Yet …
Open Thread – Tues 13 June 2023
Scott Johnson at Power Line Blog thinks of a few different angles, too.
Maybe, Cohen. Maybe Biden knows he won’t be able to dodge a debate without looking cowardly and/or incapable, so he’s…
So who’s “skiting”, dickbrain??
Hippipoisonouses. Like hippopotamuses only uglier and with a nastier bite.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlhJiEDqJ8
Lordy, Kvelertak are well drilled and damn hot with it. Genius level metal.
III
Kool to see King Arthur with some choice babes around him.
V
Thank you to those on previous post for referencing Betina Arndts substack. A good summary and observations of Saint Brittnee.
I thought SB and her ilk would get away scot free with the scalps and cash . I doubted the recent revisitation would leave any stain on the white outfits. …but then The Angry Saint of all things Tame has now started to distance herself from SB.
…will truth find a way thru the shitshow? I remain sceptical but hopeful.
Johannes Leak.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Patrick Blower.
Morten Morland.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
More Michael Ramirez TDS.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Thanks Tom.
Thanks again Tom.
Don’t rely on your Amazon Echo or Ring doorbell.
2dogs says:
June 13, 2023 at 4:21 am
Admit, not a nerd, but even if I was, why would you have gadgets control your house?
Is turning on or off a switch so hard?
How long before we have an installable device that temporarily freezes the vocal chords? A ‘chip’ triggered remotely & installed or attached (like an ‘ankle bracelet’) by judicial command?
You still have your ‘free speech’ – you simply cannot use it for a specified period.
You don’t oppose community harmony do you? It is a primate emergency after all.
Again, Johannes Leak nails the scam that is the green renewable shit.
A nano-trigger perhaps?
Am I turning into a conspiracy theorist?
Too late for asking that question.
One Muddy’s conspiracy is another Muddy’s …
Thanks Dover. In a week’s time I will be following Arthur and Merlin around Wales and Cornwall. And viewing lots of Roman and neolithic Britain in the process.
Unfortunately we hit Glastonbury on the last day of the Festival. Apparently it can be Nimbin on steroids with extra druids. And Morris Dancers, witches, warlocks and the usual hippies. Will report any sightings of the King of the Summer Country.
Leak does a lovely landscape drawing of poor Gez’s property after these vandals have ruined it.
Environmentalists my eye.
‘She lied’: Katy Gallagher admits to Brittany Higgins tip off
watch this space
“Thank you to those on previous post for referencing Betina Arndts substack. A good summary and observations of Saint Brittnee.
I thought SB and her ilk would get away scot free with the scalps and cash . I doubted the recent revisitation would leave any stain on the white outfits. …but then The Angry Saint of all things Tame has now started to distance herself from SB.
…will truth find a way thru the shitshow? I remain sceptical but hopeful.”
One of the big problems nowadays among the left and the young is that because they know nothing about religion, history or literature or anything else for that matter, they simply fail to understand a very old fashioned notion which is that…..
For every action taken, there will be a consequence to that action.
Or put more simply, it’s called karma. I suspect Knickerless and Shazza, for over two years, have been so caught up in their pleasurable whirlwind of inflicting damage on and bringing down the Morrison government, the glamour of Marie Claire covers with new bestie Grace (who’s now running a mile from the Bonnie and Clyde duo that is Knickerless and Shazza), National Press Club gallery speaking engagements, being fawned over by the Amphibian from Mosman and ABC ghouls such as Laura Shingle, having Cane Toad Lucy Turnbull daily texting you and on an on it went. But I knew there would be a reckoning to this, it was just a matter of when, how, and by whom.
Given what’s transpired over the last week, I wonder if the various media and political cockroaches, names such as Shingle and Turnbull, whose modus operandi was simply to use “Britt” to bring down the Morrison government, are still texting concern to their beloved “Britt”. Here’s what I think, they aren’t. Because when the narrative goes awry, cockroaches run a mile, or the rats are fleeing a sinking ship, as evidenced by Ms Tame now distancing herself. Oh well, lucky Britt and Shazza now have a huge house to hide away in, a house gifted on them by us.
I find it fascinating how Knickerless and Shazza, in the released tapes of their conversations, seem to have more animus towards Morrison than Lehrmann. I think that tells us a lot.
There’s a line from the bible that says…
Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.
Britt and Shazza rolled a very big stone, and now that stone is now rolling back on them.
I have zero sympathy for either.
Leak nails what’s happening outside of the cities.
The only thing missing is a few blokes (turbine and solar panel people) slinking off with bags overflowing with cash.
Maybe all that emotional blackmail isn’t working?
New poll shows ‘No’ side winning out in Voice support (Sky News, 13 Jun)
They’ll just have to amp up on their white extremist racist terrorist accusations then.
Rabz from the OOT.
I, among others, have touched on this before.
The fact they were let in in such a state begs the question that this must be a common, run of the mill, everyday occurrence. It’s not acceptable.
So much for the woman endorsed by her colleagues as the most honest person in parliament.
Anyone with a shred of sense could see that both Gallagher and Wong were lying in that meeting with Reynolds. A political conspiracy with a handy, unlikeable scapegoat ready and waiting.
I hope Dutton is just sitting back with steepled fingers whispering, “Good…good” as they fry themselves on their vanity bonfire.
Anyone able to unlock this curious story?
everyone appearing at Toowoomba magistrates court 12 June
PH security may be under instructions to do as they’re told by people with security clearance. I’d like to know the scope of who and under what circumstances can be refused entry.
It may be that they acted in good faith and within their remit, going so far as to check up on something they sensed was dodgy. And…if the text story is to be believed, missy had done it before.
Tennis Australia commits seppuku.
Tennis transgender row kicks off as Australian Open boss pushes for change (12 Jun)
Australian Open director Craig Tiley has declared his support for the inclusion of transgender players in women’s tennis categories.
A row over the topic of transgender participation in professional tennis has kicked off after Australian Open boss Craig Tiley called on the ITF and WTA to allow the athletes in question to compete in the women’s category. The ITF’s current policy requires those who have transitioned from male to female to maintain testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for at least 12 months before taking part in any sanctioned events.
Tiley, who is the CEO of Tennis Australia and the director of the Australian Open, addressed the topic last week by declaring his support for the inclusion of transgender players in women’s tennis.
