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Anyone catch the aurora tonight? I caught a faint glow in Melbourne’s east (despite light pollution) but there’s been plenty…
A first time hearing for me. —– Simply Red – Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye (Official Video) A hit single…
The sooner the IDF destroy Hamas and those hiding them, the sooner the UN can be forced to be rational.…
The Cars and Drive An aptly named piece – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pOBtbsuUmc
Finally.
First!
His name is Cash!
—-
woof bark growl:
Cash 2.0 Great Dane visits UCLA college campus 1
Back in Australia and looking for some free streams for Formula 1
Google useless- zero results -all paid results.
Yandex- pages upon pages of quality free streams.
Anyone still using google in 2024 is searching in a curated bubble
Earlier, on the OOT:
Before this, the same Agathas were robustly opining that hubby had to have done it because the papers had a picture of him mid-grimace.
The bloke currently in the bin for this has a history of sex offending and domestic violence, which is exactly the same sort of thing the jacks will look for.
Given that the (alleged) moida was a woman jogging, and also given that all over the country women jogging alone are at risk of being attacked, and that courts are replete with cases of this type, it is a natural line of enquiry.
The jacks ran a list of sex offenders in Ballarat (yes I know), narrowed the field down, spoke to the bloke, got the wrong vibe from said bloke, put a couple of pieces together, went back to the bloke and had a further conversation (so to speak) and here we are.
It’s not rocket science. There’s also a reason why he didn’t disclose where the body was, and that is probably because it’s mutilated as well.
Back to Rabat.
St Paul’s Catacombs.
Went in the west entrance and nearly missed the biggest system.
Fascinating.
Someone more recently had used a section of the largest catacomb as a well/cellar and a large section is still sealed off as they have been incorporated into 18th and 19th century houses.
Mix of Pagan, Christian and Jewish catacombs, the Jewish ones separate, further down the slope, the Christians continued the Roman tradition of funeral feasting below ground reclining around stone tables until it was banned in the late 600s.
The latest date I saw mentioned was 770 ad.
One Jewish tomb had a pivot door made out of a single piece of stone, despite being a fair way underground it was damaged by a bomb blast in world war two so you aren’t allowed to try to lock yourself in the tomb.
The Roman Domas close by had Arab burials on top so perhaps the catacombs were abandoned when Malta was conquered in the early 800s, as muslim burials have to face mecca lie on their side etc, something else I read mentioned Malta was largely uninhabited for the first 175 years of Arab occupation, until the Norman’s conquered nearby Sicily in 1039?, the Arabs paying a tribute.
Maybe there was then a period of stability encouraging further settlement, that period didn’t last long as early in the 11th the Norman King conquered Malta. The Arabs continued on living here until 1249? when it was convert or leave.
No idea why.
Deux.
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”
Bill Shankly.
Pretty sure they would be doing same here.
cranes in US
A congressional probe of Chinese-built cargo cranes deployed at ports throughout the US has found suspicious cellular modems, fuelling concerns they pose a covert national-security risk.
Thumpeth the Icky
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Pope.
Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Ben Garrison.
You are correct about the neolithic ML.
But they didn’t push them, they replaced the wheels with lots round stones and pulled them alone with ropes.
Crossie, most likely right about Maltese in Melbourne, that is what I’m telling people here anyhow.
Boeing not having a good run.
Packed Boeing 737 crashes off runway in dramatic scenes in terrifying emergency landing (8 Mar)
“Huston, we have a problem…”
Back in the sixties, we had lots of Maltese “New Australians” around Blacktown and Seven Hills west of Sydney.
Classics.
Jon and Vangelis – I’ll Find My Way Home (with lyrics)
The Kerr slag seems to be Australia’s answer to the rapinoe abomination. Just like Thorpe and occasional car sex.
Miranda Devine gets a deserved gong.
The Samizdat Prize (7 Mar)
Excellent name for the prize, since we’re all now living in societies very similar to the repressive Soviet Union.
Why not report things the way KD said the way he believes it went down?
It’s perplexing.
LOL
In my tired state I thought you meant Ian Thorpe took his Jetta TDI to Mt Macedon to look at an acreage but left the leaky bitch broken hearted.
I was thoroughly worried for your sanity.
Ah yes Thorpie. Had forgotten about him.
Thanks Tom. Some good State of the Dis-Union stuff.
Where’s bern?
He must have scored a job with Bari Weiss or the Toe Sucker.
I’ve been watching the SOTU and it’s fair to say that Kamala’s glutes haven’t had that much of a work out since she was working her way up through the ranks.
There were many around Morwell and Traralgon. Two of of my uncles, one maternal and one paternal,married Maltese ladies.
The Demis Roussos cover version of I’ll Find My Way Home is also good.
Please.
If you don’t mind.
I’m eating breakfast.
US bombs Gaza…
Report: Five killed by aid packages airdropped by US (8 Mar)
Why, if gold bullion prices are increasing, are the gold ETFs declining in value? Please explain.
Porridge?
Melbourne about to get it’s first heatwave of the year, 3 days at/above 38deg. Well till one starts digging anyway.
