No wonder the Houthis have kicked the USN out of the Red Sea.Difficult lessons here.
Open Thread – Mon 18 Sept 2023
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Do they even know where the money for their salaries came from? I’d be sceptical it was even Russian. After…
Willis Eschenbach Sorry to be pedantic.
I see m0ron deflecting again, throwing out distraction squirrels while his DEI deviant team continue to ruin our economy and…
But, but, how will the fem skipper be able to watch the Kardashians without the dish? Priorities people! 😀
That could make a bloke very nervous.
JC @ 7:02pm
So the economy must really be toast given that we’re adding thousands to the population from immigration.
Dr BG,
I saw your comment from this morning:
So right back atcha: Boo!
I suspect you’ve never met a Ukrainian.
I suspect you’ve never met a Ukrainian.
Actually yes- I can think of two
Peta Credlin interviewing Dennis Shanahan, from the Oz.
Russell Brand is being accused not so much by the women whom he damaged or disrespected. He is being accused by disappointed women, those who expected more and got little or even nothing for having sex with him.
Re the women making the allegations against Brand, I’m sorry but when I hear stories of women who choose to go to the media rather than the police to “tell their story”, surely I can’t be the only one who is somewhat suspicious.
“Russell Brand is being accused not so much by the women whom he damaged or disrespected. He is being accused by disappointed women, those who expected more and got little or even nothing for having sex with him.”
Yes.
The diminishing returns on the population ponzi are now tangible in terms of living standards for the average Australian.
They got bragging rights. ‘I shagged a celebrity!’
Then you’d know they’re not exactly Democrats, milt.
They tend to be patriotic, religious and socially conservative.
In that, they reflect Trump supporters more than Biden’s Democrats.
And they’d like the corruption to be dealt with once the war is over.
That seems to have worked until he went off the reservation and challenged the status quo. At that point he became a liability and fair game for #MeToo.
Swimmer
Not really, Swim, or at least it depends if these immigrants are earning their keep holding down jobs and earning their keep.
Why you need to be cautious about capita GDP.
There was an interesting story about the poorest localities in the US that I read about five years ago. The poorest neighborhood in the US is a burb just outside of NYC, close to a place called Yonkers. When the analysis dug deeper, we found out that the neighborhood is made up primarily of Hasidic Jews. Hasidic Jewish couples are human breeding factories with 600 kids per couple. 🙂 Is that neighborhood blindly poor, or are the statistics really telling the real story? Obviously, it’s the latter because the GDP per capita was spread out over a large number of family units.
Yes point taken Roger but as far as I can see the Ukraine is now a client state of the US which is controlled by the DNC.
Just noticed the similarities between Russell Brand and Daisy Cousens. No, not the tarty schtick insect do-up, more the annoying voices… and being three years behind the Cats and Kittehs, big brain thinking wise.
The stunningly beautiful UK commentator Esther Krakue nails the allegations about Brand….
We often miss a good teaching moment, that is if you are a man in the public eye, or just a man in general, sexual discipline is very important because if you make a habit of being intimate with many women, at some point there is a high likelihood that something negative will happen, or something will come back to bite you on the bum.
I think Esther has said it best.
Just after the 2010 US census. It still makes me LOL.
I bet it was growing geometrically. 🙂
More here and why poverty stats are complete bullshit.
If you stick your dick In enough big holes eventually it will bite you in the bum. Celebrity only carries you so far.
JC, when you say “earning their keep”, do you mean by doing anything?
According to his own account he was banging 80 gals a month. Do the math.
All that meat, on display?
ABCcess the drum devoting an episode to hating on the new folk devil…
Russel Brand.
All females and one lactating male like object keeping quiet on the commenter screen.
A popup appears just says ” wobblygong country” in the corner and disappears.
Apparently ” right wing people” come out and say it’s wimmin/ blacks/ the Media’s fault and are evil, or something.
Apparently Brand loves victimhood, and is nasty.
What’s the odds of their ABCcess finding such complete unanimity of views from a completely random selection of x- spurts.
Oh, and they are having a whinge about ” why don’t people trust the media”
RABZ the place now
Having a job.
He is being accused by disappointed women, those who expected more and got little or even nothing for having sex with him.
A lads by the name of Debbie Schipp weighs in:
And you didn’t write about this at the time Debbie? It’s a #metoo moment, but not in the way you envisage.
A lass. Fer phuck sake.
So, it doesn’t matter what the job entails – working at Maccas or in a servo. No cost-benefit analysis re the effect on housing supply/traffic etc?
So this lady could have called Brand out judging by the second paragraph of this article. Before #metoo. She could have been a contender, could have been almost anything!
I call bullshit
Debbie thinks accusations of rape are ok because Brand was an asshole.
Seems like a nice well balanced lass you’d love to have on your jury.
Anna Bligh, formerly of the Liars, tells us:
Couldn’t lie straight in bed.
There is an implied covenant as a groupie. It gets a bit blurred with paid PR girls paid to stand around and glam the place up. I expect social media isn’t helping.
Swim, the comment was having a job is meant to show that if someone is working, it adds to GDP and doesn’t detract.
Outside of the public sector, a cost benefit analysis of a job we can leave to employers.
“Every bank is doing their best every day…
John Mason from The Rock comes to mind.
Precisely mole.
These people are deadset psychopaths.
“There’s nothing wrong with falsifying rape accusations because I don’t like you”
An idea which is gaining traction in the zeitgeist is false accusers ought to get the maximum penalty for what they accuse someone of.
A corespondent notes:
Yet she doesn’t point out that there’s a big different between being a preening git and engaging in actual sexual assault.
Got a claim? Take it to the police. Just as has been pointed out re Knickerless.
Calling all WWII Heroes! Kelly has a caper to get some Nazi gold on Fox Classics …now.
Mole, here’s the problem with this nutball. He claims to have had sex with hundreds and hundreds of women. Possibly thousands, by his reckoning. Claiming to bag 80 gals a month means he was having sex with two/three gals a day. He also claimed to have sort professional help because he was a sex addict. In other words, he had an incredibly strong urge to get a leg over Put all that together, and it’s not a zero proposition that he may have forced himself on a few women who had second thoughts at the wrong time.
Oddballs also accepted
I bought two couches.
Sales lady was Macedonian ( absolutely lovely)
The couches were manufactured in Vietnam
The delivery guy was from Kosovo
His off slider was from Fiji
Where were the Aussie ( well may you ask )
Most likely at university learning how to run things ….
About time the SFL’s stepped up and wedged the ALP on zero emissions and nuclear power.
Dutton is quite good when he’s on point, but he does seem to get a bit confused on the details (eg: today’s claim that Canada is 60% nuclear. It is not. Canada is about 15%, Ontario is 60%).
JC, ok. But what about including in the estimate what the cost-benefit of strong immigration numbers will be on the rest of society? Is that possible?
Just on the shagging blokes and nutty older women pining for children thing. If only some society had come up with a way to combine sexuality with care and procreation so blokes can settle down and women can have children at an age younger than 41….. Anybody got a name for it?
On Russell Brand.
