Canvassing for Votes, William Hogarth, 1755
The respect shown towards each other at the end was brilliant. Forehead against forehead. Sportsmanship at it’s finest. Nikita Tszyu…
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Also, today’s Mutt. Looks very, very good, a hell of a lot like ol Steely Grey, aka the Teflon Death…
Whale stranding in Dunsborough- mine wifey had a very early call from a dogwalker, buzzed down because wildlife in peril…
Australian PM’s censorship campaign has turned him into a ‘massive international joke’
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Cassie:
And that, Cassie, is why I’ve given up trying to convince stupid people of their stupidity.
Just declare any asset the black armband industry spruikers own as a “sacred site”.
We should actually protect actual sacred sites, but let the traditional owners if they’d rather cash it in – self determination shouldn’t be held by majority white legislators should it?
Funny how many sites don’t exist until there is a crap tonne of gold or oil underneath many of them.
I gave a feeling that Shorten’s in laws assets all sit on sacred sites and were built with blackbirded and bonded servant labour.
Put it under the hammer and compensate the indigenous, I say, for great justice.
Plibbers all teary eyed and waffling along about blowing up sacred sites. FMD.
Did any of the local indigenous even know it was there?
40mil, 15mil, 2mil……buys u a shoey.
Further to that silly article:
How is this…misogyny?!
Men unhappy in most feminist country, so they must hate women???
“I didn’t kill anyone”
WELL, THAT IS WHAT A MURDERER WOULD SAY!
Wasn’t Sheldo alleged to have been a commenter on the old Cat at one point? I seem to vaguely remember someone called Tony posting there who used to rabbit on about how wonderful unions were.
Back in the days of “Alan”, a Scottish(?) communist who was a huge fan of Vogon poetry.
I mean it’s even more bizarre when the current ruling party has a policy of gender quotas, so if women are less interested in politics, men, by definition, must lose out to help women.
The alternative is that you reject basic arithmetic in toto (how utterly absurd).
“You must commit to the policy but you may not be even handed and analytical when thinking about how it affects society as a whole…”
Oh hi, Chairman Mao.
Seriously? You’d have to have been gifted with all the intellectual firepower of a braindead slug not to have been aware of what was happening at twatter.
Sans underwear in the news again.
Any word on the actual motivations of the shooter in Colorado?
Not TonyN, shirley?
Magnificent trolling, JC!
Morning Tony N.
No, Tony N was once a mechanic in the RAAF and from WA. Our Tony, the senator threatening to destroy Qantas, is from NSW.
Secret wymminse business?
New twist in trial for Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins (24 Nov)
All very mysterious. Even Samantha Maiden, who wrote the article, doesn’t know what it’s about.
I think people should be a bit careful and distinguish between ‘free speech’ as in the Constitutionally guaranteed right in the US (which is a guarantee that the government will not prosecute a person for what they say) and in the more colloquial sense such as being promised by Musk on Twitter (meaning no partisan censorship).
No one has a constitutional right to access Twitter.
I know AOC does not get the distinction, and thinks the 8$ blue tick is wrong because not everyone will feel like getting it. And blithely indifferent to the fact that Twitter satisfied no definition of free speech before and she was OK with that. But I expect conflating the two will be very important to the lefties angry to have lost their clubhouse who will challenge what is defensible under the one appropriate definition as being indefensible under the other.
But, anyway, just something worth noting.
Lehmann will be strapped into a chair and a cage of starving rats be brought within a hair’s-breadth of his face, and they will ask him in mild tones whether he raped Brittnah.
Conference room 101, I believe.
Don’t you fucking start on the tractors, Speedy
Let’s talk utes and capacity.
C.S. Lewis, ‘The Most Reluctant Convert’
One man’s journey to faith makes for moving viewing.
Film critics have been generally favorable. The film has managed to avoid being seen as merely a “Christian film.”
It is too interesting, too well made and far too subtle to be written off as simply entertainment for believers.
Okay, I won’t. Have you done the grocery shopping yet? Don’t forget the list the boss left on the fridge door. Don’t fuck it up.
3rd-grade papier-mache ?
~Six months these scumbags have been in power and look at this.
During the past few of days, they’ve threatened the RBA chief who really is one of them and now Alan Joyce. This going to be a fun couple of years.
“nonsense terms ‘stochastic’ + ‘terrorism’? “
Stochastic essentially means: not random, but so complex as to appear to be random.
So the path cyclone takes is stochastic – it is constrained by the limits of natural law, but there are so many variables involved that prediction is at best a statistical likelyhood, not a solid prediction.
It would seem to me that all terrorism is stochastic – indeed, it hardly would be terrorism if there was not some element of apparent randomness involved.
Qantas CEO gets pie shoved in face
And because there is no measurement (of the masses of people and the way their minds are all working) and no single theory it is impossible to distinguish the stochastic from the random.
So it boils down to an accusation that will be deployed as they wish and without possible justification.’
But there are battalions of opinionistas out there now who have a new buzzword with which to impress those looking for excuses to unleash their own unhealthy urges.
The vaxx vultures are at it again.
Clearly they cannot help themselves.
Mr Edwards is believed to have taken his own life and an England rugby supporters’ group paid tribute to him, posting on Facebook: “Last week was a tough week. A message to say that a young man and friend had suddenly passed away. He could see no other way forward. He was 29.
Yep, my point.
Can’t they just ‘blow up’ an automatic pilot in case of an emergency like in ‘Flying High’ the movie?
What Is Skoliosexuality?
TonyN was well known to Sandgroper Cats…
I’m not seeing Pope Francis giving the Germans the green light?
German bishops at stalemate with Vatican over women, homosexuality
Father Javier Olivera Ravasi, an Argentine priest who directs the apologetics project “Que no te la cuentan” (“don’t believe everything you hear”), said on Twitter that “‘Catholics in a different way’ is called ‘Protestant,’ your heretical excellency.”
For Medina, Bätzing’s persistent pro-gay stance “is yet another belch of modernist heresy, which, like all great heresies, never really dies out completely.”
