1,683 thoughts on “Open Thread – Weekend 14 Jan 2023”
Not any more he doesn’t, says Sancho, emptying the salt cellar into the gaping wound.
Is that right, JC? You’ve cashed out of SACL?
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Sanchez
Bain is private equity so they want and need a cash out. Super dickheads need an income stream.
Woops, JC. I just read your 6.09pm post. My sympathies.
Tears! It was a very emotional time for me.
I hope mUnty rang and offered to buy you a pinot.
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The best thing about this august journal of record (well, one of them) is the readership. Specifically, the silent readership.
Why, there are whole other fora dedicated to analysing each and every comment made here. Warms the cockles, it does.
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Tom
I didn’t have a choice. There was vote and those idiot shareholders listened to gonsky and voted for a sale. It was compulsory.
I wouldn’t be shocked if the vote was stolen too.
I have tears running down my cheeks as I write this. Stop reminding me.
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I bought SYD in the midst of Covid at $5.50 a copy.
People might say that I should be happy with $8.50 after six months.
But no.
It was well under what I believe to be it’s intrinsic worth and was dumped in a fire sale when there was no fire.
Here’s the thing.
Unisuper had a fair chunk of SYD. In return for voting for the Scheme of Arrangement, they got a piece of the privatised entity. No-one else had that option. If $8.50 was such a red-hot deal, Unisuper would have pocketed the cash, right?
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Significant drop last year from statistical average…
Anyone with any theories?
incomplete data
on the other hand the fertility rate continues to be well below replacement, showing that mass migration ponzi is a massive failure.
Here’s the thing.
Unisuper had a fair chunk of SYD. In return for voting for the Scheme of Arrangement, they got a piece of the privatised entity. No-one else had that option. If $8.50 was such a red-hot deal, Unisuper would have pocketed the cash, right?
And presumably ASIC and ASX just sat idly by as it happened. Who would be a non-institutional shareholder when this can occur perfectly legally?
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Sanchez
In a fair world Gonsky should be doing jail time for the shit he pulled. Totally disgusting.
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Knuckle Draggersays:
January 16, 2023 at 6:14 pm
The best thing about this august journal of record (well, one of them) is the readership. Specifically, the silent readership.
Why, there are whole other fora dedicated to analysing each and every comment made here. Warms the cockles, it does.
I’m not sure that Phat Pussy is as widely read.
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Australian Births for the last 10 years
Significant drop last year
If this trend remains, it is extremely worrying.
That is huge.
Not mentioned anywhere in any media I’ve seen.
Thanks, plasma.
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Why, there are whole other fora dedicated to analysing each and every comment made here.
The only thing being worse than talked about is not being talked about. Isn’t that right?
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And presumably ASIC and ASX just sat idly by as it happened. Who would be a non-institutional shareholder when this can occur perfectly legally?
And the Liberal government.
Oscar Wilde seemed to think so, Bear.
But that was the province of the idle rich. Everyone else was busy at work.
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And the Liberal government.
Howard, Cuddly and Max the Axe got the ball rolling.
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“In a fair world Gonsky should be doing jail time for the shit he pulled. Totally disgusting.”
Yep.
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I’d like to hear someone speak up for the Constitution of 1901. Why was the Federal Government allowed to make laws for any Race, excluding Aborigines?
Was that a clause that was helpful to Aborigines?
Why weren’t Full Blooded Aborigines counted in the Census?
Was that a good thing?
Because all we’re bombarded with is bullshit about the 1967 referendum, which hasn’t had any positive outcomes for Aborigines that I’m aware of?
Moronic even by your crotchless standards. Professor Irving, professor of law at Sydney uni and possibly the only lawyer smarter than me, answers this BS.
As for no positive outcomes, you crotchless cretin, read Mabo and the 50% of Australia now covered by NT.
STFU and try to be serious; that’s when you’re at your funniest.
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With Macquarie clipping the ticket from memory.
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STFU and try to be serious; that’s when you’re at your funniest.
I’ve thought Groogs needs a new writing team for a while now.
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Or a change of socks at least.
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As for no positive outcomes, you crotchless cretin, read Mabo and the 50% of Australia now covered by NT.
And you want to know the biggest irony?
Had Eddie Mabo lived, under the NT laws Keating introduced as a result of the decision, he still wouldn’t have been able to mortgage “his” land – which is why he went to the HC in the first place.
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And in more ‘experts are baffled’ news:
Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate
No one could have predicted this….
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Immunology of mRNA vaccines with Prof Robert Clancy
Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control? It was revealing that the Professor punted that question.
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Ordering an Uber Eats pizza from the phone menu.
The Mediterranean features “Vaginian” ham.
I’ll leave it at that.
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I did a google search for
“Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate”
The first page was just stories of how good the vax is. The real story wasn’t linked to until half way down the second page. For a specific search that just demonstrates how much google tampers with results.
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I am about to hit Sky News After Dark 2023 programming so if you couldn’t care less – spin your scroll wheel!
Caleb Bond has done an outstanding job filling in for the WEBs. He listens to his guests, he doesn’t interrupt. he researches his topics and asks pertinent questions. Caleb is bloody good.
So what does Sky do with this obvious talent? The cretins relegate him to a 10 pm slot – when most of us who care are probably asleep. But worse, much worse, they saddle him with that Daisy Cousins try-to-be, Liz Storer. Caleb deserves better, but I suppose it’s a start on the first rung up the ladder.
I won’t be watching so will rely on those here that do tune in for their ratings of this programme.
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Ordering an Uber Eats pizza from the phone menu.
The Mediterranean features “Vaginian” ham.
Vaginian ham with inserted an pineapple? Sounds Hawaiian.
USA Today published an article Friday wondering, “Is it time to stop saying ‘aloha’ and other culturally sensitive words out of context?” Written by David Oliver, an entertainment, lifestyle and wellness reporter who writes about diversity and inclusion, the article argues that the use of words like “aloha,” “hola,” and “shalom” could be harmful to people of other cultures. “[J]ust because you can say something doesn’t mean it’s always appropriate,” Oliver warned, writing, “If you’re not Hawaiian and you say [aloha], it could come off as mockery.”
I’m sure if you say “vaginian ham” or “pineapple” you will offend someone. Maybe even a Hawaiian.
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I should edit, grr. My English is worse than a Hawaiian pizza.
And you want to know the biggest irony?
Had Eddie Mabo lived, under the NT laws Keating introduced as a result of the decision, he still wouldn’t have been able to mortgage “his” land – which is why he went to the HC in the first place.
This is my problem with NT, it keeps the indigenous as museum exhibits, not humans living in current year.
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JMH,
Caleb Bond is excellent, as you stated in his role. The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. It’s funny you saying Liz Storer is a Daisy Cousens try-to-be, I have mentioned here before I can’t stand Daisy Cousens because she reminds me so much of the unlamented and almost forgotten Marieke Hardy.
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Is Namaste okay?
Asking for Stimpson.
And presumably ASIC and ASX just sat idly by as it happened. Who would be a non-institutional shareholder when this can occur perfectly legally?
When I was a lad taking a passing interest in commercial law, there used to be a thing called “oppression of minority shareholders”.
ASIC is nothing short of useless.
I remember running across former ASIC head honcho Greg Medcraft early in my career. A singularly forgettable and unimpressive dude. He now has a role with the OECD, no doubt riding on Corrmann’s coat-tails.
The fact that he climbed the greasy pole comes as no surprise.
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Really sorry to raise the PTSD triggering event (the Great Sydney Airport sellout).
JMH,
Caleb Bond is excellent, as you stated in his role. The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. It’s funny you saying Liz Storer is a Daisy Cousens try-to-be, I have mentioned here before I can’t stand Daisy Cousens because she reminds me so much of the unlamented and almost forgotten Marieke Hardy.
Yes, I agree. (Correcting my spelling of the bint’s surname…) Daisy Cousens (and her copycat, Liz Storer) are obviously little fluffies trying to fill that awful Hardy’s sandals, which makes it all the more disgusting. Poor Caleb.
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ASIC is nothing short of useless.
Correct. The good news is they are no worse than any other government body. The bad news is they are no better than any other government body.
For example see CASA. Airline pilot pal had one of his work colleagues go to CASA recently. He was told that the only things to worry about were his pay and leave entitlements. So much for aviation safety.
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“JMH,
Caleb Bond is excellent, as you stated in his role. The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. It’s funny you saying Liz Storer is a Daisy Cousens try-to-be, I have mentioned here before I can’t stand Daisy Cousens because she reminds me so much of the unlamented and almost forgotten Marieke Hardy.”
Agree about Caleb, he’s excellent, he speaks clearly, he’s articulate, he knows a thing or two, he doesn’t mumble like Blot. However, I actually don’t mind Liz Storer, she’s much more solid than peak a boo Daisy. However, having met both Daisy and Liz, they’re both delightful and it’s so refreshing and delightful to meet and talk to two young, articulate, intelligent, unwoke women, because there aren’t many. It’s easier to find unwoke men than unwoke women.
Russo explains that “COVID is a lethal disease and our best protection against COVID is vaccination,” adding: “It protects you and indirectly protects others that may be more vulnerable.” Misinformation can ultimately lower the number of people who get the vaccine and thereby increase deaths, Russo says.
If you have questions about COVID vaccines, Russo recommends talking to your primary care physician, who should be able to answer them.
And guess what your primary care physician will say if he know what’s good for him.
Owner of Miss Universe says it will be ‘run by women, owned by a trans women’
Miss Universe is turning into Mr Universe?
Should make Cohenite happy at least.
Lots and lots of cute owls.
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It’s quite amusing to see that the old thief is losing the protection of the legacy meja. They could have dumped on the old grub years ago if they had wanted. It slightly reminds me of liddle filth’s dying PMship when Keating was stalking the grub in 1991.
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This is my problem with NT, it keeps the indigenous as museum exhibits, not humans living in current year.
One of my problems with NT is it gives a huge unequal advantage to one section of the population without any justification. Mabo was a terrible Judgment.
No, she wasn’t backward in telling people who her husband was.
There’s an unverified story where she even did it to someone who she thought pinched a parking spot.
Allegedly.
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However, having met both Daisy and Liz, they’re both delightful and it’s so refreshing and delightful to meet and talk to two young, articulate, intelligent, unwoke women, because there aren’t many.
However, having met both Daisy and Liz, they’re both delightful and it’s so refreshing and delightful to meet and talk to two young, articulate, intelligent, unwoke women, because there aren’t many.
Are either of them single? Asking for myself.
Hey! I thought we were friends!
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Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion
Not boredom but the unquenchable impulse of the left to prove they’re superior and more virtuous; and what better way of doing that is saving the planet from a confected disaster. The other side of that turd is their desire for power; and if they’re saving the planet they deserve all the power available. Thirdly, they are misanthropes; one of the dominant but not discussed tenets of alarmism is misanthropy:
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: They Have Broken Every Rule of The Nuremberg Code
“The Nuremberg Code states anything that is being used under experimental use must be stopped if there is a clear indication of any harm or death.”
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feelthebernsays:
January 16, 2023 at 7:39 pm
No, she wasn’t backward in telling people who her husband was.
