The Carrousel – Autumn Morning, Camille Pissarro, 1899
Thanks, Bruce. I had my fingernails and toenails done in Westfields today (always uplifting) while I waited out Hairy Mike’s…
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They’re all hidden! It’s like Canberra is embarrassed about alcohol or something. I lived in Queanbeyan two years in the…
That young lady will be a long time, if ever, living down the “no knickers…”
*Sighs.* *Rolls eyes, and shakes head.*
As I said earlier: There’s no ‘splatter’ in that photo. More satellite imagery dropped today indicating, at the least, no ballistic missiles…
duk
Hmmm
Not buying this unsaturated fat argument. Aren’t omega 3 FAs unsaturated fats? Don’t we need these to live?
I know the refining (distillation) process does strip out tocopherols and tocotrienols, but even the most shelf stable stuff still has about 1/5 of what fortified or cold pressed oil has.
The whole trans thing sends me nuts because the labeling rules are complete nonsense and if you eat lamb, IIRC 10% of the fat is trans fat. It won’t hurt you, most of it is isomers of linoleic acid, which your body converts to omega 3s. The push against trans fats is from authorities like the FDA which say “don’t eat saturated fat”.
The information from American websites on the internet is nonsense. 4% trans fat. Haha no. (Virtually) no one in industry Australia accepts trans fat greater than 1%, most expect 08.% or 0.5% or less.
The distillation process might raise 0.3% trans fat to 0.4% or 0.5%.
“Expeller pressed oils aren’t treated with high temperatures”
Hmm. So how do they pre condition the seed or prevent heating during pressing?
Sure, olive is a lot better for you, but I’m not having a glass of that with bacon and eggs or a steak either.
Jane Fonda made a speech in Hanoi, claiming that the Americans were in Vietnam “to deny the North Vietnamese their independence and liberty.”
re: Helen Conway and the Workforce Gender Equality Agency.
I’ve never encountered a more invidious and business-wasting agency than this mob.
Our company (~ 200 employees) is constantly hounded by this department for gender equality reports. They dish out constant warnings, refuse the understand the fundamentals as to why an engineering and IT based firm does not have 50% wimminses, and why we, with a flat management structure, are not promoting them enough.
On top of this, they have the power to see all our payroll and tax information.
A complete WOFTAM which would be rased by any real conservative government.
There used to be a very good book about going off grid; avoiding the law and “skip tracers” but I think the State has cornered everyone.
Today in Liberalism:
Putin Congratulates Xi On Securing Unprecedented 3rd Term, Hails ‘Strategic Cooperation’
From The Comments
– “country’s rubber-stamp legislature”
Thats rich, considering our “Legislature” rubber stamped Biden’s election theft!
– Xinneh the Putin is such a lovable tyrant. Way more lovable than the lizard people who own the US tax slaves.
– Something Xi and Putin both have that western leaders lack. Intelligence!
– One more thing: they care for their country.
The WGEA is literally set up to catch companies that existed in the 1820s and haven’t existed for a very long time.
Yep, their interests are broadly aligned but she’s going through the wringer again. Don’t think we’ll see so many smiling Instagram posts when things fire up again.
Putin, Shute and nukes: How much should we fear nuclear war?
run an isolated wire fence under them – nice large loop or two. You should be able to extract a fair bit of juice.
Some more interesting Saturday morning reading, this from a blogger talking with a guy called Doug Casey, who is a bit of a gold bug according to his wiki. So it dovetails pretty well with Duk’s earlier comments.
Doug Casey On The Rise Of “Climate Brats” And Other Useful Idiots (10 Mar)
I don’t think gold is a good investment myself since it is too easy to steal, by thieves and the government (but I repeat myself).
For those interested in such things, my monograph on some interesting stories about Japanese aircrew – and their families – in WWII:
Digging Down through Mayhem and Mystery – Japanese combat reports reveal the human face of air war across the Top End of Australia
On the RUSI website
That was one of the best. I always try and sit on a wing anyway, preferably on someone else’s MCG membership if possible.
If you make their naughty list you’ll likely be excluded from bidding for government contracts.
Soft fascism.
It’s actually 2035 (a typo, I suspect) – but the important thing to note is that this is wholly consistent with Andrew’s emissions strategy to shut down all Victorian coal-fired generation by 2035 in order to reach emission reductions of 75% to 80%.
This is intentional self harm in Victoria – which will put a floor under the current, eye-watering NEM wholesale price.
BoN, https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Static_discharger
Says dust can cause it so likely wind turbine blades could suffer from it.
Lightning can damage the blades so I would think they do what is done on composite aircraft nowadays where a fine stainless steel mesh is the first layer under the paint before you get to the structural composites. This doesn’t have any effect on static buildup as even metal aircraft suffer from that.
I had a gorgeous German teacher, with massive, well her name was Barbera, and we called her Booberella. Had the boys, it was boys’ high school, wrapped around her little finger.
Her replacement, when she went on maternity leave when I was in year 12, was a blonde goddess with legs up to her armpits, and she wore tight little dresses.
How the boys complained the next year when she was replaced by an old boiler.
Looks like SVB needed more diversity.
BTW what happened to Andrews’ post modern SEC?
yes I dont doubt that, but having some hidden ‘uncensorable’ wealth, whether it be BTC, PMs or whatever, will allow you to make choices in the parallel black market which always springs up. It will also give you what my sister calls (as she toys with her engagement ring) , ‘the running away money’. Many a jewish family survived the holocaust by bribing the right official at the right time to ensure safe passage.
My ownership of BTC and other cryptos was a key plank in my ability to tell our rulers to GFY when they mandated compliance or loss of job. I have *already* benefitted from the anti authoritarian hedges I laid down earlier.
The *only* way to make a BTC transaction is to possess the ‘private key’ (think password) that proves to the network that you own it
There is precedent for governments forcing people to reveal computer passwords so you might have to spend the rest of your life in jail. Do your kids know that passwords? Same will apply to them.
From here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/08/men-scotland-who-loudly-boast-sexual-conquests-public-could/
Quite insane.
Men in Scotland who loudly boast about sexual conquests in public could face jail
Yep, up to seven years gaol.
Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws was paid by Nicola Sturgeon’s government to conduct an investigation into misogyny north of the border
(but use a 12 ft wall to look over a 1o ft paywall)
These laws are so ridiculous, it actually treats men making sexual advances on a woman as men grooming children. So to be misandrist, it treats…women as children!
But it also then criminalises “Incels”, after making normal male behaviour criminal. What did they expect?
CLOWN. PLANET.
How is anyone better off? These proposed laws are nebulous and misanthropic.
Probably too big a topic to open atm (am trying to trouble shoot the electric brakes on daughters horse float, and have a horse to school) and not one I have devoted as much time to as the inflammatory effects of carbs, but my general principle in life now is to ask myself ‘ If our ancestors didn’t eat/do/have this, why is it better for me than what they spent millenia adapting to?’.
