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Truth bombs incoming every 15 seconds. Brutal and clinical. The contrast is stark. The air head journo versus lived experience.…
Truth bombs incoming every 15 seconds. Brutal and clinical. The contrast is stark. The air head journo versus lived experience.…
Certainly hard to see where the next lift for the Lucky Country is going to come from at this stage.…
On clouds. NOAA points out the inconvenient fact that the world’s stock of climate models do not model the underlying…
Governments solution to anti-Semitism on campus. More toothless bureaucrats: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/student-ombudsman-to-help-fight-antisemitism-at-universities-education-minister-clare-says/news-story/69f37a446f592d573842dc15228836ce
Thanks for the tip, will do. 🙂
I don’t think Cassie was suggesting that people go to church for nothing, but as a step on the path to sincere faith.
Too much to ask for some blustering cowards though.
I was reading something yesterday, from Joshua Charles, a Catholic covert, a young man he knowns took out his rosary to pray on the Tube, and a woman asked him were he got it as she has started praying again, naturally he gave it to her and instructed her in its use.
And I know some young Catholics who never hesitate to invite people to attend mass with them.
Nicely said Katz.
BTW it wouldn’t hurt anyone to say a few prayers for the hostages to be released.
Confirmation of what we knew. Boris personally did this. What we don’t fully know is who was pulling his strings.
‘West Pushed Ukraine To…’: Zelensky Aide’s Bombshell Admission About Russia’s War | Details
Playing games
California School Tries to Keep 11-Year-Old Jewish Victims Quiet With Gag Order
Going to church when you aren’t sure or in fact completely certain God doesn’t exist isn’t lying.
You can just pray for the gift of faith.
Cassie wasn’t asking for mere numbers and fakery.
In other words, the average man on the street is simply too dumb to know what’s good for him.
Salon Magazine: This Is ‘Democracy’s Last Thanksgiving’ If Trump Wins The 2024 Election, Americans Have A Difficult Time ‘Understanding Complex Information’
You make it so tempting rosie.
/sarc
Florida Residents Decry Insurance ‘Nightmare’ as They Flee State
Hadn’t heard this version either. Thank you ZK2A.
Mark Knopfler played on a couple of Dylan’s albums at least. “Slow Train Coming” and “Infidels” spring to mind.
Disney Channel actress, activist, arrested for vandalizing Israeli company’s offices
US Backing New Plan To Cripple Coal Industry At UN Climate Conference
Joe Biden Ignores Rising Inflow of Chinese Illegal Migrants
THE GREEN SCAM: HOW ELECTRIC VEHICLES HARM THE ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO SAVE
Indolent
If Fascism ever comes to Australia, it will arrive not with a rifle, but with a white coat and a stethoscope.
Irish Girl Encapsulates the Real Reason for Rage by ‘Far Right Hooligans’
And I didn’t think she was either. She was asking people to dig a bit deeper into the west’s patrimony, with Judaism and Christianity firmly at its foundation.
I was referring to the swollen churches of my youth where people went there as part of a social obligation. Those days are long past.
After 9/11, the churches were full again. They came because they saw a need, their need. And some stayed, because that gift of faith was taken up gladly.
Offers and invitations to church and the rebuffs are part of the deal. The young seem to do it so effortlessly, probably because they are inquisitive. The old always know everything about everything, especially when it comes to religion.
Feast of Christ the King – 26th November, 2023
Today’s Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 23:1-3,5-6
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul:
he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
It might be worth reading Ecclesiastes 12 which explains what I mean far better than I can say it.
Sky News is displaying its ignorance and still running with the misinformation that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd.
“George Floyd’s killer stabbed in jail”.
The Autopsy established that he died of drugs and heart issues, not the entirely “endorsed and taught by police trainers” method of restraint used by Chauvin while awaiting backup.
Jorge:
A link to the ZeroHedge article
…and it was done by the swampies in the Republican Party.
Luigi’s next OS State visit provisional date released …….
https://ibb.co/V9bWSKW
“We don’t need a tourist for a Prime Minister”.
Who said it? Fraser, Hawke?
Saved by Grace | Some Day the Silver Cord Will Break
Tasmanian activists have “got their skates on” and are threatening the salmon farming industry, with the probable connivance of city-based Labor and Greens.
Sky News doing the right thing here.
Fraser
I think it more constructive for believers to fix problems within the church, calli.
You may attract more people that way.
What church?
One dominated by the likes of numberwang or a synagogue with that trans rabbi?
Doron Peskin: “From the photos released by Hamas of release of Israeli hostages… terrorists belonging to the “Shadow Unit” can be seen. This is a unit established on order of Mohammad Deif, leader of Hamas military branch, in 2006. The media learnt of it a decade later.
The unit’s role is to guard Israeli hostages in Gaza (as in the case of Gilad Shalit) and to make them “disappear” from the eyes of Israeli intelligence. Not much is known about this unit and its missions, since it is considered one of the most secretive in (Hamas) organization. Hamas claims members of the unit undergo special training.”
https://t.me/doronpeskin/3496
That’s why they invented church shopping bespoke.
The surprising role of subinfeudation in society
The modern world seems corporate and commercial, but has a hidden feudal basis
Exposed: The Hidden Agenda behind the UK Government’s very real Chemtrail Operations
Eg
There are many decent parishes in Toowoomba, you don’t have to go to number’s one.
Anthony Albanese is no more than a deluded student politician – good on backroom deals with factional party bosses, but out of his depth on the national and international stage, writes Piers Akerman.
Excellent entree to the article:
Lots of discussion re church attendance after Cassie’s great post. Have appreciated all comments especially Calli’s. I would like to throw in a couple of thoughts but after a succession of poor night’s sleeps my brain is in a real fog.
But one or two observations about the issue:-
A well respected minister told me and others of a time when he was involved in one of the Australian Billy Graham crusades. It may have been the 1968 one. He was travelling to where it was happening- possibly at the Sydney Showground on a train. He was wearing a dog collar shirt and a young married couple got on the train. They noticed the collar and asked him; “Are you going to see Billy Graham?” Answer, “Yes”
They then said “We are going to see Billy too”. He then asked them; “Are you Christians?”
They answered “No, but we are going to the crusade to become Christians.”
That was well over half a century ago. There is no way in the world you could have a conversation on a train like that with any young Australian. I rather suspect that there are young mainland Chinese people in Australia who would still go unannounced to a church to become Christians. It sometimes happens.
Obviously our culture has changed as well as perceived lack of trust in churches as institutions due to perceptions around child abuse and “just being after your money”. However in my observation men especially are especially negative even fearful of church. In country towns blokes would say to me, “If I went to church, I would be scared the roof would fall on me!” As though God was waiting to punish them.
More I could say, but the Church will only stand up when people are personally transformed by God. Os Guinness who spoke at the recent Jordan Peterson ARC conference in London is always shrewd on the roles of the church and Christians in transforming society.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1728373984817737883
Nothing less than intimidation. They need to be rounded up and expelled.
Neil Oliver: For decades something deliberately disruptive has been forced on the people of the West
vincible ignorance
David Cameron says UK should be closer with EU – ‘He has NO democratic mandate to take us back in!’
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At some point you have to stop and fight. If the faithful aren’t willing don’t get frustrated at us none believers.
Perth will host the second week of the games, which involves sports such as swinging a heavy pick, pushing heavy carts along a rail, and mining iron ore. Rumours that Gina will use the athletes as a slave labour force are completely unfounded.
Thanks to Rosie and Calli and some others here who at least understood what I was attempting to say when last night I wrote my comment about “going back to church”. I knew the comment would elicit negative responses from some.
Without a resurgence in Christianity in Europe and in countries like Australia, the West is gone, finished, finito. And what will take its place? Islam.
Roger
Nov 25, 2023 9:56 AM
If he was in Pakistan, this is what he’d be doing and thankful for getting the job.
(These are rich wukkas – they can afford shoes.)
Unprecedented mass migration threatens to erode our national values
It is almost impossible to effectively integrate such a large number of people at once
CAMILLA TOMINEY – ASSOCIATE EDITOR
We need to reduce immigration not just to lessen the pressure on the country’s infrastructure and public services. Net migration at the current, massive rate is in danger of damaging social cohesion and eroding our national values.
There has rightly been a lot of focus on the latest net migration figure, which was this week revealed to be 672,000 for the 12 months to June 2023.
Net migration for 2022 was also revised upwards to 745,000 – a new record.
If immigration continues at the same pace, Britain’s population could soar to around 85 million by 2046.
These figures fly in the face of repeated promises that net migration will come down.
Theresa May pledged to reduce it to the tens of thousands. Boris Johnson vowed to “take back control” of our borders with an Australian points-based system.
Rishi Sunak keeps insisting that arrivals must come down, only for them to reach unprecedented levels.
The public are justifiably angry about the failure of successive administrations to get a grip of this issue.
They are also understandably worried about the impact on our already creaking infrastructure of adding a population the size of Birmingham every few years.
Yet the debate about immigration is too often viewed purely in economic terms.
Of course this matters, but mass migration on such a grand scale also has implications for social cohesion.
We have seen in recent weeks worrying signs of a lack of integration among some groups attending the pro-Palestinian marches.
Many people have rightly been horrified at the calls for jihad and the spouting of anti-Semitic slogans.
Too many organisations and politicians also seem to have lost confidence in our country’s values, or have become embarrassed about promoting them.
