Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888
What is that on the ground to the left? Grandpa brought a still?
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Must’ve run out of cats, dogs and geese. The Trump Effect: Haitian Migrants Self-Deport from Springfield, Ohio (25 Nov) With…
In two words: damned right!
How many of them would fit in a P76 boot? Not enough, sadly.
Sky News UK bovver boy Matthews stands there lying about Trump and the cases Jack Smith has now dropped.
Regional Qld isn’t too bad, just a long way from anywhere. Nearly 2 hour flight for me to Brisbane. Stay away from SEQ though as you will get more of the same where you are. I left Vic after graduation for work, gold mining was pretty marginal at the time and only intended to stay in Queensland to stash enough cash and get out. LOL never happened and have a brood who are about as cane toad as you’ll get.
Wouldn’t have thought Kerang would have been that bad, I take from your posts you are somewhere around there or on the Loddon somewhere?
Regarding grooming Maccas…
I had a look at another website to see what they made of the Japanese Maccas cups.
It seems the offending images can only be created by holding the cups at particular angles vertically align figures in a way to generate them, or rotating the cup to have figures from the opposing sides overlap in certain ways.
I am not appealing to the credibility of the person who runs the website -I had never heard of them before. But the images of the cups, which show the very particular orientations to create the dreaded images, speak for themselves.
A kid drinking their fizzy drink with their Happy Meal would not see them.
Besides which, I do not believe the QWERTY agenda has found such fertile ground in Japan and the deviant trends in the West cannot be simply superimposed into Japan to explain how the Japanese think.
He’s really outspoken. For some reason he took a real dislike to Peterson and continues to pound him.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb
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I agree with him about Tate. Tate is 100% dickhead.
Ha!
I see a few other people were sceptical about the McPedo Cups story.
BB I loved living in WA in the 80’s and early 90’s. The place was humming and like anything when things are going well the plebs started believing the Liars party. Labor wrecked WA. As have in every other State, now with the SFL assisting magnificently. I wouldn’t go back. I knew personally Liberal pollies and had dealings with a lot of Liars. Mal Bryce was the only Labor pollie I trusted. We lived a couple houses away from him for a while. I have family still over there. It is very isolated and really a cargo cult mentality. A bloke could have a go at anything at the time but now government interferes in everything. That goes for the rest of Australia as well. I think when you move you are willing to give more things a try that you won’t do in comfortable surroundings. Don’t make decisions when upset about whatever your current situation is until you’ve exhausted other opportunities. I’ve made too many rash decisions. Sure all it cost was a fortune and a lot of upset but I wouldn’t be in the position I’m in now and are reasonably content. I’m pretty sure you’re a smart guy and whatever you do will be ok anyway. Take care.
I expect nothing less than the paid shills for Big Pedo Pizza turning up here in their red shoes to discredit any enquiries into their activities.
They are going to introduce a spirit cooking menu?
Barron’s : Interesting story on a tractor maker.
Wow, big claim Deere can reduce fertilizer use by 60% but lets see.
I was on my PC for a while yesterday and the comments were running an hour slow but not on my phone. Which allowed me to get some work done.
Hmm.
Hiding in plain sight.
##gatherthepitchforks
Anyway, good moaning to all youse traitors, kökksmökers and uptickers (dickless or otherwise).
Today’s big questions:-
Will the Saffies hold out for a draw in the Crickit?
What next in the broken necklace saga?
Indolent is 58.7% of the way down the rabbithole.
Say Hi! to Annie and ussr when you get there!
Dutton’s a SFL but makes valid points.
The stain of ATSIC is still with us, and the magnificent scale of waste and grift remembered with horror by people in this wide brown land who paid for it.
LTU (Luigi the Unbelievable, h/t calli) would do well to realise this.
Here’s Sanchez of the downticks.
I wonder if the sea will be angry with you today.
Back in January 2022, the far-right activist-journalist group Project Veritas reported on the fact that in March 2018 DARPA rejected a request for funding from EcoHealth Alliance “over safety concerns and the notion that it violates the basic gain of function research moratorium.” According to documents obtained by Veritas, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institute of Health (NIH) under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci went ahead and funded the research in both Wuhan at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and at U.S. locations. Veritas reported that “Dr. Fauci has repeatedly maintained, under oath, that the NIH and NIAID have not been involved in gain of function research with the EcoHealth Alliance program. But according to the documents obtained by Project Veritas which outline why EcoHealth Alliance’s proposal was rejected, DARPA certainly classified the research as gain of function.”
Small News Site Breaks Big Story?
Next, on January 27, 2022, the Fallbrook and Bonsall Village News reported on August 13, 2021, DARPA memorandum which stated that “SARS-COV2 is an American-created recombinant bat vaccine or its precursor virus,” (emphasis added) DARPA wrote. “It was created by an EcoHealth Alliance program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), as suggested by the reporting surrounding the lab leak hypothesis. The details of this program have been concealed since the pandemic began. These details can be found in the EcoHealth Alliance proposal response to the DARPA PREEMPT program Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)HR00118S0017, dated March 2018, a document not yet publicly disclosed—-SARS-CoV-2’s form as it emerged is likely as a precursor, deliberately virulent, humanized recombinant SARSr-CoV that was to be reverse-engineered into a live attenuated SARSr-CoV bat vaccine.”
DARPA Fails to Deny Authenticity
These materials were sent to TrialSite months ago and frankly, were treated with true skepticism. Recently, TrialSite received yet more information on this topic and finally sought out to better understand the validity and veracity of these artifacts, especially the existence of the DARPA memorandum from August 13, 2021.
We note that it is written to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense from US Marine Corps Major Joseph Murphy, Commandant of the Marine Corps Fellows, DARPA. But was the document authentic? Could it have been a forgery?
The subject is, “SARS-CoV-2 ORIGINS INVESTIGATION WITH US GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS UNDISCLOSED DOCUMENT ANALYSIS.”
In an attempt to verify this document, TrialSite communicated with DARPA. In the email, this media explains that we sought to determine the validity and veracity of the document in circulation from Project Veritas on DARPA formal letterhead purportedly discussing the origins of SARS-CoV-2 as the U.S. government.
DARPA did respond. Tabatha Thompson, Chief of Communications for DARPA, wrote back:
“The agency is precluded by Federal Acquisition Regulations from discussing who may or may not have bid on a DARPA program, and we are unable to confirm the authenticity of the documents Project Veritas has published.
The agency has never funded EcoHealth Alliance directly, nor indirectly as a subcontractor.”
Interestingly, Ms. Thompson never denied that the memorandum was authentic. We, at TrialSite, are grateful for the agency’s response.