There’s an unverified story where she even did it to someone who she thought pinched a parking spot.
Allegedly.
Riiight.
One of thoooose.
Medcraft was one of those pushing to cut off direct investment in bank hybrids by retail investors.
Apparently they are all too stupid to recognise and manage risk. Of course, I can if I go through a ticket-clipping advisor. Very convenient that, just when the Banking RC puts a crimp in the excesses of advisors, ASIC creates another income stream for them.
I reckon if he had his way there would be no direct share investment by independent retail investors either. Everyone would have to invest in managed funds and/or get annual advice from some shifty ticket-clipper.
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‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
aka “vax injury”
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Big call, but I would trade current year for the 1970s not to endure flat pack furniture.
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Miss Universe is turning into Mr Universe?
Should make Cohenite happy at least.
Lots and lots of cute owls.
It’s sad how strong women can intimidate. Cute owls have muscles but not dicks; God knows what trannies and woke freaks have and don’t have. Time for some cute owls!
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Not boredom but the unquenchable impulse of the left to prove they’re superior and more virtuous; and what better way of doing that is saving the planet from a confected disaster.
Cronkite, I’d estimate that 25% of the adult population have been brainwashed – frightened stiff of gerbil warming so it’s not something you can just palm off the virtue signalling. They’re actually terrified and a decent percentage of them are so scared they’re on anti-anxiety medication to deal with it. I don’t know how one deals with this sort of hysteria because it’s very real to them and they vote.
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Well, I have just roughed it with a bottle of Jansz sparkling. It was a 2017 vintage.
As a vintage they may have felt entitled to skip the Pinot Meunière, which is often used in NV to round out the flavours.
But I am certain they did not bother with the second fermentation in the bottle which provides champagne with the fuller toasty and nutty flavour and creamier mouthfeel.
The decomposition of the yeast (called ‘lees’) is not unique to champers. If you find a Chardonnay that boasts of ‘stirred on lees’ you will find that fuller flavour and creamier mouthfeel. I have an especial fondness for it.
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Time for some cute owls!
No, I’m not opening that horror. You used to like old movie starlets and you’ve now become ( in Eddle’s words) a complete flamer. There’s nothing sexy about a woman taking testosterone to look like a muscled up bloke. Stop it now!
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I’d estimate that 25% of the adult population have been brainwashed
Probably more; and much higher amongst the young’ens. The next few years are going to be tough in this toilet of a nation.
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Dot is pining for orange tiled coffee tables, bean bags and fondue parties.
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Eyrie says:
January 16, 2023 at 7:52 pm
‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
aka “vax injury”
No delusional nonsense there. Just hardcore pure science.
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No, I’m not opening that horror
You have to start slow head prefect: look at their beautiful, confident faces and when comfortable gaze slowly down to those toned limbs and accentuated boobies and admire the work and diligence gone into producing that result. I always like a sheila with a flat tummy; it means when you go ut to dinner with them they won’t be pinching your chips.
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Further to Caleb, two years ago, SBS aired “Could You Survive on the Breadline?” which had Julie Goodwin, Caleb Bond and that parasite, NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong.
The premise was that the three would go to three homes on “struggle street”, families that were on welfare and on the breadline, families that struggle to make ends meet.
What was noticeable was how practical both Goodwin and particularly Caleb were. Caleb went into one home, and got cracking doing practical tasks, he washed up, he vacuumed, he tidied the home (which looked like a bomb had hit it), he did a shop and filled the cupboard with good food, he helped with the budget, he cooked some tasty cheap food and he stayed nights at the home. Goodwin was much the same. The Greens, Jenny Leong? Oh she spent her time making cheap political points and then at the end of the day, she went home. And therein lies the rub, the left just like to talk, to preach, to pontificate, they’re not interested in practical measures and solutions. They’d be happy for people to starve to score a cheap political point and history is riddled with such examples of the left starving people.
You don’t need a lot of money to cook tasty, wholesome, nutritious food. I grew up eating my mother’s frugal food. I love frugal food. My mother has always said that you can make a minestrone for a few bucks and feed a family with it, with some nice bread. You can get a chicken frame and make chicken soup with vegetables and lokshen. My mother would make endless compotes (to the point where my brother still hates compote), baked rice puddings, jam roly-poly, her meal repertoire included Spanish Tortilla, cabbage rolls, stuffed capsicums, corn fritters, fetta cheese pie, lots of lamb, particularly crumbed lamb cutlets (when lamb was cheap and the staple of the Australian kitchen), curries with cheap cuts of meat, lambs fry and so on, all delicious and cheap.
Now my darling mother, at the ripe old age of 83, loves to tell me that she’s over cooking, not that that stops her from buying a pressure cooker, of which I can report she’s yet to use and it’s still sitting in a box, and it’ll stay in the the box until she gives it to me or my sister.
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I can’t even catch Short Covid.
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No delusional nonsense there. Just hardcore pure science.
That reminds me.
In all the excitement I kind of lost count.
How many months do we have left?
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“I can’t even catch Short Covid.”
Nor can I.
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There’s nothing better in this ol’world than cut-up fresh peaches and apricots with a decent serve of vanilla ice cream on a summer’s night…
Actually there is.
Tinned peach and apricot slices with vanilla ice-cream.
Nothing beats either.
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‘flat pack furniture’
Tab A into Slot B.
PHRASING.
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I can’t even catch Short Covid
Nor can I.
I can’t either.
I think it’s a huge lie. Everyone who claims to have had it is lying to us. Could be the Simulation playing a joke on the 153 of us in the world who’ve never had it.
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There’s nothing better in this ol’world than cut-up fresh peaches and apricots with a decent serve of vanilla ice cream on a summer’s night…
Well, the Nectarines off my tree this year are heaven sent – small, but intensely sweet. Eaten fresh off the tree (those that don’t have peck marks from the crows!) – ni ice cream necessary.
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Sure Vicki, nectarines work beautifully.
Good things about the 70’s – cheap tassie scallops, cheap NZ whole rump, brandy alexander cheescake. Great music, shoes that made me taller, neon coloured cars. I look at the photo album and everything has a brown filter.
Those cars must have slurped all the colour out of everything.
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I got short fuc.ing covid after 3 vax (sic); shitty deal for a week; and the thing is mutating faster than I can put up photos of cute owls.
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I still make mum’s baked cheesecake, with a warm taste of nutmeg. Quite scrumptious.
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I got short fuc.ing covid after 3 vax (sic); shitty deal for a week; and the thing is mutating faster than I can put up photos of cute owls.
As they say in Toowoomba, the Silicon Valley of Australia.
aka “vax injury”
According to Australian Government website ‘Centre for Population’
There was a slight decline in the Australian fertility rate of from 1.66 in 2021 per woman to 1.65 per woman in 2022.
As someone up thread suggested statista is using incomplete data.
People have 60 days to register, for starters.
The birth rate for Australia in 2022 was 12.244 births per 1000 people, a 1.28% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Australia in 2021 was 12.403 births per 1000 people, a 1.26% decline from 2020. The birth rate for Australia in 2020 was 12.561 births per 1000 people, a 1.25% decline from 2019.
According to macrotrends.
Not to mention of there was a vaxx effect 2021 wouldn’t have been a baby boom year, would it?
Cassie,
I am glad to hear your impression of the two women is favourable. I have however, an aversion to grown women dressing and speaking like little girls. I haven’t met one yet that I could trust. Long experience has taught me to be wary.
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153 nocovids left?
And at least 4 of us posting at the cat.
Amazing.
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brandy alexander cheescake.
Ha!
I used to work in the bar in a club in Sydney. I used to love it when customers ordered a Brandy Alexander, because I would prepare a double batch. And if they ordered two…
We didn’t have specialised cocktail glasses so we served them in champagne saucers. Mine was in a 10 oz highball. Not one to be pretentious, you see.
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Cassie of Sydney says:
January 16, 2023 at 8:17 pm
I still make mum’s baked cheesecake, with a warm taste of nutmeg. Quite scrumptious.
Marry me. Marry me just to make that exact cheesecake.
We had a dinner at our friends’ place a few evenings ago and she made this delicious cheesecake. It was sublime. She kept putting it down saying it was missing this or that. After my third helping (it was right next to me) with wifey calling me a disgusting ‘gutz’ the friend got the idea it wasn’t as bad as she thought.
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calli says: January 16, 2023 at 8:14 pm
Good things about the 70’s – cheap tassie scallops, cheap NZ whole rump
Huh? While our beef industry was bust (depression-era style) we were importing beef from NZ?
It better not have cost more than a few cents for the whole rump.
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Next to Jane Austen and cute owls cheesecakes are my favourite thing: brandy alexander cheescake.
Only Jewish gals can make decent cheesecake like the one I had the other night. Otherwise, it’s just cultural appropriation.
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brandy alexander cheescake.
Awesome, if it isn’t baked, it isn’t a cheesecake.
Good Aussie movie coming up on Fox.
The Dressmaker.
Kate Winslet could end up having a Susan Sarandon type filmography.
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Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control?
Patents, and return on investment?
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Only Jewish gals can make decent cheesecake like the one I had the other night
My son in law would beg to differ. I have been culturally appropriating since high school.
Cassie and I should have a cheesecake-off. Followed by chicken soup.
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It has to be the brown crème de cacao.
Seemed to have no existence except to enhance other drinks flavours. I never knew anyone to drink it straight.
JC, maybe when you’ve finished making work for your cardiologist, you might try this for a dessert.
Berries (rasberries, strawberries, blueberries) layered with Grik yoghurt, topped with a small amount of brown sugar.
Sanchez
I do a variation of that I picked up from a Greek restaurant in the 90s. Greek yogurt , sprinkled with walnuts and topped with the finest honey. It’s really good.
I’ll try yours some time this week and report back. But I’ll use honey.
Muscovado you Philistine! 😀
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‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
aka “vax injury”
yeah… nah. long covid for unvaxed ppl is very real, don’t ask me how I know.
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Yeah, low GI honey is probably better than sugar, and walnuts would be a nice addition.
“Marry me. Marry me just to make that exact cheesecake.”
I will, soon polygamy will be legal. But we’ll have to have a rock solid prenuptial agreement, I want 75%.
“Only Jewish gals can make decent cheesecake like the one I had the other night. Otherwise, it’s just cultural appropriation.”
Correct.
We had a pretty good harvest this year, not ‘maison secondaire’ at Port Douglas, but good enough.
But my SA grain grower inlaws are acting like a teenager after a successful Friday night, or kids on the last day of term.
Given that SA grain growers are born with a genetic depression, I was forced to look at what they were ranting about.
Their offtake claims are extraordinary and well beyond anything on the historical graphs.
Question for the Vic graingrowers. Are you also experiencing this nivana?
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As someone up thread suggested statista is using incomplete data.
People have 60 days to register, for starters.
The birth rate for Australia in 2022 was 12.244 births per 1000 people, a 1.28% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Australia in 2021 was 12.403 births per 1000 people, a 1.26% decline from 2020. The birth rate for Australia in 2020 was 12.561 births per 1000 people, a 1.25% decline from 2019.