Low testosterone is a fig leaf. The guys are male, they were born male, they grew up male, and their musculature is male. And so they’ll win all the prize money and women will be cut out. Stupid.
cohenite in the past.
Yes, but have you heard of TroonJuice(TM)?
Some of the people who want to reverse their natural gender have taken to cooking/boiling plastics to extract the endocrine disrupting chemicals.
What could possibly go wrong?
vote ‘No’ and receive free a ray ray white supreme pizza
A travelogue of abandoned America some Cats might find interesting.
A lot of the statistics are as you’d expect, some come as a surprise.
Amazing civic architecture in out-of-the-way county seats provide
a cruel reminder of what happens when populations move away.
Do this to him Foxlings and you’ll just make him stronger. Also your ratings will go down even more.
Fox Sends Tucker Carlson Cease-and-Desist Letter (12 Jun)
Tucker is not a fool, so he’s almost certainly had plenty of legal advice to back the approach he’s taking. Suing him will cause even more pain for yourselves.
Yes, when she heard Albo say that she enjoyed the full support of him and the party she would have known she was being set up for the fall.
My friends lived in a town like those, in North Carolina, an old cotton town where the mills are now silent, not as bad as Gary as there was some urban renewal.
The single wide trailer suburbs though, they were appalling.
Why do youse all keep calling the bitch of Mosman “amphibian”?
How cruel!
She’s quite obviously a reptilian.
You’re welcome. Snork!
Cassie.
I used to tell my University students that, unlike school, we treat them as adults, and that they must accept the consequences of both their actions and sometimes, inactions. Thus, in many circumstances,
For every action taken, or not taken, there will be a consequence.
Elbonomics:
‘High wages in care sector will drive productivity.’
Heck…why not give everyone a huge pay rise then?
Vote NO and you’re basically Andrew Anglin, with the Moon Man head, wearing a tessellating black and red swastika houndstooth suit, handing out copies of The Turner Diaries to primary school children.
That is how racialist you are Davey Boy!
Integrity.
Sure to work.
NYC Boosts Food App Worker Wage to $20 Hr., Grubhub Lays off 15% (12 Jun)
Funny how that works. There’s a word, on the tip of my tongue, I think it starts with “e”.
We were told that Lehrmann had a prior Security Breach for after hours entry to the office, but if he was accompanied, then it would have to be with someone else entitled to be in the building because they worked there.
Grandpa Cletus still trying desperately to suggest that he knows the contents of the Parliament House Security Manual, but never able to link to it.
PS, it has been stated on this blog that the security breach was leaving a classified document on his desk. Do try to keep up, Grandpa.
Good stuff Leak
The message is seeping through to cities.
Had a pub meal with a friend from Melbourne on the weekend and filled him in on the VNI West project. He’s a muso and gets out and around the state with the band. He’s noticed the horrible state of once beautiful farmland near Ballarat.
Circle the wagons! Hun:
The dynamic to be hoped for is that the ‘Yes’ side will become more abusive and poisonous – stupidly still thinking that everybody else in the nation craves their elite approval and more abuse will drag them sheepishly and contrite back into the fold.
It will, of course, have the opposite effect.
So much for protecting whistleblowers, eh Lisa?
Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it’s all in perfect working order.
– Spike Milligan
Interestingly though, there is no contradiction here.
The people who vouched for Gallagher were simply being dishonest about how dishonest she is.
Q: What is the difference between capitalism and socialism?
A: In a capitalist society, man exploits man, and in a socialist one, it’s the other way around.
The Sunday Times, 11/06/23:
‘Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were combining the world’s most deadly coronaviruses to create a new mutant virus just as the pandemic began.
Investigators who scrutinised top-secret intercepted communications and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid-19 outbreak.’
Pure grandstanding.
Which will be dead-batted.
Channel Ten is a little late to the “Proper Legal Process” party.
A. Capitalism elevated hundreds of millions out of poverty. Socialism reversed the process.
Amphibian rights are human rights, amphibian rights are female rights!
Good…goooood. Keep going Ten. Give it all more oxygen.
I want those cleansing flames even higher.
The Wuhan coincidence?
What happened to the right to know?
James Morrow Daily Telegraph:
I would have thought the 3 meg given to Higgins after proceedings tanked in court might be the main sticking point Plibbers. Incredible amount for what is turning into a tranche of lies.
Wilkinson recorded that interview because it was potentially for her to do so.
They wanted the material for future ‘projects’.
Oops about it being a criminal matter and potentially subject to subpoena.
It was never around the kitchen table private, right Gillian?
There is an article in the Australian about the huge potential of hydrogen. Hydrogen could power it all etc (behind paywall so can’t link)
But at the same time we get a thumbs down on hydrogen from the renewable news.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/hydrogens-dirty-secret-leaks-could-have-12-times-impact-on-global-warming-than-co2/
So what’s going on here? My guess is a turf war as to who gets all the subsidies? Or is it just a coincidence? Or are they getting twitchy about the inevitable failure of wind and solar?
Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua
Pope Gregory IX canonized Anthony May 30, 1232, less than a year after his death. On Jan. 16, 1946, Venerable Pope Pius XII proclaimed Anthony a Doctor of the Church, bestowing the title Doctor Evangelicus on him.
St. Anthony of Padua is a friend of God and a friend of ours.
Everyone who has a devotion to St. Anthony calls him “Friend.” He’s highly approachable. Anthony is the go-to guy. He’s the man. He helps whenever you call on him even for the silliest things, …
thank you indeed.
A few choice revelations for me, including that Brittany had history of bonking in the minister’s office.
If only she’d gone to the police the morning after.
Daily Mail
Tanya omitted the bit about the political cover-up being untrue.
Bull.
Women who make complaints about sexual assault will learn something positive from all this – if you believe you have been assaulted, go to the hospital and the police. Because evidence.
Do not “war game” your experience with journalists for political gain.
Sure, the contents of your phone may be required to establish context of any assignation or relationship you have had with the accused. It’s also called evidence.
These are basic issues. Guys like Littleproud are muddying the waters, not clearing them. Do they think they look more “woman friendly” by doing so? They should be telling the hard procedural truths – that is the most “woman friendly” thing they can do to support claims of assault. Not the dopey “believe all women” garbage.
Note quite:
In a capitalist society, producers and consumers make *voluntary* transactions which enrich both of them (thats self evident – if both parties aren’t satisfied, a voluntary transaction does not go ahead)
In a socialist society, people try to enrich themselves by taking others stuff – which is of course theft… and like all ‘crime ridden’ neighbourhoods, everyone ends up poorer and the place decays.
