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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…
Islamism is exploiting Britain’s political vacuum
Our leaders have allowed fanaticism to thrive
Bible verses repel the woke like garlic does a vampire.
Woke brigade forces Lyle’s Golden Syrup to ditch iconic logo (19 Feb)
Ah well back to smashed avo then. I also bet they stylized the lion’s head to avoid accusations by PETA they’re exploiting poor widdle lions.
TheirABC is absolutely besotted with Taylor Swift (or some of its ‘journalists’ are.) There has been story after story about her Australian tour, couched in adoring terms.
Apparently, this is ‘news’ in a world where Big Things are happening on numerous fronts.
This morning’s instalment is typical:
TheirABC found the lone trannie to interview. Quelle surprise!
Does anyone think that people (apart from diehard fans) will be rating her music in 50 years? No way.
It’s a sad commentary on society when people have to rally round a bland MOR singer to find a ‘sense of community.’
Just for laughs
Historians rank Trump worst president in history, Lincoln the best
Is America ‘On The Precipice Of Christian Invisibility’?
A recent immigrant and non-citizen is the newest member of San Francisco’s Elections Commission
The Midazolam Murders: You stayed at home so that Drs & Nurses could kill your Friends & Family with Midazolam & COVID Jabs & tell you they were COVID-19 Deaths
Even leaving all that aside, how many people died from the edict to do nothing to treat Covid until hospitalisation was required and the refusal to use simple, well established medical in good time, How does this not equate to murder?
Minnesota school district allows parents to opt children out of LGBTQ lessons after six Somali Muslim families threatened legal action over religious freedom
We’ve reached the point where threats are required to avoid LGBTQ lessons for children.
Wow, the Left is now trying to openly bribe a Supreme Court justice.
John Oliver Offers Clarence Thomas $1M to Quit Supreme Court (19 Feb)
Surely the DoJ will prosecute Mr Oliver, surely.
The Bee always gets it right.
Democrats Concerned Biden May Be Too Old To Finish Destroying Country
Former Green Beret Thomas Kasza Accuses Disney-Owned National Geographic Of Creating Hit List Targeting American Allies In Afghanistan
It’s alive!
Air Canada Argues in Court that Its AI Chatbot Is a ‘Separate Legal Entity Responsible for Its Own Actions’ (19 Feb)
Well if the AI is an employee not a company asset then they’d still lose the case for providing wrong advice. And the AI would be fired. So trying this on is pretty cute even for woke Canadians.
That was meant to be a joke.
and he did it in what? Three months?
but no.. its oh so hard to do here in Oz.
One for Dover.
Pentagon Confirms $32M Drone Downed Off Yemen, Same Day UK Tanker Destroyed (20 Feb)
That suggests Iran has given the Houthis some of those S-300s or S-400s they bought from the Russians.
Regarding the Rubymar I’ve now seen reference that it was a large bulk carrier with a cargo of Ukrainian grain. I haven’t yet seen where it’s intended destination is. That’s an interesting lacuna in the overall story. Does any Cat know where she was supposed to be going to? I have a couple guesses that would fit the facts and why it might not be something journos would like to report, but it could just be an innocent oversight.
Broelman lets his SDS slip.
How NOT to build an Electricity Grid –
Juice – Episode 1. “TEXAS BLACKOUT”
18 min
https://youtu.be/J3G3HFmpb4Y?si=Iw3eN_JWlujLEYKQ
Other episode links are in the youtube description
H/T to Strop at Jo Nova blog
How to wreck a fully functioning Electricity Grid. This should be recommended viewing for every Australian “Pollie” especially Blackout Bowen.
I receive substack postings from GeoffPainPhD – whose interest is the pharmacology behind the vaccine etc, since that is his expertise.
This morning I received a post in which he examined (and praised) the heroism of our very own flyingduk. It is a wonderful tribute.
Duk – if you are here – could you post this, as I am sure that many Cats would love to see it? I would not do this myself, as it is your own decision re your privacy. But it is a lovely tribute to you.
A tranny? I thought he would have been a gaysian. They’re an ALPBC favourite which causes much laughter when they appear on Gardening Australia every other week.
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1 each for Bruce, Johanna and Rotten
RTWT
feelthebern
Feb 19, 2024 9:11 PM
Watched a few minutes of Sharri.
Some of these Pali visa’s have been approved in less than an hour.
The professional managerial class really do not like the citizens of this country do they.
Mr Wong Labor Foreign Minister said https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/penny-wong-confirms-australia-has-issued-860-temporary-visas-to-palestinians/h073l6n4f
Sharri Markson slams ‘inadequate’ security screenings for Palestinian visa recipients
11 hours ago
Sky News host Sharri Markson has slammed the “inadequate” security screenings for Palestinian visa recipients following revelations some are being granted in potentially an hour.
From October 7th to the 6th of February, 2273 people who hold a Palestinian Authority travel document have been given visas to Australia.
Ms Markson said security checks are essential to ensure the government isn’t bringing in people with links to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad or another terror group.
“We know that Jews are already being persecuted in Australia. Anti-Semitism is rising. There’s doxxing, death threats, vandalism, hatred and intimidation; aggressive protests outside of Jewish synagogues, homes and businesses,” she said.
“The last thing we need is Hamas sympathisers to be flown into Australia, undoubtedly at taxpayer expense, to further put at risk the safety of all Australians and to further erode social cohesion.”
Sharri Markson said thety asked Labor Foreign Minister Mr Wong’s Office re this matter and received this response
“Penny Wonk’s Office: “This is best directed to the Department of Home Affairs”
Sharri Markson response to that “What a Joke, What a Joke! – This is our Foreign Minister”
Yes, I reported both yesterday.
‘Republic of Canberra’ rules against new petrol and diesel cars in capital by 2035
On tonight’s episode of Paul Murray Live, Sky News host Paul Murray discusses Chris Bowen’s war on cars, the cost-of-living crisis affecting millions of Australians and more.
Sky News host Paul Murray said “the People’s Republic of Canberra” has ruled to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.
“There’s one topic that people will stop you in the streets to talk about,” Mr Murray said.
“It’s Chris Bowen’s big car ban.
“Australians love their Utes – because Australia is one per cent of global emissions, China is 30 per cent, but we must do everything here to save the planet, such big cars are rules unacceptable.”
“Penny Wonk’s Office: – That was a Freudian Slip – was supposed to be Wong, but my errant fingers slipped yet again!
In a standout field, Bowen is still ahead of the pack.
How in the Heck can Businesses survive in America?
Cummins Fined $1.6 Billion Over Allegations It Outfitted Dodge Rams With Software To Cheat Emissions
by Tyler Durden
Engine manufacturer Cummins is facing $1.6 billion in fines after allegations that “it outfitted hundreds of thousands of trucks with software to defeat pollution controls,” according to The Cooldown.
The DOJ took time off from prosecuting J6ers and President Trump to allege that Cummins’ actions were in violation of the Clean Air Act.
The agency says that “about 1 million Ram pickups” were rigged to cheat emissions tests so they could look “cleaner than they actually are,” the report says.
The DOJ says that “630,000 model year 2013-2019 Ram engines and 330,000 model year 2019-2023 Ram engines” have been “secretly releasing” nitrogen oxide as a result.
Even Merrick Garland made a statement about the action: “Violations of our environmental laws have a tangible impact. They inflict real harm on people in communities across the country.”
Cummins paid a $1.6 billion fine to California to settle the claims.
The company pledges ongoing cooperation with investigators to address environmental concerns, while its partner Stellantis begins recalling non-compliant Ram models for software adjustments.
This significant penalty should prompt the automotive industry to prioritize decisive climate action.
Amazonian tribesmen supposedly experiencing more “tropical downpours” as a result of Cummins rigging some software were sadly unavailable for comment.
But we’re sure the PhD volumes at the Harvard library will soon be replete with “academic studies” about how Cummins is singlehandedly biggest cause of climate change on the planet.
They do rather like digging tunnels. I suppose it keeps their kiddies busy.
Report: Hezbollah tunnel system more sophisticated than Hamas’s (19 Feb)
That’s a lot of effort and investment, especially since they don’t have sand to tunnel through like Hamas. It does increasingly look like Hezbollah only keeps the Lebanon government in place for appearances sake, as a Potemkin village.
Visas are issued by Home Affairs.
Precisely because it is such an important story, Markson and/or her people should have known that.
Kewl.
Queanbeyan tradies, already in the catbird seat when it comes to servicing wealthy Canberrans, will be laughing all the way to the bank, as their local competition will be wiped out. Assuming, of course, that Labor’s suicidal policy to make tradie vehicles everywhere impractical and unaffordable is overturned in the meantime.
Just wait till they can’t get their toilets unblocked. The cries of ‘why me?’ will be audible on Mars.
Dover – You didn’t mention how the Predator was shot down – clear from the Houthi vid that it was at high altitude, which means an S-300 or S-400. Predators aren’t soft targets. Those weapon systems in the hands of the Houthis constitutes an escalation by both Iran and Russia.
And the fact that the ship was carrying Ukrainian grain is another aspect you didn’t mention. It suggests there was collusion between Iran and Russia to get the Houthis to pot it in order to interdict the Ukrainian grain export route – which as you know the Russians have been very keen to do. But widening the Z War and merging it with the Gaza war is getting really into WW3 territory. Add Medvedev mouthing off again last night and you have to wonder if a time on target strike is in the offing – with the vegetable in the White House there’s been no better opportunity in the last sixty years.
