Open Thread – Weekend 27 May 2023
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Dr Malhotra on Outsiders excellent.
Earlier this week, Greg Hunt out and about. -
Had to post this. The same city that banned trans fats and big cups of soda!
According To The Science™ Being Fat As F*ck Is Not Unhealthy…
Memology 102
And Mayor Eric Adams supports this.
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Not sure the Daily Mail WhatsApp really takes us any further ( in typical Daily Mail style). Moller had already given evidence Britt’s notes from the loony bin had been included in an affidavit in error, it was know numerous j’ismists were offered the story with only Maiden and Mrs Pirate Pete taking it up, Drumgold was doing his own media as was Brittany with whichever mesomorph was serving as the current boyfriend.
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Razey
Watch this.
LFTR in 5 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
A short video of Kirk Sorensen taking us through the benefits of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, a revolutionary liquid reactor that runs not on uranium, but thorium. These work and have been built before. Search for either LFTRs or Molten Salt Reactors (MSR).
FAQ
The main downsides/negatives to the LFTR are technology, politics, corrosion and the general public being scared of nuclear radiation. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors were created 50 years ago by an American chap named Alvin Weinberg, but the American Government realised you can’t weaponise the by-products and so they weren’t interested.Another point, yes it WAS corrosive, but these tests of this reactor were 50 years ago, our technology has definitely improved since then so a leap to create this reactor shouldn’t be too hard.
And nuclear fear is extremely common in the average person, rather irrational though it may be. More people have died from fossil fuels and even hydroelectric power than nuclear power.
No, it would not collapse the economy (yes, people actually ask this question)… just like the use of uranium reactors didn’t… neither did coal… This is because you wouldn’t have an instant transition from coal… oil… everything else to thorium. We could not do that. Simply due to the engineering. Give it 50 years we might be using thorium instead of coal/oil (too late in terms of global warming, but that’s another debate completely), but we certainly won’t destroy the earth’s economy. Duh.
And yes he said we’d never run out. Not strictly true… bloody sceptics … LFTRs can harness 3.5 million Kwh per Kg of thorium! 70 times greater than uranium, 10,000 greater than oil… and there is over 2.6 million tonnes of it on earth… Anyone with a calculator, or a brain, will understand that is a lot of energy!!
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Miltonf says:
May 28, 2023 at 9:14 amTingle eh? These meja people are just so nasty. What’s their problem?
They fervently believe they control the lens between the riff-raff (everyone apart from themselves) and the world; that they have the keys/code to switch that lens from opaque to translucent (but never transparent). Without the meja, the riff-raff would exist in a world of perpetual darkness; devouring each other in their ignorance. The meja is THE LIGHT. Praise the meja!
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There’s some sort of morning TV scandal in the UK.
Nobody who mattered thought some kid from a school excursion ending up as
the totes-not-gay-cos-he’s-happily-married Talent’s personal Ass.Prod.
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Minsays:
May 28, 2023 at 10:35 am
Jane Fonda can’t move her face these days and always looks startled . That caused by climate change ? Wonder how much fossil fuel does it take to look like thst . When her face was pulled up must have pushed her brains out.She is a full blown psychopath. Check out her body language here … she wasn’t joking as suggested by that equally vile creature on the left of screen- Joy Behar. The View should have been pulled of air the years ago.
O:59
UNDER INVESTIGATION Activist Actress Jane Fonda Calls for Murder of Pro-Life Politicians on The View
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Thorpe to lodge human rights claim against Greens
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has revealed she will lodge a claim in the Australian Human Rights Commission against the Greens over allegations she was subjected to racism in her former party.
It comes after Senator Thorpe accused Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young of racism during a fiery exchange in Senate estimates this week while the Greens Senator was questioning the ABC’s managing director David Anderson and ABC News Director Justin Stevens over the national broadcaster’s handling of Stan Grant’s exit from Q+A over racist allegations.
Senator Thorpe on Sunday said she has received legal advice that she had enough grounds for a case against the Greens but would leave it for her lawyers to comment further.
She suggested national bodies like the ABC were founded on institutional racism and that the nation needed to work harder to ensure racism was stamped out in all workplaces.
“I’ll leave that up to my lawyers and the Human Rights Commission to… ..that’s a conversation I need to have with them,” Senator Thorpe told the ABC. “I don’t want to say any further. But, yes, I’ve experienced racism all my life in every workplace, and the Greens were no different.
“I just want racism stamped out. We see, you know, the ABC … it’s called institutional racism. It’s the … it’s the foundation of these institutions that are racist, that allow racism to occur.
“I think we all need to look at ourselves and eradicate that and make our workplaces safer.”
The Greens have been contacted for comment.
Oz
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“I did have a consensual on-off relationship with a younger male colleague,” Schofield said in a statement to the Daily Mail.
