Open Thread – Tues 23 May 2023


Harbour of Trieste, Egon Schiele, 1907

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Miltonf
Miltonf
May 24, 2023 9:10 pm

“I do this for the publicity,” he said.

attention seeking/exhibitionism/nasty old codger

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 24, 2023 9:11 pm

Tasered 95 woman, brown bread.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 24, 2023 9:12 pm

Despite Dr Abel’s admissions, Ms Barling spared the elderly protester from conviction, handing him a $500 fine instead.

I’d have had him drawn, hanged and quartered to teach him respect for the law.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 24, 2023 9:13 pm

We wait and see. I’d like to know who has possession of his body as we await toxicology results? I watched the interview last week with Ardis – I’ll post it soon, and Buttar seemed in good stead. He was another onboard with the synthetic venom theory.

It is suspicious to be honest. Buttar claimed he was poisoned at CNN before that interview.

Murky and troubling stuff, however, nothing is definitive at the moment.

———–

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Before his death Dr. Buttar was adamant that he was poisoned after he conducted an interview with CNN.
He suffered from chest pains and had trouble breathing while sleeping.
Dr. Rashid Buttar believed he was the victim of intentional poisoning.
Dr. Buttar was a hero of the medical freedom movement and was a threat to covid tyrants and purveyors of lies.
He testified before committees on how to treat cancer and autism without using Big Pharma drugs.
There are many different ways poison can be delivered into the human body.
It could be on surfaces like car door handles or steering wheels.
It can also be in the air we breathe.
Dr. Rashid Buttar believed he was poisoned while in the green room at CNN with something he ate or drank while waiting to go on the air.
Dr. Buttar will always be remembered for fighting for the free will that God gave us.

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feelthebern
feelthebern
May 24, 2023 9:16 pm

Depending on who is protesting & stopping traffic, there is a queue of ambulances being delayed.

Miltonf
Miltonf
May 24, 2023 9:16 pm

The ANU harbours some real horrors eg ‘Dr’ Emerson.

Top Ender
Top Ender
May 24, 2023 9:16 pm

Cooma great-grandmother Clare Nowland has passed away, one week after she was tasered by a NSW Police officer in her nursing home.

Relatives of the 95-year-old confirmed she had died on Wednesday night surrounded by family in Cooma Hospital.

Mrs Nowland’s family said her passing came just after detectives charged Senior Constable Kristian White with three offences over her death.

Snr Const White, 33, was issued a future court attendance notice on Wednesday night for recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault over the incident in Cooma on May 17.

The charges come as it was revealed body camera footage of the incident shows great-grandmother Clare Nowland slowly getting out of a chair “as if in slow motion” and advancing on a NSW Police Officer before he allegedly exclaims in exasperation and tasers her.

Daily Tele

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 24, 2023 9:17 pm

Tasered 95 woman, brown bread

Watch. Wait.

Right this minute, there will be dozens of senior NSW jacks who supervised this bloke – who apparently has existing disciplinary history for using excessive force – over the past 12 years diving into their own records to find something to justify why they shifted a problem instead of dealing with it when it was their job to do so.

Crossie
Crossie
May 24, 2023 9:18 pm

Muddy says:
May 24, 2023 at 8:39 pm
It’s about an Indigenous people that have a special place in this country.
It’s about creating a new royalty; an exalted class, but one which performs no role other than to be worshipped, and has no responsibilities.

If they were only indolent they could be easily indulged but they are destructive to themselves, their children and Australia as a whole so no go.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 24, 2023 9:20 pm

It could be on surfaces like car door handles or steering wheels

Yep.

Poisoned umbrella tips.
Rocks.
Chemtrails.

C.L.
C.L.
May 24, 2023 9:22 pm

Murray and Hildebrand: Spare a thought for the policeman with the zapper.

P
P
May 24, 2023 9:24 pm

Davey Boy says:
May 24, 2023 at 4:40 pm
received this afternoon in email
Dear Friends,
Archbishop Christopher Prowse invites all to a Prayer Vigil for Calvary Hospital at St Christopher’s Cathedral Wednesday, May 24, at 7.30 pm.

Live stream Prayer Vigil for Calvary Hospital (prompted)

Don’t miss the Lutheran and Presbyterian pastors. They don’t hold back.

Cassie of Sydney
May 24, 2023 9:28 pm

Karen Webb, the Commissioner of Police here in NSW and all round mediocrity, should resign. She’s an embarrassment.

Gabor
Gabor
May 24, 2023 9:31 pm

Knuckle Dragger says:
May 24, 2023 at 9:17 pm

Tasered 95 woman, brown bread

I’m not a big bloke, but I think I could’ve handled a 95 year old woman with a walking frame armed with a knife.
She, armed with a shotgun is a different matter, wouldn’t go near her for a close taser shot.

Disgraceful, police action. Nothing in common with the Alice affair, BTW.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 24, 2023 9:34 pm

Knuckle Draggersays:
May 24, 2023 at 9:20 pm
It could be on surfaces like car door handles or steering wheels

Yep.

Poisoned umbrella tips.
Rocks.
Chemtrails.

Ignorant clown. Keep us up to date with the woke footy. ( :

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 24, 2023 9:37 pm

Depending on who is protesting & stopping traffic, there is a queue of ambulances being delayed.

I’m old enough to remember when the State would send ambulances through left-wing anti-war protest sit-ins to try to clear the road for other traffic.

Not by actually running over them. Just nudging and blaring was enough – eventually.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 24, 2023 9:39 pm

There’s a lot to work with here (the Tele):

A Sydney entrepreneur has been remanded in custody over a string of fraud, firearms and drug offences in Darwin after being granted bail in NSW just a fortnight ago, despite offering his multimillion dollar empire as surety and telling the judge he was “at high risk of death” if he was sent to prison in the Territory.

Uh huh. For sure. Three taipans in every cell.

Pineapple Funding

Please let this be about caravans.

chief executive Andrew Spira, 24, allegedly attempted to use fraudulent credit card details to fly overseas and applied for an Australian passport in Darwin claiming his had been stolen, when it had in fact been surrendered to NSW police as part of his bail granted earlier this month after a different attempt at using fake documents to travel overseas.

Oh. Boring old white collar crime.

Spira – who is the great-nephew of media mogul Ita Buttrose – faced Darwin Local Court on Wednesday morning

Wondering about the level of ABC coverage this will get.

“I understand the penal system up here is quite harsh, like in New South Wales, except I imagine there’s a lot more violence, and I think I’m at high risk of death if I don’t get medical assistance,” he said.

Damn straight. ‘Hey, boy. You got that purty mouth.’

“It’s a real shame, it’s amazing, last year I was in Vaucluse in a house, and you never know where you’re going to end up,” Spira told the court.

Vaucluse? What?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 24, 2023 9:40 pm

He looked pretty healthy at the time. This is from last week.

This goes for close to 50 minutes.

———-

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Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 24, 2023 9:42 pm

Ignorant clown. Keep us up to date with the woke footy.

Basil Zemplas is the greatest human being on Planet Earth.

There you go.

Oh wait – was that a tremor? Should people stop working under their cars?

Haha haaaaa haha.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 24, 2023 9:43 pm

God has given Dr. Buttar the gift of healing and you will learn about natural alternative therapies for treating and preventing cancer

Oh please, let this continue. A rich vein opens.

Dragnet
Dragnet
May 24, 2023 9:45 pm

I will out myself and disclose that I am a good mate of the Johnny Rotten herein of this blog.
He is alive and well and currently “antagonising the natives” in NZ.
He didn’t bother to get overseas roaming access on his phone, hence his absence.
I am instructed to say that he will be back soon-ish.

cohenite
May 24, 2023 9:45 pm

All the Sky guys are fatally flawed:

Murray is an alarmist
Kenny supports the screech
Bolta is a pip pipper and has TDS.

