Andromache mourning Hector, Jacques Louis David, 1783
It’s a wonder chess hasn’t been called out as racist.
Open Thread – Tue 24 Jan 2023
- Open Thread – Thurs 23 Jan 2025
- Open Thread – Mon 20 Jan 2025
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 Jan 2025
- Guest Post: Mem – The Ratchet Effect of Power-Price Increases
- Will the wind warriors become social outcasts?
whoops … black to play
Fegatini di Pollo was the Old Man’s favourite
Liver?
removing the defender white to play
Bridges, railway hubs and lines etc. They don’t even have to hit the tanks to stop deployment.
America continues its descent into Oblivion
Deportation? Not a problem for the ‘asylum-seekers’ accused of $12,000 smash-and-grab heist
In any normal world, thugs accused of stealing $12,000 from a department store would be put on the first plane out if they got their start here by breaking into the country illegally.
Not a problem for them in New York, where uttering the magic word ‘asylum’ conveys a host of benefits well beyond the free hotel rooms, free laundry, free food, free medical, free transport and more.
According to the New York Post (emphasis mine):
Four migrants who were busted for allegedly shoplifting at a Long Island Macy’s after being bused to the Big Apple from Texas won’t face deportation — unless they’re convicted, sources and legal experts said Tuesday.
The men, who are charged with stealing more than $12,000 in merchandise from Macy’s Roosevelt Field earlier this month, are getting a break because they are asylum seekers, not illegal immigrants who crossed the US border.
“They are given the benefit of the doubt because they have a pending application with the [US Citizenship and Immigration Services],” Queens-based immigration lawyer Luis Nicho told The Post.
“[The Department of Homeland Security] would normally disqualify you for asylum and put you in the process of being deported,” Nicho said.
Law enforcement are likely waiting to see how the case will shake out, and if the shoplifters cop to a lesser crime, they may still be eligible for asylum, he said.
All it takes is the magic word of ‘asylum’ and it’s all but certain the criminals will be able to stay — free to rob again.
Because the fact of the matter is, there are a thousand things that can go wrong with obtaining a conviction. Cops could write faulty police reports or lose evidence. District Attorneys could “not have enough resources” to prioritize their cases in court, or claim their crime was too piddly to bother about. Some judge could rule that they didn’t get adequate representation from their freebie public defenders that they paid nothing to have at their “service.” The legal process could drag out and be dropped on those grounds, too. Worst of all, a bleeding heart D.A., could lower the charges explicitly to prevent their deportation. Over in San Francisco, Chesa Boudin famously did this, but there have also been cases in Oregon and Connecticut where the same miscarriage of justice went on. This is far from the only group of likely scenarios that work in thugs’ favor, and they are all highly operative in New York, meaning, lots of scum remains free to walk the streets as a result.
Yeah, we know that Woddenhead. How’s the ladyboy going. “Me loves you wong time”.
That’s the thing. As a twat, you would not know that as you are a Dick Head……………….
What hits me the most about this war is the amount of trucks destroyed. Thousands and thousands. It’s massive.
I hope all the chicky- babes in the transport corps (and their parents) take note.
You won’t be up against the enemy’s transport guys. You will be up against their best trained and equiped units.
Now the ladies in our army are the best sort of ladies there are. Good on them for putting their hands up for the job. . But no ladies belong on the end of that sort of thing.
Now they are in the infantry too.
If we go down this line further and one day have to again conscript, and do so equally, we will lose a lot of females. A lot.
In the olden days in a ship wreck it was common for all the women and children aboard to die, despite the best efforts of the men to keep them alive.
This equality thing, if taken literally, and not just in the sense of “before God”, is an horrific ideology.
And as a Jerkoff you are named very well…………………….Cr)unt…………………………
plasmanortar
I read somewhere in Forbes yesterday that RUS and UKR multirole fighters are avoiding each other and just hitting ground targets.
This was predicted to be the norm at the end of the Cold War.
‘There is another Ukraine’ – exiled opposition leader to RT
Vladimir Zelensky is carrying out the Western plan of conflict with Russia, says Viktor Medvedchuk
Exiled leader of the banned opposition platform “For Life” Viktor Medvedchuk still considers himself a Ukrainian citizen and lawmaker, and is building a team of like-minded people to represent the Ukraine he claims is suppressed by the current government in Kiev. President Vladimir Zelensky is a dictator sacrificing the country on behalf of Western powers, Medvedchuk told RT.
When Zelensky claims Ukraine is united, he leaves out that this unity was forced at gunpoint, Medvedchuk said. There are many people who disagree with the current government in Kiev, “another Ukraine, not that of [WWII Nazi collaborator Stepan] Bandera, one that has nothing to do with the statements and policies of neo-Nazism pursued by Zelensky,” he added.
Today’s Ukraine violates every provision of its own constitution, Medvedchuk argued, and “ceased to be independent and sovereign” after the February 2014 coup, when it “passed completely under external control of the West.”
Zelensky first placed Medvedchuk under house arrest, then sent him to a “dungeon” run by the Ukrainian SBU security service, where the opposition politician said he was exposed to “constant psychological pressure and humiliation.” In September 2021, he was flown to Poland, and then to Türkiye, where he was handed over to the Russians.
Contrary to popular misperception, he said, he was not traded for the leaders of the neo-Nazi “Azov” regiment who surrendered in Mariupol. Those were exchanged for captured Russian soldiers,
Medvedchuk said, while he was traded for “ten foreign mercenaries who fought in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
Kiev has accused Medvedchuk of treason and said he secretly obtained Russian citizenship. He rejects both claims as false, saying the “falsified charges” related to his legitimate mediation on behalf of the Ukrainian government with the breakaway Donbass regions and Moscow in 2014-15. About 1,500 Ukrainian POWs came home as a result of his efforts, he noted.
“I remain a citizen of Ukraine,” Medvedchuk insisted, adding that Zelensky had no right to revoke his passport and calling the move “completely reckless and I would say insane.” If he wanted to get a Russian passport or move to Russia, the politician said, he would have done so years ago. “But I did not leave. And I did not surrender.”
“Zelensky is the kind of man who thinks mainly about PR when it comes to any affairs of state,”
Medvedchuk said. “This government tries to hide reality from the people and disguise its actions, which are not in the interest of Ukraine or the Ukrainian people.”
It is Britain that controls Zelensky and Kiev, much more than the US, Medvedchuk claimed, spearheading the push by the collective West to make Ukraine into a springboard against Russia.
The goal of the West is to “stir up some kind of confrontation within Russia, processes that can weaken the Russian leadership,” which is what Zelensky is trying to do, Medvedchuk told RT. However, “it is clear that Ukraine cannot defeat Russia, due to well-known factual circumstances.”
Hey JC ,you Jerkyoff Pillock…….JC
I Hope that you had a nice day. T.W.A.T…………………….
Woddenhead, you forgot the “LOL” and the “JR” initials at the bottom of the post, you moron. 🙂 That of course is to remind us it was funny and not to forget it was you posting the comment. You should be deported.
Loves you Wong time, Wods.
Cali 25/1 @ 4.08
Your argument re climate change and thermal dynamics.
I am trying to understand this . Is it the primary source of heat is the sun and the earth cannot be heated more than it’s source.
Enjoy Australia Day. You may even see a few Aussie flags.
I seriously doubt that…
It makes no military sense from either side…
Top Ender:
If they own their own home, point out that what happens is a Socialist Government confiscates all housing because it is a national asset, you get to pay rent on your house, and then they decide you are taking up too much community resources and kick you out of the four bedroom two bathroom house in Vaucluse, and allocate you a two bedroom unit in Alice Springs.
THAT will get their attention.
And you Wonder Why Americans are Fat!
‘Uber Eats’ food delivery interrupts Loyola Chicago-Duquesne game
Neither rain, sleet or snow or a college basketball game in progress will stop a food delivery from being made.
While play was going on during the second half of Wednesday’s Loyola Chicago Ramblers-Duquesne Dukes game, a delivery person walked onto the court with a bag of fast food, getting very close to a player who was set up on the 3-point line.
Play was momentarily stopped with 16:10 remaining and Loyola Chicago holding a 40-37 lead while the situation was being digested.
The shocked ESPN+ broadcast crew was left with a bevy of questions.
“Who’s he delivering it to?” they shouted. “The ref!?”
Sure buddy. A neo Nazi Jew, they’re bloody everywhere!