I’m keen if you know where that Ukrainian grain was headed (since I haven’t seen that datum yet). That question has significant geopolitical implications too.
Our Sharri seems of late to be working on lowering her batting average.
I have long suspected RAM trucks were destroying the Amazon rainforest. Don’t think the Great Barrier Reef escapes either now they are available in RHD.
Lisa Wilkinson was unavailable for comment.
Our Sharri seems of late to be working on lowering her batting average.
Motherhood changes priorities.
Still streets ahead of the pirates’s missus though.
Carnarvon, Western Australia records world’s hottest day of 2024 with 49.9C scorcher, as state sweats through blistering heatwave
The WA town of Carnarvon has smashed its previous all-time heat record by more than 2C as the state sweats through a series of unrelenting and unbearable heatwaves, writes Alison Osborne.
Marble Bar Station Number 4106 opened 2000
Jan 2024 days over 40C – 25 Days – Highest 47.9C Monthly Mean 43.4C
Note – Highest Monthly Mean for Jan 44.6
Feb 2024 so far every day over 40C – max 46.9C
If anyone is interested can search
Station:Marble Bar ComparisonNumber: 4020
Opened: 1895
Now: Closed 01 Sep 2006
Lat: 21.18° SLon: 119.75° EElevation: 182 m
1908 got 30 out of 31 Days over 40C
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=122&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=1908&p_c=-3229978&p_stn_num=004020
Sharri at least can bat. 😉
Looks like we’re getting another la Nina this year.
The Coming Collapse Of El Nino and The Ramifications on The Atlantic Basin Tropical Season (19 Feb)
Raining steadily here at the Cafe despite the dams-never-filling-again el Nino we’re supposed to still be in. I have lots of wet and hungry birds. Of course it usually rains here in late Feb and March, so there’s that.
Winston Smith
Feb 19, 2024 9:51 PM
I’ll let everyone in on a secret about China and the Rest of the World:
China is a bully – but even more so than the British etc.
China lies. It lies even while others know it is lying. It lies because it knows it can get away with it. It makes bald faced lies that even a 5 year old wouldn’t believe.
It lies because it sees us as contemptible.
This is the basis for her relationship with us.
Sounds like the Chinese are simply doing what western governments do to their own people.
‘Hope that pen isn’t permanent’: Anthony Albanese’s ‘tattoo’ stunt over GST blasted after stage three tax cut backflip
The Prime Minister is coming under fire over his efforts to shrug doubts about his promises to the Australian people after he signed a journalist’s arm with a pledge not to change GST.
Anthony Albanese has been blasted for signing a journalist’s arm pledging not to change Western Australia’s GST allocation while in Perth.
The frontpage of the state’s main masthead called on the Prime Minister to “take GST vow” and promise not to overturn the 2018 deal which provided WA with a lucrative GST return.
The West Australian journalist and former Labor advisor Dylan Caporn went a step further on Monday when he attended Mr Albanese’s Perth press conference and asked him to sign the front page.
As pressure mounted on the Prime Minister over his broken promise on stage three tax cuts, and with an eye to the next federal election where WA will be a key battleground, Mr Albanese instead goaded Mr Caporn to get a tattoo with the promise.
He then signed the journalist’s arm, pledging “No Change to WA GST”.
But Mr Albanese’s most recent promise was immediately called into question.
Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes quickly drew comparison to the Prime Minister’s commitment not to amend stage three tax cuts – one which he made on numerous occasions in opposition and government.
“I guess it’s lucky no journo got tattooed ‘no change to stage three tax cuts’,” Ms Hughes told SkyNews.com.au.
“The Prime Minister was caught out lying to the Australian people over 100 times over stage three tax cuts.
“I hope that pen is not permanent because you can’t trust anything this Prime Minister says.”
Ahead of both a state and federal election next year, the issue has quickly returned to the front of mind for many in Western Australia with fears the state could lose the favourable terms of the deal struck in 2018.
Under the previous government, changes were made to the scheme whereby no state would receive less than 70 cents to the dollar in a bid to improve WA’s share which sat around 30 cents.
When asked specifically about his tax cut backflip, Mr Albanese denied it hadn’t “cast aversion” on his word on GST.
“This was not an easy decision. It was the right decision, done for the right reasons, at the right time,” Mr Albanese said.
“I went to the National Press Club and said, I have changed my mind for economic policy reasons about the tax cuts.
“Peter Dutton changed his mind because of political reasons.”
But Mr Albanese was consistently questioned on how his promise on tax differed to his GST pledge.
“You’ve cited changing economic circumstances for that change to the stage three tax cuts, what would need to happen economically for you to decide to tinker with that GST deal?” a journalist asked.
The Prime Minister bluntly replied: “Well, none. It won’t”, before ruling out any changes.
“That seems absurd,” a journalist responded.
Shadow attorney-general and Western Australian Senator Michaelia Cash said voters in the state should question the Prime Minister’s pledge after already making a “litany of broken promises”.
The senior Western Australian Liberal Senator said it was clear Mr Albanese was trying to convince the state that “he actually cares about us”, but his backflip on stage three tax cuts should leave voters apprehensive.
“There’s a liar in the lodge and his name is Anthony Albanese. This Prime minister’s litany of broken promises should have every Western Australian questioning,” Ms Cash told Sky News Australia.
“Quite frankly, I don’t believe a thing this man says, he will change his mind if it is politically convenient.
“It’s so simple and that just happens to be the track record of Anthony Albanese in government as Prime Minister of our country.”
From the Comments
– “My word is my bond” … this phrase dates back to around 1500 and has prominence in “The Merchant of Venice”.
For centuries, it has meant that if someone made such a promise or commitment, then it was unbreakable, no matter what the circumstances, and that that person could be trusted to follow through on their statement.
In approximately 20 months of this Labor government, amidst so many broken pledges, but, in particular, the Stage 3 Tax cuts, where the Prime Minister of Australia, and many of his ministers, claimed over 100 times, that they would not alter the legislated tax cuts in any way, shape or form, these solemn, meaningful and powerful words have been shattered, corrupted and perverted in their meaning.
When politicians make promises one day and break them the next, eventually this catches up with them, and one has to ask, if Mr. Albanese can lie stone-faced to the Australian public over and over again, who else does he lie to???
How can our PM be trusted by overseas leaders, diplomats, organisations, businesses, and so on???
Sadly, Albo has a track record of being deceitful and flip-flopping. His ‘bond’ is as worthless as his ‘word’, and vice-versa.
– Albo needs to check with his minders what pathetic stunt he will have to perform today. Toto is certainly the brains trust.
– Just like Albo’s promise. It washes off.
– The pen may be permanent but the promises won’t be.
Did anyone witness the utterly pathetic spectacle last evening of Blot and Sheridini going all mouth foamy about Tucker?
They were so green with envy it was like watching a tête-à-tête between Oscar the Grouch and Yoda.
The EU is quite capable of banning car repairs like rebuilding an engine on the grounds that the emissions rules have changed and you should buy a new car. If they are even considering it you can bet on it happening.
Look up “lead free solder” another EU edict. Lead free is total shit. We have to deal with it in the precision ag stuff we make. Mrs Eyrie does the soldering and is favour of nuking Brussels.
The electronics industry used to use about 1% of the lead that was mined and some of that would have been in the leaded glass around the old CRTs which have been superceded by LCDs.
They turned a recycling problem into a manufacturing and durability issue.
Are you sure? The Rubymar must have been travelling a very circuitous route to be sailing north into the Red Sea with a cargo of Ukrainian grain.
And
The Rubymar was last reported en route to Varna, Bulgaria. She was apparently carrying a mixed cargo picked up in Saudi Arabia and the UAE (reportedly including the ever popular ammonium nitrate).
She is an open-hold general cargo ship not a ‘large bulk carrier’.
It was a rookie error.
Now she’s an open-holed general cargo ship.
The EU is currently attempting to mollify revolting peasants.
Elections in June.
All bets are off.
That will keep certain shareholders in good single malt..
Aussie tech firms under most distress globally
Jessica Sier Journalist
A growing number of larger technology companies are scrambling to restructure their operations to avoid insolvency, as stubbornly high labour costs and a tough capital-raising environment mean directors are flirting dangerously with insolvency, new data shows.
Fresh data from KPMG shows that Australian companies are facing the most distress globally.
Life sciences and technology sectors appear the most precarious.
The auditing firm has developed an index covering almost 40,000 public companies around the world, and found a 10 per cent drop in the performance of those headquartered in Australia.
Performance is measured by condensing a range of market and financial indicators such as earnings and share price movements into a single index.
“There is quite a lot of financial stress in the sector,” Gayle Dickerson, head of turnaround and restructuring services at KPMG, said.
“And certainly, there are more technology companies that have been seeking the safe harbour protections to avoid insolvency.”
“Safe harbour” refers to corporate restructuring outside formal insolvency.
It was brought in before the COVID-19 crisis and protects company directors from personal liability for insolvent trading if the business is undertaking a legitimate restructure.
“It’s for when there are storm clouds on the horizon and when you’ve got a business where the assets could be worth zero,” Tim Klineberg, head of restructuring and insolvency at King & Wood Mallesons, said.
“Putting together a restructuring plan so that creditors get more than zero is the main objective of safe harbour.”
