Not called the evil party for nothing Bruce. Is the old carter turd still hanging on btw?

Iran’s betrayal leaves Hamas with nowhere to go

We have reached a pivotal moment in this conflict. The terrorist group is increasingly isolated, its defeat assured

HAMISH DE BRETTON-GORDON

It was not only Israel which was unaware in advance of the atrocious October 7 attack. Iran’s supreme leader has accused Hamas of not giving any prior warning. And Hizbollah fighters were reportedly not even on alert in villages close to the border. “We woke up to a war,” a Hizbollah commander said.

There is, as the saying goes, no honour among thieves.

In what is surely a pivotal moment for this conflict, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has now told Hamas that while Iran would continue to provide political and moral backing, it would not intervene directly.

If other groups like Isis and Hizbollah realise that Iran will no longer underwrite their terror, where does that leave them? Though the direct conflict between Israel and Hamas could come to a swifter end than many feared, its implications will be vast.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is former Commanding Officer of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment

Liberal Party is tired of Crosby Textor politics

Green shoots? Don’t hold your breath.

I’m not- the analysis doesn’t seem to be particularly on the mark. Problem no. 1- Speakperson. Dutton’s looking a bit more promising- maybe that’s because he’s LNP not LP.

Amazing. Just amazing (the Courier-Mail):

Wayne Irving, 67, was ramped for three hours after his wife, Barbara, called an ambulance at 7:30pm on Thursday night due to Mr Irving suffering chest pain.

Paramedics arrived at their Coulson home within 30 minutes before he was driven to the hospital where he waited in the back of an ambulance for a hospital bed.

His pain escalated five times as he slipped in and out of consciousness and paramedics tried to get him admitted.

At 12:15am Mr Irving was finally admitted, but as he was being rolled down the ramp he sadly died before making it into the emergency department.

It is amazing that somehow, you never hear about this happening to family of a Premier or a Minister for Health.

Just lucky, I guess.

red meat, salt, and movement.

Tinta, I think the rehab people will be onto this, with regard to movement especially. Sitting absolutely still is never good for anyone. Keep moving enough to keep the blood (and innards) working as usual. Chair exercises are available free online at Mr. Motivator. Follow the rehab advice with all exercise though.

When I fractured my foot in 2020 and was in a moon boot for weeks, after two weeks of no exercise, and a long sit in the car (Hairy driving) up to Queensland and back, I developed a deep vein thrombosis in the calf muscle. It’s not unusual with foot fractures, I find out later, researching the sparse epidemiology on it. That’s why sometimes they offer you blood thinners to forestall that. I wasn’t offered them and I wasn’t doing my usual exercise nor walking much with the boot. Months of blood thinners followed, and I gained kilos, plus some lockdown Covid kilos after that.

Milt – They’re still with us.

Rosalynn Carter, 96-year-old former first lady, is in hospice care at home, Carter Center says (17 Nov, via Lucianne)

Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is joining her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, in-home hospice care at the couple’s longtime residence in Plains, Ga.

In a brief announcement Friday, the couple’s grandson Jason Carter said the pair “are spending time with each other and their family.

Compared to the Biden Criminal Enterprise™ and Barry Hussein Soetoro and their consorts they look remarkably good. Just don’t mention the attack rabbit.

It is amazing that somehow, you never hear about this happening to family of a Premier or a Minister for Health.

I wonder what cases they were admitting first. Most things can wait, but chest pain can’t. Especially with the ambo’s concern this case should have brought immediate attention. Heads should roll for this.

Thanks old ozzie, bromelian sounds good I’m onto it checking with the local chemist if I can get some today

Hmm, I’ve said this before here.

I’m actually intrigued by the upper limit on when broad-based taxes become unacceptably distortionary.

So imagine a tax mix:

5% VAT
0.1% debits tax
1% LVT
1% royalties tax
[Possibly a 5% income tax]

Back of the envelope work suggests it would collect >10% of GDP, possibly more with less distortion in the economy. That is all a competent conservative government or a “moderate” libertarian government would ever need.

US presidential election 2024

‘There needs to be a purge’: Donald Trump’s plan for a second term

More tariffs on imports, mass deportations, and a retreat from global conflicts are also on the menu

Donald Trump is stepping up plans for a possible second term in office, and will focus on rooting out political foes, slapping billions of dollars of new tariffs on imports, dramatically restricting immigration, and scaling back US involvement in overseas wars.

