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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…
NYPD Female HeffaLumps Show Off Their Dance Team as Illegal Aliens Overrun Big Apple and the Social Media Replies are Brutal (VIDEO)
Even given her income that sum is substantial. Keeping up appearances. Her distress may have more to do with the loss of social standing than financial woes. Will she still be a top ranking media personality? She might be struggling even for guest appearances. Both of them might find themselves with lost income and diminished prestige. I’d like to think their loss of standing would have the same consequences as the Sackler family.
They let inflation run at 6% for quite a bit.
I’m shocked that this is seen as “tight” monetary policy.
PS From the Comments
– Did they have to structurally reinforce the dance floor? PT standards… what standards?
– A forged H beam at a minimum!!
– New York Police department video or obesity awareness announcement…?
– Affirmative action extends to the donut-challenged…
– They’re in shape… That shape is round…
– If you listen closely you can hear the floor beg for mercy.
The Oz..
FMD. Our fkn Dingbat in Chief. All heil Albo the Disappointing.
And, to remove all doubt, is not paywalled, and therefore subject to Dover’s new Word Wall legislation.
Got it, Wodney?
The Economist Paywalled
Cousin marriage is probably fine in most cases
It is also illegal in 25 American states
It just seemed so wrong. In January Nick Wilson, a Kentucky state legislator who achieved reality-tv fame for winning “Survivor” in 2018, created a frenzy on social media when he sponsored a bill that removed “first cousin” from the list of incestuous family relations. Mr Wilson said that the omission was a mistake and the bill was quickly withdrawn. The new draft put “first cousin” back on the list of criminal sexual relations, alongside parent, sibling, grandchild and other blood relatives.
Since much of Kentucky is covered by the Appalachian mountains, a region stereotyped for encouraging incestuous sexual behaviour, jokes quickly spread online. The reactions on X (formerly known as Twitter) ranged from humour to disgust to fear for the resulting offspring. Only a few pointed out that in many states it is legal to have sexual relations and marry one’s first cousin. Is it really ok to kiss your cousin?
Geneticists mostly say that it is, with some caveats. In 2021 the National Society of Genetic Counsellors (nsgc) published updated guidelines for consanguineous couples (people descended from the same ancestor) and their offspring. The risk to offspring is greater, but the increase is quite small. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention about 3% of all babies born in America have birth defects. The nsgc guidelines state that for “couples with no known genetic disorders in the family, there is an additional 1.7% to 2.8% risk for significant birth defects.”
Many other couples face far higher risks of genetic complications for their offspring, and those unions are not banned. Classic Mendelian genetics (the kind taught in biology class) predicts that if two people each have a recessive gene for certain disorders, such as cystic fibrosis or sickle-cell anaemia, there is a 25% chance their child will be born with that disorder.
Yet those marriages are allowed.
“The law against first-cousin marriage is a major form of discrimination,” says Robin Bennett of the University of Washington’s department of medicine, who was a co-author of the nsgc guidelines. For offspring “the risks are very low and not much different than for any other couple,” she says.
Throughout Western history attitudes about consanguineous marriages have varied. The Bible does not directly ban sexual relations between cousins—how else would all of mankind have descended from Adam and Eve? The Roman Catholic Church did later prohibit first cousins from marrying, though exceptions were made for a fee. Martin Luther, the father of Protestantism, objected to such payments, so many Protestant denominations allowed these marriages free of charge. As is clear from novels such as “Mansfield Park” and “Wuthering Heights”, the people of Georgian and Victorian England were not too squeamish about such relations. Queen Victoria was married to her first cousin, as were both Albert Einstein and Edgar Allan Poe.
In some cultures, marriage between close family members is encouraged today. It secures wealth and reinforces social connections within the family. It might even make marriages easier, on the optimistic assumption that the in-laws are more likely to get along. In some areas of the world (Pakistan, the Middle East), nearly half of all marriages are between close relations. No European countries ban marriages between first cousins (though Norwegian policymakers recently debated doing so).
There are limits to the amount of intermarriage that is healthy. Charles Darwin, the father of evolutionary biology, who married his first cousin in 1839, was reportedly conflicted about his own arrangement. The Darwins had ten children, but three of them died during childhood and three of his surviving children never had any offspring with their spouses. Some historians surmise that the children suffered from genetic abnormalities due to their parents being closely related—the families of Darwin and his wife had a long history of intermarriage.
Yet despite the fairly low genetic risk for most couples, the “ick” factor prevails in Western culture. The family dynamics can be difficult to explain to others. Many consanguineous couples choose to keep quiet, says Ms Bennett. For this reason it is difficult to know how many of these couples exist in America.
Despite the fact that first-cousin marriages are pretty low-risk for offspring, 25 states do not allow first cousins to marry. In six states, it is legal to marry a first cousin, but with caveats (if one person is unable to reproduce or elderly, for example). However, if Mr Wilson’s experience in Kentucky is indicative of the public’s reaction, it will be a long time before such laws will be stricken from the books
In some cultures, marriage between close family members is encouraged today.
No-one Tasmanian on here are they?
AFR Paywalled
Household income pain to last until 2027. These three charts prove it
Michael Read – Economics correspondent
Household real incomes are not expected to recover to their pre-pandemic levels until 2027, with new data showing Australia’s prolonged decline in living standards extended into the second half of last year.
In the 12 months to September 2023, Australian household incomes slumped 6.1 per cent adjusted for inflation, the sharpest fall recorded across measured OECD economies, according to analysis by The Australian Financial Review.
The data is also adjusted for population growth.
Eight consecutive quarters of decline mean Australian real household incomes are back to 2017 levels.
Deloitte Access Economics partner Stephen Smith and leading economist Chris Richardson expect further declines in real incomes until mid-2024, before the revamped stage three tax cuts deliver a 1.4 to 1.5 per cent increase in real household disposable income.
“While that will provide some relief to households, it will not be enough to offset the decline in this measure of prosperity since the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Mr Smith warned.
Mr Richardson said the tax cuts were a “Band-Aid”, and higher productivity growth would be needed to drive better living standards in the long run.
“In Australia these days, we spend our time grabbing bits of pie from each other rather than growing the pie, and at some stage we get what we deserve, and we’re getting the politicians that we deserve,” he said.
Mr Richardson said he did not expect real household incomes to return to their pre-pandemic level until 2027. Mr Smith is more optimistic, forecasting household incomes will recover to their December 2019 level by September 2025.
