Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers, Claude Monet, 1874
(Late night reading- extract from a 1992 Viz.) … “Surely, if we are able to put a man on the…
Open Thread – Weekend 28 Jan 2023
Listened to this while we munched on pinchos last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNp6y7aYa-s Ages since I heard it last. *warning* peak hair…
reflexive woke backlash
Oh. On first reading, Kamahl giving her a bit of “The Best Is Yet To Come!” sounded pretty lit.
Australian entertainer Kamahl has been charged with stalking This should get his mind off the Trump-hate anyway. For those who may…
The Campaign to Ban Gas Stoves
Biden and the media deny it exists, but the effort is calculated and well-funded.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Don’t believe for a second Consumer Product Safety Commission member Richard Trumka Jr.’s slippery claim that they aren’t coming for your stove. Or the media narrative that Republicans are “hyping” a new “culture war” by “pretending” the Biden administration intends to ban gas stoves.
The reason gas stoves are in the news is simple: There is a coordinated, calculated—and well-funded—strategy to kill them off.
It’s the joint enterprise of extremely powerful climate groups, working with Biden administration officials who have publicly stated their aim to eliminate all “combustion appliances” in homes. Only after the GOP called them out did anyone pretend otherwise.
Some of this is being exposed in letters sent this week by Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz to CPSC commissioners demanding more information. The letters highlight the primary groups behind this push. One is the Climate Imperative Foundation, which became an overnight green powerhouse and reported more receipts in 2021 than the League of Conservation Voters or the Sierra Club. A board member and funder is Kleiner Perkins billionaire John Doerr, whose climate action plan calls for getting rid of gas cooking. CIF’s executive director, Bruce Nilles, has made the end of gas stoves an imperative, writing in 2019: “Your gas stove has to go.” CIF has granted money to the Rocky Mountain Institute, which has long advocated “retrofitting” existing homes to be “all electric.”
Then there’s Rewiring America, “the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses and communities.” And New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, which last year called on the CPSC to enact a gas-stove ban.
The stated goal of all these group is killing gas to “save” the planet. Yet they also know Americans won’t give up their stoves in the name of climate. So several years ago this cabal hit on the idea of contradicting decades of science and ginning up hokey studies claiming gas stoves present a “health risk.” The twin goals: scare Americans and give government a pretext to ban gas cooking.
This is how you end up with climate outfits masquerading as health experts
One frequently cited study from the Rocky Mountain Institute—claiming to find a link between gas stoves and childhood asthma—was co-authored by two RMI staffers, neither of whom has a science degree. Another favorite study by New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity claims gas stoves cause “dangerous levels of indoor air pollution.” It was written by two lawyers, and it cites . . . the RMI study. Ah, science.
Then there’s the paid research. The November edition of the “independent” magazine Consumer Reports was devoted to the “Hidden Health Hazards in Your Home” and explained that its research found an “alarming concern” with levels of nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves. (It also featured a four-page tribute to induction cooktops, the left’s expensive alternative to gas.) Tucked at the end of the article online was an editor’s note: “This project was funded in part with a grant from the Climate Imperative Foundation.” CIF’s 2021 tax filings show a $375,000 donation to Consumer Reports specifically for research on gas stoves.
The Biden administration is close to these groups and has wholly appropriated their “health” line. It’s been open about using those claims to get rid of gas stoves—following state and local bans. The White House last month held an “electrification summit,” which featured a panel on getting gas out of homes.
Nearly every guest (including a representative from Rewiring America) stated the “health” harm of gas stoves as accepted fact, and Trisha Miller of the White House’s Climate Policy Office described the need to “eliminate emissions” by getting rid of all “combustion appliances” in houses (including your washer, dryer and furnace). The electrification agenda is being carried out through the Department of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge, which lists Rewiring America and RMI as “allies.”
This ground laying and coordination is the backdrop for the Trumka explosion. Around the time of the Consumer Reports story—and in the runup to the Electrification Summit—Mr. Trumka circulated a memo titled “NPR Proposing Ban on Gas Stoves (Indoor Air Quality).” (NPR is an acronym for notice of proposed rulemaking.) The Cruz letter says the memo cites the Consumer Reports and NYU studies among reasons Mr. Trumka concludes there is “sufficient information” now to forbid Americans from purchasing new gas stoves. While the Trumka proposal failed, the CPSC initiated a “request for information”—a first step toward a ban.
Only after Bloomberg exposed some of this did the ensuing public furor cause the CPSC and White House to run for cover.
But make no mistake: A ban is the plan.
Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said at the summit that “if we are going to get to net zero emissions by 2050,” we’ll need electric “cars and buses and home heating and cooking.”
The left won’t stop until it has dictated what you drive, where you live, and how you cook.
On the waterproofing thing, I recently fixed a broken tile, when I moved the tiles around it I discovered the valley flashing to be 300 per wing. On a villa I renovated it was 450. New places I hate to think. In Bruce a suburb of Canberra they had a whole suburb of leaky roof syndrome. The flashing, gutters and drains were all too small. On my place I have put in an extra drain to help with the runoff. How it passed planning who knows, f**k nose.
Woke is not infecting China (or Russia for that matter).
But it is spreading like aggressive cancer in the west. We are in the process of ruining our civilization , our values and our way of life from within. Who benefits and how is this accomplished?
In today’s China, the Central Propaganda Department of the CCP Central Committee commands enormous authority and resources, employing tens of millions of communist “propaganda workers” at all levels of the communist state, with an unlimited budget.
https://www.hoover.org/research/beijings-woke-propaganda-war-america
Weaponizing woke globally is a clear policy of the CCP. And they have the resources to ensure it’s successful progress.
Black Ball says:
January 28, 2023 at 9:11 am
He is right about the taxes.
Beer is the cheapest, easiest to manufacture alcoholic beverage, yet per % of alcohol/volume the dearest.
Why? Because most people prefer it.
time to think about moving
I’m getting a bloke to redo the pointing, he’s done six houses in my street. It’s good to get someone recommended.
I’m all for fairness – I have been unfairly taxed for decades.
A main only with the inclusion of mashed banana.
rump Pledges To Build Missile Defense Shield, Invokes Possible ‘World War III’
forbes
Corruption of Pharma Industry Revealed in Pfizer Project Veritas Video, with Michael Knowles
Megyn Kelly
That story about the radioactive thingie (apparently about the size of a watch battery) is the biggest beatup ever. At TheirABC, a pompous pube warned anyone who thought they might have found it not to go with 5m of it (how could you even see it from 5m away?) and call The Authorities immediately.
