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I just don’t get the warnings on the news that the demand for electricity tomorrow by air conditioners in NSW,…
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…usually results in them getting kicked out.Part of that is because they’re not very good at making the case for…
Malcolm Roberts U16’s Censorship Bill Flawed and Overreaching
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Remember when ISIS cut people’s hands off for smoking? https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1860793947817132472?t=bN6Db_7xsLrc3MPJPrAzTQ&s=19
Here you go Dot. From Iowahawk:
What could possibly go wrong?
Hollyweirdos – where would be without them?
Yes, after the Keating rant, I did think the next ALP conference could be worth two family boxes of popcorn.
Sky-high Australian coal prices drop back to pre-Ukraine-war levels
And gas is $12/GJ – apparently.
The horrid little shit will have to pedal harder.
The US Defence Department has approved the potential sale of up to 220 Tomahawk cruise missiles to Australia, valued at up to AUD$1.35bn (895m USD), Reuters reports the Pentagon saying.
The report said the Pentagon’s Defence Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of the possible sale on Thursday.
This does not necessarily mean that negotiations have concluded, the report said.
The US-design Virginia class submarines Australia will acquire under the AUKUS program were expected to be armed with the Tomahawk missiles.
The missile can hit land or maritime targets from at least 1500km.
The Oz doesn’t say however that Tomahawk can be fired from several assets in the ADF armoury already. IIRR that was discussed openly when negotiations to buy commenced.
The politicisation and mockery upsets you, hmm. Who is politicising it again, as opposed to just trying to live their lives in peace? Who is mocking a minority?
Also given recent events, how about this for an open question to all Cats:
What is your full definition of the word “woke”?
So much racism in one post.
Now, about my compensation…
Things are going well enough for Russia in Bahkmut we’re likely to wake up in the next week or so and find it has fallen completely.
Only took eight months!
A preposterous nonsensical idiotology (BIRM) adhered to by staggeringly stupid sanctimonious hypocritical f*ckwits.
“I would rather have changed a tampon in the bushes than done it in a space where there were boys, or even the possibility of boys. Or I would have stuffed my pants with toilet paper. Anything but that.”
Yep.
Dunning-Kruger on steroids.
Mmm…yes; that’s what that march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge was all about.
New South Wales Nationals MP, former member for Myall Lakes, Stephen Bromhead dies
In We’re Dooomed news:
You’re more likely to die in a milder heatwave in Queensland compared to extreme hot weather conditions, new data shows
It’s currently a sweltering low-intensity 28 degrees in Brisbane.
I’m rather afraid that the current lowness of the low-intensity heatwave will increase the risk of dying by around 97.3%. I’d better do the right thing and shoot the dogs.
DEUTSCHLAND
ERWACHE!
The funny thing is that apart from Ed Hudi and a few others, most of Labor politicians come from Catholic families and went to upscale Catholic schools. Once they go to uni they discover the new green religion that doesn’t forbid any degeneracy they could think off. It does come at a price, illogical thinking and sacrificing your society to the green deity. The price is living with and promoting lies and after a while they are unable to recognise the truth.
PM Clockwatcher claimed the Chonks have not threatened us. I seem to recall them threatening to nuke us for saying mean things. Can’t remember exactly.
The drone the Russkies crashed has gone down near Crimea. How quickly can they recover it. I’m surprised there is not some self destruct built in to prevent that. Even the flight controllers should have been able to do that.
Pete Evans says “wtf”
Caen was a D Day objective.
It eventually fell on D+61.
Gov. DeSantis calls COVID a ‘woke virus,’ praises Florida for avoiding ‘Faucian dystopia’
A small strip of land in sleepy Burrum Heads has ignited debate over native title and residents’ access to a public beach, which has sparked warnings from an MP it could lead to “more challenges across the country”.
The Butchulla people were granted almost 100ha of native title land on the Fraser Coast in December 2019, including 17ha of which is exclusive use.
One small section of this exclusive-use section stretches along a foreshore in front of Burrum Heads residents’ homes and includes a car park which was previously used by people to access the beach.
The car park was recently blocked off with logs, while residents have complained that people are now being chased off this land and feel unsafe crossing the strip to the beach, which remains public.
Police were called to at least one incident which took place on Australia Day, but a Queensland Police Service spokeswoman said it was “verbal in nature” and no offences were found to have been committed.
Griffith Law School associate professor Kate Galloway said while it was understandable the residents may feel disappointed, the law was clear that when an exclusive-use determination was made the native title holders had the property rights.
She said it was possible to negotiate a land use agreement with the traditional owners.
The state Resources Department confirmed that access to the land was not permitted without agreement of native title holders and that it was working on the situation with the council and Butchulla Native Title Aboriginal Corporation.
One resident, who declined to be named, said people did not have an issue with the native title being granted, but wanted to access the beach as they had for decades.
“People used to walk along the beach, but they’re not game to do it now,” he said.
Hinkler MP Keith Pitt said something needed to be sorted out before the situation escalated further.
Vote:
Do you agree with cutting access to a public beach due to native title?
Yes %
No 99 %
“This is not a remote piece of land. This is almost 100ha near populated areas used by all Australians for a long period of time and that should be able to continue,” he said.
“I think there’s going to be more of these types of challenges across the country, not less, into the future.”
Courier-Mail
After all that’s happened, he’s still mouthing off.
Fauci: We Will Need New Covid Shots ‘at Least Once a Year’
sfwsays:
March 17, 2023 at 6:49 am
The Dutch farmers are fighting back and winning. Pity there’s no party in Australia that stands up for farmers and rural people. One that fights the climate craziness, one that will stand firm on conservative/libertarian principles. Who knows, such a party could be successful here.
Latham and PHON. As I said if the PHON candidate can’t beat kean the sheeple deserve everything they get.
American Thinker
Tucker goes there — predicts a hot war with Russia (and maybe China) leading to wartime crushing of political dissent
And ours.
DeSantis forms alliance with 18 governors to combat Biden’s ESG push: ‘Direct threat to the American economy’
Aye, Paddie.
Never forget that Philip Cunningham was proclaimed Emperor of Australia and King of New Ireland by his peers.
If he had won the rebellion and not met with Johnston and Laycock unarmed, our history may have been very dramatically different.
Did I learn about this stuff in school? No, it was too interesting. School has to be boring or a vehicle for indoctrination.
m0ntysays:
March 17, 2023 at 9:42 am
Also given recent events, how about this for an open question to all Cats:
What is your full definition of the word “woke”?
Answer – A MontyPox Virus which corrupts the senses.
Pandemics Are Not the Real Health Threat
Reset This! Dutch Elections See Tractor Protest Party Trounce Globalist Govt and EU Green Agenda
You’ll have to pay for it.
Even if the leopard does change its spots, it cannot ever change the underlying Fascist.
Demands that social media suppress banking viability rumours.
I cannot think of one single act that would frighten the rumour mongers more.
Haaretz turning up the hyperbole:
‘U.S. conservatives are starting to understand that Israelis are lying to them’
Wow, Haaretz let Nick Fuentes be their editor?
That’s right. They’ve never experienced any of it. But they are so full of envy of the functions of genuine females that they have been known to wander around female change rooms peering at naked girls to try to ‘see’ the hanging cord of a tampon, and some pseudo-female men also cut their genitals to say we are women, see, we bleed there too. It’s a mental psychosis, a contagion.
This sort of emulation and take-over of female functioning by males is not unknown in anthropology, where it is often part of male initiation rituals – cutting the penis, forming a tunnel through which initiates run, thus ‘showing’ that only men can ‘make’ adult men just as biological females have bodies that make real male children.
Taking heavily fortified areas that have enjoyed 8 years of defensive preparation usually does.
The Teal Housewives | Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain
In other words, emulating female functioning is some sort of power trip.
Yep, it figures. That’s what these autogynophiliacs are up to here.
Good lord that’s awful.
If they need a bailout or fail, they have no credibility, simples.
Hard to believe someone is trying this on in 2023.
FACT: The COVID Virus was made in a BioLab & Fauci, Bill Gates & Moderna are all responsible
Hitler’s Generals went around the Maginot Line, why am I to believe that Putin is some sort of tactical or strategic visionary?
I think she is safe. She will have run into someone who recognised her as being an easy mark for quasi-esoteric treatments, therapies, and healings. I will bet she still has the first pyramid that slept in to replenish her energies and channel her consciousness to a higher plane.
So some bloke saw her, blew up a paper bag, told her it contained pure ozone (at which point her ears would have pricked up – Gaia nearly died a few years ago without ozone, so ozone must be a good thing), then in response to quizzical expression as she sniffed it explained that ozone always smells like kebabs and lager, and it would cost her $1,000.
And she has met him out the front of The Hammer and Mullet for a fresh bag of ozone every week.
“Latham and PHON.”
Yes. The only party capable of knocking off Kean is PHON.
Indolentsays:
March 17, 2023 at 10:20 am
Reset This! Dutch Elections See Tractor Protest Party Trounce Globalist Govt and EU Green Agenda
Good news; but the bastards in government are digging in their high heels. I still predict violence. The same thing will happen here but the sheeple will still vote for liars and filth.
SITREP 3/16/23: Reaper Developments And Major Advances
Simplicius The Thinker
2 hr ago
First thing’s first, some important updates on the ‘drone incident’. The US has now released their version of the footage, which can be seen here: VIDEO 1.
They appear to still be tenuously clinging to the claim that the plane ‘struck the drone’s propeller’, yet that is not evident in the video at all. Much more likely the plane merely bucked the drone from sheer turbulence and jet-wash, causing it to flip over—but I’m not discounting that the prop was clipped.
It is strange that the drone camera continues to ‘malfunction’ each time the planes come close. Is the turbulence jostling the camera electronics too much, or the Su-27’s giving off some type of jamming signals at such proximity? Hard to know.