The Sun, my go to on UK sleaze, provides the sordid details – plus the background on what has management at the Beabysea, the Big Brother production house, and Channel 4 in desperate panic mode. And it’s not Brand challenging woke Leftist orthodoxy.
Given the wholesale career destruction that followed Saville’s official outing as a pervert in full view, stable doors are being slammed shut.
Naturally MP’s have now joined in the moral panic – and Inspector Knacker of the Yard is on standby…
[email protected], “That could make a bloke very nervous”. Especially if it wasn’t your wife!
Could be exaggeration.
Unless they all come forward; or he’s got pictures.
Two-three every day would be a bit like the keystone cops; in one door and out the other, endlessly.
Absolutely.
Marriage is fu**ed.
The new consent laws Speakman implemented as NSW AG means that a young wife on the first morning of her honeymoon with her husband, could warm him up so to speak, no talking, just smiles and head pats, then after a brief period of being a generous lover to him, she is then dominant partner as her husband submissively receives coitus on his back. Not a word is spoken except for moaning and shouting each others names. They both are satisfied and she says I love you as they kiss and cuddle.
Well what it means is she is now a rapist.
If there is no enthusiastic consent, )YES means YES), then it is now sexual assault despite consensuality.
Our legal system is the enemy of family formation along with our tax system.
8% isn’t a controlling interest.
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Debbie Schipp’s article speaks to her own insecurities rather than an insight into the character of Russell Brand.
So is anyone doing it?
Debbie Schipp, who I have never heard of, in 2009:
In 2009. Fourteen years later, she decides to put pen to paper.
So – it was apparently important that Debbie Schipp stayed on-side rather than ‘calling out’ this apparent, and I mean apparent, terribly terrible behaviour by a bloke who was at the time not even on the cusp of the fame he later enjoyed.
In fact, at that time he may have only been ‘famous’ for a very, very poor reprise of Dudley Moore in Arthur, a story about a rich kid who falls in love.
Weak as piss. I will almost guarantee Schipp had just another giggly interview with Brand and then, because it then became fashionable, turned it into a #metoo where she’s the hero.
All for a couple of hundred freelancer bucks.
As Santa says, ‘Ho. Ho ho, and ho’.
FS,
thanks for that. One of the great fillums.
Crapgame – played by Don Rickles is just magnificent.
The pimping of young female audience members for the green room after the show didn’t just happen at the Beeb. It was legendary at a certain studio in Elsternwick, I’m told. Just don’t tell Louise Milligan or Justice McClellan.
Watching the people on the march for the screech and noting the people supporting turtle’s opposition to nuclear. There are a lot of fuking idiots in this shithole.
On the other hand watched Babylon which was a grim, pleasant surprise.
Recently, someone posted about side effects of covid antiviral infusions, including the feeling of smashed glass in one’s mouth. I can not remember who it was because, at the time, I was not affected in any way by the post, but today that changed quite significantly.
If possible, could that person please repost the relevant information?
You rang?
I recall reading a column by Henry Ergas in the Australian some years ago about the cost benefit of heavy duty immigration and the policy of large immigration showed up poorly. Henry had a consulting business focused on spitting out cost/benefit analysis.
Yessers, keep telling us that Senator Price doesn’t know what she is talking about:
Hello Marcia? Hello, hello? Any comment?
Hardly a shock, given the language used, at least in my experience.
More Debbie Schipp:
Let me get in character:
Oh noooo. Someone looked at my shoulders once 14 years ago. And my legs, and gave me an up-and-down look while walking past me in a pub.
Where’s my compo? I’m the real hero here!
Found the piece. Google is your friend. It’s a column, but not accompanied by stats. Good piece though.
SWMBO and I wondered why both SBS and ABC were covering a No rally in Adelaide that hadn’t yet started in their evening news. Non-event doesn’t begin to describe it.
As the above shows, it was because there was scheduled to be a bunch of protesters yelling “racist” etc and they were there to catch the vision.
Pretty poor turnout on the basis of the vid… I wonder if there will be better footage later on?
Ronald Martin, 47, and Jeremy Scrutton, 43, appeared in the NT Supreme Court in Alice Springs on Monday morning, each charged with manslaughter over the death of Kumanjayi Presley in June 2020.
Mr Presley, who was 36 when he died, was the nephew of Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
WTF!!
You rang?
The voice of an absolutely narcissistic bully. Attacking people then disavowing any choice in the matter by declaring “look what you *made* me do!”
Some interesting defenders of Russel Brand coming right out hitting.
https://twitter.com/SammiePressdee/status/1703133573035733003
You’d hardly expect that sort of defense from women if he was a genuine predator.
johanna
Sep 18, 2023 9:28 PM
Is that even possible, that he cannot speak enough English in Alice Springs to understand the charges and proceedings?
I am curious what the interpreter would translate some of the legalize as?
Thanks for reminding me – it is a magic performance. I saw a clip of an interview with the whistler (perfect tone and note) and she is a married mother of three kids, surprised and delighted by the success of that performance.
Unlike Sydney’s SSO and Ballet, The DSO actually are interested in what punters want.
So what, exactly, is Debbie Schipp’s complaint?
The bloke is a sleaze? Is that now punishable by the state?
Wasn’t the bloke who was shot by the Territory cops, for trying to stab one of them, with a pair of scissors, another of Senator Price’s relatives?
FMD. William Shekel (most likely wrong spelling) is a young fellow on Q+A. For nuclear power. Then Allegra Spender sez we aren’t ready. Chris Bowen to speak shortly.
Give me the young fellow. He was very good.
Another outstanding performance of a Morricone classic.
You can see the contestants (finalists?) in the background just looking on in astonishment.. ‘we’re totally outclassed here, gals’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1e9Mtygzgk
So what, exactly, is Debbie Schipp’s complaint?
Waiting for the penny to drop there Duncan.
There are plenty of them in Queanbeyan, thanks to the Snowy scheme. The originals are very old, but still passionate in their views. They congregate for coffee in the mall, reminding me of Lygon St in the 70s.
Their offspring are a mixed bunch, ranging from the obese teenagers covered with ugly tatts and their druggie ‘boyfriends’ to hard-working and affluent tradies and professionals.
The video images of the screech rallies shows only white tards present, every one a liars or filth voter.
Bar Beach Swimmer:
Doesn’t that particular demographic, like the Mormons, barely enter the statistics because they are self sufficient?
So what would happen if they constituted half the population?
my neighbours are Ukrainian and there’s a Camry with a Ukie flag on it parked in front of my joint right now.
I remember 5 years ago when we moved here and a day after there’s a knock at the door and Boris and Natasha are standing there with an an A4 photo-copy of a cat.
yep …a rag-doll
B&N: hello I am Boris and this is my wife Natasha. We live at #9
MT: nice to meet you
B&N: have you seen our cat?
MT: nup
B&N: can we look in your shed?
MT: er … nup
B&N: ok
their grown kids are fair dinkum Adidas wearing gangsters
Grandma Olga, occasionally walks the the court with her zimmer frame and scowling
i swear the bird-life goes quiet when she comes out
dont even try to say hello
they’re warming to us … Natasha actually waved back at me the other day
“The Eyes of the World Are Upon Us”.
Firstly, they are not. Australians are broadly travelled enough to know that the rest of the world couldn’t give a fat rat’s clacker what happens here.