As time marches on, many aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related vaccines raise lots of questions. Some outstanding ones are 1) where did SARS-CoV-2 originate, and 2) on another front, why is significant evidence of problems with our mRNA vaccines being downplayed in the media? 3) If this memo is accurate, does it reflect DARPA’s attempt to pinpoint culpability of SARS-CoV-2 origins with the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance? Or, on the other hand, 4) if the DARPA memo is a forgery (and again DARPA would not confirm or deny authenticity), who would want to create such controversy, conflict, and the conditions for division within and among American society?
If this memo is accurate, it’s just truly disturbing, and the American people will need to align for a change and demand answers. We have left a message to Project Veritas for their point of view and have not heard back as of yet.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/darpa-memo-united-states-created-sars-cov-2-ce1b0433
“What’s Western Australia like to live?”
Stinking hot. If you want to dip your toe in the water then spend February there and see if you retain the will to live. All about the money. There are some top shelf people tucked away which is surprising considering how isolated the place is. Avoid Bunbury at all costs; the toothless, tatted and meth addled seem to rule the place.
“Big_Nambassays:
January 8, 2023 at 9:52 am”
I stopped reading at “far-right”.
I was very grateful for those Pity Upticks in my hour of neediness.
The house still smells vaguely of crackling, even though every window is open. Roast pork…the meal that hangs around long after the visitors have left.
always right:
What time zone are you in?
Channeling IT, what sort of fat splattered oven is this?
“LTU (Luigi the Unbelievable, h/t calli) would do well to realise this.”
He can’t realise anything because he’s lapped up the fawning MSM coverage and the rocket high Newspolls. A fatal mistake. He thinks he’s unsinkable, like the Titanic. He’s going to hit an iceberg and that iceberg is the Voice.
There are encouraging signs the knowall clown who got himself appointed captain and organised the insurrection against the old coach now considers that taking wickets has replaced his interest in zombie politics as the reason he has a job in the First XI.
First sunny day this year in Sydney — in fact, the first day for a year it’s not raining. Should be interesting after 4pm, but the jury’s still out on Ashton Agar as the second spinner for India.
Well, let’s consult the HAL-9000.2 for the answer, shall we?
The computer says … YES!
“far right”
Yes well.
I must be on Pluto.
JC I knew a guy in the 90’s that was doing a lot of development in agricultural automation. He spent a motza developing processes using Landsat to show how much fertiliser to use. Most farmers were using far too much. Too many vested interests stifled him. The same companies selling fertiliser and weed killers. This bloke was really interesting to listen to. He had a great mind on him that allowed him to see solutions for all kind of problems. He had a good business but this broke him emotionally and mentally.
calli that smell might be long pork as you have spent time in PNG.
Tom:
Todd Murphy’s going on the subcon tour – he’s better than Swepson but not as tall as Agar. His problem is he’s an offie and thus won’t beat Lyon into the team.
However, he rips the ball better than Lyon. His best bet would be to go the Tonya Harding route to a baggy green and break Lyon’s knee.
I stopped reading at “far-right”.
Yup do jismists realise what a turn off that label is now or how discredited it is. Project Veritas, really. Far right to me is websites like Cairns News certainly not Project Veritas.
Did you view the clip?
You’re kidding, right?
It’s known as “Fiery February” for a good reason.
Thanks Ranga.
I thought the idea Deere believes it can reduce fertilizer use by 60% is really interesting seeing the war created a massive shortage of the stuff – not that every farmer in the world is going to suddenly buy Deere’s tech.
Project Veritas just exposes those secret and hidden agenda of groups and organisations who do not want them publicly known.
Who is more likely to be the extremist? The ones who are up front? Or the ones trying to surreptitiously advance a secret hidden agenda by camouflaging their intent as something more acceptable?
GreyRanga, there is a lot of work being done in precision agriculture to reduce fertiliser and weed killer quantities. I’m not aware that the fertiliser and weed killer companies are trying to hinder it.
Farmers are always keen to reduce input costs as is any businessman.
“Far right” these days is anything that disagrees with the far left woke agenda pushed by most journalists.
That said lazy Sunday morning, lawn mowed yesterday and it was an absolute jungle from being away. Took 4 hours, multiple gold cans and many trips to dump grass clippings in the easement. Now showing 29 deg 75% Humidity according to the BOM at the aerodrome, my gauge inside has the house at 31 deg and a touch over 80% humidity. An inch of rain overnight gave the newly mowed lawn a drink.
Coffee in hand, life’s good.
For example, when grain harvesting the grain harvest rate is monitored along with the position in the field so that fertiliser application can be optimised to get uniform harvest next year. Weed killer is done with cameras which identify weeds and give them a squirt instead of just applying the stuff over the whole field. Nobody wants to use more inputs than necessary, regardless of the input cost.
Ooh!
Cunk On Earth lands on Netflix on January 31st.
““far-right””
A smear deliberately designed to embarrass, diminish, ridicule and silence those of us who don’t sign up to the progressive view of the world. It’s pure unadulterated gaslighting and dog whistling.
Late last week, watching Sky News Oz during the day, the newsreader described those GOP congressmen and women blocking McCarthy’s speakership as “far-right”. I winced, never have I heard the squad described as “far-left”, which is what they are, just like I’ve never heard the description “far-left” applied to the Greens here in Oz. And the Greens ARE far-left, yet they are never described as such whereas everyday conservatives and others on the right are always smeared as “far-right”.
The only reason journalists use the far right label is that 99% of journalists are far left political radicals who (in Australia) vote for either the Greens or the useful idiots the Greens ride on in government, the ALP.
In any case, asserting someone is far right is commentary and has no place in a news item. Like all leftards, journalists think their readers are too stupid to make such judgements themselves.
The Differential Diagnosis On Damar Hamlin’s Broken Heart
Try Perth. 2 1/2 hours just to reach … Adelaide. Interestingly this affects people in all sorts of ways. I always say Bondy could not have come from anywhere else. Probably Twiggy and Gina too. Ultimately they may all explode, but so what. It is no surprise the COAG holdouts are usually Qld and WA.
Snap, Cassie!
We brought a precision steering system, on the basis that it would pay for itself in the first cropping year, by reducing the fertilizer and weedkiller bill. It did.
Two memes, both are crackers!
WA= Wait Awhile.
Look, it’s ok in many respects. I found the people good. You’re living on the edge of a big fkg desert. But it’s miles away from anywhere so the people I found are insular and somewhat old-worldly. Like Aussie 30 years ago. In fact when I first went there I asked my guys what’s the time difference between here and “over east”? (during daylight saving months). One bloke said about 30 years.