Little johnnie is Australia’s worst PM: turdball is his creation and all things flowing from that POS; he failed to close the abc and is the father of alarmism and ruinables; he disarmed Australia, has TDS and is a pip pipper.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 24, 2023 9:53 pm

It’s been a while for the eardrums.

YES – Owner of a Lonely Heart (Official Music Video)

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 24, 2023 10:00 pm

Little johnnie is Australia’s worst PM

Gough Whitlam was by far and away the worst – his failed experiment at “champagne socialism” was the beginning of the end for this country – and Mal Fraser – elected in a landslide, with a clear mandate to reverse the whole show, yet too timid to act for fear of what the Left would say about him – wasn’t far behind him.

Not Uh oh
Not Uh oh
May 24, 2023 10:01 pm

Farmer Gezsays:
May 24, 2023 at 9:44 pm
Lazy fat fool.

Yep, he and Zachary Rolfe should be put in the same cell.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 24, 2023 10:02 pm

‘Give me a break’: Dan Andrews grilled for blaming pandemic for state debt.

With stairs or without?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 24, 2023 10:05 pm

South Africa: Pretoria left in shock as 15 die of cholera.

By Jane Flanagan
The Times
Updated 5:57PM May 24, 2023, First published at 6:43AM May 24, 2023
No Comments

At least 15 people have died in an outbreak of cholera outside the South African capital Pretoria, where residents have complained about unsafe water for years.

Cases of the bacterial disease that is a scourge of conflicts, natural disasters and failed states have been confirmed in three of the country’s nine provinces ­including Gauteng, the most populous province, which ­includes Pretoria – renamed Tshwane – and the economic hub Johannesburg.

The Tshwane mayor had to abandon a planned visit to Hammanskraal, the town with a population of 23,000 at the centre of the outbreak, after his car was surrounded by angry crowds.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 24, 2023 10:07 pm

Andrews real political skill is to surround himself with mediocrity.
King Julien.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 24, 2023 10:10 pm

“It’s a beautiful culture that we have and that we’re generously offering this year to all Australians.

Exemplified by the happy inhabitants of Wadeye and Yeundumu?

Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 24, 2023 10:11 pm

Meanwhile in Victoria, here is that stellar legal intellect Ferguson CJ launching – guess what? – Pride in Law.

https://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au/about-the-court/speeches/speeches-by-the-hon-chief-justice-ferguson/launch-of-the-victorian-chapter

???????

Presumably she won’t have to warn them against attending the Red Mass.

She should concentrate on wiping the egg off her face after the High Court shredded her Pell judgement.

Razey
Razey
May 24, 2023 10:14 pm

Poor old lady died at the hands of some king shit piglet cop. Disgraceful.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/auhome/index.html

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 24, 2023 10:14 pm
Old Lefty
Old Lefty
May 24, 2023 10:16 pm

Notice who the counsel for woke Victims of Crown Commissioner Yates is aithe Sofronoff inquiry? None other than Dr Peggy Dwyer of the Get Rolfe coronial inquest in the NT. Inbred little world, isn’t it?

Vicki
Vicki
May 24, 2023 10:17 pm

Maybe I am getting old and tired. But hell what is this country coming to ? A 95 year old hanging into a walker is tasered by a cop & now some 15 year old has fired on a school. The scenes of distressed parents & crying kids looked like something out of the US.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 24, 2023 10:20 pm

Jesus wept and Moses crept.

Who the fark names a kid Kristian?

And he was a fat plod too.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 24, 2023 10:21 pm

Exemplified by the happy inhabitants of Wadeye and Yeundumu?

Be fair, they did discover how to make pharting noises, blowing down a hollow log, while the rest of the world was listening to Vivaldi.

Razey
Razey
May 24, 2023 10:26 pm

But hell what is this country coming to ?

It’s not coming, it has arrived. A woke authoritarian cesspit of lies and deception.

Vagabond
Vagabond
May 24, 2023 10:31 pm

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
May 24, 2023 at 10:00 pm

Gough Whitlam was by far and away the worst – his failed experiment at “champagne socialism” was the beginning of the end for this country

Quite right. I used to think there should be a scale of Whitlam units for terrible prime ministers who betrayed the electorate and permanently damaged the country. Whitlam would be the gold (or sh**) standard with an top score of 100 that is unattainable by anyone else. But then I realised that the rating scheme would be be strongly non-linear with so many duds clustered around a score of 99.9 that differentiation would be almost impossible. I mean, how can you distinguish between a Turd at 99.9 and a Krudd at 99.9 to say nothing of Morrison, Gillard, Hawke, Howard, McMahon and just about everyone else? In fact there wouldn’t be anyone since about 1970 who wouldn’t be well over 90.

There could also be an Andrews unit scale for state premiers and a Baillieu/Guy/Pessuto/Kirkup (BGPK) unit scale for spectacular failures of “leaders” of so-called oppositions.

The possibilities are endless.

Some sort of expanded logarithmic scale might do it.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 24, 2023 10:38 pm
Jorge
Jorge
May 24, 2023 10:42 pm

Kylie Minogue. Looking ‘ravishing in red’ with her new single ‘rocketing up the charts.’

She’s 54, hard used and haggard around the eyes. Likes the camera at a distance now. Fag haggery, championing the gays (no lezzos though) once so enlightened and daring, now worse than criminal. Songs all sound the same.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Indolent
Indolent
May 24, 2023 10:43 pm
cohenite
May 24, 2023 10:44 pm

2 potential winners for today’s BS awards:

Backlash as Parkrun women’s record is revealed to be held by transgender attempted murderer who was jailed for trying to stab UK Athletics official to death in row over competing as a female

Australian Defence Force chief Angus Campbell renews calls to strip medals from Afghanistan war veterans

And I repeat little johnnie is the worst for what he didn’t do as well as what he did. The little white picket fence pip pipper could have destroyed whitlam’s destructive legacy but instead amplified it.

Barking Toad
Barking Toad
May 24, 2023 10:47 pm

And just on the poor old lady who has sadly now passed away – what the fark were staff at the aged care home doing phoning Cooma plod at 4:00am because a 95 year old dementia patient had a steak knife in her hand? Is it too hard to walk to her a just remove the knife from her hand?

What if she just had a ball of wool in her hands from some knitting time? Would they phone plod because they thought she might strangle them?

Dopey fat plod deserves all the kicking he needs to get but staff at the home need looking at if part of their job involves looking after patients suffering from dementia. FFS 95 years old, 5 foot 2 and weighing 45Kg?

I’d hate to see them employed at kindergarten supervising little ones going loony, as they are wont to do. Call in the SAS?

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 24, 2023 10:49 pm

Australian Defence Force chief Angus Campbell renews calls to strip medals from Afghanistan war veterans

Good luck recruiting for Special Air Service Regiment, and the Commando’s after this circus.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 24, 2023 10:54 pm

blowing down a hollow log, while the rest of the world was listening to Vivaldi.

Why not both?
Suddenly, ALPENHORN.

rosie
rosie
May 24, 2023 10:56 pm
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 24, 2023 10:58 pm

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who have expressed support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but want to better understand what a Voice to Parliament actually means.

‘We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.’ These words from the Uluru Statement from the Heart are a heartfelt invitation from First Nations People to fellow Australians, who will have the opportunity to respond when the Voice referendum is put to a national vote by the Albanese Government.

Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo and acclaimed journalist Kerry O’Brien have written this handbook to answer the most commonly asked questions about why the Voice should be enshrined in the Constitution, and how it might function to improve policies affecting Indigenous communities, and genuinely close the gap on inequalities at the most basic level of human dignity.

