I’m surprised by this: King Charles III officially wealthier than Queen Elizabeth, monarch’s fortune soars to $770 millionCharles is listed…
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NYC is up to standard. Went out to get a morning coffee and there was a really decent street fight,…
She must be very talented.
We had books like that – effin great – which book is this.
Great music. —- K-Pax Grand Central Track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WyOAqaTcOA
I think I hate this “My Lunch Break” arsewipe.
A loony comment combines new age aliens collecting souls and antisemitism.
I think the mystery you are exposing may be part of a Seed War- battle of species.
Were humans and Tartarians peaceful and the Khazarian tribe victorious killing the Tartarians, suppressing technologies and leaving humans vulnerable?
These architectural evidence may also be intwined with the Mandela Effect and alternative time lines.
Sometimes I wonder if we are in Earth School, a contrived world to test our souls, connected to a larger context which includes reincarnation?
These people need help.
Whoops. Forgot the resizing of pages.
Or not.
ASX All Ords finished the day -83 points (-1.16%) at 7089. Down about -2.7% for the week. We’ll be saying hello to the 7000 barrier shortly although the ASX200 has already passed through and finished the day at 6900.
oh, and Nicholas Cage can’t act for sh!t so not sure why he’s in a surfer film in Margs (given he’d be at least 65 by now, surely)
And…..
US Provokes China – Russia’s Alliance with China Grows Stronger
“China has attempted to remain neutral but the Neocons won’t allow that to happen. China is enjoying its recent economic boom and building strategic partnerships through trade and international relations. China has grown to become a global power and will become the next financial capital of the world when all is said and done. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect personally that the West would be the aggressor. Now I can see Neocons, who I even personally have known, are really in control of the Biden Administration. The Pentagon released the video above, with CBS News claiming Chinese fighter jets were harassing US planes in international airspace.
Were the planes flying by the coast of California or Hawaii? No. US warplanes were flying near the Taiwan Strait once again. China has repeatedly warned America not to interfere in its One China policy with Taiwan. The media spins the situation as if the government actually cares about the people of Taiwan. The truth of the matter is that the Neocons want to play war games with our tax dollars and do not like China’s recent success or status as an economic powerhouse.
China will eventually be pushed to the brink and will have no alternative but to engage in war. The Pentagon said that US and Chinese fighter planes have come in close contact 180 times since 2021, surpassing the number of encounters of the past decade. China now has the ability to push back and knows the West’s resources are stretched thin.
Putin visited Xi this week in Beijing where he was greeted as a guest of honor. Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran are heavily backed by Russia and China, among other Middle Eastern nations. The BRICS partnership has grown so strong that no one is dependent on Western energy, and eventually, no one will be dependent on Western trade or debt. They no longer need to use the currency of their adversary. China is attempting to remain neutral in both the Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine wars, but Taiwan is where they draw the line.
As a Senator, Joe Biden scoffed at the idea of a China-Russia alliance in the event of NATO encroaching on Eastern Europe. Take a look at the video above from 1997 — yes, that was Joe Biden before his health declined to the point where he can hardly speak or step off a stage. Putin was Yeltsin’s deputy-in-chief at this time of this speech, and Bill Clinton was the president of the US. Baltic states were lining up to join NATO back then, which threatened Russia’s national security. Biden insisted that Russia would have no alternative but “to look West.” This was one of the original plans to infiltrate Russia and install a pro-Western leader.
“Yes, we see that some people consider it an attempt by the People’s Republic of China to put someone under its thumb, but we see otherwise. We just see a desire for cooperation,” Putin stated. Last year, China and Russia signed a “no limits” partnership in the wake of the war in Ukraine. They are teaming up against Western aggression, it is not the other way around. All of the players are aligning and preparing for the inevitable.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/us-provokes-china-neocons-beg-for-war/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Missed it by “that” much….
Speedbox
Oct 20, 2023 5:39 PM
ASX All Ords finished the day -83 points (-1.16%) at 7089. Down about -2.7% for the week. We’ll be saying hello to the 7000 barrier shortly although the ASX200 has already passed through and finished the day at 6900.
As the South Pacific Peso heads south up against a strong US Dollar.
Total wars and other conflicts in which Tartaria was the victor – 0.
A lightweight in world affairs, mainly because of its non-existence.
Nor ham and eggs, or pork and beans?
Dr. Barnes Wallis also invented the swing wing which went into the TSR2 and the F One Eleven
I have seen the two surviving TSR2 bombers at IWM Duxford and RAF Cosford. I don’t recall them being swing-wing but someone more expert may correct me.
Dot
Oct 20, 2023 5:38 PM
I think I hate this “My Lunch Break” arsewipe.
Dickhead!
Missed it by “that” much….
God has decreed imperfections in the world to remind us this is not heaven, imperfections in ourselves to remind us we are not gods, and imperfections in others to justify hurling ungodly abuse at them.
Amen.
War is changing with Drones
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231020/watch-russian-drone-delivers-precise-strike-on-ukrainian-militants-1114343285.html
As a former RAV4 owner (a 25yo one at that) this is a monstrous slur.
Modern architecture is likely unable to build anything like in the past, in the same way that if people were expected to become hunter-gatherers, they would be dead in a week. We also live in the present, not in the past.
This is an example of what modern architects are producing as modern structures.
If an old skill has been lost, it’s been lot for a reason and not by accident. The reason is that it’s no longer used.
Another example. Televisions used to be repaired. These days, because of the complexity of the mother boards etc, where most of the exacting work is done by robots, TVs are thrown out when they break down. How may TV repairmen are still alive today or in the next decade or so?
I’d rather be a dickhead and be right – you are a gullible idiot who believes something because it is literally on a new form of television.
This Tartarian nonsense is paranoid, overcompensating inadequacies, Russian nationalist fantasy and clearly antisemitic too.
Dot…it’s meant to drive you crazy. Just shrug and leave them to it.
I always enjoyed Von Daniken’s stuff. It was like a house of cards. A puff of common sense and it all blows over.
Go and watch Mel’s “Signs”. Always fun and some excellent performances.