Great outdoors, beaches camping, fishing etc. It’s big, Westralians clock up the most km’s per capita than any other state. Overseas=Bali.
But, you are far from anywhere. I loved it but I won’t live there. Just too far away from anywhere.
Big upticks. Interestingly, many of the people who would once have called me that are in much more frequent agreement with me now. Covid changed everything.
Except for gypsum Eyrie.
We throw that stuff everywhere without a care for the damage we inflict.
I love the sight of gypsum dust in the morning.
I expect nothing less than the paid shills for Big Pedo Pizza turning up here in their red shoes to discredit any enquiries into their activities.
Yep.
I’ve counted 4 so far, not including you.
The same joke used to be made about Queenslanders.
I came to realise that Joh was right on most things.
We did a finance deal with some Sydney private equity guys in the 90s. I’m sure they thought they were dealing with a bunch of hay seeds. We didn’t stich them up but they probably did their dough. We got paid – which didn’t always happen, so we were happy.
If you love sand you’ll love WA.
A win in the culture wars. Go Gutfield !
NBC Execs Regret Paying Jimmy Fallon $80 Million Contract Extension As Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld Beats ‘Tonight Show’ In Ratings
Hapless host Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show is losing the ratings war to FOX News rival Greg Gutfeld — and the TV flop’s sinking number has left NBC brass with buyer’s remorse, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Nearly 19 months after the Peacock Network handed Fallon a whopping $80 million five-year contract extension, The Tonight Show is drawing under 1.3 million eyeballs — less than half the audience of upstart Gutfeld!
Spot on, Makka. Perth is the most remote state capital city in the world, virtually equidistant from Sydney and Singapore — both the width of Western Europe from Perth.
Hence, Sandgropers are by and large secessionists, IMO, who resent the fact that their vast mineral wealth is used to to sustain the federation’s taxation regime.
Wouldn’t have thought Kerang would have been that bad, I take from your posts you are somewhere around there or on the Loddon somewhere?
Yes on the Loddon. The place is good for sure but thinking of a change. Definitely avoid Melbourne.
Used to love going there but it is a soulless place now.
The Melb CBD is pretty unpleasant now. QV and Melb Central still a lot of fun.
They were trying to cover it up because they were running it from the very beginning. I can’t quite remember, was it Dr. McCullough, who said that Event 201 was not the first but about the dozenth such trial run which had started years ago with the US Military. And all of them were concerned not with cures but with population control. By whoever or however the virus was released, every sensible pandemic plan in almost every country developed over decades was tossed in the bin in favour of dictatorial controls which in many cases were KNOWN to be counterproductive or simply useless.
If the Buffalo Bills want to know if any of their players are vaccine injured, it’s easy to do so
That lesbian centre (the former hospital) next to QV is very offensive though
Bob Hawke was a US Intelligence Informant for many years.
Whitlam found out Australia was a member of 5 Eyes in 1973 due to information gleaned from the ASIO Raid.
We’d been a member since 1956.
Mere speculation on my part; BUT, I’ve always suspected that the GoF testing that the NIH was involved with at Wuhan could not have been undertaken in isolation of the US Military. If there is any possibility of anything being “weaponised”, US Military will be involved. Period.
So like all cover ups, it was arse covering- by the Top Brass. Made many times more important to them) when they rolled out the mandates for the US Armed Forces.
BB
Was in Melbourne NY Day or transferring from the International terminal to domestic. 6 hour wait before Jetstar would open the bag drop, bored I just surveyed the crowd. As much as I still have a soft spot for Victoria as I came of age there, worked labouring when out of school for a couple years on farms saw mills etc, completed tertiary studies in Bendigo but I regrettably agree with your assessment. Never used to be like that and I blame Bracks and Andrews for the decline.
If you are looking for a change tip, stay away from mining towns. Unless you don’t care about cash. WA & Qld have abound in places like this
It’s charm was always particular – top of Collins St and the European v Swanston St and Lord of the Fries.
taleb is absolutely full of himself, not a role model for anyone
Always preferred Singapore or Malaysia.
Cancer Vaccine Trials—Using Same mRNA Tech Behind Covid Shots—Could Launch In U.K. This September
Yesterday I watched an interview with Ed Dowd the ex Blackrock executive who looks at the data.
In one part they discussed possible reasons why some were Vax injured and points were:
Did Vax enter blood stream and aspiration.
Storage of the Vax. Remember the big deal about being incredibly cold and I recall courier leaving it on clinic doorsteps and ruining the batch. The suggestion was the Vax may have been less effective if not stored properly.
Even shaking the vial and possibility first draw out might be more toxic than others.
Batch variations where some have been found to have more issues than others and may be because of different production locations. Note this is something Aussie Twitter guy Jikkyleaks has been doing FOI’s on and there are batches which have noticeably more death reports than others. Also of interest was his info that some batches have had their expiry date extended by 6 months. How does that even happen ?
If you are on Twitter check out Jikkyleaks.
Best part of Melbourne CBD area is the various gardens around the place. I have kind of ended up hating visiting the shrine, too many tourists making light of something somber.
The CBD itself has gotten dirty and scummy. Very noticeable in the last few years, if you have your eyes open. Little things like the grass in the green spaces gets long.
I always liked a beer at the Riverland bar below Fed Sq. Not sure what it would be like post Andrews. I was around post Kirner and things were pretty grim.
It’s also that that mineral wealth is being used to prop up the mendicant States – those who have minerals, but refuse to allow them to be mined, to pacify the Green lobby.
You don’t have to be from WA to think the Federation needs work. But it doesn’t hurt.
Eyrie he couldn’t advertise in trade magazines coz of vested interests. ZK2A he designed and built that system, whether its the same as you have I don’t know but he made a few bob out of contract croppers. He had gps overlay of fields and optimised layout of boundaries to suit contours if necessary. On the contour boundary changes picked up 5% improvement minimum. Wifes Uncle used him with an unofficial boundary change with his neighbours to both parties satisfaction. He lost a bit of acreage but was a better shape. Millable timber and hazelnuts being planted on areas unsuitable.
Regarding WA. I lived in Perth for a while back in the 80s, Girrawheen to be precise. You can only visit Kings Park so many times, but Mandurah has a lovely bridge. It is a very shiny and new place though, so there’s that.
BB, said to me a long time ago and not forgotten: “two good things come out of Victoria – Australian Rules football, and the road to Queensland”.
In retrospect, staying out of the Federation was the smartest thing NZ ever did.
Or perhaps the dumbest, depending on your point of view.
