Don’t have to sell me, I saw them at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Very very good.
Open Thread – Weekend 18 Nov 2023
- Bumtree #16
- Open Thread – Mon 20 May 2024
- Guest Post: Wally Dali- Archibald Prize predictions
- TULIP versus ruinous Labor
- Open Thread – Weekend 18 May 2024
Well, it’s Vincent Namatjira, past winner- that’s who it is. I know he’s bumbling around the likeness of some other…
except possibly this one by JJ’s greatest follower … “in the gallery”
okie funk doesn’t get any better …
Why not Dover? Hamas have been claiming the pilot was a Jew by the name of Eli Kopter. He probably…
Quiet in here.
It was until you opened yer trap!
Rabz
Classicism and opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjVTwzL3sg
Rabz
Romantism, classicism and almost operatic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is97RmHhmVg&list=RDis97RmHhmVg&start_radio=1
First Four!
Almost.
Old mate tallied it up, $1.5M we put into bringing the case v Galati. But we were gentlemen, and pussies. Galati won the battle for public opinion in a one-horse town, and a born-to-rule Victorian import wanted some of that Channel 7 glamour.
In the Catallaxy tradition of reposting the same music videos over and over again… The lyrics to a song which I hope started as a cynical warning but has unfortunately become true in ways that Rob Halford could hardly have imagined in 1982.
Judas Priest: Electric Eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGtwgYt_QnA
Mutt of the weekend-
The Kelpie-Whippet cross, the pinnacle of dog evolution. I, myself, am a Whippet-Kelpie.
Cairns Animal Rescue, good people.
That will be a good dog. The Kelpie part of the cross is amazingly trainable; she’s obviously ‘looking for a job’.
Bloke I lived with back in 1999/00/01 etc was an SAS ‘nam veteran. He had this Kelpie, it’s name was Kermit. You could only walk it on your left. Try and walk it on your right hand side, it would cower and curl up in a fetal position. A well trained dog.
Oh yeah.
Steely Grey- my avatar pic- was the brainiest dog. Had a thirty word vocab, hand signal sheep herding and hunting method, would run race the motorbike at 50km/h until I ran out of paddock, would basically do anything I asked.
Then D.A.N.N.O. dog was a koolie-whippet, and just stunning. Nowhere near the work ethic, but solid, never wandered, never growled, never even lifted a lip. He’d find a fox about once a fortnight all on his own, and was breaking their necks by the time we lost him.
Now I’ve got Sal the border collie-whippet- I know, it’s like a kitsch hobby to work my way through the lurcher combination set- she’s a brick. A bit fierce with the sheep- she came from the Cairns mob, I think she literally killed for her dinner for the first few years, and she was surprisingly vindictive when we bagged a fox last week- but instantly dedicated to us.
Made the mistake of letting the vet take a blood sample for heartworm, nw they’re exploring pancreas function, trying to work out why she’s not gaining condition.
South American Hotels say ‘No’ to Roger Waters After His Support Gaza Extremists Following Barbaric Oct. 7 Terrorist Attacks
Cry me a river Rog.
Enemies in high places…
Just had a flashback to what they did in Israel with the clot shots. The mother having her baby taken away from her.
What they did to the Nation of Israel and it’s people still sh*ts me to the core.
Dr. Albert Bourla | Pfizer – gloated about it being a test bed. And he is Jew.
Chew the cud.
How to say “We are afraid of Hamas shooting the shit out of us and stealing our stuff” without saying it.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight on retiring jockey Damien Oliver’s last day today at the races in Melbourne.
David Pope.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Some fascinating survey results.
https://ecfr.eu/publication/living-in-an-a-la-carte-world-what-european-policymakers-should-learn-from-global-public-opinion/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Especially this one.
In general, do you feel optimistic or pessimistic about your country’s future?
Half of Russians are still optimistic about their outlook.
An observation of Xi in the US.
For whatever reason, Xi seems enjoy Newsom’s company.
Who knows what was promised when Newsom was in China.
But it’s made Xi happy.
Candace Owens confirming my long held opinion of her.
Low intelligence, pseudo conservative grifter.
Trump’s comment that the Dems are vermin seemed generous to me – they are worse than mere rodents. But the media have had a conniption anyway.
Vivek Ramaswamy was asked about it and returned serve quite forcefully, saying that the media always wanted to go hard about a word rather than discuss policies.
Stephen Sackur threw “vermin” at his latest victim, a Republican congressman, who failed to respond even though as a former TV anchor he should have known how to. Kari Lake would have dealt with it in similar fashion to Vivek.
Sackur was also determined to make Trump a villain by referring to the 90 plus charges he currently faces. Sackur would be quite aware that they are partisan and for the most part not just false but are election interference. By taking this sort of position he aligns himself with the Biden regime and the vermin.
My long held opinion of Candace is that she has good intelligence and makes astute observations, and is valuable as a black woman participating forcefully on the conservative side. As we have seen often, any black person of either gender gets attacked by the left if they adopt a sensible conservative position.
Who knows what was promised when Newsom was in China.
See Garrison’s cartoon above for the answer.
Never forget.
Speaking of which:
Zafiro
Nov 16, 2023 10:22 PM
Hamarse are a sideshow controlled by Mossad. Tell me I’m crazy!
Had to look Stephen Sackur up. Oh another haughty, condescending BBC twot. BA (Hons) (big whoop) and JFK skool of gubmint (FMD).
That said a BA can mean almost anything and from the most elite of universities, it can really be a pure maths degree, etc.
Hey isn’t krudd BA (Hons) and swan too.
Candace realised back in 2017 she wasn’t going to make money being a leftist shill.
Not saying that everyone in the space isn’t out to make a dollar, it’s just that some actually believe what they say.
Dot
Nov 18, 2023 6:39 AM
Never forget.
Speaking of which:
Zafiro
Nov 16, 2023 10:22 PM
Hamarse are a sideshow controlled by Mossad. Tell me I’m crazy!
Dotty Dot of dotttiness – You r crazy. Please keep it up. And lay off the sauce.
Is indeed a crazy thing to say – but I didn’t say it, “Zafiro” said it.
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
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6h
How many Arabs lived in “Palestine” before the establishment of the State of Israel ?
Rudd had his BA (Hons) in Asian (Chinese) Studies (being fluent in Chinese and Swan’s major is not well known, despite being a lecturer in management at QIT/QUT.
