WATCH: Donald Trump Gets Applauded During Visit to Black Barber Shop in the Bronx, NY
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Also learnt today that my SIL has Jewish “descent”, if that is even a thing. Apparently her maternal great grandmother…
Remembering the TITANIC .. the “iceberg” defends itself .. LOL! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP5bu9hLH9E&t=85s
Al Smith dinner speeches: Donald Trump delivers remarks at the Al Smith dinner (youtube.com) Pretty funny stuff!!!
That is outrageous.
Doc Faustus/Knowledgeable Others:
Is there an element that would provide decay rates enough to take a vehicle to say Neptune, at a constant boost there and enough for a return trip?
I’d assume that by the time the vehicle got back, it would be old enough to just chuck into the sun to recycle it.
I realise its a difficult question because of the parameters – weight, crew, speed, etc etc. Has anyone done an engineering study on it using ion drive and thermoelectric power?
Too busy pumping his own tyres, the pneumatically obsessed old turd.
Also explains his gift for spraying showers of saliva every time he rake-steps onto a fricative or a sibilant.
When he went to ‘pimp my career ride’ they didn’t just fix his snagged-teeth – they had to replace a valve.
Ooh!
What a nice way to hit top o’ th’ page!
Crossie:
It’s the essence of Managerialism.
If you’ve managed to get a job in the hierarchy, your children – with your help – will get a leg up. If your daughters demand the three sixes in a husband, and only select from their social cohort, then it is equivalent to knocking out a couple of the rungs in the ladder underneath them.
This is how the new Lords and Servant class is being created. The Middle Class is going to be under desperate pressure to keep their positions or to be tossed onto the servant scrap heap.
I want to put Entryism into the argument somewhere because it underpins the entire concept. Perhaps calling it Social Entryism will help. 🙂
Super-wimp!
A father has tried to sue a hospital after he claimed watching his wife deliver their baby via C-section left him with mental distress.
Anil Koppula took legal action against the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, seeking $1 billion in damages after watching his wife’s caesarean in 2018.
He said he developed a ‘psychotic illness’, after he saw his wife’s blood and organs, and watching the procedure had led to the ‘breakdown of his marriage’.
‘Mr Koppula alleges that he was encouraged, or permitted, to observe the delivery, that in the course of doing so, he saw his wife’s internal organs and blood…He says that the hospital breached a duty of care it owed to him and is liable to pay him damages,’ the court papers say.
Mr Koppula, who represented himself in court, claimed that the hospital should be liable for damages of $1bn.
The Royal Women’s Hospital acknowledged its responsibility to provide a duty of care, but denied that it breached it.
Justice James Gorton on Tuesday threw out the lawsuit, calling it an ‘abuse of process,’ the Herald Sun reports.
According to the judgement, the law does not allow someone to receive damages for non-economic loss unless their injury is a ‘significant injury’.
Daily Mail
Has a Russian submarine been attacked by British launched missiles in the last couple of days? Is this a dangerous escalation of the war in Ukraine?
https://open.substack.com/pub/nakedemperor/p/escalation-in-ukraine?r=j2j4d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Further, on Sky News:
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-strikes-russian-submarine-and-landing-ship-in-audacious-assault-on-crimea-naval-base-12960336?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Scanning through TheirABC online, I find that people are shivering through winter, while at the same time the planet is at least simmering (probably in a plastic bag, which is chic in circles that enthuse about Da Planet)
The whole chef ‘local produce’ lie needs to be blown out of the water,
They never mention the herbs and spices, from elsewhere. If they are true to the belief system, how come a few bits and pieces from elsewhere are unable to be done without?
Like the vegan cat ‘researchers’ they are making it up.
I was surprised that the Oz accepted my following comment
So hopefully something positive will come out of this upheaval. People may be less hesitant to stand up to the indigenous establishment fearing the racist tag. The referendum in a way has sanctioned such criticism
There may be a more critical assessment of indigenous policy and more innovative approaches
Of course all this will have to wait for the giant stink of mutual loathing between the newly formed yes and no camps that now exist because of the trot pm
If they try it on again, there is still a vast amount MSM consuming sheep in this country that will roll up their sleeves and get a jab. If they cark it or get injured, there will be no sympathy from me.
If people think that is harsh, my response will be simple. F*ck off.
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Stew Peters Show:
The World Health Organization is “all in” on the next fake pandemic.
Former W.H.O employee Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger is here to detail her findings of contaminants like graphene oxide inside mRNA shots.
She also found heavy metals, parasites, nano circuitry, and radio frequency identification.
The W.H.O is forming a declaration stating Covid is here to stay and will evolve in perpetuity.
Pfizer and Moderna have created so many vaccines that have never been tested.
This is a systemic deception.
It is based on a desire to depopulate the earth by poisoning the population with the bioweapon jab.
The elites and controlled media constantly refuse to research any doubts that are raised about the safety of their Covid protocols.
The fact that the people cannot question the narrative likely means their intent was premeditated evil from the start.
The people must realize world governments are part of corporations and must resist the coming tyranny by any means necessary.
BREAKING! WHO Employee BLOWS WHISTLE: “They’re Going To Go It Again”
Dot is an ion drive enthusiast, so he might have an idea about research in the area.
However, I suspect there might be a scale mismatch between the power generated by current large scale thermoelectric generators (with outputs in Watts) and the load of an ion drive (demand in kW).
Have we outsourced the upticks to Dominion?
Voters ask: Is anything working in America?
Is holding your own as a sitting president worth cheering?
In the movie “Apollo 13,” everybody remembers the moment an oxygen tank explodes putting the spacecraft and the lives of the astronauts at great risk. The NASA team, faced with a catastrophic failure, is in turmoil when Gene Kranz, NASA flight director, takes charge and focuses the group on what he sees as their core dilemma — the status of the problem — and asks, “What’ve we got on the spacecraft that’s good?”
In other words, what is still working? One of the team members responds, “I’ll get back to you, Gene.”
This story encapsulates the mood of America today, just slightly more than a year before the next presidential election.
When it comes to the state of the country, especially the economy, recent survey data shows that the American public, more and more, is asking virtually the same question posed by Kranz: “What, if anything, is working these days in America?”
The data shows, voters are waiting for an answer and they aren’t happy with rising inflation, higher gas prices, more crime, more illegal immigration and a growing feeling that no one is in charge.
The reaction from the public has been harsh. Based on RealClearPolitics’ current averages, 64 percent of the electorate believes the country is on the wrong track; 64 percent disapprove of how Biden has handled inflation and 59 percent disapprove of his handling of the economy.
But in other policy areas he has struggled as well, with a 61 percent disapproval of his handling of immigration; 57 percent disapproval on crime, and 56 percent disapproval on foreign policy. Among independents, polls show even higher disapprovals. In a recent CBS poll (conducted Sept. 5-8), 74 percent of independents disapproved of Biden’s handling of the economy, which is staggering, and even more astonishing, 80 percent of them disapprove of his handling of inflation.