“That relationship was unwise, but not illegal. It is now over. When I chose to come out I did so entirely for my own wellbeing. Nobody ‘forced’ me out.”
Who cares? TV is becoming irrelevant anyway.
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So why doesn’t Downer set the record straight?
Dunno. But from what I heard (and I make no claims to infallibility) he met with Don Jr and said the Russians said they had dirt on Hillary if Trump wanted it. He wasn’t even encouraging – just passing on a message. Trump quite wisely passed on it and that was that.
Later when the gossip was swirling about Downer (who would not have known what the foundations of the rumours were) went the US embassy and told them about his conversation because it might have been relevant.
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In July 2000, Allen Appo of Bundaberg, Queensland, was charged in the Townsville Magistrates Court with a breach of the Fisheries Act by illegally catching undersized and female mud crabs. He was represented by Townsville Aboriginal Legal Aid who argued that, because Appo was Aboriginal, fishing restrictions did not apply to him.
However, a cousin of his, who was the daughter of an Aboriginal man, told Fisheries officers that Appo was not of Aboriginal descent and that his family heritage was purely Sri Lankan. She complained that the 66-year-old Appo and more than 100 members of his extended family had been practising the deception for more than thirty years.
In that time, they had received millions of dollars worth of benefits, including housing loans, business loans, study grants, employment preferences and legal assistance. Some operated indigenous cultural schools for tourists and sold their artworks commercially. Other family members had taken advantage of indigenous preference for government jobs and university appointments. No one in authority had ever questioned their rights to these benefits. The colour of their skin was all it took to confirm them.
Queensland Department of Primary Industries legal officers finally made a genealogical study of the family and presented to the court generations of birth, death and marriage certificates showing Appo’s heritage was entirely Sinhalese. Appo was fined on the illegal fishing charge but appealed the magistrate’s decision. He was audacious enough to persuade Aboriginal Legal Aid to represent him again, but the local District Court rejected the appeal.[1]
In other words, the much publicised recent scandal of Bruce Pascoe’s fraudulent claim to be an Aboriginal man, is nothing new or unique. Pascoe’s forbears are all English, mainly from Cornwall, and his genealogy contains no Aboriginal ancestry at all. However, this has not concerned the judges of state Premiers’ lucrative literary prizes supposedly reserved for indigenous writers, or the academic committee at the University of Melbourne who disregarded Pascoe’s lack of any postgraduate qualifications or contributions to academic journals and appointed him Enterprise Professor in Indigenous Agriculture. Given the success that bogus Aborigines like Pascoe and Appo have long enjoyed there should be little doubt they will continue to do so, especially if the Australian populace is foolish enough to support the new Labor government’s proposed referendum to give Aboriginal people their own platform in our Constitution.
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The WhatsApp exchange does suggest they all see themselves as Woodward and Bernstein types. The reality is most are more like this:
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Oh no. No, no no (the Tele):
A year after it was first mooted, Australia is set to get its own version of the BBC comedy hit The Office.
Casting has been finalised for the program, which is set to go into production in Sydney in future months after a long and unexplained delay.
Oh my wordy lordy no:
While industry sources have confirmed the role will be played by a female comedy star
Please stop.
they last week ruled out big-name Australian female comedians Magda Szubanski, Celia Pacquola, Kitty Flanagan and Judith Lucy for the lead in the mockumentary.
That’s like getting smacked in the nuts with an 8kg sledgehammer instead of a 12kg one.
Producers are understood to have looked offshore instead, to New Zealand, for the female lead who will play the deluded and flawed middle manager of a fictional paper company.
Right. That’s it. Hopefully there’s a seat on that rowboat to Japan.
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This is late but on the subject of Jeep problems:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!ApQygSjTEHVfnCw8GAxNzY4LcXlR?e=wE8zda -
We’ve had 20mm in the last four days that was sorely needed. Whilst we have excellent sub-soil moisture, it was just out of reach for newly planted crops and they were struggling to emerge or once out were being dry frosted to a purple colour.
Only lentils to sow now. They are a spring growing plants that can easily suffer cold damage if they flower and seed too early in the season. -
memsays:
May 28, 2023 at 7:28 am
Was at lunch yesterday where the issue of future power sources was discussed. According to some, hydrogen power will be the go to fuel for cars. I expressed my reservations it could be commercially viable given the properties of the gas, but then wake to reading this today. Am I wrong?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/05/27/24-hours-of-le-mans-race-to-allow-hydrogen-powered-cars/Lots of explosions heading our way!
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Crossie and Lode.
So why doesn’t Downer set the record straight? Rowan said that he refused the Outsiders’ invitation to respond.
On the contrary, Dolly Downer has been interviewed and seemed jolly proud of his involvement. Not a hint of “misquoted” or “exaggerated”.