Mr Klineberg noted there had been a recent increase in requests for assistance in the face of rocky times.
The struggling companies are not required to disclose their use of the safe harbour protections, even to public market investors, and KPMG’s Ms Dickerson noted that 85 per cent of boards that used the protections kept it quiet and came out the other side discreetly.
Venture capital dries up
Small businesses and start-ups have been hit hard by the hardening of market sentiment. The latest data from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission shows that small business failures have risen 34 per cent this financial year.
There have been 5088 insolvency appointments to January, compared with 3803 in the same period last year, meaning the country is on track to pass last year’s high of 7942.
Venture capital cheques for start-ups have also dried up. According to Cut Through Venture, Australian start-ups received $3.5 billion last year, less than half the $7.4 billion they received in 2022.
Last week, former IPO hopeful Euclideon, a 3D data visualisation technology company, was placed into administration, with its intellectual property now for sale, through administrators Grant Thornton.
The 14-year-old company is one of a growing number of firms to run out of financial runway, and its fall into administration comes after a tough year with some high-profile insolvencies.
In the tech sector, local delivery service MilkRun has been the highest-profile collapse, with its assets bought by Woolworths. Online restaurant service Providoor also went bust before being relaunched by new owners.
Elsewhere, collapsed home builder Porter Davis has been the highest-profile casualty, in a construction sector in which there has been a rush of insolvencies. Stricken transport group Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics collapsed last year, listed beauty and skincare group BWX called in administrators, and craft beer company Tribe Brewing went under.
Economic situation is serious for Israel.
Baba – You are right, my mistake, the report I saw says this:
I assumed if it said it was part of the Ukrainian grain export effort that it was carrying grain. Sounds like it may’ve been returning for another load (Bulgaria allows export of Ukrainian grain from their ports), in which case it’d be either empty or carrying something else. If it was coming from Saudi and was working for Lebanon that adds a couple extra twists, since Saudi has a truce with the Houthis. Again they might’ve though they were protected for that reason. Maybe the Houthis waited until it arrived and offloaded before shooting at it on the way back so as not to upset the Saudis too much. I suspect Russian intelligence would know exactly what the ship has been up to though, so an opportunity to disrupt the Ukrainian grain trade would be hard not to take.
And thanks for the answers to my question!
Houthi movement
Crew abandons ship in most damaging strike yet by Yemen’s Houthis
Attack on bulk carrier follows US report that rebel movement now has submarine drone in its arsenal
Yemen’s Houthis have mounted one of their most damaging attacks yet on a commercial vessel after the Iran-backed group struck a bulk carrier and forced the crew to abandon ship.
The attack on the Rubymar, which was carrying cargo from the United Arab Emirates to Bulgaria, underlines the Houthis’ continuing threat to ships traversing the Red Sea despite a recent lull in successful strikes as a result of regular US and UK attacks on missile-launching sites.
The attack was one of three on foreign vessels over 24 hours. Another dry bulk carrier, the Sea Champion, faced two missile attacks on Monday in the Gulf of Aden. On Monday evening the Houthis claimed to have successfully attacked the dry bulk vessel Navis Fortuna.
All the strikes came hours after the US’s central military command (Centcom) said it had identified a submarine drone amid the Houthis’ military arsenal for the first time.
The UK’s Dubai-based Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said the attack on the Rubymar took place 35 nautical miles south of al-Mukha in Yemen. The Houthis’ official spokesperson said they attacked the ship, which they described as British. They also said they shot down a US military drone.
LSS Sapu, an Athens-based security contractor that had four guards on board the Rubymar, said its staff and the 20 crew abandoned the ship after it suffered two missile strikes.
“The vessel was taking water,” the company said, adding that it had no information on the ship’s current condition. The Houthis had earlier said the vessel was in danger of sinking.
The damage was much the most serious inflicted in an attack by the Houthis, whose weapons have mostly either missed targeted ships or inflicted only minor damage. It is also the first reported direct hit by a Houthi weapon on a ship since a fire broke out on January 26 on the Marlin Luanda, a fuel tanker operating on behalf of commodities trader Trafigura.
In the second incident, UKMTO said the master of a ship had reported an explosion “in close proximity” to his vessel 100 nautical miles east of Aden. The Houthis later identified the vessel as the Sea Champion, a bulk carrier carrying corn from Argentina to Aden, a Yemeni port city that is held by the Houthis’ Saudi-backed opponents. Two hours later, the vessel faced a second attack in which UK maritime security firm Ambrey said a “projectile” had hit the water around 10 metres from the ship. The crew was unharmed.
In the third incident, UKMTO said it had received a report of an incident 90 nautical miles north of Djibouti. The Houthis identified the ship in that incident as the Navis Fortuna, another dry bulk carrier.
Owners of dry bulk ships, which carry non-containerised bulk commodities, have been reluctant to abandon the Red Sea route to the Suez Canal since the start of Houthi attacks in November. Data from London-based Clarksons has shown that arrivals of container ships around the mouth of the Red Sea have fallen more than 90 per cent since early December, while bulk carrier arrivals have only halved.
The Houthis say they are targeting commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in support of Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Referring to a strike from the nearby Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yahya Sare’e, the Houthis’ spokesperson, said on Monday that the movement’s forces had shot down an “American plane” while it was “carrying out hostile missions”. Sare’e identified the downed aircraft as an MQ9, a type of unmanned aircraft known as a Reaper drone.
Centcom revealed it had destroyed an “unmanned underwater vessel” (UUV) during strikes on Saturday that also hit an unmanned surface vessel and three mobile anti-ship cruise missiles.
“This is the first observed Houthi employment of a UUV since attacks began,” Centcom said on Sunday.
The Rubymar flies the flag of Belize. Its registered owner is a company called Golden Adventure Shipping, with an address in the UK port of Southampton.
It was not clear, however, who ultimately controlled the ship. Ambrey described it as “UK registered and Lebanon operated”.
The Sea Champion’s registered owner is New York-based MKM Chartering. The Navis Fortuna’s registered owner is Copenhagen-based Dania Ship Management.
Thanks also Faustus! Sounds like grain one way, fertilizer the other. Another reason to prevent Ukraine using the route.
Very Light Pimple Blimp on the BOM 64Km Terry Hills Radar, but it is Flannering Down, portending when the Big Mass looming behind will be a Big Flannery Dump
And to each other.
Culturally the Chinese don’t have any particular reverence for legalism; contracts, laws, and regulations tend to be treated as guidelines rather than things to be strictly observed.
Thus China was happy to be a party to UNCLOS, equally happy to ignore the PCA’s ruling, and happier again to make up a de facto ‘legal’ position as cover for heavy handed unilateralism.
So, not unlike other Permanent Members.
Ideally China would like to have a fig leaf of recognition of the South China Sea as Chinese territorial water so it can turn its hegemonic superpower up to 11 and resort to screaming about US/Western military transit as breach of international law etc etc.
Again, not unlike others.
German economy to keep shrinking, Bundesbank warns
Central bank blames budget uncertainty, strikes and weak demand for likely ‘technical recession’ in first quarter
The German economy is set to continue shrinking in the first three months of this year, the country’s central bank has predicted, blaming uncertainty over government policy as well as transport strikes and weak consumer and industrial demand.
The Bundesbank said in its monthly report on Monday that “stress factors would probably remain in the first quarter”, adding that this meant “economic output could therefore decline slightly again”.
Germany’s economy shrank 0.3 per cent in both the fourth quarter and over the whole of 2023, making it the worst performing major economy in the world last year.
The central bank said there were few signs of a rebound at the start of this year, warning: “With the second consecutive decline in economic output, the German economy would be in a technical recession.”
Robert Habeck, the country’s economy minister, said last week that the government would revise down its growth forecast for this year from 1.3 per cent to 0.2 per cent and for next year from 1.5 per cent to 1 per cent when it issued an updated outlook on Wednesday.
The government was left with a €60bn hole in its spending plans after the constitutional court last November banned the use of off-budget financing vehicles to bypass the country’s debt brake. Habeck said this “has an immediate growth-crimping effect”.
The Bundesbank seemed to agree that doubts over the government’s fiscal policy were weighing on confidence, saying “uncertainty regarding transformation and climate policy remains elevated”. The central bank said recent train and airport strikes could hit production in the first quarter, while order books for industry and construction were “dwindling”.
Foreign demand for German industrial goods had “recently trended down significantly”, it added, while consumers in the country were “probably still cautious about their spending” and higher borrowing costs “are likely to continue to dampen investments”.
However, the central bank said it did not expect “a recession in the sense of a significant, broad-based and long-lasting decline in economic output”, especially as household spending was “likely to continue to improve against the background of a stable labour market, sharply rising wages and a falling inflation rate”.
Economists expect the German economy to slowly recover this year, helped by recent falls in gas prices, lower inflation and continued strong growth in wages.
Holger Schmieding, chief economist at German bank Berenberg, forecast that gross domestic product in Europe’s largest economy would grow 0.4 per cent this year “with the risk to the downside stemming from a probably still very weak first quarter”.
German companies were still suffering from a “painful inventory correction” as they produce less than they sell and order less than they need from suppliers, Schmieding said. But he forecast this would ease “by Easter” and said “consumer spending should rebound from spring onwards”.
“the People’s Republic of Canberra” has ruled to ban new petrol and diesel cars by 2035.
