The Carrousel – Autumn Morning, Camille Pissarro, 1899
Leak hit it out of the park.
Open Thread – Weekend 11 March 2023
- Open Thread – Weekend 4 May 2024
- Bumtree #5
- The beach which banned vanilla ice cream
- Bumtree #4
- Open Thread – Thurs 2 May 2024
Ben Garrison.
Lisa Benson.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Good butter and good cheese is good English and good Fris
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………………….
Whoops. I mean 1919…………………………
I am shocked that a renowned Spook like you is unaware that the Brownshirts and the 1930s Antifa were market competitors more than enemies.
The Antifa in Germany was gone by the late 1920s, Cletus.
Here’s how the second-biggest bank collapse in U.S. history happened in just 48 hours
CNBC
Are we talking about this?
https://harryrichardson.substack.com/p/financial-armegeddon-or-a-storm-in?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Let’s go tell some Scottish Nationalists that half their country are Sassenachs, spoke Sassenach for at least 1200 years and Edinburgh was founded by a Northumbrian King.
There were many, many regional Banks that went under during the Depression years in the USA.
Okay.
The Farmers were hammered along with the impact of the Dust Bowl.
There was no Dust Bowl, Cletus.
Roosevelt ordered Mass Slaughter of Cattle and Hogs by the USDA to
“keep prices high”.
Many farmers just gave up.
Precisely Dot and the attitude in modern Scotland just shows their contemptible ignorance.
It was? How amazing!
Antifa (Germany)
The older scots tongue is Anglo-Saxon.
“The Antifa in Germany was gone by the late 1920s, Cletus.”
Nup, it was very active in the early 1930s as well, only disbanding when Hitler came to power.
OK in the 70s Germany had the Bader-Meinhof gang- were they connected to antifa?
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.
All those place names that are still there. Anything with ‘ham’ at the end of the name is Anglo Saxon for farm. Birmingham, Tottenham, Chatham, etc, etc. Go up North and many place names are derived from Norse words. There are many, many examples for someone to see with one eye open and half a brain.
The Germanic Tourists and Danes/Vikings certainly left their mark just like the Roman Tourists. Their Forts were called Chester. And there is Chester, Manchester, Colchester, Winchester and many, many others. FFS.
Dublin in Ireland was founded by the Vikings. So how Irish is that?
4 things you should never speak with others | Buddhism In English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZsiIflJcs
I predict we will never see a Buddhist politician.
Actually, it begins to explain some things. I was always perplexed by the soft drink flavour ‘blood orange’.
Richard Cranium
Your comment omitted the word “underground”.
ham is the old form of home
ton is town
both Anglo-Saxon
by is Scandinavian for farm
Well, York is a bastardisation of Jorvik. On account of those pesky longships.
I know. I went to the “Jorvik Experience”.
Sadly, no ABBA background music as our little cars travelled through the displays.
The name Dublin is Gaelic Du=black iirc
Wexford and Waterford are Viking iirc
Ed Casesays:
March 11, 2023 at 5:49 pm
There were many, many regional Banks that went under during the Depression years in the USA.
Okay.
The Farmers were hammered along with the impact of the Dust Bowl.
There was no Dust Bowl, Cletus.
Roosevelt ordered Mass Slaughter of Cattle and Hogs by the USDA to
“keep prices high”.
Many farmers just gave up.
Once again, Head Case and a Suitable Case for Treatment, you are showing your Gross Ignorance. 144 times which is quite gross. Go to Texas and tell the Old Timers (if they are still alive that is or their Relatives are) that there was never a Dust Bowl. A Magnum 45 up your backside will be the answer.
Please go back to the Planet Uranus where you came from, or is it Youranus? You do talk a load of shite.
I’ve just watched the entire two hour plus rally. All I can say; I hope our politicians watch it, too.
Keen to hear Cassie’s take on it.
Sorry my mistake looks like Wexford in Anglo-Saxon.
I mentioned that well-known similarity yesterday, Johnny. Glad you’ve finally caught up.
No-one, btw, doubts that there was a drip-feed of Saxon incursion from way back, even by 410AD when Roman finally ceded Britain – the major legions were long gone by then. What is at issue is the large-scale invasion. It seems never to have happened like that. It stems from a misreading of Gildas.
Personally, and here I am speaking to Dot now, I doubt the Battle of Badon story, as it stems directly from Gildas’ mixed pot of messages and is not recognised anywhere until centuries later in backward-dating texts such as the Annales Cambrae, monkish assessments of Gildas’s vague text. I suspect Gildas was musing about the missionary visit of Germanus in 429AD and hoping for another to revive flagging Christian sentiment in the first half of the fifth century, which is where I date him, due to a range of signals I can tease out within his work.. Germanus’ ‘bloodless’ Alleluia victory may have been a folk-memory from which the Baden (Boden) tale developed.
The name of Badon raises queries in itself. Variants of this are placenames of some antiquity in Britain, as are those of Eiden/Eiddyn. Baden may have been what the ‘battle’ (which Gildas called a ‘struggle’ or a ‘seige’) was likely about, between religious antagonists whom he terms ‘rascals’ (furcifer: hardly a term for Saxons given his virulent antipathies to these) and taking place I suggest at a genuine Mons Badonicus which is the term used by Gildas: a likely place for it in my view is Woden Hill, the Hill of Odin, in the sacred area around the River Kent, part of the ritual landscape of Stonehenge.
It may also have become conflated with another battle, the Battle of Wallop (Guoloph), 437, not long after the visit of Germanus, and may have given rise to what historians think is a ‘duplicate’, i.e. the visit of Germanus that re-appears dated in the 440’s which seems to have been only wishful thinking. Wallop appears to have been a real battle (we still wallop someone today when physical violence occurs). It took place the river then named as the River Slaughter.
Rival Britonnic groups appear to have fought at Wallop, said folklorically to be between ‘Ambrosius’ and ‘Vortigern’, which would fit perfectly with my hypothesis about ongoing internal religious fighting, for ‘Ambrosius’ is a signal for Trinitarians (via St. Ambrose’s influence), and Vortigern is a signal for the old All Father (the original Great Leader father god). Neither were ever real, both arise from the bowdlerising musings of Gildas, which were then relayed into Bede and thus into history.
Much of this is in my Quadrant article though in less detail.
“Keen to hear Cassie’s take on it.”
It was great being there, and I can’t wait for the next one. I like hearing women speak. I’ve posted a longer comment above. Kellie Jay is simply indefatigable.
And I’m in the livestream!
Someone way upthread mentioned on of my favourite bands, The Hu. Thanks to BoN for the introduction.
Mongolian hard rock. Take a look.
I read a story about Kostya Tsu and his family this week. Apparently. Kostya is a mix of Mongolian and Korean. Talk about two tough breeds, not noted for their good looks.
Luckily, Kostya married a gorgeous Russian woman and the boys are not only good looking but also talented fighters.
It’s one of those ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ stories. Kostya decamped to Russia, but his relatives are still here supporting the boys.
All those Russian novels are beginning to make sense.
Didn’t get to do a lot today. Bit of sightseeing going up Bald Hill via Seaview Bridge, which is just beautiful. We were going to go to Kiama for some blues festival but decided against it, heard reports it is teeming with people which is good, but considering kids and dinner, we’ve decided to go to the local pub.
Sydney tomorrow however which the son is very excited about, and myself also.
For Dick Head’s ED u cation…………………………..
“Although the 1930s drought is often referred to as if it were one episode, there were at least 4 distinct drought events: 1930–31, 1934, 1936, and 1939–40 (Riebsame et al., 1991). These events occurred in such rapid succession that affected regions were not able to recover adequately before another drought began.”
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/dust-bowl/
Our biggest trading partners. Who gifted the world the virus . A bunch of evil grubs;
.
BB I recommend the Manly Ferry and the Rivercat to Parramatta. Fascinating, scenic and great fun.
ZK2A:
Notice, ZK2A that despite pulling the Race Card early, he refused to answer the question?
Well I never Geronimo now playing with blue eyes .