The Victorian countryside is very nice. It’s accessible, not far really , well connected and its surrounds Melbourne on 3 sides. Property is much less OTT than elsewhere when so close to a major CBD. There are beaches, estuaries, bays, woodlands, rural pasture , mountains and among that are dotted decent sized historical townships and wildlife. A lot of diversity; hiking, camping, fishing, boating etc. I like the Vic climate in most places (I prefer not to melt away or drown in sweat). How people survived during covid was a miracle as the lock downs must have devastated tens of thousands of small family businesses.
But then there is Dan…
That’s a plus and a minus. Compared to Melbourne or Sydney it is very “white”. If you like down at heel places you will struggle to find many. The sheer level of wealth atm needs to be seen to be believed. A mate is back from London (who lives and works near Chelsea) and even he noticed it.
Just saw a tweet; Bolton is making a run in 2024. Not verified.
Or…
“Where can I get the best view of Melbourne?
In the rear view mirror on the Hume Hwy.”
Cassie of Sydneysays:
January 8, 2023 at 10:24 am
““far-right””
A smear deliberately designed to embarrass, diminish, ridicule and silence those of us who don’t sign up to the progressive view of the world. It’s pure unadulterated gaslighting and dog whistling.
Time to Do unot others?
Perhaps “rabid leftard” or “communist” or fascist leftard”?
Watched the mini series, GEORGE & TAMMY last night .. if your a country and western fan this look at the marital adventures of George Jones & Tammy Wynette is well worth watch .. 10/10
As an aside I saw an Asian guy dropping his (presumably) wife and son off at their hawker stall opposite in a Porsche Cayenne and unloading plastic bags of vegetables out the boot.
Ed Casesays:
January 8, 2023 at 10:56 am
Bob Hawke was a US Intelligence Informant for many years.
Whitlam found out Australia was a member of 5 Eyes in 1973 due to information gleaned from the ASIO Raid.
Rubbish, even more rubbishy than your usual rubbish.
And that is being kind to a Dick Head like you.
Meant to post the link to the blurb for George & Tammy .. duuuuuuh!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5545398/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Whatever you think of Don Bradman, the targeting of him recently as a “right-wing nut job” (Phillip Adams’s words, I think) was calculated to do just that.
There’s also the small problem many people are simply unable to clear out spike protein
Bob Hawke was a US Intelligence Informant for many years.
Laffs out loud! .. even Bob worked out that the Chicoms pay better than the Yanks .. ya ain’t gonna get the harbourside manse relying on US returns ……!
Time to Do Unto Others …
It’s all over the place:
War Pig John Bolton Goes INSANE!: Prepares for 2024 Presidential Campaign
John Bolton announces he WILL run for the White House in 2024 against former boss Donald Trump as he blasts the ex-president’s ‘terminal decline’
In modern Australia, anything that is not approved by or opposing the Marxist-Leninists infesting the media, Govts and much more, is labelled “far right”. It’s their lemming like dogma and it makes them easily identifiable.
mOron is a good example, but at the very bottom of the scale. Where the useful idiots dwell.
Adams just preaching to the choir. Same as every night on the ALPBC.
Except that it was all over the msm. And a pile on on Twitter, etc.
Nope, at best a consultant role to a defence contractor to supplement your parliamentary pension.
The Twitter/ ALPBC Venn overlap is pretty strong. At least among those whose kids or grandkids have shown them how to use their mobile phone.
Speaking of Phillip Adams & other useful idiots, I was reading the preface to a book yesterday in which readers were reminded that in the halls of Western academe the moral facts of the Cold War were in hot dispute until about two seconds before the Berlin Wall came down.
Many of our intellectual elite* have been whiteanting Western societies for decades. It’s a wonder we’re still standing…just.
* Not that Adams belongs in that cohort. He’s a mere populariser, a conduit of poisonous ideas from the academy to the masses via media.
Zip, but he doesn’t sell himself as a role model. He’s just an arrogant swine, but a smart one too.
Unless Eddleston confirms Hawke was both a flamer and a spook, I’m not buying it.
Perth hot in summer? I have lived in Perth for 34 years and summer is great, hot and low humidity, perfect! The Freemantle doctor is very reliable from 11 AMish making the afternoons perfect for living life.
Now Kununurra is hot with mid 40’s and high humidity, that is a different beast.
Adam’s didnt give a shit being called out for racism, hid behind his woman’s skirt then popped back out without any embarrassment, this is how the left always roll.
Harmer this innings has more runs than captain Elgar the whole series. A most pitiful performance.
Watched an old Parkinson interview with thon thunstan last night. He quoted Adams. Hanging around like a bad smell for decades.
Ahahahahaha.
A Steve Inman classic:
https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1611650695777902593
Not much danger of being cancelled by Ita or the Byron Bay Writers Festival.
We went to the Botanical Gardens in Melbourne – very good.
The rest of the city has graffiti everywhere. Presumably the woke councils think it’s art and therefore don’t clean it off. Yarra Council had two huge vertical banners, rather like the ones the Nazis used to fly, hanging from the front of their chambers: “Refugees welcome”. Paid for by the ratepayers.
JC earlier on the John Deere seeding technology.
In reality, and like a lot of “new” technologies, this is just the combination of existing technology in an innovative way, and improvement in cost and performance of those technologies, namely:-
– cheap and reliable high resolution video;
– accurate and cheap GPS technology;
– cheap real-time computing power (HAL-9000.2 or better);
– finely tuned delivery mechanisms for pesticides/seed/fertiliser on the equipment.
Media commentators are lining up to declare the Republicans divided and unworthy of governing via the Congress. MTG got pinged for having received a call or text from DT!
The same people have nothing negative to say about the awful Biden regime, the string-pullers behind the curtain, or the Deep State Institutions and companies putting their thumbs on the scales during every election.
That was laughable.
Patrice Newell is a black woman…uh huh.
Whatever you think of Don Bradman, …
Huh?
He was the greatest cricketer of all time, he arose from humble beginnings and he was an Australian.
What else is there to talk about, Roger?
Victoriastani inner city councils give Private Eye’s Rotten Boroughs a run for their money.
Sky keeps running an item where Taliban condemn Harry for killing 25 Taliban.
Geneva Conventions anyone?
Is Patrice one of the Stollen Generation?
Interesting; the research I linked to yesterday on the current state of science cited a decline in the number of patents being issued as evidence of decline. Existing technology is being refined and imporved, but new inventions or genuine innovation in industrial processes is slowing down.
I guess you had to be in on the joke.
thanks sanchez
Unusually, there are tiny signs that the Grauniad (11:31 AEDT) is taking a journalistic interest in Albanese’s Dance of the Seven Veils over the Voice – specifically his appearing to accept the Langton Calma co-design model, without actually committing to anything:
(Baby steps only: the Grauniad is still far more interested in repeating Albanese’s claim that Dutton is running a “cheap culture war stunt” by asking for outrageously racist detail about how Australia is to be governed under the ALP/Green post Referendum Nirvana.)