The official story is that it emits the equivalent of an X ray over more than an hour. So, picking it up is less dangerous than being near large granite formations, or a truck filled with bananas.
If it is somewhere on or near the 1400km of road between Perth and wherever, it’s hardly a danger to anyone.
It has the hallmarks of a fightback by certain interests who sense a softening in our attitude to nuclear power, if you ask me.
Delivering prosperity requires the workforce to deliver increased productivity.
But one of the “reforms’ pushed through by Hawke and Keating in the 1980s was the development of the superannuation industry – most of it now controlled by union managements – which removed unions’ need to have members to pay union dues as the bulk of their income.
Unions that don’t need members are inevitably fat and lazy and couldn’t give a stuff about abstractions like workforce productivity.
Productivity matters only to the companies driving the economy and the Australian economy’s retirement savings plan is now controlled by union slush funds developed after the Labor government made “reforms” that removed the need of unions to have members.
Trade union governments like the Elbow regime exist only to make trade unions stronger – and the heavy lifting has already been done by Hawke and Keating.
Unions under the Elbow regime have no interest in productivity as increased productivity will not increase union power – as Keating’s superannuation did in the 1980s.
Jim Chalmers’ national socialist government where the regime intervenes in the economy to instruct business about what needs to be done will have only one result – full-blown fascism.
If you want to know what happens next, read up on 1930s Germany.
Kiwi PM has declared a state of emergency in Auckland.
But has not hugged anyone.
Not serious leader.
Watched all of A Man Called Intrepid. Just scratched the surface of the book. I’d forgotten about Nils Bohr. Made into a move called The Heroes of Telemark. On that subject, why do we have movies about superheroes when we can have the real thing, stories about our parents and grandparents. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and for what, a bunch of nancyboys with no spine.
What happened to Raisy-san or whatever his name was? The standard of trolling has definitely gone down. Apologies to the regulars.
FACTCHECK – TRUE
I woke up to this in 2003 whilst doing a bit of ‘government work’ in Iraq. Like Victoria, the roads were ‘terrible’ so we did most of our travel by air. There was a helicopter ‘bus service’ that did a loop around Baghdad. There were about 10 stops on the route and, at each stop, we spotted down on a base that had at least 30 or 50 helicopters on it. At the time, my civvy job included working on the SA Rescue Helicopter. The SA service had one decent sized utility helicopter (Bell 412), one adequate helicopter (BK117) and one tiny stopgap (EC130). The running cost of the Bell was of the order of $5000 an hour, and, for that reason, the entire state could have only 1, and it was a State Governmental decision as to whether an upgrade could be afforded.
Compare that to what I saw, just in Baghdad – hundreds of much more expensive helicopters, often dispensing extremely expensive munitions…. plus all the fixed wing jets, carriers, armoured vehicles etc etc etc.
Yes, war is expensive – that’s the point – modern wars are largely run to line the pockets of the armaments manufacturers (and their bought and paid for politicians), not to achieve some societal benefit.
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If such people exist, there is one big difference.
They don’t have the power to mandate you take some experimental concoction to “remedy” the situation, nor are their arguments contributing to the roll out of such a concoction.
I think if they start pushing some snake oil to purge the vaccines from your body and insisting governments discriminate against anyone who doesn’t take it, and demand the implementation of a surveillance system with certificates and tracking as to who has and hasn’t taken the purging medicine, then you can yell “hypocrisy”. Until then, just accept that most people aren’t going to understand that not every death “with vaxx” is “because vaxx” and that major work is required to see exactly how damaging these vaccines have been and for whom they were worth it and for whom they weren’t.
Translation:
Regional Australia is the next target for the wrecking ball.
As I’ve said before Tom, the first shot worldwide has still not been fired in response. A quiet man who has had enough is all it takes.
Depends which side of the gate you’re on, I suppose.
Sounds like one of the most complex PhD work I’ve ever heard of. Give the man an Alfred.
aka ‘using the same tactics as your enemy’
Fond memories of Hammy and the trolling Golden Age. Alene Composta possibly the best ever.
The guts of Chalmers’ vision:
Pollyanna stuff.
The cost of energy in Australia is heading towards $150-200/MWh – this is now beyond speculation and evident in the (ahem, managed) market. The impact on the infrastructure of a social economy built on $30-40/MWh is just starting to be felt.
Translation: More Government; Bigger Government; Government you will learn to love because it gives you things you need. Top Men.
Market intervention by Top Men; lawyers, economists, and arts graduates who truly, deeply, madly understand how markets should work.
Followed by politician hands deep in the engine bay when the markets don’t properly understand ‘social purpose’.
Welcome to the State-Industrial complex: political support transfers one way, enlarged and risk free rent transfers the other – until the OPM runs out.
Chalmers is not presenting a politician’s pipe dream – we are half way there, helped by the Morons Opposite. Unfortunately Australia is locked into a trajectory of experiential learning.
Slightly old news but still entertaining. Via Instapundit:
Jane Fonda Says There’d Be No ‘Climate Crisis’ If Not For ‘Racism’ And Twitter Has Thoughts (27 Jan)
I thought her sitting on a NVA antiaircraft gun was incredibly phallic and war mongering. Does that make me a climate denier? Anyway the funniest thing in the whole story is right at the end, where the DW website includes this link:
Related: Jane Fonda Says We Should ‘Redefine Vaginas As AK47s’ To Keep Abortion Legal
She’s funny!
the only thing it will deliver is misery, poverty, destruction and death
5 Eyes is much more than a citizen surveillance monolith. In the wrong hands, it becomes a massive force multiplier for oppression. US/UK/Canada/Aus/NZ. Look at what has happened in these nations in recent years. Very effective.
I don’t see 1930’s Germany being a model. China lite would be my bet. With Govt getting it’s claws into all manner of Corp direction and activity using wokeness , “fairness” and Green world type strategies. A steady creep towards full open Marxism .
For our own good of course.
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Especially when it comes to heart and clotting issues.
There will always be the suspicion the vaccines contributed, even if most people statistically would have had the issue anyway.
A lot of work to unravel the contributing factors, as the virus causes similar stuff apparently.
The issue is mandating and coercion.
And your right to make decisions in your best interest with your doctor and that doctor being free from interference to recommend the best thing for each patient.
Not some socialised system where trade offs are made to attempt to rig some overall population wide result at the expense of some individuals.
Just don’t want to be around when the gates get torn down. Not quite the same as the gates at RFBYC.
Gee the debt is the lot of money.
Yeah, the story is full of holes and being signal boosted by our enemies.
