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Brush up on your economic facts and figures from Daniel Wild at the IPA today: The news just gets worse…
COVID case fatality rate (CFR) increased by 50% after they rolled out the jabs in Santa Clara County in 2021
LOL newest Please Explain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyBfMWIJcuE
Reward for getting the numbers up.
The elephant in the room.
Since my last comment exploded…
Friend told me the tale of his final training parade where somehow the marching music was played at a different tempo to what they had been practicing.
Instead of a march it was a bunch of spastic orangutans cavorting to their own beat.
‘a dozen and a half unco-ordinated poseurs dressed all in black and unable to walk in the same direction at the same time’.
Didn’t make the chap in charge any happier when 1/2 way through the genitalia removing session afterwards someone was heard to say ” my mum says I was the only one marching in time”.
You’re up late, CL…
The elephant in the room, AKA Gough’s brainfart in an elevator which is only going down, is that abandoning the Enlightenment for Exceptionalism was a mistake which only made multi-generational misery.
Just finished respraying the left side fairing on the SRAD Gixxer and installing the decals.
The trick with decals is to spray the surface with soapy water and then squeegee the water out as you apply them.
Looks like brand new.
Mine’s the same as this one:
https://www.handh.co.uk/auction/lot/178-1998-suzuki-gsxr600w/?lot=57896&sd=1
You can see it has a ton of stickers over a beautiful metallic light blue.
I love this bike.
I’d sleep with it if I could.
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/568368415449918054/
How NOT to fly helicopters, the Outback Wrangler way:
An air crash investigation last week found egg collector Wilson plunged to his death when helicopter pilot Seb Robinson unhooked his vital lifeline as he dangled in mid-air above croc-infested swamps,
Wilson fell almost three storeys and died instantly after he was cut free by Mr Robinson as the pilot fought for control of the chopper as it spiralled to the ground.
Mr Robinson suffered life-changing spinal injuries in the crash, spending months in hospital, and is now a paraplegic.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau found the helicopter had run out of fuel after it was ‘likely’ it had not been refuelled during a stopover minutes before the tragedy.
Investigators had also found traces of cocaine use in the pilot’s blood and that he had partied into the early hours of the morning the day before the accident.
Wright – who operated the Robinson R44 helicopter involved in the crash – will face court on Thursday on charges relating to the investigation after the crash, but not the crash itself.
Daily Mail
He needs to be impeached or whatever they do in the Vatican. He’s just horrible.
The Pope is too ill to travel? I say he is too ill to have written that garbage as well. Wouldn’t it have been more effective and believable if the Pope was filmed saying it which could then be played at the conference?
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Chip Bok.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
– Alfred Hitchcock
He needs to be impeached or whatever they do in the Vatican. He’s just horrible.
yes the world is ruled by evil old c*nts
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, ‘It’s in the script.’ If he says, ‘But what’s my motivation?, ‘ I say, ‘Your salary.’
– Alfred Hitchcock
The difference between trans/homo and various other phobias and Islamophobia?
One is not irrational.
An infidel in Paris.
7 Best Things To Say While Your Wife Is In Labor
Arky, great bike, I always liked the GSX-R. My TA 125 is almost ready to start and get running. Thanks for the advice re the decals, I bought a set for this and managed to ruin them, $40 worth, I’ll try your way when I get some more.
It’s a beautiful little bike, I raced one in the 70’s and looking to go old fart racing next year, I also have a TZ350 but it needs a heap of work to get ready for the track.
https://flic.kr/p/2pjs3gk
Commiserations Zatara.
Thanks for that podcast.
I listened to a bunch of their shorter episodes last night.
I’m hooked, I can’t believe they only have 40k subscribers.
Remember the Alamo!
TEXIT Progress: Secession Question Expected To Appear on 2024 Texas Primary Ballot (3 Dec)
The GOP structure in Texas is similar to the McConnell wing of the party – pretty squishy. So they’ll probably find some reason to keep it off the ballot. But if Biden gets “re-elected” then Texas might get serious about leaving.
houthis escalate in the Red Sea.
The pachyderm in the parlour?
Vic plod detects anti semitism after fifty black clad kooks shouted white supremacist slogans on the streets of Ballarat yesterday.
Good work, constables. From the Yarra to the State Libraree, Melbourne town is Nazi frei, So we’re off to Ballarat, And Allah bless Yasser Arafat.
Regarding the appearance of Jesus (not the actual Incarnation but what as a human, he looked like), it is a well established fact that he looked exactly like most of the members of Supertramp circa 1979.
Anyone who watches the video of the Logical Song will be compelled to agree.
The doctrine of Papal Inflammability.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele.
Nails it on the pali support for the shitshow it is:
HAMAS FANS ARE SALUTING A HITLERIAN HORROR SHOW
TIM BLAIR
4 Dec 2023
Hindsight creates heroes. Millions of them, every day. Looking back, we can never imagine ourselves – our sophisticated, educated, sensitive selves – ever being on the wrong side of history.
We’d have known better, for example, than to intervene many decades ago in Aboriginal communities. While removing children from fraught circumstances was the politically correct thing to do back in the day, we would have seen right through it and denounced those evil child-rescuing churches and welfare groups for their obvious racism.
If we were in the US during the Civil War, we’d obviously have been on the anti-slavery side. In fact, because our historical distance graces us with such extraordinary powers of community resistance, we’d have been on the anti-slavery team even if born and raised in the South.
History is easy to get right if you weren’t in it. It was a little more difficult for the people who lived through those times and made decisions without hindsight’s clarity.
Those who got things wrong end up in history’s calamity file, alongside the likes of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, who famously announced following his 1938 meeting with Adolf Hitler: “A British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.” Then followed the deadliest conflict in history. Great call, Neville.
Two years before Chamberlain’s disastrous proclamation, a lone German showed the way. US author Isabel Wilkerson beautifully described his solitary defiance, captured in a celebrated 1936 photo, in her recent book Caste: “He is surrounded by fellow citizens caught under the spell of the Nazis. He keeps his arms folded to his chest, as the stiff palms of the others hover just inches from him. “He alone is refusing to salute. He is the one man standing against the tide. Looking back from our vantage point, he is the only person in the entire scene who is on the right side of history. “Everyone around him is tragically, fatefully, categorically wrong. “In that moment, only he could see it. His name is believed to have been August Landmesser. “At the time, he could not have known the murderous path the hysteria around him would lead to. But he had already seen enough to reject it.”
Some background: one year prior, Landmesser had proposed to his Jewish girlfriend, Irma Eckler. Their marriage was cruelly disallowed by Nazi authorities. On seeing his image, most of us will reflexively identify with Landmesser. How could we not? He’s visibly opposing one of history’s most evil regimes. He shuns Hitler.
But consider how many throughout the allegedly civilised and enlightened West now identify more closely with those surrounding Landmesser. Consider how many either quietly condone or loudly support the murder of Jews by Nazi-oriented Hamas lunatics.
Examples of enthusiastic support are sickeningly numerous and frequent. Relatives of Israelis currently held hostage by Hamas were last week relocated to a police station after pro-Hamas activists gathered to chant and jeer inside the relatives’ Melbourne hotel. Just imagine that: your child or parent or sister is held captive by rapists and murderers, so protesters make you their target. We know what side these people are on, and it isn’t the side of August Landmesser.
As US commentator Stephen Miller observes every time new evidence of Hamas’s bestial atrocities emerges, if protesters will march for this, “they will march for anything”.
They certainly will. Since October 7, pro-Palestinian groups united behind the hateful slogan of “By any means necessary” have demonstrated in favour of sexual torture, infant beheadings and family incinerations.
They’ve been given a historical opportunity to pick the right side and they’ve gone with the Nazis instead. And they don’t have the excuse of ignorance. We’ve all seen terrifying October 7 footage, much of it shot by Hamas terrorists themselves. But when pro-Palestinian types see that footage, they don’t recoil. Rather, they metaphorically salute.