Dutton is clearly walking with a leg either side of the barbed wire fence, however his strongest PC-friendly argument is based on his last two questions of Albanese:
An unanswerable combination for Albanese/Burney, who clearly recognize the constitutional and political minefield that the Local and Regional Voices concept leads to – and are really, really hoping to avoid the shitstorm of punting the central plank of the Langton-Calma report into the long grass before the Referendum.
popped back out without any embarrassment
Munty mode.
Will you see yourself out?
Dutton needs a GST on the birthday cake for Albo to kill it stone dead. Not that I think it will even go close to getting up anyway.
Yarra Council had two huge vertical banners, rather like the ones the Nazis used to fly, hanging from the front of their chambers
Old habits die hard. The first thing that crosses a lefty’s mind when they seize power: We need big banners!
These people remind me of that ’80s movie, Soul Man, where a white kid pretends to be black to get a scholarship. The difference is that he’s decent enough to eventually feel remorse over his charade.
Councils truly are a magnet for the untalented and self important who are often green foot soldiers. You very often don’t know who the hell not to vote for.
Dutton is playing this like a Strad.
Redwings in the Party can’t demand a Conscience Vote while Albanese refuses to give any details.
Then there’s Albanese’s claim that Power Bills will always be lower under Labor and he’s dropping them by $275 a year.
This would have been a big deal until we saw Biden as president.
fighting to the last Ukrainian
Why The Middle Class Is Shrinking Fast
As Macca remarked, the country side and towns and villages are lovely
Yah.
Innovation in science has slowed to a crawl (7 Jan)
What I think is happening is that the left’s control of the whole sector has sent them all down rabbit holes of nonsense.
I’ve mentioned how according to the glossy I get from my old Chemistry Dept shows just about all of them are now working on climate rubbish. With Covid I suspect we’re getting the same happening with medical science. Covid and climate are sucking in everything and none of it is productive, for political reasons. No researcher would dare publish that ivermectin works or that CO2 isn’t dangerous, they’d lose their job. So it’s a howler monkey chorus of the same stupid stuff. Nothing innovative.
At the same time almost all of the money is going to just those two areas, and scientists need money like everyone else does. So they follow the money.
Result: science is dying from herd-thinking as the black sheep who make the actual breakthroughs are cast out and defunded.
Which – “if present trends continue” – has profound consequences for the future of humankind. We may have reached a self-inflicted “peak science”.
They are…my particular favourite is that Tudor village in Fitzroy Gardens 😀
Ed Casesays:
January 8, 2023 at 12:53 pm
Dutton is playing this like a Strad.
You said the same about “Scotty” before the election. How did that work out?
You are getting close to replacing m0nty=fa as the resident wrongologist.
Not in China.
Forbes 2021. And I bet the Chinese aren’t fittering away their education on climate change, social equality and gender studies.
I’m thinking of places like Lal Lal and Riddells Creek. Gorgeous. The Mornington Peninsula is delightful even though it’s a playground for the rich and fatuous.
As Macca remarked, the country side and towns and villages are lovely
Aye. When I travel on a highway like the Hume, always try and get to a town bakery or something that would be bypassed. There’s a pub just south of Gundagai which I have been meaning to drop into.
‘close to replacing’
Parallel vortexes of idiocy.
In my experience Chinese scientists are just as hopeless. Instead of climate orthodoxy they have communist orthodoxy. So the black sheep are excluded because they question stuff too much and aren’t easy to make kowtow to the Party. The Chinese scientists I’ve worked with have tended to be unimaginative and not especially innovative. Risk taking is repressed.
But then there’s the dick tator. And you have a non opposition that seems to want to go into coalition with what’s supposed to be the enemy
SpongeBob look alike and former [R] Senator Jeff Flake is now Ambassador to Turkey.
Driving down the Hume on a late summer evening thru sthn NSW and vicco is almost magic.
The study states it is a 50 year trend. The problem certainly has a sociological aspect to be considered. Another issue to consider is so much low hanging fruit has been picked that a slowdown is inevitable. The problem I have with their argument is that since 1945 huge strides in technology have occurred. Interestingly though the other day I watched a video by a particle physicist who argued the Standard Model is in bad need of updating but there is no progress on that front.
Having a vast sea of scientific plodders works for China, especially since their industrial espionage program has been so enormous. The scientists may be uninnovative plodders but given a recipe they can get it to work. Developing new breakthroughs though is a different kettle of fish and China isn’t making any of those – just stealing ones that others find.
Comment, from the “Hun” on the referendum on the “Voice.”
As my mum was won’t to say, quantity does not necessarily mean quality.
A lot of Chinese patent applications are not actually for genuine innovations but to attract government subsidies for research programs.
They don’t yet have a truly innovative research culture…although they’re coming along in zoonotic viruses.
How did that apostrophe get in there?
Ed Casesays:
January 8, 2023 at 1:14 pm
SpongeBob look alike and former [R] Senator Jeff Flake is now Ambassador to Turkey.
Even closer to replacing m0nty=fa as resident wrongologist. Keep trying, we know you can make it.
Bruce of N
Developing new breakthroughs though is a different kettle of fish and China isn’t making any of those – just stealing ones that others find.
The dead hand of communism. No-one wants to fall foul of a new Hundred Flowers campaign.
Nothing ever stays the same over time. Recent restrictions placed on China by the US indicates that the US are uncomfortable with gap closing. China’s scientific capabilities are growing while the west’s research and science edges are stagnant and diverted towards the woke. No doubt China is behind for now but they certainly aren’t at “peak science”.
John – This was already going on in the early eighties. Forty years ago. Instead of climate change it was cures for cancer. So to get funding from the ARC for a chemistry project we’d have to somehow invoke curing cancer. Even then the rate of successful grants was like about 10%. I had a choice between a practical synthetic organic chemistry project for honours or a gold-cluster chemistry inorganic chemistry project. The latter somewhat unbelieveably was supposed to be about fighting cancer. I chose the former, since it at least seemed for real.
It’s a self selective thing. Where the money is the scientists go. And almost all the money comes from the government now, which is prone to silly fads like climate. In the medical profession there’s an alternative funding source from Big Pharma, and you’ve seen how they’ve now been totally captured by fascist dogma.
Sadly science is dying because the Left regards that anything microscopically dangerous to their ideology is a threat that must be extinguished. And the Left has been getting increasingly cultlike and unworldly over the last 20 years especially.
Test
Remember that short period around the mid-1980s when we realised that, when it comes to investing money in profitable enterprises, governments and their public service advisers are mug punters?
