Open Thread – Weekend 23 Sept 2023


On the Shore of the Gulf of Finland – Udrias Near Narva, Ivan Shishkin, 1888

1,115 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 23 Sept 2023”

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  1. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Let me guess.

    *Death threats*?

    How can you be so unkind?

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  3. cohenite Avatar
    cohenite

    I gave up watching Dr Who when Christopher Eccleston finished. I’m surprised its taken this long for a black actor to be now playing him. Surprised its a straight black actor and not a black trannie.

  4. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    Kamahl has done another U-turn & is again voting No.

    Never forget that snowflakes like Kamahl are entertainers surrounded in his private life by other entertainers, who are 99% lefty snowflakes like them.

    Kamahl has figured out that the Voice is a way of redirecting attention to himself.

    Crass virtue signalling that may manage to sell a few more Kamahl albums. Sad and pathetic virtue signalling by a poor old has-been whose popular currency deserted him decades ago.

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  5. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MZWqNFA970

    A film portrait of Enoch Powell.

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  6. Morsie Avatar
    Morsie

    Cocaine Bear referred to above is a hoot.My wife who likes deep serious movies loved it.
    Highly recommended

  7. cohenite Avatar
    cohenite

    Just watching Jacinta on Outsiders. What a woman. Outstanding.

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  8. Roger Avatar
    Roger

    Time to retire with a good book:

    ‘Nimitz & His Admirals: How they won the war in the Pacific’ by Edwin Hoyt.

    It’s a real page turner & an exemplary piece of narrative history from a time (1970) when the genre was in its prime. Still in print and with a new edition coming out before the end of the year.

    The allies in the Pacific & SE Asian land theatres were really hanging on by the skin of our teeth in 1942.

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  9. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    Watching Elizabeth Banks’ movie Cocaine Bear, which is way better than her Charlie’s Angels effort.

    Very funny 90mins.

  10. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    Sad and pathetic virtue signalling by a poor ol’ has-been whose popular currency deserted him decades ago

    “A cut price Barry White knock off.”

    Thanks, KD. 🙂

  11. Dot Avatar

    Surprised its a straight black actor and not a black trannie.

    Bold of you to assume so.

  12. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    The allies in the Pacific & SE Asian land theatres were really hanging on by the skin of our teeth in 1942.

    It took the first year of World War Two, in the Pacific, to weed out all the dud commanders…

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  13. cohenite Avatar
    cohenite

    Bold of you to assume so.

    The lack of lippy and eye liner convinced me.

  14. Johnny Rotten Avatar

    cohenite
    Sep 24, 2023 8:10 PM
    I gave up watching Dr Who when Christopher Eccleston finished. I’m surprised its taken this long for a black actor to be now playing him. Surprised its a straight black actor and not a black trannie.

    I’m waiting for James Bond to be played by a woman. Then God to be played by a woman. Then Joan of Arc to be played by a man.

    The scenarios are endless. Beam me up Scotty.

    The World has gone nuts.

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  15. Dot Avatar

    As for inflation, the CAGR on Australian M0 (currency) growth over the last three and a bit years was 49.5% a few weeks ago.

    What did we expect?

  16. GreyRanga Avatar
    GreyRanga

    Bear was your splodge of jismists in a circle?

  17. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    AFR reporting that a range of Qantas emails to the minister will remain private.
    As determined by her department.
    What.
    The.
    Actual.
    Fook.

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  18. Rabz Avatar
    Rabz

    The allies in the Pacific & SE Asian land theatres were really hanging on by the skin of their teeth in 1942

    As were the wussians.

    ’42 – el Alamein, Volgograd, PNG …

    Decisive.

  19. Bourne1879 Avatar
    Bourne1879

    How many more times before 14th October is Kamahl going to change his mind?

  20. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    As for inflation, the CAGR on Australian M0 (currency) growth over the last three and a bit years was 49.5% a few weeks ago.

    Obscurantist gobbledigook, Dot.

    Typical libertarian cowardice.

