I have four pairs of them littered around the place. Only four? I have to have multiples in every room.…
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Obumble and Hiden= bad guys
No ‘become’ about it, it’s been a marionette for the US since the Obama days at least…
Amazing that he has even been named… when they say he was arrested at Sydney Airport, was he fleeing the…
I would guess that Trump will ‘clean house’ in Ukraine, throwing Biden under a bus and putting Obama on notice…
First?
… among equals
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Bla hell, missed the podium.
On the cricket team, then.
Drinks and cigarette carrier
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Peter Broelman.
The empty-headed David Rowe has nothing but derangements, which he is forced to keep rotating.
Steve Bright.
Morten Morland.
Speaking of derangements, Michael Ramirez has terminal TDS.
A.F. Branco.
Gary Varvel.
Ben Garrison.
Thankyou Tom.
Government Corruption is Unprecedented
COMMENT: Hi Martin
Thanks largely to you, my family and I never took the covid vaccines. You are/were right that the Covid pandemic was a scam.
However, today, I read a post by you that reported that an 11% spontaneous abortion rate is something to be concerned about. The average miscarriage rate for woman younger than 35 is 15% and it gets worse, the older you get.
HH
REPLY: I think this T-Shirt sums it all up. We cannot survive under a Republic without term limits. Once someone becomes a politician, all is lost. Our politicians have been bribed and now there is a lawsuit filed against the head of the EU for she never put it to Parliament, bought billions of doses many times more than the population of Europe, with ZERO accountability.
These people have crossed to the other side and we become the enemy. I was in British Columbia about 20 years ago and I was totally shocked by a left-wing woman politician I do not remember her name. She actually said that EVERYTHING we earn belongs to the government. They decide how much we are allowed to retain.
Klaus Schwab is an academic. Most are just Marxists and believe that they need to suppress human nature and we should own nothing, surrender all imagination and creativity, and just work like ants in their leftist vision of a farm.
Whenever GOVERNMENT gets involves – stay away because they are above the law, untouchable, and unaccountable. As soon as all the governments got involved, the game was rigged.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/government-corruption-is-unprecedented/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Gateway Pundit reports Trump’s visit to Scotland in a matter of fact way, without sensationalism.
Sky reports it as “first President to be charged with a felony” visits Scotland and then asks some selected locals if he’s welcome, to which they reply no.
Large percentage of the media are anti-Trump and pro Democrats, which means they do not want America saved, but instead destroyed, aka “changed”.
Tucker Carlson was doomed since 2018 when a string of “progressive” complainers started lobbying all his program’s main advertisers. Pressuring advertisers to withdraw support is the other way of censoring truth tellers. This can also be seen in Australia, where we have so many Global Shop ads and not so many “first tier” advertisers on our nominally more conservative cable news service.
This process, says Seth Grossman at American Thinker, is what led to him being sacked.
sounds like a US Defence procurement scandal
The Federal Government is going to gap the scheme at 8% growth a year.
Will people be going told no?
I’m carrying more cash to avoid eftpos fees these days.
why is swipe cheaper than tap and go?
I wonder how many people now realise renewals are an expensive pipe dream and reality will be expensive unreliable energy.
Are Australians really prepared to do this?
Will a political party with the guts to say no emerge?
Terry McCann putting the boot into renewals in the Herald Sun again, paywalled
Anchor What says:
May 2, 2023 at 6:20 am
This is something I can’t get my head around, a company sells stuff people want to buy and don’t care about the co’s policy regarding the alphabet people.
Along come some activity group and says, you should change your advertising and approach to LQGBT whatever, to such and such or we boycott you.
Just how many are they as customers?
I’m beginning to think that the companies do the change on their own initiative, using the excuse of being socially responsible and promoting ‘togetherness’, social harmony.
All they needed was a prompt.
Rosie’s Terry McCrann article:
The sheer practical day-to-day – verging on the every day – impossibility of moving to wind and solar as the basis for our electricity grid was captured in one day’s experience in the UK last week.
I would say “I have seen the future – in the UK – and it doesn’t work”, except for one huge difference between what the UK does have and we won’t in the crazy-stupid Albanese-Bandt-Bowen future.
That one difference makes the chaotic hotch-potch of power generation – sort-of – ‘work’ in the UK, at extraordinary expensive, and by breaking the golden rule of the climate cult: massive continued, baseload use of CO2-emitting gas.
The UK has enough gas power stations to generate anywhere between 50 per cent and even up to 90 per cent of its power needs – depending on whether the ’wind is blowing or the sun is shining’.
Oh yes, and for the moment, also the wicked nuclear stations that can generate between 12 and 16 per cent, and no less than eight extension cords into Europe that can also garner 12-16 per cent of its peak needs.
We are going to have none of those three to draw on – apart from a pathetic little bit of gas.
We’ll just have batteries, for those cloudy windless days, and of course nights; along with supply management formerly known as brownouts and blackouts.
Yes, the UK does have massive wind installation. On a good, windy, day it can get ’12 Liddells’ – as much as 17,000MW – from wind.
Indeed, on a windy and sunny day, it could get that 17,000MW plus up to another 5000MW from – largely off-grid rooftop – solar.
Sounds great? Then let me then take you to 3am one morning last week, when the sun certainly wasn’t shining but the wind also wasn’t blowing.
The UK was getting zip, zero, obviously nothing, from solar; but also barely 1000MW from its entire wind network; effectively zero as well.
So-called capacity 22,000MW; actual generation just 1000MW.
Now, yes, at 3am demand was at a minimum, but it was still around 24,000MW. So where was the UK getting the other 23,000MW from?
Over 4000MW was coming from nuclear and over 2000MW from the extension cords. The vast majority, nearly 16,000MW, was gas.
That in itself shows the utter lunacy, the sheer non-functionality, of the energy future that the ‘mad, bad and, unfortunately, we have to know’ trio of Albanese, Bandt and Bowen are speeding us towards.
But, think further about the sheer day-to-day lunacy and impossibility.
It’s 3am. Demand is ‘only’’ 24,000MW.
But as surely as day follows night, the UK grid operators know demand is going to leap around 8000MW from around 7am as the day gets underway; and that it could go yet another 6000MW higher through the day.
What do they do?
Do they ‘assume’’ – pray – that it’s not a cloudy day? That the wind will start blowing?
That those ‘experts’ who claim to be able to predict the weather 100 years into the future, will for once get the next day’s weather half-right?
Or do they crank up more gas stations, the further 6000MW they have? And also, cough, cough, the 2000MW they can still get from the really wicked coal generators?
Well, come breakfast time the wind still wasn’t blowing; and the sun was only beginning to dribble through – so they did both and doubled what they’d been getting from Europe.
Think about it: we will have none of those options. Just batteries, to last long enough to make the toast – and then?
More fundamentally, are even the UK options any way to run a power grid: trying to fit everything around the vagaries of wind and solar?
And having to do it, every day; indeed every hour?
Insanity.
another Islamic school with unspecified problems
Thanks BB.
Apparently the Herald Sun had a cross platform readership of 4.369 million.
How many people are switching on that they will be switched off?
As long as it saves one planet.
Alamak! spreading BS elsewhere.
SVB didn’t have the CHIEF Risk Officer position formally filled for 8 months. They had a Chief Risk Officer at the time of their collapse.
They choose DEI and woke over managing risk. Facing a changing inflationary environment will put other banks to the wall. Cute quips about ALM don’t matter. You can have “perfect” ALM and changes in expected inflation can stuff that up entirely.
The idea that “more regulation!” Would have saved the idea is stupid. If they’re really no risk managers at all reporting to the board or CEO, where were the regulators for eight months?
“Oh but they were exempt!”
The idea they were completely exempt from regulation is false.
It is not true they would have failed a stress test. How does a stress test account for interest rate risk?
You can’t just rabbit headlines from The Guardian and say “look, I’m an egg spurt, now don’t ever criticise the regulation that Democrats came up with in the 1990s!”
Given the banking system hasn’t collapsed, it looks like they weren’t systemically important.
The idea was to (largely remove them from deposit guaranteed, thereby lowering moral hazard in banking. Biden stuffed that up by paying out all depositors, even over the FDIC limit which is an exception to “muh regulation!” anyway!
Ignoring moral hazard in banking makes regulation largely irrelevant.
The left always do this. Don’t worry about inflation, interest rates or moral hazard (created as risks largely by policies favoured by the left) if only we regulated everything it would work perfectly even if we change the regulation on a whim.
(largely)
Censorship in action here against Dr John Campbell. Been banned from posting on this platform for a while, due to a recent discussion he had with a British elected representative…
woketube
Today I learned that Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent wasn’t original.
Michael Parenti’s Inventing Reality was the original work.
Did Parenti follow Edward Bernays at all?
“Along come some activity group and says, you should change your advertising and approach to LQGBT whatever, to such and such or we boycott you.
Just how many are they as customers?
I’m beginning to think that the companies do the change on their own initiative, using the excuse of being socially responsible and promoting ‘togetherness’, social harmony.
All they needed was a prompt.”
Well yes, because the departments within these companies are now full of young men and women, mainly women, who are captured lock stock and barrel by toxic progressive ideology. They’ve left university where they’ve been indoctrinated in gender studies and other hard left nonsense. You might ask just what are the specific departments in corporations dominated by such people? They are….HR, marketing and advertising.
