If they were made in Australia, sure.
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And we’re an expensive service economy at that. Some friends recently had a big wedding anniversary (with a 0 at…
That’s nearly A$1.8 trillion at the current price of Au.
But interestingly, there has been professional unrest amongst medical practitioners themselves with growing suspicion that research articles in medical journals…
Vicki said: Globalism – whereby the WHO gleefully endorsed health policies which strangled democratic norms in every western country –…
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I can see you…
Podium! Id like to thank the traditional owners if this blog, some 14 yo kid and his dog running it from his bedroom …that is until his Mum makes him go to bed.
The Brittnee swamp water has revealed another creature Fisk and his wife.
Meanwhile in the shallow end W Entsch and his non indigi wife getting $200k for pottery. I expect nothing less from the swamp dwellers. My only query, why news now? Something is afoot.
well? in the top 10.
Learn to goad.
Wow, this is a big nut to crack. Boeing is really behind I think.
and
That’s a lot of gerbil warming right there.
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
David Rowe.
Christian Adams.
Steve Bright.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Al Goodwyn.
Thanks Tom.
Also sad news for the countryside around Warwick.
Bespoke,
The saddest part of that article is “
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Detransitioned 18-year-old’s lawyer slams Kaiser MD’s, says kids should be warned about ‘outgrowing’ gender dysphoria
Well duh.
132andBush says:
June 20, 2023 at 5:19 am
Only taken interest in the renewable debate lately, still reading up.
There are a lot of things about this renewable push I don’t understand specially cost wise.
Sure the wind and sunshine are free, but harvesting them is anything but.
I was reading on this blog that conventional and nuclear powerplants are built to last at least 60 years and can be refurbished for longer service.
Windmills and solar farms have a planned lifetime of 15-25 years but Megawatts for Megawatts they cost the same to build as the conventionals, except they produce intermittent power while the coal or nuclear will produce 14/7/365, bar for maintenance downtime.
So, (sorry), what’s the deal here?
As to EVs I have no objections and probably never can afford them anyway, my only query is the charging time, 300 Km range is fine with me, but I would draw the line at 15 minutes charging. Anything over that can be a problem when traveling, who wants to sit in a cafe for hours?
Gabor
Toyota is making serious claims about breakthrough tech across battery technology and other innovations that will mean that by 2026, their EVs will have a range of 1000 km. This should be taken somewhat seriously because Toyota is a very respectable entity. The disclosure was also made to the various entities it reports to.
On the day before it was announced, the stock was trading at Yen 2,068. It closed today Tokyo time at Yen 2253. Markets have taken it seriously as the stock is up around 9% since 12 June.
Guardian writer shames ‘cis women’ for not standing in solidarity with trans and it goes SO wrong
interesting. What does that mean for a vehicle in an accident? Instant write off for a relatively small bingle?
Educating the educators
“How dare you! I’ll report you and have you sent to equality, diversity and inclusion re-education.”
Anything over that can be a problem when traveling, who wants to sit in a cafe for hours?
Especially when you find out that you are about fifth plus in the lineup to charge your vehicle.
I am in Nhulunbuy visiting my sister and brother in law.
Every house in the indginee only homeland communities with one plus more rooted vehicles rotting the yard. And garbage in the yards and outside the yards, despite the garbage truck coming around twice a week for them. There will be lot of electric vehicles left to rot on the side of the road or in the bush and/or bush tracks when the charge runs out.
The correct answer is to blame some of the parents as voters.
In today’s Oz.
A bit chilly in Canberra.
Minus 5 according to BoM.
What we and everyone else already knows, and has done for years, while turning a blind eye to it.
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
The most incriminating 5-minute supercut PROVING Joe Biden was in on Hunter’s dirty business dealings all along…
New York Post
@nypost
Alleged arsonist busted in Yosemite Nat’l Park blaze intially attributed to climate change
Amb. Friedman: It’s ‘Despicable’ that Biden Won’t Meet Netanyahu
The Vax-Gene Files: An Accidental Discovery
JC at 6:14 on Toyota batteries:-
Joe Biden Wants to Turn Your Elementary Schooler Into a Climate Justice Activist
Couple of encouraging signs from Europe.
Populists Enter Govt in Finland, Replacing Millennial Party Girl PM (18 Jun)
Finland’s conservative National Coalition Party, the winner of April´s general election, on Sunday unveiled its picks for key Cabinet posts in the upcoming government that observers say is set to be the most right-wing in the Nordic country’s recent history.
Following lengthy talks over seven weeks, NCP announced Friday a deal with three other parties for a governing coalition that includes the far-right, eurosceptic Finns Party, which runs largely on a nationalist and anti-immigration agenda.
Poland set to vote on EU migration, basically Polish Brexit (19 Jun)
Jarosaw Kaczyski the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party says it’s high time for a referendum on EU-imposed migration quotas. The result would make ongoing EU-relations untenable, writes Jonathan Saxty.
…
Kaczy?ski knows the Polish people will back the Polish Government, offering a shot in the arm to the ruling party and its United Right coalition as it heads into this year’s general election.
The right wing coalition in Finland is about the first on the continent to include a true conservative party. Hitherto parties like the Finns, AfD and Vox have been excluded as beyond the pale. And the proposed referendum on immigration in Poland may be the very first time the voters have been given a chance to voice what they want on country shoppers. Somehow I don’t think the referendum will give the answer that the Brussels eurocrats would prefer.
‘Fauci Go Home!’: America’s Former Top Doc Greeted with Protests in Italy as He Warns of Covid ‘Comeback’
National Citizens Inquiry (NCI | CeNC)
@Inquiry_Canada
Why did Canada cease reporting vaccine status alongside its COVID statistics, withholding crucial information from the public?
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
45-year-old Rapper ‘Big Pokey’ (Milton Powell) ‘died suddenly’ mid performance during a Juneteenth-theme show in Texas.
RIP
LOL. Vic is a scientific everywhere man.
I wonder what Vic’s says about UFOs.
I see the solid state battery is leavened with ‘expensive’ so seems to me it will, in the mid term at least, only be available to those with very deep pockets.
There’s a reason Big Pokey was called ‘Big Pokey’.
