With China losing its status as the world’s manufacturer India is aiming for that distinction. We should not let that happen as the result will be the same further down the road. Decentralisation is the best thing. When nobody has a monopoly then nobody can be a threat. Besides, India is very class stratified and not much better at treating its workers.

Not to mention a corrupt and byzantine business culture that makes the Chinese look positively virtuous.

India may find a few export niches – cars and call centres – but they are not set to replace China as teh world’s factory.

still you’d think health advice should be fairly consistent.

It is all based on lies. Why would it be consistent?

Speaking of which…

Cardinal Pell in The Speccie.

Elsewhere, Pell is reported as the anonymous author, under the name “Demos”, of a memorandum which criticises Pope Francis for bringing the international reputation of the Vatican to its lowest modern ebb, pointing to a failure to criticise China over human rights violations & Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

Try not to be a night owl.

This have an explanation, Dot?

Nightshift is over. We’re just waiting for mUnty to show up for the daily serve of wrongology until he sinks away.

Slinks away. But sinks away works too.

But that doesn’t stop your ghoulish posts.

I remember back in the 70’s and 80’s a lot of football matches were said to be ‘sudden death’ – I think Rex Mossop might have started it – but he he was not a doctor, so…

Still, whole teams. And there would have been all sorts of injuries of fans who were too enthusiastically invested in the outcomes.

A veritable dark age.

I remember back in the 70’s and 80’s a lot of football matches were said to be ‘sudden death’ – I think Rex Mossop might have started it – but he he was not a doctor, so…

You’re right!
The World Cup just recently had a “sudden death” phase as well.
What can it mean?

Interesting to reflect on all the Christopher Skase comparisons trotted out when George Pell produced medical advice against travel because of a crook ticker.
And here we are. Doesn’t make it through routine surgery because of … crook ticker.

Daniel Andrews blasted over George Pell jibe

By RACHEL BAXENDALE
Victorian Political Reporter
@rachelbaxendale
9:20PM January 12, 2023
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Daniel Andrews has been branded “an insult in search of a target” for saying he cannot think of “anything more distressing” for victims of church child sex abuse than granting George Pell a state ­funeral.

The criticism of the late cardinal by the Victorian Premier enraged friends of Cardinal Pell’s, with one saying he hoped Mr Andrews would never have been invited to any memorial.

Cardinal Pell, in a speech as recently as last August, compared Mr Andrews to Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s ­corrupt government in 1980s Queensland, and his supporters have long criticised the Victorian Labor leader’s response to the quashing of abuse convictions against the Catholic cleric.
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Asked on Thursday whether a state funeral had been requested for the cardinal, who died in Rome on Tuesday aged 81, Mr Andrews quickly ruled out any taxpayer-funded event.

“No. And there won’t be a state memorial service. I couldn’t think of anything that would be more distressing for victim survivors than that,” Mr Andrews said.

“There’s been no request made, and these things are normally ­offered rather than asked for, and there will be no offer made,” Mr Andrews said.

Asked whether he would attend the funeral – to be held at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, where Cardinal Pell is to be buried as a former archbishop – Mr Andrews said: “I don’t think so, no.”

NSW Premier and fellow Catholic Dominic Perrottet also ruled out taxpayer funding from his state for the funeral.

Close friend of Cardinal Pell, emeritus professor of law and former vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University Greg Craven, hit back at Mr Andrews.

“I think Daniel Andrews is an insult in search of a target,” he said. “So far as I know, no one wanted a state funeral, no one asked for a state funeral, and I for one would hope that he wouldn’t have been invited to a state funeral.”

Professor Craven took issue with the Premier’s refusal to engage with concerns surrounding the Victorian judiciary’s handling of the Pell case. “Premier Andrews is always telling us what he respects, but apparently it doesn’t ­include the rule of law,” he said.

