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This is the problem with even a “benevolent” dictatorship. No dictatorship would ever admit a mistake.Singapore’s Ministry of Health is…
This is the problem with even a “benevolent” dictatorship. No dictatorship would ever admit a mistake.Singapore’s Ministry of Health is…
That’s exactly what it was, an experiment on the whole population, both medical and level of control.IT WAS ALL A…
No word on whether Pool, Rubin, Southern et al will donate their blood money to charity. Fat man has an attack…
Just keep it going. Full stop. Get out of the way D’Ambrosio and Bowen, you complete imbeciles. This is what…
How the “mighty” fall .. way, way back in 1968 I toured the USS America, anchored off Garden Island cos…
“rugbyskier
Jan 12, 2024 6:08 AM”
Correct. The bigger concern we should have with Woolworths Oz is that, along with many companies, one of its biggest shareholders is now……
Blackstone.
But not at the hands of Jewish men. Right?
These bob each way jokers can’t help themselves, but it the truth, under Sharia law getting away with assault is a given.
In some islamic states rape victims are imprisoned or even put to death
for adultery.
The senior management of the big supermarkets is full of Poms.
Little feel for the nation they’re in and badly out of touch with an unsubsidised farm supply system unlike the EU.
Pommy shop stewards were a disaster and Pommy shop mangers are no better.
Green hurts.
Hertz Begins Dumping 20,000 EVs In Shift Back To Petrol Cars (12 Jan)
Ouch! EV sales numbers are going to be even worse since about 75% have been fleet sales. If Hertz is feeling brave enough to defy the Left like this then other companies will probably do so too.
we came back from Riverina on Monday
got diverted by the Polis away from taking the Axedale road which goes south after Elmore
but I figured that would happen and wasn’t prepared to chance it anyway
plus we had a nice heads up from somebody else that went through it on Sunday
they said don’t even think about doing it
went through Rochester without issue
got stopped again 500m from Heathcote
all the little cars, including a Tesla, got turned around
fortunately the Polis were ok with larger 4WD(-ish) vehicles punching through the spills which were concerning and on the edge of being too deep and too fast
nonetheless we made it through and got to stop for a sausage roll and a pee
entrance to the Hume was blocked at Kilmore and had to chance the roads toward Whittlesea …Donnybrook Rd and others
much water over roads but it was only pooling and not spilling
The missus hasn’t stopped talking about Land Cruisers since.
My local Coles (Queanbeyan) never did the pro Voice thing, even though we are right next to Canberra. Same goes for Dan Murphys.
Seems they did a bit of research at the micro level, even if they got the aggregate wrong.
The local Islanders, Indians and the substantial Eastern European remnants of the Snowy Scheme and their offspring were less than thrilled about Da Voice.
Pretty cynical – apparently they just chose the message according to the demographics.
I thought EVs were cheaper to repair than ICE vehicles?
The small amount of Australia day merchandise at one local Coles is hiding up the back of the store on an end not prominently displayed near the registers with the back to school items so yeah nah Coles.
TheirABC and the BOM are unrepentant:
The UN, once again, fellating itself .. nothing better to do with their votes .. LOL!
I had no idea the Houthis were a UN member state .. I, actually, thought they were a terrorist group .. you live & learn …….. FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-11/un-security-council-votes-on-houthi-attacks/103308756
Blockquote fail.
Here it is.
According to resident alarmist and failed soothsayer Saunders:
‘Unbearable’ to someone who pontificates about the weather from an airconditioned office, I dare say.
What a clown show.
What makes you think they are not whackos themselves? They are in charge and have the last word, they earn the big bucks and should wear the responsibility for the backlash of their poor decisions.
Why do I have this feeling that all our corporations are run by clones of the erstwhile Optus CEO?
In pre-Civil War days in the American south, the polite term for blacks was “Coloured people”. Then it became “Negroes”, then “African-Americans”, then “Blacks”, then “Blaks”, now, more than 150 years later it has become “People of Colour”.
Thus does civilisation advance.
Woolworths, Aldi, and, to a certain extent, Coles misread the Australian sentiment leading up to the referendum.
Merchandise lead times means that their orders for Aust Day stuff would have to be in by late September, if not earlier. Regardless of whether their withdrew their “endorsement” of Yes earlier in the piece, the dumbdumbs in merchandising persisted in their mistake.
Australia Day approaches…what to do, what to do? So they raise the tawdry, well-worn reason – division, upset, colonisation, aren’t we nice and woke, no merchandise this year. When the real reason is far simpler.
They employ stupid people.
cohenite
Is there video of this? If there is, it would make a powerful campaign ad, highlighting the arrogance and cruelty of the DemonRats and their acolytes.
And, if Coles has a little bit of stuff on a back shelf in the “do not look” department, all they’ve done is scrape out last year’s excess stock from a back room in the warehouse that they hadn’t forwarded on to the dollar shops at knockdown prices in Feb last year.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic.
Henry Ergas making the (obvious to us Cats at least) point that the trouble with Islam is with Islam itsself, rather than the “radical fringes of Islam”
It’s also a window into what the big retail bugman’s vision for Australia would be had Yes got up.
Ordinary, voting Australians got it right, and good on them.
Take a bow, mUnty the fat, fascist, bigoted, fool
Pom contribution to this wide brown land, encapsulated:
Mind mah tea!
It’s also a window into what the big retail bugman’s vision for Australia would be had Yes got up.
Ordinary, voting Australians got it right, and good on them.
Yep, I was thinking that last night.
Latest Ag weather update
In the first five minutes he touches briefly on how far out the BOM was with it’s predictions.
Which led to this dross from the ABC.
Such value from our publicly funded organs.
Thanks for posting Peter Greagg @ 07:50am.
Excellent article by Henry Ergas in the Oz.
Sky highlighted Pocock’s view on the International Wanker Court case. Who cares what Pocock thinks about anything beyond football?
Yep, calli. Big Retail and other Big parts of the economy have apparently given their marketing/PR departments to either cokehead ponytails and/or Greens.
Indeed, the whole marketing/PR industry seems to have been taken over.
Look at the ads on TV. They are American ads with dubbing – but even in the US, blacks are about 13.5% of the population. A visitor from Mars would think that they are more than 50% judging from the ads. In Australia, visibly black people are a tiny percentage.
It’s going to end in tears, I hope.
johanna
Also lives in an air-conditioned house, and travels in an air-conditioned car, which is parked in an underground garage during the day.
Cohenite/Johanna:
cohenite
Look at any modelling magazine and what are the sheilas displaying? Their bums, followed by tits.
Branco’s cartoon was the pick of the bunch for me.
