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Why would Yemen give two-shits about Gulf Arabs?
Why would Yemen give two-shits about Gulf Arabs?
This is almost too funny.
All Bruce wanted to do was enjoy a little snow time and get his end wet. It is a tragedy.
A gift, most likely, to be returned unopened … duuuuh!
Tongue. Eeeew
Possibly first, unless I’m gazumped.
Gazumped by a gazzump truther…
ungazumped
Quatrozummped.
Quite-zumped.
Those cats gave him a beating,
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Steve Inman:
His first and last time sitting cats
Do any Cats have an insight into this new $1.3b “Green Zero Carbon” boondoggle?
“In the 2023–24 Budget, the Australian Government allocated $1.3 billion to establish the Household Energy Upgrades Fund. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation will have $1 billion to partner with banks and other lenders to offer low-cost finance and mortgages for energy performance upgrades to more than 110,000 homes”
I’ve read the internal documents and powerpoint presentations of one of the major 4 banks, so I’m familiar with how the financing side of this works. I can wrap my head around it. You could basically wipe every Chinaman’s arse for the next 10 years with the paperwork required. It’s actually more efficient to just give the customer a normal loan, rather than a subsidised “low interest” loan. God only knows how many public servants are involved in this bullshit.
But I actually “get that” as well. PINK BATS anyone? Royal Commission? Aussie installers dead? Kevin Rudd was punished of course (with an appointment as US Ambassador). These people are corrupt grubs.
To be fair, the whole “Pink Batts” thingy made sense on paper from a economic perspective. 25% of energy gets lost through the roof, it cuts people’s electricity bills, take’s pressure off the grid….yadda…yadda. It stacked up. The problem here (as the Royal Commission found) was the execution of the “roll out”. And the electrocutions as it turned out.
You can sort of see why Labor want to “over manage” their latest Green innovation. This time, they are going to target the elephant in the room – “windows” which lose 40% of energy. Fair enough. Again, the figures stack up. It cuts people’s electricity bills, take’s pressure off the grid….yadda…yadda. Fair enough. If I can save some significant $$$, alls good.
But here is where I’m getting confused.
The Government is saying that they have $1b in “low interest” loans to assist
110,000 homeowners. The average Aussie home has 11-12 windows.
In the meantime, they have regulated that all “new home builds” (173,000 in 2023) require either double glazing or triple glazing. During a rental crisis, it would seem to me that adding to the building cost isn’t exactly beneficial. What additional cost is that exactly? Do any Cats know?
From what I’ve researched, curtains reduce energy loss by 10%, single glazing by 10%, double glazing by 30% and triple glazing by “up to” 80%.
Google tells me that apparently glazing costs between $150 – $1500 per sqm. WTF? That’s hardly an accurate way to figure this shit out. Pick a number, any number. If anyone has recently had some glazing done, or has industry knowledge, I’d love your insights. I can sort of roughly figure out where the Government figures come from.
I’m currently doing a “project”, so if any “Economist Cats” can explain where the Government figures come from, I’d be interested to know.
Until then, I’ll remain as confused as fuck. Nothing adds up.
I suspect the “Glass Mafia” might be involved. Those bastards are probably big Labor donors. They are worth $500 million to the Australian economy, and that’s just the manufacturers. The unionised retailers and installers are probably stalking the streets with slingshots and ice cubes as I type.
I see from the old fred that JC has been on the turps early
John Spooner.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Brookes.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Al Goodwyn.
Tom Stiglich.
Bob Gorrell.
Matt Margolis #2.
Ben Garrison.
Muddy all I’ve found that is recent re Sinwar is that the IDF have raided his office in Khan Younis.
I believe they know where he is but aren’t attempting to get him because he has surrounded himself with hostages.
Thanks Tom.
Another possible Coral sea cyclone still over 10 days out but GFS have it as a monster. Low end Cat 5 bowling right up the Whitsunday cyclone ally…
Let the scaremongering begin…
dillo!
Ffs…
Today’s Tele:
ISRAEL A MISTAKE: GREENS ACCOUNT
JAMES MORROW
31 Jan 2024
A local branch of the Greens has described the creation of the state of Israel as a “huge mistake” in an online chat, amid calls by the party to restore funding to a Gaza-based aid organisation whose employees were accused of taking part in the October 7 massacres.
In a Facebook chat on January 14 between the Port Macquarie Hastings branch of the Greens and a member of the public, the operator of the Greens account said that “the state of Israel was a creation of 1948”.
The Greens’ account went on to say that was “a huge mistake as Jews should have been domiciled in Europe and the US where they would have been much safer”.
The account also rejected a two-state solution, arguing “Jews and Muslims should live together under a secular state of Palestine”.
The revelations come as Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi called on the government to “immediately reverse” a decision to pause funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA.
For years, watchdog agencies have warned that the UNRWA was promoting anti-Israel propaganda and in 2022 the European Commission called out an “incitement to violence” in textbooks distributed by UNRWA.
However, the Greens condemned the move by the Albanese government to suspend its aid funding.
Ms Faruqi said: “Suspending life-saving funding to the largest relief provider in Gaza is nothing short of catastrophic.
“It is a despicable and heartless act.”
In response, Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said: “The Greens seem to think they can tell Jews who we are, where we’re from and where we can and can’t live.
“They might harbour fantasies of Israel collapsing or of a one-state horror show where Tel Aviv progressives live in peace with Hamas beheaders, but no one actually cares what they think about Israel.”
Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi should be tarred and feathered, put in the stocks and publicly humiliated.
Along with more than a few other greentards and labortards as well.
Thanks Tom.
Ben Garrison today is outstanding.
I don’t understand the Stiglich ‘toon. Too early for me?
From Old OT
I’ve been assured by many that Trump is unassailable and will be able to cover for this eventuality.
All good.
No worries.
No cult here, no sirree.
“Our” ABC nit-picking .. again! .. living in western Syney “houso” where the boat-folk have no problem cramming 10/12 into 3 bedroom houses makes you wonder why this is a story ..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-31/west-australian-rental-crisis-impact-young-people-730/103402370
Bushie – Republican voters will vote for anyone provided two things:
1. The policies espoused by the candidate are basically Tea Party policies
2. The candidate is at war with the GOP elites and wishes to take control of the party away from them.
Unfortunately there’s only one candidate that meets those two criteria. Vivek partly met (1) and does meet (2) but fell down on tax policy and Israel policy.
All the rest of the stable fell at the first hurdle, mainly by cosying up to the party elites and the donor class. DeSantis’s numbers collapsed right after he attended the elite donor meeting which Trump was banned from.
Speaking of elite bubbles Tim Blair has an unpaywalled blog post today on Katherine Murphy. Enjoy!
Prime Minister Albanese’s Murphy of the People (30 Jan)
Have I missed something specific being released ..?
Why are there so many kiss & tell tales involving Tony Abbott’s time as PM doing the media rounds the past few dayz .. ?
shatterzzz,
the story kept pointing out there was “only one toilet”! Poor diddums. There were nine in my house and one toilet when I was growing up. At least ours was inside, looxury. Others nearby still had outside loos.
Mt Warning getting some love…
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/peta-credlin/a-guide-to-climbing-mount-warning-author-slams-late-1990s-summit-climb-ban/video/810616465676502ab3f221bf9fad6c6c?fbclid=IwAR3GYLiEFLqCnWxiq_Wm9q26xjdMf_0ljTSNgsYYRxsHU8It89s7m2IWZ3Q
I’ve been assured by many that Trump is unassailable and will be able to cover for this eventuality.
All good.
No worries.
No cult here, no sirree.
Yep, it’ll be just like what happened in 2020. Remember how he was a shoo-in?
And if Trump is beaten (and that’s highly likely), what is gonna happen? Will we then see his followers/disciples spend their time walking around desperately picking at scabs, just like they’ve picked at scabs since 2020, blaming everyone else except for themselves?
Probably. Cults are like that.
The truth is that the world can’t afford another four Democrat years, be it under the Sniffer, or Newsom, or Mrs Obama. But that’s likely where we’re heading. There was a good candidate, the current Governor of Florida, but better for some to climb aboard the Trump train.
By the way, people have short memories. Back in 2022, at the midterms, most of Trump’s VIP picks failed spectacularly. The GOP barely won the House. And NO, much of this failure cannot be attributed to “elections being stolen or rigged ballots”, many of Trump’s picks were bad candidates, such as Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania. John Fetterman easily trumped Oz in PA. And actually Fetterman, be it on Israel or on other matters, has proven himself to be an old style blue Democrat. Fetterman WAS the right choice, a much better choice than Oz.
Ever get the impression that when it comes to Oz justice .. MONEY TALKS .. since when do folk get to plead GUILTY by EMAIL .. FFS!
And by the way this is written I can imagine the lettuce leaf of Oz justice is being well marinated before Friday’s sentencing .. FFS!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13021809/Colliers-woodhill-CEO-Peter-Chittenden-Schoolies-bender.html
TheirABC has put together a ‘documentary’ (i.e. hit job) on the Coalition’s years in power, and certain blabbermouths with axes to grind or simply the desire to get their faces on TV have been stupidly providing them with material.
Call the waaaahmbulance for Mahreen, she’s about to choke on her mendacity again.
She might like to reflect on the convoys of aid going into Gaza and how it is “distributed”. Or, if that is too hard, she might like to think of the hostages being slowly starved, deprived of medications, and that those hostages include at least two small children.
Paul Kelly in the Oz on the liar’s stage 3 tax backflip.