And when they hear in detail what happened at that music festival on October 7, it still doesn’t incline them to recalibrate their Hamas encouragement. “It was all an apocalypse of bodies,” a first responder’s chilling account revealed last week. “Girls without clothes, slaughtered people, decapitated. There were girls there who just broke their pelvis because they were raped. They were in terrible positions.”
History is always easy in hindsight. But it isn’t difficult to be on the right side in 2023. Just reject the murder of Jews. It’s worked before.
Ps: Hope the image linky works.
If not, I will be a ‘bit peeved.’
I am sure a few groaned at that joke. But it seemed appropriate for the Puntiff.
Ffs…pic linky didn’t work.
The ‘Rat Nazis featuring on this morning’s picture wireless shows, meandering down Sturt Street again.
Funny stuff. Show your faces, lads, go on now. At least have the public courage of your convictions.
I doubt they took into account larger matters on the world stage at present, nor realised they resemble Hamas members without the green headbands.
You can just hear the debrief conversation:
‘D’ya think we got much public support, Tristyn?’
‘Not sure, Jaxon. It was windy, though – almost lost my black terry towelling hat at one point. Gotta go – I have an early start at the Blended Nugget Coffee Emporium in the morning.’
To be certain, the return of all the hostages will not end the war in Gaza, the Israelis are quite clear it must be that and the complete destruction of hamasisis.
The name by the way is an acronym ‘HMS’ strung together with two as to make some Arabic word like strength or courage.
I also like Ham@rse.
Although, on second thoughts, that’s an insult to pigs.
Ah, yes. They also went through that ‘monastic’ stage.
There was The Theological Song. Hide in Your Cell. Brother Sun, Sister Moonshine. Lauds, is it time?
Good stuff.
“History is easy if you weren’t in it” ( Tim Blair).
Excellent, and very quotable.
New Zealand Arrests Their Version of Snowden who Exposed Deaths by Vaccine
“The number one reason I refused to get vaccinated was the fact that once the government got involved, there would NEVER be (1) any recourse but (2) no accountability. I have worked with governments for over 40 years. NO government will EVER admit a mistake. Thus, once the government is involved, BEWARE!
Every politician who accepted ANY money from a Pharmaceutical company, directly or indirectly, should be removed from office. The head of Pfizer should be criminally charged and dragged in front of the people in chains like a dog.
New Zealand has shown it is no different from any ruthless governments throughout history. As Thrasymachus observed more than 2000 years ago, there is NEVER any justice or rule of law; it is only the self-interest of the government. Judges all the way down are tearing the very fabric of civilization apart at the seams. They will have no power when they lose the confidence of most people. Yet these fools rule in favor of the government and are blind to history, for they have crossed that fine line between tyranny and liberty.
New Zealand is prosecuting a healthcare worker for revealing the truth that nearly 20% of those vaccinated are dying or are dead. I think that is NOT a valid number. It seems way too high for me. This is the problem when we can no longer trust governments. What is real and what is not? All I can say is that God help us through these ruthless dark times when governments have lost all sight of why they even exist. Remember one thing. If you lie to the government, you go to prison for five years. If the government lies to the people, anyone exposing that goes to jail for treason for 20 years or life.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/new-zealand-arrests-their-version-of-snowdon-who-exposed-deaths-by-vaccine/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
No she doesn’t but she didn’t come home because hamas chose not to release her not because she wasn’t a mother or a grandmother.
Some speculation on twitter that Inbar Haiman was the barefooted woman being marched away by apparent civilians from an Israeli strike but the story hasn’t been picked up by the msm
She doesn’t deserve to wait for the next deal, just because she’s not somebody’s mother or grandmother,” writes Or Neko Maymon on Facebook in Hebrew.
Given that most senior Palestinian males are grossly overweight, perhaps “The fat pigs of Hamarse”? I’m sure that the pigs won’t give a pig’s arse about the connection.
The implication from the BBC is that somehow hostages still remaining in the clutches of hamasisis is Israel’s fault.
As for Israel not publishing lists to make the BBC’s job easier.
The nerve.
Reality is, if Israel were to publish a list, it would be based on missing persons because Hamas hasn’t published a list of the war crimes it committed and as we know whenever Israel get a detail wrong they get pilloried.
Some of the crap I’ve seen about Thomas Hand…
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Beertruk
Dec 4, 2023 7:31 AM
Thanks Beertruk,
This is what troubles me, as Tim said, after seeing those pictures, how can anyone support Hamas, those murdering subhumans?
I am losing faith in my fellow men.
By that rationale, Ivan Milat also ‘worked with governments’. Julian Knight and Paul Denyer are currently ‘working with governments’, as is Mr Dawson, the footy-playing, wife-killing schoolgirl-rooting chap.
The Israeli priority was children with the proviso they were not to be separated from their mothers, for obvious reasons, hamas played games, separating children from their mothers, keeping back the Bedouin children to the last round and of course hanging on their prized possessions, the Bibas family (I hope).
More Marty gas released.
Tim Blair gets it. But then it isn’t hard, there really is a right side and a wrong side.
They’ve been given a historical opportunity to pick the right side and they’ve gone with the Nazis instead.
Correct….and that includes that commentator here, he’s chosen his side, the Nazi side, the side that rapes, butchers, murders, decapitates and kidnaps Jews. But don’t forget the irony in all of this, this same person has come here for years and accused and smeared those of us who refuse to kowtow to his progressive woke ideology of either being Nazis, or supporting Nazis…but at least we now know who the real Nazi supporter is.
I have been haunted by the vision of Naama’s bloodied pants, a young Jewish woman gang raped vaginally and anally by NAZIS.
Should read
Netanyahu: Palestinian Authority can’t return to Gaza, this isn’t Oslo II
EXCLUSIVE: Hard-left activists Code Pink’s history of Israel-bashing revealed: Anti-war feminist group that’s under congressional scrutiny over ties to Chinese Communist Party has a record of links to Iran, Hamas and ‘antisemitism’
U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees Gets Dragged, Community Noted Over Alleged Hamass Ties
Israeli Minister: Michelle Obama Has Refused to Condemn October 7 Attack on Israeli Women; ‘Silence’
Vic police cranky
Hamas needs to revise its death toll.
IDF says it has carried out 10,000 airstrikes in Gaza since start of ground operation
This and the other case could really upend the US economic system in a huge way in 24.
The other case is the one dealing with the administrative state.
The can of worms… LOL. More like a tin of caviar.
Hamas gang raped and beheaded women at rave massacre, fresh testimony reveals
Boris Johnson set to issue ‘unreserved apology’ for COVID mistakes
He’ll apparently say that while some mistakes were made they got the lockdowns right. On this basis, the whole thing is nothing but a publicity exercise and pure hypocrisy, based on their own behaviour during lockdowns. Liar to the end.
She’s threatening people who disagree with her.
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Kamala Harris tells world leaders they “must do more” to fight against those who “deny climate science.”
She’s at COP28 filling in for Biden (he was too tired).
Meme
Is it any different here?
Dan Bongino
@dbongino
Everything liberals do is designed to INTENTIONALLY destroy the country and your quality of life. Supporting this nihilistic agenda means you’re either ignorant or malicious, maybe both.
Open borders, police state spying and targeting, tyrannical censorship, inflation, big government spending, endless debt, coddling criminals, voter fraud, failing public education, a castrated military, rationed, garbage government healthcare, theft via taxation, and more, are all STAPLES of the liberal plan for destruction. And it’s all intentional.
I’m finding sympathy for the plight of Vic police very hard to develop.
Can’t imagine why.
Not a lot of detail here.
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
JUST IN – American warship and multiple commercial vessels have come under attack in the Red Sea — Pentagon
Ooh embarrassment! Quick someone ask Charlie about what his Dubai monarchical colleague just said.
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels (Grauniad, 3 Dec, via Paul Homewood)
He’s correct, and the “scientists” are no such thing. They are priests of a kooky religion, nothing more.
The Gateway Pundit
@gatewaypundit
Former U.S. Olympic swimmer Klete Keller has been sentenced to six months of home detention and 36 months of probation for being at the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 protest.
