Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781
Rosie, you asked about the food, and lack of spicyness. The dish I had at the restaurant was a local…
Open Thread – Tue 28 Feb 2023
There are some quite clever people in federal Labor. Please share a few names. Can’t think of any that would…
Alex Gaudino feat. Crystal Waters – Destination Calabria [Explicit Version] [Official Video]fri nite Klassic
Channel 7 AFL commentator Brian Taylor opened himself up to a potential Thatcher-Negus situation this evening. Carlton vs Sydney in…
JC May 17, 2024 9:58 pm I left a brand new jacket, pants and shirt on the plane (in LA)And…
Russia taking the war seriously.
Prepare eye bleach unless you’re a 65+ aged laydee.
https://twitter.com/sniperduells/status/1630245826219094017
Our rooftop solar supplies us with just enough power to run the dishwasher, pool filter, w/m and dryer. And sometimes the stovetop. That’s how it was set up, and it’s a fairly sophisticated system.
At night…it’s back to the grid. A battery is pointless because all the generated power is used, and the nonsense of using your EV car as a “battery” is pointless too. What is the choice – cook dinner, watch TV…or go to work next day?
Try telling this to cult members though.
Russian ADGies are on the ball too. Letting a army of poor conscripts with drones blow up an AWACS is “strategic” and preparing for “the pincer movements!”.
https://twitter.com/Hajun_BY/status/1629892960996282376
We looked at batteries, diogenes. Not cost effective – they had to be subsidised or no dice.
I wonder if arthritis suffering oldies who buy their painkillers from drug traffickers will be provided with a free safety test like those at rock concerts.
If Dylan Mulvaney pulls the pin, he’ll be another tragic victim of transphobia.
It won’t be an unsurprising outcome for an unstable individual whose delusions
were actively supported, because it would’ve been transphobic not to.
Guaranteed.
Also: Ace has a post on some cracks in the temple of gender ideology.
Black Ball @ March 1, 2023 at 9:43 am joins the growing list of Cats who should be running Treasury.
I hope you’re not suggesting some future government might change the rules.
That’s not the way we do things in Australia.
We’re not some tin pot republic run by a cabal of communists.
(Cough.)
Here’s what Matt Walsh said about a bloke called Dylan Mulvaney…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02TFnsxHYc
Walsh is pretty succinct in his appraisal of the pervert. Culture wars are not won by being “nice”. As Matt Walsh says…
The dominant quality as far as I can tell of the gender/trans pathology is egoism. This Mulvaney person is pure ego. But there is something more existential than that. It may be that some of these folk have some sort of utility but the vast majority of them seem useless in terms of confronting the realities of existence and only survive because they are insulated by this wonderful society. The existential irony is these people, utterly dependant on our society, are directly and indirectly leading the assault on the very society which causes them to survive.
The hubris of these people is astounding. They don’t seem to be capable of imagining that at some stage they may be afflicted either by occasional acute or more chronic pain that they would deny relief to everyone. Puritans in every sense except belief in God.
The existential irony is these people, utterly dependant on our society, are directly and indirectly leading the assault on the very society which causes them to survive.
eg montypox
Correct on every count.
Greer too, calling it out as misogyny.
had to look up Dylan Mul-vain-y and found this Brendan O’Neill essay
Best toon from this morning IMO was Knight #1 https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/bd3ba00dc8cf7d0aa647c4c5de69ff61 for the brilliant line “man of steal”.
Thanks, Tom.
re: “alwaysright”, by the same logic one could argue Scott Adams reads this bog.
Chalmers has slightly changed a rort that only affects 0.5% of the richest Australians. You are acting like he has put heads in pikes outside Parliament.
Cry more.
More Amish violence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MGBHGil2dY
But seriously the stats are absolutely damning: blacks are 13% of the US population but responsible for over 50% of violent crime. But its worse than that; in the black community the violent crime is overwhelmingly committed by young black men who are only about 15% of the black community. So, in effect 50% of violent crime in the US is done by about 2% of the population. That’s a fact. Young black men in the US are the most violent people in the world. Why?
The dominant quality as far as I can tell of the gender/trans pathology is egoism. This Mulvaney person is pure ego. But there is something more existential than that. It may be that some of these folk have some sort of utility but the vast majority of them seem useless in terms of confronting the realities of existence and only survive because they are insulated by this wonderful society. The existential irony is these people, utterly dependant on our society, are directly and indirectly leading the assault on the very society which causes them to survive.”
Correct.
Russia’s Economic Future – Semiconductors, Arms, And More
They claim Russia is reliant on the West but… is it actually the reverse? The eye-opening truth revealed.
Simplicius The Thinker
A lot of ink has been spilled recently regarding Russia’s economic future vis a vis the ‘crippling sanctions’ enacted by the odious Western Atlanticist powers. The pro-Ukrainian / Western-Imperialist sphere is bubbling with hubbub about the purported destruction of Russia’s manufacturing and economic potential, particularly in select, critical industries like semi-conductor and weapons manufacturing, without which it is claimed Russia’s military campaign would be in jeopardy.
But let’s take a look at a few recent revelations which paint quite a contrary picture to what we’ve been told.
I recommend reading the rest of that Newsweek article.
It is eye-opening in regard to U.S.’s utter desperation to secretly wrest control of critical Ukrainian rare earth metals from Russia, and how American arms and aerospace industries would be devastated if Russia were to rob them of those key metals.
The U.S. oversells Russia’s putative ‘reliance’ on the West for key industries in order to disingenuously hide their own desperate reliance on Russian metals, oil, gas, energy, timber, and everything in between.
There’s more I’d like to get into regarding the specifics of arms manufacturing—what are Russia’s true stockpiles and capabilities for manufacturing shells, munitions, and guided missiles? But we can leave that discussion for Part 2
Mulvaney believes he is a woman. He isn’t, but to say so is “unfair”. He tearfully says he’d never steal another woman’s husband, as though that assertion justifies his delusion.
It would be fine (although sad for him in a mental health type of way) if he kept his sexual fantasy to himself. But that isn’t enough.
He not only wants us to say that he’s a woman…he wants us to believe it too.
Cry more.
How’s the wifey and the milko’s kiddies dickless.
‘This Is The Most Extraordinary Thing I Have Ever Seen’: Hawley, Biden Nom Have Unbelievable Clash
forbes
A battery set up is a modest step away from being conscripted into a communidy battery; via a Smart Meter that will control your usage and draw down your batteries at times of grid need – completely optional, of course, unless you’d prefer a penalty infeed tariff.
He not only wants us to say that he’s a woman…he wants us to believe it too.
This is the base psychology of all trans/gender activity. To substantiate and validate their personal pathology all of the rest of society must not just accept it but venerate it. That’s at the heart of all wokism. The destruction of normal society is incidental to this validation of a personal pathology.
No, that’s not true.
You seem to think a HC driver who reinvested his earnings, net of superannuation and bought four road trains and skels/tankers/cattle trailers of his own is a class enemy. Someone like that would easily qualify for that 3 mn cap into their fifties. A blue collar job, buys their own equipment and employs other working class people in jobs that the working class generations ago could not dream of the middle class salaries.
This is a stupid thing to be wedded to monty.
Look at an ordinary general annuity.
Working class people can exceed the cap before they retire, if they are invested in the equity market.
Jim Chalmers hasn’t thought this through and you’re just impervious to reason. The narrative must be shilled.
Chalmers has unwrapped the foil on the neatly portioned block of superannuation deliciousness and taken a nibble.
It’s okay. It was only a little nibble. No harm done.
…………………
Okay. Just another bite and then he’ll stop. For sure.
………………….
For sure.
Migration rules will separate Catholic family
By Marilyn Rodrigues -March 1, 2023
“We understand there needs to be regulations about people coming to live here and that’s part of what makes it a nice place to live. So we appreciate that there are rules and that people come here because they have a job and need to learn the language and so on.
“We are Italian but our children are Australian, they grew up here. There is no future for them in Italy.”
Clearly those small abandoned cities aren’t abandoned.
Sounds like Bakhmut might be getting close to achieving no strategic value status.
I guess.
Be interesting to know how many have a father in the home who holds down a job.
Say, when does the Great Society arrive?
You have to wonder how much of the road and train infrastructure is getting damaged in these battles.
Dot, give me just one real example of a truck driver with $3M in super. A single one.
Your fantasy unicorns mean nothing.
If you know none exist, how do you know that it affects 0.5% of the population?
The vast majority of the 0.5% who are affected by the super change are lawyers, doctors and corporate executives. Very few hardscrabble bootstrap types.
Zipstersays:
March 1, 2023 at 10:24 am
‘This Is The Most Extraordinary Thing I Have Ever Seen’: Hawley, Biden Nom Have Unbelievable Clash
forbes
Effectively the (GOP) House committees have no power to prosecute lying bitches like this arrogant slob because all they can do is refer her to the DC prosecutor who is a demorat.
ABS stats, Dot. Pay attention.
The vast majority of the 0.5% who are affected by the super change are lawyers, doctors and corporate executives. Very few hardscrabble bootstrap types.
STFU dickless; every coal miner I know will have the magic number by the time they retire (assuming rub and tug doesn’t shut the coal industry down). In any event the taxes are proposed for the accumulation stage which may mean, if the taxes are sufficiently high, that they won’t achieve the $3m.
Monty – Argentina’s lefty government nationalized all superannuation accounts in 2008.
We are going down that same track. By the time you are at retirement age there’ll be no money for you to retire on, it will’ve been stolen.
“The vast majority of the 0.5% who are affected by the super change are lawyers, doctors and corporate executives. “
Hmm, I doubt there are many doctors, most would be lawyers, corporate bankers and renewable grifters, and most of these people reside in Teal land. We’ll see how many of these sign up to the Teal cult at the next election
Now eff off.