Supporters say Trump is looking to simply restore America to where it was before the 2020 election, while tackling the unfinished business of his administration.

Eradicating the ‘vermin’

At an event in New Hampshire last weekend, Trump vowed to “root out” the “communists, Marxists, racists and radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country”.

Patel rejected the characterisation of those plans as based on “vengeance or revenge” but said there needed to be “accountability”.

‘A ring around the collar’

Trump upended US trade policy while he was in office, launching trade wars with China and other rivals as well as against allies like the EU and Japan — and may do so again. In August, he proposed an across-the-board 10 per cent tariff on imports.

But the former Trump official said Biden’s approach was too soft. “We ought to be increasing [the tariffs] because the situation has gotten worse,” he said.

‘We will stop World War III’

Trump has been blasting Biden on foreign policy, saying Hamas would have never attacked Israel under his watch and Russia would not have invaded Ukraine — and the world is more unstable than when he was in office.

“We do not want to be in the business of absorbing all of the burden for these Nato countries as it pertains to extending the Nato alliance and having big numbers of troops in the European continent,” said Russell Vought, the former White House budget director under Trump and the president of The Center for Renewing America. “This is something we just feel like we’ve got to get away from and pull back as much as we possibly can.”

‘The largest domestic deportation option’

The partial building of a wall between the southern border and Mexico during Trump’s term has not stemmed the tide of people crossing into the US seeking refuge.

“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error. Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Miller told The New York Times.

A long read but Dr Janet just keeps on keeping on. Excellent stuff, but will the p1ssweak Lieborals notice, let alone do anything about it?

JANET ALBRECHTSEN

Why was ABC boss’ reappointment kept quiet for so long?

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

On May 24, ABC managing director David Anderson fronted Senate estimates to answer questions from a line-up of senators. For hours that autumn afternoon, the head of the publicly funded national broadcaster was asked to explain how money was spent at the ABC, its editorial decisions and Anderson’s role as editor-in-chief. Not a single senator asked Anderson about his reappointment for another five years at a cost to taxpayers of more than $5m.

Why not? Because none of them knew about it.

ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose and the ABC board had kept the decision to reappoint Anderson, approved by the Albanese government on April 18, a secret for almost four months. And on that day in May, Anderson chose not to tell the parliamentary oversight committee that the ABC board had decided to reappoint him.

ABC staff and taxpayers, who shell out more than $1bn annually for what Anderson oversees at the ABC, learned about his new term four months after the board’s decision.

But not from the ABC. The Sydney Morning Herald reported the reappointment on August 23 at 6.15pm. The leak put a rocket under the board. Just over two hours later, the ABC posted the news, simply saying that Anderson’s reappointment was effective from July 1.

Why was Anderson reappointed? Why was it done more than a year before his contract was due to expire in May 2024? Why did the board keep it secret? Why didn’t Anderson tell Senate estimates about it in May? Buttrose and Anderson declined to answer any questions from Inquirer.

(READ MORE: Heat on ABC over voice, Garma spending | State news ‘to shrink’ from ABC’s view | Karvelas’s ‘genocide’ comments ’sickening’ | ABC not diverse enough, warns content boss | ABC starts to get personal as star personnel quit |
A source in the August SMH story said the reappointment was done to maintain stability and continuity, given the ABC had released its five-year plan in June.)

(ABC chairwoman Ita Buttrose and the ABC board kept the decision to reappoint Anderson, approved by the Albanese government on April 18, a secret for almost four months.)

The claim doesn’t stack up. If the intended message was stability and continuity, why didn’t the board announce Anderson’s reappointment when the five-year plan was released? Instead, the board kept his reappointment secret, even after his new contract came into force.

There were further missed opportunities for good governance. If stability was the critical message, why didn’t the board announce his reappointment on August 22, when Communications Minister Michelle Rowland announced that Buttrose would not serve another term as ABC chairwoman?

Weirdly, the SMH story sank without a trace. Yet this was an explosive story. Not just the revelation that Anderson had been reappointed but the timing of it. And the incredible secrecy. This was not stellar corporate governance. In fact, it smelled to high heaven.

But, on the crisis relativity scale, Buttrose, Anderson and their protectors inside the ABC must have been thanking their lucky stars that Stan Grant was causing distractions in late August by accusing the ABC of “institutional failures”. As one senior ABC insider tells Inquirer: “Whether Grant stays or goes has no impact on the ABC, but who sits in the MD’s office will shape the ABC for the next five years.”