Not a business genius:
Trump’s accountant reveals his tax returns: Donald reported losing $1 BILLION over two years – and losses every year for a decade.
I’m kind of surprised he can still afford the plane.
More importantly, he hasn’t given them the red light. All German bishops who refuse to affirm Catholic orthodoxy should be excommunicated right now.
Ha!
I thought it would have something to do with scolioisis (with a ‘k’ in Greek so probably historically spelt thus).
I see the original meaning of ‘bent’ has been retained though.
(What about non-spinary?)
It’s very possible CL, while at the same time he’s asset rich. it’s not surprising he took hits in the GFC and carried accumulated losses forward in other years.
I don’t think it’s changed, but in the US you can..
Example
Year 1 profit $100
Year 2 profit $100
Year 3 profit $100
Year 4 loss ($500)
You can go back to years 1&2&3 and claw those profits against year 4 loss and you can claim the taxes you paid in those years. You can also carry forward the accumulated loss beyond year 4 into year 5.
The American tax system is a maze.
Invertebrate?
The plane is probably why he is making a loss.
IMO this article gives Catholics a lot to think about at presemt.
In Communion—But Not Happy—With Pope Francis
How can a Catholic be in communion with the pope if he doesn’t want anything to do with him?
I recall back in the 90s, Trump said he signed every single check – large or small – that was owing. He was mostly concerned with cashflow.
All these tears and breast beating about Juukan Gorge (where?) is nothing but a cash grab and an opportunity to extort more cash and concessions from the miners.
The blowing up of Juukan as part of the expansion of Rio’s Brockton 4 iron ore project was done legally and with the full knowledge of the local “traditional owners”.
Soon after the town based grifters and activists smelt a dollar and the site was suddenly declared sacred and about 100,000 years old.
Have a look at Google Earth image of the area and the huge extent of Rio’s Hamersley Range operations at this long/lat – 22°37?3?S 117°9?28?E
Capt Burkas comment is disgusting and can only come from one lost to denialism.
Look at the back peddling by others here.
An insane little blog these days.
Format error on the longitude/ latitude above. Try this
22°37?3?S 117°9?28?E
I do the same. Surprisingly (to me) not everybody does. Particularly some smaller operators who you’d expect would be right across their business operation.
Nope. Turns out some people really are either innumerate or while excelling at something (say spraying pests) they’ve no grasp of numbers.
Dammit.
22 degrees 37 minutes 3 seconds South
117 degrees 9 minutes 28 seconds East.
Bloody spell checker and or climate change responsible.
In better news, the ABC is rebooting
Mother & Son. Denise Scott is the mother. Son is a POC, naturally.
After the utter lies told about Coronation Hill (NT) in the 1990s I have difficulty accepting anything.
Especially if it comes from TV. Every journalist who made a video “Coronation Hill report” knew very well they weren’t within hundreds of miles of the place.
That was always my understanding, Pedro. One or two of the “townbased grifters and activists” smelt a dollar…
Deaths from the jab can’t be denied.
But it seems they can!!!
But it’s ok if your own governments are genocidally killing you off as long as it’s only a certain percentage according to the sick fucks here
Hopefully the ALPBC is sending a contingent from the Hive to Wilcannia for shooting. Somehow I doubt it.
“I’m kind of surprised he can still afford the plane.”
If you owe the bank $100,000 the bank owns you.
If you owe the bank $100,000,000 you own the bank.
Not literally, but figuratively, of course.
Trump owns the bank (figuratively).
Besides, it’s tax numbers, not reality – the two are only vaguely related at this scale.
EG, Elon says twitter is (was) losing $4M a day – nearly $1.5B a year. Mind boggling that they kept going for so long, right? Obviously, there’s a lot of value in controlling the political conversation, and Twitter wasn’t afraid to exploit that. There is no other reason they could still be even remotely “afloat” with that sort of loss.
Rio have onboarded Sneaker’s ex-Treasurer to the Board. I don’t think they will have any blackfella issues for a few years.
Small Sylvester:
“Tell me grandfather, why did you not revolt and fight back against the jabs?
I’ve seen the footage of people standing in line on their way to the jabs.”
Old Sylvester: “Lets go catch a tweety bird.”
Demonrats, they’re just the worst.
Change of career path maybe?
A high school principal has been suspended for allegedly sending teachers racy videos of scantily-clad young women in classrooms.
Queensland Education Minister Grace Grace declared that “this behaviour is completely unacceptable’’.
“It is an operational matter which I have raised directly with my Director-General, and I fully support the decision to suspend the principal while a thorough investigation is carried out,’’ she told The Australian.
“The community and I rightly have high expectations of our principals, school leaders and staff.
“Anyone who thinks it’s appropriate to share material like this is deeply mistaken and will face consequences.’’
The suspension came after The Courier-Mail revealed that teachers at James Nash State High School in Gympie had complained about some of the explicit content in staff emails allegedly sent by principal Jackson Dodd.
One memo, allegedly sent in February this year, contained a link to a YouTube video of the 80s song Sexy + 17 by Stray Cats, which shows a topless woman in underwear.
The caption above the link to the video stated: “This might be a little close to home.”
Teachers were also allegedly sent a music video of the 80s hit song Centrefold by the J.Geils Band, with scantily clad young women clutching school books and sitting on school desks wearing negligee.
Mr Dodd has been principal of the school for five years.
He could not be contacted for comment.
Our kids are being indoctrinated not educated.
Senator Alex Antic
They’ve put up the curtains around the Brittany sideshow tent.
2GB sought comment on the matter from cardiologist Ross Walker.
With a career in cardiology of more than 40 years, Dr Walker is a well-known name in Australia as he’s also the host of 2GB’s Healthy Living radio show.
Further, he is an academic research staff member with the National Institute for Integrative Medicine and has written several books and contributes papers regularly to medical journals.
Here is what Dr Walker had to say about the mRNA ‘vaccines’ and heart conditions:
The Pfizer vaccines… the Moderna vaccines… I don’t think we should be having the mRNa vaccines.
