Open Thread – New Year’s Weekend 2023


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Pogria
Pogria
January 1, 2023 6:12 pm
rosie
rosie
January 1, 2023 6:12 pm

Just got reminded to pay car insurance renewal by aami, over $1350
Got a quote using their online system same car , a shade under 1k.
What’s the story?
I’ll ring them on Tuesday.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 6:13 pm

I think I might continue enumerating your graces JC

Jay Cee (jerkoff) you are a bore and a pompous windbag. Stop starting stouches other wise you will be reported. Oh Gordon Bennett, where has the Report a Twat button gone to? Hmmmmmmmmmmm Dover, where are you?

rosie
rosie
January 1, 2023 6:14 pm

Like I suggested this morning I bet the issue is Chinese flying to hospital destinations.

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 6:14 pm

Rottenhead

Trust me on this, his comments on the Fed were embarrassingly stupid. The crook has no idea about money formation. The Fed doing a twist operation, which the he is claiming the fed is doing but it’s not true, is not a money creation exercise like he suggests. There’s no increase in the money supply by swapping one bond maturity for another.

OldOzzie
OldOzzie
January 1, 2023 6:15 pm

Top 10 Conspiracy Theories That Will Be Validated In 2023

With that in mind, here are 10 things that the powers-that-be in D.C. have yet to cop to, but which will soon be impossible to ignore, in no particular order:

1. The role that the intel community and the Justice Department played in fomenting violence through psy-ops on Jan. 6, 2021, will be exposed.

2. The deadly impact of the COVID vaccines will become undeniable.

3. The scope of China’s control over the U.S. government will become clearer.

We know about the various financial ties between the Biden family and the CCP. We know that other top leaders, including Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell are heavily invested in Chinese industry. But what we have yet to fully explore is the way that China-linked companies like BlackRock have also completely infiltrated the White House and are effectively writing U.S. foreign policy.

4. The true nature of David DePape’s relationship with Paul Pelosi will be revealed.

5. We will find out what Trump’s purloined Mar-a-Lago files really contained.

Punting the DOJ probes that resulted in the unprecedented raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort to corrupt special counsel Jack Smith was a good way to keep them out of the reach of GOP oversight in the U.S. House. But, eventually, the clock will run out and it will be necessary to explain why, exactly, this norm-violating measure was taken. Odds are it was a CYA operation by the FBI to prevent Trump from exposing the Russia-hoax documents that he already had publicly declared to be declassified.

6. We will learn what the Democrats intend to do with Joe Biden and who will be tapped to replace him.

7. We will discover the truth about the U.S.–Ukrainian partnership to research and develop bioweapons.

Congress has allocated in excess of $100 billion to defend something in Ukraine, but it sure ain’t democracy. While their personal investments in Burisma—or in weapons manufacturers like Raytheon—may be prime motivators, all indications are that the country is a rat’s nest of CIA operations.

8. The Left’s plans to normalize and mainstream pedophilia will come to fruition.

9. The World Economic Forum will lead the way in trying to turn humans into glorified Matrix-style batteries.

10. As the relationship between Big Tech and the spy agencies becomes clearer, we will learn that our personal devices are tracking our every move.

areff
areff
January 1, 2023 6:17 pm

Which of you guys is Playboy Larry Hart?

I identify as Dominic Denucci, but post-Christmas bloat has me resembling Haystacks Calhoun

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 6:18 pm

Who gives a shite wot’ you fink’. If you and your other Cronies don’t like my Armstrong Economics posts, then just swing by and play in the traffic. Tosser.

As Dot says, we provide an important service, warning people that Armstrong is a thieving crook, so anything he says should be taken with a liberal sprinkling of salt.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 6:19 pm

Did they Get the Pandemic Idea from the 2010 Simpson’s

https://youtu.be/T2F7muYaby0

LOL

Robert Sewell
January 1, 2023 6:19 pm

ZK2A:

Megan Krakouer, director of the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project, said: “These are not difficult children to work with. The Department refuses the approach that works: radical empathy, radical transformation.”

There’s the problem right there.
Give Megan a guards uniform and let her try her radical theories out.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 6:21 pm

As for busted dirt narratives:

Russia is a threat to the U.S.

There was Russian political collusion, it just wasn’t with Trump.

Most people don’t particularly care about da narratives. Most people have NFI about Operation Mockingbird or COINTELPRO.

That’s not a slight on them. They have an actual life to live as well.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 6:23 pm

This is okay.

Every Martin Armstrong fanboi piece put up is an invitation to once again mention that he is and will forever be an unrepentant thief of millions of dollars, with ordinary people as the victims.

Who did eleven years in the bin, which is nowhere near enough, and who genuinely deserves every slice of ridicule coming his way.

P.S. He’s also a raging homo. Like Mick Jagger.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 1, 2023 6:23 pm

The Rationale For War

There’s a purported rationale for the enormous amount of money the U.S. is spending in Ukraine; namely, that it’s a bargain:

“US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment.”

Odd, m0nty=fa was touting this very talking point only a few days ago. It’s almost as if these things are passed around on some kind of leftard distribution list.

Louis Litt
January 1, 2023 6:24 pm

Edward Case – 3.02pm
The quadrant articles had the reference to Julia’s royal commission – the author actually read through it.
Remember Julia lived in a salubrious suburb in Adelaide, attended one of the beSt state schools – all girls – and in her year of the lesbian manifesto said the women in heterosexual relationships were the lowest form os slut – lower than a prostitute.
She bought her Catholic hatred for all to see – she was embarrassing to watch and listen too as she just foul mouthed with no idea what to do and once she got there too frightened to act.
BT W Edward – what’s a good Saturday night , what do you do to a CAtholic girl?

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 6:25 pm

Russia being a Chinese client state is a terrible outcome. That’s entirely possible if Russia is humiliated.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 1, 2023 6:27 pm

Pogriasays:
January 1, 2023 at 6:12 pm
Haha! The Government caved.

I wouldn’t trust a test conducted in China by Chinese authorities as far as I could throw the Sydney Harbour Bridge. This has the smell of Benny Wong about it.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 6:28 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 1, 2023 at 6:18 pm
Who gives a shite wot’ you fink’. If you and your other Cronies don’t like my Armstrong Economics posts, then just swing by and play in the traffic. Tosser.

As Dot says, we provide an important service, warning people that Armstrong is a thieving crook, so anything he says should be taken with a liberal sprinkling of salt.

No, you Mrs Stencho Pantyhose and Dotty Dot of the Dotties provide no service whatsoever. If a person has gone to jail and served their time are they to be persecuted forever by you twats? No. They are not. You may not like the posts on this Bog, er I mean Blog, er I mean Fish Bowl, but you don’t have to read them. And in the spirit of free speech STFU

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 6:31 pm

No, you Mrs Stencho Pantyhose and Dotty Dot of the Dotties provide no service whatsoever.

I really think you should get in contact with Armstrong. He needs to prove he met in person with Paul Keating. Times and dates ought to be supplied.

And in the spirit of free speech STFU

No.

MatrixTransform
January 1, 2023 6:32 pm

P.S. He’s also a raging homo

…with beady eyes

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 6:33 pm

P.S. He’s also a raging homo. 

Does he like Thai mail-order ladyboys?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 1, 2023 6:34 pm

Russia being a Chinese client state is a terrible outcome. That’s entirely possible if Russia is humiliated.

Sometimes, when playing the Great Game, you roll snake eyes.

