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What was it in the US? One drop was sufficient.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lined up alongside controversial Olympic breakdancer Raygun Zero judgement – the gift that keeps on giving.…
Here’s the problem with the Vivmeister: Carlson asks him to comment about J6 and although Viv does get to some of the problems, he skirts the real issue. Nearly all the decent folks protesting J6 weren’t just there because they hated that there was censorship. That too, but they believed the election was stolen. He never said anything about this.
watch here.
Annie
I think you’re right the first time.
Indolent 23/8 @ 7:02pm
Thank you for the link to Malcolm Roberts.
Brave to speak his mind which to me is the truth.
Agree with everything he says.
What he says would be ridiculed but he soldiers on.
Good on you Malcolm.
Indolent
Damn straight.
Can someone inform CL at least her arms are covered. He’s always had a thing about those droopy arms showing.
All these exs. First it was Turnbuckle wanting to get into the groove with the Albanian. She looks really happy too.
So, the results are in, “one in three kids fails NAPLAN literacy and numeracy“. How utterly unsurprising, and don’t forget that we had almost nine years of a Coalition government.
According to an earlier commenter, he’s part of the elite and has differing morality. Roberts completed an MBA at University of Chicago which automatically would put him in club elite, so you’re not supposed to like him. 🙂
Book learnin’?
Say it ain’t so!
Quite correct, cohenite.
With thanks to the absolute legend John Ray.
Communism is so incredibly close to National Socialism that it is hilarious the far left call their political enemies National Socialists.
Sheez, I thought it was like somewhere in the top 10, bit not second. Chicago Booth business school is ranked number two in the US, which means it’s number 2 in the world.
He’s one really smart cookie.
It.will.never.happen. The teachers in my sons school were totally against the concept of boys doing better with male teachers and went the whole “he’s got ADHD and needs to be medicated” route.
I guess self-education at home or some communal groups focused on bare minimum (english, math, science) coverage taught to a high level might be the only way to avoid kids being brainwashed and illiterate..
“Aboriginal souls will be crushed if the Voice is rejected…”
Only if your surname is Langton, Pearson and all the rest of the idiots. Think I will be fine.
Roberts is likely to be the smartest dude in Parliament. You need a score of 730 in the GMAT to get into Chicago. That’s really high IQ.
So.
Only Aboriginal Ah-Souls will be impacted?
GreyRanga
I’ll pass that one, thanks GR.
Not Chris Bowen?
Hey CL, at least the arms are nicely camouflaged this time.
I done GMAT long time ago.
Not sure of my score.
I don’t fink it was 730.
That would be above P95 I would reckon.
Yea, I reckon it’s there, Sanchez.
But CL has a fair point, that Bowen could be smarter.
KD
if If the hand up ya actually allows you to turn yr head 180°,
check in a mirror to see if you also have a pull-string like a Woody Doll.
Only Aboriginal Ah-Souls will be impacted?
Love it.
I have a friend who did an MBA at Kellogg in the 1990s. It was close to number 1 at the time, IIRC.
the clowns
they aren’t very creative are they?
does get a bit tiresome after a while
There really is no saving Peter Dutton. What possessed him to go on Annabel Crabb’s kitchen cabinet to eat and be interviewed? All it did is provide his opponents with more ammunition to belittle him. She accused him of being racist and he apologised instead of refuting the charge.
Ha, ha.
Cl
My kid did an MBA at the 11th I honestly dunno how the hell she stumbled in, but she did. I kept telling her not waste my money, get married and have a couple of kids. I was trying hard to motivate her. 🙂
That’s a double Scotch and a new keyboard you owe me…
Anyone familiar with that song “Sumer is Icumen In”, I have found the winter version.
You know, I don’t think Hillary was in on the joke, and then the email thing. The fat big mouth jumping like that is hysterical.
Rich Baris: Why Trump is Stronger Today Than He’s Ever Been
@jc:
Yes, I had a brain block after posting originally.
Cassie pretty well put into words what I think about Pauline Hanson. I really like Pauline. It’s a pity Mark Latham was a little too ‘descriptive’ (shall we say?) as he normally has plenty of really sensible ideas about education. I like him too.
Is there, or has there been, another Annie on this blog? I’ve seen a ‘double’ in The Australian comments sections and have seen references to ‘Annie’ on a couple of comments here, which comments rang no bells for me. I’m from North Central Victoria.
There was an Annie at the old blog who listed a little too much to one side mental-wise and departed. She called herself Anne as a nameplate, some people referred to her as Annie.
Keep in mind Mark Latham was responding to being called, in writing, “A disgusting human being“, for attending a Catholic church in western Sydney & addressing the congregation.
Just received photos and reports of the Western Sydney Forum on ‘The Voice’ – Blacktown Workers Club.
Western Sydney forum ‘Say No to The Voice’ with special guests Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Senator Kerrynne Liddle, Warren Mundine AO, The Hon Alex Hawke MP and Melissa McIntosh MP
I have a photo of my 16yr old grandson with Warren Mundine’s arm on his shoulder.
He encouraged him to follow his political ambitions.
