re the Old/New names for Australian infrastructure and assets- -notice how there’s no clamour to rename the Great Sandy Desert,…
Open Thread – Mon 6 Nov 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
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- From darkness to the promise of light
Doesn’t exactly inspire trust and confidence. Two tier law enforcement again.
I posted a video from some Brit that you immediately trashed with your usual ad hominem garbageMy first comment, Imagine…
Fuller, owned racehorses he didn’t declare as well. Definite chip off the old armed robbery squad block but still made…
Apologies to the conductor.
He should be like deer in headlights. Nominal GDP is now, real GDP 3.4% + Inflation 6.2% = 9.6%. It should be around 4.5%.. Monetary policy has to get much tighter. The recession could be awful. I can’t see how nominal GDP can get there without a heavy-duty recession.
JC
Nov 7, 2023 4:00 PM
Winding you up is so easy. Just like a clockwork doll/troll.
Back in that play pen now. GO.
Lol, Sideshow Bob’s missus can pick a winner, if it’s a horse. 😀
Far out. I’m in southside Geelong and just copped the biggest thunder crack ever, accompanied by a lightning flash. Now pissing down like in Darwin etc. Crew at Flemington might want to get on the trains and Ubers. It’s coming.
“Katzenjammer
Nov 7, 2023 2:00 PM
Redneck deplorables know what matters.
https://twitter.com/SussexFriends/status/1721501132663537974”
Katzenjammer,
the Cowboys come with an added bonus, they all know how to shoot.
I had one rule in for hiring in fintech … never take anyone who spent longer than undergrad + masters duration i.e. ~4 years at Uni, as they were 98% timewasters && bluffers who could not or would not solve practical challenges.
“From Naarm to Gaza,we are united”
Where is Naarm?
calli
Nov 7, 2023 4:15 PM
Just mooching around the interwebs and saw something that most Kittehs can relate to.
calii,
Heh – the greatest insult you can say to Your Wife “You are just like Your Mother”
I will now run away fast.
Combined law + Plus arts, plus science, plus engineering, commerce are 5 years. What happens then? 🙂
MV = PY can break down under extreme conditions. They have a shrinking consumer base and the issues of anemic growth and high youth unemployment were catalysed by banking recapitalisation after a prior downturn and have ballooning debt they can probably never pay back.
263% of GDP!
If they don’t do QE, they’re ruined. Imagine a 5% bond rate on that. A huge 13.15% of production (hence a much larger proportion of private sector, tax-paying production, more likely 20.39% – given 35.5% of GDP is government spending) goes to bondholders each year.
Eventually, they won’t be able to do QE.
Who is willing to buy 500% of GDP at 0.3% for 30 years in 2045 with a shrinking population?
Imagine paying 59% of private sector production on debt payments, as a first-world nation with the 2nd or 3rd best tech sector in the world, only after the USA and Germany.
500% of GDP at 8% bond rates with 34% government spending.
They are kicking the can of Bainbow Mountain Boss Coffee down the Shinkansen.
Good lord
Rainbow
Heh – the greatest insult you can say to Your Wife “You are just like Your Mother”
Never had that said by anyone. Mum & I just completely unalike.
However, I wish I had been a better and more patient daughter. Poor mum. Dad and I would discuss politics and philosophy for hours. She would flit around on the periphery.
I see that similar impatience and disinterest in my own daughter. Divine justice, I guess.
“OldOzzie
Nov 7, 2023 4:33 PM
calli
Nov 7, 2023 4:15 PM
Just mooching around the interwebs and saw something that most Kittehs can relate to.
calii,
Heh – the greatest insult you can say to Your Wife “You are just like Your Mother”
I will now run away fast.”
Old Ozzie,
I used to say that to the former Mr Pog. When he was being particularly miserable, I would call him by her name. Good times. 😀
Naarm is what Melbourne AFL club call themselves when it is abbo patronising round.
Heh – the greatest insult you can say to Your Wife “You are just like Your Mother”
I will now run away fast.
You are a wag, Old Ozzie!
Bank of England’s Pill hints interest rates could fall in time for election
Chief economist’s comments come amid signs that high rates are weighing on economy
By Eir Nolsøe and Chris Price
The Bank of England is prepared to cut interest rates by the middle of next year, its chief economist has suggested, in a potential pre-election boost for Rishi Sunak.
Huw Pill said investors were not “unreasonable” to predict a rate cut next summer in the clearest signal yet that the Bank is near or at the peak of its cycle of borrowing cost increases.
In an online Q&A session with the public, Mr Pill said interest rates would have to stay at or near their current level “into the middle of next year”.
He went on: “It is at that point you might consider or reassess, if nothing new has happened, where we are going to have to be.
“That’s what financial markets currently anticipate, but it doesn’t seem totally unreasonable, at least to me.”
Financial markets are currently pricing in a cut next June to take the Bank rate to 5pc.
Rate-setters at the Bank last week voted to hold rates at a 15-year high of 5.25pc.
Inflation is currently at 6.7pc in the UK, more than three times the Bank’s 2pc target, but Mr Pill predicted a rapid fall in the coming months.
He said: “We’re going to see the UK get down to levels more comparable to what we’re seeing in the rest of the world in pretty short order.”
Inflation has fallen to 3.7pc in the US and 2.9pc in the eurozone.
Mr Pill said: “Rates will hopefully come off their current levels as long as we return inflation to target.”
However, he added: “Equally we shouldn’t anticipate they’ll go back to zero on a very lasting way. The situation that created rates at zero pre-Covid was an exceptional situation too, so they’re going to be somewhere in between.”