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 6:38 pm

I identify as Dominic Denucci, but post-Christmas bloat has me resembling Haystacks Calhoun

😀

To me you’ll always be Gorgeous George.

Looks like we have a bit of Tag Team action going on. I want to see the Atomic Drop. Or at least a good Chinese Burn.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 6:41 pm

I only wanted to be Ted diBiase as a kid.

Indolent
Indolent
January 1, 2023 6:41 pm
Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 6:41 pm

Mr Rotten:

Of all the hundreds of decades-old jokes belonging to other people you post here, the shining lights – the imperators of them all, the ones that generate the most laughter, are the Martin Armstrong ones.

Do keep going. They are meat and drink.

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 6:42 pm

Watching them go green when you explained the rake was for holding down the snake so you could hack off its head with the shovel was always a hoot.

Grandma used to have a rake handy for holding the ones down parked along the edge of the veranda. So Aunty could tip boiling water on them! No barbaric shovel action here!

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 6:43 pm

Martin Armstrong walks into three bars.

Prison bars.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 1, 2023 6:45 pm

From todays ABC online article “What will Australia’s fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic look like?”

If you think the coercion has ended they are just waiting for the next opportunity.

“Dr Lydeamore said he was concerned that, as we entered a new year, vaccine coverage across the nation was “dropping rapidly”.

“People should expect, if they’re not recently vaccinated, they are fully susceptible as they were in 2020 to catching COVID, and that’s probably going to be the biggest driver of the waves that we see over the next 12 months or so,” he said.

He said vaccines would remain Australia’s “main defence” against the virus and the community should expect regular COVID-19 vaccinations into the new year“.

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 6:45 pm

Emirates: zero interest in Nazi Pass.

Christine
Christine
January 1, 2023 6:46 pm

‘.. much was lost in the Great Bark Library Fire ..’
That is so funny
People here are sharp

miltonf
miltonf
January 1, 2023 6:47 pm

‘Dr’ Lydeamore is an infectious disease modeller. His current research focuses on the dynamics of COVID-19, and quantifying the spread an designing control strategies for the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Victorian hospitals, at Monash University and The Alfred Central Clinical School. He acquired a PhD from The University of Melbourne in 2019 focusing on modelling the spread and control of skin infections. He has previously modelled antiviral allocation schemes in an influenza pandemic.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
January 1, 2023 6:47 pm

Welcome to 2023 Troops.

In 2022 i nearly died and managed to help one person, it felt good and i got a free lunch out of it :), the latter not the former.

This year can only be better.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 6:47 pm

Do keep going. They are meat and drink.

Good for you and the others on this Bog, I mean, Blog, I mean fish bowl. Keep reading them. As you do know that you don’t have to read them. You can just skip by them like the jokes that I post…………….But some of you don’t and you react like dickheads normally do. Over react………………..

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 6:47 pm

That was my experience also rickw. Back in September, ex Sydney.

miltonf
miltonf
January 1, 2023 6:47 pm

Just another don.

Frank
Frank
January 1, 2023 6:48 pm

Haha! The Government caved.

From that article; I for one feel reassured knowing that Health Minister Mark Butler is on the case. Totally safe. Aren’t those dimples just adorbs.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
January 1, 2023 6:49 pm

‘.. much was lost in the Great Bark Library Fire ..’

It burned for weeks and the fire snake could be seen from space.

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 6:49 pm

Onya Carpe. Surviving near death an helping others is the job description of the best superheroes.

Even the reluctant ones.

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 6:50 pm

“What will Australia’s fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic look like?”

If they keep this up, Melbourne’s stench of vomit and piss will be added to with the smell of burning and rotting politicians corpses.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 6:51 pm

I mean fish bowl.

Sounds a lot like someone else who used to post here when they got angry with people disagreeing with him.

Are you going to contact Marty Armstrong to verify his Paul Keating story?

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
January 1, 2023 6:55 pm

Ok, i have to ask the question because I’m not going to google it, who or what is Martin Armstrong and what is their claim to fame.

No links please, just info.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 6:55 pm

And in the spirit of free speech STFU

No.

That’s a No x 2.
Just to be absolutely clear here … Martin Armstrong is a crook.
A convicted felon who did a very long time in jail for serious fraud.
And, more importantly, is unrepentant.
He must be chuffed that Rotten has a man-crush on him, though.

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 6:56 pm

If I can already see, given the arguments presented for the present change, opening the door to further changes down the track why I not speak before the matter became irresistible? This is even stronger if I oppose the present change.

But explain this. Is Akkisson’s description incorrect in some way or is it’s you being pessimistic? If you’re simply pessimistic on it’s future then fair enough. However, keep in mind that the Swiss aren’t as progressive as the rest of Europe.

Because it’s already clear what will happen. You have a parliamentary proposal, it meets some resistance, they mumble some verbiage about the circumstances not being ripe, only to say yes in five or so years.

Okay, that explains my question above.

A slippery slope isn’t a chain reaction, chain reactions are typically immediate.

Dover, you’re getting into a really arcane discussion about the definition. A chain reaction in my mind is a knock on effect.

Slippery slopes are styles of argument that imply either a thin end of the wedge that opens the door for further changes down the road or movement on a slope where friction is reduced by some change and thus allows further changes in time as momentum is gained.

Okay.

No, like all informal fallacies, you have to show it is a fallacy in the particular case. Is Conquest’s 2nd law fallacious because it appears to be a variety of slippery slope argument? I don’t think so. The evidence for the claim seems pretty strong

Can the logical context of a slippery slope be proven?

Makka
Makka
January 1, 2023 6:57 pm

Russia being a Chinese client state is a terrible outcome. That’s entirely possible if Russia is humiliated.

The US has created a formidable block in Russia/China. China, hungry for resources sourcing Russia’s abundant resources. Tech transfers. Space tech. Seaborne logistics. Harmonized transport routes east to west. Military co-operation.

What a clusterfk. Well done yanks.

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 6:58 pm

He said vaccines would remain Australia’s “main defence” against the virus and the community should expect regular COVID-19 vaccinations into the new year

How does this work?

You can get it with the vax! You can pass it on with the vax! You can get it driving a truck! Some of us don’t give a f’ck. Matter of fact I’ve got it right now! (Think classic VB add)

So the vax reduces the COVID-19 statistics by killing you with a massive blood clot?! 8,000 less COVID cases a month because people “died suddenly and inexplicably!”

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 6:58 pm

The teacher asked the students to bring one electrical appliance for “Show and Tell” and the next day every kid had something.

The teacher asks Wendy “What did you bring?” “I brought a Walkman”. “And what is it for?” “You can listen to music with it!” “That’s nice Wendy”.

“What did you bring Kenny?” “I brought a ‘lectrical can opener, it opens cans!” “Well done, Kenny”.

“Umm, Johnny, I see you didn’t bring anything!” “Yes, I did. It’s in the hall”.

So the entire class goes into the hallway. “Umm, Johnny, what is that?” “It’s a heart/lung machine hospitals use to keep your heart going”.

“Whoa. What did your father say about you bringing this?” “He said, ‘AAAARRRGGGH!!!!’”

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 1, 2023 6:59 pm

Daily Mail.

Inside Brittany Higgins’ romantic proposal – new fiance decked out Australia’s best-known lighthouse with rose petals, candles and photos of their best moments

Brittany Higgins’ partner proposed to her on top of the Bryon Bay lighthouse
Vision of David Sharaz getting on one knee was caught on camera Saturday 
The pair were seen kissing and laughing at sunset at the top of the iconic spot

miltonf
miltonf
January 1, 2023 6:59 pm

If they keep this up, Melbourne’s stench of vomit and piss will be added to with the smell of burning and rotting politicians corpses.

yes they’re really trying to pump it up again- just like the paywallian yesterday. Following instructions from ?

