Vickisays:
June 8, 2023 at 5:08 pm

They were masters of their own country – by which I mean the area that a clan group had occupied for a very long time. Whilst such associations, and the skills developed, may have declined since pre-Settlement, they continued to have the ability to read the landscape and relate to the countryside in ways that Europeans could not.

I don’t think anyone argues against that – they surely were masters of living off their lands… but to pretend they spent 65k years inventing anything is hogwash.

They couldn’t move beyond spears and thrown sticks. That’s stone-age tech.

They couldn’t move beyond spears and thrown sticks. That’s stone-age tech.

In a week or so I’ll be enjoying myself in Wales looking at some neolithic tombs, all aligned to the sunrise on a particular day of the year. Just remarkable.

My visit to Glastonbury to view the abbey and other sites will be after the solstice, thank goodness. Like the corpse in the ceiling, the whiff of hippies will have dispersed. I don’t want to stumble over a high as a kite body at Merlin’s Well.

Not going Greenland, calli?

From Courier Mail.

Brisbane shock jock Neil Breen’s replacement has been revealed as veteran journalist and media personality Peter Gleeson”

Zelensky, he’s not kosher. And he’s not popular in Israel.

What gives you the right to say whether a fellow of your religion is unclean? Are you quoting actual rabbis here, or is this your own Pharisee-style judgment?

Evidently, your feelings about anti-Semitism only extend to those whose politics you agree with. All the other Jews can die for all you care.

No northern lights in summer, bespoke. But definitely some wonderful natural beauty that compensates. If Cats and Dover can bear it, I will post a couple of little travelogues. If I bore, and I surely will, just scroll.

All the players were more than comfortable having a young man ruined and imprisoned for political gain.

The crowd of youngish drinkers in the bar that Friday night would have to be the most delusional bunch of disgusting operators this side of the used car yard in Black Stump. Each would be convinced of their own importance and their own smarts. Even the Liberals among them voted Labor or Green. They would be devoted to ‘shaping a narrative’ and making their boss look good because that’s why they’re there. Even now there will be young suits in Gallagher’s office and Albanese’s office working on a plan, ringing journos, planting stories and writing copy, rigging surveys to help deny, distract and contaminate Dutton. Lehrmann is nobody. Give me the man and they’ll give you the crime.

Gallagher is one of the nastier of the Labor women ….and there are some real nasties!!!

Pure distilled canbra- so of course.

So many of this toxic germalists seem to have BPD. They are genuinely horrible people.

The whole Higgins shitshow is yet another example of broken democracy. This whole ‘advisor’ thing is a sick joke.

Blak Greens

Sounds “off” to me.

Carpe, you may have typed some Anglo Saxon expletives, hence the moderation.

I don’t blame you given the circumstances.

Cohenite, it’s Lisa Wilkinson.

I disagree. She’s less an ingredient of the cauldron and more a stirrer thereof.

cohenitesays:
June 8, 2023 at 6:32 pm
The Amphibian should never, ever, grace our television sets again.

Who’s the amphibian?

Mrs Pyrat Pete.

That was Foxbody at 1:23 Cassie. I have been following C.L.’s thread closely.

I think they’re on the money there.

Nowhere do Aussie Aboriginals seem to have moved past stage 1 to further progression.

Even their near neighbors to the north got to Stage 2. For instance, they used rocks to mark land boundaries, built homes and planted gardens on their land. Eddie Mabo, champion, steps in here.

Also it was the Abbott smear redux. Because Elbow was such a doyen of marital harmony. And exotic therapies.

I fear Labor’s Blasted Heath is very crowded these days. I wouldn’t limit it to just three.

Times like this I miss the Deadman. He would enjoy it immensely.

Even in a third world country, the women in the village would have the poor mother lay down. They would give her their bed and sit by her side.

What sort of place has this country become?

Nowhere do Aussie Aboriginals seem to have moved past stage 1 to further progression.

They had a collectivist, authoritarian society. These are always hostile to innovation. If an individual does something creative, he or she gets no reward, benefits are shared out, with the old men getting most of them. The innovater soon learns that it wasn’t worth the effort, and the rest of the tribe also learns the same lesson.

