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Indeed, miltonf. Ill send it onto my brother in the US.
A poll out of New York indicates a seismic shift in the Jewish vote
bash jokes …
#!/bin/bash
learningbash="Hello World"
echo $learningbash
Who’s to Blame for the Elite Extreme Left?
Koch network says it will stop funding Nikki Haley’s presidential bid
When Donald Trump Met Rosa Parks
No mention of JFK’s Peace Corps but it fits the zeitgeist. Good article, thanks for posting.
JC, NBC is pretty good at geo-blocking stuff.
I saw a few clips on twitter & youtube earlier but now they’ve been taken down.
I’ll keep an eye out & will post over the next few days.
See if this one works.
If it doesn’t fire up the old VPN.
https://x.com/nbcsnl/status/1761645913376755880?s=20
No it’s not. Cronkite isn’t inflaming me or anyone else. Obviously, it hasn’t inflamed you.
Yeah, that’s why I asked.
this is not funny & here ought not be a place to incite or glorify violence.
You’re right; I’m going out right now to give myself a good and glorious uppercut.
Cronkite, I thought you were a lover, not a fighter.
Do you mean in terms of naivete/idealism?
Not only is Taylor Swift sh*t, Albo is worse.
Cringeworthy stuff here.
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Danger Dan Reviews:
Just Shake it off. Anthony Albanese Taylor Swift
Cronkite, I thought you were a lover, not a fighter.
I love fighting.
Is this alamak character taking the piss or a genuine dickhead?
I laughed again. 🙂
Sorry.
Not.
The next cabinet meeting will reportedly be held at a Pink concert.
No such thing as 1967 borders. The Green Line, Israel’s border with Jordan, 1949 – 1967. From 1967, The Jordan River.
If the torpedo has a range of 10,000 kms, can remain active for 7 months, and can automatically return to base, why does if need a submarine to launch it? Just launch it from an established submarine base.
It’s BS BJ. Like the Armata, the SU 57, the body armour that can stop a 50 cal, the nuclear powered cruise missile. All this is for the domestic market. If we think the West population is gullible then Russians are either rank stupid or put up with that nonsense in fear of polonium.
John H.
That is what I was hinting at.
Poseidon seems real and very feasible. I’d be surprised if the Chinese haven’t got something similar. Easy to build, much more damaging than a mere 10 warhead MIRV. We humans like to live on coasts, which is in this case a bit of a mistake.
The other thing about Poseidon is unlike airburst thermonukes you can move in right after the water recedes. Not much in the way of residual rads, they’re all in the ocean.
From reading industry publications (that must remain secret), I can report that there is a torpedo in service that has a range of 45,000 km, can travel at Mach 1.8 and can make a decent bolognese.
It is also in the shape of a 1974 Valiant.
Just quoting the guidelines for this blog. If actual fighting is what you enjoy maybe here is not the fight club you need.
Update on an article I posted this morning.
KD – A Poseidon-like system doesn’t even need an engine. Just a 20+ Mt thermonuclear sea mine that can take extreme depth and low frequency sonic command input. Sub drops it on the bottom of the sea and leaves. Very hard to detect, as we saw with MH 370.
Put one on the bottom of the Tasman Sea halfway between Oz and NZ and you’ve basically taken out both enemy nations with one bomb.
If actual fighting is what you enjoy maybe here is not the fight club you need.
Ah, you are taking the piss.
I will BASH anyone that does that.
The incompressibility of water is great for hydraulics but does have some slight downsides.
Funny you mention that, Cronkite. We went to a dinner last night, and two insufferables were criticizing Trumpster. There’s just no dealing with these people. They believe everything. Even though Wussiagate was an obvious big lie, they still believed it was true, and she said to me that even though the court cases have been severely pitched against him, he deserves that and even more.
Around 2018. I can’t ever forget when we were in Italy, hanging poolside. An older American couple was hanging around next to us. The old broad got in the pool for a swim, and the hubbie was reading an iPad. He excitedly called her to get out of the pool, and when she did, he was reading an anti-Trump NYTimes piece to her. They actually sounded giddy with excitement, holding onto every word. I never said anything, but I should’ve. Nice place, high up on a hill, looking down on the Med.
A snippet from an interesting piece from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs:
(I’m not au fait with the new posting rules, so my apologies for any breeches (sic).
How so? A torpedo at such high speed will cavitate for all the world to hear. It would leave a radiation signal. SOSUS will detect from afar. An autonomous torpedo is going to navigate how? It would have to come to the surface to take readings then rely on inertial navigation. It would need active sonar to avoid collisions, giving away its position. They didn’t get it to work. After so much money and so much work it failed.
Around 2018. I can’t ever forget when we were in Italy, hanging poolside. An older American couple was hanging around next to us. The old broad got in the pool for a swim, and the hubbie was reading an iPad. He excitedly called her to get out of the pool, and when she did, he was reading an anti-Trump NYTimes piece to her. They actually sounded giddy with excitement, holding onto every word. I never said anything, but I should’ve.
You should have bashed them both; bashed them good.
And thoroughly deserved too. Imagine going on a freaking Italian holiday and you’re giddy about a negative Trump piece.
Not bashed, I should’ve drowned them in the pool. 🙂
The Sicilian coast is stunning, and I don’t have to drive especially as today we have blue skies.
Pebble beaches seem to the the natural, I wonder if they ship in sand for the tourist ones.
On the intercity, because it was more convenient, although €9 more expensive
*815 Pm this Friday at the Garvelyy Beach Road PUB you SOBs.
No you cowards wont turn up.
And then bashed them.
Yeah. Gravelly Hotel-style.
Ahaaaaa.
Snap.
I didn’t know this:
[From the same source as above. There are several articles worth reading on this website].