In analyzing survey data over the years, these are some of the worst numbers I’ve seen for a president on what are the voters’ top issues.
All of which explains why people are asking if anything is going right in the country these days?
Republicans have a major opening in 2024 — but they need to “work the problem” as Gene Kranz put it, “not make things worse by guessing.”
Very little on the Romania US naval exercise being held in the Danube-Black Sea area. This is the border with Ukraine. If the exercise entered Ukraine territory they’d be fare game for the Russians which leads me to believe it was a provocation. The hawks are stupid enough to sacrifice a shipload of men to enable direct warfare with Russia. It finishes today but I doubt the Pute will be drawn on this. I’ll see what my Russian friends say tonight when we go drinking. Not that I drink much these days. They don’t like Putin but love Russia. A lot like people of most countries with idiot politicians.
The more interesting aspect of Dawson’s case is when his brother is going to be arrested.
This is what happens when you apply post Bat Flu ideals to 1970s life and your also doubling down on, time honoured, plod “we’re gonna get ya” revenge …….
Year 11 & 12 girls were included in the 1970s male teachers job description ..
Telling.
That prick at the end striking the car. After the justified take down with car, I would have gotten out a smashed his jaw.
Enjoy your soup, c-bomb.
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steveinman
F’n Around & Finding Out Compilation #3
Wait don’t girls mature more quickly than boys?
Or this doesn’t count when taxpayer funded compensation is at stake?
H B Bear said
What has the Kevin Bacon game got to do with this?
No really, what has Francis Bacon got to do with this?
Does anyone know why voters are required to use pencils when voting? You would think that pencil marks could be rubbed out. Maybe a carry over from the past when a nib and ink would have been too messy?
… it is impossible to work your way up if you don’t have the right paperwork in the way of degrees and diplomas.
Seems to be that way my son, a junior Bill Gates, self taught computer expert from age 6 realised that when at 20 he kept getting passed over for promotions by folk who were nowhere near his computing level but had “papers” .. signed on to do several TAFE/uni courses, simply, to get the “papers” …… ended up teaching the classes cos he knew more than any of his teachers …… Now upper level executive with a multi national telco ..
Yearly salary borders on what the rest of us buy lotto tix and cross allthe bits for ……….!
And knows the price of petrol .. LOL!
About time something was done about dress standards. No leggings or uggs at Westfield wouldn’t hurt either.
I agree, Viva — though I would describe the Voice as less of an upheaval and more of a dawning public realisation about the tricks being used by self-appointed activist busybodies, who don’t plan to stop annoying us until we’re being forced to kiss their arses.
Worthy of a repeat.
This chick is seriously cool. BANG!
She had enough of the drunken men.
AEC
While the provision of pencils used to be a legal requirement, since 2020 under section 206 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 the AEC is required to provide an ‘implement or method for voters to mark their ballot papers’.
The AEC has found from experience that pencils are the most reliable implements for marking ballot papers. Pencils are practical because they don’t run out and the polling staff check and sharpen pencils as necessary throughout election day. Pencils can be stored between elections and they work better in tropical areas.
There is, however nothing to prevent an elector from marking their ballot paper with a pen if they so wish.
Could Goose Swansteen dreaming be the low point of the Voice campaign? Still 4 weeks to go.
We are go. All screens are grreen.
3…. 2…. 1….
Ignition….
The ship has cleared the tower…..
Mayday mayday mayday. SovCit 1 mayday mayday mayday. Power in my conveyance is redlining….. fire in the cabin, the global currency birth certificates have gone up…
Tell my kids that Maritime Law is a thing and to remember 1619. God bless you all….. arrrrghhh –
*static*
Knuckle Dragger
Sep 15, 2023 2:29 PM
What wankery was that?
though I would describe the Voice as less of an upheaval and more of a dawning public realisation
Yep! .. I think the $40 billion a year plus 251 only funded organizations and the public airing of “only 251s” preferencing on specific jerbs has opened lotza folks eyes ……
…WIDE ..!
Ruh roh
Pencils are practical because they don’t run out and the polling staff check and sharpen pencils as necessary throughout election day.
Alwayz guessed those umpteen, paid, polling folk lolling around these ‘stations” served a purpose …..!
Is Joe preparing to run his wife for 2024?
Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting was most interesting. After a minute of introduction, President Biden turned the meeting over to his wife Jill, who continued to run it.
This allows us a glimpse into the Democrat presidential strategy for 2024: run Jill Biden.
In order for Jill to win the Democrat nomination for president, she needs to do several important things:
1. Box out Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama, and Gavin Newsom.
2. Maintain DNC support for Joe.
3. Keep Democrat contributors in line.
4. Do more and more of the president’s job now.
Jill can accomplish these objectives by keeping Joe in the race in order to stop Kamala, Michelle, and Gavin from attracting sufficient Democrat party resources. Notice that all three are keeping their heads low. From now until the convention, if any Democrat breaks ranks and starts to look presidential, he will be branded a traitor and effectively excommunicated. So Joe needs to continue to make noises as if he is going to run.
At the appropriate moment, at the Democrat National Convention Joe will announce that he will step aside for the good of the Party (due to impeachment or Hunter issues) and then pledge his votes to Jill.
All Joe Biden has to do to ensure that Jill Biden becomes the first female president is to stay alive.
That’s why he’s taking it super-easy now.
Jill Biden would present a formidable political challenge to Donald Trump, the likely Republican candidate. She is somewhat attractive, she is generally likeable, and she sounds reasonable to some extent. Backed by the Democrat vote-getting machine, Jill Biden could become president and cement a Biden Family dynasty, keeping Joe and Hunter out of trouble, for the next four years. And if Joe passes while Jill is president, she gets the sympathy vote and a landslide victory in 2028.
From the Comments
– With institutionalized vote fraud firmly in place, anything is possible.
– This wretched pack of fools causes one to wonder that if in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king, does it subsequently mean that in the land of imbeciles the half-wit is king?
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” — H.L. Mencken
– Biden can pull a Woodrow Wilson without the subterfuge. The Democrats will be all in.
Viva:
I was thinking precisely that this morning and let it through to the keeper.
But you’re quite right.
The sheer greed of the claims has put an awful lot of Australians offside, and the threat of continuing demands has certainly pissed off a lot of the people who are just scraping by, or who have no hope of buying houses – houses which are handed over to these greedy bastards who then destroy it and wail that they are homeless and demand another.
Is Joe preparing to run his wife for 2024?
It’s funny watching people thinking they know about the jabs.
A lot of MSM worshipping f-wits here.
H B Bear
Sep 15, 2023 2:38 PM
nano circuitry
You are just another sheep in a paddock.
Wake up, sheep.
Basil will show you the way.