Mr Pill’s hints at a possible cut next year contrast with comments made by Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, who last week said it was “much too early” to consider rate cuts.
He said at a press conference: “We will be watching closely to see if further increases in interest rates are needed. But even if they are not, it is much too early to be thinking about rate cuts.”
The Bank has previously said interest rates could remain above 5pc until 2026.
A reduction in borrowing costs in the middle of next year would be a boost for Rishi Sunak, amid mounting speculation that he is gearing up for an autumn election.
The Prime Minister faces the bleakest backdrop for public finances in peacetime and a continued cost of living crisis.
However, falling interest rates would allow him to argue that the Government had conquered the inflation crisis and promise an easing of cost crunches.
Mr Pill’s comments came amid more signs that high borrowing costs are weighing on the economy.
Britain’s construction sector suffered its sharpest slump since the first Covid lockdown last month, a closely watched survey showed on Monday.
The S&P Global/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for the UK construction industry found a drop in new projects for the third month running in October, with the rate of contraction the joint-sharpest since May 2020.
Britain’s house-building sector was the worst hit, shrinking for an eleventh consecutive month and at a much steeper pace than the overall construction sector.
House building delivered a reading of 38.5, well below the 50 mark which indicates contraction and below UK construction’s overall reading of 45.6.
Dr John Glen, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), said: “High interest rates and low consumer demand for new homes continue to drag down the UK construction sector, with a lack of new tender opportunities and a cutback of existing projects being reported across the house building industry.
“There is no doubt that UK construction is in a difficult period and there will likely be further challenging months to come”.
The Bank of England last week forecast that the British economy would flatline for all of 2024 and only start growing very slowly thereafter.
Fremantle call themselves something or other also. As does Port Adelaide. Other clubs just wear dot painting jumpers and don’t get too enthusiastic.
I’ve had a wonderful day watching the Melbourne Cup celebrations, fashions etc. Then trying to pick a horse to two or three or four to bet on. As always Melbourne Cup winners always escape me. I still love it though.
The excitement of the excellent ride by Mark Zara on Without A Fight was top noch by both jockey and horse.
The wine was good also. I do not normally imbibe during the day.
Dot
That’s all fine but as I said money printing has to eventually makes its way to wages and it hasn’t in japan no matter what other problems they have in the labor markets. After 20 years of printing it should have shown up somewhere. It hasn’t in wages, good and services, exchange rate. Inflating the money supply has done nothing explicit.
But here’s the rub and it’s an amazing situation. As a result of all this — through Japan’s QE program – the BoJ owns half the Japanese debt. In other words, it’s actually not an economic reality, it’s an accounting one.
The BOJ has half the Japanese debt on its books while the issuer is the ministry of finance. It’s basically an accounting entry between two arms of the government and therefore Japanese debt is basically half of the amount issued.
OldOzzie
Nov 7, 2023 2:57 PM
Being ‘silenced’ by a judge was a win for cantankerous Trump
Former US president is told ‘this is not a political rally’, as he tries to use courtroom as his stage
This is bullshit of bullshit; no bank has complained, no default occurred, the banks were happy to accept the valuations and some were maybe high and others low. There is no fuking issue here. This is just shit. That fat black kunt letitia should be taken out and subject to liposuction on her arse, guts and head immediately. The judge (sic) should be made to eat letitia’s removed fat.
Steve, that’s a hoot!
Biggest smile I’ve had today.
Yeah…a PhD in Paul Keating.
Dimbo’s thesis was on Keating’s premiership.
You can read it online…if you can stand to.
It’s where Tash lives.
I suspect he was summoned on Oct 7.
I’m taking the Lewis trilogy away with me for some down-time reading. When I get back, it will be a revisit to Narnia. Just in time for a fawn with an umbrella and many…many packages.
Only the 12th Caulfield/Melbourne cup double apparently. I recall Might and Power and Ethereal doing it. Bloody good horse they found there. Looks a badass animal too.
Actually, Old Ozzie, my mum’s a lady. Her swearing is an Oh Bother!
I’m usually channelling my grandfather when I do something stupid on the sewing machine. Amongst his many skills, he was a farrier.
I’d say “good luck on your journey to find someone who needs that set of skills”
The tech world generally does complete refresh every 5 years so skills and tools learned more than 3-4 years back is outdated, even more so for anything learned without practical experience.
That Hideous Strength has the best first half of any novel that I’ve ever read. Brainy, unsettling and compelling.
Fudged the denouement tho. Hardly raises to Maybe he didn’t know where he was going at all… got the unabridged edition?
Winston Smith
Nov 7, 2023 4:48 PM
Steve, that’s a hoot!
Biggest smile I’ve had today.
A link on that Staying Alive Woodchuck
I put some Bee Gees music over North Korean marching
What struck me as a Korean Netflix Series Watcher (over 30 Series so far)
you hear that the people of North Korea are starving, but compared to the South Korean Girls who have fairly skinny, but shapely legs, and are small waisted and elegant, the North Korean Army Girls there looked quite solid and thick legs – Hmmm?
For more evaluation – Most Beautiful Female Armed Forces In The World
Winning jockey Mark Zahra has become the first rider to win the Melbourne Cup back-to-back in 44 years and his mid-race move to runaway with victory has been lauded. Without A Fight stormed home from 200m out to become the first horse in 22 years to win both the Caufield Cup and Melbourne Cup in the same year.
Operation Praying Mantis
When your enemy keeps making mistakes, causing them to lose half their fleet…
I love this guys presentation.