Rosie
I was just telling Cronkite about the Italian holiday and the horrible poolside incident. We were in Taormina. The view from cliff-side is beyond gorgeous. There are sandy beaches there, but I think most are pebbles which is a real shit too as you hurt your feet.
More like a fair bit of it was thus:
Israel’s Legal Case: A Guidebook.
This is one of a handful of ebooks available for download (I think free of charge, but I cannot confirm that yet) from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs website.
Trumpster totally destroyed their comfort zone. TDS is a real thing and should be listed as a mental illness alongside climate alarmism.
Quite possibly, Sal. Likely to have been included in the tally of Pali victims of ‘Israeli agression’ also. (Just a guess on my part, that is).
John H – I think my second comment answered everything. No need to stop at 20 Mt. If they’d added the U238 jacket to Tsar Bomba it’d’ve done 100 Mt.
Recall that Tsar Bomba was the size of a small bus, so it could be air launched. No need for such weight control issues for a thermonuclear sea mine.
Let that sucker off 4 km down and halfway between Sydney and Auckland and you’ll have a super tsunami that erases everywhere from Adelaide to Cairns. NZ also of course.
How far inland do we have to be to avoid this super-tsunami?
A weapon to cause a tsunami is has long been entertained. Their idea for the Poseidon missile was bonkas. No need to be nuclear powered, no need for such a long range or to be autonomous. It was propaganda. The West pays a fortune for weapons but at least those work.
A nuclear weapon was detonated under water by the Americans. It didn’t and doesn’t cause a tsunami.
SATP – I have no idea. A Russian guy said their weapon system could do a 500 m high tsunami with a yield of 2 Mt. True or not again I have no idea. That would require several of them to inundate the Australian east coast. But as I said there’s nothing to prevent a 3rd stage Tsar Bomba scale sea mine. It’s a logical extension of the idea.
I missed it when it was on.
Can anyone tell me who won the Big Bash this year?
Also, a tsunami is not a wave. It’s a massive surge of water and no human technology can create enough of an energy pulse of such magnitude.
Muddy at 9:24.
Exactly how it is supposed to work.
A link with a brief snippet or teaser about the contents so that curious cats can explore it further if they wish.
Approved … tick.
The what?
The Big WHAT?
Such tsunamis are known from the paleodata.
I’ve seen mention of an extremely large prehistoric tsunami caused by a landslip in NZ, but I can’t immediately find reference, and it’s bed time. Water is very unforgiving when you get it started moving in a particular direction. The incompressibility thing.
No, the other thing is that it doesn’t exist outside of a Kremlin brainstorming session.
Maybe Shoigu was spirit cooking again.
Let the man cook! The results are novelties, to say the least.
Other Russian wunderwaffe:
Houses with chicken legs
Belarus folklore becomes real: rural vampires
White ducks
Firebirds
Mrs Stencho Pantyhose
Your thin ice has melted. All those paragraphs and your English comprehension remains poor as well as your inability to count.
And planetary forces is mind mindbogglingly enormous.
We can probably safely harness that amount of energy in a thousand years.
Oh my lord.
Everybody run!
Police now believe accused killer Beau Lamarre-Condon returned at night to the dam where he had earlier hidden the bodies of murdered couple Luke Davies and Jesse Baird, retrieved their remains and moved them to another as yet unknown location.
On Monday afternoon police had turned their focus to the area in Grays Point, in southern Sydney, where Lamarre-Condon grew up.
In a case that has confounded investigators and put a question mark over the future of NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb, police have been unable to account for a crucial “gap in the timeline” when Constable Lamarre-Condon is alleged to have dumped the bodies; why the 28-year-old police constable was able to access his pistol out of work hours; and whether he was psychologically fit to have ever have been recruited.
Adding to the mystery was how two people could have been shot with a 9mm Glock in densely packed inner-city Paddington terrace in Sydney last Monday without anyone reporting the shots.
Police have revealed a triple-zero call from Mr Baird’s phone was made from the Paddington terrace four minutes after the first shots, before being suddenly disconnected.
Later in the day, Constable Lamarre-Condon hired a white Toyota HiAce van from Sydney Airport that he allegedly used to transport the men’s bodies.
The next day, police allege, the 28-year-old made a “partial admission” to a female acquaintance that he had been involved in the death of two people.
On Monday afternoon police searched houses and a creek in the Grays Point street in which Lamarre-Condon grew up. Detectives were door knocking residents requesting CCTV.
A helicopter was also seen above the area, searching along Dents Creek, which leads to Port Hacking. Lamarre-Condon’s family home was on the waterfront of Dents Creek.
“They flew around the waterway from the house to swallow rock. They also went right over the primary school a bit by entrance to the national park,” one source said.
After a fruitless two-day search by divers of two dams in Bungonia, in the NSW Southern Tablelands, police believe Constable Lamarre-Condon feared a woman who unwittingly helped him get access to the property would alert police to his attempt to hide the bodies.
The woman, an acquaintance of his who has not been identified, accompanied him to the property, 200km southwest of Sydney, on Wednesday last week, two days after the alleged murder, apparently unaware the bodies of Mr Davies and Mr Baird were in the back of the rented Toyota HiAce.
Along the way, they stopped at a Goulburn hardware store to buy an angle grinder and a padlock.
When they reached the property – which police believe Constable Lamarre-Condon had previously visited through a former relationship – he allegedly used the angle-grinder to cut the existing padlock on the gate and left the woman there while he continued on down to the dam.
When he returned half an hour later, Constable Lamarre-Condon replaced the cut padlock with the new one and they drove back to Sydney in the van.
It is unclear what explanation the policeman provided to his acquaintance about his behaviour, but police believe it was enough to arouse her suspicions and for Constable Lamarre-Condon to worry the location would be discovered.
Police believe the acquaintance was tricked into joining Constable Lamarre-Condon and say she is not a suspect
Police allege the constable drove back to the property from Sydney later that night with torches borrowed from a friend, stopping at 11pm to buy weights from a department store.