Shares post worst week in five, gold hits $3150 per ounce, oil gains
The S&P/ASX 200 fell 1.2 per cent on Friday or 80.9 points to 6900.7 points as investors worry about conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, with the interest rate on US 10-year government bonds briefly topping 5 per cent on Friday morning.
The fall took the market to its worst week in five, with a 2.13 per cent loss for the week.
Ladies please, stop squabbling as it’s not that sort of blog.
Next up in My Lunch Break:
Aliens created trees as a form of surveillance network to monitor the enslaved Circassians. Joining me is Doctortician Harold Scruby to discuss the Knights Templars’ role then, and now.
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Dot is f*cking useless.
Ontario man files $35.6 million lawsuit against Pfizer over son’s vaccine death
LOL! – not this crybully shit again from the Moscow-Minsk-Tehran-Damascus-Bejing-Pyongyang axis.
China can’t even operate subs and antisubmarine nets without sinking their own subs.
They’re the Keystone Cops of bluewater navies.
How much is Martin “Leavenworth” Armstrong being paid to shill for the CPC?
dover0beach
Oct 20, 2023 11:51 AM
unusual_whales
@unusual_whales
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Oct 19
BREAKING: The 30-year fixed mortgage rate in the US just hit 8% officially, per CNBC.
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zerohedge
@zerohedge
One month later:
Total US Debt is now $33.649 trillion, up $58 billion in one day and up $604 billion in one month… up $20 billion every day, up $833 million every hour.
At this rate US debt will be $41 trillion in one year.
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10 YEAR YIELD HITS 5%
Thoughts?
And looking at the make up of all of that US Feral Guv’ment debt, is the component called capitalised interest. The US Congress (stupid corrupt ‘Pollies’) is completely out of control. They can’t blame the Fed on this one.
The debt will never be repaid. It will be defaulted on.
Labor is sensitive about AirBus Albo PM’s 17th overseas trip in 18 months
As the prime minister cops flak on talkback radio for his heavy travel schedule, the government is sensitive about the optics of his imminent Washington trip.
Phillip Coorey Political editor
On Sunday, Anthony Albanese leaves for a four-day visit to the United States.
This time next month, the prime minister will again be in the US, for the APEC summit in San Francisco.
In between, he will conduct separate visits to China, for the all-important breakthrough meeting with Xi Jinping, and, conversely, to the Cook Islands for the Pacific Islands Forum, an important part of the campaign against China to win regional hearts and minds.
Next week’s trip to Washington, where he will be just the third Australian prime minister in 20 years to be afforded an official visit, was in its conception not much more than a make-work exercise.
The trip only eventuated in May this year after US President Joe Biden cancelled at the last minute his trip to Sydney for the annual Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, the regional security dialogue involving the leaders of Australia, the US, Japan and India.
An apologetic Biden offered Albanese an official visit as a consolation.
Wary that Albanese had to be in San Francisco in mid-November for APEC, and that the prime minister was increasingly copping flak on talkback radio for his heavy travel schedule, the government asked the White House to time the visit to coincide with APEC, so Albanese only had to make one trip to the US.
Due to Biden’s schedule, that didn’t happen, so the prime minister will have to travel to the US twice in a month and, given he was there in March for the AUKUS launch, three times in a year.
Unprecedented access
For an Australian prime minister, Albanese has had unprecedented access to the US president in the 18 months since he was elected.
Typically, the Australian prime minister and US president have one official face-to-face meeting a year and one or two informal asides.
As Albanese told parliament on Thursday, next week’s visit “will be the ninth time President Biden and I have met since my election as prime minister”. Of those nine meetings, this will be the fifth bilateral meeting.
There was the meeting at the Quad in Japan just two days after Albanese was elected, then again on the sidelines of the G20 in Indonesia in November last year. The pair hooked up again in San Diego during the AUKUS trip, and in Japan in May when they held the Quad instead on the sidelines of the G7 meeting.
Even so, the government is clearly sensitive about the optics of the prime minister being abroad in what will be his 17th trip in 18 months.
When parliament rose for four weeks on September 14, the government quietly and without explanation cancelled what was a scheduled sitting of the House of Representatives next week.
Presumably, Albanese did not want to hang a lantern over his absence with the spectre of the parliament sitting and deputy leader Richard Marles being in the chair for a whole week.
The opposition is unhappy with the cancellation. First, because the four lost days have been replaced with just one extra sitting day in December, and second, when the Coalition government was forced to cancel parliamentary sittings during the pandemic, the angry reaction from Labor was akin to the end of democracy as we know it.
When parliament rose on Thursday this week, Peter Dutton was less than effusive in his support for the US trip.
“I think it would also be in our country’s best interest, prime minister, to go via Tel Aviv and provide support to the Israeli leadership,” he said.
There will be a sensitivity about all the pomp and circumstance an official visit entails.
“That should be to priority, frankly, of any international travel at the moment so that we can seek to be part of an alliance to keep the pressure down on those who seek to have a wider conflict in the region.”
The conflagration in the Middle East clearly complicates the mission, as does the dysfunction inside the US Republican Party.
Albanese’s itinerary includes an address to a joint sitting of Congress, but if the Republicans still haven’t agreed on a Speaker by then, the prime minister will instead have to address just the Senate.
Optically, there will be a sensitivity about all the pomp and circumstance an official visit entails, including Albanese and Biden in dinner suits clinking champagne glasses at the state dinner, which will be attended by celebrities and the usual glad handers such as Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.
All against the backdrop of the carnage in Israel and Gaza.
In a statement to parliament after question time on Thursday, Albanese said the Israeli situation lent purpose to the visit.
“At a time of global uncertainty, working with our global partners is vital,” he said.
“We live in an ever more interconnected world, and we need to engage, know who our friends are and engage with them in our common interests of promoting democratic values and promoting engagement in our region in a positive way.”
In other words, standing alongside the US president at a time of global crisis can’t hurt.
I believe that is the case for stained glass (medieval). The art of achieving the intensity of colour is lost.
There is also a mystery about Roman concrete and its qualities.
I think the genesis of the architecture story was about rebuilding the Paris church after that awful fire. This, in my mind is a travesty because the building is no longer functional and the potential re-build would be a bad copy and not the original. My suggestion would be that in order to tear down the old structure and build a modern church while paying homage to the old. We won’t lose the memory because we have the record.
