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“Ben Krupt’s Hollow.”
“In the image of the heroic John Curtin, who apparently saved Australia” from a Japanese invasion, which he had been…
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The power to name a place denotes authority I hereby declare the place formerly known as Melbourne, Bearbrass, or Naarm…
Seems the only thing that keep retail sales from going backwards in August was demand for Matildas gear (clothing and footwear +1.3%). Otherwise even spending on groceries dropped (-0.3%) according to ABS figures.
And this despite an unprecedented surge in migration.
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked has written the best analysis of this whole Fox/Evans/GBNews imbroglio. The attempts to shut down GBNews have nothing to do with Fox’s words to Evans. The progressive left loathe GB News and they want it off the air. It’s not about silencing Fox it’s about silencing ordinary Britons.
kept
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
“Why do you MAGA Republicans want the gov’t to shut down?”
Because our gov’t has been weaponized against 75+ million Americans
They raided President Trump’s house & indicted him 4x
They imprison peaceful J6 protestors
They censor our speech
They overtax us and send it overseas
Their spending is causing record inflation
They target soccer moms as domestic terrorists
They kill our Veterans in FBI raids
They flood our country with illegals
They RIG OUR ELECTIONS
They force experimental injections into our bodies
They are the single greatest threat to our liberties and it’s not even close
The real question is, why would you want this gov’t to stay open?
Funny, what happened to 60,000 years?
Cassie @8.03. “We lost the war, because we never showed up to fight the war”. Liberty quote.
The Republican candidates sans Trump had a debate last night apparently.
2nd GOP Debate Post Mortem: ‘Hot Mess’ Helps Trump As DeSantis Disappoints, Haley Hammers Vivek (29 Sep)
Trump won. I say that because what wasn’t talked about were the three biggest bogeymen which the base is most interested in: the corrupt justice system, the stolen election, and the climate hoax. Trump won with this statement the same night to the blue collar UAW guys at the rally in Michigan he held at the same time:
Yep.
All those soft army recruiting ads coming home to roost.
JC, no, I’ve seen multiple reports of grocery prices and consumer goods, from various people including Speedbox, and they don’t indicate any such thing. You are groping for a win here where there is none. Sanctions have failed.
No, but events over the last two weeks are giving them an important lesson re the West.
Matt Canavan:
Well, the sycamore in the Gap is no more. I’m glad I saw it last year.
It’s demise, at the hands of local orcs reminded me of this in the Introduction to Tree and Leaf:
We live in a world where beautiful things only have a value if they can be exchanged for money, or destroyed for fun.
Haley polls well with women.
Even Baris has conceded that.
But only when compared to the GOP candidates ex Trump.
With Trump, she aint much.
If Foxnews continues to be all in on Haley, she just has to outlast the rest.
“My Army Gives Me All the Time I want With My Family.”
Wally Dalí
Sep 29, 2023 8:16 AM
I actually see some need for this, my parents have no driver license or passport, only the medicare card and the rate notice for ID which has no picture and not excepted everywhere.
The only drawback would be the automatic interconnection with other government services, but if you think that is not already happening then the sale of the proverbial Harbor bridge comes to mind…
Fox is also a Christian, the child of devout Evangelicals. He knows what he said was out of order, but what Ava Evans said was far, far worse, but of course, she gets a free pass. She has a history of sordid cruel and vicious remarks. But sadly, in 2023, there’s no level playing field. The left dominate culturally, they have the power, and they use their power, rather expertly.
The Fox/Evans situation is the same as the Latham/Greenfilth imbroglio here.
Remember, you don’t have to outrun the lion.
You only have to outrun the person next to you.
I agree, calli. Fox has been skewered by the usual suspects, and being impolite or indelicate in public should not be a crime. GB viewers are free to make their own decisions about whether to support the show, or Fox. There is no need for politicians to stick their beaks in.
As for what he said, it was what many people were thinking.
Not only that, apparently it is now haram to say that a woman is attractive and also to say that she is not. Such strictures do not apply to comments about men, though. What a load of bullshit.
Finally, trivialising male suicide is infinitely more offensive than any comment about the attractiveness of the person who did it could possibly be. The grandstanding politicians were nowhere to be seen when that happened, though.
Go Larry!
One has to wonder whether the acquisition of European Weapons (Tiger, MRH90, Barracuda) was communicated to be a ‘political error’ by our American friends – hence their replacement with US made products…..
Robert Malone has made some observations about the internal attacks on democratic principles in the US that also applies to Australia. He points out that this is a global development that must be opposed.
Sometime in 2021 I realized that political divisions in this country were no longer between red and blue, Republican and Democrat, but between the traditional American way (ergo Americanism) and something that has emerged culturally over the past decade. That hard to define something is in opposition to Americanism. It is very different from previous threats to the American way of life, to our culture and traditions. This new vision for America is an merger of socialism and the new world order lead by globalist, corporatist elites. It is built upon using fascist goals (that is corporatism) to twist the American way of life into a globalist’s playpen of unregulated crony capitalism for the global transnational corporations and a command economy of restrictions for the rest of us. Where free speech is limited to state approved speech via controls and restrictions of the digital space.
This new merger of socialism and fascism, combined with limits to free speech (which always must have the ability to offend) is eerily similar to socio-fascism. This is a globalist movement, not limited to any one state or nation. This new merger could be called progressive socio-fascism. If we do not guard our great nation from these globalist zealots, it is just a matter of time before the United Nations and the World Economic Forum will hold the reins of power throughout the western world; maybe the entire world.
The progressive socio-fascists have done an excellent job in conning younger generations across the globe that their vision for the world will produce a better future through economic and social equality of all. But the truth is that this type of equality is still just another word for socialism.
De Santis is coming across as the most unlikeable of the GOP candidates.
Which is saying something with Chris Christie in the race.
There is (unsurprisingly) quite a body of law around engagement rings. I can’t remember what it is though. That’s not much help.
excepted
Accepted
This time I blame autocorrect.
Don’t usually correct my mistakes, people here are intelligent enough to make sense of misspells or wrong grammar.
When it comes to engagement rings…
A Bronx Tale – 20 Dollars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78-4RobJQ0Y
Robert Malone observes that the attacks of democratic principles are a global phenomenon:
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-best-kind-of-ism-is-americanism/comments?utm_source=substack%2Csubstack&publication_id=583200&post_id=137478141&utm_medium=email%2Cemail&isFreemail=true&comments=true&utm_campaign=email-half-magic-comments
Sometime in 2021 I realized that political divisions in this country were no longer between red and blue, Republican and Democrat, but between the traditional American way (ergo Americanism) and something that has emerged culturally over the past decade. That hard to define something is in opposition to Americanism. It is very different from previous threats to the American way of life, to our culture and traditions. This new vision for America is an merger of socialism and the new world order lead by globalist, corporatist elites. It is built upon using fascist goals (that is corporatism) to twist the American way of life into a globalist’s playpen of unregulated crony capitalism for the global transnational corporations and a command economy of restrictions for the rest of us. Where free speech is limited to state approved speech via controls and restrictions of the digital space.
This new merger of socialism and fascism, combined with limits to free speech (which always must have the ability to offend) is eerily similar to socio-fascism. This is a globalist movement, not limited to any one state or nation. This new merger could be called progressive socio-fascism. If we do not guard our great nation from these globalist zealots, it is just a matter of time before the United Nations and the World Economic Forum will hold the reins of power throughout the western world; maybe the entire world.
The progressive socio-fascists have done an excellent job in conning younger generations across the globe that their vision for the world will produce a better future through economic and social equality of all. But the truth is that this type of equality is still just another word for socialism.
At least you’ve got a consistent position, HB…
me, I sidestepped any “lived experience” cos my wife proposed to me. No ring, no ultrasound, no kneeling, nothing…
Sorry for the repeat of Malone quotation.
They swear like navvies, they cavort like harlots, they treat men like garbage – then demand the smelling salts should they receive even the most minor push back.
This faux fainting couch stuff is ridiculous.
I actually see some need for this, my parents have no driver license or passport, only the medicare card and the rate notice for ID which has no picture and not excepted everywhere.
I don’t drive or have a current passport but do have a photo ID card from NSW Motor Transport (or whatever we call the motor licensing dept. these dayz) .. Valid for 5 years and free to OAPs …. you lob in to your local office (Services NSW) , pix taken & issued then & there …
a 2007 Australian ring case. You have to give it back if you reneg.
shatterzzz
Sep 29, 2023 8:47 AM
Great. didn’t know about that, appreciated.
Not just new builds but funding for mandatory upgrades to existing dams.
Without that funding regional councils will have to pass the cost of the upgrades onto residents via rates, as we’ve just been advised.
And the Labor government has its head so far up its arse it doesn’t realise these sorts of decisions are playing into the Voice question.