And let’s not forget everyone having the right to tell “their” truth.
Lehrman may well have thought “I join a long line of men she’s bonked on that couch – no, thanks.”
This, boys and girls, is a splendid demonstration of why socialist economies – with heavy command control by people who do not understand what they are doing – always fail. And such are their egos that they will not look at the unfolding disaster and stop to reflect what went wrong. Instead they will double down with what we might call the ‘Krugman Delusion’. “What? A stimulus equal to 20% of GDP did not work? Then it should have been bigger!”
And if they ever lifted their heads of from their navels they would be infuriated to discover that the places with most control flounder, and the places where there is least control – where decisions are made at the level of shopkeepers, housewives, businesses (at least those that stick to their knitting) etc, millions of decisions taking place every day by people without economics and politics degrees, flourish.
The likes of Elbow, and all his economic experts and advisors steeped in Keynesian economics think the economy is all about money. To make a theory where everything can be compared, added, subtracted, assigned coefficients, graphed and so on means finding something in common. Something precise and easily ascertained. Price!
Problem is that the thing they have in common is not the thing that drives the economy. It always occurs to me that money is to economic activity something like conventional current in electrical systems. In case you have not heard of it, when you have an electrical circuit the electrons move in one direction, but there is convention of treating it as if they are positive charges moving in the opposite direction – the conventional current.
I buy a loaf of bread. Something of value transfers from the baker to me. That loaf of bread is actually worth more to me than the baker, which can be seen from the fact that the baker placed more value on the money I pay than the bread (so it is a win for him) and the bread is worth more to me than the money I surrender. It was the transfer of bread from baker to me that was the engine of the transaction, not the money. (Yes, I realise that half of the transaction was money, but the only reason the baker took money was because he would be making transactions of his own later.)
If we listed all the transactions of the baker, and me, and the publican, and petrol station etc, the money would sort of ‘cancel out’. What would be left would be the exchange of goods where everyone came out ahead.
But our leaders love the idea that they are pivotal in every aspect of our lives, and in economics the only lever they have is money, so they are forever fiddling with taxes and spending and taxes to increase spending and spending to increase spending and taxes and so on.
The real solution is to get out of the bloody way and let people produce stuff.
But where is the photo op and sound bite in that?
I’m so over mealy mouthed politicians trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. Then @rse covering when even their vanilla words are turned back on them.
Men – be men and stand up for the truth of the matter, even the hard, bitter, ugly truth.
And women – tell it like it is, not some rosy feminist fantasy of you go girrrrl you can do anything you like without consequences.
And the lot of you – stop making us pay for your inadequacies. We taxpayers have enough problems of our own.
Aha, I think I know how Labor will respond today en masse to the Katy Gallagher. The new word is cover-up, Stephen Conroy just said it five times on Sky. It’s the LNP cover-up of the rape that is at issue here.
Ahhhh. That feels better. 😀
Did Conroy say that outside the House?
He’d better be vewy vewy careful if so. No “rape” was ever proved.
What rape?
Higgins went to the AFP and reported it April 2019.
Nothing happened.
So, she had a think about that and tried a different approach.
Whaddya know, the new approach worked.
And let’s not forget everyone having the right to tell “their” truth.
When it ended she got in first and did all the ear bending so I ended up the villain, cad, bounder, whatever …. no one ever questioned why if it was all on me I was left to raise our 4 kids ..!
Yes, all the participants were eager to have the conversation recorded for their own reasons.
For Cane Toad this was going to be the grainy footage which would form the basis of her Woodward and Bernstein moment (OK the footage is digital HD, but the tech guys can add the grainy fly-on-the-wall effects later).
For Shiraz, this was going to showcase him as the young Turk, a shrewd and ruthless political operator, and pave the way for Liars pre-selection.
And Brittany was going to come out of it as the stoic part martyr, part Grrrl Power icon.
The fact is that time, context and lack of control of editing haven’t worked in their favour.
He resigned from the Senate in 2016.
Never the sharpest tool…
Umm, as the descendants of the murdered Boers have asked, “how many unarmed men do you have to shoot to be considered a war criminal?” Oh, and his real name wasn’t Harry Morant – he was one Edwin Murrant, and his father, far from being an Admiral in the Royal Navy, actually ran a village poorhouse, in Devon.
From what I have seen the strategy is going to be to insist that the real and core issue – the one from which everything else is merely a secondary consequence – is the initial allegation.
If you want to discuss anything else you must be dismissing the agonised crying of a woman defiled. They will cling to the rape (allegation) like a talisman warding of evils like the rule of law and political responsibility.
I think that, until there is widespread suspicion of Brittnah’s claims so strong that you can say it in public that Labor will weather the storm. There will be some damage, some people will have to be tossed overboard to lessen the load and save the party from sinking.
The 5 hour conversation at Lisa’s place, who d’ya think leaked that?
Speaking of cover-ups wasn’t Conroy the fellow that wore red underpants on his head?
Incidentally, the UK’s covid response inquiry, tantamount to a Royal Commission, has begun.
Worth keeping an eye on.
Conroy hasn’t been in the Senate since 2016.
Cornchips and spring rolls?
Really?
Oh stop it Ed. We all know Higgins disconnected the complaint in 2019 of her own volition.
And that there was no political pressure put on her to do so.
The new air conditioner can be controlled from an ap on my phone. The idea is that it can be switched on before I get home so the house is either warm or cool according to the need. I tested it to make sure it works and it does. I could also turn the heating on from the bed in the morning though I don’t do so.
This also gives me an uncomfortable thought that the manufacturer can switch it off remotely if requested, say by the power company, when power supply is low.
Why isn’t Googlery KC preparing to defend the bus driver in court?
Focus, Googlery.
Focus.
Lord Alastair McAlpine?
He was the guy who was going to sue everyone on Twitter who called him a
Pederast, until he ran into someone that called his bluff.
Then he folded his tents and retired from battle.
Labor has got to get on the front foot and go for the throat.
sexually assaulted in her workplace and that it had been inappropriately investigated … even covered up by her employers.”
Investigated?
That’s a task the HR department might not have in it’s training manual.
Plibber’s grabbing fictitious straws.
