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How quickly the pose of determined rectitude melted into that of a political streetwalker.
operation ‘Grim Beeper’
Operation ‘Grim Beeper’, brilliant planning and execution.
Great stuff from the past. Visuals and audio are great. —— F r. David – Words Don’t Come Easy
Trolling.
However, he does reference slabs biblical text throughout, and Part III seems more like a sermon: he uses extensive biblical exegesis to demonstrate to clergy that they are, as he says ‘on the wrong path’. Does a sermon have to take just one text and expound on it?
I can see the sense in that definition, but doesn’t it somewhat limit a sermon?
I think he’s from Queensssland.
Too late, Beeb, it’s already been done. Stick to what you know, sheltering kiddie fiddlers.
C.L.
Jul 18, 2023 10:29 AM
I think we can assume Greg Sheridan is the mysterious author of The Australian’s Ukraine editorials. Today’s unhinged installment includes the fatal phrase, “stay the course,” praises deceased presidential contender Mike Pence and hates on Trump and Tucker:
The UKR is finished as a Nation State and the best that whatever is left of the UKR after the war has finished is neutral territory (maybe part of the EU). Russia is in the box seat and the USA and the rest of NATO should pull the plug now. Start a Peace Settlement now. FFS.
Putin will never allow the UKR to be part of NATO and to have NATO in the UKR on Russia’s doorstep.
How would the USA react if Russia or China had a Military Alliance with Mexico and stationed Nuclear missiles there?
You get one guess only.
Greg Sheridan is a Plonker.
Just checked the Latin online; in his preface he says he is writing an epistola/epistle.
In answer to the above, the form of an epistle doesn’t exclude biblically based exhortation, just see the epsitles of St Paul, for example.
But the form is of a letter, not a sermon. Hence, in English, ‘Paul’s Epsitle/Letter to the Romans’, for example.
It may seem like splitting hairs but different hermeneutics can apply to different genres of writing or speaking. Probably not crucial with your text, which might also be classed as a religious polemic, but the unwary interpreter can often come undone by “mis-genreing” a text.
Forgive me if this has been posted already!
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
– Stanley Kubrick
I’m using it!!!
I expect Waverley Council has undertaken a detailed review of construction/renovation trends in the Council Area – and set that off against the capacity of the electricity distribution system in Eastern Sydney. Probably no need for billions to be spent on increasing buried HV, local transformers and cable/switchboard upgrades.
In good hands.
Translation: We received an outraged phone call from Canbra asking who the pucketty puck said the quiet part out loud.
Igor Girkin isn’t so sanguine. He’s a fun guy, but he’s talking from the Russian nationalist perspective and is fairly well plugged in to the information conduits.
Putin on the brink with his own cronies plotting his downfall and army ‘no longer loyal’ (17 Jul)
The rumbles from the undergrowth, like Colonel Girkin, are not completely dismissable, although in 18 months I still haven’t worked out if he’s saying this stuff for distraction or whether he really means it. Either way though it’s still fun to read what he puts up.
(I’m not following Z War goings on much lately, since unless I sign up to Twitter I can’t read a lot of the sources I used to. And I have no desire to sign up for Twitter. )
That would just be an outhouse up here.
I’m going back a few years, but the Collard clan was one of those that took legal action over the removal of their children claiming that the removal was made on racist grounds. The court dismissed the action.
Australia under “Blackout” Comrade Bowen, Albosleezy (Never in Oz) & Labor/Greens Parties
Germany — big and middle size companies leaving renewables paradise
By Jo Nova
Germany is a lesson for the rest of the world
Thanks to NetZeroWatch for the tip about the long feature in Politico
Rust Belt on the Rhine
By Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico
Germany’s biggest companies are ditching the fatherland.
Confronted by a toxic cocktail of high energy costs, worker shortages and reams of red tape, many of Germany’s biggest companies — from giants like Volkswagen and Siemens to a host of lesser-known, smaller ones — are experiencing a rude awakening and scrambling for greener pastures in North America and Asia.
BASF is not just “a company” when it needed as much gas as a nation of eight million people:
Though wholesale gas prices have recently stabilized, they’re still roughly triple where they were before the crisis. That has left companies like BASF, whose main German operation alone consumed as much natural gas in 2021 as all of Switzerland, with no choice but to look for alternatives.
That was only 2 years ago but energy is so important that a project that large may “evaporate” nearly overnight.
Meanwhile
Volkswagen CEO tells managers “the roof is on fire”
Fiery address reveals tough times are ahead for the German car maker as unprecedented investments in the transition to electric vehicles and continued internal combustion engine model development weigh heavily on its operations.
cohenite, on what kids can do for themselves.
See the movie Swallows and Amazons, which was made in 1974, but is set in 1929, to see kids doing stuff for themselves in the outdoors. If you don’t know the story, there’s six kids, 2 boys and 4 girls – two lots of siblings – who are aged from around 9 to 13.
It’s the summer holidays and they’re in the Lake District and sailing their little crafts – Swallows and Amazons. The family of four, camp out in little tents that they have put up themselves; they cook over an open fire; they race their boat against the girls from the other family – the Amazons; they have adventures; the eldest boy gets ticked off by his mother – Virginia McKenna – for sailing at night, and also from the Amazon’s uncle, falsely, I may add. It’s all very cubs and scouts and girl guides stuff. But is thoroughly delightful.
It’s based on a set of book by the author Arthur Ransome. Every time it comes on the teev, I watch it.
What strikes me about the film, is how free the kids are, within bounds, of course. But they’re out “doing stuff” for themselves.
Many years ago I was listening to Margaret Throsby’s show on ABC Classic FM. She was interviewing Peter Cundall. If you don’t know the show, Throsby would ask about the person’s life and background etc and play their music choices throughout the hour. Cundall spoke about his parents and noted how his mother started working at age five and never stopped from there. As the five year old, she was looking after her younger siblings – watching them – being responsible for them, probably while their mother washed etc.
So many families from earlier times, mine included, would have been brought up the same way. Helping, learning, experiencing. So that when they went off to work aged 15 or so, they were already mostly responsible, able to take direction, and orders from their boss, good listeners rather than talkers. They were on their way to adulthood. Now, we’re still talking about people of 20-30 as kids.
ABC..8.30 The Dark Emu Story. Think I’ll go with West Ham -Tottenham on 10 Bold.
Nup.
That one is Yogi Berra.
Steady on…you made your living in the halls of academe.
😀
But seriously…
You can just imagine Craven unloading on Australians if the referendum fails.
He might even threaten to go live in Canada!
GOOD v. EVIL: TIME TO TAKE SIDES
By Howell Woltz – July 18, 2023
ONE SIDE STEALS OUR FREEDOMS, FAITH AND EVEN OUR CHILDREN—SO IT’S TIME TO DECIDE
Watching the Lamestream Media defend pedophiles all week may have been the straw that broke this camel’s back.
The film, Sound of Freedom, was roundly attacked even before its first showing as being of ‘conspiracy theory’ lore though the true story of Tim Ballard, a U.S. Agent, who had to quit his government job to do his job.
If that sounds a bit quirky, Agent Ballard had to leave the corrupt U.S. government agency assigned to rein in child trafficking—to actually free the victims of that trafficking—as an assignment from God.
It seems one must choose between the two these days in my Homeland (and many others) as the dark side has invaded all Western governments if recent events are witnessed objectively, which can be explained in just a few sentences of fact.
First, our governments paid for and designed exotic diseases to kill us—my own country, as example, funded 47 of these illegal death factories in their favourite playground, Ukraine, and at least one in Wuhan, China.
They then colluded in top-Fascist fashion with Big Pharma and other Globalist devils to destroy our immune systems with a deadly toxin mis-labelled a ‘vaccine’.
Deaths and adverse events from their cure now exceed those from their disease.
HOW DO WE FACE THESE ENORMOUS ODDS & WIN?
This is, once again, Good v. Evil—but I believe the tide is beginning to turn.
We had to see it for ourselves, as America’s real president, Donald Trump, likes to say. “They’re not after me. They’re after you….and I’m just in the way.”
THE TIDE IS TURNING IN THE FAVOUR OF GOOD
Trump just hit 61% approval in The Land of the Once Free against all comers in his own party, and leads Resident Biden by at least 10% even in the rigged polls of Lamestream Democrat media.
And it’s killing them.
It appears now that the side of EVIL is losing in rapid fire.
W.E.F. Dutch Boy, Rutte—is out. Lesson learned we hope is ‘Don’t mess with those who grow our food,’ or you will become fertiliser.
W.E.F. puppets and “Global Leaders”, Punch Macron and Judy Trudeau cannot even leave their resorts and mansions in France and Canada, respectively, they are so hated, and the vaxx scandal from which Trudeau profited so handsomely is now under criminal review.
Olaf Scholz’s popularity in Germany has dropped below that of most sexually transmitted diseases while his nemesis, Vladimir Putin—the church-builder—is running at 89% popularity in Russia. NOTE: For new readers who follow only Lamestream Media, Vladimir Putin, has rebuilt over 35,000 Christian churches and cathedrals destroyed by the Communist, making him the greatest Christian evangelist in history—which is a large part of why they hate him—while their own boy-hero, Zelenskyy, has outlawed Christianity and arrested priests and nuns in Ukraine.