Did not know the Woodside – Yes connection.
The easy dodge here is that the InVoice can’t be blamed for this because it hasn’t been built yet. (Gloss over the purpose of it.)
I expect the survey will go ahead once they re-arrange the charges into the same blasting pattern that the ancient Mardudhunera used.
That’s unless Nopsema stop using the white coloniser’s ways of responding, in legal nastygrams, and start using ancient Mardudhunera ways of responding…
You are correct Shatterzzz. I think other states offer this option.
Victoria also offer a proof of age card.
The easy dodge here is that the InVoice can’t be blamed for this because it hasn’t been built yet.
It’s just another nail in the coffin.
Like the WA Heritage laws.
The Federal Government could easily legislate to stop these ludicrous songline claims.
From people who didn’t even have boats.
Doesn’t matter, only us dumb dumb no voice taxpayers are paying for it all.
I thought that too, however further reading revealed a certain ineluctable logic.
SA is perfect for testing long range rocket artillery.
If someone has a bit of finger trouble,
they’re unlikely to damage anything of value.
250 miles offshore, 900 metres underwater, 60,000 years ago?
That Aboriginal submarine building facility, whatever happened to that, it died on the vine?
That Aboriginal submarine building facility, whatever happened to that, it died on the vine?
I must have skipped that chapter of Dark Emu.
Gabor, the lack of a universal ID is not a problem, it’s a deliberatly set-up solution to the problem of a will to rule from the Lizard People. Everything from pettifogger to demiurge- resist.
“They think they are above the law,” she said. “There’s no way in any circumstance that they’re above our law, my Indigenous law, our cultural law that’s been here since the beginning of time.”
Has this grifter ever written or spoken of this before Woodside applied to develop the field?
Quite frankly I’m depressed and shamed.
“Nopsema, over its approval of the seismic work, arguing consultation with traditional owners had been inadequate.”
Once the extortion is agreed, the “consultation” box will receive it’s tick of approval.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers this week visited Rockhampton to play weatherman.
He warned us all that Queensland would get longer and worse droughts over the next 40 years due to climate change.
I struggle to believe the weather forecast for next week, let alone for the next 40 years, but Jim seemed earnest, so let’s take him at his word.
Gosh I wish Canavan could be PM. He always makes sense when the others utter platitudes. Yes, dams are a godsend to farmers. Bizarrely, and according to the drivers of ideology, Labor opposes them at every opportunity, as though they are the work of the devil. We also have relatively untapped artesian water in this country. Bores are also are godsend, and helped get us through the last drought.
Yet few Australians would know that both dams and bores are ferociously controlled by the bureaucrats. We have planes that literally patrol from time to time to monitor dams, and bores have licences attached that are constantly monitored for usage.
While there is a case for monitoring over usage, the ideology at work goes unnoticed in the policing.
Vicki, the British journalist David Goodhart coined the terms “Somewheres” and “Anywheres” to describe people rooted in a specific place and traditional culture and those who can up sticks and move anywhere due to globalism.
I wonder if Woodside regret the donation to the “YES” campaign, and all those “welcome to country?”
Did those songlines really exist?
The terminus ad quem of “always was, always will be.”
He should have apologised like lefties do: “I apologise if you were offended”. It seems to work for them.
Every time I see Chalmers I think “Wallet Wizard”.
How does a judge measure what actually is “adequate consultation” regarding a project taking place so far removed from any indigenous presence? Even in the past 60,000 years.
dotty, what’s the legal process of deliberation here, what are the benchmarks in law?
If she was an actual “stunning and bwave” woman, she should have immediately replied, “I wouldn’t shag him either!”.
But no, she went down the Shut Up route.
Better believe it.
Behind the Scarborough challenge was the Environmental Defender’s Office – who work hand in glove with Greenpeace and other similar activists.
A constitutional Voice would be an instant launching pad for well-funded international activist groups aimed at shutting down Australia’s energy, minerals, and agricultural industries.
At long last…my fan club has arrived!
I was beginning to imagine myself worried about your welfare.
An aboriginal woman hears whale voices, demands that exploration in the area be stopped because of it and a judge agrees. I know who is stupider in this case and it’s not the aboriginal woman.
Gabor
Sep 29, 2023 8:53 AM
shatterzzz
Sep 29, 2023 8:47 AM
Sorry, I didn’t mentioned, It is related to the comm bank’s ID requirement where their super is going into and this is not an option listed on the website. Presenting in person is a bit difficult for them.
The reason they asked for this is “money laundering” rules. They have all the details for the last 15 years at least, what “laundering” did they do?
Why can’t they leave old people alone?
This Woodside ruling might have a flow-on effect here, at a genuine whale migration corridor.
All we need is some magic “songlines” to override the offshore wind farm.
I know…who am I kidding.
They really, really hate our prosperity yet should our economy collapse these people think they will be unaffected. You can’t cure stupid.
David Unaipon used to tell white lecture audiences that aborigines communicated across long distances in the bush by telepathy.
And many believed him.
Blak tape potentially more effective than any possible green tape. And you can be assured the swampies know that.
Just checked TheirABC online (gotta watch the opposition) and there is a story about egg shortages.
The headline?
‘Australia’s love affair with eggs causes headaches as farmers push to expand.’
Just take a momemt and read it again.
Australians have been eating eggs for (according to some) 60,000 years. In any event, eggs have been omnipresent in the diet of Australians as a tasty and nutritious element for a very long time.
What kind of airhead turns that into a ‘love affair’? Answers on a postcard.
Then, we have ‘headaches’, in keeping with the modern trend of medicalising everything into personal pain. But the real ‘headache’ is for consumers. Increasing regulation is pushing up prices and reducing supply – the Leftie dream.
The article is a garbled mish mash, in keeping with the dreadful headline.
Former sub-editors (now deemed to be superfluous) must be weeping in their beers, if they can bear to read this semi-literate garbage.
The other thing pushing up egg prices is energy costs.
That goes for barn eggs too, not just evil cage ones.
Offshore oil and gas, aluminium, alumina, cement the list goes on. These are truly global industries. When it gets too hard or too expensive decisions are taken in London, Tokyo or New York to go elsewhere. It has happened to car assembly and it can happen to others.
Setting aside the ridiculous notion that whale voices can be heard 250 miles away, Reuters is reporting this as a procedural cock up by NOPSEMA.
“Raelene Cooper, a traditional custodian of the Murujuga land in Western Australia, filed a judicial review in August arguing the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) made an error in approving Woodside’s seismic blasting as the company had not met the condition of properly consulting her.
Judge Craig Colvin agreed, saying NOPSEMA did not have the power to make the decision to accept the environmental plan since it did not consult all parties, and thus the approval was invalid and overturned, court documents showed.
“Cooper was a person who, under the terms of the conditions, was required to be consulted,” Judge Colvin said.
Terms of conditions. It will be interesting to see how WDS challenge or get around this. Was this a procedural cock up by WDS/NOPSEMA?
Also, lets concentrate our artillery and armour and crunchy infantry in one 5km radius close to possible enemies so a single salvo of missiles can remove 90% of our capability, while doing almost nothing to the national economy, so savage tribute can be levied in the future..
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H B Bear
Sep 29, 2023 9:36 AM
Agree about manufacturing, but you can’t just go anywhere to drill for oil or gas or mine minerals where there is one.
wow
tick-gate kicked off suddenly last night
oh, I get it … who are you gonna believe…
1 – a trio of lying, belligerant, manipulating confabulators ?
or
2 – the smart-arse who very successfully takes the p155 out of them because they’re such easy marks?
there’s just one or two things that you 3 idiots haven’t worked out with all your paranoid gaming calculus
pretty sure everybody gets it but youse
there is one
There is NONE
Shyte, how do you turn off autocorrect?
Wallet Wizard! Lucky I wasn’t drinking. On a roll today calli.
Not really a liberty quote, but Calli at 8.47am nails 21st century “feminists”:
Needless to say, these revolting females run the global political left and its rebellion against civilisation while the left’s soy boys fall in line and do what they’re told.
ah, the sound of a chainsaw.
must be Spring
I think the neighbour might be doing some sort of stump-sculpture
Dover, I don’t know if you’re playing to some sort of peanut gallery, I’m not being clear or it doesn’t sink in. I’m well aware the sanctions haven’t had the impact that was initially expected. That isn’t to say they haven’t caused trade re-routing or some hardship because they have.
The currency has fallen 50%, there is at least discounting of 40% on the Russian export side of their trade account and probably , equally, 40% gouging on the import side of the ledger. It’s impossible consumer prices haven’t impacted. They’re either lying or massively subsidising food imports. Someway or another the piper has to be paid.
It’s just statecraft. India is not going to side with the North Korea. 🙂
There’s always tensions and self interest colliding.
