HB Bear … do you have a ticket for day five of the Test Match?
Open Thread – Mon 16 Oct 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
Whoops!.. McWho out LBW third ball to Bumrah. Ball kept low. Cap’n Woke comes out as night watchman.
They are two identical buckets of steaming excrement from the same source. One markets itself as a ‘Family Bucket’ and…
The bulk of the funding will be provided by the European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom,…
LOL. The Green Light.
I like GUZZLR.
Just wouldn’t look right on my humble Lady-Yaris.
calli
Oct 16, 2023 3:50 PM
Something that was disturbing though – the number of aboriginal flags at the Pro-pallie rallies. Strange allies.
Abo activists are proto-Communists.
Like Palis, Muslims, Moro, Sandinistas, FAARK rebels, Sentero Luminoso and all “freedom fighter” groups since Castro and Che, they all want to stick it to the big bad capitalist man.
JC
Oct 16, 2023 3:37 PM
Toyota claims to have developed a battery that is now going into production that will extend distance to 1200km and requires 10 min charge. Again, Toyota makes this claim. If true, it’s a game changer
I have no doubt that the battery technology will change. Also noted from that same article the comment by the author “While it is ramping-up its electric-car development efforts, Toyota has committed to offering motorists a choice of what powers their future vehicles – petrol, diesel, hybrid, hydrogen and electric – as not all customers are ready or able to go electric.”
By coincidence I was at the local barber this morning and the chap in the chair next to me was saying how he had just returned from two weeks in Europe on business. Eavesdropping on the conversation, he told his barber he was in mining and the subject turned to lithium to which the other chap said that the lithium requirement would, in his opinion, be less that some people forecast. Needed yes, but the changes in technology would get more out of less. He didn’t elaborate how.
Also remarked about ‘stupid windmills’ that were a blight across Europe and had very limited energy production capability.
He also made some comments about how rare earths would (likely) be in short supply which will constrain many other industries.
Didn’t hear much after that as the another barber started using a hairdryer.
You Farking You Dot of Dottinness?
You do not know the Constitution,
No, no one ever said that.
Oh do stop it with this dishonest bullshit you insufferable little prick.
You are the most vile, ignorant, bandwagon jumping, dishonest, self aggrandising little twerp I have had the misfortune of interacting with online.
Now go and ask your wife Plankton, the sentient AI that Marty Armstrong programmed in 1985 on MS-DOS – what was it called, Destiny? Karen?
Gilas – the modern ones certainly. Which is why they so readily find a place at the table when the struggle comes up.
San Francisco tech billionaires begin to see the light. Trump was an excellent president and this one is just awful.
Oh, yeah.
They are going hell for leather for electronic voting, It removes the visible trail of ballot papers and puts voting into the cyberverse. As we know, from things like the Medicare and Optus hacks, this is very far from being foolproof and secure.
In addition, as I have said before, the AEC is the refuge of duds that no other Department would promote, and that is a very low bar.
It is true that it is hard to sabotage a pen/cil on paper ballot system. For some reason, things that work are hated by ‘progressives.’
If anyone thinks that an electronic system chosen and run by the AEC is trustworthy, I have two bridges and a large rock in central Australia to sell you.
About time!!! 😛
Heh podium…again!
It’s good to be liklik qwin bilong dispela pepa!
rosie
Oct 16, 2023 3:40 PM
My Chinese contacts, admittedly small in number, voted no.
Yes, I was surprised that a group of normally high-achieving, hard-working people with a 2000-symbol alphabet would support a group with a reputation for mooching and no written alphabet.
Everyone at S&B was studiously avoiding talking about the ref. Heads down, needles flying.
As this area returned around 71% No (before postals) I take my hat off to their gloatation restraint.
I also put it down to a plethora of sharp (and hot) objects within easy reach of the less than gruntled.
An easy enough mistake to make.
Abo activists are proto-Communists.
Abo culture in effect is identical to islam: boss men and no one else has rights and women are possessions. Islam is more eschatological though so is the worst of the 2 scum cultures (sic).
“Moving forward. Now’s not the time for recriminations.”
I have pieces of paper that sez I do, plus I had the funniest professor ever for that subject.
I fully recommend we only employ Irish educators to make educated more engaging.
A sample of my constitutional law class:
https://youtu.be/Q47CuQX0gn8?feature=shared
Oh do stop it with this dishonest bullshit you insufferable little prick.
You are the most vile, ignorant, bandwagon jumping, dishonest, self aggrandising little twerp I have had the misfortune of interacting with online.
I do so love this idiiotic. stuff And what is aggrandising ? Must be a new word that Shakespere never knew. LOL,
So STFU and get a Life……….LOL
LOL
Chris at 2.35 pm tried tactfully stop this silly, constant goading:
JC acknowledged the request. Johnny just can’t help himself. Then SatP will arrive and the thread ruined.
So predictable. So tiresome, especially when there is so much interesting stuff happening in the world.
Hey
The YES People farked it up
Simple.
Game Over.
Some good news:
The ABC has lost a defamation case brought on by former special forces commando Heston Russell.
$390K + costs.
“IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus says a strike on a convoy of Gazans fleeing to the southern part of the Strip Friday appears to have been a false flag operation carried out by Hamas.
…
At least 70 people, most of them children, were killed in the strike, which occurred on a route that Israel said should be used for fleeing Gazans. Another 200 were injured.”
Via Breitbart.
another barber started using a hairdryer
LOL! Nice one Speedy, you actually had me going there…
Now I’m off to buy more Li stocks
Since human beings are carbon based, those calling for decarbonisation should lead the way, by example. After you, maties.
I’m not letting some idiot who can’t read properly (yet who tries to give others lessons on spelling and grammar) and came to the EXACTLY WRONG CONCLUSION contrary to what I wrote besmirch my name.
I loathe to do this, but here is the original cranky response to “Barry”.
– – – – – – – – – – –
I don’t like being a mean prick but when people start smarmy shit for no reason, well you can eat shit.
Barry, Barry, Barry…
If you are going to make claims of judging other’s ability to engage in deep thought, where were you going with this?