We should list all of those racially based wars of aggression that the Ukraine started.
Top Ender:
Simples, TE.
It voted in a Socialist government and got what all Socialist governments end up as – a tyranny of the Party Faithful against the idiots who voted for them.
This migrant mess is ruining NYC’s Midtown
By Miranda Devine
Why is Mayor Adams destroying Midtown? The pulsing heart of the city, the theater, restaurant and tourism district, has not fully recovered from the COVID lockdown yet is already full of homeless hotels with their associated problems.
Now the mayor has announced he’s going to turn yet another hotel into a shelter for illegal migrants in the middle of the theater district.
The Paramount Hotel, a 600-room Renaissance-style gem opposite the Richard Rodgers Theatre where “Hamilton” has been playing since 2015, is the fifth Midtown hotel converted to an “emergency” shelter in as many months. Earlier this month, tourists were paying $330 a night to stay there and prices hit as high as $1,000 around New Year’s Eve.
The Paramount is around the corner from the $400-a-night Italianate Row Hotel on Eighth Avenue, whose 1,300 rooms were handed over to illegals late last year.
Where are the tourists supposed to stay, the ones who actually spend the money the city needs to pay for all the social services Adams likes to splash around?
It’s no kind of life for a family to be living in a hotel room in the middle of Midtown anyway, and Adams doesn’t appear to have any solutions apart from mildly complaining that he’s not getting enough money from the federal government. He estimates the Big Apple will need $2 billion extra and it could bankrupt New York City.
For two years, the Biden administration has been secretly flying illegals into New York and busing them all over the city and the tristate area, with no complaint from Gov. Hochul, Adams or his mayoral predecessor. It was only when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started sending busloads of migrants to New York that Adams began complaining the “city is at its breaking point.”
Sanctuary city
With more than 250,000 illegal migrants crossing the southern border each month, plus another estimated 70,000 “gotaways” who slip past the Border Patrol, cities all over the country have been inundated, but New York bears a larger burden than most because of the sanctuary status that Adams still trumpets.
The city is putting illegals up indefinitely in Midtown’s former luxury hotels, providing three free hot meals a day, baby formula, free clothing, free legal services, free health care and free education.
The cost is reportedly close to $100,000 per room.
But as it’s human nature not to appreciate what you are given for free rather than what you have worked for, some recipients of taxpayer largesse are biting the hand that feeds them.
Take the Row Hotel.
The new residents have been turning up their noses at the free food, with the result that almost a ton of perfectly good meals reportedly have been thrown out daily.
Embracing lawbreakers
Okay.
Define racism.
Genocide, yeah, that’s still ongoing.
Basically, it’s a Bait & Switch.
Once the Constitution is changed, The Voice will have the power of The Word and both Houses of Federal Parliament will become a rubber stamp.
What’s wrong with xenophobia?
It hasn’t done The Han any harm.
Dunno how you get that, but the fact is that, for many of the new arrivals
Australian Citizenship is just a handy piece of paper and once they’ve sucked the marrow out of Australia’s bones, they’ll blow back to whichever shithole they blew in from.
Docking next to La Superba which sustained 50 million Euros of damage in a fire a couple of weeks ago, and looks like it.
But as it’s human nature not to appreciate what you are given for free rather than what you have worked for, some recipients of taxpayer largesse are biting the hand that feeds them.
Aboriginals in Australia – $33 Billion is NOT Enough – We should not have to pull the Finger out and fix our own instigated problems!
Louis, it was in relation to the production and distribution of energy and entropy (2nd Law). The Beloved’s sister was surprised that energy is lost on the way through the system and that no system can run at 100% efficiency from source to end point. She thinks there’s a way around this and that “science” will discover it.
It’s pretty obvious that Americans are being punished for rejecting the lesbian bitch in 2016. Just like bLIAR did in the early 2000s.
Going to visit Santorini or Etna, Rosie?
Both are giving a show of lights and fire.
Quite safe from what I can see, if you keep to the geo briefings.
I want detailed reports of Sicily please. We are there in November and I want to know where the bright lights are and when to see them. 😀
Says it all really.
OldOzzie how much of a sick degenerate would you have to be to vote for any dem you mentioned. Apart from Trump and DeSantis the Republicans have no one that instills confidence to be President. Others time will come. I’m afraid it may take The Second American Revolution to occur to beat the cheating.
Aboriginals in Australia – $33 Billion is NOT Enough – We should not have to pull the Finger out and fix our own instigated problems!
Leaving aside that vast amounts of that $33 billion will be hoovered up by Government Maaaates, Aborigines are an R-Selected people.
They’ll take what’s on offer while it’s there and not worry about tomorrow.
No amount of money can change 80 generations of Human Adaption.
So, it’s always time to recognise that everything apart from heavily policed Alcohol Bans is a waste of time and devise a reality based Policy.
Which recognises that Aboriginal people aren’t White people with a poor attitude.
rosie says:
January 26, 2023 at 5:07 pm
Docking next to La Superba which sustained 50 million Euros of damage in a fire a couple of weeks ago, and looks like it.
Rosie,
Badly Seasick wife and I went on 1st ever Cruise (don’t count Yacht rented by son for a week) in Jun 2019 out of Athens, after visiting London, Paris & Saralat France – on Azamara Pursuit 640 Passenger Cruise – regarded as small crusie ship and dwarfed by the big ones – (No Casino) all included. which we got late booking at half price, as basically overnight sailing then day in port – Relief Band Watch worked again and kept sea sickness at bay
We stopped in Montenegro on our cruise
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Sep 29 Fri 7 Monemvasia – greece 8:00AM 6:00PM
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Midnight Oil and co lefties are always banging on about paying the rent. Well i suggest we push da bruvvas to pay rent on land used for 40,000 years. Gaia and all that.
not so much lost as it is rearranged
do I remember rightly, that you say SiL has B.Sc degree?
bluddee hell … what did she do, podiatry?
Against my better instincts, Mrs P dragged me along to see the movie “Tár” today.
Nearly three hours of pretentious, pedestrian, tedious, faux intellectual tripe.
rickw, our celebration today was old Australia at its finest.
Chops and snags on the BBQ, then cricket on the road with everyone from the oldest granny (oops, that would be me,) to the crazy four-legged fielder, to the tiny five yo aboriginal girl who had never played before. (Her foster mother made an aboriginal flag to fly beside our Aussie flag; a beautiful sight.)
Later, half a dozen boys on bikes tried to maim themselves in order to impress the few chickies who chatted, unimpressed, with each other. Just the way I remember it decades ago, without an I Pod or phone in sight, other than for taking photos.
Truly, life is good.
Sufficient numbers to have their own Sd.Kfz designation.
Mainly used by anti-partisan units IIRC.
Yes, Matrix. It “rearranges” into other forms. Like your hot cuppa goes cold by transferring heat to the benchtop.
Never going to bet it back in the cup! Ask any young mum.
Corrupted DemoRats strike again – Hammer NOT Involved
Revealed: Paul Pelosi Dumped 30,000 Shares of Google Stock One Month Before DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit Filed This Week
Nancy Pelosi Stock Trader has the information.
FOX Business reported:
Paul Pelosi, the multimillionaire husband of former House Speaker and current Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sold 30,000 shares of Google stock a month prior to the Dept. of Justice’s announcement of an antitrust lawsuit against the tech giant, according to a financial disclosure filed with the House of Representatives.
Pelosi reported the sale of Google stock in three different transactions between Dec. 20 and Dec. 28, 2022, each of which involved the sale of 10,000 shares of stock in Google’s parent corporation Alphabet Inc. The Periodic Transaction Report filed with the House notes that each transaction involved an amount between $500,001 and $1,000,000 and yielded capital gains of more than $200 — although it’s unclear how large the profit was. Taken together, the trades involved 30,000 shares and between $1.5 million and $3 million of assets.
The DOJ and eight states announced a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday, alleging that the company engaged in anticompetitive behavior and exercised a monopoly over internet search traffic.
“Google’s anticompetitive behavior has raised barriers to entry to artificially high levels, forced key competitors to abandon the market for ad tech tools, dissuaded potential competitors from joining the market, and left Google’s few remaining competitors marginalized and unfairly disadvantaged,” the DOJ and the states allege.
Spot on, Rita Panahi.