At any given time there will be suite of projects at various stages on the table. They all have various risks attached to them. Australia’s regulatory risk would definitely be a consideration up for discussion whereas once it possibly would not. We’re not quite hard rock mining in central Africa yet but that may change.
Seizmic blasting is bad? Oh.
Offshore wind is systematically violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act (28 Sep)
So the wind operators lied to the authorities about how loud their sonic surveys were. And whales have been dying in their dozens and hundreds. I wonder if they’ll ever be held to account?
Gabor, if you have an Android
iPhones are pretty much the same. It’s hidden in “Settings”.
I turn it off on all my devices.
Makka I thought you might be all over this, but anyway:
Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2009
10A Criteria for acceptance of environment plan
For regulation 10, the criteria for acceptance of an environment plan are that the plan:
(a) is appropriate for the nature and scale of the activity; and
(b) demonstrates that the environmental impacts and risks of the activity will be reduced to as low as reasonably practicable; and
(c) demonstrates that the environmental impacts and risks of the activity will be of an acceptable level; and
(d) provides for appropriate environmental performance outcomes, environmental performance standards and measurement criteria; and
(e) includes an appropriate implementation strategy and monitoring, recording and reporting arrangements; and
(f) does not involve the activity or part of the activity, other than arrangements for environmental monitoring or for responding to an emergency, being undertaken in any part of a declared World Heritage property within the meaning of the EPBC Act; and
(g) demonstrates that:
(i) the titleholder has carried out the consultations required by Division 2.2A; and
(ii) the measures (if any) that the titleholder has adopted, or proposes to adopt, because of the consultations are appropriate; and
(h) complies with the Act and the regulations.
—————
Division 2.2A—Consultation in preparing an environment plan
11A Consultation with relevant authorities, persons and organisations, etc
(1) In the course of preparing an environment plan, or a revision of an environment plan, a titleholder must consult each of the following (a relevant person):
(a) each Department or agency of the Commonwealth to which the activities to be carried out under the environment plan, or the revision of the environment plan, may be relevant;
(b) each Department or agency of a State or the Northern Territory to which the activities to be carried out under the environment plan, or the revision of the environment plan, may be relevant;
(c) the Department of the responsible State Minister, or the responsible Northern Territory Minister;
(d) a person or organisation whose functions, interests or activities may be affected by the activities to be carried out under the environment plan, or the revision of the environment plan;
(e) any other person or organisation that the titleholder considers relevant.
(2) For the purpose of the consultation, the titleholder must give each relevant person sufficient information to allow the relevant person to make an informed assessment of the possible consequences of the activity on the functions, interests or activities of the relevant person.
(3) The titleholder must allow a relevant person a reasonable period for the consultation.
(4) The titleholder must tell each relevant person the titleholder consults that:
(a) the relevant person may request that particular information the relevant person provides in the consultation not be published; and
(b) information subject to such a request is not to be published under this Part.
————-
4 Definitions
In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
relevant person has the meaning given by subregulation 11A(1). (LOL!)
Subregulation 11A(1) (d) could potentially be anyone on planet earth.
These stupid laws & subsequent regulation need to be scrapped and the never to rarely used power to retire really, really bad judges by agreement of the executive and both Houses of Parliament needs to be exercised.
I think the “900 m under the sea, 250 miles offshore, 60,000 years ago” argument is good but I’m not a pet judge under the aegis of our luvvie ruling class who rolls over for a tummy rub.
Never, unless someone brings up charges. And who might that be?
Our spineless LNP Federal Govt had more than a decade to roll back some of this greentape lunacy. From what I can see they only allowed it to get worse.
Rubbish.
How can you claim both “underdog” and “right side of history” in the same breath?
I think Cooper v NOPSEMA will end almost like Peko-Wallsend even if the origin story is not quite the same.
“Erred, by taking into consideration, irrelevant considerations”
Apropos of Makka n noting the LNP are spineless, the enabling legislation for these silly regulations was assented to in 2006.
What a can of worms. It’s almost unenforceable.
Who writes or signs off on this shit?
I know, Peter Garrett (the relevant Minister in 2009).
Sorry.
Let’s point out how absurd this is.
…interests…may be affected…
So basically the Unabomber could have demanded we all go live in grass huts.
We are no longer a serious country.
Reading through the judgement on the Scarborough case (not something a normal person would do) it is looks like Aunty Raylene and the Environmental Defenders may have unleashed havoc on offshore petroleum exploration and development.
Leaving aside the legal technicalities of the operation of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations, the judgement sets a precedent that:
The takeaway:
An individual who can reasonably claim ‘cultural rights’ can insist on any any cultural matter – irrespective of how seemingly far-fetched – being considered seriously in an Australian offshore operational process that requires an EIS to proceed (ie anything of an exploratory or developmental nature).
This cultural claim can clog up the bureaucratic process as indefinitely as the legal term ‘reasonable’ allows.
Once that claim is addressed, another cultural claimant can pop up with another version of whale business/songlines/whatever and rinse and repeat the process, apparently ad infinitum.
The other takeaway is that the Commonwealth offshore regulator, NOPSEMA, is bloody useless.
Watch this space.
Thanks dotty. Interesting to do a deeper dive into this.
Raelene Cooper has bee antagonizing WDS for years. She and her mob were well and truly on WDS radar over heritage issues. She made a big song and dance at last years AGM.
How could it be possible (other than hubris or incompetence) that WDS/NOPSEMA could be found to not abide by terms of conditions in the approvals process? They certainly can’t claim ignorance. So I’m reading this as WDS doing a cunning op by getting headlines in Australia how ridiculous the black and green tape has become in the Resources space, stopping this multi-billion$ project at sea well over the horizon from nearest Indigenous lands.
Precedent? Hmmm.
For how long?
How long before the High Court rules you can’t be having whitey rule on cultural matters? Not sure how dey got around dat in the Hindmarsh Island matter. Guess it just falls into another bucket of expert evidence.
On the Army being moved north comments, please keep in mind the terrible state of recruitment and retention in our sevices.
One factor is the service conditions, like being able to spend more time with your family and being able to hoppity hop from one job to another in the forces when you’re bored, is what the ADF learned from people exiting as preferred lifestyle goals.
If people don’t want to move they can change jobs .. they cannot be forced to move.
The situation is not ideal, but if we didn’t offer the terms we do now, we’d have even more problems with recruitment and retention. E.G.To get people into our Collins Class submarines I believe we offer almost triple pay ++ and still have problems getting a full compliment.
The far north of Australia is not an attractive place to live. People want to live where there are services, utilities and safety to raise a family, hang out with relatives and friends. Being uprooted to somewhere like Townsville or Darwin maybe ok for pioneering types, but not families. It is a huge degradation in lifestyle.
It is what it is and the ADF struggles to meet the demands of politicians who blew in yesterday and have barrels to pork and the strategic goals of force structure.
Bruce O’Nuke:
No, they are just arrogant and think the ideological victories they have had in the past will continue forever, without any wind back to repressive policies.
Societies change. Nothing surer.
I know an Army family who love Townsville. The kids hate NSW because it’s too cold (laughs in Victorian).
If we’re talking about flying objects with target seeking behaviour, not just ballistic rockets but smart missiles, then SA is still not ideal. If you want to avoid any Donetsk MH17 BuK type incidents, the absence of any commercial flight paths would be a plus. Too many converge on Adelaide covering most of SA on the only flight path map I’ve been able to find.
South-eastern WA, from Forrest to Warburton through the Great Victoria Desert nature reserve is a rectangle 500km by 100km has virtually nothing flying over it and no settlements that I could see in a quick scan.
The real reason has to be (1) SA has the Woomera Prohibited Area already, 2) they can wait for periods of no overflight, and 3) close to defence sector industry and SA promotes itself as “The Defence State”.
I can’t believe the ADF don’t do the ancient 20 years and retire on half pay thing anymore.
Soldiers and airmen back then seemed more satisfied. They had a good deal.
I think I’m right by saying it would absolutely bring recruiting and retention back.
The biggest problem (but not the only one) with these ‘environmental’ regulations is the lack of definition of standing. Hence, we have kiddies, prompted and paid for by adults, claiming in lawsuits that fossil fuels are going to burn up their planet.
The stupid, gutless, Coalition government did nothing about this, and the whole country is paying the price.
Everything government touches turns to crap.
– Ringo Starr
Now this is interesting.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-28/quoll-thought-extinct-found-south-australia/102911364
They were well known as chook killers in early settlement days and ruthlessly hunted.
I’d hope Woodside appeals – but the relevant definition and regulation appears fairly clear cut (although luckily I work as a NDIS male-to-male sexual relief masseur, rather than as a lawyer).
The chances of amendments to the ‘cultural’ operation of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations?
In the current cultural environment?