So 30C is unbearable.
What then is the hottest day evah?
Ladies of the Cat:
I present David Sharaz as the perfect boyfriend. He is all-caring, responsive, at your beck and call 24/7, will put the bins out and kill spiders, and most of all he cares about you and your welfare, making you the best version of you possible.
With David it’s not about your money, whether it be your rich Mum and Dad or money coming your way via other means. It’s not about what you wear, not about what you may have done in the past, and not about your rapidly-expanding derriere. It’s about you. The person inside.
Oh. Wait (the Hun):
And:
And:
See? He’s protective.
Pull of the trigger. A hopeless romantic, surely. Sharaz must be the Hugh Grant of Canberra.
Under Ergas’ excellent piece in today’s Oz, I have posted the following comment. It is still pending, and probably won’t be published as I’m on an Oz blacklist.
Henry has nailed it. Bravo.
I should remind people that here in Sydney, on Sunday night 8 October 2023, a group of young Muslims took to the streets of Western Sydney, and the cleric in attendance spoke about he ‘elated’ he was at the news coming in from Israel. The butchered corpses strewn across Southern Israel were still warm, and we were all seeing the pictures of the bloodied and raped Israeli women being forcibly taken into Gaza.
Now, some here might say that the cleric in question that night was of the ‘fringe’. That might well be true however I am still waiting for mainstream Muslim organisations to both distance themselves and to denounce what that ‘fringe’ cleric said that night, along with distancing themselves and denouncing what happened less than twenty-four later, again here in Sydney, on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
Instead there has been silence from mainstream Muslim organisations. Telling, very telling.
Cassie of Sydney
Jan 12, 2024 8:25 AM
Under Ergas’ excellent piece in today’s Oz, I have posted the following comment. It is still pending, and probably won’t be published as I’m on an Oz blacklist.
Henry has nailed it. Bravo.
I should remind people that here in Sydney, on Sunday night 8 October 2023, a group of young Muslims took to the streets of Western Sydney, and the cleric in attendance spoke about he ‘elated’ he was at the news coming in from Israel. The butchered corpses strewn across Southern Israel were still warm, and we were all seeing the pictures of the bloodied and raped Israeli women being forcibly taken into Gaza.
Now, some here might say that the cleric in question that night was of the ‘fringe’. That might well be true however I am still waiting for mainstream Muslim organisations to both distance themselves and to denounce what that ‘fringe’ cleric said that night, along with distancing themselves and denouncing what happened less than twenty-four later, again here in Sydney, on the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
Instead there has been silence from mainstream Muslim organisations. Telling, very telling.
DrBeauGan
Jan 12, 2024 5:46 AM
Johannes Leak is a bloody genius — his cartoon today is an absolute corker.
Absolutely. He’s a treasure.
I’m hoping he will have a bit of fun with a Hamarse float when the Mardi Gras comes around. Masked characters in spangled palli coloured budgie smugglers throwing gold mankini clad dummies off model buildings should do nicely.
Australians should know that senate voting is a planned gerrymander in which tiny numbers of voters in tiny states and territories can elect political fruitloops who represent microscopic minorities in political fringe lala land — like David Pocock.
Democrats are now denying even humanity to their political opponents. They have retreated to their pre-American civil war attitudes they held about the black slaves, only those like themselves are people, all other are subhuman. No wonder they have such an affinity with Islam.
BOM is the way it is because they have lost the skills their staff once had. This started about 25 years ago when the only research topics gaining funding were about climate change. Once it became profitable to follow that line of inquiry all others were dropped and the skills were lost. It’s not that the current BOM will not make correct forecasts, they don’t know how.
Sure I look at cp, molest cats and am a 200kg bed bound landwhale, but I’m fighting Nazis on the internet so I’m a good person
Ergas in the Oz: Anti-Semitic sermons underline how Islam has changed
……
No, it underlines how it hasn’t…
You are right Johanna. No matter what branch of the arts the best are usually tortured figures. They see things that the general populace don’t. Whether the beauty or the grotesque they expose a part of us we fail to see. Sometimes a hyperaccurate or distorted view but when we see it we recognise it, accepting this is us or rejecting for fear others may see us in this manner. I’m not talking about the present load of rubbish being served up as art or music. There are exceptions of course.
I read a weighty bio of Ataturk years ago – as in many hundreds of pages. It was worthy of the length, because he was a remarkable man with a very interesting life.
Ataturk (whose statues and memorials have been removed by Erdogan) tried to achieve the almost impossible tasks of (a) unifying Turkey and (b) breaking the power of the tribal leaders and imams who ran the place.
One of his main approaches was to replace religious law with secular law, which was of course bitterly opposed by the previous incumbents. It was a political struggle of massive proportions, and it went on for many years
He was an extraordinary man, who left his country on the brink of joining Western prosperity.
Now we have Erdogan, who seems to be determined to drag the country back to Muslim tribalism and poverty. (Inflation rate through the roof).
It is surely the will of Allah.
Ooh, very good. Brought to mind Hugh Grant’s prime minister in Love Actually where he is snogging the chunky Natalie at his sister’s children’s “nativity” play.
Our supine governments, at all levels, have simply allowed them to flip the taqiyya switch to boldness.
No need for subterfuge any longer. They may say overtly what is said behind closed doors with impunity. And use our now clearly aligned law enforcers to do their bidding.
Example – man who threatens Parramatta mosque after the post Oct 7 intimidations gets pinged. The mosque that preached hate, geed up a teenager and gave him a gun, which he then used to murder Curtis Cheng.
ABC News headline:
‘Simmering waters leading to oppressive humidity over eastern Australia’
Simmering!
Let’s hope they’re kept below boiling point or we’re all gonna die.
FMD. Samantha Maiden:
Ms Maiden seems confused. The stocking of Australia Day merchandise won’t send prices down. Just to have it there to show you aren’t dabbling in the annual hate fest the Left employs on this day is what it’s about Sam.
But Woolworths caved in to the mob and rightly deserve a good lashing.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
It happens because there are no guidelines as to what the approve disapprove ticks are for. Are they Because you approve of the poster? Is it because you approve of the post itself? How about you like one part but don’t like the conclusion? How about you approve of the post but intensely dislike misspellings of crudities like “The poster is a Kunt.”
There’s nothing wrong with a bit of weeding, DB. If you don’t have time, allow a Hall Monitor to do the job.
This is from the WSJ and paywalled.
Cancer Is Striking More Young People, and Doctors Are Alarmed and Baffled
Yes, they’re baffled.
“Religious people” aren’t kind and decent?
