All imports to Australia are taxed GST. Tariff = a tax on imports. Ergo, GST is a tariff.
Open Thread – Mon 3 June 2024
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- WolfmanOz at the Movies #101
Woodstock, don’t tell me this is fake too and it wasn’t as much fun as claimed? I missed it all.
On the Chinese theme, they carried on from where the yanks stopped. Dutton should quote more of Gates and the…
Beautiful costumes. That is no ordinary grandma. 😀
The toes of socks and the arse of underpants used to be the first bits that wore out. Now those…
Can it be?
First!
Lovely painting.
Shame it isn’t still in Seville. Reflecting today that no one beat the French for looting and destruction. They had a go at the Alhambra also, wrecking the water channel that delivered water to the gardens. Because reasons.
The week-long Corpus Christi celebration here in Andalusia continues apace – there was a big procession here in Granada today ending at the cathedral.
Visited Ferdinand and Isabella yesterday. Simple coffins under the ornate sepulchre. Impressive on all fronts.
I thought the coffins were very tiny, both must have been very short. Perhaps everyone was short then and we all became taller since.
I loved the inscription about the heretical cult, islam.
On a different note.
May your belts and garments be more benign and complying.
Kev me old China, why does your belt come off when you pee?
Zip don’t work?
On the Alhambra and Generalife – they’re a must-see for any garden lover.
I have been guilty of pinching design ideas…but so have many others. The pomegranate trees are just coming into bloom, and there was a definite absence of tourists. Apparently they all “did” the gardens yesterday! I did the tourist thing and came away with a golden pomegranate vase (irresistible) and an equally irresistible marquetry plaque.
There was a cat fishing for goldfish in one of the reflection pools. And a green striped frog in the lily pond, waiting patiently for insects. The roses nodded, the cypress stood to attention and the poppies blazed, all under the ferocious Spanish sun.
Sounds lovely Calli- makes me think of the browning poem Soliloquy of a Spanish Cloister.
Calli:
Did ya push it in?
Finding room at home to display all of these irresistible purchases has lately given me pause for constraint when shopping on our travels. CD’s of music we have enjoyed by local musicians, and useful things that wear out, like tablewear or teatowels or soaps, are now my go-to unless the irresistible itch is too strong.
Well lookee here, turns out Vonshitzenpants becoming a convicted criminal actually hurts him in the polls, according to Fox News.
Well lookee here, our resident Nazi is only brave enough to come here in the early hours of the morning, when few are here.
Our Nazi is sooooo brave.
Latecomers will look in too, but you’re right, it’s a nasty shock on getting up to find M0nty lurking.
How many more DemonRats are now likely to vote for him?
Reuters?? Buwahahahahahaha!
Haha. Johannes Leak.
Nailed the accent.
Three lies a Kiwi will always tell you:
My Great Great Great Grandmother was a Maori Princess,
I trialled for the Awll Blicks,
And I was only helping it over the fence.
Leak always manages to nail it. Not just the accent, but he’s captured the total rural NZ ‘look’ of slightly unkempt gormlessness.
Any other Cats going to the IPA talk he’s giving in Sydney on the 19th?
We’re currently fishing for tickets but the site was down.
Brett Lethbridge.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Knuckle Dragger
June 2, 2024 7:09 pm
Bang on the money.
Reply to: Knuckle Dragger
Postcard from Granada
Last evening here – I convince the Beloved to check out “Tapas Street”, a fairly decent walk from our hotel. Sunday night, nothing much happening, we stop for a drink only to be moved on – you must eat also! At 6:30 in Spain? Pull the other one.
So we shift ourselves across the Reyes Catolicos to a little, Linden lined square closer to the cathedral and settle in. A central fountain, balloon sellers, children playing. Drinks then dinner, all to the passing parade of tourists, Granadans, and in the background a carousel powered by bicycle (eco friendly).
And then the bells start. I think it is the call for evening mass, but the bells go on. Moments later the beat of drums, and just like Seville, the trumpets. Forty five minutes later, dinner eaten, the music and drums persist. As we wend our way back to our hotel the way is blocked.
The last of the Corpus Christi “floats” goes past, a glorious affair of silver covered in lilies and upheld by some very hefty Spaniards. They toiled up the hill under its weight. The music…the Beloved and I recognised it as an old hymn, but simply couldn’t place it. The joyful riot of bells, drums and brass was overwhelming. It was a little, anticipatory glimpse of the triumph of heaven.
As the final drummers passed, the people gathered behind to follow up to the cathedral.
Resilience in the Face of Terror
The play, the latest from Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, brings the stories of victims and survivors of the Oct. 7 attacks to life.
Quote from the play;
“Zaki saw over a thousand of his countrymen slaughtered for being Jewish and was witnessing the global rise of antisemitism and a growing discontent with Israel. He has every reason in the world to be bitter and vengeful, and yet, he just longs to be accepted.”
Seeing your enemy making the desert bloom, creating a thriving industrial society, where you, for 2000 years only managed to eke out a meager living, will do that.
They hate you for being successful, being prosperous, the opportunity is, was and will be there for all, you only have to get off your backside and grab it.
By the way, not all Jews are geniuses or business magnates, just enough to make it happen.
the hate for jews is in the hadiths and koran.
https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Koran-Readable-Understandable-Islamic/dp/0978552881
TLDR. the “prophet” was asked by jewish elders to prove he spoke to god, he went away claimed god spoke to him and the best he could was blather the usual, I am messenger of god and if you dont believe it you will burn in hellfire… blah blah bah.
The Jews basically showed him up to be a psychotic fraud, that earned Jews a special place of hatred to this day.
Here is the float I saw. This was taken a couple of days ago.
The music tonight was deafening. No polite applause!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0o1oa4zQZY
Forgot to add – women beautifully dressed in suits and…mantillas. The ones held up with those tall combs. They were clearly city office holders.
The CSM in charge of the main float:
‘Right…this time on the command ‘FORWARD MARCH’… I want EVERYBODY to STEP OFF with the SAME FOOT at the SAME TIME…and KEEP IN BLOODY STEP!’
Sorry Calli…I had a couple of ‘flash backs’ when I saw your vid. 🙂
haw!
Imagine Mizzz Dog Collar from Sydney City Council dressing like that!
This could be why the BBC was invoking WW2 imagery the other day and tarring Meloni with the Mussolini brush!
Orban suggests that Meloni and Le Pen should form an alliance. Leftist heads will be exploding.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/right-wing-eu-super-group-hungarys-orban-urges/
This can’t be right (the Hun):
But Mister Bowen said.
The belt meme, he could be a Sitzpinkler?
Didn’t see them in the video, do you have a better one?
In London on the weekend there were two marches/rallies. I won’t call them ‘protests’, because they were not ‘protests’, rather they were rallies of very ordinary decent people. On Saturday 1 June 2024 it was ordinary Brits and their friends who turned out in their thousands to take back their city from the left/far-left and Muslim scum who’ve taken over the once great city of London.
Yesterday, on Sunday 2 June 2024, there was another rally through the streets of London, this time UK Jews and their friends, many of whom had been in attendance at the Saturday rally, coming out to say ‘terrorists off our streets’ and holding up pictures of the innocent Jewish men, Jewish women and Jewish children taken hostage on 7 October and who are still being held hostage by Muslim Nazis, those who remain alive that is, because here’s the thing, I have no doubt that most of the young Jewish men are dead, probably tortured to death, but the young Jewish women? No, I suspect they’re alive and are being kept as sex slaves. Muslim men have long been partial to keeping Jewish women as sex slaves, in this they imitate their cult founder, Mohammad (the same one who fancied six year old girls and married one) himself was rather partial to female Jewish sex slaves……but I digress, the rally yesterday was peaceful, just like Saturday’s rally was peaceful, there were one or two arrests, as this video shows, where a very ugly, fat female was arrested after slapping a Jewish woman in the face…..
Woman arrested at pro Israeli rally slapping a Jewish woman across the face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEYLhcDbmi4
Perhaps the very ugly fat slag being arrested is a friend//relative of our resident Jew hater?
aaargh! Cassie,
I watched the clip. A bit of warning, please.
Ugly, fat and slag is not hard to watch, BUT, the effing tats!
Every time I see mass coverage by tattoos, I want to hurl.
But, it is great to see ordinary Londoners starting to reclaim their city.
Ugly, fat and slag is not hard to watch, BUT, the effing tats!
Every time I see mass coverage by tattoos, I want to hurl.
Pogria, every time I see tats on women, I think of these two definitions, mostly the Brit definition:
Yanks : Tramp Stamps
Brits: Slag Tags
Annnd I do have a niece that is covered in the stupid things.
Knuckle Dragger
June 2, 2024 7:09 pm
My best mate’s dad had a brain tumour when we were in our teens. He went from a top bloke to an angry mad man within months. His wife and my mum were great friends and nursed together, they concluded before the diagnosis that it was a brain issue because the personality change was so abrupt.
My mate isn’t around as he died way too early in a car accident as an unfortunate passenger. He was like his dad, the best of men.
And there’s the problem – most people don’t twig to the poor bugger being not responsible for his actions until it’s way too late.
Blessed Leonid Feodorov
https://x.com/Italian347/status/1796985933918523668?t=XF87owa0uBvaFN8b6C5veQ&s=19
More evidence of genocide
https://x.com/imshin/status/1797233430695940275?t=vW7Zf30bJPRVfrFUCjYgbg&s=19
“Record crowds have celebrated the largest Walk With Christ since the COVID pandemic, with more than 15,000 Catholics joining the procession through the streets of Sydney for the Feast of Corpus Christi.”
Not just in Spain.
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/record-crowds-return-to-walk-with-christ/
Thank you Rosie, I liked this part:
I was hunting around the gospels trying to find the protocols for the taking of female slaves from defeated enemies and using them as concubines.
Nope, not there.
In London yesterday over 40,000 people attended the rally, they walked through London streets waving union jacks and Israeli flags, singing songs and shouting “bring them home” and “terrorists off our streets”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctrk_lbMxBo
Good, time to reclaim the streets from leftist, far-left and Muslim Jew hating scum.
Just looking at the Australian media* our population has reached a dangerous level of obesity. People being interviewed on news and contestants on various game shows are predominantly overweight and in many cases morbidly obese. It used to be that people would put on some weight as they aged and slowed down but the young and very young are now horribly fat, and young women seem to lead the charge there.
Forty or fifty years ago young mothers with preschool children were very thin as they were running around a lot, young mothers today are mostly waddlers. Is it the food? The food pyramid and the low-fat campaign have certainly done a lot of damage. Is it lack of activity? Probably more likely as everyone is glued to the screens of their devices. The lockdowns have also done their damage as this situation has become worse in the last few years.
What is the solution? Certainly not more work from home. Get a dog and walk it? Ozempic-like drugs for the obese?
*It doesn’t help that there are artists like Lizzo who are promoting the fat culture. I suspect it’s to excuse herself from having to do anything or make changes.
Funnily enough I see hardly any obese or even overweight people in church.
Absolutely right, Crossie. I can’t understand why people let themselves become so obese when the health risks are so great and well publicised.
Although farm work & many years of regular daily walks have kept us fit, Covid had a hidden blessing in revising our daily diet. Being committed to not being vaccinated, we decided to be more rigorous in our consumption of fruit & veges, regular fish meals balanced by lean meat and reduction of sugar in our diet. The consequence has been a reduction in body fat with no “diet” involved.
But can’t convince some if my city friends to at least get out and walk regularly. The couple of keto obsessed friends are the slimmest and most healthy amongst them – but they are also regular walkers.
Modern food habits leave a lot to be desired. However carnivore and OMAD are increasing. I’m buying much more beef now and whole rumps are appearing in more outlets. Ozempic is the new covid vax, hasn’t been around long enough yet to prove its safety imho.
gov started this and the diabetes epidemic with the food pyramid which recommended loading up on carbs
Hey, m0nster, tell us the one about the golden shower with hookers in the Moscow hotel room again.
That’s a classic.
Wait. That wasn’t true?
What is truth?
Anthony Dillon in today’s paywallion:
Laura Tingle’s racism claims are the latest in a long lineage
Anthony Dillon
3 Jun 2024
Claims that Australia is a racist country are all over the news again. This time, chief political correspondent for the ABC’s 7.30 program, Laura Tingle, recently stated at the Sydney Writers’ Festival: “We’re a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been and it’s very depressing and a terrible prospect for the next election.”
It goes without saying anyone who challenges any claim of racism is seen as being in denial of racism, or worse, a racist themselves. So let me state upfront, I am not denying the existence of racism in Australia, I am challenging the sweeping generalisation Australia is a racist country. The existence of racism in some Australians does not necessarily mean we are a racist country.
What Tingle’s statement lacks in evidence and credibility, is offset by its highly emotive tone.
This tone results from claims of “let’s face it” and “we always have been” — phrases which are intended to deter anyone from challenging her inflated claim we are a racist nation.
