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Harris Campaign Admits Tim Walz Was The Only Candidate That Answered Their Craigslist Ad I LoLed
You can say that again !
Interesting article https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13825105/Former-RAF-engineer-nurse-wife-sign-British-couple-use-double-suicide-pod-Switzerland-dementia.html from two points of view. 1) Aussie Dr Phil Nitschke, who at one stage was working in…
Yeah Dover. The hootie tooties are now a major world power.Cope! I never said it’s a major world power. You…
This never get old
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FEMEN started in Ukraine and the Ukrainian government let all the women go and forced the men to fight.
There is absolutely no sarcasm regarding a foreign Ukraine bride.
I can say I think that place has rabid feminism and Putin is a covetous warmonger.
I can chew gum and walk at the same time, can you?
What four acts?
No kidding of there is a God , along with heaven and hell, proggsie is in serious trouble right at this moment.
Freaking iPhone.
If
-Gorka.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/sebastian-gorka/
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
I don’t believe there is evidence for (d) as yet.
You could say the same about most countries’ foreign policy. The USA included.
The days of international altruism are long gone, if they ever existed at all.
In other news…I am crutch free, less than a week from surgery.
Told youse I was a tough old biddy. 😀
Many, many upticks, Calli!
“calli
Aug 24, 2023 10:41 AM”
1000000000000000000 upticks.
Browsing military websites, saw this interesting story. Top Ender may especially like it.
The B-17 ‘Black Jack’, a bomber that was missing for 43 years under the sea (16 Aug)
Some awesome stills and a very fine short scuba video. Amazing how well the B-17 has survived being submerged in seawater for 80 years.
Feelthebern:
Until they provide plug and play setup outside Google software and thus allowing Google to intrude on everything you do, it isn’t viable for me.
On “International altruism”, there’s one thing Kipling got right…
Sounds awfully familiar.
Just finished watching my, around, 25th Netflix Korean Series
My Love from the Star
Genres – Romantic Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
Synopsis – 21 Episodes
Do Min-joon (Kim Soo-hyun) is an alien who landed on Earth in 1609 during the Joseon Dynasty. He saves a girl named Seo Yi-hwa from falling off a cliff and misses his return trip to his home planet and is stranded on Earth for the next four centuries. He has a near-perfect human appearance, enhanced physical abilities involving his vision, hearing and speed, and a cynical, jaded view of human beings. Min-joon never ages and is forced to take on a new identity every ten years; he has worked as a doctor, an astronomer, a lawyer, and a banker, and is now working as a college professor.
Cheon Song-yi (Jun Ji-hyun) is a famous Hallyu actress who attained stardom as a schoolchild; her haughty demeanor has earned derision in the entertainment industry and on social media. Song-yi’s spendthrift mother has mismanaged her finances and her younger brother Cheon Yoon-jae (Ahn Jae-hyun) is estranged by her success. Lee Hee-kyung (Park Hae-jin) has been Song-yi’s friend since middle school and remains in love with her but is continually rejected. In turn, Yoo Se-mi (Yoo In-na), Song-yi’s childhood friend who is frequently cast in a supporting role alongside Song-yi has had a crush on Hee-kyung since middle school despite her love being unrequited. As a result, Se-mi secretly harbors a deep jealousy towards Song-yi for standing in the way of her career and love interest.
With only three months left before Min-joon’s long-awaited departure to his planet of origin, Song-yi suddenly becomes his next-door neighbor in the condominium where he lives. Slowly, Min-joon finds himself entangled in Song-yi’s crazy and unpredictable situations, saving her multiple times using his special powers and eventually acting as her manager due to his vast legal knowledge. He finds out that she at a young age resembles Yi-hwa, with whom he fell in love with 400 years earlier. Min-joon and Song-yi eventually fall in love; Min-joon aims to leave Earth without being emotionally attached so he tries to avoid her but fails. While Song-yi initially does not understand his impending departure, she ultimately accepts letting him go to assure his survival.
Song-yi’s career goes into a downturn when her talent agency and sponsors drop her in a backlash against her recent behavior, particularly rumors that she caused the suicide of her arch-rival, actress Han Yoo-ra. Earlier at a celebrity wedding, Song-yi had discovered Yoo-ra was in a secret relationship with Lee Jae-kyung (Shin Sung-rok), the elder brother of Hee-hyung. Jae-kyung tries to silence Song-yi until Min-joon brokers a deal to spare her in return for burying the evidence. Jae-kyung, however, turns out to be much more dangerous than Min-joon suspected, learning to exploit Min-joon’s weaknesses and injuring Se-mi’s older brother, a prosecutor who is investigating Yoo-ra’s suicide. Min-joon, despite being discreet in the use of his special abilities, eventually draws the attention of police while losing control of his powers as his departure date nears. While jealous of Min-joon for winning Song-yi’s heart, Hee-kyung works with Min-joon to protect her from Jae-kyung.[1]
The Korean shows I have watched cover an amazing broad spectrum – Book Publishing, Ad Agency, Art Gallery, Autism (Amazing Attorney Woo), Vets, Doctors, History
Scripts and presentation really enjoyable – a relaxing break from Lousy American & Australian Shows
As one who bought his Wife in 1968, when living in Davis Avenue South Yarra, a Norma Tullo Coat Dress from her store just around the corner on Toorak Road South Yarra – the Females Dresses in My Love from the Star are superbly elegant
And for Cat Females the Men dress well also
Percentage of British battle wounds, WW2*:
Mortar, grenade, aerial bomb, shell – 75%
Bullet, anti-tank shell – 10%
Landmine, booby trap – 10%
Improvements in vascular repair have no doubt reduced
the amputation rates for a lot of limb injuries.
Excepting mines.
There’s no fixing a foot blown off by an AP Mine, or pulped by an ATM.
*Official figures quoted in The Sharp End. John Ellis, 1980.
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-Gorka, Sept. 2017
Bruce sees no difference between the desperately poor seeking a new life and terrorists.
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Some reports Wagner forces are heading back to Moscow… civil war can’t be good for Russia (or any of us!)…
I really don’t think so, Roger.
17M view now Oz.
It’s noteworthy that the bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad* have been very circumspect re Putins’ war. They have also been active in providing aid and sustenance to Ukrainian refugees, including in Australia.
* Founded by White exiles in W. Europe c. 1920 after the church in Russia came under severe Communist persecution and communication with it was disrupted; dioceses in W. Europe, UK, North and South America and Australia/NZ. Returned to communion with Moscow c. 2006 but administratively autonomous.
The Physical Decay of War Pig Victoria Nuland Is Truly Shocking
BY TDB – WEDNESDAY, AUG 23, 2023
People eventually get the face they deserve, so the maxim goes.
For no one does it seem more apropos than longtime Deep State war pig Victoria Nuland, whom the Brandon entity recently promoted to the position of top lieutenant in the State Department – a surefire signal that more war is on the horizon, as it always is in American Empire.
This realization came upon me while watching a recent clip from Glenn Greenwald detailing Nuland’s decades-long career in Washington doing one thing and one thing only:
lobbying for endless war as the queen of all war pigs.
(As one commenter noted on the YouTube video, in all of her public appearances Nuland gives undeniable Nurse Ratchet vibes – the epically insidious, manipulative antagonist in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.)
In it, Greenwald harkens back to the early aughts version of a fresh-faced Nuland, working then directly under the guidance of what can only be called her mentor, the repugnant Dick Cheney — whose face only a mother could love, and probably not her either.
Here she is fresh off of her tenure as Cheney’s top Iraq War advisor. She’s perky and smiley-faced and decidedly less menopausal in appearance and demeanor than current form – and charming the pants off of the C-SPAN hack:
Here’s Nuland in 2013 in her new role as Department of State spokescreature, in which she’s starting to look a little rough around the edges.
Here she is in 2018 with Russiagater, fellow war pig, and resident MSNBC lesbian kingpin Rachel Maddow. She can be seen here starting to take final form.
And, finally, here she is discussing opaque American biolabs abroad in 2022, in peak form.
All of the genocidal lies seem to have really taken their toll.
WHAT?
How come the gossips here didn’t tell me Saudi Boat Cake and Spare are getting divorced?
Kiss my arse she retains a Royal title.
Roger at 10:41
Would that mean placing a “Planned Parenthood” abortion clinic in a Blak community qualifies as genocide?
Definite yes to (e). A lot of ethnic Ukrainian children have been taken out of the occupied areas and placed with Russians. Also this:
Behind the Lines: Russia’s Ethnic Cleansing (27 Jul)
Stalin did it, now Putin is doing it: relocating ethnicities away from their home areas to dilute them and reduce opposition. It’s a fairly effective strategy in a callous sort of way, but don’t ask Slobodan Milosevic about that, or Bill Clinton. Or the Israeli settler movement.