On a serious about UFOs (I also said it a few days ago). Suddenly, there are blanket stories about UFOs and the adoption of alien technology by the US military. My hunch is that US intel is stoking these conspiracy theories in order to frighten the shit out of antagonists.
Good news about Toyota solid state batteries.
It’s a pity we won’t have enough electricity to charge them and keep the lights on at the same time.
This car park was brought to you by the federal government and AEMO.
Why do progressives always pretend criticism of their speech is denying them freedom of speech?
What they really want is to deny their critics freedom of speech.
He died suddenly, it needs an autopsy.
If those 1000 lb sister hogs aren’t dropping dead, vaccine injury needs to be ruled out.
Like it or not we were all coerced into a giant medical experiment and it is irresponsible not to continue to collect safety data. If certain people are ghoulish that’s irrelevant, we need the safety data, at least to exonerate Albert Bourla etc in the eyes of the public and to defend the reputation of Merck, Pfizer and Astra Zeneca.
Jamie Foxx is practically blind and disabled now, maybe that’s karma for “fuch white people”.
Re: Toyota share price. JC will agree, buy on rumour, sell on reality. An old adage but true. The mugs don’t sell coz they can’t believe the price will drop further. They think they know something, it’s called feelz, not based on anything.
What now Northern American forest fires can be correctly attributed to arsonists because NWO death rays weren’t resonating with the steeple?
Rosie at 7.52. Liberty Quote.
Dot
We need to be fair about this. We had a pandemic. Pharma would only develop and subsequently distribute vaccines under the legal protection against consumer lawsuits. Government acceded to this. Why blame pharma when it was the government that accepted this important condition?
Wouldn’t you act in the exact same way if you ran Merck?
I suppose there will be am autopsy.
And dot they are dying, this one in October 2020
more recently
Sorry, but it’s just not leftwingers. We see it here frequently unfortunately.
Sorry, but it’s just not leftwingers.
Yes it is.
We see it here frequently unfortunately.
Yes, by left wingers.
BT. The wind chill made the temp -9. I had to put the bins out. Brass monkeys.
from back when discussing this wasn’t so politically incorrect
In Nothing Better To Do news, SEN website:
I’m sure this brain fart has the blessing of the board. Whoever instigated it need to be fired, along with the ponytailed men hired to market it.
Are you kidding JC?
I’ve never been threatened or intimidated here for having a contrary opinion.
Disagree JC, here its people being dickheads.
The formula for the volume of a flying saucer is pie ah squared times highness.
You’re welcome.
In further good news from Japan the Australian dollar is doing nicely against the yen.
Excellent timing.
A signpost of the times that gender transition comes with inadequate warnings and often the exclusion of the victim’s support network but our daily lives abound with ridiculous or superfluous safety warnings. https://www.forbes.com/2011/02/23/dumbest-warning-labels-entrepreneurs-sales-marketing-warning-labels_slide.html?sh=bd8eaf654fca
The CIA is such a clown show you just need to leak their ridiculousness every five years and you have stories so weird they make people look loopy by just bringing it up.
Just look up Sidney Gottlieb. What a ridiculous prick. As for ridiculous, Google is part of the deep state.
LOL
“cia scientist unethical polka dance” gets FIVE results on google.
“bender polka dance CIA” brings up an article from counter punch that notes Sidney Gottleib’s criminality and his penchant for square and polka dancing.
(Bender was an academic who got CIA funds – “The well-known psychiatrist Loretta Bender was also a recipient of MK-ULTRA funds. The author of the Bender-Gestalt used her CIA money to pump hallucinogens, including LSD, into children between the ages of seven and eleven. Many of the children were kept on the drugs for weeks at a time. In two cases, Dr. Bender’s “treatments” lasted, on and off, more than a year.”)
I’m not paranoid, trying to cover this up so amateurishly (google censorship) is sad and ridiculous.
cohenite says:
June 20, 2023 at 8:02 am
Yeah, naaaa.
Give you a couple of examples, Cronkite. How often have we seen Woddney Woddenhead make the eggsact same claims Rosie talks about?
How often do you see Karen Blix and Hallward Hughes demand the blog owner block people they don’t like?
Stop bullshitting.
Demanding people are blocked isn’t a uniquely leftwing demand. It mostly comes from the left but unfortunately they’re not alone.
The wind chill made the temp -9. I had to put the bins out. Brass monkeys.
Some expert on the cause:
In other Japan travel news, Mrs P has been booking accommodation.
I decided to print off all the confirmations over the weekend.
“Tokyo?” I say. “What have we got?”
“I’ll send it to you” says Mrs P. “But it’s all in Japanese.”
Long silence.
“Oops. I just did Google translate. It says the credit card couldn’t be processed!”
Extreme disaster (ED) news.
Climate Change Turns Out To Be a 71-Year-Old Guy Named Ed (19 Jun)
Probably a few examples of walking talking climate change will be wandering around with lighters in our summer if el Nino gets going strongly.
Meanwhile Greta has been arrested again. Always fun that these protests tend to not to happen in winter when it’s too cold to save the world.
Greta Thunberg smirks as she is dragged away and arrested by police after five-day protest (19 Jun)
We booked accommodation in January, but are paying when we get there, I hope.
Head prefect, who the fu.k are these people you refer to; I can’t keep up with the soubriquets. Make a list for future reference will you.
It was the common cold, albeit a new variant we had less immunity for and the forecasts were bullshit. The government was too eager to believe the worst. John Ruddick said, okay, let’s have a hard lockdown for two months then roll it back. We pretty much did the exact opposite, sleepwalking into a police state by November 2021.
Several reasons. Look at the husband of the QLD CHO and now State Governor is. ATAGI would not approve Novavax (Nuvaoid) despite being unequivocally safer and having better efficacy. The ATAGI board is not qualified to make these decisions, they have qualified people and severely under-qualified people.
The whole thing was a racket.
If we have a compensation scheme, then there ought to be autopsies. There was an apparent cost-benefits test that we’d accept some vaccine injuries to “stop” a pandemic 2 years after COVID-19 was (retroactively) identified in the West (Spain) by PCR assays of wastewater. 2.5 years in and the Western governments of the world made it virtually mandatory. The typical length of a pandemic is around 2 years. It’s a rule of thumb but it is how infectious diseases work on planet earth. Vaccine mandates and conditional “liberty” came into effect when COVID became endemic.