Only now is the timing, process and secrecy of Anderson’s reappointment raising questions inside media, political and corporate circles.

The timeline tells a story that defies logic and good corporate governance. When the board decided to reappoint Anderson, two new directors were yet to join. Laura Tingle had been elected in March as staff-appointed director and would join the board on May 1. Fiona Balfour had resigned from the board in February; her replacement had not been announced. There was uncertainty as to whether Joe Gersh, a Morrison government appointment, would have his tenure extended. It wasn’t. His term ended in May.

There was a bigger question mark over Buttrose. It was Canberra’s worst-kept secret that the ABC chairwoman had disappointed both sides of politics, with the organisation bouncing from one scandal to the next in recent years and losing audiences.

The final straw for many was the ABC’s ill-conceived decision to make political editor Andrew Probyn redundant. That misjudgment achieved something rare: it attracted immediate and filthy bipartisan condemnation. While management was being hounded over Probyn, the board was keeping Anderson’s reappointment secret.

Inquirer has spoken with senior people who chair, and have chaired, some of Australia’s biggest companies. The consensus is that the ABC comprehensively stuffed up Anderson’s reappointment. Given the potential seriousness of the issues, none want to be named.

Each of the experienced and highly respected directors immediately focused on the same questions: the early reappointment, the secrecy and the apparent lack of process at a billion-dollar organisation. Was there a shortlist or any attempt to seriously consider other candidates? What was the board hiding?

One senior chairman describes the timing, given board seats were due to be filled in coming months, and the secrecy as “most unusual”.

“The appointment would have been announced immediately at a publicly listed company,” he observes.

The ABC is not a publicly listed company. But, as the businessman points out, its effective shareholders – taxpayers – were kept in the dark by a media organisation that routinely uses its news and current affairs programs to demand transparency and proper processes from other institutions. The ABC is not shy about piling public shame on public institutions that keep secrets.

Another chairman asks: “Was the board trying to neuter a new chair, and new directors, from being involved in the single most important decision a board makes: choosing the person to run the ABC for the next five years at a time of unprecedented challenges for the media?

“I would say what they’ve decided is to lock this (appointment) up out of fear the numbers on the board may turn against the status quo and in favour of change.”

This distinguished chairman says the early reappointment means “the new chair will have no real role for most of their term”.

A former chairman of one of Australia’s biggest companies says “it was irregular to reappoint (Anderson) a year before his contract was up” and speculates “there’s a deal somewhere behind the scenes, and they want to do it while this government’s in office”.

The basic governance failures trouble former chairmen of the ABC, too. Donald McDonald, who served as chairman from 1996 until 2006, says: “It is really extraordinary to decide to reappoint somebody whose current contract doesn’t expire for more than 12 months. One would be forgiven for inferring that it was to do with changes at the board. Appointing a managing director is the most important thing a board does.”

“Three months, perhaps, but certainly not 12 months,” he says. “And not in these circumstances with new board members due to join the board before that contract expires. You’re depriving new directors of the chance over months to observe the current MD before making the decision on who should head the ABC.

“The ABC is having a lend of us,” says Newman, a regular critic of the ABC’s editorial mistakes and its failed defamation cases that he labels “exercises in vanity”.

(“And just look at what’s happened to Q+A,” Newman says, alluding to the program’s sinking rankings. This week Q+A managed 209,000 viewers nationally – a long way from the heyday of one million-plus.)

The ABC’s management bungles, editorial crises and flailing engagement with Australians, the departure of Buttrose in March next year and the original slated exit of Anderson a few months later in May 2024, along with three new directors, offered a rare opportunity for a new direction at the ABC. Inquirer understands there was a sense within the ABC that Anderson did not want another term, that he found the role too hard.

It might be a tough gig. But it is also highly coveted. It pays more than double what the Prime Minister earns and, unusual for a chief executive, comes with a five-year security blanket. As one ABC insider familiar with the secret reappointment said, “Everyone is baying for blood at Optus for its mistake. But at the ABC it’s virtually impossible to get rid of an MD unless you pay out the entire five-year contract.”

Anderson’s reappointment maintains what many see as the ABC’s commitment to mediocrity. Some inside the public broadcaster have argued for better news judgment, higher-quality news reporting and tougher social media rules. “The ABC should adopt the tougher zero-tolerance social-media policies of the BBC,” one insider says.