Some have pointed to this before and after shot, showing what appears to be like a deformed prop blade after the Russian fuel dump. However, props can look that way on cameras depending on the sync between the camera framerate and propeller speed, and there’s a chance that the propeller changed speed (perhaps due to slight throttling down by the operator, etc.) causing it to appear differently at that point on video. Maybe there are some better video experts that can chime in. But perhaps a chance exists that the ‘heavy’ fuel load ricocheting off the propeller at such squirted speeds caused it to deform. This would lead to eventual catastrophic failure of the prop due to vibratory forces in the uneven distribution of weight/aerodynamics, etc.
What we do know now however is that the MQ-9 Reaper is from one of the latest and most advanced Blocks, equipped with a highly advanced/sensitive ‘Gorgon’s Stare’ electronics suite.
Along with the Gorgon Stare, the drone had a variety of sensors which could do everything from record pinpoint video footage, thermal footage, Synthetic Aperture Radar snapshots of Russian bases/assets, record electronic emissions and signal data from Russian command HQ’s (C3), radar sites, and their positions. The Gorgon Stare itself, if you read the supplied wiki article, is run through a devious DARPA A.I. program called Mind’s Eye, which does all the things I once described in this article—basically: neural-network ‘smart’ analysis of recorded ground data where the AI can track/locate/assess/transmit targets on its own, all while geo-tagging them with various meta-data, etc. With these tools the drone is said to transmit many gigabytes of data per minute.
“The spy mission here is not even 100% visible, but 1000%. This is tactical reconnaissance – a fairly powerful high-resolution video camera and equipment that allows you to record the frequencies of radio stations, missile guidance stations, radar stations, determine the location of air defense systems, air defense systems, determine the location of headquarters, command posts and, due to visual reconnaissance, take pictures of a sufficiently high permission, ” explained Knutov.
Getting their hands on this Gorgon suite would be a huge boon for Russia. Which is why they have now positioned their ships and as of this writing are getting ready to lift the drone from what is said to be 900m depth.
American drone MQ-9 found at a depth of 900 meters. Above it, the duty of the Black Sea Fleet ships was established in order not to let anyone near the crash site. The issue of its rise is being resolved.
There is a ship in the Black Sea Fleet that is capable of doing this – the legendary “Kommuna” built in 1913. Rebuilt many times and having a huge track record of underwater work (including the recovery of several submarines, as well as aircraft and ships), it has deep-sea vehicles capable of operating at a depth of up to 1 km.
By the way, Kommuna has experience in lifting foreign equipment. In 1928, it raised the sunken British submarine L-55 in the Baltic, which was blown up by mines while evading Soviet destroyers.
The US however has claimed that they’ve done a ‘remote wipe’ on the Reaper’s data. This is questionable for a variety of reasons. Firstly, wiping data just once will never delete it, recovery specialists, particularly Russian ones which are likely the best in the world, can easily recover the data. But full industrial data-stripping takes many recurring passes of data writes to the memory chip over and over for it to be truly irrecoverable. But this takes time—time that the drone likely didn’t have as it was going down into the sea, at which point its batteries would have been flooded and likely any ‘data wipe’ operation stopped. So, the verdict is: data is probably recoverable unless the US has a special detonating self-destruct device planted on the data chip just for these types of circumstances.
To save face, John Kirby tried to pretend that US still has the ability to recover the drone. He hemmed and hawed and temporized when asked during a press conference if the drone can be recovered, stating that US “isn’t sure it can do it” in that region and at that depth, veiling the fact that the Russian fleet has already positioned itself entirely above the site and US isn’t even allowed to bring warships through the Bosporous as per the Montreaux Convention.
Satellite images of ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy near the crash site of the American MQ-9 Reaper UAV in the Black Sea.
Notice how the direct flightpath is always broken up by a necessary rerouting to the north into Bulgaria, just around the tip of Turkish territory near the Bosporous. It’s clear that Erdogan does not allow US war assets to bypass his territory enroute to monitor Russian SMO.
Now onto other things. One update as regards the last report about the purported Russian Kinzhal strikes on NATO assets. There is some chance that the drone incident is related.
As others have keenly noted, there is a strangely linked series of events which began with Russia’s very large missile strikes last week. There was something particularly painful and special about these strikes as several Ukrainian ministers/sources referred to the strikes with uncommonly strong words, some stating they were the most powerful strikes since the start of the SMO. Even Zelensky called it a ‘very strong signal to Ukraine’.
Then, as explained in our last report, we got word that 6 Kinzhals were used, and that a NATO HQ was possibly hit with 40+ dead. What is intriguing is, those strikes occurred on March 10th. Immediately following them on March 12th, the US sent an extremely provocative message by simulating a nuclear bombing run on St. Petersburg when they sent a B-52 bomber directly towards St. Pete in an unprecedented maneuver.
The nuclear-capable bomber cut away just before the Russian maritime border, down into Estonia. Why would they send such a direct and obvious message right after the March 10 attacks? It seems to me, those 6 confirmed Kinzhals were not sent in vain, or against unimportant targets. This likely confirms that 40+ NATO/CIA officers were infact liquidated as reports suggest, and the US deepstate is extremely bothered by this.
Only a day after that, they now suddenly send one of their most advanced drones directly toward Crimea/Sevastopol in another extremely aggressive and angst-ridden ‘message’.
They’ve never taken such a trajectory before, AND in darkmode with transponders turned OFF. Once again—it’s clear that the March 10th strikes really burned them badly and they are desperate to escalate or strike out like a wounded animal.
The logical explanation is that, there were some ‘unspoken’ agreements or red lines between the two Great Powers. And Russia finally broke that red line with the sextuple Kinzhal sneak attack.
– War Front Updates
– Now let’s turn to the final and most important subject: the ongoing Bakhmut battles.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
Paris on fire.
Scenes of revolt in the streets of Paris. Barricades are erected in the gov districts of power.
perhaps because of this.
The Gateway Pundit
@gatewaypundit
DEVELOPING: French President Emmanuel Macron Uses Special Power to Raise Retirement Age without Parliament Vote
“That’s right. They’ve never experienced any of it. But they are so full of envy of the functions of genuine females that they have been known to wander around female change rooms peering at naked girls to try to ‘see’ the hanging cord of a tampon, and some pseudo-female men also cut their genitals to say we are women, see, we bleed there too. It’s a mental psychosis, a contagion.”
Yep. That grotesque Canadian autogynephile, and all round pervert, Jonathan Yaniv, is obsessed with menstruation and tampons.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
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@RobertKennedyJr: The Chinese CDC Director Must Have Known C19 Was Circulating Before Event 201
“In September 2019, the Wuhan lab removed all 22,000 viral samples from the website … So the Chinese government had to know this; George Gao had to know it. He’s there [at Event 201] in October of 2019, with the CIA former Deputy Director [Avril Haines] talking about ‘How do we quiet people when they start talking about it lab leak?’ And she says, quote, ‘Not only do we need to censor them, but we need to flood the zone with authoritative voices,’ which means propaganda.”
I should preview my comments, it was Ed Husic.
Has governments’ fear-mongering left the public traumatised? Are we suffering from learned helplessness?
Then, as explained in our last report, we got word that 6 Kinzhals were used, and that a NATO HQ was possibly hit with 40+ dead.
Geez that’s awful even for a blockquote fail.
Michael P Senger
@MichaelPSenger
DeSantis: “When they said ‘15 days to slow the spread’ it turns out, people like Birx and Fauci, they never intended just 15 days… They would always try to do things to condition your behavior, control your behavior…telling things like ‘noble lies.’”
I don’t think it’s the ‘wokeness’ (‘woke’ is becoming overused) or DEI measures that brought down SVB. If these were major causes of the bank’s problems, every big US bank would be on the verge of collapse.
Coming to a country near you?
The powerful MPs behind NZ’s pivot to all things Maori
While the people of Australia and its MPs examine their attitudes around elevating their country’s First Nations peoples in the business of governing, momentum in New Zealand on the same matter is growing in strength. A band of influential M?ori parliamentarians is playing a part.
In a country that is increasingly embedding its M?ori heritage in its national affairs, the urgency of adopting M?ori culture, values, and language in day-to-day governance is a characteristic of the New Zealand political scene. The pace has quickened since the Labour Party took power in 2017.
Some aspects – such as the rapid growth of the M?ori language in the media and political spheres – has unsettled New Zealanders, however. NZ’s public sector is a particularly verdant landscape for this, where the M?ori language – te reo M?ori – often gains prominence over or even replaces English outright as the lingua franca.
Recently, NZ’s largest public tertiary provider issued its staff – across 16 polytechs nationwide – with comprehensive guidance on what words they should and should not use. This included a strong preference for the te reo translation – for teachers, student, and such – over and above the English version.
Behind this profound pivot towards all things M?ori is an historically large and powerful representation of M?ori MPs within the upper reaches of the governing Labour Party – the self-identified M?ori caucus, a product of the party’s historically strong kinship with NZ’s first people.
The M?ori caucus, which enthusiastically advocates for M?ori in the policy, legislative and public realms, consists of 13 MPs, eight of whom hold ministerial warrants – a record number for any Labour-led government. Ministerial portfolios currently held by caucus members are among the most important and include justice, foreign affairs, broadcasting and media, and M?ori development,
Adding to its heft, three caucus members rank in the top ten of the party and sit on the government’s front bench. A quarter of the government’s executive decision-making body are M?ori. That’s high, but also fairly representative. According to latest statistics, M?ori make up just over 17 per cent of New Zealand’s population.
The number of M?ori MPs occupying the top seats of government swells further once parliament’s Speaker of the House Adrian Rurawhe is added to the mix.
Last week, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins remarked that M?ori having a seat at the decision-making table was something the country signed up to when the Treaty of Waitangi – New Zealand’s founding covenant between the Crown and M?ori – was signed in 1840.
Though it can be labelled a faction, the M?ori caucus does not slavishly subscribe to a single, unbending viewpoint typical of other factions; in recognition of the diversity of views and circumstances across the M?ori population. It is an exclusive club, however, with members happily posing for ‘team’ photos and proudly promoting its place within the corridors of power.
