Autumn (The Spies with the Grapes of the Promised Land), Nicolas Poussin, 1660-64
2,217 thoughts on “Open Thread – Tues 28 March 2023”
rickw:
The Federal Government’s prediction of an extra 650,000 migrants arriving on top of the 250,000 already forecast
A question for us all:
“Where are they from, and what skills do they bring?”
(I’m waiting for the shrieks of “What kind of racist question is that?”)
I’m off to IGA, to get more iodine and baked beans.)
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Any truth in the rumour that Albanese will be resigning, if the Voice is rejected at referendum?
Luigi the Unbelievable will be resigning only after the ALP is kicked out of government. In the absence of an opposition, that could be decades away.
Dutton can’t even say if he will support the Voice’s abolition of one-vote-one-value democracy.
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When will this shit end?
Only after the cancer kills the host, and society becomes so poor that all the parasitic ‘grievance’ industry ‘jobs’ wither and die for lack of government support.
I read somewhere the other day that an MRNA vaccine is being developed for cancer….
I’m not sure if the idea is to cure cancer, or introduce it….
Either way, the culling will take place and the survivors will enter the second darks ages…
Maybe Gothic architecture will make a comeback?? 🙂
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Any truth in the rumour that Albanese will be resigning, if the Voice is rejected at referendum?
Biggest predictor will be the state of his pension, has he had enough trough time?
Kneel,
possibly an alternative approach to starting the metaphorical fire is to adopt a patronising position.
Just need some stereotypical pale stale male conservative to get up in parliament and say:
“I know I speak for ALL women when I say that there are absolutely no women in the country that feel unsafe at having a biological man putting on a dress next to them in their changing room.”
Then just sit back and enjoy the music of massive shrieking outrage.
You could call it the Troll method of starting a social rebellion.
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The legal tackle height is set to be lowered at professional level despite the current backlash to the Rugby Football Union’s waist high law change among amateurs, in a move that will send shockwaves through the sport.
The RFU is currently dealing with a rebellion to its decision to ban tackles above the waist for amateurs next season but World Rugby has confirmed change is afoot at all levels. Other home nations are set to follow the RFU’s lead in lowering the tackle height at grassroots level while a trial setting the legal height at the sternum is due to begin in New Zealand next year. In an interview with the Telegraph, World Rugby’s chief executive Alan Gilpin suggested that the tackle height would not be lowered as far as the waist at elite level but is set to come down to below the shoulders.
LOL.
Nonsense written by an idiot winger who will ruin the game and punt it further into eloi irrelevancy.*
Ever tried tackling below the waist in the ruck? You have to start behind the opposition team’s ball carrier.
Never mind, idiot mothers will ruin rugby league. We have nonsense like the 40/20 rule because we chose not to have contested scrums.
*I am still bitter being denied a push over a try by a solicitor referee who was very likely a back before he stopped using Clearasil. Old mate also called back play seven phases once!
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People are funny about books. I generally finish a paperback and it looks like no one his even picked it up. Another friend inevitably breaks the spine and looks like they’ve played footy with it. One Tom Wolfe anthology did fall to bits however after serving as beach reading one summer.
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Via Tim Blair comes this article on Meloni and the Italian Government’s changed priorities. As Blair said, the Coalition’s advertisements for upcoming elections write themselves. That’s if they actually produce vertebrae in the meantime.
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If you are promoting a cause that neo-Nazis support
What? Like breathing, walking upright, or being male or female? That’s all Nazi?
That’s about all Posie Parker has in common with Nazis, yet she’s tarred with their brush.
Go tar yourself with it, Niki Savva, for surely you too are a breathing, walking woman.
What a ridiculous condemnation by a fake association.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
March 30, 2023 at 1:02 pm
Szasz and others similar from that ‘anti-psychiatry’ period threw the baby out with the bathwater, John H. When someone is in a florid psychosis or a deep depression, or when these brain confusions are being masked as people flip in and out of them, then some form of legal restraint can be useful, sometimes comprising of merely introducing proper patterns of sleep. Even the act of presenting the individual with the knowledge that they are behaving beyond normal bounds can be helpful in their own self-discovery and functional improvement. Providing a different environment for a while in an accepting ‘therapeutic community’ can be helpful, and best in my view if long-term medication and over diagnosis can be avoided. Sometimes meds can help, we need to recognise that.
Altering the social environment individually and culturally is probably key to a lot of recovery. The anti-psychiatry stress on how ‘mental illness’ is constructed socially is still important even if not the whole story. Peer groups are important and not just to teenagers. AA know this, it is the reason for a lot of their success. Toxic peer groups – as in anorexia or gender bending or the joining of cults – need to be axed and the individual ‘re-programmed’ into others less personality-sapping relationships within a family and community.
A psychiatrist told me that his colleagues who worked with Szasz thought he was balmy. Laing spent time in a psychiatric hospital. To be fair to him he resented being associated with the anti-psychiatry movement. Rosenhan had no association with either, his point was to establish how problematic it is to diagnose mental illness. His students even suggested the patients were better at identifying them as frauds than the staff.
They did throw out the baby with the bathwater. Prior to advent of modern therapies arising in the 60’s psychiatric institutions were over-crowded and at much higher numbers than today. Psychiatry works but psychiatry is not prophecy.
The big problem is this. A person is admitted for observation because they demonstrated behaviors indicative of mental illness. The person is aware of why they have been detained and will adjust their behavior. The poor psychiatrists are left with the nigh impossible task of trying to diagnose someone who is now masking their pathology; which is possible for a few days.
Altering the social environment individually and culturally is probably key to a lot of recovery.
Absolutely Lizzie. Trying to understand human behavior without reference to the environment is like trying to study aerodynamics on the moon. A study published a few weeks ago found that changing the immediate environment, in the short term at least, had a bigger effect than therapeutic interventions. A major reason why Christian approaches to drug addiction work is because they can immediately transport the individual into a loving sober community.
BTW Lizzie I’m currently reading a book by an Aus philosopher who makes some interesting observations about how toxic social media has become and the huge problems that is creating for individuals and accurate information dissemination. The problem we have now is out of our hands. Do we let social media have free reign? If not, how do we constrain it? Terribly difficult questions to answer.
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” Karate.”
Calli, please investigate Brazilian Ju Jitsu instead – that is, the art of “ground fighting”.
It teaches how to use your opponents superior weight and/or height and/or strength against them, get them off their feet, and how to keep them immobilised on the ground such that they cannot hurt you. A much more useful skill set for those of a smaller stature, or for anyone who is concerned with “street fighting” rather than formal contests.
In most cases, being able to keep your assailant “under wraps” while calling for and waiting for assistance is all that is required for the young lady to “win”. For worst case scenarios, also how to do a carotid “choke” – this can put most people unconscious in under 30 seconds, and does no permanent damage when done correctly (essentially, cut off blood flow to the brain, without restricting airflow to the lungs). You then have about 60 seconds to depart before they wake up, and then another 20 seconds for them to re-orient themselves – usually enough to make yourself “gone”.
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I think if Teh Voice referendum is shot down, it’s out of Albo’s hands if he resigns or not. Plibbers or that irredeemable imbecile/s Bowen or Marles will be circling the big chair.
It would be nice if the braindead lamestream meeja stopped incessantly megaphoning it. Interestingly*, the “reportage” oscillates between “oh, those poor tranny kiddees and the terrible oppression they face” and “I’ve starting calling myself I chick (even though I’ve still got a dick) and I’ve never felt more empowered”.
As for the sporting comps, the parents could always establish ones that exclude biological males. Oh, wait, there’d be no more of that lovely taxpayer moolah.
*Actually, it isn’t really.
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Any truth in the rumour that Albanese will be resigning, if the Voice is rejected at referendum?
He’ll definitely be weeping buckets and declare, as Turnbull did when he lost the Republic Referendum, that the NO vote had ‘broken Australia’s heart’.
I really think this mooted Referendum has to be a never-put event. The Liberals should axe it sounding as a Constitutional proposal, while offering up their own legislated version – say a Federalised model of a Voice from each State and Territory, being chosen through the existing Agency that costs a mint already. If they axe it without an alternative, they will look mean, but if they give voters an ‘out’ with some other proposal, far less dangerous and capable of being changed, then they will gain a NO vote even if it gets put.
Sending the whole thing back to the drawing board and well away from interfering with the Constitution is the good way forward.
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axe it soundly, not sounding
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“Kneelsays:
March 30, 2023 at 1:35 pm
” Karate.”
Calli, please investigate Brazilian Ju Jitsu instead – that is, the art of “ground fighting”.”
Judo is also an excellent form of self defense for young ones. I’ve always believed kids should start with Judo and then, if they still want to, go onto the other Martial Arts. A well trained Judoka can beat just about any of the wind milling arms and legs of the other codes.
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Dr Faustussays:
March 30, 2023 at 1:20 pm
And all at a time when the major codes are constantly tightening rules and increasing penalties for actions which cause head injuries because they are facing monster claims for concussion injuries.
It’s going to be interesting to see how World Rugby’s push for tackling above the waist to be a penalty pans out.
I guess they’ve got something other than Rugby to involve themselves with – when, suddenly and inexplicably, nobody wants to play or watch anymore.
The risk of concussion was sufficiently established in the late 90’s. Even animal studies where repeated little bumps on the head, not causing loss of consciousness, revealed a wave of neurodegeneration spreading from the impact site. One bod, Hazda IIRC, stated that going back onto the field after a concussion was playing Russian roulette with the brain. Other studies showed huge declines in cerebral blood flow. Helmets won’t help. The problem is not blunt trauma, it is G forces, up to 95g in some studies. The helmets would need to be like motorcycle helmets with a cushioning to reduce that. Not practical, helmets will be too big, probably break their necks as a result.
People will keep letting their kids play contact sports(which I consider to be nuts), people will keep watching. Every single concussion is brain damage. Anyone who seeks legal action because of injury occurring the last decade has no argument. We have been adequately informed. For those prior to this century, they certainly have a legal case to mount but the question there is can the clubs be held accountable for CTE when prior to this century no-one really knew about the risks? That’s for legal eagles to answer.
There is a movie about this issue. Concussion, Will Smith plays the role of the doctor who had fight tooth and nail to have his findings accepted.
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Any truth in the rumour that Albanese will be resigning, if the Voice is rejected at referendum?
I’ll only believe he’s sincerely shattered by the result if he ritually disembowels himself on the steps of ol’ Parliament House.
Ever tried tackling below the waist in the ruck? You have to start behind the opposition team’s ball carrier.
Indeed.
The proposed rule change seems to all but guarantee a breakaway will make a metre+ off the ruck – or the defending side will concede a penalty.
Welcome to a Safe New World of broken mauls trundling up and down the field. Breakaway off the back, grab a metre, expose your waist, tackled, recycle, breakaway…
Great fun and a thrilling spectacle.
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Withdraw 8k in cash then the cops can hassle you for why you have 8k in cash.
Have done it many times before – never been asked why subsequently – but as noted, I have a prepared answer: NONE OF YOUR FCUKING BUSINESS…
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I’ll only believe he’s sincerely shattered by the result if he ritually disembowels himself on the steps of ol’ Parliament House.
So much teasing.
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Rolex (well Tudor really) should just get on with the Pelagos I’m waiting for.
Nice. It’ll be worth the wait I’m sure.
It is a tragedy that the blister pack of Ivermectin, Doxycycline and Hydroxychloroquine & Azithromycin was refused approval by the regulatory bodies that were transfixed (for some reason) by the gene therapies proposed by Big Pharma.
Oh it was far far worse than that: Big Clive spent millions of his own money to source more than enough Hydroxychloroquine to treat the entire Australian population for COVID. Our wise rulers seized it and destroyed it.
A transgender basketballer who is bidding to play in the NBL1 competition this season has spoken publicly for the first time on the issue and pleaded for critics to remember there is “actually a person” involved.
Lexi Rodgers, who is hoping to play for the Kilsyth Cobras in the women’s semi-professional basketball league, broke her silence on Wednesday when she spoke on former WNBL player Anneli Maley’s podcast, Under the Surface.
“It’s good to have a bit of a voice, now, because, when it’s this hypothetical person and people are making a picture of what a transgender athlete looks like in their head: one, I don’t think it’s me; and two, I think it’s a bit harsh, and people just forget that there’s actually a person,” Rodgers said.
“If you don’t get it and you don’t know: one, don’t yell stuff on the internet about it because it’s probably wrong; and, two, go and learn about it.
“Please be nice. It has been a hard week, so just try to remember that there are actual people who are affected by these discussions and these debates.”
Maley and other Australian players such as Chloe Bibby said they would support transgender women playing in the NBL.
Basketball Victoria has completed a 15-page policy statement on the issue which says it will “support participation opportunities for transgender athletes while balancing fairness and inclusion, particularly for Victorian senior representative leagues such as NBL1 South, Big V and CBL”.
Pulls the ‘dont make me have a sads by opposing me or you are a bad person” card straight off the bat.
The estranged wife of John Setka has been charged with conspiracy to murder the Victorian union leader following a police search on Wednesday.
Nine newspapers first reported on Wednesday, and other media confirmed, that the former lawyer Emma Walters has been charged after allegedly attempting to acquire a firearm and making threats to kill a man earlier this month.
A spokesperson for Victoria police confirmed charges had been laid.
“Investigators executed a search warrant at a residential address in Footscray on Wednesday, 29 March where they seized a mobile phone,” the spokesperson said.
“A 46-year-old Footscray woman has subsequently been charged with incitement to commit conspiracy to murder, incitement to acquire a firearm and make threats to kill.”
The alleged target was reportedly Setka, the Victorian secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
Walters has been contacted by Guardian Australia for comment.
She told The Age newspaper that she denied the allegations.
“I’ve been handcuffed today, I’ve dealt with the allegations that have been put to me,” she said.
Walters has been released on bail to face Melbourne magistrates court on 5 April.
Setka was also contacted for comment.
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Kneel, I stand corrected. Both brother and sister are doing Ju Jitsu, not Karate. They apparently have “belts” as progression with little badges like the cubs and brownies.
The children love it. And yes, they both have slight builds but are astonishingly lithe and strong.
The case relates to Western Australia’s extraordinary law to prevent Palmer from seeking compensation over his massive Pilbara iron ore project, which was rejected by the WA government.
In a notice of arbitration dated 28 March, seen by Guardian Australia, Palmer as director of Zeph Investments claimed that the commonwealth breached its obligations on investments and compensation for taking property.
Porter, who as attorney general intervened in the high court in favour of Palmer’s case to reopen WA’s border during the pandemic before the commonwealth withdrew from the case, is listed as the lead lawyer. Nine other lawyers including Palmer’s wife, Anna Palmer, are also listed.
Guardian Australia revealed in 2020 that Zeph Investments Pty Ltd had requested consultations about possible litigation. The investor-state claim against Australia was listed as a risk to the federal budget.
Palmer’s mining company Mineralogy was in dispute with WA over the stalled Balmoral South iron ore project, which was rejected by the then-premier Colin Barnett in 2012.
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If you are promoting a cause that neo-Nazis support, there is something profoundly wrong with your cause or the way you are prosecuting it.
This is just sloppy thinking – in fact, it is not thinking at all.
The original Nazis were evil enough, and they are these days the very by-word for evil (as should Russian Communists, Maoists, and Castro Communists be), but it is comical to think that every single thing they did was the evil way of doing it.
Doubtless they liked their buses running on time, they liked music, liked food etc. They weren’t the evil version of bus passengers or listened to evil music evilly etc.
I suspect the Nazis did not approve of bestiality. That does not make bestiality good.
People like Sava exhibit no awareness of the evils of Nazis, just knows they are ‘bad’. It means that she will be blind to other instances of evil because it is not Nazi.
Imagine what Antifa would be like if they had a nation-state at their disposal. We have seen their proclivity to street violence, mob violence, their absolute intolerance of different opinions, their appetite for seeing their ‘enemies’ as grotesque ogres that can be abused and maltreated with impunity.
Isn’t their current obsession with ‘white supremacists’ really just their word for Aryan and therefore Nazis.
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Good afternoon, Cats. Some interesting new watch releases from Rolex this year.
Jupes, I like the 1908 and I always liked the Cellini. Not a fan of exhibition casebacks, though – especially on heritage-derived models. Also, 39 mm is too large for a dress watch. The 1908 should be a 37 or even 35.
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Plasmamortarsays:
March 30, 2023 at 1:26 pm
When will this shit end?
Only after the cancer kills the host, and society becomes so poor that all the parasitic ‘grievance’ industry ‘jobs’ wither and die for lack of government support.
I read somewhere the other day that an MRNA vaccine is being developed for cancer….
I’m not sure if the idea is to cure cancer, or introduce it….
Either way, the culling will take place and the survivors will enter the second darks ages…
Maybe Gothic architecture will make a comeback??
It is not a vaccine in the usual sense. It is a treatment for existing cancer not preventing cancer. The big problem with making the immune system attack cancer is that cancer cells express on the cell surface the same proteins as our normal cells. Not always, mutations can result in the presentation of different proteins. That is where mRNA can be a huge benefit. Obviously, this can only work when the cancer cells have been biopsied so the relevant proteins can be identified. There’s a lot more to unpack there, even me with little information about it can see a host of other issues, but as you have already decided it is another killing machine by the deep state there is no point elaborating. You’ll change your mind when the doctors suggest to you … .
These vaccines contain mRNA that encodes proteins made specifically by tumor cells. When the mRNA enters antigen-presenting cells, they begin making the tumor protein and displaying it on their surfaces, triggering other immune cells to seek and destroy tumors that also make this protein.
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Cassie, if you are close by,
Alex Greenwich after the St Michael’s Church protest;
“Mark Latham is a disgusting human being and people who are considering voting for One Nation need to realise they are voting for an extremely hateful and dangerous individual who risks causing a great deal of damage to our state,’ Mr Greenwich said at a press conference.”
Mark Latham’s reply;
“The statement was then posted on Twitter, with Latham responding at 10.13am on Thursday: ‘Disgusting? How does that compare with sticking your d*** up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s***?’”
Pog, I posted the link after reading your post.
Thanks for the news tip.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
March 30, 2023 at 12:17 pm
“The more people I speak with the more I have realised the ship has sailed. Biological Males ARE already playing in multiple Female Sports Australia wide.
So these ‘mixed’ sports are no longer representative of purely female achievement.
There’s nothing that’s fair to women about that. Give it away, girls. It’s gone.
Let alone the risk of injury and the shame, or indeed danger, of shared changerooms
And girls will give it away, or their parents will do so on their behalf. An unintended consequence is likely to be a resurgence of ballet and dance participation because girls are way better at it than boys, even transgender ones. At least it will be a level playing field so to speak.
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Latham’s tweet isn’t “homophobic” at all. He is simply describing the mechanics of homosexual intercourse, which everyone knows but no one dare talk about because of its unsavoury aspects.
And asking Greenwich to compare those mechanics to himself on the “disgusting” scale.
Latham 1 Greenwich 0
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You’ll change your mind when the doctors suggest to you … .
Trust destroyed is not easily regained.
Aside from that, our time in this world is temporary.
Perhaps we should be spending more of our limited time simply living our lives, rather than trying to extend them.
We humans still believe ourselves to be be far more powerful than we really are.
Our attempts at playing God need to stop…
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Ballet keeps girls very strong and fit. It also builds both emotional and physical confidence. They end up having no fear of performance and audiences, which helps later in life with presentations and other public speaking.
Plus lots of glitter, makeup and hairspray and cool dressups.
“Kneel, I stand corrected. Both brother and sister are doing Ju Jitsu, not Karate.”
Excellent news!
I have seen a 50kg woman hold a 100+kg man on the ground with no problem using those techniques.
And keep one away when they are standing and you are on the ground – they can’t get close!
When well learned and practiced, definitely the go-to art for self defense.
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From the Oz.
Senator Lidia Thorpe plays victim as she flaunts her own privilege
The Mocker
1:34PM MARCH 30, 2023
It took a long time, but finally someone has stood up to Lidia Thorpe. Last Thursday the independent senator and Indigenous woman attempted to shirt-front British biological women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen as the latter spoke at a rally outside Parliament House in Canberra. It ended ignominiously for her following prompt intervention by the Australian Federal Police.
You could argue it was a case of the plonker being plonked. But asked about the incident, Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney was seemingly of the opinion that Thorpe was not responsible for her own actions. The footage of this barney, she said, was “disturbing” and “concerning”.
“My concern is for Lidia,” she said, saying it was “absolutely appropriate” that the matter had been referred to AFP Professional Standards for review. “I hope she’s getting the support that she should get.”
Sky News host Erin Molan says Lidia Thorpe is “clearly the aggressor” during the incident at a transgender rally in Canberra yesterday. Ms… Molan said there was “absolutely no evidence” Lidia Thrope was pushed to the ground at the anti-transgender rally. “Police attempt to remove her, as is their right.”
I too was distressed by the AFP’s actions. When positioning himself in Thorpe’s path, the officer did not acknowledge his white privilege or that he was on stolen land. Not so much as an ‘Always was, always will be’. Nor did he concede that sovereignty had never been ceded. This was no way to treat the self-appointed amplifier of the so-called Black Sovereign Movement, who ended up on the ground.
Refusing attempts by police to help her to feet, she theatrically crawled away on her knees. “I’ve got pulverised by the police,” she angrily shouted, claiming they had “assaulted” her. Words alone cannot convey Thorpe’s terrible treatment at the hands of federal law enforcers. So distressed was she that her hair was out of place and her makeup running in the rain. She may even have to shell out for a dry cleaner.
Senator Thorpe attends the anti rally at the anti-Transgender event at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
Senator Thorpe attends the anti rally at the anti-Transgender event at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
As to how Thorpe lost her footing in the melee, the footage is not conclusive. One thing for sure is that her traditional Gunnai Gunditjmara designer high heels were not the most appropriate footwear for a tussle on wet grass, but of course mentioning that fact goes against the narrative of brutal colonialist repression.
The day after the incident, ABC News Daily host Samantha Hawley told listeners it was a case of “Thorpe being thrown to the ground by police”. And naturally an interaction between a white male police officer and an Indigenous activist had to be analysed through the prism of – yes, you guessed it. “Do you think if she’d been – I’ve seen this commented on – if she’d been a white male senator she would have been treated differently,” RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas asked Burney.
To reiterate, police at the rally concerned had ensured that attendees and counter protesters were separated. This is standard planning. But instead of respecting that boundary, Thorpe sought a confrontation. Giving no warning to police or security officers, she made a beeline for Keen while yelling aggressively. They had no choice but to intervene. To suggest that Thorpe was treated differently because of her race is irresponsible, and it is a cop-out for Karvelas to mention it because others had raised it. Plenty of others had commented that Thorpe’s behaviour was belligerent, moronic, and self-serving, but conveniently Karvelas did not put that to Burney.
It was, according to ABC Drum co-host Ellen Fanning, a case of Thorpe “being pulled to the ground by police officers while she was protesting against an anti-trans rally”. And then a token attempt at objectivity, which was immediately belied by her next comment. “I don’t particularly want to talk about that because it will be reviewed,” said Fanning, “but it’s a feeling about what can happen …. to Aboriginal people in this country”. What?