Also Matrix, I mentioned yesterday that she believes despite her training. This is a serious problem across the board, especially when appealing to authority. An authority that has been eaten away by feelz.
bet = get
A demonstration of digital chaos.
Tech Firms Slash Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Dept’s To The Bones, Surprising No One
Big Tech layoffs are hitting the short-lived, so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” industry hard in 2023, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
Twitter’s DEI team is down from 30 to just two people, one former employee told Bloomberg. Another DEI employee at a rideshare company was let go and has been unable to find new employment, claiming the industry is stalled as technology companies deal with ongoing financial issues and giant cuts to their workforces.
Listings for DEI jobs dropped some 19% in 2022, a larger hit than than other legal and human resource jobs, Bloomberg noted. While other jobs in Big Tech firms, like software engineering and data science, saw larger declines, DEI is a close third.
Amazon, Meta, Twitter, and Redfin all let go of DEI professionals in the last few weeks, Bloomberg noted.
Is it just me, or is anyone else totally unsurprised by this trend? It’s not just that companies way over-spent on DEI employees and training products — it’s that most DEI interventions don’t work.
A majority of DEI training companies and internal corporate teams use the massively flawed Implicit Association Test (IAT) as a metric to rate how racist employees are, and this is a huge issue. “[The IAT] can predict things in the aggregate, but it cannot predict behavior at the level of an individual,” a Harvard University postdoctoral fellow and director of research at Project Implicit told Vox way back in 2017, summing up the major flaws with this archaic, lazy concept.
I’ve worked with a few diversity and inclusion (or “unconscious bias”) companies, and found them to be one of the most racist, antagonistic, borderline-scam concepts I’ve ever witnessed.
As the lead writer and researcher, I oversaw the development of a laughably racist training video that involved tricking members of the public into perceived racist behaviors.
Many years later, I was offered a significant position at a DEI company. I would have been the only immigrant on the team at the time, and had long conversations with the CEO about how to mitigate the mistakes of its competitors. My offer was rescinded after the CEO read my Twitter. He wanted people of different colors, not of different mindsets and beliefs.
Oh no!
I hope she doesnt live in fear for the rest of her short, harried life, with staff doing unspeakable acts with her McDonalds orders and wearing a full postbox robe/mask just so she can move around in public unmolested.
Before being caught and set loose in a paddock full of starving/ sexually frustrated boars.
Thats would be so 🙁
Ardern may need ongoing security as true extent of threats is revealed
“The vitriol is, quite frankly, off the charts,” said Paul Buchanan, a former intelligence and defence policy analyst who was a consultant to US security agencies. “The threats to her will not go away simply because she steps down. Some of these people are capable of taking violent action against her.”
Buchanan believes New Zealand’s Diplomatic Protection Service, a specialised arm of the police responsible for security, will assess the risk to Ardern and her family and provide 24-hour security for the foreseeable future.
….
“I draw the conclusion that misogyny was a key part of it,” said Chris Wilson, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Auckland. Ardern attracted backlash for being a left-wing woman in power who “symbolically or otherwise was taking a number of steps to undermine structures of patriarchy, racial hierarchies and structures within society,” he said.
So nothing to do with the harshest lockdows (outside Sicktoria) in the Western world then?
Ok simp
A can of Two-tone paint and a left-handed screwdriver please.
Correct.
Within five minutes of the announcement of a new date, the usual suspects will be out in force – “needs to be more inclusive”, “must recognise 500,000 years of rich history”, “no point just re-badging our colonial shame with a mere date change”, yada, yada.
“The notion that changing the date will cease the attacks on Australia Day is at best naive.
The assault against our national day has little to do with the date and everything to do with delegitimising modern Australia.”
Correct. I wrote a comment here two or three days ago saying exactly this. Perhaps Rita reads the Cat. Regardless, it doesn’t matter if they change the date to 1 March, 20 April, 15 July, 1 September or 13 November, the attacks won’t cease because it’s all about delegitimising Australia since European settlement and it’s also about something worse, about making non-indigenous Australians serfs in our country. The “indigenous property tax” is coming, get ready for it. I ask, when will we, ordinary Australians, snap and say enough?
Must be the misogyny, not because she had an intelligence chief who wanted political dissenters tracked as extremists in a western democracy.
Pay the rent
The voice
Hello race based aristocracy.
Time to leave at that point.
“Against my better instincts, Mrs P dragged me along to see the movie “Tár” today.
Nearly three hours of pretentious, pedestrian, tedious, faux intellectual tripe.”
Thanks for the tip.
In honour of our new Australian of the Year.
The “indigenous property tax” is coming, get ready for it. I ask, when will we, ordinary Australians, snap and say enough?
yes another assault on property rights- this has been boiling frog stuff for decades but the last 3 years shows they are emboldened. I know the establishment from anal to dick head dan want to ban ICE cars. They’re just not game to try it yet. It shocks me when I drive past the Altona refinery now- seeing its demolition in progress. Yet another assault on our industrial base.
““Against my better instincts, Mrs P dragged me along to see the movie “Tár” today.
Nearly three hours of pretentious, pedestrian, tedious, faux intellectual tripe.”
Thanks for the tip.”
The very fact that Blanchette is in it is enough to turn me off paying twenty dollars to see it.
When the next Elbow-Greens govt., formed with a slim majority, tries to impose an indigenous property tax after Australians have suffered the worst decline in wealth & living standards in living memory, I suspect. So, some time in 2025. Elbow legislating the Voice after a referendum defeat will set the stage.
How long before the AOTY ends up in the sights of the trans lobby? Her message being that you should be comfortable in your own body can only downgrade all those gender dysphoria types. What a mess for the AOTY committee. Who to defend, their girl or their constituents?
Death threat claims should be added to ‘rules for radicals’. The ANUs ‘scientists’ were claiming that a few years ago.
I snuck up on engineering the long way over decades of night school
and because it was very ‘applied’, I missed a lot of the rote stuff that yr book learnin’ types had to chew through
about 10yr ago I was doing some post-grad stuff and it was all thermodynamics and so, one day the room was full of book-type enginerds … and me
and the whole lot of us are going entropy …WTF?
the lecturer looked at us and said, don’t worry, I know PhDs that still don’t get it either.
it seems to me that sometimes the book-learnin’ types are good at passing exams
but not so good at joining-the-dots
Cassie:
Whatever it takes to terrorise the population.
I made the comment a few weeks ago that the main reason the Illegal Immigrants were allowed to enter the country was to import a bunch a people who would use violence against the civil population who the elites hate and want to silence.
It’s leaving us very little except civil violence to get our voices heard.
The last two years have shown us the government and it’s administrative arm have no time for us or our concerns.
Oh, yes….dead giveaway that.
Haven’t been to the cinema since 2019 (The Green Book, which wasn’t bad).
Tossing up on whether The Banshees of Inisherin might be worth a look.
Perhaps a GIF for some Cat Bloggers – aww, poor thing you
Dover
It might pay to reflect on how good they would have been if, at the same time, Russia was forced to manufacture the 152,000 2 1/2 ton trucks and the 2000 locomotives, rolling stock and track that the US sent them. (just for starters)
They produced tanks in vast numbers post WW2 but not necessarily the best.
Reading a book – “A Man Called Intrepid” and it goes into some detail about JE Hoover and his part played in the war years alongside British Intelligence oerating in the as then “neutral ” USA.
Apparently Hoover was a ruthless fanatic for promoting the image of the FBI, in all spheres particularly in the press and within the USG. Many of the FBI’s “Big Catches” were actually a result of intel passed on from British Secret Service who were given approval by FDR to operate in the US in a significant way. A quid pro quo kind of. And to this day the ultra positive FBI public image is a major US institutional objective.
It got me thinking; I have an online entertainment feed and there seems to be so many FBI related shows. Given what we have discovered these last few years about the sinister FBI, it’s no doubt the viewing public have been and are continually being brainwashed by these TV G-men and their ethical purity. Quite effective propaganda really.
https://tvshowpilot.com/fun-posts/best-fbi-tv-shows/
Northern Territory doctor speaks out on the horrific alcohol-fuelled abuse and neglect frontline workers face at work
A doctor has opened up on what it is really like to work on the frontline in the Northern Territory, claiming the situation in Alice Springs is at its worst.
has revealed the horror confronting demoralised staff at the Alice Springs Hospital as they try to deal with extreme alcohol-fuelled violence and parental neglect.