Secondly, it’s now reciprocated. We don’t care what they think even if there is a remote chance one or two are paying attention.
Thanks, JC:
Ergas:
And still not happening because decisions for the benefit of the people are of little value to politicians.
So, the benefit of filling a servo job from migration maybe outweighed by the cost of more traffic on the road, or to repeat Ergas’ better prose, ‘the costs of adapting our urban fabric’.
Under this analysis high migration is not a win-win and not every job, when filled by a migrant, brings a standard benefit.
sancho,
aren’t you the same bloke that was sending genuine cultural-cringe post-cards from Kyoto just last week?
Governments should consider granting First Nations defendants special rights to be heard by a mixed jury of half Indigenous Australians, according to a report commissioned by a peak judicial body and backed by a Northern Territory Supreme Court judge as “ground breaking”. The report made strong recommendations that a national inquiry be launched immediately to remedy chronic under-representation of Indigenous jurors.
Hang on, if your lineage is only 1/16th or less, you can claim all benefits available? Just really stupid and should be laughed right out of any self respecting institution.
You know it makes sense!
Juries must contain a percentage of gay people if the defendant is gay.
What about if the defendant is from overseas? Insist there should be people from the defendant’s country of origin!
If the defendant is male insist there should be 48% of the jury male!
Trannies form a queue – we’ll get to your case when we can find enough…
Yoohoo, Rabz!
Firstly, they’re interconnected, certainly BlackRock, Vanguard and StateStreet and I’m sure some others too. Secondly, for a large public company, 7% and 8% investment is a huge amount, with board seats and plenty of influence to ensure they retain the holding.
How are they “interconnected’?
You described it as a controlling interest. It’s not. A controlling interest is by definition, 50%.
I saw a t-shirt on the street today.
“You can’t force people to respect you.
But you can choose not to be disrespected.”
Bit long for a bumper sticker, but there you have it.
I’ve had some butcher’s paper sent up to the hotel room and I’ve worked up some calculations.
I estimate that somewhere around 8.4% of the male Japanese population aged between 13 and 21 are in J-pop Boy Bands.
I have become more adventurous in playing with the buttons on Japanese toilets (albeit with the lid shut and standing a safe distance away to start with).
They have a sound effects button which plays birdsong and babbling stream sounds to mask any actual splashing, tinkling and groaning noises.
But nothing to mask the smell unfortunately.
Holocaust.
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Strange how the capitalist system draws in these entities, all seeking to maximize their wealth and prepared to buy any share or pay any (reasonable) cost to do that.
Could it be that they do this because they are managing money for ordinary people?
The capitalist conspiracy never ends …
“I know for many, many years that women have been warning each other about Russell.”
duncanm
Sep 18, 2023 9:55 PM
Another outstanding performance of a Morricone classic.
You can see the contestants (finalists?) in the background just looking on in astonishment.. ‘we’re totally outclassed here, gals’.
That was astonishing.
Cheers.
I’d admired the irreverent and offbeat Brand as an entertainer with a formidable intellect who went where few dared, and skewered with smart humour.
Resorting to lame commentary on a woman’s physical attributes and palming it off as a joke was lazy humour. Easy pickings. Not the slightest bit clever. I thought he was edgier than that.
Sheesh some people are dumb. Or easily mesmerized by glamour. All i’ve ever seen on the screen is a heavily made-up doyenne who can speed-read a set scwipt fwom memowy, but fails to meaningfully engage with interviewers or guests… or subjects, as discussions progress.
Does it not dawn on anyone that Brand is no great wit, no deep thinker, no edgy contrarian… but rather, just a convincing performer?
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Peter Brookes.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison and Tina Norton.
Last weekend the All In podcast held their annual summit.
They had a lot of good speakers & are dropping selected ones onto their youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@allin/videos
These include Larry Summers, Ray Dalio, Bill Gurley & Elon.
The Bill Gurley one talks about the stagnation of the US.
Cocoa prices hit 50 year highs over the past week.
How long before ColesWorth jack up their chocolate prices for stock that was contracted 6-12 months ago?
Heads ColesWorth wins.
Tails the consumer lose.
If only there was a competition regulator to ensure profiteering like this didn’t happen.
Two of my WhatsApp groups is lighting up this morning with a range of Yes front groups being granted DGR status in late 2022 & early 2023.
Is this old news?
Or fake news?
feelthebern
Sep 19, 2023 6:01 AM
Made me look up DGR status.
One learns somet new every day.
I can’t believe this. Breakfast TV News just reported that a large number of Sydney and Sth Coast schools are closing today because of anticipated temperature of 34 degrees plus ! Good heavens – what are they going to do in Summer? Permanently close the schools?
Oh no! 34 degrees! Heavens to Betsy!
The Barassi worship continues, driven by sports media.
Nothing against him but the game is bigger than one man and the Cup should not commemorate an individual.
He wasn’t gay and he wasn’t black. Most unsuitable.
DUDE! WHERE’S MY F-35?
You use Whats App?
Get onto Signal if you want privacy.
As it should.
The John Elliot Shield will be even better.
Which hopefully after 2023, will be the new name for the AFL Minor Premiership given the McClellan is now the Club Championship for the AFL/AFLW.
So…I looked it up. DGR status follows so you don’t have to –
And, I presume “No” does not have this status?
Our government and its agencies are either corrupt or very, very close to it.
As I referred to the other day; if you read the BOM definitions for the various classes of heatwave we will have heatwave announcements nearly each week.
Interesting stats exercise there if anyone wants to take it on. They are basically declaring a heatwave if it’s forecast to be three consecutive days over the average in any particular district.
Russell Brand’s career is finito.
It’s surreal now, we now live in a time where female accusers don’t bother going to the police, instead they go to the MSM to air their real or imagined complaints about a man, and the media run with it, and what happens, a man’s life is destroyed! Geez Louise, it works a treat. Such trivial details as “evidence” and “trials” are now deemed irrelevant. Every day in the West is now…..”j’accuse”!
Further to Esther Krakue’s very wise words about “sexual discipline”, I think mothers need to counsel their sons very carefully. It’s open slather on heterosexual males. But you see, all of this has come about by a chronic lack of sexual discipline in the West, and now we live in a culture drenched in lewdness, vulgarity, indecency and pornography. It’s been fifty years in the making, a culture now totally infused with sexual unrestraint.
The old rules protected males and females. Perhaps it’s time we adopted those rules again.
I’ve been reading an article a Swiss moron who bought a $300.00 live lobster at a restaurant in Sardinia, then dropped it back into the sea. The best part of the article were the comments. My favourite comment;
“I buy eggs and then let them free by throwing them towards the lefties on the picket lines” 😀
Obese teachers can’t cope with the heat?
There is no doubt that fire conditions in rural areas are going to be dodgy this summer particularly in relation to grass fires. And it is a warm, dry spring up here. But this media panic regarding mild temperatures is ridiculous. It was in the low 30s here yesterday. I went for my usual 45 minute walk around the property without any discomfort & we did all the normal maintenance work – gardening, machinery maintenance, cattle work and so on. Husband helped a neighbour repair an excavator. All out in the sun. All normal.
