Mary and Joseph on the Way to Bethlehem, Hugo van der Goes, 1475
John Birmingham wrote a book last century entitled “He Died With a Falafel in His Hand”. What did he know…
Open Thread – Tue 6 Dec 2020
- Open Thread – Weekend 21 Sept 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 19 Sept 2024
- The Unnecessary War?
- Open Thread – Mon 16 Sept 2024
- No, Your Holiness, killing babies and border control are not the same
I may be remembering incorrectly, but I’m positive we were assured after Mabo that this would never, ever happen.
Someone will be along shortly to tell us 200 will pop up in their place. Might be hard getting life…
Hisbollocks now has a new favourite colour. Blew!
Spur of the moment. https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1837180928461787199?t=oN1rnx0H4k7_VQYfOiAqLg&s=19
“For 2024
1. He should never have met with those two meatheads
2. He should never have written the last missive.
3. He’s going to turn 78 and he’s too old.”
Yep, there’s one person who has the ability to destroy Donald Trump and that person’s name is Donald Trump.
And for those who think DeSantis weak, nup, I don’t see that. His success in Florida has been built on his ability fighting culture and economic wars. He’s no shrinking violet. He takes on the left and he wins. His win a month ago in the midterms was massive, Florida under DeSantis is now a red state, he won long-term Demonrat districts AND he won young people’s votes and therein lies a very interesting rub. DeSantis gave voters, particularly young voters, something to vote for, there were clear differences between him and his Demonrat rival. DeSantis defied the Covid zeitgeist, he kept the state open when most of the world was shutting down, he took on Disney and they’re just two of his accomplishments (there are many others). You can’t win elections shouting and wailing about stolen elections, you must present ideas and policies. I’m now beginning to think that Hillary and Donald are two sides of the same coin, each wailing at each other and at others about how their respective elections, one in 2016 and one 2020, were stolen. Instead of sending out tweets about stolen elections, Trump should be travelling around the country talking about his successes as president, and his successes were legion.
Which brings me to Oz and the dismal state of our so called “Liberal” party and the latest media opining how the Liberals are finito because young people, particularly millennials, aren’t voting Liberal. Why should they vote Liberal when the party is no different to the Labor party? This was very clear in Victoria less than two weeks ago. As someone said last night on Rowan Dean’s show, Governor DeSantis proves that a right of centre party can win the votes of the young, but to do so such parties and leaders must be prepared to stand up, espouse and articulate policy differences rather than simply ape and parrot the left. I don’t see any such Liberal in this country willing to do so, all they do is cower in the corner. However last week, to their credit, the Nationals did stand up and voice their opinion about the Voice and I can’t tell you how refreshing that was. Meanwhile the Liberals, like a flapping bird unable to get off the ground, are still waggling on the side re. the Voice. Pathetic.
Thanks for the confirmation indolent.
There is no evidence to support your ludicrous claim of genocide.
Trouble at mill
Labor is seemingly divided over nuclear energy with Anthony Albanese and a senior Cabinet minister slapping down the party’s South Australian Premier after he called for an “open mind” to the zero carbon alternative
Herald Sun paywall.
Unrepresentative swill is hopefully gone.
Backroom Baz: Poll pundits tip Adem Somyurek to make upper house return
Election experts predict Adem Somyurek will make a barnstorming return to parliament, but it could cause a high-profile casualty.
Good writing Cassie.
Now how can we get the Nationals to become the new Third Way, by becoming attractive to city voters as well as rural?
One would assume by standing candidates, but presumably that would split a conservative vote if the Liberals insisted on running a candidate in the same seat.
Adem also says so far so good.
this unrepresentative swill.
Meanwhile in Tasmania, a typical example of why Council rates keep going up:
As the Kingborough Council endorsed a plan to make its community more inclusive, one councillor asked if it was going too far, saying it was going further than the “most wokiest” council.
The council endorsed its LGBTQIA+ action plan, which includes providing inclusion training and workshops for staff, flying the rainbow flag on certain days of the year, investigating the possibility for new public toilets to have at least one equal access bathroom and looking into the possibility of staff who work with the community to wear ally badges if they’d like.
Hobart Mercury
Unbelievable Luddites. This is the party of science, right?
He also ensured there was a free and fair vote. I wonder what the result would have been if that had been the case in every state. Certainly, Kari Lake would now be Governor elect of Arizona. They pulled out all the stops to prevent that because they wanted to avoid another DeSantis at all costs.
Imagine how many more voters the Victorian Liberals might have won had they opposed lockdowns and Dan’s brutal totalitarian handling of the scamdemic?
Ron DeSantis, Conservationist
An appalling act of cultural appropriation ALPBC Radio Perf with Delta Goodrem and late stone age animist Gurrumul singing Silent Night.
Eloquently said Cassie !
You write so well expressing the thoughts of many here.
I thought he was a panty specialist?
Anyone know this happened? Tim Pool reported it yesterday.
Enjoy:
Brisbane doctor’s naked shed romp with ‘vulnerable’ patient exposed
IMPORTANT NOTICE about Dr Nixon:
Farmer Gez at 7:19 – sorta like how Albo can govern in his own right with a 32% Primary Vote. Compulsory voting, compulsory preferential voting is now a real problem for the Lieborals with close to 100% of the Green vote flowing back to the Liars and the non-Liar vote being scattered to the four winds. The Lieborals cannot win government without a Primary vote around 42% or thereabouts. Last Cth election and Victoriastan they were around 37%. Of course, not a peep heard from them despite being in government for the last decade.
Love it when a plan comes together.
Step 1: Cap on coal price complicating federal bid to quell Australians’ energy costs
Step 2:Prime Minister orders coal price caps
Step 3:No bill relief for months as Commonwealth signals cash for states in energy deal
So, not February, then?
Something amiss with Too Cheap To Meter.xlsx?
Luckily we have the Nation’s best and brightest and most thoughtful minds working this wicked problem.
rosiesays:
December 7, 2022 at 6:16 am
Ed back on the hand on thigh case.