As expected, the Media Watchdog drowning in raw material. Mavis, Bungjourno and all the usual suspects make an appearance. Woof woof.
10am in Israel.
I can’t see them going in a few hours before Shabat, unless they really want to f!ck with their minds.
Greek fire!
Knuckle Dragger
Oct 20, 2023 5:49 PM
Keep us up to date with sports scores.
Steve trickler
Oct 20, 2023 5:50 PM
Dot is f*cking useless.
Dotty Dot of Dottiness please. Show some respect for the academic ivory tower blog show pony.
I’ve heard from a good source that the takings from betting on the Spring Carnival is down 50%
The Everest was down 25%
Crunchy crunch crunch.
Calli, I’ve seen that theory and I have my personal doubts. We would only know if the current way we make concrete isn’t as long lasting after the next 2000 years or so. Not all, obviously, but some.
Fie on such pessimistic thoughts!
Nothing, but nothing outdoes gypsum.
Maybe, but it actually did some good in that people realised civilisation existed for much longer than presumed. I don’t buy the woke meme that Ancient Aliens is racist, calling it silly should be enough to discredit it with proof. Those legends are good for correlating ancient civilisational progress we haven’t found solid evidence of and natural disasters.
There might be evidence for some Chinese settlement in the Western US and “Moorish” forays into Florida (which seems tenuous). A lot of it is speculative; Vinland wasn’t proven until the 1960s in Newfoundland.
The idea that an old building opened in 1880 can’t be built by us back then because it would be impossible to build in a year is beyond stupid, Sydney Town Hall took about 20 years to build. No one ever claimed that building can only take one year.
Halfway through the third quarter.
Circassia 15.11.101
Tartaria 0.2.2
Basil Zemplas is commentating.
Dot
Oct 20, 2023 5:51 PM
China will eventually be pushed to the brink and will have no alternative but to engage in war.
LOL! – not this crybully shit again from the Moscow-Minsk-Tehran-Damascus-Bejing-Pyongyang axis.
China can’t even operate subs and antisubmarine nets without sinking their own subs.
They’re the Keystone Cops of bluewater navies.
Pentagon Report Warns China Building Nuke Arsenal Faster Than Forecasted, Sparking Concern
A yearly report finds the United States’ most feared rival is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal amidst a complex international environment.
A US government report released on Thursday showed China is increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal at a faster rate than previously expected. – 212 Page PDF
The finding was revealed in a yearly report undertaken by the Pentagon to monitor China’s military strength. The Asian country, which has surpassed the United States in some economic measures, is viewed as Washington’s primary foreign adversary.
The report also speculates China may be pursuing a buildup in its capability in more conventional weapons, developing non-nuclear arms capable of hitting targets anywhere within the United States.
Although China remains the largest identified threat to America’s desire to maintain full-spectrum dominance, the international context is increasingly distracting from the US’ preferred focus on the Asian world power.
The report speculated China is observing Russia’s performance in its special military operation in Ukraine, drawing lessons for its military capability as well as soft power concerns.
The report, which focused on data gathered in 2022, did not speculate on insights that may be gleaned from Israel’s current attacks on Gaza, which adds complexity to the United States’ foreign policy concerns.
The United States has sought to more aggressively focus on China’s rise since former US President Barack Obama’s second term.
Of primary concern for the US is the disputed status of Taiwan, which the United States protected in a bid to undermine communist-led government in Beijing after the Chinese Civil War.
The United States succeeded in splitting Korea after communist revolution there and attempted to do the same in Vietnam, suggesting a common playbook for dealing with countries with successful socialist revolutions.
Does anybody know if the 5 days No leave is transferable to Qld non civil servants? My needs are far more serious.
Normally Zulu is pretty good at posting news clips. BUT NOT TODAY!
He posted about the promiscuity rankings of countries. Not going to mention numbers and in my defence been happily married for a long time
But to my dismay my “score” is well behind the Irish.
Surely there must be some Government Department that can help me via counseling or days off?
I’ve seen cow’s blood as a suspected adjunct material.
Mother Lode, it would be a copy, a replication. It will never be the old one because it’s been lost.
With the right architect, a modern structure could be a wonder too. In fact, I’m the opposite of pessimistic in this case.
Architecture in the Middle Ages:
The building of the cathedral was completed over the course of 200 years; it was started in 1163 during the reign of King Louis VII and was completed in 1345.
The End.
That was Notre Dame, by the way.
You guys! Puncturing my concrete mystery!
How dare you!
Right. I forgot and couldn’t be bothered looking it up.
Got a TV repair shop around the corner from me , has been there for at least 10 years+.
Shop looks a little spooky so have never ventured into it.
There’s some church in Spain that’s still under “construction”. It’s been going on for 200 years or so from memory.
Basil Zempilas is no Dennis Cometti (although he may have been coached by him at West Perth). Basil’s time to shine – Telethon this weekend I think.
… driving Pajeros and RAV4s rather than more expensive luxury four-wheel drives …
As a former RAV4 owner (a 25yo one at that) this is a monstrous slur.
Many years ago I owned a Suzuki Vitara 4WD (red, soft top) which I used to take down to the sand dunes around the Coorong/Murray Mouth in SA. Great vehicle. Very light and nimble. Those people in their hulking 4WDs with tyres the size of commercial aircraft tyres used to look on in envy as the little Suzuki would simply skirt the enormous ruts they had left in the dunes and press on.
Never rolled it or got bogged. The only thing ever done was I had a heavy duty clutch fitted. Other than that, it was stock standard.
Castles could take 20 – 40 years to build and had about 40+ workers on site, even for small ones a local Baron or Vidame might be used for official/military and residence purposes.
They used treadwheel cranes to lift heavy material. Experimental archeologists are building a brand new castle at Guédelon, France, using the same technology. It is due for completion in 2030.
JC
Oct 20, 2023 5:49 PM
Ladies please, stop squabbling as it’s not that sort of blog.
Says the pot calling the kettle black. FFS.