Husband remarked this morning that this is just the same as the Covid panic. It does not worry him. It makes me seethe. It is insidious mind control.
They have form. This is just a tryout for more and for other reasons.
Old Cats and Kittehs have already mentioned the 100F “go home” for children…if the principal decided to apply it.
Discomfort is now considered dangerous.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/woman-euthanized-belgium-heard-screaming-loved-ones-as/
And who assured us this wouldn’t happen?
Closer to the mark, I reckon.
Cassie
Women don’t want to get married and they don’t want children until they’re 30 and it is only one.
Sure I am talking to younger university educated women.
They initiate hookups. There’s a reason why Bumble exists.
I’m not blaming women. I’m just asking what’s in it for men anymore if they don’t want unemotional promiscuity.
(We’re not waiting for women to become almost infertile. Who will save them? Not me.)
Speakman’s absurd enthusiastic consent laws even cruel a relationship forming organically let alone a sneaky link.
If a man wants multiple children from a fertile wife you may as well convert to whatever religion necessary and enter into an arranged marriage.
Look at the divorce rates in Western Europe.
It’s wild.
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uptick
132 and bush – thanks for that. It makes sense. BOM – who are all warming fanatics – must be contacting the media whenever 3 days are above average & declaring a heatwave.
Feckin’ ijits.
Delusions are weird and wonderful too.
Sometimes.
It is.
If you remember in January I was down at Horsham and the forecast was for some ridiculous temperature and I was scoffing at it given there was a southerly forecast as well. We were on track for one of the coolest summers on record and it felt as though some people were trying to “bump up”perceptions.
So is the Macquarie Bank going to suffer a run on its deposits?
I don’t know, but I’m accelerating the plunder run of my Commonwealth accounts into gold.
Silly people.
We live in a dumb times, but worse, both dumb and forgetful times.
At work last week I sat and listened as people sitting near me, all of whom are younger than me, shrieked about the coming week’s “heat wave” and how “unprecedented” and “boiling” it was.
To which I turned around and said “nonsense”. I said I clearly remember the year 2000, how on the first day of the Sydney Olympics a heat wave began that went on for weeks. I then said that the difference between 2023 and 2000 is that 23 years ago people celebrated the heat whereas now people shriek and catastrophise about it. There was silence. And then surprisingly a younger colleague agreed with me, he said he also remembers how in 2000, when he was nine years old, he also remembers that heatwave.
I sometimes wonder if people here quite understand the depths of this climate alarmism and catastrophism, and how it is framing much of the business world. ESG is now running amok through large corporations. I work with younger people and climate change IS their religion. Some I’ve had conversations with are even convinced the northern beaches are going to disappear! LOL. Of course, of course, none of this alarmism curtails their winter skiing trips or their jaunts off to Europe this year. They just don’t seem to think they need to make any sacrifices to save da planet! Sacrifices are for little people.
Dumb times, forgetful times, and very hypocritical times.
Good lord these divorce rates are insane.
Remember:
This time last year everywhere was or nearly was under water.
They’re determined to control your money, no matter what. And next in line is the refusal by the banks to allow you to spend it on something their woke department disagrees with – like excess meat for this month, or an OS holiday if you’ve already had one this year. Or a new car if it isn’t an EV.
So how is this going to apply to business trips? Will they be curtailed? Or just not counted? And how are they going to happen if all the airlines go broke because the peasants aren’t going to be allowed to fly and subsidise the rich industrialists? Because those 737s aren’t going to leave the ground with just Business Class on board.
Actually, those 737s aren’t going to be built – only the Learjet Class will survive. Boeing will go tits up and the stockmarket will as well.
It’s going to be a hell of a ride, strap in.
I’m so sick and tired of this constant blackwashing in historical programmes.
Last night I watched on SBS IQ programme called ‘Royal Mob’, about Queen Victoria’s grandchildren and their various marriages. Last night’s episode dealt with the Hesse sisters, the daughters of Queen Victoria’s second oldest daughter, Princess Alice, who tragically died young from diphtheria. Princess Alice married the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt, a German royal family. Their four daughters were as follows……Victoria, Elizabeth, Irene and Alix. All were great beauties, particularly Elizabeth and Alix. Ella and Alix married into the Russian royal family, and the rest is history, both were murdered by the Bolsheviks. Alix became Empress of Russia and she, her husband Nicholas, and their five children were shot and bludgeoned to death in a cellar in Ekaterineburg.
But anyway, the eldest Princess Victoria married Prince Louis of Battenberg in 1884, and their children included Princess Alice, the mother of the late Duke of Edinburgh and Earl Mountbatten of Burma. The programme had a reenactment of Victoria and Louis’ wedding day in Darmstadt Germany in 1884……and what did they have at the reception, a black actor as a wedding guest. Yeah…nah…nah….nah….bulldust and bullshit. I can guarantee you there were no blacks in Darmstadt in 1884.
I’m getting tired of this blackwashing.
“If a man wants multiple children from a fertile wife you may as well convert to whatever religion necessary and enter into an arranged marriage.”
And that will happen, Islam is on the rise in Europe, and more and more European men are converting. Wonder why?
It Begins: Australia’s Fifth-Largest Bank Announces Digital-Only Transactions – Will Phase Out Cash, Cheque, and Phone Payments in All 80 Branches Starting Next Year
Why isn’t the gummint investigating with this? .. shirley, any company in the banking business, who’s main function is money, has an obligation to deal in money .. if a bank isn’t interested in accepted standard monetary practises is it in breach of its licensing conditions ……. and if not, why not? …….
Better not to bother with contemporary tv Cassie. I only watch it when I happen to be in public places where it’s rammed down your throat but fortunately there seems to be a move to subtitles so U don’t have to listen.
If you want a rest from the YES campaign, come out to the bush.
The Voice is barely a whisper and the biggest issues in conversation will be the state of the roads and power/fuel prices.
Call it a sanity break.
Netflix tried some blackwashing and the ensuing blowback was sweet, very sweet to watch. Portraying Cleopatra as a sub-Saharan black women didn’t go down very well, particularly in the middle east, and particularly in Cleo’s home of Egypt. But more importantly, it was a a lie. Cleopatra was Greek, perhaps with some Persian blood. I loved reading about the Netflix blowback, because racism towards sub-Saharan blacks is endemic in the Arab world. LOL. As I wrote above, we live in seriously dumb times.
“To reverse these cruel travesties of justice, tonight I’m announcing that the moment I win the election, I will appoint a special task force to rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner who has been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration,” President Trump said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-pledges-task-force-to-investigate-alleged-persecution-of-political-prisoners-by-biden-administration-5492548?utm_source=ref_share&utm_campaign=copy
Considering the stories coming from these gaols about the bashings and mistreatment of these prisoners, I really hope the guards are held to account.
And no, ‘I was just following orders’ won’t be accepted, just like it wasn’t accepted at Nuremburg.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the government ‘fumbled’ the No campaign’s deductible gift recipient status. What are the facts?