Another photo with Alex Hawke MP – Federal Member for Mitchell. Alex was very keen to chat to my grandson as he has been selected to participate in the Mitchell Leaders Forum for Y12 School Leaders. Alex was looking forward to catching up with him at the forum.
Grandson was talking to the adults at the meeting, and they couldn’t believe how a 16 yr old could be so switched on. They said they’d all vote for him ?
He told them there will be a shift back to the right, which he called the Conservative Youth Revolution.
Dover, how much to you estimate will be the cheat factor in 24?
– McCain … ah, McCain, you’ve done it again (bringing Chinese food in via NZ, that is)
– And the 40+ Australian wine labels actually owned by China, including:
– 1847 Wine
– Chateau Yaldara
– Burge Family Winemakers
– Kilikanoon
– Ferngrove
– Knappstein
– Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream (anti-gun, anti-2A, anti-right screaming leftists)
– Quaintarse, if I can possibly avoid it
– For WA, Kailis Bros fish (90% of company sold to the Chinese)
P, I’m getting the same vibe from the young people I know. They are all sick of the woke nonsense they are continuously made to contemplate and adhere to.
Wonderful, P.
I am pleasantly surprised that Melissa McIntosh was in attendance. Good on her.
One of the neocons’ favourite gaslighting lines about the indictments is that the Democrats want Trump to be the nominee.
Greg Sheridan wheels it out whenever he mentions Trump.
Very ably demolished by Sarah Hoyt:
https://instapundit.com/599384/
Do it, and reveal your scores.
https://www.mba.com/gmat-mini-quiz
I dropped one answer, didn’t read the question careful enough.
This is where the the left is going with the “insurrection”.
Judge Luttig: Secretaries Of States Will Decline To Place Trump On The Ballot, Argue He Is Unqualified
The Angels – “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again…”
CL 23/8 @7:56
Douglas McGregor clip was brilliant. Understood everything he said. Total clarity.
Thank you.
They will probably try a rerun of 2020, but they are going to be hamstrung in WI and MI because I think the courts there have ruled that some of the practices used in 2020 where unconstitutional. But as Baris says in the vid, Trump is doing better the 2020 in certain demos, like new voters, and the like. Also there was the poll I posted last night that had him +8 and winning every age demo bar 55+ and he only just loses that last one by 2.
My 16yr old grandson had open heart surgery with the Ross Procedure eight months ago.
It is indeed wonderful to see the photos of him tonight at the Blacktown Workers Club.
Why Maui Burned
Climate change isn’t one of the reasons.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Do you actually believe that a political party who has no problem arresting their top political opponent and his lawyers would have any problem cheating in an election?
Dover
Baris was really optimistic in 2020, but the cheating was an issue. In 2022, I vaguely recall him suggesting the majority would be larger than it ended up in the house. Don’t recall what he said about the senate. Is he reliable, you think?
Look at his tail wagging. He’s really into it.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
No matter what problems you’re having today – watching a dog surf will make you feel better.
He was actually bearish 2020 for national, and quite good in accuracy, particularly for the states. In 2022, he was thereabouts on the generic Congressional was predicting 220 +-5 and 51/52 for Senate as most likely.
it’s like a shadow.
24 is going to be seriously ugly.
Oh I think I get it now. The first rumblings about mask wearing is about the 24 election. If they’re able to frighten people into believing there’s a new wave coming and mask wearing is mandatory or highly advised because of this dangerous new mutation, they’ll try to finagle a way of doing mass mail-in voting in a similar way to 2020
Must admit I have never been a fan of Liz Storer (the smug drawl grates) and her performance on tonight’s Late Debate on Sky confirmed my dislike. In shouty tones she insisted that the Spanish coach’s brief kiss on the lips of the winning team captain amounted to an assault.
In vain James Macpherson tried to get her to understand it was an expression of joy in the moment but was drowned out. She would have none of it and finally you could see Macpherson would have none of her.
Is there such a thing as a right wing fright bat? Maybe Tim Blair knows.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman TDS.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Henry Payne.
Bob Gorrell.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Rumor has it; Jevgenyij Prigozsin the Wagner chief is dead, aircraft accident in Russia.
It’s disputed as he was reported being in Niger, Africa a couple of days ago.
Why would he go to Moskau?
Thanks Tom.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
– Ray Davies
Quality Leak.
Rumor has it; Jevgenyij Prigozsin the Wagner chief is dead, aircraft accident in Russia.
Just saw it on DW News – Seems to be true –
A good ‘rule of thumb’ is – “To be careful who you fly with.”
Feeling good after a slash there, Bern? 🙂
LOL, I’m not that old JC.
Leak only has to drop in an Albo “why would I bother” every one or two weeks to keep that stupidity alive.
Just think how long the line “I don’t hold a hose, mate” haunted ScoMo.
Just saw it on DW News – Seems to be true –
DW news plays a straighter bat than the ABC or BBC.
A lot of mini doco’s on their various YT channels that don’t confirm to the group think.
Apart from climate change.
They are all in on that.
Tulsi Gabbard via Jimmy Dore has made a great point about why aren’t more US military assets being deployed in response to Maui.
The US Pacific fleet deploys assets to natural disasters in the region at the drop of a hat.
