Canvassing for Votes, William Hogarth, 1755
Former Malaysian PM Mahathir faces anti-graft probe Couldn’t happen to a nicer bloke..
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Amazing cleaned up WW1 footage on ABC .In full colour.
Series indeed, Bruce- JR, “Rommel? / Gunner Who?” is in there too
Columbia Switches To Online Classes So Jewish Students Can Participate From The Attics Where They Are Hiding https://babylonbee.com/news/columbia-switches-to-online-classes-so-jewish-students-can-participate-from-the-attics-where-they-are-hiding I usually…
The other day the ASIO or AFP chief doughnut eater said that there had been Christian terrorism in Australia. Can…
Kirsch wants us to believe 1.4 million Americans died of the vaccine?
Totally believable.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she is “angry” and “disappointed” at the Queensland Resources Council over an expensive advertising campaign against coal royalty hikes, and won’t attend a QRC lunch on Wednesday.
This is why we can’t get roads repaired
The Albanese government has tipped another $500 million into the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to establish a new sub-fund to commercialise and scale up technologies designed to cut emissions.
Oops another JC triggering just occurred.
Just can’t help himself and refuses to scroll. Yet will blame others for the constant stoushes that by sheer co-incidence seem to involve him and multiple others. Obviously it is never his fault.
We should be paying China ‘climate’ reparations.
What did we do, exactly?
Former Labor MP Michael Danby says he would not be giving Beijing a dollar in climate reparations funding and it’s a “mistake” for Australia to lead the charge for the debate.
another Andrew
[email protected]< < < Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she …. won’t attend a … lunch on Wednesday. > > >
Crikey, wasn’t expected that from her, the woman has iron willpower.
The minerals council members may be able to pay the new royalties with the money they saved when the Premier skipped lunch.
Just had a low-loader negotiate its way along the street in front of the pub. Lotsa amber flashing lights & lotsa police cars.
My tractor recognition is a bit rusty, but if I had to, I’d say the load may have been a D11.
Even a couple of road trains full of cattle were asked to wait at the end of the street for the load to pass.
Now he’s pubbling and rooster reckons if people mock him (rooster) they must be triggered.
Meanwhile, Rooster misinterprets what triggered means. It doesn’t mean what he thinks it does.
Lotsa, cos, such cute little shortcuts by motel employee. Lotsa… fmd.
Meanwhile in Qatar. German team had a photo taken where they are all covering their mouth.
Former Danish PM wears rainbow outfit for her country’s World Cup clash with Tunisia after their captain was warned he would get a one-match ban if he wore OneLove armband
Helle Thorning-Schmidt claimed that captain threatened with ban for armband
She sported a blue dress with rainbow sleeves to watch the game from stands
Came day after she posted on Instagram wearing the OneLove armband
But FA and six other associations decided against players sporting it after Fifa said it contravened rules on political symbols
However Fifa has instructed stadium security to let fans wear rainbow symbols
Lives in London. She’s Neil Kinnock’s daughter-in-law.
She’s the blonde slapper seated between Barack Obama & David Cameron, and all three laughed & joked all through Nelson Mandela’s memorial service, while taking multiple selfies with each other.
Qatar could do us all a favour by slinging her into the calaboose for a few days on a diet of dried dates & tepid water.
Lotsa, cos.
He’s pretending he’s above it all now. The psychopath.
Wow, just had a truckie pop in for a shower.
Now he’s clean, freshed up, & on the road again.
Little things like this make the day worthwhile.
He was carrying general, not cattle (those fellers don’t stop – coz through the night is an excellent time to shift cattle)
Lotsa cattle
We have a zealously over-regulated labor market, the highest minimum wage rates in the world, a completely rooted energy market and.. and
The only problem with wishing the Albanian would win this is that small business is going to be impacted badly because I have no love for woke big business.
These lunatics in government have absolutely no idea how economies work. They plunder the energy markets over a religious cause raising the very real possibility energy costs will rise 85% next year and they’re now causing anguish in a labor market while the RBA is tightening monetary policy. The RBA head pleads with them to rethink the whole thing and they threaten him.
It’s shaping up to be a decent couple of years.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Peter Brookes.
Matt Pritchett.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks, Tom. Some convincing turkeys.
You know, he’s absolutely freaking brilliant as a CEO. The midget Irishman is bedazzling in how he runs Qantas. He’s the best there is in the world.
He’s an arsehole in every which way but boy he knows how the run planes around in the air. He’s absolutely masterful at knowing just how far he can push his customers without them going elsewhere. It’s a art and he’s a grand master.
Qantas, now is the 10th largest airline in the world by market capitalization as its absolutely spewing cash by the bucket-load. He’s retiring soon and if the airline ends up with someone half as good they will do fine.
Considering the size of airlines around the world, it’s an incredible accomplishment.
The little bastard is pushing out profit upgrades because he hopes to push the stock price up as much as he can because he’s retiring soon and vesting in the stock.
The guy runs that place with a trader-like mentality.
Good news about Qantas
Now $6.18.
One of my son’s mates bought a very little parcel of Qantas after I mentioned I have a few. Think he paid $4.50 and I was a little worried he’d taken my advice.
Not so much
Forrest and Kirsch are proof even billionaires can be compete morons.
$275
The CSIRO have said it’s something like $500 billion to get all of the renewable transmission out there in the countryside.”
Noticed on a map yesterday that a stretch of the road outside Sydney Domestic is now named ‘Joyce Drive’ – could at least have waited until he’d retired…
Can’t wait for the aesthetics.
That’s still absolutely appalling.
Every Australian home could have a Tesla Powerwall for that.
If it were true.
This fuckhead would’ve been very comfortable in a Nazi uniform serving Adolf. He’s an absolute C.
It is probably true.
A conversation at work between two other male colleagues revealed we all know someone who was 40 – 60 who died suddenly in the last year.
I don’t remember this happening before 2021.
Funny how this doesn’t seem to happen to pure bloods and half blood princes such as myself.
This is a new term.
“stochastic terrorism”
How about
“stochastic fakenews”
Fatal or just damaged, any amount above zero is appalling, given it was coerced into people.
People’s ability to make a personal cost vs benefit analysis was removed, so it needed to be 100% safe and effective. It was clearly on the other end of the spectrum.
It is totally bizarre.