A. Hard core secessionism. A rare hot take.
B. Pettifogging “conservative” who wants a government that existed before Gough Whitlam but doesn’t like change. Utterly typical, we still have batterds who are suffering LNP members.
C. Mind numbing pedantry pointing out the constitution is a form of legislation, ignorant to s 128 existing at all.
D. Following C. the irony of State constitutions originally “only” being legislation that mostly can be repealed or amended by each Parliament, the existence of savings provisions and the existence of s 51 (xxxviii) Federally which should be changed immediately to clear up nationhood and possibly other rather wide ranging, dangerous powers (wholesale repeal; probably not alteration).
To be one a deep thinker Barry, what you need to read is the very beginning of s 51. Ignoring this is the height of brain dead, mind numbing pedantry.
The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws…
Oh dear, our little yapping pup Barry. It looks like you’ve rolled around in your own shit!
– – – – – – – – – – –
You would have to be full blown retarded or be a poison dwarf to come to the conclusion Johnny “Too late for vancomycin” Rottenhead came up with.
Enough.
1) On the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, the bulk of the IDF is ‘Stood down for the holidays’ … seems odd.
2) The border is so closely surveilled that, in the words of former IDF border guards themselves, ‘if a bird craps on the wire, we know about it’, yet, when multiple surveillance sites go down (allowing heavy earthmoving equipment to breach it), the usual response to a bird (QRF and air assetts) isnt triggered, and the ID F takes *hours* to turn up, even with multiple calls from the ground.
3) Gaza is tiny and not only blockaded and surveilled 24/7/365, it is literally crawling with Mossad agents, yet they fail to identify the largest ever rocket buildup (>5000) in gazas history, and the presence of dozens of paragliders, and their taking to the air?
Im still mulling what conclusions to draw, but to attribute all this to incompetence
(historically *not* an Israeli characteristic ) seems naieve in the extreme.
Musing on the Mundine and Marcia blowup.
If we really are lucky enough to be cheek by jowl with the world’s oldest continuous culture shouldn’t Marcia as a mere female STFU ? Consequences might be severe.
Roger, you know better than that.
The only way a political question can be put to a referendum is in terms of amending the Constitution. Amending the Constitution requires bipartisan support.
Do tell what amendments to the Constitution about policy disagreements would ever even get up for consideration, let alone get bipartisan support, and then be agreed to by Australians.
As I said, cool your jets. Like the supporters of Julie Bishop for PM here ten years ago, you are letting your emotions run away with you.
Don’t be like Leftists who do just that.
Gosh, Li is a very crowded space right now. Miners galore touting their “nearby Li potential”. I’m looking at the acreage covered in unsold EV’s and can’t imagine there will be some kind of supply shortfall anytime soon.
Gold and Si on the other hand…
Delta A
Oct 16, 2023 4:39 PM
Johnny Rotten
Oct 16, 2023 4:08 PM
JC
Oct 16, 2023 3:51 PM
Nice try Delta but it can’t work without a Dick Head JC. So, it won’t work. LOL
FFS
This looks juicy.
Imagine the USA with Trump in charge, energy independent and the administrative Borg placed firmly back in their boxes.
…A panel of administrative law scholars and US Supreme Court watchers says the nation’s highest court is likely to narrow—if not overturn— its decades-old precedent in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a move that would significantly weaken the modern administrative state…
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/expect-narrowing-of-chevron-doctrine-high-court-watchers-say
JC, would this be uuuuuge or is it overegged?
On the subject of referenda, matters like immigration policy should not be fixed into the Constitution. They, and other matters like sunset clauses for legislation, are more suitable subjects for plebiscites.
Use the example of the gay “marriage” plebiscite to establish a pattern of plebiscites held concurrently with Commonwealth elections, on the petition of at least 2% of enrolled voters. The timing would focus the minds of the candidates.
Their ABC has slipped a long way. The staff aren’t even trying to hide it now:
In the past couple of days, I’ve noted Three different ALPBC staff on social media stating about the Yes/No coverage: (paraphrased for brevity & clarity)
1) Laura Tingle: This idea of “balance” has to end.
2) A 4 corner researcher: The requirement that we give “equal time” is abhorrent.
3) A producer: The ABC has a duty to do more to counter the No campaign’s ideas.
All were stated as if they are self-evident facts.
I’m old enough to remember when accusation of bias would have ABC staff in hotheaded denial, rattling on about how scrupulously impartial their aired content was.
The People Have Spoken and the Elites do no not like it.
People first. Dickheads second,……………..
Beautiful to see isn’t JC.
Chamath has gone from doing a victory lap around DC after the mid-terms to realising he’s been lied to non-stop.
He’s someone that is one phone call away from every DNC donor of note.
Being a billionaire gives you that access.
Nothing makes better lubricant that fat old wobble bottom tears..
As usual it’s all about him.
Phillip ” I ate all the pies, and I’ll do it again” Adams
@PhillipAdams_1
The Message from the Heart is broken . Dark victory
Cassie (and other Cats and Kittehs) you might like this.
LA march, complete with dogs. 🙂
Mole
I’ve been posting about it for a while now. It would be an enormously important decision. As you know, it would de-ball the administrative state. I think it will go through. Hope!
Im still mulling what conclusions to draw, but to attribute all this to incompetence
(historically *not* an Israeli characteristic ) seems naieve in the extreme.
Ditto. It is what many people are “mulling over”. I find it almost impossible to believe that the IDF/Israeli government/Mossad et al would allow the possibility of the atrocities inflicted upon their citizens IF they knew they would eventuate.
Either some plan went horribly wrong, or the intelligence community were duped in a stupendously clever trap. But the world is stunned, I think, that it caught Israel off guard.
thefrollickingmole
Oct 16, 2023 5:00 PM
Nothing makes better lubricant that fat old wobble bottom tears..
Dot, You are a Wanker.
Whatever happened, deception played a huge part. Deception and technology. All part of a stratagem that duped Israel quite effectively. I don’t buy that Israel went to sleep at the wheel. Somehow they were duped and Hamas isn’t sophisticated enough to carry that through alone. Hamas had that kind of support from outside actors.
Johnny
You do nothing but pick fights with people, repeat what others have said and spit out garbage that Martin Armstrong has ejected from an orifice.