I’ve seen in my own practice as a private cardiologist 60-70 patients over the past 12 months who have had similar reactions to this.
Whether it’s pericarditis or the more serious myocarditis.
I’ve seen a lot of people get chest pain, shortness of breath, heart palpitations.
Let that sink in.
Sylvester = Sancho
Change my mind
Circulating anything by the J.Geils Band should be a sackable offence. Ditto Supertramp and Steely Dan.
The Killers have about four and a half albums worth of songs about young women with Daddy issues
No. Believe what you want. Empty the dishwasher.
And Karen comes in to bat- looks like I’m on the money
Dickhead… “no” means, I’m not bothering to try and change your mind one way or another. Believe what you want, you waffling doofus. Make sure you vac under the bed.
Crikey, the Virginia Wal-Mart shooting was the boss. Called ’em all together for a staff meeting, then drew his piece & opened fire.
His frustration is understandable, but what was wrong with just whipping a few?
“But it’s ok if your own governments are genocidally killing you off as long as it’s only a certain percentage …”
No-one said that.
You appear to have been saying they want to/will kill us all though.
For the original strain, IF as believed at the time, fatalities were >5%, then a vax that only knocks off 1% is, as the medicos suggested at the time, “better, on balance” and many might have seen this as a risk worth taking.
What was wrong was a mandate – or at least, the exclusion from society and life (including the ability to earn an income) for those who thought, in consultation with their own independent doctors advice, that their own personal risk factors indicated no advantage to taking the vax.
Not that they (the medical-industrial complex / GovCo) had a “dangerous” vax, but that they coerced large numbers to take it, instead of following their own “guidelines” for every other disease and/or condition: viz, that it was ultimately the patients own personal choice whether or not to have the advised treatment, that it was only after “informed consent” absent coercion that it could be used, and that only those shown to present a danger to others could/should be quarantined (or believed to present such a danger, but in that case, only until the facts for each individual could be determined – “we think you have it, so you have to quarantine”…”Oh, you don’t – sorry about that, carry on”).
It’s a scale thing that makes you think things are worse than they really are.
If I sell 100 phones and 1 in every 100 fails, you are unlikely to know someone with a failed phone, and even if you do, it’s only one – these things happen. But if I sell 100 million phones, and 1 in every 100 fails, that’s a million failures, and there’s a good chance you will know about it and think “A million failed phones! There must be something wrong with them! I’d never buy one of those pieces of crap.”
In the USA, over 100 million got vaxxed – do the numbers yourself.
While it’s true that peoples lives and quality of life are significantly more impactful than a phone purchase, and therefore we should want safety to be significantly more important, the principle is the same – the scale trips you up, because you only see absolute numbers, not those scaled appropriately to show risk, and certainly not in any sort of balance against the risks of the disease itself (such as they were known at the time). In doing so, you are as bad (or worse) than those who would advise you to “trust the experts” instead of asking questions of those you trust and making your own choice based on your own unique circumstances.
But you don’t want to hear any of that, because the actual facts don’t suit what you’ve already decided, which is the motivations of people you’ve never met and don’t know in any meaningful way – they may be liars by default (ie, politicians), but that doesn’t mean they are mustache twirling 007 style villains chuckling at the stupidity of the plebs while they plot to kill us all, just that they are subject to the same failings as the rest of us are. We are, after all, only human – and as per “Men in Black”, it’s a truism that “…a person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals…”. Politicians are not exempt from that, and neither is the MSM.
Shit, another one?
NYPost.
Not to mention the Eagles, a favourite band of POC taxi drivers across the globe.
… and various sanctimonious imbeciles were duly outrageously outraged (again).
Talk about a storm in a d-cup.
Work performance at Wal-Mart, particularly when the wishes of the boss are involved, should be up by at least 5% for at least the next week or so.
He’s also black, which is why the whole thing is going to disappear quietly in 3…2…1…
I did wonder why Numbers went silent……..
Would it have been more acceptable had the video ended with the young women’s tits being cut off as part of their transition?
More likely to be Holted than Epsteined?
Lol, Wally. It did cross my mind with silver.
Re the single pilot issue, Tom, if it is not on the agenda (and I seriously hope it is a beat up) why was the head of some pilot’s association banging on about it on Bolt the other night? Are they just getting their retalliation in first? Or is there some other agenda?
And…on the strength of that, a knitting lesson
😀
The Bench wishes to establish, beyond doubt, whether Brittany was wearing knickers…
On the single pilots, they’re running it up the flagpole to see who salutes.
Which makes me wonder what real changes (ie. deals) are going to be done behind the scenes.
It’s no worse than what you see at the beach these days.
Calm down Grace Grace, if that is your real name.
As a matter of fact, I am glad I don’t have teenage daughters.
Bathing suits these days are scandalous, and I am not a prude.
In other news, the Beloved has just bought a device (with his birthday money :D) that tells him how far away the pin is.
So…he has been downloading, registering and mucking around + cussin’. Which is pretty standard for golfers anyway.
Finally…a Eureka! moment. He has triumphed over the code writers and other dark magic practitioners and has a useable device. I hope it results in another win – the prize is a golf ball. Sounds like a reasonable cost/benefit.
Bother. That was meant to be a big grin. Even 70 year olds get Birthday Money.
At least in our family. Because they’re all really big kids. But with crummy joints.
I don’t know who Sylvester is but 3.40 tells me it definitely isn’t Sancho.
via https://quillette.com/2022/11/23/twitter-is-not-the-town-square/
Strange that the progressive ilk never objected to the analogy of Twitter being the new town square while they had control of it. True it was never the new town square, but now they can *say* so.
In the matter of Higgins: Ex Parte Gargooglery
Does Groogs even have standing? I guess arguments will have to be heard.
I agree CL.
I remember Cardinal Pell saying words about the Germans a while back.
I didn’t see the Blot interview, Lizzie, but any pilot or pilots association calling for single-pilot cockpits in heavy airliners (above 50 tonnes maximum takeoff weight) is a clown who knows such a proposal will never be approved in the West or any other civilised jurisdiction like Japan.
