Well said, Lassie.
Open Thread – Tues 2 May 2023
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So many of these barbarians have “hearts of gold” according to their parents. “”He has the nicest heart” said Mum.…
Oh dear! .. Seems Iraq hasn’t been overly impressed with the “queers for Gaza ” movement and their organized protests…
Peter Van O in his new job at the Daily Mail giving the readership what they want, and criticising Albo.…
In my case, the alleged ‘overpayment’ has been used as a tool to intimidate. Because they know I was not…
The Marxists now in control of the us are intent on trashing and degrading everything that was good about it. Ugliness and in your face perversion is the go.
The government can’t keep track of the many Indian students who don’t turn up for their classes, let alone monitor how many hours they’re working.
Elbow, here’s your chance to back out of this stupid doe-eyed UN agreement the country signed up to.
KD, All part of the plan to destroy western civilisation and rebuild it as utopia.
He’s going to be confined in a psychiatric institution indefinitely.
We’re going to have to expand those facilities here if we go down the same path.
It’s not justice, though.
So it’s a pretend cap?
At the same time Universities are struggling to pay their bills.
More students needed.
How did universities cope pre international student times?
Fox News ratings heading south. 70% of Carlson’s audience gone.
Well played, Lachlan.
Wapo points out
It’s a cap for those who play by the rules.
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog
We have our new George Floyd. A psychotic violent bum with 40 arrests who assaulted, harassed, and threatened innocent people for years until someone finally had enough of it. Now they’ll turn the bum into a martyr because his death is useful to their political agenda.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Peek-a-boo.
Imagine if Australian parents were arrested and subject to prison sentence if they allowed their children to commit serious crimes.
*Neither* politicians, nor the RBA should have any hands on the ‘Interest rate lever’: Interest rates are a price (they represent the rental price of money) and like *all* other prices must be set by the free market, not by ‘top men’ with agendas. Price fixing *always* leads to market distortions, and in our case, has lead to an accumulation of massive economic errors which must, at some point, correct – painfully.
Inflation (as Friedman so famously said) is ‘always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. It is caused by an expansion of the money supply faster than the rate of expansion of the economy. Money (gold) used to be just another commodity which had to be worked into existence. As such it was self regulating – if too many people worked to produce gold, the price of it went down and some of them set their earth moving talents to digging ditches instead. Fiat currency divorces ‘money’ from work and thereby removes the free markets self regulation of it. What instead is needed to regulate its supply is ‘top men’ in government – and we all see what that leads to.
A modest proposal to establish gender affirming care and surgery for pets
Heartbreak as ‘beautiful’ mum, 31, who felt unwell after returning from holiday died ‘suddenly’
Completely nutty network.
CNN : Puppies Cause Hurricanes (2 May)
I’m so old that I remember when a butterfly flapping its wings caused hurricanes.
International students back to 48 hour a fortnight working cap.
So how does the gummint keep track? .. the only method I can think of would be tax returns but I’d guess that 80% are cash-in-hand jobs …. sooooooooo! ..
All it shows is that if someone is capable of studying (as in attending classes) and working 24 hours a week there must be a lot of bloody, TIRED, students out there .. LOL!
Most OS students aren’t here to study they are here for “permanency” …!
Not one single word as to what might have happened to her.
Schoolgirl, 13, dies suddenly just days after winning football match as friends and family pay tribute and raise thousands in her memory
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell wasn’t enough for those people who refused to understand
dork-hole squeaking isn’t the problem.
The corrosive effects of ship board “romances” upon morale and discipline is.
I’m starting to think they’re trying normalise this sort of thing.
Tragedy as young Aussie boy suddenly dies in his sleep: ‘Such a beautiful, funny and kind soul taken way too early’
Timely call, Sancho.
So if it works there then EU wide? Food is out of fashion?
EU Backs Dutch Scheme to Forcibly Shut Down Thousands of Farms, Ban Farmers From Returning to Agriculture Forever
Nothing stops the vulture.
here
Truth doesn’t come into it, apparently.
Peter McCullough makes multiple false, misleading, and unsupported claims about COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy in viral podcast
The FBI would be sittng on enough documents to send the whole Biden family to gaol for life, as well as hang a few of them for treason, none of which will ever see the light of day.
FBI has document alleging pay-to-play scheme involving Joe Biden, lawmakers allege
So, gold is approaching $3100 an ounce…
Meanwhile, the U.S. Banking system is playing its favourite theme song.
Woman Claims ‘Green Vegetables’ Convinced Her That Her Child Was Transgender
Jes Staley accused of ‘aggressively’ raping Jeffrey Epstein victim ‘with his permission’
No, it never does.
Media Matters: Tucker Carlson ‘platformed some of the most notorious climate deniers’ – He hosted ‘climate change denier Marc Morano 14 times’ from 2019-2023 (3 May)
Meme
I tend to agree with it, along with several “outdated” principles (pater familias, castle doctrine, misprison of felony, strict statutes of limitations etc), hand in hand with a progressive gradient for the age of criminal responsibility.
The Banking Collapse Of 2023 Is Now Officially Bigger Than The Banking Collapse Of 2008
Rosie, they managed very well and even thrived. I should know as I worked in one of our esteemed visa factories even before they became that. For a start, we enrolled local students. Next, we didn’t employ an army of administrators to cater to every social and business theory. Third, we didn’t go on a building binge to house all the incoming foreign students and the huge staff numbers. Lastly, the vice chancellors we’re paid four times the median university salary while now they are paid ten or more times that.
Brenden Dilley
@WarlordDilley
Reid Hoffman is who has been financially backing the E Jean Carroll civil rape lawsuit against President Trump.
Now does it all make sense?
Sorry to be a pedant, but the interest rate is the price of credit.
You’re obectively and empirically correct (we’ll let everyone else catch up to a priori reasoning later on):
https://mises.org/library/panama-has-no-central-bank
“For a real-world example of how a system of market-chosen monetary policy would work in the absence of a central bank, one need not look to the past; the example exists in present-day Central America, in the Republic of Panama, a country that has lived without a central bank since its independence, with a very successful and stable macroeconomic environment.
