JUST IN: Kari Lake trial reveals 42.5% of ballots in their random samples were illegal ballots.

That reads as if the court had declared that to be a valid number. But the linked article starts with:

According to Republican governor candidate Kari Lake’s legal team, 42.5% of examined ballots in Maricopa County for the 2022 governor’s race were illegitimate. Lake’s trial began on Wednesday were she is attempting to prove that wide scale fraud took place in Maricopa County on election day.

It is actually a claim by the legal team that has yet to be tested and certainly not something accepted by the court. The court might do when they look into it. Or they may come up with a lower percentage which may or may not be deemed (rightly or wrongly) sufficient to reject the outcome of the vote.

I prefer clarity to the rush of righteous indignation.

“Millions of Australians have been warned to wear face masks in certain settings to quash a steep Christmas Covid wave.” News dot com au

Noticed this at the local shopping centre .. masks were down to about 10% (mainly SE Asian) a fortnight ago but yesterday looked around 50% of shoppers are mugged up ….

shatterzzzsays:
December 22, 2022 at 1:28 pm
“Millions of Australians have been warned to wear face masks in certain settings to quash a steep Christmas Covid wave.” News dot com au

Noticed this at the local shopping centre .. masks were down to about 10% (mainly SE Asian) a fortnight ago but yesterday looked around 50% of shoppers are mugged up ….

I like wearing my black baseball cap and black face mask with sunglasses on when at the ‘Mega Bank’ ATM withdrawing some cash. I wonder how good the camera is in helping anyone recognise me later on if need be. “He/She/? was wearing sunglasses. a black face mask and a black baseball cap”…………..Not when I’m walking down the street I’m not. The black face mask has been removed and maybe the cap as well.

DaFisk says:
December 22, 2022 at 1:37 pm

As for Zelensky’s sartorial choice… he is the embodiment of BDE so he can wear what he likes.

No one complained when Deng Xiaoping showed up in overalls. It’s just another fake objection from people who are looking for reasons to support Putin, but won’t say so openly.

Not me. I think Putin is a laughable dickhead getting into a war and now threatening nuclear weapons. Abe Lincoln is also a dickhead going around in a T-shirt. It’s winter.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

– John Cleese

Dr Faustussays:
December 22, 2022 at 9:39 am

Prior to the 2015 Qld election, with Noddy Newman presiding over an appalling, negative-talent cabinet – yet looking a dead cert for another term in office – many LNP branch members were sent packing by disastrous Captain’s Picks.

It was more than that. He was hell bent on putting the broom through the Public Service and nothing else. He could have done it over a few terms but I think hubris got him from the get go with the majority he had. His cabinet seemed to be awe struck with him. What we are left with now is the hollowed out corpse of the LNP.

And now, the blue ribbon LNP voters stand behind Palacechook because she kept them safe.

Now now, Ranga. Let’s not get into personal insults as it may upset the blog owner’s purification choir.

Real Deal says:
December 22, 2022 at 1:02 pm

I still can’t get over how much Brittany’s fat toyboy Sharaz looks like Lehrmann. Paging Dr Freud!

Do we know what her earlier boyfriend looked like? The one with whom she was “jokingly” discussing the desirability of a sex scandal happening.

Maybe he was another well built chap.

Hey Fatboy, you recall how the email in the laptop the Russians planted as belonging to Bunter Hiden? Remember how Bunter’s email expressly mentioned that 10% was for the “big guy”?

Just estimate as I don’t expect an exact number. How much do you reckon the “big guy” is pocketing from the US$48 billion the US is sending over to the Ukraine? Surely it can’t be 10% as that number is too big. You think it would be closer to 2%?

Let’s start from the very beginning as I jumped to gun here.

Monster, do you think the laptop belonged to Bunter Hiden or do you think- like the other intel experts – the laptop was Wussian disinformation?

Pogria says:
December 22, 2022 at 2:39 pm

Now that Bulk Brittany is rich, she and Sharaz can indulge their ultimate Fantasy.

Pretending the new squeeze is Brucey? Not hard in view of the fact they look like twins.

His talent as an artist puts early Picasso to shame.