Monckton is not happy with Charlie.
Lord Christopher Monckton: ‘Cancel the King: Charles ‘disgraced himself, the monarchy & the UK with his half-witted’ speech to UN climate summit – ‘It is time to sweep the monarchy away’ (3 Dec)
He has a persuasive point, especially with Willy and Hairy being green as grass also, and that’s even before considering Sparkles.
Given his age and that he seems to be experiencing serial hospitalisations, I suspect he’s not long for this world.
NZ stats reveal lethal Covid batches: Andrew Bridgen
The bribes are a mere pittance and not indexed for inflation.
I doubt the English have the energy [sic] to stage a revolution, even via the ballot box.
In any case, as reported yesterday, the UK is going nuclear, probably via modular reactors. Charles will be left like a shag on a rock.
The Censorship Files: Fighting back against the ‘International Censorship Industrial Complex’
Beertruk
Dec 4, 2023 7:31 AM
Tim Blair in today’s Tele.
Nails it on the pali support for the shitshow it is:
HAMAS FANS ARE SALUTING A HITLERIAN HORROR SHOW
TIM BLAIR
4 Dec 2023
Hindsight creates heroes. Millions of them, every day. Looking back, we can never imagine ourselves – our sophisticated, educated, sensitive selves – ever being on the wrong side of history.
And when they hear in detail what happened at that music festival on October 7, it still doesn’t incline them to recalibrate their Hamas encouragement. “It was all an apocalypse of bodies,” a first responder’s chilling account revealed last week. “Girls without clothes, slaughtered people, decapitated. There were girls there who just broke their pelvis because they were raped. They were in terrible positions.”
History is always easy in hindsight. But it isn’t difficult to be on the right side in 2023. Just reject the murder of Jews. It’s worked before.
Ps: Hope the image linky works.
If not, I will be a ‘bit peeved.’
Beertruk,
were these the image?
Beertruk – Oops meant this Image
BREAKING NEWS: Matt Taibbi Issues Dire Warning About Threats To Free Speech In U.S.
Australian Labor PM AlsoSleezy & Labor Foreign Minister gave Palestinan Gazan Hamas Barbarians 860 Visas
‘Galling’: Labor slammed over decision to grant 860 temporary visas to Palestinians
Former Labor treasurer Michael Costa has slammed Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong after she justified the government’s decision to issue visas to more than 800 Palestinians by saying they had issued 1793 visas to Israeli citizens.
“The way this has been handled is appalling, they haven’t come out and explained the reasons for it,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“The other thing I found really galling was to hear the foreign minister’s claim there was some sort of equivalence by allowing Israelis to come into Australia.
“That’s an absurd position to take, I mean Israel is a liberal democracy, and clearly those sorts of people wouldn’t be having these sorts of views some of the people that are likely to come out of Gaza.
“So I think that was a pathetic attempt to justify her position.”
As Michael Smith News Points Out
Not a group we should invite here – based on Palestinian Opinion Poll on October 7th 2023
And Labor Minister Penny Wong never outlined how many of the Isreali Visas were for Arab Israelis
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Bookmark this Stephen:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTrbrxmjgqQ
While I was in Italy in June Bignose Bergoglio had abdominal surgery for recurring hernia problems. Such a pity Dottore Alfieri didn’t find and fix the communism virus while they had the chance.
Labour will have a republic referendum and given Charlie has now pissed off the Right as well as the Left it won’t go well for him. He’ll be remembered as the dumbest and most useless monarch in British history, having managed to lose his throne because he was fooled by charlatans into believing a myth.
Cop28 should prompt a net zero rethink
I was one of the ‘Infamous Five’ who voted against the Climate Change Act. This jamboree helps explain why
PETER LILLEY
There is no doubt that divine providence has a sense of humour. As our King and Prime Minister joined tens of thousands of eco-warriors at Cop28, in Dubai, to decry (and contribute to) the threat of carbon emissions warming the planet, Alpine ski slopes were covered in pre-seasonal snow and Britain has had its earliest snowfall in 15 years.
It reminded me of the night, 15 years ago, when Parliament passed the Climate Change Act amid terrifying predictions of catastrophic heatwaves.
Then, too, providence teased us as, outside Parliament, snow fell in London in October for the first time in 74 years.
I was one of the “Infamous Five” who voted against that Act.
Not because I doubted the science – I studied physics at Cambridge and know the basic science of global warming is rock solid. An exceptional cold-weather event no more disproves global warming than fires in Greece prove it is getting worse. Incidentally, Nasa satellites show that the area burnt annually by forest fires has declined by 25 per cent since they started collecting data.
But I had read the Impact Assessment – the cost-benefit analysis – which governments must produce for any Bill. Officials said I was the only MP to ask for a copy. It showed that the potential cost was twice the maximum benefit.
Unless you disputed the accuracy of the Impact Assessment (which no one did), no rational person could vote for the Act.
But, then and since, our political class has put reason aside, preferring to use this issue for virtue signalling. Why bother about costs which in 2008 were far in the future?
Now, those costs are imminent, as people face replacing oil and gas boilers with more expensive heat pumps, and diesel and petrol cars with more expensive electric cars.
This prompted Rishi Sunak, very sensibly, to promise a more pragmatic and proportional route to net zero.
Of course, if it were true that any delay would risk the extinction of humanity – as implied by the very name Extinction Rebellion, and claims by our leaders that climate change is “an existential threat”– no cost would be too great to avoid such a fate.
So, I asked ministers if they know of any peer-reviewed study accepted by the IPCC (the UN body established to assess the science of global warming) that forecasts the extinction of humanity if the world takes no action to phase out fossil fuels.
The answer was clear: there are none.
Nor is there a serious threat of humankind being reduced to poverty, hunger and wretchedness if we don’t reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
The central conclusion of Lord Stern’s official review of the economics of climate change was that if the world does nothing – not if we do not do enough, but if we do nothing – it would be equivalent to making us all 5 per cent poorer than we would otherwise be, now and forever.
But a 5 per cent loss does not remotely amount to impoverishment of the human race, just setting us back by two or three years’ growth.
More recently, Prof Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in 2018 for assessing the costs and benefits of action on climate change, concluded that the optimum target for the world to aim for is not 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but nearer to 3C, which means there may be scope to delay our net zero target beyond 2050.
If a Nobel Prize is not enough and you want the imprimatur of the IPCC, these are the opening words of its chapter on the impact of climate change on the economy: “For most economic sectors, the impact of climate change will be small relative to the impacts of other drivers.
Changes in population, age, income, technology, relative prices, lifestyle, regulation, governance, and many other aspects of socio-economic development will have an impact on the supply and demand of economic goods and services that is large relative to the impact of climate change.”
As a Conservative, I want to prevent avoidable change – even if it is not catastrophic – so long as this can be done at reasonable cost.
But we should weigh the cost of actions to reduce emissions against the cost of inaction. And we should harness the power of the market to develop lower-cost alternatives to fossil fuels for heating, transport and so on before forcing people to adopt new technologies whose cost has not yet come down to those based on conventional fuels.
I fear, hoewver, that will not be the approach of this conference.
Climate elites should take easyJet flights like the rest of us, or be quiet
Anyone who bleats on about the evils of flying should be prevented from boarding their private jets
ZOE STRIMPEL
The Cop circus, complete with eco virtue-signalling elites jetting to a faraway land to insist everyone “acts now” to stop driving and flying, has come round again. World leaders and elder statesmen flew to Dubai this week for Cop28 (emitting merrily as they went), and in response the Green Party launched yet another demand for private jets to be banned from taking off and landing in Britain.
They insist private jets are the ultimate symbol of “climate inequality”, a claim followed up by the seemingly dubious, out-of-context number crunching favoured by the green bunch. “The richest 1 per cent of the population produce as much planet warming pollution each year as five billion people making up the poorest two-thirds of the global population,” they insist.
As usual, this is more “eat the rich” thinking than anything remotely helpful. The world is not fast on its journey to hell in a hand-basket because of private jets flying in and out of the UK.