  21. 132andBush Avatar
    132andBush

    m0nty
    Sep 24, 2023 6:03 PM

    Thank you, calli, for showing that at least one Cat has a working brain.

    As for the rest of you, chalk-laden duster flying at your left earhole, followed by detention.

    Someone who tacitly supports violence to women is in no position to either give out elephant stamps or admonish anyone.

  22. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    I scan news.com.au these days & they keep referring to people as celebrities.
    I have no idea who half the people they reference are.
    Maybe I’m getting old.

  23. 132andBush Avatar
    132andBush

    A stain of jismists.

  24. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    A stain of jismists.

    I used to like “A Perth of Thieves”.
    Now it’s “A Canberra of Thieves”.

  25. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
    Sep 24, 2023 8:24 PM
    The allies in the Pacific & SE Asian land theatres were really hanging on by the skin of our teeth in 1942.

    It took the first year of World War Two, in the Pacific, to weed out all the dud commanders…

    Around half of the pre-War (regular USN, carefully trained in peacetime) submarine commanders were relieved “for cause” (failure to deliver results) that year, replaced by younger, more aggressive, men.

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  26. feelthebern Avatar
    feelthebern

    I put a Carolina reaper in an omelette yesterday.
    It’s given me energy all weekend.
    The inter webs say they are hotter than the Ghost chilli, which I always thought was the hottest.

  27. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Around half of the pre-War (regular USN, carefully trained in peacetime) submarine commanders were relieved “for cause”

    I had an idea there had been some sackings of submarine commanders, I didn’t realise the rate was so high!

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  28. chrisl Avatar
    chrisl

    I’ll see your $6 croissant and raise you a $9.50 scone!

  29. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    I put a Carolina reaper in an omelette yesterday.

    The hell you talkin’ about, Bern? Sheesh!

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  30. Dot Avatar

    Tom
    Sep 24, 2023 8:31 PM

    As for inflation, the CAGR on Australian M0 (currency) growth over the last three and a bit years was 49.5% a few weeks ago.

    Obscurantist gobbledigook, Dot.

    Typical libertarian cowardice.

    ???

    Your money is worth a lot less than before because the government wanted to fund itself cheaply and prolong the death of the asset market, through printing physical and virtual AUD.

    That in itself isn’t remarkable, despite being sad and regrettable.

    49.5% compounded annual growth rates are bloody unheard of outside of African and South American shitholes.

    Which is why it was noted.

    Set the chart to five years and let your learning and anger flourish.

    https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/money-supply-m0

  31. m0nty Avatar
    m0nty

    LOL at that hopium piece about a Labor split. The only split in Australian politics recently has been the Libs from their Teal-voting heartland.

    Albo looks to have royally stuffed up the referendum. Just took way too long, might have got up if it was 3-6 months ago. Smug arrogance to think it would go the same way as SSM regardless of strategy.

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  32. Wally Dalí Avatar
    Wally Dalí

    Looks like The Master is famously, but not flamingly, gay Neil Patrick Harris. Does that count?
    Hope the darkie Doctor loses the MLK mo, and pronto.

  33. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    not kidding, over 18 months of so, possibly less, the most important things in a persons life have seen at least 30% increases

    yeah well JC,

    I remember last year

    when you screeched far too often in this forum that none of it was inflationary

    not the policies, not the growth in money supply, not the destruction of supply chains

    none of it

    … apparently

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  34. Deadman Avatar

    DrBeauGan

    Reading the verses with some background music is my plan. What’s more, the music will be performed with the instrumentation of the dwarves in The Hobbit: two fiddles, three flutes, one drum, two clarinets, two viols and a harp. Since that leaves two instruments un-named for Oín and Glóin, I see no reason why one of those instruments could not be a resonator guitar.

  35. cohenite Avatar
    cohenite

    Albo looks to have royally stuffed up the referendum.

    To be fair dickless rub and tug has been gazonked by the 3rd nation activists who have been as open as biden is senile about their real intentions which is to have a permanent ATSIC gravy train and ultimately commie takeover.