Words are dangerous for those with loose lips and confused brain cells a.k.a. Labor front bench
I’d love to see Albo the economics grad explain the micro-economic analysis of closing power stations which supply base load power, or perhaps the outcomes of loading extra costs on so-called ‘gig’ workers.
Might need an umbrella to avoid a shower of spittle, assuming he could say anything of value.
Baris on the Fox poll:
Can it get any clearer?
Bah!
Albo hasn’t really come a long way since The Great Man stuck him at a desk in the corridor in Old Parliament House. Time running out now.
A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy
A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, overwhelmed a tiny southern Italian island on Wednesday, taxing the coast guard’s capability to intercept the smugglers’ vessels and testing Premier Giorgia Meloni’s pledge to thwart irregular migration.
Compounding the political pressure on Italy’s first post-war far-right leader were vows by France and Germany to rebuff migrants who arrive by sea on Italian shores, and, in defiance of European Union asylum system rules, head northward to try to find jobs or relatives.
Starting early Tuesday, the unseaworthy, overcrowded iron boats, came one after the other in what appeared to be almost a procession to onlookers on Lampedusa, a fishing and tourist island south of Sicily.
Around 6,800 migrants came in a span of just over 24 hours — that number is a few hundred higher than the isle’s full-time population.
In all, by Wednesday evening some 120 boats had arrived, Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said.
With Lampedusa-based Italian coast guard and border patrol vessels unable to intercept all of the smugglers’ boats offshore, dozens of migrants temporarily eluded authorities by climbing up Lampedusa’s rocky shores on their own.
When the coast guard tried to assist one boat early Wednesday, the smugglers’ vessel tipped over, and a mother with her five-month-old baby fell into the sea, Italian Rai state TV said, reporting from Lampedusa. The woman, who is from Guinea, was rescued, in shock, but the baby died, Rai said.
Some migrants scuffled over food and bottles of water being distributed by the Red Cross, Giornale di Sicilia, a Sicily-based newspaper said. At one point, police waved their batons at the migrants to make them move back, so others could be put on buses to other points of the island to ease the crowding.
Have been perusing the tv guide to find something decent for tonight. Has anyone here seen The Last Duel? It’s a Ridley Scott film and supposed to be based on a true story. Set in 14th century France. Looks okay. Wondered if anybody here could give me some more info, thanks in advance 😀
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4244994/?ref_=vp_close
I disagree, Humphrey. Elbow got to call himself prime minister for the better part of two years before the Faceless Men dumped him a la Rudd.
Elbow can go to his grave, calling to his ghosts: “I was a Big Man! I flew all over the world when the Big Men met to decide the future. I was a Big Man in the new world, mama and papa and Leon!”
Oh dear. (Ex) cricketers behaving badly, once again (Newscorp):
‘Legend’ is debatable. Sufficient talent for a decent career wearing the baggy green, and sure he was overshadowed by an even bigger flog who also happened to be a legspinner, but legendary? Yeah nah.
‘Mr MacGill. Mr MacGill. A Mr Slater on the phone for you.’
Bonkers!
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DR Koncerthuset:
Halo // The Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Eimear Noone (LIVE)
Has anyone here seen The Last Duel?
Interesting…then garbage…then “the message”…then finishes with decent action.
KD, did we not say this all those years ago that this was exactly what happened?
When anyone says ‘voice’, I say ‘NIAA ?’
$2.5B just in that one trough.
Yes we did. Yes, yes we did.
Plod played the long game. By publicly saying, and on more than one occasion that ‘Mr MacGill is not a suspect and is not being investigated’ it encouraged the up-himself waahn enthusiast – who was hated by his teammates then and now – to believe he was smarter than all the dumb flatfoots who bought his horseshit story.
I have no doubt he brought himself undone about a year ago, and then hammered the nails into his own box – all under the eyes of plod still making ‘discreet enquiries’.
Watch. Wait. Watch. Pow.
Good lord is that Stuart MacGill or Long John Daly?
Thanks bern.
Being a Ridley Scott film, it should at the very least, be a visual feast.
Had read that the duel itself is very graphic and violent and true to historical fact.
BTW KD, as a cricketer he was helped by playing in a team that was a very good batting side. So usually plenty of runs to bowl at.
Though I remember he took a heap at the SCG against the poms (mainly in the first innings).
Ukraine sues Western arms dealers who’ve failed to deliver promised military equipment
Ukraine is suing at least two Western arms dealers for failing to make good on contracts promising military equipment, officials said.
Kyiv has increasingly turned to independent arms dealers in the West to supply its needs in defending itself from Russia’s brutal, nearly 19-month invasion.
In fact, about 11% of all those military contracts signed by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry have been with foreign suppliers — of which “only a few of them had difficulties in fulfilling their obligations in full,” a ministry spokesman told Newsweek.
Six foreign companies — including two from the US — “did not fully or partially fulfill their obligations under some of their contracts, but made a partial delivery or fully returned the funds,” the spokesman said.
Two European companies, though, “did not deliver the goods and did not return the advance payments,” the spokesman said.
The government has taken legal action against both delinquent suppliers, the rep said, without identifying the companies or the exact nature of the contracts, citing the need to protect sensitive military information.
Sharing such information “may cause difficulties for foreign suppliers in fulfilling their obligations, such as concluding agreements with manufacturers and other participants for the purchase of arms and military equipment in countries with a neutral attitude regarding the supply of arms to Ukraine,” the ministry said.
However, then-Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov announced last month that the government has made several arbitration claims against the Polish Alfa weapons company.
“There are many such firms, and unfortunately not all of them were able to fulfill the signed contracts — even the influential players in the market,” Reznikov, who stepped down earlier this month at President Volodomyr Zelensky’s request, said at the time.
He added that the ministry had already won another arbitration case against an unidentified foreign supplier, and “there are also Ukrainian firms that didn’t deliver promised supplies — and American ones.”
In Alfa’s case, Reznikov said, the firm “offered us other types of projectiles; we are now studying whether they are suitable for us.
“And then we will either have them delivered, or we will demand the advance payment to be returned.”
The news comes just a few months after the New York Times found Kyiv had paid arms suppliers more than $800 million for contracts that went completely or partially unfulfilled.
Escaping Attrition: Ukraine Rolls the Dice
The Zaporizhia Summer Blockbuster
BIG SERGE
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-reports-2023-09-13
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/russia-ukraine-reports-2023-09-14
Fair!
I found it quite intense. Well worth your time.
A review of The Last Duel.
From memory, well done but could have done with an edit to lose 15-20 minutes.
US using Ukraine as electronic warfare testing ground – Defense News
Western media called Russian countermeasures a major factor behind Kiev’s battlefield failures
The Pentagon is “taking notes” on the use of electronic warfare (EW) by Russia and Ukraine, US military commander Josh Kozlov has said, the outlet Defense News reported on Wednesday.
