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.
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.
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.
m0nty
June 3, 2024 3:59 am
Well lookee here, turns out Vonshitzenpants becoming a convicted criminal actually hurts him in the polls, according to Fox News.
A new poll conducted immediately following former President Trump’s criminal conviction in New York found a significant number of Republicans say they are less likely to vote for him in November.
One in 10 registered GOP voters said Trump’s felony conviction for falsifying business records would make them less likely to support him for president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Friday.
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.
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.
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.
calli
June 3, 2024 6:24 am
Here is the float I saw. This was taken a couple of days ago.
The music tonight was deafening. No polite applause!
More than six in 10 Australians now support the principle of nuclear as part of the nation’s future energy mix, including a majority of Labor voters, new polling shows.
The Lowy Institute poll, released on Monday, asked more than 2000 Australian voters if they “support or oppose Australia using nuclear power to generate electricity, alongside other sources of energy”.
More than one in four respondents (27 per cent) said they “strongly support” nuclear energy and a further 34 per cent said they “somewhat” support it, leading to an overall approval figure of 61 per cent.
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
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.
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 7:12 am
Knuckle Dragger
June 2, 2024 7:09 pm
The stunning and brave statement by WA’s answer to Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins
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.
“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.
“Such processions are a leaven in our largely disenchanted world. It reminds us that people come to and deepen in faith through multiple, overlapping experiences and influences, including the festive and by really ‘treading the ground’ in faith with others rather than speculating or observing from a distance,” Mr Ang said.
Farmer Gez
June 3, 2024 7:27 am
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”.
Good, time to reclaim the streets from leftist, far-left and Muslim Jew hating scum.
Crossie
June 3, 2024 7:35 am
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dr Faustus
June 3, 2024 7:42 am
In Further Trump Loses 10% of the Republican Vote news:
The Reuters/Ipsos survey showed Biden and Trump nevertheless remain in a tight race, with 41% of voters saying they would vote for Biden if the election were held today and 39% saying they would pick Trump. The poll surveyed 2,556 U.S. adults nationwide with a 2 percentage point margin of error for registered voters.
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…
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.
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..
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.
H B Bear
June 3, 2024 8:12 am
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.
Seriously, someone cares what Jamie Packer thinks?
Wow, slow news day?
132andBush
June 3, 2024 8:16 am
Institutionalised Trump hatred has certainly moved the dial…
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.
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 …..
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.
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.
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.
fuelling claims power firms are using sneaky tactics to gouge consumers
der ABC
been standard practise for many decades
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Roger
June 3, 2024 8:33 am
This can’t be right (the Hun):
More than six in 10 Australians now support the principle of nuclear as part of the nation’s future energy mix, including a majority of Labor voters, new polling shows.
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.
Roger Franklin in Connecticut on popular reaction to the conviction of the man that America’s flyover country sent to Washington DC:
I don’t know if the hillbilly with hot sauce in his beard will be voting in November, but if does, it will be for convicted criminal Donald J. Trump.
RTWT
billie
June 3, 2024 8:40 am
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.
Mak Siccar
June 3, 2024 8:41 am
An excellent critique of the appalling ‘management’ of the Covid debacle.
Citing an article published in the online Merkur.de, Blackout News reports: “Half of German e-car owners regret their purchase or lease”.
Apparently German e-car owners are disappointed due especially to “rising electricity prices”.
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.
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.
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.
Black Ball
June 3, 2024 8:45 am
Piers Akerman:
Australia has never been more vulnerable internally and externally since World War II.
Most millennials don’t have a clue what are the real threats. The febrile nature of political leadership in our greatest ally has been highlighted by the dubious conviction of former US president Donald Trump by a politicised New York court.
If Trump wins in the November election, he will certainly be distracted by the numerous court suits that Democrat states have brought against him and will be unable to give his attention to the foreign crises reaching a boiling point. The near certainty of the election of UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in July does not instil any confidence or certainty in the delivery of Britain’s contribution to AUKUS.
Worse, UK Labour is as riven by identity politics and as beholden to Islamists as is Anthony Albanese’s ALP. None of our enemies regards identity politics as an issue, but here the use of personal pronouns is of such supreme importance, even joking about them can pose a threat to employment and reputation.
Starmer has already indicated his government would implement green-Left policies, such as giving the vote to 16-year-olds and implementing a green energy plan that would end what remains of UK manufacturing and send power prices soaring. Sound familiar?
It is as lunatic a plan as the expensive and inefficient unreliable wind and solar program Energy Minister Chris Bowen is hellbent on inflicting on Australia. Adolescent truant Greta Thunberg may as well have written Starmer’s and Bowen’s platforms.
While our great and powerful friends are entangled in domestic problems, China is intent on expanding its hegemony in our region and we have no viable defence capability.
Israel is bravely committed to eliminating the monstrous, murderous and barbaric forces of Hamas but the pro-Palestinian lobby’s false narrative has swept through Western universities where Left-wing academics actively promote anti-Semitic tropes.