Typical rich person perspective from Tom there, i.e. Liberal Party boilerplate barely updated from the 1980s. According to this belief system, productivity increases are achieved not through innovation or technology but exclusively through workplace deregulation and wage cuts. Anything other than capital capturing all benefits of productivity increases, these silvertail toffs say, is Nazism.
Hawke and Keating rescued Australia from the clutches of lazy protectionism and backwater provincialism, and integrated it into the regional and global economies. Chalmers has a lot of work to do to better that record, but at least he understands the task – one that the Liberals completely whiffed on for a decade while they lined the pockets of their donors.
If the US has NMD its WWIII?
Why? Because poor little Russia can’t threaten to kill everyone if they lose a limited conventional war against a small country?
Putin didn’t threaten to kill everyone in September last year?
The NDI didn’t scare the crap out of the Soviet Politburo?
I need a surgeon, my sides are splitting.
Surely you aren’t just realizing that?
Got to support the correct ideology, seeing that even the Germans are now going off message.
In Unexpected Swing, Germany’s Public Now Favors Nuclear Power (27 Jan)
The ABC can’t allow Australian proles to start thinking in such directions. That would be heresy!
The Economics 1failure has spoken at 1143. Bow down before his wisdom, peasants.
Chalmers starts with “First, let us assume the perfection of humanity …”
It’s not just the debt, but the interest bill, which could end up costing 30% of GDP. That’s a big ax to swing.
And being able to say “I told you so” will not be much consolation.
’tis hoped the learnings will be deeply etched in the national consciousness.
Can anyone decipher smutley’s attempt at an undergrad Young Social Alliance rant?
Now that’s funny.
If the owners of capital accrued all the benefits, then living standards would not have improved since the Industrial Revolution. The point is, you big fat galah, that any improvement in living standards has to come from productivity increases. There is no other way. If these economic trogs think they can rearrange things through legislation, then they are going to learn the hard way.
Sure, they did some good work, but the Accord was an inflationary policy that ended in tears. And these trogs will learn this the hard way. Hopefully, they won’t be around long enough to completely destroy the place.
Chalmers is a f..king moron wearing the same shoes as that zero, Shane Wand.
For lord’s sake, this idiot calls himself a doctor because he wrote a love story on Keating. And he’s the treasurer, and you’re not the least embarrassed?
Dot, what’s NMD?
London, United Kingdom: A judge on Friday sentenced a British teenager to more than 11 years in prison for videos promoting racist violence that have been linked to two mass killings in the United States.
Hawke and Keating removed the grit of government and vested interests from the economy.
Chalmers’ model explicitly thrusts huge handfuls of government and vested interest – to be designed by and benefiting Top Men who know things – back into the economy; a triple reverse Hawke and Pike.
But, yes, a wasted 10 years by the Coalition Governments, who essentially muddled through by not being Rudd, or Shorten.
Jim Chalmers would have supported the Potato Marketing Board in WA. After all, it was just there to correct the ‘imperfect’ free market for spuds.
That waffling article of his does not conceal the fact that he intends to repeat the mistakes of every government that has tried his ‘solutions’, ever.
The Left are just like the Bourbons – and before the barrage starts, I know that the aphorism is not true of all of them. But neither learning nor forgetting is apt when applied to malevolent fools like Chalmers.
JCsays:
The Oz runs with Chalmers manifesto.
Yep.
He’s part of a government that won around 32% of the primary vote!
Add in the tactical voting that got Barnaby Joyce, Katter, The Teals over the line and other tactical voting that nearly won a few more seats, then remember that all Labor’s Seats are in Metropolitan Areas, and it’s a bit more than 32%.
We need Abbott to get back in his old job of opposition leader and then fire him the moment they win.
Abbott was like Steven Bradbury with a few dirty tricks.
He poisoned the well for the Liberals by winning a big majority promising to repeal S 18[c], then changing his mind after he was sworn in.
“National Missile Defense”.
Well, debt and interest. One a disease, the other a painful symptom. It’s all tied in.
Lucky the USG has a bank in-house to write the checques. Unlike the private sector. It’s getting much harder for the common folk;
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRTSCILM
Yesterday I spoke with Kim Iversen about the most recent Project Veritas video, claiming they have exposed Pfizer’s Director of Research and Development. Are these revelations true or false? #pfizer #exposed #vaccine
Russell Brand
Here’s your problem, Fatboy.
These idiots, and they are classic idiots, are going to raise energy costs. They have further constipated the labour market with even more costly regulation with pattern bargaining, and now they’re suggesting they’re going to follow a dirigiste economic plan. Everything is now primed for economic debauchery, as only liars can do it.
John Campbell looks at the autumn boosters and whether they’re worth taking re risk of hospitalisation from COVID vs risk of adverse reaction.
Eggsactly, which is why I said, you fire him the moment they win.
Here’s how Abbott handled scrutiny?
Labor Shill: You’re a racist
Abbott: I go to Arnhem Land 2 weeks of the year carching truants and taking them to school.
Labor Shill: Woman Problem!
Abbott: All my staffers are women
Labor Shill: Homophobe!
Abbott: All my closest friends are Flamers.
You can sorta see how that approach worked until it didn’t.
But, if they do bring Abbott back, Peter Dutton might as well retire, because the Liberals won’t be going anywhere.
Can someone post the Chalmers article in full please.
I’m amused that Buzzfeed shares jumped 120% when they announced they’d replace their uberlefty journos with a chatbot.
BuzzFeed shares surge 120% on plans to embrace OpenAI (27 Jan)
Says everything you need to know about the journos. Recall that Buzzfeed was the only site that was prepared to run the Clinton-financed fake Wussians dossier. A million monkeys with typewriters would do better than their employees methinks, so no surprise that their share price rose on the announcement.
Numbers needed to vaccinate data
Dr. John Campbell
His “Capitalism After the Crises” will be published in The Monthly on Monday, Dover.
Dot:
In the Great Ledger of nations, Russia should be on the side of the West, along with Poland, Czechoslovakia etc. I happen to like the Russians, as well as the Germans, Brits and the Balts. The problem is that they all have the misfortune to get ruled over by some truly shit leaders which cause them to regularly get pissed and brawl which burns down the pub.
I blame the French.
…and the bastard Swiss. Not real happy with the bloody Swedes either.
Hawke and Keating removed the grit of government and vested interests from the economy.
Gimme a break!
Hawke and Keating said to the Vested Interests:
I see jihadist Louise Milligan has a new anti-Catholic hit piece airing Monday on 4 Corners.
About Opus Dei, it’s mockingly called “Purity”.
He’s talking about restructuring RBA – the one of the few institutions with a modicum of respect. The inflation rate just isn’t high enough.