The comments from the leader of the US Army’s 350th Spectrum Warfare Wing, who was speaking at the Air, Space, and Cyber Conference in Maryland, were of significance given ongoing tensions between the US and China, the outlet reported. Kozlov’s unit was created two years ago to spearhead US attempts to catch up in advanced electronic warfare.
“The agility being displayed by both parties, in the way that they’re executing operations in the spectrum, is awesome,” the US military commander said of the Ukraine conflict. “Both sides are doing the cat-and-mouse game very, very well.”
“In the future, for us, if we do confront a peer, being agile and being rapid is the key to success in the spectrum,” he added.
Military expert organizations such as the British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) cite Russian EW capabilities as one of the key reasons Ukrainian forces have failed to make any tangible progress during the three months of its summer counteroffensive.
On the battlefield, Russian troops disrupt Ukrainian communications and interfere with the targeting of Western-provided precision munitions. Electronic countermeasures also help the Russian military thwart Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia.
The Ukrainian leadership has touted their nation as a testing range for advanced Western weapons systems, arguing that their manufacturers have a unique opportunity for real combat trials of their prototypes.
Ben Wallace, then-Secretary of Defence of the UK, called Ukraine a “battle lab” for the British military during a report to the parliament in July.
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
EVIDENCE
@RepNancyMace backs the impeachment inquiry of President Biden, citing over 170 suspicious activity reports submitted to the Treasury Department by six banks, which allege the Biden family’s involvement in money laundering, tax fraud, and criminal activities.
Rep. Mace asserts, “If you could see the suspicious activity reports that I have seen on the Biden family, you would support an impeachment inquiry.”
She emphasizes, “The amount of money involved in these schemes is astounding. You would be shocked.”
The inquiry’s objective is to grant Congressional investigators access to the Biden family’s bank and phone records.
Emails obtained from Hunter’s laptop reveal payments made by Hunter and his business partner for President Biden’s phone bills, house repairs, and monthly expenses.
Text messages from the laptop show Hunter claiming that he gives half his salary to President Biden.
Furthermore, Hunter states that he and his business partner have paid President Biden’s bills through a shared Wells Fargo account for over a decade.
Please consider sharing this thread that presents clear evidence that President Joe Biden directly profited from his son’s unregistered foreign influence-peddling operation.
Dover Beach:
The Eternal Question:
But what are they going to do when after a week of counting and recounting the votes, the people wake up and find Biden has been reelected with 110 million votes?
Threads Blocks Search Results For ‘COVID’ And ‘Vaccines’, Upsetting Users
The world’s worst people to descend upon New York City next week
WSJ – Hypersonic Missiles Are Game-Changers, and America Doesn’t Have Them
The U.S. military is pouring resources into the superfast weapons but has struggled to develop them. China and Russia are far ahead.
The weapon Beijing launched over the South China Sea traveled at speeds of more than 15,000 miles an hour as it circled the globe.
Flying at least 20 times the speed of sound, it could reach anywhere on earth in less than an hour.
The summer 2021 test flight ended with the missile striking near a target in China, but it sent shock waves through Washington. National security officials concluded Beijing had launched a hypersonic weapon—a projectile capable of traveling at least five times the speed of sound.
The weapons can attack with extreme speed, be launched from great distances and evade most air defenses. They can carry conventional explosives or nuclear warheads. China and Russia have them ready to use. The U.S. doesn’t.
For more than 60 years, the U.S. has invested billions of dollars in dozens of programs to develop its own version of the technology. Those efforts have either ended in failure or been canceled before having a chance to succeed.
Washington, having spent recent decades focusing on fights with terrorists and insurgencies, is once again pouring resources into hypersonics. The Pentagon’s 2023 budget includes more than $5 billion for the weapons. The U.S. is also tapping the private sector—including Silicon Valley venture capitalists—to help develop them to a degree rarely attempted in the past.
The spending is part of America’s struggle to re-establish dominance in key military technologies as it enters a new era of great-power competition. The U.S. is straining to keep up with China in an array of military technologies, ranging from artificial intelligence to biotechnology.
Moscow’s work on hypersonics is also a concern for the Pentagon, even if Russia’s weapons are mostly based on Cold War research and not as sophisticated as those China is now developing. Moscow has developed weapons that can threaten NATO forces in Europe, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has touted Avangard, a hypersonic weapon that can reach the U.S.
The Pentagon’s problems with developing hypersonics run up and down the decision chain, from failed flight tests and inadequate testing infrastructure to the lack of a clear, overarching plan for fielding the weapons. The situation is raising alarms among some former officials.
“My concern about the lack of progress on hypersonics is only increasing,” said John Hyten, who was vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Chinese test flight. Now retired, Hyten said: “We need to move faster in multiple directions.”
U.S. defense at risk
Hypersonics, in the hands of powers such as China or Russia, have the potential to alter the strategic balance that has long undergirded U.S. defense policy. While the U.S. military may still be the most powerful in the world, hypersonic missiles could help an adversary challenge that superiority by evading U.S. early warning systems designed to detect attacks on North America, or striking U.S. naval assets, including aircraft carriers, as well as key bases abroad.
Even the most advanced U.S. warship in the South China Sea could be defenseless against a hypersonic attack.
Ballistic missiles can travel at hypersonic speeds, but they follow a predictable flight path, making them easier to intercept before hitting a target. Cruise missiles, like the U.S. Tomahawk, can maneuver, but most travel more slowly, under the speed of sound.
Hypersonic missiles combine speed with the ability to fly at low altitude and maneuver in flight, making them more difficult to spot by radar or satellite. That makes them almost impossible to intercept with current systems.
In a battle in the South China Sea, Beijing could use hypersonic missiles to more than double its reach, leaving U.S. ships in the region nearly defenseless, and even strike Guam, home to thousands of U.S. troops and key military installations.
The U.S. has begun investing in missile defense systems that are designed to take out hypersonic missiles, including a new effort that will be developed jointly with Japan. Such systems are still nascent, however, and aren’t expected to enter service for at least another 10 years.
Over the past decade, China has conducted hundreds of flight tests of this new generation of weapons. Beijing already has hypersonic weapons ready to deploy in its arsenal, as does Moscow, which has used them against Ukraine.
Pentagon and intelligence officials haven’t released estimates of how many they think China and Russia have. The U.S., which has conducted just a fraction of the number of China’s flight tests, has yet to deploy any actual hypersonic missiles.
Interesting – But Long Read
Senator Claire Chandler in parliament
Albanese’s voice campaign turns nasty
Indeed, and we know who the “lab rats” are. Sickening.
Chris and Top Ender,
thank you both very much.
The only problem here is the animal didn’t break her neck. The shop owner should have immediately smashed her head in and thrown her out the door.
C-bombs.
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Can Of Whoop Ass
End-to-End Encryption Will Be an Historical Footnote!
Why can’t the Aboriginal industry close the gap, and where have all the billions of dollars gone?
I’m hoping he continued to punch his lights out. Unfortunately the clip seems cut short.