But when it comes to Maui, they are being slow walked.
. So like Mary Harrinton’s grandmother said: Mary, why don’t you grow your hair and get married — interpreted by Mary as ‘be normal’ which Mary said was not something she’d tried. And it worked for her apparently. (Mary Harrington is author of Feminism Against Progress)
Lovely interview with Andrew Klavan and Mary Harrington — . though Mary does speak rather quickly.
Oh yes.
‘Why would I?’ has the potential to join ‘No child will live in poverty’ and ‘There will be no xxxxx tax from a government I lead’ in the pantheon of idiotic statements from troughers.
The Indian spacecraft successfully completed its journey to the moon, according to the picture wireless.
Early reports are that it arrived on time, its interior was immaculate, complimentary mints were available and it got a five-star rating.
The Indian spacecraft successfully completed its journey to the moon, according to the picture wireless.
Was the craft designed to allow one to evacuate their bowels via a slot in the floor when they return with a manned mission?
The Wagner chief is brown bread.
Evidently some sort of Yamamoto-style arrangement.
Hey, it’s a long way between roadhouses out there.
Things I won’t be watching.
The first GOP debate.
I look forward to the hot takes from various commentators.
Fun fact, if you want to watch the debate live on-line you have to watch via Rumble who have the exclusive streaming rights.
They must be pissed that Trump is not a starter.
Have they opened a Metro yet?
The Wagner chief is brown bread.
Nah, he’s in Argentina with Hitler.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.
– William E. Simon
Space Exploration Technologies, Elon Musk’s rocket company, is working with Cloudflare to boost the performance of SpaceX’s satellite internet service Starlink, with the goal of delivering faster network speeds to its customers. Such improvements could help overcome one obstacle to Starlink’s long term growth, as future bandwidth-hungry applications become commonplace.
Wow.
Current Starlink in Oz is awesome compared to the alternatives (as I’ve been told by many, many fries..I mean users) and they are working on upping the speeds?
Not everyone’s cup of tea but some hilarious insights, especially on
steroids and soccer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOjRw_yUcMM
Yeah, I said yesterday he’d resurfaced in Africa, since he’d apparently posted a Telegram vid of himself from there. Today he’s cactus in a plane crash near St Petersburg. Gets around. Not so easy to fly from Africa to Russia, have to go the long way as Russian flights can’t go over Europe. Well whatever happened we’ll find out eventually.
Quenthland news:
And:
How wonderful. There’s no skank like a Quenthland skank. From court:
Ah, no. They were homeless because of their drug addictions, and their consequent behaviour.
Big difference, often ignored by hand-patters.
Looks like the neo-nazi Dmitry Utkin was in the crash as well.
Wagner founder and hitman Dmitry Utkin ‘killed alongside Prigozhin’ in plane crash (23 Aug)
Apart from Prigozhin and Utkin I don’t know who the others are.
Keep going.
Legal action to protect Aboriginal cultural sites leads to temporary logging halt in Newry State Forest
“The Wagner chief is brown bread.”
I hate to be an oracle yet again, although clearly I missed my calling in life, but did I not predict this? I predicted that Yevgeny Prigozhin, after his bizarre attempted coup only two months ago, was a dead man walking. It was only a matter of time before Putin’s tentacles dealt with him. Nobody threatens to march on Moscow and lives to tell the tale.
Anyone else remember how Monty, just two months ago, was feverishly excited at the thought that Prigozhin was going to take Moscow in hours, terminate Putin, broker a peace treaty, install Zelensky as the new tsar in the Kremlin, and capitulate to everything Washington says.
Further to “termination”, this war could have been terminated last year, instead we have the West continuing to use Ukraine as a proxy in a dirty war against Russia, and western neocon media mouthpieces, such as Dribbler Sheridan and Andrew Blot, feverishly mouthing the Washington line.
Meanwhile Mrs Zelensky, in the style of Eva Peron, swans around Europe, attending coronations, and frequently photographed with European royals.
Pity the Ukrainian people.
Not quite apartments.
Obviously someone thinks international travel will continue to be a thing.
Indonesians to convert vacant Sydney office tower into luxury hotel
this ‘influencer’ flies somewhere nearly every weekend. Do all all her followers also clamour for climate action now. I don’t do insta, it just sounds like the modern version of ‘take that’ or the New Idea.
This video went from nil to millions of hits overnight. If it doesn’t touch your soul you better check to see if you have one.
‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
(Washington DC, New York, etc. are north of Richmond)
There is no space for the Spanish coach to make an admittedly bizarre mistake, apologise and move on. Yet, the same media outlets constantly run interference for Joe Biden’s repeated and unwelcome harassment of women and children.
Able to confirm this.
Maui residents who disobeyed barricade survived fires: AP
The Case for American-Led Peace in Ukraine
RUSSIAN SCIENTIST FALLS 500-FEET TO HIS DEATH THANKS TO HIS HIKING APP, AUTHORITIES SAY
It shouldn’t even need saying.
Don’t believe doomsayers — new COVID outbreak is mild, and masks don’t help
Meme
I Meme Therefore I Am ??