In the case of seed oils, I note that they are an even newer addition to our diet than refined carbs, they are even more ‘industrially’ processed, and their penetration into just about every modern processed food (along with sugar) has paralleled the castastrophic decline in population metabolic health that I witnessed across my medical career.
Nowadays, if a ‘food’ has more than about 3 ingredients, I steer clear of it. Preferrably, it has only 1, eg ‘lamb’,’ butter, ‘salt’ etc etc etc .
It gets worse. The new legislation literally singles out men and not women.
So this is why the UK should have stayed in the EU. They EU don’t take crap like this!
Scotland. Just awful.
She’s been remarkably red-pilled. She’s now even writing for FrontPageMag.
(Which I look at every day especially since Daniel Greenfield blogs there.)
Lifelong Liberal After Watching Tucker Carlson Tapes: ‘Dear Conservatives: I Apologize’ (10 Mar)
Elizabeth Stauffer, Powerline
Righty journo Ms Stauffer joined Powerline very recently, and has been writing excellent blogposts.
Shutting down coal won’t be enough to reach 75%.
The latest advice is they’ll need to jettison gas as well.
There gonna’ need a lot of community batteries.
I just try to avoid anything that is processed. I mean I make exceptions for stuff we’ve traditionally eaten.
They cancelled Robert E Lee, cos history reminder bad, and across the road they OK-ed this! .. FFS!
https://postimg.cc/G82FRvVk
Relax, if they really wanted to discriminate against men they could just ban amateur football stories.
1) I have a precedent for telling governments to go fcuk themselves.
2) I have had a good life and achieved all I wanted to in it. My sole remaining task is to ensure my children are as prepared as possible to make their way in an increasingly dangerous and predatory world. There is nothing the feds can do to me to change that.
1) OPSEC, OPSEC!
2) What will apply to my kids? – the feds have no idea what I have or where its ‘buried’ … I have made sure of that. Let me just say that I am a careful planner and have made careful plans….
Especially retiring Liars politicians no longer needing preselection.
The big tax authorities around the world have classified crypto as an asset. This was done years ago, and it basically destroyed crypto as a currency. It was an ingenious way to get rid of the currency aspect.
And no, they wouldn’t deliberately undervalue crypto because they wouldn’t be able to tax it. Moreover, the government couldn’t keep the value of gold down in the free market in those days even though countries outlawed holding bullion. There was a free market, and it showed the startling disparity between the free market and official prices. You really need to stop talking about this stuff, Hallward, as you haven’t a clue.
This seems to be a simple enough explanation of Bitcoin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
ARE AMERICANS GETTING DUMBER? – More than They Currently Are?
Mean scores on IQ tests rose generally in the U.S. beginning in the 1930s, apparently reflecting better nutrition and improved schooling. But that trend has now been reversed. A paper published in an upcoming journal finds IQ scores now declining:
Like black pudding, for example?
Yep. I’ve included the link he has for that “emergency”, which is even stupider and even bigger than the Covid scam.
On this note, I bring you James Morrow in the Daily Telegraph. Not sure if it was reported here but anyhoo:
Greens leader Adam Bandt continues to hold a superannuation account with a fund that has been criticised for its fossil fuel investments despite saying that new coal and gas mines are “untenable” and will “put a safer climate out of reach.”
Mr Bandt’s Greens have been locked in negotiations with Labor over the government’s “safeguard mechanism” to cut emissions, saying they would not support the legislation unless the government commits to not approving any more coal or gas projects.
Last week Mr Bandt said, “we’ve got to deal with this question of opening up new coal and gas mines because that’s not only untenable, and is going to put a safer climate out of reach.”
However according to disclosure documents which must be filed by all federal parliamentarians, the Victorian MP holds “superannuation and (a) life insurance policy” with HESTA which has come under fire from environmental groups for its holdings in oil and gas exploration companies.
The environmental website Market Forces, operated by Friends of the Earth Australia, states HESTA’s main fund has around 5.81 per cent, or $4 billion, worth of its assets, invested in fossil fuel projects.
Last year HESTA was flagged by the Environmental Defenders Office for investing “members’ savings into companies active pushing new fossil fuels” despite claiming to be a climate leader.
The group also said that the even the fund’s supposedly net zero investment fund was a case of “greenwashing.”
The news comes as The Daily Telegraph can reveal that at least half a dozen federal Greens parliamentarians have not disclosed their superannuation holdings or which funds they are in, making it impossible to determine the extent to which the party’s MPs and senators are invested in fossil fuels.
Parliamentary guidelines for disclosure state that “superannuation interests, including self-managed superannuation funds should be included” in a member or senator’s register of interest if valued at over $7500, though state and commonwealth superannuation entitlements do not need to be included.
While most offices declined to comment, a spokesman for Queensland senator Penny Allman-Payne said that the mistake was an “oversight” and the register would be amended.
Mr Bandt’s office declined to comment
Just just nonsense. You can tell them you forgot the password.
There is no way to avoid this moment. The formal letter of apology. From me. To Conservatives and to those who “put America first” everywhere.
It’s tempting to sweep this confrontation with my own gullibility under the rug — to “move on” without ever acknowledging that I was duped, and that as a result I made mistakes in judgement, and that these mistakes, multiplied by the tens of thousands and millions on the part of people just like me, hurt millions of other people like you all, in existential ways.
Republicans, conservatives, I am sorry.
I also believed wholesale so much else that has since turned out not to be as I was told it was by NPR, MSNBC and The New York Times.
I believed that stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop were Russian propaganda. Dozens of former intel officials said so. Johns Hopkins University said so. [https://sais.jhu.edu/news-press/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinformation-dozens-former-intel-officials-say].
“Trump specifically cited a “laptop” that contained emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden”, said ‘CNN Fact-Check’, with plenty of double quote marks. [https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_036fb62c-377f-4c68-8fa5-b98418e4bb9c]
I believed this all — til it was debunked.
I believed that President Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia — until that assertion was dropped. [https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2019/03/mueller-concludes-investigation/]
I believed that President Trump was a Russian asset, because the legacy media I read, said so [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book].
I believed in the entire Steele dossier, until I didn’t, because it all fell apart. [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63305382].
Was there in fact an “infamous pee tape”? So many other bad things were being said about the man — why not? [https://www.businessinsider.com/christopher-steele-trump-pee-tape-probably-exists-2021-10]
I believed that Pres Trump instigated the riot at the Capitol — because I did not know that his admonition to his supporters to assemble “peacefully and patriotically” had been deleted from all of the news coverage that I read. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/trump-team-hoping-peacefully-and-patriotically-will-be-shield]
Because of lies such as these in legacy media — lies which I and millions of others believed — half of our nation’s electorate was smeared and delegitimized, and I myself was misled.
It damages our nation when legacy media put words in the mouths of Presidents and former Presidents, and call them traitors or criminals without evidence.
It damages our country when we cannot tell truth from lies. This is exactly what tyrants seek — an electorate that cannot know what is truth and what is falsehood.
