But India, with an active space program, has its hand out. And there’s a story about that. The guy who…
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I was watching the price of gold drop below the $4k mark for most of last week, but for the…
if there British roots are anything like Aston Martin’s, send them over’ere
how do you know so much about this?
Calling Dr Cat What is the effect of tube diameter and wall stiffness on home blood pressure monitors? Quick search…
I’m glad you’re looking at these videos rosie. I can’t bear to.
This is psychopathic behaviour, and Israel has an entire community of psychopaths to deal with. Again.
How long will the volcano stay dormant?
“Donations” as in influence peddling and monopoly spreading.
Gates Foundation Announces Plan For Record-Breaking Donations This Year At Davos
Watching Ch 9 Today. Karl fired up at the Qld premier re: Olympics etc.
Seems a nice young bloke, but a boy on a mans errand.
No one said a word while he was still alive. As far as I know his own country, the US, still hasn’t.
EU Parliamentarian Blasts Commissar Von der Leyen for Ignoring Gonzalo Lira’s Death, Calls for Independent Investigation
Georgia Credit Union Bars Customers From Purchasing Guns With Their Own Money
The Likely Lab Leak and the Covid Cassandra
Concerned Citizen
@BGatesIsaPyscho
WEF Davos – Disease X
Incredible work by this independent journalist!
Can you tell us when you’re going to release Disease X?
Do you already have the so called ‘vaccine’?
These Global Lunatics/Deep State are responsible for ALL the insanity in the world right now.
How And Why The Ivy League Will Die
Given how the left treat conservative women, Ramaswamy might be a good choice for Trump’s VP. He has proven to be extraordinarily articulate, on message (mostly), and very quick to turn the tables on gotcha-jismists.
They had Crisafulli on earlier. He comes across as a whiny, whingy dweeb. Qld would be better off letting Bob Katter run the show.
Bolton being quite objctionable last night.
I do not intend to have any further converse either with him, or about him.
I’d love him to go away and find another blog to bother.
Penny Wrong still going on about a “two state solution”. Gaza proved how ridiculous it is to have a so-called Palestinian state contiguous with Israel. Any such state will be made into an armed encampment with the destruction of Israel #1 priority.
In fact nobody wants them.
Katie Hopkins: This is a fight to defend the Constitution… thank you IOWA
There is nothing ‘nice’ about Steven Miles
You’re an absurd idiot Birdolton.
This po-faced hypocrisy is really annoying me.
Wong warns Palestine over millions in Gaza aid (Paywallian)
The lies are appalling. She knows that in Gaza everything is controlled by terrorist groups. To give aid to Gaza is to give money to Hamas, period. Wrapping it up in hypocritical weasel words is an insult to our intelligence, especially when it’s all about buttering up the terrorist supporters in Lakemba and Bankstown.
Yes he is!
Linking the many diseases to radiation could be compared to Nagasaki and Hirishima to see if there are similar cases. Although they have a higher background radiation count they have a lower cancer rate. If radiation exposure is suspected a check should be carried out. To have such diseases in one family it may be worth speaking to researchers in each field to see if there are correlations. Speaking to medical specialists is more like hammer nail conversation. Researchers are more likely to engage as they are looking for breakthrough instead of a new Merc.
When they come for Mr McNally, he will accept a large payout, and then be quietly re-employed by Labore elsewhere.
You would be more astute with that stuff than I. He seemed like a boy. Karl Stefanovic handed his ass to him.
Ace has such a way with words. A bit like a naughty Tim Blair.
“Desperate Lonely-Vagged Femcel Fani Willis Caught In Another Lie; The Female John Claimed She Paid All of Her Hired Attorneys Equally, But In Fact She Paid Her He-Whore Extra Money to Service Her Nasty She-Nards” 😀
Indolent, not a bad article
Miles is just another campus Marxist
I thought Bolt On’s may have been GB at the beginning but soon changed my mind. GB actually had something to say till it rapidly turned World control by the Joozzzz. GB was quite sharp, Bolt On’s not much. One line by Bolt On’s is usually pulled down by the next 10. Piece!
Listen children…Oh No He Isn’t!
*in my best pantomime voice*
😀
Bolt On is Bird on meds.
Dude reckons he lives in a truck in the middle of a residential suburb.
He reckons he sleeps off hangovers in his truck.
In the middle of a Perth summer?
RIP
Another pantomime.
Yeah. Right-oh.
I’m feeling very up-beat today. Just replaced the wheel in my rotary cutter without slicing my fingers off.
Don’t spoil it.
Zafiro, Bob Katter is all hat, no cattle. Queenslanders must be easily led. I could be forgiven for saying this but I am not aware of Katter delivering anything. I stand to be corrected. I heard Katter jnr years ago talking about the water situation and thought him more informed and aware than everyone else lumped together. Since then nothing. Maybe he’s only heard in Queensland but the same occurs throughout Australia.
Classical music is very, very “white”?
GreyRanga
Just saying mate.
Quoting from a long-running feud,
This may be vacuous as nobody can link to anything that was said on Sinc Cat (unless it happened to be on the last page of comments). The problem plaguing the server during its last 6 months also prevented all prior content from being snapshotted by the Archives (national and Internet). Only if someone requested a snapshot of a specific page would it still be retrievable.
You just know Wongs whole trip is predicated on handing over the money with a nod and a wink to hopefully excuse having to begrudgingly show degree of support for Israel.
Who cares! He’s a troll, who’s here to: a) make an arsehole of himself; b) get attention he can’t otherwise get in his pathetic little existence.
How dumb is Benny Wonk to think there can be a two state solution to Israel and the pali’s whe the stated aim of the pali’s is the total destruction of Israel. Cut off any services to Gaza and no cross border visitation. Every rocket fired into Israel gets the border moved 1 metre towards the sea. What I really want see happen is Israel take back Gaza and throw the pali’s out. Tell the bedwetters to come and get them. I do not care about them. They have collectively made there own bed and failed. The government of Gaza is Humus, they lost. They don’t get to pick and choose.
Cultural enrichment.
Please provide details on how you are going to ensure this misuse of our hard earned $ will not happen, you pitiful excuse for a human being.
More Cultural enrichment.
We are living parallel lives, calli. Successfully completed the same fraught job yesterday morning. From removing the old, fishing out the new from its package and installing it successfully, the opportunities for blood on the floor are many.
Sadly, yes. This is exactly what is happening.
“George Deek @GeorgeDeek
How the Arab world talks about the Holocaust: the Holocaust never happened, and the Jews deserved it. Hitler was a hero, and the Jews are the real Hitler.
How many in the West are talking about Oct7: 7/10 never really happened, and the Jews deserved it. Hamas are the heroes, and the Jews are the real terrorists.“
Teh Paywallian reporting it’s happening. Basil is coming. Let’s not have any more cheap 6PR shots thank you.
