So, the Obamas have endorsed Kamala. I would imagine she dropped down on her knees in gratitude – not through…
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Incest?
Interesting, Thank you Peter So many remarkable events in US politics this month – the instant MSM u-turn on the…
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Zatara
Jan 21, 2024 12:50 PM…..my best guess would be from DFAT . But, and its a big but .. the exporters will be looking for another buyer. Bringing livestock back here has issues with bio security .
Problem is the health/hygiene of the animals the boat can’t navigate the Red Sea cos Houthis so the shipper has been advised to either turn around or find an alternate buyer ….
It’s a clever ‘Hootie Tootie’ tactic to have the poor animals unloaded in Yemen or the Horn of Africa or somewhere else close and for the animals to be used as food for the locals. Free food for all. /sarc
Ah yes. It has entered the event horizon of your gut.
Knuckle Dragger
Jan 21, 2024 12:53 AM
the Cat is on the radar of US intelligence
My God. Rotten was right all along.
Martin Armstrong’s onto us.
LOL. It was Junior Cretin that gave the game away wiv’ all the endorsements for Marty. More lol.
Indolent:
Bullshit. The Palestinians were allowed into Lebanon when they caused a civil war in Jordan and were thrown out. Lebanon gave them entry to their country – a Christian nation. The Palestinians then ignited another civil war in gratitude.
Any nation that allows these ungrateful bastards into their borders is run by malignant politicians who hate their own people. Like Australia.
Right. And that won’t bother the Jordanians who bought the animals at all.
Looks like a wonderful experience on a ship that holds half the world’s population.
Good God head prefect: that looks like Carmen Miranda after a visit to Dulux.
Anyway, as you no doubt know, have nothing to do with the 3 Fs.
Cassie of Sydney:
No, Cassie. It’s just plain old bullshit and needs to be laughed at at every opportunity.
Finally! The B Ark!
It would make a colourful reef.
Forty degrees here at the Bay. Toasty warm.
The children are in the pool – no need to heat it yet. 😀
But the ones who got here before the British are soooo uniquely special in all the world.
As some of them, the activists, and the likes of Albo keep telling us.
mUnty reduced to paint-by-numbers trolling. Even by his standards, sad.
Same with Headcase over on C.L.’s blog.
But even he is managing to outdo himself with the trolling lately.
Perth Trader
Jan 21, 2024 1:01 PM
Will there be enough food and water on board for the return trip?
Monty is roused and so he should be. 20,000 hamburgers heading back to Australia.
Groogs always struggled to rise above his inner self. Freud would have had a field day.
Old Ozzie:
It truly is a sign of the times that Australia is finding it difficult to keep our arses clean because of government energy policy.
Not much love in the region now either.
Suspected Jordanian air strikes in southern Syria kill 10 – activists (BBC, 19 Jan)
Potting Iranian-linked drug smugglers, apparently, not Palis, but pretty unusual for Jordan to do something like this especially with Iran being so touchy.
An interesting analysis of what went wrong with Israeli Intelligence operatives in not detecting – or believing – the preparations of Hamas prior to 7 October:
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/what-went-wrong-three-hypotheses-on-israels-massive-intelligence-failure/
Calli:
It isn’t about saving the planet or the environment – it’s the demonstrated use of naked power to let the peasants know they are powerless, no matter what the subject.
When you look at it this way, it becomes quite obvious what the game is.
Or the whole world’s population after Disease X 2024 goes through. ];->
A triumph of socialism and government managerialism.
In the late 1970’s I worked as a shotfirer at Yorkshire Main Colliery, producing some of the coal that ended up as coke in the Sheffield blast furnaces. The mine employed 2000 men and produced a less than 2 million tonnes annually.
The main reason for the shocking productivity was the extraordinarily difficult mining conditions. It was a social enterprise, designed for employment and industrial relations ease rather than economic rationalism.
The price received by the mine – published as part of our bonus calculation process – was just under £100/tonne (in currency of the day). At the same time coking coal from Richards Bay was being landed in Rotterdam for US$21/tonne (then about £10/tonne).
Oddly enough, British Steel (also a social enterprise for the same reasons) was not internationally competitive. The mills were forced to buy its coke from the NCB by government policy – and because there was literally no coal import facility in the UK.
Also by government policy.
Rather than adapt, post-war Bristish heavy industry fossilized and necrotized.
Then came Margaret Thatcher…
Nearly half a century later, I’m watching Australia do the same thing in reverse: adapting into a fossil.
Hopefully there is a Margaret in the near future.
Right. And that won’t bother the Jordanians who bought the animals at all.
They can always talk to their Arabic/Islamist/Terrorist friends and ask for the animals to be delivered quickly for a halal execution.
A country that gave us British Leyland was probably on borrowed time.
Whoever said that if you are not the consumer, you are the product, was right:
As with every other economic ‘boom’, none of the urgers in the financial Press delved too deeply to find out what underlay it, if anything.
Well, it’s pretty clear that Spacechook is a vast data gathering exercise about users, the results of which were/are resold for enough to make the company very profitable.
Not at the individual level, probably, but helps to explain why people get ads that uncannily echo their life experiences.
So glad I never did ‘social media.’
Dr F
Perhaps a Gina?
It would appear that Israel took out the Iranian IRGC commanders in Syria in response to reports that a new concerted attack was being planned by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon.
https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2024/01/irgc-intelligence-advisor-killed-by-airstrike-in-syria.php
hooties prepare for war
The Wall Street Journal
Opinion – The EV Backlash Builds
The Editorial Board
The Biden Administration keeps throwing around billions in subsidies for electric vehicles, and the press corps keeps hailing them, but consumers don’t seem to want them.