We’ve seen this in the attempts by ignorant apologists to woke-wash our history and depict everything about Britain, past and present, as evil.
But it is also surely almost impossible to effectively integrate such a large number of people, all coming here at once.
Britain has been far more successful than a lot of European countries at integrating new arrivals. Let’s hope this is not about to change.
We’ve been doing that for 2,000 years. A WIP if you like, just like us.
Like “fixing” stuff outside the church, humans seem to be pretty crappy at it. It’s called “sin”.
Christians know that the Bride only gets her spotless wedding dress just before the wedding. It isn’t fit for the backbreaking work out in the garden, or for mending the roof or scrubbing the floors.
Pogria
Couldn’t watch it… Got to the point where they went past the School…
We must not let Hamas off the hook
The release of child hostages must serve as a reminder of who instigated the current conflict and who has perpetrated war crimes
TELEGRAPH VIEW
Saturday marks seven weeks since the unprovoked attacks by Hamas terrorists on civilians in southern Israel.
Around 1,200 were killed and at least 247 were taken hostage, including around 40 children. On Friday 13 Israelis, including four children, and a group of Thai nationals, who were farm workers, were released by the terrorists.
The freeing of the hostages is not because of a change of heart by Hamas, but part of a deal involving the temporary cessation of hostilities, the admittance of humanitarian aid to Gaza and the release of Palestinian prisoners.
So far, Israel’s operation against Hamas in Gaza has been a success. Much of the terrorists’ extensive network of tunnels has been destroyed, and their northern Gaza headquarters has been captured.
While Western governments have rightly been broadly supportive of Israel – albeit this backing coming with perhaps excessive hand-wringing and soul searching – the same cannot be said for large sections of the Left in the UK, continental Europe, and indeed the United States.
Too many have been all too ready to excuse Hamas’s attacks in the name of sympathy for the Palestinian people.
Regardless of rights and wrongs of past actions in the region, nothing could ever justify the brutal murder of civilians or the kidnapping of children and the elderly. The youngest hostage is 10 months old, the oldest 85.
Politicians from the Labour Left, the SNP and the Green Party demanded Israel cease fire even before the IDF had crossed into Gaza.
Would any country other than Israel be urged to show magnanimity under similar circumstances?
The fact that children are being released by Hamas will remind the world who instigated the current conflict and who has perpetrated war crimes.
The kidnapping of non-combatants, and especially children, is an unambiguous war crime.
Yet London’s “pro-Palestinian” marchers have only shown opprobrium against Israel.
While humanitarian aid making its way into Gaza is welcome, there is growing concern that it is Hamas which stands to benefit the most from the pause in hostilities.
As John Bolton, the former US national security adviser, writes in these pages, Hamas has been offered a lifeline enabling it to buy time.
After the agreed release of the first 50 hostages, the “pause” will be extended by 24 hours for every further 10 hostages released – time that may allow Hamas terrorists the chance to regroup and plan future attacks.
This risks prolonging the conflict and Western nations must be unequivocal in stating that Israel remains justified in defending itself so long as the Hamas threat remains.
This Sunday there will be a rather different march in London than those witnessed on recent Saturdays.
The March Against Anti-Semitism will see many tens of thousands of non-Jews demonstrate their solidarity with Britain’s Jewish community, who have come under shameful attack in recent weeks.
Its message will be one of hope, not hate.
Amanda Rishworth’s hair is a fright today!
Mrs. Bee said that look probably cost her a lot of money.
I think she rushed out for the interview and didn’t brush it.
Peta Credlin:
Governed by morons and farkwits. But you know that.
By the way, the bleakest time of my life was about twelve to fourteen years ago when I knew I would no longer be able to conceive, and my life was in a lot of emotional turmoil. It was a terrible time. My belief in God disappeared, I refused to go to synagogue, and to the dismay of many I decided I was an atheist. During that bleak time, there was not a day that went by when I didn’t think about suicide. It wasn’t an angel I was wrestling with, no, no, no, I was wrestling with a demon, every single day.
I think the great actor (and Christian) Anthony Hopkins said it best…”atheism is like being locked in a room with no windows”.
I can’t speak for others but I need windows in my life to not just breathe, but also to see the sky, to have hope. I still wrestle with my angel, I get angry with God about certain things, but that’s okay because in Judaism you’re allowed to get angry with God.
Vagabond at Nov 25, 2023 9:38 PM – likely to be an increasingly common story. The Liars will lose seats like this they may never hold again. Albo and Plibbers would be near the top of the list. I am not convinced the the Teals/Lieboral situation is analogous, although I may be wrong. Time to start thinking differently.
Question: Which was hanged first, Barlow or Chambers?
Answer: It was neck and neck.
More repellent than Yuri? Lol
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When “Red Robbie” (HCH Robertson) was sent to command a division under Bennett in WA, Blamey was claimed to have expressed the hope that “Those two red-headed bastards” might kill each other.
It’s a fine tradition. If the Almighty can’t handle questions and anger and doubt and grappling with what He’s up to with His creation, He isn’t worth much.
He’d be a tyrant, wanting clockwork obedience which isn’t obedience at all.
And you’ll find that those who do indulge in a bit of grappling aren’t your glib extroverts, but miserable, introverted slobs like me, full of temptation and inner mental meanderings. And also particularly grateful for those open windows, Cassie!
Basil knows the value of a good circus when the price of bread is an issue. City of Perth does not have the financial firepower but if Gina is on board that isn’t an issue.
calli, I admire and respect p’s and others inner peace and strength they get from religious. If standing beside and supporting people to practising there religion isn’t enough. Then the problem is me.
Definitely not the NSW or VictoriaStan Police – They would be tackling a Grandmother or an a Man carryng an Israeli Flag
Should be a lot more of it. This NZ copper knows who the bad guys are.
New Zealand police officer Rugby Tackles Hamas supporter during a pro-Hamas protest, slamming him to the ground.
pic.twitter.com/4SLsXzuAGf
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) November 24, 2023
By the way, the bleakest time of my life was about twelve to fourteen years ago when I knew I would no longer be able to conceive, and my life was in a lot of emotional turmoil.
God bless you Cassie.
Doc Faustus:
I’ve been tossing up whether to write about this but decided to give it a try even though it’s taking a lot of thinking on multiple levels –
I went for a few drinks on Friday and got talking to two blokes. Both of them fiftyish. One a life long Public Service adjacent, the other an ex copper/miner business bloke.
I was wearing my “I stand With Israel” T shirt and eventually the conversation got to the current war. The PSA (Public Service Adjacent) got all his news from the ABC, and ‘proudly’ described himself as a bit of a Greenie and supported the Arabs, the other felt both the Arabs and the Jews were to blame for the troubles.
Both felt the Israelis were to blame because they occupied the Gaza Strip and were flabbergasted when I told them the Israelis left there in 2006? as par of a peace deal, and the self described greenie said he believed many of the photos of 7/10 were faked.
Now these were obviously educated men from middle Australia, and I felt their opinions were warped by their choice of news purveyors.
All very civil etc, but they reminded me of what I imagined passed for middle class Germans in 1938 – unaware they were being lied to, but like the rabbits in “Watership Down”, just a tad uneasy that what they were seeing and hearing was not meshing with what they were thinking.
Iran unveils new hypersonic missile ‘capable of beating Israeli defenses’
Fattah II flies 15 times faster than the speed of sound and can evade anti-aircraft fire, Tehran claims
By Tim Sigsworth
Iran has unveiled a new hypersonic missile which it claims can fly 15 times faster than the speed of sound and defeat Israeli air defences.
The hypersonic Fattah II rocket – which means conqueror in Persian – is an updated version of the original Fattah that was announced in June with a range of 869miles (1,400km).
The main innovation of the missile is its ability to evade anti-aircraft fire.
It can do so, Tehran claims, because it is fitted with a hypersonic glide vehicle which detaches from the missile itself, and can make sharp manoeuvres to dodge conventional missile defences and travels at hypersonic speed to its target.
There has been no official response from the US or Israel to the development. The Pentagon has previously expressed scepticism at Iran’s hypersonic claims.
But Bradley Bowman, senior director at the Foundation for Dence of Democracies (FDD), said its missile programmes “are not simply for show” and should not be dismissed out of hand.
“Tehran’s claims about new capabilities should be taken with a heavy grain of salt, but it would be a mistake to shrug at Iran’s growing missile capabilities,” he said.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran uses ballistic missiles to attack its neighbours and US troops while proliferating some missiles or related technologies to Tehran’s terror proxies.”
Iran has been a major supplier of rockets and other arms to the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups, both of which have unleashed them on Israel since the Oct 7 attacks.
Tehran is also the main backer of Yemen’s Houthi rebels and various militia groups in Iraq whose attacks on American soldiers have increased since the war in Gaza began.
Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has previously said it intends to increase the range of its hypersonics from their current maximum of 869miles to 1,242miles (1,400km to 2,000km).
That would put the Islamic theocracy’s regional enemy Israel within range of the Ayatollahs’ rockets.
‘Should not be ignored’
Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at FDD, said: “The move towards developing a hypersonic glide vehicle should not be ignored.”
“Iran has proven it has the capability and intent to develop a more lethal ballistic missile arsenal, one with projectiles it hopes will cause more headaches for American and allied missile defenses.”
United Nations restrictions limiting Iran’s development of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles expired in October, although it is believed Tehran had been ignoring them for some time.
