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I’d agree with Roger. What better way to receive public airtime for her ego than expressing trauma after dealing with…
Respect!
40 years at the ALPBC. Talk about Hotel California Ultimo.
Haha. The new lead story at Paywallian.com: China tells other world leaders: be like AlbaneseBeijing has nominated Anthony Albanese as…
Hmmm on the St Hilliers collapse. Heard from a relative apparently they are doing something at Puckapunyal. Most subbies are from Melbourne & were staying in or around Seymour. Building at Puckapunyal well behind schedule.
Seems after digging on the internet it seems St Hilliers has been in administration before. 10 yeas ago, major creditors forgave them but seems subbies & small investors got screwed.
Hopefully they don’t get away with it again.
On the demise of St Hilliers…
If their principal customer is the grubbinment, then it will be a cash flow problem. The animals who govern us pay on three months minimum.
Yet they expect us to pay on time, every time.
Six subs in total would mean we’d have a maximum of only two operational at any one time, taking into account rest/refit and training/stand-by.
I learned long ago that if you do work for government, it forms a very tiny portion of your customer base.
They can be fleeced easily because they are as dumb as dogsh*t, but they just don’t pay. Until they do.
It’s a disgrace.
Abdallah and Sakr families show us our better selves
By Anthony Albanese – February 5, 2024
Interesting experience with IT security today.
We had a term deposit with a minor bank (a former credit union) which matured. They had very limited payout options and the proceeds were paid into a debit card we had to open with the TD.
Their rates for rollover weren’t quite up to scratch so I looked to open another TD with another bank.
Going through the application and I get to TFNs. Rather than scratch through old paper files I thought I would look up MyGov.
So I log on to my account and get my TFN.
Logout.
Log in to Mrs Panzer’s account using her ID (password is the same).
Go to the ATO page and … what the? … that’s my TFN.
Somehow, despite logging out, the separate log-in was ignored and it just took me back to the previous account.
Next minute I get a text saying my transfers out of the previous bank account had been frozen because “suspicious”. So I spend 30 minutes on the phone convincing them that recovering recently matured TD monies from a debit card was not suspicious.
Thanks. Huberman often pops up in my feed. I should pay more attention to him but there are many good docs and bods on Youtube and it becomes a mite overwhelming.
Must be game time. I have another 8 hours to kill.
One of the intriguing things in the universe is the relationship between religion and sex. Islam is notorious, allowing as they do sex between mature men and very young girls. The green-progressive religion is rather similar. All sorts of strange and nasty stuff has been coming into the light.
Compare with Judaism and Christianity, where sex is regulated into a positive and supportive practice.
I’ve often thought that if Satan ever invented a religion it would look a lot like Islam. These days I’m thinking the same of green-progressivism. It’s pretty rancid.
Elbow hitching his tawdry prestige to the Abdallah tragedy is a mark of the man.
He would be better off remaining silent.
The Catholic Weekly Guide should never have published “non-practising” “cultural Catholic”
Albo’s thoughts. The Sakr family are thoroughly decent people. I’m not as decent as them and think his cynical use of Catholicism is an utter disgrace.
I’ve often thought that if Satan ever invented a religion it would look a lot like Islam. These days I’m thinking the same of green-progressivism. It’s pretty rancid.
I reckon aliens with a black sense of humour and time on their hands invented islam; and then communism and green ideology to spice things up. They must be laughing through their multiple arses.
I’ve often thought that if Satan ever invented a religion it would look a lot like Islam.
I’ve often said that Islam is fake, ghey and obviously establishes brutal and backwards societies. But you know, don’t look back in anger and all that, it’s only cool for the perennial violent victims of the Pedo Prophet to say that sort of thing about JC and us keffirs.
Another example of alien intervention:
Lizzo plans to sue backup dancers who are taking her to court, TMZ reports.
Her attorney says photos show the dancers returned to the topless cabaret show in Paris, where they claim Lizzo pressured them to eat bananas from performers’ vaginas, a month after the incident.
Albanese’s pamphlet-length speech just reminded me how utterly lacking in magic the “Welcome To Country” is.
The Catholic Weekly Guide should never have published “non-practising” “cultural Catholic”
Agree. It’s a prop. I remember how, during the election campaign, Sleazy turned up with this Squeezy for a photo op at a Catholic Church. How I laughed.
Oh and remember that Sleazy, last year, defended the Green far-left ACT government’s theft of Calvary Hospital.
I saw that. So desperate to give me a downtick over Elbow you punched the thing twice! And not the first time.
You sad schmuck.
Knuckles, processed meats or ok if they’re poorly cooked and served with a sneer.
are
Ham is just a salt delivery method.
Test.
Six subs in total would mean we’d have a maximum of only two operational at any one time, taking into account rest/refit and training/stand-by.
I am assuming GR is stating (tongue in cheek) that the Columbia class would, by necessity, be fully armed. They are, of course, the latest generation of US ballistic missile submarines. Fully armed with 16 Trident D5 missiles, each with 10 x 475 kiloton independently targeted warheads with the highest target accuracy of any warhead on earth. No country would need more than two of them at sea (320 nuke warheads) at any one time to completely deter any potential attacker…
Well, that’s what it says on the packet, anyway.
Paul Barry is an insufferable turd.
I’d like to see if his ‘ Media Watch’ ever focusses on his own phuced poxy work
Thick slices of Corned beef. Cook together 3-4 tablespoonsful brown sugar, a good knob of butter and a decent splash of sherry or red wine vinegar. Cook until bubbling and combined. Add corned beef and heat through, turning several times until hot and sticky.
Serve with fluffy mashed potatoes, peas and Calli’s caramelised onions. 😀
The Sky News method of catering to the silent majority — an adaptation of the US Fox News formula — is to subject the audience to the ravings of leftwing parasites like Nicholas Reece, who has attached himself to the Melbourne City Council as deputy mayor to provide him with a financial sinecure while he waits for a Liars senate seat to be made available to him by the Faceless Men.
In the meantime, The Sky News audience has to sit through Reece’s loony left talking points on everything from the climate scam to the Liars’ tax increases masquerading as tax cuts.
But unless you want so surrender to the mindlessness of Married At First Sight or Home And Away, Sky is all there is on Australian TV after dark — if you’re prepared to pay for the privilege, which sadly I am.
BTW, Black Ball, Nicholas Reece is twice the parasite Paul Barry is because all he does is recite talking points.
Come to think of it, that’s all Paul Barry ever does.
paging cleanup
downticker in dick row ten
Well, that’s what it says on the packet, anyway.
Perhaps so. But there is reason to believe what is on those packets.
It ought to be noted that the US has fielded the most missile submarines of any nation with 55 in six different classes over a period of over 60 years. The Columbia is the seventh class. They have undoubtably helped to prevent nuclear war. On those 6 classes of missile submarines the US has fielded 6 generations of ever improving missiles through the Polaris, Poseidon and Trident classes with improved targeting in each successive class. It is easy to sit back and make comments but actually understanding the impact these vessels have had on world peace can never be underestimated.
By comparison USSR/Russia has fielded 30 missile submarines.
Regarding trans people I saw a discussion with Jordan Peterson in which he quoted some basic stat’s.
He said something along the lines of ‘80% are homosexual and 90% grow out of it by the time they are 25 years old’. No data on the overlap of the 2 groups.
As he was a clinical psychologist I think his views come with some credibility.
I’ll see if I can find the discussion.
It was really a Trump d’Oil, the Sacred and the Propane. A pint of blood is worth more than a gallon of gold.
As for therapy:
The criminal’s sentimentality reveals itself in compassion for babies and pets. The criminal uses insight to justify heinous acts. Therapy has potential for noncriminals; for criminals it becomes one more criminal operation.
As for being a housewife:
Carmela Soprano : What we say in here, stays in here, right?
Dr. Krakower : By ethical code, and by law.
Carmela Soprano : His crimes… they are, organized crime.
Dr. Krakower : The Mafia!
Carmela Soprano : Oh Jesus.
[wipes tears from her eyes]
Carmela Soprano : So what? So what? He betrays me every week with these whores!
Dr. Krakower : Probably the least of his misdeeds.
[Carmela gets up to leave]
Dr. Krakower : You can leave now, or you can stay and hear what I have to say.
Carmela Soprano : You’re gonna charge me all the same.
Dr. Krakower : I won’t take your money.
Carmela Soprano : That’s a new one.
Dr. Krakower : Have you ever read Crime and Punishment? Dostoyevksy?
[Carmela shakes her head ‘no’]
Dr. Krakower : It’s not an easy read. It’s about guilt and redemption. I think your husband ought to turn himself and read this book in his jail cell and meditate on his crimes every day for seven years, so that he might be redeemed.
Carmela Soprano : I would have to get a lawyer, find an apartment, arrange for child support…
Dr. Krakower : You, you’re not listening. I’m not charging you because I won’t take blood money, and you can’t, either. One thing you can never say is that you haven’t been told.
Carmela Soprano : I see.
Carmela Soprano : He’s a good man. He’s a good father.
Dr. Krakower : You tell me he’s a depressed criminal, prone to anger, serially unfaithful. Is that your definition of a good man?… You must trust your initial impulse and consider leaving him. You’ll never be able to feel good about yourself. You’ll never be able to quell the feelings of guilt and shame that you talked about, so long as you’re his accomplice.
Carmela Soprano : You’re wrong about the accomplice part, though.
Dr. Krakower : You sure?
Carmela Soprano : All I did was make sure he’s got clean clothes in his closet and dinner on his table.