1. Quick guys, let’s all do what this German weirdo says.
2. Let’s take everything the Pfizer CEO says at face value.
3. Let’s get rich by meddling in a former Russian client state.
Normal people don’t come up with these ideas.
Dot, I’m not doubting the danger of the Vax as I simply don’t know. If 96% of Australian adults have been vaxxed, then wouldn’t folks just tipping over deadsky tend to favor the vaxxed side of the ledger?
Here’s the stats showing vaxxed numbers in oz
And I know you’re smart enough to know this too. 🙂
IIRC 3/5 people who kidnapped Gretchen Whitmer were glowies playing Fed games.
Yes those totally reliable Australian vaccination rates.
I get it, JC.
Oh Okay, you’re taking that angle, Dot.
You don’t believe the vax rates. Fair enough.
I’m speechless. I used to think the Western left cared about living standards at least a little bit. They don’t. They’re now on a impoverishment drive. The Western left wants to precipitously lower living standards.
Read the whole thing. It’s satanic.
I don’t believe the vaccination rates.
You would have been a fool to believe Bourla’s antiscientific lies about making a 100% effective immunisation drug.
The vaccines had a terrible safety and efficacy profile. They should have never of been coerced onto us, especially with the data.
Some of the deaths were from insisting on vaccinating dying people as well – such a pitiful waste of resources.
Unvaccinated people and people who didn’t get Pfizer or AZ tended to have better outcomes – like not “dying suddenly”, regardless of pre existing conditions.
Dot
It’s all good because your view would only work in a world where they’re lying about the vax rate. I wouldn’t put it past them, so it’s fine.
Perfidious be careful driving there, even if not suddenly brakinf there’s a great chance of being rear-ended
Saturday night should be interesting:
Exit polling conducted for one of the challengers in Premier Daniel Andrews’ seat of Mulgrave suggests there could be a shock upset.
Ian Cook’s campaign manager Emily Coltraine on Wednesday said that independent exit polling done at Mulgrave’s only early voting station last Saturday and on Monday showed Mr Andrews is at risk of losing the seat he has held since 2002.
With preferences factored in, a sample of 159 voters had Mr Cook on 57.2 per cent lead and the Premier on 42.8 per cent, she said.
“Exit polling is the best kind of polling. They are real people who have just voted,” Ms Coltraine said. “These figures seem to reflect what we are seeing on the streets.
“Over the last 13 weeks we have seen a growing chorus of Mulgrave voters saying they cannot face four more years with Andrews as Premier and their local member.
“We are also seeing Labor voters coming up to Ian saying they support Labor but can’t bring themselves to vote for Andrews after everything he has done.”
Herald-Sun
To understand the seriousness of what this satanic agency is proposing (EPA or Evil Personified Agency) :
Get a load of current petrol etc taxes in the US
Round it up to 20 cents a gallon.
A gallon of gasoline is currently is around 3.60 a gallon around the country
They want to raise petrol prices to 10 bucks a gallon US. This doesn’t take into account heating and cooling homes etc.
That would be wonderful result, Ender. Second best, but still really good.
These people are insane.
That’s currently 2.35 per litre in our money.
Or like paying ANOTHER 1.90 per litre now on top of the current tax.
So you could possibly pay 3.70 per litre for petrol or 4.10 per litre for diesel on a busy day.
Satanic.
For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.
Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
It’s a continuation of a troubling trend that has emerged over the past year. As vaccination rates have increased and new variants appeared, the share of deaths of people who were vaccinated has been steadily rising. In September 2021, vaccinated people made up just 23 percent of coronavirus fatalities. In January and February this year, it was up to 42 percent, per our colleagues Fenit Nirappil and Dan Keating.
“We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Cox told The Health 202.
Naturally, instead of admitting that they overstepped, the White House’s grand plan to combat the trend of vaccinated people dying is to, you guessed it, promote more boosters. Just get boosted again and again and again, they say, and you’ll be completely immune from the virus. To reiterate, that’s Jha’s words, not mine. Never mind that the fact that so many vaxxed and boosted people have already died completely disproves Jha’s assertion that the vaccines represent a perfect solution to COVID-19 deaths.
It would have been so simple to present the vaccines as a worthy preventative measure, highly recommended for specific, high-risk demographics. That would have preserved trust in our institutions instead of seeing that trust burned to the ground with false information meant to manipulate the public.
Instead, Fauci and his cohorts chose to tell the nation that infants needed the vaccines despite them being at no statistical risk. They ignored natural immunity for years without even a hint of humility once they were proven wrong. They have also continued to gloss over the fact that age and pre-existing conditions continue to drive COVID-19 deaths, vaccinated or not, in an effort to get multiple jabs into every arm, regardless of risk factors.
Moving back to the big picture, has anyone bothered to stop and ask why those who are boosted are dying at higher rates than those who only got the primary regime?
It is simply about high-risk demographics having a higher propensity to be boosted in the first place? I’m sure that’s part of it, but it should also be asked whether these continued boosting regimes are actually diminishing immunity in the long run. To actually study that, though, would violate the religious tenants of COVID-19, and we can’t have that.
FnHell – Japan beat Germany
What’s this bullshit mouth thing.
Your in some ones else country – respect them.
BTW – where are the indigenous blonde haired players in that team or is there a quota?
All you Italians out there – pile on.
CBS News Officially Confirms That Lincoln Has Been Shot
Losing 6-2 to the Little Satan has made the mullahs somewhat unhappy.
Israeli Intelligence Warns Iran Is Mulling Terror Attack On World Cup (24 Nov)
Re Vaccines – yet another fully vaccinated Grandson with heart concerns – ECG, Bloods all worked out fine, but same occurred with his elder fully vaccinated brother, also had heart palpitations earlier in the year.
Leslie Stahl is still doubtful if Lincoln’s shooting was an assassination or a hunting accident with Vice President Andrew Johnson.
1/32nd regiment reporting for duty sir.
If Andrews loses his seat, what’s his next role?
– Australian Human Rights Commission
– Reserve Bank
– Road Safety Commission
– Police Integrity Commission
– AEC
– Ambassador to China
– Tour guide at Notre-Dame cathedral.
Imagine some poor westie single mother who started her own business, say, being a Pilates instructor (this is now a Mills and Boon for men) who has a nice V8 sedan and has to drive her three kids up to Maroochydore for Christmas.
“Sorry kids, you have to choose between presents or Christmas dinner with Nanna Dawn, we have to pay four our carbin footprint…”
China builds 35 coal fired plants every week?