Through lies, half of the electorate was denied a fair run for its preferred candidate.
I don’t like violence. I do believe our nation’s capitol must be treated as a sacred space.
I don’t like President Trump (Do I not? Who knows? I have been lied to about him so much for so long, I can‘t tell whether my instinctive aversion is simply the habituated residue of years of being on the receiving end of lies).
But I like the liars who are our current gatekeepers, even less.
The gatekeepers who lie to the public about the most consequential events of our time — and who thus damage our nation, distort our history, and deprive half of our citizenry of their right to speak, champion and choose, without being tarred as would-be violent traitors – deserve our disgust.
I am sorry the nation was damaged by so much untruth issued by those with whom I identified at the time.
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Eyrie – One of the articles I saw was of leading edge erosion on wind turbine blades:
Leading Edge Erosion: A BIG Problem For Wind Turbine Operators (Jan 2021)
There’s a photo. No sign of an underlay of mesh, although maybe they do have those static dischargers. I haven’t seen them, but I haven’t looked. The erosion thing is interesting of itself because a wind turbine blade is like a wing of an aircraft that is flying 24/7 every day for 20 years, at very low altitude. Not easy to maintain either!
I saw there were some papers about wind turbines initiating actual lightning bolts during thunderstorms as well as being hit by them. I suppose we’ll eventually find out if they can do that in high fire risk conditions.
Sorry missed the link.
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry?publication_id=676930&post_id=107454215&isFreemail=true
Who hasn’t got an infamous pee tape?
Time to move bring back Boys schools for anyone who requests it to save the schooling of Boys from current disaster …
I went to an all boys HS (late50s/early60s) with all male teachers (from memory the only female in the school was the Headmaster’s secretary) .. the general education level was excellent but overall the “how to talk to /get to know about/get anywhere”with girls aftermath was significantly lacking ..!
Not recommended! ……
slow-moving, grinding, painful Russian victory emerges. Ukrainian casualties are almost certainly at unbearable, unsustainable levels
Fighting to the last Uke!
Just just nonsense. You can tell them you forgot the password.
Guaranteed to work!
“We’ll just detain you and keep liquidating your known assets until you remember!”
Speaking of electricity and fires, this story has quite an alarming graph in it!
Epidemic Of E-Bike Fires Rips Across America (10 Mar)
“According to New York City officials, a supermarket and apartment building were destroyed on Sunday due to a fire caused by an electric bike. The rise in reports of lithium-ion battery fires across the metro area is an unintended consequence of the ‘green’ mobility trend.
WSJ reported the New York City Fire Department revealed the number of e-bike lithium-ion battery fires had more than doubled last year to 216. The fire department said the blazes had injured 40 people and killed two this year.
“These are incredibly dangerous devices if they are unregulated or used improperly,” New York Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh recently told reporters.”
Quick, cancel that woman for criticizing Gaia’s holy e-bikes! I wonder if insurance premiums will be going up?
There’s an actual security vid of the e-bike catching fire in the story, via New York Post. You can see from the fierceness of it how that fire then took out the whole supermarket and apartment building. Yikes!
Leading Edge Erosion: A BIG Problem For Wind Turbine Operators (Jan 2021)
This is something that has been dealt with since the dawn of powered aviation. But the loons who build these windmills had obviously never heard of it.
Metal props are pretty resistant but it still happens in dusty environments.
Just another downside of wind energy.
As for lightning, think of a giant lightning rod being flung up into the sky continuously when there are thunderstorms around. Lightning can have very bad effects on a blade that doesn’t have the mesh protection. There was a case in the UK where a bloke went for a trial flight in a two seat fiberglass glider. From about 5km away a lightning bolt reached out and blew one wing apart. Fortunately the Chief Flying instructor, a couple of months before, insisted that everyone wear parachutes in the club two seaters and they successfully bailed out from only a couple of thousand feet. The passenger was offered another trial flight but politely declined.
A wind turbine blade being exploded would unbalance the whole thing and like fail the whole tower.
“We’ll just detain you and keep liquidating your known assets until you remember!”
Exactly.
Browsing some Rand Corp paper from 2019:
Point of interest for ex-PMs everywhere – if you’re going to masquerade as a ‘man of faith’, try not to align yourself to religious groups that charge by the root (the Hun):
HomeworkGate!
Filthy snitches.
Hauled into the office of ‘a leader’. Another Hillsong ‘leader’ may have been thinking along similar lines as the one sweating down Ms Harper when he said ‘I don’t hold a hose mate’.
Incidentally, there are some pics of Ms Harper attached to the piece.
In my very humble view, and speaking as a connoisseur of the female form, I would regard $50 as being an extremely worthwhile investment with considerable ROI to be had.
I wonder what they do about insect impacts of the leading edges of the turbine blades? This will have the same performance degradation effect on the blade as physical erosion of the paint.
High performance gliders flown in areas where bugs are significant during the flying season have what are called “bug wipers” which travel along the leading edges and clean them in flight. Bugs can increase the whole glider’s drag by up to 30% which the wipers can reduce again.
Haven’t seen them on windmills.
Carlson up next. Will he rediscover his backbone and threaten to take his huge audience elsewhere if he’s to be muzzled at Fox?
Amazing how this works.
Albanese amends visa processes to increase number of Indian students and workers in Australia amid labour shortages (Sky News, 11 Mar)
Australian rental vacancies at half of pre-pandemic levels with low availabilities forcing prices to skyrocket (Sky News, 11 Mar)
Labor is never very good at the whole cause-and-effect thing.
It’s just a feeling I have…but I don’t think wind turbines are made to last. 😀
Shorter Carnie Jane:
Australian academic of Indian origin interviewed on ABC RN this morning says Modi will be looking to secure more Australian visas for Indian workers as part of any trade deal.
Seems people are now India’s chief export.
I wonder why all the trannies seeking to get into classroom and libraries are men dressed as women rather then women dressed as men.
Seems a ‘guy’ thing.
Could it be some vestigial expression of the primordial predatory instinct that drove males to hunt mammoths and bison. But that instinct, bent awry by these people’s twisted minds, has them setting their sights on children.
Certainly below market, although you do have to sit through the sermons.
Seems people are now India’s chief export.
Just the elderly, infirm and those fit to work but likely to repatriate money.
Ditto Africa, although whitey not to blame this time.
Sporty times ahead for the swamp krauts.
Thanks for the link to Happy Tree Friends, Pogria.
I shall explore further.
It’s just a feeling I have…but I don’t think wind turbines are made to last. ?
Definitely compared to the set and forgot “Southern Cross” windmill. How many blade fires and gearbox explosions did they ever have?
What motivates a politician as profoundly stupid as Chris Bowen?
Paging a Mr Bob Geldorf. Is a Mr Geldof in the building?
Nearly 130,000 facing starvation in Horn of Africa: WHO (Phys.org, 10 Mar)
If global warming is causing this disaster, what caused the terrible famine that Live Aid was helping in 1985? After all pCO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere was only 340 ppmV in 1985 versus 420 ppmV today. I’m sad for the poor people who are suffering badly, although I do suspect a certain religion might also be having an effect.
