Don’t forget Malmo.
Open Thread – Fri 23 Feb 2024
Buffett Issues A Truly Bizarre Warning
rosie May 9, 2024 5:48 pm I’m in Albury, forced to detour from the scenic route at Yea because of…
To a rap beat: Dun youse commiserate If ya don ejaculate Ya chose to fornicate Now ya soul’s goin to…
“Never Go Anywhere Alone Again!” – Wife Of Vaccine Victim Tells Her Husband’s Heartbreaking Story
Gorgeous art again, Dover. Much appreciate it.
..will Johannes Leak make hay with Naked Emperor Albanese getting lectured about shedding his Voice shirt by his bold lieutenant?
Like this very much, but the best was that harbour with fishing boats by Egon Schiele.
Turn my back to shift the sprinkler and look what happens! New fred!
39°C tomorrow aaaaand … the retic has died.
Lucky Bruce they call him.
Oh cripes, now there’s another musketeer- a menage-a-trois! in the mysterious and blood-soaked dissapearance of Tonaaaay Baird and his “partner”.
What’s with gay couples always doing themselves up exactly the same? They’re worse than lesbians, at least lezzos just let themselves go in unison… for yer bent fellas it’s like being on a dance team.
*cough* I mean, thoughts and prayers, soulmates, hearts go out to their families
My father and two of his brothers were under no illusions when they volunteered for WWII. Two of their uncles had been killed in WWI and the treatment of returned serviceman was a disgrace.
Many forced on the tramp in the 30s and never turned away by my grandfather at the farm.
Fighting against the Japanese in New Guinea was never going to be a Boy’s Own Adventure.
Heat, humidity, dengue fever, malaria and some less than pleasant encounters with the Japanese, take your pick.
✔ ✔ ✔
The artwork here is a good education in famous & not so famous painters.
To my old man the whole WW2 was a slaughter. He fought in PNG.
His comment was he could now be pulling a rickshaw instead of driving a truck. What is the difference. It just wasn’t worth it. His brothers were killed or went crazy.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Brett Lethbridge.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Tom Stiglich.
Steve Kelley.
Chip Bok.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Oh dear, who to believe? the Forked-tongued Albo with stunning record of liar, liar, pants on fire; or the good Mr Gooda?
Apparently the UN aren’t distributing aid in Northern Gaza because they don’t have staff.
menri via imshin
. Thanks dover, it certainly is.
Nova families sue associated press
Oh dear, who to believe? the Forked-tongued Albo with stunning record of liar, liar, pants on fire; or the good Mr Gooda?
Neither- notice how all this shite is reheated marxist brain farts from Canada and Sth Africa. And like Sth Africa, they’re trying to start a race war. That’s marxism though- divide to rule.
Oops forgot the sarc tag – I agree miltonf
All good Tinta- have a great day
How many Landcruisers does the Not S o Gooda own. How about doing instead of talking. Those poor little kiddies from pisswreck families break my heart. Until we have responsibility we will always have failure. Living in a time warp does nothing. Do we celebrate living in caves or celebrate getting out of them and building our own homes. Don’t blame other people for not doing something for you if you’re not willing to do it for yourself. This applies not only to Aboriginals but to all of humanity. Watching my grandson seeing and wanting to learn to do what I do is a wonderous thing. I cannot imagine it is someone else’s job to teach him. If I can’t show him how and what to do, what has my life been for.
Today’s Tele:
‘Illiberal bigots’ of the left try to cancel pro-Israel author’s speech in the heart of tolerant Newtown
Organisers of campaign against Douglas Murray accuse British author of ‘fomenting anti-immigration, Islamophobic, anti-black, European civilisational moral panics’
James Morrow
23 Feb 2024
A best-selling British author has blamed “illiberal bigots” for mounting a campaign to cancel his plans to speak at the Enmore Theatre in the heart of the progressive inner west suburb of Newtown.
Douglas Murray, who has written a number of books including The Strange Death of Europe and The Madness of Crowds, is due to appear at the theatre with former ABC Weekend Breakfast host Josh Szeps on March 24.
One petition organised by the self-described “leftist anti-Zionist” group Tzedek Collective, has attracted nearly 1,500 signature, has called for the Enmore Theatre to cancel the appearance.
“We must not allow this to happen in our backyard. Local support for this petition can ensure Douglas Murray does not get the opportunity to spread his hate in the Inner West,” the petition reads, before calling for the event to be cancelled and the theatre to apologise.
The organisers also accused Mr Murray, who is also associate editor of the UK Spectator magazine, of “fomenting anti-immigration, Islamophobic, anti-black, European civilisational moral panics.”
Mr Murray, who has written a number of best-selling books, said that he had been subjected to a “concerted campaign” wherever he spoke which he said was “because of my support for Israel, it’s driving them mad.”
“But I don’t care, and I make no apologies for my views and I make no apologies for being on the side of Israel against the terrorists of Hamas.”
“If that disturbs a few illiberal bigots in Sydney or elsewhere, so be it.:”
Mr Murray said that wherever he spoke, activists tried to shut down his appearances for his views including that, as he wrote soon after the October 7 attacks, “the civilised world should seek revenge (and) back Israel and back the destruction of Hamas.”
An appearance in London earlier this month had to be moved at the eleventh hour after staff at that city’s Apollo Theatre refused to work the event.
Mr Murray suggested that instead of boycotting his talks, his foes should “book a ticket.”