You are a valueless contributor.
A surprise attack. Multiple avenues, many…many perpetrators. A holiday, a party, perhaps a complacent people ready to be reamed. They underestimated the enemy in both force and means.
It happened quickly, it was coordinated and it was savage.
I’m not sure where the thinking is going. Are you suggesting Israel was somehow in on it? Why? If the suggestion is that the IDF was unprepared…granted with bells on. This tragedy will occupy their thoughts and imaginations for years to come.
And yes, I’ve smelled the stench of “false flag” shyte elsewhere on the ‘webs. Fanciful, cruel stuff. The typing of fatheaded, malicious, cowardly types who like to be the holders of Secret Knowledge. I despise them.
Will they ever stop making mountains out of molehills?
FFS, I was in Thredbo years ago when it snowed on Christmas Eve.
Why do they regard it as their duty to scare people about things that are simply part of natural variation?
Oh, right, they ‘want to make a difference,’
Memo to employers – never hire anyone who says that. Also, if they use the word ‘passionate’ – into the circular file.
Nyt probably paywalled.
Maybe because it was mayhem.
There were 5000 rockets fired in just 20 minutes.
The Long Wait for Help as Massacres Unfolded in Israel
Lysander
Oct 16, 2023 4:28 PM
I was at the local barber this morning
About time!!! ?
If I was a cruel person I would say that I probably had more cut off than others of my age have on at the best of times.
Fortunately, I am not that sort of person. 🙂
Wally Dali
Oct 16, 2023 4:42 PM
Now I’m off to buy more Li stocks
I have a few Li stocks but have also been a bit cagey about them. I’m not (as) convinced as others about lithium. To be honest, the other chap at the barbers comments more or less mirror mine. I’m just not certain that lithium batteries are the ‘solution’ many seem to think they are and not for anything weighing a few tonnes or more (ie heavy equipment, trucks, ships, aircraft etc).
It has the potential for being the most secure vote counting system.
Government IT purchases in Australia are hilariously bad.
NO more diamonds!
Go trawl through Seek etc. Dave Chapelle comes to mind. “I have a passion for frozen yoghurt.”
The Israeli left is just as freaking vicious as the arseholes we have to contend with in the West. The stories you see of these pricks using the dead bodies of the murdered Israelis to go after Bibi are just disgusting. One new story that I won’t link to says Bibi should be tried for war crimes. It’s along the same lines as the American left going after Trump. There’s no line; the left won’t cross.
Any big money to be made in Lithium was made 3-4 years ago.
The foot dragging development of high capacity onshore processing plants is slowing investment IMO.
Gold continues its steady climb at A$3040 per ounce.
You were a victim of magical thinking, don’t go down that path.
Hamas are murderous deceptive bastards. That’s enough.
Rosie, I access that useless paper. The story you’re referring to is a compendium of stories attached to photos. If I just pick up the stories, they won’t make much sense without the pics.
Elbow’s seat of Grayndler voted 74.3% YES. Australia voted 60.41% NO.
In other words, Elbow lives in an inner-city bubble of rich white people totally out of touch with Australia.
As Jimi Hendrix wailed before he died at the age of 27 in the 1970s: “I hear my train a’coming.”
I hear your train a’coming, Elbow.
the decarbonisation of the economy
No more frothy beer, fizzy drinks and sparking wine.
Teals now mentioned alongside The Greens. Oh dear, some more brand work required.
I hope Albo sees this.
—
Danger Dan Reviews:
Australians know best. The Voice Referendum. Anthony Albanese Thomas Mayo
Gold is so heavily manipulated as we fules know.
Would love to see it hit $2k and beyond but they slam it down whenever it approaches.
An indicator inflation getting out of control. Mustn’t have that.
The Green/Slime train is a’comin’ for AnAl. He will be lucky to hold his seat next election. His voters will be looking for someone more couth.
Pedro the Loafer
Oct 16, 2023 5:30 PM
Yes, I think so. Any lithium stocks held now are probably a long term proposition. Assuming you get them for a reasonable price (with a company who has good resources/management etc) which shouldn’t be too hard as several reasonable companies have seen dramatic share price falls from the silly highs of 2021/22.
When you’ve got a Curtin doctor’s wife parking the Tesla alongside some Fremantle swampy in a ‘95 Corolla to protest live sheep exports we’re not in Kansas anymore.
Yes, quite so. And doesn’t your back look all the smoother for it too.
Jorge
There’s no manipulation. It’s just buyers and sellers, including some central banks, possibly adding to their gold reserves.
If you look at the commodity complex through various indexes, commodities hit highs some time around mid’ish 2022. When the market began to see the Fed earnestly attempting to take inflation down the complex eased off somewhat. In the past week, it’s reacting to the war. If you’re looking for an inflation hedge short the bond market such as TDT (an EFT).
And Canbra.
Amidst a thicket of Masters of the Universe, in touch with each other.
Ta, JC, will have a look.
Speedbox, I’ve traded this, but a long time ago. It was or is the largest lithium miner in the world.
Great name
It’s literally halved in value since May of last year. Funny, there were people here saying lithium was going to the moon because there was a shortage. There never was as lithium is plentiful.
Chart
Avi in Israel.
Danny Danon says he can’t answer why for now, but terrorists caught Israel by surprise, and there will be a proper inquiry after they win the war.
Eradicating Hamas is the ONLY option
Green preferences in safe old Liar seats are like watching a boiling frog in a pot. Great, until at some point you’re offered some soup.
Griz, you need to explain this one.
The all time spot high is USD2070-ish. Not far away. Sure, there are efforts to manipulate but they haven’t been too successful the last few years.
Once that high is taken out, a lot of attention will be paid to gold and gold miners. In a world with very sticky inflation , oil at $80+ and a USG chalking up new debt at an astounding rate ($1.5T this year), it looks as if gold is doing it’s job in a reasonable fashion.
Another egregious breach of TheirABC’s Charter:
And, it started with this:
FFS, what is wrong with the Coalition that they don’t move several motions rebuking TheirABC in the House and the Senate for gross breaches of the Charter?