Also, unlike some factions elsewhere the M?ori caucus does not instinctively incite intra-party friction. It does not, for example, have the same disruptive tendencies of the Republican Party’s Freedom Caucus in Washington or the arch-Brexit wing of the Conservative Party in the UK. For the most part, this is because the caucus is not wholly decoupled from the mainstream or the rest of the party.
Nor does the M?ori caucus invite open animus from political opponents, in part because the virtue of having a strong M?ori voice within parliament is widely accepted as a political norm in New Zealand.
This could change, however, should Hipkins opt into a governing arrangement with the radical M?ori Party – now called Te P?ti M?ori – to help secure the projected tight October 14 general election.
How influential and effective the M?ori caucus is can be seen on the political scoreboard.
Wins include the establishment of a M?ori Health Authority or Te Aka Whai Ora, an idiosyncratic public entity set up to ensure M?ori health outcomes are met within the current system.
Another win is the enshrining of Matariki – the M?ori New Year – as a new public holiday. Another success, and perhaps a clear measure of caucus influence, was the quickfire allocation of a $15 million in funding to hasten the M?ori-led response to Cyclone Gabrielle, which recently struck parts of the North Island. This last effort was fronted by two M?ori caucus heavyweights, Willie Jackson and Peeni Henare and led to accusations that the Maori community was being given special treatment ahead of other devastated communities.
Blotting its copybook, however, is the fall from grace of Nanaia Mahuta, a polarising minister who was arguably the figurehead of the M?ori caucus until earlier this year.
In a January reshuffle, Mr Hipkins effectively demoted Ms Mahuta by stripping her of the local government portfolio she had held since 2017 and removing her from the front beach. She managed to kept her foreign affairs portfolio, despite opposition criticism of her efforts as foreign minister.
This followed Mahuta’s mismanagement of the government’s signature Three Waters legislation which sought to provide new mega-entities to control NZ’s water infrastructure.
Her bungling of the enabling bill’s passage – in which she surreptitiously attempted to entrench public ownership of water assets – provoked confusion and anger across parliament, including from within her own party.
Another casualty of Mahuta’s botched water reform efforts was an idea close to the hearts of the M?ori caucus – co-governance with the powerful Maori iwi, or tribes.
The public were left confused and uneasy by the reforms process, particularly the issue of co-governance, prompting Hipkins to shelve the program until further notice.
The prime minister will be at pains, however, not to be too hard on the caucus for any political and policy misdemeanours. He understands that without the compliance of his M?ori MPs, the Government’s policy and legislative program – even electoral hopes – could well be stymied and the caucus isn’t beyond threatening to defect to the Maori Party if they don’t get their way on certain issues.
In many ways Labour’s M?ori caucus has become a political institution. As New Zealand veers ever more towards bringing M?ori closer into political and public life, this institution is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Oz – my comment just suggested: “How can dividing any country along racial lines be good for it?”
When the goal is ethnic cleansing the cities must be taken.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
The dumb people and their governments needed a new word for weather below 40C because the natural weather cycles are refusing to provide actual heat waves.
They had a BUFF over Lithuania this morning.
May be a bit of that about to happen just down the road in Frogland. Macron rammed through the pension age rise overnight by executive edict because he couldn’t get the numbers in parliament.
Expect Riots: Macron Govt Uses Constitutional Loophole to Avoid Vote and Pass Retirement Age Rise (16 Mar)
If France really erupts, which is possible, you may get contagion hitting Belgium and Holland too.
I had no idea, dot, unless my previous references to Sedan betrayed me. BTW, who actually argues that Putin is commanding at the operational and tactical level? Has he ever been pictured in military uniform hovering over a map? Not that I can recall.
I don’t think Bruce Lehrmann should have started defamation proceedings against his accusers and her media allies prior to the criminal case ending. You wouldn’t want the bombshells that were dropped during his trial revealed as a part of a defamation action. You don’t want to give Brittany and her team the time to come up with better explanations than those she provided extemporaneously at trial, or for a jury to have prior knowledge of these facts. They’re best served to a jury fresh.
I think ensuring you are not imprisoned for several decades ought to be the first priority. It’s not fair that Lehrmann is unable to vindicate his reputation, but nothing about what happened to him has been fair. Why expect fairness now?
Snap Indolent! I should refresh.
Sedan (WWII) took five days.
Verdun (WWI) took over nine months – three days short of ten months.
Ahem.
The political officer Captain Ramius killed just as the Red October put to sea was named….
Putin.
Coincidence? YOU DECIDE!
SVB was a particularly egregious example of how wokeness corrupts institutions by prioritising “diversity” over competence.
Only one board member had any depth of experience in banking; the rest were political appointees more concnered with monitoring the culture of the bank than its balance sheet.
You go where the enemy is.
Wodger:
So they were supporters until they got hit with the “Gimee Munni” cluebat?
I hired a Manuel Ute the other day to do a few jobs. Radio stuck on some bush radio station with an Ag report.
Wasn’t really listening until there was mention of UN negotiations with Russia over Black Sea wheat (?).
Only half listening but WTF?
What happened to sanctions?
roger
Have you done any diversity training or played with ChatGPT?
You can have the smartest people in the world, very diverse, but diversity is better than merit because apparently you come up with more ideas.
Here’s the thing. Some ideas are shit.
You might add value as a finance/M&A team member if you had experience as an engineer or auditor. Regardless of your background!
Making an illiterate, elderly, innumerate, wholly uneducated, computer illiterate, ESL, BIPOC janitor part of a team building a nuclear reactor is just stupid, but all of the programming of people and AI says this is for the best.
nobody gives a toss about the noise in your head mUnty
ChatGPT told me my idea to only hire Japanese and Israeli physics PhDs and black American engineers with masters (or higher) and bachelors in engineering was a bad idea to build a nuclear reactor because it lacked diversity.
Avi Loeb, Michio Kaku and Ronald Mallet, dare I say that’s a fine team. Not diverse enough though. We haven’t paid unearnt labour to a transsexual latinx thing.
I know.
It did seem out of character, until I scrolled back and saw the first part was meant to be the quote.
So now we have the nefarious Russians have stolen one of my socks and shuffled around the hotmail tags on commenters’ comments.
Will their baleful machinations never end?
Chat GPT also argued with me that John Dee wasn’t into occult practices.
“That’s not scientific”
Yes, that’s my point.
In the aboriginal “industry” they call it developing the land as an economic asset.
I’m old enough to remember when we were assured land rights was not about money but “spirituality.”
According to government figures, 57% of the Australian land mass is now subject to the rights and interests of indigenous people under one form of title or another, including freehold and perpetual leases. And that figure will only grow.
We’re already divided by race; the Voice seeks to formalise that constitutionally.
Nice country we had once.
Working defn of ‘woke’: show me on the doll where the cis white male oppressed you.
Latest reddit tailing point has dropped.
“We cant justify, define or defend it, so we will get our opponents to try and do so, so we can say their definition is wrong”…
Also given recent events, how about this for an open question to all Cats:
What is your full definition of the word “woke”?
Being insane enough to think a person with a cock is a woman.
Once you swallow (heh) that particular bit of nonsense the rest falls into place.
Do you think people with a penis are women Monty, do you?
I think I’d rather take monty out for dinner.
OPINION
Keating is wrong that Beijing means no harm. Just ask Xi Jinping
Tony Abbott
Former prime minister
I don’t think you could devise a more emphatic and unambiguous denial without 40 MW speakers and a year’s worth of ‘F’ bombs.
Some aspects – such as the rapid growth of the Maori language in the media and political spheres – has unsettled New Zealanders, however. NZ’s public sector is a particularly verdant landscape for this, where the Maori language – te reo M?ori – often gains prominence over or even replaces English outright as the lingua franca.
Recently, NZ’s largest public tertiary provider issued its staff – across 16 polytechs nationwide – with comprehensive guidance on what words they should and should not use. This included a strong preference for the te reo translation – for teachers, student, and such – over and above the English version.
That will really help New Zealanders well, in spreaking to people in overseas Counties
One of the Great Joys in Life, watching a Swedish Couple checking-in in France speaking English
At TheirABC, they are forced to admit that boy wonder did not deliver on cleaning up the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch.’
Before we go on, said Patch has never been photographed. It’s the Yeti or Loch Ness Monster of the Pacific. People swear that it exists, but for some reason it eludes photographic reproduction, even though it is allegedly huge and important.
Anyway:
That’s one way of putting it.
The rest of the article goes on to catalogue the repeated failures of the project, and how gullible fools kept pouring money into it. No mention, though, of how TheirABC supported it and talked it up every step of the way.
And, they keep talking about the apparently unphotographable ‘Patch’ as though it is real.
Readers will be shocked to learn that most of this junk comes from rivers in Asia and Africa, and that fixing up their waste disposal problems is the way to go.
Whodathunkit? Lots of conservative commenters, that’s who.
I made a modest contribution when I mentioned that in the urban shoreline scenes of Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam, the water and shoreline was clogged with rubbish that was going to end up in the sea. Anyone who watched would see that. Anyone who lived there, or visited, would see that. FFS!
TheirABC is discreetly backpedalling on one of its pet projects, which turned out to be a dud. While not admitting that the premise was wrong.
Fear not – they have plenty more waiting in the wings!
“I don’t think Bruce Lehrmann should have started defamation proceedings against his accusers and her media allies prior to the criminal case ending. You wouldn’t want the bombshells that were dropped during his trial revealed as a part of a defamation action. You don’t want to give Brittany and her team the time to come up with better explanations than those she provided extemporaneously at trial, or for a jury to have prior knowledge of these facts. They’re best served to a jury fresh.
I think ensuring you are not imprisoned for several decades ought to be the first priority. It’s not fair that Lehrmann is unable to vindicate his reputation, but nothing about what happened to him has been fair. Why expect fairness now?”