Yeah, there used to be two on every small shopping strip. There’s one near my gym in Malvern. I place looks like a serial killer’s hang out.
That was a joke, Wodney. Go change your diaper, dickhead.
Well, the Sagrada Familia has been going for a while in Barthelona. See also Siena cathedral, still a WIP on account of the plague.
The human coke vacuum thinks he’s the next leader of the Libs in WA. And I think he’d be okay but there’s a fair elements of Kirkupum he’d have to shed.
Martin Flanagan is a poet, journalist & author
Bald headed flog?
2 dicked onanist?
mouth breathing window licking tard?
A hoarder of extra chromosomes?
That’s the one.
I think “tv repair shop” is code for something else… just, I’m not sure what…
Kirkup used to post here.
JC
Oct 20, 2023 5:56 PM
There is also a mystery about Roman concrete and its qualities.
Calli, I’ve seen that theory and I have my personal doubts. We would only know if the current way we make concrete isn’t as long lasting after the next 2000 years or so. Not all, obviously, but some.
Geopolymer was used. Concrete is sh*t!.
Very worthwhile.
Who CONTROLS The World!? You Won’t Believe THIS!!
Do we use it these days?
I have a deep suspicion it’s Harold Scrooby.
Oh. Okay.
I’d better tell the New Broom. 🙂
Only ever took the RAV down a few surf tracks. The underbody protection was mainly plastic which wasn’t particularly reassuring on hearing a few thumps and scrapes. A bit more power would have been nice in the sand but it did the job.
Nexus for all your shiny smooth brained reading needs.
You are all little babbies compared to the greatest most factual magazine since Picture magazine got rid of readers wives section.
Anomalous
evidence, from
human artifacts
found in ancient
strata to sand and
stone structures
vitrified by intense
heat, suggestive of
prehistoric nuclear
war, cannot be
explained by
established
interpretations of
human origins
calli
Oct 20, 2023 6:15 PM
Concrete is sh*t!.
The old blokes figured it out, long ago.
The land of the free
1,000 Days Without a Trial: Jan. 6 Prisoner Shares His Story of ‘Endurance, Perseverance, and Hope’
theres 7 pages of this stuff at the download..
Two hypotheses may explain the presence of these perplexing
artifacts: (1) that they were manufactured by an advanced
civilisation on Earth which, due either to natural or technological
catastrophe, was destroyed before our world’s own genesis; and
Rock engravings, which may be as old as 60 million years,
depict in step-by-step illustrations an entire heart-transplant operation and a Caesarean section.
(2) that they are vestiges of a highly technological civilisation of extraterrestrial origin which visited this planet millions of years ago, leaving behind various artifacts.
Joe Biden, Putin and Xi.
All you can do is drink.
Ah, the UN. The UN wouldn’t exist without the US’s financial backing.
Biden, Putin, Xi and to a lesser extent, Macron and Sunak, who hold the security council votes.
It’s depressing.
Oh looky, Minns has approved a pro-terrorist rally.
Police to deploy more than 800 officers for Sydney pro-Palestine rally this weekend as turnout of 10,000 people expected (Sky News, 20 Oct)
Colour me sceptical about any no tolerance for hate speech. What are they going to do about it? Absolutely nothing.
Well we now know where Labor’s real sympathies are located. Somewhere around Lakemba.
Kirkup used to post here.
You miss IT as well?
Babylon Bee.
‘Shame on the Senate’: Inquiry into Indigenous child abuse rejected
Liberal Senator James McGrath says “shame upon the Senate” after Shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister Jacinta Price’s motion for a royal commission into Indigenous child sexual abuse was rejected.
“It was shameful what happened in the Senate this week,” Mr McGrath told Sky News host Paul Murray.
He said CLP Senator Jacinta Price has long been an advocate for protecting the rights of Indigenous children.
“It just shows that Labor don’t actually understand what happened on Saturday – they don’t understand why the Australian people voted no.
“The more that Labor go down this path of playing politics rather than coming up and supporting practical solutions, just shows they’re just going to end up in a very bad place and that could be opposition.”
Re Nicholas Cage bringing tinseltown glitter to f#ck up my beach-
He’s doing it because every step of the way, there’s a public servant, drama teacher, Shire president, arts councillor, tourism director, bending over and begging him for a reach-around to spaff all our money on a stampede of what was once a nice quiet spot.
Sorry for the obscenity, I’m pretty pissed, I admit Nimbyism combined with my background radiation hate of state sponsored art.
More to follow
Look, dumbarse. Geopolymers include some kinds of concrete, including fly ash concrete, which those researchers think (volcanic ash and fly ash are close enough) is the key and a later reaction with seawater which made the maritime concrete very durable.
Geopolymers generally don’t get stronger with age and the fly ash ones need to be used in warm climates.
Of course the No.1 Tartaria believer in this country is that published author of note, Dr Bruce Pascoe.
security council vetoes
How is the UN being at the “top”* of the food chain some kind of secret?
FFS these trusted bloggers have fallen mightily.
*The US funds a lot of it, including the buildings and meetings.
Neil Oliver: ‘…expendable!’
Is Airds really This Bad?
Locals expose ‘depressing’ truth about notorious Sydney suburb
With bare supermarket shelves, trashed abandoned homes and a primary school next to a prison, this is the suburb that Australia has swept under the rug.
In a forgotten suburb less than an hour outside of Sydney’s CBD, the local supermarket is completely bare.
Troubled youths – often armed with blood-filled syringes – raid the shops so frequently that some close early, while others have simply given up on stocking supplies.
Just 200 metres up the road sits a primary school, high school and youth juvenile detention centre – all on the same block.
Welcome to Airds, in the city’s unforgiving south west.
The crime rate is high, abandoned homes sit on every street corner and debilitating social issues like drug addiction, unemployment and low incomes plague the area.
The suburb, just outside of Campbelltown, is comprised of 87 per cent public housing and has a rapidly shrinking population of a little over 3200.
Airds has been propelled into the spotlight over the last week, after famous rapper and content creator Anthony Lees, better known as Spanian, took to the streets to expose some of the issues gripping the area.
Spanian’s video series Into The Hood focuses on him taking his camera into the heart of notorious “hoods” around the world, as he speaks with locals about what they perceive to be some of the biggest problems in the area.