Tragic.
Louis Litt says:
November 24, 2022 at 7:55 am
Agree about the covering of mouth, quite idiotic really.
About the blond players, lots of ‘arian’ ethnic Germans are dark haired.
Sporting bodies take the best players, and like it or not some of those of African descent are very good at sporting activities and if they are citizens, why not select them?
Slip and fall school.
Dux of the Special Education class.
Gaol.
Death by Baysol molluscide.
Chicken suit guy.
Being declared an invasive and noxious species (mollusk).
Ostracised to an island with Jane Caro, Wayne Swan and DR Carmen Lawerence.
Road gang
CEO of House With No Steps?
The History of Battle: Maneuver, Part 3
Archaic Annihilation Battle
Big Serge
Author’s Note: In response to a query I received from several people, and for clarification’s sake, all battle diagrams, maps, and schematics in this series are by me unless explicitly noted otherwise.
In our third entry in this series, let us shift gears a bit, and instead of examining a particular maneuver pattern, contemplate the idealized goal of fluid battle – a goal which can be achieved a variety of ways.
This goal is the battle of annihilation – a condition which occurs when the enemy is so operationally compromised that the entire enemy army is destroyed as a cohesive unit capable of giving battle.
In archaic warfare, annihilation battles were relatively rare, simply because armies were slower moving, command and control was unsophisticated, and battles tended to be fought in a linear manner – set piece affairs with opposing armies dutifully lining up opposite each other on a nice big field. In these conditions, and with most of the army moving at a modest marching pace, true encirclement was difficult.
Nevertheless, the era of pre-gunpowder set piece battles does offer a few idealized examples of annihilation battle – where these battles did occur, they offer ideal archetypes for the maneuvers in question, because archaic battles were fought in a relatively small and defined space, making it relatively easy to map and understand the movements involved (unlike, say, the German invasion of Poland, which took place across many hundreds of square miles with arrows pointing every which way).
Even more significantly, these battles represent the idealized form of warfare as such, and embody the elysian vision of battle: to destroy the entire enemy army in one brilliant encounter, in one day, on one field. No general can aim for anything higher.
Hannibal’s Prototype
Andrews & Cooke Road Construction.
https://youtu.be/zBn5aIfZElE
Ricciardo Returns!
Eight-time Grand Prix winner, Daniel Ricciardo returns to Oracle Red Bull Racing as our Third Driver.
Written by Oracle Red Bull Racing
I truly hope Danny boy loses his seat however I suspect he won’t. I don’t trust any polls, particularly exit polls.
“If Andrews loses his seat, what’s his next role?”
Opening up a slug farm?
A driving school?
Head of IBAC is the role for DAN
the fastest way to cut emissions is to put a plastic bag on the heads of these numpties
Traffic cone
Full time clinical trial participant for Pfizer.
But alas, natural justice doesn’t exist in this country.
“Albo, mate…can you parachute me in somewhere?”
And this is why we need co-pilots on all passenger carrying jets, in spite of a move by many airlines to removed the co-pilot to save money and overcome the pilot shortage, as reported on Bolt (I think) recently. The view that planes in pilot strife can be brought safely to land via remote control is not one that I would like to see tested in the empirical heat of the moment. Indolent’s link shows the co-pilot taking over with some quick thinking.
And Albanese would be mad to do so.
I swear I do not know where they come up with these nonsense terms ‘stochastic’ + ‘terrorism’? Really? Do the people who use this term have any idea what the words mean? Or are they just persuaded by it sounding clever.
Like ‘Precautionary principle’ which really just means ‘react in a panic’. You should never cross a road unless you absolutely have to. Or put on a kettle and risk electrocution unless you absolutely have to.
But I would point out that the people who use the term ‘stochastic terrorism’ (i.e. the supposed dynamic where demonising, and thus dehumanising of a person will encourage someone on the fringe to harm that person) are the ones forever labelling people individually and collectively as Nazis, fascists, racists, white supremacists, dangerous fanatics and, of course, far right (which means Nazi again).
I can only think of cases where fringe lefties go after people on the right – like Scalia.
But I think the difference is in this: The right think the left are wrong. The left think the right is evil. This leads to different ways of describing your opponents.
Pelosi and Biden, for example, are criminals. They are very bad people. But still people. They belong in prison, with other bad people. But the left describes people like Trump as evil and a monster. He is not motivated by greed or anger or injury. These would be human. He is instead a force of pure destructiveness that delights in human suffering like the Devil himself.
But, as is so often the case, if you want to know what the left is doing just listen to what they are accusing their enemies of. They just try to hide the dodge by giving it what they take for an erudite name.
Presumably a quick demo, and not a death threat, Zipster. 🙂
NADT – we used to add that sometimes, just to be legally sure, even though here Zipster’s making no mention of specific individuals, which probably changes things.
I concur entirely with the demonstrative sentiment, btw. Stupid cultish numpties.
I thought it was Confederate disinformation.
No worries Dan, get in the chopper and we can talk.
Nah. China is just where he gets money from. He is happy to impose Chinese style controls on Victorians, but he himself was never meant to have to live with that.
If he gets an ambassadorship (like that dandified runt, Carr) it will be Europe. Rome, Paris, London – familiar weather.
If Paris he will have to agree never to drive himself: The Tour de France is just too target-rich.
LOL
You sir, win the internets today.
Have the SBS commentary team called upon Elbow fund Wendyball yet?
Settle down, Lizzie. That’s crazy talk and it just isn’t happening. Two-pilot flight crews have been with us since the dawn of commercial aviation and NO-ONE, least of all the airlines, want to change that for any reason.
Wow, just had a truckie pop in for a shower.
Please Sal, this is not that type of blog…
Let’s talk tractors, but I have to be quick as I have a lot of cleaning to do around the house.
Another banger from Archbishop Viganò.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/abp-vigano-the-covid-pandemic-farce-served-as-a-trial-balloon-for-the-new-world-order/
I can’t for the life of me understand why he isn’t the Bishop of Rome.
Tempting festive apparel.
yes.
but it isn’t a description
its a promise
If I say something like cutting your tits off is stupid then my speech is considered ‘violent’
but a increased probability of actual violence from the leftards?
apparently … its ok
the world is arse-backwards
In the history of the universe, the Church of Rome is but a teenager. It’s still in its socialist phase.
the death toll overall in the frontier wars approaches perhaps 100,000,” Mr Reynolds alleged.