At 4.30am on Thursday, he left Bungonia and spent time around Sydney before driving to Newcastle, where he went to a friend’s home and asked for a hose to clean the van, police say.
He stayed in Newcastle until 5am Friday, when he drove to Sydney and met an uncle where he grew up in the Sutherland Shire. At 10.39am, he walked into Bondi police station.
Constable Lamarre-Condon has been charged with two counts of murder but has declined to say anything to police or assist them in locating the bodies.
Police claim that the relationship between he and Jesse Baird ended badly, prompting Constable Lamarre-Condon to break into Mr Baird’s terrace in the weeks prior to the murder.
“The relationship which ended at the end of last year … didn’t end well and we believe that the accused had attended Jesse’s home address,” Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson said.
“We believe he had utilised a key to enter those premises. We believe he took possession of Jesse’s phone and deleted contacts and messages out of that phone before leaving the premises.”
The prior break-in was not reported to NSW Police.
Mr Hudson said police had been told Mr Baird spoke of a “man in his room” at his home but did not report it to police.
Constable Lamarre-Condon was able to get access to his firearm last Sunday by claiming he was doing a “user pays” shift, performing duties at a pro-Palestinian rally in the city, for which organisers were reimbursing police for the costs. He is Operation Support Group-trained, meaning he had completed extra training qualifying him to work user pay shifts at events such as concerts or protests.
Ms Webb said a review into the handling of police firearms would be “necessary” following the alleged use of Constable Lamarre-Condon’s service weapon.
She been criticised for taking three days to release a statement about the case, with NSW MP Rod Roberts accusing her of “hiding” and failing to reassure the public that the accused police officer “will be treated the same as any other suspect in any other crime”.
Oz
The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami was caused by a 1200 km long rupture in a faultline, with a sudden displacement in a very short time over the entire distance.
The massive sudden displacement of water was far in excess of whatever array of nukes you might come up with.
Speaking of which:
‘breeches’
Hahahhaaaa. Keep trying, fake part time bovver boy.
The key point:
It’s definitely safe to build 2.5 teratonne nukes. Absolutely no issues with fail safes, accidental ignition or pilfering & for profit or political terrorism. Let alone the sheer damage the bastards could do.
The Russian scare campaign to frighten the Europeans is just bullshit on wheels. If they detonated one of those big mothers above a city, all it would do is create a bigger hole. The one problem for the Russians is that if they detonated it in Europe they would be royally rooted too because the radiation would push into Russia. Those clowns are just trying to scare people.
The alarmists a few years ago used the Hiroshima bomb as a way of describing man made climate change:
https://joannenova.com.au/2013/12/sun-dumps-500-times-as-many-hiroshima-bombs-of-energy-as-climate-change/
The comparison between the alleged destruction cause by (Anthropogenic Global Warming) AGW and the atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima was first raised by professor of geology Mike Sandiford. Sandiford compares the human effect on the environment to the atomic bomb:
To put these numbers into a more human context we need a new measure for our energy use. The “Hiro” is one. It is the equivalent to the energy released by detonating one Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb every second. One Hiro equals 60 trillion watts. In these terms, our human energy system operates at a rate of 0.25 Hiros, or one Hiroshima bomb every four seconds. That is the equivalent of more than eight million Hiroshima bombs going off each year.
This is a disgraceful bit of misanthropy made nonsensical by the fact that the natural energy of the system on Earth is a million times greater than the energy produced by humans and that the energy produced by humans is incremental. We don’t set off atomic bombs when we walk out the door; our energy is expended over time.
Such is the insignificance of the energy impact of humans on the Earth’s system that if humanity were to disappear tomorrow all traces of our energy would be gone in a geological blink of an eye.
However Sandiford’s insidious metaphor has been picked up by another academic with even less pretension to expertise in the field of AGW. This time the Ivory Tower has let loose one David Holmes, a lecturer in communications, whatever that is.
Holmes outdoes Sandiford because now humanity is letting off FOUR Hiroshima atomic bombs every second. Not one but four!
These people are lunatics and should be bashed repeatedly.
Oh, my Lordy, wordy, yes.
Was he, in fact, bounced by the selection process, but waved through anyway.
“Yes, it does indicate emotional instability, but should we further penalise someone who might have suffered homophobic trauma? High emotion can translate to high empathy, yada, yada …”
There’s no way you’d cause a tsunami with a bomb under the ocean big enough to wipe out AUS and NZ coasts.
C’mon, Bruce.
… mUnter jumping off the Norfolk Island pier, on the other hand …
A Blue State Exodus
Only Republicans will be leaving so unless they are moving to swing states (which they are not) it makes the red states redder and the blue states bluer… Still the election is decided in the swing states where they are experts at rigging the vote…
Exactly, one would have to think the Tasman sea was only a touch larger than Sydney Harbour.
Not even that!
“How should I refer to Aboriginal people, to show respect?”
“Call them what you like. It’s nothing to what they call you.”
60m over Sydney’s headlands!
DR TED BRYANT, A tsunami expert who recently retired from the University of Wollongong, has gathered evidence that monumental tsunamis have pummelled the east coast throughout history – and could do so again. He believes that, based on studies of sediment layers and rock erosion, six big tsunamis caused by meteorite strikes or marine landslides have hit Sydney during the past 10,000 years.
The most recent probably occurred in 1491, Ted says, and produced a wave that washed over the harbour’s headlands, 60 m above sea level. That tsunami didn’t travel far inshore, but others did.
Link
Another one for Digger and any Tassies.
Rebekah Barnett via her Substack has another good crack at TAS AMA regarding Dr Julie Sladden running for Liberals in TAS.
‘Australian Medical Association wants Covid vaccine sceptic off the ballot at upcoming election’
Bourne
‘Australian Medical Association wants Covid vaccine sceptic off the ballot at upcoming election’
I guess that would be me, Bourne.