“Anyone who is interested in the Middle East should know more and the best way to know more is to listen more as I do with Palestinians and Israelis alike … if there are people who know things you don’t know it is worth listening to them.”
“The talks in Australia will be about a whole range of subjects on a range of topics that are on the minds of Australians and everyone else these days … they’ll cover a lot of ground and have some fun.”
Enmore Theatre management was contacted for comment.
Would not mind going to Sydney to see and hear Douglas Murray.
Re: modern recruitment problems.
As I said (see the end of Ye Olde Fredde) in times gone by joining the military – which was actually like being a mercenary for much of modern history – used to be a way for young men with not many prospects (if any) to travel and seek adventure. Not to mention, it was a job for the unemployed. Patriotism played a part during major wars, unfortunately for the cannon fodder in WWI especially.
In wealthy countries today, the framework is completely different. Many of the unemployed wouldn’t pass the tests for enlistment. Working class people can travel to Cairns or Bali (or Spain, in the UK). Western countries are not under threat of invasion by another country’s soldiers.
Oh, and accounts of what returned soldiers said are not relevant to why they joined up in the first place. Contemperaneous letters and diaries and accounts by their comrades are.
I suppose that the Air Force, and the US Space Force, offer a bit of excitement and interest to young men.
But if you join the Army or the Navy, you are quite likely just doing a job that exists in civilian life, with the pluses and minuses that entails.
Catching up:
Oh yeah. Ruthie has a very dark and perceptive view of human nature. I’ve read most of her books, and the dramatisations are on Youtube – well worth a look.
Forget literary fiction – at least 90% of it is pretentious rubbish.
When it comes to crime fiction, English wimmenses have a (perhaps disturbing) knack for it. The Divine Agatha is the queen, but Gladys Mitchell, P D James and Ruth Rendell immediately come to mind. English husbands, beware! 🙂
Scottish crime fiction, and American crime fiction, is very different.
One benefit from joining the ADF is the medical insurance. My DiL parents were in the ADF so she was covered, this continued, now my son and grandson are covered also. It is the best value for money. These days it makes a big difference.
‘Accounts’ by family members are lies?
You really are pathetic.
My father had no need to put a gloss on a difficult decision he made at age 19 in 1943 when no-one could have any illusions about the fun and adventure to be had fighting the Japanese.
Especially to his children nearly forty years later.
What he was doing was deciding to join a particular service where he had more hope of surviving ie not the army, before the government would do it for him via conscription.
Enlistment was seriously on the wane in 1942. Dad was under-age and had to get parental permission when he enlisted in 1943.
What adventures do you think people were excitedly looking forward to in the jungles of Papua New Guinea by then?
One could argue that letters home were deliberately cheerful to allay the fears of family.
I have a family member currently serving, and yeah it’s exactly like a civilian job, except it’s not.
nsw disappearance update
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Janet, I am available at reasonable rates.
rosie, your anecdote at second hand proves nothing, except that some volunteers may have known what they were in for.
Of course there have always been mixed motives for joining the military. My point is historical – that the incentives of the past no longer exist.
translation:
let me deliberately misquote you so that I can spend the rest of the day revving my indignation engine.
or … my dad was in the army and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
But if you join the Army or the Navy, you are quite likely just doing a job that exists in civilian life, with the pluses and minuses that entails.
Ahhh…no.
A storeman or clerk or any other trade in the Army and/or Navy:
“You are on 24 hours notice to deploy to ‘insert country/disaster/emergency/shitfight here. Inform your next of kin and make sure that all your next of kin details are correct.’
A storeman or clerk or any other trade in the civilian world:
“see the crap has hit the fan in ‘insert country/disaster/emergency/shitfight here.
Going to the pub for a few beers tonight/tomorrow arvo/night/weekend?’
Nope, why you should not be a police detective.
Turns out they are both dead, and a NSW police officer is being sought to ‘assist with inquiries.’
Watching my favourite fishing show, ‘Hook, Line and Sinker.’ Old episode, featuring co-host Nick Duigan, now a Tasmanian Liberal MP.
Can any Tasmanian Cats or Kittehs provide an update on Nick?
Beau Lamarre is the cop they want to question.
Detective Danny La Rue is on the case.
Today’s Tele:
NOT REALLY A CASE OF TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT
THE TRUTH
KEL – RICHARDS
23 Feb 2024
Nearly five months after Australians rejected the Indigenous Voice referendum, the Government is looking for ways to implement other aspects of the Uluru Statement.
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says she is in active discussions with cabinet to develop a model for a ‘Truth-Telling’ process, flagging that it could be included in the school curriculum.
As you read on, bear that in mind — what she has planned is designed to control what our school children think about Australia.
So, what does Linda Burney mean by ‘Truth-Telling’?
She says that “understanding of Australia’s colonial history and its modern-day impacts, the TruthTelling process would help reveal the full extent of injustice felt by First Nations people”.
But we need to understand the deception being played on us here and how little ‘colonial history’ will be covered by this ‘Truth-Telling’ process.
Let’s start by asking: what does this expression ‘Truth-Telling’ really mean? Here is the definition from the ultimate authority on word meaning and word usage — the Oxford English Dictionary.
Those great lexicographers say ‘Truth-Telling’ means: “Recognition or acknowledgement of historical injustices affecting Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people following the colonisation of Australia and re-evaluation of the impact of the discrimination and often violent treatment they have faced since that time.” (They cite an academic article from 1988 as the source of the expression.)