They can and do what they like, safe in the knowledge they will always be re-elected.
Wasn’t it $570 million the other day to extend the electric train set by 1.4 kilometres?
Very good.
We’ve also had the biggest income decline in the developed world since 2019.
The party is over.
Ireland’s anti-immigration backlash is spiralling into country-wide unrest
Republican voters are turning against Sinn Fein as they reject the party’s open borders stance
MICHAEL MURPHY
Ireland’s anti-immigration backlash has spiralled into country-wide unrest. Protests, arson attacks and hardening anti-immigration views have transfused Irish politics with a fervour not seen since the Troubles.
I went to Ireland to make a documentary for The Telegraph to find out what Irish people make of the growing strife.
I started my journey in Dublin, where hundreds of people turned out for an anti-immigration march. Amid a sea of Irish tricolour flags, protestors chanted “get them out” about the government over its support for mass migration – which many felt was conferring already sparse housing and public services to foreigners, to the detriment of Irish citizens.
One woman said she was scared to leave the house because of the amount of “unvetted male people” who’ve arrived in Ireland in recent years.
The Irish government were not the only villains of the event – much ire was directed at “higher powers’’, variously the European Union and the World Economic Forum.
Leo Varadkar’s trip to Davos last month when anti-immigration protests across the country reached a high-point no doubt did little to disabuse them of the impression that his priorities lie elsewhere.
Some gripes were flagrantly conspiratorial: Mr Varadkar’s government, not known for its Anglophilia, was accused multiple times of being in thrall to King Charles.
Demonstrators also belted “Ireland is for the Irish” and other slogans which would usually be the preserve of the republicans of Sinn Fein.
But the party’s support for mass migration has alienated their Irish nationalist base, with many at the march branding them “traitors”.
To find out more about where the anger is coming from, I travelled to Roscrea, a sleepy town in County Tipperary, where locals have been protesting for three weeks outside of the town’s only hotel – closed down last month after the government struck a deal with its owner to house more than 160 asylum seekers there.
Mary-Claire Doran, a Roscrea resident, told me the town had been transformed by an influx of around 1,000 refugees in recent years, swelling the town’s population of 5,000 by 20 per cent.
Unlike in recent years in Britain and continental Europe, immigration has never been a dominant issue in Irish politics ahead of an election.
But the surge in asylum seekers arriving in Ireland has catapulted it to voters’ number one concern, with most of the Irish public now in favour of tougher immigration controls, according to recent polls.
I discussed the political fallout with Ben Scallan, a journalist for Gript, a media startup that has become a formidable challenger to the progressive orthodoxy espoused by the Irish government. “I think the Irish government is primarily concerned with appearing to be a modern European country,” Ben said. “They admire their European colleagues; they admire Scandinavian countries like Sweden which are progressive and very trendy.”
Ben said he was baffled that the Irish government was repeating the blunders of its European neighbours by ramping up mass migration, with little consideration for the dissenting views of the Irish public.
“It seems like having seen the failure of that policy in countries like Sweden, Germany and France, they want to replicate it for some reason that I don’t really understand.”
Protests against the government’s immigration policy have been mostly peaceful, but some have turned violent – including in Dublin last year where riots broke out after three young children and a woman were stabbed, allegedly by a man of Algerian origin.
There has also been a spate of more than a dozen arson attacks in Ireland over the past year on migrant facilities and venues wrongly thought to be housing migrants.
The Irish state last year accepted more refugees than it could accommodate, forcing the government to offer asylum applicants tents and sleeping bags as they arrived in Dublin.
Since the Russian invasion, nearly 100,000 Ukrainians have also been offered sanctuary in Ireland. I spoke to one Ukrainian refugee outside of an asylum processing centre in Dublin, who told me that despite sleeping rough in Ireland, he was nonetheless grateful for refuge from Vladamir Putin’s forces in Ukraine.
The number of asylum seekers arriving into Ireland has shot up to more than 26,000 over the past two years, the highest annual figures on record, and a growth of nearly 200 per cent from 2019.
Last year, most asylum seekers arriving in Ireland came from Nigeria, Algeria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Georgia.
There are some TDs who have spoken out against “unsustainable” levels of immigration in the Irish parliament.
Six of them have formed a loose coalition called the Rural Independent Group. I sat down with one of their members, Carol Nolan, to hear their side of the story. “I have never seen the feeling as strong on the issue of immigration as it is now,” Ms Nolan said. “I do feel that people will protest at the ballot box and I do feel that if the government doesn’t change direction quickly…that they will be punished.”
Ms Nolan said she felt anti-EU sentiment was being stoked by the government’s immigration policy. “There is a lot of frustration over the EU dictating everything a country should do – the numbers they should take in and so forth.
So there is definitely frustration over that dictatorship as some people see it.”
Leo Varadkar’s government says it can tackle the problems around immigration with better messaging and tougher laws to censor what it deems as “hate speech”.
But the Irish public say their concerns are legitimate – a view which is becoming harder to ignore as it gains political momentum.
It’s beginning to look like the Irish government’s vision of an Ireland which looks more like its European neighbours is coming true – a multicultural country, ripe for a populist revolt.
Old Ozzie – re the weather blimp on radar:
Batten down the hatches. We are driving to Newcastle to attend to car problems of grandson & have just driven through an absolute dump of rain on the expressway. This road is dangerous at any time & is particularly a worry in these circumstances. Fortunately had warning on radio.
Public serpents will be even keener to work from home, especially from nice places on the coast.
The EU is currently attempting to mollify revolting peasants.
Elections in June.
The EU bureaucrats who decide this stuff are unelected. They don’t care about elections.
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On Taiwan, from someone who has a second home there. Taiwan has strong Japanese and Chinese influences. They also have an indigenous population belonging to the same broad group as Polynesians.
Taiwan was part of Japan until after the end of WW2. Geographically it lies at the bottom of the Japanese Island chain.
After WW2 Japan ceded Taiwan to a China which was under Chiang Kai Shek’s Nationalists who had been fighting off Mao’s communists since the 1930s, while also dealing with various warlords and a massive Japanese invasion.
The nationalists were driven out of mainland China and by 1949 had retreated to Taiwan, establishing Taipei as the Capital of China until most Western countries recognised Beijing and the CCP in the early 1970s.
Although the native population is as previously stated of the same genetic grouping as the Polynesians, in the last 100 years Taiwan has been ruled by both China and Japan, and had Chinese and Japanese as it’s official language depending on who was in control.
There was a core of Chinese families living in Taiwan for 100s of years, same for the Japanese, but after Chiang’s Nationalists retreated to Taiwan, naturally the Chinese population swelled considerably.
Today Taiwan has its own identity, and most Taiwanese think of themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese, even those that are genetically in the Chinese group. The old nationalist party, the KMT, has pretty much given up on retaking mainland China from the communists, but might like to finagle themselves some kind of power from reuniting. They are currently out of power and out of favour within Taiwan itself after democratic reforms allowed free elections over the last few decades.
Can that be offered as an excuse when the special investigators come knocking during a government orchestrated purge/corruption crackdown?
“But…I followed the guidelines.”
Aussie concert detail American Taylor Swift fans can’t believe
Nick Bond
One huge detail in Taylor Swift’s string of Melbourne concerts has her fans in America in disbelief.
Swift performed three sellout concerts at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) over the weekend – milestone shows of 96,000 fans at a time, making them officially the largest headline concerts of her career.
Swifties overseas kept an eye on proceedings as the star kicked off her Australian tour, but when they saw the stadium and surrounds, many shared one question:
Where on earth does everybody park?
The Visit Melbourne tourism TikTok account showed some aerial footage of the MCG, filled with fans and surrounded by both parklands and train lines.
As one person on Twitter pointed out, the comment section was soon filled with questions from American fans. Well, one question in particular.
“I’m just trying to figure out where all the cars are,” wrote one person.
“Where does everyone park though?” asked another.
“Where was the parking lot??” begged another.
And on it went, dozens if not hundreds of comments, all asking the same question: Where do these 96,000 people all put their cars?
A quick look at the average American stadium set-up and you can understand US Swifties’ confusion, as journalist Alex McKinnon pointed out on Twitter with the eye-opening aerial shots below.
They show the mammoth parking lots surrounding many major US venues – often with no public transport options in sight:
Melbourne’s MCG is right next to Richmond Station and a short walk from Flinders Street, making it easy for concertgoers to leave their cars at home.
The situation is similar for this week’s Sydney Swift shows, taking over Accor Stadium for four nights from Friday and a short walk from Olympic Park stadium.
300,000 fans are expected to flock to Olympic Park over the four nights, with Friday and Saturday especially busy as rockers Blink 182 perform at Qudos Bank Arena next door.
Public transport is free for those heading to the shows, with hundreds of additional trains and buses scheduled to run to Olympic Park each night, including special express trains to and from Central and Western Line stations.
A trip that in peak hour usually takes 35-40 minutes has just taken me over 2 hours due to a police operation on the Harbour Bridge — the traffic was just unbelievable — anyway I am arrived safely so all is good.
But the politicians do…and if the EU is to survive it has to become more responsive to electors. The tractor protests are garnering widespread popular support.
ACCC gets taken to the woodshed.
ANZ’s $3.2 billion Suncorp bank unit buyout approved by tribunal (20 Feb)
Be nice if the ACCC boss resigns, but she won’t as she has impeccable lefty credentials. Interesting to see what Jim now does. And Miles.