That’s the sort of protest I can get behind!
https://righttoclimb.blogspot.com/2024/01/mt-warning-2024-best-australia-day-ever.html
Imran Khan – champion cricketer, mad rooter and liver of the high life, and former Paki president – has been binned for ten years.
One can only imagine how much wealth he would have poured into his own pocket at the expense of his unnecessarily poverty-stricken country.
Oh well. No more hobnobbing with the upper crust and porking princesses for you, buddy.
PeterM, Stiglich cartoon, Old Yeller was a dog movie from 1957, the dog was put down after it got into a fight with a wolf which probably had rabies. I cried my heart out at the time. Sniffy Joe Biden shows all the symptoms of rabies and should be put down. Nobody would cry.
shatterzzz,
the story kept pointing out there was “only one toilet”! Poor diddums. There were nine in my house and one toilet when I was growing up. At least ours was inside, looxury. Others nearby still had outside loos.
My next door neighbours (on one side) are Vietnamese, 3 bedroom house, 4 adults, 3 kids, the parents of the, live-in, married son are both up around my age (mid70s), neither speaks a word of English even tho they’ve been here since 1980 both are “unwell’ ,, ambulances have been at the door once, sometimes twice, a week for the past 2 years, regularly, yet no one is ever taken to hospital (irony is there is a major hospital at the top of the street you can see it from here) …… On the other side of me are Cambodian .. 6 adults (parents/4 kids) all work so combined family income must be incredible yet all living in a 3 bedroom “houso” ……..
One of South Australia’s blue barrel fetishists is being released from prison after serving twenty-five years.
Thanks Peter for the Kelly piece. May be the best Kelly has written in years. This piece is a good example of journalism without a bias, should be required reading for jism students but of course won’t as it doesn’t tell the reader what to think.
shatterzzz,
growing up in the sixties and seventies I knew a lot of Italians. You would see three to four generations in the same house. Never saw an Italian family in a houso estate. Too shameful, they prided themselves on making good and not taking handouts.
The thing to do shatterzzz is to cut a hole in the wall and let the use your spare bedrooms, have you no compassions for overcrowded reffo’s.
Perhaps those Vietnamese, here since 1980, despite not speaking English, are Australian citizens? After all, there are people in this country who’ve been here longer yet who’ve never ever bothered taking out citizenship.
them
“They are just ‘aving a larf’ he explained.
He may not be bound by NRL rules but I believe he commentates on Channel Nein. Swift termination of employment there will be good.
The AER & AEMO trying to claim a big part of the fall in wholesale power prices is down to the growth of renewables.
It is in a way but mainly due to rooftop solar dumping price for about four hours a day. The big fall in black coal prices is a major contributing as well.
They want the dumbed down public to think that a massive build in large scale renewables will further push down power bills.
The bill is the problem as it has to be paid. 50-60 billion to be funded from power users and dropped into the pockets of multi-national dominated by Chinese companies and components manufacturers.
The big battery part is being kicked down the road in order to cover an absurd lack of on-demand power and storage by building a vast and grossly wasteful transmission system that hopes enough sunshine and wind will be available at the right times to power the grid.
Regulators like the AER are completely captured by the government’s renewables push and the corporate interests involved.
One thing we’ve learnt in this fight is that there is no part of the regulatory system that is not partly or fully on board with the climate change mantra and the rights of citizens is considered subservient to the interests of big policy and big investors.
Perhaps those Vietnamese, here since 1980, despite not speaking English, are Australian citizens? After all, there are people in this country who’ve been here longer yet who’ve never ever bothered taking out citizenship.
I realise this is aimed at me, specifically, for being a ten poud tourist .. uncitizened .. but how do you aquire ‘citizenship’ if you can’t speak English ..?
I realise this is aimed at me, specifically, for being a ten poud tourist .. uncitizened .. but how do you aquire ‘citizenship’ if you can’t speak English ..?
Perhaps they do speak English, but not in the home. I just don’t think people in glass houses should throw stones.
I think the Vietnamese have been a gift to this country.
Oh and it’s never too late to become “citizened”.
An update on MAFS Knuckle Dragger through the Daily Telegraph:
Further:
Good Lord.
How many people can I murder and only get 25 years all up for?
This is an interesting development!
Twelve? The magic number is twelve.
Damn. It’s not good value. I only have nine on my card right now.
If only I had some drug lords to snitch on.
And Tim Blair covers Katherine Murphy joining Albo’s media unit:
Pollies are just incestuous twerps.
Funny story. My high school was in a less developed country zone of Australia.
HSC physics, we had the delight of the two mongrel male bit desexed dogs owned by the loveable bogans across the road, rooting loudly one period after lunch.
Maybe it was a sub dom thing. Homosexuality has been observed in some animals, I don’t think so with dogs.
The upshot is that someone is gonna get F’d in the A. The question is, Mormon abstinence or Myra Breckenridge?
ABC morning radio was outraged at the ratings for the first nights of MAFS.
They don’t get it and that sums up why they promoted YES and every other nut job progressive brain fart dreamt up by a minuscule group of weirdos.
MAFS is a human circus but the punters prefer it to a Greens conference,
A quiz for divorced fathers.
A famous Australian model leaves her billionaire husband. She cucks him and lets you spend his money.
She wants a relationship and is willing to STFU about astrology and coconut water.
She, however, begins grooming you with very good sandwiches and ever deeper walks into her secret garden.
The one condition is she insists that read Myra Beckenridge as your relationship deepens in a two week get away at Bora Bora.
What do you do? What do you do?
TheirABC has put together a ‘documentary’ (i.e. hit job)
These items do not just appear from left wing media. Albo has dropped his trust bomb, let it run for a day or two then LWM roll out ghosts of Liberals past. The front page changes. SFLs dont know whether to stay or go. Waters are muddied. The focus is off Albo, job done.
Darren J. Beattie
@DarrenJBeattie
With Imran Khan sentenced to 10 years in prison, worth revisiting this critical clip
WITH USAID FUNDING, UKRAINE IS THE WEF’S DIGITAL BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL DEEP STATE TAKEOVER
Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi should be tarred and feathered,
Too good for it.
I’d be going for the “world record kicking in the cnut record”
(h/t Derek & Clive)
the cuban message crisis
the cure for ego is a soapbox.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Blackface Hitler is getting rich destroying Canada.
He’s evil.
Why doesn’t Trump sue HER for defamation? He never met the woman.
Trump’s Defense Team Investigates Potential for New Trial Following Discovery of Judge’s Connections to Carroll’s Attorney — Further Details Reveal Carroll’s Other Lead Counsel Previously Served as Judge’s Clerk, and Judge Kaplan Co-officiated Her Wedding
Why hasn’t the CDC warned about all the diseases that could be brought in because of Joe Biden’s open borders?
Old and busted: eat insects.
New hotness: be an insect!
Overwhelmed by climate anxiety? Try becoming a butterfly (or pretending to) (24 Jan, via Tony Heller)
Down the rabbit hole. She’s obviously been smoking that stuff Absolem the Caterpillar used in his water pipe.
I’d be going for the “world record kicking in the cnut record”
That’s how you make a hormone I’m led to believe. I will see myself out.
Yes, because doing all he can somehow includes going to the Supreme Court for the right to take down the barriers.
Speaker Johnson rips Biden after president claims ‘I’ve done all I can’ to secure US-Mexico border: ‘Simply untrue’
A friend of ours runs a small business. Essentially her and two others doing graphic media. Employed a young woman and they worked side by side for past 8 years. Mid last year employee says she wants to take long service leave. Owner says yes sure, let me know the dates …except for the first week of Sep. i need you here as I have an important business trip to Syd for the week.
Employee goes away comes back with dates..commencing that specific week. They have a discussion. Next thing employee drops legal letters on owner. Owner checks her rights and requests employee to push back dates one week. Employee reluctantly agrees.
The specific week comes around, Monday, boom sick leave taken. This goes on for 12 days. Sick leave maxed out. Owner ring her up and advises such, would she like to take out of her annual leave? Next day employee resigns and demands full payout of all entitlements. Which owner duly honours.
Small business is a tough job. This staff issue came at a critical time. Lost a major contract. Lost a potential one for 2024. Cash flow got wiped out. After covid ruined her business this nearly sent her to the wall as there was little reserves left in the business.
Wonders if she will ever employ another person.
She is now looking to offshore the work and just run it by herself.
I honestly don’t know why you would want to have a small business in Australia and employ staff.
Is there a better way to destroy the nuclear family?
‘Gender ideology has torn our family apart’: Montana family who lost custody of their 14-year-old daughter after refusing to let her transition to a boy reveals their torment
Harvard’s diversity chief hit with 40 plagiarism accusations in wake of Claudine Gay scandal: report
Farage exposes UK population crisis.
Katie Hopkins: Laurence Fox, the High Court and the uncomfortable truth
Well known traditional antisemitic concepts from the past keep arising with barely even a small change in their application to Israel. How do educated people not recognise they’r regurgitation medieval views.
Jews need to be told what they should and shouldn’t believe.
Everyone else has some sort of divine right to determine where Jews can and can’t live.
Views and evidence presented by Jews on their own behalf are not believed.
Echo echo echo!
‘I don’t see systematic bias at the ABC’: Anderson (Paywallian)
Amazing. If he can’t see the bleeding obvious he’s clearly not competent to be running the place. Fire him, fire his biased employees then demolish the buildings and salt the earth.
Woke Passenger Mutiny on Airplane Gone WRONG – Konstantin Kisin
Russell Brand
So, THIS Is How They Did It
Tell that to the Jews who tried to return to their homes, in Poland, after the Nazi defeat, and were murdered by their former neighbors.