Richard Cranium needs to get his hand off it. (No, not the thigh.)
Con artist, Marlene Headley, dressing for success.
Elon Musk Fires Deputy General Counsel For Suppressing Information Important To Public: “In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today”
I’m not sure Jesus would do anything of the sort, but there you go. Read and weep.
A beyond parody pair of ridiculous narcissistic imbeciles.
Newsweek!
It’s Time to Admit It: The Democrats’ Gun Control Laws Are Racist | Opinion
Something amiss with Too Cheap To Meter.xlsx?
It’s all too hard Faustus. Just too too hard.
Funny. I thought the idea of being in government was to govern, and not blame everybody you can think of for not doing things you promised to do.
LOL. That is desperate.
Trump is still leading the primary poll averages by more than twenty points. Funny definition of “finished”.
Ed Casesays:
December 7, 2022 at 6:41 am
GoofBall thunders:
Ed would want to hope Lehrmann doesn’t read this site
GoofBall:
This Site is light reading.
Most comments are either unhinged rants, closeted ALP operatives offering ‘well meaning” advice to the Liberal Party, or West Australian commenters talking about “reskinning Mother” and trying to post dodgy material under the pretext that they’re on a crusade against pedophiles.
Richard Cranium goes on an unhinged rant against supposed unhinged rants.
Democrazy, good and hard.
a former kiwi doctor?
Hinderaker has been popping up on Outsiders spouting his TDS, including blaming Fatty Trump for the GOP’s mediocre mid term results.
Cassie, the stolen election or election interference is now in the news due to the Twitter cleanout so Trump should hammer them as much as possible to make it acceptable to doubt the battleground states’ odd voter counts. Plant it into the population’s mind that Democrats are cheats.
There is still plenty of time to travel the country and do the “are you better off now then you were four years ago?” sports arena events before 2024.
Farmer Gezsays:
December 7, 2022 at 7:19 am
The ALP could outdo their last electoral win in Vic as they pick up another three seats taking their total to fifty six.
37% primary vote now translates to 67% of the seats.
It would make Joh Bjelke would blush.
Doncha know, gerrymanders and vote fixing are OK, as long as they are being done only by the fascist left.
Top Ender, Nationals may have to do that in NSW after next March when Libs lose everything. I’m still voting for my state PM Tanya Davies who is one of almost extinct conservatives. She lost a lot in the party by opposing abortion and euthanasia bills.
Lot of whining around here lately about the political system.
Is that a groundswell I hear for proportional representation? I have had a feeling for a while now that PR is the future, because it would solve a lot of problems for a lot of parties. Constitutional amendments are hard to get through at the best of times, but maybe the Voice stuff is a good horse on which to hitch that wagon.
A lady walked into a Police Station, the desk Sergeant said “Can I help you?” “Yes” she said “I’d like to report a case of sexual assault”.
“Where did it happen?” the Sergeant asked. “In the park just down the road” she replied.
“Can you describe what happened?” “Yes, I was walking along the footpath in the park near the trees when a man jumped out of the bushes and dragged me in there, removed my underwear then he dropped his pants to his knees and had his way with me”.
“Could you give me a description of him?” “Yes, he was wearing white shoes, long white trousers, a white shirt and he had these two big long pads from his feet up to and over his knees, one on each leg”. “Sounds to me like he was a cricketer, most probably a batsman” said the Sergeant. “Yes” said the lady “He was an English Cricketer”
“That’s very observant” said the Sergeant “You worked that out from his accent?” “No” she replied. “I worked it out because he wasn’t in for very long”.
Big changes where made in 2021, 9 state districts abolished, 9 new ones created, most boundaries shifted.
I’ve bounced back and forth at federal and state level last three elections.
The Electoral Boundaries Commission (EBC) is an independent, neutral statutory body. It’s our job to establish and review Victoria’s electoral boundaries.
We make sure each electorate has a similar number of enrolled voters so that when it’s time to vote in a State election, each vote carries equal weight. This is known as the ‘one vote, one value’ principle.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
– Mahatma Gandhi
People wont come out to vote if they think the elections are rigged. He needs to have a solution. The only current solution is military intervention. The same situation in Brazil.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
– Mahatma Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
– Mahatma Gandhi
He never says anything about the steal, which is the real cause.
Warnock will of course win the GA runoff. The lefty pollsters are tuning their polls to “too close to call” so that the ballots can likewise be tuned to the typical 20,000 or so majority that the Dems like, since that prevents too much scrutiny.
Can’t very well blame his mates, can he? It’s amazing how many sane people Trump broke. Isn’t the definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? That’s what Republican establishment is committed to.
Guilty as charged, m’lud.
Is that a groundswell I hear for proportional representation? I have had a feeling for a while now that PR is the future, because it would solve a lot of problems for a lot of parties. Constitutional amendments are hard to get through at the best of times, but maybe the Voice stuff is a good horse on which to hitch that wagon.
Only if you want it to lose. Get your hand off it m0nty=fa.
Those New Oirish continue to fit in.
No, a military solution is not the answer. People are much smarter than that and are voting with their feet, they are moving from blue to red states at a huge rate. Within a few election cycles the US political situation will look very different due to the population movements.
Constitutional amendments are hard to get through at the best of times, but maybe the Voice stuff is a good horse on which to hitch that wagon.
And why would that be you MontyPox Virus? The people have yet to see the wording of this ‘voice’ amendment. The people cannot vote on something that is not there yet. Another LayBore Guv’ment balls up……………………………..
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is there anyone who isn’t a vulnerable these days? oh yeah … normal white males.
they should hand out the skin colour chart to all commonwealth officers, would make their job so much easier.
Now how can we get the Nationals to become the new Third Way, by becoming attractive to city voters as well as rural?
