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Those aren’t the difficult lessons here, Makka. It isn’t DEI preventing the USN regaining control of the Red Sea. Naval…
Those aren’t the difficult lessons here, Makka. It isn’t DEI preventing the USN regaining control of the Red Sea. Naval…
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“Shut up, Peasant.” he explained.
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The spokesperson for the Ukrainian military is a US trannie named Sarah who is also attached to the Clinton’s rebuild Ukraine organisation which has just received $25 billion from Joe’s whitehouse via the UN. Trump never had a chance.
JC
Sep 20, 2023 5:54 PM
You are as blind as a BAT.
They are not ticks. They are thumbs. Get along to your local Sictorian Specsavers and get yer’ farking eyes tested you dipstick/dropkick.
And please read the Australian Constitution. You might learn something you short arse Wap.
Wodney.
Okay, that’s fine. Just stop making shit up like
1. The Australian government cannot create a legally binding agreement with our indig simply because it being called a treaty. It can.
2. The US was rapidly industrializing, actually from the end of the Civil War. It would not have remained agrarian save WW1 and WW2. Wars devastate living standards for both winners and losers because scarce resources having to be removed from the consumer and directed to war. The US would not have remained agrarian.
“Celebrities” writing Yes on their hand and showing it to people will get you to vote Yes.
No it won’t says poll:
Are you more likely to vote Yes if a celebrity you like does?
YES 2%
3 votes
NO 98%
133 votes
Daily Mail
Wop, Wodney, it’s wop.
Go ask Marty’s sentient AI
Sure, all wars cause devastation and the Civil War was economically terrible, but it had to be fought for the obvious reason.
It’s disgusting how the American left crucify the nation with the slavery tag when 600,000 men died in the war to bring that scourge to an end.
JC
Sep 20, 2023 6:05 PM
Wodney.
Okay, that’s fine. Just stop making shit up like
1. The Australian government cannot create a legally binding agreement with our indig simply because it being called a treaty. It can.
T.W.A.T. A legally binding agreement is not a treaty. Try studying some Law and reading the Australian Constitution. You Fark Wit.
And BTW I never said that shite that you just made up. Typical of you to try and make something up. Especially when you are losing.
I will say it again. The Australian Government cannot make a treaty with itself.
Now fark face – Argue with that.
I am 100% pro nuke. Don’t promote it based on the climate change fraud.
“Emissions!” CO2 and Methane are of no concern.
F-off!
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There have been cases of children leaving “the outback” to go to school, their parents are pressured by the tribal elders into forcing them to return “in the name of their culture” and they take their own lives in despair.
Now fark face – Argue with that.
And that NATO never wanted to move eastwards. You T.W.A.T.
You got there first Pogria!
JC
Sep 20, 2023 6:08 PM
You might learn something you short arse Wap (sic).
Wop, Wodney, it’s wop.
As you can never spell limey then I will call you a wap. Or maybe just a wanka. LOL
“Top Ender
Sep 20, 2023 6:17 PM
You got there first Pogria!”
Lucky to get there at all most of the time. snork, chuckle, hehe. I’ll see myself out. 😀
If a government representative calls it a treaty, it can be a strict misuse of the word, but it doesn’t preclude the government from creating a legally binding document with respect to the indig, you asshat.
Where in the constitution does it say that the government cannot enter into agreements with a certain group of people, as that’s exactly what it would be doing.
What “shite” that I made up? I characterized your sewerage quite well Wodney.
.
You can say whatever shit you want, but it’s still shit.
There’s nothing more to argue about.
Are there any more questions Marty asks himself?
All of the recent polls show Trump v Biden neck and neck (spread +2–1) and DeSantis v Biden consistently with DeSantis behind by 3 or 4 pts. I think we can safely say that Trump is the stronger candidate.
Okay. But you’re wrong again because NATO wanted to and did move eastwards, quite successfully in fact.
The Gates of Hell
“I think Bill Gates will go down in history as in the list of the top 5 demons who have waged war against humanity. He represents what some call the Gates of Hell. Nobody will stop this guy; he is out to reduce the world’s population, no different than Hitler or Stalin. Nothing this guy does shows he cares about humanity. The Telegraph reported back in September 2018:
“The billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has delivered a stark warning on population growth in Africa, saying if left unchecked, it could unravel decades of progress and fuel instability across the globe.”
Gates pretends to care about society with his FORCE vaccines. Yet this is contrary to all his efforts that claim we are doomed unless we REDUCE population as his father did with abortions and Planned Parenthood.
They were very clever in telling women it was their RIGHT to kill their children. Ruth Bader Ginsburg made it clear when she got to the Supreme Court it had NOTHING to do with women’s rights — it was all about reducing the population, especially among minorities, not much different than Hitler with his Aryan Race. Just last year, Gates launched a program for condoms in Africa. Even back in 2013, GATES SWORE HE WOULD REINVENT THE CONDOM.
Why would ANYONE believe Gates on anything? These vaccines are NOT intended to help society. Klaus Schwab also makes the short-list of the greatest threat to humanity. His World Economic Forum joined Bill Gates-controlled GAVI to promote using biometric tracking technology to force-vaccinate African children to take Gates’ malaria vaccine that does not even work. This vaccine produced deadly meningitis in at least one out of a hundred children receiving four doses.
