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Tusk is a lefty.
I guess that would be the Canine Squad.
He just needs some pointing in the right direction, calli. Politics is not his natural milieu, which to me is…
Pardon my ignorance – where and when was this speech? Easily described as a rallying call to arms.
How about DEI then? Surely that will slow down the process.
Appears to be on its last legs too.
More
https://archive.is/2jfaN#selection-1713.0-1725.50
They would have lost that advantage when their salaries rose anyway. However, if their population is declining, increasing robotics and AI does seem to be more of a help than a hindrance, particularly if they are already automating production lines, etc.
Sabaya – Arabic term for a female captive; in the possession of her captor. The latter, as the ‘property owner’ may do what he pleases with her. Sabaya is a term used by both h@m@s and daesh. [IDF public statement].
Interesting that Arabic has a specific term for female slaves, no?
Sabaya proxy – Muddy-Arabic term for safely-distant female sex-slavery voyeurs and enablers.
The US has 83 SMRs in their warships, up to 500MW.
They have grown a bit since then, cohenite…
It is estimated that the thermal power output of each A1B as installed in the USS Gerald Ford will be around 700 MWth, some 25% more than provided by the A4W as installed in the Nimitz Class carriers. Improved efficiency in the total plant is expected to provide improved output to both propulsion and electrical systems. Using A4W data with a 25% increase in thermal power, the A1B reactors likely produce enough steam to generate 125 megawatts (168,000 hp) of electricity, plus 350,000 shaft horsepower (260 MW) from just one reactor to power the four propeller shafts.
what?
you mean a bunch Masters of the Universe were so fecking stupid that they bought into the idiotic trendy stuff and now theyre trying to walk it back because even Joe Average knows that rubbish is retarded?
… and concurrently, AI will dispense with human labour according to JC?
hey BComm … are you sure you’ve properly thought this through?
The paperless office.
Yeah… about that.
So the Commerce Department can tell AMD what it can and can’t do via NASDAQ.
So does Hebrew, Muddy. Most ancient languages probably do.
You idiot.
Don’t jump the gun on the fraudulent Trump charge yet, Einstein. The fat lady has not yet sung.
Only in Canberra…..maaaaate!
Students at Canberra University have been startled to discover the identity of their new lecturer in the law of evidence: disgraced former ACT director of public prosecutions Shane Drumgold.
Mr Drumgold, who resigned as DPP last year following the damning findings of misconduct by the Sofronoff inquiry, began teaching a unit of the online law of evidence course at the university on January 15 and will teach another from October 21.
Academics at the university have expressed astonishment that Mr Drumgold will be teaching students, particularly in an area of law which he was found by the Sofronoff inquiry to have deliberately flouted.
“Being appointed in the middle of this godforsaken mess to teach evidence law is just – wow, you can’t make it up,” one faculty member told The Australian.
“It’s funny how academia doesn’t think (the Sofronoff report) is a real thing – it’s just staggering.”
Mr Drumgold’s current LinkedIn profile describes him as a “retired lawyer author”.
The former DPP is teaching a unit that “introduces graduate students to the law of evidence” with a particular focus on the ACT Evidence Act 2011, including pre-trial obligations, privileges and exceptions to the rules.
Among the findings of the Sofronoff inquiry were that Mr Drumgold was guilty of a serious breach of duty by failing to comply with the “golden rule” of disclosure by failing to disclose documents under the Evidence Act 2011; that he “kept the defence in the dark” about the steps he was taking to deny it the documents; and that he “constructed a false narrative to support a claim of legal professional privilege”.
Mr Drumgold was also found to have made representations to Chief Justice Lucy McCallum in the criminal case against Bruce Lehrmann that were untrue and “an invention of his own” and presented evidence in the form of an alleged “contemporaneous” file note to the Chief Justice that was false and “knowingly lied” to her about it.
All of these findings were upheld on Monday by judge Stephen Kaye in response to a legal challenge by Mr Drumgold to the Sofronoff inquiry’s report that he was in breach of his duties while prosecuting allegations that Mr Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins on a couch in Parliament House.
“He’s teaching evidence and all of this [Mr Drumgold’s admissions in the inquiry and Sofronoff findings] is on the public record,” the faculty member said, acknowledging that colleagues at the university were reluctant to make an issue of the appointment.
“You don’t speak up about this sort of thing because if you have a view that’s anywhere in the centre of politics … best of luck to you,” the staff member said.
Despite a stated commitment by the University of Canberra to “open and transparent governance and leadership”, the university declined to respond to any of the specific questions posed by The Australian.
Among those the university failed to address were: how Mr Drumgold was selected and awarded the position, and whether the university had considered the findings of the Sofronoff inquiry when it appointed him.
Mr Drumgold, who gained his law degree from the University of Canberra in 2001, was made an adjunct professor (an academic who does not work full time at the university) in 2020 and is still listed on the university website in that position.
The university would not disclose whether Mr Drumgold held any positions other than teaching the evidence course, or the terms and conditions of his employment.
Instead, the university issued a brief statement asserting that teaching of all units was “governed by quality assurance processes” and that appointment of teaching staff was “governed by rigorous policies that ensure their suitability and qualifications are aligned with the unit’s delivery requirements”.
Mr Drumgold is not able to work as a barrister in the ACT as his practising certificate was conditional on his employment in government.
Applications for practising certificates – and renewals – do not begin again in the ACT until April.
Oz – no comments allowed of course
Peronist is more accurate, and I said stastist, not statist. Those are two different things. Look it up if you don’t know what it means.
Not at all; in fact, a tribalist, stupid libertarian in Argentina is making it look really easy. In fact, had anyone suggested a few years ago that Argentina was going to be where it is now, they would have been told to go see a shrink. But it’s happening.