According to macrotrends.
Not to mention of there was a vaxx effect 2021 wouldn’t have been a baby boom year, would it?
It may be ‘incomplete data’
I’ll allow an additional 30 days on top of your 60 for birth registration.
That gives 90 days or 3 months roughly.
Assuming we take 1/4 away from the statistical average (300k) we still end up with 225k
If the data is 3 months out of date, we should still have 225,000 registered birthsfor 2022…
Assuming that, we can say that 2022 will top out around 100,000 once the remaining 3 months come in…
So, that’s still a 66% drop from that statistical average.
Original question remains, what caused this???
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What’s with the new line-up on Sky News? Why did they get rid of Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean?
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Lol Cassie. Them’s fightin’ woids!
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“What’s with the new line-up on Sky News? Why did they get rid of Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean?”
They haven’t. They’re still doing Outsiders and I suspect they’ll be doing other things for Sky.
I always like a sheila with a flat tummy; it means when you go ut to dinner with them they won’t be pinching your chips.
You take your ladies out to dinner at places that serve chips?
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Question for the Vic graingrowers. Are you also experiencing this nivana?
Well, they are eating pizza with Vaginian ham, so you be the judge.
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… lots of lamb, particularly crumbed lamb cutlets (when lamb was cheap and the staple of the Australian kitchen)
Tell me about it.
After leaving home I didn’t eat lamb for c. 10 years!
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Plas
I’d wait. We’re two weeks into 23. The pubes are enjoying their summer and don’t forget they work from home these days which means productivity would be down 95% from already appalling levels. Give it to June.
Question for the Vic graingrowers. Are you also experiencing this nivana?
Western Australian growers certainly are. High prices of diesel and fertilizer have been compensated for by a well above average yield, and locking in when prices were high.
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Good for you bons. Make heaps of money.
Cassie and I should have a cheesecake-off. Followed by chicken soup.
May I claim a late entry with my Spanish Basque burnt cheesecake? Oh, and Father Delta’s chicken noodle soup, made from home-made chicken stock and fat, home-made noodles. Worth getting sick for.
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Just so people don’t get the wrong idea. I hardly ever have dessert. Possibly once a week if that.
Cassie and I should have a cheesecake-off. Followed by chicken soup.
When you can get remotely close to a Japanese baked cheesecake then have a bake off
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Statista have got incomplete data, I gave the delay in registrations as part of the problem.
The Australian government website says the change is from 1.66 to 1.65 21 to 22
Macrotrends also shows a slight decline consistent with the decline over the last ten years.
And I pointed out if you are going to blame the vax then there should have been a decline in 2021 too.
We’re fighting over increasing your waistline, JC.
Carpe, that thread was fun. Maccas in Japan, Megan and the grinch meets Santa . Wolfman did the Thing last week. As I recall, it didn’t consume James the engine.
Japanese cheesecake….mmmmm. Can do.
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Cassie and I should have a cheesecake-off. Followed by chicken soup.
When you can get remotely close to a Japanese baked cheesecake then have a bake off
I think you have a theme for the next NSW Cats get together!
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calli says:
January 16, 2023 at 8:01 pm
Dot is pining for orange tiled coffee tables, bean bags and fondue parties.
I think you have a theme for the next NSW Cats get together!
I’m sure Liz will host it., that is if doesn’t come back in a cyrovac bag fully frozen.
I can’t believe she dragged the poor dude to Lappland in the middle of freaking winter.
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The Beer Whisperer:
I could fix just about any problem, but they would never let me because I might actually fix their problems. And they’d be out of work. And they can’t have that!
So could I.
Cut off the sit down money. It’s what is killing the Aboriginals.
Welfare kills – we’ve known that for decades, but we just keep paying the Danegeld to the Big Men and wonder why things don’t improve.
I truly bloody despair for the kids and women who exist under this system of patronage – they are doomed for privation and abuse even before they’re born. And the people making the money out of them are aware of the cost but don’t give a shit. The biggest oppressor of the Aboriginal peoples is the Aboriginal Industry – with our blessing.
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I can’t believe she dragged the poor dude to Lappland in the middle of freaking winter.
What?
I cant believe she went there!
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“I’m sure Liz will host it., that is if doesn’t come back in a cyrovac bag fully frozen.
I can’t believe she dragged the poor dude to Lappland in the middle of freaking winter.”
LOL…..Lizzie and Hairy are marvellous hosts. As for Lappland, they’re intrepid adventurers.
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Cassie of Sydney says:
January 16, 2023 at 8:42 pm
“What’s with the new line-up on Sky News? Why did they get rid of Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean?”
They haven’t. They’re still doing Outsiders and I suspect they’ll be doing other things for Sky.
That’s a relief.
I’m off to the Arctic Circle this December. To see the northern lights, like the little penguin. Dressed like the Michelin Man. Aurora borealis or bust.
Vegan activist Tash Peterson pleads guilty to trespassing after disruptive Perth Royal Show protest
Claire SadlerThe West Australian
Mon, 16 January 2023 2:31PM
Notorious vegan activist Tash Peterson was captured outside court donning her “End the Animal Holocaust” shirt just moments after pleading guilty to trespassing at the Perth Royal Show, where she locked herself to a cattle judging ring.
She made her latest appearance in Perth Magistrates Court on Monday to face charges relating to her protest at the Perth Royal Show on September 26.
In a video posted to her social media channels soon after the protest, Ms Peterson and a friend appear to lock themselves to a fence surrounding a cattle judging ring — saying animals there were “judged based on how palatable their bodies look”.
Peterson told her social media followers she “disrupted the abhorrent ‘Royal’ Agricultural Show” which she said, “glamourises animal slavery, abuse and murder”.
She was subsequently arrested and charged with trespass and disorderly behaviour in public.
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Roger
You get 2.5 seconds of sunlight a day there at this time of year-that is if there’s no cloud.
The motto is “Don’t die wondering”.
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The new Brit legislation aimed at targeting extinction rebellion protesters will not be used on them.
They’ll use the new laws on punters protesting something the establishment doesn’t agree with.
You can see this a mile off.
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I’m off to the Arctic Circle this December. To see the northern lights, like the little penguin. Dressed like the Michelin Man. Aurora borealis or bust.
Just go to the light show in the Melbourne botanical gardens this winter. Some difference.
Reminds me
I saw a small dead penguin in the Port Philip Bay about a week ago. I never seen them in the bay and didn’t think they came in. It was close to the heads though.
I truly bloody despair for the kids and women who exist under this system of patronage – they are doomed for privation and abuse even before they’re born
Gary Johns summed it up well in his book “The Burden of Culture,” Aboriginal children, with mobile phones and access to the Internet, are locked into a Stone Age culture, while the rest of Australia moves through the 21st Century.
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calli says:
January 16, 2023 at 9:10 pm
I’m off to the Arctic Circle this December. To see the northern lights, like the little penguin. Dressed like the Michelin Man. Aurora borealis or bust.
I got to see the most spectacular northern lights display in Prince George, British Columbia when visiting family there in 1991. It was mid-August and I simply walked out of the house after dark, looked up and there it was. The most beautiful shimmering green curtains that went on and on. I tried taking photos but my camera was hopeless.
Been there two more times but no more shows.
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I have however, an aversion to grown women dressing and speaking like little girls. I haven’t met one yet that I could trust. Long experience has taught me to be wary.
Oh how true!! Grown women who talk baby talk are particularly dangerous especially when they are trained professionals who should know better. I also speak from bitter experience.
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Had two crates marked as short barrel AK47’s turn up at work today. Was bitterly disappointed.
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calli says: January 16, 2023 at 9:10 pm
I’m off to the Arctic Circle this December. To see the northern lights, like the little penguin. Dressed like the Michelin Man. Aurora borealis or bust.
Half yer luck.
They’re fantastic. There’s nothing quite like it & they’re very difficult to describe.
No photo can give an inkling of what they’re like, or even a video.
Hope you actually get to see the lights – they can be a bit fussy about when & how well they show themselves.
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Huh
The little penguin population are one of the most famous species in the Port Phillip Bay and has become one of Melbourne’s most popular tourist hotspots, drawing crowds of up to 3,000 people a night.
I will, soon polygamy will be legal. But we’ll have to have a rock solid prenuptial agreement, I want 75%.
I hope you like cheroots and chinos because that’s where he’s wealth is wrapped up.
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callisays:
January 16, 2023 at 9:10 pm
I’m off to the Arctic Circle this December. To see the northern lights, like the little penguin. Dressed like the Michelin Man. Aurora borealis or bust.
There is a wonderful train trip in Norway that you might be interested in …
00:00 Intro
00:49 Hydrogen Basics
03:39 The Hydrogen Market
06:04 The Colours Of Hydrogen
12:11 Water Supply
13:34 The Cold Start Problem
14:05 Rare Metal Shortages
15:55 Hydrogen Embrittlement
16:45 Summary
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Cassie: Now my darling mother, at the ripe old age of 83, loves to tell me that she’s over cooking, not that that stops her from buying a pressure cooker
Yes. My old mum a few decades back insisted in buying a “slow cooker” into which she would cram a chicken carcase and other stuff, producing something eatable in the end.
What was remarkable about it all was that she was a product of Britain in the 1930s, which meant in her 20s she was cooking in the 1950s, which seemed to mean boiling everything to death – including Brussels sprouts – and then forcing the kids (including me) to eat it.
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JCsays:
January 16, 2023 at 8:53 pm
Just so people don’t get the wrong idea. I hardly ever have dessert. Possibly once a week if that.
But three (3) helpings when you do, right.
Indolent:
Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion
What on Earth happened to Newsweek? That is a damn fine article, unlike the usual crap they publish.
Mind you, they’re jumping on the “Biden Is Out”bandwagon with a speed that is quite unusual.
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I tried to buy a pressure cooker last week. Only ones available were low pressure which sort of negates the idea in the first place. They had glass lids and the locking mechanism looked suspect. Apparently the fundies like to use the steel ones to make bombs with loads of nails and other explodey bits. I like to think proper pressure cookers haven’t been disappeared as a result.
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This family is all class.
Hunter Biden asks judge to STOP his estranged daughter, 4, born to Arkansas stripper from taking his surname by claiming doing so would rob youngster of ‘peaceful existence’
Hunter Biden made the request on January 6 after the child’s mother Lunden Roberts filed to have 4-year-old Navy’s last name changed to Biden
Roberts, 31, said the Biden name is ‘synonymous with being successful’, but Hunter claims it will cause the little girl serious problems
The petition was filed after Hunter asked for child support payment adjustments
The Biden family, including Hunter, reportedly never met Navy, who was born in August 2018 to Roberts, a stripper at a club that Hunter used to frequent
Hunter Biden asked for a judge to deny his estranged four-year-old daughter born to a stripper from taking his surname, claiming that doing so would rob the child of a ‘peaceful existence.’
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No limit on bullets for illegal firearms
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By Sarah Elks
Senior Reporter
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9:40PM January 16, 2023
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Bullets for guns that have been banned since 2003 are being imported and sold using a legal loophole allowed by the federal government, which experts warn is fuelling the black-market ammunition trade.