NOBODY will stop the WEF or Bill Gates because our career politicians sanction whatever they want to do if perhaps the bribes are big enough.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/wef/the-gates-of-hell/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
If we are going to throw around racial slurs at least get them right. Grampian Nazis and ASIO might be reading this. Frankly, it’s embarrassing.
JC
Sep 20, 2023 6:25 PM
And that NATO never wanted to move eastwards. You T.W.A.T.
Okay. But you’re wrong again because NATO wanted to and did move eastwards, quite successfully in fact.
No, because now they have met their match or even their better. It is the Russian Bear.
I will say it again. The Australian Government cannot make a treaty with itself
Miranda Devine
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The power to enter into treaties is an Executive power within section 61 of the Australian Constitution. Given that any treaty necessarily involves an element of Australia’s foreign relations, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) have responsibility for treaties.
https://www.dfat.gov.au/international-relations/treaties/australian-treaties-database
I think the civil war did push the USA more towards manufacture rather than agriculture.
Not in a huge way, but having ” king cotton” dethroned must have put a crimp in their books.
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Forget the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, there’s something far worse around the corner.
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Dangerous new laws will end free speech in Australia
That pretty well guarantees a cool wet summer for WA, shame as I was looking forward to some 40 plus weather. You know, budgie smugglers and lots of coconut oil slathered on to ensure that dark tan.
Yes, aren’t they just great about protecting young women from harassment and potential rape. But Russell Brand is bad.
Moment hundreds of Pennsylvania high school students walk out after school board said transgender students must be allowed to use whichever bathroom they choose
Mole, the North already had steel mills and other manufacturing.
Rather than selling to England, they could have started textile manufacturing, had they not been at war with the south. Perhaps the problem was markets – England had the Empire.
The West Australian Government entered into the “South West Native Title Settlement” -what’s been described as a “de facto Treaty.”
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Sort of trying the 60 yard Hail Mary to the end zone. James Morrow takes up the reins:
It’s getting to the point where if these phuckwits keep up with their antics, the Yes vote could well dip below 30% approval.
Old Ozzie:
You will remember that when Musk came out kicking the Deep State I mentioned that just because he was the worlds richest man, he was quite vulnerable to the Democrat Crooks? How many times has he had launches delayed because a bureaucrat at the propriate Department that gave him permission to launch, would screw him around just to let him know who was boss?
Well, they’ve just unmasked themselves. And at the same time have announced they can, and will, crush anyone who strays off the reservation.
The issue now is that the US voters are becoming aware of the depths and behaviour of the Deep State.
And if the Ballot box can’t remove them, the ammo box is the only remaining box to open.
These are unsettled times.
Buy baked beans in iodine sauce.
Rabz
Sep 16, 2023 11:40 AM
Went one better. Was at the Kennedy Space Center when a launch was due. Hung around in the carpark after closing with a number of others and an Apollo-era countdown clock that was helping with the anticipation.
Until the clock froze at 00:00:09. Nine seconds later nothing happened and the clock got reset to something like 00:30:00 and didn’t resume counting. Soon after that everyone with a mobile phone said it won’t be happening that night so we headed out.
Missed it by that much!
5
I’m having a feed of homecooked Swirly Spaghetti and meat sauce, and chasing it down with a bottle of Krondorf Barossa Grenade Shiraz Mataro vintage 2023 (March I think it says so it’s reasonably fresh.)
Can I be elevated to the foodie club when I scoff this?
Calli.
One of the complaints of the north/ south was tariffs protecting industry in the north affecting the sale of cotton in the south.
It’s complicated but this is a potted version
https://civilwarcause.com/relationship.html
Plus by the time the war ended the disruption to supplies saw the Poms massively increase the industry, particularly in India
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Sep 20, 2023 6:46 PM
I will say it again. The Australian Government cannot make a treaty with itself
The West Australian Government entered into the “South West Native Title Settlement” -what’s been described as a “de facto Treaty.”
And as I said last night. That is a ‘Claytons Treaty’. The treaty that you have without haven’t a treaty.
Only the Australian Feral Guv’ment can make a Treaty with another Sovereign State. Subject to Section 61 of the Australian Constitution.
That the Yes Vote is trying to hijack. FFS.
Yeah, and it’s not as though any indigenous person ever benefited from colonialism? Linda Burney, for example with her fashion wardrobe, and portfolio of investment properties? (H/T Michael Smith.)
Thanks mole.
Old Ozzie:
Good luck being the sniper behind one of these rounds.
Why?
For the same reason laser rifles and gatling type infantry weapons are impractical on the modern battlefield: Every time you fire a hypervelocity projectile on just about every battlefield on the planet, you leave a condensation or light trail pointing straight back at the firer.
Treat with a grain of salt, that link looks like it’s from a ” the Souths cause was just” type website.
But it is a nice explanation of why tariffs can suck.
Leo Kearse is a very funny intelligent UK comedian (he’s Scottish). Kearse is also a conservative. He is often on the UK’s Talk TV, GB News and Lotus Easters.