Are you seriously going to tell me that you would prefer someone who can only code in Ruby on Rails vs someone who can code in C# and PERL?
The funny thing is, these idiot HR departments say things like “15+ years exp. in Ruby on Rails”.
Alamak!
Nov 7, 2023 4:59 PM
Combined law + Plus arts, plus science, plus engineering, commerce are 5 years. What happens then?
I’d say “good luck on your journey to find someone who needs that set of skills”
The tech world generally does complete refresh every 5 years so skills and tools learned more than 3-4 years back is outdated,even more so for anything learned without practical experience.
IBM Airline IPARS Assembler (BOAC 1965) still going strong after nearly 60 Years
Fix list for IBM IPARS V2.4.1
Download
Abstract
This document contains a table of APARs for the IPARS sample application provided with IBM Airline Control System V2.4.1
Download Description
To download an APAR or PTF click on the link, enter your userid and password to sign in to the server, then click on the name with the left mouse button to save locally.
Modified date:
21 April 2021
I loved the brinksmanship Trump displayed as he flayed the idiot judge at his ‘trial’.
My favourite was when the idiot directed Trump’s attorney to explain the law to him. The response was a corker: “My client is a former and future President, he understands the law”.
Where is Naarm?
From what I’ve seen it is “naarm”.
Melbourne without a capital letter
capital letters are a white colonial imposition on the first nations people
dont get me started on full stops apostrophes and commas
Who was jockey forty odd years ago to win consecutively? Harry White. Arwon and Hyperno. 78/79. Used to ride a few for the great JBC.
It’s not 3 to 4 years back in a combined degree.
Bons, what type of oven?
Wally, it can be a very annoying book. My understanding is that it was truncated quite severely. Lewis does go off at some odd tangents.
The character I enjoy most is Mark Studdock, his development and the dawning realisation that everything he held most dear, aspired to, is rubbish. And dangerous, not just intellectually, but physically.
I await God Oracle and Bourne’s view on this contribution to the standard of debate here.
Winston Smith
Nov 7, 2023 4:48 PM
Steve, that’s a hoot!
Biggest smile I’ve had today.
I’m just glad he or she didn’t run over.
That reminds me , where’s Rooster to offer words of wisdom on the rottenhead’s comportment?
Harry also rode Think Big back to back in 74/75 for JBC. Four cup wins for him.
Westinghouse Pyrolytic WVEP6717DD
Disclaimer: this cannot be considered as an endorsement because the blogger is an idiot.
The interesting thing, by the way, about the attacks in Iraq on US bases there and in Syria is that they are being undertaken by militias that are themselves part of the armed forces of…Iraq. Not Iran. Blinken’s arrival in Iraq yesterday. I hear that the Iraqi PM then travelled to Iran to meet Khamenei. I also hear that Blinken’s reception in Turkey was a complete disaster. Met at the airport by a deputy governor.
“Lies” would be a better word
NHS … information
The insulting the wife posts reminded me of this old joke:
Do you know you can tell your girlfriend is fat?
She fits into your wife’s clothes
Turkey’s inflation rate is 65%.
Look, squirrel in Gaza!
Pennsylvania’s 2020 Election Was Invalid — Says Who?
By Joe Fried
A while back I wrote these words: “The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania certified its 2020 election despite the undisputed fact that it had recorded 202,000 more ballots cast than voters.”
Recently, that statement was challenged by someone who made this comment: “Says who?”
The comment is snarky but fair. My declaration warrants an in-depth explanation, so here it is.
The Analysis
Pennsylvania has a unique voter registration system, called SURE. Like every other voter registration system, the SURE system comprises all legally registered voters in the state. However, it also includes a subcategory of registered voters: the ones who actually voted in the last election (in this case, the 2020 election).
Because of that special subcategory (registered voters who actually voted), it is possible to compare the total ballots cast in the 2020 election to the total voters who participated in that election. The numbers must match because there has to be a one-to-one relationship between voters and ballots. If parity does not exist, something is wrong.
Verity Vote (V.V.) is a Pennsylvania data analysis firm headed by Heather Honey. For the 2020 election, V.V. prepared a careful and detailed comparison of voters who participated in the election vs. ballots cast. Here are the V.V. findings:
When PA certified its election on November 24, 2020, there were about 202,000 more ballots cast than identifiable voters. In other words, there was a large voter deficit.
In late January 2021, when the 67 PA counties finally posted all voter information into the SURE registration system, there was still a voter deficit — about 121,000.
Let’s examine Verity Vote’s analysis in greater detail. Starting in October 2020, during the early voting period, V.V. purchased weekly updates to the SURE registration system. Those were purchased from the PA Department of State. VV kept buying the updates every week until February 2021, and each weekly update revealed the cumulative number of registered voters at that point in time.
When PA certified its election (November 24, 2020), Verity Vote could see that there were 202,000 fewer voters than ballots. How? It had the exact number of voters based on its analysis of the SURE weekly updates. V.V. also knew the total number of ballots that were cast, based on the reported votes, adjusted by overvotes, undervotes, and write-in votes. (Take my word for it: that is the correct procedure.)
After being challenged by Republican legislators in late December 2020, the PA Department of State issued a terse communication that acknowledged a discrepancy but dismissed its importance. The Department implied that it was a mere timing matter that would be resolved when all 67 counties finally posted voter information into the SURE system. However, this was not the case.