Speaking of odd food choices, I really like ‘I vomited in the minister’s toilet and THEN I ate an entire box of Cadbury Roses’.
You can take the girl out of western Sydney but you can’t take western Sydney out of the girl.
And that there was no political pressure put on her to do so.
Higgins thought there was.
I’m more inclined to believe her than I am to believe you.
another opposites day, and getting away with the comment because McAlpine is now deceased
That’s okay with me.
I don’t care. These are the players who wanted to unperson Margaret Court and remove her name from a court. Well, well, the crocodile has now come for them. The ladies can always ask Margaret to help them fight this unfairness.
McAlpine’s own mother called him a disgusting Pederast.
In public.
Fact.
I know there were great rumination on the topic yesterday, most of which I missed, but anyway…
Were there any politicians from one of the major parties (Libs, Labor, Nats, Greens) who, when the charges against Lehrmann were made public, who stood up for presumption of innocence, who said that until the charges are proven we must consider the accused to be innocent, that while we detest rape we must not let that revulsion find release in believing claims regardless of truth.
There has been a growing tendency, due especially to the media it must be said, of treating important distinctions as merely forms through which their true significance can be skirted.
Politicians caught red-handed in some shady dealings who suddenly ‘cannot recall’ things that were said, promised, or done. And here, saying ‘alleged’ rape (with a knowing wink, as it were) as license to give free rein to condemn the man as guilty without considering anything else.
It was a rhetorical question.
Lode is right. They’ll weather it with a few judiciously selected scalps hung on the mast to signal “it’s over…business as usual”.
The Jolly Roger comes out later this year with the referendum.
another opposites day, and getting away with the comment because McAlpine is now deceased
This blog is light reading, open to anyone, not widely known or read, and most commenters are anonymous.
So you can stop worrying/concern trolling.
Brittany had history of bonking in the minister’s office.
To my knowledge, no evidence has ever been provided for this statement. It is just unsourced allegation.
As they used to say: Scuttlebutt.
How would the Haggins be able to use ministerial offices, repeatedly, as her private boudour, and not be disciplined for it, long before this imbroglio?
Especially likely, as we are told that she was a lowly sh!tkicker and so quite expendable.
Ample, buttery dollops of confirmation bias.. anyone?
why would you have gadgets control your house?
It’s bad enough getting unsolicited calls from felonious Indians seeking my bank details. Getting a call from the fridge to discuss defrosting, no thanks.
I prefer my confirmation bias on a cracker with a nice ash brie.
So you don’t accept cold calls then?
Were there any politicians from one of the major parties (Libs, Labor, Nats, Greens) who, when the charges against Lehrmann were made public, who stood up for presumption of innocence,
Yeah.
All of them.
The issue was whether there had been a cover up of Higgins allegation and that she’d been ‘managed out’ for making the allegation.
The Liberal Party made a total meal of answering that and got voted out as a result.
Labor’s position – sexual assaults may occur in ministerial offices but not Labor Youth Camps.
Taking political scalps is strictly reserved for the Howdareyou tribe.
He had heard that superheroes where their underpants on the outside, and being such a consummate moron he assumed that included on his head.
Execrable idiot that he is.
From ye oldde fred.
$325,000 taken from a currency exchange in Girrawheen.
Yes.
That did cause one of my eyebrows to arch just a tiny bit.
People would be amazed at the outflows of cash via the money mobs.
Its one of the problems a lot of entrepreneurial types have, by maximizing cash and paying bugger all tax (doing gods work) it can be a challenge to use the money either in Australia, or to transfer enough overseas to invest.
My wifes rellies show just enough income for their nail salon to stay open and pay a pittance wage…
Cash only over the counter though.
No, Mem, almost never answer if I don’t recognise the number, and not at all if no number is displayed.
A few years ago I started filing these calls under ‘Pest’ in my phone. When the list topped 100 entries I figured it was easier just to ignore them.
no
On red underpants man…
It was a boast, and I paraphrase…such is my awesome powery power that I could tell them to wear red underpants on their heads – and they would obey.
Just who “they” were, I forget, but I have a horrid suspicion that it was us.
Is it just coincidence that the three states with the highest % Aboriginal population* are showing the lowest “yes” vote in the latest poll?
Maybe personal experience and distance from the south east corner of the country are not helping the voice campaigners.
* not 100% sure this is correct, but it seems about right
Grigory for your sake I hope you don’t gamble the way you wargame high-profile defamation and criminal cases.
His LNP colleague ScoMo didn’t think so, he took it upon himself to apologise for the alleged rape thus deciding that the accused was guilty.
Plibersek also did not believe in the process of law and the presumption of innocence or she would have advised Knickerless to go to the police asap rather than allow it to be brought up in the senate. It is a cover-up now but of the Labor MPs crimes.
A timely reminder.
McAlpine’s case was one of the first instances where secondary parties were pursued.
Relatively unknowns, thinking they were anonymous and untouchable, who re-tweeted the defamatory material or published it in blog posts were also liable (to a lesser extent).
Interesting precedent, eh, Googlery?
You are being watched.
The Story of Hyperinflation
QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong,
could you please explain what happens in technical terms from a capital flow perspective, when confidence is lost and hyperinflation starts to begin?
For example Turkey. When Erdogan was elected i think you wrote that ever since the lira started dropping. So confidence in politics is key. Do you think one day we will see hyperinflation in Turkey?
And another example, is Yugoslavia: what caused the hyperinflation (in technical terms/capital flow perspective)? Are foreign investors getting rid of the dinars? Too many dinars than suddenly rushed back into Yugoslavia causing hyperinflation?
Regards,
Magdalena Š.
ANSWER: “The misnomer about hyperinflation is that it is caused by printing money. It is a RESPONSE to the collapse in the confidence of the government. If we look at the 3rd century, this is where we find the greatest number of hoards of ancient coins. What began this was the capture of Valerian I by the Persians in 260AD.
Valerian was the first Roman Emperor to be captured and Rome was unable to recuse him. That shook the confidence of the Roman people, but it also was a signal to the barbarian tribes in the North that if the Persians could do it, they could as well. Within 10 years, Emperor Aurelian constructed the great wall around Rome. Never before did Romans have such a defensive wall. They had a powerful army.
There was a trend toward debasing the silver coinage which began with Nero to try to fund the rebuilding of Rome after the Great Fire. But that did not undermine the confidence in the Roman Monetary System any more than our perpetual deficit spending since World War II.