They aren’t alone. Our ABC has repeatedly shown its anti-Israel bias and reluctance to acknowledge the facts of the October 7 massacre as painfully laid out in last week’s Sky News documentary hosted by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
The total lack of leadership from Anthony Albanese and his failure to accept any responsibility for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’s release of murderers and rapists into the community has again highlighted his lack of any redeeming ethical traits. Constantly hedging his bets, Albanese has always placed his petty political goals against the greater national good.
Sacrificing our foundational ties to the state of Israel to placate radical Muslims in Labor electorates is utterly reprehensible, but typical of the abominable divisive behaviour we now expect from our Prime Minister.
There should be consequences for those Muslims who rallied to celebrate the rape and murder of civilians last October, but there has been none. Supporters of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, continue to occupy university campuses and disrupt Australians.
The mosques where so-called imams exhort rabid followers to eliminate Jews should be bulldozed to demonstrate that this hate speech has no place in Australia.
Our nation has striven since its earliest settlement to promote the concept of the fair go, not always successfully, but certainly not under this government while Jewish people are now fearful of assault and in fear. This government is promoting division, not unity.
We cannot continue to be split by race and religion if we are to meet the challenges we face. There must be consequences for this contemptible government’s actions.
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.
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.
Roger
June 3, 2024 8:52 am
“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.
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Indolent
June 3, 2024 8:56 am
Israel has the same deep state traitors as every other country.
“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.
First world problems increasingly resemble third world problems, I retorted.
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.
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.
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.
m0nty
June 3, 2024 9:14 am
Nigel Farage is reportedly hoping to absorb the rump of the Tories into Reform after the election. (The Sunday Times – paywalled.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
June 3, 2024 9:21 am
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.
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.
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..
Roger
June 3, 2024 9:23 am
Health Minister Mark Butler is continuing to advocate for a global pandemic agreement, telling WHO “we can’t afford to fail”. Speaking on behalf of Australia at the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Mr Butler advocated for a way forward for the WHO Pandemic Agreement. This comes after the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) was unable to reach consensus on the draft text of the treaty after nine meetings.
The Epoch Times 31 May 2024
Pogria
June 3, 2024 9:25 am
The De Niro memes are mushrooming. Breitbart has a nice sampler. The 90 second, dubbed monologue is a hoot.
The whole “gubermint inbestment is da bestestest” garbage didn’t make you twig that something was up?
Zippster
June 3, 2024 9:41 am
Rouven L., a 29-year-old German police officer, died from multiple stab wounds to the head and neck after intervening in an attack by Sulaiman A., a 25-year-old Afghan refugee, during an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim. The incident occurred as Sulaiman targeted Michael Stürzenberger, a critic of Islam. Rouven was attempting to protect others when he was attacked. The event has sparked a debate on social media about immigration policies and the handling of extremist threats in Germany.
islam is a death cult and needs to be dramatically reformed
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.
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?
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.
Roger
June 3, 2024 9:46 am
The event has sparked a debate on social media about immigration policies and the handling of extremist threats in Germany.
While elements of the German press are attempting to blame the intended victim, anti-Islam activist Michael Stürzenberger.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
June 3, 2024 9:57 am
News Corp chairman emeritus Rupert Murdoch marries partner Elena Zhukova at his LA estate
By james madden
Media Editor
8:51AM June 3, 2024
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.
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.
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.
H B Bear
June 3, 2024 10:00 am
If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs.
Eyrie
June 3, 2024 10:00 am
Rouven L., a 29-year-old German police officer, died from multiple stab wounds to the head and neck after intervening in an attack by Sulaiman A., a 25-year-old Afghan refugee, during an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim.
This the copper who tackled the victim, not the perp?
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.
Roger
June 3, 2024 10:02 am
If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
m0nty
June 3, 2024 10:07 am
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rouven L., a 29-year-old German police officer, died from multiple stab wounds to the head and neck after intervening in an attack by Sulaiman A., a 25-year-old Afghan refugee, during an anti-Islam rally in Mannheim. The incident occurred as Sulaiman targeted Michael Stürzenberger, a critic of Islam. Rouven was attempting to protect others when he was attacked. The event has sparked a debate on social media about immigration policies and the handling of extremist threats in Germany.
islam is a death cult and needs to be dramatically reformed
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.
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”.
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John H.
June 3, 2024 10:35 am
m0nty
June 3, 2024 10:07 am
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.
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.
Frank
June 3, 2024 10:37 am
If I got married in my 90s I would be wearing uggs.
The main Hobart ugg boot emporium has quite a good bridal section, apparently.
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.
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.
m0nty
June 3, 2024 10:44 am
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.
Dr Faustus
June 3, 2024 10:47 am
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.
Roger @ 9:53 am
I thought Mr. Toyoda was rather cool on EV prospects?
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.
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.
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.
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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?