Biden has his fat, grubby hands in all four sham indictments against his top political enemy…
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Ditto. Quite a shock. Society was something that we got exposed to only on the periphery.
The Oz activist moderators have rejected my entirely reasonable, polite and accurate comment.
I’m sure it found its way into all the right back pockets.
U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine Was Poorly Tracked, Pentagon Report Concludes
House GOP Leadership Unified Behind Donald Trump with Tom Emmer’s Endorsement
The Gateway Pundit
@gatewaypundit
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine vetoed a bill that sought to prohibit gender-affirming care for minors and to restrict transgender athletes’ participation in girls and women’s sports.
The Ohio House on Wednesday overrode DeWine’s veto.
At Least 132 Catholic Clergy and Nuns Arrested, Kidnapped, Murdered in 2023
These are not coincidences.
BB, you could have stopped at “Ms Maiden seems confused”. She certainly is not the sharpest tool in the box, she is just a tool.
It would be helpful if you could list that which the Gov requires beef to be injected with.
I received the following from my Viktoristan MP.
Does anyone want to help tearing this to pieces?
All-electric homes cost less to run and cooking using induction cooktops is also safer and cleaner. Residents of a new, all-electric detached home (without solar) will spend around $2,600 a year on energy bills, compared with around $3,600 per year for a dual-fuel home. That means going all-electric puts around $1,000 per year back in the pockets of new-home owners. Savings can increase to over $2,200 a year with solar installed.
Modern, energy efficient electric appliances require far less energy to run then gas alternatives – a multi-split air conditioning system is at least five times more efficient than gas ducted heating.
That means not only lower emissions now but lower power bills too.
Built today, a new, all-electric home has 16% lower emissions than a new dual fuel home and over a 10-year period a new, all-electric home has 29% lower emissions than a new dual fuel home.
Mark Twain is spot on.
Anyone who employs people may vouch for the accuracy of his statement.
As will any industrial inspector, WH&S officer, & the like.
Ponds institute, licking the dung encrusted toes of the government by supporting a new tax..
Finally, new research from the Australia Institute shows that an EU-style tax on plastic in Australia could raise up to $1.5bn each year. Their research found that the government could raise $1,300 per tonne of “virgin” or un-recycled plastic through a levy on businesses that import or manufacture plastic packaging. Voters polled by the institute showed strong support for the measure, with 85% saying they support legislated waste reduction targets.
Is this before or after the tax they’ll be leveling for having gas connected?
He’s either not very good at numbers or he just wanted his moment in the media sun for being a progressive. On the other hand he may be term limited and just doesn’t give a damn about his voters or his state. Luckily the voters had the sense to vote in a veto-proof House.
highlight how Islam has blossomed in Australia
My favorite couple of Twain tales (from a biography).
His intended wifes family wasnt keen on him, having heard he was dissolute and of low character.
So Twain had his pastor come to reassure them he was ok.
Instead the Pastor pretty well confirmed everything theyd heard and advised not to let them marry.
He did marry her in the end though.
One of his old letters might show why.
From memory.
“Can you send me 40 of those rubber frangers, the unscented ones, Ill put the stink on them myself”…
Stop right there. Matrix might have a better idea than me, but my old induction cooktop chewed through power like nothing on earth. It also turned to expensive junk after five years.
But try getting comparisons by Google. You are “curated” through to green sites. No need to question why.
Also “safer” and “cleaner”. Huh? No cooktop is self cleaning and safer than what?
Given our abundant gas reserves, it would be germane to ask, ‘What is the role of government in rising gas prices over recent decades?’
Also share price. The DEI considerations seem to have overwhelmed the share price considerations lately.
Biden’s hands are spliced on Obama’s arms.
Oh, Henry!
Bullshit.
thefrollickingmole at 9:23
The Ponds Institute has never met a tax it doesn’t like.
The salty tears cascading down the crimson cheeks, the muffled sniffs. Might give one pause to think about their plight. I for one give zero flying fornications.
Curated…now there’s a once harmless word that’s taken on ominous overtones lately.
I admit to being amazed by Dutton’s call for a boycott of Woolworths. He is acting like a leader and is circumventing the parliamentary and media filters by talking directly to the people – as a ‘conservative’ leader does by tradition.
Could it be that we have found the longed for light bringer?
Unfortunately no, he has no mechanism for purging the Party of the Moderate crony traitors, or Turnbullite behind the scenes plotters, or anybody from SA, or people like Canavan who simply refuse to commit to the fight.
A good man but a dead man walking. Advance Australia is the only unencumbered conservative organisation capable of, and willing to fight. Donate! Unlike the IPA they don’t spend their money on cocktail parties, nor focus on the elite.
I burst out laughing at an ABC comment that Dutton’s call was a “disaster for the Coalition” because – reasons. They had simply dusted off their trope that the Voice victory was a disaster for Dutton. In their fevered minds it is not possible that Dutton actually reflects the will of the people.
Get a load of this:
From an interview with Richard Dreyfuss. This is from Ace Of Spades. Where the question is asked and I paraphrase, what if you were doing a film on Auschwitz? On Caesar’s conquests? The great European explorers? Do you need say 20% of the cast as black or Asian or Latino?
Rather spew worthy and which means Hollywood is circling the drain with increasing velocity.
They now regard themselves as “curators” of public opinion.
The sexual violence that was done to Jewish women on October 7th indicates just how readily ‘ordinary Palestinian men’ can turn to brutalising women; they get plenty of practice and even religious encouragement of that at home.
To do such horrific things to women as we saw in their proudly taken video selfies indicates a mindset capable of hideous imaginings about women that they then put into practice. There seems to be little or no real respect for women in these cultures.
Free dental will cost government $11.6 billion each year, report finds
sounds like it isnt free then?
Tinta:
What it comes down to Tinta, is that some people thrive on Hate in the same way that a plant thrives on sunshine.
Their lives would have no meaning if they couldn’t hate, hate hate.
? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I’m not so sure. I doubt Chrissy Pyne would be getting the rails run he enjoyed during the Waffleworth years were he around today. I suspect the wets are going to have a more difficult time of it in the broad church, although there is still no sign of it on renewable energy.
I agree about donating to Advance Australia. I think Hairy already does.
However we are both impressed with the work that the IPA has done and reported in their latest magazine issue. We’ve kept up our subscription. They did good work on the Voice. I used to toss their magazine though as it was often full of very simplistic pieces, but the last one has kept both me and Hairy (who fiercely guards his reading time and choices) reading every article, as they report in it some very useful research. A welcome change to add to our other subs.
Cocktail parties are also fund-raisers bringing in the money as well as the faithful. Worth bearing that in mind. They are also accompanied by good speakers.