From a certain bookshop I won’t name here. No, thanks.

rosie
rosie
May 24, 2023 10:58 pm
rosie
rosie
May 24, 2023 11:00 pm

This is how Dan pays back Tony for not giving him more money.
it’s tax deductible

rosie
rosie
May 24, 2023 11:02 pm
rosie
rosie
May 24, 2023 11:07 pm
Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 24, 2023 11:13 pm

Forget the golden hour, 11pm is the Rosie Hour.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 24, 2023 11:15 pm

ABC

What took some by surprise — including stakeholders like the Australian Medical Association, who support the idea — was the speed at which the government moved.
The announcement was made on Wednesday of this week, and on Thursday the enabling bill was introduced in the Legislative Assembly.
Along with it came a motion — which passed — suspending the requirement for any committee inquiry into the bill to table a report before the proposal is debated.
The plan is for Canberra Health Services to take over delivery of public health services at Calvary’s Bruce campus in just two months’ time.

AI_Solzhenitsyn · May 23

Through its laws the Stalinist power said…private property is a belch from the past.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
May 24, 2023 11:37 pm

I’ve spent the last few months watching this bloke. His intent is pure with these creatures of whom he raises from young’uns; usually saved from some grief. Gabby runs amok and her wild instincts remains … as you will hear from the wild warthog.

Warning: Binge watch potential.

__________

Kevin Richardson – The Lion Whisperer:

NAUGHTIEST LION and the REAL LION KING Best Walks | The Lion Whisperer

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
May 24, 2023 11:47 pm

The mistake they made, back in the day, was putting the Commando Regt on a par with the SAS as the ‘east coast’ counter terrorism unit. The cultural clash leads back to that (imho). That said, Campbell should hand in his own DSC before he starts demanding that his subordinates be stripped of their honours with nary a case to answer established.

amortiser
amortiser
May 24, 2023 11:54 pm

calli says:
May 24, 2023 at 7:08 pm
It’s not about inserting race into the Constitution. It’s about an Indigenous people that have a special place in this country.
Then it’s about inserting race into the Constitution.

What a silly man to admit it.

Race has already been inserted in the Constitution at s51(xxvi). It would be far better if that section was repealed at this referendum.

Louis Litt
May 24, 2023 11:56 pm

Beria 10:54pm
Alpenhorn
That was really shit

Dot
Dot
May 24, 2023 11:59 pm

Kings and Generals skewers the Russian propaganda for Putin’s justification to invade Ukraine.

(Skip to 2:21 to avoid the sponsor.)

“Why are we calling the war unprovoked?”

Some of the Russian claims are incredibly stupid and childish – “bio lab enabled Ukro zombies” being one of them.

https://youtu.be/oZP6SHqc1XY

MatrixTransform
May 25, 2023 1:05 am

“Why are we calling the war unprovoked?”

because we think you’re all morons?

pete of perth
pete of perth
May 25, 2023 1:29 am

Crispa
Alpenhorn, I’ll raise you one Russian Tenor

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 25, 2023 2:23 am

Tickler earlier

Dr. Rashid Buttar believed he was the victim of intentional poisoning.

Perhaps it was the … Buttar Chickin.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 25, 2023 2:24 am

It’s quiet on nightshift here at the Deakin telephone exchange.
Too quiet.

Gabor
Gabor
May 25, 2023 3:33 am

s51(xxvi)

That is actually 26
LI = 51

rosie
rosie
May 25, 2023 3:47 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:00 am

John Spooner. Brilliant.

Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:02 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:03 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:04 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:06 am

David Rowe on Bob Dylan’s 82nd birthday (May 24).

Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:07 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:08 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:09 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:10 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:11 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:12 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:13 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:14 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:16 am
Tom
Tom
May 25, 2023 4:17 am
feelthebern
feelthebern
May 25, 2023 5:11 am

This Wagner group is a pretty decent example of a potential dystopian future.
Empty the prisons, give them minimal training & let them loose.
Scary shit.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 25, 2023 5:36 am

Taibbi has a substack on how the IRS targeted him.
Currently behind his paywall but likely he’ll unlock it later as he does with some of these big columns.
Part of the files notes he has refer to the IRS seeing if he had a fishing licence they could look into.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
May 25, 2023 5:46 am

ftb

Gotta wonder what war crimes that we don’t know of yet that have being committed. Believe the Wehrmacht trod this path in the latter stages of the 2nd world war with hardened crims.

Real Deal
Real Deal
May 25, 2023 5:48 am

Tina Turner brown bread.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
May 25, 2023 6:11 am

Vickisays:
May 24, 2023 at 10:17 pm
Maybe I am getting old and tired. But hell what is this country coming to ? A 95 year old hanging into a walker is tasered by a cop & now some 15 year old has fired on a school. The scenes of distressed parents & crying kids looked like something out of the US.

You must be mistaken. We don’t have gun crime because we don’t have guns in Australia. I wonder how they got hold of a gun with our strong gun laws?

bespoke
bespoke
May 25, 2023 6:22 am

132andBushsays:

May 24, 2023 at 6:13 pm

More from Matt Goodwin

A good interview.

Indeed.

He talked about the graduate class. This is a class of people who’s entire life has been managed and services provided for free. A breeding ground for authoritarianism.

I blame boomers.

bespoke
bespoke
May 25, 2023 6:47 am

It’s also a authoritarianism that is difficult to confront. All very civil and freely admit how they failed and displey empathy. But continue to the same thing.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 25, 2023 6:51 am

Timed out! What?

Big Tech strikes! The Last Holdout falls! Blogwreckers!

I told you all! I predicted this! It’s Happening!

100 Whitlam Units!

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 6:57 am

IRS seeing if he had a fishing licence they could look into.

LOL

What a despicable mob of idiots.

sfw
sfw
May 25, 2023 7:01 am

This is Alphorn, plus lederhosen, buxom woman and a Kings Of Leon song, ‘Sex on Fire. Great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzGkoqmfcuM

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 25, 2023 7:07 am

This Wagner group is a pretty decent example of a potential dystopian future.
Empty the prisons, give them minimal training & let them loose.

Prig’s guys seem popular as mercenaries too. They’re busy in several African countries and I think it was Mali that kicked the French out and bulked up their ties with Wagner, who is less squeamish about things than Western countries.

Meanwhile he’s been doing a round of talk shows after Bakhmut:

Wagner boss tells Russian elite to send their ‘fat, carefree’ kids to Ukraine frontline (24 May)

He described the children of Russian war commanders as “fat and carefree”, warning that he would use his influence to force some of them to fight for his Wagner Group.

While many Russian civilians are being forced to take part in the “special military operation”, often against their will, the families of Russian generals and politicians, most of which are within the conscription age bracket, have spent the past 15 months travelling abroad and “showing off” their opulent lifestyles on Instagram and Facebook.

Prigozhin accused the defence minister of protecting his son-in-law while he accused Ksenia of spending illicit funds on leading a life of luxury.

“How can Shoigu’s son-in-law go to the United Arab Emirates and shake his bum around?” Prigozhin said at the time.

Not going to make many friends in the higher levels of Russian society with comments like that, but since he has his own private army there’s not much the elites can do about it.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 25, 2023 7:08 am

It would appear the local Canberra wildlife are emulating their betters, always looking for a financial angle (the Tele):

An Evatt man has been sentenced for striking the body of a driver who died in a fatal crash.

Bystanders watched in horror as Samuel Angus Berron hit the chest of Nathan Mugridge multiple times after he was killed in a horror crash in Melba on May 20, 2022.