The evidence is building that this green industrial policy is a bust.
Ford Motor said on Friday that it’s slashing production of its F-150 Lightning truck amid flagging demand. The F-150 Lightning drew oohs and aahs from the press when it was unveiled in May 2021. Yet the electric pickup has been plagued with defects that have required recalls.
It sold a mere 24,165 Lightnings last year and lost roughly $36,000 on each EV in the third quarter.
So now Ford is cutting production at its Lightning plant in Michigan while increasing output of its popular gas-powered Bronco SUV and Ranger pickup. “We are taking advantage of our manufacturing flexibility to offer customers choices while balancing our growth and profitability,” said CEO Jim Farley.
Or consider General Motors, which last month told its Chevrolet dealers to stop selling its electric Blazer SUV owing to software and other problems. Consumer complaints have piled up on social media about glitches including inoperable window switches and batteries that won’t charge.
A Consumer Reports survey in November found that new EVs have 79% more problems than internal-combustion cars.
“This suggests that legacy auto makers need more time to work out the kinks under the hood of their EVs,” the report noted. “What matters most to consumers remains the same: finding safe, reliable cars,” Consumer Reports CEO Marta Tellado said.
People want safe, reliable cars—who would have thought?
Hertz, the rental car giant, is also bowing to consumer demand by selling about a third of its global EV fleet and buying more gas-powered cars with the proceeds.
Car renters have no doubt read stories about the long lines of Chicago drivers unable to charge their EVs as batteries drain power faster in freezing weather.
None of this is stopping the Biden Administration, as this week the Environmental Protection Agency sent its final rule on auto greenhouse emission standards to the White House for review.
This back-door EV mandate will punish Ford and other auto makers if they respond to consumer demand by selling more gas-powered cars.
It will also compel the companies to roll out EVs before technological and engineering kinks are worked out.
This is a recipe for making EVs less popular, not more.
Amid the private jet-set at Davos this week, Biden climate czar John Kerry attributed consumer resistance to EVs to “disinformation.”
That’s hilarious. The automobile press couldn’t be more in the tank for EVs.
We’ve got nothing against electric vehicles if consumers want them.
But the Administration is trying to force them on the public with mandates and subsidies.
This misallocation of capital harms consumers and workers.
Mr. Biden’s green industrial policy isn’t failing because of bad marketing.
It’s failing because Americans don’t like the product.
Never heard of this dude. He’s pretty good.
An old favourite, and one that I notice has been used against me recently.
You are not my biggest fan? Why, you must be deranged! Nobody could possibly not adore me unless he/she has some kind of mental deficit.
The characterisations of me as a sad, lonely alcoholic living out my days in a seedy motel, based on zero information but a shitload of wishes, are more of the same. It’s nonsense. Mind you, it’s got a sort of James Ellroy ring about it, or even Raymond Carver, but, alas for our wealthy Eastern Suburbs fantasists, it’s not true.
BTW, Queanbeyan is a great place to live, just ask Top Ender.
Snobs and Mean Girls. Looking at the downticks, I don’t think your schtick is working. 🙂
This is better, I hope.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1748022794405794166
A parade of tinnies!
Took a while, but Private Eye magazine from 1979 was spot on the money!
Thanks to reader RKH who writes:
In my younger days I was an avid subscriber to the satirical magazine “Private Eye” and still dip into the online version now and then.
I recalled the publication of the December 1979 magazine and have been able to obtain a copy of the front page – how prophetic was the publisher of the magazine given the events of today?
Regards
RKH
They’re naval power looks incredible, especially for water skiing.
Their…
This one over at Breitbart, which I was reading just now, is fun also.
Pinkerton: Republican #Resistance Comes to Electric Vehicles at the D.C. Auto Show (20 Jan)
Lefties do this all the time, they get incredulous that you could possibly think their latest brainfart isn’t the best thing since smashed avo on quinoa. On the other hand there certainly seems to be a significant phase change occurring re Gaia-chariots. The cold weather in the US has added some nice spice to this new move in the direction of reality. I suspect both GM and Ford will be going bankrupt sooner rather than later.
The ABC continues to desperately try and get the band back together.
You might not know it, but Covid is more dangerous, more deadly, more socially and economically destructive than ever. Just ask this freaking weirdo:
This story sounds just a little too neat to be true, doesn’t it?
That’s hilarious. The automobile press couldn’t be more in the tank for EVs.
I know. The way Carsales.com.au pushes them is puke making.
Car magazines are notorious for being unwilling to bite the hand that feeds them. A factor which accounted for a lot of Top Gears early success – it was closer to the Roy & HG of car press. It is hilarious reading the reviews of the latest AMG 63 which swapped the V8 for a turbo 4.
For car buffs – for the first time I saw a Chrysler 300C today, a white one parked in the street. I liked the look of it a lot – compared to all the ugly hatchbacks etc around it looked very classy. V8.
Apparently the coppers bought a few, but Chrysler stopped doing right hand drives in about 2020, and that was that.
Here‘s a picture.
It looked lovely – like a Bentley or something.
BTW, the church bells have just rung as they do regularly. Very reassuring.
Seconded, although I was there in the late eighties. I hated Canberra, it squeaked like a plastic raincoat. Artificial. Queanbeyan by comparison was relaxed and normal.
Ncl has a lot of similarity of course, except for the tiny greenie bit at Cooks Hill.
A handful of daisy cutters would have sorted out that parade quite efficiently.
Sacré bleu, Cats – stepping outside out the moment is like entering an open air furnace …
Gerbil Broiling! 😕
Otherwise it’s just a Sydney summer’s day.
