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Covid Related News: ICD codes have been changed to track uninjected people and Bill Gates isn’t entirely sure whether he’s God
When I wrote about innate immunity and adaptive immunity in the largest mainstream media in Indonesia, I thought it would not pass the censorship. ¹ Some of my previous writings criticizing covid handling policies usually did not pass the censorship. They were postponed even though they were not rejected. The article is a demand for our government to revoke the pandemic and mandatory vaccine policies. The reason is simple because the pandemic is caused by the coronavirus. The coronavirus belongs to the RNA virus class. RNA viruses have an extraordinary mutation speed. Since the 1990s, researchers have realized the problem. Especially in relation to vaccine development. ²
All vaccines developed from RNA viruses have failed to perform their function. The most famous is, of course, the case of polio. There have been many adverse events related to the administration of the polio vaccine, including minor complaints in the form of allergies to deaths which have been recorded when administering the polio vaccine.
VAPP and VDPV are two terms that have emerged as adverse effects of polio vaccine administration. VAPP (vaccine associated poliomyelitis paralysis) is the incidence of polio caused by vaccine administration, whereas VDPV (vaccine derived poliomyelitis virus) is the incidence of polio in people infected by vaccine recipients. ³
That is what I based my rejection of the Covid 19 vaccination on, and not on various conspiracy theories that are widely discussed. I based it on the cause of the disease published by WHO itself. The funny thing is that WHO even ignores various previous scientific findings about the RNA virus.
Research on the speed of mutation of RNA viruses has been a concern for a long time. One of them was carried out in the development of the Sabin polio vaccine. Virus strains were collected and cultured for several years. Subsequently, the dominant strains were selected. These dominant strains are used as seeds in vaccine development. Another method is used in influenza vaccine development. Dominant strains of the virus are collected from different regions, and a polyvalent vaccine is then developed.
However, these approaches could not slow down or overcome the speed of mutation of RNA viruses. So the conclusion of using adaptive immunity to overcome RNA virus infection is futile. Innate immunity is the most appropriate and rational way to overcome RNA virus infection.
The results of these studies seemed to be harassed during the Covid 19 pandemic. Every vaccine development company is racing as fast as possible to produce a vaccine for covid 19, even though, like other RNA viruses, it has an extraordinary mutation speed. Some studies have produced transcription errors that trigger mutations per 10 nucleotides for the corona virus, while overall, in RNA viruses the transcription error is per 10³ – 10 nucleotides. The time required ranges from 4 – 8 hours.
In 1 day, there are no less than 3 mutations. In 1 month, 90 mutations have occurred. So, the changes that occur will be quite large. The compatibility of antibodies produced from vaccines will not last long. Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, smartly said that the effectiveness of the vaccine decreases over time. It is not the antibody titer that decreases but the compatibility that decreases. Unfortunately, this compatibility was never mentioned by Bourla.
But the most remarkable thing is the WHO. All WHO officials approved the use of the covid 19 vaccines, even though they know the compatibility will not last long. Likewise, the mainstream media adds terror by calling the antivax irresponsible, even though they should be responsible for spreading the irrationality of the pandemic.
Maybe one day our children and grandchildren will record in history that the worst in the covid pandemic is the irrationality pandemic. This irrationality afflicts most of Earth’s population today. Regardless of the purpose of spreading this irrationality, I hope this is the last time. Panic always breeds bad decisions. Stay calm under any circumstances. Hopefully, we can decide every issue with the best possible outcome.
China, with a single balloon, mocks and weakens America
By Cheryl K. Chumley – The Washington Times – Friday, February 3, 2023
OPINION:
China can deny, dismiss and apologize all it wants — the fact is, a balloon owned by the communist country found floating over Montana sends a clear, compelling and even chilling message to the world that goes like this: America is weak.
America, under Joe Biden’s presidential leadership, is very, very weak and vulnerable.
And that means the world’s bad actors are sitting up, taking notice and plotting accordingly for an offense — even as America’s allies of the world are similarly sitting up, taking notice, and planning accordingly for a defense.
Buckle up. We’re headed for a time of testing — and perhaps worse.
If Team Biden allows China to fly a balloon into domestic skies, and does nothing, what is to be expected but another balloon, another incursion into U.S. space, another encroachment of America’s lands, another flex of foreign muscle and flip of middle finger to the once-great, once-unrivaled power of the United States?
“The United States government has detected and is tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon that is flying over the continental United States,” said Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, ABC News reported. “NORAD continues to track and monitor it closely.”
Great. The North American Aerospace Defense Command is on the job. They’re tracking the balloon; they’re watching the balloon; they’re setting their detection and detective sights entirely on the balloon. The only thing they’re not doing is stopping the balloon.
Republican after Republican after Republican in Congress may call on Biden to “shoot it down.” But Biden doesn’t want to go that route.
“Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US,” CNN wrote.
Team Biden is worried that shooting it might put citizens in danger. They’re probably worried about pollution more than people; no doubt, at least one of the pinheads serving in Biden’s chain of command has probably had a thought, more than one thought, actually, about the potential environmental impacts an exploding balloon might bring — not to mention the contamination that might come to the groundwater from falling metal shells. This is the administration, after all, that employs John Kerry as climate czar, the same John Kerry who used his previous secretary of state platform to push the idea that climate change was as big a threat as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. What’s a little communist spying on America when the bigger danger is the weather, right?
Besides, if China’s spy balloon is actually a weather balloon, as the nation’s foreign ministry has hastily stated, then wait for it, wait for it, this White House could actually make the case the communists were simply conducting some necessary climate tests; simply collecting some crucial climate data.
“It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes,” one Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, CNN wrote. “Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course. The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into U.S. airspace due to force majeure.”
Ahh, that’s it. It was the Westerlies, dontcha know. The Westerlies and the force majeure, a particularly nasty combination.
Well, whatever it was, whatever is is, surveillance system or the wicked winds of “Westerlies,” Biden shouldn’t allow it to float on, all the while his generals sit and watch. The world already knows America’s borders with Mexico are opened wide to anyone who wants to cross by foot or vehicle. Do we have to open the skies just as wide as well?
Doing nothing actually does quite a bit.
It tells the world America is even weaker and more vulnerable that initially believed. And given enough time, that will lead to a whole lot of something — and it will be something that’s a lot more devastating, dangerous and deadly than balloons.
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This has to be garbage.
Dry run: Balloons called top ‘delivery platform’ for nuclear EMP attack
It could hardly be more clear that they’re ginning up a war with China.
FMD what a vomit inducing read. Full of nothingness.
But lots of lies from the American left slightly rejigged for down here.
I call bullshit!
So why didn’t they shoot it down or get it to descend before it left airspace they control?
We had our own Chinese balloon here a few years ago when that spy ship tied up in Sydney harbour. I’ll bet there’s a nice sonar map of the harbour bottom in a Chinese locker somewhere. They must laugh at us in Beijing.
Tinta:
The second paragraph is mine -not the flyinduks. (I just wanted to get in first so he doesn’t get blamed.
Me:
Tinta:
Yes. I thought that aspect was so obvious as to go without saying, so I didn’t say it.
Mind you there is a significant minority of the men who have been crushed by the medical teams, the legislation, and the toxic feminists, who are also dominated and encouraged by peer groups.
It’s just an unholy bloody mess that is going to snowball catastrophically unless our legislators stop trying to placate a noisy and aggressive minority by surrendering to their lunatic ideas.
A cracker of a week in pictures.
We had our own Chinese balloon here a few years ago when that spy ship tied up in Sydney harbour. I’ll bet there’s a nice sonar map of the harbour bottom in a Chinese locker somewhere. They must laugh at us in Beijing.
and people like hoWARd and Keating seemed to think it was oh so clever to get our clothing, electrical equipment, our medicines made cheaply in a hostile country. Like they were doing it for love or something.
That would suit Pooh Bear. You suspect he is running out of time. How’s that Doomsday clock going?
You done messed up A-A-Ron genesis.
Dr F
Dangerous new depths.
A surprisingly grotesque little man.
Little in every way, but particularly morally and politically.
So, the Lark was chosen as a cruiser but the Cruiser wasn’t. 🙂
Flyingduk:
A fun thing to do would have been to fit a missile – like you suggest – to a WW2 prop driven fighter. I understand the balloon came down to about 35,000 feet. The P51D has a ceiling of just under 42,000 ft.
That would be a subtle one up over Xi.
Always starts with something reasonable.
Little opposition in the past against random searches or excluding unvaccinated kid from education.
The US is treading very cautiously with China, clearly. They don’t need the Chinese getting any closer to Russia with Ukraine still hot, they don’t want to show off their tech advantage in space especially if Taiwan comes into play. And there is the inept WH .Unless it’s a woke issue they can safely beat citizens over the head with they are at sixes and sevens how to deal with it. Also, who knows what dirt the CCP has on the Bidens and the Dems.