Neither claims a first. 🙂
I’m sorry
)
Just in case beaspurch notices.
being fluent in Chinese
My Chinese friends said he was competent, not fluent.
Wikipedia says Rudd claims he got a first.
I am shocked, I am chagrined and I feel cheap.
We should all forward on an article once a week to our brain dead friends and family to educate them about something. Gerbil worming, EVs, etc. It will be futile for many but things are getting worse not better.
Rudd gets it right about 80 percent of the time. Now about his thesis he wrote at ANU, any copies survive? Apparently not too complimentary about the Chinese.
HAHAHAHA!
A rat-f***ed chipmunk cleaning out Toad Hall.
Keating would have waxed lyrical for days about this.
Maybe as a joke they intentionally miseducated him.
Agree you could do physics, maths, chem and biology in a BA at UNSW once. You could also do political ‘science’, sociology etc
Kids,
If you miss out on a job at a Big Four, you’re not missing out on much.
Become an auditor and laugh at the poor, dumb bastards writing garbage analyses for well-heeled political masters.
hopefully this is a link to little video on the history of Israel
This Bin Laden “Letter to America” reaction shouldn’t surprise anyone.
Generations of students have been indoctrinated.
They do not think critically or laterally.
If they do, they are shamed one way or another.
So when you add some faux intellectual input (the Letter to America), give the attention seekers the platforms (Instagram & TikTok) you can see the retardation go viral.
All these morons would benefit being locked in a room for a week with a selection of Sherlock Holmes stories to teach them how to think.
I thought Keating said ‘don’t we have an embassy somewhere for this c*nt?’
The Chinese didn’t trust Rudd.
They were smarter than the Australian electorate in 2007.
Opinion piece at Washington Post.
I didn’t hit paywall but no promises.
The Osama stuff is nuts.
I rarely reply to any hamas posts on twitter but one apparently young US female claiming tunnel finds were imaginary was too much; as though hamas hasn’t endlessly boasted about and shown off its tunnel systems for years.
New photos from al-Shifa Hospital should renew outrage against Hamas
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
– William Shakespeare
Thanks Dover for the magnificent selection of paintings we get as page headers.
And extwitter loons claiming the tunnel found in shifa was a septic tank and asking why they had to excavate concrete to find the entrance with a ladder down the side of the shaft and why they didn’t go down to show more detail and why didn’t IDF livestream all its activities anyhow?
On and on and on with the stupid.
And for those Ham Arse sub humans –
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
– William Shakespeare
There’s a trifle recipe in the Oz today.
Must be getting close to Christmas.
a modal analysis shows otherwise
the Guardian; UK Labour politicians concerned about their safety
The conga line of major corporate CEO’s (ie. BlackRock, Pfizer, FedEx, Apple, etc) sucking up to Premier Xi in San Francisco was sickening to see.
Every one would sell out their country to do more business with China.
Naturally our PM had a meeting with Larry Fink of BlackRock.
The good old BBC.
Why would Conricus bother to DOUBLE the number of guns in a grab bag?
Oh and idf did edit that vid, they pixilated the screen of the open and turned on lap top that showed a picture of the one hostage they have managed to retrieve alive.
And the revelation that Conricus did a walk though on his own several hours before independent journalists were taken into shifa.
What?
Maybe you’re a kinder, more tolerant person than I am.
I am going to keep on posting this until we all get a hare-brained explanation, an apology or Dover tells me to stop.
Link: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/11/15/open-thread-wed-15-nov-2023/comment-page-5/#comment-638431
Zafiro
Nov 16, 2023 10:22 PM
Hamarse are a sideshow controlled by Mossad. Tell me I’m crazy!
After his “joke” about baking powder…playing it off as “just a joke” is an IQ test.
I’m guessing idf ‘displayed’ the weapons on top because they didn’t want BBC reporter rifling through the bag
here’s the BBC video
Rightly being hammered.
Outrage as BBC accused of ‘Hamas apologism’ in latest Israel report (17 Nov)
It’ll be interesting to see what this does to the BBC funding issue. There’s already been a lot of resentment, and pressure on the Tories to remove the mandatory license fee. More fury from the proles could make the BBC situation worse. Perhaps Labour will do an ABC and fund the wretched thing from taxes, but there’s going to be a massive switch off one way or another.
And thanks Tom again for the toons.
Do the Guardian and the BBC etc not realise that this mri centre was repurposed as an Hamas operational base after Israel invaded Gaza?
Though the internal blast proof doors suggest it was built to purpose.
Obviously no-one at shifa needed an mri once Israel invaded or maybe they have so many machines, the at least two in this centre were surplus.
Still like to know if Mr fafo made his resuscitation vid in this centre.
here’s the Conricus video again.
A BBC reporter handling a bag with a live grenade inside.
That’ll work.
from breitbart quoting a Dedocrat
Good
Good
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/11/16/manchin-trump-elected-again-would-destroy-democracy-as-we-know-it/
I thought she had potential and still do. Like you said they are making a living out of this so they need to find ways to stand out from the of the crowd.
Best nest not to treat them as Stars and become groupies, it’s not healthy.
Wanting some advice from the Catallaxy collective knowledge. I have suffered a very nasty injury (ruptured achilles tendon) and am due for surgery on Tuesday. I won’t bore you all as to why it has to be surgery but incompetence comes into it.
Was wanting some advice as to what I should be doing to prepare and what I should do after surgery with respect to supplements etc… I know it will be a long process of recovery and Christmas is well and truly compromised. I don’t have diabetes, nor do I drink or smoke, I spotted going out with rakes and ne’er-do-wells about 50 years ago so in that regard I am prepped.
I would be grateful for any kindly advice.
that should be stopped not spotted ha ha
You are in a bad way if you’d come here for it.
My advice is to take up with a rake or ne’er-do-well. Or both simultaneously. It will make your life that much more interesting and distract you from the agony.
No need to watch the Baris live stream today.
The below tweet sums it up.
Larry Schweikart
@LarrySchweikart
Baris: “The numbers last night bothered me so much I couldn’t sleep.
These are BIG shifts–MI, PA, WI.
These were four to five to six point shifts.
The Rust Belt poll was Biden +2 in 2020, today is Trump +5.”
Dear Mr Manchin – what exactly would Trump be taking revenge for? I’m all ears!
Funniest headline I saw was saying that a Romney/Manchin ticket would be a winner.