For good measure, panellist and University of Sydney Indigenous lawyer in residence Teela Reid told Fanning it was an example of “the violence black women still endure in this country”. By all means talk about the violence Indigenous women face, Ms Reid. I’m just perplexed that when Opposition Leader Peter Dutton raised it last month, you tweeted he “needs to keep ‘Aboriginal women and children’ out of his filthy mouth”.
Far from being the victim of violence, Thorpe has used her senate platform to vaunt her privilege, while at the same time behaving in a manner ranging from puerile to despicable. She has allegedly bullied an Indigenous elder, cheered on an alleged arson of Old Parliament House, and impeded the Sydney Mardi Gras parade to berate and stand over police officers. Last year she told Liberal senator Hollie Hughes: “At least I keep my legs shut,” the remark believed to be a reference to the latter’s autistic son.
And yet Thorpe’s narcissistic effrontery is such she portrays herself as the target of a vicious and racist campaign by the coloniser to bring her down. It gives her immunity to continue with her disparaging, defamatory and bullying behaviour. Her Labor and Greens colleagues condone this by their silence. But when one AFP officer dares to lay a hand on Princess Lidia, Burney and Co demand action.
So terrible is this incident that Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who labelled the footage of Thorpe “concerning”, has immediately acted. “I have sought urgent advice from the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police,” he said.
Spare a thought for AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw, who has far more important things to do than indulge this political posturing. His response to Dreyfus should be short and to the point. “Police have the power to detain a person should they reasonably apprehend that he or she is about to cause a breach of the peace,” he should write. “I believe first-year law students are taught this as a matter of course.”
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The political world is shocked
Poor innocent mites! Didn’t they know how it worked? Did they think these guys just sat at trendy cafés drinking trendy coffees and discussing trendy wallpaper?
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John Setka makes me laugh.
Yelling at someone doesn’t make you tough. It means you’re a obnoxious dickhead.
I’m surprised more people haven’t tried to sock him or take him fishing.
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Oh no. The political world is shocked.
It is worse than that.
“The state One Nation leader’s comment was slammed by several twitter users”
I note further in the article it says:
The extraordinary Twitter stoush came after as many as 500 ‘Christian’ protesters violently clashed with LGBTQ activists last Tuesday, as Mr Latham gave a speech at a church.
My understanding is that the Christians were not protesting. They were holding a function. It was the QWERTY people who turned up to protest against them holding it.
They mention someone getting hit, and hint (without committing themselves to explicitly saying so, which makes me suspicious) that it was one of the Christian mob that hit a QWERTY protestor. If so, it begs the question of why the press has not seen fit to report so pointedly on the violence the QWERTY mob dish out to people who disagree with them.
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Oh it was far far worse than that: Big Clive spent millions of his own money to source more than enough Hydroxychloroquine to treat the entire Australian population for COVID. Our wise rulers seized it and destroyed it.
Didn’t know that, Duk.
I was amazed to hear Clive speak at the recent forum for Drs Peter McCullough, Pierre Kory & others in Sydney. I think I may have posted this before – he was pretty ill with Covid & told by hospital staff in Qld that he wouldn’t survive it (!). He told the audience that he was in an ambulance to be taken home (to be with his wife at the end) when a young doctor got in the ambulance & told him he could administer Ivermectin & possibly save him. The rest is history – and is the reason why Clive spent a lot of money bringing McCullough & others to Oz.
Even despite stores of Hydroxy destroyed, wonder why he could not get his hands on some?
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Someone mentioned Fat Cloive. I am no fan (not notafan).
But he must be pretty peeved that he’s got all of these people around the world chasing him for money he owes them but the WA Gubber”mint” which lost a court case to him (for 40 Bill!) changed the law overnight so as to not pay a cent…
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Aunty Joy:
“I am a leader of the Wurundjeri Nation. I asked to be treated as an equal.”
Did somebody elect her to be the leader or is she self-appointed?
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Ballet keeps girls very strong and fit. It also builds both emotional and physical confidence. They end up having no fear of performance and audiences, which helps later in life with presentations and other public speaking.
All true.* It’s very important to choose a school with a firm but wise instructor, though. Most of the girls won’t make it big. Ballet is like J.J. Cale’s cocaine in the sense that she don’t lie – regarding whose body type can and cannot be forged into prima donna material.
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* Speaking from sisters’ experience
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Sky News host Erin Molan says Lidia Thorpe is “clearly the aggressor” during the incident at a transgender rally in Canberra yesterday.
Once again, it was not QWERTY rally, it was a Women’s rally (and ‘anti-Trans’ if your IQ tops out at j’ismist level). The QWERTY mob were the ones protesting.
Simple experiment – would the Women’s mob be there if there was no QWERTY mob. Answer: Yes.
Would the QWERTY mob have been there if the Women’s mob were not. Answer: No.
One side was a rally, the other a protest. One was engaging in free speech (whether you agree with it or not) and the other was there to protest – well, attempt to thwart, actually. Protest does not mean to express your opinion now, it means to deny other people the right to air their opinions.
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All true.* It’s very important to choose a school with a firm but wise instructor, though. Most of the girls won’t make it big. Ballet is like J.J. Cale’s cocaine in the sense that she don’t lie – regarding whose body type can and cannot be forged into prima donna material.
That and finishing school would be all gals need in terms of formal ed and the rest is creating a pleasant, a non-drama queen home life.
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Duk, we have been seriously considering the extraction of cash at the moment. The distribution of reserves via internet banking across the Big 4 would facilitate this. Safe storage of cash is another matter.
Keeping large amounts of cash in the house simply invites burglaries. Young thieves usually target older residents because they know there will be cash on the premises.
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With all of these “rallies” getting violent, dangerous and out of hand, all we need is some false actor (aka Nazi) to do something terrible before “our” government locks such things down, including any dissent or “hate speech” against the mentally ill trannies.
Re-education camps for most of you (us) Cats!!! **rolls eyes**
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That and finishing school would be all gals need in terms of formal ed and the rest is creating a pleasant, a non-drama queen home life.
I agree.
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On ballet schools…pick one run by a sensible young woman (hopefully a young mum) who has a normal body. No raddled old prima ballerinas with legs like matchsticks and expectations way beyond their pupils’ capabilities.
It is a very competitive sport and some schools just go way too far. My girls were lucky as we had just the right one a suburb away. It never stopped being fun, just one too many activities in a calendar filled with sports and clubs in the end.
All the different types of shoes lined up at the back door made me think I had a family of centipedes, not humans.
Former federal Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann told police he received an anonymous email titled “coming for you” and urging him to “have a think about what you did” before he was publicly named as the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins, documents tendered in the Federal Court reveal.
Among a raft of documents filed as part of the preliminary dispute is a transcript of Lehrmann’s interview with Australian Federal Police in Sydney on April 19, 2021, during which he told police he had received “two emails from a domain name, not owned by me” in January that year.
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Days later, he forwarded the emails to police. The first, titled “Coming for you” and dated January 25, 2021, appeared to have been sent by “Bruce Lehrmann”, although Lehrmann said the corresponding email address was not his.
The email concluded: “It’s going to be a magical 2021.”
The second email said: “Truth will come out.”
The identity of the author or authors is unknown.
I dispute that, email is a very compromised manner of sending information, unless it was Proton Mail and that’s still not a 100% guarantee you cannot be found.
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Latham 1 Greenwich 0
Blot outrageously outraged (again).
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Kneel says:
March 30, 2023 at 10:58 am
“Harold White has brought down the expected mass energy requirement down from the mass of Jupiter to 2200 kg for a craft 10 m x 10 m x 10 m travelling up to an effective 10 c.”
That’s a good one! White has finally realised that grifting is much more rewarding than playing with orbital flight calculations.
Separating the gullible from their $$ is, after all, God’s work.
Not sure why it’s grifting.
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Plasmamortarsays:
March 30, 2023 at 2:32 pm
You’ll change your mind when the doctors suggest to you … .
Trust destroyed is not easily regained.
Aside from that, our time in this world is temporary.
Perhaps we should be spending more of our limited time simply living our lives, rather than trying to extend them.
We humans still believe ourselves to be be far more powerful than we really are.
Our attempts at playing God need to stop…
We’ve been playing God since we started playing with fire. Every modern medical treatment is playing God. Get over it.
Longevity is over-rated. Given my lifestyle it is amazing I’m still in good health. I was a renowned psychonaut who was on multiple drugs and still be coherent. Sort of, typically become very introspective. Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs. I don’t eat well, I don’t sleep well, I don’t socialise, I don’t give a damn. I should be dead. Why I am not dead!? Damn you God why have you let me off the hook? Scared are ya? Don’t wanna be judged by me because you stuffed up so much? Come on you gutless swine face the music.
How QI gets rid of the Gravitational Constant, Big G
Inertia has never been understood, it has just been assumed that “Things keep going in a straight line, unless you push on them”, but why? Quantised inertia (QI) explains why.
This diagram shows an object (the black circle) accelerating to the left. Quantum mechanics states that all accelerated objects see a warm bath of thermal (random) radiation called Unruh radiation (orange) that has now been observed at CERN (Lynch et al., 2021). Relativity states that information from the far right will never catch up to the object since it is limited to the speed of light (c) (the black area to the right). The new assumption of quantised inertia (QI) is that the object & horizon (edge of the black) damp the Unruh radiation between them, as in the Casimir effect (the blue area) so more radiation pushes the object from the left than the right – this model predicts inertia (McCulloch, 2013).
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“All the different types of shoes lined up at the back door made me think I had a family of centipedes, not humans.”
No doubt this thought was confirmed by the amount of food they consumed 🙂
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Wasn’t legislation passed long ago that required banks to report transactions >$5,000 they thought were suspicious?
1) Correct, cash transaction above 5k (or suspiciously close to it) attract and SAR (suspicious activity report) from the bank – but my reply remains the same – report all you want but its my money so fcuking give it to me…
2) 2k per ATM from each of the big 4 per day is less than 5k – if this is regarded as suspicious – refer to #1 above
I have been transacting 95% of my life in cash for years, if that marks me as a dodgy citizen – just add it to the list!
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Longevity is over-rated. Given my lifestyle it is amazing I’m still in good health. I was a renowned psychonaut who was on multiple drugs and still be coherent. Sort of, typically become very introspective. Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs. I don’t eat well, I don’t sleep well, I don’t socialise, I don’t give a damn. I should be dead. Why I am not dead!? Damn you God why have you let me off the hook? Scared are ya? Don’t wanna be judged by me because you stuffed up so much? Come on you gutless swine face the music.
You’re still here because you obviously didn’t try hard enough….
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Keeping large amounts of cash in the house simply invites burglaries.
Keeping it in the bank simply invites legalised theft
Potato, Potaa-toe
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Latham’s tweet isn’t “homophobic” at all. He is simply describing the mechanics of homosexual intercourse, which everyone knows but no one dare talk about because of its unsavoury aspects.
Should hotels be able to charge gay couples more for a room due to their proclivity for painting the sheets?
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Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs.
You need to be on drugs to handle the lifestyle that goes with taking them.
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From that Daily Mail report on Latham:
The state One Nation leader’s comment was slammed by several twitter users including conservative commentator and former commando Heston Russell.
‘You cannot be serious – this is absolutely pathetic @realmarklatham – the true character is displayed during crisis and success mate, and you have failed miserably,’ Mr Russell wrote.
Last year…
ABC Investigations has obtained evidence that Mr Russell sold explicit images via OnlyFans just weeks later, charging $US60 ($94 at the time) on Anzac Day last year for a picture of himself holding his erect penis.
True character.
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We’ve been playing God since we started playing with fire. Every modern medical treatment is playing God. Get over it.
This isn’t true. This makes the same mistake that critics of natural law make re glasses, as if a lens that corrects our failing eyesight is contrary to nature. No, it isn’t. Medical treatments, modern or not, properly understood, are all aimed at correcting some form of disease or injury. That isn’t ‘playing God’. Not in the slightest.
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Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Not sure why it’s grifting.
How does the 10C claim fit with empirically consistent (science is never proven) Special Relativity and the Lorentz transformation with regards to mass and length?
And that’s just for starters.
White is basically claiming that Space-Time geometry, 120 years of physics, multiple Nobel Prizes and thousands of astrophysical observations are all a massive fraud..
Good luck with that.
He’d have better luck claiming a confined nuclear fusion breakthrough. At least, the claim may have some empirical basis, and is only 40 years away from being realised, just as it was in the 1960s.
John H.
Would it be fair to characterise the challenge of treating cancers as being mainly a problem of needing to induce an auto-immune response but only at cells that are concealing their cancerous intent?
Clive Palmer’s Singapore-based company Zeph Investments is suing Australia for $296bn, enlisting the help of former attorney general Christian Porter in a landmark case arguing a breach of the Asean free trade deal.
I hope he wins but maybe is awarded a few hundred million to compensate him for the free COVID drugs he bought and the Commonwealth confiscated and destroyed.
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Boambee John:
Housing crisis is the problem one day, massively increasing immigration is the plan the next day. They are too stupid to make the connection.
They aren’t stupid, John.
How many of the people who foist this problem on us are profiting from it?
Over 95% of Parliamentarians have rental properties. How many have multiple properties?
As the housing market tightens, how many new homes are being built? Bugger all because ‘zoning rules’
This is a gigantic Ponzi scheme. And the bastards are doing it deliberately.
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dover sermonised:
Medical treatments, modern or not, properly understood, are all aimed at correcting some form of disease or injury. That isn’t ‘playing God’.
Yeah! Exactly. It’s totally not at all like playing God. It’s playing Jesus. Yuuuge difference.
And in the same vein, wookies do not live on Endor.
The fire, dover. What do you say about using fire. That’s not fixing a disease or injury.
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Sanch Panzer:
Two bathrooms?
Landed gentry.
I have two bathrooms. What’s unusual about that?
Of course the second one only gets used at barbecues and is otherwise known as “The Lemon Tree.”
Have you tried my lemon meringue? It has a unique flavour and texture.
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For those who may be contemplating getting a Novavax booster, for whatever reason:
U.S. FDA flags risk of heart inflammation after Novavax COVID vaccine | Reuters
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U.S. FDA flags risk of heart inflammation after Novavax COVID vaccine
I get the feeling they’re covering for the other guys.
…and no, I am not saying Novavax has NO side effects, ALL medicines and medical interventions do.
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Bolt is getting rather pittiful
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Blot outrageously outraged (again).
Last time I checked (2 years ago) he was struggling to string 10 words together in a coherent sentence.
I find it difficult to tolerate that. Sad.
Under such conditions, being outraged is easier to pull off than being informative and precise.
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Crossie:
Not only are there not enough dwellings to house them all but this will increase exponentially the demand for electricity to power the dwellings. And Liddell is about to be shut down. I hope it’s only a shutdown so that it can be brought back online and not its destruction. Dismantling the machinery is tantamount to destruction. And Eraring is next.
Sometimes a child will deliberately break the boundary fence of common sense and probity to see just how far the parents can be pushed.
Now substitute ‘politician’ for ‘child’ and ‘citizen’ for ‘parent’.
Latham’s tweet isn’t “homophobic” at all. He is simply describing the mechanics of homosexual intercourse, which everyone knows but no one dare talk about because of its unsavoury aspects.
That was what crossed my mind too, Calli.
The ‘-phobic’ thing is way out of hand. While it literally means an irrational fear of something. Yet the people it is often levelled at do not ‘fear’ the thing. They dislike, disapprove, or perhaps even hate something. But it is the ‘irrational’ part where the sting is. A blah-blah-phobe is irrational and stupid. They cannot be reasoned with and since reason will not fix them, force will be required.
Yet there are all sorts of rationales for being opposed to homosexuals (here I am keeping with the theme of the original complaint and without endorsing any perspective – I actually have no problems with gays).
Perhaps a person has religious objections. While another person might not believe in the almighty or the Bible, belief in them is not irrational. They might not be based on ‘proof’, but that is not the same as being irrational. Every believes in things: Love, or justice, or even ‘truth’, which most people not only could not define, but could not tell you how to find it or what ‘Truth’ would look like.
Perhaps it is a matter of biology. Someone may believe that homosexuality is a dead-end and should not be encouraged in the species, any more than other congenital defects (and, once more, not saying these are my views).
Perhaps it is more sociological. If society ‘creates’ homosexuals then society ought to be able to ‘not create’ them. For all the pain and confusion, and alienation, it can cause, damage to relationships etc, if we can spare people ever having to encounter that would it not be a defensible cause?
I give the above merely to make the point that people who object to homosexuality will be instantly labelled as homophobes, as in being seized by an irrational fear, when they are being rational (right or wrong).
Now, if we want to talk about people who don’t like homosexuality, surely it should be homomisia. But it does not carry the overtones of irrationality, so it is not a useful expression.
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Dot, earlier and apropos of Mr Setka:
I’m surprised more people haven’t tried to sock him or take him fishing.
Setka appears to have some level of arm strength, most likely from extensive free schooner raising.
However, and as Brian Alexander would attest, Early Kooks are really heavy.
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The only way Latham could have made his tweet better is if he started it with:
‘I will NOT be lectured to by…..’
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“Do you think if she’d been – I’ve seen this commented on – if she’d been a white male senator she would have been treated differently,” RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas asked Burney.
Have we seen a white male Senator being treated differently in the same circumstances, Patricia? Have we seen any of them do anything near as provoking as what Thorpe did?
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Sabine Hossenfelder (Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray) and Peter Woit (Not even wrong: the failure of string theory and the continuing challenge to unify the laws of physics), among others, belled the “cat” years ago about the multitude of crackpot theories which have polluted physics since the 1960s.
Inconsistencies in the Standard Model remain as unresolved as they were following the now-admitted-as-dodgy achievements of QED in the early 1960s.. all despite $$billions spent on humongous particle accelerators which can only claim the confirmation of the Higgs Boson as the reason for their ongoing existence and funding.
If you can’t even find the Graviton, how are you going to travel at 10C.
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Good news! I have passed probation and remain employed. Pray for the mining industry.
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Is Alex Greenwich gay? Sheesh, I didn’t see that coming. He must hide it well.
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Savva will be okay. She’d pass for a tranny any day.
Harsh but fair.
I find that admiring Michael Trumble is nauseatingly unattractive.
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Clive Palmer’s Singapore-based company Zeph Investments is suing Australia for $296bn, enlisting the help of former attorney general Christian Porter in a landmark case arguing a breach of the Asean free trade deal
It’s a step up from the Rockingham Magistrates Court forPorter but I wouldn’t be spending the proceeds just yet. I could think of more productive things to do with my time.
Amazing isn’t it? We’ve gone from a month of celebrating “Pride”, with the usual provocative and shameless costumes, the explicit body movements and dancing, the flags and the talk and the songs and the promotion of all things homosexual.
And now we’re suddenly expected to go all coy about what homosexual intercourse actually is. And anyone who describes it is a homophobe.
Are they now ashamed? Embarrassed? Hardly.
Latham shone a torch on behaviour that hides itself behind closed doors (unless you watch SBS). Well, Sydney is having its Vivid festival, so maybe the more light the better.
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If you can’t even find the Graviton, how are you going to travel at 10C
I think you mean, “how are you going to find dark matter”?
all despite $$billions spent on humongous particle accelerators which can only claim the confirmation of the Higgs Boson as the reason for their ongoing existence and funding
Maybe, but they did observe Unruh radiation.
The Alcubierre metric comes from GR. The problems in the standard model are in particle physics, more modern observations and modified gravity (fudge factor, MOND) or theoretically derived and empirically proven (QI) show that galaxy rotation isn’t a problem at all.
If GR is fine, then any implications from manipulating the tensor might be legitimate. McCulloch actually explains in his book that Maxwell’s equations work fine with experimental “problems” if the dimensions are moved from three to five. The thing is it is meaningless.
You can believe White or not but he says he has created very small warp bubbles. He has a specialised interferometer. Not a particle accelerator or absurd dark matter catching device. His results could be replicated or not at a reasonable cost.
(There is actually [a very small] some error in SR, engineers involved in GPS data can explain it better than me).
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Some recent comments about masks and related matters.
Went to the local Aldi today, the plastic screens had been removed from the checkouts. The attendant at the checkout I used was pleased to be able again to hear what the customers were saying.
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Jupes, I like the 1908 and I always liked the Cellini. Not a fan of exhibition casebacks, though – especially on heritage-derived models.
I get where you’re coming from, however I reckon if you’re going to shell out the big bucks for top-end luxury watch, you would want to see what you are paying for. Most of the cost is for artisans to polish the little wheels and plates. That 1908 has a really nice looking movement even if it is probably mostly machine finished.
A bit of history on the name. 1908 is the year Rolex was registered in Switzerland. It had started in London three years earlier. The 1908 is modeled on an Oyster Perpetual from 1931.
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‘I will NOT be lectured to by…..’
AS A MOTHER, SPEAKING AS A WOMAN, SPEAKING WITH MY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE HAT ON NOW…
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…CHAMP!
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Me: “Hey, have you finished that book?”
Her: “Yeah.”
Me: “Can I have it back?”
Her: “I gave it to someone.”
Me: “Who? Can you get it back from them?”
Her: “I can’t remember who. You’ve read it anyway, haven’t you?”
Grrrrr.
Out of print.
Can’t get a replacement copy.
Reminds me of Barry Humphries’ experience, recounted in one of his books.
His mother got rid of all the books he had stored at the family home. When he protested, she said:
“But Barry, you’ve read them.”
A similar thing happened to me when the Wicked Stepmother moved in when I was living interstate. Without consulting me, she got rid of all my childhood books. She genuinely couldn’t understand why I was upset about losing all my Anne books and my How and Why Wonder books and so on. They took up a couple of boxes of space on a five acre property.
Some people just don’t get it.
Don’t get me started on the non-return of borrowed books. I ceased being a lending library (with rare exceptions) many years ago. Again, the borrowers seemed genuinely surprised that I cared.
“The vast bulk of our electricity comes from mine mouth brown coal and that brown coal is purchased on long-term contracts,” he said.
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“How does the 10C claim fit with empirically consistent (science is never proven) Special Relativity and the Lorentz transformation with regards to mass and length?”
Much like Newton vs Einstein, extremes often show the deficiencies in “standard” theories.
Newton was good enough to get men on the moon and Voyager past Jupiter, but was stumped by Mercury’s orbit.
Conventional aerodynamics suggests bees can’t fly – you need to add turbulence to make it work for bees and other insects, which conventional aerodynamics abhorred until they managed to figure out the math behind it.
As I understand it, current FTL theory is based on distorting space-time, so that you never exceed C, you just make B closer to A – kind of the “wormhole” or “other dimension” theory, if you like, or folding a piece of paper in 3D to make the 2D distance between points shorter lower dimensional analogy (hence “apparent 10c”). Most of this seems to rely on exotic matter (things like negative mass, or huge mass and hence high space-time distortions and so on), which no-one has been able to see or make yet, so probably a bit early to be cheering (or leering, as the case may be).