Bruce of N, Can you help?
Our son needs to do some work on a kayak. Does silicone sealant affect the plastics used to make them?
The Left thinks anyone who wants a gun is mad. So by definition if you have one you must be mentally ill therefore plod can take it off you…
What looks, acts and smells like a Global News Cartel and just got hit by an Antitrust lawsuit…
By Jo Nova
It’s a news cartel begging to be busted
Media Bias, voting behaviour of journalists.Tony Thomas at Quadrant not only alerted me to the TNI but also to the news that a lawsuit has been filed in the US for damages and to break it up:
…on January 10 President John Kennedy’s nephew, Robert F Kennedy Jr, in a Texas District Court launched an anti-trust lawsuit for treble damages from TNI’s biggest news providers, namely the BBC, Washington Post, and global news syndicators Reuters and Associated Press. He wants TNI disbanded as an unlawful cartel. He cites the BBC because of its TNI lead role and US commercial operations involving millions of users.[1] The Kennedy lawsuit is here.[2] His brief says “It is also an action to defend the freedom of speech and of the press.”
This is rather like the Big Money Cartel of bankers and asset managers like BlackRock who are now facing anti-trust legal action all of their own.
The suit names the BBC because they were “the leaders” in at the start. But Thomas points out that the consequences are uncertain for the ABC, SBS and others. Though they are not named in the suit, they can still be liable:
The suit says,
Each participant in an antitrust conspiracy is jointly and severally liable for all the damages (including treble damages and attorneys’ fees) caused by the conspiracy, and the victims of an unlawful antitrust conspiracy are not required to sue all participants therein. (My emphasis, p93).
Thomas sent questions to the ABC and SBS in Australia asking them if they are involved in the lawsuit; whether they had advised their Minister about the potential legal exposure, and for details of how they had been implementing TNI policies.
None have so far replied.
Perhaps it’s time for an FOI?
By combining the major news and social media outlets, little competitors could be crushed
Even the media outlets that are not members of TNI would get this message — stray from the line and Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter (pre Elon Musk) will hurt you:
Apparently the new airline Bonza has cheap tickets on sale, I went to the website and there’s no way to see what’s available or how to book, not much at all, except for the racist ramble on respecting aboriginals.
Seems to get any real info you must download their app. I rarely use a phone for anything except calls and texts so I’m excluded I suppose.
https://www.flybonza.com/
The Cochrane Review on Masks is Damning:
Mask mandates never had any grounds in reality. People assaulted by police or fined should be compensated and the government should apologise to the public. In fact, a Royal Commission on this and other measures is entirely justified. We need to know what was said, the arguments put forward, the evidence considered, etc. and who made these decisions.
If they even introduce mental health checks for Western Australians I’ll have to move again. But if it’s like the Covid clinics I’ve probably got enough time.
What Akerman doesn’t mention is that Morosi had previously worked in Lionel Murphy’s Office and that her husband was a Spook.
And Jimmy was a Flamer, he missed that too.
BJ – I have no practical experience on such things sorry, so I won’t get myself in trouble by answering. 😀
I think Eyrie is the guy to ask, since he does similar work.
Time to ditch Belong services (Belong is part of Telstra Wholesale, providing NBN, mobile), their customer comms now contain the footnote:
“We acknowledge the truth: that Australia contains hundreds of nations, spanning 65,000 years, and we live and work on land unceded by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.”
Quite apart from the gross historical inaccuracy, who’s the ‘we’, hombre?
Angered Neil Oliver – The Governing Class -vs- The Governed
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A message surely to us Aussies in the video.
Spooks and flamers. I don’t know how Mother puts up with you.
Or go to ground.
It’s a big State, they might miss you.
“Hello I’m Yossarian. I’m here to renew my Drivers License and mental health check.”
“Take a number.”
It was another ALP BS plot, like the absurd “Australia Day Riots”.
There needs to be a Royal Commission into the ALP.
It’s always nice when the government introduces a program to decide who is or is not “mentally ill”.
The soviets deemed those opposed to communism “mentally ill”
The government believes those who avoid the covid vaccine are “mentally ill”
Don’t worry though, the doctors/analysts will be an independent body, with a questionnaire from the government, being threatened with their licence to practice if they do not ‘meet their quota’.
I’m sure every WA firearm owner has nothing to worry about.
Also, this will be rolled out Australia wide within 3 years.
I see Albanese’s unwinning personality is afoot:
If you oppose the Voice you want to ignite a culture war, which in this instance is a synonym for a race war.
He just can’t help himself.
And let’s not forget Bananaby Joyce going into a mad panic when he found out Sal was in da house.
My favourite was the grovelling apology from the ATO, assuring him that the offending auditor had been moved on.
Apology letter from the ATO?
Sure.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Republicans are ramping up their investigation into alleged influence-peddling by President Joe Biden’s family, including what they say are shady transactions involving Chinese companies.
Expect full public disclosure by the CCP just before China starts on its Taiwan project.
If they even introduce mental health checks for Western Australians I’ll have to move again.
Introduced a few years ago.
Basically, if you didn’t get your COVID shot plus booster, Snickers is interested in probing you.
Thank God he’s on our side.
If you oppose the Voice you want to ignite a culture war, which in this instance is a synonym for a race war.
Albanese is FECCAs point man on the change to the Constitution.
And what FECCA wants, FECCA gets.
Ask Tony Abbott.
Within every leftard is an aggrieved totalitarian. If they don’t see/get compliance, it quickly moves onto coercion and then punishment if rejected. If the Voice doesn’t get up , this grub will spend his days trying to get even , to the extent that he won’t harm his chances at the trough. So, yes a failed Voice will mean uber culture war and financial punishment on those fkg Tories who denied my place in history.
Aborigines ceded their land when time they moved off that land, in search of whitefella’s beef and tea, flour and tobacco.
Doc Faustus:
Typical Marxist – accuse everyone else for what they’re doing.
FECCA represents the ethnics.
I’d say they could produce a scary number of marchers when the Rallies start up.
I’d never heard of FECCA until they told Tony Abbott not to repeal S 18[c]
and his positive response exceeded the Speed of Light.
They then disappeared for 9 years until the Announcement that they were 100% united around the Voice.
Which sounds kinda odd, since your average SubCon, Arab, African and South American wouldn’t piss on an Aborigine even if he was on fire?
Disappointing there does not seem to be any Bentleys in the 12 hour. Sure it is largely fibreglass and bolt-on bits but it is more the idea. I’ll ask my man to speak to the chaps when mine goes in for a service.
I see Faustus was already on to it.
Seems Albanese is aspiring to be the Joe Biden of Australia.
Nasty and stupid.
Bruce O’Nuke:
There was one yesterday evening I think using Brave – so perhaps a little inventive buggery from the big boys against the competition.
The point is that we are seeing a loss of trust that larger market players are going to compete fairly.
A quick google (eek, I know) however reveals that the AIM 9c was a variant with radar guidance.
Duk, I think the 9 charlie was withdrawn long ago. If you need a radar missile the AIM-120 AMRAAM is the way to go. The story I read said it was a 9X which has an imaging infrared (read camera) seeker.
The Chinese payload with solar panels for the electronics which would have waste heat and solar heating was obviously hot enough above the background for the missile to lock and track.
I wonder how hard the US gov is looking for the payload? I’d give 50:50 they were unable to find and recover. So sad. If you can believe anything a government says.
The really amusing thing is how the payload communicated home. Was there a satellite dish facing upwards? Starlink? Or just cellphones with American sim cards using the internet.
Balloons can indeed be steered by changing altitude. Look at Windy and Ventusky. The latter has winds at 30,000 meters. Easterlies. The in between altitude winds will be modeled and available if you know where to look. Winds at the tropopause (anywhere from 25000 feet or lower on polar regions going to over 50,000 feet in the tropics are generally westerly with a fair bit of north south component at times. Somewhere in between the windspeed becomes low. A certain U-2 pilot now resident in Toowoomba told me that the winds at 70,000 were generally 20 knots or less and the air was smooth as glass.
Makka at 11:03 – see also Lord Waffleworth, Howard and the Lieborals.
Shouldn’t this have a trigger warning for Groogs? We’ll try and get him for the Helldrivers AGM.
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Boambee John,
Our son needs to do some work on a kayak. Does silicone sealant affect the plastics used to make them?
Silicone sealant is safe on epoxy, vinylester and polyester resins. Also on the polyethylene etc that blow moulded kayaks are made of. With the latter you don’t have much choice. If it is epoxy, vinylester, polyester resin + glass/carbon/kevlar construction, don’t use silicone. Buy some West System epoxy and some glass and do it right.