The absence of a central bank in Panama has created a completely market-driven money supply. Panama’s market has also chosen the US dollar as its de facto currency. The country must buy or obtain their dollars by producing or exporting real goods or services; it cannot create money out of thin air. In this way, at least, the system is similar to the old gold standard. Annual inflation in the past 20 years has averaged 1% and there have been years with price deflation, as well: 1986, 1989, and 2003.
Panamanian inflation is usually between 1 and 3 points lower than US inflation; it is caused mostly by the Federal Reserve’s effect on world prices. This market-driven system has created an extremely stable macroeconomic environment. Panama is the only country in Latin America that has not experienced a financial collapse or a currency crisis since its independence.”
The internal gold price mechanism using gold specie was brilliant. It worked as well as floating currencies. In a way they floated internally.
A bit more about the universities’ plight at present. They are losing a substantial number of students due to their insistence on remote learning. Once the lockdowns were over they should all have gone back to normal, instead they saw it as an opportunity to “re-imagine” tertiary education.
Just before I retired I regularly listened to students complain that they came to university to participate in lectures, not watch them on a screen at home. Many of those students eventually deferred their studies and their funding disappeared with them.
I wonder if the “re-imagined” delivery of tertiary education is to mask the non-attendance of foreign students.
Some genuinely good news. I wonder where else you’ll hear about it.
Craig Kelly
@CKellyUAP
IT’S OVER : THE TGA HAVE SURRENDERED ON IVERMECTIN
Australian GP’s can now prescribe Ivermectin for Covid, as the TGA have announced they are removing the ban.
And this comes after my post yesterday on Twitter saying Ivermectin had won and war was over – which so far has had over 632,000 views.
For as I repeatedly said, the TGA couldn’t hold out forever, as their senior management were risking being personally sued for Malfeasance given the tsunami of evidence rolling in, showing that Ivermectin is highly effective against Covid.
Although this is a time for celebration, we should stop and spare a thought for the thousands of Australians that lost their lives in this war, that died unnecessarily from Covid because the TGA denied them access to this life saving Ivermectin.
It’s now time for the war crime trials and reparations.
And I wonder if the ABC or Ally will broadcast this news ?
Some “Green Vegetables“.
Author of ‘The Limits to Growth’ promotes the genocide of 86% of the world’s population
How can you be responsible for your children’s crimes if you are not allowed to discipline them? Even worse, the children are told in school that they will be taken care of by the state if they don’t like their parents disciplining them.
Sydney Airport launches Tripsim, offering international data bundles
Sydney Airport has launched a brand-new product that is designed to solve an expensive problem and “shake-up” the industry.>
One of the most frustrating things about a holiday is returning home only to discover you’ve been slapped with a hefty roaming bill.
It can often be one of the most expensive things about travelling and it’s easy to rack up hundreds of dollars if you’re on a weeks-long trip.
But in a surprise new move, Sydney Airport has unveiled its own data product — Tripsim — that will allow passengers departing Australia to use in multiple countries.
International bundle prices vary depending on the destination and size of the data plan.
For example, if a traveller is headed to Europe for 30 days and wants 20GB of data it would cost $44.99, which works out at $1.50 per day. However, if they choose a 10GB bundle for their trip it would cost $29.99, that’s $1 per day.
It’s compared to Optus which charges $5 for 5GB per day depending on the location or Telstra which charges $10 a day for 1GB data, with unlimited calls and SMS, also depending on the destination.
https://tripsim.com.au/
Over at Joanne Nova’s today. But yes I doubt the MSM will see fit to mention it.
On such things…
Public urged to check for strange symptoms as new Covid variant threatens return of masks (2 May)
If you find your feet are turning into hands you either have monkeypox or you should immediately start wearing a mask.
I keep on telling people that communism never went away and is still our biggest threat.
Hate Speech Bill Advances in Ireland Amid Fears it Would Silence J.K. Rowling and the Church
“It amazes me at times though, especially when looking at social media, that we often see that the people who dress themselves up in the color of love and inclusivity are often the people who are involved in shutting down debate and in stopping those ideas from being discussed,” he said, noting the hostility and threats to author J.K. Rowling because of her views on gender identity.
The author of the Harry Potter series has been accused of being “transphobic” for stating that “trans women” are not women.
what the TGA actually said.
That drone attack at da Kremlin looks as fake as Erdogan’s false flag “attempted coup” – which gave him cover for another round of purging the military.
Im a little concerned that an attack like that might be seen as sufficient “provocation” (false flag or genuine attack) to see a nuke used as a “warning” not to do so again.
I can’t believe they’re pulling this Coronavirus shit still.
3 years in, 4 years of confirmed spread to western countries.
That is what the TGA ackchyually said.
Top Ender says:
May 3, 2023 at 11:21 pm
I normally restrain my comments until further information becomes available, but there are some days when I just feel triggered.
If the above is a random murder, someone with testicles needs to ask (Langton?), in front of a camera, if this is the intifada she was warning us about, and what did she know about this before it happened? What support is she providing now, and will she provide in the future, to the teams of sectarian assassins she has publicly declared herself to be in favour of?
I would not normally look kindly on the use of a death like this to score political points, however, one wonders if this individual’s violent demise will be acknowledged enough if the alleged indig involvement proves to be correct? (Again, I know it’s early days, so I might be jumping the gun here, but even if this student’s death is left out of the equation, someone in the public eye needs to emphasise to Langton that any violence that occurs in the future will be brought back to her incitement.
Wishful thinking, I know.
Rant over.
I doubt it as the non-attending foreign students are apparently using a visa loophole to pull out of their university courses altogether and enrol in cheaper private “colleges”, thus the universities are losing revenue. It was also reported recently that fraudulent applications are so common that some universities have applied a de facto ban on students from particular Indian states.
Surely Langton is toying with an offence such as urging violence against the Commonwealth, the States or various groups?
Pedantry accepted – all ‘money’ *is* now credit, given the debt based systems that have conjured it into existence since going off the gold standard 😉
well it’s not like predicting earthquakes
but i try
And yet they are already promoting a stamp.
