Open Thread – Thurs 25 July 2024


Market Day at Trouville, Normandy, Eugene Boudin, 1878

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Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 8:25 pm

Eyrie
July 25, 2024 6:46 pm

Oh my wordy lordy. I said darl, I said love, I said pet.
I thought we already covered this.
Take1/2? diameter steel rod. Place in vice. Try to bend.
Now heat to red heat and bend relatively easily. Note it is nowhere near melting.
Next: The bits in the middle of the buildings had an impact from a 150,000 kg aircraft moving at at least 350 knots. Not long after takeoff so lots of jet fuel got misted and ignited. Building now has structural damage as well as heat sufficient to soften steel and likely unbalanced.
Supports in damaged section buckle, leading to upper stories falling down on to lower stories. Extra loads caused by this cause collapse of lower.
Whole damn thing falls down.
Severe earth shocks caused to nearby ground.
Building 7 suffers severe internal damage from earthshocks and collapses.
Change my mind.

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Hang on a second. Those interior STEEL support columns that remained standing after a tower collpase turned into a vapour before they hit the ground. WTC 7 was getting zapped from the same tech.

The MSM narrative is sh*t. The tech was used on all three buildings

Electromagemtics / Direct Energy Weapons was in full show.

1:52. No one has provided a reasonable explanation with steel just turning to ‘dust’ like that except Dr Judy Wood.

All said with respect Eyrie. How do explain it?

Cheers.

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911Truth Part 27: Compilation of North Tower 900 ft Spire Turning to Dust
https://rumble.com/v444jkk-911truth-part-27-compilation-of-north-tower-900-ft-spire-turning-to-dust.html

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 25, 2024 8:36 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Compilation of North Tower 900 ft Spire Turning to Dust

Like I said a base surge.

Gravity sucks. When a tower like that collapses it doesn’t just end up as a pile on the ground. Instead the initial rubble forms a mound and the next batch hits the 45 degree sloped pile and splashes outwards like a million machine guns.

Instantly you have a horizontal explosion front that cuts anything nearby off at the knees. Like Bldg 7.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 7:35 am
Reply to  Steve trickler

The steel columns were coated with multiple layers of dust, paint etc.
The Steel ‘evaporating’ is just the layers of paint, etc flaking/evaporating off as the beams fall and hit objects. The steel beams are too small in relation to the dust clouds to be seen.
I don’t know why I bother stating the obvious.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 8:28 pm

How do you explain it? … leaving out words again.

John Brumble
John Brumble
July 25, 2024 11:07 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

I explain it by realising that you’re a fking idiot.

Salvatore - Iron Publican
July 25, 2024 8:30 pm

What is the (average) cost of building a nuclear power plant?

With endless rounds of approval paperwork & submissions, CFMEU payoffs, extinguishing of native title, various other lawfare, pointless green paperwork (i.e. extensive study of some wren with a double-jointed arse) etc. ?
…. or just the cost of whacking the thing up?

Last edited 6 months ago by Salvatore – Iron Publican
Zippster
Zippster
July 25, 2024 8:32 pm

Ideological Subversion

Senator Alex Antic

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 8:33 pm

FFS!

Another spelling correction….

Electromagenetics / Direct Energy Weapons was in full show.

Arky
July 25, 2024 8:55 pm

Southern company reactors 3 and 4:

On February 16, 2010, President Obama announced $8.33 billion in federal loan guarantees toward the construction cost, although as of December 2013, Georgia Power had not availed itself of those guarantees, at first awaiting the construction license, and after the construction stop lawsuit outcome. The expected building cost for the two reactors was $14 billion. Georgia Power’s share was around $6.1 billion, while the remaining ownership of the two reactors is split among two power corporations.

March 2017, Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 to losses from its two U.S. nuclear construction projects

Unit 3 completes in 2023.

 On February 14, 2024, Vogtle Unit 4 reached criticality for the first time. The unit was connected to the grid on March 1. Vogtle 4 entered commercial operation on April 29. 

From Wikipedia.

Arky
July 25, 2024 9:06 pm

Southern Company operating revenue 2023 :

$25, 253 000 000

Electricity KWH:
18% from nuclear,
58% from gas.

Cost of fuel, cents per KWH
gas. 2.77
nuclear. 0.76
coal. 4.33

https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReports/PDF/NYSE_SO_2023.pdf

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 25, 2024 9:06 pm

Hang on a second. Those interior STEEL support columns that remained standing after a tower collpase turned into a vapour before they hit the ground. WTC 7 was getting zapped from the same tech

Ah yes. Direct Energy Weapons, from Tartaria.

Ronnie RAAF has a mate.

*cough* troofer *cough*

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 9:10 pm

Bruce of Newcastle
 July 25, 2024 8:36 pm

 Reply to  Steve trickler

Compilation of North Tower 900 ft Spire Turning to Dust

Like I said a base surge.
Gravity sucks. When a tower like that collapses it doesn’t just end up as a pile on the ground. Instead the initial rubble forms a mound and the next batch hits the 45 degree sloped pile and splashes outwards like a million machine guns.
Instantly you have a horizontal explosion front that cuts anything nearby off at the knees. Like Bldg 7.

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We watched steel turn into ‘dust’ before it hit the ground, Bruce. All captured on camera.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 25, 2024 9:26 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Yep, as I said: a base surge.

Very similar to the nukes and to volcanic clouds. The common factor is gravity plus masses of rock or concrete.

132andBush
132andBush
July 25, 2024 10:27 pm

Thanks Bruce.
Interesting stuff.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 25, 2024 9:11 pm

Military history and engineering.

Inside the B-17 Ball Turret is a very informative and visually impressive 18-minute computer animation about the same.

The Queensland Air Museum at Caloundra has the rear turret of a Lincoln bomber ( aka Lancaster 5). I am not/ no longer a big man, but I would have trouble fitting in it.

Foxbody
Foxbody
July 26, 2024 1:29 am
Reply to  Diogenes

Correct – Ball turret gunners were selected for their small build, Diogenese

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 26, 2024 6:55 am
Reply to  Diogenes

An Australian soldier who lost a leg in North Africa later joined the RAAF, and became a rear gunner in Lancasters.

The missing leg might have gave him more room.

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 25, 2024 9:14 pm

Good comments aimed at James Murdoch by Andrew Bolt at the end of his show. Says James would ruin Fox / The Australian / Sky etc if he got any control. Would make it like ABC and The Age etc. Bolt says would quit if James took over.
Bolt is right. Hopefully Rupert Murdoch can give control to Lachlan.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 25, 2024 9:15 pm

We watched steel turn into ‘dust’ before it hit the ground, Bruce. All captured on camera.

I don’t believe you. Post the video.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 25, 2024 9:30 pm
Reply to  DrBeauGan

I doubt many of the Twin Towers analysts understand volcanology.

The principles are similar: hot rubble splashing out from a great height.

vr
vr
July 25, 2024 9:16 pm

With endless rounds of approval paperwork & submissions, CFMEU payoffs, extinguishing of native title, various other lawfare, pointless green paperwork (i.e. extensive study of some wren with a double-jointed arse) etc. ?

…. or just the cost of whacking the thing up?

The cost of “whacking the thing up”.

Thanks all. The reason I ask was a sustainability “expert” made the usual claim that the cost of nuclear was high compared to renewables. Claims backed up by think tank research.
It never looks at says the life span of a nuclear plant versus a wind farm is 75 years versus 20 if that.

MatrixTransform
July 25, 2024 10:28 pm
Reply to  vr

vr
have a close look into LCOE
you’ll rapidly find out what a crock of shite the cost per kWh is

Kneel
Kneel
July 26, 2024 12:23 pm
Reply to  vr

“It never looks at says the life span of a nuclear plant versus a wind farm is 75 years versus 20 if that.”

How many tonnes of concrete to safely anchor the each turbine to the ground, and how much does it cost to remove this at end of life and rehabilitate the environment to original condition?
How much does it cost to dispose of the turbine blades, typical lifespan is <15 years on land and <10 years at sea?
Cradle to grave, nuclear is cheaper and produces less CO2, consumes less land, does less damage to wildlife and consumes less landfill.
It is also dispatchable while wind and solar are not.
It requires only minor grid upgrades, and no grid power storage.

But that is inconvenient. Much more convenient to quote LCOE, which takes NONE of that into account.

2dogs
July 26, 2024 5:45 pm
Reply to  vr

The CSIRO fudged the figures to make nuclear more expensive than renewables. While nuclear plants typically get a capacity factor of 93% (i.e. they are idle 7% of the time), the GenCost report has them at a capacity factor of 53% (idle 47% of the time). This makes their LCOE cost high because the capital cost is amortized over less power supplied.

But note the circular logic here. They defend the 53% of the basis that, when renewables are producing, nuclear will get a smaller share of the market because, apparently, its cost is so high. They don’t allow for possibility that the nuclear plants will, of course, still sell at the lower prevailing price when solar plants are producing. They just conflate the LCOE with the time-of-day spot market price of electricity.

Also, they only measure the cost of successful renewables and don’t make any allowance for failed renewables projects. You know, like this one:

wavegenerator
Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 9:17 pm

DrBeauGan
July 25, 2024 9:15 pm

We watched steel turn into ‘dust’ before it hit the ground, Bruce. All captured on camera.
I don’t believe you. Post the video.

Look above.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
July 25, 2024 9:40 pm
Reply to  Steve trickler

Contemporary accounts describe 200,000 tons of steel going into the construction of the twin towers; reportedly some 185,000 tons of steel were subsequently removed from the collapsed site. I’m prepared to accept that some of the original steel may have remained in situ within the original foundations. Doesn’t feel like a lot of scope for huge amounts of steel having been turned to dust to be honest.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 25, 2024 9:20 pm

Bigger play at hand one might say, Sky News:

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has threatened to resign if James Murdoch takes over News Corp as reports arose of a legal battle between Rupert Murdoch and Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch against the media mogul’s three eldest children.

I wouldn’t think people would miss Bolt, there’s plenty of other commentators lurking.
I know I link to him from NewsCorp but this looks like a dummy spit.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 25, 2024 9:33 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

James is green as grass, and as I linked upthread it looks like he and his two sisters are taking on Lachlan. Who is very RINOish himself. The rats and the cockroaches are going to eat Newscorpse’s corpse I suspect.

