three days.
Not only conspiracy, but lying under oath.
Big trouble in little canberra.
“In the past he had solid media, public figure, and GOP members behind him. “
When? I’ll tell you when….NEVER. Donald Trump never had solid media, public figures and GOP establishment members behind him, not in 2016, not in 2022. Trump has always been the outsider.
They made the mistake of presenting all 4 prosecution witnesses (3x AFP) with identical stories – which my own film refuted.
Ima gunna top you there..
Friends brother went whackerdoodle off his meds mad and broke into his dads place before shooting a lady across the road.
Cops attended and arrested/took away for questioning the dead ladies husband and son.
Few hors later they are driving down the street and wonder if they might want to question the naked man trying to chop his way back into the house with a carving knife 3 doors down and across the street from the shooting.
Easiest case on earth right?
Except for the cops catching the lady sergeant arranging the evidence to make it more “compelling” in their own filming of the mad chaps crime scene.
Judge noted it for its irregularity and breach of good procedure.
Chap was obviously guilty, but mad as a hatter.
Chap was obviously barking mad, diagnosed mental ill before, off his meds and drunk/incoherent.
But he shot the lady a few months after Port Arthur so was found to be sane and sent to prison.
Where he chopped off his dick, became a lady only to change his mind a couple of years later.
So to be a bummer, your crime is political, so may need a political verdict despite police malfeasance.
My lawyer says it’s standard. Judge will give a comprehensive written judgement to avoid AFP appealing.
Assuming I get the win, I get part costs.
Nothing corrupt in the AFP evidence you understand … the judge labelled it ‘curious’ not corrupt.
He’s Back, President Donald J Trump Officially Declares His Candidacy to Run for President in 2024
November 16, 2022 – Sundance
I have written and deleted a thousand words, repeatedly, in an effort to encapsulate what this moment means to me, and perhaps to others. However, when you boil the essence of the thing down to its important part,
you are left with a question: Which American politician loves this country more than Donald John Trump?
The honest answer is ‘no one’.
There’s not a force of man or nature as strong in its devotion to a mission, as Donald Trump is to this nation. That’s the core, the heart, the genuine essence of the thing, that separates President Trump from all others. Within that love of country, is a strength of determination that is almost uncanny to witness; and from that love of country an authenticity emanates that is impossible to duplicate.
Donald J Trump is, quite simply, unapologetically American – and tens of millions just love him for it.
Tonight, with his family by his side, President Donald Trump announced his intention to seek the GOP nomination in 2024 and run for President of the United States.
Yes, I don’t give a flying flip what any detractor of this nation might try to say, Donald Trump is exactly what we need.
Many people are exhausted from the battle to save this republic. Many people are frustrated and despondent from the scale of the effort it takes to push back against the metastatic corruption that has infected our entire body politic.
Even more people are tired of having to constantly look behind the duplicitous motives and conniving schemes of the professional political class, and for those people Trump kneels and says, ‘get on my back and rest for a moment’.
Additionally, President Trump purged the conniving DeceptiCons, the duplicitous Republicans who existed to maintain the UniParty, by forcing the GOPe liars to expose themselves in his opposition. No longer is a conversation needed to convince people that most politicians are part of one DC UniParty apparatus. Two wings of the same corrupt vulture feeding on the carcass of our republic. Everyone can see that now, thanks to Donald Trump.
Despite their refusal to accept reality, the Bush, Cheney, McConnell, McCain, Romney Republican Party is gone. Donald Trump destroyed it. The Republican Party will never again be the Bush-Romney Republican Party. Donald Trump opened the door, and the working-class has moved in to take control. The Republican party is not going back to the Bush/Romney outlook, regardless of how much Mitch McConnell tries to scheme its return.
We need a Big Ugly wrecking ball to unseat the corrupt power structures that Trump alone made visible.
There is no other person in this era of our nation’s history with the capacity to do that. Only Donald J Trump has the energy and fortitude to carry out this fight.
I would not miss this opportunity for anything.
I’m all in.
Donald Trump’s Announcement Speech for 2024 Strikes the Right Tone
Donald Trump Announces 2024 Run for President: ‘America’s Comeback Starts Right Now’
Please do, there are a lot of inconsistencies in the standard narrative. I had several ‘supra maximal’ stress echo’s which I requested t o assess baseline risk (despite no sympt). I then fought for a calcium score which showed a single 60% block and a a score of 18.
