Open Thread – Thurs 14 Sept 2023
1,050 responses to “Open Thread – Thurs 14 Sept 2023”
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Doc Faustus/Knowledgeable Others:
You don’t misremember. Many satellites have been powered by thermoelectric generators running off the heat produced by the radioactive decay of plutonium.
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? -
A few weeks ago the Prime Minister could not say what the price of petrol was. No one expects the PM to have to fill up his own tank,
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.
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Crossie:
… it is impossible to work your way up if you don’t have the right paperwork in the way of degrees and diplomas. The other catch 22 is that recruiters are looking for experience but you would have to have worked in a similar position to build up experience. Of course, connections can surmount all those hurdles.
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. 🙂
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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’.
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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?
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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.
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I was surprised that the Oz accepted my following comment
The voice represents the last gasp of the old guard leftist Aboriginal elite and their separatist Dream Bubble.
Rejection is at the heart of their philosophy – rejection of historical facts on the ground which amounts to rejection of modern Australia. Invasion Day and “sovereignty never ceded” rhetoric speaks of denial of reality. Welcomes to country and acknowledements of country have been pandering to this denial.
It’s time all Australians woke up and this voice referendum might just be the catalyst
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
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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”
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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?
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). -
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.”
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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.
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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 .. -
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
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… 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 ……….!
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So hopefully something positive will come out of this upheaval.
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.
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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.
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We are go. All screens are grreen.
3…. 2…. 1….
Former W.H.O employee Dr. Astrid Stuckelberger is here to detail her findings of contaminants like graphene oxide inside mRNA shots.
Ignition….
She also found heavy metals, parasites, nano circuitry, and radio frequency identification.
The ship has cleared the tower…..
The people must realize world governments are part of corporations and must resist the coming tyranny by any means necessary
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*
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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.
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Viva:
It’s time all Australians woke up and this voice referendum might just be the catalyst
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. -
Also explains his gift for spraying showers of saliva every time he rake-steps onto a fricative or a sibilant.
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.
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Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit”
@Peoples_Pundit
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FOX Poll swings from 2020 are MASSIVE.13pts -> Trump in suburbs, 10pts -> among women, 7pts -> black voters, 6pts -> under 45. Biden only +6 among Hispanics.
It’s not a “mirage”. It’s a trend, and clearly a consensus.
FOX 2020 Final:
Biden +8, 52/44FOX NOW:
Trump +2, 48/46
Rich Baris “The People’s Pundit”
@Peoples_Pundit
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Lastly, it must be noted the FOX Poll also does not show Trump “hemorrhaging white voters”.In fact, he gained support from their poll, which understated his actual vote margin.
White Vote Share
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FOX 2020 Final: Trump +6, 51/45FOX NOW: Trump +10, 52/42
Can it get any clearer?
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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.
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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 😀
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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.
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!”
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Oh dear. (Ex) cricketers behaving badly, once again (Newscorp):
Cricket legend Stuart MacGill has been charged with taking part in a $330,000 cocaine deal that police allege led to the spin bowler being kidnapped.
‘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.
The famed Australian Test bowler will face Manly Local Court on October 26 charged with one count of taking part in the supply of a large commercial quantity of cocaine, a NSW Communities and Justice spokesman confirmed on Tuesday.
Police from the Robbery and Serious Crime Squad arrested and charged the 52-year-old retired cricket star on Tuesday before he was released on bail.
‘Mr MacGill. Mr MacGill. A Mr Slater on the phone for you.’
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KD, did we not say this all those years ago that this was exactly what happened?
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.
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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.
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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
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A review of The Last Duel.
From memory, well done but could have done with an edit to lose 15-20 minutes.
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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.
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KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreatEVIDENCE
@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.
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Dover Beach:
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FOX Poll swings from 2020 are MASSIVE.
13pts -> Trump in suburbs, 10pts -> among women, 7pts -> black voters, 6pts -> under 45. Biden only +6 among Hispanics.
It’s not a “mirage”. It’s a trend, and clearly a consensus.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? -
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
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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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I’m hoping he continued to punch his lights out. Unfortunately the clip seems cut short.
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It’s time all Australians woke up and this voice referendum might just be the catalyst
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.
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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. -
Steve trickler
Sep 15, 2023 4:19 PMI’m hoping he continued to punch his lights out. Unfortunately the clip seems cut short.
Comment describes the Amish Man perfectly
See, hitting them in the head doesn’t really do anything. No brain, no pain.
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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.
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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..
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This is a comment under the Maui link –
The facts we know from survivors telling their stories:
1. NO sirens were ever sounded. There were NO text messages, no warnings, nothing.
2. The police blocked or barricaded ALL exits and escape routes. Every single one of them!
3. The water was cut off to the fire fighters.
4. The body count has been frozen at 115.
5. The local morgues ran OUT of body bags on the second day. The local morgue has been full for a month. AND a second temporary morgue has been set up at the police station. BUT HEY … the official count is STILL 115.