Indeed. I don’t think he’ll ever get “fairness”….or justice for that matter.
Remember how Craig McLachlan started defamation proceedings in early 2018, after lies were aired about him? But then remember how McLachlan was (ludicrously) charged by Victorian Police (who else) for sexual assault later in 2018. These charges forced McLachlan to put the defamation case on hold. Once cleared of sexual assault, he resumed defamation proceedings and then later abandoned it. Why? Well, given how our media organisations are utterly unscrupulous, in a civil proceeding like a defamation case they will stop at nothing to destroy the credibility of a person. They’ve done this with Roberts-Smith, they brought out everyone to discredit him and they did it with McLachlan. McLachlan, tired, emotionally scarred after the trial, abandoned the defamation case. The media have deep pockets and they will dig deep for dirt, any kind of dirt. McLachlan and Lehmann don’t have deep pockets. Unlike Roberts-Smith, they don’t have a mogul (Stokes) supporting them. I understand why Pell didn’t pursue any civil action, he was tired and old. There was just so much he could take, he went to prison plus, as he freely admitted in his interview with Bolt the day after his release from prison, he had little money left. Court cases are expensive. I understand that Lehmann has no option but to pursue defamation but it’s going to be an ordeal and I wonder whether he can win. Ten, Nine and Newscorp will dig deep to destroy his credibility.
The sad reality is that Lehmann has been destroyed, probably permanently. He should leave Australia.
Biden Junta doubling down..
Media lickspittles setting propaganda generators to plaid…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/16/january-6-capitol-attack-deluge-charges
Federal prosecutors in Washington have reportedly told court officials a thousand more people could be charged in relation to the deadly January 6 Capitol attack.
Matthew Graves, the US attorney in Washington DC, sent a one-page letter to the chief judge of Washington DC federal court, apprising her of the potential deluge of defendants, Bloomberg News reported.
The correspondence provides details on what the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, has described as “one of the largest, most complex and most resource-intensive investigations in our history”.
Graves said in the letter that justice department officials estimated that another 700 to 1,200 defendants could face charges. That would nearly double the number of criminal cases relating to January 6, Bloomberg noted.
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More than a thousand people have faced charges for alleged involvement in the Capitol riot. Those who attacked Congress did so at the urging of Donald Trump, seeking to thwart certification of Joe Biden’s election win.
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The whole article is along those lines – lots of “dun, dun, duuunnnn”!..
Compare and contrast to the 2 years of BLM violence and charges laid…
I call it the Burns Omninet!
Lil’ Boyan’s Slurry
It is a powerful explosive, livestock feed and industrial coolant!
Retarded.
One Nation drops out of Aston byelection to help Liberals
Pauline Hanson says her party will not run a candidate to help the Liberal Party retain the seat.
Tucker Carlson Contrasts DC’s Effort to Expand NATO War Against Russia with Position of American Voters
March 16, 2023 – Sundance
For his opening monologue Wednesday night Fox News host Tucker Carlson revisited the status of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the disconnect between Washington DC and American voters. WATCH:
West warns Ukraine not to blow ‘last ditch effort’ – NYT
The US and UK are trying to scrounge up ammunition for a “spring offensive,” officials say
A New York Times story on Thursday suggested that the US and its allies are running out of ammunition they can supply to Ukraine, while Kiev is using up the troops and shells that will be needed for a planned spring offensive to fight for Artyomovsk instead.
Called Bakhmut by the Kiev authorities, Artyomovsk is now almost entirely surrounded by Russian forces. Ukrainian troops attempting to hold the town are running out of ammunition, the Times reported, with one brigade commander complaining of a “catastrophic shortage” of artillery shells.
Some US and EU officials now worry that Ukraine is using up “thousands” of shells a day in the battle for Artyomovsk, at a pace that is “unsustainable” and “could jeopardize a planned springtime campaign” that Kiev’s western sponsors “hope will prove decisive,” according to the Times.
The Pentagon has reportedly even “raised concerns” with Kiev about this, warning Ukraine about “wasting ammunition.”
The US and its allies “did not stockpile weaponry in anticipation of supplying an artillery war,” the outlet noted. A “secret British task force” is trying to track down and buy Soviet-caliber ammunition from around the world. The US and NATO have managed to put together some shells, but they are supposed to be used in the upcoming offensive.
One Pentagon official described the push as a “last-ditch effort,” because the West does not have enough ammunition to keep up with Ukrainian expenditures.
NATO’s own stocks are “critically low” and it will take “many months” for efforts to boost production to have an effect, again according to the Times. Without artillery, the paper explained, “hundreds” of new tanks and armored vehicles that the West is sending Ukraine will have a “limited” effect.
The anonymous officials who spoke to the Times also claimed that Ukrainian casualties have been so severe, with “more than 100,000” troops wounded or killed so far, that Kiev must decide whether to hold onto Artyomovsk or save soldiers for the “one meaningful opportunity this year” to go on the offensive.
Though the US has tried to downplay the significance of Artyomovsk, President Vladimir Zelensky has decided to hold the town at seemingly all cost, declaring there is no part of Ukraine that can be abandoned.
The only logic of “expending so much blood and ammo” on the town would be to “drain Russia of resources and prevent its troops from heading farther west,” Camille Grand, NATO’s former assistant secretary general for defense investment and now a defense expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told the Times. “The alternative is that they got dragged into a situation that, in the long term, plays in Russia’s favor and now it’s difficult to get out of it.”
“One Nation drops out of Aston byelection to help Liberals
Pauline Hanson says her party will not run a candidate to help the Liberal Party retain the seat.”
Decent of PHON however the Liberals don’t deserve such decency. The Liberal Party, always keen to appease the left, has spent years preferencing One Nation behind the Greens. Here in Wentworth, the Liberals preferenced One Nation after the Greens.
The reason why Labor picked up the extra senate seat in WA was because the eternally stupid Liberals, no doubt instructed by El Morro, preferenced One Nation behind Labor and the Greens .
You are kind to give a response words, Dover. Mine was much simpler.
Woke = somnambulating over a cliff
Our new wordsmiths always mean the opposite to the truth.
Bother. in words
President Trump Releases Agenda-47 Policy Statement on Ukraine and America First Foreign Policy
March 16, 2023 – Sundance
In a new Agenda47 video released today {Direct Rumble Link Here}, President Donald J. Trump explains the difference between the globalist establishment class, and those who are truly committed to stopping the Ukraine war and dismantling the entire neo-con nation-building industrial complex in Washington, D.C. WATCH:
[Transcript] –
“We have never been closer to World War III than we are today under Joe Biden. A global conflict between nuclear-armed powers would mean death and destruction on a scale unmatched in human history. It would be nuclear Armageddon. NOTHING is more important than avoiding that nightmare. We will avoid it. But we need new leadership.
Every day this proxy battle in Ukraine continues, we risk global war. We must be absolutely clear that our objective is to IMMEDIATELY have a total cessation of hostilities. All shooting has to stop. This is the central issue. We need PEACE without delay.
In addition, there must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neo-con establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad, while they turn us into a third-world country and a third-world dictatorship right here at home.
The State Department, the defense bureaucracy, the intelligence services, and all the rest need to be completely overhauled and reconstituted to fire the Deep Staters and put America First. We have to put America First.
Finally, we have to finish the process we began under my Administration of fundamentally reevaluating NATO’s purpose and NATO’s mission.
Our foreign policy establishment keeps trying to pull the world into conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia based on the lie that Russia represents our greatest threat.
But the greatest threat to Western Civilization today is not Russia. It’s probably, more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible, U.S.A. hating people that represent us. It’s the abolition of our national borders. It’s the failure to police our own cities. It’s the destruction of the rule of law from within. It’s the collapse of the nuclear family and fertility rates, like nobody can believe is happening. It’s the Marxists who would have us become a Godless nation worshipping at the altar of race, and gender, and environment. And it’s the globalist class that has made us totally dependent on China and other foreign countries that basically hate us.
These globalists want to squander all of America’s strength, blood and treasure, chasing monsters and phantoms overseas—while keeping us distracted from the havoc they’re creating right here at home.
These forces are doing more damage to America than Russia and China could ever have dreamed.
Evicting the sick and corrupt establishment is the monumental task for the next president. And I’m the only one who can do it. I’m the only one that can get the job done. I know exactly what has to be done.”
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I hired a Manuel Ute the other day to do a few jobs…
Is he free to do garden work?
Then again, as a combination of Spanish and American Indian not so sure I’d want him on the property. Probably set fire to it, to toast his burritos in the embers.
The West’s piecemeal support is the cause of all the Ukies’ woes.
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March 17, 2023 at 8:37 am
Give regular arms refresher training.
Mostly done with gun simulators in the Australian Army nowadays.,
OK for refresher training on weapons, less so for tactics.
And even for weapons, as a gunner mate once told me, “simulation is a bit like masturbation, a bit is OK, but too much and you forget what the real thing is like, like the noise and recoil of a heavy gun firing”.
To which union superfunds will Little Tony transfer the fantasy subs for lease back by the ADF.
Reflecting upon all this talk about how Oz will respond to the imminent Chinese threat.
Yesterday husband and I had cause to visit very large landholding near to us, and were invited to stay for an after work beer in the machinery shed with the manager and two of his staff. They were hot and sweaty and dirty after a solid day’s work in the paddocks, but they were fit and well muscled, as you would expect. These are the men you would want to defend you.
We chewed the fat about local and national affairs. They were aghast at the “binary”craziness and concerned about the threat to the nation by China. In short, sure of what was important in life. It was reassuring, in a way, although we need a heck of a lot more of these sort of blokes.
Knuckle Dragger says: March 17, 2023 at 11:33 am
Tom MacDonald’s song Sheeple continues to offer lyrics summary for our time:
Is this being resurrected from the giant flaming pit it was thrown into yesterday?
Noted. Please proceed.