Melbourne is always about 2 deg cooler in a northerly than over the divide in NE, NC & NW Vic. NW can be up to 5 deg difference like Mildura at times. Some reason this is inverted today, anywhere north of the divide from about Bendigo east is in the same boat.
Wouldn’t be surprised if Melbourne fails to reach 39. However News.com kiddies are already in full chicken little mode. I can remember one year at Uni where we were getting 30deg days into May, it Australia FFS extreme weather is part & parcel of this place. LOL along with all the biteys we have.
This may surprise you, but yes.
Not exactly Scottish Highland weather we normally associate with porridge, but there you have it.
In western vicco this morning. Got that really Aussie Gunna be a hot day feel here.
Pierre Kory on the likelihood that ‘Long Covid’ is actually ‘Long Vax’, and that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is also a vax injury.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/long-vax-finally-enters-the-lexicon
I suffered ‘Chronic Fatigue Syndrome’ for 2 terrible years after doing back to back East Timor trips in my first year after joining the RAAF as a health reservist. At the time I thought it was a post viral syndrome caused by an unrecognised tropical exposure, but now note that it closely followed the dozen or more stacked injections I received to make those trips. Interestingly, I cured it with steroids after the ‘medical experts’ had nothing to offer.
I note, also, that ‘sudden adult death syndrome’ has now been linked to vaccination, and wonder when the possibility that SIDS, too, is a vax injury will be recognised.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
PS: Southern Victoria hasn’t had a single day of 40C or more for a decade. We used to get weeks of real summer heat (38C+) — before the hysterics had to redefine “heat wave”.
Same in North East Miltonf.
Not even a total fire ban which I find odd, mid 30’s with northerlies and everything dried right out from when we arrived 6 weeks ago.
Hopefully an uneventful day.
Why, if gold bullion prices are increasing, are the gold ETFs declining in value? Please explain.
Possibly because money is leaving the Gold ETFs for the newly approved BTC ETFs at a rapid clip?
Wouldn’t be surprised if Melbourne fails to reach 39. However News.com kiddies are already in full chicken little mode
And it is, of course, now standard practice to advance report the predicted record, then fail to mention that it doesnt quite materialise (data fudging aside).
Hottest forecast on record?
Look at this shit. Hun:
I give up.
Awesome, A drunken night out and a chunder in a taxi, followed by telling a rozzer to get a wooly bull up himself merits a 4 day hearing.
Meanwhile..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/03/police-fail-to-solve-single-burglary-in-half-of-country/
Police have failed to solve a single burglary in nearly half of all neighbourhoods in England and Wales in the past three years despite pledging to attend the scene of every domestic break-in to boost detection rates.
A Telegraph analysis of police data shows that no burglaries were solved in 48 per cent of neighbourhoods – areas covering between 1,000 and 3,000 people – in the past three years.
What is this shit? The f$&@in’ Heat Brigade?
The meja is evil and just the mouthpiece of the Marxist globalist establishment. I wish it would hurry up and die
Temperatures are expected to reach 37 degrees in Moyston on Saturday.
Endtimes.
mRNA injections could cause an epidemic of prion diseases – and not only in the vaccinated
End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Woke influencer lists all of the “terrifying” things that Trump will do if he wins and accidentally made him the most epic campaign ad ever.
Biden parrots Hamas propaganda in State of the Union speech
Is ‘Moyston’ a permitted word? Isn’t it offensive to school girls, or something?
Do I get a reprimand for mentioning Moyston?
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Never heard of i BB tbh. My favourite name atm is Langi Kal Kal.
Russell Brand
Oh F*ck, Data ‘May Link Covid Vaccine To Excess Deaths’ Being HIDDEN?!
Never heard of moyston I mean
I’m still gob smacked by the comments last weekend by that useless twerp Zoe McKenzie.
Beware in Sicktoria of spontaneously combusting music festival attendee’s.
JJ Sefton on the State of the Union address:
Don’t think he liked it.
slackster …have a look at this site: livetv765.me
For all your sporting needs.
If the media is the mouthpiece of the political elite it is not going to die.
Calling the grubment of the US filth is an insult to filth and Howard likes them better than Trump? What a nasty little phony he turned out to be.
True Dover. Like the ABC funded by theft.
The Guardian chimes in on Sam Kerr.
Apparently POC cannot be racist because victims of colonialism.
And, anyway, racism is not a moral failing.
So there, you white bastards.
Some people seem to think shows like four corners used to report on matter of national importance well. I beg to differ. I remember a show implying women becoming pregnant was some kind of disease, shows promoting transsexualism in the 70s and one attacking Mrs Thatcher regarding the Falklands.
The ABC has been bad bad bad for decades. Just think of AM and PM and this day tonight
Every Saturday night Caroline Jones would appear looking pained and concerned.
Which goes some way to explaining why the left excuses/embraces antisemitism.
Moyston? Is that a contraction of Moistown?
Not terribly far from Ararat. An area that’s not got much going for it now. A prison for sex offenders, a slaughterhouse, some farming and viticulture, but the Stawell gold mine closed, as did the brickworks (thanks dan!), and it’s covered in windmills (again, thanks dan!).
No better here in SA, BB.