A Romney/Manchin presidential ticket? There’s a new group that says the ‘political heavyweights’ can win the White House (11 Nov)
Completely delusional.
Prepare for the process.
A friend of mine ruptured an achilles when he was 31 (athlete) . It took 10 months before he walked without discomfort, 18 months to run.
The US currently has two representatives in Kiev.
One is William Burns, Head of CIA and former Ambassador to Moscow. He has been there for several days now, so whatever he is trying to do, cannot be going well.
Burns is, without any doubt, the only diplomat, the Biden clownshow possesses, that knows what he is doing.
The other representative is Penny Pritzker, the individual in charge of “Ukraine Reconstruction”.
She is just another talentless, incompetent individual, joining the conga line with Blinken, Sullivan, Nuland, et al.
She had all the Ukraine big shots join her in a meeting and then asked:
“What would you do, if, ……, hypothetically of course, funding from the US ceased?”
That must have extracted an interesting response.
It’s a good thing that Ukraine is smiting the Muscovites mightily, or else they would be in REAL trouble.
Another interesting Albrechtsen column in Teh Weekend Paywallian. The ALPBC gives the finger to the Australian people and government (again). Aunty Ita nowhere to be seen or heard (also again).
May I second DrBeauGan re the paintings Dover. I had never come across Shishkin, and am really impressed.Thank You !
Pity about the timing Tinta.
Within a couple of years, this will be the standard way an achilles injury will be treated.
Ian Rapoport explains Arthrex Achilles Midsubstance SpeedBridge™ on NFL+
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Z6ihAgP5s
Within a month of this surgery, Aaron Rodgers was walking unassisted.
Answer: Tell my real estate agent not to buy the Lake Como mansion.
“What would you do, if, ……, hypothetically of course, funding from the US ceased?”
That must have extracted an interesting response.
rosie: doing sterling work here, with the Gaza media pull-down and analysis.
There was a clip of Candace speaking at a college recently, taking questions from the audience.
One creature, doubtless originally of one sex but who had so thoroughly modified their features that it obliterated the original to render them an unconvincing representation of either, whined into the microphone a question along the lines of what she would say to all the students who feel unsafe by her being there.
Without missing a beat she just said “Get a helmet.”
I disagree with her on Israel but it does not make her the enemy. I have no don’t think it obstinacy, but ignorance, which she will be catching up on now, I think.
To us, the US and Israel are two other countries and that is how we view them – from the outside. Within America the view will be different and, as Augustus used to say, “The knee is nearer than the shin”.
Antisemitism on today’s college campuses echoes the dark pasts of many elite American universities
Gregory Peck starred in a film called Gentlemen’s Agreement in 1947 which dealt with antisemitism in America generally. It’s not new.
Here’s an an idea for the IDF, to utterly convince BBC journos of what they are seeing, put them as forward scout on every patrol.
The beeb’s Irish reporter did a speech that added up to “there are fine people on both sides”.
Johannes Leak does James Halliday on the Oz mainpage today.
Tinta-
red meat, salt, and movement. The human body is not meant to sit still- if the recovery exercises don’t stab with pain or make you bleed, then x10 the reps.
You essentially just said out loud that you’ll exploit something that somebody said until you obtain an answer
but if/when that answer comes then you’ll consider it hare-brained
Robert Peel is rolling in his grave
having failed Peel’s principal #5 … I suppose you’ll need to move to principle #6
Who appointed you as Blog Sargent?
Here’s another version: it looks to be the magazine cover. Nice.
Not wishing it blew up, but a scare might have done her some good. Teach her it is not a game, not a physical manifestation of abstract theories, and not a soapbox to preach from atop of. It is real. Real people are dying, and real bloodthirsty maniacs really don’t care who or how many they kill – it is their motivation.
Dotty
I don’t understand deep forensics … can you explain why baking power is important?
Why are you offended?
Here’s the comment again:
Zafiro
Nov 16, 2023 10:22 PM
Hamarse are a sideshow controlled by Mossad. Tell me I’m crazy!
I agree with his conclusion. He’s crazy.
For context – that comment by “Zafiro” got nuked by Dover out of decency.
What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in US drug overdoses? A medical toxicologist explains
It doesn’t shock me.
Shock Survey: 89% of Palestinians support terror groups known for suicide attacks, while 75% approve of October 7 massacre
Jewish leaders slam Zoe Daniel over ‘ill-informed’ comments
(Unlinkable Oz)
The profound ABC-style analysis on display.
No, no.
It’s a war crime. Pure and simple.
Y’canna defy the laws of Teal.
Tintarella di Luna
Lay off any blood thinners.
Get a nice setup to minimise movement for at least a few weeks, a pot to piss in isnt a silly idea.
RICE, though the docs should be prepping you well for that.
Tendons are bastards, generally poor blood supply and take a long time to heal up.
Johannes Leak is brilliant. A superb artist. Also a very perceptive commentator. Comparisons with his dad are inevitable but to my mind pointless; both produced tremendous work, and we should cherish them.
Johannes Leak is just superb. Thanks Tom
Top Brazilian Model Isis Freitas Dies Suddenly at 22
They suspect tuberculosis. At 22. I know tuberculosis used to kill young people before a treatment was found but not at that speed. No autopsy.
The difference now is that history is no longer taught (deliberately) in secondary schools so students have no understanding of subjects as diverse as the history of human evil and the cyclicality of the earth’s climate.
UPDATE: Secret China-Linked Bio-Lab in California Was Holding Deadly Viruses, Including Refrigerators Full of Ebola, COVID, Herpes, HIV and E. Coli and Hundreds of Mice Engineered to Carry COVID Virus
Get as much collagen peptide powdered supplement as you can. Have double the normal dose in your coffee, tea etc throughout the day. I’d even add in PCC and other phospholipids, you need these for cell walls.
You are literally rebuilding soft and connective tissue.
Thanks Dr BeauGan — too late now — I must say there has been no pain hitherto, so fingers-crossed
Identifying fake news will now be a school requirement in California
not offended at all
every day this place has to listen to you crack-pot Meta-Cats prosecute you paranoid theories
a bit tired of your perpetual idiotic fishing attempts trying and cobble together a narrative to support your delusions
go on tell the forum why you reckon that anybody taking exception with your behaviour must be a collaborator, or part of your grand masquerade construction
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
BREAKING: House Speaker Mike Johnson RELEASED JAN6 TAPES!!
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What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in US drug overdoses?