The figures underscore the political challenge facing the Albanese government, as polling consistently shows the rapid rise in the cost of living has become the single most important issue for voters.
The latest poll from The Australian Financial Review and Freshwater Strategy showed 69 per cent of voters listed cost of living as their top priority.
The next greatest priority was housing and accommodation at 40 per cent, which was related to the cost of living.
Mr Smith said it was not surprising that households were under pressure.
“In the current environment, real household disposable income per capita is one of the best measures of how Australian households are feeling. It calculates income after taking account of inflation and population growth, and after taking account of taxes and mortgage payments,” he said.
“Households have been dealing with the cost of living challenges that elevated inflation and rising interest rates impose. At the same time, bracket creep is ratcheting up the average rate of tax paid, while aggregate measures of income and economic growth are being driven by population growth, not productivity.”
Mr Richardson said the decline in real incomes had been driven by high inflation, an increase in the personal tax take, and the rapid rise in interest rates hitting variable rate borrowers.
While households still have about three-quarters of the excess savings built up during the pandemic, Mr Smith said not all of these funds were available to be drawn down.
“Many households may have used these funds to pay off and discharge a mortgage or invest in illiquid assets, meaning the money cannot – or cannot readily – be accessed,” he said.
“Deloitte Access Economics therefore expects that the savings ‘buffers’ build up during the pandemic may not be fully spent by households and do not accurately reflect the financial position of the household sector.”
Outlook Economics director Peter Downes said some of the decline in household real incomes was due to idiosyncratic measurement issues, including a large swing in farm incomes and imputed superannuation interest receipts.
He noted that inflation-adjusted labour income had increased by more than other OECD countries and real household wealth was also 12 per cent higher than pre-pandemic levels, meaning consumers were not necessarily going backward on average relative to other advanced economies.
Don’t forget to bold a few random sentences to break up the word walls, OO
Doverlord, at 12.04 and apropos of the New Rule:
The.
Best.
Blog.
In.
Thiswidebrownland.
Perhaps we should call on the self dclared traditional owners of the land we live on, the much touted First Nations to put togather a navy to protect Australia’s interests and alliances? (ha ha ha ha ha .. oh my!)
Mind you, their source of funds is the same as ours isn’t it?
Taxpayers ….
Who would have thought eh, that Labor would completely stuff the defence forces already depleted resources?
If we stupidly build anything here again, we really are idiots. Unless we build something small and not in much need of tech or resources we’d be ok .. well, we could probably build a small patrol boat but anything bigger is beyond us to build and support. The costs we cannot afford, all the usual blowouts and we have lost all the tradeskills and continue to lose them. We also need to stop navy Australianizing things, just get it off the shelf!
Unless we can put all those arts, law, economics degrees to some use in defence we really have buggered it up.
America’s First 15-Minute City Has Been Created In Tempe, Arizona – Do Residents Know What’s in Store for Them?
Outsource the coastal defences (north west) to the Houthis. Probably do a fairly good job 1 to 2B per year
And, to remove all doubt, is not paywalled, and therefore subject to Dover’s new Word Wall legislation.
Got it, Wodney?
LOL Mrs Stencho Pantyhose. You are beginning to sound like a broken record and another self appointed Blog Milk Monitor. Crickey. One was enough !!!!!!!!
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
MUST WATCH
SOMALI ILLEGAL ALIENS PROCLAIM SUPPORT FOR ILHAN OMAR AND JOE BIDEN INSIDE PANAMÁ MIGRANT CAMP!
Today I went inside a migrant camp in Darien Gap in Panama.
Inside the migrant Camp, I encountered a group of Islamic Somali men who told me they plan to illegally enter the United States via the Texas border. They just arrived in the Darien Gap today.
Listen to what these Somali illegal aliens told me about @Ilhan Ilhan Omar and Joe Biden @JoeBiden!
Real Estate Investor Grant Cardone Says He Won’t Invest in NY, Will Double Efforts in Red States
Batshit crazy.
NHS Trust Claims that Chemically Induced Men’s Milk Just As Good as Mother’s Milk
The LGBTs Need to Do Something About Their PEDOs, ASAP
LOl. First the tick cheating stopped and now the slabs of Marty Spam has come to a finale.
Woddenhead’s life is over.
Kez, shove over a tiny bit. Wodney’s making his way to the top of the bridge.
If we stupidly build anything here again, we really are idiots. Unless we build something small and not in much need of tech or resources we’d be ok .. well, we could probably build a small patrol boat but anything bigger is beyond us to build and support. The costs we cannot afford, all the usual blowouts and we have lost all the tradeskills and continue to lose them. We also need to stop navy Australianizing things, just get it off the shelf!
And the ‘Pollies’ and Unions think that Australia can build and maintain Nuclear powered Submarines. Tell them they are dreaming –
https://youtu.be/dik_wnOE4dk
Joe Biden Proposal to Seize Certain Patents Raises Alarms
Boston Families Furious as City Kicks Black Children Out of Community Center to House Biden’s Migrants
JC
Feb 20, 2024 2:53 PM
Another self appointed Blog Milk Monitor and broken record. What a Wooden Top.
Finally!
‘Pure Junk Science’: Researchers Challenge Narrative on CO2 and Warming Correlation
Greg Hunter Interview Martin Armstrong – 2024 the Year From Political Hell
https://rumble.com/v4dviux-2024-the-year-from-political-hell-martin-armstrong.html
Whatever it takes.
John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1m a year to leave Supreme Court
‘It’s Scary Right Now’: Autoworkers Worried Biden’s Electric Vehicle Push Could Kill ‘Thousands Of Jobs’
Andrew Lawrence
Britain is finished, the exodus begins…
Thanks for that link Old Ozzie.
I just did a quick check & can save 1000/year.
I will be doing more research.
Small problem with that…
“Enough Is Enough”: ‘Squad’ Member Tlaib Comes Out Against Biden (20 Feb)
Omar won’t hold out against the pressure from her voters in Little Mogadishu: she will fall into line with squad member Tlaib. Which means walking away from Genocide Joe.
I need to buy more popcorn.
These Race Zealots Hate Britain & the West. They Don’t Care about Ethnic Minorities or Countryside
UK taxypayer spends £24 BILLION on jobless migrants since 2020! | Nigel Farage
I am surprised BHP’s statement regarding QLD has been given more prominence in the business media.
Their comments on the conference call were a big F-U to the current QLD government.
https://x.com/mondyinvest/status/1759698494041076198?s=20
Has not been
Bloody hell.