In the absence of robust evidence for Tingle’s claim, we need to ask why she, and many others over the years, persist in making these claims.
American economist Thomas Sowell, a man many would consider one of the great thinkers of modern times, provided a clue when he stated: “ … people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied.
They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer …”
Applied here to Tingle’s claims, she becomes the instant heroine to many, and Australia becomes the villain.
And, of course, as social media activity is showing, there are many Australians who are very emotionally satisfied through hearing Australia is a racist country.
Until Tingle or someone else provides solid evidence Australia is a racist country, I’ll stick with Sowell’s insightful description of human nature.
In response to widespread criticism of her recent remarks, Tingle issued a statement giving examples of what she believes is racism in Australia. Her examples included anti-Semitism, racial profiling, and surveys claiming to show the majority of Australians of non-European backgrounds report experiences of discrimination and racism.
None of these examples, I would argue, is definitive. At best, they demonstrate possible examples of racism, but not that Australia is a racist country.
Tingle is one of many over the years who have made similar claims, so let’s take the spotlight off her and focus on why people love to make such claims and what the implications are of these claims.
There are a few reasons why many cling to the claim Australia is a racist country. Naming a country as the villain and not naming individuals is intellectual laziness and virtue signalling at best, and utterly false at worst. Those revelling in the claim we are a racist country can tell themselves it’s not they as individuals who are racist, it’s Australia that is racist. They can see themselves as saints and not sinners.
Another reason for believing Australia is a racist country, in the absence of clear evidence for such a claim, is somewhat obvious.
When a falsehood or unproven claim is heard often enough, people come to believe it as true.
Psychologists have a term for this — illusory truth.
For as long as I can remember, certain sections of the media, most notably left-leaning media, have been telling us racism is rampant in this country.
Once the belief we are a racist country is planted in the minds of ordinary people, confirmation bias takes over and they interpret events and claims in ways which support their existing beliefs.
For example, I continue to hear the defeat of the Indigenous Voice campaign is unquestionable proof Australia is a racist country. And, of course, any talk of reducing immigration numbers is also proof positive for some Australia is a racist country. Both claims are nonsense.
Or, people may see examples of actual racism, assume these examples are widespread, and then generalise Australia as a racist country.
I believe we do a great harm to ourselves when shouting endless claims we are a racist nation.
British author and intellectual giant Douglas Murray has stated: “Few people think that a country cannot be improved on, but to present it as riddled with bigotry, hatred and oppression is at best a partial and at worst a nakedly hostile prism through which to view society. It is an analysis expressed not in the manner of a critic hoping to improve, but as an enemy eager to destroy.”
Yes, let’s stamp out racism where it exists, but I believe the far greater problem facing Australia are the false claims our nation is racist. Let’s stamp out these claims.
Anthony Dillon is an Indigenous commentator, and an honorary fellow at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney
Racism is like many concepts the left uses, and the so called right bend over backwards to adhere to. Just a tool to beat the opposition into submission.
The actual context or meaning of the word doesn’t matter to them.
racist, so what? are supposed to be good little communists?
ppl prefer their own race and own kind, its evolutionary biology
name a single country that isnt racist
Why are those who screech the loudest about supposed “endemic racism” also the loudest in demanding that increased numbers of supposed victims should be brought her?
It is hard to avoid the conclusion that they desperately want race riots.
In Further Trump Loses 10% of the Republican Vote news:
Amazing that a convicted felon – who is also a person widely known to be a hideous fascist dictator, a constitutional traitor, a convicted financial fraudster, a convicted sexual assaulter, and someone so criminally reckless that he is facing multiple felony charges in multiple states from his previous administration – is statistically line ball with Biden in the poll.
And equally amazing the conclusion that 20% of Americans, considering a two horse race, want someone else.
Institutionalised Trump hatred has certainly moved the dial…
The stars align.
Probably the same people at both the pride and pro-Palestine protests. Must have been difficult deciding which get-up to put on that day.
Notice, not a cop in sight.
Re nuclear energy debate:
We went to an amazing symposium on the stupidity & danger of Bowen’s crazy plans & the efficacy of nuclear energy in Sydney on the weekend. It was organised by the IPA, God bless them. Addresses by panel of nuclear scientists and others who debunked all the false data of the CSIRO. I don’t know if papers will be published but keep an eye out for that. All the theories about difficulty of disposal of waste etc were all debunked by reference to the nuclear facilities OS etc.
Various luminaries were there such as Dick Smith, Barnaby Joyce, Malcolm Roberts, Dr Peter Ridd, but most of all – experts in the energy field. It is such a shame that the MSM don’t feature the actual energy scientists in discussions.
Got to speak to some of the above. A real treat. Only found out about the symposium the day before when we returned to Sydney. Even so, the auditorium at Dee Why RSL was full.
I donated a couple of times to Dr Peter Ridd’s court case against Cook University.
I would like to have a yarn with him one day.
So the probable becomes reality involving Public Serpents who devised and operated ROBODEBT for personal “points scoring” rather than legality ..
Read this story thru and you know they will all get away with it .. Apparently, all that is required to avoid criminal charges is “resignation” and all is forgiven & soon to be forgotten …. Furgling gummint always has an “out” and who’s name crops up as the top “outer-enabler” but “Billy -mushrooms-Shitten” ……
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-03/robodebt-lawyer-annette-musolino-resigns-from-government-job/103909090
And being Monday how can we go without “our” ABC’s “IsraelBad” roundup .. the totally unbiased account from life in Gaza by “Oz” folk with true-blu, dinki-di monikers..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-03/nsw-doctors-and-psychologist-return-gaza-israel-conflict/103890956
Lies, all lies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CubNruSEM8Q
Thanks beer truck for the article. I wonder how hard it was for Tingle to get into germalism in the first place being a member of the fruit tingle dynasty. Maybe she resents it.
In today’s Paywallian Jamie Packer provides an opinion on Cuddly Costello’s 11 years at the helm of his old man’s media company. Hint: not much. Legacy media is a tough gig in a declining industry, although it’s hard not to agree with him.
You might ask what Costello would have to say about Packer and his proxies stewardship at Crown? I doubt it would be much different.
Seriously, someone cares what Jamie Packer thinks?
Wow, slow news day?
They’ve rammed this sham trial through and now the ground is softened for a last minute switch to a more populist candidate.
In spite of what the rules say, they will find a way.
The rules mean nothing anymore.
There’s no way they can pump enough drugs into the corpse to get him over the line.
I also wonder how many of those 20% would be picked up if it was DeSantis?
Due to his acceptance of RINO money during the primaries DeSantis alienated a huge chunk of Republicans so gaining this new crowd would not have made up for the ones he lost.
The advantage Trump has over all other Republican candidates is that not only he has a cause but that he is the cause. Democrat law fare is making him a bigger cause with each attack.
Yes, but let’s not just assume that poll is an accurate reflection.
Geordies .. gotta luv us ..LOL!
This’ll take some beating for the HEADLINE story of a newspaper ..
the Newcastle(UK) Evening Chronicle …….. 3 June 2024 …..
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-doctor-goldfish-garden-pet-29281438
Stories like this one make my day.
I liked the photo of the cat watching the CatTV.
I recall Vicki complaining about an unusually high electricity bill for a second residence unoccupied most of the time. Does this explain it?
Power pricing is heading the way of airlines, hotels, mobile phone plans etc. The complexity and difficulty of comparison is deliberate and by design. No wonder the ALPBC has a problem with it. The days of just paying x c/kWh are probably over.
Electricity has always had a time component. Market structure (largely monopoly or oligopoly, either public or private) meant the seller/provider bore the time risk. Increasingly that will be passed to the consumer – whether they like it or not.
I hear pitchforks being sharpened.
Here in QLD we had a consumer revolt a few years back that forced a government backdown and payout to consumers by way of compensation for being overcharged. Of course, it simplifies things when the government owns the retailers.
Roger, that’s like complaining that you were charged based on your internet speed rather than the bytes you used. The cost to serve is based on bandwidth – electricity or data – so the price paid should be based on the same.
Now all we need to do is to charge public transport users by the number of buses that stop at their stop (or stop within 50m of it) per hour rather than the distance they travel.
der ABC
been standard practise for many decades
This can’t be right (the Hun):
That’s been fairly consistent for quite a few years now. Iirc, the highest support is in SA.
Trust me…the Liberal Party wouldn’t have gone near the issue if it wasn’t so.
Just remember the same people who are pro-Hamas as anti-nuclear energy.
Yes, a minority. 😀
“More populist”? You are joking?
Than Biden
Roger Franklin in Connecticut on popular reaction to the conviction of the man that America’s flyover country sent to Washington DC:
RTWT
Apparently, all that is required to avoid criminal charges is “resignation” and all is forgiven & soon to be forgotten.
No not even that, this one got more publicity so she resigned, usually they just change jobs, or titles and keep going. (same in the ABC by the way, no one gets fired, unless they are a contractor and then the contract is not renewed)
The pool of available people in Canberra is just too small for quality people to be in all the decision making roles and people just shop jobs constantly.
Often zig-zagging from role to role, completely unsuitable, but now it is on their resume.
If the number of people applying for a job is small even, one of them will get it even if no one meets the criteria. Even if they have no clue and are not suitable, it’s easier to give it them, let them waste everyone’s time for a year or two then leave to their next role.
The PSU, Public Service Union ensures someone is picked, even if unsuitable and there are never any repurcussions.
If you have ever worked with government in Canberra, you know what a low bar is held for employment there.
That government is such a squalid mess there, is no surprise at all.
An excellent critique of the appalling ‘management’ of the Covid debacle.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/06/choosing-china-over-sweden/
Victor Davis Hanson: It’s Time For People to Prepare, THIS IS SERIOUS!!
Good on you, Indolent! VDH is such an important observer of historical change. Everyone should read what he has to say.
Knew this was going to happen.
Half Of German E-Car Buyers Regret Their Purchase Or Lease! (2 Jun)
Now the punters are finally noticing that it’s cheaper to pay for petrol rather than for the electricity for an EV, especially from a commercial fast charger.
The Euros have already done all this with diesel.
Every time the government steps into the market – no matter how logical they think the intervention is, they stuff up the price signal that a free market has to have to operate, and distort the market further.
And they will not stop because they are the smartest people in any room – just by virtue of the fact they are IN the room.
And won’t allow anyone else into the room.
Nigel Farage is reportedly hoping to absorb the rump of the Tories into Reform after the election. (The Sunday Times – paywalled.)
Given the Lieborals were formed as a splinter group it might be time to do it again. The issue is how to do it without fracturing the vote with compulsory voting and compulsory preferences. I’m not sure that hurdle can be overcome.
Piers Akerman:
Mr. 32% will likely find that will cost him his majority at the next election.
If he’s still PM, that is.
Not, usually, a Piers fan but this one he’s got right .. 10/10
@saras76
Pro Palestine protesters block Philly Pride Parade.
The confusion from the alphabet gang must be overwhelming
nah. nobody does cognitive dissonance like the left
@catturd2
We were called every name in the book by the low IQ “trust the science” sheep when we told you it was all BS years ago.
Many of the sheeple have now passed on and a lot more will be joining them in the next decade, because of, …….., unusual medical conditions.
Nothing to do with the “untested, experimental medical procedures” though, certainly not. Perish the thought.
What has occurred since 2020 should be a clarion call to anyone with the ability to reason, that our Govt, like all Govt’s in the west, tried to kill you.
The massive increase in the number of deaths, immediately after the introduction of the jabs, has not led to any serious investigation as to why.
These people did not die from Covid, (have they isolated the Covid gene yet, they hadn’t by 2021, when the “vaccines” were introduced?), they died from heart attacks, strokes and the previously unheard of Myocarditis and Pericarditis.
Also, how about those growths that Funeral Directors are pulling out of the blood vessels of the “vaccinated”? FMD!
I certainly didn’t want anyone to die, but it is up to the individual to decide, do you want to accept this Cyclon B injection, or do you want to live?
Darwinism writ large.
@robinmonotti
You mean I was right and all the experts were wrong? Shocked!!! Now let’s do “man made climate change”…
@MAGAIncWarRoom
.@willscharf on Judge Merchan: “I’ve never heard of a judge contributing to political candidates before. I’ve certainly never heard of a judge sitting in judgment over the opponent of the political candidate he contributed to.”
Judges ..
We have one in the ACT who believes an accused person needs to prove they are not lying
So much for justice and assumed innocence
What the heck is going on in the ACT?
Oh wait, low entry barriers to employment due to a lack of candidates with quality qualifications. By that, I mean, qualifications that don’t included zig zagging all over the public service jobs in Canberra.
“Half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease”.
Friend of the wife who lives on a property with an off-grid set up complained the other day that they can’t both charge the Tesla and keep the spa going without a further expensive investment in generating capacity and/or storage.
First world problems increasingly resemble third world problems, I retorted.
Israel has the same deep state traitors as every other country.
The connection between left-wing organizations in Israel and antisemitic protests in the United States was exposed
How about just one simple one – no crime was committed.