The Times has an article this week, but it’s paywalled.
Ukraine war: Russia plans ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Mariupol (21 Aug)
“Or the Israeli settler movement.”
What’s your point here? I’m not aware of any Israeli settlers relocating Arabs, or taking Arab children.
The arrest warrant has already been issued by the ICC and the evidence is continually being updated by investigators. Probably moot as I doubt Putin will ever leave Russia or its geographic sphere of influence again, but such will be his legacy.
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In Brightest and Best news:
‘Overwhelming’ consensus renewables are better than nuclear: Chalmers
Technical Note: This overwhelming consensus is amongst renewable rentiers who would have their trays of OPM taken away by nuclear power – so we can assume no conflicts of interest.
The main resource for renewables (and conventional) is capital. Experience tells us quite clearly that, when this is applied to non-dispatchable generation, it doesn’t lead to cheap energy.
But not, apparently, the consumer community – who need subsidies to pass onto the investor community.
A quick glimpse at the bogey man that’s going to be deployed to frighten the superstitious and credulous.
Top Man.
Meanwhile, at the U.N.:
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Not as long as there’s no compulsion involved.
But it’s a despicable movement.
OK, OK, so you are exceptionally strong when it comes to recovering from surgery.
But that’s nothing in today’s world.
What we really need to know is how long it takes you to recover from a microagression, a mean tweet, or misogynistic mansplaining.
Huh? Huh?
They are the real tests for wimmenses today. 🙂
“The arrest warrant has already been issued by the ICC “
The same ICC that constantly targets Israel for alleged “war crimes”. The ICC is a highly politicised international star chamber that’s very selective about which countries it targets for prosecution.
And if Putin is going to be arrested for war crimes, the George W Bush should be arrested for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama should be arrested for war crimes in Libya and Syria.
Wagner in Belarus is down to about 4,000 guys. They handed their heavy weapons in a couple weeks ago, as part of the deal (which Putin has now reneged upon with a S-300 AA missile).
When Mr Prig’s guys went on their romp to Moscow the mainline Russian army watched with interest, but did not join in. I suspect Mr Prig thought they would. When they didn’t the coup attempt fizzled like an egg on hot asphalt.
I think Vlad has pretty much defanged Wagner rather elegantly. The only potential downside is if the Russian Army decides that having their Prez renege on deals, and assassinating guys who fought like tigers for Russia, might not be something they like. Also disappearing Gen. Sergei Surovikin might not’ve gone down well with Russian brass either.
Probably has the same worth as the Georgia indictment.
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The ICC is not perfect but in this instance it has a case.
Anyone who denies that is engaging in special pleading.
Many thanks for the Carlson-Trump inteview link, OldOzzie. He/they always tell me stuff I didn’t know. For example, China is now not only building military installations in Cuba, but it also controls the Panama Canal — thanks to the CCP’s purchase of the Biden family.
I repeat my earlier post:
What are you going to do when you wake up a day after the referendum and find out it has passed in every state with a majority of votes?
I checked up on this earlier this morning in response to a Tele article. The referendum paper is absolutely clear: either “YES” or “NO” must be written in the box. Anything else being accepted is vote rigging.
Completing the ballot paper (AEC Voice referendum webpage)
That is where you get to if you follow the Completing a Referendum ballot paper link at the Referendum 2023 AEC webpage. I was surprised as I thought the paper would be a fairly standard yes box and a no box, but not so: they want people to literally write either yes or no in one box. I don’t know why they came up with that idea, but I am suspicious there’s something afoot.
Remember when the sainted ICC went to town on Poroshenko.
Emigrate.
“Many thanks for the Carlson-Trump inteview link, OldOzzie. He/they always tell me stuff I didn’t know. For example, China is now not only building military installations in Cuba, but it also controls the Panama Canal — thanks to the CCP’s purchase of the Biden family.”
China’s presence is now all over the Caribbean. American hegemony is over.
The republic referendum required a written Yes or No response.
The AEC chief needs to explain himself.
Meanwhile, the saintly CIA absolutely never involves itself domestically or internationally in spreading lies, disinformation, media manipulation, illegal civilian surveillance, regime change or any subversive operations whatsoever. Aren’t we all lucky!
Chuckle.
Always remember to choose freedom.
They also have a significant presence in the Bismark Sea
Tick will be accepted, cross will not’: AEC boss slammed for confusing Voice referendum rule
The head of the AEC has sparked backlash after suggesting that ticks will be counted as votes for Yes but crosses will not be counted as Nos.
The head of the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has sparked confusion after suggesting that ticks will be counted as Yes votes but crosses will not be counted as Nos in the Voice referendum.
On referendum day, widely expected to be October 14, Australians will be asked to write either “yes” or “no” in English on the ballot paper to the question, “A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”
But appearing on Sky News on Wednesday, Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers was asked by host Tom Connell whether scrutineers would accept other types of marks inside the box.
“It’s a bit simpler than a normal election, it’s a yes or no — are you accepting anything inside the box?” Connell said. “A tick, a cross, a yes, a number one? How broad will you allow this, given the intention of people is going to be pretty clear, you’d think?”
Mr Rogers said it was a “great question” and again urged people to “make sure you write on that box ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in English”.
“Now there are some savings provisions, but I need to be very clear with people – when we look at that, it is likely that a tick will be accepted as a formal vote for yes, but a cross will not be accepted as a formal vote,” he said.
“We’re being very clear with people, part of our education campaign will talk about this, the materials in the polling place so people can look at it. But please, make sure you write ‘yes’ or ‘no’ clearly on the ballot paper in English. That way you can assure yourself that your vote will count.”
Connell suggested that accepting a tick but not a cross might “effectively inflate the ‘yes’ side”.
“The no side might say, well hang on, it’s a lower bar for the yes side,” he said.
“No not at all,” Mr Rogers said.
“That’s why we’re spending a lot of time talking to the community about what constitutes a valid vote. There will be very clear information on the ballot paper, in the polling place. We’re spending a lot of time on that issue and what we’re trying to do is make sure under the legislation, that when the voter’s intention is clear that those votes are included.”
Connell then asked, “What about ‘y’ or ‘n’?”
“Again the legislation says yes or no is a formal vote,” Mr Rogers said.
“There are some things called savings provisions and given the fact we’re trying to give effect to the voter’s intent, it is likely that a ‘y’ or an ‘n’ would be counted under the savings provisions.
But I get nervous even talking about that because then people hear mixed messages. It’s just important to write either yes or no on that ballot paper.”
2GB host Ben Fordham on Thursday slammed Mr Rogers’ comments.
“How bizarre,” he said. “A tick counts as yes but cross does not count as no. That sounds dodgy.
If you’re going to count the ticks, you’ve got to count the crosses, don’t you?
Otherwise the yes camp has an advantage.
Surely he would see the unlevel playing field here. But apparently not.”
Fordham said the AEC “has one job”.
“We’re giving them $365 million to hold the referendum,” he said. “Tom Rogers is on more than the Prime Minister, he earns $600,000 a year. How hard is it to get this right?”
Fordham said it was “ironic” that Mr Rogers was “warning about fake news”.
This week the AEC launched its referendum education campaign, Your Answer Matters, with Mr Rogers telling the ABC the Voice debate had generated the “highest level of mis- and-disinformation we’ve seen online”.
“Well Tom, I think you’ve just added to the confusion,” Fordham said.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott later appeared on 2GB, agreeing with the host that “it seems awfully confusing”.
“It does, and it’s quite simple, I would have thought,” Mr Abbott said.
“You either vote yes or you vote no, and I’m certainly urging people to vote no.
But the problem with all of this is that there’s a suspicion that officialdom is trying to make it easier for one side.
It seems that it’s going to be easier to get a yes vote than a no vote if a mere tick is going to count for a yes but you’ve got to specifically write ‘no’ to vote no.
This is the worry all along that there is a lot of official bias in this whole referendum process.”
The former PM agreed with Fordham that “you’ve got to have the same rule for both camps”.
“I would have thought so, otherwise it’s not a level playing field, it’s not a fair fight,” Mr Abbott said.
“If a tick is a yes, why wouldn’t a cross be a no?
And really the only way to get away from this kind of confusion is to make it absolutely crystal clear that you either vote no or you vote yes, but marks of one sort or another that are neither no nor yes don’t count.”
Mr Abbott added, “Unfortunately, I don’t want to be personally critical of the Electoral Commissioner, but nevertheless it does seem that this is causing confusion, and that’s a real problem.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will officially announce the date of the Voice referendum in the must-win state of South Australia next Wednesday and kick off a six-week campaign.