    The proposed constitutional amendment is also a hoot being, if it got up, the only constitutional section which would be pro-active towards the legislature and despite the usual bullshit about its benign nature would in fact be able to dictate to the parliament.

    Even the punters have been able to figure out they are being sold a permanent boot up the arse.

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  36. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    The troll has just figured out what the real world thinks about Elbow’s disastrous referendum distraction. LOL.

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  37. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    ‘temporary’ I believe the word was

    but wait there’s more

    and , ‘price mechanism at work’

  38. DrBeauGan Avatar
    DrBeauGan

    Reading the verses with some background music is my plan.

    Sounds good. Post it here, please.

  39. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    a clag

    as in

    a clag of j’ismists were wanking each other together in furious agreement

  40. calli Avatar
    calli

    Gloin definitely plays the bagpipes.

    On account of his accent.

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  41. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    they ended up stuck on the same page

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  42. Top Ender Avatar
    Top Ender

    The allies in the Pacific & SE Asian land theatres were really hanging on by the skin of our teeth in 1942.

    Australia’s Navy took a real hammering in 41-42. Ships being sunk left, right and centre.

  43. JC Avatar
    JC

    Trannsie

    You were obviously drunk at the time, like you usually are most evenings. So yeah, naaa. An idiot like you was suggesting the wheels were coming off and we were heading into hyper inflation. In fact, I began to become bearish when the war commenced. After feb 22, I wasn’t upbeat but the opposite. So f..k off and post bullshit about someone else sunshine.

    No kidding, you’d have to be one of the biggest Debbie downers here. Always posting happy comments. Happy and upbeat, you miserable sad sack.

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  44. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Daily Mail.

    Michael Caine’s secret to a long and happy life at 90: Stop eating between meals, wear trainers and take a younger wife

    He married model Shakira Baksh in 1973 after seeing her in a TV advert
    They have a daughter and three grandchildren he says help keep him youthful

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  45. JC Avatar
    JC

    price mechanism at work’

    The price mechanism deals with demand and supply. The price mechanism has nothing to do with inflation but the way price is an allocation tool for resources.

    . Fetterman displays more intelligence and wit and he’s had a stroke.

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  46. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    Australia’s Navy took a real hammering in 41-42. Ships being sunk left, right and centre.

    HMAS Sydney, HMAS Perth and HMAS Canberra would head the list.

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  47. Real Deal Avatar
    Real Deal

    err, Cats – is Ron Elk related to Anne Elk?

    Her hypothesis about dinosaurs being just legendary.

    I got the reference, Rabz.

    All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine and what it is, too.

  48. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    he price mechanism has nothing to do with inflation

    yet you kept banging on about it

    why is that?

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  49. Boambee John Avatar
    Boambee John

    LOL. mUnty hasn’t yet realised how much the Liars’ outer suburban and regional heartland has been p1ssed off by the InVoice brain f@rt.

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  50. JC Avatar
    JC

    yet you kept banging on about it

    why is that?

    Because the only way to allocate resources even during a period of shortages is to use the price mechanism. It’s the most efficient why.
    And last year, after the wa,r we began to experience shortages around the world. Shortages which caused significant price increases in basic commodities . In other words a supply shock.

    But come up with my comments and post them here.

    Go!

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  51. dover0beach Avatar

    For the umteenth time, Biden will not be the one running.

    That is good news, he’s their strongest candidate.

  52. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    But come up with my comments and post them here

    says the wanker that delights himself periodically by doing just that

    try not to be a wanker all the time JC

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  53. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    tbh JC,

    I’m mainly just interested in how a self professed expert like yourself

    could be completely and utterly fkn wrong for so long

    can you offer any insights into that that?

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  54. JC Avatar
    JC

    says the wanker that delights himself periodically by doing just that

    try not to be a wanker all the time JC

    Trannsie, there’s been no bigger “ wanking” than being told you’re a god oracle and everyone shits themselves when you walk into a room.