Cardiologist went ‘statins’ – I said no thanks – its probably old scarring from before I went carnivore (I used to have high BP) and will repeat as t in a year.
Trawl through Ivor Cummins stuff o n youtube..
Trump-Backed Kevin Kiley Puts Republicans over Top to House Majority as Number 218
Joe Biden Stages 30-Second Photo-Op Responding to Explosion in Poland
President Joe Biden gathered with world leaders at the G20 summit in Indonesia on Wednesday for a special roundtable meeting to respond to the deadly explosions that took place in Poland.
The White House brought in members of the media for access to the meeting, attempting to demonstrate that Biden was in control and leading the global response to the crisis.
Poland said a Russian-made missile fell in the country, killing two people, according to the Associated Press.
The hastily organized roundtable meeting at the location of the G20 summit was announced in response to the news, and the media was organized to mark the occasion.
While the press expected Biden to address the crisis, he did not, simply staring into the cameras for about 30 seconds before his handlers asked the press to leave.
When one reporter asked the president if he could reveal what he had learned about the explosions,
Biden replied simply, “No.”
No other comments
Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich speculated that Biden might have been unaware that he was expected to speak.
If Trump was no longer a threat to the establishment, then I assume he would have been unbanned from everything ages ago.
If he’s allowed back into the mainstream over the next week as if nothing has happened since 2015, then we’ll know for sure that they no longer fear him, that he’s a spent force, and they want him back as a spoiler to ruin everything for someone like Desantis.
I can’t see much of that happening, so I would assume Trump still scares the shit out of his enemies on the left and the right.
Bolt characterises Trump’s speech as flat and rambling. Has Bolt ever listened to himself?
Well done – I won’t go into the ins-and-outs of a duck’s intestines as to my attempts to get a Director’s ID but I’ve had to complete a paper form, I’ve also sworn a statutory declaration which will accompany said form and with fingers-crossed am hoping for a Director’s ID in due course.
Lotsa chatter in MAGA circles of Trump starting a new political party.
It’s always wise to wait 48 hours after Trump says/does anything before you think you understand what he just said/did.
How to cut off your nose to spite your face. It’s a term little used these days. But, if your highest priority is to get rid of Andrews vote for the Libs. I know, hold your nose but it is the reality. Split your vote and it helps Andrews. Vote strategically and not with your heart. I’m not much enamored of the Libs but we need to get rid of this thug.
Quite
FTX gave $2+ million to the Republicans in laundromat Ukraine aid.
Are these people stupid?
Trump isn’t running for the Presidency.
No Republican can win the Presidency.
He’s running to fix the Republican Party.
I suspect a little revenge may be in it too.
Which I wholeheartedly support 100%.
We could do with this for the Liberals.
Photios, Kean, Turnbull and likewise.
“Bolt characterises Trump’s speech as flat and rambling. Has Bolt ever listened to himself?”
Blot is a strange man.
Tonight on Sky, all in a row, Kenny, Credlin and Blot have all dumped on Trump. I’ll wait for Rowan at 9.00 p.m.
Wally Dalísays:
November 16, 2022 at 6:39 pm
My pas-a-deux Trump line is
“no, he’s not a nice person… but, by God, he’s right about everything. Everything.”
If being a “nice person” is a selection criterion, then that excludes Bill Clinton, Obama and Biden from the recent presidents, and also McCain, Shrillary and AlGore from among the recent hopefuls.
Would lady Cats care to comment on Melania’s outfit today
From a movie or was it Jackie O ?
Lady Cats please assist
Eyriesays:
November 16, 2022 at 6:44 pm
I see both Elbow and Wendy Pong made fools of themselves today condemning the Russian missile attack on Poland before waiting for the real story. The country is in the very best of hands.
There’s a song about that, from the film version of the L’il Abner comic strip of the 1950s/1960s.
Ed Casesays:
November 16, 2022 at 6:47 pm
Great, now we have Muntster, Head Case, Sancho and John H. doing their best to denature the blog.
Huh?
Monty provided balanced coverage of the MidTerms,
ROFLMAO.
I don’t really rate Blot as a journalist- he is hopeless on TV. He does however, like Rinehrart and the IPA, send the Left into apoplexy. For this reason he should be supported.
Bolt should be deported back to Holland.
He’s a colossal waste of space.
Asking again at the top of the thread
Would lady Cats care to comment on Melania’s outfit today
From a movie or was it Jackie O ?