A commendably charitable viewpoint of the character of those running Big Supermarket
flyingduk
Jan 12, 2024 10:00 AM
Free dental will cost government $11.6 billion each year, report finds
sounds like it isnt free then?
If they think it will cost 11.6 bill in Year 1, it will actually cost 20.0 billion, and soon enough hit 30 bill a year.
Zulu, that opinion piece by Morris was particularly robust on a recently deceased person. Well done to Teh< Paywallian.
Dutton used an IPA gathering I attended to launch his campaign for an energy mix that included nuclear energy, especially small tailored reactors that can be purchased off the shelf. He noted we were way behind in the waiting line for those and needed to get moving on it immediately. I think they will have a chop at renewables for the next election. Hope so.
Free dental will cost government $11.6 billion each year, report finds
Javier Milei has just passed a law called Artículo 209.
Government institutions can no longer use the word “free” to promote any state service at municipal, province or state level.
Milei considers the word “free” a lie, because services are paid for with taxes, and citizens shouldn’t be lied to.
And we need a second law, any politician who has referred to a recurrent spending item as “investment” must be trebuchet, on fire, into a pit full of aids users dirty syringes.
Rosie:
The lack of the condemnation the sexual abuse of Israeli men women and children,* by the Islamic barbarians is noted here for when the same people come after us, as they repeatedly tell us they will.
Also noted is the people who bring these barbarians into our country to carry out their foul works.
* yes – men as well. But they probably deserved it so we won’t bother mentioning it.
OK mouth-breathing down ticker, so you think Islamic rape is great?
Why don’t you have the guts to come out and say so?
Comparing Pilger to Wilfred Burchett……
132andBush
Jan 12, 2024 8:07 AM
Latest Ag weather update
In the first five minutes he touches briefly on how far out the BOM was with it’s predictions.
Which led to this dross from the ABC.
Dross:
El Niño reaches ‘strong’ intensity, pointing to a scorching 2024 ahead for the planet
By ABC meteorologist Tom Saunders
Posted Thu 16 Nov 2023 at 5:33amThursday 16 Nov 2023 at 5:33am, updated Thu 16 Nov 2023 at 11:42am
Tom is a fuking idiot/liar. The SOI, the measure of ENSO, whether we are in El Nino or La Nina, is tracking in neutral:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/soi/
I don’t know…Dutton would appear to have zero influence on the LNP in QLD.
When we did a consulting job for Big(ish) Supermarket the CEO came out of Aldi UK. The Pommy guys were well regarded as they have actual experience of a competitive market. The CFO was an Australian (who shopped at my local non Colesworth supermarket) and the GM of groceries was a 1st generation Italian who liked sportsfishing. Draw your own conclusions.
Cassie of Sydney
Jan 12, 2024 6:44 AM
“rugbyskier
The 10% who own our parliaments and dictate policy.
“You don’t matter.”
Well…he is the ABC’s meteorologist.
I think he’s the chap who wrote the article about “simmering” waters leading to east coast humidity I referenced earlier this morning.
It appears that a major escalation is imminent re Yemen. Brits/US have warmed of air strikes, Qatar/ Saudis have opened their air space to them. Iraqi militias have warned of more intense strikes on US military bases if they follow through. Iran and Syria declare their unconditional support for Yemen.
Just came across a quote attributed to Hemingway.
‘Writing is easy. You just sit in front of a typewriter and bleed’.
Hemingway of course carefully chose every word and could spent days on a single sentence. He’s right though. Writing crisp prose can hurt de brain.
Rosie
Sure.
Those that cost more are just written off, so they don’t count.
I should have been an accountant, shouldn’t I?
Imagine if Steven Spielberg was making Schindler’s List now under latest Hollywood guidelines.
Would have to have the appropriate number of blacks, Latinos and Lesbians etc.
Probably a reason why Ridley Scott’s Napoleon featured a black General ahead of other far more well known Generals like Ney, La Salle, Soult etc. Not knocking the black General, Dumas father of the author, who was apparently a good leader. However does not rate compared to many other top Generals of that period.
“Where the question is asked and I paraphrase, what if you were doing a film on Auschwitz? On Caesar’s conquests? The great European explorers? Do you need say 20% of the cast as black or Asian or Latino?”
It’s about time the US and allies acted to support world trade and international laws of the seas.
Iran will learn to pull its head in. Yearning for death is not good politics.
The only Israelis in Gaza, pre 7 October were four or five hostages, 2 supposedly alive, the rest dead, one of whom has been there since the 1980s.
Where are these killings and maimings occurring? At the crossings when Gazans attempt to invade Israel, when Israel invade after their citizens, including children, are kidnapped and murdered?
Meanwhile Hamas except for the occasional ceasefire has been doing its best to kill and maim Israeli citizens since 2006.
Boambee John
Add in “If they do this to me, what stops them doing it to you?”
A warning for Cats who like tumeric.
Chromium found in lead-tainted fruit pouches may explain contamination (10 Jan, via Instapundit)
The Chinese famously adulterated baby milk with melamine to boost its nitrogen content (thereby faking protein content tests). So not surprising that a heavy yellow pigment might be used to increase monetary return on the currently very fashionable tumeric powder. Lead and chromate are both rather toxic, as you probably already know.
Wait…I thought they were incapable of acting?
Regarding Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, I was told at his birthday celebrations at the Turkish Embassy in Canberra about 15 years ago, that he “solved” the hijab problem (as he saw it).
Apparently he said, I wont ban the hijab – so anyone may wear one if they so wish.
However, all women prostitutes must wear one on the pain of a long prison sentence.
In no time at all, the wearing of the hijab became quite rare, which accelerated the secularisation of Turkey.
The teller was a young airforce officer. At that time, (so he said), most young army and airforce officers were strongly in support of Attaturk’s vision for a modern secular Turkey.
Sadly, things are different now.
. thank you for setting me straight rugbyskier — I didn’t ask the right question of Signorina Google
Bill Belichick done Bern. This is seismic in US sports, one of the great coaches not only there but worldwide.
Not sure what conclusion we’re supposed to draw.
The same one I drew at the Holden plant? (With a car park full of every make of car known to mankind, & neither management nor workers seemed to understand the problem)
a thread for baby and any other 7 October deniers who might be hanging around
JC last evening
The phrase I hear a bit is “fake it until you make it”.
Not “learn on the job” but fake it (which means “hide your mistakes”).
Not something I want in safety critical jerbs.
First strike appears to be port of Hodeida.
A few times since Attaturk, the government swayed a bit too much towards re-Islamification. The military removed the government and held a free election within about 18 months. For Turkey to join the EU, the EU demanded that power of the military be removed from the constitution.