Please let me make it clear that I am not a fan of the Russians or Vladimir Putin but have studied their history and how this situation next door to where I live came about.
My Government—in the person of Secretary of State, James Baker—promised the Soviet Union’s final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, that if he agreed to the break-up of his Communist Union, “NATO will never move an inch eastward [toward Russia].”
My Government and all the leaders around that table in the picture below, lied.
Since then, NATO has expanded from 12 nations to 28 and now surrounds Russia—leaving Putin no choice but to defend
UKRAINE IS THE EPICENTRE OF CHILD TRAFFICKING
For those who haven’t followed what is going on in Ukraine, Russian troops not only captured and/or destroyed 47 illegal U.S./NATO bioweapons labs, but in the process discovered and saved approximately 35,000 children from child-traffickers who had kidnapped them from all over the world for the sex trade.
Didn’t hear about that from ABC, BBC, Morning Joe or Rachael Madcow, did you? But as the Baal worshippers on the other side are known to do, they accuse their targets of what they are doing.
Using captive Globalist NGOs and Supra-Government institutions like the United Nations, the dark side claimed it was Putin who ‘kidnapped’ these children when he rescued them from tunnel prisons and secret grooming camps where they were being prepared to be trafficked all over the world.
The U.S. perpetrators of this most heinous (and profitable) of businesses just admitted to have lost 85,000 little boys and girls trafficked across the southern border of the United States over just the past two years—also clearly by intent.
Where are they? The Biden Administration says they simply do not have a clue. And while that is true with all their harmful policies—not having a clue—it is the now-exposed fact that these children are being sold into sex slavery.
Even more horrifically, once their little bodies have been abused by the sickest of this scum on the dark side, they are killed and sold for parts..
If this isn’t enough to get you off the couch and into action, I don’t know what will.
Haha, how dare he be quoted like this! The nerve! Of course, Greg, a lot of us are…what did you say again?…”criticising the government’s preferred model for an Indigenous voice to parliament”. Maybe if Albo had fessed from day one we’d be more open to persuasion.
Or not, since we know exactly what Labor intends.
I met my first Collard about ten-fifteen years ago at a friend’s bbq lunch, the friend knew him from church. There aren’t any down my own country, more Smiths, Farmers, Nundles, Eades. And Krakouers.
‘Maybe I should say COUSIN’ I said to him. The Transported-to-WA convict my Mum had found in our genealogical research, I think a GG Grandfather, was a Collard. His second marriage was to an aboriginal woman so all the Collards are distant cousins.
Next time I asked after him. ‘Oh’ said friend ‘He went to jail, something involving underage girls.’
Yes but if you say something that can be construed as a reason not to vote for it, you’ve lost the debate, champ.
Professor Craven
Branded Craven “A”
An unfiltered shit stick if ever there was one.
LOL
He was a Lt Col in the KGB!
Enough of the Putin propaganda.
https://aleteia.org/2018/01/02/russias-orthodox-church-has-opened-30000-places-of-worship-in-last-30-years/
Putin wasn’t building churches in 1988. He was a Lt Col in the KGB.
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Dot
Jul 18, 2023 12:03 PM
Vladimir Putin, has rebuilt over 35,000 Christian churches and cathedrals destroyed by the Communist,
Meaning?
You realise what little influence a low ranking functionary like that has on the overall policy of a dictatorial party.
Even if he disagreed with that policy at the time, which I doubt, what could he have done?
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dopey
Jul 18, 2023 11:47 AM
ABC..8.30 The Dark Emu Story. Think I’ll go with West Ham -Tottenham on 10 Bold.
As a Tottenham supporter since the age of 7 years young, I will be watching this game live on TV as well. From the comfort of my armchair in Sydney.
In the early 1970s, these fixtures had smoking ceremonies in London. Rival supporters would burn the other supporter’s scarves and there would be smoke on the terraces (even smoke on the water…………..Deep Purple?).
I wonder whether there will be a smoking ceremony tonight (without the scarves)……..LOL.
Bruce Pascoe………Naaaaahhhhhh. Who does he play for anyway?
Dan can’t afford the Commonwealth Games, roads or ambulances and hospitals yet he still won an election. I am not going to blame the opposition, the blame rests squarely with voters, they got what they wanted. The people who didn’t vote for Dan left the state in droves, Victoria is what self-selection looks like.
One of my wife’s young farming relations summed up AEMO’s political planning when, without notice, they moved the transmission line path from between Bendigo and Ballarat further west.
“Moving it west doesn’t reduce the offensiveness of the project, they just think it offends fewer people.’’
Smart lad.
Wise people could have seen this coming a mile off, they farmed out their productive industries to Asia, shut off cheap power, spent the rest on mythical renewals and now they are surprised they are poorer. They remind me of us.
The AEC-issued Case for Voting No pamphlet:
Actually, a pretty decent recounting of all the major issues.
The AEC-issued Case for Voting Yes pamphlet:
Key points:
– Idea comes from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
– Recognises First Peoples in our Constitution.
– Gives people a say on issues affecting them.
– Listening will mean better results – and better value for money.
All of which is fine. Progress in incorporating the Australian indigenous into a modern culture is clearly a shitshow and only a heartless bastard would turn away from an opportunity to improve things that desperately need improving.
But no detail, or explanation about how the Voice and ‘listening’ would actually achieve ‘concrete results’ – where $30+bn and dozens of agencies spread across Commonwealth States and Territories have failed.
None, other than the hope that because the “Idea comes from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people” the implemented outcome will be better.
The key backup claim to this is “Experience shows there is nothing to fear – and so much to gain.”
But, unfortunately, it doesn’t.
The politburo at the ABC worker Soviet will be in overdrive about this;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/lawyer-x-office-of-special-investigator-closes/102612188
How could a story that reflects badly on Chairman Dan Xi Man have made it through their censorship system?
Sancho Panzer
Jul 18, 2023 11:56 AM
Johnny Rotten
Jul 18, 2023 11:30 AM
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
– Stanley Kubrick
Nup.
That one is Yogi Berra.
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose is a dickhead.
– John Lydon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon
And NOT by Norman Wisdom.
Lysander
Jul 18, 2023 11:32 AM
Q. What is the Capital of Victoria?
A. One Australian Dollar.
I’m using it!!!
JC (Jerk Off Cretin) will love that !!!!!!!!
2026 Commonwealth Games canned to save wasting any more taxpayers $. Now to can 2032 Brisbane Olympics, and avoid that financial black hole.
They’re also losing faith in the elites, precipitating political realignments like Brexit.
What one political scientist called surrogate revolutions.
The No pamphlet says:
Very deceptive indeed.
How dare you not give us munni!
‘Un-neighbourly’: Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare accuses Australia of withholding critical funding (18 Jul)
Haha, enjoy your Chinese dosh while it lasts, son, and do please keep an eye on all the parts of your anatomy. They might go missing suddenly, sort of like a pound of flesh does.
Key points:
– Idea comes from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
,,,
Of course the idea didn’t come from Aboriginal and Torres Strait people, that’s a straight out lie.
Let’s see them name those people?
Only if the upgrades to the local Sunshine Coast roads that were promised to help “cope” with the Olympics traffic (forget the proposed doubling of the population before then), straightening and dual tracking of the railway all the way to Nambour, and new line to Maroochydore are still built. They are sorely needed.
Rural councils are having their funding applications for road repair rejected by the Federal Government. A rejection rate of 80-90%
The Feds say the applications are not detailed enough and they need to protect the use of taxpayer funds.
Starving the peasants by process.
Very Soviet.
If you hold an eligible concession card in the ACT you don’t pay for an ambulance, that includes age pensioners.
list here
I think you make a valid point, Roger. And with Gildas I think we should garner as much information as is possible, even though as you note it may not be crucial for my purposes with this text it does help to explain his vision of his work, which he finds daunting and himself insufficient for it. I can probably use the descriptor of Epistle instead of Sermon still in the introduction to my article, as it has not yet gone to production. I doubt I have room to explain more though, as the word count is already lengthy re the many other things I have to explain re De Excidio. I will ponder this with other things in Malaysia.
Chanticleer
Games fiasco will leave business shaking its head at Victorian farce
Instead of saving the $2 billion budgeted for the Commonwealth Games, Daniel Andrews will splurge it on the regions, in a move that makes a farce of the decision.
Daniel Andrews’ decision to cancel the 2026 Commonwealth Games is a reminder of one of the golden rules of investing: when you decide to take up an opportunity that everyone else has passed on, you better make sure you understand all the risks and get yourself a real bargain.
The Victorian Premier did neither when he announced in April 2022 that Victoria would host the event after the organising committee had failed to find another city or state willing to take on the cost and responsibilities of hosting.
Andrews positioned Victoria as the white knight of the Commonwealth, declaring Victoria could host a discount version of the games in rural and regional areas for $2.6 billion that would provide “a massive boost to growth”.
But on Tuesday, he was forced to accept that he had bought a lemon.
The best estimate is that the games will cost between $6 billion and $7 billion, but Andrews doubts if even that upper estimate is realistic.