Here in Oz we have a group, modelled on a US activist group (from which it probably receives funding) called Sleeping Giants, or as I prefer to call them, Sleeping Midgets. The group’s sole raison d’etre is to target News Corp outlets, particularly Sky News, particularly Sky after Dark. It’s still active, and I know for a fact, daily lobbies companies and corporations to pull advertising from Sky after Dark. The group comprises only a hundred or so activists but they bomb companies with complaints, mainly those aforementioned departments and of course that is where they have a willing audience. Some companies, like Harvey Norman, have remained strong in the face of these activists. All it takes is a bit of guts, but that is something sadly lacking in Australia today, in fact anywhere in the West. Remember, it only took one activist to pressure Coon Cheese to change its name. Okay, he spent years hassling them, but it wasn’t as though it was a million people complaining, it is only ever one, a few, or maybe at best, a few hundred activists.
Activists in the UK regularly target GB News’ advertisers, scaring them. Sleeping Midgets and co won’t rest until Sky after Dark is shut down. The real aim, of course, is to shut down right of centre opinion, to silence people like you and me.
The arse end of the internet, “GIBS!”.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/cxm9ys/communism_did_work_for_millions_michael_parenti/
Did you know Radio Free Europe was ILLEGAL!?
“Today I learned that Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent wasn’t original.
Michael Parenti’s Inventing Reality was the original work.”
Nothing surprises me about Chomsky, the great fraud.
The advertisers were also affected by the media swarm that ran for weeks decrying Tucker Carlson as racist for drawing attention to the influx of illegals over the border.
The MSM has developed a symbiotic relationship with big government parties, which means the Democrats in the US, and Labor and the Greens in Australia. They provide cover or a platform for the parties, recasting their failures as successes and their successes as epoch making achievements, and in return they receive a steady stream of revenue in good times, bail outs in bad times, they are fed prepared copy in the form of press releases then feted for their sagacity, they are sought out by the high and mighty, and get free seats on government jaunts.
Reality is that most journalists, if forced to actually do the work to get stories rather than merely copy-pasting, if they were left to fend for themselves, would be starved to death in a week.
Dot – First Republic Bank went bust overnight. Steven Hayward why here. You don’t really need to click on the link to find out…
From First Republic to Old Republic | Power Line (1 May)
Funny how this works.
Cassie has this advertising issue very well covered.
The only addition I would make is for those wondering why executives let corporate/HR get away with it, the mangement committee would be presented with a paper on risks, and the loss of revenue if they keep the advertiser would be suitably raised to make the consequences high, or the likelihood of a boycott high, to practically require the executives to remove the advertising, or put their neck over the block. Why they could lose the big bucks! That pygmies like Sleeping Giants are few, or would never buy their product anyway, would not be discussed in the paper.
Any weenie of the types Cassie describes that infest corporate areas of any large organisation (corporate the only area that grows in these agencies these days) can draft a paper to get the outcome they want.
“The advertisers were also affected by the media swarm that ran for weeks decrying Tucker Carlson as racist for drawing attention to the influx of illegals over the border.”
Yeah, and is happened here in March 2019 when Bolt on his Sky show came out in support of Cardinal George Pell, and stated, bravely, that Pell was innocent. This caused massive advertiser panic where large companies pulled advertising, a panic caused by Sleeping Midgets and other screeching, screaming progressives who daily harassed Sky advertisers, so the likes of NIB, Pizza Hut, Palmolive, and others pulled their advertising. Most have never returned.
The problem per se isn’t groups like Sleeping Midgets, it’s the mediocrities in corporations and companies who fall for this blackmail. Why do they? Because they themselves are fully indoctrinated into woke ideology
It isn’t just advertising either. Two years ago, when the ludicrous lies about Christian Porter first came to light, Porter engaged a top defamation lawyer at Minter Ellison to act for him. So, what did activists do? They targeted the ME, and of course the screeching progressive harridan who was then the firm’s Chief Executive, yet who (oddly) herself was not a lawyer, went public and said that the firm would not act for Porter because it “doesn’t ally with the firm’s values” (such words are progressive ideological babble and are simply code for woke cancel culture). Well, her actions rightly led to a howls and a furore within ME from REAL lawyers, and within days the screeching harridan was given her marching orders. But the thing is, the mentality of these people is that Trump, Porter, Lehmann, Pell and others on the right, which includes people like us, are not even entitled to legal representation.
“The only addition I would make is for those wondering why executives let corporate/HR get away with it, the mangement committee would be presented with a paper on risks, and the loss of revenue if they keep the advertiser would be suitably raised to make the consequences high, or the likelihood of a boycott high, to practically require the executives to remove the advertising, or put their neck over the block. Why they could lose the big bucks! ”
There are a few who will not submit to progressive far-left bullying. I know some here like to disparage Gerry Harvey but he keeps a tight rein on what happens in his firm’s marketing and advertising departments. He will not tolerate political activism in his company, and he will not succumb to bullies. And you will note how Harvey Norman has always advertised with Sky, from day one, and it has never, at any time, pulled its advertising from Sky after Dark. I’d say Harvey Norman is Sky’s biggest advertiser.
Dot > you can read the SEC 14a filing related to loss of the CRO if Fortune magazine is not a good enough source. And if you have worked in this kind of banking you’d know the effects of not having the role filled, it means SVB focus was not on managing risk through proper models and process. Not having to conform to Dodd-Frank standards meant they were making it up as they went along depending on the current CRO … which was missing at the wrong time i.e. when interest rate cycle turned.
In one particularly extraordinary case of price gouging, a supplier was found charging $1,150 for a shower chair despite a similar product retailing for $169.99 on the open market.
Why is it price “gouging” if you find a mug to pay it .. and if they is one thing “entrepreneurs” are good at it’s finding tax payer funding payz .. well! .. ask Twiggy .. LOL!
Sky, as a subscription service, is less vulnerable to this corporate cowardice and its inability to manage the HR/corporate fifth column.
alamak>
i see you>
i recognise you>
The insufferable Jonathan Willoughby.
Anti-trans reaction is just like the Holocaust bar the Holocaust bits.
Cassie you are so right about the number of woke women in Marketing. They are disciples of any “trend” on social media etc.
My daughter is one such devotee of “the vibe”, having spent her post grad career in marketing at a very senior level over the past decade plus. Much to my aggravation she constantly murders the language with such trendy terms (to use an example) as “peeps”(people).
Major topics of societal change are not up for discussion with marketers. In a heated debate a few years ago regarding same sex marriage, husband & I were told to “f…..off” & leave her house,
Botanic gardens are racist.
The Conversation: “Can we justify … botanic gardens in an age of climate change … ?” (30 Apr)
And they’re destroying the planet. Here’s who the author is…
Susan K Martin
Emeritus Professor in English, La Trobe University
Keep the garden and fire the entire La Trobe English department.
Bruce
DEI, mismanagement, changing inflation and interest rate environment – the left will just say “not regulated enough”. The idea of contagion is false. 1st Republic and SVB were not systemically related, merchant banks lent 1st Republic 30 bn USD and it still failed.
Let me get this straight. In 2022, the bank (and in 2023 had a run on 104.5 bn of deposits) had only assets of 212 bn but a market cap of 22 bn? Yet its risk adjusted tier 1 capital was around 9.5% before it collapsed. Their total revenue was only 6 bn and net revenue was ~1.7 bn in 2022 – and they also lent out 111% of their deposits?
What a nightmare. None of that makes any sense. I’ve never seen a bank valued to market at 1/5 of their deposit base BEFORE a collapse. Especially when they are levered at ~ 10+ times? Their assets were valued at 1/5 of how large I assume their loan book was?
he leaves the keys downstairs on the island benchtop where they can be easily found, rather than having the little buggers perhaps carrying knives come upstairs and peer into his sleeping children’s bedrooms before entering his, all for the keys.
That’s about like leaving your gun safe unlocked complete with ammunition.
Let’s see – making it easy for criminals to take your car and possibly kill someone.
Accessory before the fact?
What say you, cohenite?
Can’t he lock and bar the door to upstairs and keep the keys there?
Equipment for health services has always been overpriced. Ponder the difference between hearing aids compared with an iPhone and AirPods Pro..
True story, Mrs Entropy helps people communicate again after stroke or head injury. Back in the day (pre 2010) you could use a windows tablet and software to help those that couldn’t talk communicate. You would buy this clunky windows tablet that weighed about 3kg, was about an inch thick, it’s touch resistive screen was unresponsive and the battery would last about two hours. You would wear this in a shoulder harness in front of you. It would cost about $15,000 through the health company. The software was this tile based phrase generator. You string the tiles you want together and it will speak out the sentence. It was about $1200.
When the iPad arrived, all this went out the window. The whole thing could be done in exactly the same way in a device whose battery lasted all day, it weighed next to nothing in comparison, and the software went through Apple rather than the health company. So instead of $1200 the software was $120. And the whole setup was less than $1000. Even better, for kids that would outright refuse the clunky old tablet, they could use an iPod touch or an iPhone.
Things have moved on now of course, and there are many competitors to the ipad. The point though is that health companies, while they can control supply, are thieves. And you need a disruptor like Apple to enter an established market to break their stranglehold.
It is easy to argue Australian botanic gardens are imperial remnants full of European plants, an increasingly uncomfortable reminder of British colonisation.
I’m good with keeping the Australian plants in carefully controlled garden museums and replacing the rest of the plants with European ones.
They chose to focus on DEI instead of running a bank. It is irrelevant what the regulation may be if management is woke and doesn’t care about the shareholders or public interest.
A stress test doesn’t take into account interest rate changes the way you think it does.
Dodd Frank is irrelevant. The CRO at SVB the day before they closed was posting on Twitter about feminism. She had her job for three months.
The left just don’t want to admit that DEI is stemming from State regulation in California.
“Major topics of societal change are not up for discussion with marketers. In a heated debate a few years ago regarding same sex marriage, husband & I were told to “f…..off” & leave her house,”
Sorry to hear that Vicki. When last in the UK, at the dinner table, all because I objected to six year old Muslim girls wearing the hijab, I was told by my brother that I was a far-right, racist Islamophobe.