Pick a reasonable age to start working in trucking. Pick a reasonable mean ROE for equities. Choose a timeframe leading up to retirement or pension age.
Pump the numbers assuming a known contribution rate into the general annuity formula.
3 million is not that much money.
Pay off mortgage.
Give two kids a deposit for their homes and pay off student debt.
Buy a holiday home (actually enjoy your retirement) and one investment property (earn an income).
Buy a new car.
Cash at bank to spend and not be insolvent.
These are all lower and middle class goals and would not get much change from 3 mn AUD.
10% ROE
39 years
11k p.a. super contribution
That exceeds four million dollars.
The 3 million isn’t going to be indexed.
Give it time and it will affect a lot more than you think.
Not me though, you can put your mind at rest Monty.
Citation needed!
Jesus christ man.
Chalmers is so dumb he will end Chris Minn’s career.
The tax change only applies for values over $3M. cohenite, don’t try to make real points, you’re not good at that stuff at all. Stick to Freudian projection.
The Liberals need to start attacking Minns to “send a message to Chalmers”.
So basically the shoppees are pissed at the truck divers and coal miners for earning more money, so they have to pay along with bastard doctors and lawyers…like Dr Jim and Mark Dreyfus, right?
“Of course not, we have Parliamentary super and our accountants have assets in our children’s and spouse’s names, which obviously are not the same!”
This is true, rosie. The current 0.5% will eventually rise to 1 and then a few points more. However, it is a small change and anyone who is affected by it will have already had enough for a perfectly comfortable retirement full of overseas holidays in luxury, like the one Lizzie is having. My heart does not bleed for those people.
The Prime Minister and the Treasurer.
$8000 contribution, does not change (salary
> 3 mn
Millions of working class people will be stung, moreso without indexation.
You have your head up your arse, monty.
It is 0.5% of the population RIGHT NOW.
It will easily be millions in the future, possibly a majority of workers without indexation.
What a incredibly stupid idea.
the odious Western Atlanticist powers.
They really are- particularly the newer generation like Justine and Buttplug. So spoilt, so entitled, never wanted for anything. Plenty ancient horrors too of course like the old thief.
For the pedants, an
8000 contribution
8.8% ROE
42 years wukkin’
> 3 mn
The tax change only applies for values over $3M. cohenite, don’t try to make real points, you’re not good at that stuff at all. Stick to Freudian projection.
You smug fu.king idiot. That was my point; rub and tug and the poofta PhD man think they’re smart by taxing the accumulation and then having a second bite on a non-indexed capital total. Talk about killing the golden goose.
And Freudian projection: how Freudian of you dickless.
Stolen in increments. The current proposal is accounts with balances over $3M, then it will be $2M and then $1M and then $500,000 etc. Once you establish the principle then it’s just a haggle over the amount.
“What a incredibly stupid idea.”
That’s because he is stupid.
The whole thing is absurd.
The poorest workers are forced to have superannuation contributions instead of increase their income which could be used to buy a home or up skill, and they pay a 15% contributions and 15% earnings tax.
A 30% EMTR is reached around a 200k p.a. income.
Dotsays:
March 1, 2023 at 10:08 am
Russian ADGies are on the ball too. Letting a army of poor conscripts with drones blow up an AWACS is “strategic” and preparing for “the pincer movements!”.
https://twitter.com/Hajun_BY/status/1629892960996282376
An update for Dotty Dot of Dottiness from a former US Military Colonel –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnut-E_eEM0&t=660s
It appears that there are certain classes of people that it is perfectly acceptable to steal from. Because they aren’t you.
I seem to recall this happening before. Many times.
After a certain level of wealth, assets and income streams can be hidden. This is well known. The people caught in the middle will always be made to pay, not those at the upper end.
The Red Scare 2.0: Russophobia in America Today
Scott Ritter
5 hr ago
I have been wrestling with the issue of Russophobia in the United States for some time now. As someone who cut his academic teeth studying Russian history in college, and who, at an early stage in my development as an adult had the opportunity to live and work in Russia during the Soviet era, I have a deep, yet admittedly incomplete, appreciation for Russian culture, language and history. This appreciation has empowered me to make informed judgments about Russia, its political leadership, and its people, especially when assessing the interactions between Russia and the United States today.
Void of this background, I would expect that I would be susceptible to the Russophobia emanating from the US government and echoed without question by a compliant mainstream American media. With it, I am able to see through the falsehoods and mischaracterizations that appear deliberately designed to warp the sensibilities and logic of Russophobia’s intended audience—the American people.
Recently, I ran across an essay that had been published by the Ambassador of Russia to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, in the Russian newspaper, Rossiyaskaya Gazeta, and subsequently posted on the Russian Embassy Facebook page. The title of the essay, Russophobia as a malignant tumor in the United States, is, admittedly, provocative—as all good, thought-provoking titles should be. After reading it, it became apparent to me that, in the interest of combating Russophobia, I should help bring the Ambassador’s essay to the attention of as many people as possible.
“Russia,” the essay opens, “has always venerated and respected the rich cultural traditions of all countries. This is the core of our national identity, mentality, and statehood. Culture must always remain the bridge for strengthening trust between the peoples, however complicated the relations between the states may be.”
Nevertheless, US politicians not only encourage hatred of everything Russian, but actively implant it in the minds of citizens. In recent years, they have never stopped fabricating baseless accusations to justify tougher sanctions.”
One of the problems confronting the Russian government and people today is the quality of individuals that comprise what passes for “Russia experts” in America today. Gone are the days when men such as Jack Matlock, the former US Ambassador to Russia, or Stephen Cohen, the deceased Professor Emeritus of Russian and Slavic Studies who taught at Columbia, Princeton, and New York University, dominated the halls of academia and power. Both men possessed a deep appreciation of Russian history, culture, traditions, language, and politics. Erudite and tough, they articulated for better relations between Russia and the United States.
Today, they have been replaced by people like Michael McFaul, the former US Ambassador to Russia under Barack Obama, and Fiona Hill, a National Security Council “expert” on Russia in both the Obama and Trump White Houses. Both McFaul and Hill have expressed a Putin-centric approach when assessing Russia, where everything is explained through an incomplete and narrowly focused concentration on the Russian leader over the Russian nation.
The contrast between the approaches taken by Jack Matlock and Stephen Cohen, on the one hand, and Michael McFaul and Fiona Hill, on the other, could not be more stark; the first argued for bridging the differences through better understanding, and the other for managing differences through containment and isolation.
One promotes peaceful coexistence based upon principles of shared humanity.
The other promotes never-ending conflict fueled by Russophobia.
This journey doesn’t require a trip to Moscow. Defeating Russophobia begins here at home, simply by choosing not to buy in to the madness promulgated on the part of those who seek to promote conflict by promoting fear generated by ignorance.
When it comes to stopping the madness of Russophobia, there is no time like the present. Because if we allow fear-based prejudice to prevail, there may be no tomorrow.
Monty.
Im in the second highest tax band.
Add 10% GST to that and nearly 1/2 of my income goes to supporting government.
What % do you think is edging towards “too high”.
Keeping in mind even on that income a “nice house near the city” is unaffordable without the bank of mum and dad assisting.
To the ABCcess radio credit this morning they actually gave AnAl a reaming over tax changes.
Along the lines of ‘why not negative gearing/why not shares.
AnAls response was along the lines of “we wont do that” followed by “we follow treasuries advice on what to whack taxes on”.
Not convincing at all.
Sure buddy. Eventually you will be right if you keep on making predictions. What’s your strike rate?
Why is our neighbours’ profession be a reason they deserve to be robbed?
Monty cant believe a smelly truckie could build a business worth millions, then use super to turn it into a retirement income.
https://www.anybusiness.com.au/listings/mount-barker-sa-5251-transport-distribution-3380884
Lots of listings there doughboy.
Interesting day ahead, going to trade show, on the exhibitor/selling side for the first time. Patented test equipment in hand!
Crossie, the old dears at stitch and bitch on Monday are already onto this. They aren’t “rich” by any measurement of the term (unless you compare them to villagers in the Highlands or Amazon).
Inflation will take care of the limit. Depending on how fast or how slow, that 3M will naturally reduce in it’s earning and buying power. Anyone with half a brain knows this.
And these old girls are rusted on Labor voters, not Teals, or “doctors’ wives” or any of the other fancy labels. Just ordinary people from trades type backgrounds.
I hate to point this out but this doesn’t affect people who are already retired, unless ‘accumulation stage’ has a hidden sting.
Poor Monty, who used to be a 1% er and now can only afford to own three houses.
Like Trumble- Bermuda or the Bahamas wasn’t it? So much for the forgotten people.
Doctors spend up to 12 years getting qualified enough to earn the huge bikkies.
Should those 12 years of NO super contributions (or piddling amounts) be credited to them?
Discuss.
We know why not. It would swallow up just about every arsk sitting on the treasury bench. I know they can’t vote him out now, but the Ides of March approach.
Staircases have their uses.
Earning 500k p.a. for 20 years…as the owner of that business mole mentioned.
monty, the cap could be easily exceeded just by investing in fixed income securities or real estate rents alone.
This is about taxing, punishing and discouraging people to grow from employees to business owners.
Utterly backwards, even Keating was not about this sort of ivory tower nonsense.
Next up Monty will be crying because struggling GPs can’t afford to bulk bill children/aged pensioners/welfare recipients any more.
Monty cant believe a smelly truckie could build a business worth millions, then use super to turn it into a retirement income.
The modern left doesn’t like real workers even though they are completely dependent upon them.
As I said to Petros a few days ago – it isn’t the Boomers worrying. They’re coming for your money. And my children’s.
Although the kids will probably be hit with the double whammy of super stings and death duties. Once they munch up the super chocolate bar, the DD one is next on the pantry shelf.