There would be a spot of trouble in the camp if they ever tried that rubbish…. but that is about the level of real life intellect we can expect from elitist, head up their a**e morons…
Digger, one of the ouens up here, reckons your book is “damnfine reading.”
There is nothing on the west coast of New Zealand so destruction there would be minuscule compared to the devastation along Australian east coast.
So Grandad managed to retrieve his keys, unlock the gun safe, retrieve the rifle, unlock the ammo, load the rifle, then rush in to confront the intruder?
Man, in WA he is so fcuked! Lay you odds he will be charged every which way but loose by WAPOL.
The court was told that Zulu Kilo made his way to the room where he found the man standing naked inside the girls walk in robe, and Zulu Kilo severed his testicles with a rusty trench knife…..
Shuffle down here to the Carolinas, JC, which I’ve discovered is an absolutely beaut part of the world and where you won’t hear a bad word against Trump. Indeed, the only concern I’ve heard on his behalf is the fear that he’ll be killed before November. Out of curiosity, attended a white evangelic church on Sunday morning. The after-prayers chatting made Trump’s mortal peril a frequent topic.
God help America if they do knock him off. There’ll be no putting that anger back in the bottle.
NSW Police says it is “disappointed” to have been uninvited from marching in Saturday’s Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
“The NSW Police Force has been advised that the Board of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras has decided to withdraw the invitation to NSW Police to participate in this year’s event,” an NSW Police spokesperson said.
“While disappointed with this outcome, NSW Police will continue to work closely with the LGBTIQA+ community and remain committed to working with organisers to provide a safe environment for all those participating in and supporting this Saturday’s parade.”
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb told The Daily Telegraph she was notified of the decision after the Mardi Gras board met on Monday night following the alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies by Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon.
Police have revealed a triple-zero call from Mr Baird’s phone was made from the Paddington terrace four minutes after the first shots, before being suddenly disconnected.
This aspect continues to bug me.
How many triple zero calls did they receive regarding the gun shots.
Did they just think this was one of a dozen calls?
Or was it one of a handful?
Heaven help the cops at the inevitable inquest/inquiry if it was one of one calls regarding the gun shots and they didn’t zero in on it immediately.
To cause a Tsunami a huge amount of water has to be shifted in one direction. If the bomb explodes at 360 degrees it will not cause a tsunami because the power is in the water behind the wave. The possibility of causing a tsunami will depend on geography.
In future I shall refrain from mentioning Russian weapon absurdities.
Police Queen demands drag dancing and the other Queens don’t want her hirelings to attend.
Seems the organisers of a lurid display of sex play have more decorum than the Commissioner of Police.
John Spooner.
David Pope.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Brett Lethbridge #2.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
Thanks, Tom.
Tim Young
@TimRunsHisMouth
I’m shocked that CNN left this article up…
It details how Biden immediately signed executive orders reversing Trump’s border security measures when he took office.
The illegal immigration influx was absolutely created by Biden.
https://x.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1761974652878848393?s=20
See that pile of Executive Orders Biden is signed immediately after his inauguration.
One is the reversing the border wall initiatives that is mentioned in the tweet.
Another one is reversing the PBM EO that Trump signed (the one that dropped insulin to 10-20 bucks a month).
I’ve lost the article I had that went through all of Biden’s day one EO’s that broke down which special interest groups or donors that benefited.
I grinds me teeths over it every time I see Biden and EO in the same sentence.
PBM = pharmaceutical benefit manager(s).
With regards to the US service man who set himself on fire.
I am surprised he was conscious for as long as he sounded to be.
I feel sorry for the cops & ambo’s who arrived on the scene to see that.
It’s one thing to turn up to something like a car wreck to see bodies mashed up.
But turning up to see a human chicken drumstick still seemingly able to make audible nosies…PTSD in the making.
So selfish & will achieve nothing.
And if the person filming the incident has any assets, I’d have a few bucks on the family of Mr Flame Grilled suing them at some stage…quietly, after they lap up all the sympathy for a good period.
Taormina first impressions.
Bad idea to stay down the bottom near the station.
It’s a killer climb up and only one of the two bus companies that go up has an advertised timetable.
I’m hoping there is a bar near the train station where I can get a coffee before heading up top for the day.
I should have rented up top, the convenience of being close to the station is outweighed by not being able to pop into my apartment whenever I feel like it.
On the other hand the ride up and down has spectacular views of Mount Etna and the coast, best on the way down as the haze had cleared. The road is a series of tight hairpin bends a so you get lots of opportunities to look at the coastal views towards Calabria as well as Etna.
Taormina itself has a main walking street through the centre, lots of beautiful old buildings. Shall explore more tomorrow.
Waiting for a bus back that never came (ended up walking to the other end of town to find one) got stuck talking to two youngish Poles on some sort of working holiday. They were the only ones in shirts, no jackets. Naturally they were torn about emigrating to Australia, yes for the warm weather, no for the scary snakes.
Turnbull and Keating contesting for title of Attention Deficit Supremo.
Malcolm has been quoted as saying Trump is a tyrant. No points for originality there.
Nikki Haley was at her best when as ambassador to the UN she acted on Trump’s instructions.
Rosie
Feb 27, 2024 5:46 AM
‘…no for the scary snakes.;
Rosie, just them that the snakes ‘don’t eat that much.’
You should have told them about the ‘Drop Bears.’
😉
Yes, we recall how disappointed we were when Biden on day one stopped the wall at the southern border. The MSM will now go along with fairy stories about Republicans not funding a solution to the border crisis.