It’s widely anticipated Australians will head to the polls on October 14 to vote in the first referendum in 24 years.
The PM is set to join prominent Voice supporters in Adelaide next week to announce the date in a bid to turn the tide and rally support for the proposed constitutional change.
“Meanwhile, the saintly CIA absolutely never involves itself domestically or internationally in spreading lies, disinformation, media manipulation, illegal civilian surveillance, regime change or any subversive operations whatsoever. ”
There’s a long, long list of CIA malfeasance.
Move to Japan.
Demand a return to England, plus compo.
So, two pieces of evidence are an out-of-date UN Report and a CEPA article.
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I’d suggest he’s just misapplied the Electoral Act.
If so, he should be sacked.
Dress up as a Redcoat and demand surrender from the natives?
The Republic referendum polling was accurate so I expect the current polling to be so, the risk is the people who really hate the Voice won’t bother voting out of disgust.
Andrew Klavan, always a voice for sanity.
(Around 9minutes)
The right must not give in to evil and hatred:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDs4t8CLDyc
Cassie – The great and good loudly condemn the Israeli settler movement (who I support), and decline to criticize the bloodthirsty Palis. That was what I was alluding to. Ditto Mr Milosevic (who I didn’t support). If I were one or the other I’d feel a tad miffed.
On the other thread I said the Tutsis are entirely justified in dominating and controlling the empirically genocidal Hutus. On that basis the Israelis are just as justified. But on that basis Russia isn’t justified since the Ukrainians aren’t genocidal. They just want to live in peace, as far as I can tell.
Sadly now there’s nothing possible but a separation, like the Indian Partition. The Ukrainians hate Russians and the Russians don’t much like Ukrainians. The only thing to be determined is the border between the two ethnicities. In Israel that will also happen, as Israeli Arabs are increasingly misbehaving. When the gloves come off it will be messy, sadly. But for that you can blame the muslims, as Israel is quite willing to accept Arabs as citizens if they behave. But they won’t.
I will be know as the Elder caveman and begin my quest for weperwations and free stuff and learn dot painting.
I had to disagree with Liz Storer last night on The Late Show when she said no woman watching would disagree with her take on the Spanish Top Dog Coach’s kiss on the lips (a brief brush not a hearty linger) was a form of sexual assault.
Your feminist reading list is showing, Liz. I completely agree with James McPherson’s very sensible view on this kiss moment and I am definitely a woman. You’ve got some good politics, Liz, and I love your drawl and cynical outspoken takes on things, but there’s something you should know about men, a lesson yet to learn. They are programmed to love and care for women and share spontaneous joy with them, and that sometimes spontaneously shows: learn to accept and if necessary tamper down that part of the human male, but don’t try to shut it down completely.
Dover, please. Do a search. There’ve been zillions of articles on Russia stealing Ukrainian children. It is an overt strategy. A very historically Russian one. I’ve seen article after article for 18 months now. Burying your head in the sand or sticking you fingers in your ears will not make it go away.
Ukraine war: The mothers going to get their children back from Russia (BBC, 31 May)
‘Let’s not panic’: Victorian business head responds to businesses fleeing Victoria
Victoria is the only Aussie state to experience a drop in registered businesses, but industry heads are pleading with everyone not to panic.
The head of a prominent industry group has advised against overreacting to startling recent data indicating a significant number of businesses leaving Victoria.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Victoria was the only state to experience a decrease in the number of registered businesses during the last fiscal year.
In the year 2022/23, there was a decrease of 7606 registered businesses compared to the previous year. However, New South Wales and Queensland experienced an increase of 11,031 and 8147 registered enterprises, respectively.
In response to the figures, the opposition’s shadow treasurer, Brad Rowswell, said it came as no surprise, considering the harsh economic climate during the Labor administration.
“It’s little wonder businesses are turning their backs on Victoria given the punishing conditions under Labor,” he said.
“The Andrews government has sent Victoria broke and constantly resorts to raising taxes and charges, which is driving businesses from this state.”
ANZ’s CEO Shayne Elliot recently stated that doing business in Victoria was particularly challenging.
In July, he expressed that it was becoming more difficult for companies in Victoria, citing the state’s payroll tax rate of 4.85 per cent.
“It’s one of the toughest places. Look at the payroll tax, why are we taxing something that’s good … we are taxing employers for giving people jobs,” he told 3AW.
“Those costs ultimately get paid for by consumers. That’s the way it works. So you don’t want to be an expensive place doing business.
“I wouldn’t want to be claiming that crown, and unfortunately, Victoria at the moment is claiming the crown of one of the more expensive places to do business in Australia.”
And it’s not only businesses but also skilled workers, as it was reported earlier this year that Victoria had been haemorrhaging tradies to the north.
Industry experts claimed Victoria lost over 500 tradies to Queensland over the last two years, while 661 tradespeople moved to Queensland from New South Wales in 2022.
lol. So many ‘elders’ will be ’emergent’ it will be hard to keep track of them all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elYSQkTWfTw
Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango.
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That’s the thing that impressed me most about Israel. It’s a democracy. Israel would also like to settle a territorial division and work together with a Palestinian State for mutual economic benefits.
The Palis don’t want to do anything like that and they are ruled by theocratic thugs.
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– Dennis Prager. June 2023
https://nsjonline.com/article/2023/06/prager-on-the-argument-that-we-shouldnt-be-aiding-a-corrupt-country/
The world’s most precious commodity is the size of an envelope
Ancient civilisations hunted for spice; in the 20th century we fought wars for oil. In 2023, the world’s most precious commodity is an envelope-sized computer chip.
The H100, a rectangular black maze of circuits with a shimmering microchip at its centre, is a niche piece of equipment even by Silicon Valley’s nerdy standards.
Its $US40,000 ($62,380) price tag is exceptional for a computer processor, although even if you have the cash, good luck getting your hands on one. The half a million H100s expected to be made this year are already sold out.
Not that one chip would do you much good. Last week, it emerged that Saudi Arabia had ordered some 3000 H100s.
Almost all of the chips are being snapped up by the richest companies in the world: Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta are believed to account for the vast majority of demand.
The H100’s position as the key to the AI boom is really a happy accident. For most of its 30 years, Nvidia has produced chips, known as GPUs, used to power 3D graphics in video games.
Traditional computer processors, known as CPUs, can perform complicated calculations, but generally only one at a time. In contrast GPUs can carry out hundreds of simple calculations at once.
That made them adept at tasks like modifying colourful pixels in a video game. What the company did not count on was that its chips would also be perfect for the rapid data processing required for artificial intelligence.
In 2012, Google researchers used 16,000 CPUs to train rudimentary AI software that could recognise pictures of cats. A year later, researchers achieved the same results with four GPUs.
An Order-of-Magnitude Leap for Accelerated Computing
Tap into unprecedented performance, scalability, and security for every workload with the NVIDIA® H100 Tensor Core GPU. With the NVIDIA NVLink® Switch System, up to 256 H100 GPUs can be connected to accelerate exascale workloads. The GPU also includes a dedicated Transformer Engine to solve trillion-parameter language models. The H100’s combined technology innovations can speed up large language models (LLMs) by an incredible 30X over the previous generation to deliver industry-leading conversational AI.
Read NVIDIA H100 Datasheet
Read NVIDIA H100 PCIe Product Brief
Yes, we’re supposed to conclude that removing children from a war zone and having ways for parents to retrieve their children from Russian authorities, as the evidence suggests, constitutes an attempted genocide. This is no different from someone from saying that there is article after article that showed that Trump’s cases, over 50 they will tell you, re ‘the steal’ were dismissed and thus had no basis.
LOL, two stories I saw today.
Prime Minister urges business leaders to back renewables transition (Sky, 24 Aug)
There’s More Coal Being Shipped By Sea Than Ever Before (22 Aug)
I don’t know who wrote the alleged “intergenerational report” but I have my suspicions. Ponds? Grattan? Their fingerprints are all over this rubbish.
From the promotional email I get from Cigar Hut:
…
But first some sobering news from the tax man. As most of you know the excise on tobacco goes up twice a year and since COVID began the increases have been small due to it being tied to the average weekly ordinary time earnings. Consequently we’ve absorbed the last four increases in duty, however, on 1st September the increase will be a significant 10.7% and we will be forced to raise our prices. As always, we are committed to providing you the most competitive prices in Australia and as with previous years we will not impose any limits on purchases from now until the tax increase.
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10.7%. Outrageous!
You say yes
I say no
You say stop
and I say I don’t know!
Oh!
You say good Thai, and I say Elbow.
‘tamper down’? We are so lucky to have a genoowine interlecshural among us.
And, an unsolicited kiss on the lips, especially in a forum where the deserved smack in the chops in not an option, is way out of line.
