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Anal sux but we already know that

Rabz
Electricity, 1.0

Electricity, v3

Was about to buy Ryan Adams tickets for January… then I saw how much pud he’s put on lately
…does that make me shallow?
… it’s definitely not a man-crush

All of Van Morrison’s good years were slim

Knight’s got his Christmas meme out early this year
…surely there’s some Halloween or Thanksgiving gags to be had
or, you know, a war on, or current affairs close to home

But as to this “bearded Leftie ” bah humbug VS Rock Ribbed Conservative stuff that you guys… OK hashtag not all …

Nah not gonna do that … But i am a Leftie … Not on the Monty scale of repulsiveness … More on the scale of having rolly fags and whisky breathed Old Soldier’s from WWI

Reading me bed times stories and Kipling….

“Sonny promise me you will never belive the bullshit they print in the papers !!! and when you are as old as I am now (getting close) … you will tell other young Blokes “never go to War for the Bloody Bosses ”

Made an impression on me then … and I was fortunate enough to have a mind that works… and I DID make a promise to those Old Blokes…

Peace Brothers and Sisters.

What Fresh Hell is this ?

As against Sicktoria

Fueling Africa: How cooking gas can reshape the post-colonial economy

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) can play an important role in ensuring the energy security of Africa. But to achieve this goal, postcolonial economic models need to be restructured

Discussions on ensuring Africa’s energy security usually come down to providing access to electricity, developing power grid infrastructure, and supplying fuel for transportation.

However, the challenges faced by households in Africa are often left out. Despite the seemingly insignificant market, the consumption of energy resources by African households is growing each year. Moreover, in all African countries, households occupy an important place in the structure of energy consumption – their share ranges from 20-30% in industrially developed countries (e.g. Algeria, Morocco) to 90% in small, mostly agrarian countries (e.g. the Central African Republic).

What Africans use to make fire

Along with improvements in the quality of life, changing consumer habits, and growing urbanization, Africa’s fuel structure is also undergoing a transformation.

But Africa needs energy now, and this need increases with each passing year. Around 65% of the population (800 million people) of sub-Saharan Africa still uses firewood and similar means for cooking and heat. Moreover, the energy should be ‘mobile’, meaning it should be quickly delivered from the manufacturer to the consumer in relatively small volumes and at an adequate price.

Cooking kills?

Providing Africans with clean fuel for heating homes and cooking isn’t just a matter of comfort – it is essential for the health of the African population.

Cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner on such fuel is almost like smoking up to 20 packs of cigarettes a day. The UK’s Clean Air Fund estimated that the transition to cleaner fuels will save up to 120,000 lives in Africa annually.

What is cooking gas

The people of Africa understand that the above-mentioned challenges can all be solved by using liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

Liquefied petroleum gasses will continue to replace kerosene, firewood, waste, and manure as fuel in the household sector (used primarily for cooking). In total, Africa consumes around 14 million tons of LPG annually (4% of the world market), or 14kg per person (the lowest indicator in the world – for example, the figures for Asia and Latin America are 27kg and 53kg, respectively).

Rest of the Artilce worth a read!

I hit her up with “Free Julian Assange ” and she seemed all for it ..

Hello Grahame, hopefully soon goodby Grahame.

Bottom of the flag is yellow top is blue …. ra ra team home

and before that it was ……. the Jab … jab me once shame on you …

This whole Team Blue VS Team Red is such bullshit …. one hand does not wash the other one … well at least in my experience … I normally watch them both as they wash each other… HTH

So what is the next enthusiasm we might expect ?

A royal commission is for when the system fails and the normal processes are not open to victims.

So can we have one into federal funding for the ‘Yes” campaign?

TE, this is one of the raft of articles on the uniqueness of the concrete.

Two hostages found murdered in Gaza.

Link

Good Voice articles in the Oz but Geoff Blainey stands out.

“This land is infinitely more fruitful than it was in 1788, and most Aboriginal people are now the gainers”.

Biden’s visit to Israel was a stalling tactic

Apart from the intense dislike, the body language from Bibi said it all. He didn’t want Biden there. The crucial time was lost, time the hostages didn’t have. I’m relieved two at least have been released, their story will be revealing.

… a defining feature of totalitarianism is mind control. First, propaganda warps and destroys people’s grasp on reality. Second, propaganda is designed to foster groupthink, conformity, and collectivism, which marginalizes critical and independent thinking.
Beyond Orwell: The High-tech Lynching of America
American Thinker

There was a low voter turnout this referendum
2.6 million people didn’t vote .
If you wanted change you would probably have made the effort to vote yes
So the couldn’t be bothereds we’re probably no voters
Which makes the figures much worse for the yes cause

Nah not gonna do that … But i am a Leftie … Not on the Monty scale of repulsiveness

That is to be confirmed by the committee, Number Six.