Of course, objections based on the realities of cause and effect with be blithely dismissed as “seethe and cope” from the deep thinkers.
Bother
will be
Seething causes typos.
S.O.S for the U.S. Electric Grid
PJM Interconnection sounds the latest alarm that fossil-fuel plants are shutting down without adequate replacement power. The political class yawns.
By The WSJ Editorial Board
The warnings keep coming that the force-fed energy transition to renewable fuels is destabilizing the U.S. electric grid, but is anyone in government paying attention? Another S.O.S. came Friday in an ominous report from PJM Interconnection, one of the nation’s largest grid operators.
The PJM report forecasts power supply and demand through 2030 across the 13 eastern states in its territory covering 65 million people.
Its top-line conclusion:
Fossil-fuel power plants are retiring much faster than renewable sources are getting developed, which could lead to energy “imbalances.” That’s a delicate way of saying that you can expect shortages and blackouts.
PJM typically generates a surplus of power owing to its large fossil-fuel fleet, which it exports to neighboring grids in the Midwest and Northeast. When wind power plunged in the Midwest and central states late last week, PJM helped fill the gap between supply and demand and kept the lights on.
That’s why it’s especially worrisome that PJM is predicting a large decline in its power reserves as coal and natural-gas plants retire. The report forecasts that 40,000 megawatts (MW) of power generation—enough to light up 30 million households—are at risk of retiring by 2030, representing about 21% of PJM’s current generation capacity.
Most projected power-plant retirements are “policy-driven,” the report says. For example, the steep costs of complying with Environmental Protection Agency regulations, including a proposed “good neighbor rule” that is expected to be finalized next month, will force about 10,500 MW of fossil-fuel generation to shut down.
At the same time, utility-company ESG (environmental, social and governance) commitments are driving coal plants to close, the report notes. Illinois and New Jersey climate policies could reduce generation by 8,900 MW. Do these states plan to rely on their good neighbors for power?
Many states have established ambitious renewable goals, and the Inflation Reduction Act lavishes enormous subsidies on wind, solar and batteries. But the report says the “historical rate of completion for renewable projects has been approximately 5%,” in part because of permitting challenges.
In an optimistic case, the report estimates 21,000 MW of wind, solar and battery storage capacity will be added to the grid by 2030—about half as much as the expected fossil-fuel retirements.
There’s another problem: Demand for electric power will increase amid the growth in data centers and the government’s push for the electrification of vehicles, heating and everything else. Loudoun County, Va., boasts “the largest concentration of data centers in the world,” the report notes.
The report doesn’t say this, no doubt owing to political reticence, but the conclusion is clear.
The left’s green-energy transition is incompatible with a growing economy and improving living standards.
Renewables don’t provide reliable power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the progressive campaign to shut down coal and gas plants that do will invariably result in outages.
During an arctic air blast this past December, PJM ordered some businesses to curtail power usage and urged households to do the same. PJM narrowly avoided rolling blackouts as some generators switched to burning oil. But what will happen when those power plants shut down? A power shortage at PJM has the potential to cascade across much of the U.S.
Government officials have been raising alarms about the risks of cyber and physical attacks on the grid. But what about the accelerating danger from climate policy?
Argentina’s lefty government nationalized all superannuation accounts in 2008.
A depressing place full of depressed people. Australia and Argentina have a lot of similarities in terms of arable land area, mineral wealth and population. Also both very wealthy early on.
Then Argentina went off a cliff, and Australia is intent on following. I saw Simon Crean once in BA, what could he possibly learn there other than how to f’ck a country good and proper?
I wasn’t going to address the aboriginal issue any more, Winston, but would like to reply to this.
I certainly don’t keep ‘getting the basics wrongs’. It is you who are refusing to look at how to create changes and shoot from the hip saying it is all hopeless. There are reasons why it seems hopeless and these reasons can be addressed with some political will to apply the law. That is what is missing and that can change.
Firstly, the army is used here and overseas for many different projects especially in times of emergency. There is a situation of emergency currently in Alice Springs and other townships. The army could quickly build hostels and people could be forced to use them or return to where they came from. Laws exist re camping illegally; use them. Legitimate ‘visitors’ would have accommodation and the international eyesore would be removed. Saying the people are ‘too lazy’ may be true but it is completely unhelpful. The children will still remain feral, which is what should be prevented with a drop-in children’s hostel. Alternatively to using the army to house the latest round of blow-in campers, the local Land Council sitting on a lot of funding could cheaply purchase some pre-fab cabins and pay labour to dig toilet pits and install water tanks. They could also provide tanker services and garbage collection and property inspection. Someone should sit on them hard to do so. Adequate accommodation (nothing fancy) is what is urgently needed.
Secondly, the available housing is insufficient in townships where there is a huge influx of people from more remote communities, as there is in Alice Springs. Hostel housing would house those people on a temporary or even permanent basis; it is better than squalid camps. This is part of a drift away from remote areas and if handled properly could be in the long run a good thing. However it has to be a managed process; anyone trying to ‘camp’ should be charged with vagrancy. I am no fan of squalid tenants; they should be made to comply with legal tenancy requirements.
Basically, what we have seen here and in much public housing is a failure of political will to make people behave lawfully. That can change and needs to change. Presently the excuse of ‘culture’ prevails. It is nonsense and should be called out as such. However, lack of other accommodation leads to overloading of current housing, which is part of the problem. So start with that problem first and provide quickly constructed and movable pre-fab or other simplified accommodation, with outdoor verandahs, for those who wish to migrate in or who have a medical or other legitimate reason to stay temporarily.
Otherwise, continue to have a third world series of townships on display as a National physical and moral disgrace and have the grifters behind the idiotic Voice win hands down. I agree that politically at present my solutions, which see ‘culture’ as Gary Johns’ sees it, are unlikely to receive much attention. The old missionaries would be turning in their graves over this, after all of their good work.
Question though, someone suggested a couple with a current super balance of 5 million would have $250,000 per annum to live on, if that’s the case, then a couple with 3 million would have $150,000.
I’m assuming that’s income of around 5% without taking any capital out.
I don’t know, that doesn’t seem exactly megabucks.
A servo with 12 pumps can fill approx 60 cars an hour, if open 24 hours that’s 1440 a day max, allowing 5 minutes per fill. 7000 servos in Australia =10 million 5 minute fills a year, way more capacity than actually used or needed, it’s rare that one has to wait for a bowser, and if you do it’s usually a short wait. To fill all the cars once it takes about 1,583,000 hours, twice a week a bit over 3 million hours.
EV’s, say a minimum charge time of 1 hour, I know some say that 30 minutes is all they need but that’s not a full charge, if it’s not a fast charger it can take several hours. There’s approx 19 million registered cars alone, excluding trucks etc. in Australia if they all could fast charge at 1 hour, say twice a week that is close to 40 million hours each week where the cars can’t be used.
That means to charge all those cars, let alone other road vehicles needs at least 13 times the number of existing servos at 12 bowsers each. The real estate alone is staggering, take into account the man hours lost and down time for expensive vehicles, it’s madness, a financial disaster as well.
I won’t even mention the cost of electricity generation and distribution infrastructure.
Albanese rules out touching capital gains tax on family home
Phillip Coorey – Political editor
Anthony Albanese has ruled out removing the capital gains tax exemption on the family home, as the government scrambled to contain the fallout from its decision to lift taxes on superannuation accounts worth more than $3 million.
After Treasurer Jim Chalmers declined repeatedly on breakfast television to categorically rule out targeting the CGT exemption, the Prime Minister moved to clarify.
“We are not going to impact the family home. Full stop. Exclamation mark,” he told ABC Radio.
“Because it’s a bad idea. Because people who save for their home, and you know that they live in with their family, is something that we have no intention, we will not be making any changes there.
“I have never heard in all of the meetings that I’ve been to … over the years, and I’ve been to a few at the Labor Party, cabinet, caucus, branch meetings, I have never heard anyone raise that as a proposition.”
The government has spent the morning being questioned about what other tax concessions were in its sights following its decision on Tuesday to double the tax rate from 15 per cent to 30 per cent for superannuation earnings on funds above $3 million.
The $3 million cap will not be indexed, meaning more and more people will be pushed into the higher tax rate over time. The government promised before the election not to touch super and stands accused of breaking that promise.
Election promises
Mr Albanese said that was not the case because the tax rate would not kick in until July 1, 2025, which was after the next election.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton said the Coalition would repeal the tax cap if elected.
“We’re not going to stand by and watch Australians attacked,” .he said.
“There are 80,000 (affected superannuants) that they’re talking about now but that figure of $3 million is not indexed so in 10 or 15 years’ time, there will be tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Australians who will be affected by this,” he said.
“The message that it sends otherwise to a lot of other Australians who are next in line when the Labor Party needs more and more money, those people know that they’re next on the hit list.??
“We’re not going to be a party to the government’s broken promise. They went to the last election saying there would be no changes to superannuation and we’ve now seen the first change, of what I think will be many changes in the superannuation and tax space over the term of this government and into the next term of government if they’re re-elected.??
The government used the release of Treasury’s annual Tax Expenditures and Insights Statement, which details $243 billion in revenue foregone across 52 tax concessions, to bolster is case for the raid on super.
While super tax concessions amount to $48 billion this financial year, capital gains tax exemptions total $71.7 billion. This includes $48 billion on CGT exemptions for the family home, and another $23.7 billion in revenue foregone on CGT discounts for individuals, such as property investors, and for trusts.
Earlier Wednesday morning, Dr Chalmers was asked repeatedly on Channel Seven’s Sunrise program about the family home and was less than forthright.
“We haven’t been focused on it. We haven’t been working on it. It’s not something that we have been contemplating,” he said.