Of particular interest would be which ‘guns’ are being ‘simulated’ for ‘refresher training’, given that the original premise was that infantry tactics could be delivered via first-person shooter gaming, the adherents of which there are a ‘competent cadre’ in this wide brown land.
Bloody hell.
*Of which the adherents are a ‘competent cadre’*
If only I’d practiced that last sentence on a simulator.
Sancho earlier:-
Do towelling hats and walk socks come in camo?
What child in the 70s didn’t have a male teacher with polyester powder blue shorts with those little triangle cut outs wearing white walk socks.
Apropos to earlier remark:
A decent (and unusual) gangster movie: The Outfit.
Worth a look if you have Netflix.
Steyrs and pistols I’m told. Targets projected on screen, compressed air simulates noise and recoil. Some tactical as not all the targets are legit. i.e. non combatants, little kids etc while some are bad guys.
So says my mate who was in the Army until 3 years ago.
Q: Why has the news media spent the past half century parading a conga line of “experts” trying to scare the public into believing the world will end in 10/20/30/40/50 years – claims that have proven totally wrong at each nominated waypoint?
A: because the “experts” (and the media) think the public is endlessly gullible and stupid and have successfully created a fear-mongering sub-economy that has made them rich and/or powerful.
The news media is no longer the public’s eyes and ears. It has become a radical political party.
Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Setting the HDR for programs over the weekend I noticed that there is no more Vera on the ABC on Sunday night. Not to worry because the ABC has programmed a televisual feast for the whole family:
2030: In Our Blood
2120: Rampant: How a City Stopped the Plague
2220: Queerstralia
From the morning toons, Broelman reminds me of the old notion “When goods don’t cross borders, Soldiers will”^. Accepting the truth of the phrase, it is then logical to argue (via modus tollens) that when soldiers are not invading, goods should be crossing borders. But it does not imply that when soldiers cross borders the goods will not. Being required to continue to purchase mediocre quality underwear at even higher prices is one possible consequence of a successful CCP invasion. In practical terms it seems sensible to suppose a huge cessation in commercial shipping around the Indo-Pacific would occur for the duration of any Sino-Aussie war until it concluded one way or the other. That is probably what Broelman meant.
War “Bonds”, indeed.
^ = Apparently the phase popularly attributed to Bastiat cannot be traced to any documentary evidence of him ever literally saying it, but rather a more recent economic advisor to FDR’s Secretary of State.
Sadly, Tom, a good percentage of the public is endlessly gullible.
I was astonished when my highly educated, ‘professional’ brother fell completely for the Al Gore scam. Then, when Covid conveniently arrived, he masked up and anxiously awaited the ‘vaccine’.
Too much MSM, particularly the ABC.
Cuts to the quick… reminds me of the ending of Apocalypto
meme
A decent (and unusual) gangster movie
Don’t damn it with faint praise. It’s terrific, and the bloke who plays the tailor (who also played Henry VIII’s Cromwell and the skipper of a Dunkirk rescue yacht) is one of the finest actors treading boards or soundstage.
A small but gleaming gem of a flick.
Elections Have Consequences; Stolen Elections Have Catastrophes
“Put the adults back in charge,” they whined. “Donald Trump will break the world,” they lied. Well, they manipulated election rules to certify suspicious vote totals that preposterously portrayed senile Joe Biden as the most popularly elected president in history; censored and locked up anyone who complained; and covered up their crimes with J6 show trials drenched in untruths meant to hide from history the Uniparty’s underhanded machinations in outright stealing a presidential election. The whole mess was so banana-republic-yucky that Biden was inaugurated behind barbed wire and a show of military force befitting the small junta who attended the successful coup’s celebration. And as a result of the Uniparty’s installation of Dementia Joe as White House marionette, the American people have been plagued with crime, inflation, political persecution, COVID tyranny, deadly battlefield retreat, open borders, staggering drug deaths, proxy wars, bankruptcies, bank runs, endless new regulations, a plummeting standard of living, economic panic, and social volatility. Elections have consequences, but stolen elections have catastrophes.
For over two years, the State-controlled press and the permanent political class have accused anyone who challenges the ruling regime’s legitimacy of being an “election denier” pushing the “big lie” that the 2020 race was rigged.
That resort to low-minded name-calling always seems like the “big tell” that they know that the people know that they’re full of it. Never mind that Time ran an exposé shortly after the election diagramming in great detail how “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, work[ed] together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.” Never mind that the American people later learned that Facebook CEO “Mark Zuckerberg and other left-wing actors commandeered election operations in blue hubs of swing states in 2020” by “strategically bankroll[ing] and staff[ing] local government election offices, which are in charge of voter registration, voting, and vote counting.” Never mind that leftist agitators had spent months in the run-up to the election threatening to unleash mayhem if Biden “won” the so-called “national popular vote” but lost the Electoral College. Never mind that those same leftist agitators also spent months seeding a public narrative that a “red mirage” would show Trump winning before days of ballot-hunting eventually overturned those ephemeral victories. Nope — put all those public admissions and “color revolution” propaganda campaigns aside, you dumb deplorables, and blithely accept the authorities’ assurances that Biden’s election was on the up-and-up. People with power crossed their hearts and promised they were telling the truth; what more could Americans without power possibly require?
In this matter, voters similarly encouraged lawmakers and Vice President Pence to delay certification of the Electoral College’s 2020 vote tallies until all election-related cases could be exhaustively resolved and, by doing so, uphold their constitutional duties to certify only lawful, honest elections.
Rather than taking advantage of such a possibility, the vice president insisted that he had no choice but to certify the Electoral College vote, regardless of whether or not its results were tainted by fraud, and Congress used the J6 election protests as a pretext to invoke an “emergency session” and sidestep the substantial election issues entirely.
In essence, the vice president and members of Congress followed the Supreme Court in concluding that their constitutional duties required them to rubber-stamp a disputed election.
The federal government once again proved itself little more than a coalition of cowards and criminals.
The people were then expected to watch this constitutionally questionable process play out — during which none of their allegations of election illegality were ever fully scrutinized or resolved — and somehow respect the outcome as fair, reasonable, and legitimate.
That expectation was hooey then and is still hooey today. When a majority of Americans see election fraud and a near unanimity of lawmakers see none, then America’s ruling Uniparty is willfully blind.
When those who run the government have no vision and those punished by the government have committed no crimes, then the blind won’t see what they’ve destroyed until it’s too late. Trust is a tricky thing to restore. Once it’s gone, systems just break.
From the Comments
– With the “elections” of Biden, Fetterman, and Hobbs, America First Patriots may be faced with the real prospect of losing our once great Republic…
– 2016 gave us hope
2018 was an eye opener
2020 was catastrophic
2022 opened the trap door
2024 will usher in the end of days
Sorry, Media Nerds, The War In Ukraine Is Literally A ‘Territorial Dispute’
Ron DeSantis should say it one more time for the people in the back. The war is literally a dispute over territory.
Apologies in advance for making you consider something uttered by David French and Jennifer Rubin, but the two work for prominent news publications that unfortunately shape our national dialogue, so bear with me.
“DeSantis actually called Russia’s grotesque, aggressive invasion of a sovereign country a ‘territorial dispute.’ … Astonishing. Dangerous.”—French, New York Times columnist
“[DeSantis] has decided that if you can’t beat the pro-Putin wing of the Republican Party, then join them. He declared that Russia’s brutal and unjustified war of aggression against a sovereign Ukraine is actually ‘a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia…’”—Rubin, Washington Post columnist
The “territorial dispute” quote is from Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recently released statement about the ongoing war in Ukraine (a place our elected leaders in Washington sometimes refer to as “Our Last Great Hope.”) What he said more fully is that “becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia” is not a “vital interest” to the United States.
That’s a view shared by anyone who thinks yet another foreign war without clear and substantial strategic benefit to America is not something we should busy ourselves with.
(It’s not like we have any pressing problems here!)
But French, Rubin and the rest of the national media really hate that view. It’s “pro-Putin”! It’s “astonishing” and “dangerous”!
DeSantis should say it one more time for the people in the back. The war is literally a dispute over territory. Russian leadership claims Ukraine as its own and the Kremlin’s settlement offers are based almost solely on territory concessions (with some details related to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
“I believe that Russians and Ukrainians are one people … one nation, in fact,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in 2019. In some parts of Ukraine, even Ukrainians claim that. “Many In Eastern Ukraine Want To Join Russia,” read a NPR headline in 2017.
The Washington Post last year found at least 15 percent of residents of Ukraine’s Donbas region said they wanted to join Russia. Maybe, just maybe, this has something to do with Russia and Ukraine being literally part of the same nation for more than half a century.
I know that’s not very sexy for the nerds in the media who prefer to think of the war like a Marvel movie where a corny villain can be overpowered by a united and freedom-loving Justice League, but that’s not the case.
Democracy is at stake!
*Cue Max Boot solemnly removing his little hat in reverence.*
It turns out that discussing the conflict doesn’t first require the speakers to confess their love for Ukraine and hatred for Putin while shedding a tear. It’s not the romantic affair that Rubin, French, et al. want it to be.
Yes indeed. A total package; I wouldn’t have mentioned it otherwise.
The Gathering Storm
America’s self-inflicted trouble in Ukraine aggravates our dangerous trouble at home.
Douglas Macgregor
The crisis of American national power has begun. America’s economy is tipping over, and Western financial markets are quietly panicking. Imperiled by rising interest rates, mortgage-backed securities and U.S. Treasuries are losing their value. The market’s proverbial “vibes”—feelings, emotions, beliefs, and psychological penchants—suggest a dark turn is underway inside the American economy.
American national power is measured as much by American military capability as by economic potential and performance.
The growing realization that American and European military-industrial capacity cannot keep up with Ukrainian demands for ammunition and equipment is an ominous signal to send during a proxy war that Washington insists its Ukrainian surrogate is winning.