34 REASONS the Bragg-Biden Show Trial Should Have Been TOSSED OUT — Each One Alone Providing Grounds for a Mistrial
If Toyota’s claim of a solid state battery with a 1000k range and a 10 min charge time pans out(we’ll know within 18-24 months), every EV sold today is obsolete.
Move to Northcote.
I thought Mr. Toyoda was rather cool on EV prospects?
Maybe this 10mins/1000k’s Toyota will come with a Ferrari price.
Possibly, hopefully economies of scale will kick in. They know the market for EVs is huge so may take a profit hit for a few years to get the wheels rolling.
They still are but recognize that there will be a significant market share.
Maureen Dowd’s sister is backing Trump after verdict
I see Rupert got married again at the age of 93, wearing black sneakers.
Cat fashion gurus, your thoughts?
This might be a good time to post that photo of mUnty in his “golf attire”. A good argument for private golf cubs, if one were needed.
If it’s good enough for Rupe on his wedding day, it should be good enough for a golf course.
He’s a 90yo man. Have higher aspirations.
Better than having a photo m0ntage of Merchan, Beria and Freisler on the wall, like you.
Hundreds of thousands of Australian households are being charged electricity prices based on their single biggest point of usage across an entire month, fuelling claims power firms are using sneaky tactics to gouge consumers.
ABC?
I’ve got a “smart” meter, had it for several years, with no noticeable differences in usage/cost other than the never ending price increases .. but, then, my plan is two fixed rates usage ( basic & above).. so what are these folks signed up too …….?
The reality is households have relatively little scope to shift the pattern of their consumption and relatively little to gain from doing so. Industry and commercial users have much greater scope which explains why they largely have individual time of use metering and billing for ages.
Yeah, and he has about the same chance of dating Taylor Swift.
It has been many decades since a major party in a Westminster system failed hard enough to actually disband or merge, as far as I know. I would love to hear of recent examples if there are any. Seems like institutional inertia is too much. Or have the Tories really fallen that far?
If the Teals were more organised in Australia, they could pick the carcass of the Libs and reform the centre right without those toxic ties to fossil fuel billionaires. Sadly that is probably not going to happen.
Couldn’t see that happening .. s sfar as I can tell the “teals” are regarded as a “doctors wives” group with nothing else to do but whine …….
Canada in the ’90s.
The only toxic ties I can see to toxic billionaires are those to the renewable energy scams that are currently bankrupting our country and leaving us open to de-industrialisation on an unthinkable scale.
Know where they all live? Here in Wentworth down the road from me, or over in Mosman, nearby to Vicki. Nothing like a little insider knowledge of who is doing well and voting for the Teal Midwich Cuckoos paid for by another billionaire energy scammer.
The next generation of university graduates will be experiencing a lot of cognitive dissonance over their beliefs and the life they are actually being asked to live, and the one after that will wonder how the hell they are going to fix it, because by then it will be too late.
If the Teals were more organised in Australia.. and here I was thinking the Teals were Independents. In a just world they will be rightfully consigned to where they belong – to the dustbin of history, labelled as Reason Number 4,868 why compulsory preferential voting is ridiculous.
Shots fired!
https://davidvstewart.substack.com/p/a-generation-of-sociopaths-review?utm_medium=email&utm_content=post
Bruce Cannon Gibney takes a different approach with his book, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. His book is all about the macro, backed up by data. The verdict? The Baby Boomers have collectively (or as the emergent behavior of the collective) acted like sociopaths and engaged in what amounts to inter-generational war. They inherited wealth of many sorts, including decades of economic, intellectual, and social investment, and squandered them, breaking all social mores and plundering their birthright while making none of the investments that would have allowed their children to experience the same prosperity and freedom.
Kicking Boomers. Sounds promising. Collectively we have been mining the dams, roads, power and other investment in infrastructure largely since the 50s and 60s. As a Gen X you become accustomed to whatever bridge being raised just as you come to it.
Right, got it, it’s someone else’s fault .. always
Don’t know about that. Child will inherit what we have built, and the grandees will get the rest.
I’ve told mine – after a particularly vehement episode of “Boomers are the Worst” – that my will sends all the money to RFDS.
They get jack shit.
Not happy, are they?
We worked ourselves, literally, sick, to make sure our two got a private school education and a university education. Both of them are now very well off, happy, and have all they need/want. And we are going to use the capital we have to stop and actually enjoy the (few) years we have left.
Indolent put this up on the old thread but it deserves repeating here.
Just emerging from rumour into some press reports is a bill Demothieves are putting up to strip Trump of his Security Protection Detail if he goes to jail. i.e. it is an outright assassination strategy should this bill be passed.
Worth keeping an eye on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LrUtaPmkNA
Killary is going to Epstein him?
You can just see it can’t you? Elderly ex-President depressed by his failures commits suicide in lonely prison cell, hung himself with his red tie left in his cell by mistake.
Or maybe he just had a heart attack, lots of things can cause that, certified as natural causes of course by Demomedics on pay.
Let’s kill him before going all 4Chan shall we?
Trump being murdered in prison is a guaranteed way to start a very UN-Civil War.
These sociopaths should be VERY careful about their political “wishes..
The Epoch Times 31 May 2024
The De Niro memes are mushrooming. Breitbart has a nice sampler. The 90 second, dubbed monologue is a hoot.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/06/01/robert-de-niros-anti-trump-press-conference-inspires-wild-memes-stormy-de-niro-im-just-a-mook/
Makes a change from the red leather shoes made from enslaved tunnel children’s skin, right mUnter?
Heartening news. Good on him. Any pics?
Hope he doesn’t hope for more children though. How old is the new wife?
She’s retired so might be unlikely to have more children.
I’m pleased to see old man Murdoch happy in his old age and not bitter and twisted, like Soros for instance.
The effwit whining about Boomers apparently is a global warmunist. Enough said.
The whole “gubermint inbestment is da bestestest” garbage didn’t make you twig that something was up?
islam is a death cult and needs to be dramatically reformed
Islam is impossible of reform – it has no place in a civilized society.
I am going out on a limb here and predict that islam will be reformed, just looking at what Saudi Arabia is doing under MBS
Realising that you couldn’t let outsiders read it without repercussions the ugly parts of the koran and hadiths are buried in the texts, in fact the expungement of just a few of the verses and stories from the hadiths would moderate the cult.
Creating a new narrative is a piece of cake if the Arab elite have the will to do so. The left are experts at it.
Anyway the Arabs have clearly understood that the petro dollars wont be flowing like they used to at current trends, so something needs to change.
Places like Indonesia and Malaysia seem to be doing fine.
Are they?
I am usually on your side, but you are wrong.
They are going to the hard islamic doctrine.
The Arab elite will eventually have no choice. The elites will want to be seen as being modern and sophisticated and that will involve them promoting reform and moderation. A modern economy needs a modern education and that has a moderating effect on the more literalist interpretations of religious texts which allows for creative hermeneutics that only a few decades ago would have been considered heretical. A modern education will also require more women in the workforce and the obvious implications that has for some Islamic countries.
This is the policeman who was restraining the wrong person during the attack I believe. Then the real threat attacked him and slashed his neck. He was restraining a guy for trying to stop the threat person, had him on the ground, which freed the threat to attack him.
I don’t know what to say, but is it too soon to mention the Darwin Awards?
They were so focussed on preventing Islamaphobia, they missed the Islamic threat.
FMD, and one policewoman, ran away, seriously, look at the video.
What does this reflect on their training and general instructions about policing in Germany these days?
Yep, dumbest cop on Chermany. The moslem was subdued but plod decided to go after the Samaritan and let the stabby go.
That is why they stab in the neck. 1600 years of doing it.
It is doctrinally IMPOSSIBLE to “reform” islam.
It is NOT a religion like Judaism, Buddhism or Zoroastrianism.
It is a strict political doctrine, with snippets of “piety” tacked on to confuse the unwary.
It is NOT, one of the “Abrahamic” faiths, contrary to the ravings of the deluded..
Mr Butler advocated for a way forward for the WHO Pandemic Agreement.
Not seen this covered in the Oz or Courier Mail etc.
I suspect they also didn’t report that the Tory government of meek and mild Rishi Sunak pulled out of the negotiating process last week, stating that the proposed treaty was a threat to UK sovereignty.
The idea that WHO should have any post-Covid role, other than dismantling itself, is a strong argument against supranational bodies.
While elements of the German press are attempting to blame the intended victim, anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger.
News Corp chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch marries partner Elena Zhukova at his LA estate
By james madden
News Corp chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch has married his partner Elena Zhukova in Los Angeles, surrounded by their close family and friends.
In a ceremony decorated in white and leafy green flowers, the couple wed in the vineyard of Mr Murdoch’s secluded Bel Air estate, Moraga.
Mr Murdoch’s son and News Corp chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his wife Sarah were among the wedding guests, along with News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson and wife Wang Ping, and Mr Murdoch’s niece and The Herald & Weekly Times chairman Penny Fowler.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and wife Dana Blumberg were also in attendance.
Mr Murdoch and Ms Zhukova – a retired biologist – met at a family gathering last year.
Despite the hopes of the pervert apologist, most of the Teals will be gonski at the next election.
Hard to see Chaney getting back in Curtin. You imagine SloMo and 2022 will be the low point. Not sure how incumbency will play out.
We await the NSW redistribution to see about those North Shore seats, but in Victoria the only Teal in much trouble is Monique Ryan in Kooyong… and Josh Frydenberg has just blown the Libs’ chances there.
Wrong again, Nazi.
Saw a Teals team in Kew a few days ago, they tried to engage us, but we just walked on .. my partner thought it best if we didn’t start anything!
No one was talkling to them actually, 4 of them monstering a corner near a coffee shop. Everyone studiously ignoring them.
If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs.
Yep. The copper grabbed the wrong guy who was wrestling with the jihadi. As a result the jihadi got free and killed the copper. Maybe the Europeans will wake up? No chance. Pro tip, go for the one with the beard. Like this Ariana Grande fan. Out of place. .naah.
And trackie daks.
Depends. 😀
Hairy said he’d heard ‘rumbles’ on Fox News – is there any hope of the Republicans putting their Presidential Convention Confirmation date any earlier, to foul Bragg’s timing of Trump’s ‘sentencing’ as prior to this Convention?
Bragg would then be faced with trying to jail a confirmed presidential candidate, which the Supreme Court might start to see as election interference (though they have been vewy quiet so far on a State prosecutor dealing with a Federal matter outside the range of State jurisdiction, so no promises).
Very good point.
Sorry Lizzie, accidental downvote.
Lizzie, I think we can count the USSC out of the game for the moment, Roberts appears to me to be too compromised to allow anything to happen.
No, I reckon this ones up to the People to sort out either peacefully or violently, as required and as allowed in their Constitution.
Love that thought!
Roger – thanks for that tip re the ABC story on electricity company trickery. Husband just told me that the latest electricity bill for city property did not record a meter reading! They must know that we are recording regular readings of meter!
The subterfuge that we are encountering by big retailers these days is scary.
People had to take the electricity supplier at a local industrial estate to the Ombudsman, since the company used the readings of a factory with like 10 x CNC machines, to “avarage” the cost of electricity to local storage warehouses.
Instead of the expected $1,000 bill, it was $6,000 and the compnay basically said, pay it and we;ll give you a credit but we’re not going to change our process.
Found out, the electricity supplier has a whole section of people, and a unique email address and process to deal with Ombudsman issues
Averaged readings for industrial businesses only occur when there is no meter reading.
How does that happen with remote read meters for industrial sites?
Well, there are two ways. One – the tenants of the warehouse refused a smart meter; or two – the tenants of the warehouse refused to pay for meter reading services.
$5000 a quarter is a tiny fraction of what it would cost (including “seat cost”) to employ a full-time meter reader just to read one meter. It’s cheap at a monthly rate.
Ombudsman cases are generally public – send a link and prove me wrong.
This is fraud, pure and simple and has to go straight to Fair Trading tribunal.
Best wishes with that, Vicki.
Despite what people think metering and billing is reasonably complex. You expect electricity will end up looking like mobile phones with a few carriers (generators) and a number of resellers/retailers, largely not directly comparable with each other. Market behaviour and dynamics could be expected to be similar: churn, cost of acquisition etc.
Just for giggles:
Has any one checked out the CONTRACTED price paid to the actual “suppliers of electrickery to the “retailers?
How many “retailers” produce a single WttHour?
This rock-show was a “wealth redistribution” exercise from day one.
Lizzie, recent de-industrialisation of the West was a neoliberal project driven by the right (including the ALP Right) on behalf of their billionaire donors. Privatisation and outsourcing delivered terrible outcomes for Western countries, shuttering entire manufacturing sectors and leaving us defenceless against powerful state investment in green tech by the controlled economy of China. Rich owners of multinational conglomerates made off with humongous economic rent, largely tax-free, further assisted by the right dismantling antitrust regulation after the 1990s.