Bombing Libya and ousting Gaddafi didn’t help but…
Might put you off home made lemonade.
“Alright, Narendra…we’ll take a million over three years if you’ll take our chickpeas.”
good plan … I wonder if they’d notice the burden
Regular bloke at the cafe has a badly shrivelled leg, difficult for him to walk.
He drives the water truck for the equivalent of main roads.
No NDIS for him!!
If they’ll do that, they’d just kill you for your fiat bucks anayway.
Cohenite posted upthread about Fonda in Hanoi.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/22/fact-check-barbara-walters-did-not-write-post-jane-fonda-vietnam/5446508002/
Basically, the Marxist-Leninist Ethiopian government.
Yes that seems rather silly but is she being economical with her truth?
Seems people are now India’s chief export.
There are plenty of them, they won’t be missed and they are making more of them all the time.
Knuckles I note she is an Influencer. Did she have to talk her boyfriend into horizontal tangoing. Its about the thing an Influencer has going for them and then only some.
Only thing
Hillsong is currently being put under the microscope for naughty financials – seemingly a common problem in charismatic religious organisations, along with inappropriate shagging.
Their ABC goes out of its way to report the views of a respected authority on governance:
Translation: With any luck, there may be some juicy shit to hang on Scummo and those Opposite from the security of parliamentary privilege.
Michael Smith News – Albo has yet another happy snap taken….doesn’t the pilot look impressed!
They just ran the Pago Pago Stakes at Rosehill*.
All Channel Seven’s talking heads are pronouncing Pago Pago phonetically as it is written.
Can someone tell them that Melanesians and Polynesians in their home countries insert an “n” so Nadi is pronounced “Nandi” and Pago Pago is “pronounced “Pango Pango”?
Thanks in anticipation.
*The race was won easily by Shinzo (J: J. McDonald; T: C. Waller), which means Waller will have a starter in next week’s $5 million Golden Slipper, the world’s richest race for two-year-olds, which Waller has never won.
Bet there’s spittle all over the cockpit.
Am at Sydney University Park at the rally “Let Women Speak”, where Kelly-Jay Keen is speaking along with other women. The scum are here, the police are keeping them away however the scum are screaming and screeching far-right, far-right, Nazis.
Interesting point – well, I find it interesting:
Scanning through the online rage, there appears to be a steeply-growing trend of people coming before the courts for everything from flogging their wives to drug trafficking to stickups, and who are using the tactic of wearing the covid paper masks both to and outside court.
There’s an argument that this is to limit photos being taken that show the face. However, I think it’s more likely that it’s a ‘peacocking’ display for the court – ‘look how obedient and compliant I am. Whatever I did was so out of character for me, because I clearly do everything society tells me to do.’
Combine that with multiple applications to have the criminal charges dismissed and the matters dealt with under various mental health provisions (a dog ate my ice cream cone when I was four), and you’re on a winner.
I’m not necessarily bagging the tactic. Use what works, I reckon.
Online rags. Rags.
Newspapers.
God, you people.
Youlotta Donutta was my favourite Drag Queen.
Silicon Valley Bank, which just went tits up, had a very large and beautiful vagina – promoted endlessly and proudly by its diversity-equity-inclusion-obsessed female CEO. Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Make sure you stay on for Carlson’s renewed warning to air travellers about airline managements replacing competence with ideological obedience as a qualification for pilots and Jordan Peterson’s analysis of the quasi-religious idiots of the environment movement who are wrecking the environment.
PS: liberated from the patriarchy, females – many of them CEOs – are leading the West’s descent into stupidity and its inevitable downstream consequences, falling living standards and penury.
PPS: the Cat’s Kittehs are a tiny minority.
True to style, Morrison publicly threw Houston under a bus six months ago.
Their best opportunity to crucify him and the Liberals is over robodebt once the comissioner’s report is handed down. And deservedly so.
Meanwhile, is Morrison still in parliament because he hasn’t been offered any sinecures?
Just get a load of these freaking dickheads. The bank failed yesterday US time and the FDIC closed it down. On the same day execs were peddling woke shit on LinkedIn and elsewhere.
Celebrating International Women’s History Month.
Well Morrison betrayed his supported and tried to snuggle up to the enemy.
Ahaha! Good on you, Google.
Just looked up Cassie’s rally at Sydney Uni and got this:
Whatever, Google. Need to give it a bit of curating and polishing before I can read/see?
Another massive fcukery could be on the way in the markets.
Just wow
Heller is succinct:
Woke Bank (11 Mar)
Might be some interesting stuff coming out of this fiasco. Apparently SVB lent to lots of tech unicorns. But the big boys like the FANGs have their accounts with much bigger banks. The smaller Silicon Valley IT companies may have to do mass firings on Monday since their cash accounts won’t be accessible, and they can’t meet payroll.
Fascism is an alliance between big business and lefty government, and the most dangerous enemy of big business like Google and Facebook is upstart smaller businesses. Which it appears SVB had been doing the banking for.
“Expect Mass Layoffs…” – The Real-World Impact Of SVB’s Failure (11 Mar)
From The Daily Mail Australia, yesterday:
Cops on high alert as controversial UK women’s rights campaigner who has been slammed as ‘transphobic’ prepares to give speeches on tour of Australia
An object lesson on where California is headed.
There’s only one current Twitter feed that Google appears to be allowing. All the rest of the top hits are Alphabet People hate sites stirring up opposition.
Nice to see Google being true to form.
The upper, middle, and lower middle classes are fine. It’s those kids sitting in shitty school districts where the teacher union holds sway whose futures are being destroyed.
Cassie, if it isn’t too much trouble could you please live blog it for us?
Michael Smith News – Albo has yet another happy snap taken….doesn’t the pilot look impressed!
Going to yank on the ejection handles as soon as Albo gets out. “Need new seat after that homo arse has been on it.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/australia-buy-5-us-nuclear-powered-submarines-deal-counter-china
If we are going to buy 5 for $3 billion each, just buy however many we want to end up with. Forget about building any in Adelaide.
Latest attempt to get Trump (4 minutes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyExAA7XeTI
Here’s how the second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history happened in just 48 hours
CNBC
Speaking of startups, Modi apparently wants Australian investment in new Indian ventures.
The aforementioned Australian academic (with an Indian name) tactfully commented that Australian business has historically found entering the Indian market “difficult” as “you really need to know the culture.”
The only upside to all these International Albo photo ops we pay for is that it must be driving both Tits Shorten and Kevin07 spare… potentially Mean Penny also.
Meanwhile, is Morrison still in parliament because he hasn’t been offered any sinecures?
No doubt, the odious boofhead may not have enough maaates to make it happen.
This story was republished by the IPA around 2001.
It is false.
Massive damage to the IPA’s credibility.