Food and Water would be a good place to start.
maybe you havnt noticed that by 2030 most of the WEF agenda will have been achieved.
the degenerate neo-marxist woke left have shredded rule of law, shat on the constitution and are brainwashing generations of youngsters. there isn’t a few election cycles of time left. since the constitution no longer exists and rule of law is wepaonised no differently to venezuela against political opponents then military intervention is the only way to right the ship.
People are calling for the military to intervene in Brazil with such brazen fraud and cheating. They should intervene and put to military courts all the people involved in the fraud and execute them.
This must never be allowed to happen again.
not good enough, not even a bandaid solution
If you want to take the time to read this and follow the links you will not get jabbed again with this type of vaccine.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/irreparable-vaccine-induced-harm?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=88962247&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
I’ve just watched Dr. duk’s interview on Club Grubbery. Brilliantly executed again, duk. Thank you.
Big_Nambassays:
December 7, 2022 at 9:38 am
If you want to take the time to read this and follow the links you will not get jabbed again with this type of vaccine.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/irreparable-vaccine-induced-harm?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=88962247&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Thank you for that and I never got jabbed in the first place. My gut feeling and top notch Immune System told me not to…………………….
Sandgropers barred from sandy-bottom groper fishing
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/western-australia-bans-recreational-fishing/video/c1880ec54034327c47b4ba5013d798b0
Two things that seem kinda odd.
1. Surely the amount of fishing that happens in school holidays is way more than in school weeks. Is the integral of school week catches still greater than the holiday catches?
2. The ban lasts until (dun dun dunnn) 2030 “but if the stocks are still in decline” there will be further “measures” taken (in 2030). There’s that year 2030 popping up again.
3. (bonus) No mention of commercial trawler tonnes taken, just blamed on recreational fishing?
hostage to the biggest rise in the money supply in 100 years which has created rampant inflation and now hostage to slamming the brakes on the money supply to lock in a recession. pull the other one you lying commie shit.
“Warnock will of course win the GA runoff. The lefty pollsters are tuning their polls to “too close to call” so that the ballots can likewise be tuned to the typical 20,000 or so majority that the Dems like, since that prevents too much scrutiny.”
Warnock will win the GA runoff because Warner, the Trump candidate, is inept and he was a bad choice.
I’m sorry but we need to stop blaming everything on ballot fraud.
A taster.
High Rates of COVID-19 Vaccination Quadrupled and Tripled Global Rates of56
COVID-19 Infection and Death Respectively Over Low Vaccination Rates
The bottom line: Nations that achieved high rates of COVID-19 vaccination experienced significantly58
higher COVID-19 infection and death rates than nations achieving lower vaccination rates. Analysis of Our59
World in Data (OWID) demonstrated that high rates of COVID-19 vaccination were associated with60
significantly higher weighted mean infection rates per million (4.0x), death rates per million (3.2x), and61
vaccination rates per 100 population (4.6x) compared with low vaccination rate nations. The observed62
proportion of COVID-19 infections and associated deaths was larger in high vaccination rate nations and63
smaller than expected in low vaccination rate nations. These group differences were highly significant
latest twitter files
It is literally all about Jim Baker getting fired for doing his job, LOL. So deep in the weeds that a whipper snipper couldn’t find the story.
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
December 7, 2022 at 9:44 am
Sandgropers barred from sandy-bottom groper fishing
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/western-australia-bans-recreational-fishing/video/c1880ec54034327c47b4ba5013d798b0
These Guv’ment twits are bonkers. How can recreational fishing deplete the billions of fish in the Ocean and Seas around WA? And this ban does not apply to the Commercial Fishing Industry? I would launch every boat and runabout in WA and every one go fishing. There are not enough WA Water Police to ‘catch’ everyone. So, FU WA Guv’ment………………….
“Hitler was inbred and had Jewish and African ancestry”
There is no evidence for this.
DeSantis didnt win with policies, he won by cleaning up the electoral system and purging the crooks. None of which came to justice either.
Who is going to clean up the swing states like AZ where the surgical cheating takes place?
hostage to the biggest rise in the money supply in 100 years which has created rampant inflation and now hostage to slamming the brakes on the money supply to lock in a recession. pull the other one you lying commie shit.
This Inflation is being caused by Supply Side issues and not Demand Side issues. The ‘Virus’ and the inept Guv’ment policies to deal with it are the main reason for the Supply Side issues. The RBA cannot fix this with interest rate increases. The Federal Guv’ment needs to take action. For example. Why are Gas prices so high? Because the Federal and State/Territory Guv’ments have restricted the supply of Gas. Australia has plenty of Gas so let’s use it for fucks sake.
All of Australia’s problems are easily fixable. Unfortunately, we have far too many idiots at the helm steering us onto the rocks………………………….
here is inflation hit the 10 year button on the graph. nothing to do with demand or supply side shocks. it s a pure matter of out of control money printing.
Dickless still deflecting from the lack of Trump censorship. The big guy’s treason was documented by Tony Bobulinski 2 years ago. All on Hunter’s lap top.
Thanks for the link. Good to see he has others looking into it.
Interesting to note that in US it is illegal to examine the vaccine !
His affair is from several years ago and full details of hearing about it are available online.
rosiesays:
December 7, 2022 at 3:55 am
for your complete list of loonies
They have had 2 years to figure this out and a scant 2 more years to fix the problem in these corrupt states and counties. Clearly with corrupt governors and softcock state legislatures they are not able to so. That only leaves one option, the constitution has already been erased, nothing short of military intervention can put the system back to constitutionally valid state.
Cassie – Warnock is an actual slum lord and Walker is a hero of the African American community as a famous NFL running back. He’s not too bad on the stump either.
It should not even be close. But with all the resources available the Dems WILL steal it. They don’t want to be hostage to Manchin again.
Btw the Black Panthers are out making sure the slaves don’t vote incorrectly.
New Black Panther Party Sending Armed Guards to Georgia Polling Centers (6 Dec)
That’s another tell.
Indolent posted a link earlier to an article linking to this BMJ article:
COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities.