Don’t really need a professor of toxicology to explain why welfare-padded nihilists destroy themselves, in the same way that we don’t need an organic chemist to tell us why petrol sniffers in Lajamanu end up in the dust, or pisshead Scots end up on dialysis.
Pro-Palestinian protests evacuated the DNC, stopped traffic on the Bay Bridge and are following Joe Biden around the country
The IDF really ought to exploit the fact that foreign press are the only people Hamas will not fire upon.
The foreign press has long been a key part of Hamas’ strategy: whatever outrage the visit upon Israel they don’t have to worry about facing the full brunt of the IDF because the press will cast Hamas in a very favourable light and have foreign governments hectoring the Israelis about ‘restraint’ and ‘peace’, oh, and ‘talks’.
Maybe the IDF should strap a couple of foreign correspondents to the front of each of their tanks.
Sacré bleu – next you’ll be trying to tell me Fauda isn’t a documentary!
Indolent
Try this. Try researching something before you post unadulterated crapola.
One of the reasons to be concerned with the people trade on the southern border is because they’re bringing in virulent strains of diseases like TB.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
I’m falling asleep from boredom watching this “worse than Pearl Harbor” Insurrection. None of these people belong in prison. Free them all.
Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
22 years in prison for this? No wonder they didn’t want it released.
Hot off the presses …
Study finds vitamin B12 is a key player in cellular reprogramming and tissue regeneration
Study is behind a paywall. Can’t be sure of dosage. However ….
I’d take a B complex.
I didn’t say she didn’t die of TB. It’s the “died suddenly” part. Like cancer, TB is not generally so swift.
fmd… it isnt even there?
a banished spectre you vow to continue to breath aether into attempting to summon it from the grave
because decency … wtf?
yay, Meta-Cats … for the greater good
Leak does Albo to perfection – a perfect cariciture and spot on situations.
Tinta
Sorry to hear about your injury, get well soon.
Yup. International law.
Lefties assume that there are international laws that correspond to all their own prejudices and preferences. (They think the same about the laws of nature as well.)
They don’t have to try to cleave to virtue – virtue cleaves to them, and they go through life leaving goodly works behind them like a slug leaves it’s trail.
Thank you Dot and all who’ve responded.
I’m Mentally preparing I thought about 12 months but maybe 18 months is more realistic. The only blessing is that my ballet and boot-scootin’ days are over, I am not a runner, I’ve never played tennis, the last sport I played was netball in 1972, I was once an enthusiastic gym-girl but I am a very very active mobile, agile Nonna and mother.
My biggest concern is for my disabled son, he can’t come home because I can’t look after him and his routine will be totally put out over Christmas – I’m thinking the way around it is to defer Christmas ’til the 25th of January, next year, it’s also my birthday and I think Jesus wouldn’t mind as he’s the caring, sharing, loving and understanding type.
After my surgery next week I think I will go into a rehab hospital so that my son can visit but will know he cannot stay.
Very difficult times ahead but maybe it’s God’s way of saying slow down and take care of yourself.
The concept of kevni ruff being some sort of chinamen sage was laid bare by his legendary observation about them having a tendency to pleasure rodents.
Then again, it may just about have been his only sensible utterance in the entirety of his pointless existence.
Along with “programmatic specificity”, of course.
Tuberculosis killed around 1.5 million people every year before covid and it’s common in Brazil.
You pick up a story about one Brazilian who happens to be known outside the country and imply what, that she belatedly died from a vaccine you don’t even know that she had?
tuberculosis in Brazil
Tinta, so sad to hear that your Christmas is going to be affected by your tendon issues.
Hope all goes well and that you get waited on plenty. You deserve a bit of cossetting now, after the op.
What theory? Other than it being very offensive?
You don’t have to read them.
Here you go. You’re tired of it but you cannot get enough?
Let me state this, again…
Things got crazy when Sinclair shut down his blog. There’s no need for details but C.L., JC, Dover can attest to this.
There have been numerous straight-out nutters post here like Bird, or people like “Jinmaro” who used to bait Bird – purely out of spite towards libertarianism and conservatism. Jinmaro took on numerous female names (philomena, Freddie, Isher) and was a gender-confused, far-leftist gay male nurse even the lefties at Lavatory Pronto warned us about.
There have been people who have turned up only to troll, like some once-famous leftist writers whose careers died. There have also been some pretty lame attempts to get the blog literally shut down with slander or being in breach of other censorship rules.
“Hahaha baking soda”
“Hahaha Hamas are actually Mossad”
Deserve an apology in the least. Then there is other stupid stuff like claiming to be Bob Whittaker and going to basic at Kapooka in 1988.
“Just a joke!” is only a thing in person. Write a letter, send a message electronically and the law changes.
I don’t care if you’re too ignorant to understand and refuse to understand why you are wrong.
I won’t be toned policed, just as you are free to scroll.
The comment again:
Link: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/11/15/open-thread-wed-15-nov-2023/comment-page-5/#comment-638431
Zafiro
Nov 16, 2023 10:22 PM
Hamarse are a sideshow controlled by Mossad. Tell me I’m crazy!
QED
Clearly, this is offensive as Martin “Leavenworth” Armstrong’s claims posted in October on Zeee Media that 7/10, like 9/11, was an inside job.
The implication being that Jews are so evil they set up Hamas, killed their own people then “genocided” Palestine.
I won’t abide by these lies.
Random word generator didn’t work this time.
You don’t have a clue about how long she was ill.
Laughed out loud, thank you Diogenes
Last time we mentioned Achilles tendons here was when Zuli (I think it was) noted, in the video of that poor young woman with blood all over her pants being bundled away as a hostage by the Hamas scum of the earth, that the scum had slashed one of her Archilles tendons to stop her doing a runner.
And yet people still call for a ceasefire against hunting down these animals.
Tinta, a mate of mine did the same thing after slipping on stairs.
he was off for a few weeks but came back with a moon boot and cautious limp which gradually got better over a few months
the bloke also has a severe scoliosis which didn’t help at all
anyway, it may not be as difficult as you imagine
good luck
Sorry to hear it, Tints. Get well soon.
It seemed to mention on the main ones, Hewett being one of those. It was a fairly sympathetic portrayal of her. I’m going on memory here btw and it’s a while since we watched even Series 5, which is why we did a refresher last nite on it before we start on Series 6, which has only four episodes.
It is, of course, not much more than a soapie, with a only small strand of truth in it.