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I hope many Cats viewed Outsiders this morning & saw the excellent interview with British cardiologist Dr. Assem Malhotra on the Covid missteps by government.
Like many others, Malhotra initially accepted the narrative that the pharmaceutical companies had produced, in record time, effective vaccines to combat Covid. It was when his doctor father, whose cardiac health was previously excellent, died suddenly of cardiac arrest after an mRNA vaccination, that he began to reexamine the efficacy of the claims for the safety of the vaccines.
He is currently touring Australia, given lectures in most capital cities. We were unfortunately unable to hear him talk last night at a venue in Vineyard, NSW.
As Malhotra is also a vocal critic of Statins, & believes that pharmaceutical companies have not produced acceptable proof of their value in treating heart disease, I am surprised he did not initially question the depth and length of trials of the mRNA drugs.
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A quick run through the Gateway Pundit article titles reveals how much trouble USA is in.
Highlights being Kamala speaking at Westpoint about greatest challenge being climate change. Lucky they don’t have to worry about China then.
Or the Target sponsored organisation that gives out “fisting” kits to kids !
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Later when the gossip was swirling about Downer (who would not have known what the foundations of the rumours were) went the US embassy and told them about his conversation because it might have been relevant.
I was surprised that Rowan and the panel (in this morning’s interview with the US official) did not inquire of the US official why such a junior attache such as him would be asked to attend a personal meeting with the Australian High Commissioner.
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Chris – the cost of labour is so high these days its only worth owning an old car if you know how to fix it yourself.
duncanm, SO true.
I started doing my own oil changes, as the main maintenance cost is services these days. I try to fix stuff, but I have a moderate success rate. So moderate indeed that when I was a motorcyclist my three worst bingles were at root caused by not knowing what I was doing mechanically.
Remembering my friend and I, scraping along the bitumen at 100km/hr because of my spanner work keeps me very humble. -
As if this wasn’t going to happen. However, this time it’s a little different as the GOP gave Hiden the blueprint of what they wanted or else.
The White House and House Republicans have reached an agreement in principle, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Saturday evening.
“We still have a lot of work to do. But I believe this is an agreement in principle that’s worthy of American people,” McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill.
“That’s historic reductions in spending, consequential reforms that will lift people out of poverty into the workforce, reign in government overreach. There are no new taxes, no new government programs. There’s a lot more within the bill. We still have more work to do tonight to finish all the writing of it,” he said.
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Iran Iraq war.
With extra Blue-on-Blue NBC action.Is that anything like Taliban vs Mullahs?
Taliban Attacks Iran Border Post – Multiple Troops Dead & Wounded (28 May)
Someone might ask Ms Thorpe which side she supports, it’d be fun to watch.
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JC, thanks for your tip a few weeks ago about the number of Aussies involved in proliferating corner-store coffee shops in NYC. A former AFL footballer with a business degree (forgotten his name) is having great success with a startup named Bluestone Lane, primarily out of NYC but now spreading throughout the USA.
Excellent story just featured on Sky’s Weekend Business (repeated at 4pm if you want to watch).
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A while back I dropped my OZ Online Paywallian subscription. Dropped into News.com.au to make up for it.
Wow.
The site appears to be 98% stories of the ‘One internet trick to lower your kidney fat’ clickbait school. If you don’t watch MAFS you wont have a clue what their stories are about.
Folks, the J-school work experience kiddies that do comment moderating and write story heads on weekends might be complete dills, but when news.com.au writers accept the job they must have their grey matter sucked out of their skulls by aliens. -
The Man Who Exposed The Crips, Bloods & CIA Connection to Crack Cocaine – Gary Webb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nG_4e39gL4
The War on Drugs is a f**king joke.
In 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of stories exposing the connection between the CIA and the crack cocaine that was being sold in South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s. These stories caused outrage everywhere, but the government denied the allegations and competing news outlets claimed the series was poorly written and contained false reports. But years later, it was revealed that the information written in Gary Webb’s series was true.
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US style drip filter coffee is invariably awful. Until the expresso coffee carts came along every conference I went to had this dreadful stuff stewing in jugs.
Gez, that’s why the Aussies are doing so well in NYC. Our love of real expresso coffee is the only thing in which we’re ahead of the Americans with the dishwater they’ve historically preferred.
I’m still puzzled about why street-corner expresso coffee took off in Australia before America when Italian immigration was as big in the USA as it was in Australia and WW2.
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said the Russians said they had dirt on Hillary if Trump wanted it.
No evidence of the Russians being involved. The rumour has something to do with a mysterious ‘Maltese professor’ Milfsud that cannot be found so it’s very likely this dirt was concocted by the Deep State in association with the Clinton gang.