If obesity was bad (and widespread), why did we make possibly unsafe vaccines mandatory and withhold the approval of a safer and more effective alternative?
There’s just too many lies in this and we cannot let them let us forget. No masks, wear a mask, wear two masks; hug people from China; totally restrict interstate travel, allow in international travel; outright lies about off-the-shelf pharmaceuticals.
#MeToo, Cronkite. Like who the fu.k are dickless and crotchless for instance? It’s also hard to keep up with your own “sauerkrauts”. 🙂
Dot
Yes to all you say!
I’m saying we blame the governments. The pharmas wanted insurance they wouldn’t be screwed after the fact. No one can blame them.
I love that the student is so much clearer thinking than the teacher. It also shows how much convoluted sophistry goes into the ‘gender identifying’ thing that all the teacher’s responses were U-turns back into the theory without mentioning facts other than asserting the assumptions of the theory, while the student was pointing to objective facts like ‘boys have a penis and girls have a vagina’.
It was also funny that the teacher, prattling on about how many genders there are, accepted that deluded kid is a cat. I wonder, male or female cat. The ditzy kid would have one or the other in mind.
But since they have now so detached gender from biological sex and essentially turned it into a game where someone can dictate to you that you must treat them specially and accommodate their flights of fancy, then sex itself has snapped back to there being only two. It also means then that sexual attraction is back the the old and familiar combinations and only being attracted to people who identify as cats or goats or lamp shades becomes a matter of taste like being attracted to redheads or smart people. Just weirder because the former set are more comprehensible as people pretending to be a cat or a cow or a lampshade than actually being them. The person who thinks they are a cat will not have superior night vision, they will not be able to run on all fours, and their intestines useless for tennis rackets.
So, all that is left is the newfound ‘right’ to demand other people that you are something you manifestly are not, and the loss of the right (of everyone else) to make sense of the world as you see it. The obvious is now opinion, and if ‘problematic’ opinion then it is criminal.
As always it is about power.
“says kids should be warned about ‘outgrowing’ gender dysphoria”
Well……hellooooooooo! Except that “warning kids or adolescents” is now called “conversion therapy”, and it’s officially banned in Victoria and elsewhere. Psychologists, medical doctors and psychiatrists are wary, even in this country, of counselling young girls and boys that they will likely “outgrow” this dysphoria. Why? Because they’re rightly fearful of being censored by governments and medical bodies (many bodies are now captured by this cult) and losing their licenses. And now many medical experts refuse to treat children with “dysphoria”, except it isn’t dysphoria among girls, it’s a contagion, no different to the anorexia contagion which was rife when I was at school.
It’s clear that the only thing that will stop this Mengele mutilation and butchery is litigation, and all I can say is….bring it on. But what’s tragic is that in the interim too many young impressionable people will one day regret having their breasts lopped off, their penises chopped off, sterilised, and unable to ever experience sexual pleasure. I should remind people that mutilation doesn’t just happen with a surgeon’s knife, it also happens pharmaceutically.
But rest assured, we’re told such gender affirming care and “medicine” is progress for young confused children. Except is isn’t progress, it’s medical experimentation on a par with what Mengele did, it’s about the trashing of the medical principle non-maleficence, because this gender medicine is 100% maleficence.
Dot, have you seen this?
https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-confidential-pfizer-document-shows-the-company-observed-1-6-million-adverse-events-covering-nearly-every-organ-system-2661316948.html
Great reading, not!
wow!
3x the range
3 years into the future
and a charge time approaching zero
flux capacitors are real
The fact is some of the fanaticism for the vaccines was seen as some sort of moral or PR victory against anti-vaxxers with mRNA and against pro-lifers with Astra Zeneca.
“Look, we made them take a totally new kind of vaccine!”
“Look, we made them take a vaccine tested against an abortion-sourced foetal cell line!”
There’s a reason why the lab rat bimbette was applauded at Wimbledon. A victory for abortionists.
No. I’m not joking. This stuff is very meta. Think who were the biggest proponents of vaccine mandates and which vaccines were withheld. Why post on FaceBook about the 10-year anti-vaxxer challenge when you can bully them in real life? Why bother arguing about Roe v Wade when you can make people act contrary to their conscience?
The desired result was to change public opinion on anti-vaxxers (hysteria and social programming) and abortion (normalisation).
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
– Yogi Berra
I’d put it another way. Our Parliament os so out of touch with the Australian people they no longer reflect the public sentiment.
The Voice is a political, economic and social disaster.
It will divide Australian’s by race and enable the racist activists to have a radical influence on almost every aspect of our lives.
The people know that and that’s why I expect the referendum to fail.
Some of the engineers behind it have admitted the radicalism of the proposal.
Communist sympathiser and Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo is quoted as saying:
‘The power in the Voice is that it creates the ability for First Nations to come together through representatives that they choose, representatives that they can hold accountable.
And then go forth with coherent positions on how things should be – what legislation needs to be created, what legislation needs to be amended, what funding is needed and where.
And then be able to campaign for that, and punish politicians that ignore our advice. That is where the power comes from.”
From Cory’s daily comment.
Shocking.
It’s time for Pfizer to break a record.
Jamie, pull up a new record fine for Pfizer, maybe 10 bn USD will do.
Yeah, it is a wow, mergatroid, you genius.
Toyota has a market cap of US$ equivalent of $223 billion. An additional $20 billion added to the market cap in a few days is significant, you pipe soldering imbecile.
The Windlab wind farm in QLD’s Upper Burdekin district, which was to be completed by 2026, has been scaled back by c. 50% after environmental protests.
Apple, which was to purchase “clean energy” from Windlab, has pulled out of the project.
In more good news, two other QLD wind farms, inlcuding one owned by Andrew Forrest, have been delayed indefinitely due to various factors, including projected delays in transmission lines being built.
With coal fired power stations under pressure, AEMO’s forecast of “reliability gaps” in QLD’s electricity supply by 2027 is starting to look like a sure bet.
The sooner this renewables sh*t hits the fan the better.