Thanks to the EU, that’s why Erdogan has been able to wreck his country.
don’t forget hamas built the cages before 7 October
I’ve lived in Sydney for most of my eight decades and now into my ninth. I can recall many sticky wet summers just like this one, and also some very hot and dry summers of drought. It’s summer. It cycles between monsoonal and desert climes. It was just like this on Australia Day 1788. Stormy and sticky hot.
Get over it.
footage of hodeida, pro hamas twitter account
more on strikes in Yemen
I read the same anecdote in his biography.
FWIW, until quite recently, it was an offense under Turkish law, to defame the memory of Ataturk, and there were shops in Istanbul selling Ataturk memorabilia.
Hey. What happened to my sarc tag?
Further to the EV story I put up earlier, this version has some fun comments.
Hertz will sell a third of its EV fleet to buy gasoline cars instead (11 Jan)
There you go, the real reason that Hertz is selling off their EVs is they’re like the black jelly beans in a packet. No one wants them if they can get anything else.
As ever, yet another excellent article in Quadrant Online. Extracts follow.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/11/who-owns-the-earth/
Unlike Australia where our Statesman was a young teller.
Lizzie:
What have the Arabs done for World Trade apart from sitting on their arses, demanding everyone does something about the problems their people are causing?
I’ve eased up on the Reddit mind rot.
I did get into an argument with a female neck beard YouTube creator-sperg that WarHammer is (obviously) a luxury.
WARHAMMER DOLLS ARE A HUMAN RIGHT, I TELLS YAS!
These people needed to be hit more by their parents. Discontinue the lithium.
“Cheetohs, Mtn Dew, Ozempic, gender reassignment surgery, sex workers, AD&D and WarHammers are human rights, you fascist pigs, give me money now!”
Who argued that?
QED.
Eleven dunderheads.
More to come, but I won’t go back to see.
That would be pointless. Just like them.
Australia was claimed by Britain according to the international law of the day.
End of story.
LOL!
This is why you are not on the High Court.
Reports of attacks on US embassy in Baghdad.
Reports of a strike on US ship in Red Sea.
Reports of a massive missile barrage launched by Yemen.
Yes, heads are being pulled in as we speak.
Dot! Go and play outside. Too much internet for you.
No worries Tinta, I can see how the two companies can get mixed up with the South African company being Woolworths Holdings Limited and having Australian subsidiaries, and the Australian company being Woolworths Limited.
BTW, be careful out there. Some old footage of strikes in Yemen are circulating at present. 24-72hr rule applies.
Was there in existence at the time such “international law” – actually agreed to by many nations – or was it really just customary practice that was informally accepted?
The kiddies are unhappy.
US Embassy in Iraq bombed – report (JPost, 20 minutes ago)
Attacks on US bases in Iraq may be underway as well. Hopefully the local commanders ignore the idiot in the White House and carry out the requirements of their command. Semper fi.
If supermarkets priced food in the same manner as government has in taxes, levies, compliance costs, red tape, green tape, duties, paying the same rates as the useless APS and DEI, have I forgotten anything, we would be dead from starvation.
I see that Mother Lode earlier brought up the Aldi cliches about cheap knock-offs and from his post it looks like he hasn’t shopped there.
I know several people who own food and grocery businesses and they supply all the supermarket chains, they have their own brand for Colesworth and IGA and have an Aldi brand for the same products. I recall that a TV show was doing a segment on Smiths Crisps and on a tour of the factory you could see in the background that the chips were being put into ‘Sprinters’ (the Aldi brand) packaging.
I asked them how they found each of the supermarket chains were to deal with and they all said that they had the best business relationship with Aldi, they are the fastest payer of invoices and are the most reasonable in negotiations.
I started shopping at Aldi when a new store opened nearby and I’ve found the quality of their products to be equal or better than Colesworth, particularly the fruit and vegetables although I do regularly go to the Fyshwick Markets to get meat and fruit/veg. I now do 70% of my grocery shopping at Aldi, 20% at the markets and 10% at the local Woolworths.
It’s infantile behavior.
I also think the calli downthumber would make a worthy subject of a Psych PhD thesis.
Or maybe it’s someone here who has an extremely high opinion of themselves indulging in a little experiment.
International Law = Might is Right.
Take a few eggs down to Bondi. Simmer for 8 minutes while you swim and there’s a healthy breakfast done.
Mak – not to answer your question but the Mabo judgement is quite readable, not filled with much legal stuff at all. That might be why it was wrongly decided in my view, at least as far as mainland Australia.
European law, which was, for all intents and purposes, the international law at the time.
To the extent that the HC has acknowledged any jurisdiction over this matter, it determined that Australia was legally settled by the British.
Vicki
Jan 11, 2024 2:19 PM
Jo Nova has a fascinating article on a counter narrative of the source of fossil fuels:
Vicki, I watched this vid about 12 to 18 months ago:
Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term “Fossil Fuels”
Just seen a report that an F-22 down near Sanaa. No visuals or confirmation.
KD last night.
Her on-air job back?
She was a short term fill in over Christmas. This is a ploy to force Aunty to give her a full time presenter role which she didn’t have before.
Or pay big compo if they can’t squeeze her in.
It’s easy to OD on the internet, Dot. People are not themselves on fight sites and there are too many loonies having episodes. Good idea to give it a rest and do something else. There’s heaps of choice.
Family Guy later presented an homage to this by Cleveland:
‘Shut the window! Yer letting all the stank out!’
Sounds great, lets do it.
Govt accuses Dutton of stirring up ‘culture war’ over Australia Day merch stoush (Sky mainpage headline, 12 Jan)
Maybe Woolies can sell those cut down Voice tank tops Albo has been wearing lately in Leak’s cartoons. GWGB chaps.
The original Mabo judgement. There is a mountain of subsequent commentary of course.
http://www6.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1992/23.html?stem=0&synonyms=0&query=title(mabo%20%20near%20%20queensland)
Nice story, but the only conclusion that matters is – were they making a profit?
Dot, that other Bear at 11.23 says it best.
Out in the sunshine is always good.
It’s actually pretty funny.
Now the neckbeards are brigading me for saying WarHammer dolls are not a human right.
It’s times like these you see why KiwiFarms emerged.
A judgement based on Mabo (or other islands) is false for the mainland. Different culture altogether. Island culture had cultivated plots, Mainland had (in most instances) walkabouts.
Someone will surely raise terra nullius, so before I go, I’ll quickly mention that it didn’t mean unoccupied land but land not subject to a claim by any state and not settled by that state. I believe this is behind the quest of indigenous activists to claim that various “nations” existed prior to European settlement and treaty, reparations, etc..
