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If the Houthis tried this on Israel , hundreds of planes would appear over Yemen inside 24 hours to carpet…
the do less damage that way
If only:
Did the 3 work cruises pay for the rest of the holiday ?
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/07/biden-cancels-all-remaining-leases-congress-issued-in-arctic-refuge-further-gutting-american-energy/
Gotta weigh your pasta out if you eat a lot. Easy to overdo it otherwise. Most servings are absurdly large.
Any particular reason why discussion in the last 2 days has suddenly centred around
* Apple phones better than Android phones
* Lego
* Bosch and Miele being exploitative
A rather odd combination of opinions given the infinite number of combinations that could have been selected.
FMD. A “serving” of 168 grams is like starter size. A decent helping would be 250 g
250/168 = ~1000 calories. I’d mash in a statin with that, just in case.
Malcolm Roberts telling it exactly as it is.
Killing the Environment to Save It
I despise those Italian joints that carefully measure the ration to 150 g. Anything less than 250 g and you’re going home hungry. The trouble is that some of the sauces are way over the top in terms of calories. The one mentioned about would have you hitting around 1000 cal.
I was on a cooking show once.
On the telly.
Straight to 7Mate, no book, no repeats neither.
Stephen Conroy (on Blot on Sky) is the worst possible useful idiot the Liars could send out to defend the Voice in the media.
Conroy is Old Labor and believes punters are so stupid they can be convinced of anything with enough advertising dollars.
Chorizo and eggs…Charles Grodin comes to mind for some reason.
Well, there you are.
We’re all gonna die next weekend when the temperature hits … 35C.
Here’s proof.
See?
The kangaroos are going to be melting in the paddocks and the Koalas are going to be hard boiled.
I told ya all.
Steam ovens?
Jeez Louise…
I’m just trying to master a pleb’s bullet smoker. The Ziggy BBQ otherwise was great for chicken, lamb, pork ribs, pork knuckle…
Have we reached peak China? How the booming middle class hit a brick wall
He he.
Just visited a local admin centre for the shogunates of the 1700’s.
They had massive storehouses for rice and other crops taken as taxation.
They calculated it very precisely as 31.45% of the crop.
A big take in a starvation year.
Not surprisingly, the peasants were revolting.
The first uprising was put down with executions and banishments.
A second uprising followed eighteen years later with the shogun deciding it was, in fact, getting out of hand.
He exiled the local head honcho, and put a bunch of his underlings to the sword (literally).
Valuable learnings, I think.
Mate of mine was living in London and eating a lot of pasta because it was all he could cook and he decided he needed to stop eating out so much. Came back looking like one of those French square cows.
Scientist tests his theory and cooks the books to support the left’s climate narrative… major magazine publishes his work
Energy prices in America are going to get much worse than we’ve ever imagined
Have you ever wondered what could have caused the stroke?
No sign of veggies there, Bear.
After 5 shots of the mRNA vaccine, what happens? Alarming fact about cellular immunity.
Chorizo is basically pre spiced pork. As a concession, I did drain the fat before scrambling the eggs. Not health food but tasty.
Dude, it’s minced pork with most of the off-cuts being all fat.
Oh good, because it acts as a very good substitute for veggies.
I freaking hope you’re still not eating that way. 🙂
Sunday night standbys. A few stir fries in there as well. And spinach and garlic if I was organised.
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JC,
no wrongs taken. Cacio e Pepe is actually just Parmesan or Pecorino tossed through the drained pasta with a splash of good olive oil, then grinding on as much Black Pepper as you enjoy. No sauce. that’s why I like it. Always have Pecorino and Parmesan in the fridge and freezer, and I adore Pepper. If I want to add a little luxury, I use Truffle oil.
Would like to add, I don’t mind people who don’t want to, or can’t cook. They keep a lot of food businesses running. If it hadn’t been for all my lovely customers who didn’t enjoy the pleasures of creaming butter and sugar, squeezing and rolling pastry, whipping eggs into submission, not to forget melting pots of chocolate, my Farmer’s Market Stall wouldn’t have been as successful as it was.
I am grateful for everyone of my customers who didn’t want to bake their own goodies and treats. 😀
Back in Oz after 10 weeks away. Nine countries. Four hire cars; drove about 4000 k’s; stayed in around 40 accomodations tho’ one was a cruise liner for three weeks, and ate in about 30 restaurants and cafes – Mrs TE likes to book places where she can cook about 2-3 times a week.
A recommendation for Air Qatar. Dreamliners and A-380s in great condition. Attentive, efficient and happy staff. Good on board catering. Entertainment system excellent.
Gonna be a bit difficult getting used to the cold weather. Roll on spring!
Oh okay, I’ve always seen it as a creamy sauce. It heavenly with dollops of cream.
That sounds like a single stall obesity epidemic in the locality. 🙂
Conroy is Old Labor and believes punters are so stupid they can be convinced of anything with enough advertising dollars.
Conroy is an imbecile, not as bad as Bowen but right up there. He gave us the white elephant, NBN. Bowen is determined to outdo him.
Of course, no cream in your carbonara either.
Opinions may vary there. Turtlehead Bowen may end up doing more aggregate damage to the economy which is no mean feat.
Hahaha. Blot has a Marxist activist clown on his Sky News show who says Australia is a “construct”.
The only thing these people respect is FORCE — which they should be given in spades.
Welcome back TE!
When are you having the Slide and Snack night?
The politburo in the ABC reasserts itself, after an outbreak of ideologically deviant reporting on state schools in Victoria, by going full Milligan against the Catholic Church again, in league with a Victorian left-style sham parliamentary inquiry:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-11/catholic-archbishop-perth-timothy-costelloe-inquiry-sexual-abuse/102839592
The sauces shouldn’t be the main feature.
One of my favourites is cacio e pepe.
Magnificent if done properly, like clag if done badly.
“That sounds like a single stall obesity epidemic in the locality. ?”
Treats, JC.
Everything in proportion. As the old saying goes, “a little of what you fancy does you good”.
And, give the people what they want! 😀
I like pasta, but refuse to eat any dry pasta made here with Australian grain. Australian grain should be banned for domestic consumption and for export only. 🙂
Senator Roberts starts Senate Debate on Immigration and Net-Zero
Old school Italian like Tiamo in Melbournibad are getting less and less frequent around the place.
Going to Alice Springs tomorrow for several days. Partly a work-related venture arrangement, and partly because I haven’t played the golf course there in a few years and I have some associates bugging me to do just that.
Yes I am flying there on Qantas.
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Nagi Maehashi.
Incredible, innovative recipes from this Australian/Japanese cook who has recently taken Oz by storm.
I love Nagi!
The Hun:
Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.
Oh. Carry on then.
No. No, I most certainly do not.
Bear, for someone who often says he’d like to see Melbourne clobbered by a tsunami etc, you reminisce a lot about Melbourne. It’s a love/hate thing you’ve got with with place.
Was that Kirashiki, Thancho?
I was a big fan of Melbournibad pre Chairman Dan. Took itself a bit too seriously but less plain vanilla than Perth. Perth definitely on the improve now, just not the scale of a real city.