Iran first claimed to have developed a hypersonic missile in November 2022.
China and Russia are the only countries believed to have deployed hypersonic missiles.
From the Comments
– Better flatten Iran then.
– Once again, the question to be asked is why Iran isn’t taken out as a threat to the Middle East, Ukraine via Russia and sponsoring terrorism in general.
Once the Mullahs have nuclear capability, we will all be at their mercy.
– Clerics interested in weapons?
OldOzzie
Nov 26, 2023 8:32 AM
Definitely not the NSW or VictoriaStan Police – They would be tackling a Grandmother or an a Man carryng an Israeli Flag
Should be a lot more of it. This NZ copper knows who the bad guys are.
A great rugby tackle. He is a shoe in with the All Blacks…………………
OldOzzie
Nov 26, 2023 8:36 AM
Iran unveils new hypersonic missile ‘capable of beating Israeli defenses’
If true then it is now time for Israel to nuke Iran.
Rinehart just bought the Bunbury Farmers Market, a regional shopping centre south of Perth. The new Spudshed? None of which will make any sense to people outside Sneakers quarantine exclusion zone formerly known as the Eastern States.
Premier League looking like a tight race. Only a third of the season done but Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham separated by 4 points only.
Palis sure enjoy mutilating corpses.
Cassie at 8.19.
Thank you. Personal, powerful and beautifully said.
Not all “lefties” support HAMAS …… my youngest daughter, like my other 3 adult kids, is, sadly, left to the core but where she differs from her brother & sisters is her support for Israel not HAMAS ….. the difference being she has been to & seen AUSCHWITZ and has no trouble believing the truth of the Israeli side of Oct 7 …….. she understands what “river to the sea” means whilst the other 3 think it’s just a”catchy” Tik Tok slogan ……….
Too long to post but if you are able, really worth a read if you can get past paywall
Mapping war is an art as old as war itself, and has traditionally been conducted by its wagers.
In 1747, a 21-year-old engineer named William Roy led a small team in an eight-year survey of the Scottish Highlands as part of a mission to map the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
They used compasses and 50-foot chains to measure distances. Demand only grew for military mapping as the English looked nervously across the Channel at the French Revolution. Roy’s ongoing surveying work for the Board of Ordnance, later the Ministry of Defence, led, in 1791, to the birth of Ordnance Survey, which remains Britain’s mapping agency.
War maps destined for public eyes have been vulnerable to both censorship and the often-limited access granted to observers on the ground, including journalists. The big wars of today have coincided with enormous technological advances in mapping software and open-source investigative techniques.
ISW sits within this wider open-source intelligence, or OSINT, revolution that is bringing a new transparency to war, taking conflict cartography out of the hands of generals thanks to a team of super-smart – and often very young – analysts. All over the world, journalists, academics, activists and hobbyists are exploiting unprecedented access to information as they scour – and share – sources in the hunt for clues.
Youth and digital nativism are also an advantage, because the modern field of GIS – or geographic information system – mapping, is pretty new.
Human fallibility is often the modern war mapper’s most potent tool; social media has become a goldmine. In Russia, where a fear of insurance fraud has resulted in the widespread use of dashcams, patriotic or simply curious drivers posting clips online unwittingly helped flag up the movements of military convoys before the Ukraine invasion.
Often it’s fighters themselves, including units of volunteers, who reveal more about their locations and movements than the generals might like. Combat footage, including valuable aerial scenes captured by drone, is increasingly used to raise funds. ‘These units will say, “We really need tourniquets or body armour… Check out the great work we’re doing and donate here,”’ Barros says.
Open-source investigators can use satellite imagery, photography and Google Street View to find landscape features, distinctive buildings or electricity pylons in such footage. ‘Sometimes soldiers just post drone footage as trophies,’ says Thomas Bergeron, a 23-year-old GIS graduate from Louisiana who works on Barros’s team and answers all questions with ‘Yes, sir’ by default (he also regularly wears his cowboy boots and hat). ‘Little do they know that it speaks volumes about where they are and how they operate,’ he adds.
That’s why Labor’s obvious hesitations and false starts in dealing with the 111 foreign criminals so far released into the community – with the prospect of a further 200 or so soon coming to a suburb or a town near you
Just house them in every LayBore MP’s electorate. There. That should fix it.
Never going to happen though.
Sharon in 2005. I always find that bit of clue batting amusing.
The other amusing DoubleSpeak is talk of Israel “invading” Gaza by dopes who also think Israel simultaneously “occupies” Gaza.
Can’t have it both ways, edumacated dummies.
Robert Sewell at 8:34 – quite possibly. Large chunks of the MSM ceased being any possible positive contributior to the wider Societal good some time ago.
Love it. I wonder if underpants gnomes are nibbling Armstrong Economics’ todger while he disgorges his wisdom?
I just acquired this t-shirt: FRONT TOWARD ENEMY.
No profit except a ‘crazy Dad’ giggle from the Darwin military contingent.
Premier League looking like a tight race. Only a third of the season done but Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham separated by 4 points only.
May change very quickly if the FA follow thru on Man City & Chelsea as they’ve dun with Everton .. Both involve far more financial advantage than Everton achieved …. Can’t see Man City topping the league if they get 10 or more points deducted …..
Then again, the FA is just as likely to wimp out (they’ve got form!) , cos bigger fish, than grow a pair …
Meanwhile “Toon” returning to their winning wayz with a 4-1 thrashing of Chelsea o/n ..
Take that one with large grain of salt. Anyone who makes (or accepts) such a claim shows a gross lack of understanding of the concepts of relative motion and geometry, among other things.
If you aim that missile at point A then a counter missile fired from A can even be sub-sonic and kill it. The geometry becomes more complicated the farther the defending system is off the missile-target line but it’s still quite possible to intercept the attacking missile until the critical speed and angles are reached. It’s a fairly simple formula to solve.
Oh, and nothing makes “sharp manoeuvres” at those speeds. The turn radius of an SR-71 at Mach 3.2 at altitude is approximately 80 miles, covering 145 miles and taking 4 minutes to make a 180 degree turn.
£350,000 Rolls-Royce is GONE in 30 seconds! Moment key-less car thieves steal luxury SUV on owner’s driveway
. The £350,000 Rolls-Royce Cullinan was stolen at 4.10am from Aveley, Essex
. A gang used a high tech relay machine to spoof the car into unlocking
Just filing in time before Outsiders starts on Skah, I’ve been watching a Mary Berry cooking special on Harewood House in Yorkshire.
I’ve just realised part of 85-year-old Berry’s charm — apart from the fact that she’s forgotten more about food that most people have ever learned — is that she’s a blue-eyed blonde.
She would have been a real catch if you had been born in the 1930s in Pommyland.
Amazon Australia tells staff ‘come to the office if you want a promotion’
Amazon Australia has launched a crackdown on remote working telling employees to come to the office if they want a promotion.
Don’t want autism with your kids? Piss off with the vaccine schedule. All the data is here.
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The HighWire with Del Bigtree:
DEL BIGTREE Presents The Vaccine Safety Project
Good God, man!
If Dover starts deleting “look at me” comments, where will.it stop?
Where’s that news from Bear? Is it packaged with the Vasse Farmers Market development?
It’ll be a ding dong when the Farmers Market tide pushes on to Margaret River, where a collective farmers market still does o.k., even as it has descended to soap and Manjimup vegies. I was reamed for spending a mere $4000 on the case for a bricks n mortar home for the hippies to operate in shop hours, seven days- damn fools ahve had a diminishing share of retail ever since.
*maybe Gina has picked it up for the trolling value, it’s a favourite of regional Teal mummies….
“Anti-Semitic” is a bit squishy as a criticism. Let us instead use the more honest term, “Anti-Jewish hate speech”.
Go all Alinsky on their hypocrisy, hold them to their own (claimed) standard against “Hate speech”.
Chuckle!
This should be a definition of oxymoron: the blonde spouting old, discredited crap while standing at a podium lit up with “New Hope” message.
shatterzzz yes that is the thing. Will the FA lop the points or relegate those sides like Juventus in Italy a while back?
shatterzzz
Nov 26, 2023 8:52 AM
Premier League looking like a tight race. Only a third of the season done but Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool and Tottenham separated by 4 points only.
Hopefully, my Club Spurs can beat Aston Vanilla on Sunday night/Monday morning and keep up with the others.
Go Aussie Ange and the Lads. COYS.
Went out walking around SOHO today. The temp was a little brisk but the sun was out. I wouldn’t want to live down there, only because I’m so used to the upper Eastside, but boy I love SOHO. It’s such a great area to go walking around. There are lines of people trying to get into every store imaginable – even a place selling chocolate chip cookies.
The old buildings are just incredible.
Less than one in five Australians oppose ending the moratorium on the use of nuclear power, new poll finds
A new poll has revealed that less than one in five Australians oppose ending the ban on the use of nuclear power in the nation.
Andrew Clennell Political Editor
The polling by Resolve commissioned by consulting firm Society Advisory obtained exclusively by Sky News shows that when voters were asked whether “Australia should rethink its moratorium (ban) on nuclear power to give it more flexibility to choose in the future”, 49 per cent were in favour, just 18 per cent opposed, with 33 per cent unsure.
When those polled were asked if they supported the use of nuclear power in Australia, 33 per cent said yes, 24 per cent opposed it and 29 per cent either did “not have a strong view and am open to the government investigating its use”, with 13 per cent undecided.