However, a spark is ignited and suddenly that trend turns into what I have called a Waterfall Event in the purchasing power of the currency. Such an event has taken various forms. However, the end result is the collapse in the confidence of the government and as a result, that is when you get that Waterfall Event.
In the case of Germany, Yugoslavia, Hungary, etc, there was a 1918 Revolution where communists seized power and the emperor of Germany lost power and fled. In that case, they actually asked Russia to take Germany after their revolution in 1917. This was the beginning of the Weimar Republic.
Germany was saddled with reparation payments demanded by France. First, you had a communist revolution and people with capital began to flee to other places in Europe or certainly move their money out of German banks. It was this drain of wealth that forced the Weimar Republic to print money to try to make their reparation payments. Then in December 1922, they seized 10% of everyone’s assets and handed them a bond.
Here you can see that after that December 1922 confiscation, hyperinflation simply took over. It was NOT the printing of money that caused the hyperinflation it was the collapse of confidence FIRST which then compels the government to expand the money supply lacking taxation revenues and people converting their wealth to foreign currencies or hoard as was the case when coins were precious metal.
I suspect the spark this time may be the Digital Currency and the proposed cancellation of paper currency. This is why people are moving to anything tangible assets such as real estate, gold, silver, ancient coins, and even equities. With DIGITAL CURRENCY they will have capital controls and prevent you from even moving money outside of your country.
The precise day of the ECM was the announcement of the IMF Digital Currency which they intend to replace the US dollar as the reserve currency. This may be timed with the turning point in 2024. It is unlikely that they would cancel paper currencies before the 2024 election. This is all being coordinated. They will do whatever it takes. There is no way they will allow Trump to interfere with this agenda.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/the-true-story-of-hyperinflation/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
this makes interesting reading (Lehrmann’s statement of claim against Network 10)
Unfortunately we hit Glastonbury on the last day of the Festival.
Unless you’ve got an absolute reason to be there, try to reschedule.
The roads into, out of, and around Glastonbury take you through towns and villages – and will be flooded with Festival traffic and solid with inexpertly driven campervans/caravans.
Glastonbury itself will be like a natural disaster zone.
That may be so, but listing a fellow executed by firing squad among “those who fell” in the Boer War remains questionable unless and until a pardon is issued by a competent authority following an inquiry.
The service of the volunteer mounted riflemen of SA is already acknowledged on the monument.
Gumboots advised, just in case.
… until a subpoena hits Dover’s inbox.
You are being watched Googlery.
You would think smart women like Wilkinson, Gallagher, Wong and Plibersek would have known that and should have advised Brittney to go to the police first and then the media. Only the smartest people come unstuck, the law abiding don’t make such stupid mistakes.
calli – “they” were “telecommunications bosses” who were bidding for broadband spectrum rights.
I believe the term “unfettered legal powery power” may have been used by Conboy at the time.
Barnes has a very good segment on VivaBarnes that addresses the Trump indictment. Basically, it has no substance because of Article 2 of Constitution. I’m going to post it as a seperate thread later this morning.
rosie says: Anyone able to unlock this curious story?
everyone appearing at Toowoomba magistrates court 12 June
Yes.
Here is a list of everyone appearing in Magistrates Court today:
Today’s court listings are published as part of News Corporation’s commitment to public interest journalism and are compiled from information made publicly available by the courts in each State and territory.
The list is a public record of people appearing before the relevant court and there is no suggestion whatsoever of any wrongdoing by anyone named in these lists.
Ryan John Ward
Michael Gregory Bethune
Patrick Joseph Aleer
Emily Joe Berrigan
Alexander Mcpherson
Billy Jay Gimm
Royden Terry Pickering
Brody Scott Thompson
Cody Ryan Dukes
Robert James Muller
Sharni-Lea Della Donald
Rodney Stephen Boyle
Krystal Leigh Pearce
Paige Candice Veca
Christopher John Wayne Armstrong
Lauren Francis Duncan
Kenneth Lionel Schmidt
Kelly Patricia Pearl Nolan
Todd Leslie Charles Hodges
Brandon Mollet
Kristy Maree Barber
Kane Patrick Smyth
Jayme Lea Taylor
Jack Andrew Dukes
Mark James Maskill
Justin Alexander Morris
Brady Morris Rollings
Andrew Cameron Proud
Gerald Ridsdale’s former housemate lays out the Labor line on Gallagher:
The federal opposition would have you believe that key Labor figures – particularly now Finance Minister Katy Gallagher – weaponised rape allegations made by a former Liberal staffer to help bring down the Morrison government.
All the evidence is that the former Coalition government, particularly the former prime minister Scott Morrison but also his then defence minister Linda Reynolds, contributed massively to any damage it suffered after Brittany Higgins went public with her story.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash are showing the same lack of sensitivity to the issues involved in this sorry, tawdry tale as Morrison and Reynolds did when the story broke……
….. Cash repeated in a weekend interview that Labor and Gallagher had “weaponised” the rape allegation for political advantage, never mind that this is exactly what the opposition is doing in an attempt to damage one of the government’s best-performing ministers.
There is no evidence that Gallagher was a party to orchestrating the media strategy Higgins and Sharaz had embarked on, merely that she was informed of a story that would clearly have an enormous impact.
The initiative came from the complainant, who believed she had suffered an injustice that was not addressed by her bosses in the Coalition government.
Any opposition would have been derelict in its duty not to pursue the matter once it was revealed.
Reynolds was forced to apologise and pay compensation to Higgins for calling her “a lying cow”.
If Dutton & Co pussyfoot on pressing for answers, this will all be old news by the weekend and Minister Hatchet Face will suffer no consequences whatsoever.
Im assuming this is chump change to make the case go away??
Jeffrey Epstein victims settle sex trafficking lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase bank for $430 million
JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay about $US290 million ($430 million) to settle a lawsuit by Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who had accused the bank of being the financial conduit that allowed him to continue operating a sex trafficking operation.
…
“We all now understand that Epstein’s behaviour was monstrous, and we believe this settlement is in the best interest of all parties, especially the survivors, who suffered unimaginable abuse at the hands of this man,” JPMorgan Chase said in a statement on Monday.
“Any association with Epstein was a mistake and we regret it. We would never have continued to do business with him if we believed he was using our bank in any way to help commit heinous crimes.”