@ImMeme0
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Watch how the old pals pet each other on the back. Graham happily states that one more time will make his 8 visit to Ukraine.
They are discussing to provide more financial and military help from the United States.
There are over 1,000 people missing in Hawaii. Each household got lousy $700. Estimate damage reach nearly $6 billion. Thousands people are misplaced without means to rebuild their homes and to move forward.
Some of our cities look like third world country infested with poverty and drugs. Yet, the Unity party goes back and forth to take care of one of the most corrupt countries in Europe to fund the proxy war.
As of today America spent around $113 Billion on Ukraine, that mounts $900 per American household.
I don’t care if you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent but this should make your blood boil.
JC
Aug 23, 2023 11:08 PM
This is where the the left is going with the “insurrection”.
Judge Luttig: Secretaries Of States Will Decline To Place Trump On The Ballot, Argue He Is Unqualified
Yep. As I said I’m easing back on the assassination solution the demorats will employ for Trump. They have learnt that they can do any indictment, no matter how absurd and most of the msm and sheeple won’t care or understand, so confecting an ineligibility for POTUS will be nothing.
Best toons:
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Varvel
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Gorrell
Take down that wall!
Vatican Slams ‘Inhuman’ U.S. Southern Border Fence (23 Aug)
I don’t mean the border fence, I mean the Vatican Wall. It’s enormous. The irony is it was built to keep out muslims, who’re now flooding into the US and EU via uncontrolled migration. Not going to end well.
Current Starlink in Oz is awesome compared to the alternatives
Able to confirm this.
Compared to the NBN. No contest.
Well done Malcolm TurnBullShit. Another $50 Billion South Pacific pesos down the plug hole.
I watched a bit of Tucker’s interview with Colonel MacGreggor and I have a problem with his numbers. The colonel says that Ukraine has had 400,000 soldiers killed and has 50,000 amputees. The ratio looks wrong, in every other war the killed to wounded numbers would be reversed to those he provided.
General Keen on Bolt’s program was giving a different opinion to MacGreggor’s so I wonder if the truth is somewhere in between.
Dunno what all the fuss is about Sleazy, he was elected to lead, not to read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQ55S-DJsM
They might be able to fill the hotel with guests if out government didn’t restrict airlines other than Qantas from flying them here.
She flies every weekend so you don’t have to.
So… has anyone asked AI to model a sculpture of the Matildos yet?
Ha, ha! (Instead of an uptick)
Ground control, India: 3, Control. Telemetry looking good.
Chandrayaan-3: Control, 3. Confirm green across the board.
GCI: 3, Control. We are getting an anomalous reading from your navigational computer. Can you verify?
C-3: Control, 3. We aren’t seeing anything.
GCI: 3, Control. It could be a problem. You may have been hacked. We are going to send you a link so we can take over your computer…
There are things out there that can still surprise.
Basically, a giant, paper slinky. Pretty awesome.
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1693327697152274598
GCI: Actually, sir, TeamViewer is totally safe, is your internet working?
The Ukrainian numbers for Russian casualties always had a far more realistic ratio.
It’s a stalemate, a massive withdrawal after a repelled decapitation strike and Vlad still reckons he’s only lost 5,000 – 10,00 troops, tops.
Such BS.
GCI: 3, Control. It could be a problem. You may have been hacked. We are going to send you a link so we can take over your computer…
Bwahahaha
C-3: Control, 3. Do the needful!
Has anyone tagged the sponsor?
Lovely story about P’s grandson. Nothing like watching them becoming the people you hoped and dreamed they would become. It’s one of life’s greatest satisfactions. Possibly the greatest.
It’s a stalemate, a massive withdrawal after a repelled decapitation strike
If that’s a stalemate, then don’t ever play Chess with Putin.
Imagine being such a dope as to take the side (over your own) of the psychotic douche who felt comfortable taking out the pilot and other passengers in this assassination:
..
Yes.
It’s a stalemate.
That’s why no line has moved in any meaningful way for roughly a year.
How else do you define a stalemate, genius?
On the “influencer” and the howwid, mean fine – I expect there’s a lot more to the story.
Many…many trips would flag her immediately. This is not difficult stuff.
Then there’s the next layer. She’s dressed as “Barbie”. Hellooooo…we have a live one here. Questions about occupation and salary are pretty standard, hardly intrusive.
I notice Breibart and its fond readers never miss an opportunity to have a dig at the Catholic Church, a pity the story didn’t link to the English edition of L’osservatore romano but then why would they?
Perhaps the observation that razor wire is inhumane is perfectly reasonable.
Was the private jet part of the Wagner fleet or a hire? Not that it makes a huge difference, apart from the expectations of those caught up in the downing. If you’re a mercenary, you put yourself in harm’s way daily.
I can’t say her story resonated with me either Calli.
I didn’t know a rose was a plant.
Okay.
On the other hand maybe just arriving on an international flight holding a rose was enough for her to get pulled aside.
WA is particularly fussy about unwanted organic material.
It’s pathetic.
Cut them off. Andrew Breitbart is dead and they’re grifting off Trump.
[Hey. At least think for yourself and vet your links or sources.]
PS. Coffee time! It is 8:35 AM!