JC
JC
July 25, 2024 9:20 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 26, 2024 8:15 am
Reply to  JC

Yep. Fake. And pity the poor child who is nurtured in an ‘implanted’ uterus. Many physical developmental issues could occur, and then there is the horror of who is the ‘real’ mum.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 25, 2024 9:22 pm

Snap Jason Bourne 1879

JC
JC
July 25, 2024 9:23 pm

vr

July 25, 2024 9:16 pm

They’ve hobbled nuclear for the past 50 years with everything they can think of. By now nuclear would have been cheaper than coal if left alone.

vr
vr
July 25, 2024 9:27 pm
Reply to  JC

Oh, I agree. Allowing nuclear might mean that the grifters will have to get a job. Achieving net zero wouldn’t be ardous.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 25, 2024 9:31 pm

Sky News host Andrew Bolt has threatened to resign if James Murdoch takes over News Corp

Is he expecting a groundswell of public opprobrium?

‘Oh no Andrew, anything to have you! Boo James, boo, even though I have absolutely no say in who takes over, and no capital to buy anyone out!

He’s kidding himself. To mention one of the great dad jokes of all time:

‘Knock knock.’

‘Who’s there?’

‘Interrupting cow.’

‘Interrupting cow wh – ‘

‘MOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!’

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 25, 2024 9:35 pm

James is a full-on looney.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 26, 2024 8:12 am

And Andrew is in that special time close to retirement and feeling reasonably well-off, so he can afford to tell James exactly where to get off. I don’t think Andrew expects a groundswell of ‘stay’ cries if James takes over, because everyone else worthwhile will either be gagged or gone and the audience will have disappeared too.

Arky
July 25, 2024 9:37 pm

Southern Company Vogtle 3 and 4, the latest nuclear plants built in the USA, completed 2024:

https://www.southerncompany.com/innovation/vogtle-3-and-4.html

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 9:40 pm

Bolt should go Indie media and flick the corps.

Rosie
Rosie
July 25, 2024 9:40 pm

Whatever people think of Ireland so far the hospitality industry has been really good.
In wexford recommend D’lush and la vista, Trimmers lane Cafe was also recommended.
All moderately priced; €14/15 for a main at lunch time.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 26, 2024 8:09 am
Reply to  Rosie

All served with some Irish blarney and a smile too, I expect.

How I miss Ireland. Might persuade Hairy to return there sometime as his life has been closely connected to that fabled land in his yoof.

cohenite
July 25, 2024 9:41 pm

JC
 July 25, 2024 9:20 pm

Another Cronkite cute owl.

Challenge accepted; isn’t she a beauty:

cute-owl-most-muscular
Zippster
Zippster
July 25, 2024 10:19 pm
Reply to  cohenite

looks like it has a very small dick

JC
JC
July 25, 2024 9:42 pm

Oh, for lord’s sake, Cronkers. No pics please, just a link.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 26, 2024 8:07 am
Reply to  JC

Erk. Not a beauty, not even female. The pic is only useful to me for identifying the hidden (in my case) muscle I pulled jumping out of the way of an oncoming golf cart that runs around this resort on the pathways delivering people to their far-flung apartments. Voltarin to the rescue there.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 25, 2024 9:42 pm

I don’t believe you. Post the video.

Look above.

Where exactly? Your lack of precision creates doubts too.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 25, 2024 9:44 pm

Challenge accepted; isn’t she a beauty:

That’s a dude with 22 pounds of shit in his guts, possibly enhanced by photoshopping.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 25, 2024 9:46 pm

isn’t she a beauty:

No. She’s hideous from the neck down. Probably a bloke.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 9:49 pm

Knuckle Dragger
 July 25, 2024 9:06 pm

Hang on a second. Those interior STEEL support columns that remained standing after a tower collpase turned into a vapour before they hit the ground. WTC 7 was getting zapped from the same tech
Ah yes. Direct Energy Weapons, from Tartaria.
Ronnie RAAF has a mate.
*cough* troofer *cough*

Piss weak commemt. You just ignorned what was cleary shown and didn’t adress it. Go watch some crap on TV

Colonel Crispin Berka
Colonel Crispin Berka
July 25, 2024 9:49 pm

Linda Burney on ABCess says the Voice vote was an important opportunity that was missed but “it will come back again”.
So there’s the telegraph. The voice vote will be repeated until we get the right answer.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 25, 2024 10:00 pm

The voice vote will be repeated until we get the right result. Then there will be a treaty, with every one/sixteenth indigenous claiming benefits, then there will be reparations, paid as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product “In perpetuity.”

vr
vr
July 25, 2024 9:52 pm

Cost of building AP1000 reactors like the one built by Southern Co is around the vicinity of 6.43-9.34 billion depending on the time it takes to build the reactor. They usually take about 6-8 years.

Last edited 6 months ago by vr
Arky
July 25, 2024 10:14 pm
Reply to  vr

Is that taking into account the cost of Welcome to Country?

John H.
John H.
July 25, 2024 10:49 pm
Reply to  Arky

They’ll warn us the plant will turn the Rainbow Serpent into a Godzilla.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 9:56 pm

DrBeauGan
 July 25, 2024 9:42 pm

I don’t believe you. Post the video.

Look above.
Where exactly? Your lack of precision creates doubts too.

Are you effin blind? @ 8:25 pm TOP OF THE PAGE!

Good God!

Zippster
Zippster
July 25, 2024 9:56 pm

The Australian cycling team had a bad start of the Paris Olympics.

After landing in Brussels, they had their van broken into and all their belongings stolen

vive la France!

Bourne1879
Bourne1879
July 25, 2024 9:58 pm

Not sure why people here go negative on Bolt. If you look at his comments overall he is an effective fighter for the right side of politics. Think Pell case, The Voice, climate scam etc.
I dont agree with him on everything but about 80-90% is good enough for me.
We need commentators like him.
He takes a deserved swipe at super woke James Murdoch and this prompts negativity towards him. Tough crowd.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 8:05 am
Reply to  Bourne1879

Bourne, he has one of the most irritating interviewer mannerisms I’ve ever watched. He interrupts, talks over and generally does a piss poor job of it.
Watch him if you want, but for me it’s like pulling teeth trying to put up with someone who has no idea of how an interviewer works.
Which is why I don’t watch him any more.
He needs to learn how not to alienate his audience and I’m not giving him my time if he refuses do that.

Chris
Chris
July 26, 2024 5:51 pm
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Plus 100.
I couldn’t be a Sky watcher purely because of Bolt, and I used to be a Bolt Blog regular before paywall.

Indolent
Indolent
July 25, 2024 10:02 pm
Zippster
Zippster
July 25, 2024 10:13 pm

ad Saad
@GadSaad
Let me try to be as diplomatic and restrained as I can:

@kamalaharris
is a vacuous, lobotomized, shallow, inauthentic imbecile. She knows nothing. She has achieved nothing. She has used every non-meritocratic tool to climb the political career. She is a racist; she is divisive; she promotes the cancer of diversity, inclusion, and equity. She is the @justintrudeau
of the US. Beware.

Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
July 26, 2024 5:49 am
Reply to  Zippster

Sounds like another former President that picked a real dope as VP.

Rabz
July 26, 2024 8:34 am
Reply to  Zippster

Magnificent stuff, Gad – that is how you speak the truth.

132andBush
132andBush
July 25, 2024 10:19 pm

Arky
July 25, 2024 6:27 pm

Monty. If they remove your gall bladder will you let it continue to comment here?

I think having his gall bladder comment here would be a welcome change.

His rectum and alimentary canal have certainly worn out their welcome.

Last edited 6 months ago by 132andBush
Black Ball
Black Ball
July 25, 2024 10:22 pm

Linda Burney on ABCess says the Voice vote was an important opportunity that was missed but “it will come back again”.

So there’s the telegraph. The voice vote will be repeated until we get the right answer.

Except the yes campaign is shoving it down the throat by other means.
Whether it’s still Welcome to Country before any major sporting event with mucho eyeballs viewing, whether it’s local council opening every meeting with it, etc
Burney is and will always remain a failure. What the actual phuck did she do in Parliament except line her pocket?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 8:08 am
Reply to  Black Ball

She farted on Green Leather. Surely that’s effort enough?

mem
mem
July 25, 2024 10:23 pm

Not sure what to think about this but my gut says it is a money grab that will affect property prices.

High-rise apartment owners in the Gold Coast council area who live on the 40th floor or above face a rate increase of up to 50 per cent.

Those on floor 11 and higher have also had their rates rise in the past six months.

The council says the change will ensure “fairness and equity” but some residents say it will hurt home owners already struggling with the cost of living.

Rockdoctor
Rockdoctor
July 26, 2024 6:15 am
Reply to  mem

Differential rates got slapped down 3 times in the QLD Supreme Court over about 10-15yrs before Beattie/Bligh stacking of the judiciary and Judge shopping got the councils the answer they were after. ALP under Palacechook refused to legislate it out of existence despite pleas.

The original 3 pushing the case were Brisbane, Gold Coast and Townsville. Yes it is a tax especially in places like Townsville with ADF & Miners moving a lot to new jobs but wanting to keep a place of residence.

Zatara
Zatara
July 27, 2024 2:36 am
Reply to  mem

Do residents on floors 11 and above use more council services? No, of course not. This is pure wealth redistribution.

Also, why the pick the 11th? It might be interesting to research council members’ financial/family relationships with 10th floor units.

That’s the kind of thing journalists used to do, before they became extinct.

Last edited 6 months ago by Zatara
Indolent
Indolent
July 25, 2024 10:36 pm
DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 25, 2024 10:44 pm
  1. Are you effin blind? @ 8:25 pm TOP OF THE PAGE!
  2. Good God!

You could have given that information originally.

I watched the whole video. It does not show steel turning into dust. I think your knowledge of physics and engineering is nugatory and you see what you want to see. I guess you want exciting explanations rather than physically credible ones.

You’re a nut.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
July 26, 2024 8:01 am
Reply to  DrBeauGan

I have a friend from my dance class who greeted me with the words ‘how about Trump organising his ear being shot off to gain attention’.

How about you get some grasp on reality? I couldn’t help replying, explaining to her that the internet was full of loonies and crazies who would make any claim to disparage President Trump. Nuts abound. Same with 9/11 and any number of other events well verified by genuine facts.