We’re supposedly in for three days of 40c and with the Womadelaide festival upon us, organisers are feaful that fruit bats will be overcome by heat and drop, dead, from the sky. Therefore they are providing designated ‘bat bins’ with instructions on disposing of the bat carcass.
Top men.
State funded media outfits display the same arrogant characteristics regardless of their nationality.
When Milie announced last week that he will shut down the Peronist state media outfit
‘Telam’, they with their best ABC standard arrogance, announced that they would not permit him to do so.
Friday morning, all facilities were locked and the budget removed.
What a giant.
Hottest forecast on record?
Oh I’m stealing that, without attribution!
I see Trump took full credit for the nine-month approval time for COVID vaccines during his fisking of the SOTU.
Poor old Indolent, he must be crushed.
Thanks bluey. The relentless assault on productive people by the political class.
Still pissing rain in Wiluna.
There are toadstools growing on the health clinic lawn in town.
Ban SUVs!!!
Good Lord DeltaA. Top Men indeed.
This is beautiful bons. Apply this to the resident dickhead here in monty.
Womadelaide?. some sort of lezzo thing?
750 employees and less than 3000 subscribers (some say 300).
What a racket.
Not terribly far from Ararat. An area that’s not got much going for it now. A prison for sex offenders, a slaughterhouse, some farming and viticulture, but the Stawell gold mine closed, as did the brickworks (thanks dan!), and it’s covered in windmills (again, thanks dan!).
The Gold mines still operating, I drove past it not 15m ago.
“It’s not hot unless it’s 40C in Warrnambool” is certainly a thing you can say.
41C predicted in Warrnambool today. I find it insane to think that is physically possible.
Interesting duk
Agile. Innovative. Dynamic.
The workers must be punished for their aspirational adoption of bourgeois values.
He did his bit.
It’d’ve been nice if they’d actually, like, worked, and didn’t kill millions of people. I suppose some lefty will give Fauci and the CDC the Nobel Peace Prize for furthering the cause of fascism.
Best thing about the whole wretched fiasco was to show just how totally captured the health infrastructure is, along with all the other alphabet people. CDC employees donate 99.95% towards the Democrat Party. That’s far worse than even Twitter employees before Musk gave it the Augean Stables treatment.
Music festival attendees in Disasterstan spontaneously combusting, fruit bats dropping dead out of the sky at Wombadelaide and gerbil worming causing earthquakes in the Blue Mountains.
Sounds suspiciously like the end times, Cats!
Renters in Feraldton rejoice.
House for you cheap.
https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-wa-waggrakine-438771004
The last I heard was they were going through the tailings, but the actual mine was tapped out. Though they may have found another seam.
From the Crowder livestream, they had a short interview with Victoria Spartz.
Pretty funny
Hope she goes further.
It’s already feeling autumnal here with a distinct chill in the early morning air.
Monty admits he’s never really worked for a living. That’s what miners get paid for son. Soft inner city types won’t survive the shakeout that is coming, but I bet miners and tradies will.
Womad is pretty lefty these days as I understand, so having 100,000 fruitbats fall on it would be awesome. I hope none of the lefty attendees catch any of those horrible viruses the bats carry.
It’s already feeling autumnal here with a distinct chill in the early morning air.
Yes, Roger – same here – cool in the early morning (when I do my early walk) but progresses to quite warm and humid during the day.
Even so, Autumn is on the way. The leaves of the wretched poplars are beginning to yellow – the harbinger of the feet deep leaves that I will eventually have to rake up and take out into the paddocks. Still, they give brilliant shade on our SW side in the summer.
I hope they are repurposing those dead frightbats. I mean … fruitbats.
windy.com has 32 deg for Warrnambool this afternoon.
It’s his blind spot. Nobody’s perfect. But, unlike some others I could name, he would never mandate it.
Magnificent work, you idiots.
Fun facts to know and tell…
Americans call autumn “Fall” which is an abbreviation of “fall of the leaf.”
But that is actually an old English term that the Puritans brought with them and it stuck in the US after falling out of use in Britain.
Which reminds me of a poem…
The Fall of the Leaf, Bobert Burns (1788)
The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill,
Concealing the course of the dark-winding rill;
How languid the scenes, late so sprightly, appear!
As Autumn to Winter resigns the pale year.
The forests are leafless, the meadows are brown,
And all the gay foppery of summer is flown:
Apart let me wander, apart let me muse,
How quick Time is flying, how keen Fate pursues!
How long I have liv’d-but how much liv’d in vain,
How little of life’s scanty span may remain,
What aspects old Time in his progress has worn,
What ties cruel Fate, in my bosom has torn.
How foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain’d!
And downward, how weaken’d, how darken’d, how pain’d!
Life is not worth having with all it can give-
For something beyond it poor man sure must live.
BoN the bats are more likely to contract a serious case of fruitloops.
Brent Potter is the NT Police Minister, another come-from-nowhere appointment who is currently in some bother because memes targeting blecks and Juice were found on his social media pages ten years or so ago. Potter refused to resign, and the (new, latest) Chief Minister refused to sack him.
The NT Independent (paywalled):
And:
Also:
Additionally:
Whap.