Nuttin’ beats being a”retiring” pollie needing a pension top-up .. FFS!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12033577/Scott-Morrison-ex-pm-cushy-new-job-offer-UK-defence-sector.html
Or just leave a bottle of whisky and five $20 notes next to the car.
They’ll most likely take the money, the booze and run. Optionally just the money.
Why is Bill Gates ignoring all the adverse data on the COVID vaccines?
cassie earlier
thanks for reminder about minter ellison
one of the few examples of people standing up to the woke
although it was more about lawyers income than principle
IMF publishes multi-year plan to implement CBDCs; it may spell the end of our financial freedom and autonomy
“Green sustainable energy” is a euphemism for depopulation
The core cause of the problem of the increasing size and power of Hr/Corporate is they are seperate divisions from the service or product delivery areas of the organisation. As such HR/Corporate is essentially inward looking, with the actual purpose of the organisation of fleeting interest at best. And the bigger they get ,this purpose becomes even more irrelevant to them. Their service could be applied in any organisation after all.
If I was in charge, there would not be a corporate division. HRstaff would be embedded in the service/ product delivery areas. Their job would be clearly to help people comply with corporate requirements, rather than dictate those requirements to the workers. They would even help people fill in the forms! Which would of course, reduce the number of forms overnight.
Rather than continue to be the enemy of line staff, they would become part of what makes the place a good business to work for.
Ramirez also seems to have gone to a dark place artistically. His cartoons are literally crowded out by dark spaces, too much dark ink and very little light areas. A good cartoonist can deliver a gag or a message with a few pencil or pen strokes, no need to colour everything black instead to then speak with the white spaces. Is this a manifestation of a certain condition affecting Biden?
I found this glimpse of my former life on Rumble this morning when looking for John Campbells Rumble channel (after his Youtube strike) … those were the days, rally stage starts at about 6 minutes.
https://rumble.com/vtsgyl-dirt-escort-on-slippery-adelaide-hills-stage.html
#FtheWEF till the day I die
@NEOintheMCR
Bilderberg 2023 is coming up on 20th May
It’s one of the most important globalist confabs out there, and I’m sure its attendees will read like a world’s most wanted list
You can also expect the MSM to call you a “conspiracy theorist” for connecting the dots, as below
The financial ratios I posted for 1st republic make sense if on their hypothetical 1.1 trillion loan book, they earnt a 0.5 % interest margin on those loans.
That was a management decision and not something easily remedied by regulation. Dodd Frank doesn’t even cover the notion of forcing banks to raise their interest margin.
Watch the NSW government clip below. They’re still pushing it on us. Never mind the Covid shot, I’ll never get another flu shot as long as I live.
Unmasking Mainstream Media
@unmasking_media
Poor Aussies. Many don’t know that they’re being treated like cattle.
For the benefit of Big Pharma.
I mean, eat oranges and walk in the sun. You’ll be right, mate. This ‘pin cushion guinea pig’ thing is beyond absurd now.
Communism did work for millions
So North Korea got re-built. Meanwhile in South Korea……..
Bit of pushback Dot.
Axios: Companies are laying low on ESG as backlash intensifies – ‘Companies don’t want to talk about their ESG goals anymore’ (1 May)
99.2% of Swiss National Bank Shareholders Just Rejected a Green Investment Push (1 May)
I suspect the elite management of such organizations will still follow the Davos lemming herd, but at least they may be a bit more cautious with what they say in public. That SVB was a big green VC lender will’ve registered also.
California prosecutor quits after 26 years over woke DA Pamela Price’s policies: ‘victims deserve better’
Arizona girl, 12, saved by teammate’s mom after suffering sudden cardiac arrest during soccer
SHUT IT DOWN!
FIRE THEM ALL!
Equipment for health services has always been overpriced. Ponder the difference between hearing aids compared with an iPhone and AirPods Pro..
Back in 2016 on my last home trip to “Toon-town” I lost a hearing aid .. anywayz got back and filed an insurance claim .. after receiving a 3 page questionaire from QBE over the circumstances/cost and being asked everything from the colour of my undies on the specific day to how many times I had sex a night I decided my hearing wasn’t that bad! ..
The original aids (probably 3/4 years old) had cost $1500 .. as I’d reached the stage of only using them for watching TV (as in turn the bloody thing down, Dad!) rather than everyday listening aids I popped onto Ebay found a $A10 (inc post) set from China on Ebay & thought I’d give ’em a burl!
8 years down the track still working perfectly, use the same batteries as the $1500 ones and other than not blocking all the crackle type noise out just as good as $1500 set …….
The work experience stenographer moderators are asleep at the wheel for the Paywallian Epstein story this morning.
No, it isn’t, because they aren’t.
Next…
Bill Maher Says What Elon Musk Seems Afraid to Say | DM CLIPS | Rubin Report
This is the most alarming outcome of the cancel culture, lawyers will not defend people whom they consider as dissenters. You can be a murderer, serial killer, a terrorist and they will fall over themselves to defend you but say one word against the prevailing groupthink and you are not worthy of advocacy in court.
And it’s also easy to argue that they aren’t.
Has she ever actually been in one?
What makes botanic gardens so fascinating is that they allow budding (nyuk, nyuk) gardeners and horticulturists a chance to see plants in full maturity and make wise choices as far as what will grow easily and how big in their own local garden or designs.
A pity Landscape Architects don’t make more use of them. And English professors.
If we did that the catastrophic bushfires would be a thing of the past. Even scale back to half the areas covered by native forests would reduce the fires significantly.
Seriously though, why do we need highly flammable eucalyptuses in our cities and suburbs? The idea is to beautify the environment, not bring the scrub into the garden.
Not without her preconceptions firmly attached.
It is easy to argue Australian botanic gardens are imperial remnants full of European plants, an increasingly uncomfortable reminder of British colonisation.
What a rubbish comment to make. Walk around the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney and you will find trees and plants from all over the World.
Maybe try not force vaxxing fit healthy young people?
Perfect example of Architect not checking out the mature specimen…
Twenty five years ago, an LA specified Ficus hillii as a street tree in my local area. Twerp features might have popped down to the SBG to have a look…but didn’t. And the things were planted – many…many of them.
Fortunately someone on the management committee was switched on enough to have them all removed and replaced with Magnolia cvs, “Exmouth” in the larger areas, “Little Gem” next to driveways. All at great expense, but removal and replacement down the track when the roadway and driveways started to lift was going to be phenomenal.
This is just in one small sub-division. Dumb choices cost the community millions upon millions in trimming and removal and remediation every single year. All for the want of looking at the mature tree.
I’m sure they will live to regret their offer if Morrison does to them what he did to us.
“Today I learned that Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent wasn’t original.
Michael Parenti’s Inventing Reality was the original work.”
Nothing surprises me about Chomsky, the great fraud
See if this is worth a raised eyebrow then…
Renowned academic Noam Chomsky told The Wall Street Journal that his meetings with Jeffrey Epstein are “none of your business”
The Wall Street Journal, in an exclusive published Sunday, said it had obtained Epstein’s private calendar, which outlined numerous meetings with high-profile people, including Chomsky, the famed academic and political activist. When the Journal reached out to Chomsky for comment, the linguist had some choice words.
“First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally,” Chomsky, 94, told the Journal in an email.
In addition to Chomsky, the Journal noted meetings Epstein had on his calendar with the current CIA director, William Burns, as well as Kathryn Ruemmler, a top lawyer at Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, among others.
Epstein’s meetings with Chomsky appear to have taken place in 2015 and 2016, according to the Journal. Epstein was first charged with procuring minors for prostitution and registered as a sex offender in 2008.
In March 2015, Epstein scheduled meetings with Chomsky and a Harvard University professor, the Journal reported. Chomsky confirmed for the paper that there were several meetings where they discussed various topics.
The Journal reported that months later, according to the calendar, Epstein scheduled a flight with Chomsky and his wife for a planned dinner with movie director Woody Allen and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, who is also the adopted daughter of his ex-partner, Mia Farrow.
“If there was a flight, which I doubt, it would have been from Boston to New York, 30 minutes,” Chomsky told the Journal. “I’m unaware of the principle that requires that I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist.”
Chomsky said he discussed politics and academics in his meetings with Epstein. Epstein donated at least $850,000 between 2002 and 2017 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Chomsky taught for decades.
“What was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence,” Chomsky told the Journal about his meetings. “According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”
How about just promise not to persecute them when they come back from deployment after having done what you asked of them.
Defence would do better if they provided better quality housing for personnel posted to certain capital cities.
It’s bad enough reposting families every few years but sticking them in tiny two storey town houses without a bath for toddlers (with bonus pocket handkerchief yards)?
Social housing for welfare recipients is of better quality and more suitable.
Not to mention the dog box townhouses are very expensive to heat and cool.
Oh and thanks for the reminder I should book a flu shot shortly.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
– Stephen Hawking
count the logical fallacies in this an excellent species of dissembling
trying to reason with this fool is a waste of pixels
Botanical Gardens are oasises in Australia.
We have both native bushland and European treed parks locally.
The European ones with lovely mature trees and green lawns are much more amenable, especially when the weather is warm.
I see that Chomsky has become inconvenient and my guess would be that powers that be, including their enforcers – the media, don’t like how he outlined the the formation of fake news. I wouldn’t be surprised if Manufacturing Consent is soon banned.
Good luck ripping out the Williamstown Botanical Gardens for your fetish too.
Chomsky made an awful lot of cash selling anti-capitalist agitprop to communist kids, god bless him.
The city of Filth (formerly Perth) has a plan for the “rewilding” of the greater suburban area.
Make water so expensive that properties put down the satanic fake grass or just let it die and turn into dustbowls.