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Oh, and as I look out of the window and see yet more rain clouds rolling in, I recollect reading a ridiculous piece at TheirABC the other day about why the BoM’s prediction of a dry March turned out to be complete rubbish.
Well, this unexpected thing and that unexpected thing happened. It’s not our fault. But, we are totally believable, not only about next season but about hundreds of years into the future.
Give me strength.
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I think you mean, “how are you going to find dark matter”?
There’ve been several serious papers on MOND in the science press over the last half year. I’m agnostic, especially since there’s also been at least one paper fingering dark matter as old black holes. This stuff is interesting, but unfortunately I’m still not seeing anything with sufficient oomph to approach or exceed c. Which probably means the Pentagon’s hidden alien mothership doesn’t exist.
Yeah! Exactly. It’s totally not at all like playing God. It’s playing Jesus. Yuuuge difference.
Berka, that is one of the weakest responses I’ve read.
The fire, dover. What do you say about using fire. That’s not fixing a disease or injury.
It is if you’re cauterizing a wound. But still, no, not playing God. Neither is doing mathematics. Or writing. Or solving a puzzle. Or building a house. And so on.
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“But Barry, you’ve read them.”
People watch movies again and again. Why not reread books again and again. It’s the experience that is the fun thing.
Currently 17 novels in on a reread of two series by a SF author. Read both series a few time before, but I’m having a really great time. One of the novels in the first series which I thought was weak first time I read it I now have decided is really excellent. Go figure.
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“Blot outrageously outraged (again).”
Not sure about that. Methinks Blot has had somewhat of an epiphany lately, he’s finally woken up and realised that the left are beyond redemption, you can’t debate or discuss with them, they are intolerant, they are nasty, they are vindictive AND they are violent. He’s been consistent about Kellie-Jay from the beginning of the “Nazi” slur, slamming dunderhead Pussotto.
As for Latham, he’s by far the best politician we have. His description of Greenwich sexual proclivities is 100% accurate. Greenwich is a most unsavoury and sinister individual who supports some very sinister groups. He called Latham “disgusting”, and Latham returned serve and good on Latham for doing so. I’m tired of turning the other cheek. Here’s the truth, it’s Greenwich who’s disgusting. Of course the MSM are running with it. It’s okay for Greenwich to call Latham “disgusting” but it’s not okay for Latham to reply. What a great world we now live in.
Oh and by the way, are now compelled to celebrate and sanctify homosexual sex? Is this is the society we’re now living in? It seems I’ve woken up to a dystopian nightmare where LGBTQI+ are now a protected species. how long before gulags for those of us who protest. How long before they demand the first born son of every family be gifted to them? Not long I suspect. One thing is for sure, everyday my decision to vote NO in 2017 in confirmed. And you know what? I suspect many who voted stupidly voted “yes” in 2017 would vote NO in 2023.
I will never accept homosexual sex as “normal”, because here’s the truth, it isn’t.
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Oh and by the way, are now compelled to celebrate and sanctify homosexual sex?
Oh no Cassie. It’s worse than that.
We may not even describe it.
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Let me remind people here that those protesters who went out to the church at Belfield were urged to by Greenwich.
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JMH:
You can’t walk into the local medical centre without being gagged up. Hospital is the same.
I point blank refused. As simple as that.
Then the onus is on them to enforce their rules.
So far, all the establishments have caved bar one.
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Amazing isn’t it? We’ve gone from a month of celebrating “Pride”, with the usual provocative and shameless costumes, the explicit body movements and dancing, the flags and the talk and the songs and the promotion of all things homosexual.
… And the mass murder of Christians and their children by an enraged “trans” activist.
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In other news…never, ever, ever buy a fully refundable ticket with Alitalia Airlines.
They will not honour a cancellation. They must be run by The Mob.
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Dot:
Hero judge? It was his job. He did his job. He was paid a very handsome sum.
I imagine the threats he would have received put him in the “Hero Judge” class.
God knows it’s been awarded so few times in this country.
I reject your premise. In fact, it’s damned mean spirited of you.
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They’re weaponised our compassion against us and they’ve weaponised our tolerance against us.
It’s time to stop being compassionate and tolerant.
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he big problem is this. A person is admitted for observation because they demonstrated behaviors indicative of mental illness. The person is aware of why they have been detained and will adjust their behavior. The poor psychiatrists are left with the nigh impossible task of trying to diagnose someone who is now masking their pathology; which is possible for a few days.
Psychiatrists are no better than anyone else at detecting cons, whatever they may think.
At Sincs, I told this story, but it is worth telling again.
My boyfriend at the time had a sister who was a compulsive gambler. She was also pretty and smart. She conned at least tens of thousands of dollars out of people to feed her habit.
One day, we went to a family lunch of his, and she was there, just out of prison. Her escort was – the prison psychiatrist!
I got to know quite a few psychiatrists when I worked in drug and alcohol services, because many of them were methadone prescribers. Let’s just say that while they were uniformly brainy, after that it was anyone’s guess what they were like.
Warp Drives are solutions of the Einstein Field Equations that allows superluminal travel within the framework of General Relativity. There are at the present moment two known solutions: The Alcubierre warp drive discovered in 1994 and the Natario warp drive discovered in 2001. However as stated by both Alcubierre and Natario themselves the warp drive violates all the known energy conditions because the stress energy momentum tensor is negative implying in a negative energy density. While from a classical point of view the negative energy is forbidden the Quantum Field Theory allows the existence of very small amounts of it being the Casimir effect a good example as stated by Alcubierre himself.The major drawback concerning negative energies for the warp drive is the huge amount of negative energy able to sustain the warp bubble.Ford and Pfenning computed the amount of negative energy needed to maintain an Alcubierre warp drive and they arrived at the result of 10 times the mass of the entire Universe for a stable warp drive configuration rendering the warp drive impossible.However Harold White manipulating the parameter @ in the original shape function that defines the Alcubierre spacetime demonstrated that it is possible to low these energy density requirements.We repeat here the Harold White analysis for the Natario spacetime and we arrive at similar conclusions.From 10 times the mass of the Universe we also manipulated the parameter @ in the original shape function that defines the Natario spacetime and we arrived at a result of 10 billion tons of negative mass to maintain a warp drive moving with a speed 200 times faster than light.Our result is still a huge number about the weight of the Everest Mountain but at least it is better than the original Ford-Pfenning result of 10 times the mass of the Universe.The main reason of this work is to demonstrate that Harold White point of view is entirely correct.
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You can’t walk into the local medical centre without being gagged up. Hospital is the same.
I point blank refused. As simple as that.
Then the onus is on them to enforce their rules.
So far, all the establishments have caved bar one.
Robert, I admire your chutzpah. I have a non vaccinated friend who does the same thing. She has the dreaded mask in her hand, but refuses to put it on.
She simply tells them, “It doesn’t work, so why use it?”
Neither GPs, nor their staff, refuse her service. But she IS a formidable person.
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I have read the White mass-energy mass requirement is down to 700 kg and he reckons he can make small ones with the interferometer without using “negative energies”.
Longevity is over-rated.
The prospect of experiencing millions of years of woke would make me feel that way too.
Eight years from now would just about coincide with the 2,000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So maybe this guy is right for exactly the wrong reason…
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In fact, it’s damned mean spirited of you.
Sorry, the bare minimum for our public officials in my mind is the same as being most excellent.
86% is close to the average poker machine payout.
Dot – you need to subscribe to the Cool Worlds channel on Youtube.
The English physicist that runs the channel is a great scientist and not a dreamer of f-wit like de gruosser, “science man” the Cox.
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And the mass murder of Christians and their children by an enraged “trans” activist.
You’ve got it backwards Tom. Apparently the tranny was a heroic champion freedom fighter or something.
The MSM are actually getting worse. Who would believe that could even be possible?
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Old Ozzie:
What the White House and State Department want is a more pliable Israeli prime minister who will keep quiet about the nuclear threat from Iran and who can be intimidated into not acting to forestall that deadly threat to Israel’s existence.
It will all be irrelevant when Iran detonates nukes in Israel’s major cities, as they have promised to do on multiple occasions.
900000 new residents in 18months.
What are their skills and where did they come from?
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Went to the local Aldi today, the plastic screens had been removed from the checkouts. The attendant at the checkout I used was pleased to be able again to hear what the customers were saying.
It’s interesting how some things are returning to “normal”. But, quite frankly, things will not quite be “the same” for me. It was a devastating experience in so many ways. Although we had some protection in being able to flee the city during Covid – travel was dictated by “travel papers” – like any authoritarian regime- and, being unvaccinated, we were denied access to many stores, food outlets and other facilities.
I have been surprised to discover, now the measures have changed, how distressing the experience has been in retrospect. My attitude at the time was “Stuff them!” But I suppose it is like many tumultuous events, in that you cope well at the time, but often suffer a sort of PTSD later. Funnily, this annoys me more than the actual mandates.
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H B Bearsays:
March 30, 2023 at 1:19 pm
Try abebooks for out of print stuff.
I did.
Found a second hand copy of my missing book for $20.
(Probably my original copy anyway).
Look. Start reading this. McCulloch doesn’t do blackboard physics and he isn’t interesting wasting money. He gets results. 21 peer reveiwed papers on modified gravity/inertia/galaxy rotation/Unruh radiation/propellantless drives. Simple, elegant maths and good statistical fits of OLS regression curves to data, r^2 usually over 0.95. DARPA funding (with encouraging results) and soon testing an EM drive (which works with the change in acceleration of transistors, so it’s a bit like the MEGADrive idea) in space.
900000 new residents in 18months.
What are their skills and where did they come from?
Mostly from India, China & the UK apparently. Their skills? Knowing where they will get the most assistance, I suppose.
If we think that we are short of teachers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists and other skilled practitioners…..”we ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” Lots more people wanting their services. Prepare to stand in line, or lie in an ambulance (if you can get one) for some time……
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Latham simply told Greenwich a hard truth and he knows it. It’s not as if bleaching and colonics are not on his community’s to- do list.
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Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 4:07 pm
I think you mean, “how are you going to find dark matter”?
..and Dark Energy.. and MultiVerses and..
All I’m saying is that particle physics has seriously gone off the rails, chasing beautiful theories which, even after 60 years, have no empirical backing.
About the time interval between Max Planck and Richard Feynman’s Nobels.. imagine having had no real progress for all that time.
And this despite (because of?) several-magnitude increases in $$ and # of scientists.
But yeah, we should believe that, magically, travel at 10C is a) possible and b) just around the corner.
The Government has released a report by the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, on the lessons of the fourth wave of the Omicron variant.
Professor Kelly’s report notes the fourth wave, which ended in late February, was longer than previous waves but led to less severe illness than the third wave in winter 2022.
WTF – COVID has been in western countries for four goddamned years now!
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday.
Good grief. We’re too stupid to survive.
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An unintended consequence is likely to be a resurgence of ballet and dance participation because girls are way better at it than boys, even transgender ones. At least it will be a level playing field so to speak.
And that will be no bad thing. Ballet will always be a level playing field because it has different moves and muscles used for females in contrast to males. It capitalises on a female’s natural flexibility and grace. It is a very two-sexes only activity, as is Opera, where the sex differences in vocal capacity are also integral to the performance. Western theatre, including the plays of Shakespeare, became influenced by the Italian Commedia dell’arte, where masks and appearances are used as disguises, but men and women had separate true sexual identities. Plays developed using gender-switches as a narrative device, but only in later times did this become performative drag, as happened with the declining Commedia’s influence on British pantomime.
Girls learning ballet early will always have a knowledge of good carriage and posture, and that will live with them all of their lives. Plus a love of the motions and music of dance.
I’ve seen two men dancing a Tango together and it was ridiculous.
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Cassie of Sydney:
“Meet the ‘theybies’. Not baby boys, not baby girls. SUNDAY on #60Mins, the new parenting trend letting young children choose their own gender.”
When will this shit end?
I have a solution for it, but it keeps on getting me into trouble, even though it was OK a century or two ago.
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But yeah, we should believe that, magically, travel at 10C is a) possible and b) just around the corner.
Look, I get your point, but, empirical evidence exists (apparently!) and it isn’t prohibitively expensive like a stupid underground dam to find dark matter. Plus it might be decades out, but we’re not going to get there crapping over early groundwork.
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but often suffer a sort of PTSD later
I agree Vicki. I won’t be forgetting in a hurry either.
Had a look through the old Cat archives on the Wayback Machine a few days ago – the open threads in early 2020 and a few later ones. It was interesting to watch the opinions and rhetoric change in real time and how we initially perceived the threat.
The worst was in 2021, November, and my grandson crying and hugging me when we finally met after an interminable lockdown. What little trust and respect I had for authority withered away in those weeks. I now look at government and their minions the press as the enemy. That won’t change any time soon.
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Cassie of Sydney:
So, what will it take?
A girl/woman severely injured by one of these perverts?
A girl/woman assaulted/raped in a bathroom or changeroom by one of these perverts?
A girl/woman dead from an injury caused by one of these perverts?
We won’t know if these things haven’t already happened, because the Trans movement will brutalise anyone who speaks up about it – including the media.
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FDA flags risk of heart inflammation after Novavax COVID vaccine | Reuters
Given it uses the same (obsolete, toxic) Wuhan pattern spike as AZ, Pfizer and Moderna, it would be surprising if it didnt share their side effects.
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From Herald Sun.
Hawthorn young gun Jai Serong will miss at least two months after being diagnosed with a heart condition.
Serong, 20, developed chest pain last weekend and was sent to hospital for further investigations before a specialist sports cardiologist confirmed a diagnosis of pericarditis.
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Given it uses the same (obsolete, toxic) Wuhan pattern spike as AZ
Unless you are pureblood and never caught it or had innate immunity, or a subclinincal dose, you’re going to have problems?
What about a dead virus? Presumably it still has the spike proteins?
I am a bit confused about the spike protein, because I was under the impression they are ubiquitous in nature.
Given COVID has been in the west for four years, everyone has likely had COVID.
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Property rights. we dont need your steeenking property right senor…
Bandito councils find a new opportunity to empower NIMBYs and green loonatics.
They even want to be unencumbered by any sort of due process.
Both the City of South Perth and the City of Nedlands want the WA Planning Commission to approve planning amendments that mean landowners would require a development application if they want to clear trees over 8 metres tall on private property.
Residents could also face on-the-spot infringements for removing a tree without a development application.
Apparently this is a real person. This is why we cant have nice things.
I wonder how much of her groups funding comes from … ooooh lets guess, 2 councils?
No mention of funding on their website? https://watca.org.au/
claim… WA Tree Canopy Advocates (WATCA) secretary Kathy Lees said there was growing community support for action on tree protection.
reality… Across Perth, fewer than 70 trees on private land are listed in local government tree registers.
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sports cardiologist confirmed a diagnosis of pericarditis.
I wonder what the frequency of this has been in the past?
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Another question for Dr Duk.
Since when has a pandemic actually lasted more than four, let alone three years!?
I thought the rule of thumb used to be two years.
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Across Perth, fewer than 70 trees on private land are listed in local government tree registers.
..
Trees belong in parks, not on private blocks. Especially the fkn tall ones. Especially, especially eucalypts.
Piss them all off. They’re dangerous and stupid and don’t belong anywhere near private residences.
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Just been subject to some racism.
In this case the racism is that all white people look the same.
The CCP just told me they reckon I look like David Beckham’s brother….
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Joe Gersh on Sharri – fail! Why bother?
Casimir is proven negative energy. To achieve FTL speeds Casimir needs to be scaled up and controlled. The scaling has been observed in nature:
Keeping large amounts of cash in the house simply invites burglaries. Young thieves usually target older residents because they know there will be cash on the premises.
Embrace the concept of ‘floor safe.’ My old man has always had one. And he will never tell, because he knows they will quite likely kill him anyway.
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This bloke is an expert on the obvious:
from the Oz:
Aust
ralia ‘lagging behind world on investment’
Takayuki Ueda – who runs Japanese gas giant Inpex – has warned the ‘investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating’.
and it not going to get better for along time until the moron electors “get a grip” on reality
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“Meet the ‘theybies’. Not baby boys, not baby girls. SUNDAY on #60Mins, the new parenting trend letting young children choose their own gender.”
‘Distressing’: Trans woman barred from changing gender on marriage certificate
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4:51PM March 30, 2023
A trans woman has been barred from changing her gender on her marriage certificate, in a decision that has been labelled “distressing” by the NSW Chief Justice.
FJG, as she is known to the court, has been involved in lengthy legal proceedings with the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in NSW since early 2021, when she took umbrage at a decision to reject her application to change the gender on the certificate from male to female.
She cited concerns for her “physical and psychological well being” if the certificate were to remain uncorrected, and said it could cause her “significant inconvenience and distress” if, say, during a medical emergency, she was unable to provide a certificate revealing her “identity”.
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FJG successfully appealed the decision with the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) in April 2021, but the Registrar fought back, and the case was taken to the Court of Appeal.
Earlier this month, Chief Justice Andrew Bell ruled the matter “complex” but ultimately said the marriage certificate could not be altered, as same-sex marriage was not legal in 2009 when the union took place.
He said that, while the decision may cause “distress” to the couple, “appellate courts generally do not and should never start with a result they consider to be desirable and work backwards from that particular, desired outcome.”
“The process of statutory interpretation may sometimes result in an outcome that appears anomalous or even harsh to particular persons,” he said.
FJG told her partner that she was “living with trans experience” in 2007, two years prior to their marriage.
While same-sex marriage was not legal at the time, the couple “sought to legitimise it in the only manner open to them”, which was to wed as a man and woman, Justice Bell said.
“At the time of the marriage … in September 2009, and although FJG self?identified as female, FJG satisfied the legal concept of “male” as used in the Marriage Act – although (the couple) do not accept the legitimacy of that concept,” he said.
Shortly after the plebiscite passed in December 2017, FJG changed her name, and a couple of years after that, she received a new birth certificate reflecting her gender.
When FJG first applied to the Registrar to “correct” the register concerning her marriage in January 2021, she asked that instead of referring to her “dead” name and herself as husband, the register would refer to her new name and describe her as wife.
However, as per Chief Justice Bell’s judgment, the certificate will remain unchanged.
“This outcome is the result of the interaction of three statutes of three different legislatures that have adopted different approaches over time including different conceptions of sex or gender,” he said.
“However, that is simply an explanation and not a justification for the distress that this outcome will occasion to FJG and (her wife).”
In order to have the decision overturned, FJG would have to take the matter to the High Court.
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C.L. says:
March 30, 2023 at 2:54 pm
That and finishing school would be all gals need in terms of formal ed and the rest is creating a pleasant, a non-drama queen home life.
I agree.
Dream on.
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more:
Japanese gas giant Inpex chief executive Takayuki Ueda has warned Anthony Albanese’s sweeping interventions into the energy market will “choke” investment and “strangle” expansion of gas projects in Australia.
The warnings were endorsed by Japanese Ambassador Shingo Yamagami at a closed-door lunch in Parliament House on Thursday, who said the “neon lights of Tokyo ‘’ would go out if Australia stopped producing energy resources and said the transition towards net zero cannot be rushed.
Speaking to Labor frontbenchers – including Resources Minister Madeline King and Trade Minister Don Farrell (comment: why waste your time?) – Mr Ueda said the “investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating” and that the country was now lagging “far behind” the rest of the world in the global race for investment.
Amid concerns in Japan and other key energy partners over the Albanese’s government’s recent interventions into the gas market, Mr Ueda railed-against increasingly unpredictable policy settings that have put Australia at-risk of an investment plunge.
“Unfortunately, the investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating. In Japan we say, ‘don’t cheat at rock, paper, scissors’. This translates to “don’t move the goalposts after the game has started.”
Mr Ueda said the energy policy environment in Australia “appears to be driven almost by ideology and domestic concerns” and warned of consequences of policies that will increase market opportunities for Russia and Iran.
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Robert Sewellsays:
March 30, 2023 at 4:53 pm
Old Ozzie:
What the White House and State Department want is a more pliable Israeli prime minister who will keep quiet about the nuclear threat from Iran and who can be intimidated into not acting to forestall that deadly threat to Israel’s existence.
It will all be irrelevant when Iran detonates nukes in Israel’s major cities, as they have promised to do on multiple occasions.
And Israel takes the “Samson Option”, scattering a couple of hundred warheads across the Middle East and Gulf?
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her traditional Gunnai Gunditjmara designer high heels
Hey, I used them words on the Cat a few days ago.
Either someone reads the Cat or great minds think alike. 🙂
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Very cool cohenite, I forgot that McCulloch wrote that paper. I wonder how much of that has to do with the Podkletnov effect.
The experiment was done by Podkletnov and his team in Finland (see Podkletnov, 1992, 1997). They had a half-superconducting disc with a radius of 13.5 cm. They cooled it down to 70 Kelvin (-203oC) in a cryostat, so that the upper part only was superconducting and then levitated it using a magnetic field. They then applied an AC magnetic field of high frequency (MHz) which accelerated the disc. A team member was smoking when he shouldn’t have been and they noticed that the smoke was rising over the cryostat. After investigation, they noticed that when the disc was accelerating due to the AC field, but not spinning, objects above the disc lost 0.05%-0.06% of their weight. When they spun the disc at 5000 rpm they noticed a larger weight loss of 0.6-2%. The greatest weight loss occured when they slowed the disc to 3000-3300 rpm and it visibly vibrated. The effect was independent of the test mass’s composition and was not due to moving air since it persisted when the test mass was encased in glass. It was not magnetic because it remained when a metal screen was placed between the disc and the masses.
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Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 5:08 pm
Look, I get your point, but, empirical evidence exists (apparently!)
This is not a personal criticism of you, Dot, but AFAIK, it’s all whiteboard theory, plonked together because.. well.. you know.. who knows.. notoriety, publications, invites to all the cool parties, some leg-over potential for lonely theoretical physicists with suboptimal conversational skills.
And with a straight face, without tremor in their voice, these people admit that these space-time warpings are likely possible with energy levels equivalent to 10 Universes… with a straight face, unperturbed.
I admire that, chutzpah on meth.
Also, from Wikipedia: Alcubierre stated in an email to William Shatner that his theory was directly inspired by the term used in the show[48] and cites the “‘warp drive’ of science fiction” in his 1994 article.
It’s all starting to make sense…
I can’t wait for the latest theory that in the new calculus of variations, the Lagrange limit of 0/0 weighs mauve sky.
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full article:
Japanese gas giant Inpex chief executive Takayuki Ueda has warned Anthony Albanese’s sweeping interventions into the energy market will “choke” investment and “strangle” expansion of gas projects in Australia.
The warnings were endorsed by Japanese Ambassador Shingo Yamagami at a closed-door lunch in Parliament House on Thursday, who said the “neon lights of Tokyo ‘’ would go out if Australia stopped producing energy resources and said the transition towards net zero cannot be rushed.
Speaking to Labor frontbenchers – including Resources Minister Madeline King and Trade Minister Don Farrell – Mr Ueda said the “investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating” and that the country was now lagging “far behind” the rest of the world in the global race for investment.
Amid concerns in Japan and other key energy partners over the Albanese’s government’s recent interventions into the gas market, Mr Ueda railed-against increasingly unpredictable policy settings that have put Australia at-risk of an investment plunge.