Mr Abbott added, “Unfortunately, I don’t want to be personally critical of the Electoral Commissioner, but nevertheless it does seem that this is causing confusion, and that’s a real problem.”
Yep, it does. I suggest you look at item “(e)” which Roger quoted.
Fresh Details on Russia’s Forcible Transfer of Ukrainian Children (25 May)
How many articles do you want?
I know one couple – the children and the “Au Pair” fly Economy, while the parents fly Business Class.
Gun control news.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews being pushed by Opposition to outlaw machetes following spate of recent attacks (Sky, 24 Aug)
Oh wait, not guns. So vaunted gun control hasn’t fixed the issue? That’s amazing. Perhaps we need to ban kitchen knives, axes and baseball bats as well then. Can’t be too careful.
My newest favourite show on TV is called Outback Farm – a spinoff of my previous favourite show Outback Truckers – where a young couple, the Haighs from Brisbane, sell their house and borrow around half a million bucks to fit out a bankrupt former fruit farm at Ti Tree, 200 kms north of Alice Springs.
It’s an ingenius concept: the Haighs use a little-known American farming technology to irrigate the desert from bore water, using “walking” sprays. Until now, NT farmers have had to buy hay from SA-based trucking companies who have to haul it 2000 kms to the Top End. The Ti Tree growing location is 1000 kms closer and that comes straight off the freight bill. The Haighs say they pre-sold their first hay crop before it had finished growing.
And you just have to add water to that red ochre soil and anything grows — as you can see after rain anywhere in the Red Centre.
The next ep is 8.30pm next Tuesday on 7Mate or Foxtel channel 157 (which replay it on Wednesday afternoons).
Abbott seems to have learned nothing from his time in politics.
Yeah; he has balls the size of peas.
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s jet was ‘taken down by bomb hidden in wine crate’, sources say
The Wagner boss and Putin enemy is rumoured to have been taken down by a bomb hidden on board his plane, sources say.
However, sources say there could have been a bomb on board Prigozhin’s jet – which inevitably took it down.
One source said a consignment of “expensive wine” was loaded on-board the aircraft minutes before takeoff.
And one theory is that explosives were concealed in the wine packaging.
Two guys and twenty women…
Simulations suggest only 22 people are required to start a colony on Mars (Phys.org, 23 Aug)
Kubrick would love this.
Mmmyes…I’ve had the joy of flying EC with abandoned and undisciplined children whilst their parents sit up front enjoying endless refills.
These children are, essentially, unaccompanied minors for the duration of the flight. This usually attracts an additional charge from the airlines.
The delinquent mother deserves more than “side eye” from passengers. In a just world the airline policy should be a supervision fee equal to the BC price difference.
I’m presently re-reading Nikolaus Wachsmann’s “KL: A history of the N@zi Concentration Camps.” It is both sobering and surreal.
Our species is a strange one: capable of both self-sacrifice & extreme, animal-like brutality.
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Very unclear instructions re the voting paper will rig the Referendum for the Yes vote.
A lot of ‘no’ voters will simply put a cross or even a tick in the no box.
Tick the box for the one you want is a fairly common instruction. So is mark and X in the box of your choice.
The only invalid votes should be those that put something in BOTH boxes.
Any put in either box that ignores marking the other box should be VALID.
That’s the only logical and fair way to deal with the ‘box’ idea, because normal voting requires nothing written and a number to be placed in a box. So far I’ve not consulted anything re this, and I’m wondering if I put a tick in the box and write No beside it, will that be a valid vote, and if I put a cross in the box and write No beside it would that be a valid vote; all of this provided I do nothing about the Yes box. Is a tick alone OK for No when my impulse is to X the box as I do for many computer read forms.
And what about dyslexics who write oN?
What a pigs’ breakfast.
No, it doesn’t. You are reading the facts as if they don’t offer any alternative interpretation.
They are quite happy to perform cultural genocide. Not only Russia, but Hungary and Poland have been complaining about this for years.
Pence rivals back his Jan. 6 actions, distance themselves from Trump’s rigged election claims
Really there’s Trump and various mounds of shit running for the GOP.
Wow. Australia’s best political analyst Simon Benson (Paywallian):
The most striking feature of the 6th intergenerational report released today by the Treasurer is a graph confirming the federal budget from next year will drop back into deficit and remain there for the next 40 years.
This is the demonstrable reality of a future economy that will not be able to sustain the demand for spending on public services. Unless something changes.
The great clash is coming, with an ageing population, shrinking revenue base, geo-strategic risk and demand for services provided by the state that will undermine the integrity of the budget for the next 40 years.
Australia’s future prosperity, our standard of living, and position in the world will depend on the decisions government makes today. Both economically and strategically.
Jim Chalmers talks of a fourth industrial revolution driven by artificial intelligence and robots – technological innovation that will either propel the nation into the future or consign Australians to a lower standard of living into the second half of the century.
None of this is new.
It is not the first IGR to reveal the structural decay of the budget amid discussion of transformative remedies for the economy.
The 2021 report made similar predictions.
Five years earlier, Malcolm Turnbull was criticised for daring to focus on innovation as the solution, spending the final day of the 2016 election campaign watching robots make krill oil.
Chalmers is talking the same language, but with a greater sense of urgency.
He warns that this fourth great transformation is now upon us, the “turbulent twenties” and if not managed well, will leave more people behind than it lifts up.
A resources revolution in critical minerals and an energy transformation are the centre of Australia’s response under Labor’s plan.
The political challenge is that Chalmers is asking the electorate to look to the future as it struggles to pay today’s bills.
The Opposition has unsurprisingly seized on the politics of this, with the potent argument that the current cost of living crunch was forcing people to think 40 days ahead rather than 40 years.
But Chalmers wants people to believe that Labor has all this in hand. That it has its hands on the levers of today’s problems but with a weather eye on the storm clouds on the horizon.
In response to the release of the IGR, which confirms what is already known about the demographic and economic trajectory the nation is on, Chalmers talks to a blueprint for eight reform priorities.
All are built around Labor’s existing political and economic agenda.
Addressing the here and now, Chalmers reaffirms the first priority was dealing with the inflation battle, which is far from won.
He maintains that Labor is committed to spending restraint, as a means to addressing the fiscal imbalance that is hurtling toward the budget over coming years.
With cataclysmic predictions of the economic impact of climate change featuring for the first time in an IGR, Chalmers pins the great energy transformation on Labor’s net zero plan.
The other priorities focus on reskilling for a future workforce, decarbonising the economy, a more protectionist position on industry policy, critical minerals, driving new capital streams including the leveraging of superannuation funds, competition reform and reform of the nation’s economic institutions.
Chalmers repeats the warning that the nation is at a generational fork in the road that will define its future at a time when Australia is more exposed to the “whims of the world”.
But it is the solutions to the challenges that Labor has written into the IGR that will be politically challenged.
And at the heart of this contest remains the great productivity decline which will largely determine whether Australia succeeds or fails.
No, an AA missile, probably a S-300. The aircraft was on a flight plan and they knew exactly who was on it.
It’s obvious. The bomb story is silly dissimulation.
LIzzie
There is no “NO” box, there is only one box.
Republican debate starts, but 22m are watching Trump elsewhere
Cross out 22 Million currently 83.9 Million – Oops 84.1 Million
Ok, yes, that’s true Diogenes. The Ukrainians want ethnic Russians out of their country and vice versa: culture, religion and everything. A Partition, as I said. Although based on Roger’s five points that wouldn’t technically be genocide. Near enough for me though.
We’re forked, you might say.
‘Ponzi scheme’: Why 2023 Intergenerational Report sets Australia on path to ruin
Australia is hurtling down a dangerous path, with one expert warning we now face a “congested, high-rise future in a degraded environment”.
There is no “NO” box, there is only one box.
“Please explain!”
Crossie
It’s very much like the Israeli dilemma:
If Islam disarms, there will be peace. If Israel disarms there will be a second Holocaust.
“Unfortunately, I don’t want to be personally critical of the Electoral Commissioner,”
Abbott, always being the nice guy. And this comes on the heels of David Littleproud gallantly standing up to defend Sleazy’s son, and then a day later, Littleproud joining in the chorus denouncing Gary Johns for speaking truth about indigenous issues.
Quite frankly, I’m sick and tired of “nice guys”.
Not my five points, but those of international law, ratified by 123+ countries.
Alleged war crimes by Ukrainians are also being investigated under the auspices of the ICC, btw.
Most of this won’t be settled until after the war because of the difficulties of acquiring the forensic evidence at present.
Vicki
Aug 24, 2023 1:23 PM
There is no “NO” box, there is only one box.
“Please explain!”
https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/vote/completing-the-ballot-paper.html
A bunch of very very very expensive low cost homes.