Mark Speakman, the current NSW Liberal opposition leader, is THE example of why I can’t and I won’t vote Liberal. Nothing surprises me about Speakman, a green lite figure who hasn’t got a Liberal bone in this body. This is the same Speakman who enthusiastically joined in the lynching of Bettina Arndt back in 2020. Yesterday, here on this blog, C.L. informed us how the Queensland government has passed a law in the last week which will allow all men accused of rape to be named and shamed in the media from the get-go, yet complainants cannot be named. This new law has been supported by the LNP. Just great.
I wrote this yesterday on C.L.’s blog…
As an aside, and it is related to the likes of Milei and Meloni, because we’ve seen how useless Meloni has been, how utterly useless the Conservative clowns in the UK have been for thirteen years, with Europe’s borders now completely collapsing, and now we’re witnessing, in real time, the dystopian deluge of sub-Saharan African and middle eastern males into southern Europe, next month there’ll be an election in NZ and the NZ Nationals are poised to win. But you might wonder why I’m so tepid about this. Well, because it’s becoming increasingly evident that voting for these right of centre and/or conservative parties is a waste of time, prior to elections they talk the good talk, but after winning elections they fail to walk the good talk (although I’ll make an exception about the Victorian Liberals, they don’t talk the talk). There is simply no point voting for them. I write this as it’s becoming increasingly clear that the NZ police, back in March in Auckland, didn’t just stand back and allow the violence at the Let Women Speak rally, they knew it was going to happen and they stood outside the park. It was deliberate. Will a new Nationals government try and clean out a politicised police force? Will a Nationals government clear out government departments infested with career leftists? Until right of centre governments decide to put on some boxing gloves and at least try to defang and dismantle departments of LGBTQI+ gunk, human rights nonsense and so on, absolutely nothing will change and the progressive winds keep blowing, I believe that there is simply no point voting for these parties. Or perhaps I’m just now too cynical. As C.L. wrote, either here or on Dover’s page, a country like Italy that won’t deport scum (and that’s an insult to scum) like Kanye (or whatever he’s called now) and the botoxed female he’s currently with for their ongoing pornographic antics on Italian soil, I believe that country no longer deserves to exist.
It’s not the economy anymore, stupid.
This focus on the “economy”, at the expense of other pressing societal cultural issues, has been the downfall of the right. It goes without saying that the right are (usually) better economic managers than the left. But whilst the economy should be a concern, it should not be the sole concern of the Liberal/Conservative or National Parties, there are many other concerns. Too many on the right look misty-eyed at Reagan and Thatcher, and here in Oz too many misty-eyes look to John Howard (whose economic credentials (apart from the GST) are overrated). I think it’s time those eyes were wiped dry, and it’s time to keep them dry. We no longer live in even remotely similar times to the 1980s or even to 2007. When Reagan, Thatcher (and Howard) held power, the pillars of faith and family, whilst under attack, were not crumbling, sure they were unstable. But this is no longer the case, the West is collapsing before our eyes.
Anyway, unlike myself and unlike others here, I get the the impression that there are some right of centre voters who still think that having any right of centre government is preferable to having a left of centre government, even if that conservative right of centre government, once in power, like the UK Conservatives from 2010 to now, like the Oz Liberals from 2013 to 2022, do nothing to fight, combat and reverse far-left infiltration and so on, instead they just stick to “economics”. Well, that sole focus on economics no longer works, people now want more, they’re right to want more, and I won’t vote for such a party, because whilst I might regard a good May budget as important, I also regard perverts in women’s bathrooms as equally as important, I also regard LGBTQI+ propaganda in our schools as equally as important, and I particularly regard the forced takeover of a Canberra Catholic hospital by a far-left Green government as equally as important, in fact I regard that as more important than any good May budget.
shatterzzz
Will Macquarie Bank refuse to accept legal tender? If so, what is the penalty?
Farmer Gez
Sep 19, 2023 8:08 AM
If you want a rest from the YES campaign, come out to the bush.
The Voice is barely a whisper and the biggest issues in conversation will be the state of the roads and power/fuel prices.
Correct. Went for a ride on the toy R1 yesterday and saw a total of one No and no Yes signs. Plenty of The Gates Are Shut signs near a solar factory. And it did cross my mind this is my last crotch rocket. The next bike will have to have off road capabilities to cope with the potholes.
The Liberals haven’t had a claim to “the economy” legitimately for 20 years now.
Cassie
You are correct. Until mnon-leftards can gain control of the culture, they will not have any significant effect on the economy.
Offer social conservatism and moderate economic policies and there might be some change, but nothing will change while ever the current toxic political and social culture prevails.
And those “moderate economic policies” should be focused on individuals, small and medium business. Big Business has made its bed with leftards, they should be left to sort out their industrial relations mess themselves.
non-leftards …
Craig Kelly and Ralph Babbet at the Oaks tomorrow night for local cats.
https://twitter.com/senatorbabet/status/1703727813931758052
I want to shake Craig’s hand for organising the covid rallies, they were a great solace for some of us during a very dark time.
Is now the right time for all the special interest groups to demand a Voice in the Australian Constitution?
Why not every nationality/ies have their own voice? Would it be racism, to give one nationality more than others?
You could have combinations of nationalities, say Irish Germanic Filipino, or Sri Lankan Peruvian African American etc .. and we could all introduce ourselves by our specially selected and edited honorific .. I’m a proud whatever whatever whatever (but leave out the ancestry you don’t want to draw attention to or you think might dilute your superiority claim)
The point of claiming all the “nation” titles is just to underline, that you belong more than someone else does and are thus superior. (welcome to “MY” country)
How this contributes to the quality of life for all Australians is beyond me to recognise.
What is it about the left that they want to “make things better”, by condemning the entire community to their will?
Whatever happened to the concept of equality in Australia, why do so many people think it’s OK for some people to have more equality than others?
Do they read 1984 at schools these days?
/sarc
I’ll get out of your way now
I’m a proud Australian
Okay. Our government isn’t corrupt, just glacially slow when it suits them and circumstances allow. Twelve weeks is supposed to be fast?
I can see the late submission being workshopped in Leigh’s office – the No campaign gifted them an opportunity for plausible deniability. Exactly a month before close of books for individuals to get a deductible donation away, enough time to design and screen print a few corflutes.
Meanwhile, Yes has had months and months of access to corporate funds and sponsorship.
And of course, our humble fact checkers…the ABC.
Every year for near 2 decades, our education system pumps out tens of thousands newly minted green/left zombies, thanks to the insidious curriculum they have been immersed in for the prior 12 years. It will take them another near decade for them to somewhat think for themselves unraveling the MSM propaganda they are bombarded with- IF they are lucky.
Until we see a Govt willing to rebuild our education system devoid of the green/left/indigenous/Marxist claptrap permeating almost all subjects, nothing is going to change ,not really where it matters. At the foundations.
Today’s episode of schadenfreude:
Disney Sees Massive Fall Off for Disney+, Hulu Subscribers After Price Hike, Woke Policies (Newsmax, 17 Sep)
They’re also trying to sell off the American ABC, which is likewise very popcornworthy:
ABC News Staffers ‘Freaking’ out over Reports Disney in Talks to Sell Outlet to Mogul Byron Allen, Nexstar (15 Sep)
You’re own silly fault woke lefty peoples. GWGB.