Tonight Sharri Markson interviewed him re. the Brand allegations. As Kearse maintains, it should be dealt with my the police first and then the courts. And then Markson asked him “do you think that women would just make it up?*
Kearse responded “no, I’m not casting any aspersions over the evidence at all, but my wife is a barrister, she’s prosecuted and defended sexual assault cases….that’s not how we met“.
How I laughed. Good on you Leo.
He then went on to say that his wife has said that as a barrister she’d be much more comfortable defending than prosecuting Russell Brand with the evidence that’s on offer. It needs to be cross-examined
* oh and yes Sharri Markson, I’m a woman and I believe women can and do make up stuff, including sexual assault allegations. That doesn’t make me a defender of Brand, but as Leo Kearse said, such allegations should be first investigated by the police and then played out in the courts. Because Sharri Markson, I don’t believe all women, just like I don’t believe all men. Women and men lie.
And here’s an unpalatable truth, Channel Four and the BBC (like the Beed did with Saville), when they were making buckets of dosh with him, were very happy enabling him and turning their backs to Brand’s questionable sexual behaviour, and no, that doesn’t mean I believe he’s guilty of rape, but as I’ve said before, he’s a grub.
The ensuing legal dogfight should be better then the circus.
Someone further back said it might be Chris Bowen’s turn to shine. That shine is glitter on a turd.
Here’s What’s REALLY Going On With Russell Brand!!!
The reason the Yes vote is cratering is that the Yes campaign is run by anti-democratic fascists who loathe the Australian democracy.
Brand, while at the apparent peak of his degenerate phase starred In this film.
Curious casting
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ts36Qx_G_tc&si=By8f5O4Ux6k9i1Kv
thefrollickingmole
Sep 20, 2023 7:09 PM
Treat with a grain of salt, that link looks like it’s from a ” the Souths cause was just” type website.
But it is a nice explanation of why tariffs can suck.
It’s a pinch of salt and
a grain of sand.
Please keep this Blog on the right road………………….
Being corrected on common sayings really gets up my goat!
Emphatically disagree with Mr. Kearse.
Women can & do make it up. A lot more often than many may at first believe.
Calli:
I wonder if these people realise that we know they’ve run this through a half a dozen Focus Groups before it hit the airwaves?
They really are contemptible.
He’s just another nasty little bitch who’d sell his grandmother for a 1% spike in the polls.
Maybe just a shortage of gullibility?
thefrollickingmole
Sep 20, 2023 7:23 PM
Being corrected on common sayings really gets up my goat!
Get used to it and get it right next time. LOL
I don’t what else to say except, WOW! He is one tough bloke.
Bolta is such a bad interviewer; he’s got some 3rd nations young fella on who is against the screech and has used his own efforts to show abos can make something of themselves without being victims and bolta ignores this splendid story to focus on the esoterica of the fuking screech.
I confess I didn’t remember who asked the original question, but the original Heinlein novels like “All Flesh Is Grass”, “The Menace from Earth”, “Starship Troopers”, are excellent stories for younger readers – especially if they are read with a mind to a different society which will key in an interest in how societies differ and change.
Not the later ones which became a bit bizarre.
New England was famed for its cotton mills in the pre-Civil War era.
The Yankees stole the technology from the Brits but later exported some innovations back to the UK.
The Civil War was the beginning of the end of the industry.
Overnight Douglas Murray, never once to mince words, said on Piers Morgan that for almost two decades Brand had been fawned over by the UK left, and progressive MSM, even to the point where in 2015, UK Labour leader Ed Milliband, before the General Election, thought it would be a good idea to use Russell Brand as a conduit to target younger voters. Brand was even given a gig editing the left of centre Evening Standard newspaper.
Melanie Phillips, in her overnight Substack email, has said the following…
The mirror to society held up by Russell Brand
The west has defined the intolerable down
MELANIE PHILLIPS
In June 2013, I was a panellist on BBC TV’s Question Time. Among my fellow panellists was the comedian Russell Brand.
I was dismayed and perplexed by his inclusion in the BBC’s most prominent politics show. Brand was a louche, lewd, drug-addicted, motor-mouth provocateur, given to voicing outrageous left-wing and anarchistic views.
Five years previously, he and a BBC executive had resigned from the BBC after public outrage over a prank performed by Brand and TV presenter Jonathan Ross. They had left cruel and profane messages on the answerphone of actor Andrew Sachs, including a claim that Brand had had sex with the actor’s grand-daughter.
But Brand had an enormous following. I assumed that his inclusion on the Question Time panel was further evidence of the BBC’s dumbing-down in a cynical attempt to bump up the ratings.
In the green room before the show, when Brand strutted in dressed in his trademark way with his shirt open almost to the navel, the young women staffers swooned, giggled, simpered and fawned on him. But I was astonished by who followed him almost unnoticed into the room. It was his mother.
This might merely have been viewed as a sweet gesture, bringing his mum along to see the show. But suddenly a number of things clicked into place.”