LOL
Actually believing that AD is something beyond a modelling tool.
May not be enough to see Canberra become a ghost town. If WA can do it with Wittenoom in my life time surely it is possible.
The European political class is on the back foot for the first time since 1968.
But the politicians do…and if the EU is to survive it has to become more responsive to electors.
The pollies think all the bureaucrat nonsense is just fine. They will simply clamp down on dissent until it is HoP time.
See what is happening in Germany now with AfD.
Does that mean lowering emissions through better fuel mapping, cam timing, ignition timing and current is “cheating”?
This means that the regulators are stopping the technological change they want.
Yet another example that economic interventionism is nearly always harmful and counterproductive.
Sharri at least can bat.
And for the right side!
Much gnashing of teeth when CBA took over R&I in the West. Amazing what a difference a change of credit units can make.
Specifically not.
A couple of years after Xi Jinping’s elevation, a decent-sized Chinese GOC I then worked with held a CCP-style senior management review.
The high-flying President was ‘retired’ and almost the entire senior management team were put under house arrest while they were investigated for ‘corruption’.
Six weeks later most were returned to their positions, a couple put back under their former deputies, and one vanished altogether.
All had had a good stare into the abyss and learned that Emperor Xi is a great and good man and to pay close attention to the guidelines issued at the next CCP conference.
Tinta – Sounds like someone was wanting to jump off it.
I’m just guessing, but talking someone down from the Harbour Bridge must be a chore the emergency services have to do fairly regularly you might think. It’d be pretty attractive for a jumper.
Motorists advised of ‘very heavy traffic’ amid major police operation on Sydney Harbour Bridge after incident of self-harm (Sky News, 20 Feb)
I linked to eugyppius’s report on that yesterday.
It’s a sign of weakness, not strength.
I thought so.
Where is the gulag they “vanish” people to, I wonder.
Yes.
This is a perfect illustration of Lode’s takedown of Indolent’s links last night.
The Wussians say Navalny died of “Sudden Death Syndrome”.
This is a dog-whistle to nut-jobs in the West to run the line that it was a death caused by mRNA vaccines.
A story which is quickly demolished by the fact that the vaccine used in Wussia was Sputnik V – not an mRNA vax.
Making Putin’s useful idiots in the West look a tiny bit silly.
The narcissist’s exit point of choice.
Eat the damn bugs peasants!
Official diet advice to warn of climate (Paywallian)
On the other hand the guidelines could be useful: all you’d have to do is see what are the worst foods for the planet and then eat them, since they’d certainly be tastier than holy-to-Gaia ones.
I see Maxim Kuzminov received summary justice in Spain.
Engine manufacturer Cummins is facing $1.6 billion in fines after allegations that “it outfitted hundreds of thousands of trucks with software to defeat pollution controls”
If the authorities don’t like this they need to change the test cycle. Otherwise the algorithm say to itself, “we’ve been at constant load for a while, I can change to few things to decrease emissions until the load changes. Just like VW.
This was done on the “lean burn” Valiant back in 1979 but for fuel economy reasons. Had the most godawful electric/mechanical/ fluidic computer to do it.
https://www.allpar.com/threads/the-chrysler-lean-burn-engine-control-system-first-onboard-auto-computer.229998/
Life in Sydney gets too much for someone. I hope I’m not to blame.
I’m just guessing, but talking someone down from the Harbour Bridge must be a chore the emergency services have to do fairly regularly you might think. It’d be pretty attractive for a jumper.
Put up some “Think of it as Evolution in Action” signs
Blockquote fail…
Interesting post Old Ozzie. We were in Dublin mid-last year and unlike the rest of Ireland, which we drove around in a big circle, it was very alternative – LGBTI stuff everywhere for example.
dover0beach
Feb 20, 2024 10:07 AM
Philip Pilkington
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20% decline in Israeli GDP [annualised] is mainly due to reserves being called up. But imports are down 42% too, so…
Also government spending is up 88% while output is down 20%. Siri, show me an AS-AD graph with a supply contraction and demand expansion.
Economic situation is serious for Israel.
But, aren’t Wars supposed to be good for an Economy, or is it just good for the Arms Manufacturers/Arms Dealers?
Just move. I liked Yamba as I was driving around.
Navalniy spent a lot of time abroad. You know for sure exactly what vax he took, if any?
Exactly. Wasn’t he medevaced to Berlin at some time?
NSW Police confirmed the incident related to self-harm by an individual, but could not provide further details.
Jump, you fcuker jump. Jump into this blanket and you will be all right.
Jumped, hit the deck, broke his fcuken neck because there was no blanket.
Laugh, I nearly shat………………
(h/t Derek & Clive)
Off to write the memoirs?
Queensland’s embattled police commissioner Katarina Carroll is expected to announce her resignation on Tuesday morning amid mounting pressure over her handling of the state’s youth crime crisis, workforce shortages and growing unrest within the ranks of the service.
Christine Nixon was not available to comment, due to doughnut shop appearance.
Dr Faustus
Feb 20, 2024 10:16 AM
Sounds like the Chinese are simply doing what western governments do to their own people.
And to each other.
Culturally the Chinese don’t have any particular reverence for legalism; contracts, laws, and regulations tend to be treated as guidelines rather than things to be strictly observed.
Dr Faustus,
yes, we met that when dealing with Companies in China – had to take one Company to International Arbitration in Brussels – We won that, as They had a lot to lose, as they were part of International Societe and their Abrogation on the Contract would not have stood them in Good Stead.
In contrast, had lunch with a Retired Lad from JAL yesterday with whom I had done business for 30 Years – He was a youngster when I met him and 2 of his Seniors said to me, he was a Square Peg trying to fit into a round hole. He suceeded, like all Jal people, they rotate through many departments to absorb the total Company Culture – he went from IT to HR, then 4 years Marketing in Brazil, then JAL Cargo and finally VP back in IT
I reminded him that when we negotiated our first Contract with JAL in 1989, after very tough negotiations and it had all been finalised, the Head Negotiator from JAL said “we want you to male a profit, and we want you to stay in business as we look forward to doing business with you for 7 years” – turned out to be 30 years & as my JAL Friend said yesterday our software is still asisting them in adapting to a new host.
Monday was BYO and I brought a Fine Sake & 2019 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz & 2015 Serrat Shiraz Voigner – One of my ex-employees who had been on site in Japan many times, joined us and he brought a Fine Reisling
One on the nice things he gave me was a 2 page Thank You Card with the 2 pages of Thank You Comments, Photos from JAL People I had worked with.
As he is retired, he said, and his wife is finding him under her feet, I should join him and go driving around Japan – I said as my Wife & Sister had been to Japan last Auguusr(and seen more than I had over 35 visits), I will aim to go up end of May this year and we go driving, sans Wives
Yes, after Putin pumped him full of Novichok. Weird, hey?
A nice story for Rosie, who I guess has visited that cathedral!
MI6’s quest for ‘Holy Grail’ thwarted by Spanish cleaning lady (19 Feb)
Interesting speculation about that Navalny, being an MI6 asset, was killed once his usefulness dimished. Curious that he should die just as his ex was preparing to participate at the Munich Security Conference, a week after the Tucker interview, and as the UKR begging bowl was being passed around in Europe and the US.
Great novel Eyrie! The springboard was especially excellent. I must read it and Lucifer’s Hammer again. Been a while for both.
Which is exactly what the convicted fraudster Martin Armstrong will claim when his latest scam comes under legal scrutiny.
Okay.
This is full-blown cognitive dissonance.
Putin is obviously playing 4D chess.
Absolutely hopeless:
The government expects the first new frigate to be in service by the end of the decade and expects eight of the 11 new general purpose frigates to be built here.
Just buy a proven design off the overseas shelf please!
Let’s hope they can actually go on the open sea whenever requested and not like we have now. Or that they do not use the wrong oil and are in dry dock for months on end.
I understand that it depends on who you were, what you did, and what offence you gave to the CCP.
Obviously some people who’ve been seriously irritating (or genuinely naughty) end up with life sentences, some judicially shot, some just vanish into a terrifying uncertain limbo (just ask Jack Ma).
Mid-level miscreants face unemployment – as in no job and no prospect of being employed by anyone who cares about the CCP not being happy.
This means social and financial ruin – no salary, internal residency and housing problems, no pension, unexpected difficulties for your immediate family. And there is no welfare safety net.
You can literally go from a comfortable middle-class life to desperately trying to sell cans of Coke to tourists in Tiananmen Square.
Dear sweet Cressie was banned from using any legal defences
sounds better than the Beak ruled her defence a load of old bollocks.
Dover – he was killed a month out from the presidential election. Clearing the decks.
The authorities so far aren’t releasing the corpse to his family.
Russia to Hold Navalny’s Body For at Least 14 Days (19 Feb)
Navalny’s Mother Barred From Russian Morgue (19 Feb)
All that smells pretty whiffy.
Any mention of stress due to a reduced wardrobe allowance?
I wonder how that will survive extended contact with their new “migrants.”
Which is exactly what the convicted fraudster Martin Armstrong will claim when his latest scam comes under legal scrutiny.
LOL, Mrs Stencho Pantyhose.
Sure.
LOL.
An invitation to retire to the study with the Chinese equivalent of a Webley and a stiff whisky then.