Ranking Of Countries With The Most Cattle Per Capita
Uruguay had the most cattle per capita in the world in 2021 followed by New Zealand and Argentina.
Published on: Jan 25, 2023
Uruguay had the most cattle per capita in the world in 2021 followed by New Zealand and Argentina.
Four (4) countries in the world had more cattle than people in 2021: Uruguay, New Zealand, Argentina and Brazil.
Ranking Of Countries With The Most Cattle
India had the largest cattle inventory in the world in 2021 followed by Brazil and China.
World Beef Consumption By Country
The world consumed 59.1 million metric tons of beef in 2020, down 398K metric tons from the prior year.
even though chatgpt gets much wrong, what is amazing is how much logic is baked into just the language aspect of the model, even without having a specific maths model. Once they add in a maths model and a visual generation model we are off to the races.
Eddles, I was just kidding.
These grubs will never acknowledge the truth; Govt’s created the Crises.
They will now leap in and “fix” it. aka; the Fix is in.
the doublespeak is strong in this one
Knuckle Dragger:
A radioactive container of what?
The Libs need about 45% primary to win in the current environment, where so many minor-party preferences flow back to Labor. They’re almost ten points behind that federally. They are the ones who should be more worried about primaries.
Paul Kelly has taken a baseball bat to Albanese in the Weekend Australian for bungling Central Australia and being a smart-arse about the Voice. Surprising.
No, Eddles, they removed a slew of quotas and tariffs while simultaneously enacting the Accord, which stoked nominal wages to a boil, resulting in wage-push inflation. The Accord was one of many cancers they caused.
I will give Paul Murray credit for his “Aussie Joe” nickname for Albanese.
Albo wanders around in a vibe cloud but whenever he gets grilled by a reporter he has no idea what he’s talking about – on any subject.
Total lightweight.
At least Biden has the excuse of being 102 years-old.
Rushing to a Pilates class this morning, I ran into two wonderful stalwarts of the conservative movement. I’ve been assured that ADH-TV is returning soon, bigger and better.
Stay tuned!
There are a few things at play with waterproofing. You are right about the false economy of going skinny on the flashing. My builder is finishing a tiny tiled terrace area off a new extension and is talking about 450 x 450 flashing on an area with massive fall and free run off. I think it is overkill but the incremental cost is 5/8 of s.f.a.
Secondly, inserting architects and engineers into the design of waterproofing doesn’t add anything. It is the application where it goes wrong (and the protection of the work after it is applied but before final finishing). Much as I hate regulation, adding waterproofing in at frame inspection phase wouldn’t be much of an impost.
Thirdly, architects are a part of the problem with external terraces and balconies. Where they are enclosed by a “solid” wall (ie usually studs, blueboard and render) they don’t want the clean lines interrupted by drains. A lot of problems would be avoided with some neat, free-draining overflow outlets in copper or stainless running off enclosed balconies.
Recall back about 10 years ago when we were laughing at you because the Libs won so many seats in the Queensland state election that you could fit the remaining members in a cab? Next election, the Liars won. Don’t be too optimistic, fatboy.
The Albanian isn’t smart enough for the long term. He’s stupid, like you.
Interesting Selection of Articles – https://www.realcleardefense.com
Friday, January 27
. The Battle for This Region Will Determine Whether Russia Prevails Newsweek
. Russia’s Supreme Drone Embarrassingly Got Stuck in a Net Satam, EurAsian Times
. Despite Condemnations, Russia Still Has Allies in These Key Nations Grid
. Russia’s Use of This Weapon Shows How Desperate They Are McNulty, Express
. Russia is Planning a Mass Production of This Explosive Weapon Kachroo, ITV
. Satellites Catch Russia’s Secret Plans of Attack, Will the Attack Work? Vavra, DB
. Despite Past Drama, This “Former” Ally is Providing a Boon to Russia EU Reporter
. The West is Privately Admitting Ukraine Has Lost This Crucial Region UnHerd
. The New Tanks to Ukraine Will be Useless Without This Change Davis, 1945
ADH-TV, what’s that?
Whoops:
“London, United Kingdom: A judge on Friday sentenced a British teenager to more than 11 years in prison for videos promoting racist violence that have been linked to two mass killings in the United States.”
I bet that teenager is white and working class. No “mental illness” for him.
Indeed.
Uncertainty about the cause of excess deaths is fertiliser for trusted frauds and charlatans – and, sadly, also for otherwise respectable commentators.
An example: Professor Norman Fenton claiming a “strong causal effect” between vaccines and excess deaths world-wide, while his data and analysis say the opposite.
Alan Jones’s platform, JC.
Under Liar’s Party rules, it’s now very difficult to get of a leader, I think. Is that right?
“ADH-TV, what’s that?”
JC, it’s a right of centre, conservative online Australian digital news outlet. It’s good.
Oh, the NIMBY.
Jim Chalmers’ plan brings this to mind..
How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany
There are two things to watch about Chalmers. First is his government’s policy on immigration. His sums won’t work if they don’t turn the spigot on full blast and clear out the pipes. Call it a Ponzi scheme, whatever, but Western economies haven’t been faring all that well post-COVID without figuring out ways to kickstart immigration.
Second is the devilish detail in these supposed partnerships between business and unions. That sort of thing works well in Germany these days, but their system involves a lot of different legal structures. If Chalmers mentions codetermination in this essay at any point, that will show he’s got the German model in mind. That would indeed be a “seismic shift” as the Oz puts it. The more obvious antecedent is the Accord, but Chalmers has shown he is willing to let the blood of that sacred cow. Namechecking the CEFC is the biggest clue from what has been published but it can’t just be that model, there has to be other moving parts in his plan if he’s being this ambitious.
as previous – likely to he Cs137
Cast your mind back to the first week of the election campaign and that is the gist of what was leaked from within Labor’s caucus. Laqzy and doesn’t read his briefs.
Campbell Newman was a dickhead. Luigi the Unbelievable has the job in front of him like the boy with the barrow, but he’s not on the same (low) level as Newman.
“The Albanian isn’t smart enough for the long term. “
Correct, he had an easy run prior to the election because..
1. He had (and has) a biased MSM behind him.
2. The impotent Liberals refused to fight him, but that’s natural after almost nine years of do nothing government.
3. Australians were sick of Scumbag and the do nothing Liberals, who were just Labor lite on so many issues.
It’s nice to see the Albanian unravelling, and because I don’t mind some torture, I want to see him tortured slowly, very slowly.
I will give Paul Murray credit for his “Aussie Joe” nickname for Albanese.
That’s pretty funny, but, could it be antisemitic?