Now it’s every day when you find the TV is on the ALPBC.
I will write BOMs weather forecast Press Release.
‘Its only 9 days into March and Victoria’s max temps are already well above the average for March. ‘
Monday ot Tuesday it was 34 and in the morning 8. I didn’t realise at the time I was only 3 degrees away from spontaneously combusting. Goes to show you just never know how close you come. Just as well we have a procession of cough experts cough to protect us. How did we ever manage with out them?
Yes tradies seem to have a lot more status in our society than they used to which is good. I’m very proud to wear my cotton drills, orange shirt and steel caps.
“bat bins” aka barrels
The “There’s more Maltese in Australia than in Malta” cropped up often a few decades ago. It’s actually not far wrong.
It’s actually half. Population of Malta is about half a million of which about 80% are Maltese, this is roughly double the number of people in Australia with Maltese ancestry.
If you live in an area with lots & lots of Maltese it is easy to believe there’s more here than in Malta.
Bruce, do you have heatstroke?
Been refinishing wooden benchtop, 5 coats of Tung oil and its only now starting to look better. At least another 4 or 5 to go. I let go too far before redoing it. Mates old man was a French Polisher of musical instruments. A weedy little Irishman, absolutely devastated when they closed the repair shop. Didn’t cope as it was all he could do. Died shortly after and always suspected he did himself in.
Isn’t Melbin the second largest Grik city?
Try 46 or 47 degrees.
No, it’s a very pleasant 26 C here, although BoM probably thinks that is an existential danger.
Somehow I doubt you’ve worked in the Pilbara, or Kal, or Oly Dam, or the NT sites.
Soft lefties in dog boxes will melt when the electricity companies smart meter off their aircons because grid is screeching in agony. But we won’t.
Thanks for the earworm Delta. Not.
Since I’m suffering, you must also. 😉
The last I heard was they were going through the tailings, but the actual mine was tapped out. Though they may have found another seam.
They are still carting dirt about in big terex trucks, and there are dozens of cars in the employee carpark each day.
Gold at ATHs might have improved their extraction economics.
It’s really quite easy as Milei has shown, make the decision and lock up the premises. I somehow doubt any conservative party in Australia has the guts to do something like that.
It just dawned on me that you’re blog name is snob spelled backwards, much like alamak and nilk. I’m really slow.
Pretty lame comeback against Bruce by montypox. Sad.
Races at Flemington were brought forward. Last at 2:30pm.
In a few years we will probably be saying something similar about Chinese migrants. It’s an enduring meme.
Telam was a relatively small operation, about half the size of SBS and an even smaller audience. It won’t be missed…except by its employees, that is.
The ABC will eventually reach the point where it won’t be missed. I think its highest share of the general FTA audience in recent times was c. 16%, and that was largely due to the popularity of two programs – Hard Quiz & The Gruen Transfer – the formats of which are getting a bit long in the tooth by now.
mUnturd
I find it amazing that a supposedly “educated” j’ismist is not aware of the history of weather in Australia.
But, here we are.
Id say there would be more people of Scottish decent in Australia than people in Scotland. Sure glad my forebears emigrated.
More music festival/weather news, this time from The Last Holdout (the Courier-Mail):
And:
Flinty-eyed, battered Akubra-wearing salts of the earth, leaning on the top yardrail.
This is why the Navy won’t march in the dark any more.
When I was at Uni & doing grad work Gold was around $300-400 an ounce, most central Vic mines were making money off 1g per tonne. Was looking at a exploration report last year somewhere out west and I certain I saw a figure of 0.2g per tonne now.
I was part of a stream sediment sampling project about 10 years ago. Our target wasn’t gold but other associated minerals. However I do know there was a plan to rework the tailings from an old gold mine on the tenement. There’s definitely money to be made if you can sift through the red, green and now blak tape then have to capital to start up.
Scotland…anyone with any get up and go got up and went.
Speaking of flinty-eyed salt-of-the-earth types (also the Courier-Mail):
Presumably one of them was wearing brown and green at the same time.
I do wish that I was that clever. Snob backwards.
Sadly no, I lack that degree of sophistication. It is actually the name of my favoutite dog who is indeed a snob where other dogs are concerned, as well as being a thug, a grifter, a sneak and endless entertainment.
When the grand kids are up surfing, she will sit on the beach for hours waiting for one of them to come in and then charge into the waves to greet her. You have to love that.
Yes must admit I have a lot of contempt for modern Scotland.
One of my first jerbs was at a tailings plant in Mt Morgan. That was 1 g/t head grade, about 70% recovery. No idea if they were profitable but it was a lot of fun. Forty years ago…
At $3000 Aussie an oz there must be a lot of tails dams around that would be looking yummy to a minnow.
Three headlines from The Telegraph (UK) overnight:
The out-of-control HR state is crushing the life out of Britain
The pervasion of a ‘just be kind’ mindset in every walk of life is turning the economy to mush
Andrew Bailey hands Bank of England staff inflation-beating pay rise – The Bank of England Governor previously warned British workers not to ask for inflation-busing pay rises – and has now given his staff an inflation-busing pay rise
It’s official: The UK is the second-most miserable nation in the world Britain has been placed at the foot of a mental wellbeing index, but there are bright spots amid the gloom
Is one of the “bright spots” the departure lounge at Heathrow?