    But go ahead go find what I said or stop talking to me. You’re a waste to time.

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  55. JC Avatar
    JC

    Yeah , I guess I’m not a god oracle.

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  56. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    aww … JC’s got the shits again

    was it something I said?

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  57. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    not a god oracle

    your’re not an orca playing with a dead baby seal either

  58. JC Avatar
    JC

    Pretty much everything you post here is annoying, either because it’s senseless abuse with no substance or just incoherent drivel. Trannsie, you’re just a sad sack troll with as much substance as a drop of water.

    And stop repeating the word wanker all the time. Repetition is annoying so try some other word of the day to make you sound less stupid and drunk.

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  59. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    so no insights then into why you were so utterly wrong about inflation?

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  60. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    And stop repeating …

    are you retarded JC?

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  61. Zulu Kilo Two Alpha Avatar
    Zulu Kilo Two Alpha

    No vote gains more ground amid a loss of support for Peter Dutton

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    National support for the Indigenous voice to parliament has failed to gain the expected campaign momentum heading into the final weeks before the October 14 referendum, with only slightly more than a third of surveyed voters now saying they will vote yes.

    But the further decline in support has also coincided with a sharp fall in Liberal leader Peter Dutton’s approval ratings following a heated political debate over race, with satisfaction in the ­Opposition Leader’s performance now at a record low.

    According to an exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian, 36 per cent of surveyed voters say they intend to vote yes. This reflects a two-point fall in the past three weeks and a continuation of the erosion in support since the beginning of the year.

    It also marks the lowest level of support so far for the federal government’s constitutional model to enshrine Indigenous recognition and a voice to parliament and executive government.

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  62. JC Avatar
    JC

    Fetterman, you tried to pick and bully the wrong people and you’ve come out second best. You became a joke.

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  63. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    my nanna used to say, “give ’em enough rope …”

  64. JC Avatar
    JC

    Did she also say you were a god oracle?

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  65. Razey Avatar
    Razey

    The LWNJ’s seem to have a habit for wheeling out geriatrics to get them out of a bind, just look at the walking corpse running the USA. In this instance, an own goal has been scored. Leave poor old Kamahl to enjoy the rest of his retirement.

  66. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    a god oracle

    fmd JC, repeats are verboten remember?

    btw, just to clear it up,

    you aren’t retarded because you can’t see what a hypocritical clown that you are

    you’re retarded because you have zero depth

  67. JC Avatar
    JC

    Okay, but did she?

  68. Gabor Avatar
    Gabor

    One thing I can’t understand about shortages and supply chain problems because of a local European war.

    What effect did it actually have, specially with manufactured products?

    Even the much talked about wheat is a bit of a BS, there is so much of it on the market that Poland and other countries are banning the import of Ukrainian wheat.

    Oil? The Arab states are reducing supply FGS.

    I’m not an economist and than God for that, but I think it was just an excuse to wreak havoc, increase prices in the world economy.

    No, not the G Bird king of suspicion, only the common garden variety greedy baskets.

  69. dover0beach Avatar

    Hilarious how The Project clowns focus on Kamal’s 40B$ claim as is if the actual 4.5B$ per year is pocket change.

  70. JC Avatar
    JC

    Trannie

    Here’s a question for you. Almost every evening for about a month, you’d come on here and denigrate the site, saying what an awful blog it is and how it just didn’t measure up to you lofty standards. Why are you still here?

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  71. dover0beach Avatar

    Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
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    Australian medical body moves ahead on DoxyPEP, i.e. putting gay men on antibiotics all the time to avoid sexually transmitted diseases. twitter.com/ASHMMedia/stat…

    It’s just a joke now.

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  72. Salvatore, Iron Publican Avatar
    Salvatore, Iron Publican

    Hilarious how The Project clowns focus on Kamal’s 40B$ claim as is if the actual 4.5B$ per year is pocket change.