Biden has turned the industrial tide in the US through the IRA, bringing new government investment in green tech to try to close the gap in the battle against China, and to a lesser extent India. Trump would reverse that, of course, because he wants to build Trump Tower Beijing and his family has extensive business ties in China.
Albo is trying to copy Biden’s tactics in Australia, and it remains to be seen whether that is possible given our higher cost bases. At least he is trying something, unlike Potato Head with his radioactive fantasies.
Piss off, Nazi.
Geez Cranky, you’re descending towards BJ levels of lazy NPC posting.
Nup Nazi, just posting the truth about you.
mUnturd, good to see that you still read my comments. My day is made.
You are talking of the theory of competitive advantage – and we all know that this didn’t happen on a level playing field nor in a situation of international trust. Conservatives, of whom I am one, moved cautiously in this environment. Main-chancers, often of the left as well as the right, piled in with crony capitalism. We’ve seen the end result of that in Argentina.
You fail to see that the problem in your analysis lies with ‘Green Tech’.
We don’t need it and it is open to rorting on scales previously unknown as well as blinding Western countries to the realpolitik of it seized by China, Russia and other bit players.
Nuclear is the ‘solution’ to what I consider to be a non-problem, for the anthropogenic component of CO2 is highly debatable, contentious and obviously fairly small if it even exists. The ‘science’ is definitely not settled at all and never can be in our own timeframes. Over-egging the ‘scare’ pudding here has been extremely deleterious to sensible energy policies which may well include a nuclear component. I’d go for HILE (high intensity low emissions) coal fired power too, as well as gas. Back to a better economy for all by not buying into this non-problem.
Oh, and I strongly support President Trump in his efforts to bring back industry to America’s rust belts, and in his solution-searching approach to the range of problems, both social and economic, facing the Western world at present. America still needs to lead, and Trump is an ideal person to stake that claim internationally as well as in the social variety of the US.
The absolutely ridiculous and awful personal denigration that the MSM have given President Trump for years should be recognised for what it is and reframed in his favour. On all indices he was a very competent President in 2016-20, hampered only by the Democrat weaponisation of the Covid issue of an ‘escaped’ virus of Chinese origin, which, justifiably for a while, utterly freaked medicos and politicians until weaponisation took over from epidemiological common sense.
Oh, and M0nty, don’t get me started on the ‘greening’ of our countryside in the name of saving the planet. You can’t move for trees anywhere on the eastern seabord now, with pleasant pastures a vista mainly of the past, and productive land being given over to a monocultural eucalypt (petrol tree) forest cover, sacrosanct to no intrusion except of course for ‘renewables’ (which need ‘renewing’ every 25 years and cost a CO2 fortune to make (if you care about such things), mostly in China btw, who don’t care much at all about such things.
Even in CO2 terms this re-forestation is stupid, merely providing an opportunity for super-conflagrations all over our fertile areas, letting off massive amounts of CO2 in so doing.
mUnturd has now implicitly supported Trump’s policies.
The simple fact of the matter, Lizzie, is that Reaganite free market policies have undermined national security of Western countries by outsourcing our industrial base to our enemy. China has taken full advantage with centrally-planned economic nationalism, they have the whip hand, and we in the West are only now fighting back.
Libs and Republicans are on the side of the rentiers who allied with our enemies. Albo and Biden are on the side of local workers whose jobs were shipped overseas to benefit the 1%.
Nukes are irrelevant here due to insanely long lead times, airy-fairy LTV estimates, and inevitable cost blow outs. The race to dominate the solar PV industry has been run and won, batteries are the new battleground. Biden and Albo may be starting from too far back, but at least they are running now.
Albo and Biden’s climate policies are destroying manufacturing and sending workers’ jobs offshore, as well as attempting to destroy Australian mining and mining jobs. You won’t address that issue at all.
Can’t you hear yourself? Shameful stuff you believe.
That’s tantamount to an admission that Albanese & Chalmers don’t have a clue. Their government is overseeing the steepest fall in living standards since the Depression.
And has implemented a per capita recession by extreme immigration levels.
seriously lathered up with the gibber today mUnty
are you an AI by chance?
Is mUnturd now supporting Trump and JD Vance? And is he too stupid to realise what he is doing?
Yesterday afternoon I went to hear Peter Dutton speak at Moriah College. The room was full, with about 700 people attending.
Dutton spoke very well, and offered comfort to the Jewish community.
Unlike the grub from Grayndler, Dutton does not speak with a forked tongue.
And this ties into the ‘Teals’ or as I prefer to more accurately call them, Svengali Simon’s whores (because that is what they are). I doubt very much that Spender will win again in Wentworth.
Holmes a Court and Bell Group!
The Teals do represent a demographic, perhaps unkindly referred to as doctors’ wives, I increasingly see among my old female friends. Uni educated (typically a BA or psych degree), a few years in the workforce, marry typically upward then a couple of decades raising a family. Some have returned to work with kids at Uni, some by necessity through divorce. Typically they are accommodated within the Lieboral wets.
Yes Bear, my female friends include a few like this. Comes with the generally well-off territory.
Like Cassie, and as a resident in Wentworth, I don’t think Spender (Teal) will win again, because she has deeply offended the large Jewish constituency in her support of funding fascist ANWRA which supports Hamas and often contains Hamas fighters itself. Also, she’s an airhead, flitting around ineffectively.
Interesting to see Dave Sharma, the losing member for Wentworth in the last Federal election, on Outsiders on Sunday. Wouldn’t have seen that in a million years before Oct 7th, comments Hairy. I think it’s a shame he’s not standing again this time, so Spender is up against some unknown woman. Why on earth do they think they always have to run a woman in contentious seats held by a woman? Many would prefer to strong and experienced man than another female of unknown quality. I disagree with Sharma’s green climate tinge, but he was a good rep and would garner a lot of Jewish support this time round.
The demographic — The AWFLs
What any thinking person knew anyway – OBumma pulling OBiden’s strings.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/06/radical-barack-obama-comes-shadows-announces-joe-bidens/
That was fairly obvious a few years back in the video showing Biden (off his meds) wandering around aimlessly being ignored by everyone at a Dem event, while the political A-listers in the crowd were all concentrated around .. yep, Obama holding court.
Zippster
June 3, 2024 9:41 am
islam is a death cult and needs to be dramatically reformed
The bastard was radicalised according to the media wimps. No muslim is radicalised; they’re all radicals and hate the West.
Needs to be eradicated….
So do commies
All Cats and Kittehs know muntsac is inordinately fond of old men. He has been a Biden fluffer since before the 2020 election.
He faps away furiously to the image of Donald Trump.
His latest senior fantasy is Rupert Murdoch.
This short clip is on a continuous loop in muntsacs’ frontal lobe. Yes, he only has one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0eILBa_cpM
BTW at an anti-vax meeting (yes, the groups that formed in those awful years formed permanent and rewarding friendships) an activist called Topher Field ( from Victoria I think) gave a great address on the continued activities of political supporters of authoritarian government and the dangers they present for democracies. I think he is a libertarian & is very impressive.
I was very concerned to read in a Medscape article that moves are well afoot to make the flu vax an mRNA one soon. Also many other vaxxes and also cancer treatments are to be delivered by mRNA.
One wonders at the level of testing for specifically mRNA problems in these new projects. Much of the vaccine injury has been laid at the door of the Covid Spike Protein, without further consideration of the genetic mode of delivery.
I think you mean: “I think he is a libertarian but is very impressive”.
De-industrialization was about profits. Companies have no obligation to the community. They are a private good not a public good so why people whine about how they moved their production facilities to cheaper lands is beyond my comprehension. When it began everyone thought it was a great idea and everyone loved the cheap products. Complaining now is just being a Captain Hindsight.
The drive towards small government is one of the reasons the Tories are getting smashed. The jokes in Britain about privatized waste water disasters and rail commuting costs and failures are legion.
The main Hobart ugg boot emporium has quite a good bridal section, apparently.
lol, Frank.
It’s ugg time here in Sydney now.
As a fashion statement though they are lacking.
So around the house I wear little knitted booties.
My New Year’s Resolution was to get properly dressed earlier and more often, even if not going out. But it was made in summertime and so has fallen by the wayside recently. Still in my fluffy dressing gown and it’s nearly elevenses times.
Hairy still asleep. I don’t know how he manages it.
Even in my 90s one would hope not to be in Tasmania.
Uggs of course are perfectly acceptable at most Westfields. Or so it would appear.
With bike shorts and an over-sized T-shirt.
This system of top of page commenting does my head in.
I’ve just written a little essay in response to M0nty’s attempt at reasonableness. Buried in the reply function, of course.
He really does get my dander up. So much fake belief in his plaints, to say nothing of the way in which his ‘side’ tends towards the Nazi. Not nice.
I’m with you, Lizzie.
WordPress’s commenting software is upside down.
Dover can’t do anything about it. It’s either the upside-down software or nothing.
PS: the nerds who designed it couldn’t give a sh*t about user-friendliness. They design software to get the approval of other IT nerds.
Roger upthread brought up the example of the merger in the 1990s to form the Conservative Party in Canada.
Seems to me the only way something like that would happen in Australia is if there is a significant gap between vote share and seat share. Dutton’s strategy of abandoning blue-ribbon seats to the Teals and chasing Labor’s strongholds in satellite suburbs has thus far delivered a lot less seats (38.7%) than votes (47.8%).
It is almost deliberately designed to minimise seat returns as a ratio of votes won. If someone wanted to lose every single seat by five per cent, you could hardly do worse than Dutton’s plan in the short to medium term.
I guess there is a long term strategy to refashion the party from a nation of forgotten Menzian shopkeepers to a new Trumpian paradigm of nativist incel-coded resentment, but the transition is going to be painful and will result in some awful electoral results before it is supposed to turn around.
A split seems more likely than a merger at this point. Or a slow draining of Liberal wets away to the Teals, which would eventually give the same outcome.
mUnty, best you not show your “thinking”. Stick to trusted bloggers and bullet points. You are correct in saying the Waffleworth/SloMo experiment and accommodating Lieboral wets hasn’t gone well. I have previously advocated razing Howard’s broad church.
I see our resident Nazi is now opining on the Liberal Party. Perhaps it’s best he sticks to opining on his own party, the Nazi Greens party.
Originally I thought exactly that.
It is now starting to look like Toyota has been playing a smart, long game. The limitations of Li-Ion batteries in EV’s have always been apparent. It seems Toyota has adopted them to an absolute minimum (but nonetheless effectively) in its limited hybrid range, while developing a more automotive-applicable alternative battery technology.
Toyota, with the backing of Japan Inc, is now tipping big billions into solid lithium battery technology – or, perhaps far more importantly, the manufacturing technology for cost-effective mass production of this generation of EV batteries.
Strategically, this puts the Toyota brand ahead of the other EV OEM’s (who are also following up on fast-charge, higher power-density, longer-lived batteries). It also avoids the brand legacy issue of leaving behind piles of BetaMax Li-Ion vehicles and distressed owners.
Fiendishly clever, these Orientals.
Interesting article on the subject here (although one that falls into the ‘mineral resource vs reserves trap’).
Jobs while he was at Apple said there was very little gain in being first to market when it comes to technology.
Seeing a few grumbles emerging on Tesla resale values.
One of the big consequences of the move to EVs is that cars are more disposable. I don’t know if that is a short-term thing that will revert when the industry standardises on one particular battery tech, but it is fairly obvious that EVs are not built to last for decades any more. That is not a bad thing per se, it will just take getting used to.
Have you demonstrated your commitment by buying one? Or do you remain a carbin polluder?
Thanks for that, Faustus.
Biden has turned the industrial tide in the US through the IRA, bringing new government investment in green tech to try to close the gap in the battle against China, and to a lesser extent India. Trump would reverse that, of course, because he wants to build Trump Tower Beijing and his family has extensive business ties in China.
Your first paragraph made sense dickless then you reverted to shit. Green tech is the chunk’s weapon against the West. It began when china was exempted from the Paris accord rules on emissions reduction until 2030 and thereafter on an optional basis. This while the West crucifies itself on the alter on ruinables the chunks power ahead with fossils, nuclear and the biggest hydro in the world.
Trump revitalised the US economy by reinvesting in fossils and nuclear and by reducing company tax from the highest to the lowest in the world. He increased employment, especially amongst minorities to its highest levels. By comparison the golden boy obuma also increased employment by increasing and politicising the bureaucracies.
It’s clear that the demorats are the tools of the chunks. How ironic is that dickless.
There is not one skerrick of advantage, sense or merit engaging with the dickhead. He is a waste of space and any interaction with him is a waste of time…
Pic of Rupe and sixth wife, plus those black sneakers.
https://x.com/markdistef/status/1797216667719860237?s=46
The tech is real, Mercedes has it too.
The trick is to lower its production cost. That is generally a problem that can be solved if you throw enough engineers and industrial capacity at it, as China did with solar PV.
Maybe scroll up Monty.