With the current retards looking to stay in office?
With howler monkeys on the prowl?
Australia’s country risk in the resources market moves up a notch to: Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here.
Where’s that place in Australia that has a rocket launching site that can do Space Shuttles? Whatever happened there? Where’s my Space Port?
When we drop the tariffs on Martian gold and platinum, we can build an Interstellar Multi Function Polis (IMFP).
We’re never going to develop the Ardlethan Anomaly or have hundreds more dams that are possible, outlined by CALD.
:sad face:
Poverty is ultimately a choice.
J.C.:
Helen Caldicott?
That was pure speculation at the time as that story wasn’t published.
I got it wrong that the Right faction was in on a move to get rid of him.
The sudden exit was an attempt to ambush the Right with a fait accompli of the Allan-Pallas ticket. The bit Dan missed was that any challenge would delay the party ballot for a month.
But the key thing I got right was that Hunchback has treated anyone outside the Left faction with utter contempt and the chickens have come home to roost.
This is why Allan needs to clean out the #istandwithdan elements in the office.
He has tired of the grind of the job, but he has not tired of wielding power.
Bullies never do.
Galaxies are racist.
Small group of astronomers call for renaming the Magellanic Clouds, accusing Magellan of racism (28 Sep)
Astronomy has lately been the last refuge of actual science, now even it is going woke. I’m sad.
Elon Musk asks a lot of great questions.
Bit of a mix up. Oh well.
The point is, the whole story was about the dispute between the government, the unions and the firefighters.
This bit was relegated to a sentence:
I’m guessing that the ‘people of no appearance’ demographic was involved, otherwise TheirABC would have been shouting about it.
Ambos and firies put up with this shit all the time.
Yet the alleged pillars of the working class, the Labor Party, don’t give a damn about these people.
I don’t understand why people who throw things at emergency vehicles should not be charged with criminal damge, or whatever it is called.
Does anyone know?
Buckets of Common Sense – President Trump Impromptu Interview Following Michigan Union Speech
September 28, 2023 – Sundance
President Trump was interviewed by NewsMax at the conclusion of his speech to union and trade workers in Michigan. {Direct Rumble Link Here} The impromptu interview covers a wide variety of topics and includes Trump’s pragmatic advice to the UAW leadership about their contract request.
As President Trump aptly notes, the Biden Green New Deal vehicle mandate for 100% electric vehicles within ten years, will collapse the U.S. auto industry.
It really doesn’t matter how much the union leadership demands for a pay scale, when the job itself will be wiped out.
Other points of pragmatic common sense are throughout this interview, and it is refreshing to hear Trump talk about optimal solutions to big challenges. WATCH:
The Second ‘First Loser’ Debate was an Embarrassment to the Legacy of Ronald Reagan, But Modern Republicans Just Don’t Care…
September 28, 2023 – Sundance
According to the portly 1% fellow of no political significance, we are all supposed to think “Donald Ducks” is some brilliant labeling by the jerk from Jersey. But in reality, it only shows the complete dissonance of the professional republican class who have hired him to take shots at the leading GOP candidate. If there is a better word than pathetic, use it here.
What the hell did Ramalamadingdong have on top of his head last night? Good grief, if smuggling a Quokka onto the debate stage was a skillset for POTUS, Ramaswamy leads the furriers. Perhaps having to stand next to him was why Nikki Haley had blood coming out of her eyes, her face, her whatever. Sheesh, she’s a nasty person; and that has nothing to do with gender appropriation or misogyny.
As the Daily Mail noted [SEE HERE] the second of the first loser debates showed exactly why Donald Trump is leading the field by 50 points. President Trump was in Michigan giving an “America-First” voice to the forgotten middle-class, while the professionally republican were stacked up in California talking about who supports Ukraine best.
What an absolute sh*t show. WATCH (3 mins):
At the end of the last page:
Says who?
We have services and utilities. Electricity does exist up here, you know. We even introduced chairs about three years ago. Also, you can now get a pizza on a Tuesday if you want.
Pioneering types?
I can probably build a log cabin if required, but I didn’t need to.
The problem people run into after living in D-Town – or anywhere up here – is generally family-related. Specifically, after a boyfriend/girlfriend or husband and wife team – with or without family in tow – make the decision, as a team, to live in places like Darwin for the lifestyle, the following happens:
1. Wifey – ‘I’m too far away from my mother’;
2. Wifey – ‘My parents can’t look after the kids after school while I pursue my career so I have to put them in daycare’;
3. Wifey – ‘I’m too far away from my mother’; and
4. Wifey – ‘I’m too far away from my mother’.
Special mention to ‘I didn’t realise it would be hot.’
So, that family group doubles their expenditure and moves back to drizzling, syringe-laden southern capitals because invariably Mummy’s apron strings pull the ladeeees back, bringing a silently grumbling and now-broke man back with them.
It is actually a huge improvement in lifestyle, should one wish to actually go outside once in a while.
The Second ‘First Loser’ Debate was an Embarrassment to the Legacy of Ronald Reagan, But Modern Republicans Just Don’t Care
September 28, 2023 – Sundance
According to the portly 1% fellow of no political significance, we are all supposed to think “Donald Ducks” is some brilliant labeling by the jerk from Jersey.
But in reality, it only shows the complete dissonance of the professional republican class who have hired him to take shots at the leading GOP candidate. If there is a better word than pathetic, use it here.
What the hell did Ramalamadingd@ng have on top of his head last night?
Good grief, if smuggling a Quokka onto the debate stage was a skillset for POTUS, Ramaswamy leads the furriers.
Perhaps having to stand next to him was why Nikki Haley had blood coming out of her eyes, her face, her whatever. She@sh, she’s a nasty person; and that has nothing to do with gender appropriation or misogyny.
As the Daily Mail noted [SEE HERE] the second of the first loser debates showed exactly why Donald Trump is leading the field by 50 points. President Trump was in Michigan giving an “America-First” voice to the forgotten middle-class, while the professionally republican were stacked up in California talking about who supports Ukraine best.
What an absolute sh*te show. WATCH (3 mins):
The Second ‘First Loser’ Debate was an Embarrassment to the Legacy of Ronald Reagan, But Modern Republicans Just Don’t Care
September 28, 2023 – Sundance
Seven kamikaze pilots on political suicide missions, Donald ducking the action – and the REAL debate winner revealed – MAUREEN CALLAHAN’s wickedly barbed verdict on Fox News’ reality show from hell
It was like watching seven kamikaze pilots on a two-hour political suicide mission.
Could Reagan’s Air Force One – suspended over the candidates of the second Republican debate, held at the former commander-in-chief’s Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California – have been a better metaphor?
An 88,000-pound fuselage, a storied aircraft that carried the kind of Republican president the party wishes would alight, just hanging there.
The threat of falling, crashing, taking out everyone with it — the only survivor Donald Trump.
For the winner of Wednesday night’s debate didn’t even show up.
His instincts are maddeningly unerring, and in skipping the debate again he made sure that he — not the economy or the migrant crisis or rising crime or the Russia-China-Iran axis — was the top trending topic on stage.
‘Donald,’ said the pugnacious Chris Christie, addressing the camera head-on, ‘I know you’re watching. You can’t help yourself.
You’re not here tonight, not because of polls’ — of course not, because Trump is polling at 58 percent among Republican voters, blowing away nearest rival Ron DeSantis by 43 points — so why this absurdist theater?
The Trumpster has a gift for getting to the heart of the matter.
Pity he’s so bad at picking people.
On botanical notes. It’s Spring, and the motel is chockers with Floriade visitors, the weather is perfick.
Azaleas are magnificent, daisies doin’ it, thick scent of flowering Jasmine everywhere.
Wally Dalí
Strangely enough, Wally, that was my first reaction.
The second was how good a seal was being generated by the fact her hair was outside in the supposed vacuum, and what sort of conditioner she was using to keep it ‘soft and lustrous, without a greasy feel’.
But that’s just me…
A good communicator but a terrible manager. Totally undermined the issues he was sent to Washington to resolve.
LOL! I’ve been reading various articles on the debate too, such as it was. A circular firing squad with the RNC, ‘moderators’ and Fox included.
Worst take I’ve seen so far (which I won’t bother to link) came from Scott Johnson at Powerline, who has galloping TDS at least as bad as Michael Ramirez. I’m sad about that.