It given the peasants betters a fission inside their pantsuits when they step out onto their lovely green lawns to know the plebs cant afford the status signifier like them.
Oh and fine those people who have bores as well..
It’s easier to argue English departments in Australian universities are imperial remnants full of European-origin academics, an increasingly uncomfortable reminder of British colonisation.
That should be frisson not fission. (thanks spellwrecker)
I dont want to mislead people into thinking Perf pollies have anything that energetic happening in their underwear.
What do practicality and aesthetics matter when the elites have a cause to push? People who insist on native plants everywhere are the luddites of the horticultural world. We don’t need no stinking new ideas for our world.
I am not against natives for gardens, some are absolutely sublime, but a garden should be a personal thing. Even public spaces should reflect what most people find beautiful, not just the tastes of a select few. Some of the public botanical offerings are on a par with modern art – ugly.
Rosie – re the flu shot:
You know we worry about you! Anyhow this shot at least won’t do any harm- if ineffective.
Me too!
Melbourne water storage is currently over 90%.
The only current threat to our water supply is stuffing another 200,000 people into the city every year.
Cite you cases of houses being offered to service personnel that were rejected by welfare recipients..
Australias most naïve police wench finds out life is different without the uniform on.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-02/police-officer-cuts-holiday-plans-short-after-crime-in-wa-north/102284550
Keely Allport and her partner were holidaying in a van through WA before pulling up in Broome for birthday celebrations
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but was woken up in the early hours of the morning to loud noises and torchlight shining through the window.
She said a group of four youths had entered the property and searched through their belongings, taking credit cards and cash.
Ms Allport said she chased the group away from the property but the incident had left her feeling shaken.
“I was angry more than anything,” she said.
“I couldn’t do anything about it and felt a bit helpless.”
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The couple left Broome and travelled up the highway to Halls Creek on Saturday, where they ran into further trouble.
Ms Allport said they were parked at a service station when a group of young people surrounded the van, shaking it while the couple were inside and later throwing rocks at the vehicle.
Ms Allport said she was in disbelief.
“What happened in broad daylight at 10 o’clock in the morning in front of a lot of people, I’ve never encountered that,” she said.
“I couldn’t believe it, I was so shocked.”
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If only they had a voice…
Yet these same English departments are no longer teaching English, or any language for that matter. Everything is in the process of devolution. Do we dare pray for a revolution?
I prefer to avoid flus,I know flu vaxx can be a bit hit and miss prevention wise but I’m not scared of vaccines, my little grandchildren will all be getting flu vaccines too, can be very nasty for small children.
One of my offspring and their spouse have pharmacy degrees, I trust their judgement about what vaccines their children get.
And our political class is happy to oblige.
Oh and thanks for the reminder why I prefer to holiday in Europe (and Japan).
Restock on humble pie enroute to Darwin.
Memorial of Saint Athanasius
Christian denominations worldwide revere Athanasius as a saint and teacher. He died in 373 on May 2 — the day on which we celebrate his memorial in the liturgical calendar.
St. Athanasius – Pope Benedict XVI
Athanasius: The Incarnation of the Word of God – C.S. Lewis Institute
Surprising, considering she spent some years working in the APY lands in South Australia.
Government mongs gunna mong…
Australia to ban non-prescription vapes in biggest smoking reforms in a decade
Ruled over by low IQ Python Pepperpots
The Australian government will ban the importation of nonprescription vaping products – including those that do not contain nicotine* – in the most significant tobacco and vaping control measures in the country in a decade.
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minimum quality standards for vapes will be introduced including restricting flavours, colours and other ingredients**. Vape products will require pharmaceutical-like packaging, and the allowed nicotine concentrations and volumes will be reduced. All single-use, disposable vapes will be banned.
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The funding includes $63m for an evidence-based public health information campaign to discourage people from taking up smoking and vaping and encourage more people to quit.*** Public health experts have long been calling for a renewed anti-smoking advertising campaign. There will be $30m invested in support programs to help Australians quit, and education and training in smoking and nicotine cessation among health practitioners will be strengthened.
A further $140m will be allocated to the Tackling Indigenous Smoking program which will be extended and also widened to reduce vaping among First Nations people.****
“This is a product targeted at our kids, sold alongside lollies and chocolate bars,” Butler is expected to tell the Press Club.*****
/chortles in vape smuggler….
*Mong
** Nothing says minimum quality standards like restricting things.
*** Media successfully brought off leading up till the next election then?
**** Double the money spent on 1% of the population – thats a lot of Toyota dreaming for the people “managing” it.
***** You know what should be for sale there instead? Lengths of hemp rope and directions to the nearest helath offical/politicans house, along with a handy “how to tie Mr Pierrepoint patent knots“
Good luck with that. With the government persecuting soldiers through the court system, and woke infecting everything, why would men join up?
The military recruitment drought is a national security crisis: Look at DEI and Afghanistan: is it any wonder our ranks are dwindling? (1 May)
The original article is paywalled at the American Spectator unfortunately, but the sentiment appears similar.
Street trees are a whole special subject. The LGA one over from me uses London Plane trees as a street tree. One road has already been destroyed by a burst water main (total cost $???). Most are not even fully mature and lifting roads and pavements. At least I won’t be getting the bill through my rates.
And 82,000 rural administrators enter Rural China! CCP Prepares for massive unemployment & war
China Insights
Recently, talk about rural affairs has been a hot topic in the Chinese media. There are three key elements to this discussion. They are ” retiring forests and restoring farmland”, retiring 80 million migrant rural workers, and constructing “a comprehensive rural administrative and law enforcement team,” or “Nongguan” for short
Another problem that cannot be ignored is that as long as CCP officials have power, it means they can be corrupt and use it as a cash grab. What kind of chaos and turmoil will happen in rural China under the management of such a large administrative army?
It can be said that when the peasants are fooled around like this, the Communist Party’s Red Dynasty is in its last days.
really?
when i walk through our botanic gardens i just think of trees and ducks and flowers
bwitish colonisation doesn’t cross my mind
obviously i am part of whatever the problem is
Because prohibition has a proven track record of success.
Twenty five years ago, an LA specified Ficus hillii as a street tree in my local area.
The morton bay fig-Australian community frowns upon your use of an inferior species to generate positive Keynesian stimulus via constant council spending.
Plane trees love our warm climate and grow…fast. They survive well in highly polluted places too.
The most extraordinary plane trees I’ve seen in my travels aren’t in London at all – they’re in Zagreb. Absolutely enormous.
There were a stack of them planted at Macquarie Uni when it was first built – avenue upon avenue of them. Someone should have thought about pollen drop – they are a nightmare for people with allergies.
Then there’s the avenue out through Clarendon to Richmond in Sydney’s northwest. The trees arch over the road forming a magnificent tunnel. Just beautiful. Shame about the roadway and drainage, but it’s always a trade-off. The trees were planted before the road was even sealed.
Ah Marxist dons. Not normal people and seem to have bpd. Why do they all look the same? La Trobe Melbourne’s answer Macquarie.
I don’t mind Australian natives and eucalypts being used for landscaping but as soon as you do so the land is sterilised for any passive recreation or any other use. The natural state of most forms of Australian bush is an impenetrable tangle. And thanks to our original inhabitants, a highly flammable one at that.
it is a myth that established trees in botanic gardens along our coastal fringe are a drain on water resources
our gardens have some trees well over 100 years old which have survived numerous droughts
we sit on a virtually bottomless aquifer and even if we didn’t what harm is there tipping a bit of grey water on them during the odd dry spell
monash mongs
I think I worked out once that a single 100 mL bottle of laboratory grade nicotine could do 20,000 vapes. That makes fentanyl look like a wuss. Liquid nicotine looks like water, it’d be very hard to stop its importation.
SITREP 5/1/23: Massive Missile Strikes Rock Ukraine
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
2 MAY 2023
There are a lot of updates, so strap in folks.
Firstly, let’s cover the most pressing news. The anxiety surrounding the upcoming Ukrainian offensive is reaching a peak. Many predictions stated it would come early to mid-May. Prigozhin himself just stated that May 2nd is when the rains will stop and the ground will begin fully drying up, which will take a couple weeks at most. Recall that Vladlen’s old prophecy was between easter and May 15 at the latest.
Now Ukraine is increasing shelling on various fronts, probing attacks, drone strikes—all potential precursors. There is also activity on the Dnieper.
One thing to mention is that for the past few months, Ukraine was said to be damming a lot of water up-river on the Dnieper. The water levels were said to have dropped to historic lows. The reason is presumed to be that they intend to launch a cross-Dnieper assault by drying up the river. Around Kherson particularly (and possibly other regions), there are many areas where the river is split into a lot of small, marshy tributaries and islets which are not very deep. If you really drain the river by damming it up stream, it could create cross-able conditions.
Prigozhin also has stated that he believes the Ukrainian offensive will come as soon as Bakhmut falls. And Bakhmut is finally on its last leg. It feels like we’ve been saying that forever, but the gradual progress, slow or not, is undeniable. And judging by the new maps, it is doubly undeniable how little of it is left.
Here are some maps showing the Bakhmut situation:
For those that don’t know, there are a number of other PMCs fighting on the Russian side in Ukraine. Some estimate over 10-20. In the video, Prigozhin names PMC Nevsky and PMC Stream, which is apparently Gazprom’s private PMC company sent to cover Wagner’s flanks in Bakhmut. There is also a PMC Wolves and PMC Patriot, alleged to be the private PMC group of Shoigu, which has previously worked around Energodar nuke plant and other areas near Zaporozhye and Kherson, if I recall correctly.