The attorney for a de-transitioned woman who is suing multiple medical professionals over her transition and medical procedures spoke out, accusing physicians of carrying out unnecessary life-altering procedures on impressionable or mentally-confused children.
Lets compare and contrast.
“I think im a boy, Id like my tits chopped off, sterelized and make a frankenpenis for me.
90 minute consult later…
Objective authorised…
I think I need open heart surgery, possibly a transplant.
Batteries of tests lasting weeks
Bloods, ECG, stress tests, echocardiogram… ect ect.
Sod off, your ticker is fine, BTW heres a psych you should talk too …weirdo!
wurrung/Essendon look primed to jettison their history because war=bad, planes=phalluses and bombs=colonialism or something.
These days whenever a suit says “stakeholder consultation”, you can bet yer premiership medals that it’s a quick scan of blue tick twitter and the Guardian Online, with one eye on updating their own CV.
Make the transition quacks uninsurable.
From a fish and chip entrepreneur, the truth spoken plainly.
“To the people of Australia: we are one people, one nation, and should be under one flag. I am asking you to please vote no to Albanese’s divisive and risky race-based Voice in Canberra. ”
Pauline Hanson
Breaking news!
It’s cold in winter!
They and every other club will eventually be forced to adopt the rainbow logo in some form. The indigenes push has not hurt the sport quite enough yet, there must be another blow dealt.
To the people of Australia: we are one people, one nation, and should be under one flag.
https://imgflip.com/i/7pwnia
It’s cold in winter.
Electricity prices up 25%!
Nothing to worry about!
I bumped into one of my old customers the other day, he was about to head off to Thailand.
Cheaper than paying your electricity bill I joked.
The medical industry is getting worse.
Politco: Hospitals Turning into ‘Climate Change Fighting Machines’ – Limiting water with ‘timers for operating room sinks’ – ‘More Earth-friendly drugs’ – Reducing ‘anesthetic gas’ – ‘Decarbonize U.S. health care’ (19 Jun)
This on the back of recent serious shortages of antibiotics and cancer drugs, Covid fascism, bans of ivermectin and HCQ for political reasons, and killing and maiming millions of people with ineffective ‘vaccines’. Then there’re the mutilators of children, euthanasia activists trying to kill people and governments persecuting Catholic hospitals and Christian medical staff.
Well, medical peoples, once trust is gone it’s going to be hard to get it back. Do please think about the consequences of that.
Isn’t stakeholder a word that encompasses all groups and individuals with an interest in the club? Why have stakeholders and then supporters and members in separate categories? Supporters and members should be the main stakeholders, not an afterthought, as they provide the money in the form of ticket sales. Or is this just a journalist who has no idea of language?
“vote no to Albanese’s divisive and risky race-based Voice in Canberra”
I know Hanson isn’t perfect (nobody is), but she’s one of the few in Canberra who speaks up for us.
It’s just mind-blowing that the CIA had Operation Seaspray, Air America & MK Ultra and doesn’t get shut down, the FBI had COINTELPRO & this ridiculous Whitmer kidnapping plot & J6 fakery and don’t get shut down.
Many of the comments reflect what we have thought here – get rid of them and just have the US Marshals & DIA for the most part.
Time to clean the Augean stables of the Praetorian Guard!
This might be a “watch later” one.
The Culture War EP.16 – Brandon Caserta, Exposing The Whitmer Kidnapping HOAX By The FBI
Also has independent film-maker and former civil litigation attorney Christina Urso.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdLdhQH-wpU
Hopefully there will be quite a few high yield damages cases that will bring this whole horror to an end.
The other thing that astounds me are vegans who protest at animals farmed for food being given chemicals, medicines and hormones yet have not problem with genetically modified crops which used to be their cause célèbre just a few years ago.
Steve Price having a go at the Voice accompanied by a poll:
Do you want the Constitution altered to recognise the First People’s of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?
Yes 7%
629 votes
No 86%
7,345 votes
Unsure
6% 553 votes
More at the Daily Mail
Wow! What insight? June weather in June. What will they come up with next?
Stakeholder has been expanded to mean anyone with an opinion even if they have nothing to do with the club or even the game. There will be representation by a lot of groups that have an agenda.
You can expect any or all of DEI groups, environmentalists, indigenous groups, vegans (not that they may have much to say – they just love any platform so they can tell people they are vegan), and so on.
The Australian parliament is at war with the Australian public — the Voice being the spear the ALP’s anti-Australians are using to try to kill Australia’s nationhood. The radicals running the country have settled on separatism, division and the apartheid of the Voice to guarantee their long-term position at the top of the heap.
You watch. There’ll be no referendum because even the Blind Freddies of the ruling class have figured out that it would humiliate them. Democracy is now the enemy: asking the public what they think will soon be officially off the agenda.
The Voice is a dog of an idea and a majority of Australians have figured that out. The fact that the media are all for for it merely confirms to the normies that it should not and will not happen if they have anything to do with it.
Michael Long doing another long walk to Canberra in August to support the Yes vote. ‘Bringing Australia together.’
A lot of this nudging will ramp up closer to the date. It will be difficult to resist the idea that one should not ask questions, just join in and let’s all get warm and fuzzy.
Looks like five people lost on a dive to the Titanic:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941
The usual age of run of the mill arsonists is early teens who just want to see what happens when they light a fire. This old environmentalist knows damn well what happens and still has no problems with destroying the environment in order to save it. But they care!
In a nice FU to the ACT town council I’m putting in a wood burner. I have to remove 4 huge trees from the beach house. Enough wood to see me out. Of course the taxpayer is subsidising it.
I think I’m going to identify as a vegan.
Or a cat.
Or maybe a vegan cat.
My pronouns will be
Interesting.
And not all stakeholders are equal.
Just ask Bud Light drinkers.
I had to laugh at this. Of course she is smirking, she is world famous yet did not have to know anything to earn the fame. All she has to do is spew hatred at her own civilisation and break its laws. No wonder so many kids want to imitate her, it beats doing the homework.
Well said!
Who needs the beer. I suspect they are intoxicated on victory – after all those years of being taken for granted.
Just out of interest, I noted the birds on the side of the road as I drove my daughter to school on a ten minute drive.