Similarly, Labor is facing questions on negative gearing, trusts and franking credits, all of which it promised to rein in before the 2019 election which it lost.
Mr Albanese played down the prospect of going after negative gearing again, which has been suggested by Independent Senator David Pocock.
“[David Pocock] has a range of proposals and good luck to him,” he said.
“We announced what we are doing. We said exactly what we are doing yesterday and the speculative thing about someone, who’s an independent, raising some issues, has no track with me whatsoever.”
Chalmers’ superannuation conversation is wildly popular on the Senate Crossbench:
Only one, or two tax efficient investment properties?
And how popular is that going to be?
In the 47th Parliament, there are 510 properties owned by 227 federal members of Parliament (MPs). That’s an average of 2.25 properties per MP.
Popular like Ebola, I suspect…
Is that like Albo’s assurance the Liars won’t touch superannuation? See the problem mUnty?
OldOzziesays:
March 1, 2023 at 11:34 am
That reads like the radio interview I caught a bit off.
Very techy AnAl over the possibility of Pocock being used as a stalking horse for introducing other taxes.
…
has no track with me whatsoever.
And it was “no TRUCK with me ever” at least AnAl knows proper idioms to use.
Citation needed.
What would be the point of the army, or more like a bunch of contractors building hostels?
The reason there is a shortage of housing is because the housing gets trashed.
Why would hostels be immune?
Put vagrants in prison?
37 houses in Wadeye.
The promise was that there would not be major changes.
This is not, despite the voluminous and pitiful whining from the 0.5%, a major change.
Help sought!
My 2010 Subaru Forester overheated on a country trip and popped the radiator.
A buttload of money later, it is back in the city and has a new radiator but bubbles appear when running. The mechanic sent us away, expecting us to replace the car.
Do people these days get you know, problem diagnoses and engines rebuilt? Or a parallel import new-old motor whacked in?
Or just not put more good money chasing sunk cost?
From 2021
paywalled at NT news
As evidenced by OldOzzie @ March 1, 2023 at 11:34 am reporting Luigi ‘Three Homes’ Albanese’s enthusiastic response.
That’ll age well.
With no mortgage and no requirement for travel to work, that money can go a long way. Just ask Lizzie.
Lefties: The great replacement is a vile myth.
Also lefties “We must force change upon white areas by flooding them with diversity”
The English countryside still feels like a white middle-class club. We can – and will – change this
Dan Guthrie
Where I live in Stroud, Gloucestershire, I feel privileged to have a gorgeous view of the valleys out of my bedroom window, stretching as far as the eye can see. It’s a postcard-perfect sea of green that looks just as beautiful in summer sunshine as it does on a frosty winter’s morning. But, as a person of colour living in a rural area, many of the fields I can see feel off limits to me. A government review in 2019 found that I’m not alone in thinking this – many Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people reportedly view the countryside as an “an exclusive, mainly white, mainly middle?class club”. This is despite the 1942 Scott report, which clearly stated that there must be “facility of access for all” in rural areas.
Another scuttling urban bugman race pimp.
Yes, so Ukraine had 400K soldiers to begin with vs 200K Russian soldiers in the SMO, but how many hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been mobilized by, what, almost 10 waves of mobilisation/ conscription since vs 350K Russians since October. There simply never was Russian numerical superiority on any front. And Bakhmut is not a “small abandoned cit[y] with some strategic value as logistics hub”; it is the key logistic and communications centre in the north Donbass, once it goes everything to it’s north is going to be under the gun. Which is why Ukraine is still throwing men into the defense even as the two last remaining roads to the north-west of Bakhmut are in danger of being captured.
This, like the counter-offensive near Bahkmut two days ago, appears to have never happened.
You just made this up.
How to Teach Your Kids About Taxes
From Armstrong Economics –
COMMENT: “Marty, you are 100% spot on about governments only ever being capable of lying and mismanaging money and raising taxes.
The Australian Labor party that ran on a mandate to not change superannuation are now proposing to change superannuation.
Their plan is to abolish tax benefits for accounts with balances above $3M, using the usual argument of targeting only the rich.
That is always the selling pitch isn’t it? Only the rich and of course the majority take the bait.
I have desperately tried to inform people that it is NEVER just the rich that are impacted. I cannot for the. life of me get people to understand that the so called rich, will be required to sell assets to meet tax commitments and have less money to buy assets into the future, and that, that in turn will impact asset prices and thus affect everyone. Rich and poor.
And then there is the obvious. Thresholds never remain where they begin and are always lowered.
Government is on the hunt for money in every country.
Cheers”
AQ
REPLY: “That is the problem. Most people do not want to believe that the government only looks out for its own power. It is so critical to prohibit career politicians no matter which direction they lean. For in the end, they will always lean in their own favor.
Perhaps you might remind them of the “Luxury Tax” that the sales pitch was they were going to tax their Ferrari’s, Fur Coats, & their French Wines. I was there in Australia back then. Maybe I saw two Ferraris’ because they were already 100% taxed to import. Some perhaps wore a fur coat down in Melbourne, and nobody ever served me French wine – its was always Australian. People cheered then too – get those evil rich people. Then they woke up and ALL electrical products were suddenly a luxury.
The bulk of all taxes is always from the common people simply because we outnumber the billionaires. There are less than 500 such people in the USA. Confiscate all their wealth and you will not balance the budget even for one year.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/how-to-teach-your-kids-about-taxes/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
You also failed to mention that Bowen has no understanding of any of this, more importantly he doesn’t care. Save the planet at any cost is his mantra.
Perth just had a whole summer with no day at or above 40 C, but it’s global warming that done it.
You stupid git.
Various examples, even of of below median wage earner accumulating over the cap have been given.
30 years inflation at 5% will be under today’s present value of 700k.
Eventually it will hit virtually anyone who will not retire indigent.
Chalmers is amazing.
Chalmers says Labor can be trusted as he defends breaking super election promise (Sky mainpage, 1 Mar)
Labor was not ‘contemplating’ super changes before last election: Chalmers (1 Mar)
Two whoppers and it isn’t even lunchtime yet.
Honestly Monty of the flowery phrases and pretentious prose, I’m sick of your overblown, hyperbolic, fictitious bodice ripper style commenting on everything.
Rita Panahi earlier (via Black Ball):
And yet, most sportswriters – who the late Hunter S. Thompson termed “an army of drunken fascists” – detest sports fans and consider themselves superior.
Like most general-news journalists, most modern sportswriters see themselves not as a conduit of information for sports fans, but as kingmakers who decide who runs the sports leagues.
Australia’s only sports radio network SEN, for example, has as its leading on-air talent political radicals like Gerard Whateley (who spent most of his working life at the ABC and once confessed he didn’t understand Donald Trump or the MAGA movement) and “progressive” buffoons like Andrew Maher, who are eager to push their Green left political barrow at the drop of a hat even though they know the vast majority of sports fans loathe the intrusion of politics into sport.
Whateley and Maher are so arrogant (and box-of rocks dumb) they can’t accept there’s a vast majority of sports fans who detest their backward anti-democratic politics.
You’ll have what you’re given. Eat the bugs.
Honestly Monty of the flowery phrases and pretentious prose, I’m sick of your overblown, hyperbolic, fictitious bodice ripper style commenting on everything.
Quite so.
Indigent and itinerant populations have always existed, and intensified during the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Drifting populations sought accommodation in existing housing and this led to the rise of urban slums. What helped stop the homeless problem from getting out of hand was the rise of boarding houses in larger dwellings in areas that were declining as favoured places of middle class occupation. Some of these boarding houses had dormitories where people could get a bed on an overnight basis for sixpence, and they were often supervised and well run by owners who had an interest in the business. Such boarding houses existed in Australia throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but they fell prey to gentrification from the 1960’s onwards. It was also part of the culture for people who had tenancies or owned a property to take in ‘boarders’ as a means of paying the rental or rates. My parents did this for some of my childhood. This has all now disappeared from our inner cities although it may exist to a certain extent in less well off outer suburbs but its extent is unknown. There’s an investigative PhD there for some scholar fed up with post-modernism.
Today backpacker dorms provide the main casual accommodation, but they mostly insist that they don’t take itinerant workers, and service an overseas visitor market. Airbnb has arisen for the traveler market also but is more costly. An internet network of ‘couch-surfers’ also services tourist travellers seeking a bed or a room and they don’t welcome unemployed itinerants.
We now have the situation where accommodation in pricey areas means that service personnel cannot live near where they work; and in all urban areas there is nowhere for the itinerant homeless to sleep under cover. Not being itinerant and homeless might be the ultimate solution, but that’s pie in the sky given other issues such as family breakdown, substance abuse and the presence of an itinerant labour force as labour markets change. Hostel accommodation may need to make a comeback. To some extent it has done so when housing authorities purchase hotel and motel rooms for short-term accommodation, but that is expensive and has no permanence.
You won’t see this in the evening news:
m0nty says:
March 1, 2023 at 11:39 am
It is 0.5% of the population RIGHT NOW.
It will easily be millions in the future, possibly a majority of workers without indexation.
Citation needed.
m0nty – just above you if you can read
The $3 million cap will not be indexed, meaning more and more people will be pushed into the higher tax rate over time.
The government promised before the election not to touch super and stands accused of breaking that promise.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/albanese-rules-out-touching-capital-gains-tax-on-family-home-20230301-p5cofb
m0ntysays:
March 1, 2023 at 10:19 am
m0nty wants to change the incentive structures in society so that the smartest among us will not try to take any big risks.
Chalmers has slightly changed a rort that only affects 0.5% of the richest Australians. You are acting like he has put heads in pikes outside Parliament.
Cry more.
If you nare stupid enough to think that this is the only “rort” that this government of big spenders will change, then stock up on tissues, because soon you will be the one to “Cry more”.