It is reckless fruitloop territory.
Someone is evidently taking advantage of Blot’s ignorance of commercial aviation and its regulation.
More crimes against Lycra.
It’s like an Elvis sighting, Rosie.
Dot:
The original variety of Virtue Signalers resurfaces for another run.
Mind you, for all the support for whatever hedonistic perversion is top of the power pole these days, this one from all accounts sounds like a distinct ‘Meh.’
Libs odds of winning on Saturday have dropped to 6.40/1 Labor up a little at 1.16/1
Just how us perverts like it.
He took advantage of the Black Friday sales.
No wonder the purchase is a product of the Dark Arts.
Yes, indeed. Even if she was an adjunct professor (a short-term recognition of some immediate utility), then the title is not strictly speaking hers to use beyond the university, as it simply notifies a transient linkage. What is most likely is that Triggs had been made Emeritus Professor, which leads to an ongoing title from the university offering that honor.
Hairy was once a professor holding a Chair in STEM, and other positional academic titles, garnering great respect. Now retired, he only uses the title of doctor, for his PhD is a personal award. In my view, any professorial title used currently is likely to be a devalued one, as so many universities in Australia and elsewhere award professorships like indulgences to favoured lefties who have a spurious research track record and nothing much else that distinguishes them. This is truly sad for the genuine scholars still there whose worthy appointments are also devalued. Academic life has no appeal to either of us these days (witness my brush with two climate cult academics on a recent flight). Luckily we have both worked in the real world of industry; we were then, and still are, more grounded in experience than most in academia.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/breaking-kari-lake-files-first-complaint-maricopa-county-says-whistleblowers-smoking-gun-evidence-uncertified-printers-dominion-employees-unfettered-access-video/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=2022-11-23
The latest data is showing Dan Andrews has 72hrs to pack up his abandoned office in Mulgrave.
The Pilots’ Association was coming out against a perceived move by the airlines, Tom. I don’t know how genuine their fear was, or where it stemmed from, what actions etc.
They were not in favour of dropping the second pilot. Far from it.
Blot must have felt there was some substance in their desire to go public re their concerns.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/rename-monkeypox-virus-mpox-pressure-mounts-biden-regime/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=the-gateway-pundit&ff_campaign=dailypm&ff_content=2022-11-23
“If you want to know who rules you, find out who you are not allowed to laugh at or criticise.”
It’s just heartbreaking;
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1595657413381611520/photo/1
Kneel has it bad too.
If you have to go into a word wall of bullshit to try to pretend it isn’t happening.
……it is.
Choo choo agrees with me for once.
Poor choo choo.
I wonder if all the pro jab bullshit rosie blathered on about had any effect on his decision to jab humself to death.
But kneel.
A 747 is crashing every week in Australia alone.
Above the normal death figures.
You all know people who are now sick more often or who have died too young since the jab was introduced.
If you were being honest.
The government killed these people.
And here’s the point you won’t go near…..
It’s only the start.
Next year as the death rate cranks up I’m sure the unvaxxed will be causing it.
Or mean words.
Or the Salmon mousse.
They are already starting the propaganda now regards the increasing death rates.
The deaths from this forced jab a thon far outweigh all deaths from all vaccines combined since vaccines were invented.
These jabs are not vaccines.
They do not work in anyway as advertised because no one has a cure or can prevent you catching a cokd
But many people want you dead.
Like Bill Gates.
The person who’s jab you took.
He wants billions dead.
But here we find people castigating me for pointing out that talking about murder…..mass murder…..genocide….without considering percentages is terrible of me…
Really?
Have you become that fucked up?
It’s only a little bit of mass murder so far….why is struth making such a fuss?
God help the mentally sick denialists.
Ah. So it’s part of the unions’ campaign to smear their mortal (and very effective enemy) Alan Joyce, who’s currently the best CEO in world aviation.
If the world’s biggest carrier, American Airlines (with whom Qantas is affiliated via the Oneworld alliance), wants to grow, it should hire Alan Joyce as its next CEO.
Joyce may be a pouve, but that has also made him a nerd and mathematics genius. He knows more about commercial aviation economics and how to fly aeroplanes for profit than anyone else on earth.
Vicki, we hear less about the Astra-Zenica vaccines re cardiac issues, although they had a disastrous time with vascular problems sometimes causing fatal heart attacks and other serious blood clots. The death rate of at least one in a million was well-recognised for AZ. Most Australians had the AZ vaccines first off, Hairy and me as well, and we had a Novavax booster. Yet cardiologists seem mostly to warn and concentrate on Pfizer and Moderna, not the AZ with its different vector to the cell and then its DNA mode of expression. Is this a bias towards the American experience data?
Got to be a pisstake…got to be.
Um, is it?
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firstly the trials showed more people died on the vax than the placebo group and then they blended the groups
secondly the medical establishment is supposed to work on the first do no harm principle
thirdly everything they said about the “vax” was wrong.
fourthly when mRNA was first tested on animals way before the attack many died, what did they do to fix the issue? I can find nothing
fifthly an utter failure of intelligence to confirm all the propaganda out of china was just that propaganda
sixthly numerous people warned that you can’t vaccinate your way out of pandemic
seventhly the idea that it only severely impacts 1 out of thousand or whatever, is now going to be applied to all medicines?
A study was done years ago
People were given a boring tedious repetitive task.
Half were paid.
Half were not.
They were then asked to describe how bad the task was.
Overwhelmingly, those who were paid described the task as it was ..tedious and boring.
Those who did it for free said it was no problem. …all good.
Why would they not admit the obvious?
Watching a replay of the Japs kicking Deutschland arse. Amazing stuff!
The Krauts look totally bewildered.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried plans to speak during New York Times DealBook summit
its amazing what a lightening-rod you are for ill sentiment JC
you must be very special
‘Society girls’ were young women of the immediate post-World War 1 period, deciding to live it up and abandon previous constraints. The world had changed. By the 20’s the ‘flapper’ had arrived.