It most certainly reduced union bastardry, as we were in a sinkhole like your native country, which was actually in a worse position. The welfare state would have become bigger with subsidies and tariffs protecting lazy firms. That’s welfare too, in case you didn’t realize.
Protectionism for the sake of keeping union jobs? Sure.
Social breakdown would never have occurred if we kept the protected textile industry afloat, right? That’s your thesis for this evening.
Why would I despise the working class? Do you have even a smidgen of evidence for this mind-reading caper?
Except I do realize that, and I also realize that tariffs were around when the top tax rate in Australia was 90%. You’re mind-reading and making stuff up as you go along, as the facts don’t agree with your assertions. There were no halcyon days of very low income tax and tariffs post-WW1.
What fallout?
Western agri is not going to be “ruined” because that’s not going anywhere fast, particularly in Europe, where it’s pretty certain right-wing nationalist parties will be in power this year and 2025.
All that will be reversed pretty soon.
But we’re discussing the AI-led revolution in manufacturing and re-shoring. You’ve said re-shoring isn’t happening in the US, and it’s been occurring at a rapid rate unless you believe MIT Sloan is lying.
Also, one last point: No one told the carmakers to leave. They left because they lost their massive subsidies, which cost the equivalent of the cost of the car. In other words, we, the taxpayers, were paying the car makers to produce cars at a rate of 100%. Great deal, right?
Here’s your solution, Juan.
You are constantly badgering us with the idea that China is an evil empire. That’s somewhat true, at least under Xi and I have no disagreement on that score. So why, then, are you always frothing at the mouth about our imports?
If you want to prevent imports, then demand we stop exporting to China, as that would collapse our trade balance by about A$150 billion annually and send the Australian dollar to the mid-30s (US cents). That would most certainly curtail our imports, and there would be no need for subsidies and tariffs.
Anybody who has read Catallaxy knows that never have you denigrated or sneered at the occupations of others, particularly those you may imply are lowly occupations of which the individual should be ashamed or “know their place”
there isnt one
… you’re wanking again
I always said that all work is important. What I’ve also said is that I don’t abide by frauds and bullshit artists like yourself. There’s a difference, and if you’re looking for timely denigration, then there’s this: just up-thread that you missed.
It works both ways, sweetheart.
At the very least, Juan puts his arguments up front and believes what he says. All of it is wrongheaded, but he does that.
Those arguments he puts forward are the very things you’ve disagreed with in the past, yet you praise his commentary.
Now go away, as it’s worthless to have an argument with you. You’re a waste of space.
Engoron based the fine in part on lower interest rates secured by Trump’s minions lying about the properties, with the tripling of floor area in one property being the most egregious example. The banks couldn’t do realistic valuations because they weren’t allowed to see the floor plans or inspect the properties, and the numbers they were given were fraudulently inflated.
Trump made hundreds of millions of dollars with this crime. He now has to pay an amount equivalent to his ill-gotten gains. Engoron has the power to levy that fine as a NY Supreme Court judge.
Maybe if Trump had been the least bit penitent, he might not have had the book thrown at him. But no, he has continued to sneer and abuse, arrogantly thinking he is invulnerable. We shall see if he is.
Also… man, feel the populist fervour from you lot! Rinehart, Trump, Musk… grimy bootstrapped heroes from the mean streets all.
You’re free to post one, just one item of fraud, or bullshit, that I’ve ever posted.
Over to you ………….
Alan Bond taught business management, in the jug, serving a sentence for Australia’s biggest corporate theft….
Doofus, banks ask people or if they have inside experts do curbisde valuations. They don’t have to inspect every floor. They also see the rental agreements and how tenants are behaving. STFU about this stuff as you understand nothing about it.
The banks priced the loan rates to their valuations of the real estate holdings. They, for all intents, ignored Trump’s valuation. Gosh, you’re an idiot.
The judge and the AG a turds and should be treated as such
One word. Dementia.
Sorry to hear that about your dementia, JC. If you need a visit in the retirement home, I can maybe organise an Elvis impersonator. You’ll think it’s really him! Actually, you really will. Due to the dementia.
Requiring 53 licenses.
You own a regular country hotel when that’s not true.
GST on gambling.
Firing a person because he burned the toast.
Lying about what I said that you were aware was directed to Trans
Calling me a wifebeater.
That’s 6 I think. There’s more, but enuff now as you’re a bore.
Fatboy, stop doing a poor imitation of the driller. That’s just sad.
By the way, I’m not sure anyone has said it before I did as I was busy juan’ing.
The banks lent money to Trump on their own valuation of the real estate holdings so there was no spread Trump enjoyed over what he should have paid.,
You’re being duped as usual.
Dear God no, no, no.
He’s teaching evidence!!
Now demonstrate those are frauds, or bullshit.
(Never mind that a couple don’t even make sense unless you expand them.
Over to you ……………
I have.
Their valuations were done on the declared size of the buildings, which were false in some cases. Follow the facts of the case and not what you heard from Trumps cheerleaders.
Trump acknowledged penthouse size at 11,000 square feet, not 30,000 he later claimed
In one case, which was the apartment, hardly material. And stop it with the nonsense by implying that the banks didn’t do their own due diligence with respect of the commercial holdings. The information (size etc) is even on the fcking internet that’s posted by the City of New York.
Follow the facts instead of reading Axios summations.
An incomplete sentence.
Hair splitting of terminology aside, I do own a pub – prove I do not.
An incomplete sentence.
I’ve never claimed to have sacked anyone for burning toast.
Nobody even knows what this means.
Can’t think why anybody would believe you’re a wifebeater.
Over to you ………………….
(it’s dick on the guillotine time, bigmouth)
An academic can be driven from the campus for “triggering” some sensitive gits but he demonstrates egregious professional incompetence and remains. We are doomed. Last night I watched a few vids by comedians going after woke. Great line from Sean Locke: A woman’s work is never done. That’s why they don’t get paid as much as men.