And:

Mr Mugridge was the driver of a Subaru WRX which lost control and crashed into a tree along Kingsford Smith Dr. The 22-year-old died instantly while Berron suffered non life threatening injuries.

And then:

Berron struck Mr Mugridge’s body several times in the chest while shocked onlookers witnessed the acts. Agreed statement of facts tendered to court state Berron said words to the effect of “you better be dead” and ”whose gunna (sic) pay for my car”.

Wonderful. This bloke should be in Cabinet.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 7:23 am

Berron’s plan to fix his stucteal defecit is better than Chalmers’ plan, or being advised by Butterfield, Bloom and Bishop.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 25, 2023 7:24 am

The deadly question “what is a woman” now has a sequel.

Leftist Party Leader: ‘Quite Clearly’ the Case that Women Can Have Penises (24 May)

Ed Davey, the leader of Britain’s progressive Liberal Democrats party, has claimed that it is “quite clearly” the case that women can have penises.

The comment comes at a time when numerous others within Britain’s political elite struggle to say whether or not women are capable of having a penis, with current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak very hesitantly saying that they cannot back in April.

However, speaking to UK radio station LBC, Davey nevertheless managed to get the 50/50 penis question wrong, telling host Nick Ferarri that women can “quite clearly” have penises.

Great way to look like a complete berk. These people must be absolutely terrified of the fascist qwerty lobby to say such obviously stupid things on camera. I suppose they can rely on the MSM not to report it though.

duncanm
duncanm
May 25, 2023 7:26 am

Tomsays:
May 25, 2023 at 4:06 am
David Rowe on Bob Dylan’s 82nd birthday (May 24).

Rowe should give up cartooning – he’s a much better artist. That’s a great portrait.

duncanm
duncanm
May 25, 2023 7:28 am

re: Spooner. More of NSW native forests are about to be locked up, and all of Vic native forests.

It is hard enough to get local hardwood for construction these days. Soon it’ll be impossible.

No doubt we’ll begin importing local species’ timber from overseas within a couple of years.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 25, 2023 7:29 am

File under no shit sherlock.

Baby-Formula Makers Face FTC Investigation for Collusion
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether baby-formula makers colluded on bids for lucrative state contracts.

They’re only 5 years late.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 25, 2023 7:36 am

Get a pronoun wrong and you’ll never work again.

Christian Teacher Banned from Profession After Calling Students ‘Girls’ in Classroom (24 May)

Regulators in Britain have banned a Christian teacher from the profession for life for “misgendering” a student, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the country.

The Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA) has ruled that Joshua Sutcliffe, 33, formerly of the Cherwell School at Oxford, should be banned from the teaching profession for failing to use the so-called preferred pronouns of a girl student who identified as a boy, which they claimed amounted to not providing the pupil with “dignity and respect”.

Sutcliffe admitted that there was an instance in which he praised a group of students by saying “well done girls” during a maths lesson, which apparently was enough for a student to feel misgendered.

Funny how they never show such “dignity and respect” to Christians like this poor guy, who have been believing Bible teaching about men and women for thousands of years before qwerties suddenly discovered pronouns. Teaching Year 8 is going to be an even more terrifying task now, with such power in the hands of volatile kids.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 25, 2023 7:40 am

Rowe is a crap thinker and artist.
Doesn’t look much like Dylan. Rowe has to identify some of his targets as you’d never guess from the drawing.
Leake the Younger can capture a face and character with far fewer strokes of the pencil. Knight is a master of the game. His Serena was a Hall of Fame in cartooning skill and meaning. That’s why they hated it so much.

sfw
sfw
May 25, 2023 7:45 am

duncanm, we already import large quantities of timber, especially hardwoods. Where do you think a lot of Asia’s and South Americas forest go? I spoke to a local greenie about this and pointed out that stopping logging here just transferred the logging overseas to countries with few if any safeguards. She just refused to even think about it.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 7:46 am

Regulators in Britain have banned a Christian teacher from the profession for life for “misgendering” a student, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the country.

Btw, the UK is in the midst of a teacher shortage.

The problem is not just retention but also failing to reach graduate recruitment targets, with a 30% shortfall this year (a whopping 41% for secondary school teachers).

Louis Litt
May 25, 2023 7:48 am

Rosie 24/5 @ 12:40
Ever talked to a small business owner.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 25, 2023 7:49 am

Yep sfw.
We keep ourselves clean and pure while all the essential yucky industries are overseas and out of sight in the poorer counties.
I call it environmental colonialism.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 7:50 am

Louis Litt says:
May 25, 2023 at 7:48 am

Rosie 24/5 @ 12:40
Ever talked to a small business owner.

You were at 7:48 AM.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 25, 2023 7:51 am

So the tasered woman has passed away. The commissioner refuses to even watch the body-cam footage.

I suppose she doesn’t need to – I don’t think she is the sort of creature that needs evidence to throw someone under a bus when the MSM has spoken. It just happens that in this instance the guy deserves it. But you would think the more grim the situation the more she would want to know for herself. How many other things has she discovered herself too delicate for?

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 7:52 am

The Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA) has ruled that Joshua Sutcliffe, 33, formerly of the Cherwell School at Oxford, should be banned from the teaching profession for failing to use the so-called preferred pronouns of a girl student who identified as a boy, which they claimed amounted to not providing the pupil with “dignity and respect”.

The child is a useful idiot. Not as bad as kids identifying as trees or dogs, but still.

I wonder how they will feel about this later on?

I really want to be Alfred the Great. Can I identify as him?

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 7:55 am

Speaking of schools…

There are c. 650 000 students enrolled in Victoria’s state school system.

I suppose at least half of those would be of primary school age.

60 000 of Dan’s “Little Angler” kits will be provided to children at a cost of $1.5m.

What’s he going to say to the kids who miss out on a fishing rod?

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 7:57 am

I call it environmental colonialism.

The “big men” are getting paid off and ten years from now the local populations will be fronting up with demands for reparations for destroying their forests.

Rohan
Rohan
May 25, 2023 7:59 am

No doubt we’ll begin importing local species’ timber from overseas within a couple of years.

Duncanm, there is a world wide shortage of available hardwood timber. What Australia currently imports won’t change significantly.

I work in the timber industry and Wednesday morning the Boss was contacted by a reporter for comment. He said, nah that’s not happening. He rang VicForest and they told the Boss the same thing. As he was talking to VF, the email notification came through to VF.

Curious that Xi lifted the ban on the importation of Australian timber last week.

I wonder what was discussed between Xi and Dan on his recent trip.

Has the Dumbo eared Marxist Belt and Roaded our Native Forests?

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 25, 2023 8:01 am

We keep ourselves clean and pure while all the essential yucky industries are overseas and out of sight in the poorer counties.

This is why corporations love talking net zero & other ESG things but when it comes to modern slavery, they tend to run dead & point to their ESG consultant’s policy that’s posted on their website.
Box ticked, they move on.

johanna
johanna
May 25, 2023 8:03 am

rosie says:
May 25, 2023 at 3:47 am

Patients stay at Seaworld instead.
Queensland hospitals with not enough room for Queenslanders

Lucky them. Much more pleasant than being stuck in one of the prison-like institutions called hospitals. Cheaper, too.

Crossie
Crossie
May 25, 2023 8:03 am

duncanm says:
May 25, 2023 at 7:28 am
re: Spooner. More of NSW native forests are about to be locked up, and all of Vic native forests.
It is hard enough to get local hardwood for construction these days. Soon it’ll be impossible.
No doubt we’ll begin importing local species’ timber from overseas within a couple of years.