Russian economy-of-force operations in southern Ukraine appear to have successfully ground down attacking Ukrainian forces with the minimal expenditure of Russian lives and resources. While Russia’s implementation of attrition warfare worked brilliantly, Russia mobilized its reserves of men and equipment to field a force that is several magnitudes larger and significantly more lethal than it was a year ago.
Russia’s massive arsenal of artillery systems including rockets, missiles, and drones linked to overhead surveillance platforms converted Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retain the northern edge of the Donbas into pop-up targets. How many Ukrainian soldiers have died is unknown, but one recent estimate wagers between 150,000-200,000 Ukrainians have been killed in action since the war began, while another estimates about 250,000.
Given the glaring weakness of NATO members’ ground, air, and air defense forces, an unwanted war with Russia could easily bring hundreds of thousands of Russian Troops to the Polish border, NATO’s Eastern Frontier. This is not an outcome Washington promised its European allies, but it’s now a real possibility.
In contrast to the Soviet Union’s hamfisted and ideologically driven foreign policymaking and execution, contemporary Russia has skillfully cultivated support for its cause in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
The fact that the West’s economic sanctions damaged the U.S. and European economies while turning the Russian ruble into one of the international system’s strongest currencies has hardly enhanced Washington’s global standing.
Biden’s policy of forcibly pushing NATO to Russia’s borders forged a strong commonality of security and trade interests between Moscow and Beijing that is attracting strategic partners in South Asia like India, and partners like Brazil in Latin America.
The global economic implications for the emerging Russo-Chinese axis and their planned industrial revolution for some 3.9 billion people in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are profound.
In sum, Washington’s military strategy to weaken, isolate, or even destroy Russia is a colossal failure and the failure puts Washington’s proxy war with Russia on a truly dangerous path. To press on, undeterred in the face of Ukraine’s descent into oblivion, ignores three metastasizing threats: 1. Persistently high inflation and rising interest rates that signal economic weakness. (The first American bank failure since 2020 is a reminder of U.S. financial fragility.) 2. The threat to stability and prosperity inside European societies already reeling from several waves of unwanted refugees/migrants. 3. The threat of a wider European war.
Inside presidential administrations, there are always competing factions urging the president to adopt a particular course of action. Observers on the outside seldom know with certainty which faction exerts the most influence, but there are figures in the Biden administration seeking an off-ramp from involvement in Ukraine. Even Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a rabid supporter of the proxy war with Moscow, recognizes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s demand that the West help him recapture Crimea is a red line for Putin that might lead to a dramatic escalation from Moscow.
Backing down from the Biden administration’s malignant and asinine demands for a humiliating Russian withdrawal from eastern Ukraine before peace talks can convene is a step Washington refuses to take. Yet it must be taken. The higher interest rates rise, and the more Washington spends at home and abroad to prosecute the war in Ukraine, the closer American society moves toward internal political and social turmoil. These are dangerous conditions for any republic.
From all the wreckage and confusion of the last two years,
there emerges one undeniable truth. Most Americans are right to be distrustful of and dissatisfied with their government. President Biden comes across as a cardboard cut-out, a stand-in for ideological fanatics in his administration, people that see executive power as the means to silence political opposition and retain permanent control of the federal government.
Americans are not fools. They know that members of Congress flagrantly trade stocks based on inside information, creating conflicts of interest that would land most citizens in jail.
They also know that since 1965 Washington led them into a series of failed military interventions that severely weakened American political, economic, and military power.
Far too many Americans believe they have had no real national leadership since January 21, 2021. It is high time the Biden administration found an off-ramp designed to extricate Washington, D.C., from its proxy Ukrainian war against Russia. It will not be easy. Liberal internationalism or, in its modern guise, “moralizing globalism,” makes prudent diplomacy arduous, but now is the time. In Eastern Europe, the spring rains present both Russian and Ukrainian ground forces with a sea of mud that severely impedes movement. But the Russian High Command is preparing to ensure that when the ground dries and Russian ground forces attack, the operations will achieve an unambiguous decision, making it clear that Washington and its supporters have no chance to rescue the dying regime in Kiev. From then on, negotiations will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
The politicisation and mockery upsets you, hmm. Who is politicising it again, as opposed to just trying to live their lives in peace? Who is mocking a minority?</em
Stupid even by your pathetic standards. If you have not noticed that the politicisation is coming from the side that demands that everyone not only respects but celebrates this rubbish, you have your eyes wide shut.
Have you taken your kids to a pole dancing show yet, so that they can learn the difference between women and mock women?
Eye popping.
It’s lying and it knows we knows it’s lying, but it continues to lie! Shut it down!
Don’t damn it with faint praise. It’s terrific, and the bloke who plays the tailor (who also played Henry VIII’s Cromwell and the skipper of a Dunkirk rescue yacht) is one of the finest actors treading boards or soundstage.
Mark Rylance. Superb actor but a far-left loopy loon. He’s always prominent at far-left protests in London, particularly those that bash Israel. Rylance once described Jeremy Corbyn as “a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world“.
Another class act from the British crime dramas list .. THE GOLD .. based on a true story and so no useful “coincidences” with this one .. Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey) plays the lead plod with style .. 10/10
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14063678/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
In 1982 a man walked into a Sydney hospital with fever, fatigue and sweats – the first person diagnosed with AIDS in Australia. Experts then predicted deaths on an extraordinary scale.
I worked with the 1st person to die from AIDS in NSW .. contracted thru a blood transfusion following childbirth .. married 14 months .. 1st child, she was only 23 years old …….
Cassie, Yeah, Iknow. But I always make the effort to separate the role from the luvvie behind it.
Shatterz
Old man was working at remand centre for kids. One of the earliest aids deaths was a youngster who would regularly abscond to sell his ass at the races.
About 16 or so
Cassie, Yeah, Iknow. But I always make the effort to separate the role from the luvvie behind it.
Agree.
On AIDS…there was once a practice in the maternity wing of “borrowing” expressed breast milk for hungry babies whose mums had not yet started to lactate. This was the early 80’s.
The horrifying spectre of HIV and AIDS soon stopped that.
“Cassie, Yeah, Iknow. But I always make the effort to separate the role from the luvvie behind it.”
And I should also add that I love Steve Coogan, another far-left luvvy loon and Corbyn lover. But I forget about his politics when I watch him because he’s such a good actor.
I have tried to find out more about this in the past, interestingly, the material you can find is a moving feast as some of the more honest information gets deep sixed.
The best I can find out is orignally this was represented as an actual floating pile of identifiable garbage. However, as people went out to research it, the description changed over time until it became an area of ocean contaminated with microplastics measured in parts per square km. None of these researchers would pull the pin on the absurdity of the proposition.
Monty
The political weaponisation of an ideology which is centered around “seeming” not “doing”.
Consequently, truth is considered superfluous.
ABC.
News that in 2021 there was a 40% increase in fatalities in pregnant women.
Heart issues and arterial clots were mentioned among the causes.
If only we knew what was given to pregnant women in 2021 to cause this.
It isn’t up on their website yet Gez. Was it on ABC radio?
ChatGPT seems to be on board with the Austrian credit cycle theory! I didn’t call it that but I outlined it step by step.
News that in 2021 there was a 40% increase in fatalities in pregnant women.
And the miscarriages another story. I personally know of one harrowing story. First pregnancy. Baby had to be aborted in 3rd trimester because of horrific malformities. Baby would not have survived delivery.
His grandmother – a former nurse and now a lawyer – will not even have the possibility of vaccine cause considered. Fortunately, the mother has now delivered a second, normal baby. Small mercy.
Cassie of Sydney says:
March 17, 2023 at 11:43 am
The reason why Labor picked up the extra senate seat in WA was because the eternally stupid Liberals, no doubt instructed by El Morro, preferenced One Nation behind Labor and the Greens .
Quite right.
I believe that it was SFL preferences that originally got Adam Bandt into parliament. Sadly he’s consolidated his vote now and in 2022 almost got to 50% without any preferences. If the SFL and liars had the guts to put the green slime last in every seat we’d have a much better situation in this country. The greens might threaten the liars with not allocating them preferences but that’s a completely empty threat as they would never preference anyone remotely conservative and their preference will always flow to the liars.
Anything m0nty approves of, except doughnuts.
Calli.
ABC NewsRadio 1026 in Vic.
Only catching up on comments from earlier today. Well done Roger with this effort, you are the winner of today’s interwebs (thunderous applause)
In the aboriginal “industry” they call it developing the land as an economic asset.
I’m old enough to remember when we were assured land rights was not about money but “spirituality.”
According to government figures, 57% of the Australian land mass is now subject to the rights and interests of indigenous people under one form of title or another, including freehold and perpetual leases. And that figure will only grow.
We’re already divided by race; the Voice seeks to formalise that constitutionally.
Nice country we had once.
I’m still looking for that story re 40% increase in maternity deaths on ABC website.
Meanwhile, I found this. It’s an excellent piece with a terrific interactive model, but there are a couple of interesting omissions.
The eruption was huge. Did it have any effect on currents and sea temperature? Did it have any effect on weather patterns?
Amazing at the almost zero coverage of the Dutch and Belgian farmers’ movement has here in Oz.
Country Party, where are you? Give the media here something to put in their pipe.
Woke is the assertion of abnormalities, perversions, illogic (ie AGW, ruinables) and tainted facts (ie Trump lost in 2020) as the prevailing normality with attendant mandate for reverence, respect and control.
Thanks Gez. Regional radio. Friday afternoon.
Got it.
Financial Crisis of 2023
QUESTION #1: Marty, I think your warning about the collapse of leadership in government and the private sector rings true as Ken Griffin, the founder of hedge fund Citadel, said the rescue of Silicon Valley Bank shows the U.S. economic system is “breaking down before our eyes” because they bailed out the depositors. Yet Carl Icahn seems to agree with your saying that the U.S. economy is at a breaking point because of inflation. He said, “every hegemony has been destroyed by inflation.”
Very few so-called billionaires seem to understand what’s at stake. It makes me think they were just lucky in how they made their money. After Griffin’s comment, I would not be inclined to invest in Citadel. Then a group of banks is talking about depositing $20 to $30 billion to save Republic bank.