Fortunately for Albo the paint hadn’t dried on his helmet before the photo op.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/dukakis-and-the-tank-099119/
I did wonder, Chris.
Had it been true, Fonda would not have made old bones.
Good lord that Zero Hedge stuff is full of lunatic pro Russian and Chinese trolls.
Australia FINALLY buys some decent military kit.
“You can’ fight China”
We don’t want to fight, as little as tens of nukes might cruel China’s incentives to fight us.
On the subs deal…
Can we make it a MacHappy Deal and throw in a couple of nuclear reactors for electricity? Not quite a twofer, but close.
If not, why not?
The aforementioned Australian academic (with an Indian name) tactfully commented that Australian business has historically found entering the Indian market “difficult” as “you really need to know the culture.”
Getting bullshitted at every turn definitely puts investors off. Shit it’s almost impossible to purchase anything off these bullshit artists, let alone do anything as risky and difficult as an investment.
Good lord that Zero Hedge stuff is full of lunatic pro Russian and Chinese trolls.
ZH has the world’s most feral commenters.
Can someone tell them that Melanesians and Polynesians in their home countries insert an “n” so Nadi is pronounced “Nandi” and Pago Pago is “pronounced “Pango Pango”?
They’re Mongs, impervious to embarrassment and research.
:rolleyes:
https://www.gov.scot/news/misogyny-law-consultation/
Background
The five new proposed criminal laws are:
All aimed at men, no female behaviour is criminalised. Read the prior statements of the committee.
An offence of misogynistic harassment. This would make it a criminal offence for a person to behave in a way that amounts to misogynistic harassment directed at a woman or girl or group of women and girls.
This is very subjective.
An offence of misogynistic behaviour. Intended to deal with misogynistic behaviour which is likely to have the effecting of causing a woman or girl to experience fear, alarm, degradation, humiliation or distress where that behaviour is not directed at a specific woman or girl (or group of women and girls) and so could not be described as ‘harassment’.
Humiliation is just something you just have to deal with when you live in a society. Even when it is unwarranted. Several great scientists were humiliated for being right and being first, their peers all laughed at them. So what? Often it’s your choice, like taking offence. Note they’re trying to criminalise a statement not even aimed at anyone!
A statutory aggravation concerning misogyny. This would be used where an offence had a misogynistic motive or a person demonstrates misogyny whilst committing a crime. The statutory aggravation would ensure that this motive is recorded and taken into account when sentencing.
Some people might be jerks, but what about freedom of conscience.
An offence of threatening or abusive communications to women or girls that reference rape, sexual assault or disfigurement. This offence criminalises sending an abusive message to a woman or girl that refers to rape, sexual assault or disfigurement
(Yeah okay but isn’t this already covered by other laws as an aggravated category of intimidation or making menaces or similar.)
An offence of stirring up hatred against women and girls. This offence is concerned with the effect that the behaviour may be likely to have on the people in whom the perpetrator is seeking to stir up hatred of women and girls
This borders on silliness like lese majeste.
And we’re surprised???
First lefty teachers dumbed down kids at school with the result that literacy and numeracy are at rock bottom in the Western world.
Now, with Silicon Valley’s coding nerds having invented the social media monopolies that control the dissemination of ideas, they’re trying to dumb down the entire population — with the enthusiastic support of 99% of the news media.
Journalists and IT coders are two sides of the same social evil: both think ordinary people are too stupid to vote and therefore, being society’s kingmakers, they must censor all the information the plebs are given.
The modern fascist left is 1000 times more evil than the Third Reich.
Company I used to work for had a product, Minesuite, that installed on each mine truck or digger an expensive box of GPS, data radio, connections to Loadrite and other sensors, and a couple of expensive custom PCB assemblies. These boxes plus the expensive software let you see live, the truck movements loading and tipping locations and perhaps whether the operator was paying attention to the flashing red temperature light on his dashboard.
The $1M rig was installed at one major Indian coal mine, but the anticipated followup order for their other two or three mines never came.
When a tech rep went to visit and fix a problem on site, the Indian tech guys boasted that they had hacked the software and made their own installations for the other operations. This IP theft or piracy had to have come from the very top management, no doubt enthusiastically pressed by can-do Indian IT staff wanting to save some money.
“Mother Lodesays:
March 11, 2023 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for the link to Happy Tree Friends, Pogria.
I shall explore further.”
Mother,
my son and I spent many happy hours watching sweet little woodland creatures butcher each other, or themselves in many inventive ways. A definite bonding animated series.
If you do enjoy your way through it, you will understand what I mean when I say that I decorated a birthday cake one year for fortunate son with the character called “Cub”, and the words “la la la”.
Cub was our favourite Character. Poor little Cub. 😀
of course, the initial sale was at loss-leader pricing because the Aussie management team were too eager to make the sale. No profit for YOU.
snork, chuckle, piss myself laughing!
Seafolly has performed aBackwards, double pike into the deep end.
bwahaha. Too late methinks.
Cite you Kim Beazely, in his suit of tailor made cams, getting jammed in the turret hatch of a Leopard tank and having to be extracted by his flunkies. Footage of that one is still marked “Never to be released.”
I may be missing something, but very few of the IT coders, client project managers or system architects I have worked with think about that at all. The opportunities for that kind of behaviour appear after the coders have been reduced to low-paid drones and the company has developed a huge following that pays for a bloated management structure. Like universities.
Silicon Valley Bank’s CEO sold $3.6 million of stock in potentially ‘problematic’ transaction days before historic bank failure
Don’t think anybody mentioned it but Ch 7 had a bit of an “oops” moment. Would be 2 days ago on the show that starts at 0900. Unfortunately not Kochie hosting.
Were supposed to be interviewing two elderly actors from Neighbours. However only the guy came on. Female host tells the male actor the female was unwell and could not appear.
Male actor then says he knew and that she had had a very bad reaction to the vaccine !
Hilarious.
Cassie
The scum are here, the police are keeping them away however the scum are screaming and screeching far-right, far-right, Nazis.
Get a chorus going.
Either “Far left, far left, commos”, or “Far left, far left, fascists”.
Seems Sea Folly had not read the memo about go woke go broke.
How could they possibly have thought getting a guy wearing bikinis was going to help sell bikinis.
Crossie:
And the grifters who attach themselves to the programs – who oddly enough, are the ones who managed to survive the middle class destruction of the COVID Armageddon.
It would be interesting to see the employment stats when/if they are published.
And check out Cramers advise
The inverse Cramer
There’s a YouTube of Let Women Speak here
Thanks to C.L. Google seems to know nothing about it.
Chrissays:
March 11, 2023 at 2:04 pm
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
This story was republished by the IPA around 2001.
It is false.
Massive damage to the IPA’s credibility.
Yeah, should have checked. As for massive damage to IPA I would think the damage to fonda was still greater. Even Snopes, while debunking the false story of the hand messages and betrayal by fonda, notes the other things she did in Vietnam which led to her grovelling apology in 1988. At the end she’s still a leftie POS.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jane-fonda-pows/
How long would it take Australia to go full intercontinental nuke?