    They mentioned the NIAA “administering” $4.5 B per yr.

    I’ve been around govt weaseling of statistics (particularly what something cost) to know that unless they say something like “Total money outlaid on First Nations in a year” then they’re hiding some.

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  73. JC Avatar
    JC

    Gabor

    There were things we didn’t commonly know, such as Ukraine was 25% of the world’s wheat exports and there were some other commodities which they either dug up or processed that were important. Then there was the oil issue with Russia and there was the gas pipeline going kaboom. It wasn’t a pretty year. All that, as we were coming out of a lockdown. It was a pretty unique set of macro circumstances. If there was no war and that side was hunky dory I think we may have scraped through the COVID bullshit much less economic tension.

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  74. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    Almost every evening for about a month

    there you go back to form … putting words in people’s mouths again

    stfu you clown

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  75. JC Avatar
    JC

    Oil? The Arab states are reducing supply FGS.

    Yes, and the price is slinking up again, which isn’t a good thing. The Saudis judged that there was enough demand that would allow a production cut and cause the price to move higher. We were sitting around 80 bucks for most of the year and it now looks like it’s heading towards $US100 bucks a barrel. It’s now $90 bucks

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  76. JC Avatar
    JC

    MatrixTransform
    Sep 24, 2023 10:42 PM

    Almost every evening for about a month

    there you go back to form … putting words in people’s mouths again

    stfu you clown

    Trans, it was about a month of blog abuse. You kept coming on here, night after night, drunk as usual and telling us was a shithole it was with the obvious intention of implying it was unsuitable for an aristocratic oracle like yourself. That’s no lie nor exaggeration. If you cant recall, stop the drinking. It’s easy to go check. Do so and report back.

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  77. Bourne1879 Avatar
    Bourne1879

    The Oz has up an article by The Times about Russell Brand. It mentions a who’s who of “alt right” podcasters like Rogan, PBD,
    Tate, Tucker Carlson etc and says they all back each other up whilst discussing conspiracy theories and the great reset etc.

    Comments not open but would be fun if they were.

  78. Rosie Avatar
    Rosie

    Maybe Kamahl has just sincerely worked through the issues.
    Maybe as a brown man himself he can wonder at millionaire professional aboriginals who look remarkably like the Anglos they claim ruined their lives claiming that superimposing an aboriginal chamber over a functional democracy that includes aboriginals is a solution to all problems.

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  79. Gabor Avatar
    Gabor

    Thanks, the world is a complex system, when it could be so simple.

  80. Johnny Rotten Avatar

    Gabor
    Sep 24, 2023 10:31 PM
    One thing I can’t understand about shortages and supply chain problems because of a local European war.

    It’s because of the Virus Crisis and the lockdowns/shutdowns that we had. The impact is still lingering and not due to any any war.

  81. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    night after night, drunk as usual and telling us was a shithole

    aww … ruok?

    did MT ruin yr vibe?

  82. JC Avatar
    JC

    I’m fine Trans, thanks for asking. However, we all should be worried about you’re instability.

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  83. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    we all

    LoL

  84. Salvatore, Iron Publican Avatar
    Salvatore, Iron Publican

    There seems to be a lot more people named on this thread as if they’re participating.
    Without any of them being seen.

  85. dover0beach Avatar

    There were things we didn’t commonly know, such as Ukraine was 25% of the world’s wheat exports

    I don’t think they’re anywhere near 25%, JC. I think it’s less than 10% and production actually rose at the normal pace for the year anyway.

  86. Gabor Avatar
    Gabor

    Salvatore, Iron Publican
    Sep 24, 2023 11:04 PM

    There seems to be a lot more people named on this thread as if they’re participating.
    Without any of them being seen.

    A bit cryptic, what do you mean?

  87. JC Avatar
    JC

    Okay

    Before the war, Ukraine produced half the sunflower oil sold worldwide and more than 10 percent of the wheat, barley and corn.

    I was going for memory perhaps it included Russian wheat that was also blocked. Even so, 10% of the world’s supply suddenly shut off is pretty significant.