For the record have always preferred Melbournibad to Sydney for what it’s worth. Although nothing compares to the harbour shimmering in the sunlight seen from a ferry (provided you’ve got a return ticket to somewhere else).
There’s no real shortage of lithium, but wow. This has just been discovered now?
Cacio e Pepe is actually just Parmesan or Pecorino tossed through the drained pasta with a splash of good olive oil, then grinding on as much Black Pepper as you enjoy.”
A big favourite, easy, easy, I like it with a sharp pecorino which is the cheese of Rome and the south of Italy. I love cucina povera.
Another fave, when I want to cook something very quick and easy, is Alio Olio, and I use a lot of garlic!
Pogria @ 7:50 mentioned Slide Nights.
As a 6 or 7 year old the slides of someone else’s visits to caravan parks could be boring. But I remember at that age being shown slides of 1960’s vans with Ayres Rock behind and thinking the rock was special. Always wanted to climb it and did so decades later. An experience that should not be denied those who seek it.
“Hahaha. Blot has a Marxist activist clown on his Sky News show who says Australia is a “construct”.”
Just watched it, comedy gold!
I never actually minded slide nights. I think the main theme was collective laughter at fashions past.
Sounds like Monster.
The best view of Sydney is in the rear vision mirror, leaving Penrith.
Kilauea Volcano is putting on a show.
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Dutchsinse:
Premiered 2 hours ago
The unrest has spread to Hawaii as we were expecting. Yesterday’s earthquake update / forecast talked about Hawaii specifically: September 9-10, 2023
Also it is very important to remember, while this volcanic eruption is intense looking, this is nothing to be fearful of. I would call this “regular” when it comes to eruptions overall. While it is “large and major” currently!
9/11/2023 — Large eruption at Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii — Fissures and lava flows — Unrest hit
I’ve always enjoyed Sydney when I’ve visited but that’s always been through staying in an inner-east location for short visits. Melbourne’s fine if you don’t mind the weather and trading in those irresistible harbour views. Warmer oceans also tempting.
The politics has come to be the reason for living here not to be what it could be, with the current administration on track to truely out-Cain Cain and no Kennett on the horizon and little left in the cupboard to fund a recovery. Perhaps Jeff was too successful last time round.
Ultimately family connections also prevail, but I’m encouraging my kids to be open to living elsewhere.
Tickety-boo! 😀 I got a zero uptick!
Despite the efforts of Chairman Dan, Melbourne will always shit on Sydney.
It has the G. Moonee Valley, Caulfield, Flemington.
And Collingwood.
As someone who is utterly useless at cooking, but who, given SWMBO did all the cooking for umpteen years, is now trying to pull his weight on the cooking front, I think this would be a great idea. I’m not sure I could contribute much, but I’ve already noted a couple of ideas from upthread.
One cooking-related thing I am puzzled about… there was some discussion about Nigella Lawson and her cooking skills vis a vis other noted TV chefs.
Does Nigella cook?
Of which one is solid at best, two are absolute sh!tholes and one is big, but not very successful.
Does Nigella cook? Who cares!
:roll eyes:
“Obviously worthy of exploration. Definitely not worth changing anyone’s mid-term plans. Yet,” Zeihan said, arguing that building up processing infrastructure should be first priority.”
WHAT!?
“The researchers’ paper comes as automakers, threatened by possible shortages of lithium for EV batteries, are racing to lock in supplies.“
???
They haven’t even drilled any cores yet.
Brilliant.
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If Superwog worked on an Airplane
Nagi Maehashi rocks.
seriously good and simple food
I really don’t know how this idiot can remain president for one more day instead of ending the current term.
It’s just embarrassing now.
https://twitter.com/DontWalkRUN/status/1700886354966573388/video/1
Anyway, “Sliante” to you mob.
I’m reading Alan Clark’s – The English politician -he of the infamous diaries, and a personal life that would have made the Emperor Caligula blush – history of Operation Barbarossa. Never thought of Clark as a serious historian, but it’s about the best one volume history of the war on the Eastern Front I’ve read.
“personal life that would have made the Emperor Caligula blush” – Clark was supposed to have seduced not only the wife of an eminent South African judge, but both his daughters, into the bargain.
ZK2A> Clarke was a Cad of rhe highest order when politics was a different kind of game. Churchil was also quite a difficult character while still being a very good writer.
The current bunch of failed arts students cum activists masquerading as a Labor leaders can barely string a sentence together let alone a decent bon mot or a book.
No.
Takayama.
But I think it might have been a common thing.
The Big Guy pushes for the regional capos to tax hard to increase his personal wealth.
It all works OK until there is a couple of lean years across the country, then it is on like donkey kong, and The Big Guy takes the forged carbon steel to a few capos to settle the nerves.
Catherine King might want to study up on Japanese history.
A cad and a bounder, you say? Of the highest order?
Yes, I am saying it out loud and to hell with the consequences ….
cheers Zulu.
Cop that you prick.
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steveinman:
When a bully meets a bull.
Could I tempt you with a new Lada?
[Source].
Somewhere along the path, the polar bear morphed into a Trojan horse.
(I’m convinced the most rabid zero types are closet baby seal clubbers).
Crumbled, toasted stale bread is a great example of this, in salads or topping pasta bakes.
Or “croutons” as they call them in some circles.
I think it’s gone beyond that, JC.
Making that bloke “be” President is definitely abusive, and even CNN are noticing.
I am dealing with old folk who are gradually (or not so gradually) declining every day. I would be unable to sleep at night if I’d put Dad in a position to embarrass himself quite so comprehensively.
Kamala! should (probably will) be President sometime not too far away. Thats what Vice Presidents are for. Yuck!
I posted this on an (old) old thread… if you’ve just removed the Pres because he’s too old, and the GOP can’t realistically avoid Trump being the nominee, who is the VP nominee? A diversity hire (e.g. Lake) won’t cut the mustard. You need to have someone who can plausibly be Pres if required. RDS is probably impossible for ego reasons, so is Vivek the only option? Is he even plausible? I think he’d probably be good, but that someone under 40 strikes me as a hard sell.
Not that it matters I guess, as the fix will be / is in anyway… the real question then is, if Biden does have to vacate the scene, as seems likely, can the Dems avoid Kamala! as the nominee? Has any party ever dumped a “sitting” President?
Five + years of Kamala! Really?
Australian Open is great. Some great golf courses down on the Peninsula. Friday drinks and walking up to the G for the footy hard to top. Cup week is good fun.
Let us all hope, the Qld Premiere keeps up her booster shots, just to be sure.
Living in a world, without Premiere Palushrek, would not be living at all.
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The freedom that the 9/11 hijackers hated is slipping away from us with terrifying speed.
The Frightened Left
Weaponizing impeachment is just one many precedents that Leftists now would not wish to have applied to themselves
Our little ryokan is run by a Japanese Basil Fawlty.
So many rules.
Which doesn’t bother us because most are just common courtesy anyway.