“Unfortunately, the investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating. In Japan we say, ‘don’t cheat at rock, paper, scissors’. This translates to “don’t move the goalposts after the game has started.”
Mr Ueda said the energy policy environment in Australia “appears to be driven almost by ideology and domestic concerns” and warned of consequences of policies that will increase market opportunities for Russia and Iran.
“On the geopolitical front, Australia’s “quiet quitting” of the LNG business has potentially very sinister consequences. The question of who will replace Australian supply into the market is front and centre. “Alarmingly, the ‘inconvenient truth’ is most likely that Russia, China and Iran fill the void.”
The intervention by Mr Ueda and Mr Yamagami came 24-hours after the Prime Minister said “I have no concerns about our relationship with Japan” in response to concerns raised about the safeguard mechanism putting coal companies at-risk of competitive disadvantage.
“We are a secure and reliable partner. We are a partner for Japan, South Korea and other nations that always delivers on the commitments that we make,” Mr Albanese said.
Mr Albanese gave the assurances after Australian gas producers this week warned that the safeguard mechanism emissions scheme could stifle investment in new gas fields, potentially putting energy prices at risk. Major coal companies also branded Labor’s signature climate policy a “carbon tax by stealth” that would drive up energy prices, destroy jobs and kill off foreign investment. Mr Ueda invoked Mr Albanese’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Perth last year where they “reaffirmed the critical importance of enhancing energy security co-operation, including through secure and reliable energy resources trade and investment, such as LNG”.
He said Labor’s decision to not facilitate carbon, capture and storage technologies threatens Australia’s opportunity to meet its 2050 net zero target. Speaking after Mr Ueda to parliamentarians and business leaders, Mr Yamagami said Australia’s resources sector was the “bedrock” of its economic partnership with Japan and that Inpex would play a crucial role during the world’s transition towards net zero targets.
Inpex is Japan’s flagship exploration and production company, set-up in the 1960s as a state-owned company with a mandate to oversee the country’s energy security. The gas giant has been operating in Australia since 1986 and leads the Ichthys LNG project, underwriting capital investment valued over $60bn.
Mr Yamagami emphasised the important role that gas would play as an essential transition fuel and that Australian resources had played an integral role in helping to “keep Japanese homes warm” and allowed their industries to “flourish”.
“You only have to look at the vibrant streets of Japan’s never-sleeping capital. It’s hard to imagine the neon lights of Tokyo ever going out, but with Australia now supplying 70 per cent of coal, 60 per cent of iron ore, and 40 per cent of Japan’s gas imports, this is exactly what would happen if Australia stopped producing energy resources,” Mr Yamagami said.
Mr Yamagami said he was “confident” Australia would remain a trusted and stable energy exporter going forward but called for pragmatism in the process towards decarbonisation.
Speaking in the Senate, Trade Minister Don Farrell brushed-off the warnings raised by Mr Ueda and said the government’s policies would have “zero impact on our relations” with Japan.
“It won’t have any impact on our international reputation or our reliability or stability as a supplier of among other things gas,” Senator Farrell said. “We’re a democracy, just like Japan. And companies in Japan can express points of view that don’t always agree with the government of the day.” The comments follow mining giant Glencore telling The Australian there were now risks to doing business in Australia, with chief executive Gary Nagle saying an array of government interventions and tax rises have led to the nation falling behind Canada as the world’s top investment destination for commodity producers.
The president of the Japanese gas giant says foreign investment could dry up if the government continues to ‘move the goalposts’.
The president of the Japanese gas giant says foreign investment could dry up if the government continues to ‘move the goalposts’.
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham said it was “astounding” that Senator Farrell had sought to “sweep it away and suggest that there was no consequence to these remarks”. “This is the biggest Japanese investor into Australia and they are saying that there is a real consequence and so Don Farrell, Anthony Albanese of its entire Labor government really should heed the message and take the wake-up call delivered,” Senator Birmingham told the ABC. With new domestic gas market reforms coming into force on Thursday, designed to lock-in supply for households and businesses, Ms King said “protections for long-term contracts with international trading partners” has been included. Ms King said the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism reforms give the government “more flexibility to use the mechanism, if needed, in the event of a material forecast shortfall in domestic gas supplies”. “But the changes also strengthen protections for international investors with long-term contracts with key export markets such as Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia,” Ms King said.
Backing in Mr Ueda, Mr Yamagami said Inpex was “forging the path ahead by proactively engaging in energy structure reform while also ensuring the stable development and supply of energy.” “The energy and resources sector is the bedrock of the Japan-Australia economic partnership, and Inpex have been laying the foundations for investment for four decades,” he said.
“As we look towards the next four, the role of Inpex will only become more crucial, as Japanese investment continues to support Australia, Japan and the world through a smooth energy transition, while ensuring the security and prosperity of generations to come.”
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Casimir is proven negative energy.
No it isn’t. It’s the true ZPE. Vacuum is above theoretical ZPE because of the Heisenberg virtual pairs, so Casimir plates are just removing some of those to get closer to the actual ZPE. It’s like absolute zero: you can only approach it but you can never quite get there.
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You can have big trees on big blocks. I’ve got 5 trees around my estate ( which some might describe as a detached townhouse) all of which are medium at best and don’t really have any real full sun garden beds, which isn’t really an issue in Perf anyway. Councils would be better advised to concentrate on planting and maintaining decent street and parkland trees ie stick to their lane.
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There have apparently been some good results with mRna treatment in cancer trials.
Couple of family members living/ dying with cancer atm.
One is now at maintenance stage, was supposed to die nine months ago, but the tumour stopped growing of its own volition, still terminal, every day a bonus.
The other has been battling for three years, hit stage four, facing regular chemo for rest of life.
Both would leap at an mRna solution.
I think Calli mentioned her BIL got a decent few years extension from his mRna cancer treatment.
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‘Distressing’: Trans woman barred from changing gender on marriage certificate
Just tell it to remarry its significant other again. That way both its can be suitably pronounded on the second certificate.
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Unfortunately, the investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating. In Japan we say, ‘don’t cheat at rock, paper, scissors’. This translates to “don’t move the goalposts after the game has started.”
BINGO. Would any Liar PhD staffer even have a clue?
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Good to see at state and federal level our governments are singing from the same destroy Australia one kilowatt at a time song book.
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The Britnee saga continues, episode 195:
The Australian Federal Police is refusing to hand over the full brief of evidence in the investigation of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation to a powerful inquiry investigating police conduct.
A former judge leading the inquiry, Walter Sofronoff KC, detailed the roadblocks the inquiry was running into at a preliminary hearing today where the AFP is represented.
In an extraordinary revelation, the inquiry heard there may also be a police recording of a phone call between barrister Steve Whybrow and AFP Detective Scott Moller.
Mr Whybrow is the barrister for Bruce Lehrmann, the man previously charged in relation to the matter.
A single charge of sex without consent against Mr Lehrmann was dropped by the ACT Department of Prosecutions in December after the first trial collapsed as a result of juror misconduct.
Mr Lehrmann pleaded not guilty to the charge and has strongly denied the allegation since he was charged in August 2021.
While the AFP welcomed the inquiry and has agreed to co-operate, it has raised a number of concerns over providing some documents.
For example, it has told the inquiry that a full brief of evidence includes a large volume of unedited video and phone records that exceeds 100,000 pages.
The police have told the inquiry it would take a long time to “review the material”.
“Did anyone explain why they are reviewing it rather than handing it over?” Mr Sofronoff said.
In a statement provided following the hearing, the AFP denied it was refusing to hand over the brief, suggesting this claim was “false” before outlining why it had not handed the document over.
“The Board of Inquiry requested the AFP produce the full Brief of Evidence, and it was produced on 27 March 2023 to the extent permissible by law,” an AFP spokesperson said.
“There are statutory provisions preventing the production of certain material, including under the Telecommunications Interception Act 1979 (Cth), the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1991 (ACT) and the Crimes Act 1900 (ACT).
“As discussed at the Directions Hearing on 30 March, the AFP is proactively producing material to assist the Board of Inquiry with its important work.”
Mr Sofronoff also mentioned — twice — during the hearing about items to be produced in relation to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.
he reference could suggest that phone taps may have been involved in the investigation, however there was no further information provided over whether this was the case or who may have been targeted.
The laws set out when eligible Australian law enforcement and security agencies are permitted to obtain warrants to intercept communications, obtain warrants to access stored communications, and authorise the disclosure of data.
Senior counsel assisting Erin Longbottom KC detailed a long list of subpoenas the AFP is resisting or has delayed production of documents.
However, Mr Sofronoff also noted several police officers involved in the investigation “have been very helpful”.
“There is a magnitude of work you are being asked to undertake,” Ms Longbottom said.
“It is critical that we have the timely production of documents. To date there have been issues with the timely production of documents.”
The ACT government announced the probe into the prosecution last year, stressing it would not be about recontesting Ms Higgins’ rape allegation but the conduct of criminal justice agencies.
“It is important to remember that this will not be a retrial of the case, it will focus on whether the criminal justice officials involved performed their duties with appropriate rigour, impartiality, and independence,” ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury said.
The probe will now consider whether or not the AFP, the DPP and the ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner acted in breach of their duties during the investigation.
The inquiry was sparked by ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold’s claim in a letter to the AFP that police had “clearly aligned with the successful defence of this matter rather than its prosecution”.
However, the circumstances of the release of the letter under freedom of information laws will also be probed by the inquiry and a subpoena has been issued to the ACT Information Commissioner to examine the processes that resulted in the letter being released.
The inquiry, with the powers of a royal commission, will hold public hearings later this month and publish relevant documents on the inquiry website.
Ms Longbottom is the Queensland barrister who recently appeared in the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
The junior counsel assisting is Joshua Jones, who was counsel assisting in the DNA inquiry led by Mr Sofronoff.
In his bombshell letter that led to the inquiry, Mr Drumgold wrote to ACT police chief Neil Gaughan after the collapse of the trial outlining a number of serious concerns.
“There has now been over one-and-a-half years of consistent and inappropriate interference by investigators, firstly directed towards my independence with a very clear campaign to pressure me to agree with the investigators’ desire not to charge, then during the conduct of this trial itself, and finally attempting to influence any decision on a retrial,” Mr Drumgold said.
“Then when charges resulted, the [investigators’] interests have clearly aligned with the successful defence of this matter rather than its prosecution.”
Mr Gaughan has previously backed public inquiry into the trial of Mr Lehrmann that extends to the conduct of the prosecutor, the police and “the allegation of contempt” over Ms Higgins’ speech outside court at the conclusion of the trial.
Earlier this year, it emerged Mr Lehrmann lodged a formal complaint of professional misconduct targeting Mr Drumgold with the ACT Bar Association.
The allegations are contained in a leaked letter that was sent to the ACT Bar Association on December 9, that is likely to be captured by the subpoenas issued to date and referred to the inquiry.
“By doing so, he is bringing into disrepute his own office, the fine work and reputation of the Australian Federal Police and your members,” Mr Lehrmann wrote.
“His public behaviour continues to smear my name and the presumption of innocence that is a cornerstone of our justice system and that demands him to uphold. I am innocent of the charge pursued against me by The Director. I have always, strongly maintained my innocence.”
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Attorney-General Rattenbury said the inquiry had been devised to “bring sunlight” to allegations raised.
The terms of reference include:
— Whether any police officers failed to act in accordance with their duties or acted in breach of their duties in their conduct of the investigation of the allegations of Ms Brittany Higgins concerning Mr Bruce Lehrmann.
— It will also examine their dealings with the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to his duty to decide whether to commence, to continue and to discontinue criminal proceedings against Mr Lehrmann in relation to those allegations.
— Police dealings with the legal representatives for Mr Lehrmann before, during or after the trial in the matter of R v Lehrmann; in their provision of information to any persons in relation to the matter of R v Lehrmann.
— If any police officers so acted, their reasons and motives for their actions.
— Whether the Director of Public Prosecutions failed to act in accordance with his duties or acted in breach of his duties in making his decisions to commence, to continue and to discontinue criminal proceedings against Mr Lehrmann.
— If the Director of Public Prosecutions so acted, his reasons and motives for his actions.
— The circumstances around, and decisions which led to the public release of the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions’ letter to the Chief Police Officer of ACT Policing dated 1 November 2022.
— Whether the Victims of Crime Commissioner acted in accordance with the relevant statutory framework in terms of support provided to the complainant in the matter of R v Lehrmann.
— Any matter reasonably incidental to any of the above matters.
The inquiry is also likely to consider claims that police sent prohibited material including Ms Higgins’ confidential counselling notes to the accused’s original lawyers.
Mr Gaughan outlined his own concerns in a leaked internal email that complained Mr Drumgold released private correspondence to a journalist under freedom of information laws without consulting police.
During the hearing, a lawyer acting for Mr Drumgold suggested that he might claim legal professional privilege over some documents.
“When am I going to know if your client refuses to produce a document or I should say declined to produce a document?” Mr Sofronoff asked.
A lawyer acting for Mr Drumgold said he may be prepared to consider waiving of privilege.
“Well, when is he going to consider it?” Mr Sofronoff said.
The inquiry heard the DPP’s office had already handed over 137,000 pages of documents.
Kate Richardson SC, the barrister acting for the AFP, said a document had been provided outlining the time frame that the AFP was working towards to hand over outstanding documents.
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No it isn’t. It’s the true ZPE. Vacuum is above theoretical ZPE because of the Heisenberg virtual pairs, so Casimir plates are just removing some of those to get closer to the actual ZPE. It’s like absolute zero: you can only approach it but you can never quite get there.
Actually I remember reading (its on my old computer) there is a way of making matter go below absolute zero, like borrowing energy, but it requires energy to do it by stabilising microscopic/quantum matter with lasers then making Cooper pairs (?) with strong magnetism.
To turn such a system upside down in the real world, the physicists started by chilling a quantum gas made up of potassium atoms to near absolute zero. They used lasers and magnetic fields to force the atoms into a lattice pattern. At temperatures above absolute zero, the atoms naturally want to repel one another, keeping the system stable. But by adjusting the lasers and magnetic field, the researchers were able to force the atoms to attract one another, essentially, turning the system on its head. At positive temperatures, they note, such a system would quite naturally be unstable – to force it to be stable, the team also adjusted the lasers that held the atoms trapped in place. Doing so, they report, resulted in the gas transitioning to a temperature below absolute zero.
Ultracold atoms pave way for negative-Kelvin materials.
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This is not a personal criticism of you, Dot, but AFAIK, it’s all whiteboard theory, plonked together because.. well.. you know.. who knows.. notoriety, publications, invites to all the cool parties, some leg-over potential for lonely theoretical physicists with suboptimal conversational skills.
lol, Gilas. Beautifully put. Hairy, who has had some personal acquaintance with the views and researches of ambitious theoretical physicists, regards some of them as doing little more than engaging in finger painting in well-rewarded and pleasantly-sheltered workshops. He may be quite wrong, of course, with such hard workers being at the absolutely forefront of all knowledge, but he is usually not wrong. So I tend to scroll deep physics on a blog. It does save time and intellectual energy. But some enjoy it and it does give a whiff of comprehension of very superior stuff to a blog.
Like special wallpaper and matching cushions.
Calli:
All the different types of shoes lined up at the back door made me think I had a family of centipedes, not humans.
Now that was funny!
I gave you 11 upticks – one for each foot, plus a tip.
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The Australian Federal Police is refusing to hand over the full brief of evidence in the investigation of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation to a powerful inquiry investigating police conduct.
lol, Gilas. Beautifully put. Hairy, who has had some personal acquaintance with the views and researches of ambitious theoretical physicists, regards some of them as doing little more than engaging in finger painting in well-rewarded and pleasantly-sheltered workshops.
Except cohenite and me are linking to empirical research 9 times out of 10.
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The Britnee saga continues, episode 195:
Not even the end of the beginning. Still plenty of time to get you popcorn.
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They’re weaponised our compassion against us and they’ve weaponised our tolerance against us.
It’s time to stop being compassionate and tolerant.
Aye Cassie. You’ve won the interwebs for today.
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There have apparently been some good results with mRna treatment in cancer trials.
Couple of family members living/ dying with cancer atm.
Yes. My late brother in law got another 18 months of life from the experimental treatment, now becoming more widely used. At the time he was part of a study group.
It was carefully targeted at the cancer which was running rampant through his body.
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I’m on 1300 square metres.
Plenty of room for (deciduous) trees, which I value highly both aesthetically and for the microclimate advantages.
Much cooler in summer than the tightly spaced town houses next door that need air-conditioning to maintain any level of comfort.
We manage very well with ceiling fans, even on the hottest days.
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Latham has deleted his tweet and Hanson has thrown him under the bus.
The love that dare not speak its name indeed.
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Some committed gay guys simply don’t abide by the unmentionable B-52s classic about reckless driving.
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Hairy is not feeling too well right now. He’s resting up, shock I think. His routine eye test this morning showed he had a rip in one of his retinas, so he was trundled straight to his ophthalmologist, who operated immediately with a laser beam. He drove home, which upset me, as he should have taken a taxi. A ripped retina can detach unless it is promptly treated.
You never know when something is going to strike right out of the blue.
Best to keep your regular checks up as you age, Cats.
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And…if Covid “experts” weren’t bad enough, now we have Interest Rate “Experts”.
A proposal from AnAl government (am I allowed to type anal?) is to remove the setting of rates from the RBA and give it to a panel.
That’ll work like a charm.
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Calli all over it. Daily Telegraph:
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has slammed her party’s NSW leader Mark Latham over “disgusting” comments on social media.
Ms Hansen called on Mr Latham to apologise for a homophobic tweet directed at Sydney MP and gay-rights campaigner Alex Greenwich sent on Thursday morning.
“Disgusting? How does that compare with sticking your d***k up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s**t?” Mr Latham said in the tweet, which has since been deleted.
In a video statement, Ms Hansen said that neither she or her party condoned the comments.
“I think they are disgusting. I’ve actually tried ring Mark a couple of times, to no avail,” she said.
Ms Hansen called on Mr Latham to apologise.
Labor’s Upper House leader Penny Sharpe also condemned the tweet, calling on Mr Latham to apologise immediately.
“I was physically sickened by that tweet,” Ms Sharpe said.
“Homophobia is always unacceptable and there is never an excuse. Mr Latham should apologise to Alex Greenwich immediately.”
Mr Latham was also criticised by Equality Australia for his comments.
“They were disgusting comments unbecoming of a member of parliament, he should apologise and retract those comments,” Equality Australia legal director Ghassan Kassisieh said.
“The best way for parliament to respond is to now get on with the job of removing discrimination against LGBTI people in our laws.”
Mr Latham was responding to Mr Greenwich calling him a “disgusting human being,” after violence erupted outside a church in Belfield last week where Mr Latham was speaking.
The tweet was one of a series of posts from Mr Latham about the incident.
In one tweet, Mr Latham took aim at “Alphabet freaks and weirdos seeking to blockade a suburban church, break crucifixes and burn them were looking for trouble”.
The violence — in which a police officer was taken to hospital after being attacked — was sparked as protesters disrupted a forum hosted by state MP Mark Latham on parental rights and religious freedom.
A spokesman for the parish said the violence appeared to start after the group protesting Mr Latham’s views on transgender rights allegedly broke a crucifix.
Asked about Mr Latham’s tweet, Mr Greenwich said: “I understand this tweet has been taken down, and I don’t intend to engage with the matter further”.
“My focus in the parliament will be working with the majority of members who support the LGBTQ community to progress important reforms.”
Mr Latham did not respond to a request for comment.
It comes after The Australian reported that Mr Latham is due to face court next month after the MP was detected using his phone while driving.
In another tweet on Thursday, Mr Latham said President Barack Obama was “the ultimate whore” for charging up to $900 for tickets to a speaking tour. (golf clap)
FMD
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Hairy is not feeling too well right now. He’s resting up, shock I think
Pass on all good wishes, for a full recovery, please, LizzieB.
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Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 30, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Casimir is proven negative energy.
No it isn’t.
Isn’t it the case that Casimir is negative density which explains the negative pressure between the surfaces. That is the Casimir is not negative relative to the surrounding space, which is the usual criticism, but the space separate from the surrounding space.
On matters trees, the developers opposite (a corporatised entity of the State government as it turns out) were required to shift some shitty exotic tree, presumably following the mandatory flora report, which has barely grown in the 10years since the 5 hectare site was carved up. The council haven’t planted anything or maintained the shitty jacarandas (sorry Groogs) and acacias now suckering through garden beds planted by a (poor) landscape architect and handed over at no cost to the council.
Put your own house in order and then worry about what I do on my land.
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Laser beam therapy for a detaching retina is somewhat disorienting, Lizzie.
Been there, done that.
Drove home afterwards because that’s what men do. Particularly if their spouse is absent at the time.
It didn’t fix the problem, however.
You can email me for the full story, which is from some time ago, but my specialist was thrilled with the case.
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I’ve persuaded him it’s inadvisable to go to the gym today, which upsets his routine.
Eyes come first, I say quietly. He agrees. Quietly.
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I’ll see how he goes first, Anchor, but why not let everyone know briefly your experience of it?
It’s a fairly common thing apparently – age is the main aetiological factor. lol.
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Hanson gets points for being a stayer, but without Latham on the NSW racecourse she’ll be on a downhill run to irrelevance when the media start to carve her up over it. It’s only a matter of time until they put up the shrouds and call the vet.
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How and Why Wonder books online, downloadable I think. ?
Correct re suspicious transactions, known as structuring.
They have an obligation to ask.
Thanks Lizzie, love you, but I’m a bit shy of putting it all out there at the moment.
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“Latham has deleted his tweet and Hanson has thrown him under the bus.”
James Ashby, her chief of staff, is gay. I suspect that’s why.
So why didn’t Pauline slam Greenwich and ask that he apologise for his nasty tweet? Greenwich started it, calling Latham “disgusting”.
Meanwhile, in the real world, ordinary Australians are struggling to pay their power bills, to buy bread, to care for their families yet we’re being dictated to by an unholy cabal of LGBTQI+ filth (and filth they are). It all makes me feel sick. As I said above, they have deliberately weaponised our tolerance and compassion and they’re using it to bludgeon us.
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Lizzie, hope Hairy is okay.
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“Latham expected to now take a D… before every Parlie sitting” (h/t Lysander) 😛
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Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 6:07 pm
Except cohenite and me are linking to empirical research 9 times out of 10.
What empirical research showed the correctness of their claim about the 10 Universes mass? Or the achievement of C+delta speed, let alone 10C?
It’s all theoretical, just like String Theory, and just as devoid of real, tangible evidence.
All paper, HDD-based, maybe even USB thumb-drive based “evidence”.
Example.. from Dot’s link at 18:03: At positive temperatures, such a reversal would be unstable and the atoms would collapse inwards. But the team also adjusted the trapping laser field to make it more energetically favourable for the atoms to stick in their positions. This result, described today in Science, marks the gas’s transition from just above absolute zero to a few billionths of a Kelvin below absolute zero.
and “as though you can stand a pyramid on its head and not worry about it toppling over,”
and Another peculiarity of the sub-absolute-zero gas is that it mimics ‘dark energy’
Yep, all language to show this is all hunky-dory-kosher, no hyperbole at all!