The change also could have curbed the narcissism of some high-profile ABC journalists.

Senior ABC insiders spoke with Inquirer on condition of anonymity. They say Anderson has his protectors within the ABC. Those who don’t toe the official line can expect retribution.

Inquirer understands Anderson’s secret reappointment was leaked to Nine newspapers by people who were concerned that it should have been announced in the proper way, and that some board members were agitating for staff and taxpayers to be told. There was, after all, no reason for it to be kept secret. Or was there?

Inquirer has been told by a few ABC people close to the decision that ego might explain the decision: Buttrose’s ego. Is it possible that Buttrose didn’t want the eventual announcement of her reappointment or retirement as ABC chairwoman overshadowed by news of Anderson’s reappointment?

Victorian Liberal senator Sarah Henderson was stunned when she learned about the secret reappointment. Henderson, who worked as a journalist at the ABC before politics, has been focused doggedly on trying to improve editorial standards, transparency and accountability at the ABC.

Henderson, who questioned Anderson at Senate estimates in May, has long suggested the ABC follow its British counterpart, the BBC, with more accountable social-media policies that prevent journalists spouting their opinions. Similarly, she has suggested the ABC should follow the best practice of the BBC and reveal the salaries of its highest earners.

The BBC website is a paragon of accountability and transparency compared with our publicly funded broadcaster.

“Mr Anderson has failed the transparency test,” Henderson tells Inquirer. “When asked about his pay rise at Senate estimates in May, Mr Anderson did not disclose he had just secured another five-year contract with total remuneration likely to be well in excess of $5m.”

The reappointment, she says, represents an unacceptable level of secrecy from the Albanese government, too.

(Victorian Liberal senator Sarah Henderson was stunned when she learned about the secret appointment. Opposition communications spokesman David Coleman agrees. He tells Inquirer the government and the ABC “have treated the public with contempt on this matter”.)

He asks: “Why did the ABC and Minister Rowland want to hide this information? No explanation for this secretive conduct has ever been provided. Their behaviour shows a total lack of respect for the Australian communi­ty.”

In her letter to Buttrose, Rowland said she was “pleased to advise you that on 18 April 2023, the government approved the ABC’s proposal to reappoint Mr Anderson”. Why did Rowland approve the appointment when the ABC Act makes clear in section 13 that the decision is for the board?

No wonder senior Australian business figures, former ABC chairmen and ABC insiders are wondering whether the secret and early reappointment of Anderson was a stitch-up.

I didn’t say she didn’t die of TB. It’s the “died suddenly” part. Like cancer, TB is not generally so swift

And both, of course, progress faster if the immune system has been ‘suddenly’ suppressed in some ‘baffling’ way, or by ‘coincidence’….

So imagine a tax mix
I sense the stench of appeasement in the air…

Ski-home buyers follow the snow in the face of climate change

Snow-surety is the holy grail for buyers, while ski resorts change business models to meet the challenges of volatile weather

“There are amazing runs among the woods where you feel you are alone in the wilderness,” says Bruce Cheung, a Singaporean Wagyu cattle farmer from Western Australia, describing the joy of skiing in Furano, on the northern island of Hokkaido.

His two-bedroom holiday apartment there, in the new ski in/ski out Fenix Furano development, sits directly opposite the gondola in the heart of the Kitanomine ski village.

“Convenience, ambience and year-round-ability” all play a part in buyers’ decisions of where to buy in the mountains, says Rollason. But for ski lovers, how resorts are future-proofing their offering in the face of a warming climate is a key part of the conversation.

NIGHTMARE: EV malfunctions, locks driver inside, rolls backwards down a boat ramp… and ignites

American Jews are stupid in almost identical proportion to Gazastinians being evil

Earlier today, Monica Showalter wrote something that puts the lie to everything leftists and other pro-terrorism factions in America have been insisting.

But what’s amazing is that almost the same proportion of American Jews—74%—still supports the Democrat party despite its being the party of American antisemitism. It turns out that American Jews are exactly as stupid as Gazastanians are evil.

Tinta:

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

My advice:
.1 Take up drinking full time. The bastards never allow adequate analgesia.
.2 Wear a moonboot – especially at the bottleo. It allows you to fit in.
.3 Then and only then, listen to the surgeon.
Good luck!

9/11, where three skyscrapers, were allegedly brought down by two aircraft, seems logical to you, does it Dot?