Dr. Krakower : So “enable” would be a more accurate job description for what you do than “accomplice”. My apologies… Take only the children – what’s left of them – and go.
Carmela Soprano : My priest said I should work with him, help him to become a better man.
Dr. Krakower : How’s that going?
Carmela Soprano : I thought psychiatrists weren’t supposed to be judgmental.
Dr. Krakower : Many patients want to be excused for their current predicament because of events that occured in their childhood. That’s what psychiatry has become in America. Visit any shopping mall or ethnic pride parade, and witness the results.
Has anyone here read Herman Kahn’s On Thermonuclear War?
Found a UK Telegraph article that mentions the 80%.
And everyone else by insisting on people accepting and repeating a lie. They are top of the victim pyramid now and heaven help anyone offending them.
What happened to the last hour? No comments since 10:39 pm.
day light savings?
have the curtains faded?
Off to Melbourne tomorrow for babysitting duties. I might come back with a man-bun.
may come back.
I’m here Pete… got long essays on my mind, but only short stabs at the snartphone
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The only way we can get rid of the electric vehicles is if all Commonwealth cars are only EVs. When the politicians have to wait for a free charging station and after that the charge time then the penny will drop. As long as they are tooled around town in petrol limousines they are frauds. If they are our leaders then let’s see them lead.
I have arrived.
I really have to stop getting myself in to a lather over getting from one place to another.
Admittedly there was a pickle because there were no weekend buses but everything went smoothly enough today and I forced myself not to sit at the bus stop in the middle of nowhere in Porto Vecchio for ninety minutes and instead have a nice lunch with a view.
The port at Porto Vecchio is stunning, surrounded by high hills, and it was a beautiful sunny day.
A bit dull in the off season, as I found out two years ago, but in summer lots of sightseeing boat trips on offer.
The country between Porto Vecchio, like much of Corsica is pretty wild, mountains with narrow valleys, and more mountains behind; there are beautiful beaches and camping and cabin sites for summer visitors but not much agriculture. Saw what I assume was a herd of wild goats on the road (unless someone was grazing the long paddock) and lots of birds of prey catching the currents.
Bonifacio is beautiful, high white cliffs and a citadel about ten minutes walk from where I am staying on the quai.
Apparently noisy in the high season but most everything is closed now, only one restaurant up near the bus station open. One will be enough for me.
Only two nights here but I figure once I’ve visited the citadel I’ll be done.
Then it’s a short ferry ride across
to Sardinia and then a bus around the east coast to Oblia. No specific plan after that though I aim to be in Cagliara either this Saturday or the next to catch a ferry to Palermo.
Lemon granita beckons.
I am actually quite like this ABC Nemesis series. Episode 2 had a happy ending, and I know episode 3 will also have a happy ending (good riddance to that scum).
I enjoy happy endings. I’m just like our current PM in that respect.
Take it away, Annabel Crabb:
If Julie Bishop was even a fraction as meritless as Annabel Crabb’s boneheaded take is here, is anyone surprised Bishop never had a chance at the top job?
Pro tip for Annabel: if nothing else, Bishop was in truth the Minister of Being Popular With The Electorate. And that was a very superficial relationship, albeit one where she didn’t have to perform in her actual portfolio – no one gives a rat’s about whether the foreign minister does a good job or not, because the Australian foreign minister doesn’t matter. Everyone knows this. She had no support as leader within the party because they all knew she was an empty suit and, if appointed PM, would have made Liz Truss look like Maggie T in comparison.
I mean, how stupid would you have to be to run for the leadership slot with the presumed hope of victory, and then get shellacked so badly? Nah, Bishop made the fatal error of buying into the hype spread about her for the purpose of enabling others who would never permit her to be leader. And for good reason – she’s terrible.
If their principal customer is the grubbinment, then it will be a cash flow problem. The animals who govern us pay on three months minimum.
Last year I fellow I know who does business with the federal govt on an ad hoc basis was contacted by a factoring company “who specialised with companies in his situation”.
It was obvious that someone in the public service had given his details to the factoring company.
He’s in a decent financial position so said thanks but no thanks.
But how many parties are forced to take a haircut on what they are owed of which some ends up in the pocket of some public servant who’s part of the problem.
The problem with being a post colonial kleptocracy is the grift is formalised.
At least in a lot of third world countries the briber hits up the bribee directly.
I do like to sleep with doors/windows open with the fan on rather than the aircon on.
Benefit being I don’t wake up feeling like a dried out prune.
The negative is my neighbours are have woken me up having one helluva barney.
From the sounds of it their son has come home late & mother is less than impressed.
But I’m an adult.
While you live here you live by my rules.
You get the picture.
A symptom of deeper issues to be having a screaming match at 3am of a school night.
In a push for increased sustainability, some high-end chefs are utilizing beef from old dairy cows. Yet for dairy farmers, a business case has yet to be made for promoting the product.
https://ambrook.com/research/supply-chain/dairy-cow-beef-eat-it?utm_source=Ambrook+Research+Newsletter&utm_campaign=534ce273f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_26_02_47_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d85bfec4c4-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
Next time I’m in London, I’m going to Fallow.
All their steaks are ex dairy.
Johannes Leak.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Tom Stiglich #2.
Lisa Benson #1.
Thanks Tom.
Early morning LOL with Leak.
Won’t work, Crossie.
The evangelists for EVs don’t use their government cars to travel long distances. They use them to get dropped off at the airport, or local inner city vegan restaurant/gay bar/trannie support group meeting. They are not in them long enough to worry about recharging.
I doubt that many MPs with large electorates are in the tank for forcing EVs on everybody.
BBC: Israel has claimed “without proof” that they have defeated 18 out of 24 Hamas battalions.
Meanwhile all those figures issued by Hamas re civilian casualties are retailed as if completely reliable.
dover0beach
That sounds suspiciously like straddling the fence, which just may end up being bloody painful.
thefrollickingmole
It were I, TFM.
Many thanks for that link – I’ll watch it after my second heart starter.
John H:
Cassie is right. As far as I’m concerned, they are perverts and fetishists. No amount of feelgood bullshit will convince me otherwise.
Thefrolickingmoll:
I’ve noticed it particularly in busy A&E units, among the younger staff.
And they really don’t like you pointing it out. 🙂
She was out of breath just with speaking.
To cite Kellie-Jay Keen, “‘trans rights” is just a euphemism for demands, completely irrational and unreasonable demands”.
Eddie Izzard demands, despite him having a dick that swings between his legs, that when he puts on a frock, lipstick and wig, he is a woman, and that he has the right to enter a women’s space such as a changeroom or toilet.
I don’t think so.
Eddie Izzard, despite ‘demanding’ that he is a woman, is NOT a woman. Eddie Izzard is a fetishist and a transvestite.
I don’t care whether someone thinks that me stating the bleeding obvious is ‘abusing people hither and thither’.
Oh and further to Cate McGregor, he has the good sense not to call himself a woman, he calls himself a transsexual.
John H:
Can you give me a clue as to who it was? Or just the city he was in.
He sounds a bit familiar. When you gave a vague description, a name popped into my mind.
I don’t get the point of the Brett Lethbridge funny ..!
Jerbs fer the boyz is a political institution regardless of party .. most of these positions are nothing more than pension top-ups and, sure, we getz a lot of media and vote-herd annoyance but it changes nuttin’ .. cos as soon as one passes the 3 dayz news cycle another emerges .. so why the on knees cleaning the mess inference .. the cycle is never gonna end cos it’s money-in-the-bank .. guaranteed …!
Knuckle Dragger
“And if you don’t, I’ll embarrass you in public by scrounging for butts in the bin.”
Manipulative bastard. Knuckle Dragger is right. Cut him off, and walk away. By supporting him, you’re only supporting his abuse of you. What’s he going to do when you kark it, Lizzie? He needs to be sorted out now while you have some influence.
I gave up on the site last night but reading back I note someone’s description…
of Christian man I knew was preying on State Ward children
Note how he just had to insert the descriptive “Christian man”.
Could that someone be abusing Christians ‘hither and thither’?
Pot kettle black.
King Charles has an as yet unnamed cancer.
Has Clementine Ford commented?
Clementine is a cancer, but infecting someone that far away is unlikely.
Unfortunate for the King. He needs to concentrate on recovery and forget about all the woke tripe.
I just heard that a delightful, hearty, hardworking local man collapsed and died on the golf course the other day, not 100 metres from home. Massive heart attack, poor man. Late 50’s. It happens sometimes, but it’s still a shock. We can’t spare people like him in our community.
Meanwhile the geriatric Davos crowd flourishes like the green bay tree. It’s hard to make sense of the world sometimes.
King Charles Cancer diagnosis brings back memories of my Cancer treatment .. diagnosed with Non Hodgins Lymphoma and during (successful) chemo treatment a scan revealed the presence of an, undetected, secondary Cancer which, fortunately for me, had been killed off by the chemotherapy treatment ..
Digger
Feb 5, 2024 9:42 PM
With a range of 12,000Km, probably be just as easy to leave them in port and fire them from there – need less crewmen.
One of those How It Started How It Ended things.
Dot
Yes. While recuperating. Full of opioids but it still made sense.
Is the database still erroring?
That was very funny, lotocoti. They didn’t understand the physics of the task (Newton’s first Law?). The first girl was fine, she was ahead of the pack and had sufficient energy to overcome the inevitable dip in the line due to her weight.
The other idiots just hopped on in a group and caused the line to dip even lower. Nothing was going to save them.
Not yet, then.
Not a whinge.
I honestly thought he was taking the piss.