Oh, he was participating in the election from an Arctic penal colony? Yes, that must be it.
Alexei Navalny – behind the curtain
COMMENT #1: “Tucker picked the wrong side. Guess Tucker won’t be going back to Russia for a while.” citing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
anonymous
COMMENT #2: Tucker is supporting a criminal, and you should not publish anything this guy says.
anonymous
REPLY: I really feel sorry for these people, for they have been brainwashed by the standard psychological warfare tactic they use all the time on everyone. Jamie Dimon came out and warned the Democrats that they are attacking ALL of Trump’s supporters and are attributing to everyone the personality traits of Trump. This is how they get people to hate others; it is the standard tactic always deployed in the war. They demonized Sadam Hussain to justify invading Iraq. They did that with Qadaffi and tried to demonize Bashar al-Assad in Syria by just invading that country, all for a covert pipeline. Russia could do that to ALL Americans and attribute to us the traits of the Democrats and Joe Biden – the hand puppet of the Neocons.
The Western Press has already decided, as CNN reported, that Putin killed the jailed “Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who made global headlines when he was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, has died aged 47, the Russian prison service said.” Navalny is now the excuse many use to launch World War III. I am hearing from Europe as well as America. Once again, the truth is nowhere to be found.
We have Biden mourning Navalny’s death and said, “Even in prison, he was a powerful voice for the truth.” An interesting statement while journalist Julian Assange, who published truth inconvenient to the US and the West, presently rots in Belmarsh Prison and the US seeks to bring him to the USA where they will imprison him for life, deny him basic human healthcare as they did to me, and most likely claim he commits suicide like Epstein or pay an inmate to kill him. These are the standard tricks the USA pulls, which has more people in prison than China, the EU, Russia, or anyone on Earth. In fact, you have a 500% greater chance of going to prison in the USA than in any other place.
What the Western press omits is that Navalny was also an advocate of an OPEN SOCIETY. While the corruption in Russia took place on a grand scale before Navalny graduated from school in 2001, he did buy into the propaganda against Putin launched by Berezovsky and crew when their attempt to blackmail Yeltsin collapsed in 1998 and has been propagated ever since by the American Neocons who were intimately involved. I laid out the truth behind all the assassinations that people attributed to Putin when, in fact, the benefactor was Berezovsky, who even called me when I refused to invest $10 billion into their scheme to take over Russia.
Because of the 1998 Russian Financial Crisis in the midst of the Russian Bond Crisis in August/September 1998, Yeltsin had to shift the leadership. He tried to reinstate Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938–2010) as Prime Minister, but the Duma rejected his appointment on September 7th, 1998. There was a rising sentiment to return to Communism, for capitalism had obviously failed. A very serious crisis was unfolding, and Yeltsin was forced to nominate Yevgeny Primakov (1929–2015), who was a right-wing conservative and anti-oligarchy communist at heart who was appointed Prime Minister September 10th, 1998. Primakov was moved from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Prime Minister in the wake of Russia’s default in August 1998.
Within a matter of weeks of Primakov coming to power, on November 20th, 1998, Galina Starovoitova (1946-1998) was preparing for the State Duma elections that were to be held the next year in December 1999. Galina tried to prevent the old communists from coming to power and was against the oligarchs. Galina opposed the direction of Russia moving from a communist to an oligarchy state and made this part of her political platform in “Democratic Russia.”
I believe Galina knew the nature and covert scheme of Primakov and the shifting sentiment to return to the USSR. I believe that, in fact, Galina’s assassination was to remove the head of the Democratic movement in the Duma that would have been the major obstacle to the rise of power of Primakov and the restoration of Communism under his vision of the USSR. Galina was gunned down in the entryway of her apartment building in St. Petersburg on November 20th, 1998. At first, the spin was she was really a puppet of a “Western financier,” who was supposed to be me simply because her son worked in my London office. She had checked my references with Margaret Thatcher before consenting to her son working in my firm. I had far more insight into Russia than most assumed.
The press refuses to reveal that they have been spreading the Berezovsky propaganda. It was on July 25th, 1998, when Yeltsin appointed Vladimir Putin (born in 1952) as director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the primary intelligence agency of the Russian Federation. I believe this was done because of Galina Starovoitova’s criticism of the FSB and to prevent another FSB coup, as they had pulled off against Gorbachev. Putin had worked for the KGB from 1975 until August 20th, 1991. He left because the head of the KGB, Vladimir A. Kryuchkov (1924–2007), was behind the major coup of 1991, arresting Mikhail Gorbachev and trying to return Russia to the USSR, which Putin opposed. Putin resigned in 1991 and entered civil service to support an old friend who was moving to be mayor of St Petersburg. However, more significantly, on October 1st, 1998, Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. This is why Yeltsin turned to Putin BECAUSE he knew he was against the communists and did NOT want to return Russia to the days of the USSR. He was against the coup, and he appointed Putin as the head of the FSB to prevent another coup. So much for Victoria Nulan’s propaganda because their plot to seize Russia blackmailing Yeltsin failed.
Geoff Kitney, writing for the Herald in Berlin, characterized Galina’s death “a turning point in Russia’s fight to establish a post-Communist society.” Indeed, Galina’s death was a significant turning point. It was clearly the attempt of the old guard and their reminiscent dream of Communist power they saw slipping away. It was very clear, that her death was an ordered assassination by the hardline. The fact that the spin claimed Galina was a puppet of a Western Financier, meaning me, was indicative of a communist who was Primakov, who was also the enemy of Berezovsky and his Seven Oligarchs attempting to take over Russia.
Navalny was against corruption that was created by the oligarchs who were against Putin. His nemesis was Borris Berszovsky and his Seven Oligarchs, who were trying to seize control of Russia and were behind blackmailing Yeltsin with the whole Bank of New York scandal. If you look at all the assassinations I documented in the Plot to Seize Russia, it was part of the plan for Berezovsky to blame Putin in his attempt to seize control of Russia – backed by the American Neocons. Eventually, Berezovsky’s bodyguard said MI6 killed him after he wrote his begging letter to Putin apologizing and asking him to please allow him to return to Russia. When Edmond Safra was assassinated on December 3rd, 2999, that is when they created the contempt to prevent any trial in my case because they then realized this would create a political nightmare. I believe the CIA took out Safra.
khodorkovsky_PENCILBoris Nemtsov (1959-2015) was involved with Hermitage Capital Management, the company I was being solicited to inject $10 billion. Nemtsov was named in a 1999 RICO suit Avisma Titano Magnes v. Dart Management. That lawsuit alleged that Bank Menatep, owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of Berezovsky’s Seven oligarchs, had a controlling interest in titanium producer Avisma. They forced Avisma to sell its titanium below market price to offshore companies that they secretly controlled. They then sold the titanium at market prices, funneling the profits back to the defendants and Bank Menatep.
Bill Browder of Hermitage Capital Management said that Nemtsov was his “indispensable ally” in pushing his Magnitsky Act, which indeed in itself created countless enemies by targeting private individuals in some revenge scheme. Plenty of people have criticized Putin, who have not been assassinated. In the Plot to Seize Russia, I went through all the assassinations, and they pointed to Berezovsky, whom I was warned not to get involved with. When I refused to invest $10 billion into Hermitage Capital Management, Berezovsky called me to try to pursue me to join the scheme where they would have all the riches of Russia from gold, platinum, diamonds, and oil flowing through their hands.
Three weeks before Nemtsov’s assassination, on February 10th, 2015, he wrote on Russia’s Sobesednik news website that his 87-year-old mother was not afraid Putin would kill him. Interestingly, she was scared because the former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky (born in 1963) was granted a pardon by Putin in 2013 and given a passport; hence, he fled to London. There was no explanation as to why he should fear Khodorkovsky.
However, the BBC interviewed Nemtsov on February 10th, 2015, 17 days before his death. He again repeated what he said in the Sobesednik newspaper. When asked if he himself feared for his life, he answered: “Yes, not as strongly as my mother, but still …” Following that interview, on February 25th, 2015, the Sobesednik posted an extended version of the original interview. There, Nemtsov added: “I am just joking. If I were afraid of Putin, I wouldn’t be in this line of work.” This does not support the West’s propaganda that Putin kills everyone.
In addition, Nemtsov’s mother was also afraid of the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny (1976-2024), who was the same activist who uncovered Voronenkov’s corruption. Did his mother understand more than what she was saying? Why was she afraid of one person who was part of the Yeltsin entourage and the other claiming to be against corruption? Because of the blackmail plot?
Of course, on March 12th, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Resolution, and the Senate passed it on June 10th, 2019. The Resolutions were non-binding but were intended to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for his country’s actions, including a measure condemning the Russian leader and his government for their alleged roles in covering up the 2015 assassination of Putin’s political opponent, Boris Nemtsov. Anyone who ever criticized Putin has been alleged to have been assassinated even though they were of no serious consequence.
Alexei Navalny was after the corruption – but that was the Oligarchs, and Berezovsky had a long list of assassinations, even how he managed to get a hold of stock to build his empire. But the truth does not matter. They have attributed so many assassinations to Putin to cover up the connections of the West with Berezovsky and the Seven Oligarchs. Perhaps one day, the press will tell the truth instead of egging us on into World War III by attributing all Russians to the fake personality propaganda against Putin that was manufactured by Berezovsky and his Seven Oligarchs trying to strip mine Russia for untold wealth. I had a front-row seat to this saga.”