The proposed settlement — which must still be approved by the judge in the case — totals $US290 million, according to lead plaintiff attorney David Boies.
Last month, the Deutsche Bank where Epstein was a client from 2013 to 2018, also agreed to pay $US75 million to settle a similar lawsuit by Epstein victims.
…
The bank has said it had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and it should not be held liable for a former top executive’s relationship with Epstein.
The bank is still pursuing its lawsuit against the former JPMorgan employee, Jes Staley, saying he hid Epstein’s crimes to keep him as a client.
Mr Staley left JPMorgan in 2013 to later become CEO of the British bank Barclays.
He later stepped down from that role in 2021 due to his prior relationship with Epstein.
I don’t see anyone on the LNP side with the gumption to do anything about it. I would like to be proved wrong.
My Gough (that is the deity Labor recognises), he is more stupid than I thought: He does not realise that you are supposed to wear the underpants outside – but still on your body.
Did Conroy say that outside the House?
He resigned from the Senate in 2016.
Never the sharpest tool…
This ex-‘Pollie’ will always remain a Tool.
I urge Googlery to read it.
Particular sub-paragraph (i) of each claim.
Not up to them.
Lehrmann could add him to the Channel Ten/Cane Toad (and possibly Googlery) pile.
His LNP colleague ScoMo didn’t think so, he took it upon himself to apologise for the alleged rape thus deciding that the accused was guilty.
No, he didn’t.
Polling showed he had a massive problem with women voters over what was perceived as poor treatment of Higgins and he tried to make it go away with distraction and gesture politics.
It didn’t work.
Here you go Rosie:
everyone appearing at Toowoomba magistrates court 12 June
Here is a list of everyone appearing in Magistrates Court today:
Today’s court listings are published as part of News Corporation’s commitment to public interest journalism and are compiled from information made publicly available by the courts in each State and territory.
The list is a public record of people appearing before the relevant court and there is no suggestion whatsoever of any wrongdoing by anyone named in these lists.
Ryan John Ward
Michael Gregory Bethune
Patrick Joseph Aleer
Emily Joe Berrigan
Alexander Mcpherson
Billy Jay Gimm
Royden Terry Pickering
Brody Scott Thompson
Cody Ryan Dukes
Robert James Muller
Sharni-Lea Della Donald
Rodney Stephen Boyle
Krystal Leigh Pearce
Paige Candice Veca
Christopher John Wayne Armstrong
Lauren Francis Duncan
Kenneth Lionel Schmidt
Kelly Patricia Pearl Nolan
Todd Leslie Charles Hodges
Brandon Mollet
Kristy Maree Barber
Kane Patrick Smyth
Jayme Lea Taylor
Jack Andrew Dukes
Mark James Maskill
Justin Alexander Morris
Brady Morris Rollings
Andrew Cameron Proud
The previous court list article for Toowoomba Magistrates Court can be viewed here.
Thanks Top Ender.
I wonder which name is the particularly interesting one.
And SATP
The Indigenous senator who was mocked by Lisa Wilkinson as a “diversity pick” says the star journalist has not contacted her personally to apologise.
Northern Territory CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price lashed Wilkinson on Friday after audio emerged of the media personality making comments about the senator and struggling to pronounce her name during a pre-interview with Brittany Higgins and her partner David Sharaz.
Late on Friday the former host of The Project released a statement saying: “I sincerely apologise to Senator Price for any offence I may have caused.
“The conversation was private and not intended to appear as it has out of context and in the public arena.
“The tenor of our conversation was about the need for real, genuine change within the Liberal party, and that too many of their female pre-selections were in unwinnable positions.”
But Senator Price said on Monday Wilkinson still had not contacted her, saying instead the apology statement had been passed onto her via her staff.
“She hasn’t personally made an apology to myself,” Senator Price told Sharri Markson on Sky News in her first interview since the incident on Monday.
“If she was a real woman, I’d guess she’d ring me and personally apologise.”
Oz
… until a subpoena hits Dover’s inbox.
Higgins has been subjected to vile abuse day in day out here for years, but you don’t think that could be a problem?
I really cannot say why, but that list of people appearing before Toowoomba magistrate’s court makes me think of The South Coast News from This Sporting Life.
Perhaps just the obscure goings on in some far removed locale.
Not entirely fair, Toowoomba is not some remote retirement town for aging celebrities.
But it is a pleasant memory, so I am going to stick with it.
Mr Unkles visited the part of the Transvaal where those murders took place. A South African historian, Charles Leach – his own book on the “Breaker Morant” affair is well worth reading – laid on a welcoming committee of descendants of the murdered Boers, who asked “How many unarmed men do you have to shoot, to be considered a war criminal?”
A well-chosen image there, Cassie. From de auld fred.
Where I also said the bus driver may have medical issues, so he’s innocent until proven guilty.
Let a jury determine what happened and what responsibilities he has for it.
mem says:
June 13, 2023 at 8:36 am
The pleasant sight of renewables scammers being eaten by climate modelling.
Hydrogen itself is not a Greenhouse Gas. The modelling that predicts it to be “12x worse” than CO2 depends on assuming that hydrogen that leaks out into the atmosphere will increase water vapour concentration, slightly change the winter ozone concentration, and reduce the rate at which naughty methane is broken down.
There is huge uncertainty about the predicted climate sensitivity – much of which comes from increases in water vapour which is not rigorously modelled.
But bring on the Great Hydrogen Terror.
I do better. I pick up and hang-up 5 seconds later. The small charge they incur is to compensate me for their inconveniencing me.
Zulu
Harry Morant isn’t to be idolised but you don’t get it. You insist that military men are ready to hang the accused, so you should put Kitchener on trial.
Kitchener ordered systemic war crimes and invented the concentration camp. Even if you believe the British establishment over 120 years ago that no such order to “take no prisoners” was given, Kitchener literally ordered theatre-wide scorched earth policies that caused famine or surrender of civilians into concentration camps.
(He was incompetent and corrupt, he ordered two million rifles from the USA in 1914, and only a few hundred were ever delivered by the time of his death in 1916 – only his name saved him in Parliament, and a censure motion was actually put forward).
Morant et. al., were cleared of murdering the preacher. Even if they killed him, he was likely a weapons smuggler.