I would be pretty certain he is preparing for that, and other, possibilities. If Trump was at all complacent in 2020 I think he will have learned his lesson. Similarly the tricks they used in 2020 are now known. They will be, at least, partly neutralised.
Michelle is not a cleanskin either. Apart from saying some reprehensible things are First
LadyGoliath and some of her vanity projects (literally her vanity – if she had weight issues then every high school kid in America was going on a diet), she is inextricably linked with Obama’s Presidency. Obama was given a free run against more establishment type Republicans such as John McCain. I don’t think anyone looks back on the Obama Presidency with even the warmth they might have felt during it – Trump’s first term was like throwing open the windows, letting in light and fresh air.I remember Obama saying something along the lines that the days of growth of over 2% should be recognised as over, and that the jobs that had bled overseas were not coming back.
The Democrats will have a few dirty tricks they are working on, but I think they are desperate because so many have failed, or more often than not backfired. The options they are deploying now are merely the best they have. If they had something they thought was a guarantee they would be more relaxed like they were with Biden who sundowened two hours after sunrise and could not even fill a parking lot with cars where his audience could sit in climate controlled comfort. But the Democrats weren’t worried.
I think they are now.
I feel for you Dot. I really do.
Laura Jayes visibly upset by Jane Hume referring to Albo as a liar.
In other news, a lot of talk about wholesale power prices as the media mob rally to find some good news for the poor suffering public, and for their political mates.
But is it misinformation? Will it result in a decrease at retail level?
Is it just that the mostly left media are desperate to give their pollie mates on the left something of a lift?
Karvelas’s first question to Mundine after her Voice lost showed no bias. No bias whatsoever. Long live the ABC and let’s double its funding. Employees should not be taxed either.
Dot’s struggle is our struggle.
The Broelman cartoon – why has he got Dutton painted into a corner?
I did hear that Albo challenged Dutton on the tax cuts but is anyone buying that? Dutton’s ideas are not being implemented and it would just be an attempt to turn the spotlight off Albo’s mess. Just keep things “Albo, why did you break your promise?”
Our Struggle
Please could you stop the noise?
I’m tryna get some rest
From all the unborn chicken
Voices in my head
When I am king
You will be first against the wall
With your opinion
Which is of no consequence at all
As Stevie ‘Guitar’ Miller says
‘Hoo-hoo-hoo
Go on, take the money and run
Go on, take the money and run’
South African government is not morally fit to accuse Israel of genocide
Most of the Jews were already in what was to become Israel. The Palestinians in the shitty enclaves, on the other hand, are (I believe) largely aspiring Egyptian and Jordanian brigands intent on taking over homes and loot from the lately departed Jews.
(Free houses and loot? No wonder they want to come here.)
There already was a two state solution going back to the British Mandate – Trans-Jordan Palestine (now Jordan) for the goat-botherers, and what is could have been called on the same model Cis-Jordan* Palestine (now Israel). The Israelis just did not expel their Arabs as was being done to themselves in Muslim nations.
But now that the Greens have discovered secularism are they going to insist that Muslim nations embrace it also? Moreover, since we are a secular nation does that mean we can in all legal matters dismiss the magical claims of Indigenous culture?
I would like that.
In any event, the life of Arabs in ‘non-secular’ Israel is better and freer than Arabs in their own countries.
* I know the term was taken subsequently but the point was to show it was a simple partition of one territory.
Looks like the backlash has stiffened his backbone.
Speaker Johnson Rejects Pending Border Deal: Illegal Crossings ‘Must Be ZERO’
My experience was you must do everything yourself anyway and you have to treat suppliers like insolent children.
Upwardly managing strangers might be a strange idea but when you see nothing happening until you do it, then it becomes apparent why it must be done, as arrogant and dissociative as it feels.
On the other hand, I worked in a business where junior analysts were the first to be let go in a downturn, regardless of performance and the director of first impressions got a bonus before the junior analysts did – off the backs of the junior analysts.
Ho ho ho. It’s tough out there!
The one upside was one semi retired director liked me above all other employees and talked about rugby, fishing, wine etc. A man’s man’s man’s man’s man’s man.
Then again, I have been the unpaid supervisor for a dogshit employee who took six months to throw under the bus during COVID.
Quite frankly I’m willing to accept an IQ based command system at this point.
No, plants do not crave Brawndo.
He should just say when in government will we reimplement the Stage 3 tax cuts back to the original design. Make Albo own his deception. Tell the bed wetters to take a jump. Hopefully he has learned his lesson from his correct positioning on the voice referendum.
Albo could give everyone tax cut. The lifelong ALP voters won’t vote Liberal soon.
Product review time: Self managed super pitfalls and industry inefficiency!
SMSF (Stake/Airwallex) from ING Direct update:
Keeping a small sum in ING for life insurance.
The rest to go into SMSF, in a highly robust anti inflation strategy!
The issue is, I started this on Jan 4 and it has only progressed to the Super stream rollover request and letter from Stake to ING yesterday.
ING of course, were opaque as superannuation insiders could be expected to be. Their email for the docs switched the .au from the end of the email to before the @ – I verified both possibilities as real emails with valid SMTP etc.
They said they should do it in three working days but tried to say it could take up to ten.
This is incredibly inefficient. Once the ATO/APRA stuff is complete, it ought to be almost instantaneous.
Also, it’s easier to liquidate first, which I thought, but the automated form from Stake makes it seem not so. Luckily they called me up and asked me to renominate a $$$ amount as the shares I reupped are held of course by a trustee so etc not easy to transfer as the form implies.
The upside is my portfolio is up about 5% since my reup, the issue is if my highly aggressive anti inflationary strategy will get timed out by upcoming nearology announcements.
For miltf, others who have expressed interest in such matters.
The frustrating thing is Albo allowed the low and middle income tax offset (LMITO) to expire without renewal, then a year or so later announces “tax cuts” for low income people – which are less than the tax offset was.
So he’s taken the money out of their pockets and is now giving some of it back to them and is saying “aren’t we generous?” Breathtaking arrogance and mendacity.
And that’s ignoring the 37% bracket that they lied about removing.
No one in the media is reporting any of this, not even Sky News as far as I know.
Daily Mail has article up about SA Employment Tribunal win. Note he was working for the Government.
Daniel was forced to have a Covid jab to keep his job. Then he fell gravely ill. Now he has secured a HUGE legal victory
The only acceptable income tax to me now is a 100k TFT (indexed) and 10% above that, treat ALL income (corpos, CGT, personal/professional income, royalties etc) equally, no deductions other than economically necessary ones like COGS or depreciation (which is real, gawd I hate those property spruikers who say otherwise).
Black Ball’s post re NRL’s tepid response to Sonny Bill Williams’ social media support of sub-humans …. crossing over to Israel Falou for a comment.
How many billions have Hamas leadership sequestered?
Now that’s despicable.
Haha, Tim Blair has now got a blog post up on David Anderson’s laughable claims.
Wednesday Noticeboard (unpaywalled)
Read on…
Standard line with any tax cut by either party, Bruce.
All the money actually belongs to the almighty gummint, don’t you know?
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Bruce of Newcastle
Jan 31, 2024 10:10 AM
Albo challenged Dutton on the tax cuts
The frustrating thing is Albo allowed the low and middle income tax offset (LMITO) to expire without renewal, then a year or so later announces “tax cuts” for low income people – which are less than the tax offset was.
So he’s taken the money out of their pockets and is now giving some of it back to them and is saying “aren’t we generous?” Breathtaking arrogance and mendacity.
And that’s ignoring the 37% bracket that they lied about removing.
No one in the media is reporting any of this, not even Sky News as far as I know.
BON,
as a Self Funded Retiree I noticed it.
I cannot believe the SFL’s & National Party are not shouting this from the Roof tops!
Johnson is trying to remove border security as an issue for the upcoming election. It’s a strong point for Trump that the RINOs want to neutralise.
He’s not doing it for the good of the country, he’s doing it to hobble Trump
ABC journo interviewing ABC managing director.
Well, at least it’s a change from ABC journo interviewing ABC journo.
Pagans Worship Sex
Here Goes the Furure Fund
‘Ideologically driven fantasy’: Labor set to announce massive WA wind farm as part of move to reduce state government emissions by 80 per cent by 2030
Revelations that the Albanese Government is set to release a significant tract of water for offshore wind farming is the latest manifestation of Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s inane and unviable renewables dream, writes Rocco Loiacono SkyNews.com.au Contributor and Political Commentator.
In June 2022, the WA state Labor government announced plans to reduce its own emissions by 80 per cent by 2030.
As part of this transition – I can now reveal in this column that – the Albanese government, together with the WA government, is set to announce very soon a huge area reserved for offshore wind farms.
However, given the geographical and economic realities present in WA, any insufficiently planned proposed offshore wind farms will most likely irreparably damage the environment (terrestrial and marine) and unnecessarily displace the fishing industry.
It is another manifestation of Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s inane and ideologically driven renewable energy fantasy, one that can never be realistically delivered.
I can reveal the declared area is earmarked from Mandurah to Dunsborough (south of Perth) and out into very deep waters, well beyond the engineering capability of any renewable project in the world.
Critically, these wind turbines will be right in the middle of the warm and nutrient rich Leeuwin Current, a zone with very strong wind potential but also the biggest impact on marine life.
The current originates in Indonesian waters and flows all the way down to, as the name suggests, Cape Leeuwin in WA’s south.