I think that tendon story was scotched.
The injuries were because she had her ankles tightly bound with plastic cuffs, obviously that would have made it difficult for those accompanying her into the back seat of the Jeep.
Hamas supporters will never be able to explain that video away.
Well, this is revealing …
WTF?
Is Zafiro still here?
I think I watched five minutes of Crown, Prince Phillip sooking to soneone because there was a price to pay for his life of extraordinary privilege.
More than enough for me.
Here you go.
6:57 to 7:55
Martin “Clonazepam” Armstrong declares that 9/11 and 7/10 were inside jobs by the US and Israel.
https://zeeemedia.com/interview/world-war-zeee-ft-martin-armstrong-israel-false-flag-russia-ww3/
What an absolutely ridiculous idiot.
The Geelong back-story was a bust, too.
Read more like it was written by someone in, say, Newcastle using Google.
Naaaa, ya think? 🙂
They would sell them the rope used to hang them – Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (better known as Vladimir Lenin)
An ill informed comment from Zoe Daniel? Talk about an oxymoron. And we’re still paying for them. Who is the moron?
I looked at that. Even collagen wrapping during surgery wasn’t producing substantial benefits. Weird because intuitively it makes sense. Again though, while websites promote this, the clinical trials are ambiguous.
I’d still take a collagen supplement.
Curcumin offer benefits for tendons. Many studies supporting that. Curcumin is also useful for arthritis. If you use turmeric, MUST add black pepper because piperine boosts absorption by 2000%. Same with supplement, if it doesn’t contain piperine waste of money.
Add Magnesium to that. Magnesium taurate is preferable, NEVER MG oxide, useless supplement. Mg Citrate OK.
Managing inflammation and promoting growth factors will be fundamental. Sleep well. Deep sleep is the most potent healing time.
Maintain sunlight exposure to keep Vit D levels up because D is important in limiting systemic inflammation.
Sleep well, avoid stress, get rid of nuisance people and things. All the best for your recovery. Watch comedies like Parliamentary question time. Be patient, be very patient.
I have suffered a very nasty injury (ruptured achilles tendon) and am due for surgery on Tuesday.
Not fun Tinta. Ruptured mine over 20 years ago running water for my local footy side at an age when I should have known better.
On crutches and in a moonboot to get around but minimise movement where possible. As you recover from surgery to re-attach (mine was snapped) you’ll need to do exercise to build up your calf muscle too. Medicos will no doubt cover all this.
I didn’t do enough follow-up physio to build up my calf muscle and even now it is slightly withered compared to the good leg.
Good luck with the surgery and recovery.
I second that. It has been most helpful to pass on to others.
rosie
I hope you’re balancing it out with less stressful interests. These things can become so overwhelming it changes people.
Dot – a great potted history of the various crack pots who have made our acquaintance. And a good time to remind people of the Miata Helldrivers AGM. At the ‘Woomba, of course.
Thank you all for commiserations and advice (john H and Barking Toad I’m taking notes) — enjoy the day.
I read in the paper about someone dying suddenly in a car accident.
‘Suddenly’ caught my eye.
Suspiciously silent about vaccine status.
Come on, sheeple! The cover up is now the crime!
how dull … you complain about tone-policing while actually tone-policing
the only conspiracy here is the one between you Metas and you’ve made your collusion plain yourselves
it’s very clear from the ridiculous junk that you Metas post daily, that up there in topsy-turvey land youse reckon anybody you disagree with has some nefarious agenda
and while your meta-Mong mates all commune on Discord planning how to rid this joint of all colour, you’re constantly filling the forum with paranoid, vindictive and perpetual attacks
listen to yourselves complain about community standards whilst being the most toxic participants you can possibly be
couldnt give tosca if you pretend you can fly while wearing that cape … it is your own agenda that is toxic
what a bunch of clowns
For aviation buffs:
Norse Atlantic Airways has released more information about its Boeing 787 Dreamliner flight to Antarctica yesterday. The Norwegian carrier flew 45 scientists and 12 tons of equipment and supplies on the historic flight, which originated in Oslo before stopping over in Cape Town.
RTWT
I have no advice to give, Tints.
But my lack of advice is from the heart.
Good idea, Tinta, your boy will be able to understand that. Take some books and have a good old read-a-thon. Hopefully they’ll let you out to come home for a few nights here and there, with strict instructions to still rest up.
If you are not into internet surfing for movies on your phone you can borrow my very small 8″ by 8″ portable and simple to use CD player and some CD’s if you like, easy to use in bed, and play old CD’s of Father Ted and Yes Minister and that ilk to cheer you up. Let me know.
Looks more like Robert Menzies to me.
Did Mz Daniel demand hamarse play by those same rules too?
ML
Since leftard lawyers are the chief writers of “international law”, we can expect to see some modifications to current international law in the near future.
More of a tautology, surely.
Bad week for God Oracle.
First he backs TailGunner.
Now he’s stepping up for Zafiro.
Who, by the way, posted this …
sancho being the best idiot he be … perpetually reaching for innuendo like a childish idiot
Sorry about your injury and upcoming surgery, Tinta. Lots of good advice from fellow cats which is great. With an injury like that mental health is important. I had a major foot injury last year which necessitated a moonboot for months.
Apart from the pain which was excruciating for a couple of week, the following depression at not being mobile was pretty debilitating. I’m guessing you’re a fairly resilient and upbeat person, but just watch for recovery and stay positive and connected to loved ones.
You know, you may have a point. Since all deaths, by any means, of people who tested positive to Covid were counted as Covid deaths, then why not indeed. Fair’s fair.
Here you go Indolent:
Halliday’s website about page
Lizzie at 9.21
And yet people still call for a ceasefire against hunting down these animals.
Just got to reading last week’s Speccie. Douglas Murray has had some great columns about Hamas. But the tepid Matthew Parris responded directly to Murray calling for more rational responses and cooler heads. There may even been a “better angels of our nature” thrown in there.
Murray had a letter in response to Parris that is brutal:-
In his column Matthew Parris (‘The dangers of righteous anger’, 4 November)says that now is the time to ‘dial down’ anger. I have no idea what Matthew cares for, but I remember a touching piece by him some years ago about his pet llamas.
Imagine if Matthew’s llamas were attacked in the most brutal imaginable ways: pregnant llamas having their bellies slashed and their unborn torn out; baby llamas beheaded and thrown in ovens; female llamas raped and abducted.