Old Ozzie:
You mention of the Spanish Inquisition led on to https://youtu.be/vZ9myHhpS9s
Sometimes, one must indulge.
Interesting link, cohenite, thank you. I don’t have a reference, but, if the Americans had bombed the dikes, as they were accused of doing, Hanoi would have been under eleven feet of water…
Bar Beach Swimmer:
You can carve it into his steeply sloped forehead for all the good it will do.
Here – borrow my pruning knife if you must.
JCsays:
March 11, 2023 at 3:06 pm
How long would it take Australia to go full intercontinental nuke?
Putting aside the nuclear weapons themselves, there are big issues with developing ICBMs and re-entry vehicles. Trying really hard, with unlimited finance, and without foreign assistance, maybe five years, but probably up to 10.
Figures:
Without getting into the latest bunfight, I feel a minor correction is needed – “Men suffer from menstruation, not ‘men can menstruate’”.
A minor detail, but necessary.
True to style, Morrison publicly threw Houston under a bus six months ago.
Houston turns out to have been a crook.
Their best opportunity to crucify him and the Liberals is over robodebt once the comissioner’s report is handed down. And deservedly so.
No one cares, apart from Labor Party tragics.
Meanwhile, is Morrison still in parliament because he hasn’t been offered any sinecures?
It’s possible he thinks Labor won’t last long and he’ll consider his options then.
U.S. Ambassador Scotty sounds like a winner.
Having said that, proxies for Bill Shorten are asking why Wong got away with harassing St. Kimberley Kitching.
Since Wong is a Labor Icon, Albanese has to defend her to the end, so he’s got his work cut out for him.
My Indian Bolt which is the same as Uber I think driver is keen to move to Australia to join his brother who is a taxi driver (which might also be Uber) in Brisbane, planning to do so in the next year or two.
Interestingly he told me he received income from his parent’s Indian civil service pension. I checked, apparently that is possible.
Don’t make the mistake of equating IQ and education. They are *not* the same thing. IQ is your innate processor speed, it can be destroyed (by injury, poor nutrition etc) but not improved.
Education equates to loading programs onto your computer. If your CPU isn’t up to it, it can’t run the program.
The myth that IQ = education has allowed teachers unions to grift millions of $ to ‘close the gap’ when it’s simply not possible.
The decline of IQ in the west has been caused by dilution of the original (IQ 100) Caucasians with lower IQ imports from the 3rd world, and transfer of ‘reproductive fitness’ from higher to lower IQ caucasian citizens via the welfare state.
Idiocracy?
Okay.
No.
Schooling isn’t going to make any difference to IQ Scores, since it’s Pattern Recognition that’s measured, and Schooling can’t change that.
I think the idiocracy perpetuates and entrenches itself by excluding, by any means necessary, people with any ability or desire to serve the community. Pauline knows. So does the Donald.
Those Indians are here for keeps.
Sure, they could earn $500,000 here and go back to India and live like Kings, but the money would be stolen from them legally and they’d end up on the street anyway.
In the same way as 1984 was an instruction manual, not a novel, Idiocracy was a documentary, not a comedy.
Dean Mackin, the most conservative radio talkback host in Australia has quit 2SM to run on Craig Kelly’s ticket for the NSW LC. I have mixed feelings. I think he was doing better work on radio talkback then he will be allowed to do in parliament. But I wish him success.
That’s a very good question.
Brittany Higgins was unavailable for comment….
We are ruled by a class of people who hate us, hate our society, and have no intention of ever letting us decide our lives for ourselves.
Our Constitution isn’t worth the dunny paper it’s written on, and is adjudicated by people who were elected not by the people whose Constitution they are meant to defend, but by politicians who constantly attack it.
The sooner this shithole of a country has a new Constitution written by the people the better.
intriguing, isn’t it. The current push for boys schools to go co-ed, but nary a whisper about all-girls schools.
The current push for boys schools to go co-ed, but nary a whisper about all-girls schools.
The trannies will take care of that.
Hi all, just got back to my sister’s place in the inner west after attending the rally with my hero, the fabulous Kelly-Jay Kean. I am exhausted, rallies are exhausting. I am really glad I attended, went with my sister. We got there about 11.30, the rally was scheduled from midday to 2.00 p.m. I spoke with Kath Deves and some other women. It was bloody hot, just as well I took my straw hat. When we arrived at the site, there were no police or scum but about 11.50 a.m. the police arrived en masse and then shortly afterwards the scum arrived.
It was a pleasure, a joy to be among like minded people. And what a mixture, there were conservatives, Christians, old and young feminists, Labor women, old lesbians who’d fought real battles back in the 1970s and 1980s, young lesbians, young men, young women, young gay men, old gay men, old people, a real cornucopia of men and women of all ages, ethnicities, sexuality and so on.
There were about 250 of us, and probably about 100 of the leftist scum, who chanted, screamed, shouted and screeched, “far-right”, “nazi”, and “trans rights are human rights”, whatever the f*ck that means, clearly a euphemism to hide the fact that most trans activists are perverts and/or seriously effed up people. That’s all they could scream, they parrot garbage like the indoctrinated little Maoist scum they are. What was odd was that in the scum, there were Morris dancers, dancing around in the heat. The NSW police kept the baying scum at bay, and there were police horses there. The bulk of the police knew where the threats were, and it wasn’t from us, the police and the police horses faced the baying scum.
There was a wonderful feeling of solidarity and conviviality, and of being with men and women who also think that the whole “trans” movement, whilst a joke, is also something worse, far worse, a sinister movement orchestrated to erase women and to deliberately endanger women and children, sexually and physically.
I loved hearing the various women get up and speak, from old lesbians to young Christian women. Everyone was in agreement about how it doesn’t matter what your political affiliation is, that we must agree on this, that we must stand together, and that we must stop being nice. I spoke with some middle aged and older lesbians and I found it interesting how they all said that they’d once been Labor and Green voters but are now refusing to vote for either Labor or the Greens. One older lesbian said to me that she finds it funny how the scum are screeching far-right because yes, they are pushing her to the right.
I had pinned on my dress three stickers, one is “TERF…we know what a woman is”, one “Misogyny is a Drag” and the last one, “Woman, noun, adult human female.
We left at about 2.20, and we passed some police. We asked if it was safe to walk along the path to City Road, where my sister had parked her car. The police yes, don’t worry about the protesters, and then the policewoman said to me “maybe you should take those stickers off your dress”, to which I replied “no way, that’s why I’m here, to stand up to bullies”. She smiled.
My mother had wanted to come, however she’s about to turn 84 years old, it was hot and there wasn’t much seating apart from plonking on the grass, and whilst my mother could probably sit down on the grass, we’d never get her up again, so we advised her not to come. My mother was a founding member of Women’s Electoral Lobby, a strong woman who has never been scared of anything or anyone. There’s something special about that generation of Australian women born between the 1920s and 1960s. Maybe there was something in the water. Those women were and are incredibly strong, opinionated, forthright, the generation that produced Germaine Greer and others. Anyway, speaking to my mother on the way to the rally, she said she’d come with her walking stick and that if anyone dared to abuse or assault her, she’d use the walking stick on them. The thing is, she would.