Musk needs to cut EU customers access to twitter and starlink broadcasting for 24 hours or so.
Replace it with an error message on screen reading:
Then sit back and wait for reality to impact.
Shut it down
Fire them all
Mountain of skulls (as far as can be managed without violence against women and gays)
Give the whole budget to truth-tellers not activists.
Sleazy needs a speech therapist. Sounds like a smooth brained mouth breather eating a bag of dicks. Truley vomit inducing.
Jorge
“Manipulation” is always an excuse by someone unable and unwilling to accept the current price of a stock or commodity. It’s just stupid shit that should be ignored.
Anthony Albanese ‘politically dead man walking’ after Voice rejection
The ALPBC is a lost cause. Programs like Four Corners, even Q&A are shadowsof their former selves, broadcast to a diminishing audience of rusted on Green Left viewers. The Lieborals finally realise there is little to be gained from appearing on the network, which is now overlooked for election debates by both sides of politics. It is barely worth taking a swing at, much less breaking a pick over.
I currently have a nyt subscription, for the puzzles.
Probably not the best article to link to.
Point though re the rockets.
If you accept that hamas has a city underground then the non noticing of 5000 rockets being manufactured over the last couple of years is somewhat plausible.
PM manipulation, aka spoofing ;
“A federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois convicted two former precious metals traders at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan) today of fraud, attempted price manipulation, and spoofing in a multi-year market manipulation scheme of precious metals futures contracts that spanned over eight years and involved thousands of unlawful trading sequences.”
“For years the defendants allegedly placed thousands of false orders for precious metals, creating a ruse that lured others into making disadvantageous trades” said Assistant Director Luis Quesada of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division. “
Former J.P. Morgan Traders Convicted of Fraud, Attempted Price Manipulation, and Spoofing in a Multi-Year Market Manipulation Scheme
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-jp-morgan-traders-convicted-fraud-attempted-price-manipulation-and-spoofing-multi-year
flyingduk
Oct 16, 2023 2:17 PM
Somewhere up stream, the Tunnels were said to be at 40 Feet/Meters? below ground.
A fuel air explosive – or a hundred of them – should collapse them enough to allow seawater in from the ground.
I’m not.
JC
Oct 16, 2023 5:54 PM
Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM)
It’s literally halved in value since May of last year. Funny, there were people here saying lithium was going to the moon because there was a shortage. There never was as lithium is plentiful.
A very long time ago I was told that when you start getting stock tips from taxi drivers, time to get out of shares. Fundamentally true today as then. Also, Warren Buffett said “be fearful when others are greedy” (or something like that) and the greed around lithium was palpable.
In any case I agree with your remarks – some of the lithium proponents were almost unhinged in their commentary and the share prices have seen big falls. Lithium is not a bad share to own per se, but some of the prices a couple of years ago were insane and fortunately, my internal alarms were ringing loudly.
JC, would this be uuuuuge or is it overegged?
Over egged. Congress, the courts and the admin are in a constant state of fuked flux. The admin, like here, has been growing. But also like here if the parliamentarians had gonads to do the work the bureaucrats would be knackered.
Spoofing is a very very short-term way of attempting to move a market one way or another by covering one side with bids or offers meant to scare people and create a fictitious environment for a moment.
Spoofing is fun, we often did it when it was legal. We’d hit the bids or offers in the brokers, which everyone would hear and then go out direct to participants and ask for two way prices in larger size.
Spoofing doesn’t cause liquid markets to move more than a few ticks or so, much less US160.. Now, it’s illegal.
J.C.
Citation needed, fathead.
Turtlehead
No, you don’t bumbling back to an old comment that’s literally many hours old and expect people (including the blog owner) to be subjected to this bullshit. From now on, if you have something to say then do so in a timely manner or just fcuck off. It doesn’t work that way, you bumbling idiot.
or upticks
It looks like the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde competition is on, and we already have a front runner…
And downticks too, Harold Scrooby.
I would look to put it out there that I would thoroughly hate the job.
I would hate it even more if it was insanely remunerated, and I swear the last straw would be being required to wear Saville Row suits, eat only in expensive restaurants with endless Bordeaux wines and where even the urinals flush with Perrier, and be forced to have a palatial residence on Sydney Harbour.
Now, it’s illegal.
Unless you are an Australian super fund buying out Sydney airport shares…
try not to shoot yourself in the foot again
From 4.46:
Taking aside ‘oh they would say that’, if you have a people intent on wiping millions of Israelis off the face of the Earth, in their feeble goatish minds it wouldn’t be a stretch to sacrifice 70-odd of their own in an attempt to reach that goal.
Is it 200 comments per page now? I am seeing ‘489 comments’ but page 3. And it is a bit of a twirl to get down to 489.
That’s right, Turtlehead, you never for a moment had any vapers about the ref being stolen. Not once, not twice, not even four or ten times even. You believed it would be an honest election. Just like when you were vaping that the Chinese military were going to use commercial airlines, land in Melbourne airport and take the country. You later referred to that as a mere scenario.
From my link;
“The defendants engaged in thousands of deceptive trading sequences for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium futures contracts traded through the New York Mercantile Exchange Inc. (NYMEX) and Commodity Exchange Inc. (COMEX), which are commodities exchanges operated by CME Group Inc. These deceptive orders were intended to inject false and misleading information about the genuine supply and demand for precious metals futures contracts into the markets.”
“In September 2020, JPMorgan admitted to committing wire fraud in connection with: (1) unlawful trading in the markets for precious metals futures contracts; and (2) unlawful trading in the markets for U.S. Treasury futures contracts and in the secondary (cash) market for U.S. Treasury notes and bonds. JPMorgan entered into a three-year deferred prosecution agreement through which it paid more than $920 million in a criminal monetary penalty, criminal disgorgement, and victim compensation, with parallel resolutions by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities Exchange Commission announced on the same day.”
$920 million in a criminal monetary penalty is not for a few ticks. It is organised, institutional, corrupt price manipulation. And the crooks at JPM were busted for it.
So yes, gold prices have been manipulated, that much is certain. But as the price has shown, demand has kept gold prices elevated the last few years despite those attempts. Gold, doing it’s job.