Ultimately, it’s difficult to know exactly what Prigozhin’s angle is; he could just be playing up the theatrics, or doing outright disinformation in the Sun Tzu fashion we’ve discussed before. Or there are actual critical disagreements happening. For instance, Russia recently fired General Mikhail Mizintsev, which western yellow press calls ‘the butcher of Mariupol’:
Either way, Wagner continues advancing and is clearly on the precipice of capturing Bakhmut—beyond that there isn’t much else to say. But the debacle and haggling does leave a bad taste in people’s mouths on the eve of what could be a turning point offensive. It leaves people asking whether Russia is truly ready, and whether internal strife and infighting could be Russia’s undoing in light of a massively prepared, Western-trained-and-armed Ukrainian force.
To be frank, we can only wait and see. But this bitter infighting is not shared along all the other fronts or Russian forces, though with that said, none of them are currently undergoing fighting as intense as that of Wagner, so potential ammo-hunger would not theoretically strike them in the same way.
Personally, I’m still inclined to agree with this writer’s viewpoint on the coming offensive:
Written by ????? ????????????:
Of Ukraine’s glorious counter-offensive
Zaluzhny now insists on postponing the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive to the end of June, because he thinks better weather, warmer Dnieper river and dry soil will help Ukraine and be “more comfortable for its soldiers”. To me, this translates to “I don’t want to deal with this, please appoint someone else to orchestrate this debacle”.
It is clear now that Russia is no longer fighting the same Ukrainian army that it did a year and some ago. That army has been annihilated and so has the second one during another glorious counter-offensive, namely that around Kharkov. Now, with a third Ukrainian army, full of untrained men who don’t want to be there, Ukraine is pressed to venture on another great adventure. We’ve seen many videos of people being caught on various streets of what is still Ukraine (although it is getting increasingly silly to call it a country, even objectively) and many of them show less than enthusiasm. We’ve seen a guy fainting, a fella fighting the police (not just one, by the way) and these people will now be sent against the six layers deep Russian defences, protected by the actual Russian army.
Also, I’d like to share this post as well, which confirms some of the numbers of the potential offensive which we’ve bandied about here. Particularly the statement in the second paragraph, which is roughly concordant with my own calculations, that I’ve posted several times before. I continue to maintain that there has to be at least 150-250k Russian troops not yet committed to conflict which are sitting and waiting, and mostly being utilized for rotational purposes to keep troops fresh, and inure them to combat conditions slowly and gradually.
If it’s true that Russia mobilized not only the 300k we know of, but an additional 100k volunteers—which is very believable, by the way—then that bodes very well. And I continue to believe that they are not yet being committed so as not to be ‘caught with their pants down’ by a huge Ukrainian counteroffensive striking at a weak point. For now they will likely wait to counteract Ukraine’s last hurrah, and then be utilized in a decisive Russian offensive of their own.
Meanwhile, things are looking no better on the West and Ukrainian’s side. A slew of headlines and MSM articles continue to either downplay, downgrade, or ‘check expectations’ for the coming Ukrainian offensive.
The article goes on to establish that ‘behind closed doors’, administration officials are skeptical that Ukraine can realistically sever Russia’s link to Crimea.
Moreover, U.S. intelligence indicates that Ukraine simply does not have the ability to push Russian troops from where they were deeply entrenched — and a similar feeling has taken hold about the battlefield elsewhere in Ukraine, according to officials.
The most striking admission comes from Richard Haass, a senior deep state bigwig who has long been president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR):
“If Ukraine can’t gain dramatically on the battlefield, the question inevitably arises as to whether it is time for a negotiated stop to the fighting,” said Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. “It’s expensive, we’re running low on munitions, we’ve got other contingencies around the world to prepare for.”
In light of this, the following, said by Urkainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik, is noteworthy:
If the president of Ukraine “freezes” the conflict, that is, does not end it with a “victory” from the point of view of Kiev, he will find himself in the crossfire of two oppositions, said the Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik. Some will accuse Zelensky of losing territories and people, while others will blame him for unleashing the conflict.
“Moreover, we will have to publish a huge amount of data related to losses, and a lot of information related to corruption will come out, the most serious corruption, with which there are huge problems,” the expert said. Therefore, it is advantageous for Zelensky to continue fighting. While they are going, there is no one to put all these questions to him, Bortnik concluded.
I believe the only objective that could generate such a victory is giving Russia a major scare vis a vis Crimea. Not least of which reason being that, striking against directions populated by LDPR or Wagner would not really be an optics victory against ‘Russia’ itself. Only the optics of a major victory against true Russian forces would give the sort of rallying cry intended. And no direction is associated with the true heart of Russia more than the Crimean one.
This is why I simply can’t see any way out for them other than going for Crimea or its general direction (Melitopol, Berdiansk, Mariupol, etc.).
And as of this writing, an unprecedented strike is underway, reportedly utilizing 13 total Kalibr carrying ships and subs, 50 Geran and equivalent drones, and ~21 Tu-95MS Bears and additional Tu-160s armed with upwards of 8 KH-101 cruise missiles each for a total of over 500 guided missiles/drones. There’s no telling how many are actually launched compared to decoys or simply ‘going up’ in the air in regions in order to distract or raise regional alarms.
But it’s been confirmed that a critical railway juncture and surrounding depots in Pavlograd were hit, with massive explosions visible, signifying huge losses. Reports claim two entire divisions of S-300s (representing over 16 launchers) which were being stored and prepped for the upcoming offensive were destroyed as well as tons of other ammo, including DU shipments, and many troops as well. The reports are likely not far from the truth as the explosion type was clearly of the ‘chandelier’ type (as described by one source) with the typical telltale signs of ammunition detonation, secondary explosions, etc. So it’s a certainty that a mass amount of ammunition supplies were destroyed. One video here: Video Link.
If the scale of this attack is true as reported, this is a clear sign that a major offensive is gearing up because this is exactly what I’ve stated before, that Russia would continue saving up its munitions/missiles, waiting until the eve of the offensive when Ukrainian hardware is finally getting centralized, consolidated into depots or places of preparation, etc. Then it would launch massive strikes against these consolidation points. And we’ve seen that in the last several days as there was suddenly a spate of missile launches, though the one two days ago was small by comparison.
With that said, it could also be preparations for an offensive of Russia’s own, as any potential Russian offensive would also come on the heels of massive strikes.
One thing to keep an eye on, as we get closer to go time, is the following report which claims that the U.S. has recently outfitted Ukraine with ‘radiation sensors’ to detect nuclear blasts.
This is worrying only from the standpoint that of my long held theory that once Russia truly crushes the Ukrainian army once and for all, one of the only remaining ways ‘out’ to save Ukraine will be a nuclear falseflag, i.e. blaming some nuclear attack on Russia, similar to the infamous ‘gas attacks’ blamed on Assad.
Interestingly, at the same time the U.S. has recently revealed that it has “sensitive nuclear technology” at the Energodar nuclear power plant, and warned Russia “not to touch it.”
Given the fact that there’s been previous evidence that Ukraine was storing and/or developing nuclear weapons or their constituents at some of these plants, it is a concerning development.
Only recently Arestovich revealed that Ukraine had only two types of guarantees for its protection: either to join NATO, or if that should fail, to immediately develop a nuclear weapons program: Video. And since it’s obvious that the former is not likely, then there’s very strong chance Ukraine would be long underway with the latter. Arestovich adds that Ukraine would be able to develop nukes in under a year. I would not be surprised if the CIA misplaced some ‘sensitive technology’ connected to this pursuit.
This new WarOnTheRocks article highlights the endless laundry list of problems that European arms manufacturers are facing. Ironically, every single one of them are things they had accused ‘corrupt, backwards’ Russia of. Yet as always, it turns out they were merely projecting.
The U.S. has also completely cancelled Switchblade-300 production, finding them utterly useless and inferior to Russia’s Lancet loitering drones in Ukraine:
Popular Science, meanwhile, is perplexed why U.S.’s JDAMs have been such failures:
This jibes with what we see on the battlefield, and is further compounded by the bad news that a lot of the arms shipped to Ukraine have major problems or are defective:
The Armed Forces of Ukraine complain that NATO is sending non-working military equipment to Ukraine
??Thus, of the 20 M109 self-propelled howitzers handed over by Italy, not one was ready for battle.
??Advisors of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported this to the Financial Times.
Triggered by trees.
I imagine she scores quite high on the neuroticism index.
bear at 1032
not to mention the tendency of gum trees to spoil your picnic by dropping a 200 kg limb onto the pimms and cucumber sandwiches
Pennsylvania Teachers, Activists Concocted Bogus LGBTQ Bullying Epidemic for Political Gain, Investigation Finds:
Interesting if true…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rupert-murdoch-held-call-with-ukraines-zelensky-weeks-before-tucker-ouster-report-says
We’ve got Moreton Bay Figs opposite us. Planted between the wars and properly spaced. The largest must have a span of 50 feet from the trunk. Eventually the weight just gets too much and they rip themselves apart. I will be long gone at that point.
who was it who watched the teevee miniseries on the serial killer nurse Christiana Hansen?
keen to have a look
nurse serial killers
its a whole genre of its own
Got a P. orientalis v “Alford Blaze”
Looked crook for a few years- I think that’s why the cultivar has been dropped- but now it’s looking great, form swept by the wind and warm red autumn colour. Darker and corkier in the bark, too. Plane trees actually accumulate pollutants in the bark and shed them, that’s why there appears to be such different expression in the phenotype.
Here’s some footage.
Must be someone’s birthday, right?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-military-tracking-another-mysterious-balloon-rcna82300
“thanks for reminder about minter ellison
one of the few examples of people standing up to the woke
although it was more about lawyers income than principle”
It was both. On the day the story blew I spoke to a partner at ME. They were furious. Absolutely furious.