Dozens of handguns were outlawed in 2003 after a licensed pistol owner opened fire in a Monash University tutorial room in October 2002, killing two people and wounding five more.
But even though it is illegal to import, possess or own those guns, the specific ammunition is still legally being brought into the country and sold at licensed gun shops.
The Australian Federal Police Association has urged the Albanese government to close the loophole and outlaw the importation of the bullets, which include .25 calibre bullets for the automatic Colt pistol.
AFPA president Alex Caruana said states and territories should also introduce strict limits on the amount of ammunition that can be bought, so it can’t be stockpiled in massive quantities or on-sold to unlicensed gun owners.
“There’s no upper limitations (in many jurisdictions) to how much you can buy, and potentially they can buy ammunition that other people have firearms for – unlicensed – that are off the books, to supply the grey market with this ammunition,” he said.
“What the federal government had an opportunity to do at the time (in 2003) was to say ‘If the firearm is prohibited, let’s prohibit the ammunition’. But it never did. And since then, no one’s bothered to go back and look at the loopholes that exist.”
Independent senator for the ACT David Pocock is also calling for the federal government to close the loophole, saying that he has personally lobbied Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.
“The recent tragedy in Queensland has highlighted the need to continue the firearms reforms commenced by the Howard government almost three decades ago,” Senator Pocock said, referring to the fatal ambush of two police officers and a neighbour who were shot dead at a remote property at Wieambilla, west of Brisbane, last month.
“I support the AFPA’s call for a national firearm registry, as well as prohibiting the importation of ammunition for firearms that are banned in Australia.”
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But even though it is illegal to import, possess or own those guns, the specific ammunition is still legally being brought into the country and sold at licensed gun shops.
Perhaps Senator Flog & his flogger mates could investigate who is purchasing this legally imported & legally sold ammo?
Try buying through legit channels ammo for a firearm you don’t legally own.
Something for Senator Flog & his flogger hangers-on to reflect upon.
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Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control?
I expect the biggest driver was the $ billion/s offered by Trump to have a vaccine before the election… mRNA was sitting in a drawer looking for a purpose and big pharma money had been hit hard by medicine price reduction policies of the Trump regime..
A perfect storm and subsequent payback…
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Apparently the source of all of hazza’s problems is he only got 2 sausages for brekkie while willy got 3. Probably also the source of all of markle’s as well; although we may be talking about different types of sausage.
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Indolent:
Prohibition was the disastrous decision by the do gooders that allowed organised crime its first major foothold into the guts of the West. We’ve never recovered from it.
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But even though it is illegal to import, possess or own those guns, the specific ammunition is still legally being brought into the country and sold at licensed gun shops.
That’s BS; to buy ammo you have to prove you have a weapon compatible with the ammo.
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Bluey:
Had two crates marked as short barrel AK47’s turn up at work today. Was bitterly disappointed.
What? Were they the Czech folding stock variety? I can understand the disappointment.
I’ll be over with a truck to take them off your hands tomorrow.
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That’s BS; to buy ammo you have to prove you have a weapon compatible with the ammo.
Exactly.
Thus Senator Flog should look into who is purchasing this ammo.
He may find it is legit, that there are firearms of those calibres legally owned in Australia. In which case he can STFU.
He may find it is illicit, that the ammo is mysteriously disappearing, in which case the authorities will take over & the licenced ammo dealers will be in big strife.
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I’ll be over with a truck to take them off your hands tomorrow.
My driver, together with a satchel full of cash, will be there at sparrer’s tomorrow.
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“I support the AFPA’s call for a national firearm registry, as well as prohibiting the importation of ammunition for firearms that are banned in Australia.”
Dear Fascist Knobs:
1). Name one instance in Australia where the various Firearm Registries helped solve or prevent a crime. (Answer is zero, Jeff Kennett asked Vikpol this question, the answer he got was “we like it because the Nazi’s invented firearm registration and that helps us feel closer to them”)
2). You Mongs do realise that different cartridges and calibres are used across a vast range of different firearms? Russian 1910 Maxim Machineguns are banned in Australia…. and yet my 91/30 Mosin Nagants use exactly the same ammunition! AK-47’s use 7.62X39 and yet huge numbers of bolt action rifles were sold in the same caliber. But here’s the real horror: 5.56 black rifle food is probably the most popular bolt action varmit rifle caliber in Australia.
How about you just admit that you’re all basically dim whitted Fascists?
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How about you’re all basically dim whitted Fascists?
Factcheck status: True
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I have seen the Northern lights many times at distance but in 1972 I was driving a semi on the Alaska highway in January, north of Fort Nelson BC. When I stopped and walked away from the truck it was as if I could reach out and touch the lights and the air was crackling with some electrical energy. Absolute mind blowing experience, went on for about an hour and was still going when I drove on.
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That’s BS; to buy ammo you have to prove you have a weapon compatible with the ammo.
I have never been asked for anything other than a firearms licence to buy ammo.
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Dozens of handguns were outlawed in 2003 after a licensed pistol owner opened fire in a Monash University tutorial room in October 2002, killing two people and wounding five more.
Outlawed in the basis of barrel length you F’cking Mong. 99% of manufacturers produced new variants of their existing products with 110mm long barrels. 10mm over the 100mm minimum on the basis that even the mongiest policeman was guaranteed to realise that the barrel was over the legal minimum.
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I have never been asked for anything other than a firearms licence to buy ammo.
Fact check true. I have brought 9mm and .45 ACP to donate to a friends pistol shooting activities and have never been asked.
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Factcheck status: True
I’m remembering a discussion with a teenage girl, cleverly disguised as a police officer, over the licensing of a .303 rifle.
“What’s your background with firearms?”
“Grew up on a farm, learned to shoot there, fifteen years in the A.D.F., and I’m a qualified weapons instructor in two of the Services.”
“Oh, what does that mean?”
At this point the sergeant walked in – he was a rifle buff – and we had an interesting fifteen minutes discussing the .303 rifle..I got my license…
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Lordie
Why Was Hunter Paying Joe Biden $50k Per Month To Rent House Where Classified Documents Found?
I’m punishing the hard liquor, and wondering where this country went off the rails….
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Wembley police station
Still there. I think it is now an asset play in the rapidly gentrifying Western Suburbs. Filled with transportables that have been there for over a decade or more.
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I’m punishing the hard liquor, and wondering where this country went off the rails….
That tune is one that sounds excellent on the bagpipes.
Someone plays it at just the right tempo (not too fast) probably on youtube somewhere.
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You should be the first in line? Your usual view of the world. It’s all about me.
Tell us again why you should be first in line.
Joh, come off it, you and your silly dickless uptickers. You can’t even read a piece of ironic satire. You’ve taken it to heart seriously. I didn’t think anyone with a minute’s sense (which you do have) would do that. In a C17th scenario of absolutely remote genetic genalogy you think I am actually staking a claim: it’s a joke, Joyce, following on from a comment someone made about Huguenots and made the context of the poofteenth of aboriginality that was being discussed. Don’t tell me you’d take seriously the comment about Presbyterians whenever a bomb goes off!!
Johanna, we should meet so that you can see what I am and what I am not.
You might learn something, and get over it.
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Now, while the pixels are not in high demand, here’s today’s lament from Lapland (only one ‘p’ apparently). A couple of Panadol Extra (i.e. with caffeine) saw me and my snazzy dilated pupils to the bus outside the hotel this morning for the trip to the Dog Sled ride and the Arctic Zoo. When we arrived we found that unlike the dog sled trip we did in Canada, we were not being driven over new snow; this was a self-drive little number, with a quick lesson in how-to-drive delivered by a very taciturn Aussie (as in Canada, why do dog sled businesses attract weird Aussies?) He was the only other Aussie we’ve met on this trip. We will go in convoy, he says, so don’t back up the rear, the important word is braking, which is done by digging a mini-plow into the snow with your foot while clinging on to the handbar at the rear where the driver stands. The footwork all looked a bit beyond me in my still befuddled state. You drive, I said to Hairy, not wanting the shame our great Nation by collapsing the convoy with my incompetence. There was to be a stop half-way to change drivers, mainly female partners of the males at the initial helm. We set off slowly but within minutes developed into a fast pace, an Arctic testosterone-enhanced mush-mush. As instructed, I had my feet on two side bars and braced constantly as the sled bounced over compacted snow with many dips and took daring corners up high on the edge of the track where I feared falling out. The six dogs on our sled, if I can use the metaphor, were having a whale of a time. I was not. Try doing it with an already bruisesd coccyx (tailbone) in constant brace position, assisting Hairy with ‘brake, brake’ on what I considered to be some really dangerous curves. At the half-way point, when some of the braver (and younger) female members took over their sleds, the pace became far more sedate. Get a bloody move on, Hairy was opining, while I was secretly cheering the girls on for their caution.
At the end of the 4km ride Hairy commented that I would definitely win the best back-seat sleigh driver award. But from various comments I judged that it would have been a fiercely fought gong albeit one that would require male and female categories.
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The Arctic Zoo turned out to be a three km round trip across country in marked walkways, where various Arctic animals had wide ranges or cages. The owls were spectacular, living on voles and mice, which we also saw. Other animals of note were the Wolf, the tree-climing Wolverine, the Arctic Fox and the Forest Boar. The bears were all hibernating. The bigger animals were at the end of the track and we had spent too much time on the birds, as Hairy is an expert bird-spotter (from his birdwatcing yoof). They were difficult to see in the snowy surroundings but we saw all of the speckled, spotted, tawny and snowy owls, who looked gravely flat-faced at our intrusion, for there were no other customers, and a hostile-looking rather damp eagle. Many were retreating into their huts. It was gently snowing at the start so more pleasant then to play Spot the Wol with each other, but the weather turned into something of a blizzard at the end. We mutually decided not to do the extra tracks to see the Moose. It would, Hairy said peering at me through snow-rimmed eyelashes, just be a moose too far.
That’s not very funny, but it cracked me up at the time.
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We also of course saw plenty of reindeer, and snooked up to the sled dogs, who were happily rolling around in the snow at the start and finish of the run. They love the run and love attention.
The reindeer at bred (and culled) for meat and for their fur and leather.
I purchased a whole reindeer hide with its fur, from a large animal, cured with a Certificate of Envionmental Approval, so I hope I can get it through customs in Australia. I’d love to take some antlers too but they won’t let you bring them into Australia without hoo haa and performance.
Our snowy walk through this parklike forest zoo was really something very special, as the snow fell.
The branches were filling with white down as the breeze drifted a white cushion under our feet on the pathways, removing any slipperiness and making signage unreadable till we swept it clear with our gloved hands. We crunched our way through adrift in wilderness shared only with secretive animals.
At least six BBC buildings across the UK were covered with placards and photos of people who died from the COVID vaccine.
The rally called the “media is the virus” was held on Saturday, January 7th, and it was organized by three different groups: The People’s Resistance, Freedom Fighters, and The North Unites.
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Sancho – 16 Jan @ 19:52
Correct re managed funds. Vanguard EFT are most popular and toy only have to listen what Black Rock are saying as opposed to what they are doing.