A potential sign that the overheating caused a cylinder head problem.
That should be an easy diagnosis.
Chris says:
March 1, 2023 at 11:41 am
Help sought!
My 2010 Subaru Forester overheated on a country trip and popped the radiator.
A buttload of money later, it is back in the city and has a new radiator but bubbles appear when running. The mechanic sent us away, expecting us to replace the car.
Do people these days get you know, problem diagnoses and engines rebuilt? Or a parallel import new-old motor whacked in?
Or just not put more good money chasing sunk cost?
Could indicating leaking head gasket with head warped from overheating
can skim head and get thicker head gasket.
Many years ago in 70s was a guy in Lane Cove who handmade thivker head gaskets when I warped the aluminium head on a Colt 1100F
Had the head ground flat, then thicker head gasket
Subaru Boxer Motor
Subaru Head Gasket Problems – How Can You Fix Them For Good?
5 Jan 2023
Subaru cars have two head gaskets. This is because of Boxer engines and their horizontal layouts, with one cylinder head on each side of the engine bay. Blown Head Gasket At face value, you can think of this as being twice as many components that might go wrong.
“This is not …… a major change”
Then why lie about it?
m0ntysays:
March 1, 2023 at 10:37 am
The vast majority of the 0.5% who are affected by the super change are lawyers, doctors and corporate executives.
Modern Labor’s core electoral demographic.
Very few hardscrabble bootstrap types.
The Liars really don’t care about them, and haven’t for decades.
The government promised before the election not to touch super and stands accused of breaking that promise.
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/albanese-rules-out-touching-capital-gains-tax-on-family-home-20230301-p5cofb
The Voters obviously did not read the fine print. The actual promise was that they would not touch the Parliamentary Superannuation System (as it is already far too generous)……………..The ‘Parliamentary’ wording was recorded in invisible ink………………………………………lol
As most of us knew would eventually happen – the mainstream media is finally conceding the truth about the mishandling of Covid and the vaccines:
10 myths told by Covid experts — now debunked
Marty Makary
February 28, 2023 –
In the past few weeks, a series of analyses published by highly respected researchers have exposed a truth about public health officials during Covid:
Much of the time, they were wrong — the New York Post reports.
To be clear, public health officials were not wrong for making recommendations based on what was known at the time. That’s understandable. You go with the data you have.
No, they were wrong because they refused to change their directives in the face of new evidence. When a study did not support their policies, they dismissed them and censored opposing opinions.
At the same time, the Centre for Disease Control weaponised research itself but putting out their own flawed studies in their own non-peer reviewed medical journal, MMWR.
In the final analysis, public health officials actively propagated misinformation that ruined lives and forever damaged public trust in the medical profession. Here are 10 ways they misled us:
People wearing face masks in Queen Street Mall, Brisbane this month. Picture: Richard Walker
Misinformation #1: Natural immunity offers little protection compared to vaccinated immunity
A Lancet study looked at 65 major studies in 19 countries on natural immunity. The researchers concluded that natural immunity was at least as effective as the primary Covid vaccine series.
In fact, the scientific data was there all along — from 160 studies, despite the findings of these studies violating Facebook’s “misinformation” policy.
Since the Athenian plague of 430 B.C., it has been observed that those who recovered after infection were protected against severe disease if reinfected. That was also the observation of nearly every practising physician during the first 18 months of the Covid pandemic.
Most Americans were fired for not having the Covid vaccine already had antibodies that effectively neutralised the virus, but they were antibodies that the government did not recognise.
Misinformation #2: Masks prevent Covid transmission
Cochran Reviews are considered the most authoritative and independent assessment of evidence in medicine. And one published last month by a highly-respected Oxford research team found that masks had no significant impact on Covid transmission.
When asked about this definitive review, CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky downplayed it, arguing that it was flawed because it focused on randomised controlled studies.
But that was the greatest strength of the review! Randomised studies are considered the gold standard of medical evidence. If all the energy used by public health officials to mask toddlers could have channelled to reduce child obesity by encouraging outdoor activities, we would be better off.
Misinformation #3: School closures reduce Covid transmission
The CDC ignored the European experience of keeping schools open, most without mask mandates. Transmission rates were no different, evidenced by studies conducted Spain and Sweden.
Misinformation #4: Myocarditis from the vaccine is less common than from the infection
Public health officials downplayed concerns about vaccine-induced myocarditis — or inflammation of the heart muscle. They cited poorly designed studies that under-captured complication rates. A flurry of well-designed studies said the opposite. We now know that myocarditis is six to 28-times more common after the Covid vaccine than after the infection among 16- to 24-year-old males. Tens of thousands of children likely got myocarditis, mostly subclinical, from a Covid vaccine they did not need because they were entirely healthy or because they already had Covid.
Misinformation #5: Young people benefit from a vaccine booster
Boosters reduced hospitalisation in older, high-risk Americans. But the evidence was never there that they lower Covid mortality in young healthy people. That’s probably why the CDC chose not to publish their data on hospitalisation rates among boosted Americans under 50, when they published the same rates for those over 50.
Ultimately, White House pressure to recommend boosters for all was so intense, that the FDA’s two top vaccine experts left the agency in protest, writing scathing articles on how the data did not support boosters for young people.
Misinformation #6: Vaccine mandates increased vaccination rates
President Biden and other officials demanded unvaccinated workers, regardless of their risk or natural immunity, be fired. They demanded that soldiers be dishonourably discharged and nurses be laid off in the middle of a staffing crisis. The mandate was based on the theory that vaccination reduced transmission rates — a notion later proven to be false. But after the broad recognition that vaccination does not reduce transmission, the mandates persisted, and still do to this day. A recent study from George Mason University details how vaccine mandates in nine major U.S. cities had no impact on vaccination rates. They also had no impact on Covid transmission rates.
Misinformation #7: Covid originating from the Wuhan Lab is a conspiracy theory
Google admitted to suppressing searches of “lab leak” during the pandemic. Dr Francis Collins, head of the NIH, claimed (and still does) he didn’t believe the virus came from a lab. Ultimately, overwhelming circumstantial evidence points to a lab leak origin — the same origin suggested to Dr Anthony Fauci by two very prominent virologists in a January 2020 meeting he assembled at the beginning of the pandemic. According to documents obtained by Bret Baier of Fox News, they told Drs Fauci and Collins that the virus may have been manipulated and originated in the lab, but then suddenly changed their tune in public comments days after meeting with the NIH officials. The virologists were later awarded nearly $9 million from Fauci’s agency.
Misinformation #8: It was important to get the 2nd vaccine dose 3 or 4 weeks after the 1st dose
Data was clear in the Spring of 2021, just months after the vaccine rollout, that spacing the vaccine out by three months reduces complications rates and increase immunity. Spacing out vaccines would have also saved more lives when Americans were rationing a limited vaccine supply at the height of the epidemic.
Misinformation #9: Data on the bivalent vaccine is “crystal clear”
Dr. Ashish Jha famously said this, despite the bivalent vaccine being approved using data from eight mice. To date, there has never been a randomised controlled trial of the bivalent vaccine. In my opinion, the data are crystal clear that young people should not get the bivalent vaccine. It would have also spared many children myocarditis
Misinformation #10: One in five people get long Covid
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims that 20% of Covid infections can result in long Covid. But a U.K. study found that only 3% of Covid patients had residual symptoms lasting 12 weeks. What explains the disparity?
It’s often normal to experience mild fatigue or weakness for weeks after being sick and inactive and not eating well. Calling these cases long Covid is the medicalisation of ordinary life.
What’s most amazing about all the misinformation conveyed by CDC and public health officials, is that there has been no apologies for holding on to their recommendations for so long after the data became apparent that they were dead wrong. Public health officials said “you must” when the correct answer should have been “we’re not sure.”
Early on, in the absence of good data, public health officials chose a path of stern paternalism. Today, they are in denial of a mountain of strong studies showing that they were wrong.
At minimum, CDC should come clean and the FDA should add a warning label to Covid vaccines, clearly stating what is now known. A mea culpa by those who led us astray would be a first step to rebuilding trust
Marty Makary MD, MPH is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of “The Price We Pay
This story appeared in the New York Post and has been reproduced with permission.
m0ntysays:
March 1, 2023 at 10:56 am
Citation needed!
The Prime Minister and the Treasurer.
Albanese and Chalmers said the change would affect 80,000 accounts, with 99.5% of Australians unaffected. The changes would also apply to defined benefits schemes, but the treasurer said this would require further consultation.
LOL.m0nty=fa believes politicians and Treasury models. What a dumb mug.
Dotsays:
March 1, 2023 at 11:00 am
You have your head up your arse, monty.
It is 0.5% of the population RIGHT NOW.
It will easily be millions in the future, possibly a majority of workers without indexation.
What a incredibly stupid idea.
Treasury has found a way to apply the taxation “Bracket Creep” philosophy to superannuation.
m0nty=fa is too stupid to comprehend this reality. He should have tried harder at Economics 1, instead he is now a fervent j’ismist.
Idiot Chalmers has specifically ruled out indexing the threshold.
$3M in 20 years time is only about $500k in today’s dollars.
It may have been posted previously that a day ago Dom Perrotet told radio announcer Ben Fordham that vaccine mandates should end, and that he has informed his public service heads to ensure that they do. It is amazing what politicians will concede when THEIR jobs are on the line!
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/dominic-perrottet-vaccines-do-not-stop-covid19-transmission/news-story/1433cb985d99628c324b1dc6952241b4
Grim times on the streets of Double Bay.
So superannuation joins income in the bracket creep aka inbuilt, unlegislated, automatic tax increases.
Accommodation
Taking in boarders was a good thing; but in earlier days people generally had better manners.
Today, house-rules don’t sit well with many.