With the abundance of krill, humpback whales flourish in the Leeuwin Current and this abundance guides their annual migration from the south-west of WA to the Kimberley and back again.
Whale numbers are currently climbing at an average rate of 10 per cent a year to now be around 35,000, which scientists estimate is greater than the whale population prior to European settlement in 1829.
Offshore wind farms are comprised of either fixed or floating turbines, both of which have their problems.
If they are fixed, to install the turbine towers, reefs must be levelled to then allow steel pylons to be driven deep into the bedrock, thus damaging the ocean floor beyond repair.
The raucous piledriving will go on for months if not years, and is known to literally scare away whales, dolphins and other marine life, including commercially important species like sharks and mackerel.
The impacts on Australia’s most valuable wild caught fishery, the western rock lobster industry worth over $360 million per year, have not even been considered let alone addressed.
Critically, no undersea cabling exists to get transmission lines to the WA mainland and massive subsea channels will need to be constructed through the valuable ocean habitat and coastal reefs, up the beach and through natural vegetation to the grid connection point.
The effects of the electromagnetic fields created by the huge turbines and transmission cables on the ocean floor are internationally believed to have dramatic impacts on the behaviour of marine species, including the ability of lobsters, whales and dolphins to navigate.
Additionally, there are reports from around the world that the spinning turbines are deadly for migrating birds.
Aren’t environmentalists supposed to be against this kind of ecological vandalism?
According to a brochure produced by the Australian Offshore Regulator, wind turbine towers likely proposed for Australia will be 250 metres high and will take three to five years to install.
Moreover, fixed wind turbines are limited to water depth between 30 to 80 metres, so why would the federal government announce a declared area in water depths up to 1000 metres?
In the case of floating wind turbines, their platforms require major engineering stabilisers to ensure the towers are strictly rigid during operation.
Monster steel chains are used to fix them to huge concrete footings in the ocean floor.
The steel making up each of the chain links will be at least 20cm in diameter, and current worldwide demand estimates for the installation of offshore floating turbines equates to a length of approximately 31,200 kilometres, more than three quarters the length of the Equator.
Just like fixed turbines, this demand for floating wind farms is limited to waters up to 80 metres in depth, yet Mr Bowen somehow believes it can be done in waters a kilometre deep.
Moreover, WA will be in a very long and expensive queue waiting for the steel chains to be produced in China in factories powered by fossil fuels.
So much for Mr Bowen’s claim at COP28 that “the age of fossil fuels will end”.
It is understood that official advice has been provided to government that the viability of offshore wind generation is inferior to onshore wind power – in other words it is uneconomic.
So why is the government now releasing huge tracts of valuable waters – without any scientific or socioeconomic understanding of the impacts – for a technology that is unviable and therefore will not deliver an energy solution, and that will have inevitable impacts upon whale breeding movements, migratory birds and valuable commercial fisheries?
Why is it in the UK recently that one of the largest proposed wind farms was halted due to revised economics?
Why is it that a recent tender for an area of UK waters attracted no proposals from windfarm developers?
The reason is simple – offshore wind energy production is uneconomic without significant government subsidies and guaranteed highly priced offtake agreements.
If the projects were to proceed, where would the construction experience and technical manpower be found to assemble and install these massive structures when the demand has already been soaked up in the northern hemisphere?
As noted recently by the EU’s auditors, European countries have recently committed to installing over 20,000 offshore turbines and they’re already fighting among themselves for the scant resources.
The report also expressed concern over “potential environmental effects”, including “species displacement and changes in populations’ structure, food availability or changes in migratory patterns”, to name but a few.
The taxpayer will inevitably feel the pinch of this renewable nightmare in more ways than one, first financially through government subsidies – without which the renewable energy industry cannot survive, and secondly in future power supply – the community’s energy security is under significant threat through such ill-conceived planning.
Thanks to Chris Bowen’s zealotry, he cannot see that the idea of coal fired power stations being turned off and replaced by a smooth transition to solar and wind power is naïve and poorly conceived, not to mention ecologically and economically ruinous, while at the same time making no difference to temperatures.
The Real Story: The Truth About George Floyd’s Death
Wake up’: Labor moving towards powerful ‘big brother government’
Sky News host Peta Credlin has warned Australians must “wake up” to Labor’s changing agenda as they move towards an “ever more powerful big brother government”.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced former union boss Greg Combet would be taking over from former Coalition treasurer Peter Costello to become the new Future Fund chair.
Ms Credlin warned Mr Combet, who is chairman of the Net Zero Economy Agency, will “no doubt” push to use the $200 billion balance sheet to invest in green projects.
“Australians have got to wake up to Labor’s agenda because they’re not even two years into office and the pace of their change is scarifying,” she said.
“They’ve appointed a big government lefty-type to run the Productivity Commission and they’ve reworked the Reserve Bank’s charter to include more social objectives.
“It’s why Labor are changing the superannuation rules to limit people’s ability to use their super to help with the purchase of their first home, as originally proposed by the Coalition at the last election.”
Rhetoric that necessitated an emergency trip to Japan and South Korea by Minister for Resources Madeline King to assure them that Australia will continue to provide gas into the future, lest they dump us for more reliable options in the meantime.
It also alleged that one of those targeted had transferred weapons and ammunition for use in those planned attacks.
Go and plough one of those mythical 72 virgins you filth.
Israel 1, Filth 0.
Filth minus 3.
Sheep that were selling for between 150 and 160 dollars a head, this time last year, are now selling for between 30 to 50 dollars a head. Thanks very much, albo and the vooking Greens.
In today’s performance the part of Jim Cairns will be played by Chris Bowen.
For anyone in Wentworth Electorate (and beyond) there is proposed an afternoon of speechifying: Speakers are Judith Sloan, Economist, Ben Beattie, Electrical Engineer – the Baseload podcast; Alexandra Marshall ADH TV host and Spectator columnist; Aidan Morrison from the CIS, Damien Timbs, Farmer from Walch and Nick Cater Senior Fellow, Menzies Research Centre.
Details as follows: The Wentworth Energy Forum on Sunday 25 February 2:30pm for 3:00pm start. Payment at the door $20.00 for adults; $10.00 for students. For enquiries call 0488 040 040
RSVP: https://nswliberal.org.au/240225f01.
I’ve copied and pasted this link into Google — and it works
FU very much, Labor.
The Jewish People’s Existence Attests To God’s Existence
The very fact that there are still Jews today serves as a motive of credibility manifesting the miraculous power of God in the world.
Law of intended consquences?
Germany’s leftist government liberalised citizenship laws this month, opening the door for Turkish guest workers to be naturalised quicker and vote in German federal elections while keeping their Turkish citizenship.
Two weeks later, Erdogan’s AK (Justice and Devleopment) Party has announced plans to establish a German branch & run candidates in the June election who will campaign for open borders and increased welfare benefits.
Zulu – I think the BOM deserves a mention. More so over East, WA is largely live export driven I suspect.
Yes, I was going to say it’s Whitlamesque ineptitude.
We’d better hope Ms. King was persuasive. She does seem to be one of the more sensible members of Albanese’s Cabinet.
Tinta – are you expecting any NSW Lieborals?
Cameron Milner gives Albo some ‘advice’.
Milner was Tits Shorton’s chief of staff when Tits lost the unloosable election to Scotty from Marketing.
Absolutely. Covered in moldy bandage wrapping, with their arms out chanting ‘BRAAAAINS!’
Albanese government staffers are demanding a 20 per cent pay rise over three years and a cost-of-living adjustment to combat inflation, as part of looming wage negotiations that will also include demands for an overhaul of office culture.
Political staffers want a 20 per cent pay raise – nearly double that of public servants
On top of a 9 per cent pay rise this year, followed by subsequent annual rises of 6 and 5 per cent, the Community and Public Sector Union bargaining claim says political staff want to stop working unreasonable hours
Under the current enterprise agreement, the starting salary for electoral officers is $58,846 and the highest rate for political advisers is $284,129.
As well as the pay claim, staff want a “cost-of-living adjustment payment” where inflation exceeds the wage increase due that year.
Staff also receive a personal allowance of up to $34,612 in lieu of receiving overtime payments.
They are also calling for 15.4 per cent superannuation – against the Fair Work rate of 11 per cent – which would rise to 17 per cent, as well as work-from-home rights, paid lactation breaks, gender affirmation leave and incremental pay advancements for casuals.
Milner forgot to mention death taxes.
Best left of a Labor-green coalition, perhaps?
Now my advice for those who die. Taxman!
Declare the pennies on your eyes. Taxman!
Smells like another quid pro quo to get the Turks to allow Sweden into NATO. The problem is that Sweden has a lot of Kurdish dissidents who Erdogan doesn’t like.
Best left to a Labor-green coalition…
Can’t the Royal Australian Navy provide an escort?
I see that Zac Drury, the staffer photographed at a Nicki Haley event in the US, has been moved on from Albanese’s office. But if a Christian or Jewish school wants to get rid of a teacher who openly trashes their faith, they are huperoffspring rights abusers.
On the Port Macquarie Greens, is it any coincidence that Faruqi owns a big block of land there which she is subdividing into five houses? (Our genocidal fascist racist imperialist hellhole of a country has treated her so terribly, don’t you know?)
The project, by the way, involves extensive felling of native trees which are possible koala habitats, and there is no sign of ‘social’ or ‘affordable’ housing being on the agenda. But there is no sign of protest from the usual suspects either. Where’s the Environmental Defenders Office when the koalas need them?