Transwomen are not women!
The myth that IQ = education has allowed teachers unions to grift millions of $ to ‘close the gap’ when it’s simply not possible.
Yep! .. I still manage to astound my adult kids with my ability to read articles & occasionally books written in French .. I learnt French at school but never ever mastered speaking it (Geordie accent doesn’t do French or most languages, including English, too well .. LOL!) .. I can still write a bit but have forget more words than I can remember so very hit & miss! .. but reading with the words already laid out .. good enuf to understand follow the gist of what i’m reading .. LOL ..
Back in the dayz when going to school still meant an edukatian larn’t … not forgotten! ..
Not sure where this is going to, but it should be interesting.
House Votes 419-0 To Declassify All Intel On COVID Origins (10 Mar)
If both parties are voting for it Biden will be in a bind: he can’t veto and make it stick. And the dirty linen that should come out is going to affect a LOT of lefty holy cows, like Fauci, Birx and the CDC. Then there’re the Dem governors who kept infected oldies in nursing homes thereby killing tens of thousands.
Nah . . . not really interesting enough – from a film perspective.
Although he was superb in In Cold Blood – one of nest anti-capital punishment films ever made.
JR:
It still exists?
Now that’s an oversight!
Got a link for some data?
India is very good at out-selling it’s IT capabilities, but internally anything that looks like improving business efficiency aka reducing the workforce will likely somehow manage to fall down.
“I understand the distress and I have asked Transport for NSW to review protocols for the handling of sensitive images,” she said.
Given that she had her mobile on her lap which part of her did she think the camera would concentrate on …….?
Disclaimer: I saw a front-on pix on the Mail online and didn’t see anything untoward .. too blurry and a steering wheel took up most of the shot .. maybe they include a selection of pix for the charge(s) & court ..
Great report Cassie- insane that this is even an issue. It’s like disputing that the sun rises in the east. This is being driven from on high. From where I wonder. Big pharma, the Pritzkers maybe or just general marxist societal disruption.
So many of these marxist street fighters and thugs seem to be actually the sharp end of the establishment. I’d never heard of antifa until the American people voted in a non approved candidate for POTUS. I find it hard to believe that a 1920s Weimar phenomenon just suddenly resurrects itself.
In the future children won’t know what an egg is.
UK Mandates Backyard Chicken Registration To Fight Bird Flu (9 Mar)
The Biden Administration is Considering a Mass Vaccination Campaign for America’s Chickens (10 Mar)
This stuff is very creepy. I suppose though that after the chooks are all gone there will be even more bugs for us to eat.
In other words, middle Australia.
The fascist left is the lunatic fringe.
Thanks for the report, Cassie. I would love it if defenders of civilisation like you could make the case on programs like Sky Outsiders.
18 sitting weeks and approx $300,000 p.a to do nothing except vote at his party’s call?
That’s a sinecure in itself.
Incidentally Julian Sands vanished a couple months ago whilst hiking, and still hasn’t been found. I liked his work in Room With A View and Warlock.
One thing that is bound to explode a leftist’s head in fury and sheer denial is to compare Antifa with Hitler’s Brownshirts.
The only real difference between them is that Antifa are bigger cowards who usually hide their faces behind masks.
I’m also intrigued as to why the thug left attacked Portland- a soft target? I would have thought the ultra left government there would be to their liking.
Walked past a clothes shop the other day and they had a wall full of mens bright Hawaiian style shirts with matching poofta shorts. who da f*ck is going to wear that sh!t?!?!? mutley??
???
Very odd people.
I prefer to dance to this.
Or was the attack on Portland some sort of warning?
Seafolly should change its name to Seaphallus.
P.
P, I’m not blaming you, but I’m actually shocked at how CNBC characterized the Silicon Valley Bank failure and America’s second largest bank failure in history when there were numerous large banks in the GFC that were essentially at death’s door but saved by the bailout. Numerous large banks have failed if they had taken account of inflated dollars. SVP is really a middling to small bank these days.
Pffft….
GG Cassie.
whoops
as America’s second largest.
Not sure you could call Cassie’s list Middle Australia, Tom. More Unlikely Allies against blatant lies.
Which is very interesting. Not everyone who loves the truth comes from a neat white picket fence roast on Sunday home. In addition, some are keenly sensitive to where all this tripe takes us.
This is just the start.
I don’t watch motor racing, mainly because I can’t stand the inane commentary, and frankly, the modern racing is boring.
But flicking across the channels looking for the iron man this afternoon I stumbled over a super car race which I assumed was the Gold Coast, a hopeless circuit that is so narrow that nothing ever happens. But it wasn’t the GC, it was Newcastle. Great racing course, visually attractive and apparently well presented.
Well done BoN.
Great reporting, Cassie. Was the Persian Princess there?
One thing that is bound to explode a leftist’s head in fury and sheer denial is to compare Antifa with Hitler’s Brownshirts.
Huh?
You’re aware that Hitler’s Brownshirts and Communist Antifa were enemies?
Right?
Hirsute bearded man claiming to be a woman is just another version of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Gay men posing or even chopping trans just don’t like women, not one bit.
Anything you can do we can do better.
But only as a veneer, they don’t have the bits.
Some of my pals went down to watch Bons. Petrol Head grannies.
The aerial shots are spectacular. Dirty Old Town no more.
Nup ….. it was *never* a health crisis – virtually *all* the societal, health and economic impacts were own goals at the hands of government.
“Great reporting, Cassie. Was the Persian Princess there?”
No C.L. Rita will be at the one in Melbourne.
Portuguese socialism.
Just reminded that Australia isn’t all that bad, gst equivalent at the supermarket here,
Bread, fresh fruit etc is taxed at 6%
Bottled mineral water,ready made salad 13%
Breakfast cereal (and I presume all processed foods) 23%
And to add insult to injury breakfast cereal was under a classification that included pet food.
Wolfman,
not fussed. It wasn’t so much a suggestion as a “what do you think?”
I watched Baretta and recall that I enjoyed it, but was just a kid at the time so don’t remember it well, except that he had a cocky.
Never saw In Cold Blood, read the book though.
Bravo Cassie, wish I could have been there. I don’t mind a bit of biff.
Cassie, good onyer – and yer Mum too.
My commo aunt, now gone, was also a founder of WEL. Don’t think she would have stood for the Trans Line either – unless the Comintern backed them.
And, there was the start of the Future Fund which has thankfully grown and grown and not yet been raided by the ‘Pollies’.
Perhaps because one its original purposes is to fund the pensions of Commonwealth politicians, judges and public servants?