Greta’s support is a classic example of Blair’s Law

chrisl
Oct 21, 2023 7:44 AM
There was a low voter turnout this referendum
2.6 million people didn’t vote .

I doubt that the turnout was that low as there remains 18.6% of ballots cast to be counted.

If the 15 percent who didn’t vote are counted as no voters ( because they didn’t vote for change) then the yes vote drops to 33 percent. (39% of 85)
Appalling figures

chrisl
Oct 21, 2023 8:09 AM
If the 15 percent who didn’t vote

Why are you so sure of this?

Mark Bolton
Oct 21, 2023 5:34 AM
Bottom of the flag is yellow top is blue …. ra ra team home

and before that it was ……. the Jab … jab me once shame on you …

This whole Team Blue VS Team Red is such bullshit …. one hand does not wash the other one … well at least in my experience … I normally watch them both as they wash each other… HTH

So what is the next enthusiasm we might expect ?

I agree and you see Democrats and Republicans judge the morality of a war over who is in office. It’s gutter morality.

Don’t worry, I’m off the reservation. The normal left right paradigm hasn’t appealed to me in over 20 years.

These things I believe

Sortition
Term limits
Subsidiarity
Confederalism
Recall elections
Jury nullification
CIR to vote down bad laws
Sunset clauses on all legislation

It is also obligatory you watch this presentation on thorium. Where would we be in a world without thorium?

More signs that the climate scam is running out of puff.

Hundreds of jobs at risk after electric lorry start-up files for bankruptcy (20 Oct)

It is the latest electric vehicle company to run into difficulties. A wave of EV start-ups have emerged in recent years amid booming interest in green technologies and ready access to venture capital funding. However, many of them have since gone bust as economic conditions worsened and interest rates have risen. Others have experienced lengthy production delays.

Lights Out: Solar Power Stocks Crash After Demand Warning Across Europe (20 Oct)

The renewable energy meltdown continues as solar power company stocks tumbled on Friday morning after solar equipment maker SolarEdge Technologies warned of sliding European demand. … Solar demand has also slid in the US due to high-interest rates and less favorable state renewable policies.

Please Tell Us We’re Finally Seeing Climate Hysteria’s End (Newsmax, 20 Oct)

And as time marches on, we know the skeptics were right all along.

Nothing in the last article that Cats don’t already, but I included it since seeing such articles in a major broadcaster like Newsmax is very heartening. The green-left won’t go down without a fight though, there’s ‘way too much money and power to be had from the scam.

It would appear that some 3.2 million didn’t vote (or haven’t yet been counted?)

From the AEC website.

https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ReferendumNationalResults-29581.htm

National Enrolment: 17,676,347

Yes Yes % No No % Informal

National 5,600,280 39.31 8,647,468 60.69 143,812

LOL, this aged well, biased journos expected a close YES result.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/will-we-get-an-official-result-on-the-night-no–and-heres-why/d8dfc35a-e0fa-4014-bd62-717804ed67d9

Despite the rush of early votes, ballots won’t be counted before polls close and an outcome will never be officially declared on the night of a referendum, in line with federal elections, according to the AEC.

As soon as three States were a definite NO it was all over.

Dot Votes that haven’t been counted have still been ticked off the voting rolls .
You tick off your name ,receive your paper and vote
This applies whether you vote are absentee or not
The uncounted votes have all been ticked off the voter rolls

Greta gets trolled.

She IS a troll.

Certainly looks like one.

She looks like a Cabbage Patch Doll IMHO. Just as smart as well.

Troll

Vs

Greta

…. happy to flit off to Washington .. AGAIN .. no time for an Oz citizen ………

Whores follow the money.

cassie,

Just a reminder of the Loving People Malcolm Fraser then Labor allowed in

64% of Palestinian refugees taken in by Denmark in 1992 now have criminal records

Summed up in The Comments

– Similar or worse criminal muslim refugee stats would be found around the western world.

– With the massive unvetted immigration Albo is authorising currently it won’t be long before we hear the screams for Palestinian refugees. It is difficult to imagine a greater mistake for Australia. Just look at Europe and see the mess they are in. It is Criminal to think it will not happen here.

Some journo could ask Blackouts Bowen about the Dutch problem, surely it’d make an interesting article.

I see a problem with this suggestion. The good ones are virtually extinct.

Where is Greenpeace and the WWF when you really need them?

Death toll in Gaza hospital blast greatly exaggerated – independent intel

Local Hamas-run Gazan sources allege that 471 people were killed at the hospital;

foreign independent intelligence sources claimed instead that the number was closer to 10-50.

What can we see in the pictures?