Look at these masterful works of art.

And these

More down the page.

Incredible luck how they were all pre-sold.

So far not seen one Vax expert, Health Minister or CHO commenting on the Phelps story.
This is down to the media mainly ignoring the story.
Last night on Club Grubbery Graham Hood called on Karl Stephanovic to speak out. Karl mid year said he had had 3 jabs but would not be taking another.

It’s astonishing and indicative of the arrangement between MSM (at least most of them), the government and the medical bureaucracy, that this testimony from an ex president of the medical establishment can be ignored.

Incidentally, I recall Stephanovic saying on Breakfast TV that he was over the jabs, and the producer immediately cut to a commercial.

Political Contagion Does not Need Central Command

From Armstrong Economics –

“When our model had forecast the fall of Communism in 1989, the general press was attributing it to modern communication since the Berlin Wall fell a few months later. I pointed out that the same time difference took place when in Rome they overthrew their king in 509BC and within a few months in Athens, they overthrew their tyrants and began Democracy. In my research, it was not that modern communication led to the me-too reaction that caused the fall of the Berlin Wall. The question is not how fast information travels, but how long it takes to filter through society to cause political change.

When we look back at the Communist Revolutions of 1848 a notable observation emerges. Here too Europe was engulfed as they occurred in dozens of the then-European states, countries, and empires without any kind of international coordination. It was the same sort of contagion that spread. Historians have pointed out that the gains were short-lived, and the repercussions of rising socialism indeed prevailed over the course of several decades.

In America, there was the Mexican-American War which erupted in 1846 and continued into 1848. The reason for the war was the Mexican refusal to accept Texas independence clashing with the desire of Texans for statehood that was feeding into the American desire for westward expansion. Thus, this became the first offensive war in the History of the United States.

Indeed, as Wave #915 began in 1848, while the Mexican-American War was subsiding, Europe erupted in a Communist Revolution that was spontaneous without a unified core directing it. However, the Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 just before the Revolutions of 1848 engulfed Europe. It has been argued that even rumors of this work contributed to the uprising. The victorious counter-revolution brought court proceedings against Marx, but he was acquitted on February 9, 1849. Nevertheless, Marx was then banished from Germany (May 16, 1849). At first, Marx went to Paris, yet he was again banished after the demonstration of June 13, 1849. This time he fled to London, where he lived until his death. This is his entry to the British Museum Library in 1873.

While there were various debates over the causes of the 1848 Revolution, it was clearly a Revolution against Republicanism, that was precisely on schedule for our Revolutionary Cycle of 72 years from 1776, which was against Monarchy. 1848 was clearly against the corruption of Republicanism. In particular, the Revolutions of 1848 in France, the German states, the Austrian Empire, the Italian States, and Denmark were not coordinated and we find the same pattern in the fall of Communism in 1989.

Interestingly, there was no central coordination or cooperation for the 1848 Revolution. It also came on the long-term 172-year Revolutionary Cycle and at that time it impacted over 50 countries. Since the revolutions occurred in so many places and in so many countries, it was clearly just the time for revolution as we find ourselves ever since the 2020 election. The defeat of Trump, regardless of your opinion of Trump, sparked a great division in the country from which there will be no return.

Just as in 1848 when it is impossible to attribute a single general reason or theory as to why so many countries erupted, other than the Revolutionary Cycle incorporates the simple basic desire for change. In the United States, there was the rise of the Nativism Movement against immigrants that erupted in gun battles on the streets of Philadelphia.

Clearly, what contributed to this was the Hard Times of the 1840s following the Sovereign Defaults of the States (not Federally) in the USA after the Panic of 1837. This was the period known as the Hard Times and the shortage of coinage led to a wealth of Hard Times Tokens often of a political nature. They were even striking tokens in Europe as well.

It certainly seems that the Sovereign Defaults that produced the Hard Times also sparked a religious upheaval as took place during the Roman Empire following the Great Monetary Collapse of 260-270AD. That is when they were blaming Christians for angering the gods leading to Christian Persecutions which reached a peak during the reign of Diocletian (284-305AD). Here, we see a similar movement against Slavery with a distinct religious undertone that the Hard Times was a punishment from God for the use of slaves in the South. Clearly, there was a similar religious upheaval in Europe without the slavery issue.