Last night we were out in the garden with a bottle of wine and a bottle of Ki No Bi gin.
Basil was circulating and hopping from one foot to the other.
No rules had been broken, but Basil-san was on hand to point it out should we transgress.
Tonight is a different story.
Two big Japanese blokes in the lounge working their way through a bottle of scotch and a two litre can of Asahi (yeah, I know. It’s like the six pack hadn’t been invented). They are pretty amiable really, but Basil-san is nowhere to be seen.
Mrs P thinks he has the night off and Manuel-san is in charge.
I think Basil-san has retreated.
To be fair, the bigger of the two may not be Yakuza, but you could definitely put him in a six man line-up for a Yakuza ID parade.
You couldn’t make it up.
And on that note… I’m going to bed!
Mark Dice:
THEY’RE FALLING APART!
Huh, Lake? She is partially Hispanic or Black.?
I’d never considered that.
If the corrupt prick goes, I think McCarthy would be next in line for VP. Funny as
Wonderful rendition
Of the seven matches Djokovic played at the US open, he dropped two sets (both in the one match).
And he was only forced into two tie-breaks.
I don’t think enough credit is being given to just how dominant that he was for the entire tournament.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Thanks Tom.
Andy Davey for me. Can interchange Rishi with Albo’s mate.
Fun fact:
President Kamala Harris could be the second longest serving US President after FDR.
Why the CPI is a load of crap example number 346,878. The article compares the prices for the famous Coles ‘fed a family for $10 or less per meal’ campaign in 2017 with the cost of the same ingredients today.
In summary:
Yet the CPI is allegedly only rising in single figures per year, and pre Covid was supposedly around 3%.
Bollocks!
True Johanna, well spotted.
Look at M0 – M2 and real estate since 2019.
It’s incredible we allow this to happen.
The reason for ‘Other’ being so popular in reasons for ‘No’ is likely because ‘All of the above ‘ is not an option.
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8/10 in the Oz quiz.
For some reason I thought Andy Warhol was born in New Jersey.
Occasionally, a “journo’ hitz the nail on the head .. luv this one, from CRIKEY ..
Alan Joyce — the “best CEO in the country by the length of a straight”. Joyce, who these days would struggle to beat Harvey Weinstein in a popularity contest,
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/richard-goyder-s-days-as-qantas-chairman-are-numbered-and-deservedly-so/ar-AA1gwEzq?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=9d69f7244c7a4505ab04bf3c201d4e0a&ei=22
Back when I still subscribed to the Crikey free email (just after the dawn of the internet) there was a regular contributor who was always bagging Qantas. The more things change…
At D-Town airport. Boarding shortly for Alice.
I expect to get a decent view of the monumental climate boiling, aka bushfire, about 1000km in around Tennant Creek. This thing is massively massive, and no doubt killing untold millions of lizards and so on but nobody bothers with it because a) it happens every year somewhere out here, and b) it’s too hot and far away for the handpatters.
Heading MEL … SYD. Hopefully not eventful but an exit row seat means I’m ready! No trial run, though. 🙁
Alan Joyce — the “best CEO in the country by the length of a straight”. Joyce, who these days would struggle to beat Harvey Weinstein in a popularity contest,
Easier to do when you let your fleet age so that the empty suit that replaces you has to undertake the biggest fleet upgrade in Qantas history.
My social media feeds are promoting girls in the traditional dirndl.
You look at Oktoberfest prices in Sydney & the algorithm takes over.
It’s like it knows me better than I know myself.
Correct, Johanna.
Ask a housewife or a pensioner about their weekly supermarket bill and there’s no change from 20% in annual food price inflation.
You have to have a waist for that. Can’t see it catching on in the ‘burbs.
Last time they were fashionable was the late 70’s.
My next girlfriend will be a dirndl enthusiast.
If the “food shop” section of the CPI basket was the only metric used, then things like rent, often pegged to CPI increase, would be astronomical.
bern you have watched Super Troopers too many times.
I have maintained that The Voice was let out of the lab to distract the punters from higher energy prices & their flow on effects (food being one).
Osaka (pop over 2 mil) only 40k from Kyoto (pop over 1 mil) and you can catch the local train rather than JR, more convenient for us, no need to change trains from our local subway station.
We are staying just a few metres from the entertainment district, a long long brightly neoned walking street of karaoke, restaurants and bars, we went into a deafening smoky slot and pachinka joint, my son put 1000 yen through a machine with some kind assistance from an employee and another player, he ended up with 800 yen cash and 477 yen worth of ‘prizes’. I might have a go but will be with ear plugs, it’s incredibly loud.
The street is badly in need of new paving but early in the evening pleasant enough, Monday night with a Saturday night feel, if we were in Melbourne back in the day, it was very busy, young locals, in the main.
Though the ‘business’ hotel itself is quiet as a grave and very familiar now with the same little rooms and a modular prefab bathroom.
bern you have watched Super Troopers too many times.
One of the greats.
“Who’s up for a moustache ride?”
“You know what my boys are like after drinking too much syrup”
“Meow”
don’t forget the eleventy bazillions of carbons it will release!
You’re right – out of sight, out of mind for the plastic-wrapped luvvies. They’re focussed on the voice. One thing at a time, please!
calli
I tells yas
Look at M0, M1 and M2 growth.
MV = PY
Then look at property prices and the formerly much loved “core inflation”, which apparently doesn’t matter anymore.
https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/money-supply-m0
(Set the graph to maximum amount of years/periods).
Shocking/not shocking, amirite?
The media complex really need to be less obvious.
Sop many ‘possible mass graves’ of the ‘stolen’ children being discovered at the moment.
Just in time for
christmasthe referendum.Osso bucco on the menu tonight With saffron cauliflower rice because carb are verboten by kthe Sunbather and he is very very disciplined in that regard
Speaking of young ladies with waists, I’ve had the pleasure of having my eldest daughter here for a “sleepover” as she’s doing work in the region.
At 40, I still blink at her in dismay – she still looks as if she’s walked straight out of the 6th Form. Which is helpful in her current role – negotiating with trade unions being part of it. The buzz-cut nursing harridans (amongst others) always underestimate what they’re dealing with.
An excellent chance to chew the fat on Albo’s latest adventure in unpopularity, the perils of school for teenage boys and a raft of other family Nation-State stocktaking.
That’s nothing, I’m Carey Grant with the stoicism of Gary Cooper.
We left Kyoto after someone nearly caused a major biohazard incident at a Post office branch. The clerk screamed and about lunged across the counter for a crash tackle when she realised someone was about to lick their postcard stamp.
Nooooooooo.
Dot, giving me a page like that is expecting me to read a document in Swahili. However, I get the picture.
Glenn Greenwald has just out a subscriber email that has reminded me of something.
His partner died in May after being in hospital for the better part of a year with what originated as a UTI.
This reduced his coverage of the Brazilian election somewhat.
I have been surprised that there has been little to no speculation that there was more to this.
How does a man in his mid 30’s, who was apparently very healthy, die from an infection like that?