Perhaps, instead of thumping our chests pretending to be big tough men and yelling that GB News and Lozza Fox should not apologise for Fox’s comments about “shagging”, we need to step back, calm down and take some deep yogi type breaths. I agree that Ava Evans’ remarks (and she has a long history of nasty vitriolic comments) were infinitely worse than anything Lozza Fox said however the bottom line is and everyone here should know it (unless they’ve been asleep under some rocks) that the left control the strings now, and so we now live in a very woke and authoritarian world. Like it or not, the left control everything. It’s easy for us mere mortals here on this blog to grandstand and urge that Lozza and GB News not apologise, but it isn’t so easy when you have to make corporate decisions which involve money. A media outlet like GB News, under sustained attack since its inception only two and half years ago, depends on advertising dollars to keep it going. That’s the plain cold reality. This combined with a draconian UK government media overlord called “OFCOM” a government bureaucracy that successive Conservative governments in the UK since 2010 have done nothing to curb, rein in or disband, means that GB News has to tread very, very carefully. Here’s who should shoulder the blame, David Cameron, Theresa May, Blowjob Johnson and now Rishi Sunak. They are the ones who’ve done almost nothing to fight this cultural progressive shit….NOTHING.
Neither Fox News in the US nor Sky News in Oz nor GB News in the UK have money trees and so they depend on advertising dollars from companies willing to advertise their goods and services on their outlets. Just remember, before Tucker was terminated, he had virtually no major company advertising on his programme. Does anyone seriously reckon that Fox would have terminated Tucker otherwise? I doubt it, he was a commercial risk. That’s how effective these far-left activist campaigns are against right-wing outlets and commentators. As I said earlier, the reality is that media outlets like Fox, and GB News need money to survive. It was (and is) the same here on Sky. For example, from Pell’s imprisonment back in March 2019 through to April 2020, few major companies were willing to advertise on Sky and particularly Bolt, save Harvey Norman and one or two others. Sky, to their credit, stood by Bolt. Bolt’s crime? He had the temerity to speak up for Pell and query the verdict. That enraged the activist left. But whilst Bolt was right (and we knew it at the time), advertisers fled Sky, thanks to the activists. It’s taken five years for many advertisers to trickle back to Sky. I remember a few years ago speaking with a well known Sky host, who said the progressive activist campaigns against the media outlet are ruthless, unrelenting and unstinting. And Sky News owes NOTHING to our own cohort of spineless Liberal politicians. I’m not aware of any of Coalition cowards speaking up for Bolt or Dean or Panahi.
As I wrote earlier this morning, there was a war and many on the right forgot to turn up to the fight. That’s the reality. So, we’re now dealing with the consequences of this refusal to fight, everything is captured, and the double standards are constant, nauseating and enormous. Will Ava Evans be made to apologise for her vicious comments about male suicide? Nah, she’ll get a free pass, she gets away with it. Everyday we see these double standards played out here in Oz, the UK and the US. I don’t know what to do, but GB News needs a license to stay on air and if the activists get their way, that license will be pulled, and the Fox/Wootton/Evans hoohaa is manna from heaven for those activists.
However, I’ll end on a positive note, there are some bright lights, such as this blog, and this is why I don’t and won’t ignore the cockroach from Melbourne, who comes here and splatters his offensive shit across the blog, from his fantasising about “punching Nazis” which is just code for punching you and me, from calling the late Cardinal Pell a ‘rock spider’ (he’s never retracted it), and more recently, laughing at footage of women being physically assaulted by perverts in broad daylight in a park in Auckland. There are some who say he and his ilk should be ignored. I say NO, you fight back, because fighting the culture wars starts locally, in the backyard, on this blog.
Cats post the odd ‘ABC news’ link here. I sometimes break my ALPBC embargo for those recommendations. Cats refer interesting articles.
But today I went to look at the ABC News front page.
FMD! In aggregate, they triggered me something horrible. They despise me, they REALLY despise me.
Shut it down.
Fire them all.
Mountain of skulls ( as far as it can be achieved without violence against women and gays).
Dover Beach:
What a lot of people in the Western economies fail to realise is that Russia has inherited from the USSR a program of civilian production substitution for military needs. I don’t know if the program has been kept up, nor do I really care. Every factory in the old USSR had a plan to stop production of civilian goods and switch to a planned military output. It was updated every year.
Like the old joke about Ivan who worked in a pram factory and was expecting his first child. Not being able to buy a pram in the open market, he decided to steal the parts from work and assemble it at home. One of the other workers at the pram factory, on the birth of his child, remarked in the Collectiv Canteen that he had seen the wife carrying the baby in the street the other day. “What happened to the pram you were stealing the parts for, Ivan?”
“It was hopeless, comrade.” replies Ivan. “Every time I had enough parts to build the pram, it turned out to be a machine gun!”
DeSantis seems to be just another RINO. Maybe the good stuff he did as Florida guv was just a bit of red meat for the masses.
Having walked to Robin’s Tree on Haidrians Wall – What a Rat Bag
The most bizarre whodunnit gripping Britain: Theories swirl over just why world famous Sycamore Gap tree was chopped down in the middle of the night…as boy, 16, is quizzed by police
Sycamore Gap was located next to Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland
Bizzare theories are swirling tonight over why the world famous Sycamore Gap tree, which appeared in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, was chopped down in the middle of the night, as a 16-year-old boy is quizzed by police.
As for Pence- grub, phony, traitor are understatements.
Umm, Cassie, could it be that everything you said in your lengthy rant was previously said by contributors?
Just a thought. 🙂
Johanna – Not his fault. The fix was in, and also the Left has so completely colonized the elite level of society that short of picking young outsiders he had no choice but try to get the best he could. Aside from Pompeo and Ben Carson they were almost all swampies. And recall that McConnell spent four years subverting his own President by slow walking approvals – such that at one stage it was going to take 11 years to get Trump’s first term nominees approved by the Senate. It’s revealing that Turtle has been waving through Biden’s fruit-salad of appointees.
As an example the CEO of Exxon – he turned out to be a seditious lefty despite being an oil corporation executive. Or John Bolton, the neocon hawk of hawks, who now we can see is more aligned with the Dems than with the right. Quite amazing how Trump tore off the masks of these people.
And of course the elite RINOs are still working with the Dems to keep him out and keep themselves in control of the GOP. Ordinary Republican voters are roughly 80% behind Trump though.
The trouble is that the termites have been eating out America, and especially its institutions, for at least seventy years. That got a kick along during the Carter Administration, and the Bushies were too complacent to realize the bureaucracy was being captured. Then Bill Ayres’ acolyte Barack Obama cemented it, and now we’re here. I doubt the US can survive, too far gone.
wrote a book too.
which was almost as bad as the da Vinci Code
Scientific integrity.
No Place For Transphobia in Anthropology:
Session pulled from Annual Meeting program
And settled science.
The UN should offer a “World Citizen” passport, conditional on total revocation of any national citizenship.
Then the “Somewheres” could place restrictions on the visas of “World Citizens”, and they would only be able to vote for UN staff positions.
As to the rise of India, like China, it is running up against the limits of growth its culture can support. More growth is possible, but the cost of that growth will rise until the problem of corruption will make the cost of growth prohibitive.
Like the absence of growth in Aboriginal Australia before Britain got here, a society can only grow so far. A tribal, war faring society is why Aboriginal society stopped. It never made the transition to the city state because constant resource limits stopped it cold.
The answer to his question is that the border with Mexico is not the border of the USA empire.
Seems like they never made it to the next stage beyond hunter-gatherer i.e. agriculture generating protein in a reliable way to expand the herd and enable innovation and specialisation of roles.
More important, they never invented Beer which enables many things.
Bugger. Now the Dems will really go for him. I had hoped he’d keep a lower profile until Starship could get a successful launch.
Elon Musk backs a border wall as he plans a visit to Eagle Pass, Texas (28 Sep)
I agree with him, but SpaceX is too important to be endangered like this.
Return to a militia Army, spread across the nation?
That might cause some angst, however, I am reminded that the AOC RAF Training Command expressed an opinion in around 1938 along the lines that “Unlike [WW I], the next air war will not be fought by a mass-recruited Air Force”, because too technical. In 1942, as AOC Bomber Command, he was sending the products of a new “mass-recruited Air Force” on night missions over Germany.
John Pesutto must apologise to Moira Deeming or ‘get out of the way’: Peta Credlin
Sky News host Peta Credlin has warned Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto to apologise to Moira Deeming or “get out of the way” and let someone else take on the Labor Party.
“Now the first task of a party leader is to keep the team together, and this is where Pesutto has so far failed badly,” she said.
“He should have publicly supported his upper house colleague, Moira Deeming, after the women’s rights rally she’d spoken at was gate-crashed by neo-Nazis.”
Ms Credlin added Daniel Andrews’ resignation gives the Victorian Opposition leader a chance to make the “fresh start” he needs.
“John Pesutto needs to prove he’s got what it takes to be an effective leader, show he’s better and more magnanimous person than he has so far by apologising to Deeming and re-admitting her to the party room,” she said.
Blah, blah, blah. But, the moment it comes to an actual test, our Teal is revealed, She demands that Fox ‘apologise’ for saying that a horribile woman who disparages male suicide is, in the desert island scenario, not his choice.