As a way of freezing a culture, collectivist authoritarianism is unbeatable.

including apparently up twenty home invasions a week.

by people imported by canbra- they really hate us and I hate them

They have got to stop the nonsense meme of Higgins being an innocent victim of Liars conspiracies.
She was front and centre.
If the SFL don’t enunciate what the people already know, another political opportunity will founder on the Abbott reef of lost opportunities.

Truth is of limited use in defending a defamation suit; and innocent or not, wimminses must be believed in the media mind. Picking on politicians is more like fair game.

So how did other Neolithic societies make the leap to farming?

Because a primitive sense of private property in some societies meant that if you had the insight and energy to plant some crops, when they grew you got to eat them, and you weren’t expected to share them with everyone else.
This can be copied by others of an entrepreneurial cast of mind. Before you know what, everyone’s a farmer.

Which, as Teats Peanuthead* courageously informed the parliament, were infected with smallpox. A preposterous lie, lifted directly from preposterous liars in Canuckistan.

Didn’t know that. Imported from Canada like multiculturalism and first nations.

Not seeing that Albanese has done anything wrong.
He backed Higgins up, it ended up winning them Government.

They processed Higgins claim quickly rather than string her along like mealy mouthed maggots, I’d say if an Election was held next week on the issue, the Liberal Party would lose half their Seats.

So how did other Neolithic societies make the leap to farming?

#1. They had animals that were domesticable, Aborigines didn’t.

#2. They weren’t constantly at war with the surrounding Tribes, giving them time for contemplation.

Ed Casesays:
June 8, 2023 at 7:41 pm
Not seeing that Albanese has done anything wrong.
He backed Higgins up, it ended up winning them Government.

According to Grandpa Ed Cletus-Case, “Whatever it takes” is a moral political tactic.

Also according to Grandpa Ed Cletus-Case, there was nothing else happening in Australia at the time of the last election than a community agog at the latest statements about an immature young woman who goes drinking with no knickers on.

Strangely, these are the positions taken by Labor, for whom Grandpa is a consistent and loyal shill.

I don’t know what Canada did to deserve the Troodoes- when you look at Justine, the dauphine’s parents…say no more.

The Australian is pushing Bowel Cancer Screening for younger people now.

Now, you might say that’s fair enough, since it is [allegedly] the most deadly Cancer.
So, I did some research:
Bowel Cancer affects 1 in 1700 women [sitzpinklers], 1 in 1200 men.
So, it’s as rare as rocking horse shit.
On the other hand, Bladder Cancer [you ain’t pissin’ out yore deck no mo’]
affects 1 in 29 men, 1 in 89 women [sitzpinklers]
How about that, yet not a dicky bird from our nosy overlords?

H B Bear says:
June 8, 2023 at 7:21 pm

So how did other Neolithic societies make the leap to farming?

Wild guess: The domestication of animals meant that having such food (meat and milk) and other products (skins, incl. for trade) closer to hand allowed a little more ‘spare time’ and enabled taking a risk with cultivating grains.

Why didn’t Lehrmann’s lawyer have half this stuff that’s been leaked now admitted as evidence in the criminal case?
Surely the jury should have been told & or seen the stuff.

Surely the jury should have been told & or seen the stuff.

11/12? Can’t be as straightforward as that. Can’t be.

Wild guess: The domestication of animals meant that having such food (meat and milk) and other products (skins, incl. for trade) closer to hand allowed a little more ‘spare time’ and enabled taking a risk with cultivating grains.

The other way around. You notice that plants produce seeds and seeds produce more plants. So you try taking seeds from plants you like to eat and you plant them in a spirit of optimistic experiment. Next time you pass that way you note that the seeds have indeed grown into plants you like to eat. So you do it again, possibly with different seeds from different plants.

What is crucial is whether you get to eat the plants or whether you have to share them with the tribe. If you figure they are your plants and can persuade others of this, then others will put the work into planting their own seeds, and agriculture has started. If the culture believes they are entitled to your crops just because they’re your rellies, nobody will ever bother to do the work of planting seeds. Everyone will wait for someone else to do the work. So it won’t get done.