I can’t read the rest of Melanie’s piece because I don’t subscribe but I have no doubt she excoriates Brand but even more importantly, she excoriates the UK culture, and the UK media, that for years fawned over Brand and encouraged his lewd and vulgar behaviour.
A society will always reap what it sows. Any society that encourages, laughs at and fawns over the lewd, the debased and the vulgar, will collapse.
Unwatchable.
That he has an audience at all is testimony to the hunger of Australians for alternative voices to the msm.
“Salvatore, Iron Publican
Sep 20, 2023 7:24 PM
And then Markson asked him “do you think that women would just make it up?*
Kearse responded “no,
Emphatically disagree with Mr. Kearse.
Women can & do make it up. A lot more often than many may at first believe.”
Harry Garside can attest to the truth of that.
With you on that one!
And this, just about completely, sums up the rationale for the shock horror imbroglio.
Management at the BBC are exposed to career-trauma in the event of a repeat Saville/Harris event. They are presently being pushed below the surface of the UK media sewer by the rest of the ratpack (including Channel 4).
Any interest in justice for Brand (or the complainants) has long gone.
The latter appears to be far larger a portion of the population then the former.
The Civil War was the beginning of the end of the industry.
The US Civil War was about State’s rights. The same as what is going on right now. Who has the power? The States or the Feds? I would say the States as they made the Fed.
So let’s see how this pans out. My bet is on the States.
Is it too much to hope for that this might spell the end of “raunch culture”?
Or will the females who indulge in it be given a pass?
I emphatically agree with Leo Kearse.
Lizzie:
You need a pair of nail scissors to open a lead top whiskey?
Either your nails are in deplorable condition, or your teeth are.
Lift your game, young lady.
Absent the issue of slavery coupled with westward expansion, state rights wouldn’t have ignited a civil war at the time, although it was a genuine issue left over from the federalist debates that would have had to have been resolved sooner or later.
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It’s finals season now in Melbourne. Then comes the Spring carnival.
Today Dan announced the introduction of a new tax. What a coincidence.
Look over there !
Not the later ones which became a bit bizarre.
Re Heinlein, several decades back I did a dissertation on his later works. They are very much curate’s egg stuff – good in parts – only. His ideas and plotting are up to standard, but the characters became somewhat shallow, and his own repressed sexuality came through rather annoyingly and in places to a somewhat sordid degree.
Time Enough for Love is the better of his later work, and even then it’s got several silly sections. He did write a novel called Job: A Comedy of Justice which was rather amusing…a fervent Christian is taken through a multiplicity of worlds to test his faith. Some of the worlds, and the finale, show Heinlein’s tremendous imagination at its best.
Avoid at all costs I Will Fear No Evil and Friday.
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People might feel aggrieved being told how Australians should behave by someone with a surname that could be mistaken for a bad Scrabble tiles.
Seconded!
Roger
Sep 20, 2023 7:51 PM
The US Civil War was about State’s rights.
Absent the issue of slavery coupled with westward expansion, state rights wouldn’t have ignited a civil war at the time, although it was a genuine issue left over from the federalist debates that would have had to have been resolved sooner or later.
And today it is the red states v the blue states. The USA will eventually break up into at least two Big states. Who gets all those Nukes?
“Is it too much to hope for that this might spell the end of “raunch culture”?”
We can only hope.
The GayBC is joining in the WA government’s demand that the Vatican should hand over the info behind its investigation of Bishop Saunders.
It is unseemly, of course, to ask why McGowan’s lickspittles, hacks, whores and tools in the WA police made such a hash of their own investigation.
Frank
One of the things that seemed to come naturally when I had children, is that Australian upbringing seems to lead to taking the piss out of them whilst teaching them to question what their elders do.
Example:
Miss 7 and 8 are shopping at Colesworth. Dad sees frozen rabbit in the meat section:
“Hey, Girls! Come here!”
Two moppets come over and look up at Dad, sheer innocence radiating from their very being. “Remember I said I’d get you each a bunny when I could?”
“Yes” is the reply. The eldest is looking a little suspicious.
Dad drags out two skinned and frozen rabbits, one in each hand.
“Here go! A bunny each!”
Miss 8 throws hers back in the cabinet. Walks off calling for mum. “Mum, dads being mean again”.
Miss 7 gives me a damn good kick in the shins. Walks off with the bunny under her arm.
Gad Saad weighs in on Brand and I think Saad speaks a lot of sense….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMSvl5gaom8
As usual, the poor old BBC is so terribly conflicted over the whole Brand thing. They really need to get out of the media game altogether now. The colonies too.
Magda Szubanski.
A fat useless pig.
H B Bear
Sep 20, 2023 7:59 PM
Not long after, fellow comedian and former Kath and Kim star Magda Szubanski asked followers on X, formerly Twitter, to “screen cap and document any misinformation” with the “accounts they are coming from”, saying it was for “future reference.”
People might feel aggrieved being told how Australians should behave by someone with a surname that could be mistaken for a bad Scrabble tiles.
Who the fark listens to any Plonker on Twitter/X anyway. FFS.
Sam Newman launches extraordinary rant calling on Australians to BOO the traditional welcome to country at this year’s AFL Grand Final
I would like an Aboriginal flag with the hammer and sickle in the center.