Magpie
Raven
Galah
Corella
Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
Eastern Rosella
Crimson Rosella
White winged Chough
Crested pigeon
Bronzewing pigeon
Mud Lark
Willy Wagtail
I probably missed a few drab small birds or the ones frozen to the branches this morning.
Assuming it’s hardwood, you’ll need to cut & split the wood and store it for at least a year to get the moisture content down to an acceptable level, Ranga. Otherwise you’ll just get a lot of smoke and not much heat.
Michael Long doing another long walk to Canberra in August
Good luck with that. July and August are the worst months for cold in Canbrrrraaa….
If Also goes with a vote in the cold months he’ll have to face the wrath of people forced to go out in the cold. If he leaves it later the prospects will likely get worse.
Talk about hoist on your own petard.*
(* = a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall.)
I just did an online application to join the CFA. They should be very happy to have me:
Prior experience with CFS
Daytime available
Truck Licence
Aboriginal AND Torres Strait Islander
Gender ‘Prefer not to say’
I just wonder if the pronoun box will raise alarms – I wrote ‘Lord’ and ‘Master’
When people ask me how I am going I reply, “I am.” It’s fun watching them waiting for the next word.
Thomas Mayo spelled it all out for us. The Voice will decide where and how much money is spent and who benefits. Anyone who objects will be punished. This may wear an indigenous mask but the face and the fist behind it is communist. South Africa is the perfect example for what is in store for us.
Pity you can’t tell them that there is no word for your gender in human languages or that can be pronounced with human speech organs.
June 1st
Bureau of Meteorology tips warm, dry winter for virtually all of Australia
June 20th
Australia’s cold change is only getting frostier, with millions set to shiver through the coldest June morning in five years as one capital city plummets to -5 degrees.
Courier Mail:
So from what I see, you are using money gained from the mining industry to spruik another tax? Do I have this right kind reader? Article continues:
Call me sceptical but I can foresee this largesse will be spent on renewable energy projects.
Do any Essendon players originate from the district?
Probably none in the last 35 years.
How long since the Drome was the main Airport?
60 years?
I reckon they should go back to the original names.
Hawthorn/Mayblooms, Melbourne/Redlegs,
Collingwood/Toothless Drug Addicts, etc
Nearly finished watching the Vikings series.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Ragnar Lothbrok wasn’t very handy around the house and garden.
True story: Middle aged man recently turned up at Canberra Public ED with chest pains. Was given some blood pressure tabs and told to come back Tuesday after the long weekend – because they had no beds available. He points out that he is privately insured so is admitted to the nearby Canberra Private hospital.
Doctor there confirms that he has had a heart attack and he has a stent inserted a couple of days later.
The geniuses who have managed no available beds in the current public hospital are now going to be managing the Calvary Public hospital after July the 3rd. I guess they will rename it after some Labor Party luminary. So there’s that.
In updated “Its not your property, we just let you lease it on installments” news.
The Victorian government will consider introducing rent caps and new taxes on owners of Airbnbs and vacant properties to help ease pressure on renters, under a deal struck with the Greens in exchange for their support for the state budget.
Before the last sitting of state parliament before the winter break, the Greens will announce their support for the budget, which includes tax increases for big business, property investors and private schools to pay off the state’s Covid-19 borrowings.
In exchange, a taskforce led by deputy premier, Jacinta Allan, which is currently examining measures to boost housing supply, will consider renter safeguards the Greens have been campaigning for.
This includes “rent caps or other forms of rent control”, “regulation or taxation” of the short-stay industry and “improvements” to the state’s vacancy tax, according to a letter sent to the Greens by the treasurer, Tim Pallas, seen by Guardian Australia.
There is a tax on vacant houses??
really?
Sometimes it is pretty hard being an “outlier” in this society. Here is a tribute on Twitter from a US millionaire, Bill Ackman
@BillAckman
I have learned from experience that the experts, the government, and conventional wisdom are often wrong. ‘Inflation is transitory.” “C19 did not escape from the Wuhan lab.” “
@Ukraine
will fall in less than a week.” “Its not possible because it hasn’t been done before or because it hasn’t happened before.”
It is often the outlier with no experience in a field that challenges the status quo, that makes the important discovery, that has the unique insight, or creates the transformational innovation.
@elonmusk
was not an expert in payments, electric cars or rockets. The ‘experts’ were at Visa, GM and NASA.
When you are part of the establishment, it is hard to challenge the conventional wisdom. You are incentivized not to. And when your economic livelihood can be threatened by an alternative point of view or a new innovation, you are less likely to believe it or its viability.
The greatest opportunities for discovery, innovation, understanding, and profits often exist in the unexplored paths, the unasked and unanswered questions, and in the improbable possibilities.
Our best investments have been: (1) in the stock of a real estate company going bankrupt, (2) from betting that a triple-A rated company was insolvent, and (3) betting that a virus in China would cause a global economic shutdown.
Each of these investments were met with extreme skepticism at the time they were made. In each case, we were the naive ones when we made these investments. We were not bankruptcy investors, experts in bond insurers or credit default swaps, nor did we know anything about viruses or pandemics.
From my experience, knowledge is advanced and insights are gleaned by studying alternative points of view from conventional and unconventional sources of information, and by not discrediting a point of view simply because it comes from someone who is not an accredited member of the relevant establishment, who does not have an advanced degree in the subject at hand, and/or someone whom has been criticized in the media.
In an effort to get to the truth, I try to keep my mind open to alternative possibilities and weigh them against each other. I often find that truth can emerge when two or more articulate and intelligent individuals in an open forum discuss and debate a controversial subject and are required to address unscripted questions from a knowledgeable audience or moderator.
The above is why I added to the pot in attempting to convince
@PeterHotez
to discuss vaccines with
@RobertKennedyJr
on
@joerogan
. I think knowledge will emerge from the discussion that will catalyze further explorations or investigations that will bring us closer to the truth and help us answer questions about vaccine efficacy and safety that remain unsettled for many. And if
@PeterHotez
is not the best or most knowledgeable advocate for vaccines, then we should find another one.
In getting to the truth, I want to hear from the greatest skeptics and advocates. Both deserve a platform on the path to truth.