Urp, forgot the new rule. Sorry Dover. Could you make it three not two? I usually can get the gist in three paras.
A super profits tax rated at 40%, on top of an effective tax rate of 62%.
You know it makes sense!
‘Safe and Effective’: Covid Booster Shots Cause Heart Failure in Young Adults, Top Study Confirms
A new peer-reviewed study has confirmed that Covid mRNA “booster” shots are causing heart failure to soar in young adults and teenagers.
The study, published in the world-renowned European Heart Journal on February 15, found that a third dose of the Pfizer or Moderna injections is directly linked to the “increased incidence rate of myocarditis.”
According to the new study, using data from several Nordic nations, researchers evaluated the risk of myocarditis among 12- to 39-year-olds after receiving COVID-19 mRNA booster vaccination.
The study analyzed data from 8.9 million young adults from four nations: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.
In total, 1,533 cases of myocarditis were identified, which the researchers noted were all caused by the mRNA boosters.
The study concluded that the “booster dose is associated with increased myocarditis risk in adolescents and young adults.”
https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/safe-and-effective-covid-booster
Courtesy of John Connor II at Jo Nova Blog
Bring on the COVID-19 Royal Commission NOW
Jeez Louise
So vulnerable to a China slowdown. If China goes into a nose dive, we’ll be on the mat.
Combine a China recession with the possibility we’re in the midst of falling into one, this would be a zinger of a hit.
“Experts” working tirelessly to destroy everyone’s opinion of experts.
As it is acceptable that people can identify as dogs we should all identify as original inhabitants.
Why BRICS Wins the New Food World War
Tom, what do you think of the Craig Williams brouhaha?
It’s Tuesday & I’m still seeing social media talking about it.
Normally a dud ride is a Sunday thing, then move on.
The title is not supported by the study, which confirms increased myocarditis in young adults. That is not news.
I got soldier fly larvae in my worm farm once. They’re ugly buggers, give me worms any day. From an ecological point of view they do the same basic job.
‘Bodybuilders are Dropping Dead’
I don’t care. Their choice to take jungle juice. Tis better they are dead than incapacitated and costing taxpayers.
If iron ore craps itself the Perth used jet ski market will collapse.
Dot, BHP is paying just over 40% of income in taxes now if you include royalties.
The recent changes to the labor laws have essentially caused the nickel business to likely be mothballed. Moth balled even with a government enticement of 10% clawback in royalties from the WA government.
The new labor laws.
I fcking swear, I’m going to go apeshit if anyone dares mention the Uniparty again -and the two big parties are the same. It’s the most brain-dead comment ever.
Latest sob story gimme munny effort from the Greens:
Hi [name],
I’m the Greens’ national fundraiser, and I wanted to share my personal story of homelessness – something that’s sadly becoming more common.
When we share stories as a community it helps us to connect, and helps us make change when often things feel so hopeless.
So here’s my story!
Before I took this role with the Greens, I worked in the charity sector. I worked with environment groups and aid organisations to change lives. It’s a great job, right?!
Then, in the winter of 2017 my landlord gave me notice to move out. I thought, I have a good income – we’ll be ok.
And then I just couldn’t get another rental for love nor money. I was a newly-single mum with two small children, and the market is SO tough…
The day before we had to be out of the house, I put a desperate note on Facebook: Does anyone know of anything???
Thankfully, a friend-of-a-friend kindly said we could stay in a little granny flat out the back of her house. We bunked there for three months, wrapped in blankets to stay warm.
It was freezing! And it was hard to keep our lives (and school) on track.
My daughter started calling me “the unlucky mummy”.
It’s hard to write that.
The irony wasn’t lost on me, [name], that one of my NGO clients was actually a well-known homelessness charity.
I had an inside view of my own situation! I knew I wasn’t alone. I knew it was getting worse. And I knew my clients were struggling to keep up with the need.
So sitting there shivering in the granny flat, I started wondering, “If charities are overwhelmed now, what will full-scale climate breakdown look like?”
I realised, “We’re going to need a bigger lever. We’re going to need the parliament!”
And as you know, [name], that is the Greens’ exact plan!
So, I joined the Greens.
Then I reduced my client load and took a job with them too.
It’s been five years since then, and I’ve watched the Greens grow into the third largest political force this country has ever seen.
They used their power in the Senate to get another $3 billion immediate investment for housing (you can imagine my feelings on that). And they negotiated a safeguard mechanism and water trigger, two big blows to fossil fuel.
Best of all: they proved they can win Lower House seats – the key to a safe future for us all!
I believe in them, [name], because they’re backed by people like you.
So I’m inviting you to join me right now to fight for the change we need most of all…
Can you help me fire up our 2024/25 federal election campaign to win the balance of power?
GIVE NOW!
As awful as that time in the granny flat was, it lit a fire in my belly, [name].
Only a parliament with the Greens in balance of power can bring the change we need – on climate, on inequality and on housing.
I want to thank you for being at the heart of it all. People like you give me hope.
Sonya Semmens
Australian Greens National Fundraising Lead
Onya Sonya ran for the seat of Higgins (which is part of Melbournistan) the 2022 federal election.
Results:
Liberal Party Katie Allen(MP) Vote:40.7%
Labor Party Michelle Ananda-Rajah Vote:28.5%
Greens Sonya Semmens Vote:22.6%
Outcome:
Seat lost by Libs, won by Labor. Is it any wonder that Labor sucks the Greens’ appendage at every opportunity.
They are still wonderful. Smooth as silk.
Skating Legends Torvill and Dean: Hanging Up Their Skates for Good
Living the dream.
Davey Boy – would be interesting to know how often that occurs? More often than you would think I expect. Compulsory preferential voting and Greens preferences is how you end up in government with a 28 point something primary vote.
Rebecca Tomkinson on Sky News – Chamber of Minerals & Energy CEO in WA.
Fully onboard with decarbonising the economy.
We are stuffed.
Certainly helps keep the greenhouse gas numbers down.
I’m a green fund-raiser, well I’m wearing a green shirt. I need another mill or two to get me into the real money. Your money. No need to worry about wasting it, I’ll do that for you. You know it makes sense. H/T Sam Kekovich.
Uniparty and the two big parties are the same.
Get out the koala suit and start shaking the can.
The ALP leads, the LNP giggles and swoons.
Trad, Miles, Palasczkuk, Albo, Andrews, Allen, Dim, Wrong, are all pretty lefty though.
What’s the difference between Liberal and Labor policy?