Read that Oxford definition again. Read it slowly. Absorb what those words are saying.
That definition exposes the fact that ‘Truth-Telling’ is not about telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It’s about limiting the truth, censoring the truth and only telling one part of the truth.
The way this will work is made clear in an example used by Burney. She said the Government is still “thinking very carefully” but cited local community efforts to understand the Myall Creek massacre.
During that incident in 1838, at least 28 unarmed Indigenous Australians from the Wirrayaraay group were killed by a group of stockmen.
Descendants of the perpetrators, and of those killed, gather annually at the Myall Creek Memorial to recall the massacre in an act of reconciliation Burney described as “quite beautiful”. But Linda Burney distorts the real truth (the full truth) by leaving out the second half of the story.
The Myall Creek massacre happened just as she said — but then the perpetrators were arrested by white policemen, put on trial before a white judge, prosecuted by white lawyers, found guilty by a white jury and hanged from the neck until they were dead by a white hangman.
And why did that happen?
Because the Indigenous victims were legally British subjects. That’s the full truth.
That’s what Burney doesn’t want you to know — and that is what will be censored and suppressed under the dishonest, deceptive and misleading title of ‘Truth-Telling’.
What she has in mind is not ‘Truth-Telling’ — it is lying by omission.
Words matter and this dishonest, untruthful, use of words about a blinkered view of our history matters enormously. Burney says she wants to tell the truth about our “colonial history”. Well, the truth is that when this place became a British colony, everyone came under the rule of law. Everyone, regardless of race, became a British subject.
To leave out that fact is lying by omission.
We all know from our own experience that one way to twist the truth is to leave out some of the story.
We’ve probably all done it on occasions.
Everything we say is perfectly true and honest — it’s just that there are other facts that we have left out that significantly change the picture.
That’s why the oath administered in a court of law is to give “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”.
Leaving out ‘the whole truth’ is lying by omission.
Will Australian history be taught in our schools by an official policy of Lying-By-Omission?
Worse than that, is the name of this process designed to dishonestly deceive the Australian people?
We see the expression ‘Truth-Telling’ and we are not alarmed. We should be.
Because under that innocent looking banner of ‘Truth-Telling’ what will really happen is Lying-ByOmission.
We should all be alarmed. Very alarmed.
Kel Richards is a veteran broadcaster and author.
Most of the pop pap today has indistinguishable pap music plonked behind a melody line.
Tay Tay trash tunes.
Watch the masters create music and then a lyric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JKoFCUaUbY
Mr Gooda will tell the Aboriginal National Press Club in Brisbane on Friday,
Is this for real..? a 251 NPC .. FFS! .. let me guess, if it exists the mug taxpayer payz the bills …………
I did not know there were die hard sequels.
In Italy 2 is called 58 minuti per morire-Die Harder.
Very tempting to stay up late and watch it all.
Prosecution of Far-Right But Not Antifa for Same Riots ‘Constitutionally Impermissible’: Judge
I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Black Chicago Resident EXPLODES at City Council Meeting over Migrant Crisis.
“What’s happening is they’re emptying out the dregs of their jails into the United States, into our communities.”
CBS faces uproar after seizing investigative journalist’s files
mathiness instills confidence
but only in those unfamiliar with math
Google Pauses Ultra-Woke Gemini AI Image Generator Following ‘Inaccuracies’ in Historical Photos
Polar bear
Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Sylvester Stallone is leaving Los Angeles for Florida.
That Time Judge Engoron Pulled a Fani Willis
The Downside of Prosperity – Too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious
Pentagon lacks plan for Ukrainian soldiers to maintain weapons the US sends, IG says
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Just looking back at the stock 162-slide powerpoint I used to trawl thru DC w/ on my whirling dervish tour & I want you guys to imagine explaining a slide like this to people several years ago when half the room came in skeptical that content moderation even exists
Mike Benz
@MikeBenzCyber
Apolitical Payment Processing is yet one more ? functionality that, when rolled out, may inadvertently long-shot save the world
Another reason not to be a cop.
You have to be gay and poly now.
The Biden’s are so wealthy, they can throw away diamonds.
Elbo was very evasive on SA radio when asked when we were getting the $275 cheaper power that he promised hundreds of times . Double talked it to being the result of the Ukrainian war which by the way started months before promises made Another promise down the drain Poor Jodie must be missing out He is too busy F###### us
Dr. John Campbell with Professor David Anderson.
Vitamin D deficiency pandemic
Do they provide induction material or training courses?
They are good fun. My fave moment was when the protagnist’s bloke, a cop, found her and a girlfriend snooping around in the middle of the night.
He described them as ‘Lucy and Ethel’, a perfect description which is probaby lost on Tayla fans.
There are so many good female crime fiction writers, whose legacy is being obliterated by television’s ‘smart and pretty and sassy’ and utterly improbable so called crime investigors.
Miss Marple never wore false eyelashes.
It’s skinsuit stuff.
Just surfacing after last afternoon/evening at the Raglan fire in Vic. It was bigger than last weeks Grampians fires, but much of it in state forest and bushland. I saw some sheds gone but think there will be less than the 45 houses of Pomonal this time.
From the old thread:-
Often with the same cast of characters.
This week’s master-criminal award in our area goes to the bloke who was arrested outside court when he turned up to face drugs charges … on a stolen bike.