To put it into perspective, Prince Philip was in & out hospital during his 90’s with UTI’s and he pulled through.
Just sayin’.
That’s nothing, I’m Carey Grant with the stoicism of Gary Cooper.
dot, sounds like you’ve watched The Soprano’s recently.
Last year, at the Sleazy government’s Jobs and Skills Summit summit (remember that wank fest), some of Australia’s leading business executives decided to hitch a ride home on the PM’s VIP plane, well it isn’t his plane, it’s a plane owned by the Australian people. From the Daily Telegraph….
“Here are some of the biggest names on the PM’s VIP guest list:
1. Alan Joyce, former Qantas boss
2. Jennifer Westcott, chief executive of the Business Council of Australia
3. Tim Reid, Business Council of Australia president
4. Rob Scott, Chief Executive, Wesfarmers
5. Mike Henry, Chief Executive, BHP
6. Scott Charlton, Chief Executive, Transurban
7. Steve Cain, former chief executive and manager director, Coles
8. Catherine Livingston, businesswoman
9. John Mullen, Chair of Telstra
10. Sam Mostyn, Gender Equality Advocates
11. Alison Kitchen, former KPMG chair
12. Kelly Parker, Rio Tinto chief executive officer
13. Naomi Flutter, Wesfarmers, executive general manager corporate affairs, Wesfarmers
So, firstly it isn’t just Joyce who’s cosied up to Sleazy and his motley gang, they’re all in on it. Since Sleazy’s election last May, the above business leaders (and others not mentioned) have spent much of their time schmoozing to this fundamentally anti-business government. I reckon Sleazy, at last year’s wank summit, asked these leaders to hop on board the YES campaign and because all of them are gutless and craven cowards, they all said yes, yay, zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay!
A few months ago, Rita Panahi, one of the credible journalists from anywhere who sees through all the crap, who doesn’t mince her words, and who isn’t some scaredy-cat dribbling moron like Dribbler Sheridan, asked why these so called business leaders, instead of focusing on bread and butter business issues, prefer to spend their times dancing along with this government, a government that has made no secret, with its legislative agendas, how hostile it is to all forms of business, be they small, medium and large. So, when this government introduces its productivity stifling industrial relations legislation, many of these business leaders are compromised. I reckon more than a few of these business leaders voted “teal”. I think shareholders should not only be very worried, they should start to turn up to shareholder meetings and they should start asking tough questions about company priorities because here’s the rub, the priorities of the Business Council of Australia and its members such as Wesfarmers have not been about helping businesses and ensuring those business make profits, no, no, no, it’s been about “image”, being seen to be progressive and green. Shareholders should insist that in business there are only two colours that matter……..red and black……and that the BCA and its members should be concentrating on ensuring Australia’s businesses are in the BLACK.
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Namba/Shinsaibashi?
Many fond memories – and some bits that I cannot remember.
Rosie, I liked that part of Osaka, with its arcades and hole-in-the-wall restaurants. Our guide left us to our own devices for the evening and we had a ball.
What do you make of the concrete mattresses and house brick pillows? I ended up re-making the bed with the doona first, bottom sheet, top sheet and the hotel throw. Otherwise the air-con would roast us as we sweated away on an unforgiving baking pan.
ARE YOU LISTENING BACK THERE!?
Blatant apartheid. Words fail me, they truly do.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/cultural-elites-offer-discounts-to-woo-first-nations-crowds/news-story/43cd446da11200cb4c26297effcf6d3a
A UTI infection can be dangerous at any age, but particularly when older. My elderly mother currently has one, and she’s on antibiotics. UTI infections, if left untreated, can cause mental disturbances.
“No proof of eligibility is required to access the tickets and those who identify as a certain race or ethnic group will have their details kept confidential”
Okay then, I will identify as “First Nations” and buy a ticket.
Seriously though, I read this and my jaw dropped. This is now where we are. By the way, since when are “Maoris” indigenous to this country?
I get that Cassie (sorry to hear about your mum).
But I just can’t help but be suspicious.
I’m not sure ML, we got off the train, crossed the road and there it was, walked to the other end, turned a corner with a venue called Banana Hall?, turned another corner, hotel.
“But I just can’t help but be suspicious.”
I suspect he had other issues, the UTI is a side issue.
Bern
Really, you scored 8/10, which means there’s a good chance you knew the answer to this.
How could you? 🙂
Doctors here might have more info, but I believe UTIs can be a bit trickier for men for the obvious plumbing reasons.
Calli the mattress is fine, the only really hard one I had was in Tokyo and after 10 to 14 km of walking every day I just didn’t care.
Kyoto hotel had soft pillow, hard pillow with beads inside options, this one had just one pillow, which seems okay but I did my usual thing and BMOP.
In a socialist command economy, the chief executive is the prime minister. It is simply self-interest for the business yes-men in the command economy to suckhole the CEO/PM.
Business “leaders” they are not. It’s high time for some shareholder activism at the looming AGMs.
I used to take my own too, but it took up valuable textile acquisition space.
And here’s a little something to start the day on the right note.
😀
“It’s high time for some shareholder activism at the looming AGMs.”
Yep.
The Absolute Arrogance is Astounding!
You’ll give us missiles anyway, Ukrainian FM tells Germany
“It’s just a matter of time” before Berlin caves and sends long-range cruise missiles, Dmitry Kuleba told Annalena Baerbock
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has ridiculed Germany’s professed concerns about arming his country with long-range missiles, telling Berlin’s top diplomat to her face that “You will do it anyway. It’s just a matter of time.”
Speaking at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kiev on Monday, Kuleba was asked whether his meeting with Baerbock gave him “any hope” that Berlin could donate Taurus KEPD 350 cruise missiles to Ukraine in the near future.
“No. I wouldn’t say that Annalena went beyond the official position of the German government,” he replied. Turning to Baerbock, Kuleba then said “you will do it anyway. It’s just a matter of time.”
“We respect your discussions, we respect your procedures, but…there is not a single objective argument against doing it. The sooner it happens, the more it will be appreciated.”
Musk responds to Ukraine ‘treason’ claims
The billionaire has dismissed criticism over his refusal to help Kiev attack the Russian naval fleet in Crimea
“I am a citizen of the United States and have only that passport,” Musk said on Monday in a post on his X (formerly Twitter) social media platform. “No matter what happens, I will fight for and die in America.”
He added that in light of the fact that the US Congress hasn’t declared war on Russia, “if anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such. Please tell them that very clearly.”
EU believes Ukraine is ‘a very corrupt country’ – Politico
The prevalence of graft could hold up Kiev’s bid for membership in the bloc
Why yes, I think most sensible people agree Jo.
Do you remember when the storms in Queensland wiped out the banana crop (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-02-03/yasi-wipes-out-banana-crops/1928340)?
That, of course, led to the price of bananas jumping heaps, and there were hardly any available to be bought (you know, supply vs demand).
Well the quarter following the storm, the ABS assume the same volume of bananas were sold, but at the new (much higher price). Therefore the CPI jumped at lot! This is despite the fact rather than the previous quarter’s bananas were sold, hardly any were in the shops. Go figure.