A certain U-2 pilot now resident in Toowoomba
Interesting bloke. He was flying Hunters in the RAF when asked if he’d like to fly an interesting aircraft. They sent him to the US to train on the U-2. He did one flight over Russia from Norway to Turkey. Landed after 9 hours with 6 minutes gas. This a couple of overflights before the Powers shoot down.
Luigi the Unbelievable of the Immaculate Dentata is proof Trot’s get older but never grow up.
Thanks OldOzzie. I can see them from the link and always check if there’s a dead link. One was baby Yoda and the other Mr Potatohead.
I won’t do it any more if there is a problem.
Trots are all for Endless Revolution. They can’t grow up and remain a Trot.
Wikileaks releases Moon Landing cut scenes filmed in the Nevada Desert.
Starring Buzz Aldrin!
Bitc hute
https://www.bit chute.com/video/yHVPHOw1Mq4Z/?fbclid=IwAR05j6YP7P13ZeZjL_UP-eXZxklFxL3yWUe465LRBAWCNyhzU4_7xXXDoHQ
Cassie earlier.
The other reason is there might be a presence of fish blood, guts and heads in the water. Last time I was down in Coastal Town I noticed a new roofed structure down by the boat ramp.
BBQ?
Picnic shelter?
Nup.
A fully plumbed and sewered fish cleaning centre. Apparently a shark had taken a decent sized seal within sight of the ramp a while back.
calli says:
February 5, 2023 at 11:28 am
OldOzzie says:
February 5, 2023 at 8:48 am
Thanks OldOzzie. I can see them from the link and always check if there’s a dead link. One was baby Yoda and the other Mr Potatohead.
I won’t do it any more if there is a problem.
calli,
just post link – Mister Potato head
and Baby Yoda – How to politely tell someone they are stupid
Bespoke:
Years ago, the government wanted to bring in motorcycle helmets and a regulatory regime with financial penalties. We asked NRMA et al, for support because if that one got through then seatbelts and a blizzard of fines were on the cards.
They laughed at us.
Our mistake was to assume the motoring bodies represented the drivers and owners of cars.
They didn’t. They represented their own sinecures and ticket clipping positions while being in thrall to the governments that guaranteed the monopoly.
The U.S. has shot down the Chinese Spy Balloon off of the coast of the Carolinas.
Thanks Old Ozzie. Too fast for my own good.
I should take Baby Yoda’s advice…and yours!
I think we do.
China’s Xi has ordered military to be ready for Taiwan invasion by 2027, CIA Director Burns says
CIA Director William Burns has revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s army “to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion” of Taiwan.
Cartoon Gary Varvel – Sat, Feb 04 “I can confirm it’s from China”
A lot of people owe their livelihood to the myth of zero road deaths.
A doctor recently had a patient drop in on him for an unscheduled appointment. “What can I do for you today?” the Doctor asked. The aged Gentleman replied “Doctor, you must help me. Every time I make love to my wife, my eyes get all bleary, my legs go weak, I can hardly catch my breath. Doc, I’m scarred!” The doctor, looking at his 86 year old patient, said “Mr. Smith, these sensations tend to happen over time, especially to a man of your advanced years, but tell me, when did you first notice these symptoms?” The old gent’s response was “Well… three times last night, and twice again this morning!”
I enjoyed that Lotocoti. Never did trust those Bratz dolls.
The culture war is opposing the latest assault on common sense launched by leftists/ liberals.
Don’t waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind.
– Mary Schmich
NKP that was good and yes.
Premium
Is Joe Biden a Chinese Asset?
BY MATT MARGOLIS
Ever since the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Obama administration cooked up the Russia collusion hoax, Donald Trump has faced accusations of being “a Russian asset,” and the media gladly used anti-Trump former government officials to help keep Trump’s loyalties in question in the eyes of the public.
For example, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was in on the Russiagate hoax, helped perpetuate the myth that Trump was in cahoots with Russia by claiming in 2018 that Putin was “handling” Trump like an “asset.” We know there was never any evidence of Trump ever colluding with Russia, yet, when a highly partisan Obama administration official working in intelligence made such accusations, it lent an air of legitimacy to the conspiracy theory.
Naturally, this gave the media plenty of cover to openly discuss the issue as if it were a valid concern. In 2019, CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, “Do you still believe the President could be a Russian asset?”
“I think it’s possible,” McCabe said. “I think that’s why we started our investigation, and I’m really anxious to see where (special counsel Robert) Mueller concludes that.”
There are tons of examples of the media openly discussing or presenting “evidence” of Trump’s nefarious relationship with Russia — and they haven’t stopped even after he left office. Left-wing rag Slate, for example, wrote in 2021 about how there’s new “evidence” that Trump helped Russia “manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.” You can’t get any more tin-foil-hat-crazy than this, yet rabid anti-Trumpism gives so many in the media cause to report even the most absurd things about Trump with aplomb.
Related: Sending Money to ‘Joe Biden’s Crackhead Son’ Sure Is Helping China Now, Says Tucker Carlson
Yet, for some reason, the mainstream media doesn’t seem to be asking the same questions about Joe Biden and China. Lord knows there actually is evidence that Joe Biden has had a long and profitable relationship with China, either directly or through his son Hunter’s shady foreign business deals.
In fact, any effort by conservative media to raise the question has the media running interference for Biden. Mediate quickly accused Fox News’s Jesse Watters of floating a “bonkers conspiracy theory” that Biden is a Chinese asset when the classified documents scandal first broke. But now, in light of the Chinese spy balloon that has been discovered in the skies above the United States, many are asking why the Biden administration didn’t shoot it down when it had the chance when the balloon was over the sparsely-populated Montana countryside. It was a fair question, but it turns out that the window of opportunity to shoot down without risk of civilian casualties was even bigger than previously thought.
On Friday, we learned that the Biden administration had actually been tracking the spy balloon ever since it left China, As Tucker Carlson pointed out on Friday, had it been a Russian spy balloon, it would have been quickly shot down at the earliest opportunity.
Even Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat representing Montana, wants answers for the Biden administration’s actions — or, more accurately, inaction. “China’s actions are a clear threat to those values and to America’s national security, and I’m demanding answers from the Biden Administration. I will be pulling people before my committee to get real answers on how this happened, and how we can prevent it from ever happening again,” Tester said in a statement.
Joe Biden’s handling of China raises a lot of questions, especially considering his shady history with the Chinese. Yet the mainstream media, which has been openly questioning whether Trump was (or is) a Russia asset for years, doesn’t seem interested in asking the most obvious question about Joe Biden.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 5, 2023 at 10:19 am
Mental health checks for WA’s gun owners to become mandatory under changes to firearms laws
The Left thinks anyone who wants a gun is mad.
Except their own security guards, who protect the leftards from mad righties, and are therefore sane.
They’ll do it online as part of a registration process. The back end will be handled by a bespoke version of chatGPT.
I was wearing a bicycle helmet on the road before they became compulsory. Now I can’t take it off on a bike path.
The F-22 pilot who shot down the balloon likely got himself a new callsign: “Loon”.
Mental health checks for WA’s gun owners to become mandatory under changes to firearms laws
How about mental health checks on WApig? Weed out the totalitarian thugs. Start at the top.
Or mental health checks on politicians?
What Akerman doesn’t mention is that Morosi had previously worked in Lionel Murphy’s Office and that her husband was a Spook.
And Jimmy was a Flamer, he missed that too.
Richard Cranium gets both Spook and Flamer on his guesswork bingo card.
Eyrie, Can you help?
Our son needs to do some work on a kayak. Does silicone sealant affect the plastics used to make them?
They are already filled in to save time.
Eyrie
Sorry, should have scanned down. Thank you very much.
Ed Casesays:
February 5, 2023 at 11:02 am
If you oppose the Voice you want to ignite a culture war, which in this instance is a synonym for a race war.
Albanese is FECCAs point man on the change to the Constitution.
And what FECCA wants, FECCA gets.
Ask Tony Abbott.
I don’t think that indigenes come under FECCA. Are you suggesting that the referendum on the Voice is just a plot with FECCA to stiff the aborigines? Or are you just in need of a mental health check?
Used to know a bloke who was writing a biography of Jim Cairns during the Whitlam years.I t kept getting delayed because things kept happening. I remember him telling me that Cairns’ wife who had a low public profile referred to Morosi as “bitchface” and clearly had no doubts as to the relationship.
Mention of FECCA seems to trigger your OCD, SpongeBob.
Anything you’d like to share?
Thanks to eugyppius for this nugget from the NSW Health Minister in 2003, when it appeared that sanity may have prevailed.
Eyriesays:
February 5, 2023 at 11:22 am
Boambee John,
Our son needs to do some work on a kayak. Does silicone sealant affect the plastics used to make them?