Someone mentioned Tommahawks.
Paywallion:
US approves deal for Tomahawk missile supports
By BEN PACKHAM
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT
11 Jan 2024
Australia has moved a step closer to obtaining potent US-made Tomahawk missiles, getting the green light from the Biden administration to purchase $372m in support systems to enable the ADF to operate the weapons.
The US Defence Co-operation Agency said the systems would enable the Australian Defence Force to precisely aim the missiles, which have a range of more than 1500km.
The US approved the sale of 220 Tomahawks to Australia in March at a cost of more than $1.3bn, but there is no word yet on when they will be delivered and be made operational.
Australia will have to get in line behind the US military and potentially Japan, which has ordered 400 of the missiles and would be more likely to use them in any war with China over Taiwan.
The weapons will be fitted to Australia’s air warfare destroyers and potentially the Collins-class submarines.
The announcement comes less than a month after Australia declined to send a warship to join a US-led coalition in the Red Sea, and follows US congress approval of AUKUS-enabling legislation.
Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy said the approval of technical support for Australia’s Tomahawks was “an essential step forward for Australia’s development of advanced military capabilities”.
“This program will enhance the lethality of our navy’s surface combatant fleet and increase interchangeability with the United States Navy, improving the effectiveness of our joint warfighting capabilities and providing an increased deterrent effect,” Mr Conroy said.
Former Defence deputy secretary Peter Jennings said the latest spending was “vital” to ensure the missiles were able to hit their targets.
But he said Labor had fallen into the Coalition’s trap of “failing to appreciate the need for speed” in Defence procurement.
“In the best of all worlds, we would be licensing the production of Tomahawks in Australia,” he said. “But I’m sure we haven’t done that and probably won’t do it.”
He said the Defence Department was “utterly disconnected from the strategic outlook”, and “failing to get ministerial or prime ministerial leadership” it needed to respond to growing strategic threats.
Greens senator David Shoebridge said the missile support purchase was “a very expensive admission from the ADF that we don’t have an independent capacity to target this incredibly expensive weapons system”.
“This is confirmation of what many observers have already suspected, that none of the ADF’s Tomahawk missiles can be effectively targeted or deployed without the express consent and co-operation of the US,” he said.
BEN PACKHAM FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT
Chippy is excited about this story…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12953055/Seven-Texas-men-filmed-gang-raping-two-toddlers-bathroom-Houstons-Galleria-Mall-ringleader-worked-cops-say.html
Horrifying videos have surfaced of a gang of at least seven men sexually abusing toddlers inside the restroom of a Texas mall, cops say.
Arthur Hector Fernandez, 29, a kiosk worker at the Galleria mall in Houston, is charged with assaulting the toddlers and then posting the videos online.
Two friends of Fernandez sometimes left their children, two 2-year-olds, in his care while they worked at the mall, according to police.
Yep but got swallowed by you Eastern Staters though. Not many WA listed industrials of any scale left any more. Twiggy and Gina taking all the action private. Not many scraps for consultants I suspect.
A few times since Attaturk, the government swayed a bit too much towards re-Islamification. The military removed the government and held a free election within about 18 months. For Turkey to join the EU, the EU demanded that power of the military be removed from the constitution.
Thanks to the EU, that’s why Erdogan has been able to wreck his country.
Very fishy. It was on the cards that Erdogan would want to kneecap the military, just as those pulling Biden’s strings want to – and have done much to denature the US military.
Science!
Chasing the light: Study finds new clues about warming in the Arctic (Phys.org, 11 Jan)
Um, guys, there’s just one tiny problem with that…
New Publication: Pause In Arctic Sea Ice Loss Now Extends To 17 Years, Defying IPCC, NSIDC Predictions (9 Jan)
No, Arctic Sea Ice Isn’t Shrinking (11 Jan)
The Arctic climate crisis is so dire and horrific that nothing much is happening.
Wouldn’t ignoring the commander-in-chief be the opposite of Semper fi?
Setting that aside, the Iraqi president and, earlier, the Parliament, asked the US to leave. Should they just be ignored?
Still at the Paywallion:
George Pell a victim of Victoria’s ‘corrupt legal system’, says Archbishop Anthony Fisher
By DENNIS SHANAHAN
NATIONAL EDITOR
12 Jan 2024
Australia’s leading Catholic cleric has declared that the late cardinal George Pell’s wrongful conviction and imprisonment was a result of “the corrupt Victorian legal system” following a media, political and police witch hunt.
The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, marked the first anniversary of Pell’s death in Rome of a heart attack after hip surgery with the strongest church statements yet about the cardinal’s charges, conviction and imprisonment on sexual abuse charges and his later “unanimous High Court exoneration”.
At St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney on Wednesday, Archbishop Fisher said: “Following a media, political and police witch hunt, cardinal Pell was tried and imprisoned for crimes he did not commit. Even after he was unanimously exonerated by the High Court he continued to be demonised by some.”
Archbishop Fisher said Pell had been “a soldier for Christ in the culture wars” and a “martyr of the corrupt Victorian legal system”.
On Thursday, Archbishop Fisher told The Australian: “The Pell case was a serious miscarriage of justice. So far there has been no inquiry into the actions of the police or how the legal system managed to get this so wrong.
“Perhaps worst of all, there seems to be no mood in Victoria for a serious inquiry into the justice system.”
He also said cardinal Pell’s promotion of morality and religion showed him the “downsides of wokery” and earned him enemies.
The strongest statements yet from the archbishop follow the conviction of Pell’s arch nemesis at the Vatican opposed to his financial reforms, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, for fraud, money-laundering and the perversion of witnesses, and come amid growing calls for further investigation into the circumstances of the charges brought against Pell.
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby has described a new edition of Gerard Henderson’s book, Cardinal Pell, The Media Pile On & Collective Guilt, as “an important contribution to the efforts to establish a Criminal Cases Review Commission” in Australia.
Mr Kirby said basic evidence in the case showed “a very serious doubt was raised as to cardinal Pell’s guilt”, adding: “Effective protections against miscarriages of justice must be there for all serious cases, even for a cardinal.”
Cardinal Pell had always maintained his innocence of charges of sexual assault of a chorister in Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral after mass on a Sunday morning and alleged that corrupt forces within the Vatican had sought to stop his work in reforming the Catholic Church’s finances.
The cardinal was jailed after a jury found him guilty in 2018 of historical sexual abuse, and the Victorian Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in August 2019.
But the convictions were quashed in April 2020 by the High Court in a unanimous ruling, with the judgment stating: “There is a significant possibility … an innocent person has been convicted.”