Caesium-137. Somewhere in Abaustralia. And if they do find it how do they know it hasn’t been there for 40,000 years and isn’t a relic of the original nucular industry?
File under “there’s always someone worse off”:
The town of Eidsvold in the central QLD shire of North Burnett lost FTA TV transmission today when the local council closed the transmission tower, citing the cost of what it deemed a non-essential service.
Anyone in the community with no better alternative will have to watch the ABC, which is transmitted from a separate tower, presumably funded by the Commonwealth.
Googleory, there’s not a rabbit hole you won’t sniff on your way to the bottom of the barrel.
That works in the US, but not here because our wage rates are exceedingly high. Even if there is more labour supply, they still have to be hired at the going statutory rate. As a result, many small businesses, such as cafes and restaurants, are closed on public holidays and Sundays.Too expensive.
Oh yeah, the German model. One of the things to notice about the German model is that they don’t have the highest wage rates in the world, and the reality is that their labour market is actually much more flexible than ours. So even if Noddy mentions he would to follow the German model, the open question is, would he also allow the same labour market flexibility and allow wages to fall? No way in f—ing hell.
I have no idea what the hell you babbling about.
Oh yeah, I forgot. Newman was a dickhead but the Albanian ? No Chance.
Googleory, there’s not a rabbit hole you won’t sniff on your way to the bottom of the barrel.
Not 100% sure where you’re coming from there, old fella, so i’ll clarify that I was referring to Joe Bugner, not Albanese.
Get a load of this pic. It’s in the US.
Who has right of way? 🙂
Old Ozzie:
I wonder if there will be a Democrat push for a US Apartheid?
It seems the only thing that will shut them up.
Wait…
No, they’ll start whinging about ‘apartheid’.
Of course.
In a seminal 6000-word essay entitled “Capitalism after the Crises” due to be published by The Monthly on Monday, Dr Chalmers said markets were a positive and powerful tool, but had been poorly designed.
Echoes of the unlamented Rudd’s prognostications. That went well, didn’t it?
Lower levels of immigration coming out of COVID has contributed greatly to labour shortages, which tends to further increase wages and leaves many industries understaffed. Small businesses are closing due to lack of staff, not wage levels. Demand is high enough to pay for the workers if they existed.
Germany also managed a massive immigration surge starting in 2015, and now has more than a million asylum seekers from Syria and such places integrated into its economy. Their situation is a lot different to Australia, where our high wages support (in part) our high housing prices which prop up so much of the economy. Nevertheless, I reckon Chalmers might have cast an eye towards Merkel’s successes.
Dot:
Mine was 18 cents a schooner. It really does show how much the currency has been devalued.
Keating’s policy on super was an extremely patient one.
Chalmers tax on super will also be patient.
Increase the compulsory contributions to increase the size of the pie.
Increase the tax on the captive pot annually over a certain threshold.
Once the members of the super fund die, put a levy on the wind up.
Model this over the next 30 years & it’s huge earn at the expense of punters.
The train, it can’t stop quickly and is stuck on the rails 🙂
On the current trajectory (onwards and upwards) the interest will end up costing the entirety of GDP.
Still…if a thing cant go on forever …..
Actually Bob, I think you meant to say a shilling, a zac and a thrupenny bit.
But I’ll back him over the stupidity of the average Aussie voter. Certainly the Vic ones.
Th SFL’s have allowed the Fabian Society approach to be a very successful model for the Marxists thus far. In fact, Marxism won’t get a mention the these days , despite it’s presence everywhere. Especially no mention by the coalition. Captured media and a populace engrossed in MAFS and The Block , too busy to figure out what’s really going on. Combine that with zero knowledge of History and the sheeple of our population are just gazing at the world going by , getting shorn and hoping they don’t get called up for the abattoir.
And coincidentally TIK put up a video about the DAF just 3 weeks ago.
Expert duelists were available for hire in 19th Century America.
Anyway, one of these guys, an expert shot, challenged Ol’ Hickory, and he accepted.
The guy’s shot hit Jackson within an inch of his heart.
The 7th President stood firm, took careful aim, and shot his opponent in the guts.
Which didn’t do him much good, put it that way.
This is working on the assumption that the U.S. government has 30% of it’s tax revenue free to use…
In reality, they already spend more than all of their collected tax revenue, mostly on different kinds of welfare.
What will actually happen is they will borrow/print money to pay the interest on the debt.
It’s similar to how people stuck in credit card debt get another credit card to pay off the first one, it never ends well..
Cassie of Sydney says:
January 28, 2023 at 12:43 pm
Rushing to a Pilates class this morning, I ran into two wonderful stalwarts of the conservative movement. I’ve been assured that ADH-TV is returning soon, bigger and better.
Stay tuned!
Cassie, great! I was only scanning their app last night and was disappointed to see no 2023 shows.
Mine was 18 cents a schooner. It really does show how much the currency has been devalued.
Year, Robert?
Not because I think you’re making it up.
It’s not going to help that much in aggregate across the economy because labor market flexibility is dreadful.
Doofus, pre-covid we were allowing in around 250,000 people a year. That’s .01% of the population.
The famous German move to allow 1 million refs into Germany wasn’t as big deal as you think it was.
1,000,000/80,000,000 is .0125%, which was just a wiggle more than our annual rate. Germany’s was a one time thing. Remain silent please.
The train, it can’t stop quickly and is stuck on the rails
And any other thing on it is trespassing
Keep in mind, this is a selective tax on super.
For example, when Phillip Ruddock retired the equivalent super benefit he had was 3.2mill.
That was 2016.
His defined benefit plan has zero risk as the corpus is underwritten by tax payers.
During 2022 financial year the first 106,250 of his pension was tax free (his total pension was around 250k per year on retirement & it’s inflation linked so who knows what it’s up to now).
Bottom line, Ruddock & the other public servants on these bloated pensions won’t be impacted.
It’s those not in the club.
Roger:
If the Brewers aren’t redirecting their funding away from the Labor Party, and toward the Nationals or One Nation, they’ve got rocks in their head because if home brewing is getting a second wind, they’re going to be hurting big time.
Inflation isn’t hurting just the average man in the street – it’s pissing off shareholders as well.
Remember the secret of the Chinese Communist Party? Keep the standard of living rising and stay in power. Reduce it and there will be bonfires of the 48 million CP members. Not their membership cards, the members themselves.
Doofus, pre-covid we were allowing in around 250,000 people a year. That’s .01% of the population.
Try 1%.
Yeah, no biggie.
It’s amazing how arbitrary the tax system is in Australia.
Have the equivalent of millions in a tax payer funded pension scheme (that’s good, minimal tax).
Have the equivalent of millions in your own super (that’s bad, continue the levies & tax take).