Mr Perrottet confirmed Cardinal Pell would not be given a NSW state funeral. “No. There will be a memorial service, which will be held and that is arranged by the archdiocese and I just want to say to the cardinal’s family, our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time,” Mr Perrottet said.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has ruled out holding a state memorial service for the late Cardinal George… Pell, saying he can’t think of anything “more distressing” for “victim survivors”. “I think more importantly, what will be a very challenging time for victim survivors, to send the clearest possible message More

In one of his last speeches to an Australian audience, Cardinal Pell likened his home state of Victoria under Mr Andrews to Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland.

In an address to Sydney-based Catholic liberal arts college Campion in August, an excerpt of which was published in The Australian, he bemoaned the rise of identity politics and cancel culture, but expressed optimism that liberal-democratic and conservative Christian values would ultimately prevail. “I don’t think Australian life is rotten at the core, but times are changing, and not always for the better,” Cardinal Pell told a large crowd at the college’s fundraising dinner. “The inevitable royal commission of the future into Victoria could find a situation parallel to that of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s Queensland in the 1970s-80s. Too many Australians were content with the over-reaction of bossy nanny states during the Covid crisis, when the churches were closed before the casino.”

Mr Andrews said he would “not dignify … with any response” comments from Peter Dutton, who on Wednesday joined former Liberal prime ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott in commenting on Cardinal Pell’s quashed conviction for child sex assault charges.

The Opposition Leader said: “On his passing, the fact he spent a year in prison for a conviction that the High Court of Australia unanimously quashed should provide some cause for reflection for the Victorian Labor government and its institutions that led this modern-day political persecution.”

Cardinal Pell spent 13 months in prison after being convicted on five counts relating to historic child sex abuse allegations after a County Court verdict that was upheld by two of three Victorian Court of Appeal judges before being dismissed 7-0 by the full bench of the High Court.

Asked whether there was a need to reflect on Victoria’s legal institutions, Mr Andrews said: “I think there’s absolutely no need for me to dignify (Mr Dutton’s) commentary by providing any further response, which is why I’m not.”

Why would ‘survivors’ be displeased with respect being paid to the first person to acknowledge the injustice done to them and to reach out to them?

Oh, I know why. Because Cardinal Pell focussed on Catholics and most victims, in places like Public Schools and other places the state keeps kids corralled, would be reflecting on how their tormentors will never face justice because the state government doesn’t care about them.

Personally I think it a wonderful thing that the Cardinal will not have the indignity of a state funeral, granted by venal grasping spivs like Andrews or Perrottet and attended not by a congregation, but by the wrack and flotsam of the Australian elite all washed into place by a high tide, each of whom will spend all their time peeking to see what each other is doing and planning who they will ‘casually’ bump into afterwards to plot their self-serving money-grubbing little schemes.

Who would have guessed so much good could have come from the word ‘no’?

Personally I think it a wonderful thing that the Cardinal will not have the indignity of a state funeral, granted by venal grasping spivs like Andrews or Perrottet and attended not by a congregation, but by the wrack and flotsam of the Australian elite all washed into place by a high tide, each of whom will spend all their time peeking to see what each other is doing and planning who they will ‘casually’ bump into afterwards to plot their self-serving money-grubbing little schemes.

ML wins the internets today!

Welcome to the political economy.

For many in Washington, muscular industrial policy holds a seductive appeal. America has unleashed vast subsidies, amounting to $465bn, for green energy, electric cars and semiconductors. These are bolstered with requirements that production should be local. Bureaucrats tasked with scrutinising inward investments to prevent undue foreign influence over the economy now themselves hold sway over sectors accounting for 60% of the stockmarket’s value.

Fans argue that this will help seal America’s technological ascendancy over China, which has long pursued self-sufficiency in vital areas using state intervention. As carbon pricing is politically unfeasible, it could also foster decarbonisation. And it reflects a hope that government intervention will succeed where private enterprise failed, by reindustrialising America’s heartlands and even reviving support for market capitalism.

Such thinking is misguided. If zero-sum policies are seen as a success, abandoning them will become only harder. In real­ity, even if they do remake American industry, their overall effect is more likely to cause harm by corroding global security, holding back growth and raising the cost of the green transition. Even when it is inspired by the best of motives, zero-sum thinking threatens to make everyone poorer and the world more dangerous.