Thank you, to all who are posting on the difficulties (& tardiness) of getting government to pay an invoice.
I want an IQ test not only to vote, but to get tenure.
I just read some utter pap from a “strategy” professor; economists don’t understand strategy because “they like perfect competition”.
Good lord, what a dumbarse. It’s a bit like saying economists like air pollution because of externalities being discussed at all. I can’t get a more congruent analogy because it is a very stupid comment to make.
What you learn about strategy in game theory is worth more than a cookie cutter MBA course with crayons and diagrams of circles inside squares.
Maybe I fail the IQ test because I read the Medium clickbait in current year.
Here’s my proof.
Soyjak Party – “The Chuds” – I Fought THE JEWS and THE JEWS Won”
Also known as the Hamas National Anthem.
With a range of 12,000Km, probably be just as easy to leave them in port and fire them from there – need less crewmen.
In which case you might as well put them in hardened silos surrounded by last ditch missile defences. An array of GAU-30 from the A-10 has been suggested so you kill incoming warheads at 10,000 feet or so. Even if they are salvage fused your hardened silo will protect the missile.
The other problem with a nuclear deterrent is that it is only useful for existential threats.
What do you do about an enemy who just quietly sinks oil tankers going to Australia from Singapore? They may not identify themselves and don’t even need submarines. Divers in Singapore attaching timed limpet mines is all you need. Tanker blows up halfway to Oz.
One of those How It Started How It Ended things.
Fairly obvious weren’t it! .. LOL! too many on the cable at the one time forced it to bough down and the end result is inevitable .. great plod thinkin’ at play .. LOL!
“Fusion is just around the corner”
Maybe it’s true after 70+ years?
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/14?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/22?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
Inertial-Confinement Fusion without Lasers
Cassie of Sydney
All us kids had no problem with the clergy, Cassie. The ones we were wary of were the civvies who got into the supporting groups etc who were “Good Christians” and “Pillars of the Community.” Several of them were quite dodgy if not out and out abusers. One of the girls got quite hysterical when a man on one of the “Boards” wanted to adopt her at 14 after a couple of school holidays as a ‘companion’ for his own daughter.
I’m not taking a shot at Christians, just the chameleons who sneaked into the organisations.
I’m not taking a shot at Christians, just the chameleons who sneaked into the organisations.
I never said you were.
I often clicck on the utube links folk post and lately I’ve noticed a lot of sidebar titles for this mob .. 24Kgold music .. a 1960s revival girls group .. quite enjoyable ……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naNHM4VvyX0
Anyone here who loves talking AAPLs’ book? (We know who you are…).
The Apple Vision Pro retails here for 7k, it looks goofy as heck, who is heckin’ buying it?
I have known some also, Winston. There were predators about when I were a lass. As I have got older and hopefully wiser, I suspect it was my father’s rugged good looks (haha) that deterred them from edging in on my brother, who was vulnerable.
The always picked the kids who had “soft” Dads or no Dad at all.
Digger, I don’t know why you would think it was tongue in cheek. This idea that someone can attack you with no provocation and not get whatever in reply is away with the fairies. Just like humarse, I care not how many pali’s get killed in response. This “innocent women and children” shtick is sickening. These scum are brought up to hate. I have no sympathy for them. I hear about if you kill off the terrorists youll just get more recruits. So what. They’ll still be getting killed. I’m very peaceful person, don’t threaten me though when I’ve done nothing to to you. We put up with too many threats. The mad mullahs of Iran are the same as the front bar urger. Don’t pay any attention to me, I’m in a shitty mood, when I’ve calmed down I’ll be much worse.
Who is the Chinese – Australian being detained by the Chinese?
We have an Australian citizen being detained without charge by Australia. We have no moral standing.
For those who find such things interesting.
There is a thing called The Vesuvius Challenge, where scientists are challenged to take carbonised scrolls from a Library in Herculaneum – the ‘other’ Pompeii.
The library was subject to the superhot pyroclastic flow and the scrolled carbonised.
3D scans were generated and a $1 million offered to anyone who could decipher the text from it.
Well, they have got the first 5% of the first scroll done. And now the suite of technologies has been assembled it should be possible to read the rest much quicker.
It seems it was written by the Epicurean philosopher, Philodemus.
This isn’t your Penguin Classics – this is the original papyrus document written 2,000 years ago.
Pretty amazing.
Forgot the link.
Call me when the Inertial Confinement Fusion produces more energy than the total input to the experiment. Long way short at present.
Eyrie:
Ground based silos are targetable. And unless you’re thinking of “Dense Pack” configurations, the sub can always be moved. – I was just joking about leaving them in port. It’s the last place you want a target. At least if the enemy hits you at sea, you don’t lose the port amenities and stores.
The Virginia Class also carries Mk48s in case they feel like saving money. Not that it looks like we’ll see them in time to actually deter anyone.
Wierd! .. there’s an OZ A League game scheduled for today, Tuesday, not a normal game day but also slated for a 2.00pm kick-off .. Wellington Phoenix – Central Coast Mariners .. unusual time for a start .. is it a Public Holiday in NZ or something …?
Europeans are funny beasts. I was chatting on the phone with a former colleague, a German who became an Australian after enormous effort and cost. We kept telling him to put a towel on his head and threaten people but he wouldn’t listen.
He spoke about a fellow German who had been sent out to head up the Australian subsidiary. A nice bloke. The company provided him with a luxury home that he soon moved out of in favour of an apartment in a high rise.
Shortly afterwards he returned to Germany. The cause of the peremptory departure was his wife’s terror attacks caused by Australian ‘animals’ (cockroaches). They have come a long way since Stalingrad, the Germans.
Eyrie:
It looks like we may have to insert Digger into Singapore for a reprise.
In a script being read all over the country, faithfully and uncritically promulgated by TheirABC, rising grocery prices are probably due to ‘gouging’:
Melburnians and Sydneysiders are farting through silk, apparently.
and
Gubbmints, having caused the problem by throwing borrowed money around like confetti at a wedding, while increasing regulatory burdens and forcing up energy prices, are now outraged by the consequences.
Our saviours are riding in on white horses to demand – a Parliamentary inquiry where they can showboat about how ‘deeply concerned’ they are and blame evil capitalists.
FMD.
Waitangi Day (Feb 6th) – NZ’s national day.
This is “border security” like every communist country is a “people’s republic”.
Texas Stripped of Powers in Border Security Bill
How to Fake Pandemics in 4 Easy Steps.
It’s the fuel price, stupid.
There. I just saved the country millions in “inquiries” and “studies”.
Senate Bill Released: It Prevents Trump from Closing the Border
Ai Weiwei Says Censorship in the West Is ‘Sometimes Even Worse’ Than in Mao’s China
I don’t get it, what are you watching?
All I get is some pictures and text.
Oh and further to Cate McGregor, he has the good sense not to call himself a woman, he calls himself a transsexual.
McGregor absolutely spat the dummy when I responded to one of his/her social media posts that he was born a male and would die a male. He/she had the last word in our communication by telling me to “Drop dead, sport” and then barred me from communicating…
Mother Lode
Feb 6, 2024 8:45 AM
Its awesome, I remember reading about the cache a few years back.
Hopefully there is a ton more scrolls left and even more hopefully its not some collection of shopping lists and legal crap.
Mother Lode,
the article on the Vesuvius Scrolls is fascinating. Thanks for linking to it.
There is a paragraph that really resonated with me,
“How accurate are these pictures?
Machine learning models are infamous for “hallucinating”: making up text or pictures that look similar to their training data. Similarly, there might be ways for contestants to cheat by making up images themselves, e.g. by embedding those in the model weights. How do we know that that’s not happening here? There are a couple of answers:”
The above is exactly what is happening with Climate modelling.
It should be remembered the launch vehicle, just like a struck golf ball
or a thrown brick, is subject to the laws of Sir Isaac Newton.
A MIRV bus provides the ability to squirt warheads at targets
off the ballistic arc, but not hugely.
So if you wanted to go on an all out, city busting rampage,
one Trident out of Pearl Harbour could do Sydney and probably Canbra.
Melbourne would have to get its own shot.
I mentioned him here years ago. Someone said he fitted the profile of typical pedos. I was working with some Christians helping State Ward children and he was preying on them. Those children had been through horrors and he was exploiting their vulnerability. He was the only pedo I encountered and one of the girls quietly suggested to me there was something off about him. She was very vague though. Then I heard another account from teenagers outside that home which convinced me he was a pedo. That’s when I tried to get something done. That failed, should have taken a baseball bat to him.
You walked away because I hit you out of the park.
It was a Christian dominated facility. I have not attacked Christians as you suggest. He was the only pedo I encountered and it is egregious that people set themselves up as moral champions but behave like demons.
If you remember I have been absolutely scathing of Islam.
As for you, expressing so much contempt for so many individuals and groups, that is a remarkable hypocrisy given your heritage.
What happened to you?
“Micky Mouse is the aspiration of every Argentine politician because he is a disgusting rodent whom everybody loves.”
Javier Milei
Substitute Australian for Argentine!
So: re the HRH news….
1) only ‘regular treatments’, not surgery etc
2) and, in contrast to the highly publicised prostate treatment, they aren’t saying what this cancer is.
1+2 = its incurable
In the last 3 years, the Queen dead, Prince Phillip dead, Kate in hospital for *2 weeks* after abdominal surgery and not seen since, and now, the King has cancer?
Looks like the British Royals weren’t in the placebo group!
His women’s shoes fetish has come a long way from not harming anyone.