So, as you say, the CPI is just a made-up-number which isn’t much use to us punters.
Rita is probably prevented by Newscorp’s lawyers from stating the obvious. These business leaders know too well that Labor politicians expect a show of fealty or their businesses will be targeted. Coalition governments wouldn’t do it to them and therefore they don’t get any love from big business. Fascism in all but name.
Furthermore, almost all the current top business executives are lefties so they would gravitate to Labor as a matter of course. Our universities have done their job in transforming us from capitalism to crony capitalism.
Miranda was grew up very poor, which might have an impact on his health and apparently dismissed his early symptoms as stress related, by the time he sought treatment he had sepsis.
a November 2022 article on David Miranda’s condition
Wadeye: Failed State as Cultural Triumph
1st July 2022
Patrick McCauley
The politically expedient and prideful apology from Kevin Rudd to all Aboriginal people on behalf of all Australians angered me.
That it was so popular drove me to despair. I cannot shake off the feeling that this current fad amongst left-wing governments (even the Vatican) to apologise for past wrongs is really scraping the very bottom of the “spin” barrel and is in fact a form of political arrogance that will do more to exacerbate past tragedies than to redress them.
For me, just emerging from two decades of the abuse and discrimination meted out by the Family Law Act, Rudd’s maternalistic apology became a nemesis in a life decimated by this left-wing orthodoxy based on compassion.
I had spent several years working with Aboriginal people back in the Seventies before my futile attempts at love under the domestic matriarchy, and so I decided to take a teaching position at the isolated Aboriginal community of Wadeye in the Northern Territory, to see first-hand how the Rousseau-inspired Coombsian theories had played out in reality.
In 2008, long before Wadeye’s current troubles saw hundreds flee their homes and feuds conducted with crossbows and machetes, Patrick McCauley reported for Quadrant on his experience as a teacher in the community.
Things were bad then. They are much worse today
Jetstar cancels credits – even after agreeing to extend indefinitely
Ayesha de Kretser
Senior reporter
Low-cost Qantas subsidiary Jetstar is telling its customers that flight credits incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic have expired, despite having dropped an arbitrary December 31 deadline and in the face of a looming Senate inquiry.
The Australian Financial Review columnist Jennifer Hewett and her partner each received an email on August 24 informing them that $290 worth of flight vouchers incurred during the pandemic would expire on September 6.
But when Ms Hewett tried to use the vouchers, the Jetstar website informed her they were expired.
Calling the Jetstar helpline was equally futile. During a lengthy phone call, a Jetstar representative demanded proof that the original booking was made during COVID-19, requesting emails from three years ago. After asking to speak to a manager, the line disconnected.
Ms Hewett called back and spoke to another Jetstar representative who refused to escalate the query and told her the vouchers had expired and could not be used unless the original booking details could be retrieved.
But on Monday, a Jetstar spokeswoman confirmed the vouchers were not due to expire, claiming the first representative had requested the emails from three years ago to verify Ms Hewett’s identity.
“As we announced at the start of the month, Jetstar COVID vouchers can be extended indefinitely, and we apologise for the error made by our contact centre agent in this instance,” she said.
“We will be providing additional training to the agent and have issued a reminder to our contact centre about our COVID voucher policy.”
Jetstar said customers had been emailed to let them know they can use expired vouchers by phoning the airline to request an extension.
But a confusing email to Ms Hewett, where it still lists a September 6 expiry rather than the December 31 expiry date, reads: “If your voucher is due to expire any time up to December 2023, and it expires before you can use it, please contact us for assistance. For vouchers which have been partially used, we can only assist after the voucher’s expiry date has passed in 2023.”
The spokeswoman could not confirm whether other customers had encountered the same difficulties, nor why Jetstar does not drop the expiration date in its emails to avoid confusion.
It’s a pillow, not a boomerang.
Hmmm.
No proof you say?
I was thinking about that yesterday reading that trash BBC article about da Voice, claiming that 30% of prisoners were Aboriginal.
What odds a large number of these are white crooks who have figured out identifying gives them an easier ride?
Business chiefs ask Albanese if they can visit China too
Andrew Tillett
Foreign affairs, defence correspondent
Business groups are urging Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to take a delegation of corporation chiefs with him to China when he visits later this year, as the opposition warned the PM had to deliver tangible outcomes rather than allow the trip to be used as Communist Party propaganda.
While Australian and Chinese officials are finalising details including a date, business leaders said Mr Albanese had to make more than a flying visit to Beijing given the importance of China as an economic partner.
But Australia China Business Council president David Olsson said he hoped Mr Albanese would take representatives from the business community with him rather than simply “taking Penny Wong with him for an in-and-out visit”.
“I have certainly put forward a case to DFAT [Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade] there should be a delegation,” he told The Australian Financial Review.
“It is a lost opportunity if he doesn’t take some business people because our relationship is most significantly an economic relationship.”
Chair of the Business Council of Australia’s global engagement committee, Warwick Smith, said businesses had offered to participate in a China visit, similar to how top chief executives such as Wesfarmers’ Rob Scott or Commonwealth Bank boss Matt Comyn were part of the delegations for Mr Albanese’s trips to Indonesia and India.
While a travel date of late October/early November has been suggested because that would coincide with the 50th anniversary of Gough Whitlam’s first visit by an Australian PM to China, Mr Smith said the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing in late November/early December could also be a suitable date.
“It would be good for him [Mr Albanese] to be there for an end of year overview with our largest trading partner,” Mr Smith said.
Both Mr Olsson and Mr Smith did not expect to see any further easing of China’s remaining trade sanctions against Australian exports – with wine and lobsters the most high-profile – ahead of Mr Albanese’s visit.
“I would hope that we see some movement beforehand but it shouldn’t be a precondition for the visit. My expectation is we will see an outcome as a result of the visit, not so much ahead of it,” Mr Olsson said.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison last week reportedly told the Coalition party room that Mr Albanese should not rush to visit China lest it be seen as too concessional and acquiescent towards Beijing.
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham said Mr Albanese’s visit needed to deliver on removing the last of China’s coercive trade sanctions and improving the treatment of detained Australians Cheng Lei and Yang Hengjun.
Good luck with ma, Cass.
The idea of leaving my pillow, alone and abandoned, in some overseas location is just not on. Unthinkable. 🙂
Opinion
Why it’s so hard to rent or buy a home
It only gets harder for Australians to rent or purchase homes. Governments are now focused on the need to do more to help chronic undersupply. Will it work?
Jennifer Hewett Columnist
Campbell Hanan, chief executive of Mirvac, says it doesn’t take much to figure out the size of the problem in Australia’s chronic undersupply of housing.
Against a backdrop of around 400,000 migrants coming this year alone, he says, the apartment supply outlook is for around 11,000 apartments being completed in 2025.
That is also despite the financial reality of the higher cost of houses relative to apartments logically translating into many more people, including young families, being interested in apartment living in an era where record low-interest rates are now history.