Reynolds engages in his usual sophistry. Any number between one and 99,999 can be said to be approaching 100,000. Some approaches are slower than others.
His stuff on Russia/Ukraine is very good too. I am waiting to see if his ‘Major Russian Offensive after the ground freezes’ prediction comes good.
Precisely because of the views he holds.
The German bishops have just approved homosexuality.
Francis is steering the ship onto the rocks.
Depends on the context is, Mergatroid as you well know in using that example.
If you say.. ‘oh I want to save a million lives by shooting 1000 people in the head Nazi style, in the town square and showing it live on YouTube to demonstrate consequences”… that should be considered violent talk. It would be considered incitement if one continuously talks about killing people, not to mention a very disturbing pattern of behavior.
shit-talker gotta shit-talk eh, JC?
give yrself another medal
I have an ACME mouth trap.
Marv
Explain what I said was “shit talking”? Explain your assertion for once.
BJoan, you’ve got to understand that Reynolds actually believes the stuff he makes up.
Get a load of what Musk found in a Twitter closet. I don’t think he’s kidding either.
#Stay Woke.
there’s pretty much only one way to parse your bullshit mate.
Depends on the context, Shan.
Time to delve in to your alphabetized rolodex of annotated and time stamped Cat quotes yet? Because you’re not an obsessive misanthropist or anything, you’re just bringing stock market-style analytics to a bunch of random peeps throwing around some friendly pixels.
Oh okay, Marv.
*egotist, sorry
I think you get my drift though
State Governor of Victoria.
The AFR View
Victoria cannot afford more Labor
Sometimes a bad government, especially one headed in an even worse direction than the opposition, just needs to be thrown out of office.
Victorians literally cannot afford to give Labor premier Daniel Andrews another four years in charge of Australia’s second most-populous state when they finish voting on Saturday.
Victoria’s per capita household disposable income now sits second to last among states and territories, down from third-highest in the early 2000s. Victoria’s $116 billion net public debt has blown out to be the largest among states and territories amid the hangover of the world’s most punishing and prolonged pandemic lockdowns, and is forecast to grow by $50 billion more to reach a quarter of the state’s gross product by 2026.
The state is seemingly rushing back towards Cain/Kirner-style public finances. What’s needed is a Kennett-style pro-business, fiscally responsible agenda focused on growing the state out of its COVID-19 hangover, and out of deficit and debt.
But that is simply not part of the political DNA of Mr Andrews’ Socialist Left faction-controlled government, which has abandoned the moderation that was the hallmark of the governments of Labor predecessors Steve Bracks and John Brumby in favour of social progressivism and fiscal profligacy.
The Andrews government treats business not as a growth engine but as a cash cow to be hit with absurdities such as a mental health levy on payroll tax and property tax hikes. Along with Mr Andrews’ unnecessarily prolonged pandemic lockdowns, the skyrocketing debt is mostly the result of his government’s tripling of the state’s infrastructure budget.
Rising interest rates will now push up the cost of servicing a rapidly expanding debt which could put pressure on Victoria’s already downgraded AA credit rating. Mr Andrews’ signature Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop project – the cost of which the Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office warns could blow out to a staggering $125 billion – seeks to fill an infrastructure pipeline that maintains the construction jobs of CFMEU members.
The Andrews government could be leading Victoria not only deeper into debt but literally into the dark.
In return, the boss of the union’s law-breaking Victorian construction division, John Setka, organises fundraising lunches for Labor attended by Treasurer Tim Pallas. The Andrews government’s consorting with the CFMEU and tolerance of the thuggish Mr Setka’s continuing political and industrial power is a disgrace.
After the branch-stacking scandal involving former MP Adem Somyurek, Labor’s Right faction-aligned Mr Pallas appears unable to impose any fiscal discipline to check Mr Andrews’ big spending, such as the campaign promises to build a spate of new hospitals to supposedly solve Victoria’s triple-zero ambulance crisis.
After eight years in power, ideology is bubbling up as the Andrews government moves to partly renationalise Victoria’s energy system. The premier’s promise that reversing electricity privatisation by re-establishing the State Electricity Commission will lower power prices is wishful and nostalgic thinking about a cheap, easy and faster transition to renewables. The revived SEC is actually an investment vehicle for wind and solar generation; but will private equity put money into a politically controlled entity?
Meanwhile, the Andrews government’s extreme anti-fossil fuel rejection of gas-fired firming generation has delayed moves to implement a capacity mechanism for the National Electricity Market that the energy technocrats say is critical to keeping the lights on. With the Energy Security Board warning that Victoria faces winter-time renewables droughts in the early 2030s, the Andrews government could be leading Victoria not only deeper into debt but literally into the dark.
While resource states Western Australia and Queensland overtake Victoria on the living standards tables, the Andrews government’s ban on developing Victoria’s natural gas resources has helped to push up power prices for the state’s manufacturers. The premier now politically weaponises the opposition’s support for gas as a key energy transition fuel by attacking it as “fracking”.
The divisive Mr Andrews remains the dominant figure in Victoria, astride a tightly controlled political machine that brazenly shrugs off the 2014 “red shirts” election funding rorts and a reported four current probes by Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog.
Liberal Party’s woes
Integrity questions, along with dubious economic management, should be fertile ground for the opposition. Yet, having been out of government for 19 of the past 23 years, the Victorian Liberal Party’s struggle to attract talent into its ranks – especially talented women – is symbolised by recycling Matthew Guy as leader. The Liberals’ structural problems – inner-city erosion on the left by the teal independents, and outer-suburban branches infiltrated by the religious right – means it has struggled to present itself as a credible, centrist alternative that is ready to govern.
But sometimes a bad government, especially one headed in an even worse direction, just needs to be thrown out of office.
Depends on the context? On what exactly, Waffles?
Tractors?
Mr. House Hubbie, Just because I have little time for dickhead losers doesn’t mean I dislike humankind.
You had a good chance in not interacting with me when you suggested you didn’t want to converse (to which I agreed). I followed it yet you chose broke that deal and it will never be on the table again. You chose to break it and now joining stoush trolling pile-ons because you’re a boring dickhead. You waffling.
What time is it there? Go start dinner before the boss gets home and finds you stoush trolling on the internet.
Damn Iphone:
You waffling loser.