Zelensky moves to sack Ukraine’s top general
Christopher Miller
Kyiv | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is preparing to replace his top general in what would be the biggest shake-up of Ukraine’s military command since Russia’s full-scale invasion began two years ago.
Mr Zelensky this week offered Valeriy Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, a new role as a defence adviser but the general refused, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
Two of them said Mr Zelensky had made clear to Zaluzhny that regardless of whether he took the role, he would be removed from his current position.
The four people said that while a decision had been made in Mr Zelensky’s office to dismiss General Zaluzhny, he may not be ousted for some time after reports of the plans appeared in Ukrainian media.
The president’s offer of a new role to the general follows months of speculation about his fate, fed by reports of tension between the two men.
Their strained relationship spilled into the open in November after Ukraine’s much-hyped counteroffensive failed to achieve its ambitious goals of retaking lost territory and cutting off Russia’s land bridge to Crimea.
At the time, General Zaluzhny said the war had reached a “stalemate”, leading the president’s office to castigate him for using the term.
On Monday, Mr Zelensky’s spokesperson, Serhiy Nykyforov, and the defence ministry denied reports about General Zaluzhny’s dismissal.
“Dear journalists, we immediately answer everyone: No, this is not true,” the ministry wrote on its Telegram channel without providing additional context. The president’s office declined to comment further on Tuesday.
The removal of General Zaluzhny would also cause an uproar within Ukraine’s rank-and-file military and civil society, among whom he enjoys huge support.
In a Ukrainian poll released in December, 88 per cent of Ukrainians said they trusted General Zaluzhny compared with 62 per cent who said they trusted Mr Zelensky.
“This will have a very, very negative impact on the [morale] of the army,” Ukrainian military historian Mykhailo Zhyrokhov told Kyiv’s Radio NV, who added he believed the rumours to be “fabrication”.
Replacing General Zaluzhny could also unnerve Ukraine’s western partners, including military officials who have worked closely with the general over the past two years to devise battlefield strategies.
The war is at a critical juncture as Kyiv waits to see whether it will receive billions of dollars’ worth of military and financial assistance from the US and the EU.
General Zaluzhny has not commented on the reports of his dismissal. On Monday, however, he published an undated selfie with his chief of the general staff Serhiy Shaptala on Facebook in which both were wearing Ukrainian army sweatshirts.
Reports of General Zaluzhny’s imminent ousting began circulating on Monday evening in local media and on anonymous local Telegram channels. They also appeared in public comments from politicians closely aligned with former president Petro Poroshenko, whom Mr Zelensky defeated in the 2019 election.
According to all four people with knowledge of the issue, it is unclear who would replace General Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief.
Possible candidates are Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, and Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the country’s military intelligence directorate. Both men are close to Mr Zelensky.
Ukrainian news outlet Mirror of the Week also reported the discussions around General Zaluzhny’s possible dismissal, citing sources in Mr Zelensky’s office. Several other media cited people who said General Zaluzhny had already been dismissed or would be let go imminently.
A four-star career military man dubbed the “Iron General” by admirers, General Zaluzhny, 50, was appointed by Mr Zelensky to the post of commander-in-chief in July 2021. He has overseen Ukraine’s military’s operations since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
He is credited with orchestrating several of Ukraine’s military successes, including the defence of Kyiv in the first days of Russia’s invasion, and the successful counteroffensives in the eastern Kharkiv region and the southern regional capital of Kherson in autumn 2022.
Mr Zelensky has reportedly sought to keep the general, whom he viewed as a potential competitor, out of the public eye and bypassed him during key moments of the war by communicating orders to the general’s subordinates.
Iran seems to have been trumped by classified documents
Tell them to accuse a colleague of rape. You get $3 million for that.
Doesn’t work for lefty staffers but. Maybe that’s why they want a pay rise.
‘Charges will not be laid’ against ex-Labor MP Will Fowles after Victoria Police conclude investigation into ‘alleged serious assault’ accusations against him (30 Jan)
Always good to be a member of the nomenklatura.
We already have the Democrat Party with ALP thralls.
You’d assume campaign and political donation laws would make overt “branches” illegal here. I know when I donated to the Libertarian candidate for Dunkley last night, I had to declare my Australian-ness.
Possibly, but the political scene in German is increasingly resembling the polarised US situation, with the prog-left prepared to do anything to sabotage the centre-right ahead of this year’s EU parliament elections and next year’s federal election.
Albanese government staffers are demanding a 20 per cent pay rise
Hahaha – surely even idiot Albo wouldn’t fall for that one. But?
Broelman’s cartoon screams – “prepared under instruction”.
Big week for grandees .. one more off to High School and another into infants .. six out of 8 now in school ……..
Sinn Fein claims Irish reunification ‘within touching distance’ after DUP ends Stormont deadlock
Deal with unionists will lead to reopening of Northern Ireland’s parliament, which will have a nationalist first minister
James Crisp, EUROPE EDITOR ; Nick Gutteridge, WHITEHALL CORRESPONDENT and Joe Barnes, BRUSSELS CORRESPONDENT
The reunification of Ireland is within “touching distance”, Sinn Fein has claimed, after the DUP ended its two-year boycott of Stormont over post-Brexit trading arrangements.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of the DUP, announced the party executive had accepted Rishi Sunak’s Irish Sea border offer in the early hours of Tuesday after a turbulent five-hour meeting, which exposed deep divisions among unionists.
It paves the way for the restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly in the coming days, which has been mothballed since the DUP walked out of a power-sharing deal in February 2022 that was intended to help maintain peace in the province.
Stormont’s return means that Michelle O’Neill will become the first nationalist first minister in Northern Ireland’s history after she led Sinn Fein to a historic victory in the May 2022 elections.
Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Fein’s party leader, said it would be a moment of “very great significance” and a sign of change sweeping the island of Ireland.
She said the reunification of Ireland was “in historic terms” within “touching distance”, pointing to Sinn Fein’s lead in the polls ahead of elections in the Republic of Ireland this year.
Alongside her, Ms O’Neill said the next days would be “crucial” in restoring power-sharing but added this was a “day of optimism” as the Republicans considered the prospect of being in power on both sides of the Irish border.
Referendum
Ms McDonald has previously predicted a referendum on Irish unity by 2030. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement states that the UK’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland must call a border poll if it “appears likely” a majority would back reunification – which is not reflected in the latest opinion polls.
The DUP opposed both the Northern Ireland Protocol to prevent a hard land border and the Windsor Framework, which reduced Irish Sea checks, on the grounds it put the region’s place in the UK’s internal market at risk.
Sir Jeffrey said he hoped the devolved government could be back in place within days after backing a deal he claimed would remove all post-Brexit checks on goods moving between Britain and Northern Ireland.
Downing Street refused to confirm Sir Jeffrey’s assertion that the deal would result in “zero checks, zero customs paperwork” on goods moving within the UK, saying it would “not be helpful at this stage to get into the detail”.
The agreement faces fierce opposition from hardline unionists and grassroots loyalists, who argue it falls short of the DUP’s seven tests to end the boycott, and they have vowed to fight the deal.
Jim Allister, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice, said he feared the “tawdry climbdown” could be “game over for the Union”.
It is understood a DUP executive member behind a leak of Monday night’s meeting was wearing a wire which relayed the party leader’s speech to Jamie Bryson, an influential Loyalist activist, who posted it on social media.
“Are these proposals perfect? Have we achieved everything that we wanted to achieve? No, we haven’t,” Sir Jeffrey said, adding there had been “substantive change” and “progress” across the seven tests.
A Downing Street spokesman said Mr Sunak had spoken to Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Taoiseach and both agreed “it was in the people of Northern Ireland’s interests to have stable devolved government”. But the leaders clashed over Ireland’s European Court of Human Rights case against the UK’s Legacy Act.
The European Commission said it was not party to the negotiations with the DUP but warned it expected the UK to uphold the Windsor Framework deal agreed last February.
The UK-EU joint committee on the Windsor Framework announced a decision giving Northern Ireland the opportunity to access lower tariffs across 13,000 tons of products like lamb, beef and poultry imported as part of the UK’s post-Brexit free trade deals.
Sir Jeffrey said the announcement proved there had been legal changes to the framework, despite the assertions of “naysayers”.
Patriotic rebrand
The DUP deal is expected to be published in full on Wednesday. It includes a £3.3 billion package to support under-pressure public services in Northern Ireland.
The border’s Green Lane will be given a patriotic rebrand as the “UK Internal Market Lane”.
There is an undertaking to screen new UK laws to ensure they do not have a “significant adverse effect” on trade with Northern Ireland.
The Government will this week introduce two statutory instruments at Westminster, which requires only a short parliamentary debate rather than full legislation.
It is the same mechanism No 10 used to pass the Windsor Framework, which sparked anger with Mr Sunak suffering a significant Commons rebellion.
Brexiteer backbenchers, including Sir Bill Cash and Theresa Villiers, the former Northern Ireland Secretary, warned they could oppose the deal if it hampers Britain’s ability to diverge from EU rules.
They are also “troubled” by the Government’s plans to fast-track the agreement through the Commons in just two days, allowing little time for scrutiny.
Brexit border checks arrive
It came as Brexit border checks are finally set to come into force on Wednesday for goods arriving into Great Britain from the EU.
The long-delayed customs controls, supposed to be introduced after Britain left the bloc, will apply to live animals, plants and plant-based products.
Exporters welcomed the measures, which they said would help UK businesses compete with continental rivals and grow the economy.
But importers have warned the extra paperwork risks delaying supplies of goods including pork, leading to shorter shelf lives in supermarkets.