We can laugh now, but many of these young girls, overdosing on alcohol post-US prohibition, and with role models in the new Hollywood era, did end up in a bad way. Come on down, Zelda Fitzgerald.
The above plea for old verities still has resonance today. Not chaperones, but simple good sense.
And parents who set boundaries and who care.
So much crank about Bill Gates and whoever is unflavour of the months allegedly killing people via the vaccine.
The decimation of the west actually caused by abortion.
Crickets.
5 Stars and Excellence – Kudos to the Australian Passport Office
Passport Renewal lodged 18 Nov 2022 received today 24 Nov 2022
Putin: Russian Nation Owes Its Birth to Chistianity 1000 years ago
Ukraine – Lights Out, No Water And Soon No Heat
Today’s ‘society girl’ – Brittannneeeeeeeee
Major News on Vaccinated COVID Deaths, but the White House Decides to Lie Anyway
Cancer, early warning signs
Dr. John Campbell
The water supply also requires electricity. No flowing water is pretty much the end game here.
Transmission equipment is being badly hit, and very hard to quickly replace.
Negotiations surely must follow now. There is not much spare electricity in Europe right now.
Our 70 odd tons of good black Aussie coal requested by Zelinsky will be put to post-war reconstructon, by the sound of it, for it will arrive too late to help the current electricity crisis in Ukraine.
Russia moves closer to total ban of ‘LGBTQ propaganda’
The State Duma has adopted a bill on the “protection of traditional values” at a second reading
Russia’s State Duma has taken another step towards a complete ban of ‘LGBTQ propaganda’ in the country. The relevant legislation was approved by the lower house of parliament following a second reading on Wednesday. It introduces significant penalties for the distribution of materials promoting non-traditional relations, pedophilia, and gender reassignment.
The bill “on the protection of traditional values” is widely seen as a follow-up to a 2013 law, which prohibited the spread of LGBTQ materials among those under 18. If enacted, the law would ban this kind of ‘propaganda’ among “both minors and adults,” according to a statement issued by the Duma. It would apply to “the media, the internet, literature and cinema.”
It would also expand requirements imposed on the advertising industry, which prohibit the demonstration of non-traditional sexual relations or preferences.
Breaching the new regulations would result in a fine of up to 400,000 rubles ($6,600) for individuals and up to four million rubles ($66,000) for corporate entities. Foreign offenders would also be expelled from Russia.
“We must do everything to protect our children and those who want to live a normal life. Everything else is sin, sodomy, darkness, and our country is fighting this,” said Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the State Duma.
On Wednesday, lawmakers rejected amendments that would introduce criminal liability for repeated offenses.
Another proposal, which was not supported by Duma members, suggested banning video games that depict LGBTQ relations and acts of violence. According to Alexander Khinshtein, chairman of the Duma’s Committee on Information Policy, video games should be subject to separate regulation.
The third and final reading of the bill “on the protection of traditional values” is planned for Thursday.
The Fear of Fear Itself: The Gripping Truth Out of Ukraine
From the Comments
– One thing the Eastern communist have over the Western communist- Is that they don’t demand you bow down and respect, or even worship, a lost soul’s perversion. (anything to cause confusion and the breakdown of family) Go Russia!!!!!! You’re one of the few countries standing up to the creepy new world order- Nato.
Watching a replay of the Japs kicking Deutschland arse.
The Zero is better than the Messerschmitt 109?
Being a disgusting homo has always been a choice.
On reflection, it is quite disheartening to get such a response on these pages. The response of ‘offensive’ is usually first resort of leftist authoritarians. It’s a sad day when police action against a lone 78 year old man ends up with hospitalisation and suspected brain damage.
At what age to you suggest that our elderly citizens, serial nuisances or otherwise, be sent to the scrap heap or maybe better still done away with altogether?
maybe better still done away with altogether?
when did anyone say that?
Makkasays:
November 24, 2022 at 5:42 pm
It’s just heartbreaking;
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1595657413381611520/photo/1
It’s hilarious. One tweet on that thread is from some bint called Jennifer who was born a woman but identifies as a man who identifies as a woman, called a trans trans. This is either outstanding piss taking or terminal insanity.
Everyone’s favourite celebrity chick-choker’s at it again (the Tele):
Whoops. A terrible accident, surely. Not his fault, surely. He’s been to rehab, surely.
Not short of coin, then. And:
Straight to court. Then:
Ohhhhhhhh. So O’Keefe’s mate was pinched around the corner from O’Keefe’s house, and the gear was found before his mate spilled his guts leading to the knock on the door and a positive test. But it was ‘contaminated’. Riiiight.
I’ll give him 48 hours before he’s back in the bin.
Education, not indoctrination
Malcolm Roberts
Good analogy TE. The Japs gave a lot away in height, but more than made up for it in energy, grit and speed. Like a dog after a bone and the Germans were way too complacent.
The German Manager Hansi Flick looked like a deer stuck in headlights- “wtf just happened here?!”
Tucker Carlson: This is a grotesque and filthy lie
I note St. Ruth was here before.
Thank God. I thought he’d been sent to the….. camps.
Friendly Jordies house in Sydney burnt down.
So, if you’ve got a Twitter a/c, tweet him some sympathy.
Likely connection to BumSex gone wrong, so don’t mention that.
It used to be called schizophrenia.
Haha, do it. Do it!
Qantas cabin crew vote to strike (Sky, 24 Nov)
Stay out for a month. A year! Three years! Gaia will love you for it.
“At what age to you suggest that our elderly citizens, serial nuisances or otherwise, be sent to the scrap heap or maybe better still done away with altogether?”
And where, pray, did I say or write anything like that? That’s right, no where.
Looks like the lezzos have worked it out.
Well. That escalated quickly.
Wasn’t that the plot of Victor Victoria ?
Hmmmmm…Dr Kidd warning us to be masked in crowded places. Endlessly.
Schools Spectacular pupils packed into an auditorium, frocked up and performing. Much…much adulation and excitement from the Seven spokesmouth.