Zippster
Zippster
July 25, 2024 10:50 pm

The Paris Summer Olympics are hit by another scandal

Argentine football legend Javier Mascherano reveals that thieves broke into the Argentinian team’s locker room during training, stealing the players’ watches and jewellery

vive la France!

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 10:58 pm

DrBeauGan
July 25, 2024 10:44 pm

I said look above.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 11:00 pm

DrBeauGan
 July 25, 2024 10:44 pm

  1. Are you effin blind? @ 8:25 pm TOP OF THE PAGE!
  2. Good God!

You could have given that information originally.
I watched the whole video. It does not show steel turning into dust. I think your knowledge of physics and engineering is nugatory and you see what you want to see. I guess you want exciting explanations rather than physically credible ones.
You’re a nut.

—-

It clearly shows it you blind f-wit!

KevinM
KevinM
July 25, 2024 11:07 pm

Mr Xi’s economic strategy that came out of the 5 year plenum, has been given a thumbs down.

OK,economist gurus, what’s the difference between a 5 year plan by a state and venture capitalist investing in a manufacturing plant or a mine hoping for future profit?

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 11:20 pm

DrBeauGan

I watched the whole video. It does not show steel turning into dust.

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I thought i would post this again to clarify. You call me a nutter, yet you the MSM consumimg whore tries to say otherwise.. It’s clear as day d*ckhead! Slow the vision down and watch.

So many di*ckheads remain glued to the msm narrative. I gave you a time stamp where it was clearly obvious and you didn’t address it.

Far out.

You are the clown.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 25, 2024 11:43 pm

Will watch in full tomorrow.

You’d have to certifiably be f*cked in the head thinking the first concrete floor collapes just turned to dust from the get go.

Alright, a floor collapses. How the f*ck does a concrete floor turn into dust from a floor above and turn into dust before the cascade. Not enough inertia, D*ckheads!

—-

Documentary: Dr. Judy Wood ‘Evidence of Breakthrough Energy On 9/11’
https://rumble.com/v4xg960-documentary-dr.-judy-wood-evidence-of-breakthrough-energy.html

KevinM
KevinM
July 26, 2024 12:02 am

It does not show steel turning into dust.

I watched it, didn’t turn into dust. as it fell it was shrouded in a cloud of dust from the building collapsing.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 8:20 am
Reply to  KevinM

I think Steve is under the impression the cleaning crew dust the girders routinely and that there will be no rust to shake off when the beam is knocked hard.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 26, 2024 12:11 am

KevinM
 July 26, 2024 12:02 am

It does not show steel turning into dust.

I watched it, didn’t turn into dust. as it fell it was shrouded in a cloud of dust from the building collapsing.


You are blind too.

Embarrasing.

KevinM
KevinM
July 26, 2024 12:18 am

Bruce of Newcastle
July 25, 2024 9:30 pm
Reply to DrBeauGan

I doubt many of the Twin Towers analysts understand volcanology.

The principles are similar: hot rubble splashing out from a great height.

It took many months to cart away the steel and rubble that turned to dust (not).
If I remember right, they used some of the steel for a memorial??

In a way this sort of crap is harming some of the findings of the loons which is credible.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 26, 2024 12:21 am

KevinM.

Do a stime stamp when I point out what it is clearly obvious.

WTF is wrong with people?

‘I watched it on TV snd they said otherwise.’

Rosie
Rosie
July 26, 2024 12:34 am

No surprise which regular is a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.
Incidentally we didn’t watch it on ‘video’, we watched it live, as it happened, from the second tower being hit, along with tens of thousand New Yorkers on the ground who were there when it happened and lost friends and family.
I was there, at ground zero, by sheer coincidence, the day Osama got assassinated. People gathered to celebrate including crews from local fire stations who’d lost work mates.
I highly recommend conspiracy theorists pop down to a couple of New York fire stations and do some sharing.

Rosie
Rosie
July 26, 2024 12:41 am

With snowy 2.0 projected to cost 12 billion a nuclear power plant might be a bargain.
Of course if the CMEFU have anything to do with it it will be 12 trillion in Australia.

Rosie
Rosie
July 26, 2024 1:04 am
BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 8:22 am
Reply to  Rosie

Who had Jewish Space Lasers on their Bingo ticket?

duncanm
duncanm
July 26, 2024 11:16 am
Reply to  Rosie

If it works, this’ll be a game changer for shooting down Hamarse and Lezbollah rockets.

Top Ender
Top Ender
July 26, 2024 1:57 am

Just Stop Oil activists who threw tomato soup over a priceless Van Gogh painting have been found guilty of criminal damage. 

Same judge who last week binned the loons who blocked highways for some years apiece.

Here’s hoping.

Daily Mail

KevinM
KevinM
July 26, 2024 2:43 am

Who needs steel, when you have redwood.

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The Goat Canyon Trestle, located in San Diego, California, is the longest wooden railroad bridge in the world.

Built from redwood beams, this impressive bridge spans 185 meters and reaches a height of almost 57 meters.

It is part of the stretch known as the Carrizo Gorge, a section of the railway route that received the nickname “the impossible railway” in 1919 due to the extreme technical and logistical difficulties involved in its construction.

This emblematic bridge is a testimony to the engineering of the early 20th century that remains an architectural marvel today.

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No longer in use, due to earthquakes destroying the tunnels leading to it and the fact that the railway crosses the border a few times.

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Perplexed of Brisbane
Perplexed of Brisbane
July 26, 2024 5:56 am
Reply to  KevinM

It featured on a series on Prime called Abandoned Engineering. Very interesting.

I’m enjoying your postings KevinM.

Delta A
Delta A
July 26, 2024 9:11 am
Reply to  KevinM

Superb! I love train bridges and, if I could still travel, this one would be on my bucket list. Thanks, Kevin.

KevinM
KevinM
July 26, 2024 2:46 am

David and Goliath.
Blue jay harassing the eagle, look at the disdain on the face of the eagle.

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Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 3:35 am

“If I remember right, they used some of the steel for a memorial??”

Several memorials actually.

A large amount was recycled and used in the construction of the USS New York.

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Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 6:35 am

A postscript to fascism and just who are our fascists, the always superb Brendan O’Neill in Spiked says it best…..

https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/25/a-fascist-rally-in-washington-dc/

Yesterday’s protest in Washington DC was pure unadulterated Jew hatred.

O’Neill…..

When tiki-torch-waving alt-right racists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017, chanting foul slogans like ‘Jews will not replace us’, the left and the liberal media had no qualms about calling it a fascist rally. And yet they’ve been far more coy, if not outright supportive, in relation to yesterday’s ugly, effigy-burning gathering in DC. Even though, it was more fascist-like, in terms of tone and slogans, than the Charlottesville horror. To depict Jews as blood-consuming freaks, to demand the destruction of the Jews’ homeland, to propose a ‘Final Solution’ to Zionism – this is objectively even worse than what most of those white supremacists said in 2017.

Who recalls our very own Nazi’s meltdown over Charlottesville back in 2017? I do. Who recalls any similar opprobrium from our Nazi yesterday over the pure unadulterated fascism on the streets of Washington DC? Such was his silence, all I heard were crickets. Just like his silence after Monday night, 9 October 2023, when hundreds of fascists descended to the Sydney Opera House to burn flags, set off flares and scream, screech and shout “gas the Jews”….and “where’s the Jews”.

I don’t know about others but I am not gonna be lectured to about ‘fascism’ by a fascist. After all, he’s got skin in the game, fascists always do.

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Black Ball
Black Ball
July 26, 2024 6:42 am

Australia ladies 0-3 Germany ladies in the soccer.
Let’s not build any statues until they actually win something.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2024 7:08 am
Reply to  Black Ball

Bbbbut they’re strong and bwave.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 26, 2024 7:13 am
Reply to  Black Ball

That was the cis-only team. If our full “ladies” team had been there, it would have been different.

Diogenes
Diogenes
July 26, 2024 7:41 am
Reply to  Black Ball

To quote the great Nelson Munz
“Ha ha”

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2024 8:31 am
Reply to  Black Ball

The first of an ‘avalanche’ of medals has to wait then?

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 6:52 am

The most overrated, overhyped, over inflated team in Oz history aka ‘the Matildas’ has been ruthlessly despatched by a far better team, the German team.

I shed no tears. But no doubt we will now be subjected to days of intense media gaslighting about how the gaggle known as the Matildas is so ‘bwave’ and so ‘strong’ and so ‘stunning’.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2024 7:10 am

Sorry Cassie I forgot stunning.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 26, 2024 7:53 am

It’s usually true that if the meja love something, it’s no good and vice versa

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 6:58 am

Joe Biden’s decline is a perfect mirror of West’s slow decay

Adam Creighton The Australian 25 July, 2024

American social theorist Camille Paglia once remarked that Western society would enter its “late decadent phase” when the ruling hierarchy consisted of the “senile and the adolescent”. Joe Biden’s age and incoherence should be seen as the personification of the accelerating decline of the West – marked by the growing arrogance, self-interest and hubris of its ruling elites – that has drastically eroded the quality of our governance with devastating implications.

The incessant focus on political horse races between candidates who offer much the same policy prescriptions distracts us from this harsh reality.

Simmering internal political hatreds have intensified, inequality and concentrations of economic power have soared to nearly unprecedented levels as real incomes stagnate or reverse for the bulk of the population.

Public trust in institutions has collapsed amid rampant social decay in all but the top echelons of the population, while the chance of nuclear war has grown. Much of this stems from deliberate policy choices by a richer, ever more remote governing class that increasingly ignores the interests and opinions of everyone else.

So grim is the outlook, Stanford University academic John Ioannidis has started asking whether the West has entered a terminal “death spiral”, which he defines as a “vicious cycle of self-reinforcing dysfunctional behaviour characterised by continuous flawed decision-making, myopic single-minded focus on one set of solutions, denial, distrust, micromanagement, dogmatic thinking and learned helplessness”.

In a paper titled Is Society caught up in a Death Spiral? Modelling Societal Demise and Its Reversal, published last year, Ioannidis and Dutch academics Michaela Schippers and Matthias Luijks find two standout characteristics of civilisations on the brink of collapse: extraordinary levels of inequality combined with ever scarcer resources. The obsession with phasing out energy-rich fossil fuels at whatever the cost to ordinary people’s living standards guarantees the latter for years, while the relentless creation of trillions of units of new fiat currency, pushing up assets’ values to enrich those who have them, ensures the former.