Most gardens cannot really accommodate large trees. Increasingly public parks and gardens, together with street trees will be more important to the urban landscape. Queensland Box trees were widely used in Perf and for a long time kept the Western Power maintenance crews busy. Now much of the power has been undergrounded they are reaching for the sky.
Now we’re talking plane trees, here’s something about sitting in their shade.
And yes, it’s a bloke. A countertenor.
with the typical telltale signs of ammunition detonation, secondary explosions, etc
Its one of the things about this war that is a bit new.
The intel compared to similar “peer” conflicts must be enormous.
All the ammo dumps/fuel etc would have to be stored as far from the front as possible and only sent forward “just in time” or else as long as the other side has the range to hit it its gone.
In that respect surely Russia has a big advantage of being able to stockpile large distances away.
But then again, Ukraine can effectively stockpile in Poland/Germany.
Either way it must make getting an offensive ready an absolute nightmare, you’d need a dozen small stockpiles to ensure you didnt lose the lot in one go.
I love the little smile of satisfaction when he hits the high note.
😀
Extraordinary scene.
Indolent mentioned Twitter handle Unmasking Mainstream Media. She is a former travel writer who shows up the media. Worth a follow.
Others, Vax related, I follow are :
Aussie17 who is an ex pharma executive.
Jikkyleaks very popular and is into research and goes into a lot detail. Gets blocked frequently by those he questions.
Dystopian Down Under is Rebekah Barnet who is a WA independent journalist who does some good Substack articles.
Craig Kelly. You don’t have to like his politics but he puts out a lot of interesting information.
Dr Melissa McCann who is the lead for the vaccine injury class action. She just posted a Spectator article about the class action. It mentions one of the cases in the action. Adelaide Dr who was not confident in the Vax. He refused to Vax in his clinic but took 1st Pfizer as otherwise could not visit his patients in hospital. Died within 2 weeks and clearly Vax related although not been counted as such by TGA.
AMPS is the group of Dr’s who spoke out against the vaccine and arranges talks around country. They are being Dr Aseem Malhotra to Oz.
Obviously there are plenty of the well known overseas Dr’s. Dr John Campbell gets a mention as he is on a 7 day YouTube suspension for having the audacity to interview Andrew Bridgen the Brit MP who has just been kicked out of Conservative party for his vaccine comments.
If not on it have a look at Twitter as so much information that is not found in mainstream media. Thanks to Elon.
In other news ADH TV will be having Mark Steyn on at 5pm Oz time 4 X per week.
Just need Tucker back in action now. However clear that is not in the interests of Fox.
Having built and run risk systems for several global banks, I can assure you that stress testing (and risk modelling as an essential practice) that does not include rates & curve risks is not worth anything.
I think we can all agree that SVB did not keep their eye on the ball and manage its liquidity and exposure risks as a bank of its size should. Report from the Fed assigned blame in parts to SVB management and the Fed along with changing inflationary numbers.
MatrixTransform> Kindly share
in the text above. Welcome any corrections you can provide.
It certainly is, if you like killing people, it’s a no muss no fuzz method, no police investigations, no messy clean ups or having to flush body bits down drains, just sent them off to the hospital morgue and don’t forget to wash your hands.
The only time they seem to get caught is if an observant co worker gets suspicious or there are statistical anomalies in death rates.
Another reason not a good idea to picnic in the local native bushland (other than in the small grassed area near the playground) snakes, as you would expect.
I agree Bear block sizes these days there’s barely room for a decent shrub, let along a tree.
A week is a long time in qwertystan.
Moana Hope and Isabella Carlstrom on what motherhood means to them and making memories with Pandora (26 Apr)
Moana Hope’s shock split from wife (Daily Terror, 2 May, paywalled)
That’s really AWFL!
I don’t think the Darwin botanic garden has too many European trees. Another thing is that these evil cretins confuse European trees with north Asian and American trees. They are incredibly ignorant. Save us dro
From dons
Dr. John Campbell’s video with Andrew Brigden is now here on Rumble.
As noted above, youtube have censored Dr. Campbell and sin binned him for a week.
The very admirable Dr Suneel Dhand gives the details.
Sancho at 10.35am
Eucs are not the only ones to drop branches. I’ve seen an elm drop a huge branch a few feet away from picnickers in a local park. No one even flinched and no action was taken to warn people of the danger from the ‘old grey widow-makers’.
Where I garden the elms regularly drop limbs. Funnily enough the eucs in the same (large) garden are instantly reduced to ground level if they drop a branch, while the elm drop is simply cleaned up and ignored. These are all trees regularly inspected by the arborists so not neglected.
The most beautiful tree in this garden is a huge redgum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, which doesn’t seem to drop limbs – and I’ve been watching it for twenty years. It houses quite a bit of wildlife.
Leprechaun finally gets his pot ‘o gold.
Qantas picks first female CEO to lead the airline (2 May)
I can’t find out much about Ms Hudson other than she’s been with Qantas for nearly three decades and is presently their CFO.
The whole area of public landscaping is a mess. Typically public infrastructure is put in by a developer with the aim of moving blocks or apartments. It is then handed over to an LGA who often struggle to fund the maintenance requirements. Verges installed nearby 20 years ago haven’t had a single plant replaced or mulch topped up.
I have my doubts about the value of these inspectors. An acacia in a park recently dropped a limb after an inspection team had been through. I’d be interested in what they had to say.
Might warrant a critical review of that culture.
Native trees in suburbia?
It depends on which trees.
In our little street, one yard has a serious eucalyptus job in their back yard. This tree stands at least ninety feet tall. (It’s so old it still uses Imperial measurements, like a lot of us).
WHEN it demises and even before, “bits” will start falling off the upper structure. In the event we get a serious “weather event” with weeks of rain followed by a couple of days of high wind, there is a good likelihood that it will topple and seriously rearrange “someone’s” house. Our place is out of reach, .however. The tree is a “perch” for a variety of birds,; Kookaburras, magpies and Currawongs feature prominently.
Local government seems to be infested by perverse types terminally stricken with deeply-cultivated ignorance about most matters. (Ditto State and Feral governments.)
A couple of decades ago, the orange-vest types planted a LOT of “decorative” native trees along the footpaths . We got several “bottlebrush” types, (Callistemon citrinus splendens, proably), in our area. As one would expect, “due diligence” is totally anathema to such people. They were planted in our footpath, along a line that included underground “services” and people’s concrete driveways and overhead, a generous array of data and electrical cable. They took a while to get “established” and then “took off”. Driveway pads and slabs started to move and crack and the local possums could step daintily off a branch and onto out back deck. This was not ideal, and a few minutes work with a sharp saw fixed that. The higher overhang that constantly shed leaf litter into the guttering was also “abbreviated”. Eventually “someone” noticed that these trees were engulfing the power lines and up rolled a team with the gear to “shave” off the tops and feed then to their log chipper; several bags of “chips” were acquired for domestic garden mulching. As folk in “cyclone country” well know, wildly waving or disintegrating trees are a primary reason for power lines being brought down in “bad weather”.
“Government” is NOT your “friend”.. As George Washington observed:
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
Finish school, get a job & stick with it, avoid substance abuse and don’t commit crime.
It’s not rocket science.
Rosie, is the current crop of flu vaxx the normal type? There was some talk of making it an mRNA type, and if so then I will no longer be taking it.
Cricket Australia still don’t get it.
Cummins, Lanning to be consulted prior to CA’s ‘The Voice’ decision (DT, 2 May, paywalled)
Even saying this is stupid. The correct approach was to shut up and play cricket. Getting involved in politics is a really fast way to lose all your viewers.
Gee…which way will they go d’ya think?
Rear Window
Teals join party hacks in the Chairman’s Lounge
Myriam Robin – Columnist
Qantas has finally secured a teal sweep.
Newish member for North Sydney Kylea Tink updated her register of members’ interests last month to note her complimentary membership of both the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge and Virgin Australia’s equivalent, Beyond.
She joins every single other teal MP in membership of the former, and most in membership of the latter.
All members of parliament (and their partners) are generally offered membership to both major airlines’ top-tier private lounges. At stake is much-valued privacy, better food, fancy fittings, and personalised comfort so exclusive it cannot be bought. Most take it up. But not all.
Ever since the teals dislodged a raft of inner-city Liberals from what had been safe seats on the promise of a better (and more environmentally friendly) politics at last year’s federal election, we’ve wondered how many would proceed to accept such hospitality.
We now have our answer. Listed as members of the Chairman’s Lounge is the aforementioned Tink, as well as fellow teal crossbenchers Kate Chaney, Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan, Sophie Scamps, and Allegra Spender, as well as teal-ish independents Zali Steggall and Helen Haines.
Taking up Virgin’s Beyond Lounge membership is a more select group consisting of Daniel, Haines, Scamps, Tink and Spender.
Bigger armchairs are the least Chairman’s Lounge members can expect.
This isn’t unusual for federal parliamentarians. The overwhelming majority also list their membership of at least the Chairman’s Lounge.
Even most of the Greens, alongside non-teal independents such as Andrew Wilkie, David Pocock and Dai Le.
This is a realm of soft lobbying in which Qantas reigns supreme.
Still, as noted by transparency site Open Politics, holdouts do exist.
According to her disclosures, Finance Minister Senator Katy Gallagher must make do with the regular lounges, alongside Communications Minister Michelle Rowland.
On the Coalition side, Warren Entsch, David Fawcett, Anne Ruston, and Matt Canavan don’t disclose membership of either club, nor do One Nation members Pauline Hanson or Malcolm Roberts. Greens members Barbara Pocock and Max Chandler-Mather appear immune to the airlines’ lures.
Jacqui Lambie is another cleanskin, though in slightly different circumstances. She reportedly lost her Chairman’s Lounge membership in 2021 after a verbal altercation with Qantas staff at a reception desk. She doesn’t appear to have taken up Virgin’s Beyond in the interim.