The doctor – who spoke on the condition of anonymity – told skynews.com.au the hospital had treated patients including a baby who had been raped and a woman whose husband had tried to cut her head off.
“In the time I’ve been working here I’ve never seen the violence as bad as it is,” he said.
“It’s extreme violence. We had a patient in here the other night who tried to decapitate his wife and he cut his own throat.
“We had both of them in. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
He said medical and nursing staff were being assaulted regularly and the violence was making it impossible for the hospital to recruit people to fill vacant positions.
“Multiple staff, medical and nursing have been assaulted,” he said.
“One of our senior doctors the other night, he was at work staying back to help out.
“He got a call from his wife to say six kids were at his house – while the wife and the three kids were there – for a home invasion and stole his alcohol.
“We’ve had a junior doctor who was accosted as she walked into her accommodation.
“Because it’s off-site accommodation not at the hospital, the hospital won’t provide any security.
“And it was only her screams that alerted her husband to come and save her from being raped.”
The doctor said the hospital had been forced to remove all the hand sanitiser from the emergency department and most of the wards because patients were stealing it and drinking it.
“So we don’t have any sanitiser.
“Today after many days we’ve been issued personal ones but we’ve been ordered not to take them out of the hospital because we’ll be assaulted for them because of the alcohol content,” he said.
“The staff morale is so low, there’s meant to be 40 graduate nurses just finished their qualifications starting here shortly, that number is now reduced down to 14 because the word has got out that it’s such a violent place, nurses are avoiding coming here.”
The doctor said hospital staff had approached the NT government offering to establish a safe place for children whose lives were being put at risk by the actions of drunk parents.
But he said every approach “has been met with deafening silence”.
“We want to help the kids,” he said. “We want to keep the kids safe.
“We see the end result of people damaged by the kids or the kids damaging themselves and it’s absolutely heartbreaking. You talk to the kids about ‘are you hungry’ and they say ‘yep’, ‘are you scared?’, ‘yep’.”
The doctor said the hospital staff had seen shocking incidents involving children in the past few weeks.
“Drunken parents where one kid who was eight years old had to flag down an ambulance passing by because his mum was in no fit state to care for the baby, so he grabbed the baby, waved down an ambulance and the ambulance bought the mum, eight-year-old and baby into the hospital,” he said.
“We spent hours trying to get Territory Families and when they came they wanted to send them home.”
“We’ve had a small baby raped. We’ve had just in the last very short time a lady who was so drunk she fell out of her cab on to her seven-year-old son’s leg and then started abusing the kid.
“And the smaller child who was with them – there were two kids – they were so scared. She was screaming at them and drunk – these are all drunk parents – the kids were so scared when they came into us they didn’t want to go home with mum.”
The doctor said the situation was “very real” and “very sad”, but that it could also be improved.
He said he couldn’t understand why Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hadn’t taken the time to speak with frontline workers when he visited Alice Springs on Tuesday and announced new alcohol restrictions and an extension of funding for service provision.
“So all the money going to another level of bureaucracy – what’s it called now, a controller – and they’ve got a week to write a recommendation,” he said.
“If they talked to the locals, if Albanese spoke to the locals, if we could bypass the filter of protection, the wall of protection from the NT ministers, and let Albo or the federal government understand how dangerous it is, how demoralised the medical and nursing staff are, how optimistic we could be if we were allowed to have a voice.
“We don’t even have a voice and we’re the ones that see it. It’s heartbreaking.
“We’re all here because we want to be here. This isn’t a rotation in a city like most doctors do, we’re here because we love it and we want to learn more about the Indigenous Australians, we’re here because we care, we want to make a difference and we just feel at the moment that not only are we stopped, but it is just so dangerous to be here.
“We are seeing the reality and I’m sure the local community residents see a reality, and yet we’re all very aware of the people who come up here, with probably good intentions, and misguided beliefs, and I think the voices that the people down in Melbourne and Sydney hear are not representative of reality.”
Chief Minister Natasha Fyles said she “acknowledge the seriousness of the situation and the government had taken “immediate action”.
“The safety of NT Health staff is of the highest priority and all safety and security incidents affecting staff and facilities are recorded and appropriate actions taken,”Ms Fyles said.
“We have listened to these concerns raised by staff through the ANMF and ASMOF – their safety is a top priority.
“ASH has increased security personnel and patrols and installed additional floodlighting and CCTV.
“In addition NT Police will have increased presence on the campus.”
Ms Fyles said the behaviour was not acceptable and it was “a product of decades of ill-fitting policy”.
“This is why we have established the Central Australian Regional Controller and why we are collaborating with the federal government to make sure Central Australia gets the investment needed to curb these social and generational issues,” she said.
NT News complete article – no comments
Indolent:
I work on the basis that if it’s extreme today, it will be Law tomorrow.
Had one of those fine conversations that you can have on Australia Day.
Big thunderstorm on the BoM radar so moved car under cover. Going back to the front gate and here’re two of the young magpies across the road playing with something. So I go see what it is.
Neighbour across road, watching from their verandah, says it’s a t-bone steak bone. No surprise a couple of magpie kiddies would be having a fine time with such a prize!
So I go over and say happy Australia Day and all. He introduces me to his sister who is visiting from Essex. Nice conversation about such things ensues until a small squawk comes from the poinsettia at my elbow. A cockie looking hopeful half a metre away. Then I saw the other dozen arrayed behind me on the grass like a phalanx. So they got some bits of bread. Altogether I think she had a nice experience of eccentric Aussies on our national day, not all of which were with feathers.
The very fact that Blanchette is in it is enough for David Stratton to give it 4.5 stars.
Calli:
Scales belong on fish, or in a singing lesson.
I know of no other use for the word.
I nearly walked out
but beautifully shot and sometimes wryly funny
not so much black, as bleak
buy whisky with yr real money
wait for Bigpond to show it
… use yr ‘points’
I’ll take that under advisement, Matrix.
Tossing up on whether The Banshees of Inisherin might be worth a look.
Roger, it’s had a bad review – from memory the question asked was “when would the black comedy begin?”
One movie I think I would like to see is the one about the finding of Richard III’s skeleton.
Dot:
The coming Purge will have to be changed in some minor way.
Instead of purging three stages down the Organisational Chart, it will need to be each individual section of the CIA/FBI/HS gets the trifecta. And add anyone who has worked there for over twenty years.
Some may think the latter a bit in extremis, but consider the idea of not losing decades of experience – consider it within the parameters of experience at what?
Sigh.
Dot:
And for those of you who have forgotten the arrogant demand of the Lockdown Amnesty, I suggest you read the thing again.
These people are not joking even if it is something we laugh at. They’re dead serious.
Babylon? I saw it. You don’t have to. Levels of revoltingness and pointlessness that have as far as I can tell nothing except eye candy and good craft to offset. A moral vacuum at first glance, until you realise that its positive values are that the non-evil are all minorities or queer, and the evil are all unjustly powerful, white and deformed.
Margot Robbie plays a waitress-to-actress version of her Suicide Squad character. Brings innocent others to ruin. The end.
Is that the one made into a movie starring Michael York & David Niven?
Five hours long, IIRC.
Let’s assume Putin takes all or most of Ukraine.
Why do you think he will want to rebuild it?
ASIC’s Arrogance Is Out Of Control!
In the Interests of the People
Feelthebern:
Nooo!
Seaweed is for sea creatures!
(Just cranking up the Green Slogan Machine.)
Yes. But the book naturally covers a lot more detail. In conjunction with ” A Bodyguard of Lies”, you get a real feel for both naivety of the US and ruthlessness of the Brits in that period. And after that came Philby….
Look, this is big if true.
Shogyu is a Druid, basically. It is part of his Rodina ideology.
This stupid war is being carried on by a Russian loon who thinks he is in Anglesea.
It started because Putin believes in Russian witchcraft.
A witch told him his future that he would meet his end from the “Green Snot”.
So we know why he was a lunatic regarding COVID.
Keep in mind Zelensky was called a snot in his election as he was considered weak and small of stature, and his name sounds like zeleneiy (?) which is Russian for green.
Roger,
the last movie I paid to see was “Ladies in Black”. A very enjoyable Aussie movie that carried no woke yoke.
He says it’s part of Russia.
Why wouldn’t he at a minimum rebuild the Donbas, Crimea etc?
Yes, I’d like to see that BBS, but it would entail a trip to the great metropolis.