It is not possible, for a modern steel reinforced skyscraper, to collapse as they did, all within 5 hours, without significant impairment of the support structure, on every floor.

In Germany just before 9/11 a skyscraper, (fully engulfed in flame, not just 5 floors), burned for over 12 hours and did not “collapse”.
Just after, another skyscraper in South America also burned for about 10 hours and amazingly, did not collapse.

The two Towers, were in “free-fall” after 2 seconds.
That means there was NO RESISTANCE to the collapse.
This can ONLY happen, if the structure has been weakened, eg demolition work.
How does a fire on the 75th floor, weaken the structure on the 50th floor, which MUST occur, for the collapse to be completed?

The fact that any office fire, does not come within 800 deg’s C of the melting point of the supports, we shall discuss another time.

Indolent
Nov 18, 2023 9:13 AM

I didn’t say she didn’t die of TB. It’s the “died suddenly” part. Like cancer, TB is not generally so swift.

Totally correct.
TB used to be known as “the consumption“, because it led to massive cachexia (weight loss), asthenia (lack of energy), as well as haemoptysis (coughing up blood) for MONTHS prior to death.
Théodore Géricault brilliantly caught the essence of terminal TB in one of his self-portraits.

Honestly, the garbage that people take seriously in the “news” strongly suggests that most humans must be more ignorant than rocks, while being twice as stupid.

Sounds like an alternator problem Winston. Battery not getting the trickle charge needed.

Tintarella,

this is the referecne I sent to my Plastic Surgeon re Bromelain

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8067380/

6.6. Effect on Chronic Wounds – Bromelain

Bromelain is thought to be beneficial for soft tissue wound healing, due to escharase, one of its components. Howat and Lewis carried out a double-blind and controlled clinical experiment reviewing the impacts of bromelain on episiotomy injuries. As a result, they claimed a quicker reduction rate of edema and contusion in subjects who took bromelain compared with cases where a placebo was used [88,89,90]. Severe, full-thickness wounds are healed more quickly with timely debridement and removal of eschar to decrease wound bioburden [84,85]. For burn wounds, effective eradication of the eschar within 72 h is recommended [90]. Bromelain used as a cream contains 35% bromelain in a lipid base and assists in necrotic tissue debridement, hastening recovery, due to the presence of escharase [90,91]. Natural protein substrates and some glycosaminoglycan substrates cannot be hydrolyzed by it [17]. In case of postoperative injuries and easing patients’ pain and inflammation, bromelain remains first on scientists’ priority list because bromelain can improve the debridement mechanism and provide quicker healing and more effective re-epithelialization [92].

it would collect >10% of GDP, possibly more with less distortion in the economy

28.5% of GDP, plus charges, levies, fines, rates and general mongdom…

https://www.oecd.org/tax/tax-policy/revenue-statistics-asia-and-pacific-australia.pdf

Its obvious we need to get to 33.2% then we will all have the amenity Japan does
Right?

Winston Smith
Nov 18, 2023 11:25 AM

A problem that weird is likely a bad earth somewhere. Check where the grounds attach to the body. Or some other connection equally straightforward once you identify it.

Don’t give up!

(I’m more familiar with Magnas than 380s, unfortunately.)

@Tintarella di Luna:

Bioceuticals do Quercetain, which is a mix of quercetin and bromelain.

Incels of the world untie, you have only your cumsocks to break!

Would YOU have sex with a robot? One in three Britons say they’d like to have an intimate relationship with a machine, report reveals
A report by LELO quizzed 4,000 Britons about their sex habits and desires
A third said they’ve used, would use, or would ‘maybe’ consider using a sex robot

…
Meanwhile, Harmony 3.0 is priced at £11,700 ($14,551) and features a self-lubricating vagina which can be removed and put in the dishwasher.
….
See, far superior to the old fashioned bio units…

But fret not ladies, moves are afoot!
…
Every part of him can be built to order – including the size and shape of his manhood – though the developers have not yet found a way of making that part fully robotic.

Or

The wife backs the trailer and jet ski into the water, the husband gets the jet ski into the water. While the husband is on the water on the jet ski, the Tesla begins flashing a warning to the wife to get out of the Model X. The car’s electronically powered doors are closed, and whatever malfunction is occurring won’t permit the doors to open. Apparently, the wife didn’t know about the manual release for the doors, so the husband rocks up and gets her out before the Model X ends up submerged.