OldOzzie says:
March 1, 2023 at 12:08 pm
Chris says:
March 1, 2023 at 11:41 am
Help sought!
My 2010 Subaru Forester overheated on a country trip and popped the radiator.
A buttload of money later, it is back in the city and has a new radiator but bubbles appear when running. The mechanic sent us away, expecting us to replace the car.
Chris,
forgot – first put BAR’S LEAKS STOP LEAK – BL34 in radiator
Overview
Bar’s Leaks will seal any leaks throughout the cooling system/radiator. It’s best used as a preventative maintanence treatment. It functions to inhibit rust and scale, lubricates the seal on the water pump and most importantly seals internal and external leaks. BL340 is suitable for 6-8 cylinder engines. And all cooling systems 15-34 litres.
Bar’s Leak is poured into the radiator turning the water a milky white. The Rhizex particles – the real “Stop Leaks”- find their way into cracks and porous metal. They dry out there and expand, forming in external leaks, a substance similar to putty. In internal leaks, especially where the heat is intense, these oil saturated particles form a resinous-like carbon that stops leaks successfully withstands compression.
Features
. Specially formulated for Australian and New Zealand conditions
. Recommended for use in all engines including aluminium
. Harmless to rubber, plastic and all metals
. Principal ingredient is a natural product
. Used and recommended by leading vehicle manufacturers
. Seals weeping freeze plugs
Tucker Carlson is not only a masterful editorialist, he is also one of the best interviewers on contemporary television. He asks, he shuts up and he listens.
Please take note, Team Sky.
The result is gold like this: Vince Everett on Democrat perverts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drtte-G2kPU
Monty just drumming up business for his fantasy football.
“Win back your lost super with monty !!!
Even now what Perrotet is saying is disgusting. Vaccine mandates aren’t ok even if they stop transmission – not that they ever could because only lunatics who substitute the TV for their own observations believe in contagious disease.
Forced medication is a form of extra-judicial murder (or attempted murder) and is therefore completely incompatible with civilisation.
LOL.m0nty=fa believes politicians and Treasury models. What a dumb mug.
He also believes in the Climate Change Models and his own BS. Apparently, there is a vaccine for the MontyPox Virus. It’s called ‘Just Ignore’…………Seems to work a treat.
Why ask me? I don’t keep tabs these days on where it all goes. We get quite a bit more Super than $150K per year and still draw down on savings for some of our travels and for big cash purchases such as a new car. Ask Hairy. He’s the financial genius around here.
Chambers has flagged that people in defined benefit schemes will also be affected by the change.
Elbow’s purported super entitlement is $400,000 per annum.
If that was in a fund earning 5% per annum he’d have to have a balance of 8 million.
How much extra tax will he pay?
Hard pass.
Upticks news.
Study analyzes fake interaction services on social media (28 Feb)
“According to the study’s results, the cheapest rates include buying direct traffic to a website, getting “likes” on Instagram or getting views on multimedia platforms. For example, 1000 “likes” on Instagram cost 1.3 euros, while 2 euros can get 1,000 views on YouTube or 1,000 plays on Spotify.
Interestingly, several services are offered for free so customers can check their quality and thus be convinced to invest in different ones. This way, for less than 9 cents you can get 1,000 views on TikTok, SoundCloud or Instagram/IGTV. Buying Instagram followers is more expensive: for 4.3 euros you can get 1000. And then there are other more expensive services because they involve some personalization, such as reviews on Google or TripAdvisor, which range at around 1 euro per text.”
…
This study, recently published in the journal Computers & Security, is part of a wider research project on the ecosystem of services that provide fake activity and identity services on the internet.
We’re living in the Age of Fake.
Also Tucker…
Brilliant editorial on the origins of the Ukraine War.
His conclusion is correct: its supporters are mentally unwell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7I5mrWipls
so Minns will be savaged by sheep?
most unlikely
dover0beach says:
March 1, 2023 at 12:29 pm
Aimee Terese
@aimeeterese
“The US will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending our sons and daughters to war. And they will have to to fight, because it’s NATO that we’re talking about, and they will be dying.” – Zelensky
Hard pass.
From the Comments
Apparently Zelensky is our Commander-in-Chief now?
By contrast…
Last night, Murray had Bronwyn B. that Nick dude from Melbourne and Michael Kroger all shouting at each other about super. A total dog’s breakfast. Then the Late Debate – where the panelists all yell at each other.
You can understand why Jake Sullivan & Co. hate Putin.
He embarrassed them by not being behind the non-existent pee tape.
No.
New poll shows NSW Labor increasing lead ahead of state election (Sky News, 1 Mar)
Tiny bit hard for the Parrot to win with 32% of the primary vote.
Because they would be properly run and the law applied against lawbreakers.
That’s the only way forward.
In Alice Springs trashed housing should be brought back on the market and the law applied.
There would still not be enough of it for the influx of newcomers from the remote settlements.
So hostels provide one answer, and an immediate answer for kids on the streets.
A move from ‘culture’ and towards the law that applies to all other Australians is needed.
I’ve never said anything else but that.
No need.
Back of the envelope.
It takes less than 5 min to fill a tank for lets say typical 500+ km range
Even a Telsta supercharger only gives 275km in 15min – so that’s approx. 6x the time for an equivalent distance.
Straight away – you need 6x the number of chargers that you do fuel pumps.
So a typical servo would be 50+ superchargers (typical servo might have 8 pumps)
Now you need a fricken electricity substation on site to support it.
Oh – and now you need extra HV lines into the site, because the local grid can’t support it.
You suspect Albo won’t have a happy ending to this one. The attack ads practically write themselves.
Three Years Later: FBI Director Chris Wray Nonchalantly Admits COVID-19 Virus Likely Came from a Lab Leak in China (VIDEO)
rosiesays:
March 1, 2023 at 12:29 pm
Chambers has flagged that people in defined benefit schemes will also be affected by the change.
Elbow’s purported super entitlement is $400,000 per annum.
If that was in a fund earning 5% per annum he’d have to have a balance of 8 million.
How much extra tax will he pay?
He won’t pay any tax while he is in the Scheme and remains a ‘Pollie’. Mind you, these proposed super changes should impact the Parliamentary Superannuation Scheme but I bet that they won’t. If the Scheme is deemed to be funded, then his eventual Pension payment when he leaves being a ‘Pollie’ will be tax-free. If the Scheme is deemed to be unfunded (which it should be), then he will pay PAYG on the Pension payments.
BTW, this is in now way Superannuation/Financial/Taxation Advice and only my own opinion as a mere Taxpayer……………………………..
Incredible footage from Odessa in 2014.
Thanks Dr Faustus and OldOzzie, all correct re diagnosis and thanks re the barsleaks! Its the next step – the mechanics diagnose the problem as one they don’t want, as they are too busy. If the industry doesn’t DO that work anymore… or do they?
sfwsays:
March 1, 2023 at 11:31 am
Many thanks for doing the calculations on the number of electric chargers that will be required for the government to meet its electric vehicle targets. Mindbogglingly expensive even if feasible which I doubt. Any word on the companies getting the gig for this roll out? Bet there are a few brother in laws involved.
Tiny bit hard for the Parrot to win with 32% of the primary vote.
Parrot Head does not deserve the NSW “Lieberals/Greens/Wet Behind the Ears Partie” to win anything other than a Pub Meat Raffle Tray. And that ICAC Report on Gladys will not be released until after the NSW State Erection. I wonder why this has taken so long to report on. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Agree with you rosie. The remote communities should also be levelled since it’s just a cycle of construction followed by destruction. When those residents are in bigger towns then they need to be jailed if they destroy housing that does not belong to them. In big towns the children will have better opportunities for education and recourse against their neglectful parents.
If Peanut Head + proposed tax on franking credits didn’t get up, hard to see Albo + legislated super tax getting over the line now SloMo’s on the back bench back where he always belonged.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
March 1, 2023 at 12:40 pm
The reason there is a shortage of housing is because the housing gets trashed.
Why would hostels be immune?
Because they would be properly run and the law applied against lawbreakers.
That’s the only way forward.
In Alice Springs trashed housing should be brought back on the market and the law applied.
There would still not be enough of it for the influx of newcomers from the remote settlements.
So hostels provide one answer, and an immediate answer for kids on the streets.
A move from ‘culture’ and towards the law that applies to all other Australians is needed.
I’ve never said anything else but that.
Lizzie,
with the Aboriginal Industry today why would they bother re the Law – Idiot Australian Taxpayers will always pay up & replace destroyed housing while the Aboriginals whien and say look at the losuy housing we have that we have trashed
Five per cent of Wadeye’s population in jail following months of violence, unrest, according to NT Police Commissioner
More than 500 people have been displaced and nearly 100 homes destroyed in what has previously been described as a humanitarian situation in the community 400 kilometres south west of Darwin.
Meanwhile in https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/bennelong-papers/2013/05/the-long-bloody-history-of-aboriginal-violence/
Aboriginal lawyer Dr Hannah McGlade in “Our Greatest Challenge” similarly blames colonialism:
“The linking of Aboriginal culture to family violence and child sexual assault diminishes the grave harm inflicted on Aboriginal people through colonialism…the way in which colonization systematically deprived Aboriginal people of basic human rights.”
Add
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/02/its-indigenous-culture-nothing-but-the-culture/
I am reminded of the age-old wisdom Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat — Those whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad.
This quote seems an ideal diagnosis of so many of our present so-called leaders.
Sadly, across all spheres of government and all major political parties, we have people who personify that mental and cognitive deficiency, many of them policy-setting bureaucrats and heads of departments.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in the handling of Aboriginal affairs, an area of failed management that has seen billions of dollars wasted. At last assessment, Aboriginal affairs cost taxpayers in excess of thirty billion dollars per year ($30,000,000,000.) Yes, that is the bill year after year to sustain the obvious failures of policy we see being played out on, amongst too many other locations, the streets of Alice Springs.