But then, the Greens love to ban things, blame the West for everything, and cry catastrophe, much more than they like to create, invent or solve things.
That said, the idea of banning some private jets is appealing.
Specifically, those in use by the climate elite: the Leonardo DiCaprios, Barack Obamas, Harry and Meghans and Silicon Valley executives of the world.
In fact, anyone who bleats on about the evils of flying – low-cost flights possibly being the most democratic invention of all time – should be prevented from boarding their private jets.
When it comes to their international lifestyles, only two options can satisfy after years of incessant hypocrisy: they can take easyJet like the rest of us, or they can stop preaching.
JC at 8:06.
So it looks like Marty Armstrong is still a crook then?
It’s a crowded field but I think Chas will get there by a nose.
Worse…before a visa was issued they’d already promised family members who’d accompanied Gazan Australian passport holders to the southern border would be flown to Australia.
That decision was clearly reported at the time; the visa announcement followed some considerable number of days later.
Dr Clare Craig on the scientific response to the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and the vaccine
And what exactly makes the UN secretary general a climate expert and the arbiter of the “science”?
Tim Blair doing his bit. He shames many many “journalists”.
My thoughts Roger, Pope Francis 86, is missing half a lung already, has a lung infection/inflammation and people are wondering why he wrote a letter rather than made a video.
What is this Elders group rubbish? Let’s call them what they are, megalomaniacs. The “scientists” don’t rate anything more dignified than witch doctors.
The AFR View
A permanent ceasefire would be just another temporary truce
Supporters of a genuine peace process should hope Israel can finish the job of protecting itself from Hamas as quickly as possible.
The end of the temporary truce in Gaza following the breakdown of negotiations between Israel and Hamas over the further release of hostages is a tragedy for the loved ones of the more than 100 Israelis still held captive.
The resumption of Israel’s air strikes and artillery bombardment is also tragic for the people of Gaza as the death toll that has already surpassed 15,000 men, women and children will start to rise again.
That will intensify the debate in Western political and media circles about whether Israel’s response to Hamas’s barbarous October 7 attack, which murdered at least 1200 Israelis, is proportionate.
In Australia, that debate began on October 8 when Foreign Minister Penny Wong warned Israel to show “restraint”, even before it had fired a single shot in justified anger at the greatest loss of Jewish life in a single day since the end of the Holocaust in 1945.
Almost two months after the war began, Israel’s military strategy of ending Hamas’s rule in Gaza is now coming under increased international pressure as sympathy for the plight of ordinary Gazans sways global attitudes and increases domestic political opposition to the war in Gaza.
That is underlined by the seeming wavering support of Israel’s closest ally.
US Vice President Kamala Harris has, on the one hand, backed Israel’s right of self-defence while on the other declaring that “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed”.
Meanwhile, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned that Israel not only has a “moral responsibility” to avoid civilian casualties but also a strategic reason to avoid radicalising the civilian population and driving them into the arms of Hamas.
What Israel’s plan is for Gaza after rooting out Hamas remains worryingly unknown, given the risks an Israeli reoccupation could get bogged down in the same kind of breeding ground for terrorism that led to the insurgency in Iraq in the aftermath of the US invasion in 2003.
Yet as was the case with liberating Germany from Nazi rule in 1945, the military reality appears to be that there is no way Israel can achieve its war aim of destroying Hamas without inflicting collateral damage on one of the world’s most densely populated strips of land.
Unlike its terrorist foe, the democratic state of Israel does not deliberately target civilians; it warns ordinary Palestinians to move out of the line of fire.
The moral responsibility for the loss of innocent Palestinian lives lies with the Hamas leaders responsible for the horrifying incursion into southern Israel and for locating its tunnels and command network under civilian infrastructure.
Claims by street marchers and fellow travellers in the global “human rights” industry that the Israeli government – which is seeking to destroy the leadership of the Iranian-backed Islamist terrorist organisation whose charter is to wipe Israel off the map – is perpetrating genocide in Gaza is slanderous sloganising and worse.
Unlike its terrorist foe, the democratic state of Israel does not deliberately target civilians; it warns ordinary Palestinians to move out of the line of fire.
And yet the reality is every tragic civilian death caused by an Israeli bomb or shell is becoming a propaganda victory for Hamas. Hence, as hostilities resume in Gaza, Israel confronts an increasingly diabolical choice.
Fresh TV images of dead and wounded Palestinians amid the rubble of exploded buildings will risk fuelling the growing international calls for a “permanent ceasefire”.
However, that cry is a misnomer when it involves no credible way of bringing Hamas to justice or ending its rule in Gaza.
Would a permanent ceasefire therefore just be another temporary truce when no one seriously expects Hamas to alter its charter and permanently lay down its rocket launchers used to kill, maim and terrorise Israeli civilians?
After the bloodletting of October 7 sparked the fresh chapter in the cycle of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – and despite the risk that resuming military operations could risk Israel’s security by sparking a wider conflict in the Middle East – any diminished hopes for a longed-for two-state solution now must surely rest, at a minimum, on a fresh political start in Gaza.
All true supporters of a genuine peace process – one that will deliver Palestinian statehood in Gaza and the West Bank and recognise the right of the Jewish homeland to exist – should hope that Israel can finish the job of protecting itself from Hamas as quickly as possible.
At the same time, global opinion is united in calling on the Israeli government to continue doing everything possible to minimise the loss of innocent life in Gaza.
Troughers who don’t know when to retire from public life gracefully.
At the rate he’s going, Marty’s going to spend a few more years in a cell shared with a few of his paid accolades. Dragnet may have to go defense counsel. 🙂
Nine lefty weasels in the NSW Liberal Party who think ‘the game’ is all about demographics … the age of voters.
In truth, politics is about psychographics … what people think.
But these smug dickheads know better…
‘Adapt or die’: The Millennial Liberals pushing to ditch Boomers for younger voters
smh.com.au
For every one Boomer you lose, you could pick up 10 aspirational, young professionals that want to enter the housing market,’’ he said.
‘‘We can win those voters, but you’ve got to be willing to lose a handful of voters at the Boomer end to pick up a whole lot more voters at the Millennial end.’’
The clueless quote above comes from a Chris Rath MLC who is a treacherous-type of Liberal left Faction game player.
He’s a member of the NSW Upper House after a career as a political arse-licker.
Never had a real job outside of lobbying and politics.
He’s the kind who hates the kind of people who actually vote for the Liberals and their values.
He’s another Matt Kean / Andrew Bragg / Michael Photios drone.
They know how to fix the Liberal Party … yeah, fix it real good by burying it.
The phrase “f*ck wit” comes to mind.
I really must object to people using dogs as a derogation – dogs are honourable creatures — rabid dogs however are a different thing perhaps the adjective ‘rabid’ should always precede the word dog — a better animal to denote something vile and derogatory is the hyena – because that’s what these bastards are.
Chook fights turtle.
Turtle threatens to sink $14bn hydro hopes (Paywallian)
Fourteen billion for a project which doesn’t make any electricity seems quite pricey, even before the inevitable budget blowouts. Snowy 2.0 is reckoned now to be 10 times over budget by the time it is complete, so you can believe the Chook’s #metoo version could easily be likewise. I wonder how many nuke plants all that wasted dosh could build?
The way things are going in UK he may yet end up the same way as Charles I once the Palestinian sympathisers reach majority status.
Madness. We are crazy here, because we do not support the Warmininstas.
pigs aren’t picky.
I saw ten Hamas terrorists beat and gang-rape an Israeli woman before shooting her dead on October 7 – her face continues to haunt me
Yoni Saadon, 39, survived the peace festival by hiding under dead bodies
Not likely, maybe 1.2:1 at most but possibly less than 1:0.5.
I’m not sure what policy would shaft boomers that would also benefit the young.
How about “should be stuffed into a cage, like a cat to be spayed”?
That would buy 14 of Westinghouse’s modular nuclear reactors.
Modern science.
The previous odd numbered British kings, named Charles, were all beheaded.
This does not bode well for the current king.