When the last PA counties finally posted information into the SURE registration system (at the end of January 2021), V.V. determined that there remained a voter deficit of 121,000. Using my audit experience, I extensively tested the V.V. analysis, and I found it to be logical and completely accurate. A voter deficit existed, and the election should not have been certified.
The Law
No, Madam Secretary: The ultimate certification is determined by the vote count of legally registered voters. If you are unable to identify those legally registered voters — even three months after the election — something is very wrong, and probably illegal.
Those are the facts, and here is some theory. Perhaps this is what happened in the crooked state of Pennsylvania. Trump was leading by nearly 700,000 votes right after the November 3 election, and there was probably panic in Harrisburg, PA. The folks down there had to certify their election in just three weeks, and, my God! What would happen if Trump still had more votes than Biden on the day of certification?
For that reason, I believe that the people in Harrisburg cast all caution to the wind. They decided to jam the system with every ballot and validate the voter registrations later. However, when they finally tried to match voters to registration records, they could not do it. Why? Perhaps many of the voters were phony. Maybe these ballots were some of the 275,000 harvested ballots reported by True the Vote in the movie 2000 Mules.
But there is nothing to worry about because the PA Department of State is staffed by Democrats, in a Democrat state, within a country run by Democrats.
Therefore, the FBI won’t be busting in doors, and nobody will be charged with fraud or malfeasance. In fact, hardly anyone will ever hear of this fraud. But you heard it here.
Sharri’s doing a great job. And she’s talking about the hostages.
She just had those two weirdbeard fatheads preaching hate right here in NSW.
Why haven’t these buggers been either charged or deported?
Sharri needs to move from being “terrified” to “disgusted” and “angry”.
While she remains terrified, she’s on the back foot.
‘Net Zero is a suicide pill for the British economy, nothing more, nothing less’ | Marcus Gibson
‘Multiculturalism is an anti-Western ideology’ | Ralph Schoellhammer
The Collapse of World Trade Center | The Complete Physics
5,368,199 views 2 Oct 2023 Civil Engineering
Probably the Best Expanation I have seen – a superb 15 Mins 29 Secs
Thinking there might have been some comments on the Melbourne Cup, I looked in to newcatallaxy blog a few times during the day and made a comment or two but the last page was dominated by comments re Martin Armstrong.
I was a little disappointed that so many of the 200 comments of that page were about Armstrong, and I wondered why, when Martin Armstrong we will always have with us, and today is Melbourne Cup Day. Never mind I’m just an old Aussie who treasures our old traditions.
Trump is well ahead of shit stain biden in the key swing states but voters under 30, women, hispanics and blacks still prefer the corrupt old cadaver. Morons the lot of them.
a long extwitter post from someone who managed to survive the 7 October massacre
Well, the berley’s out now.
And the blowfish swarm in.
Don’t even throw a hook COUGH armstrong COUGH
Knuckles, if I recall the first instalment, it was pretty straight down the line. Will watch later.
On the Melbourne Cup, old commenters here know what I think about horse racing. So no comments from me.
As for everyone else…go for it.
I sure know how to pick ’em: my two top picks for the Melbourne Cup (Gold Trip and Alenquer) both pulled up lame.
*my berley’s better than your berley*
😀
How Hamas killed my wokeness by Alex Olshonsky, Australian paywalled might be able to read it at Tablet magazine.
Personally I don’t care too much what the first language is for a candidate. But languages have their lifetimes and there are better ones for current tech stack e.g. Python beats PERL, Java beats C# etc. Someone who learned PERL years back and has only used in academic setting is at a disadvantage these days.
Indeed – HR departments don’t know much on history of tech and actual lifetime of languages. Never set more than 5 years experience required in any language as its unlikely a good candidate will be learning anything new, esp in Uni setting, after 3-4 years. Its actually a red flag me if people have learned no new languages or tech stack in career longer than 5 years.
But the rule of never taking long-term academics works pretty well, those who can, do etc …
try Lessons in Chemistry – on Apple
mildly woke, but excellent script writing
I’m sorry, but if it doesn’t talk about the melting point of steel or Tartarian construction techniques, it is just another cover up.
KD might be interested in The Sixth Commandment.
One of the co-accused is a dead ringer for Jonny Bairstow.
He cries a lot, too.
Alamak
I think you’re not being serious here and just holding on to an iffy comment you made earlier.
A combined law science degree from Sydney uni would mean the person scored in the top 3% of the VCE population to gain entry. You’d ignore that person for someone with less ability and even if the uni grades were commensurate. Surely, you’re working for Atlassian, are you?
Well done to IBM for maintaining support for so long without bleeding the customers to death!
Yay! I reeled in a Grey Nurse!
BA + MA is Min. 5 years full-time. Probably need Hons degree to be competitive so add another year.
Hahaaaaa.
Coming soon to downtown Scamberra.
Poor old Muzzles. He thought I was dumber than a bag of wet rodents.
Shame.
My fault is I don’t bill and coo like the old Boomer gals at the van sites. Such a waste of wit and wonder.
The Collapse of World Trade Center | The Complete Physics.
Top floor collapse from the get go, and the next floor, instant dust…. you effin morons!
Woobla?
JC> Aside from certain top-level Uni’s abroad prefer not to hire anyone spending longer than ~4 years studying. Grades are not a factor in coding ability imho. Usually its the opposite i.e. people with more paper certs learn slower and usually reluctant to take direction.
Anyways, testing via coding assignments and AI-driven quiz usually separates doers from talkers, regardless of degree or duration.
There’s more drivel in this article than you’d get from Monty if he was talking from a dentist’s chair with an overdose of local anesthetic to his lower gums.