Yes. Some less bourgeois, less fortunate people see the wickedness more clearly and lament the damage it is going to cause. Many of the well-to-do, on the other hand, no longer care about anything beyond interest rates. Increasingly, this is the demographic the Liberal Party courts. That’s why Liberals no longer fight for the “cultural stuff.”
Dotsays:
March 10, 2023 at 11:20 pm
I can’t believe people use Gildas as a serious historical source.
There are claims the AS started to head over to England as far back as 380 AD.
Gildas died in 570 AD.
The Battle of Badon Hill could have been anytime between 430 AD and 500 AD.
Then there is the boffin who thinks Arthur was a Strathclydian General who fought against the Picts in the 530s.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/king-arthur-legendary-figure-was-real-and-lived-most-of-his-life-in-strathclyde-academic-claims-10483364.html
Well, it turns out that Old Frisian and Old English had a lot in common, and that relationship remains today: Frisian is English’s closest living relative with 80% lexical similarity. Together, they form their Anglo-Frisian branch of the West Germanic language family tree, which also houses German and Dutch.
Must have been all that yelling across the North Sea that did it. LOL Good job that someone was listening.
Nothing to do with Saxons, Angles, Jutes, and Frisian Tourists visiting Britannica at all………….More LOL.
Angle land became England and East Anglia? Who knows. Wot’ ever happened to West Anglia? Essex is East Saxons. Wessex is West Saxons. Sussex is well maybe South Saxons and Middlesex is where the Tranny Saxons settled……………………….FFS.
And then at election time they are bought off by some sort of hand out or another. There’s a lot of truth in the old saying “people vote with their pockets” .
Wasn’t me. Weirdly it was the green-lefty Newcastle City Council who got the street circuit race up.
Maybe they want to be electric cars eventually or something.
It’s a fine race though, been going for 4 years.
Ed Casesays:
March 11, 2023 at 5:01 pm
One thing that is bound to explode a leftist’s head in fury and sheer denial is to compare Antifa with Hitler’s Brownshirts.
Huh?
You’re aware that Hitler’s Brownshirts and Communist Antifa were enemies?
Richard Cranium
I am shocked that a renowned Spook like you is unaware that the Brownshirts and the 1930s Antifa were market competitors more than enemies. Nazis and communists both target the same demographics, the so-called “elites” and the bottom of the social pile.
lol, Rosie. On our driving trip through Norway we did a couple of Airbnb stays for one or two days, but after troubles finding one place and getting into the other, we reverted to hotels.
The final Airbnb had a stovetop system that neither Hairy nor I could work out. No instructions left. We didn’t even try the oven, as it looked even more complicated. We called food in and I reheated it in an old-fashioned microwave I found in a top kitchen shelf. It was rather grubby so I cleaned it first. It had knobs which was helpful and we managed with reheating cooked food and heating water in that for tea. The coffee-maker was like the panel of a spacecraft. No go there either.
Johnny, why do you drop into that odd Eastenders argot? You are able to type perfectly well in the King’s English.
Not Saxon, mind. Although I believe the Saxon Shore did take in old Londinium.
😀
Pogriasays:
March 10, 2023 at 11:46 pm
On a good note, my Complete Collection of Sharpe DVD’s arrived yesterday. Also the Complete Hornblower series. With all the other DVD’s I have bought over the last couple of months, the long winter evenings ahead of me are well catered for. ?
There’s a lot of Hornblower on Youtube. Not too sure about Sharpe.
Hopefully, you have plenty of nice reds to go with those DVD’s.
callisays:
March 11, 2023 at 5:21 pm
Johnny, why do you drop into that odd Eastenders argot? You are able to type perfectly well in the King’s English.
Not Saxon, mind. Although I believe the Saxon Shore did take in old Londinium.
Only ’cause I can and I am an Old Geezer.
Thanks for proving my point, Ed.
Their ideologies may be the opposite, but everything else about them is the same; their methods, extreme ideology and thuggishness.
I’ve been enjoying the repeats of Call the Midwife (prior to the descent into soap opera) and all the delightful glottal stops of Poplar.
My grandma talked about the Pearly Kings and Queens and the sound of Bow Bells. She arrived in Australia at the turn of the century and went into service – with the Hordern family, no less.
The one who taught me Men of Harlech. She would have loved Zulu. I never had the chance to ask her.
On our driving trip through Norway we did a couple of Airbnb stays for one or two days, but after troubles finding one place and getting into the other, we reverted to hotels.
Lizzie, we find Airbnbs are valuable only for garages that they sometimes provide for our car, but particularly for a sense of security and homeliness. We don’t ever prepare full meals in them – although we often bring takeaways back, together with a bottle of vino!
But, on the whole, we prefer either hotels or those gorgeous “homestays” in chateaux that Europe can provide.
flyingduksays:
March 11, 2023 at 5:04 pm
Covid-19 was a health crisis……
Nup ….. it was *never* a health crisis – virtually *all* the societal, health and economic impacts were own goals at the hands of government.
Where is Covid-23 and where is Black Death 1346 to 1353? And the Spanish Flu 19919? The last 2 were far far worse than the ‘Rona………………….
oh dear – German armoured vehicles in the lowlands may bring back some bad memories.
Yes. Some less bourgeois, less fortunate people see the wickedness more clearly and lament the damage it is going to cause.
CL – that was very clear in the Canberra rally against the Covid vaccines. The massive crowds that were there – were, from our observation, fundamentally average families, complete with kids and even family pooches.
“Hopefully, you have plenty of nice reds to go with those DVD’s.”
ROBUST reds JR, nice reds are for girls. If I am watching robust men in period dramas, I want a wine to match. 😉
You can’t disprove DNA with linguistics. What makes vowel shifts happen? Who speaks Frisian anymore? If you can only prove the Frisian link, how does that prove Saxons? Of course the Frisian link exists, it existed before Roman conquest.
100,000 – 150,000 “Anglo Saxons + Jutes” (now also Frisians, more exclusively than the other three to keep the charade up) over a 100+ period is a possibility, migrating to a land with 4 million natives, 3 million in what became England.
How many Australians sing with an Australian accent? John Williamson and Abby Dobson come to mind.
Using linguistics you would conclude in 1,000 years time that descendants of Australian Aborigines and Sudanese migrants were invaded and genocided by Americans who were the descendants of the English who did the same in America and the French certainly never colonised parts of the US.
Invasion? Not very likely.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31905764
“The new analysis shows a modest level of Saxon DNA, suggesting that the native British populations lived alongside each other and intermingled with the Anglo Saxons to become the English.
There is some evidence in the study that intermingling did not happen immediately following the Saxons’ arrival, but occurred at least 100 years later. This suggests that Britons and Saxons had separate communities to begin with, and then over time they began to merge.”
You have to keep in mind that people were crossing the channel routinely in Roman times too and Sweden for a long time had a trading and migration link with southern Britain.
Here’s how the second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history happened in just 48 hours
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There were many, many regional Banks that went under during the Depression years in the USA. The Farmers were hammered along with the impact of the Dust Bowl.