Silicone sealant is safe on epoxy, vinylester and polyester resins. Also on the polyethylene etc that blow moulded kayaks are made of. With the latter you don’t have much choice. If it is epoxy, vinylester, polyester resin + glass/carbon/kevlar construction, don’t use silicone. Buy some West System epoxy and some glass and do it right.
Thanks, it is a simple job to replace a drain plug and seal the base, nothing structural. Will silicone be OK for that?
But moments of national decision, such as this referendum, are also an opportunity for our people to show their best qualities: their generosity, their sense of fairness, their optimism for the future.
Get f’cked Tennis Elbow.
I remember him telling me that Cairns’ wife who had a low public profile referred to Morosi as “bitchface” and clearly had no doubts as to the relationship.
There were no children, she was a beard, Jimmy was a lifelong Flamer.
Your cool story sounds a tad doubtful.
Sorry – Fair Trading minister. Maybe there was more sense there than in Health.
Groogs breaks his cover.
Can someone explain to me why, exactly, we have to lovingly separate our rubbish into three bins?
Supermarket giants to send tonnes of soft plastic to landfill (Sky News, 5 Feb)
Always entertaining when brutal, unforgiving reality collides with Green pipedreams.
The aborigines never seeded their land….but Bruce Pascoe saw them doing just that, surely.
Thanks, it is a simple job to replace a drain plug and seal the base, nothing structural. Will silicone be OK for that?
Should be. Clean the area thoroughly first.
Thanks, it is a simple job to replace a drain plug and seal the base, nothing structural. Will silicone be OK for that?
The blow moulded kayak fittings are pretty standard. If he’s lost the plug you might be able to find a replacement on EBay.
Taking the Ukraine war seriously? ..
This is a current info release from the Ukraine gummint .. LOL!
Together we are bringing light to Ukraine!
Ukrainians can exchange their old bulbs at the
Post Office for energy-efficient LED bulbs.
The EU is gladly providing 35 million of them.
Every kW of energy saved is precious to counter
Russia’s energy war ……
Yep, there’s a 101 kayak drain plugs on EBay.
Ed Casesays:
February 5, 2023 at 12:05 pm
Mention of FECCA seems to trigger your OCD, SpongeBob.
Anything you’d like to share?
Share your mental health assessment with me please.
I always find it illuminating when you dig a little into the lives of washed-up politicians / unionists.
You inevitably find they’re slumming it with the povs at Scotts Head when not frolicking with their entourage of dogs at upmarket Eastern Suburbs parks
There was never much doubt about this once a receiver was appointed. Not with what Deloittes pays for office space.
Technically it wasn’t Colesworths but some mummy blogger they had outsourced it on to while basking in the green glow.
Gougeon brother!
no – never use silicon on a boat. It makes subsequent repair a nightmare.
For bedding things like drain plugs etc, use sikaflex or similar 3M polyurethane products.
Sika 291 is probably what you want.
Eyrie
Thanks again.
Americana Lathe (Southbend). Can’t remember the name of the industrial designer that did the styling:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/cranbourne/power-tools/southbend-9-metal-lathe/1307890440
Actually the suggestion to use Sikaflex is a good one. Try to buy the smallest tube you can. Once opened it has a short shelf like.
Shatterzzz – I think this is a case of careful virtue signalling. You have to have a little pity for poor Mr Z. He somehow has to extract dosh and weapons from the EU and the US, both of which being currently governed by treacherous progressive lefties who think anyone who doesn’t use twisty bulbs is an evil person.
Cripes!
Mere mention of FECCA has the oldsters soiling their Depends [again].
Here’s FECCA on TWITTER, including Penny Wong’s recent speech in London castigating Colonialists [code for White People].
Look, SpongeBob, between you and FECCA, Australia will be a land of milk & honey on no time.
For sure.
I can remember Jim selling his book from a card table outside South Melbourne market.
He was late to embrace free enterprise and, judging by the pace of sales, it wasn’t kind to him.
Groogs have you been out in the Grampians again? What did Mother tell you?
Sancho, your memory be failing. Camberwell market, with all the cheap and senescent curios
South Melbourne market for dummies not diatribes.
dimmies
Regarding masks one of the nurses, Jaana, interviewed on Club Grubbery, said health workers knew the ones they were using were only good for 20 minutes. However every day they were bombarded with directives from Qld Health and staff gave up resisting. That made them more compliant for when the jabs came along.
Spellcheck is worse than Clippy ever was. Come back Bill all is forgiven. OK, except the vax stuff.
Did Jimmy father a child with Morosi?
Rusted on Labor women were furious about her role at the time, and it looks like the years haven’t dulled their rage much.
Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly
Buried lede from the former French CJ: “As to litigation, there is always the possibility that someone, someday will want to litigate matters relating to the Voice.”
The Voice as currently worded will be whatever 4 of 7 High Court judges say it is…
https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1622041535046090755
afr.com
Voice is low risk but high return
No really, if you think plagiarism is wrong, you’re just wacist.
South Melbourne is hard to mistake for Camberwell, but Salvatore probably doesn’t know that.
Cairns started conversing with me once at his book table in S Melb market.
Vain, pompous and both shoulders loaded with chips.
Failure can do that to people.
Duncann is right. Polyurethanes are great. Don’t use polysulphide on plastics. Ok on epoxy. Getting the surface clean is the hardest part.
“You inevitably find they’re slumming it with the povs at Scotts Head when not frolicking with their entourage of dogs at upmarket Eastern Suburbs parks”
Ah yes, Reba Meagher, one time squeeze of Joe Tripodi.
Assume the volume and area required have tripled, if not quadrupled.
I think it was around 2000 or so, but around then. The Economist came up with a stat about global landfill.
During the life of modern humanity, we had used, up to the time the piece was written, landfill that encompassed the following area.
The accumulated and ongoing landfill was 30 miles long , 3 miles wide, and 1 mile deep. Let’s say the figure is now 120 miles long, 9 miles wide, and 3 miles deep. Big deal.
Dumping crap into the sea is a different issue and that needs to stop.
Daily Mail.
Interesting Reference Site
https://digital.library.sydney.edu.au/nodes/browse/?meta=eyI2OSI6WyJhcHBsaWNhdGlvblwvcGRmIl0sIjQ2NCI6WyJhcHBsaWNhdGlvblwvcGRmIl0sIjQ4OCI6WyJhcHBsaWNhdGlvblwvcGRmIl0sIjUxNCI6WyJhcHBsaWNhdGlvblwvcGRmIl0sIjU0MyI6WyJhcHBsaWNhdGlvblwvcGRmIl0sIjExMDQiOlsiYXBwbGljYXRpb25cL3BkZiJdfQ==
rickw,
I enjoy the links you post to lathes and various machinery. I love machines. No idea if I would ever need a lathe though. Have spent time this morning mowing, then cleaning up a large branch that broke off a conifer and fell across the driveway a while back. Thank God for battery power tools. They are so easy to use and have really come a long way. I have an 18″ chainsaw and I bought a 6″ pruner a few weeks back.
I am not so much getting older as physically deteriorating. I also tip over easily. 😀 If/when I do fall the battery tools shut off instantly as your hand comes off the trigger. Bonus!
Beautiful day to be out in the garden.
Dammit, just took the van for a longer test run …. this time the bad side did heat up signficantly. Helpfully, it also started to smell of hot brake shoe so I guess it wasnt the bearing but I now have a diagnosis. Its an electric brake, and disconnecting the wire to the wheel did not cure it, so its a mechanical issue.
Will pull the hub when its cool enough to touch (got to over 100C) 🙁
The jacarandas right?
Appreciate your work, H.B.
Epoxy?
Silicone?
Polyester resin?
Are we still talking about eggs?
fortunately, Sika sticks like shit to the proverbial blanket.
Silicones are bad because they contaminate the surface. If you ever want to repair or paint later on, watch out!
Mother Lode – the modern man can cook and fix things – we are remarkable creatures that just keep trucking if you keep a constant supply of beer, cuddles and isolation in the shed when required.
rickwsays:
February 5, 2023 at 12:14 pm
Thanks, it is a simple job to replace a drain plug and seal the base, nothing structural. Will silicone be OK for that?
The blow moulded kayak fittings are pretty standard. If he’s lost the plug you might be able to find a replacement on EBay.
He got one from EBay, but the socket has a taper down to the thread, and the new plug is cylindrical.
Quality J’isming
duncanm
Thanks.
Its worse than that, we have known since the 1980s (1) that even surgical masks used by surgeons in operating theatres (ie microspitting into open wounds) not only were useless, they actually *increased* wound infections in the patients! This BTW is the *ideal* setting for medical masks – fresh mask, close range, open wound, droplet vector – if they dont work there, they dont work anywhere. Note that ALL studies which find mask usage is useless report that in their numbers, but then equivocate about the results in the discussion – its just too big a bridge to conclude what the data show- that masks are useless or harmful.