That’s a very long bow, Duk. But I assume you are kidding.
The Queen and DofE died very, very old, Charles is no spring chicken and as for poor Kate…many kittehs can take an educated guess at her “abdominal” problems.
You walked away because I hit you out of the park.
Nope, you didn’t.
have not attacked Christians as you suggest.
Yes you did, it wasn’t the first time and no doubt it won’t be the last time. You have a thing about “Christians”.
As for you, expressing so much contempt for so many individuals and groups, that is a remarkable hypocrisy given your heritage.
What happened to you?
Comparing the persecution of Jews to people saying NO to fetishists, cross dressers and perverts. Oh gosh, good golly miss molly. You’ve really lost it now. I don’t think pedophiles deserve or warrant any sympathy whatsoever. Pedophiles are rightly targeted because they’re a danger to children and society at large. But it is curious, whey do you feel such compassion towards pedophiles?
In other news….it’s finally…finally…raining here. I can hear the parched ground slurping.
Posting on an anonymous blog about how you hit another commenter out of the park is like Albo telling Australians he’s an honest person.
Dunno about others here but I have zero empathy, zero compassion, zero understanding and zero tolerance for any individual or any group who profess and who practise fetishism, sexual perversion and deviancy and pedophilia.
And comparing such individuals/groups to Jews?
Dear oh dear.
calli, I already compared her situation to my hysterectomy at about her age.
Slicing through the abdominal muscles (such as they are) is non-trivial. I was off work for 2 1/2 months.
Unless they found something else, being laid up after a hysterectomy is par for the course – especially if, as in my case, the fibroids which caused constant bleeding rendered me aenemic by the time I went under the knife. I was as weak as a kitten when I came home after ten days in hospital.
As for King Chuck, we can only speculate. But a cancer diagnosis at his age (75) is not good news.
Demographics are destiny UK style.
Quite so Johanna.
Of course, a quick check on revenue and profit for Coles reveals a very different story from what the polititians are trying to sell.
Last year’s revenue was $41.47 B, with a net profit of $1.1 B.
Meaning a return of less than 3%. Hardly gouging I would have thought.
BTW, I am not saying these are the fully audited final financial results, but it seams to me that what ever Coles is doing in terms of strategya nd tatics, it id not price gouging.
I suspect Kate has had a hysterectomy. It is major surgery. But you know what? It is none of my business, it is nobody’s business. Kate is entitled to her privacy.
You can’t drive for six or so weeks after having had a hysterectomy.
seems=seams
I should proof read better
Gee, whats the odds of the federal government ginning up a “animal welfare crisis” when their live export ban is getting some pushback?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-05/mv-bahijah-refused-licence-to-re-export-stranded-animals/103429850
Thousands of Australian sheep and cattle stranded on a live export ship off Perth’s coast will not be sent on a lengthy journey to the Middle East, after the federal regulator refused an application from an exporter.
The animals have been on board the MV Bahijah for more than a month after it was ordered to turn back from its journey to Israel, and is currently berthed in Fremantle.
A few hundred cattle were removed over the weekend but around 14,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle remain on board.
The federal Department of Agriculture said it was not satisfied the exporter, Israeli-based Bassem Dabbah, met the required criteria in its application, including that the arrangements for transport were appropriate to ensure the animals’ health and welfare.
The ship would have been there, unloaded by now if not for the recall deliberately engineered by the animal rights loving loons.
Digger, I don’t know why you would think it was tongue in cheek.
GreyRanga, my reference to tongue in cheek was in response to the absolutely unachievable prospect of Australia ever having 6 fully armed Columbia class submarines. Getting Virginia class will be a miracle, getting Columbia class ballistic missile subs is simply out of the question.
I am 100% behind you with regards to the Palestinian scum. That is why my response to any criticism of the Israeli response to the 7 October slaughter has always been ‘keep bombing until there is no movement.
There is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian in Gaza…
Royals have always been enthusiastic consumers of quack remedies.
Charles in particular has been for some time a big fan of homeopathy.
I hope he’s taking some more conventional advice along with the quackery.
They need to give them to NSWPlod, at least then they’ll have an idea of what the scrolls don’t say.
Can one of our Cat royalists tell me who ascends to the British throne if King Chuck carks it? Is it one of Diana’s boys?
PS: Dr Duk is right. Though she was very old, the Queen died of cancer so it’s no surprise it’s in the family.
All isn’t as green as it seems at first look.
https://techxplore.com/news/2024-02-ammonia-shipping-industry.html
The researchers used life cycle assessment and life cycle cost to evaluate technical viability, environmental impacts, and economic feasibility for four types of renewable energy carriers, for three different types of ships. The energy carriers examined included electricity via batteries, and three electrofuels: hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia. The energy carriers in turn were used in combination with both engines and fuel cells.
The study shows that ammonia and methanol have the lowest cost of the alternatives studied.
“The market is usually drawn by costs, and since electro-ammonia has the lowest cost, the market is aiming towards it. There is a hype around this fuel in shipping today. But if and when we make a shift to ammonia, it is to solve the problem of using fossil fuels, and at the moment it seems like we might end up creating more problems instead,” says Kanchiralla.
This is because ammonia comes with a set of environmental disadvantages. Its use as a fuel can affect air and water quality due to ammonia leakage and emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), such as laughing gas (N2O). Kanchiralla and his colleagues stress the importance of controlling this for ships operating in areas with emission controls, for example a sensitive marine area such as the Baltic Sea.
Electrofuels are synthetic fuels that are produced with electricity, in a process where energy-rich molecules are made from other molecules. These fuels are defined as “green” when they are produced with renewable electricity. But the study shows that all three green electrofuels have a higher environmental impact than traditional fuels in terms of human toxicity, use of resources such as minerals and metals, and water use.
calli
Feb 6, 2024 8:42 AM
I have known some also, Winston. There were predators about when I were a lass. As I have got older and hopefully wiser, I suspect it was my father’s rugged good looks (haha) that deterred them from edging in on my brother, who was vulnerable.
The always picked the kids who had “soft” Dads or no Dad at all.
calli,
No Dad at all (died when I was 14 Months), never got picked on.
I was a tough little B, led the 2nd class boys at St Josephs Neutral Bay out at 1100 am break, as a protest against the girls & Nuns, to go fishing for the rest of the day – used to walk out of class because I was bored at Marist Brothers – the year I won U15 Athletic Champion, Best Rugby league Player & Conduct/Study/Sport award, Brother Redmond said Sport I can understand, But Conduct/Study?
We always knew who to avoid.
Tom, the line of descent goes to the firstborn down the line from William, so it is firstly William and then his son George. Collaterals – the ‘spares’ – such as Anne and her brothers and then Harry, come later in the order of succession, after the lineals.
The lineal ‘spares’ in William’s line have next precedence after George, i.e. Charlotte and Louis. Thankfully females can now be in the succession, so it would be Charlotte. Young Louis has many of the signs of a hyperactive possibly autistic child. Elements of that with King George (speech issues) and his brother who abdicated (child-like emotionality) to say nothing of Charles’ tendency to outbursts. So the genes aren’t all that good. If one sees it like that, which most don’t, and probably shouldn’t too.
No-one’s perfect.
Last year’s revenue was $41.47 B, with a net profit of $1.1 B.
Meaning a return of less than 3%. Hardly gouging I would have thought.
Thats the proper metric to use.
Just because a lot of money washes through a business doesn’t mean its all going to stick.
They probably found a polyp of two in his colon when they did the prostate surgery. Bowl cancer in its early stages is very treatable. I hope KC gets better.
100%. They often managed to find a reason to be in the boys change rooms after sports or after a school footy game. And that’s at public schools. None of my mates got touched up but there were favorites. Who I suspected then and later in life as being queer or leaning that way.
Yep. Kids’ networks, information grapevine and cynical intuition.
Back in the 40’s in primary school and 50’s at high school we wised up fast.
No fancy theories for us or about us. Could be brutal for some.
It was sink or swim. Most ended up swimming. Some drowned.
Many thanks, Lizzie.
How King Charles’ very public cancer battle will differ from George VI’s secret diagnosis
Someone who dies of cancer in their 90s is because of a genetic predisposition?
You obviously don’t know a thing about the statistics relating to cancer. I do.
My mother died of breast cancer aged 34 – she got it when she was 29. Her sister died of it at 41, about five years after diagnosis. That’s a genetic predisposition.
Whatever anyone in their 90s dies of has nothing to do with genetics, except to the extent that they relate to living a lot longer than average.
They died of old age, a dignified and reasonable cause of death that is no longer recognised.
With all the kurfuffle regarding the wearing of G-Strings bikini’s what has been overlooked is that in 10 to 15 years many of these young ladies will be getting skin cancers burnt or cut off their butt cheeks. Some of the girls bottoms look like the sun hasn’t seen that bare skin butts in their lives before. I find that a bit unattractive myself.
Being very fair skinned myself I would recommend to fair skinned Aussies that they wear rashies and shorts on the beach outdoors.
Neuralink’s brain chip is exciting and alarming, but questions arise on guarding against hackers, mind control down the line
The Neuralink brain implant is hugely promising for the disabled, but it begs the question of how the chip connected to the internet can be protected from bad actors in years to come, writes Caleb Bond. SkyNews.com.au Columnist
Implanting electronic chips into people’s brains is simultaneously one of the most exciting and dangerous medical developments in history.
Neuralink, owned by Elon Musk, has successfully implanted the first chip in a human brain.
It will initially be used to help quadriplegics and other disabled people to control technology, that would otherwise be inaccessible, with their thoughts.