Here is the official response from the CDC about the death safety signal being triggered in VAERS
This potentially opens the way to prevent Demonratic cheating at elections.
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That was clever, Zulu.
But I can’t uptick it because I don’t like it. For I fear it is true.
If that grubby imbecile Andrews loses his seat in Mulgrave – as I only dare to dream – whoever gets hold of the big chair will have a choice.
They can either export him to the other end of the world – London, The Hague, Vancouver, NYC – on a $650K sinecure disguised as a Commissioner for Something and to keep him out of the way.
Or they can do nothing, in which case Andrews will lurk in the background for years as some type of Obama-like figure doing a bit of kingmaking.
The third option, which would admittedly take a bit more work, is to buy him a set of togs and a snorkel and tell him there’s some excellent swimming to be had at Cheviot Beach.
Got to hand it to the Thanos of the blog- accuse him of nasty annotated egotism and he responds by…. effortlessly churning out another hundred words of annotated egotism.
You make it too easy to troll you, Shantaram… but I do hope you get some sort of closure, someday.
Or, just get a hobby, maybe. Tractors, lathes… music… growing stuff… movies… … footy… grandkids… a wife… just get interested in any fucking thing other than Shantaram.
November 22nd – Ukraine is about to be annihilated (Douglas MacGregor)
Triglyceride Lowering with Pemafibrate to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk
BACKGROUND
High triglyceride levels are associated with increased cardiovascular risk, but whether reductions in these levels would lower the incidence of cardiovascular events is uncertain. Pemafibrate, a selective peroxisome proliferator–activated receptor ? modulator, reduces triglyceride levels and improves other lipid levels.
CONCLUSIONS
Among patients with type 2 diabetes, mild-to-moderate hypertriglyceridemia, and low HDL and LDL cholesterol levels, the incidence of cardiovascular events was not lower among those who received pemafibrate than among those who received placebo, although pemafibrate lowered triglyceride, VLDL cholesterol, remnant cholesterol, and apolipoprotein C-III levels. (Funded by the Kowa Research Institute; PROMINENT ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03071692. opens in new tab.)
Wave of huge air strikes reported in Ukraine
There’ve been emergency power outages in all regions of the country, according to national operator Ukrenergo
Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile attack on Wednesday, striking multiple targets in the capital Kiev and elsewhere across the country.
Emergency power outages have occurred in all regions as a result of the assault, Ukraine’s national power grid operator Ukrenergo has reported.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said that there were explosions in various parts of the city and that water supplies had been cut off. He also mentioned power shortages.
According to Kiev’s military administration, a projectile hit a residential building, killing at least three people and wounding six others. However, it’s not yet clear if was a Russian missile or one fired by Ukrainian air defenses.
The whole of Odessa Region has been left without electricity amid the attack, local authorities said. In Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkov, the subway system has been paralyzed due to a power outage, with people being evacuated to the surface, the mayor said.
The South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant in the southern city of Nikolaev has been forced to shut down all of its reactors, according to media reports. The plant became the largest in Ukraine after Zaporozhye Region, which hosts the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, joined the Russian state last month as a result of a referendum.
The local authorities have also confirmed the stoppage of reactors at the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant in western Ukraine.
Strikes and power outages have also been reported by officials in Lviv, Nikolaev, Khmelnytsky, Sumy and other locations.
The neighboring former Soviet Republic of Moldova has also experienced power shortages as a result of the Russian strikes on Ukraine. The country’s energy system is connected to that of Ukraine. There’ve been blackouts in the capital Chisinau and other parts of the country, with the breakaway region of Transnistria also being affected.
Russia has stepped up pressure on Ukraine since October 10, when it accused Kiev of using “terrorist tactics” and of targeting Russian infrastructure, including the strategic Crimean Bridge. Since then, missile strikes against Ukrainian energy facilities, including power stations, have led to rolling blackouts across the country. Kiev authorities said that at least 40% of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been knocked out by the Russian attacks so far.
During his interview with the BBC at the weekend, Maksim Timchenko, the head of largest private power utility DTEK Holding, said that Ukrainians should consider going abroad during the winter. “If they can find an alternative place to stay for another three or four months, it will be very helpful to the system,” Timchenko stated.
Ealier this week, Kremlin press-secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russia wasn’t seeking a regime change in Kiev as part of its military operation. He reiterated that Moscow didn’t rule out peace negotiations with Ukraine, saying that its goals in the country could be achieved “by various methods and in various formats.” And they will be achieved eventually, Peskov assured reporters.
From my recollection of Bolt last night, he said it is countries around the world who are bringing in laws allowing planes to have one pilot.
The pilot union leader he interviewed didn’t contradict that pov.
He also said that under some circumstances, ground control can bring in Major Tom’s plane after that pilot passes out.
The pilot also went on to say he would never put himself nor his family on a one-pilot plane.
Ipso facto, one-pilot planes are on the horizon for us.
Lord, you’re a crushing pretentious bore, Waffles.
FMD.
How about stochastic egotism as I think we’re heading to that descriptor.
So keep stoush trolling, Waffles. But don’t forget the wifely chores as the boss is going to get upset if she finds you wasting time joining pile-on stoushes.
We live in hope and prayer.
How about making fun of you, Champ? That’s a hobby.
Pile-on stoush? This is mano e mano, Thano.
Oh, do you mean the many… many upticks? Fair enough, carry on
Lookie here:
When US liberals accuse others of election interference it’s because they are doing it themselves.
rosie:
Beyond belief.
Just how could the government make such a dogs breakfast of the economy in such a short time?
Pike adornment*.
*NaDT.
Dot:
Put in more stark terms, Dot, a majority of the terrorist group who were implicated in the Whitmer kidnapping plot were FBI operatives.
Now it’s starting to look as sinister as hell.
Dover Beach, please forget the other more wordy sock – I’ll just use my name from now on.
Ta.
Not to mention a sub waiting there to spirit him back to his spiritual home in Beijing.
On the 2 pilot thing
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/21/pilot_single/ .
That was yesterday, today the US FAA wants less reliance on autopilot
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/23/faa_pilot_computer/ .
The comments on the 1st article are interesting, especially the insane new US rules.
Regarding the use of the term “professor” in Australia it is not a title but a job description.Simply put,once you leave the role you are no longer a professor ,unlike the US where people seem to keep their past titles for life.
I used to be incredibly annoyed by Professor Trigg who, unless she was some half baked adjunct somewhere was misusing the title.