Every year a forest the size of a country in Europe burns in Australia. Greenies weep in their cornflakes coz its caused by globule worming. In effect we could have harvested that same timber instead of importing it. Not even selective logging. Fire breaks 2km wide could be logged with no detriment to the environment and reduce the disastrous fires we constantly have. At Nowra there is a motorcycle facility for offroad racing. It is constantly used. They wanted to get a larger area, found one, greenies discovered the ever elusive butterfly or moth. No go. That area was burnt out. What happened to the butterfly habitat? Since its ok to say “gas the Jews”, I guess its ok to say kill the greenies. I really can’t believe the damage our political system has done to this country.
Those white gloves are pretty fetching, in a fierce Lawrence of Arabia type way.
Really? They’re reasonably common. You should buy one if you’re into them. I agree they’re an interesting alternative to your standard large sedan. I wonder if they have reliability issues, however (don’t trust modern Chryslers, although this could be confined to Jeep).
Rabz, more likely the hot chick from next door walked past.
Chrysler 300C is a Mercedes E class chassis with lousy brakes. Highway Patrol use them on the Hume Hwy.
The white gloves thing is hugely gay.
They’re great at a version of ballroom dancing too. Here they are doing the Hootie Tootie. Very talented
Unfortunately the “B” Ark for this planet would need to hold over half the population.
Currently 18c in Melbourne, should be 19 on Monday 28 Tuesday with a 31 bounce on Wednesday then cool again.
I’ll be gone though, to top temp 16c Roma.
I made a joke a long time ago in Denmark about the difference between a Danish summer and a Melbourne winter (none)
Now I could make it about a Melbourne summer and a Roman winter (not much)
The hemi engine in the 300C is not a good engine to potter around town with stop start driving. The camshaft sits too high in the block and doesn’t get enough oil on the lobes which leads to premature wear.
Looky like a storm is on its way to nfq. Might get a bit wet again ay
I didn’t watch to the end of the houtie vid.
Did they finish with the floaties division?
Oh, and by somebody’s definition, I am not ‘elderly,’ I am not yet 70. Whether I was or wasn’t, I wouldn’t be boasting about my tits, at that or any age. It just demonstrates yet again that you apparently regarded your temporary attributes when you were young as a pathway to the future. OK, not the first and won’t be the last.
For latecomers, you need to realise that this saintly (but raunchy, brilliant and generous) fraud has been running her lines here and elsewhere for decades. Her ‘I am just a sweet LOL’ persona, recently adopted, is a pack of lies, as anyone who has been around for the long term knows. Then, there’s the ‘book’ about Arthurian legends that she went on and on about for years. She dined out, people here (sad sacks) were enthused. but the book never appeared, and never will. She’s a con artist.
Lizzie, when you put up that comment about me and mouldy dildos all those years ago (which demonstrated the real person under the couth veneer) I bet you never realised that you picked the wrong person. I will continue to accept your comments, however stupid, about politics.
That’s it.
An excerpt from the CIA Report on this august Blogue*:
“A site laden with tinfoil hatted personages where conspiracy hypotheses are unrepentantly purveyed!”
*Which just so happened to “accidentally” come into my possession …
They had lots of bad Iranian knockoffs of elderly Chinese missiles. I wonder where they came from? It’s a mystery. The most practical thing they had were truckloads of what looked like sea mines. Those would be a fairly serious annoyance deployed in the Strait of Aden.
Javier Milei is fine with monopolies if they helped deliver greater GDP per capita.
What about vertical integration and monopsonies? Does switching cost and competition count for nothing? Surely spider-man’s Uncle Ben was right?
johanna
Jan 21, 2024 5:22 PM
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Just saying…
Elizabeth has nice tits. I don’t care how old she is.
Dear Prudence …
Is that a quote from Prince Phillip Steve?
Maybe I misunderstood Milei, but I don’t think so.
https://youtu.be/8DYQQf1KjYo?t=801
a growing rate-of-return (and GDP/C) “involves” concentrated structures [ – the translation].
Dear Prudence* …
*The Parkinsoni
Cricket Australia bows to wokeness about Australia Day. Wait for capt’n climate to bow in next. And opener Hamas. From the Hun….
Cricket Australia will walk a delicate tightrope this week when it gently acknowledges the polarities of emotion around Australia Day during the Gabba Test.
Men’s international cricket returns to the public holiday on Friday, which coincides with day two of the second Test between Australia and the West Indies in Brisbane.
The move to schedule the Test over the Australia Day holiday was itself controversial.
Star Australian women’s all-rounder Ash Gardner criticised the decision to play on the day.
Australian men’s fast bowler Scott Boland later said he supported Gardner’s comments but he would play if selected, which appears unlikely given frontline quicks Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc have had a relatively light bowling load across the summer.
CA will conduct a standard Welcome to Country ceremony on day one of the Test, which falls on Australia Day eve.
Australia Day itself will be marked in passing by a ground announcer, and CA is set to acknowledge that the day means vastly different things to different people.
CA is keen to promote inclusivity and respect from patrons regardless of their view on the date itself, which is widely viewed as a day of mourning by First Nations people.
The term “Australia Day” will not be used.
Dear Prudence**
**Siouxsie and the Banshees, featuring Bobbie Smith
Oh Yeah, Endorsement. One crook supporting another.
The giver comment.
Johnny Rotten
Dec 16, 2022 8:25 PM
Martin Armstrong has more to give the World than you ever can from your cave in that place that used to be called MelBum………………..
Collective Soul – Better Now
Farmer Gez
Jan 21, 2024 5:44 PM
Is that a quote from Prince Phillip Steve?