And that sounds all well and good – until you realise it means actual human brains can be hooked up to the internet.
As we know, anything connected to or stored on the internet is susceptible to hacking.
Great. Now China and Russia and various other nefarious outfits can potentially hack directly into people’s brains and do God-knows-what.
The possibilities for human advancement are enormous.
Maybe it gets to a point where you can store every memory you’ve ever had and never have to worry about forgetfulness again.
Perhaps you can draw on any piece of information in the world at any time.But connecting brains to a central network also opens the possibility of control.
How would a manufacturer handle and store information that flows through these chips?
What happens if someone hacks the system?
Musk has already stated that he would like to be able to merge human brains with artificial intelligence.
AI, as we know, is extremely powerful but shaped by the people who feed it.
It raises the question of whether or not a manufacturer could, for instance, use such a product to influence the political ideology of customers through its AI system.
Imagine a government or dictatorial regime convinces an unscrupulous manufacturer to influence people to behave a certain way – such as participating in war.
Could the CCP hack into your brain and monitor your every thought?
All this is beyond what the technology can currently achieve but it is undoubtedly the endgame.
Controlling the populace is easy enough as it is through psychological trickery and the technology that already exists.
Big tech can influence thought through algorithms and suppression of speech.
Twitter shut down content relating to Hunter Biden’s laptop in the lead up to the 2020 US presidential election.
Algorithms tend to feed content it believes the user will want to see, thereby confirming rather than challenging prejudices.
Governments can control the flow of information through the long arm of the law.
That already provides great power and influence. But it involves individuals taking the time to use their products and still leaves room for critical thinking.
A chip in the brain, however, circumvents that control of the user. It puts the product directly in your brain. You can’t just turn it off or delete your account whenever you want.
That should scare us.
I took Duk’s reference to be about the “placebo” group for the vaxx, not about genetic predisposition.
Best to re-read what he said.
Can one of our Cat royalists tell me who ascends to the British throne if King Chuck carks it? Is it one of Diana’s boys?
The line is well defined. It will be Prince William, then his oldest child, then second, then third, then Harry and his kids if Williams Kids don’t have any kids…
Maternal happiness in pregnancy boosts child brain development, study finds
The fascinating aspect about that is when I read studies on the descendants of Holocaust survivors the deleterious effects were more pronounced when the mother was the survivor. I put that down to mothers being the principle care giver and behavior copying by the children. Perhaps, this study suggests physiological component is also in play.
Curiously enough, there is a market for “modest” swimwear and it does very well indeed. And no, I’m not talking burquinis, but simply cozzies that cover the backside and midriff.
Naturally, they are quite expensive. No wonder the cheap girls go for dental floss.
The UK succession is strictly primogeniture.
In other words, it’s a sprogocracy.
Biden’s Lackluster Report Card — An Albatross For Reelection
Fewer than 30% give the President favorable grades on all ten issues we track.
TIPPINSIGHTS EDITORIAL BOARD
February 5, 2024
President Biden’s job approval ratings improved from a 35-month low of 33% in December to 36% in January. It remains frozen at 36% in early February.
That is the key finding of a nationwide TIPP Poll, which surveyed 1,402 Americans from January 31 to February 2. The credibility interval for the survey is +/- 2.7 percentage points.
Among Democrats, more than two-thirds (69%) approve of the job he is doing as president.
In contrast, a majority of Republicans (84%) and a significant portion of independents (58%) disapprove.
While two-thirds (66%) of liberals approve, only 19% of conservatives and a third of moderates express approval.
Overall Performance
When asked to grade Biden’s overall performance as president so far, only 27% give him an A or B, nine points less than his job approval of 36%.
Over one-half of Democrats (54%) give him good grades. Most Republicans (82%) and independents (54%) give failing grades.
Honestly, why would they bother? Imagine the waste of time and energy monitoring the “thoughts” for example, of a MAFS contestant, the Karkrashians or your common or garden variety labore MP.
Mind you, the chinese would probably find it rather amusing, if nothing else.
OK, he’s no Jim Cook, but this Russki is a modern day hero – and he’s 59!
The people who volunteer for the ISS must be more than submariners to the n. Then we have Oleg, who just loves it:
What an amazing guy – brave, cheerful, eschewing personal comforts at an age where he could have retired to a dacha by the sea with full honours.
”Here am I floating in a tin can …”
La Nina is terrorising Los Angeles now. Lol.
In other words, it’s a sprogocracy.
Yes and no, but actually, I’m just reminded of the Act of Settlement. After Queen Anne died, the succession went to the Hanoverian Protestants. There were over 50 living people with better claims but they were ruled out because they were Catholics. It is the UK parliament who decides and ratifies the succession.
Cue the usual honking about “this vile trade must cease, immediately. If New Zealand can export chilled carcasses, why can’t we?”
Wages in New Zealand are 2/3rds what they are here. Want to go down that path? Naah, didn’t think so!
Al-England, dead, buried and cremated.
Check out this bit of legal wizardry.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/feb/05/uk-professor-suffered-discrimination-due-to-anti-zionist-beliefs-tribunal-rules
Miller said he was “very proud that we have managed to establish that anti-Zionist views qualify as a protected belief under the UK Equality Act. This was the most important reason for taking the case and I hope it will become a touchstone precedent in all the future battles that we face with the racist and genocidal ideology of Zionism and the movement to which it is attached.”
…
The tribunal hearing took place in October, just days after Hamas committed atrocities against Israelis living close to the Gaza border
Hi ho silver away!
Silver Demand Expected to Hit Second-Highest Level on Record in 2024 (5 Feb)
At the moment it doesn’t seem economically attractive to recover silver from old solar panels. Maybe since Indians like their bling all those old solar panels could be exported to India for recycling.
” No wonder the cheap girls go for anal floss.”
Calli, fixed it for ya! 😀
Yet in the UK a Christian can be arrested for silently praying outside an abortion centre.
Digger is right there, Tom. The collaterals fade out as the line goes down, so Harry is five after William’s three, and then his kids.
This makes the Markle Rift even more worrying for the Crown. Even with the best of healthcare, accidents can and do happen.
I wonder what our medicos here think of the ‘enlarged’ prostate and ‘some other’ cancer. Surely Charles at his age would have already have colonoscopies? Opening the abdomen right up would have allowed other explorations (one surgeon told us he ‘liked to get in and have a good dig around’)? But who would do a major op for an enlarged prostate when keyhole surgery would suffice and be less invasive? Surely too Charles’ medical regime would have included PSA monitoring, and maybe prostate cancer was suspected from that. It’s hard to imagine negligence there, with this ‘enlargement’ being a neglected cancer, also surely they would biopsy the prostate ‘enlargement’ first per rectum? I suspect it was prostate cancer all along, they just didn’t want to go public until they had a looksee.
…. but there are many other abdominal cancers, so who knows? Poor man needs his sons nearby now though.
calli
Feb 6, 2024 10:11 AM
Curiously enough, there is a market for “modest” swimwear and it does very well indeed. And no, I’m not talking burquinis, but simply cozzies that cover the backside and midriff.
Naturally, they are quite expensive. No wonder the cheap girls go for dental floss.
calli,
from Mamma Mia (page 14 of script)
Rosie:
Holding up up Tanya’s G-string. Does she wear it or floss with it?
Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent, or Conniving?
Things are so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters.
By Victor Davis Hanson
What Excites Biden?
Things are becoming so strange, so surreal, so nihilistic in contemporary America that the chaos can only be deliberate. Chance, incompetence, and accident could not alone explain the series of disasters we now daily witness that are nearly destroying the country.
When the ailing and non-compos-mentis president now speaks, he rarely becomes excited about Iranian or terrorist provocations. Biden seems restrained even at Russia’s outlawry in Ukraine. The atrocities of Hamas now earn only measured objections from Biden. He does not seem too angered by the collapse of the border. Nor do the deaths of 100,000 Americans to imported fentanyl earn a loud trademark Biden scream.
No, what earns his unchecked ire, often expressed in shouts and hysterical tones, are Donald Trump and his supporters.
Most recently, out of nowhere, Biden resurrected the old and proven falsehood that Trump had libeled the Normandy dead as losers and suckers.
He then compounded that libel by claiming Trump’s supposed dismissal of the heroic dead was a grievous family insult to his own late son, who did not die either in combat or while in uniform but in 2015, tragically, from brain cancer.
During these anti-Trump fits, Biden wakes up and his face tightens up. He begins screaming, in uncharacteristic, animated fashion, anytime he can smear half the nation’s voters as “semi-fascists” and “ultra-MAGA” extremists. In private, he swears that Trump is a “f—ing asshole” and “sick f—k.” If only Biden substituted “cartel” or “Iran” or “Hamas” for “Trump” or “MAGA.” we might see an animate president.
. A Borderless Nation
. The Death of the Law
. The Implosion of the University
. The End of Deterrence
What Is Going On?
What is the common denominator, what is the rationale behind the anarchy, and what is the reason why a president would so willingly rend the fabric of America?
Why would the government privilege the illegal alien over the law-abiding citizen? The violent pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic foreign-born protestor over the peaceful pro-Israel, U.S. citizen? The smash-and-grabber over the dutiful security guard?
We are nearing a French Revolution, reign-of-terror moment. The law seems to be what a cabal of hardcore leftists who control the Oval Office say it is.
Joe Biden’s administration offers no better confirmation of warnings from Thucydides to Thomas Hobbes that the veneer of civilization is precious, hard-won, quite thin, and beneath it churns innate human savagery and chaos roaring to be released.