Meanwhile in Hobart:
A farcical incident on the Tasman Bridge has highlighted the need for pedestrian and cycling infrastructure upgrades after an elderly man using a mobility scooter was forced to reverse for 15 minutes just to let a cargo bike past on one of the bridge’s pathways.
With a width of only about one metre, the narrow paths cause headaches for people trying to cross the bridge using active modes of transport, frequently requiring cyclists to squeeze past each other.
Hobart City councillor Ryan Posselt and his four-year-old son were travelling on a cargo bike from the Eastern Shore towards the city on Monday when they encountered an older man on a mobility scooter travelling in the other direction.
There wasn’t enough room for them to pass each other and so the man on the scooter had no choice but to reverse the device all the way back to the western shore of the bridge so that Mr Posselt and his son could go on their way.
Mercury, with nice pix showing steel rails on either side of the pathways
JC,
I agree with you on Rec Sea shipping, but you don’t go far enough. Standard marine cargo insurance language excludes acts of war and similar. Insurance wasn’t just unavailable from November; it never was available for this sort of risk.
From the Oz – well, at least he isn’t Yak Cockup:
Wasn’t aware the clown had a remotely conservative bone in his body, but there you go. Bear, as one of his most trusted advisors, what’s your view on this?
What about the choice the younger man had to reverse. Or are cargo bikes with a child attached like emus and kangaroos unable yo go backwards.
The problem here is not so much the bridge infrastructure but self important, entitled, virtue signalling, nut cases expecting the world to cater to their delusions of changing the world to suit them.
Arrgggh – I see you beat me to it.
What is it with the Tasman Bridge? First the ship Lake Illawarra in 1975 smashing the bridge in two, then the nice new Antarctic ship can’t get under it to refuel, and now this!
Tasmania must/will demand lots of dosh from Canberra for a new bridge. It will cost billions, run to billions more, and be ready by 2100.
I don’t care who Bolton/Strapon is but I do care about such comments as…
The global tolerance for Jews has been pushed to the limit (and in some jurisdictions well over).
This is classic Jew hatred. It is exactly the kind of rhetoric Hitler, Goebbells and others used. This is incitement.
BOM seasonal rainfall outlook for eastern states in February:
“At the moment, many areas have a range of outcomes for rainfall that could be occurring from very wet to very dry”.
I know it’s not a joke because it’s a meteorologist talking.
Handy hint, Megan.
If you have bought a pack of 10 blades and they appear to be gummed together…warm them up with the iron. Put a piece of cloth over them first. The blades are coated with a protective oil and it hardens over time. A little heat applied softens it up and allows the blades to pop apart.
The cunning Japanese think of every method possible to ruin your day, but I’m one step ahead of them.
‘Taxing parasites’: Is this the fieriest speech ever given at Davos?
Hans van Leeuwen – Europe correspondent
Davos | The West’s misguided or privilege-seeking political caste has junked free-market capitalism and instigated a form of socialism that will drag their countries into poverty, firebrand Argentine president Javier Milei has told the Davos elite.
In what is surely one of the most remarkable speeches a political leader has ever delivered to the jet-set conclave of the World Economic Forum, the recently elected arch-libertarian urged the C-suiters “not to surrender” to interventionist governments.
“I would like to leave a message to all businesspeople here: … do not be intimidated either by the political class or by parasites who live off the state,” he told an audience that was half bemused, half bedazzled.
“Do not surrender to a political class that only wants to stay in power and retain its privileges. You are social benefactors, you are heroes. Let no one tell you that your ambition is immoral. If you make money, it is because you offer a better product at a better price.
“Argentina is your staunch, unconditional ally. Long live freedom, dammit!”
Since winning office in December, the former academic economist has embarked on a frantic deregulation of Argentina’s economy, devaluing the currency and taking a sword to red tape of almost every kind.
The measures have sparked political protests, but have got a tick from the markets and from the International Monetary Fund, which last week provisionally signed off a $US4.7 billion disbursement from Argentina’s $US43 billion loan program.
Mr Milei took commercial flights to Davos, reportedly posing for selfies with passengers and boasting that he had fielded five dozen requests for meetings from other leaders at the WEF gathering.
In a rapid-fire address on the Davos central stage, Mr Milei declared that almost all political parties and ideologies in the West were collectivist in nature.
In almost every case, “well-meaning individuals” and “others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste” had abandoned the wealth-creating engine of free-market capitalism, instead pursuing social justice.
“The problem is that social justice is not just. … It’s an intrinsically unfair idea because it’s violent, it’s unjust because the state is financed through tax and taxes are collected coercively,” he said.
“The higher the tax burden, the higher the coercion and the lower the freedom.”
Although the West’s economic model was not socialism as traditionally understood, it was collectivist at heart, and thus sapped incentives for entrepreneurs to succeed.
He rejected the idea that there could be something called market failure, since markets simply reflected participants’ voluntary exchange of ownership rights.
“On the pretext of supposed market failure, regulations are introduced which only create distortions in the price system, prevent economic calculus and therefore also prevent saving, investment and growth,” he said.
He described all state intervention as “harmful”, creating “a downward spiral of regulations until we are all poorer, and life for all of us depends on a bureaucrat sitting in a luxury office”.
Even monopolies were not market failures: breaking them up would hurt growth, and destroy entrepreneurs’ property and returns.
“Capitalists, successful business people, are social benefactors who, far from appropriating the wealth of others, contribute to the general well-being. Ultimately, a successful entrepreneur is a hero,” he said.
He sketched out an economic history in which per-capita economic growth had been largely stagnant throughout human existence until the 20th century unleashed free-market capitalism.
“Thanks to capitalism, the world is now living its best moment. Never in all of humanity’s history has there been a time of more prosperity today,” he said.
He said free countries were 12 times richer than “repressed” countries, and even the poorest 10 per cent of a free country were better off than 90 per cent of the population of a repressed one.
“Free enterprise capitalism is not just the only possible system to end world poverty, but also it’s the only morally desirable system to achieve this,” he said.
Now he just has to go back to Argentina and prove it.
Translation: we’ve got no idea what we’re doing as we’ve inserted ideology into our meteorology. Please don’t sue us.
You can’t push a cargo bike backwards? Smells of beatup to me.
Shippers sound alarm over Red Sea crisis as costs double
Hans van Leeuwen – Europe correspondent
Davos | Iran has declared it wants to restore maritime security in the Red Sea not escalate the dispute, with a top minister saying attacks on ships there would stop if Israel halted its military operations in Gaza.
But Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s seemingly emollient comments on the Red Sea came as Iran launched a third missile strike on a neighbouring country in as many days. The target was an Iranian militant group in Pakistan, which responded furiously. That followed earlier hits on targets in Syria and Iraq.