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Just remembering an avatar she posted when visiting family in the US south.
jupes – thanks for that live version of Sweet Jane – it is indeed magnificent.
Of course, poor ol’ Lou was not exactly well disposed to those guitarists he thought had outperformed him.
Example A: Bob Quine
widely viewed as a day of mourning by First Nations people.
another reason I will not buy newspapers- pay good money to be lectured and insulted
Amusing listening to people make fun of the Houthies on the day it appears the US admitted they cannot stop their campaign in the southern Red Sea by airpower alone but must resort to a ground invasion of indeterminate length.
hooties prepare for war
They’ve been preparing for sea warfare, ready to fight like a wasp swarm.
Products of Biden’s and Obama’s investments in Iran.
Cricket – a game introduced by the English.
The snide views above, about their parade, have forgotten one of the first rules of war – don’t underestimate the enemy.
err, how exactly?
Never heard of the house sized backside laden lezzo slag.
This is what passes for j’ismism in this stupid, stupid entirely unserious country.
What a joke.
Dover
They’re cruising for a bruising, something you have refused to even consider. Airpower was unlikely to work, but it was low cost and very low risk, so why not give it a burl.
But seriously, showing off a dozen or so water ski boats as somehow demonstrating their naval power. That’s not funny?
Oh, well, as a gesture of mourning, you can hand back the mobile phones, the keys to your motor cars and houses, stop shopping at the supermarket or using the local medical services, and return to the lifestyle of a Stone aged hunter gatherer…
Well those gloves were pretty mockable, you have to grant that at least.
It’s enough to make you wanna have some fun, Baybee … 🙂
The B Ark is a dog of a boat.
I’m making fun of military parades because they always strike me as ridiculous.
North Korea, China, Russia, whoever.
Just as Gaza is still able to fire off rockets into Israel I don’t doubt Houthie ability to do damage in international shipping, though I do doubt their ability to engage in a serious naval battle.
Very worthy of making fun of. I take it Dover you haven’t been keeping an eye on their Great Naval Exploits™ over the last decade. They did pot an unarmed UAE Incat catamaran, otherwise it has been embarrassing for the Houthis. That parade is a wonderful cross between Macy’s and the Sydney Mardi Gras.
It all stops when someone Reaganish gets serious.
Dr. John Campbell
Falsified or concealed data
The hamsters are going all wharfie on us, it seems.
All is not well in the bouncy castle at the A.B.C.
Katz
It’s always a good idea to underestimate Mid East military prowess since the 60s.
This musical offering is in honour of Kanye West’s new $800,000 titanium dentures.
Paranoimia – The Art of Noise with Max Headroom (1986)
Asymmetric warfare 101. The Saudi’s with all their $$$ and lots of bombing over long time unable to defeat the Houthis, in fact giving up when they realised how exposed and fragile their oil facilities are. As, I hope, the USA realises w.r.t. their naval assets in the region.
Utter rubbish Tom.
It’s the large number of ‘activists’, i.e. people with no sense and too much time on their hands. They desperately want to have something significant in their dull, drab little lives, and so they join a gang with some apparently fine and noble cause, e.g. saving the planet. They are too dim to see that they are making everything they touch worse, because if they were smart they could find something useful to do with their lives. Only the dim join up therefore. And being dim, naturally they screw up.
It’s a consequence of a society with too much wealth, distributed rather randomly,
that these daft buggers have time on their hands. In a well organised society they’d have to work or starve to death. But taxpayer’s money finds its way into their hands.
It has a natural negative feedback, once they’ve made a sufficient mess of things there won’t be any spare money. And some of them will starve to death.
Presumably, someone in the Shitehouse has calculated that going into an election as C-in-C of a Team America War Machine (shock and awe and ‘bug squashing’ a rag tag insurgency) is a better bet than looking disorganised and fumbling at the hands of AK47’s in speedboats.
ABC versus Lattouf cage match. We are at the revolution eats its own stage now, copraphages all.
If Hamas’s planning began two years ago, then it was during the prime ministership of Naftali Bennet and Yair Lapid. After October 7th Netanyahu didn’t join them when the heads of intelligence and military issued official apologies to Israeli population. Perhaps they had kept the reports they had received from Netanyahu due to their personal position over the reform proposals that had divided Israel’s. If anything like that was behind lax security, the news that worked so ardently to dissolve Netanyahu’s government would never report it.
Yes Alamak, because the Saudis aren’t the laziest humans on earth and fully capable of operating without air-conditioning.
Happens from time to time on the glorious revolution. Never fails to amuse though.
The level of discipline in that weapons parade is way beyond the anarchistic marauding of Hamas.
This lady is delusional.
Are you comfortable in your armchair?
Somebody has been looking for attention. She has an unhinged obsession with Lizzie. What a sad person she is, pitiful really.
From the Hun. Victorian Liberals have grown a spine?
This lady is delusional.
Yep, legally I don’t think she’s got a leg to stand on. She was given prior warning about her social media use and she ignored it.
Here’s me without my knitting.
Sorry, JC, but I think that Ovation cruise is more your style than mine. We’ve had one Ovation cruise and that was a freebie or we wouldn’t have gone. We’ve just ten minutes ago watched that ship, Ovation of the Seas, sailing through by us ex- Sydney.
Our freebie was to New Zealand was not too bad if you kept to yourself, as we pretty much did apart from having the lonely Russian oligarch’s wife, the lovely Natalia, invite herself to join us for dinner each nite. As I recounted here, this was before she was lured by the charms of a ponytailed boyfriend, whom she soon dumped as ‘uncultured’, returning to sit with Hairy and me at the classical music concerts. She’s kept in touch, sending Christmas snowy photos of their Dacha outside Moscow as well as their Moscow home, and saying to drop in at their apartment in Montenegro sometime. She wants us to meet her husband, and for Hairy to share Russian vodka with him.