We’re public guardians bold yet wary
And of ourselves we take good care
To risk our precious lives we’re chary
When danger threatens we’re not there
But when we see a helpless woman
Or little boys who do no harm
We run them in, we run them in
To show them we’re the bold gendarmes…
What’s happened too now is there is new ruling class who overtly see you as disposable and don’t sugar coat it with honour, opportunity, a mortgage busting retention scheme or respect. They also hate you and like backstabbing.
Feminist “thought” is pervasive now on the left, it has seeped into compromised “conservative” parties and feminists openly call for white men to be unalived.
Truculent hags like Clam Forward or their useful idiots make decisions about the military and the welfare of our soldiers.
My advice: don’t join up. Find a legitimate reason that would permanently exclude you, even from conscription.
What are we fighting for?
We got locked up during COVID
We are so fanatical about anti smoking we have banned chewing tobacco
We are seeing moves to implement a formalised lack of privacy and government moderation of the internet
We have seen real wages fall
We are incredibly indebted
We are incredibly highly taxed
There is more regulation than ever to overcome to start a business
The “Liberal” party attacks free speech to “defend democracy”
Every public event is now an exercise in shaming, ritual humiliation and supplicant to a new taxpayer funded kakistocratic cult with artificial rituals
Outside of STEM, being a grunt or getting diesel, dirt or poop all over your face, women and minorities will be employed first, it’s the law, see NSW’s 3% rule on contracting and state employment
Discontent brewing:
80% of Millennials (aka Gen Y) think they pay too much income tax.
Source: Finder AU
That first pay slip is an eye opener.
Marx’s bastardisation of Hegel’s ideas was flawed from the get-go. Like leftists now, he just gutted Hegelianism and wore it like a skin suit, demanding respect.
Among his other mutilations he yanked out Hegel’s triadic development of ideas and replaced it with brutish conflict where a society would produce a competing one and the latter would eradicate the former. Wipe it off the face of the Earth. But he still kept the skin suit and called his theory Dialectical Materialism.
The idea of conflict has seeped into the mind of every leftist though. It is how they see the world, and it is how they rule. Everybody is embroiled in conflict: Black against White, men against women, trannies against normies, and so on. For a righteous lefty jam on bread is problematic. First we must change it so you hold the knife with the jam still and slide the bread beneath it, but ultimately that bread just has to go.
Listen to how the Dems talk. It is always taking sides in a conflict – they talk about the evil MAGA Republicans as a single mass. Republicans do not talk about defeating the left, they talk about defeating Biden and Harris and so on.
One reason they love this is because imposing the ‘correct’ view means bigger government with greater coercive power – to bring the luddites to heel, doncha know.
When politicians opine in melancholy voice that they have never seen the nation so divided – they did that. It is their fault, trying to score points with one splinter demographic and giving them power far beyond their merit.
We just came through a referendum where the government was going to give a small percentage of the population a constitutional role above others. I don’t mean Aborigines, I mean Aboriginal activists. The government then turned around and called over half the country bigots and racists.
The right just wants to be left alone. It should be the easiest thing in the world, but to leftists the sight of someone doing their own thing when it is not what the leftists wants – well it is like feeling an itch but on someone else’s body, and the will see you stretched on a rack just so they can reach and scratch it.
Anyone supporting the Palestinians is supporting literal Nazis.
Foreign Min.: ‘In many Gaza homes, we found copies of Mein Kampf’ (22 Feb)
Yep. That isn’t stopping the Left from getting their silver and black uniforms on though. Very revealing this whole thing has been.
Gooda and Pearson. Cheeks of the same arse, ie rip the taxpayer to shreds to line their own pocket. Useless standover men who are incapable of feeling shame.
Hmmm…that rant was not intention. It just grew and grew.
NOT any of our politicians, who with rare exceptions are so spineless and corrupt they would happily send others into the meatgrinder to further their own careers. There is no Australian Govt in sight worth dying or being maimed for.
Indeed. Some may even try to work out how their taxes are squandered.
The Libertarian Party should be pitching its message to this demographic.
Anne Perry was a fabulous writer with crime stories set in 19thC London. I enjoyed her William Monk series and also the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt books. Beautifully written, they were absorbing in offering an insight in some of the deep social issues of the time without being preachy or self-righteous, alongside intricate and interesting murder plots.
Anne Perry was the pen name of Juliet Hulme who, at the age of fifteen, was convicted of murdering her friend’s mother in Christchurch, NZ. Her friend bashed her mother with a brick wrapped in a stocking, a plan that the girls had concocted together as Juliet was going to be sent to South Africa to live with relatives and the girls did not want to be separated.
Peter Jackson’s movie, Heavenly Creatures, tells the story of the mother’s murder. Juliet Hulme is played by Kate Winslet.
Andrew Bolt from yesty:
In the safest of hands of the Toppest Men. What could go wrong?
Totai Kefu home invasion sentencing is mentioned as a lead in story on front page of Courier Mail.
However the online article and CM Twitter both not allowing comments. This despite the story being red hot on radio yesterday.
CM is basically suppressing public feedback. Would that be because they are African migrants ?
Mother Lode.
Rant appreciated. Very well said.
Not sure you saw this on any of the episodes of Blue Heelers Knuckle Dragger. Opening paragraphs from a Tele report:
Good Lord.
Paul Homewood has an amusing blog post today:
The Grauniad article is from 22 Feb 2004. It’s amazing how long they’ve been producing this lurid stuff. You’d think even lefties might start to get a clue by now.