Was driving back from a countryside jaunt this afternoon.
Sign on side of road advertises HORSE POO $2.
Didn’t realise Albo had delivered the Voice details so quickly.
“The Pale Blue Eye” isn’t a bad movie. Twists and turns. And Christian Bale is a good actor.
Thanks Makka – I’ll add the book to my wish list.
Meantime I’ll watch the movie again.
A moral vacuum at first glance, until you realise that its positive values are that the non-evil are all minorities or queer, and the evil are all unjustly powerful, white and deformed.
Babylon was partially based on Hollywood Babylon, a semi-fictional expose of Hollywood sleaze during the silents and early talkies and suckies.
Most of the depraved were white so it’s to be expected. But trust Hollywood to fu.k up it’s own sleazy history by replacing it with an even sleazier, woke history.
“I draw the conclusion that misogyny was a key part of it,” said Chris Wilson, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Auckland. Ardern attracted backlash for being a left-wing woman in power who “symbolically or otherwise was taking a number of steps to undermine structures of patriarchy, racial hierarchies and structures within society,” he said.
Misogyny, Bullshit. She’s hated because she’s a communist who did her best to wreck New Zealand and has damn near succeeded. Never seen anyone as much in need of a one way helicopter ride.
Tossing up on whether The Banshees of Inisherin might be worth a look.
I sat thru it all .. absolute, pointless, rubbish ..! .. by all means give it a try but if you ain’t into it by the 10 minute mark .. QUIT! .. it doesn’t improve ……!
BUT it is up for Oscar(s) so maybe it’s me that can’t see the wood for the trees …..!
Look, this is big if true.
Shogyu is a Druid, basically. It is part of his Rodina ideology.
This stupid war is being carried on by a Russian loon who thinks he is in Anglesea.
It started because Putin believes in Russian witchcraft.
A witch told him his future that he would meet his end from the “Green Snot”.
Dot, are you going to post an English translation of that?
beautiful film
301 different digiknees tribes and they never muched agreed , just watched the invasion day rally and they asking for treaty before the voice.
Oh dear, 60,000 years things dont change.
Top Ender,
regarding the article you’ve posted, I sincerely believe the “white” Abos that are agitating for the Voice don’t give a rat’s arse for the indigenes out back in the “communities”. Their only need for the outback tribes is advertising. If the Voice were to pass, those in need would receive less and less as time and the grasping hold of the city Abos is consolidated.
The likes of Burney, Langton, Calma, Dodson, Pearson and Thorpe would be happy if the communities were fenced and put on display like the Astronauts in Planet of the Apes.
I believe the aforementioned should be bussed into a few of the communities and left there for a few weeks to explain to the locals exactly what will be achieved by the passing of the Voice. Without security of course. And billeted with local families.
I don’t think the Ukes are going to face American weapons on the battlefield. Trucks, maybe, but I bet Putin is buying small quantities of any advanced gear that was left behind in Afghanistan and handing it over to his weaponeers.
Yep, probably misogyny, nothing to do with Jax being an evil, totalitarian dictator…. it’s not that
And by the 18th century, hadn’t worked out how to boil water or make a wheel. Yet our wonderful education curriculum assures us our kids have much to learn from them. Like “Law and Order in Alice.”
callisays:
January 26, 2023 at 5:09 pm
Louis, it was in relation to the production and distribution of energy and entropy (2nd Law). The Beloved’s sister was surprised that energy is lost on the way through the system and that no system can run at 100% efficiency from source to end point. She thinks there’s a way around this and that “science” will discover it.
Ah, the eternal quest for a perpetual motion machine from those who do not even understand the concept of friction, nor that the same process that produces heat from a bar radiator also causes heat loss along an electrical transmission line.
Cohenite,
I have a copy of Hollywood Babylon. Had it since the early eighties. Some of the photos of death scenes are rather explicit. A good read though.
Thanks for the move tips, Cats.
Looks like Banshees is scratched.
I think it is US psyop but they let their imagination run wild.
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/ugzg3f/anon_has_a_magical_explanation_for_the/
Makka,
they couldn’t even gut an animal. That is why they threw the whole thing onto the fire. When it was burnt enough, they could rip the hide open to reach the meat.
Yep. Misogyny.
Which is why Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark both, for years afterward needed armed protection & when in proximity of farmers their safety could not be guaranteed.
Ed Case says:
January 26, 2023 at 5:07 pm
In theory, it is true, but you have to contribute a lot in taxes over 35 years* to be able to transfer your aus pension to your preferred location. And there are only a few, maybe a dozen reciprocal arrangements with other countries.
*years one has to be a citizen and reside in Australia, could be a bit less or more? Have Greek friends, who had to stay here longer or come back every 6 month.
Hi Cassie, if you are there, here’s a good meme to stick on your work computer/desk. 😉
Northern Territory doctor speaks out on the horrific alcohol-fuelled abuse and neglect frontline workers face at work
It may not be the “humane” option but if things are this bad, and they must be for the doc to say it, what they need is an, indefinite, TOTAL WALKOUT by staff .. may not be in the patients best interests but it seems it will be the only way to get gummint intervention .. as long as you go to work and rely on “complaints” those over-paid gummint bludgers are gonna mouth their sympathetic platitudes whilst doing nuttin’ and, probably, sniggering about whingers at their regular coffee/bickies get-togethers formerly known as policy meetings ……
These gummint bludgers are relying on theon-the-job workforce to put the patients 1st and believe they are being taken seriously! .. THEY AREN’T!
shatterzzz is spot on:
That is the only thing that will work.
Apparently the British health regulator is no longer recommending healthy under 50s get vaccinated or boosted.
Hello race based aristocracy.
I’ve got no problems with a Race Based aristocracy, provided the Aristocrats can prove no non aboriginal ancestors in the last 7 generations.
But, y’know, I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen if the Constitutional change is rammed through, do you?
In theory, it is true, but you have to contribute a lot in taxes over 35 years*
Not so much pay tax but resident here 35 years .. I know cos I’m not an Oz citizen but have lived here for 56 years .. few folk on this “houso” estate who’ve NEVER worked but transferred from the ‘rorters’ to the OAP thru residency … You can’t take the ‘rorters’ O/S permanently/extended holidays anymore but you can the OAP ..
Makka a Man called Intrepid is quite interesting, I have it on my shelf. Haven’t seen the movie.
(Slaps forehead)
Of course the UK Health Security Agency is riddled with anti-vaxxers!
There is no reason not to be double vaxxed and quadruple boosted. It should be part and parcel of participating in society, that is having a job or receiving benefits!
Babylon was partially based on Hollywood Babylon, a semi-fictional expose of Hollywood sleaze during the silents and early talkies and suckies.
Semi fictional, Mr Sulu?
Are you rewriting history
or talking about a book you’ve never read?
Russians are already rebuilding Mariupol.
Look outside Palermo for the tarantula breeding ground that made Robert Guiscard abandon his siege of the joint in 1064.
Okay dude front up to Arnhem Land and volunteer to be the literal chattel pet/beast of burden for the tribal elders.
Good luck.
Dover
How successful do you think has been the Russian incursion into Ukraine. Over the entire year that it’s been going.
truly the dumbest foreign minister ever
Feelthebern:
Windows!! is a travesty and a very good example of how developers ignore their customers by continually changing the setup of the OS.
Every time they bring out a new version, they change links according to some arbitrary lunch room discussion. Just when I was getting used to the setup, I have to get used to an utterly new way of doing stuff.
It’s a bit like getting into a new car after being used to the old one. But what really pisses me off about the changes is the smug and smarmy verbiage that comes along with it.
“Welcome New Car Owner! For your convenience, we have relocated the steering wheel (Now called a joystick) to the middle backseat. The front seats have been relocated to the roof, next to the engine, to give you that sports car ‘wind in your hair’ feeling.
The foot controls – thrust, retro thrust, and video controls are now in an easily accessible compartment formerly known as the ‘boot’. They are easily accessible via an entryway in the floor – Indian models only – and the fuel tank is rated at 1.5 liters total to help you feel prices for fuel have not risen all that much. The rear wheels have now been offset to 90 degrees off travel to enable easier parking if you finally get permission to travel beyond your planet saving 5 Km from home*.
*Currently 15km, but we are in the business of looking to the future.
If there is any justice at all, Bill Gates will die, screaming in agony, as he is trapped in a burning lift with the directions written in Braille, and needing a 16 digit password** to let people out.