He absolutely not have to apologise, and you should go back to having drinkies with your wealthy Eastern Surbs friends,
There was a “Yes Minister” episode on just this subject. Relocating troops to Scotland to address the Soviet threat from the North.
“But, Minister, there are no good private schools in Scotland”.
“Blah, blah, blah. But, the moment it comes to an actual test, our Teal is revealed, She demands that Fox ‘apologise’ for saying that a horribile woman who disparages male suicide is, in the desert island scenario, not his choice.”
I knew the Queanbeyan motel resident was itching for a fight. Lizzie isn’t here so she sharpens her cheap Kmart knives on me. She describes me as a teal? Now that’s funny, comedy gold. Try harder.
And besides, Lozza Fox has already apologised.
Another alternative is the US (Possibly USMC) policy of “up or out”. Not promoted within a set period, differing by rank, SNLR.
It keeps the force young and predominantly single, easing the pressure on families.
Real Clear Wire – America Needs a National Maritime Strategy
America doesn’t have enough ships and building more takes far too long.
A war with any level of attrition in the Pacific could quickly turn catastrophic without sufficient warships, combat logistics vessels, and merchant ships. Outnumbered and without the capacity to replace, refuel, and provision our troops, we would struggle to deliver victory.
This precarious situation carries significant implications for our economy, national security, and international standing. Consequently, America must act now, before it is too late, to set a new maritime trajectory by building a coherent national maritime strategy.
Chinese Communist Party leaders are students of history, and they recognize America’s arsenal of democracy all but ensured America’s triumph in the Pacific in World War II. Overwhelming numerical force, new ships, and maritime shipping secured our victory.
Now, the Pentagon considers China the world’s top shipbuilder, not America. China controls the world’s 4th largest shipping company, and its Navy is the world’s largest.
Meanwhile, America’s maritime enterprise reflects years of neglect and decline, despite being the world’s largest economy, and relying heavily on global maritime trade.
Following World War II, American commercial shipbuilding led the world in output and tonnage. Today, the United States ranks just 19th in shipbuilding and produces less than ½ a percent of the world’s commercial ships.
The fate of our shipping heritage is no different.
In 1947, the United States fleet of over 5,000 vessels represented 40% of the world’s shipping capacity. By the 1960’s, however, America’s nearly 3,000 ships only carried 16% of the world’s cargo. Most recently, our nation’s international trading fleet consisted of merely 80 ships, accounting for less than 1.5% of global trade.
What about the United States Navy?
During the late 1980s, the fleet size was nearly 590 ships, but it has dwindled to about 290 ships today. Meanwhile, China’s naval forces have soared to 340 warships, with hundreds more guided missile patrol boats and armed maritime militia vessels.
These trends directly translated into a decline of our nation’s power and influence.
We are in a race against time since China now has more than 200 times the shipbuilding capacity of the United States. Of course, we prefer all our ships be American built.
But, in the race with our greatest adversary, we need a mix of US, Japanese, South Korean, and European-built ships in a Reagan-style build-up. I applaud efforts like our Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, but that program is spread over 20 years and is focused solely on public shipyards. That’s too little too late.
I still think he should have used Cleese’s apology as a script.
It’s a real apology, in the strict legal sense, covers all the bases and everyone knows it’s made under duress.
Also comedy gold.
ORWELLIAN
Slouching Towards 1984
Orwell could not have imagined the swiftness in which the Left has exerted control over our body politic
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” he portrays English society – renamed Oceania – as a futuristic version of the 1940s Soviet Union. In this invented society that Orwell calls IngSoc – English Socialism – the populace has even less freedom than the Soviets permitted its citizens and life consists only of drudgery, loneliness and hideousness. The novel grips the reader with fear and loathing of a totalitarian future enabled by technological advances and prompts one with the question: “Can it, will it happen here?”
It goes without saying that the United States in 2023 bears little resemblance to 1984 Oceania. In Oceania, the state had total control over the language, economy, science, history, personal possessions, personal thoughts, music, art and literature.
In the U.S. today, however, it is not difficult to see how government intrusion and control reduces freedom, creates fear and confusion, reduces economic opportunity and prosperity, distorts history and science and creates unnecessary interpersonal conflict.
One of the ways Big Brother, Oceania’s leader, exerted total control was by subverting language. This reduced the capacity to think thoughts not approved by the state. “Newspeak,” as Orwell coined it, consisted only of words that expressed permitted thoughts.
“Thoughtcrime,” another Orwellism, punished illicit thoughts. Illicit action therefore became literally unthinkable. Truth is what Big Brother declared it to be at any given moment: 2+2=5 yesterday and 2+2=4 today. History was constantly and literally rewritten in order to satisfy the “truths” that Big Brother was currently promulgating.
The most nefarious aspect of Big Brother’s rule was of course his brutally enforced elimination of freedom, which he accomplished by suppressing the truth and promulgating lies.
In all eras, in all states, in all political parties, leaders tell lies. The danger arises when the state and state co-opted institutions suppress, eliminate and punish unapproved ideas. Big Brother had the power to ensure that his lies were the only “facts” that were knowable. As one would expect, dissent was rare and not tolerated. Disagreement and belief in objective reality and a persistent past was punishable by torture, work camps and usually, death.
Is it a stretch to see hints of this control today, when scientists are censored for sharing findings that the establishment disagrees with; when college students fear they may receive a poor grade for presenting an alternative viewpoint; when employees submit unwillingly to racist diversity training; when government agencies and colleges require diversity oaths for employment; and when government reduces wealth and freedom by shutting down businesses deemed unnecessary?
Orwell intended his novel to serve as a warning (not a guidebook) to Great Britain: that socialists and central planners running an all-powerful state can and likely would use their power for pernicious ends.
Sadly, in the U.S. both political parties have contributed to the growth of the surveillance and controlling state. Here are some examples:
Leftist politicians have learned that they can successively add to their power, one mandate at a time, while eliminating freedom for everyone else.
While these power seeking politicians are likely unknowingly following the Orwellian design of language, truth and history control, these are the logical steps required to attain greater authority over the American people incrementally — boiling the frog.
Achieving one enables the possibility of achieving the next one.
It seems rather ironic that the Left is constantly calling the Right the party of fascism, yet not even George Orwell could have imagined the level of control that the Democratic Party has tried and (arguably has succeeded) in exerting over the body politic in such a short period of time.
How did she become a custodian? Was she elected, chosen, appointed or did she inherit it from a family member? I suspect this is about to be ensconced in the constitution if the voice gets the nod.
The Scarborough field is outside Australian economic zone. Woodside should tell the Useless F ing Liars where to go. Build huge platforms in Indonesia. Process it at sea, fill the tankers, bye bye Australia. Not one union lackey on site. Pipe it to Indonesia if necessary.
P:
How are the Socialist governments supposed to produce their stock-in-trade, that is mountains of skulls, if it doesn’t force people to stop resisting them?
This outcome was predicted years ago, but voters keep voting for Socialist governments, then finding excuses for Socialist piles of skulls.
End Of The American Dream
Life As You Have Known It Will Never Be The Same Again…
Our Society Is Melting Down Even Faster Than Most People Thought That It Would
It can be difficult to believe that the wild scenes that we are witnessing on the streets of America are actually real. Earlier this week, I wrote an article entitled “What Life Is Really Like In America’s Hellish Inner Cities”. I wrote that article before the widespread looting that just erupted in Philadelphia. Just when I think that conditions in our core urban areas have reached a low point, they seem to find a way to get even worse. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of this crisis. As economic conditions continue to deteriorate, countless numbers of people will become very desperate. And when countless numbers of people become very desperate, our society will descend into a permanent state of chaos.
On Tuesday night, dozens of young people went on a rampage in the city of Philadelphia.
It is being reported that “stores in several areas of Philadelphia” were hit…
But now our inner cities are littered with scores of boarded up establishments with “space available” signs on them.
This is what the future of America looks like, and it isn’t good.
Once upon a time, we could be proud of the shiny new cities that we had built from coast to coast.
Those cities were safe and they were clean.
But now our major cities have degenerated into crime-ridden hellholes that are absolutely filthy. In New York City, the millions of rats that live there are constantly making headlines…
Mark Steyn left GB News rather than bend the knee to Ofcom whom he is currently taking to court
This man fights
He fights even though he is recovering from a series of heart attacks
My pragmatic side agrees with Cassie but this time I’ll follow Joanna’s clarion call
The fight back has to start somewhere
Laurence Fox lost his career as an actor because he offended the mob
It’s a pity he couldn’t offend them one more time for the road and carry on
The SFL should be screaming from the rafters but no, as bad as the UFL*. * Patent Pending. Anyone interested in purchasing the UFL name can get my email off Dover. Anything over $2.00 considered.