After the SUV slides into the water, its battery catches fire, with toxic gases [sic] and flames erupting from the water’s surface. The ocean hates batteries.

There’s a genuinely manual door release in modern cars? Who knew? Ours in the SB is a press button piece of electronics that could also fail. In fact, the manual warns of taking care not to be inadventently locked in for ‘people have died’.

After getting locked into The Low Beast Audi A5 in London I am extremely suspicious of all electronics and have purchased a car window smasher gadget just in case.

And I’m wondering how ferries are going with electric vehicles. A bit salty on ferries.

Oh it is a lovely warm morning here in Western Australia… time for some vit D

Mississippi member was HORSEWHIPPED by an irate female constituent

mole

This is low-hanging fruit, even for you.

A frikken space laser is beaming at Earth from 16 million km away.

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Comm demo sends, receives first data (17 Nov)

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has beamed a near-infrared laser encoded with test data from nearly 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) away—about 40 times farther than the moon is from Earth—to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. This is the farthest-ever demonstration of optical communications.

Riding aboard the recently launched Psyche spacecraft, DSOC is configured to send high-bandwidth test data to Earth during its two-year technology demonstration as Psyche travels to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Cool! Meanwhile Elon’s gigantic rocket is due for its next launch attempt in about 12 hours time.

STARSHIP’S SECOND FLIGHT TEST (SpaceX website)

The second flight test of a fully integrated Starship is set to launch Saturday, November 18. A twenty-minute launch window opens at 7:00 a.m. CT.

A live webcast of the flight test will begin about 35 minutes before liftoff, which you can watch here and on X @SpaceX.

Fly little birdie, fly.

“Vivek is ok; he and Kari should be Trump’s VPs;”

Vivek’s OK, but Kari has a quicker wit.

(Sorry to Cats, I shouldn’t repeat links like that, but given Mark’s bird comment I couldn’t resist!

Mark – Mr Bird is erudite and highly intelligent. A man with a thousand faces, or at least blog pen names. He’s been compulsively haunting the old and new Cats for a decade. When on his medication he’s good value, but when that slips it can be a wild ride.)

Can we talk about aether yet?

America – The Land of Injustice!

BREAKING: In this never-before-seen footage of the January 6th insurrection, you can see capitol police officers fighting for their lives as the violent insurrectionists endanger American democracy in real-time

From

UPDATE: House Speaker Mike Johnson OFFICIALLY Releases First Batch of January 6 Surveillance Camera Footage – And Guess What?… No Insurrection! No Riot!

@ Bruce

I can imagine how a bipolar and vindictive nut case could have given you guys some grief… The Bird? .. Dunno .. ?

But if you continue to see them or it lurking in the corners?

Surely not a workable life strategy?

I saw Olmert say that the key command centre is in Khan Younis, which makes sense.

If Olmert says anything you can usually believe the opposite.
He has an animus against Netanyahu which is at TDS levels.

Are We Living on Stolen Land?

nothing I’ve seen indicates a key command centre, a few AKs here and there is not indicative of a key command post.

What would that be?

I use the Aboriginal names for the birds that chose to give me fellowship. The Chitty Chitty .. The Wardung .. the Koolbardie …

Those are perfectly cromulent words.

Winston Smith
Nov 18, 2023 11:50 AM

If all else fails I will do 1 & 2 after starting with 3

If You cant be as best a human .. as brave ..then the Chitty Chitty is not for you …

But if you can …”Chitty Chitty”

Awesome agony aunt at the Gruinaid.
And by agony I meran taking the english language and torturing it until it screams.

Am I being racist by saying people of colour can be racist? Isn’t racism towards white people a thing?
Sisonke Msimang
The question itself is profoundly lacking in empathy, writes Sisonke Msimang. Racism is more than prejudice – it occurs when prejudice is accompanied by power

The short version of the answer is “sit down and shut up you white dog c*nt”

I would urge you to quiet yourself, and listen. You need not speak, or defend yourself or apologise, or feel awful. That is not necessary. Instead, my advice is for you to reflect on the idea that your questions may be a shield. Perhaps, it is time for you to lay down your weapons.

Empathy, this week, looks like letting you know that your focus and care are required in the world outside your own thoughts and feelings.

I love the new non racist paradigm we are moving to, where skin colour is the only form of validation that matters.

Quercetain, which is a mix of quercetin and bromelain.

Well annie thanks as luck would have it I have been taking that brand of Quercetin

Now this is darkly humorous.