Anyway, Cats, a day to be spent sorting out this mob of grifters, squatting on the farm…seems, if you get a court order to have them evicted, they trash the place, to show how important they are..a teenage schoolgirl, in her mother’s police uniform, say the police are most reluctant to get involved in cases like this..
Pic of Rupe and sixth wife, plus those black sneakers.
No Nazi, his new wife is his fifth wife.
Hope it goes better than the Chinese one. Those pictures of her berating the old guy on the stationary bike even made me feel sorry for him.
mUnturd failed Economics 1, Shirley you don’t expect him to be able to add up?
The tech is real, Mercedes has it too.
The trick is to lower its production cost. That is generally a problem that can be solved if you throw enough engineers and industrial capacity at it, as China did with solar PV.
You really are a fuking moron dickless. No doubt bright ideas about battery function will emerge, hell they’re talking about a nuclear battery. The problems with the rare earths and minerals to make the stupid things and disposing of them will remain. Plus the fundamental battery issue: they don’t make electricity, they store it, currently very inefficiently. And if your only source of electricity are weather dependent ones how the hell are you going to get excess power into the batteries.
Idiot.
The US just found a lithium deposit that largely solves their rare earth needs in that area, cohenite. Do keep up.
You are utterly clueless Monty. Stop trying to do scientiest stuff and go back to your well thumbed copy of Mein Kampf.
No dickhead lithium is not a rare earth.
What you know about this stuff could be written on a postage stamp in crayon.
(And the wonderful irony is the lithium they found is in fracking water.)
I do hope mUnty’s crayons are non-toxic
actually …
they should make crayons both edible and nutritious
but mUnty would still need diet-crayons
Forget lithium. And the 17 rare earth elements. There are not enough known reserves of copper to meet projected demand. It’s not a shortfall, it’s orders of magnitude too little.
The same party that sent Pelosi to Taiwan? With Austin in Singapore saying that China is firmly in their sights? Come on now.
I doubt that it’s only the Liberals facing a split. Looking the Australian political landscape with a nearly uniform level of disdain for all practitioners, I’m seeing national politics move away from the regulation Two Party model.
Purely on ‘policy’ preferences we’re pretty much there now: a Hard Left (Greens and 35% of Labor), a Soggy Left Centre (Labor Centre Right, Teals for the time being, and Liberal Wets), a Soft Right Centre (traditional Roots and Boots Labor, Dry Liberals and some Nats) and a Right (at present, mainly a motley of disorganised individuals).
This has yet to catch up in terms of formal organisation – and perhaps that’s a way off. But what will become an urgent need to address the looming economic and social quagmire is going to produce some interesting non-traditional alliances.
Arguably the best results in Australia have come from the Liar Right running the show and the Lieborals neutralising any influence from the cross bench in the Senate.
Yes.
This is a very fair analysis, Faustus.
The solution should be proportional representation. But that would have to be done over the majors’ dead bodies. Which… may end up occurring.
The debate has ended in some European countries. New policies on immigration restriction and enhanced deportation possibilities. Denmark has a remarkable policy.
Denmark Declares War on Multiculturalism – VisualPolitik EN (youtube.com)
I suspect the subtext is about a specific religion. A BBC journalist accused Polish PM Tusk of being racist. He retorted that Poland accepts thousands of refugees but it doesn’t accept refugees of a certain religion and then said, “we haven’t had terrorist attacks.” Which isn’t true but perhaps he was specifically referring to terrorist attacks arising from that religion.
Paging a Mr Monty. Come and explain this for us.
Donald Trump campaign has raised over $200 MILLION in just THREE days since guilty felony verdict (2 Jun)
Fantastic result! Go The Donald.
Paging a Mr Monty. Come and explain this for us.
He can’t.
There’s quite a back story to the new Murdoch nuptials:
she could help to further whet the public’s voracious appetite for scandalous details of Murdoch’s life — the life that inspired “Succession,” HBO’s hit drama about a media tycoon and his emotionally crippled, backstabbing brood.
So, who is the next Mrs. Murdoch? A member of the Soviet intelligentsia, Zhukova worked at the state-run Hematology and Blood Transfusion Institute and then continued her research in molecular biology in California after the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Like many women moving from the former Union to the U.S. at the time, she might have hoped for some “Pretty Woman” luck — with a wealthy man showing up to deliver the kind of opulent lifestyle that Soviet citizens associated with the West. That is what the Czech-born Ivana and Slovenia-born Melania found in Donald Trump.
But Zhukova is not exactly new to the billionaire lifestyle. Her first husband, and father to Dasha, was the Russian businessman Alexander Zhukov — one of those early-1990s talents who made money by hook or by crook in the post-Soviet “Wild East.” This lent her a certain Russian-oligarch glamour even as she moved on to her second marriage, to a fellow immigrant biologist.
Zhukova is also a former mother-in-law of another Russian billionaire-oligarch, Roman Abramovich, who gained notoriety in the West during his nearly 20 years as owner of London’s Chelsea Football Club. A Kremlin insider, Abramovich has often served as Putin’s back channel to the West, most prominently as an envoy in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in the weeks after the full-scale invasion of February 2022. It was because of his links to Putin that the British government forced him to sell Chelsea that year.
Despite her father’s wealth, Dasha Zhukova entered the public eye only during her 10-year marriage to Abramovich. Eager to be considered more than a socialite, she worked to establish herself as a gallerist and art collector, and became known as a key force behind a posh Moscow art project and exhibition space, Garage. I was introduced to Zhukova there, though when I reached out to shake her hand, she offered me the sleeve of her white silk dress instead.
Zhukova’s union with Abramovich ended in 2017, but she did not remain without an oligarch for long. She married Stavros Niarchos, the grandson of a Greek shipping tycoon, in 2020, at a star-studded ceremony in Switzerland.
With her impending nuptials to Murdoch, Zhukova’s mother will undoubtedly contribute yet another chapter to a family story of wealth, power and tabloid glamor.
Sorry, blockquote fail. New system defeats me sometimes.
Source of the quote is a lefty Japanese newspaper where such things are avidly pored over.
Apparently her daughter Dasha was friendly with Murdock’s last ex, Ms. Wendy Deng, and it was by this means that Elena met Rupert socially. Elena’s mother was involved, so it seems, in some espionage efforts back in Russia.
So a transfusion expert you say? Ole Rupert might be angling for some younger blood to tide him over till he’s 100. Adrenochrome much?
Elena is aged 67 to his now 93.
She looks very well kept for her age. 🙂
China, now Russia. I guess it will be Iran next if Rupert for some odd reason is trying to cover the USA major enemy bases.
I’m not confident the categories now have any meaning. There is a loss of a coherent political philosophy undergirding policy and parties. We may be in a transition period that has both promise and peril. The rise of independents reflects a shifting away from the major parties and political orientations. A decade of impotent coalition rule followed by the dismal government today is making people look for alternatives. Perhaps there will be a 4th turning(Strauss-Howe generational theory). It is a mistake to try and resurrect a true conservative or labour tradition. I may not live long enough to see this but at some time during this decade or next a new kind of politics will emerge.
That needs to happen in this decade because as you indicate we are now facing problems requiring solutions yesterday.
the real problems havent started yet
It was not Donald Tusk who pushed back against the BBC, it was the then Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski.
Donald Tusk is an EU globalist, who will do the bidding of the EU, UN, WHO and particularly the US under Biden.
EU’s Tusk warns illegal economic migrants: Do not come here – BBC News
That is a BBC report from 2016, it was not the famous interview which was between Sikorski and the BBC.
If Toyota’s claim of a solid state battery with a 1000k range and a 10 min charge time pans out(we’ll know within 18-24 months), every EV sold today is obsolete.
The average EV battery stores 40 KWh, some as much as 100. If the vehicle needs to be capable of 1000 KM then the battery capacity would need to be more than 40 KWh but let’s just do the sums for a 40 KWh battery.
If a 40 KWh battery is half empty and needs to recharge in 10 minutes that’s 20 (KWh) in 1/6 of an hour which is 120 KW. A completely discharged battery would need 240 KW for 10 minutes. That sort of power (call it a quarter of a megawatt allowing for losses) requires a fast charger powered by 3 phase high voltage mains. That’s not something you’d have at home. A large number of them would literally cost the earth and put an intolerable strain on the grid both in capacity and infrastructure. For some perspective, a typical pole mounted transformer substation you see around the suburbs might be 500 KVA or half a megawatt.
I’m calling bullsh** on this claim.
And don’t forget that charging batteries is about 80% efficient, so you need to get rid of 24kW of heat for that 10 minutes. That’s the equivalent of 10 fan heaters running continuously in your garage. Toasty.
The flaw here is thinking that EVs need to be quickly charged.
The use case for them is suburban daily drivers with home chargers. There is no need to charge them in record time, you can charge them at 10 amps at your leisure. We have a 32 amp charger but only charge them at 16, could drop it down to 10 makes no difference.
We would only use a supercharger on long distance trips, ie hardly ever
The other use case are Truck fleets that can afford the mega chargers
Charging time will be an issue for robo taxis that have to maximise on road time.
People that live in apartments that cant get enough power or place that are not able to home charge are not a current worthwhile use case. If at home you park your car on the street, forget about EVs.
As far as powering them, the only sane option is nuclear.
There is no need for quick phone charging but it helps sales. It is a selling point that will attract buyers.
Step back cohenite, here is a cutey.
Is that AI?
Have to ask the girl.
Will get back to you.
Jayzus, KevinM.
How old is she? That makes me nervous.
Channel Nein running the latest media attempt to spring child killers from jail, with a very sympathetic account on 60 Minutes of the 2005 murders of his three children by Robert Farquharson.
They criticise the use of expert witnesses in criminal cases, then introduce … guess what? … their own expert witnesses, as follows:-
1. The crash simulation guy. He is very critical of the “cartoonish” simulation used in the trial, which seems more of a criticism of the quality early 2000’s graphics than the substance of the simulation. Incidentally, this is something of a moot point, as this simulation wasn’t presented at Farquharson’s second trial at which he was also found guilty. The “expert” takes a very careful survey of the site and creates his own simulation which is very schmick … except for one little detail. Back in 2005 when the murders were committed this was a two lane highway. It is now a completely reconfigured four-lane dual carriageway.
2. The psychologist. He goes to great lengths to describe Farquharson’s probable narcissistic personality disorder which explains why he appeared detached and uncaring after the murders. However, he isn’t asked (and doesn’t offer up a view) as to whether this detached narcissism could be a factor in deciding to kill his kids.
3. The “car sinking” expert (yes, there is such a thing). He opines that the filmed re-enactment presented by VikPol was misleading because it showed a car taking eight minutes to sink in 2.5 metres of water (because the nose hits the bottom and the rear slowly settles) whereas the dam where the murders took place is 7 metres deep and the car would sink much more quickly. This might be so, but is somewhat academic as the time it took to sink doesn’t alter the key facts. This “expert” says the car would sink like a stone once Farquharson opened his door and got out. He accepts the view that Farquharson was in the car when it entered the water. The prosecution case is that he drove the car to the edge, got out, shut his door and rolled the car in.
The push is to have a permanent panel of sciency types reviewing “problematic and potentially unsafe” convictions.
what?
LFP batteries … so does Jaycar
H B Bear
June 3, 2024 10:00 am
… a straw boater, a tartan waistcoat and a cheesy grin.
Hope he remembers his pants… at least, for the ceremony.
Good headwear can certainly carry the occasion.
The issue is settled because narcissists and psychopaths are beyond recovery therefore he should never be released. Courts and the general public need to face the brutal truth that some behavioral pathologies cannot be cured. I’m not even sure narcissism is the issue because psychopathology seems more appropriate but that’s me guessing from a position of ignorance … .
2005 murders of his three children by Robert Farquharson.
The best book on this was written by Helen Garner. It’s called ‘This House of Grief’. Garner is a fine writer. I’ve read most of her books.
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Delicious hot tears! Keep the links coming, old chap.
There is no need to hamstrung by rules, value, principles or beliefs when you are in a war.
The demonrats declared war. TIme to give them a taste of it.
I fully agree, these people need to be charged with treason and executed.
Obama and Soros need to hang on the end of piano wire.
Won’t happen though.
Courts and the general public need to face the brutal truth that some behavioral pathologies cannot be cured.
It is true but also, the people that would be doing the diagnosis are psychs
I just turfed a young punk from the doorstep.
He was earnestly informing me that it will soon be compulsory for every house to install a battery and I should get in early – special deal.
What was disturbing was his sneering, agressive arrogance when I told him to leave. Obviously has no fear of frail old men.
Hmm, covid stopped the solar panel door knockers around here, I always felt sorry for the kids having to do that kind of selling for a job.
“FVCK OFF KNUT” ALWAYS works for me…I guess they are a bit surprised when an elderly lady speaks their vernacular, and off they slink.
Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 11:59 am
2005 murders of his three children by Robert Farquharson.
Thanks Cassie.
I will try to get a copy.