Like the Weapons of Mass Destruction that never existed in Iraq, wars are routinely created on lies.
The First Victim in WAR is always the truth
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia/alexei-navalny-behind-the-curtain/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
And how is Labor Blackout Bowen & Labor PM Albosleezy going to get Houses built?
‘Horrendous’: Victorian builder on brink of collapse
A Victorian construction company appears on the brink of collapse over a $46,000 debt which has landed it in court.
A Victorian building company appears on the brink of collapse after construction work has stalled for months while tradies are owed tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid debts.
News.com.au can reveal that Melbourne-based Apex Homes Australia Pty Ltd is facing the possibility of being ordered into liquidation later this month, on February 28.
Concreting business Aerolink Property Group lodged a winding up application against the building company over a $46,200 debt dating back to October last year.
Matthew Blum of insolvency firm BDO has consented to be the liquidator in the event that the company goes into liquidation.
A spokesperson for Apex Building Group said they had hired solicitors to “oppose” the court case and were trying to trade out of their financial difficulties.
They said they had restructured the business after Christmas to try to address customer concerns and acknowledged it had been a “tough three years”.
News.com.au has spoken to half a dozen customers of Apex Homes who say they are currently in a nightmarish limbo, unsure if their builder is about to go under.
One customer, Jason*, who preferred to remain anonymous, told news.com.au his builder had “every excuse under the sun” as to why his build was being delayed, including public holidays like long weekends, Easter and even Ramadan. “Their communication is abysmal.”
Yep, extends down through Sydney and all the way to the Canberra region.
When I was much younger, there used to be an annual Dutch Festival in the western suburbs in February. It rained every single year for at least one of the three days. Whoever chose that date was a moron.
In Canberra, when I bought my first house, moving in in January, in February there was a torrential rainstorm which put the street underwater and more importantly, came through the flashings outside my bedroom and poured down the wall inside. The internal paint was old, is was not a regular occurrence, and it never happened again in the following 15 years.
As I have mentioned, it was also when the Great Millipede Invasion occurred.
Point is, the tail end of the monsoon drifting south in February is nothing new. In Sydney, I remember February as being horribly humid and sticky.
I’m looking forward to March/April, which are magnificent in this part of the world. Bright blue skies, not much wind, wonderful leaf colours, warm days and cool (but not cold) nights.
A while back, I had a holiday in Cairns. While it was very enjoyable, by the end I never wanted to see another of the apparently cloned palm trees, bouganvillias etc that made the place seem like it was designed by someone with specific commercial interests.
Here in the south, we are lucky enough to enjoy many, many varieties of plants, and I thank our ancestors for bringing all those European, Asian and South American species to our shores.
Oh, and we just had a 40 minute blackout here – some eejit drove into a crucial power pole.
Props to W10 – I hate to say this – my half completed comment came up in the box as soon as service was resumed.
Big improvement over the old days.
Released from the Berlin hospital in September 2020.
Returned to Russia on Jan 17th 2021.
The use of mRNA vaccines was approved in mid December 2020, with a number of priority groups vaccinated first – people aged over 80, people with other co-morbidities etc.
The fourth group in the queue (people aged under 60) were not approved for vaccination until 21st April 2021.
Navalny was 47 when he was killed last week.
If you are going to assert he was vaxxed in Germany in light of the above timeline you would need to provide some solid proof that he, as a foreign national, managed to jump the queue.
Any mention of stress due to a reduced wardrobe allowance?
That was very wrong and cruel, Señor Panzer.
I did want to give it an uptick, though.
Construction generally is hard to get a handle on. We drive past a new build on a suburban block that has barely got to lock up in 12 months. In that time a 5 storey apartment block over the road has got finishing trades already started with targeted completion this calendar year.
Scrolling up, it is one huge slab or text after another.
Whatever happened to posting a taster or two, and a link? Then people can decide for themselves if they want to read something.
Back in Queen Victoria’s day, Netiquette was much better observed. 🙂
Are you suggesting that MI6 infiltrated a Siberian prison to knock him?
Really?
Not as serious as being over run by Hamarse, and murdered.
New Rule: unless a link is behind a pay wall, quote two paragraphs max. or entire comment gets deleted.
Yes. Yes he was. Plus his supporters.
I suspect he was ordered killed because he wouldn’t shut up, and neither would they.
I’m not saying Zelensky is any better, nor Joe Bide, nor even Anthony Albanese who still has Daniel Duggan locked up without bail or trial. Seems to be a bit of a connecting thread through all these authoritarian leaders.
It will be far more serious if it undermines the country.
Putin has many enemies, even within his (diminishing) circle of Oligarchs & Adjacent folks who seem to be jumping out more often these days.
Essentially doesn’t matter who killed Navalny, Putin, as dark overlord of all things Russian, gets to own the event. One down side effects of being a Dictator.
Is Marty paywalled? I’ve never bothered to check.
And quite silly of me, too.
If Lisa was going to issue a “desperate cry for help” I don’t think she would choose the Sydney Harbour Bridge (even though it has the nickname “coathanger” and has some relevance to clothing allowance anxiety).
She would more likely choose the roof of the Opera House wearing a flowing Priscilla type creation, and when the wind was just right.
The AFR is paywalled to protect innocent children and naive bystanders who might have failed Economics 101, like our Malmo correspondent.
Praise the Lord!
Thank you!
Arky
As the influence of the old KMT (Wade-Giles transliteration, IIRC, Pinyin would be GMD?) declines, so does even a token claim to being the “true” Chinese government. As you suggest, much of the population sees themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese, and the treatment of Hong Kong will not be encouraging any to consider re-unification under Beijing’s rule.
Qld Police Commissioner resigns wef 1 March.
Pity she did not take the opportunity to take a swipe at the Government in relation to lack of legislative support and loading up the police with other organisations such as SES and Maritime Safety.
A former senior officer on the radio thinks they will go with a replacement from another state.
Jumping off the Harbour Bridge would be seen by more people than being on Ch 10.
Miles finds a sacrificial lamb before the election.
Queensland Police Commissioner Katarina Carroll resigns amid escalating youth crime crisis (Sky News, 20 Feb)
Laura Norder phoned in. Apparently she’s a swing voter and is unhappy.
(I hope Brett Lethbridge does one of his awesome Miles cartoons, he with a bloody knife in hand saying ‘where did this come from?’. It could be the best of the year.)
Fair enough Dover.
Is it possible you can make a separate post (when applicable) of the site’s rules and etiquettes.
A comment in the OT can be quite easily lost.
I don’t think she would choose the Sydney Harbour Bridge
In the olden days, people had the dignity to jump off the Gap.
Over the past 6 months there have been multiple suicides by people jumping in front of trains in Sydney which interrupts the the punters trying to get to/from work.
It’s just so selfish.
Noted Dover. Will try to do so. Apologies for the extra work when I inevitably forget.
For the avoidance of doubt, Marty Armstrong’s the fraudster’s site is not paywalled.
Repeat … not paywalled.
Enjoy the editing, Wodney.
No doubt Wodnay will employ some sort of smart-arsery by merging all of Marty’s drivel into two mega-paragraphs.
I will monitor the situation, Wodney, and report any breaches.
People here know the problem is with state government policies and magistrates, not police.
True Detective series 4 wrapped up last night.
Pure garbage.
Series 1 & 2 were great.
Series 3 ok.
If they bring out series 5, it won’t be getting my viewage.
Laughable, given Navalniy’s almost non existent support.
I’m sure he does but they are all marginal. If they had a chance of attracting substantial support let alone win killing Navalny a month out would only boost their prospects.
Ironic that Lisa’s highest ratings since late 2022 have been her appearance in a defamation case on Youtube.
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also nice if post is always displayed at top of page in recent threads list.
Creditorwatch reports “a significant slowdown in business activity” evidenced by a fall in business to business invoices, which they monitor.
The RBA has put the real economy into a dive.
And she couldn’t monetise it.
Btw, did I read she feared having to sell her house to pay legal fees?
She’s been a high earner for decades; what on earth has she done with her money?
An achievement equally shared by this Govt.
She’s been a high earner for decades; what on earth has she done with her money?
It doesn’t surprise me that ex the house that they are asset poor.
I will add new rule to moderation page. The two para rule is a rule of thumb depending on size of paragraphs but anything more than 4 is going to be tickling the trigger.
I enjoy The Five on Fox, but Jessica Tarlov is such an inveterate liar that she ruins the show most days when she’s on – it’s only saved when the other four get to repudiate or debunk her atrocious “misinformation”.
Yes, their policies, which they are ideologically committed to, are guaranteed to worsen and prolong the downturn.
dot, genuinely interested to hear why you think community protection is more robust an idea than retributive justice.
Those Pedro FitzSimians doorstop tomes aren’t going to sell themselves.
My first thought, too.
Even with a hefty mortgage, she and what’is’name would have been well able to afford it – unless someone was doing stupid stuff like gambling in its various forms. Ponies, slots, roulette, stock market, whatever.
They certainly would have afforded, for example, a coke habit.
It’s a mystery.
Bee, that’s her role.
They always have a token lefty.
If it was wrestling, they’d call it the “Heel”.
Which the one big advantage Labor has; the Libs have no ideological conviction on anything. Labor deliver for their retarded Marxist base and they aren’t shy about forcing through the changes they need to deliver.