Given that Hamas forbade Gazans to leave this is plausible.
I nearly referred to him as the bubble boy of Grayndler earlier.
Oh Makka … can’t be true
and anyway, it’s prolly just spoofing
but then, nobody would ever spoof … right?
it’s illegal
Dot at 5.16, and apropos of the Eurotrash representative:
Note also the lack of any reasoned argument, let alone discussion. Responses are eenie meenie miney mo between ‘FFS’, ‘LOL’, ‘……….’. ‘T.W.A.T.’ and to the more handsome and physically appealing of commenters, ‘Neanderthal’.
Gold ticks could be manipulated for a very short time as I described.
The amount of the fine is punitive and doesn’t demonstrate anything other than the regulators in the US being overly zealous.
More to the point, traders most certainly run speculative positions, but in context of the overall market bank positions in those sectors actually small.
Love it — thanks heaps -so good to see.
That should make the Palestinians feel so much better, knowing that the fair Lidia supports them.
Bruce in WA
Oct 16, 2023 3:08 PM
Good stuff – I can buy three more rifles in WA.
Yeah, I know. Greedy traders, brokers and banks are caught engaging in years of criminal price manipulation activity. Shocking stuff!
And here on the blog, some wanker keeps defending their right to be thieving grubs. Who to believe!
Trans is a trading expert now. It’s the same as flicking a switch. All things solipsistically derivative.
Still pushing the bullshit. You’d think Albo might be losing faith in bullshit after the referendum, but no. I guess that’s all he’s got.
Global Oncology Alert: Unsettling Trends Post Covid-Booster Shots, A Plea for Pause
Eh? I don’t have emotions. 😀
The distinction between referendums and plebiscites is an Australian semantic quirk.
Even government documents refer to the conscription plebiscites as referendums.
The time is very ripe now for the SFL’s to divorce themselves from the stupidity that is our Ruinables/Zero carbon self destruction project. And come out with a sh*tstorm barrage aimed at Sleazy’s very vulnerable head. Will they do it? Doubtful.
Albo needs those distraction squirrel to be breeding like … err rabbits.
“Watch me pull a squirrel out of this hat.”
You’ve got 60%+ of it (under various forms of title).
For c. 3% of the population.
What will be enough?
Interesting to see what shallow fatheads they admit to being.
So he is going to do something about cost of living after all – he is going to make it worse.
And, gawd, another plan to become a ‘superpower’ of some sort. Must be a day ending with ‘y’.
Given Elbow’s magic touch, he’d end up pulling a hat out of a squirrel.
For the true, committed bullshitter bs looks like gold.
the speech Albo will not give today:
Our National Broadcaster’s best (the Hun):
There’s a pic of Mr Ballard attached to the piece. He is a jowly, pasty 20-something excruciatingly white ‘man’ with a penchant for black(!) T shirts.
Oh, okay.
You can’t understand because you live in a bubble.
Nice. Really nice Mr Ballard. Yelling at elderly women in pubs who have an opinion different to yours.
I would imagine you would have had to cope by ingesting a bit of extra amyl nitrite prior to the salad tossing* activities later that evening.
*Don’t look that up on Urban Dictionary.
Really, I defended the right did I? You delusional idiot.
Look, you keep doing this look-at-me, look-at-me thing and have no freaking idea what the hell you’re even talking about.
Spoofing markets isn’t the type of market manipulation you initially referred to. You picked something up on Google and decided to run with it because you think you’re able to bamboozle people with lowbrow nonsense. There is no market manipulation by anyone, and the only entity that could achieve serious manipulation would be the Fed. The Fed accounts are available; now go see if there have been any gold movements of late. You’re such a nasty little piker. You’re almost always wrong, and you then get hurt.
Gold is a very liquid market. If it’s not going up to where you want it, it’s not because of market manipulation. In any event, if I or anyone says something that is against your view on penny-ant investments, it’s not going to change what comes next. I think gold is a shit investment. You obviously think it’s great. That’s fine with me, as I don’t care.
Now go spoof someone else. Go spoof trans as he sounds like he needs a good spoofing.
Steady on old chap.
Some people are particularly sensitive when it comes to firearms
and their safe use.
Especially if they once had a CPOQMG pull his side arm on them
after getting just a little bit careless with a F1 SMG.
Dutton should just suggest to Albo that his renewable dream be put to a referendum.
As I recall the seats in the senate are red, in the reps they are green. But such a challenge will guarantee that the seat the PM takes is uric-acid bleached with a yellow staining to the front and brown at the back.
It happens.
We cope. 😀
DoD settles COVID vaccine mandate lawsuits for $1.8 million
Israel-Hamas war: ‘80% of bodies’ found, including children, were tortured
Ballard is lucky she didn’t slap the dick out of his mouth.
Vanguard invests in Chinese military-linked companies: report
Israel kills Hamas commander behind one of heinous kibbutz attacks — another top leader also taken out
Sounds like you met my late father …
Not looking good.
Polish nationalists PiS on brink of losing power – exit poll
So worse than a Cleveland Steamer then?
U.S.
Breaking News! Bill PASSED to STOP Gas Vehicle Ban!
I think I can see the problem.
Yay! Let’s have even more referendums on stuff Australians actually care about:
— the role of the mad Net Zero religion in increasing the cost of living by ramping up electricity prices.
— mad immigration levels worsening the housing crisis and inflating the cost of living.
But, if you listen to the Greens and Andrew Wilkie, all Israeli soldiers are war criminals?
In Israel, there is a memorial honouring this Aboriginal man.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/07/aboriginals-stood-with-jews-against-the-nazis-we-have-a-long-history-together
The point I’m making shortarse, is once again I have proven you to be a lying rude POS. You actually admitted it above. And it’s easy to do as well. Financial markets are not a cross between voodoo and a doctorate as you try to make out. And you are not the one and only person able to fathom their “mysterious” ways. Wrongly as it happens ; the Fed issues debt? Lol. You fkg dolt.
Anyone taking note of your prognostications and checking on them should know this. (Like your famous Buy AMP call lol) .You are full of sh*t and resort to abuse, lying and vicious comments when exposed. If dover wants to cut the incessant squabbles here he only has to remove one single commenter. One. And 99.97% of all squabbles and fueds disappear.