Present Aboriginal culture provides its unassimilated people with no opportunities, no hope and an endless future in which dignity is destroyed by hand-outs and sit-down money.
As such it has no place in a society that recognises every citizen as the equal of every other citizen, regardless of ethnic origin. If progress is at last to be made, the toxic elements of traditional Aboriginal culture must be consigned to the garbage bin of history. Only then can those Aboriginal people totally reliant on taxpayers enjoy the pride that comes with work and self-sufficiency.
Does Zelinsky come up with this shite himself or does the CIA write it for him or maybe the DNC?
Im expecting all 3 of these cops to be charged with murder.
Consulate identifies man shot dead at police station after allegedly stabbing cleaner
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/man-shot-dead-after-allegedly-threatening-police-officers-with-knife-20230228-p5co22.html
The attacker was from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and was living in Auburn on a bridging visa.
“The incident is extremely disturbing and unfortunate. We have formally taken up the matter with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, NSW Office as well as state police authorities,” the consulate said in a statement.
Two officers tried to leave the police station to respond to reports of the stabbing but were confronted by Syed Ahmed, who tried to attack them.
The senior officer fired three shots, two of which hit Syed Ahmed in the chest. A probationary constable used her Taser on the man.
He was treated at the scene by paramedics and was rushed to Westmead Hospital, but was pronounced dead just after 1.30am.
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There was (using the Rolfe standard of threat) no danger to the cop. they should have used least lethal methods or withdrawn before sending in a team of mental health experts.
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At a press conference on Tuesday morning, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Stuart Smith said the officers had just seconds to respond and were left with no choice but to shoot the man.
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Whole seconds, remembering Rolfe was made to justify continuing to shoot the chap who had stabbed him a couple of seconds after the first shots.
/ may contain hints of sarcasm.
duncanm at 12:41 – ditto the idea that an apartment building could support multiple charging points. The grid was never intended to support this type of use.
Five per cent of Wadeye’s population in jail following months of violence, unrest, according to NT Police Commissioner
More than 500 people have been displaced and nearly 100 homes destroyed in what has previously been described as a humanitarian situation in the community 400 kilometres south west of Darwin.
“We are not going to impact the family home. Full stop. Exclamation mark,” he told ABC Radio.
Is this the AnAl version of “dead, buried and cremated”?
Yes it sure works for me, I have ignored all Monty posts for 6 months, improved my enjoyment of this blog a lot.
That has been obvious for a while now with all the political dignitaries and Hollywood A-listers travelling to Kiev for an audience with His Excellency.
Slomo doesn’t belong on the back bench.
He doesn’t belong in Parliament.
Incredible arrogance for him to hang around.
Obviously seen as still useful by the cronieship.
Not sure if anyone’s posted this. Herald Sun front page this morning states there are rumours that Charmers is going to go after family homes and (investment property) negative gearing.
Communism. Good and hard.
Comrades.
I want no further talk of the Right being on the side of the proles and the Left being the domain of the urban elite, as this is an obvious lie. The super debate has drawn the lines very starkly. Labor taxes the rich, the Right – including the Teals – wants to stop them. That is the bottom line.
You mean they will get non-Aboriginal cleaners and servants?
Gotta be video of the week ..!
“Are ya feelin’ lucky, punk” ..
“go ahead make my day” .. LOL!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1630334109968105472
Sounds more like Keating’s L. A. W. Tax cuts.
I’m detecting a bit of a pattern here.
Sky News after dark is the only place you can get editorial opinion that doesn’t toe the leftwing establishment line.
That’s a good thing, but I never watch Sky after dark.
Retailing political opinions is a form of stenography, not journalism. It doesn’t tell you stuff you didn’t already know; it just adds to the popular cachophony.
Australian journalism needs more journalists trying to find out the facts of what’s going on, which are in short supply.
Finding out what’s going on is supposed to come before news consumers decide what to make of the news of the day.
If there isn’t much burrowing by journalists going on, but lots of people shouting their opinions over others, you don’t end up with an informed populace — which is just the way the establishment likes it.
The result is gold like this: Vince Everett on Democrat perverts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drtte-G2kPU
Smart guy is Vince. Lots of smart black yanks who aren’t grifters. And what he says is right: the demorats are sacrificing young black men, who are largely responsible for ALL violent crime by destroying their families and making them live in inner city demorat run shitholes.
m0ntysays:
March 1, 2023 at 11:40 am
Is that like Albo’s assurance the Liars won’t touch superannuation? See the problem mUnty?
The promise was that there would not be major changes.
This is not, despite the voluminous and pitiful whining from the 0.5%, a major change.
It is the first step. Shirley a good fascist leftard like you would be familiar with the advice of Chairman Mao at the start of the Long March: “A journey of 10,000 li (Chinese miles) starts with the first step.” AnAl has taken the first step on his Long Mach.
Nothing to see here.
Just mØnty’s “our team” confronting Dot’s “Putinist infiltrators”.
Where else is he going to get a job that pays that well for doing nothing?
lol, Munts. Every cent we have we have earned, together and separately, with no inheritance.
So now you say we have no right to enjoy it when it’s our money.
Yet you are building up a business that you hope will be profitable.
Go bag your silly head.
Now that the details of Mr Trainee Treasurer’s super changes have become the topic du jour amongst the MSM, totally obscured is this is direct evidence of lies during the election campaign.
The LNP should be preceding every challenge to the details of the super changes with “As we all know, Tennis Elbow lied to us on his way to the Lodge”.
Hit the hordes over the head with the truth. Often, and hard.
I’d suggest he hopes it will break even.
Anthony Albanese goes into urgent damage control after his treasurer REFUSED to rule out introducing a major tax on Aussie’s family homes in trainwreck interview: ‘It’s a bad idea’
Treasurer refuses to rule out family home capital gains tax
Jim Chalmers was grilled by Sunrise hose David Koch
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese now in damage control
U.S. Military Grows Desperate for Troops Following Disastrous Recruiting Year
Posted Monday, February 27, 2023
2022 marked one of the worst years for military recruiting since the Vietnam War. As American adversaries like Russia, China, and Iran grow more aggressive, military leaders are now turning to new incentive programs to try to fill their ranks – leading to concerns that lower standards could affect readiness.
The Army saw the worst recruiting shortfall in 2022, coming up 25% short of its goal – amounting to about 15,000 new soldiers. While the Pentagon has stressed that its current 465,000 troop count is enough to meet current mission demands, there is a significant danger to operational capacity moving forward if last year’s struggles are not reversed.
The Marine Corps, meanwhile, technically met its recruiting marks for 2022, but only after reducing its goals following a decade of missed targets. While the Navy also met its active duty enlisted recruitment goals last year, it only did so by increasing the number of recruits it accepted from the lowest aptitude percentile on the military’s qualification test, and also missed target numbers for active duty and reserve officers.
The Air Force also missed its goals for officers, and the Air National Guard and Reserve fell thousands of troops short. The Coast Guard saw its fourth straight year of missing its recruitment goals in 2022, a span where the branch has fallen an average of 20% short.
Amid these alarming recruitment failures and as some top generals are warning about a potential conflict with China on the horizon, recruiters are looking for any way to incentivize young people to sign up.
No, get the right end of the stick.
They will live in managed accommodation for which they will pay rent.
Like millions of other Australians. That’s the deal. They will obey the law.
This is what a proper system of housing accommodation, without recourse to ‘culture’ excuses, would do. That it won’t emerge under a Labor government with its ‘culture’ vision and Voice is a given.
I am putting forward a pathway for the future. Given the Rolfe case there is clearly a lot of work to be done in getting some balls behind a rejection of the current victim bleating and initiating the rule of law, Australian law, that applies to us all.
Gotta hand it too the WOKE for full-on publicity .. never seen so many links & cartoons for DILBERT across so many websites as the last coupla dayz .. LOL!
Negative gearing works really well for politicians (of all stripes) who get an allowance for the days they spend in Canberra. Negatively gear an investment property, pay for it using taxpayer dollars, and hey presto multi millionaire in no time.
So “vested interest” will scupper Chalmers on that front.
There is no point me commenting further here on issues, historical and present, to do with housing aboriginal. It is an important issue, but the times will not see the changes I would wish for.
So add the hill of taxing super to within an inch of its life on which monty is prepared to die on.
Along with murdering babies in relation to Roe v Wade, having Republican youth run over by crazed losers, pedophilic theses written by Yoel Roth and Drag Queen Story Hour.
Oh and also deriding flyingduk and Mater for their service in the defence forces.
Just outstanding work monty of Malmo.
A lovely vision, Lizzie.
How would we achieve it? Replace the political class?
So old style communists rather than the new fascist hotness, eh Monty?
Zelenskyy’s “Conscience” War Risks Losing Popular Support
When GOP presidential candidates say that the U.S. government is spending more on Ukraine and less on East Palestine and the southern border, public support will go down.
TIPPINSIGHTS EDITORIAL BOARD
February 28, 2023
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already made history by brilliantly exploiting the idea of “conscience” as the driver to get the western world to stay united. By preying on our minds about doing the right thing, he has placed conscience above, or at par, with other principles such as sovereignty, territory, and independence.
Indeed, in his G20 Bali speech in November, leaked to POLITICO, he said: “Ukraine should not be offered to conclude compromises with its conscience, sovereignty, territory, and independence. We respect the rules, and we are people of our word.”
Most law-abiding people can find no fault with his wording just as they wouldn’t with other Utopian rallying cries, such as “Rid the world of hunger” or “Save our Planet.” But where Zelenskyy has been brilliant is in making the best use of a politician’s vulnerability in the hyper-charged social media environment in which we live. Make a moral argument, get the social media world behind it, and keep repeating the phrase.