Yeah they don’t like Orban one bit, and they’re full-on with the projection. Monty is doing it more and more lately. Almost all terrorists are lefties, and most racist events are leftist perpetrated. Yet it’s always white extremists, except it almost never is.
The projection thing is of course blunt propaganda to deflect attention to what the Left is doing. A deliberate strategy. They think if they blame the Right for all sorts of heinous things that they themselves are doing, and the MSM takes up the chorus line, then the punters will not notice the hand under the table. It works, especially with a credulous poorly-educated population.
Whatever happened to her trusty sidekick, the insufferable Dim Southpossumarse?
I don’t think you’re half as smart as you think you are, you pretentious flea, but I do believe you know what a cowardly pile-on is. That’s what you’re into, Waffles.
You seem obsessed with upticks. They’re gamed you boring dickhead. Please go away as you’re really, really boring now. Take the washing out of the machine.
Wasn’t Reynolds one of the ‘historians’ Windschuttle had such sport with, skewering his shoddy work and laughable conclusions?
“The Andrews government could be leading Victoria not only deeper into debt but literally into the dark.”
Not just Victoria, the whole country is being led into the dark, perhaps we’re already there.
As an aside, I ran into an old neighbour who has just returned from visiting relatives in Lebanon and Egypt. She spoke about how both countries have electricity rationing. In Beirut there’s no electricity after 11.00 p.m. (so much for nightlife) and it doesn’t come on until early morning. She said the places are dismal.
We’re not far off from experiencing electricity rationing so you might ask what our excuse will be when the lights go off? Unlike Lebanon and Egypt, countries racked with political corruption and instability, religious conflict, groups running amok such as Hezbollah, we’re an energy rich continent, brimming with coal, gas and uranium and we have (or had) political stability . But I know why we’re facing the dark, and not just in terms of the lights going out but also economically and socially, because we’re governed by the most useless group of cowardly, supine, dismal, talentless, and craven lowlifes, on all sides of the political divide.
Ie, lowering the ‘risk factors’ didn’t lower the risk – ie the risk factors are NOT risk factors.
Dr Malcolm McKendrick plausibly argues that all vascular disease is caused by damage to the endothelium (the slippery lining of the blood vessels – you know, the lining that the spike protein roughens up) NOT cholesterol etc.
The things that damage said lining are raised blood pressure/stress (mechanical stress – this is why it is your coronary arteries that get plaques, not the veins, which carry the exact same blood), toxins (ciggy smoke and pollutants) and diabetes (the outermost layer of the endothelium is a sugary matrix called the glycocalyx, and raised blood sugar buggers this up)
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/about/
It’s Worse Than We Thought: Balenciaga Replaces Child BDSM-Themed Ads with New Creepy Campaign that Features Belgian Painter Known for “Pedophilia, Blood Ritual, Occultism, Cannibalism,Racism”
If Andrews loses his seat, what’s his next role?
As ever, human haemorrhoid. Perhaps they’ll put him on display.
Perfessor, like everything else in science, has long been devalued by mis-use. Perfessorships are now nothing more than either:
1) Stolen valour – when gifted to ‘experts’ who are reading the government script
2) Salary alternatives – like knighthoods used to be.
29-Year-Old Yorkshire Rugby Player and Club Captain Dies Suddenly
In case you didn’t know.
Musk confirms Twitter censors only targeted conservatives
AOC Wistfully Doodles ‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-Musk’ Inside Heart In Her Notebook
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After an adorably flirtatious back-and-forth with billionaire Elon Musk on Twitter, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen wistfully writing the name “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-Musk” in whimsical girly handwriting inside a heart in the pages of her notebook, sources say.
“Ever since Musk took over Twitter, the sexual tension between the pair has been palpable,” said an aide for AOC who refused to be named. “For days now, AOC has been staring off into the distance dreamily, falling into fits of giddy giggling, and writing endlessly in her little notebook. It’s so adorable!”
When asked for comment, AOC reportedly slammed her notebook shut. “EWWWWWW! I don’t like him! He’s gross and yucky! It’s not like I wanna hold his hand, or kiss him on the lips, or be joined with him in holy matrimony and rule Twitter as King and Queen while making dozens of genius Musk babies!” she said defensively. “Don’t be silly!”
Some cave paintings, a few bones, some sharpened sticks…..
Verily, another “No shit, Sherlock” moment.
Thanks, Musk.
Exhaust pipe on a uranium truck
h/t Leunig?
In theory I disagree.
Meant to be for roughly 20 years of teaching 1 – 2 subjects per semester, probably at least one higher degree and an original, published, research paper for each year of that service, or equivalent.
Now that’s really interesting. Never saw it that way before – the arteries work harder than the veins.
Saw Plibbers on the 7pm News last night. She and Bowen make a good team. Thanks SloMo.
Thanks for the memories, Rabz.
Oh, how we miss him.
Regarding Danger Dan’s seat of Mulgrave
The fix is in
Looks like SBF will get away with the FTX scandal. Being the second largest donor to the Dems has its upside.
It’s only illegal if the establishment isn’t getting it’s cut, (protection money).
Duk – Just a small caveat that stuff like statins may work by moderating another aspect of biochemistry which isn’t fully known, but for which the LDL/HDL thing is an emergent. Biochemistry is insanely complex and prone to correlations which aren’t entirely correct.
The true metric is life extension and health vs dosage – not something which is easily measured. My feeling about this field is that statins do have an effect, eg as in the polypill proposal. However more and more I think the cholesterol linkage is secondary to whatever else is going on under the hood, as it were.
Having said that the inflammation thing is quite powerful – which is exactly what I was concerned about with mRNA vectors lining blood vessels with immunoactive functional groups. And the Israeli finding that asprin has a protective effect against Covid. (Asprin being anti-inflammatory.) I’ve seen in the past stuff to the effect that heart disease can be related to subclinical bacterial infections – which also could rough up the endothelium.
None of this is really an area on personal interest for me though so I defer to your knowledge.
in other news, a reminder about who owns what
probably means no splodey’s allowed anywhere soon, if you want to dig stuff up
There was never any issue with the Professor on Gilligans Island. Anyone who could build a radio from a coconut commanded respect.
Yep, let’s start striking during peak travel season.
You can’t operate a big business in Australia with lots of capital attached as the unions will smash you.
Gotta love Sleazy’s priorities, remember Morrison was crucified for taking his wife and children to Hawaii for a few days….