    And it wasn’t just Ukraine, the sanctions had an effect which took time for re-routing to other places not impacted by the sanctions.

    EU Real GDP basically flat-lined after Q1 of 22.

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  88. Ron Elk Avatar
    Ron Elk

    A lot of people are mocking the PM right now, but he did win M. C. Hammer over into the Yes camp late last week, and absolutely nobody would have said this was possible in late July. If he can get Kamahl’s support locked in by March 2025 then who knows what will happen.

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  89. JC Avatar
    JC

    A bit cryptic, what do you mean?

    He’s directing the comment to me, as usual he’s trying to incite stoushing. Watch the pattern, as it really basic and funny. If a stoush is going on he posts a couple of useless comments as though he’s participating in the thread as a genuine commenter. By the third or fourth comment he’s into a stoush or trying to incite people.

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  90. Top Ender Avatar
    Top Ender

    The Project needs this:

    The aboriginal industry.

    3,278 Aboriginal corporations
    • 243 Native title bodies
    • 48 Land councils
    • 35 Regional councils
    • 122+ Aboriginal agencies
    • 3 Advisory bodies
    • 145 Health Organization’s
    • 11 Indigenous Federal MPs
    • 12 Culturally important Indigenous days
    • Taxpayers give $33 BILLION annually for 984,000 people (3.8% of the population)
    • Expenditure per person in 2012-13 was $43,449 on Indigenous Australian compared to $20,900 on other Australians a ratio of 2.08 to 1 and increase from 1.95 in 2009. Australian taxpayers spend at least $100 million a day on direct support for Indigenous Australians every year or $39.5 billion of direct government expenditure every single year.

    The figures are based on the 2017 Indigenous Expenditure Report produced by the Productivity Commission. Source: Professor Matthew Bennett, spokesman for the Sovereign Court of International Justice (SCIJ) and International Barrister with a 25+ year legal career and an expert on international law.

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  91. JC Avatar
    JC

    Here’s global wheat prices.

    Look at the spike from Q1 22 to the extreme top.

    From US$326 to $US444 reached in May 22

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  92. MatrixTransform Avatar
    MatrixTransform

    He’s directing the comment to me

    yeah, it’s all about you … ya tosser

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  93. JC Avatar
    JC

    Who else was he directing the directing the comment to or about, you unstable old drunk?

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  94. Colonel Crispin Berka Avatar
    Colonel Crispin Berka

    Recycling a quote from Gary Johns in last month’s Quadrant:

    This referendum with its “simply about recognition” meme is no gracious gift. It masks the huge Uluru agenda. That agenda is stealing the future of people at Warburton and hundreds of other places. Recognition is not the same as reconciliation. There is no reconciliation in this referendum proposal—it is, as a result, an abandonment of leadership. Aboriginal parents face an awful choice. If they keep their children “safe” on country, away from the worst of modern life, grog and drugs, they condemn their children to restricted lives, with poor education, a poor diet, and few prospects.

    The great lie of this referendum is that choices can be avoided. Somehow, twenty-four select delegates in Canberra will solve the parents’ dilemma. They will not; they will continue to mask the choice and, in default, make the choice for them. A slow death on country, rather than to break free, with the help of their families and guidance from outsiders on how to handle the wider world.

    Johns takes the cake again.
    Yes23 will try all sorts of emotional blackmail to get the Shriek up.
    Well here is the emotionally laden argument to prop up the No vote; if you care about Aboriginal children getting a better future, vote No to the group keeping them down.

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  95. Salvatore, Iron Publican Avatar
    Salvatore, Iron Publican

    Gabor: Oops, belay my last. Wrong forum. Too many windows open.
    My error.
    (Sorta feels like the old days in yahoo chat) 😛

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  96. H B Bear Avatar
    H B Bear

    Forget Newspoll between elections. Dutton will still be there at the next election. I don’t think Albo will.