I wouldn’t count on that.
There’s a lot of ‘intersectionality’ between Green Nazis and pro-Palestinian Nazis.
This is Viktoristan! We spend money on freeways that don’t get built, desal that is not needed, pipelines that are largely unused, windmills that don’t work.
Get with the program!
Cassie and others, take heart that there are many of us who very strongly support Israel and say so at every opportunity.
Another excellent article by Chris Mitchell.
The Paywallian reports:
Also in the Oz.
No, it’s a crock of shite.
35 years of fact and evidence free anti-scientific horse manure.
Zero evidence.
Wind turbines in Queensland and NSW are killing rare Aussie wildlife – and wind farm operators are being trained to ‘kill’ koalas ‘humanely’ – as Labor commits to zero emissions by 2050
. Many birds die from the wind turbines
. Others are built in the middle of koala habitat
Boom boom!
It’s been a crazy couple of days.
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Dutchsinse:
12/03/2023 — New Large M7.0 Earthquake and 50,000ft Volcanic Eruption – Pacific Unrest Spreading
Delivery drivers rushed to hospital after e-bike battery explosion sparks Sydney fire
Three food delivery riders were rushed to hospital after an e-bike battery exploded in their apartment building in Sydney’s Inner West.
Fire fighters were called to Annandale around midday as more than 100 residents were forced to evacuate the unit complex on Booth Street.
One man was seen being taken out on a stretcher.
He and his two roommates had finished a shift around 3am and had left their bikes downstairs as the batteries charged.
Resident Michael Waples said he heard “a loud thud”.
“At first I thought someone was moving furniture, then I heard a scream and commotion,” he said.
“Two dudes emerged from the flat and there was smoke. They were saying ‘there’s a fire there’s a fire’.”
Other neighbours found an injured international student in the hallway and helped him downstairs.
He was treated by paramedics before being taken to Royal North Shore hospital in a serious condition with burns to 40 percent of his body.
His roommates were sent to Concord Hospital with minor burns.
Fireys managed to contain the blaze before it spread to other units in the complex.
Inspector Michael Woodward from Fire and Rescue NSW said there was a lot of damage to the unit.
“There wasn’t much in there, it’s a small one bedroom unit and it’s concrete walls and floors,” he said.
PS it was notable on the 9 News Footage last night of this event, that they were hosing down one of the Fireman who had been exposed to to the Smoke
Rabz Johnson is right!
Such a pity Dottore Alfieri didn’t find and fix the communism virus while they had the chance.
And his genuflecting gene too.
The old bugger had no problems with the Argy junta taking problematic sorts on one-way helicopter flights over the Atlantic. Never uttered a peep.
OldOzzie
Dec 4, 2023 8:54 AM
Thats it OldOzzie.
I tried to link it to the text under the image in Tim Blair’s piece.
The text is:
I did try to find the same size image.
However, looking at the images you found, I was looking for something like this above…if it works.
German Solar Bike Path Produced Green Power – For $1100 A Kilowatt-Hour!
By P Gosselin on 3. December 2023
We introduce the green boondoggle debacle of Erfstadt, Germany.
In 2018, with pomp and fanfare, the German town of Erfstadt opened a 90-meter test stretch solar bike path:
Among those there for the grand opening was the German Minister of Environment, Svenja Schulze of the SPD socialist party. Little did the dignitaries in attendance know, the rainy weather would be an omen for what the project would deliver.
The Ministry of Environment funded the pilot project to the tune of 150,000 euros (ca. $165,000).
But, as the video above shows, the 90 meters of solar power generating surface failed to produce any of the expected 12,000 kilowatt-hours of annual output.
Almost immediately the system started melting, was damaged and was unable to produce any power at all.
After 3 months of operation, the system had managed to produce only 95 kilowatt-hours. “Relatively normal,” claimed the builder.
“Setting an example for climate protection”
“That doesn’t matter,” said Erfstadt mayor Volker Erner of the CDU conservative party. “We’re setting an important example for climate protection.”
Two years later, in 2020, the plug was pulled and the project abandoned. What’s left is a path covered with tarps to keep the mess from melting and rotting away – and is closed off.
Now the involved parties are doing what Germans do best: spending years in court to figure out who’s to blame.
1000 euros a kilowatt-hour
In total, as the video shows, the green energy pioneering project ended up producing just 148 kilowatt-hours of power, which works out to be over 1000 euros a kilowatt-hour. That means it would cost you 1000 euros to leave a 100-watt light bulb on overnight!
Tinta,
I agree absolutely about not using Dog as a derogatory term. However, I am completely on board with using the term “dog shit”.
Australian guidelines, as set forth by EV Firesafe, are that e-scooters, e-skateboards and hover boards should not be left to charge overnight or otherwise left on a charger once completely charged and only the manufacturer’s charger should be used. And even then, the risk of fire remains if the battery is of poor quality, as many coming out of China are. For that reason, the vehicles should be charged outdoors.
The increasing number of such fires suggests many users are ignorant of or not complying with these guidelines.
. That will never happen because Chris is relying on these people being ‘journos’ when in fact they’re activists — Ask Frank Elly
Some talk here yesterday of former Test bowler Mitchell Johnson delivering a spray to the midget cheating houso ranga and a side-swipe to George Bailey, chairman of selectors.
Bailey, incidentally was one of the biggest duds to play the game and was something of a Mike Brearley all-rounder … he was captain and a fielder.
Bailey has labelled Johnson’s spray an “unhinged rant” and hinted that he might be mentally unwell.
Johnson’s criticism is legitimate. Bailey recused himself when the knives were out for Tim Paine, because Paine was a mate. Johnson correctly put the acid on Bailey for allowing the midget cheating houso ranga to announce his own retirement date without any comeback. Selectors are meant to be tough and make tough decisions.
A good selector would have immediately come back with, “Well, David has expressed an aspiration to play his final test in Sydney, but David doesn’t pick the team”, then give him a private clip behind the ear and tell him to shut up.
This is the underlying reason Warner is detested. If he had kept his head down, recognised he was damaged goods and lucky not to have copped a life ban, the public might have forgiven him.
But when he a Candice started sooking that he “had never been captain of nuffink” and announcing his retirement date eighteen months out when he had made one score in twelve months, they rightfully turned on him.
Perpetual youths who refuse to accept the realities of the world but believe they can fundamentally change them, which inevitably results in worsening the conditions under which the subjects of their philanthropy have to live.
OK Pogria — using the term “dog shit”. I’m persuaded. Thank you – good call given that the head loppers are terrified of dogs and pigs
The ad hom being the response of a man who has no actual argument to put up.
Sven the backpacker will have trouble collecting for Friends of VicPlod.
Three guys living in a small one bedroom apartment and doing food delivery until 3am means they are fairly recent arrivals you’d have to think. Doubt they’d much care about the fine details of such technology, nor particular attention to licence raj edicts, and they’d have the cheapest gear they could get.
Multiply that how many times over across the nation, Bruce?
And it’s not just their own lives they’re risking.
Dirty Harry.
A basic guide to manliness.
I like the girl in the lift. Looks natural and dressed for a workday. Not the glamour pusses they give the extra parts to these days. Realism always wins.
Yes leading lawyer put those 500 against the laundry list of about 1000, law clerks, conveyancers, women’s studies majors and sundry ‘law’ graduates of former TAFE colleges and former dairy farms
Correction: The increasing number of such fires suggests many users are ignorant.
Candices should be not seen and not heard as a rule.
Not because I doubted the science – I studied physics at Cambridge and know the basic science of global warming is rock solid.
That rock is clay and there is nothing solid about global boiling theory. I can disprove it a dozen ways. In fact AGW is complete and utter bullshit. The only thing missing from the latest iteration of humans controlling the climate is human sacrifices.
The new Australian dream.
Massive breakout in gold.
Life is cheaper from where they likely come from.
Be interesting to know what sorts of visas they have.
Pray for me and good drill results 0:) at Mallina.
I note young Greenwood/Weaving of the STC is the scion of a British colonial family.