He has walked around “ghettos” in Paris, “drug flats” in Barcelona and the infamous “Suicide Towers” in Sydney, but the latest episode is focused in Airds, and has left many shocked about what is really going on there.
‘Well done’: Nigel Farage praises Voice defeat as Australia’s Brexit moment
QLD ALP Left wins out over Palaszczuk in caucus.
Treaty process 100% on track according to Minister Mark Bailey.
Given the latest polling showed a primary vote of just 26% , one might call that “very courageous, Minister.
Oh, for a moment, I thought it must’ve been Munty.
LOL. The only way Sky News would’ve published this rubbish is if they were paid to:
Bud Light announces $3 million scholarship pledge to America’s fallen or disabled first responders: ‘Powerful impact’ (Sky, 20 Oct)
I love these silly articles, they’re so bleeding obvious. Won’t work woke Bud peoples. Ah well, if any Cats happen to be a disabled tranny firefighter there’s 3 million US on offer.
You would’ve loved my regional movies program Walli. Breath, Red Dog…
If they really want to stop misinformation, the scientific literature says that they should agree to public discussions
PREFACE
The 2022 National Security Strategy states that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the onlycompetitor to the United States with the intent and, increasingly, the capacity to reshape the international order.
As a result, the 2022 National Defense Strategy identifies the PRC as the
“pacing challenge” for the Department of Defense. As the PRC seeks to achieve “national rejuvenation” by its centenary in 2049, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders view a modern, capable, and “world class” military as essential to overcoming what Beijing sees as an increasingly turbulent international environment.
The DoD annual report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China charts the current course of the PRC’s national, economic, and military strategy, and offers insight on the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) strategy, current capabilities and activities, as well as its future modernization goals.
In 2022, the PRC turned to the PLA as an increasingly capable instrument of statecraft. Throughout the year, the PLA adopted more coercive actions in the Indo-Pacific region, while accelerating its development of capabilities and concepts to strengthen the PRC’s ability to “fight and win wars”against a “strong enemy,” counter an intervention by a third party in a conflict along the PRC’s periphery, and to project power globally. At the same time, the PRC largely denied, cancelled, and ignored recurring bilateral defense engagements, as well as DoD requests for military-to-military communication at multiple levels.
This report illustrates the importance of meeting the pacing challenge presented by the PRC’s increasingly capable military.
Report Scope: This report covers security and military developments involving the PRC until the end of 2022.
You know the world is f!cked when the following is a headline at The Age:
Perhaps I should head back down National Route 1… it was quieter…
Not normally one to his own vomit (last night’s stew is later that same night’s diced carrot) but I missed a qualifying slab.
Now, back to the puke bucket…
Probably the 65,000 year old AI he found in a cave in the west, I doubt he wrote it himself.
First Nations-led AI technology holds promise for salmon recovery (Phys.org, 19 Oct)
Surely if Canuck First Nations had AI to count salmon 13,000 years ago then our First Nations must’ve been at least at their level. Fish traps with computers on the Darling River will be found very soon, surely.
Not normally one to return to his own vomit
Seems I am supping on diced carrot – what can it be next.
Corn.
Do not eat.
Welcome to Airds, in the city’s unforgiving south west.
Am I bad for reading that as Welcome to AIDs?
A neighbour 2 doors up is installing a Sauna and plunge pool ( ice bath)
I installed some pavers ( on concrete and mortar) so he has a solid base to work from
The kit comes with pictures diagrams and a help line
He ( and his wife ) have been at it for two and a half days now and we are still hearing crashes as the whole thing falls in a heap
He is an ex public servant with an excellent super scheme but zero practical skills
There is a lesson in there somewhere
Cancer links for wine and beer say the same team that brought you COVID.
No evidence provided of course.
For how many millenia has the global population been consuming wine and beer.
The true underlying purpose of the beatup is of course – increased taxes – for our own good you understand.
“Flatten the curve”!
Where’s Scumbag?
Good man.
Never trust roadbase.
OO Airds has been an s-hole for years but I smell a tiny beat up here. I might have one remaining relative living there and their commission house is well looked after. Their children never were in any trouble with the law and have done quite well for themselves living elsewhere further out now. I also know Bradbury as well, had another relative who lived there for decades and it had a similar reputation. I as a kid did a day in my scout bob a job week walking the rounds of Bradbury with nil problems, however I’d be wary these days.
The place is deserted because they are doing what they did to Macquarie Fields years ago and moving the commission people out to demolish the place. The land is sold off and the rebuilt commission houses are spread among normal suburbs. This is going on in Airds at the moment, my relative has been told they will be moved within a few years.
The youth prison wasn’t popular with the locals who had enough problems already when the Government dumped it there and yes it made lot more problems. That would have been Unsworth or Greiner’s call.
Anyway I provide for a different perspective, not totally discounting the vlogger as the place still has issues but if my mum can drive in there park her Toyota for a day seeing family unmolested then the comparisons with Paris ghettos maybe a tad overdone.
Get the man in!
I was just being facetious.
If they can re-create the building – the spaces, the light, the carvings – then the provenance of the new materials don’t matter. The magic of the place is not imbued by the age of the stone. There will likely have been fires long before requiring reconstruction. If there weren’t then that is blind luck, not fate.
Yeah, it would have been nicer had there never been a fire but the second-best option is using our best technology to restore it to what it was.
Bons – The 100 old lady I mentioned this morning ascribes her long life to junk food and alcohol.
I’ve always liked this one:
107-year-old put his long life down to FOUR bottles of red wine a DAY (2016)
I am partaking of some Brokenwood Cricket Pitch, a red blend which comes from Cessnock, not far from the Cafe. I am reading another Bob and Nikki book, they’re now into Sasquatch fart jokes. Quite elegant how an author can combine two disparate cultural memes like that.
One step above an ex schoolteacher but several rungs below an ex farmer.
I knew i had arrived in Manchester when I saw a guy park his truck at the end of the day and put plywood panels over all the windows before walking off.
Yes.
The technology ensuring it won’t take 200 years to rebuild.