According to Hanan, the discount for a three-bedroom apartment compared to a three-bedroom house in a similar suburb is down from the 50 per cent rate it grew to during the COVID-10 pandemic but still around 40 per cent.
“The affordability story is starting to bite and apartment living certainly fills that gap,” he told The Australian Financial Review Property Summit.
Announcing its results last month, Mirvac said it would respond to the demand with an additional seven new projects providing just over 1000 apartments.
As a diversified property company, Mirvac’s interest in also having more apartment developments is obvious. But so is the community’s need for this to occur at scale – along with the urgent pressure on governments created by the massive mismatch between the demand and supply of new homes.
Hanan argues it is possible – if “challenging” – for Australia to meet the federal government’s latest commitment to the construction of 1.2 million homes over five years.
Yet even for an industry always desperate to grow, that assessment seems remarkably optimistic given the impediments to the delivery of soothing political promises.
These range from notorious delays in planning and development approvals to difficulties for smaller developers getting bank financing to construction companies and subcontractors failing due to higher than expected costs to a lack of construction workers – with housing also competing with huge infrastructure projects underway.
Then add in Australia’s unusual population concentration in a few large capital cities, including close to 90 per cent of migrants heading straight to Sydney or Melbourne.
It’s true the steep rise in the cost of materials due to disrupted supply chains, for example, is finally receding. But strong population growth alone ensures demand can only continue to greatly outpace an existing backlog exacerbated by the very low level of housing currently being built.
That’s compounded by rising clamour about rental prices and availability, particularly from younger generations who no longer believe they will ever be able to afford to buy where they want to live.
It’s a contrast to the traditional Australian family experience of homeownership offering the key to building household wealth over decades as prices inevitably climb.
It’s also why there are so many references to the need to build more “social and affordable” housing.
From the link above re parental fears.
I’d say we are looking at a genuine ‘stolen generation’ here.
As a thank you (sarc) to my daughter for banning me from undertaking another high country trail ride this year (ignoring the other reality that air fares and ride costs have become so high it has put me off), I am painting her old defunct shearing shed which she had converted into somewhat luxurious accommodation for horsey people, farm stayers and dude ranchers (of which there is an amazing number).
It is a good sideline, attracting people who enjoy the aroma of ancient lanolin and sheep poop.
For me though it has been an unpleasant shock. Three hours on the ladder and roller and I am done for the day. Obviously bloody Albanese’s fault..
A whole generation of kids robbed of not just their childhood but their future as adults: as Hairy often notes about some of the leftist’s most outrageous cruelties and thievery – all done in plain sight.
I noticed the soft pillow-beady pillow thing too.
Walking through a market the other day I noticed a cypress pillow.
Stay with me here.
It was a sort of gauze bag filled with hundreds of tiny bits of wood, probably 3-4 mm square.
I assume it is the aroma of cypress which helps sleep.
I would definitely go a cedar one.
“Good luck with ma, Cass.”
Thanks JC.
Cassie @7.54am. I was catching up and as I scrolled back I my eyes caught “schmoozing his fundament”. It wasn’t what you’d written but scrolling visually edits. I think my interpretation is more accurate.
Europe’s solar industry warns of bankruptcies over Chinese imports
EU’s efforts to manufacture more green technologies are being undercut by cheaper rivals
Europe’s solar power industry has warned that a glut of cheap Chinese imports has pushed some manufacturers to the brink of bankruptcy, hampering the EU’s efforts to boost local production of green technologies.
SolarPower Europe, a trade group for the industry, wrote to the European Commission on Monday that soaring stockpiles and “fierce competition” among Chinese manufacturers to gain market share in Europe had pushed down the prices of solar modules by more than a quarter on average since the beginning of the year.
“This is creating concrete risks for companies to go into insolvency as their significant stock will need to be devalued,” the letter said.
Norwegian Crystals, a producer of the ingot used in solar cells, had already filed for bankruptcy last month, it added. Norsun, another Norwegian solar company, this month said it would suspend production until the end of the year.
The EU is hoping that solar power will become the biggest generator of energy within the bloc as it tries to reach a target of having 45 per cent of energy generated by renewables by 2030 — a goal set to be voted on by the European parliament this week.
But China’s dominance of the solar supply chain means that its products account for around three-quarters of the bloc’s solar power imports, prompting fears that the EU is developing a reliance on China akin to its dependence on Russian gas until Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The cost of manufacturing a solar module in Europe is more than double the current spot price, SolarPower Europe said.
David Thompson revisits some academia posturing.
Further to Lizzie’s post, this is why I like, really like, Senator Jacinta Price….
Opposition Indigenous Affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says ‘women are under attack’
By SARAH ISON
POLITICAL REPORTER
Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says pushing back against the transgender movement and its impact on children will be among her next priorities after the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum.
Speaking at an event hosted by Liberal senator Alex Antic that featured speakers including Katherine Deves and Moira Deeming, Senator Price said the parliamentary inquiry into gender-affirming care, which refers to medical treatments used to transition people to the gender of their choosing proposed by One Nation Leader ?Pauline Hanson should not have been left to “a conscience vote”.
“In the Senate, we had an opportunity to vote for an inquiry into gender-affirming treatments for children. It should never have been a conscience vote because this issue speaks to the human rights of our most vulnerable, and that is our children,” Senator Price told the small group gathered in Parliament House.
“This debate, this argument, the way it’s being played out, the way in which women are now under attack for standing up for the vulnerable, for standing up for children, is so many steps backward to where we’ve come to fight for our rights as women.”
The topic of transgender rights has become a political flashpoint over the past two years, with Ms Deeming suspended from the Victorian Liberal party room following her appearance at a Let Women Speak rally in March.
At the 2022 federal election, Scott Morrison sought to bring the transgender issue into focus by selecting Ms Deves as the Liberal candidate for Warringah.
Senator Price said women such as Ms Deves and Ms Deeming were “brave” and had been “thrown under the bus” in expressing concerns for women’s rights being impinged upon by transgender women.
“That sends a message to our vulnerable women, women who don’t come from Western cultures, that they aren’t important, that their voices don’t matter,” she said.
“If you can have a movement that has seen to provide equal rights and opportunity and respect for women in Western culture suddenly be overturned and go backward, well, that leaves our most vulnerable in a more marginalised position.
“That puts us further behind the eight-ball.”
Asked if she would take up the issue following her campaign against the voice to parliament, Senator Price said it went “hand in hand” with her portfolio, particularly regarding issues facing marginalised Indigenous women.
“It’s definitely up there in the list of priorities,” she said.
Senator Antic’s event was heavily policed, and organisers claimed they had received credible death threats.
Disallowed entry, the National Union of Students, LGBTQI+ advocates and Greens MPs protested outside Parliament House.
Greens LGBTQI+ spokesman Stephen Bates said the speakers were “fearmongers” and peddled transphobia.
“There is no line these people won’t cross,” he said. “They’re hellbent on taking us back decades on LGBTIQA+ and women’s rights.”
Ms Deves told the event on Tuesday morning the resolve of women who were critical of transgender rights had been “strengthened” and “galvanised” by the backlash they had faced from some sections of society.