Wood pellet shortage forces UK households to burn cat litter, top supplier in Russia is sanctioned
Hannah Boland
The Telegraph
Sat, 07 Jan 2023
Jollyes, one of the UK’s largest pet food stores, said its cat litter suppliers were “working overtime to fulfill demand” for wood pellets, after a sharp jump in sales earlier this winter.
It said this came in the wake of “a lot of chatter on social media about using wood pellet cat litter as household fuel in the last few weeks around the cost of living crisis”.
Millions of households across the UK have experienced jumps in their energy bills this year, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked turmoil in the international markets.
Earlier this year, Britain’s largest supplier of firewood, Certainly Wood, said it expected sales to rise by as much as a fifth this winter, as families opt for alternatives to turning on the heating. It costs households around £600 to have enough firewood to run a wood-burning stove on evenings and weekends over winter, Certainly Wood said.
Meanwhile, the average energy bill went from £1,971 in August, compared to £4,279 a year currently.
Thousands of homes are heated using wood pellets, with people having swapped out gas or oil-fired boilers for wood pellet boilers, and opting for pellet stoves which can heat homes.
John Hanmore, head of sales at Pellet Kings, said pellets used for cat litter and heating homes were essentially the same as long as they had a certain accreditation known as EN 1 Plus.
This basically means premium quality where the pellets produce less ash and are the highest quality. Mr Hanmore said: “We don’t agree with the cheaper pellets, as they can be of a lower calorific value [meaning how much energy they generate] and also are higher in dust – which is bad for pets.”
It comes after many retailers have been battling a shortage of wood pellets over the past year, given that up to 40pc of the higher standard pellets used in the UK had previously been imported from Russia and Belarus. Imports of these were blocked by sanctions on Russia and Belarus.
The Government lifted the requirement to use the greener pellets for 12 months in October in an effort to get more supplies into the market.
Exactly. Chinese scientists are great at closing gaps. They are terrible about opening new gaps.
About the only thing they’ve managed to get ahead in is in hypersonic missile systems, but they were effectively already developed but not implemented. Once interceptor tech became a significant tactical problem the Chinese threw lots of effort into hypersonic systems to overcome them. But ordinary launch rockets are already basically hypersonic, so it was just gap closing there too really.
The competition between SpaceX and China is fun – they’re neck and neck in annual launches. But SpaceX is recycling their launchers whereas China is doing brute force classical launches. The innovation is with Elon. But China is experimenting with recovering launch vehicles now…another catch up.
5 January 2023
Prince Harry don claim say im brother Prince William physically attack am, according to di Guardian, wey tok say dem don see copy of di duke upcoming memoir, Spare.
Di newspaper report say di book tok about one argument between di two over Prince Harry wife Meghan.
“E grab me by di collar, rip my necklace, and e knock me to di floor,” di Guardian quotes Prince Harry as writing.
BBC News neva see a copy of Spare.
Dem no go publish di memoir until next Tuesday, but di Guardian tok say dem get a copy upon say wetin dem call “stringent pre-launch security” dey ground.
Buckingham Palace neva respond to one request for comment.
According to di Guardian, di book tok say di wetin cause di quanta na one comment wey Prince William make to Prince Harry for im London home for 2019.
Di paper tok say Prince Harry write say im brother no approve im marriage to Meghan Markle – and that Prince William describe her as “difficult”, “rude” and “abrasive”.
According to di report, di Duke of Sussex come write say im brother dey “parrot[ing] di press narrative” as di confrontation increase.
Dem say Prince Harry describe wetin happen next, including one alleged physical quarrel.
“E set down [a glass of] water, call me anoda name, then come at me. All dis happen so fast. So very fast.
“E grab me by di collar, rip my necklace, and e knock me to di floor.
“I land on di dog bowl, wey crack under my back, di pieces cut into me. I lie for there for a moment, dazed, then get up to my feet and tell am to get out.”
Just to reinforce the Link – https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cqv349xy1y3o?at_campaign_type=owned&at_link_origin=bbcnewspidgin&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_link_type=web_link&at_ptr_name=twitter&at_format=link&at_medium=social&at_link_id=64AD4998-8CEA-11ED-9F8B-8E3816F31EAE&at_bbc_team=editorial&fbclid=IwAR05gfmY-WjKI03t35QHqyTJHYnXxy6Xi1rKBgQBQ2B3KaEkG_ntsWrhYww
Bruce Pascoe’s latest brainfart…
Crikey, what manner of pidgin is that?
January 7, 2023
Buried News: Obama muscled Zuckerberg to censor Trump — and made an example of him
Has Barack Obama gone from ex-president to Democrat party crime boss?
It sure looks like it, based on a new report about his treatment of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Investigative reporter Lee Smith has got a stunning report that ran this week in Tablet, comparable in impact to that report by Molly Ball at Time who wrote about how elites conspired to “fortify democracy” by rigging the election against President Trump in 2020 and afterwards thought it was a smart thing to crow about.
Smith’s report begins with how the FBI “hacked” Twitter, not just engaging in a “master-canine” relationship as Twitter files reporter Matt Taibbi put it in one of his reports, but actually infiltrating the company and controlling it from within, rendering it a corporate Zombie.
According to Smith: – How the FBI Hacked Twitter
The answer begins with Russiagate
Bruce Pascoe’s latest brainfart…
Serious question, what does he do for money? Work as a casual at Bunnings? Or is this yet another taxpayer funded arsehole?
Wood pellet shortage forces UK households to burn cat litter
And you thought that peasant thing was consigned to the history books.
He’s currently employed by the University of Melbourne as a specialist on indigenous foods.
For a short while I thought he might be having a lend of the aboriginal industry and would sooner or later reveal his true identity and purpose. But he’s been at it so long now that he’d be had up for defrauding several entities who’ve employed him or given him grants if he did. The most charitable view to take is that he’s someone who’s taken on a false identity and has come to believe in it himself. The more worldly might take another, somewhat less charitable, view.
Daily Telegraph.
Being a pet owner and a renter can at times feel like an impossible task, having to compete for a small amount of pet-friendly properties or beg and plead with a distant landlord for the chance to keep a furry companion.
NSW Labor is vowing to overhaul the way pets are considered in rental properties by imposing a set of rules landlords must follow before they can refuse a tenant’s request.
If Labor wins the state election on March 25, landlords will have a set 21-day period to respond to a request for a pet from their tenant.
If they fail to respond within that time, the request will be automatically approved and the tenant can legally have their pet.
Under the proposed law, landlords could still refuse a request, however they would have to provide a reasonable excuse for not allowing the pet.