Thanks for the correction, Hallward. It doesn’t make much difference to the comparison, which is obviously something you missed.
Any death wishes today or just taking it easy over the weekend, you miserable buffoon?
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You can keep saying that but that doesn’t make it true.
LOL!
There will always be the suspicion the vaccines contributed, even if most people statistically would have had the issue anyway.
A lot of work to unravel the contributing factors, as the virus causes similar stuff apparently.
“apparently”? I have done quite a lot of reading on the virus, the vaccines, and “Long Covid”. I haven’t read of anyone dying as a result of a Covid infection contracted some months before. What they do suffer from is a post viral syndrome (which is hardly unknown in the annals of virus infections).
Interestingly, I know of no one in the non-vaccinated cohort that I know (and I know many) who has had Covid & suffers from “Long Covid”. I also don’t know any of the unvaccinated who has contracted Covid a second time – though, of course, this is possible in spite of the strength of “natural” immunity.
BBS:
Anyone else notice the “Wrecker” epithet sneak into the tirade?
Yep, it’s a Trotskyist from way back – the speech patterns give it away.
If Chalmers was genuine when it comes to super changes, he would limit the annual pension taxpayers are forking out to former public servants to a more reasonable amount.
The quicker the Future Fund becomes unencumbered, the better.
Typical PhD. Takes 6,000 words to say what could be in less than 1,000. Of course, doing that would reveal more of the truth.
I revere the discipline imposed on me when I was writing briefs for Ministers, Premiers and Prime Ministers. Everything had to be on a page, usually in large print.
Background would be attached.
I could have done a PhD but declined because it usually meant a high tolerance for boredom and the ability to pad out insignificae. Apologies to the few whose work was meaningful.
Rough calculations based on 2022:
Labor/Greens/Teals axis of evil 45% support
LNP/PHON/UAP axis of mediocrity 45% support
Primary vote
LNP 35%
ALP 32%
If the LNP- absent the Morrison factor – were capable of putting up a fight this would one a one term ALP government.
Cold comfort, perhaps, given the nature a LNP largely diluted of conviction, but the electorate isn’t completely bereft of common sense just yet. And the cost of living crisis is going to make Elbow & Chalmers very unpopular.
Zee Germans seemed to think it was a big deal at the time. Turned out it wasn’t, but not for want of far right-wing politicians spreading frightbat behaviour.
The point I was making is that Australia’s economic settings assume a high level of inward net migration, and if a lower rate is our future then it is going to upset a lot of applecarts.
I rest my case. Nearly half the voting population support Marxist policies.
So, Jim Chalmers reckons that current “income stagnation” (news to me) demands a fundamental redistribution of wealth and opportunity. ” Well, that is going to spook the horses. And zealots like the current crop in government mean it.
This is a cancer spreading throughout the western world. Suggestions are that it will force local “economies” & support groups for essential services outside the government framework.
Well, if I haven’t felt like a “blade runner” as one of the unvaccinated in the past three years, I guess I will very soon.
I keep saying it because it’s true. Very true.
but the electorate isn’t completely bereft of common sense just yet.
You think?
Speaking of out-of-touch losers, what’s the latest on Abbott getting parachuted back in to Parliament through the Senate? Another brainwave from Michael Kroger, what an asset to Labor he is.
Grey Ranga:
People are slowly waking up – even a Labrador starts getting wiser after the 20th kick in the guts. The Australian Voter has had about 30 of them and is starting to wonder why his ribs are sore.
He’s starting to get the shits about the boss and a low growl is being emitted.
It won’t happen today, but it will happen.
Who am I kidding? 🙂
Try 1%.
LOL!
Lucky his career didn’t involve arithmetic, calculating rates of return, interest rates etc etc.
I could have done a PhD but declined because it usually meant a high tolerance for boredom and the ability to pad out insignificae. Apologies to the few whose work was meaningful.
Thank you for the apology. But actually, boredom is rarely an impediment to the arduous work of doing a PhD. And immersion in a subject you love generates the “wordiness.”
Not sure if my PhD was “meaningful” and raising a small child was more important. But it sits on a shelf in my library as an accomplishment.
Erm…that’s what I said, based on those figures, yes.
That the Voice is in trouble is another indicator.
As is the fact that while Australians pay lip service to climate worrying they’re not prepared to sacrifice for it. When it begins to really hit the hip pocket they’re going to be very cranky about it.
The locus of political stupidity is urban millenials and their well to do parents, whose voice is magnified on social and mainstream media.
Labor/Greens/Teals axis of evil 45% support
Take The Teals out, those are all Liberal Seats, you’ve still got 45%
LNP/PHON/UAP axis of mediocrity 45% support
I’d write off PHON and UAP, and there’s no LNP in Federal Politics.
So, back to 33%.
Labor/Greens are at their upper limit, save massive African Immigration,
While I see a lot of upside for the Non Labor side.
Basically, Scotty was lying every time he opened his mouth.
Now, that’s not insurmountable [if your name’s Bob Hawke], but having a Ministry of Token Women, DeadHeads and Flamers never helps.
Okay monty why do we have unemployed?
If you say certain trigger words, like some people are too stupid to have a job and we are better that they are on welfare, you have proven the left is the new hate filled class of upper class twats.
“The wukkas”
Sure buddy. A Ph D in politics.
[The best econ ones were only ~200 pages at most all up and I was proud of my bro in law having only done 30k words in a hard science for his floppy hat].
Still shit scared of Abbott, eh mOron? Demolished clown show R-G-R Labor , won a landslide victory for the LNP. No wonder. He’d have Sleazy for breakfast and not even raise a sweat. His only problem was he failed to realise who his real opponents were.
Oh look, Hallward picked up a transcription error and is running with it.
As for calculating rates of return etc, let’s remember you’re living in a shithole town in the middle of nowheresville trying hard to sound relevant and really, really smart. Doesn’t work pal.
I read a couple of very long theses once over a few weeks. One was 95k words and I am sure the other one was near double that, and I was shocked at the time because I thought there was basically a cap at 100k words.
I felt sorry for them but it was like I got sucked into their suffering and madness.
It was like an immersive Bram Stoker storytelling experience in the charnel house of Count Dracula before his lieutenants had a blood orgy with all of the living and the newly and ancient dead screaming out in horror.
Try again, Ed…but this time read for comprehension, eh?
Good lad.
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I believe I had Covid in late 2019. It resulted in long term symptoms which I documented on here at the time, including partial loss of sight in one eye in 2020.
I got the omicron in 2022 as well.