Iran’s intervention also came as major freight companies warned that the Red Sea attacks could lead to shortages of vessels within weeks, as fleets become tied up taking the longer route around Africa – with a knock-on effect on prices that could kindle inflation.
Mr Amir-Abdollahian said Iran did not want to escalate the instability in the Red Sea, where Tehran-backed Houthis have been attacking cargo vessels, prompting US-led retaliatory strikes on sites in Yemen.
But speaking to an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, he said the Houthis had been responding to attacks on them, and their action was also motivated by Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
He said the Red Sea was “now tied to events in Gaza” and it would be “to all our detriment” if the attacks on the Palestinian enclave did not stop.
“If the genocide in Gaza stops, it will lead to the end of other attacks and crises in the region,” he said.
He said Tehran had warned that this would happen, but this “does not mean we want to play a role in the enlargement [of the conflict], no, it is because we have a proper understanding of the region”.
“We do care about maritime security and shipping safety. Our oil exports are done by sea,” he said. “The security of the region is our own security.”
‘Extremely disruptive’
In a statement on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US plans to designate the Houthis as a global terrorist group. The designation will take effect in 30 days.
The US military carried out fresh strikes on Yemen on Tuesday, targeting anti-ship ballistic missiles in a Houthi-controlled part of the country as a missile hit a Greek-owned vessel in the Red Sea.
Meanwhile, business leaders lined up to express concern about the looming likelihood that the Red Sea instability will start to disrupt supply chains and drive up costs.
“This is extremely disruptive because you have close to 20 per cent of global trade that transits through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to the Red Sea],” said Vincent Clerc, CEO of the shipping giant Maersk.
“It’s one of the most important arteries of global trade and global supply chains, and it’s clogged up right now,” he told Reuters Global Markets Forum in Davos.
Maersk and other large shipping lines have instructed hundreds of commercial vessels to stay clear of the Red Sea, sending them on a longer route around Africa or pausing until the safety of vessels can be assured.
Freight rates have more than doubled since early December, according to maritime consultancy Drewry’s world container index, while insurance sources have told Reuters that war risk premiums for shipments through the Red Sea are also rising.
The alternative shipping route around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope can add 10 to 14 days to a journey versus travelling via the Red Sea to the Suez Canal.
DHL Group boss Tobias Meyer told a Davos panel that a shortage of container ships could start before the end of the month, with particular impact on Asia.
“The back-flow is currently not happening at the pace people were planning for, so that’s something to monitor,” he said.
Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi oil giant Aramco, told Reuters in an interview that tankers would be available in the short term, “but if it’s longer term, it might be a problem”.
Pakistan fury
At Davos, Mr Amir-Abdollahian was accused of hypocrisy for justifying Tehran’s attacks on terrorist groups in third countries while criticising Israel for doing the same. He rejected this, saying Hamas was “a Palestinian liberation movement” not a terrorist group.
He said he had notified Pakistan’s foreign minister beforehand of the missile and drone salvo against separatist Sunni terrorist group Jaish al-Adl in Pakistan’s Balochestan Province on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT).
But Islamabad has responded by recalling its ambassador to Iran and barring Tehran’s envoy from re-entering the country over the “unprovoked and blatant breach” of its sovereignty. It said the strike killed two children and injured three others.
Mr Amir-Abdollahian was unapologetic: “We don’t allow national security to be compromised or played with, and we have no reservations, no hesitations when it comes to our national interests.”
But the attack is only likely to inflame regional tensions, which were already roused by an Iranian hit on an alleged Israeli spy base in Iraqi Kurdistan. Mr Amir-Abdollahian said his government would “respond vigorously” to any Israel attack.
Iran also this week fired missiles at ISIS targets in Syria following a lethal attack claimed by the terrorist group earlier this month.
Reduce it to a one way for motor vehicles, round the clock traffic wardens at each end on the bike lane, spend a billion on an upgrade?
I vote ban mobility scooters and ‘cargo bikes’.
Another slow and frustrating drive from east to west this morning.
Having a coffee break before picking up the kidlets.
So glad Labor didn’t proceed with East West link.
And the 40 km limit on Arden St?
A Godsend!
She’s not paid well above her grade to think but to regurgitate Labor policy.
If you happen to live in a Labor electorate, take it up with your local member and ask him to refer it to the local policy committee. That’s where the groundwork is done for policy votes at the National Conference.
Good luck!
Iran.
It’s different when we do it.
Also jihad is not terrorism.
Think I’ll be banned off the ABCAus subreddit for calling people invoking Its Butt Rose and the Murderogreorcs as the reason for the sacking of La Tooth as lunatics and retards.
Wong is full if it.
All she’s done is free up 21 million of PA money for pay for slay or other terror related spending.
Even being mistaken for Bird in polite company is nothing to be proud of. Only Dover with an ISP address will really know.
Thanks for the tip, calli. This is my first time buying ten blades at a time. The slipperiness of the oil increased the hazard ratio when separating them but I didn’t consider that it might harden. Good to know there’s a safer solution than trying to prize them apart with the blade of a Stanley knife.
The Pali’s have rejected five offers of a Two State solution since the late 1930’s. What makes Benny Wonk think they are interested in one, now?
Not much changed since the late 80s when a single km from the gates of the Carlton cemetery took me an hour.
Dan Andrews – a billion dollar moron.
Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevi? dies aged 46, following heart attack during team dinner
All right, move on, nothing to see here, please disperse.
I take it the pathways were built for pedestrians, before mobility scooters and adults in bicycles became a trend.
Would a “green bridge” not be the most inexpensive option?
Brisbane seems to be building about a dozen of the things (only slightly exaggerated.)
The cost could even be at least partially recouped by charging cyclists and mobility scooter users a toll via electronic means, just so they appreciate the larger generosity of tax payers.
Bureau of Mythology comes up trumps again with accurate predictions – or not.
Rain forecast for Canberra for Wednesday (early Tuesday) was 4-20 ml of rain, possible thunderstorm.
Updated late Tuesday to 15-35 ml, possible thunderstorm. Wednesday edition of Molonglo Pravda warns of danger of heavy rain and flash flooding.
Actual result 09:00am Wednesday to 09:00am Thursday: 7.8 ml
The previous 24 hours was 2.6 ml.
Shut it down.
Did anyone catch the weird near-hagiography the ABC wrote about that Wong chap a week or so ago? The theme of it was that Wong was good with microphones. Um okay. Something that could go in the CV I guess…?
It’s a hard road to the ‘Booka.
A hard road, man.
BoM forecast for D-Town yesterday, to 9.00 a.m. – 45-70 mm.
Actual – 0.2 mm.
Frontline heroes. Heroes all.
It must be quite scary being a professional athlete with people randomly dropping dead around you. Oh it’s always been like this, you’ll be told. Maybe that will work on the rookies, but anyone who’s been around longer than a few years will know different.