So there were some un-Parlimentary shenanigans in
the House of Commons over a CEaSe fIRe NOw! motion,
raised to appease NuLabour’s new base.
The jelly-backed Speaker is vewwy vewwy sorry.
Pop goes the hydrogen bubble, just in time for Chris Bowen and Twiggy Forrest to go all in on it.
Hydrogen hopefuls stare into valley of death as electrolyser bubble pops (22 Feb)
Anyone with a pocket calculator and access to the internet could work out that green hydrogen is stupidly uneconomic – something we’ve demonstrated many times on the Cat. Yet these silly people are sinking vast amounts of dosh into this stupid black hole. Well they’ll learn eventually, after their businesses all go bust and the banks foreclose on their mortgages.
Why? They knew from the beginning it was made up garbage. The proof of the pudding is the total dishonesty with which they handle the “science”.
“Aboriginal National Press Club”
Wot???
I second that Mak. Very informative rant too.
How to deal with cranky mohammedans.
Twiggy Forrest is a Howard Hughes figure.
Money and ego is driving his increasingly megalomaniac ambitions.
Long uncut toenails will be achieved before green hydrogen.
The Oz reports that Michael Lee might be tearing strips off QBE today.
I shall keep an eye on the live stream.
And you can eat them too, if you get sick of bug burgers!
‘It’s like having a vegan cat’ – Wash Post: ‘Why you should consider bunnies as your next pet’ – Rabbits have ‘minimal pawprint’ while ‘cats & dogs have an outsize carbon footprint’ (21 Feb)
I can see lots and lots of weird green rabbit ladies in the future, saving the planet one miserable, lonely and useless life at a time.
Miranda Devine hits the main points of the Smirnov disaster for the US security state.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/21/opinion/despite-media-spin-theres-still-overwhelming-evidence-joe-biden-knew-of-familys-business-dealings/
“Twiggy” -maaaaate! – Forrest is more like a robber baron.
…
Indigenous leader Mick Gooda says Anthony Albanese and prominent Yes campaigners are responsible for the failure of the voice referendum, hitting out at their refusal to amend the proposal after it failed to win bipartisan support and began tanking in the polls.
Righto Mick, so you just want to come out on top of the dungheap, and don’t really have any… you know… vision or principles.
…like a Robber Baron, really. Cash in, move on.
The ALP playbook is always the same: promise free stuff to be elected, then empower unions, reward laziness, penalise effort, open borders to unsuitable immigrants, drop defence spending, lower judiciary standards, cause the dollar to fall, increase tax and generally behave like village idiots.
Only my mate Horst celebrates when the ALP is elected federally:
“Zey are so predictably stoopid, zat immediately zey get elected, I sell everything. Two years later, I buy it back at half price!”
Great read at this link.
https://www.confidentialdaily.com/posts/socialism-doesnt-change/?ref=the-weekly-dose-of-common-sense-newsletter
I think they really would prefer a desert planet if it would bring them power.
Another brain fart that should be axed.
Baird? Any relation to Bruce and Mike?
Green Hydrogen still on the cards according to CSIRO. OPM keeps the dream alive.
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lotocoti
Feb 23, 2024 9:14 AM
How to deal with cranky mohammedans.
1000 upticks, great link.
I think it’s our money in the form of subsidies. I’m sure they would keep going if there was more of the free money they could exploit.
Anyone seen any job advertisements for riflemen or machine gunners in civvie street? Asking for a friend.
At least the rabbits won’t eat them when they die and are not discovered for months.
Just as I thought, it’s our money being wasted.
They act as if colonising is a new, distinctly European and distinctly last 300 year thing. I suspect it has been going on since forever. A people send some of their own into a new area, one that might already have people in it, to benefit from the resources. They bring their culture with them.
Actually, it would seem irrelevant whether or not the new people are in touch with their place of origin (like the Australian White settlers who nevertheless remained attached to the UK), the ‘crime’ would be the displacing of an older culture (although not necessarily the people).
All those historical maps showing people spreading of peoples into new regions ultimately displacing the old culture show precisely that. The benefit has always been that more advanced ideas, tools, and techniques are made available.
In America I believe the Camanche were very successful taking new territory for themselves, although they usually slaughtered those they took it from.
Exactly.
The only fit sentence for this filth should have ended with the words “and mat God have mercy on your soul.”
The EU has just this month approved US$7.5 billion in grants for 33 projects associated with the production of green hydrogen, including water electrolysis plants and hydrogen distribution and storage facilities.
Source: American Chemical Society, Chemical & Engineering News 21.02.24
Bruce of Newcastle
Feb 23, 2024 8:41 AM
From memory a few years ago David Horwitz and Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch and Front Page Magazine had a few articles that I read about Mein Kamph being a best seller in the islamic/arab world.
This is how agriculture spread in the Near East & into Europe.
I believe the WA ag department employ people to shoot cattle from helicopters. Is that close?
The admiration was mutual.
Hitler praised Islam in his speeches and lamented that Charles Martel had been victorious at Tours.
That’s right. Keep digging.
Disney Exec Blames Woes on Racist, Sexist Fans
They are right. Of the many things wrong with the tax system, close to the top would be an over reliance an income taxes.
Truth-telling and “treaty” is just humbugging on a grand scale.
Of the many things wrong with the tax system, close to the top would be the level of government expenditure that necessitates such high taxes.
😀
Quite an apt phrase.
Another battery wannabe goes bottom up, this time in Geelong.