The reasons are yet to be determined and will be decided by a newly created Rental Commissioner if Labor wins government.
It is expected the reasons would be similar to laws already in place in Queensland, which allow landlords to refuse pets that would be dangerous (like a venomous snake), if there are pre-existing strata rules, or if the pet is too large for the property.
St Clair renter and dog owner Kirsten Duffy has finally secured a dog-friendly rental but knows all too well the pain of finding affordable housing where she can live with her furry friends.
“Our options were really limited, it’s just not an even playing field,” Ms Duffy said.
“In the time we had our dogs they’ve done less damage to our house than most small children would.
“Dogs are good for your mental wellbeing. Its very unreasonable you can decline someone from having a pet just because it’s a pet.”
The state Liberal government has taken a similar idea to public consultation but has not committed to changing the law.
Currently landlords do not have to respond to tenants within a time frame or provide a reason for declining a pet.
Labor leader Chris Minns said a lack of pet friendly rental can be a barrier to those with low incomes and those escaping domestic violence finding a place to live.
“Just because a person lives in a rental, it doesn’t mean they can’t make it a home, and for so many people renting across our state that includes a family pet.” he said.
“Under NSW Labor the rules will be simpler and fairer for both renters and owners.
“Labor’s plan will streamline the process and set a firm deadline so that renters can have more certainty.
“It’s clear the current rental system in New South Wales is far more complex than it needs to be, at a benefit to no one. At the core of our policies is a desire to make the stressful task of finding a new rental simpler.”
So landlords may not soon to be able to set their rules for tenants it seems. Government looking to stick their nose into somewhere not required.
Crikey, what manner of pidgin is that?
That’s West Australian Pidgin! I know that from Mark McClowns COVID press conferences!
rickwsays:
January 8, 2023 at 1:48 pm
Bruce Pascoe’s latest brainfart…
Serious question, what does he do for money? Work as a casual at Bunnings? Or is this yet another taxpayer funded arsehole?
Apparently, he has a ‘Farm’ in Gippsland that survives on Grants from some Money Tree. Then there are book sales (lol) and money from whatever University he is sponging off. Seems to work for him.
What will happen to the $26 billion overseas livestock market? Presumably it will be replaced by skippies.
Has anyone consulted the bandicoots about being wiped out, and how does this sit with “guarding Country” and so on?
So many questions Bruce, and so little time before your gravy train runs into a rock.
I’ll bet good money he is part of any indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Piers Akerman in the Spectator
Perhaps Australia need some of these – seem better value & more bank for Buck that our current purchase
SKY WARDEN™ – Platform for USSOCOM Armed Overwatch Program
or
These crop dusters were converted into deadly attack aircraft
There’s something better than the A-10 aircraft Ukraine wants
Since these aircraft are not high-dollar sexy jets, it’s likely that few in the procurement chain, from the President on down, are even aware of them. But at an all-up cost on the order of $5 million, we can buy multiples of them for the price of a single A-10. And they will be usable the day they arrive because Ukrainian pilots are already flying them for agricultural purposes. On top of that, the supply chain is robust and global, meaning maintenance is simple.
Both planes can be maintained and flown in austere forward areas because they only need a short patch of road for a runway. They pack a punch and can provide a very quick response for ground troops in need of some help. Could that be why Russia is reportedly reactivating some of its An-2 cropduster/ground attack airplanes?
Hah.
I think that parrot is dead. I kicked it and it didn’t move.
No heartbeat or neural activity.
Some engineering is still alive, but it is being wokenized.
“How Can Anyone Take This Charlatan Seriously” should be the title of every article in Quadrant and the Spectator.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
January 8, 2023 at 1:40 pm
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2023/01/how-can-anyone-take-this-charlatan-seriously/
Bruce Pascoe’s latest brainfart…
Personifies everything fuc.ed in this stupid nation.
When focused on Pascoe monty, yes. Yes it should.
In defence of duck à l’orange
Olivia Potts
Its heyday came in the 20th century, of course. Duck à l’orange was an extremely popular choice in the 1960s and 1970s, gracing restaurants and dinner party tables alike. Its popularity may have been its downfall.
I blame Julia Child. In 1961, Child published Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and brought classical French cuisine to the American masses. Now, I am an unabashed Child fan, and her book truly transformed the way the US cooked. But her greatest skill was knowing her audience: she was adamant that her recipes must be achievable for her American readers.
I wonder if this is where it all went wrong.
In her otherwise authentic version of the dish, she calls for sweet oranges instead of the traditional Seville oranges, which are very hard to get hold of in the US. Her book popularised the dish in America, and from there it was a slippery slope to those bright orange, syrupy sauces, the colour and texture of chip-shop curry sauce.
And we’ve been getting it wrong ever since. The correct sauce to serve with duck à l’orange, sauce bigarade, is almost unrecognisable from what we’ve come to expect.
Sauce bigarade is a proper old-school sauce, the kind you’d find in professional kitchens full of stressed, be-toqued chefs and enormous bubbling pans. It combines a rich, dark, deeply savoury meat stock with a ‘gastrique’ – a caramel made with vinegar, which brings both sweetness and sourness to the sauce. Most importantly, the sauce bigarade features Seville oranges, the bittersweet Spanish orange.
If you can’t get hold of Seville oranges where you are, or have a sudden hankering for duck à l’orange in July – the combined zest and juice of a navel orange and a lemon will be a perfectly respectable substitute.
Serves two, plus leftovers
Takes 20 minutes
Roasts 1 hour 30 minutes
Thanks Old Ozzie. Our workplace cooking rivalry is currently working on who can make the best Duck l’Orange.
His “aboriginality” is not uncontested from within the indigenous communities he claims links with.
That might be a bridge too far even for Bruce.
Whatever it takes: let’s make it more difficult to own and rent retail property. Marxism 101.
Ozzy’s Leadin Pigin Inglish Konservatif an Cennre Righ Wep Page
So landlords may not soon to be able to set their rules for tenants it seems. Government looking to stick their nose into somewhere not required.
Was a land lord for up to 2 properties for more than 20 years. At the start never a problem with pets, owners used fill in holes (dug by dogs) or attempt to remove the cat smell. By the end though I had a blanket ban on pets much to the various property managers irritations. I have had to spend whole bonds levelling out and regrassing backyards. Sorry people seem not to give a siht anymore. If I move again we’ll consider leaving vacant or selling. Landlord protections are getting smaller & smaller and stupid ticket clipping like smoke alarms checks add to the overheads.
we are in a dark age and it didn;t happen overnight
Rockdoctorsays:
January 8, 2023 at 2:25 pm
So landlords may not soon to be able to set their rules for tenants it seems. Government looking to stick their nose into somewhere not required.