Wine is on him. Literally.
Why are people adversely affected by the Covid vaccine being forced off social media?
Trickler, violent talk is unworthy of you, and inappropriate.
Lay off the meth, cobber.
Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Tyranny
I’m going to put it out there and say I believe there are many swampies (and not just the obvious ones likes Pearson, Reid, Langton and Mayo) who have been happily living of the teets of government on very bloated grants/salaries with no accountability.
They are so zealous in the proselytisation of the Voice because their very lives and livelihoods are at stake. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Like the elites in Washington (and elsewhere) they are shitscared of an audit into what’s really going on.
Have been perusing the tv guide to find something decent for tonight.
Western Sydney Wanderers live on 10plus at 5.30pm .. Oz Cup v Brisbane Roar ……
go on ya knoze ya wants too ……….
And, furthermore (and I’ll get shot down for this, potentially) I believe Elbow was legitimate in what he wanted out of the Voice but he screwed himself in three main areas:
-He’s never been a details person (cos he’s lazy and just wants “big wins” – no detail thx)
-He hadn’t expected all of the different rent seeking agendas to come out of woodwork
-He didn’t follow the due processes for getting everyone on board (those against and those for – linking both points one and two above). He got screwed by the Left and Right as a result.
Chris
Sep 15, 2023 4:21 PM
Trickler, violent talk is unworthy of you, and inappropriate.
Lay off the meth, cobber.
F-off.
So, It’s Been their Plan All along for Maui..Oprah & The Rock Won’t Like this
“F-off.”
Enough. Chris was very polite to you.
Are you on a bender or something?
Go get some sleep.
Steve trickler
Sep 15, 2023 4:19 PM
I’m hoping he continued to punch his lights out. Unfortunately the clip seems cut short.
Wine is on him. Literally.
Comment describes the Amish Man perfectly
See, hitting them in the head doesn’t really do anything. No brain, no pain.
Thanks Indolent esp for the link to Senator Claire Chandler in parliament and
Why can’t the Aboriginal industry close the gap, and where have all the billions of dollars gone?
I’ll forward them on to others.
Cassie of Sydney
Sep 15, 2023 4:34 PM
Sick to death of political correctness.
And the rest of us aren’t? All that kind of talk does is give genuine grounds for others to attack all of us.
Do better.
Or F-off. Up to you.
Sleep waits for no man while Basil Zemplas and the 6PR marketing team live, and while the sheep yearn for clips of large dogs.
Seriously – I bet Stevie T’s a huge MAFS fan.
Speak for yourself.
Knuckle Dragger
Sep 15, 2023 4:45 PM
Are you on a bender or something?
Go get some sleep.
Sleep waits for no man while Basil Zemplas and the 6PR marketing team live, and while the sheep yearn for clips of large dogs.
Seriously – I bet Stevie T’s a huge MAFS fan.
I gave up radio years ago, It seems you haven’t, f- head..
KD
as regressive (“wet”) a Lib as Basil is, he’s going to flog the pants off the current WA Liberal parliamentary membership… 2029… they love him on 6PR and he’s still the “golden boy” of Stokes and 7Worst Media.
I blame the Nanowrigglers
IT’S IN REVELATIONS PEOPLE
LOL
Anyone that watches MSM TV today is a retard, Sky News included.
Has Sky gone in depth on Vax damage yet?
NO!
Nanowrigglers
Please explain.
Stevie’s estrogen patch needs changing.
This is a comment under the Maui link –
Blatantly grifting poseurs scamming the gullible of their hard-earned are much better bets.
Their productions are merely latter-day versions of the National Enquirer – or the Melbourne Truth, without the Page 3 chicks, but with extra options to siphon cash from idiots.
She’s gorgeous and on point.
—
Senator Claire Chandler:
The appalling comments directed by Voice architects towards Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and millions of Australians saying No are a window into the divisive, elitist nature of Albanese’s voice campaign.
Albanese’s voice campaign turns nasty
They’re in Oprah’s tunnels, waiting for their pelts to be harvested.
Obviously.
That’s exactly what the Covid spruikers and 9/11 theorists would say.
It’s in revelations people. (Simpsons Gag)
The Pizza delivery guy will set them free………………………Oh Wait
🙂
Things are a bit struthy this afternoon.
Does anyone seriously think two thousand children went missing during wildfires, haven’t come back and that nobody’s asking questions aside from Space Laser Tunnel Committee #4?
This horseshit would have to have involved tens of thousands of people keeping their traps shut for decades.
It is blatant grifting. Subscribe now for premium content!
Actually, you can.
The aftermath of disasters is exactly when they can make this stuff up. When facts start solidifying, is the time to pay attention. I suggest that the whole list of things has much to show us when the opportunity comes to answer the questions.
Till then, this whole list should be treated as suspicious.
Lysander @ 4:29pm
Lysander, don’t get taken in by Albo’s fairies at the bottom of the garden here. From his own words we already know that Luigi is only interested in fighting Tories. As such, this “cause” was about wedging the right as well as the short termism of adulation on election night.
That he could sign up to Makarrata and Truth without examination shows policy laziness., as you rightly point out. It also has a whiff of machination in not letting the other side in on the act of discussion. The fact is that he like everyone else knows from previous attempts to alter the Constitution, that getting the other side on-side is not an optional extra.
I saw Father Frank Brennan on Sky today. He pointed out that Bob Ellicott, Fraser’s Attorney General, enunciated the standard by which a government should present a referendum if it wants it to succeed: both sides have to support it & the proposal has to be fully explained to the electorate before voting. Luigi did neither.
He should have held a constitutional convention beforehand for all interested parties to meet to discuss. The fact that he didn’t – arguing that the meeting of Aboriginal groups at Ayres Rock was enough – only showed that the rest of the country was not welcome at these discussions and that the discussions were for a favoured few. What that shows is that we are only being asked for our input now because achieving the change cannot happen without everyone voting.
It is to Dutton’s credit* that he has been able to stymie attempts to have the Libs get on board, particularly because of the wets in the party who’ve been all in for the voice.
*I do get Rita’s criticism that, as a matter of principal, he should have denounced from the beginning the idea of creating different values of citizenship. But so much of politics is the “vibe” so by hastening slowly or, to put it another way, ‘softly, softly, catchee monkey’, Dutton has achieved much.
Knuckle Dragger
Sep 15, 2023 5:09 PM
Does anyone seriously think two thousand children went missing during wildfires, haven’t come back and that nobody’s asking questions aside from Space Laser Tunnel Committee #4?
Perhaps they got fried?
Imagine being lectured to by a man pretending to be a woman about God and morality.
I believe Elbow was legitimate in what he wanted out of the Voice
A distraction from energy prices?
I don’t know Dover.
Not all Ukrainian women can be Svetlanas.
Some might be a little on the Ivan Drago side of things but can still be female.
I would defer to Cohenite if there are any grey areas.