The following is a taste of the gaslighting, projection and delusions of the author;
I was so saddened to hear that when Trump, Speaker Johnson, and Majority Leader McConnell cut off all US aid to Ukraine that country’s government collapsed, and the Russians slaughtered hundreds of thousands suspected of collaborating with the Zelensky administration. When Russian forces entered Poland, I fully expected a NATO response, but I hear Trump vetoed that, too.
Republicans in Congress appear, from what I hear, quite happy with the new US alignment with Russia and rejection of our former European alliances (except Hungary). Hopefully when the top Democrats get out of jail they’ll be able to convince their Republican colleagues to reconsider, if President Trump lets them back into the Capitol.
I’m just glad i managed to not vomit all over my computer.
Space may be the final frontier, but it’s made in a Hollywood basement.
pancakes are flat for a reason.
Yes please, anytime is red o’clock on Cup day.
When vegetarians invite you to dinner.
Ig Nobel Prize was once awarded for “Is Kansas flatter than a pancake?”
It was.
Damn, sorry ,link didn’t work.
Hooked up!
Johnny Rotten, why not just summarise a few of what you consider are Armstrong’s salient points and just provide a link for those interested to read further? Forcing one particular external commenter onto the blog in full detail with dire regularity is actually spamming.
I can’t believe I paid good money to go to one of this bastard’s concerts back in the day before he became a muzzie dog:
Yusuf Islam’s Killer Performance
The former Cat Stevens croons it up for pro-Hamas crowd in Istanbul.
I love horses.
The next time Turkey needs US aid to cover over Erdogan’s smothering of civil society the Americans might want to hold off for a while and let him wear the consequences.
A combined law science degree from Sydney uni would mean the person scored in the top 3% of the VCE population to gain entry.
In my case the top 1%.
I’m being followed by a drone shadow
Drone shadow, drone shadow
Melbourne Cup day – worst day for punting, but you’ve got to have a go for fun.
A bit each way here and there, an ambitious quinella and some crazy trifectas.
Finished up marginally in front. All good fun.
Now, back to scrolling.
unembellished hamas home movies
What a disgusting turd. Kae, if you’re lurking …you were right and I was wrong.
Yeah Toad I had the first two in a few multiples, but not the third, like most others. First 4 $332K.
Nah, Chris. He’s on the Pieces Train.
Pieces of little children.
Oh that’s right. I raped you, then my mates had a turn then we cut your throat.
Thanks Cat Stevens. Now we know.
That’s my Cat Stevens collection gone into the rubbish.
I wish there were something good to be said of his actions, but my vocabulary is not up to it.
And hesitating to press ‘Post Comment’ has many times saved me from saying intemperate things, including now.
Estimation of measurement uncertainty in chemical analysis is an informative course on youtube. Love the presenter’s pocket protector.
Bolta needs sectioning. He has just stated that the SFL’s should bring Scummo back. Libs would win for SURE! bwahahahahaha
Speaking of pancakes, real ones, we were treated at lunch today today to some luvverly (and genuine) French catering – very thin but strong crepes, rolled leaflets of cooked eggy stuff, encasing some tasty tender duck and asparagus. Twenty-five of us, females aged from 50’s to early 80’s, demolished a sit-down feast jollied along by champagne and cups of punch, with much admiration of the way in which hat styles and colors matched some gorgeous clothing. Palm Beach style in a huge house with ocean views a long way up the Insular Peninsular. Happy to report that eyes were rolled and calls of No More were aroused by the Welcome to Country.
My horse didn’t win but he did well by holding fourth position valiantly in a backwards and forwards thriller for that position till the gallop along to the finish, when he disappeared off the radar.
Sancho Panzer
Nov 7, 2023 6:20 PM
OldOzzie
Nov 7, 2023 6:01 PM
The Collapse of World Trade Center | The Complete Physics
5,368,199 views 2 Oct 2023 Civil Engineering
Probably the Best Expanation I have seen – a superb 15 Mins 29 Secs
I’m sorry, but if it doesn’t talk about the melting point of steel or Tartarian construction techniques, it is just another cover up.
Sancho,
and others blithely commenting, I would hope you have enough intelligence to view the whole 15 Mins 29 Secs, and view the whole video
From a Civil Engineering perspective – logically laid out with with complete explanations including explaining the pancake using a coke can & why there was a difference in Time in collapse of the South & North Buildings
The melting point of steel is addressed by the Flame Retardant Spray on the Inner core metal slowing the destruction process
I suggest you open your mind & learn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkBfLBov5Q
From the Comments
– It makes me wonder how much of this was known prior to the event. The beams in the center, the kangaroo cranes, and the foam spray are really fascinating!
– I’m just so privileged to stumble upon this video. So enlightening. Kudos to all engineers world wide.
– This is a very educational breakdown. It really puts in perspective where the impact points were.
– Very informative. Any chance you could do a video that explains how WTC building 7 collapsed in the exact same way (despite not getting hit by a plane)?
– Thanks for the explanation. It’s a point of view and explanation I haven’t heard before. Thanks also for going through the trouble of doing animations and not showing the actual footage.
– A video that doesn’t have a 2.5 min intro on what an airplane is and what the World Trade Center is, but rather a video that goes straight to the informative part? I must be dreaming!
Bolta needs sectioning. He has just stated that the SFL’s should bring Scummo back
And leeser too. Now that the screech is done even Kenny makes more sense than bolta.
Old Ozzie, I was not commenting tongue in cheek. I enjoyed the first instalment.