“The fight back has to start somewhere”
I don’t disagree. But if Ofcom pull the license, there’ll be no GB News. It needs a license to broadcast. GB News will be over, finito, kaput.
Add to that the internal nepotism.
Finding out via my son (currently in Darwin) that it’s not the “look after your mates/ close knit band of brothers” culture they would have us believe.
Major arse kissing needed all the time and if you’re not into that then no scope to broaden your skills or, get headhunted by a more diverse command.
Old Ozzie:
Well, it’s come to that – just as was predicted 20 years ago when the invasions started.
The corporations haven’t yet worked out that to get approval involves paper bags filled with cash before you lodge a proposal. The only problem with that is that the demands will keep escalating. I can see where corporation will go overseas to do business somewhere more reasonable like Africa or South America.
Self appointed? I wonder what traditional tribal punishment would have been for anyone daring to usurp such a role?
Good piece on how selective the Gates funded ProPublica is when they focus on Thomas but forget RBG.
Why is the left inventing a new recusal standard for Justice Thomas that didn’t apply to other justices, particularly to Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/28/propublica-smear-of-justice-thomas-reveals-a-partisan-double-standard-for-scotus/
Bizzare theories are swirling tonight over why the world famous Sycamore Gap tree, which appeared in Kevin Costner’s 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, was chopped down in the middle of the night, as a 16-year-old boy is quizzed by police.
For a 16 years old he’s quite a dab hand with a chainsaw .. perfect cut straight thru & lclose to the ground … I’m guessing chainsaw cos a handsaw would have taken hours and buggered him long before the topple …….
Lotza pix (&theories!) in the local Geordie news …
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sycamore-gap-tree-northumberland-live-27801497
An academic goes off the reservation…
What causes lithium-ion battery fires? Why are they so intense? And how should they be fought? An expert explains (28 Sep, via Phys.org)
Despite his exothermic comments about Gaia’s holy chariots I think he’s quite safe from being cancelled. Somehow, it’s just a feeling I have. Here’s who he is:
Good onya Dr Azhar!
Pfft. In the longer term, trees can be regrown.
Make the little bastard replant all Henry VIII’s oaks for the Navy.
But if Ofcom pull the license, there’ll be no GB News. It needs a license to broadcast. GB News will be over, finito, kaput.
Brings back memories of Radio Luxembourg & Radio Caroline the british pirate radio stations of the 1960s .. The british gummint banned ’em, refused ’em licenses and they ended up far more popular than the BBC monopoly …
Ozzie
These problems are very localised in large American cities with significant black populations. It’s certainly a concern, but that’s what it is, as it’s not widespread. The rest of America is going about its business and doing what we’re all doing: watching this ugly shit on Twitter.
After several years of leftwing whites telling blacks they’re hard done by and they should hate whitey, propaganda from Black Lies Matter, the poisonous MSM, Critical Race Theory, along schools and universities pushing venom about race, it’s no wonder some blacks have been brainwashed into believing they’re owed free Nike sneakers. Let’s also not forget the incentives to loot, with some jurisdictions no longer thinking these crimes should be punished severely. People respond to brainwashing and incentives? I’m shocked.
Looks like the QC is on the turps again. You’d think she’d have snared a schoolboy as its the holidays.
Cassie GB News already threw Steyn under the bus by refusing to guarantee him funding for any legal proceedings with Ofcom so he left that channel and retained his credibility
GB would have forced Fox out too if he didn’t apologise to protect themselves don’t worry about that
So now post the Fox apology the mob’s boot is finally on his neck as well as GB News
As a result his value as a countervailing voice has now been devalued
I haven’t read the Cleese apology, but Calli is right. If you need to apologise for something then apologise. However if it is for upsetting trolls (Like Latho did to Greenwich), then simply play their own game.
That is, you give a non-apology like, “I’m sorry I called -insert name here- “a fat, ugly heap of lard”. It was extremely insensitive of me to make remarks relating to her plus-sized fashion choices.
Likewise I regret mentioning that she looks like she has been receiving turbocharged liposuction injections from Lizzo for the past few years. I’m really sorry about that.
Finally, I may I express my sincere and profound regret for suggesting that -insert name here- was mistaken for a helium filled dirigible when last she went through the KFC drive through for the family bucket she shared with her many cats. I don’t know what I was thinking.
Just repeat the most outrageous things you said. Amplify them and make the apology insincere.
Also repeat in the apology some of the more offensive things they said. I.e I know she hoped I would be run over by a mack truck walking my kids to school, but that was no excuse for calling her a grotesque corpulent and diseased water buffalo.
Play by their rules and expose their nastiness.
I kind of agree with Cassie despite being one of the first to disagree with her.
If Bolt appealed his case and lost, the common law position would be cemented against his IMO, accurate reportage, until later legislation explicitly repealed that common law.
There is more than paying legal bills, costs and a judgment at stake here. The risk ought not to be understated.
Democratic run cities and states are in the process of becoming inhabitable. The migration out of these places has been accelerating since Biden took power. A Balkanisation of the US is emerging.
The Demonrat encouraged looting, violent crime, taxation theft, BLM “reparations” and green madness is driving families and businesses out. SF CBD commercial property values have collapsed , as an example. In Chicago the CBOE and CBOT- businesses that bring in tens of $ Billions annually supporting several thousands of jobs are considering moving their exchanges due to rampant crime and social chaos. Cities across the US have defunded their Police forces allowing criminals to gain control of once peaceful safe neighbourhoods.
And yet, this mighty “Superpower” and it’s corrupt regime which sticks it’s interfering nose disrupting so many other nations business- Libya, Taiwan Straits, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, South America, Russia/Ukraine etc- causing death , destruction and misery everywhere it goes , absolutely refuses to control it’s own land borders. Almost 10 million alone this year just ushered through Cartel crims, child traffickers, Chinese and ME undesirables all just walking in by the trainload.
The US isn’t a serious model as a nation. Not anymore.
Nigerian migrant social worker in Ballarat says she’d vote Yes twice if she could.
– The Guardian.
Mmm…
Gloriously ROFL study of political bias in ChatGPT style AIs:
ChatGPT tackles controversial issues better than before: From bias to moderation (28 Sep, via Phys.org)
Then there’s the graphic at the very start of the story. Hahahahaha! “Moderation” = somewhere between Stalin and Trotsky. And “libertarian” = nearly but not quite totalitarian.
It reminds me when the Skeptical Science climate catastropharians did an internal poll of themselves, thinking they were a cross-section of society. The results were accidentally leaked…
Skeptical Science: “[W]e’re all a bunch of leftists” (2012)
So, it seems, are the AIs who are so popular lately. We are so screwed.
How did she become a custodian? Was she elected, chosen, appointed or did she inherit it from a family member?
From Monty Python’s Holy Grail –
King Arthur – “I am your King”
Peasant in the field – “Well, I didn’t vote for you”
LOL……………….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7zI1W_5JI
If only Putin was the American president.
It can be difficult to believe that the wild scenes that we are witnessing on the streets of America are actually real. Earlier this week, I wrote an article entitled “What Life Is Really Like In America’s Hellish Inner Cities”. I wrote that article before the widespread looting that just erupted in Philadelphia. Just when I think that conditions in our core urban areas have reached a low point, they seem to find a way to get even worse. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning of this crisis.
The lawlessness being seen on the streets of Australian towns and cities should be seen part of this development – though obviously it is exacerbated in the USA due to other factors. I am seriously concerned that this is a new chapter in our history.
Scarborough is inside Australia’s 200nm exclusive economic zone.
The problem for the project is the huge, arbitrarily drawn ‘environment which may be affected’ boundary. Which is what brings Aunty Raylene to the party.
It’s almost as if the bureaucracy is working against the economy.
Pearson’s latest obnoxious emission – trying to drive a wedged between Anglos and no Anglos stinks of Marxist identity politics. Does he come up with this divisive poison in his own or does his principal sponsor put him up to it?
Lol, the US already has a despot as President.
The Archie Leach (John Cleese) apology:
Completely sincere and heartfelt, made hanging upside down from a third story window.
Even Kevin Kline accepted it. 😀
I think you’re just trying to redefine success in the face of failure. Sanctions were meant to bring Russia to heal. They didn’t.
So you believe the first hand reports from witnesses literally buying stuff off the shelves are wrong? You know what could be mistaken, the reports you’re relying on re gouging which may not be as widespread as your sources say.
US statecraft has been idiotic for some time. The last two years, especially, have been an amateur hour disaster.
He was wonderful in that movie. The chips! And in Cry Freedom. Interesting dichotomy.
JC
Sep 29, 2023 10:00 AM
JC, no, I’ve seen multiple reports of grocery prices and consumer goods, from various people including Speedbox, and they don’t indicate any such thing. Sanctions have failed.