At the moment if you want fin advise you have to go through the whole process which is a min $3,300 – no one on &80k can afford this -$500 to $800 yes affordable.
But the real issue is the set up of SMSF. Do it yourself and you will get a call from the ato asking why you set one up.
Then there is the trustees responsibilities – you are looking after your own money and on a technicality you could be banned as a trustee and director even though the money is in the fund.
Vale Jim Molan.
I have recently completed reading his very prescient book on the serious threat of a Chinese offensive in the next few years. He was a fine soldier, a patriot, and a fearless defender of the values of democratic societies. If only we had more like him in our political arena.
I fear that we shall not often see the like of him in the future.
BREAKING: The Australian
Retired Major General, Senator Jim Molan dies aged 72
The retired Major General and Australian Senator died peacefully in the arms of his family, according to a statement.
My friend Dr. Phillip Altman, one of the founding members of the medical professionals who oppose the continued administration of the Covid vaccines (Australian Medical Professionals Society) has written (in the Substack) of the determined opposition to his professional testimony in the Fair Work Commission, where individuals have sought redress from dismissal through refusal to be vaccinated.
SO, WHAT WOULD I KNOW?
phillip.altman Substack
I recently appeared as an expert witness in an Australian Fair Work Commission case opposing vaccine mandates. A comprehensive and fully referenced Expert Report was written by myself and submitted to the court in the usual way.
I’ve been involved in many such cases and written many expert reports. However, I am seldom called to testify or be cross-examined. I suspect the other side is ill prepared for what I have to say and be appraised of the data at my fingertips. In the rare two cases I have been called, I have only been asked one question each time. In the first case I was asked if the COVID-19 vaccines had been “approved” and I said “no” because they are only Provisionally Approved in Australia and there is a big difference between “approved” and “provisionally approved”. When I tried to explain the difference (which the barrister opposite did not want to know about) I was immediately dismissed as a witness.
The second time I was called to testify I was asked to read an “expert” recommendation emanating from the government on COVID-19 vaccination policy stating the COVID vaccines prevented transmission of the virus and I was asked to confirm that the words were there. Of course, the words were there.
The Deputy President of the Fair Work Commission then said of me: “Well, it looks like Dr. Altman is outgunned here”. And that was the end of my testimony on the safety of COVID “vaccines”….. simple as that. My testimony was all over in a couple minutes. This suggests a very superficial judicial appraisal of the quality and value of expert advice available to the court. I was sitting right there ready to answer any questions asked of me. But no questions came. The failure of the judicial system to be able to take the time to look at scientific fact and distinguish fact from bureaucratic dogma unsupported by any hard evidence during the COVID times has cost thousands of lives in my opinion and I suspect this sort of behaviour is widespread.
Let’s drill down a bit on who knows what……..
The typical “expert” opposing me many cases is a medical doctor, often a Professor of Paediatrics or something similar who cites the policies and narratives of the prevailing pro-COVID vaccine narrative.
These types of “experts”, in general, have probably NEVER
– critically evaluated the manufacturing, chemistry and quality control data for a new pharmaceutical or
– read or know anything about the intricate and detailed code of Good Manufacturing Practice which is intended to ensure the quality of medicines or
– read or know about the international pharmaceutical regulatory guidelines regarding the chemistry, manufacturing and quality control of pharmaceuticals or
– read or know anything about the evaluation of animal toxicological studies or even seen a full animal toxicological report supporting a new chemical entity or
– know anything about the international pharmaceutical regulatory guidelines regarding the conduct and reporting of animal toxicology studies or
– read or know much about or have experience in designing, conducting and reporting pharmacokinetic studies in animals and man or
– know anything about the international pharmaceutical regulatory guidelines regarding pharmacokinetic clinical studies of absorption, distribution and elimination or
– have decades of experience in appraising and critically analysing the value and limitations of clinical trial reports – both full industry reports and published reports or
– have experience in managing adverse drug reaction reporting systems to detect safety signals especially for new drugs or
– been intimately involved in early phase clinical trial design, management and reporting of Phase I drugs determine the safety of a new therapeutic agent or
– been involved in international safety committees to assess the safety of a marketed drug or
– been responsible for the complete compilation of safety data for a drug which has never previously been registered worldwide
Well, I have 40+ years experience in doing these things which are all relevant to the assessment of the safety of the COVID vaccines but I am never asked about it in a court of law. Why not?
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I’m punishing the hard liquor, and wondering where this country went off the rails….
Is that right, JC? You’ve cashed out of SACL?
Sanchez
Bain is private equity so they want and need a cash out. Super dickheads need an income stream.
Woops, JC. I just read your 6.09pm post. My sympathies.
I hope mUnty rang and offered to buy you a pinot.
The best thing about this august journal of record (well, one of them) is the readership. Specifically, the silent readership.
Why, there are whole other fora dedicated to analysing each and every comment made here. Warms the cockles, it does.
Tom
I didn’t have a choice. There was vote and those idiot shareholders listened to gonsky and voted for a sale. It was compulsory.
I wouldn’t be shocked if the vote was stolen too.
I have tears running down my cheeks as I write this. Stop reminding me.
I bought SYD in the midst of Covid at $5.50 a copy.
People might say that I should be happy with $8.50 after six months.
But no.
It was well under what I believe to be it’s intrinsic worth and was dumped in a fire sale when there was no fire.
Here’s the thing.
Unisuper had a fair chunk of SYD. In return for voting for the Scheme of Arrangement, they got a piece of the privatised entity. No-one else had that option. If $8.50 was such a red-hot deal, Unisuper would have pocketed the cash, right?
incomplete data
on the other hand the fertility rate continues to be well below replacement, showing that mass migration ponzi is a massive failure.
2nd graph down
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/births-australia/latest-release
And presumably ASIC and ASX just sat idly by as it happened. Who would be a non-institutional shareholder when this can occur perfectly legally?
Sanchez
In a fair world Gonsky should be doing jail time for the shit he pulled. Totally disgusting.
Knuckle Draggersays:
January 16, 2023 at 6:14 pm
The best thing about this august journal of record (well, one of them) is the readership. Specifically, the silent readership.
Why, there are whole other fora dedicated to analysing each and every comment made here. Warms the cockles, it does.
I’m not sure that Phat Pussy is as widely read.
That is huge.
Not mentioned anywhere in any media I’ve seen.
Thanks, plasma.
The only thing being worse than talked about is not being talked about. Isn’t that right?
And the Liberal government.
Oscar Wilde seemed to think so, Bear.
But that was the province of the idle rich. Everyone else was busy at work.
Howard, Cuddly and Max the Axe got the ball rolling.
“In a fair world Gonsky should be doing jail time for the shit he pulled. Totally disgusting.”
Yep.
I’d like to hear someone speak up for the Constitution of 1901.
Why was the Federal Government allowed to make laws for any Race, excluding Aborigines?
Was that a clause that was helpful to Aborigines?
Why weren’t Full Blooded Aborigines counted in the Census?
Was that a good thing?
Because all we’re bombarded with is bullshit about the 1967 referendum, which hasn’t had any positive outcomes for Aborigines that I’m aware of?
Moronic even by your crotchless standards. Professor Irving, professor of law at Sydney uni and possibly the only lawyer smarter than me, answers this BS.
As for no positive outcomes, you crotchless cretin, read Mabo and the 50% of Australia now covered by NT.
STFU and try to be serious; that’s when you’re at your funniest.
With Macquarie clipping the ticket from memory.
I’ve thought Groogs needs a new writing team for a while now.
Or a change of socks at least.
And you want to know the biggest irony?
Had Eddie Mabo lived, under the NT laws Keating introduced as a result of the decision, he still wouldn’t have been able to mortgage “his” land – which is why he went to the HC in the first place.
And in more ‘experts are baffled’ news:
Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate
No one could have predicted this….
Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control? It was revealing that the Professor punted that question.
Ordering an Uber Eats pizza from the phone menu.
The Mediterranean features “Vaginian” ham.
I’ll leave it at that.
I did a google search for
“Japan’s Experts Baffled By High ‘COVID Deaths’ Despite High Vaccination Rate”
The first page was just stories of how good the vax is. The real story wasn’t linked to until half way down the second page. For a specific search that just demonstrates how much google tampers with results.
I am about to hit Sky News After Dark 2023 programming so if you couldn’t care less – spin your scroll wheel!
Caleb Bond has done an outstanding job filling in for the WEBs. He listens to his guests, he doesn’t interrupt. he researches his topics and asks pertinent questions. Caleb is bloody good.
So what does Sky do with this obvious talent? The cretins relegate him to a 10 pm slot – when most of us who care are probably asleep. But worse, much worse, they saddle him with that Daisy Cousins try-to-be, Liz Storer. Caleb deserves better, but I suppose it’s a start on the first rung up the ladder.
I won’t be watching so will rely on those here that do tune in for their ratings of this programme.
Vaginian ham with inserted an pineapple? Sounds Hawaiian.
USA Today warns against using ‘culturally sensitive words’ like aloha, hola, shalom (15 Jan)
I’m sure if you say “vaginian ham” or “pineapple” you will offend someone. Maybe even a Hawaiian.
I should edit, grr. My English is worse than a Hawaiian pizza.
This is my problem with NT, it keeps the indigenous as museum exhibits, not humans living in current year.
JMH,
Caleb Bond is excellent, as you stated in his role. The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. It’s funny you saying Liz Storer is a Daisy Cousens try-to-be, I have mentioned here before I can’t stand Daisy Cousens because she reminds me so much of the unlamented and almost forgotten Marieke Hardy.
Is Namaste okay?
Asking for Stimpson.
When I was a lad taking a passing interest in commercial law, there used to be a thing called “oppression of minority shareholders”.
ASIC is nothing short of useless.
I remember running across former ASIC head honcho Greg Medcraft early in my career. A singularly forgettable and unimpressive dude. He now has a role with the OECD, no doubt riding on Corrmann’s coat-tails.
The fact that he climbed the greasy pole comes as no surprise.
Really sorry to raise the PTSD triggering event (the Great Sydney Airport sellout).
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Yes, I agree. (Correcting my spelling of the bint’s surname…) Daisy Cousens (and her copycat, Liz Storer) are obviously little fluffies trying to fill that awful Hardy’s sandals, which makes it all the more disgusting. Poor Caleb.
ASIC is nothing short of useless.
Correct. The good news is they are no worse than any other government body. The bad news is they are no better than any other government body.
For example see CASA. Airline pilot pal had one of his work colleagues go to CASA recently. He was told that the only things to worry about were his pay and leave entitlements. So much for aviation safety.
“JMH,
Caleb Bond is excellent, as you stated in his role. The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. It’s funny you saying Liz Storer is a Daisy Cousens try-to-be, I have mentioned here before I can’t stand Daisy Cousens because she reminds me so much of the unlamented and almost forgotten Marieke Hardy.”
Agree about Caleb, he’s excellent, he speaks clearly, he’s articulate, he knows a thing or two, he doesn’t mumble like Blot. However, I actually don’t mind Liz Storer, she’s much more solid than peak a boo Daisy. However, having met both Daisy and Liz, they’re both delightful and it’s so refreshing and delightful to meet and talk to two young, articulate, intelligent, unwoke women, because there aren’t many. It’s easier to find unwoke men than unwoke women.