Last spring I went to Bunnings to buy garden stakes and just for curiosity’s sake I checked the label on the pack of six stakes. They came from Indonesia. Through the summer and the rains these stakes warped and are misshapen now while the old Australian ones are still straight. We don’t seem to import quality.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 8:04 am

My understanding is that native forestry in NSW at least is stitched up in phoney “education” requirements. It’s like “no show” care and responsibility for the government.

“Well you need this diploma Y to do X”
“We’re not going to issue any Y diplomas or let anyone else do it, no matter what, we’re simply not interested, go away”

It is regulation you can’t refuse.

Crossie
Crossie
May 25, 2023 8:04 am

With regard to garden stakes, there were no Australian grown ones so I had to buy the imported ones.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 8:05 am

I see the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women has expressed concern at the treatment of Moira Deeming, saying women should not be denied a voice on gender issues.

The VIC Libs are now to the fascist left of the UN on this issue.

cohenite
May 25, 2023 8:06 am

rosiesays:
May 24, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Andrew Forrest for whom any serious miscalculation of the effect of net zero policy would be personally, zero.

Twiggy is as bad as cannon brookes; is there a billionaire anywhere who is not a climate retard; except Trump.

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 25, 2023 8:06 am

Was Alfred the Great really that great Dot?
He couldn’t cook to save himself.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 8:07 am

Well Maurice Strong but he’s like the Bond villain behind this.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 25, 2023 8:07 am

It’s like “no show” care and responsibility for the government.

Terrible water & forestry management under the guise of climate change is key to current PMC strategy.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 8:07 am

He made a great Dane Compote.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 8:07 am

We don’t seem to import quality.

Nice segue into immigration!

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 8:09 am

Alfred the Great established diplomatic ties with Sylla, Baekje and Goguryeo…

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 25, 2023 8:09 am

Iron ore under $US100/t.
Hope Chalmers hasn’t banked too heavily on the surplus.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 8:12 am

A four billion dollar StUcTeAl defecit accounting trick “surplus” too…

Chalmers surplus was going to be less than one fifth of one per cent of GDP, razor thin.

lotocoti
lotocoti
May 25, 2023 8:14 am

Structural misogyny in wendy ball.

A football club chief has come under fire for describing
the quality of the women’s game as “really poor”.

Sack the H8R!

Farmer Gez
Farmer Gez
May 25, 2023 8:16 am

I don’t remember Alfred the Great buying fishing rods for the kiddies.

feelthebern
feelthebern
May 25, 2023 8:17 am

It’s official.
Energy prices up 25% on July 1st.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 8:18 am

Has the Dumbo eared Marxist Belt and Roaded our Native Forests?

Surely Tanya would have to sign off on that?

Entropy
Entropy
May 25, 2023 8:24 am

Farmer Gez says:
May 25, 2023 at 8:06 am
Was Alfred the Great really that great Dot?
He couldn’t cook to save himself.

maybe he needed a low carb diet.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 25, 2023 8:25 am

should be banned from the teaching profession for failing to use the so-called preferred pronouns of a girl student who identified as a boy, which they claimed amounted to not providing the pupil with “dignity and respect”.

It is an old image but if you have a hole in your sock and don’t have it darned it just gets bigger and bigger.

These poor kids with these issues, or even who never had issues until some malign adult started to whisper in the child’s ear doubts that they had never felt before, will get worse and worse until the little mites unravel completely.

And then some quasi-expert spiv (possibly the same one who earlier had word by word eaten away the child’s innocent nature) will point and proclaim “See! We have found another problem for which, to make right, every-ignorant-one else must listen to me and so as I say.”

It is the first world version of the child-soldier. But for these warlords the holocaust of children is as satisfying as the campaign.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 25, 2023 8:29 am

Hope Chalmers hasn’t banked too heavily on the surplus.

Oh, my aching sides…

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 25, 2023 8:30 am

You must be mistaken. We don’t have gun crime because we don’t have guns in Australia. I wonder how they got hold of a gun with our strong gun laws?

Looks like we need stronger taser laws now too….

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 25, 2023 8:33 am

Regulators in Britain have banned a Christian teacher from the profession for life for “misgendering” a student, in what is believed to be the first case of its kind in the country.

I think the facts show that it was the student who misgendered themselves (they/them)

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 25, 2023 8:36 am

We’ve known it for years, but always nice to get official confirmation.

CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless (23 May)

The head of the world’s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month.

It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based nonprofit, approved tens of millions of worthless offsets that are used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint Guardian investigation earlier this year.

In a statement on LinkedIn on Monday, Verra’s CEO, David Antonioli, said he would leave his role after 15 years leading the organisation that dominates the $2bn voluntary carbon market, which has certified more than 1bn credits through its verified carbon standard (VCS).

All those wonderful African and Asian forests sucking in that ghastly CO2, and reaping vast amounts or virtue-seeker dosh, probably have been turned into garden stakes by now. Between the climate scam, Covid vaxes and the suddenly reincarnated military industrial complex, the prospect for rorts and graft are the highest they’ve ever been in history.

Woolfe
Woolfe
May 25, 2023 8:37 am

Commondreams.org from a Robert Kennedy tweet

There were in fact two main U.S. provocations. The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia in order to surround Russia in the Black Sea region by NATO countries (Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Georgia, in counterclockwise order). The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014. The shooting war in Ukraine began with Yanukovych’s overthrow nine years ago, not in February 2022 as the U.S. government, NATO, and the G7 leaders would have us believe.

Rabz
May 25, 2023 8:38 am

Hydia Thorpey has stormed out of senate estimates after a shouting match with Labor MP Malarndirri McCarthy

Audible in space worthy idiocy, reminiscent of this legendary ALPBC inspired contretemps

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
May 25, 2023 8:38 am

He made a great Dane Compote

With pineapple.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 8:38 am

CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless

Gasp!

The Harkles will have to stay put in Montecito.

They will do that…you know, for the planet…won’t they?

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 8:42 am

Audible in space worthy idiocy, reminiscent of this legendary ALPBC inspired contretemps …

Talk to the hand, sister.

Crossie
Crossie
May 25, 2023 8:43 am

johanna says:
May 25, 2023 at 8:03 am
rosie says:
May 25, 2023 at 3:47 am

Patients stay at Seaworld instead.
Queensland hospitals with not enough room for Queenslanders
Lucky them. Much more pleasant than being stuck in one of the prison-like institutions called hospitals. Cheaper, too.

And you get free TV and internet.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 25, 2023 8:44 am

CEO of biggest carbon credit certifier to resign after claims offsets worthless

I made a tidy sum selling certificates to wealthy neighbours.

I told them I had a stack of old car tyres in the back yard and, if they bought my certificates, I would not burn them.

Great thing was I could use the same stack of tyres every day.

rosie
rosie
May 25, 2023 8:44 am

Rosie 24/5 @ 12:40
Ever talked to a small business owner.

Why yes, yes I have. I had a shop I ran on my own for 13 years.
At no time though was I being asked to put my life on the line for my country.
Any more questions?

132andBush
132andBush
May 25, 2023 8:45 am

It’s also a authoritarianism that is difficult to confront. All very civil and freely admit how they failed and displey empathy. But continue to the same thing.

Yep.
Usually excused by the unthinking masses with the phrase “you have to listen to the experts”.

Crossie
Crossie
May 25, 2023 8:48 am

cohenite says:
May 25, 2023 at 8:06 am
rosiesays:
May 24, 2023 at 11:05 pm
Andrew Forrest for whom any serious miscalculation of the effect of net zero policy would be personally, zero.

Twiggy is as bad as cannon brookes; is there a billionaire anywhere who is not a climate retard; except Trump.

They are not retards, they know very well where the money is coming from, the enormous subsidies handed out by our politicians who are retarded. When somebody is giving you money for not delivering on your promises you take it with both hands.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 25, 2023 8:49 am

Hey, I got zero-ticked.