Lady Cats please assist
I’ve got no complaints – half hour waiting on the phone, fifteen minutes talking to a human being, a couple of questions, job done.
Credlins Dirt on Dan is paywalled.
Free on regional sky
Still nothing from m0nty-fa about the blatant DemonRat suppression of GOP voters in Arizona (Maricopa County). I wonder why?
He does however, like Rinehrart and the IPA, send the Left into apoplexy. For this reason he should be supported.
Bolt is a shill, likely a Spook too.
Last week he was attacking some Labor candidate who bought a Certificate of Aboriginality [titter].
He did that by introducing Michael Mansell as an expert on being Aboriginal.
Yet it wasn’t so many years ago that Mansell himself was in Bolt’s firing line as a fake [Tasmanian] Aborigine.
At least Donald doesn’t have a lisp.
Phrasing!
You misread me perhaps because you didn’t read my comment in the context of what I said yesterday immediately after I voted. Just because I made no clear indication to friend on the phone doesn’t mean I preferenced dropkick Dan or any other loonies lefties.
I put DLP and lib dems ahead of liberals in the lower house but Labor greens and animal justice made the bottom three in that order.
In the upper house I followed the DLP htv card, Bernie Finn now runs DLP and has put greens last Labor second last.
DLP candidates/website
Eyrie 1 08 pm
Loud mouthed Balt here – correct – if your population murdered, raped, pushed down for 100s of years – then yeah give it back to them.
Lithuania Poland and Ukraine formed a peaceful empire while rest of Europe was in the dark ages.
Lithuania was the first to establish independence from the USSR in 1991.
Your not the pretentious proddie Gough Whitlam?
Those bastard bolts who don’t vote Labor, they also infected the Vietnamese who were the bastard bolts of South East Asia.
Fudge that wanka Wong on tv pontificating about saving the world from China
Battle of Jutland
Can anyone recommend the most accurate and comprehensive book on this?
Need to know the details, but have limited time.
Thanks
Our street bins have directions telling you what sort of item you can chuck in – food or recyclable.
Sign on LA Airport bin “No Scavenging”,.
Gagging for war.
Bannon Demands Arizona Refuse To Certify Election After Massive Election Errors Discovered
Yeah, the winner is going to stop the certification. And pigs will fly.
Indonesia Is Getting $20 Billion to Dump Coal
A plea to anyone voting in Victoria: apart from the bleeding obvious (i.e. get rid of Dan), please use your preferences to consign his staunch ally Queen Skank Patten to political oblivion.
Relationship Among FTX, Ukraine, and Democrats Sparks Speculation
Listening again to Trump remarks at West Palm Beach this morning
He really did a wrap of everything that has happened, and lotsa hints about how he will be around with the solutions.
I stand by my prediction that Trump will be President before January 31st 2023
I could be wrong of course. And I will take your critical posts of me in your posts at that time, if it happens.
Preaching to the choir
Winston, you’re definitely on thecright track there. I’ll join you.
Good luck duk, I bet your lawyer had fun too.
Well, that was horrifying. Hunchback really is a piece of shit. He needs to go.
Small beer in the overall scheme of things.
Unless you’re a tax payer in a donor nation watching your standard of living decline by the month.
“Jutland 1916” – It may be written by John Jellicoe’s grandson, but it’s based on the latest research, and it’s quite a balanced look at the decisions made on both sides.
Boambee John, yes the sentence was deliberate.
Stephen Miller
@StephenM
We now live in a country where it’s easier to get chemical castration drugs than Ivermectin.
Custard,
Why wait?
You are wrong on technicalities for this to happen.
Now think about it.
Gen Z broke to Fetterwoman by a margin of 46%.
They also recently in a survey by psychologists in the US self reported mental illness to the tune of 42% of respondents.
Totally coincidental I’m sure.
FWIW, The History Channel covered his book with some original footage.
Quite good really.
He assured in his speech that he will/is draining the swamp/administration state
This will get them screeching…from The Oz….
Gina Rinehart spotted at Donald Trump US presidential campaign launch
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has been outed as an attendee of Donald Trump’s latest presidential campaign launch courtesy of an inadvertent social media post by Eric Trump.
Mrs Rinehart, wearing her signature pearl necklace, is seated behind Eric Trump and his wife, Lara, in a selfie posted to Instagram by the former US president’s third son.
Donald Trump earlier on Wednesday used an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida to confirm he would run for president in 2024.