People are blaming COVID vaccines for sudden deaths and more. Here’s why experts say it’s harmful.
And guess what your primary care physician will say if he know what’s good for him.
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“The fact that he is sartorially resplendent is also a visual treat. “
Oh he’s from Adelaide, hence his sartorial elegance and demeanour.
There’s a lurker’s forum?
On Discord?
Is CMD Longtime Lurker leading the charge?
Greg Medcraft early in my career. A singularly forgettable and unimpressive dude.
Wait until you get a load of his missus.
How badly did we overcount COVID deaths and hospitalizations?
Is she dull as dishwater?
Miss Universe is turning into Mr Universe?
Should make Cohenite happy at least.
Lots and lots of cute owls.
It’s quite amusing to see that the old thief is losing the protection of the legacy meja. They could have dumped on the old grub years ago if they had wanted. It slightly reminds me of liddle filth’s dying PMship when Keating was stalking the grub in 1991.
This is my problem with NT, it keeps the indigenous as museum exhibits, not humans living in current year.
One of my problems with NT is it gives a huge unequal advantage to one section of the population without any justification. Mabo was a terrible Judgment.
Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion
No, she wasn’t backward in telling people who her husband was.
There’s an unverified story where she even did it to someone who she thought pinched a parking spot.
Allegedly.
However, having met both Daisy and Liz, they’re both delightful and it’s so refreshing and delightful to meet and talk to two young, articulate, intelligent, unwoke women, because there aren’t many.
Are either of them single? Asking for myself.
‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
Health experts are calling for a rethink of Australia’s COVID-19 approach after a new study showed one in 10 people will end up with “long COVID”.
& let’s not even start on her doing the same when she was trying to gain membership to a particularly snooty club here in Sydney.
Allegedly.
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Interesting analysis in SpikedMany of the shifts giving rise to wokeness began in the 1970s. As the political economy of the West ‘globalised’, and as the postwar settlement was upended, a new elite class emerged – what Barbara and John Ehrenreich termed the ‘professional-managerial class’ (PMC).
Hey! I thought we were friends!
Climate Activism Isn’t About the Planet. It’s About the Boredom of the Bourgeoisie | Opinion
Not boredom but the unquenchable impulse of the left to prove they’re superior and more virtuous; and what better way of doing that is saving the planet from a confected disaster. The other side of that turd is their desire for power; and if they’re saving the planet they deserve all the power available. Thirdly, they are misanthropes; one of the dominant but not discussed tenets of alarmism is misanthropy:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-07/warming_to_misanthropy/39750
Dr. Bhakdi was warning about the risks from the very beginning.
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Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi: They Have Broken Every Rule of The Nuremberg Code
“The Nuremberg Code states anything that is being used under experimental use must be stopped if there is a clear indication of any harm or death.”
Riiight.
One of thoooose.
Medcraft was one of those pushing to cut off direct investment in bank hybrids by retail investors.
Apparently they are all too stupid to recognise and manage risk. Of course, I can if I go through a ticket-clipping advisor. Very convenient that, just when the Banking RC puts a crimp in the excesses of advisors, ASIC creates another income stream for them.
I reckon if he had his way there would be no direct share investment by independent retail investors either. Everyone would have to invest in managed funds and/or get annual advice from some shifty ticket-clipper.
‘We’re all vulnerable’: One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says
aka “vax injury”
Big call, but I would trade current year for the 1970s not to endure flat pack furniture.
Miss Universe is turning into Mr Universe?
Should make Cohenite happy at least.
Lots and lots of cute owls.
It’s sad how strong women can intimidate. Cute owls have muscles but not dicks; God knows what trannies and woke freaks have and don’t have. Time for some cute owls!
Cronkite, I’d estimate that 25% of the adult population have been brainwashed – frightened stiff of gerbil warming so it’s not something you can just palm off the virtue signalling. They’re actually terrified and a decent percentage of them are so scared they’re on anti-anxiety medication to deal with it. I don’t know how one deals with this sort of hysteria because it’s very real to them and they vote.
Well, I have just roughed it with a bottle of Jansz sparkling. It was a 2017 vintage.
As a vintage they may have felt entitled to skip the Pinot Meunière, which is often used in NV to round out the flavours.
But I am certain they did not bother with the second fermentation in the bottle which provides champagne with the fuller toasty and nutty flavour and creamier mouthfeel.
The decomposition of the yeast (called ‘lees’) is not unique to champers. If you find a Chardonnay that boasts of ‘stirred on lees’ you will find that fuller flavour and creamier mouthfeel. I have an especial fondness for it.
No, I’m not opening that horror. You used to like old movie starlets and you’ve now become ( in Eddle’s words) a complete flamer. There’s nothing sexy about a woman taking testosterone to look like a muscled up bloke. Stop it now!
I’d estimate that 25% of the adult population have been brainwashed
Probably more; and much higher amongst the young’ens. The next few years are going to be tough in this toilet of a nation.
Dot is pining for orange tiled coffee tables, bean bags and fondue parties.
No delusional nonsense there. Just hardcore pure science.
No, I’m not opening that horror
You have to start slow head prefect: look at their beautiful, confident faces and when comfortable gaze slowly down to those toned limbs and accentuated boobies and admire the work and diligence gone into producing that result. I always like a sheila with a flat tummy; it means when you go ut to dinner with them they won’t be pinching your chips.
Further to Caleb, two years ago, SBS aired “Could You Survive on the Breadline?” which had Julie Goodwin, Caleb Bond and that parasite, NSW Greens MP Jenny Leong.
The premise was that the three would go to three homes on “struggle street”, families that were on welfare and on the breadline, families that struggle to make ends meet.
What was noticeable was how practical both Goodwin and particularly Caleb were. Caleb went into one home, and got cracking doing practical tasks, he washed up, he vacuumed, he tidied the home (which looked like a bomb had hit it), he did a shop and filled the cupboard with good food, he helped with the budget, he cooked some tasty cheap food and he stayed nights at the home. Goodwin was much the same. The Greens, Jenny Leong? Oh she spent her time making cheap political points and then at the end of the day, she went home. And therein lies the rub, the left just like to talk, to preach, to pontificate, they’re not interested in practical measures and solutions. They’d be happy for people to starve to score a cheap political point and history is riddled with such examples of the left starving people.
You don’t need a lot of money to cook tasty, wholesome, nutritious food. I grew up eating my mother’s frugal food. I love frugal food. My mother has always said that you can make a minestrone for a few bucks and feed a family with it, with some nice bread. You can get a chicken frame and make chicken soup with vegetables and lokshen. My mother would make endless compotes (to the point where my brother still hates compote), baked rice puddings, jam roly-poly, her meal repertoire included Spanish Tortilla, cabbage rolls, stuffed capsicums, corn fritters, fetta cheese pie, lots of lamb, particularly crumbed lamb cutlets (when lamb was cheap and the staple of the Australian kitchen), curries with cheap cuts of meat, lambs fry and so on, all delicious and cheap.
Now my darling mother, at the ripe old age of 83, loves to tell me that she’s over cooking, not that that stops her from buying a pressure cooker, of which I can report she’s yet to use and it’s still sitting in a box, and it’ll stay in the the box until she gives it to me or my sister.
I can’t even catch Short Covid.
That reminds me.
In all the excitement I kind of lost count.
How many months do we have left?
“I can’t even catch Short Covid.”
Nor can I.
There’s nothing better in this ol’world than cut-up fresh peaches and apricots with a decent serve of vanilla ice cream on a summer’s night…
Actually there is.
Tinned peach and apricot slices with vanilla ice-cream.
Nothing beats either.
‘flat pack furniture’
Tab A into Slot B.
PHRASING.
I can’t either.
I think it’s a huge lie. Everyone who claims to have had it is lying to us. Could be the Simulation playing a joke on the 153 of us in the world who’ve never had it.
There’s nothing better in this ol’world than cut-up fresh peaches and apricots with a decent serve of vanilla ice cream on a summer’s night…
Well, the Nectarines off my tree this year are heaven sent – small, but intensely sweet. Eaten fresh off the tree (those that don’t have peck marks from the crows!) – ni ice cream necessary.
Sure Vicki, nectarines work beautifully.
Good things about the 70’s – cheap tassie scallops, cheap NZ whole rump, brandy alexander cheescake. Great music, shoes that made me taller, neon coloured cars. I look at the photo album and everything has a brown filter.
Those cars must have slurped all the colour out of everything.
I got short fuc.ing covid after 3 vax (sic); shitty deal for a week; and the thing is mutating faster than I can put up photos of cute owls.
I still make mum’s baked cheesecake, with a warm taste of nutmeg. Quite scrumptious.
As they say in Toowoomba, the Silicon Valley of Australia.
According to Australian Government website ‘Centre for Population’
There was a slight decline in the Australian fertility rate of from 1.66 in 2021 per woman to 1.65 per woman in 2022.
As someone up thread suggested statista is using incomplete data.
People have 60 days to register, for starters.
According to macrotrends.
Not to mention of there was a vaxx effect 2021 wouldn’t have been a baby boom year, would it?
brandy alexander cheescake.
Next to Jane Austen and cute owls cheesecakes are my favourite thing: brandy alexander cheescake.
Cassie,
I am glad to hear your impression of the two women is favourable. I have however, an aversion to grown women dressing and speaking like little girls. I haven’t met one yet that I could trust. Long experience has taught me to be wary.
153 nocovids left?
And at least 4 of us posting at the cat.
Amazing.
Ha!
I used to work in the bar in a club in Sydney. I used to love it when customers ordered a Brandy Alexander, because I would prepare a double batch. And if they ordered two…
We didn’t have specialised cocktail glasses so we served them in champagne saucers. Mine was in a 10 oz highball. Not one to be pretentious, you see.
Marry me. Marry me just to make that exact cheesecake.
We had a dinner at our friends’ place a few evenings ago and she made this delicious cheesecake. It was sublime. She kept putting it down saying it was missing this or that. After my third helping (it was right next to me) with wifey calling me a disgusting ‘gutz’ the friend got the idea it wasn’t as bad as she thought.
Huh? While our beef industry was bust (depression-era style) we were importing beef from NZ?
It better not have cost more than a few cents for the whole rump.
Only Jewish gals can make decent cheesecake like the one I had the other night. Otherwise, it’s just cultural appropriation.
brandy alexander cheescake.
Awesome, if it isn’t baked, it isn’t a cheesecake.
Good Aussie movie coming up on Fox.
The Dressmaker.
Kate Winslet could end up having a Susan Sarandon type filmography.
Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control?
Patents, and return on investment?
My son in law would beg to differ. I have been culturally appropriating since high school.
Cassie and I should have a cheesecake-off. Followed by chicken soup.
It has to be the brown crème de cacao.
Seemed to have no existence except to enhance other drinks flavours. I never knew anyone to drink it straight.
JC, maybe when you’ve finished making work for your cardiologist, you might try this for a dessert.