Speaking of burning and rotting politicians corpses- I wouldn’t piss on them. They old ones like Fraser were bad enough- the new generation, like eloi with no concept of what real work is are even worse.

miltonf
miltonf
January 1, 2023 7:00 pm

Higgins is the meja’s latest anti hero. Like Hicks was 20 years ago.

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 7:01 pm

It’s not going to last, Makka. Russia’s natural enemy is China and Russia’s natural ally is the US. It’s just going to take a little longer to work it out. The Chinese regime would suck out their eye’s (Russia) before they’re done.

Roger
Roger
January 1, 2023 7:01 pm

“Dr Lydeamore said he was concerned that, as we entered a new year, vaccine coverage across the nation was “dropping rapidly”.

Once bitten, twice shy.

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 7:01 pm

How does this work?

Magic. And wishful thinking.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 7:01 pm

Why did Martin Armstrong cross the road?

To dodge his parole officer.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:02 pm

And for Mrs Stencho Pantyhose, Dotty Dot and J Cee ierkoff and many other of this Group’s Cronies –

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

– George Bernard Shaw

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 7:03 pm

Inside Brittany Higgins’ romantic proposal – new fiance decked out Australia’s best-known lighthouse with rose petals, candles and photos of their best moments

When there’s a couple of mill$ at stake even an average public service piss head can get romantic!!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 1, 2023 7:05 pm

https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/01/more-yassmin-than-revolution/

Quadrant Magazine being most unkind to Yassmin Axle Magpie.

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 7:06 pm

What a clusterfk. Well done yanks.

The work of the Neomongs.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 7:06 pm

Ooooh, I’ll get you Butler!

– Blakey, On the Buses

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:07 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:01 pm
Why did Martin Armstrong cross the road?

To dodge his parole officer.

Why did Dribbling Joe Biden cross the road?

He didn’t, as the chicken did it for him……………………..

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 1, 2023 7:07 pm

Why don’t manufacturers make toilets wider, so there’s less chance of me pissing on the floor?
– Johnny Rotten

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Inside Brittany Higgins’ romantic proposal –

Daily Mail, publishing the stories we all care so much about.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 1, 2023 7:10 pm

The triggering effect of Armstrong is awesome to behold.

I really have no opinion about him either way so those who are allergic to him dont bother to demand an explanation from me as to why I do or do not support his comments.

All I know is that he was a well known adviser to Prime Minister Hawke long before he formed a close relationship with Keating.

Roger
Roger
January 1, 2023 7:11 pm

Russia’s natural enemy is China…

The problem is if you speak to a Russian they’ll tell you it’s “the Anglo-Saxons”.

But Russia is certainly an ally of last resort for China.

Frank
Frank
January 1, 2023 7:11 pm

Is it even a legal marriage these days if the proposal isn’t faux papped and posted on social media.

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 7:12 pm

Got my batch of sand pit excavators done, what a mission!

https://imgur.com/gallery/h5xQtkK

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:12 pm

Ed Casesays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:07 pm
Why don’t manufacturers make toilets wider, so there’s less chance of me pissing on the floor?
– Johnny Rotten

Nice try Head Case and a Very Suitable Case for Treatment. But your assumed wit is piss week. Please try better next week otherwise you only get a Z for SFA effort.

Frank
Frank
January 1, 2023 7:13 pm

All I know is that he was a well known adviser to Prime Minister Hawke long before he formed a close relationship with Keating.

As queer as a clockwork orange then.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
January 1, 2023 7:15 pm

via MSN, 17h ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/zelensky-signs-controversial-news-media-regulation/ar-AA15OwwQ

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has signed off on legislation that would significantly expand the government’s regulatory power over the news media, a measure that journalists have warned could erode press freedom. … The measure was passed by Ukraine’s Parliament earlier this month along with a spate of other bills that lawmakers say were intended to help the country meet the European Union’s legislative conditions for membership.

It gives the regulator the power to fine media outlets, revoke their licenses, temporarily block certain online media outlets without a court order, and request that social media platforms and search giants like Google remove content that violates the law

I’ve heard this plot before. How does the next line go? Something like “He may be an a55hole, but dammit he’s our a55hole!” (sorry, dancing around linguistic Dover-doktrin there.)
Continuing the repeat of history, I suppose in about 8 years we will suddenly discover he has chemical biological weapons and the Coalition-of-the-Shilling will have to liberate Ukraine from its recently installed dictator.

In the meantime it’s nice to hear that the EU, which normally promotes citizen rights to privacy and information to the extent that every web site in the world had to put a cookies popup on their front page to comply with the GDPR, has in this case supposedly asked the Ukraine executive to censor information without court order before it can become a member. Uhuh, yeah.

Indolent
Indolent
January 1, 2023 7:16 pm

I was just looking at Dr. Jay Bhattacharrya’s twitter feed (@DrJBhattacharya/Twitter) & I say this from a follower in Canada. And we think society hasn’t changed and/or can return to “normal” ?????

This is exactly what happened to the Jews in Germany in the 1930s.

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 7:16 pm

I really have no opinion about him either way so those who are allergic to him dont bother to demand an explanation from me

He stole money from innocent people. He hurt lots and lots of people yet you have no opinion? And why would you, you morally destitute minus?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 7:16 pm

Carpe Jugulumsays:

January 1, 2023 at 6:55 pm

Ok, i have to ask the question because I’m not going to google it, who or what is Martin Armstrong and what is their claim to fame.

A convicted felon who did eleven (11) years for ripping people off through a yuuuge Ponzi.
He now passes himself off as an online home-spun economist.
An economist, FFS!
As if being a convicted fraudster isn’t enough.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:17 pm

Rogersays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:11 pm
Russia’s natural enemy is China…

The problem is if you speak to a Russian they’ll tell you it’s “the Anglo-Saxons”.

But Russia is certainly an ally of last resort for China.

The Russian border with China is a long one. The Russian population in Siberia and the East is not very large. The Chinese population is. Numbers count.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 1, 2023 7:19 pm

Daily Mail, publishing the stories we all care so much about.

For shame, Sal, don’t you care that poor Brittany may have found true love at last?

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:19 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:16 pm

Mrs Stencho Pantyhose you moan too much. If you do not like the posts then moan to Dover who will likely tell you to STFU.

Top Ender
Top Ender
January 1, 2023 7:20 pm

Bolta lets loose:

ABC host Phillip Adams swears he’s no racist because – look! – his white-complexioned wife, former model Patrice Newell, is actually Aboriginal.

Yes, that’s his excuse for mocking Malaysian-born singer Kamahl as an “Honorary White”.

An Uncle Tom.

“Adams a racist?” Adams tweeted after even fans complained.

“I doubt my Aboriginal wife and youngest daughter would agree.”

That’s our race politics today.

Adams insists the black Kamahl is white and his white wife is black. And uses that to excuse being cruel to Kamahl.

But I should thank the old fraud. Adams shows why the Albanese government’s plan for a referendum this year to create a “Voice” – a kind of Aboriginal-only parliament, enshrined in our Constitution – is dangerous and dumb.

This fuss with Kamahl blew up when a letter emerged, in which cricket legend Sir Donald Bradman congratulated then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser two days after Fraser’s Liberals crushed Gough Whitlam’s Labor.