So why did Biden unleash the hounds of anti-civilization?
Did he despise the supposedly boring middle-class citizen who follows the law, pays all his taxes, and never gets arrested?
Does he hate the idea of meritocracy?
In Biden’s puppeteers’ dangerous calculus, is all this savagery and chaos a deliberate mechanism to ensure parity? Equity? Inclusion?
So is the deliberate nihilism—economic, social, cultural, social, and political—a way of leveling the field?
Making life difficult for the more successful?
Making those who cherish the traditions and protocols of America pay?
Is that the plan to take the country to near collapse, and then only at the abyss itself to force revolutionary change—or else?
How else can anyone explain the descent of our city downtowns into dank medieval cesspits, our notion of male and female transformed into the sexual circus right out of Petronius’s Satyricon, our race relations into a mixture of Rwanda and Yugoslavia, and our universities into Soviet-like “People’s Universities of Correct Thought?”
None of this was by accident.
It is the dividend of a philosophy that says, “We have to blow up your America before we can reboot it for us.”
Personal hygiene news.
Disney partners with Kleenex to make tissues gay (5 Feb)
I can think of so many off-colour jokes, none of which I dare publish.
Border Crisis: Democrats Are Trying To Run A Protection Racket On The American Public
BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, FEB 06, 2024 – 07:50 AM
It’s important for Americans to understand that the Democrat Party of today has abandoned all pretenses of traditional political engagement.
Yes, there is a long history of brinksmanship in US politics, but we haven’t seen this level of thirst for internal conflict since the Civil War.
Leftists have deliberately created an environment in which any opposition to their policies is labeled “insurrection” and a “threat to democracy.”
They have adopted a zero tolerance mindset, justified in their own imaginations by a cult-like ideology of globalism and wokeness.
The way in which Democrats operate is highly reminiscent of communist regimes of the past.
Honest debates about facts and logic are long gone.
Their goal is to win at any cost, and winning means they become the de facto social and governmental arbiters of all they survey.
Winning for them means the end of western civilization as we know it.
It’s clear that their strategy is to use crisis events as leverage to negotiate more power and influence.
They tried this method during the covid lockdowns.
They tried it with the January 6th protests.
They do it every time there’s a debate over the debt ceiling.
And now, they’re trying to find a way to exploit the border crisis they created.
In the past three years, Joe Biden has overseen the biggest explosion in mass illegal immigration in the history of the US.
Trump era measures such as Title 42 slowed border encounters to a trickle, but Biden ended them all and offered greater incentives for illegals to trespass.
We were pouring over maps of Chile, trying to decide where to go for our last week in South American (flying out from Santiago) after we’d cancelled going on to Galapagus via Peru in chaos, when this news came in.
Everywhere there is a huge overgrowth of vegetation, planted to save the planet. I simply can’t understand this. The ‘excess’ CO2 is taken in by plants who return O2, that’s the cycle, but then the plants die, or the overgrowth causes huge burns, and massive amounts of CO2 are returned to the atmosphere. Seems counterproductive to me. It would make more sense if deciduous and slow-burning trees were planted, and not to many of them were located closely together encouraging burning.
The whole ‘carbon’ accounting system seems deeply flawed anyway, introduced to assist a non-problem. The deep oceans produce far more CO2 than humans contribute, and that is spectacularly sporadic depending on activity in the earth’s crust. The planet will cope without us turning off our airconditioners and making our suburban gardens untamed ‘urban forests’, which is what our green Council wants to make of mine. To say nothing of vistas lost, both private and at every lookout on our eastern coastline, where rolling pastures are replaced by endless burnable gums.
He’s begging and provoking for a civil war.
Then the imposition of Martial Law. To restore order of course. Suspend democracy and install the one party state.
Yes, far fetched but it’s the path the DemoRATS are choosing. We don’t know the outcome yet.
There’s nothing sexy about G-strings, they’re ugly and they’re about cultivating a ‘porn’ look. They are also uncomfortable. I remember about twenty years ago I tried to wear G-string knickers. They were ghastly and uncomfortable, they go straight up your bottom. My choice of knickers are Chantelle full briefs. They are comfortable to wear and they are sexy. And herein lies the rub. What makes something and someone sexy and erotic is what you do not see, it’s the hidden, the unseen.
I’ve worn by fair share of sexy bikinis when younger. But now I wear a very nice, flattering one piece Sunseeker swimsuit. And yes, it’s sexy, it makes me feel good but most importantly, it’s comfortable.
Socialism strikes again.
Seattle’s Inept Lawmakers Just Made Life Even Harder for Delivery Drivers Because of Their Stupid Laws
Anyone guess what happened next? Yep, use of apps to order food and other products plummeted.
Guayaquil or Quito, Ecuador to get to the Galapagos.
I think the trouble is in Guayaquil.
A shame really. On our trip we had the most amazing dish of chilli crab, we groaned with gluttony all the way back to the hotel. Why are all the best places so easily spoiled?
Why ute drivers worry about Labor’s emissions plan
Simon Evans and Phillip Coorey
The boss of a car dealership in the gold-mining town of Kalgoorlie says rural vehicle buyers are likely to be “followers” rather than quick adopters, should hybrid or electric versions of utes eventually become available, because of the practicalities involved.
From January 1 next year, carmakers will be forced to sell more electric and fuel-efficient vehicles into the Australian market or face financial penalties under proposed emission standard changes unveiled by the Albanese government on Sunday.
The standards, which Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said would bring Australia into line with all other developed nations, would subject vehicle manufacturers to an overall emissions cap that their vehicles could collectively produce across the range. It is designed to speed up the availability of a wider range of hybrids and EVs into the Australian market.
The three biggest-selling vehicles in Australia in calendar 2023 were all utes, where there is no hybrid or electric version on sale among the top mainstream brands.
The Ford Ranger was No. 1 with 63,356, the Toyota Hi-Lux was second at 61,111 and the Isuzu D-Max ute was No. 3 with 31,202.
The dilemma in regional Australia was outlined by Shaun Brown, dealer principal at Golden City Motors in Kalgoorlie, about 600 kilometres from Perth. He said traditional utes and 4WDs were hugely popular. “It’s likely we will be a follower rather than a leader in this space,” he said.
In Kalgoorlie and surrounds, customers are watching developments in electric vehicles, but are acutely aware of the practicalities of having to drive longer distances compared with city drivers, who also have better access to public charging.
Mr Brown said all the car manufacturers are at different stages of progression in future shifts to hybrids and EVs, but the drawbacks of electric vehicles in non-metropolitan centres were underlined in mid-January when the town was without electricity for days after a storm damaged transmission towers.
Ford said on Monday it was “reviewing the detail” of the government’s announcement.
A Ford spokesman said more than two-thirds of customers buying Ranger utes use their vehicles for work and “what they all need is capability and versatility”.
Ford said that from early 2025 a plug-in hybrid version of the Ranger would be available that combined a turbocharged petrol engine and an electric motor.
Toyota’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Sean Hanley, said Toyota Australia “supports the introduction of a mandatory fuel-efficiency standard that is ambitious, doesn’t leave Australians behind, is calibrated to the Australian market and allows carmakers to determine the appropriate mix of technologies to achieve it”.
Isuzu Australia said on Monday it needed more time to fully examine the implications of the government’s proposed changes.
“At this point in time, we are unable to comment on specifics relating to future model plans,” an Isuzu spokesman said.
“As part of our due diligence, Isuzu will continue to monitor the local market requirements including the reception of hybrid and battery electric vehicles, and work with the factory to provide a product mix to meet Australian consumer needs.”
Under the changes proposed by Mr Bowen, car importers will have to lower their average emissions by 61 per cent by the end of the decade.
James Voortman, the chief executive of the Australian Automotive Dealer Association, which oversees 3000 car dealership members, said on Monday the Australian timeframe target was too ambitious.
He said US emissions standards had been in place for 30 years and had a much longer phase-in period. “They’ve had a long transition,” Mr Voortman said. The US was also a much larger market, with ten times the population, making it easier to implement the changes steadily.
Mr Bowen told Sky News on Monday the price of vehicles should not go up as a result of the changes. “No particular model will go up. That’s the evidence from all around the world,” Mr Bowen said.
“The fact of the matter is we are going to require car manufacturers to send more efficient vehicles as part of their broader fleet.”
Erk. I don’t want to blow my nose on a gay Kleenex.
Not even a heterosexual one.
I want my Kleenex to be simply tissues, multi-purpose and unsexed.
Even those ‘man-sized’ ones they produce are getting close to the bone.
Oops. Phrasing, no doubt. Didn’t intend that but too lazy to change it now.
If chuck carks it then Will takes over. Wil seems a decent guy but chuck has rotted the poor guy’s brain with alarmism and gates/Soros misanthropy; it’s a real pity that Prince Phil, who thought it was all what it is, bullshit, did not have more influence on Will.
Islam is a religion with no place in a civilized society!
That, in and of itself, tells the story.
No one wants them. Everyone who doesn’t want one knows perfectly well why they don’t want one. And therefore they will never sell enough unless the market is distorted through punishment of seller and buyer.
This is the way of the tyrant.
Is it just me? It seems that Australian news networks, most significantly because its credibility has long hollowed out and would crumble at the slightest touch, will not allow comments are stories on YouTube.
With the exception of Sky, that is.
In the US and in Britain the comments start appearing flow within 20 minutes of a story being posted – that is how long it takes for someone to stumble across it and have a strong enough opinion. But here our j’ismists are spared the ordeal of having the strengths or weaknesses of their stories made public.