About 2 years.
Yeah, but you don’t count, wrong. You’re just a moron on a keyboard.
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Dot, these labor laws have likely added another 10% to the cost of doing business. You can’t run business now without butting heads with unions.
Even the Liar Right can’t take a trick at the moment. Ask Peanut Head.
Bear
BHP is basically closing down the nickel business .
It’s a marginal business brought to a loss because of liars party shenanigans with the labor markets.
Unless you’re running a premium asset like Pilbara, you’re screwed here. Soon enough profits will be raped.
Mavis gets out his crystal ball in Teh Paywallian and answers the question “Who’s after Albo?”. Not a cause for optimism.
Covid and flu vaccines transfer risk from the aged, who have run their life, to the young, whose whole life is ahead. The quantum of risk is immaterial, any such transfer is unethical, and amounts to the murder of those who succumb.
BREAKING: Ford is releasing a new truck for men who listen to Taylor Swift.
OldOzzie
Feb 20, 2024 9:32 AM
Considereing the way the BoM has rewritten its statistics, and made dodgy figures, I don’t believe it.
Remember the Stevenson screen in front of the Solar PV array in Sydney? The array is sitting on the ground to reflect sunlight back onto the data box.
Jo Nova has the story…
AFR Paywalled
Labor told to fix IR policies before handouts: BHP
Peter Ker and Phillip Coorey
BHP chief executive Mike Henry says a tax credit may not be enough to save the company’s nickel division from closure as he urged governments to focus on getting industrial relations policies right rather than offering subsidies and rescue packages.
Speaking after billions of dollars of nickel impairments helped drag BHP’s statutory profit to an eight-year low of just $US927 million ($1.419 billion), Mr Henry revived his assault on the Albanese government’s industrial relations agenda by saying wage inflation in Australia was “especially problematic”.
BHP is particularly vulnerable to the government’s “same job, same pay” laws because it has a wholly owned labour hire firm called Operations Services that pays workers less than colleagues employed on site-specific enterprise bargaining agreements.
BHP’s Western Australian nickel mines are among the sites where Operations Services staff are deployed, and the mining giant warned last week that full closure of the division was being considered, given it lost about $US200 million ($306 million) over the past six months.
To help the nickel industry survive a price plunge being caused by Indonesia undercutting the global market using dirty environmental practices, the federal government is considering options, including the introduction of a production tax credit that would effectively reimburse nickel miners 10 per cent of their costs.
Mr Henry said support was welcome, but he would prefer policy settings to be fit for purpose in the first place.
“If that is what is required, and a short-term production tax credit is something that is needed to save what is a key plank in Australia’s critical minerals strategy, then that is something we would be supportive of,” he said on Tuesday.
“But we also want to be clear that [tax credit] may not be enough given just how significant the challenges in the nickel market are today.
“That may not be enough to alter course.
“It should not take the pressure off, or the focus off making sure we have the policy settings in place to drive long-term competitive positioning for Australia.”
He indicated that if assistance was rendered and failed to work, BHP would pay back any money before folding its nickel operations.
Rebecca Tomkinson of the WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy said 10,000 jobs in her state were at risk, as was $1.8 billion the industry generated for the economy each year.
Mr Henry’s criticism of the regulatory environment facing miners follows a scathing attack by the Minerals Council of Australia, which cited the IR laws, energy policy, tax and royalties.
The Nationals insisted as a starting point that nickel operations be exempted from the government’s safeguard mechanism which is a carbon cap on the nation’s heaviest emitters.
The Nationals also listed impending environmental protections to be imposed via the establishment of an Environmental Protection Agency, and the labour hire laws.
Winding up his trip to Perth on Tuesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reiterated his intention to try and assist the sector but said the safeguard mechanism was an important long-term measure that had been supported by business.
“They overwhelmingly said that what they wanted was certainty. They have that certainty,” he said.
Mr Albanese sidestepped over the criticism of the industrial relations laws saying only that “we support productivity”.
He repeated that a production tax credit was one option being considered.
Despite Australia’s unemployment rate rising above 4 per cent for the first time in two years, BHP said inflationary pressures had not fully dissipated.
“Wage inflation is especially problematic in the context of historically poor productivity performance across the resources industry,” said Mr Henry in a market filing on Tuesday.
Critical minerals processing
The Albanese government has championed more domestic processing of critical minerals under a desire to take the nation further down the battery manufacturing value chain.
BHP’s nickel division has shaped as a perfect example of the trend; the company has refineries and smelters in WA that add value to the nickel ore, and over the past five years BHP spent about $140 million building a plant that could make the nickel sulphate crystals desired by battery makers.
But Mr Henry said on Tuesday that one scenario being studied for the nickel division was an idling of its Australian refineries and smelters so that nickel could be exported in a less processed concentrate form.
That option would potentially allow BHP to defer or avoid more than $750 million of spending that is due on a refurbishment of the Kalgoorlie nickel smelter.
Mr Henry said a decision on the nickel division’s future would be known “in months, not years”.
“The smelter refurbishment is well and truly part of the consideration of whether we maintain current operations at Nickel West or move them fully into care and maintenance,” said Mr Henry.
The federal government’s National Reconstruction Fund is focused on assets like the Kalgoorlie smelter and has the ability to lend money or support through equity style investments.
Asked whether he would consider government support via equity instruments, Mr Henry said; “We are always open to discussing possibilities.”
Indonesian rivalry
Nickel prices have slumped because of surging supply out of Indonesia, where most of the industry is coal-fired, and some producers have been accused of damaging landscapes and oceans by dumping wastes inappropriately.
Asked whether he was disappointed that US carmakers like Robyn Denholm’s Tesla were buying nickel from Indonesia, Mr Henry said he hoped consumers would one day be willing to pay for sustainability.
“It would seem sensible that the market functions in a way that sees a price premium for nickel that is produced with a much lower carbon footprint, one sixth of the carbon footprint of nickel produced elsewhere and with other attributes of sustainability,” he said.
“That is not the way the market is currently operating, one of the players in that market is the consumer or the buyer of nickel, automakers being inclusive.
“The way the market functions does not change overnight so that will take some time.”
The $US6.6 billion ($10.1 billion) underlying half year profit reported by BHP on Tuesday was largely unchanged from last year.
But $US5.7 billion in impairments and charges left statutory profits at $US927 million.
Fairshake at 2.11
It is truly cringeworthy, isn’t it?
I wonder if the little trot trot took Toto to see Tay Tay?