Pell believed the criminal charges and court proceedings in Victoria during his trials and appeals had been adversely affected by corrupt forces within the Vatican based on a “mystery” $2.3m Becciu sent to Melbourne during 2016 and 2017 during the investigations and trials.
Becciu, who was convicted of fraud in December, has always denied adversely affecting Pell’s criminal proceedings.
Pell made it clear before his death last year that he believed Becciu had not been afforded due process in his fraud trial. However, he also issued a statement months before he died describing Becciu’s evidence to the court as incomplete, and he mocked Becciu’s “spirited defence of his blameless subordinate role in the Vatican’s finances”.
Archbishop Fisher included in his Wednesday service comments from Pope Francis, made since the conviction of Becciu, that Pell “understood better than most what was needed about Vatican financial reforms”.
Pell was appointed by Francis to clean up the Vatican finances in 2014, and until 2017 led the Secretariat of the Economy.
Before Victorian police charges truncated Pell’s appointment in 2017, his phone had been bugged and a car was torched outside the apartment of a close aide.
A separate telephone tap has also revealed a conversation in which one person tells another “the highway is open to you” after Pell was charged.
Vatican investigators have been told money was sent to Australia to adversely affect the case against the cardinal.
DENNIS SHANAHAN NATIONAL EDITOR
Hopefully some are familiar with the work of independent journalist Rebekah Barnett who goes by the name Dystopian Down Under on Twitter. She has done some very good articles in relation to Covid vaccines and mandates etc in past few years. In particular some of her articles about what happened in WA with vaccine rollout have gained attention as the rollout happened before the virus took off in WA.
A couple of days ago on her Substack she did a good article about how big Pharma creates the news to promote their vaccines. She gives a specific reference to Pfizer commissioned research last month and how that then becomes a press release which the mainstream media then dutifully write up as news which then spreads around multiple publications.
Her Substack and Twitter well worth following.
Why would ignoring the orders of a Chinese and Ukrainian agent be unpatriotic?
If it serves US interests, yes. From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. (That’s in Libya by the way.) The US is, within restrictions of Congressionally ratified treaties, attempting to assist the Kurds and Yasidis. Leaving Iraq would abandon them. Also ISIS is still around, you want to give them a free kick?
ISIS Kills At Least 14 Syrian Soldiers In Palmyra Bus Attack (11 Jan)
None of those “nations” were capable of defending their citizens – isn’t that the first duty of any “nation” to it’s citizens?”
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The Poopies are reporting that they’ve struck a US ship in the Red Sea… dunno if its propaganda or not…
There is eccentric and then there is mentally ill. Literary creativity can come at a cost. Hence the high rates of suicide and drug addiction. Consider Jim Morrison of The Doors fame. Brilliant, was doing graduate level work after finishing high school. He was referencing books the teachers had to go to the library confirm existed. Huge alcoholic and drug issues, committed suicide. Possibly undiagnosed PTSD from sexual abuse as child. Just different?
Why do so many musicians like drugs, especially cannabis? Knoefler was once asked if there were times when he wasn’t stoned. He replied I have to sleep. Could it be because the endocannabinoid network plays a fundamental role in alleviating stress? Or it might be because as anyone who has tried it knows listening to music while stoned can be a very interesting experience.
Twain was not of our era. Your argument is not relevant to him. He almost committed suicide. Just different?
Stephen Fry almost committed suicide. Bipolar, meds saved him, didn’t destroy his creativity.
Godel’s wife died and so did he shortly thereafter, died of starvation because he would not eat anything unless prepared by his wife. Just different?
John Forbes Nash. Obviously schizophrenic, and an asshole. Have a look at the work of John Karlsson and the relationship between mathematical ability and being a little kooky.
Feynman was once described as being like Dirac but human.
The Unabomber was brilliant, top the range mathematician.
When TS Eliot wrote, “I read much of the night, and go south in the winter”, he probably was referring to Seasonal Affective Disorder.
There is some interesting ideas floating around about this. Arousal, high dopamine activity, reduced inhibitory activity. We don’t know but we do know that exceptional creativity does correlate with higher rates of mental illness than with mere mortals. The old cliche about madness and genius is an example of where intuition got it right.
Oh and isn’t attacking a formally accredited US Embassy a war crime?
So far the Iraqi government has done squat about such things.
Let me know when they want to be treated like a civilized nation.
Lysander Shrugged.
I know several people who own food and grocery businesses and they supply all the supermarket chains, they have their own brand for Colesworth and IGA and have an Aldi brand for the same products. I recall that a TV show was doing a segment on Smiths Crisps and on a tour of the factory you could see in the background that the chips were being put into ‘Sprinters’ (the Aldi brand) packaging.
For most of the 1980s I worked for Berger Paints, Rhodes and we used to make paint for all the leading hardware (before Bunnings) and bigger retail stores (Big W, Kmart ect) .. regardless of the customer all the various types of paint came out of the same vats .. all that happened was a change of cans/labels during the, on-going, filling process ..
You mix a umpteen thousand litres vat(s) of paint type and then empty it to suit orders .. you don’t make specific minor amounts separately for various customers …!
Berger also owned British Paints and we manufactured a lot of the BP brands and shipped them to BP, Bankstown & interstate using fully tarped semis (so the BP paint brand pallets werent visible when leaving the Berger Rhodes site (before all these closed and curtained semi trailers became the go)..
The only difference between the various paint labels was the end price of the retailer..
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That really is precious.”
If GovCo reduced expenditure, reduced taxes and reduced regulation, there would be significant downward pressure on prices on two fronts: more after tax profit from same pre tax profit numbers; and greater competition from small businesses.
Things ALWAYS turn to shit when GovCo steals more than 20% of GDP, and it’s currently around 25% if I am not mistaken. THAT is the problem, not “Big Business” being greedy, but GovCo being greedy!
Take a smaller slice of the pie and watch the pie get bigger and make your slice out weigh the larger slice you had before. It worked for Thatcher, Raegan, Howard and Trump. It will work again. All you have to do is get out of the way.
Different company.
Woolies supermarkets is ASX listed.
That means going all-electric puts around $1,000 per year back in the pockets of new-home owners. Savings can increase to over $2,200 a year with solar installed.
Wait, so it’s our fault we are in a position we NEED to save?
I thought it was the endless p*ssing away of our money all over the world, the UN, the pacific solutions, 10,000 charities in Australia alone, $50M here, $200M there.
Clearly government wants yet more $$ all the time to employ more public serpents, hand out more $$ to people we the taxepeyers have never heard of, let alone agreed to fund their lifestyles or wild interests.