If you book soon, as I am sure you intend to do, be sure to take Mrs. JC with you, otherwise you might have to fend off more than a dining companion in the lonely hours. 🙂
Queanbeyan is a pretty good place now. Was neglected for so long by successive state governments. Along came Tim Overall and all that stopped. He was an independent mayor with some idea. The the liars and sfl wanted their guy in charge so started up with more spandooley. The hospital is still a bit rumpty. They’d be much better to close it down and have a 24 hr medical centre and spend the money on Canberra hospital where most from Queanbeyan end up going anyway.
hooties prepare for war
One good nuke.
Makka
Trump isn’t going to gallop down to that paddock full of mares and service a couple – he’s going to wander down and service the lot.
Remember that the object is to win the election so he can carry out the mission, and he’s not going to do that if he scares the middle voter into thinking that it will be 4 more years of chaos.
He’s got flowers and chockies, and a nice big bottle of wine.
Liberty quotes
More likely they’ve done some polling that indicates there’s votes in opposing it.
THIRTY THREE MINUTES after the story is posted, comments are closed off..
Yes, no doubt those weapons would be unpleasant for anyone caught on the wrong side of them, no argument from me there, but what has that got to do with how ridiculous they look? Beyond which, better than Hamas is probably not a very high bar.
Sure, but…she apparently thinks she’s black and that all of Australia is talking about “Antoinette.”
Not unless every other option has been ruled out.
Goose stepping Nazis and Italian fascists looked ridiculous.
We’ve done nothing other than ask ‘what happened?’ at Chateau Faustus. It’s ruined Christmas for us.
Spot the dog has been cautiously avoiding eye contact and the budgie is loosing its feathers.
This E. Jean Carroll skank suing Trump for rape and defamation is beyond the pale:
New York Magazine’s Guessing Game – E. Jean Carroll Jacket Dress Comes into Question – Trump Accuser Stumbles During Testimony
Trump Team Renews Motion for Mistrial in E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case After She Deletes Emails that Exonerate Trump
There is no justice system in the US. All the bastards currently prosecuting Trump should be rounded up, placed in the Mojave next to the Ivanpah solar BS farm and nuked.
The Ultimo is strong in this one.
Yes, which is why they get mocked. You seem to be reading too much into things.
I watched about half of Burnt by the Sun before abandoning Comrade war hero and his cousin in law Dimitri.
Perhaps I might be one day in the mood to watch the rest of it.
I have watched the Bourne movies, for the first time, not bad, missed the non Jason one and am now watching that, apparently there is another Jason epic in the pipe. line.
Johnny Rotten
Jan 21, 2024 2:20 PM
This is what unconstrained unionism does. It’s just another Mafia hiding behind the ‘legitimate grievances’ of the Wukkas.
Pretty much.
I think the forces aligning against the tootsies have their eyes fully opened and don’t need to come to Catallaxy for any advice on how to conduct their operations.
I bet non of the people asking ‘what happened to Antoinette’ actually watch the ABC.
How many viewers actually watched whatever show she was on?
I think the standard Catallaxy advice is ‘turn them into glass’.
A couple of years ago a few reports appeared about Iran’s mini aircraft carrier – a smaller and much faster version with hundreds of drones with various surveillance and weapon capabilities.That’s possibly something Australia should have, held at selected ports distributed around our coast.
Zatara:
One of these?
They’re getting really good prices for them these days.
Sky News in Arabic claims: US strikes in Yemen killed 75 Houthi terrorists, members of the Revolutionary Guards, and members of Hezbollah.
Clinton judge. Getting to be you can tell exactly how a court case will go based on whether the Dems appointed the judge.
I should reread the Kurt Schlichter books to see how things in the US go next.
They haven’t touched any naval vessels. They have succeeded against commercial shipping only because these vessels are unarmed.
Like the marauding pirates further north (of the old days), their long-term objective appears to be extracting dollars for passage (Jizya) or the risk of being pirated or blown up. They deserve no mercy.
She was filling in on Sydney radio.
Have any such vessels been seriously damaged?
I don’t believe so.
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Zatara
One way to really piss the Jordanians off, is to threaten their food supply. Having a look at the demographics is interesting.
That’s what Israel believed about Hamas. Hezbollah has discovered an innovative way to bypass Israel’s iron dome – they now fire laser guided ant-tank missiles direct at civilian homes.
https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/01/hezbollah-has-innovated-brand-new-war.html
Israel and the US have been fighting the previous wars. Israel is catching up. Is biden awake today?
It’s enough to make you wonder sometimes if you’re on the right planet … 😕
He’s been asleep for 3 years now. We’re talking about outsized military might (US) against a bunch of Muslim thugs who don’t know what they’re getting into.
Israel is currently busy destroying those pricks in Gaza. They’ll deal with the Haz later if need be and perhaps this time they should level the fckers completely and not pussy foot around. If your enemy says they want to destroy you, believe them!
H B Bear
Jan 21, 2024 4:14 PM
A Nation that gave you English for free and Nationhood for free is a Great Nation.
Sacked radio presenter Antoinette Lattouf has lashed out at the ABC on international TV, telling the BBC that the taxpayer-funded broadcaster paid for investigative reporter Louise Milligan’s legal fees in defamation proceedings because she is “white”.
Pass the popcorn.
Bruce O’Nuke:
Captagon is one thing the King of Jordan is going to go ballistic over. He’s already had experience with Black September and won’t put up with more bullshit.