Is he attempting to atone for the perceived sins of his ancestors?
Or just plain stupid to the point of being morally challenged?
Michael Costa is correct, and it is still not clear whether the “Israelis” receiving visas are Jews or Arabs.
. I’d say this one
cop this, young harry!
Given they’ve no skills or qualifications to suit them for other employ it would seem likely they’d be student visas they’d be hoping to convert into permanent residency at some stage.
Global warming chemistry almost entirely counteracts global warming physics. In particular the water cycle.
The climatistas don’t understand chemistry since we know that the ensemble climate models are terrible at modelling clouds. Of course their problem is if they ever fixed that they would immediately show that global warming isn’t a problem, and their budgets would be cut to net zero.
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Father, bless our assay.
Roger at 10:48 – Bingo. The University as an export sector.
The Failure of Western Feminism When It’s Most Needed
On Nov. 25, the United Nations initiated its annual Sixteen Days of Global Activism Against Gender-Based Violence against women and girls. This will continue until Dec. 10, which is Human Rights Day.
My people are the feminists at the UN. They also head NGOs, occupy chairs at foundations, human rights organizations, national women’s organizations, and Women’s Studies/Gender Studies departments, and are prominent Talking Heads in the media.
For eight whole weeks, they have remained silent about the genocidal rapes of Israeli women on Oct. 7.
Some of these women once waged brave and determined battles against rape, incest, and domestic violence; supported the #MeToo Movement; and at least issued statements condemning the rapes of women in Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan, and the Yazidi women who were kidnapped by ISIS.
They also supported the idea that rape is a war crime, at least in a battle zone.
However, these once visionary feminists have not only betrayed Israeli women – they have also betrayed women of color who live under Sharia law.
Most have remained relatively silent about the normalized mistreatment of Muslim women in Muslim countries and communities.
They have not organized campaigns to end forced face veiling, polygamy, child marriage, routine girl- and woman-battering, or honor killing (femicide), either in foreign countries or in the West.
Why? Even though the victims of such injustices are primarily women of color,
Western feminists have been very cautious about accusing men of color, especially men whose countries may once have been colonized, of crimes.
They fear doing so might be seen as “racist.” Or “Islamophobic.”
Worse, some feminists in the West have actually glorified the forced wearing of the Islamic veil as a form of anti-colonial resistance.
During the Women’s March in Washington, some women fashioned hijab out of American flags.
Many anti-Israel rallies and marches feature both women and men, leftists and Muslims, sporting Palestinian keffiyehs as a way to signal their support – for the oppression of women.
They do so even as the brave girls and women in Afghanistan and Iran are risking death for the right not to be forced by the state, the mullahs, or their families to wear hijab, niqab, or burqas.
These women and their male allies have led demonstrations for which they have been beaten, arrested, raped, and murdered.
I have conducted and published four academic studies about honor killing.
Most academic feminists in the West, including our icons, have never acknowledged this work about femicide.
I delivered some of my initial findings at a G8 conference in Rome in 2008 and at the New York Supreme Court in 2010.
This work also qualified me as an expert witness in cases in which women in flight from the threat of honor killings are applying for political asylum in America.
My strongest supporters, and those who actually read, cite, and use this work are, of course, women and men of color who live in the Arab Middle East and in central Asia (Pakistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, India, etc.).
I was once held captive in Kabul long ago.
I’d gone there willingly but unwisely as a bride, and I found myself trapped in the 10th century without a passport back to the future.
Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D., is an emerita professor of psychology at City University of New York. She is a bestselling author, legendary feminist leader, and retired psychotherapist. She has lectured and organized political, legal, religious, and human rights campaigns in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, Central Asia, and the Far East.
Or should that be mining sector? Mining your standard of living?
An Irish pollie using Irish-speak for emphasis! .. LOL!
https://twitter.com/Raymond82310289/status/1731233200624578619
And it was done in a disgusting concern trolling way.
Of course, Johnson has pulled off a brilliant ploy here.
He has shackled Bailey to the cheat. If the cheat fails and isn’t dropped, Bailey will be immediately under well deserved scrutiny.
The Dublin riots and BLM – a Comparison of Reactions
by Gavin O’Reilly
Last Thursday afternoon, news would spread throughout Ireland of a horrific knife attack on three young schoolchildren and their teacher outside a Gaelscoil (Irish-language school) in Dublin city centre. At the time of writing, the youngest of the victims, a five year old girl, remains gravely ill in hospital.
With it soon emerging that the suspect was an immigrant who had previously been served a deportation order in 2003, tensions that had been building across the country over the past year in response to the immigration policy of Leinster House, which has seen large amounts of male migrants placed into wildly unsuitable locations such as an inner city office block and a children’s school, would come to a head.
Calls for a protest in Dublin later that night would rapidly spread throughout social media.
Such protests have become a mainstay across Ireland over the past year, with the government of WEF ‘Young Global Leader’ Leo Varadkar labelling protesters as ‘’far-right’’ and carrying out surveillance of organisers in response, a strategy that has served only to exacerbate tensions even further.
Last year in Canada, under the rule of fellow WEF ‘Young Global Leader’ Justin Trudeau, a similar response would take place to the Freedom Convoy, a protest movement launched by Canadian truckers following the decision to mandate jab passports for drivers returning from the US, the largest land-border in the world and a key component of the Canadian economy.
Just as open borders policies serve the interests of the global elites that the WEF represents, via the undermining of national sovereignty and the devaluing of labour, jab passports served their interests by acting as conditioning for the introduction of an eventual mandatory digital ID, which in line with the Great Reset initiative would allow the government-corporate alliance to have an unprecedented level of control over its citizens’ finances in a cashless society.
The fraught tensions that had spurred on Thursday’s planned protest however, would seemingly attract an opportunistic element, one that had engaged in looting and the burning of vehicles in Dublin on the night.
Unsavoury scenes, though it cannot be understated that, in terms of magnitude, they are a universe apart from the stabbing of children.
The establishment media however, did not hold the same view; with the unrest that swept Dublin dominating newspaper headlines alongside accusations that it had been ‘’organised by the far-right’’, the brutal attack on the children and their teacher being consigned to a mere afterthought.
A lockstep response of condemnation, though one that lies in stark contrast to the response towards the riots that swept the United States following the death of George Floyd in May 2020, for which a minutes silence was held in the southern Irish Parliament, something that has so far not occurred for the victims of last Thursday’s mass-stabbing.
Thus, the death of George Floyd was weaponised to guarantee such a result, with violent riots sweeping the United States in the aftermath.
In contrast to the one night of looting and arson that took place in Dublin however, the mainstream media would provide cover for the months-long unrest in the US, with corporate outlet CNN notoriously describing it as ‘’fiery but mostly peaceful’’ at one stage.
NATO Chief: West Should Brace For More ‘Bad News’ From Ukraine
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in a fresh interview warned the Western alliance to brace for more “bad news” from Ukraine, according to Saturday remarks given to Germany’s national ARD television.
He was asked whether he thinks the situation will worsen for Ukrainian forces in the future, after the counteroffensive has been widely acknowledged as a failure. “We should also be prepared for bad news,” he responded. “Wars develop in phases. But we have to support Ukraine in both good and bad times.”
He said that in response to the current “critical situation” the West must boost ammunition production. “I will leave it to the Ukrainians and military commanders to make these difficult operational decisions,” Stoltenberg explained.
“One of the issues we should address is the fragmentation of the European defense industry,” he said. Countries have gone from being enthusiastic supporters and donors of Ukraine’s cause to more lately sounding the alarm over dwindling or tapped defense stockpiles, as ammo production also can’t keep up.
A week ago, a German official raised eyebrows by speculating that if Germany was forced to enter a major war its troops would only last “two days in battle” due to severe shortages of defense supplied and ammunition as a result of giving them to Ukraine.
Below are the German politician’s words, according to a translation:
All of this is also part of the ‘war fatigue’ echoed in media headlines. Still, Stoltenberg and the Biden White House are pressing European leaders to double and triple down. Stoltenberg also recently tried to swat down assertions that fatigue has finally set in even among NATO leadership.