Mixed messages Government. No wonder everyone thinks the thing is a joke. Except Dr Kidd who appears to be a total weirdo.
Went to a conference today. Welcome to cuntry went for 45 minutes. On the plus side it was morning tea by the time the smoke and pagan spiritualism left the stage. Women complaining took up rest of the morning. Then lunch. Fun times
Macron’s sour grapes on nuclear subs reek of hypocrisy writ large
THE MOCKER
If French President Emmanuel Macron is to be believed, his country is a good friend to Australia. So good in fact he feels he can stick his Gallic nose into our affairs and publicly lecture us on defence policy. According to him, we would be acting provocatively if we acquire nuclear-powered submarines as planned.
You will be relieved to know he is motivated solely by concerns for our security. The good news is that everything will be OK if we go back to the original plan of paying the French $90bn to build a fleet of conventional submarines. That way we will not upset China.
“The choice made by [former] prime minister [Scott] Morrison was the opposite,” Macron gratuitously postulated last week in Bangkok, referring to the previous government’s decision to form AUKUS along with the United States and Britain. It was a case of Australia “re-entering into nuclear confrontation” and becoming “completely dependent” in commissioning a “submarine fleet that the Australians are incapable of producing and maintaining in-house”, he said.
Lo and behold, China’s state-owed Global Times favourably noted Macron’s criticism, saying in an editorial he “was trying to remind Australia” that conventional submarines are a “better option”. AUKUS, it said, “undermines Australia’s sovereignty and serves to provoke China”. To summarise, Frog and Panda are firmly in accord about what Australia should not be allowed to do defence-wise.
Macron’s advice should not be dismissed out of hand. After all, if there is one aspect of military affairs in which the French are par excellence, it is avoiding confrontation. Rather than countering Beijing’s expansionism we should not do anything hostile, at least overtly. For example, we could follow France’s lead and secretly plant a bomb on a civilian protest vessel harboured in a friendly country.
Marcon’s outburst was that of a peace poseur, and his hypocrisy writ large. To begin with, France possesses five nuclear attack submarines (SSNs). The most recent of these to enter service, the Suffren, can launch cruise missiles capable of hitting a target up to 1000km away. In addition, the French Navy also boasts four nuclear ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). Conversely, Australia will have eight SSNs, none of which – unlike the French boomers – will be armed with nuclear warheads.
As for Marcon’s sudden concerns about Beijing’s sensibilities, that is rich. Just last year then armed forces minister Florence Parly proudly announced the French SSN Emeraude had successfully concluded a passage of the South China Sea. This was, she said, a mission to “enrich our knowledge of this area and to affirm that international law is the only rule that is valid, whatever the sea in which we sail”. A sea of double standards, you might say.
Emmanuel Macron was ‘quite scathing’ of AUKUS nuclear subs plan while in Bangkok for APEC
French President Emmanuel Macron was “quite scathing” of the AUKUS nuclear submarines plan, says Sky News… Political Editor Andrew Clennell. Mr Clennell said Mr Macron went on about AUKUS again while in Thailand for the APEC summit, criticising former prime minister Scott Morrison. “But I guess, in a More
These facts should have been put to Macron in the form of a public rebuke. But when asked about his criticism, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could only lamely remark with a feeble grin that the president was “entitled to put forward the views he does in a very forthright way”. Why the weak response, especially when the subject concerns a challenge to our sovereign rights?
Answer: someone is embarrassed at the realisation he has been played for a fool. When this issue blew up last year, the opposition, under Albanese, abandoned the longstanding rule that international disputes concerning national security warranted cautious bipartisanship. Unquestionably and opportunistically, Labor sided with Macron.
When Morrison defended himself following Marcon’s denunciation, Albanese bizarrely accused him of “gaslighting” the president. And to think just last week at the G20 summit Albanese told journalists of Labor’s “mature” approach to foreign affairs, saying “We need to not try to score domestic political points in our international relations”.
Then shadow foreign affairs minister Penny Wong even compared Morrison to former US president Donald Trump. “It is vandalism, the way in which this has been dealt with by the government,” she said. “It is a wanton disregard for our international reputation.”
Praising Macron, then climate change minister Chris Bowen cited “national interest” in spruiking for the French. “It’s shocking that Australian foreign policy and his clumsy handling has got us in this situation,” he said, “because he [Morrison] is fundamentally dishonest in everything he does”.
When the new Prime Minister made an official visit to France this year, his hands were clasped firmly on his lapels as he boasted of the rectified relationship. “There have been some difficulties and that is true,” he told a meeting of France’s peak employer federation, the Movement of the Enterprises of France. “I resolved those difficulties on May 21.”
Speaking at the Élysée Palace, Albanese marvelled at his great rapprochement. “My presence here following the invitation of the president represents a new start for our countries’ relationship,” he said. “Trust, respect, and honesty matters.”
So too does ingratiating oneself with foreign leaders at taxpayer expense, evidently. Under the terms of the contract, the French government majority-owned Naval Group was entitled to $136m if the Defence department elected not to go ahead with the submarine deal. Feeling generous, the Albanese government paid the organisation a whopping $835m. Why the largesse given the previous government had lawfully terminated the contract?
For all his animus towards the former prime minister, Macron has all but vindicated Morrison for his belated notification that Australia no longer wished to do business. As the president’s recent behaviour has shown, Morrison knew Paris would have done its utmost to sabotage AUKUS before the pact could be announced.
His successor did everything to duchess Macron only to be duped himself. But give Macron his due, for he is simply treating his Australian counterpart with the respect due one who sides against his own country for political expediency.
It is an uncomfortable bed Albanese has made for himself. Only now has he discovered that the French could not give a sheet.
THE MOCKER
As a kid, the good parish priest could outturn a mass in under 45 minutes.
Or your weekly offering back, guaranteed.
Not sure that playing Mahjong is the “scrapheap”. It could just as easily be Contract Bridge or Bingo.