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  97. dover0beach Avatar

    I was going for memory perhaps it included Russian wheat that was also blocked. Even so, 10% of the world’s supply suddenly shut off is pretty significant.

    Sounds like it but as I added, total wheat production was up in 2022. A lot of the talk re Ukrainian wheat deal was nothing more than keeping the dollars rolling into Ukraine, rather than feeding the poor.

  98. JC Avatar
    JC

    Look, I’m no commodity expert, so I go with what was being said at the time. There appears to have been hoarding though as the price spiked from the beginning of the war to May.

    There were also dreadful hindrances in Europe with the oil price and after the pipeline incident there were threats of severe gas shortages.

    I think oil spiked to 120 bucks a barrel and gas went from about 3 dollars to 13 per unit. Europe was panicked to about sept 22.

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    Salvatore, Iron Publican

    The Productivity Commission report on Indigenous expenditure in 2017 put the figure at $33 B
    This (a) is a shedload higher – almost Thirty Billion higher – than the supergeniuses on Das Projekt jibed at Kamahl over.
    (b) is 6 years ago, what would today’s figure be?

    Kamahl is correct, The Project beta soys owe him an apology.

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    Sancho Panzer

    JC

    Sep 24, 2023 12:09 PM

    You don’t own this blog, so stfu shorty.

    And you don’t either Nakkas, which is why I highlighted your stupid comment about Bird who’s banned here. You moron, he ruins blogs

    Correct.
    And also Dot at 12:13 PM yesterday articulating the many reasons Bird is a menace.
    And who was the other bint who got banned for posting all that “25 famous Australians accused of pedophilia” and “children in tunnels” stuff?

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  101. Robert Sewell Avatar

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/right-wing-polish-mp-delivers-23-billion-bill/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2023-09-24

    Right-wing Polish MP Krzysztof Bosak (left) delivered a ‘bill’ for 101bn Zlotys ($23 billion) to the Ukrainian embassy in Warsaw on Tuesday, demanding that Kiev repay the aid it has received after it sued Poland before the World Trade Organization for imposing a ban on grain imports from Ukraine.

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    When I first bought the 380, it cost about $40 to fill it up. Yesterday it cost $120.
    (From memory, but sounds about right.)

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    Matrix Transform:

    I remember last year when you screeched far too often in this forum that none of it was inflationary – not the policies, not the growth in money supply, not the destruction of supply chains

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    …and I got roundly abused and shat upon by the Globalist for daring to mention the cause for the inflation was government money creation and regulation. And because I was too stupid to understand how an economy worked.
    *some reformatting done.

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    Deadman
    Sep 24, 2023 8:56 PM

    DrBeauGan

    Reading the verses with some background music is my plan. What’s more, the music will be performed with the instrumentation of the dwarves in The Hobbit: two fiddles, three flutes, one drum, two clarinets, two viols and a harp. Since that leaves two instruments un-named for Oín and Glóin, I see no reason why one of those instruments could not be a resonator guitar.

    I’d add two cowbells.

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    JC

    and I got roundly abused and shat upon by the Globalist for daring to mention the cause for the inflation was government money creation and regulation.

    Turtlehead, you were mocked because like most of the things you post, which is hyperbolic trash like the recent comment that the left could cheat enough to reach 90% of the vote in the refendum. You just didn’t mention inflation, you were predicting that the money supply increasing would end up as hyperinflation. I mocked your ridiculous claim because it was idiotic.

    And because I was too stupid to understand how an economy worked.
    *some reformatting done.

    I wouldn’t flatter you by suggesting your understanding of economics is simply stupid. I’d say that most of the things you say is moronic and embarrassing to read on this blog and I wouldn’t just limit it to economics either.

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    Steve trickler

    Peter Santenello:

    Two hours west of Phoenix is a desert community living in their own world. People stay here for different reasons, but the one thread that connects this community is the desire to live in freedom. Join me as we meet some of the interesting characters that call Quartzite home.

    Living Off the Grid in Arizona Desert

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