Better than net zero? Making the promised 1.2 million homes climate-friendly would transform construction in Australia (via Phys.org, 23 Aug)
As I recall they were supposed to be “low cost housing”. Suddenly they’re now supposed to be Gaia’s CO2 extractors. Here’re who the authors are:
ANU weenies. Betcha none of them has ever lived as a houso.
The other priorities focus on reskilling for a future workforce, decarbonising the economy, a more protectionist position on industry policy, critical minerals, driving new capital streams including the leveraging of superannuation funds, competition reform and reform of the nation’s economic institutions.
All pie-in-the-sky stuff.
– “reselling the workforce” – for what, in particular?
– “decarbonising the economy” – de-energising the economy? oh, that will work…
– “protectionist position on industry” – exactly what are they protecting? the unions?
– “critical minerals” – sure, but what in particular are they going to do? use them? well that would be innovative!
-“leveraging superannuation”? aka pillage the retirees?
Maybe they should start thinking about what happens when our customers start stop paying the bills/go to war with us/ find alternate markets – after all, what industries do we have other than selling all of our resources????
“reselling” the workforce? “reselling”!
– But maybe Chalmers would like to hire us out to China…who knows?
What’s wrong with that?
https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/vote/completing-the-ballot-paper.html
Thanks Old Ozzie! Can always rely on you!
Meaningless bureaucrobabble.
The Niger coup’s lessons for the US and France
Two powers tread carefully, for fear they will drive the sub-Saharan state into Russian arms
SYLVIE KAUFFMANN
The writer is editorial director and a columnist at Le Monde
Don’t call it a coup or a putsch: it is an “extra-constitutional attempt to seize power”. And the military officers who deposed and sequestered the democratically elected president are not putschists nor a junta, but a “group asserting power”.
The extraordinary lengths to which the US state department has gone to avoid correctly naming what happened on July 26 in Niger reflects the degree of embarrassment that this new turmoil in sub-Saharan Africa has caused western strategists.
It also points to the differences in how the two main western security actors in the region, the French and the Americans, have approached the issue. President Emmanuel Macron, telling it like it is, spoke of “a perfectly illegitimate coup d’état” — and then went into a rare silence, while Washington and some African states tried to engage into negotiations with “the group asserting power” in Niamey.
Still unresolved after almost a month, the situation in Niger is a terrible blow to western efforts to stabilise this part of Africa.
It is also a wake-up call regarding the evolving geopolitical reality of a continent which has now attracted a multiplicity of players.
Not only has the activity of jihadist groups dramatically increased, but Niger is the fourth West African country, after Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso, whose leader has been overthrown by a military coup in the past three years. Paradoxically, Niger was one of the few states where the jihadist offensive was actually losing strength over the past year. Not even this success story has prevented the political instability from spreading.
Who lost Niger?
The coup is probably the last nail in the coffin of French policy in west Africa.
Wary of its colonial burden, Macron has indeed offered a new, more balanced vision for the region, but France’s permanent military presence proved a powerful counterargument.
Kicked out of Mali last year, French forces thought they had found a safe haven in neighbouring Niger, led by a friendly president, Mohamed Bazoum.
Now, its new rulers have asked Paris to withdraw its 1,500 troops.
For the Americans, who maintain two important military bases and 1,100 men in Niger, the lesson is almost as bitter.
As acting deputy secretary of state, Victoria Nuland, found out on August 7 in Niamey, trying to negotiate a return to constitutional order with a brigadier general and three colonels is not an enviable task.
Particularly when the general, Moussa Salaou Barmou, who graduated with a masters in strategic security studies from National Defense University in Washington, was seen by the Pentagon as its best partner in the fight against Islamist extremism.
The conversation, Nuland said, was “extremely frank and at times quite difficult”.
The Biden administration now finds itself in a quandary: either it sticks to its professed democratic values, which makes it difficult to maintain military bases in co-operation with an illegitimate junta, or it decides that the deteriorating security situation, threatening even coastal states of west Africa such as Ivory Coast, is paramount and worth some pragmatic concessions.
So far, Washington has been hoping for a diplomatic solution that would allow its forces to stay in landlocked Niger in exchange for a pledge to some sort of democratic transition.
This explains the luxury of precautions taken by not calling a coup a coup, to avoid having to cancel US security assistance.
Another argument plays in favour of the pragmatic approach: the Russian factor.
Macron has learnt the hard way how Vladimir Putin, while pretending to know nothing about the role played by Wagner mercenaries in Africa, has used this tool, as well as disinformation campaigns, to spread Moscow’s influence.
The extent to which Russia, burdened by its war in Ukraine, can redirect resources to a new operation in Africa may be doubtful, as is the real ability of Wagner’s fabled leader Yevgeny Prigozhin to redeploy forces on the continent.
The reduced number of African heads of state who chose to attend the second Russia-Africa summit last month in Saint Petersburg — 17, compared with 43 for the first summit in Sochi in 2019 — is also a sign of Putin’s declining stardom.
But African states, courted by China, Turkey and others, want their claim to sovereignty to be recognised. Their current heft on the global scene cannot be ignored.
Nor can hard questions be avoided on the disastrous record of democratic governance in sub-Saharan nations. Niger, one of the poorest countries in Africa, twice the size of Texas, may be partly covered by desert. It still provides fertile ground for great power competition.
The devil is in the detail that will follow.
E.g.: driving new capital streams including the leveraging of superannuation funds”
Reckon re events involving Wagner best policy is wait 48 hours and see how details emerge out of the wash.
Um
That will cost a minimum of 360 billion on materials ALONE, over five years.
God forbid the admin costs, land acquisition, site prep, landscaping, labour, site clean up, inspections & ancillary costs to lease or dispose of the dwellings.
These people are just too dumb to understand economics.
The average proportion of tax on new dwellings in Sydney is between 40% to 45%.
So the tax RATE can be as high as 86%, it’s insane.
Chalmers, Bowen & Albanese are the dimmest bulbs, only Wayne Swan could out do them.
At least Hawke would have laughed it off and Keating would have thrown a stapler or ashtray in the Cabinet room at these utter deadshits.
NAPLAN results expose decades-old problem in Victorian schools
Victoria’s underwhelming NAPLAN results for grammar and punctuation have exposed a decades-old issue for the state’s schools – teachers don’t understand the concepts they’re teaching because they were never taught properly themselves.
More than 30 per cent of the state’s students were below proficiency levels in the subjects in NAPLAN results released on Wednesday. It was worst at year 3 (40.1 per cent) but showed little improvement by year 9 (39.5 per cent).
Education academics say the results highlight the erosion of explicit instruction in Victorian schools from the 1970s, meaning many of today’s teachers were not taught the fundamental skills of grammar and punctuation.
Pamela Snow, professor of cognitive psychology and co-director of La Trobe University’s Science of Language and Reading Lab, said the lack of instruction in schools and universities had left many teachers struggling with grammar in the classroom.
“They’ve really got to go right back to go and build their own knowledge,” she said.
“You can’t teach what you do not know.”
“https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/vote/completing-the-ballot-paper.html”
This seems completely clear and unambiguous – write anything other then “YES” or “NO” in the box and your vote will be informal.
Accepting even “Y” or “N”, let alone a tick or a cross would mean the instructions are being ignored – that is unacceptable.
Accepting a tick as a “yes” but not a cross as a “no” is totally unacceptable.
Follow the damned instructions!
They’re all critical. Think of the metals used in the manufacture of a plane (telemetry, avionics, touch screens, engines [fans, compressors, fuel injectors, exhaust cone], cowlings, wings, fuselage, landing gear, wheels), the components, the tools used to make the plane and the metals used to build the plant to manufacture the fuel for the place.
These people have never had a real job.
Even the ABC and Chris Richardson don’t believe it.
Even with state governments over-riding local planning objections to expedite medium to high density housing.
One generation to fix, at least, and that’s only if the federal government gets immigration under control.
Yes, Roger. That little line item didn’t escape me.
My newest favourite show on TV is called Outback Farm – a spinoff of my previous favourite show Outback Truckers – where a young couple, the Haighs from Brisbane, sell their house and borrow around half a million bucks to fit out a bankrupt former fruit farm at Ti Tree, 200 kms north of Alice Springs.
It’s an ingenius concept: the Haighs use a little-known American farming technology to irrigate the desert from bore water, using “walking” sprays.
I wish them luck. Many, many hopeful tamers of Australia’s hostile interior have come to grief. On the other hand, the Israelis were the first to successfuly farm the desert using their pioneering techniques in drip irrigation.
Our house gardens and grounds survive on drip irrigation from our bore, but their growth has been heavily supported by mulching from old hay. Most vegetation just doesn’t like bore water, but the mulch tends to filter the salt and minerals.