Is there any hope for the future when leadership is absent in these times of chaos?
UT
QUESTION #2: Thanks for everything you do. At the WEC, you warned about banks and even the big funds. The turning point was at the end of January here in 2023. Is it possible that this financial crisis will be the major factor even overpowering war when the ECM comes into play by April 10th?
CW
ANSWER: “Anyone who does not understand that inflation is a natural occurrence when you get into a war is clearly not a student of history and has no business being the CEO of even the head local dog-catcher. The Roman deity Janus, after whom January is named, was the two face entity who looked at the past and the future. The doors to his temple would be closed when there was peace. That symbolized that nothing was at risk of changing. However, in times of war, they would leave the doors open to symbolize the uncertainty of war that the spirits could flow in and out.
Only today, do we seem to no longer respect that the cost of war is both lives lost and inflation for those who survive. This Ukrainian Proxy War serves no purpose. Winning or losing will have ZERO impact on our national security or the future of the people. This is simply a grudge match instigated by the Neocons who perpetually love war as long as someone else is dying for their personal goals. To them, it is nothing more than watching a war on CNN and cheering as if it were a football game.
I have said that this war will undermine the entire US economy and that is now manifesting in the Financial Crisis of 2023 which will be far worse than any of these people expect. The lack of experience and the stupidity of those who remark that capitalism is collapsing because they are honoring the depositors is absurd. A depositor has NO WAY of understanding the financial status of a bank until it is too late. They receive no warning and yet there are those who say they should suffer the losses because that is capitalism.
Sorry, but that has NOTHING to do with capitalism. It is no different than FRAUD soliciting money with a false pretense. Investing in a hedge fund like Citadel is different from a bank. Depositors in a hedge fund know they are investing their money and they are getting a piece of that return. That is capitalism. Someone who has a bank account where their social security check is automatically deposited took on no such risk. Sorry – that is different that a hedge fund that goes bust.
The problem we have is that the ECM turning point is April 10th. Yet it is also the Pi Target from the fall of the USSR and the birth of even Ukraine. We just had Poland losing their mind and sending jets to Ukraine. That makes Poland a viable target for war. Poland is irresponsible given the fact that the Ukrainians slaughtered over 300,000 of them and has refused to ever apologize for their WWII Nazi involvement.
We have a problem here with the Financial Crisis simultaneously with important cyclical targets regarding war. Any personal interpretation I can offer is just a personal opinion. Both trends are colliding into April and this may be a two-prong panic of unprecedented significance.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/banking-crisis/financial-crisis-of-2023/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
My mother caught AIDS through an emergency leg amputation . A lot of unscreened donated blood flowed through her body. I nursed her at home as a teenager up bush with help from a district nurse for two years. We didn’t tell anyone what we thought it was and there was no immediate diagnosis of Aids. I was cautioned by both the doctor and nurse to maintain strict hygiene whilst nursing her and only towards the end did the word AIDs get quietly mentioned. It’s what country folk do to protect their own.
Russia is mobilizing 400,000 new troops. That’s in addition to perhaps 400,000 now in Ukraine, and 300,000 or more in reserve. The U.S. would struggle to muster 50,000. How much longer will Americans believe the lie than Ukraine is winning. They’re not. https://worldview.stratfor.com/situation-report/russia-ukraine-russia-starts-recruitment-efforts-toward-400000-new-contract
I was reading Jim Rickard’s twitter feed – & noted his opinion on the situation in Ukraine. Reckon he is right about most things global at the moment.
Country Party, where are you? Give the media here something to put in their pipe.
Fat chance, Lizzie. Matt Canavan is one of the few fearless men and women amongst the Nats today.
Re the Libs preferencing Labor and the Greens above PHON in a WA seat. It seems to me that the only thing conservative/libertarian parties hate more than the left is the other right parties.
Last state election here in Vic, the stupid LDP preferenced Animal Justice above PHON and others in an upper house seat (Tim Quilty). The reason was that although it hurt similar aprties it improved the LDP chances because they made a deal with Animal Justice. How unprincipled can you get. I resigned from the LDP over it, I pointed out that those who voted LDP would have Animal Justice way down their preference list and would prefer a similar party to the LDP to get up if the LDP didn’t. They didn’t care, they reckoned their duty was to maximise their own chances.
Justice sort of prevailed, Animal Justice reneged on the deal at the last minute, they got up and so did the PHON candidate. If the LDP hadn’t acted so selfishly, they may have managed to push the Animal Justice candidate out.
The left never preferences their enemies over their allies.
Great banner. The most significant painted ceiling in Ireland.
Vincenzo Valdrè in 1792 painted the ceilings in St Patrick’s Hall in the Dublin Castle with frescoes depicting Irish history, including
St Patrick lighting the Paschal fire on the Hill of Slane.
Thanks.
A 17 Million dollar MQ-9 Reaper Drone was taken down by Russia with “Zero” cost to Russia. No missile fired. Russian pilot used the tip of his wing to halt propeller.
Now THAT was some precision flying!
A different opinion to what the legacy media are reporting.
What is your full definition of the word “woke”?
Pretty much you, but probably “fat woke” would be more accurate.
A missionary in Swaziland is summonsed to the tribal main tent. The Chief says “Holy man, my wife just gave birth to a white child. Everyone in the village is black, except for you”. The missionary begins to sweat until he notices a herd of goats outside. “Chief, every once in a while, God makes his creation different from the others. Look at the goat outside. All of them are white, except for the one black one”. The chief leans into the missionary’s ear and whispers “I’ll let you off the hook this time, but you keep quiet about the goat, okay?”
What can be added to the happiness of a man (or woman) who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
– Adam Smith
Rita Panahi starts with a bang:
Ladies, look for a man who is as loyal and hopelessly smitten with you as Paul Keating is with Xi Jinping. For that’s pure, unconditional love. The sort of unbridled admiration that will see a grown man happily beclown himself on the national stage.
But Keating is hardly alone in being an enormous disappointment as a former prime minister; right now we have multiple former leaders behaving in a manner that is affront to the dignity of the office they once held.
There are seven living former PMs. It’s a little too soon to judge Scott Morrison, who remains in parliament as an MP, but of the remaining six, half have behaved admirably since leaving politics, and half regularly embarrass themselves with attention seeking antics that show just how bitter and twisted these “miserable ghosts” have become.
Whatever one’s political persuasion, only the most jaded among us would be critical of the manner in which John Howard, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott have tackled their post-prime ministerships. All three have conducted themselves with class and decorum since leaving Canberra, showing a willingness to speak on issues of consequence but refusing to involve themselves in petty reprisals or self-interested delusions of grandeur.
Sadly, the same can’t be said of the remaining three, led by the rancorous duo of Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd. Keating will need quite a few more CCP-loving rants at the National Press Club to match it with Kevin07 and Mr Harbourside Mansion, both of whom appear hellbent on ensuring their legacy is forever tainted with an unhappy combination of endless reserves of bile, desperate need for attention and a desire to rewrite history.
While Turnbull has turned to podcasting, Rudd has scored the coveted ambassadorship to our most important ally, the US – a decision Anthony Albanese will come to rue, sooner or later.
But this week it was Keating stealing the limelight from the miserable malcontents with a pro-China rant that shocked some of his biggest fangirls and boys in the Australian media.
For more than a decade Keating sat on the board of the China Development Bank, a government entity that raises funds for major infrastructure projects. But it would be a mistake to characterise his support of Beijing as motivated by money. It is understood he received a small stipend for his services but hardly enough to buy a new Zegna suit each year.
Among his most shocking comments on Wednesday was his dismissive response to China’s gross human rights abuses. Keating could not bring himself to admit to the CCP’s brutal persecution of political dissidents, the Uighurs and other religious minorities.
China’s treatment of the Uighurs has been accurately described as “ethnic genocide” and yet the best Keating could do were these weasel words: “I’m not going to defend China about the Uighurs, there’s disputes about what the nature of the Chinese affront to the Uighurs are …. What if the Chinese said, what about deaths in custody of Aboriginal people in your prison system? Wouldn’t that be a valid point for them? Wouldn’t it be a valid point?”
No, it would not be a valid point, you recalcitrant fool. For one the rate of Indigenous deaths in custody is lower than the rate of deaths for non-Indigenous people. And last I checked Australia was not putting Indigenous men, women and children in slave labour camps nor forcibly sterilising women.
Keating’s crazy stance may have shocked Labor but most senior members of the Albanese government were too gutless to put him in his place. Indeed Defence Minister Richard Marles said this on the ABC: “Whatever Paul Keating says about myself, the foreign minister, the prime minister, you won’t hear a bad word from us about him.”
Thankfully former senior Labor minister and chief headkicker Stephen Conroy had the guts to call out Keating. “Have some courage and come out and address all of the following issues, Paul Keating, the militarisation of the South China Sea ruled illegal by the international courts, they broke their word on the Hong Kong treaty and they subjugate the people of Hong Kong, they’re sending its navy regularly to intimidate Vietnam, Philippines, Japan, they broke all the rules of the WTO,” Conroy said on Sky News. “They’ve been persecuting their own citizens, the Uighurs, the gay and lesbian community, they’ve attacked countries for supporting Tibet, they’ve bribed other Pacific Island nations to support building infrastructure there, they’re supporting Russia in Ukraine.
“Paul, what have you got to say? They kidnap people off the streets of other countries … they’ve attacked India on its own border.”
Conroy also mocked Keating’s claims that Australia as an island nation had nothing to fear from China: “Paul, they’ve invented the internet since you were in government … they (China) attack Australian companies, government and infrastructure.”
Keating’s simping for the murderous Chinese regime has certainly been unedifying but he still has some way to go to catch Rudd and Turnbull when it comes to being considered the worst ex-prime minister in the country.
I must be twisted. This headline amuses:
Court hears how gender studies academic killed wife in fight over their child’s kindergarten
Amazing at the almost zero coverage of the Dutch and Belgian farmers’ movement has here in Oz.