“The apparatuses of the state, the courts, disciplinary processes, and quasi-judicial bodies may be weaponised against those of us who refuse to acquiesce to a movement that is determined to erase us as a legal sex class,” she said.
Psychiatrist Jillian Spencer, who has launched a complaint with the Queensland Human Rights Commission over her inability to object on medical grounds to gender-affirming treatments, said there needed to be a federal independent body set up to determine “what interventions are safe to be delivered to children, at what age and under what circumstances”. She said children who were “vulnerable and confused” were presenting at gender clinics and being pushed into gender transitioning as a “way forward to happiness”.
Dr Spencer, who appeared on Seven’s controversial Spotlight episode, said public health services were “still requiring all their staff to affirm children and to recommend these risky interventions”.”
I suspect Price, who grew in Alice Springs, who’s experienced male violence from male kin, isn’t scared of soy boy, poncy far-left progressive Green scum.
By the way, I now regard the “rainbow” flag as not just sinister, but evil.
Oh and where’s our own pervert apologist? No doubt lurking in the shadows. I shouldn’t need to remind people here how he, earlier this year, not only supported the violence against women in an Auckland Park, he thought it was hilarious.
HE, and his other fellow ideological travellers, can F*CK off.
Transperverts are NOT women.
there was a regular contributor who was always bagging Qantas.
Wasn’t actually a columnist, Ben Sandilands on his Plane Talking thread was it?
I didn’t mind his columns mostly but was aware of his pro VA & pro Airbus bias. Was really the last part of Crikey I regularly read, I never go near it now unless someone links an article
bons
Sep 12, 2023 8:37 AM
It is a good sideline, attracting people who enjoy the aroma of ancient lanolin and sheep poop.
Memories of early sixties weekend Shooting Trip to Bourke and sleeping in a Mates Parents very large Shearing Shed on the Louth Road out of Bourke to Tipla, with the glisten of Lanloin shiny on the timber floors & yes, I loved the aroma of Lanolin
Ah, I am thinking more Chuo-ku (Chuo-ward). You are in Kita-ku.
Still, if you go to Umeda station and take the Midosuji subway to Shinsaibashi and, emerging from the underground go to the shopping street heading toward Namba – you can see what I am talking about.
If you walk up that shopping street you will come to Dotonbori bridge and, if you cross over, you will see that food district with the giant crab, and the strange clown-looking guy, and such.
Well, everyone. You know what to do. lol
Out and proud.
Some observations of fellow travellers:-
1. Bearded old codger wearing a tee-shirt proclaiming “Australia. Proudly settling boat people since 1788”. A very hittable head.
2. Fckwts who treat the Shinkansen rail ticket counter as their personal travel agent. To my right the Kiwi woman wanting to know the best subway lines to use to see the 15 attractions on her list. To my left the German/Dutch bloke wanting to know how long it would take to get from his hotel to the station. I think the bloke serving me was happy I just wanted two tickets.
3. The Intrepid Tours group filling our restaurant the other night. Whiny, entitled and demanding boomers. Not at all intrepid.
Some people should stay home.
The lunacy continues, it must be terminal.
I wonder if it’s a test. If the majority of tickets are purchased under the indigenous label then the companies will go broke. It will also indicate what will happen to the country if the Voice gets up.
Against that of course is the fact that high cultural activities don’t usually get the attention of most people, who wouldn’t see three hours of Wagner as a treat.
Diversity is Our Strength.
Apart from the deeply entrenched sectarian and nationalist divisions.
Intelligence and logic have departed the European Union. They made their energy sources too expensive so they thought it would be clever to outsource most manufacturing to China. Now that China is an industrial giant they call foul. Not that Australian economic policy has been any smarter.
Should have made it ‘for sixty thousand years’.
No-one evolved here.
The Big Read Singapore
Can Singapore hold on to its reputation as Asia’s ‘safe haven’?
The city-state has long prospered as a global hub but some question whether the model is still working
On a hot day in August, Singaporean police arrived at one of the city’s swankiest addresses, made their way past a miniature golf course in the courtyard, and charged inside. At homes across the city — always in the wealthiest neighbourhoods — similar scenes were repeating as police rounded up people suspected of belonging to a billion-dollar money-laundering ring.
Once upstairs, the officers banged on the bedroom door. When they entered, Su Haijin, a 40-year-old man of Chinese, Cambodian and Cypriot nationality, was gone. But not very far. On hearing the police, Su had hurled himself off the second-floor balcony, fracturing his hands and legs. Police found him hiding in a nearby drain.
The case, in which Su and nine others have been charged so far, has captivated a public wholly unused to seeing the insalubrious side of their country laid bare. It is not just the trappings of the S$1.8bn ($1.3bn) bust — gold bars, designer handbags, luxury cars, lavish property and digital fortunes — that have fascinated. Global banks, precious metal dealers, property agents and one of the country’s most famous golf clubs have also been sucked into the scandal.
Singapore has for decades prospered in no small measure due to its reputation as the “Switzerland of the east” — a safe and neutral haven for business in an at-times intractable part of the world.
The investigation has captured global attention, “not just due to its size and links to Chinese money”, says Chong Ja Ian, associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore, “but also because it underscores the risks as Singapore tries to reshape itself in a more competitive and fragmented world”.
Singapore, he adds, wants to be “a premium place for premium business, not just a Cayman Islands or a Mauritius, a place where global capital can come in and be reinvested elsewhere. But a raid of this scale shows the model has serious drawbacks.”
While Singapore’s open, trade-reliant economy has proved resilient to external shocks such as rising global protectionism and supply chain fragmentation, the raid comes at a sensitive and destabilising time.
The city-state is wrestling with rising inequality — linked to unrestrained capital inflows from the US, Europe and especially China — as it prepares for its first change of leader in almost 20 years. Some are questioning whether an economic model so reliant on foreign capital is benefiting citizens in the way it once did.
There is also the delicate matter of deteriorating Sino-US relations.
As more mainland Chinese cash and influence seeps out of China and into Singapore, the country’s high-wire balancing act between Beijing and Washington becomes even more precarious.
All 10 accused in the money-laundering sting share one thing in common: possession of a passport believed to be issued in China.
Yes, Ukrainians agree;
https://twitter.com/buperac/status/1700893322846560749
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Sep 12, 2023 8:56 AM
“Australia. Proudly settling boat people since 1788”.
Should have made it ‘for sixty thousand years’.
No-one evolved here.
As the Bradshaws Art of the Kimberleys show!
The Bradshaws let Grahame Walsh propose a controversial hypothesis: instead of Australia being continuously settled for 50,000 to 55,000 years by ancestors of contemporary Aboriginal people, Walsh suggested that waves of populations arrived.
And one of these waves could have been people from a different ethnic identity, who created the Bradshaws.
It hit me how little is known about Australia’s history before 1788.
— Maria Myers, admirer of Walsh’s work
Source: Bradshaw (Gwion Gwion) rock art – Creative Spirits, retrieved from https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/bradshaw-gwion-gwion-rock-art
So, as you say, the CPI is just a made-up-number which isn’t much use to us punters.