Brits are in for a long, bleak winter.
I think that particular lightbulb has gone off with a few inside the co-op. The ALPBC has been mining its legacy for a few decades now. That audience is dying off and shows no sign of being replaced.
Rockdoctor
Mine Im on has a 10 year lifespan based on tailings alone.
Assuming prices stay good.
Still have to put the stuff through the mill, and there is a lot of rubbish and old ground support to contend with (because “tailings is shit, AND out rubbish tip) but the processing is minimal compared to putting new rock through.
I haven’t been to Britain since the late 90s. First visit for me during the summer. I thought it was just dirty. Never really wanted to go back. What the establishment there is now trying to inflict on the people reminds me of Romania in the late 80s. Not that we’re far behind.
Confusing:
The court heard that about 5.43pm on February 5, police were called to Glenlyon Road, Gladstone, where the defendant was being assaulted by his boyfriend on the side of the road.
I lived in Gladstone for four years in the 1980s. That sort of thing was what passed for entertainment then. Not so much boyfriend on boyfriend, so to speak, though.
The technical descriptor is “existence pods”, BoN.
Mundane serves it up to Latrine .. LOL!
Anthony Mundine has urged “underperforming” Latrell Mitchell to “focus on footy” rather than “disrespect” his differing opinion about Spencer Leniu’s racial slur towards Ezra Mam.
On Friday night, Mundine levelled a social media tirade at fellow Indigenous sporting icon Mitchell, who had questioned the older athlete for telling Mam to “toughen up” amid the saga.
Sydney Roosters prop forward Leniu called Brisbane’s Mam a “monkey” during the NRL’s opening round in Las Vegas and faces a long ban from the NRL judiciary, which he fronts on Monday.
Leniu has since apologised and claimed not to have intended to racially vilify Indigenous man Mam.
Posted on social media this week, Mundine’s initial argument had been that because Leniu was of Samoan descent, his remark did not amount to racism because both players were people of colour.
South Sydney fullback Mitchell, who has been Mam’s most vocal supporter from any rival club, called that opinion “absolute bulls**t” and accused Mundine of trying to “dilute the oldest living culture in the world”.
In response, the always-outspoken Mundine told Mitchell he had earned the right to have an opinion on the incident through eight seasons in professional rugby league and a boxing career.
“To Latrell, Listen, Let me educate you on a few things that should have been quite apparent to you,” Mundine wrote on social media.
“When it came to exposing racism & bigotry in sport, I was the pioneer. I paved the way.
“In fact, I was giving a voice & standing up for Aboriginal people’s rights when you were still in nappies. I bled for the cause.
“So when I have something to say about racism in sport, I’ve earned the right to say it.”
Mundine then directed his attention towards Mitchell’s footballing form.
The 26-year-old is arguably the most scrutinised player in the NRL and could not prevent South Sydney from crashing out of finals contention in 2023 despite their hot start to the season.
“Trell, please. Just focus on your footy…You’ve been underperforming far too long & been lucky to have Cody (Walker, Rabbitohs five-eighth) by your side to hold your hand,” Mundine said.
“Earn the right to talk before you start trying to disrespect the OG of the game. Remember, despite what you might think, you’re no Greg Inglis & you’re certainly no Anthony Mundine.
“Despite your disrespect, I want you to succeed and excel. Your success fills me with pride & honour, but you need to learn to respect those who paved the way for you.”
Not viable as a nation apart from the Union.
The “brain drain” must have had a considerable impact over time.
An ancestor of mine was a lesser scion of the House of Stewart/Stuart who emigrated to colonial America.
You may have to review that one, though there’s a helluva lot of Scots around.
Way way back in the olden days, before mobile phones & internet or anything similar, rumour was that there’s so many Vietnamese in Australia that Tran or some Vietnamese name I forget had overtaken Smith in the Sydney phone book.
Strolling past the GPO (with its hall full of phone books) one day – as you do – the thought popped into my mind to test that story.
Lotsa Tran (or whatever) I diligenty counted the pages & columns of the Vietnamese name. About a page & a half or somesuch.
Then turned to Smith. Not-even-close. Thirty-Three pages.
Probably Nguyen.
I tell you what.
Now that the chemtrails are dropping, you SheepLe will Wake UP!!1! and realise what is being done to our country. Nobody’s speaking about the real issues!
They took our guns! You’ll all be first against the wall, come the ReVolution!
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This may be Gladstone’s first venture into that particular genre.
Such as the radio division.
Isn’t calling in expensive consultants to tell you where you’ve gone wrong a vote of no confidence in oneself?
You appear to be under the misapprehension that the ALPBC management manage. Consultants are primarily there to take the blame.
UK police decline to investigate JK Rowling for “misgendering” trans activist.
“Does not meet criminal threshold.”
ALPBC Radio was the canary in the coal mine.
Speaking of which, Ita has left the co-op building.
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Crazed.
Warrnambool 38 forecast today.
39.7 on Feb 28th all of ten days ago.