No massaging of the message for layman consumption in a previously respectable Journal, now to the left of Che.
And all in a single article from January 2013, not reproduced since.
A billionth of a degree… that is one damn fine thermometer.
Yep, empirical evidence one can hang their hat on.
These guys should have got a Nobel, that they didn’t is a travesty!
I am convinced.
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Now they are no longer being pruned for overhead power lines, Queensland box trees reaching for the sky. Which is bad news for people in bare feet and double pluggers.
Except cohenite and me are linking to empirical research 9 times out of 10.
Dot, get serious. The only “empirical research” Cronkite does is looking around the web for trannies he refers to as cute owls’. Please.
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Latham is no homophobe. I bet he voted yes to SSM in 2017. I think he just can’t stand this whole LGBTQI+ industry, promoted by the likes of Greenwich.
You now, I feel as though I’m in a bus that’s gone over a steep cliff, and I’m sitting in this bus, screaming, shouting, crying, knowing it’s too late to save the bus and everyone on it, and the bus is gliding through the air, about to crash. This bus represents the state of the West now.
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It’s good that Latham’s comments were repeated in msm, lots of people don’t bother with twitter but I think his response to You’re disgusting with, no you’re disgusting will resonate with many ordinary Australians.
Didn’t know St Michaels in Belfield was an ad orientum parish with both English and Latin mass.
No wonder the ‘community’ is so outraged with trad Catholics.
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Isn’t it the case that Casimir is negative density which explains the negative pressure between the surfaces.
Cohenite it is only negative pressure relative to the vacuum outside the plates. A true vacuum would have no quantum virtual pairs in it. The vacuum between the plates approaches this vacuum so is lower pressure than the vacuum outside the plates.
All you are seeing is a higher pressure pushing on a lower pressure. The lower pressure bit is the lower energy state. But even it isn’t the zero energy state because that only occurs when the spacing between the plates is zero. Which is impossible. 😀
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A pal told me a story about a very rich aussie dude who somehow either lost his dog or if was stolen recently. The guy offered a reward of 10K but that didn’t work. He then hired a private investigator that cost him $75,000 and this was unsuccessful.
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calli says:
March 30, 2023 at 6:10 pm
Yes. My late brother in law got another 18 months of life from the experimental treatment, now becoming more widely used. At the time he was part of a study group.
It was carefully targeted at the cancer which was running rampant through his body.
It shouldn’t need elaboration, but there’s a massive difference in the risk benefit algorithm of using experimental mRNA-anything in someone with metastatic cancer vs doing it in someone with a potentially bad cold.
Especially when compared to what was routine treatment as little as 10-15 years ago ie. combinations of lethal poisons carefully dosed to kill cancer just preferentially to their human host.
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The only “empirical research” Cronkite does is looking around the web for trannies he refers to as cute owls’. Please.
Rabz says:
March 30, 2023 at 3:02 pm
Latham 1 Greenwich 0
Blot outrageously outraged (again).
Right on cue.
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I know trans ‘women’ hate TERFs, esp if they are sex refusing lesbians but do they have a special name for gay men who refuse to have sex with trans ‘men’*?
There seems to be a major rift in the LGBT world and it’s likely, unfixable.
Perpetually angry with destroyed bodies, lost ability to reproduce, lost ability to fully enjoy sexual relationships, a life time of hormones and physical and mental health issues and a vanishingly small pool of potential partners, not likely to be anything else but angry.
Seems only a few trans people are attracted to other trans people; most seem to want relationships with gays, lesbians or normies who mainly reject them, simply because they are not attracted to them.
Not something most people have any control over.
* saw this discussed on twitter, gay men were pretty adamant about voting no.
The resolution calls on the ICJ to lay out nations’ obligations for protecting Earth’s climate, and the legal consequences they face if they don’t.
Whatever happened to national sovereignty?
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In another tweet on Thursday, Mr Latham said President Barack Obama was “the ultimate whore” for charging up to $900 for tickets to a speaking tour.
Two points spring to mind. At $900 it appears that the bloom is well and truly off the Obamas, the Clintons were raking in heaps more than that for their speaking engagements. What sad freaks would pay $900 let alone turn up to listen to jug ears waffle on.
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The Australian Federal Police is refusing to hand over the full brief of evidence in the investigation of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation to a powerful inquiry investigating police conduct.
Strange how all the Bureaucrats and Government employees suddenly think that they are above the law, and are no longer answerable to senators.
there’s a massive difference in the risk benefit algorithm
Yes Gilas. We were all well aware of the experimental nature of the treatment. He opted for it because every other avenue was closed.
He is gone now, but he had a little more time with his wife and boys and every moment of that was precious. It has been almost two years since he left us and left a hole to big to fill. And, providentially, his funeral fell between two periods of lockdown and before the stupid masks became mandatory.
None of us got dopey Covid at the funeral either, even though the place was packed as well as the suburban street outside the church. He was loved very much by family friends and colleagues.
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What sad freaks would pay $900 let alone turn up to listen to jug ears waffle on.
Exactly.
Obama is supposedly going to net a million dollars from this tour.
I hope the ATO get in for their cut before he goes.
Both he and Michelle must be pretty fit to be able to climb the bridge over 1200 steps.
Always laugh at those preposterous claims that Michelle is a man.
Do people not look at her hips? All woman.
What sad freaks would pay $900 let alone turn up to listen to jug ears waffle on.
Corporates trying to spend this years ESG budget. I expect you could count the number of people putting their hand in their own pocket on one hand. Much like an AFR subscription.
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Do people not look at her hips? All woman.
Where’s the forearm kink to go around those supposed hips?
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johanna says:
March 30, 2023 at 4:19 pm
Oh, and as I look out of the window and see yet more rain clouds rolling in, I recollect reading a ridiculous piece at TheirABC the other day about why the BoM’s prediction of a dry March turned out to be complete rubbish.
Well, this unexpected thing and that unexpected thing happened. It’s not our fault. But, we are totally believable, not only about next season but about hundreds of years into the future.
They also declared La Niña over and they here she is still frolicking over most of the continent.
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Do people not look at her hips? All woman.
Do people not look at her hips? All Wookie.
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Do people not look at her hips? All woman.
Padding.
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I’m waiting for the ipod to be released.
FFS, is there a more shameless hypocritical grifter in Australian politics than the Beetrooter??
Just STFU, you tiresome tomato faced twat.
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Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
March 30, 2023 at 6:14 pm
Hairy is not feeling too well right now. He’s resting up, shock I think. His routine eye test this morning showed he had a rip in one of his retinas..
Sorry to read this.
Impact or deceleration injury are the usual causes, type-2 diabetes more rarely.
Ongoing care depends on the cause.. Avoiding a repeat is, of course, essential.
Best wishes.
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I will never accept homosexual sex as “normal”, because here’s the truth, it isn’t.
Cassie, apparently neither do they since it must not be spoken of.
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Hairy is not feeling too well right now. He’s resting up, shock I think
Pass on all good wishes, for a full recovery, please, LizzieB.
Mr Hairy Beare is too young to be a rakish pirate. Take care and mend fast.
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Robert, I admire your chutzpah. I have a non vaccinated friend who does the same thing. She has the dreaded mask in her hand, but refuses to put it on.
She simply tells them, “It doesn’t work, so why use it?”
Neither GPs, nor their staff, refuse her service. But she IS a formidable person.
I went to see my GP this afternoon, I needed a new prescription for a couple of things. I wore my mask in the waiting room as the receptionists insisted but once I dot into the consulting room I took it off. The doctor kept his mask on but didn’t say anything about me taking off mine.
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So Blot does go there. Sanctimonious outrage about a certain political personage turned up to eleventy.
Not even remotely surprising.
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“Corporates trying to spend this years ESG budget. I expect you could count the number of people putting their hand in their own pocket on one hand. Much like an AFR subscription.”
“So Blot does go there. Sanctimonious outrage about a certain political personage turned up to eleventy.
Not even remotely surprising.”
Right, then I take my words earlier. He really is a dickhead.
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Bolta: Latham is a scumbag and drunk for calling Greenwich a poofta. Bolta has banned Latham for all time while suggesting Latham needs psychiatric help.
Get fu.ked bolt!
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Bolt having the vapours and declaring that Latham will never be welcome on Sky. And sadly Pauline is also having similar vapours. Spare me.
If it is a public presentation, I somehow doubt that he will reject it from a Labor Minister.
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Cassie, yes Bolt is a dickhead and a snivelling idiot. It seems we must never fight back because it’s unseemly. We must lie down and have the steam roller flatten us.
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All Wookie.
More of a silverback IMHO.
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Doesn’t Bolt, and everyone who is scandalised by Latham’s remarks, realise that by reacting as they are they are proving that the homosexual act is not normal.
Funny how it’s OK to be described accurately in books in school libraries but adults can’t seem to handle it.
FRANCE – Woman prosecuted for insulting Macron! She called him “filth” on Facebook.
There will be no dissent in this dictatorship. No free speech, thought or action that deviates from the accepted narrative
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As for Latham, he’s by far the best politician we have.
He’s almost as funny as Trump.
About a month ago, I visited his Twitter page where he’d posted an abusive tweet from a lefty called Bill Hunt taking issue with his educational advocacy. Latham dismissed him by saying he wasn’t going to listen to somebody with a typo in his own surname.
Also pretty funny is his series of “The new PVO” tweets today ridiculing Labor courtier Troy Bramston.
rickw:
A question for us all:
“Where are they from, and what skills do they bring?”
(I’m waiting for the shrieks of “What kind of racist question is that?”)
I’m off to IGA, to get more iodine and baked beans.)
Luigi the Unbelievable will be resigning only after the ALP is kicked out of government. In the absence of an opposition, that could be decades away.
Dutton can’t even say if he will support the Voice’s abolition of one-vote-one-value democracy.
I read somewhere the other day that an MRNA vaccine is being developed for cancer….
I’m not sure if the idea is to cure cancer, or introduce it….
Either way, the culling will take place and the survivors will enter the second darks ages…
Maybe Gothic architecture will make a comeback?? 🙂
Any truth in the rumour that Albanese will be resigning, if the Voice is rejected at referendum?
Biggest predictor will be the state of his pension, has he had enough trough time?
https://www.watoday.com.au/world/europe/pope-francis-hospitalised-for-a-few-days-after-shortness-of-breath-20230330-p5cwie.html
Kneel,
possibly an alternative approach to starting the metaphorical fire is to adopt a patronising position.
Just need some stereotypical pale stale male conservative to get up in parliament and say:
“I know I speak for ALL women when I say that there are absolutely no women in the country that feel unsafe at having a biological man putting on a dress next to them in their changing room.”
Then just sit back and enjoy the music of massive shrieking outrage.
You could call it the Troll method of starting a social rebellion.
LOL.
Nonsense written by an idiot winger who will ruin the game and punt it further into eloi irrelevancy.*
Ever tried tackling below the waist in the ruck? You have to start behind the opposition team’s ball carrier.
Never mind, idiot mothers will ruin rugby league. We have nonsense like the 40/20 rule because we chose not to have contested scrums.
*I am still bitter being denied a push over a try by a solicitor referee who was very likely a back before he stopped using Clearasil. Old mate also called back play seven phases once!
People are funny about books. I generally finish a paperback and it looks like no one his even picked it up. Another friend inevitably breaks the spine and looks like they’ve played footy with it. One Tom Wolfe anthology did fall to bits however after serving as beach reading one summer.
Via Tim Blair comes this article on Meloni and the Italian Government’s changed priorities. As Blair said, the Coalition’s advertisements for upcoming elections write themselves. That’s if they actually produce vertebrae in the meantime.
What? Like breathing, walking upright, or being male or female? That’s all Nazi?
That’s about all Posie Parker has in common with Nazis, yet she’s tarred with their brush.
Go tar yourself with it, Niki Savva, for surely you too are a breathing, walking woman.
What a ridiculous condemnation by a fake association.
A psychiatrist told me that his colleagues who worked with Szasz thought he was balmy. Laing spent time in a psychiatric hospital. To be fair to him he resented being associated with the anti-psychiatry movement. Rosenhan had no association with either, his point was to establish how problematic it is to diagnose mental illness. His students even suggested the patients were better at identifying them as frauds than the staff.
They did throw out the baby with the bathwater. Prior to advent of modern therapies arising in the 60’s psychiatric institutions were over-crowded and at much higher numbers than today. Psychiatry works but psychiatry is not prophecy.
The big problem is this. A person is admitted for observation because they demonstrated behaviors indicative of mental illness. The person is aware of why they have been detained and will adjust their behavior. The poor psychiatrists are left with the nigh impossible task of trying to diagnose someone who is now masking their pathology; which is possible for a few days.
Absolutely Lizzie. Trying to understand human behavior without reference to the environment is like trying to study aerodynamics on the moon. A study published a few weeks ago found that changing the immediate environment, in the short term at least, had a bigger effect than therapeutic interventions. A major reason why Christian approaches to drug addiction work is because they can immediately transport the individual into a loving sober community.
BTW Lizzie I’m currently reading a book by an Aus philosopher who makes some interesting observations about how toxic social media has become and the huge problems that is creating for individuals and accurate information dissemination. The problem we have now is out of our hands. Do we let social media have free reign? If not, how do we constrain it? Terribly difficult questions to answer.
” Karate.”
Calli, please investigate Brazilian Ju Jitsu instead – that is, the art of “ground fighting”.
It teaches how to use your opponents superior weight and/or height and/or strength against them, get them off their feet, and how to keep them immobilised on the ground such that they cannot hurt you. A much more useful skill set for those of a smaller stature, or for anyone who is concerned with “street fighting” rather than formal contests.
In most cases, being able to keep your assailant “under wraps” while calling for and waiting for assistance is all that is required for the young lady to “win”. For worst case scenarios, also how to do a carotid “choke” – this can put most people unconscious in under 30 seconds, and does no permanent damage when done correctly (essentially, cut off blood flow to the brain, without restricting airflow to the lungs). You then have about 60 seconds to depart before they wake up, and then another 20 seconds for them to re-orient themselves – usually enough to make yourself “gone”.
I think if Teh Voice referendum is shot down, it’s out of Albo’s hands if he resigns or not. Plibbers or that irredeemable imbecile/s Bowen or Marles will be circling the big chair.
In reference to my previous cancer vaccine comment
It would be nice if the braindead lamestream meeja stopped incessantly megaphoning it. Interestingly*, the “reportage” oscillates between “oh, those poor tranny kiddees and the terrible oppression they face” and “I’ve starting calling myself I chick (even though I’ve still got a dick) and I’ve never felt more empowered”.
As for the sporting comps, the parents could always establish ones that exclude biological males. Oh, wait, there’d be no more of that lovely taxpayer moolah.
*Actually, it isn’t really.
He’ll definitely be weeping buckets and declare, as Turnbull did when he lost the Republic Referendum, that the NO vote had ‘broken Australia’s heart’.
I really think this mooted Referendum has to be a never-put event. The Liberals should axe it sounding as a Constitutional proposal, while offering up their own legislated version – say a Federalised model of a Voice from each State and Territory, being chosen through the existing Agency that costs a mint already. If they axe it without an alternative, they will look mean, but if they give voters an ‘out’ with some other proposal, far less dangerous and capable of being changed, then they will gain a NO vote even if it gets put.
Sending the whole thing back to the drawing board and well away from interfering with the Constitution is the good way forward.
axe it soundly, not sounding
“Kneelsays:
March 30, 2023 at 1:35 pm
” Karate.”
Calli, please investigate Brazilian Ju Jitsu instead – that is, the art of “ground fighting”.”
Judo is also an excellent form of self defense for young ones. I’ve always believed kids should start with Judo and then, if they still want to, go onto the other Martial Arts. A well trained Judoka can beat just about any of the wind milling arms and legs of the other codes.
The risk of concussion was sufficiently established in the late 90’s. Even animal studies where repeated little bumps on the head, not causing loss of consciousness, revealed a wave of neurodegeneration spreading from the impact site. One bod, Hazda IIRC, stated that going back onto the field after a concussion was playing Russian roulette with the brain. Other studies showed huge declines in cerebral blood flow. Helmets won’t help. The problem is not blunt trauma, it is G forces, up to 95g in some studies. The helmets would need to be like motorcycle helmets with a cushioning to reduce that. Not practical, helmets will be too big, probably break their necks as a result.
People will keep letting their kids play contact sports(which I consider to be nuts), people will keep watching. Every single concussion is brain damage. Anyone who seeks legal action because of injury occurring the last decade has no argument. We have been adequately informed. For those prior to this century, they certainly have a legal case to mount but the question there is can the clubs be held accountable for CTE when prior to this century no-one really knew about the risks? That’s for legal eagles to answer.
There is a movie about this issue. Concussion, Will Smith plays the role of the doctor who had fight tooth and nail to have his findings accepted.
I’ll only believe he’s sincerely shattered by the result if he ritually disembowels himself on the steps of ol’ Parliament House.
“Grate moments in Ozzie Democracy, part eleventy gazillion”.
Indeed.
The proposed rule change seems to all but guarantee a breakaway will make a metre+ off the ruck – or the defending side will concede a penalty.
Welcome to a Safe New World of broken mauls trundling up and down the field. Breakaway off the back, grab a metre, expose your waist, tackled, recycle, breakaway…
Great fun and a thrilling spectacle.
Have done it many times before – never been asked why subsequently – but as noted, I have a prepared answer: NONE OF YOUR FCUKING BUSINESS…
So much teasing.
Nice. It’ll be worth the wait I’m sure.
Oh it was far far worse than that: Big Clive spent millions of his own money to source more than enough Hydroxychloroquine to treat the entire Australian population for COVID. Our wise rulers seized it and destroyed it.
X-Man (well they are superior to normal wimmins) wants to play top level basketball.
A transgender basketballer who is bidding to play in the NBL1 competition this season has spoken publicly for the first time on the issue and pleaded for critics to remember there is “actually a person” involved.
Lexi Rodgers, who is hoping to play for the Kilsyth Cobras in the women’s semi-professional basketball league, broke her silence on Wednesday when she spoke on former WNBL player Anneli Maley’s podcast, Under the Surface.
“It’s good to have a bit of a voice, now, because, when it’s this hypothetical person and people are making a picture of what a transgender athlete looks like in their head: one, I don’t think it’s me; and two, I think it’s a bit harsh, and people just forget that there’s actually a person,” Rodgers said.
“If you don’t get it and you don’t know: one, don’t yell stuff on the internet about it because it’s probably wrong; and, two, go and learn about it.
“Please be nice. It has been a hard week, so just try to remember that there are actual people who are affected by these discussions and these debates.”
Maley and other Australian players such as Chloe Bibby said they would support transgender women playing in the NBL.
Basketball Victoria has completed a 15-page policy statement on the issue which says it will “support participation opportunities for transgender athletes while balancing fairness and inclusion, particularly for Victorian senior representative leagues such as NBL1 South, Big V and CBL”.
Pulls the ‘dont make me have a sads by opposing me or you are a bad person” card straight off the bat.
This is awesome…
But hey, believe all wimmins.
Estranged wife charged with conspiracy to murder union boss John Setka
Former lawyer Emma Walters to face court next week after allegedly trying to acquire a firearm, police say
The estranged wife of John Setka has been charged with conspiracy to murder the Victorian union leader following a police search on Wednesday.
Nine newspapers first reported on Wednesday, and other media confirmed, that the former lawyer Emma Walters has been charged after allegedly attempting to acquire a firearm and making threats to kill a man earlier this month.
A spokesperson for Victoria police confirmed charges had been laid.
“Investigators executed a search warrant at a residential address in Footscray on Wednesday, 29 March where they seized a mobile phone,” the spokesperson said.
“A 46-year-old Footscray woman has subsequently been charged with incitement to commit conspiracy to murder, incitement to acquire a firearm and make threats to kill.”
The alleged target was reportedly Setka, the Victorian secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
Walters has been contacted by Guardian Australia for comment.
She told The Age newspaper that she denied the allegations.
“I’ve been handcuffed today, I’ve dealt with the allegations that have been put to me,” she said.
Walters has been released on bail to face Melbourne magistrates court on 5 April.
Setka was also contacted for comment.
Kneel, I stand corrected. Both brother and sister are doing Ju Jitsu, not Karate. They apparently have “belts” as progression with little badges like the cubs and brownies.
The children love it. And yes, they both have slight builds but are astonishingly lithe and strong.
Fat Bastard going big – not going home yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/30/clive-palmer-christian-porter-300bn-lawsuit-against-australian-government
Clive Palmer’s Singapore-based company Zeph Investments is suing Australia for $296bn, enlisting the help of former attorney general Christian Porter in a landmark case arguing a breach of the Asean free trade deal.
The case relates to Western Australia’s extraordinary law to prevent Palmer from seeking compensation over his massive Pilbara iron ore project, which was rejected by the WA government.
In a notice of arbitration dated 28 March, seen by Guardian Australia, Palmer as director of Zeph Investments claimed that the commonwealth breached its obligations on investments and compensation for taking property.
Porter, who as attorney general intervened in the high court in favour of Palmer’s case to reopen WA’s border during the pandemic before the commonwealth withdrew from the case, is listed as the lead lawyer. Nine other lawyers including Palmer’s wife, Anna Palmer, are also listed.
Guardian Australia revealed in 2020 that Zeph Investments Pty Ltd had requested consultations about possible litigation. The investor-state claim against Australia was listed as a risk to the federal budget.
Palmer’s mining company Mineralogy was in dispute with WA over the stalled Balmoral South iron ore project, which was rejected by the then-premier Colin Barnett in 2012.
This is just sloppy thinking – in fact, it is not thinking at all.
The original Nazis were evil enough, and they are these days the very by-word for evil (as should Russian Communists, Maoists, and Castro Communists be), but it is comical to think that every single thing they did was the evil way of doing it.
Doubtless they liked their buses running on time, they liked music, liked food etc. They weren’t the evil version of bus passengers or listened to evil music evilly etc.
Remember that scene from that Austen Powers movie.
I suspect the Nazis did not approve of bestiality. That does not make bestiality good.
People like Sava exhibit no awareness of the evils of Nazis, just knows they are ‘bad’. It means that she will be blind to other instances of evil because it is not Nazi.
Imagine what Antifa would be like if they had a nation-state at their disposal. We have seen their proclivity to street violence, mob violence, their absolute intolerance of different opinions, their appetite for seeing their ‘enemies’ as grotesque ogres that can be abused and maltreated with impunity.
Isn’t their current obsession with ‘white supremacists’ really just their word for Aryan and therefore Nazis.
Jupes, I like the 1908 and I always liked the Cellini. Not a fan of exhibition casebacks, though – especially on heritage-derived models. Also, 39 mm is too large for a dress watch. The 1908 should be a 37 or even 35.