Later, if your lucky and everyone plants seeds, your crops will attract animals, which you can also eat. Eventually someone keeps the animals around and breeds them too. But it’s the vegies first.

cohenite says: June 8, 2023 at 8:23 pm

Time to get out the hollow points: for the pollies of course not the black folks.

Yeah yeah, whatever. This big talk threatening politicians will result in nothing because at some level the politicians are considered surplus to requirements anyhow.
But try saying a bad word about the deep state and good luck surviving the consequences.

Social anthropologists – particularly the early ones – understood the truth and did not obscure the reality of the subsistence life of these hunter gatherers.

Isolated from the widely shared cultural innovations of other hunter groups, and with a fire-farmed environment that only made things worse, aboriginal societies turned to ritual to stabilise their miserable life. They invented a complex kinship system supported by ritual activities which took up a lot of time that might have been otherwise productive, and which incidentally extended responsibilities for ‘sharing’ and not for rewarding individual enterprise. It became tremendously inward looking, with mystic elements, and extremely gerontocratic. And violent.

One thing to note is that aboriginal societies existed in a range of environments and ecologies across the nation. Yet the cultural element was so dominant that while there were variations re the nature of kinship reckonings, the different environments didn’t produce much in the way of new technologies.

It was tough and good on them for surviving. But blankets, flour, tobacco, alcohol and sugar won.

Re the Neolithic in the Middle East, some recent work suggests ritual may have played a big part in the domestication of plants and settlement. Early settlement may have occurred around ‘farmed’ sources of grain which could be used for … ta dah! Beer!!! It’s a theory, as good as any other. Alcohol induced states of togetherness and well being could have lessened aggressions between groups.

So I’m having my evening tipple right now so that I arrive here in a musingly happy manner.

Roger 7/6 @ 4.59

I disagree – The govt does not need to do anything.
The reason why our economy survives deep recession is the floating exchange rate.
ATM energy wage increases and the price of everything is effecting all business.
Combined with labor and material shortages everything is turbocharged.
Also the reach of govt taking from private industry, govt wages and conditions v private, the effect of ngo and media attack on businesses.

A short list of crops whose wild progenitors all came from the Fertile Crescent.
Wheat
Barley
Oats
Peas
Chickpeas
Lentils
Beans
Not a bad start for dabbling in genetic selection.

Albanese is a cockroach.

So did Tucker Carlson call President Zelensky a chav?

That’s very European of Tucker. Did he do the Grand Tour?

ha ha the plastic piranha mkII

Wilkinson’s street cred is circling the drain.

Awwww sheeeeeeit.
Via the WSJ.

Cuba plans to host a secret Chinese spy base.
The two countries reached a secret agreement for an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in a brash new challenge by Beijing to the U.S., according to U.S. officials familiar with highly classified intelligence. A facility in Cuba, roughly 100 miles from Florida, would allow Chinese intelligence services to scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern U.S., where there are many military bases, and monitor U.S. ship traffic. The Chinese Embassy in Washington had no comment, and Cuba’s Embassy didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Thank the gods I’m being downvoted now.

Canberra University Associate Professor of Indigenous water science Bradley Moggridge says Indigenous knowledge needs to be treated as scientific evidence, not as myth. Picture supplied

Peter Andrews used what he learnt and was laughed at because he wasn’t from academia nor did he wave the race card.

Tony Coote went all in on Natural Sequence Farming and convinced the landholders in his catchment to do likewise. What unsubsidised business can be profitable or convince others to do so? Even if the GRDC helps out, the bread the Mitchell Grass makes looks unappealing.

I assume you’re on Huberman and Fung’s bits of advice and maybe Mark Sisson.

I do find some of Huberman’s work interesting.
Currently one of the more saner Stanford professors.
But he needs to remember correlation isn’t causation.

Spear Grass
You’d have to harvest an acre to get a cup full of flour. Food for idiots with not enough brains to keep the lights on,