The Commons environment committee warned the planned level of controls is too lax and risks exposing the UK to diseases such as African Swine Fever.
Murpharoo already making her mark?
Chuckle.
A clown car filled with Uni Socialist Alternative members. Makes even R-G-R look good, although the dregs are still there for their final go round.
Incidentally, if the German iteration of Erdogan’s party were successful in the European elections that could see them with representation in Brussels despite not being a member of the EU!
Roger – The Germans are currently having another angst attack about the Russians. It’s an incurable malaise that strikes every so often.
Nearly Half of Germans ‘Worried’ About Possible Russian Attack (30 Jan)
The Left is currently in power in Germany, so if their kiddies are afraid of Wussians their leaders are likely to be even more afraid. After all the Left believes in mythical dangers like global warming, so no surprise that they’d imagine Putin is an existential danger worse than Cthulhu.
Sinn Fein claims Irish reunification ‘within touching distance’ after DUP ends Stormont deadlock
The DUP opposed both the Northern Ireland Protocol to prevent a hard land border and the Windsor Framework, which reduced Irish Sea checks, on the grounds it put the region’s place in the UK’s internal market at risk.
The Windsor Framework: What are its key provisions?
Trade
The deal introduces a new “green lane”, under which goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland-only will be freed of unnecessary paperwork, checks and duties.
All goods destined for the EU will use a “red lane”, and will still be subject to normal checks.
It means food available on the supermarket shelves in Great Britain will be available on supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland.
New data-sharing and labelling arrangements will be used to oversee the new system, with relevant goods marked as Northern Ireland-only.
Some custom checks may still be carried out on green lane goods, but only where smuggling is suspected.
Businesses moving goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain will not be required to complete export declarations
Bans on certain products – such as sausages, seed potatoes and 11 native trees – entering Northern Ireland from Britain will be scrapped.
Pets and products
Rules under which pet owners travelling from Britain to Northern Ireland had to show a vet-issued health certificate and proof of up-to-date rabies vaccination before every visit will be scrapped.
Pet owners will only have to confirm that their pet is microchipped and will not move into the EU.
Medicines for use in Northern Ireland will be approved by the UK regulator only, with the European Medicines Agency not having any role.
Parcels will not be subject to full custom declarations. From 2024, parcel operators will be required to share data with the EU to manage smuggling risks.
Taxes
UK VAT and excise rules will apply to Northern Ireland for immovable goods such as heat pumps and alcoholic drinks for immediate consumption.
EU VAT rules will still apply for other items.
Sovereignty
The proportion of EU rules applied in Northern Ireland will shrink to less than 3 per cent.
The European Court of Justice continues to be the final arbiter in disputes over these remaining rules.
A new “Stormont brake” that allows the Northern Ireland Assembly to raise an objection to a new EU goods rule will be introduced.
The process would be triggered if 30 MLAs (representatives in the Stormont Assembly) from two or more parties sign a petition.
A 14-day consultation period would follow, after which, if 30 MLAs still support it, there would be a vote in the assembly. To pass, it would need support from both unionists and nationalists.
Once the UK tells the EU that the brake has been triggered, the new EU rule cannot be implemented. It can only be applied if the UK and EU agree.
This new process is not subject to oversight by the European Court of Justice.
If Northern Ireland starts to diverge significantly from the bloc’s rules, the EU has the power to take “appropriate remedial measures”.
Northern Ireland Protocol Bill
This controversial legislation, introduced under Boris Johnson, which would have given the UK the power to scrap the old protocol deal, is ditched.
Legal opinion published by the Government says there is now “no legal justification” for going ahead with it.
A question for the military Cats:
This is an old one, I know, so it has probably been debunked already, but at the 1m 33s mark of the footage embedded in this al jazeera [yes, I know] story, there is a pile of expended SA cartridges, along with links. This image has been included to emphasise the apparent size and ferocity of the ‘massacre.’
My question is: Is it possible to identify the cartridge type, and state if it is likely that they are from Israeli or terrorist weapons?
If this allegation – a massacre of pally civs in a school ‘execution style’ (strangely, several people who were conversant with the exact details managed to live and tell their story, unwounded), has been debunked already, don’t worry about it.
Thanks.
Commies gotta commie
The Soviet Union’s failure to lure Israel onto their side of the cold war in the late 40s pumped up Stalin’s paranoid insanity. His attacks on Soviet Jews and attacks on Israel were further fueled by the popularity Of Golda Meir on her visit as Israeli Foreign Minister.
Soviet instructions to the Western World’s commies to hate and attack Israel were followed faithfully and have been continued ever since, even to this day in 2024!
Australian Army LTCOL gets medal for spending our money.
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
A quote from the good half-colonel:
“We weren’t directly involved in every detail, but strategically considered all these elements when planning the sequence of announcements.”
You got it in one old mate, it’s ‘the sequence of announcements’ that matters.
That and how’s the diversity!
Losing the unloseable election doesn’t guarantee you learn any lessons. This guy and John Hewson would enjoy a beer together.
The Dealer’s Missus and Short Willie have been vevvvyy quiet lately.
Plotting against the imbecile and his carbon idiot.
Ooookaaay then ….
A new shawarma restaurant called “October 7” opened in Amman, the capital of Jordan.
Scroll about one fifth of the way down the page.
Is this footage legit?
I don’t understand what Albanese is seeking by bringing a far left nutter like Murphy onto his strategy team.
Who is he trying to convince – the Greens?
More likely, because his whole career has been based on bully tactics, he sees Murphy as stiffening the resolve to force the rebellious people into submission.
Having a bully woman behind you doesn’t always work out for the best.
“You must be more autocratic Nicholis”.
I get the feeling he’s a true believer. Wait and see.
Understanding Data Center Energy Consumption
Think of data centers as the brains of the internet—they process, store, and communicate all of the data behind the services we rely on every day, from social media to scientific computing.
To do this, data centers use various IT devices, all of which require a significant amount of energy use. For example, servers perform computations and provide logic to respond to information requests, storage drives hold the data and files needed to meet each request, and network devices enable the incoming and outgoing flows of data by connecting the entire data center to the internet.
The electricity that these IT devices use ultimately turns into heat, which the data center must remove by using cooling equipment that also consumes energy.
Current Statistics of Data Center Energy Consumption
According to a report released by Forbes back in 2017, data centers based in the United States alone utilized more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity that year.
That much energy would require 34 massive coal-powered plants to generate at least 500 megawatts each to meet the power demands of said data centers.
However, this figure pales compared to the amount of power needed to run data centers on a global scale, which amounts to 416 terawatts, or approximately 3% of all electricity generated on Earth.
That is already a massive amount of power, and with the number of data centers in operation growing each year, power demands are only increasing as time goes on.
Given that 80% of the world’s energy is still derived from fossil fuels, increasing power demands have created significant environmental problems.
Thankfully, this issue has not escaped the notice of many data center providers, who have dedicated themselves to finding solutions to meet the power needs of consumers while keeping their energy usage at efficient and reasonable levels.
In general, data centers operate much more effectively in terms of their power usage now than several years ago, as demonstrated by their Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) scores.
However, there are always new methods for improvement, especially since most of the efficiency changes made are considered relatively “low-hanging fruit.” It’s time for data centers to take another step into the realm of efficient energy consumption.
I’ve heard Minister King speak a few times on ABC radio.
She’s so sensible I fear she may be dumped come the next reshuffle, as she’ll have made enemies of the likes of Bowen & Burke, et. al..
Janet from the Oz
Milner is right though. Younger non homeowners are getting screwed. I think they are starting to realise it too, although I suspect it won’t make much difference to voting patterns.
The heat got too much…
Jordan’s ‘October 7’ restaurant says it’s changing name due to political pressure (27 Jan)
Wouldn’t be surprised if the pressure was coming from a certain nearby palace. The Hashemites don’t much like Palis.
These Are The 50 Top Power-Consuming Data-Center Markets In The World
We live in an information-abundant digital world, where data is the new currency, and data centers are the vaults that protect and power it.
The amount of data created each year has skyrocketed from 2 zettabytes in 2010 to 44 zettabytes (44 trillion gigabytes) in 2020. This has surged demand for data storage and processing, leading to the construction of massive data centers around the world.
So, where are the biggest data centers?
In this graphic,Visual Capitalist’s Julie Peasley uses 2023 data from Cushman & Wakefield to shed light on the biggest data center markets.
The Biggest Data Center Markets
Today, it is estimated that there are over 8,000 data centers in the world.
Many of these centers end up clustered together due to beneficial infrastructure and provisions from local governments and utilities. They also need lots of power, often at least 100 MW for each center, making power consumption one of the best ways to measure total market size.
While a majority of these data center markets are in the United States, some of them are scattered across Asia and Europe.