JC
Feb 20, 2024 3:33 PM
Uniparty
DJ Albo will lose a lot of credibility in the mosh pit with that fluffy white dog.
AFR not mentioning the QLD comments by BHP.
Roger
The party isn’t over until the fat politician has stopped fertilising the money tree.
Then, the hangover commences.
aka New Argentina
US Teens Learn About Taxes
“A new trend is circulating on the internet, where parents in the US film their teenagers’ reactions to filing taxes for the first time. The US education system does not require schools to educate students on taxes, despite it being fundamental knowledge for sound financial health.
In 2022, teens with both earned and unearned income were required by law to file a tax return if their combined gross income was greater than $1,150, or more than their earned income (up to $12,550) plus $400. Additionally, if a teen earned $12,950 or more at their part-time job in 2022, they would need to file taxes in 2023. The standard deduction for 2022 was $12,950, so as long as a teen didn’t earn more than that amount, they wouldn’t have to file taxes. Basically, anyone who worked a part-time job was forced to give a portion to Uncle Sam.”
See the weblink for the video –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/taxes/us-teens-learn-about-taxes/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
They are looting their own operational budgets.
Brrrrrrr goes the money printer.
Be careful Wodney.
They were two very long paragraphs.
Thin ice, champ.
Thin ice.
But it’s also the RBA’s fault that inflation isn’t 10%, the end of 3% loans is the death of businesses and residential mortgages, I tells yas!
Sancho Panzer
Feb 20, 2024 5:22 PM
I know that those two paragraphs were far too long for you. However, many others here will have no problems with that.
BTW, how are those breeches?
I just bought a long-dated put option on the Australian dollar. I’ve taken out 12 month insurance against the Aussie dollar going much lower. Screw this place. It cost me some money, but I’ve covered a decent chunk of my liquid assets that are Aussie based.
This is basically Whitlam Mark 2, but with a floating exchange rate.
Not in any order.
Sky high energy costs, with the very real possibility we’re going to experience constant outages.
I heard today that despite all the propaganda about renewballs, there hasn’t been a single solar farm established in the past 12 months.
Labor costs tightened even further than anyone imagined.
Sky-high residential home prices and rents through the roof.
More of a reckoning in the commercial real estate sector as people aren’t going to the office. Perhaps even a worse reckoning than the one expected in the US.
Pathetic Productivity Commission that’s basically doing the government’s bidding.
More (Fairwork) wage hikes are on the way in the middle of the year.
Inflation tracks through wages, and further wage hikes will cement an inflation rate above the RBA target.
Worker productivity is just beyond woeful.
High-grade firms like BHP are signaling they won’t invest here.
Seriously, I think we’re donesky and we’re doubly donesky if the Chinese economy hits the toilet.
Just recall that the Aussie dollar hit around 47 cents 20 years ago, and we didn’t have the debt levels we do now. A tanking commodity market will cement that.
Ya reckon?
The plot thickens:
Asylum seekers released from detention following a controversial High Court decision have had their welfare payments fast-tracked while Australians spend months waiting for claims to be processed by Services Australia.
The 149 refugees – including convicted murderers and rapists – began receiving Status Resolution Support Services within 14 days of walking free from detention following intervention from the federal government.
Daily Mail
You’re right JC re the abomination in Canbra proving it’s possible to be worse than Trumble-scummo.
I don’t know about the fees in the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church used to forbid cousin marriage beyond just the first but does allow it in modern times in some rare circumstances eg when the cousins have had very little contact while growing up.
The trouble with cousin marriage is that where it is practiced it is never single generational but over and over and over, which is why it causes so many problems and should be actively discouraged.
As for unrelated people carrying recessive genes, in most circumstances they don’t know, and throughout history they could not have known.
Was the author suggesting everyone now get tested before being allowed to marry (even that wouldn’t pick up every possible genetic risk.)
Asylum seekers released from detention following a controversial High Court decision have had their welfare payments fast-tracked while Australians spend months waiting for claims to be processed by Services Australia.
the canbra way
With you on that one JC. If China falls out of bed an AUD with a 4 in front of it is entirely possible. We’re all Australian auto workers now.
Imagine the fortuitous good luck that may bring to a goldbug who foolishly doesn’t believe in diversification… 🙂
Haley is camel toe category bat crazy:
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley boasted online Sunday evening about how many ‘fellas’ she’s been through in the campaign, twelve, and how many are left for her to take on, one–President Trump–and well, the jokes just wrote themselves.
But you can’t use your superannuation to buy your home, or use it to put down a deposit.
What a country.
Adam creighton on kenny bad mouthing Trump: he only thinks about himself the hack says; vomits up the Trump is putin’s puppet BS; what a fuking POS.
On hold, waiting to make an appointment for tests at my local medical centre.
Seems there is a “culturally appropriate” programme, to help Aborigines give up smoking……
Milton
Of BHP’s results, iron ore accounted for 77%! Yes, they wrote down certain assets, but this has more of a balance sheet impact than a cash impact, therefore some non-cash items affected the profit. Even still, BHP will have significant challenges in turning a profit if China starts a serious puking. I’m not implying BHP would have financial problems. But we’d be in serious trouble turning a profit . Also, Victoria will make Mali appear attractive. Massive debt and a deep recession are the two issues. Victoria would be shambles.
Spelling error in final word.
Following the Falklands War, the Chief of the Defence Staff has summoned 3 combat veterans who have distinguished themselves in the war to be rewarded for their service. He has them lined up and tells them they have done a fantastic job. He then breaks the news to them. “Men, you are going to get a cash reward, name 2 of your body parts. We will measure the distance between the 2 and you will get £15 per inch”.
The first man a Para steps forward and says “I’ll take finger tip to finger tip” he then stands with his arms spread, the distance is measured and he is given his cash. The second man a strapping 6 foot 6 inch Guardsman steps forward. “I’ll have my height”. He’s measured and takes his cash. The third man a Royal Marine steps forward. “I’ll take the tip of my penis to my testicles sir” The General is shocked. “Think this through son, you could get far more money than that” The Marine shakes his head and the general ushers his orderly forward with his tape measure. The Marine drops his trousers, everyone stares and the General stammers. “Where are your testicles?” The marine with a sly grin replies, “The Falkland Islands Sir”
Don’t disagree JC- the Vicco debt is a big worry and of course the dick-tator has run away leaving everyone else to clean up his mess.
true. Perhaps due for the “… recession that Australia had to have.”?