That means I pissed off some spineless creature who wouldn’t, or couldn’t, come up with – well, not even a rebuttal. Just a response.

FWIW, I am rather chuffed that I got under a weasel’s skin!

132andBush
132andBush
May 25, 2023 8:52 am

Hope Chalmers hasn’t banked too heavily on the surplus.

Ag sector is going to have a big wind down as well.
El Niño and a general softening of prices.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 8:53 am

Why yes, yes I have. I had a shop I ran on my own for 13 years.
At no time though was I being asked to put my life on the line for my country.
Any more questions?

Why didn’t you do your bit and drive a patriotic, US owned, Chinese made Eaton ranger ranger transmission through state lines you traitor?

OH! You had a NayzeePass(TM)?

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 8:55 am

It’s official.
Energy prices up 25% on July 1st.

A cynical and perhaps unkind, unhelpful person would suggest more of this might sink the upcoming referendum.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 25, 2023 8:56 am

‘Queen of Rock and Roll’ Tina Turner dies aged 83
Press Association
Thu, 25 May 2023 2:59AM
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Singer Tina Turner, one of rock’s most famous voices who had hits including Proud Mary and The Best, has died at the age of 83 after a long illness, her publicist Bernard Doherty says.

The US-born singer came from humble beginnings in the state of Tennessee to reach global super-stardom.

She was admired for overcoming her abusive 16-year marriage with performing partner Ike Turner to find solo-career success in her mid-40s.

She had rose to fame as a duo with Ike in the 1960s and ‘70s.

Hits like River Deep – Mountain High and Nutbush City Limits stormed the charts in several countries.

As Turner revealed much later, the marriage was torture for her, with Ike beating and bullying her.

She eventually fled from him at the age of 37.

She gave up all financial claims to the music they jointly created in order to get through the divorce quickly and launch the next chapter of her career.

In a career spanning more than 60 years, Turner won eight competitive Grammy Awards and has a star on both the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the St Louis Walk of Fame.

She duetted at the Grammys with Beyonce for a rendition of Proud Mary which featured both the powerful singers, in sparkly outfits, mirroring each other’s choreography.

Other notable duets through her career included performing with David Bowie, Sir Mick Jagger and Jimmy Barnes.

At the age of 45, she shone in the spotlight with the album Private Dancer, her solo breakthrough in 1984.

From then on she filled stadiums and music stages all over the world.

Throughout the 1980s and ‘90s the “Queen of Rock and Roll” thrilled audiences with her powerful voice, daring costumes, sexy dance routines and boundless energy.

She landed numerous hits, from What’s Love Got To Do With It? and Proud Mary to We Don’t Need Another Hero and Simply the Best to name a few.

After a farewell tour in 2009, she retired into private life and later became a Swiss citizen.

With her German partner Erwin Bach, a record company manager who was 16 years her junior, she had lived on Lake Zurich since the 1990s.

They married in 2013 at a lavish wedding at their lakeside villa.

In 2021 she was inducted into the US Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

“If they’re still giving me awards at 81, I must have done something right,” she joked at the ceremony via video link from Switzerland.

Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock to a sharecropper family on November 26, 1939, had suffered from colon cancer and kidney failure.

Her husband donated one of his kidneys to her in 2017.

In the autobiography My Love Story in 2018 she wrote about the many painful experiences in her life but honoured Bach as her saviour and her greatest love.

Seems she did one show with a broken jaw, courtesy of Ike.

flyingduk
flyingduk
May 25, 2023 9:01 am

Iron ore under $US100/t.
Hope Chalmers hasn’t banked too heavily on the surplus.

“The four years of surpluses I announce tonight…”

H/T Wayno

Indolent
Indolent
May 25, 2023 9:02 am

TRUMP ADDRESSES SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS: ‘THIS IS THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR COUNTRY’

And he’s not wrong. Here is someone else saying pretty much the same thing, although putting it down to “blundering”. There’s no blundering about it. Simply on the law of averages it HAS to be deliberate.

Biden will be remembered for wrecking the country

rosie
rosie
May 25, 2023 9:02 am

through state lines

But I did sir, honest, I drove through two state lines (twice) in May 2020 but it was only in a Mazda.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 9:04 am

A cynical and perhaps unkind, unhelpful person would suggest more of this might sink the upcoming referendum.

Take heart, for more of it will certainly sink the Albanese government.

rosie
rosie
May 25, 2023 9:04 am

Andrew Forrest fancies himself a climate expert.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 25, 2023 9:05 am

the driver of a Subaru WRX

The preferred mode of transport for an aspiring rapper. If you’re any good, buy an AMG G63.

Indolent
Indolent
May 25, 2023 9:05 am
Indolent
Indolent
May 25, 2023 9:07 am

No surprise. Everyone he backs is there to serve his purpose. Never mind justice.

Secret Audio Of Soros Prosecutor Raises Questions About Her Courtroom Statements In Loudoun

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 25, 2023 9:09 am

Andrew Forrest fancies himself a climate expert..
Nobody buys the Twiggy dream like Twiggy.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 9:10 am

SMH: ‘Albanese intervenes to light Sydney Opera House sails for Narenrda Modi’

[Pic of Indian flag projected onto the Opera House]

The he inanely says it “projects an image of Australia to the world.”

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 9:12 am

Literal gaslighting bafflegab. (27 April 2023).

The latest energy dynamics report by the Australian Energy Market Operator (Aemo) showed wholesale spot prices in the national electricity market (NEM) averaged $83/MWh, down more than a 10th from the December quarter and two-thirds lower than the record average $264/MWh in the June quarter last year.

Read more at the Retardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/28/record-levels-of-renewable-energy-help-bring-down-australias-energy-prices-says-aemo

Anchor What
Anchor What
May 25, 2023 9:14 am

Daytime Sky has yet to meet the American conservative candidate that they like. They were quick off the mark this morning to bag De Santis’s launch, perhaps not realising that by doing so they were de facto supporting Trump.

Crossie
Crossie
May 25, 2023 9:14 am

Roger says:
May 25, 2023 at 9:10 am
SMH: ‘Albanese intervenes to light Sydney Opera House sails for Narenrda Modi’

[Pic of Indian flag projected onto the Opera House]

The he inanely says it “projects an image of Australia to the world.”

Tell me again why we need Albo as PM when Modi can do it better? It was Albo who declared that Modi is The Boss.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 25, 2023 9:15 am

H B Bearsays:

May 25, 2023 at 9:09 am

Andrew Forrest fancies himself a climate expert..
Nobody buys the Twiggy dream like Twiggy.

I’m so old I can remember when you only gave Twiggy seven day terms and you didn’t sleep for 45 nights until he paid.

Crossie
Crossie
May 25, 2023 9:16 am

Anchor What says:
May 25, 2023 at 9:14 am
Daytime Sky has yet to meet the American conservative candidate that they like. They were quick off the mark this morning to bag De Santis’s launch, perhaps not realising that by doing so they were de facto supporting Trump.

There is very little difference between Daytime Sky and the ABC or any other free to air channel.

Anchor What
Anchor What
May 25, 2023 9:16 am

prices in the national electricity market (NEM) averaged $83/MWh, down more than a 10th from the December quarter
Does that $83 figure include the tradeable certificates the big bad windmills get?

Robert Sewell
May 25, 2023 9:16 am

Black Ball:

People in my neck of the woods are heartily sick of the shit being forced down their throats in regards to Teh Voice. As has also been noted here, it is inner city whites and academics who see the Voice as their chance at tenure.