As part of its capital route launch, Rex offered all MPs access to its own lounges in 2021. Alas, according to their disclosures, only seven MPs have taken it up.
The rest obviously haven’t heard about the scones.
This logical contortion is just one of many outlandish disclosures by Sharp in an interview, published on Friday, at his NSW Southern Highlands property – specifically the conservatory of his 15-acre garden, attended by five full-time gardeners.
Momentously, Sharp recently introduced one of his personal favourites, the pork schnitzel sandwich, to Rex’s in-flight menu – apparently no Jews or Muslims fly Rex, which makes it far easier to maintain market share in the single digits – along with the Country Women’s Association recipe for scones with jam and clotted cream.
“If you go the pub or the RSL, these are very popular things,” he enthuses, segueing into an evocation of the sausage roll’s broad appeal at the rugby.
No “fancy words” like on the Qantas menu – Sharp recoils at the faintest scent of tamarind or harissa or, God forbid, white miso – just: “Nice comfort food.” White people food.
Why are national teams, and the like, permitted to take public positions on political questions?
RBA to be forced to wear red undies on their heads.
‘Disastrously wrong’: RBA slammed over cost of living surge amid welfare fight (Sky News, 2 May)
A former Labor cabinet minister has slammed the Reserve Bank for further burdening Australia’s most vulnerable with its “disastrous” cash rate decisions as the government faces backlash over a welfare increase to only one group.
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The Treasurer also conceded the government could not “satisfy all of the calls for more spending” despite recognising cost of living pressures were hitting many Australians hard.
He was echoed by former Labor cabinet minister Stephen Conroy who said critics of the lack of welfare reform needed to “be patient” given it was only the government’s first full budget.
Mr Conroy said there would be a raft of measures addressing cost of living, but Labor couldn’t “do it all at once” as he laid a large portion of the blame at the feet of the Reserve Bank ahead of its May rate decision.
“That’s going to be potentially disastrous to the economy, disastrous for people on jobseeker, this will cause prices to go up, it will cause rents to go up it’ll see all of those flow on effects if the Reserve Bank board do this (increase the cash rate),” Mr Conroy told Sky News Australia on Tuesday.
Nuclear milkman goes nuclear!
The AFR View
Anthony Albanese, the ill-advised wedding guest
The Financial Review’s take on the principles at stake in major domestic and global stories.
If Scott Morrison had been a guest at Kyle Sandilands’ ostentatious wedding in the middle of a “cost-of-living crisis” he would never have heard the end of it.
Reactions to Anthony Albanese’s decision to attend has exposed the split between his woke left-progressive constituency and hundreds of thousands of ordinary Australians who tune in each morning to hear Australia’s most-listened-to, politically incorrect shock jock.
Everyone gets the retail political calculation involved in Mr Albanese appearing on Mr Sandilands’ radio program.
Like John Howard’s decision to keep going on the Alan Jones show after the “cash for comment” scandal, it’s about the opportunity to talk directly to many listening voters.
Yet turning up at a private function that involves consorting with mobster-type characters with criminal records is another matter.
There is something beneath the dignity of his office about Mr Albanese’s ill-advised attendance at such a gathering.
What I’m trying to say is that trees are trees, each species has its own characteristics. You don’t have to discriminate on the basis of where a tree or shrub comes from but what its characteristics are. Poor choices are poor choices, whether the offending plant is ‘European’ or Australian. Our local council has planted a row of camphor laurels along a major city artery under quite low powerlines. Any attempt at research would show that the trees will be too tall, if they grow, and the leaf drop makes a very greasy surface. But until someone slips, or the branches cause problems with the powerlines, all requests to reconsider are met with deaf ears. That’s human stupidity, not the fault of the species involved.
3D printed fish set to hit the market
<a href="In 2020, the fast-food giant KFC partnered with a Russian bioprinting company to produce artificial chicken nuggets.“>Around a third of global fish stocks are currently overexploited, analysts say
If a trip to the lake with your fishing pole just isn’t an option, an Israeli company has created a method of 3D bioprinting your very own ‘fresh’ fish – which, it says, will be ready for cooking immediately.
Stakeholder Foods has developed a 3D printed grouper fish fillet from stem cells, which are then processed via bioprinting technology into a fish-like shape.
The product, which was created in conjunction with Umami Meats, mimics the taste and texture of natural fish, and it could be on supermarket shelves later this year.
“In the coming months, we intend to announce our plans for bringing this world-class cultivated fish to the market,” said Mihir Pershad, CEO of Umami Meats at a tasting event in Israel last week, via The Telegraph. “In the first tasting, we showcased a cultivated product that flakes, tastes and melts in your mouth exactly like excellent fish should,” he explained.
The development of the technology could have myriad benefits, particularly as it pertains to food scarcity – but also to the global issue of overfishing. Marine experts have estimated that around one third of global fish stocks are currently being overexploited. Grouper fish, in particular, are considered at risk of extinction.
Additionally, biologically engineered fish is free from pollutants such as microplastics, which might affect traditionally harvested seafood stocks.
The grouper fish fillets are created by combining fish stem cells with various nutrients, which are subsequently processed into bio-inks and then into a printer.
The process of printing takes just a few minutes, and the product can then be immediately cooked and eaten.
Stakeholders are also working to create entire cuts of 3D-printed meat, including steaks and other seafood like eel.
In 2020, the fast-food giant KFC partnered with a Russian bioprinting company to produce artificial chicken nuggets.
In 2020, the fast-food giant KFC partnered with a Russian bioprinting company to produce artificial chicken nuggets.
I thought that is what KFC Nuggets are already – Artifically Produced
Ooops Link – 3D printed fish set to hit the market
It can be said that when the peasants are fooled around like this, the Communist Party’s Red Dynasty is in its last days.
Zipster, the Maoists killed a massive, massive number of farmers & rural town folk in the purges.
I am currently reading “Pink Flower. Growing up in Mao’s China” which is first hand recollection of that period in China by Rafe Champion’s delightful partner, Amei Li. We need to be reminded of just how ruthless and horrific CCP rule has been, and can be in the future.
Trougher Brahmins.
I would once have imagined their voters didn’t know, but now I’m not so sure. They all represent the most well-heeled enclaves in the major cities, where such little perks are not only accepted, they’re demanded. And go unnoticed and unremarked.
The great unwashed west of Parramatta and its Melbourne equivalent can only imagine as they scrape up the stray crumbs of voltage and petrol.
Vale, Gordon Lightfoot
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/sundown-you-better-take-care-singer-songwriter-gordon-lightfoot-passes-away-at-age-84/
2023 is shaping up to be a bountiful harvest for the Grim Reaper.
Pfizer will be very pleased! Swapping a healthy young immune system getting ‘natural updates’ via regular exposure, for a lifetime subscription to big pharmas annual ‘pay as you go’ model.
I’ve pushed this barrow often here and I couldn’t agree more. When I lived in the outer west of Sydney, from the late forties on, the landscape was mainly rural, with lots of open grasslands, some of it from pastures and some of it from earlier aboriginal fire-farming for hunting. We found a big aboriginal boomerang under one of our big shade trees showing the sort of hunting that went on. Now it is heavily over-built with housing and industry, and there is a close canopy of Eucalypts ready to explode across the tight little gardens when one of those old westie fire winds and heat inversions really picks up due to the way the mountains meet the plains of the Sydney basin.
It’s sometimes hard to spot structural defects in large trees. Eucs are a bit easier because epicormic growth, even large replacement branches can be spotted. These are usually the “window-makers”.
Some species like Erythrina are also notorious for dropping huge branches.
My method was to look closely at branch diameter and try to estimate the amount of weight it was carrying and also its angle to the trunk. And also do a risk assessment on location. Simple stuff. The entire tree doesn’t need to come out, just the branch.
The other big problem is services like kerb and gutter, road works and trenching. You can do an assessment on a tree and six months later it’s a hazard because some idiot has run a bobcat through half its root plate. You’ll notice most of the catastrophic failures occur very close to roads.
New Mexico’s premier cycling road race introduced equal prize money for men and women this year. Guess who walked off with the women’s cheque? Cop that TERFs.
‘Net Zero is taking the world’s population backwards’ | Neil Oliver issues grave Ulez warning
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If You Could Read My Mind. Always loved that song. Vale Gordon.
Seconded. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a remarkable ballad, awesome, un-PC but reverent.
Sad to hear that he’s laid his guitar down.
I’ve been taking the flu shots since I was sixty-five and will continue to do so if they are of the previous type as I don’t have bad reactions to them. I never get the flu and my immune system is pretty robust. Maybe my good immunity is due to exposure to early childhood infections when there was no vax in my day, except for Smallpox, and later for Polio, which I accepted as a young adult. Vaxxes do work. There is some point to them for known childhood killers. I’d say vaxx young kids for flu if they have serious health problems lowering immunity, otherwise not, rely on natural immunity. You are crazy if you don’t vaxx kids for measles, mumps, rubella, and whooping cough, the epidemiology shows that. Otherwise it could be welcome to your dead or seriously damaged kid. Most vaxxes are permanent and need no updating, or only limited updating.
Considering that imprisonment is seen as the last resort for indigenous people here in the Wild West, it might.
Indolent mentioned Twitter handle Unmasking Mainstream Media.
If you are looking for latest info on the mRNA vaccine debacle and the latest research on the same:
Substacks of : Robert Malone; Steve Kirsch; MidWestern Doctor; FLCCC; eugyppius; Dr. Peter McCullough; Bailiwick News & of course our very own Dr. Phillip Altman’s Substack.