Berries (rasberries, strawberries, blueberries) layered with Grik yoghurt, topped with a small amount of brown sugar.
Sanchez
I do a variation of that I picked up from a Greek restaurant in the 90s. Greek yogurt , sprinkled with walnuts and topped with the finest honey. It’s really good.
I’ll try yours some time this week and report back. But I’ll use honey.
Muscovado you Philistine! 😀
yeah… nah. long covid for unvaxed ppl is very real, don’t ask me how I know.
Yeah, low GI honey is probably better than sugar, and walnuts would be a nice addition.
“Marry me. Marry me just to make that exact cheesecake.”
I will, soon polygamy will be legal. But we’ll have to have a rock solid prenuptial agreement, I want 75%.
“Only Jewish gals can make decent cheesecake like the one I had the other night. Otherwise, it’s just cultural appropriation.”
Correct.
We had a pretty good harvest this year, not ‘maison secondaire’ at Port Douglas, but good enough.
But my SA grain grower inlaws are acting like a teenager after a successful Friday night, or kids on the last day of term.
Given that SA grain growers are born with a genetic depression, I was forced to look at what they were ranting about.
Their offtake claims are extraordinary and well beyond anything on the historical graphs.
Question for the Vic graingrowers. Are you also experiencing this nivana?
It may be ‘incomplete data’
I’ll allow an additional 30 days on top of your 60 for birth registration.
That gives 90 days or 3 months roughly.
Assuming we take 1/4 away from the statistical average (300k) we still end up with 225k
If the data is 3 months out of date, we should still have 225,000 registered birthsfor 2022…
Assuming that, we can say that 2022 will top out around 100,000 once the remaining 3 months come in…
So, that’s still a 66% drop from that statistical average.
Original question remains, what caused this???
What’s with the new line-up on Sky News? Why did they get rid of Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean?
Lol Cassie. Them’s fightin’ woids!
“What’s with the new line-up on Sky News? Why did they get rid of Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean?”
They haven’t. They’re still doing Outsiders and I suspect they’ll be doing other things for Sky.
You take your ladies out to dinner at places that serve chips?
Well, they are eating pizza with Vaginian ham, so you be the judge.
Tell me about it.
After leaving home I didn’t eat lamb for c. 10 years!
Plas
I’d wait. We’re two weeks into 23. The pubes are enjoying their summer and don’t forget they work from home these days which means productivity would be down 95% from already appalling levels. Give it to June.
This is so Cool.
Matilda the Musical – set to Rob Zombie.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fwunBHUwJlk
Western Australian growers certainly are. High prices of diesel and fertilizer have been compensated for by a well above average yield, and locking in when prices were high.
Good for you bons. Make heaps of money.
May I claim a late entry with my Spanish Basque burnt cheesecake? Oh, and Father Delta’s chicken noodle soup, made from home-made chicken stock and fat, home-made noodles. Worth getting sick for.
Just so people don’t get the wrong idea. I hardly ever have dessert. Possibly once a week if that.
When you can get remotely close to a Japanese baked cheesecake then have a bake off
Statista have got incomplete data, I gave the delay in registrations as part of the problem.
The Australian government website says the change is from 1.66 to 1.65 21 to 22
Macrotrends also shows a slight decline consistent with the decline over the last ten years.
And I pointed out if you are going to blame the vax then there should have been a decline in 2021 too.
We’re fighting over increasing your waistline, JC.
Carpe, that thread was fun. Maccas in Japan, Megan and the grinch meets Santa . Wolfman did the Thing last week. As I recall, it didn’t consume James the engine.
Japanese cheesecake….mmmmm. Can do.
I think you have a theme for the next NSW Cats get together!
I don’t think he’s old enough to remember them.
Yet another website
Below are the key figures for Australia population in 2022:
352,799 live births
I’m sure Liz will host it., that is if doesn’t come back in a cyrovac bag fully frozen.
I can’t believe she dragged the poor dude to Lappland in the middle of freaking winter.
The Beer Whisperer:
So could I.
Cut off the sit down money. It’s what is killing the Aboriginals.
Welfare kills – we’ve known that for decades, but we just keep paying the Danegeld to the Big Men and wonder why things don’t improve.
I truly bloody despair for the kids and women who exist under this system of patronage – they are doomed for privation and abuse even before they’re born. And the people making the money out of them are aware of the cost but don’t give a shit. The biggest oppressor of the Aboriginal peoples is the Aboriginal Industry – with our blessing.
What?
I cant believe she went there!
“I’m sure Liz will host it., that is if doesn’t come back in a cyrovac bag fully frozen.
I can’t believe she dragged the poor dude to Lappland in the middle of freaking winter.”
LOL…..Lizzie and Hairy are marvellous hosts. As for Lappland, they’re intrepid adventurers.
That’s a relief.
I’m off to the Arctic Circle this December. To see the northern lights, like the little penguin. Dressed like the Michelin Man. Aurora borealis or bust.
Roger
You get 2.5 seconds of sunlight a day there at this time of year-that is if there’s no cloud.
The motto is “Don’t die wondering”.
The new Brit legislation aimed at targeting extinction rebellion protesters will not be used on them.
They’ll use the new laws on punters protesting something the establishment doesn’t agree with.
You can see this a mile off.
Just go to the light show in the Melbourne botanical gardens this winter. Some difference.
Reminds me
I saw a small dead penguin in the Port Philip Bay about a week ago. I never seen them in the bay and didn’t think they came in. It was close to the heads though.
Gary Johns summed it up well in his book “The Burden of Culture,” Aboriginal children, with mobile phones and access to the Internet, are locked into a Stone Age culture, while the rest of Australia moves through the 21st Century.
I got to see the most spectacular northern lights display in Prince George, British Columbia when visiting family there in 1991. It was mid-August and I simply walked out of the house after dark, looked up and there it was. The most beautiful shimmering green curtains that went on and on. I tried taking photos but my camera was hopeless.
Been there two more times but no more shows.
I have however, an aversion to grown women dressing and speaking like little girls. I haven’t met one yet that I could trust. Long experience has taught me to be wary.
Oh how true!! Grown women who talk baby talk are particularly dangerous especially when they are trained professionals who should know better. I also speak from bitter experience.
Had two crates marked as short barrel AK47’s turn up at work today. Was bitterly disappointed.
Half yer luck.
They’re fantastic. There’s nothing quite like it & they’re very difficult to describe.
No photo can give an inkling of what they’re like, or even a video.
Hope you actually get to see the lights – they can be a bit fussy about when & how well they show themselves.
Huh
I will, soon polygamy will be legal. But we’ll have to have a rock solid prenuptial agreement, I want 75%.
I hope you like cheroots and chinos because that’s where he’s wealth is wrapped up.
There is a wonderful train trip in Norway that you might be interested in …
https://upnorway.com/journeys/hop-on-the-arctic-circle-express-train
You take your ladies out to dinner at places that serve chips?
Yep; but definitely no fries.
Yes.
Yes I am.
Oh yeah, I’m the one with bad taste.
The new Brit legislation aimed at targeting extinction rebellion protesters will not be used on them.
Yep.
They’ll use the new laws on punters protesting something the establishment doesn’t agree with. You can see this a mile off.”
Yep.
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00:00 Intro
00:49 Hydrogen Basics
03:39 The Hydrogen Market
06:04 The Colours Of Hydrogen
12:11 Water Supply
13:34 The Cold Start Problem
14:05 Rare Metal Shortages
15:55 Hydrogen Embrittlement
16:45 Summary
Cassie:
Now my darling mother, at the ripe old age of 83, loves to tell me that she’s over cooking, not that that stops her from buying a pressure cooker
Yes. My old mum a few decades back insisted in buying a “slow cooker” into which she would cram a chicken carcase and other stuff, producing something eatable in the end.
What was remarkable about it all was that she was a product of Britain in the 1930s, which meant in her 20s she was cooking in the 1950s, which seemed to mean boiling everything to death – including Brussels sprouts – and then forcing the kids (including me) to eat it.
But three (3) helpings when you do, right.
Indolent:
What on Earth happened to Newsweek?
That is a damn fine article, unlike the usual crap they publish.
Mind you, they’re jumping on the “Biden Is Out”bandwagon with a speed that is quite unusual.
I tried to buy a pressure cooker last week. Only ones available were low pressure which sort of negates the idea in the first place. They had glass lids and the locking mechanism looked suspect. Apparently the fundies like to use the steel ones to make bombs with loads of nails and other explodey bits. I like to think proper pressure cookers haven’t been disappeared as a result.
This family is all class.
Perhaps Senator Flog & his flogger mates could investigate who is purchasing this legally imported & legally sold ammo?
Try buying through legit channels ammo for a firearm you don’t legally own.
Something for Senator Flog & his flogger hangers-on to reflect upon.
Further to the above, would be interesting to know why BigPharma largely chose mRNA rather than the tried and tested mode of vaccine delivery that offers them far better fine tuning and quality control?
I expect the biggest driver was the $ billion/s offered by Trump to have a vaccine before the election… mRNA was sitting in a drawer looking for a purpose and big pharma money had been hit hard by medicine price reduction policies of the Trump regime..
A perfect storm and subsequent payback…
Apparently the source of all of hazza’s problems is he only got 2 sausages for brekkie while willy got 3. Probably also the source of all of markle’s as well; although we may be talking about different types of sausage.
Indolent:
Prohibition was the disastrous decision by the do gooders that allowed organised crime its first major foothold into the guts of the West. We’ve never recovered from it.
But even though it is illegal to import, possess or own those guns, the specific ammunition is still legally being brought into the country and sold at licensed gun shops.
That’s BS; to buy ammo you have to prove you have a weapon compatible with the ammo.
Bluey:
What? Were they the Czech folding stock variety? I can understand the disappointment.
I’ll be over with a truck to take them off your hands tomorrow.
Exactly.
Thus Senator Flog should look into who is purchasing this ammo.
He may find it is legit, that there are firearms of those calibres legally owned in Australia. In which case he can STFU.
He may find it is illicit, that the ammo is mysteriously disappearing, in which case the authorities will take over & the licenced ammo dealers will be in big strife.
My driver, together with a satchel full of cash, will be there at sparrer’s tomorrow.
“I support the AFPA’s call for a national firearm registry, as well as prohibiting the importation of ammunition for firearms that are banned in Australia.”
Dear Fascist Knobs:
1). Name one instance in Australia where the various Firearm Registries helped solve or prevent a crime. (Answer is zero, Jeff Kennett asked Vikpol this question, the answer he got was “we like it because the Nazi’s invented firearm registration and that helps us feel closer to them”)
2). You Mongs do realise that different cartridges and calibres are used across a vast range of different firearms? Russian 1910 Maxim Machineguns are banned in Australia…. and yet my 91/30 Mosin Nagants use exactly the same ammunition! AK-47’s use 7.62X39 and yet huge numbers of bolt action rifles were sold in the same caliber. But here’s the real horror: 5.56 black rifle food is probably the most popular bolt action varmit rifle caliber in Australia.
How about you just admit that you’re all basically dim whitted Fascists?