He appears to be the expert.
happens all the time, which is why nobody even comments anymore.
Power and the Glory.
Ok, maybe just the glory – even Albo is not that dumb.
It’s in revelations people
I am pissing myself laughing
.
Let’s not go into anything about Admiral “Rachel” Levine.
I admire Sen. Tubervilles’s stand. He’s pissing off all the right people.
Albo couldn’t tell his arsehole from his elbow.
Look up the term “clueless douchenozzle” – you will find his photo
All the wild speculation is simply smoke and mirrors for the obvious – a catastrophic, systemic failure on the part of authorities to protect residents.
Hard to believe, but the Hawaiian government and their agencies are even more inept than Australia.
Does anyone seriously think two thousand children went missing during wildfires, haven’t come back and that nobody’s asking questions aside from Space Laser Tunnel Committee #4?
Who says nobody is asking questions, dickwad?
Well, at least the “Torries” are safe from his fury. Being half a world away.
Maybe that’s part of his motivation for all the travel. A bit of Elmer Fudd-ing.
Bruce of Newcastle
Home floresiensis is a descendant of Homo habilis!?
When Did Hominins First Leave Africa?
Zelensky will waltz into Washington next week to demand a further 21 billion in “aid” at the same time as Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen, is being subjected to Soviet style persecution in Ukraine. Under the circumstances, a single word of support from the U.S. would secure his release but I seriously doubt they will even acknowledge his existence. Releasing terrorists to Iran? Well, that’s a different matter.
Not to mention some significant aid to Maui survivors, who are being totally ignored, by both the government and the media.
American is being run by criminal traitors.
Maui was a DEW attack. No doubt about it.
You’re not Robinson Crusoe. This is genuinely hilarious.
‘The children got fried by the death rays. The surviving parents have all been silenced by the National Guard and the Official Secrets Act, along with every single last one of the extended families of two thousand children.’
You know where this is going.
Millions enslaved underground!
Thousands of secret indictments! Arrests shortly!
Gitmo full! Army tanks!
It’s Happening !!!1!!
I said aside from Space Laser Tunnel Committe #4.
John – I thought the hobbits were Erectus, stuck on an island.
Indo has a lot of H. Erectus sites as I recall.
*Committee*
Apologies. Laughing really hard here.
That is the prevailing view. There is evidence that habilis had been in Europe at 1.8 million years. Erectus wasn’t the first to leave Africa.
Great. I see the blog’s Kelvin Cunnington is back poking the downthumb.
Snork…poking!
Goodbye cars – Goodbye meat!
John – Erectus was in Java about 100ky ago. The hobbits were in Flores a short sail away from there. They died out about 50ky BPE.
I’m so glade that the footage from 911 of the steel beams being vaporized has come to light.
IF you want to say the footage was fake, just say so. How much juice was needed to do so … I’m still trying to find out.
Difficult.
Mate, it’s like you’ve never left the “Truckies Only” section of the Hay servo.
Some people are massively disapppinted.
Its the NYT and partially paywalled.
Number of Missing in Maui Wildfires Drops to 66, from Hundreds
At one time, in the first days after the fire, the number of the missing swelled to close to 3,000. The official death toll remains at 115, a figure that hasn’t budged in more than two weeks.
Struth lives in peoples head. I hope he is having a laugh.
You forget the hilarous/ludicrous letters to the editor in the Truth.
Someone I know used to get great enjoyment from making them up.
rosie
Sep 15, 2023 5:54 PM
Some people are massively disapppinted.
Its the NYT and partially paywalled.
Hawaii’s governor announced on Friday that the list of people missing from the Lahaina fire had been whittled down to just 66 names, down from 385.
Number of Missing in Maui Wildfires Drops to 66, from Hundreds
At one time, in the first days after the fire, the number of the missing swelled to close to 3,000. The official death toll remains at 115, a figure that hasn’t budged in more than two weeks.
You gobble up the MSM like a dry sponge to water.
He’s on word salad prep.
Shatterzzz.
And it was entirely illegal at the time, with no statute of limitations.
My sympathy for the Dawson grubs is approaching zero.
Mintox:
Man of Steel Destroying the World Engine 720pa
The BBC’s biased Voice coverage analysed by a British observer.
The real question is whether what he wanted from the Voice is legitimate.
The Australian public is primed to say no.
At least 1 million years ago Bruce.
KD at 3:11.
FMD.
This idiot went to the cops and blathered to the media about it. His whole story had so many holes it looked like it had been shot up by a Death Ray Machine.
Rule 1 of Coke Club.
No-one says anything when Coke Club falls apart.
Indeed.
The present overbearing menace of potential accusation was not nearly as bad, but rules were rules and the law was enforced.
I remember one teacher from my school running away with a fifteen year old, and the long arm reached him very quickly. Remember running away with someone?
Moonlighting… its the only way…
Moonlighting… running off to Gretna in song!
And a few years later another teacher of mine married his former student… a very happy and successful marriage of about 40 years so far.
How about a list of the two thousand still missing?
Or even a single name (other than the 66 officially listed as missing).
Dawson’s future, or lack of it, described in the Oz:
Christopher Michael Dawson will serve three years’ imprisonment for the unlawful carnal knowledge of a 16-year-old schoolgirl who later became his wife, and then his accuser.
The sentence, delivered by Judge Sarah Huggett in the NSW District Court on Friday, will be served partially concurrently with the 24-year term Dawson is already serving for the murder of his first wife, Lynette Simms.
The new sentence, to commence in August 2039, has a two-year non parole period and will extend Dawson’s mandatory time behind bars by an extra year, to August 2041.
By then he will be 93 years old.
It might all be moot, however – new laws in NSW, achieved by a campaign led by Lyn’s grieving family, means Dawson won’t be eligible for parole at all unless he reveals what he did with Lyn’s body.
If he maintains his silence, Dawson will not see freedom until 2046, when he is 98 years old.
“It’s a bit of a rollercoaster,” Dawson told psychiatrist Dr Olav Nielssen, who provided a report to the court indicating Dawson has symptoms of anxiety – although he has rejected medication for the condition – and is in the early stages of dementia.
“Some days I’ll wake up feeling all right. Other days I feel unmotivated,” Dawson told the doctor.
Wearing prison greens, including a khaki zip-up jacket, and clasping his hands in front of his face, Dawson looked dejected as he appeared via video-link from Long Bay prison.
The once-glamorous rugby league star, who dazzled the schoolgirls of the Northern Beaches in his heyday, is a grey and shrunken man.
It reeked of a dispute with a florist.
That is one flaw in all these epic conspiracies. They would have required scores, if not hundreds or thousands of participants.
But 20, 30 or even 50 years later, not one of them speaks. Not even a deathbed confession from someone with nothing to lose.
Zero.
However, despite their meticulous planning and their iron grip on any investigation and media coverage, they always leave some snippet of evidence behind for “trusted sources” to find.