Velikovsky’s constructions are far more grandiose.
17 protests to take place in Greater Sydney over next week, acc. to NSW police.
Presumably all of them will be anti-Israel, which is somewhat depressing.
Crikey, makes Bendigo’s 100 year build pale in comparison.
Things can take a long time to build… Tataria!! Except, of course, even though “we can’t build like that now”, Bendigo’s build was entirely captured in pics. Awkward.
“I think it would also be in our country’s best interest, prime minister, to go via Tel Aviv and provide support to the Israeli leadership,” he said.
Having viewed some of the videos around showing the streets of San Franshitsco methinx Luigi is will be more suited to SF than Tel Aviv …..!
Mme Zulu’s latest round of test results are back – completely negative. The specialist says that, if she has another negative scan in three months, they will declare her cancer free.
Sliante! Cat’s will do me the courtesy of ignoring any incoherent transmissions from this call sign.
Bruce of Newcastle
Oct 20, 2023 7:16 PM
Bons – The 100 old lady I mentioned this morning ascribes her long life to junk food and alcohol.
I’ve always liked this one:
107-year-old put his long life down to FOUR bottles of red wine a DAY (2016)
Must have had a good Pension to pay for all of that. Maybe not a smoker either.
Imagine the protests when Gaza is reduced to a giant uneven car park, and its survivors are living in tents on the Lebanese border.
How many times do you fools have to be told? DON’T FVCK WITH THE JEWS!
I wish there was a fireworks emoji, Zulu. You will have to do with this. 😀 !!!!!!
St John’s Anglican Cathedral, Brisbane, 1901-2009.
Built in 3 stages due to budgetary constraints.
The final stage required master stonemasons to be brought over from the UK as the requisite skills had died out locally. It’s virtually a copy of the cathedral in Truro, Cornwall, adapted to the site by the same architect.
Alamak!
The inner city votes are lost to the Conservative parties. People who have been drinking the Green Kool aide all their lives are going to have to endure life changing drama before they wake up.
Roger
Oct 20, 2023 7:26 PM
17 protests to take place in Greater Sydney over next week, acc. to NSW police.
Presumably all of them will be anti-Israel, which is somewhat depressing.
Why aren’t all these people at work, or school, or university or, or, or, not here. Go and protest somewhere else. Not here.
Mr Rotten, he had his own winery. Practical guy!
Entirely unexpected. On the other hand it should be a good weekend to pop down to Cronulla.
Goebekli Tepe?
It is NOT a “one off”.
Check out Karahan Tepe in the same region
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/11/17/discovery-turkey-karahan-tepe
sancho == Squalid
Late news —
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It’s not far from the hall where my father convened a meeting in the mid 1950s to initiate JNF Blue Box collections in the south west suburbs. I hope you all will attend to express your sentiments,
That’s pretty much his point.
New York Times Rehires Hitler-Praising Hamas Propagandist for Gaza Hospital Coverage
Steve trickler
Oct 20, 2023 6:13 PM
JC
Oct 20, 2023 5:56 PM
There is also a mystery about Roman concrete and its qualities.
And the Colosseum still seems to be hanging around. Must be made of some good stuff.
If the information came from Hamas, I disbelieve it.
Courage in an age of moral degeneracy
Melanie Phillips
29 mins ago
As we reel from both evil and its facilitators, we salute those who publicly call this out
Thanks so much, Malcolm Fraser and the Cabinet of 1975.
On Coral Sea cyclone news.
All conditions looking good for development. At 5 deg S atm. Noice, an early start to the season.
Surprising News.com kiddies aren’t lathering themselves in to a frenzy that would rival chicken little.
Katzenjammer
Oct 20, 2023 7:41 PM
Late news —
Tomorrow on October 21 at 6pm in Kingsgrove, at the Al Rachman Mosque, a commemoration service will be held in honour of 3 HezbollahShaheedim, killed after firing mortars against Israelis.
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It’s not far from the hall where my father convened a meeting in the mid 1950s to initiate JNF Blue Box collections in the south west suburbs. I hope you all will attend to express your sentiments,
Meanwhile I will be celebrating the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 when Lord Nelson and the Royal Navy smashed the combined French and Spanish fleets. Britannia ruled the waves for the next 100 years.
Lots of rum and port for me tomorrow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar
Black Ball:
If that first sentence doesn’t stir Washington into action, then we must come to the conclusion that Biden and his crew are after:
.1 A nuclear war in the Middle East and,
.2 An excuse to declare a State of Emergency in the US.
I suppose we should give the Nats equal billing too.
And Hawke didn’t put a stop to it either.
Mme Zulu’s latest round of test results are back – completely negative. The specialist says that, if she has another negative scan in three months, they will declare her cancer free.
Great news!
The suburb, just outside of Campbelltown, is comprised of 87 per cent public housing and has a rapidly shrinking population of a little over 3200.
This goes back to the Booby Carr era .. someone in gummint came up with this bright idea to uplift Airds by selling public housing to create a private/ph mix, as they have dun with Bonnyrigg …. they started by letting the 3rd rate houso estate run itself down to a 5th rate area .. the game being to “encourage” houso folk to move on then sell the “houses” at bargain basement prices to encourage private ownership …… Sadly, they didn’t factor in Airds reputation into the equation and the take-up offer(s) were almost ZERO .. so faced with lotza empty & vandalized properties they went for a band aid repair schedule instead of demolishing & either re-building themselves or selling to developers .. so a quicky facelift and restock with the same level they moved out .. end result the area is worse than it was 20 years ago ……. reputations don’t die o/n …….
Bonnyrigg , on the other hand, has worked because although 15 years ago it was a “houso” drug emporium it never got the publicity or media attention that Airds did and so folk have been happy to buy the new houses (no re-furbs, private contractor demolished and re-started from ground level) .. Bonnyrigg re-build is near completion and by year’s end will be a 70/30 private/houso mix ……… the 100 or so Houso properties left were all re-furbished …….
Tintarella di Luna
Oct 20, 2023 4:20 PM
Barking Toad
Tinta:
I had a look at several pictures of her and couldn’t see the signs. Can you expand a little, please?