“Societies fall apart and societal dysfunction rises when an ever increasing group of have-nots are unable to sustain themselves, let alone earn the money and produce the food to sustain the rich, and the difference between the elite and masses have become too big to bridge,” Ioannidis writes.

At the same time voters demand cuts to immigration, governments have deliberately flooded their countries with millions of unwanted new immigrants, legal and illegal.

“In the earlier periods of the (Roman) empire, the elites were willing to offer lives and treasure in the service of the common interest, while in the period of decline the elites became increasing selfish,” Ioannidis writes. At that time the ratio of incomes of the richest Romans to the poorest was about 20 times, a ratio that exploded to many thousands by the time the empire collapsed around AD400 and not far beyond what it is now in the US and Europe.

Earlier this year economist Daron Acemoglu concluded the liberal democracy model that created jobs, stability, higher wages and broad social cohesion from the end of World War II “has fallen short on almost every count since around 1980”.

“In the United States, real (inflation-adjusted) incomes at the bottom and the middle of the distribution have hardly increased since 1980, and elected politicians have done little about it,” Acemoglu writes. It’s a statistic that must shock those who express surprise at the growing embrace of radical political movements. And all this is before artificial intelligence wipes out hundreds of millions of low-skilled jobs in coming years.

Nothing confirms the collapse in governing wisdom so much as the destructive response to Covid-19, when across a few years almost all advanced governments crushed their citizens’ living standards, rights and educational outcomes over a new virus whose fatality rate was known among experts from early 2020 to be less than 0.05 per cent.

Last year the Israeli government conceded it couldn’t find a single person under 50 who died from what was ridiculously sold as a “great plague” without serious pre-existing medical conditions.

Such policies pushed 150 million people into extreme poverty and boosted the wealth of the billionaire and centimillionaire class by more than 70 per cent between 2020 and 2021, Ioannidis notes. The further 20 per cent-plus inflation since then added insult to injury as governments forced novel, rushed vaccines on millions of people who didn’t need them and didn’t want them – coincidentally enriching some of the most influential corporations in the world that largely funded the pharmaceutical regulators.

The signs of this growing institutional stupidity or malevolence were already clear during and after the global financial crisis, when gigantic state-backed banks were allowed, indeed encouraged, to leverage themselves to absurd levels, practically inviting the economic collapse.

Paglia’s “adolescent” prognosis is in no short supply either, well evidenced our hysterical and outright dangerous approach to international relations.

Each side of the Israel-Gaza war, for instance, denounces the other as the incarnation of evil when the tragic events of the Middle East are born of a complex history that should, and once did, rule out simplistic moralising.

Similarly, it was once an article of faith by US presidents, leading diplomats and scholars that insisting on NATO troops in Ukraine would be provocative madness. Now, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are dead, and US foreign policy is pushing the world into two gigantic nuclear armed blocks that hate each other.

Individuals can do little to affect the arc of history, but greater recognition of the growing recklessness, corruption and childishness of our governance may help arrest the devastating trends around us.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 26, 2024 8:39 am
Reply to  Roger

Great article thanks Roger

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 8:41 am
Reply to  Roger

Buy shares in tumbril factories.
Get filthy rich.
End up in one.
Ha ha!

Enyaw
Enyaw
July 26, 2024 10:43 am
Reply to  Roger

I can’t help but wonder the levels of COCAINE etc being used by the perpetrators of our situation.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 26, 2024 7:00 am

Peter Smith has a very good article at Quadrant today regarding the tendency to judge Trump on rather spurious grounds, such as his at times rather direct language. The people who condemn seem oblivious to the fact that the choice is, as Peter says, between a true patriot and those who are well on the way to destroying the USA and then the rest of the west.

We have recently learned more about how kind and caring Trump can be – there were many anecdotes told during the RNC convention. He’s like Tony Abbott in that – Tony went out of his way many times to speak to people who had suffered in some way or needed help. That was not what the Abbott haters in the media or left politics (BIRM) wanted to highlight. They preferred to seize on something flimsy like eating an onion or looking at his watch while being attacked by Gillard on very dodgy premises, or wearing blue ties.

I doubt that even a Trump victory will alter the huge number of bad actors in too many positions in the USA. He and his VP will have a hard time of it in any event. Already the scribes in the media are sifting through statements by JD Vance dating back to before he was elected to the Senate. All they have come up with so far is that he’s quite conservative, and referred to some rusted on Democrat supporting women as childless cat ladies.

Ceres
Ceres
July 26, 2024 9:59 am
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Article on Quadrant 25 July by Peter O’Brien. Yes it is good.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 26, 2024 4:31 pm
Reply to  Ceres

Oh yes, my mistake. Somehow I logged onto a Peter Smith article from September 2023!!

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 7:02 am

…no doubt we will now be subjected to days of intense media gaslighting about how the gaggle known as the Matildas is so ‘bwave’ and so ‘strong’ and so ‘stunning’.

And need more public funding.

They’ve received only a pitiful $10m in the run up to these Olympics.

Cough.

Knuckle Dragger
Knuckle Dragger
July 26, 2024 7:08 am

Good morning from Tartaria, where the chemtrails and Direct Energy Weapons run free.

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2024 8:28 am

Bit dusty round here, could do with a clean up.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 7:16 am

Two 22 y. o. Just Stop Oil activists who threw Heinz tomato soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ at the National Gallery in London in Oct. ’22 have been told by a judge to be prepared to go to prison ahead of their sentencing hearing in September.

While the painting escaped damage thanks to a glass cover, its antique frame suffered c. £10,000 worth of damage as the soup acted like a paint stripper.

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Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 7:30 am
Reply to  Roger

Excellent. Now make sure they get put in general population.

Nobody is more in need of a kinetic education in being held responsible for their offenses against society. Besides, it’s character building.

132andBush
132andBush
July 26, 2024 7:22 am

And need more public funding.

They’ve received only a pitiful $10m in the run up to these Olympics.

Cough.

This implies $20m will deliver a 0-6 result.

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 7:22 am

While the painting escaped damage thanks to a glass cover, its antique frame suffered c. £10,000 worth of damage as the soup acted like a paint stripper. While the painting escaped damage thanks to a glass cover, its antique frame suffered c. £10,000 worth of damage as the soup acted like a paint stripper.

No surprises there, frames can often be just as valuable as the painting/picture.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 7:56 am

A 17th C. Italian frame, iirc.

Annie
Annie
July 26, 2024 6:00 pm

What would that soup do to one’s innards?

calli
calli
July 26, 2024 7:26 am

They glued themselves to the runway at Frankfurt.

The big question – how did they get that far?

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 8:05 am
Reply to  calli

Next big question, why weren’t the snow clearing machines used?

Alternatively, just clear a 747 freighter to land over/on top of them. They will either become a large grease spot or be feeding the wolves a mile or two away.

Megan
Megan
July 26, 2024 11:47 am
Reply to  Zatara

This would be my preferred option.

duncanm
duncanm
July 26, 2024 8:05 am
Reply to  calli

the real question – why didn’t we just leave them there?

lotocoti
lotocoti
July 26, 2024 7:38 am

The Don will need to run the table like Ron in ’80 to:
A) Beat the steal.
B) Break those “collegial” Republicans who’d rather give a gracious concession speech than fight.

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 7:43 am

Germany 3 Matildas 0 .. Olympic Fitba …!
Oh dear ..! All those social media “look-at-us, how-good-is-we” posts came to nuttin’ .. LOL!..
Not sure how many saw this “gem” earlier in the week from Mary “somefink-or-other” (who’s main claims to fitba fame are, apparently, being a 251 & Matt Cleary’s girlfriend) but it’s a “LULU” .. No tickets on this Matilda’s “star”

?”I don’t think I could ever live in Cairns again because it’s not big enuf for me, anymore”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/matildas-germany-paris-olympics-group-game-live-updates/104135712

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 7:44 am

vr:
Giving nuclear a go would mean the entire Net Zero Industry would not exist. They depend on coal power to keep their positions.

vr
vr
July 26, 2024 9:02 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Agree. I only other serious contender to nuclear is hydro. And we can tally up the costs of Snowy 2 when it is finally finished to see what renewables cost. I am ignoring solar and wind.

Wally Dalí
Wally Dalí
July 26, 2024 7:51 am

Only one winery in Australia still makes its own barrels for wine storage | Watch (msn.com)
Interesting, particularly as Australia is so damn far away from any source of wet sound oak. The pedant in me would say that they’re not really making barrels, they’re just assembling them with power tools, like one might assemble a kit guitar, but it would be a very cool tour to take. Particularly if they used some native timbers for hipster giggles, or experimented with different shapes and surface:volume ratios.
I have a sheoak beer keg down the shed, which were once widely used by breweries all over W.A. Took it apart, shaved fresh timber, reassembled and toasted, and then wasted 40L of 60% grappa in it for six months. Awful, harsh and sappy.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 2:58 pm
Reply to  Wally Dalí

Ya shoulda tried eucalyptus staves, Wally.
Only drink the product when you have a cold.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 7:51 am

Steve, this subject has been gone over time and time again to the extent that repeating it is a sign of a mental problem.
Just give us a break from the idiocy.
When you carry on about this sort of conspiracy stuff, it makes it very difficult to support you when you get it right.
…and yes, you’ll be getting lots of down ticks because while sometimes you get it right, this is just tiresome bullshit. Take it somewhere else, please.

Pogria
Pogria
July 26, 2024 8:03 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Steve could take it the Gimp’s blog. 😀

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 8:31 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

Aww. I was waiting for the part of the theory that accounted for the 4 aircraft and the hundreds of passengers and crew we lost that day.

The conspiracy people seem to invariably fall short with that one.

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 26, 2024 9:17 am
Reply to  BobtheBoozer

The vision is clear and hasn’t been refuted. The official narrative is BS.

Moving on.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 7:55 am

Colonel Crispin Berka  July 25, 2024 9:49 pm

Linda Burney on ABCess says the Voice vote was an important opportunity that was missed but “it will come back again”.