Mongolian Hard Rock, nice, meet our mutual friend, North Asian Folk Metal.
Makka, that is sickening but I fear it can get worse.
!!!
https://www.academia.edu/34535711/The_Celtic_Hypothesis_Do_we_actually_speak_British
ABSTRACT
Although English has been traditionally considered a purely Germanic language raising from the
adventus Saxonum and later influenced in various degrees by Latin, French or Old Norse, this theory seems to deny or ignore the fact that the inhabitants of Britain at that time already spoke a language (Brittonic, Brythonic or Common Brythonic), five of whose six descendants have coexisted with English for not less than 1,500 years. This very fact renders it linguistically unlikely for English to retain only a few place- and river-names from Brittonic. Hinted by several linguists in the past century but ignored by most Anglicists, this possibility has been recently revisited by a new generation of historical linguists in the light of scientific developments in fields such as genetics, linguistics or history that help shed new light on this controversial hypothesis that might explain the singularity of English within the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
KEY WORDS: Brythonic, Brittonic, Celtic languages, Celtic substratum, English as a contact language, origins of English
I don’t want to write this up any more here; working on getting out an article specifically analysing the detail of Gildas, if time allows. Arthuriana is a fascinating field and of course full of amateur enthusiasts who ‘find’ Arthur everywhere. They are often poorly informed about the real scholarship now going on in this field. Academia.com. is a good source of recent scholarly papers on the Dark Ages in review and revision. So is the online Journal of North-West European Studies. Pick and choose, of course, as in all academic work.
It’s Academia.edu of course as Dot’s extract shows.
Yes, the debate is interesting and lively on this language issue.
Sad but true.
Further to Kellie-Jay, she’s been doing this stuff in the UK since 2017. It started off small and then has gotten bigger and bigger. She now attracts a lot of men and women to her gatherings, the premise being to “Let Women Speak”. And they come from diverse backgrounds, working class, middle class, urban elites, right-wing, left-wing. Whilst the events mostly happen in London, in Hyde Park, she also does events in woke cities and towns like Bristol and Brighton.
What I like about Kellie is that she refuses to kowtow to any rigid ideological line because, as she says, this issue trumps ideology. She was a member of the UK Labour Party until 2015 when she left, due to a combination of Corbynism and the transgender rubbish. Kellie lives in Wiltshire, is happily married with four children, and for her activism, she’s been smeared, threatened, doxxed, visited and cautioned several times by the politicised UK police but she persists. She will not give up. Even looking at The Australian this evening, Keen is described as a right-wing provocateur…..what a f*cking joke, and it tells you everything about the state of journalism in this country.
Keen no longer regards herself as a feminist. She also is insightful enough to acknowledge that third wave feminism has created this insidious transgender phenomenon and that she, even as an atheist (who now sends her children to Catholic schools), acknowledges that it’s been the collapse of religion in the West that has provided the space for this lunatic transgender queer crap to rise. In her last Triggernometry interview (only a few months ago), Keen rightly that there is a vacuum and that there will be a counter response to this transgender queer crapola and that response will probably be filled by Islam, who aren’t so sensitive to people’s feelings. She’s right, and we should all be very worried about that. Further to “being sensitive to feelings”, we’re in this mess, precisely because as Kellie Jay and Matt Walsh both say, we’ve been far too nice for far too long.
So much ‘received wisdom’ about past history is now subject to new approaches.
What I am saying about Gildas is less problematic for ‘authorised’ historians now than it was even when I published a few years ago. Although there are always naysayers.
This is how history, like science, develops though. It is rational, careful and evidential. It is critical and willing to be persuaded, to drop previous viewpoints if better evidence is available.
Not like our current ‘aboriginal’ history or ‘climate’ science. Which are ideological.
Boambee John:
That’s a tricky one, BJ.
First you have to define what the transition involves.
It can’t be a cretin – we have our allocation already.
OK in the 70s Germany had the Bader-Meinhof gang- were they connected to antifa?
Probably, in that Bader-Meinhof was part of Operation Gladio in Europe and Antifaschismus in the 1920s was most likely a Spook Operation to thwart German Nationalism.
Antifa today is a Spook Op, the message being that supporting any sort of Racial Identity is gonna be harmful to White people’s health.
Even looking at The Australian this evening, Keen is described as a right-wing provocateur….
which shows that the meja are in lockstep with all this poison. Whose instructions are they obeying?
Gildas is the Bruce Pascoe of pre-medieval historians.
JR:
And, there was the start of the Future Fund which has thankfully grown and grown and not yet been raided by the ‘Pollies’.
It still exists?
Now that’s an oversight!
Got a link for some data?
Yes and we do have a Sovereign Fund but it’s not as good as Norway’s –
https://www.futurefund.gov.au/
Saw her on Rita Panahi’s show last night. What a great lady she is, very attractive and feminine.
All the best to her and to her projects. I hope lots of other women can be moved to join in her protest.
Kittehs here will need no encouragement to support her, for as women we are under specific attack by Marxists. They are trying to deny us the right to exist as the sorts of beings we biologically are.
They are muscling men into our actual biological spaces. They even wish to deny us maternity.
They can go to hell.
Miltonfsays:
March 11, 2023 at 6:17 pm
BB I recommend the Manly Ferry and the Rivercat to Parramatta. Fascinating, scenic and great fun.
I recommend Watsons Bay but not on a Sunday. Way, way too busy.
lol, KD, even though I do feel a little sorry for him. He is so plaintive and unhappy, and rightly so, for his Roman world is collapsing around him and he doesn’t know what to do; so he does his best, inventing things in a florid but heartfelt sermon that while creating historical inaccuracies certainly did plenty to revive flagging Christian spirits over many of the later centuries – which is why his work has always been ‘in print’, as it were. He was beatified in the end, a true Christian moralist.
Even looking at The Australian this evening, Keen is described as a right-wing provocateur….
The Australian usually tells the truth, while neglecting to disclose where it’s coming from.
Lauren Southern, Milo, a few others, they talked up a storm, got great publicity, but there was always the suspicion that they were fronting for The Spooks.
bonssays:
March 11, 2023 at 5:01 pm
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.
One of the greatest motorsport commentary calls in history.
Paul Paige, Bobby Unser and Ray Aroot.
Murray Walker would probably agree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0orHQo57S9Q&t
‘Catholic Excalibur’: The True Story Behind St. Galgano’s Sword
The story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, a classic of Celtic literature and mythology, has captivated generations of people across all faiths for its glorious dimension. Much less known is the story of St. Galgano Guidotti, a knight-turned-hermit, which is often associated with the legend of Excalibur but which is based on proven historical facts. And it is no less worthy of a cloak-and-dagger novel.
I attended, with a friend, the inaugural meeting of WEL in Brisbane, paid my $2, so that probably makes me a founding member of WEL Qld branch. It was somewhere in Red Hill/Paddington, seemed well run to begin with; a constitution was tabled and a vote taken to accept it. After it was passed there was a series of “oh, that clause won’t apply to us, cross that out” which rather ruined my first impression.
I remember the VW parked out the front, belonging to one of the organisers, suffered damage when it was run into.
WEL hasn’t featured much in my life, although I sort of follow when they make the news.
Don’t think it has had much effect on my friend’s life either, although she has gone to the Adelaide Writer’s week this year, which might show a late life, very unlikely, lefty tendency. I’ll be interested to hear her views when I next see her.
My estimation is that 99% of journalists loathe the public, for whom they’re supposed to be the eyes and ears.
My opinion from half a century in the journalism business is that 99% of journalists think the public is too stupid to vote.
They think they should be allowed to censor the information available to the public.
The 21st century left is a fascist army that hates human freedom.
Arthur Jensen is a blast from the past, here’s a quote of his:
IN HIS OWN WORDS
—Quoted in “jensenism, n. The theory that I.Q. is largely determined by the genes,” The New York Times Magazine, 1969
That’s part of Jensen’s entry on the SPLC site, which makes interesting reading, in the context of chronic topics at New Catallaxy.
And Nosex was settled by north saxons, who died out for obvious reasons.
