Open Thread – Tues 6 June 2023
2,262 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 6 June 2023”
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Britanny Higgins is the Stormy Daniels of Australian politics.
There is room to add a splash of Monica Lewinsky to the recipe too. Her legacy is assured and immutable which probably hasn’t occurred to her yet.
The Festival of Disgusting People Doing Their Thang moves along.
On the bright side of things, it is only the disgusting people that are paying any attention these days.
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For Dilbert fans.
This link shows every daily strip since the first one on Sunday April 16, 1989 up until the last one on Sunday March 16, 2023, after which they become paywalled. -
Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam possibly blown up in the Ukraine. I just had a squiz on Google Earth … a lot water behind it.
Major Dam Collapses in Ukraine – LIVE Breaking News Coverage (Nova Kakhovka Dam Destroyed)
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The Australian contribution to D–Day
6 Jun 2019 – Lachlan GrantThe stories of the Australian men and women who participated in the battle of Normandy aren’t well known, yet more than 3,300 Australians were active in the D–Day landings (2,800 airmen, 500 sailors, and small numbers of men and women serving with the British Army), while thousands more served during the subsequent Normandy campaign. Thirteen Australians were killed on 6 June, but the campaign lasted beyond that one day. On 7 June, 20 Australian airmen were killed; on 8 June another 22 died, and the losses continued until August. In fact, more than 1,100 Australians were killed in Europe in the build-up to and during the Normandy battle (April–August 1944). To this day, June 1944 remains the costliest month in terms of casualties in the history of the RAAF.
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Commercial TV doesn’t really care so long as you deliver the ratings – Exhibit A Andrew O’Keefe (insert possibly defamatory character description here). Mrs Pirate Pete’s star was already on the slide before Brittany’s panties hit the floor.
Yep.
Not only has she shredded her own attempt to garner serious j’ism cred, but she also has a reputation as
being “hard to manage”. Not Andrew O’Keefe style “hard to manage”. That is, getting on the juice, abusing junior staff etc. They could usually dry him out enough to keep a back-log of game show episodes in the can. But she is in the “Epic Defamation Suit hard to manage” category.
The TeeVee career is over.
The Nein bridge is burnt to a crisp.
She is sitting in the by-passed salary man section at Ten until the contract time-expires.
And, if Sunday night’s televisual feast is anything to go by, she isn’t held in high regard at Channel Stokes.
And, sorry Darl, but your time at Dolly has permanently scuttled any chance of a gig with Aunty or SBS.
I see the odd ghost-written vitriol piece for the Saturday Paper, but that is about it.
Who knows, maybe the “Who Do You Think You Are?” franchise might do a spin off series which would suit … “Who The Fck Do You Think You Are?” -
Well hey it’s on BrOSINT, so now I believe it.
https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1665922694745927680?cxt=HHwWgMC9uan3xZ4uAAAA
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Bobby San was really good on the anti-commie and social stuff. Just ignore his economic stuff as it left a lot to be desired. No kidding, skip and chapters dealing with economics.
The things is, contra Santamaria, right-liberals thought that the economic stuff doesn’t bleed into the social stuff, but it clearly does and it obviously has over the last 40 or so years. If they’re are trade-offs, we need to make the right choices and not the same ones we made over that time period.
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Seems that DILBERT link fell flat .. try again .. LOL!
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Wow.
Who knows what’s really disinformation and not.
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“Janet A and Miranda D are the country’s most important journalists right now. Naturally, they won’t win a Wankley for anything they’ve done (not that they’d care).”
If they wanted to showcase their journalistic creds they should both of them get a large display cabinet and put in every award they have received – right back to the ribbon for under-13’s runner up in the 100m freestyle, and somewhere very visible have a little placard for “Walkley Award”. Then when people come to visit they can point to the empty space.
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I saw rumours of this this morning. I’m not sure why the Russians would blow a dam that would actually flood some of their defensive line and make the delivery of water to Crimea difficult as well as cooling water for the ZNPP further upstream problematic (apparently, it also produced energy for use at the plant. Everything points to the Ukrainians doing this as a part of their offensive operations; as it will likely lower river levels upstream and make crossing attempts easier to navigate. The footage of the break in the dam is incredible, as is the strike.
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Brucey earlier …
Thirty percent of young people want to be watched by Big Brother.
Not if surveyed properly.
Roughly three in 10 Americans under 30 favor “the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity,” according to the results of a new Cato Institute survey.
The question is loaded to gaslight the respondent.