BTW JC the USA is experiencing a huge manufacturing resurgence but I can’t see it happening in other Western countries. In China it may be a long way off because youth unemployment is 20%, people cannot move freely through the country, and there are still plenty of peasants wanting to move to the big smoke. Labour costs could stay low for decades and that will impede AI innovation.
John H
China is an economy without dynamism now. It’s done. They may cause a great deal of trouble over the next few years, but they’re done. It’s all top down directed and they’re ll too frightened to move an eyelid without approval.
The great mouth has backed down & been silenced.
Good.
I haven’t backed one bit. I’m just avoiding you because it’s useless interacting with a bullshit artist
But have the last say.
Go!
Prove one, just one, piece of bullshit.
Otherwise, you’re (once again) tacitly getting on all fours in front of me & walking backward – like a dog rolling over & showing submission.
Prove a piece of bullshit…………………. GO!
I sacked someone for burning toast, or
I do not own a pub.
Of your above senile dribblings, those are the only two which are comprehensible.
Prove either one is a falsehood – which do you pick?
Then prove it ………………………….
That sound y’all hear is the great mouth pondering how to shift the goalposts.
Thought bubble: “Perhaps a long tirade of cheap personal abuse will substitute for fact, that’s my usual ‘go-to’ for when I’m caught out”
What will NOT be going through the great mind: “Perhaps if I shut my mouth and did not run off at the mouth with mindless insults and falsehoods, I wouldn’t get into pointless stoushes”
” [snaps fingers] That’s it, I’ll declare I’m bored and the subject is now closed – that sort of thing works in academia & other evidence based forums, just declare I’m not interested. I’ll say I’m bored, that the discussion is not worthy, and of course I’ll claim victory, perhaps slip in a few slurs at his occupation, which isn’t as lofty as that of important people – yeah, that’s what I’ll do”
Many indicators for that. Xi has ruined the economic potential of China. The young have moved from Lying Flat to Letting it Rot. A quiet rebellion that points to noise in the near future. The Chinese economic miracle was driven by the 996 working life but as they learned about the wider world the young have decided they’re not going to take it anymore. Where is that magical behavior manipulation people were hinting at?
Jane Barnes, wife of Jimmy (a famous singer) is copping it on social media for taking on Louise 7-nil-again over the hatchet job on Cranbrook.
Can’t see what she’s said wrong – though she’s since deleted her tweet. (However screenshots abound)
A few other tweets of hers remain up, taking on Milligan head-on.
Good on her.
#IstandwithJane
Apologies for interrupting a stoush but :
Breaking news – some of the mandated out Qld nurses are now receiving emails asking them to apply for jobs.
Not providing a source but first hand from one of them.
Forgot to mention Dr My Le case is in NSW Supreme Court today.
No source. I just know stuff.
Old school nitro. It is not smoke coming from the headers. It’s raw nitromethane puddling in the headers. Modern day cars with twin magnetos produce enough amps to weld engine blocks. These have been toned down.
Still a great show.
BAKERSFIELD 2024 – FULL FUNNY CAR ELIMINATIONS
Bourne1879
Mar 6, 2024 1:42 AM
Hate the stoush, but how do you confirm that someone actually said something without joining in?
I do not keep records and no interest in research but I do have a good memory especially when a claim is made outside of the norm.
No archeology museum today, went to Muza which is pretty good, they have little videos of blokes replicating some of the olden day techniques, eg marquetry and filigree, and a few preparatory drawings and ‘bozzettos’. I think I missed a floor last time, the one of early British era works of Valetta as it was. Part of the Grand Tour. Might be worth doing some walking around/boat tripping before heading into Muza which is the former Auberge d’Italia.
Paid £45 for a week’s (30 days?) worth of entries to various sites around Malta, looks like there were won’t be as much idle loafing as originally planned.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
David Pope.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Brookes.
A.F. Branco.
Bob Gorrell.
Matt Margolis.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Chip Bok.
Tom Stiglich.
Tina Norton.
This is an open discussion site Kevin M. Nobody will begrudge you your input.
Thanks Tom
…
Quadrant came in the mail today… disappointed that they’ve put in a new full page, low oxygen cartoon strip. On top of the beginner idea-lite Fieldhouse.
Thanks Tom.
lawfirm linked to the muslim community trying to take elbow to the ICC for genocide.
rather starve than eat American food aid
I dont know that it matters that there is Arabic word for ‘sex slave’ I think what matters is that Unwra primary school teacher was boasting thst he had one.
No way.
???
30% of Gen Z adults are queer.
The only way such a shift is real is if the Mouse Utopia experiment is happening again (but with people), a chick pashing another gal once drunkenly and for attention makes them lesbian or women are being emotionally manipulated into this. Women will please authority figures more willingly.
It’s been okay to be gay for decades. Men really haven’t really had a problem with working with gay men outside of stuff like professional football. Most blokes don’t wanna get clocked by a hulk like Ian Roberts for running their mouth either.
I’m just sayin’
This is a lot more common with women than men.
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/o8rkoa/ive_been_been_a_lesbian_my_entire_life_but_i_fell/
Ive been been a lesbian my entire life, but i fell in love with a man. I need advice
(I’d cut and paste but the rant is a rolled gold word wall).
She says she’s been lesbian her entire life and hated men for most of her life.
I’ve been straight my entire life, but I don’t hate men (or women) [and never have].
It’s a bit different when Jimmy Nail’s classic Ain’t No Doubt can be sang by a woman about a woman leaving her for a woman beating down a man’s door.
The first thing I noticed rather with an increase in the number of women turning up to sportsball with a singular female friend is, Is She Really Going Out With Her?
I can’t quickly find the proportion of women who give up the charade and end up with a man after all. Maybe it’s society’s payoff for feminising boys and making hyper aggressive masculinised men. The literal socialising of toxic femininity and masculinity in the opposite sexes respectively.