The 1848 Revolutions were throughout Europe. The “mood” seems to have led to the American Civil War as well. Some historians have argued that the Revolutions of 1848 were largely caused by two factors: economic crisis and political crisis. Others have argued that social and ideological crises cannot be discounted. In many of the affected countries, nationalism was another catalyst for the revolutions. What we see on a global correlated basis were similar events that seemed to be inspired on a collective basis.

Over in China, we have the Taiping Rebellion was a revolt against the Qing dynasty in China, fought with religious conviction over regional economic conditions, and lasted from 1850 to 1864. Even if we turn to Japan, the Dutch had a monopoly on trade dealing with Japan. In 1844 the Dutch sent a diplomatic mission urging them to open the country, but the rulers refused this suggestion. The question of dealing with foreigners was a rising problem in Japan at the same time. They called the foreigner Gaijin meaning really a foreign devil some have tomes down to outsiders or foreigners. It was in 1854 that the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s expedition opened Japan to global commerce through the implied threat of force. The Boshin War, also known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a group seeking to seize political power in the name of the emperor.

It is fascinating that we see similar periods of political unrest for different reasons on a global scale. Was there just something in the water that made everyone go to war? Who knows. But we seem to be coming into this similar type of global problems between 2023 and 2032.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrongeconomics101/ecm-armstrongeconomics101/political-contagion-does-not-need-central-command/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

rosie says:
December 22, 2022 at 2:31 pm

Ben Dillaway, the ex

Ben isn’t exactly gaunt either!
Our Britt has a type all right 🙂

Monty has a thing about dicks. Zelensky’s BDE, Hunters schlong. He is becoming the Cats Mr Garrison.

JC, I don’t treat any of the Hunter Biden stuff as remotely serious

Says the lardarse who, from a quick scroll, has spent most of the day defending the sex trafficker, very little time focused on financial facts and most time on HB’s schlong.

I don’t know how a Speaker earning a couple of hundred g’s ends up a MULTI millionaire from, let’s say, “exquisitely timed investments.”

Even Eddie Murphy in Trading Places wasn’t that lucky!

Whatever mental institution Britnah went to should be offered to all of the homeless meth heads near my work. They’re obviously amazing.

In fact, I’m thinking of writing to McClown and Albo to immediately fund said centre for gazillions given there’s obviously no place on Earth like it.

She’s gone from suicidal three weeks ago to stellar new career…

Nup, he was always going to support the Ukes. Putin bowled some tripe outside off, Biden took the long handle and belted it over extra cover.

Your stupidity is criminal dickless. The Ukraine is where, in association with Wuhan, the US conducted its biological warfare. In addition the bidens had extensive interests in Ukrainian gas. None of this will now be treated as the treasonous shit it is. But what do you care, you get free milk.

I’ve never seen so many lefties glorifying in war. The Ukraine and Russia combined have probably lost close to 300,000 lives in the last year due to this conflict. And there doesn’t seem a will either in the US or Europe to get peace talks going.

It’s a nice thing to say, Ms Higgins is clearly a considerate person.
I’d say she’ll drop out of the limelight for a fair while, and do very well.

You’re just thinking about all that lovely skin aren’t you Special?

GR.
Maybe building sites are different to engineering shops.
None of the boys I started off my apprenticeship with quit. The thought never crossed my mind either. I just don’t get it why anyone would do six months or a year and then give it up. It’s a brilliant start to life, even if you go on the do other things later on.

No one is going near the Brittany thing. It is rapidly becoming political kryptonite.

The Grampian Nazis have always been hopeless on organisation. Doubt they could even catch the train, let alone get them to run on time.

It’s kinda true on the whole, though not 100%. You keep rolling the dice and eventually you’ll lose.

It is not that the “young” are more aggressive risk takers than olders ones & more “open to ideas”.

Most of those older open-minded aggressive risk takers* are now cashiers at the local museum, food demonstrators at Costco, or in a cemetery after some fatal collision.

Nice piece explaining his view of the current war.