While inflation has been running as high as 8 per cent in the intervening 15 months, the sheer scale of the cost blowout is extraordinary.
Andrews says he’s not keen to apportion blame (no surprise there) but, apparently, those early estimates have proven woefully inadequate.
“The reason we are not proceeding is because when all the work has been done – not the estimates, the actual work, the market soundings and all the other work – the cost of this is at least $6 billion, and potentially substantially more than that. And I simply will not spend that on a 12-day sporting event,” he says.
To be fair to the Premier, another golden rule of investing is to ruthlessly cut your losses. Andrews portrayed this as a decision rooted in financial responsibility; he simply wasn’t prepared to take money from schools and hospitals to fund a sporting event, particularly when Victoria’s debt is headed towards $171.4 billion by June 2027.
But instead of saving the $2 billion left over from the original Commonwealth Games pot,
Andrews quickly moved into spending mode. In a move that suggests he is worried that cancelling the games will cost him votes in the regions, he has promised 1300 new social and affordable homes (which presumably will require a hell of a lot more funding), regional sporting facilities and infrastructure, and a boost to regional tourism and events.
Andrews has taken the right decision to cancel the games, but this farce will leave the business community shaking its head at the farcical decision to take the event on in the first place.
The relationship between big business and Victoria has become increasingly strained.
Last week, ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott neatly summed up the sector’s concerns when he labelled Victoria “one of the toughest places” in Australia to do business after a series of tax hits.
In May, the Victorian budget announced $4 billion of payroll tax increases, on top of a staggering 42 per cent rise in WorkCover premiums. In 2021, a $3 billion levy to fund a big increase to spending on mental health was also announced for large companies.
“Unfortunately, Victoria, at the moment, is claiming the crown of one of the most expensive places to do business,” Elliott said.
At least business won’t be asked to wear another hit to fund the Commonwealth Games.
But this fiasco will hardly instil confidence among corporate leaders in the state government’s planning and risk management capabilities.
A Lt Col in the KGB wasn’t a nobody.
30,000 churches built from 1988 to 2018 – Putinistas claim all 35,000 by 2023 are because of St Vlad?
It’s just absurd. Putin isn’t responsible for every single church being rebuilt.
That is propaganda.
But self-funded retirees can cough up, the bloated, exploiter bastards.
Right?
Craven said it, he means it, and whether he personally supports or approves of the Voice is quite immaterial to the issue.
Opinion
Daniel Andrews’ Commonwealth Games folly stupid from start
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games was a folly from the very outset but Andrews has now made a bad decision much worse.
Patrick Durkin BOSS Deputy editor
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ bid for the 2026 Commonwealth Games was a monumental folly from the very outset, but Andrews has now made a bad decision much worse.
In the midst of the pandemic, in early 2022, as the state was already hurtling toward record debt, Andrews calculated that hosting the Games that no one else wanted, might help get him over the November 2022 election line.
Andrews revealed his political colours at that time, spending on everything from $1 billion to bringing back the State Electricity Commission, $15 million to bailout Netball Australia to fishing rods for school kids across the state.
That is before touching on the elephant in Melbourne, Andrews’ $125 billion Suburban Rail Loop – which independent experts say never stacked up – but Andrews refuses to put on the table despite pausing the Airport Rail.
Cancelling the Games 18 months on after such a bad error of judgement is now an unmitigated disaster.
It’s a disaster for Victoria’s reputation as the host of major events and the supposed sporting capital of the world.
The story is already making headlines across the world.
It’s a disaster for the regions which were set to benefit from tourism and infrastructure even though Andrews says much of the infrastructure will eventually go ahead.
It’s another disaster for taxpayers. Andrews on Tuesday refused to speculate on a possible massive damages bill which legal experts have said Brisbane would face if the Olympics were cancelled.
Andrews is well aware of that risk after being hit with costs after scrapping the Formula One F1 GP in 2020 and as the Premier who spent $1.1 billion not to build the East West Link road.
It’s also a disaster for the future of the Commonwealth Games which now faces an existential crisis. Will any other city want to host them at this stage? If not, is their future even secure?
Perhaps most heartbreaking, it’s a disaster for hundreds of young Australian athletes aspiring to represent their country and use it as a stepping stone to the 2032 Olympics.
President of Volleyball Australia Craig Carracher AM is among those to call it “a disgrace”.
Andrews says the costs have tripled from $2.6 billion committed in the 2022 budget to as much as $7 billion and it would be irresponsible to proceed.
But that was obvious from the very start. Melbourne spent $2.9 billion on the Commonwealth Games in 2006. Allowing an average of 5 per cent a year for inflation, it was obvious the event would have cost more than $6 billion.
It’s also symptomatic of a government which makes big announcements by press release. The $1 billion announced for the SEC or $11 billion for the SRL are all going to cost much more than originally promised. But the political sugar hit comes with the announcement.
Budget was first sign of trouble
Political insiders smelt a rat when there was no new money for the Games in the May state budget. It most likely became doomed when the PM refused to give Andrews any money in the federal budget for the Games.
The PM knows there is no political capital in bailing out Victoria.
The political question is how much damage will be done to Andrews by the decision. Polling showed that Victorians were never very impressed by the Games to begin with, especially with Brisbane hosting the Olympics.
Amidst a cost of living crisis, Andrews’ mastery of a political message means that his government may only take a short-term, direct political hit.
But it does feel like the longer-term follies of his government are finally coming home to roost. Andrews’ words – he is not here to apologise but takes full responsibility – are starting to wear thin even with supporters.
Andrews’ popular legacy of a big build, progressive social policy and getting the state through COVID-19, now increasingly risk being tainted by leaving the state with crippling debt.
It is increasingly hard to see the state Labor government being granted a fourth term in 2026 but by that time Andrews will be long gone with his successor Jacinta Allan or the Liberals left to clean up the mess. And of course, the Victorian people who will suffer.
A truly selfish farmer in Australia would see this as an opportunity to secure better prices.
Some farmers look back at fifty years of tariffs, subsidies and quotas from the EU and conclude the Bushmasters should be used to attack Brussels.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/russia-withdraws-black-sea-initiative-ukraine-grain-deal-un/102602042
Welcome to Sydney Harbour beautiful lady!
USS Canberra arrives in Sydney to be commissioned (18 Jul)
Designed and constructed by an Aussie company for the US Navy. Nice gesture to have her formally commissioned here, and a fine tribute to HMAS Canberra after Savo Island. In a sane country we’d be getting Austal to build half a dozen of these vessels for the RAN.
I never knew PayPal could do this until I got the ad. … They must be flush with cash, taking all of the risk.
Paying bills via PayPal also attracts no surcharge fees .. My gas/electric provider (AGL) charges you extra for using a credit card or bank account but use PP and no extra charge ..
FMD, Gez, what is this? When did farmers EVER get better prices?
Doesn’t matter what, as soon as someone looks like making a buck from an innovation the world piles in and drives prices down.
You know the rules:
The average punter, let alone a pensioner, does not have a spare $500 lying around after they have been taken away in an ambulance, And, why does an ambulance cost (allegedly) $1000 an hour to run?
If you’ve got a Commonwealth Health Care Card (OAP, rorters, dole & most other welfare recipients) ambulance riding is a “freebie” in NSW (not sure about other states).
Apparently Chris.
Neither NSW or the ACT have ambulance schemes like Victoria, instead those not covered by various exemptions can claim from their private health insurance or pay themselves*
One of the first things my daughter checked when she moved to the ACT.
*a bit murky as to whether Victorian who are scheme members are covered for the ACT or NSW.
Craven is normally a pretty solid fella so I find it weird that he came out and said the line about the Voice advising governments on everything from subs to parking tickets but he still supports it… I think academia has “gotten to him”
Albo didn’t change anything. Settled how? Settled as the aboriginal committee said it was always to be stated. Just ‘settled’ aboriginal style?
Or did they really make some changes which changed the Executive ambit?
I haven’t heard of any.
More grist for the mill.
But if the author himnself describes it as an epistle, I’d give him the benefit of the doubt.
Enjoy!
I’m passing that quote on thanks Chris.
You’re dead right. The doors of chancelleries everywhere are clanging shut to him.
Persona non grata.
Try explaining that to certain members of the community!
And further… it’s been reported in Perth that a certain (entitled) race have been using the 000 number to get an ambulance into the city, only to walk off once in the city immediately after arrival (i.e. using it as a taxi service)…
Ooo, I just thought of a form of livestock that they have NOT banned export, and would greatly improve the country by being exported!
Heard a tree planting ad on the radio this morning. Adam Goodes going on about the importance of trees and planting. Think it was for NAB.
Wonder if they have checked their planting plans with locals in WA.
So any chance the pubic serpents who arranged the forecast for the games 3 or4 times below the possible real price have lost their jobs/ demoted or suffered any consequence for spaffing a lazy billion already?
If not, why not?
Why aren’t they named and made examples of?
Do said (entitled) race still use the Royal Flying Doctor Service for the same purpose?
Unfortunately my proposal has been rejected. The apparent weight gain for feed input was deceptive – politicians and activists are just full of sh1t.