The iron ore magnate, who is estimated to be worth $US21.9bn ($32.4bn), appeared to have secured a prime position for herself at the launch, given her proximity to Eric Trump.
And while the most proximal seats at such events will typically be reserved for key financial backers, US laws prevent foreign nationals from making any kind of contribution or donation in connection with any federal, state or local election.
Mrs Rinehart has long had a close association with the conservative side of politics and has previously praised Mr Trump.
In a statement posted to the website of her company Hancock Prospecting shortly before Mr Trump was sworn in as president, titled “Gina Rinehart: Donald Trump shows us the way to succeed”, she praised his plans to reduce government tape and taxation. She also said at the time that she had met members of Mr Trump’s campaign team, including former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and campaign manager Kellyanne Conway.
In Australia, Mrs Rinehart has long been a champion for the likes of former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce and speaking out against climate change “propaganda”. Her private companies have also recruited several former Liberal Party figures after they have left parliament.
During the most recent federal election campaign, Mrs Rinehart agreed to speak at a fundraiser being held by members of the WA Liberal Party’s Curtin division. The event caused divisions within the party – the Liberal incumbent in Curtin at the time, Celia Hammond, was in a fierce and ultimately unsuccessful battle with teal independent Kate Chaney – and was ultimately cancelled in response to the state’s growing Covid outbreak.
Hancock Prospecting was contacted for comment.
Lucky Gina.
Louis Litt, I’m not the least bit interested in your memories of historical alleged wrongs. I’m interested in not provoking a wider war. I don’t care if your bit of Europe ends up as cratered wasteland, just don’t involve the rest of us. Idiot Euros have memories that are far too long.
Last night he said he is yet to decide between 2 great Presidential candidates – Trump and de Santis.
Only paper ballots Election Day,
“Last night he said he is yet to decide between 2 great Presidential candidates – Trump and de Santis.”
Correct, he praised both, unlike Kenny, Credlin and Blot, he refused to join the pile on of Trump.
LOL Indolent not a shot at you but more directed at those who brokered this deal.
Any for anyone who actually believes that part of the world will actually implement let alone dodgy provincial chiefs after receiving money with a smile, then I have a nice used but well maintained bridge for sale…
Indo actually has some good Tertiary forearc basin coals.
Good to hear Duk.
Pity the magistrate doesn’t have the balls to charge the lying swine with the obvious offences.
I have just been in Canberra for my daughter’s wedding.
Not been there since 2009.
It is just such an obvious black hole to the poor taxpayers’ taxes.
it has declined under local administration.
Visited parliament house – “it is your parliament house” much like it is “your ABC.”
A large copy of the Magna Carta needs to be nailed to the front door of parliament.
From up on Mt Stromlo, the development around Woden is visible and ugly.
Why is it that every green problem is always somewhere other than where they actually live.
The great Mark Steyn has a piece called Trump and his pomp.
The final paragraph:
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LOL.
Indo believes in climate fairies about as much as China does, seeing that they’re the biggest exporter of coal to China by far. When the Chinks became pissed off with us who do’ya think they went and talked with?
But Indo will cheerfully accept $20 big ones from the kafirs and nod, yes yes. Then once it’s gone they will sorrowfully say that cannot do anything more until they get another $20 billion. Of course they also will say ja ja to the Chinks. Taqiyya works just fine with the Han as with the roundeye.
Indolentsays:
November 16, 2022 at 8:25 pm…….Indonesia $20bill. for renewables?..yeah nah…the only renewables that will work are steam from volcanos or hot pools. Not enough sunshine in the west season for solar and to the best of my thinking theres a big new coal fired station being built in central Java ,…by the Chinese.
Just looked at the Oz front page, true to form, that dribbling, fellating mediocrity Greg Sheridan has written yet another piece bagging Trump.
It isn’t Trump who’s despicable. It is Greg Sheridan.
..
Re: the Jutland query above.
The Absolute Truth Interview With : General Thomas Mcinerney – (Ret.) USAF Lt.
And leave your Euro disputes there when you come to live in Australia.
Given Blot’s troubles on matters aboriginal, the choice of a professional Aboriginal with established market acceptance like Mansell makes perfect sense. Why make it harder than it needs to be?
I notice that when he met Xi Albo raised the matter of an Australian journo languishing in a Chinese prison.
But another, better known case seems to have been sent to the memory hole. Julian Assange not mentioned in the meeting with Joe.
You forgot the fingers Cohenite.
Never forget the fingers.
Purple is hot now.