Monty has a razor sharp memory. Lucky he finds his way to bed.
My father’s ancestors were Scottish crofters. They were evicted from their smallholdings, escorted to the nearest seaport, told “The Laird has been pleased to pay your passages to Australia” and “put aboard” then and there.
Inter-generational trauma? What’s that?
BTC subunits!
Notice how Europe is reverting to feudalism with aristocratic trash like macaroon at war with his own people and wanting them to fight other wars.
Macron’s war-mongering talk is unnerving Europe
Gavin Mortimer, The Spectator
Part I
Relations between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have always been strained but they’re now positively hostile. Media on both sides of the Rhine have laid bare the differences that exist between the two men. Der Spiegel calls it a ‘battle of egos’, while Bild recently ran an article headlined ‘The Dangerous Ice Age’.
Analysing the reason for the glacial relationship that exists between Macron and Scholz, Bild highlighted their different natures: Scholz was ‘stiff, often hesitant, but in the end mostly true to his word’, and a leader who had more faith in the Americans and the British than his EU partners. Macron, on the other hand, is an ‘instinctive president who loves the grand gesture more than the small print’. The paper mocked the Frenchman’s vanity, posing topless on a luxury yacht in the Mediterranean, so different from Scholz, whose idea of a good time is hiking in the Bavarian Alps.
Macron is now out of sync with most of the West in seemingly spoiling for a fight with Vladimir Putin
According to Le Figaro, Scholz struggles to decipher Macron, a man he finds ‘voluble and impulsive’. If it’s any consolation for the German, he’s not alone. The majority of the French share his view of their president, a man whose views tend to change from one week to the next.
Macron’s erratic behaviour has now started to alarm even those within his own party. Such is the devotion Macron inspires among his followers that he resembles more the leader of a cult than a country, and for many years he has been above censure from his acolytes. Speaking anonymously, one of Macron’s MPs told Le Figaro: ‘For the first time, in low-level Macron circles, the question of the president’s behaviour is clearly being asked. There was a taboo and it has been lifted, because of his outbursts’.
One of the very few of Macron’s minions to have publicly – and mildly – rebuked their Glorious Leader is Patrick Vignal, an MP in the Hérault. Calling his president ‘brilliant’, he suggested that he might be even more brilliant if he learned the art of delegation. ‘He can’t do everything: be president, minister, member of parliament, mayor and departmental council chairman all at the same time,’ said Vignal. ‘Let’s just say he’s overly generous in his desire to solve problems!’
Part II
Macron is selective in which ‘problems’ he wants to solve. Crime, mass immigration and drug trafficking don’t appear to concern him that much, despite the horror stories that fill the pages of the newspapers each week. The latest concerns a drunk Palestine refugee who took exception on a train to a crying baby and, allegedly, stabbed the mother and a friend.
As for the rampant drug trafficking, such is the power wielded by the gangs in Marseille that the city officials warned the Senate this week that ‘the rule of law and republican stability are at stake’. Violence and corruption are spreading and magistrates have renamed Marseilles ‘Narco-ville’, warning that they are in danger of losing the war to the gangs who already control parts of the city.
Macron has been promising Marseille that things will get better since a visit to the city in 2021. He returned last June to see how his ‘regeneration plan’ was coming on. The dozens of dead – 49 were killed in tit-for-tat drug killings last year – indicated things haven’t improved.
If Macron was serious about restoring Republican order to Marseille, he would send in the army – as the majority of French people want – to put an end to the drug gangs once and for all. He dare not, however, because it would signal that his government has indeed lost control of part of the country.
So instead Macron moots the idea of sending his troops to Ukraine, along with those of other Nato countries. His suggestion was swiftly shut down by most of his allies, including Scholz who gave an emphatic ‘Nein’. Irritated by the lack of support, Macron this week urged Nato members ‘not to be cowards’. Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, retorted that such rhetoric ‘doesn’t really help solve problems’.
It is not just the Germans who are becoming alarmed by Macron’s belligerence towards Russia. On Thursday he met the leaders of France’s main political parties to brief them on the situation and to tell them his support for Ukraine ‘has no limits’.
When they emerged from the Elysee Palace, they expressed their unease with the president’s war-mongering. Marine Tondelier, head of the Greens, suggested Macron was allowing his ‘virility’ to get the better of his common sense, and she characterised his stance as ‘amateur’. Eric Ciotti, leader of the centre-right Republicans, denounced Macron’s attitude as ‘inopportune, inappropriate, even irresponsible’, which has ‘isolated our country’.
Nor do the people share Macron’s appetite for confrontation with Russia. A poll published this week found that the top five concerns of the French were: inflation (44 per cent), purchasing power (43 per cent), law and order (34 per cent), health and social security (31 per cent) and immigration (29 per cent). The war in Ukraine was ninth, a pre-occupation for just 13 per cent of the people.
Polls like this don’t interest Macron; domestic issues are ‘small print’ affairs in his view. Anyway, he’s never been in step with the people over whom he presides, which is why his time in office has been marked by several social uprisings.
What is more worrying is that Macron is now out of sync with most of the West in seemingly spoiling for a fight with Vladimir Putin. That would be the ultimate ‘grand gesture’, and one that would not end well for anyone.