This infuriated Adams, a Labor tribalist who tweeted Bradman was “a RWNJ [right-wing nutjob]”, prompting Kamahl to defend Bradman, a friend for 13 years.

Adams turned savage: “Clearly, Kamahl, he made you an Honorary White. Whereas one of the most towering political figures of the 20th century [Nelson Mandela] was deemed unworthy of Bradman’s approval.”

Adams was not just vicious but wrong.

Bradman certainly approved of Mandela, exchanging letters and inscribing a bat: “To Nelson Mandela. In recognition of a great unfinished innings.”

But Adams wouldn’t apologise, insisting instead he couldn’t be racist because his wife was Aboriginal.

Yet Adams’ pathetic excuse exposes some of the idiocy behind Labor’s planned “Voice”.

He hasn’t just shown that the most avid backers of the Voice can be very cruel, more into dividing us than uniting.

More importantly, who exactly is this Voice meant to represent? Adams’ wife?

Newell discovered only late in life her birth mother had Aboriginal ancestry, and Newell now calls herself a “proud Gundijtmara woman”, even though she was adopted by a white family and lived as a white woman for most of her life.

Why does she now need additional political rights as an Aborigine?

Indeed, the last two census collections show 130,000 Australians decided to identify as Aboriginal when they hadn’t the census before.

So Adams makes me ask again: shouldn’t the Albanese government sort out who really is Aboriginal before creating this extra parliament?

Even better, why not call off this madness and just ask everyone to be polite?

Adams especially.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Lol, the Quadrant article (linked above by Zulu) mentions Yassie Axel-Magpie’s “Islam is the most feminist religion” faux pax on the ALPBC’s Q&A hatefest program.

Our Yassie was invited onto the same panel as Jacquie Lambie to allow Yassie to make a fool of Jacquie via Yassie’s superior intellect & smarts – coz Jacky-Jacky is just a dumb bogan & no match for a wise & smart headscarf-coverd uni graduate.

The Ultimo collective actually believed Yassie would wipe the floor with dumb Jacky.
Not sure there’s a better example of the Ultimo collective;
1) exhibiting a total lack of judgement, &
2) believing their own publicity

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 7:23 pm

Martin Armstrong.
The new Gonzalo Peso.

Makka
Makka
January 1, 2023 7:24 pm

Russia’s natural enemy is China and Russia’s natural ally is the US. It’s just going to take a little longer to work it out.

Not allies. More like a marriage of convenience, made so by the clown show in the WH. These 2 (China and Russia) can both benefit from closer strategic co-operation. Building on their strengths to the disadvantage of the west.

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 7:24 pm

One other thing Rooster. You often refer to others as being triggered, yet if there’s anyone who’s totally blind to seeing another side while being comfortable with simple bias, it’s you. You’re one of the most cognitive dissonant commenters here.

You understand and appreciate zero in economics as you’ve never shown any inclination towards the subject. Yet, not just me, but many others are saying Armstrong is a moron yet you refer to us as triggered. Stick to researching the Daily Mail for medical advice, you idiot.

I bet this “triggers” the Rooster. 🙂

Roger
Roger
January 1, 2023 7:25 pm

The Russian border with China is a long one. The Russian population in Siberia and the East is not very large. The Chinese population is. Numbers count.

What significance are you giving to those facts in the context of China’s alliance with Russia?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

For shame, Sal, don’t you care that poor Brittany may have found true love at last?

It’s all I think about & I’m so glad the Daily Mail published an update.

Zipster
January 1, 2023 7:25 pm
Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:31 pm

It was the first day of school. As the principal made his rounds, he heard a terrible commotion coming from one of the classrooms. He rushed in and spotted one boy, taller than the others, who seemed to be making the most noise. He seized the lad, dragged him to the hall, and told him to wait there until he was excused. Returning to the classroom, the principal restored order and lectured the class for half an hour about the importance of good behaviour. “Now” he said “are there any questions?” One girl stood up timidly. “Please sir” she asked “May we have our teacher back?”

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:33 pm

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

– George Bernard Shaw

Roger
Roger
January 1, 2023 7:34 pm

Newell discovered only late in life her birth mother had Aboriginal ancestry, and Newell now calls herself a “proud Gundijtmara woman”…

Given what the inititation of aboriginal women usually involved, I strongy doubt Newell is “a Gundijtmara woman”.

Zipster
January 1, 2023 7:38 pm

The problem with Armstrong is that he is still using the same scam he was using to run a ponzi scheme, ie that he has this magic program that can predict world events. And he charges money for advice based on this. He continually refers to this magic program in his posts. Once a scammer always a scammer.

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 7:38 pm

I’m watching The Jungle Book (new version). The technology that enables the animals to speak was developed here for “Babe”. It’s a remarkable movie.

The Beloved was “Baloo” in the New Broom’s cub group a million years ago. Aptly named and Kipling would approve. 😀

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 7:38 pm

Putin’s 2023 New Years eve address

Couldn’t find the bit where he criticised the Russian Militaries “warrior culture” and promised a full investigation?

rosie
rosie
January 1, 2023 7:40 pm

A while back Armstrong make a claim about the UK replacing paper notes with polymer ones.
Straight up scarenomics leading me to conclude hothing he says can be trusted.
In fact the Bank of England has been withdrawing paper money since 2017.
probably only because polymer are more durable and difficult to counterfeit

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 7:40 pm

All I know is that he was a well known adviser to Prime Minister Hawke long before he formed a close relationship with Keating.

Who told you this?

m0nty
m0nty
January 1, 2023 7:40 pm

Russia’s natural enemy is China and Russia’s natural ally is the US. It’s just going to take a little longer to work it out.

Ooh. Not sure about that one, chief.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 1, 2023 7:41 pm

I’m a bit disappointed The Don autographed a bat for Mandela.
Was Mandela a Mason too?
Otherwise, WTF?

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:41 pm

Zipstersays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:38 pm
The problem with Armstrong is that he is still using the same scam he was using to run a ponzi scheme, ie that he has this magic program that can predict world events. And he charges money for advice based on this. He continually refers to this magic program in his posts. Once a scammer always a scammer.

Well go and tell him that and prove it. Otherwise it is only your simple minded opinion.

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 7:41 pm

enabled = developed

I blame New Years Day bubbly for the lapse. There’s something about Kipling…the stories reflect the human condition and our innermost hopes and desires. A life marked by tragedy, but indefatigable.

He would have made an most excellent, argumentative Cat.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 7:44 pm

If you could pick economic cycles to 3141 days, you could just set your calendar to it and reallocate assets every 785 or 786 days through the cycle.

Garbage on stilts.

At least the Kondratieff wave theory for example makes sense regarding demographics and technological innovation.

Why not 3141 years, months, seasons, hours or seconds?

Cliff Boof
Cliff Boof
January 1, 2023 7:46 pm

Anyone watching The Alliance on Sky at present?
It’s about the COVID response.
Why am I thinking about the movie, The Sting.?

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 7:50 pm

Otherwise it is only your simple minded opinion.

No.

You need to learn some humility.

There are a lot of people on this blog with firsts, postgrad and commercial & academic research in applied economics as well as people who have worked as traders and in M&A or working in operations of engineering firms or the resources sector and with senior managers and their financial and economic advisers within those firms.

You need to ask Marty Armstrong:

Why he doesn’t understand what the Philips Curve is, short and long term
Why he publishes ignorant untruths about monetary history
When he met with Paul Keating
When he advised Bob Hawke

Disgusting.

I hope we can help you out of your cult like following if this unrepentant liar and predator.