But I can’t be bothered working out how to do it.
Can someone mash one up for me so I can use it as my Gravatar?
Pleeease?
H B Bear
Sep 20, 2023 8:07 PM
As usual, the poor old BBC is so terribly conflicted over the whole Brand thing. They really need to get out of the media game altogether now. The colonies too.
They got it wrong with Rolf Harris and Jimmy Saville so now they are trying to make up for lost ground…………………………….
Albo’s Voice bring the country together like The Magic Negro’s America.
I think All Flesh is Grass was by Clifford Simak.
Ouch! That would’ve hurt.
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steveinman:
Bull vs Soy Boy
Peter Greagg
Shut up, peasant. Base 16 was never asked for.
No one likes an overachiever.
Off to the Gulag with you, you bloody intellectual.
Judgment in the latest Fat Clive loss.
https://eresources.hcourt.gov.au/showCase/2019/HCA/24
JC
Sep 20, 2023 6:23 PM
And I do like those down bums that you keep on getting. Please keep it up or down as the case may be. LOL
Let Google be your friend..
Bruce of Newcastle
Sep 20, 2023 4:29 PM
They do. They don’t care. Power is everything to them.
They would rather be in charge of an irradiated desert, than be opposition of a healthy nation.
The dumb.
Has pet Aboriginal lady on defending the ” misinformation” laws by calling for censorship on criticism on the in- voice.
Tone deaf doesn’t begin to cover it.
OldOzzie
Sep 20, 2023 4:36 PM
There are but we’ve decide it’s not worth putting up with the crap that is required any more.
Doesn’t the X even within “disapproval, not wanting to answer the question at all, or an unwillingness to answer it” constitute a negative response to the question?
No hesitation. The guy is a JET. The bloke dressed in black in the background is ready to join in, but there is no need. Job done.
—
steveinman:
Third World Road Rage
The flora should be seen and not heard.
Johnny Rotten
Sep 20, 2023 4:52 PM
Johnny Rotten, I think the Democraps have a nasty surprise heading their way when the votes are counted – I’ve a feeling those who have made it over the border are turning around and pulling that ladder up after themselves.
We just may have a new generation of republican voters on the rolls.
Interesting development.
Oh Dover, that is so binary.
Doc Faustus:
And that was at a time when gold was pegged at aprox $30/oz.
Meanwhile here in Todayland, it can’t make up its mind as to be above or below $3000/oz.
The High Court needs Rabzed
Looking forward to the Revolution.
Things The Voice Will Fix News (the NT News):
If only there were a Voice of some sort.
Intergenerational colonialism – behold your victims.
This is known as the ‘roo killer’. The femoral artery. Once it gets a decent nick, there’s no coming back.
Cathy Freeman was unavailable for comment.
“Sliante” to you mob – payday for self funded retirees is looming, and I intend worshiping at the shrine of St Dan Murphy’s.
Just signed a contract to sell a house … 55 pages
Voice to change the constitution …. One Page
They can’t be serious
Why are people so insistent that Russell Brand is still some sort of shady character?
He was an awful person. He would f**k any female within about a 50m radius who had a pulse, he rooted men (allegedly), took every mind-altering substance he could lay his hands on and yet…
The Russell Brand who has been before us the past few years is just not that person.
All those pontificating about his character now as being grubby or malign or immoral are the worst kind of people. They cannot make the intellectual/spiritual/moral transition that Brand has. And they absolutely envy and despise the freedom he has found.
I am so f**king Team Brand now, I will buy some of his Stay Free merchandise (silly farting bird and all) just to emphasise the contempt I feel towards those who fawned on him (smutty behaviour and all) while he was of their political tribe but who hate him now he has matured.
I wish him health, wisdom and eternal joy.
It was claimed, in the aftermath of a shooting in the Northern Territory, that Aboriginal men like to carry weapons, to impress their womenfolk. Yes, if there only was a Voice…
More on Woddenhead’s gold-is-not-a-hedge against inflation travesty.
I haven’t liked gold since the GFC and have zero interest as I think there are much better investments. However, to suggest gold hasn’t been a cushion against inflation is bullshit of monumental proportions. There have been superior investments to gold but gold certainly has traded blow by blow against inflation
Let’s see.
Nixon de-linked to gold in or around 1971 when the gold price was fixed at $35 an ounce.
Since that time, 52 years have passed with gold currently trading at US$1,932 an ounce. The compound rate of return has been 8% annually. In other words, gold has more than kept up with inflation despite the crap dished out by Wodney’s Leavenworth former inmate.
So far as I can see this is a Federal Court decision, not the High Court.
When did Melbourne Public Hospitals get so bad?
They are treating people in the waiting room.
We’ve spent the arvo wandering around Old Chinatown, enjoying the architecture (our hotel is Stage 2 Transformative, with European Italianate Influences pre 1940, sez the information board) then the market (briefly) and moving on into a very seriously major Buddhist temple. It is a Temple of the Tooth of Buddha, like the one in Kandy, in Sri Lanka. It is four stories high, airconditioned and with a lift, free to enter and you can mostly keep your shoes on. You wander in special side lanes around the main dramatically elaborate altar where a silver and gold shining Buddha is attended in glory by two acolytes.