Greek does.
30% is very high. I’d focus on their behavior than their claims. McKinsey(1948) produced surprising results indicating shifting sexual preferences are more common than most people believe, or least I believed. Monica told me about her friends would jump into the lesbian game and then out again. That also surprised me.
RFK junior claims atrazine is causing gender dysphoria. Make of that what you will.
Calhoun’s famous experiments were his experiments, others are not so confident about the results and others did not follow through. I won’t extrapolate his results to humans.
There is something weird going on. Yesterday a news report about a mice study found that the scent of females could shorten male lives! Population density might have causative effects we are yet to discover.
Wow. Literal toxic femininity.
I need some fresh air before I start ranting and selling TRT pills. There’s a war for your mind!
Jane Barnes is Thai and step daughter of an ex Australian diplomat.
Suspect Barnesys kids went to the school or they may mix in those sort of circles.
All I can say Milligan is getting a tad full of herself that she certainly is going after bigger and bigger targets. What’s the chance soon she missteps on a target that bites hard with her ACA style reporting.
I certainly wouldn’t be sad to see her fall.
Off to Moorabbin today via Richmond. Haven’t been through Collingwood in yonks, the talk of affordable housing yesterday made me think of the houso flats there, be interesting to see if there are any changes.
If Trump’s banks were sizing their loans based on 1/3 of the actual asset size, that just means he was borrowing much less than he could have and the banks had much better loan security (loan to value). If it was a construction loan, it must have been funded with less debt and more equity, reflecting much lower risk and therefore warranting a lower cost of (competitively bid) debt.
Actual asset size is ultimately governed by regulatory planning controls and approvals (ie: government) and nobody seems to be alleging Trump broke any of those.
The whole thing is a ridiculous farrago and unlikely to survive an appeal in a non-partisan forum.
Now getting physical. Ashton, where art thou? Herald Sun:
Good Lord seems the boss is a bit naive. I would have thought marching down the street shouting anti Semitic tropes is incitement. Confident knowing Plod are doing what Paddy shot, this has escalated.
Cassie had it right. Physical violence is now being visited and it must be eradicated by using the full force of the law.
Interesting
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/woke-busting-app-reveals-brands-political-views-helps-shoppers-match-values-veebs-ceo
I’m guessing a lot of people might be dumping Pepsi brands now.
I’m still out on P & G products. If in their opinion, white men can’t find attractive white blonde women attractive and need their gay black best friend to stop them from raping that woman, that’s a company I don’t need to support.
App website:
https://www.veebsapp.com/
And Rita Panahi on her favourite punching bag:
Could have bolded the whole article. Rolled gold from Panahi.
CB gold buying has boomed since 2010.
7,500 tonnes! 2,100 tonnes just in 2022 and 2023 alone!
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Mar 5, 2024 11:51 PM
Alan Bond taught business management, in the jug, serving a sentence for Australia’s biggest corporate theft….
The Army Nomads were disposed and sold to Indonesia in about 1996 or 97 along with all the spares that were in the inventory. I think from memory the aircraft were sold for 100k each and the spares which were worth about 20m plus for 4m. I was posted to Oakey at the time and was involved with the spares in the warehouse side of things for the disposal.
Despite our best efforts, there were a few things that had been missed in the warehouse after the disposal had been finalised.
The odd radio, wing weights, bell crank, control rod etc would be found or turn up on stocktakes.
The wing weights had been found and were brought on charge and then came up for a random stocktake.
The wing weights were made out of brass and worth about $5,000 each because exact measurements and exact weight with all the certification paperwork that goes with aviation stuff.
The two stocktakers couldn’t find them.
The OC decided to call in the MPs to investigate.
The MPs decided to visit the scrap metal dealers in Toowoomba.
Surprise surprise…one of the dealers remembered the bloke coming in with the weights and had written out a receipt for the value for scrap brass. About $400-450.
The Lcpl was charged with theft, went up before the Defence Force Magistrate and scored a $2,000 fine and a ‘severe reprimand.’
The OC had put in a ‘good word’ for the Dig…was getting out of the Army, had a job lined up, good worker, did not dropped his bundle despite all this hanging over his head, well liked and opportunity theft.
The job that the Dig was leaving the Army and going to was in Disposals as a public servant.
I had a yarn to him after it was all said and done and commented ‘well Dig, now you can say that you have done disposals from both sides of the fence.’
And in todays Oz:
Bosses oppose IVF treatment leave – Employer say time off for workers to deal with reproductive health issues can be addressed through existing leave entitlements.
Of course they would oppose it, employee benefits are specifically intended to aid in the hiring and retention of staff – successful IVF treatment diametrically opposes that.
And in more evidence the dollar is failing, *both* BTC and Gold reached USD ATHs overnight. (disregard the subsequent pullback in BTC – it rose 46% in the last month, so was due for a double digit pullback.
Jailed
By stacking up traffic back to Point Cook, did they not cause a shit ton more ‘deadly emissions’ to occur?
I see one of their professionally made banners mentioned ‘Climate Breakdown’, the new buzz word. Fully funded useful idiots of the Soros.
My Fellow Palestinians: Stop Blaming the Jews—Hamas Is Starving Our Brothers and Sisters in Gaza | Opinion
” At this very moment husband is on phone to electricity provider who is insisting we have used an amount of electricity over a week equivalent to a small factory!!!
He is negotiating but operator is insistent we used it.”
I had similar with gas. Only have stove-top and space heating for gas, bills fairly steady over many years, then get one that is triple or more the gas usage!
Rang AGL, kept escalating issue until I got someone in Australia, then got them to bring up the current bill and past bill, scroll down to the “usage history” graphs, and asked them to explain to me how it was possible for me to use so much more gas during summer than any of the previous 3 years in winter, or without anyone noticing a leak.