One big part of the canbra way is do the wrong thing and get rewarded.
Victoriastan has the potential to be a brake on the whole of Australia for years, possibly a decade or more.
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Here, I zero in on the year 2014 and its critical importance in the creation of the censorship industry:
Chill, bro.
Our global monopoly of iron ore resources will save us.
And energy super-power.
The Australian Cth balance sheet starts off from a very different position than where Cuddly Costello left it. Not much firepower in the locker thanks to SloMo and Josh.
I’m worried about the residual on the Bentley.
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Good God, man!
If one doesn’t pay cash for the Bentley, one should not have the Bentley.
Perf nouveau riche.
Insufferable!
They were practically giving them away.
I can tell you when the AUD:USD will bottom out.
Based on past form, it will be when we are sitting in the airline lounge waiting to take off to the US.
I remember. 😉
I saw a bright pink Bentley the other day. Not the regular Chinese pink, but a bright loud pink with a cig dealer’s gf driving. Decent looker. These days, the folks making the money are the contraband cig dealers. Hard drugs is for idiots.
But seriously, how can the carmaker agree to paint their car in that freaking color?
I think Not Sirrah, a leased Bentley is a better option, as one does not keep the current model for more than 3 years.
How very gauche.
One of the ciggy dealer’s (alleged) pyro guys just got bail.
Left court in a Roller.
Of course not.
I just buy a new one and let the driver have the old one.
They also have ‘culturally appropriate’ cleaning services, and here on the Coast, there’s a driving school for indigs. To be fair, those clueless blow-ins at Sydney Cove would have been lost without the indig town planners and civil engineers lending a hand to get them established.
When the ash tray is full, according to the Bentley etiquette manual.
A mate came across to the UK in the late 90s when we had all been earning GBP for months. I almost felt sorry for him. I arrived when the AUD:GBP was about 0.33 or something. A big night out would set you back AUD 600 or something. Real money in your 30s as a recently qualified solicitor.
Ah, yes.
We arrived in London back in the early ’90’s and made the pilgrimage to Harrods.
Had an orange juice around the corner.
So good we had another.
The bill for four OJ’s in AUD was eye-watering.
We then went into the Harrods food hall where Mrs P was pleasantly surprised by the price of lobster.
“Err … that is Pounds per pound. It is roughly five times that in $/Kg.”
A decade is conservative given their penchant for re-electing Labor governments.
The drag has been felt since at least 2019.
You had to stop doing AUD:GBP conversions it was too distressing.
A little bit of a schaden-boner watching Nein news.
The AFL have announced a new team for Tassie. In typical fashion, they have tried to stiff the taxpayer for the $750 meg cost of a 26,000 seat roofed stadium (likely to be $1,000,000,000 really).
The AFL have generously chipped in $15 meg.
The Libs have called an election and capped the contribution at $375 meg. The ALP have promised a big fat zero.
Now, most AFL execs and commentators are Rustadon Labor and in love with gummint largesse pouring into their pockets.
This is going to get awkward.
Travelling on your own coin does require care. My record is EUR 35 for a G&T in Paris. When quizzed on the recommendation. “Oh yeah, Iusually go there with clients who pay.” We did get a small plate of complimentary olives.
Unless they’re going to get Germans to build it, expect to have to replace it in 30 years.
What a country.
In true Liar fashion, the AFL have a distinct preference for OPM. You suspect Chanel Stokes is tapped out.
The Chairman (read Victoriastan taxpayers) have been a generous sugar daddy for the AO over the years.
Top Ender:
Another government at war with its citizens, but not the replacements.
Presumably, one only smokes cigars?
Rosie:
Before granting powers to the State, imagine that power given to the politician you detest most, because one day it will be.
Would you trust The Lying Bastard Albo with this power?
Shorten is certainly presiding over a disaster at Services Australia.
Wouldn’t have been a problem if they had called her Woodstock. Live and learn. Or maybe not.
Could be worse – you could be named after Struth and Crumpet.
Strumpet.
Unbearable!
How embarrassing to be named after Struth?
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I don’t suppose “It’s the thought that counts” would be much consolation.
That is certainly a short straw. As NDIS Daddy don’t have much sympathy for him there. The R-G-R glory days.
Pronounced Har-low and you’re off to races. The perils of this no gender thing.
Why do Australian tax payers continue to funnel billions to US defence contractors so they can reach proof of concept?
“Sitting on a fortune.”
I personally think she made the wiser choice in not calling her child Charvey, which is the word for the stunted baculum in middle class Stalinists or BBC j’ism.
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Perhaps “Sue” would have been wiser.
Even wiser still, if she had just spoken to her parents, she wouldn’t be looking like such a twit.
It would be a cunning stunt.
Or fortuitous luck.
Jeez.
Watched ABC News (yes, I know).
Another Colesworth story.
“Over-pricing?” I hear you ask.
Well, not really.
The “problem” is cheap, home-brand gin.
(For the record, I am having difficulty seeing the problem).
The reporterette is standing outside the bottlo, breathlessly reporting that she had just bought a bottle of gin.
Well done you!
“The label looks very ’boutiquey’ and it says it was made in Tasmania”.
Wow!
Putting aside whether or not ’boutiquey’ is a word, I am not sure what we do here.
Maybe we need a regulation governing the ’boutiqueyness’ of labelling.
Of course, there was nothing in the report to tell us whether the gin was made in Tasmania or not.
I suspect it was, so I don’t know what the label should say about that.
Maybe we need a regulation governing the ’boutiqueyness’ of labelling.
Being drawn up.
Because community standards.
And social licence.
Lambie Gin most certainly is a problem. And SodaStream tonic.
‘Harlotte’
It would have been much simpler to call the dear little girl Charvey.
The GayBC/Australian Bolshevik Collective supports church arson and Stalinist political show trials of bishops, so what’s a little (or a lot) if blasphemy and sacrilege?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-20/cecilia-gentili-transgender-activist-funeral-new-york-church/103488992
Does it come in a big package?
I do enjoy, no matter how often I drive from Orange to Sydney, passing and pronouncing in full the sign reading ‘Mt Lambie’, and immediately answering “No thanks”.
Yes.
You are now entering the ‘perfect shit-storm’ phase of the game:-
1. TV rights money has peaked;
2. Player costs are set to more than double (who can resist the push for equal pay for AWFL players who generate sfa incremental revenue);
3. As we are seeing in Tassie, reality is kicking in and the rivers of OPM via gummint are drying up. The other big target markets, particularly Queensssland won’t be spraying cash around either.