And now, to add to what the Danmask (2) study told us, we have the definitive meta analysis (3) showing masking is also ineffective as a control measure for covid.
It was always about control – this is why we put bridles on horses, muzzles on dogs, and burkas on women.
1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1853618/
2) https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-6817
3) https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-2023-cochran-review-on-physical
Too much reconciliation is never enough
Latrell, Wighton arrested over alleged nightclub fight
“Close mates Latrell Mitchell and Jack Wighton spent a night in police cells after an alleged fight with each other”
Paywalled at the Terrorgraph, so not going to linky it
Too much reconciliation is never enough
Latrell, Wighton arrested over alleged nightclub fight
“Close mates Latrell Mitchell and Jack Wighton spent a night in police cells after an alleged fight with each other”
Paywalled at the DT, so not going to linky it
Ed Casesays:
February 5, 2023 at 12:35 pm
Did Jimmy father a child with Morosi?
Rusted on Labor women were furious about her role at the time, and it looks like the years haven’t dulled their rage much.
Richard Cranium
Get the story straight, you previously told us he was a lifelong Flamer with no kids.
test!
Can anyone point me to anything positive that Dodson has achieved, other than to line his pockets?
He looks good in a white man’s hat.
Davey Boy,
there is a decent story about it at the Daily Mail.
And you have no respect for gold braid on the sleeve.
dopey says:
February 5, 2023 at 12:11 pm
The aborigines never seeded their land….but Bruce Pascoe saw them doing just that, surely.
Page 21 & Page 35 – Native Tribes of Central Australia
Spencer, Baldwin, Sir (1860-1929)
Gillen, Francis James (1856-1912)
It may be said that with certain restrictions1 which apply partly to groups of individuals and partly to individuals at certain times of their lives, everything which is edible is used for food.2 So far as cooking is concerned, the method is primitive. Many of the vegetables such as the Irriakura (the bulb of Cyperus rotundus), may be eaten raw, or they may be roasted in hot ashes. Very often large quantities of the pods of an acacia will be gathered and laid on the hot ashes, some of which are heaped up over them, and then the natives simply sit round, and “shell” and eat the seeds as if they were peas — in fact they taste rather like raw green peas. Perhaps the most standard vegetable diet of the natives in this part of the Centre is what is called by the natives in the north of the Arunta, Ingwitchika, and by white men usually Munyeru. This is the seed of a species of Claytonia. The women gather large quantities and winnow the little black seeds by pouring them from one pitchi into another so that the wind may carry off the loose husks, or else, taking some up in their hands, they blow the husks away. When freed from the latter, they are placed on one of the usual grinding stones and then ground down with a smaller stone held in the hand. Water is poured on every now and then, and the black, muddy- looking mixture tumbles over the side into a receptacle, and is then ready for eating either raw or after baking in the ashes. Munyeru seems to take the place amongst these tribes of the Nardoo (the spore cases of Marsilea quadrifolia) which is a staple article of food in the Barcoo district and other parts of the interior of Australia.
Granted always that his food supply is abundant, it may be said that the life of the Australian native is, for the most part, a pleasant one.
In common with all other Australian tribes, those of the Centre have been shut off from contact with other peoples, and have therefore developed for long ages without the stimulus derived from external sources. It is sometimes asserted that the Australian native is degenerate, but it is difficult to see on what grounds this conclusion is based. His customs and organisation, as well as his various weapons
and implements, show, so far as we can see, no indication of any such feature. It may be said that, as far as we are yet acquainted with their customs, the various tribes may be regarded as descended from ancestors who observed in common with one another certain customs, and were regulated by a definite social system which was at one time common to them all. In course of time, as they wandered
over the continent and became divided into groups, locally isolated to a large extent from one another, these groups developed along different lines. It is true that there has not been any strongly marked upward movement, but on the other hand, with possibly a few exceptions which might have been expected to occur now and again in particular cases such as that of the Kulin tribe, instanced by Mr. Howitt, any movement which there has been in social matters has been clearly in the direction of increasing their complexity, and there is, at all events, no evidence of the former existence of any stage of civilisation higher than the one in which we now find them
Psays:
February 5, 2023 at 12:36 pm
Gray Connolly @GrayConnolly
Buried lede from the former French CJ: “As to litigation, there is always the possibility that someone, someday will want to litigate matters relating to the Voice.”
Wasn’t French on the Native Title Tribunal before going to the High Court?
Burning over a flame should not be called ‘cooking’.
Wasn’t Latrell Mitchell one of those who refused to join in the National Anthem before a match somewhere, then got all butt hurt when some in the crowd turned their backs on the “Welcome to Country?”
There was never much doubt about this from the get go. There is no commercial way to recycle mixed, used, soft consumer plastics. Even burning the stuff would come at a significant cost.
The whole scheme was obviously designed and implemented by Top Men in the Colesworth marketing departments.
Possibly with assistance from ChatGPT.
Duk – More weight on the hotter side? Or a wheel misalignment issue?
What I know about such things you could inscribe on a single sheet of loo paper with a crayon, so pls ignore if appropriate.
Biden bagged China’s spy balloon but he’s put no points on the board for Team USA
The Chinese surveillance balloon wasn’t just collecting intelligence it was testing President Biden.The commander-in-chief did not perform well
I was glad to see the Chinse spy balloon fall to F-22 Raptors from Langley Air Force base on Saturday. The clip looked to me like a careful air-to-air missile shot with the wingman plane’s contrail streaking below as the balloon plummeted.
Bravo! Praise goes to the military pilots who executed the mission and I can’t wait to hear their accounts.
But the fact remains: we shot this Chinese surveillance balloon down on the wrong coast. It should have met its end in the Pacific before it even crossed American shores.
How could President Biden, who tracked this balloon for days, have dithered so long? It took the outraged howls of many state governors for the White House to pay attention and get their heads in the game.
China and the world saw that Biden struggles with crisis military decisions. He has not improved much since Afghanistan.
China’s spy balloon flight was a test of Biden as a commander-in-chief and he didn’t do well. On the contrary, the Chinese have to consider this a successful operation and here’s why.
First, China did not need to retrieve this balloon. Most likely, receivers on board the balloon continuously transmitted intelligence products they collected such as images, signals and electronic intelligence up to Chinese satellites where it was then piped down to Beijing.
The espionage take may even have included radar, infrared, and electronic profiles of U.S. military aircraft if they weren’t shooed out of the balloon’s flight path.
For example, the balloon flew over Missouri, home of the nuclear B-2 stealth bombers at Whiteman Air Force Base. China also got to see how U.S. military commanders reacted. That’s got to yield a lot of interesting tactical and operational data.
But sadly, China also got a big haul of precious strategic intelligence. And the real win was watching how Biden and team reacted. And I’m not talking about Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceling his China trip. Clearly China does not care a fig about Blinken.
Well, it turned out we Americans did not like having China’s spy balloon drift unhurriedly across our skies.
On Friday, the Pentagon laid out the legal case for shooting down the balloon by designating the intrusion as a violation of sovereign airspace and against international law.
Finally, on Saturday afternoon the Air Force got the call and made us proud. (Probably some pilot will get the new callsign “Balloon Buster” for this.)
However, by shooting down the balloon over Virginia not California, Biden gave China enormous insight into his decision-making process. And it’s not pretty.
It took Biden and national command authorities days to come to grips with one brazen balloon making a slow coast-to-coast sweep.
Based on this delayed reaction, China may conclude — right or wrong— that they have at least a few days to mess with Taiwan before Biden can execute a military decision.
To wrap up, there is also a lesson here for military planners. As we saw on 9/11, reacting to threats inside U.S. airspace is not easy. The Air Force and Navy need resources to practice more scenarios against Chinese balloons — or worse.
Chinese public mocks US reaction to spy balloon, making ‘fuss about nothing’
News that Secretary of State Blinken canceled his trip ranked only 9th on Chinese newspaper People Daily’s charts
Many comments took a joking tone, with some describing what the balloon would want – “The world is so big and I want to see it all” – to urging the U.S. to “respect the floating freedom of the balloon.”
“Blinken, China didn’t invite you, don’t think too highly of yourself,” another user wrote in the comment section of the article.
Another user wrote, “Come or don’t come, we don’t care.”
“Financial Repression” – so that is what it is called. An interesting article from “The Daily Reckoning”:
Financial Repression: Are They Going to Get Away with It?
By Nickolai Hubble The Daily Reckoning Australia
There are two ways to deal with too much national debt: inflation and default. But default is politically embarrassing. And so economic policymakers have gone with the other option. The question is whether they’ll get away with it…
It cost a fortune to deal with the pandemic. And the energy crisis is costing some governments a second one. Debt-to-GDP ratios in many developed countries have soared past the levels that academics warn about. At some point, the economy just can’t sustain all that debt. And so, it must be reduced. But how?