As for the cranes…you and I know they’re an Australian invention. When we actually produced innovators like Favelle.
I was pulling out onion weed during the race that stops the nation.
*hangs head in shame*
..
And you said Islam has never done anything good for us.
Old Ozzie:
God help the poor girl who snaps a tendon in that parade.
Rosie, those Hamas Home Movies have some excellent facial pics of those commiting these crimes. They should be worried if they are not dead already.
The obvious looting was also disgusting, on top of the kidnappings and killings.
I prefer herons over cranes.
An no I’ve no egrets.
(Managed to get the newest noisy miner chick to accept food from my hand today, for the first time. Corrupting the young!)
That could get you a visiting position at the Prof van Wrongselen School of Wrongology.
OldAussie> no sarc intended and I did manage to make it through the vid, thx.
Yusuf Islam is another lowlife Muslim weasel and all round creep who has continuously pulled the wool over very stupid people’s eyes. I clearly remember watching that infamous Geoffrey Robertson Hypotheticals episode back in 1989 after the Rushdie affair exploded, and this weasel said as follows, in response to Geoffrey Robertson…
Robertson: You don’t think that this man deserves to die?
Y. Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Robertson: Yes.
Y. Islam: Yes, yes.
Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?
Y. Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act – perhaps, yes.
Later in the programme, Robertson discusses a protest where an effigy of Rushdie is to be burned.
Robertson: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Y. Islam: I would have hoped that it’d be the real thing.
On that panel, there was a police officer and the novelist Fay Weldon. Weldon asked the police officer if he was going to arrest Yusuf Islam because he had just called for a man’s death on television.
The police officer, clearly deeply uncomfortable, writhes in his seat and says nothing.
That was thirty-four years ago and the UK police (and now the police here in Oz) are still ‘writhing’ and saying nothing in the face of open and overt Muslim aggression and outright threats. They’ve now been joined by our own police force. This is what happens when you appease. Thirty-four years ago Yusuf Islam expressed a desire to burn Salman Rushdie and said so on prime time television, whilst a police officer sat and did nothing. In 2023, Muslims are on the streets of London screaming jihad against Jews, whilst London plod stand back, looking uncomfortable, writhing and doing nothing, and Muslims and leftists are on the steps of the Sydney Opera House screaming “kill the Jews”, and “gas the Jews”, whilst Sydney police stand back, looking uncomfortable, writhing and doing nothing.
I know my Jewish history, I know they mean it, and I know what comes next.
Cassie, its tempting to take on these protestors [in the ways they have show they approve], but the worse people are our rulers and betters that have spent so long sucking up to them.
Australian military history – pre-WWII Japanese intelligence gathering in Australia.
Late last night I posted briefly about a Japanese army officer named Major Hashida who visited Australia in January, 1941, under false pretenses, to conduct espionage.
The following is on the same topic, but not involving Major Hashida. It is an excerpt from a Sunday Telegraph newspaper article published several weeks after the War in the Pacific was won by the Allies:
[Source – National Archives of Australia].
While the above example was nothing more than normal procedure for all countries in the region keeping an eye on their neighbours and potential adversaries, it does show that Japan had not neglected Australia entirely in its pre-war assessments.
Went to the local council’s waste transfer station yesterday. “Volunteers” were there hectoring spring cleaners about what can be thrown in the pit, directing punters to put this and that in far away recycling piles. I paid $200 for this minor annoyance. Is somebody really going to “recycle” bits from a crap Kmart kettle?
More of this Cassie.
The IDF eliminated Wael Asefa, Commander of Hamas’ Deir al-Balah Battalion.
Asefa aided in the dispatch of thousands of terrorists to assault, abduct and murder Israeli civilians on October 7th.
More beautiful horses. Make sure you have sound.
And look where it ended up. Tile flooring throughout the house and posting Chick with dicks pics on a blog trying to make readers believe they’re women.
An appalling load of bollocks over at the Oz, so sycophantic it looks as if it was paid for.
The smart power grid is here, and at wholesale prices
The solar panels on our roofs and EVs in our garages are set to power us into a renewable future. And increasingly, the power is in the hands of consumers with batteries.
By JARED LYNCH
Amber Electric co-founder Dan Adams says there are enough household batteries and EVs to meet Australia’s renewable energy storage requirements. Picture: Louis Trerise
By 2030 Australia will already have enough battery storage from home systems and electric cars to meet the demands of the renewable energy transition. That’s the assessment of Amber Electric co-founder and co-chief executive Dan Adams and, notably, it excludes the development of any large-scale commercial battery farms.
“That’s pretty remarkable,” Adams says. “There will probably be some role for large-scale batteries, but actually there will be enough battery capacity in our home batteries and electric vehicles to meet nearly all the battery-storage requirements to get us to 100 per cent renewables. The big question is, how do we unlock that battery capacity?”
This is where the tech industry potentially has the answer. Australian households have embraced rooftop solar more than any other country, producing about 1166 watts per person, ahead of The Netherlands with 1040 watts, and Germany with 807 watts. In fact, there is so much solar power sloshing around the grid that, for a brief period of time in 2022, it even matched the amount of power generated by coal. While this can create problems for grid stability, it can also present opportunities – and unlike prawns at Christmas, this power can be stored in people’s batteries for use later.
And so on.
The comments below are giving it a good thrashing though, if you can get past the paywall.
Mine was:
Is that the EV I can’t store in the garage in case it catches fire, sets light to the whole house by burning uncontrollably for hours, and destroys everything I have? (And then I read my house and contents insurance company put in some small print saying EV fires aren’t covered?)