Like Tickler’s two holes in the Oklahoma bombing building.
Amazing.
Apparently, if that’s what it was, it didn’t need to come from space.
Lahaina Is Within 40 Miles of a U.S. Government Directed Energy Facility on Maui
Poor widdle Linda Burney rolling out the “racist” card. Linda, you have not answered any QT questions posed to you from the Opposition.. You are a disgrace. Go and sit next to dear old Marcia and cry your “racist” tears together. Both of you have been the best advertisements for the NO vote. Congratulations.
Sancho Panzer
Sep 15, 2023 6:28 PM
Do you think it is BS?
As I said yesterday, he’s on his way out.
CNN unleashes on President Joe Biden’s ‘pathological’ lies
There’s a very good reason why Peta Credlin runs the No.1 news show on Australian pay TV; She may have misguidedly protected prime minister Tony Abbott from the real world in 2013-15, but she has her finger on the pulse of middle Australia.
Her’s is the only news show this evening that is talking about the Australian cost of living crisis front and centre and not being sidetracked by the apartheid referendum distraction squirrel.
Riffing on Dr. Johnson:
Accusations of racism are the last refuge of the scoundrel.
John – Gave citations. Interesting the Denisovians made it as far as east Indo. I don’t think they were hobbits though.
Yes, I do harbour a level of scepticism around the veracity of some of your DEW stories, that is true.
But do carry on.
They provide great entertainment value.
All Shire Councils can burn in Hell.
The drones who work in these jobs seem to have nothing better to do than find ways to obstruct or delay any worthwhile project put to them.
First reaction: “Oh, you can’t do that without a qualified person to sign off on to the Shire’s satisfaction, plus you will need to pay a fee of X dollars to lodge your application”
Ratepayers are just a source of income and must be fended off at every opportunity.
Bludgers, ho-hopers and jobsworths, a blight on the community.
Rant over.
What’s a DEW story?
Sancho Panzer
Sep 15, 2023 6:38 PM
Steve trickler
Sep 15, 2023 6:32 PM
Sancho Panzer
Sep 15, 2023 6:28 PM
Do you think it is BS?
Yes, I do harbour a level of scepticism around the veracity of some of your DEW stories, that is true.
But do carry on.
They provide great entertainment value.
Most were clueless about it until I brought it up. You are a ignorant f-wit.
JC, I think DEWs are direct energy weapons.
Chris at 6:16.
The most disgusting thing about the Dawsons was the number of maaaates in the local Plod who ran interference for them, firstly over the statutory rape of schoolgirls, and secondly over the murder.
Imagine being the father of a 15 year old girl going down to complain to the local Plod (who spent his Sundays getting on the piss at the rugby club with the Dawsons) that one or both of them was shagging your under-age daughter.
At best they would ignore it.
At worst they would fit you up with some dishonesty offence to shut you up.
My only regret is those cops and education department officials haven’t been caught up with.
Haha, Calli lives in Boganville.
Man caught driving 224km/h in 100km/h zone (Ncl local news, 15 Sep)
The report doesn’t mention what type of donk he was driving. But 224 kph is worthy!
Without Custard and his QAnon quatrains we are literally stumbling around in the dark. My views on this blog are on the record.
The video provides the details. The hobbits had Oldowan tools which is consistent with habilis. Erectus had Acheulian tools.
Tickler
Partial or semi is fine, but never go full retard at the Cat.
Please do share a personal photo of one of these “DEW” devices. I have included a sample DEW in the link here since I lack clues on where the DEW reside.
Bruce! The Fern Bay raceway. A long way from me, but I believe it. Even in daylight hours all the loons are jockeying for position in the 100 zone. At night…he was lucky he didn’t hit a roo. Goodnight.
I’ve got that in mind, BB.
I’m getting my header from Horsham on Monday/Tuesday but putting it on a float and going back through Echuca.
I’m planning on catching up this coming harvest.
Re the pub in Rochie. I used to eat there when down working on headers so know the place well. A great little cafe (Kits Kafe) just on the Bendigo side of the pub will, sadly, not open again. The government just about killed them with the Covid madness and just when they were getting back on their feet along comes the flood.
One of our law lecturers was notorious for his use of annual “research assistants”. Everyone was over 18 so fair bump play on. Doubt you could get away with it these days.
We all had an inkling about DEWs after the Melbourne protests when it was rumoured (Aussie Cossack?) that they were deployed.
Seems like aeons ago.
John – Yeah they weren’t especially bright, having regressed. Like the pygmy elephants. I think that fits the data better than a human lineage that no one has found in that particular hemisphere.
Note the time the tiny elephants went extinct…coincidence not, I should think.
Pedro.
Apparently the CEO of Wiluna shire is slumming it from Tasmania..
Heard a few interesting council based stories so far.
Maaaaates on it are essential to get anything done.
Tucker interviewed Javier Milei, who is the front runner in the Argentine presidential election.
He sounds pretty good. However there’s a fundamental problem with one of his most important policies. He wants to “dollarize” the economy, which means getting rid of the Peso entirely and using the US dollar as the national currency.
That’s well and good, but I can’t see how his objective of attracting US$40 billion into the economic system is feasible when the country is broke and virtually no one wants to hold Argentine assets that would allow US dollars to flow into the financial system.
But 20, 30 or even 50 years later, not one of them speaks.
Common in several areas I’ve researched, including the first air raid on Darwin, in the Pearl Harbor attack, in Cyclone Tracy, and in the sinking of HMAS Sydney. People would rather believe a conspiracy story, despite logic – as KD says above – being one of the major factors discounting such stories.
H B Bear
Sep 15, 2023 6:53 PM
Most were clueless about it until I brought it up
Without Custard and his QAnon quatrains we are literally stumbling around in the dark. My views on this blog are on the record.
F*cking usesless.
There were energy weapons at the protest in Canberra.
These are sound weapons that discombobulates people, makes some nauseous.
They use a f*ck ton of power, truck mounted and are ineffective more than 100m away.
Been around for a decade or two.
These are different to the DEW’s that have been referenced here.
These DEW are apparently satellite mounted & somehow can destroy buildings from orbit.
As I said this morning, a DEW could have been responsible for the Oklahoma bombing.
If it was the size of an aircraft carrier & was parked across the road.
The energy needed to do what these alleged DEWs did isn’t a couple of packs of duracells.
Ahahah! Well, that’s a sop for grief. The Beloved just won the seafood tray in the golf club raffle, bless him!
The poor man, after a gazillion funeral related phone calls, finally has a real smile on his face.
The problem with so many conspiracy stories is the attribution of intellectual skills to the creators of the relevant technology makes geniuses appear intellectually mediocre. Many countries have spent decades trying to develop lasers for military purposes. Still failing.
Have been perusing the tv guide to find something decent for tonight.
Can heartily recommend all three seasons of ‘Mr In-Between’, on demand via Foxtel.