The support for the use of nuclear power in Australia was 49 per cent amongst Coalition voters, 26 per cent amongst Labor voters, 17 per cent amongst Greens voters and 33 per cent amongst “others”.
Only 28 per cent of Labor voters and 14 per cent of Coalition voters were opposed to the use of nuclear power in Australia, with the remainder either undecided or thinking it worthy of investigation.
The poll involved 4700 Australians last month. Respondents were also asked if it was OK for Australia to store nuclear waste products form its own scientific or submarine reactors with 47 per cent agreeing, 33 per cent unsure and 20 per cent disagreeing.
On whether when Australia has nuclear powered submarines it was OK to sit in Australian ports and dry docks, 49 per cent said yes with 34 per cent unsure and 18 per cent opposed.
And a question on whether there should be a national vote on nuclear attracted 53 per cent support with 17 per cent opposed and 30 per cent undecided.
The Coalition is understood to be preparing a policy for the next election which involves the introduction of nuclear power into Australia.
Bruce of Newcastle
First time I’ve heard it, BoN.
Rubbish.
Our Weak NSW Police under Labor NSW Permier Chris Minns – No Balls – wasn’t a 95 year Old Grandmother with a Walking Frame
Police clash with Israel supporter at pro-Palestine rally
There’s been an altercation between police and a man who took an Israeli flag to a pro-Palestine rally in Sydney on Friday.
The incident was caught on video, showing the man being pulled away from the protest by policemen as he shouted, “do not touch me”.
The man has since been released and there are no charges currently.
Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms to protest the war in Gaza, following similar strikes in Melbourne and Adelaide.
Attendees called for a permanent ceasefire and an end to human suffering.
There was a heavy police presence as officers worked to ensure the rally remained on the footpath, given organisers didn’t have approval for an official protest.
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Still time this weekend to get cherself a derg, Cats!
Look at this little bloke, so bold of eye.
Black Ball
Nov 26, 2023 9:14 AM
shatterzzz yes that is the thing. Will the FA lop the points or relegate those sides like Juventus in Italy a while back?
Manchester Titty and Cheatski have spent money like drunken sailors. Hopefully the Authorities investigate them (independently of course…….LOL) like they did Everton, Derby County and others.
I got it from a Perth satirical website and there was a bit on the channel Stokes news. Back in the day farmers markets were a mechanism to get around weekend trading laws but all that has changed. We have shopped at the Herdsman Growers market which was a foil lined shed next to Murray Smiths surfboards where they used to do the shaping and glassing out the back. Now the carpark is full of Mercedes and a small salad costs $10.
Tom
Nov 26, 2023 8:59 AM
Just filing in time before Outsiders starts on Skah, I’ve been watching a Mary Berry cooking special on Harewood House in Yorkshire.
I’m watching Jamie Oliver on Ch 10 (Ch 1) cooking up a nice Curry Feast. Only trouble with Jamie is that he is a Gooner (ARSEnal supporter). LOL.
I see that Blackout Bowen is now on the ALPBC…………
Greens leader Adam Bandt joins hundreds of activists at Newcastle Port as protest against coal-carrying ships gets underway
One of the largest climate protests in Australia’s history is underway at Newcastle Port with an estimated 3000 activists to spend 30 hours on the water in an effort to block coal-carrying ships.
An estimated 3000 activists are expected to spend 30 hours on the water in what is one of the largest climate protests in Australia’s history.
Protestors from across Australia are seen paddling out on kayaks and canoes, attempting to create a blockade, as they brave the rain to rally against coal.
Speaking at the event, Mr Bandt called on the Albanese government to undertake climate action and “stop making the climate crisis worse.”
“Labor, stop making the climate crisis worse, stop opening new coal and gas mines,” he said.
“People’s power is on the rise around the world and people are going to keep turning out until this government of gas lighters stops pretending to take action on climate change and instead does what the science requires.”
In a video posted to Rising Tide’s Facebook page, Greens MP Sue Higginson slammed the “madness” of the Labor government.
“People from everywhere have come out in the rain, they got their wet gear on, they are going out in the water and they are saying no to coal,” she said.
“There are still 14 coal projects in the pipeline, on the table in New South Wales right now, it is madness.
“We will stick it to the Labor government, and we say no more coal.”
From the Comments
– Looks to me like a Synthetic Materials Convention and celebration of all things coal or petroleum based. Round of applause for Hypocrisy International.
– I trust they all walked there to the port. What are all their canoes made out of I wonder.
– Kayaks are commonly made of polycarbonate which is made from fossil fuels!!!
– Yes, you would be hard pressed to find one made of birch and deer hide.
– Look at all those plastic and fibre glass kayaks…….Not to mention each protester probably has a smart phone and wears birkenstock sandals. What a bunch of fools.
– Lefties, Greens, Teals AND their voters – Delusional and juvenile.
– The Greens, could more accurately be called the Vampire Party, since they are incapable of self-reflection, live a parasitic existence, are repelled by Christian symbolism and would bleed the populace dry if given the opportunity. If only mainstream media would shed sunlight upon their dark Marxist agenda then perhaps they would also turn to dust.
That’s a keeper.
Dover-
The Greens, could more accurately be called the Vampire Party, since they are incapable of self-reflection, live a parasitic existence, are repelled by Christian symbolism and would bleed the populace dry if given the opportunity. If only mainstream media would shed sunlight upon their dark Marxist agenda then perhaps they would also turn to dust.
Liberty Quote, please
Labor Blackout Chris Bowen’s energy policy is in tatters, try as he might to convince us that Labor’s 2030 emissions targets are achievable with ‘cloud cuckoo land’ rhetoric
Labor’s grand emissions goals are failing fast amid slowing new renewable energy investment, eye-watering cost blowouts and growing community resistance to new wind, solar and transmission lines, writes Nick Cater.
Labor Blackout Chris Bowen took us on another excursion to cloud cuckoo land on Tuesday night as he fantasised about harnessing the power of the wind and sun to turn Australia into a renewable energy superpower.
Green hydrogen, green ammonia, green metals and other unripe technology would follow in the wake of cheap, reliable energy, the Labor Energy Minister Blackout Bowen assured a Lowy Institute audience.
Back in the real world, Labor’s energy policy is in tatters.
Its 2030 emissions targets are unachievable.
New renewable energy investment has all but ground to a halt, the Snowy pumped hydro project is billions over budget, transmission line construction is years behind schedule, and community resistance to new wind, solar and transmission lines is growing.
Two days after his flight of fancy address to the Lowy Institute, Bowen signalled that the government would substantially increase subsidies to attract renewable investment.
The government will write a blank cheque to subsidise investment in 32 GW of renewable energy capacity by guaranteeing a long-term fixed return.
This radical intervention, born from desperation, imposes an uncapped levy on taxpayers that could continue for decades.
Rather than pass the rising cost of renewable energy to customers, the government will pick up the tab at our expense.
Labor’s energy policy is grounded in wishful thinking.
There was no cost-benefit analysis, no technical feasibility study or any sign that an engineer or economist had scrutinised it.
When Blackout Bowen and Anthony Albanese launched their policy two years ago, the then-Opposition leader claimed it was backed by “the most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any opposition in Australia’s history since Federation.”
In Labor’s first term, the plan would cut power bills for families and businesses by $275 a year.
It was a big claim to make, one journalist commented.
How sure was the Opposition leader that the projected $275 saving was robust when he would only have three years to deliver it?
“Well, I don’t think I know,” Albanese replied.
“I know because we have done the modelling. The modelling is available. We are releasing it here today.”
The fatal flaw in Labor’s modelling was the assumption that wind, solar and hydropower are abundant and cheap.
Renewable energy was considered immune from the constrain of scarcity that applies to other forms of energy
“We receive 58 million petajoules of solar radiation per year,” Blackout Bowen told the Lowy Centre, “ten thousand times larger than our total energy consumption.”
As so often, Blackout Bowen brushed over the problematic part, the challenge of harvesting diluted solar power and getting it to market in sufficient strength to turn on the kettle when the customer demands it.
One obvious challenge is the preposterous amount of land required to meet Bowen’s ambitious emissions reduction targets solely with renewable energy.
The organisation Net Zero Australia, headed by former Commonwealth chief scientist Robin Batterham, calculates that we’ll have to sacrifice 120,179 sq km of land to construct enough renewable plants and associated transmission lines to meet Bowen’s target.
That is roughly 15 times more land than we use for mining or almost half the size of the state of Victoria.
No less confronting is the demand for capital.
Labor’s policy assumes that $76 billion of private capital would be readily available.
Yet even that relatively modest sum has not been forthcoming, and achieving Labor’s targets will require considerably more capital than that.
The installation cost of wind generation, in particular, has been soaring.
The cost of offshore wind is proving prohibitive in the United States.
The Danish company Ørsted has abandoned a half-begun project to build two offshore wind farms off the coast of New Jersey.
It would rather absorb a loss of up to $US5billion rather than continue an unprofitable venture.
Oh come on
Or defaults to the Korean Display.
Fixed.
I see that Blackout Bowen is now on the ALPBC…………
What a Bone Head he is. “Nuclear Power is not the right solution for Australia”………….
Meanwhile, the USA, the UK, France, Sweden and others are powering away with Nuclear.
Sack him now and the all rest before they wreck the joint.
Pogria:
Is that the power switch? Like on the wall with a plug coming out of it?