This is a good interview that at times covers some of what I am saying too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1r2VapZCA
“Speaking of out-of-touch losers, what’s the latest on Abbott getting parachuted back in to Parliament through the Senate?
The only “loser” is you. Go back to reading the Protocols. The news this morning from Jerusalem must have made you happy…seven dead Jews.
Translation:
“We’re going to raid the super piggy bank, crack open the champers, and drive the Rolls Royce flat strap into the brick wall. Then we’ll blame ‘Market Failure’ “.
“The beleaguered West Australian Liberal Party is shaping up for a fresh a leadership battle.”
I thought the Liberal Party in WA was extinct.
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION is what matters you clod.
The total population drives specialisation, you don’t get that gain at the margins.
Using the St Ruth criteria we would assume he has died of the vax.
Or, taking a more rational view, he is maybe giving it a rest for whatever reason.
Or perhaps he has gone Miata rallying with Numbers?
“Still shit scared of Abbott, eh mOron? Demolished clown show R-G-R Labor , won a landslide victory for the LNP. No wonder. He’d have Sleazy for breakfast and not even raise a sweat. His only problem was he failed to realise who his real opponents were.”
Correct. As JC said earlier, bring him back to be opposition leader and then once an election is won, sack him.
I saw one of the bodies twitch, shoot them again.
Another anecdote, but zero shots, zero symptoms for me, and I am an old person.
My GP was not at all fazed when I said from the beginning that I wasn’t having the shots (I refuse to call them vaccines). Never mentioned it since.
GPs were faced with being deregistered for going against the grain, but I suspect that there were a lot of them with reservations, including mine.
Going a long way back, I mentioned now reading Clive James’ Unreliable Memoirs, which people had raved about for years. Brilliant, funny, edgy, that kind of thing. I mentioned that lengthy and graphic accounts of his and his mates’ early masturbation episodes were just eeeuuw and hinted that he was creepy at times.
A few defenders appeared, but not many. As one perceptive commenter said, he was perfectly attuned to the UK market. The Great Colonial Intellectual, but ugly and self deprecating with it.
Don’t get me wrong, I like a lot of his later writing, and his death (as was typical, discussed by him in public) was dignified.
But, I get the impression that his whole adult life was a fake, an act.
It would be good to obtain some understanding of what is behind the North Burnett Council shutting down the FTA retransmission tower.
I’ve not been able to find any useful discussion regarding the decision or any reaction to what appears on the surface to be outrageous.
You would inagine that FTA execs would be climbing all over the Bogan Barbie reminding her of who it is that propagates her endless propaganda.
Perhaps there is coverage from another facility but I can’t identify one.
Chalmers is one of the idiot Swans minions. Says it all.
Cs 137 is very common in my industry. Used in Geophysical logging for density scans. There’s literally kilos of it in small amounts getting about daily on the roads, even in cities with mobs like Construction Sciences or Cardno. Chances are if you see a DG placard with radioactive on a ute it will have Cs 137 on board.
Oh and a logger I once knew reckoned the dose you would get being close to it is smaller than the radiation exposure at 38,000ft for a 2hr flight.
My DiL is almost finished her Phd and has been frustrated by the Uni because her work has practical outcomes that she has awards for. I can’t say what it is as it would identify her. There is only one other person in Australia that is doing the same work, facing the same problems. Academia doesn’t like measured outcomes.
Maybe, but could be asserted for many people with a public persona. I liked the line in his book of poems “Sentenced to Life”:
When Bruce Bilson was small business minister he was lobbied to change the rules regarding the old 457 visa.
I’m not sure how many full time employees you need now for the 482, but back then it was 5.
Plus you needed to pay an employer application fee plus an employer annual fee.
He was lobbied so anyone with an ABN could access the program as long a job had been advertised for 3 months and not filled. And the 457 visa applicant was paid award wages.
Apparently he was open to it but then was soundly put in his place by the blob.
I didn’t know Peter Lloyd was banned but apparently he’s back.
This was his finest moment:
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1619161565806346240
“but the electorate isn’t completely bereft of common sense just yet. “
Maybe not in middle and working class Australia but there is an absence of common sense in the Teal electorates, and I know this because I live in one. I noticed it strongly in the lead up to May last year. It was a Teal cult, full of hysterical females. Grotesque. I still shudder when I think of how, even going to my local IGA I was regularly accosted by female Teals.
The Teal phenomenon was driven by wealthy women, financed by an uber wealthy Svengali male. I think a lot of men who were married or partnered with these women went a long with it for a quiet life. I’m not sure they’d do it again. I’m beginning to think that Wentworth will be won back by the Liberals in 2025.
Small businesses are closing due to lack of staff, not wage levels. Demand is high enough to pay for the workers if they existed.
They’re closing after years of Government COVID destruction, and the fact that many potential workers have decided that they prefer sitting around on their arse, to doing pretty much anything else.
” I’m beginning to think that Wentworth will be won back by the Liberals in 2025.”
But I should add that the Liberals cannot rely on these electorates anymore to win government.
Greens preferences will flow to non-Liberal candidates until Greens start picking off more seats in their own right.
Current demographics pretty much show that is a matter of time.
Looking closely at the photo, there’s an octagonal sign facing the train. Perhaps the doofi on the tracks imagine it’s for the locomotive and not the oncoming traffic? 😀
On Mater, I seem to remember him talking about relocating out of Victoriastan, which would mean new schools, new house, new jobs. No small thing. I will be patient for news.
“Kowtow proles”.
See? I only needed two words.
Hmm, I could economize to one word: “fascism”.
Seems to be the fad this millennium. Chalmers would look good in black and silver.
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A choice of PhD subject sure to ingratiate one with the Labor party hierarchy as an obvious true believer and reliable toady.
What is political science? Is there calculus or chemistry involved?
Hmm, let’s see:
Ah yes, the old Peter Costello wheeze. He’ll only deign to grace us with his leadership if he is dragooned into it by a cadre of adoring sycophants. That always works.
that wong chap can suck a golf ball through a hose
I believe I had Covid in late 2019. It resulted in long term symptoms which I documented on here at the time, including partial loss of sight in one eye in 2020.
Arky, this is most interesting. As you first contracted Covid in late 2019, you were obviously unvaccinated. And yet you went on to suffer what we now call “Long Covid” for some period. The partial loss of sight in one eye is devastating, and something that I have not heard of re the post viral symptoms. And the subsequent infection with Omicron too, in my experience, is unusual in the unvaccinated.
If only the global medical community had doubled down on independent research in respect to this gain-of-function virus, instead of allowing Big Pharma carte blanche, we might understand a great deal more about this virus & be better prepared for the bio weapons that remain menacingly on the horizon.