Roger
Roger
January 1, 2023 7:51 pm

There’s something about Kipling…

Under rated for much of the 20th C.

Credit to T S Eliot for going against the trend to rehabilitate Kipling’s place in modern English literature.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 1, 2023 7:52 pm

The problem with Armstrong is that he is still using the same scam he was using to run a ponzi scheme, ie that he has this magic program that can predict world events.
You don’t appear to understand what a Ponzi Scheme is?

Armstrong publishes a newsletter.
That’s not against the law [yet].

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 7:54 pm

There’s something about Kipling…the stories reflect the human condition and our innermost hopes and desires. A life marked by tragedy, but indefatigable.

Just watching the Jungle Book now on Channel 7 Flix. Oh, and I did like Mr Kiplings mince pies over Christmas………………………lol

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 7:54 pm

rosiesays:

January 1, 2023 at 7:40 pm

A while back Armstrong make a claim about the UK replacing paper notes with polymer ones.
Straight up scarenomics* leading me to conclude nothing he says can be trusted.

* Faultynomics.

rosie
rosie
January 1, 2023 7:54 pm

Have to expect David Sharaz to put on a fine marriage proposal.
He’s had practice.

JMH
JMH
January 1, 2023 7:54 pm

Test

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 7:54 pm

Ah yes “the FBI confiscated my magic programme that predicts random political events and market crashes every 3141 days”.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 1, 2023 7:55 pm

Health Minister Mark Butler

It could be worse. At least Turtlehead Bowen is only going to kill the lights.

cohenite
January 1, 2023 7:55 pm

Tulsi replacing Tucker again. Tucker obviously has a good opinion of her and has seen beyond her drop dead beauty. I know a lot of you folk think she is a plant or a spook or some such gibberish. And I can understand this from a lot of the blokes here. Before I realised my great attractiveness to women I felt threatened by beauty and thought the worst about the beautiful women who were throwing themselves at me. But when I became more comfortable in my beauty I could appreciate there’s without impugning them. Now, a lot, if not all, (except head prefect in his chinos and a form fitting bonds T-shirt) of you haters of Tulsi will never be attractive but some will achieve a modicum of self awareness sufficient to enable you to rise above your jealous resentment of Tulsi.

rosie
rosie
January 1, 2023 7:58 pm
calli
calli
January 1, 2023 8:01 pm

Did we pay for that one too?

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 1, 2023 8:01 pm

Tulsi replacing Tucker again. Tucker obviously has a good opinion of her and has seen beyond her drop dead beauty.

Lotta makeup required to cover the acne scarring.
Some possibility it could be a Tranny.
Weren’t you in love with Kimberley Guilfoyle for a while?

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 8:03 pm

Wow. I am amazed that on this supposedly free speech bog, I mean. a blog where there is so much animosity to some particular economic and social posts. What sensitive people there are here. Who would have thought that? A load of pussies probably………………..

Frank
Frank
January 1, 2023 8:04 pm

cohenite, snicker. How many children have you got?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 1, 2023 8:04 pm

It’s all I think about & I’m so glad the Daily Mail published an update.

As a wedding present, I’m sending the lady a dozen pairs of knickers, from all of us at the Cat.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 8:06 pm

Again with the sideways rain. 25 degrees and freezing too.

Bit of fence repair work to do tomorrow as well.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 8:06 pm

Johnny Rotten says:
January 1, 2023 at 8:03 pm
Wow. I am amazed that on this supposedly free speech bog, I mean. a blog where there is so much animosity to some particular economic and social posts. What sensitive people there are here. Who would have thought that? A load of pussies probably………………..

You need to examine the premises of your idol.

He is demonstrably wrong and otherwise outright lying.

On top of being an unrepentant fraud.

Will you ask him why he gets basic economics wrong and if he can verify if he ever worked for Hawke and Keating?

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 8:07 pm

Johnny Rottensays:

January 1, 2023 at 8:03 pm

Wow. I am amazed that on this supposedly free speech bog, I mean. a blog where there is so much animosity to some particular economic and social posts

It’s called healthy scepticism, ladyboy.

Christine
Christine
January 1, 2023 8:08 pm

This man cohenite, comfortable now in his beauty, must be a sweetheart. And funny

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 8:08 pm

I am amazed that on this supposedly free speech bog, I mean.

Rooten.

Please count how many times people have said you should be banned for posting Armstrong-related imbecility. The answer will be zero.

Free speech does not mean everyone has to like the shit you put up. The ability to criticise is, in fact, the essence of what you are moaning in your kippers about.

Arky
January 1, 2023 8:11 pm

Adding together three, four or more slightly out of phase functions with even slightly varying wavelengths and the overall outcome rapidly becomes unpredictable, even I suspect for things like AI. The number of possible outcomes quickly become wildly varied. A tiny change in one function can throw the entire thing in another direction.
There is little to no predictive value in such an endeavour.
Modelling like that on a timescale even remotely useful for markets would probably be used to investigate and explore an envelope of possibilities, not bet on likely outcomes.
No one who invested the time and money to produce such a model that proved useful is going to give or even sell it to anyone else, and if they did and it worked then the result would be that the markets would then change in response making the model itself no longer useable.
Yes, it smells like shite.
Yes there are signals. Many, many signals.
No, you are unlikely to find a way to profit from them given the amount of very much smarter than almost anyone mathematicians paid full time in large teams to ferret out any possible advantage from the data and possibly changing the outcomes as they do so.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

As a wedding present, I’m sending the lady a dozen pairs of knickers, from all of us at the Cat.

Wouldn’t it be better to send her something she will actually use?

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 8:15 pm

Sancho Panzersays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:23 pm
Martin Armstrong.
The new Gonzalo Peso.

The new Mrs Pencho Pantyhose and who cares………………..

Robert Sewell
January 1, 2023 8:19 pm

Indolent:

This is exactly what happened to the Jews in Germany in the 1930s.

The ratchet only works one way until it breaks – or is broken.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 8:19 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
January 1, 2023 at 8:08 pm
I am amazed that on this supposedly free speech bog, I mean.

Rooten.

Please count how many times people have said you should be banned for posting Armstrong-related imbecility. The answer will be zero.

Free speech does not mean everyone has to like the shit you put up. The ability to criticise is, in fact, the essence of what you are moaning in your kippers about.

If you don’t like those posts then just walk on by and learn nothing. Over to you and your Cronies.

And I will keep sending jokes. So STFU

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 8:21 pm

If you don’t like those posts then just walk on by and learn nothing.

Enough. Armstrong is worse than nothing. His nonsense is damaging.

You can tell us if you are willing to question Armstrong on those points or not.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 1, 2023 8:23 pm

The boyfriend better have been practicing his deadlifts if Brittany is going to make it over the threshold. He looks a bit soy.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Three pages devoted to critiquing Duncan Armstrong, & castigating Cats who may have read something Mr. Armstrong wrote.

The Daily Mail ain’t as bad as some may at first think.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
January 1, 2023 8:25 pm

Indigenous voice to parliament based on delusion: Mal Brough

Exclusive
By JOE KELLY
Canberra Bureau Chief
@joekellyoz
and GREG BROWN
National Correspondent
@gregbrown_TheOz
7:48PM January 1, 2023
17 Comments

An Indigenous voice to parliament will lack legitimacy and fail to effectively represent the diverse views of Aboriginal Australians or improve conditions in remote communities, the architect of the Northern Territory intervention has warned.