Heh. I bought a job lot back in 2018 when I visited the Houston Show. Slowly getting through them. Oil does funny things as it ages. I suspect it’s also a product of contact with the metal and plastic box.
That’s why it’s important to keep your sewing machine clean as a whistle, especially the rotary hook. The buildup of oil mixed with lint can be catastrophic. The brushes that come in the kit are too little, so I bought some long nylon fibre brushes to get down into everything. Some people prefer aerosol “air” but that can push gunk even further into the mechanism.
My Dad taught me how to take care of my tools, lovingly sharpening, oiling and storing meanwhile planning the next project. How I shall miss him!
I’ve always wondered why the honourable personages in charge of the senate committees in which she does that don’t tell her to leave the microphone alone.
I see that Wong chap has given $21M to Hamas to buy weapons from Iran.
Nice vote buying for western Sydney.
Javier Milei to the WEFocracy:
The Australian energy sector is a living example of a ‘market failure’ caused by a failed regulated market.
For wonks, a clear description of the problem – ironically given by an author advocating for moah intervention.
An awareness-free opinion piece that covers off almost every aspect of regulatory damage caused by replacing the Hidden Hand with Top Men.
kd certainly ticks all the right ALPBC boxes. That diversity push seems to have hit a couple of speedbumps. Old white people aren’t looking so bad any more.
I didn’t know cargo bikes were a “thing” here. Only ever saw them in europe being peddled by parents with little kiddies in the basket.
Anything else is pure wankery.
Will Arsetrailier be listed as supporting a listed terrorist organization?
John B
Thanks. I suspect though there is indirect insurance such as related welfare of the crew etc.
Insurance rates began to travel upward as the hootie tootie plan became obvious, in which case there is some indirect impact.
Benny Pong learned her mic skills from this lot.
*with many thanks to the Christian Elephant*
I like to think big picture about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When you start and lose three regional wars, you don’t generally get a whole heap of say about where you end up. It’s just not normally how things work out. For instance, Stalin wasn’t particularly interested in Kraut points of view whilst, after WWII, he was expelling the ethnic German populations from eastern Europe, and carving huge chunks out of German heartland and bolting it onto Poland.
Cargo bikes are the new Prius. Only ever seen a few of them around. That said if I was working in the Perth CBD I’d be commuting on an e-bike except for the dead of winter. Summer is too hot for all the safety gear. In reality my little learner 250 was as good as the 600 around town anyway.
the councillor had no choice but to manfully lift his cargo bike up and over the scooter and be on his way with his son with no fuss.
Wait, that didn’t happen??
Clears throat…
It’s not that the energy market has failed, but that it’s never been tried.
The theme of it was that Wong was good with microphones. Um okay. Something that could go in the CV I
Well, yeah, maybe, but what does she use them for?
There has been an unofficial ban on new freeway construction in Victoria since the state’s first left-wing LNP premier Dick Hamer succeeded Sir Henry Bolte in 1972.
Bolte ruled for 17 years from 1955. Hamer was the Liberal Party’s first Malcolm Turnbull of state politics and the party’s internal reaction to Bolte’s long reign: i.e, we’re a broad church and we believe in nothing. Bolte’s strong, decisive conservatism was anathema to opera-going small-l liberals like Hamer, who was a closet Green.
Only someone from the Grattan Institute would mistake the dogs breakfast that is the NEM for a market.
Re cargo bikes, youngest daughter is in Amsterdam at present working as an au pair. One of her tasks is to collect the youngest rug rat of three from school and transport him home in the front bucket or whatever it’s called.
Says apart from the ice and snow at present is not too bad. Also has to take them ice-skating which is done whether it’s raining or not.
On the plus side the Dutch eat pastries with chocolate on them all the time so there is that.
Surely Teslas are the new Priuses. Like Priuses, Teslas are decent cars in their own right. The dual motor Teslas are also insanely fast (mate of mine owns one and, pedal-to-the-floor off the line, it will smash your eyeballs into the back of your skull). However, there is definitely a subset of Tesla owners that are insufferable c%&ts. You can usually spot a smug git Tesla owner, as they leave the mandatory new car fuel consumption sticker on the windscreen forever that everyone else immediately peels off before they drive their car off the lot.
A pseudo-Liberty quote, for sure.
A bit technical for me.
5G Danger: 13 Reasons 5G Wireless Technology Will Be a Catastrophe for Humanity.
Wong covers the microphone during hearings when speaking to her departmental advisers so that the discussion cannot be recorded.
Given that the whole point of the hearing is to publicly examine and hold to account the decisions and workings of the minister & the department, she should need the permission of the chair to do so and it should only be granted rarely for a sufficiently weighty reason. Otherwise she is obscuring the workings of our democracy (and of course the ABC approves of that!).
Obviously to safeguard democracy.
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
JUST IN – Federal govt flagged transactions using terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP” for financial institutions, House Subcommittee says.
Argentina’s Javier Milei Warns Davos to Abandon Socialism: ‘The West Is in Danger’
Hollywood was created by European Jews.
Jews Waking Up To Hollywood’s Antisemitism Should Try To Destroy DEI, Not Join Its Ranks
Not to mention commentators dropping off the perch as well.
Renowned sports journalist Mick Dickson dies reporting on Australian Open in Melbourne (18 Jan)
Iowa – Democrats Supporting Haley
Message: Anecdotal Information
I live in Iowa and wanted you to know that my Caucus site had gobs and gobs of Democrats come in and change registration to vote. Everyone I talked with voted for Haley in this case. If this was consistent across the state, the real numbers here are much, much lower.
KO
REPLY: “A vote for Haley is a vote to send your children to die on a foreign battlefield. She is a Neocon, which is why the Democrats are pushing her to promote World War III. To imply that Hamas invaded Israel on Putin’s birthday as some present is just too much. It was Iran that provided the intelligence to Hamas, and Israel knew about the attack. Egypt, which is an ally of Putin, warned Israel about the attack, but it was ignored. Our sources state that 40% of the invasion force was non-Palestinians. Truth is always the first victim in war and politics.
Challenges have plagued election officials nationally to remove Trump from the ballot to “save democracy” by preventing Trump as a candidate. There are now some 60 petitions being filed across the country. This is all hinging on the Supreme Court to rule.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/iowa-democrats-supporting-haley/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
FMD, I am an idiot. I accidentally read that armstrong stuff, because I read top down, and now I need eye bleach.
When Biden, other Democrites, and their MSM familiars want to warn Americans against Trump they talk of him as a ‘threat to democracy’.
When Trump speaks of the danger of Biden and the Dems he cites specifics like the border, electoral
Interference, the danger of unvetted and unrestricted migration, the partisan weaponisation of government agencies, the assault on the family unit (parents are terrorists), the promotion of the Trans agenda, the stoking of racial discord, etc.