Dot
The problem is that Bitcoin resides on the blockchain, which cannot process more than 7 transactions per second. They’ve tried to plug this problem with workaround software that is new and potentially vulnerable.
When I look in my bank account, I see pixels representing numbers. That’s my money, and it’s not the bank showing me something I own but residing on another platform, which is what Bitcoin is trying to do with the faster software. It’s not the same thing.
Also, there’s this to consider. If the faster system is attempting to solve the slowness issue of the blockchain, it will mean there has to be leverage as the slower blockchain has to catch up to the faster processing. This is a big freaking problem.
We’ve already seen what combining leverage with software geeks does. Several of them are heading to jail for fraud.
It’s as crazed as Chechens and even a number of North Koreans fighting in the Russian side.
Cheeky surrender monkeys, at it again. Mr Macron would do well to consider that each and every time the French have taken on Ivan, they have had their nut sacks peeled with a can opener.
They have also been sheltered by Britain and the US for the past eighty years, so it’s a bit premature to be developing delusions of grandeur.
Macron may also have done a Biden and confused Russia with an easier target. Algeria, for example.
Macaroon spoiling for a fight with the pute. Macaroon couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag that’s for the lower orders. Thanks for posting Roger.
The French music world should put on an open-air performance of the 1812 Overture for Micron.
Can’t stand that effete twot.
Had a thing for Lucy Hughes Trumble iirc. Yuk.
You are irrationally wedded to this wrong headed idea.
I tried. 🙂
A somewhat higher level of crazy, I think.
I can’t help but think that the spectre of another Trump presidency is driving Macron’s posturing.
I’m not letting the bastards off the hook for not voting to support an enquiry into excess deaths… I posted this today
Hey Tasmania, we go to an election on 23 March.
Let me remind you that on 8 February, 2024 the Australian Senate held a vote to investigate why there were so many excess deaths in Australia since 2021. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics last year there was over 15% excess deaths in Australia but the Senate voted to NOT hold an enquiry into why so many Australians continue to die suddenly with no pre existing condition or reason.
Only evil people would stop such an enquiry.
Those who stopped that enquiry were…
THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY.
THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS.
THE JACQUI LAMBIE NETWORK.
LIDIA THORPE.
Think long and hard before casting your vote on 23 March because those political parties which voted to not hold an enquiry have NO concern for your safety, your family, your friends, work colleagues or any person in our community. They do not care that so many Australians have and continue to suddenly die without explanation.
What type of people do you want making decisions about your safety and the safety and future of your family?
Why are all these western career polimuppets the same? All at war with their own people, all trying to wreck their economies and societies, all loyal to foreign interests. From Canbra to Paris.
Dot
I don’t care about Bitcoin as I don’t understand the attraction. It just means that.
When you have a legacy system unable to crank up faster processing and you override that with workaround software, it has to mean leverage. Why am I wrong?
I used to know one army girl who was wonderful. A truly fine woman. Too many like Lambie though. Bush pig filth.
Miltonf Mar 9, 2024 11:47 AM
Id say there would be more people of Scottish decent in Australia than people in Scotland. Sure glad my forebears emigrated.
You may have to review that one, though there’s a helluva lot of Scots around.
Husband’s forebears were Scottish & we live in a rural area that was settled by Scots.
He is an engineer by training & is formidably practical in all aspects of life. A great foil to my “head” focus on all things to do with “ideas”!
Dot
Explain this.
Does the blockchain eventually have to reflect the transactions and ownership on the new system’s ledger? Yes or no?
If it does, then that’s leverage. If it doesn’t then it’s okay.
From what I have seen, Macron is doing two things:
1. matching Putin’s sabre-rattling over nukes with some of his own;
2. daring Marine Le Pen to take Putin’s side.
These two concepts seem logical, for political and strategic reasons. It’s rhetoric, not a plan. Macron is centre-right after all, he’s not above a little gratuitous nationalism.
When I look in my bank account, I see pixels representing numbers. That’s my money, and it’s not the bank showing me something I own but residing on another platform
Good ghod are you crazy?? The bank is precisely showing you ‘money’ that is residing on their platform! You don’t control your access to it, they do. (and thats before we even consider the fact that money you put in the bank becomes the *banks* money, not yours).
which is what Bitcoin is trying to do with the faster software. It’s not the same thing.
No, BTC is 100% under your control provided you own your keys (think of it as the account password), and, unlike banks, and governments, which control your account, no force on earth can reach in and take your BTC without that key.
Not at all. Chechens are part of the Russian Federation, and NK ‘volunteers’ troops aren’t in Ukraine. Frenchman are already fighting in Ukraine but as ‘volunteers’. Still, volunteers are completely different to actually sending in regular forces.
No, perhaps you are, Duk.
And which is my deposit.
It’s on their balance sheet, but I have a claim to the money and I can prove this by doing a debit transaction anytime I want.
It’s a syndrome rather than a conspiracy.
They’re all educated at the same types of institutions where the same ideas are taught and once in that milieu they rarely socialise (in both the obvious sense and the sociological sense) with the lower classes.