1. Nvidia GPU Buyers Offload Chips As Supply Crunch Cools
By Anissa Gardizy Source: The Information
Companies that use Nvidia’s specialized artificial intelligence semiconductors say the chips have become far easier to access than they were last year, The Information reported on Friday. And as a result, some people who bought as many GPUs as they could during the height of the frenzy are now looking to offload some of their supply, which is expensive to keep if it isn’t being used.
GPU buyers are also reducing their orders and being more picky about the price they are willing to pay to rent the chips. It all marks a big difference from just a few months ago, when startups and investors were going to great lengths to access Nvidia GPUs.
“There was this sense of panic and scarcity. People talked about being GPU poor” in mid-2023, said Sarah Guo, founder of Conviction, an early-stage VC firm focused on AI startups.
Of course, the crunch hasn’t resolved for everyone. Companies that are training their own large language models, such as OpenAI, are still struggling to get enough AI chips.
I have found whatever The Information reports is in the corporate financial-tech media a few days later.
I get their email alerts but do not subscribe.
The last subscription offer was around $US500 per year.
I think their clients must all be investment banks.
I bet many coppers are relieved they won’t have to pretend to care.
Much like ScoMo was effective at stopping the boats when he acted on Abbott’s instructions.
The ABC finally runs a story about Anastasia’s partner and his medico-legal problems. Of course they don’t mention Anastasia and they have only done this after her dethroning.
Read somewhere that Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull are trying to set up one of those dam(n)-battery things in the Hunter region. Their spiel is that they want to be part of the transformation of their beloved Hunter Valley from a debbil-debbil coal mining region into a unicorns and fairy dust ‘renewable’ energy region. All the boring big holes through Gaia and associated machinery made with steel doesn’t count, as we know from the Snowy debacle.
My question is – what’s in it for him? What with the grants and subsidies and guaranteed prices washing about at public and consumers’ expense, it’s hard to unravel the bottom line.
His explanation that he is worried about Da Planet is … unconvincing to this long time observer of Turnbuckle.
Is he suggesting that they took him out?
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
So a CIA-backed Ukrainian intel official is now telling us that, actually, Navalny died of natural causes. You’ve got to wonder what’s going on here. It’s pretty obvious.
Total projection.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
LOL – blackface Hitler the fascist dictator is hysterical.
Seems like respect for the police is ebbing away rapidly.
Great Reset Fightback: Farmers Spray Police With Liquid Manure Outside EU HQ (26 Feb)
Eww, smelly!
Dinesh D’Souza
@DineshDSouza
50 years in office — name one thing Biden accomplished.
Arrest in Tucker Carlson Assassination Try: Ukrainian Intelligence Hired Russian ‘Hitman’ to Murder Journalist
Nikki Haley supporters in Michigan want her to CONTINUE her campaign after 20-point loss in her home state so she can ‘pick up the pieces’ if Trump implodes: ‘It’s going to be hard for him to run for president from jail’
Greg Abbott Says UN Can ‘Go Pound Sand’ After LGBTQ+ Backlash
Out of curiosity – when is SCOTUS due to deliver its ruling on the Colorado ballot case?
I had heard speculation that it could be as early as last Thursday but that obviously has not happened. People seem very certain as to what it is going to be but unanimity would be nice – even Ketanji Brown Jackson, who is so left wing she was intellectually overtaxed by the question “what is a woman”, seemed unconvinced by the Colorado attorney’s laughable performance. And remember, for a progressive performance is far more important than logic.
Farmer Tractors vs Euro Police in Brussels
Persackly.
The Day They Turned the Spies on Us
The shooting of the Sydney hay couple is being represented as a police in killing motivated by gas hatred. It’s not of course, for while the alleged killer is a policeman, he is actions were those of a jilted guy lover suffering and driven by, I suspect, humiliation.
It was good to see Liz Storer making this point on Panahi’s late show. Sky After Dark has been wilting lately. Liz and Rita warrant an earlier time slot.
Feeding the insatiable war machine.
Sweden set to join NATO after Hungary approves bid
Report: Venezuela’s “violent death” rate has hit a two-decade low because all the criminals are migrating to a town near you
Migrants Handed Spacious Apartments for Free as New Yorkers Left Paying Thousands for Tiny Rooms
Catturd ™
@catturd2
lmao – he’s left the border wide open for years, has sued any state trying to stop the invasion, and now that it’s election season, he’s going to go to the border and pretend to care
Bugger. That’s gay, not hay or gas. It’s early for me.
Pfizer killed him?
DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Wait, so you’re telling me American warmonger politicians were trying to start nuclear WW3 with Russia over a blood clot?
That may have been caused by you know what?
That those same politicians forced upon everyone?
Insane gaslighting
Beyond sickening
The Gateway Pundit
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ICYMI: Chris Wray’s FBI Forced a Young Mother to Stand Outside Barefoot with Her 4-Yr-Old Boy in His Pajamas in 12° Weather While They Ransacked Her Home – She Lost Her Baby the Next Day
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What was the energy output of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami? I suspect it was well above even the Tsar Bomba level.
JC at 2003
Snap, I hadn’t scanned down.
regarding the “hay couple”
You go girl. Daily Telegraph:
Nixon, Whatsherface in Queensland and now Webb. All useless career cops who I wouldn’t have thought arrested anyone in their time.
Trying to avoid naming the problems is backfiring in Alice Springs:
Yes, it is. You might as well be in Saudi Arabia.
Stop hay hate.
Spooner is right.
Yep.
A real investigative journalist would probably find a good story here.
At the very least we can be assured that the best interests of Australia would not be being served.
Hay rights.
Not wishing to sound macabre, but anyway…
If this guy turns out to have been part of the QWERTY community then his self-immolation becomes itself a warning as to what QWERTY’s can expect from Hamas, and which will get worse if they ever seized in their blood drenched hands ‘from the river to the sea’.
‘I’m Not Trying to Cause a Scene. I Just Want to Get Off This Plane.’
A former senior Boeing employee on why he still won’t fly on a MAX plane.