The lead actor pulls off the difficult chore of being both a violent thug for hire, a devoted dad and a man with his own core principles — as the kiddie-fiddlers in the cellar found out.
Terrific stuff. You’ll binge it all in a couple of nights.
I must have missed the announcement that coaxium or trilithium have been discovered on Earth.
The Beloved just won the seafood tray in the golf club raffle
Make sure he takes it out of the car, which I didn’t do with the meat-tray win from Altona RSL. Two summer days later, opened the door and … well you can imagine. Even the cat wouldn’t go near the results of my negligence.
Can heartily recommend all three seasons of ‘Mr In-Between’,
A real gem.
It just arrived at the door via golf cart – straight from the club fridge. Mmmmm. 🙂
Mr Inbetween has a loser mate who’s always in trouble & needs bailing out.
Very well written.
I just attended the Vic No Campaign launch at Essendon Fields. Est 450 people. I was hoping they may get 2k+. Its just too important. But then it is Victoria and a Finals weekend.
Appear to be doing it on a shoestring budget. It really is Jacinta vs Goliath.
Fingers xed.
Bern, never underestimate the destructive force of corbomite either.
I wondered but suspected why The Hun was so quiet on protests against transmission lines and renewables. Today the answer came in a full page advertorial with the big foreign corporates bannered across the top.
A huge fail in journalism and a shameful payday. Not good enough.
They offer meaning in an otherwise apparently meaningless and chaotic world.
A symptom of the loss of religion.
Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 15, 2023 6:49 PM
Man caught driving 224km/h in 100km/h zone (Ncl local news, 15 Sep)
The report doesn’t mention what type of donk he was driving. But 224 k/ph is worthy!
Actually, whilst 224kp/h is obviously pretty quick, there are huge numbers of standard cars that have a top speed equal to or greater than 224 k/ph. A bog standard 2017 Holden Calais V6 will achieve 235+ k/ph. The V8 version will pass 240+ k/ph.
Even overweight cruisers like the Mazda CX7 have a top speed around 210 k/ph. The little CX3 will almost see 200 k/ph (probably a fairly ‘exciting’ ride in a CX3 at 200 clicks/hour) 🙂
And you don’t need to go expensive European to get high top speeds. The 2024 Hyundai i30 N reputedly has had the electronic speed limiter increased from 250 k/ph to 280 k/ph !! Not bad from a 2litre turbo charged ICE. Now the fastest car in the Hyundai range.
An emerging story in QLD, Gez, with press coverage.
Years ago, a friend took me to a race track for some fun with his racing Porsche. He took the little monster to 240k and it’s the fastest I’ve ever ridden in a car. It’s a whole new experience. The world feels different at that speed.
The thermoelectric cells from Warhammer would be needed to power the DEWs.
Thats what they want you to think. / sarc
Speedy – My bro would outrun plod at 240kph on his Ducati 900. Once with me as a pillion passenger we cracked the old ton on the Bondi Junction bypass, between the traffic lights. I don’t like motorbikes since I’m a treadly guy, the centre of gravity is too different to be comfortable. I think he still has his Duke. I do know he still has his thirty five year old Hilux ute. He’s an excellent brother.
Outside Double Bay Woolworths yesterday in front of all the little trendy shops there were four people doing stalwart service handing out the No case leaflets produced by the Libs. They wore orange identifiers with No on them, but their main sign looked faily handmade from my quick glance. They weren’t doing great business, a few stopping to talk here and there, but I took a leaflet on the way in and out just to fly the colours. I was in too much of a hurry to catch the JP to sign documents in the Library to stop and chat to them.
Hairy reckons that a lot of the No voters in Spender Teal Territory wouldn’t be seen dead picking up a leaflet but that it will be a different story on the day.
I hope he’s right in that. Bolt’s crowing about certainties is far too soon I think. Howard, that canny old TDS geriatric, ridiculously praising Biden of all things, has seen a lot of elections nevertheless and did offer a caution about counting chickens re the No certainty. He was OK on the Voice in general so perhaps he will do the cause some good with a lot of old Liberal rusted-ons.
areff and bern,
thanks for the tip about Mr in-Between. However, I do not have pay tv. Will see if I can find it on DVD. 😀
Calli, awesome news about the seafood tray.
JP was very nice, quite sentient, female, very efficient and not of a great age.
What a relief. Signed and sealed and out in five minutes.
She was doing a roaring trade too. Two in front of me and one after.
Sancho points out one of the most scandalous aspects of the Dawson/Teacher’s Pet fiasco: how the state education systems got a free pass from the left-dominated media and that lack of political prostitutes of the Socialist Left faction who made up the Gillard-McClellan royal commission.
There was no excuse for that, none whatsoever. Justice Wood’s royal commission in NSW in the 90s exposed all the pathologies of the state education system that are now appearing as so-called news. But Wood, because he dared investigate the industrial-scale prostitution of underage boys in and around Darlinghurst, has been damned forever by the woke as a reactionary purveyor of moral panic and a fascist redneck homophobe.
Great series. Highly praised overseas. Forgotten here.
Liz, is she still popular in the electorate or is there a change of heart?
JC
Sep 15, 2023 7:42 PM
It’s a whole new experience. The world feels different at that speed.
Yes, it is. And addictive too. Once you get the taste for the speed, and the adrenalin, it’s impossible to give up. Weirdly, the only thing that eventually catches up is age (sigh). Then, you just have to pull over and let the young ones pass. 🙁
Waffleworth certainly turned Wentworth into a hotbed of political activity. One would never be seen handing out pamphlets in Curtin. Particularly on a Friday when one should be at Lunch.
‘The world feels different at that speed.’
Yes, JC. I’ve never gone that fast in a car, but have been on high-speed trains travelling at 300+ in France where the cars and trucks on a parallel motorway, and even a small plane overhead, seem to be going backwards. It’s a weird sensation.
Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 15, 2023 7:51 PM
Speedy – My bro would outrun plod at 240kph on his Ducati 900. Once with me as a pillion passenger we cracked the old ton on the Bondi Junction bypass, between the traffic lights.
Yes, bikes are in a whole different category when it comes to speed. I have only ridden a motorbike 2-3 times in my life and even then, only briefly. Cars were my thing.
Your story about your brother remined me that I had a mate who had a Kawasaki 900 (Kwaka 9) back in the day. He took me for a ride as a pillion in the suburbs. JESUS CHRIST!!!! 160+ k/ph in no time flat. Loved it but those things are dangerous. No way – I’m sticking to 4 wheels.
Tom, was that the tosser on-stage sitting on the chair near the end of questions?
The one that tried to sing colonialism back into being after Senator Price had just dealt with the question?
He got a proper slap for his stupidity .
Laughed my arse off … was the best part of the show
Not much stays with them for acceleration in a straight line, particularly roll on. Mine was only a 600 but was great fun to redline in 2nd gear. Ran out of puff over 150kph, about when I would run out of courage.