Died suddenly eh ?
Apparently Trump’s campaign has created a website describing the Fox News debates as ‘2024 Vice Presidential Debates’.
The guy is a past master at trolling.
Branco and Varvel today, bloody hilarious.
Usually, wounded are around three to four times the number of dead. MacGregor is referring only to amputees, but not everyone wounded loses a limb.
Bwah ha ha ha.
“I was just putting it out there.
Might be right.
Might be wrong”.
Andrew Bolt:
And which is “our own” side and why?
Reported as owned by Prigozhin.
7 Wagner members including Prigozhin’s right hand man and 3 crew returning from a meeting with defence officials in Moscow.
Excellent work on the Indian spaceship, Cats.
The very well worn (but still very funny) reference to toilet holes in the floor.
The take on Indian call centres/scammers.
A bit of convenience store stuff.
Well done.
I think the only thing we could have done was something about it being a mission to sell the man in the moon a new electricity contract or replacement light bulbs.
Andrew Bolt 2:
Good and hard Australia. The Environmental Defenders Office. What on earth is this? Might have to have a look. What a world.
You can take the “schoolteacher” out of the school …
………………………………………………………………………….LOL!!!!
I have thought of that but even if other wounded numbers are triple the amputees the ratios are still off.
If Tucker Carlson has a weakness as a reporter, it’s that he can be too much of a contrarian, the otherwise essential component of good journalism.
Carlson’s excellent instinct was not to fall for the official propaganda about the Ukraine war so he set about collecting contrary opinions — and Colonel Doug Mcgregor is one of those contrarians.
As a military analyst and former battlefield strategist, Macgregor should be listened to as an important source of information about the Ukraine war, but he’s not a definitive source — which Carlson unfortunately promoted him as.
I really miss Carlson’s regular analysis of US politics. The sooner he sorts out his legal problems the better. He needs a new permanent home — where he will most likely be the boss, unaccountable to flaky liberals like the Mudrock kiddies.
Just wowee. Environmental Defenders Office here. Is there a teal hue strewn about the place?
I may have mentioned this before.
The Ukraine is a flirty pub slut in an on-again off-again relationship with a large boofy dude. Because the relationship is currently ‘off’, she’s sidled up to another bloke of approximately the same size in the same pub, and let him buy her free drinks for quite some time.
The blokes – both now keen for some sweet, sweet Ukraine Volks bonnet and aware of each other’s presence have headed out into the car park at closing time to sort it out.
The flirty pub slut’s got in between the squared-off blokes and is on the screech. She’s then copped left hooks and right crosses from both blokes, all aimed at the other.
The blokes will resort to an uneasy truce. The flirty pub slut, suitably battered will claim victim status and be back in the front bar at 10.30 the next morning, looking for another sugar daddy.
It’s not trolling when it’s true.
No it isn’t. It’s an intelligence test: you fail the test if you try to climb over it.
Israel has built an extensive wall, with razor wire, to defend herself. It works pretty well despite homicidal Palis continually trying to get through it. Which they have been doing, but it would be much worse if the wall wasn’t there.
IDF Chief: Israel in a Wave of Terror Not Seen in a Long Time (22 Aug)
Just a reminder.
FEMEN was founded in Ukraine and all men 16 – 60 were conscripted and can’t leave.
Marrying a gal from Ukraine would on average be a very bad idea.
I think that is “our side” you’re talking about there.
Please feel free to correct any punctuation if you want to avoid the question.
Putin’s totally not an evil psychopathic murderer though.
He’s the defender of Christendom and western civilisation. You can totally trust an “ex” KGB Lt. Col.
Fact Check : True.
Fact Check : Not True on both counts.
“He was a murderer from the beginning ….”
Crossie
My point was that the plane wasn’t full of innocent civilians, but mercenaries.
It’s the black belt level of stupid games and stupid prizes.
Crossie
Sorry, format fail, the last two paras come from my quick web search.
I doubt the pilots were retired Ansett chaps, innocents abroad just looking to top up their super.
My tears are being held in reserve.
m0nty must be super upset, he was going to travel to St Petersburg and vote for Prigozhin, he was going to live blog it as well.
Try harder.
Correct punctuation matters.
Ace Of Spades with a fantastic read. Could also relate it to monty.
Undoubtedly.
Prigozhin was said to be a long-time Hawthorn Football Club member.
And possibly a ranga.
I personally am waiting from the email from a Selenian* prince fleeing his world with the Royal fortune because the Prime Minister has led a revolution and killed the entire Royal family. He just needs a few thousand dollars to get to neutral Switzerland from which he will send me out of gratitude a sizeable portion of the wealth he brings with him.
* I think Selenian sounds better than plain old ‘Lunar’ in this case.
By my reckoning, he’s liable to be prosecuted for the conspiracy and incitement to commit genocide in regard to four acts that contravene Art. II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide {1948).
Western Christians beguiled by Putin lack faith. Cf. Ps. 146, particularly verses 3-5.
That, I suppose, must wait until the Nigerians get to the Moon.
Spare a thought for real Nigerian princes.
Imagine how hard it must be to get banking details to pay for stuff they bought on-line.