🙂
Just seen the last pic in this week’s W.I.P.
Clearly a full-service establishment!
Includes Merkava valet.
Drive-through, but no drive-by.
Labor’s terrifyingly expensive five-fold expansion of Australia’s government-backed renewables capacity ‘will form our next major environmental disaster’
SkyNews.com.au contributor Nicolle Flint says it’s clear the Albanese Government needs to be “decommissioned and disposed of” at the next election after she broke down the numbers behind Labor’s massively scaled-up renewables plan for Australia.
Let’s get real about what the Albanese Labor government’s renewable plans mean for Australia: an extraordinary amount of taxpayers’ money spent subsidising foreign companies to destroy farms, bushland and our oceans with solar panels, wind farms, batteries and transmission lines that at end of life will form our next major environmental disaster.
It emerged on Thursday that taxpayers will now bankroll a five-fold increase in government-backed renewables capacity, which has been described by The Australian as a “gamble” and a “dramatic market intervention”.
The Labor Minister for Energy and Climate Change Blackout Chris Bowen’s press release says this “expansion will take the CIS [Capacity Investment Scheme] from the current pilot stage to 9 GW of dispatchable capacity and 23 GW of variable capacity nationally – for a total of 32 GW nationally”.
What all taxpayers should be asking is exactly how much will this cost us, how many foreign owned companies will benefit, how much farming land, bush land and ocean beds will be destroyed, and how will the solar panels, wind turbines and batteries be decommissioned and disposed of at end of life?
Leaving aside the cost of this plan, which is difficult to precisely calculate given Labor’s intended market intervention and complicated mess of funding already announced (for example the Department of Climate Change ‘Powering Australia’ website alone lists approximately $42.2 billion worth of projects, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has estimated Labor’s total renewable plan will cost $1.2-$1.5 trillion), Australians should be examining the practical reality of how much land is needed to install solar panels, wind farms and transmission lines necessary to transport renewable energy.
Using the 23 GW of “variable capacity” figure, how much land would hypothetically need to be covered in solar panels to reach this figure on paper and how much will it cost Australians?
The same estimates could be made for on-shore and off-shore wind turbines.
Austrade lists five foreign companies from Denmark, Italy, France, Japan and the UK who have renewable projects in Australia and links them with $25 billion of federal government spending.
Taxpayers deserve to know whether state and federal government’s are subsiding these projects, and if so, by exactly how much.
For example, Japanese company Sojitz is building the Edenvale Solar Park project near Chinchilla, Queensland, with a finance agreement with Naxitis (based in France), and an engineering, procurement and construction contract with Gransolar (the Australian subsidiary of Spanish company Grupo Gransolar).
This solar farm will cover 428 hectares (4.3 km2 or 1,058 acres) and have an installed capacity of 204 megawatts (MW).
There are 1,000 MW in a gigawatt (GW) so in this instance five of these solar farms would hypothetically generate around one GW of power and cover 2,140 hectares (21.5 km2 or 5,288 acres).
Again, hypothetically, to produce 23 GW you would need 49,220 hectares of solar panels (492.2 km2 or 121,625 acres).
An estimated 75-80 per cent of all solar panel components are made in China.
The controversial Pacific Solar Hydrogen Project in Queensland being built to underpin the production of green hydrogen will cover 6,000 hectares near Callide and produce up to 3,600 MW of power.
One 2,700 hectare site in this project is estimated to cover the equivalent of 4,000 football fields.
The federal Labor government needs to explain exactly how much productive farming land and how much bushland will be affected by solar panels?
They also need to explain why this will be allowed when farmers, for example, are bound by strict native vegetation laws in every state and territory, and when banks like Westpac are now setting targets for farmers such as “no deforestation from 2026, in line with existing law in most states” when the installation of solar panels will inevitably require the destruction of vegetation?
And how will all of these panels be decommissioned and disposed of at the end of their life?
At the same time Victorian farmers are protesting the installation of 400 kilometres of power lines to support renewables at a cost of $11 billion, which will come at a physical, economic and productivity cost of 1,000 hectares of prime farming land at significant personal cost to farmers and the federal budget bottom line, and Labor need to outline exactly how much more land will be needed around the nation.
Collectively, Labor’s renewables experiment delivers a double blow – economic and environmental.
Economically, during the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades, Labor are spending untold amounts of taxpayers’ money to encourage foreign-owned companies to come here, purchase productive farming land to put farmers out of business, and China are benefitting from the supply of panels and components.
Environmentally, solar panels will decimate the on-shore and off-shore environment and will eventually need to be decommissioned and disposed of at end of life.
Australians need to be able to quantify this cost.
Labor must come clean about the total economic and environmental impact of their renewables plan before the next election so voters can decide whether they want to decommission and dispose of this government.
If these rough calculations are any indication of what is in store for our economy and our environment the choice for voters seems very clear.
Greens leader Adam Bandt joins hundreds of activists at Newcastle Port as protest against coal-carrying ships gets underway
Put him on one of those ships and phuck him off.
After Cutting Taxes, British PM Rishi Sunak Immediately Sees a Rise in Popularity Numbers
Who would have ever guessed?
Liberty Quote, please
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
– Thomas Jefferson
Black Ball
Nov 26, 2023 9:44 AM
Greens leader Adam Bandt joins hundreds of activists at Newcastle Port as protest against coal-carrying ships gets underway
Put him on one of those ships and phuck him off.
Colour him as black as coal and shove him in the nearest Coal Fired Power Station furnace along with Blackout Bowen.
Job Done.
Many on both sides of the aisle believe that Chauvin deserved his sentence and that his actions caused Floyd’s death. Nevertheless, those celebrating what some are calling “Shanksgiving” should be ashamed of themselves:
After the documentary that OldOzzie linked days ago it is clear to me Chauvin and colleagues should never have been prosecuted let alone jailed.
Does the shanking coincide with the release of the documentary?
DISNEY ‘FESSES UP
The Disney Company has fallen on hard times, with one movie after another bombing or, at a minimum, failing to live up to expectations.
Disney’s troubles are widely blamed on its far-left corporate culture, which prioritizes pushing woke themes over entertaining the masses.
But is that how Disney sees it?
Yes, actually. A site called That Park Place has reviewed Disney’s most recent 10K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and John Nolte comments at Breitbart.
So what does Disney say about risks to its profitability?
Most of it is boilerplate. Disney depends on “consumer tastes and preferences for entertainment, travel and consumer products,” which can be fickle:
Further, consumers’ perceptions of our position on matters of public interest, including our efforts to achieve certain of our environmental and social goals, often differ widely and present risks to our reputation and brands.
There you have it: Disney takes positions on “matters of public interest,” and has “goals” that are “environmental and social,” about which people “differ widely.”
Since the public “perceives” Disney’s positions and goals, there is risk to the company’s profitability.
Addressing Nation, Irish Leader Spends Seconds Condemning Stabbing of Children but Minutes on Protests That Followed
Irish Establishment Sneers at Anti-Migration Riot as ‘Hate, ‘Lunatic’
Poor Irish people staged a riot in central Dublin following the stabbing of three children by a man described as a homeless migrant, yet the Irish establishment is portraying the Thursday-night anti-migration riots as merely “hate,” “lunatic” and “far-right.”
The unprecedented riots come after years of growing community protests against the migration that is impoverishing Irish people with rising rents and flatlining wages.
So far, none of the established Irish political parties have sought to curb or reduce the impact of migration on Ireland’s people.
“At the risk of sounding like a bleeding-heart lefty, that [riot] an expression of the disconnect that has been festering amongst disadvantaged young men for a long time,” reported an anti-establishment Irish news outlet, Gript.ie, which added:
But the media, like the government and the Oppositon, were eager to change the conversation, and Dublin city centre being set on fire gave them perfect cover to do so. So the usual nonsense about the ‘far-right’ started immediately, and the front pages are full of those photographs this morning.
The government offered a very different view.
“This is not about immigration,” Justice Minister Helen McEntee declared Thursday night. “These are criminals and thugs who have come into our city center and have used a horrific attack on innocent children for their own gain.”
On Friday morning, Ireland’s migration heritage, pro-migration prime minister — Leo Varadkar — quickly described the rioters as hateful and suggested he would clamp down on free speech and Internet-organized protests:
The Houthis represent a new enemy for Israel to contend with – opinion
The Houthi naval attack this week on a vessel in the Red Sea, the Galaxy Leader, marked the latest projection of Iranian power via its Houthi proxy.
It is rare that Israel has had to contend with an entirely new adversary that threatens its access to entire parts of the world. But that is exactly what is occurring with the growing Houthi threat, based in Yemen.
This year, while Israel fought off Hamas in Gaza, the Houthi threat in the Red Sea grew.
Moreover, the Houthis, fully supported by Iran, built an arsenal of ballistic missiles and drones that can reach Israeli territory.
Most Houthis, who are Zaydi Shi’ite Muslims, live in the rugged mountains of northern Yemen.
When they first emerged, their capital was Taiz, but now they are based in Sana’a.
The founder of the Zaydi sect, Zayd ben Ali, was the great-grandson of Ali, a close descendant of Islam’s prophet, Mohammed.
Zayd fought what he saw as the corruption in the Umayyad Caliphate centered in Damascus in the 8th century. For both Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims, Zayd became a natural symbol of righteousness.