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Dotsays:
May 28, 2023 at 9:54 am
Brittany Higgins: ‘Thank you again. Sending you the best for the coming budget week! Hope you are well x’Laura Tingle: ‘Thanks! I must confess I’m not looking forward to it…or the campaign. The past week of grubbiness over Kimberley Kitching has left me feeling quite ill.’
Political animals. Politics is all they care about.
Leftards have politics.
Non-leftards have lives.
Just sayin’.
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I’m still puzzled about why street-corner expresso coffee took off in Australia before America when Italian immigration was as big in the USA as it was in Australia and WW2.
Tom – I expect it was related to the American diner. Australian cafe food is virtually a cuisine in its own right. No surprise to see Starbucks fail here while keeping on in places like the UK and parts of Asia.
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Did a bit of research into petrol delivery after Nurse Betty Clouseau’s claim of being ripped off by certain truck stop types at the pump.
You might note when filling up a visible vapour escaping from the tank. We call this evaporation. If the filler cap is off for three minutes at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees you will lose approximately 0.2% of the volume (100 mls in 50 litres). If you fill up when the temperature is freezing, this is reduced to 0.05% (25 mls).
My advice?
Fill up at the coldest part of the day (usually 5:00 a.m.) and don’t have the filler cap off a second longer than absolutely necessary. -
Hydrogen at Le Mans eh.
Actually VERY interesting, I paid no attention ever the read a history of F1 rules. The innovation is unbelievable if you start off winning with a mighty motor and then they put in a maximum capacity of 370 ccs with emissions below detection.
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Dotsays:
May 28, 2023 at 12:08 pm
The Man Who Exposed The Crips, Bloods & CIA Connection to Crack Cocaine – Gary Webbhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nG_4e39gL4
The War on Drugs is a f**king joke.
In 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of stories exposing the connection between the CIA and the crack cocaine that was being sold in South Central Los Angeles during the 1980s. These stories caused outrage everywhere, but the government denied the allegations and competing news outlets claimed the series was poorly written and contained false reports. But years later, it was revealed that the information written in Gary Webb’s series was true.
There is a movie about that. Kill the Messenger. The war on drugs is the longest running war in recent history, has no resolution in sight, and has a negligible impact on drug availability. Those reports about a big bust impacting supply are rubbish. Strange how people believe the government propaganda about the war on drugs being efficacious.
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I’m still puzzled about why street-corner expresso coffee took off in Australia before America when Italian immigration was as big in the USA as it was in Australia and WW2.
Tom, there were diners and lot’s of them. They may have had cafes in places like Crooklyn early on, but I don’t know.
It’s just not Australians, but there are now Italian coffee shops in Manhattan. One hole in the wall joint we go to is owned by Aussies and they have a freaking rude Italian bitch taking orders. Lattes etc weren’t a big thing there in the 80s and 90s although people bought filtered coffee in the mornings. When I lived there folks would drink Colas in the freaking morning too. I’d almost dry retch at the site.
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Harpy Daniels drags US military recruitment challenge into the spotlight
Adam Creighton Follow @Adam_Creighton Adam Creighton
12:00AM May 27, 2023
26 CommentsThe US Navy suffered harsh criticism this month after Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley became one of five “digital ambassadors” for the service, launching a series of TikTok videos in which he appeared as his alter ego, drag queen Harpy Daniels, to encourage young Americans to join the service.
Republican senators, former marines and much of the American public were shocked that the navy employed drag queens, let alone endorsed them to boost recruitment, which is expected to fall 8000 short of its 38,000 target this year.
“We are concerned about both the promotion of a banned app and behaviour that many deem inappropriate in a professional workplace,” Republican senators shot off in a letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro.
It’s just the logical extension of the days of “Rum, sodomy and the lash.”
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I think they mean welcomed with open arms.
White House Caves to Anti-Israel Pressure on Anti-Semitism Rollout
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This seems to be a GOP civil war. The Republication Texas Congress voted to impeach a Republication Attorney General.
Donald Trump, Ted Cruz Speak Out Against Effort to Impeach Texas AG Ken Paxton
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I’ve never even heard of it.
Horrific footage shows devastation of Philadelphia’s ‘tranq’ epidemic
That discussion above about CIA involvement in drugs is no different to the FBI link to organised crime under J. Edgar Hoover. They were doing exactly what they were supposedly fighting against.
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BIG HARMA.
You get played while they get paid.And you wonder why these people want you hooked on meds for life.
Pharmaceutical and health insurance CEOs were among the highest-paid executives of the largest U.S. companies in 2022. Here’s the top 8.
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JCsays:
May 28, 2023 at 12:42 pm
Sancho Panzer says:
May 28, 2023 at 12:30 pmNo Wodney Woddenhead.
No Googlery.
It’s just not the same around here.
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Wodney violated his parole and he’s back in the slammer. This time around it’s another 4 years.Deliberate.
He was hoping to share a cell with Martin Armstrong.
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