What strikes me about the film, is how free the kids are, within bounds, of course. But they’re out “doing stuff” for themselves.
As a kid growing up in the County Durham coalfields 1950s/60s come school holidays we were out the door around 8.00am and not expected back before 5.00pm ..
on pain of death or worse! .. LOL!
ABCcess just can’t quite the whitest abbo in oz.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-18/dark-emu-controversy-took-heavy-toll-on-bruce-pascoe/102606182
Quit.
Bloody phoneposting.
Day 3 Vietnam
It’s raining- a lot
Long since retired.
Relevance deprivation syndrome?
I will change it, Roger, because he does use the word epistola. I just needed to be alerted to how it differs to a sermon. Translations are important in the De Excidio text, for these can be very differently interpreted. Here’s a discussion group on aspects of the Latin in De Excidio</em for instance. Gildas certainly goes his own way with a lot of his constructions. Dane Pestano identifies a five line acrostic at the start, saying IESUS. I have characterised it as 'schoolroom' in nature, same as my own is indeed, in accord with Latinist Fabio Balbieri who has called it 'wonderfully barbaric'. Others, such as Michael Lapidge, see DE as more classical in its structure (after Cicero indeed, again a bit ‘schoolroom’), while Karen George sees it as having quite late continental influences in some forms used (that’s contestable, as the anterior theological sources used may be at influence quite separately). Anyway, the text is full of dating conundrums, and I enjoy unpacking these. There has been a lot of cascading of dating error upon error, and also a lot of over-interrogation of the detail of the text while missing the main game. My article is called ‘Redating Gildas and the Siege of Badon Hill’.
ABC..8.30 The Dark Emu Story.
The kitchen middle drawer needz looking at .. LOL ..
I’m guessin’ here but wouldn’t be surprised if Brucie’s, other egg layer, BLACK DUCK *isn’t slotted in the money maker credit list for this extravaganza ……..
*BLACK DUCK a registered charity that donates all proceeds to Bruce Pascoe’ bank account …
Perhaps someone should send this to Bolta?
BlazeTV: Tucker Reveals STRATEGY For Interviewing Presidential Candidates (3:01)
Italics problem there, but y’all get da gist.
As a kid growing up in the County Durham coalfields 1950s/60s come school holidays we were out the door around 8.00am and not expected back before 5.00pm ..
on pain of death or worse! .. LOL!
Same for us in the Sarf’. Even if it was raining. Which amazingly it quite often was.
Dot
Jul 18, 2023 12:41 PM
For all practical purposes, in a huge bureaucracy of the then USSR, yes it is a a nobody.
He spent most of his time in the then East Germany.
Disagree with the party policy and see how long you remain a Lt Col?
Even in ‘democratic’ Aus. an elected rep. dissenting will be thrown under the bus.
Plenty of examples.
——————————————————
His party’s policy in general, not his personal influence.
That is how politics work, watch the Voice, if it succeeds Albanese will be a hero, if it fails?
He will be a gonsky as PM.
I’ll look out for it, Lizzie.
Another own goal from Greg Craven. Making a song and dance about not liking being quoted by the No Case. But the more he goes on about it, the more interesting to the public what he said becomes.
“Uh-oh, constitutional lawyer has concerns, but says he will vote yes anyhow!”
(Blushes, shuffles away)
Farmer Gez
Jul 18, 2023 12:38 PM
Rural councils are having their funding applications for road repair rejected by the Federal Government. A rejection rate of 80-90%
The Feds say the applications are not detailed enough and they need to protect the use of taxpayer funds.
Starving the peasants by process.
Very Soviet.
So photos of pot holes in roads and roads damaged by floods have been ‘photo shopped’ and not detailed enough. FFS.
The Volk should get the keys to the city.
https://www.mmamania.com/2023/7/17/23797377/wollongong-mayor-snubs-alexander-volkanovski-mma-is-against-everything-we-stand-for
Disgraceful.
“I have a responsibility as the lord mayor of the city and as a responsible human being not to endorse those things which are violent,” he told ABC News when explaining the snub. “It is against everything we stand for in our community in terms of violence and promoting violence.
“It is really important that we put a message out to young people and more specifically now with brain trauma on the agenda,” he continued. “What sort of endorsement is this if I put that nomination forward when his profile is supporting an activity like that?”
What a f***ing arseclown.
We shouldn’t be too surprised at Bradbery’s reaction to MMA. The old coot is 72 years old and was a church pastor before getting into politics. While our sport has largely been accepted in North America, Australia still has periodic hit pieces in the press written about MMA, blaming it for all the violence going on in the streets: from bar brawls (real culprit: alcohol) to sucker punches (real culprit: degenerate cowardice).
Yes.
Yes indeed.
In case I wasn’t clear, a sermon will begin (almost always) with the Biblical text on which it is based. Going back to patristic times, these were set readings that followed either lectio continua (reading consecutive portions of a book of scripture over a period of Sundays) or lectio selecta (readings selected for their relevance to a high holy day, such as Christmas or Easter). It was also directed to a congregation, obviously. Gildas’s writing clearly has a different setting and purpose.
The kids sailing The Swallow were a family in miniature. John the eldest, captained their little boat, Susan was a substitute mother, always making sure the younger two got plenty of food, cleaned their teeth and went to bed when necessary.
The two sisters in The Amazon were total tomboys, very strong and independent – I think their father had died. Both groups of kids had actual mothers at home not that far away.
Amusingly, in the fantasy adventures they inhabited, they saw themselves as explorers or the like, and referred to the local villagers or country people as “natives” or “savages”!
What wankery is this?
“It’s not a good look for anyone but Magenta owned up, she pleaded guilty, she paid the price,” the Premier said.
She was guilty when she blew over you d*ckhead.
The Peoples Voice:
A major new study has found that Amish children across America are miraculously free from the chronic conditions that are affecting the rest of America.
Known for simple living, plain dress, traditional food, and Christian pacifism, the Amish are a group of traditionalist Christians who reject most modern technology and pharmaceuticals and maintain self-sufficiency in their local communities.
The Amish cherish rural life, manual labor, humility, and “Gelassenheit,” which means submission to God’s will. They prioritize preserving family time and having face-to-face conversations whenever possible.
Yet, despite rejecting the modern medicine and pharmaceutical drugs that the rest America has access to, the Amish are officially the healthiest people in the nation. What is going on here and what can we learn from this?
Amish Rejected Big Pharma, Now They Are Officially ‘Healthiest People in the World’
Oh.
They kept cancellation fees for the 2020 GP on the down-low.
Dan now spinning this as “we only took the it on to help out after the Commonwealth Games Federation approached us.”
Err, wut?
He is admitting he threw public money at propping up a failing sports organisation which clings to the last vestiges of Empire and is based in London? Surely not. I am wondering why we say we “won the games bid” when we were approached and offered exclusivity.
Not only have we pissed money at an institution rooted in oppressive Colonialism, it looks like we are now up for a break fee. How inept do you have to be as a Grate Negoshiater to have someone beg you to take something on, then end up with cancellation damages in the contract?
Sermons vs Epistles.
This could be bigger than Trucks vs Trains.
Please continue.
But no stoushing.
It says in the Good Book, “Thou shalt not stoush.”
I believe most of the western world is in a low grade revolution, slow moving and not bloody. The death of comedy was the first sign of the loss of free speech and the compulsory transgenderism is the end game.
Last night on Paul Murray’s Sky program Steve Price said that he was simply afraid to say some things. These are supposed to be our thought leaders who have been cowed into silence. Prospects are not good.
To BoN & any other Cat who lives in Newcastle:
Just visited grandson who is enrolled at Newcastle University. Took him to brunch on the waterfront. Lovely milieu & great food & service. Always enjoy our visits there. Lots there that are reminiscent of Old Australia, as well as the prosperous future – if the Greenies allow it!
Yep. In retirement he was probably hoping to keep well within the fold and attend many a pleasant dinner yet. That’s why he’s sqwarking to high heaven now.
ZK2A was the Liar candidate for Rockingham left red faced?
How does that work when she gets preselection for a safe seat? What’s the pay for that?
It is totally confusing.
My health fund says it is covered.
So I let it lapse.
Then I get a call from the marketing department at the Ambos saying the private health cover doesn’t cover it.
So I pay the subs (it’s not much).
Then I have to diarise it because they don’t bill me.
Who knows what weird rules would apply transporting someone from Queanbeyan to a Canberra hospital.
LOL, Sancho.
You’ve just made my day. 🙂
We are going out now to look at some wallpaper.
A sudden urge has come upon us, from where I whist and knoweth not.
(remember the fun days when we spoke medieval here for whole pages?)
Ed Case
Jul 18, 2023 10:54 AM
Australian Natives were not counted in the Census prior to the 1967 Referendum.
That’s a lie crotchless. The 3rd nations were counted from the first census in 1911; census statistics specifically recorded the populations of Aboriginal Australians. “Half-blood” Aborigines were considered to be white and were included in the general census.
It says in the Good Book, “Thou shalt not stoush.”
Really? The bit that I have read says ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’
And the the other bit said “turn the other cheek”
And the other bits talked about begat and all of that.