They are imbued with the same contempt for the mainstream of their society that the 1960s counter-culture had but on a more sophisticated level.
Really? Chechans are part of the Russian empire? How did that happen, Dover? 🙂
NK “volunteers” are fighting in Ukraine.
There’s such a thing as North Korean volunteers? Do you realize just how contorted, how silly that sounds?
Digger,
You are going on outdated information. There was a more recent Senate vote put up by Senator Babet. Around end of February and this time was successful.
Jackie Lambie and her co Senator and even Lydia Thorpe voted yes to the excess deaths inquiry. Only Labor and Greens opposed.
Yep.
If you’re not a pillow-biter, don’t bother turning up.
Duk, keep up and stop meandering away from what Dot and I were discussing. Dot is saying that there’s a software system that captures bitcoin transactions and speeds up the process. However the blockchain still processes at 7 secs per second. And yes, I know about “the Keys”.
Cheeky surrender monkeys, at it again. Mr Macron would do well to consider that each and every time the French have taken on Ivan, they have had their nut sacks peeled with a can opener.
Eloquent summary KD. Macron should read about Napoleon.
Womadelaide stands for World of Music and Dance Adelaide. It has been around for yonks. It is not some dyke thing. Palli lovers dumped from the festival roster.
Yes it’s interesting Roger how the 60s counterculture has become full on class warfare but then I beginning to think it always was.
Hey, whats everyone think about boomers
/scuttles away
I really think the Scotch and Xavier alumni misgoverning us now, tearing up the social contract do hate the working class and in their minds it is exclusively white. Racist, redneck, uneducated etc.
France has been the ‘front bar urger’ of Europe for a thousand years.
Salvatore, Iron Publican
Niece married a Maltese bloke.
The bank is precisely showing you ‘money’ that is residing on their platform!
And which is my deposit
yes, you gave them your money, they gave you receipt, you only get it back if they agree to give it to you (which they might not if they went broke, or if our wise rulers decided you weren’t the right sort of chap – eg a Canadian trucker – and told the bank to freeze your account)
It’s on their balance sheet, but I have a claim to the money and I can prove this by doing a debit transaction anytime I want.
yeees, its on *their* balance sheet, and you have a *claim* to it – ie they control it, and you only get it back if they say so – you no longer control your money, you access it at their pleasure.
KD
Come on, the frogs have been pretty decent warmongers. They’ve won more than they lost. Personally, I think the most important war they were entangled with was the American war of Independence. Without French assistance, the Brits would’ve won.
The 60s political counter-culture in the US was driven by upper middle class university students. The Ivy League universities were the hub although Berkeley also featured.
Then keep cash in a safe.
If the bank is a going concern, your claim to get the deposit back will succeed. Also, if the sum is below 250K, the government will make you whole.
Can we get back to the original discussion now. Anything to add?
Miltonf
There is not a skerik of doubt in my mind they hate us at a visceral level..
“After all Ive done for you you arent satisfied” could be carved over the lawn of parliament houses everywhere.
Unable to accept humanity cant be perfected with just one more law they double down on control so they feel like they are doing something.
I had an interesting conversation about surveillance in WA with a police officer during search and rescue training session.
People have no idea just how much they can be tracked/tagged/logged in their everyday lives.
WAPOL have invested a LOT of resources into tracking, I can well and truly see that being expanded “for our own good” by politicians looking for new ways to “perfect” us.
“Heres your free phone complete with unlimited data and foxtel, oh it also doubles as your mygov and ID for everyday transactions, please carry it at all times”…
Bourne
Digger,
You are going on outdated information. There was a more recent Senate vote put up by Senator Babet. Around end of February and this time was successful.
Jackie Lambie and her co Senator and even Lydia Thorpe voted yes to the excess deaths inquiry. Only Labor and Greens opposed.
Thank you Bourne, I have now looked that up and well done to Senator Badet UAP for his persistence. That was his 4th attempt and it paid off 31 to 30. Maybe, just maybe my posts about the callous decisions made by Lambie with the Tasmanian election coming up shortly prompted a change of mind.
Shatterzzz:
The Corporates stole the social game of football from the people, made lots of money and ruined the sport. They turned it into a freak show of all the aggrieved poseurs that lived on the far out levels of society. Then the freak shows took over from the Corporates and wear the skin suit of the loyalty of the masses while demanding respect.
I stopped using a mobile phone about nine months ago and have not looked back.
JCs best mate Larry on how hes maximising shareholder values..
https://twitter.com/i/status/1765304306444468357
Mole
Larry is a pos.
They can’t be trusted. I own a decent swag of one of their broad market ETF, and they stuck and ESG label on the thing. An existing ETF, and that’s what they did. I was advised they can do that.
The trouble is that I’m locked in because if I wanted out, I would be clipped with cap gains.
That’s how they caught the airline pilot who shot an old couple camping in the bush near Melbourne a couple of years back. They logged his number plate on a rarely used road near the national park and correlated that with the timing of a mobile phone tower “ping” from the male victim’s phone which the murderer had with him at the time. The rest was just joining the dots and getting a confession via a bug.
Turning the page…