The idiocracy in full flight.
dover0beachsays:
May 4, 2023 at 9:37 am
Good chance thats a fake – can you imagine a post office anywhere being efficient enough to get a new stamp out in 24 hours?
Straight out, pure and simple, face saving. Nothing to stop any GP from prescribing it off label. They do it all the time. I’m currently on one that costs me $268* a month but works a treat despite neither drug in the script being designed or recommended for the purpose I’m using it to manage. So 2 drugs not endorsed by the TGA for my condition but easily and simply attainable.
Although the cost, for most, would rule it out as an option. It would be much, much, much cheaper if the TGA would split the two drug combo into separate scripts so I only have to buy the drug that works for me.
* Given that it sells in the US for $668 per month for cash paying customers, I’m not complaining.
Message of truth and reconciliation unites hearts and minds
4 May 2023
A lot of buzz words in that piece, P.
Noticeably absent, though, is…”Jesus.”
Your head
Dead bears bum
Some assembly required
Commonwealth Indigenous leaders demand apology from the king for effects of colonisation
Exclusive: Aboriginal Olympian Nova Peris says ‘change begins with listening’ as campaigners from 12 countries ask for ‘process of reparatory justice to commence’*
Signatories are asking the king for an immediate commitment to discussions about reparations for “the oppression of our peoples, plundering of our resources, denigration of our culture and to redistribute the wealth** that underpins the crown back to the peoples from whom it was stolen”.
Charles is also asked to immediately commit to repatriating human remains in British museums and institutions, and the return of cultural treasures and artefacts.
The letter says the taking of such artefacts came through “hundreds of years of genocide, enslavement, discrimination, massacre, and racial discrimination by the authorities empowered by the protection of the British crown”.
Thorpe again expressed her desire for an Australian head of state.
“This country has a new king,” she said. “The parliament and the prime minister are subjugated to someone we didn’t elect.
“Australia must move towards cutting ties with the crown and becoming a republic, but we have unfinished business to settle before this can happen.”
Thorpe reiterated calls for the federal government to move towards a treaty with Indigenous Australians as part of the republic conversation, saying: “a republic that hasn’t resolved the injustices of terra nullius continues the violent legacy of colonisation.”
…
The leadership of New Zealand’s Te P?ti M?ori or M?ori party, including members of parliament Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi, called for Indigenous members of the Commonwealth to gain further rights to “self-management, self-determination, and self-governance over all our domains”.***
“The British crown deliberately engineered our displacement for many generations to come, but they have not succeeded,” they said. “It is time to dismantle this system so we can rebuild one that works for everybody.”****
* Munni
** Lots of luvery munni
*** A whole nation of serfs for our racial elite.
**** Everybody of the right racial background, the rest of you are here on our sufferance as second class citizens
What on earth is a “breakout session”?
Is it akin to a “struggle session”?
Intifada is described variously as “shaking off” or “tremor” and is of course most recently the label applied to the armed uprisings or rebellion in the Levant.
The question is: Was the choice of the term intifada an intentional one by Langton, intended to incite lone dingos to inflict physical violence on race-selected victims?
I realise this topic is a few days old now, but if this spark is not immediately smothered, I can foresee it building; there’s plenty of fuel and oxygen. (I don’t mean organised, armed rebellion, but rather planting ideas in the minds of already-unstable individuals, and post-event using ‘legacy of colonialism’ or ‘inter-generational trauma’ as extenuating circumstances. Not that the elite manipulators will be concerned about the fate of those they incited (much less the victims), but they must maintain the pretension of being willing and able to ‘solve’ the problem).
Mission accomplished in airstrip one.
Essex pub that displayed racist dolls closes after boycott by suppliers
Heineken, Carlsberg and Innserve cut ties with White Hart Inn, which had golly dolls confiscated as part of police investigation
His wife confirmed the pub was closing on Monday in an interview with the Thurrock Nub News. She revealed that two of its beer suppliers, Heineken and Carlsberg, had refused to allow their products to be served in the pub and Innserve, which maintained the pub’s pumps, was also refusing to serve it.
She said: “Carlsberg [and] Heineken told us to stop selling their product because they don’t want their name associated with the pub because of the stigma. And Innserve who serve our pumps and line cleans, they’re not going to come on site any more.”
Ryley blamed Essex police for acting on a complaint about the dolls when it had chosen not to take action after a similar complaint in 2018. She said: “I’m angry … because if the police left it alone like they left it alone in 2018, we wouldn’t be in this situation now. And we probably would have plodded on with the pub.”
When the Guardian visited the pub last month, Ryley expressed her determination to display replacement golly dolls behind the bar. She also said she and her husband had plans to retire to Turkey. A notice behind the pub blamed the police raid on “snowflake complaints”.
The following day Camra, the Campaign for Real Ale, said it was reviewing how it granted the White Hart several awards and a place in its guide which highlighted the pub’s “extensive collection of old-fashioned soft toys”.
The pub was vandalised the next weekend.
With a single non-crime, ginned up by the usual suspects every agent swung into action to drive them out of business.
Awesome stuff.
That foul ol’ harridan isn’t the only one attempting to incite domestic terrorism – Hydia Thorpey has been inciting it as well.
Here you go Muddy.
‘Breaking point’: Cops inundated as crim teens take over NSW town (DT, 4 May, paywalled)
I can’t read the story because I’m not a subscriber, but the town is Dubbo. I think I can guess who the youth gangs are.
As Treaty Day nears, First Nations parliamentary leaders call for United Nations peacekeeping troops to be stationed in Australian capital and regional cities as a precaution against feared neo-colonial violence.
[Source].
Just kidding. That headline isn’t too far away though.
Comment, from the Oz.
Eyriesays:
May 4, 2023 at 8:34 am
Elbow, here’s your chance to back out of this stupid doe-eyed UN agreement the country signed up to.
KD, All part of the plan to destroy western civilisation and rebuild it as utopia.
Wakanda Forever. We wuz Kangz an’ sheeit. Is that the ‘utopia’ they are thinking of? Where will the melanin challenged Albo live?