I think people need to read this more carefully. Merely find examples of a-e doesn’t itself constitute genocide and if you think it does you have no grounds for denying that we here committed genocide.
So, it’s taken 50 years for someone to recognise the bleeding obvious.
Can you use a tick or a cross to vote in a referendum?
Please don’t.
The formal voting instructions for the referendum are to clearly write yes or no, in full, in English. This will be part of our campaign advertising, it is on our website, in the guides delivered to all Australian households, it will be the instruction on the ballot paper and will be re-enforced by our polling officials when people are issued with their ballot paper.
We expect the vast, vast majority of voters to follow those instructions.
The formality rules for referendums has been the same for a long period of time – this includes ‘savings provisions’ (the ability to count a vote where the instructions have not been followed but the voter’s intention is clear). Savings provisions exist for federal elections as well. The AEC does not have any discretion to simply ignore savings provisions. They are a long-standing legislative requirement. Since 1988 the AEC has followed legal advice regarding the application of savings provisions to ‘ticks’ and ‘crosses’ on referendum ballot papers (over 30 years and multiple referendums). This is not new.
The issue with a cross is that on many forms people in Australia use in daily life, and in some other languages, a cross represents a ‘check mark’ indicating yes – it is therefore open to interpretation as to whether the cross denotes approval or disapproval. A clear ‘tick’ can be interpreted as denoting approval for the proposal.
A clear ‘y’ or ‘n’ can indicate the voter’s intent – however if the handwriting is unclear it could risk an informal vote. This is why the Commissioner, and the AEC will be very clear and regular with our communication that people need to write the word ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in English, in full.
Use of symbols
While this tool does not recognise symbols, it is best to follow the instructions on the ballot paper and write a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote. Don’t leave your vote up to chance or to be potentially questioned. Make your vote count.
Who’s “we”, Kemosabe?
Think of the metals used in the manufacture of a plane (telemetry, avionics, touch screens, engines [fans, compressors, fuel injectors, exhaust cone], cowlings, wings, fuselage, landing gear, wheels), the components, the tools used to make the plane and the metals used to build the plant to manufacture the fuel for the place.
You mean restoring MANUFACTURING in this country??? Now, that would be innovative!!! But somehow “manufacturing” isn’t part of our Treasurer’s vocabulary.
Far too advanced a concept for some.
Taking a lunch break half way through the Carson interview with Trump.
Trump speaks as Pauline does, in simple terms to ordinary people about things that concern them. But he also hits out well at Biden and Harris (his imitative take on Harris sing-songing rhythmically on about school buses is an absolute hoot). What interested me in particular was his condemning of the sale of the Panama Canal for nothing and the way in which an American-made asset is now subject to foreign, even Chinese, control. He’s got his eye on things that should never have happened, and that will reassure people that he’s alert to whatever scams are going on today. Including in the Ukraine/Russia situation. He’s still on top of his game, and less aggressive in manner in this interview, more the elder statesman, muted down to seriousness and good intent. Will watch the other half after lunch.
The British and the colonial governments? But not contemporary Australians.
You’d also need evidence of the conspiracy and the intention being formed, not just the acts.
Iirc, a complaint by some indigenous folk against Australia in the 1990s failed in the international court.
What happened in Tasmania in the 1820/30s might qualify, but is now historic.
Since we appear to find ourselves gazing at a time 40 years hence, presumably to prise our eyes away from the next forty days, or even forty weeks…
it might be a good time to give our old pal Screwtape another run.
These smooth types gloss over genuine present difficulties and concentrate on hazy projections. While you’re distracted, they’ll slip their hands into your pockets, or worse, a shiv between the shoulder blades, all the while with a benevolent expression fixed on their faces.
The issue with a cross is that on many forms people in Australia use in daily life, and in some other languages, a cross represents a ‘check mark’ indicating yes
If that is the case, “y” and “n” & a tick or a cross – should nullify the vote.
It is very clear that the rejection of a cross (x) is a deliberate ploy to eliminate many “No” votes.
Well, if them’s the instructions, I will ensure I follow them.
Thousands won’t though, and there should be oversight of what happens then.
Fabulous news!
Pocock calls out ‘disingenuous’ debate on the voice
Pocock may not be disingenuous, only stupid.
Presumably he has a very clear understanding of how the Uluru Statement is going to work out in practice. After all, he’s in Parliament and he presumably will be supporting Uncle Luigi’s ‘implementation in full’ – so, Voice as a segue to Treaty/Makarrata, leading to self-determination and self-government – as per the Holy One Pager and amplified in the explanatory notes.
Whatever is that going to look like?
A parallel Whitefella parliament?
Some sort of Mad Max turnout with 300 local parliaments?
A separate legal system? How’s that going to operate?
Shirley he’s got some sort of idea about what he’s going to decide…
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It is always so grating to hear politicians blathering on about things like nyukyular and ruinables, telling us that there are consensuses and so they are tilting grounds of one in favour of the other.
Why would Dim Chalmers even need to comment on nyukyular as having no future. If it is intrinsically not viable then there is no need for him to do anything – the private sector does not blow its dosh on boondoggles. It is their own money they will be losing.
Boondoggles only happen when government money (as in ‘other peoples money’) is injected. And that is the only reason ruinables are being built at all.
But honestly, him, Albo, Bowen – what do they really know about these things? Or, more realistically, is there any reason to think they possess the skill to make sense of what they are told and to discern when someone is trying to play them – how to listen to an expert?
This sort of thing was behind the Covid response debacle. Politicians joyfully abdicated their responsibilities and handed power over to “experts”, and paraded in front of the cameras pretending that uncritically going along with whatever the experts say is the highest plane to which a leader could rise.
And look where that got us.
Shorter Pocock…
Seriously.
Got myself a home blood pressure kit under instructions from my Brahmin Princess doctor (who can be very scary, but is good at her job.)
I don’t understand the whole blood pressure thing, and would be grateful if Lizzie could spare me her views as a noted and heavily accredited epidemiologist. But if others, not burdened by the heavy chains of expertise in a totally unrelated area, or who have experience, chimed in, that would be good.
My understanding is that like many indicators in modern medicine, the number of people ‘of concern’ has been increased by shifting the metrics. For BP, the top number used to be 160, now it’s 140.
Mine fluctuates from 126 (just now) to 178 (at the surgery the other day.)
Relax, critics, I’m not laying my life on the line here based on comments. But knowing what I know about the cholesterol scam, I suspect that a lot of the conventional wisdom about the chemistry is simply wrong. That’s not to take away from the surgeons, who do great work. We’re talking about causes here.
This is the same guy who threw a hissy and said he wouldn’t marry his fiancée until his gay mates could “marry”. A similar type of childishness as Langton and the “Welcome to Country” withdrawal.
These are the clowns we entrust not only with our existing laws, but with proposed ones.
In reality, they need to be put under supervision in a padded cell for everyone’s safety.
Yes.
AEC dweeb on 3AW speaking in very soothing* tones that “it had always been part of the general referenda legislation”.
Under further nudging he went from “always part of the legislation” to “a longstanding interpretation of the legislation”. I wonder what qualifies as “longstanding”. Three weeks?
He then added “Gee, it’s been a long time since we last had a referendum. 25 years.”
This is code for “I am hoping no-one remembers and calls out my gaslighting”.
…
* condescending
< Consequently we’ve absorbed the last four increases in duty, however, on 1st September the increase will be a significant 10.7% and we will be forced to raise our prices.
Doesn’t it give one a warm moisting contemplating how various gummint entities decide on how to manage increases .. if it benefits gummint then the % is a whopper but if it benefits anyone in the vote herd that % decreases significantly ..
eg: on September 20 OAP increases but are we getting anywhere near 10.7% .. like hell!
The OAP increase, based on whatever index(es) they use will only be going up by 2.2% …!
Petrol/shopping/utilities/you name it! .. all going thru the roof on a, close too, weekly basis, nowadayz, but somehow someone in gummint reckons the whole kit & kaboodle equates to only 2.2% ..
Methinx, us, oldies need several VOICEs .. FFS!
Precisely. And without the intention, a) through c) are simply the inevitable outcome of conflict, while whatever evidence of e) is presented is ambiguous given returns, conditions on the ground, etc.
National cabinet plans to build 1.2 million extra homes. First real job for most of them. Start at the roof and work down.
It would be unbearable for the family and close friends if he went down in anything other than a Global Express. The humiliation would be too much.
Be careful filling out your referendum paper.
Your answer must be “contained within the box provided”.
I can see careful scrutiny being applied where an extravagant pen stroke on an O or an N is deemed to be colouring over the lines.