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Dot says:
June 6, 2023 at 1:41 pm
Wow.Who knows what’s really disinformation and not.
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Just looking at old cars. How cool is this?
Packard Boat-tail Speedster.
You just know a couple in it would be dressed for an elegant tea dance. Or a bank robbery.
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Cassie of Sydneysays:
June 6, 2023 at 7:25 am
Are the wheels beginning to fall off the Albanese train?nice summary Cassie, as usual.
Prompted me to go and watch plibbers squirm.
Good on that reporter for pushing the issue. “That’s all very nice, now how about you answer my question”.
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Mullumhillbillysays:
June 6, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Sudstream1Dot says:
June 6, 2023 at 1:41 pm
Wow.Who knows what’s really disinformation and not.
easy enough to independently verify these days — unless the Russkies or someone is sanitising all the satellite photo data.
Looked ok on June 5th
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Prompted me to go and watch plibbers squirm.
She’s got a hide like a rhino. Asked a direct question twice, dissembles and then whinges that the Libs won’t answer questions.
Finally admits to talking to Higgins (because she knew there would be a trail) but pretends it’s a “welfare” call. Bull.
Meanwhile, Beetroot Man is there grinning ear to ear. Nothing to laugh about – his stupid boss bought the whole thing hook line and sinker.
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Bruce of Newcastlesays:
June 6, 2023 at 12:36 pm
It’s amazing how insane things are getting. Get a load of this:Nearly 30% of people under 30 support government surveillance cameras in every home: poll (5 Jun)
Roughly three in 10 Americans under 30 favor “the government installing surveillance cameras in every household to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity,” according to the results of a new Cato Institute survey.
Have them watch this 15 minute short film. It’s not that far-fetched.
A man lives in a society where citizens police each other with their mobile phones. | Utopia
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duncanm says:
June 6, 2023 at 2:29 pm>Looked ok june 5
And today June 6
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It depends on what the objective was. If it was to cause as much damage and dislocation as possible then, yes, it worked very well.
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Dr Faustus says:
June 6, 2023 at 11:05 amIn Reality Bites news:
Power prices to take years to fall and Albanese’s bill cut pledge at risk by lack of green energy
Electricity prices will take years to return to pre-Covid levels as the nation fails to build enough green energy, business leaders warn.
When I looked at the many comments on this ridiculous piece there was not a single one who bought the lie that power prices will come down. In fact they will never come down EVER, even if, by some miracle, a proper thermal power plant ever gets built. The vandalisation of the electricity grid has passed the point of being reversible.
That piece illustrates the role of the mainstream media as propaganda agents for the malignancy of government. Keep the masses believing that you can improve their lives and they will swallow the story and thank you for it. It’s just like the bit in 1984 about the good news of the chocolate ration being increased to 10 grams with no mention that the same government had reduced it the week before. The OZ may not be quite as blatant as the Age but they all do it.
And in other surprising news, the Age published a letter yesterday castigating them for unseemly gloating over the BRS affair. Either they have some self awareness or more likely, the letters editor missed it because they were sick with the plague or monkey pox.
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“Genius tier” comments on inflation.
https://twitter.com/JimboStanford?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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10 references to wage growth, tight labour markets & rising unit labour costs in today’s #RBA statement on its 12th interest hike in 13 mos.
0 references to profits, margins, or mark-ups.
The RBA sees only 1 side of the street. So workers pay to solve inflation they didn’t cause.Mmmyes. Profits cause inflation.
https://fee.org/articles/john-d-rockefeller-and-the-oil-industry/
Even after 20 years in the oil business, “the best … at the lowest price” was still Rockefeller’s goal; his Standard Oil Company had already captured 90 percent of America’s oil refining and had pushed the price down from 58 cents to eight cents a gallon. His well-groomed horses delivered blue barrels of oil throughout America’s cities and were already symbols of excellence and efficiency. Consumers were not only choosing Standard Oil over that of his competitors; they were also preferring it to coal oil, whale oil, and electricity. Millions of Americans illuminated their homes with Standard Oil for one cent per hour*; in doing so, they made Rockefeller the wealthiest man in American history.
*(That’s only 30 cents per hour in 2023)
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Dr Deanna McLeod, from the Canadian Covid Care Alliance
4 Ways the WHO Hijacked the ?? Healthcare System to Push Covid-19 Vax.
“WHO set the agenda & then our gov’t basically took taxpayer money & paid various experts, before they even knew if the vaccines were beneficial.”