From the conclusion:
After three years, the first paper in a major journal I have seen stating what was bleeding obvious from the beginning of this charade.
Mandates for these novel gene therapies were introduced with no independent scientific analysis.
Anyone with any experience of rowing sheds should really have made a better choice. The landed gentry know that clearly the stables are a better choice or, if French, a pied a terre maintained for the purpose. Ask Dick Pratt. Oh, too late.
I take even less notice of cheats and frauds than I do of people who can’t even attempt to use a very simple quote function.
Fascists like Zippy don’t care about policies, only power.
Coming soon to all Australian states and territories: Meme.
‘Just doing his job’.
Fascists like Zippy don’t care about policies, only power.
And you only care about getting a dick.
The Left every day.
Haha, Monty that’s epic projection! Even for you!
You got a pen and a phone too?
It has nothing to do with quality of candidate when a brain damaged retard like fetterman can win without even being coherent.
The supreme court is too chicken shit to deal with it. The globalist left have their rioting armies at the ready to intimidate any court in the land.
Trump is right, this is already a constitutional crisis and the only way out of it is for the military to intervene.
I see the “I know you are but what am I” crowd have clocked on.
Unpossible!
Carcinogenicity and genotoxicity trials, which check for cancer risk and damage to DNA respectively, are not required for COVID-19 vaccines as they do not enter the nucleus and therefore cannot cause cancer or DNA damage.
Johnny Rotten says:
December 7, 2022 at 10:01 am
Colonel Crispin Berkasays:
December 7, 2022 at 9:44 am
Sandgropers barred from sandy-bottom groper fishing
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/western-australia-bans-recreational-fishing/video/c1880ec54034327c47b4ba5013d798b0
These Guv’ment twits are bonkers. How can recreational fishing deplete the billions of fish in the Ocean and Seas around WA? And this ban does not apply to the Commercial Fishing Industry? I would launch every boat and runabout in WA and every one go fishing. There are not enough WA Water Police to ‘catch’ everyone. So, FU WA Guv’ment………………….
Yeah, and with a little help from our medical nazi friends to chivvy people along to the gas chamber.
After a Crackdown on a Pain Clinic, a Tragic Double Suicide: After losing access to opioids, many patients can’t live with constant pain (6 Dec)
Already as Johanna says you have to jump through flaming hoops to get even partial pain relief. It’s only going to get worse as pressure is already on the availability of paracetamol and ibuprofen, let alone codeine and oxycodone.
Even if you aren’t vaxxed!
it’s in the blood
Still hope for the Soccerwhos then.
wrong zippy
There are supply side issues with production restricted by the governments COVID19 lockdowns and the devastation this caused, and the government banning and hobbling the production of energy causing cost push inflation across the entire economy, and also demand led inflation from the government printing money (aka “borrowing from the Reserve Bank”) which feed demand.
Australia, as a major energy exported, should be immune from any international recession, as has been the history to date. I doubt this will be repeated in the next round.
Exactly!
A lot of people carrying on in much the same vein as the black grievance industry.
Systemic this, systemic that.
It’s never our fault.
FMD.
rosie – do you believe that? I thought genetic therapy of mRNA was designed to alter the cell genetic mechanism to produce certain antibodies. That, of itself, would appear to open the door for mutations that may lead to cancerous growth.
GA was a centre of election fraud in the 2020 election. Why should it be any different this time? It’s not as if anyone has been brought to account is it?
Ooooohkaaaaay…
Thanks Dr. Ana.
Not sure what to make of you. Maybe I need to scratch around a bit more.
Doc Faustus:
The issue is to be being perceived as dealing with the problem – not actually providing relief from the high prices they deliberately engineered.
Remember that they have been promising high prices to ‘save the planet’ for over twenty years and they are delivering on those promises.
My late brother in law received mRNA therapy for his cancer. It was all experimental, even though the delivery system had been tested over the years. His life expectancy was basically zero without it. With it, he had at least six more years, enough to see his youngest through high school.
That’s his story. As I’m not a doctor (and definitely not a “light doctor”) I don’t know about vaxx delivery. Seems like using a blunderbuss when a popgun would do.
He was told the therapy would target the specific cancer, not his entire body. The cancer shrank, then grew back again. Rinse and repeat.
At least he had a little time.
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We figured that next time people were working on that node, they’d bugger-up the connections again, so we checked out the Starlink satellite option. Our mates in Canberra loved theirs, so we bit the bullet.
We forked out $800 for the rooftop dish and modem, and our monthly account is $143. That’s more expensive than Telstra, but boringly reliable and fast. We average downloads in the 150-200Mb/s range and uploads in the 10-20Mb/s range.
Our dish is round – 600mm in diameter – but later models are rectangular – 300mm x 500mm. They weigh around 4kg.
Because it’s a satellite system, we figured it would be handy as a mobile internet service and now that has come to pass. Starlink has around 2000 satellites in place at present and plans to have at least 10,000 in low orbit by 2023.
From July 2022, reliable, remote-area coverage was available, but could only be accessed from a stationary – camped – position.
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For the remainder of 2022, the equipment cost is $450 and the monthly cost is $174. With that, using a VOIP phone service on SL makes traditional satellite phone redundant.
Coverage improves every few days. Almost all of Oz has high capacity coverage and the remainder is low capacity. The coverage as at November 2022 is shown on the accompanying map.
Will, that isn’t quite correct. The mRNA is translated to virus coat proteins by cellular machinery, and those proteins are then displayed on the surface of the cell – such as the lining of blood vessels or the heart. Then T-cells come along and detect those virus coat proteins, and signal the production of antibodies.
Unfortunately the spike protein seems to kill the T-cells, probably by cell fusion. Which appears to be why once the antibodies have decayed that immunity goes negative after about 3 months.