Now, I can bury the hatchet, because I’m a very reasonable and respectful person. I don’t want to bore others with calling you out time and again. But, if you do persist in being a crude vicious arsehole , you simply have to expect push back. So stop the cry baby antics. Your call.
Isn’t he the Hitler salute boy? I seem to remember something along those lines happening at Duntroon.
It might be wise for him to keep his gaping maw closed.
it’s more like pressing a button to re-trigger a timer for a retarded comment generator
… if only there was a off switch
The future of the A.B.C.?
Isn’t just great that we have politicians that know better than the vast majority of voters.
Hahaha. ALP clown Stephen Conroy says Elbow made and kept a promise on the referendum — “and that’s democracy!”.
I’ve no idea why the ALP continues to wheel out such buffoons in the media. Conroy is Peter Dutton’s most important campaigner.
Along with some hazing of junior recruits, as I recall.
“,,,,the decarbonisation of the economy”
No more food, no more people….
Eco-nazis are DEATH CULTISTS.
Like Lidia in her Pali scarf and up on her hind legs braying…an ornament to our Parliament.
If only the ornaments remained mute.
Given Elbow’s magic touch, he’d end up pulling a hat out of a squirrel.
Comment of the day. Chortles
7.30 host Sarah Ferguson dressed entirely in black. Pants, blazer, blouse.
La Tingle shoulders and arms the same.
It’s really funny.
If only Australia, You’re Standing In It was still around.
Linda Barney’s slurred speech and glasses are so mockable. Marcia, too, a satirists dream.
ALP clown Stephen Conroy says Elbow made and kept a promise on the referendum — “and that’s democracy!”.
In what context did underpants man utter this rubbish Tom?
Captain has lost the toss, again.
Sri Lanka batting.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I’m here all week.
I recommend the plant-based veal (I’m contractually obliged to say that).
On matters lithium.
US based Albemarle has abandoned its attempted buyout of Liontown Resources’ Kathleen Valley for around A$6 Billion.
Her Ladyship Gina owns about 20% of Liontown and has apparently sunk the deal.
You go girl!
Wilkie is still alive?
You watch it so we don’t have to, BB.
What are the odds they’ll have Noel Pearson on next Monday?
Black Ball, Stephen Conroy was trying to pretend that Elbow’s referendum disaster was a victory.
He really is an LNP secret weapon!
My cleaning lady, a YESser, cleared up a lot of champagne bottles today. I explained that I’d been celebrating the referendum outcome.
She took it very well. She’s a good person. Just too prone to sentimental superficial judgements, and hence easily manipulated. That seems to characterise a lot of YESsers.
Tom at 12:01.
I think management are scared of the j’ism collective and would rather pay the odd defamation claim than upset the club.
I can remember lefty j’ism Jill Singer having a hissy-fit collapse on air on the set of Today Tonight because Channel Seven lawyers pulled what was, in fact, a defamatory story about Jeff Kennett.
It seems now a j’ism can run a story purely on the basis that they “passionately believe their source”.
Forget facts and collaborative sources.
It’s the feelz.
J.C:
Oct 16, 2023 6:26 PM
I just checked the rules in the ‘About” column.
It says nothing of the sort.
It also says nothing about your attempts to take over the blog and institute you own rules.
So. Do you own the blogsite, or have some input into demanding people comply with whatever idiot ideas you dream up?
Have you had your blood pressure checked lately, princess?
JC
Put the bottle down, Princess and step back from the keyboard.
I’ve already explained on several occasions the comment, and your malicious stripping of context to make it appear deranged.
Liar.
World Cup news:
The Lankans are hamster-wheeling along nicely at 5 runs-plus per over in the very early stages of their inning against Australia.
Clearly, the Alintas are still recovering from their ‘No’ vote trauma counselling.
*innings*
In the olden times, people who worked that way understood that they were stupid and hesitated to voice their opinions. Now they’ve worked out that they’re in the majority, so nothing will shut them up.
Bit like the love that dare not speak its name; they knew there was something about their practices that caused revulsion and disgust in normal people. But now the thought leaders have declared that we are required to overlook the practices and be accepting.
Tulip mines!
As soon as the artificial demand dissipates the lithium price will collapse. Might take a while though, but when do you pick the Poseidon peak?
The other fun thing is most of the processing is done in China, because it needs lots of energy and produces massive amounts of toxic waste. I wonder when the enviromentalists will notice this?
I hope Albo hasn’t got him doing the numbers.
You haven’t proven anything other than clutching at a straw that somehow spoofing is a serious form of market manipulation. It’s not. It’s a form of manipulating temporary liquidity conditions. Regulators have concerns about short-term liquidity being impacted.
And stop calling for victory all the time, as it makes you appear juvenile.
Well, markets aren’t the same as working a lathe. Last year, you were laughing at Dot and I for taking economics and markets seriously. Now you’re a Nobel Prize winner as well as a hedge fund operator. Congratulations, but this is a massive shift in thinking, especially when you were also telling or instructing me how technical trading was far superior.
If Dover wants to limit squabbles, I’d say he needs to remove several people, including you, but I’m not suggesting anything like that because it’s his blog and you raised this again now like the bossy little Mary you’ve always been. As I said yesterday, I can happily blog with others and have no need to exchange views with you. You agreed not to talk, and here you are again talking to me.
Really, you’re still bringing that up as though it’s a mortal sin. If 60% of my positions are right then I’m happy. If we’re going to look backwards, your view at the beginning of this year that things would be fine turned out to be great, yeah? “LOL.”
Charming. Everything you accuse others of is what you do yourself in spades.
Really, you’re being objective here, right? Look at how your buddy Wodney behaved today and the other idiot wanting to commence another stoush. How about Trans joining in to help you, yet I’m the bad guy. LOL Then there’s you. I really had no need to talk to you.
Get off the soap box, as the bravado and chest thumping don’t do a thing for me. I’d keep the hatchet close by because if you continue with this look-at-me routine and muscle into conversations in an attempt to start an argument, it will end up the same way.