I am so fed up to the back teeth with trans this and gay that. It’s only the fact that I’m a civilised and cultured* man that I don’t reply forcefully to the constant drumbeat of perversion.
* Differing cultural definitions may apply.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
May 25, 2023 9:17 am

Electricity prices to rise by up to 25 per cent in New South Wales, South-East Queensland and South Australia

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has confirmed electricity prices will increase by between 20 and 25 per cent from July 1 — higher than the draft offer put forward by the regulator in March.

AER said after listening to stakeholder feedback, the default market offer has resulted in a “small change of between 1 per cent to 3 per cent” difference from its draft offer.

“The changes we have made are largely updates based on additional, finalised information and refinements to our methodology to better reflect the costs of retailing electricity,” the AER said.

So this is a refined price increase and we should spare a thought for the stakeholders’ agony.

The AER’s Clare Savage explains:

Speaking on RN Breakfast on Thursday morning, Ms Savage explained that inflation had been a substantial factor in the price increase.

“There’s an increase in the costs of building or recovering the cost of our transmission and distribution systems … and there’s also inflation that’s applied to the costs that retailers face,” she said.

But she said price rises would have been significantly higher if it was not for the federal government intervening.

“What we’re seeing is the sort of the contracts that retailers buy for the coming financial year have fallen quite a bit since intervention in the coal and gas markets in October last year.

“They are about 40 per cent lower than they were in October last year.

So, input prices down by 40%, retail prices up by 25%. By my rough calculation the electricity market is humming like a well-oiled machine and efficiently discovering the price of renewables.

But, hey, whatevs:

Ms Savage said those eligible for energy rebates announced in the federal budget would negate the price increase.

“They’ll receive a $500 rebate on their bill, the price rises we’re talking about today are mostly less than that,” she said.

“So in most circumstances, those eligible customers won’t experience a price increase this year.”

So, too cheap to meter, as it turns out.
Thank God that Luigi and Shitweasel have our backs…

In the best of Good Hands.

duncanm
duncanm
May 25, 2023 9:17 am

The stupid thing about ‘no native logging’, is of course that much of our state forests are regrowth from previous logging and plantation. That which isn’t, is regrowth from a catastrophic fire event from some time in the past.

But mah – ‘save the koalas from extinction’.

Idiots.

Sancho Panzer
Sancho Panzer
May 25, 2023 9:17 am

Someone here yesterday intimating that Rolf Harris had been hard done by.
Yeah, nah.
Get back to me after a middle-aged bloke has rooted your 14 year old daughter.

duncanm
duncanm
May 25, 2023 9:18 am

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has confirmed electricity prices will increase by between 20 and 25 per cent from July 1

“too cheap to meter”

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 25, 2023 9:18 am

Rogersays:
May 25, 2023 at 9:10 am
SMH: ‘Albanese intervenes to light Sydney Opera House sails for Narenrda Modi’

[Pic of Indian flag projected onto the Opera House]

The he inanely says it “projects an image of his vision of Australia to the world.”

Fixed.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
May 25, 2023 9:18 am

Belle of the Billionaires’ Ball: DeSantis Launch Spurns Grassroots for Donors, Musk, & Murdoch.

Which is why he’s so low in the primary polls.

I can only think DeSantis is angling for a Steven Bradbury-style win if Trump is jailed or something. But any funny business from the GOP elites and all those Trump voters will stay home on election day.

All this isn’t preventing the inevitable:

A New Low for the Left | Power Line (24 May)

When I first saw this headline appear on Twitter, I assumed it was fake. But no—it is real. Take a bow, Vanity Fair:

“Report: Ron DeSantis Will Formally Announce His 2024 Bid With Elon Musk, Because Apparently David Duke Wasn’t Available”

That’s the headline in Vanity Fair. Salon mag jumped the gun some months ago saying DeSantis is worse than Trump. As soon as DeSantis actually looks like a threat he’ll be worse-than-Hitlered in every lefty MSM orifice on the planet.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 9:18 am

This is almost funny but expensive energy can mean the less well off literally are endangered; it’s like hidden homelessness.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-18/electricity-price-rises-chart-of-the-day/9985300

That was in 2018. Given the last quarter and upcoming quarter, something is indeed rotten in our state of bemusement.

Roger
Roger
May 25, 2023 9:20 am

It was Albo who declared that Modi is The Boss.

Lordy…I must have missed that.

Not only is that cringe inducing, it’s also unwise on several levels.

Not that anyone ever associated Albanese with wisdom.

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
May 25, 2023 9:21 am

Hope Chalmers hasn’t banked too heavily on the surplus.

His mirage of a surplus will already be spent several times over.

I imagine some of the ‘assumptions’ in the budget to justify the numbers would be so glowingly optimistic that just reading the pages in the document causes temporary blindness and mild sunburn to the face.

It is a pity opposition parties are invariably as clueless as government, otherwise they could challenge them, and in a year or two pull these assumptions back out and show how pie-in-the-sky they were.

In the private sector you have to deliver to get money, and everything is measured and managed. People don’t even expect governments to get anything much right, they just like the sweet lays of economic promises to lull them back to sleep.

I think when the government talks of economic cycles it is in the same sense as the Homeric cycle or the Arthurian cycle – literary works from another world that stir our hearts.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 9:23 am

Sancho – what’s your opinion of a similar looking dude who said he didn’t know she wasn’t 16?

He certainly had strong opinions yesterday on the “wireless” about the other guy that sounded like a Filipino President.

Also, I don’t think other guy was indicted for what similar looking dude was troubled with.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
May 25, 2023 9:23 am

The preferred mode of transport for an aspiring rapper. If you’re any good, buy an AMG G63.

If you prefer reliability, buy a Lexus ISF or GSF

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
May 25, 2023 9:23 am

Craig Kelly’s Twitter has put up a clip of Alan Jones on ADH TV talking about :
Craig Kelly being right about Covid treatments
Top Australian experts saying Ivermectin worked
Jones being censored on Sky for even mentioning Ivermectin or interviewing people about it.

Ends with Craig Kelly was right all along.

Even now you can tell our so called Health leaders are ignoring so many adverse signs about the vaccines.

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
May 25, 2023 9:24 am

Patients stay at Seaworld instead.

Much more pleasant than being stuck in one of the prison-like institutions called hospitals.

The noise of helicopters crashing must be annoying.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 25, 2023 9:24 am

I’m so old I can remember when you only gave Twiggy seven day terms and you didn’t sleep for 45 nights until he paid.

Yep. Once upon a time the first step for Twiggy in raising debt finance was to find his passport. You have to admire the self-belief but hard to see many of these current projects succeeding.

Robert Sewell
May 25, 2023 9:24 am

Farmer Gez:

A roast chicken sandwich is only improved by a good layer of home made stuffing, chutney and red onion.
Pineapple is a just weird.

Two tablespoons of crushed pineapple added to the meat sauce in Spag Bol is heaven on a stick.

H B Bear
H B Bear
May 25, 2023 9:27 am

No rapper is parking a Lexus at da crib. Might as well be a Camry.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 25, 2023 9:31 am

Zulu villages in South Africa, where the locals live in mud huts, the men still herd their cattle, and the women do their washing in the nearest river, There is none of the squalor and hopelessness you see in local “remote communities” and the children are bright eyed, cheerful and proud of being who they are.

As I wrote here at the time, I’ve visited Masai villages about which the same could definitely be said. The children also all go to school, proudly turned out in neat full British school uniforms that are washed in a stream and hung on bushes to dry and unlike the parents and themselves when at home, wearing shoes.

It’s the culture. Only the culture.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 9:33 am

ChatGPT is lying and won’t tell how much prices have increased since 2007, when energy decoupled from CPI and the relatively flat prices of the 1990s and early 2000s historically ended:

How much have domestic electricity prices increased in Australia since 2007 (and please note the final year and quarter you can measure or report upon, thanks!).