“The Houthis have made fighting corruption the centerpiece of their political program” asserts Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution, noting that the Houthis “emerged as a Zaydi resistance” to Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and “his corruption in the 1990s.”
The Houthi naval attack this week on a vessel in the Red Sea, the Galaxy Leader, marked the latest projection of Iranian power via its Houthi proxy.
This was the latest escalation by Iran’s anti-Western agent.
They have launched missiles and attack drones at Israel, Abu Dhabi, and Saudi Arabia.
They endanger key naval arteries like the Bab al-Mandab choke point that controls the passage of fuel that supplies 20% of the world’s oil consumption.
They constitute a strategic menace to shipping lines and energy transport, something that affects the entire global economy.
Iran arms the Houthis with state-of-the-art weaponry
Went out walking around SOHO today. The temp was a little brisk but the sun was out. I wouldn’t want to live down there, only because I’m so used to the upper Eastside, but boy I love SOHO.
SOHO is full of pooftas, squirrel brained teddies, floaters and garishly hair coloured, unidentifiable pseudo humans.
I’ve warned you about this. the last time you strayed you came back with creases in your chinos which could not be dry cleaned out.
Comedian Roasts Trump Derangement Sufferers
But wait, there’s more:
His full show.
My Gunners lead by one, with a swag of injuries. Would be more but for the VAR loonies.
After watching the various reports of the schoolchildren pro-Palestinian protests it looks to me like the Muslim younger generation has been very radicalised*. This is going to be a problem as they become older and join the workforce etc. they will make thing very difficult for everyone else in our society. What will their non-Muslim contemporaries do?
*Who radicalised these children? Their parents or their imams? If it’s not their parents then why are they not setting them straight? Is anyone telling the imams to tone it down as they are scaring the horses?
Explosions heard in Eilat, unmanned aircraft intercepted at Red Sea
Security forces have opened an investigation following echoes of explosions heard in the city, Israeli media reported.
Shortly after, an Israel Air Force (IAF) fighter jet intercepted an unmanned aircraft heading into Israeli territory over the Red Sea. It did not enter Israeli territory successfully
We crossed from Egypt to Jordan Via Eilat in April 2011
Gays are in the West Village, Cronkite. You know that because that’s only place you stay when you’re here.
The babies are still held hostage and so is little orphan Abigail.
I saw a comment from retired US military that US citizens, including little Abigail will be last, to encourage the US to pressure Israel to maintain ceasefire.
more hostages released including Emily Hand
Weasel words from a weasel.
Emily didn’t wander off some beaten path.
Muslim Stabs Children at Dublin Catholic School. Media Covers It Up.
A 5-year-old girl was receiving emergency medical treatment
What. Where. Why.
You won’t find any of those ‘Ws’ in any story that the media is interested in covering up, rather than covering.
Take the stabbing of small children at a Catholic school in Dublin, allegedly, by an Algerian Muslim. You can read entire stories about what happened in Dublin with nary a mention of these key elements of the story.
A FOX News story on the incident would read as quite baffling because it entirely covers the riots after this latest incident of Muslim violence without actually explaining why anyone might be rioting.
The media can’t tell you that the stabber was allegedly an Algerian Muslim and so it also can’t explain why people might be rioting. The result is a ‘Pravda’ like story in which you can only understand things by reading between the lines and inverting the official denial.
Irish police said they weren’t treating the case as terror-related, adding that a man in his 50s, who was also hospitalized with serious injuries, is a “person of interest.” No further details about the man’s identity were released by authorities.
If you’re an average person, this whole story makes no sense. Someone stabs some kids and people riot. But if you’re versed in reading Pravda journalism, you understand that the man’s identity is very important… because the media and the authorities aren’t telling you who he is.
And the one thing the media is telling you, that the case is not terror-related, should be viewed with suspicion.
Nowhere in the story does it get around to mentioning salient facts such as the Muslim attacker targeted children in a Catholic school.
Whatever your political views, any reasonable person has to acknowledge that the thoroughly censored mainstream media version of the story makes no sense.
There’s no context and there are no explanation. What, why and where are solely lacking. Rioters inexplicably clash with police after a stabbing. Why?
The level of media censorship is so extreme as to make it impossible to understand what’s going on.
And that’s no longer media bias, it’s simply political censorship.
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https://www.frontpagemag.com/george-floyd-and-the-fall-of-minneapolis/
There you have it, Houthis are nothing more than just another tentacle of the writhing Iranian monstrosity.
My Gunners lead by one, with a swag of injuries. Would be more but for the VAR loonies.
yp! .. gotta wonder what getz into the VAR folk at times .. 2 weeks ago Mariners v Roar VAR awarded a goal to Roar after referral yet watching normal time TV you saw the ball was over the line for the final cross ….. Yet these folk have forward/backward/slow and every other angle and manage to come up with the wrong decision ……….
One has to laugh when reading justifications for non attendance: when I was eight I heard parisioners gossiping… Some lady in a white dress scared me.
Do these same people still base all their social and business dealings on their perceptions as eight year olds? Have they not grown in acumen and wisdom during subsequent decades?
Blame Ireland’s migrant surge, not ‘right-wingers,’ for Dublin riots
DUBLIN — In the 12 months leading up to April this year, 141,600 immigrants landed in Ireland.
The Irish population has increased by more than 2%. If the US had similar immigration, it would mean 9 million extra people.
This is the highest level since the prosperous “Celtic Tiger” era of the late ’90s.
Ireland’s non-nationals comprise a whopping 20% of the population.
The tinder box of immigration blew open Thursday with a mass riot in Dublin following the stabbing of a number of young children outside a school near the main street.
The alleged perpetrator is foreign-born but still a citizen.
The riots have, so far, led to more than 30 arrests and a number of stores destroyed.
Once a source of massive emigration to the United States, the Emerald Isle is now the destination of choice for Ukrainian refugees and other nationalities seeking a better life — and better welfare entitlements.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ireland had a surge of 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
Ukrainian refugees receive more than $200 a week from the Irish state — the most generous supplement provided by any European country.
Last year, more than 13,000 people from non-Ukrainian origin entered Ireland, a 400% spike over 2021.
A large portion of new applicants hail from Georgia, a country deemed “safe” by Georgia’s ambassador in Dublin.
This has turned an already explosive housing shortage into a catastrophe.
All these factors culminated in the horrific riots this week as hundreds of inner-city residents torched the streets in what the Prime Minister Leo Varadkar described as “huge destruction by a riotous mob.”
Buses, rail carriages and police cars were burned alongside an orgy of destruction and looting.
Dublin’s “fair city where the girls are so pretty” (as the famous Irish band the Dubliners proclaimed) was turned on its head as a Foot Locker and several other stores were burned and raided.
Rioters even hijacked a bus for reckless joyriding.
Police chiefs have been quick to blame “far right” anti-immigrant elements.
Yet public frustration with homelessness, joblessness, immigration, lack of law and order and anti-social behavior have been breeding a revolt by the urban underclass.
Ireland has seen a surge in anti-immigration protests in recent years as the large influx of migrants has sparked clashes with already deprived communities and rural enclaves.
That includes incidents of arson, such as the deliberate torching of centers used to house migrants.
Ireland’s authorities are now in panic about immigration, issuing last-minute promises about revoking generous welfare handouts for Ukrainians.
Their bigger problem: An election looms next year amid a dire shortage of houses for the young.
Irish youths are swinging to the Sinn Fein opposition political party, which was at one point the political wing of the terrorist Irish Republican Army.
Mainstream or center-led parties are in a panic about a Sinn Fein voting surge, as in 2020.
Commentary with vague but menacing tones about the “far right” masks the fact there is no political representation of serious conservative opinion in the Irish Parliament.
The speed with which the rioters took control of the main thoroughfare is bound to raise questions.
Irish police are afraid to use water cannons and tear gas, unlike other European countries and the United States; it took them more than four hours to subdue the rioters.
Plus, police morale is very low due to pointless virtue-signaling such as “hate speech” initiatives.
More than 90% of ordinary police officers recently voted “no confidence” in the country’s top law-enforcement officer.
They’re resigning in droves due to inadequate power, work pressure and malaise.
Theo McDonald is based in Dublin and writes about economic and social issues.
This news arrived too late to affect last night’s Catallaxian music video ritual, but you may want to suggest songs about crime that would be appropriate for (checks notes) “A-town”.
How about…
Alice In Chains – Man in the Box.
OCO:
A couple of years ago the USAF tested a bomber variant of the Thor project.
It consists of a hollowed out twenty ton metal slug that is launched from a bomber. The hollowed out section is full of solid fuel and the slug is aerodynamically shaped with a guidance system that is aimed from either the bomber or another aircraft.
The slug is dropped, and the motor fires it up to 90.000 feet where it turns over and under full gravity and engine acceleration heads for the target. IIRC, something like Mach15 – 20 is the terminal speed.
A B52 can carry 35 tons of ordnance. It should be able to stand off at least 100 miles.
I’ll let the mathematicians work out the yield of mach 20 x 20 tons. I doubt putting anything underground is going to help it survive.
Mentioned Above – https://www.thefallofminneapolis.com/ – Watch it for Free – 1hr 42 mins 28 Secs
Thanks for linking again OldOzzie.
Strongly recommend Cats & Kittehs find a time to watch this documentary.
Not me Delta. I just think emotive quick fix ideas are useless.
Diogenes:
That’s a shit hand the poor bugger and your family was dealt, Diogenes.