Then expect the blowback, Linda – One Nation has a policy of removing all legislation that is racist. It was about $39 Billion last year.
Say goodbye to all of that when our patience runs out.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 7:57 am

Looks like the Conservative Party is going to stiff their rank and file again.

Tories warned they risk ‘catastrophe’ if one leadership candidate is not backed by MPs (25 Jul)

The Tory Party has been warned that they risk “catastrophe” if MPs fail to back Suella Braverman in sufficient numbers to allow her to enter the leadership race.

A poll of verified members by Conservative Post, a grassroots website set up in the wake of Boris Johnson’s ousting, found that Ms Braverman was the most popular leader by a country mile.

Over 2,400 members have voted so far, and Ms Braverman has a commanding lead over all other candidates with around 35% of votes cast.

She has more than double the level of support of Kemi Badenoch, while the two centrist candidates – James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat – come in a distant last.

However the former Home Secretary faces an enormous challenge actually clearing the hurdle and securing a spot in the leadership election.

MPs are required to secure 10 MP backers in order to run, and many of Ms Braverman’s supporters from 2022 either lost their seats or have defected to other candidates.

If she and Kemi can’t get 10 MPs to back them then the elite’s guys Cleverly and Tugendhat will be the two put to the run off. And what’s left of the base will be out the door.

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 8:26 am

Yeah? Define “catastrophe”.

She’s the former Home Secretary for a reason. Own it, learn from it, and move on.

Failing upwards is a clear indicator of the devolution of a party.

Gilas
Gilas
July 26, 2024 8:11 am

Titus Groates

July 25, 2024 9:45 pm

A little humanity across idealogical grounds doesn’t hurt. Aren’t you in the medical sphere, Gilas? Compassion with one’s rivals doesn’t hurt.

Compassion to one’s rivals is why we are in the sh!t that we are in now.

Had the tumbrils and the 1872 Berger-type guillotines been properly used on the ideologically cancerous in the last 70 years, we wouldn’t be witnessing the inexorable twilight of the West.

“Toxic compassion” is a real pathology which, fortunately, I don’t suffer from.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2024 8:35 am
Reply to  Gilas

#gays4gaza

Titus Groates
Titus Groates
July 26, 2024 5:46 pm
Reply to  Gilas

I think we’re talking at crossed purposes mate. I detest monster’s trolling but he is a human being deserving of compassion even if you feel he doesn’t deserve any.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 8:18 am

Linda Burney on ABCess says the Voice vote was an important opportunity that was missed but “it will come back again”.

Next time they won’t make the mistake of asking the people.

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 8:20 am

How does voting work ..? .. Basically, my understanding is we, the vote-herd, get a say thru the ballot box on how the country/state/local area is/should be run .. BUT .. what happens when the reality is completely different ..?
Take me .. I live in FAIRFIELD, NSW, I shop in Fairfield, I conduct most gummint goods & services business in Fairfield even my rubbish bins are emptied by Fairfield logo-ed trucks and all my Council “notices” come from Fairfield Council ..
YET .. I don’t vote in Fairfield except in Mayoral elections .. Federally I vote in FOWLER (Liverpool) .. until I started treatment in Liverpool Hospital the only times I went near Liverpool was thru my bike riding …..
State .. I vote in SMITHFIELD .. Smithfield is classed as part of part of CUMBERLAND which doesn’t include Fairfield .. Again, I have no connections to Cumberland area apart from biking thru it .. In fact, I’ve no idea where Cumberland Council offices are located .. as I have no use for them, anywayz …….!
SO ……… the only time I am “given” a say in where I live is when Council needs to elect a Mayor ……
What do we, actually. VOTE for ……………??????

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 9:10 am
Reply to  shatterzzz

Something I missed .. When i turn up to vote at the nearest polling station, 10 minute walk from me, I have to use the out-of-area section ……..

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 8:24 am

Unofficial Trump campaign ad .. LOL! .. a winner ..!
https://x.com/i/status/1816164897652158800

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bons
bons
July 26, 2024 8:27 am

What a great result in the Glyphosate case. How did MB Lawyers not engineer the hearing before one of their compliant green/commie justices?

The back story of course is EU organisers as an element of their global attack on efficient non European agricultural competitors. They will be appoplectic at not achieving the same outrageous outcome as they did with their anti-GM lies.

Lee’s ‘two bob each way’ was a slight concern; “not enough evidence yet”.

A win by the regressives would have put our district out of business. Labor would never have even considered legislating to overturn a negative ruling. Their very best mate Adam would have gone nuclear (intended).

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 26, 2024 8:27 am

Netanyahu keeps copping it for not signing a truce. If he does, Hamas will say they have won. It’s not about Bibi’s political survival, although that’s the only thing leftists understand in their own sandpit view, it’s about Israel’s survival.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 3:14 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

…and Israel will be pushed too far one day.
But that, of course, is precisely what Islam wants. They get to continue with their “Eternal Victim” bullshit as well as getting the Israelis separated from their main support (sort of) – the West.

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
July 26, 2024 8:35 am

“Oh my wordy lordy. I said darl, I said love, I said pet.
I knew it.
An A Grade, industrial-strength, bluewater ocean-going troofer.
‘an office fire’
Just gold. Has to be satire.” Knuckledragger

It appears that Australian Military History is not the only subject that KD has no knowledge of. (Have you looked up Baidoa yet?)

I will do a simple walk through for you.
Skyscrapers are built with far stronger supports on the lower levels than the higher levels. This is because the lower levels need to support far more weight than the higher levels. Are you still with me KD?

High rise buildings have either:
-stronger supports on lower levels, or
-more supports on lower levels, or
-both.

Now, let’s suspend reality for a moment and imagine that the fires caused by the aircraft hitting the WTC are hot enough to affect steel sufficiently, to cause structural damage. (They are nowhere near hot enough, but anyway).

How is the heat transferred to the lower floors causing the “collapse”, as there are more/stronger supports, the lower you go?
So, your contention KD, is that in your “special universe”, enough heat is transferred to the 65th floor, then the 55th floor, then the 45th floor etc, right down to the ground, to enable the towers to fall almost into their own foot print.
This is simply NOT possible old bean. That is why hundreds of Engineers and Architects have pending legal action against the US Govt about 9/11, which, surprise surprise, has been continually delayed.

Perhaps KD, you might share your special knowledge of thermodynamics and explain how this “miracle” of heat transfer occurred.

Even allowing for the “special physics” in your universe, if the temp was great enough for the steel supports to be degraded, a far more likely result would be a toppling of the building from the 75th floor up.

The only way for ALL of the supports to give way all the way to the ground, (which occurred), is explosive detonation.

In 2004, the Parque Central Complex in Caracas caught fire from the 34th floor to the 50th floor. It burned for 24 hours but, it didn’t collapse.
The WTC Towers collapsed in less than 6 hours, with only a few floors affected by fire.
The only three steel supported skyscrapers to “collapse” due to fire, in history, all occurred in Manhattan on 9/11.
Building 7, famously, wasn’t even hit by an aircraft, it just “collapsed” in sympathy.

Of far greater importance in my previous post however, is what legislative changes were initiated, by the Banana Republic known as the US, to control the population.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 3:15 pm

May God preserve us from the fringe lunatics.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 8:38 am

Wodger:

At that time the ratio of incomes of the richest Romans to the poorest was about 20 times, a ratio that exploded to many thousands by the time the empire collapsed around AD400 and not far beyond what it is now in the US and Europe.

One of Heinlein’s observations was that a nation was ready for revolution when the top 10% had an income greater that 18 times the lower 10%.
I have no idea what those numbers are now, but we must be getting damn close.

Zippster
Zippster
July 26, 2024 8:45 am
Eyrie
Eyrie
July 26, 2024 8:48 am

Skyscrapers are built with far stronger supports on the lower levels than the higher levels. This is because the lower levels need to support far more weight than the higher levels. Are you still with me KD?

FFS go and do my 1/2″ steel rod experiment and get back to us.

The floors where the aircraft hit were also mechanically damaged to an unknown extent and fire wouldn’t have to do much to further weaken the structure.
Once one or two floors give way the upper part of the building acquires momentum going downwards. The lower parts are not designed for that load so begin to collapse which adds to the lower loads. No magic, no conspiracy, just physics.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 8:48 am

One of Heinlein’s observations was that a nation was ready for revolution when the top 10% had an income greater that 18 times the lower 10%.

Whatever the ratios & figures one lands on, once the majority feel they have no stake in society all bets are off.

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BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 3:23 pm
Reply to  Roger

Wodger:
yes – that was – in my long winded way – sort of what I was getting at.

Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2024 8:50 am

I’m starting to get a whiff of the Streisand effect about this. Do keep on about it. Some people may have forgotten.
‘Articles Were Wrong’: CNN Fact Checker Says Media Incorrectly Labeled Kamala ‘Border Czar’

Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2024 8:52 am
Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 8:53 am

‘Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.’

Frederick Douglass

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Rabz
July 26, 2024 8:54 am

Burney is and will always remain a failure. What the actual phuck did she do in Parliament except line her pocket?

She was also left badly brain damaged after her stroke and should have resigned following that.

Not that anyone could have noticed any difference.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 8:55 am

Netanyahu Meets Biden at White House, Thanks Him for ’50 Years of Support’

I’ll bet the Golda Meir story got a run.

Rabz
July 26, 2024 8:57 am

Whatever the ratios & figures one lands on, once the majority feel they have no stake in society all bets are off

It will be interesting to see how long they can be kept sedated by bread circuses and 1984 style propaganda. For quite a while, probably, until the whole rotting edifice collapses under the weight of its myriad absurdities and finally goes tits up like the Hindenburg.

Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2024 8:57 am
Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2024 8:59 am
Eyrie
Eyrie
July 26, 2024 9:04 am

The “October Surprise” by the Demonrats might be Biden dying in office.
Careful now, Joe, with those pillows.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 26, 2024 9:19 am
Reply to  Eyrie

Dr Jill was at his side

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2024 2:20 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Apart from on its home soil of course….

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 9:12 am

It will be interesting to see how long they can be kept sedated by bread circuses and 1984 style propaganda. 

Declining living standards will raise a lot of questions in the minds of voters.

hzhousewife
hzhousewife
July 26, 2024 11:08 am
Reply to  Indolent

Sensational. And look who was missing. Says it all.