Why being a tradie might be a better option than uni
Julie Hare – Education editor
University enrolments have headed south as potential students opt for trades over study in a heated labour market that has delivered big salaries and pay rises – without the student debt.
The lowest paid and most unskilled have received the biggest pay rises, proportionally, as the economy struggled to find enough electricians, mechanics and other blue-collar workers.
Experts said declining demand for university study – enrolments dropped by 109,600, or 8.7 per cent in the year to May 2022 – was the result of skill shortages and big salaries on offer in blue-collar jobs.
The tight job market has provided the lower-skilled with wage gains that have reduced inflation’s bite and were not mirrored in wealthier parts of the economy.
Seek chief economist Matt Cowgill said that since 2019 the lowest income quintile experienced a 13.1 per cent growth in salaries, compared to 7.8 per cent for the highest quintile. “We’ve seen really strong demand for labour across a range of traditionally lower to middle paid industries and occupations and that’s reflected in the salaries,” he said.
Higher pay and no uni debt
Adecco country manager Nicholas Lee said shifting dynamics in the workforce should push more people to think about whether university was the right path.
Apprentice electricians could earn $55,000 a year while they learnt on the job. “Admittedly, it’s low wage, but it’s a good return on investment.
Once fully qualified, they almost double their earnings earning up to $100,000,” Mr Lee said, and salaries can jump to $200,000 in certain parts of the country and in sectors such as mining.
James Brookfield left school halfway through Year 11 for an apprenticeship and now runs his own business, P Phase Electrical, employing five staff members.
“With the amount of infrastructure going on around Sydney some of the guys working on mines and tunnels and so on are earning $300,000 to $400,000,” Mr Brookfield said. While he can’t compete with that, he is paying new fully qualified electricians around $110,000 a year, compared to $70,000 five or six years ago.
One of his employees, Tristan Johns, 25, is in the final year of his psychology degree at Western Sydney University but said his mind was open to taking a trade in future.
“Being a tradie wasn’t on my radar prior to working for James, but the more I’ve learned while on the job I would definitely think about it in the future. I could definitely earn more as a tradie at least for a few years, than I will be able to as a psychology graduate,” Mr Johns said. His student debt was close to $35,000.
Train drivers could also earn between $150,000 to $180,000 with just a certificate level qualification, with those in remote areas earning up to $250,000 – with no student debt to pay off.
Even disability workers, with only a TAFE certificate, could earn $64 an hour – the equivalent of around $120,000 a year. Traffic controllers earn $50-$60 an hour, with zero qualifications. Diesel mechanics, electrical and mechanical engineers are also in strong demand and can attract high salaries.
Meanwhile, the median salary for university graduates in 2022 was $68,400, while the average student debt was $24,770.
Mr Lee said many blue-collar workers now earned salaries usually associated with white-collar jobs and earn-while-you-learn training meant they graduated debt free.
“These are roles that are not going to be easily replaced by artificial intelligence and automation,” he said.
“Roles that use hands and heart and mind are going to increase in importance and value.”
Trades back in demand
Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveal that university enrolments fell by 5 per cent between 2021-22 as school-leavers and mature-age students responded to the healthy jobs market.
Andrew Norton, a higher education policy expert with Australian National University, said school-leavers with high ATARs were going to university anyway, but those with lower ATARs were “making a sensible trade-off” and going into trades and other jobs.
Data suggests that after years of being the poor cousin to university study, trades and vocational education have regained lost ground.
The trend appeared to undermine federal education minister Jason Clare’s target for 55 per cent of people aged 25 to 34 to have a university degree by 2050, which require a doubling in the number of students from current numbers.
At the end of 2022, there was a 10 per cent increase in the number of people starting an apprenticeship compared to a year earlier, according to the National Centre for Vocational Education Research.
South Australia and Queensland had the highest growth, with the number of apprentices in training rising by 16 per cent.
Those figures coincide with an increase in the number of people who did not complete year 12.
“It’s causing universities quite a lot of problems, but it’s mostly benign from the point of view of students because they are doing something constructive,” Mr Norton said.
Demand is so soft that the University of New England last week promoted a guaranteed place in 2024 – without an ATAR score. All potential students need is a letter of recommendation from their school.
In its September labour market update, Jobs and Skills Australia said that employment had continued to increase across all five skill-level groups with the biggest rises in the lowest and middle groups and the lowest rise in the highest skill level.
Mark Diamond, national secretary of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, said there was a lot of anecdotal evidence of older workers looking to move into the occupations the union represented.
“While that may be taking some people away from studying at university, those workers are usually substituting one form of education for another,” Mr Diamond said.
I think you need to get the government out.
There’s no welcome to country at a coding boot camp.
Led by morons with delusions of grandeur. Herald Sun:
About the school closures…when I were a kid, knee-high to a grasshopper, our schools were built of solid brick. The classrooms were big and windows that could be opened along at least two (opposing) walls, and blinds. The classrooms were cooler than the outside.
Has there been a change to school construction? Are they designed with fewer windows that can be opened or changes of materials – on the assumption that air or even air conditioning will be circulating? And, in the infrastructure abundance that was the Building uh Edumacation Revolution, this was done badly?
They are pretty much messing up kids at the best of times now. Half of them are on meds for ADHD and the teachers have more important things to do than engage the kids – they have to condition them with SJW reactions and fevered megaphoning of nonsense theories and histories.
HumeLink transmission project shapes up as a test of governments’ will
Angela Macdonald-Smith – Senior resources writer
The $4.9 billion HumeLink transmission project is shaping up as the first big test of governments’ will to progress difficult projects needed for the energy transition, says a key adviser to the NSW government.
Cameron O’Reilly, the lead author of an independent review into the state’s energy reliability and supply which recommended the extension of the Eraring coal generator, said the full benefits of several projects already under construction could not be delivered without the controversial HumeLink project, making it vital to the transition.
His report recommended that the NSW government take on HumeLink as a priority infrastructure transmission project under its electricity road map if project proponent TransGrid did not promptly commit to building it.
But this was one of four of the report’s 54 recommendations that was not accepted by the government, even in part, when it announced its response to the report earlier this month.
The 500-kilovolt, 360-kilometre project in southern NSW will not only connect to the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro storage project but also a transmission line being built to South Australia that will open up the region to remote wind and solar farms. The Australian Energy Market Operator has said HumeLink needs to be online by July 2026 at the latest, but the venture faces fierce pushback from landholders and communities on the route of the line, which want it to be buried underground.
Mr O’Reilly said that although he accepted it was the government’s right to reject any of the report’s recommendations, it was a concern that such a critical project had still not received a commitment, despite being among four priority projects identified by the market operator as far back as 2018 and its key role in enabling the exit of coal power.
“I know it’s going to be expensive. I know it’s going to be difficult, everyone can see that,” he said, pointing to the difficult terrain in the region and the social licence issues. “But when you have Snowy 2.0 fully committed, EnergyConnect fully committed, the most singular, most no-regrets project in NSW, and probably the most coal exit-enabling project in the shorter term, is HumeLink.”
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe was not available for comment.
Cost estimate goes up
TransGrid said on Monday that it expected to reach a final investment decision on HumeLink in March after the Australian Energy Regulator’s assessment on the project, due by the end of that month. A spokeswoman said landowner agreements were increasing and were in place for about half of properties on the HumeLink corridor.