There are two ways to cut government debt. Well, three if we include last weekend’s topic. But the textbooks don’t exactly mention that one. Instead, governments and central banks have two official options: default and inflation.
Default is a bad option, for the obvious reasons. It triggers noticeable financial chaos, technical defaults, official bankruptcies, and legal repossessions. All this can be immensely embarrassing to politicians…not to mention financially devastating for investors like us.
Let’s focus on the embarrassment, though. Because that’s what the decision-makers will focus on.
In 2012, an American hedge fund impounded an Argentine warship in Ghana. The country had refused to pay its debts, which the hedge fund owned. And so, they took the boat.
You can imagine the humiliation…
Therefore, inflation looks enticing. It avoids financial chaos and an official default, and corporate bankruptcies and repossessions are less likely because people can repay their debt with freshly created confetti money.
But inflating away your debts has its challenges, as governments and central bankers are finding out the hard way right now.
The policy of financial repression, as it’s known, requires a combination of high inflation and low interest rates. The aim of the game is to rob savers and investors of their purchasing power, but slowly enough to avoid panic. Specifically, it’s all about keeping inflation higher than interest rates on government bonds.
How does this benefit the government? Inflation devalues debt. Your mortgage 30 years ago…well, you probably didn’t have to borrow for 30 years to be able to afford repayments back then. But still, the size of your mortgage back when you borrowed must seem tiny today. Over time, inflation made that debt burden easier and easier to repay. The real value of that debt declined as the value of money fell.
It’s the same for governments. Look back through history and you’ll notice that government debt didn’t look so bad a decade ago…in terms of today’s numbers. Not long ago, we measured government debt in the billions, while these days we count in terms of trillions, passing tens of billions and hundreds of billions along the way.
The reason why is inflation. Over time, each dollar matters less. Which means debt, denominated in dollars, matters less.
Unfortunately, that also means investments denominated in money are worth less until you have to pay your taxes. Then the inflation bill is included.
Of course, savers and investors aren’t so keen on being dispossessed, even if it’s gradually. They want interest rates to compensate them for inflation. They want to earn more than inflation takes away.
But allowing this negates the benefit of inflation. If the interest bill on government debt is bigger than the inflation write-down, then financial repression isn’t really getting politicians anywhere.
That’s why you need a central bank to control interest rates. To peg them down, as the Reserve Bank of Australia explicitly did with its target on Australian Government bond yields, and as the Japanese central bank is doing now.
By letting inflation rip without hiking rates, the government’s debt can be paid off by making it worth less. And investors don’t get compensated by higher interest rates.
Of course, government debt is the lowest yielding in the world. So, governments benefit the most from the policy of financial repression. But it applies economy wide. Borrowers get to repay their debts with ease as prices rise, but their debts and interest rates don’t.
Unfortunately, it seems the politicians and central bankers overdid it. They cooked up such an inflation storm with their stimulus, energy crisis, sanctions, and QE that inflation went so high nobody could ignore it.
Right now, central bankers are raising interest rates to avoid inflation jumping out of control.
Bond yields spiked too, but not up to the rate of inflation. The frog didn’t jump out of the pot.
Does this mean financial repression is failing? Are interest rates going to compensate savers and investors for inflation, thereby wiping out the government’s gains in inflating away its debt? Have central bankers cornered themselves by causing so much inflation that they must abandon financial repression in favour of fighting inflation with higher interest rates?
The answer is, I don’t know.
But the consequences of the mistake have already begun popping up in the economy, especially in Europe, where inflation hit hardest thanks to the energy crisis.
Strikes and protests are wreaking havoc on economies over there. And the people on the picket lines have plenty of sympathy. It’s not like they’re asking for a real wage increase. They just want to keep up with inflation.
Unfortunately, that risks inflation getting out of hand completely. And so, central bankers and politicians are demanding wages don’t rise to compensate workers for inflation.
It seems workers are the collateral damage in the financial repression battle.
Here’s the interesting bit: Workers and investors are quite a political interest group if you combine them. And they’re angry.
But what could they ask for? One group wants wage increases that’ll fuel inflation, and the other wants interest rates that’ll compensate them for inflation.
It’s a recipe for the ‘70s — high inflation and high interest rates. The government’s pitch at financial repression is just going to cause chaos in the end.
Areff, I think Jim Cairns did the market circuit – Prahran, Camberwell, South Melbourne.
I distinctly remember it, because he was parked on the Eastern side, not far from the dimmie stall on a Sunday. People were interested in getting a hangover curing dimmie, talking about yesterday’s footy or waiting to snap up a tray of something cheap just before closing.
Not much time for Jim’s tired politics.
And top ‘o de page to yez all.
OldOzziesays:
February 5, 2023 at 1:21 pm
dopey says:
February 5, 2023 at 12:11 pm
The aborigines never seeded their land….but Bruce Pascoe saw them doing just that, surely.
Page 21 & Page 35 – Native Tribes of Central Australia
Spencer, Baldwin, Sir (1860-1929)
Gillen, Francis James (1856-1912)
Thanks for that. Haven’t seen that one. Once again the point is: 3rd nations were some of the toughest hunters & gatherers ever; but so what. Why does that entitle them to anything other than the enormous benefits Western democracy gives them?
The aborigines never seeded their land….but Bruce Pascoe saw them doing just that, surely.
There may have been an isolated example or two – but I doubt it. They were “hunters and gatherers”, & the attempt to portray them as “farmers” requires acrobatics in semantics. I simply don’t think there is solid evidence for the planting of “yams”. Sure, they did construct elaborate fish traps in Brewarrina, but other examples are fairly basic. We believe we may have the remains of one in our creek, which was possibly added to by early settlers.
I suppose, again with some acrobatics, you could argue that “cool burns” facilitated easier killing of kangaroos. But again, it is a stretch to call it “farming.”
Unless I really have to, I don’t use anything which isn’t water soluble.
Quickly grabbed a tube of silicone for a job a couple of weeks ago and only realised after it started to go tacky on my hands that it wasn’t water clean up. By this stage I had the stuff everywhere.
Same with paint.
Putting rust protection, primer and two coats of paint on wrought iron. All thinners/oil based. Bought a box of $3 brushes from Bunnings. As soon as I finished a coat or the brush got tacky, straight in the bin.
Eric, my pants just exploded, Swalwell and Fang Fang:
https://twitter.com/MikeyAdams420/status/1621564554332315648/photo/1
Just like when “Democratic” appears in a nation’s name, when you see the word “Democratic” up in lights you can safely assume it is anything but.
Following the RC into ROBODEBT and what sticks out is the end result of what can happen when folk who have ever worked in the “real” world are put in charge of things ..
these folk are professional ‘troughers” AKA politicians .. they’ve grifted their way thru various political & union positions until squirming into Parliament and slithering into the big bucks of a ministry job ….. for most it isn’t a problem as professional public serpents do the “nuts & bolts” backroom shenanigans that makes them look proficient and worth their, lazy, $half million + freebies a year …!
But, occasionally, things don’t work out and the political “hacks” are left exposed as has happened with ROBODEBT .. introduced without the proper checks & balances, probably, because some PS figured , “We is only targetting welfare folk and who cares if we get it, slightly, wrong .. the “wukka” will only say .. serves ‘em right sooo let ‘er roll and furgulate the consequences .. And besides BRADBURY wants a WIN”! ..
1st off we have Christian Porter a man who comes across as considering the average ‘wukka” in the same way he does getting something nasty on his shoe and needing cleaning yet was appointed Minister for Social Services a position overseeing the “welfare” system and folk, welfare recipients, who he wouldn’t dream of socializing with or even understanding .. ROBODEBT to him was just another instruction that he was happy to have overseen by an underling ministry (Human Services) .. a joke of a name for an organization that shows little humanity and expects recipients to jump thru hoops to qualify for it’s services ..
Human Services was being run by Alan Tudge, who’s main claim to fame was being a “yes” man and ‘tonguing” BRADBURY, at every opportunity, had eventually secured a ministerial position tho for him the elevation not only meant more money but allowed him to indulge himself with the “hired’ help and for a trougher with the personality of a “cardboard cut-out” this was nirvana!
For those victims of ROBODEBT it was fast becoming a nightmare ,, Porter”s attitude to the small folk was, “Let them eat cake” whilst Tudge was too busy dallying so left it all to his senior public serpents, folk who were more interested in their careers and promotion than ensuring the legality and honesty of ROBODEBT and had no intention of disagreeing or querying the “boss” to the detriment of their careers ….