$1.2bn mystery: Staff left hanging after Aussie’s business goes bust (Tele, paywalled)
I was curious about the company so I did some searching. Turns out the guy had lobbed a bid for a battery gigaplant in Northumberland in the UK. And a tale of woe it is, Alan Bond-esq. Fun read.
So many subsidies and tax dollars are going down black holes like this. Not really surprising that honey attracts interesting critters.
The Kerry Packer quote on taxation says it best. Gen Y realise they are getting screwed – because they are.
Stories my Nanna told me. Tales from the possum spirit and goanna dreaming.
I wonder if the “truth telling” would include the truth about the domestic violence and child abuse going on now in the communities? Or the truth about the corruption in the indig industry costing us $30 billion annually. Indeed let’s have some truth.
Don’t give them ideas, Humphrey.
25% GST, anyone?
PS: both the SFLs and the Liars will do whatever it takes to make government bigger. That means higher taxes — direct or indirect. Take your pick.
Private lunar lander 5 minutes from touchdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2pPHelrQr0
Remember all those taxes the GST was going to replace? It doesn’t make tax reform an easy sell.
Elon Musk is still trolling in epic fashion.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1760803376466653579
Would be interesting to have a breakdown of their voting patterns.
I suspect they’re one of the least politically informed cohorts.
Do they understand that a vote for Labor or the Greens is a vote for high income taxes in perpetuity with bracket creep thrown in to really rub their faces in it?
You can have 25% consumption based taxes. Just not with 40 and 47% marginal income tax rates that kick in not much above Average Weekly Earnings.
Were they educated in the History of Socialism? Were they educated about basic Finance priciples? No room for those subjects when the curriculum is bulging with woke green indigenous cancel culture bs.
The rest of us are behoven to point them in the direction of Milei’s work in Argentina.
Wally Dalí
Feb 23, 2024 12:59 AM
This is a fine example of why we need the upticks returned.
Every responsible parent should use their kid’s first pay slip as a “teaching moment.”
I reckon you could wipe 12 years of miseducation away with one object lesson.
It’s comments like this one that cry out for upticks.
Truth-telling?
Anyone else remember that academic in the US who informed us that her grandmother told her, in grace and sombre tones, to forget whatever they told her in school – Cleopatra was black.
Academic rigor (mortis).
Thanks, Crossie.
(Btw, for any grammarians out there, I used a singular verb because “truth telling and treaty” are always mentioned together as two parts of one process. If you think it calls for ‘are’ go for it!)
Crossie, we’re waiting patiently for Dover’s new add-on plug-in thingummy.
Most people’s thoughts on taxation can be captured in two premises:
1. They pay too much tax.
2. Other people do not pay enough tax.
The Greens emphasis is on 2.
The issue with a single tax no matter how efficient is that it distorts one asset class or stage of production in a distorting manner. As efficient as LVT is, relying solely upon it might have unforeseen deleterious consequences. You can levy it at maybe 6% with some pain but clearly at 10% or higher it is crippling.
I wish I did more with IO and GE models because I’d like to model a series of low, flat/linear taxes with the other taxes and deadweight losses removed.
I was fixated on a TABOR with a 10% GST, 2% LVT and 5% royalties tax, with revenue capped at a proportion of GDP.
Over time, the rates would be forced down to 5%, 1% and 2.5%.
There could be scope for a 5 – 10% income tax with a 100k TFT.
Public sector economics is lazy and obsequious.
We could be as socialist as we are now and spend 35% to 50% less by the public sector.
The public sector has perverse incentives not to discuss this; ditto for relative tax efficiencies.
It ought to be an explicit public policy goal of the major parties to get PS spending to 20% of GDP or less and fund it with a set of lower rated and more efficient taxes.
Over time, the reduction in waste and in turn much smaller amounts of deadweight losses on more efficient taxes raising less revenue would be highly significant – powering the elimination of much poverty and engendering meaningful technological progress.
thingummy.
Thingamabob
No you can’t. People are too incentivized to evade a GST that high. Made even worse as the population loses moral inhibitions, which has been happening in Australia very rapidly.
You can’t handle the upticks.
UK has a 20% VAT. I would agree it is subject to wider fraud and abuse than our 10% GST.
We should just amend it to “Their truth telling” every time we refer to this proposal. They play dirty, we do the same.
Thumbs up, thumbs up! Where art thou thumbs up?
What do they have in common? I can’t put my finger on it just yet.
I wonder if they were driven to it by hunger and sleeping rough in the streets?
Yeah that’d be it, they all look pretty famished.
Haha. Upticks drive busybodies mad because they can’t control them.
It’s interesting that cash withdrawal from ATM after falling for many years rose 5.5% last year…
‘Dangerous’: Bank-owned and fee-free ATMs are disappearing – and that’s a worry (20 Feb)
That’s the problem with smart phone and card payments, you can’t so easily do that to buy black market fags or weed. The same goes for cash in hand payments to tradies or whatever. So it’s interesting that cash use seems to be rising again, if that number is true.
That’s all the result of colonization. No domestic violence or child abuse before the debbil debbil whitefella showed up.
The other feature of the Australian taxation system is a relatively high degree of churn. Perhaps the best example of this is the childcare subsidies which don’t taper off to a relatively high income level. This creates extremely high “marginal rate” once loss of transfer payments are taken into effect, with poverty traps and disincentives abounding.