Actually it all looks suspiciously like “sponsored content”…
Goodbye to all that
Melanie Phillips – Nov 6, 2023
As Remembrance Weekend approaches, Britain mourns the passing of more than its military heroes
May your God be with you, and bring you home, safe and well.
https://melaniephillips.substack.com/
It was written about 15 years ago. I recall when I first read it and it resonates even more now.
Big catalogue of great songs the old Cat Stevens.
I looked at his Wikipedia page, something about bad tuberculosis in 1969, and getting into metaphysics. Then something about Marrakesh in Morocco when he heard God’s music. Then something about nearly drowning in the ocean at Malibu, California. That all contributed to him becoming a mad muesli, apparently.
Ego cremor segetis, ad cacumen surgo …
By popular demand a stunning cute owl.
The Turks hold a few key cards for the US and they know it.
Our not-particularly-flash school increased fees by close on 20 per cent next year, thanks to Dan’s revolting envy tax on private schools. If SFL can’t capitalise on the relentless attack on the middle class ………
Haddaway – What Is Love (Moreno J Remix)
Amazing stuff
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/oldest-evidence-of-humans-in-greece-is-700000-years-old-a-quarter-of-a-million-years-older-than-previously-thought
Private school envy tax?
Cohenite> Wot, no latin skills required for top one percenters? Perhaps too much time searching for so-called ‘owls’
My daughter is smashing it at the gubment high school she goes to. Private schools used to be just for the toffs etc. Now everyone wants their kids going to them. Keep it real.
You respect the flooring shop or you GTFO! Annoying radio ads have puttin’ food on my table for years.
For a blunt pencil like myself, I found that very interesting thanks, OldOzzie.
Which is why a Turkey without Erdogan is preferable.
Stand by for the next rise in Aboriginal inhabitation of Australia.
ROFL ZK2A
Oldest evidence of humans in Greece is 700,000 years old, a quarter of a million years older than previous record”
Not surprised by this. Have long thought that humans left Africa much, much earlier than surmised.
Great opening monologue by Gutfeld about TDS, then one of his guests notes that hidden in the recent poll which shows Trump whipping the corpse in the swing seats is the point that those voters will not support Trump if he is convicted. So there it is: these leftie arseholes to satisfy their more superiority will stop the only man capable of saving the West by using phony charges and a corrupt legal system.
Snort, cackle.
One shouldn’t laugh …
It’s a good thing he wasn’t named Pig Stevens or Dog Stevens.
So it took them 698,000 years before Socrates and Plato ?
Quisque comodeus est.
Old Ozzie at 7:15.
I will give myself an uppercut and a stern admonishment.
The collapse of the WTC towers is a serious matter.
I’ll say nothing about Building 7.
Or was that 8?
Click … Click! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
Brilliant.
Fantasy – Leonid & Friends (EW&F cover)
I believe Human beings are maybe 15,000 years on this planet. We were created by Higher beings that live inside the earth, and they bop about in UFOs when need be.
“I believe Human beings are maybe 15,000 years on this planet. We were created by Higher beings that live inside the earth.”
You can believe what you like.
It’s the random capitalisations I can’t stand for.
Dot
Nov 7, 2023 8:43 PM
One floor collapses and goes instant dust. You effin idiot. Don’t pretend to be that smart.
Pay that one, Dot. LOL
Ego cremor segetis, ad cacumen surgo
Ok, what’s this the recipe for?
Odd how the other random capitaliser Mark Bolton has disappeared.
Someone postulated here the other day that the AEC were slowly pushing the No vote down to get it under 60% so it looks “better”.
Firstly, it looks like the AEC have put the cue in the rack (no update since 2nd) with the No vote stuck on 60.06%.
Secondly, even if No came in at 57% – 58%, I don’t think the Yessirs would be crowing about it.
Paleoanthropology is a very speculative field of science.
Competing narratives are constructed from skull fragments.
Oh, he’s still here.
Give it another 20-30 years and the official 9/11 story will have as much cred as the Apollo moon missions do now. HQ Holdens to space!
You got a link for that?
Do you want to meet up in person or exchange phone numbers?
I will meet anyone at the Exeter Hotel, near Gavelly Beach at 8 PM on a Friday. You name the date, tough guys.
I will meet anyone at the Exeter Hotel, near Gavelly Beach at 8 PM on a Friday. You name the date, tough guys.
Go as Frank Walker dottie; and take some tiles!
Dot
Nov 7, 2023 8:43 PM
MSM gobbling dickhead.
Feeling good with Mr Frank Walker and Nighttrain/Boney M/Duck Sauce.
Duck Sauce National Tiles Remix
HELLO!
Dot
Nov 7, 2023 9:06 PM
You got a link for that?
I already have. You’re ignorance is not my concern.
D*ckhead!
The Exeter Hotel in Gavelly was a frontier outpost, built by Greater Tartaria 17,000 years ago to keep marauders away from its Empire and its women.
Obviously.
Nobody could built that now.
*build that now*
Apologies. So excited.
Lots of gobbler references today.
Did I miss something?
How professional is this? Just incredible that AG would stoop to tweeting about an ongoing case.
Didn’t they film Season 3 of Big Brother on the second floor there?
So what’s the latest on how the WTC towers collapsed?
Maureen Mcgovern – Can You Read My Mind
Its gentleman’s 24-hour sauna in the basement is said to be widely advertised in certain circles.
8.00 p.m. on Fridays is happy hour.
Would that be ‘Brother Ismail’?