The mRNA may potentially be incorporated into DNA if the reverse transcriptase enzyme is present. That’s the mechanism of RNA based retroviruses like HIV. In theory there shouldn’t be any reverse transcriptase in the vaccine liposomes, but there’s no easy way of knowing whether that is true or not. It is also unknown how much if any reverse transcriptase enzyme may be naturally present in cells, for example via other retrovirus infections (not necessarily HIV).
its a consumption intervention
Indolent:
Would it be racist to say “Think of it as Evolution in Action?”
Perhaps, but it would also be accurate.
No better way to drive down demand for something than to send the price skywards.
Interesting, in breaking news:
The US has promised Australia that American defence forces, the world’s most powerful, will plug the looming gap in our defences as the navy’s ageing Collins class submarines become obsolete in coming years, as the two nations announce they would boost defence cooperation with Japan to counter the growing Chinese threat in the Indo-Pacific.
Standing side by side with deputy prime minister Richard Marles, foreign minister Penny Wong and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State department after annual AUSMIN talks in Washington on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), US defence secretary Lloyd Austin declared the US ““will not allow Australia to have a capability gap going forward”.
“We recognise where Australia is and where its capability begins to diminish and of course we will address that in the pathway we create,” Mr Austin said, leaving the details to be unveiled by the government in next year’s defence review slated for release early next year.
While there may be some good things out of this, remember certain people banging on about being “independent” and “standing alone” and “getting out from under the US’s influence” over the years?
Maybe only the Greens carry on like that now.
Oz
<a href="wrong zippy
There are supply side issues with production restricted by the governments COVID19 lockdowns and the devastation this caused, and the government banning and hobbling the production of energy causing cost push inflation across the entire economy, and also demand led inflation from the government printing money (aka “borrowing from the Reserve Bank”) which feed demand.
Australia, as a major energy exported, should be immune from any international recession, as has been the history to date. I doubt this will be repeated in the next round.
<a href="wrong zippy
There are supply side issues with production restricted by the governments COVID19 lockdowns and the devastation this caused, and the government banning and hobbling the production of energy causing cost push inflation across the entire economy, and also demand led inflation from the government printing money (aka “borrowing from the Reserve Bank”) which feed demand.
Australia, as a major energy exported, should be immune from any international recession, as has been the history to date. I doubt this will be repeated in the next round.
<a href="wrong zippy
There are supply side issues with production restricted by the governments COVID19 lockdowns and the devastation this caused, and the government banning and hobbling the production of energy causing cost push inflation across the entire economy, and also demand led inflation from the government printing money (aka “borrowing from the Reserve Bank”) which feed demand.
watch and learn
lol blockquote fail
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How Can We Fix Inflation? With Economist Steve Hanke
The people up the road are getting a lot of work done by tradies. I spoke to the sparkie as I passed. I notice you guys drive light trucks. Hino and Isuzu. He said just after the Bat Flu took over the minds of politicians they still had work and the availability of vehicles was diminishing, they decided to ping the 4wd’s and buy secondhand from business that had no or little work and were getting out of the leased vehicles. He said his costs were 60% of what they were and they own them outright. These are young guys who are making money while they can without all the toys that usually go with it. Between them they help each other on projects so no one is waiting for the other. This is another bonus in 10-15% profit in a project. They don’t work for big companies to reduce risk and have their own development projects when between jobs and on weekends. Great to see.
Deliberately is a bit self evident.
Suddenly is a bit of an own goal if you choose to send
an All Commands war warning by Western Union.
Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi :
This is possibly part of the explanation for the slightly underwhelming no-politicians-here description that Taibbi gave last week versus the “interference” rigging that Musk described on Sunday, as Taibbi was working through a Baker filter and Musk was not.
Expecting m0nty’s “nothingburger” to start growing legs and moo-ing soon!
Paul Pelosi has monkeypox
Sorry if I offended you Cassie.
The point is that the top Nazis were mindless murderers. I’m not “the Jews did it, da Jews are the real Nazis” at all.
Their policies are dumb, obviously. Virtually all Germans match the genetics markers as Jews, most Germans have a low per cent of Jewish ancestry. That is, if you think 23 and Me etc have credible testing…
As to the claim of inbreeding there seems to be evidence to believe in some unsavoury marriages in the 1800s.
Of course my point at all is that we have laws on the books so bad with an unthinking public we’re on a razors edge to tyranny, all that needs be done is to flip the switch – underlying ideology doesn’t matter and trying to stamp out hate speech etc may even enable such a move to obliterate freedom.
I forgot to mention the ABC. The ABC TV and radio are not the issue. My issue is the proliferation of podcasts – the ABC produces a multitude of these and avid ABC watchers will not be able to keep up.
Jon Stewart is an annoying shit, but Steve Hanke is spot on and knows what he is talking about.
Getting this one in before m0nty does.
Trump Organisation found guilty of tax fraud
The Trump Organisation, which operates hotels, golf courses and real estate, was found to have falsified business records to defraud tax authorities.
Hardly surprising. What would be really surprising is if they actually dunnit.
Fascists like Zippy don’t care about policies, only power.
There seem to be no mirrors at Chez m0nty=fa.
Re the defence statement, in WWII one US general described Australia as “an aircraft carrier that doesn’t go anywhere”.
He meant that in order to fight the Japanese they had to do it from Oz, as the west coast of USA was too far – in those days – to engage and win.
Some of that argument applies today, even with nuclear powered ships that can stay on station forever.
But Oz has always since then been a vassal state of the USA, and underspent considerably on defence as a result.
Then again, I quite like being a vassal state of a great and powerful friend, even if they can’t play cricket.
Zipster:
People only remember the helicopters – they refuse to discuss the Leftist takeover of Chile that meant the only way to defeat the civil insurgency was via extrajudicial means.
Brazil is nearly at the Junta stage.
The West is looking over the edge of that cliff and trying to avoid seeing it. Unfortunately, there are no civil remedies for the Marxist Bacillus.
What has the US ever done for us? Maybe Seinfeld.