All of Trump’s points are supported by actual events – Americans don’t have to just take his word for it. In fact it is the persistent occurrence of events that he is addressing.
The Dems (and MSM), on the other hand, speak of the more abstract ‘democracy’ – and by that last I refer to the relevant tests for democracy being free speech, electoral integrity, defence of demos by protecting the borders, and so on.
These are things Trump talks about.
They are also the things the Dems are trying to cover up.
So the Dems must just make up (trump up?) crazy conspiracies about Trump personally. ‘He is going to be a dictator’, ‘he is going to lock up journalists’, ‘he was planning to sell nuclear secrets to Chynah’, and all the other nonsense, and these are his threats to ‘Democracy’.
I heard recently that Illinois has prepared some silly document where Trump is supposed to pledge that he won’t overthrow the government. It is a retarded gimmick by a Democrat state and Trump has no reason to sign it. But now they are screeching that he won’t swear not to overthrow the government. A threat to democracy!
I would also note one more impression: Trump talks to the people about their rights, their freedoms – things that belong to them. When the Dems talk about democracy it sounds like something of which they are custodians which they will take care of, and the people should leave it to them.
Okay, one more thing. It is a long established trope that single-party communist shitholes would insert the word ‘Democratic’ in their names because while the idea is splendid, the word can be bandied about with absolutely no commitment to it.
Aaaawwwwwww. Kewt eye bleach!
One of my favourite cities. Ask her if she has seen the “Street of the Dancing Houses.”
All you need to known about Haley is her two biggest backers: the co-founder of Home Depot (think Bunnings but much, much bigger) and his golf buddy from J.P. Morgan (forget his name).
They know she’ll take care to keep those Chinese imports coming and leave Wall Street unruffled.
Roger
Jan 18, 2024 10:23 AM
The energy market has failed. Here’s what should happen now
by Tony Wood
Clears throat…
It’s not that the energy market has failed, but that it’s never been tried.
This assumes that the market can be put aside. It can’t. All the decisions made have consequences whether they are done by individuals or by governments.
In fact, by intervening, governments implicitly acknowledge the existence of the market. They, however, don’t acknowledge the existence of the laws that govern market outcomes. Consequently they advocate the imposition of minimum and maximum prices depending on the audience they are targeting with disastrous consequences.
Controlling the market is like Canute controlling the tides or Burke controlling the climate. It’s an exercise in futility.
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My Dad was from the same old school, calli. An ounce of prevention etc. I’m a bit more hit and miss – strict with expensive machinery, less so with the easily and cheaply replaceable.
I must be doing something right. My Kenwood mixer is over 50 years old and still going strong. It didn’t even take offence to the arrival of the Thermie.
Your Dad will always be over your shoulder, smiling approvingly at those nylon brushes.
The last few seconds of the clip were rather satisfying.
I forget how many bicycles are thrown into the canals of Amsterdam each year, but the number is substantial.
This project will be the entirety of Tasmanian economy now that they want to shut down salmon farming. And let’s not forget, this handful of lunatics get twelve senators who hold the rest of the nation to ransom.
How does one add an emoticon indicating an attempt at humour?
I seem to need one.
Original reference.
Be that as it may, I’d still aver that we’ve never had a free market in electricity in Australia.
Excellent headline!
Chinese Women Are Voting Against Communism With Their Uteri (17 Jan)
The social dynamics in China right now are fascinating. Fortunately for Xi he has a lot more guys than gals due to selective abortions of girls because of the intense cultural drive to have boys. So he can still man his new ships. But the whole nation is about to hit a very hard and very painful demographic wall.
One thing is for sure, they are better comedians than meteorologists.
There is already a plan in place to upgrade the Tasman Bridge, including widening those pathways. First announced in 2020 , the designs were released in 2022. It was supposed to cost $130 million joint Federal and State funding. Who knows when, or indeed if, it will ever be done.
Many thanks to all who have made suggestions about the weird thyroid cluster.
There is a genetic link, but the suggested radiation causality is something which deserves further investigation.
Appreciation.
Here, their Wednesday forecast was 0-4mm.
According to an amateur site we received 31mm.
I don’t know the official result , because the BoM’s local station
has been disappeared, possibly out of embarrassment.
A green bridge across the Derwent if designed in Canbra will be sisal and board with a ladder in the middle. At high tide the middle of the bridge will be underwater.
We are watching Iran setting itself up as a regional sub-Hegemon – under the approving wings of BFF’s China and Russia.
The Hamarseholes, by throwing martyrs onto the fire they lit with Tehran’s approval, are doing Xi and Putin’s work by forcing the US and its western allies into abandoning Israel because of public opinion. The payoff for Beijing and Moscow is another US humiliation on the world stage, disarray in the West, and an exciting new ME/energy power axis – which they hope to control.
A second indirect payoff is in establishing the principle that the West is not allowed to strike at civilian-embedded military – so brownie points from savages and dictators everywhere.
Israel is enraged by the deliberately hideous atrocities (7/10 and continuing) and Hamas has plenty of
martyrschildren to feed into the game. All that’s needed is to gather in the useful idiots from the West, with their big brains focused on satisficing the domestic racket and a Two State Solution that can never work, and the job’s done.Australia has just contributed one.
The gender mismatch is a significant social thing in China – particularly in Beijing and Shanghai.
Put simply, by the Chinese themselves (who are quite open about this), the excess number of males is a ‘blessing for ugly women’. Provincial women flock to the big cities to find themselves a wealthy husband amongst the oversupply of young men.
Another Woke Tin Ear Australian Company
Woolworths to fly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags outside stores by 2025, chain’s Reconciliation Action Plan reveals
Australia’s largest supermarket chain has committed to flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags outside its stores as part of the company’s Reconciliation Action Plan.
Patrick Hannaford – Digital Reporter
Australia’s largest supermarket chain has committed to flying the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags outside its stores by January 2025.
Woolworths’ Reconciliation Action Plan for May 2023 to May 2025 said the company will “display Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags outside stores, sites and support offices where practicable”.
It is unclear whether the company is similarly committed to flying the Australian flag.
The policy is one of a series of “deliverables” under Woolworths’ commitment to “demonstrate respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by observing cultural protocols”, with the commitment to be reviewed this month and completed by January next year.
Other deliverables include starting important meetings with an acknowledgement of country, and inviting traditional owners to provide welcome to country ceremonies at “significant events” such as the Woolworth’s Group’s Annual General Meeting.
The news of Woolworths’ flag policy comes a week after the company announced they would stop selling Australia Day merchandise – a decision that prompted Opposition leader Peter Dutton to encourage customers to boycott the company.
Woolworth’s flag policy was mocked by 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Thursday, with the radio host questioning whether customers really need flags outside supermarkets.
“Where are they going to hang them all? I mean, I’m picturing your average supermarket; a lot of the time your Woolworths is inside a larger centre, where are you going to have flagpoles?