Which is why the CPI is called – The Corrupted Price Index
Currently on SBS Food (with the sound down), Pommy chef James Martin wheeling around America in a Pontiac Catalina. What a lad!
They admit to around 7%, and given their statistical chicanery (substitution, hedonic adjustment, outright lying) you can easily double that as a starter.
Real world tells the story – since last year my rates went up 50%, car insurance 30% and house insurance 36%. .. and bog roll has damn near doubled in the last several years.
When is it all going to blow?
Very…very good.
Always was, always will be…a land of migrants.
Pretty good directions ML. Wife and I were sitting across from the giant crab watching the world go by. A couple sauntered past, the youngish woman was absolutely beautiful. He pulls out his bicycle from the rack, she hops on the back, away they go. How many women would do that in Australia?
Spread this concern wide and far if you can help.
Ukrainians blame Zelensky for corruption – poll
Nearly eight in ten citizens believe the country’s president is “directly responsible” for rampant graft, a new survey has shown
The vast majority of Ukrainians believe that President Vladimir Zelensky is at fault for widespread corruption in the country’s government and military, a new study has revealed.
The poll, released on Monday, found that 78% of Ukrainian adults see Zelensky as “directly responsible” for Kiev’s corruption problem. It was conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Charitable Foundation and the Kiev International Institute of Sociology.
The Ukrainian poll was conducted from July 3 to July 17 in face-to-face interviews with thousands of citizens across the country. There were no major differences in findings based on region or socioeconomic factors. Respondents aged 60 and older took a harsher view, with 81% saying Zelensky was responsible for government corruption. The rate was 70% in the youngest segment, ages 17 to 29. Overall, only 18% of Ukrainian adults disagreed with the statement that Zelensky bears responsibility.
flyingduk
Sep 12, 2023 9:05 AM
Real world tells the story – since last year my rates went up 50%, car insurance 30% and house insurance 36%. .. and bog roll has damn near doubled in the last several years.
When is it all going to blow?
flyingduk,
you need to add Electricty & Gas – AirbusALbo told us he would save us $275 – my Electricty and Gas went up 40+%
Cassie – its crony capitalism, pure and simple.
With a seat at the government table, the big players can monopolise via government regulation – crushing the smaller players.
Yes, I wonder if it’s a generational thing. Take this bloke as an example:
Dan Andrews also described him recently as a friend.
In Victoria the AFL and its links to the Labor party would prove instructive. Monash alumni most of them, though McLachlan blazed his way through Trinity College at Melbourne where he captained the football team.
UTIs are dangerous in the elderly because they are very often un-diagnosed and masked by the normal frailties of advanced age. Infected and run down, sufferers can then be read as having declined mentally in short order.
Looking after Mum, by about the third UTI during her terminal illness, I generally knew when she had one and took the appropriate steps with her GP etc.
For shame.
Denying they sprung, fully formed, from the land
is the epitome of racist, white, so-called science.
Male plumbing is more resistant to invasion in the first place, so clinical infection often means a predisposing factor deeper in, eg a kidney or bladder stone.
Australian capitalism at work.
So for the clowns shedding a tear for Joyce and how poorly the little queer is appreciated, you might just spare a thought for the millions of regular consumers in this country who are being rayped, pillaged and plundered every which way in plain sight by these corporates, well protected by the regulatory walls they operate behind.
Affordable housing: Won’t happen until MUCH more land is released for resi development. The big donor Land Banks won’t allow that, of course. Were they on the Taxpayer’s plane too?
Still the Aftermath of the Tonga Eruption?
Thousands feared dead after storm in eastern Libya
Seven army servicemen have also gone missing during rescue efforts, a spokesperson for the Libyan National Army, Ahmad Mismari, has said
The Bradshaw’s are akin to Indonesian Batik. Whoever did them were not the 3rd nations.
It’s a pack of lies, all right.
Apart from the food prices in my post (well over 50% in a few years) we have the things you mention, plus energy prices up at least 25%, rents 25-30% and puchased property similar if not more. These are conservative figures, BTW.
Yet we are told that the CPI annual increases are less than 10%, and around 3% pre 2021?
Pull the other one, it plays Lies.
Duk
How is it possible for a UTI to affect brain function? That’s a really hard one to get my head around (pun intended).
The Tonga volcanic eruption reshaped the seafloor in mind-boggling ways
Immense flows traveled up to 60 miles away, damaging the region’s underwater infrastructure.
On January 15, 2022, the drowned caldera under the South Pacific isles of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha?apai in Tonga blew up. The volcanic eruption shot gas and ash 36 miles up into Earth’s mesosphere, higher than the plume from any other volcano on record. The most powerful explosion observed on Earth in modern history unleashed a tsunami that reached Peru and a sonic boom heard as far as Alaska.
New research shows that when the huge volume of volcanic ash, dust, glass fell back into the water, it reshaped the seafloor in a dramatic fashion. For the first time, scientists have reconstructed what might have happened beneath the Pacific’s violently strewn waves. According to a paper published in Science today, all that material flowed underwater for dozens of miles.
“These processes have never been observed before,” says study author Isobel Yeo, a marine volcanologist at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre.
About 45 miles from the volcano, the eruption cut off a seafloor fiber-optic cable.
For Tongans and rescuers, the broken cable was a major inconvenience that severely disrupted the islands’ internet. For scientists, the abrupt severance of internet traffic provided a timestamp of when something touched the cable: around an hour and a half after the eruption.
The cut also alerted scientists to the fact that the eruption had disrupted the seafloor, which isn’t easy to spot.
“We can’t see it from satellites,” says Yeo. “We actually have to go there and do a survey.” So in the months after the eruption, Yeo and her fellow researchers set out to fish clues from the surrounding waters and piece them back together.
A Tongan charter boat owner named Branko Sugar had caught the initial eruption with a mobile phone camera, giving an exact time when volcanic ejecta began to fall into the water. Several months later, the boat RV Tangaroa sailed from New Zealand to survey the seafloor and collect volcanic flow samples. Unlike in much of the ocean, the seafloor around Tonga had already been mapped, allowing scientists to corroborate changes to the topography.
To quote Lincoln: “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
On this basis I have been ticking both boxes (A and TSI) for a decade or more … including when I was jailed in Canberra – no one can possibly question the veracity of aboriginality when one has the yard time to prove it.
And another funny thing – I was in the CFA Office in Ararat the other day and the ‘Volunteer support officer’ brought up my file – before my name it displayed my nominated pronoun: ‘Lord’ 😉
Palaszczuk is back, playing the female card:
‘I am proof that the women & girls of this state can be anything they want.’
She then went on to defend two Labor MPs accused of mistreating women.
The numbers must be close.
Long since.
It looks like nobody in Brussels spent those 3 minutes.
Almost none of the social and economic cockups and disasters overwhelming the West are even slightly unexpected. As in Australia, 97.3% of it is deliberately self-inflicted by People Who Think They Know Better acting against contrary advice.