This is, I think, most egregious with regards to the ABC because we all have to pay for it, yet their offerings are spared any sort of scrutiny from the public. The only scrutiny they face is from their own internal systems which are suspiciously sympathetic to their own organisation.
Food for thought, but this won’t make animal rights activists happy.
Europe only had an agricultural and Industrial Revolution AFTER they had (in prehistory) killed off lions, leopards & aurochs, then later on made wisent, wolves, bears and boars endangered species.
You can’t really have ag., forestry, mines and factories when people get carried off by predators or killed by random territorial beasts.
The fight over car emissions is only just starting
Chris Bowen says the fuel emissions standards will make driving cheaper and give consumers more choice. Car companies disagree.
Jennifer Hewett Columnist
Fuel efficiency standards in Australia have been a long time coming. So much so that Russia is the only other major developed economy without them, hardly an enviable comparison.
The political catch has always been the risk of potential price increases in the supply of Australia’s most popular petrol and diesel-powered vehicles – utes and SUVs.
The Labor government is sensitive to this threat but believes increased brand competition and manufacturers’ reluctance to lose market share will ensure it won’t happen. That’s also why the government is instead loudly insisting its plan is about giving Australian consumers more choice for better and more efficient cars that are actually cheaper to run. Ministers are spruiking the figure of $1000 a year savings on fuel costs on average.
But, of course, it’s far more complicated than this appealing-sounding proposition.
Averages work both ways. The new limits on the amount of carbon emitted per vehicle per kilometre from next year will be averaged over a car manufacturer’s fleet of imports.
A manufacturer importing relatively high-emitting vehicles such as diesel or petrol SUVs and utes would have to compensate for that by importing more fully electric cars, hybrids or other low emissions vehicles – or face paying heavy penalties.
So even though the entire automotive industry has long backed the introduction of a fuel efficiency standard in Australia, the harder argument has been about the speed and size of the reduction required in emission.
Without the prod of a national fuel efficiency standard, global manufacturers clearly have less incentive to cross-subsidise EV sales to allow them to also sell more profitable, higher-carbon-emitting large internal combustion engine vehicles.
The opposition will be keen to pursue the cost and supply risks for Australia’s most popular vehicles.
The immediate problem is that the very popularity of these large SUVs and utes in the Australian market – dominating the top ten for sales last year – makes meeting sharply reduced emissions targets overall difficult to achieve with enough low-emissions imports, certainly in the near future.
That dilemma is even more pronounced in Australia’s niche right-hand drive market that – unlike most countries except the left-hand drive market in the US – strongly favours big cars.
According to the industry, producing electric SUVs and utes at anything like a cost acceptable to mainstream Australians would be prohibitive.
Tony Weber, chief executive of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, expresses concern about the speed of the government’s preferred option of a 60 per cent pus reduction in fleet emissions over five years from next January.
“A rapid transition is likely to be complex and expensive,” he says.
“The talk of the American model ignores the generosity of the American system in subsidising both the production of the vehicle and the consumer at the point of sale.
That makes a significant difference to the cost of purchase.”
Michael Bradley, chief executive of the Australian Automobile Association, says the AAA supports the introduction of a fuel efficiency standard to ensure Australia maintains access to a first world car fleet “even though it will increase the cost of certain vehicles”.
“The government is referencing its modelling that suggests its preferred efficiency standard can reduce fleet emissions by 60 per cent without any impact on either consumer choice or vehicle price, and we think that modelling would be good to review,” he says pointedly.
Another month of consultation to come means such warnings remain relatively muted while the industry tries to analyse the numbers involved in the weekend’s announcement. But the political fight will only become more intense, with the opposition particularly keen to pursue the cost and supply risks for Australia’s most popular vehicles.
Despite years of detailed consideration and policy papers from ministers such as Paul Fletcher and Josh Frydenberg, the Coalition – under pressure from the Nationals – backed away from imposing any fuel efficiency standard while in government.
By the 2019 election campaign, Scott Morrison had reduced this to the accusation that Labor’s electric vehicle policy would end up “banning the ute” and thus “ending the weekend” for Aussie motorists.
Yet the adoption of fuel efficiency standards was always inevitable given Australia’s determination to reduce the 13 per cent of Australia’s carbon emissions created by passenger and light vehicles.
No choice but to adapt
The other complication has been Australia’s fuel quality.
This is compromised by high levels of sulphur and aromatics, making it unsuitable for the most sophisticated car engines being developed in Europe.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has already moved to upgrade fuel quality to limit sulphur and aromatics in 95 octane-rated petrol to ensure all Euro-6 emissions standard vehicles have fuel available. But only from December 2025.
“This is another challenge, with the government wanting to introduce fuel efficiency standards prior to introducing the fuel quality standard required to drive the most fuel-efficient internal combustion engine vehicles in the world,” Weber argues.
Bowen still dismisses any complaints as the “predictable scare campaign”, confident that global manufacturers, as well as car dealers, will have no choice but to adapt.
Yet some of Australia’s most popular models of utes and SUVs are over the 141g/km threshold for passenger cars and 199g/km for commercial vehicles permitted from next January and quickly becoming more stringent.
That will require significant, urgent adjustment in the ratios of car companies’ imports.
“Car companies can continue to import any particular model they wish,” Bowen says.
“They must meet a standard across their entire fleet. No model will be mandatory. No model will be banned. Utes are popular in many countries around the world that have vehicle efficiency standards, and they’ll continue to be popular, I have no doubt, in Australia as well.”
Now for the policy test drive.
I suspect the fires in Chile have more than a little to do with the vast number of eucalypts that have been planted in the country.
Wherever this practice has been pushed we now see lots of bushfires: Greece, Portugal and now Chile.
Yes. Exactly where Hairy was booking us to stay.
Aust govt travel advice was ‘do not go there, high risk of kidnapping, being taken hostage’, so we backed out. Peru is the land gateway to Galapagos, and there was just too much chaos and uncertainty there for us to risk it next month.
I think Chile will be ok because the fires, although over a wide area, don’t seem to be everywhere interesting.
In a previous occupation I used to operate through Guayaquil about once per week.
While the Chili Crab is nice my recommendation would be to indulge in their Ceviche. Ceviche being fresh fish and/or shrimp/squid that is cured or cooked with lime juice and tossed with cucumber, tomato, red onion, cilantro and optional avocado.
I had that too, Zatara. Mmmmm. Most excellent.
The gubbmint’s Net Zero policy, plus its immigration policy, plus its phantasmogorical ‘housing target’ seem to be colliding big time:
Back to Doreen later. But as usual, elementary arithmetic seems to be beyond our Top Men. Not to mention that it only happened in the first place because of the Top Men’s dictates.
Back to Doreen:
She has five children, all with NDIS accessible and a range of other taxpayer funded services and subsidies available. What are the odds? Five out of five? They’re havin’ a laff, at our expense. TheirABC’s perfect ‘victim; family.
BTW, it is not the job of taxpayers to create ‘the perfect environment for my children.’ That’s what taxpayers work for, to achieve that for their own children. Why should they also pay for your wishes? No doubt some of your funders would like a Lamborghini or a pony, but it’s not happening, you entitled, parasitic faux victim.
If all five of them really are all autistic and/or ADHD, perhaps a pause in the breeding program might have been considered years ago?
What a crock.
TheirABC is now so mired in Wokeness, it doesn’t even realise how out of touch it is with everyone outside the bubble.
I may be wrong, but I think you have to go through Ecuador, not Peru.
The AFR View
Will new RBA era clarify or confuse monetary message?
Two key questions must be answered in the new era in Australian central banking that started this week.
Two questions linger over the new era in Australian central banking that started on Monday.
First, will the new arrangements clarify – or confuse and complicate – the Reserve Bank of Australia’s monetary policy message?
Second, will they usefully encourage more debate and challenging voices within the board – or undermine the authority of the governor in a way that weakens the Reserve Bank’s credibility? The new arrangements are not obviously radical.
But the questions may only be answered when policy comes under severe stress, as it was during the global pandemic when much of the economy was forced to shut down.
Under the new arrangements, the board’s monetary policy meetings will extend over two days, rather than the previous single day.
The 2.30pm policy statement on day two will come from the board itself as opposed to just the governor.
Four times a year, beginning on Tuesday, the quarterly statement on monetary policy and the Reserve Bank staff’s detailed forecasts also will be released with the cash rate decision.
And the governor will then hold a media conference, scheduled for 3.30pm.
The number of board meetings will be cut from 11 to eight, with each meeting now coinciding with the release of consequential economic data.
The review process commissioned by Treasurer Jim Chalmers that led to these new arrangements was seeded, ironically, by unconvincing concern that the Reserve Bank did not cut its then 1.5 per cent cash rate even further between 2016 and 2019 when inflation was running below the official 2 per cent to 3 per cent target.
But the Reserve Bank became most vulnerable to an external review after governor Philip Lowe’s “forward guidance” from late 2020 that the cash rate was likely to remain at a record low 0.1 per cent until 2024 at the earliest.
The guidance aimed to wring out an extra drop of monetary policy stimulus from near-zero interest rates.
But, at the time, The Australian Financial Review said it didn’t pass the pub test because no one could hope to accurately predict where the cash rate should be in three or four years.
The reasonable question is why this unprecedented and extreme forward guidance was not challenged more at the time within the bank and its board.
The guidance, of course, was blown out of the water by the global inflation outbreak that no central bank peers – nor treasurers saw coming – and led to the Reserve Bank’s 13 cash rate increases and Dr Lowe becoming the unfortunate fall guy.