6. Medical personnel have been telling stories of pulling entire families from cars that were trapped in a traffic jam. Maybe if the police HAD NOT blocked the streets they might have made it out.
7. There are 15 school buses missing and unaccounted for.
8. There are anywhere from 1000 to 2000 children missing and unaccounted for.
9. It took FEMA six days to show up. When they did, the first thing they did was confiscate all food/water being given to survivors because “it wasn’t FEMA approved.” The water FEMA has been giving survivors is reported to be making them sick. You can’t make this stuff up.
10. Survivors are being evicted!
11. A black curtain has been put up around the city, blocking all view inside the city.
12. No media is allowed into the city, no survivors are allowed in.
13. The EPA is removing toxic waste in 55 gallon blue drums. Since when has a wild fire been classified as toxic waste????
14. A church group has been given permission to shift the ashes for valuables. No survivors can shift ashes, but this church group has been given special permission. Again, since when is a fire like this classified as TOXIC WASTE hazard????
15. The police chief is both the police chief AND the medical examiner. Conflict of interest. OH YEAH. Big Time.
16. This is also the SAME police chief responsible for the infamous Vegas mass shooting that, if you actually LOOK at it, leaves more questions unanswered than answered. BUT HEY … if you just take the officials at face value and “trust the process” it’s all good. Just go back to watching your Netflix and don’t worry about a thing. No need to question anything. Don’t worry about facts or truth or holding anyone accountable. At least that’s how the city officials feel. And that’s how they act.
17. The EPA is planning on spraying a sealing coat on top of the ashes once they finish removing all the toxic stuff. Once again, since when is a fire like this deemed toxic waste??? The kicker here is this … once this stuff is sprayed and coated, YOU CANNOT DIG IT UP. Let me say that again in case you missed it. The EPA is going to spray the ashes and once they do so (this could be MONTHS from now), you cannot dig it up. HOW are survivors going to rebuild if they cannot dig up the ashes??????
18. What about survivors who want to go back to THEIR property and search for valuables and anything else? WELL … they’re blocked out. They cannot go back to THEIR OWN PROPERTY. It’s been deemed “too dangerous.” Dangerous? Seriously? You can’t make this stuff up.
19. Hawaii Electric is both removing all evidence in regards to downed power lines AND they’re changing their story. Now they say the power was SHUT OFF six hours prior to the fire starting. Their story is so convoluted and it keeps changing to the point that I am not seriously following it. I just assume that whatever they say is a lie.
20. During the first press conference, the police chief made two things clear: ONE: NO ROAD BLOCKS were ever set up. TWO, their main enemy is social media. After survivors’ stories started to come out that the roads WERE BLOCKED, the police chief changed his story to “OH! We only blocked SOME of the roads that had downed power lines.” OK … since when is blocking roads during a fire emergency a good idea? And I KNOW the police have the power to contact the electric company to have power to lines SHUT OFF. Their main enemy is STILL social media (MSM is ignoring Maui). Social media is the ONLY WAY the truth is coming out.Let’s be very, very, very clear here on this one point: MULTIPLE SURVIVORS have stated that ALL the exits were either blocked or barricaded and that the traffic jams were HOURS LONG as in EIGHT HOURS LONG or more. People report seeing cars NOT MOVING all day. OH, one more thing, traffic was being redirected BACK into the city, back into the fire zone. YES, the police redirected traffic BACK into the fire areas.
HONESTLY, at this point the survivors need to SUE the city and the city officials for gross negligence leading to wholesale manslaughter of the very people they swore to protect. It’s either gross negligence and incompetence or else it’s homicidal planning.
The death count is likely closer to 1500 to 3000. They are really scrambling the numbers and delaying giving out ANY information to keep these numbers artificially low at 115.
The big question is WHERE are the missing 1000 to 2000 children? This comes from school rosters showing 3000 kids registered. Depending on your source, anywhere from 1000 to 2000 children have been accounted for. This still leaves anywhere from 1000 to 2000 children NOT ACCOUNTED FOR. They’re not even in the death count. So where are they? Oddly enough, there is NO WORD from the city officials on this.
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Anyone that watches MSM TV today is a retard
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.
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She’s gorgeous and on point.
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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.
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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!
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. When they did, the first thing they did was confiscate all food/water being given to survivors because “it wasn’t FEMA approved.” The water FEMA has been giving survivors is reported to be making them sick.
You can’t make this stuff up.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.
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Lysander @ 4:29pm
I believe Elbow was legitimate in what he wanted out of the Voice
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.
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