They eventually agreed it was some sort of error, credited me, instead issuing an invoice for an estimate based on previous usage at that time of year. But it did take a while – months, IIRC. No matter though, they can’t cut you off for not paying a bill that is in dispute.
If you know you are in the right, don’t let it go – threaten them with an omsbudsman if you have to, they’ll come around.
Electric vehicles release more toxic emissions, are worse for the environment than gas-powered cars: study
Report: ‘Dear White Staffers’ Account Driving Antisemitism on Capitol Hill
Andrew Lawrence
Shameless thieves
Could Fantasy Football be described as a populist pastime?
Pathologist reports a stunning 52% increase in cancer risk for ages 15-59 who were vaxxed
And BTC exceeded the market cap of the world’s Silver. Blackrock has started buying BTC in it’s $36B Strategic Income Opps Fund.
Katie Hopkins: Big changes in the U.K. media landscape:
We used the electrickery ombudsman once. 10 odd years ago. It was sorted the day after we emailed them. I was impressed.
A letter came in the mail. “Welcome to Simply Energy” etc. Huh? Neither the missus or I signed up with this mob. Also missus’ surname was misspelt. We rang Simply and also our real provider Origin, but kept going around in circles and getting stonewalled.
Ombudsman was only hope. Use them. That’s what they are there for.
Dot
Some seem to try being lesbians for a while, as much as a fashion statement than anything else.
The name for them when they move on: Hasbians.
Sick creeps!
Uptick.
We are on the same trajectory and closing in fast. Why, it’s like there is some evil global conspiracy at play. (grin)
Nice and quick:
Two climate protesters are in jail for blocking traffic lanes on a major Melbourne freeway, causing significant rush-hour delays.
Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco, 33, from NSW and Bradley Homewood, 51, from Williamstown pleaded guilty to two counts of public nuisance by obstructing motorists and obstructing police and emergency service workers yesterday.
Both were sentenced to 21 days imprisonment.
Daily Mail
Trump made America great again
Asking that same old disturbing question again…
‘Blood Money’: Meet the Secretive China-Linked U.S. Left-Wing Groups Driving Chaos in Our Streets
Nolte: Tail Wags Dog – Subscribers Threaten to Cancel NYT for Not Hating Trump Enough
Bespoke
Mar 6, 2024 8:48 AM
With cameras.
“Onlytoddlers”???
Canadian lab that handles world’s deadliest viruses tightens security after investigation finds researchers with connections to the Chinese government and military gained access and MAILED live Ebola virus to Wuhan
Nuland resigns. Policy change?
‘Permanently sterilized’: Father shares harrowing details of court battles to save his son
And then, one day, for no reason at all, a man cable tied kids while he waited for the police to come..
Its a 50/50 chance as to if this is a loose unit or a person sick of the kids getting away with crap.
Broome man charged after allegedly restraining three children, aged between 6 and 8, with cable ties
So they are going to make an example of the chap.
A 45-year-old West Australian man has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault after allegedly restraining three children, some with cable ties, outside a Broome home on Tuesday afternoon.
Officers were called to a Cable Beach street at 2:15pm for a reported trespass incident.
A video live streamed to Facebook around 2:15pm shows angry scenes outside a property, with two children against a garage door.
Ugly inside and out.
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
NEW – U.S. Under Secretary Victoria Nuland resigns.
I want a politics free, stupid people anecdote free answer: how many self identified women actually become committed heterosexuals with a husband and at least one child?
The internet is crazy: lesbian prostitutes sleeping with men whilst not on the clock “it’s easy and I have little choice”, “you should leave women alone”, the best answer I can find is 10% of women as of 2016 flip flop in their 20s.
None of that answers my questions.
More pondering from Reddit:
30% of Gen Z is queer? This even has the young gays and lesbians scratching their heads. It’s a puzzle. A case of pumped up numbers? Dare I say it: mental illness, personality disorders, attention seeking & validation?
Maybe it really is the atrazine.
Assuming no mass adoption of surrogacy or revolutionary fertility technology advancements; at 1.58 births per woman for Australia in 2020, this does not bode well. It could get down to 1.3 within a decade on these trends.
Would could have a shrinking population by 2050 and a population collapse from 2070 to 2100.
escaping abilene paradoxes and the future of the public square
is society succumbing to delusion or waking up from it?
“Ejadumcation egg spurts… “
And from the 251/media song sheet another “poor kiddies” tale of terror .. FFS!
Now I’d be the 1st to admit that cable ties are slightly over-the-top BUT the kids were trespassing, far too young to be swimming unsupervised and yelling for mum for an HOUR .. Obviously, mummy was very concerned where & what her young brood were up too .. after all an hour ain’t that long, is it …… FFS!
Never fails tho .. us eyour 251 card and the media & authorities give you a free pass …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13159061/Broome-children-tied-up.html
I’d wager he was sick of them getting away with crap. 2pm on a Tuesday. No schools in Broome?
Clearing the decks for the election.
Also could be Nuland acknowledging Ukraine is a lost cause and so is this obscenity of an Administration.
This Dumbgeld gig as a university law tutor in “evidence” exemplifies the sort of “up yours, peasants” idiocy and arrogance so typical of the upside down, black is white, tax hoovering hellish clownshow that is Scamberra.
Dumbgeld’s knowledge of evidence is so astounding that he actually thought (or most likely didn’t) the hysterical evidence free, years after the fact allegations made by Hoggins against Lehrmann could have stood up in court.
Yet another staggeringly incompetent moral and ethical vacuum blighting public life in this country.
Spittle faced dickless from last night:
Engoron based the fine in part on lower interest rates secured by Trump’s minions lying about the properties, with the tripling of floor area in one property being the most egregious example. The banks couldn’t do realistic valuations because they weren’t allowed to see the floor plans or inspect the properties, and the numbers they were given were fraudulently inflated.