And all by an organisation that said it would not stop until it had wiped all llamas from the Earth. In such a situation I imagine even Matthew might be filled with anger, and would not wish to listen to far-off, pseudo sage-like voices, telling him to ‘dial it down’. Replace ‘llamas’ with ‘Jews’ and he might get the tiniest idea of why some of us don’t think this a time for fence-sitting.
Bam!
Did that ‘suddenly’ occur to you?
It was dishonest when the Covidians did it, and it is dishonest when opponents of the mRNA vaccines do it.
I refused the mRNA vaccines too. I advised anyone who would listen that not only were the vaccines not adequately tested, but mRNA vaccines were experimental.
I was and am completely honest when I say that.
Reposted for excellence:
This isn’t the end of the world, or the end of society, or the end of free speech, or a sign we are sleepwalking into WWIII, or a precursor to being invaded via Darwin by the UN (or via Melbourne by China), or an omen that driverless trucks will shortly kill us all.
It’s just the latest chapter. Like all the preceding chapters, its content deserves scrutiny.
If there is any integrity on the part of the poster, he/she/xe will provide an explanation. If it’s an honestly held belief, then discussion can ensue.
If not, then any and all pisstakes are justified.
This photo shows perhaps more clearly the James Halliday that Leak had in mind.
Especially the eye brows.
Tintarella di Luna
Nov 18, 2023 8:19 AM
Wanting some advice from the Catallaxy collective knowledge. I have suffered a very nasty injury (ruptured achilles tendon) and am due for surgery on Tuesday. I won’t bore you all as to why it has to be surgery but incompetence comes into it.
Was wanting some advice as to what I should be doing to prepare and what I should do after surgery with respect to supplements etc… I know it will be a long process of recovery and Christmas is well and truly compromised. I don’t have diabetes, nor do I drink or smoke, I spotted going out with rakes and ne’er-do-wells about 50 years ago so in that regard I am prepped.
I would be grateful for any kindly advice.
Tintarella,
from a straight surgery perspective, take Bromelain which from my experience does help with Surgical Recovery
With 5 Minor & 1 Major Op over the last 2 years, I heal incredibly quickly
On the 9 1/2 hour Major Op, cutting rotting bone out of top of head & replacing with Titanium Mesh, with muscle taken from below left shoulder blade and micro-surgery of that muscle into skin taken from thigh to assist blood flow across head, plus SCC on forehead thrown in as “Why not” – 1 week in Severe Burns Unit and then out – My Plastics Senior Surgeon expected that I would need followup surgery, but was amazed at how fast I healed – followup surgery not necessary
Minor Op in Oct this year. cutting BCC from chest & SCC from Forehead with skin as always being migrated from lower down to face, my Plastic surgeon was amazed how quickly I healed, and will try Bromelain with her Patients
Given next tuesday bit late to star,t but could help with surgical recovery
Good grief! Halliday doesn’t have eyebrows. They’re deer antlers.
And the explanation better not be the latest go-to for all manner of racist, anti-Semitic and egotistical remarks.
“Aw, it was just a joke.”
Just read about your scheduled surgery, Tinta. All the best. No doubt you have a good surgeon. But if you need another in the future, we know the BEST.
Many years ago husband fell about 3m onto concrete outside our garage in Sydney. he suffered a fractured calcaneus and talus. Yes both! One is bad – but two is really bad. He had a magician of a surgeon who was also an engineering genius (husband liked that) who designed some of his own devices to med bones.
Some doubted that he would walk again. Admittedly, we did a lot of post-operative work & exercise & physiology, walking on beach in sand just under waterline etc etc.
He recovered so well that the surgeon asked permission to present his case at an international conference. Husband went along & walked up onto stage to prove he walked normally.
Great surgeon! He is retirement age, but husband saw him last year (he has some minimal arthritis in repaired joints) & he was still in practice.
BBC – Israel “claims “there are weapons at hospital
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IDF- Heres a bag of weapons…
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BBC – Israel shown small bag of weapons the “claim” were hidden at hospital
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IDF – Heres some more we located- all laid out for you to see
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BBC – Israel suspiciously finds more weapons after initially showing us only a few weapons at hospital
FFS, the BBC need rooting.
While recovering from Achilles surgery, and still in a moon boot, a knee scooter is a great way to maintain mobility. Suggest also applying for the Mobility Parking Scheme in your state to get access to disabled parking spots.
I expect he has to keep some pomade handy for when he wears glasses.
Best wishes Tinta. Good luck for Christmas.
Old Ozzie – have been reading about Bromelain quite often lately. Seems to be good stuff.
Labor/Greens Council hikes rates 44%
From the Comments
– Federal Government
State Government
Local councils
Can anyone see a problem with that?
– Yes.
It is properly spelled as:
Federal Misgovernment;
State Misgovernment, and
Local Misgovernment.
“Australia is a low-tax country, let’s be more like Sweden!”
God speed on a full recovery Tinta.
knee scooter = human cone of shame
Pathogens labeled ‘HIV’ and ‘Ebola’ found inside secret, illegal Chinese-owned biolab in California
Thousands of vials of biological substances — including some labeled “HIV” — and a freezer marked “Ebola” were found inside a secret Chinese-owned biolab in California which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and FBI initially refused to investigate, according to a House committee report released Wednesday.
The illegal lab was operated in the city of Reedley, Calif., and the potential public safety risk it posed only came to light in December 2022 when Jesalyn Harper, an observant code enforcement officer, noticed a green garden hose sticking out of a hole in the side of a warehouse that was thought to be vacant for more than a decade.
Once inside, Harper discovered laboratory equipment, manufacturing devices, medical-grade freezers, lab mice and vials labeled in Mandarin, English and in a code that remains undeciphered.
She also encountered several individuals in lab coats who identified themselves as Chinese nationals.
From
How many more secret warehouses of viruses are there in all our countries?
By Jo Nova
Time the CDC was razed
Ebola Virus, electron micrographThanks to an odd garden hose sticking out of a warehouse wall, the illegal, clandestine, Reedly Biolab was discovered. Chinese citizens wandered around inside with lab coats on. And the “lab” contained samples marked with names like SARS-CoV-2, Chlamydia, HIV, E. coli, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Hepatitis B and C, Dengue virus, the Rubella virus and Malaria.