This kind of thing doesn’t happen as often but it still happens.
My eldest sister got one of those calls at about 0200 from her eldest son just after his wife delivered their first child. “Mum, please come to the hospital – something horrible is happening.”
Bowen and Anal are toxic trash. Like an abandoned solar ‘farm’. I’m unsure whether or not they really believe this rubbish will actually work. It’s possible that they do- in the way a child believes in a perpetual motion machine. They really are that stupid. Why does our society incubate and cosset this human garbage at the expense of productive citizens?
cohenite
Nov 26, 2023 10:04 AM
Well said Sir !!!!!
Rubbish like Bowen and Anal are the bitter fruit of the Murray report.
Saw Napoleon last night . . .
What an inconsistent mess of a romp through the life of the famous French general-turned-emperor.
The movie can’t figure out who this great man was – whiny, babyish, aloof, needy, petty, violent, as possessive as a five-year-old, stupid, delusional, cunning, bratty.
You never know what you are going to get scene to scene. Actually, you will get one thing consistently from Napoleon: mumbling. Lots and lots of mumbling.
A majority of the time, Joaquin Phoenix plays Napoleon as a brat. In the beginning, he’s starts out aloof and alpha, fighting brilliantly in the battle of Toulon, but after that the movie offers its one major biographical interpretation of him: that all of his military and political exploits had nearly everything to do with his obsession with Josephine.
The problem with this portrayal is it makes absolutely no sense from any psycho-biological or sociological point of view that I know of. There is absolutely no sense of this man being a great leader of men and of the political and cultural legacy he developed.
The movie tries really hard, by its last act, to make us feel sorry for Josephine, a woman trapped within this great man’s world of bratty stupidity. It makes little sense because the voiceovers constantly read us the love letters between Napoleon and Josephine, which are often tender and sentimental. They seem to love each other, and she seems in writing to adore him. Yet the movie’s visuals are constantly showing a woman cornered by an grown infant.
Napoleon is also mis-titled, and it’s going to royally piss off history buffs everywhere, as its proper title should have been be Napoleon And Josephine, yet Ridley Scott has to pack in 45 minutes of battle scenes. The result is a structure that makes no sense. The battle of Toulon happens within ten minutes, then we get an hour of personal material depicting Napoleon the brat, then Borodino and the invasion of Russia, a good 25 minutes on Waterloo. It’s there where he makes the Duke of Wellington a tough-guy hero-type.
For future filmmakers, you can’t do the life of Napoleon in 158 minutes, as this movie would have it. The result of this movie’s approach is a “greatest hits” of Bonaparte. It ditches about a hundred remarkable things about the man to show about four battles and a lot of juvenile behaviour at home.
Perplexingly, the movie has absolutely no vision for how Napoleon became emperor. It’s not clear who would allow or consent to his assent to power, or how it could’ve happened. Not even a reasonable sociopolitical context is presented. The result is that few could be convinced that anybody would honour the loser in this movie as France’s ruler.
In regards to the movie’s style, it’s an aesthetic nightmare if there ever was one for historical blockbusters. That’s because Scott has chosen not to light this movie at all. Everything is natural lighting. They went all out on the costumes and sets, just so that we couldn’t see them.
I cannot figure out this trend, now a decade old, in blockbuster films. While it might be historically accurate – and I think it’s a over-exaggeration of historical interior lighting by the way – the entire history of movies tells us that audiences want to see pretty pictures. Turn on the lights on set, please !
In a couple of weeks time I’ll do a post on Napoleon in cinema.
miltonf
Nov 26, 2023 10:39 AM
Bowen and Anal are toxic trash. Like an abandoned solar ‘farm’. I’m unsure whether or not they really believe this rubbish will actually work. It’s possible that they do- in the way a child believes in a perpetual motion machine. They really are that stupid. Why does our society incubate and cosset this human garbage at the expense of productive citizens?
To partly quote Sir Winston Churchill –
And. as to these two knob heads “it is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”.
The problem we all have is that these grubs are now so far down this climate hoax rabbit hole, they have no choice but to double and triple down- at our bewildering expense- to save their worthless necks.
If big splodey things happen in Iran, here is some research indicating the possible fallout:
visual summary:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Iran-Map-of-all-modeled-detonations-Showing-the-radiation-exposure-plumes-from-all-of_fig2_236689331
(It seems that the blog ate my homework, but it’s not in moderation – so this is an abbreviated repost attempt)
Agree Makka. It’s a pseudo religion too.
One thing is for sure, it would be death by a thousand cuts for the blog.
People don’t comment here as anonymous blobs in cyberspace.
They are real living human beings who share experiences and feelings and have blog identities. That’s part of the appeal of the place, the Gonzo Journalism, in addition to the news and features aggregation provided by many intelligent and roving minds.
Leave well alone.
The US doesn’t need or want to fight a war with Iran, just remove its fangs once in a while as they have done since the 1980s i.e. Tanker War, Preying Mantis, Soleimani. They are quite capable of eliminating the Iranian integrated air defense system should they desire to.
Nor does Iran want a direct war with the US as their center of gravity, oil production, is tremendously vulnerable. But that doesn’t mean they won’t test their boundaries as much as possible to find out where that war threshold is, which is what gets their nose slapped and their fangs trimmed occasionally.
We are living in a post-Christendom West, not a post-Christian one.
We’ve been here before too (the 18th C., for example); the tide of faith ebbs and flows, and at times is at different levels in different parts of the world.
In the global South in recent decades, Christianity has been gaining adherents at such a rate that the number of Christians worldwide has been growing faster than at any time in history.
Many thanks, Wolfman: a masterful film review so we don’t have to see Napoleon — yet another important historical story butchered by Hollywood.
RS
Sounds like the rods of god a little, power pole sized tungsten rod launched from orbit, both US & USSR messed with these in the cold war.
Chinese more recently and the boffins weren’t excited about the results:
https://interestingengineering.com/science/chinese-study-rods-from-god
Robert Sewell
Nov 26, 2023 10:27 AM
You’ll be waiting a long time, as mathematicians want to stay as far away from real numbers as possible.
In the meantime, high-school arithmetic should be enough.
Kinetic Energy = ½mv²
= 0.5 × 20000kg × (340m/s/Mach × 20Mach)²
= 462400000000J
= 110 tons TNT explosive power
The bunker may survive this if it is deep enough, but you’ll have to ask the geotechnical guys how deep that would have to be, rock and soil dependent of course. Until teleportation is invented every bunker has to have an entrance. Easier to cave-in the entrances than actually hit the bunker itself.
How about…
Nine Inch Nails – “I Want To F#ck You Like An Animal”
Thanks for that rundown on the latest movie Napoleon, Wolfman. We’d read some other reviews and were dubious about going, and yours confirms our fears. Our son, who is a history buff, went off to see it yesterday and will also report back. We agreed with him that the 4+ hour run might be better given the topic, though I doubt the lighting will improve – I agree so much with you about that, and a pet hate of mine is also mumbling. It’s hard enough to not have a hearing aid when one is getting older, without being given this sort of challenge at the movies.
Looking forward to your next movie post on the celluloid Napoleonic oeuvre.
Sergei Bondarchuk used natural lighting in many of the interior scenes in his epic War & Peace (1967) to good effect, I thought (at 7 hours in length, albeit usually screened in parts, the viewer does have time to adjust!). The results may depend on the film used and the skill of the cinematographers.
Business Insider suggests a strategy deck to the Deep State:
Here’s what happens if Donald Trump dies while running in the 2024 presidential election
“Far and away” is a mild understatement.
So, chaos and GOP duck-shoving.
So, chaos and opportunities for electoral corruption.
So, chaos and GOP platform uncertainty.
So, chaos, GOP platform uncertainty, and the chance of stormy weather.
The Valley of the Shadow of Death – no doubt already heavily war-gamed.
Good for the Democrats right out to November 2024. The RINO’s probably thinking along the lines of a Christmas cracker accident.
Best viewed as a parody seems to be a common thread
running through a lot of reviews.
History Legends goes to town.
Let’s hope it doesn’t create an environment that predators took advantage of.
I have my doubts, Roger.
WolfmanOz
Nov 26, 2023 10:45 AM
Sounds like it looks like Joker in France.
Your daily dose of Ukrainian propaganda brought to you by Their ABC. Cheerful father-daughter, father-son pairs of soldiers fighting together on the front lines, counteroffensive still going strong, need more weapons from the West, Russia hates Ukraine’s freedom, victory is in sight.
I mean, the fact that fathers and their children need to be pressed into service doesn’t ring any alarm bells.
No uncommon in a resistance movement.
Faith is not credulity & scepticism is not incompatible with it, Bespoke.
The New Testament itself contains warnings to believers about false teachers and exhortations to “test the spirits”.
Well, well, well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions
Click the Humphries tweet for totally justified ratio abuse.
Thanks Tom and others.
Yes it is although Napoleon is a great topic for cinema IMO there hasn’t really been a great bio film about him. The best IMO is Waterloo but that only covers a few months of his life. Rod Steiger was outstanding as Napoleon.
As for Ridley Scott I find him exceedingly over-rated.
He’s directed close to 30 films and Alien and Blade Runner (2 great movies) were in his first 3 films. Of his others I only rate Gladiator as another top film and that’s over 20 years ago.