E’s, Y’s and S’s will be given a little more artistic licence.
Daily Mail reporting wood fire stoves to be banned in ACT from 2045. For your own good apparently.
Johanna, as you know, like Lizzie, I am an experienced epidemiologist.
But seriously, it sounds to me like you are as healthy as an ageing teenager — nothing to worry about (except the arthritis).
Daily Mail.
Correct.
Ha ha.
Not entirely silly.
I have seen factories built that way.
Slab poured.
Roof trusses arrive and laid out on the slab.
Crossmembers fixed to trusses.
Insulation, roofing sheets, and any rooftop services (aircon) fixed in place.
The whole thing is then hoisted up into position.
Kind of smart.
Much more efficient and safer than doing it at height, all for the cost of half a day crane hire (which they would have needed anyway to place the trusses).
It’s not part of Blackout Bowen’s vocabulary either. Need reliable baseload power for manufacturing and industry. We no longer have that.
EDITORIALS
David Weiss has no credibility as special counsel for Biden investigation
by Washington Examiner
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the Biden family investigation has become an insult to the public. Garland should replace Weiss with somebody fit for the job.
Weiss was an outlandish choice from the start, but new revelations make it look even worse.
By law, logic, Garland’s earlier claims about Weiss’s authority, and Weiss’s performance, he isn’t a reasonable option.
By law, Weiss isn’t even eligible for the post.
Special counsel regulations explicitly say the appointee “shall be selected from outside the United States Government,” which is important to guarantee necessary independence for the job. Weiss is a government employee.
A special counsel should focus only on the case to which his appointment applies, but Weiss will continue acting as U.S. attorney for Delaware, so he will be distracted by other duties.
On its face, meanwhile, Weiss’s appointment is illogical and self-contradictory.
It is illogical because it defeats one of the biggest reasons a special counsel is needed, which is that a full review is necessary of why charges against Hunter Biden took inordinately long to be levied and why they were so lenient.
A special counsel is therefore needed to review Weiss’s work.
This appointment means Weiss will be reviewing his own conduct, which could not be a more obvious conflict of interest.
The appointment is also self-contradictory because, in practice, the only major power Weiss picks up is one he and Garland said he already had.
Usually, a U.S. attorney has the authority to bring charges only in his jurisdiction (in this case, Delaware). Whistleblowers have testified that Weiss was blocked from bringing charges in California and Washington, D.C., but Garland and Weiss said Weiss enjoyed cross-jurisdictional authority if he wanted.
Yet now, Garland names Weiss as special counsel to give him cross-jurisdictional authority.
Does that mean Garland and Weiss were prevaricating earlier?
Those important but somewhat legalistic objections to Weiss fade in comparison to the significance of his failure to apply evenhanded justice for five years.
Even apart from whether, technically and operationally, he is wrong for the job, new reports make manifest that he is personally unfit for this assignment.
We already knew of numerous examples of federal defendants punished far more heavily for the same offenses on which Weiss offered Biden extraordinarily lenient terms.
We even knew of cases in which Weiss sought harsher penalties than he agreed to give the president’s son.
We knew that Weiss bizarrely declined to keep the statute of limitations from expiring on some of the most important of Biden’s seemingly obvious infractions, including those involving the Burisma energy company and massive tax discrepancies, and that he never seriously pursued charges relating to the Foreign Agents Registration Act — an act the Justice Department has enforced aggressively against Republicans.
In recent days, though, we’ve learned even more damning information about Weiss’s handling of this investigation.
Internal communications between Weiss and Biden’s legal team show Weiss was prepared to wrap up the investigation without filing a single charge or requiring a plea from the first son.
His tune changed only once whistleblowers came forward to allege massively disparate treatment in favor of the Bidens.
Weiss, who once worked closely with Biden’s late brother Beau Biden, allowed his investigative team to be rife with Democratic political donors and even one who called Hunter Biden “a good friend” and noted the many times the Biden “family have been there for us.”
Meanwhile, reports keep emerging of leads Weiss seems not to have pursued, such as three alias email accounts used by then-Vice President Joe Biden, including ones in which Hunter Biden was repeatedly apprised of his father’s diplomatic efforts related to Ukraine, and even more meetings between Hunter Biden’s business partners and Vice President Joe Biden.
In sum, Weiss is not credible as an objective and competent leader of the Biden investigation. Garland should replace him immediately with someone of sterling reputation with no discernible partisan ties.
Cautionary tale for knee/hip replacements.
Overconfidence.
I know of someone who got a little over exuberant about how well it was all going.
Capsized onto pavement and is noe worse off than before.
Steady as she goes.
Pretty good thread:
He agrees likely take done by missile and there is good indicative evidence for that but there are also pics of the tail that show no shrapnel damage.
Still, clarity should ensue in next 48 hours.
Bam.
Many upticks.
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I’m a man of modest means, JC, I have no idea what status-whoring you could be referencing here. From reports, it was a Embraer Legacy 600. If that is outside the norms of polite society I wouldn’t know.
So much for new homebuyers trying to get even a quote, when the gummint is offering their traditional contracts cost plus whatever the contractor (or his wife) dreams of overnight.
See Rabz’ post on ‘crowding out.’
If they actually wanted to achieve anything, they would remove the financial and regulatory imposts on new home construction, which account for well over 50% of the cost.
Like, every new home has to be six star for da ‘environment’, in some jurisdictions has to have a rainwater tank, the local council’s mates have to supply ‘infrastructure’, the tens of thousands of jobsworths in ‘planning’ at local and state levels, on and on and on.
Not to mention the way people during the post WWII housing squeeze dealt with it – buy a block, and live in a caravan or a ‘temporary dwelling’ on it while you built your house.
Not allowed now.
Today, you need to sign off on your fourbr/3btr/with media room/spa bath and granite countertops in the kitchen and bathrooms.
I hope the TinyHomes crowd get a bit more heft. Rebadging the old ways is no bad thing.
A good investment.
Doctors refer to “white coat effect” where BP is often higher in the surgery than at home.
I have a home machine and have proven this to be true. Scores of readings at home between 115/70 and 135/90. Suddenly, in the surgery, 150-160/100-110.
I even calibrated my machine against the GP’s machine to check that my machine wasn’t faulty.
Bruce of Newcastle
But everyone tells me the AEC is above suspicion!
I didn’t get to 67 by being overconfident. Particularly on building sites. Or behind the wheel for that matter. My tottering around indoors is very carefully choreographed, a bit like a climber assessing footholds.
As they say, most accidents happen at home.
The plan for tomorrow is a supervised barefoot stumble around the garden. Ahhhh – grass underfoot! Definitely no weeding, though I’m sorely tempted.
Most new homes in the ACT are townhouses, true they have two bathrooms, though neither has a bath, but you wouldn’t be able to live on-site in a caravan while it was being built, because there wouldn’t be enough room in the yard.
Tom Rogers:
Doesn’t he look like Heinrich Himmler.
And their website has the acknowledgment:
So they’re already on one political side.
Don’t think for one moment these freedom barracks (h/t John Constantine) will actually be built.
We are seeing a Yes Minister episode IRL.
Thanks, Sancho, hope you’re right.
I need to be sure of my facts before I front her.
She’s one tough aristo, which is why I like her. I have a reserve GP for when she’s not available, but when it comes to serious matters I want a hardass.
Since Jewish doctors are scarce and expensive around here (joke, before anyone erupts) an Indian princess who has never pandered to me and is thorough with it will do me.
Jeez Louise. I thought RasPutin downed the plane, now that we know it’s Brazilian made it’s deadset certain it was a mechanical problem.
Australian Customs forms require a cross in any appropriate boxes.
If it is done there it will no doubt be seen by voters as good enough in the Referendum.
Especially as in common usage a tick means yes and a cross means no.
This should be very carefully scrutineered with ‘intention’ as the key factor.
If there is nothing in the ‘yes’ box but a cross in the ‘no’ then voter intention is clear.
Incidentally post war housing two or three bedroom, lounge, kitchen, bath wasn’t a matter of choice.
There were significant restrictions because, naturally, many plans were put on hold because of military service and war production so not enough to go around not to mention a huge immigration programme.
People were limited to ten or twelve squares depending on the number and sex of their children and owner building was encouraged.
My dad build his first house with the help of family on the weekends, that was at the end of the fifties so we got a ‘sunroom’ as well.
Amazing what accountants can do.
My current home was built under the restricted regime in 1953, but has had a number of additions since then.
Now of course the government will do what individuals used to do for themselves.
There was a time when there was an “overwhelming” consensus that the earth is flat.
May a thousand jokes bloom at the Voice’s expense.
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?
Well, Dotty Dot of Dottiness you are about to find out how Putin wins a war.