So Reedly city officials in California stumbled on this warehouse almost by chance, and wanted some answers, but the FBI didn’t want to investigate and the CDC refused to test the pathogens. Most of the samples were destroyed and some 104 tons of material was “eradicated”.
Afterwards City Officials found a freezer the CDC missed. It was labeled Ebola — that most fun infectious agent with fatality rates between 25 and 90%. (Fortunately is not anywhere near as transmissible as Covid).
Tinta, all good wishes for a full recovery.
You get what you f88ing deserve.
…
My pregnant daughter was driven into a forest and shot twice in the head before her killer blew up her body with military explosives. He’s now walking free in Australia after High Court decision – and no one told me
Altantuya Shaariibuu was shot dead by hitman Sirul Azhar Umar
Sirul fled to Australia and was detained indefinitely… but is now free
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I never imagined Australia would release him,’ he added.
Professor Shaariibuu said Australian officials had not contacted him to let him know his daughter’s killer would be freed.
‘Where is the human rights for the victim’s family? We are right here, we are still alive and suffering,’ he said.
‘I really wonder why Australia releases a murderer. It makes me think all the murderers of the world can go to Australia, spend time in immigration detention and eventually be released and become free men.’
Yup.
Best wishes to Tinta.
Dot
Nov 18, 2023 9:18 AM
When I read these statements from the nutcases I recall my erstwhile workmate who was constantly on about the planet Jupiter’s influence on humanity, and now I think that compared to these lunatics he was a sane sage.
As to the current troubles in Israel, missing the attack can be described in many ways, incompetence, lack of security, being slack at the job whatever, but to do this to your own people on the scale?
Never, even suggesting it is preposterous.
The real reasons how it went unnoticed, we the public, will never know but those in authority will, and hopefully have learned a lesson.
Still not the most toxic thing about California.
thefrollickingmole — thanks for that video I’ve just shared it with some physio friends new ways always moving forward to help those wanting to move forward.
Liberal Party is tired of Crosby Textor politics
Aaron Patrick – Senior correspondent
For almost three decades two campaign operators have been more closely associated with Liberal Party victories than any other: Sir Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor.
That time may be coming to an end.
On Friday evening, members of the NSW Liberal Party state executive were given the official report on the party’s failed campaign, in March, to keep premier Dominic Perrottet in power.
Relying on Crosby and Textor’s C|T Group, it says the party used techniques from the early 2000s to reach voters in a 2020s world.
It chased voters who no longer shape politics in the biggest state: older conservatives who helped keep John Howard prime minister from 1996 to 2007.
“We offered no particular solutions to cohorts including renters, young women, self-funded retirees, multi-faith and multicultural communities,” the report says.
“We made little attempt to share our ideas with the growing number of urban voters who aspire to better education, home ownership and building their future security.
“We paid insufficient attention to the impact of generational change and continued to assume that younger cohorts would in time become more interested in our values.”
What the report is saying – what the party leadership wants known – is that the Howard era has passed. A new politics is operating.
Voters who shape the state’s future want affordable housing, social tolerance and leaders from the digital era, not print.
The report calls them the “aspirational centre”.
Those whom the message is written for include federal leader Peter Dutton, who will have to decide, as the federal election nears, whether he’s a crime-busting conservative or a future-looking unifier.
An old lesson is repeated in the 70-plus pages too.
Disunity kills governments. “A future of perpetual opposition, and diminishing parliamentary representation, awaits any party which tolerates ill discipline,” it says.
Among the many, many examples was the news – two months before the election – that a young Perrottet wore a Nazi uniform to a 21st birthday party.
Liberals blame a factional feud with the party’s right for the revelation.
The report is as much a plea for internal co-operation as a guidebook to power.
The question is: will the party listen?
I could lend him a good eyebrow trimmer.
“TB is not generally so swift”
It’s certainly not. It made some great opera heroines. Violetta, for a start.
Ooh a discord conspiracy theory.
The Leak cartoons are emblematic of the Australian culture. This should be preserved at all cost.
The obvious.
There is nothing in a serious deterioration and subsequent death to say someone contracted TB one day and died the next.
thefrollickingmole — thanks for the advice and feelthebern for that video I’ve just shared it with some physio friends – new ways always moving forward to help those wanting to move forward.
The AFR View
Australia must stay out of the low-growth rut
The Albanese government is taking a political battering because it has no real plan for the country. Putting the economy on track could revive its fortunes.
Anthony Albanese badly misread the electorate in last month’s Voice referendum, over-stretching the honourable cause of Indigenous reconciliation into constitutional change that the people rejected.
This week, his government scored a spectacular own goal on the most sensitive of immigration issues in its bewildering lack of readiness for a High Court decision that allowed asylum-seekers, including serious offenders, who the government can’t deport to walk away from indefinite detention.
Amid the troubling echo of Labor’s previous border protection failures, the government has struggled to find its feet on the harrowing Gaza conflict.
There are shocking instances of antisemitism, and Foreign Minister Penny Wong treads carefully between support for Israel’s defence and alarm at Palestinian deaths.
But that has left Labor ranks uncomfortable and divided.
It has happened as Mr Albanese has again been overseas representing Australia through some of the most serious global tensions since the Cold War. Sensing Labor’s grassroots sympathy for the suffering Palestinians, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton this week could not resist making the populist connections between an immigration crisis, race tensions at home and the prime minister’s trip to the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation leaders summit in San Francisco.
Yet Mr Dutton was able to land his blows so effectively in parliament because a government elected on a policy-light platform lacks a strong program for taking the nation forward.
Australia’s 5.4 per cent inflation rate ranks as the highest among the world’s biggest developed economies, according to The Australian Financial Review’s analysis.
As inflation eases in both the US and Britain, The Economist magazine this week similarly ranked Australia as having the “most entrenched” inflation of 10 developed economies.
Anglophone countries fare badly on this measure because they stimulated their economies more during the pandemic and because their growth is driven more by rebounding immigration.
But Australia did the most stimulus and is now suffering the fastest growth in unit labour costs as productivity falls.
The rebound in arriving foreign students and working backpackers is easing labour shortages but worsening a rental housing shortage that is driving service inflation higher.
Yet another factor must be confronted: central banks in the other economies have lifted their official interest rates by more than in Australia, where Labor has resisted such Reserve Bank discipline.
After changing governors, Treasurer Jim Chalmers was finally forced to accept the Reserve Bank’s November 7 cash rate increase as a response to stubborn inflation.