We were surprised to learn that this was not the usual Buddha, but another one, anciently called the Maitreya, to whom this temple is dedicated, who like a Messiah would bring an even more perfected form of Dharma to the sentient world. When he arrives he would be one of many other previous Buddhas, the 999th, thus not so unusual. He is also claimed to be incarnate as the founder of Ba’hai and L. Ron Hubbard has suggested he might actually be that Maitreya. Wiki indicates a lack of agreement here, and many different cults. As he is not due for six million years he will not be seen as much of a threat to the political world, unlike, as I note, Arthur was in The Matter of Britain, where Henry the Second and his bookish wife Eleanor of Acquitaine were only too pleased that Glastonbury monks had so helpfully found a grave for this inconvenient ‘Future King’ of the Britons, thus putting his Second Coming to rest.
We watched in the magnificent temple a full Buddhist ceremony, consisting of nine monks chanting liturgies that went up and down in tone, punctuated by pinged bells and occasional rhythmic drum thrums. The percussion section, noted Hairy. A major downpour outside kept us in there examining the beauties of the temple, firstly in the waxwork depictions of famous monks and abbots that lined a walkway on the second level, and then in viewing a museum collection of some genuinely ancient bas relief stonework and wood carvings to Maitreya dated at the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD (the Grecco-Buddhist art influence with Grecco-Romano messianic overtones), and other C19th to C20th works of wonder donated from supporters of the three main strands of Buddhism that migrated to Singapore during the British years of trade and occupation.
That this is a living and breathing religious site attached to a major world religion was not in doubt. We were struck by how many young people were amongst the worshippers bowing in genuine religious fervor, something we noted also in our visit to a famous hillside of many Buddhist temples in Penang recently.
The editing is fantastic. More to come. Sometimes you have to take a break from doom and gloom.
I miss the dance floor.
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kingofkungfu2002:
Movie stars dancing to…’I’m So Excited!’
local oaf
Sep 20, 2023 8:15 PM
Yair.
Right you be.
I blame the March edition of the Krondorf Barossa Grenade Shiraz Mataro 2021 which exists only as a volatile disturbance in the space tome continuum in my office somewhere.
Just as well he’s a learned judge, on the judicial bench, declaring this as part of making a judgement.
He wouldn’t get away with that rot in a public bar.
Professor Denise Ferris, of ANU, must be the most famous person on Twitter by now. 🙂
Dover, forget the national poll as that’s pretty meaningless.
Even if Trump is leading 6%, on average in the battleground states, how is 6% good when that’s within the likely cheat range? Ignore the undecideds.
I don’t know where other Cats stand on this, but, if you can’t be bothered writing “YES” or “NO”, you shouldn’t have the right to vote, in the first place!
Professor Denise Ferris, of ANU, must be the most famous person on Twitter by now. ?
What a cu.t.
https://twitter.com/search?q=Professor%20Denise%20Ferris&src=typed_query
Not that it has overly much import at this stage but I did ask the assorted financial boffins on this august platform if I should fix my mortgage rates in about November, 2021. Didn’t really get a firm or enthusiastic response either way.
Decided to go with my gut insticnt about inflationary pressures in the near future and locked in 3.09% until early 2025.
Rather pleased that Econ 101 from 30 years ago wasn’t a waste of my time 🙂
See the contempt the white justice system has for the life of an innocent Aboriginal man.
Cold bloodedly stabbed to death by 3 dickheads who tooled themselves up, lured him from the house then stabbed him to death…
But somehow it’s manslaughter.
Shit justice.
If it was 3 white bogans who had a ” family feud” with him do you think a low key manslaughter charge would be on the table?
It would be non stop 24/7 every day since the stabbing calling for the harshest possible sentence.
What makes Rachel Perkins, or anybody else, think the “Voice” will make one jot nor tittle of difference to thse camps?
lol.
I have placed the reindeer hide I got in January this year from the Arctic Circle in Finland over the armchair in our lobby which becomes Santa’s Chair in Santa’s Grotto at Christmas. Somehow I will have to explain to the kiddies who shot Rudolf.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane on board the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile!
Going to bed.
I’m sorry, I have very little time for Rachel Perkins, and her “black Armband” view of Australian history, She claims that 120,000 Aborigines were killed in the “Frontier Wars.”
My mob landed in this country in 1815. If you want to make them out to be the spiritual heirs of William Bonney and Reinhart Heydrich, you will need a lot more then “Stories my Nanna told me.”
Closing down now, out.
Precisely the point.
The judiciary putting their thumb on the scales in this way is exactly how to erode trust. If the bleeding instructions say “write YES or NO in the box”, then anything else ought to be informal.
But no, they have to try clever. Anything to garner the odd vote or two for the “progressive” side.
A tick means Yes, a cross means nothing, because in an election, a cross might mean yes or no. Which is true, if you ignore the minor fact that this is not an election, it is a binary decision.
But a cross might mean you don’t want to answer, in which case you presumably go to the trouble of writing anything at all because reasons. Do they even listen to the nonsense they spout?