The 60 Minutes thing was totally skewed to the “Farquharson as a victim” narrative.
Farquharson was/is no victim. Rather he was and remains a pathetic, weak, spineless and very nasty man. He set out to punish his wife, and punish her he did, by murdering their three children.
Re. the 60 Minutes crap, I’m reminded of the Seven nonsense a few years ago when they tried to cast doubts on Bradley Murdoch.
It isn’t even tabloid journalism, it’s tawdry journalism.
I’ve also read, and recommend, Garner’s great writing on this ugly story.
Lizzie- re your concerns about mRNA technology being employed in flu vaccines & other products. Yes – it is not just the vax contents that have provoked concern. For example, the use of pseudouridine in the mode of delivery is a matter of concern. Others are concerned about the modification of RNA that may be occurring. It is too technical for my understanding but I am connected to many sources in respect to the push back by research scientists to know that it is a huge concern for them.
Thanks, Vicki. I’ve read a little about genetic meddling and thus have a healthy concern about doing it without a lot of research followed by checks and balances in its application. For cancer treatments, maybe, for the benefits likely outweigh the risks; for flu vaxx, no, because it is easy enough to use the existing platform to make yearly changes.
Note that there have been no new mRNA vaccines approved in the past 3 years. Remember the so-called “Vaccine Economy” that would power Victoria ahead. Nothing. Crickets. mRNA is too dangerous and they know it.
From mUnturd
It’s pretty clear that the fat fascist fool knows bugger all about what AnAl and Creepy Joe are doing.
Monty pox knows nothing of workers or work.
“DEMOCRAT CRIMINALS! Hillary Clinton & the DNC Committed the EXACT CRIMES Trump Was Convicted For!” [9m:42s]
https://rumble.com/v4z6o9u-democrat-criminals-hillary-clinton-and-the-dnc-committed-the-exact-crimes-t.html
Viva Frei points out that Sussman billed the DNC for legal services for the meeting where he slipped the Clintons’ Steele dossier to the FBI, so misrepresenting the purpose of the payment, i.e. falsifying a business record to skew the election.
Hypocrisy is unsatisfying in the sense that it always arrives too late.
I read a study showing months long presence of the pseudouridine spike protein presence which contradicts the claims that the mRNA is quickly degraded and that mRNA does not move beyond the injection site. It is a serious concern.That might be reverse transcriptase in play but the activation of that enzyme should be rare.The spike protein is a “danger signal” hence in itself will initiate an inflammatory response. Unfortunately, IIRC, the studies did not test for inflammatory markers.
Not sure about mRNA modification cause but I suspect alternative splicing. That is, a gene does not always code for a single protein, at the RNA level alternative splicing can result in different proteins, some studies suggesting thousands of variants! There are also studies showing even longer presence of COVID mRNA and as yet no clear explanation why that is happening. I should get back to some reading but don’t care anymore.
Don’t worry Vicki, if we’re not puzzled by the complexity we don’t understand the problem. There is a wonderful joke about that …
Funny but misleading. I don’t use the phrase “immune system” because it isn’t an integrated set of functions, rather a series of kludges, which is why antagonistic pleiotropy is a fundamental problem in aging.
“antagonistic pleiotropy” – where genes are antagonistic to the overall well-being of the organism on which they survive .e.g. Labor inner city voters who are consistent & persistent in always making life harder for the actual workers voting for Labor.
Vickie and Lizzie,
Moderna building MNRA production facility in Melbourne with 100m jabs per year capability. Bill Gates, Moderna boss and many others have been talking about jabs being made for viruses within 100 days but with no human testing.
My concern is not for myself but grandkids as the medical establishment is very keen to keep adding more and more jabs to the kids schedule. RSV jab is one they are pushing now.
If the “annual” flu is constantly mutating, how can anyone nuike an actual “vaccine” for something that has not been identified, analyzed and “engineered for?
I have asked that question of several medical and “pharmacological” types and all I get is the brush-off
I am just an old electro-mechanical tech who would prefer not to be a victim of Herr Doktor Mengele’s accolytes.
Cassie of Sydney
June 3, 2024 12:17 pm
Reply to Sancho Panzer
Quite so.
The most telling thing was that the first thing he wanted to do was get a lift into town to “break the news to his ex”. Not thinking, “what if they are in an air pocket in the submerged car?”. One own goal by Nein was casting doubt on a witness who saw Farquharson’s car, but was accused of being mistaken because she was 50 kilometres away in Colac having dinner at the alleged time of the murders (I refuse to use the word “accident”). This could be even more damning evidence against him. What if she saw him at, say 6:15, and was buying dinner at 7:15 in Colac. This would mean he sat by the dam for an hour making sure the job was done before strolling out onto the road and flagging down a car.
An epic moment in the history of Cat gullibility! Remember egg_ster buying into the “saggy man, little red car” story? A total fabrication from a discredited and disbarred coke-head lawyer looking for a payday.
LOL at lefties like monty purporting to care about local workers while they shepherd millions of illegal immigrants across the border who compete with local workers for low skilled jobs, housing and goods – and then smearing them as racists and Nazis when they complain.
mUttley opining on economics will never end well.
You sound like his lecturers.
That Monty thinks the teals represent the “centre right” is a huge tell as to how hard left he really is.
Lethbridge “newie” .. 10/10
Monty hitting the glass BBQ early this morning?
Trumpian
paradigm
nativist
incel-coded
Meth, its not just for dinner now!
Trusted bloggers and tubesocks more likely.
The suburbs where the Teals have won seats were certainly ‘centre right’ in the Menzies era. What has happened is that while those areas still form a large pool of the managerial class, over the last half century or more the managerial class has taken on a left tinge. This is the real problem for centre-right parties. Why and how that happened is an interesting question.
Managerial class for sure. Not many worried about making payroll or the mortgage over the house amongst them.
Nah, it’s the climate scare
Around my way, people know bugger all about what’s going on in the world or any science.
They do though, hear the constant drumbeat of the climate crisis, and look at everyone driving those EVs must know something and see all the solar cells on houses.
When you drive through the country you do see a lot of widnmills don’t you?
Surely there wouldn’t be all that if the climate wasn’t in a terrible state, surely?
The fear is real for these folks and that’s what the Teals rely on.
I’m not sure that is incompatible with what I said.
Lefty politics as an item of conspicuous consumption (Veblen) showing that a) you are a member of a desired class with high status
b) you don’t care what electricity bills or an EV cost
c) you’re special because even if the proles (sparkies plumbers, …) earn as much as you they have the “wrong” thoughts and therefore must be reviled as low-life scum.
The Tesla affect.
That may have been the case initially but I dont think it hold much anymore.
I certainly detest Greens however when you put forward a hi-tech mid 3sec car for $100k, you get my attention.
Telsa have a reputation for being cheap to run and they are. My last Porsche SUV service was $7k for car with street value of about $90k and that didnt include tyres. WTF!!
We have gone from spending $200 a fortnight on petrol to about $70 a month on electricity for our Teslas and there are minimal maintenance costs. Aside from the tyres the rest is virtually DIY.
If you cant have a home charger then EVs are not for you.
Telsas are cheap to run, reliable and provide a better daily driving experience. It’s just a very good product.
Are you sure that this doesn’t apply to righty politics too? I think it does.
Agreed.
Look no further than Turnbull, Pyne, and the execrable Matt Kean and so many others.
In montyworld these people are “centre right”.
Well, sure, but I wouldn’t say this applies to them only on the right.
yes, but nobody cares as the good media folks are not overlapping that venn diagram much.
Given your 50 years reference could it be more women in managerial positions?
Oh dear, no. The reference was provided by monty when he mentioned the Menzies era.
Stop calling me dear.
Computer says no.
Hi Roger
With in the past week you pasted an article about Fiedman and the Federal Reserve clearing 1/3 of he stock of cash from banks.
I am looking for it to save and use it in my arguements with everyone – could you tell me what date and time it was posted.
Nein and the Sixty Minutes mob appointing themselves as Farquharson’s personal fluffers is no surprise.
Children have become the ultimate disposable item. Witness full term abortions, training them from pre school to be available for all sorts of sexual and sadistic practices from the adults who are supposed to protect them. Not forgetting their ultimate use as lab rats in the Medical world.
Also, the use of children as human sacrifices to the “Climate Boogey Man”.
Western civilisation is fast regressing to pre-Columbian savagery and barbarity.
The female pictured at 1137 seems to come under category barely legal.
Sancho Panzer
June 3, 2024 1:06 pm
Read Garner’s book, it is heart-wrenching. She doesn’t pull any punches. What I like about Garner’s prose is that she’s acutely precise, succinct and brutal. She’s not one for sentimentality and gush.
Of Farquharson’s guilt I have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever.
Andrew Giles is rather daft.
From Sky News.
Perhaps he was referring to Team Labor? or just their front bench?
BB, the word you’re looking for is incompetent. And corrupt.
FFS, how did someone who dedicated his career before politics to refugee rights wind up as Australia’s federal immigration minister???
In Australia, the world capital of the scam, corruption is mostly legal.
The female pictured at 1137 seems to come under category barely legal.
I will wait.
Creepy
Black Ball
June 3, 2024 2:47 pm
Andrew Giles is rather daft.
You are way too kind.
Phrases like ‘grossly incompetent, chronic liar and time-serving factional tax-hooverer’ spring readily to mind.
Leak’s cartoon this morning (thanks, Tom) is one of his funniest and best:
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/dabdad34bd021d0a643c92b82b9a7103?width=1024
Certainly not one of the ACT’s best. Whatever that might mean.
Bourne1879
June 3, 2024 2:33 pm
LOL.
I doubt it, you maybe too old and anyone under 60 looks like a teenybopper?
When you start hearing yourself talk about “young people”…
Remember the “It’s Time”, Labor jingle?
I have found the PERFECT Labor theme song for the next Federal election.
“It’s Raining Bullshit Tonight”. It is a fair dinkum song!
Listen carefully to the lyrics. It’s all there. 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1SGvnvMYwM&t=119s
Not only. At the current level of technology, server farms that will be required to run AI at optimum capacity will require 35 times current US electricity consumption. That’s without EV demand. Good luck with plastic panels and propellers on sticks.
Most existing data centres already required upgrades to the distribution network before AI even came along.
The fat fascist fool is a firm believer in the inspirational solution to any problem. He closes his eyes very tight, holds his breath and wishes for a solution to magically appear. It hasn’t worked so far, but if he just wishes a bit harder ….
He’s a fan of “the Glad Game”. snork
In the Cotswolds, UK we were based at Chipping Campden and then Upper Slaughter where we did a number of daywalks, nothing too drastic 10-17km and a bit of up/down per walk. To answer Lizzie’s earlier query the weather was OK-no rain.
The chief hazard was shit from scouring cattle.
At the Upper Slaughter hotel ( run by a bunch of expat Saffies) I had booked the main restaurant for dinner the first night and then a different one, which I thought was the casual option for the next night.
The first night was an excellent meal helped by a decent bottle of plonk. I decided not to drink on the second night since the following walk was one of the longer ones.
Turned out it was not casual dining but one of those gourmet/tasting menus with 8+ courses and only 4 tables.
Over the years I’ve had a few of these but always with alcohol and invariably enjoyed them. However sober it is a different matter.
The food wasn’t that exceptional the dissertation with each morsel was bullshit and the whole drama dragged on for far too long. The lowlight was a small greasy chop accompanied by ewes curd wrapped in a vine leaf.
As we scuttled out before they served tea/coffee I mentioned to the earnest and well meaning maitre de that the ewe’s curd turned my stomach. He looked very disappointed and said everyone else thought it was the best course.
Clearly drinking should be compulsory for such meals.
There is a very lovely piece in The Quadrant Online in the last few days. Very reflective of our current , and past, traumas in Oz.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2024/06/hermits-and-home-truths-in-old-borroloola/
Those enduring the frozen communist wasteland of the South will no doubt be overjoyed to learn that the water temperature here remains at 22 degree and the sets are smooth and holding up in the absence of any wind.
I would like to shout also that we will soon also be ridding ourselves of our corrupt union fascist Goverment, however I don’t believe that that will actually happen.
Politics in QLD is based upon habit and the five o’clock news which is of course Government bough and paid for. Govt advetising comprehensively exceeds commercial advertising. It is obvious that every Dept has been told to produce ads, no matter how irrelevant they are. It is continuous.
It is certainly witin recent memory that Government advertising resulted in a significant backlash from taxpayers. That no longer happens.
Now we are told not to bully, bash, drink, rape, drive, talk to women without prior written approval (well, almost), smoke (but drugs are OK), be nasty to blackfellas and muzzies, get upset about windmills destroying the environment (the Big Build FFS) and my current favourite – prepare for cyclones – in winter.
It would be less of a burden for the taxpayer if the Govt just bought the bloody networks. Not even public servants could make them any worse.
Without the government money, they are valueless.
I’ve said for many years that government advertising would mean the subversion of a free media as the owners took the money and ran and sold the little community papers to the big corporations.