Rank Data Center Market Country Capacity (MW)
1 Northern Virginia United States 2,552
2 Beijing China 1,799
3 London United Kingdom 1,053
4 Singapore Singapore 876
5 Tokyo Japan 865
6 Frankfurt Germany 864
7 Shanghai China 725
8 Sydney Australia 667
9 Dallas United States 654
10 Silicon Valley United States 615
11 Phoenix United States 615
12 Chicago United States 555
13 Amsterdam Netherlands 531
14 Hong Kong Hong Kong 417
15 New York City – Northern New Jersey United States 392
16 Paris France 391
17 Portland United States 382
18 Mumbai India 380
19 Atlanta United States 360
20 Seoul South Korea 330
21 Dublin Ireland 304
22 Toronto Canada 267
23 Osaka Japan 241
24 Los Angeles United States 206
25 Salt Lake City United States 203
26 Las Vegas United States 173
27 Johannesburg South Africa 161
28 Querétaro Mexico 150
29 Melbourne Australia 149
30 Jakarta Indonesia 144
31 Montreal Canada 127
32 São Paulo Brazil 122
33 Madrid Spain 120
34 Milan Italy 111
35 Zurich Switzerland 111
36 Delhi India 110
37 Seattle United States 105
38 Boston United States 95
39 Reykjavík Iceland 88
40 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 87
41 Warsaw Poland 86
42 Denver United States 78
43 Stockholm Sweden 74
44 Munich Germany 67
45 Santiago Chile 61
46 Berlin Germany 60
47 Chennai India 57
48 Marseille France 50
49 Oslo Norway 48
50 Columbus United States 41
With nearly 300 data centers, including many AWS servers, the Northern Virginia data center market is the largest in the world. Data centers in the region are estimated to handle more than one-third of global online traffic.
In 2023, Northern Virginia data centers had a combined power consumption capacity of 2,552 MW.
That’s four times the capacity of the next closest American markets, Dallas (654 MW) and Silicon Valley (615 MW).
The second-biggest market, Beijing, has a measured capacity of 1,799 MW.
Though it is currently the only market with an operational capacity of over 1,000 MW in the Asia Pacific Region, Tokyo (865 MW) appears to be catching up fast.
Europe’s biggest data center clusters are in London (1,053 MW) and Frankfurt (864 MW), largely due to demand from large local enterprises and organizations.
It’s no coincidence that they are major hubs for government and commerce—the world’s largest data center markets are near capital cities, as historically, governments (and their militaries) were the first to invest in internet infrastructure.
Future of Data
And lactation breaks in lieu for us non breastfeeding males. We’re trying.
For Northern Virginia read Pentagon
Bowen as Rasputin.
‘Dillo re your question on the new glazing scam dreamt up by glass manufacturers and installers and sold to the cmgovernment as a new and novel solution to a non-problem.
Our North facing floor to ceiling windows are double glazed and when the sun shines directly on to them they appear as if we haven’t washed them in years. The cloudiness in a triple or quadruple glazed windows would reduce visibility close to zero.
Is that where we’re heading? No looking out windows for you.
New number plate slogan: Victoria the Gay State.
Health warning issued for Victoria after first case of locally-acquired mpox in six months as authorities urge for double vaccinations (Sky News, 31 Jan)
Who knew that there are more than six million homosexual men in Victoria? We should ask Mark Latham about this story, his response would be worth bottling.
Sorry, but this plainly wrong. If you look at any demographic figures for Palestine either under Ottomans or during the British Mandate, the Arabs, whether Christian or Muslim, constituted vast majority, easily over 80% until near the end of the Mandate, and most of them born in Palestine.
This is a rather novel theory.
History of Opium in US
The Dollop #280 – Opium in the US – Part 1
The Dollop #281 – Opium in the US – Part 2
The Dollop Report Researchers are amazing – the Australian Series are excellent
The Dollop #551 – Sinatra in Australia – live w/Becky Lucas
Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine Frank Sinatra’s 1974 tour of Australia
The Dollop #108 – Douglas Mawson (Live in Australia)
Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds – with special guest Justin Hamilton examine Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson live from Mebourne, Australia
Monkeypox is nauture’s way of saying slow down a bit. Probably just the old Sydney Melbourne rivalry flaring up ( no pun intended).
It might if the Libz were to propose freeing up (40%) of Super to use for house deposit. A good wedgie for the Labor gang who believe all your Superis beling to them …
They’re misunderstood. If only we could get closer to them we’d understand how nice they really are.
Stop killing brown snakes—they could be a farmer’s best friend say researchers (Phys.org, 30 Jan)
Well, being bitten by one would be a tad fatal in most cases, and the critters are rather ornery, so I expect there’s a slight justification for that attitude. Here’s who the author is:
He also likes cane toads. I guess that figures.
Alamak – that would just get built straight into prices and transferred straight to sellers. Housing problems are structural, long term and predominately supply side.
O K, it is time to make an outside prediction, Will not be long before Albo announces that the famous TLS will be our next Govenor General.
No, that’s her programming.
She’s a femme bot.
Perhaps those Vietnamese, here since 1980, despite not speaking English, are Australian citizens? After all, there are people in this country who’ve been here longer yet who’ve never ever bothered taking out citizenship.
Sometimes it might be an idea for us all to take a deep breath and ponder the concept of freedom.
We either support it and I do, or we don’t. Many state that they support it and they believe we are a free country and should remain one.
That being said, in a free society anyone can speak any language they choose. Generally the market will sort out the necessities of language. For instance, if any person wants to communicate in any situation it is pretty self explanatory that they need to speak the language of those they wish to communicate with. If they want to read a sign, they need to understand the language it is written in. If they choose not to learn the language of the majority of the population, it is their right in a free society to do so and to accept the shortfalls in their own life that such a decision deliver.
Same with citizenship, there are risks that come with not becoming a citizen that are insurmountable but those who make that decision are free to do so. If they deliberately or accidentally break certain laws they will be deported… unless of course, politics steps in.
Farmers organise Reckless Renewables Rally, Canberra Feb 6: no more windmills, solar panels or power lines
This Reckless Renewables Rally is the official theme and focus of the February 6 rally organised by farmers to pressure the Labor Greens alliance about the futility of Net Zero and to halt the de-industrialisation of Australia.
A number of politicians have agreed to speak at the rally; let’s give them the message from food producers that very soon there could be no food.
Please attend if you can, bring your friends and neighbours to this important event. Australia’s future depends on it.
https://cairnsnews.org/2024/01/26/farmers-organise-reckless-renewables-rally-canberra-feb-6-no-more-windmills-solar-panels-or-power-lines/
What about the demographics of Israel at its inception?
the war pig emerges, raising her snout to berate the US public whenever there’s rumor of withdrawal…
Nuland ‘Sets The Record Straight’ On US Forever Occupation Of Syria
For several days there has been a flurry of reports in both independent and mainstream media outlets suggesting the US could finally withdraw American troops from Iraq and Syria. These reports spread widely especially before the Sunday drone attack on a US base on the Syrian-Jordanian border, which killed three American soldiers and injured over 40 more, according to revised casualty figures.
For example, Foreign Policy reported last Wednesday that the White House is actively reviewing and reconsidering the troop presence after a years-long occupation of Syria, however the report emphasized that “no definitive decision has been made to leave.”
Still, there had not been any serious reporting or “debate” on a plan to withdraw from Syria going back to the middle of the Trump administration, when then President Trump pointed out that troops were there “to secure the oil”.
Just as in the aforementioned Foreign Policy article, hawks argue that American must “stay the course” (with no exit date, as these things tend to go) as if somehow the Pentagon’s absence from the region will unleash chaos and an expansionist Iran (or insert Russia, China, or any ‘bad guy’ of the moment).
But this week, a top Biden admin official sought to definitively dispel the substantial rumors that an Iraq or Syria withdrawal could be around the corner.
And it was none other than Victoria “F*ck The EU” Nuland:
“Well, first let me set the records straight, the United States is not withdrawing from Syria,” Nuland, who is US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, has told CNN Turk.
Nuland’s comments are being reported in foreign media but have been absent from the US mainstream, perhaps given general apathy among the American public on questions of the ‘forever’ occupation of Syria.
Yep.
Daniel McAdams
@DanielLMcAdams
She loves having American troops killed in places like Syria.
It brings the US closer to the neocon fantasy of war with Iran.
She views members of the US military as mere cattle. Mere pawns.
The people in charge of American foreign policy hate Americans.
Dagny Taggart
@DagnyTaggart963
The United States has no plans to withdraw its troops from Syria, Victoria Nuland .
“Well, first let me set the records straight, the United States is not withdrawing from Syria”
PS the war pig emerges, raising her snout to berate the US public whenever there’s rumor of withdrawal…
She does look like Pig in the Photo
Nothing to see here.
Rubbish. Estimates of up to 50% were newcomers, attracted by British infrastructure work and employment surrounding the flourishing Jewish industries and agriculture. British archives have records of Arab immigration. Read “Whose Land” by James Parkes and “From Time Immemorial” by Joanne Peters.
Arab newcomers were still pouring in right up the the final years of the Mandate. That’s the reason UNRWA declared refugees were those resident for at least two years, not the usual two generations.
So the gossip overnight is that US sent Iran a message via the Swiss that they don’t want a war with Iran, however please let us bomb some place on your territory but don’t retaliate. Iran responded with, We don’t want a war either but any attack directly on us will involve retaliatory strikes. We’ll see what happens.
It’s no “novel theory”.
Read the Mnadate with the explicit exception for the area of ‘Palestine’ east of the Jordan River, and following British reports for a few decades that included stats of the eastern part of Palestine.
Real Clear Investigations – The Beltway Judge Hearing Trump Cases and Her Anti-Trump, Anti-Kavanaugh Husband
Shown: a study in Trump-related conflicts? Judge Florence Pan in 2022, sworn in as her husband, Democrat insider and Brett Kavanaugh accuser Max Stier, right, looks on.
By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigations
January 30, 2024
Washington glitterati assembled at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in October to celebrate federal employees making a difference in government. Hosted by CNN anchor Kate Bolduan, the black-tie affair featured in-person appearances by top Biden White House officials including Chief of Staff Jeffrey Zients, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack.