Was a land lord for up to 2 properties for more than 20 years. At the start never a problem with pets, owners used fill in holes (dug by dogs) or attempt to remove the cat smell. By the end though I had a blanket ban on pets much to the various property managers irritations. I have had to spend whole bonds levelling out and regrassing backyards. Sorry people seem not to give a siht anymore. If I move again we’ll consider leaving vacant or selling.
Landlord protections are getting smaller & smaller and stupid ticket clipping like smoke alarms checks add to the overheads.
Try QLD – My Wife’s rental townhouse already had working existing Compliant Smoke Alarms, that were OK till 2028, with existing 2017 Queensland Legislation
Queensland Govt 2022 Legislation require the replacement of Existing Working Smoke Alarms besides ongoing yearly testing by Smoke Alarm Company
Justin Langer.
Shut up you yapping poodle.
Macron’s sending of tanks to Ukraine marks escalation of France’s role in war on Russia
On Wednesday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans for France to deliver AMX-10 RC light tanks to the Ukrainian military. This is the first time that Western-designed tanks will be sent to the Ukrainian armed forces. It marks a significant escalation of French involvement in the war.
I scrolled through Spotify to see how many Joe Rogan shows I’d watched during 2022.
I counted 4.
To put that into perspective, I watched every episode of the All-In Podcast last year which was 50 episodes.
Putting aside an hour a week to listen to four plugged in, sharp guys discuss current events with a tech focus is a decent use of my time.
This week they it’s their 2023 predictions episode & they finish talking about the issues with OpenAI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3UjMit3xGY
Definitely not tok pisin.
I sounds (as opposed to reads) like a caricature of the Caribbean. Maybe written by a Death inParadise scriptwriter.
Has Barack Obama gone from ex-president to Democrat party crime boss?
He’s gone from useful Democrat stooge to President to crime boss, which is merely a promotion in the old business.
taxes must be raised to appease GAIA!
Prince Harry could be barred from the US and has put visa ‘at risk’ after his admission he has taken drugs
. Prince Harry could be barred from the US after he admitted to taking drugs
. He confessed to doing cocaine, smoking cannabis and taking mushrooms
. Typical visa applicants would be denied over their history with illicit substances
I just see the bickering over who is “Aboriginal” as making the Voice a farce and a sham.
And they will be usable the day they arrive because Ukrainian pilots are already flying them for agricultural purposes.
Uh-huh. Good way to kill a lot of ag pilots. Weeds and bugs don’t shoot back. Takes a fair bit of skill and training in tactics to be a credible ground attack pilot. Even then you are only good until a quad 23mm radar guided gun or missile finds you and blows you in half.
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Rentals that regime started in 2022. ALP/cross benchers to their credit watered the legislation down, LNP wanted to go harder earlier and Tim Mander cried crocodile tears in Parliament for a bunch of braindead PI parents who burned down a place after disconnecting said working detectors. Also thank a grandstanding Coroner as well. If you haven’t noticed makes my blood boil too. I wrote to numerous stated members who didn’t even bother to reply.
However as an owner/occupier I have 4 more years to comply which I will use to the last second.
Zipstersays:
January 8, 2023 at 2:34 pm
Macron’s sending of tanks to Ukraine marks escalation of France’s role in war on Russia
Meanwhile
Macron’s wife wanted ‘phallus and golden balls’ for Notre Dame – ex-minister
French politician Roselyne Bachelot claims the president was also looking for “a contemporary architectural gesture”
French First Lady Brigitte Macron suggested redesigning the iconic spire of Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral after a 2019 fire to resemble gilded male genitalia, former culture minister Roselyne Bachelot has claimed in her memoir ‘682 Days – The Hypocrites’ Ball’, released on Thursday.
Just a few days after President Emmanuel Macron’s administration allegedly lambasted her decision to have the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral spire rebuilt as a replica of the old one, Bachelot was out at lunch with the president’s wife when the First Lady showed her “a project topped with a sort of erect phallus with its base surrounded with golden balls,” the book reveals.
Did Harry inhale?
Did Harry have sex with that woman?
Or do you have to be President to do these things?
That can’t be right, no no no. I thought the EU was bereft of materiel to send to Ukraine. CL has assured me that the war was as good as won for Russia. Fake news!
Saffer skipper Elgar is this year’s Rory Burns.
That’s the fourth time this series he’s been strangled down the leg side and caught behind. As the TV people rightly said, that would have been the plan.
I suppose with a significant number of West Indians in the UK Caribbean pidgin would be the logical conclusion.
. Prince Harry could be barred from the US after he admitted to taking drugs
. He confessed to doing cocaine, smoking cannabis and taking mushrooms
. Typical visa applicants would be denied over their history with illicit substances
Load of clickbait rubbish! .. if you got bumped from the US for admitting to taking drugs most of the O/S music & film industry folk living there would already be banned …….
Now the Liberal party need to stand up and say NO with the Nationals and avoid getting splinters in their arse from their collective fence sitting.
The Liberal Party doesn’t have to say NO at all.
All they’ve gotta do is just keep asking Albanese for the details of how the YES proposal is going to work.
You’re sounding like a Labor Shill, Zulu.
Mostly 3rd generation now; don’t think they’re talking pidgin anymore.
My guess would be some sort of West African lingua franca.
Yep, it’s apparently west african ‘pidgin’
Most simplistic pidgin – ever.
rickwsays:
January 8, 2023 at 1:48 pm
Bruce Pascoe’s latest brainfart…
Serious question, what does he do for money? Work as a casual at Bunnings? Or is this yet another taxpayer funded arsehole?
He’s a Perfesser at the (former) University of Melbourne. So, taxpayer funded.
That wife ain’t as dumb as she looks.
Just read that tongue bath Ackerman gave Beasley. WTF are those 2 friendly?
I remember my dad and his mates when they would get pissy pouring scorn on Beasley’s girth for one, fat useless F something else commonly I heard too. Would have loved to see him try to get in a APC turret, turret plug comes to mind. Also Hawke/Keating continued the decline in capability that started after the Vietnam War, my mate joined under Robert Ray and often quips about the manning and ammunition shortages like doing a 2 week ex with 20 rounds. So I don’t understand why he is touted as some guru.
Lastly the guy has irritated me first by carrying on as republican but still accepts the WA Governors post. Hypocrisy anyone? Next probably the most galling, as soon as taking over the AWM leadership defecates on every veterans face by pushing this Frontier Wars fantasy and introducing pronouns. Na the bloke can go take a long jump off a short pier and do us a favour by retiring.
2 rants in half an hour so I might take a break, LOL getting too irritated.