I’m sure Monty would agree that Vlad had legitimate grievances to take down Prigozhin.
Right after Malmo.
Isn’t it nice that a “developing nation”, with all the free passes that go with that classification, can go to the moon?
Yet here we are, we devilish profligates, looking down the barrel of energy rationing, on account of our “development”.
We are expected to believe this tripe.
Prigozhin plane crash: What we know so far
The Wagner Group chief was traveling on board a private jet that crashed in Russia with no survivors
1. What details have been confirmed?
The Russian Emergencies Ministry confirmed that the jet plunged to the ground in Tver Region, and that all three crew and seven passengers on board were killed. The ministry said that the jet, an Embraer 135BJ Legacy 600, was traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg at the time of the incident.
Rosaviatsiya, the Russian federal air transport agency, said that Prighozhin was on board, along with several high-ranking Wagner commanders.
2. Was the crash caught on camera?
Several short clips of the crash have circulated on social media. Videos published by the Mash and Baza Telegram channels appear to show the jet plummeting toward the ground in a seemingly uncontrolled spin, leaving behind a trail of black smoke. It is unclear from the clips which part of the aircraft had caught fire.
Other clips purportedly shot at the crash site show flaming wreckage strewn across a grassy clearing.
3. Is Prigozhin definitely dead?
Although Rosaviatsiya said that Prigozhin’s name was on board, it did not explicitly pronounce the Wagner chief dead.
As of late Wednesday evening, Russian officials said that they had recovered eight bodies, though none had been named by that time. All were described as badly burned.
Some Russian outlets identified the plane’s tail number as RA-02795, which is believed to belong to Prigozhin.
According to flight-tracking site FlightRadar24, a second plane linked to Prigozhin with the tail number RA-02878 departed Moscow shortly after the first, but returned to land after news of the crash broke. None of these reports have been officially confirmed.
4. Who else was on board?
In addition to Prigozhin, Rosaviatsiya said Dmitry Utkin – a former Russian special forces operator and alleged co-founder of the PMC – was also traveling on the jet, as was Valery Chekalov, whom the US considers to be the deputy head of Wagner. The remaining passengers listed were Sergey Propustin, Evgeny Makaryan, Alexander Totmin, and Nikolay Matuseev, identified by Russian news outlets as Wagner
5. Who is Evgeny Prigozhin?
A successful businessman in the catering industry and a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prigozhin founded the Wagner Group, a private military company (PMC), in 2014. Although the Wagner Group was founded in 2014 and took part in hostilities in the formerly Ukrainian Donbass region, Prigozhin refused to confirm his role in the company until last year.
Wagner troops have operated in multiple African countries and in Syria, where they reportedly clashed with US forces in 2018.
With his troops fighting in the months-long battle for the city of Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine), Prigozhin made regular statements to the media and publicly feuded with the Russian Defense Ministry earlier this year, accusing top officials of mismanaging the conflict and denying him adequate ammunition.
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-US Treasury dept.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm787
Compare the pair. Putin, defends his country, hand in the till, citizens better off since he came to power. Albanese the Unbelievable, aka Luigi the Unbelievable. Belongs to the Liars whose well known for Aldi shopping bags ie. brought cheaply, willing to give country away for peanuts and citizens worse of since coming to power. As a leader I know who I prefer.
I have thought of that but even if other wounded numbers are triple the amputees the ratios are still off.
You shouldn’t forget the promiscuous use of anti-personal and anti-tank mines.
Calli we, the developed west, are living in the age of unreason.
You have a point. This proves that corruption is present in every political system and everything depends on character.
Analysis
Inflation hits home owners harder than renters, welfare recipients
Australians paying off mortgages have suffered cost increases 40 per cent higher than those incurred by renters over the past two years, the ANU calculates.
Ben Phillips
Cost-of-living pressures are acute for some, but in different ways for different types of household. The Australian Bureau of Statistics consumer price index has climbed 6 per cent a year for each of the past two years.
In the decade before that, it climbed by an average of only 1.8 per cent a year.
So, on the figures, cost-of-living pressures suddenly became acute, but if you had been paying attention to the media for those previous 10 years you would have thought Australia had been in a cost-of-living crisis the entire time.
Some people have been under financial pressure the entire time, but it’s instructive to look at whose living costs have increased the most.
The best guide is a different set of indexes to the consumer price index, also produced by the bureau.
Called selected living cost indexes, they are better because they include mortgage costs, which the consumer price index does not, measuring the cost of home ownership by the cost of purchasing a home instead of the upfront cost of building a new home.
The bureau presents living cost indexes based on the spending patterns of employees, beneficiaries on pension-like payments, beneficiaries on other payments including JobSeeker, age pensioners and self-funded retirees.
But it turns out the main factor that differentiates the new price pressures facing households is whether they have a mortgage, and in particular how recently they bought their first home.
Home owners hit
At the Australian National University, my team has used the Bureau of Statistics’ methodology and data to calculate cost indexes based on the spending patterns of different types of households including those headed by first home buyers and recent buyers who’ve bought in the past three years, all home owners with a mortgage, outright owners and renters.