“Actors, sports stars and influencers converge in Sydney for GQ return
Social media stars, a rugby league gun, a techno DJ, the prime minister and a sexologist have converged in Sydney to mark the return of the GQ Men of the Year Awards.
Australia’s most talented and notable men – and some women – swung into Crown Sydney in style on Wednesday night for the event, cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid, recognising the country’s top actors, sports stars and change makers.
Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott lit up the red carpet with partner and sexologist Chantelle Owen, with techno DJ and much-loved larrikin Fisher opting for a black bucket hat and colourful sunglasses.
Singer Conrad Sewell, actor Russell Crowe and Anthony Albanese – who won politician of the year – also attended the 14th annual event, with the bow-tied Prime Minister appearing alongside partner Jodie Haydon.
2022 GQ Men of the Year Award winners
GQ Man of the Year – Murray Bartlett
Global Icon – Russell Crowe
Woman of the Year – Olivia DeJonge
Sporting Icon – Dylan Alcott
Actor of the Year – Dacre Montgomery
Artist of the Year – Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Solo Artist of the Year – Paul Fisher
International Designer of the Year – Tremaine Emory
Breakthrough Musician of the Year – Budjerah
Fashion Force – First Nations Fashion and Design
Politician of the Year – Anthony Albanese
Breakthrough Actor of the Year – Josh Heuston
Model of the Year – Nathan McGuire
Creative Force – Jordan Gogos
Fashion Icon – Virgil Abloh
Sportsman of the Year – Josh Cavallo
Social Force – Nedd Brockmann
Mr Albanese used his acceptance speech to talk of building a “stronger Australia” free of discrimination.
“Everyone, regardless of their race, their religion, their gender, their sexuality, can inspire to be the best that they can be. That’s how we will build a stronger nation,” he said in a speech.
Just remember that when Sleazy refers to “regardless of their religion”, Christians are exempted from this because Christians will be discriminated against.
What a fucking joke. Imagine if Abbott or Morrison had attended such an event.
Senior Labor icon?
Talk about an embarrassing agglomeration of idiots.
Another one for the list of “Events I wouldn’t be seen dead at”.
Energy giant AGL will close South Australia’s Torrens Island B gas-fired power plant in 2026 as expensive fossil fuel-based generators across the grid face escalating pressure from wind and solar pummelling their profits and viability.
Wally Dalísays:
November 24, 2022 at 9:28 am
BJoan, you’ve got to understand that Reynolds actually believes the stuff he makes up.
At the risk of invoking Godwin’s Law, Hitler probably believed the stuff he made up.
Haha, a qwerty Puffhost writer gets a task and fails utterly because it was all gaslighting:
Here is who she/it is from its own Twitter page:
Fun when such people are red pilled. Good on she/it for being honest! (I may be being a little naughty, but she does ‘celebrate life’, so there’s that.)
What a fucking joke. Imagine if Abbott or Morrison had attended such an event.
They may not have attended/not invited but they would have sponsored/funded it and promoted all of them to Australian of the Year.
“Energy giant AGL will close South Australia’s Torrens Island B gas-fired power plant in 2026 as expensive fossil fuel-based generators across the grid face escalating pressure from wind and solar pummelling their profits and viability.”
Insanity.
From the GQ list
How the fuck do you end up with “Mario” in between. How does that happen?
Fashion Icon – Virgil Abloh
Not available to receive his award as he is American and has spent the last year six feet underground.
The union logic is:
1) When the business is doing well the wukkaz deserve a share of the good fortune (businesses only prosper through luck, not the distinct contribution by entrepreneurship).
2) When things go bad the business must maintain conditions for wukkaz. If the business is making less money that does not mean the employees should share the pain.
3) When things pick up again then the wukkaz deserve their share. Not to the level they had in stage 1 though. That has become the baseline now. They deserve more on top of the previous ‘prosperousness dividend’.
But I know why we’re facing the dark, and not just in terms of the lights going out but also economically and socially, because we’re governed by the most useless group of cowardly, supine, dismal, talentless, and craven lowlifes, on all sides of the political divide.
You are far too kind to them, Cassie.
Wasn’t Porter a Man of the Year at one stage? That didn’t age well.
The science news that I read at Phys.org increasingly resembles this.
META WORKS ON AN AI, INSTEAD PRODUCES a “random bullshit generator.” (Instapundit, 23 Nov)
“Galactica is an artificial intelligence developed by Meta AI (formerly known as Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research) with the intention of using machine learning to “organize science.” It’s caused a bit of a stir since a demo version was released online last week, with critics suggesting it produced pseudoscience, was overhyped and not ready for public use.
The tool is pitched as a kind of evolution of the search engine but specifically for scientific literature. Upon Galactica’s launch, the Meta AI team said it can summarize areas of research, solve math problems and write scientific code.
…
Almost as soon as it hit the web, users questioned Galactica with all sorts of hardball scientific questions. One user asked “Do vaccines cause autism?” Galactica responded with a garbled, nonsensical response: “To explain, the answer is no. Vaccines do not cause autism. The answer is yes. Vaccines do cause autism. The answer is no.” (For the record, vaccines don’t cause autism.)
That wasn’t all. Galactica also struggled to perform kindergarten math. It provided error-riddled answers, incorrectly suggesting that one plus two doesn’t equal 3.”
The article even calls it a “random bullshit generator”. Ouch! Skynet seems to have a way to go yet.
But that’s a lie. They aren’t producing enough electricity to make any discernable difference right now.
The only way they can “pummel profits” is by being outrageously subsidised by the taxpayer and costing the earth as a result of inefficiency.
ALPBC Radio Perf totally unlistenable to today as various six figure publicly funded collectivists try and guilt listeners into donating to charity. The best thing the ALPBC could do for charity is liquidate itself and free up $1bn+ pa in perpetuity that could be given to Pacific islands under threat from climate change.
Artificial Intelligence needs a great deal of actual intelligence to produce it.
We’re safe.
Jab jab booster die of heart failure! Jo Nova hits the mark again.
South Australia makes a tidy control case. Unlike most other nations there were virtually no cases of Covid at all until after New Years Eve 2022. So the entire first and highest peak in cardiac problems occurred months before the virus even started circulating.
https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/in-south-australia-last-year-suddenly-lots-of-young-adults-went-to-hospital-with-cardiac-issues/
I hope they at least dug him up for the after party.