Are you going to have three of them one for the Australian flag, one for the Aboriginal flag, one for the Torres Strait Islander flag, or are you just doing the Aboriginal flag and the Torres Strait Islander flag?
“I think people will be wondering about Woolworths. Do we really need flags outside of Woolies stores that don’t say anything other than Woolworths? Because isn’t that why people are going, because they want to do some supermarket shopping?
Woolworths has been contacted for comment.
I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
– Donald Trump
And educated city women flock to the West and marry Aussie, American and German engineers and managers, to the disgust of China’s male senior managers.
calli @10.15, that’s a show of how Labor govern. Almost as bad as Elaine in Seinfeld dancing.
“I think people will be wondering about Woolworths. Do we really need flags outside of Woolies stores that don’t say anything other than Woolworths? Because isn’t that why people are going, because they want to do some supermarket shopping?
Woolworths has been contacted for comment.
It’s about time the ACCC prosecuted Woolies under the Trade Descriptions Act and other Consumer laws as they are not – “The Fresh Food People”.
If they can’t build a chairlift up Mt Wellington, what hope is there for an extra bike lane on the Tasman Bridge. I say, build a tunnel ?
Tennith news (the Courier-Mail):
‘Meowed at’. Some of the crowd are potentially Super Troopers fans.
Miss Anastascia may wish to revisit her resilience if she’s put off by people opening a packet of Samboy Salt ‘n’ Vinegar while she’s delivering a forehand down the line.
It’s not golf.
Now why would they do that?
Ah. Got it.
‘Don’t notice my tattoo which I deliberately got on a prominent place to be easily seen, and then remark on exactly what that tattoo contains. How dare you!’
Obviously, Ms Pavlyuchenkova can now expect choruses of meowing whenever she sets foot on a tennis court for the rest of her life.
Biology news.
Federal Government to Spend $700K Reminding Girls Who ‘Identify’ as Boys That They Can Still Get Pregnant (17 Jan)
I’m not sure which is the dumber idea, that women think they can’t get pregnant if they believe they are male, or that a government has to advertise to explain it to them. Bring on the dinosaur asteroid, we’re beyond rehabilitation.
As much as I usually despise that Wong chap, I think she (/ Oz) is treading a line of compromise which shows some promise.
#1 – Meet with Israel – good
#2 – Meet with the *West Bank* (PA controlled) Palestinians.
The fact that its the PA/West bank, and NOT Gaza is very important.
For all their faults – the PA has been (up till now) a moderating force amongst Palestinians in the current conflict.
I think we underestimate the PA/Hamas schism.
I didn’t know Woollies even had a flag, the logo is enough to tell customers who they are. It’s sad that they are doubling down on this woke crap but they deserve a financial bloody nose over it.
Strictly speaking, that’s true.
However, there always has been an element of market forces operating in Australia’s electricity industry, even before the NEM was created. Queensland, for example, competed with the southern states for industrial investment by offering lower-priced electricity. And all states tried to minimise state-controlled electricity prices with an eye on the next election.
Indirect forces, to be sure, but they resulted in low and predictable electricity prices.
amortizer also makes this good point:
They also don’t acknowledge the laws that govern physical outcomes – which creates the perfect storm we are about to enjoy for the next 15 years.
Hamas out for 45. 4/113
Self entitlement is alive and running in Canberra as I speak. Yesterday at Aldi picked up 6 items. The people behind had a huge trolley load. They said to the next person to go in front of them. She immediately said to me can she go in front of me because she was in a hurry. No! Upon exiting the store she gave me a mouthfull of abuse. I was so taken aback that I wished her well and laughed. I think that was worse than returning the abuse as it would have confirmed the description she gave of me. I’ve been on this blog for too long, you lot are having a good influence on me.
Sorry, no. The West Bank is about to explode, because Mahmoud Abbas is a sick 88 year old not long for the world. When he goes the mess will become quite messy.
LOL. Yes, some shipping companies began rerouting ships post-Galaxy Leader but that occurred slowly and accelerated over time as shipping companies adapted to circumstances. How do I know this? Because I was posting the news from the beginning while many people here were downplaying events and telling themselves that the US had this under control. Recall the jubilation there was when the US cobbled together Operation Prosperity Guardian and the consternation people felt when I was pointing out how ineffectual this would be. However, I still don’t recall actual insurers excluding specific flagged ships from their coverage if they traversed the Red Sea in December.
Flags are now indigenous cultural protocol.
Who knew?
Another great speech my Milei.
One of the few world leaders that sees the big picture and is not afraid to promote it.
So you don’t see engagement with them as a useful strategy to prevent that?
If it does explode, it’ll be flattened like Gaza.
I always speak strictly.
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Surely the headline in the Mercury should have been ‘City Councillor forces elderly ratepayer to reverse mobility scooter 1km on windy bridge’…
duncanm, you are being too generous, with muzzies, its all about being in control. Each of them will do whatever to climb the greasy pole, standing on each other to do it.
Woolworths’ CEO Brad(ford) Banducci’s bolt hole is a vineyard in Otago.
He may be making use of it sooner than he thinks.
yep – i realise that.
Unfortunately, we’re stuck with a very large number of them. So how does Israel continue to exist with hostile forces on its borders?
Gaza is (yet another) lesson for the muzzies of what happens when the lunatics go too far with Arab support, but they’ve had those lessons in the past (’48, ’56, ’67, ’73, ’82, ’06), and they don’t learn.
Trump had it right — get the neighbouring Arabs on board (by hook or crook) and the Pali problem will be neutralised.
Watching Milei’s speech at the moment.. its economics 101 dumbed down for kiddies.
For the idiots at the WEF, I suspect its the first time they’ve heard it.
The first indication that all would not proceed smoothly was when Cook forced the Botany Bay aborigines to strike their shoreside flag as a mark of respect for their new sovereign, King George, and then chopped down both their timber shoreside flagpole and even worse, the stainless steel flagpole used for more important ceremonies than telling interlopers to bugger orf.
There’s no-one else like him in world politics. Javier Milei is a libertarian economist.
He could almost be the lovechild of Professor Sinclair Davidson, the Cat’s former Doomlord.
Economics101 is hard. Ask mUnty.
JC:
I think you’re obsessed with me.
I’ll find a photo of me in just a pair of jocks and link it.
I know you’ll love it.
duncanm
How do we continue to exist peacefully with hostile forces within our borders?
Yes, you do.
Milei continuing to hit it out of the park.. reminding the WEF that socialism has failed in every aspect, including the murder of hundreds of millions.
Corey Gil-Shuster’s You Tube channel is insightful.
The questions are sent to him from viewers around the world.
Colonel Crispin Berka
I couldn’t guess, Berka, but the next 12 months are going to be as interesting as Hell.