Oops, it’s Paul Page, Bobby Unser and Sam Posey…Ray was in pit lane.
Farmer Gez:
The man with nothing to lose or any care for the consequence is the scoundrels greatest fear which is why the family is always targeted for revenge.
keep a close eye on what happens to the Redlich family. Andrews didn’t get where he is by being a nice person.
Snort. My neighbour across the road is an Essexxian. Recently his sister came out from the old country for several weeks. I had a nice time educating her in kookaburra lore. The day the latest kooka graduated from the nestbox he faceplanted a couple times requiring me to intervene. Kooka kids are not good at flying solo, first time out. They saw me doing this, and came over to see what the fuss was about, so she got a photo on her phone of baby kooka sitting in the palm of my hands.
He’s a fine kid. Here’s one I took about an hour ago…which shows the limits of cheap cameras. 😀
Kooka kid jumped onto my hand just afterwards and grabbed the Coles mince…once the excited noisy miner had left. His granny flew down onto my hand yesterday, so I’m doing well with the whole clan.
(Gravatar have done an upgrade to their software, so the photo gallery now comes up better btw.)
Virgin Australia has won its appeal against a Fair Work Commission ruling that the airline unfairly dismissed a flight attendant who slept and watched a movie on the job and came to work without make-up.
The original decision ordered the reinstatement of DeVania Blackburn after she took legal action claiming she had been denied procedural fairness in her dismissal in mid-2021.
Despite evidence Ms Blackburn had repeatedly breached Virgin Australia’s code of conduct by stealing snacks from a flight, watching a movie and napping while on duty, being late and presenting for work without make-up, Commissioner Paula Spencer said her dismissal was “harsh, unjust and unreasonable”.
The Commissioner ruled that “alternative performance management was warranted” before escalating the disciplinary process to the level of dismissal.
As a result, no valid reason for dismissal was found and Virgin Australia was ordered to reinstate Ms Blackburn.
However, the order was stayed ahead of an appeal lodged by the airline with the Full Bench of the FWC shortly after the original ruling.
The appeal was made on six grounds including that Commissioner Spencer erred by not taking into account prior warnings issued to Ms Blackburn because they weren’t identified in a show cause letter.
The airline also claimed it was wrong of the Commissioner to find “procedural unfairness” in relation to management’s questioning of other employees about Ms Blackburn’s behaviour.
Evidence presented to the FWC relied on statements from other workers to substantiate allegations against Ms Blackburn, such as her movie-watching on the job, and failure to comply with Virgin Australia’s “Look Book”.
Introduced in 2011, the Look Book sets out clear presentation guidelines to which Virgin Australia flight attendants must adhere, right down to their shade of lipstick.
“On January 31, 2021, you were not wearing make-up, your hair was messy with visible fly-aways and your nail polish was visibly chipped,” said the findings of an internal investigation by Virgin Australia.
“On March 9, 2021 you were not wearing stockings.”
The Full Bench of Joseph Catanzariti, Theresa Dobson and Chris Simpson picked apart the original ruling on appeal, identifying several key errors in the judgment.
These included that the Commissioner was bound to consider the prior warnings given to Ms Blackburn which formed part of a “factual matrix” the airline acted on to dismiss her.
In conclusion, all six grounds highlighted by Virgin Australia were upheld and the original decision was quashed.
In an analysis of the decision, Colin, Biggers and Paisley partner Megan Kavanagh said the Full Bench ruling shed helpful light on what employers needed to include in the show-cause process.
“This case may serve as a clear guidance for employers looking to dismiss employees with a history of misconduct,” Ms Kavanagh wrote.
Virgin Australia was approached for comment.
A month ago SVB was a “buy”
Well, he would
They couldn’t be, you know, in it together?
Cash!
************
woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills 30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfXVz7iGQpk&t
Where the wild things are & groovy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hN7OyBby9TI
Posted purely in the interests of science..
Bill Gates’s Most AWKWARD Interview EVER!!!
Dot:
Except Hillary has nicer tits.
Don’t ask me how I know.
(shudder)
Dover, what is the deal with Rumble. Does it go into spam every time?
Cheers.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Free Jacob Chansley
Winston is hallucinating.
The women who spoke today were generally great – some excellent. Nice to see some men supporting the cause. And although there were a few minor diversions, most were united in the passionate belief that a man in a dress is not a woman, that trannies cannot share the lived experience of women and that trannies must not steal from real women their identity and their value.
I loved it!
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 11, 2023 at 7:42 pm
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/getting-the-boobs-out-will-fix-it.html
Posted purely in the interests of science..
If that was taken in the UK then they would have all ended up with blue tits………………………Cold weather and all that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_blue_tit
Biology, that would be, not climate science.
Just had a read of that interesting article there, Dot. Explains (in part) some of the lack of lexical transfer and shows how morph0logical and phonological elements have transferred from a Brittonic sub-strate to Old English. It expands the viewpoints to include contact linguistics and other insights to show that various linguistic ‘rules’ from Brittonic can be found in Old English and uses regional examples to show some of these. Language, in other words, is a lot more than its lexicon, it also syntactic, inflected or not inflected, and has rules re negatives, interrogatives, affirmatives, and possession (placement of this in a sentence). Seems a good revision of the fixed AS English view.
I’ve always been impressed by Wagner’s concept of ‘linguistic areas’, how Celtic, Germanic, Baltic-Finnic interacted long ago in Northern Europe, because many names of gods seem to be shared. Languages in contact obviously take the Adstract Rule – ‘they determine one another on all levels’.
The ‘it’s actually all a muddle’ theory, as I call it. 🙂
ps the trouble with Academia.edu is that it is a terrible time waster. You enter a field and then there is so much to read, you have to learn to be selective or you get swamped. The quality varies quite a lot.
Knuckle Draggersays:
March 11, 2023 at 12:04 am
This thread dedicated to Gildas, earthquakes and secret BOM death rays.
Typical cop. Low IQ dickhead. No clue on the subject matter.
Contemplate this. This will probably end up in the spam bin.
https://rumble.com/v2b5syw-tackling-the-chemtrail-controversy.html
Del tackles the taboo topic with Chemtrails and weather modification, questioning Lead Researcher for ‘GeoEngineering Watch,’ Dane Wigington, on his findings from US Patents, military whistleblowers, and even lab-studied samples from cloud seeding. Is it a global conspiracy?
#TheDimming #ChemTrails #GeoEngineering #WeatherModification.
Dover?
Good stuff , Dover. Cheers. People need to know about it.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
It’s official (and something I’d suspected): @freddiesayers and @unherd are part of the fake-dissident sphere.
Like @lexfridman, @KonstantinKisin, @triggerpod, @AlexBerenson and others of that ilk, they pretend to be dissidents on some key marginal issues—but they are warmongers
A question.
What does Labor see as the endpoint for the Voice.
Do they actually believe that impoverishing Australia for a few hundred thousand indig votes will work for them?
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@apocalypse0s
The world hybrid war unleashed by the United State is on the verge of going hot. The neocons have no clue as to how bad the future will turn out for them if they continue on this reckless path. The United States will be destroyed if the escalation continues.
No, but it’s meat and drink for lunatics who find the evil hand of international dastardry underneath the pillowcases in the linen press.
Of course the BOM stations are laser weather-changing stations, emitting doom rays to change the weather so Teh People can be moved from the land which is then bought by the WEF Government to build the tunnels to house the captured children in – bring them up once a year for chemtrail saturation so the replicating metals can build, and sent the data back to Brussels and Beijing.
Also, rocks are really trees from the Bible. 6PR told me so.
Albo is committed to implementing the Uluru “Declaration From the Heart.” A “Voice”, a treaty, involving the payment of massive sums in “Compensation” and “Reparations” and a “Truth telling.”
I very much doubt immigration into Australia has caused iq levels to decrease, the notion that white aka anglo people are smarter than all other races, where does that come from?
If you want Australians to have higher IQs perhaps we should be getting more East Asian immigrants
What does Labor see as the endpoint for the Voice.