Or perhaps they learnt their lesson from the American war of independence, you pathetic little crook.
If it was so great, you wouldn’t have fcked, off along with that dreadful 70s cohort to pester us.
ie. razor blades
I still have my father’s leather strop. The ones I found online today are different. The 1950s version had two leather strips to pull in turn with a flip flip mechanism.
That’s just how the Obama people running the White House want the puppet presidency to operate.
Hamas are big on captagon too.
He’s already had experience with Black September and won’t put up with more bullshit.
That was the current King of Jordan’s late father, the King Hussein (who died in 1998). Abdullah is a very different kettle of fish to his father. Whilst Abdullah looks cuddly and cute, he’s sinister and nasty. Oh and King Abdullah’s wife, Queen Rania, is Palestinian. She doesn’t like Israel and Israelis.
The Injun Chick in the Puce Slip – Sacré bleu! 🙂
It’s not a simple tiptoe through the tulips. The dragged out Gaza cleanup is ripping into even our own trust in our social cohesion and government agencies in faraway Australia. Iran and Houties have armed themselves for a style of battle for which US and alies are unprepared.
Paul Murray is on Sky’s The Sunday Showdown with four other panelists and I’m afraid he is not able to keep his end of the discussion. The others have wonderful while his are rather pedestrian and few and far between. This explains his half hour intros before he brings on guests. He seems to be only able to read his written editorials, thinking on his feet is not his talent.
JC
Jan 21, 2024 5:50 PM
LOL. Keep digging that hole Junior and I will dig up your comment on the Future Fund. The one where you couldn’t even look up the Future Fund website and get hold of the latest investment figures. So funny that was.
And by the way, Woddenhead, the British were the first to use concentration camps in the most genocidal way against the Sth African Dutch settlers.
Great nation? Sometimes
Woddenhead. As bad as a Bolt on is, you’re worse. You filthy feral pig. But keep giving yourself those upticks but you’re not fooling anyone, you simpleton.
Do so, and don’t hold back, as I’m looking forward to see the exchange and how stupid you were made to look… again.
Go!
I don’t doubt that for a minute. It’s rural, and close to a major city.
I looked at buying a small unit there for my autistic son many years ago, but he resisted moving.
I would not have put him permanently in a motel there though. If it suits some, for years on end, so be it. Perhaps Johanna is saving for moving to an age-care facility as she is not yet ready for that, though physically somewhat frail it seems. Or she has some other reasons. It’s not really our business. I wish her well.
Emotional fixation on another individual, expressed apparently in one’s cups on the internet, can be assisted by a helpful psychologist. Your doc can prescribe 15 sessions for you on Medicare.
For those interested, I have published thirteen articles and reviews on various topics in Quadrant and Quadrant Online since 2017, when I decided to disaggregate some of the Arthurian material that proved too academic for a popularising book format. That may come later, but there are distracting other calls on my time too. In Sept 2018 my Arthurian thesis, which has recevied considerable overseas praise and citation for originality, was published in Quadrant under the title “Decoding King Arthur and the Grail’. I now receive invitations to various online conferences in this field; in truth, more than I wish to cope with. Shortly, I hope to publish a sequel developing my evidence further, entitled “Re-Dating Gildas and Decoding ‘The Battle of Badon’ “. Both articles are circa 4000 words. I’ve also been rather busy saving an ancestral church in Britain, at least giving the diocese something to ‘manage’ rather than them having open slather on a sale.
JC
Jan 21, 2024 7:14 PM
LOL. The ones that are pestering you don’t speak English and came here to live on welfare and to breed like rabbits. Who let them in and who keeps on letting them in?
Australian Feral Guv’ments that’s who.
These camps were notoriously harsh, with overcrowding, no Benny Hill on the television, no kippers and no English Roses …
The survivors were barely able to speak … 😕
That’s right. Jordan’s previous generations of royalty had respectful relationships with Israel. They knew Israel would, and did a couple of times. defend Jordan from invasion by Syria or Iraq. Abdullah hasn’t been tested on that attitude yet. During his reign he has onlly needed to vote against Israel in UN resolution – nothing yet on the ground that tests his hold on the state.
An odd thing – Jordan is possibly the most artificial country on earth, invented by Britain with an imposed foreign monarchy – yet it’s among the most stable countries of the Islamic world.
JC
Jan 21, 2024 7:28 PM
Once again your selective memory is very selective. If you have a memory at all that is. Just stick to being the self appointed Blog Milk Monitor.
I’m told that the Boer War was about the Brits wanting to steal Boer gold.
Just great that Australia (and/or colonies) went wasn’t it?
If you have to ‘parade’ your weapons, then yeah but nah.
I suspect the Houthis are banking on the IDF and/or the US not smacking up everything above and below ground in their allegedly controlled area.
This would be the same mistake Hamas made not so long ago, and who found to their eternal discontent that the IDF ignored the UN and assorted other handpatters and is now in the business of disassembling everything throughout Gaza.
Yes. a bad idea, and when practiced on a rural population with almost no basic hygiene and some very unusual practices for dealing with sickness (which only made things worse in confined areas) there was a high death rate.
All war is hell and the Boer War was no exception.
And for Junior Cretin and Cronies –
The Fix is In – Trump Goes to Prison
“Let me explain something very important. George Soros’ son has come out and said that Trump would not go away unless he is in prison. I am not at liberty to say at this time, but the FIX IS IN and Trump will be imprisoned in the Washington, DC case.