Some war crimes likely were committed, if all of the complaints were true. They confessed; in a military cell. How likely is it they were coerced? Now if their court martial of the Boers was a joke so was their own indictment and conviction. The British had a facade of justice, they were virtually summarily executed, with no right of appeal and no clemency after they fought in a battle with valour whilst in custody.
The fact of the matter is they were thrown under the bus. THAT’S THE ACTUAL POINT. No one above them so much as was cashiered out except for Major Lenehan who got administrative charges and was bounced. Britain had no right to control South Africa. We sent volunteers, but they really had no cause to be there. [Tangential but IF Britain wanted conscripts before Federation, the colonies would have had to have obeyed under the Colonial Laws Invalidity Act.]
The British intelligence officer Captain Taylor had ALL charges dismissed. He was a superior officer in the field and in intelligence and he has charges dismissed? That’s suspicious. He doesn’t even get a disciplinary charge for being unable to command his junior officers? What happened to Captain Robertson? Both of these men gave the illegal orders that the Lts. and NCOs were obliged to ignore. Did they make up these orders themselves or not? Strange how Maj. Lenehan got a slap over the wrist and punted, Col. Hamilton denied such an order existed, and Talyor was exonerated whilst (two of the four) Lieutenants (from the colonies with no social connections) were executed within 48 hours of being convicted.
You don’t have to believe there was a cover-up or an order given.
You don’t have to believe that Morant only shot free shooters and didn’t murder anyone.
The fact is the condemned and disgraced were treated differently from the other accused parties and Kitchener himself committed war crimes en mass in a systemic manner whilst holding command responsibility.
If the Nuremberg defence is no defence then neither is the obligation of an inferior to carry out an illegal order, otherwise, Jodl and Keitel would have been set free instead of hanged.
Loccoti, what a great series of ambles your links provide through the decaying townships, mostly rural, of America. We drove through some like that in Alabama which were extraordinary depressing, where people eke out an existence (but still better by far I think than living on the sidewalks of Philadelphia as a video here yesterday showed). Gary, Indiana, a steel town on the lake as a suburb of Chicago, that looks like any other industrial town where the main industry goes kaput. I spent more time looking at the rural Louisiana ones, where the small empty 2-bedroom cottages look like the one where my Aunt brought up seven children, who have all done very well in life. Their town of Bourg is still thriving though, with a strong community as a regional centre, and where people still very much look after each other and properties are well cared for. Rural Louisiana is very flat, humid and swampy and it shows when driving around if the town is dying – if property maintenance is neglected then the buildings quickly decline.
What always amazes me about rural America is the generally poor quality of the housing, especially in the South, and the trailer parks that are plentiful there. That said, you could do a tour of some parts of Australia and come up with a similar picture of rural decline.
now the media storm around the leaked texts, interviews have been orchestrated to assist Lehrmann’s defamation case?
Oh my rosie.
Encouraging speculation in your comments section about who unnamed parties are in court cases is a bad idea.
Bye bye
Kangaroo Court
Clownworld Au
Tough shit. You tried too hard.
I note that both Broelman and Rowe are unaware that Trump had been working with the National Archives and they knew what he had, and that far from just having documents strewn haphazard around the place they were satisfied with how they were stored – we know this because they only requested an additional lock which was promptly fitted.
Or maybe they do know but they want to obscure the facts with false images.
Broelman’s cartoon showing the ‘We the People’ toilet paper is especially nasty and dishonest – especially considering the Biden White House is bending state institutions away from their proper function to go after an individual citizen. They are vacating their role as objective agencies (and all the work they should properly be doing is being left undone) to be used as the personal tool of a small cabal.
Perhaps also ironic is that Broelman has kept the rather splendid hand of the original document’s heading, yet the Dimocrats have absolutely no tolerance for the foundational rights the document contains such as free speech and the right to bear arms, but instead call it a ‘living’ document pregnant with all manner of new rights like the right to abortion and the right to never be offended.
Bowen continues to do the best impression of a Whitlam Cabinet member. We should not be surprised from the last Treasurer of the R-G-R dark ages. Honourable mentions to Plibbers, Dreyfus and Burqa (who’s quietly working away in the background).
“Where I also said the bus driver may have medical issues, so he’s innocent until proven guilty.
Let a jury determine what happened and what responsibilities he has for it.”
Wise words Lizzie.
And thank you for the other night. I will email you of course, but it was, as always, a fabulous evening!
OPINION
Pope Francis and the Covid Vaccine
All of it confirmed out of her own mouth, in police statements, in court and in the infamous Studio Cane Toad recordings.
So no problem.
Calling someone who has never been convicted of anything a rapist, though.
That could be a real problem.
Don’t misunderstand this.
You are being watched.
Tough one. I am not sure which is more destructive.
A lengthy but well-written obit in the Oz for the Unabomber if anyone’s interested…
All part of the plan to get this blog shut down.
As your sanitation adviser Dover, FLUSH!
Which would explain why she was found sans robe… not by Bruce, as she’d expected, but by Security.
Simples.
Claiming parallels with Lehrmann is drawing a long bow, though.
In the bus case, there are surviving witnesses who can attest to what was said and the behaviour of the driver.
There will also be ample forensic evidence to be gained from the site to estimate speeds etc.
Interesting that it is possible that he wasn’t exceeding the posted limit.
Roads like this might have a limit of 80 or 100, without a lower limit on the roundabout, but which may not be able to be negotiated at speeds at or below the limit.
Which is where “driving in an unsafe manner” comes in.
That is the whole point.
Googlery has posted a series of defamatory comments about Lehrmann. I don’t give a shit if Lehrmann’s lawyers come looking for him, but I don’t want others caught up in.
Googlery could always get on Twatter or Fb under his own name and go to town if he so desires.
Tiley is lead round the nose by Chairman Dan. Just ask anyone in the John Cain arena. The idea he would bring an independent view to the question is laughable.
I hope Pat Cash becomes Patricia and gives it a go.
Has this monumental dickhead declared his support for transgender players in the men’s tennis categories? If not, why not?
It’s a mystery.
What a tangled web we weave when we set out to deceive.
And surely he has addressed mixed doubles?
Proaborts are appalled that a women who took an abortion pill thus killing her child has been imprisoned in the UK for 28 months. The child in utero was between 7-8 months old.
I really cannot say why, but that list of people appearing before Toowoomba magistrate’s court makes me think of The South Coast News from This Sporting Life.