And so ROBODEBT completely out of control was barrelling along the track destroying and in some cases ending ordinary folks lives whilst those in the engine room had a panel full of green lights and the blessing of BRADBURY for doing a good job!
To put ROBODEBT into perspective it was a scheme designed to detect fraud in welfare payments using computer programming .. it was hounding folk for, perceived, debts from $10 thru to $umpteen thousands without a, genuine, appeals system in place ….
They (PS) say it raked in about $3 000 000 out of $10 000 000 it identified over several years .. Unfortunately, most of the “raked in” was unproven .. yet many welfare recipients suffered undue hardship, anxiety & death because of this “illegal” money gathering ..
In contrast Christian Porter quit politics and walked away with his multi million dollar pension and being a magnanimous sort of fellow has since, actually, admitted he got it wrong ..
Soo brave of him .. no punishment or anxiety for Christian … just “sorry” .. sarc!
Then we has Tudge .. still sitting in Parliament, still “troughing” tho as a backbencher in Opposition .. drawing $210K + freebies despite the fact that the taxpayer had to cough-up $650 000 to compensate his work-place dalliance ..
The main public serpent involved has since been promoted into a different dept and is now copping around $ 900 000 a year for not using due diligence cos it might have upset the “minister” and her career!
Eventually we’ll get a result from the multi-million dollar cost of the Royal Commission but you can guarantee other than some harsh words and maybe a coupla “naughty corner” public serpents that’ll be the end of it ………!
And anyone who sez CRIME DOESN’T PAY has never worked in the Public Service!
‘Strong dissatisfaction’: China’s fury over US shooting down balloon
By ADAM CREIGHTON
Beijing has blasted the Pentagon’s decision to shoot down an alleged Chinese spy balloon spotted flying over North America, accusing the United States of “clearly overreacting and seriously violating international practice”.
“China expresses strong dissatisfaction and protests against the use of force by the United States to attack the unmanned civilian airship,” Beijing’s foreign ministry said in a statement, adding that it would “reserve the right to make further necessary responses”.
China mounted “the largest intelligence operation in the history of the human race” against the US and Australia, a former top US intelligence official has warned, as the US military shot down a Chinese spy balloon as it neared the Atlantic coast above the Carolinas.
A missile from a US fighter jet shot down the Chinese spy balloon, about the size and weight of three school buses, above Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Saturday afternoon (Sunday morning AEDT), ahead of attempts to salvage what’s left of the device from the ocean.
The debris fell in relatively shallow water about 14 metres deep and was spread out over at least 11 kilometres, according to defence officials.
“I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible,” President Joe Biden said after landing in Maryland on Saturday (Sunday AEDT). “I want to compliment our aviators that did it”.
Defence secretary Lloyd Austin in a separate statement said the authorities had waited until the balloon was over ocean before shooting it down to avoid “undue risk to people across a wide area”, and thanked Canadian authorities for their help in tracking the balloon.
“Today’s deliberate and lawful action demonstrates that President Biden and his national security team will always put the safety and security of the American people first while responding effectively to the PRC’s unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” Mr Austin said in a statement.
Douglas Wise, a former Deputy Director of the US Defence Intelligence Agency, told The Australian China already sees itself “at war” with the US and Australia even if we don’t, dismissing Beijing’s claim the balloon was a civilian weather aircraft that had drifted off course.
“What they did with the balloon is provocative, [the risk of being found out] is not worth the intel value, there has to be other value to it,” Mr Wise speculated, suggesting the Chinese could have been testing “a potential weapons delivery or advanced sensor systems”.
US authorities shut down airports and the airspace above North and South Carolina on Saturday (Sunday AEDT), where the balloon, which authorities had determined to be “manoeuvrable”, had travelled, fuelling speculation the US was intending to shoot it down.
“We‘re going to take care of it,” Mr Biden had earlier told reporters on Saturday when he landed in New York, without providing any further detail.
When it was first observed floating around 18 kilometres above Montana – near where the US maintains intercontinental ballistic missile operations – the Pentagon dissuaded President Biden from ordering the balloon, for fear of potential losses to life and property on the ground.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed a planned trip to China on Friday (Saturday AEDT), telling Beijing’s top diplomat Wang Yi the incident was “a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law”.
Mr Blinken’s trip, where he was due to meet President Xi Jinping to discuss a wide variety of matters including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, would have been the first trip by a secretary of state to China since 2018, and part of an attempt to improve relations between the two superpowers who have fallen out of a range of political and economic issues.
“China’s decision to take this action on the eve of my planned visit is detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have,” Mr Blinken, who also said he still intends to visit China “when conditions allow”, said at a news conference on Friday afternoon.
Mr Wise, who spent decades in the CIA and DIA before retiring in 2016 said Australia “should be seriously concerned [about China’s intelligence gathering efforts]”.
“Given the scale, intensity, and magnitude of the Chinese intelligence operation against Australia and the United States, we must be extra vigilant and work as hard as we can to penetrate and gain insight and into the details of that,” he said.
“The Chinese have patience, that is unlimited… they are dangerous because they don‘t have accountability and they don’t operate under rule of law or a moral frame of reference”.
Deputy prime minister Richard Marles, speaking on Friday (Saturday AEDT) to reporters in Washington after news of the balloon broke, said it had “raised a lot of questions”. “And we’ll await the answers to those questions from China,“ he added.
ADAM CREIGHTON
Race for the wreckage: US secures perimeter around spy balloon to stop China reaching it before navy salvage vessel which may not be on scene six miles off the coast of South Carolina for DAYS – as cockpit audio details moment it was shot down
. US Navy and Coast Guard vessels are securing the perimeter off the coast of South Carolina where a fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon
. A proper salvage vessel, however, won’t be on the scene for days, officials said
. They added that the downed balloon had a debris field of seven-miles wide and fell into waters of about 47 feet deep
Re the polio vaccines: the Salk Vaccine used the traditional method which killed the virus before making the vaccine. The Sabin Oral vaccine is regarded as superior because it can be left at 37 degrees for two days, requiring less refrigeration, which makes it easier to administer in the third world. It is also more effective. However, the Sabin vaccine contains a live virus, which has been ‘attenuated’ to make it basically inactive in humans. Regrettably, and rarely, sometimes it does activate in a vaccinated individual, and sometimes it can transfer the attenuated virus from the vaccinated to other individuals.
Vaccinating against polio has saved countless thousands of lives, and saved so much horrible ongoing cruelty and distress for the lives of poliio-affected children that not vaccinating is a risk most parents would not wish to take. The anti-US and anti-Polio vaxx campaigns by some Mullahs in Pakistan has seen a rise in polio deaths and morbidity amongst children there, as well as the slaughter of health workers giving the vaccinations. Not something I’d endorse.
A short clip of Jordan Peterson chatting to Joe Rogan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_dIaeNu0JI
Couple of
90% of ‘trans’ kids end up accepting their body as-is by 18.
80% of ‘trans’ kids end up being gay
So if you mutilate kids, what does that mean for the gay lobby?
and the ‘devouring mother’.
Old Jim Cairns used to set out his little table at Monash University.
Wind winding down?
Absolutely apropos for the situation spinning in the turbine industry, only they didn’t back into it by mistake – they ran into it full tilt, with their corporate hands out. Now the entire industry is hitting headwinds they hadn’t counted on and it could spell disaster.
The European wind industry has warned of continued difficulties in 2023 as high materials costs and slow approvals for new wind power projects drag back profitability, despite rising demand for renewable energy.
…The effects of the Russian war on Ukraine drove up prices for energy and important raw materials such as steel last year, creating a perfect storm for the European wind sector.
Despite escalating demand from governments and customers for renewable energy as a result of the energy crisis, the slow EU and UK approval processes have created a backlog of projects and delayed new turbine orders.
German manufacturer Siemens Gamesa, one of the premier turbine providers in the renewables game, reported an almost billion-dollar loss for the Oct-Dec quarter of last year! So guess what they want?
Global green energy company Siemens Gamesa reported Thursday that it had lost a staggering $967 million during the three-month period from between October to December.
The Germany-based company, which dubs itself as “the global leader in offshore power generation,” noted the wind industry has faced various unfavorable pressures leading to negative growth in recent months and years, in its earnings report for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 released Thursday morning. The company added that governments would need to further assist the industry to ensure future positive growth.
If you guessed “a bailout,” you’re right!
What isn’t in that report was another season for the disastrous returns – they make a crappy product? Their loss doubled because of warranty claim payouts.
Beleaguered wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa (SGREN.MC), soon to be delisted and folded into parent Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE), said on Thursday its first-quarter net loss more than doubled on higher warranty provisions as a result of faulty components.
…The company last month flagged increased failure rates of unspecified components of its installed onshore and offshore wind turbines, triggering higher warranty provisions that have also plagued Danish rival Vestas (VWS.CO).