I have a theory that the number of writers, producers and presenters at the ABC increases in inverse proportion to the ratings as those avid listeners and watchers either shuffle out of God’s waiting room or decide to stop watching because they’re fed up with the bias.
It’s a sort of make-work program that is justified by the executives with the mantras of “reaching new audiences” and “adopting new digital platforms.”
Zipster:
…and here’s the 25 year graph.
Says it all. The bastards are trying to kill the economy, and they’ll succeed.
Seems to be a bit of a disconnect here. On the one hand when SA Labor mentioned the nuke word on Tuesday nice Mr Albo went off his nut. But Marles seems still be interested in nuclear subs. Sort of, at least.
PM ‘slapped down’ Malinauskas’ ‘sensible’ nuclear energy suggestion (5 Dec)
I don’t know what Labor wants with all this dissonance. My gut feel is that I will not get to see a RAN nuclear sub ever, even if I live to be 120.
Dot
Their policies are dumb, obviously. Virtually all Germans match the genetics markers as Jews, most Germans have a low per cent of Jewish ancestry. That is, if you think 23 and Me etc have credible testing…
I suspect that any Australians whose male ancestors lived in rural areas (including towns) in the 1800s would also show a perv=cent, often low, of aboriginal ancestry. Come the inVoice, there might come a major increase in the numbers “identifying”, not all of whom might favour the Indig Industry and its ambitions.
The main problem with being a vassal state is that, as history attests, the reigning empire always collapses, sometimes suddenly, like the British, or sometimes quite predictably, like the Ottomans and sometimes, like the Romans, many people don’t see the collapse coming until it’s too late.
And that’s far from being the only fault line in Elbow’s Cabinet.
As I’ve said before – much to Ed’s excitement last night I note – if Dutton can’t make hay out of Labor’s predicament he’s not worth his salt.
A $400 million suicide net in San Francisco
reminds me of something from a great novel by Nick Tosches:
I think of this world now as a black horse running wild to hell,
with its body filled with disease. I think of seizing that horse for one terrible moment
as it gallops towards those flames, riding it and looting all that is in the path
of its destruction then jumping off before being thrown and broken.
Downloads of those podcasts would be available to the last individual listener. Their cost per listener would be a fascinating Senate question. You get the feeling more than a few of them would fall into the “make work” category. Any hive member with any sort of market appeal incorporates and sells their own book or does MC work at writers festivals.
Roger, it’s important to know when to jump horses. We are not there yet, despite what Chairman Dan might think.
They instead should install diving boards and cameras. With signs saying the diving board users will be rated on how artistic their dive was, and that the footage will be sent to their next of kin.
I think I stole the idea from Larry Niven. Not sure which story. Was it from Oath of Fealty?
What we should be doing is raising our own stable.
Australia is quite defencible. If we had the will the means would follow.
I thought there might be such a skeleton lurking in my family closet, but the DNA test revealed I’m a pure blood; a pure blood Scottish-Welsh-Cornwall Celt-Irish-English-Norwegian-Dane (in that order), that is.
One of those This is fine things.
Looking like Warnock is going to win his fourth election in four years for the Georgia senate seat, making the numbers 51-49.
Could even be a swing against Walker from November, LOL.
They’re arguing about whether executives should pay personal tax on apartments and cars provided by the company. If that was applied equally every single manager in the US would be indicted.
Show me the man I’ll show you his crime stuff. No wonder Mueller didn’t push this rubbish.
New York jury finds Trump Organisation guilty of tax fraud for refusing to declare fringe benefits of top executives (Sky News, 7 Dec)
Monty you should put quotes around “win” and “swing”, for accuracy.
Elections in Georgia are run by Republicans. You idiot, Bruce.
Greens have loved composting ever since the founder of Earth Day composted his girlfriend in a cupboard.
Rest in Greenpeace: New York poised to become sixth state to legalize ‘human composting’ – the latest $7,000 eco craze that sees people turned into soil and used to plant trees (6 Dec)
Or you could just bury them with exactly the same result, albeit a lot cheaper.
Maybe you should’ve looked at my pertinent link, Monty, upthread. Which I will repeat for you since, in my experience, you aren’t great at noticing such things.
Georgia elections
“Their policies are dumb, obviously. Virtually all Germans match the genetics markers as Jews, most Germans have a low per cent of Jewish ancestry. That is, if you think 23 and Me etc have credible testing…”
I am not aware of this. I am of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. Last I read, our genetic markets actually closely match Italians, Cypriots and Syrians.
My old man reckoned you should always throw in a couple of roos when planting a tree. I hope they were roos.
Daily Mail.
Don’t you just feel so sorry for poor little Brittany? No, me neither.
Have to have a lot of chutzpah to throw around the “i” word after failing Econs 101.
I might be related to JC!
“Don’t you just feel so sorry for poor little Brittany? No, me neither.”
Nor me. I feel for Bruce Lehmann.
Hospital coffee is pretty bad. Possibly still preferable to the food, although anything individual you pull the lid off is usually fine.
LOL, a bunch of rubbish sold by grifters to marks like you.
Zipstersays:
December 7, 2022 at 10:15 am
This Inflation is being caused by Supply Side issues and not Demand Side issues
here is inflation hit the 10 year button on the graph. nothing to do with demand or supply side shocks. it s a pure matter of out of control money printing.
I disagree with you. Nothing personal of course.
Cool, and interestingly New Testamentish. Guys like Paul and his mates went to the Jewish communities in Syria, Cyprus and of course Rome. You may not like the New Testament Cassie but there’s some nice Jewish history in the book of Acts. Flavius Josephus ended up in Rome of course too, his is a fine history.
Monty goes the ad hom again.
Which he does every time he has no answer.
It’s a tell.
paywalled
The surge in Strep A cases killing schoolchildren is linked to lockdown
It’s hard not to call you an idiot, Bruce, when every argument you throw at me is so stupid.
Apparently his employer British American Tobacco sacked him after he was charged.
He may have a case against them too.