Marsh gorn for 5. 5/129.
Who said it might be a 2 day test (apart from me :))?
No. Hamas has been angling to take over from the PA for a long time, which is why Abbas has never held another election. He didn’t dare to.
So far the PA has keep the lid on, with things like the pay-for-slay pensions. But there is no obvious successor to Abbas except for Marwan Barghouti, who is a convicted murderer in an Israeli gaol. And Abbas has been suppressing Bagrhouti’s supporters for decades.
Abbas has been preventing any successor from emerging for the obvious reason.
When he dies there’s going to be an almighty scramble between second level Fatah types, Barghouti supporters, Hamas, IJ, PFLP and ISIS.
Let’s hope they’re no too hungover from last night’s partying to take it in.
I believe that’s now the chief reason to go to Davos, which has a very seedy underbelly.
Yes, I recall you posting about the tootsie action in the Red Sea. You also quite uninhibited in your comments when I suggested the outcome is a disturbance but not the end of the world as the reroute work around would add 8 days to most long voyages.
Let’s say you were a risk manager at one of the big firms. What would you have done to premiums over the course of the tootsie piracy? Would you have left things alone, whacked up the cost, as things began to get worse?
Insurance for the large firms is likely very complex as some would self insure and on take a policy over a certain level. They could even insure fleet wide instead of individual ships or the reverse.
The Twitter post looks bogus and you need to “cope” with this.
Read The Shipping Man, which is about a hedge fund guy entering the shipping business. It’s semi fiction but the description of the shipping business is quite accurate.
“I think you’re obsessed with me.
I’ll find a photo of me in just a pair of jocks and link it.
I know you’ll love it.”
😀 😀 😀 😀
I am still trying to catch my breath. My sides hurt. Don’t forget to hold Areff’s pussy suggestively. I need to lie down. tee hee.
Strictly,
Opinions about Crocodile Man’s bloated corpse sinking Raelene Cooper’s absurd claim of songlines extending hundreds of nautical miles offshore?
Thanks.
Fair chance she’ll drop out after New Hampshire, which is her pet state.
Nolte: Trump Tops Haley by 16 in NH, DeSantis Losing to ‘Undecided (17 Jan)
The Murdoch/Koch Bros-led elites’ attempts to polish Ms Haley just aren’t working. On the other hand the elites will want a Steven Bradbury on hand in case of something happening to Trump. Which is pointless really, since if the big end of town gets rid of Trump all his voters will start home on election day cleaning and oiling their, um, MAGA hats.
thanks for the link Roger — always good to hear directly from people on the ground.
This will be a lot closer to the mark than many at first realise.
That probably needs further context for readers.
Katzenjammer:
The important part you mention:
That is the most significant part of the quote.
If ever there was an organisation that needed restraining, it is government and at the moment our government and its multiple arms are like a hydra – only with arseholes, not heads. Cut off one arm and another two arseholes take its place.
JC, you’re just coping above. Nothing was ‘bogus’ about that report. No one was arguing that premiums were unaffected by events post-Galaxy Leader. In fact, they and I have been arguing the opposite since this began. But there is a difference between premiums rising and insurers refusing to underwrite specifically flagged ships traversing the Rea Sea. Now you want me to read semi-fiction. Dear oh dear.
“Do you want to nuke Gaza?”
“Why not?”
The role of laws is to constrain government action…
It’s actually the role of the Constitution to constrain government action. Unfortunately, the guardian of the Constitution – The High Court here and the Supreme Court in the USA, has seen its role as interpreting the Constitution to favour expansive government action at the expense of the citizenry.
There is little indication that this trend will be reversed. Do we have to descend to the level of Argentina before anything effective happens?
The machine can’t win with Biden so they’re voting for Haley. Democrats registering as Republicans etc.
Digger
It will be interesting to see the retaliatory mail drop that will occur if they are stupid enough to assassinate Trump.
There’s a hair differential.
Digger:
There’s a third – the nuclear war option, followed by a State of Emergency style dictatorship.
That’s the worry. Would the Democrat Deep State do it?
They would – it’s why they’re all digging deep shelters. Insurance.
Correct, Megan.
Javier Milei is Doomlord with hair.
This turned up in a three year old news feed I’d archived
Provides some contemporaneous context for last night’s “Respect the Police” urging.
“But calls to harm or hate others should be banned.”
No, I cannot agree.
Firstly, politics is downstream from culture – such acts should be unthinkable first and foremost.
Secondly, you should be liable for what you say, but only when proven in a court of law that what you said caused actual harm – be that physical harm (assault), or mental harm (discrimination that results in harm such as refusal of service at a public accommodation).
The fact that I disagree with you about your race, religion, creed, etc is NOT hate speech, even if I say some group is despicable etc – that is my opinion, and I should have the right to state it. If such speech can be both shown to have resulted in someone being denied their rights, and also that I should have reasonably been able to foresee such an event, then I am liable for inciting such actions as resulted from my speech.
This means I must reasonably act to curtail my worst impulses and insults, while still being able to express an honestly held opinion about any person, group, law, action etc, and if some looney-tunes weirdo takes what I say as a call to action when any reasonable person would not, then I should be protected from the liability of what said looney did.
Anything less is not really freedom, is it?
To paraphrase: “With great freedom comes great responsibility”.
As I’ve noted before, traditional Australian culture is that any person, regardless of any consideration at all, is allowed to find fault with any person or group and poke gentle fun at them about it. And the target of that fun is not just allowed but expected to return an equal serving, with both sides having sufficient sense of humour to laugh not just at the other, but at themselves. This is the culture we must again make the dominant one in this country.
Laws to protect people from “hate speech” are anathema to such actions and I deplore all such laws, without exception. If I cannot speak publicly when what I say may hurt someones feelings, then politics, religion and even sport is no longer permissible public speech, and that is unacceptable. “Bad” speech is best answered with “good” speech, not censorship.
what hope is there for an extra bike lane on the Tasman Bridge. I say, build a tunnel ?
Have to move the wreck of the Lake Illawarra if they wanted to go anywhere near the present bridge.
Has to be one of the most macabre planning decisions ever. The Tasman Bridge collapse killed 12 people. The ship that crashed into the bridge sank immediately with hundreds of tons of concrete and four cars on top of it. The whole debris field – complete with the poor dead people – is still there beside the present bridge.
Apparently the cargo bike rider and mobility scooter driver are related. In any other state of Australia that would be cause for deep suspicion.
Of course, the simplest and cheapest solution would be to instal a few “passing lanes”, about two metres long, cantilevered off the side of the bridge.
But, Tasmanians being the entitled troughers that they are, nothing short of a new federally funded bridge will do.
Not when premiums are prohibitive. Then it’s only question of definition. And by the way freight is separately insured in commercial shipping as the ship owners don’t carry the risk of freight.