She gave a revised cost estimate for HumeLink of $4.9 billion, up from $3.3 billion three years ago, an increase that has previously been roughly flagged by TransGrid chief executive Brett Redman.
She said that represented an increase in real costs of 29 per cent, less than the 30-50 per cent increases expected across the infrastructure sector in the past 12 months alone.
“The updated cost reflects the tightening global supply chain post-COVID and significant cost increases in construction, building, material and skilled labour costs in a highly competitive market,” the spokeswoman said, noting that benefits from the project were also increasing at a similar rate so the net market benefits should be greater than the existing $1.3 billion estimate.
Mr O’Reilly, who works at Marsden Jacob Associates, said it was “understandable” the state did not want to take on another project from AEMO’s Integrated Systems Plan given its function went well beyond NSW to the National Electricity Market more broadly.
He said that while there was a big effort to push the HumeLink project forward, some people would never accept it, requiring government leadership. Otherwise, the transition from fossil fuels would be at risk.
“We are probably in HumeLink facing the first test of will on something that’s facing significant resistance,” he said.
“There’s no escaping it will be a difficult project. This is probably the first big test of government wills – I’m not saying this is just about NSW, but government will to progress difficult projects as part of the transition.”
Mr O’Reilly said the importance of some of the independent review’s other recommendations, which include improvements to the planning system and moves to better integrate rooftop solar and batteries into the grid, had been overlooked in the reaction to the report, which had focused almost entirely on the Eraring power station.
He highlighted the NSW government’s acceptance that gas power would still be needed to cover for long periods without renewables. “That stands NSW in good stead, I think, in helping to manage its transition.”
Might? It’s a no brainer.
I don’t, but if I had a son I’d urge him into auto electrics/electronics. Anything that’s mobile, from cars, cranes to autonomous to 800t draglines become the available pool of work. Billions of $ in capital equipment needing sparkies. Every shift. Pay in mines ,off site mine support, OEMs will bring in north of 200k annually. Easy. And rates will only be going one way.
“ABC must be open to all voices”
The great strength of democracy is that everyone gets their vote and has an opportunity to have their say.
The Australian Editorial
COVID severity ‘much lower’ now — but these 3 symptoms remain: top NYC doc
Just got my comment rejected at the Oz.
The story was “‘Give defendants Indigenous jurors’: report”
Comment was:
Where would this lead?
Juries to contain a percentage of gay people if the defendant is gay?
What about if the defendant is from overseas? Insisting there should be people from the defendant’s country of origin?
If the defendant is male insisting there should be 48% of the jury male?
Lol. To be replaced by our cowardly Labor-Lite pink wet effeminate yellow bellies in the LNP? You think they will somehow summon up the courage to tackle the curriculum and it’s rabid leftard custodians with a wholesale rebuild/restructure?
As I said, NOTHING is going to change.
Thought he carked it years ago.
Combined gas and electricity bills have risen to a record $4400 a year for typical families in some outer suburbs and regional towns, sparking calls for urgent new relief.
Petrol pump isn’t friendly to families these days either.
Good thing the Voice will distract the punters.
For now.
Jack Poso ??
@JackPosobiec
Merrick Garland is having elderly pro-lifers thrown behind bars
It’s gaslighting season in New York. Be prepared for hordes of chicken littles and boys crying wolf.
Great Reset/Climate doomsters descend upon New York City: ‘The WEF, UN, Clinton Inc, & Bill Gates are getting the climate hoax gang back together’ (17 Sep)
UN Set to Agree New Political Declaration on Pandemics Next Week – & it’s a Horror Show (17 Sep)
Weather and the sniffles are now permanent existential emergencies, and our ears will be bleeding from the MSM propaganda stories coming out over the next week or two.
The “Voice” is passed at referendum, and the Albanese Government introduces an inheritance tax. Civil war breaks out two days later.
CDC Admits: Vast Majority of those hospitalized for COVID are jabbed
The ‘ticking time bombs’ inside Aussie homes sparking a rising number of fires
An increasingly common item poses a growing risk to Australians, capable of exploding and injuring or even killing those in proximity.
A spate of fires sparked by exploding lithium-ion batteries in e-scooters and e-bikes in recent months has prompted renewed safety concerns.
Data obtained by news.com.au shows emergency services have responded to hundreds of incidents in the past 18 months, some of which led to serious injury and even death.
“We’re concerned about the number of lithium-ion battery fires we’re seeing,” New South Wales Fire and Rescue Superintendent Adam Dewberry said. “And the number this year is well-and-truly trending up.”
There were 165 fires involving lithium-ion batteries across NSW in 2022, while there have been 114 incidents already this year, up to July.
Last month, a 54-year-old man died when a lithium-ion battery stored inside his Punchbowl apartment exploded. When fire crews arrived, they found his lifeless body on a bathroom floor and suspected he had perished after inhaling toxic fumes while trying to contain the blaze.
Early on Friday morning, a battery in a golf cart-style buggy exploded at a St John’s Ambulance facility in Burwood in Sydney’s inner-west.
Six ambulances, three support vehicles and a trailer were damaged while a nearby storage area, electrical wiring and part of the structure itself were also impacted. It took fire crews more than 90 minutes to bring the blaze under control.
And just yesterday, firies were dispatched to respond to two separate fires involving exploding e-bike batteries.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services reports a total of 107 fires caused by lithium-ion batteries last year, while the tally for 2023 so far is sitting at 93.
In March last year, a 22-year-old man died when a scooter battery caught fire in his caravan in Logan Central. His pregnant partner sustained burns to 80 per cent of her body and had to be placed in an induced coma.
A spokesperson for Fire Rescue Victoria said: “Victoria’s fire services are responding to an average of one significant lithium-ion battery fire each week, and this trend is expected to increase.”
One of those was earlier this month when a house fire in Lalor was caused by a battery in a model toy bought online from overseas, leading to significant damage throughout.
A lithium-ion battery can leak up to 500L of gas per kilowatt hour, Professor Christiansen explained.
“A kilowatt hour is a measure of how much energy the battery stores. Typically, an e-scooter battery is a quarter of a kilowatt hour, whereas an e-bike battery is about three quarters. So, they’ll produce 125 or 375L or explosive and toxic gas.”
If it ignites immediately, intense flames of 1000C or more can be produced. If the gas fills a room, an explosion is likely.
“You might only have seconds before a major vapour cloud explosion or those rocket-like flames,” he said.
Research by the organisation EV Fire Safe found that if a battery goes into thermal runaway inside a home, there is a 64 per cent chance of being injured and requiring hospitalisation, and a 7.8 per cent chance of death.
Panic erupted earlier this year when it emerged an Australian online auction house had sold 40 discounted e-scooters that were water-damaged, posing a serious risk to buyers.
One of them later caught on fire while left on charge overnight. A man and his son woke to find the living room of their Northern Beaches home engulfed in flames.
“These damaged e-scooters were effectively ticking time bombs, ready to explode inside family homes across New South Wales,” Fire and Rescue NSW Assistant Commissioner Trent Curtin said at the time.