Home owners with a mortgage turn out to have experienced a cost increase over the past two years of 17.5 per cent – much more than renters, who have had an average increase of “just” 10.8 per cent, and outright owners who’ve had 11.7 per cent.
First home buyers who bought within the past three years faced the biggest living cost increase, 20.5 per cent. Those who bought within the past three years but were “changeover” buyers had an increase of 18.4 per cent.
Younger Australians (under 35) are more likely to rent than have a mortgage. As a result, their costs increased by “only” 13.1 per cent over the past two years, whereas the living costs of older Australians (aged 50-64) increased by 15.1 per cent.
Perhaps for the same reason, the living costs of group households increased by “only” 13.1 per cent, while the living costs of couples with children increased 15.2 per cent.
Those on benefits are best protected
We found little difference in the percentage cost-of-living increase based on income level alone, and little difference based on gender. But the source of income mattered.
Households whose main income was wages suffered cost increases of 14.6 per cent, whereas households whose main income was government benefits had a lesser increase of 12.7 per cent.
Each of these increases was far more than the average increase in incomes of 4.7 per cent, but Australians on benefits received much bigger increases in incomes because their payments were linked to the consumer price index, meaning their incomes increased roughly in line with their costs.
Although in the past two years costs have turned against mortgage holders more than renters and outright owners, this isn’t the case in the longer term.
The first years of COVID-19, 2020 and 2021, were especially good for mortgage holders (and renters), with mortgage rates (and rents) cut to long-term lows after years of little growth.
Over the longer term, the living costs associated with all three types of housing have climbed more or less together, and have climbed by less than household income.
This isn’t to say those households whose living costs have climbed sharply over the past two years (mortgaged households) are suffering. Many have built up significant financial buffers in the years when interest rates were ultra-low, and many have high incomes and substantial wealth.
Nor is it to say that those households whose living costs have increased less sharply (renters) are not suffering.
Lower-income households, single parents and welfare recipients’ households were in the greatest financial stress five years ago, 10 years ago and 20 years ago, and remain in the greatest financial stress today.
Perhaps it is time to cease aid to countries with space and missile programs, nuclear weapons and large, well equipped military forces?
Not sure what to make of your sarcasm. Jockey Craig Williamson has family connections via his wife with the Ukraine and raises medical supplies and donations which he seems to enjoy delivering personally.
Just this morning he was on RSN saying ‘If Russia stops fighting the war stops; if Ukraine stops it disappears.’
For many, that sums it up. Not for others.
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Watch: Donald Trump Interview With Tucker Carlson Coming During First Republican Primary Debate
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Here’s what’s happening at 8:55pm ET.
Former President Trump will be releasing a prerecorded interview with former FOX News host Tucker Carlson on Twitter on Wednesday at 9:00 p.m., exactly the same time the first Republican 2024 primary debate is scheduled to begin on FOX News Channel. Trump recorded the interview with Carlson last week at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club.
“MY INTERVIEW WITH TUCKER CARLSON WILL BE AIRED TONIGHT AT 9:00 P.M. ‘SPARKS WILL FLY.’ ENJOY!” Trump posted on Truth Social last night.
You will be able to watch the interview here very shortly after 9:00 p.m. or directly on Tucker Carlson’s Twitter page.
Seb Gorka (around 7 minutes)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lTHAgZHkLw
Another thing Crossie I have no wish to live in Russia, would like to visit. Australia is fantastic only let down by less than mediocre politicians and lazy people feeding off others endeavour.
Aid is never about “aid.”
It’s about keeping their regimes well disposed towards us.
Realpolitik.
Daily Mail.
OPINION – WSJ MAIN STREET
David Weiss Should Resign
The Delaware U.S. attorney should never have been named special counsel for the Hunter Biden case.
In a better world, there would be no special counsels. Though not as constitutionally pernicious as independent counsels, special counsels come with some of the same conceits—namely the idea they enjoy some magical independence from the president.
But if a special counsel must be inflicted, David Weiss is uniquely unfit for the job.
Mr. Weiss, the Delaware U.S. attorney, has been investigating Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings. While there have been calls for a special prosecutor for years, Attorney General Merrick Garland named Mr. Weiss special counsel only this month, shortly after Mr. Weiss was publicly humiliated in a federal courtroom by the implosion of the plea deal he reached with Hunter Biden. The deal collapsed because prosecutors were unable to defend it when the judge asked some basic questions.
Here’s the dilemma: The plea deal is only the latest favor to Hunter. Arguably bigger was allowing the statute of limitations to lapse on offenses from 2014 and 2015 (think Burisma).
If Mr. Weiss now comes back and charges Hunter with more-serious offenses, the obvious question will be: Why was he willing to go along with a sweetheart plea deal in the first place?
By the Justice Department’s own measures, moreover, Mr. Weiss is a brazen pick.
“The Special Counsel,” the rules state, “shall be selected from outside the United States Government.” An outside prosecutor is needed because the whole grounds for a special counsel is that Justice has a “conflict of interest”—in this case, prosecuting the son of the attorney general’s boss, the president. Mr. Weiss’s own conflict is even more glaring.