Any politician who says anything in opposition can be shamed to quickly comply after issuing a formal apology, or worse, be canceled altogether.
Zelenskyy has used the conscience argument to make joint addresses to Congress and the British Parliament. He has cajoled western politicians into giving, giving more, and giving even more. The United States has led the world in providing security assistance to Ukraine to the tune of $46.6 billion to date. Next in line is the U.K., with $5.1 billion.
The U.S. State Department’s list of weapons committed to Ukraine is scary. There is little doubt that America is fully engaged in the war.
But as voters more closely inspect Zelenskyy’s statements, they see him as just one more politician who will say whatever he needs to get ahead.
The words “We respect the rules” do not jive with the nearly weekly updates about senior Ukrainian officials being dismissed for cause.
In January, in what was billed as a significant cleanup effort, a deputy head of the President’s Office, a deputy prosecutor general, several deputy ministers, and several governors were ousted following several scandals on corruption charges or even collusion with Russia. On Sunday, Zelenskyy fired a senior military commander, the leader of Ukraine’s defense forces in the country’s east. Clearly, leading Ukrainian officials do not respect the rules.
Nor, as Zelenskyy claimed in Bali, has he kept his word. During his campaign in 2019, he promised Ukrainians that if elected, he would stop the 5-year war with Russia, defeat corruption, and revive the country’s economy. Two and a half years later, Zelenskyy signed a transatlantic security agreement with America which exacerbated the already fragile situation in the east and brought Russia to attack Ukraine. As senior security analyst Katharine Quinn-Judge noted, Zelenskyy’s promise to bring peace to Ukraine was yet to be met a year into the presidency.
A conscience-based war fought on righteousness alone cannot go on forever. Zelenskyy understands this well, so he has riskily turned his strategy to make all Americans guilty if they fail to support the war. In his press conference on Feb 24, a journalist asked him about how most Americans now think they are giving too much to Ukraine.
Zelenskyy’s response was shockingly threatening to Ukraine’s largest benefactor:
“If they don’t change their opinion, if they don’t support Ukraine, they will lose NATO – they will lose the leadership position in the world. They will lose the support of a country with 40 million, with millions of children. Are American children any different from ours? Don’t Americans enjoy the same things we do? I don’t think we are that different.”
Perhaps Zelenskyy was tired or was not prepped adequately. The average American who cannot place Ukraine on a map or has to work two jobs to keep his family afloat does not want to be held responsible for a conflict that occurred 5,000 miles away. Drawing false equivalencies between the likes of American and Ukrainian children – to drive home another emotional, conscience factor of support will likely fail.
Most Americans believe that the sooner the fighting stops, territorial integrity issues aside, the killing and the suffering will cease. The end of the war could also mean more affordable gas and groceries – a possibility that millions of Americans would wholeheartedly welcome.
Beltway politicians and the media may not care about the hidden costs of the Ukraine war, but the average American does.
The tide will further shift with GOP presidential candidates sounding the alarm on how the U.S. government is spending more resources in Ukraine and less in East Palestine or the southern border.
According to the New York Times, a recent ARD-DeutschlandTrend poll in neighboring Germany found that 58 percent of respondents believe that diplomatic efforts to end the war have not gone far enough — the highest level recorded in the poll to date.
For the warmongers and the military-industrial complex, the term “As long as it takes” may be much shorter than they hope.
If a cap is put on the tax-free value of family homes on sale then the whole of Sydney is going to be up in arms vs the rest of the country, where far fewer are affected. As with inheritance taxes and Super, it’s a political hot potato and can have politically unintended consequences. They are trying the softly softly approach, we’ll only take a little bit, off the very top, but no-one is fooled by that.
If you have any wealth at all you can be sure Labor is coming after you.
That link of M0nty’s to a vox-pop in Double Bay indicates the class envy he espouses.
I loved the guy who says he was reduced to selling his third boat. He was having her on.
Even if he wasn’t, it was a great line. If they ask me, I’ll say I’m taking my Dior to Cash Converters.
The Chalmers ALP wants to destroy upward mobility. It is no longer a party of the working class.
Can’t find any info on whether the poofta PhD’s new super scheme will apply on ALL of the $3mill when the threshold is crossed or just the amount ABOVE the $3mill. In any event I can see a lot of super blind trusts being set up.
There is no point me commenting further here on issues, historical and present, to do with housing aboriginal. It is an important issue, but the times will not see the changes I would wish for.
Comment away – we will all pick crap out of it, and hopefully come up with something better.
Only option i see is the Turner river style “break them down, build them up again” model.’
Expensive, slow, one person at a time stuff.
flyingduksays:
March 1, 2023 at 9:45 am
Why hasn’t Russia overran the whole place yet? How could do many Russian tanks and vehicles be destroyed?
Great question .. Excellent answer .. 10/10 ……..
For now.
When the last time a braindead labore sack of excrement thought a bad, stupid idea wasn’t the bee’s knees? The sole reason these self fellating cretins exist is to inflict incessant destructive stupidity on the rest of us, all delivered with copious amounts of excruciating sanctimony, hypocrisy and unintelligible gibberish.
Fundamentally, yes. Federally and in every State. Start with the top where the fish rots from. All public sector Heads, including Education and Police. All Cabinet Ministers. All Vice Chancellors. All ABC chieftains. All fauxboriginal urbanites.
If Lidia can have an Agenda, so can I. Make that We, the People. 🙂
When the last time a braindead labore sack of excrement thought a bad, stupid idea wasn’t the bee’s knees?
The slapper:
There Will Be No Carbon Tax Under The Government I Lead
When the last time a braindead labore sack of excrement thought a bad, stupid idea wasn’t the bee’s knees? The sole reason these self fellating cretins exist is to inflict incessant destructive stupidity on the rest of us, all delivered with copious amounts of excruciating sanctimony, hypocrisy and unintelligible gibberish.
With the convivence of numerous canbra pubic parasites
Remember that Ken Henry creep?
Its the next step – the mechanics diagnose the problem as one they don’t want, as they are too busy. If the industry doesn’t DO that work anymore… or do they?
Chris: my experience is that auto mechanics have become stratified into logbook service businesses – and auto mechanics. Suggest you ring around off a quick Goggle on ‘engine rebuild‘ and see if you can find someone who will do a head for less than a complete new vehicle.
Haven’t really noticed that, Mole. Mainly just reactive hysteria dragged in screaming so far.
Your ‘singular’ idea is one that at least has merit, individual responses can have some effect.
Monty’s Eureka moment.
Commies want literally everybody to be miserable except for inner members of the party.
Unfortunately he hasn’t got the second Eureka moment where he realises he isn’t one of the inner members.
Companies like Higinbotham’s used to rebuild engines.
extreme narcissism
i.e. whatever you do, don’t mention the army.
Why on earth not? We pay for it, let it be useful.
Cassie Of Sydney:
When I started posting under my real name, I did so because like yourself, I had had enough of being ‘nice’. ‘Nice’ may get you ‘likes’, but it won’t get you respected.
These freaks who mutilate themselves to live a life they know is a lie, do so to because they are sick, and refuse to get well. I’m over the lot of them and their demands that 98% of society have to change their moral code so 2% can feel good about themselves. They get away with their obscene behaviour because ‘nice’. Perhaps if we stopped being ‘nice’ they would leave our kids alone.
That is not what I said.
You are having a perfectly good time from the sounds of it, and will not be affected one jot by Chalmers’ changes in any case since AFAIK you have already passed the accumulation stage. Good for you.
I don’t have any sympathy for those who aspire to get to where you are, who are bleating about a small decrease in the tax concessions they enjoy so much.
As for those hinting darkly that this is the first step in the road to communism… cry even more you blubbering morons.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
There is a big element of Abo fatigue setting in.
The same group that have $90,000,000 a day spent on them are living in squallor and poverty.
And only more munni for the big men will solve it!
That’s the whole idea of normalisation. We must not only see but also believe.
Otherwise it’s feet stamping time because it’s not all working out the way it should.
Significant numbers in light of the push for indigenous sovereignty:
40% of Australia is under native title.
Another 17% is owned by indigenous communities under freehold title.
Those figures come from official Australian government reports.
Instead of “paying the rent” perhaps we should have a legal separation including property.
I’m quite serious, btw.
Any person of indigenous descent who wanted to live in non-aboriginal society would be free to do so, but as a citizen with the same rights and responsibilities as other citizens – no more, no less.
It takes a particularly stupid set of assumptions to produce the hot take that a tax on the rich is actually an attack on the working class.
No, the tax on the rich funds services for the working class.
Just posted at Quadrant, the interesting family background of Marcus Stewart, who is leading the push for a treaty in Victoria. Turns out he has an Aboriginal great-great-grandfather, who was raised from toddler days by Scots, became a respected citizen and landholder around Yea, was on the electoral roll and sent two sons off to WWI.
Today his distant spawn ochres up at the drop of hat and swishes hither and yon in his possum-skin coat — regalia great-great-grandpa most likely never wore.
Good. If the Voice goes to a Referendum it would be a good gauge of how strong that fatigue is.
I suspect here too people are fed up with talking about ‘fixing abo’.
What I am talking about is how to more effectively use the money, with a view to ending it.
It will take the rise of a new politics for real change to take place there.
I doubt it will happen in my lifetime, what’s left of it.
But maybe in 30 years the world will have had enough shocks to come to its senses.
Chris,
have a read here
https://www.alldrivesubaroo.com.au/engine/subaru-head-gasket/
Ripping yarn about the fake blackfella industry has just been posted at Quadrant:
RTWT
Flyingduk:
The TGA is a hysterical screaming woman of either gender, standing on a table, shrieking at a mouse, while the building burns down around he/her/it.