Soros has funded the case in Colorado to kick Trump off the ballot. This is a war for the very soul of the United States. I have had to look at these forecasts projected by the computer, and it is certainly not my aspiration in life. People keep telling me this is my destiny. Perhaps so. But I do not relish laying out these forecasts, for I wish I could prevent the outcome, but OI cannot. No protest can be mustered to prevent this. We have to crash and burn. Only then will the blind finally see, and those who have understood these forecasts will get to perhaps spread the word.
They have done everything they possibly can to stop Trump, for they KNOW he will do his best to prevent their agenda. Yet, unfortunately, the computer has warned that either side will NOT accept the 2024 election. They are outright pushing to put Trump in prison. The Attorney General has now come out pushing for a speedy trial in DC because they think throwing Trump in prison will be the only thing that will stop him.
My deep concern is that we are approaching the 19th cycle of 8.6 from the American Civil War. This only adds to the rising tensions, which will escalate into 2026. These people are so desperate to impose their totalitarian state that they refuse to back off. If they cannot imprison Trump, they will assassinate him. We are approaching the last 8.6 years in this cycle, and they will be the darkest days of our lives. My concern is if the Supreme Court yields to this conspiracy to imprison Trump, it could be like the Dread Scott decision, where they tried to reduce the tension by claiming blacks could not be citizens of the United States and that they were, in fact, property. They thought they were cutting the baby in half to prevent a civil war. But that decision led the people to vote for Abraham Lincoln, who, by the way, was also taken off the ballot in several states. If they buy this argument that Trump was acting as a candidate and NOT as President, then they probably will think that putting him in prison will lower the tensions. That will not end well for them.
World War III is already in motion. There will be no state of peace, and Zelensky was put in that position to facilitate this war. I warned when he took office that this would be the guy who started World War III. Zelensky is nothing like what you think. In the EU, another crisis is brewing. The EU has extended the p[remission for Ukrainian refugees currently living in the EU. The Council agreed to extend the temporary protection for people fleeing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine from March 4th, 2024, to March 4th, 2025.
However, Zelensky’s general mobilization and a state of war have been in effect in Ukraine since Feb. 24th, 2022, with all men aged 18 to 60 considered eligible for military service and subject to conscription. Men are prohibited from leaving Ukraine, and now the EU is recording the refugees, thereby documenting those who are avoiding Zelensky’s draft.
During a state of war, travel abroad for men in Ukraine is restricted. All military-eligible individuals are forbidden to leave Ukraine, except in cases specified by Cabinet Resolution No. 57. Some military-eligible individuals, lacking the right to leave, have illegally crossed borders and sought asylum in the EU, the United States, or Asian countries. Ukraine lacks a system for holding such individuals to account, but that is rumored to be in the works. Zelensky wants all men returned to die on the battlefield. At this time, Russian soldiers outnumber Ukrainians 4 to 1.
Trump would indeed end the war in 24 hrs. Cut off all funds for the Ukrainian government employees whom Biden is paying their salaries and pensions. Insist that Zelensky honors the Minsk Agreement and the war is over. Those in power right now want war, and they have no intention of ending anything.
Here are the computer projections for the 2024 election. Trump should win, as you can see on 4 out of 6 models. But Models #3 and #4 are shocking. These show such a landslide with 61% to 35% and 59% to 37% projections that this scares the hell out of the globalists. Of course, everyone and their career prostitute at Davos tunes into our political forecasts because they have been correct, are purely unbiased, and are the only REAL Artificial Intelligence with a 40-year track record. They may not like what they see, and they certainly do not like me. The prospect that the next presidential election in 2028 will NOT EVEN TAKE PLACE is a very high probability, according to our computer.
I am NOT putting this out here as some Trump supporter. Personally, I cannot see how they can possibly allow him to win under ANY circumstances. If they put him in prison, they can always claim he committed suicide to get rid of the mess. Since they will be terminating all physical money, replacing them with CBDCs, they won’t ever have to put his picture on a coin where they will constantly be reminded of their treason.
The Computer Says Trump Will Win
Personally, I Cannot See How They Will Allow a Fair Election with that Result.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/the-fix-is-in-trump-goes-to-prison/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Once there was a day …
I should add that King Hussein, in 1973, tried to warn Golda Meir. He was brushed off.
I hold no grudge against the Poms for the camps.
Yes. Though I doubt if the US will have the quite the same sort of cojones.
Be good if they did pick up a bit of testosterone though.
Woddenhead, you said you were going to post the discussion so do that, you dishonest limey pig.
Go!
Well there you go Roger. Not even on television.
No wonder everyone is talking about her.
Houties might be preparing to harass general shipping rather than a direct confrontation with US or UK naval power. Disruption of international trade was part of Islamic strategy to weaken Israel’s diplomacy with the Suez in ’56, the oil embargos after the ’73 war, and it gained a special invitation for Arafat to address the UN after his hijacking of world air and sea tourism.
Crossie, Murray will probably end up being Sky at night’s top-rating show this year because he’s the only one of the talking heads who stands up for the outer suburbs.
Blot and Credlin just do Canberra politics.
PS: Sharri Markson’s 8pm hour this year is rating as poorly as Chris Kenny’s. It’s the time of day, not the talent.
Sky has abandoned its strategy of having Markson go first at 5pm breaking news stories. I suspect Markson asked for the new slot for family reasons.
He was facing some pretty unpleasant demonstrations by local Pallies when we were flying Royal Jordanian into Jordan’s Amman airport a couple of months ago. He had to slight Israel to hang onto his power then.
I’m sure that Elon got the idea for his interplanetary Tesla from this track.
Heavy Metal (1981)
As if.
More Boer women and children died in those camps, then their menfolk perished on the battlefield.