And in his latest interview, the NATO chief emphasized that “Wars are inherently unpredictable” – but that “we know that the more we support Ukraine, the faster the war will end.”
Yet this strategy hasn’t worked out so far.
The general response by the media and the media-led has been to treat 7/10 as a repeat of 9/11. An event which suddenly reared up from nowhere and provoked a military response on a third party country to weed out the perpetrators.
Calls from the sidelines for restraint and negotiations – and particularly “proportionality” – ignores, or misses the fact that Hamas has conducted terrorist attacks on Israel, continuously and on an industrial scale, since booting Fatah in 2007.
Hundreds of Israeli’s going about their lives killed deliberately by the government of Gaza in a campaign of terror figuratively and literally embedded in the Hamas State. Dozens every year.
7/10 was not a ‘once off’, a reset moment, a desperate call for ‘better selves’ to come together. Lip-flappers playing into that narrative are either grandstanding peanuts, or cynically Hamas-adjacent.
There’s really no viable middle ground.
Pick them where you see them.
Yes.
The short-term payoffs from the Women’s Day tell-alls has proven to be not worth it.
Even if you do get to keep the white leather couch from the photo shoot.
See also, Forgotten Optus Lady.
I don’t understand why. Using gold as money would require the explicit agreement of banks and governments. This isn’t going to happen – as much as it should. The reason for that is because nobody will go back to transacting with physical commodities. Nobody will forgo internet banking and purchases and nobody is going to haul a kg of copper or silver around with them and try to find ways to find change for it. So a gold backed money requires banks and governments to agree to settlements in gold (say once a month domestically and once a quarter internationally). This absolutely could happen. But it won’t.
That’s where Bitcoin comes in. It is totally organic in its takeup. It won’t be long before every bitcoin transaction is as easy as using a normal keycard/phone. It doesn’t require any agreement from banks or governments and it will surpass the market cap of gold in the next few years. Keynes will finally get something right – gold will be a “barbarous relic”.
The ultimate own goal:
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could be soon stripped of their royal titles under proposed new laws.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be referred to as only Mr and Mrs if the legislation proposed this week in UK Parliament is passed.
The increasing number of such fires suggests many users are ignorant of or not complying with these guidelines.
It’s not about being ignorant it’s more “she’ll be right, Jack it only happens in media stories” .. No one but no one wants to sit around watching a battery charge .. FFS!
From the Oz. Unsurprisingly, most comments not kind to the inept and morally bankrupt pollimuppets.
Aussie economy left behind under Labor Albanese
While US and Europe bounce back from tough economic times, Labor Albanese’s Australia is fighting a losing battle.
David Llewellyn-Smith
There was once a time in Australia when all Canberra policymakers worried about was interest rates.
The cause for their worry was Australia’s world-beating household debt, which played out as political anxiety over rising interest rates.
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Howard Government’s failed promise to keep rates low caused its pre-GFC election loss.
But, one could be forgiven for concluding that the Labor Albanese Government no longer shares this view.
Its preoccupations with mass immigration, corporate grovelling and public spending show no concern for the interest rate pain of households.
So much so that as we enter 2024, the developed world is increasingly likely to enjoy material interest rate relief, while Australian households may face the opposite.
US and Europe relief
2023 has been a story of remarkable US economic resilience. Fed by investment into supply chains to decouple from China, the US economy has weathered an additional one per cent higher interest rates after the sharp rises of 2022.
That story is now ending as the US economy comes into land. Some see it as a hard landing and some as a soft landing, but a landing it is, and that will be bumpy regardless.
US interest rate futures markets are now pricing four rate cuts next year, and the balance of risks is tilting towards more, not less, as inflation ebbs.
Meanwhile, Europe’s economic and inflation story was very different.
In 2023, a fragile economy was plagued by supply-side inflation emanating from Ukraine War.
However, that also looks much more rosy and European inflation is crashing.
Futures markets are pricing a total two per cent rate relief from mid-2024 in Europe.
Poor little Australia
Sadly for Australian households, the local economy has decoupled from these good news stories.
Inflation is proving stickier and much more homegrown than other developed nations.
Bizarrely, as the European energy crisis ends, it continues in Australia.
The Labor Albanese Government’s failure to secure cheap Australian energy resources for home use during the Ukraine War is still shocking utility bills.
There is relief in sight, but it will not arrive until late 2024.
Worse, the Labor Albanese Government’s doubling down on the quantitative peopling national growth strategy over reforming for productivity growth has released a deluge of inflation through all levels of housing and construction.
These two uniquely Labor Albanese inflation forces now comprise half of Australian inflation.
The government has responded by using subsidies to offset the price pressures instead of resolving the causes.
This has done little to impress interest rate futures markets that are pricing no rate relief for Australians until 2025, and even then, only one cut.
If interest rate rises cost the seasoned Howard Government power, what is the public going to do to Labor Albo’s inflationist rookies when they get the chance?
What’s her ‘brand’, which she so assiduously cultivated while in the limelight, worth now d’ya reckon?
Deliberately terrible.
A proper stab at modelling the massive and continuous energy transfer of evaporation and cloud formation, from ground level into the Troposphere and above, would spoil the narrative.
Much better to just parameterise the buggers.
I thought that’s what they wanted.
Along with a farm in Canada…or something.
Three guys living in a small one bedroom apartment and doing food delivery until 3am ..The new Australian dream.
Or as Luigi would say, “Essential wukkas .. we needz lotz ..” .. LOL!
Permanent residency in the Tower not an option?
Given they’ve no skills or qualifications to suit them for other employ it would seem likely they’d be student visas they’d be hoping to convert into permanent residency at some stage
These dayz a “student” visa is a “permanent residency” visa ..!
Luigi and the vagrants got their economic plan from South Africa.
Energy starvation then collapse.
Even if you do get to keep the white leather couch from the photo shoot.
See also, Forgotten Optus Lady.
Next to the to the Coogee Bay hotel WC door in the “trophy” room ….. LOL!
sucks to be PA
Terrifying AI prediction of what WFH employees will look like in 25 years
Meet Susan. She’s an AI prediction of what remote workers will look like in 25 years in the strongest argument to return to the office yet.
Necklacing is back, baby.
South Africa: Seven Men Burned to Death in Vigilante ‘Mob’ Attack (3 Dec)
It’s one way of solving the used-tyre problem I guess.
Ah, but you see, they weren’t doing it right. This time it’ll be different.(/s)
Ms Creosote.
I’d hire her for training sessions in crisis management and leadership. Just be careful to do exact opposite of what she tells us.
There’s a Harvard business school case in the whole Optus omnishambles, perhaps.
We’re all “anti-vaxxers” now. Creighton was good throughout.
At least the Susans will die out without progeny and thin out the need to create useless work. There is that.
the Jews stole my Palestinian DNA.
WSJ – Why Repairing Your EV Is So Expensive
Electric-vehicle owners are finding a surprising downside to their new wheels: They tend to be expensive to repair after a crash.
When Scott MacFiggen’s neighbor backed into his Rivian R1T pickup truck last summer, the vehicle was left with a dent the size of a bowling ball under a rear taillamp.
MacFiggen was expecting a couple-thousand-dollar bill from the repair shop and to be without his truck for a couple of weeks. “I guess I was a little naive,” said the 51-year-old San Francisco resident.
The actual bill came to $22,000, and the vehicle took 2½ months to fix.
For EVs, repairs following a collision can cost thousands of dollars more than their gas-powered counterparts, because the fixes tend to require more replacement parts, the vehicles are more complicated and fewer people do such repairs.
While those issues may ease over time, first-time electric owners may be startled by the higher costs and longer wait times.
Last year, repairing an EV after a crash cost an average $6,587 compared with $4,215 for all vehicles, according to CCC Intelligent Solutions, a company that processes insurance claims for auto repairs in the U.S.
The increased costs following collisions contrast with the maintenance savings that dealers and automakers promote when trying to get buyers to switch to electric cars and trucks.