** Minimum 4 Uppercase, 4 Symbol, and 4 Wingding characters.
Just put A Man Called Intrepid on.
I can sum it up in one word – intolerance.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – What do Wokeness and Islam have in common?
Subclinical myocarditis may impact longevity (Aseem Malhotra & Bret Weinstein)
Need to work on the messaging, grandma.
they couldn’t even gut an animal. That is why they threw the whole thing onto the fire.
And that was how they made large cloaks of possum skins, right?
That would be good except the powers have decide everyone should now get annual clotshots.
FDA proposes plan to roll out annual COVID booster shots (24 Jan)
Which means no one will have a chance to rebuild their immune system after the last one.
Thancho what did you expect going to see the most wooden actress of our time. She plays each character exactly the same in every movie I’ve seen her in. Never again.
Regarding ‘Invasion Day”.
During the Mabo hearings, didn’t the lawyers for the Aboriginal participants declare and agree (more than once) that Australia was ‘settled’ rather than ‘invaded’ as invasion would automatically extinguish any subsequent land rights claim?
Or is that recollection just my own dreamtime story?
“Against my better instincts, Mrs P dragged me along to see the movie “Tár” today.
Nearly three hours of pretentious, pedestrian, tedious, faux intellectual tripe.”
Did Mrs P enjoy it though?
old Ozzie:
Thanks for that information, OldOzzie, but I still fit into my 1st and 4th wedding dresses.
On the other hand, I quite liked the movie ‘The Menu’.
The basic story is apparently pretentious rubbish, taking the piss out of the foodie/ star chef restaurant cult, and it is pretty bloody irritating for a large part of the movie. However it is really well done and has lots of little gems for the viewer to realise it is also very, very clever and human. I found the resolution of the story very satisfying.
But I wished after seeing the ‘trailer’, that I had seen the Richard III skeleton in the car park.
GreyRangasays:
January 26, 2023 at 7:08 pm
I’m really enjoying it. Much of the material for the book wasn’t released until the 70’s so at the time of it’s writing it was in parts explosive stuff. It actually sets up the post- war Cold War years of espionage and how the various services got into their organisations as we now know them.
lotocotisays:
January 26, 2023 at 5:32 pm
I do not recall reading about T-34s or other Soviet tanks being used by German units, nor Soviet 122mm and 152mm field and medium artillery. Have I missed something?
Sufficient numbers to have their own Sd.Kfz designation.
Mainly used by anti-partisan units IIRC.
Unless they were also used with the original guns, or a German equivalent gun (88mm?), the anti-partisan use suggests a lack of confidence in them as front-line tanks.
Bus drivers in Western Australia are facing abuse, threats, or assaults on a near daily basis, according to their union, which is threatening a campaign of industrial action if safety on buses is not improved.
Safety on buses will be seen to be improved by installation of more barriers, cameras and alarms to appear to protect the driver from the miscreants.
This will serve to make buses and bus travel more expensive and less accessible to everyone.
The root cause of the problem, the miscreants, will continue to behave in a foul and aggressive manner, and not be held accountable.
The response the root cause of the problem will be addressed by “social workers” and do-gooders. This will cost the taxpayer’s grandchildren huge amounts of money and achieve exactly nothing.
The caravan will move on.
I really enjoyed typing “do-gooders”. A modest contribution towards extending its stay in our rapidly declining lexicon.
A long and pretty unattractive walk from the port to my apartment, a little backtracking for abruptly ending footpaths and having to walk on the edge of busy roads.
Even getting off the ferry was a little disconcerting, there is a narrow yellow painted line for pedestrians in the area where the lorries are parked four abreast and some lorries had intruded into the walkway. I baulked first attempt then a crew member pointed me out so I girded my loins, took my backpack off and carried it in my free hand and squeezed past them, then exchanged shrugs with another passenger as we guessed our way out of the port.
Home for the week is another apartment on the third floor of a former palazzo (no lift), very attractive and spacious with a hump in the hall for the plumbing to pass under. Narrow streets but much quieter and brighter than Naples, other than the sounds of jackhammers, no zooming honking motor cycles. Lots of urban renewal happening, it is quite beautiful here.
Indolent says:
January 26, 2023 at 7:14 pm
Another death wisher.
The Turtlehead is obviously backing Hallward in some insane way by having a death wish on Gates.
Gates owns about 1.4% of Microsoft stock and is only a adviser now.
This is very disturbing thing to say for someone claiming to have been active in the “caring” profession. It’s actually very disturbing for someone who isn’t in the caring profession. It’s disturbing: period!
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
January 26, 2023 at 4:17 pm
I’d love to know if the export F-35’s have stealth/radar/ etc as good as the US ones.
By the time the Israelis are finished with them they will be better that US ones! ?
It’s been said that if you want to battle validate a weapon system, give it to the Israelis. If it isn’t good enough, it soon will be.
It also helps if your operators are well-trained and you face an existential threat 24/7. I read in an air magazine once that their air force conducted air combat exercises with the US Navy and Air Force. I think the kill ratio was 200 to 1 against the Navy and 50 to 1 against the US Air Force (whether that is true, who knows?). Both commented on how aggressive the Israeli pilots were. I’d be pretty aggressive too if I knew I had millions of pathologically motivated a’holes wanting to kill my loved ones, living on my doorstep. Wheels up, weapons red.
Managed decline.
Semi fictional, Mr Sulu?
I love it when you call me that crotchless. I’ve always wanted to be a gay alien.
Hollywood Babylon stretches the truth. In fact Anger, the author makes shit up. For instance Clara Bow never rooted the entire USC football team, including a young John Wayne, just Wayne.
I have a first edition. Call me Mr Sulu again please.
This is America.
132andBush
They produced tanks in vast numbers post WW2 but not necessarily the best.
The model with the autoloader that would occasionally tear an arm off one of the turret crew probably didn’t help morale much.
“Hollywood Babylon stretches the truth. In fact Anger, the author makes shit up.”
You mean the demise of Lupe Vélez may not have been as advertised.
Watch out, Rosie, for Carthaginian ghosts.
Lots of history in Palermo!
Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a Pfizer executive, Jordon Trishton Walker, who claims that his company is exploring a way to “mutate” COVID via “Directed Evolution” to preemptively develop future vaccines.
Walker says that Directed Evolution is different than Gain-of-Function, which is defined as “a mutation that confers new or enhanced activity on a protein.” In other words, it means that a virus such as COVID can become more potent depending on the mutation / scientific experiment performed on it.
Well.
It would appear that Australian chick cricketperson Ash Gardiner was insufficiently moved by the whole Australia Day terribleness to not represent her country, and collect her match fee by playing the Pakichicks this evening.
The horrors the Alice Springs medical staff report they are seeing in the Alice Springs hospital (posted by TopEnder) is reminiscent of the terrible attacks which led to the John Howard government Intervention. Yet, the media and polls are behaving as if the Alice Springs incidents are a new level of violence. They aren’t.
What angers me almost beyond what I can bear is that all of the political class of Aborigines know the truth. They know of the rape of babies – hell, I can recall a particular case all those years ago when a two year old was raped by a youth and then drowned in a dam. Women are left with permanent brain damage from the beatings they suffer, often with iron bars.
I wish city folk could view the “infommercials” on our TV channel (from Darwin) designed for Aboriginal communities. Some explain to children how washing their face will save their eyes from disease; some tell the adults they must put out an ice cream plastic container with water to keep their dogs alive; others plead with occupants of public housing to not leave taps running & to tell the Housing Authority when utilities (like showers) break down; and still others explain that if you have “spots down there” (sexual diseases) then you should see a doctor and so it goes on.
Whenever we have city visitors we make sure they see the commercials. They are speechless. This is part of the problem. There is such a disconnect between city and remote communities. It is only when “grey nomads” find that Aboriginal kids are peeing in their water tanks of their vans, or putting nails in their tyres….that they understand just a little of the disfunction of Aboriginal life in these hell holes.
As an aside : our TV comes via satellite, so we receive, among others, Imparja channel from NT.
Nice piece on the problems associated with the vaccine.
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-epidemic-of-diedsuddenly
Social workers
Social licence
Social good
Social science
Social studies.
Putting social in front of a word reverses its meaning.
Bluey:
Not sure about new build.
I understand the jigs for building the Abrams were destroyed as they only want to refurbish the hulls and turrets.