Those considering Japan for a holiday, Japan Guide is an excellent site get yourself a JR pass for rail travel. It’s easier to stay in one place and use the train to go out to other places. The trains are so good and major stations have tourist info kiosks with the most delightful young ladies. I had timetables printed out with directions to connecting bus stops. Pity the nephew no longer lives there. As Rosie said, the exchange rate is good at the moment.
They have to do it but it may be postponed until the next election by which time they hope people will be horrified by something else and automatically vote yes.
Thomas Mayo fancies himself as Nelson Mandela?
Democrat arsonists to be precise.
Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change
Possibly related:
Does the notion that the real issue might be binding up the supply side with oodles of red tape & green tape (and soon black tape) – ever enter their mind?
Having a constant ongoing relationship with Canberra Hospital I have to say I’ve done pretty well. The last 2 trips to ED I was looked after extensively but they couldn’t find out what was wrong and more importantly admitted they didn’t know. I now have ongoing tests and observations. The latest being on Thursday. If I am having specific problems my GP rings up and on several occasions they have seen me the same day. On the other hand I’ve been in ED for 18 hours waiting for a specialist to see me but more serious cases were being operated on.
Was that age adjusted or is it just a raw figure? How many in total were monitored? Did they adjust for the baseline of those conditions or are those just raw figures?
I was bemused to find out why the heart is subject to assault under some inflammatory conditions. It is not an autoimmune response. In yet another example of why mammalian immune responses suck there are chemokines that induce inflammatory immune cell infiltrates into the heart. It is a finding that goes back several years. CCR2 is one culprit.
I had 2 shots because it allowed me access to certain facilities. Late last year, on my friggin birthday, I had COVID. I’m one of the lucky ones because it lasted one day. The fools from whom I contracted the condition from were sick for weeks and one was hospitalized twice. I was furious with them because I kept asking them if they had done a RAT and they insisted it wasn’t COVID because they had a booster shot. Perhaps I have good IgA levels\responses.
Not exactly. In dire a budgetary state, Palaszczuk lifted minerals royalties to eye watering levels without consulting any of the stakeholders, igniting a war with the Resources Council & making number one customer Japan very unhappy.
Trump’s Presidential Campaign
Australia needs to protect its democracy and economy.
This is on Today Extra right now. Bruce Wolpe the talking head. Caught the last bit, fair to say the derangement was more than a whiff.
JC at 8.40
you pipe soldering imbecile.
I don’t even know who you’re insulting, JC, but that made me snort. Very funny insult.
Frost in the Grampians. Better put the top on the half track.
Cassie earlier you had some words on gender dysphoria etc and medical malfeasance.
Read this and weep. This is one of monty’s heroes.
Of course with what is outlined in the piece, Wes Moore is a rising Democrat star.
How to win friends and influence people….
RE: the Voice.
I’m taking a pen into the voting booth with me. I don’t want some grub erasing my ‘NO’ vote and re-voting for me.
PS. Is it legal to write comments on a ballot paper?
Grey Ranga bleats:
The last 2 trips to ED I was looked after extensively but they couldn’t find out what was wrong and more importantly admitted they didn’t know.
I can tell you what’s wrong, Grey.
For free.
You’re old.
The Brittany Blob looks set to claim another victim.
It’s not illegal.
Just don’t obscure your “NO”.
Dr Groogs is in.
Don’t do it if you want a valid vote. IIRC it is a reason to exclude them.
Vote NO if you agree with me that race should be struck out of the constitution eventually.
and USE A PEN!
Those who don’t want progressive change and dispute it may feel less in control than they once were. People like to feel in control. Control brings a safety blanket to those who have it and relinquishing that blanket can drive people to put walls up and push back.
Let me guess, this doesnt apply to pre civilization Aboriginal groups?
The group for whom Apcolypto is science fiction, set thousands of years into the future?
My take: Don’t give them an excuse, however flimsy!
Yes Crossie, yet another perversion of the language courtesy of the Left.
‘Stakeholder’ now is used to mean ‘any numpty/pressure group/nutter who expresses an opinion’ which has nothing to do with the real meaning of the word.
A stakeholder is someone who has skin in the game – someone who has a stake (material interest) in other words.
The perverted use is an excuse to get the result you want by inviting your supporters to lobby for that result, re-naming them ‘stakeholders.’
One of the worst consequences is where environment protection legislation allows people who don’t even live in the same State to formally oppose things like mining and gas projects because, hey, we all live on the planet. We all have a ‘stake’ in its survival.
It’s just an excuse for busybodies and activists to stick their noses into matters which don’t concern them.
David Sharaz?
It might invalid your vote.
Incidentally neither counters nor scrutineers care.
Doesn’t matter if it’s a biblical quote or an invitation to procreate with yourself.
If you have something to say write to your Federal member.
Never heard of her. Is she a Labor MP or a Greenfilth candidate? Sounds like she needed five years at uni
to come up with:
Sounds like Emma is a Greenfilth revolutionary (with pronouns).
I’m amused that every day the Newscorp papers seemingly must have a tongue-bathing EV article. The Daily Terror has one headlined “Battle for Oz’s cheapest EV heats up”. But today’s best in show goes to The Oz for this tingler:
‘An intense warm glow in my groin’ (Paywallian)
Maybe, Mr Corby, someone wired the battery to the driver’s seat?
She sees herself as an activist..
Guy Rundle?
Reckon you will find Garlett is a big name in black politics in Western Australia.
You can’t identify yourself.
If you do, the vote’s informal.
E.G., Mickey Mouse is okay, Donald Duck isn’t, because.
Abuse & obscenity, while in poor taste, is kosher
Good to see wind ‘farms’ in all sorts of trouble. This might start to push some sense back into our energy production system.
We can help by never referring again to wind ‘farms’. As Duk has pointed out previously, these are on rural land (and now on the sea) but are essentially industrial installations. They are wind ‘factories’. This makes the situation much clearer; like factories, they also need maintenance and updating every 15 or 20 years. Apart from killing local birdlife and producing a sonic hum and needing to be turned off in adverse weather, they also pollute the surrounding land with oil-spray from their mechanisms which use very large amounts of oil to keep those turbines turning. The old degraded blades are also dangerous in landfill as they leach chemicals.