And wasn’t that a wonderful 5 minutes of comedy each week, M.L. Read completely straight by Paul Murphy – though on one or two occasions you could hear him starting to laugh. I
John Doyle’s finest. I wish the ABC would release the entire South Coast news on an mp3 CD or similar.
Oh dear, things are getting desperate. They’ve called up the Brains Trust. Usually this stuff was left to Bambi but now obviously someone else will have to fill that role.
All the trannies are mixed.
Seriously, how many of our peak sporting bodies are headed by people with a passion for the game rather than hobnobbing with the rather mediocre species of mover-and-shaker to which the country seems particularly doomed?
Please Groogs, no questions. We look to you for answers.
Barnes on Trump indictment post now up.
Still lots of unclaimed quotes at Muddy’s ‘Who Said That’ post.
Lots of wordsmithery at the Cat. I remember when I first turned up ones I loved were the threat to beat someone about the head with a frozen mallard, of how some people were fated to end up hanging by their necktie from a pipe in the ladies showers, and how if certain other people had a shred of decency they would retrieve their sidearm from their desk and retire discreetly to the library.
It’s as if they’ve never left Campbelltown.
I don’t get this. Didn’t the Adviser and then the Minister kindly say to Brittneeee that if it was difficult for her to be in the Canberra office they could arrange for her to work elsewhere? That’s not cover up, but helping a distressed young woman. Everyone, especially the Adviser (whose name escapes me for the moment) did their utmost to assist Brittneeee, suggesting going to the police, accompanying her wherever if that would help, the Adviser inviting her numerous times to tell all to a sympathetic ear etc etc. Brittneeee was never fired. That poor woman Adviser was driven to near suicide by the later playing out of this matter painting her in the wrong when she followed good procedure at every step.
Even Morrison’s inept band-waggoning at least suggested the Libs were concerned and wanted to help.
areff at 9:45
Bungjourno isn’t doing this fade into obscurity thing very well is he? I hope you didn’t bring any of this into the house areff?
I am not drawing a parallel at all. I am simply saying that an accused person must be held to be innocent until proven guilty. I’ve said nothing about the ease or difficulty of making that proof.
Hence, ladling shit on the bus driver at this stage is not a good thing to do.
We have to assume that there may be more to the case than we suspect.
That what the presumption of innocence and proof of guilt is all about.
If you can get your hands on the South Coast News books, they included illustrations of the characters by Bill Leak. Probably collectors’ items nowadays.
The bus driver was certainly charged quickly. No waiting for Traffic, vehicle or medical reports. I suspect he is in more trouble than Dick Pusey’s chicken truck guy.
Apparently the fog was heavy at Greta at the time of the accident. He may have simply hit a wall of it at a normal speed and misjudged.
I should have one somewhere. Early Roy & HG when they were on JJJ on a Saturday afternoon were the best.
calli – all will be revealed at trial, if it gets that far. Plenty of defences in MV cases.
Crossiesays:
June 13, 2023 at 8:55 am
Aha, I think I know how Labor will respond today en masse to the Katy Gallagher. The new word is cover-up, Stephen Conroy just said it five times on Sky. It’s the LNP cover-up of the rape that is at issue here.
Hmmm. What “rape”? There was an allegation, very belated, that was not confirmed in court.
“Irresponsible” bus drivers are not the sort of characters you want to encounter inadvertently or accidentally, given the conveyances they’re in (or not in) control of.
I remember the driver on my commute home on the L38 bus back in the 2000s when I was living in Five Dock – he became even more of a daredevil once the bus lane was extended from Sydney Uni to Norton Street.
Good times.
Ed Casesays:
June 13, 2023 at 9:00 am
Higgins went to the AFP and reported it April 2019.
Nothing happened.
Grandpa Cletus
Did she or did she not tell the AFP at the time that she did not wish to proceed?
They used to do the show live on occasion – including the Harold Park Hotel.
rabz
Over 10 years ago there was a guy on the L78 and E90 (?) who thought his bus was a VL Calais Turbo.
An immigrant from the Emirate of Lakemba. He never waited at stops and jeez you had to hang on!
rosiesays:
June 13, 2023 at 9:08 am
Oh stop it Ed. We all know Higgins disconnected the complaint in 2019 of her own volition.
And that there was no political pressure put on her to do so.
To the extent that there was “political pressure” at the time, it was for Mizzzz Knickerless to report the allegation to the AFP.
Ed Casesays:
June 13, 2023 at 9:09 am
Lord Alastair McAlpine?
He was the guy who was going to sue everyone on Twitter who called him a
Pederast, until he ran into someone that called his bluff.
Then he folded his tents and retired from battle.
Labor has got to get on the front foot and go for the throat.
Grandpa Cletus now openly barracking for the Liars.
Appropriate since he is one.
I’ve got two books, not sure how many were published. The illustrations were by Bill Leak, hilarious stuff. Quite explicit too.
Who knew Leonard Teale was so well endowed?
A young lawyer is working late one night when his door opens and in walks Satan himself. “I have an offer,” says Satan. “If you give me your soul and the soul of everyone in your family, I’ll make you a full partner in your firm.”
The lawyer stares icily at the devil for a full minute before demanding, “So what’s the catch?”
They came West a few times. I think I saw them in Freo and North Perth.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
June 13, 2023 at 11:45 am
Apparently passenger in the car was an ex bikie vice president.
Aliens live among us. They’re called Lycrans.
Cyclists with more safety attire seen as ‘less than fully human,’ finds Australian study (Phys.org, 12 Jun)
A national study has found cyclists who wear safety vests or helmets look ‘less human’ compared to cyclists who do not.
Lead researcher Dr. Mark Limb, from QUT, with Dr. Sarah Collyer, now at Flinders University, ran the national survey of 560 people as part of his work to encourage more cycling around cities by uncovering some of the potential obstacles to riding a bike.
The results have been published in the latest edition of Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour.
Dr. Limb and Dr. Collyer, a psychology researcher from Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute, hypothesized that people wearing bicycle helmets would be perceived as less human compared to people without helmets, due to reduced visibility of eyes and hair.
But their survey found high-visibility safety vests topped the dehumanization list, followed by helmets.
“We also asked people their overall view of cyclists and found that 30 percent of respondents considered cyclists less than fully human,” says Dr. Limb.
Much as I am askance at lycra-clad riders, I think the “Caring Futures Institute” is a very Orwellian name for a university department.