Zippster
Zippster
July 26, 2024 9:19 am

facebooks new open source AI – Llama-3.1-405b-Instruct

Alice has four brothers and one sister. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?

Clever question!

Since Alice has four brothers and one sister, that means her brothers have:

* One sister (Alice)
* One other sister (the one Alice has)

So, each of Alice’s brothers has two sisters.

what makes it clever?

I called it a “clever question” because it’s a play on perspective. The question asks about the number of sisters Alice’s brother has, which requires the reader to shift their focus from Alice’s point of view to her brother’s point of view. It’s a subtle change, but it can be easy to overlook.

Many people might initially think, “Alice has one sister,” and forget to consider the fact that Alice herself is also a sister to her brothers. So, the question requires a quick mental adjustment to account for the different perspective. That’s what makes it clever!

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 9:33 am
Reply to  Zippster

My brain hurts!

Pogria
Pogria
July 26, 2024 10:14 am
Reply to  Zippster

We did questions like this in Primary School.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
July 26, 2024 6:47 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Notice that the program produces effusions of irrelevant bullshit.
Somebody has inserted a logic module, but it still produces mostly bullshit.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 9:20 am

1h agoJuly 26, 2024

Burney ‘didn’t see sense’ in firing back at criticsNoah Yim

Outgoing Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says she did not “fire back” at personal criticisms of her during the run-up to the voice referendum vote because she “didn’t see the sense in it”.

“The fact that we were having the referendum discussion – I didn’t want it to descend into he said she said and it was not about me,” she told ABC’s RN.

“It was about moving our nation forward and I think despite the fact that the referendum was lost that we did move forward with the public discussion that we had and in relation to the hurtful things that were said about me I just didn’t engage in it.

“It did hurt, of course it did, I’d be lying if I said that it didn’t – but the greater objective and the greater good was what drove me.”

Ms Burney did not comment on widespread speculation that Assistant Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy would replace her.

“She is a dear dear friend of mine and the most important thing … is for me to support whoever it is in the role and to give them the space to be able to chart their own path and carry on the many important jobs that we’ve started,” Ms Burney said.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 9:24 am

“It was about moving our nation forward and I think despite the fact that the referendum was lost that we did move forward with the public discussion that we had…”

Australians rejected the Balkanisation of the citizenry.

Progress!

Last edited 6 months ago by Roger
Beertruk
July 26, 2024 9:46 am

Today’s Tele:

ONCE-RELIABLE ENERGY IS GONE WITH THE WIND

MATT – CANAVAN
26 Jul 2024
 
No doubt you will see the Eiffel Tower lit up on your televisions many times over the next fortnight during the Paris Olympics. When you do, just remember that its stunning lights will be overwhelmingly powered by – nuclear energy.

France gets two-thirds of its energy from nuclear energy and it has done since the 1970s.

This fact does not seem to have stopped our local chardonnay socialists – who currently seem in a panic at the thought of an Australian nuclear reactor causing three-eyed, mutant fish – from regularly travelling to France.

Thanks to nuclear energy, there are no concerns that France will have a blackout during its Olympics.

Unfortunately, there can be no such calm over such a prospect when we host the Olympics in eight years.

This winter has already seen our electricity grid stretched to the limit. Once again, the folly of relying on weather-dependent renewable energy has been exposed.

This winter, we have experienced a wind drought.

Wind energy fell by 20 per cent compared to a year earlier despite more wind factories coming online over the past year.

A lack of wind is a regular but unpredictable phenomenon.

Germany, a country that also unwisely relies on unreliable renewables, even has a word for it now, – dunkelflaute, meaning the “dark doldrums”.

Thankfully for us this winter saw coal-fired power come to the rescue. Coal-fired power increased by 900 megawatts, about the output of a single coal fired power plant.

Gas power production also increased by 234 megawatts. In contrast, solar and battery output could only contribute a quarter of the increase of fossil fuels.

The problem for us is that four coal- fired power stations are due to shut before the 2032 Brisbane Olympics. A dunkelflaute in 2032 could be quite embarrassing for us.

In the meantime, it is Australian families that continue to pay for the obsession with weather-dependent renewable energy.

The federal Labor government promised to reduce your power bills by $275, yet the average power bill has increased by more than $500. During the wind drought of this winter, wholesale power prices increased another 23 per cent, meaning that power prices are likely to increase further soon.

Our energy regulators now warn that we could face blackouts in the lead-up to the 2032 Olympics unless more investment is made in reliable power supplies.

Unfortunately, we won’t have a nuclear plant ready in that time. And, while nuclear works to keep the lights on in France, electricity prices there are about what they are here after doubling in the last decade.

So nuclear energy is unlikely to get our power prices down to the levels they were before we embarked on our renewable energy obsession.

Renewable energy is clearly not the answer, as every country in the world that has relied heavily on renewable energy has ended up with higher power prices.

Germany and Denmark, which have a higher reliance on wind and solar energy than Australia, have power prices which are 50 per cent higher than ours.

Some suggest gas is the answer but gas is expensive in Australia. We used to get cheap gas from the Bass Strait but it is drying up quicker than expected. We now rely on the relatively expensive gas from the coal seams of western Queensland. For that reason, gas prices this winter have averaged over $13 per gigajoule.

In the United States gas prices are just a third of ours at $4 per gigajoule.

Those calling for us to switch from coal to gas, like America has, ignore that we have not been able to exploit the oil rich shale resources which the US is blessed with.

The only viable way to get electricity prices back to the levels they were just a decade ago is to build new coalfired power stations.

In comparison to gas, most coal in Australia is mined at a cost lower than $2 per gigajoule.

Over the past two years, Indonesia has opened the equivalent of three new coal fired power stations, India 22 and China 42.

The world will not blow up if Australia were to use some of the coal we export, to generate reliable and cheap electricity for ourselves.

A new High Efficiency, Low Emission (HELE) coal-fired power station would lower electricity prices for all Australians.

A new coal-fired power station can be built within eight years and ensure that we can keep the lights on during our Olympics.

That will avoid the need to invent a new German word, a dunkelolympische.

Matt Canavan is an LNP Senator from Queensland

mem
mem
July 26, 2024 1:38 pm
Reply to  Beertruk

Our electricity bill has doubled for this quarter and we have had notice that our gas bill will increase by over $600 during the next twelve months.We are self funded pensioners. At this rate we won’t be self funded for very much longer. The people driving the net zero, renewable ponzi scheme are the new robber barons.The climate change mantra is just an excuse to defraud us all, whilst simultaneously seizing control of our energy supplies.Hats of to Matt Canavan for tackling the issues as we the suckers who are paying for it all have all but been silenced. I wonder what would be the outcome of a referendum on on these energy issues.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 26, 2024 9:46 am

This bloke. Shapeshifter indeed. Hun:

Daniel Andrews has declared that now is not the time to recognise a Palestinian state, telling a crowd of Jewish Labor Party faithfuls that the current Palestinian leadership is not a partner for peace.

The former premier reaffirmed his “steadfast” support for Israel in a powerful speech at the Temple Beth Israel synagogue in St Kilda on Thursday night to launch Labor Friends of Israel Australia.

Mr Andrews, who called the rise in antisemitism since October 7 “pure evil”, said he could not support calls for Palestinian statehood until Hamas was removed from power in Gaza.

“I think I’m obliged to say that I do not at this time support a recognition of a Palestinian state,” he said.

“That is not to say that the recognition of a Palestinian state is something that should never occur.”

Mr Andrews said it was important that Victorians “push back against … some of the twisted logic that tries to bring legitimacy to terrorism”.

“Hamas are not about peace, Hamas are not about anything other than the eradication of the Jewish state,” he said.

“Hamas hate the people of Israel more than they love their own.”

Earlier this month, Labor Friends of Israel Australia (LFI) co-conveners Mike Kelly, Eric Roozendaal and Nick Dyrenfurth announced that Mr Andrews and former Labor Senator and Olympian Nova Peris would serve as the inaugural patrons of the national body.

The group was formed following Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel to show Australian Labor’s longstanding commitment to the Jewish homeland.

Mr Andrews, a longtime supporter of Israel and the Jewish community, is scheduled to go to Israel in November.

He previously visited Israel on a trade mission in 2017, opening a Victorian Government Trade and Investment office in Tel Aviv.

Ms Peris, an Indigenous activist and former Hockeyroos player, has been a fervent supporter of Israel and key campaigner against antisemitism.

Note what he says and who the audience is.
He said he doesn’t support any statehood for Palestine until after Hamas is done.
I don’t believe him despite all the other things he brought up.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 9:50 am
Reply to  Black Ball

Wakey wakey, Daniel Andrews. There has been a Palestinian State since 1947. It’s called “Jordan.”

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2024 2:22 pm
Reply to  Black Ball

How about ‘once you leave office, STFU’?

Morsie
Morsie
July 26, 2024 9:47 am

Oz not allowing comments on the Matildas.
Apparently it was hot and that affected them

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 26, 2024 11:22 am
Reply to  Morsie

But it wasn’t hot for the Germanettes?
I think the Matildas have grown soft by the media adulation and drinking their own bath water.

Chris
Chris
July 26, 2024 12:36 pm
Reply to  Morsie

Diversity hires.

m0nty
July 26, 2024 9:51 am

I see the US polls today are all good for Harris, apart from LOL Rasmussen. They were all good for Trump yesterday though. Not really worth giving much credence until after the Democratic convention.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 9:59 am
Reply to  m0nty

Oversampling Democrat voters.

m0nty
July 26, 2024 10:05 am

Like I said a few days ago, this is understandable given the changing enthusiasm gap. When Biden was running, many of the same polls oversampled Republicans.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 10:30 am
Reply to  m0nty

No Monty, it’s about massaging the electorate to artificially boost the Kamel.

I can’t recall a poll which oversampled Republicans, and furthermore Trump supporters tend not to answer pollsters. Which skews the data to RINOs as well.

m0nty
July 26, 2024 11:49 am

Your ignorance is not evidence.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 12:48 pm
Reply to  m0nty

Your ignorance, on the other hand, IS evidence.

The oversampling thing has been going on for quite a while. Most people don’t look beneath the headline numbers.

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 9:59 am
Reply to  m0nty

PISS OFF, NAZI.