The Voice itself won’t differ from any other Labor Front Group, except in one respect:
Executive Government won’t be able to ignore it’s requests.
Now, if those requests only amounted to demands for refilling of flagons of McWilliam’s Royal Reserve Port and new Landcruisers because the last lot ran out of petrol, then it wouldn’t matter much.
But the reality is that The Voice will have the sort of Powers King James I&VII enjoyed.
Do they actually believe that impoverishing Australia for a few hundred thousand indig votes will work for them?
The Indigs vote 95% Labor anyway, so whaddya think?
Knuckle Draggersays:
March 11, 2023 at 8:26 pm
Is that best you got you ignorant clown? You’re a retard! Typical cop. Grade D in School and useless.
I very much doubt immigration into Australia has caused iq levels to decrease, the notion that white aka anglo people are smarter than all other races, where does that come from?
From you at 8:42 p.m.?
If you read my link to Jensen, you would know that East Asian IQ averages around 105, higher than any other Races.
Central Lisbon is a hive of building activity.
Roadworks, buildings shrouded with scaffolding, skips everywhere.
Including one huge building in Rossio which housed the metro ticket office, as long as I can remember the four upper floors were empty.
The famous trams aren’t running, that’s okay, I caught the bus, after walking down to close to the river, I’ll have to find a bus that takes me above my place when I want to go home, it’s definitely goat’s own country.
I’m having one of those baked apples with cinnamon* then I’m going to San Domingo (the earthquake church) and the Tintin shop.
*no toast, it’s not Italy
By no means.
Please, expound further on chemtrails and weather lasers (as well as the reason/s why this is apparently happening, if you would be so kind) and the earthquake ‘predictor’ who’s really a Minnesota accountant who’s found a way to siphon cash from the gullible.
Really looking forward to seeing the egg_style ragefest build up to Mt Everest proportions.
If you could also include any musings on aether, the Knights Templar, how Germany was picked on over the course of two World Wars and any bannings from hospitals and/or railway stations it would be appreciated.
Tricklerbird.
Oddly enough there is more than one who’s links I don’t click.
East Asian IQ averages around 105,
Gordon Bennett, Head Case, that doesn’t sound very high. My IQ is 127 and I’m a white/pinky as migrant. I wonder what your average is………………..Double figures of course…………..lol
I wonder what superior employment people who slag off police officers are engaged in.
Despite the rotten recruitment of recent years, it’s a job that requires intestinal fortitude.
I still feel for those officers that did the welfare check on someone five days dead after several days of over 30 degrees.
Higher IQ for East Asians and yet the world you know and use was conceived and made by lower IQ Europeans.
You can keep the school book geniuses, I’ll take the inventors.
I agree Farmer Gez, however the claim was made that immigration is causing average IQ in Australia to decrease.
It used to.
The exponential politicisation of that line of work in recent times means it’s now primarily – with certain notable exceptions – a policy enforcement arm of the government of the day.
That’s why recruitment is hard to kick along. People don’t want to do that, and fair enough too.
As always, and as an aside, Tricklerbird is well down the wrong track in trying to work out people’s employment – however, this is unsurprising given his track record in being proven wrong followed by rage episodes.
Johnny Rottensays:
March 11, 2023 at 9:06 pm
East Asian IQ averages around 105,
Gordon Bennett, Head Case, that doesn’t sound very high. My IQ is 127 and I’m a white/pinky as migrant. I wonder what your average is………………..Double figures of course…………..lol
Only if he includes the numbers after the decimalplace.
All jet engines by definition create “chemtrails”.
Water vapour, CO2, NO2 and various metal oxides at high temperatures being released into low atmospheric pressure and temperature.
It’s obvious.
The Voice will comprise inner city “aboriginals”. They are all aligned with the Labor Party.
Thus any legislation will be subject to a veto…by the Labor Party. Written in the constitution.
It’s an effective one party state. Do you now see why Albo is wetting himself with excitement?
I’m having one of those baked apples with cinnamon* then I’m going to San Domingo (the earthquake church) and the Tintin shop.
Rosie, you have to go to de belem pastisseri and eat Portuguese custard tarts and coffee, absolutely a must do in Lisbon.
https://pasteisdebelem.pt/
I really value the airbnb experience over the ubiquitous hotel room, I’m not in the five star market obviously but even if I was and despite the drawbacks, no 24 concierge, tricky locations, endless stairs, fiddlesome appliances, baffling taps, ikea everything I love them for that feel of being home and a taste of how the locals live.
Very likely. I’m not sure what it is about Rumble but its not well supported. I’ll look into it.
I’ll go to Belem after the weekend when there isn’t a crowd a mile long.
I know Belem pastel de NATA are the best but there are other places which have them 95% as good.
This is my sixth stay in Lisbon, I wasn’t particularly planning to stay here but was over-long in Sicily and needing to be in Paris to fly home I decided it was easier to fly to Paris from here, I want to day trip to Fatima and possibly Evora as well.
Also need to go to Barrio Alto and buy a replacement silver crown for my Our Lady of Fatima statue.
Chemtrails were proposed by the US Navy in about 1973. There is a patent. What it is about is releasing TiO2 pigment in the stratosphere. Those particles are about 0.25um in size, so therefore diffract light very efficiently back to space. Which cools the planet. A few million tonnes released from jet aircraft at their operational height would cool Earth by about 0.2-0.5C. It would take only a few billion bucks to do this, and continue indefinitely. Maybe thirty aircraft and the output of several paint pigment plants.
The thermageddonists are coming around to this idea (I came up with it in 2006, but since global warming wasn’t actually happening I didn’t bother pursuing it. Which is why I’m not rich.)
I’m not against it. It is relatively cheap. And the TiO2 particles rain out in about six months, so it is a self-limiting method. It also probably won’t do much harm, and if it spares us from all the other nutty stuff they want to do, it would be a net benefit.
That’s what chemtrails are. I’ve got the USN patent saved somewhere if you want it.
@RickW:
“What motivates a politician as profoundly stupid as Chris Bowen?”
Hmmmm….. narcissism, megalomania, you know; the usual.
It was said that MABO stood for Money Abounding, Barristers Only, and I just see the “Voice ” as setting off a similar legal dogfight.
What price the fertilizer plant in the Pilbarra, now?
SPF 767
@Milton F:
Re: “Churnalists”:
Given their penchant for self-description AND actual practice, as “opinion-shapers”….. One might be excused for regarding them as the mangy tail wagging the rabid dog of politics..
Wow. Just wow.
File under things people do.
I know the drill at San Domingos, there is a little room on the right at the back of the church where the usher sells you candles (40 cents each) he puts them in a little bag with a couple of matches and off you go.
I went to light them and make my special intentions, a couple of well dressed women apparently looking for candles so I indicated and said in English you buy them over there so what did one of them do? Tried to help herself to one of mine. Who does that, I suppose I should have let her but it was earmarked for someone dear to me.
Then the poor usher had to shoo sightseers out because mass was starting, a patronising Frenchman asked him in English if he spoke English or French but he just put his hands in the praying position and they got the message.
I know he speaks some English though.
Priest I didn’t recognise from before seems to far more intent on getting people to respect this sacred space, after mass he went down to the entrance and opened the cordone rope and when the door was unlocked and a the crowds started noisily coming in he was quick to demand silence.
Good.
I like Freddie and UnHerd but just as some fall too easily for certain accounts, others are tempted to deny what is plainly apparent.
I went to a birthday party and met up with the sibling of the party host, who happens to be a world-renowned virologist. Of course, I asked him what’s cooking in his part of the world.
He told me the big scare could end up being bird flu. There have been around 60 deaths worldwide. The problem is that at the moment, the virus is supposedly traveling through animals and crossing over from one species to another. He says it’s becoming problematic because pigs are being infected. Pigs have some similar bodily structures to humans that make cross-over easier. Of course, the flu vaccine can be worked around to provide some “protection”. Don’t blame me, as I’m just the messenger.
Seems Michael Caine is making another film – “The Great Escaper” – about a veteran who flees his aged care home, to be at the 70th anniversary of D- Day….