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: Russian Counter-Terrorism Unit Thwarts Assassination Attempt on
@TuckerCarlson
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Seems the media are a little shy on reporting that the Houthi are kicking ass when it comes to western shipping & “protection” .. nuttin’ in the online news but reading Breitbart and lotza Houthi winnin’ occurring Gulf-wize .. no news don’t mean good news these dayz ……!
That parallels the case of Abbott with Bishop as Foreign Minister. Whilst he was behind her, feeding her the lines, she cut a rather impressive figure on the world stage, especially in the wake of the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH-17 over eastern Ukraine. Won a gong for her efforts from the Dutch as I recall.
With Abbott gone and Bishop following her own lights she flopped flaccid and inert like a discarded hand-puppet.
Before anyone bristles at mention of Abbott I do not mention this I am not re-opening the debate of his worth – how much he could impose his will on the party and how much he had to court them – just to point out the similarity of cases where a girl-boss turns out to be a gloved man-hand.
I see Crossie beat me to it.
But ‘great minds’ and all that…
Interesting comment from Budanov, head of the Ukraine Gestapo, yesterday:
“Navalny died of natural causes.”
wtf?
Hasn’t he seen the flood of evidence that proves it was (the) Putin who killed him?
Budanov will be in trouble with his own storm troopers, for this “Russian” propaganda.
At a minimum, he will be banned from X, ……., SURELY!
Any police force led by a woman because diversity is not serious about law enforcement.
NSW Plod’s role in encouraging anti-semitism and giving free rein to Jew haters on the streets of Sydney is not an accident.
There’s now one law for the NSW government’s pet groups — “Palestinians”, for example — and another law for the rest.
Oh dear…
https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1762224757385142470
Oh, FFS, or is this lawyers laying groundwork for a civil case?
Hmm, sounds like LawerSpeak to me.
Note that the amount involved was 23 grand.
Really?
There must be a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow.
– extracted from eugyppius’s latest substack post, 26.02.24
I would also add that authorities in Western countries are also very often incompetent.
Judith Sloan has a piece on that at The Speccie website.
He made a lot of money.
She is to be addressed as Her Highness.
Her voice was too pure for that particular forum.
Commish Webb looks like someone’s Nanna at a costume party.
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1762097050017997075
m0ron’s mob.
Well, that is the amount prosecutors know will be a slam dunk guilty finding.
Often the real amount is far larger but, due to lax controls, it is hard to pin the loss on one person to a criminal standard of proof.
I know of one example of theft from a large sporting club where the criminal matter ended up being under $50k, but the insurance assessors approved $250k without a fight.
A couple of fairly rational heads within the club reckon it was not far short of $1 mill.
This went into moderation twice. I wonder why.
Asking the Waffen-SSM to explain how paed*philia is not a sexuality was a fun hobby for a while.
Bird has flown now. If it was kept under a lid then, the groomer mind virus is all over the place now.
Government inefficiency:
Code Tender Details Closing Date
29033-DOC-006
Transaction Manager for the ‘very early contractor involvement’ (VECI) Contractor
Tender Process for the Northside Hospital Project
Major Projects Canberra
80000000 – Management and Business Professionals and Administrative Services
So we have two subcontractors to manage expressions of interest in the main tenders for design, construction etc.
I can’t imagine how we can possibly cut services in this country without turning into da Somalia (also, trust da soyience).
Taxpayers love services. Especially essential services.
Pretty sure one homosexual whacking two other homosexuals
isn’t the sort of gay hate crime they had in mind.
Phrasing.
Fair point, Sancho, but it doesn’t explain the lawyerese about pain and suffeing.
As I said, there is a pot of gold in there somewhere.
As I said, Sancho, the language about pain and suffering is pure lawyerspeak.
There must be a pot of gold somewhere there.
Dunno what happened there.
Re-did it from memory after the first one disappeared.
He was a far far lefty.
US Airman Who Set Himself On Fire In Front Of Israeli Embassy Dies (27 Feb)
I haven’t seen anything else about him, but there’s probably information around since from the article they appear to know his name and some of his social media accounts. They’ll probably get scrubbed pronto of course.
A bit like the Matthew Shepard case in the US. Held up as an anti-gay hate crime, adopted into the iconography of the gay movement which would thereafter spare no effort to defend it in its unblemished tragedy, and which was used as an excuse to extend the legal definition of ‘hate crime’ to cover crimes against gays motivated by anti-gay animus.
This last was first attempted under Clinton, followed by an abortive follow up under Bush, and a predictable success under the jug-eared stammerer.
Then it came out that Shepard was a drug user and dealer (meth) and that one of the guys that killed him was in fact an occasional sex partner. This had all been known since the initial investigation but glossed over to create a cause.
Besides, by the time it all finally came out the fudge-packing tweaker had been coaxed out of his grave (probably by waving a baggy of meth and a gay-porn video over it) and the remains interred in the Washington National Cathedral.
Was there a single authentic act, not twisted by agenda, not tainted by hypocrisy, not primed to destroy some piece of America, from the entire Obama Presidency?
Commish Webb looks like someone’s Nanna at a costume party.
Shazza or Beryl from the local bowlo.
Loves a dart & to slap up.
Then it came out that Shepard was a drug user and dealer (meth) and that one of the guys that killed him was in fact an occasional sex partner. This had all been known since the initial investigation but glossed over to create a cause.
Like the recent black trannie hate crime.
Turns out it the chap that killed them was a black dude that was having adult relations on the down-low.
I had to google image his name to see he was a black guy as the mainstream articles I was reading didn’t have a pic of the perp.
Just wait till we get the tens of thousands of new powerlines courtesy of the Green New Dream:
Any prizes for guessing whether the Unicorn Energy crowd have factored increased bushfire risk from powerlines into their calculations?
It’s a mystery.