Let me ask. If countries such as the US and China disengage from trading in a big way, doesn’t that create the potential for scarier world? Once there’s little to no trade what is there to lose on the economic side of things if there’s a war?

DeSantis takes on the WEF, Soros etc.

The problem seems to be more that a noisy subset of the British is pretending that somehow the British are uniquely awful

The problem is that the British (well really other people generally) are uniquely awful. We just can’t agree on why.

mUnty, who by his own admission, brought no assets to his marriage seems awfully keen on equality and fairness. I wonder what Mrs mUnty would say? Although, by being Mrs mUnty,I’m sure I wouldn’t really value her opinion.

And don’t give me that populism crap, show me where McCarthy or Dutton have put forward any pro working class policies lately.

At the risk of defending Howard, look at the rate of unemployment under voluntary Enterprise Bargaining and EBAs. Naturally that was one of the first thingsGillard and the unions wanted gone. You would agree having a job is a good thing mUnty?

I have never seen Perrottet in the Grampians. Are we even sure he is a Nazi?

Armstrong is a crook.

That’s a terrible thing to say about Jonny’s man crush.

Sweden has now instituted a draft.

Sweden has not “now” introduced the military draft. The crook is lying again.

Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife.

Tearfully she explained “It’s the pharmacist. He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone”.

Immediately the husband drove downtown to confront the pharmacist and demand an apology.

Before he could say more than a few words, the pharmacist told him “Now, just a minute, please listen to my side of it… this morning my alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up.

I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realise that I locked the house with both house and car keys inside. I had to break a window to get my keys. Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket.

Later, about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tyre. When I got to the store there was a bunch of people waiting for me to open up. I opened and started waiting on these people, and all the time the darn phone was ringing off the hook.

Then I had to break a roll of coins against the cash register drawer to make change, and they spilled all over the floor. I got down on my hands and knees to pick up the coins; the phone was still ringing. When I came up, I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with bunch of perfume bottles on it… all of them hit the floor and broke!

Meanwhile, the phone is STILL ringing with no let up, and I finally got to answer it.

It was your wife. She wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer… and, honest mister, all I did was tell her!”

feelthebernsays:

January 13, 2023 at 9:11 am

They are selling dairy cow (Friesian) sirloin for $55,

I saw that on the menu.
I can’t remember seeing Friesian on a menu before.

Oh, it will have been on menus before.
As mince and sausages.
Look, there’s nothing to say a yearling Friesan steer wouldn’t be good eating. And they are a big-boned animal, much bigger than Jerseys, so can be cross-bred with beef breeds without complications.
In fact, you sometimes see x-breed Friesian-Herefords around our area.
Easy to spot. Precisely the same marking patterns as the Hereford, except black and white, not maroon and white.

ALP NT Minister Nicole Mannison (BA Journalism and Public Relations Studies)

Oh dear. Strike Two (Strike Three if you include living in the ACT. As you should).

ML at 10:46.

The team concluded that his personality was choleric, but that he personally contained too much lipid in his sanguine and it was this imbalance of humours and hamburgers that killed him.

But mostly the hamburgers.
With processed cheese.

I wonder if there are any photos of young Albo in a hammer and sickle teeshirt or a Mao suit.

Could he afford one?

C.L.says:

January 13, 2023 at 11:16 am

Personally I think it a wonderful thing that the Cardinal will not have the indignity of a state funeral…

This.

The story was simply invented by a journalist to give Andrews a ball to volley.

No.
A Victorian political j’ism wouldn’t dare go there of their own volition.
Dan’s minions lined up the Dorothy Dixer question in advance.

Today’s blog report.
The Bonhomie and Good Humour Index has improved markedly from the early hours, but we are seriously lacking in Thought Leadership.
The sudden death obituaries section is scattered and random as usual.

Roger, thanks. I will do up a spreadsheet for a subscription model. I can’t afford to be giving this stuff away for free. Finally time to apply some Martin Armstrong economics.