JC
Oct 20, 2023 6:09 PM
That was a joke, Wodney. Go change your diaper, dickhead.
LOL. YOU are the joke you Sictorian Pompous Windbag. More yank talk is all you can do. The word is ‘nappy’ and not diaper in proper English here.
Fark off back to NY and have a nice day. T.W.A.T.
sancho == Squalid
Shots fired, shots fired!
so a quicky facelift and restock with the same level they moved out .. end result the area is worse than it was 20 years ago
The eternal question..
Do sties make pigs?
My humble opinion only, I am in no way medically qualified but have seen the daughters of friends who suffered from anorexia (two of whom sadly died) one friend helped set up the Butterfly Foundation because of her daughter’s affliction (all those I knew were from high achieving wealthy families) — they appeared to have the same facial profile — to me the jawline is a giveaway, and the size of the head compared to the rest of the body’s frame. In the case of the person in question I may be totally wrong but I’ve had that view about her for quite a while.
Who CONTROLS The World!? You Won’t Believe THIS!!
It’s on a spectrum with woke stupidity at one end and Jacinta Price at the other. So, where are we on this spectrum now?
Vicki
I really hope so, Vicki.
From what Carolyn Glick says above: “Israel is in danger of losing sovereign control of her military”. That can mean a couple of things – the soldiery taking the war into their own hands and the Colonels starting the “Swords of Iron” Operation without orders, or the Israel State losing control over the military by being forced into accepting an American in a supervising position with veto powers over the Knesset.
Would the US do it?
I certainly wouldn’t put it past them.
And there over the porcelain bucket you will remain Mother Lode.
Regardless of skin tone, you will be paid commensurate with your skill set. Outside of the bubble.
So if you are a young black tradie, happy days.
Teh Voice have no skill outside of their bubble. Self aggrandising arseholes.
Zulu, I am so pleased to hear your news, the relief one feels is on hearing it is indescribable.
Israeli Arab gives BBC Arabic a serve.
Sagrada Familia had a major setback in 1936 when the Communists set fire to it and destroyed all Gaudi’s plaster models.
They were still painstakingly putting those back together when I first visited.
As for Notre Dame yes the roof collapsed and the 19th century steeple was destroyed but most of the windows and ground level stuff was left intact.
They do a terrific job on the rebuild and most of it is authentic, I’ve had a look every year since it happened (except 2021)
Don’t forget it was used to store animal fodder or some such during the French Revolution and I think it was Alexander Dumas that was responsible for it being restored in the 19th century.
You should see the restoration of the cathedral at Rheims, absolutely destroyed by the Germans in WWI.
And…right on cue…two sad old b@stards don’t like my delight at Mme Zulu’s good prognosis.
Your hate will eat you away.
Warner 50! Kicking Paki arse!
Whitehaven wins law case where government approval of new mines does require consideration of global warming bullshit.
rosie
Oct 20, 2023 8:23 PM
You should see the restoration of the cathedral at Rheims, absolutely destroyed by the Germans in WWI.
Coventry Cathedral in England got re-built as well. St Paul’s Cathedral in London must have had Divine Protection though.
Fuk! Left out NOT. Sorry if I upset any of you softies.
Marsh 50! Kicking Paki arse!
Armchair Warlord hitting them out of the park again and again and again.
https://twitter.com/ArmchairCopelrd/status/1714586837514142074
https://twitter.com/ArmchairCopelrd/status/1711370507587592514
Zulu, the relief in your household must be overwhelming — fingers-crossed for the next three months – best wishes to your wife and your good self.
… first it will make them mad
ABC Online. Well done “Marty”.
Distinguished service medals awarded to army’s top brass might be ‘illegal’
Veterans claim they have uncovered evidence of the “systematic abuse” of Australia’s honours and awards system that has allowed senior commanders, including current Defence Force Chief General Angus Campbell, to be wrongly awarded “distinguished service” medals for decades.
The former soldiers, angered by attempts to remove Afghanistan war decorations over alleged atrocities, have spent months researching whether awards given to their senior commanders were done so appropriately.
Gaining access to previously unseen documents and correspondence, the group says it has discovered that the Defence Department knew as far back as 1996 that Distinguished Service Crosses (DSCs) were being awarded unlawfully to high-ranking officers who were not serving “in action”.
Of particular concern to the group is the awarding of DSCs and other awards to Commanders of Joint Task Force 663 (CJTF), the Dubai-based headquarters for Australia’s operations in the Middle East during the Afghanistan war.
Former Special Forces soldier “Marty”, who cannot disclose his full name for current employment reasons, says the research he helped compile raises very serious questions about the integrity of awards.
“It really does need to be addressed,” he said.
“We’re not saying that they’re not entitled to something but for God’s sake fix up the criteria, don’t just hand them out willy-nilly and certainly don’t just hand them out as an attendance gong.”
Thanks to those above, for all your kind thoughts and good wishes. To whoever it is, down ticking those kind thoughts and good wishes, may all your chooks turn into emu’s and kick your sh1t house door down.
The New York Times is “Nazi adjacent”. Don’t tell mUnty. He will, as a fat fascist fool, wish to subscribe.
Back in the mid-1980s, a couple of RN LCDRs invited me to their office on Trafalgar Day for a social drink. From their top floor window, we could look across the rooftops and see Nelson on his column. Made it easy to toast Nelson, the Victory and the victory. Fun times.
Ashley Rindsberg scopes out the perfidious and treacherous New York Times in his book The Gray Lady Winked
“Before the Jewish State was established, there existed nothing to harm good relations between Arabs and Jews.”
The late king Faisel of Saudi Arabia, November 1973, to Henry Kissinger.
“We are not against the Jews. On the contrary, we are all Semites, and we have been living with each other in peace and fraternity, Muslims, Jews and Christians for many centuries.”
Yasser Arafat, head of the P.L.O.
“From Time Immemorial, ” Joan Peters, Page 33.
As the City burned around St Paul’s, one Arthur Harris stood on the roof of the Air Ministry (now Ministry of Defence) building, looking over the rooftops at the fires surrounding St Paul’s, and commented to a companion: “They have sown the wind …”
PS, Cologne Cathedral, being readily recognised from the air, was used as an aiming point by Bomber Command. At the end of the War it stood, largely intact structurally, but surrounded by devastation.