Thankfully, Dr Chalmers has limited the institutional disruption to the central bank as it tries to get inflation back to target by appointing a Reserve Bank lifer, Michele Bullock, as the new governor.
And, by appointing her to chair the Reserve Bank’s new governance board as well as the monetary policy board, Dr Chalmers has reduced the risk of conflict between the two.
Former governor Ian Macfarlane has pointed to the risks of the new arrangements, which from mid-year are due to include the publication of de-identified board votes on monetary policy.
At last week’s Bank of England monetary policy committee meeting, the nine-member board split 6-3 in favour of holding its 5.25 per cent bank steady.
But the identified minority itself was split, with two members calling for an interest rate increase and one calling for a cut.
How each member voted was identified too.
The question is whether highlighting such divisions on the board will clarify or complicate the Bank of England’s communications task and the governor’s authority to make hard decisions.
As well, the new arrangements call for monetary policy board members to give public speeches.
But will public pronouncements about the board’s deliberations by what are essentially part-time advisory members clarify or confuse the central bank’s messaging?
Could they weaken the central bank’s political independence?
The risk may depend on who Dr Chalmers appoints to the new boards.
His two appointees so far – Iain Ross and Elena Rubin – are both capable professionals.
But the Treasurer should not appoint any more board members with such labour movement and ACTU backgrounds.
Lol. The RBA will have as much cred as BOM and the ABS. The only reason for the restructure was to make the RBA more pliable for Govt. Every single time Govt imposes more control over anything, the end product deteriorates to shyte.
I saw on Sky their new Jury show, featuring a small segment with David Shoebridge and Barnaby re renewables.
Everything Shoebridge said was a lie. I immediately thought of the Russian writer, forget which one. He’s lying, we know he’s lying, he knows we know, yet he continues.
Reece is the same. Linda Scott also.
They must know that everything they say is bullshit, yet they continue.
I’ve just read Connie Willis’s famous S-F novel Doomsday Book. It’s a big thing and won every award, Hugo, Nebula.
I’m amazed. Reading it was like reading a shopping list with Coronation Street on in the background. To call it mundane and boring is to call biden slightly mentally affected. It was like watching Michael Pain in Life of Brian, without the humour:
There shall, in that time, be rumours of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things wi– with the sort of raffia work base that has an attachment. At this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight o’clock. Yea, it is written in the book of Cyril that, in that time, shall the third one…
Yes, there was some poignant descriptions of life during the black death but it was all raffia work. I must be missing something. Has anyone else read it?
Culture.
Great example of soft racism by a leftie dickhead:
Here’s a good reason Black folks don’t say “Candyman” five times in a row and it just happens to be the exact same reason we are more likely to vote for Joe Biden’s climate policy than any other demographic in America today. There’s no need for us to tempt fate or question, “What if?” when we exist in the lived experience of environmental injustice, continue to rebuild despite increasing violent weather patterns, and systemic barriers to capital, all while healing from racial trauma at the same time.
In other words, Black people do not give potentially life-threatening horror the benefit of the doubt—we know better than that. Since the last election, we’ve watched our nation’s capital fall under a domestic attack wholly based on a voting myth. While images of the old confederacy loomed across screens around the world, many Black Americans instinctively knew that a clear and present danger of suppressing and devaluing the process of voting still existed in this country. We vote for policies, including climate and environment, that are most likely to keep us safe from both the things we can see and the things we cannot. It is simply an illusion to insinuate otherwise.
Rising emissions, loosening regulations on the fossil fuel industry that exacerbates health problems for citizens, increasingly violent weather events, and a vocal and present youth movement have all elevated climate change as a real issue.
But calli the market will decide, once we impose taxes/charges on ICE engines to double their prices!!!
OCO at 3:00 am
Yes, scoring 11 votes and being spun off at the first corner in the leadership spill was something of an embarrassment.
She was only ever popular with voters who would never vote Liberal in a fit, because they knew how soft she was. She had no choice but to run in that spill after all of her self-promotion and backgrounding, but her lack of support was finally exposed.
Of course, the narrative she then ran with was “Liberals have a women problem”.
No Jules.
They have a problem with vacuous morons.
Resident interlecshural Lizzie, big shot at Sydney Uni (she says) but can’t even spell a commonly used expression.
You are nowhere near as smart as you think you are, Perky Tits.
Moo! 🙂
The vision of you and the unfortunate beta ‘pouring’ over maps belongs in a cheap zombie movie. Both of you melting and dripping over the table.
The correct spelling and usage is ‘poring.’
BTW, how’s it going with your son’s ten grand ‘electricity bill.’ ?
After doing your Instagram thing here, because everyone here cares deeply about about every detail of your life (not!) you have gone quiet about an embarrassing story that everyone here could see through. As usual, not a lot of self reflection.
One thing caught my eye.
Somebody asked what would happen when she dropped off the twig,
Like all enablers, she will leave him plenty of money so that he doesn’t have to change.
Go on, Lizzie. Tell us you’re leaving him nothing. Add to the list of lies.
In Sydney for a few days.
Noticed that people in general are thinner than those south of the border!
Only Dot will get this on
Coombrain.
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We all were lied to – Gaza was a modern developed city before October 7th – opinion
The Gaza Strip has been compared to an open-air prison for years by anti-Israel activists and media outlets. Now, IDF Reservist Roi Yanovsky shares what he saw in reality:
I was recently released from reserve duty in Gaza, after serving 100 days in the IDF. Since the world can’t see firsthand the things I saw there, I feel I have to share.
For years, well before October 7th, we’ve heard about how terrible life is for the poor, oppressed Gazans.
How anti-Israel activists and media outlets claim the Gaza Strip can be compared to an open-air prison.
This became the standard, accepted narrative about life in Gaza, promulgated by Al Jazeera and international human rights groups.
But now, having experienced it myself, I can confidently tell you that we were lied to.
Gaza City was modern and developed
Gaza has been depicted as a backwards, “densely populated” area that’s been under Israeli “siege” for years.
There’s no bigger lie than this.
Pre-war Gaza was a modern, beautiful, developed city – with large, furnished houses, wide avenues, public areas, a promenade, and parks. It looked much better than any other Arab city “from the river to the sea.” Gaza City reminds me more of Tel Aviv than the awful slums that some people try to make it out to be.
And, of course, Gaza is far from being the “most densely populated area in the world.”
If this is how a city looks after two decades of “siege,” then I want to be sieged.
The houses in Gaza were full of goods and food from across the Middle East, the houses had modern furniture, appliances, and pretty much any up-to-date consumer product and electronics you can imagine.
There are also high-end mansions that could easily have been in Los Angeles or Beverly Hills. There was no lack of wealth in Gaza.
I realize now that the optimistic notion that “if only Gazans had the chance for a better life, they would not be fighting Israel,” is irrelevant for Gaza.
Many of them had everything a normal person in the West strives for, yet Hamas still executed their October 7th massacre.
The most common thing I saw inside the houses was a map of the State of Israel, with the heading “Map of Palestine.”
There is no mention of the internationally recognized borders of Israel, or any Israeli city or kibbutz.
The goal of eradicating the only Jewish State was not hidden or played down, it was everywhere.
Despite the prosperity we saw in Gaza city, it was hiding something you won’t see in any Western city.
Every neighborhood we visited had staged and ready-to-operate Hamas combat zones – weapons, tunneling, explosives, rocket launch zones, all inside normal family homes, some already built with openings in the walls to enable moving easily between buildings.
Gazans knew about Hamas’ hidden combat infrastructure and received many warnings from the IDF to leave ahead of our arrival.
We saw the IDF’s pamphlets that were dropped by the Israeli Air Force everywhere we went.
Those who decided to stay in the fighting zones are either Hamas terrorists, or people who knowingly decided to stay in areas that are used by Hamas for battle.
We also saw that Hamas terrorists rarely moved around armed or in uniform.
They are terrorists but even they believe the IDF is a moral army.
They know IDF soldiers will not shoot them if they walk around as “civilians.”
They butchered Israeli civilians on October 7, but we came into Gaza looking only for terrorists and they take advantage of it.
They prepare their weapons in advance, typically near building entries, and pick them up just before attacking.
This is one reason why fighting in Gaza is significantly more complex than other arenas.
This is why, when they say civilians die, you’ll never know if they were Hamas members attempting to kill soldiers before they died.
Like any terror group Hamas’ strategic weapons are lies and propaganda. That’s how they were able to promote their lie about a “siege” in the world’s leading media outlets.
That’s how the Gaza Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, is able to publish ridiculous, unverified numbers of casualties every day, which are used by the US State Department and other Western governments.
The Gaza I saw was different than the lies we’ve been fed by Hamas.
As they cling to their control of Gaza, we shouldn’t fall for the other lies they propagate.
Like any other terror group, they must be dismantled.
A Taste of “Concentration Camp” Gaza: Roots Club
Ecuador is having ructions too.
US issues Ecuador travel warning as army battles gangs in ‘internal armed conflict’ (3 Feb)
They seem to want to put into place the anti-gang policies that have been so successful in El Salvador. The gangs got wind of this and effectively declared war on the government. Who has the upper hand in this I don’t know, but as a Western tourist you wouldn’t want to get snatched for ransom.
11:40 and she’s drunk already. What a miserable existence you must lead.
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Bowed to White House Pressure to Suppress Books Skeptical of COVID-19 Vaccines
What is it with the trannies Qantas?
Tuesday, 06 February 2024
Thank you Marshall.
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