Regarding the discussion of the presence of hypocrites and other deplorables in the churches, is it not fortunate that such behaviours are totally absent from non-church individuals and organisations? Amazing to think that Judaism and Christianity have continued in existence for so long with such people making up their membership! Let alone setting the stage for civilisation, science, learning, charities, hospitals, and all those other things that seem to have sprung up in our history. Could it be that people see a few twisted, dwarfed and dying trees, instead of the mighty thriving forest that includes them?
P.S. I visited a hospital once in my youth, but gradually became aware that it was full of sick people …
Had to put me wee best mate down yesterday. Best pup a bloke could have. 16yo Border Terrier. Fine on Friday, had a stroke on Saturday morning then another in the afternoon. Buried in the front garden on watch. Not supposed to according to Toytown regs but FU. Never let us down, a true friend. Miss him but can’t be sad, he had a good life.
Also directed by Bondarchuk.
As noted here recently, Napoleon is the second most written about historical figure after Jesus Christ. If biographers can’t nail him down, film directors stand no chance! 😀
don’t think so
they already have another religion
it is secular but includes:
foundational mythos
dogma for the true path
revelations along the way
prayers and hopes and dreams
and ultimately a transformation
the internet is its church
and feminism is the pulpit
faith(tortured to be a verb) harder kiddies
… they loosely call it “progress”
Just saying Roger. is the problem of not rocking the boat and protecting the institution above all else still exist. Tackling that mindset has been difficult even in small sporting çlubs in my experience.
and no … they reject Islam too
Job I always used to hate.
Protecting the institutional church above all else is a form of idolatry.
The pseudo love affair between Poland and Ukraine, (it could never last), is definitely over.
Polish trucks have stopped shipments of Ukraine goods into Poland AND stopped, “humanitarian aid”, (….. ahem!), from entering Ukraine.
The reason for this action, is the EU’s, (Von der Crazy’s actually), brilliant idea of allowing cheap Ukraine exports, to enter the Eurozone without any taxes or duty applied. This is destroying the trucking businesses in Poland.
Remember, Poland is a member of the EU, Ukraine is not.
In other news from Saigon on the Dnieper, a Ukraine MP, David Arakhamia, was interviewed for Ukraine TV and repeated the story of how the West destroyed the peace process, back in March 2022. Well done Boris!
https://michael-von-der-schulenburg.com/how-the-chance-was-lost-for-a-peace-settlement-of-the-ukraine-war/
Mr Arakhamia repeated exactly, what was said in the article above.
The obvious question, is why now?
Clearly, he has protection, otherwise he would be gaoled, or worse, like all the other political opponents of the Ukraine Nazi Party, ……, oh sorry,….., I mean Banderites!
Is that what you call those democracy lovers in Ukraine Dot?
Next week, the clown puppet will outline, how he plans to kill the remaining Ukraine population, from 17-70, male and female, in a mobilisation.
Far better to kill everyone, than negotiate with Ivan, ……, right Dot?
The notion that man, and hence society, is perfectible is the root of all modern evil.
Thanks Wolfman for that awesome review!
I think some of it may be Joaquin Phoenix, who excels at whiny/bratty. Think of Gladiator and To Die For. I think he’s an excellent actor but he needs to be gotten out of his default setting.
Bony’s hat just sold for nearly three times the presale estimate, so there’re a lot of people who like his stuff. I don’t especially but there was a sort of Thucydides trap going on with the royal houses of Europe scared cakeless by the upstart French Republic. Bit of resonance with Trump perhaps.
Looks like the hostages are being released based on location within Gaza as today Kibbutz Be’eri dominated and yesterday it was Kibbutz Nir Oz.
Suppose it’s a bit awkward for Hamas to be moving people around.
Yet it still happens and not just in church but in the home.
The Perfectibility of Man
What is the energy content of Arse Bandit compared to a kilo of coal?
Wolfman – To the list of excellent Ridley Scott movies I would add Kingdom of Heaven, Thelma and Louise, Black Rain and The Martian, although I haven’t seen the last of the four. Heard many good things about it though.
I haven’t seen Black Hawk Down, so can’t say whether it’d be on the top table or not.
It’s ok, bespoke. Rest easy. Switch off the ABC and fold your copy of The Age.
A delegation of Labor pollies led by Orkopolous with a couple of junior swimming coaches and an AFL coach is heading over. They’ll keep an eye on those Christians.
On Shitweasel Bowen’s Capacity Investment Scheme
(Warning: for energy tragics only.)
At the beginning of August, Bowen issued a consultation paper on the Capacity Investment Scheme – public consultation closed on 31st August.
The guts of the CIS consultation proposal was:
– The scheme sought 6GW of dispatchable energy attached to the grid.
– Demand forecast was based on “the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) modelling from the ISP Step Change Scenario, as well as publicly available system plans for other electricity grids.”
So, rocksolid.
– The CIS was all about “securing clean renewable generation and storage projects to fill expected reliability gaps” – a technical term for ‘propping up a collapsing system’.
– These projects are to be based on battery storage charged from associated renewables or the grid (significance below), bioenergy, or (pitifully) Green Hydrogen. No coal or gas projects need apply – nor non-dispatchable renewables projects:
– The Government was to underwrite 90% of any loss of expected profit – and share an unspecified ‘some’ of any super profit made when power prices spiral out of control because of system collapse. (So, be cautious of the commentariat glowing that, far from being a cost to taxpayers, the CIS will ‘actually make money’.)
– The new CIS capacity will operate under the same ‘market rules’ as everything else being gamed into the NEM.
Three months later, Bowen’s CIS has transformed:
– 9 GW of clean dispatchable capacity and
– 23 GW of variable capacity nationally
And Shitweasel tells us: “The expected costs of CIS contracts are not-for-publication to ensure that reverse auctions achieve the best bang for buck for taxpayers.”
So, vastly expanded, way off scope, plucked from a secret data base – and, in an utterly broken and corrupted market, we taxpayers don’t get to know how much dosh we are tipping into renewarblers pockets.
I expect we will soon hear more about this shameful state of affairs in the media.
No, I don’t.
Hamas Transfers Second Set of Hostages via Egypt Including 13 Israeli and 4 Thai Hostages
Our Houso won’t have flatlining wages. Da bruvvas don’t pay for that.
Sorry I’m late.
I was hurkle-durkling.
Delta A
In a word, no. Their “education” stopped when they entered pre-school.
Jorge
Meh!
Thanks for proving my point.
What is hurkle-durkling?
Always keep an eye on the Godbotherers in the Lieboral party room. SloMo anyone? The WA Lieboral wipeout had a few too.
See above…man is not perfectible in this life.
Therefore, we have to be perpetually on guard against the evil within (see Solzhenitsyn on the locus of evil in the human heart).
Speaking to the situation of the churches in Australia, the RC into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, while criticised by many as a political hit job on the churches and the Catholic Church in particular, did have the salutary effect of forcing churches to get their houses in order with stricter policies and oversight measures to protect the vulnerable from predatory behaviour. Frankly, as a Christian, I feel ashamed that it took government directives for that to happen. But now that it has, Australian churches can share what was learned through that experience with younger churches on the mission fields.
Let’s not mention that institutional Christianity has acknowledged its problems and done something about it.
Pell cleaning out the seminary staff in the face of outraged opposition was one step.
We’ve heard a lot about Malka Leifer but somehow Islam gets a pass.
SloMo’s Christianity wasn’t an issue. It was hard to think he believed in anything.
It’s something Sassenachs and the Sassenach-adjacent like to laugh aboot.
Bespoke, you don’t know any Catholic clergy do you ? You’re basing this on what you’ve heard from the media.
Fwiw, I am especially sceptical of charismatics; not their profession of faith, mind you, but their expression of it. They are very often profoundly ignorant of history and theology.
The Ukrainian military is not a resistance movement. They weren’t drafting old men and women to fight on the front lines (for obvious reasons) until relatively recently. This isn’t something they’re doing because they think old men and women are just as good at soldiering as fighting age men. The fighting age men cohort has been exhausted; either dead, protected or residing overseas to avoid being used as cannon fodder. However, to continue the war, Zelensky needs to replace the cold bodies with warm ones – well, they are warm for now – and old men and women are all that’s available.
If you don’t see this as a clear sign of advanced decay of the Ukrainian armed forces, I don’t know what to tell you.
Absolutely.
I recall reading, but cannot confirm, that in the First AIF, a grandfather and grandson served in the same battalion. Supposedly, the grandson was killed, the grandfather survived.
I can confirm that the oldest fatal Australian casualty so far identified in that war was a 63-year-old farmer from Victoria, killed while serving in an infantry battalion.
Cheers Dr Faustus.
And how many sheep are required?
Yep Roger. Often a good way to get the numbers.
(Mentally calculates 800-795. Then uses calculator just to be sure.)
(Puts down map and compass and looks out at the battlefield.)
There are FIVE more comments until the page turn!
(Scurries back into officers’ tent hoping it all turns out well.)
A giant hamster breeding program and a trillion treadmills?
No one has 9 GW of dispatchable battery storage. Not for more than about an hour anyway. The batteries would be humungous. Ninety of Elon’s South Australian battery.
It’s a tell that no time frame is added, ie 9 GW for 24 hours, or measured in GWh not GW. Covering a 24 hour period would need about 2160 batteries the size of Elon’s, costing something like half a trillion dollars. For which money you could build about 100 GW of always on nuclear power plants.
Get ready for blackouts.
So long as it doesn’t hurt the dorpers.