McPolo-Pony’s exit timing was exquisite.
Goes without saying, Cuban ofc.
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a “working class” game might be returning to its roots. Take away the flash sponsors, VIP sections, massive salaries and see who stil goes to view the game.
A good TIK video on just how centrally planned the Nazi economy was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q16cq25SCY
Well, that’s where I thought it was going.
“The evils of cheap booze”.
But this tells you that either the ABC reporterettes are incredibly stupid or they think we are.
Or both.
As I said to Mrs Panzer afterwards, “You know, no-one actually thinks Mainland cheese is made by two old Kiwi blokes in a rickety shed on the South Island, or that Leggos tomato passata is made by a Nonna in a kitchen in Tuscany”.
Spending billions on Anna’s Olympics while Brisbane city parks are hosting Albovilles is already a tough enough sell.
There will be “First Nations” sports at the Grand Festival of Anna, I’d expect. Could not speculate on what events might transpire on the day – not being an indigene myself.
Exactly Roger.
No-one is putting “billion dollar stadium” or “AFL subsidy” on the cabinet agenda anytime soon.
Things have moved quickly.
Before Christmas the AFL thought they had it all stitched up.
They thought they had snookered the Tassie government into open-ended funding for a stadium that the AFL was going to continuously jack up the spec on.
That is now goneski.
They also thought they could soak the Queensssland gummint for compo whilst the Gabba was being rebuilt, with the bonus of a brand new stadium at the end of it.
It is now more likely the screws will be turned on them to cough for a relatively minor re-vamp.
Do we really need the ALPBC to warn us of the dangers of cheap grog? Anyone who’s bought a block of Emu Export is well aware of the issues.
This bloke does a series of very good videos on “Operation Market Garden.”
AFL in Sydney and Brisbane is already a black hole. Anyone who had the misfortune of watching Freo or the Weagles play last year would know that both football and administrative talent is spread pretty thin.
That’s probably an understatement, Sancho.
Do we really need the ALPBC to warn us of the dangers of cheap grog?
In spite of being cashed up with OPM and having 1001 radio and TV stations, I wonder if it ever occurs to them that they are irrelevant and not needed.
The Pony Club is running around like a chookless head.
Did you know the indigenous claim to have invented a variation of Australian Rules football?
It wasn’t cheap grog, per se.
It was the fact that it didn’t have a label saying “This Is Shit Booze. Cheap As” in Black and Gold print.
Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Wilson?
I expect the opening ceremony of the Annalympics will hit a high point of cultural cringe. Look for ‘Always was, always will be’ in some form.
Yes, well that would be helpful. Especially if you were in a rush.
So many theories.
Maybe Navalny died of natural causes.
It does happen.
As for those desperately reaching for mrna vaccines.
LOL.
As for Canberra town council banning ICE.
What are they going to do?
Refuse to register them, stop car dealers selling them?
NSW is so very close by, there’ll be work arounds.
Lots of cigarette vendors at Ballaro markets, between €2.50 and €4.00 a pack.
Cyrillic or Greek writing on the packs, didn’t want to look too closely, Malboro blues were the cheapest.
Arrived Sydney airport from overseas last night and learnt a couple of things. First in line to get off the plane but we were told we couldn’t disembark as there was a ‘medical issue. No prior announcement or call for a doctor as is usual with a medical emergency.
Anyhow this quarantine chap with mask down over his chin arrives at the door and makes his way to the back as we sort of stood around, hostie says this only happens at this airport.
After some time we were given the OK and disembarked. I can only assume there was a possibility of ebola/projectile monkeypox or similar.
No idea what they would have done if a highly contagious disease was suspected.-herded off to a quarantine area by hazmat suited goons I suppose.
Bruce in WA.
The subject was the ABC complaining that gin made in big steel vats had labelling hinting at a “boutiquey” provenance.
There are adverts on TeeVee showing Mainland cheese originating from a tiny barn and Nonna Leggo brewing up passata in her kitchen.
This is “creative licence”.
No-one takes it literally.
Flexitarian diet linked to lower cardiovascular risk, study finds
The study reminds me of leucine-mTOR-autophagy, TMAO, Neu5Gc, choline, and B12. I won’t explain that. This is consistent with many others findings that the more extreme our diet, the more likely it will be problematic.
Caught a taxi to the lower Northern Beaches( only $150 so can’t complain) with a polite Indian driver. The poor bastard said he waited 45 minutes for our fare but earlier he had waits of 2hrs 15 minutes and 1 hour 45 minutes due firstly to flight delays from the weather and then due to lightning.
I learnt that if there is lightning around the baggage handlers stop work.
Looks like the Ladies Lounge has closed.
Well done “Gentlemen”. 🙁
Rosie, thanks for your travelogue. The only bits worth reading right now.
Looks like the Oz are running some sort of series on The Alice crime problem:
Alice Springs youth crime: Age 12 and stuck on a turnstile of crime
By LIAM MENDES
William wants to be a police officer when he grows up.
But for the past two years, the 12-year-old has been on the wrong side of the law.
Last week he was caught by police behind the wheel of a stolen Toyota SUV that he drove wildly and dangerously through the streets of Alice Springs.
It’s the sixth time he’s been caught joy-riding in stolen cars – on each occasion returned by police to his extended family, only to reoffend.
But on this occasion he’s become the focus of renewed attention on a national crisis – a turnstile of out-of-control crime, often involving children as young as 10.
The Australian captured photographs of William (not his real name) and three mates last week as they drove through town, hanging out of the windows, yelling and taunting police.
They mounted roundabouts, careened through red lights and performed doughnuts on council lawns and drove on the wrong side of the road until the car ran out of petrol and was abandoned.
William was arrested, taken to the watch house and then returned to his home in a town camp where – not for the first time – officers lectured his grandfather. The boy lives with his aunt and extended family, who look after him because his parents “drink too much”.
“My father was having a yarn with (the) policeman, and the policeman was telling him he’s not allowed to go to town and doing the same thing,” said his aunt, who The Australian has chosen not to name.
She’s tried to keep William at home at night but he won’t listen, “I’m telling him ‘how come you’re driving the car round with kids, it’s too dangerous’,” the aunt says.
As William is shown photographs of the late-night joy ride taken by The Australian, he shrinks into his chair and goes very quiet.
Gone is the bravado; in its place is a frightened child.
He pulls his shirt up to cover his eyes, which are welling up. He’s upset, and trying to hide it. He knows he’s done wrong.