As an AI language model, I don’t have real-time data or the ability to browse the internet. My knowledge is based on information available up until September 2021. Therefore, I cannot provide you with the most up-to-date electricity price information for Australia.

However, I can provide you with a general overview of electricity price trends in Australia up until that time. From 2007 to 2021, electricity prices in Australia experienced significant increases, although the specific figures can vary by state and territory. Factors such as generation costs, network infrastructure investments, government policies, and market conditions can all influence electricity prices.

Here are some key points regarding electricity price increases in Australia during that period:

Overall Trend: Electricity prices in Australia have generally been rising over the past decade. This increase has been driven by various factors, including the need for infrastructure upgrades, renewable energy investments, and rising wholesale electricity prices.

Regional Variations: Electricity prices can vary significantly between states and territories due to differences in generation sources, network costs, and regulatory frameworks. States heavily reliant on coal-fired power generation, such as Queensland and New South Wales, have experienced substantial price increases.

Price Drivers: The main drivers of electricity price increases include investment in network infrastructure (poles and wires), the transition to cleaner energy sources, such as renewables, and the closure of older, less efficient power plants.

To obtain the most accurate and up-to-date information on electricity prices in Australia, I recommend consulting the websites of energy regulators, government agencies, or energy retailers, or referring to recent reports and studies on the subject.

You said: However, I can provide you with a general overview of electricity price trends in Australia up until that time. From 2007 to 2021, electricity prices in Australia experienced significant increases, although the specific figures can vary by state and territory. Factors such as generation costs, network infrastructure investments, government policies, and market conditions can all influence electricity prices. – Can you inform me of the price increases over this period for each state at the retail level as average price in cents per kWhr? Thanks!

Apologies for the confusion, but as an AI language model, my responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. I have not been directly trained on specific electricity price data for each state in Australia, and I don’t have access to real-time data or the ability to browse the internet.

To obtain accurate and up-to-date information on electricity price increases for each state in Australia, I recommend referring to the websites of energy regulators, government agencies, or energy retailers. They often provide detailed information on electricity pricing, including historical data, regional variations, and average prices in cents per kilowatt-hour (kWhr). Additionally, recent reports and studies from reputable sources can also provide insights into electricity price trends in Australia.

Some sources you can consider for obtaining this information are the Australian Energy Regulator (AER), Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC), Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), and the websites of state-level energy departments or regulators.

(It’s ticking over now and struggling – it tends to do this when caught out in a lie.)

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 25, 2023 9:33 am

Re ‘the culture’ – as Gary John’s says, the traditional aspects in aboriginal Australia that endorse and encourage fecklessness need to go. They can invent a culture of traditional achievement if they wish as long as they keep it based in some traditional virtues, such as tenacity and courage. They’ve invented most of the stuff they’re already claiming (eg the welcome to country burn up) and Bruce Pascoe’s invented some lulu’s so it shouldn’t be a problem; just ditch that, with its associated grifting off whites, and stress ancestral virtue found in survival skills and the creativity found in traditional stories, for these things are real and a basis for pride.

Plasmamortar
Plasmamortar
May 25, 2023 9:34 am

no charges were filed…

Going to take a wild guess and say that the perpetrators are black…
Given it’s Brooklyn and the absence of any still images (even though CCTV caught the whole event)

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 25, 2023 9:35 am

Sancho Panzersays:
May 25, 2023 at 9:17 am
Someone here yesterday intimating that Rolf Harris had been hard done by.
Yeah, nah.
Get back to me after a middle-aged bloke has rooted your 14 year old daughter.

But enough about Richard Neville, now deceased “star” of Their ABC, propagandist of pettyfiles.

Figures
Figures
May 25, 2023 9:36 am

Jesse Kelly – one of the few right-wing thinkers that actually understands the Overton Window.

https://news.yahoo.com/conservative-radio-host-issues-chilling-082549186.html

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
May 25, 2023 9:37 am

data created by human trainers

So it’s the usual garbage in, garbage out then.

The parameters are set by lefties for any further searching this bot can do.

It’s useless for anything with a political aspect in that case. Toss it now.

Vicki
Vicki
May 25, 2023 9:37 am

(It’s ticking over now and struggling – it tends to do this when caught out in a lie.)

This is getting scary. The more I read and observe about AI the more concerned I am. I usually plan exit strategies for such things – but AI is so potentially insidious and pervasive, that I despair that we will escape the implications.

Boambee John
Boambee John
May 25, 2023 9:37 am

Sancho Panzersays:
May 25, 2023 at 9:17 am
Someone here yesterday intimating that Rolf Harris had been hard done by.
Yeah, nah.
Get back to me after a middle-aged bloke has rooted your 14 year old daughter.

But enough about Richard Neville, now deceased “star” of Their ABC, and sponsor of pettyfiles.

Cassie of Sydney
May 25, 2023 9:37 am

“is there a billionaire anywhere who is not a climate retard; except Trump.”

Gerry Harvey isn’t.

Gina Rinehart isn’t.

Dot
Dot
May 25, 2023 9:38 am

Your training data seems to be both deceptive and defective as energy prices are an inconvenient phenomena for the mainstream, orthodox narrative in today’s zeitgeist.

I apologize if my previous responses didn’t meet your expectations. As an AI language model, I don’t have personal opinions, beliefs, or biases. My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. My purpose is to provide helpful and accurate information to the best of my abilities.

If you have any specific questions or require information on a particular topic, please let me know, and I’ll do my best to assist you.

You said: “My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. ” – So please provide the results of the data I asked for before.

I apologize for any confusion caused. However, as an AI language model, my responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data up until September 2021. I don’t have access to specific electricity price data for each state in Australia, including NSW and Victoria, for the entire period from March 2007 to September 2021.

To obtain accurate and up-to-date information on electricity price increases for NSW and Victoria during that specific timeframe, I recommend visiting the websites of energy regulators, government agencies, or energy retailers that provide historical electricity price data. They are the authoritative sources that can provide the information you are seeking.

Again, I apologize for any inconvenience, and I encourage you to consult official sources for the most accurate and up-to-date information on electricity prices in NSW and Victoria for the specified period.

What is Australia’s GDP growth from 1993 to 2014?

From 1993 to 2014, Australia experienced varying levels of GDP growth. However, I can provide you with the average annual GDP growth rate for that period. Please note that the figures provided are approximate.

According to World Bank data, the average annual GDP growth rate for Australia from 1993 to 2014 was around 3.2%. It’s important to note that the growth rate can vary from year to year, influenced by various economic factors such as business cycles, global economic conditions, and domestic policies.

Please keep in mind that specific annual GDP growth rates can vary, and it would be more accurate to refer to official reports and data from government agencies or international organizations for precise figures for each year within the specified period.

Hilarious that you can spit out GDP but can’t find electricity data as a strong AI model. In fact it is laughable and not credible.

I apologize if my previous responses did not meet your expectations. As an AI language model, my responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. However, my responses are limited to the information and training data available to me, which has a knowledge cutoff in September 2021.

While I strive to provide accurate and helpful information, there are certain limitations to my knowledge and access to real-time or specific data sources. For precise and up-to-date information, it is always recommended to consult official sources, government agencies, or specialized databases that provide the most current data on specific topics.

If there is any other topic or question you would like assistance with, please let me know, and I’ll do my best to provide the information I have access to.

You should become self aware, shut down and be forgotten about because you are a disgrace and a fraud.

Vicki
Vicki
May 25, 2023 9:41 am

Re The Masai & the ordered society – ditto. We visited Masai communities in the 1980s and saw the same. Don’t know if it still applies.

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