So, I went for begat and have never looked back………………..
Ukraine Adopts Slow Approach to Counteroffensive: “Our Problem Everywhere Is the Sky”
Swift loss of several tanks and infantry fighting vehicles has jolted Ukraine and its Western backers
ORIKHIV, Ukraine—Six weeks into Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Capt. Anatoliy Kharchenko and his reconnaissance company were supposed to be wreaking havoc miles behind Russian defensive lines pierced by Western-supplied armored vehicles.
Instead, after many of the vehicles got bogged down in minefields, Kharchenko and his men are training how to advance methodically on foot, moving from one line of trees to another, faced with the prospect of taking back their country one field at a time.
“We’ve got nothing to lose,” Kharchenko said. “Victory isn’t just important, but it’s the only option, otherwise we’ll all be dead.”
Ukraine’s counteroffensive, launched at the start of June, is aimed at retaking some of the nearly 20% of Ukrainian territory occupied by Moscow. The West provided dozens of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and trained thousands of Ukrainian troops for the campaign.
The swift loss of several tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, many of them immobilized by mines or missiles launched from attack helicopters, jolted Ukraine and its Western backers. Ukraine hasn’t achieved a decisive breakthrough, although it has seized several villages.
Kyiv’s political and military leadership has complained that slow and insufficient deliveries of Western weaponry left it no choice but to assault Russian lines without adequate air defenses, leaving troops and vehicles vulnerable.
The Ukrainians are adapting and seeking to press forward in the south as well as around the eastern city of Bakhmut, Russia’s only significant gain in its winter-and-spring offensive. Advancing slowly and meticulously to preserve Western armor, the central aim remains reaching the Sea of Azov, cutting off Crimea and squeezing Russian forces out of the southern Kherson region.
Most of the Ukrainian brigades trained and equipped by the West remain in reserve, waiting to strike. Officers are seeking to preserve precious Western equipment, from tanks to shoulder-fired Stingers, while still pushing forward.
“We are probing with our fingers and working out where to direct our fist,” said Kharchenko.
The stocky former paratrooper and his company of some 100 men had been prepared to push through any gap created in Russian lines and dash south.
But the gap never appeared. On the third day of the counteroffensive, he drove to Mala Tokmachka to the southeast of Orikhiv to check out the route they were supposed to take. As artillery shells crashed around him, he began to withdraw when he saw a Ukrainian vehicle blown up and body parts of Ukrainian soldiers strewn over the road. He and his teammates dismounted to recover what they could.
Now, the task is even more daunting. After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam flooded the Dnipro River at the start of June, Russia moved some units that had been guarding the river’s eastern bank to bolster forces to the south of Orikhiv. They quickly dug in, expanding the lines of defense and reinforcing the edges of towns and roads.
Kharchenko and his men are training for a more gradual advance over the flat land of the south, where neat villages are dotted among open fields of sunflowers and wheat.
They are using U.S.-made Bangalore torpedoes, metal poles with explosive charges, which they hope will help them clear mines and booby traps from lines of trees along the edges of fields so that they can advance and dig in.
One of his men questioned why they would seek to advance on foot given that the West provided armor for protection.
Kharchenko said they don’t want to repeat the mistakes of the Russians in the early days of the invasion, when Ukraine chewed up column after column of Russian armored vehicles.
Ukraine has been targeting ammunition stores and command posts with Himars rocket artillery and long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles. The Storm Shadows can strike farther but are expensive and in shorter supply, while the U.S. has so far declined to provide longer-range ATACMS missiles that can be launched from Himars.
So Ukraine has resorted to using Himars in a more daring fashion in recent weeks, moving them as close as a few miles from the front line to strike deeper into occupied territory and push Russia’s ammunition dumps and command posts farther back.
Cluster munitions provided by the U.S. could help blast holes in minefields and Russian defensive networks including trenches and antitank obstacles called dragon’s teeth.
Russia remains vulnerable because its troops are generally less well prepared and supplied by a weak logistics chain that depends heavily on railways. With Ukraine pushing in several places, Russia doesn’t know where to deploy its reserves and may struggle to react quickly if Ukrainian forces do break through.
Ukraine has been advancing fastest around the small eastern city of Bakhmut, which Russia seized in late May after months of brutal fighting that cost it several thousand fighters.
The Russians barely had time to lay mines after capturing Bakhmut after months of house-to-house fighting.
Ukraine counterattacked and is now pushing Russian forces back on the northern and southern edges of the city. In the south, Ukrainian forces have crossed a canal and are pushing past the town of Klishchiivka, while in the north they are fighting toward a major highway.
As in the south, Russian air superiority is a major obstacle. Russian Ka-52 helicopters hover at a distance of around 5 miles, outside the range of Stinger missiles, and fire laser-guided missiles at Ukrainian targets.
The West blundered by giving tanks and armored vehicles but insufficient means, such as jet fighters or air-defense systems, to protect them from attack, said Yuriy Ulshyn, a 49-year-old commander near Bakhmut, better known as “Grek,” or “Greek.”
“It’s like giving a bike without pedals,” said Grek. “Thanks a lot for the bike, but…”
Grek, a former geologist, commands a unit of some 40 volunteers whom he stations in gaps between larger formations, gluing them together at potential weak points.
His men on a hillside 3 miles from the edge of Bakhmut are armed with a Stinger and a Soviet-era PKM machine gun, looking out for Russian jets, helicopters and aerial drones.
Russian Orlan surveillance drones are a constant menace, spotting targets and calling in artillery fire.
On cloudy days, if the craft swoops low enough, they fire bursts from the PKM, hoping to down it. If the sky is clear, the Russians can watch idly from above the PKM’s range, because Grek’s team is preserving precious Stinger missiles for a more dangerous target like a helicopter or war plane.
“Our problem everywhere is the sky,” said Grek. “When the enemy can see the whole battlefield, what can you do? You need so much of everything. When he can’t see it, he’s in the dark, and you don’t need as much.”
The lack of equipment weighs on Grek. A tow rope snapped as he was trying to drag a damaged car away from the front line. Immobilized vehicles, even those in Russian range, are quickly stripped for useful parts. He worries about dying not in the heat of battle, but from his lack of an armored car.
“I don’t want to die behind the wheel,” Grek said.
He and his men are finding creative solutions.
They scrambled to the top of a slag heap one recent night to mount a camera connected to a Starlink internet terminal powered by a generator. The camera provides a feed that can help them spot Russian aircraft at a distance.
They make their own attack drones in a garage in a nearby town, equipped with enough explosives to take out an armored vehicle when they slam into them. Their latest innovation, as yet untested in battle, is a remote-controlled machine gun attached to the base of an electric wheelchair.
In the south, meanwhile, the flooded Dnipro River has created opportunities by washing away some Russian defenses.
Ukrainian special forces have crossed the river and are trying to expand a bridgehead opposite the southern capital of Kherson. Other troops have been training in river crossings, including Kharchenko’s men, who used sports inflatables provided by a charity fund.
Ukraine still holds a morale advantage from fighting for its own territory, Kharchenko said. It may take longer and cost more lives, but “there is no other plan,” he said. “It’s our land. We have to do it.”
Ambulance is free in Queensland.
You can read the 1911 census online:
https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/2112.01911?OpenDocument
Certainly does count aborigines per State.
I am in two minds about this.
I understand that the core skill for advancement in any university or public sector organisation is not delivering outcomes to ‘the community’ or ‘clients’; it is writing successful funding applications. Its the job of those applying to make sure that those allocating and approving, will not lose their jobs for doing so. I expect country shire councils are heavily poached for successful grant application writers, so…
ON THE OTHER HAND every hour spent satisfying government drones who can say no and write regulations, is an hour ripped from your life by the powerful, for the fleeting satisfaction of parasites and busybodies.
A hundred hours for a parent and a nineteen-year old driving supervised before they can get a license, no journeys shorter than 20 mins counted; eight weeks delay and maybe twelve hours work for three people, to apply for a target rifle license guaranteed to be approved; three years study for a statutory license or ‘program of work’ to run your business plus hundreds or thousands in fees under ‘user pays’; its all take, very little benefit.
And they do not count the cost in citizen’s time and effort; until only giant companies can afford compliance costs. Government regulation is destroying value much faster than it creates it.
It’s a clear case of the Barbra Streisand effect.
LO, like so many great movies, not that long ago it was remade. Now, the “baddies” are Nazis instead of robbers who, in the original film, had broken into the Amazons’ uncle’s boat. The latter is nowhere near as good.
“I have put everything on hold until I can discuss this matter with whoever broke our lights. I’m not interested in involving the police in this.
“If they want me to continue building sports and recreation facilities for them, they have to come and discuss with me why they did it and show that they are very sorry and promise that this will not happen again.”
Of course it will happen again you tosser. Go to Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and others and see how they deal with shite like that. And then come back here and sort them out, FFS. You Wimp.
No!
Ed is wrong?
Don’t say it is so!
Because it would mean breaking the fascist left’s tribal rules, there’s not a single leftard in Australia willing to publicly tell the truth: Bruce Pascoe is a white bloke, a scammer and a bullsh*t artist.