Meanwhile, Katy Gallagher has told teh ABC (who else?) that the Commonwealth will lead with the reforms needed to ensure victims of rape – who are mostly female, she made sure to add – are better supported in the justice system.
Perhaps we’ll get something like the Family Court?
mutley could feed a forest
FFS, where’s the virtue signalling in that?
Tucker Carlson: This is an actual threat to democracy
Warnock 50.5% leads Walker 49.5% with 68% of the vote counted.
Warnock led easily early when only Atlanta had been counted, but now, with country votes in, it’s a cliff-hanger. However, Ned Ryun, CEO of American majority, thinks Warnock, the wife-bashing Democrat, will probably win because the GOP’s ground game isn’t up to scratch.
In the Georgia Senate runoff election, Warnock and Walker and are now tied with 50% of the vote each.
m0ntysays:
December 7, 2022 at 12:32 pm
Monty you should put quotes around “win” and “swing”, for accuracy.
Elections in Georgia are run by Republicans. You idiot, Bruce.
ROFLMAO, m0nty=fa, our resident self-proclaimed “eggspurt” on US politics, is unaware of the concepts of “Establishment (Country Club) Republicans and RINOs.
You idiot, m0nty=fa.
Ant Cats know whether wombats are good eating?
m0ntysays:
December 7, 2022 at 12:48 pm
Maybe you should’ve looked at my pertinent link, Monty, upthread.
LOL, a bunch of rubbish sold by grifters to marks like you.
m0nty=fa don’t care about your steenkin’ evidence.
Bugger, ANY cats. sheesh.
A tribunal has heard details of a Brisbane’s doctor’s steamy affair with a ‘vulnerable’ patient, including naked romps in a rowing club training shed.At least he wasnt a vet.
It is Queersland after all.
Zipstersays:
December 7, 2022 at 1:00 pm
My old man reckoned you should always throw in a couple of roos when planting a tree. I hope they were roos.
mutley could feed a forest
That would be a waste. We are going to need him and his ilk when Soylent Green hits the supermarkets.
Apparently the UK press is circling the wagons in advance of the screening of Dianna 2.0, Markle Martyrdom on Netflix.
‘Sussex, lies and videotape’: papers on the attack over Harry and Meghan documentary
Vengeful won’t start to cover it.
To quote the great Captain Mainwaring: stupid boy.
Happy Empire Expansion Day from the Emperor Hirohito. Citizens are advised a travel warning exists for Pearl Harbour..,Singapore, New Guinea, Borneo, Darwin…
I love ad hominems, they’re so revealing.
A gynaecologist had a burning desire to change careers and become a mechanic. So, she found out from her local tech college what was involved, signed up for evening classes and attended diligently, learning all she could.
When time for the practical exam approached, she prepared carefully for weeks, and completed the exam with tremendous skill. When the results came back, she was surprised to find that she had obtained a mark of 150%.
Fearing an error, she called the instructor, saying “I don’t want to appear ungrateful for such an outstanding result, but I wondered if there had been an error which needed adjusting”.
The instructor said “During the exam, you took the engine apart perfectly, which was worth 50% of the total mark. You put the engine back together again perfectly, which is also worth 50% of the mark. I gave you an extra 50% because you did all of it THROUGH the exhaust…”
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
– Mahatma Gandhi
On the crazy/hot list this chick went 100% for the crazy, not so much for the hot.
Its had all its pathologies confirmed where… at University!!
Women with disability already battle stereotypes. I can’t afford to be an angry, brown woman, too
Its not a disability love, you are just crazy in the coconut.
Growing up neurodivergent, I was constantly seeking new solutions to reduce the barriers that disabled me.
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But it’s a disastrous cycle. Navigating ableist spaces and comments leaves me feeling drained. I have to be on guard. Without a space to recharge, my over-commitments become unrealistic and, as a result, I end up confirming the negative narratives that people misattribute to my personality….
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But I am more than my disability.
I am a brown, disabled, Muslim woman. And sometimes, my intersecting identities only fuel the isolation I feel.
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I’ve often felt that I am friends with people who disagree with my identity.
But I don’t have the luxury of cutting off everyone who has offended me.
If I were to cancel every person who made an ableist, sexist, Islamophobic, or racist comment pleading ignorance, I would be truly isolated.
Disabled women are already battling stereotypes labelling us as angry and non-compliant, I cannot afford to add angry Muslim to the list.
My intersectional identities afford me this tolerance for discrimination. To me, this is the cost of my intersectionality.
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Embracing my intersectionality has connected me to a rich and diverse community, where I finally feel seen.
She could be 1970s Kate bush with a 10 speed vibrating fanny and a twin, and it would still be too far on the crazy axis to make me stick my genitals near it.
Fair Shakesays:
December 7, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Happy Empire Expansion Day from the Emperor Hirohito. Citizens are advised a travel warning exists for Pearl Harbour..,Singapore, New Guinea, Borneo, Darwin…
Yes and today is the Anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. This brought the USA into the Second World War and from then on both Japan and Germany were stuffed.
LOL, mole.
Warnock’s victory in Georgia will focus attention on Trump, who failed to campaign for Walker and also starved him of funds. Democrats doubled the GOP’s spending in the run offs.
No, you don’t. Cherish those friends who must like you despite your neuroticism.
And ditch the “neurodivergent disability” crap. The truth is we’re all damaged to some degree and wallowing in it, not to mention making it your “identity”, doesn’t help in the long run.
It doesn’t matter who you vote for now as World War 3 is now underway with the Ukranian drone attack on Russian airfields. The Russian response will make this limited war now go ballistic.
Merry Christmas everyone…………………………..Peace and Goodwill to all Men (and Women and Its and whoever/whatever).
“Meanwhile, Katy Gallagher has told teh ABC (who else?) that the Commonwealth will lead with the reforms needed to ensure victims of rape – who are mostly female, she made sure to add – are better supported in the justice system.”