William is shy, and although he can speak English, Pitjantjatjara, the dialect of the Western Desert language traditionally spoken in his community, is his first language.
“He’s telling it’s too dangerous to drive as a kid, 12 years old,” his aunt translates.
William cracks a little smile as I suggest he try go-karting and show him a photo of me on a motorbike.
William appears to be an inquisitive, intelligent kid.
His aunt says William’s parents, in their 50s, are alcoholics.
“The little boy grew up with me when the mother and father was drinking,” she says.
“I’m the one who grew him up. He was a good boy till he is about 10 years old.
“He always used to come to school when he was about seven, eight, nine years old, but the locals in town camps, those kids take him after school, forcing him and they go to steal and break in.
When he was 10, William went back to live with his parents. But in the past few months, he’s back living with his aunt.
She takes him to a youth centre in Alice Springs daily, but she says her nephew is influenced by other children who lead him astray.
William’s aunt is doing her best, but she is struggling. Her eldest son is in prison, and due to a family dispute she’s had to move house, but she’s deeply concerned about William.
“I need some people to help me out. I am his only hope, there’s no other relatives,” she says.
She says his mother and father keep Centrelink payments – meant to support William – for themselves.
“Mother and father never buy anything out of his money; they just spend it. They don’t buy games, clothes, they don’t buy anything for him, that’s why he was going and breaking things when the mother and father was looking after him.
“He got nothing out of his payments, that’s why he’s going out stealing things.
“They drink a lot, that’s why he don’t want to go to the mother and father. They don’t fight, they just drink too much.”
She fears William will follow the path of three of his four older brothers who “grew up in prison” and “break in, steal grog, steal cars and steal money”.
“I’m afraid he might end up being like the older brothers, being in and out of prison,” she says. “I want to help stop him from doing that.”
She believes boarding school, possibly interstate, could be a solution. She says youth services, such as Brown Street, run by taxpayer-funded Tangentyere Council, which are meant to help children such as William, aren’t helping. Instead, they’re introducing him to the “wrong crowd”.
“There’s kids there forcing him to run to town, they are boss of him,” she says.
Gavin Morris, principal at Yipirinya, an independent school for children who live in the town camps of Alice Springs, says there are dozens of kids in this type of situation.
Through Yipirinya’s Happy Heart Hub, Dr Morris has developed a “holistic healing informed model”, designed to give students and families strategies to deal with trauma and help disengaged kids get back into school.
“The living conditions of our students are a blight on the consciousness of our nation,” Dr Morris says. “Town camp children have to overcome barriers that make access to education far more difficult than children who come from other areas of the Alice Springs community.
“The children of Alice Springs deserve more, they deserve to have an education and a life pathway which would be expected from any child across Australia.”
Meanwhile William’s aunt is planning to buy a TV for him next week when she gets her pay cheque. It’s the only way she can think of to keep him off the streets. “I’m running out of ideas. I don’t want to let him go,” she says. “And there’s nobody else who can help him.”
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Calli, Lizzie, Cassie and Johanna are out in the carpark. If you hurry you might catch them before it’s all over.
Care to be more specific?
Digger,
If you’re around your book arrived whilst I was away. I’ve skimmed through it and it looks like a great read. Unlike many other biographies I’ve read it has quite a number of photos and a few diagrams that give the reader a much better understanding of the story.
It must have taken a great deal of time and effort to put it all together, well done!
Am I too late to order a shandy?
Go back out to the car.
I’ll bring you out a bag of chips and a raspberry lemonade in a minute.
The woke wing of Hamas
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Harlequin Decline
Feb 20, 2024 10:20 PM
Digger,
If you’re around your book arrived whilst I was away. I’ve skimmed through it and it looks like a great read. Unlike many other biographies I’ve read it has quite a number of photos and a few diagrams that give the reader a much better understanding of the story.
Thank you for your kind words, Harlequin. Very much appreciated.
Old Lefty
My community will remember it as just another weirdo, that spent its life pissing on the Church and its standards, but wanted the final blessing – just in case.
I can imagine Saint Peter, standing at the Pearly Gates and laughing as he kicked the hopeful one down the steps to Hell.
“I bet you believe now!”
The Gentlemen don’t like it up ‘em. Nothing to see here.
Alamak!
Feb 20, 2024 8:15 PM
This stage was predicted in the 70’s when the Corporates got on the bandwagon.
I wish I’d kept that column, but it was before computers – possibly even before newspapers.
Whoever it was, they predicted the rise of money for “Stars” and the dodgy corporates who would make $quillions from the mug punters.
Digger,
I understand you dived in Subic Bay. Did the water have strands of shitty red stuff in it at the time? I’ve no idea what it was but it looked like some dodgy, pollution related growth?
H B Bear
You are getting close to heresy when you diss the Emu Brand. Emu Bitter is only sold in WA.
I’ve worked it out but – to get Emu Bitter you must drive across the Nullabor. Did you know that nearly all of the fuel stations are owned by Indian Nationals who have dodgy fuel bowsers?
Man crushes are a real thing. Apparently.
Harleyquin Incline:
Did that bloke who did the bloody chunder end up having an oesophageal varice?
Only thing I can think of. Seen a couple – bloody spectacular.
sancho running around with his cock out is thing
11:29
I only mentioned it last week, but I was in the local 7-11 in Nagoya tonight marvelling at the bottles of Bombay Sapphire at about $25 (including taxes).
If they are worried about cheap low quality gin, can we adjust our prices to allow a higher quality tipple at 1980’s pricing!
Winston,
Dunno, never saw the afflicted person. Whatever it was probably wasn’t a medical emergency or they would have asked if there was a Doctor on board and/or stretchered him/her off whilst we waited.
There’s a Ladies’ Lounge?
Who knew about this?
The Latin for God Oracle sounds much better
Deus Oraculum
Digger,
I understand you dived in Subic Bay. Did the water have strands of shitty red stuff in it at the time? I’ve no idea what it was but it looked like some dodgy, pollution related growth?
I have dived in Subic Bay, Harlequin when it was primarily a US Naval base in the early 1970’s and early 1980’s. The most diving I did was during a Port Breakout exercise for the USN in 1982 and the water was quite clear but we were diving in the entrance channel down to 50+m and on the shallower 10-15m flats along the shore line. I certainly don’t recall any ‘red stuff’ but closer in to the port was certainly murkier. It is now a commercial port without the strict USN environmental conditions and that probably plays a part in the deterioration.