In addition to not needing gas, EVs tend to require less upkeep. Not needing to do regular chores like oil changes, engine tuneups or replacement of timing belts means that electric-vehicle owners spend half as much maintaining their vehicles as their gasoline-owning counterparts, according to Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer organization.
Still, when EVs need repair, it can be costly.
Rental-car company Hertz Global Holdings, which operates a large electric fleet mostly composed of Tesla vehicles, said its third-quarter profit was pinched in part because of the cost of repairing electric models.
Higher repair costs are also helping to drive up insurance premiums for electric owners, who pay on average $357 a month for coverage compared with $248 for gas vehicle owners, according to insurance comparison website Insurify.
“People are used to hearing that EVs have fewer parts than a combustion vehicle, but that is not the case in collision repair,” said Marc Fredman, chief strategy officer for CCC Intelligent Solutions.
Bringing down repair costs is another complication for automakers as they try to attract first-time buyers and reignite sales growth of electric models, which has slowed in recent months.
Companies including Tesla and Ford Motor have slashed prices this year in hopes of attracting new customers.
Last year, on average, an EV repair required roughly double the replacement parts compared with a conventional vehicle, according to CCC Intelligent Solutions.
The way many electric models’ parts are bolted or welded in the vehicles often means the components cannot be repaired and have to be replaced, Fredman said.
When these vehicles do get into a crash, repairs can be more complex for many reasons.
The bodies can be more complicated to disassemble, and the repairs tend to require more steps and precautions, Fredman said.
Vehicles containing lithium-ion batteries also require special storage consideration because of the risk of fire when they are damaged, said Scott Benavidez, chairman of the trade group Automotive Service Association and owner of a collision repair business in New Mexico.
Those precautions add both time and cost to the repair process, he added.
The vehicle bodies themselves can result in higher parts and labor costs because EVs tend to use more exotic materials than traditional steel, collision-repair specialists said.
Some of these materials, like aluminum, require specialized tools and storage facilities, narrowing the number of shops that can perform the work, they said.
“Those shops will charge more because they’re taking on the risk of working on them and retrofitting their shop,” Benavidez said.
Repairing an electric car tends to take longer, as well, in part because there are still a limited number of shops capable of doing this type of work.
It takes 25% longer to get an EV into a body shop than a traditional vehicle, according to data from CCC Intelligent Solutions.
Those repairs tend to take roughly 57 days compared with 45 days for non-EVs, the data showed.
In the case of MacFiggen’s Rivian truck, the cost of the repair reflected deeper, structural damage that wasn’t immediately visible, a Rivian spokesperson said. MacFiggen said his insurance covered the five-figure repair bill.
The price of repairing body panels on any vehicle can vary widely, but it typically costs between $100 and $3,000, J.D. Power data found.
“Our top priority is building safe vehicles,” the Rivian spokesperson said. “Repairing Rivian vehicles is in line with similar repair costs to other EV manufacturers.”
There are signs that costs could come down as automakers build up a supply of spare parts and more independent repair shops become trained.
EV market leader Tesla has company-owned collision repair centers, as well as a network of privately owned body shops. Those additions helped half the cost of repairs on Teslas over the past decade as more shops became equipped to work on the vehicles, said Xander Walker, a former Tesla employee who worked on refurbishing leased vehicles and trade-ins.
Today, Tesla says the costs of operating a Model 3 sedan are similar to those of a Toyota Corolla over a five-year period, in part because of lower maintenance and repair costs.
Hertz Chief Executive Stephen Scherr also said he expects repair costs to come down as replacement parts become more readily available, and as Hertz purchases more vehicles from traditional carmakers with a broader network of suppliers.
Meanwhile, Scherr said the rental-car company is attempting to lower the price of spare parts and planning to perform more repair work in-house to bring down costs.
Ford Motor also expects that repair costs will eventually come down as technicians are trained and components become more readily available.
“With any technology, the more it scales, the more the cost comes down and customer wait times go down,” said a Ford spokesperson.
Nothing bizzare about it. Usually accompanied with a Ministerial press release and photo op.
Twitter is telling me Israel is reigning hell on Khan Yunis and there is now a ground invasion.
Delusional hamasisis and pallimuppets still think a win is on the cards.
Apparently the ceasefire period had them madly digging new tunnels.
AI is not to be trusted on this topic. The remote workers will look typical offshore staff within 5 years. Well-paid drones will be replaced with less-well-paid drones as soon as its proven to save $$$.
It’s not just hamasisis, there are at least five other terrorist groups operating in Gaza, all of whom participatedin the 7 October attack.
2019 as a sample year of what Israel deals with.
https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019/israel/
If Tim Paine is George Bailey “mate”, what’s Matthew Wade? His “live-in lover”?
Zatara
And tell us where they were on 7/10.
Mohammedans have the claim to victimhood down pat.
It shows a frightening level of sophistication in the strategy of their war against us.
The door is always open.
Meanwhile more senior hamasisis are, as Mossad satirical says, being eliminated in Khan Yunis.
Nowhere to run.
Israel-Hamas War Day 58: IDF intensifies Gaza operations
Israeli military strikes over 400 targets in the Gaza Strip since war resumed • Israel ‘open’ to reimplement ceasefire if more hostages freed
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-unhinged-among-us-5540299?ea_src=au-frontpage&ea_med=opinion-3
Israeli Fighter Jets Hit Pro-Iranian Group With Direct Hit! Navy Raid on Secret Headquarters!
Raptor News
Not my idea of idyllic but still.
Who was it that didn’t comply with the terms of the ceasefire again?
As for where Gazans will go when the war is over, what were Hamas and the general population expecting when they started the war?
Was it really trickling out a hostage here and there while Israel sat on its hands?
During the pause in fighting, he said he had an “idyllic” time and cycled to a nearby beach, picked olives, visited friends and collected a large water container to help ensure his family’s water supply.
If (like me) you use a Microsoft browser (like MS Edge), every time you open a new page you are force-fed a stream of leftwing activist talking points masquerading as “news” assembled by some MS coder who may or may not have attended J-school.
One of today’s talking points is from the UK Guardian: Keir Starmer: Labour ‘won’t turn on spending taps’ if it wins election.
Translation: UK Labour will turn on the spending taps after it wins the next election (to make up for a decade and a half of Tory restraint).
PS: like Labor Down Under, UK Labour has a leadership vacuum so it has started cycling through the B-graders, Keir Starmer being the robot who replaced loony leftard Jeremy Corbyn.
Betting is now open on whether Starmer makes it through his first term after the radicals start accessing the money spigot in government.
Interesting, Watching the Today’s Raptor Video, I am struck by the neatness and obviously well farmed structure on the Israel Side of the Gaza Border with no sight of any productive use of land on the Plaestinian Gazan Hamas Babarians Side
See around 2 Mins 21 Secs onwards – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmF5MQRYwE
I am reminded that Israel handed over full functioning Vegetable Glasshouses when they pulled out of Gaza in 2005 & left the Inbred Arab Muslim Barbarians to themselves, and those Idiots proceeded to destroy the Glasshouses & have done nothing productive in life since
Gazan Palestinians – A Completely Useless Bunch of Arab Inbreds permanently on World Welfare
One positive of the MSEdge news pages is that Sky gets a reasonable exposure – so there’s that.
Cheeeses, I thought I had a low opinion of the Gazans…
Now serving earth-friendly Nightsoil Kopi?
May not even make it to the election.
The Labour Party base have their full Nazi antisemite SS uniforms on but Sir Keir is trying to force them to back Israel. Classic clash between lefty ideology and polling data.
Organising venues for the Olympics in Queensland is right on target. hahahahahaha
I will try again!
How Disney’s Woke Agenda Saw Profits Plummet
Apropos of the Mitch Johnson/Bailey/Warner contretemps:
George Bailey might be the greatest bloke ever.
Probably not, but he might be.
According to some. Midgets, mostly.
Thanks Arky, much appreciated.
Last time I did this was as a 10yo with model planes, it’s harder than I remembered.