Open-source intelligence source OSINTtechnical on X (formerly Twitter) analyzed the incident using satellite imagery obtained via SkyWatch satellite. It noted that no clear difference could be discerned in the area around the hospital complex. Specifically, OSINT examined the graveyard from which the projectile was reportedly launched according to an intercepted phone call released by the IDF.

OSINT noted that, based on a preliminary analysis of the images, “there isn’t a ‘smoking gun’ here that can be easily pointed to.”

Both OSINT and Nathan Ruser, an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, also evaluated snapshots of the parking lot outside the hospital from before and after the blast.

Nathan Ruser
@Nrg8000

Now that day has broken, and we’re getting better evidence, I’m willing to share some PRELIMINARY thoughts on the al-Ahli hospital explosion. The photos of the scene are, to me, not consistent with an airstrike and are not consistent with claims that 500+ people were killed.

OSINT surmised that the blast had the worst impact on the displaced persons who were gathered for shelter in the hospital’s courtyard. Between 30-50 of those people were likely killed on Wednesday night. “They took the worst of the blast,” OSINT wrote, “many of their bodies were badly burnt.”

Ruser noted that within about 10 meters of the impact site, cars appeared largely undamaged.

I have to get around to watching this show.
They are just a mob of learn nothing degenerates but funny.

https://youtu.be/3XUTyn9JdbI

Pies..

‘Can’t I just enjoy my bottle of red in peace’: Push for new health warnings on alcohol labelled ‘paternalistic nonsense’ that ‘treats us like children’

A push to mandate health warning labels be slapped on alcoholic beverages – similar to cigarette packets – has been labelled ‘paternalistic nonsense’, with Sky News host Caleb Bond asking “can’t I just enjoy my bottle of red in peace?”

A group of public health organisations have called on the Albanese government to force alcohol producers to put labels on their products warning consumers about the risks of liver disease, cancer, heart disease, poor mental health, injury and alcohol poisoning.

Despite the criticism, the Albanese government seems to be taking the proposal seriously, with Assistant Minister for Health and Ageing, Ged Kearney, revealing she had sought advice from her department on how best to raise awareness about alcohol-related harms.

“The Australian government recognises the importance of labelling to raise consumer awareness of, and seek to prevent, alcohol-related harms,” she said.

Senator Alex Antic calls on SA Premier to ‘withdraw and repeal’ state-based Voice legislation after defeat of referendum

Nicolle Flint blasts the ABC’s attempts to portray her as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ over her warnings about the potential for an Indigenous ‘self-government’ in Australia

It beggars belief that I received such fierce pushback from the ABC simply by putting a UN declaration about the future of our Indigenous communities under the microscope, writes Nicolle Flint.

As we know, the ABC never lets the facts get in the way of a story, as the last two weeks have once again demonstrated.

The ABC have used the cover of alleged “conspiracy theories” to spread misinformation and disinformation about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and the impact it might have on Australia if implemented -and separately, yet another judge has ruled against the ABC in another drawn out defamation case regarding former special forces soldier Heston Russell.

An examination of the ABC’s so-called “conspiracy theory” about the UNDRIP shows how they present a story to suit their left-wing world view, regardless of other perspectives, or indeed facts.

On October 5, ABC 7.30 ran a segment called ‘The conspiracy theory linking The Voice to a UN takeover’, about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

In fact, until the ABC 7.30 segment I was unaware examining or questioning UNDRIP could attract such ridiculous claims.

Rather, my opinions about UNDRIP were based on carefully researched facts, which is exactly how I formulate my views for my Sky News columns and appearances each week.

It is, for example, a fact that the Human Rights Commission wants the Australian Government to take “steps to implement the UNDRIP into law, policy and practice” and negotiate a National Action Plan with Indigenous peoples to do so.

It is a fact that the Human Rights Commission’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commissioner has written:

“Incorporating UNDRIP into the structures of this nation – its laws, policies and institutions – would be a strong commitment from all Australian governments to working in genuine partnership with First Nations people to respond to our needs and aspirations”.

The document contains 46 articles, which set out specific rights the United Nations think any country with an indigenous population should adopt and enshrine in law.

These include an Indigenous “right to self-determination”, including “political status”, “autonomy or self-government”, their own “decision-making institutions” and “the right to a nationality” (Articles 3, 4, 6 and 18).

The UNDRIP also said: “Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions” while separately exercising their rights in “the State” if they ‘choose’ (Article 5).

From the Comments – Guess Who?

– This whole thing started in 2009 when Rudd signed up to UNDRIP.

In fact one of the architects of the Uluru Statement, Eddie Synot has pretty much said as much. Imagine and unelected UN having even more power to stick its nose in Australia’s business….

https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-10/implementing_undrip_-_australias_third_upr_2021.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93w7MpbZRw

Speaking of the ABC I saw geriatric Butterose is getting paid $200k. Obscene.