(in my best Lurch voice…..You rang?) Just cruising past.
I’m well aware the sanctions haven’t had the impact that was initially expected. That isn’t to say they haven’t caused trade re-routing or some hardship because they have.
I haven’t gone back to read the guts of this debate but the sanctions have failed by almost every metric. Everybody needs to remember that Russia has had an ‘isolated’ existence since the 1950s. The cold war necessarily meant that Russia had to be generally self sufficient as international trade was largely closed off to them.
Since 1991, that changed quite a bit and oil/gas exports (in particular) but also fertiliser, grain and wood became big export earners among others. For years, huge volumes have gone to China, firstly, followed by several EU countries but also India, the assorted Stans and the Middle East. Exports to the USA have always been fairly low.
In early 2022 I wrote a guest post that Dover graciously allowed on the Cat. In part, I said: ….. in 2016 the Russian alternative to the SWIFT financial transfer scheme arrived. Named the System for Transfer of Financial Messages (SPFS) it is similar to SWIFT in terms of technology and infrastructure. Undoubtedly a minnow by comparison to SWIFT but that isn’t the point. Russia’s banks are all connected and if Russia is cut off from SWIFT, they will transition to the intra- and interbank messaging which now includes the Chinese banks and those of a few other countries.
About a month later, Russian banks were cut off from SWIFT but the point is that trade is undertaken in rubles or yuan (or rupee and others). The current US$ to ruble exchange may be of interest to us, but is largely irrelevant to Russians. The ruble to yuan exchange rate has been generally stable (excluding the period around the actual invasion).
In any case, soon after the post mentioned above I followed up with another post in which I said: We must recognise what is happening: China has cemented a reliable and uninterruptable supply of energy, minerals and other resources which it will use to achieve its destiny. It cannot allow itself to be reliant on the west. By happy coincidence, China’s huge and nuclear armed neighbour has those items in abundance and what’s more, is deeply offended at decades-long western efforts to suppress and isolate it.
The look-back is provided to underscore my point – Russia was economically and production insulated pre-Ukraine and has cemented that position since. Anything they do need that is not produced locally, they get from China. There are also plenty of loopholes that other traders are exploiting. Whilst Russia cannot avoid some of the inflationary impacts that is affecting the globe, the sanctions have been a failure. Moreover, the prices of oil/gas have easily covered any incidental losses from the sanctions. Don’t forget that both Russia and Saudi Arabia BOTH cut oil production by a collective 1.3m barrels per day thereby pushing up prices. So, less oil produced, but more money.
Finally, only last night, Mrs Speedbox was talking with a dear friend in Russia. I accept this is a tiny one-person straw poll, but part of their discussion was about the cost of living. The friend reported there were no shortages (of any description) and although some prices have gone up, everything was ok. Mrs Speedbox disclosed some of our price increases (as a percentage) and our friend was shocked!
Sorry for the long post but the sanctions are a failure, the US$/ruble exchange rate is irrelevant to most, the shops are well stocked, prices are generally stable notwithstanding modest upward pressure on some goods. The biggest issue seems to be the loss of Ukrainian soldiers lives. I heard repeated references to how sad it was about “all those young boys”.
Flyingduk:
What digger in their right mind would expose their wives and children to the crime ridden shithole of Darwin?
Real Deal, here’s another version:
Apology, acceptable reason, compliment to her alluring qualities.
What more could he say?
What digger in their right mind would expose their wives and children to the crime ridden shithole of Darwin?
I always assumed that Army Barracks were fairly secure.
Words fail me, they honestly do.
The thermal stability of the cell is found to decrease as the number of cycles increases with the accumulation of dendrites
‘how’ it fails and the modes, is pretty much understood
‘when’ it fails is a bit of a guess
both probably less important than ‘where’ it fails
it is basically a semi-random time-bomb that might go off
or … it might not
… gotta just wait and see
GreyRanga
Sep 29, 2023 8:28 AM
I’ve never stopped fighting it since I got the vote and realised what the fight was about.
“Laurence Fox lost his career as an actor because he offended the mob
It’s a pity he couldn’t offend them one more time for the road and carry on”
Kevin Sorbo (“Hurcules” TV show) was also cancelled. See what he has to say on Timcast IRL about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3-lHTOLViM
Apology, acceptable reason, compliment to her alluring qualities.
That’s great, Calli.
My now adult children expect me to often apologise for my oafishness to them. I often do unreservedly.
The apologies I hate are the “if anyone is offended then I apologise.” Usually a lefty type on Twitter after a gratuitous insult.
My dear brother said something offensive to me once. When I later remonstrated with him he said “I’m sorry you feel that way”.
I always thought steam coming out of your ears was a metaphor until that moment.
Cooper whoever she is, is just the front for Marxist lawfare with the conivence of Canbra. I suspect a lot of foreign money is involved too.
I suppose Quenthland’s much better. Then again, the Courier-Mail today:
Ohhhhhhh.
Brutal sincerity is always important when apologising. Also, don’t lie. The truth is your friend.
steveinman:
Buffet Champion Chris Christie really thought he had something
123&B,
Yes, Morrisson and his fellow travellers built his team of sycophants who (like all Left) colonised the Army.
And yes, a characteristic of this ‘new order’ officer class is intense careerism and patronage pursuit.
In the same way that the US Army’s problems in Vietnam (and WWII) can be traced back to West Point, the ‘wokering’ of the ADF can be traced back to ADFA.
A completely unnecessary (counterproductive) institution that fosters cliques, group think, perverse idiology, and initiative killing careerism.
How many times does it have to be proven that defence forces, perhaps more than any other institution require intellectual diversity not Stalinist group think.
The miserable parasite city on the molongolo can’t even govern itself or pay for itself. It is unfit the govern this great nation.
An addition…when apologising to the perpetually aggrieved.
If the hurt is genuine and meant by the hurter, that’s another kettle of fish.
There are people out there who are constantly sifting and examining everything you say, looking for something to harrumph about. Poor old Lozza wandered straight into that one, like Frodo in Shelob’s Lair.
Thanks Speedbox
The US dollar/rouble exchange rate is also translated against other currencies. If, for arguments sake, there is no movement in all other currencies in the world against the US Dollar, the Rouble will translate the current year’s exchange rate loss against all the other currencies. There’s no free lunch here.
For instance, the Euro/Rupee exchange rate would reflect the 50% loss the Rouble suffered against the US Dollar, plus or minus the movement of the Euro to the US. This would apply to all cross-linked exchange rates. There are no arbitrage opportunities.
More here:
Note that 14% inflation was experienced with the currency doing reasonably well in 1922.
Since the beginning of 2023, the currency has dropped 50%. Moreover, and very worryingly, nominal wage rates have clocked up a very large increase. Some of this can be attributed to the military call-up and also to the fact that lots of Russians have skipped town to avoid conscription. But possibly not all of the increase would be for that reason.
This is toxic for anyone concerned with inflation. Wage inflation is inflation!
Ouch!
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steveinman:
Show Off Karma
Iirc William Maley used to lecture at ADFA. Says it all Typical Canbra. Nothing good comes out of Canbra.
Some did but conservatives generally have never fronted up for the fight. I have repeatedly pointed out that the conservative disdain for taking protest to the streets is one of their greatest weaknesses. A person glued to the road is perhaps an idiot but receives much more publicity than a thoughtful letter to the editor. You don’t have to engage in nonsense style protests but if you aren’t willing to put yourself at potential risk don’t expect anyone to take you seriously.
I certainly don’t take you seriously you sactimonious twerp.
Musk goes to US border to interview Border Force:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1707565081750290910?s=20
Laurence Fox, Kevin Sorbo, James Woods, Jon Voight, Jim Caviezel, Mel Gibson.
Seems to be a bit of a thread going on with this. Ok I have certain reservations about our Mel but not the other guys.
Fortunately Hollywood seems to be committing seppuku, so it doesn’t really matter all that much. On the other hand indie movie makers now have plenty of talent to choose from. And Sound of Freedom has now reaped over ten times their budget at the box office. I wonder when fillum producers will notice?
And, in other news (sorry if posted) DJT says he “doesn’t see any VP material from the Republican primary debates”
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1707203083296510210?s=20
Darwin Or Radelaide?
“Can I get back to you?”
So, my friend John H, how do you suggest the shooters of Australia should proceed to get justice and fair treatment from the Police, politicians, media and bureaucracy?
I went full superwog at Aldi today.
A bloke at the checkout asked the girl the behind register to go check the price of some rice.
Oi! She’s not leaving her spot to do that. You are holding everybody up! She called staff to check, and he just walked out after the request.
W*nker!
Best part was when said “thank you for saying what I was thinking”
Just normal high jinks for Ipswich and Logan. Surprising it found its way into the Curious Snail.
Daily Mail