Translation required….men will be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
Lady Susan Hussey & etiquette .. she was never alone …….. LOL!
https://ibb.co/CvCwZ0B
Unfuckingreal.
Just when you thought it can’t get any worse, it gets worse.
I very much doubt that.
Monty, have you considered putting a bag over your head so you don’t have to face reality?
A recycled-paper bag of course, got to be ideologically virtuous.
Translation required….men will be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
… men will be presumed guilty.
“… men will be presumed guilty.”
Yep.
Rogersays:
December 7, 2022 at 1:46 pm
It doesn’t matter who you vote for now as World War 3 is now underway with the Ukranian drone attack on Russian airfields. The Russian response will make this limited war now go ballistic.
I very much doubt that.
I hope that you are right. But then again, you may well be wrong.
As I suggested, much like the Family Court.
Lowering the voting age, it’s a trap
Malcolm Roberts
A frog walks into a bank and approaches the teller, whose name plate says Patricia (Patty) Whack.
“Miss Whack, I’d like to get a $50,000 loan to take a vacation”.
Patty looks at the frog in disbelief and asks his name.
“Kermit Jagger. My father is Mick Jagger. It will be fine to authorise the loan, I know your Manager”.
Patty explains that she will need to secure the loan with some collateral.
“Sure, how about this” said Kermit as he produces a tiny porcelain elephant, about an inch tall, bright pink and perfectly formed. Very confused, Patty explains that she’ll have to consult with the bank manager and disappears into a back office.
Patty walks into the manager’s office and proceeds to tell him, “There’s a frog called Kermit Jagger out there who claims to know you and wants to borrow $50,000, and he wants to use this as collateral”. Patty holds up the tiny pink elephant. “I mean, what in the world is this?”
The bank manager looks back at her and says…”It’s a knickknack, Patty Whack. Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone”.
Dr Faustus says:
December 7, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Apparently the UK press is circling the wagons in advance of the screening of Dianna 2.0, Markle Martyrdom on Netflix. ‘Sussex, lies and videotape’: papers on the attack over Harry and Meghan documentary. Vengeful won’t start to cover it.
Apparently, the Netflix ‘doco’ drops on the three month anniversary of the Queen’s burial – just to add a little more salt to the wound.
I think that if Harry had gone off to the USA and done bland ‘eco’ pieces or assorted other woke stuff nobody would have given a toss. But attacking the monarchy, especially the late Queen and probably William and Kate (who enjoy high popularity) is, IMO, a major error of judgement. Even Charles has reasonable popularity at ~55%.
Time will tell of course but I doubt the House of Windsor will merely lie back and think of England. At least, not behind the scenes.
As a Cat once remarked, that Markle woman must be able to suck a golf ball through a garden hose.
A.K.A., the “Married Woman’s Protection Society.”
Where there is love there is life.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Re the Family Court – I’m going back a few years, but I do remember the outrage among the sisterhood when a prominent Perf socialite had to pay her ex – husband a sizeable sum, as a property settlement, as a result of a Family Law Court ruling…
Did you hear about the teacher who was helping one of her young pupils put on his boots? He asked for help and she could see why. Even with her pulling and him pushing, the little boots still didn’t want to go on.
By the time they got the second boot on, she had worked up a sweat. She almost cried when the little boy said “Teacher, they’re on the wrong feet”. She looked, and sure enough, they were.
It wasn’t any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on.
She managed to keep her cool as, together, they worked to get the boots back on, this time on the correct feet. He then announced “These aren’t my boots”.
She bit her tongue, rather than get right in his face and scream “Why didn’t you say so? ” like she wanted to.
Once again, she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off his little feet. No sooner had they gotten the boots off when he said “They’re my brother’s boots. My mum made me wear ’em”.
Now she didn’t know if she should laugh or cry. But she mustered up what grace and courage she had left to wrestle the boots on his feet again.
Helping him into his coat, she asked “Now, where are your mittens?” He said “I stuffed ’em in the toes of my boots”.
She will be eligible for parole in three years.
Don’t be silly, only certain types of me will be presumed guilty. Men with certain political standings most certainly will never be presumed guilty. In fact, those men will be presumed impossible to be guilty.
Could These Mysterious Clots be the Cause of Death?
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
December 7, 2022 at 1:49 pm
Monty, have you considered putting a bag over your head so you don’t have to face reality?
A recycled-paper bag of course, got to be ideologically virtuous.
Bruce, he doesn’t know where his head is. It’s right up his arse BTW.
Fatboy, you really are a cooler. You’re prediction in the Georgia race the Dem would win “logically” means the GOP candidate wins.
Your call is already wrong, LOL.
If it is roadkill, you need to leave it in the Sun for a week or two. Softens it up.
m0nty=fa
Shirley any failure to support Walker with funds rests with the Establishment GOP and the RINOs? The responsibility lies with them, not a former President? Or does Obummer fund all DemonRat candidates?
Trump campaigned as best as he was allowed by the RINO RNC. They are the ones that needed to front up the money, get the ground game happening and … tellingly, support Walker with endorsements etc.
The likes of McConnell / McCarthy etc … nowhere to be seen. Not even DeSantis!!!
Knowing that loosing this Senate seat will make it so much more difficult to win control back in 2024, the fact that Walker had so little support (against a truly corrupt and despicable candidate) just means the FIX is in. And I keep on saying: It is clear that the Dems can NEVER AGAIN lose control of the legislature and investigatory bodies … too much corruption, money and power on the line. And gaol time! [Welcome the United Socialist States of Murica]
Munster nobody argues with you, they point out your failure to understand anything. When you start wearing long pants the penny might drop followed by your balls.
Last year, more than 10,000 people in Canada – astonishingly that’s over three percent of all deaths there – ended their lives via euthanasia, an increase of a third on the previous year. And it’s likely to keep rising: next year, Canada is set to allow people to die exclusively for mental health reasons.
I used to think you were a troll but it is clear, you’re just thick.