Trump was accused of stating his penthouse was 300 sq m. The counter argument from idiots like dickless was it was only 100 sq m; which was true for each floor; but since it was 3 stories Trump was correct.
Favourable interest rates for favoured customers is standard practice. Only suckers like dickless pay the headline rate.
The fact is Trump did nothing wrong and the real crimes were done by the fat black bitch and the weirdo judge.
Yet another staggeringly incompetent moral and ethical vacuum blighting public life in this country.
Multiple thumbs up Rabz.
The photographs on the article explain a lot…
Sky News has a RINO supporter on to say Trump is unhinged and likely to lose.
New levels of wrong0logy from m0nty.
Remarkable.
A rat abandoning a sinking ship.
Arky
What Arky said.
Multiple upticks….
Daytime kiddies chatting with their like-minded friends. This is why I would rather watch Channel 7 in the morning than Sky.
Yep. Not sure this is even taught at university level business courses.
Dot
He never fails to reach new heights of stupidity (and he is proud of it).
The DEI collapse?
There is now just enough minority employment in the upper castes that they are pulling up the ladder that got them there and denying the rest an opportunity.
No matter how hard people try, the human character doesn’t change.
J.C:
Male Nurse.
Nuland worked across Dem and Rep administrations. Her anti-Russian/ pro-NATO expansion policy started under Bush Jr. and is supported by a considerable number of commenters here.
I received today two insurance renewals. One for house and contents, and the other for car insurance. Different insurers. Both are proposing premium increases of about 1/3rd compared to the last renewal. Amazing.
I will have to look around for other options.
If insurance is in the CPI basket, then the inflation rate is going to be roaring.
A woman was forced to give birth on the side of the road because of the climate loons yesterday. 21 days in the clink is inadequate. They should charged with far more serious offences. Problem is most magistrates and judges are fellow travellers.
Congratulations cohenite, you got every relevant detail of that wrong.
The figure was 30,000 sq ft, not 300 sq m.
Trump claimed all three stories but a neighbour took up space in two of them.
Is there a point where you discover the concept of self awareness, or are you going to continue on forever with your cavalcade of stupidity?
Dot
Mar 6, 2024 9:13 AM
You know the reason…
Im actually trending towards the Calhoun experiment theories.
Lots of “beautiful ones’ around nowadays
https://www.victorpest.com/articles/what-humans-can-learn-from-calhouns-rodent-utopia
By Day 315, behavior disparities between males of high and low status became more pronounced. Those at the bottom of the pecking order found themselves spurned by females and withdrew from mating altogether. Having no roles to fulfill within the society of mice, these outcast males wandered apart from the larger groups to eat and sleep alone — and sometimes fight with one another.
…
With male mice abandoning their traditional roles in Universe 25, the females were left to fend for their nests. Consequently, many females adopted more aggressive forms of behavior, which would sometimes spill over into violence toward their young. Others would refrain from motherly duties altogether, banishing their unraised litters and withdrawing from further mating, resulting in serious consequences:
…
Amidst the violence, hostility, and lack of mating, a younger generation of mice reached maturity, having never been exposed to examples of normal, healthy relations. With no concept of mating, parenting, or marking territory, this generation of mice spent all of their waking hours eating, drinking, and grooming themselves.
In reference to their perfected, unruffled appearances, Calhoun called these mice the “beautiful ones.” Living in seclusion from the other mice, they were spared the violence and conflict that waged in the crowded areas, yet made no social contributions.
Every commercial loan application I have ever been involved with, the financier engaged their own valuer who measured the building.If US banks do not do the same I would be astonished.
In that vein, this today:
Top scientists ‘concerned’ at USyd maths backflip (Paywallian)
The dumbing down continues. Yet another datum indicating our schools are broken due to leftist ideology and control.
Recently got insurance renewal for car from CBA.It had gone up quite a bit even though we get a discount from CBA.Got a quote from youi, about $400 cheaper.Went back to CBA but they wouldnt match, so off to youi.
Tried same thing with house cover but youi was dearer this time.
Oh no no no no no….
Possible they’re looking to walk back a little the disastrous policy of the last few decades.
Hardly surprising when you load yourself up with extraneous drugs.
Transgender Hormone Drugs Linked to Cancer
former ambassador to Afghanistan who oversaw the U.S. withdrawal from the country
They used to shoot Admirals for stuff ups less calamitous than the Afghan withdrawal.
The figure was 30,000 sq ft, not 300 sq m.
Correct dickless. Over 3 levels.
Trump claimed all three stories but a neighbour took up space in two of them.
Was the neighbour an illegal immigrant?
Is there a point where you discover the concept of self awareness, or are you going to continue on forever with your cavalcade of stupidity?
You first dickless. I always defer to the experts.
Black Ball:
Respectfully, BB, the Law has discovered it leads to an easier life if they side with the lawbreakers. The standard they walk past is the standard they accept.
On Sheep/Sheepdogs/Wolves.
But what happens when the sheepdog gets physically and morally lazy? They side with the wolf and still get paid when they refuse to protect the sheep.
That’s where we are now.
No wonder they want to cancel GB News.
Patrick: ‘I’m Reporting This Because No Other Channel Will’ – Syrian Refugee Child Rape Gang Exposed
Interestink!
Fusion power is only 20 years away now*
https://knowridge.com/2024/03/a-leap-toward-limitless-energy-the-breakthrough-of-mits-super-magnet/
*Deliberate.
Graham – I’ve been commenting here for a while about the exorbitant increases in insurance premiums over about the last two years.
My home and contents policy premium (for example) last year effectively doubled* – and this after doing a lot of shopping around. Consequently, I scrapped the contents policy. It’s due for renewal towards the end of next month, so it will be “interesting” (and no doubt infuriating) to see the rate of increase this year.