But they’re smart, and they know “we” won’t notice the glaring inconsistency.
Zero understanding of the fact that their opinion that they are the smartest folk in the room is only correct when they are the only folk in the room.
This whole schemozzle becomes more a case study of “how to do authoritarianism, really badly” with every day. Although, I suspect the “really badly” is tautological.
I think the margin of fraud is 2-3%. In GA, 6% is about 300,000 votes, in WI, about 120,000 votes. If he’s around 6%, he’s probably 8% given the shy Trump voter. He’s romping it in.
Young man destroys Chris Bowen
Has this already been posted? I feel so inadequate that I couldn’t have thought of this argument. If nuclear power is so expensive, why not lift the ban? If Bowen is right, no one could afford the cost of trying to implement it here. On the other hand, if private capital is risked, wins and proves profitable then we get “carbon”-free, reliable, base load power. Labor’s poker hand is the cost and the “boy” just called them.
Probably best not to asume the whole world comprises woke idiots.
People you meet in bars # 1.
A few nights ago in Takayama sitting in one of those tiny 8 seat bar/restaurants which make it almost impossible not to interact with everyone else there. Got chatting with a French couple (with their broken English and our worse French). He was semi-retired military and eventually says “I do not want to get political but Paris … Paris is very bad … very bad … it is the immigrants.”
We agreed from our limited exposure.
Interesting that people with common views have to test the waters before speaking their minds.
illuminatibot
@iluminatibot
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech.
Not that it’s important, but somebody did ask for Hexadecimal (base 16).
But really, like a lot of maths, it is just fun to do, and IMO, not very difficult.
There are rules, and logic, to describe various operations.
And in the case of using different number bases, binary- base two, and hexadecimal- base 16 are useful as computers use a bunch of ones and zeros, built up into hex as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 , ..9, A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Did you manage to find the nameless midnight diner in Shinjuku?
That’d top all travel stories.
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@brixwe
Bill Gates gets exposed by Russell Brand.
Love Russell! How about you?
I linked the High Court decision – try p5.
Bear, I don’t know how to say this, but….that’s a 2019 decision.
Another snippet.
One wall of our hotel room is papered with an image of the famous 19th century Japanese “The Great Wave of Kanagawa”.*
I googled a very detailed description of the painting and was relieved to find that the colour differences in the top right of the painting were cumulo-nimbus clouds.
Not a water stain from the floor above.
…
* If I had the copyright to that image. It is everywhere.
Good job I don’t do this as a living.
Hokusai. I’ve got the picture on some cuff-links. You can’t get more ubiquitous than cuff-links.
Hung jury with this video?
You’re a very good comedian, Bear.
Steve trickler
Sep 20, 2023 10:25 PM
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane on board the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile!
Going to bed.
I screwed that link up.
I haven’t liked gold since the GFC and have zero interest as I think there are much better investments.
It took the Russia invasion of Ukraine to get gold moving in early 2022 & I pulled the pin on my last gold exposures into that spike.
One grandson (yr6) is reading at yr9 level. Problem is finding appropriate “advanced” books without grubby young adult content. He needs advanced language without the soft sexualised angst.
Sounds like he’s ready to be introduced to Warhammer 40k.
The sooner the better.
Cash:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane on board the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile!
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Dover,
Do you still think, after reading this that the 6% Trump enjoys over Biden in the battlegrounds is enough.
Shocking new trend in Australia as vegetation regenerates.
They should some of these “Sixty thousand millenia” locals if this has occured before.
Meh. You really need an edit function for us hair trigger types.
Well
Tim Pool reports Democrats say the Grim Reaper is shadowing Joe Biden and his passing is not far off.
Let’s see if a dead guy can be elected by dead people this time.
I think Trump would have to have a margin of +10% to win in Georgia.
I have struggled to sleep the last couple of nights.
It happens whenever oil gets close to 100USD.
Millionaire migration chart.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-migration-of-the-worlds-millionaires-in-2023/
I’m surprised the Singapore number is so high over the last 12 months.
Everyone knows the fantastic personal tax rates in Singapore.
Less well known is how less fantastical some of the corporate taxes and rules are.
I know two guys from HK who have moved their operations to Dubai because of the hoops Singapore was going to make them jump through.
Cracks in the great green wall.
Rishi Sunak just threw five ridiculous net zero pledges on the scrapheap in major U-turn (20 Sep)
Crazy stuff. It’s slightly encouraging that the Tories have gotten enough heat from below to risk doing this, but they have to go further and completely ditch net zero. Otherwise they’re toast.
BB
Thanks for the coffee the other day.
Really enjoyed meeting another Cat and I’m wondering if there’s anyone in town you don’t know? 🙂
Gez,
Came up through your neck of the woods yesterday with my header (on a drop deck), plenty of “No Go AEMO” signs around and crops looking good. What’s the go with the coloured bicycles hanging in the trees every now and then. I seem to recall being told the reason at some stage but can’t remember.
This story’s point defeats me! .. must be something to do with a “Voice” .. but .. they’ve locked themselves away thru “tribal” laws and now whinge no one outside cares .. pot/kettle!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12534491/Inside-APY-Lands-Aboriginal.html
“Progress!”