A.k.a. ‘Hey, Shorty’ on the streets of western Sydeny.
132andBush
Nov 7, 2023 9:37 PM
So what’s the latest on how the WTC towers collapsed?
Direct Energy Weapons!
The “Alan Parsons Project”.
Dutchsinse has booted of the net.
Israel should buy the B-21 Raider with some minor upgrades and call it the B-21C Peace Train.
Strategically placed explosives. Funny how a Boeing 737 can fly into a massive concrete steel reinforced skyscraper, yet no wings or any of the empennage come off? ROFL
Dutchsinse has been booted of the net.
Censorship is in full swing.
Really?
How did that happen?
And who?
And why?
of masks and masquarades
That’s disappointing.
I quite enjoyed his predictions.
Or forecasts.
this forum has become just a little fncked up lately
reminds me a lot of the film Idiocracy
Brawndo … it has what plants crave!
Amazing how stupid people are, or maybe just happy to go along to get along? The latter I would presume.
leave presumption up to the experts
Islam, like Marxism, is the perfect ideology, from a purely political point of view.
It rewards moral sin, appealing to the worst of human lust. It rewards narcissism and envy.
But at least Mohammed was somewhat bipolar, and appealed to mankind’s better nature in his moments not motivated by anger and vengeance. Marx wasn’t a sand ignoramus, having all the benefits of western civilisation but let his entitlement drive his entire life. And Mohammed could blame some of his rants on theologians who slipped in their own envy in his name.
Yeah Idiocracy( LOL ) is where most of the “normal” posters here are taking us to.
Link
Sliante to you mob!
I’m especially enjoying the ‘evidence’
… everything from random caps to ellipsis is apparently proof-positive
WTF is going on with this blog. I have not been able to load on my iphone for 24 hrs. Now with nothing changed it works fine. FFS.
Welcome to Australia Same As – Police insult the public by allowing these marches
They have been much more far-ranging in their threat to Jews and to ordinary citizens than anything Oswald Mosley’s thugs ever managed
CHARLES MOORE
On the first page of a British passport, “His Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State requests and requires” that the bearer should be allowed “to pass freely without let or hindrance” and be afforded “such assistance and protection as may be necessary”.
That is what our Government asks of foreign countries.
It seems to ask rather less of our domestic authorities. It is surely the right of British citizens to pass “without let or hindrance” through our streets, particularly through the public spaces of our capital city, and to be afforded protection in doing so.
This right is being denied.
On October 7, roughly 1,400 Israeli citizens (and smaller numbers from other countries) were massacred in Israel.
Since then, the main British street response has been demonstrations by pro-Palestinian supporters who either back the massacres or who march as if they had never happened.
This is itself intimidating.
Even if the marches themselves could technically be described as “peaceful” (which not all can), the fact that thousands have nothing to say against one of the most disgusting series of acts perpetrated against anyone, anywhere, since 1945 instils fear.
Good people would not march that way, at this time, however much they feel for the plight of Gaza.
When such marches are not merely tolerated but protected, when protesters of other opinions are told to stay away, when streets are blocked, railway stations are occupied by those marching and railway carriages are sometimes jammed with chanting mobs, this amounts to a display of indifference by the police to the citizen.
And when the schedule of “rolling” marches lets the demonstrators own the streets for weekend after weekend and threatens to affect the regular, peaceful commemorations of the war dead which take place on the 11th day of the 11th month, what looked like indifference turns to insult.
The general “right to protest” is not unqualified. It is customary, for example, to reroute marches: the first of this lot was forbidden to approach the Israeli embassy.
It is also a matter for discussion when a march takes place. It ought to be obvious to the police that there should be no political marches in central London on the Remembrance weekend – the one time in the calendar formally consecrated to silence, reflection and thanksgiving.
Marches can be stopped and have been.
In 2011, the then home secretary, Theresa May, banned a march by the English Defence League in Tower Hamlets.
The recent marches cause even more pain, since they relate not just to racial ill feeling but to anti-Semitic mass murder.
Under Section 13 of the Public Order Act, it is for the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to act by seeking the Home Secretary’s consent to ban a march.
His reason for doing so does not have to be fear of serious disorder. It could also be that “the persons organising it [intend] the intimidation of others” (Section 12).
The Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, may be under the impression that the marches so far have been a success because they have not been riots.
He is wrong: they have been much more far-ranging in their threat to Jews and to ordinary citizens than anything Oswald Mosley’s thugs ever managed.
Israeli show’s satirizing of US student support for Hamas goes viral
UN Agency Staff Celebrated Oct. 7 Massacre, Part of ‘Terror Strategy’ at Root of Hamas Attack, Watchdog Says
Zafiro, so they laid kilometers of wires for explosives AND perfectly coordinated a jumbo jet to fly into the building at the correct floor level at 500kms p/h so the explosives on those floors could be set off remotely by people watching the plane approach?
And the master villain was George W Bush?
Dude, lay off the crack pipe.
Next you’ll be telling us that 5,000 people involved in the Apollo moon landing have all kept their mouths shut about what really happened?
I worked with a shiela whose nickname was 2HS after her initials because she broadcast every thing she ever heard. But no one blabbed among 5,000 people. On a side note, i have a nice opera house to sell you, and it’s in a prime seaside location!!
I have an easy job for you. $10,000 for a day’s work paid in $3 bills. Unmarked.
I had some McConnell’s Irish whisky the other week
and just polished off Some Ezra Brookes straight rye whiskey
semantics aside
the world is a strange place but
it’d be far strangerer without a dram
cheers1
and cheers 2