European Hospitality? Norway Joins List of Nations Ready to Pay Ukrainian Refugees to Go Home

US universities lose millions as donors pull funding over Hamas stance – Paywalled

Tensions rise on campus over freedom of speech and academic leaders’ public responsibilities

Donors are withdrawing millions of dollars in planned funding to punish US universities for their responses to Hamas’s attack on Israel, in a stand-off over free speech, higher education funding and academic leaders’ public responsibilities.

posted on X: “Freedom of speech?.?.?.?also means freedom for me — Cornell alum — to close my wallet.”

I have been thinking a lot about multiculturalism, diversity, tribalism etc etc as it seems that there is little cultural cohesion in modern western society.

The Roman Empire was indeed multicultural as Pax Romana extended across the Mediterranean & embraced and engulfed so many diverse cultures. Conquest was resented, of course, but economic prosperity & law & order followed. There was a unifying and underlying strength that weakened tribalism. Most of the great historical empires followed that course.

There is much to be learned from the social history of strong empires. Perhaps the post industrial empires of Britain & others have charted the same course. The USA has been more of a cultural icon & military enforcer, but the same unifying factor can be observed.

The progressive collapse of western societies is surely due to the disruption of unifying values when the dominant culture loses faith in its values.

Bugmeat will go the same way as EVs and solar panels. There isn’t any real demand.

Eat Ze Bugs! Meat Giant Tyson Invests in Insect ‘Food’ for People (19 Oct)

Tyson has agreed to invest in Protix, a company that turns insects into “protein” for human and animal consumption. I’ll let Protix introduce itself. From the Protix website (remember, I’m on “woke patrol and will highlight all the woke-iness I see):

Protix is the world leader in insect ingredients. We believe that feeding the growing world population should go hand in hand with protecting our beautiful planet. A huge challenge! Fortunately, the solution lies in nature itself: insects provide low-footprint proteins and other nutrients that can be processed into more sustainable feed and food.

Whoa, all that wokeness in just one paragraph!

It’s fun, though, to watch these woke corporations and their elite Harvard-educated executives faceplant like Daffy Duck over and over. Hopefully after the dust settles we’ll have some companies that actually make things people want.

The west’s fifth columnists
Melanie Phillips – Oct 20, 2023
Media outlets are enabling anti-Jewish evil in a time of war

For several hours this week, the BBC, The New York Times, The Financial Times and other prominent mainstream media outlets claimed that Israel had bombed and destroyed Gaza City’s Al-Ahli hospital, killing hundreds of patients and staff.
This was a lie.
…

Western antisemites and Israel-haters promptly parroted the Hamas lie. In America, Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) spread on social media that the hospital had been hit by an Israeli rocket.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that “it’s not acceptable to hit a hospital,” as if Israel had done so. British Labour MPs shrieked about the “murder of innocent civilians” by Israel and branded the event a “war crime”.

And Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, tweeted about the “bombing” of the hospital, “This is the cost of the US and EU unreserved support for Israel: more civilians killed; more war crimes; more, more, more.”

Yet the blood libel against Israel was untrue and there was soon evidence to prove it. There had been no Israel attacks in the area at that time. Instead, an almost simultaneous barrage of rockets had been fired at Israel from launchers in close proximity to the hospital.

Vicki
Oct 21, 2023 10:09 AM
I have been thinking a lot about multiculturalism, diversity, tribalism etc etc as it seems that there is little cultural cohesion in modern western society.

The Roman Empire was indeed multicultural as Pax Romana extended across the Mediterranean & embraced and engulfed so many diverse cultures. Conquest was resented, of course, but economic prosperity & law & order followed. There was a unifying and underlying strength that weakened tribalism. Most of the great historical empires followed that course.

There is much to be learned from the social history of strong empires. Perhaps the post industrial empires of Britain & others have charted the same course. The USA has been more of a cultural icon & military enforcer, but the same unifying factor can be observed.

The progressive collapse of western societies is surely due to the disruption of unifying values when the dominant culture loses faith in its values.

As far as I can make out reading history, when there’s not more good times of plenty to keep a lid on things it will get very bloody.
Could be 5 years, could be 50 but like it or not that will happen here, it’s just a matter of time, and when it happens people like monty will find their beliefs don’t matter. The color of your skin will be your uniform.

Sunak turned out better than expected so far, but the bar was set oh so low.

Still 3.2M referendum votes to count, eh?
Slightly more than the 3M difference between Yes and No totals, eh?

(conspiratorial ideation intensifies)

Colonel Crispin Berka
Oct 21, 2023 10:43 AM
Still 3.2M referendum votes to count, eh?
Slightly more than the 3M difference between Yes and No totals, eh?

(conspiratorial ideation intensifies)

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