They’ve become a Fascist Media without the polish of Germany 1934 – 45.
Gov money I suspect has been propping up movie theaters for a long time.
H B Bear
June 3, 2024 3:38 pm
Reply to johanna
Certainly not one of the ACT’s best. Whatever that might mean.
Andrew Giles is the MP for Scullin, in Victoriastan.
He is a loyal member of the faction of the Member for Rub ‘n’ Tug.
He merely attends the ACT to tax-hoover.
The suburbs where the Teals have won seats were certainly ‘centre right’ in the Menzies era. What has happened is that while those areas still form a large pool of the managerial class, over the last half century or more the managerial class has taken on a left tinge. This is the real problem for centre-right parties. Why and how that happened is an interesting question.
Indeed. I personally lean towards the theory that post war (ie WWII) society in the West put increasing emphasis on managerial/administrative employment. This was the basis for the great emphasis on tertiary education for the sons and daughters of the working class.
It is the immense success of the big corporations in recent times that has influenced the emergence of the ubiquitous DEI (diversity/equity/inclusion) travesty. And why is this so? Because these policies tend to instil loyalty and conformity in workers who progress in said companies. Some would argue that heads of big corporations are altruistic souls who aspire to help the world.
Yeah, right!!!!! There may well be some of the elitist creeps who have fooled themselves into believing this rubbish. There are psychological explanations for such self deception.
Mexico just elected a female secular Jew as presidente.
Being Mexico, the cartels won’t be in any trouble. 🙂
On the subject of Menzies’ forgotten people, I am old enough to remember actually agreeing with you lot that the right had a point about the left, specifically the leftist solution for technologically displaced workers who were told to learn how to code. So much so that I got an OP saying so published on the old Cat.
However, it has become clear over time that the right doesn’t have a solution for those people either. That was made bleeding obvious when the Libs waved sayonara to the auto industry.
The new Dutton pitch to these people seems to be blaming all of their problems on foreigners. That may work for crusty boomer retirees, but not as much for working-age millennials who grew up in a diverse, pluralist society, and can see through the nativist nonsense.
Albo actually has a real solution: rebuilding our manufacturing base with what we label in Australia as “industry policy”. This phrase is most often employed in our right-wing media as a pejorative, with elite pundits dating from the Cretaceous Period chuntering that it never works.
Except… China is currently using it to kick our arses. If we don’t reinvest in industrial capacity to secure a piece of new green tech sectors, we concede our future. Dutton is playing the wrong game, with rules set for him by donors who are on the other side.
What a load of stupid green leftist twaddle.
The only solution Albo has is endless faceplants into the future. Dumbest industry and energy policy ever seen in this country. Literally everything in his stupid made here policy is complete unicorn flatus, even the vaporware quantum computer. Which won’t do well during blackouts (yes I have read up on the things, yes they remain vapourware. Chalmers even alluded to problem which is error correction. That has not been solved by anyone yet.).
I’m amused though that the reason why manufacturing is dead in this country is Labor and their union maaaates. Just ask Toyota.
Let us see how much they like all that as they reach their forties still unable to buy a house as the boomers cling to their properties muttering through clenched teeth “from my cold, dead hand” and contrive to bring even more migrants in to drive those property values up and up and up.
The new Dutton pitch to these people seems to be blaming all of their problems on foreigners. That may work for crusty boomer retirees, but not as much for working-age millennials who grew up in a diverse, pluralist society, and can see through the nativist nonsense.
I agree with you, Monty, on this. I also agree that rebuilding our industry is a necessity re long term survival. But, given the cosy and dependant relationship of the Albanese government with the unions, it is impossible to imagine any way that such a prospect is feasible. High wages were the death knell of Aussie industry once China began to modernise. What has changed? Do you really think that the Albanese government can persuade the unions to take a hit in respect to wages???? And this at a time when inflation – and indeed, stagflation – promises to devastate Australian families????
You’re dreaming. Government cannot pick winners. Ever.
All that happens is waste & corruption as puffed-up Idiots who’ve never run a corner shop or garage sale throw our money into the pockets of whoever tells them the sweetest lies aided by umpteen “consultants”.
Mining. Farming. Thats how we pay the bills and public servants wages & pensions and import all the nice goodies from China.
Forget that and we lose …
The “manufacturing base” he’s talking about is stupid solar panels and batteries. Absolutely futile. And this bit is pure insanity:
The “new green tech sectors” are bonkers. A gigantic green hole to pour money down for nothing. Not only are they insanely uneconomic and impractical but they are also a total lie, since there is very little AGW actually happening.
And the more these ridiculous things are used to “generate” cash mines for off shore carpet baggers, sorry, I mean energy, the more expensive and unreliable that energy becomes.
How can we have any large scale industry in a country with an unstable and expensive power grid, down at the arse end of the planet?!
It’s not “crusty boomer retires” who can’t get a house because hundreds of thousands of immigrants are competing for them. It’s “working age millennials”.
Try to look beyond the lefturd talking points.
My goodness, the stupid per line ratio in that load of rusty old cobblers, is off the charts and into hitherto unknown sectors of deep space.
Given the empty head it came from, totally predictable. I won’t dignify it with the term analysis.
It is refreshing though, to read something the Munsterous has written that isn’t filled with gratuitous slagging.
Gabor, the procession video for Corpus Christi in Granada was date stamped 30/5. The procession I watched was last night’s. The “float” was the one I saw and tried to describe.
The ladies in the tall comb mantillas didn’t feature because they weren’t there a couple of days ago. But they were there last night, with dark suited men, all carrying staffs of office.
And then there were the brass bands and drums.
Are you in Granada, Calli? We LOVE Granada & think it is perhaps the most “liveable” city in Europe. The moment we drove into Granada I felt a different “vibe” ( horrible expression, I know). Very relaxed, very friendly. Amazing snow capped mountains in the distance. And, of course Alhambra. But also the fabulous “gold” church of Basilica San Juan de Dios! Please, please visit the latter.
FOX interview TRUMP June 2, 2024
Good stuff.
I notice he’s changed his hairstyle. 🙂
That was an interesting point about the ladies in mantilla and combs Calli, I’ve forgotten the special names for those combs though I did once know it.
They only appeared on Easter Sunday of the Easter processions too, when I was in Valladolid. The preceding week everyone was in penitent costumes, which makes perfect sense of course.
Re TheirABC’s relentless undermining of the civilisation which enables its existence, did anyone notice that they have been running a series called ‘Stuff the British Stole’?
Not ‘stuff the Turks stole’ during the Ottoman Empire, or ‘stuff the Aztecs stole’ or ‘stuff the Romans stole’, to mention a few examples.
Apparently, throughout all of history, it is the British who were the worst, most destructive and morally repugnant conquerers.
The title alone is like a headline in a student newspaper.
Given their ever diminishing audience, the Coalition should not be afraid of getting in their collective face, not only in Estimates, but in Question Time and at every other opportunity.
The ‘Australia is racist’ thing was a cheap shot – here today, gone tomorrow. Culture wars are not won by one off embarrassments.
While thousands of Australians are homeless, and tens of thousands are on the brink, these wankers are receiving fat salaries and actively opposing the values of those who fund them – e.g. Da Voice.
The Coalition should announce that they are going to divert half of TheirABC’s budget – $550m or so – to putting roofs over the heads of Australians.
While they are at it, they need to get a team of top lawyers to rewrite the legislation. The typically gormless Coalition didn’t relaise that the legislation ensures that only the Collective controls TheirABC. Not the Minister, not the Board, and thanks to left wing stacking, management merely facilitate.
Like so many lazy and conflict-averse ‘conservatives’, they believed what they were told and voted for a structure which is Escheresque.
Just like their ‘complaints’ setup.
Fab idea. And move the rest out of the cities to regions where privately run journalism is dying.
So nothing about “stuff the Muslims stole”? Even though the march of Islamic imperialism started centuries before British imperialism, and continues half a century after the British got out of empire?
Yep. It is hard to have the stuff the Mongols stole or the stuff the Zulu stole because they simply massacred the enemy. So there was no one left to complain. Is there a lesson there?
I’m amused that Monty has just written another five paragraphs of the most ridiculous green crud that ever has been excreted onto this blog.
He didn’t forget to “you lot, us”.
pure 100% gibberish
and he only posts here because you cant fit 5 paragraphs on a T-shirt
RTe: that serial pest.
Chris Rea did a pertinent song s few decades ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8XJiD68GR4
full interview Trump Fox
FMD Tits Shorten.
Spew worthy
$300k+ pa – maaaaaaate I was in the wrong business.
AS I’ve said many times, Shorten has all the appeal of a fart in a lift. Another Melbourne patrician too like Giles and Dreyfus.
Well, it IS Shorten.
Cassie at 2:39:-
Me neither.
Along with two juries and an appellate court.
This is why I object to this “expert panel” concept, reviewing “unsound verdicts”.
You can bet that they would have been beating the “Free Keli Lane” drum, but would decide that the Pell verdict was just fine. In other words, they would become the judicial arm of the ABC/SMH, but without the separation of powers.
The ALPBC certainly sees itself as the third chamber. Although possibly not speaking for the majority based on viewers & listeners.
More than 232,000 Australians struggling with the cost of living are waiting over three months to be approved for social security, welfare and health payments — of which a whopping 64,139 are waiting 200 days or longer.
Well, they do have a problem with people called Ali Ali or Mohammed Ali or Ali Mohammed and so on.
That said, a big part of the problem is their determination to save money and get with the cool kids by doing everything online.
As part of the post war immigration cohort, my first name has been Anglicised. Many of my contemporaries had their surnames changed as well.
Rather like elderly people with chronic pain being treated like street junkies, decrepits like me are finding it impossible to use online services to access the many government benefits that are available to those who scam the refugee system, carer pension or the NDIS.
We have to compile documents (like my birth certificate in Holland in 1954 and my parents’ naturalisation certificate) and get certified copies and a whole bunch of other stuff and send it by certified snail mail and hope for the best, joining a queue of nearly a quarter of a million.
How the hell does Ali Ali with no documents get payments?
6 MONTHS to get a CSHC card.
Ali Ali just ticks the box that asks if he is one of Allah’s Finest.
Ali Ali has UNHCR issued documents that may or may not bear any relationship with the truth.
For example, 99.9% of refugees were born on 1st January of their birth year which itself is guesstimated.
Off to Cordoba today, so won’t get to see the golden church. But I will return to Granada if possible. Along with Oviedo, it’s the pick so far.
Oh – another favourite! Cordoba, of course, boasts the incredible La Mosquita (spelling?) – the cathedral that combines Christian and Islamic architecture. But I also loved the stone bridge leading out of town. Can’t recall if it has Roman origin (since Cordoba originally part of the Roman province of Hispania) – probably not, although it really looks like a Roman bridge. What I do know is that the ancient town was part of the bitter Roman civil war between Julius Caesar & Pompey. Pompey’s general (and ex Caesar legatus in the Gallic campaigns) Titus Labienus met his death in a major battle just outside ( I figured it was to the east) of the town. Caesar’s forces won, of course, and they presented Labienus’ head on a pike to Caesar.
It’s possibly my imagination, but on a Powerline article about former POTUS Trump visiting UFC 302, the linked footage begins with one of the Secret Service blokes seemingly eyeing an overweight local policeman.
It’s a reminder that potential assailants/assassins don’t necessarily look like obvious weirdos who easily stand out in a crowd. Infiltrating venue security, for example, would be an option for those so inclined.
Earlier:
The day following this triple murder, I was discussing the matter with an associate. He, as did I, at that time had at least one young child.
We both agreed that in that situation, where a car driven by one of us ended up in a dam and was sinking with children inside, that only two options were available:
Option 3, which is wandering off to a farm and asking for a durrie was not on the table.
I said this on OldCat at the time. The SP cannot swim a stroke and is actually scared of water, but in the event he drove our car, avec kids, into a dam, he would die trying to get the kids free.
And he would do that for someone else’s kids, too.
Speaking of everything done “on line”, we are now so wedded to our wretched dumbphones that churches are now using QR and your phone for commentary. Granada cathedral, for example. When we said we didn’t have our phone with us, we were met with a look of horror.
And don’t try to get a menu. QR and pictures of meals are the dish of the day.
I suspect the knowledgeable people who once would have volunteered for such duties are long gone, calli.
Don’t most people attending mass know the responses off by heart ?
I’ve never seen anyone in Europe use a smartphone in mass, other than me with a local language version on my phone, and a couple of parishes in France that offered tap and pay for the collection.
Also earlier:
Ah, the jelly man.
One of the great episodes in international blogging history.
@TONYxTWO
Other Countries are having rallies for Trump
“Donald Trump is needed in this world to bring back peace.”
Incredible!! Watch & Share!!