Directed evolution
..
V.
I remain unvaccinated.
“Greens preferences will flow to non-Liberal candidates until Greens start picking off more seats in their own right.
Current demographics pretty much show that is a matter of time.”
When Albo vacates Grayndler and Plibbers vacates Sydney, both will fall to the Greens.
Ah yes, the old Peter Costello wheeze. He’ll only deign to grace us with his leadership if he is dragooned into it by a cadre of adoring sycophants.
I would have walked to hell and back to have had Peter Costello remain in Parliament.
Oh wait. We all ended up there – but Costello had the last laugh.
Johanna:
The argument has validity. Not a huge amount, and probably the real reason is someone has stuffed up somewhere, but the ‘Radioactive source in the community’ angle has been jumped onto very quickly.
Interesting stuff. The compound they use is 137 caesium chloride, which glows blue because of its own radiation.
That caused the infamous Goiania accident:
“The Goiania accident was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on September 13, 1987, in Goiania, Goias, Brazil, after a forgotten radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many people, resulting in four deaths.
…
On September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule’s aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created.[1] He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite. … On September 18, Alves sold the items to a nearby scrapyard. That night, Devair Alves Ferreira, the owner of the scrapyard, noticed the blue glow from the punctured capsule. Thinking the capsule’s contents were valuable or even supernatural, he immediately brought it into his house. Over the next three days, he invited friends and family to view the strange glowing substance.
On September 21, at the scrapyard, one of Ferreira’s friends (identified as “EF1″ in the IAEA report) succeeded in freeing several rice-sized grains of the glowing material from the capsule using a screwdriver. Ferreira began to share some of them with various friends and family members. … The day before the sale to the third scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair’s brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on this floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. Dust from the powder fell on the egg she was consuming; she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, more than a fatal dose even with treatment.”
The poor people had no idea, and thought the old radiotherapy emitter was a nice bit of scrap metal to sell. Then, in dismantling it, they found the crystals of radioactive caesium chloride. Pretty!
In 100 years, the only two federal politicians that will be looked upon favourably will be Keating (for super) & Costello (for the Future Fund).
The rest will be foot notes.
Tom:
Yep. …and the whole scam is so obvious.
The focus on Opus Dei is amusing.
The whining by the right of “this government is so terrible it is going to turn me into a Nazi” is not as convincing as you think it will be.
And that is before you get to radioactive medical diagnosis tools, microwaves, smoke detectors yada yada yada.
Priorities, folks, priorities! .. Luigi spent 4 and a half hours all-up in Alice Springs but 6 hours at the tennis yesterday with more visits scheduled …… FFS!
Markets in democratic countries were never designed. They evolved, albeit with some intervention at times. Essentially they evolved through the interplay of demand and supply. For Chalmers to talk about markets being poorly designed shows ignorance, or is it deceit aimed at convincing the reader that markets can be designed, followed by conceit that “only he and maximum leader have the foresight to lead our country to the great reset where the markets are perfect and the economy controlled. Communism anybody?
You’re ass backwards again Monty. Maybe you should view the vid.
The government are the ones who’re turning into Nazis, or at least fascists.
As is clear from history: fascism is totalitarian socialism allied with big business.
Looks like we’re about to get exactly that. Don’t you just love lefties? They never learn.
Just trying to remember what it was the Libs did that made me switch to vote, donate and volunteer Labor.
Ohhh that’s right. Not the guns, but Trumble.
And after Bernardi and his lot… FMD, is no-one worth spit in that party? The remaining Lib ought to have something, but so far I haven’t seen him distinguished from Trumble in his words, and as for his actions… are there any?
They’re all fascist monty. What we demand is some well earned restraint.
Bewdiful!
Mainly because of his broad grin as the headless chook feminazi goes right on to prove his point.
Very well put. Chalmers doesn’t understand what a market is. They’re not really a mechanism.
They’re a process.
m0ntysays:
January 28, 2023 at 12:36 pm
He’s part of a government that won around 32% of the primary vote!
The Libs need about 45% primary to win in the current environment, where so many minor-party preferences flow back to Labor. They’re almost ten points behind that federally. They are the ones who should be more worried about primaries.
The resident wrongologist has spoken.
Libs for the win nextelection.
Correct.
Talking about “the design of markets” is to misunderstand the organic nature of a true market.
The first argument made by the actual Nazis was that their opponents were all communists. The second argument was that their opponents were the totalitarians, not them. Sound familiar?
Godwin’s Law exists for a reason, and that is because invoking Nazis quickly degenerates any online discussion and almost invariably leads to misuse of the analogy.
Ed Casesays:
January 28, 2023 at 1:05 pm
Googleory, there’s not a rabbit hole you won’t sniff on your way to the bottom of the barrel.
Not 100% sure where you’re coming from there, old fella, so i’ll clarify that I was referring to Joe Bugner, not Albanese.
Richard Cranium
Forget about that, have you yet worked out which Kermit Roosevelt was the son of Teddy, and which was the grandson?
Chalmers is just Shane Wand with massive ears.
The Wrongologist
Germany also managed a massive immigration surge starting in 2015, and now has more than a million asylum seekers from Syria and such places integrated into its economy.
First, that was the beginning of the end for Mutti Merkel.
Second, “integrated into its economy” is a strange way to spell “mostly on welfare”.
Don’t forget criminal.
The only clue provided is the teenager’s name: Daniel Harris.
Correct.
Since the turn of the century, the dregs of academia left in tenured position have judged their entire output on its ideological impact on society and its potential for radical change — nothing to do with any old-fashioned concept of science, objective truth and testable falsifiability.
Truth. Fascists and communists fought each other all over Europe.
Fratricidal lefties.
The only thing they really disagreed about is whether to allow big business to operate or to nationalize it. The proles didn’t get a say. It’s interesting that we’re seeing a momentum towards fascism from the EU, the Democrats, China, Canada and here in Australia. The elites know what’s best for the proles. Eat the damn bugs Monty.
JC
Doofus, pre-covid we were allowing in around 250,000 people a year. That’s .01% of the population.
The famous German move to allow 1 million refs into Germany wasn’t as big deal as you think it was.
1,000,000/80,000,000 is .0125%, which was just a wiggle more than our annual rate. Germany’s was a one time thing. Remain silent please.
Both of your percentages are out by the same amount, so your point stands.
Forget about that, have you yet worked out which Kermit Roosevelt was the son of Teddy, and which was the grandson?
You googled Joe Bugner, didn’t you?
Sucked in again.
The new, “angry meatsuit” m0nty=fa is more voluble, but just as unintelligent.
No wonder he failed Economics 1.