DC_Draino @DC_Draino · Mar 9
I wrote this on the last Open Fred, but dammit I’m going to add it here too.
I got pinged as an Aussie at a bus stop in Dublin – the seriously pretty Irish lass had backpacked her way through Western Australia, and worked in the accountants office in my local town…
Filling my bike at a gas station in Wyoming, I was approached by a tall, elderly gentleman in boots, jeans, a waistcoat, checked shirt and a bolo tie with a silver clasp. Oh, and a Stetson. He was I guess in his mid-70s or older, with a white moustache, and lean and spare. He moved with a slow grace. He’d been filling a work-worn 4×4 at the pump just behind mine.
He introduced himself with a “Pardon me, I hope you don’t mind, but I heard you talking and was wondering about the accent. I figure South African, New Zealand or Australian, but I just can’t be sure.”
I explained and we chatted for a while and I told him how we were on a motorcycle tour around the Pacific North-west.
‘Well’, he said, tipping his hat. “I surely hope you enjoy my country and that my fellow Americans look after you. You have a nice holiday.”
As he turned away I noticed, tucked into the belt on his hip, a pair of soft-looking pale brown leather gloves. And just behind them, also high on his belt in a holster, was a small-framed revolver which, to my untrained eye looked to be well worn but well cared for. No-one raised even an eyebrow.
lemme guess, it’s 12 Monkeys
sorry, of course I mean 12 chickens
and your birthday party’s host’s sibling is from the future, right?
Cash and Rowdy:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Calabasas Commons 9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifQcbjCJYI
Netflix mini doco series on MH 370 missing plane.
Three options as to who did it.
The pilot
The Russians
Or the 3rd option which I can’t reveal as I am only here on behalf of Netflix to spruik the show!
No it was not China.
Drugs:
Grandmaster Flash – White Lines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQy4WbUf84Y
How did Netflix manage to wangle a healthy smattering of West Africans, trannies, buzz-cut lezzos + an out & proud gay, into a series about a flight from (everyday more Wahabist) Malaysia to Peking?
I know, I know.
It was Tony Abbott.
Check this out!
The Cars – Drive (New 2022 Extended Version + Teri Garr Tribute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pOBtbsuUmc
Favourite comment under a suck-up article on Matt Kean at The Australian:
Enjoy.
The National – About Today (“Warrior” Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIq9PEWa7tQ
The Dark Knight Rises – Ending ***1080p PURE HD***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYj4Aq5fdjk
Week In Pictures.
making Alec look normal
Trans
No tits is the future
Kellyanne Conway will be the Trump surrogate VP candidate.
Trump will not be the presidential candidate.
Piers Akerman:
A camel is a horse designed by a committee and the AUKUS proposal for the design of our future nuclear submarines is heading down the same path.
On the face of it, the reported suggestion that we purchase US-built, tried and proven Virginia-class submarines is a good thing.
It’s an established type, it’s not going to have cost overruns and time blow-outs, and the purchase of three as our Collins-class reach the end of their lives fills the capacity chasm.
But the path toward the second, and admittedly long term, goal of building a nuclear-propelled submarine fleet is strewn with apparent and extremely foreseeable risks.
It involves acquiring a fleet of joint US, British and Australian-designed nuclear submarines and, ultimately, building further subs in South Australia.
This smacks of a political – not a practical – goal designed to please all AUKUS partners but not the unfortunate Australian taxpayers who will bear the bulk of the costs but have to wait for the aquatic camel to emerge at the end of the process.
Any clear thinking reader will appreciate that the deal to obtain US submarines is the most straight forward, even it means that Australia helps subsidise the construction of a third nuclear submarine production line in the US.
It would also avoid running headlong into the steep learning curve needed here and the obvious incompetence of the defence department.
As I told Sky News presenter Sharri Markson recently, the two US yards currently producing nuclear submarines have full order books and there was pressure within the US from their navy to open a third facility.
If our order tips the balance in favour of another production line, all well and good. Full steam ahead.
As for the rest of the reported plan, consider that all UK submarines rely on US technology for their power units – small modular reactors (SMRs) – and their fire control systems.
Any future and as-yet to be designed nuclear submarine resulting from the application of US, UK and still-to-be developed Australian technologies is realistically so far down the line as to be almost beyond the working life of any current mature reader.
Worse, Labor, since Kim Beazley was defence minister in the Hawke government, has been committed to propping up an extravagantly expensive defence materiel construction industry in South Australia.
SA’s current Labor Premier Peter Malinauskas says he is determined not to let any decision to buy nuclear subs from the US erode the federal (Labor) government’s “cast iron” commitment to create a sovereign nuclear submarine building program in his state.
The development of a new sub class will also create the additional complexity of maintaining two types of vessel. To carry the camel metaphor further, horse saddles don’t work on camels.
There is, of course, massive hypocrisy underlying Labor’s commitment to nuclear submarines, as welcome an addition to our minuscule defence resources as they would be.
The embrace of nuclear-powered subs is totally at odds with the sneering approach of both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen to utilising the same nuclear technology to replace the essential coal-fired power generation they are intent on closing down.
If we are to develop a nuclear engineering industry capable of building nuclear-powered submarines, why aren’t these numbskulls encouraging the development of the skills that will be needed by lifting the current ban on developing nuclear power facilities in Australia?
Instead of focusing on the real energy needs of the nation, and wasting billions on solar and wind energy, we should be investing in nuclear now, training technicians who may be able to work with future nuclear subs but, more immediately, shielding us from the blackouts which will inevitably occur under the Green/Labor net zero policies.
Once again, Labor is squandering an opportunity for genuine renewal and reform by pandering to its Green Left constituents and ignoring the bread-and-butter issues.
The heat-or-eat question is going to hit households this winter as cost-of-living pressures force consumers to choose whether to stay warm or fed.
Instead of downgrading our energy security, as Labor is doing, we could be building it up at a fraction of the cost of the so-called renewables which are absolutely reliant on the weather (which even the Greens have come to admit is variable).
If Albanese’s is fully grounded after his golden chariot ride with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the full details of the nuclear subs proposal will be revealed when he meets US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Tuesday in San Diego.
Unfortunately, most of the decision makers will have died by the time the second part of this proposal is ready to come into play.
Big news.
The clothes lines at my apartment are out the window over a shed in the back yard and this afternoon I noticed someone on a higher floor had lost a pair of frilly pink knickers, now sitting on the roof of the shed well to my right.
This evening a ring at the door, a little older lady (maybe not that much older than me) was talking ten to the dozen in Portuguese with gestures like creaking/sneaking across the floor?, I had no idea what she was saying, then I had a light bulb moment and realised she was the owner of the frillies.
Seeing as I am about six inches taller then her, I bravely leaned out the window and with the aid of my trusty straw broom and a pair of salad tongs I retrieved the greatly missed item, probably a little worse for wear from being swept across the filthy roof, to another torrent of happy words.
Apartment life.
Trying to keep up with blog this morning. Australias Long term strategic defence In-capabilities and pink frilly knickers. Seems right.
Nuclear knickers.
bern
Why is that so?
Love the knickers story. Always thought those clotheslines were fraught.
Cats know one of the fun things about travel for me are launderette stories. Nothing like a good chat as the things go round and round. You can solve all the world’s problems in a launderette while doing something practical.
Ozzie’s Wyoming story sounded familiar. I loved the place. We went to a pub there – sitting gazing about ne as I usually do while the Beloved fetched drinks, I noticed a row of shaker pegs on the wall. I thought they were for coats and the like, but the purpose became clear as the place filled up. They were for hats. Big hats.
Headlines today Daniel Andrews denies corruption accusations Really ! What else would he say IBAC got it right ?
Also doubt that SA will be able to make nuclear subs with windmills and solar panels . The state not doing well energy wise now and closures in Victoria and NSW of base power sources about to happen. La la land
Hope you’ve had some Empanada’s Rosie. The best ever I had were along from the Maritime Museum on the other side of the road on the bend going up the hill. I didn’t think I could eat so many. They may not have survived the coof shut-down. The variety unbelievable. Shop was full. Enjoying your travelogue.