Boambee John
Oct 20, 2023 8:52 PM
My Dad was in the Royal Navy so I always remember Trafalgar Day and a lot of the other days. Not always victories.
Cheers.
JR
I’ve heard it said that Cologne Cathedral was used as an aiming point by the USAAF, and they never hit anything they were aiming at……
My grandson’s 17th birthday is tomorrow. His middle name is Nelson.
Great news Zulu, if you have some spare emus I could always do with extra help at the Cafe.
Nothing special today. The currawongs are returning hungrily from nest duty, so mince futures are up.
Criminy jeepers.
The midget ranga was dropped – an absolute up and down soda – by a Paki debutant when Warner had just reached double figures.
The cheat’s now on 83. 0/169 after 23 overs.
The Paki new bloke’s house back home would have been burnt down by now.
Thanks Bruce.
Discovery of Turkish 11,400-year-old village challenges ideas of when and why humans first settled down
Excavations at monumental site Karahan Tepe, near the Turkish-Syrian border, suggest that society was established before the dawn of agriculture
Even that may be disputed, there is evidence for farming going back twice as far as this.
Yuge day. Sat down in front of SBS Mastermind to unwind, before r&r gig at the pub.
Woeful.
Lame questions, dopey dag contestants.
Questions are absolute gimmies, containing three or more clues at a time.
“What Dunlop tennis shoe, worn by Rod Laver, is named after a tennis shot where the ball doesn’t hit the ground before the racquet, and also means an airborne group of missiles, rhymes with trolley, and starts with a V?”
“er…
…tennis?”
Bah-baw.
I’m outscoring the contestants 14-11, 15-3, and that’s the presumably brainy subcontinentals.
Ashley Rindsberg scopes out the perfidious and treacherous New York Times in his book The Gray Lady Winked
Walter Duranty approves.
I’ve always thought it an act of bureaucratic pettiness that the aircrew of Bomber Command never received their own campaign medal.
Dot
Oct 20, 2023 9:15 PM
Thanks Bruce.
Discovery of Turkish 11,400-year-old village challenges ideas of when and why humans first settled down
Excavations at monumental site Karahan Tepe, near the Turkish-Syrian border, suggest that society was established before the dawn of agriculture
Even that may be disputed, there is evidence for farming going back twice as far as this.
According to Bruce Pascoe, it goes back 65,000 years. And that is ‘Truth Telling’ dont’cha’ know.
LOL.
. Indeed.
Beaten to the punch…well said, Sir!
Johnny Rotten
Oct 20, 2023 9:02 PM
I hope that you paused to remember “The Glorious First of June”.
Well hold that talky thingee device, Eddles!
Who’da thunk it? 😕
Johnny Rotten
Oct 20, 2023 9:02 PM
Boambee John
Oct 20, 2023 8:52 PM
And on the 25th of October I will be celebrating the Battle of Agincourt. Lots of roast beef, yorkshire pudding, roast spuds, vegetables and gravy with horse radish and hot english mustard. And NO french wine. LOL.
Even that may be disputed, there is evidence for farming going back twice as far as this.
Sage is definitive.
And all due to CO2 increase. The demonisation of CO2 by the alarmist cretins is really human lemming territory.
Their ABC hates you. Herald Sun:
FMD
Collectivists – those not so cuddlee li’l pets that you should have euthanased before they had the chance to spout their poison …
See for example, October 7 😡
Oh my lord.
Straya 0/214. Both openers with red ink tons.
End of days. Surely they’re not playing in Tartaria.
ABC management including Mr Anderson will be questioned at Senate Estimates on Tuesday.
I will supply the pitchforks and morning tea. Off with their salaries.
Oh, grate – break out the fluoro purple shag pile carpet, beanbags and teddie bears …
Braindead morbidly obese labore (BIRM) parliamentary wallie: “Mr Yanderson, why are the ALPBC’s ratings continually reaching subterranean new depths, I asks ya?”
The Yanderson: “We find ourselves at the ALPBC increasingly appealing to an ever more selective audience”
Gliberal parliamentary imbecile: “This is yet another triumph of taxpayer funded public broadcasting!”
“There needs to more of it, I tells ya!” 🙂
Greta Stands With Gaza!
Warner on fire 151
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NEW – Greta Thunberg calls to “stand with Gaza” on Instagram.
Rep. Matt Gaetz
@RepMattGaetz
Establishment Republicans are more worried about McCarthy being fired than they are about J6 defendants being mistreated and imprisoned.
James Woods
@RealJamesWoods
At what point is threatening the lives of journalists not a crime?
What would you do if someone threatened your “kids in school?”
This country is a joke and a very unfunny one at that.
There were inbred imbeciles marching down George St in Sydney chanting that shit, FFS.
Yet we did nothing.
Which means there will be more of it.
I want to invoke the sentiments of my ol’ man*:
“Son, they (inbred islamic imbeciles) want to conquer and destroy the West”
Not too happy about sitting around being a decadent Western wallee while all this shit goes down.
Finally.
*an anti fascist crusader (’43-’45).
Fun, Baybee … 🙂
I will say this.
Even though he was dropped early;
Even though he is a filthy cheat who not once took any responsibility for his actions in South Africa in 2018;
Even though he is a loathsome little left-handed dwarf that makes Tyrion Lannister look like Remington Steele;
Even though he deserves to live the rest of his days in extreme poverty on a remote island in the South Atlantic:
Warner’s 163 was masterful. There. I said it.
Nah, the Pakis were shit.
I’ve met survivors of the Holocaust, I’ve worked with a couple of “Ten Pound Poms” who liberated the death camps, if I encountered anyone marching down the street chanting “death to the Jews, gas the Jews” I’d chalk up quite a list of offenses against public order.
It’s a really good batting track on a small ground. This is not a walk-up start for Straya.
The bus conductors have a stacked and solid top and middle order, and our bowlers have yet to do the job with any sort of conviction.
I’ll be fartered out when this finishes, but will not be surprised if the Pakis get over the line.
Well done there Zulu and missus. Zulu – are you awake?