A Clash of Two Systems
The war in Ukraine is a confrontation between two systems, one modern, legalistic, decentralized and multicephalous; the other archaic, nationalistic, centralized and monocephalous

You keep rolling the dice and eventually you’ll lose.

Hmmm ok, how about a little gaiety…

if you land on a property first in Monopoly and don’t buy it, it goes to auction.

the other was doing a side business selling crack

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A libertarian?

WA native title brawl triggers $50bn legal threat

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By Paige Taylor
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6:39AM December 22, 2022
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A renegade group of traditional owners from Western Australia is threatening a $50bn class action over a landmark native title settlement struck on their behalf.

The group describes the $1.3bn land and cash deal between the West Australian government and the state’s 30,000 Noongar people as paltry and unjust. The South West Native Title Settlement is the largest in Australian history – it centres on a perpetual trust receiving yearly instalments of $50m for 12 years and up to 320,000ha of land. The scale and scope of the agreement, which includes joint management of national parks, a housing program and economic development, led constitutional law experts George Williams and Harry Hobbs from the University of NSW to describe it as Australia’s first treaty.

Proponents of the deal say it is a settlement with a much greater value than could have been achieved in court. They also see it as the beginning of further collaborations and agreements.

However, longtime critics, including Noongar woman Naomi Smith see it is a bargain for government and developers who were tired of dealing with Traditional Owners over their native title rights and now do not have to.

While payments from the state government have already begun to flow into the Noongar Boodja trust as part of the South West Native Title Settlement, Ms Smith and three others representing critics of the deal have asked Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney to negotiate with them.

“We ask the new federal government to take responsibility for ending this injustice by agreeing to negotiate in goodwill with us on a fair and just terms compensation settlement,” the group writes in a letter to Ms Burney obtained by The Australian. “Otherwise, Noongar elders will have no option but to launch a ‘just terms’ class action lawsuit in the Federal Court seeking over $50bn in compensation.”

The group’s arguments for compensation include that only a very small minority of Noongar people agreed on the deal “based on insufficient and misleading information”. In the letter to Ms Burney, the group – represented by Salerno Law, the firm behind Australia’s fist cryptocurrency class action – says just 1756 out of a ­potential 15,000 eligible Noongar people voted for the South West Native Title Settlement at six meetings in 2015. The group says that some Traditional Owners were entitled to vote at more than one meeting and attended two or more, meaning that the total number of actual voters was about 10 per cent of the voting population.

No meetings were held in central Perth where the vast majority of Noongar people lived, effectively disenfranchising members who could not travel to regional meetings, the group claims. “Fair compensation is critical now for urgent expenditure on breaking violence and alcohol abuse cycles; to provide safe and secure housing; and support for parenting.

“ Our young people need better schooling and vocational training; support in languages, maths and attendance; and to build relationships with private enterprise.

“lt’s crucial that we can provide mental health support; on country-led retreat facilities with Elder support; and establish cultural connections and knowledge in our young people. And we simply must be able to protect our cultural sites; educate the community on Noongar culture; develop tourism opportunities; and buy back lands.”

The group says: “The settlement does not meet the constitutional requirement of just terms under Section 13 of the 2017 amendment legislation.” Signed by Ms Smith, Joanne Hayward, Ashley Knapp and Donna Coyne, the letter says: “A likely new Federal Court claim would represent one of the largest ever brought in Australia and if successful, would place a massive sum directly in hands of native title holders.”

Ms Smith was among eight Noongar people who tried to block the native title deal by challenging the six land use agreements that underpin in. In December 2019, the three judges of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia ruled against them. The High Court ultimately ruled the native title settlement could proceed in November 2020.

The commonwealth government’s responsibility for native title is split between Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Ms Burney. A spokesman for Mr Dreyfus’ department said: “The commonwealth government has received a submission from Ms Naomi Smith and others and will consider its response.”

Anybody care to speculate on the legal dogfight a “treaty” will involve?

Arky says:
December 22, 2022 at 6:10 pm

the other was doing a side business selling crack

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A libertarian?

A notional socialist more likely. Like you.

Hugh Jackman has been playing gender neutral roles for years. Talking his own book.