Tell that to your local greenie. Mention Bob Brown’s dislike of these turbines while you’re at it.
I was reading a couple of articles about middle class aboriginals last night.
Apparently they sometimes get called coconuts.
The ones in the photo were the rarer species of albino coconuts.
That’s the voice for you, people several generations away from culture and with zero aboriginal DNA get the same say as people from the Western Desert.
It’s ‘One Voice’.
Pat the hat pining for the days of ATSIC…
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Fwe-now-face-a-momentous-reckoning-politicians-must-not-decide-the-outcome-20230619-p5dhlo.html
First Peoples have not had a truly national voice since the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) was abolished nearly two decades ago. It suits the opponents of the Voice to vilify ATSIC and wrongly accuse it of corruption, but its strengths were never fully realised, especially its local and regional footing.
No corruption. Not a festering pile of pork for certain people to loot..
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22media/pressrel/K0V86%22
…
https://twitter.com/RealMarkLatham/status/1553875562292072449
Oh and my articles at the end of the old thread about aboriginal overcrowding.
Apparently the government should pick up your dirty clothes off the floor and make your bed (okay your filthy mattress, no sheets)
Good money from selling art and your 90 year old mother sleeps in the dining room.
Someone else’s fault, always.
HELE coal fired power stations are the obvious answer. A proven technology and needs no new transmission lines. And Australia has the best black coal on the planet, thousands of years worth of it.
A genuine bonus if you think the CO2 hypothesis is an unfalsifiable piece of nonsense anyway.
By the way, Linus Pauling [2 Nobel Prizes] reckoned that mega dosing Vitamin C powder, 1 gram in water every 30 minutes, will cure anything, over time.
Since 1 gram is a level quarter teaspoon, and vitamin C powder
[Sodium Ascorbate] is $70/kilogram, it should take 40 days to finish the Kilo
if you do it for 12 hors a day.
Good luck, sickies.
I doubt the Western Desert people would have any say, actually.
How can 24 members (with a strict gender balance requirement) speak for so many disparate indigenous communities?
We have 151 federal electorates represented in the House and that doesn’t adequately represent local interests at the federal level.
First Peoples have not had a truly national voice since the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) was abolished nearly two decades ago. It suits the opponents of the Voice to vilify ATSIC and wrongly accuse it of corruption, but its strengths were never fully realised, especially its local and regional footing.
Although there are limited people around who will recall the details of ATSIC and its corruption, we should be reminding people constantly of its history & why it was disbanded. I raised ATSIC as an example of the dangers we are reviving to Prof. George Williams at a Sydney Institute talk on The Voice. He winced visibly.
Someone have a summary of the Rundle situation?
Ed Casesays:
June 20, 2023 at 10:44 am
By the way, Linus Pauling [2 Nobel Prizes] reckoned that mega dosing Vitamin C powder, 1 gram in water every 30 minutes, will cure anything, over time.
Since 1 gram is a level quarter teaspoon, and vitamin C powder
[Sodium Ascorbate] is $70/kilogram, it should take 40 days to finish the Kilo
if you do it for 12 hors a day.
Good luck, sickies.
Just ear garlic every day and stay away from negative people like Head Cas (A suitable Case for Treatment) and MontyPox Virus.
So said Dr. Hacking the Bush
While anything that comes out of the UN has to be viewed with cynicism and disbelief this one today is interesting.
UN adopts ‘historic’ high seas treaty (20 Jun)
The fun thing of course is there’s increasing evidence that offshore windfarms are absolutely catastrophic to whales, as well as birds and other littoral wildlife. So the UN is opening up a Pandora’s Box by enabling legal opposition of Gaia’s holy wind farms because of the damage they do. The new offshore wind precinct here in Ncl would be a biggie for this, especially as the environmentalists screeched for years about the damage PEP11 exploration would do to da whale migration.
Tell that to your local greenie. Mention Bob Brown’s dislike of these turbines while you’re at it.
Bob Brown didn’t want a Wind Factory in his Tasmanian backyard. NIMBY.
The Oz has an article that might be about it. I don’t know since I’m not a subscriber.
Crikey’s fan base dwindles after Higgins column (Paywallian)
I took it to mean he went off the reservation and the lefty readers of Crikey went into pearl-clutching meltdown.
Nah some conduit to the lesbian looking rape support bloke.
After a month of a non working electricity usage meter on our solar system at the farm, it has finally been fixed by way of installation of a new “Smart” meter. Husband very sceptical of how to keep track (us!) of the usage, but has been shown by the technician. We shall see.
Incidentally, technician said the system this morning was generating 20 times the usage the farm was incurring. I doubt if we get anything like the difference in terms of monetary return for exported power to the grid. We shall see!
BTW as I reported recently, the meter on our city residence also mysteriously “failed” recently. It, too, has had a new meter installed. Again, after a considerable time in securing a technician. It all works in the company’s favour, of course.
Ah; the blokey looking rape support lesbian…got it.
Rundle cops some Brittany Blob friendly fire. Only a matter of time at Crikey which at best is some kind of online toilet door. A personification os Stephen Mayne and a perfect segue into this magnificent criticism of modern j’ism,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EPzpxRtFY3Y
Pssst!
The indigenous voice to parliament was proposed in UN Agenda 21 signed by Keating in Rio 1992.
The people asking for it now were not the ones who thought of the idea.
It mentions land dispute resolution but does not require any particular outcome in those resolutions. Whether the legal instrument supporting the InVoice is ReAlLy To tAkE oUr LaNnnd is not prescribed by that document, but it does (as they say) get the noggin’ joggin’. This idea came from the UN not from Australian aborigines. Is its real purpose something beyond merely a voice? Probably a good question to have answered before anyone even thinks of voting Yes to this thing.
I took it to mean he went off the reservation and the lefty readers of Crikey went into pearl-clutching meltdown.
Gruinaid has a bit on it.
Basically he said because compo had been paid so abruptly and it was so high tpeople had a right to ask questions about it.
When asked to comment Mr Rundle was heard to say
AAAAGHHH, ARRRRGHHHH, get the cage off my face… not the rats, not the rats”…..
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/19/crikey-second-apology-opinion-piece-on-brittany-higgins
The World Socialist Web Site’s take (no, really…worth a look.)