Just wait for the other mob to wear themselves out and then move forward in numbers.
GENIUS
Except there isn’t a no and a yes box.
There is one box where you have to write either yes or no.
I don’t think pointing to customs forms is helpful, what percentage of voters have recently completed a customs declaration?
Imagine if people tick the yes box and cross the no box.
I’m inclined to say accept Y or N but don’t accept any ticks or crosses.
Enough publicity should make all but the most obtuse aware.
The referendum ballot paper spells out the question, then asks:
Do you approve this proposed alteration?
There is then a single box for the response, and the instruction” Write “Yes” or “No””
The answer must be written in the single box, hence the argument about Y and N, and Ticks vs Crosses.
Jeez Louise. I thought RasPutin downed the plane, now that we know it’s Brazilian made it’s deadset certain it was a mechanical problem.
As I said earlier, be careful who you fly with. LOL.
The plan for tomorrow is a supervised barefoot stumble around the garden. Ahhhh – grass underfoot! Definitely no weeding, though I’m sorely tempted.
Me too, Cassie. I could understand it if they got some sort of advantage out of it but all it’s used for is to beat about the head other coalition politicians who don’t prostrate themselves before the media and Labor/Greens.
Now, now, JC. Embraer makes all sorts of very good shorthaul bizjets that are suitable for missions under 10,000 kms.
Considering the political shit that’s going down in Brazil, Embraer is a very good company harvesting on the corpse of Boeing, which has ceded the sub-150-seat market to Airbus (whose brilliant long-legged A220-300 started life as a Bombardier, made in Canada by a poorly run, shitbox company that now makes trains).
He agrees likely take done by missile and there is good indicative evidence for that but there are also pics of the tail that show no shrapnel damage.
Still, clarity should ensue in next 48 hours.
Yes Putin did it.
Just like all those Clinton Associates died not doing it. So many suicides. Amazing Grace. FFS.
Absolutely correct.
BP up to 160 mm Hg on the systolic measurement was considered normal in the early 1970s – as heart issues were rising but we did not have an epidemic of metabolic syndrome.
Recently, anything from 120 to 139 has been labelled as “pre-hypertensive”, which is obviously ridiculous.
125/70 – high BP, take these drugs! How about NO?
When you look into the history of it, BP really is a weird metric. Some doctor was mutilating a horse and decided that people needed to measure this and that it also meant something.
Low-level “high” BP, cholesterol and the like do not even have positive outcomes with drugs and the risks are costly. You might lower the risk of an ischemic stroke moderately (which is low as an absolute risk but “high” as a relative risk) but absolutely increase the risk of haemorrhagic stroke in a much higher manner.
It’s also been established now that “white coat fever” is real and constant or home monitoring is more accurate.
Do your own research, examine the facts and make up your own mind.
Roger
Dig up the bones of the various governors of the era, and hang their bones in a public place in Hobart, as happened to the corpse of Oliver Cromwell after the Restoration?
Tom
Would you fly in a Brazilian made plane? You’d have to drag me on. Airbus 350 is the only foreign made plane I’d travel and that would be under sufferance. And I don’t care what’s recently happened to Boeing. 🙂
You’ve been saying this for roughly 16 months. The war is 18 months old. When are you going to be correct? Just nominate a month, not a day.
Last year it was a pincer movement. Now it’s simply a war of attrition and walk in when the artillery stops. What’s your next claim? A surgical strike and decapitation of the Washington-installed regime?
The war will end when Putin and Zelensky can both save face.
Interestingly you have dodged the matter as to the situation being a stalemate or not right now (it is).
Try this then………..
Tucker interviews the Donald.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/tucker-interview-trump/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Sancho
In which case he should be able to quote the relevant clause of the legislation.
Interpretation by whom? A relevant court (the High Court sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns)? Or an anonymous bureaucrat?
I’d call this one a 168 hour wait out, and then some DB.
Interestingly you have dodged the matter as to the situation being a stalemate or not right now (it is).
Not at all Dotty Dot of Dottiness. I am with the people in the know which is not you.
LOL.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/tucker-interview-trump/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
JC, the Embraer E75 (70-80 seats) and E190 (90-120 seats) piss all over the Boeings in per-seat cost economics for their size and have none of the engine issues being encountered, for example, by Pratt and Whitney, affecting both Boeing and Airbus types.
Considering Embraer is operating in a corrupt socialist country that has just been taken over by China (thanks to the Dems and the CIA), its products are very good and are now widely used in Australia.
Dotty Dot of Dottiness go and play with you willy wonkas and with JC and JD and…………………With Mrs Stncho Pantyhose………………..And learn sum’fink.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/tucker-interview-trump/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Lizzie
There is only ONE box, there are NOT separate boxes for Yes and No, or Cross and Tick, or Y and N.
lol. I’m experienced enough Tom in the epidemiology of BP to disbelieve a lot of it. My own blood pressure fluctuates, as it does for most people, depending on whether I am calmly reading and relaxing at home or driving late and bothered to the docs. I always insist doc records the best of three.
Hint for travellers: do not allow a doc to change your BP meds in the six month period before you travel. That change will up your insurance costs as it will determine for them even if not for you that your BP is ‘not stable’.
Apart from only slightly elevated BP (probably oestrogen-related but who cares given oestrogen’s other benefits?), I am a fit and active 81-year-old still good to drive and swim and lug a suitcase and hit the dance floor on cruises. Never done a Sudoku or played Bridge in my life and don’t intend to start now. Hairy’s rellies can keep their Charades and Cryptic Crosswords to themselves too. All of that is Boring for England Brainiac stuff. Life’s too short to bother with it.
We’ve just booked a cruise around the Caribbean and up and down the Amazon for March 2024, finally going there at last after they cancelled out on us in 2020 and again in 2021, refunding our deposit both times. Prices have skyrocketed since but carpe diem. Now it’s no masks, no vaxx, no nonsense about it all now. Hearing that is very good indeed for the BP. 🙂
Listening to the Michael Malice interview of Gabriel Shipton (Assange’s brother).
A new piece of information that he shared was that Pence was directly involved with having Ecuador expel Assange from their embassy.
Pence was holding an IMF loan over their head.
Ecuador held out for 12 months but caved.
Google doesn’t turn up anything apart from a Pence visit to Ecuador.
If true it demonstrates Trump was a pure retard for having him as VP.
Funny how it means facts change when things don’t work out. Stated Kremlin war aims since February 2022.
1. Surgical strike and decapitation (Day 1).
2 Special military operation (First month).
3. “Denazification” (First few months).
4. A pincer movement (back end of 2022).
5. A war of attrition whilst losing strategic supersonic bombers to cheap throwaway drones (last couple of months) as Ukraine continues to gain better weaponry (F-16s this time).
6. Next: “F-16s are a really bad plane” – demonstrably false and COPE.
Each of these is a decreasingly worse outcome with less strategic initiative and control of the battlefield.
Good Lord, BJ. That’s definitely a feature not a bug then.
Taking a page from the US Democrat playbook there.
Dot:
I’ve often spoken of the need for a Critical Minerals and Semi Manufactured Products Stockpile similar to the US model.
We make copper products and piping. There’s one that we need. Iron in the form of steel girders and railway tracks, flat sheet and nails. Uranium as yellow cake, the list is endless but we have no domestic industry to transform them into final products.
Food in the form of bulk sugar and flour, beef made into tinned products and milk powder. Instead we have just let the industrial base for the transformation of these necessities die off for cents in the dollar.
A meager dollar cost each year could have us supporting these industries but no, nothing is done. So the peach trees and tomato vines get ripped out, the mines go bust, and we still don’t have economy wide radiological food preservation because a blunder fifty years ago killed some cats.
For want of a nail…
If there is nothing in the ‘yes’ box but a cross in the ‘no’ then voter intention is clear.
There is only ONE box .. you write YES or NO ..!
Megan
Many of us knew, Megan. But the smartest people in the room over ruled us. And now they will blame us because we must have gotten it wrong.
Everyone uses such a wide range of base, precious and rare earth metals & metalloids in daily life we’ve become oblivious to it. How a bureaucrat determines what a critical mineral is, must be laughable.
5. A war of attrition whilst losing strategic supersonic bombers to cheap throwaway drones (last couple of months) as Ukraine continues to gain better weaponry (F-16s this time).
Dot, not sure who you’re stoushing with.
But one thing the Russian invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated is that drones are far higher yielding than most planes.
The cost of drones has plummeted.
Cost of planes continues to rise.
Plus you don’t have to worry about a pilot.
If the plane was shot down with a missile I surmise it is heat seeking, the engines are almost below the tailplane shown in picture with no shrapnel damage. More likely a bomb on board.
Imagine a world without zinc.