Next up…
‘Police warn residents re vigilantism.’
BofN: I think I can guess who the youth gangs are.
Stamp collectors. *Shudders* A menace to society those philatelists are. (Apologies for the P-word).
Here’s an idea for Heineken and Carlsberg for when they find they need it.
Which might be soon.
Now Bud Light Is Giving Away Free Beer to Make Amends After Dylan Mulvaney Debacle (3 May)
I wonder if beer companies will get the message to stay right out of politics?
Little miss entropy just got an email supposedly from the ATO saying she needs to send her bank and IBAN number by return email to get her $542 tax return. The logo at the top looks genuine, expect it is obviously a slightly blurry photocopy. A pretty poor effort indeed.
The best bit is she has yet to lodge her first tax return, even though she should have done one for 21-22.
But the next step will be a statement, urging the locals not to take the law into their own hands…
Snap, Roger.
Netflix, 7 days in Entebbe. Definitely worth a watch, and not just because of Rosamund Pike.
To add to Zulu’s newspaper comment above: I live on the Sunshine Coast, where I can think of numerous towns and other locations that were named in the 19th Century using local indigenous words. So we’ve been listening for a while now …
Maroochy is the shire name (a conjunction of Muru & Kutchi, meaning red nose, after the black swan). Eudlo, Woombye, Coolum, Mudjimba, are also indig names, amongst a few others (Beerwah, Beerburrum, a little further south). (Eudlo named after a type of eel I think, Woombye after a snake, Coolum & Mudjimba were the names of warriors from a local creation story).
What utter bastards the early settlers here were to have acknowledged the original inhabitants in such a long-lasting manner!
Only 1% wind energy in SA, Vic and Qld at 10.19am. Just as well those remaining coal generators in Vic And NSW are operating and SA is keeping the lights on with expensive gas. The thing is that even if you put in more turbines, they would also be remaining stationary.
Slightly off topic and a few years old, but…
Evicted white farmers return to Zimbabwe.
ZK2A:
You appear to have cracked the code, ZK.
There’s a spot for you in the team at Bletchley Park.
Steven Hayward has a nice graph today which illustrates the problem.
The Daily Chart: If It Quacks Like a Duck Curve. . . | Power Line (3 May)
It’s for California, but shows how time dependent renewbulls are. On the numbers between 7am and 7pm the supply is not too bad, and good for the middle of the day when solar is at peak. But for 7pm to 7am they need 12 x 18 = 216 GWh of batteries. That would cost about a quarter of a trillion dollars, and they’d need to be replaced every 10 years.
Currently because of solar the wholesale price of electricity is minus $38/MWh in Queensland and plus $420/MWh in South Australia. The interconnectors are going flat out.
https://aemo.com.au/aemo/apps/visualisations/elec-nem-summary-tiles.html
Future Headline:
First Nations Parliament declares that Treaty payments are inadequate for the maintenance of First Nations public infrastructure, and demand activation of the previously-silent ‘Provision of Labour’ clause. The first mobilisation of Inferior Nation labour is to occur as early as next week.
My apologies if this has already been posted:
NOTE: I have no idea if this is genuine. As usual, remain skeptical.
Re the repatriation of indigenous artefacts from museums here and overseas…
Do any artefacts from the pre-settlement/early settlement era survive that aren’t in museums?
Those doing the requesting might like to ponder that.
Sounds like damage control to me.
What utter bastards the early settlers here were to have acknowledged the original inhabitants in such a long-lasting manner!
And an even bigger bastard was Macquarie, who issued an instruction that, where possible, the local indigenes’ place name should be recorded and used — genocidal, culture-erasing oppressor that he was.
Sounds like gaslighting to me.
It should be pretty clear by now that we ALREADY ‘ceded*’ control of our public health authorities to some sort of transnational power.
* I didn’t – my body my choice and all that!
I was thinking of the damage to public health the over-reaction of the health bureaucracy to covid did, calli. Just yesterday I was reading about the elevated number of mental health cases among young people since the lockdowns that is leading to “burnout” among the professionals treating them.
Ivermectin was never a threat to public health.
Until we can cheaply store grid level amounts of electricity it will always be how much and when for power. Has been since the first power line was strung up. Rooftop solar isn’t great for grid stability. You don’t get told this in a BA.
A little bit of everything then. Covering all the bases as it were.
As for Langton, she’s ginning up some BLM action here in Australia. Horrible woman.
Gilt coming off the Big Sneakers codpiece with news there is a multi million dollar RAT plague in Perf.
as cops say they wouldn’t be able to police a night curfew.
They seemed to manage during Covid lockdowns.
She’s npt the only one, just the most prominent after Thorpe.
There’s a definite threatening undertone in the “discussion” at present.
Perhaps the actual polling is worse than what is being publicly disclosed.
Nature already developed grid scale electricity storage – its called ‘fossil fuels’ – you just pull the (stored solar) electricity out of them when you need it.
Nature already developed grid scale electricity storage – its called ‘fossil fuels’ – you just pull the (stored solar) electricity out of them when you need it.
Reminds me of a sharticle their ABCcess had on today about ‘why dont heavy delivery vehicles use electric power”
Can be answered in one line
“Lacks energy density in its primary energy storage device”
Ie: Electricity is guzzled quicker the heavier a vehicle gets.
Increase the size of the battery – decrease the load it can carry, and increase the recharge time.
Only because the general populace is largely law abiding & compliant.
That being said, I “broke the rules” a number of times without a problem. Even gave the lone policeman I came across the country road salute at one point, which was returned.
We used to have a small local history section in one of our libraries here, and many years ago now I stumbled on the stories of some of the earlier European settlers who had recorded their observations of local indigenous life, customs, and to a limited extent, creation and other stories. Being a history nerd, I found it of interest, and I think it’s a positive reflection on the newcomers that they acknowledged and recorded at least some aspects of the lives of those who preceded them. How much knowledge would the present generations of indigenes have of their ancestors if it weren’t for the coming of Europeans?