Let’s go nuclear – we’re running out of time to keep the lights on
Nuclear energy was banned in Australia in 1998 after less than 10 minutes’ debate in the Senate. We’re paying for it now, writes Matt Canavan.
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In March this year, Finland fired up the first nuclear reactor to open in Europe for 15 years.
Two months later, electricity prices in Finland plunged by 75 per cent. Eventually, output at the new plant had to be throttled because power prices were getting TOO low.
Despite constant promises that “renewables are the cheapest form of energy”, anyone who has got their electricity bill lately knows that this is a big fat lie.
Australia has been installing solar and wind energy at a rate four times faster (in per person terms) than Europe or North America. Yet, the more renewables we get, the higher our power prices go.
Unfortunately for Australia, we cannot take the Finnish approach because we are one of the few countries in the world where nuclear energy is illegal. Nuclear was banned in Australia via a Greens amendment in the Senate in 1998. There was less than 10 minutes of debate.
The Australian people never voted to make nuclear energy illegal. But our accidental ban on nuclear energy is now an albatross around our necks. A ban on nuclear energy never made much sense, but it is now out of date, out of step and we are running out of time to keep the lights on.
So that is why I and eight other Coalition senators have introduced a Bill to end the ban on nuclear energy. Last week, we tabled a Senate report into the Bill.
The overwhelming evidence to our committee supported the removal of the ban.
Lots of young people support nuclear energy. As 16-year-old William Shackel told the committee: “For far too long, young people like me have been sold slogans and facades of plans to address these challenges, that we are told to blindly trust … we need every credible solution, including nuclear energy, on the table.”
What confuses me about the nuclear debate is that the most vocal critics of nuclear are the most alarmist about climate change. If you really believed we face doom from global warming, why wouldn’t you want to use a safe, proven, emission-free type of power?
Nuclear power is used all around the world. France has received two-thirds of its electricity from nuclear for decades, and 54 nuclear power stations are being built across 15 countries.
Despite our nuclear ban, Australia is buying nuclear submarines. Their nuclear reactors use the same technology as those used onshore. How could it be unsafe to have nuclear reactors onshore, but it is perfectly fine to have the same type of reactors sail around coastlines and dock in our ports?
Indeed, as it stands, we will become the only country that tries to have a nuclear submarine fleet without a large domestic nuclear energy industry. There are serious questions about whether we will be able to develop the necessary skills in nuclear energy without a broader range of career options than just life 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Our nuclear ban already risks our energy security, and now it risks our national security too.
Since the submarines decision, the critics have shifted their focus away from safety concerns to the cost. Even if they are right, high costs are not a reason to make something illegal. We haven’t banned the horse and buggy just because cars are more efficient.
But, in any case, the vast majority of real-world evidence shows that nuclear energy is an affordable way to make electricity. The critics like to quote the CSIRO, yet the CSIRO does not estimate the costs of any commercially available nuclear technologies. They only look at potential future technologies like small modular reactors.
In contrast, the International Energy Agency does look at the real-world performance of countries with nuclear energy. They conclude that “… electricity from the long-term operation of nuclear power plants constitutes the least cost option for low-carbon generation”.
Just look at Germany, which this year completed turning off all of its nuclear reactors. Germans now pay 60 per cent more for electricity compared to their neighbours, the French, who predominantly rely on nuclear energy.
Australia remains in the lucky position of seeing many countries manage the “energy transition” poorly. The Germans shut down nuclear and their power prices soared. The Finns installed nuclear and their power prices plummeted. We should heed these lessons.
If you want your power bill to come down, we need to go nuclear.
Matt Canavan is an LNP senator for Queensland
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A Captain Cook statue in Fitzroy Gardens has been cut off by vandals, just weeks after two other statues were targeted in Melbourne.
The statue, located near Cooks Cottage in East Melbourne, was understood to be found on the ground by residents on Monday morning.
Looks like I get responses when I insert a typo, such as hay for gay.
But gives another meaning to “hay-ride”.
To paraphrase “Dutch”: If it burns we can kill it.
You can Ride with Pride on the Sydney Light Rail and then Walk with Pride around town. Now who is this Pride person?
well they all hate themselves and each other and everyone normal, so yeh hate crime
Can’t wait to hear Tucker’s take on this.
Indolent
Feb 27, 2024 7:37 AM
Nikki Haley supporters in Michigan want her to CONTINUE her campaign after 20-point loss in her home state so she can ‘pick up the pieces’ if Trump implodes: ‘It’s going to be hard for him to run for president from jail’
They’re all demorats.
Oh glorious day. The end of SloMo. Onward and upward.
Superman did good. The bloke who copped a flogging should have just walked away.
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Steve Inman:
Superman has seen better days
Solution to this is simple, retire Ms Webb and promote the Deputy.
Piss off, troll.
No tlicks for the Larson cartoon?
That really sucks.
The Green-Left Weekly Radio (now Half) Hour formerly known as AM had a retrospective on SloMo’s time in Parliament. Naturally it was extremely uncomplementary. I was in complete agreement, although possibly for different reasons.
Doesn’t he have a lucrative new sinecure he’s slinking off to? Worst prime minister this century, in a very competitive field.
. Don’t wish that on him I know he doesn’t want the job, he was approached years ago, he doesn’t want it, he’s near retirement age and can do without it — a magnificent policeman with a lovely wife and family.
I have watched his face in those media interviews and press conferences and he clearly hates doing what he’s been asked to do because the person in charge is an incompetent jelly-backed coward promoted beyond capacity for the job.
He was bad but in a very non R-G-R way. Still bad though.
A Captain Cook statue in Fitzroy Gardens has been cut off by vandals, just weeks after two other statues were targeted in Melbourne.
Apparently Captain James Cook’s crime was/is that he discovered and mapped the eastern cost of Australia.