Assuming Trump stays healthy, he is a shoo-in. DeSantis is a cuck.
SVB International Fallout: UK and EU Lenders Lose £30 Billion Overnight as ‘Panic’ Spreads
BUT there is a silver lining.
No Bailouts Poso
@JackPosobiec
1500 climate change tech companies were banking with SVB
and the irrepressible Catturd drawing the obvious conclusion
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Woke banks will fail.
Woke people will fail.
Woke schools will fail.
Woke companies will fail.
Woke governments will fail.
Woke cities will fail.
Woke militaries will fail.
Woke churches will fail.
Everything woke turns to shit.
https://twitter.com/ShannonSaccocia/status/1633636547810537476
Shannon Saccocia
@ShannonSaccocia
The best thing is knowing that I did all of this in spite of the hurdles.
The worst thing is knowing I’ve not (yet) done enough to remove those hurdles for my daughter.
#InternationalWomansDay2023
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How about not blowing up every business you’re involved in?
Catturd ™
@catturd2
This is definitely not funny. So whatever you do, don’t laugh.
It certainly is. This is our future if they get away with it.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Dutch Farmer Protest in The Hague
Rebel News speaks with Eva Vlaardingerbroek to find out why the Dutch Farmer story is important globally.
Sadly I think he’s right.
‘Schism Plain and Simple’ – German Catholic Bishops Vote to Bless Same-Sex Unions (11 Mar)
When you have churches like the Pommy Anglicans and the German Catholics turning away from the word of God it almost always doesn’t go well.
Douglas Brodie to Sunak and Sturgeon: Why were there zero Covid deaths among doctors and nurses in Scotland? And …
Well he’s at least now got a book title for the sequel to Spare.
“Skint”.
A video essay on feminist bank management from Japan.
The Miu Technique
https://youtu.be/Wm7lE3t8veo
Illini
@IlliniProgrammr
Hi everyone. As a former Lehman Corporate Bonds developer, I guess it’s time for me to share my thoughts on banking distress.
First, what everyone needs to remember is that $SIVB isn’t $LEH. Crucially, the balance sheet is 1/4 the size (nominal, not GDP or CPI adjusted). 1/n
And, naturally, the executives bailed out –
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Before the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, executives sold a lot of their shares.
Gregory Becker, CEO, sold 11% on Feb 27, 2023.
Michael Zucker, General Counsel, 19% on Feb 5.
Daniel Beck, CFO, sold 32% on Feb 27.
Michelle Draper, CMO, sold 25% on Feb 1.
Unusual.
It’s OK when we do it.
German Catholics have been quite a problem!
How’s that coronation of the “Holy” “Roman” “Emperor” workin’ out for you?
The city was the sword, the city the pole, the city was the key to Rome as a whole
Please explain
Since the whole thing is a chimera and a hoax, no one should be surprised by this.
SEC Staff Consulted With Green Financial Firm Accused Of Selling ‘Fictitious’ Carbon Credits
Not looking for financial advice just some thoughts from you smart people out there. If you had a lazy $100k+ coming soon, any thoughts on where to park it for a while. I was thinking index funds, I don’t want to tie it up for a long period, just in case things melt down and there’s bargains to be had, but if the market crashes so do the index funds. Any thoughts?
Thanks
australia the nanny state. there is no “right” to a job beyond what is contractually agreed to. unfair dismissal should never have been a thing. kommunist kunts
The Silicon Valley Bank crisis will force the Fed to slash rates by 100 basis points to prevent contagion, market guru says
Trump Urges Those Who Covered Up Truth Of J6 To Be ‘Tried For Fraud And Treason’
American Thinker
Trump Is Leader of Republican Party… and America
Put 5k in Marscoin and check in two years. Don’t expect to make any money.
Six months is too short to invest in stocks passively unless you are going for dividends and you’re out of the cycle now.
I would hold the rest as a term deposit and buy a positively geared rental (probably regional) after a few more rate rises and 800k+ borrowers move from 4% fixed IO to 8%+ variable P&I.
You don’t have the risk appetite for junior miners like me. It’s terrifying.
European Farmers Are Once Again Protesting Net-Zero Plans
Pfizer Rolls Out New Multibillion-Dollar RSV Vax
Lisbon is going gang busters, tourists everywhere, massive queue for the Bica and when I walked up to Estrela in the afternoon the 28 tram was running (looks like only the 25e is affected by roadworks) it was absolutely jammed, not my idea of fun. The botanical gardens were full of people too.
Hopefully your empanada place survived.
It seems that on reading all the shock/horror reactions in the media to an extremely bland insult being yelled at Latrine Goodes that we (joe public, muggins) are expected to believe that Latrine grew up without ever using that standard 251 endearment/greeting, “white c**t” ..
A, veritable, SAINT playing thugby league .. who’d a thunk it
The Big Four banks dropped 3% on Friday. With the continuing news about SVB and the Fed tightening harder due to the payrolls numbers we may see the markets hammered next week. Maybe hold off a few weeks.
A lot will depend on whether the SEC finds a white knight over the weekend, which they’re trying to do. The Poms also are mulling bailing out the UK arm of SVB:
Bank of London weighs rescue bid for UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank (11 Mar)
A credible explanation behind vaccine adverse events, Marc Girardot
Dr. John Campbell
who cares what a few German boomers do.
Cardinal Pell warned about ‘that lot’
Cardinal Pell: ‘The duty of the German bishops is to uphold the teachings of Scripture’
If “a while” is 5-7 years then using it as the deposit on a unit in a developing suburb or country town is the smart play.
I agree Farmer Gez, however the claim was made that immigration is causing average IQ in Australia to decrease.
If you’re referring to this comment …
… that’s just common sense.
Importing IQ 60 Sub Saharan Africans and IQ 70 Indians isn’t going to raise average IQ in Australia.
Even a ratbag such as yourself has to admit that.
Keep in mind that Schoolchildren with IQs of 75-80 used to be classed as Retarded and sent to Special Schools.
I believe this is to do with pensions and has been ongoing for some time. Not that you’d see it on TV. (Please tell me if I’m wrong as I don’t watch TV news).
Donbass Devushka
@PeImeniPusha
Meanwhile in Geor…PARIS
If you had a lazy $100k+
Balnarring Picnic Races Race 4 No 4. Cant lose. … or cant win. Let me check that.
for once – spacial Ed is correct.
The voice is a permanently installed Labor front, regardless of which party is in power.
Daily Telegraph:
An email unearthed during investigations into the failed prosecution of former NSW Police officer Ben Smith on sex assault charges, has revealed the star witness in the case wasn’t interviewed until six months after police laid charges.
The email discovered by defence lawyer Danny Eid, adds to claims police bungled the case falsely accusing an innocent man.
The star witness Aaron Taggart, who has spoken out publicly for the first time, refuted the complainant’s claims that he had witnessed any incident of sexual assault against her by Mr Smith.
“I was the star witness and I knew the truth,” Mr Taggart said.
But instead of his version of events ringing alarm bells about the veracity of the woman’s allegations, police just pressed ahead with the prosecution.
Mr Taggart has revealed when he told police the truth and said he was happy to make a statement, the detectives said he would not be required. One of the detectives later told the court Mr Taggart “did not want to provide a statement”.
Mr Smith and his wife Amy talk about their ordeal in the latest I Catch Killers Podcast with Gary Jubelin which is released on Monday.
The discovery of the email comes after attempts by The Sunday Telegraph to get access to notes made by the detectives about his dealings with the witness, were blocked.
The NSW Police Government Information Public Access (GIPA) officer said the request to see the detective’s notebook entries, investigation plan and other documents were excluded.
“I am satisfied that all information requested and found by the Agency relates to a prosecutorial brief of evidence provided to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions … and is therefore excluded …” the officer said.
Mr Smith, a married father of three, had to face two trials which cost almost $500,000 to prove his innocence. The first trial was a hung jury. The second jury trial found him not guilty on all charges.