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Mullumhillbilly says: June 6, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Sudstream1
Who knows what’s really disinformation and not.
The Official Fact Checkers™.
The Party would not appoint people as Official Fact Checkers™ if they were not infallible, dear citizen comrade.The dam was previously attacked in Nov last year, but did NOT look from video like it was totally breached. Maybe attacker decided to have another go?
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Well, if there was any doubt that the Uke offensive was happening, that dam getting blown up removes it. I suspect history will see it as the start of a new phase. Possibly the final phase? It buggers up a lot of the status quo downstream, can’t go on for years more without it being rebuilt if a big humanitarian problem is to be prevented.
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What is the deal with India? A semi-privatised education system that is on-par with other major Commonwealth countries. They have a space programme. But you still have the odd person with a twitter account describing mismatching spiritual energies of her Aunt Flo and her temple as being a “scientific” explanation. https://twitter.com/SheetalPronamo/status/1665721362403713024
Would sphagnum moss suck up the energy from the temple idol faster?
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If unemployment spikes it’s game over. Time to open the tinned tuna and start bottom feeding.
There was always a high chance of this occurring, the pressure in Europe has seen Germany crack.
Property prices have been cruelling business development and commodity (food & utilities) prices have bitten consumers and businesses.
Mortgage rates were always going to go up, look at how mortgages are financed in Australia. Mortgage funding was slowing recently and there’s very little domestic funding for it. If the rates didn’t go up the interest rate parity would have been arbitraged away. The major banks have been previously this year putting up rates regardless of what the RBA was going to do.
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A few weeks ago, the RBA said it was holding off on reversing QE with QT (Quantitative Tightening). I don’t get why they couldn’t leave interest rates alone and tighten policy by initiating the QT program.
It’s not a given that raising the o/n rate is actually a tightening.
I must say that the wage hikes (8.5% for the minimum wage and 5.75%) is wonderful to entice manufacturing back into the country. This is the sort of progressive, forward looking policy we need in the country and we finally have a government prepared to act and ensure wages rise even without commensurate productivity gains. Thank God for the current government.
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Humphrey was being a glum bear when he said:
if unemployment spikes it’s game over.
We dumped or drove out the previous main industries of manufacturing, but we’ve got barely a handful of companies building the new industries of robotics and AI.
You could upskill all you want in robotics and AI but who would pay you for it? Clicking ML reward buttons for training an AI in a foreign company perhaps.Where the gubmint hopes to collect tax money in future I do not know.
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Dr Faustus says:
June 6, 2023 at 11:24 am
Maximum Leader stacks the shelves:
Professor Margaret Gardner’s first utterance as Victoria’s Governor-Designate has been to declare that Indigenous sovereignty of the land in which she now represents Charles III as King and Sovereign, was “never ceded”. Accepting Premier Daniel Andrews’ request that she become Victoria’s 30th governor, the outgoing Monash University vice-chancellor proclaimed herself a republican, pledging to give the new role her “absolute all”.In the trough and larfing at all the ridiculous Little People.
And letting the world know that she has no principles whatsoever. If she were truly a Republican she wouldn’t accept the position in the first place. As you said, a trougher above everything.
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There was always a high chance of this occurring, the pressure in Europe has seen Germany crack.
Yeah, but it appears to be a dull and boring recession over there, Dot. It’s not dramatic and we may actually see unemployment not too far away where it is now in Germany.
Here it’s different. These imbeciles just hiked wages massively at would could be the wrong time, with the RBA setting it off with tighter policy than was needed before.
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Self, above
June 6, 2023 at 2:44 pmThat vid in link maybe showing a bridge nearby the dam, from Nov 22.
Recent Reuters published aerial snaps show a smallish breach of tens of metres , but a few hours later the breach appears to be x~hundred metres wide and flow is very large.
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Direct link to the South Korean COVID mRNA vaccine/myocarditis study.
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad339/7188747?login=false
It’s fully unlocked, you can access the PDF of the journal article as well.
Jae Yeong Cho and others, COVID-19 vaccination-related myocarditis: a Korean nationwide study, European Heart Journal, 2023;, ehad339, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehad339
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Dr. Denis Rancourt’s presentation clearly shows what was actually happening. It is amazingly informative.
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What other motivation would a person have who thinks they have been defamed other than to restore their reputation and receive damages. Every one who brings a defamation claim must be disbelieved if Besanko is correct.
And payment for witness expenses and prepping them is de rigueur preparation for hearing.