Just got my new issue of The Spectator in the mail and had a hearty laugh. The cover cartoon has a rickety small boat at sea, SS Houthi, with a crew of five and armed to the teeth. There is a smouldering, sinking ship in the background. One of the Houthis is on his mobile phone saying “It’s a Richard Marles from Australia… He wants to buy our boat.”
My respects to the cartoonist.
Biden’s Suicide Mission?
Comedy –
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/humor/bidens-suicide-mission/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
That was covered in Series Three, Episode Two: Who Tossed The Wrong Salad*?
*Don’t look that up on Urban Dictionary.
Imagine how much child care you could afford or wouldn’t need without excise taxes, most of your income taxes and reducing taxes on building new houses from 46% down to around 15%.
Speaking of taxes, I see the ATO is digging in on “robotax.”
Apparently, they mistakenly believed people experiencing hardship could appeal to the Finance Department for a waiver on their debt. But Finance says financial hardship is not a criterion they consider.
Perhaps this conversation should have been had between the departments before the scheme was kicked off?
Dot – exactly. Or you could just buy a house, go to work and pick up some overtime.
NYC Bonds Are in Sell Mode
The Epoch Times headline in your “NYC Out of Control” post calls the dollar part of the verdict against the Trumps a “penalty.” It has also been called a “fine,” but I haven’t yet seen it called “damages” in a headline. I think Hochul, Engoron, and James know that the amount was based on a damage assessment and calculation that may not hold up. New York Executive Law § 63(12) clearly reads that the attorney general “may apply…for an order…directing restitution and damages…”. [Emphasis mine.]
New York proved math calculations, not actual damages, where the damaged party had to be made whole. Had the statute recited a list of fines, they’d probably be in a more sound position, but their position now is what I would call “too dicey for comfort.” I would seize nothing in this situation because there are too many cases of improper seizures to worry about. The verdicts against those who seize property in error or improperly or hastily in a flawed or tainted case are many times larger than the amount of the money judgment used to seize and sell the property of the defendant.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/nyc-bonds-are-in-sell-mode/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
The picture wireless informs me that a private company successfully landed on the Moon.
Well done those people.
I am making a reasonable assumption that this particular private company was using the ‘white, unfashionable 50-something’ engineers so despised by other commercial ventures, like – oh, I don’t know.
Submersibles, for example.
One shouldn’t laugh at murder cases but that is a VERY Sydney murder case.
Was going to take the piss at the Saudi’s nutty religious police having
a five day course on combatting magic,
but then I remembered the secular plod here can bang you up
for angering the rainbow serpent.
Beertruk:
Despite the referendum rejecting the whole process, the government is insisting on imposing the whole stinking racist albatross around our necks.
We need a recall mechanism – desperately.
Or a GG that will pull the government of the day up on this sort of bullshit.
doohickey
*Don’t look that up on Urban Dictionary.
Of course I did!
Starlink is offering rural Aussies a money back if not satisfied 30 day trial with no “dead spots” and speeds of up to 200mbs.
The NBN is like a Coolgardie Safe in a world where refrigerators just became affordable.
LOL!
Beyond Meat Promises Their New Fake Meat Will Suck Less (22 Feb)
Well actually all those things ARE made out of vegetables. And the critters that turn those veges into protein do a whole lot better job than fake meat producers do. It was always amusing during the Covid panic, when Coles’ meat section was stripped bare and I was trying to find something to feed currawongs with that the fake meat section was always untouched.
Been saying this for years
What did you expect from a brain fart designed by a politician on the back of a beer coaster?
If only you could have wiped your arse with it.
It would appear the NSW plod chap said to be involved in the disappearance of two decliners has handed himself in.
I did mention yesterday that the jacks were now taking anyone at all because people didn’t want to be social policy enforcers. This is what happens (the Tele):
Not as sick as he’s going to be. There are pics accompanying this piece of Lamarre posing for photos with Tay Tay and Harry Styles, among others.
The old ‘I’ll use his phone so people think he’s alive’ chestnut.
Oh, dear.
I will guarantee he’s spent at least half of that five years on one or another form of sick leave.
Surely the most cursory psychological screening test would have picked this up, or at least raised a flag or two.
This is what you get, you stupid governments.
If only someone had realised.
This latest Sidernee society/celebrity* murder was almost certainly triggered over an argument about scatter cushion colour and placement.
*D grade.
thanks again, Turdball.
The Ukraine price shock came to Australia as a result of Europe resetting its gas supply via the international LNG market. As the Australian LNG price spiked, so did the AEMO domestic spot market.
The problem for Handsome (but somewhat untruthful) Boy is that international gas prices have fallen back to pre-hiatus levels – . The US domestic gas price is currently at long-term low. But AEMO domestic gas prices?
Not so much.
The reason? The Albanese Government’s interference in the gas market. The $12/GJ price cap has now become a de facto floor price.
In safe hands.
I suspect Malcolm is more of a Moët man, with the plan being doodled on a napkin.
That was covered in Series Three, Episode Two: Who Tossed The Wrong Salad*?
*Don’t look that up on Urban Dictionary.
The brown Logie for best television drama script that year was won by Nathan Winn.
While ours are now the highest in the world.
“At least the rabbits won’t eat them when they die and are not discovered for months.”
Crossie,
you may want to re-think that! 😀
Soylent Green is so last year.
The Morning Briefing: Could the ‘Experts’ Get Any More Disgusting? (22 Feb)
Non Scientist got so bad I had to cancel my subscription about 20 years ago. So it’s fun to see it is now suggesting that dead people should be eaten rather than cremated. All that planet destroying CO2 saved from polluting the atmosphere!