Mal Brough, the Indigenous affairs minister who oversaw the 2007 intervention aimed at countering widespread child abuse in Aboriginal communities during the final year of the Howard government, said he believed the referendum would succeed but that it would divide the country.

He told The Australian the voice was based on the “delusion” that a small group of Indigenous representatives could provide policy advice on behalf of Aboriginal Australians from communities as different as “any two nations as far flung on the Earth as you can get, from Africa to India and China to England”.

Mr Brough also said the voice would fail to address the daily traumas facing Indigenous people in communities across the country including “violence, abuse, neglect, poor health and education”, arguing that the fundamental realities of Aboriginal life were being ignored.

He argued that a failure by the government to outline further detail on the model for the voice would be like asking Australians to “sign a blank cheque”.

But another former Liberal Indigenous Australians minister, Ken Wyatt, labelled Mr Brough’s arguments as “garbage” and argued that the NT intervention had “destroyed local decision making.” He said there was no need for the government to outline a model of the voice ahead of the referendum.

“With all referenda, the question that has been put to the Australian people and the (preceding) legislation that was enacted, each time the government has remained fairly faithful to the intent of the question put to Australians,” he said.

Mr Wyatt, appointed to the role after the 2019 election, said the voice would be designed to improve the practical lives of Indigenous Australians rather than serve a symbolic purpose.

“Nothing has changed at the community level, in 17 significant indicators of impact on the lives of Indigenous Australians,” he said. “That’s why we have the incredible levels of disparity, and they continue to prevail. Even with all the goodwill of governments, their commitment to certain policies, they are doing ‘to’ Aboriginal people and not doing it ‘with’ them. Until we do it with them nothing will change.”

The debate came after Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney flagged a referendum date as soon as August, with the government aiming to introduce enabling legislation in the March sittings of parliament.

In response to the referendum timeline, the Coalition ramped up its campaign for the government to provide more details on the voice ahead of any vote, noting that only eight out of 44 referenda had succeeded.

Opposition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser said Australians were expecting more detail to be provided and were naturally cautious about changes to the Constitution. “We are still to see any serious detail on the voice,” his spokesman said. “The opposition has asked for that detail repeatedly – including in the Leader of the Opposition’s Closing the Gap speech which detailed over 20 questions.”

Warren Mundine, one of the leaders of the campaign against the voice, said the new timeline underscored the “urgency of the government thinking they can ram it through without any detail”

“The messaging so far has been around September or October for the referendum and probably June, July, August for the enabling legislation,” he said. “People are still confused (about the voice).”

Mr Brough said he supported constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians but opposed a voice, arguing that Aboriginal views would be best reflected through the election of First Nations people to the federal parliament.

“How do we think we are going to achieve better advice that is going to be of benefit, more than people who have already put their hand up and won the support of the political party of their choice and gone on to be duly elected?” he asked.

“Today, we have representation in the parliament of people of Aboriginal heritage representing a greater percentage than that of the general populace. That is a good thing. I don’t see that changing. I only see that growing.”

“There is a misconception by many, perhaps even most well meaning and caring Australians, and that is that, if we have a group of – as the PM has said of 20 or 24 people – from across the nation, we will have a view that can be expressed to assist government develop and implement policy from an aboriginal perspective.

“What this fails to acknowledge, as Noel Pearson will say eloquently, he has no authority to speak on anyone’s behalf other than the communities from which he is from.

“Elders know and understand their people, their community – they are as distant and unique and as separated as any two nations as far flung on the Earth as you can get, from Africa to India and China to England.

“Yet we are under this delusion that a group can come together and provide advice which is against their culture, where their authority starts and ends to speak on behalf of their own individual and more often than not small community groups.”

Mal Brough, when Minister for Indigenous Affairs, was credited with getting between two rival gangs of indigenous youth at Wadeye, and telling them he was the Man from Canberra, and if they started fighting, he would personally cancel their Centrelink benefits.

Arky
January 1, 2023 8:26 pm

dover0beach says:
January 1, 2023 at 8:11 pm
Can the logical context of a slippery slope be proven?
A reductio ad absurdum does that

..
Being at all vaguely conscious during any three consecutive years in the last two decades does so.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 8:26 pm

Dotsays:
January 1, 2023 at 8:21 pm
If you don’t like those posts then just walk on by and learn nothing.

Enough. Armstrong is worse than nothing. His nonsense is damaging.

You can tell us if you are willing to question Armstrong on those points or not.

It is so much fun to wind you up Dotty Dot and your dotty Cronies. You are such easy targets as you react so well……………….Tossers.

Robert Sewell
January 1, 2023 8:28 pm

Johnny Rotten:

The Russian border with China is a long one. The Russian population in Siberia and the East is not very large. The Chinese population is. Numbers count.

The Chinese flow over the border to pilfer Russian timber, minerals, makes the Mexican/US border look secure. There are Chinese townships on their way to being cities north of the border. It’s what the Chinese do – invade by degrees. It’s why I get cranky about the five settlements – I mean Research Stations – four of them on Australian Antarctic Territory. They will never get smaller unless we threaten to bomb them to buggery and back. Even then, China will say we are being outrageously outrageous and all Australians are racist anyway.
We seen this movie too many times.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Mal Brough … was credited with getting between two rival gangs of indigenous youth at Wadeye, and telling them … if they started fighting, he would personally cancel their Centrelink benefits.

Pointing the bone works. It’s shaped like a chequebook these days, that’s all.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 8:33 pm

Johnny

Tell me why you think it is unimportant that Marty Armstrong says he bases his models on economic and financial history but his ideas about European gold coins is totally wrong?

His date for the re-introduction of gold into Europe was about by around 540 years.

If he can’t get a historical fact correct and is out of calibration by 500+ years – why should I believe he can pick a turning point in the economic cycle in the future to every 765 or so days?

It is a question that needs answering if you are going to continue to spam this site with fraudulent nonsense.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 8:33 pm

It is so much fun to wind you up Dotty Dot and your dotty Cronies

He said, immediately after going on the moan about free speech because not everyone likes his convicted unrepentant criminal fanboi.

Give him some of your money Rotten. You know you want to.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 8:35 pm

KD at 8:08.

Free speech does not mean everyone has to like the shit you put up. The ability to criticise is, in fact, the essence of what you are moaning in your kippers about.

Precisely.
Free speech does not mean unfettered freedom to say what you like without the right to respond, criticise or even ridicule.
Rotten is behaving like a spoilt millenial.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 1, 2023 8:37 pm

Just re-watching Kingsman: The Secret Service and Colin Fifth’s character said Oxfords were any formal shoes with open lacing.

Open?

Ruined the movie for me now.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 1, 2023 8:38 pm

Colin Firth’s character.

Stupid auto-corrupt.

Robert Sewell
January 1, 2023 8:42 pm

ZK2A:

Mal Brough, when Minister for Indigenous Affairs, was credited with getting between two rival gangs of indigenous youth at Wadeye, and telling them he was the Man from Canberra, and if they started fighting, he would personally cancel their Centrelink benefits.

I thought there was a reason I liked him.
I’m still voting against the Squawk, though.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 8:43 pm

a spoilt millenial

Mmm. Loud, too. One of those blokes who uses volume rather than substance to advance a point of view.

He may not even be English. It’s probably an act, an online persona. Like a malicious Amway salesman, speaking of ponzi schemes.

cohenite
January 1, 2023 8:45 pm

Lotta makeup required to cover the acne scarring.

Tulsi has seen active duty crotchless. She could have a duelling scar and still be beautiful and brave, and wonderful. That little blonde streak in her raven hair has more character than your wardrobe of crotchless panties.