Woke Defense Department Mistakenly Posts LGBT Pride Graphic for PTSD Awareness Month
Fauci: I Made It All Up
“Ukraine will do everything to stop Israel.” Zelenskyy said that Kiev will recognize both Israel and Palestine — Novaya Gazeta Europa
The latest Biden peace plan
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1797162783676465608?t=QpaAgwwELuLkb5FwKa_R9g&s=19
You’ll never guess who’s pulling Bidens strings
U.S. Escalates ‘Nuclear’ Risk: World Stands On ‘Edge’ Of Destruction | Richard Wolff
What was the song? Something about “We’re on the eve of destruction”.
KD, sancho … please try to keep the mutual wanking to a minimum
Calli at 5:50
Smartphone saved us in Japan.
Being able to walk in anywhere and point Gongle Translator at a menu or sign was a God-send.
And I quite liked the menu app where they had it. Where you wanted to order lots of little dishes (a bit like tapas or pinxtos in Spain) you can just press order.
There was one place where we were sitting up at the long bar along the open kitchen and I pressed the third re-order on the crispy spicy chicken drumsticky things. The chef looked at the ticket and turned around and looked at me as if to say “Really? Another one?”
I just shrugged and gave him the thumbs up.
He laughed.
never going to happen. Too much red tape, green tape, too much compliance work, wages way too high and often too complex to even calculate. Risk of unionisation is too great. Tax system is absurdly complex. Super, OH&S . Risk of sexual harassment claims. Directors risk are shockingly high. The list is endless.
I’ve had 4 companies out here to quote for replacing one of my ducted air-conds, 3 havent bothered to quote despite me pestering them for weeks and only one actually was honest, boss wont want to do it too much paperwork. What the living fuck has become of this country???
Manufacturing?? forget it!
“secure a piece of new green tech sectors”
It’s the way he tells em.
That won’t move them much, specify that it’s for aboriginal remote housing. Let them defend withholding that money.
How to BURY a CRISIS (ft. Princess Catherine)
Mmmyes.
Or wanting to get a lift into town to “break the news to the ex” rather than ringing 000 hoping that the CFA might find one or all of the kids in an air pocket in the car.
One of Nein’s “gotchas” was a woman who claimed she saw Farquharson’s car, but evidence shows that she was eating in Colac at the time of the murders.
How about this?
She actually saw the car on the road before the murders, but the c..t sat by the dam for an hour until the bubbles stopped, then strolled out to flag down a car and ask for a lift and a smoke.
Star reporter Nick McKenzie does his best to put Ben Roberts-Smith in jail, whilst simultaneously trying to spring a grub like Farquharson.
Ah yes Alamak, the clarion call of the fusty old neoliberal.
China has blown that old furphy right out of the water. They not only picked winners, they manufactured the wins themselves. “Picking winners” presupposes that government is choosing between capitalist ventures. China’s controlled economy doesn’t bother with competition. State-backed enterprises are now dominating the small number of growth industries in modern economies.
What do the neoliberals have in response? Tired, obsolete ideology pushed by losers.
You lot faff on about right-wing populism and appealing to the working class, but you have nothing of policy substance to offer to displaced workers. Only racism and greater inequality.
Are you prepared to accept Chinese environmental and OH and S standards? If not, stop the hysterical babbling.
Also, please move there.
Piss off, Nazi.
Er…they opened up a free market for foreign capital.
The wrongology is strong.
Another four paragraphs of stupid leftist wanking.
China succeeded by dropping the controlled economy. That was what Deng Xiaoping did. He let ordinary Chinese innovate without the dead hand of government strangulating them. That gave three decades of rapid success, until Xi came along and got his stupid Mao-suit on.
Now China is in deep crap. They even acknowledged it last week.
Damn but Monty is dumb. He just keeps digging his hole deeper. What was that definition of insanity again?
he’s not the official resident rakemeister of the old cat for nothing
Your example involves a government that manufactures wins by imposing slavery.
Go long Chinese property and banks. Short Taiwan.
South Korea helped Samsung along and even funded K POP(although whether there is a good thing is an interesting question).
Hang on. Let me just approach a control panel.
*flick*
Righto. Job done.
NSW authorities are still pursuing monies owed by 3,628 children fined between 2020-22 for Covid-related offences.
The highest fine is $5K, most are $1K.
The political class wants to be forgiven, but is not willing to forgive.
Over to you, NSW Cats.
I thought the NSW Supreme court threw most (if not all) of the bat flu fines out?
You can bet that they would have been beating the “Free Keli Lane” drum, but would decide that the Pell verdict was just fine. In other words, they would become the judicial arm of the ABC/SMH, but without the separation of powers.
Yep, I was just thinking eggastly the same thing this arvo. Oh and where are the penetrating investigations into the Pell Affair, or the Porter allegations……nothing, zero, nada.
As an aside, but related in the way the media are selective about who’s innocent and who’s not…..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/child-sex-abuse-charges-against-qld-priest-david-lancini-dropped/103901084
I wonder what next for Ten, Seven, Nine and their ABC? Perhaps they’ll do a penetrating investigation into how Bevan Spencer von Einem might have been framed and be innocent? Spare me, but then again nothing surprises me.
IPA secret plan for nukes to vibe a stalking horse for coal revealed
Again, piss off Nazi.
Damn but you are dumb Monty. Every time you spout you just confirm how frigging vacant-headed you are.
Nuclear power now supported by 6 in 10 Australians: Lowy poll – Herald Sun (3 Jun)
I get Lowy’s emails, they are full lefty.
Can’t see a downside.
IPA, Sky, Gina and Murdoch. Really sets them off.
‘Incredibly stupid’: Fauci slammed after shocking confession (youtube.com)
Time to start wearing lead lined jock straps Russian male peoples.
Putin sent dire warning that ‘Russia will be turned into cinders’ in a nuclear war with NATO (3 Jun)
Oh and the Kerch Bridge is looking a tad endangered.
Vladimir Putin reeling as Ukraine ‘plans huge attack on Kerch Bridge’ (3 Jun)
A couple days ago the Ukrainians destroyed two ferries and five bridge guard boats on the eastern side of the strait. And an oil depot.
Yes, Bruce, things are going great for Ukraine right now.
Oh dear Munty, you are a chump.
Murray Hogarth.
Tax sucking renewables chancer much beloved by the perpetually ignorant.
The Fifth Estate is more like a Chinese fifth column.
He, like the vast majority of his fellow travelers, live cocooned by the concrete jungle.
Completely ignorant of what is required to make things tick.
And what’s worse, no desire to comprehend anything more than empty slogans such as “Net Zero”.
The joint’s full of them.
Cities breed dependency. And we have a perfect example…
Indeed.
Central Planning is all the rage in the suburban Soviet of Muntystan.
My favourite ‘Hearing it for the first time’ guy Polo Mars. John Mayall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfwg_xKIatY
Polo is a black guy who grew up in Ohio and loved hip hop. He got out of his comfort zone and created this channel where he listens to everything and anything, luckily including good music of all kinds; been following him for a while, and he often says what I think and feel about music.
Oh, oh, Adam Crieghton.
“If Trump is sentenced to a jail term it will be his fault for criticising the trial judge”.
On the Sunday night unwatchable ‘Jury’ show discussing Tingle’s behaviour one of the panel of ignorance announced “I would never like to see her lose her job”.
We’se stuffed.
Why waste your time watching that rubbish?
Having identified the IPA as reactionaries we await Munty’s glorious defence of the revolution.
Oops.
Just shit me dacks.
You are such a God Oracle, dude!
Trouble at mill.
Anyone seen the ad?
https://x.com/rachelbaxendale/status/1797395728547172472?t=pahPmQNxnhT6joQeAjolLA&s=19
Oh and what happened to Rudd’s Murdoch RC?
Anyone see the great smackdown by James Macpherson of Tingling Cankles this evening? 24ct gold. Very interesting guy James Macpherson, certainly not a cocooned luvvie.
Please explain…I’m TV-less in Italy.
Just by chance I learned that Energy Australia is not owned by an Australian company, but by a Chinese subsidiary. Out of curiosity I found that many other enterprises – including private hospitals are owned by Chinese companies. Would love to see a complete inventory of Chinese ownership of land, companies and other enterprises.
While, of course, foreign companies have owned much of Australia – land, commercial enterprises etc etc for a very long time. But in view of the current fractured relationship between this country and the CCP, I would think that we need to relook at their investment in certain sectors.
Damn straight we do Vicki, but that will only happen when White Australian middle class managers start getting chucked out of their positions and replaced with people who have a loyalty to ‘another’ social system.
It will be interesting – the managers/engineers/doctors who previously did those jobs and thought they were immune to employment market forces, will look back at their former workplaces and wonder how a former Chinese National, now imported because the business couldn’t find anyone ‘suitable’ for the position, is doing their job and they are now unemployed.
It will be the Indian Servo worker scam but at a different level and a different victim.
James Macpherson is filling in for Bolta for 5 weeks.
Love James.
Improvement.
Lily D’Ambrosio told the Vic Energy Outlook meeting that they didn’t ban exploration or drilling for gas, it’s simply that there’s no gas to be found.
Nobody in the room believed her but there she stood bullshitting for Labor’s ‘lights out’ policy.
D’Ambrosio must have mistaken it for a Cabinet meeting. They swallow anything.
Utter crap. But it’s d’ambrosio…not a single neuron has reached minimal operational level.
Labor’s running a back door Belt & Road Vicki.
ENOUGH with the ABC Bias – It’s REALLY Time for Change
Lily D’Ambrosia is the dimmest bulb in the box of fly-shit speckled 40 watt bulbs which is the Liars cabinet.
In “where you’ve got livestock, you’ve got deadstock” news:
My wife keeps a good mob of chooks and about late Jan, early Feb, one of them went down with a gammy leg (curled back under), couldn’t get around and was in danger of being pecked to bits by the rest of them.
In spite of my offer to wring its neck she stuck it in a cage, cut a sling with leg holes out of an old tea towel so the legs could stretch out and somehow nursed it back to relatively full health.
She’s had a pretty good time since, down on the grass in the sun most days and crapping over the back porch incessantly.
Anyhow, half an hour ago the bird had an enormous fit and my wife wrapped her up and brought her inside where, as a just run hot bath turned rather luke warm, “Chookie” slowly expired in her lap.
I think it’s the almond tree earmarked for this one.
Or the lemon…
Nothing is wasted in the country. Our dear, departed doggy pushed up a luxuriant pepper tree which is now the central feature of our memorial garden. (The ashes of two late housemates sprinkled there, along with doggo.)
We had a chook collection s few years back, and one of them had a similar problem – curled back leg, etc. The other four chooks gave it a hard time but one day turned savage. In front of us they all suddenly turned on this poor bugger and pecked it to death. It may have been because she was different or something, we couldn’t figure it out.
It was a lot like the last CWA meeting I was invited to…
I had a chicken named Julia. The last of my egg getters, she was a red head with a big bum and pointy beak. Marvellous chicken, if I was outside reading with a coffee, she would jump up next to me and pretend, in her chicken way, to read the paper. When I was cooking in the kitchen she would perch on the serving ledge outside the window and talk to me while I was busy. Loved a cuddle. She took a dislike to one of the staff and would attack her, wings out, pecking furiously at her bedroom door screen.
Yep, she was a chicken with character. When she was dying, over a few days, her comb settled on her head like a little balloon with the air gone out. She wouldn’t eat. I tried my grannies remedy of fat and pepper, but to no avail. She just faded away. She got the mango tree, Dear Julia.
Dealing with grifters, and the self entitled.
“Rent? Rent? You’ve got this house standing empty, you should let me and my family live here for nothing!”
Words fail me, they honestly vooking do!
A strategically applied cattle prod should get ’em moving.
Australia’s ‘fact checkers’ can’t be trusted to police opinion online under misinformation laws
IPA
The same party that sent Pelosi to Taiwan? With Austin in Singapore saying that China is firmly in their sights? Come on now.
Pelosi and Austen will get those chunks shaking in their clogs.
Trump put china in it’s box by personalising Xe and then attacking china’s trade and technology theft. More than anything he showed the chunks he meant business. China treats the current US leaders like they treat our handsome boy.
never going to happen. Too much red tape, green tape, too much compliance work, wages way too high and often too complex to even calculate. Risk of unionisation is too great. Tax system is absurdly complex. Super, OH&S . Risk of sexual harassment claims. Directors risk are shockingly high. The list is endless.
I’ve had 4 companies out here to quote for replacing one of my ducted air-conds, 3 havent bothered to quote despite me pestering them for weeks and only one actually was honest, boss wont want to do it too much paperwork.
What the living f#ck has become of this country???
Manufacturing?? forget it!
Told the Hockey Mums that I thought it’s a bit of a w*nk to call my dog a “rescue”.
“Oh what should we call her then, Wal? A stray, a pound dog? That’s all a bit American.”
“A Stolen Generations puppy.”
Oooooh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Looks like won’t be having the end of season wind-up at our place this year.
That’s a classic. I’m nicking it for future use.
Megan, Ditto.
I’ll get a dog when I hand back Elsie to Roger, just so I can use that line.