Go play with your Hamas buddies. There’s quite a few in Melbourne. You have much in common.

m0nty
July 26, 2024 10:03 am

Yesterday: the Blob endorses Harris in an open letter

Today: Harris all in for Israel including meeting Netanyahu, a joint presser and a statement. Albeit, her body language with Bibi was not warm.

I don’t know the direction of the arrow of causation on this, but there is definitely correlation. To me it looks like a bit of an own goal, because she didn’t need to engage so much and she is annoying dead-ender ex-Bernie-bros whose votes she could benefit from. I guess she is leaning in to incumbency, and probably thought those oppositional-defiant leftists weren’t voting for her regardless.

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 10:06 am
Reply to  m0nty

PISS OFF, NAZI.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 10:45 am
Reply to  m0nty

She’s to the left of Bernie. That’s why GovTrack is scrubbing their rating of her.

Poof! GovTrack Scrubs Kamala Harris ‘Most Liberal’ Senator Ruling From 2019 (26 Jul)

Beertruk
July 26, 2024 10:04 am

The Tele:

GILES HAS TO GO IN COMING RESHUFFLE
 
DAN – TEHAN
26 Jul 2024
 
It’s incredible the Prime Minister has kept Andrew Giles in his job for so long given that he is widely regarded as the worst Immigration Minister in Australian history.
 
Any other minister with a record like Giles of consistent incompetence would have been shown the door.

The Prime Minister must sack Giles in the upcoming reshuffle.
Australians have paid a heavy price for Giles’ incompetence. He is a prime example of why Australians don’t trust Labor on immigration or national security.

Giles was responsible for the botched release of 153 immigration detention detainees, including seven murderers, 37 sex offenders, and 72 violent offenders – many of whom have been subsequently charged with new offences.

Giles also introduced the Ministerial Direction that allowed criminal non-citizens who should have been deported to remain in Australia.

One such criminal allowed to stay has allegedly committed murder.

Giles oversaw record migration of almost one million arrivals in two years, as Australians endured housing shortages, record rent increases and a cost-of-living crisis.

He was the man in charge when the asylum seeker boats started arriving again and more than 42,500 asylum seekers arrived by plane.

Giles skipped three important meetings with his department about the release of immigration detention detainees and instead went to events promoting the Voice and flew to the United Kingdom to attend a Labour Party conference.

He said the Labor government was using drones to monitor people in the community despite receiving clear written advice this was not the case.

Every time Giles made a mistake he disappeared into witness protection and blamed others.

Giles has been missing in action for so long he’s harder to find than Where’s Wally.

He’s been a failure in the Immigration portfolio and Prime Minister Albanese must own that. What is more important to the Prime Minister, the safety of Australians or looking after his factional mate?

How bad do you have to be to lose your job under Albanese?

The Prime Minister will have zero credibility if Giles is still a minister on
Monday morning.

Dan Tehan is shadow minister for immigration

vr
vr
July 26, 2024 10:05 am

Oz not allowing comments on the Matildas.

Apparently it was hot and that affected them

Apparently, Germany lost their best player to injury prior to the Olympics. So, its not even their full-strength team

Last edited 6 months ago by vr
Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 10:08 am

Hey Nazi, any condemnation of the fascists on the streets of Washington DC yesterday? They were screaming, screeching and shouting….

Hamas is coming

Okay then. Make sure, Nazi, you give Hamas your address first.

Beertruk
July 26, 2024 10:23 am

I’ll chip in for his ticket to Gaza right now.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 11:10 am

Are there direct flights to Gaza from Malmo?

Last edited 6 months ago by Bruce of Newcastle
Beertruk
July 26, 2024 10:18 am

The Wong Chap truly is a piece of crap and should be flushed down and out of the crapper.

The Tele:

WONG’S ‘GRUBBY’ BANS

JADE GAILBERGER
26 Jul 2024

Australia has slapped financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israelis and a youth group involved in “violent attacks” against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong announced the decision yesterday, saying the settler violence had included beatings, sexual assault and torture of Palestinians, which had resulted in serious injury and in some cases, death.

The targeted financial sanctions will also apply to a religious youth group, that was responsible for inciting and perpetrating violence against Palestinian communities.

Senator Wong said: “We call on Israel to hold perpetrators of settler violence to account and to cease its ongoing settlement activity, which only inflames tensions and further undermines stability and prospects for a two-state solution.

“The Albanese government has been firm and consistent that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal under international law and a significant obstacle to peace.
“Australia will continue to work for a just and enduring peace between Israelis and Palestinians.”

Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham said there was bipartisan support for targeted Magnitsky-style sanctions, imposed on foreign nationals who commit human rights abuses, adding other partner nations such as the US and European Union also had them in place.

The move comes after the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory was “unlawful”.

The Australian Jewish Association strongly condemned the “outrageous sanctions”.

“This move seems designed to cater to the demands of local extremists for Labor’s grubby domestic political purposes, inflaming tensions and is a cynical move by Labor to secure votes,” the association’s president David Adler said.

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said “it was the right thing to do”, adding the government had directly communicated its opposition to settlements in the West Bank to the Netanyahu government.

Amnesty International spokesperson Ry Atkinson called on the government to increase its pressure in a bit to end the occupation.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 26, 2024 11:09 am
Reply to  Beertruk

Notice how Wong invokes the approved UN Marxist term ‘settler’. Wong really is a nasty piece of work but I’m sure the Canbra foreign affairies pubes are fully on board. Canbra – our very own 5th column.

Last edited 6 months ago by Miltonf
Zippster
Zippster
July 26, 2024 10:37 am

2024 GE: @EmersonPolling


ARIZONA
Trump: 49% (+5)
Harris: 44%

GEORGIA
Trump: 48% (+2)
Harris: 46%

MICHIGAN
Trump: 46% (+1)
Harris: 45%

PENNSYLVANIA
Trump: 48% (+2)
Harris: 46%

WISCONSIN
Harris: 47% (=)
Trump: 47%

#9 (3/2.9/3.0) | N=4,095 | July 22-23

areff
areff
July 26, 2024 8:49 pm
Reply to  Zippster

all within the margin of error and none beyond the cheating factor, which will be immense

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 10:41 am

Today: Harris all in for Israel including meeting Netanyahu, a joint presser and a statement. Albeit, her body language with Bibi was not warm.

You’re frigging nuts Monty.

She snubbed Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. Then blasted Israel.

Kamala Harris skipping Netanyahu’s speech to Congress to address sorority event instead (23 Jul)

Vice President Kamala Harris is snubbing America’s biggest ally in the Middle East for a sorority party.

‘I will not be silent’ on Gaza, Kamala Harris says after meeting Netanyahu in Washington (26 Jul)

Vice president’s comments on the humanitarian situation in Gaza indicate she could take a firmer tack with Israel than Joe Biden if she succeeds him

A sorority party! As insults go this is pretty much as nasty as you can get. Not what you would call diplomacy.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 26, 2024 10:58 am

It’s incredible the Prime Minister has kept Andrew Giles in his job for so long given that he is widely regarded as the worst Immigration Minister in Australian history.

Hardly “incredible” (although it should be). Giles is a classic case of factional balancing; competence does not get a guernsey in that algebra.

Socialist Left, Victorian, former immigration lawyer – ‘In ya go, son. Job’s made for you’.

With a lifetime career in politics, packed with compromises, equivocation and shifting positions, Tehan knows all about that.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2024 11:23 am
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Socialist Left, Victorian, former immigration lawyer

Strike Three. “Need a lift to Yarralumla?”

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 10:59 am

Obama doesn’t believe Kamala Harris can beat Trump, which is why he hasn’t endorsed her

“Obama knows she’s just incompetent — the border czar who never visited the border, saying that all migrants should have health insurance. She cannot navigate the landmines that are ahead of her.”

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2024 11:24 am
Reply to  Zatara

Barry knows they can’t pull it off.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 11:38 am
Reply to  H B Bear

And what a disaster it’d be if they did.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2024 4:47 pm
Reply to  Roger

After keeping Biden afloat for 4 years I’m not sure that would worry Barry.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 11:02 am

Hardly “incredible” (although it should be). Giles is a classic case of factional balancing; competence does not get a guernsey in that algebra.

He’s also a mate of Albanese’s.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 26, 2024 11:05 am
Reply to  Roger

That’s spelled “maaaaaate”.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 11:10 am
Reply to  Boambee John

The letter a is in short supply here…must use them wisely.

Last edited 6 months ago by Roger
132andBush
132andBush
July 26, 2024 11:05 am

Comrade Montgomery,
The Tatts Superdraw is tomorrow night.
So time’s running out.

Can you be a sport and tell us which nine numbers you are sure will not be drawn?

Thanks again in advance.

Zippster
Zippster
July 26, 2024 11:09 am

Breakthrough models AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solve advanced reasoning problems in mathematics
Today, we present AlphaProof, a new reinforcement-learning based system for formal math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our geometry-solving system. Together, these systems solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving the same level as a silver medalist in the competition for the first time.

Black Ball
Black Ball
July 26, 2024 11:20 am
Reply to  Figures

Read up thread for the article from the Herald Sun.

Pogria
Pogria
July 26, 2024 11:29 am
Reply to  Figures

He’s hoping it’s enough to have the Golf Club change its mind about his membership. Haw!

Chris
Chris
July 26, 2024 11:39 am
Reply to  Pogria

Or possibly he is doing a decent thing.
I don’t know him, but its not like everyone is completely evil. Perhaps its like climate change, only the retired were free to speak up.

Tom
Tom
July 26, 2024 11:51 am
Reply to  Figures

Andrews is a retail politician first and ideologue second. For the federal Labor rabble, it’s the other way around.

Crossie
Crossie
July 26, 2024 2:00 pm
Reply to  Figures

Dan Andrews supports Israel. Stopped watch I guess?

How convenient now that he can’t do anything about it and it won’t cost him at election time.

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 11:19 am

Six Democrats join Republicans to pass resolution condemning Harris’ performance as ‘border czar’

There were six Democrats who joined Republicans in the House to pass a resolution “strongly condemning” Vice President Kamala Harris, now the top 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, for her performance as the border czar.

Lysander
Lysander
July 26, 2024 11:38 am

Oh, look Muntard! A female activist being hanged by Iran:

Kurdish Activist Sentenced to Death in Iran (iranwire.com)

Penny Wong was unavailable for comment.