It is not a vaccine in the usual sense. It is a treatment for existing cancer not preventing cancer. The big problem with making the immune system attack cancer is that cancer cells express on the cell surface the same proteins as our normal cells. Not always, mutations can result in the presentation of different proteins. That is where mRNA can be a huge benefit. Obviously, this can only work when the cancer cells have been biopsied so the relevant proteins can be identified. There’s a lot more to unpack there, even me with little information about it can see a host of other issues, but as you have already decided it is another killing machine by the deep state there is no point elaborating. You’ll change your mind when the doctors suggest to you … .
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-mrna-vaccine-cancer-immunotherapy.html
Cassie, if you are close by,
Alex Greenwich after the St Michael’s Church protest;
“Mark Latham is a disgusting human being and people who are considering voting for One Nation need to realise they are voting for an extremely hateful and dangerous individual who risks causing a great deal of damage to our state,’ Mr Greenwich said at a press conference.”
Mark Latham’s reply;
“The statement was then posted on Twitter, with Latham responding at 10.13am on Thursday: ‘Disgusting? How does that compare with sticking your d*** up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s***?’”
Lol! via the Daily Mail.
The ‘appalling’ Mark Latham tweet directed at a rival who called him a ‘disgusting human being’ – and it’s shocked the political world.
Oh no. The political world is shocked.
How does that compare with sticking your d*** up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s***?
I think youll find that title in the young adults section of the library.
Wasn’t legislation passed long ago that required banks to report transactions >$5,000 they thought were suspicious?
https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/how-comply-guidance-and-resources/reporting/suspicious-matter-reports-smr
SNAP! Fellow Cats!
Pog, I posted the link after reading your post.
Thanks for the news tip.
And girls will give it away, or their parents will do so on their behalf. An unintended consequence is likely to be a resurgence of ballet and dance participation because girls are way better at it than boys, even transgender ones. At least it will be a level playing field so to speak.
Latham’s tweet isn’t “homophobic” at all. He is simply describing the mechanics of homosexual intercourse, which everyone knows but no one dare talk about because of its unsavoury aspects.
And asking Greenwich to compare those mechanics to himself on the “disgusting” scale.
Latham 1 Greenwich 0
Trust destroyed is not easily regained.
Aside from that, our time in this world is temporary.
Perhaps we should be spending more of our limited time simply living our lives, rather than trying to extend them.
We humans still believe ourselves to be be far more powerful than we really are.
Our attempts at playing God need to stop…
Ballet keeps girls very strong and fit. It also builds both emotional and physical confidence. They end up having no fear of performance and audiences, which helps later in life with presentations and other public speaking.
Plus lots of glitter, makeup and hairspray and cool dressups.
Chinese Military To Just Shout Wrong Pronouns At American Soldiers
“Kneel, I stand corrected. Both brother and sister are doing Ju Jitsu, not Karate.”
Excellent news!
I have seen a 50kg woman hold a 100+kg man on the ground with no problem using those techniques.
And keep one away when they are standing and you are on the ground – they can’t get close!
When well learned and practiced, definitely the go-to art for self defense.
From the Oz.
Poor innocent mites! Didn’t they know how it worked? Did they think these guys just sat at trendy cafés drinking trendy coffees and discussing trendy wallpaper?
John Setka makes me laugh.
Yelling at someone doesn’t make you tough. It means you’re a obnoxious dickhead.
I’m surprised more people haven’t tried to sock him or take him fishing.
It is worse than that.
I note further in the article it says:
My understanding is that the Christians were not protesting. They were holding a function. It was the QWERTY people who turned up to protest against them holding it.
They mention someone getting hit, and hint (without committing themselves to explicitly saying so, which makes me suspicious) that it was one of the Christian mob that hit a QWERTY protestor. If so, it begs the question of why the press has not seen fit to report so pointedly on the violence the QWERTY mob dish out to people who disagree with them.
Oh it was far far worse than that: Big Clive spent millions of his own money to source more than enough Hydroxychloroquine to treat the entire Australian population for COVID. Our wise rulers seized it and destroyed it.
Didn’t know that, Duk.
I was amazed to hear Clive speak at the recent forum for Drs Peter McCullough, Pierre Kory & others in Sydney. I think I may have posted this before – he was pretty ill with Covid & told by hospital staff in Qld that he wouldn’t survive it (!). He told the audience that he was in an ambulance to be taken home (to be with his wife at the end) when a young doctor got in the ambulance & told him he could administer Ivermectin & possibly save him. The rest is history – and is the reason why Clive spent a lot of money bringing McCullough & others to Oz.
Even despite stores of Hydroxy destroyed, wonder why he could not get his hands on some?
Someone mentioned Fat Cloive. I am no fan (not notafan).
But he must be pretty peeved that he’s got all of these people around the world chasing him for money he owes them but the WA Gubber”mint” which lost a court case to him (for 40 Bill!) changed the law overnight so as to not pay a cent…
Did somebody elect her to be the leader or is she self-appointed?
All true.* It’s very important to choose a school with a firm but wise instructor, though. Most of the girls won’t make it big. Ballet is like J.J. Cale’s cocaine in the sense that she don’t lie – regarding whose body type can and cannot be forged into prima donna material.
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* Speaking from sisters’ experience
Once again, it was not QWERTY rally, it was a Women’s rally (and ‘anti-Trans’ if your IQ tops out at j’ismist level). The QWERTY mob were the ones protesting.
Simple experiment – would the Women’s mob be there if there was no QWERTY mob. Answer: Yes.
Would the QWERTY mob have been there if the Women’s mob were not. Answer: No.
One side was a rally, the other a protest. One was engaging in free speech (whether you agree with it or not) and the other was there to protest – well, attempt to thwart, actually. Protest does not mean to express your opinion now, it means to deny other people the right to air their opinions.
That and finishing school would be all gals need in terms of formal ed and the rest is creating a pleasant, a non-drama queen home life.
Keeping large amounts of cash in the house simply invites burglaries. Young thieves usually target older residents because they know there will be cash on the premises.
With all of these “rallies” getting violent, dangerous and out of hand, all we need is some false actor (aka Nazi) to do something terrible before “our” government locks such things down, including any dissent or “hate speech” against the mentally ill trannies.
Re-education camps for most of you (us) Cats!!! **rolls eyes**
I agree.
On ballet schools…pick one run by a sensible young woman (hopefully a young mum) who has a normal body. No raddled old prima ballerinas with legs like matchsticks and expectations way beyond their pupils’ capabilities.
It is a very competitive sport and some schools just go way too far. My girls were lucky as we had just the right one a suburb away. It never stopped being fun, just one too many activities in a calendar filled with sports and clubs in the end.
All the different types of shoes lined up at the back door made me think I had a family of centipedes, not humans.
I missed this. Really strange.
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Fthink-about-what-you-did-anonymous-email-to-bruce-lehrmann-revealed-20230324-p5cuz3.html
Former federal Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann told police he received an anonymous email titled “coming for you” and urging him to “have a think about what you did” before he was publicly named as the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins, documents tendered in the Federal Court reveal.
Among a raft of documents filed as part of the preliminary dispute is a transcript of Lehrmann’s interview with Australian Federal Police in Sydney on April 19, 2021, during which he told police he had received “two emails from a domain name, not owned by me” in January that year.
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Days later, he forwarded the emails to police. The first, titled “Coming for you” and dated January 25, 2021, appeared to have been sent by “Bruce Lehrmann”, although Lehrmann said the corresponding email address was not his.
The email concluded: “It’s going to be a magical 2021.”
The second email said: “Truth will come out.”
The identity of the author or authors is unknown.
I dispute that, email is a very compromised manner of sending information, unless it was Proton Mail and that’s still not a 100% guarantee you cannot be found.
Blot outrageously outraged (again).
Kneel says:
March 30, 2023 at 10:58 am
“Harold White has brought down the expected mass energy requirement down from the mass of Jupiter to 2200 kg for a craft 10 m x 10 m x 10 m travelling up to an effective 10 c.”
That’s a good one! White has finally realised that grifting is much more rewarding than playing with orbital flight calculations.
Separating the gullible from their $$ is, after all, God’s work.
Not sure why it’s grifting.
We’ve been playing God since we started playing with fire. Every modern medical treatment is playing God. Get over it.
Longevity is over-rated. Given my lifestyle it is amazing I’m still in good health. I was a renowned psychonaut who was on multiple drugs and still be coherent. Sort of, typically become very introspective. Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs. I don’t eat well, I don’t sleep well, I don’t socialise, I don’t give a damn. I should be dead. Why I am not dead!? Damn you God why have you let me off the hook? Scared are ya? Don’t wanna be judged by me because you stuffed up so much? Come on you gutless swine face the music.
Mind blowing. I didn’t realise Unruh radiation had been observed, of all places, at CERN.
Very simple maths, elegant results.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2023/03/how-qi-gets-rid-of-gravitational.html
How QI gets rid of the Gravitational Constant, Big G
Inertia has never been understood, it has just been assumed that “Things keep going in a straight line, unless you push on them”, but why? Quantised inertia (QI) explains why.
This diagram shows an object (the black circle) accelerating to the left. Quantum mechanics states that all accelerated objects see a warm bath of thermal (random) radiation called Unruh radiation (orange) that has now been observed at CERN (Lynch et al., 2021). Relativity states that information from the far right will never catch up to the object since it is limited to the speed of light (c) (the black area to the right). The new assumption of quantised inertia (QI) is that the object & horizon (edge of the black) damp the Unruh radiation between them, as in the Casimir effect (the blue area) so more radiation pushes the object from the left than the right – this model predicts inertia (McCulloch, 2013).
“All the different types of shoes lined up at the back door made me think I had a family of centipedes, not humans.”
No doubt this thought was confirmed by the amount of food they consumed 🙂
1) Correct, cash transaction above 5k (or suspiciously close to it) attract and SAR (suspicious activity report) from the bank – but my reply remains the same – report all you want but its my money so fcuking give it to me…
2) 2k per ATM from each of the big 4 per day is less than 5k – if this is regarded as suspicious – refer to #1 above
I have been transacting 95% of my life in cash for years, if that marks me as a dodgy citizen – just add it to the list!
You’re still here because you obviously didn’t try hard enough….
Keeping it in the bank simply invites legalised theft
Potato, Potaa-toe
Should hotels be able to charge gay couples more for a room due to their proclivity for painting the sheets?
You need to be on drugs to handle the lifestyle that goes with taking them.
From that Daily Mail report on Latham:
Last year…
True character.
This isn’t true. This makes the same mistake that critics of natural law make re glasses, as if a lens that corrects our failing eyesight is contrary to nature. No, it isn’t. Medical treatments, modern or not, properly understood, are all aimed at correcting some form of disease or injury. That isn’t ‘playing God’. Not in the slightest.
Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 3:06 pm
Not sure why it’s grifting.
How does the 10C claim fit with empirically consistent (science is never proven) Special Relativity and the Lorentz transformation with regards to mass and length?
And that’s just for starters.
White is basically claiming that Space-Time geometry, 120 years of physics, multiple Nobel Prizes and thousands of astrophysical observations are all a massive fraud..
Good luck with that.
He’d have better luck claiming a confined nuclear fusion breakthrough. At least, the claim may have some empirical basis, and is only 40 years away from being realised, just as it was in the 1960s.
John H.
Would it be fair to characterise the challenge of treating cancers as being mainly a problem of needing to induce an auto-immune response but only at cells that are concealing their cancerous intent?
I hope he wins but maybe is awarded a few hundred million to compensate him for the free COVID drugs he bought and the Commonwealth confiscated and destroyed.
Boambee John:
They aren’t stupid, John.
How many of the people who foist this problem on us are profiting from it?
Over 95% of Parliamentarians have rental properties. How many have multiple properties?
As the housing market tightens, how many new homes are being built? Bugger all because ‘zoning rules’
This is a gigantic Ponzi scheme. And the bastards are doing it deliberately.
dover sermonised:
Yeah! Exactly. It’s totally not at all like playing God. It’s playing Jesus. Yuuuge difference.
And in the same vein, wookies do not live on Endor.
The fire, dover. What do you say about using fire. That’s not fixing a disease or injury.
Sanch Panzer:
I have two bathrooms. What’s unusual about that?
Of course the second one only gets used at barbecues and is otherwise known as “The Lemon Tree.”
Have you tried my lemon meringue? It has a unique flavour and texture.
For those who may be contemplating getting a Novavax booster, for whatever reason:
U.S. FDA flags risk of heart inflammation after Novavax COVID vaccine | Reuters
I get the feeling they’re covering for the other guys.
…and no, I am not saying Novavax has NO side effects, ALL medicines and medical interventions do.
Bolt is getting rather pittiful
Last time I checked (2 years ago) he was struggling to string 10 words together in a coherent sentence.
I find it difficult to tolerate that. Sad.
Under such conditions, being outraged is easier to pull off than being informative and precise.
Crossie:
Sometimes a child will deliberately break the boundary fence of common sense and probity to see just how far the parents can be pushed.
Now substitute ‘politician’ for ‘child’ and ‘citizen’ for ‘parent’.
Theory of Mind Breakthrough: AI Consciousness & Disagreements at OpenAI [GPT 4 Tested]
That was what crossed my mind too, Calli.
The ‘-phobic’ thing is way out of hand. While it literally means an irrational fear of something. Yet the people it is often levelled at do not ‘fear’ the thing. They dislike, disapprove, or perhaps even hate something. But it is the ‘irrational’ part where the sting is. A blah-blah-phobe is irrational and stupid. They cannot be reasoned with and since reason will not fix them, force will be required.
Yet there are all sorts of rationales for being opposed to homosexuals (here I am keeping with the theme of the original complaint and without endorsing any perspective – I actually have no problems with gays).
Perhaps a person has religious objections. While another person might not believe in the almighty or the Bible, belief in them is not irrational. They might not be based on ‘proof’, but that is not the same as being irrational. Every believes in things: Love, or justice, or even ‘truth’, which most people not only could not define, but could not tell you how to find it or what ‘Truth’ would look like.
Perhaps it is a matter of biology. Someone may believe that homosexuality is a dead-end and should not be encouraged in the species, any more than other congenital defects (and, once more, not saying these are my views).
Perhaps it is more sociological. If society ‘creates’ homosexuals then society ought to be able to ‘not create’ them. For all the pain and confusion, and alienation, it can cause, damage to relationships etc, if we can spare people ever having to encounter that would it not be a defensible cause?
I give the above merely to make the point that people who object to homosexuality will be instantly labelled as homophobes, as in being seized by an irrational fear, when they are being rational (right or wrong).
Now, if we want to talk about people who don’t like homosexuality, surely it should be homomisia. But it does not carry the overtones of irrationality, so it is not a useful expression.
Dot, earlier and apropos of Mr Setka:
Setka appears to have some level of arm strength, most likely from extensive free schooner raising.
However, and as Brian Alexander would attest, Early Kooks are really heavy.
The only way Latham could have made his tweet better is if he started it with:
‘I will NOT be lectured to by…..’
Have we seen a white male Senator being treated differently in the same circumstances, Patricia? Have we seen any of them do anything near as provoking as what Thorpe did?
Sabine Hossenfelder (Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray) and Peter Woit (Not even wrong: the failure of string theory and the continuing challenge to unify the laws of physics), among others, belled the “cat” years ago about the multitude of crackpot theories which have polluted physics since the 1960s.
Inconsistencies in the Standard Model remain as unresolved as they were following the now-admitted-as-dodgy achievements of QED in the early 1960s.. all despite $$billions spent on humongous particle accelerators which can only claim the confirmation of the Higgs Boson as the reason for their ongoing existence and funding.
If you can’t even find the Graviton, how are you going to travel at 10C.
Good news! I have passed probation and remain employed. Pray for the mining industry.
Is Alex Greenwich gay? Sheesh, I didn’t see that coming. He must hide it well.
Harsh but fair.
I find that admiring Michael Trumble is nauseatingly unattractive.
It’s a step up from the Rockingham Magistrates Court forPorter but I wouldn’t be spending the proceeds just yet. I could think of more productive things to do with my time.
Amazing isn’t it? We’ve gone from a month of celebrating “Pride”, with the usual provocative and shameless costumes, the explicit body movements and dancing, the flags and the talk and the songs and the promotion of all things homosexual.
And now we’re suddenly expected to go all coy about what homosexual intercourse actually is. And anyone who describes it is a homophobe.
Are they now ashamed? Embarrassed? Hardly.
Latham shone a torch on behaviour that hides itself behind closed doors (unless you watch SBS). Well, Sydney is having its Vivid festival, so maybe the more light the better.
I think you mean, “how are you going to find dark matter”?
Maybe, but they did observe Unruh radiation.
The Alcubierre metric comes from GR. The problems in the standard model are in particle physics, more modern observations and modified gravity (fudge factor, MOND) or theoretically derived and empirically proven (QI) show that galaxy rotation isn’t a problem at all.
If GR is fine, then any implications from manipulating the tensor might be legitimate. McCulloch actually explains in his book that Maxwell’s equations work fine with experimental “problems” if the dimensions are moved from three to five. The thing is it is meaningless.
You can believe White or not but he says he has created very small warp bubbles. He has a specialised interferometer. Not a particle accelerator or absurd dark matter catching device. His results could be replicated or not at a reasonable cost.
(There is actually [a very small] some error in SR, engineers involved in GPS data can explain it better than me).
Some recent comments about masks and related matters.
Went to the local Aldi today, the plastic screens had been removed from the checkouts. The attendant at the checkout I used was pleased to be able again to hear what the customers were saying.
I get where you’re coming from, however I reckon if you’re going to shell out the big bucks for top-end luxury watch, you would want to see what you are paying for. Most of the cost is for artisans to polish the little wheels and plates. That 1908 has a really nice looking movement even if it is probably mostly machine finished.
A bit of history on the name. 1908 is the year Rolex was registered in Switzerland. It had started in London three years earlier. The 1908 is modeled on an Oyster Perpetual from 1931.
AS A MOTHER, SPEAKING AS A WOMAN, SPEAKING WITH MY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE HAT ON NOW…
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Reminds me of Barry Humphries’ experience, recounted in one of his books.
His mother got rid of all the books he had stored at the family home. When he protested, she said:
“But Barry, you’ve read them.”
A similar thing happened to me when the Wicked Stepmother moved in when I was living interstate. Without consulting me, she got rid of all my childhood books. She genuinely couldn’t understand why I was upset about losing all my Anne books and my How and Why Wonder books and so on. They took up a couple of boxes of space on a five acre property.
Some people just don’t get it.
Don’t get me started on the non-return of borrowed books. I ceased being a lending library (with rare exceptions) many years ago. Again, the borrowers seemed genuinely surprised that I cared.
Dont worry, Dan’s new SEC will fix it.
While acknowledging the complexity of the commission’s task, the Victoria Energy Policy Centre’s Bruce Mountain has argued that its calculations have overestimated the production costs facing many of the state’s retailers.
“The vast bulk of our electricity comes from mine mouth brown coal and that brown coal is purchased on long-term contracts,” he said.
“How does the 10C claim fit with empirically consistent (science is never proven) Special Relativity and the Lorentz transformation with regards to mass and length?”
Much like Newton vs Einstein, extremes often show the deficiencies in “standard” theories.
Newton was good enough to get men on the moon and Voyager past Jupiter, but was stumped by Mercury’s orbit.
Conventional aerodynamics suggests bees can’t fly – you need to add turbulence to make it work for bees and other insects, which conventional aerodynamics abhorred until they managed to figure out the math behind it.
As I understand it, current FTL theory is based on distorting space-time, so that you never exceed C, you just make B closer to A – kind of the “wormhole” or “other dimension” theory, if you like, or folding a piece of paper in 3D to make the 2D distance between points shorter lower dimensional analogy (hence “apparent 10c”). Most of this seems to rely on exotic matter (things like negative mass, or huge mass and hence high space-time distortions and so on), which no-one has been able to see or make yet, so probably a bit early to be cheering (or leering, as the case may be).
Oh, and as I look out of the window and see yet more rain clouds rolling in, I recollect reading a ridiculous piece at TheirABC the other day about why the BoM’s prediction of a dry March turned out to be complete rubbish.
Well, this unexpected thing and that unexpected thing happened. It’s not our fault. But, we are totally believable, not only about next season but about hundreds of years into the future.
Give me strength.
There’ve been several serious papers on MOND in the science press over the last half year. I’m agnostic, especially since there’s also been at least one paper fingering dark matter as old black holes. This stuff is interesting, but unfortunately I’m still not seeing anything with sufficient oomph to approach or exceed c. Which probably means the Pentagon’s hidden alien mothership doesn’t exist.
Berka, that is one of the weakest responses I’ve read.
It is if you’re cauterizing a wound. But still, no, not playing God. Neither is doing mathematics. Or writing. Or solving a puzzle. Or building a house. And so on.
People watch movies again and again. Why not reread books again and again. It’s the experience that is the fun thing.
Currently 17 novels in on a reread of two series by a SF author. Read both series a few time before, but I’m having a really great time. One of the novels in the first series which I thought was weak first time I read it I now have decided is really excellent. Go figure.
“Blot outrageously outraged (again).”
Not sure about that. Methinks Blot has had somewhat of an epiphany lately, he’s finally woken up and realised that the left are beyond redemption, you can’t debate or discuss with them, they are intolerant, they are nasty, they are vindictive AND they are violent. He’s been consistent about Kellie-Jay from the beginning of the “Nazi” slur, slamming dunderhead Pussotto.
As for Latham, he’s by far the best politician we have. His description of Greenwich sexual proclivities is 100% accurate. Greenwich is a most unsavoury and sinister individual who supports some very sinister groups. He called Latham “disgusting”, and Latham returned serve and good on Latham for doing so. I’m tired of turning the other cheek. Here’s the truth, it’s Greenwich who’s disgusting. Of course the MSM are running with it. It’s okay for Greenwich to call Latham “disgusting” but it’s not okay for Latham to reply. What a great world we now live in.
Oh and by the way, are now compelled to celebrate and sanctify homosexual sex? Is this is the society we’re now living in? It seems I’ve woken up to a dystopian nightmare where LGBTQI+ are now a protected species. how long before gulags for those of us who protest. How long before they demand the first born son of every family be gifted to them? Not long I suspect. One thing is for sure, everyday my decision to vote NO in 2017 in confirmed. And you know what? I suspect many who voted stupidly voted “yes” in 2017 would vote NO in 2023.
I will never accept homosexual sex as “normal”, because here’s the truth, it isn’t.
Oh no Cassie. It’s worse than that.
We may not even describe it.
Let me remind people here that those protesters who went out to the church at Belfield were urged to by Greenwich.
JMH:
I point blank refused. As simple as that.
Then the onus is on them to enforce their rules.
So far, all the establishments have caved bar one.
… And the mass murder of Christians and their children by an enraged “trans” activist.
In other news…never, ever, ever buy a fully refundable ticket with Alitalia Airlines.
They will not honour a cancellation. They must be run by The Mob.
Dot:
I imagine the threats he would have received put him in the “Hero Judge” class.
God knows it’s been awarded so few times in this country.
I reject your premise. In fact, it’s damned mean spirited of you.
They’re weaponised our compassion against us and they’ve weaponised our tolerance against us.
It’s time to stop being compassionate and tolerant.