As I’ve noted previously, I’m curious about and happy to absorb, aspects of cultures other than mine (that’s how culture works, right? Adapt, grow, develop? Stand still and decay as the elements dominate?). I object to and resent, however (in an intensity that grows by the day), the adversarial nature of what passes for [insert intelligent-sounding word (I’ve been thinking too much; my head hurts] … Oh, stuff it. Get in the ring and let’s punch this out. I have no technique (or speed, co-ordination), but I’ll thrash until one of us is unconscious. Winner takes all. Words take too much effort and change nothing.
You can always pick the energy evangelists when you start talking details.
Misusing kWand kWh is a tell.
Old news for me, I have been using ratsak and other baits and traps in my yard in the Perth metro area for 10 years. No matter how many I kill more are in my yard in a week or two.
They were getting a bit antsy towards the end ie reintroduction of masks on public transport. There was still a degree of self enforcement. I doubt that would be the case today. That just leaves pepper spray and rubber bullets.
Indolent:
The FBI are sitting on enough blackmail material to allow them to run the country. Has anybody thought of that?
I suspect a lot of places in Australia are named after a piece of human anatomy.
Explorer: “What do you call this in your language?” [pointing his finger at something]
Local [in dialect]: “A finger.”
Plasmamortar:
I think my $2800/oz floor just gave up the ghost.
Probably…
Maybe it’ll go back down once U.S. banks stop falling over like dominos…
I wouldn’t count on it though…
As for Langton, she’s ginning up some BLM action here in Australia. Horrible woman.
She’s npt the only one, just the most prominent after Thorpe.
There’s a definite threatening undertone in the “discussion” at present.
Perhaps the actual polling is worse than what is being publicly disclosed.
4 white women have been murdered or man-slaughtered by 3rd nations in the last few months with a many other whites having the tripe bashed out of them. It’s already started.
Doing medicine at uni is racist.
Physicians? Y’all better heal your ownselves (2 May, via Instapundit)
“Founded on legacies of colonialism and racism, medical education has historically centered White learners and continues to perpetuate structural racism. Pedagogical approaches often center White learners and ignore the differential impact of content on BIPOC learners (Black, Indigenous, or people of color) with personal experiences of racism that are nuanced and have been informed by interactions and observations over their lifetimes. Immersion in the existing medical education system can therefore be retraumatizing, resulting in imposter syndrome, heightened anxiety, and a reduced sense of belonging.”
I’m not exactly sure what that means, but the witchdoctor will see you now.
It looks like AHPRA needs to pardon one of my COVID crimes … the promotion of Ivermectin. I’m sitting by the phone awaiting their call.
I’m afraid I will never forgive the disgraceful part our boys in blue played in the oppression of the Australian people in recent times.
Indolent:
It all keeps pointing back to the Epstein Blackmail operation, and then to the FBI.
Wherever the trail goes, it keeps wandering past the FBI/Obama hideout.
Peter FitzSimons…As you know, the Voice is a very simple idea whereby, to quote former Liberal deputy leader Fred Chaney, “Aboriginal people just want to be consulted on matters that affect Aborinal people.” That’s it. It’s no more than a consultative body which, on sensitive Indigenous matters, the rederal government can draw on for expertise.
So what’s the referendum for Pete?
roger earlier
yes
but saying “if individuals do x they might harm theirselves or die” doesn’t hit the mark if you aren’t doing x
but “fret to public elf” might get your attention because it implies the people doing x might harm you
Immersion in the existing medical education system can therefore be retraumatizing, resulting in imposter syndrome, heightened anxiety, and a reduced sense of belonging
Strangely enough both Asians in general and Indians in particular seem immune to this syndrome.
Another turducken of mystery…
A black inserted into a Indigenous inserted into a people of color and left to marinate in a stew of resentment.
Marathon look at moi press conference by Chalmers with Anika Wells after giving a pay rise to aged care workers. No argument that they are deserving people, but to hear Chalmers say after one year in government that they are able to do this despite “all the pressures on the budget” because of “our wonderful budget management” – while Labor inevitably increases spending – is a bit rich.
On latest estimates, I think he’s out by about 600,000 years? Right?
He died in his mother’s arms as opposed to being murdered by a doctor in a wholly gruesome manner. That is the best and the least we could expect in the circumstances.
I can remember when it was twenty thousand years..
The truth about the ACT’s “choice”
By Monica Doumit – May 4, 2023
Three years ago, good friends of mine who lived in Canberra announced they were expecting their second child. It was an exciting time for them and for everyone who knew them.
About 16 weeks into the pregnancy, I received a message from the dad, asking for urgent prayers. My friends had received some difficult news about the baby and were waiting for more information.
It turns out little bubba had a condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare condition where the left side of the heart does not form well enough to pump blood. The left side of the heart is so useless that it is described in simple terms as the baby being born with half a heart.
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Interesting insight in a review in the Speccie of a book ‘Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia” about that psychiatric social contagion, and especially one women’s experience and survival of it. This review now notes that woman now concludes:
How similar this sounds to the young girls who are now deciding they want to become young men, to avoid the full development of their womanhood. It would be interesting to see if anorexia rates are falling as transgender rates rise.
One day after Albo promised to swear an oath of fealty…
Republic minister says referendum on Australian head of state is part of Albanese government’s ‘longer-term vision’ (Sky News, 4 May)
I can see why Mr Thistlethwaite didn’t get an invite to the Coronation.
Joanna Panagopoulos
Related to a large creature on Sesame Street?
White liberals are the worst. In the comments:
This is true.
Winston Smithsays:
May 4, 2023 at 11:17 am
Indolent:
The FBI would be sittng on enough documents to send the whole Biden family to gaol for life, as well as hang a few of them for treason, none of which will ever see the light of day.
The FBI are sitting on enough blackmail material to allow them to run the country. Has anybody thought of that?
Remember when the leftards were outraged, OUTRAGED when they discovered that not only did J Edgar Hoover have a stash of blackmail material on people prominent in the US, but he had used it against St (no longer) Martin Luther King?
They certainly don’t, and instead now use it all the time, regarding it as their most valuable tool of day to day politics.
Hmmm, some days cognition just goes off the rails.