Some possibility it could be a Tranny.

No possibility you’re a man.

Weren’t you in love with Kimberley Guilfoyle for a while?

No, but Kimmy has done her bit and her tale is one of inspiration: slipping out from under Newsome’s oily undulations into the Trump family. What a girl!

Now go and wash your soiled nightware.

Zipster
January 1, 2023 8:46 pm

Armstrong publishes a newsletter.

ffs
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/conferences/

you too can be enlightened for the tiny sum of USD1500

Our computer technology has been legendary for decades. We developed speech recognition and natural language machines back in the 1980s when Dragon Systems was still a hardware implementation. Creating the world’s largest database on the global economy cost untold tens of millions of dollars. Merging that accomplishment with the ability to create an actual thinking machine has truly been an achievement that is simply unmatched in the financial world.

Socrates is the name of our fully functioning artificial intelligence (AI) system. He monitors the entire world by tracking every market and global capital flows to provide the only international perspective of the financial world we live in. He also monitors the entire world news feeds and looks for fundamental news events that correlate behind the global trends

there’s one born every minute it seems

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 8:51 pm

Socrates is the name of our fully functioning artificial intelligence (AI) system

Ahahahaaaaaa. Socrates.

What a maroon. An absolute fraud.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

You blokes calling Tulsi Gabbard “Hot”, are you basing this on the bust (i.e. head & shoulders) generally seen on TV?

Or have you seen her, stumpy keg legs & broad, very broad, ass ‘n’ all, standing in front of a crowd?

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 8:52 pm

Just re-watching Kingsman: The Secret Service and Colin Fifth’s character said Oxfords were any formal shoes with open lacing.

The poor man had to be sewn into a lamé flared jumpsuit for goodness sake. And expected to dance. It scarred him for life.

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 8:53 pm

…and sing Waterloo.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 1, 2023 8:54 pm

He monitors the entire world by tracking every market and global capital flows to provide the only international perspective of the financial world we live in. He also monitors the entire world news feeds and looks for fundamental news events that correlate behind the global trends

Where do I sign? And I get laid too right?

Zipster
January 1, 2023 8:54 pm

Tulsi has seen active duty crotchless

is that even legal?

John Brumble
John Brumble
January 1, 2023 8:55 pm

Look, Steve. I understand you like boys, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But for the rest of us who like women, can you just keep in your corner.

Boambee John
Boambee John
January 1, 2023 8:59 pm

m0ntysays:
January 1, 2023 at 7:40 pm
Russia’s natural enemy is China and Russia’s natural ally is the US. It’s just going to take a little longer to work it out.

Ooh. Not sure about that one, chief.

Before you were born, the Soviet Union and China came to exchanges of shots, and almost to war, over their borders in the Soviet Far East. The Chinese play a long game, and also have some “unequal treaties? from Tsarist days that they still seek to resolve in their favour.

Allies of convenience in the short term, but in the longer term, there will be another falling out. Go away and learn some history.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 8:59 pm

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
January 1, 2023 at 8:24 pm
Three pages devoted to critiquing Duncan Armstrong, & castigating Cats who may have read something Mr. Armstrong wrote.

The Daily Mail ain’t as bad as some may at first think.

Emmmmmm. It’s Martin Armstrong BTW.

Frank
Frank
January 1, 2023 8:59 pm

is that even legal?

Trench mouth, nasty business.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
January 1, 2023 8:59 pm

Colin Firth

Who knew he was such a fine martial artist!

Good day at the Cafe today: a first. Got the northern magpie chick to sit on my hand and accept several morsels of mince. It’s a very rare thing, magpies won’t usually do that.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
January 1, 2023 9:02 pm

Dot,

Don Bradman told me when I visted his place with Shane Warne and Liz Hurley. You know what I am pretty sure that is the day he signed the cricket bat for Mandela.

Are you just pretending to be thick ? Or are you going to ask if I will get Liz to confirm ?

I hope Johnny doesnt introduce a joke by saying it is from Armstrong as some heads are going to explode !

I am not sure if this counts as stoushing but this is hilarious if it is. Some people are just so up themselves it is mind blowing.

Johhny keep it up as very entertaining. If only they knew it was not compulsory to read your jokes or Armstrong posts.

“All I know is that he was a well known adviser to Prime Minister Hawke long before he formed a close relationship with Keating.

Dot actually asks “Who told you this?” and then asks Johnny “Will you ask him why he gets basic economics wrong and if he can verify if he ever worked for Hawke and Keating?”

MatrixTransform
January 1, 2023 9:02 pm

the funniest thing about all the Martin Armstrong fervor here is that Mr Rotten originally posted only a few things from Mr Armstrong.

which sent the usual pigeons aloft … because that’s what pigeons do.

naturally then much more pigeon spazz-chucking ensued, and from the usual suspects of course.

on the strength of that infantile over-reaction Mr rotten now does it just to bother youse.

which, of course, it does

now there’s poop and bird seed everywhere

sadly, it appears that you are all a little bit broken in the head

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
January 1, 2023 9:02 pm

He is touting Derbies!

Is no one else having a problem with this?

Arky
January 1, 2023 9:04 pm

So… who’s this Armstrong bloke?

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 9:04 pm

callisays:
January 1, 2023 at 8:53 pm
…and sing Waterloo.

And beat those French gits again and name a Train Station after the Battle. Just like Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s Column……………

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 1, 2023 9:05 pm

Just checking out the year in review property porn in the Paywallian. A disappointing year for Perf with the top sale being an Asian special on the wrong side of the river. How embarrassing. Twiggy should be doing some of the heavy lifting.

Arky
January 1, 2023 9:05 pm

Does anyone have a quote or piece by him so I can get a feel for his oeuvre?

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Tulsi has seen active duty crotchless

The Tulsi Gabbard & Brittany Higging discussions would seem to have merged.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 9:06 pm

Don Bradman told me when I visted his place with Shane Warne and Liz Hurley. You know what I am pretty sure that is the day he signed the cricket bat for Mandela.

Very funny. You got me.

I am not sure if this counts as stoushing but this is hilarious if it is. Some people are just so up themselves it is mind blowing.

I am conceited because I didn’t get a joke?

You have high standards.

Johhny keep it up as very entertaining. If only they knew it was not compulsory to read your jokes or Armstrong posts.

But also, very low standards.

Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupidity

Emmmmmm. It’s Martin Armstrong BTW.

Who or what is Martin Armstrong?
Is he any relation to Duncan?

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 9:07 pm

Arkysays:
January 1, 2023 at 9:04 pm
So… who’s this Armstrong bloke?

You need to ask Dotty Dot, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. that JCee twat and a lot more of his Cronies.

Roger
Roger
January 1, 2023 9:08 pm

So… who’s this Armstrong bloke?

He makes Klaus Schwab look kosher.

And that’s quite something.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 9:10 pm

So… who’s this Armstrong bloke?

Martin Armstrong. He’s a drug-cheating cyclist with one testicle who taught himself AI, and now piggybacks spammers looking for easy cash.

Possibly of Belgian heritage.

calli
calli
January 1, 2023 9:12 pm

does it just to bother youse.

Ya think? Slow, Matrix…but on the money.

The cheap seats elsewhere will also be quaking with laughter. And doubtless giving me a serve for pointing it out.

Johnny Rotten
January 1, 2023 9:12 pm

Johhny keep it up as very entertaining. If only they knew it was not compulsory to read your jokes or Armstrong posts.