Psychiatrists are no better than anyone else at detecting cons, whatever they may think.
At Sincs, I told this story, but it is worth telling again.
My boyfriend at the time had a sister who was a compulsive gambler. She was also pretty and smart. She conned at least tens of thousands of dollars out of people to feed her habit.
One day, we went to a family lunch of his, and she was there, just out of prison. Her escort was – the prison psychiatrist!
I got to know quite a few psychiatrists when I worked in drug and alcohol services, because many of them were methadone prescribers. Let’s just say that while they were uniformly brainy, after that it was anyone’s guess what they were like.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231338162_The_Analysis_of_Harold_White_applied_to_the_Natario_Warp_Drive_Spacetime_From_10_times_the_mass_of_the_Universe_to_the_mass_of_the_Mount_Everest
Warp Drives are solutions of the Einstein Field Equations that allows superluminal travel within the framework of General Relativity. There are at the present moment two known solutions: The Alcubierre warp drive discovered in 1994 and the Natario warp drive discovered in 2001. However as stated by both Alcubierre and Natario themselves the warp drive violates all the known energy conditions because the stress energy momentum tensor is negative implying in a negative energy density. While from a classical point of view the negative energy is forbidden the Quantum Field Theory allows the existence of very small amounts of it being the Casimir effect a good example as stated by Alcubierre himself.The major drawback concerning negative energies for the warp drive is the huge amount of negative energy able to sustain the warp bubble.Ford and Pfenning computed the amount of negative energy needed to maintain an Alcubierre warp drive and they arrived at the result of 10 times the mass of the entire Universe for a stable warp drive configuration rendering the warp drive impossible.However Harold White manipulating the parameter @ in the original shape function that defines the Alcubierre spacetime demonstrated that it is possible to low these energy density requirements.We repeat here the Harold White analysis for the Natario spacetime and we arrive at similar conclusions.From 10 times the mass of the Universe we also manipulated the parameter @ in the original shape function that defines the Natario spacetime and we arrived at a result of 10 billion tons of negative mass to maintain a warp drive moving with a speed 200 times faster than light.Our result is still a huge number about the weight of the Everest Mountain but at least it is better than the original Ford-Pfenning result of 10 times the mass of the Universe.The main reason of this work is to demonstrate that Harold White point of view is entirely correct.
You can’t walk into the local medical centre without being gagged up. Hospital is the same.
I point blank refused. As simple as that.
Then the onus is on them to enforce their rules.
So far, all the establishments have caved bar one.
Robert, I admire your chutzpah. I have a non vaccinated friend who does the same thing. She has the dreaded mask in her hand, but refuses to put it on.
She simply tells them, “It doesn’t work, so why use it?”
Neither GPs, nor their staff, refuse her service. But she IS a formidable person.
I have read the White mass-energy mass requirement is down to 700 kg and he reckons he can make small ones with the interferometer without using “negative energies”.
The prospect of experiencing millions of years of woke would make me feel that way too.
Humans will achieve immortality in eight YEARS, says former Google engineer who has predicted the future with 86% accuracy (29 Mar)
Eight years from now would just about coincide with the 2,000th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So maybe this guy is right for exactly the wrong reason…
Sorry, the bare minimum for our public officials in my mind is the same as being most excellent.
86% is close to the average poker machine payout.
Dot – you need to subscribe to the Cool Worlds channel on Youtube.
The English physicist that runs the channel is a great scientist and not a dreamer of f-wit like de gruosser, “science man” the Cox.
You’ve got it backwards Tom. Apparently the tranny was a heroic champion freedom fighter or something.
“The mainstream press and trans-activists are trying to pin the targeted shooting deaths of 6 people, including three nine-year-old children, on Christians, while simultaneously rehabilitating the shooter, a trans man. Fair…?” (29 Mar)
Can You Guess Who NBC News Portrayed as the Real Victims of the Nashville Shooting? (29 Mar)
The MSM are actually getting worse. Who would believe that could even be possible?
Old Ozzie:
It will all be irrelevant when Iran detonates nukes in Israel’s major cities, as they have promised to do on multiple occasions.
900000 new residents in 18months.
What are their skills and where did they come from?
Went to the local Aldi today, the plastic screens had been removed from the checkouts. The attendant at the checkout I used was pleased to be able again to hear what the customers were saying.
It’s interesting how some things are returning to “normal”. But, quite frankly, things will not quite be “the same” for me. It was a devastating experience in so many ways. Although we had some protection in being able to flee the city during Covid – travel was dictated by “travel papers” – like any authoritarian regime- and, being unvaccinated, we were denied access to many stores, food outlets and other facilities.
I have been surprised to discover, now the measures have changed, how distressing the experience has been in retrospect. My attitude at the time was “Stuff them!” But I suppose it is like many tumultuous events, in that you cope well at the time, but often suffer a sort of PTSD later. Funnily, this annoys me more than the actual mandates.
I did.
Found a second hand copy of my missing book for $20.
(Probably my original copy anyway).
What’s the Cool Worlds channel? Here?
https://www.youtube.com/@CoolWorldsLab
Look. Start reading this. McCulloch doesn’t do blackboard physics and he isn’t interesting wasting money. He gets results. 21 peer reveiwed papers on modified gravity/inertia/galaxy rotation/Unruh radiation/propellantless drives. Simple, elegant maths and good statistical fits of OLS regression curves to data, r^2 usually over 0.95. DARPA funding (with encouraging results) and soon testing an EM drive (which works with the change in acceleration of transistors, so it’s a bit like the MEGADrive idea) in space.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/
900000 new residents in 18months.
What are their skills and where did they come from?
Mostly from India, China & the UK apparently. Their skills? Knowing where they will get the most assistance, I suppose.
If we think that we are short of teachers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists and other skilled practitioners…..”we ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” Lots more people wanting their services. Prepare to stand in line, or lie in an ambulance (if you can get one) for some time……
Latham simply told Greenwich a hard truth and he knows it. It’s not as if bleaching and colonics are not on his community’s to- do list.
Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 4:07 pm
I think you mean, “how are you going to find dark matter”?
..and Dark Energy.. and MultiVerses and..
All I’m saying is that particle physics has seriously gone off the rails, chasing beautiful theories which, even after 60 years, have no empirical backing.
About the time interval between Max Planck and Richard Feynman’s Nobels.. imagine having had no real progress for all that time.
And this despite (because of?) several-magnitude increases in $$ and # of scientists.
But yeah, we should believe that, magically, travel at 10C is a) possible and b) just around the corner.
GRRRRRRRRRR
https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-mark-butler-mp/media/expanded-access-to-subsidised-oral-antiviral-paxlovid-and-other-covid-19-supports
WTF – COVID has been in western countries for four goddamned years now!
IT’S OVER! GET OVER IT!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUSKBN23X2HQ
Good grief. We’re too stupid to survive.
And that will be no bad thing. Ballet will always be a level playing field because it has different moves and muscles used for females in contrast to males. It capitalises on a female’s natural flexibility and grace. It is a very two-sexes only activity, as is Opera, where the sex differences in vocal capacity are also integral to the performance. Western theatre, including the plays of Shakespeare, became influenced by the Italian Commedia dell’arte, where masks and appearances are used as disguises, but men and women had separate true sexual identities. Plays developed using gender-switches as a narrative device, but only in later times did this become performative drag, as happened with the declining Commedia’s influence on British pantomime.
Girls learning ballet early will always have a knowledge of good carriage and posture, and that will live with them all of their lives. Plus a love of the motions and music of dance.
I’ve seen two men dancing a Tango together and it was ridiculous.
Cassie of Sydney:
I have a solution for it, but it keeps on getting me into trouble, even though it was OK a century or two ago.
Look, I get your point, but, empirical evidence exists (apparently!) and it isn’t prohibitively expensive like a stupid underground dam to find dark matter. Plus it might be decades out, but we’re not going to get there crapping over early groundwork.
I agree Vicki. I won’t be forgetting in a hurry either.
Had a look through the old Cat archives on the Wayback Machine a few days ago – the open threads in early 2020 and a few later ones. It was interesting to watch the opinions and rhetoric change in real time and how we initially perceived the threat.
The worst was in 2021, November, and my grandson crying and hugging me when we finally met after an interminable lockdown. What little trust and respect I had for authority withered away in those weeks. I now look at government and their minions the press as the enemy. That won’t change any time soon.
Cassie of Sydney:
We won’t know if these things haven’t already happened, because the Trans movement will brutalise anyone who speaks up about it – including the media.
FDA flags risk of heart inflammation after Novavax COVID vaccine | Reuters
Given it uses the same (obsolete, toxic) Wuhan pattern spike as AZ, Pfizer and Moderna, it would be surprising if it didnt share their side effects.
From Herald Sun.
Hawthorn young gun Jai Serong will miss at least two months after being diagnosed with a heart condition.
Serong, 20, developed chest pain last weekend and was sent to hospital for further investigations before a specialist sports cardiologist confirmed a diagnosis of pericarditis.
Unless you are pureblood and never caught it or had innate immunity, or a subclinincal dose, you’re going to have problems?
What about a dead virus? Presumably it still has the spike proteins?
I am a bit confused about the spike protein, because I was under the impression they are ubiquitous in nature.
Given COVID has been in the west for four years, everyone has likely had COVID.
Property rights. we dont need your steeenking property right senor…
Bandito councils find a new opportunity to empower NIMBYs and green loonatics.
Perth councils vote to require development application for tall tree removal
They even want to be unencumbered by any sort of due process.
Both the City of South Perth and the City of Nedlands want the WA Planning Commission to approve planning amendments that mean landowners would require a development application if they want to clear trees over 8 metres tall on private property.
Residents could also face on-the-spot infringements for removing a tree without a development application.
Apparently this is a real person. This is why we cant have nice things.
I wonder how much of her groups funding comes from … ooooh lets guess, 2 councils?
No mention of funding on their website?
https://watca.org.au/
claim…
WA Tree Canopy Advocates (WATCA) secretary Kathy Lees said there was growing community support for action on tree protection.
reality…
Across Perth, fewer than 70 trees on private land are listed in local government tree registers.
I wonder what the frequency of this has been in the past?
Another question for Dr Duk.
Since when has a pandemic actually lasted more than four, let alone three years!?
I thought the rule of thumb used to be two years.
..
Trees belong in parks, not on private blocks. Especially the fkn tall ones. Especially, especially eucalypts.
Piss them all off. They’re dangerous and stupid and don’t belong anywhere near private residences.
Just been subject to some racism.
In this case the racism is that all white people look the same.
The CCP just told me they reckon I look like David Beckham’s brother….
Joe Gersh on Sharri – fail! Why bother?
Casimir is proven negative energy. To achieve FTL speeds Casimir needs to be scaled up and controlled. The scaling has been observed in nature:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.3266
Embrace the concept of ‘floor safe.’ My old man has always had one. And he will never tell, because he knows they will quite likely kill him anyway.
This bloke is an expert on the obvious:
from the Oz:
Aust
time to reconsider universal suffrage
TikTok and the CCP | Klon Kitchen
John Anderson
Words fail me, they honestly fvcking do.
Dream on.
more:
Japanese gas giant Inpex chief executive Takayuki Ueda has warned Anthony Albanese’s sweeping interventions into the energy market will “choke” investment and “strangle” expansion of gas projects in Australia.
The warnings were endorsed by Japanese Ambassador Shingo Yamagami at a closed-door lunch in Parliament House on Thursday, who said the “neon lights of Tokyo ‘’ would go out if Australia stopped producing energy resources and said the transition towards net zero cannot be rushed.
Speaking to Labor frontbenchers – including Resources Minister Madeline King and Trade Minister Don Farrell (comment: why waste your time?) – Mr Ueda said the “investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating” and that the country was now lagging “far behind” the rest of the world in the global race for investment.
Amid concerns in Japan and other key energy partners over the Albanese’s government’s recent interventions into the gas market, Mr Ueda railed-against increasingly unpredictable policy settings that have put Australia at-risk of an investment plunge.
“Unfortunately, the investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating. In Japan we say, ‘don’t cheat at rock, paper, scissors’. This translates to “don’t move the goalposts after the game has started.”
Mr Ueda said the energy policy environment in Australia “appears to be driven almost by ideology and domestic concerns” and warned of consequences of policies that will increase market opportunities for Russia and Iran.
Robert Sewellsays:
March 30, 2023 at 4:53 pm
Old Ozzie:
What the White House and State Department want is a more pliable Israeli prime minister who will keep quiet about the nuclear threat from Iran and who can be intimidated into not acting to forestall that deadly threat to Israel’s existence.
It will all be irrelevant when Iran detonates nukes in Israel’s major cities, as they have promised to do on multiple occasions.
And Israel takes the “Samson Option”, scattering a couple of hundred warheads across the Middle East and Gulf?
Hey, I used them words on the Cat a few days ago.
Either someone reads the Cat or great minds think alike. 🙂
Very cool cohenite, I forgot that McCulloch wrote that paper. I wonder how much of that has to do with the Podkletnov effect.
https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-podkletnov-effect.html
Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 5:08 pm
Look, I get your point, but, empirical evidence exists (apparently!)
This is not a personal criticism of you, Dot, but AFAIK, it’s all whiteboard theory, plonked together because.. well.. you know.. who knows.. notoriety, publications, invites to all the cool parties, some leg-over potential for lonely theoretical physicists with suboptimal conversational skills.
And with a straight face, without tremor in their voice, these people admit that these space-time warpings are likely possible with energy levels equivalent to 10 Universes… with a straight face, unperturbed.
I admire that, chutzpah on meth.
Also, from Wikipedia: Alcubierre stated in an email to William Shatner that his theory was directly inspired by the term used in the show[48] and cites the “‘warp drive’ of science fiction” in his 1994 article.
It’s all starting to make sense…
I can’t wait for the latest theory that in the new calculus of variations, the Lagrange limit of 0/0 weighs mauve sky.
full article:
Japanese gas giant Inpex chief executive Takayuki Ueda has warned Anthony Albanese’s sweeping interventions into the energy market will “choke” investment and “strangle” expansion of gas projects in Australia.
The warnings were endorsed by Japanese Ambassador Shingo Yamagami at a closed-door lunch in Parliament House on Thursday, who said the “neon lights of Tokyo ‘’ would go out if Australia stopped producing energy resources and said the transition towards net zero cannot be rushed.
Speaking to Labor frontbenchers – including Resources Minister Madeline King and Trade Minister Don Farrell – Mr Ueda said the “investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating” and that the country was now lagging “far behind” the rest of the world in the global race for investment.
Amid concerns in Japan and other key energy partners over the Albanese’s government’s recent interventions into the gas market, Mr Ueda railed-against increasingly unpredictable policy settings that have put Australia at-risk of an investment plunge.
“Unfortunately, the investment climate in Australia appears to be deteriorating. In Japan we say, ‘don’t cheat at rock, paper, scissors’. This translates to “don’t move the goalposts after the game has started.”
Mr Ueda said the energy policy environment in Australia “appears to be driven almost by ideology and domestic concerns” and warned of consequences of policies that will increase market opportunities for Russia and Iran.
“On the geopolitical front, Australia’s “quiet quitting” of the LNG business has potentially very sinister consequences. The question of who will replace Australian supply into the market is front and centre. “Alarmingly, the ‘inconvenient truth’ is most likely that Russia, China and Iran fill the void.”
The intervention by Mr Ueda and Mr Yamagami came 24-hours after the Prime Minister said “I have no concerns about our relationship with Japan” in response to concerns raised about the safeguard mechanism putting coal companies at-risk of competitive disadvantage.
“We are a secure and reliable partner. We are a partner for Japan, South Korea and other nations that always delivers on the commitments that we make,” Mr Albanese said.
Mr Albanese gave the assurances after Australian gas producers this week warned that the safeguard mechanism emissions scheme could stifle investment in new gas fields, potentially putting energy prices at risk. Major coal companies also branded Labor’s signature climate policy a “carbon tax by stealth” that would drive up energy prices, destroy jobs and kill off foreign investment. Mr Ueda invoked Mr Albanese’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Perth last year where they “reaffirmed the critical importance of enhancing energy security co-operation, including through secure and reliable energy resources trade and investment, such as LNG”.
He said Labor’s decision to not facilitate carbon, capture and storage technologies threatens Australia’s opportunity to meet its 2050 net zero target. Speaking after Mr Ueda to parliamentarians and business leaders, Mr Yamagami said Australia’s resources sector was the “bedrock” of its economic partnership with Japan and that Inpex would play a crucial role during the world’s transition towards net zero targets.
Inpex is Japan’s flagship exploration and production company, set-up in the 1960s as a state-owned company with a mandate to oversee the country’s energy security. The gas giant has been operating in Australia since 1986 and leads the Ichthys LNG project, underwriting capital investment valued over $60bn.
Mr Yamagami emphasised the important role that gas would play as an essential transition fuel and that Australian resources had played an integral role in helping to “keep Japanese homes warm” and allowed their industries to “flourish”.
“You only have to look at the vibrant streets of Japan’s never-sleeping capital. It’s hard to imagine the neon lights of Tokyo ever going out, but with Australia now supplying 70 per cent of coal, 60 per cent of iron ore, and 40 per cent of Japan’s gas imports, this is exactly what would happen if Australia stopped producing energy resources,” Mr Yamagami said.
Mr Yamagami said he was “confident” Australia would remain a trusted and stable energy exporter going forward but called for pragmatism in the process towards decarbonisation.
Speaking in the Senate, Trade Minister Don Farrell brushed-off the warnings raised by Mr Ueda and said the government’s policies would have “zero impact on our relations” with Japan.
“It won’t have any impact on our international reputation or our reliability or stability as a supplier of among other things gas,” Senator Farrell said. “We’re a democracy, just like Japan. And companies in Japan can express points of view that don’t always agree with the government of the day.” The comments follow mining giant Glencore telling The Australian there were now risks to doing business in Australia, with chief executive Gary Nagle saying an array of government interventions and tax rises have led to the nation falling behind Canada as the world’s top investment destination for commodity producers.
The president of the Japanese gas giant says foreign investment could dry up if the government continues to ‘move the goalposts’.
The president of the Japanese gas giant says foreign investment could dry up if the government continues to ‘move the goalposts’.
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham said it was “astounding” that Senator Farrell had sought to “sweep it away and suggest that there was no consequence to these remarks”. “This is the biggest Japanese investor into Australia and they are saying that there is a real consequence and so Don Farrell, Anthony Albanese of its entire Labor government really should heed the message and take the wake-up call delivered,” Senator Birmingham told the ABC. With new domestic gas market reforms coming into force on Thursday, designed to lock-in supply for households and businesses, Ms King said “protections for long-term contracts with international trading partners” has been included. Ms King said the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism reforms give the government “more flexibility to use the mechanism, if needed, in the event of a material forecast shortfall in domestic gas supplies”. “But the changes also strengthen protections for international investors with long-term contracts with key export markets such as Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia,” Ms King said.
Backing in Mr Ueda, Mr Yamagami said Inpex was “forging the path ahead by proactively engaging in energy structure reform while also ensuring the stable development and supply of energy.” “The energy and resources sector is the bedrock of the Japan-Australia economic partnership, and Inpex have been laying the foundations for investment for four decades,” he said.
“As we look towards the next four, the role of Inpex will only become more crucial, as Japanese investment continues to support Australia, Japan and the world through a smooth energy transition, while ensuring the security and prosperity of generations to come.”
No it isn’t. It’s the true ZPE. Vacuum is above theoretical ZPE because of the Heisenberg virtual pairs, so Casimir plates are just removing some of those to get closer to the actual ZPE. It’s like absolute zero: you can only approach it but you can never quite get there.
You can have big trees on big blocks. I’ve got 5 trees around my estate ( which some might describe as a detached townhouse) all of which are medium at best and don’t really have any real full sun garden beds, which isn’t really an issue in Perf anyway. Councils would be better advised to concentrate on planting and maintaining decent street and parkland trees ie stick to their lane.
There have apparently been some good results with mRna treatment in cancer trials.
Couple of family members living/ dying with cancer atm.
One is now at maintenance stage, was supposed to die nine months ago, but the tumour stopped growing of its own volition, still terminal, every day a bonus.
The other has been battling for three years, hit stage four, facing regular chemo for rest of life.
Both would leap at an mRna solution.
I think Calli mentioned her BIL got a decent few years extension from his mRna cancer treatment.
Just tell it to remarry its significant other again. That way both its can be suitably pronounded on the second certificate.
BINGO. Would any Liar PhD staffer even have a clue?
Good to see at state and federal level our governments are singing from the same destroy Australia one kilowatt at a time song book.
The Britnee saga continues, episode 195:
The Australian Federal Police is refusing to hand over the full brief of evidence in the investigation of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation to a powerful inquiry investigating police conduct.
A former judge leading the inquiry, Walter Sofronoff KC, detailed the roadblocks the inquiry was running into at a preliminary hearing today where the AFP is represented.
In an extraordinary revelation, the inquiry heard there may also be a police recording of a phone call between barrister Steve Whybrow and AFP Detective Scott Moller.
Mr Whybrow is the barrister for Bruce Lehrmann, the man previously charged in relation to the matter.
A single charge of sex without consent against Mr Lehrmann was dropped by the ACT Department of Prosecutions in December after the first trial collapsed as a result of juror misconduct.
Mr Lehrmann pleaded not guilty to the charge and has strongly denied the allegation since he was charged in August 2021.
While the AFP welcomed the inquiry and has agreed to co-operate, it has raised a number of concerns over providing some documents.
For example, it has told the inquiry that a full brief of evidence includes a large volume of unedited video and phone records that exceeds 100,000 pages.
The police have told the inquiry it would take a long time to “review the material”.
“Did anyone explain why they are reviewing it rather than handing it over?” Mr Sofronoff said.
In a statement provided following the hearing, the AFP denied it was refusing to hand over the brief, suggesting this claim was “false” before outlining why it had not handed the document over.
“The Board of Inquiry requested the AFP produce the full Brief of Evidence, and it was produced on 27 March 2023 to the extent permissible by law,” an AFP spokesperson said.
“There are statutory provisions preventing the production of certain material, including under the Telecommunications Interception Act 1979 (Cth), the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1991 (ACT) and the Crimes Act 1900 (ACT).
“As discussed at the Directions Hearing on 30 March, the AFP is proactively producing material to assist the Board of Inquiry with its important work.”
Mr Sofronoff also mentioned — twice — during the hearing about items to be produced in relation to the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.
he reference could suggest that phone taps may have been involved in the investigation, however there was no further information provided over whether this was the case or who may have been targeted.
The laws set out when eligible Australian law enforcement and security agencies are permitted to obtain warrants to intercept communications, obtain warrants to access stored communications, and authorise the disclosure of data.
Senior counsel assisting Erin Longbottom KC detailed a long list of subpoenas the AFP is resisting or has delayed production of documents.
However, Mr Sofronoff also noted several police officers involved in the investigation “have been very helpful”.
“There is a magnitude of work you are being asked to undertake,” Ms Longbottom said.
“It is critical that we have the timely production of documents. To date there have been issues with the timely production of documents.”