When I finally get put into a nursing home I’m going to be cared for by Cylons.
A novel elderly care robot could soon provide personal assistance, enhancing seniors’ quality of life (TechXplore, 19 Feb)
The graphic is terrifying. Yikes! C’mon guys at least make a bit of an effort for them to look more like Number Six.
New Rule: unless a link is behind a pay wall, quote two paragraphs max. or entire comment gets deleted.
Makes sense to me.
Regarding suicides on the roads and rails, was in the Philippines when there was one such on a major road.
It simply resulted in the dead bloke being dragged off to the kerb by angry drivers so the traffic could continue. Police turned up and weren’t concerned by that apparently.
She’s only recently been on a $2 million a year contract. Agents fees of 10%, super, tax etc, would take the bint to under a million take home. Lop off, 60% and you’re left with $800 hundi. Depends how you live, but $800 hundi isn’t a huge amount of money if you’re living high off the hog.
Before the most recent contact, old mushroom wasn’t on that sort of money and head band wasn’t a huge income earner – more or less a house house-husband.
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Yes. I didn’t know what the old system was called.
Kuomintang v Guomindang.
Same thing, different system of romanisation.
I don’t think anyone uses the old system these days, but various references have the holdover spelling for various things, I think.
Just took a look at my daughter’s workbook from Taiwanese school, it uses pinyin under complex Chinese characters. So no Wade Gilles.
Putin’s goons arrested 400 people on Saturday. Non-existent, yeah sure. Brave people.
A NSW Police officer has been charged over a crash that killed an Indigenous teenager in Sydney
FMD, he is whiter than me and has hazel eyes! this indigenous industry is getting out of control.
One thing for certain if we keep charging officers who are involved in stolen vehicle incidents we will have NO police left. Why would anyone be prepared to risk life and limb enforcing the law only to be charged with some offense.
trannies doing their bit:
The number of people aged 13 and older who identify as transgender in the United States is estimated to be about 1.6 million, or 0.6 percent of that population, according to the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy.
And although 0.6 percent of the 13-and-older population identifies as transgender, 5.4 percent of the mass shootings in recent years involved gender-confused individuals.
I roughly factored in the fact that she’s been subsidising his career, but she’s been at the top of her field (such as it is) for three decades.
“The agency says that “about 1 million Ram pickups” were rigged to cheat emissions tests so they could look “cleaner than they actually are,” the report says. “
Do they pass the legislated test? If so, what is the issue?
It’s like the VW “cheat”, is it?
In which case, I would force them to court and show evidence that they passed the legislated tests and are therefore legal and there is nothing wrong with them at all.
If they pollute more than they should and still pass the test, the test is faulty, not the car. Why would anyone be surprised that a manufacturer toes the line on emissions where it impacts customer expectations of performance?
More white supremacy:
WATCH: Moment Two Minor Teens Get Into Heated Exchange Before Shooting Up Kansas City Chiefs Parade
No where does the word black appear in the article.
Speaking of gender confused folk:
Senator Malcolm Roberts has done an outstanding job exposing the lunacy of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner being unable to defend sex because it was removed from the act in 2013.
The Senator questioned the Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody during an Estimates hearing. He was particularly focused on the Commission’s intervention in the Tickle v Giggle federal court case scheduled for April this year.
You really need to watch the full video to get the impact. I admit I laughed out loud several times as Senator Roberts questioned Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody who was visibly uncomfortable with many of the questions. Straight up she admitted that ‘man, ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ are not defined in the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA).
My question is “How on earth can a man identify as a woman if we don’t know what a woman is?”
Roberts absolutely pillories the stupid skank.
Police in QLD are under orders not to pursue suspected juveniles in stolen vehicles. The kids have no fear of death and are likely to kill someone else along with themselves.
Spot the Floater wasn’t as much fun as it sounds.
Especially if time and tide put them in the path of the Manly hydrofoil.
That struck me as strange too.
Three possibilities:-
1. The tearful plea to the Ten boss had about the same basis in fact as one of Bandana’s door-stopper mockumentary tomes; and/or
2. The lifestyle has chewed cash by the trainload; and/or
3. Poor investments, including financing Bandana’s publishing exploits.
I think that Wade-Giles went out around the 1980s. It had lots of complications with apostrophes changing the pronunciation of different letters. Pinyin seems less complicated, though I haven’t had much cause to look at either for decades.
PS, to really confuse the innocent, go to STCs.
Much in the same vein as OldOzzie, I worked for a multinational that did business for many years. Senior management decided they didn’t need the production manager anymore. They knew little about how the Japanese operate. They’d come out every six months to discuss problems, not that there were any, the production manager was on top of quality control. The Japanese noticed a change in quality and had no rapport with the replacement manager, result contract cancelled. This attitude of giving the client what you want instead of what they want resulted in three facilities closing down. Some companies get their money too easily and squander opportunities. I know of a few opportunities still going after they closed those facilities but time has passed me by.
We all knew how to convert a L1A1 into an auto.
Matchstick under the safety sear.
Just don’t forget to take it out before handing the weapon back to the armoury.
I wish I could vote for Malcolm Roberts. One of the few. Cannot recall him saying anything remotely stupid.
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ALMOST non-existent. Bruce. Poor verballing skills there.
And 400 (or several thousands) in around 92 million adults. Almost non existent.
I’ve said many times, whoever comes after Putin won’t be placed through a democratic electoral process. Frankly, when you see the green, left, migrant hordes, LGBTQI freakshow that is the EU, who would want emulate that kind of garbage?
JC earlier
Yes, he is “high profile” but not necessarily “high income”.
I don’t think a weekly column and being the resident punching bag on Nein sports shows would pay that much. Although Patrick Smith vacating the field of “sanctimonious twats on the sports page” might have helped.
Authorin’ isn’t a huge cash cow in Australia and he uses a swag of “researchers” to put them together. I assume they are all paid above award.
And, yes, the Toad hasn’t always been on $2 meg. In fact, she cracked it with Nein because Stefanovic was on about that and she was on considerably less.
JMH!
Come down off the bridge!
We can work it out!
You will eat black maggots and be happy.
The black soldier fly protein market is projected to reach $3.96 billion by 2033 (19 Feb)
My mouth is watering. I wonder how they’d go as a breakfast cereal with soy milk?
“All of the above” would be my educated guess.
Roger at 1:04.
It also has the desired effect of “reducing crime”.
Sure, the car theft gets reported, but the subsequent violent behaviour does not.
So an unimpeded rampage in a stolen car is recorded as a “property crime” (i.e. “no harm done”).
Great, Sanchez. Encourage another spray of vile coming my way because you antagonized it. I hope it’s you this time.
Leave it alone, as the bull’s busy writing CL a very angry letter.
“Lose my house” might also be translated as “This was our big chance to buy into absolute waterfront. And you’ve ruined everything!”
Toughen up, champ.
Andrew Giles.
Has there ever been a more pathetic insipid, quisling effeminate minister of the crown.
Pissy Crying was a shocker but Giles is something else. As he ushers in the illegal immigrants.
A Pom by descent, Arts/Law at Melbourne Uni. Worked at Slater & Gordon, was a lawyer for the Tampa “refugees”, secretary of the socialist left in Victoria, hooked in with Amnesty International and sleazed into parliament.
And this dickhead is in charge of our immigration policy.
Well done Albo.
As much as I hate wordwallery, this arrogance is worthy of an appointment for the bothe of us at the Gravvely Brazch arc PUB., I suggest 7:40 Zpm Friday???
We don’t deserve this shabby treatment!
Harry Clarke, I know you’re still out there, reading this blog. I deeply respect you. I know you won’t tolerate abuse like this and treat your readers better than this!
Blog wrecking like this won’t be tolerated at Harry’s.
It seems to me that one of the missing elements thee days is factoring in maintenance. As nice as it is to own a mansion, there is upkeep. As nice as it is to get your first car, there are ongoing annual expenses and repairs to keep it in the same condition or better. In a large factory or mechanical business, I would consider the maintenance department pretty high up there in the hierarchy, way above marketing.
Didn’t seem to be too many pictures of the annual Australia Day piss-up chez Wilkinson this year.
Also, as described by Old Ozzie/Grey Ranga, the idea that a deal must involve screwing one party or the other is destined to failure. Hubby did contract work for a local facility for many years and always enabled the firm being hired to make some money. Otherwise they would not be there when needed.
H B Bear
Feb 20, 2024 12:08 PM
Is Marty paywalled? I’ve never bothered to check.
The posts are from a free blog.
This piece reckons mushroom face has $70 million in assets. Dated Feb 24.
Could some eye catching debt behind all that.
You can habe gays or yiu can have democracy, puck one, patriots!
You left out Old Scotch Collegian.
Labor PM’s don’t get to select their Cabinet unless they’re Bob Hawke, which Albo most definitely isn’t. It’s all factionally based and done in the backroom.
You think rampant inflation would be better for the economy? Also the RBA has to keep our rates roughly in line with American and European rates. I’d be blaming our economic situation mostly on the massive over-reaction to COVID which started the inflation in the first place.
You left out Old Scotch Collegian.
Yes, I was tracking the traditional Labor trough snouting and missed that.
I don’t think he ever got a kick in any of their footy sides.
I will monitor the situation, Wodney, and report any breaches.
LOL Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. I didn’t think that you wore breeches. Only skirts/dresses. You may be a horsey person though.
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