However there is (apparently) a new MBT for the US called the AbramsX.
The US is rediscovering a problem Germany discovered with it’s heavy tanks late in the last war – recovery becomes impossible with 70 – 80 ton vehicles, especially if there’s suspension damage.
And I’d like to see a crew of 3 repair a track on something this size without external support.
My personal favourites are the ‘If you got that scabies, go to the clinic’ and – remarkably – ‘Don’t sleep on the railway tracks’ ads.
To emphasise – they have to make and broadcast ads for the northern indig in relation to this stuff.
It’s almost an outright refusal to move into the twentieth century, let alone this one.
So basically ‘f*ck you and help us’? I say we give these people everything they want and more. Their pitch is so compelling.
Makkasays:
January 26, 2023 at 5:18 pm
“They didn’t want to give us tanks, now they’re giving us tanks. Apart from nuclear weapons, there is nothing left that we will not get” – Ukraine’s Defense Minister
Says it all really.
If things keep going, they may get nukes. Just not in the way they expect.
Home for the week is another apartment on the third floor of a former palazzo (no lift), very attractive and spacious with a hump in the hall for the plumbing to pass under. Narrow streets but much quieter and brighter than Naples, other than the sounds of jackhammers, no zooming honking motor cycles. Lots of urban renewal happening, it is quite beautiful here.
Rosie, I am very nostalgic reading your marvellous notes about your travels in the south. Years ago I travelled on my own (husband was doing a safari on motorbikes with mates in Oz) to Italy to explore ancient sites he was only marginally interested in. I particularly spent days exploring Herculaneum and Pompei. Bliss. Don’t miss Sorrento and the trip across to Capri. The latter is so incredibly beautiful – or at least it was about 15 years ago! And grab a bus to the base of Vesuvius and walk up to the crater.
See also, “Social Enterprise”.
Is she wearing a black armband Dragger?
“What angers me almost beyond what I can bear is that all of the political class of Aborigines know the truth. They know of the rape of babies – hell, I can recall a particular case all those years ago when a two year old was raped by a youth and then drowned in a dam. Women are left with permanent brain damage from the beatings they suffer, often with iron bars.”
Vicki, the Aboriginal political class don’t give a rat’s arse that indigenous babies and toddlers are raped and roaming the streets, indigenous women bashed, assaulted and raped and on and on the depravity goes. What the Aboriginal political class do care about is ideology and feathering their nests, like all progressives, it begins and ends with ideology and dosh, lots of dosh. Just look at the endemic corruption in ATSIC which is why Howard abolished it, an organisation that was useless, inept and bleeding corruption. Anyway, with the goings on in Alice, progressives have been caught out and left flapping in the wind but they’ll never ever admit they were wrong.
this slow drip escalation was always just a charade
Languishing in a Kampuchean Jungle may just distort one’s perception of historical reality.
Just Putin’ it out there, Cats. 🙂
We stayed at the Parco del Principi (Princes’ Park) a hotel designed by Gio Ponte , sitting on the cliff top and recently restored. It’s a wonderful hotel.
OldOzzie:
We appear to be forgetting the surplus of US military who have retired and are available for hire to man the tanks they already know intimately.
I don’t know what the going rate is, but $2k/day will certainly get some volunteers for hire.
The big one;
Social Justice
via SkyNews
See, if you disagree with Albo you’re just immature.
This line is used by all authoritarians, as they believe there is only one single worthy goal and only one optimal path through life, therefore walking that path is inevitable for everybody, therefore anyone who hasn’t walked and doesn’t want to walk that path must must be simply immature and is told to “grow up”. Yielding to their will is treated with the same inevitability as biologically growing up. Diversity is not tolerated, not even contemplated by authoritarians.
Like, It’s only a matter of time before you decide to do what I want, you’re just not quite there yet, Australia. The hide of this guy!
ATSIC Voice, racist institution.
Mark it No and make it clear!
Nooooo-ohhhh-oh-no-no-no-no!
No-ohhhh-ohhhh-no-no-no-no!
(with apologies to J.F.)
The “progressive left” just got finished removing the racist institutions from this country, now they want to create new racist institutions? Surely they are joking.
The Great Reset: TERRIFYING Future Of Social Control!
Speaking of refugees returning we had a carer from the Horn of Africa.She is one of 14 kids all of whom came out to Oz.Dad is only 55.
One of her sisters likes having kids but doesn’t like looking after them.She has 4.Sis and her hubby have gone back to Ethiopia so they can have servants look after the kids.We are just a soft touch.
No, and neither is the indig player Gracie Harris.
I believe Joseph Heller’s Catch 22covers this situation.
It kept them away from where they likely to be confused with enemy tanks.
The ALPBC’s demonisation of “Australia Day” has been unrelenting.
I’m beginning to wonder if the “Nuke from Orbit” option would be sufficient.
All together now, Cats! 🙂
Shut It Down
Fire Them All
Salt the Earth
Nuke From Orbit
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KAMAZ-master formally kills Dakar 2023 plans
With the deadline to apply for the 2023 Dakar Rally only a month away, Russian and Belarusian teams are faced with either condemning the former country’s invasion of Ukraine, in compliance with FIA policy, or sitting out the race entirely. In a very unsurprising move, KAMAZ-master announced Wednesday that they have refused to sign the FIA’s documentation, which entailed prohibiting Russo-Belarusian competitors from displaying their nation’s flags and standing in solidarity with Ukraine.
With the nineteen-time Truck category winners out of the picture, the class will be won by a team besides KAMAZ for the first time since IVECO in 2016.
Parent company KAMAZ is partly owned by the Russian government via state-run defence conglomerate Rostec and builds vehicles for the Russian military like personnel transporters, MRAPs, and armoured cargo trucks. Such vehicles have seen heavy action in Ukraine, with many also being captured by Ukrainian forces for their own use. The manufacturer became subject to sanctions just two days after the invasion began while Daimler suspended its partnership with KAMAZ; by June, the company’s exports had tanked from a lack of foreign investment to the point where domestic sales had to be boosted.
The penalties also impacted KAMAZ-master, who had to sell off some of their race-winning trucks and begin developing parts in their hometown of Naberezhnye Chelny. Outside backers like Red Bull withdrew their aid and was replaced by state-owned oil company PJSC Gazprom; while Gazprom has also been sanctioned by the West, Europe’s heavy dependence on its products have triggered a gas crisis throughout the continent.
While KAMAZ has continued racing in the Russian Rally-Raid Championship, drivers Dmitry Sotnikov and Eduard Nikolaev stated in July the team would continue with their programme as if Dakar was still on their schedule. In early September, team owner Vladimir Chagin said he was negotiating with the Amaury Sport Organisation to let them take part, though Wednesday’s announcement gives the obvious indicator that such talks had fallen through.
“The participation of Russian athletes at the rally Dakar is conditioned by the necessity of signing the Driver Commitment of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), which condemns the Russian special operation in Ukraine,” reads a team statement. “In our opinion, the content of this document is political and also violates the principles of equal conditions for athletes. We consider it impossible for us to sign such documents and participate in competitions under such conditions.
“Our choice is clear – we are always with our homeland, especially when it is in a difficult situation.”
Many Russian entities not involved with Russia’s so-called “special military operation” have declared they would not sign the FIA’s documents and therefore sit out the 2023 Dakar Rally, including Bike rider Anastasiya Nifontova and SSV driver Sergei Kariakin. Conversely, Konstantin Zhiltsov and Denis Krotov have agreed to the terms and the former will compete under an Israeli licence. Such a divide expands beyond rally raid, with Formula 3 racer Alexander Smolyar and F1 test driver Robert Schwartzman respectively continuing their careers using FIA and Israeli flags while Smolyar’s team SMP Racing and World Endurance Championship outfit G-Drive Racing withdrew from their series. Kariakin’s team-mate Nikita Mazepin lost his F1 ride following the invasion, has been sanctioned alongside his Vladimir Putin-friendly oligarch father, and refuses to sign.
Fellow Truck team MAZ-SPORTauto is also expected to skip the Dakar Rally as it is owned by the Belarusian state and had been blocked from travelling to the 2022 edition due to sanctions. MAZ head Sergey Vyazovich commented in mid-September there is a “99.9% chance” that the team does not make it to the 2023 race.
So whats wrong with Russian Trucks?