*I had a H&C policy through my bank at a discounted rate which the insurer subsequently pulled the plug on, hence the exorbitant increase.
Bruce
Isn’t there a move to remove the calculus component of RACI approved chem degrees?
Indolent
As an aside, I find this man’s voice intolerable – literally like nails across a blackboard – intolerable which is a pity, he comes up with some good stuff.
Sky News Daytime has had a RINO supporter/Never Trumper, a CNN reporter and now Ant Lowenstein – is this Sky’s idea of Balance: lefties all day and conservatives after dark?
I just got my renewal notice for the house from NRMA, up 20% on last year’s.
Monica told me about her friends would jump into the lesbian game and then out again.
It has always been observable that women can be most appreciative of the attractiveness of good looking women. It’s a short hop from there.
Men are (or were in my time) much less likely to do the same about handsome men.
???
…I’m meant to surprised that Trumpykins owned a 3 level strata property, two levels leased to tenants and each level had maximum internal dimensions of 30.5 m X 30.5 m?
That’s pretty standard for a high rise, like an older 1980s one I worked in on Walker St…
He’s a billionaire, regardless if you think his pre Truth social wealth was considerably less than 10 bn USD.
I think it is important at a time like this to be especially vigilant for any Islamophobic backlash to the
crimemishapunfortunate sequence of events above.Lefty lady red-pilled awesomely:
Confessions of a Corrupt Liberal (7 Feb, via Instapundit)
She isn’t quite fully past her past yet, but her confession is fascinating and erudite. Well worth reading.
Surely a typo…shouldn’t it be undersecretary of state for mismanagement?
Apparently one of the iconic photos from WW2 is to be banned and cast into the memory hole because some blue haired lardbeast who even unkle Badfinger wouldnt touch has got its codpiece in a knot over it.
https://twitter.com/ArmyTimes/status/1765055683261542549
Dr. Philip McMillan interview with Dr Shankara Chetty from South Africa who has had great success treating Covid there and is now facing charges for “unprofessional conduct”, i.e. using unsanctioned treatments!
When is the Persecution of a Covid Healer Appropriate?
Was this “Zionist Jewish boss” doxxed in the list published by Clementine Ford?
meant to BE surprised…
Indolent Avatar
And behind the whole sordid drama is a woman obviously suffering from Munchausen’s by proxy. “You wait, you bastard – I’ll sterilise your son.”
The good old days.
The first bitcoin faucet was called “The Bitcoin Faucet” and was developed by Gavin Andresen in 2010.[236] It originally gave out five bitcoins per person.
Winston Smith
Mar 6, 2024 10:04 AM
J.C:
Why would I despise the working class? Do you have even a smidgen of evidence for this mind-reading caper?
Male Nurse.
Now demoted to Stoush Nurse. Usually on the Blog Night Shift.
Top…Man… on the job
Top… MAN…
https://twitter.com/i/status/1764055471948714149
/spoiler – hes actually talking about the Palestine mob.
If they’re “born this way” what accounts for this remarkable increase in sexual deviancy?
Bruce of N
Remember, The AAS is as woke as. For the Academy to notice a problem, it must be really bad.
For car insurance, I switched to Budget Direct last year as they were way cheaper.
Indolent
Mar 6, 2024 10:31 AM
No wonder they want to cancel GB News.
Patrick: ‘I’m Reporting This Because No Other Channel Will’ – Syrian Refugee Child Rape Gang Exposed
Being a Geordie I read the local Newcastle paper (Evening Chronicle) online most mornings and at 6.00am the above story of the sentencing was the banner headliner.. after watching the segment I went back to read the story again .. and now it is nowhere on the site .. it’s as if it never existed ..
no idea why but it is gone …………
Just beware, if you have a bingle they likely won’t reinsure you.
If insurance is in the CPI basket, then the inflation rate is going to be roaring.
The CPI basket is cherry-picked 95% consists of little or no change items but they allow one, sometimes two, gone-up, additions to make it look genuine …… another gummint rort the media lap up …………
We used the electrickery ombudsman once. 10 odd years ago. It was sorted the day after we emailed them. I was impressed.
A letter came in the mail. “Welcome to Simply Energy” etc. Huh? Neither the missus or I signed up with this mob. Also missus’ surname was misspelt. We rang Simply and also our real provider Origin, but kept going around in circles and getting stonewalled.
Ombudsman was only hope. Use them.
Absolutely the same story – except different electricity providers – with us a few months ago, It was only when we contacted the Ombudsman that it was resolved.
No idea Dot. I dumped my RACI membership in the nineties, it was pointless even then. Woke now of course.
Multiple burnt out Abrams affected shareholder value.
Seems the latest is that, if there was a juvenile detention centre in the North West, they wouldn’t have to undergo the shame of being flown to Perth in handcuffs, their relatives could come and visit them, and they wouldn’t lose their connection with “country.”
Fashion.
Gullible people (which includes all lefties) love being fashionable.
It especially applies to young women, for whom lesbianism is currently extremely popular.
TV commercials for consumer brands such as Pandora jewellery are advertisements for female homosexuality.
Some results in already:
LIVE RESULTS: Welcome to Super Tuesday Central (PJ Media)
I just got my renewal notice for the house from NRMA, up 20% on last year’s.
AS a single dad (4 of ’em) I took out funeral insurance about 25 years ago .. kids were at school and I had no intention of being a burden on them if something untoward happened to me sooooo …
Fast forward 20 years (2019-ish) and the kids have all kicked on, finacially, and hindsight sez it wasn’t necessary but then I turned 70 .. up until then the premiums were reasonable and the final payout was always far better than if I’d just put money aside .. but .. once past 70 they’ve shot up to the point where what I pay over a year I’m only getting around 50% of that added to my policy value …… At this rate if I get to 85 the return (to the kids) will, actually, be less than my contribution(s) ….