Be alert, not alarmed
With proper precautions, consumers can dramatically reduce the chance of a fire or an explosion, Professor Christiansen said, but with an increasing range of uses, the potential for problems is growing.
Rough estimates indicate there are between 250,000 and 300,000 electric scooter owners in Australia. There were about 75,000 e-bikes sold across the country in 2021.
Consumers should only buy a product with a lithium-ion battery from known and trusted companies and only use the charger supplied, Professor Christian said.
“Never buy one that requires the user to manually turn it off when charging is complete. And never charge a battery indoors, ever – full stop, period.”
If something goes wrong, “you might only have seconds” to escape disaster, he added.
“If you hear popping, hissing or screaming, or you see any kind of gas or smoke venting, do not attempt to deal with it yourself. Leave the building immediately, alerting other occupants, and phone the fire brigade.”
Photos of Damage Pretty Scary – OK will charge all LI Batteries outside in Future
Yep. There’s never been a mention of it here.
Not publicly, not in the pub, not at BBQs, not anywhere.
The district would be an almost solid No vote (though you never know what the schoolteacher/nurse cohort will do)
So, last night at a NO rally in Adelaide, the oh so loving, kind, tolerant left screamed, hurled, screeched abuse at NO rally attendees, the abuse screamed and screeched was such charming epithets as “racist pigs*” at Warren Mundine, Jacinta Price, Alex Antic and ordinary Australian men and women arriving at the rally.
Well done to the member for Grayndler, this will be his legacy.
I now await Gucci clad Bin Chicken Burney to condemn the vicious, nasty, racist abuse hurled at Mundine and Price. Oh wait Cassie, you’ll just hear crickets from Bin Chicken Burney.
* Gosh, where were the ubiquitous Nazis, surely they turned up…oh wait, it’s Adelaide, not Melbourne.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
If you’re looking to induce vomit at any point today, just watch this. It’s safe & effective.
Weird how that suddenly happened just when subsidies were removed.
The Daily Chart: Follow the COVID Money | Power Line (18 Sep)
And they wonder why trust is so lacking nowadays?
Pfizer Expects 24% of Americans Will Get New Covid Boosters
Over at Quadrant, on the new Snow White “jumping the shark”:
…the decision to remake Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a non-white lead, a gay huntsman, no prince, and no dwarves is truly a “jump the shark” moment.
“There’s no escaping it will be a difficult project. This is probably the first big test of government wills – I’m not saying this is just about NSW, but government will to progress difficult projects as part of the transition.”
Simple market solution for Mr. O’Reilly.
Pay landholders lots of money so the project looks like a bonanza and not a curse.
Chief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
Bret Weinstein Demolishes Dr. Paul Offit’s Endorsement of ‘Science Communicators’
“Even if a bunch of dumb f-cks actually believed that, once they establish that system where you get to lie to public…what happens is somebody figures out how you capture that voice…and it commandeers it for its own purposes”
Linda Burney’s performances in the House would have to be the least inspiring I have ever seen.
New World Odor™
@hugh_mankind
THIS
“They want you to wear a mask. Say NO. They want you to put in another mRNA injection. Say NO. Tell them to screw themselves and go to hell, for that’s where they belong.”
-Christine Anderson
“Until we see a Govt willing to rebuild our education system devoid of the green/left/indigenous/Marxist claptrap permeating almost all subjects, nothing is going to change ,not really where it matters. At the foundations.”
Correct, hence my comment above about useless right of centre conservatives parties and leaders across the West, with the exception of Trump and Orban.
They are utter failures and they deserve our contempt.
No government besides redistribution if it needs to be done at all.
Make public schools non profit charities owned by the local real property owners, send parents a “cheque” (from Treasury) and close down the Ed Dept & BOSTES.
You will never win by trying to rewrite the curriculum.
The people you are fighting against are full time educationalists, Marxists and “academics”.
How can win in a game of bureaucratic chicken with these fanatics over a sustained period is beyond my comprehension.
I acknowledge public instruction is nearly 180 years old in this nation.
It may be a hard habit to cut off cold turkey.
It’s shooting the moon but it is the long term strategy for success.
I regard Brand as a Pommy tosser but current events are all to do with the removal of (primarily media) protection than anything that may or may not have occurred. Either way he’s finished, which is the main idea.
Makka.
Good choice on the auto sparky, if I may be allowed to anecdote…
Chap I despise spent his earlier years ( up to about 35) being a junkie, pump and at one time had his 15 year old ” girlfriend” traded to pay off his drug debts.
Then he flipped, went straight and did a mature age apprenticeship in auto sparky. $ 200,000+ per year and now owns 4 properties and is set for life.
I still despise him and hope he dies of arse cancer, but at least he’s worth an ounce of respect now.
A clever Liberal party (yes, I know, it’s an oxymoron) would already be out and about in marginal electorates like Parramatta, Bennelong and Reid warning that the Albanese government is coming to take away your gas, and will implement death taxes.
How long before it is described an “open secret”?
WHAT ! HE! SAID!
I forgot to add.
The main reason the government doesn’t want to pay farmers a decent income for having these transmission lines on their land is the precedent it would set in the market.
Much better to have deals done by companies under confidentiality agreements so no one knows the quantum of an average offer. Governments then are able to offer a token contribution as an act of goodwill.
Scum bags
Cite you the business in Western Australia that will only employ adult apprentices – they say teaching the ones straight out of school ” the work ethic” is a waste of time.
I noticed at recent grandsons’ school events that most teachers are morbidly obese, and not just the old ones nearing retirement but the young ones barely out of university. Then I looked around me and the mothers were the same, strangely enough the grandparents were slimmer than their descendants.
Here in NSW all this happened under Coalition stewardship but then what can you expect with Coutts-Trotter running the Ed department. They had plenty of time to put in their own people and yet nothing was done. My grandsons attend Catholic schools and they are not much better than public schools as far as the green-leftism goes.
To paraphrase Monty Python…’and now for something completey different,’ today is Talk like a Pirate Day
Of course it is. You may as well go pee in the ocean.
At some point you have to accept we are fkd and plan accordingly. Moon shots are a waste of time and pixels.
And, right on cue, Liberal wet Simon Bummingham calls on both sides to show respeck.
The implication being that abuse is flying in both directions.
Flog.
Because nothing inspires you to work harder & smarter than the government’s hand in your pocket.
Toons.
Broelman’s was the funniest today.
Regarding Stiglich’s toon today it was just more evidence that Idiocracy has come true in so many ways. POTUS is a feeble joke instead of a WWE champion, but presumably that gap will be filled in about 9 years, ya dig?
You have tried this now for fifty or more years and you have lost badly each year.
Abolishing the Dept of Ed is the only way forward.
Exactly my point. The custodians of the Ed Dept’s are marxists/green/left. Regardless who is in power. We can change Govt’s but does anyone really think the LNP has any where near the conviction needed to make foundational wholesale change to the curriculum? To take on these parasites and their comrade journos it the Marxist media?
Clearly, whoever is in power, they are our enemy. That is the situation we are now in. They do not represent us or our best interests. They are there for themselves and their interests. Daylight second. We are the necessary evil in their parasitic lifestyles.