The ACT government announced the probe into the prosecution last year, stressing it would not be about recontesting Ms Higgins’ rape allegation but the conduct of criminal justice agencies.
“It is important to remember that this will not be a retrial of the case, it will focus on whether the criminal justice officials involved performed their duties with appropriate rigour, impartiality, and independence,” ACT Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury said.
The probe will now consider whether or not the AFP, the DPP and the ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner acted in breach of their duties during the investigation.
The inquiry was sparked by ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold’s claim in a letter to the AFP that police had “clearly aligned with the successful defence of this matter rather than its prosecution”.
However, the circumstances of the release of the letter under freedom of information laws will also be probed by the inquiry and a subpoena has been issued to the ACT Information Commissioner to examine the processes that resulted in the letter being released.
The inquiry, with the powers of a royal commission, will hold public hearings later this month and publish relevant documents on the inquiry website.
Ms Longbottom is the Queensland barrister who recently appeared in the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
The junior counsel assisting is Joshua Jones, who was counsel assisting in the DNA inquiry led by Mr Sofronoff.
In his bombshell letter that led to the inquiry, Mr Drumgold wrote to ACT police chief Neil Gaughan after the collapse of the trial outlining a number of serious concerns.
“There has now been over one-and-a-half years of consistent and inappropriate interference by investigators, firstly directed towards my independence with a very clear campaign to pressure me to agree with the investigators’ desire not to charge, then during the conduct of this trial itself, and finally attempting to influence any decision on a retrial,” Mr Drumgold said.
“Then when charges resulted, the [investigators’] interests have clearly aligned with the successful defence of this matter rather than its prosecution.”
Mr Gaughan has previously backed public inquiry into the trial of Mr Lehrmann that extends to the conduct of the prosecutor, the police and “the allegation of contempt” over Ms Higgins’ speech outside court at the conclusion of the trial.
Earlier this year, it emerged Mr Lehrmann lodged a formal complaint of professional misconduct targeting Mr Drumgold with the ACT Bar Association.
The allegations are contained in a leaked letter that was sent to the ACT Bar Association on December 9, that is likely to be captured by the subpoenas issued to date and referred to the inquiry.
“By doing so, he is bringing into disrepute his own office, the fine work and reputation of the Australian Federal Police and your members,” Mr Lehrmann wrote.
“His public behaviour continues to smear my name and the presumption of innocence that is a cornerstone of our justice system and that demands him to uphold. I am innocent of the charge pursued against me by The Director. I have always, strongly maintained my innocence.”
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr and Attorney-General Rattenbury said the inquiry had been devised to “bring sunlight” to allegations raised.
The terms of reference include:
— Whether any police officers failed to act in accordance with their duties or acted in breach of their duties in their conduct of the investigation of the allegations of Ms Brittany Higgins concerning Mr Bruce Lehrmann.
— It will also examine their dealings with the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to his duty to decide whether to commence, to continue and to discontinue criminal proceedings against Mr Lehrmann in relation to those allegations.
— Police dealings with the legal representatives for Mr Lehrmann before, during or after the trial in the matter of R v Lehrmann; in their provision of information to any persons in relation to the matter of R v Lehrmann.
— If any police officers so acted, their reasons and motives for their actions.
— Whether the Director of Public Prosecutions failed to act in accordance with his duties or acted in breach of his duties in making his decisions to commence, to continue and to discontinue criminal proceedings against Mr Lehrmann.
— If the Director of Public Prosecutions so acted, his reasons and motives for his actions.
— The circumstances around, and decisions which led to the public release of the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions’ letter to the Chief Police Officer of ACT Policing dated 1 November 2022.
— Whether the Victims of Crime Commissioner acted in accordance with the relevant statutory framework in terms of support provided to the complainant in the matter of R v Lehrmann.
— Any matter reasonably incidental to any of the above matters.
The inquiry is also likely to consider claims that police sent prohibited material including Ms Higgins’ confidential counselling notes to the accused’s original lawyers.
Mr Gaughan outlined his own concerns in a leaked internal email that complained Mr Drumgold released private correspondence to a journalist under freedom of information laws without consulting police.
During the hearing, a lawyer acting for Mr Drumgold suggested that he might claim legal professional privilege over some documents.
“When am I going to know if your client refuses to produce a document or I should say declined to produce a document?” Mr Sofronoff asked.
A lawyer acting for Mr Drumgold said he may be prepared to consider waiving of privilege.
“Well, when is he going to consider it?” Mr Sofronoff said.
The inquiry heard the DPP’s office had already handed over 137,000 pages of documents.
Kate Richardson SC, the barrister acting for the AFP, said a document had been provided outlining the time frame that the AFP was working towards to hand over outstanding documents.
Actually I remember reading (its on my old computer) there is a way of making matter go below absolute zero, like borrowing energy, but it requires energy to do it by stabilising microscopic/quantum matter with lasers then making Cooper pairs (?) with strong magnetism.
https://phys.org/news/2013-01-gas-temperature-absolute.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.12146
Quantum gas goes below absolute zero
Zeeya Merali
Nature (2013)
Ultracold atoms pave way for negative-Kelvin materials.
lol, Gilas. Beautifully put. Hairy, who has had some personal acquaintance with the views and researches of ambitious theoretical physicists, regards some of them as doing little more than engaging in finger painting in well-rewarded and pleasantly-sheltered workshops. He may be quite wrong, of course, with such hard workers being at the absolutely forefront of all knowledge, but he is usually not wrong. So I tend to scroll deep physics on a blog. It does save time and intellectual energy. But some enjoy it and it does give a whiff of comprehension of very superior stuff to a blog.
Like special wallpaper and matching cushions.
Calli:
Now that was funny!
I gave you 11 upticks – one for each foot, plus a tip.
Err…
…
…
Isn’t that illegal?
(Awkward “Apple Kid” music from EarthBound begins to play…)
johanna says:
March 30, 2023 at 4:11 pm
How and Why Wonder books online, downloadable I think. 🙂
https://archive.org/details/HowAndWhySeries/10.how-why-human-body/
Except cohenite and me are linking to empirical research 9 times out of 10.
Not even the end of the beginning. Still plenty of time to get you popcorn.
They’re weaponised our compassion against us and they’ve weaponised our tolerance against us.
It’s time to stop being compassionate and tolerant.
Aye Cassie. You’ve won the interwebs for today.
Yes. My late brother in law got another 18 months of life from the experimental treatment, now becoming more widely used. At the time he was part of a study group.
It was carefully targeted at the cancer which was running rampant through his body.
I’m on 1300 square metres.
Plenty of room for (deciduous) trees, which I value highly both aesthetically and for the microclimate advantages.
Much cooler in summer than the tightly spaced town houses next door that need air-conditioning to maintain any level of comfort.
We manage very well with ceiling fans, even on the hottest days.
Latham has deleted his tweet and Hanson has thrown him under the bus.
The love that dare not speak its name indeed.
Some committed gay guys simply don’t abide by the unmentionable B-52s classic about reckless driving.
Hairy is not feeling too well right now. He’s resting up, shock I think. His routine eye test this morning showed he had a rip in one of his retinas, so he was trundled straight to his ophthalmologist, who operated immediately with a laser beam. He drove home, which upset me, as he should have taken a taxi. A ripped retina can detach unless it is promptly treated.
You never know when something is going to strike right out of the blue.
Best to keep your regular checks up as you age, Cats.
And…if Covid “experts” weren’t bad enough, now we have Interest Rate “Experts”.
A proposal from AnAl government (am I allowed to type anal?) is to remove the setting of rates from the RBA and give it to a panel.
That’ll work like a charm.
Calli all over it. Daily Telegraph:
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has slammed her party’s NSW leader Mark Latham over “disgusting” comments on social media.
Ms Hansen called on Mr Latham to apologise for a homophobic tweet directed at Sydney MP and gay-rights campaigner Alex Greenwich sent on Thursday morning.
“Disgusting? How does that compare with sticking your d***k up a bloke’s a*** and covering it with s**t?” Mr Latham said in the tweet, which has since been deleted.
In a video statement, Ms Hansen said that neither she or her party condoned the comments.
“I think they are disgusting. I’ve actually tried ring Mark a couple of times, to no avail,” she said.
Ms Hansen called on Mr Latham to apologise.
Labor’s Upper House leader Penny Sharpe also condemned the tweet, calling on Mr Latham to apologise immediately.
“I was physically sickened by that tweet,” Ms Sharpe said.
“Homophobia is always unacceptable and there is never an excuse. Mr Latham should apologise to Alex Greenwich immediately.”
Mr Latham was also criticised by Equality Australia for his comments.
“They were disgusting comments unbecoming of a member of parliament, he should apologise and retract those comments,” Equality Australia legal director Ghassan Kassisieh said.
“The best way for parliament to respond is to now get on with the job of removing discrimination against LGBTI people in our laws.”
Mr Latham was responding to Mr Greenwich calling him a “disgusting human being,” after violence erupted outside a church in Belfield last week where Mr Latham was speaking.
The tweet was one of a series of posts from Mr Latham about the incident.
In one tweet, Mr Latham took aim at “Alphabet freaks and weirdos seeking to blockade a suburban church, break crucifixes and burn them were looking for trouble”.
The violence — in which a police officer was taken to hospital after being attacked — was sparked as protesters disrupted a forum hosted by state MP Mark Latham on parental rights and religious freedom.
A spokesman for the parish said the violence appeared to start after the group protesting Mr Latham’s views on transgender rights allegedly broke a crucifix.
Asked about Mr Latham’s tweet, Mr Greenwich said: “I understand this tweet has been taken down, and I don’t intend to engage with the matter further”.
“My focus in the parliament will be working with the majority of members who support the LGBTQ community to progress important reforms.”
Mr Latham did not respond to a request for comment.
It comes after The Australian reported that Mr Latham is due to face court next month after the MP was detected using his phone while driving.
In another tweet on Thursday, Mr Latham said President Barack Obama was “the ultimate whore” for charging up to $900 for tickets to a speaking tour. (golf clap)
FMD
Pass on all good wishes, for a full recovery, please, LizzieB.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
March 30, 2023 at 5:54 pm
Casimir is proven negative energy.
No it isn’t.
Isn’t it the case that Casimir is negative density which explains the negative pressure between the surfaces. That is the Casimir is not negative relative to the surrounding space, which is the usual criticism, but the space separate from the surrounding space.
On matters trees, the developers opposite (a corporatised entity of the State government as it turns out) were required to shift some shitty exotic tree, presumably following the mandatory flora report, which has barely grown in the 10years since the 5 hectare site was carved up. The council haven’t planted anything or maintained the shitty jacarandas (sorry Groogs) and acacias now suckering through garden beds planted by a (poor) landscape architect and handed over at no cost to the council.
Put your own house in order and then worry about what I do on my land.
Laser beam therapy for a detaching retina is somewhat disorienting, Lizzie.
Been there, done that.
Drove home afterwards because that’s what men do. Particularly if their spouse is absent at the time.
It didn’t fix the problem, however.
You can email me for the full story, which is from some time ago, but my specialist was thrilled with the case.
I’ve persuaded him it’s inadvisable to go to the gym today, which upsets his routine.
Eyes come first, I say quietly. He agrees. Quietly.
I’ll see how he goes first, Anchor, but why not let everyone know briefly your experience of it?
It’s a fairly common thing apparently – age is the main aetiological factor. lol.
Hanson gets points for being a stayer, but without Latham on the NSW racecourse she’ll be on a downhill run to irrelevance when the media start to carve her up over it. It’s only a matter of time until they put up the shrouds and call the vet.
Thanks, oaf,
Wonder if Numbers Bob got his?
Correct re suspicious transactions, known as structuring.
They have an obligation to ask.
Thanks Lizzie, love you, but I’m a bit shy of putting it all out there at the moment.
“Latham has deleted his tweet and Hanson has thrown him under the bus.”
James Ashby, her chief of staff, is gay. I suspect that’s why.
So why didn’t Pauline slam Greenwich and ask that he apologise for his nasty tweet? Greenwich started it, calling Latham “disgusting”.
Meanwhile, in the real world, ordinary Australians are struggling to pay their power bills, to buy bread, to care for their families yet we’re being dictated to by an unholy cabal of LGBTQI+ filth (and filth they are). It all makes me feel sick. As I said above, they have deliberately weaponised our tolerance and compassion and they’re using it to bludgeon us.
Lizzie, hope Hairy is okay.
“Latham expected to now take a D… before every Parlie sitting” (h/t Lysander) 😛
Dot says:
March 30, 2023 at 6:07 pm
Except cohenite and me are linking to empirical research 9 times out of 10.
What empirical research showed the correctness of their claim about the 10 Universes mass? Or the achievement of C+delta speed, let alone 10C?
It’s all theoretical, just like String Theory, and just as devoid of real, tangible evidence.
All paper, HDD-based, maybe even USB thumb-drive based “evidence”.
Example.. from Dot’s link at 18:03:
At positive temperatures, such a reversal would be unstable and the atoms would collapse inwards. But the team also adjusted the trapping laser field to make it more energetically favourable for the atoms to stick in their positions. This result, described today in Science, marks the gas’s transition from just above absolute zero to a few billionths of a Kelvin below absolute zero.
and
“as though you can stand a pyramid on its head and not worry about it toppling over,”
and
Another peculiarity of the sub-absolute-zero gas is that it mimics ‘dark energy’
Yep, all language to show this is all hunky-dory-kosher, no hyperbole at all!
No massaging of the message for layman consumption in a previously respectable Journal, now to the left of Che.
And all in a single article from January 2013, not reproduced since.
A billionth of a degree… that is one damn fine thermometer.
Yep, empirical evidence one can hang their hat on.
These guys should have got a Nobel, that they didn’t is a travesty!
I am convinced.
Now they are no longer being pruned for overhead power lines, Queensland box trees reaching for the sky. Which is bad news for people in bare feet and double pluggers.
Dot, get serious. The only “empirical research” Cronkite does is looking around the web for trannies he refers to as cute owls’. Please.
Latham is no homophobe. I bet he voted yes to SSM in 2017. I think he just can’t stand this whole LGBTQI+ industry, promoted by the likes of Greenwich.
You now, I feel as though I’m in a bus that’s gone over a steep cliff, and I’m sitting in this bus, screaming, shouting, crying, knowing it’s too late to save the bus and everyone on it, and the bus is gliding through the air, about to crash. This bus represents the state of the West now.
It’s good that Latham’s comments were repeated in msm, lots of people don’t bother with twitter but I think his response to You’re disgusting with, no you’re disgusting will resonate with many ordinary Australians.
Didn’t know St Michaels in Belfield was an ad orientum parish with both English and Latin mass.
No wonder the ‘community’ is so outraged with trad Catholics.
Cohenite it is only negative pressure relative to the vacuum outside the plates. A true vacuum would have no quantum virtual pairs in it. The vacuum between the plates approaches this vacuum so is lower pressure than the vacuum outside the plates.
All you are seeing is a higher pressure pushing on a lower pressure. The lower pressure bit is the lower energy state. But even it isn’t the zero energy state because that only occurs when the spacing between the plates is zero. Which is impossible. 😀
A pal told me a story about a very rich aussie dude who somehow either lost his dog or if was stolen recently. The guy offered a reward of 10K but that didn’t work. He then hired a private investigator that cost him $75,000 and this was unsuccessful.
calli says:
March 30, 2023 at 6:10 pm
Yes. My late brother in law got another 18 months of life from the experimental treatment, now becoming more widely used. At the time he was part of a study group.
It was carefully targeted at the cancer which was running rampant through his body.
It shouldn’t need elaboration, but there’s a massive difference in the risk benefit algorithm of using experimental mRNA-anything in someone with metastatic cancer vs doing it in someone with a potentially bad cold.
Especially when compared to what was routine treatment as little as 10-15 years ago ie. combinations of lethal poisons carefully dosed to kill cancer just preferentially to their human host.
The only “empirical research” Cronkite does is looking around the web for trannies he refers to as cute owls’. Please.
By popular demand, cute owls.
Stop! Just stop it!!
Right on cue.
I know trans ‘women’ hate TERFs, esp if they are sex refusing lesbians but do they have a special name for gay men who refuse to have sex with trans ‘men’*?
There seems to be a major rift in the LGBT world and it’s likely, unfixable.
Perpetually angry with destroyed bodies, lost ability to reproduce, lost ability to fully enjoy sexual relationships, a life time of hormones and physical and mental health issues and a vanishingly small pool of potential partners, not likely to be anything else but angry.
Seems only a few trans people are attracted to other trans people; most seem to want relationships with gays, lesbians or normies who mainly reject them, simply because they are not attracted to them.
Not something most people have any control over.
* saw this discussed on twitter, gay men were pretty adamant about voting no.
UN passes landmark resolution for climate justice
Whatever happened to national sovereignty?
Two points spring to mind. At $900 it appears that the bloom is well and truly off the Obamas, the Clintons were raking in heaps more than that for their speaking engagements. What sad freaks would pay $900 let alone turn up to listen to jug ears waffle on.
The Australian Federal Police is refusing to hand over the full brief of evidence in the investigation of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation to a powerful inquiry investigating police conduct.
Strange how all the Bureaucrats and Government employees suddenly think that they are above the law, and are no longer answerable to senators.
It’s almost universal in the west.
Former beauty queen, 25, tragically collapsed and died at UK stables
I do hope Mark Latham is OK, does he have family support and close friends?
That’s the point isn’t it?
Why dismiss mRna treatment for cancer out of hand because vaxxbad?
never trust a fat communist
especially when they tell you you must tighten your belt and forgo joy
Roman Baber
@Roman_Baber
Many of you were lied to for 3 years. Masks were useless and the 6 ft rule became stupid as soon as we knew the virus was aerosolized.
Watch this congressional testimony and think how mean many of you were to people who spoke truth. There must be accountability! Pls retweet.
Stop! Just stop it!!
That cute owl was one of the better ones!
The Pfizer Effect: Government Reports suggest COVID Vaccine-Induced Autoimmune Deficiency Syndrome is partly to blame for 2 million Excess Deaths in the West over the past 2 years
A tale of probiotics and how to help your own gut microbiome
JCsays:
March 30, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Stop! Just stop it!!
A palate cleanser for you JC.
I am a river to my people.
Yes Gilas. We were all well aware of the experimental nature of the treatment. He opted for it because every other avenue was closed.
He is gone now, but he had a little more time with his wife and boys and every moment of that was precious. It has been almost two years since he left us and left a hole to big to fill. And, providentially, his funeral fell between two periods of lockdown and before the stupid masks became mandatory.
None of us got dopey Covid at the funeral either, even though the place was packed as well as the suburban street outside the church. He was loved very much by family friends and colleagues.
Exactly.
Obama is supposedly going to net a million dollars from this tour.
I hope the ATO get in for their cut before he goes.
Both he and Michelle must be pretty fit to be able to climb the bridge over 1200 steps.
Always laugh at those preposterous claims that Michelle is a man.
Do people not look at her hips? All woman.
Corporates trying to spend this years ESG budget. I expect you could count the number of people putting their hand in their own pocket on one hand. Much like an AFR subscription.
Do people not look at her hips? All woman.
Where’s the forearm kink to go around those supposed hips?
They also declared La Niña over and they here she is still frolicking over most of the continent.
Do people not look at her hips? All Wookie.
Do people not look at her hips? All woman.
Padding.
I’m waiting for the ipod to be released.
FFS, is there a more shameless hypocritical grifter in Australian politics than the Beetrooter??
Just STFU, you tiresome tomato faced twat.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
March 30, 2023 at 6:14 pm
Hairy is not feeling too well right now. He’s resting up, shock I think. His routine eye test this morning showed he had a rip in one of his retinas..
Sorry to read this.
Impact or deceleration injury are the usual causes, type-2 diabetes more rarely.
Ongoing care depends on the cause.. Avoiding a repeat is, of course, essential.
Best wishes.
Cassie, apparently neither do they since it must not be spoken of.
Hairy is not feeling too well right now. He’s resting up, shock I think
Pass on all good wishes, for a full recovery, please, LizzieB.
And from us, too, Lizzie!!!!
Sen. Rand Paul says the GOP would ‘permanently lose elections for a generation’ if TikTok is banned
Democrat Kathleen Clark BLASTS “Politicians and Preachers” and “Right Wing Extremists” for Cruelty to Transgenders After Wicked Transgender Guns Down Kids at School – Forgets to Mention Her Son Is Violent Trans Antifa Felon
Tucker predicted it…just last week
We can clearly see what they’re doing to us in many different ways, but we seem incapable of stopping or even delaying it.
Major Australian bank to end cash withdrawals from its branches – as the end of paper notes looms
Tucker Carlson Warns About Senate Bill 686, The Restrict Act, Framed Around TikTok But Focused on Domestic Online Censorship
Mr Hairy Beare is too young to be a rakish pirate. Take care and mend fast.
I went to see my GP this afternoon, I needed a new prescription for a couple of things. I wore my mask in the waiting room as the receptionists insisted but once I dot into the consulting room I took it off. The doctor kept his mask on but didn’t say anything about me taking off mine.
So Blot does go there. Sanctimonious outrage about a certain political personage turned up to eleventy.
Not even remotely surprising.
“Corporates trying to spend this years ESG budget. I expect you could count the number of people putting their hand in their own pocket on one hand. Much like an AFR subscription.”
Correct.
Woman and forearm kinks:
https://unsplash.com/photos/dBZGI08wVY8
“So Blot does go there. Sanctimonious outrage about a certain political personage turned up to eleventy.
Not even remotely surprising.”
Right, then I take my words earlier. He really is a dickhead.
Bolta: Latham is a scumbag and drunk for calling Greenwich a poofta. Bolta has banned Latham for all time while suggesting Latham needs psychiatric help.
Get fu.ked bolt!
Bolt having the vapours and declaring that Latham will never be welcome on Sky. And sadly Pauline is also having similar vapours. Spare me.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
March 30, 2023 at 6:34 pm
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/australian-government-issues-medallion-certificate-to-mark-50-years-since-end-of-vietnam-war.html
Wonder if Numbers Bob got his?
If it is a public presentation, I somehow doubt that he will reject it from a Labor Minister.
Cassie, yes Bolt is a dickhead and a snivelling idiot. It seems we must never fight back because it’s unseemly. We must lie down and have the steam roller flatten us.
More of a silverback IMHO.
Doesn’t Bolt, and everyone who is scandalised by Latham’s remarks, realise that by reacting as they are they are proving that the homosexual act is not normal.
Funny how it’s OK to be described accurately in books in school libraries but adults can’t seem to handle it.
Bernie’s Tweets
@BernieSpofforth
FRANCE – Woman prosecuted for insulting Macron! She called him “filth” on Facebook.
There will be no dissent in this dictatorship. No free speech, thought or action that deviates from the accepted narrative
He’s almost as funny as Trump.
About a month ago, I visited his Twitter page where he’d posted an abusive tweet from a lefty called Bill Hunt taking issue with his educational advocacy. Latham dismissed him by saying he wasn’t going to listen to somebody with a typo in his own surname.
Also pretty funny is his series of “The new PVO” tweets today ridiculing Labor courtier Troy Bramston.