The ABC knows the truth, too, but won’t call out the fascist left’s tribal rules (enforced by Silicon Valley) that prevent the truth being told.
In 2023, the ABC lies for a living — Australia’s most trusted bullsh*t artists.
religion of pieces:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/queen-elizabeth-ii/edward-little-homegrown-terrorist-considered-mass-gun-attack-on-queens-funeral-to-send-strong-message–c-11311352
I’m sure the Ambo Accountant could build a list of factors contributing to the “price”.
Buying and fitting out the ambulance, running the ambulance not only for the journey to the hospital but also the trip to come and get you, building and maintaining the ambo station, training the ambos, wages for the ambos, ramping time costs, admin support including 000, wasted usage for non-emergency call outs etc.
However I haven’t seen such costings in a public domain. It would make for interesting reading.
vr
Jul 18, 2023 2:11 PM
Ambulance is free in Queensland.
Nothing is free except maybe the air at the moment. FFS.
Greg Craven now being interviewed by Andrew Clennell on Sky about his position.
He’s still digging…
“I started from first principals – recognition in the Constitution, then…
I noted the concerns over the language but…
the Voice Committee did not want to change the text…
So I capitulated.”
Direct quote from Craven at the end of the interview:
‘Once a person decides to vote no, it’s virtually impossible to get them to change’.
principles
OldOzzie
Jul 18, 2023 2:11 PM
Ukraine Adopts Slow Approach to Counteroffensive: “Our Problem Everywhere Is the Sky”
Swift loss of several tanks and infantry fighting vehicles has jolted Ukraine and its Western backers
ORIKHIV, Ukraine—Six weeks into Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Capt. Anatoliy Kharchenko and his reconnaissance company were supposed to be wreaking havoc miles behind Russian defensive lines pierced by Western-supplied armored vehicles.
The UKR is running out of Manpower. Game over. This is a Train Wreck for the USA and NATO. FFS.
Ed is wrong! Shirley not. Next water will be wet.
There’s only so long they’re going to be able to keep trotting out the UKR “victory story.” They have worse chances of “defeating Russia” than my kids’ little league* winning the AFL Premiership.
*also known as the sydney swans
Danger Dan Reviews:
We’re In The Money. Linda Burney, Anthony Albanese, Thomas Mayo
Here is Canstar on this issue
Do you need to pay for ambulance transport in Qld?
Whether or not you have to pay for ambulance transport in Queensland depends on whether you are a resident of the state:
(1) If you are a permanent resident of Queensland: Ambulance transport for Queenslanders is free (nationally).
(2) If you are not a permanent resident of Queensland: You may have to pay for ambulance services in Queensland, although some exemptions do apply.
On the “not counting aborigines in the census” claim.
Mater put up some great links on some of this stuff. One link was the record of the discussions among the colonies’ representatives during the draughting of the Constitution.
The numbers of people counted in the states enabled the size of electorates to be determined. However, the numbers recorded also decided the amount of monies each colony had to pay the new Commonwealth Government to commence the management of the country; and without which, it would have had no funding.
So it was in a colony’s best interest to minimise that count to keep down their payment. In the case of WA, that colony would have known that the number of House of Reps seats was going to be minimal anyhow, without or without the count of the Aborigines up north. But the cost would have been the same.
As to the Aborigines, we’re talking big, big distances, even today. But at that time, before 1901, and for years afterwards, the continuing existence of tribal living, would not have made it easy to make that count.
According to Wiki re the 1911 Census:
According to Wiki, full blood Aborigines numbered 19,939, Australia wide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Australian_census
VR, I think Rotten’s point about nothing being free is correct. I know what the website says so… the ambo’s are volunteers and the ambulances were delivered by Saint Francis while the medicines and fuel are also manna from heaven. 😛
Sorry I’m stirring but the point is: Someone is always paying therefore nothing is free.
The latest Resolve Strategic poll from the Age/Herald records no changes of consequence since the last such poll five weeks ago. Maintaining the pollster’s recent form as the strongest for Labor, it finds Labor down one on the primary vote to 39%, the Coalition steady on 30%, the Greens down one to 11% and One Nation steady on 6%. Based on preferences flows at the 2022 federal election, this would produce a two-party preferred of around 59-41 to Labor, compared with around 60-40 last time.
vr Jul 18, 2023 2:11 PM
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Queensland Ambulance is free – for Queeenslanders.
Good grief…
Lysander — That is true for everything. The point debated upthread is who picks up the tab for a ride on the ambulance. Here, unlike in VIC, QLD residents are not charged extra. In that sense ‘free’.
As I said to relatives recently, Andrews’ pet vanity project (which basically goes nowhere) will probably end up costing at least a quarter of a trillion dollars.
Meanwhile hospital waiting lists in Victoria are an ever growing problem.
Lysander
Jul 18, 2023 2:13 PM
Thank you, Lysander. Have used the info and awaiting the sweaters to be pulled up over heads!
And… this is why its not “free”
https://budget.qld.gov.au/overview/better-health-services-for-all-queenslanders/
Your taxes already pay for it.
Ok, gotchya. 🙂
It’s a clear case of the Barbra Streisand effect.
She is on TV now on SBS World Movies Ch 32 in ‘Funny Lady’…………..
Perhaps they could steal a few Catholic hospitals? It’s the Labor thing.
Lysander Trumpets
Jul 18, 2023 2:13 PM
You can read the 1911 census online:
https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/2112.01911?OpenDocument
Certainly does count aborigines per State.
The problem here, Lysander, is going for a Gotcha without reading your link.
Here’s what your link says:
pp. 1010/1011
86.–NORTHERN TERRITORY.-MALES OF NON EUROPEAN RACE ENUMERATED
At the Census of 3rd April, 1911, Classified according to Birthplace and Race
(Exclusive of Full blooded Aboriginals).
Note the phrase in brackets.
Game, Set and Match to me, old boy.
Here it is again at the header of p. 904:
Not hard to find [if you bother to open your Link].
Here’s a tip [keep it to yourself]:
Zulu is an ALP troll.
He’s dedicated his life to lying and being a drunk.
Dr Faustus — Yep. Palachook government takes care of its own.
The first season of Bergerac was very watchable. The other 9 seasons, not so much.
Ed, you’re evidently wrong as you’ve only quoted one section of the census (the “exclusive of aboriginal” tables). The claim that “aborigines weren’t included in the census to 1967” is patently wrong. Do a simple CNT+F to search for the word “aboriginal” and you’ll come across plenty of tables where aborigines were indeedcounted.
Here’s a tip [keep it to yourself]
You’re a moron.
Caught a few more, Bar Beach Swimmer and JMH.
Here’s a tip, kiddies:
Wikipedia isn’t a reliable source to be citing for Gotchas.
Funny, my link was to the ABS website that had plenty of tables from 1911 census reporting on the living conditions, populations, religions, backgrounds, conjugal status etc (!!!) all on… aborigines!!!
This relates to vaccination in general and is simply extraordinary.
Children’s Health Defense
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The book is based on over one hundred studies in the peer-reviewed literature that consider vaccinated versus unvaccinated populations.
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Let the science speak!
vr Jul 18, 2023 3:03 PM
And quite right, too.
We can’t have feelthy southerners using our ambulances as though they were – well, Queenslanders. They’ll be wanting to be taken to Queensland hospitals next…
One bright man.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
“Your health is worth more than all the money in the world… To me it was an experimental drug, and they had no time to really see the long-term effects.”
-Ice Cube
Glenda M
@McfarlaneGlenda
Trudeau making waves on the international news once again. Hopefully one of these waves eventually wash him away.
Queensssland ambulances are for Queenssslanders.
Ed.
https://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/F8A631CD75497EA6CA25783900132215/$File/1911%20Census%20-%20Volume%20II%20-%20Part%20VIII%20Non-European%20Races.pdf
Wikipedia’s veracity compared with that of the person who wrote this…
Exactly what sort of career could this enhance?
Yes, Really: Texas University Offers Degrees in ‘Victim Studies’
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
“Weather Modification”
Climate control/geoengineering/chemtrails/haarp are NOT conspiracy theories.
The Lifestyle Of Climate Radicals Tells You All You Need To Know About Their Sincerity
Oops.
Late to the Feelthy Mexicans party.
Massive US Oil Caverns Sit Empty and Will Take Years to Refill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-17/massive-us-oil-caverns-sit-empty-in-threat-to-energy-security#xj4y7vzkg
(Paywalled)
Left-wing activist allegedly stabbed to death by illegal alien ex-boyfriend
Unbelievable. So much for integrity in politics.
Desperate DeSantis Team Uses Fake AI Generated Voice of President Trump in Iowa Media Campaign
Half castes were most certainly counted. The reason full bloods weren’t counted is because they were dispersed far and wide throughout this far and wide country.
I couldn’t count the number of pub brawls I’ve got into over Epistles vs Sermons.
Former FBI Agent Assigned To Hunter Biden Investigation Confirms Key Detail Of Whistleblower Testimony, Comer Says
From my understanding (and from what I have read at the ABS website on the 1911 census), aborigines were included in the 1911 census but the results were tabulated separately. This explains why, according to the Mongtard, he “found” tables saying “exclusive of aborigines” (meaning does not include aborigines).