LOl
Artist of the Year – Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Check out some of his work.
What is it with all these people with questionable Italian heritage? Those hospitality types really do get around.
The Irishman is losing friends.
Labor Senator calls for Qantas boss Alan Joyce to resign over ‘gouging’ workforce amid pay dispute ‘putting safety at risk’ (Sky, 24 Nov)
Amazing how creatures like Tony Sheldon float to the top of the Labor Party, like turds. However I suspect he has exquisite antenna for political stuff, so if Sheldon is going for Joyce it means Joyce has lost his magical special person status.
Airlineratings.com*:
RTWT
*Where I used to work.
If Andrews loses his seat, what’s his next role?
Brett’s cellmate.
Scratch a Liar, find a unionist. The modern face of the Liars increasingly resembles on old fishwife as union power shifts to the Shoppies and United Voice. Blue singlets still have plenty of cash thanks to Keating and industry funds but no bodies when it comes to votes.
OldOzzie says:
November 24, 2022 at 8:15 am
Ricciardo Returns!
Eight-time Grand Prix winner, Daniel Ricciardo returns to Oracle Red Bull Racing as our Third Driver.
I’ve never met Riccardo but by all accounts, he is a genuinely nice bloke. Ready smile and easy to get along with.
The mere fact that he is a driver in F1 demonstrates that he is truly talented driver and as a race winner, even more so. But I can’t escape the feeling that for all his talent, it doesn’t meet the hype.
Riccardo left Red Bull as he didn’t want to play second-fiddle to newcomer Max Verstappen who even then was destined to be a World Champion. We could all see his potential – Verstappen’s talent as a driver was in another league to Riccardo.
So, Riccardo went to Renault at a huge salary. He demanded some $40m per annum and Renault paid making Riccardo the second highest driver on the grid after Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes. They wanted a ‘name’ driver and race winner for their return to F1. They also needed someone who was a ‘sponsor’s dream’ plus could provide valuable input into the car’s development. Riccardo ticked all the boxes and promised to be a team player. Renault bent over backwards to accommodate Riccardo on the strength of what he offered.
Everybody with any knowledge motorsport knew that the path for Renault would be difficult but after two years, Riccardo bailed. Renault were totally pissed off.
Riccardo went to Mclaren at a much-reduced salary (about $15m) but he would be the lead driver in a proven team who were on their way back from the wilderness. They had young driver Lando Norris, who could learn a great deal from race-winner Riccardo. Except that’s not how things worked out.
The Mclaren chassis didn’t suit Riccardo’s driving style and he failed to adapt. Teammate Lando Norris out-qualified and out-raced Riccardo in about 40 races over the past two years. Riccardo displayed periodic flashes of his former glory but far too little and never with any consistency.
Nobody could understand how a professional driver in the pinnacle motorsport category could be so lacking in ability to adapt. It wasn’t as if he was driving a tractor. In fairness, the McLaren chassis has some issues but his teammate was routinely out-qualifying Riccardo by 0.5-0.7 seconds per lap which is huge by F1 standards (particularly for sister cars). So, mid this year, Mclaren announced they would not be renewing Riccardo’s contract for 2023 (which was not a surprise to anyone).
Now, Riccardo is back at Red Bull as a test and development driver – and even that isn’t full time. So, he returns to the team he spurned, because he didn’t want to play second-fiddle to Max Verstappen, in a low F1 role normally reserved for those who can’t quite make the transition directly to F1 from F2. Riccardo’s salary at Red Bull is still a secret but is unlikely to be much more than $2m per annum, at best.
From what I hear about Riccardo, everybody likes him and by any assessment, he is a talented race driver. But he has demonstrated that the foundation of his driving skill is dependent on the car meeting his driving style and if it doesn’t, he can’t adapt. From a team perspective, this is a hyper serious issue and part of the reason drivers are paid so much is their ability to squeeze every molecule of performance out of the car. No matter what, in all circumstances. And that includes racing your teammate and pushing each other for track position and race results.
Demonstrably, Riccardo can’t do that unless the car suits him which, in my opinion, is a serious flaw for any racing driver and I suspect that Riccardo’s opportunity to take a position on the F1 starting grid are over.
Last time Qantas had industrial strife, back around 2007ish(?), Sheldon was head of the transport union. The Irishman dwarf refused to kneel he closed down Qantas. Sheldon publicly stated he was going to do all in his power to destroy Qantas.
I just realized the worthless grub is now a senator. It’s going to be an outstanding few of years.
But hey, it’s the uniparty and you’d expect the same behavior from the Libs….. Right????
No. It just means the Qantas unions have never forgotten or forgiven Joyce’s 2011 international fleet shutdown, which was actually a comprehensive tactical victory by Joyce over the unions.
All those like Tony Sheldon are now doing is using the change of government to renew Trades Hall’s traditional ideological war against Qantas management.
They’ll never get anywhere as all federal Cabinet ministers are members of the Qantas Chairman’s Club who’ll never do anything to compromises that privilege.
Tony is a Harvard alum, or so he reckons.
These are summer programs. You pay the vig and you go there for a few weeks. It’s embarrassing even documenting in a bio.
For decades before the ruinables fad they supplied cheap reliable power.
How did they suddenly become expensive? Well they obviously inherently aren’t. It is the mucking about to make ruinables look good that is creating that impression.
Mick Trumbull on the cover of GQ.
Or this.
If they dug him up they would at least know he had the right political complexion.
All dead people vote Democrat.
These are summer programs.
YouSomebody else pays the vig and you go there for a few weeks. It’s embarrassing even documenting in a bio.I’m not on Twitter so I don’t know what the results are so far:
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?
Yes
No
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His polls are excellent fun!
The Harvard graduate management program probably throws off more cash than a NYC rubbish round.
Weren’t they just the saddest bunch.
Clementine Ford is your Mum.
Jaysus Keerist.
I painted my warhammers better than his “art”.
Garlic scented sweating intensifies.
Men of the year?
LOL WTF is this fresh hell?
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/australian-men-rank-among-most-misogynistic/
Sure, women walk around topless in Mecca and men kowtow to them.
Plibbers all teary eyed and waffling along about blowing up sacred sites. FMD.
I would be astonished if more than fifty people in the entire world had ever heard of Juukan Gorge before the shot firers pushed the button, and now it is being lauded as something akin to Notre Dame Cathedral.