The NDIS…all things to all people, especially involving taxpayer money:
Fraud claims, kids removed from care home after girl’s murder charge
A state care provider who looked after a 12-year-old girl accused of murder has had all children removed from its care amid allegations of fraud and neglect.
Authorities have removed all children from the state care provider responsible for looking after a 12-year-old girl alleged to have murdered a woman amid a federal probe focusing on fraud and neglect.
The provider the girl was living with at the time of the horror killing is alleged to have falsified documents, giving staff fake training certificates.
The organisation – which the Herald Sun is not naming for legal reasons – also faces multiple claims of a lack of supervision, failing to provide adequate food and allowing youths to engage in inappropriate relationships with each other.
A court heard in January that the substance-affected girl stabbed a 37-year-old woman several times in a Footscray flat on November 16. Two witnesses had found her in a hallway with blood on her bare feet and ankles, wearing a dress that was inside out and back to front.
The child reportedly had run away from her carers about 275 times in three years and is believed to have been repeatedly sexually exploited.
Following the alleged murder, the Victorian Department of Families Fairness and Housing urgently pulled seven other children out of the provider’s properties and rehoused them.
Former workers told the Herald Sun they underwent no extra training before the provider began housing up to 12 wards of the state across its facilities spanning Victoria in August 2022.
The training company listed on workers’ certificates – which were riddled with spelling and grammatical errors – does not exist, according to the federal education regulator.
Under state government guidelines, care workers must complete mandatory training on top of any diplomas or degrees they already hold if providing residential care was not part of their original study.
An Australian Skills Quality Authority spokesman said there were no records of a training organisation under the name detailed by the care provider, and no other organisations had used it.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme and Victoria Police are assisting in the investigation into “serious criminal allegations” against the care provider. The “phantom” training organisation was registered as a business in name only just six months before the 12-year-old living in one of the provider’s facilities allegedly fatally stabbed the woman.
Children live in out-of-home residential care when they have been removed from their homes because they have experienced severe trauma and have no legal guardian or foster parents.
Documents obtained by the Herald Sun show the provider, which received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the National Disability Insurance Scheme to care for wards of the state, also came under fire in a string of submissions to the regulator at least two months before the alleged murder.
One worker, who asked not to be named, said they believed the provider had “swindled” the NDIS out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide substandard residential care to children, labelling their practices “frightful and shocking”.
“Something had to be done. It was snowballing and people were starting to ask questions,” they said.
“I told them someone was going to die if nothing was done. I didn’t want to be right.”
A state government spokeswoman said the Human Services Regulator was probing the provider, which would no longer care for wards of the state.
“This matter involves serious criminal allegations about a service provider, and we call on anyone with information to provide it to Victoria Police,” she said.
It comes after NDIS Minister Bill Shorten announced a crackdown on dodgy and unregistered care providers.
An NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission spokeswoman said the NDIS was unaware of allegedly fabricated staff qualifications when the body renewed the provider’s registration in June 2021.
“The NDIS Commission has received multiple complaints in relation to (name removed), and is actively investigating this provider,” she said.
Victoria’s Commissioner for Children and Young People has launched an inquiry into the 12-year-old murder accused’s circumstances.
The provider did not respond to requests for comment from the Herald Sun.
. oh yeah sure NOTHING will happen just like the Disability Commissioner in Victoria tasked with investigating hundreds of complaints in relation to abuse etc.. of people disability in five years had undertaken nothing in response to those complaints. the State protects the wrong-doers to the nth degree. Those in charge do not give a stuff about anything or anyone irrespective of how egregious is the abuse.
Here in the West the Police Commissioner does a fortnightly radio telephone phone-in on the ALPBC morning show. It sounds trite but the last couple of Commissioners come across as sincere and impressive. The police were handed a real shit sandwich during Covid and are increasing being asked to pick up the thankless tasks caused by other various failures, both governmental and non-governmental.
Miserable ghost is miserable.
Malcolm Turnbull says Donald Trump is not committed to democracy (Tele, 27 Feb, not paywalled*)
Lurves going on the ABC (check)
Advanced terminal TDS (check)
Lying with nearly every word he said (check)
Antisemite (check)
It’s fascinating how Trump and Israel turn lefties into full on jackbooted Nazis. Very revealing this stuff has been.
(* It’s a fun tell that the Murdoch-owned Tele has unpaywalled an article by Turdball that’s hysterically critical of Trump. Weird how that happens.)
Er…wouldn’t it be your job to make yourself aware of such?
“50 years in office — name one thing Biden accomplished”
About 10 million illegal immigrants into the US. The cost will be (and already is) astronomical.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/dont-be-fooled-tulsi-gabbard-shes-more-dangerous/
She isn’t unwitting – she knows damn well what she’s doing – she’s whiteanting Trump just like Pence did.
Fark me swinging. As Kevin Bloody Wilson once sang, it’s like an angel has pissed on his tonsils. Herald Sun:
FMD what a state.
Captain James Cook’s real crime was that he claimed the eastern coast of Australia for the British Crown.
If it says it is organic then I carefully don’t buy it.
Major organic winery Salena Estate goes into administration (26 Feb)
Anything organic, vegan friendly or is saving the Planet (looking at you Banrock Station) doesn’t get onto the Cafe wine list. GWGB.
The only thing I’ve heard is that he’s been signed by an agent to appear on the international speaking circuit. It’s reported he’s highly regarded in conservative circles overseas because he belled the cat on China and the virus. Maybe someone can ask him what he did to Australia during that period, the ripples of which will be felt for a generation or more.
The ghost who squawks.
True. Trump is committed to a Republic not a Democracy. With ALL the Rights and Freedoms that affords. Turdball hates that. He prefers tyranny.
Trump is appealing the weirdo’s Judgment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwMmYY5tpWc
A true giant of navigation, some of his nautical maps are still in general use today.