There are, of course, many more – eg the twitter sites of Dr. Jessica Rose; Prof. Norman Fenton; Dr Jay Bhattacharya; Dr. Martin Kuldorf; Dr Malcolm Kendrick………..and so many more……
After two hours wrestling with the garden weeds I am ready for an afternoon on the couch. What’s been happening while I was gone?
window makers…whoops!
widow makers
Although they definitely have the potential to make windows in people, and extra ones in their houses.
America’s Empire Is Bankrupt
BY TYLER DURDEN
Authored by John Michael Greer via UnHerd.com, (emphasis ours)
The dollar is finally being dethroned…
The mechanism the US used for this latter purpose was ingenious but even more short-term than most. In simple terms, the US imposed a series of arrangements on most other nations that guaranteed the lion’s share of international trade would use US dollars as the medium of exchange, and saw to it that an ever-expanding share of world economic activity required international trade. (That’s what all that gabble about “globalisation” meant in practice.) This allowed the US government to manufacture dollars out of thin air by way of gargantuan budget deficits, so that US interests could use those dollars to buy up vast amounts of the world’s wealth. Since the excess dollars got scooped up by overseas central banks and business firms, which needed them for their own foreign trade, inflation stayed under control while the wealthy classes in the US profited mightily.
The problem with this scheme is the same difficulty faced by all Ponzi schemes, which is that, sooner or later, you run out of suckers to draw in.
This happened not long after the turn of the millennium, and along with other factors — notably the peaking of global conventional petroleum production — it led to the financial crisis of 2008-2010. Since 2010 the US has been lurching from one crisis to another. This is not accidental. The wealth pump that kept the US at the top of the global pyramid has been sputtering as a growing number of nations have found ways to keep a larger share of their own wealth by expanding their domestic markets and raising the kind of trade barriers the US used before 1945 to build its own economy.
The one question left is how soon the pump will start to fail altogether.
When Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the US and its allies responded not with military force but with punitive economic sanctions, which were expected to cripple the Russian economy and force Russia to its knees.
Apparently, nobody in Washington considered the possibility that other nations with an interest in undercutting the US empire might have something to say about that.
Of course, that’s what happened. China, which has the largest economy on Earth in purchasing-power terms, extended a middle finger in the direction of Washington and upped its imports of Russian oil, gas, grain and other products. So did India, currently the third-largest economy on Earth in the same terms; as did more than 100 other countries.
Then there’s Iran, which most Americans are impressively stupid about. Iran is the 17th largest nation in the world, more than twice the size of Texas and even more richly stocked with oil and natural gas. It’s also a booming industrial power.
It has a thriving automobile industry, for example, and builds and launches its own orbital satellites. It’s been dealing with severe US sanctions since not long after the Shah fell in 1978, so it’s a safe bet that the Iranian government and industrial sector know every imaginable trick for getting around those sanctions.
Right after the start of the Ukraine war, Russia and Iran suddenly started inking trade deals to Iran’s great benefit. Clearly, one part of the quid pro quo was that the Iranians passed on their hard-earned knowledge about how to dodge sanctions to an attentive audience of Russian officials. With a little help from China, India and most of the rest of humanity, the total failure of the sanctions followed in short order. Today, the sanctions are hurting the US and Europe, not Russia, but the US leadership has wedged itself into a position from which it can’t back down. This may go a long way towards explaining why the Russian campaign in Ukraine has been so leisurely. The Russians have no reason to hurry. They know that time is not on the side of the US.
For many decades now, the threat of being cut out of international trade by US sanctions was the big stick Washington used to threaten unruly nations that weren’t small enough for a US invasion or fragile enough for a CIA-backed regime-change operation.
Over the last year, that big stick turned out to be made of balsa wood and snapped off in Joe Biden’s hand.
As a result, all over the world, nations that thought they had no choice but to use dollars in their foreign trade are switching over to their own currencies, or to the currencies of rising powers. The US dollar’s day as the global medium of exchange is thus ending.
It’s been interesting to watch economic pundits reacting to this. As you might expect, quite a few of them simply deny that it’s happening — after all, economic statistics from previous years don’t show it yet, Some others have pointed out that no other currency is ready to take on the dollar’s role; this is true, but irrelevant. When the British pound lost a similar role in the early years of the Great Depression, no other currency was ready to take on its role either. It wasn’t until 1970 or so that the US dollar finished settling into place as the currency of global trade. In the interval, international trade lurched along awkwardly using whatever currencies or commodity swaps the trading partners could settle on: that is to say, the same situation that’s taking shape around us in the free-for-all of global trade that will define the post-dollar era.
One of the interesting consequences of the shift now under way is a reversion to the mean of global wealth distribution.
Until the era of European global empire, the economic heart of the world was in east and south Asia. India and China were the richest countries on the planet, and a glittering necklace of other wealthy states from Iran to Japan filled in the picture.
To this day, most of the human population is found in the same part of the world.
The great age of European conquest temporarily diverted much of that wealth to Europe, impoverishing Asia in the process.
In short, America is bankrupt.
Our governments from the federal level down, our big corporations and a very large number of our well-off citizens have run up gargantuan debts, which can only be serviced given direct or indirect access to the flows of unearned wealth the US extracted from the rest of the planet.
Those debts cannot be paid off, and many of them can’t even be serviced for much longer. The only options are defaulting on them or inflating them out of existence, and in either case, arrangements based on familiar levels of expenditure will no longer be possible.
Since the arrangements in question include most of what counts as an ordinary lifestyle in today’s US, the impact of their dissolution will be severe.
IBM To Stop Hiring For Roles That Can Be Replaced By AI; Nearly 8,000 Workers To Be Replaced By Automation
As Bloomberg reports, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with artificial intelligence in the coming years.
As a result, hiring in back-office functions — such as human resources — will be suspended or slowed,
Krishna said in an interview. These non-customer-facing roles amount to roughly 26,000 workers, Krishna said. “I could easily see 30% of that getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period.” That would mean roughly 7,800 jobs lost.
Part of any reduction would include not replacing roles vacated by attrition, an IBM spokesperson said.
Krishna’s plan marks one of the largest workforce strategies announced in response to the rapidly advancing technology; it certainly won’t be the last as virtually all companies follow in IBM’s footsteps and layoffs tens if not hundreds of millions of workers in the coming years.
Mundane tasks such as providing employment verification letters or moving employees between departments will likely be fully automated, Krishna said. And while some HR functions, such as evaluating workforce composition and productivity, probably won’t be replaced over the next decade, it is only a matter of time before these roles are also replaced by AI.
IBM currently employs about 260,000 workers and continues to hire for software development and customer-facing roles. Finding talent is easier today than a year ago, Krishna said. The company announced job cuts earlier this year, which may amount to about 5,000 workers once completed. Still, Krishna said IBM has added to its workforce overall, bringing on about 7,000 people in the first quarter.
Charmers preparing the ground for a shit sandwich.
Crappy Tatts not liked in Comments – Tatts? TRAMP STAMPS Luv. Get rid of them,start again….
– If your a guy and actually.looking for a long term relationship, your a high earner/ achiever would you want to take a woman to work functions with two arms full of crappy tatts?
– Tattoos on a woman? Get your running shoes on guys and just don’t stop until you’re clear.
Fed-up single woman, 32, furious over ‘atrocious’ dating scene: ‘I get ghosted by so many men, do better!’
. A single woman has slammed the grim Australian dating pool
. Kim, from Melbourne, vented her frustrations and urged men to ‘do better’
Can Voice to Parliament help the ‘over-representation’ of Aboriginal people in WA jails?
No.
Can joining the mainstream and not fetishizing the most regressive and defective elements of Aboriginal culture as “genuine” help the ‘over-representation’ of Aboriginal people in WA jails?
Theres top of the list for “articles that will never be published in a mainstream publication”.
How about just promise not to persecute them when they come back from deployment after having done what you asked of them.
And not only look after them but also the War Widows for the ones that don’t come back. And their Families BTW.
How is this still happening at my age??
There is a clue there.
A raging clue
A clue so hard a cat couldn’t scratch it.
A clue like a babys arm holding an apple.
A blue veined custard chucking throbbing clue.
If this clue persists for more than 12 hours seek medical assistance.
If you are doing the same thing, and getting the same outcome then maybe the problem isnt external/someone else.
And you wouldn’t do the same if you don’t like them? I wonder what your “basic needs” and “personal boundaries” are.
I bet you have a shopping list of impossible attributes for the men you’re even vaguely interested in. As for “boundaries”, having your cutaneous layers pumped with fillers and ink indicates that they are likely marginal…or you are sending mixed messages about yourself.
Trouble is, there are just to many weirdos in the world. Make sure you aren’t one of them and walk away from the rest.
The great age of European conquest temporarily diverted much of that wealth to Europe, impoverishing Asia in the process.
Bilge, the Europeans and then the Americans (offshoots of Europe) followed the way of science and technology, curbed the power of Kings and other tyrants and hence grew wealthy. Asia may have been relatively wealthy before that but was still poor in absolute terms.
Now that Asia has emulated us to a large extent, they are becoming rich also.
I watched this and it’s great – as far as it goes. What needs to be said more loudly is that the CO2 hypothesis is not being demonstrated by any real evidence and that what climate change is occurring is part of a natural cycle (Neil mentions this briefly but not in context of the essentially negligible anthropogenic so-called ‘contribution’). It is their fake ‘science’ that needs attacking, as much as the results of their tinkering in its name.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
– Stephen Hawking
Global Investors Pull $3.17 Billion Out of China in 5 Days | China In Focus
Multiple studies are demonstrating spike proteins in the blood of vaccinated or infected even months after the event. Let’s review the possibilities of the spike protein being present in the blood.
Drbeen Medical Lectures
A single tear runs down Dots cheek..
His future is here..
I can actually see this happening – how horrific.
Vicki:
…and the upshot?