Hopefully this makes more sense:
Re the Vise (that’s the correct spelling; sorry for pedantry); it’s not Yes vs. No, but Segregationists vs. Uniters.
Will you be voting for Segregation, or Unity*?
* Yes, I know we don’t have unity now, and won’t in the near future, but the point is about framing intentions.
He died in his mother’s arms as opposed to being murdered by a doctor in a wholly gruesome manner. That is the best and the least we could expect in the circumstances.
Agreed 1000 times over, DB.
Western Ground Parrot
One that’s been through a mincing machine out at Bourke, Cobar, or Booligal.
Muddy, you might find it cathartic to have a look at the series streaming on SBS called ‘Rogue Heroes’.
We are up to episode 5 of the 6, and in it the mad Irishman poet and philosopher, who robotically belts hell out of anyone running foul of his temper or anyone getting in his way, really let rip on some trainee SAS guys.
It didn’t end well for them, but it also became a chastisement for him. And a lesson in contrition and forgiveness for all . Demons will out, but they can be conquered.
Fighting is sometimes close to poetry. It says the things for which there are no words.
I think men know this more than women do. It’s a man thing. We tend to verbal fighting.
(although my sister and I in our youth had a few hair pulling on the floor episodes).
Corgiless coronation causes concern.
Man who sparked Buckingham Palace security scare ranted ‘I’m going to kill the King’ moments before arrest (4 May)
I suppose Charles evicted the corgis for sake of the planet. Dogs are bad apparently, according to CNN as I linked earlier this morning. Perhaps this dog breeder is dismayed by the loss of business.
The truth about election fraud in the US, by Texas AG Ken Paxton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTG32YC_Uw
From P’s link above:
I’m sure this happens a lot as the anecdotal evidence is too widespread to be a mere anomaly. And you can bet the same recommendations occur at the other end as well as re euthanasia.
“if anything her anorexia was an attempt to stop time. Newly 14, she was becoming a woman.
Thats a way of looking at the condition I hadnt thought of.
Makes sense in a strange way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crgv_TNPZ8E
Thistlethwaite is acing it today.
Labor to create a ‘smooth transition’ to renewable energy for Australia (4 May)
I have a really great idea. Labor should promise that after each blackout the Energy Minister has one appendage amputated. I’d be generous and start only with toes. That’d mean 21 blackouts before we’d run out of appendages (assuming the Energy Minister is male). It would be a really neat way to maintain the “energy security Australians know”.
Big call.
At least the guy only shot his mouth off. Other demographics might take it a bit further.
I was interested in his finely nuanced argument though.
That’d mean 21 blackouts before we’d run out of appendages (assuming the Energy Minister is male).
Softy.
Incentives matter.
Across the Commonwealth, “a process of indigenous reparatory justice?”
Who is indigenous to where? What injustices? Who decides and who pays?
Charles 111 has opened Pandora’s Box with his wokeness.
Can he close it in time to save his Crown? Maybe study Richard the Second?
Offer the blandishments of words with a failure to follow through.
And move away fast from it all, rallying a protective force.
Seethe, demon. Imagine how morally lost these people are talking about such a situation in these terms.
“…with the one – and experience has shown, the only effective – weapon it has: raising that cash rate.”
Utter rubbish.
Inflation is too much money chasing too little stuff.
Therefore, there are two ways to “fix” it:
1) reduce the amount of money (typically, increase interest rates, which is the cost of money)
2) create more stuff (typically, reduce govco spending, and reduce taxation and regulation)
They almost always fall back on 1.
But every time they have tried 2 instead, it created long-term benefits that well out-lasted the inflation bubble – eg, Thatcher, Reagan, Howard. Trump was going down the same path, then COVID blew it up.
2 is obviously better for the plebs – by increasing the amount of stuff, the economy grows and individuals do well. By decreasing money, the economy contracts and individuals do badly.
Yet despite this obviously better choice and despite history showing how successful it always has been, they ignore it and play with interest rates instead.
Why? Because the power of the government and the bureaucracy comes from one word: No. The power to prevent freedom, exercised by force. “We are in charge, and we say No, you can’t do that!”
Dumbest climate headline today (which is really saying something given how many dumb climate headlines I see each day.)
As rising seas disrupt toxic sites, study finds communities of color are at most risk (Phys.org, 3 May)
“As rising seas threaten to flood hundreds of toxic sites along the California coast, the risk of flood-related contamination will fall disproportionately on the state’s most marginalized communities, finds a new study published today by researchers at UC Berkeley, UCLA and Climate Central.
Under California’s high-risk aversion scenario, which projects that sea levels could rise by more than 6 feet by the end of the century, the study identified 736 facilities at risk of coastal flooding and an additional 173 with projected groundwater encroachment. Residents living within 1 kilometer of at-risk sites were more likely than others to be people of color, to be living below the poverty line, to be unemployed or to experience another form of social disadvantage such as linguistic isolation.”
This is terrifying! On the other hand in a ten second search I found that the real rate of sea level rise in San Francisco, San Diego and Seattle is running at 2 mm/yr, which means it would take three centuries to get 6 feet of sea level rise. Maybe someone will glue the feet of those poor PoC to the ground for three hundred years so that they can’t escape the pollution from toxic sites they supposedly live near.
Rabz:
Some “Green Vegetables“.
Are those faces available on a deck of playing cards?
Asking for a fiend.
Albo should scrap the referendum now, just on the basis of Langton’s provocation. I bet he’d like to.
Dot:
Preach it, brother!
Half the population is neurotic.
Study finds shoppers’ masking compliance influenced their in-store behaviors (Phys.org, 3 May)
“As the coronavirus began to spread globally, face masks were recommended in public settings to protect against transmission, and compliance varied significantly. In a new study of people shopping in a large Chinese store in early 2020, researchers examined the motives behind customers’ compliance with mask recommendations and how their shopping behaviors changed with the onset of the pandemic. The study found that customers changed their in-store behaviors significantly based on their compliance with masking recommendations.