If the government could stop spending like drunken sailors, reduce taxes and live within our means, that’d be swell.
International law as practiced at the time serves as a large part of the background to this research.
Lying for the Admiralty: Captain Cook’s Endeavour Voyage
Surprise! US Army has less white people signing up
Who would have thought badmouthing white people for so long in the USA, would mean they are less likely to want to join US Forces and protect the USA’s interests for a bunch of folks who have not a single good word for patriotism.
A positive development I am seeing is the significant increase in the use of the phrase “diversity hire”. I think that perfectly undermines the DEI crowd if everyone who does indeed pick up a job due to DEI being labelled as exactly that. I think the Claudine Gay fiasco has accelerated this up a notch or two.
So the Liberals tried to run us out of politics by objecting to the LDP name and when we go by Libertarian Party the Liberals and Nationals oppose us.
They are absolute plonkers.
ooops .. not 10,000 charities in Australia
from https://www.acnc.gov.au/
In Australia there are about 60,000 registered charities.
actually 61,480.
Australian Charities Report – 8th edition, includes
2020 reporting period – Charities’ revenue was $176 billion
of that, $88 billion was directly from federal government (ahem, taxpayers money)
The charity sector employed 1.38 million people – 10.5% of all employees in Australia.
That was during Covid when revenues were down.
More reports that a US ship has been hit:
https://x.com/Sprinter99800/status/1745596294716924054?s=20
That was my experience.
But I also wrote it as a tag question (the ones that finish “…isn’t it?” Or “…aren’t they?”) to indicate I was not confident enough in the assessment to be too dogmatic.
My experience was from taking my mother shopping half a dozen times at the Aldi in Orange.
Oh, and once in Mosman where they didn’t have what I wanted anyway.
Roger just saw Lisa’s book at a discount store 3 for $10. Hardbacks.
Her publisher got the demand for copies rather wrong.
Sanchez
What was the operating margin for supermarkets in the past couple of years. Do you know?
Ain’t that the truth.
Deportations now!
Ok, so Iranian propaganda (but some of it looks pretty real, only not)
It could be a prank. No way would a elevator door collapse like that. If it is real, they are dead.
Non-essential Commentary Compilation
and an F 22
The exact same thing has happened in Australia with Police and military recruiting. For a few years if you were an enthusiastic healthy competent white male good luck getting accepted for police or Army whilst less qualified females and minorities were given priority. Then higher up the command chain less experienced people were getting promoted ahead of you because they ticked a box on for somebody’s DEI quotas. Generals and Commissioners were more concerned about being DEI compliant rather than the actual efficiency of the organisation.
The simple fact is females serve less years and are more likely to get injured. Plus they have a habit of having babies and all the down time and light duties that involves. You will have noted recruitment aimed at women always emphasises the flexibility of the organisation towards their needs. All at the expense of the males who have to cover the absent positions.
Now they suddenly realise they need the biggest recruitment demographic which is the white male.
You even still see media articles lamenting the fact there are not far more women firefighters because some DEI fan demand equity.
From the above posted by Billie:
“The Army’s recruiting of white soldiers in 2023 had dropped almost by half in the last five years, according to a report.
That dramatic decline has coincided with a push by the service to increase recruitment of a more diverse population, according to a report”.
Perhaps it was after lunch?
what a crock
1. for starters that depends a lot where you are located in the country
2. much of gas’ bad wrap as a CO2 polluter is built on the un-measurable idea of fugitive emissions and on wasted heat at the point where it used for heating/cooking
3. the dirtiest filthiest emissions come from coal whether it be brown or black … and that aint going away unless we buy nuclear
although all the other talky points raised appear near sensible, its only on face-value
they are really just a veneer to rationalise the the idiotic idea that at some point (any day now) electricity will be cheaper, cleaner and be buttressed by even more wind and solar
none of it includes that the extant gas infrastructure would be a redundant waste that needs to be replaced with alternative distribution
or the reality that the required future elec/ruinable infrastructure must by design, be over built
at least by a factor of 4 or 5
ie 20 get a daily 20WG of energy we will need 100GW nameplate of electrical ruinables … probably more … much more
not even gonna go near the concept of storage because it is of course, pure unadulterated industrial-strength hopium
and not going near recycling either except to say that both solar panels and turbine components are basically land-fill
all we are doing is kicking the can down the road and patting ourselves on the back for a job well done.
Induction cooking … very low waste heat but the truth is they’re barely more efficient than a normal electric cooktop. Maybe 10%
heat-pump efficiency sure … sounds good but honestly, you’d prolly be better off just sealing and insulating yr home
I know of buildings that are seriously considering junking 1.5MW of gas boilers to replace them with heat-pumps
not because it’s clean
not because its cheap
not because they’re saving the planet
because … they get penalized by green oversight orgs and govt
none of it makes sense
even worse, they’ve been sold heat-pumps at a coefficent of performance (COP) of 8.0 but the reality is that running at the temperatures required for Hot Water, the COP is much closer to 1.0
ie. it will cost about 1Watt to move 1Watt.
pointless
I’m all for efficiency and clean … just not CO2 clean because it makes about zero difference to the planet’s temperature
last of all, the really ugly truth is that for all our localised climate vanities, all we have ever done is shift our CO2 emissions off-shore
outta sight outta mind
anyway … it sure does seem that all the best gestures these days are empty ones
drive a Tesla, get a boy-scout badge
PS: cheaper? remember, you’re the farm … somebody has to pay for all that infrastructure
Damn it. If only I had known in time for Christmas.
NOT!
“Roger just saw Lisa’s book at a discount store 3 for $10. Hardbacks”.
more footage of the downed F 22
The Mabo judgement appears reasonable” Mabo had farmed the land, as had his father and father before him, if the claim is to be believed. In the absence of any other claimant, it would be consistent with exiting property law.
However I understand that this precedent was used in Wik and extended to the mainland to whole groups of roaming hunter gatherers, which is absurd. Unfortunately, I doubt if it will ever be reversed.
this is fun
Am I on 2G today or is this site painfully slow today?
Lmao at the last one.
This is backwards on tech for punishing socialists.
That part of the world has already upgraded to helicopters.
Lockheed Martin has built 1,000 F-35s (so let’s bust some myths)
You get what you pay for and the USA certainly pays a fortune for military whizbag. Some argue the USA military is weak and pathetic. Sure … .
Inconsistency Turns Up Again for Cosmological Observations
Cosmology sucks. I never understood that given the limitations of the observable universe they argued our observations were representative of the whole universe.
This echoes around the world.
That isn’t the predominant reason for their presence.