I’m still not sure how cuffing and poleaxeing an elderly nuisance is in the public interest.
We identifies as Trans^n so we cannot be trumped on the victimology totem pole.
The exact age they start behaving as Lim does, whether it be 18 or 78. Here’s part of Lim’s political career:
Whoever authored the quoted content might change his mind about 15 minutes after Lim camps at his front door and flicks the nuffy button.
I think…you may be doing it wrong.
Pfft.
What’s $700m of tax payers hard earned between friends?
Good grief, Dot! In the church on my yoof the sermon was a Moore College 40 minute, 3 point bum numbing wonder!
Mercifully, our Presbyterian pastor limits his to 20 minutes – still three points, natch.
Praise the Lord for comfortable chairs. The old pews were so hard we’d sit on the kneelers.
I’m still not sure how cuffing and poleaxeing an elderly nuisance is in the public interest.
I had an argument/stoush/disagreement with one of my wife’s cousins over ‘state sanctioned murder’ the other night.
Calli, I wish I have thought of your comment at the time.
The issue when lefties cry ‘offended’ is that they are offended by other people exercising their own recognised rights. When a lefty is offended by opinions (and demanding no one should be permitted to hold them), offended by words (and therefore no one should be permitted to say them) or offended by what people do in their own time (and therefore no one should be permitted to do it), they are saying that other peoples established rights be curtailed for the sake of their own newly proclaimed right not to be offended. And with no regard for the fact that they might offend others, they just aren’t such panty-waists.
But there is such a thing as being offensive, just as there are such things as decorum, respect, and decency. The value of the last three can be seen in how socially corrosive their absence is.
Mr Lim would seem to be a matter of this last.
No doubt he would insist on additional Mah Jong tiles with various obscene meanings.
Yep. We (Dot) identifies as transcendent.
A billion NOT to build a road. $835 mill NOT to buy a fleet of guinea pig Frog subs. Billions annually NOT to run multi Billion $ desal plants. Lordy, Aussie taxpayers must be made of money.
Well, Beertruk, it may be that sometime soon I’ll be an “elderly nuisance”. It would be nice if the police treated me kindly.
The trajectory looks very inauspicious.
Comparison of Excess Deaths in Australia and Other OECD Countries
Births Didn’t Plummet? (Victorian Data 2021)
“I’m still not sure how cuffing and poleaxeing an elderly nuisance is in the public interest.”
The scuffle happened in the QVB building. Apparently a shop owner in the QVB protested, and why shouldn’t they? Lim is a well known Sydney CBD pest. You can be sitting at cafes and he’ll approach you. He’s quite inappropriate HOWEVER that doesn’t warrant or justify excessive police force but as I said last night, Lim was involved in a similar altercation with the cops a few years ago.
Anyway, he’s been released from hospital.
Mother Lodesays:
November 24, 2022 at 7:36 pm”
Thanks, you’ve said it best.
I’m still not sure how cuffing and poleaxeing an elderly nuisance is in the public interest.
Oops…formatting fail. Mea culpa.
He really is the master of happy endings
As for his hitting the ground, I don’t pretend to know all the details.
But isn’t it possible that the two offices were trying to escort him, or at least restrain him with a grip that seemed appropriate to his frail frame and he moved abruptly (some of these Asian types can be quite spry despite their age) and, escaping their grasp, lost his balance and hit the ground.
Not saying the police must be in the right, but based on Cassie’s experience it would seem at least possible such an excitable fellow may have contributed through his own injury.
Yes sure I’m going to watch a YouTube crank when I can view Victorian birth registrations for myself.
It’s monetised nonsense for the wishful thinkers.
Vicki mentioned this. Below is from Daily Mail article. The Dr has a 2GB/4BC radio show on Sunday’s. I believe this comes from Ben Fordham interviews.
Cardiologist calls for an end to mNRA booster shots – as teen, 18, tells how her reaction to the jab saw her miss her Year 12 exams: ‘I’ve had 60 to 70 in my practice who’ve had similar reactions’
Sydney teen diagnosed with heart condition after first Covid jab
Monica Eskandar missed her HSC exams after being diagnosed with pericarditis
Now top Sydney cardiologist Dr Ross Walker has called for a ban on mRNA jabs
He’s seen a rise in heart conditions over past 12 months relating to Covid jabs
He believes other Covid vaccines are ‘just as good’ as Pfizer and Moderna.
Bear
Circulating anything by the J.Geils Band should be a sackable offence. Ditto Supertramp and Steely Dan.
What about the Alan Parsons Project?
Asking for a friend.
What’s the actual nature of Danny Lim’s activism?
Has he got a beef against any particular group?
Unless you happen to be a productive Australian citizen/resident.
In which case you’re just lumbered with the bill/consequences.
It’s ever been thus with Labor.
Have you not seen the video?
He believes other Covid vaccines are ‘just as good’ as Pfizer and Moderna.
That’s the way!
Don’t say anything that might provoke the dreaded TGA to suspend your licence forever.
No. Just speculating from the broad strokes I read this morning – hence the question form.
Pilot Dies Suddenly After Collapsing Shortly After Takeoff from Chicago Airport (AUDIO)
Oops. Not question in form, but couched in speculative rather than asserting terms.
The mutton lobby, I believe.
Saw Danny Lim in action in that big Sydney arcade thingie a few years back.
His schtick consisted of screaming something at the top of his voice while waving a sign, while promenading along the mezzanine, up to the landing, cross over, and repeat. Poor shoppers and merchants avoiding and refusing him entry. At one stage he made as if to climb over the railing and jump.
Rozzers turned up eventually and carted him away.
Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson has told an audience of Coalition and One Nation MPs that modular nuclear reactors and natural gas are the key to lifting people out of poverty, and that Australians must avoid “the lurking potential catastrophes that are associated with this completely fabricated energy crisis in Europe”.
Speaking at Parliament House on Thursday, Dr Peterson accused the left of being willing to sacrifice the poor for political purposes.
“If the left has the opportunity to, let’s say, save the planet, or serve the poor, they’ll instantly pick save the planet,” he said.