KAMAZ – dominant trucking force at Dakar Rally
From time to time, some vehicle manufacturers are dominating in premier racing competitions, such Audi or Porsche in the sports car racing, Ferrari or Mercedes in Formula 1 etc. When talking about Dakar Rally, there were periods of dominance and consecutive triumphs for Mitsubishi, Volkswagen, Mini, Citroen or Peugeot, but the most dominant and the longest ruling manufacturer comes from ex-Soviet Union.
It’s the KAMAZ, or Kamsky Avtomobilny Zavod, the Russian truck manufacturer which recorded sixteen wins at Dakar Rally between 1996 and 2019. KAMAZ made a debut at Dakar Rally in 1990.
Producing trucks since 1976
KAMAZ is a relatively young company founded in 1969, in Naberezhnye Chelny in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.
The first truck rolled out of the factory in 1976. Over the course of many years, KAMAZ has proven to be the maker of durable, almost omnipotent heavy duty trucks used in all terrains, from the Siberian taigas to the deserts of North Africa and the unforgiving mountain roads of South American Andes.
Owned by the government of Russia
If you’ve ever seen KAMAZ trucks in actions, you have probably seen them winning in impossible, yet everyday situations, most notably crossing fast river streams. The robust and powerful trucks impress everyone with their strong performance at rough terrains, but also with speed. As proper racing vehicles, their maximum speed exceeds 160 km/h.
Today, KAMAZ is jointly owned by the Russian government, Daimler, Troika Dialog and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Until today, more than three million KAMAZ trucks were made.
Cassie:
Shovels are not the way to go.
Three strands of fencing wire braided together and about two meters long. The wire is flexible, and when delivered will fracture the snakes spine. Anything below the fracture becomes a dead weight, inhibiting movement. Another couple of strikes further toward the head will allow a killing blow.
If you’re on a hard surface, the shovel has a VERY limited area of impact.
Diogenes
Australians in North Africa used Italian tanks against Italians without too much problem. The white kangaroos painted on the turrets may have helped. If the Germans thought the Soviet tanks were good enough, a way would have been found, even if only using them in NW Europe, Italy and the Balkans.
Michael Tracey
@mtracey
Sorry, but Ukraine has effectively ceded whatever “sovereignty” it had to the US — hence the nonstop pleading with the US to give them stuff. The US exercises ultimate decision-making power, not Ukraine, whose very existence as a state is now singularly dependent on US patronage
Let me See – Kamaz Trucks consistently win Dakar – Where are the Great Technical Brillant American/Eurpopean Trucks
In our village we held an Australia Day BBQ, most residents showed up. Most would be your stereotypical ABC listeners. They were disgusted AND I don’t think anyone will be voting for the Voice. From listening to several conversations, it sounded like Duttons message is breaking through. It is just shocking enough to be reported, but not shocking enough to ‘frighten the horses’.
First Law of Thermodynamics: You can’t win.
Second Law of Thermodynamics: You can’t even break even.
Third Law of Thermodynamics: It’s the only game in town.
There’s some good marriage proposals on celluloid with up to now my favourite being Darcy’s testicle swinging effort in 2005’s P&P but the proposals in 1923 have some grit with this one being the best: from 4.48 to 10.18. Their subsequent night in a tree surrounded by lions is not bad either:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myGQ04aH9FM
Anyone got the complete version of this snappy tune:
https://www.tiktok.com/music/Bailando-en-el-Concierto-6971070098664753154?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&fbclid=IwAR17Ms-HZd8rq8P5WHNVAtk7pGOW5ogkEycN2AE1Ryw49NHJtgqb1n5QdFY
It’s too late Vicki, I’m in Palermo.
I’m saving Vesuvius and Capri for next time.
It was wet and miserable three out of five days in Naples so I just dagged around town.
Two of my children and I went to Sorrento, Pompeii, Herculeam and Ischia a few years ago.
Tenness news:
Mr Panzer. Mr Sancho Panzer to the white phone in the lobby please.
Huh? Don’t what to Miss Sorrento?
Oh, sorry, you meant don’t miss seeing the town of Sorrento.
Honest mistake, long hot day, eyes a bit weary, heh heh.
Hello…the nasty little man’s mask is beginning to slip already.
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics:
– Jerry Pournelle
For instance Clara Bow never rooted the entire USC football team, including a young John Wayne, just Wayne.
Mr Sulu WhiteKnightin’ for Clara Bow now?
Bless.
John Wayne was known as Duke Morrison at the time, but, yeah, Clara pulled a train for the Thundering Herd alright.
Many times.
From Dead Festive by R Young.
We’re likely to find out in the next 3 months.
“When you make the world safe for stupid people, you get more stupidity.”
John Wayne was known as Duke Morrison at the time, but, yeah, Clara pulled a train for the Thundering Herd alright.
You was there crotchless; picking up the used frenchies as momentos.
Pigs gotta trough.
Thundering Herd of course the Marshall University side, as opposed to the USC Trojans
Cassie Of Sydney:
After the Revolution went tits up, the official figure – after opening the files – was revised to aprox 90 million. The Chinese under Mao have been revised to 300 million +
Sad that people just won’t remember. Even the airheads Avi tried to interview today. No clue at all, and the copper trying to heavy him.
No one wants to talk any more, just lecture.
RuthM;
I’ve forgotten the actual gauge, but according to the snake bloke at Wilcannia council the gauge just a little thicker than the normal fencing wire is the go. Three strands woven three meters long.
I’ll go with his expertise.
dover, there’s a piece on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s current situation at American Conservative that may interest you.
Clown world.
Charles McGonigal, ex-FBI official charged with breaking Russian sanctions
Who?
The bloke previously in charge of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York who retired in 2018 – and was most likely involved in the Trump-Russia investigation.
She was interviewed on The Screen Showthis morning.
Faced with a choice between her and idiot buffoon Neil Mitchell, I chose her. It was what you’d expect, film school mutton trying to pretend it is lamb i.e. rehashing modern obsessions with sex and power and art.
One thing in Blanchett’s favour is she has a beautiful, crystal enunciation. It’s very rare for an Australian actor. She would be wonderful doing Shakespeare.
Dot:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Armies-Sand-Present-Military-Effectiveness/dp/0190906960
A very good book that highlights the failure of military reality to overcome the cultural bias that infects modern Arab armies. I would say it is one of the most important analyses to emerge from the continued Arab Israeli wars of the 20th century.
“Vickisays:
January 26, 2023 at 7:17 pm
they couldn’t even gut an animal. That is why they threw the whole thing onto the fire.
And that was how they made large cloaks of possum skins, right?”
Possum skin cloak. I remember that dick that sat himself down for some Governmental talking to and wearing a massive possum skin cloak. He was rightly ridiculed over that. Too many red wines to google him. Does anyone know what became of him? I’m assuming he’s sucking on a massive public teat.
Actually, while I am using the word “sucking”, that is the correct word/term for “sucking pig”. It is NOT “suckling” pig. The mother “suckles”, the child, and the child “sucks”. Who knew cooks of meaty goodness were scared to use the word SUCK! Lol.
As I stated earlier, I have been at the red, mmmmmmmm with English style pork sausages and herb mustard.
It’ll be No. 8
One of my early jobs was for a bloke who used to wind up a cable twist of 2 x strands of No. 10 & use it in the manner described, to clout the slithering poisonous just below the head, rendering it disabled long enough for him to grab the tail.
Then he’d crack the head off by cracking the snake like a whip.
Saw him carry it out masterfully a few times. The last time he cracked the head off perfectly, then someone noticed the top jaw with fangs had lodged in the front of his shirt, just below the left collarbone.
Heh. He wasn’t game to touch it, the point ever so slightly in his skin. He turned super-white.
He remained pale & speechless for the 40-mile drive home, to get tools to remove it.
Death Adder.
Fascinating, extraordinary and frightening-Ike Was Right: The Military-Industrial Complex Has Become a Serious Problem
Thundering Herd of course the Marshall University side, as opposed to the USC Trojans
Not in 1926, pard.
Google moar harder!
You was there crotchless; picking up the used frenchies as momentos.
Uh, it wasn’t one of your Gay Orgies, Mr Sulu.
SKF are good trailer bearings. Japanese too.
I avoid Chinese crap generally.
Suggestions for next Saturday Night’s Radio Show, please Cats.
The fourteenth concept.
SKF are Swedish aren’t they?
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Flamers.