Seems Crikey readers didn’t like Rundle’s “tone.”
Have you tried a plunger?
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
June 20, 2023 at 10:32 am
I’m amused that every day the Newscorp papers seemingly must have a tongue-bathing EV article. The Daily Terror has one headlined “Battle for Oz’s cheapest EV heats up”. But today’s best in show goes to The Oz for this tingler:
‘An intense warm glow in my groin’ (Paywallian)
Behind the wheel of the futuristic first EV from Lexus, Stephen Corby was left with an unexpected, wholly welcome sensation.
Maybe, Mr Corby, someone wired the battery to the driver’s seat?
That’s just the batteries under the floor going into thermal runaway. Nothing to worry about Sir. Just sit tight.
The fun thing of course is there’s increasing evidence that offshore windfarms are absolutely catastrophic to whales, as well as birds and other littoral wildlife. So the UN is opening up a Pandora’s Box by enabling legal opposition of Gaia’s holy wind farms because of the damage they do. The new offshore wind precinct here in Ncl would be a biggie for this, especially as the environmentalists screeched for years about the damage PEP11 exploration would do to da whale migration.
It is quite hypocritical of Greenpeace to have TV Advertisements having a go at Woodside and others about building the offshore Gas Platforms on the NW Shelf of Australia and then not to highlight the issue of the Wind Factory Martian type (War of the Worlds) towers being built and proposed to be built along the East Coast of Australia.
So where is the Whales normal migration route North to South and South to North adjacent to Australia? The East coast of Australia. Not the NW Shelf. FFS.
“The sooner this renewables sh*t hits the fan the better.”
Watching Sky last night, they showed a very ugly, thin-lipped, ghastly female from the far-left Grattan institute preaching about how all gas appliances need to be removed from Australian homes pronto so that this country can reach “net zero emissions”….else the world is gonna burn baby burn. Viewing this hideous woman on my television screen, I was reminded of a puritan scold from 1623, denouncing ordinary folk about the evils of dancing, drinking and being merry, whilst stoking the fire to burn those who refuse to go along with their religious purity. There’s no difference between a puritan zealot from 1623 and our eco zealots in 2023. These people are our modern day puritans, although they’re much worse. This ghastly thin-lipped woman has probably never worked in the real world, no doubt she’s always worked in the public service, paid for by the long-suffering taxpayer, always lived in Canberra or one of our inner-city suburbs. It was evident, just by watching and listening to her robotic and very fascistic speech, that this woman has no idea about reality. She has an absolute belief in the rubbish she is promulgating, refusing to acknowledge that gas, a clean fossil fuel, has half the carbon emissions coal, yet this woman is on a crusade to deny us a access to this clean fuel. I looked at her and I was reminded of a brain dead zombie from a cult speak (except a zombie is nicer to look at), and what’s frightening is that she really believes the absolute codswallop that “climate change” is. Whilst this ghastly female isn’t stoking fires for us to burn on like the puritans in 1623, she’s most certainly stoking policies that will freeze and starve us very, very soon.
That’s just the batteries under the floor going into thermal runaway. Nothing to worry about Sir. Just sit tight.
Lithium Balls could be the next Greenie induced ‘Scamdemic’.
It was some kind of infa red ray up the trouser leg which should set Steve tickler off. Putting aside some obvious creepiness, I’m willing to give it a go today. It’s pretty cold and the downside has been limited for some time.
Here’s Crikey’s Twitter on the Issue:
Basically, Crikey tried to go the full NewsCorp on Higgins and got rumbled by their subscribers.
By bye, Crikey.
They are that, but the local branch of the clan has kept the local cops here busy for several years.
Or the actual evidence of the coordinated plan to damage political foes using the media and the Liars.
Erm…the Puritans never burned anyone (in acc. with English law, they employed the gallows).
Death by fire was the punishment meteed out to witches in Catholic Europe.
Carry on.
😀
A par from the Paywallian’s story on Mrs Entsch’s nice little earner:
Doomadgee local Andrew Ned, 25, who did pottery at the studio and made an ashtray, said he felt the program should have been run by locals.
A $213,725 ash tray.
No country this stupid deserves to survive.
Oh that’s Matrix, the resident mental retard who self describes as a god oracle and claims he scares people when he walks into a room. No biggie.
“Death by fire was the punishment meteed out to witches in Catholic Europe.
No, burnings weren’t just confined to Catholic Europe, burnings were also used in Protestant Europe, in Lutheran Germany, in Lutheran Scandinavia and elsewhere, particularly for the crime of witchcraft…
“In 1636, Anne Pedersdatter Kasteføll was burnt at the stake in the middle of the main square in Ystad (‘Ydsted’in the sources) in Scania (Sweden).
Several promising footballers.
“Can I interest you in some iron ore?”
Putting aside the obvious moral issues and unconscious sexism, a few witches need firing up in Perf today. R/C air conditioning might not get the job done.
Crossie
This may wear an indigenous mask but the face and the fist behind it is communist.
Minor pedantic point. Given the closeness of Big Business, Big Sport, and Big just about everything else to the permanently indignant indigenous activists, the face and the fist are fascist, not communist.
In more good news, two other QLD wind farms, inlcuding one owned by Andrew Forrest, have been delayed indefinitely due to various factors, including projected delays in transmission lines being built.
At the moment, Australia only has the capacity to build around 700 km to 800 km of Transmission lines a year. So, Blackout Bowen’s Plan (Hope) to build 10,000 km of Transmission lines by 2030 is doomed to failure. Net Zero IQ again from the LayBore Partee ‘Engineers’ (University of Woop Woop – Failed).
I was initially dubious about Uke claims that it was Russia who blew that dam, but the evidence seems to be piling up that it was indeed the Russians. The fact that Russia controlled the dam and the magnitude of explosives required to blow it would not have been able to be smuggled in by the Ukes to place it at a dangerous enough spot is the sealer.
Sure, the Ukes might have had motive, but they didn’t really have opportunity.
Dang…that formatting error again.
Did someone mention ATSIC? Wiki is most helpful about the career of its Big Man Geoff Clark:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Clark_(politician)
Looks like he has a trial pending.
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Burney is indeed a weak link. One of many though.