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Based on studies on social influence and mask wearing, researchers identified three types of customers: Fully compliant customers (54%) wore masks and seemed motivated primarily by concerns about their own health risk. Partially compliant customers (29%) also wore masks, but wore them improperly, and were motivated by the desire to comply with social norms. Non-compliant customers (17%) did not wear masks and were unmotivated by health concerns or social norms.”
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Fully compliant mask wearers remained at a greater distance from cashiers when shopping during the pandemic than they did before the pandemic. They were five times more likely than other mask wearers to wear highly protective N95 masks while shopping and spent 25% less time shopping than they did before the pandemic.
I disagree with them since they ignore us Christians who complied because we’re called by the Bible to honour the authorities, even if they’re corrupt and clueless. Which would suggest that less than half the population are truly neurotic. I suppose that’s better than it might be.
When the Narrative collapses live on air
A Must view!
That’ll be enough of that talk or it’s off to the re-education camp for you!
I’ve heard tell and in fact seen it stated on this very blog that battery tech is only going to get betterer and all these problems will vanish.
Hmmm
https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/san-diego-baby-born-with-no-kidneys-celebrates-first-christmas-outside-of-nicu
No you’re not.
Kneel> option 2 reduces demand more than it increases supply, unless you are a supply-sider. Good point that option 1 cannot be the only way to tame inflation. Challenge being that Labor likes creating & feeding ‘self-eating ice-creams’ i.e. large, unfunded bureaucracies that cannot be removed such as NDIS
Quite seriously, I suspect levels of neuroticism have risen markedly in recent years.
Constantly telling people the planet is going to burn just might do that.
Then throw in a confected health crisis…
render unto Caesar what is due to Caesar … some quote I recall hearing taken from some religious book .
Faaark Woolfe.
That was stunning and brave AND pretty dang awesome.
I’m starting to rate Anthony Dillion, he’s a calm, polite, plain speaker who is familiar with the facts and knows the people well enough to check their double dealings.
The bare minimum to be left alone.
Women only spaces, eh?
H/T: Unz Review
Dot, the instructions in the Bible re authority are irksome but very clear. Therefore I was a good little lamb and wore my mask when ordered, even though I said on the Cat in about March of 2020 that masks are useless against a virus of size 0.1 um. Which numerous studies have since confirmed. I was especially pissed off when our awesome leaders forced us to not sing in church. Humming in a mask is really annoying. But we did it. Whilst fuming. I am not happy with our governments. But on the other hand they will experience the cleansing fire of Hell once they die. I doubt viruses can survive particularly well in such conditions, sadly.
render unto Caesar what is due to Caesar … some quote I recall hearing taken from some religious book .
Sure.
In other words, pay your taxes and don’t be a pain in the arse.
Christians who complied because we’re called by the Bible to honour the authorities, even if they’re corrupt and clueless
No you’re not.
You’re both wrong.
The message was:
Don’t be a Rebel unless you want to end up nailed to a tree, and pay your taxes.
Nothing about being a gormless droob.
…and to God what is god’s.
There’s the rub…at times these loyalties may conflict.
What’s a droob?
The instructions are clear. Don’t give the government anything more than they deserve. It never says to honour illegitimate governments or acquiesce to theft or bullying, only implying just enough to be left alone. The only matter it strongly has an implication on is choosing non violence.
The operative phrase being, “what is Caesar’s”.
It’s absurd to go along with the government, the early church martyrs and the church were wrong and “bad Christians” until Constantine formally made Christianity tolerable by the state?
The implications of such a simple line of scripture are huge. It is concomitant to the idea of bad laws and evil regimes being viewed as illegitimate and punishable, even if they were strictly “legal” like in the Fuller-Hart debate on natural law vs positivism.
I think it is a safe bet to say canon law goes hand in hand with natural law, not positivism.
I do like the new and very interesting invective provided on this site each day. Definitely worth the cost of membership.
Moira Deeming has given John Pesutto till 2pm today to apologise for implying she was a Nazi or face the legal consequences.
Excellent.
And the Liberal Party reaction?
The Herald Sun reports “Liberal MPs are plotting a fresh expulsion motion…”
Mark Butler’s face…priceless.
Thank you, Anthony Dillon.
So, Pesutto was right about Deeming all along.
I’m thinkin’ that expulsion Motion won’t die for shortage of Seconders.
Is the real issue [nominal] women trolling Lesbian Dating sites?
woolfesays:
May 4, 2023 at 1:05 pm
When the Narrative collapses live on air
A Must view!
Anthony Dillon is outstanding; I’ve always rated him. The look on that POS, butler’s face was also good. Dillon should watch his back; and the audience applauded Dillon!
Lysandersays:
May 4, 2023 at 11:46 am
“There’s nothing better than being able to recognise the 65,000 years of history
On latest estimates, I think he’s out by about 600,000 years? Right?
The definitive time for arrival of the first peoples is 47000 years ago.
Humans rather than climate the primary cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in Australia
The first peoples were not the current bunch who finished off the Mega Fauna and exterminated the peoples who came before them.
Love Anthony Dillon, I follow him on Twitter. He gets a lot of stick on Twitter from progressives for not toeing the victim hood line.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
May 4, 2023 at 1:27 pm
What’s a droob?
A Grandpa Ed Simpson?
The Frolicking Moll:
I think that’s jumping too many rungs of the escalation ladder at once TFM.
I finally found Herman Kahns’ 16 step Escalation Ladder. I prefer it to his 44step ladder as it fairly clearly delineates the rungs that get blurred in his 44 step ladder. Unfortunately it’s in a pdf and I can’t cut that bit out by itself and paste it. So here it is in full. Figure 1 page 25.
I’d argue that we are at Rung 12 with Controlled Local War. However destruction of a major symbol like the Kremlin would push Russia to Rung 13 with Limited Non Local War, as Russia decides “Fock you, NATO” and starts the deniable missile attacks on European destined LNG tankers at sea.
I’m not saying it will happen, just that it’s a possible reaction by the Russians to a potent national symbol.
STFU crotchless; although your link was amusing.
They are not only going to try and George Floyd this guy, they are going to try and Chauvin the dude that intervened.