(Ok yes Soylent Green famously was set in the year 2022, not last year. Get over it.)
US intelligence casts doubt on Israeli claims of UNRWA-Hamas links, report says:
I just woke up and looked in the mirror. Face swollen, black eye and fractured eye socket and damaged wrist.
I copped a big hit.
I wonder what the two who hit me look like this morning. I hit back so hard I probably broke the jaw of one and the nose of the other.
All because I didn’t have a ciggie to offer the indigenous folk.
A sh*t day yesterday.
Don’t forget the fascist ones hand in this.
You’re not allowed to look for gas in the gulag known as Viktoristan.
Last month the vegetable in the White House banned exports of LNG from the US because of global worming. As a result the US nat gas price cratered. Poor buggers, if only they could get their gas to anywhere outside of the US they’d make lots of moolah, but Biden’s green staffer kiddies won’t let them export it.
For shame, where’s your commitment to truth telling and treaty?
A nice antidote to the war, economic mayhem and collapse of society, via Instapundit:
https://twitter.com/bfcarlson/status/1759933514236191190
Here we have Elon saying much the same thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uznjr0oZMOQ
Sorry to hear that Trickler. You at least will have a story to tell.
“You should see the other guys.”
NBN was an R-G-R masterstroke. Even Waffleworth can’t really be blamed for it. Maybe not stopping it dead in its tracks, although that would have been a courageous decision. Still not on the Cth balance sheet when the real cost might be known.
Correction: 220mbps
You’re right.
For some reason Maladroit as Comms Minister is indelibly linked with it in my brain.
Retired couple we know at Warwick airfield have Starlink as the Testra data network isn’t good there. I set it up when it arrived. Dead easy. They are very, very happy with it.
Anyone here following the ICJ case on Israeli’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem? China’s submission overnight sets the cat among the pigeons.
Indolent:
Great post at 0800:
Too many people wanting to go back to a simpler life have no idea of what that entails.
Men who worked 18 hours a day no matter what the weather, women who had a 50% childhood mortality rate and who commonly died in childbirth, children who worked as soon as they were able.
The have no idea, and aren’t interested in finding out.
Cats will remember that I posted a link to WA Museum holding a “Rise of the Far Right” Panel series, featuring a whole range of Leftards, LBGXYZ Nazis, feminists and leftard academics. Of course, I complained and asked when they were going to hold a series on the Far Left, panelled only by conservatives?
So was very delighted to awake this AM with a letter from the Museum CEO saying he wasn’t sorry they hold 100’s of events per year but he conceded this event had escaped his view. He agreed that the “perception of bias” in this series “was high and, even, unacceptable.”
Finally, he advised me that he’s scrapped the series and “put in new measures to ensure staff are aware of the obligation to have a plurality of voices at such events.”
So, am chuffed! And very glad that, unlike theirABC, someone is in charge at WA Museum!!! 🙂
(And it’s not every day that conservatives get a win)
For some reason Maladroit as Comms Minister is indelibly linked with it in my brain.
Real Deal
Feb 23, 2024 11:47 AM
Sorry to hear that Trickler. You at least will have a story to tell.
“You should see the other guys.”
I am scared about my eye. The docs say I should be fine … blurred vision at the moment.
I will not be taking public transport anytime soon.
Knuckle Dragger
Feb 23, 2024 11:03 AM
I doff my hat, you are indeed a man of the world.
Your small-goods business must take you to many places and meet people we ordinary schmucks never get to.
How else would you know the darker meaning of all these strange phrases and expressions.
Yes I looked it up, despite the warning, which as everyone knows is a lure and a dare.
Hands up all who resisted!
Roger
Feb 23, 2024 9:54 AM
The EU has just this month approved US$7.5 billion in grants for 33 projects associated with the production of green hydrogen, including water electrolysis plants and hydrogen distribution and storage facilities.
Somewhat off topic from hydrogen but an Australian company, Vulcan Energy Resources (ASX:VUL) is doing a green lithium project in Germany. They are currently undergoing due diligence, credit approval process and legal agreement for 500m euro ($825m) via the European Investment Bank which is the lending arm of the European Union (EU) and one of the largest climate finance providers.
My point is that the dive into funding doesn’t seem to have any boundaries. $800m here, $800m there, before long, it starts to add up to real money.
You mean he didn’t invent the interwebs?
Not defending the old scrote, but he doesn’t have that much stroke. The Hub price had come right off its Ukraine Peak by early 2023 – the Green State ‘pause’ on new export project approvals had no noticeable impact on the domestic gas price.
Since John Kerr every GG has been too scared to do his job.
For all we know the fake meat is fortified with cellulose so theoretically you may be able to make toilet paper out of it.
Read annual reports.
When the DIE garbage starts to make an appearance sell that shit.
Annual reports full of pictures of smiling females in hi vis, female office holders with statements about “stakeholders” and company goals of “helping communities” and childish diagrams that look like they came from a gifted primary child’s school report on some global village topic.
For reference see South 32s reports from any time these last few years.
If you want to include pictures in your presentation, show some blokes who look like they are working to the point of exhaustion making me some f*** ing money, bitches.
Pricing on the NBN privatisation should be interesting –
Asset Value at cost – tens of billions
Asset Value replacement value – zero
DCF should be OK but expect it it falling like a coal generator.
..
Sure.
But it was picturesque.