But after so many years paying and no refund available it’s far to late to opt out so I just keep paying …..
The latter, retirement, years aren’t,specifically, mentioned with the “value” rates for working age signing up ………….
Victoria Nuland Forced to Step Down
COMMENT: Mr Armstrong, Congratulations. You exposed Victoria Nuland, her sister-in-law, and her husband long before anyone. This forced us to look closer here in what you now call Marxville. Catchy name, BTW. The more people who have looked at her closely, the more she has become the face of the war against Russia. It was great news that she had been forced to step down before she had to explain herself under oath.
Thank you again for your work. Some of us do listen.
Anonymous
REPLY: “It is a FANTASTIC day for America that Victoria Nuland has been forced to step down. However, the rest of the people in Biden’s State Department have been sheltered in the shadow of Nuland. Yet they are just as fervent about starting World War III. Unfortunately, she will still be consulted, which does not alter the computer forecasts. I wish it did.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/victoria-nuland-forced-to-step-down/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Right.
Only theory I have is a door to door salesman (you know the type) got into our letterbox, got missus’ name (misspelling it) and filled in and signed the transfer form. Was probably way behind on his quota for the day.
The whole industry is a rort and scam. They have no need or right to exist. Just faceless middle-men fleecing us.
You could reasonably conclude that stalling on customer complaints in the hope they’ll give up is part of their business model.
Remember that next time you see an ad from them proclaiming their social responsibility.
Recanting too late…
Doritos FIRES trans activist TWO DAYS after bringing her in as a brand ambassador after being alerted to sick tweets about doing ‘depraved things’ to a 12-year-old (5 Mar)
You’d think they might’ve learned something from Bud Light, but not only did they not do so but they didn’t do background checks on the qwerty they hired. That’s a dinosaur asteroid-level of stupidity.
“You can’t build a nation on it.”
– Paul Keating
Fire the CEO , VP of Marking and all senior Marketing management for gross idiocy.
Value-based shopping. Anto woke. Boycott Pepsi and P&G.
https://www.veebsapp.com/how-it-works/
Ever met a marketing executive, Bruce?
These are people who weren’t bright enough to get into Arts.
They still believe the woke trans bs.
It was the posts that caught Doritos out. The acts Hudson admits to – meh.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
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? JUST IN: Nikki Haley will NOT be attending any public events tonight, and is back in her home state of South Carolina now.
Her campaign calendar no longer has any future events.
Has she FINALLY accepted defeat?!
“This app isn’t available on Google Play in your region” is what I’m getting.
The propeller heads got to you.
Might even turn out to be the first tranny cabinet minister! Must be very tempting to make qwerty history.
Penny Wong becomes longest-serving female cabinet minister (Sky News, 6 Mar)
Says a lot about the capability of previous female cabinet ministers. Diversity hires aren’t great at running nations.
FBI hunts for suspected Iranian assassin targeting Trump-era officials
The U.S. government is intensifying a manhunt for an Iranian intelligence operative who the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes has been plotting to assassinate current and former American officials, including one-time Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/04/2024/fbi-hunts-for-suspected-iranian-assassin-targeting-trump-era-officials
???
“Farken really c&^%!?”
https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-40-percent-us-gen-zs-30-percent-christians-identify-lgbtq-poll-shows-1641085
Nearly 40 Percent of U.S. Gen Zs, 30 Percent of Young Christians Identify as LGBTQ, Poll Shows
???
National accounts released by ABS:
Aggregate GDP growth just 0.2%.
Government spending is now the only factor keeping us from an official recession.
Expect an announcement within 24 hours.
You can never have too many Covid vaccinations.
Researchers investigate immune response of a man who received 217 COVID vaccinations (MedXpress, 5 Mar)
Private reasons…? Hmmm.
Nearly 40 Percent of U.S. Gen Zs, 30 Percent of Young Christians Identify as LGBTQ, Poll Shows
No wonder the Birth Rate is down.
Given the way GDP is calculated, that is.
How devoid of meaning must one’s life be if this is the only way one can “feel” “special” and “valued”?
Whose name was on the title?
I have not read the paper, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the methodology might be somewhat questionable.
Bruce of N
Top scientists ‘concerned’ at USyd maths backflip (Paywallian)
My assumption for this is that students are adept at using the software, but without the maths background they’re not aware of input mistakes.
I don’t expect they are expending too much effort on it.
A 45-year-old West Australian man has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault after allegedly restraining three children, some with cable ties, outside a Broome home on Tuesday afternoon.
so, did the Popo cuff him?
The most recent record level of immigration amounted to almost 2% of population. Per capita GDP has thus declined by close to that number. We are now in a clear per capita recession.
Winning!
Most young Christians I know are more conservative than their parents’ generation.
I received today two insurance renewals. One for house and contents, and the other for car insurance. Different insurers. Both are proposing premium increases of about 1/3rd compared to the last renewal. Amazing.
same same here, house insurance up 36%, car 30%. I think it’s a combination of:
– clawing back flood losses
– inflation … they admitted 6-8%, real figure likely 15-20%
– increasingly expensive EV fires – the Luton Airport fire levelled a 6 story building and destroyed 1200 cars, for example.
Quite possibly Crossie.
This book has the script written. This Administration is the enabler.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/204413500
Fusion power is only 20 years away now*
https://knowridge.com/2024/03/a-leap-toward-limitless-energy-the-breakthrough-of-mits-super-magnet/
what, again? … still, we can only hope it will be ‘too cheap to meter’?
flyingduk\HBBear:
Any way he can claim citizen arrest? (Personally, I doubt it and he’d be game as hell to try it on, but who knows with the law these days.)
Researchers investigate immune response of a man who received 217 COVID vaccinations (MedXpress, 5 Mar)
ah nope, I’m calling BS on this on…