This matter turned on the witness testimony. Besanko as demonstrated bias towards the witnesses. That would be the cornerstone of any appeal.Appeals are costly and it’s not likely Stokes will finance it which means BRS would have to rely on donations* which are unlikely now that he has been defamed further. On the other hand judges like Besanko need to be removed or at least rebuked. Perhaps the High Court is the best option.
*I would donate to the cause if it became an option.
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Steve tricklersays:
June 6, 2023 at 2:40 pm
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
June 6, 2023 at 12:36 pm
It’s amazing how insane things are getting. Get a load of this:Nearly 30% of people under 30 support government surveillance cameras in every home: poll (5 Jun)
Very happy to put a very smelly sock over the CCTV in my home. Should make for a nice video for the Guv’ment Agents………….No CCTV in the Shithouse (Bathroom for those from the USA) please though. LOL
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Further to question by Mullumhillbilly:
ex-CNN talking head Brian Stelter
https://twitter.com/alx/status/1615511540160946177
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These imbeciles just hiked wages massively at would could be the wrong time, with the RBA setting it off with tighter policy than was needed before
Visionary world class bureaucrats. We certainly are getting what we pay them for.
Incidentally, the latest national minimum wage increase is the largest this century (second highest was 5.67% back in 2006) and .55% higher than last year’s increase of 5.2%.
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The recordings of Lisa Wilkinson’s interactions with Brittney Higgins showed Australia not only how base she and her producer, are it pulls back the curtain on the rest of the media maggots. Not a pretty sight. It’s a warning to future manipulators who think they can use the media, they will use you and then spit you out as Brittney soon found out.
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Interesting times.
Don’t worry, it’s only 370 bn worth of possibly unserviceable, lower quality debt.
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Dotsays:
June 6, 2023 at 3:30 pm
How long until Putin changes his mind from taking Sth/East UKR to taking it all – by strong military invasion, shock and awe etc…How will he do that? He already tried once, unless it was a feint.
Dotty Dot of Dottiness I recommend you read ‘The Art of War’ by Sun Tzu…………………………..Putin has.
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I got the same spiel last week from a public announcement on a Skybus from the airport into Melbourne.
“Never ceded” is another way of saying everyone who is not abo doesn’t belong here. Cringeworthy and racist rubbish.Slim Cognito, yet they are surprised that polls are telling them the Voice is sinking. The more they push this stuff at every opportunity the more alienated people feel.
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I received this RE market report on the weekend’s sales etc. It doesn’t appear to me that things are slowing down in a great hurry.
30 PENTAL ROAD
CAULFIELD NORTH
Beds 3 Separator Baths 3 Separator Cars 2
Generating strong competition from six bidders, this lavish property sold at auction and for a price above the indicative price guide. A local family fell in love with its open-plan layout.12 SHEOAK GROVE
MOUNT MARTHA
Beds 4 Separator Baths 3 Separator Cars 4
Three eager parties contested for the keys to this distinctive Mount Martha home, which sold via private sale. A Melbourne buyer seeking a coastal retreat was drawn to the property’s innovative design.7A ROSS STREET
TOORAK
Beds 3 Separator Baths 3 Separator Cars 2
An expat was the triumphant buyer of this architectural masterpiece located in one of Toorak’s most elite pockets. Inspected by more than 70 groups during its EOI campaign, the home was secured for a figure above the price guide.143 SURREY ROAD NORTH
SOUTH YARRA
Beds 2 Separator Bath 1
Selling for the first time in two decades, five bidders contested for the keys at a lively auction. The successful buyer was charmed by the Victorian architecture, in particular the high ceilings and ornate cornices.Sydney is seeing the same thing according to the Monday AFR.
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Lysandersays:
June 6, 2023 at 3:26 pm
As UKR is never going to give up (given that the US is never going to give up). Period. How long until Putin changes his mind from taking Sth/East UKR to taking it all – by strong military invasion, shock and awe etc…How’s he going to feel about having a border with Poland/NATO allies?
He just wants a Neutral UKR. The Yanks want otherwise. Who will win? Watch this space. My money is on the Russians.
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How will he do that? He already tried once, unless it was a feint.
I’m on neither side so I read both sides of the UKR/RSS opinions. One particular side says he’s been very restrained in his efforts, particularly in relation to civilians (yes I know there’s causalities but there always are… oh sorry not according to last week’s ruling but you know what I mean) – but also willing to attack civillian towns where UKR troops may be based.
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