Re: Seeing Friesian dairy cow meat for sale

Like many retail food items, beef is subject to fashion. I have never understood why Angus meat is regarded above Hereford, for example. In my humble opinion, Hereford is far superior.

Granted, Wagyu is very tasty. But many other breeds (eg Belted Galloways) have marbled meat. But other factors enter the equation. The Galloways render far less meat for the butcher to sell, being a smaller animal. Hence, they do not sell well in the sale yards.

But again, fashion holds sway. Grain fed animals, for example, were once preferred – since it was erroneously believed it produced better quality meat. I notice that “grass fed” is making a comeback. Good, I have never approved of the conditions of many feedlots.

Like many retail food items, beef is subject to fashion. I have never understood why Angus meat is regarded above Hereford, for example. In my humble opinion, Hereford is far superior.

The key difference?
The Hereford marketing people were left standing at the start line.

Although The Australian has fallen by the wayside of late, I did like the huge, bold headline description of Cardinal Pell as “GOD’S STRONG MAN”.

Well done.

This is for Zulu and Farmer Gez. An article from today’s Westprint email that may be of interest. (Jo is the editor of the newsletter.)

Interesting post Mak Siccar, thank you. Cite you the Eastern Wheatbelt wheatgrower, who bought a Hedly Spry harvester, and was so impressed with the performance, he named his newborn son in it’s honour…

Fair to say it hasn’t been monty’s finest hours this last week.
From defending trannies reading books to kids, to his joyful glee at Pell’s death, to now supporting the murder of babies minutes after their first breath is drawn.
Quite the individual.

I can’t believe Macca’s are now selling potato scallops

Half of Australia, “What’s a potato scallop?”

Fair to say it hasn’t been monty’s finest hours this last week.

He’s a fukwit on so many levels.

Biden, a former Vice President…….
The justice department may not emerge unscathed either. Biden’s documents were found in early November, before the midterm elections, yet the public weren’t informed.

And I doubt, as a mere VP, he can claim Presidential privilege to de-classify as Trump can.

Pleased to report that we own [Snip! Please. No blowharding about personal wealth. Dover]. in BHP shares.

My family has owned B.H.P. shares, since dividends were paid by cheque, in pounds, shillings and pence.

God help the Republic.

BHP shares are like a Rolex Submainer watch. Possibly the most boring choice you could make but still hard to beat. They seem to abandoned dropping a few billion every few years on acquisitions (finally).

Bear

In the next two years Australia is going to lose about $150 billion in resource exports. China’s steel demand is crashing due to the oversupply in RE and coal isn’t going to hold up with other energy related commods crashing.

High yields in resource stocks are a big marker for trouble ahead.

Been a potato shortage for several weeks. Frozen chips have been missing for a long time, walk down the frozen aisle there is a conspicuous gap, before that there was a 2 bag limit.

Ooh Qantas shares are back to $6.50.
(I bought mine with my own savings)

And there is a family history, her father and grandfather.

“LOL I knew someone would bring up the IRS. Nup, that is just protecting the rich. Next!”

That turns out not to be the case.

Let’s say you are a mug punter and pay $5k/year tax. If the IRS sends you a letter saying you owe an extra 1% of that ($50), you’ll grumble, but then just pay it because it’s not worth the time and money to fight it.

However, if you are Elon Musk, and your tax bill is $11 BILLION, then a 1% increase is $110M – it’s worthwhile talking it to court and paying $1M in lawyers fees if you can reduce the extra by just 1% (you’ll save $1.1M, pay $1M and have $9k in your pocket). If you get it completely reversed, you just saved yourself $109M – hardly chump change.

The IRS know this – that’s why official figures show the IRS does this (and audits) much more for low income earners than high income earners – those who get a low income government allowance are several times more likely to be audited than the top 1% of earners.

So when you double the budget of the IRS, where do you think they’ll spend it? Assuming they already have enough to do the “basics”, pretty much all they CAN spend it on is more audits. And that hits…. the lowest income earners hardest, and the highest income earners least.

Exactly the opposite of what you suggest.
Try again, M0nty.