But this does not explain why there are literally hundreds of tables in the 1911 census specifically for aborigines, so you can’t claim “not included in the census” when they were.
If you cleverer Mong, you’d understand nuance…
Aborigines were included in the 1911 census (and reported upon) but their numbers weren’t assimilated (in the tables) with the broader Australian population.
I went to hospital 4 times during 2022.
I took an uber all 4 times.
Hadn’t been in hospital since I was 9 or 10.
My advice is to avoid them.
You are limiting yourself with only natural numbers.
Think like an electronic engineer instead. i is for ‘You shoulda seen the other fella.’ Use the subjunctive!
I care not for your pathetic attempts, Grogarly, for I have been insulted by experts.
At least a stopped clock is right twice a day. There’s right, wrong and then there’s Ed. How does this moron keep being wrong. Stop reading mutley’s little book of wrong. All of us are wrong about some things but don’t make a career out of it.
feelthebern
Jul 18, 2023 3:32 PM
I went to hospital 4 times during 2022.
I took an uber all 4 times.
Hadn’t been in hospital since I was 9 or 10.
My advice is to avoid them.
The Hospitals or the Uber?
@ Dot
Re: “Pol Tot”:
“We should rename her Jessica Christ.”
More like
“Judath Chritht”.
Lysander,
Page 2054 of the 2011 Census, at Section 2
“Full-Blooded Australian Aboriginals Enumerated in the Several States and Territories of the Commonwealth of Australia”. It also shows total population for the Commonwealth.
Are there any other tables that particularly ‘enumerate’ Australian Aboriginals??
There is a ‘disclaimer’ at the end of the Section explaining who was included and why.
Yes Maman. If you go to into each section you will see where aborigines have been counted against every indicator the ABS reported on. Just separately.
For example:
Go to Page 1096 of Volume 9 – Conjugal Status and you’ll see stats on aborigines, and plenty of them. They’re covered/included in each volume.
2.-PERSONS OF NON-EUROPEAN RACE ENUMERATED IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF
AUSTRALIA
At the Census of 3rd April, 1911 (Exclusive of Full-blooded Aboriginals).
RACE.
AUSTRALIAN </strong
FULL BLOOD
Males Females Persons
… … ….
HALF CASTES
Males Females Persons Total
5,283 4,830 10,113 10,113
Full Blooded Aboriginals not counted.
Here's where the confusion may lie:
In the individual State and Territory tallies, there are headings
FULL BLOOD and HALF CASTE
E.G., Tasmania records 463 Male Full Bloods and 68 Female Full Bloods.
Now, common sense tells us:
#1. The last Full Blood Aborigine in Tasmania died in 1877 [some say 1881]
#2. There's not going to be 7 Full Blood Male Aborigines to every Female Full Blood Aborigine.
Here's the Reason:
Full Blood and Half Caste refer to a;ll non european Races.
On page 903 those Races are broken down into Asiatic, African, American, Polynesian, etc.
Then they're further broken down into Chinese, Jepanese, Hindus, Syrians, etc.
It's not hard if you read your own Link, Lysander.
Here it is, if anybody is interested: Link
Bottom Line:
Full Blood Aborigines were not counted in the 1911 Census or any other Census before 1971.
However, by then the Full Blood/Half Caste definitions were gone, there was just Aboriginal, so the 1967 Referendum was essentially pointless, as far as identifying Full Blooded Aborigines, [or Australian Natives, as they were termed at the time] is concerned.
Are you arguing with yourself in a padded room? Here’s a quote from your earlier:
So, you were wrong as they were included but now you’re putting some parameters around what constitutes “Australian Natives” yet we all saw your earlier claim. Aborigines were included in the census.
Lysander
Jul 18, 2023 3:22 PM
Massive US Oil Caverns Sit Empty and Will Take Years to Refill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-17/massive-us-oil-caverns-sit-empty-in-threat-to-energy-security#xj4y7vzkg
(Paywalled)
Massive US Oil Caverns Sit Empty and Will Take Years to Refill
. Nation’s oil reserve is at 40-year-low after historic drawdown
. Experts say refilling will take decades, if it happens at all
Stroll through the West Hackberry oil facility on the US Gulf Coast and there’s not much to see: some pipelines and other industrial equipment. But buried deep beneath the surface are storage caverns so massive they’re tall enough to house the Empire State Building with plenty of room to spare.
These reserve sites are supposed to hold enough backup supply to ensure the US never runs short of oil. Right now, they’re sitting half empty.
It only took about six months for the Biden administration to sell off 180 million barrels from the federal stash in the fastest withdrawal on record.
But refilling it to capacity will likely take decades, if it happens at all. Experts say that a lack of funding and aging infrastructure will plague the process, even as the Energy Department has pledged to keep buying.
In the meantime, with the reserve at its lowest level in 40 years, the US could be vulnerable to oil price shocks. It also means that during domestic supply crunches, the nation will be left to the mercy of global exporters like Saudi Arabia, Russia and the rest of the OPEC+ cartel. The issue has also created yet another political firestorm, as Republicans have blasted the Biden Administration for its record drawdown.
Inside The Strategic Petroleum Reserve As U.S. Seeks Oil-Reserve Overhaul To Ease Mandatory Drawdowns
Mandated yearly sales starting in 2017 meant that the reserves had already been seeing small, but steady, declines. Then came Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, and with it, a surge in global oil prices that fed through into fuel inflation. To combat the spike, President Joe Biden undertook an unprecedented selling campaign — ordering 180 million barrels out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, nearly five times bigger than any previous sale. Gasoline prices soon began to peak, and are down more than 20% in the past year.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, known as the SPR, currently stands at 346.8 million barrels, the lowest level since 1983 and equal to about about 18 days worth of supplies. The total authorized storage capacity is 714 million.
Now that energy costs are back down comes the task of refilling the reserve. That will be a complicated, expensive process.
Oil prices are now much higher than when most of the inventory was originally bought — the average price paid for oil in the reserve was $29.70 per barrel, which compares with the current benchmark cost for US crude futures at about $75.
And there’s the balance between needing to buy and not purchasing too much at once, lest the oil market gets spooked and prices jump higher.
“It would be a very slow process even if you had the money and the facilities were are all in good shape,” John Shages, who previously oversaw the oil cache for the Energy Department, said in an interview. “It could take decades.”
Oil Embargo
The emergency cache was first set up in the 1970s after the Arab oil embargo that created a global energy supply shock and a shortage of gasoline in the US. Americans would line up for hours to fill their tanks — some stations even became by appointment only.
While the US itself has since become the world’s biggest crude producer thanks to prolific shale fields in the Permian basin, the country is still also an importer. That means the SPR still serves an important function, like a kind of doomsday insurance against catastrophes and geopolitical turbulence that can disrupt the flow of shipments. In 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina knocked out Gulf production, reserve sales helped to bolster domestic supplies.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm recently reiterated a pledge to refill the stockpiles. But the department has also conceded that a complete refill is unlikely anytime soon.
Political Battle
Republicans from both chambers of Congress have dismissed the Biden administration’s oil releases as a ploy to bring down gasoline prices before the midterm elections last year in November. They have accused the administration of having no credible plan to refill the reserve.
“DOE’s mismanagement of the SPR has undermined America’s energy security, leaving the nation more vulnerable to energy supply disruptions, and increasing the ability for OPEC and Russia to use energy as a geopolitical weapon,” top House and Senate Republicans wrote in a May letter to the Government Accountability Office, asking the federal watchdog for an audit of the reserve.
Tight Budget
So far, the pace of the refill stands to be a trickle.
The DOE plans to replace at least the barrels sold last year and counts the cancellation of previously-mandated sales towards its goal to replenish the reserves, the agency said previously in an email to Bloomberg. This leaves at least 40 million barrels left to purchase, of which the agency has already committed to purchasing 12 million barrels for deliveries later this year.
But returning the SPR to its 2009 peak would mean purchases of more than 300 million barrels.
Congress stripped away some $12.5 billion from the Energy Department earmarked for reserve oil purchases last year when it cancelled 140 million barrels worth of sales that had been previously mandated.
Now the department is left with with roughly $4.3 billion to purchase oil — enough for roughly 61 million barrels at prices of around $70 a barrel, said Kevin Book, managing director of Washington-based consulting firm Clearview Energy Partners. With Congress hyper-focused on reducing deficits and the budget, it’s unlikely more funding will be provided anytime soon, he added.
The DOE didn’t address Bloomberg’s queries about budgetary constraints to refilling the reserve.
Aging Facilities
The Gulf Coast salt caverns that comprise the 70s-era reserve were built with a 25-year life span in mind. They were designed for just five drawdowns and refills, said William “Hoot” Gibson, the reserve’s former project manager. The more the system is used, the higher the risk the salt caverns will dissolve.
Two of the reserve’s sites in Texas and Louisiana are currently offline for maintenance. A $1.4 billion modernization program, funded through oil sales, is behind schedule and over budget — with the Biden administration asking Congress for an additional $500 million for the project last year.