“The negative development in our service business underscores that we have much work ahead of us to stabilize our business and return to profitability,” said Siemens Gamesa Chief Executive Jochen Eickholt, who joined from Siemens Energy last year.
It sounds like the Danish company Vestas isn’t exactly a sterling production model either. Their warranty claims exceeded their revenue target (am I reading that right?)?
Disaster
Disaster.
Here in the U.S., General Electric was humming along in its financials except…*sad trombone*…when it got to their turbine business. Ooo, they took a hit, too. Really fugly numbers.
…The company’s renewable energy business has been facing challenges due to inflation and supply chain pressures. The unit reported a loss of $2.2 billion in 2022.
GE is reducing global headcount at the onshore wind unit by about 20% as part of a plan to restructure and resize the business.
What a surprise. Look who GE is counting on to save the windy day! Tax credit bailout.
…Culp said the onshore business is expected to get a boost following the restoration of the tax credit for wind projects.
It’s not just manufacturing, although their woes are feeding into these problems. Offshore wind projects that were touted as saving the world just a few months ago are on shaky pedestals. The company that is fighting off accusations of whale killing for the prep work going on off the New Jersey coast has just taken a massive write-off on a project underway in the waters off New York state.
…Denmark’s Orsted (ORSTED.CO), the world’s No. 1 offshore wind farm developer, late on Thursday announced a writedown on a large U.S. offshore wind project and an earnings forecast for 2023 that fell short of analyst estimates.
…Orsted shares tumbled by more than 7% on Friday after it announced a 2.5 billion Danish crown ($366 million) writedown on its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York, citing changes to its earnings projections.
It said earnings at the prices it had agreed for the project – due to become fully operational in 2025 – will be squeezed by significant inflationary pressures and higher interest rates now faced across the sector.
In an interesting turn of events in New Hampshire, a company contracted with the state for an offshore wind farm is embroiled in a major tussle with the state’s department of utilities. Avangrid has told the state they can’t afford to move forward, so “we’re not building it anymore.”
The state says differently.
Renewables have had plenty of time and bazillions of tax dollars already to stand on their own. We are all dealing the same inflationary pressures and Ukraine, etc – they aren’t suffering any industry peculiar hardships other than the fraud the “Green” industry is founded on.
Time to kick those tax training wheels out from under these bad boys and see how they twirl.
PS Disaster
My Daddy, after being summarily booted from the Marine Corps in their post-Korean War downsizing, went on to fly for Eastern Air Lines for 30-plus years. He was the loveliest person, a natural in the cockpit (soloing in an Indiana cornfield at the age of 12), and dearly loved truly awful puns. “Wind turbines” reminded me of one of his most excruciating funnies and the first time he sprung it on us:
Daddy: There was a horrible accident at work – a stewardess backed into a turning propeller!
Family: OMG! How is she?!
Daddy: DISASTER
*laughs uproariously*
GROAN Still cracks me up.
Albanese accuses Voice critics of trying to start a culture war.
Right.
This is the sort of crap you get after allowing the left to pretend to be legitimate participants in government.
I just see the Albanese Government as being an action reply of the Whitlam fiasco.
That’s as bad as:
Person One “Didi you hear about that actress getting stabbed … Reece …”
Person Two “Witherspoon?”
Person One “No, with a knife of course!”
Jim Cairns became a pathetic old hippie. I saw him at a rock concert I attended in the Canberra region in the late seventies. He was a sad and deluded and rather broken aging man. Years later Junie was still breast-feeding their six year old son, as I recall.
Boambee John says:
February 5, 2023 at 1:21 pm
re Gray Connolly tweet
Buried lede from the former French CJ: “As to litigation, there is always the possibility that someone, someday will want to litigate matters relating to the Voice.”
Yes. Chairman of the National Native Title Tribunal (1994–1998).
Also
No scope for Voice litigation: ex chief justice
afr.com –
Michael Pelly – Legal editor
The people who are critics were content with the status quo (at least as far as Voices go) and the voice advocates are the ones who have set them as lives against the status quo.
So, Albo is saying the people who have done nothing have ‘declared war’, and the people who have launched a campaign are the hapless peaceable victims of an attack.
Damn he is stupid, and he has gathered around himself a stupid army in case occasionally his own stupidity is not enough.
Jimmy was well liked amongst the Labor Rank & File.
Went one vote short of ousting Whitlam in 1968.
Might have made a good P.M., but, alas, the lure of the bearded clam did him in, courtesy The Spooks.
He did foresee Q.E., though, but printing money to get outtava hole was a No/No in those days.
Lizzie @ 2:47…..
Years later Junie was still breast-feeding their six year old son, as I recall.
Correct – regularly seen at shops in Kambah Village with a fully grown kid hanging off the saggy dugs.
The kid probably I expect grew to a man with a tit fetish.
Kamala Harris impersonator teaches Tucker how to cackle
Not in the way most blokes like to perve on a good set but the need to suckle.
Damn he is stupid, and he has gathered around himself a stupid army in case occasionally his own stupidity is not enough.
Hang on a flash?
Are you saying that FECCA is leading an Army of Stupids?
Not very Multicultural of you.
They always accuse their opponents of exactly what they’re doing themselves.
And show not a skerrick of embarrassment that it’s so obvious.
Peter Thiel on ‘Anti-Anti-Anti-Anti Classical Liberalism’ | Oxford Union
That’s true, though Dutton hasn’t fallen into the trap.
So long as he can maintain the Softly, Softly approach Albanese and the MSM will have to become even more unhinged.
ML be fair. Luigi has to be good at something, in his case, stupidity. He’s got it down pat.
Now it comes out.
ChatGPT Boss Sam Altman Hopes AI Can ‘Break Capitalism’
Ed Casesays:
February 5, 2023 at 3:00 pm
Damn he is stupid, and he has gathered around himself a stupid army in case occasionally his own stupidity is not enough.
Hang on a flash?
Are you saying that FECCA is leading an Army of Stupids?
Not very Multicultural of you.
FECCA orf Richard Cranium.
It seems like Tennis Albo’s latest pitch is “Da Voice won’t do nafink”.
Which will enrage the Lidia Thorpe revolutionaries.
Paper yesterday mentions “later migrations”:
Remapping the superhighways traveled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent (Phys.org, 3 Feb)
I’d only quickly scanned the article as I’m not that interested in this area, but I’ve put it up for those Cats who may want to read it more closely.
Remember love is love? No real big changes they said.
Then came the LGBTQI+ onslaught
RS,I knew you knew but stating the obvious has always been my weakness, I put it down to myopia.
and sugar
Richard Vobes
NHS Worker who witnessed vaccinated Patients suffer
Biden’s economic lies show he’s either a deluded narcissist or a total fraud
Apparently, not the first time. I wonder why it’s been so blown up this time.
Yes, Chinese Spy Balloons Flew Over The U.S. When President Trump Was In Office Too
A WEF paradise: You eat bugs, bugs eat you
China Threatens Repercussions for Downed Spy Balloon, Reserves ‘the Right to Take Further Actions in Response’
Native Tribes of Central Australia
Paper yesterday mentions “later migrations”:
Remapping the superhighways traveled by the first Australians reveals a 10,000-year journey through the continent (Phys.org, 3 Feb)
New research has revealed that the process of ‘peopling’ the entire continent of Sahul—the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower than today—took 10,000 years.
…
The ancestors of Aboriginal people likely first entered the continent 75,000–50,000 years ago from what is today the island of Timor, followed by later migrations through the western regions of New Guinea.
The definitive study on when the the first peoples came to Australia is here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312577659_Humans_rather_than_climate_the_primary_cause_of_Pleistocene_megafaunal_extinction_in_Australia
The Mega Fauna extinction by humans commenced about 47000 years ago. The extinction of that Genus is the biggest man made extinction. Of course there may have been humans before then but they would have been latte sipping vegans of the pascoe variety.
Okay, here’s some of the answers I was looking for last evening.
In a world of drones and satellites, why use a spy balloon anyway?
Weren’t they just part of the dog family and therefore still around as part of the DNA of pooches?
TexasLindsay™
@TexasLindsay_
1. Meet Miles.
Miles writes for Rolling Stone.
Weirdly, Miles once wrote a book about the very thing he himself has since become—a propagandist.
Whoops no they weren’t. It describes a loose familial connection between species. Forget that, Cronkite.
Chris Sky
@chrissaccoccia1
The CARBON SCAM EXPLAINED and EXPOSED, and, how its part of “15 minute cities” You NEED to see this!
Flying Duk:
We’ve uncovered a shill for “Big Epicurean”.
Probably wants a special voice in Parliament.
Biden Administration Tried to Hide Chinese Spy Balloon from American Public