Actual headline at News.com.au:
Dooooomed! Climate doom!
Thanks for the coffee the other day.
Really enjoyed meeting another Cat and I’m wondering if there’s anyone in town you don’t know? ?
Very few I don’t know Bushie lol.
I guess that’s because of my parents urging my brother and I to get involved with sports from early on. Footy, cricket, basketball. And bowls which I started 20 years ago. Happy days 🙂
Michael Smith has footage of “YES” behaviour.
Read the comments and follow one of the links. Our betters in action.
Anders
Sep 21, 2023 7:05 AM
Actual headline at News.com.au:
2.5 million Aussies doomed this summer
It’s set to be a scorching summer, but if you’re one of the 2.5 million people living in this area, it’ll be even worse – and it’s your fault.
Dooooomed! Climate doom!
The Dinosaurs would have loved it. I wonder why the Dinosaurs at the UN can’t see this.
Can our journalists get even more hyperbolic?
They do know El Ninos are cyclical, don’t they? “Events” – sure. Like a leap year is an “event”.
Pogria, she’s been identified as Denise Ferris, Professor Emerita at The Australian National University.
An ornament to academia.
Andrew Bolt:
An outpouring of concern has reverberated around the world since Australia declared an El Nino event, with fears another devastating bushfire season could be looming.
I believe a candlelight vigil is called for.
Similar to when that Iranian chap on Manus who had his head caved in after he sexually assaulted a local boy (allegedly).
LOL, Chinese CO2 is good CO2 but Australian CO2 is bad CO2.
China’s huge coal plant building has weird climate logic (19 Sep, via Tony Heller)
He seems to be saying that Chinese coal plants are OK because they let China build lots and lots of electric vehicles or something. It’s a weird article.
Odd. They don’t appear to think Australia is racist at all.
Calli,
I had seen the link. And students wonder why they learn nothing at University.
One of the commenters sent the link to Mega Magda. Do you think she’ll use it? Lol.
I vow no more Warhammer 40k meme related jokes from me until bern and mole recognise:
1. Slaanesh is a brony.
2. When Slaanesh opens a meeting by saying “thank you for being here, let’s get started”, he’s not talking to you, she’s taking to misplaced soul stones.
3. Slaanesh loves mudkips.
4. It’s not a party until someone dies.
5. How does Slaanesh invade a planet? 12” at a time.
6. Where is my chain sword? With the soul stones.
7. Oh look what the time is. Progress! Progress means you go up a cup size. You don’t have breasts? Well you do now, silly.
8. No matter how degenerate your cultists are, the Alderadi birthed you into existence with jazz music and male feminists.
Biden at the UN would have been loaded up on the special pep pills.
But it appeared they are losing their efficacy.
LOL
We literally had one hot day (Monday) and it is cooling down.
The world is run by emotionally incontinent children.
It’s the sort of thing no civilised person would ever consider doing to someone else. It’s what a savage would do.
Yet she is a university professor. How thin the veneer of culture and learning can be for some – she reverted to the primitive at the slightest pressure.
Another thing…I think the elderly soys in the booth are a little scared of her.
Dot, while you are obsessing over Slaanesh, I am off searching for a STC.
My chapter brothers will not rest until Canberra resembles Isstvan V.
There must be a libtard lurking down ticking calli’s posts.
1. Slaanesh is a brony.
Potential flamer.
Are you trying for an STC for your home?
If it’s possible a fair energy regulation framework would automatically credit people for this.
But let’s not get in the way of businesses set up to milk the system.
Regarding the doomsayers about our volcanic heat, the forecast for my area is cold for the next few days. Even frosty mornings. I had stacked away my wood back into the woodshed. lucky for me I still have access to evil, fossil LPG.
I am at 900 mts elevation. I went to visit friends on Tuesday a 20 minute drive away. They are at under 700 mts. The temp difference was 6 degrees. I left my place at a balmy 26 degrees, lovely, then out of the car into a 32 degree surprise.
If Oz starts boiling, come party at my place. I always knew I was cool. 😀
Instead of “On the Beach”, it will be “she’ll be comin’ round the Mountain”.
Dot
Never, suffer you not the brony to live….
https://falloutequestria.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout:_Equestria
….
https://youtu.be/Po0EUcMVpn0?si=rDWVICR-SymEsQDu
Dot has all 3 versions of fallout Equestria.
Pogria
Sep 21, 2023 7:10 AM
That was disgraceful, I find spitting on someone more of an offense than punching them in the face.
Something very odd is going on here.
F-35 pilot ejected from $100M jet over South Carolina due to ‘bad weather’ as experts reveal why plane couldn’t be tracked
If I managed to find an STC, I would produce a range power generators and set up a string of them in regional centres.
Hadn’t heard of that particular weird mashup. There’re a lot of people out there with lots of time on their hands and some very strange fetishes.
1,000 People Who Identify as Dogs Gather in Germany: ‘Call Animal Control’ (20 Sep)
Well yes, Germany does seem to overachieve with this sort of thing.
Kathy was a great runner but she was never accused of any intellectual ability.