“And then if they have the opportunity to pick save the planet or destroy capitalism, they will instantly pick destroy capitalism.”
“If you’re willing to sacrifice poor people to your environmental delusions, there’s something wrong with you,” he said, adding that “modular nuclear” and liquid natural gas would have to be a major part of the world’s ongoing energy mix.
Mr Peterson’s comments were echoed later in the day at forum to promote nuclear energy as a part of Australia’s energy mix.
Former ANSTO chief Adrian Paterson said “modern small modular reactors should absolutely be adopted in Australia in order to provide reliable, predictable and safe energy for our grid.
“Nuclear power absolutely stacks up economically, because what you want is predictable, always-on power,” Mr Paterson said.
“One of the things about why it is so difficult to rely on intermittent renewable source s of powers is that it doesn’t stack up 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
“We are living in an era where we are trying to take carbon out of our energy supply, and then we need electricity for our cars and other things with a high penetration of renewables.”
“But the physics and engineering just don’t support that,” he said.
Daily Tele
Pity the Libs didn’t push this one hard when they were in office, along with actually doing something in many other areas. They might not be on the outer now.
Ditto.
He’s not a harmless eccentric, he’s an attention seeker.
Andrew O’Keefe must be very close to running out of being famous by virtue of proximity. He and Slater should get a cell together and swap hard luck stories.
Old Ozzie:
What did the gay movement expect when it enrolled the state to enforce the perversion our children?
The State has not yet woken up to the fact their alliance with the perverts is rubbing off on it.
Sydney has a lot of malignant weirdos wandering around the CBD. Take Clover Moore for example …
Danny Lim was wearing a Stinky shirt on coming out of hospital.
Which rather reduced my interest in his case.
“Respect Existence or Expect Resistance” eh Mr Lim? I expect intelligence and resist stupidity myself.
How about some Christopher Cross then?
This is absolutely FUCKING outrageous.
Who the fuck does Also think he is . . . if he wants to blow Macron I suggest the ALP or himself funds the extra $700M – after all that would be a drop in the ocean given the amount of union money the Liars party have access to.
Big Mutton still have a lot of pull with the Nationals.
Here’s the YouTube vid of 2 cops restraining Danny Lim’s
arms and driving him face first into the tiles.
The sandwich board reads Smile For Peace.
Albo is worse than when Julie went overseas with the chequebook.
First comment:
Felix Newman
1 hour ago
In Victoria this is just a normal interaction with police.
True.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
John Kerry as Climate Czar?
At least then we still had some money in the account to cover those cheques.
At present we’re just charging it to future generations.
Wait for it.
Here.
Dr Aseem Malhotra
Has Big Pharma Hijacked Evidence Based Medicine?
Are you sure? RBA Bonds on Issue would suggest otherwise.
“He’s not a harmless eccentric, he’s an attention seeker.”
Correct.
Just so I can be called a vulture again.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Prominent Virologist Dr. A. Oveta Fuller, who advocated for EUA of 3 Covid vaccines, has DIED SUDDENLY from a brief unknown illness (not C19).
She also supported adding C19 vaccines for students to attend public school and recommended pregnant women take the injection.
Not just Canada
Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s national ’emergency’ was a pure concoction of political convenience
‘Cause Unknown’: Excess Mortality & the Epidemic of Sudden Death – Ed Dowd
Alan Moran has a good article at the Speccie on Victoristan and the hunchback’s renewable mania:
https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/victorias-looming-energy-disaster/
My comment:
Another good article Alan. I am afraid, however, that people will not wake up until the lights go out; and even than the first reaction will be the problem is we don’t have enough wind and solar.
The lie of man-made climate change is the first part of this massive attack on the West; renewables are the second. Every time I see a wind turbine or a solar farm, I compare them to the Easter Island statues: pointless emblems of a society in decline, destructive decadence. Of course, renewables are supported by other groups: spivs and grifters, commies, power motivated, z grade academics and bureaucrats, cowardly pollies and useful idiots. Renewables are a classic example of something being defined by its supporters. In short, they are useless and promulgated by every bad motivation.
As I write this Victoristan is being powered by 70% coal and gas and 17% hydro and 12% renewables.
https://www.aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem#price-demand
These bare facts are bad enough, but the real kicker is this: already installed in Victoristan are more renewables than the demand for electricity in that state. There is already enough renewables installed in Victoristan to supply electricity to that benighted state: IF THEY WORKED. They don’t. They:
1 Only produce electricity for ~ 30% of the time as averaged over a year
2 They produce in surges, unpredictably
3 They produce the WRONG sort of electricity, DC, not AC
4 They require huge backup, massive extra infrastructure and grid construction
5 Their materials come from the most polluting and expensive mining known
6 When their productive life ends there are huge disposal issues
7 They cover vast areas of land and destroy huge numbers of wildlife
8 They have failed everywhere in the world where they have been installed
Yet every government in this wretched nation, ALP/Greens and LNP support them only differing marginally in degree.
When the lights go out and this economy is destroyed there must be an accounting of those responsible for this self-0created disaster.
I could be wrong.
Based on memories of R-G-R running through Costello’s legacy of surpluses.
WHO and the CDC declares measles as a global imminent threat, Covid to blame
Cassie, serious question. If the “attention seeker” was seeking attention over something we approved of, would you have a different opinion?
I’m really loath to start a stouch, but I can’t stop thinking of the “diseased nanna” who was pepper sprayed. I know he’s a serial nuisance. It may well be that Dave Sharma could have complained the same of you when you approached him in the street. DrDuk had the same treatment from his MP.
We have to be very careful here. Do we really want to condone the physical mistreatment of citizens who are expressing an opinion, regardless of how obnoxious they are?
https://mailchi.mp/f8a21ddd9cc3/power-systems-expert-calls-for-a-new-electricity-market-192695?e=47ee5c4c98
Any thoughts on this?
It looks to me like a renationalisation of the grid – along with government looting of the earnings, and Union featherbedding just like the good old days.