On the same note the Frog Parliament passed its raise-the-pension age laws into being yesterday .. plenty of media coverage &n pix of the, preceding, riots but you’d be hard pushed to find the nail-in-the-coffin result in the media today ……..
Amazing at the almost zero coverage of the Dutch and Belgian farmers’ movement has here in Oz.
On the same note the Frog Parliament passed its raise-the-pension age laws into being yesterday .. plenty of media coverage & pix of the, preceding, riots but you’d be hard pushed to find the nail-in-the-coffin result in the media today ……..
Sorry, was taking awhile to go thru so I made a correction, whilst waiting and ended up with two posts ..
a (not the) definition of woke
Asking a non-aboriginal person, “what’s your indigenous name?”
(whaddya mean, you don’t have an indigenous name?? What are ya?)
After, of course, asking for their preferred pronouns.
The fire at Curraweela from yesterday is still burning. Although it was 12 k’s away, I could see the huge wall of smoke from my place. The wind was driving it to the East where it crossed Taralga Rd and set off down Wombeyan Caves rd. I did become concerned enough to get the cat carriers ready, the dogs harness and leads and important documents etc.
The reason I was concerned, the paddock next door is a hundred acres of nice dry hay. If the wind had changed and embers had come this way, the paddock would have gone up like the proverbial tinderbox. On the North-East side, where the fire was, my house is about five metres from the fence. I thought it prudent to be prepared. No point hosing the house etc, being on bore water, the pressure is so low as to be useless. Will remedy that in the coming months. Stayed up most of the night watching for spot fires. Thankfully, none. Safe enough to head into Goulburn this morning.
Fate wasn’t going to let me off that easily though. As I headed out to the chook yard to let them out, I tripped on a tree root and tipped over hard. A few months ago when this happened, I had to phone for help to get up. But after exercising regularly over the last few months and losing some weight, I managed to rise like Venus from the ground. Not really, there was a lot of grunting and huffing and puffing, a little swearing, but I made it!
Bloody sore and bruised though. So far, everyone out Curraweela way seems to be okay. Thank God and the RFS.
Keating the simp.
That’s going to leave a mark.
I wonder why the ABC would do a story about a 40% increase in mortality among pregnant women in 2021 on a Friday afternoon on regional radio?
Just scrolled through their website. Nothing.
What’s going on here?
Ooh a blue pilled Red China SIMP and cuckhold.
Cue the Vince McMahon meme of me getting progressively more thrilled at the news.
Glad you’re okay, and the paddock next door. Been watching developments like a hawk.
How’s the tree root? I recommend a chainsaw.
This banger was true for 11 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k
What is the Bernanke?
Quantitative Easing Explained
“My economics professor showed my class this video. It was funny and easy to comprehend. ”
What a legend!
Lathe of the week in Townsville! Most likely a Purcell (Sydney) made copy of a Colchester Mascot:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/townsville/hand-tools/vintage-lathe-240-volt-3-and-4-jaw-chuck/1309839161
callisays:
March 17, 2023 at 5:03 pm
I wonder why the ABC would do a story about a 40% increase in mortality among pregnant women in 2021 on a Friday afternoon on regional radio?
Just scrolled through their website. Nothing.
What’s going on here?
Their ABC will be able to claim that the matter was covered, without many people actually hearing the coverage?
Sorry (not really) to sound so cynical.
I understand the bumptious message of “I’ll sue the buggers” far more easily than the oddly prophetic “what we need is a big sex scandal”.
Bumptious, eh?
He admitted yesterday that he lied about Suing for Libel and he told one of the barristers that he3 didn’t think there were grounds 2 years ago.
In other words, he’s folded the tent and raised the White Flag on his Libel Case.
My daughter teaches a grade 1/2 composite class . Of the 22 students , 7 can’t read more than four words. One is autistic and has regressed after her father passed away while in Vietnam . And today she was advised that a new student was coming , one hour , 3 days per week, who can’t speak, can’t toilet and can’t communicate .
But that’s not the worst of it ….
It’s the parents
I wonder why the ABC would do a story about a 40% increase in mortality among pregnant women in 2021 on a Friday afternoon on regional radio?
Because someone at ABC News wanted to get the message out there.
They succeeded.
“ Been watching developments like a hawk.”
Same here Calli, I have learned that “Fires Near Me”, is a Godsend.
The Tree root was a piddling little thing. That’s what makes it worse. A sharp set of secateurs is all that is needed.
40% increase may not be a big number.
For instance, if the number for 2020 was 5 and it rose to 7in 2021, that’s a 40% increase.
Mmmyes. A non-lawyer has a duty to third parties to know if there are grounds to libel before a criminal trial starts on the same false accusation and he’s also not allowed to change his mind.
Sheer left wing fantasy.
A judge wouldn’t even waste their piss on this “argument” put forward by SC SC.
You are a poisonous sociopath.
A non-lawyer has a duty to third parties to know if there are grounds to libel before a criminal trial starts on the same false accusation and he’s also not allowed to change his mind.
What’s this BaffleGab?
He raped her, he can’t change his mind about that no matter how many Law Firms do pro bono work for him.
Gosh. Touched a few nerves today. Must be a record.
callisays:
March 17, 2023 at 3:35 pm
……
The eruption was huge. Did it have any effect on currents and sea temperature? Did it have any effect on weather patterns?
You would certainly think so.
Months after the Tongan eruption I was walking down Manly beach Sydney. There were, what appeared from a distance to be blue metal around the high tide mark.
I thought it was odd so went down and picked some up which turned out to be pumice, presumably from the eruption.
US maternal death rate rose sharply in 2021, CDC data shows, and experts worry the problem is getting worse
Serial pest and female harasser Ed Case once again pukes up fallacious bile to sink this blog being the repulsive ALP shill he is, even with his laughable kayfabe “LNP moderate” cock and bull show.
Richard Cranium
Forget about Mizzzz Knickerless, provide the evidence to support your accusation of treachery against Curtin in WW II. Then provide your estimate of the time it will take to build a full ruinable electricity generation system, including firming and new transmission lines, the system to be capable of providing the reliable, continuous, electricity required to sustain a modern economy.
Or were you just talking through your arse on both subjects?
Steven Conroy splutters:
“They’ve been persecuting their own citizens, the Uighurs, the gay and lesbian community, …
2 things:
#1. Australia does not need Uighurs
#2. Flamers, Lezzos and other SexPervs should be kept on a short governmental leash.
No point hosing the house etc, being on bore water, the pressure is so low as to be useless. Will remedy that in the coming months.
Pogria, our bore pump has 4 bar of pressure – which gives a more than adequate flow on our fire hoses – a hell of a lot more than garden hoses. It’s a great comfort when things get sticky. We have 3 fire hoses around the house and told sheds and nearby barn, another at a barn down the back of the property and another on a boundary fence. Could be an idea to investigate an upgrade of the bore pump.
Hope fire is under control now. It is a horrible feeling when things get out of hand – which is so easy in these conditions.
Richard Cranium
He raped her, he can’t change his mind about that no matter how many Law Firms do pro bono work for him.
No matter how much you want to carry water for Mizzzz Knickerless, your first three words are not able to be confirmed, as the trial was abandoned. Perhaps you should consult a lawyer about your future defamation defence?
Forget this, get back to Curtin and renewable generation.
Back to ‘normal’ in 2022.
Iirc the US has appalling maternal mortality rates compared to other similar countries.
The EU average is 8 per 100,000 live births, the US hovers in the low 20s per 100,000 live births.
A previous report by the Government Accountability Office states at least 400 maternal mortalities in 2021 listed Covid-19 infection as a contributing factor – making up the bulk of the increase on previous years.
But experts add that burnt out hospital staff and high levels of vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women worsened the crisis.
Preliminary figures show maternal deaths fell back to normal levels in 2022 when there were around 733.
And Jacinta Price.
BTW Pogria – we understand that Sunday is going to be the really dangerous day for fires. Will be both watching the horizon and Fires Near Me pretty much all day.
It wasn’t a report about Australian maternal deaths.
Covid killed pregnant women?
How believable is that?
Were any of them unvaccinated, in the sense that they’d never received a first Covid Vaccine?
Of course not.
No, rosie. I think the ABC may have been talking about Australia.
Worth looking into. It appears to be remarkably high and I know each case here is gone into with a fine tooth comb.
Ed Casesays:
March 17, 2023 at 6:03 pm
Covid killed pregnant women?
How believable is that?
Dunno. How believable are your allegations against Curtin, for which you seem unable to provide any evidence at all?
And how believable are your assertions about the time to build nuclear generators compared to renewable generators, when you seem unwilling (or, more likely, unable) to provide even a basic estimate of the time required to build a usable ruinable generation system?
Fat chance, Lizzie. Matt Canavan is one of the few fearless men and women amongst the Nats today.
And Jacinta Price.
Jacinta Price has been a huge disappointment.
Her only legacy will be 2 Labor Senators in the NT permanently.
I’m intrigued about this massive fish kill at Menindee.
Now they’re blaming floodwater for lack of O2.
Hellooooo! First of all, what species has infested the river for years? What impact has that had on O2 and nutrient levels? If flooding is the reason, isn’t this as natural as drought?
Maybe the best response to the kill is to harvest the creatures for fertiliser. Now that would be useful instead of hand wringing.
All the best, Vicki – I’ve lost a house to a bushfire, and dealing with the aftermath is something I do not miss in the slightest.
I don’t think so Calli.
It’s a huge international story with wide coverage in the last 24 hours.
Australia don’t even appear to have formally released maternal death statistics for 2021 yet.
(We hover at around 6 per 100,000 and I suspect Aboriginal women are overrepresented.)
Australian government website latest update Nov 2022.
And even if the ABC were allegedly burying a significant story, the Daily Mail and Herald Sun would not.
Australia’s mothers and babies:
Maternal deaths