What did Anthony Dillon say to Butler?
Nothing directly while I watched…he was simply saying that white privilege in Australia is exaggerated.
Submit yourself to the governing authorities. Pretty straightforward, unless they require you to do something you know to be a sin. Then…nope.
Also, we are to consider our weaker brothers and not do anything that will cause them to stumble.
So…on mask wearing, my attitude was to obey the first (with gritted teeth and much prayer for patience and an end to it all) and on the second to wear my mask in church as required because some people there were genuinely afraid of either catching the bug or transmitting to another. Also on the list was being part of the useless cleaning roster which was a total waste of time but required by both gov and church.
Humility and submission aren’t my strong suits, so the learning curve was pretty bumpy.
Others, of course, can do as they please.
I think that’s jumping too many rungs of the escalation ladder at once TFM.
If the Russkies push the “assassination of a world leader” line then just how seriously would any major power treat it if it was their boss?
At a minimum it would have to open up the adversaries government to personalized attacks wouldnt it?
Watch the Liberal National Parties go to water on this. They wouldn’t even fight for breath if their heads were rammed up their own arses – they’d just quietly expire without even a struggle.
Anthony Dillon! You little ripper!
Butler…this is what it looks like when you’re dying inside. LOL.
The only comeback…a nervous little laugh. No one dared whitesplain him, but oh boy did they want to. That has made my day.
Feelthebern:
And wherever we go, the path leads to the door of the Obama FBI Administration.
The ABC reports that there is such a thing as a female, as opposed to a male. Is this transphobia?
Where’s Dr Brendan Murphy when you need him?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-05-04/human-dna-extracted-deer-tooth-pendant-denisova-cave-genome/102280324
thefrollickingmole> Russia/Putin has form in attacking & killing individuals in other countries. Still a bit rich of the Russians to complain about individuals, pollie or pleb, being targeted for execution when they have whole departments dedicated to the same activity.
Matt Walsh, reality denier.
“I don’t care what your studies say”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28035/walsh-stop-pretending-violent-video-games-are-fine-matt-walsh
Smoked.
Uh-oh, page not found.
The page you are looking for doesn’t exist or has been removed.
Alamak!says:
May 4, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Definitely not saying it would be justified or correct for Putlers lads to escalate, just that if the attack is used as a pretext for escalation it would be very bad.*
After all, it looks like part of the original Russian plan was to capture/ disrupt/kill the leadership of the Ukraine using troops.
* really bad, awful, not good, an overall negative in the grand scheme of things.
Matt Walsh or Tipper Gore?
I report, you decide.
Bruce O’Newk:
Eskimo Youth, BoN. The youth are Eskimo. Looking for a seal to go clubbing with.
The natural law on this is pretty clear. The evil that is typically involved in civil strife cannot be greater than the evil involved in the regime itself. The preference is always on the tranquility of peace which is order.
Exactly Calli, was it Mark Butler on the left, knowing if he opened his mouth to disagree he would look every kind of fool?
‘I’m offended that you think my white privilege is exaggerated’.
So Dover would have you found guilty sentenced the third Reich judge to life or execution in that German case where the wife got the Nazis to murder her husband for her?
I’m astounded that someone would claim passive resistance to an unjust, unnecessary and unreasonable law was required by God.
Not donning a mask or staying outside for longer than the prescribed one hour isn’t exactly civil strife.
https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_18-01-26_crimetrends_feature/
1993 – 2016
Pew Research Center, January 30, 2018
Crime rates have fallen since the early 1990s
Crime rates have gone down so we could sort of say that everything that gets blamed for violent crime actually decreases crime. Guns cause less crime! Video games cause less crime!
Or maybe the causes of crime or the lack thereof are to do with deterrence and demographic cycles, as well as enhanced forensic evidence collecting and better crime prevention tools?
The idea that a gun or a computer game causes evil is superstitious and absolves people of responsibility.
Link to case, but I’m not sure how that relates to the above.
“Even gave the lone policeman I came across the country road…”
Location, location, location!
Here in Shitney, where I never missed a day of work for the entire lockdown, local
SSPlod did a “walk-through” at least once (and often 2 or 3 times) a week to make sure everyone was wearing a mask and had their 2m of space. I don’t blame the company for being anal retentive about the rules – given the attention plod paid us, it was likely we would have been pinged for even the most minor infraction.Entropy:
I just got an email from Australia post asking me to pick up a delivery from Bathurst PO. Interesting part was that I had a Registered Mail article delivered there and picked up this morning.
The email had the correct tracking number and everything. But at the same time, I got an email from my wine supplier requesting my CC numbers etc because they were being refused – despite the monthly deposits being visible on the email.
Dodgy shit.
Cards cancelled and – no thanks to the Commonwealth Bank – an hour wasted trying to get a human on the phone despite several entreaties to use the app. It would appear that the Commonwealth Bank isn’t content with using Asian/Indian call centers staffed by people incapable of being understood – but they want me to use my mobile which has more security holes than a Frenchmans string singlet.
Said youth are all full bottle on “their rights.” “You can’t arrest me, I’m too young.”
People can be responsible even where they’ve been habituated into vicious patterns of thought and behaviour.
It’s the Grudge Informer Case.
Husband was sentenced to serve on the eastern front, like a death sentence.
https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/The_Grudge_Informer_Case_Revisited.pdf
I’m a fan of Radbruch.
That too is an excellent point and I believe is consistent with my claim.
Mmmyes I note some ungodly halitosis was exhaled upthread.
Go Moira Deeming.
Two points…
1. Deeming should join the Lib Dems.
2. The Victorian Liberal Party should do the decent thing and shut up shop.
“Some “Green Vegetables“.
Are those faces available on a deck of playing cards?”
54 jokers – not a particularly useful deck.
For what it’s worth in the Grudge Informer Case, I think the trial verdict against the German lady who informed against her cheating husband was right, and I think the court martial judge should have been punished too.
Wow, just wow. I read some scum and lees bagging her for this question a couple of days ago on Twitter, only to find out now the man is a rapist being housed in a women’s prison. What a ridiculous country.