You can do what you said yesterday, which was to ignore my comments and move along, but it only took a day to reverse that.
I’ll say again that what I say about markets or economics doesn’t impact you, as it’s basically anonymous people talking over a blog. If what is said causes consternation, just move on.
In Victoriastan that’s good enough for a Court of Criminal Appeal case.
Wilkie is still alive?
As unfortunately is his trougher wife.
A matched pair.
Who was the poster here pledging 20% of his paycheque to some lithium prodigy? Caneus? Pilbara?
…anyhoo I got bit by the lithium bug, but careful to balance it with other minerals in the dig, and only in decent political landscapes.
Shoulda bought gold, or Tesla.
J.C.
Try to keep a decent grip on your temper, sport.
Just a couple of innocuous posts and you start shouting at people, the shrubbery, or the sky.
Just ignore the people that say you’re a stupid bloke who is going to wake up in bed having had a stroke during the night over a stupid comment on a blog that’s read by less than 0.0001% of the human race. Either that or you wake up in 6 different yabbie traps because you’ve screamed abuse at someone with a much thinner skin than you.
Go out for tea and a couple of drinks with your missus. I’m sure she could use the attention you spend on us.
As soon as:
The noble savage myth dies
The fallacy of industry policy dies
As soon as Keynesian policy fails
You are not recognising the ruling class’s ability to double down as they are largely insulated from the crap they impose on others.
Li is therefore a reasonable commodity to invest in until a better battery tech is adopted widely.
Turtlehead,
Okay.
Saw 1 minute of the cricket. Going on body language the cheaters are going to lose. Shoulders slumped moving slowly, eyes down. It’ll take a miracle. Long way to go but really.
Li is a useful proxy for the madness of climate-change crowds, when the “green” dream dies so will Li price.
Others? No, just you.. And I don’t “accuse”. I give proof (in spades) when I challenge you. Something you’re never able to do. You’re too busy typing out your word walls of abuse and venom.
There’s no shortage of the crap, Dot. The only think that matters is the cost of mining it out of the ground. SQM is or was the largest and most efficient miner on Lith and it’s price has been soared in half in about a year.
If the price goes up, production will increase and or new mines come on stream.
The only thing westerners have to worry about are the usual things, like if child or slave labor is being used or the hole isn’t covered up at the later stage. 🙂
Not quite but I am indeed that nut.
Now Mantle (MTL) and we got Aboriginal heritage approval today for Roberts Hill, to be AC and RC drilled for assays very shortly.
We’re gold mostly; maybe laterite nickel and the lithium should be sold to Elon to fund the Mallina (Au) and Pardoo (Ni) prospects. Neighbours with DEG. This is my move to move up a social class and change my family tree forever. I am fully committed.
I haven’t liked Australian cricket since Ponting retired.
I need a gaberdine suit to make such pronouncements.
Oh yes. Great body language pick.
Their hearts aren’t in it, as opposed to how half of these clowns performed in India during the IPL because on that occasion earlier this year, their wallets were in it.
If the Alintas don’t get three poles in a hurry the Lankans will make 350+, which is waaaay to many for the current crop to get near. Then they will get the arse from the tournament and blame high workload.
They will not blame overpayment.
SYA has been a disaster. CAV is where it’s at baby yeah! Shoon.
Oh dear. I apologise again.
*way too many*
Good Lord. In my defence, I was distracted by the son and heir’s dachsund, who is a great pup but a fire alarm on wheels whenever anyone walks within ten metres of the front door.
in the midst of this massive Li madness, a small dedication to Albo and his delusional Voice crew and their failed soft coup:
House of Cards
Yes.
No
Mashed up silly links aren’t “proof”. It’s tripe which you call “proof”.
Objective as usual. Totally credible.
Have a look at your last comment laced with abuse and venom as well as the macho bravado crap. It’s funny and doesn’t do a thing for me. It’d also very gay.
You’re always calling a win, like the black knight in Monty Python ending up as a torso and still screaming out “I won”.
Now enuff as this is getting boring.
What do you think of the Aussie dollar here?
It’s a race to the bottom between Rugby Australia and Cricket Australia. Only a brave bear would call it.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/101269-monday-short-cuts-2023-10-16
Check out why the States is struggling.
OMG
Isn’t Wilkie the former “Military”, man who sounds as if his ex boyfriend left the nut-clamp attached to his peanut sac?
My lovely Aussie cleaning lady is a perfect reflection of my beliefs: vote NO, no jab, no emporer’s clothes, ie, no pregnant men, no women with a penis, no drag queen story hour, no wfh, absolute belief in God and His might and the power of prayer.
We keep the first hour of her fortnightly visit to sit back with good coffee and discuss family and world events. In the second hour, she cleans energetically (and efficiently) while we maintain the chatter. At some time during the third hour, she departs with kisses and best wishes until we catch up again. And she absolutely refuses to charge for more than a single hour.
She’s my organizer, my therapist and my very dear friend.
Can there be a job any more redundant or irrelevant than hosting a government-funded yoof radio gig? JJJ was pathetic in my day and I’m about to become a grandfather. I’d wager its audience is in the low hundreds.
Here’s what I’m holding you totally degenerate swines. Personal holdings and superannuation.
AMI
BHP
BPT
CXO
FMG
JMS
JNO (LOL)
KAR
MTL
STO
WDS
Don’t think I’m missing anything!?
KAR was lightning in a bottle, wish I loaded up. Did hold LYC heavily before but there was too much fuggery before the good times. Old portfolio was a bit boring and had SLR, BEN and…can’t really remember.
KD:
And they would justify it as their martyrdom with their heaven awaiting them.
MP – “It’s only a flesh wound” not me pal.
Ok then…
I look at DXY, a lot… and if it breaks 106.30/.20 and fails it’s retest of that level, I’ll be getting long AUD. After which I’d expect it to get to high .68’s
Tim Blair: How could you, Australia? Quite easily in all honesty
They’re not coping well with the defeat of their ruinous and divisive Voice. Having lost the match, Yes campaigners and their leftist allies are now busily losing the post-match, writes Tim Blair.
They’re not coping well with the defeat of their ruinous and divisive Voice. Having lost the match, Yes campaigners and their leftist allies are now busily losing the post-match.