Factcheck status: True
I have seen the Northern lights many times at distance but in 1972 I was driving a semi on the Alaska highway in January, north of Fort Nelson BC. When I stopped and walked away from the truck it was as if I could reach out and touch the lights and the air was crackling with some electrical energy. Absolute mind blowing experience, went on for about an hour and was still going when I drove on.
I have never been asked for anything other than a firearms licence to buy ammo.
Dozens of handguns were outlawed in 2003 after a licensed pistol owner opened fire in a Monash University tutorial room in October 2002, killing two people and wounding five more.
Outlawed in the basis of barrel length you F’cking Mong. 99% of manufacturers produced new variants of their existing products with 110mm long barrels. 10mm over the 100mm minimum on the basis that even the mongiest policeman was guaranteed to realise that the barrel was over the legal minimum.
I have never been asked for anything other than a firearms licence to buy ammo.
Fact check true. I have brought 9mm and .45 ACP to donate to a friends pistol shooting activities and have never been asked.
I’m remembering a discussion with a teenage girl, cleverly disguised as a police officer, over the licensing of a .303 rifle.
“What’s your background with firearms?”
“Grew up on a farm, learned to shoot there, fifteen years in the A.D.F., and I’m a qualified weapons instructor in two of the Services.”
“Oh, what does that mean?”
At this point the sergeant walked in – he was a rifle buff – and we had an interesting fifteen minutes discussing the .303 rifle..I got my license…
Lordie
That’s how the money was getting to prez Hiden.
1967. Dad and I went to Wembley police station to get my licence for a .22.
Sergeant: “Why should I give you a licence? Who’s going to teach you to use a firearm properly and safely?”
Dad: “I will”
Sgt: “Yeah? And what qualifies you to do that?”
Dad: PO QMG in the RAN.
Sgt: “Yeah well that’s all big guns, isn’t it.”
Dad draws himself up to his full 5’9″
Ten minutes later I walked out with my licence. 😀
In WA, you cannot buy ammo from a dealer without the appropriate licence for that caliber firearm.
Dunno about other states.
Pocock is a blowharding, virtue signalling fool.
I’m punishing the hard liquor, and wondering where this country went off the rails….
Still there. I think it is now an asset play in the rapidly gentrifying Western Suburbs. Filled with transportables that have been there for over a decade or more.
That tune is one that sounds excellent on the bagpipes.
Someone plays it at just the right tempo (not too fast) probably on youtube somewhere.
Joh, come off it, you and your silly dickless uptickers. You can’t even read a piece of ironic satire. You’ve taken it to heart seriously. I didn’t think anyone with a minute’s sense (which you do have) would do that. In a C17th scenario of absolutely remote genetic genalogy you think I am actually staking a claim: it’s a joke, Joyce, following on from a comment someone made about Huguenots and made the context of the poofteenth of aboriginality that was being discussed. Don’t tell me you’d take seriously the comment about Presbyterians whenever a bomb goes off!!
Johanna, we should meet so that you can see what I am and what I am not.
You might learn something, and get over it.
Now, while the pixels are not in high demand, here’s today’s lament from Lapland (only one ‘p’ apparently). A couple of Panadol Extra (i.e. with caffeine) saw me and my snazzy dilated pupils to the bus outside the hotel this morning for the trip to the Dog Sled ride and the Arctic Zoo. When we arrived we found that unlike the dog sled trip we did in Canada, we were not being driven over new snow; this was a self-drive little number, with a quick lesson in how-to-drive delivered by a very taciturn Aussie (as in Canada, why do dog sled businesses attract weird Aussies?) He was the only other Aussie we’ve met on this trip. We will go in convoy, he says, so don’t back up the rear, the important word is braking, which is done by digging a mini-plow into the snow with your foot while clinging on to the handbar at the rear where the driver stands. The footwork all looked a bit beyond me in my still befuddled state. You drive, I said to Hairy, not wanting the shame our great Nation by collapsing the convoy with my incompetence. There was to be a stop half-way to change drivers, mainly female partners of the males at the initial helm. We set off slowly but within minutes developed into a fast pace, an Arctic testosterone-enhanced mush-mush. As instructed, I had my feet on two side bars and braced constantly as the sled bounced over compacted snow with many dips and took daring corners up high on the edge of the track where I feared falling out. The six dogs on our sled, if I can use the metaphor, were having a whale of a time. I was not. Try doing it with an already bruisesd coccyx (tailbone) in constant brace position, assisting Hairy with ‘brake, brake’ on what I considered to be some really dangerous curves. At the half-way point, when some of the braver (and younger) female members took over their sleds, the pace became far more sedate. Get a bloody move on, Hairy was opining, while I was secretly cheering the girls on for their caution.
At the end of the 4km ride Hairy commented that I would definitely win the best back-seat sleigh driver award. But from various comments I judged that it would have been a fiercely fought gong albeit one that would require male and female categories.
The Arctic Zoo turned out to be a three km round trip across country in marked walkways, where various Arctic animals had wide ranges or cages. The owls were spectacular, living on voles and mice, which we also saw. Other animals of note were the Wolf, the tree-climing Wolverine, the Arctic Fox and the Forest Boar. The bears were all hibernating. The bigger animals were at the end of the track and we had spent too much time on the birds, as Hairy is an expert bird-spotter (from his birdwatcing yoof). They were difficult to see in the snowy surroundings but we saw all of the speckled, spotted, tawny and snowy owls, who looked gravely flat-faced at our intrusion, for there were no other customers, and a hostile-looking rather damp eagle. Many were retreating into their huts. It was gently snowing at the start so more pleasant then to play Spot the Wol with each other, but the weather turned into something of a blizzard at the end. We mutually decided not to do the extra tracks to see the Moose. It would, Hairy said peering at me through snow-rimmed eyelashes, just be a moose too far.
That’s not very funny, but it cracked me up at the time.
We also of course saw plenty of reindeer, and snooked up to the sled dogs, who were happily rolling around in the snow at the start and finish of the run. They love the run and love attention.
The reindeer at bred (and culled) for meat and for their fur and leather.
I purchased a whole reindeer hide with its fur, from a large animal, cured with a Certificate of Envionmental Approval, so I hope I can get it through customs in Australia. I’d love to take some antlers too but they won’t let you bring them into Australia without hoo haa and performance.
Our snowy walk through this parklike forest zoo was really something very special, as the snow fell.
The branches were filling with white down as the breeze drifted a white cushion under our feet on the pathways, removing any slipperiness and making signage unreadable till we swept it clear with our gloved hands. We crunched our way through adrift in wilderness shared only with secretive animals.
It looks like some pommies are getting the shits with the COVID Crap.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/bbc-virus-least-6-bbc-buildings-across-uk-covered-photos-people-died-covid-vaccine-video/
Sancho – 16 Jan @ 19:52
Correct re managed funds. Vanguard EFT are most popular and toy only have to listen what Black Rock are saying as opposed to what they are doing.
At the moment if you want fin advise you have to go through the whole process which is a min $3,300 – no one on &80k can afford this -$500 to $800 yes affordable.
But the real issue is the set up of SMSF. Do it yourself and you will get a call from the ato asking why you set one up.
Then there is the trustees responsibilities – you are looking after your own money and on a technicality you could be banned as a trustee and director even though the money is in the fund.
Vale Jim Molan.
I have recently completed reading his very prescient book on the serious threat of a Chinese offensive in the next few years. He was a fine soldier, a patriot, and a fearless defender of the values of democratic societies. If only we had more like him in our political arena.
I fear that we shall not often see the like of him in the future.
BREAKING: The Australian
Retired Major General, Senator Jim Molan dies aged 72
The retired Major General and Australian Senator died peacefully in the arms of his family, according to a statement.
My friend Dr. Phillip Altman, one of the founding members of the medical professionals who oppose the continued administration of the Covid vaccines (Australian Medical Professionals Society) has written (in the Substack) of the determined opposition to his professional testimony in the Fair Work Commission, where individuals have sought redress from dismissal through refusal to be vaccinated.
SO, WHAT WOULD I KNOW?
phillip.altman Substack
I recently appeared as an expert witness in an Australian Fair Work Commission case opposing vaccine mandates. A comprehensive and fully referenced Expert Report was written by myself and submitted to the court in the usual way.
I’ve been involved in many such cases and written many expert reports. However, I am seldom called to testify or be cross-examined. I suspect the other side is ill prepared for what I have to say and be appraised of the data at my fingertips. In the rare two cases I have been called, I have only been asked one question each time. In the first case I was asked if the COVID-19 vaccines had been “approved” and I said “no” because they are only Provisionally Approved in Australia and there is a big difference between “approved” and “provisionally approved”. When I tried to explain the difference (which the barrister opposite did not want to know about) I was immediately dismissed as a witness.
The second time I was called to testify I was asked to read an “expert” recommendation emanating from the government on COVID-19 vaccination policy stating the COVID vaccines prevented transmission of the virus and I was asked to confirm that the words were there. Of course, the words were there.
The Deputy President of the Fair Work Commission then said of me: “Well, it looks like Dr. Altman is outgunned here”. And that was the end of my testimony on the safety of COVID “vaccines”….. simple as that. My testimony was all over in a couple minutes. This suggests a very superficial judicial appraisal of the quality and value of expert advice available to the court. I was sitting right there ready to answer any questions asked of me. But no questions came. The failure of the judicial system to be able to take the time to look at scientific fact and distinguish fact from bureaucratic dogma unsupported by any hard evidence during the COVID times has cost thousands of lives in my opinion and I suspect this sort of behaviour is widespread.
Let’s drill down a bit on who knows what……..
The typical “expert” opposing me many cases is a medical doctor, often a Professor of Paediatrics or something similar who cites the policies and narratives of the prevailing pro-COVID vaccine narrative.
These types of “experts”, in general, have probably NEVER
– critically evaluated the manufacturing, chemistry and quality control data for a new pharmaceutical or
– read or know anything about the intricate and detailed code of Good Manufacturing Practice which is intended to ensure the quality of medicines or
– read or know about the international pharmaceutical regulatory guidelines regarding the chemistry, manufacturing and quality control of pharmaceuticals or
– read or know anything about the evaluation of animal toxicological studies or even seen a full animal toxicological report supporting a new chemical entity or
– know anything about the international pharmaceutical regulatory guidelines regarding the conduct and reporting of animal toxicology studies or
– read or know much about or have experience in designing, conducting and reporting pharmacokinetic studies in animals and man or
– know anything about the international pharmaceutical regulatory guidelines regarding pharmacokinetic clinical studies of absorption, distribution and elimination or
– have decades of experience in appraising and critically analysing the value and limitations of clinical trial reports – both full industry reports and published reports or
– have experience in managing adverse drug reaction reporting systems to detect safety signals especially for new drugs or
– been intimately involved in early phase clinical trial design, management and reporting of Phase I drugs determine the safety of a new therapeutic agent or
– been involved in international safety committees to assess the safety of a marketed drug or
– been responsible for the complete compilation of safety data for a drug which has never previously been registered worldwide
Well, I have 40+ years experience in doing these things which are all relevant to the assessment of the safety of the COVID vaccines but I am never asked about it in a court of law. Why not?
whitlam