I thought you may be interested in a funny book about an industry, which has some unique characteristics and has very funny episodes. I was suggesting it for entertainment value.
The Generation Gap — 2024 Australia Day lamb ad. Brilliant.
Given that we are now “multicultural”, what about the cultures present in our suburbs where such speech and acts are not unthinkable?
Lizzie:
Yes, two recessives reinforcing each other?
This is hilarious.
Captain Cryon De Telli moved up to open, hoping to plunder cheap runs from a weak West Indian attack and tie down his spot for the next couple of years.
Fail.
The bloke they just had to squeeze into the team (Cameron Green) also a fail at #4.
And Marsh edged three to the same spot before one finally carried to a close in third slip. Out for 5.
They will probably beat the West Indies but they are a side barely clinging to Test status.
I doubt we would hear Milei describe Malcolm Trumble as “potentially great”.
“Don’t forget to hold Areff’s pussy suggestively.
That probably needs further context for readers.”
Bear,
Areff is out of the country for twelve months. By the time he gets back, the gossip will have died down. The photos though…
A rookie mistake – from our church ‘Australia’s got Talent’ worship team
Hahaha. Smiffy was caught at slip on the first ball in Test cricket by some young bloke who lives in a small village in the backblocks of the Caribbean.
Pay that, Sanchez: Captain Cryon De Telli.
Bungonia Bee
That Wong Chap wants the two state system to continue because she’s fully aware it means more Israeli deaths. It means a continuing daily death toll for the State of Israel.
It simply means more dead Jews, and that’s why she wants it.
There is something about hair: Milei, Trump, Reagan
“Given that we are now “multicultural”, what about the cultures present in our suburbs where such speech and acts are not unthinkable?”
That we are “multicultural” does not forgive someone for an “honour killing” and neither should it forgive them from behaving as the dominant culture expects for speech. Certainly we are told to respect the “local culture” when traveling overseas, so do I not have the right to expect the same from any who choose to live here?
As deplorable as I think insulting someone based on their race, colour, creed, religion, sex or sexuality is, an insult should not be a criminal act, as 18C makes it – it should only rise to criminality when it results in actual harm. Punishing someone at law because they hurt your feelings is so far beyond the pale as to be worthy of nothing less than utter contempt – less subjective and more objective is what is required.
I have to date not entered into the matter of ex-skipper Sooky McCheatyface moving up the order to open the batting on behalf of this wide brown land. However:
This was not just an attempt to tie down another place in the team for the next two years or so. This was an attempt – which had been apparently brewing for some time – to extend his career by another two years.
Had Straya been playing India, England or the Jaapies, Sooky would never have contemplated moving to number 1 or 2 and facing world-class quicks with a new pill. He – as mentioned above – was tempted by the offer of cheapie junk runs at the tail of his career to maintain his average.
It happened to coincide with the selectors’ desire to shoehorn two giant all-rounders – Marsh and Green – into the starting XI.
There are two (very) young top order bats – Teague Wyllie from WA and Sam Konstas from NSW who in a year’s time will be kicking the door in for a No. 4 gig, and of whom both are serious long-term prospects. Smith knows this, and he also knows his reflexes are going – which is a bastard if you rely solely on hand-eye co-ordination (as Smith does) rather than timing, balance and transfer of weight.
Yes it is only one innings of a series. Unfortunately for Sooky though, it’s the beginning of the end because all Green has to do is make runs at some point and he’s locked in at 4. If Smith fails, there’s nowhere to go back to, the wolves are already at his heels and a teary retirement presser will certainly follow.
If Biden faces off against Trump , Biden will win with 400 million votes.
What’s that you say that’s more than the number of people in the US?
Election denier,insurrectionist,it’s off to gaol for you.
Apparently not, given events in NSW recently where police tolerated public calls to “kill the Jews.”
This is a serious question…there is no longer a cultural consensus about not engaging in public speech which was once deemed unacceptable, such as calls to kill members of a particular ethnic or religious group.
Are we now to tolerate such speech?
Uh-oh.
The preliminary ATSB report into the mid-air collision between two ex-military trainers over Port Phillip Bay is in.
It would appear that the deceased pilot improvised an unplanned and unbriefed manoeuvre to – wait for it – “get a better camera shot”.
Number two aircraft was to back off from formation, #1 rolls inverted, then #2 resumes formation alongside for filming.
Instead # 2 decides to slide under #1 and then come up along side on the other side.
The first time it seemed the manoeuvre was not announced to #1 and was just freelanced. The spotter in #1 is recorded as saying that they had lost sight of #2. This is very bad in close formation.
Incredibly, no-one called a halt to proceedings, and they attempted it again. This time the right wing of #2 clipped the right wing of #1 (which was inverted) coming up the other side, rendering it uncontrollable and it speared in.
Another factor which pops out of the report was that the fuel system on this aircraft limited inverted flight to 30 seconds. This means two things:-
1. There is not enough time to trim the elevator for stable inverted flight;
2. Any manoeuvres conducted whilst inverted have the potential to be rushed – #2 gets in position, captured some footage and the clears out to enable #1 to roll upright – all in 30 seconds.
Valé you crazy bastard indeed.
Sometimes words fail me. Islam is a murderous death cult.
My position has been and will remain…
Keep bombing until there is no movement.
At least motorcyclists might get to be organ donors. No chance of eligibility there.
#1 rolls inverted, then #2 resumes formation alongside for filming.
Isn’t this Maverick in the first Top Gun ?
So who read Tony Thomas’s three articles on Cronulla?
So who read Tony Thomas’s three articles on Cronulla?
I think I only saw & read two. I remember the events well.
Penny Wrong still going on about a “two state solution”.
Got into an argument last night where this was constantly brought up by the opposition. It’s rather interesting comparing the creation of East Timor as a nation-state with it. If the Indons had proved vindictive then who knows where they would be now.
I did. Absolutely infuriating.
KD at 1:32.
Yes, if the opposing attack included Curtly Ambrose or Allan Donald there is no way Cryon De Telli would have volunteered to open.
If Green makes runs the lifeboat is gone.
Even if he doesn’t are they going to drop Green to push Sniffy back to #4?
His only real contingency plan is if Marsh gets injured and he goes back to 5.
I also think part of Sniffy’s plan was that Australia would bowl the West Indies out cheaply twice in each match, leaving a tasty little target to chase with a red ink opportunity.
Well, it makes an effort but something’s lacking. What could it be?
How about AUSTRALIA DAY?
It’s almost hard to believe new cruise ship Icon of the Seas is real and not CGI:
https://twitter.com/mrexits/status/1746777623945167212
It’s also… horrifying.
Looks like the future Strayan captain, currently on 62 reds is the only thing stopping our much-vaunted (and revised) top order from complete embarrassment at the hands of a West Indies team currently and rightly regarded as third-rate.