If convicted he could have faced decades in jail.
Mr Smith and his wife Amy had to sell their family home to fund his defence against the false allegations. The only chance they have of being reimbursed is to sue the police.
And now more questions are being asked about the way the police handled the case.
A complaint to the police watchdog, the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) was dismissed as not being supported by the evidence.
However the LECC did find that one of the complaints – that one of the detectives had not made adequate records of his dealings with witnesses – was partially supported. The detective’s notebooks containing his dealings with witnesses were not produced during the case.
Mr Smith’s criminal lawyer, Mr Eid, is adamant if police had done their job properly in the first place Mr Smith would never have been charged. Prior to his arrest, Mr Smith was never given the opportunity to provide any exculpatory evidence.
It had been up to Mr Smith’s wife Amy to do what the police should have done in the first place – investigate the allegations to see if there was any substance to them before laying charges.
Mrs Smith discovered that for a whole string of the alleged assaults Mr Smith and his accuser, who at the time of the alleged assaults was a teenager – were not even in the same postcode.
Mr Smith had broken his leg and was up the NSW coast being treated. Mrs Smith found his hospital and Medicare records to prove it.
Mrs Smith also found another witness who could have also bolstered her husband’s defence, but like Mr Taggart, police failed to take a statement from her.
Mr Smith spent 10 years with NSW Police before joining the Australian Crime and Intelligence Commission and then losing his career over the false allegations.
He said it is the job of police “is to provide all evidence not just what they hand pick.”
Ben Smith’s story will be featured on 60 Minutes tonight.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Obama really was a post-truth, post-Christian, post-modernist President.
That’s just a fancy way of saying that he was evil. And he’s still running things.
I failed. 5 minutes later still walking around with a smile.
Something Strange is Going on at Fox News Regarding January 6 Footage
Dinesh D’Souza
Tucker Carlson interview on the climate cult.
Jordan Peterson: This is an appalling situation and it will get worse
Just thoughts , not advice. Oil/gas cos with big divs, some very juicy gold cos and then Govt bonds. Aussie will go into recession , bonds look solid. Indexes are headed lower. IMO.
Hilarious that career corrupt cop Jubelin is doing podcasts on false allegations.
But it is God’s work, Godspeed to him.
.. and I wouldn’t touch Real Estate for at least 12 months.
[CLIP]
Victor Davis Hanson: The Top-Down Revolution Engulfing America
American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times
Ultramontanism: A Means Not an End
Crisis Magazine – by Charles Coulombe – March 10, 2023
Ultramontanism itself—the hailing of the reigning pontiff as Supreme Leader of the faithful, whose every utterance must be accepted unquestioningly—is a relatively recent phenomenon in the life of the Church.
…
The arrival of Pope Francis certainly strained the concept for those who held the same religious views as, say, Blessed Pius IX or Leo XIII.
There is, of course, no earthly authority higher than the pope; we, his subjects, are rather limited in what we can do—but not in what, as history shows us, we must sometimes endure. We must pray very hard for him—and that he will do what God wants him to. Pope Francis’ time in office will end with his having to account for his actions to Him Whose Vicar he is. May it go well for him—and for all of us, when our time comes.
This is wholesome.
Chuck Norris meets a tiger.
https://youtu.be/Akn9WsT6yjY
The recent offers of farmland for sale have met with limited interest, reduced prices and higher pass ins.
Away from the tax propped residential market the realities of massive cost increases are lowering the sights of business.
Sure, the ultimate cause of the current problems with German Catholicism was the coronation. It’s not the acid of Liberalism identified by Pius IX, couldn’t be that. No.
The problem is Germans.
How Could Western Intelligence Have Got It Wrong, Again? They Didn’t. They Had Other Purposes
The West now faces the task of de-fusing the landmine of their own electorate’s conviction of a Ukraine ‘win’, and of Russian humiliation.
Larry Johnson, an ex-CIA analyst, writes “I no longer hold clearances and have not had access to the classified intelligence assessments. However, I have heard that the finished intelligence being supplied to U.S. policymakers continues to declare that Russia is on the ropes – and their economy is crumbling. Also, analysts insist that the Ukrainians are beating the Russians”.
Johnson responds that – lacking valid human sources – “western agencies are almost wholly dependent today on ‘liaison reporting’” (i.e., from ‘friendly’ foreign intelligence services), without doing ‘due diligence’ by cross-checking discrepancies with other reporting.
In practice, this largely means western reporting simply replicates Kiev’s PR line. But there does occur a huge problem when marrying Kiev’s output (as Johnson says) to UK reports – for ‘corroboration’.
The reality is UK reporting itself is also based on what Ukraine is saying. This is known as false collateral – i.e., when that which is used for corroboration and validation actually derives from the same single source. It becomes – deliberately – a propaganda multiplier.
In plain words however, all these points are ‘red herrings’. Bluntly, so-called western ‘Intelligence’ is no longer the sincere attempt to understand a complex reality, but rather, it has become the tool to falsify a nuanced reality in order to attempt to manipulate the Russian psyche towards a collective defeatism (in respect not just to the Ukraine, but to the idea that Russia should remain as a sovereign whole).
And – to the extent that ‘lies’ are fabricated to accustom the Russian public to inevitable defeat – the obverse edge clearly is intended to train the western public towards the ‘groupthink’ that victory is inevitable. And that Russia is an ‘unreformed evil Empire’ which threatens all Europe.
This is no accident. It is highly purposeful. It is behavioural psychology at work. The ‘head-spinning’ disorientation created throughout the Covid pandemic; the constant rain of ‘data-driven’ model analysis, the labelling of anything critical of the ‘uniform messaging’ as anti-social disinformation – enabled western governments to persuade their citizens that ‘lockdown’ was the only rational answer to the virus. It was not true (as we now know), but the ‘pilot’ behavioural nudge-psychology trial worked better – better even than its own architects had imagined.
Professor of Clinical Psychology, Mattias Desmet, has explained that mass disorientation does not form in a vacuum. It arises, throughout history, from a collective psychosis that has followed a predictable script:
Just as with lockdown, governments have used behavioural psychology to instil fear and isolation to mass large groups of people into herds, where toxic sneering at any contrariness cold-shoulders all critical thinking or analysis. It is more comfortable being inside the herd, than out.
The dominant characteristic here is remaining loyal to the group – even when the policy is working badly and its consequences disturb the conscience of members. Loyalty to the group becomes the highest form of morality. That loyalty requires each member to avoid raising controversial issues, questioning weak arguments, or calling a halt to wishful thinking.
The ‘Groupthink’ allows some self-imagined reality to detach; to drift further and further from any connection to reality, and then to transit into delusion – always drawing on like-minded peer cheerleaders for its validation and extended radicalisation.
So, it’s ‘goodbye’ to traditional Intelligence! And ‘welcome’ to western Intelligence 101: Geo-Politics no longer revolves around a grasp on Reality. It is about the installation of ideological pseudo-realism – which is the universal installation of a singular groupthink, such that everyone lives passively by it, until it is far too late to change course.
In short, this western exaggerated psyops perversely is likely to lengthen the war until facts-on-the ground finally grind the contrasting expectations closer to what may be the ‘new possible’. Ultimately, when perceived realities cannot be ‘matched’ and nuanced, war rubs one or the other into more emollient form.
The degeneracy in western intelligence did not start with the recent collective ‘excitement’ at the possibilities of ‘nudge-psychology’. The first steps in this direction began with a shift in ethos reaching back to the Clinton/Thatcher era in which the intelligence services were ‘neo-liberalised’.
No longer was the role of ‘devil’s advocate’ – of bringing ‘bad news’ (i.e. hard-edged Realism) to the relevant political leadership valued; instead what was inserted was a radical shift towards ‘Business School’ practice of services being tasked with ‘adding value’ to existing government policies, and (even) of creating ‘a market’ system in Intelligence!
The politician-managers demanded ‘good news’. And to make ‘it stick’, funding was tied to the ‘value added’ – with administrators skilled at managing bureaucracy moved into leadership jobs. It marked the end to classical Intelligence – which always was an art, rather than science.