The Guardian’s comical political editor Katharine Murphy, typical of her kind, claimed Australia failed a test of our collective humanity.
“Head down in life,” Canberra press pack veteran Murphy wrote, “lost in a fog of conflict and misinformation, we failed an empathy test.”
What an absolute tragedy. But don’t worry, Murpheroo. There are still empathetic Australians out there.
It’s just that they’re entirely located within the ACT and enlightened inner-city Greens/Teal/Tesla enclaves.
One day, God willing, those of us living beyond Australia’s holy empathy zones will achieve the same levels of sensitivity and understanding as, for example, a ‘hypothetical’ Yes-voting Darlinghurst meth addict who’s due in court next week on domestic violence charges.
Twitter leftists haven’t been this upset since the last time they were this upset, which is all the time. Here’s a sorrow sampler from just a few hours on Monday morning:
“I am deeply ashamed.”
“I am ashamed of Australia.”
“I’m ashamed to be a descendant of the white settlers/invaders in Australia today, more than ever.”
“I’m so mad and disappointed that Australia voted no … we are a racist and idiotic country.”
“I’ve never been so bloody depressed and ashamed of Australia in my life.”
“This is a shameful episode Australia will never live down. I’ve been a proud Aussie all my life, until this happened.”
Poor kids. Meanwhile, senior Yes folk were gorging on grief from Saturday night onwards. The Australian reported:
“Indigenous leaders across Australia who supported the voice have lamented the defeated referendum as a ‘bitter irony’ in that newcomers who had been on the continent for 235 years would ‘refuse recognition to the true owners of Australia’.”
This seems to be just a posh, ABC-friendly version of the old Cronulla riot theme: “We grew here, you flew here.” The Indigenous leaders’ statement continued:
“The referendum was a chance for newcomers to show a long-refused grace and gratitude and to acknowledge that the brutal dispossession of our people underwrote their every advantage in this country.”
Not a lot of “grace and gratitude” there towards the “newcomers”. By the way, where are migrants and refugees placed in the Yes team’s superiority structure?
In their statement, the leaders called for a “time for silence, to mourn and deeply consider the consequence of this outcome’’. They said a week of silence would be observed from Saturday night to “grieve this outcome and reflect on its meaning and significance”.
Two thoughts: maybe the Yes team would’ve done better if they’d shut up during the campaign rather than after it.
Also, a week of silence isn’t long enough. Extend it to decades. Please. You’ve earned it.
In the same piece for The Australian, Yes23 campaign chief Dean Parkin repeated his claim that his team’s mission was brought down by the “single largest misinformation campaign this country has ever seen”.
Some parts of the Yes campaign keeps citing alleged “misinformation” but declines to provide substantial examples. It’s as though “misinformation” in their minds is now synonymous with simple disagreement.
Oh no! The New York Times is angry at us about the Voice
Also, they talk too much. Tax-funded ABC Radio National host Jonathan Green at least presented his case succinctly.
“F–k Australia,” he wrote on Friday night, before the referendum result was even known. “I mean seriously. What the f–k. How can you say no?”
Very easily, as it happens. Very easily for more than 60 per cent of us.
Daily Tele
You ought to meet our ironing lady- a total and complete lunatic. I don’t know how she’s still alive. She’s short of breath and reckons she deals with it using natural plants grown in the garden. Like Wodney, she’s also a constitutional lawyer and believes every conspiracy theory under the sun. It’s fun to see what she comes up with.
Rugby Australia board are a bunch of out and proud sissy men, who have destroyed a game i happily played as a youngster, until i was 32.
Cricket Australia has gone “Hold My Beer” whilst dressed like Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Damn their oily hides.
…and I’ll take my own advice – to bed with a good book.
More of a gargoyle.
Listen up losers.
When MTL moons, we’re having Kopi Luwak and good French cuisine. I’m semi serious.
John Mearsheimer’s latest book, How States Think, published two weeks ago, reportedly argues that NATO’s eastward expansion was a rational decision based on credible analysis.
Going to be an interesting read.
Dot: re your list of bullying woke companies: surely someone can come up with an app that buzzes when you’re about to walk into a store that takes these positions? I try not to frequent any joint that takes a political position but it’s hard to keep up.
You should see the English refs.
30 changeovers in the ruck. 28/30 are “penalties”!
ABs allowed to hit Irish rucks perpendicular to the sidelines.
What a bloody outrage.
Nearly 10 years ago I was involved in a hard rock exploration program on the verges of the Cape/Gulf Country. Plenty of Lithium ore around the tenement areas we were targeting, Lepidolite actually. Bit of chalcopyrite as well.
Client knew about it but was more interested in the other deposits round there. They are still poking around there but nothing has made mining stage yet.
I think it could rally, but the world is looking like crap and there’s no one in the Oval Office. That other stuff you mentioned on the other blog, that China could be behind Iran playing games could be very real.
Also, 24 looks horrible from here. It could change and I’ll change with it, but things look terrible.
Also, if China goes down the drain, I think Aussie will be in the 50s. A year in and this government has been doing nothing other than da Voice.
I’m square at the moment.
HB:
Bear, I note the latter has begun an advertising blitz with Richard Roxburgh encouraging the public to turn up to this summer’s cricket.
“Don’t you miss it coz you’ll regret it if you’re not at the ground for it” type message, which suggests that forward ticket bookings aren’t what they used to be. Well, go woke, go broke. Let’s hope.
As of yesterday – Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
“Good Lord. In my defence, I was distracted by the son and heir’s dachsund, who is a great pup but a fire alarm on wheels whenever anyone walks within ten metres of the front door.”
KD,
I have a chihuaha-foxy cross who sounds just like your daschund pup. When the local Sports Club had Dog Trials for Pet dogs on Saturday, not one bark was heard the whole afternoon. the dogs, and owners had such a great time. I was ashamed to realise that if I had my little debbil dog there, the locals would have believed there was an air-raid as my little maggot sounds like a Klaxon on full wind when he spots other dogs.
The silly bugger just want to makes friends but still can’t work out that a fifty thousand decibel “be my friend!!!” is not conducive to mateship. 😀