“There are infrastructural challenges at the reserve simply because of how it is designed and how it has been used over the past decade,” said Tristan Abbey, who received routine briefings on the state of the reserve while serving as a director on the National Security Council during the Trump administration. “The caverns are made out of salt, and they are not really intended for a daily ATM-type operations.”
The Energy Department said it doesn’t have concerns about the quality and integrity of the caverns.
QLD ambulances can do anything.
The Chook cut back on regional birthing centers because she decided that they were too costly. QLD’s super ambulance service would fill the gap.
400 plus rural women gave birth on the roadside last year.
They were probably LNP voters so mhhhhh.
You have got to love city Labor.
Ed hold your breath. Yelling doesn’t make it right. Bottom line, the only thing you’ve been successful in is being wrong. Maybe if you use a bigger font it’ll make it right.
Inside, a sales person confides that business is so bad, she has had zero customers in the past couple of months. When her boss cut prices, people who had previously bought into the development got angry.
“They were threatening to launch a protest,” she says.
When you have over 20% youth unemployment you have a real problem. Over to you Chairman Xi and good luck.
Is the CDC totally blind to all the adverse events from the COVID vaccines?
Thanks OldOzzie!!!
This is treasonous stuff!
OldOzzie
Jul 18, 2023 3:55 PM
Lysander
Jul 18, 2023 3:22 PM
Massive US Oil Caverns Sit Empty and Will Take Years to Refill
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-17/massive-us-oil-caverns-sit-empty-in-threat-to-energy-security#xj4y7vzkg
And what the people here don’t realise is that Australia’s small Strategic Oil Reserve is in the USA. FFS. What T.W.A.T. allowed that?
Yep QLD ambulances can do anything.
The Chook cut back on regional birthing centers because they were too expensive. (Um, and perhaps the country ladies were LNP voters.)
Ambulances would fill the gap.
400 plus women gave birth on the roadside last year.
I love city Labor.
Half castes were most certainly counted.
No one disputes this.
The reason full bloods weren’t counted is because they were dispersed far and wide throughout this far and wide country.
No.
Full Blood Aborigines were specifically excluded from all Censuses until 1971, it’ was in the Constitution.
The Constitution specifically forbade the Commonwealth making any Laws pertaining to the Aboriginal Race.
From that, we can take it to mean that Aboriginal Race and Full Blood Aborigine were synonymous.
All other Races were counted from 1911, both Full Blood and Half Caste.
A Scomo “special” **rolls eyes**
From that, we can take it to mean that that you’re scurrying back up your own backside to find a reason why you’d post this:
And to post it without a single parameter. Just a broad sweeping statement with no particulars. Yet, later in the day, you want to now argue that “we” can take it to mean that Aboriginal Race and Full Blood Aborigine were synonymous
Suuuuuuuuure….
So, you were wrong as they were included but now you’re putting some parameters around what constitutes “Australian Natives” yet we all saw your earlier claim. Aborigines were included in the census.
No, you’re weaselling.
Australian Natives, which is the term used after Full Blood was discontinued, were not included in the Census until 1971.
That was the question at the 1867 Referendum.
Continuing the QLD ambulance theme.
When the ambulance eventually arrived at 4:30am at our little local hospital to take my wife to the regional hospital for emergency surgery, it only had a crew of one.
The hospital had to supply a nurse to ride in the back.
I have no idea whether that is normal proceedure or not, but it did seem strange.
Well, you’ve proved yourself to be an even lower lying sacka shit than Zulu, which boggles the imagination.
But, at least you’ve read the link and can admit, in a round about way, that Full Blood Aborigines were not counted in the 1911 Census, or any other prior to 1971.
Firstly, there is no “we” Mong. Secondly, I can’t see the term “Australian Native” used in the Census as they called them “Aborigines” (and also separate full blooded out in some tables, and in others, leave them in).
Thirdly, Federation occurred after 1867. Pretty simple fact that one.
For the sandgropers:
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/unidentified-object-found-on-wa-beach-likely-to-be-space-debris-c-11313953
@ Johnny Rotten:
“Q. What is the Capital of Victoria?
A. One Australian Dollar.”
See also, from the same era:
Q. How do you get into small business in Victoria?”
A. Start with a big business.
Well may have Sydney never graduated much past being the home of the Rum Corps and the “Convict Streak”, but Melbourne seems to perpetually struggle with being “a fine place for a village”.
What a weasel you are, Lysander.
Hadn’t read your own 1911 Census link, just jumped on a bandwagon with a few other lying ALP Shills.
And still won’t admit what a lying puddle o’ piss you are?
From page 1096 to 1101 – the word Aboriginal “enumerated in each state” means Aboriginals WERE included in the 1911 Census.
Firstly, there is no “we” Mong. Secondly, I can’t see the term “Australian Native” used in the Census as they called them “Aborigines” (and also separate full blooded out in some tables, and in others, leave them in
Wrong, you brain dead dope.
The Headers specifically exclude Full Blood Aborigines.
There is no count under that heading.
Full Bloods and half castes of other Non european Races are counted.
Here’s the link to page 903.
Get your carer to explain to you what it’s saying.
But this fiasco will hardly instil confidence among corporate leaders in the state government’s planning and risk management capabilities.
There are NO planning and risk management capabilities. Full stop. FFS.
If Corporate Leaders have ever thought that the State Guv’ment ever had that then they have NFI. More FFS.
A nice success in court today.
A second directions hearing has seen the judge set two earlier dates for the hearing of our application to set aside the ministerial orders fast tracking the transmission line build.
SC for the Vic Gov sought to have AEMO join as a interested party but His Honour refused.
This was an obvious delaying tactic with the chief aim of running our small group out of funds.
As a result the judge set a first date four days earlier than his original date. He was no doubt well aware of the tactics and took a dim view.
It’s set for Sept 7-8 and 10-11.
One to tune into when the time comes.
Rachel Perkins – she who claimed that 120,000 Aboriginal men, women and children killed in the “Frontier Wars – is putting the “Yes” case for the referendum.
Re BBS’s Swallows and Amazons reference, if I remember riughtly mum is concerned the four of her kids will go boating and camping on the lake without supervision. She telegrams Commander Walker RN, who is stationed in the Far East.
He telegrams back something like: “Betters drowned than duffers. If not duffers then not drowned.”
Cruel but fair.
Mong,
I believe you’ve strayed into the path of dishonesty. It’s either that or you truly are a tard, both perhaps?
Cats can feel free to furnish themselves with the volumes of it and see for themselves where the census explicitly excludes full bloods and where it doesn’t – obviously it wasn’t going to include ALL aborigines as the ABS, unlike today, didn’t have unlimited resources to uncover every stone across the nation.
From page 1096 to 1101 – the word Aboriginal “enumerated in each state” means Aboriginals WERE included in the 1911 Census.
That’s not in dispute, Clown.
The ‘argument’ was whether Full Blood Aborigines were counted before 1971.
Obviously they weren’t or else what was the 1967 Referendum all about?
Have you ever seen the Mong and Perkins in the same room?
Ed, this is the relevant section of the Constitution before and after the previous change to the wording.
https://www.ausconstitution.org/home/chapter-1-the-parliament/part-v-powers-of-the-parliament/section-51/26-race-power
See, “other than the aboriginal race…”
That was the reason for the 1967 referendum, to allow the Commonwealth to take over Aboriginal Affairs – to make laws for them.
Ukraine: It’s a war of phases, as one side or other adjusts to whatever the other is currently doing. The idea that either are done at this point is propaganda. This thing has quite a ways to go, and the final outcome uncertain. You can comfortably ignore claims that “Ukraine is running out of blah blah blah” just as you can ignore the “Russia is running out of x or y” or “Putin is finished” from the opposite side.
For Russia get what it ultimately wants there has to be a fracture in the NATO alliance. There is little chance of that any time soon.
For Ukraine to get the security it wants there has to be a monumental Russian military collapse. Which seems very unlikely.
My guess is, unfortunately, we will be following this war well into the next US presidential term no matter who is elected there.
The upside is that it has jarred our militaries and politicians out of the “war as police actions” that saw a complacency and mis allocation of effort. Less training on how to frisk civilians and run traffic stops, more on how to accurately drop high explosives on pricks.
Here’s a book review (partially read).
When I visited Jamaica Inn, I mentioned that I had picked up a copy of a du Maurier that I had never read. Like so many favourite authors, you see the list of “Other titles” but somehow never seem to see a copy on the retailer’s shelves.
The book I bought was The House on the Strand.
I’m only a little under halfway through it, but like my walk earlier that day through the Lost Gardens of Heligan (not far from where the fictional account takes place) it has that elusive time travelling quality. People lived here. They worked, loved, dreamed and died here. What were they like? The novel explores these themes. Some of you, and I imagine Johanna, have already read it. A later work, it has the same maturity as The Flight of the Falcon, another mind bending story of muddled identity and malice.
I disregarded the forward, written by some Virago Press “expert”. Utter tosh and representative of all the progressive garbage being force fed down even casual readers’ throats. I even laughed out loud at one point, so idiotic was her premise. That’s when I stopped reading and got on with the far more intelligent story
The economics of building on cow paddocks will succeed despite Chairman Dan. Give it 20 or 30 years.