Yes but the twats here can’t help themselves. They have to have a peek and the they are offended, It does not get better than than. What twats they are……………lol

Pogria
Pogria
January 1, 2023 9:13 pm

Stopping in between Strictly Ballroom and Antony Hopkins in The Father, favourite Wrestler, Killer Kowalski.
Favourite move, The Claw!. No coming back from that!

Old School Conservative
Old School Conservative
January 1, 2023 9:14 pm

H B Bear says:
January 1, 2023 at 8:23 pm
The boyfriend better have been practicing his deadlifts if Brittany is going to make it over the threshold. He looks a bit soy.

How old fashioned Bear.
Brittany is currently doing a Dean Lukin weight-gain programme so SHE can do the heavy lifting on the wedding day.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
January 1, 2023 9:14 pm

does it just to bother youse.

Oh it’s no bother.

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 1, 2023 9:15 pm

As George Costanza says, “It’s not utter crap if you believe.”. Or something.

Arky
January 1, 2023 9:16 pm

so I can get a feel for his oeuvre?

..
That’s a slippery slope.

MatrixTransform
January 1, 2023 9:16 pm

oh…snap

H B Bear
H B Bear
January 1, 2023 9:17 pm

Brittany is currently doing a Dean Lukin weight-gain programme so SHE can do the heavy lifting on the wedding day.

Hopefully she is working on her stamina. It seems more plausible though.

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 9:18 pm

Does anyone have a quote or piece by him so I can get a feel for his oeuvre?

The oeuvrist is Chicago School trained.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
January 1, 2023 9:18 pm

Zipstersays:

January 1, 2023 at 8:46 pm

Armstrong publishes a newsletter.

ffs
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/conferences/

you too can be enlightened for the tiny sum of USD1500

USD1,500.
For Macro 101 dressed up with some Amway sales patter (h/t KD).
This is why red flagging Martin Armstrong as a grifter and a crook is important.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 1, 2023 9:18 pm

Who or what is Martin Armstrong?

He’s a bloke with a supercomputer AI which can predict the future with amazing accuracy. The AI is called Aristotle, which proves it is infallible.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 9:19 pm

Yes but the twats here can’t help themselves. They have to have a peek and the they are offended, It does not get better than than. What twats they are……………lol

Why am I a “twat” if I respond negatively to Armstrong?

He’s vile:

Unrepentant multi billion dollar fraudster
Lies about his dealings with government leaders
Makes up nonsense about his magical computer model
Gets basic undergraduate economic theories wrong
Disseminates ignorant and wrong economic history to his paying clients
Claims to have developed voice recognition software in the 1980s!
Has a crackpot model of the economy which is incredibly naive and dumb
Claims to be able to track all capital flows globally in real time (!)

There is not much to like.

MatrixTransform
January 1, 2023 9:19 pm

twats

chuckles … special word … special meaning

glorious

rickw
rickw
January 1, 2023 9:23 pm

Oh, A380, to bad I’m in econ, no bar access!

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 9:24 pm

Claims to be able to track all capital flows globally in real time (!)

That’s his oeuvrism? hahahahahahahahahahahaha

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 1, 2023 9:24 pm

He’s a bloke with a supercomputer AI which can predict the future with amazing accuracy.

But we’re safe, because dot and sancho are working hard to protect us from Aristotle..

Black Ball
Black Ball
January 1, 2023 9:26 pm

Teh Voice has all the hallmarks of Obamacare. “We need to pass it so we can see what’s in it…” to paraphrase the awful Pelosi.
Still think it’s doomed to failure. Just a feeling, along with Albo not seeing out his full term as PM.

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 9:28 pm

Aristotle? As in Martin Armweak?
Doc!

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 9:30 pm

If only we had a domestic car industry. If only. I’m so sick of buying all these imports at “below cost”.

Dot
Dot
January 1, 2023 9:32 pm

It’s “Socrates”, JC.

That’s his super secret AI programme the FBI stole from him.

The one that combines web scraping with technical analysis.

Frank
Frank
January 1, 2023 9:33 pm

Pelosi really is awful but one can take solace in her marriage being just punishment if the gay underwear clad hammer wielding sex parties are anything to go by. No wonder she drinks so much.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 1, 2023 9:33 pm

Aristotle? As in Martin Armweak?
Doc!

Sorry, JC, I forgot you were protecting us too.

I approve of scammers. The more idiots get sucked in the better; they serve to stimulate scepticism in the masses.

cohenite
January 1, 2023 9:34 pm

You blokes calling Tulsi Gabbard “Hot”, are you basing this on the bust (i.e. head & shoulders) generally seen on TV?

Or have you seen her, stumpy keg legs & broad, very broad, ass ‘n’ all, standing in front of a crowd?

I’ll just leave this here.

Like I say, a beautiful bird can be emasculating.

Ed Case
Ed Case
January 1, 2023 9:36 pm

Here’s something from Bob Armstrong on the Lew Rockwell site.
Yeah, he’s a scammer, though it’s not a Ponzi Scheme as far as I can see.
Politically, he’s not any different to Tucker Carlson or Andrew Bolt or a dozen other bullshitters.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
January 1, 2023 9:37 pm

It’s “Socrates”, JC.

Somebody up above said Aristotle, but Socrates is just as good. Except he was notorious for asking questions, not delivering answers.

MatrixTransform
January 1, 2023 9:38 pm

Who knew he was such a fine martial artist!

I think that’s an instructional video for how to navigate the coming year

excellent behaviour

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 9:44 pm

Sorry, JC, I forgot you were protecting us too.

I approve of scammers. The more idiots get sucked in the better; they serve to stimulate scepticism in the masses.

Do you now? So you approve of Bank-man-who -was-fried hand ingover ill-gotten gains to Demonrat causes. And frankly, Doc you often tell us you’re a very very smart bloke. What do you know about the fed actions Marty Armweak was talking about that Rottenhead posted. It’s complete crap. I’m not trying to protect you from scammers, I just don’t think Rottenhead needs to post it here 50 times a day. Moreover, why is it okay for him to post Armweak’s bilge, but we shouldn’t comment on the said bilge. When was the blog ever like that?

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 9:49 pm

I’ll just leave this here.

Like I say, a beautiful bird can be emasculating.

This is what’s classified as a 10 in FNQ.

Delta A
Delta A
January 1, 2023 9:50 pm

Or have you seen her, stumpy keg legs & broad, very broad, ass ‘n’ all, standing in front of a crowd?

I’ll just leave this here.

Game, set and match to cohenite.

local oaf
January 1, 2023 9:52 pm

on the strength of that infantile over-reaction Mr rotten now does it just to bother youse.

The Armstrong Broadcasting Network: All Armstrong, all the time!

JC
JC
January 1, 2023 9:54 pm

Game, set and match to cohenite.

Yea nice close out, cronkers.

miltonf
miltonf
January 1, 2023 9:56 pm

Still think it’s doomed to failure. Just a feeling, along with Albo not seeing out his full term as PM.

Hope you are right. What a repellant mediocrity the campus trot is. Smug incompetence is the hallmark of this miserable government. That said, they still don’t make the Trumble-Morrison abomination look ‘good’ (yet).

miltonf
miltonf
January 1, 2023 9:58 pm

you too can be enlightened for the tiny sum of USD1500

you’re kidding right?

MatrixTransform
January 1, 2023 10:00 pm

All Armstrong, all the time

a joint production from the anti-armstrong task-force
special mentions to JC and sancho

walkley awards all-round

…grammys to follow after the mini-series

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