This week the Reserve Bank’s acting chief economist, Marion Kohler, warned that the next stage of taming inflation could be more drawn out than the first.
Mr Albanese this week sought to make safeguarding the federal budget surplus that the Coalition never delivered part of Labor’s economic and political fight against inflation.
With the economy operating beyond full capacity, Labor is right to preserve the commodity export price-driven budget surplus that has fallen into its lap, rather than spend it on cost-of-living relief that would make the problem worse.
But it needs to do more by curbing its big-spending redistributive “care economy” agenda that is increasing the structural size of government. It needs to stop lifting wages through edict and re-empowering the unions, rather than encouraging the genuine productivity workplace bargaining and flexibility needed to actually become a “low carbon energy superpower” and to exploit the new tech economy.
The Albanese government this week culled the worst of an overloaded infrastructure pipeline, but committed itself to spend more on heavy rail projects that have never passed a credible cost-benefit test.
Labor’s newly appointed Productivity Commission chair, Danielle Wood, yesterday put comprehensive tax reform back on the table, from which successive governments including this one have swept it away.
Ms Wood says that GST is not the growth tax that was once anticipated, leaving Australia over-reliant on incentive-sapping income taxes.
Ms Wood hopefully suggests that Australia’s alarming fall in measured labour productivity is cyclical and the result of less productive workers being called on to fill labour shortages.
But it’s a long way back to generating even the downgraded productivity potential that the government’s intergenerational report suggested in August would condemn Australia to a slow-growth future.
Ms Wood says that GST is not the growth tax that was once anticipated, leaving Australia over-reliant on incentive-sapping income taxes.
Nothing to do with expenditure then?
10% of everything plus income taxes/charges/fees & fines at every level taking up to another 50% not doing the job.
The view from a peak in rates may still be cloudy
Soft US inflation data has convinced the market that the Fed will not lift its borrowing benchmark next month
JENNIFER HUGHES – FT
Moments of clear agreement in markets are rare and typically fleeting. This week saw one, however, when soft US inflation data convinced investors that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates in December.
Any consensus in the outlook for the past weeks of a rollercoaster year is a real relief. Investors can enjoy it — while it lasts. Tuesday’s inflation numbers painted a better than expected picture with the core rate falling to a two-year low of 4 per cent in October.
Analysts joked they could now plan holiday parties for the week of the Fed’s mid-December meeting. Markets made merry right away, with the S&P 500 enjoying its best day in more than six months while two-year Treasury yields tumbled almost 0.25 percentage points.
Futures markets just two weeks ago had reflected expectations of a one-third chance of a higher rate by year-end. Now the market is pricing in a 100 per cent probability that benchmark rates will be kept on hold at the Fed’s policy meeting next month at the current target range of between 5.25 per cent and 5.5 per cent, according to the CME’s FedWatch tool.
Why so certain when we’ve been here before? In this rate cycle alone, this is the seventh time that investors have anticipated the Fed turning dovish, according to Deutsche Bank’s analysts.
The most recent occasion, in March, was related to fears that US banking turmoil would spread and before that, in September last year, to worries that trouble in the UK gilt market would have wider ramifications.
Three earlier episodes in 2022, as rate rises got under way, were the result of concerns the US economy was not strong enough to handle tighter monetary conditions, especially with the start of war in Ukraine.
During most of the occasions when investors bet that rates had peaked, stocks rallied strongly on hopes that easier conditions would boost growth. On this occasion, several softer pieces of data have helped support the belief that this time is really the turning point.
US unemployment has crept up to 3.9 per cent, retail sales growth has slowed and manufacturing surveys are weakening. All of those should help convince the Fed the economy is coming off the boil.
Just over two weeks ago, Fed chair Jay Powell himself described the central bank’s stance as “proceeding carefully” “in light of the uncertainties and risks, and how far we have come”.
The danger for investors though comes as markets move past any pause to expecting rapid rate cuts.
The CME’s FedWatch tool suggests a two-thirds chance that rates will be a full percentage point lower by the end of next year, with the first cut coming as soon as June.
It could well be that futures markets in fact reflect very divided views — with some investors thinking the fight against inflation will require the Fed to hold rates higher for longer while others bet that the full impact of the most punishing rate rise cycle in modern history will soon send the economy and interest rates sharply lower.
That would help explain why fund managers at present hold their most overweight position in bonds since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, as revealed this week in Bank of America’s monthly survey.
Bondholders stand to gain from the high yields on offer as well price gains, if interest rates start moving lower, dragging yields with them.
There is also an expectation that the Fed will cut speedily when it gets going.
In 2019, it held the pinnacle of 2.25 per cent for just seven months before easing.
Ahead of the 2008 crisis, rates peaked at 5.25 per cent for an unusually long 15 months before being slashed as turmoil spread.
But what if the coming years turn out less like the pattern of peaks followed by sharp reversals that has been the norm in the recent past, and more like the mid-1990s?
Then, a swift series of rate rises in 1994 took the Fed’s target from 3 per cent to 6 per cent by early 1995. This was followed by just three cautious quarter-point cuts before a rise again in 1997. That pattern repeated until the dotcom bubble burst in 2001.
“Our sense is that the 1990s is actually a pretty good template for what [the Fed] might do. They may move up and down a little bit as they reassess how restrictive their stance of policy is,” says Marc Giannoni, chief US economist at Barclays, which is forecasting a single rate cut from the Fed in 2024. “If the economy weakens, but inflation stalls at, let’s say, 3 per cent or above. I don’t think [the Fed] is going to be able to ease monetary policy.”
That uncertainty is not good for equity or debt markets much beyond the cheer seen this week. “Everyone is desperate for a rally but stocks and bonds both gaining means that yet again we’ve just eased financial conditions and made the Fed’s job harder,” says Julian Brigden, co-founder and head of research at MI2 Partners. “We still have low unemployment so to squeeze out inflation, we need lower nominal growth — and tighter conditions to get that.”
Powell’s August description of the Fed “navigating by the stars under cloudy skies” attracted some mockery at the time, but it is worth bearing in mind when faced with another bout of markets’ sunny forecasts for interest rates.
I first saw Shiskin’s work in an Art Museum in Tallin. Very, very, impressive.
Complete slime.
Senate Democrats block bipartisan House Israel aid bill (17 Nov)
Meanwhile Biden is sending $10 billion to Iran and $100 million to the Palis. I detest the Democrats.