Muzzies showing up outside a mosque on motorbikes led by a convicted terrorist = just peachy

Maoris doing a haka as a challenge to support Israel..= “Call the whaaaaambulance, I feel threatened”..

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/18/queensland-muslims-ask-for-police-protection-over-new-zealand-far-right-activists-pro-israel-protest

Queensland Muslims say they are fearful and have requested police protection after a New Zealand far-right activist scheduled a pro-Israel protest for the same central Brisbane location – but an hour earlier – than a planned pro-Palestine rally on Sunday.

Tamaki, the federal immigration minister and Brisbane city council have been contacted for comment.

@ Dot

I wouldnt call you anything but “Dot” and you have completely identified yourself .

As have I ..

That should be “showing up outside a Synagogue”

EProverbs eh?

I should monetise that to eProverbs.

Sorry – my non theologian mind thought it was from Ecclesiastes first.

ex male model

Sorry. 🙁

I am thinking of setting my self up again for roaming SCUBA … just cant get enough of those tentacles… Surface supplied make sense.. air tanks are more expensive and you need a compressor .. but you can swim at will …

Asking for a Friend 🙂

Sounds like you might like Jennifer Marohasy’s blog Mark.

Tom: 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.

It actually is. Year 9 do 10 weeks of World War I, and year 10 do 10 weeks of World War II.

Then again, that’s a lot of subject matter to cover in around 4 hours a week.

@ Bruce…

Indeed .. when in NQ .. I got a “stories Nonna told me ” .. that there was an ancestral record … in song and dance likely.. of a change in sea levels back when we know they did happen and it didnt take the coral long to catch up .

@ Bruce …..Sorry ..Missing background … but since you are a chemist I took it as read you know some Geology too. It is plausible. .. As A Scientist is was taught to always seek the “Black Swan” .. and keep an open mind …

Evidence ! Evidence!

Then we have something to chew on …

Peace

9/11, where three skyscrapers, were allegedly brought down by two aircraft,

Yes.

If you check where the Moon was at that time, it was directly above New York.

The Nazi Moon Base used a laser weapon to help bring down the World Towers.

This is quite well known.

Rebuilding in Gaza with Arab aid pouring into the right pockets this time might create a mini economic boom that will be stabilising for Palestinians sick of years of Hamas’ war. IDF have done and are still doing sterling work.

Rebuilding Gaza is not our job, or our concern.
If our neighbour holds a two week rave party and it gets out of hand, it’s his problem not ours.
I refuse to make it our problem.

@Johnny Rotten
Nov 18, 2023 2:07 PM

WOW What a zinger !!

What is it about academics? Professor is a dirty word.

I only popped my head in here to find out the thought of you people about the current confilct in the ME .. I offered no opinions … I wasnt “The Bird” (what ever that might be) .. but my goodness me, talk about a non combatant getting a kick in the gob …

Leave you folks to it .. it has been informative.

…a few AKs here and there is not indicative of a key command post…

Far out. The media invents the “command post” cum arms and ammunition store.

And people run with it.

You don’t store ordinance next to the blokes making the decisions. They would have had their personal sidearms and rifles and not much else before they bailed.

Sancho Panzer
Nov 18, 2023 11:53 AM

My advice:
.1 Take up drinking full time. The bastards never allow adequate analgesia.
.2 Wear a moonboot – especially at the bottleo. It allows you to fit in.
.3 Then and only then, listen to the surgeon.

4. And don’t forget the iodine.

You’re being especially repetitive and stupid the last few days, Stencho. Care to let us know what the latest itch is all about?

Singapore Foreigners income tax is 15%, directors 22%. VAT is 8%.

https://www.iras.gov.sg/taxes/individual-income-tax/basics-of-individual-income-tax/tax-residency-and-tax-rates/individual-income-tax-rates

However rent is very expensive, forget about a personal vehicle (Public transport however is cheap and easy to navigate) and food is expensive too. Night on the town, ooh yeah prepare to empty the savings account. Boys and I underestimated a 5 day party trip there on leave in my 20’s and we blew our budget in 2 days.

Still love the place though. Clean, low crime, trains/busses run on time and everything is close. There are cheap areas if you know where to look for a feed out.

C.L.
Nov 18, 2023 2:34 PM

As a person who observes proraganda . This is the paramount time where almost everything we are told is an effort to ” Win the Information Battle space” ..
as seems so paramount theses days ..