However, this was not the first time such camps had been set up. The Spanish Army established “Camps de concentration” during the “Ten Year War” in Cuba, in the 1890’s.
Their reputation was just as hellish – tens of thousands of Cuban peasants died from starvation or disease.
Although her dottir is even hottir …
Not giving a rodent’s, Cats!
Bruce O’Nuke:
While I’m sitting back laughing at the hapless Greenies getting repeated faces full of reality, my only worry is how is the whole Tesla house of cards going to affect Musks space program?
Harry “The Breaker” Morant, was unavailable for comment.
JC
Jan 21, 2024 7:27 PM
They are thumbs you dumb dumb bum bum, And you get loads of down thumbs when you revert to the obtuse abuse. And rightly so.
Keep up the great work you Mouth from the South in Sictoria. Get back to the Fat Pizza Bar and play the role of self appointed Blog Milk Monitor. It suits you.
And BTW, you have still to show that evidence for me being a crook. Big words from a small gob that you have there.
I hold no grudge against the Poms for the camps.
Why not?
An icon passes – Rabbi Raymond Apple passes away in Jerusalem
However, this was not the first time such camps had been set up. The Spanish Army established “Camps de concentration” during the “Ten Year War” in Cuba, in the 1890’s.
Their reputation was just as hellish – tens of thousands of Cuban peasants died from starvation or disease.
In fact, there were concentration camps in the American Civil War, camps set up by both the north and south. The conditions were appalling, particularly the confederate camps in the south that held captured Union soldiers. Thousands of Union soldiers died from starvation and torture.
He operates on a higher plane Winston.
Tesla: he needs electric vehicles on Mars
Solar City: he need solar power on Mars
The Boring Company: he needs habitats underground on Mars
SpaceX: he needs to get to Mars
I hope he does.
Home, Home …
An icon passes – Rabbi Raymond Apple passes away in Jerusalem
Thanks Katz. Am quite upset.
Only a few days ago, you told Calli those you legitimately accrue are like “water off a duck’s back but now they’re important?
There’s no hiding the fact that you’re a moron, even with all the ticks you give yourself. Everything you appear to touch is crooked.
You dribbling buffoon, woddenhead. A few days and you can’t keep your story straight.
The fund discussion!
Go!
One thing you can always say about Queen Rania as she treads daintily over the mounds of corpses … 🙂
When needed the “Arab street” is usually held in check by Arab military. But he hasn’t confronted anything like Black September, or Israel’s warning off the threat of Syrian invasion in about 1970 and 1980, or apologising to Israel in 1967 for needing to retain “face” by joining the joint attack on Israel, or knowing Jordon was safe because Israel needed it as a buffer when the US demolished Iraq’s regime, or the Mossad attempted assination in his father’s last year.
Meanwhile, Rabbo Shalom Coleman in Perth is still going strong at 105 years old. He was born on Armistance Day in 1918. He’s quite a character.
Same reason I’m against First Nations ideology, Eyrie. Those responsible are long gone.
She sure does have such an obsession, goes back years, but the ‘fortified’ playbook is still running eight for to nine against. So what? I know plenty here wish me well, and dickticks are just that.
I have replied above. I have put up my publications (which always seems to annoy the hell out of some here, how dare I, etc) simply to reiterate against Johanna’s bile that my Arthurian material (‘book’ if you must) has not died on the vine, for those interested, and that I also write and publish, which is more than Johanna seems to do with all of the spare time and brains she clearly has. Maybe she has a secret publishing life pushing out romantic trash as Dymphnia Daring? Who knows? Could be worse.
Mostly, in contrast, I run to stand still, with many commitments.
Lucky I am a happy and well-preserved eighty one, in both body and brain.
Fight you bastards, fight!
Twenty four drummers and drum sets. Wow.
The next best I ever saw was the Party Boys doing doing Step on You Again with seven drum kits at the Enmore. Can’t find a vid though, saw it on Rage once.
Bless the Israelis and all the IDF guys and gals.
I don’t believe there was any torture and certainly no official policy of such.
Conditions were harsh because the Confederacy was itself under blockade by the Federals and the whole southern
Sorry…format fail.
IIRC, Their ABC warned Louse Milligan about her use of social media, but she used it anyway, and Their ABC subsequently bailed Seven Nilligan out with lotsa cash.
That is the leg Lattouf seems to be standing on.
Then again, her and my recollections might be faulty.
Let’s have some Cap’n Beefheart*, Cats!
*Although best listened to very loudly at 2:30am on a Sunday morning in a kitchen in Vaucluse … 🙂
Rabbi Raymond Apple married my brother. Rabbi Israel Porush married my parents. Rabbi Francis Cohen married my grandparents. Rabbi Aaron Levi married my great-grandparents in York Street Synagogue, the predecessor the Great Synagogue.
Starvation is a form of torture. Granted that food in the south was in short supply, the conditions the Union soldiers were kept in was barbaric.
On a rented lab mouse?
The IRA (Sinn Fein) are now the largest political force in Northern Ireland local government.
My contempt for all things Irish is comfortingly reinforced.
Celtic Hamas.
JC
Get the UNCLOS amended to permit merchant ships to be armed, and to respond with lethal force to attacks by pirates. A few Vulcan guns, Chain guns and turrets from ZSU-23-4s would be effective discouragement of those boats, and could probably stop the Silkworms (somewhat updated versions of a Soviet anti-shipping missile dating from the late 1950s/early 1960s.
In which case the Union was torturing an entire population, not just soldiers.
Hamarse will find re-supply of laser guided anti-tank missiles much slower and more expensive than making basic unguided rockets from lengths of water pipe.