“The real problem is the conflict Weiss has in investigating himself,” says David Rivkin, a constitutional lawyer who has served in the Justice Department and White House counsel’s office.
“He must investigate whether there was an earlier effort to obstruct the Hunter investigation, and he cannot do so because he was either involved in this obstructive activity or at least was a material witness to it.”
This includes questions about Weiss deputy Lesley Wolf. Two Internal Revenue Service agents testified how she undercut their investigation, once by tipping off Hunter’s team about a storage locker they planned to search. The New York Times just reported, without irony, that Ms. Wolf enjoyed a “rapport” with Hunter’s top defense lawyer. I’m sure she did.
The attorney general can waive the requirement that the special counsel come from outside the government, as Mr. Garland did here. But the choice of Mr. Weiss undermines rather than restores public confidence. Whenever he’s been asked about powers he had or sought, Mr. Weiss has given carefully parsed statements that raise more questions than they answer.
Count Andrew C. McCarthy among the skeptical. The former assistant U.S. attorney again points to Mr. Weiss’s failure to indict Hunter on charges dating from when Joe Biden was vice president. The appointment, he says, is a “joke”—but makes sense if you think it’s just the latest effort to make any substantive charges go away.
“Weiss has all along compliantly acted as the vehicle by which the Biden Justice Department protects the president, and thus the president’s son, from a credible investigation,” Mr. McCarthy writes in National Review.
In the most charitable interpretation of the obstruction to which the whistleblowers testified, Mr. Weiss was a decent guy who tried to do his job but ran into political interference at every turn.
But if Mr. Weiss believed his Justice Department superiors were making it impossible to do his job, the honorable response wasn’t to stand aside and let them have their way. It was to resign, and explain publicly why he did so. It would still be his most honorable course.
On Friday at Camp David, President Biden was asked for his reaction to the special counsel appointment. Right on cue he said, “I have no comment on any investigation that’s going on.” As many predicted, the special counsel gives Joe Biden cover to refuse to answer any questions.
The Republicans who’ve been calling for a special counsel have themselves to blame. But holding Hunter criminally liable for his actions isn’t the real challenge. It’s bringing political accountability by letting the public know whether the Justice Department was tipping the scales for the president’s son, and by exposing the full extent of Joe Biden’s involvement as vice president with his son’s business partners.
Rep. James Comer, notably, wasn’t among the Republicans calling for a special counsel. Instead, he has used his Oversight Committee to force into the open material the Biden White House would prefer remain buried. A proper use of congressional powers—subpoenas, contempt resolutions, impeachment inquiry—is still the best path to the transparency necessary to restore public trust.
No one should look to Mr. Weiss for a political resolution. But we still might get it from Congress, as frustrating and tedious as the oversight process can be.
Yesterday evening Mrs Faustus decided we needed some double walled glasses.
• At 7:17pm she placed an order with Amazon Prime;
• At 2:09am Amazon confirmed the order was dispatched ex Sydney;
• At 5.25am the order was received at Amazon’s Pinkenba order processing centre;
• At ~8:30am the order was delivered to an address in the Meanjin CBD.
Cost: about 30% less than David Coles including ‘free’ delivery; better still, no farquing around parking and buying other suddenly necessary stuff.
All done without assistance from Dr Chalmers or the increasingly flabby Palacechook.
I realise that Bezos is a terminal weirdo who should be shunned by right-thinking people and Amazon has a “toxic work culture”, but if other parts of the Australian economy were as productive we’d be waving, not drowning.
I don’t know how much aid we give to China and Idioa, but I doubt if their politicians can be bought as cheaply as ours can.
Did anyone catch Zali Steggall’s Yes panel last night at Manly Leagues Club?
And with that I present you “Uncle” Neil Evers, from Daily Telegraph:
Dear oh dear.
GreyRanga
Aug 24, 2023 10:03 AM
Another thing Crossie I have no wish to live in Russia, would like to visit
Australia is fantastic only let down by less than mediocre politicians and lazy people feeding off others endeavour.
Crossie,
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Crossie, the amputees aren’t the total wounded. Ratio of wounded to amputees varies widely but has been narrowing in all conflicts over last hundred years. It could be anywhere between 1:20 to 1:50 for this conflict which would indicate anywhere between 1M-2.5M wounded. But these ratios are just rules of thumb. Wouldn’t surprise if KIA is 300K, WIA is 600K and of the latter 20-30K are amputees.
It’s amazing how some people cannot see the obvious.
A situation in which neither party any longer has a winning move or series of moves.
Gorka:
“He called up Mattis and said: ‘Turn them all into red mist now’.
(Around 6 minutes long).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcKj1s1tfU0
Breaking: Yevgeny Prigozhin installed as Patriarch of Moscow and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church after Kirill falls out of window.
Shouldn’t the ellipsis be three dots?
The storm is not big enough yet, this is the first I have seen this. The thing is, who will count the votes? Will it be electorate based? Polling booth based?
Whatever happened to the over the hotel terrace trick? Proggsie must have been taking ground floor rooms.
I miss upticks.
Boom…Tish!
I think China & India have long since dropped out of our recipients list, but obviously South Pacific nations feature strongly, as does Sri Lanka, chiefly for political reasons.