Midway through the evening’s festivities, Max Stier, president of the group sponsoring the event – the Partnership for Public Service, a $24 million nonprofit based in Washington that recruits individuals to work in the civil service – took the stage to thank his high-profile guests. “Great leaders are the heart and soul of effective organizations,” Stier said, “which is why I am so thankful to see so many of our government’s amazing leaders here tonight.”
Stier also acknowledged one federal employee, his wife, Judge Florence Y. Pan, who sits on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Pan would soon need no introduction.
Earlier this month she made headlines by asking Donald Trump’s lawyers whether the presidential immunity he sought in connection with alleged Jan. 6 crimes was absolute.
Could a president order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival?” Pan asked Trump lawyer John Sauer. “That’s an official act – an order to SEAL Team Six?” she clarified.
Although the back and forth between Pan and Sauer was inconclusive as to the question about a president’s criminal liability, many mainstream outlets misconstrued the exchange while lionizing Pan for posing a question that they then used to advance their description of Trump as a lawless menace.
The exchange, which Pan prompted when she posed the pre-arranged hypothetical at beginning of the hearing, has raised new questions about the impartiality of judges hearing politically charged cases.
For months progressives have been insisting that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from any case that involves Trump because of his wife Ginni Thomas’ political involvement and participation in the events of Jan. 6.
Those same interests have yet to express similar worries about Pan’s objectivity, despite her husband’s longtime political activism and current opposition to another Trump presidency.
Power couples are the lifeblood of Washington so it’s not unusual for political activists, judges, and White House bigwigs to rub elbows at fancy soirees like the October gala at the Kennedy Center.
But Max Stier’s longtime ties to the Democratic Party, his access to key Biden administration officials, and his suggestion that Trump represents a threat to democracy at the same time his wife is handling sensitive matters related to the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the former president should raise questions about her impartiality.
A member of Bill Clinton’s legal team during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Stier, 57, has been a Democratic Party fixture for nearly three decades.
Since 2001, he has run the Partnership for Public Service, which is funded by some of the most generous benefactors of progressive causes including the Gates Foundation, Democracy Fund, and the Ford Foundation. In 2020, the Partnership launched an effort tied to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) movement, pledging to demand what it considers greater diversity in government agencies and institutions.
In a letter to mark the group’s 20-year anniversary, Stier lamented the country’s democratic “crisis” caused by “a violent insurrection against Congress and growing suspicions about the results of a legitimate election.”
First Quantum Minerals 200
Ukraine’s Democracy in Darkness
With elections postponed and no end to the war with Russia in sight, Volodymyr Zelensky and his political allies are becoming like the officials they once promised to root out: entrenched.
‘We’ve got to get off our ar***’: Former army chief urges government to acquire lethal drones as Red Sea conflict ramps up
A former army chief has delivered a fiery demand to the government to invest in lethal drone defence capabilities to ensure the ADF is prepared for the realities of modern warfare.
Laura Grassby – Digital Reporter
Former chief of army Peter Leahy has urged the Australian Defence Force to acquire killer drones in order to give troops the best chance of survival in a modern conflict.
The retired lieutenant general on Tuesday said the nation did not have any unmanned aerial systems and vehicles because the defence force had been “slow” to take up the technology.
He pointed to the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, arguing lethal drones were central in gaining the edge on the modern battlefield.
“We need to be thinking carefully about it, because it’s not only what we’re seeing in the Middle East, but we’re seeing it in Ukraine,” he told Sky News Australia host Kieran Gilbert.
“Nearly everyone has watched one of the videos where there is a drone flying over and they drop a grenade or something into an ammunition vehicle, or into a tank or to a group of soldiers?”
“That’s the modern battlefield. Unmanned.”
The former senior ADF official explained lethal drones have both attack and defence capabilities, making them incredibly useful and deadly.
He said the unmanned vehicles could be used for attacking targets, reconnaissance missions and surveillance.
“We really don’t have a drone defence capability,” he said.
“We have missiles hellishly expensive to shoot down a cheap, unmanned aerial vehicle like we’ve seen in the Red Sea, like we’ve seen there in Jordan and we’ve seen all throughout … Ukraine.
“We just don’t have that capability. I think we need to get about it really quickly.”
Mr Leahy acknowledged the ADF was attempting to gain further capability in the space on a strategic level and via two major projects set to deliver bespoke unmanned systems for the ADF.
Australia’s Air Force and Boeing Australia have collaborated on the ‘Ghost Bat,’ an uncrewed aircraft designed with a range of more than 3,700 kilometres.
Anduril Australia is also working with the navy to create an autonomous robotic undersea warfare vehicle called the ‘Ghost Shark’.
However, critics have warned both projects may take years to become fully operational.
“Somehow we’ve just got to get off our arse and do something about this. The capabilities are there,” Mr Leahy said.
“We’ve got to get about it.”
Lethal drones have been the weapon of choice for Yemen-based Houthi rebels in their attacks against merchant shipping in the Red Sea over the past several months.
Navy vessels from the United Kingdom and the United States sent to patrol and protect the key trade route have been targeted by several “drone waves”.
More recently, three US soldiers were killed and scores more injured in a drone attack on a US military base in Jordan said to be orchestrated by an Iran-backed militia group.
US defence officials are still working to ascertain exactly which group is responsible for the attack.
Meanwhile in Ukraine
A five-hundred-dollar drone can destroy a million-dollar tank or armored personnel carrier and increase human casualties by forcing troops to revert to doing things, such as demining, without the aid of valuable equipment.
“It’s a technological revolution,” Zagorodnyuk told me. “It’s, like, there used to be the circus, and then Cirque du Soleil came along and changed the nature of the circus forever.”
Ukraine had been flying drones from the early days of the war. Most of them were small, and had been crowdfunded in the West and brought in by volunteers a few at a time.
The Russians were late to the technology, but they appear to have set up production at scale while the Ukrainians were preparing, interminably, for their counter-offensive.
Now the Ukrainians were scrambling to catch up.
Hardly, here is Wiki entry:
And:
You can find more here.
Sucked in lefties.
As someone said once about laid off coal miners: learn to code.
After the Rozelle Debacle – If you can go over the Harbour Bridge down past Entertainment Centre over Anzac Bridge to Rozelle Interchange with no stops & does already what
By creating a western bypass of the Sydney CBD, the Western Harbour Tunnel will take pressure off the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Anzac Bridge and Western Distributor corridors to improve transport capacity in and around Sydney Harbour.
Then what in the Heck is this Tunnel going to do/improve?
About the project
The Western Harbour Tunnel and Warringah Freeway Upgrade is a major transport infrastructure project that will make it easier, faster and safer to get around Sydney.
By creating a western bypass of the Sydney CBD, the Western Harbour Tunnel will take pressure off the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Anzac Bridge and Western Distributor corridors to improve transport capacity in and around Sydney Harbour.
We are simplifying the Warringah Freeway, making it safer and easier to use, and more efficient and reliable for the benefit of all road users, including public transport users.
Clever Roger. Plusses.
Read the referenced publications with their research and citations. With all that industry going on in the British nerve centre of their Middle East enterprise, and the industries established by Jewish immigrants, naturally it attracted workers from all surrounding areas.
Interviews in the refugee camps noted how often dialects, names and common expressions indicated the source areas.
Good tip BoN!
I first learned to code in Fortran IV.
And a few more since. Not sure that my sign is going to help…
What is novel is the idea that Transjordan was to be the home of Arab Christians and Muslims then living west of the Jordan and that this was something they wanted. Moreover, the idea of splitting the areas west and east of the Jordan in two made even many Zionists at the time unhappy. No one really took this seriously. The motives for separating the areas had more to do with the Brits hamfisted attempt to discharge their promises to Hussein bin Ali for support against the Ottomans and protecting their new oil pipeline.
From his home in Adelaide’s leafy lefty suburbs, Peter Broelman has his cartoons syndicated to dozens of rural and regional daily newspapers.
Being a tribal lefty, Broelman makes a point of pissing off his rural and regional readers by heaping shit on everything they vote for.
For example, Broeman has Pauline Hanson derangement and now Peter Dutton derangement.
Broelman should be drawing cartoons for an inner-city Green-left rag. Instead, he built his syndication business in the bush.
But, being a tribal lefty, he’s never going to change his politics, so he continues to heap shit on everything his bush readers like.
I hope at some point his syndicated editors realise he is poison for the circulation of their papers.
Kneel
Yep, I’m already using OpenOffice.
I got a copy of MSOffice2021 from a German site late last night. Downloaded it and it wouldn’t work. Had a bit of a fiddle with it and discovered the site wasn’t German – it was from Thailand.
Credit Card cancelled.
About time I did a cleanout of the automatic payments anyway.
So, no problems.
Robert Sewell
Jan 31, 2024 1:16 PM
Muddy
Jan 30, 2024 10:25 PM
The non use of lights at night time has certainly become a worry. I don’t have the stats for elderly falls, but wouldn’t be surprised at a rise.
Robert Sewell
Jan 31, 2024 1:33 PM
Bruce in WA
Jan 31, 2024 12:05 AM
I think the plan was to get her to wait until the electioneering period was almost over so the pressure from the media could be curtailed. This may not happen if the media push hard enough for ‘stories’ in the next month.
She won’t have enough time to prepare physically and emotionally. The right wing media are going to be pushed into the background so as not to tax her abilities.
Watched an interesting program about Elizabeth Friedman, first American female cryptographer. One of those programs where experts get in the way of the story. What a smart lady. Worked through both World Wars, broke the codes of the Rum Runners of Prohibtion.
Fury over Anzac Day rock concert prompts event shift
If Michael Ohomo does run, the first thing Trump should say is “show us your cock”.