In short, it was the outset to fixing the intelligence around policies (to add value), rather than the traditional function of shaping policies to sound analysis.
Unverified Ukrainian reports (liaison reporting) served up to western leaders therefore is not a ‘glitch’ – it is a ‘feature’ of the new Intelligence 101 paradigm intended to confuse and dull its electorate.
I’ve been saying so ever since John Sullivan’s brother fessed this a day or two after 1/6. Epps was just the tip of a large iceberg of glowies:
Jan. 6 Videos Show Antifa Disguising Selves as Trump Supporters, Trumpers Stopping Vandals (11 Mar)
Likely also to be coordinated with three-letter agencies, since Sullivan is thought to be on payroll.
@ Dot:
“All jet engines by definition create “chemtrails”.”
Has nobody else seen any of teh abundant footage of WW2 aerial combat?
Particularly the huge streams of four-engined bombers operating over Germany?
NOT pressurized, driven by piston engines and a maximum service ceiling jusy over twenty thousand feet.The “chem” in those “trails” was primarily water.
Or the footage of Battle of Britan dogfights with white squiggles all over th esky?
We need a “better grade” of “conspiracy theory”, this one was busted before it took off.
Besides which, dumping weird chemicals into the sky at 30,000 feet is taking a wild punt on where the stuff will go.
Amusingly enough, and especially post 1954, most of the planet’s IC engines, especially in cars, ran on “de-rated” aviatio9n fuel, which contained Tetra-Ethyl Lead to prevent “knock” / pre-ignition. This was eventually ruled a “bad idea” and we got “Lead-free”fuels. The “anti-knock” concoction in this stuff is a wild brew from the laboratory that does the job, but it required a re-engineering of the system, especially exhaust valves and seats, to work without wrecking the engine.
The “lead’ in the old stuff conveniently left deposits on the valves and seats that hugely reduced erosion from high-temperature and pressure combustion gases in high-compression engines. Your trusty old, low-compression, IRON, flat-head Ford V8 in the family ’48 Mercury will just keep on running with ULP, without fancy modifications, (like tungsten-carbide valve seats, etc)..
One issue with ULP is that it does not do long-term storage very well and, over time, degrades to the glorified Kerosene that it really is.
Chuck Norris telling Chuck Norris jokes.
It is like one of those infinite regression images of a picture of a picture of a picture of a picture…
Bruce
I don’t believe we are being chlorinated or vaccinated with “chem trails”.
I just point out that organic foods etc, have “chemicals” in them, as does tap water.
When flights stopped after 9/11 it had a noticeable effect on the weather. Bruce mentioned a US patent on TiO2 being used.
AMD. They have Intel over the barrel for the next decade and I think their innovation is going to pay dividends in GPUs so nVidia are in for a tough ride too.
I feel like Leslie Neilsen in a Monty Python sketch.
Where the hell was i? (Kookaburras laughing). The University of Woolloomooloo?
The problem isn’t limited to Germans.
The bottom of the market in regional rentals has sometimes doubled in price since mid-late 2021.
Yes I’d wait.
ALL US and western intel these days is mere propaganda or citizen surveillance. The agencies haven’t done any real defence type groundwork in years. The simple stuff- like ensuring the CCP can’t surveil our sensitive facilities through their security cameras of software is neglected in their headlong efforts to manipulate public opinion and gain Govt support. Not much different than the ALPBC or MSM IMO. Just another parasitic organisation.
We are thinking about getting rid of the beach shack. Getting sick of driving up and down, putting up with people breaking stuff and the maintenance as it’s 1650 metres. 6 months ago the market was a bit soft with people not wanting to pay too much. That seems to have gone by the board with new places being built. The place along the road has been knocked over and is on the market for about 30% more than we estimated and we keep a good eye on the market.
Water vapour, CO2, NO2 and various metal oxides at high temperatures being released into low atmospheric pressure and temperature.
aka engine rich combustion. With jet engines reaching over 30,000 hours on the wing I doubt there is much metal oxide in the exhaust.
Aircraft exhaust can seed the formation of cirrus clouds. Saw it one day at Minden, Nevada. A few jets contrailing flew overhead, the trails spread out and soon there was 8/8 cirrus cover.
Ofcom ruling on Mark Steyn & GB News: Do all channels face the same level of scrutiny?
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I was sitting in a cafe yesterday and a guy came in leaving a chemtrail.
Thing is, if he used less of the cologne he would have been able to afford a better one.
First Modi gets Albanese to partner with him at what was ostensibly a BJP rally, now he’s getting him to toe the line on Hindu nationalism in Australia.
He’s playing Elbow like a violin.
Doesn’t augur well for any trade deals.
m0ntysays:
March 12, 2023 at 8:40 am
If you had a lazy $100k+ coming soon, any thoughts on where to park it for a while.
If “a while” is 5-7 years then using it as the deposit on a unit in a developing suburb or country town is the smart play.
Hmmmmm. Is it wise to accept investment “advice” from a fascist leftard who refers to believers in the free market as “you lot”?
Then again, his socialist principles do not seem to extend as far as his personal money.
He is 100% correct, and has also correctly identified one of today’s primary problems with the constabulary.
Allegedly and apparently, and I have heard it said by some that in each and every volume of training material for detectives everywhere, one of the primary principles put forward is that an investigation is just that – an investigation. That means finding out everything you can about an allegation or a complaint put forward, and which lands on your desk.
This is not restricted to inculpatory evidence, but MUST (in theory) also include exculpatory evidence. Everything – everything – goes on the brief, and when complete a decision is made by someone other than the compiler of said brief, and further up the chain as to whether a reasonable prospect exists of a conviction or finding of guilt.
You go where the evidence takes you, and nowhere else. What you don’t do is discard any evidence that doesn’t fit with a pre-arranged outcome, which once upon a time would have seen you turfed from any CIB office and spending the rest of your career waggling your finger at city jaywalkers.
Again and again in recent years this time-honoured principle has been very publicly seen to be turfed out the nearest window. On top of the obvious Pell, Rolfe, SlugGate and Red Shirt examples (and, from the sound of it, duk’s) these have been piling up.
Andrew Rule in the Hun had a particularly good example of a tradie who scored some nookie from an upper-class girlie being charged (and tried, and then acquitted) for rape because the girlie’s friends couldn’t believe their mate went home with a commoner – and therefore must have been raped.
A lady detective decided to push ahead with the job despite a mountain of exculpatory evidence, and the brass and DPP went along with her because it was (and still is) policy to back this sort of shit in at the expense of the innocent. The collateral damage to the poor bloke who didn’t do anything wrong was ignored.
I may have alluded yesterday to cops in this day and age increasingly becoming government policy enforcers rather than performing their core function of protecting the helpless from shit people. BB’s post is another excellent example of the path they’re going down, and they wonder why they can’t get decent recruits.
If nothing else, that piece also perfectly demonstrates that the jacks are quite capable of applying the same principles to people within their own ranks. I do not know Mr Smith, but I will almost guarantee he was someone who asked questions, and was seen as troublesome by some. That (false) allegation must have been manna from heaven for the Top Men at NSWPOL.
Demand for farmland here in the Wild West is very high.
He’s playing Elbow like a violin.
A Stradivarius?
Doesn’t matter, Albanese has signed up for massive migration from India.
Births 73k/day minus deaths 26k = 47k increase per day, every day.
This one.
The geoengineers mainly have been looking at sulfate particles in line with Pinatubo-style cooling. I think some of them have been looking at paint pigment, which is much more effective for diffracting light back to space for a given weight. The patent is about how to disperse the pigment.
A comment at T.Blair’s latest offering in Quadrant online:
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In and attempt to cheer the venerable Mr. Blair up, (I assume he might be reading this article and its comments) I would like to remind him of the time he said “I Ferken Derya” to come up with a better name than ‘Ferken Derya”.
Well, may I submit the name of the Turkish Ambassador.
The man’s name is Ufuk Geezer.