Pogria
Pogria
July 26, 2024 11:40 am
Reply to  Lysander

sshhh, the Gimp’s asleep.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2024 4:49 pm
Reply to  Lysander

kd must figure she’d get a pass.

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 11:43 am

Kamala Harris has vowed to ensure Israel can defend itself against its enemies

Except that when Israel does defend itself against its enemies, Harris et al complain about Israel defending itself and then try and stop Israel from defending itself.

It is now nine months and ticking….

Where are hostages? How many remain alive? What happens in nine months? Pregnancy. No doubt some of the young women, raped by Nazi scum, are probably about to give birth.

I note that the IRC is yet to visit one hostage, it is not interested, it doesn’t even try and hide its disinterest. I know my history and I know how the IRC has never been interested in helping/saving Jews but this is a new low, even for them.

Did anyone else see Sharri last night, she interviewed one of the female hostage’s mother, a young girl kidnapped from Nova. The mother spoke about how she and other family members of hostages held in Gaza visited the the UN to try and give evidence. The mother was very clear, clear, the UN are not interested in helping or assisting or saving Jews.

The age of Aquarius is over, we’re now back to the age of Jew hatred. Such is its intensity, I can feel it.

Boambee John
Boambee John
July 26, 2024 11:47 am

Cassie

I think that the ICRC is uninterested, rather than disinterested.

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 11:48 am

Party Cheating In Primary Election Promises They Will Definitely Not Cheat In General Election – The Bee

“A group of the nation’s most prominent Democrats held a press conference to allay the fears of American citizens that the fact that they had just successfully undermined the democratic process to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris on the presidential ticket might be an indication that they would pull similar unethical shenanigans in November’s general election against Donald Trump.”

Tom
Tom
July 26, 2024 12:04 pm
Reply to  Zatara

The Bee is now officially out of its depth as the reality of American politics jumps the shark into the evil black hole beyond satire.

Babylon Bee is now a news service.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2024 4:52 pm
Reply to  Tom

Satire is tough these days.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 11:51 am

Ooh that’s got to sting…

Donald Trump says 25th Amendment shouldn’t be invoked against Joe Biden, claims ‘dangerous’ Kamala Harris is ‘worse than he is’ (Sky News, 26 Jul)

Donald Trump has said he doesn’t believe the 25th Amendment should be invoked against President Biden, warning it would be more “dangerous” to put Vice President Kamala Harris in office because she’s “real garbage” and “worse than he is”.

Real garbage? Heh!

Pogria
Pogria
July 26, 2024 11:59 am
Pogria
Pogria
July 26, 2024 12:04 pm

Oh no! If only we had 600 million dollars for Rugby League, this would never happen. /sarc.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13670179/Attacks-Papua-New-Guinea-villages-kill-26-including-16-children-UN-says.html

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 12:29 pm
Reply to  Pogria

Snap .. my 1st thoughts when I read it .. when $A600million just isn’t enuf ..!

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 12:11 pm

Pablo will save the planet.

Climate-smart coffee: Researchers explore Robusta coffee as alternative to Arabica (Phys.org, 25 Jul)

But by 2050, about 80% of Arabica production is predicted to decrease because of climate change. So, Ferrao and colleagues from France (RD2 Vision) and Brazil (Incaper Institution) are investigating to see if they can find alternative coffee cultivars. …

“If you consider that nowadays, about 60% of coffee beans commercialized around the globe are from Coffea arabica, the coffee industry is looking for alternatives,” said Ferrao, lead author of the new study. “This is how and where Robusta coffee emerges as a good candidate.”

Hey guys there’s a reason why Arabica is preferred. Just saying. Obviously though Gaia likes bad coffee.

Chris
Chris
July 26, 2024 12:23 pm

What a bunch of morons. Just how much temperature variation is there at high altitude in the tropics? Living in those places is the sweetest gig on the planet and I will believe in that change when I die of dehydration at Atherton in summer.

H B Bear
H B Bear
July 26, 2024 4:54 pm
Reply to  Chris

Tropical highlands have always been the place to be. Preferably with a long G&T.

Entropy
Entropy
July 26, 2024 2:00 pm

I bet developing a whole bunch of new arabica cultivars can done more quickly than climate change. Why they might even increase yields and make them more sun tolerant while they are at it.

But I get it, catastrophe prophesying is a lot more fun than adaptation, and it’s easier to get government funding.

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2024 2:26 pm

But by 2050, about 80% of Arabica production is predicted to decrease because of climate change.

Ok, now you got my attention…

bons
bons
July 26, 2024 12:11 pm

Bruce, an explanation please.

I am not in a kooka territory, however over past days one has been arriving and just sitting patiently on the fence for hours.

The miners of course go nuts, but the resident blue faced honey eaters land on the fence and crowd the kooka but there is no agression and eventually they leave the bird alone.

Are there strategic territorial manoeuvres at play here?

flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2024 2:27 pm
Reply to  bons

I am not in a kooka territory, however over past days one has been arriving and just sitting patiently on the fence for hours

I have an official entry in ‘Cookerpedia’ if that helps?

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 12:29 pm

I am not in a kooka territory, however over past days one has been arriving and just sitting patiently on the fence for hours.

Bons – I’ve seen this sort of thing a few times. I think it is the kooka version of an internet dating agency account.

The singles sit on the edge of a territory and hope to be noticed. I spotted one of my nest box graduates doing this down in the local reserve. It works: I befriended a kooka several years ago, when she would come and sit on my back fence and look pretty. Now she is part of the local tribe.

That’s just my empirical impression. Could be something else entirely.

bons
bons
July 26, 2024 12:32 pm

Tanku Bruce

Entropy
Entropy
July 26, 2024 2:02 pm

They could be just checking out the skink lizards on the fence posts.

bons
bons
July 26, 2024 12:30 pm

From Jo Nova

The bar:
Trump raised the bar.
Harris failed the bar. (First attempt.)
AOC worked in a bar.
Pelosi lives at the bar.
Biden can’t spell bar.
Killary should be behind bars.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 1:05 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Nope, China has been desperately trying to develop 2nm chip tech on their own. It’s part of the strategic plan. Ditto with aircraft:

Russia Quietly Quits China Joint Airline Project (24 Jul)

The Chinese have had a lot of trouble building jet engines and wanted Russian tech – the CR-929 was to be built in China with Russian supplied turbofans. That’s what was behind this initiative – the Chinese would get the technology. Eventually they did develop good enough engines for their J-20s, but for a long time they were buying Russian engines.

The Chinese are getting towards high tech and precise engineering but they still don’t have the attention to detail and quality control for really top line stuff.

Lysander
Lysander
July 26, 2024 12:54 pm
flyingduk
flyingduk
July 26, 2024 2:28 pm
Reply to  Lysander

The usual suspects?

Lysander
Lysander
July 26, 2024 12:58 pm

Here, for example, are Moroccan soccer players celebrating by coming up to the camera, doing a slit throat motion while shouting Allens Snackbar…

https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1816537627434340354

dopey
dopey
July 26, 2024 2:31 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Best and Fairest award coming up.

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 3:11 pm
Reply to  Lysander

And the media classes Morocco in the “moderate” arab camp .. LOL!

Zippster
Zippster
July 26, 2024 1:04 pm

AI – Llama-3.1-405b-Instruct

Alice has four brothers and one sister. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?

that was (above) the 405 billion parameter llama model. I tried this question with the same model with 70 billion parameters (Llama-3.1-70b-Instruct) and it says one sister and needs to be guided to the correct answer. With only 8 billion parameters Llama-3.1-8b-Instruct it gets it even more wrong, tells me about the two sister and then declares the brother has only one.

This really demonstrates the criticality of scaling and how scaling up leads to higher levels of intelligence. At 400b params it is able to identify what is tricky about the question, at 8b it gets repeatedly muddled up. I wont post it but at 8b it’s still confused and can’t give clear explanations.

Interesting to see what comes out when we get into the trillions of parameters and beyond.

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 3:16 pm
Reply to  Zippster

Some of the combinations that have been thrown up over this makes you realise how CentreLink welfare fraud evolves .. LOL

Mother Lode
Mother Lode
July 26, 2024 1:29 pm

According to a site called ‘The Quartering’ the owners of some of the sites where the Crooks creature used to post have made some of his posts known.

It might be true. Wait and see before committing to it.

It paints a picture of an ardent Biden supporter – or at least of someone who likes spitting bile at people in which case taking the Democrat side is the perfect fit.

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Boambee John
Boambee John
July 26, 2024 3:05 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

someone who likes spitting bile at people in which case taking the Democrat side is the perfect fit



mUntyfa?

Megan
Megan
July 26, 2024 3:48 pm
Reply to  Mother Lode

Yes, email from Gab this morning with a couple of the posts they’ve been asked to provide to the investigation. Moral dilemma for them, I think.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 1:40 pm

This Friday 26 July two of our fearless warriors will be interviewed by Erin Molan on Sky News to talk about the document ‘Bravery and Betrayal. It will be worth tuning in if you can!

Anybody who knows more about the technology able to post a link to this one?

Eyrie
Eyrie
July 26, 2024 1:59 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

Big part of doing something is knowing it can be done. The Chinese are in that position.
Still haven’t seen any scepticism on any space sites about the Chinese Lunar Farside sample return. They released some results of analysis and say there were some hydrated minerals found.

Arky
July 26, 2024 3:19 pm
Reply to  dover0beach

55) Deepening reform of joint operations systems

We will refine the functions of the CMC command center for joint operations, enhancemits command functions in major security fields, and establish mechanisms for facilitating its coordination with central Party and state departments. We will optimize the composition of the command centers for joint theater operations and improve the configuration of commands for joint taskforce operations. We will better coordinate the development and application of the network information system. To develop a new framework of services and arms, we will speed up the development of strategic deterrence forces and strive to develop new-domain forces with new combat capabilities, while making coordinated efforts to strengthen traditional combat forces. The composition of the armed police force will be improved.

(56) Deepening military-civilian reforms

We will improve the working mechanisms for developing integrated national strategies and strategic capabilities and refine the institutions and mechanisms for military-related decision-making, deliberation, and coordination. We will improve the mechanisms for submitting and reporting on defense-related military needs and enhancing military-civilian alignment and refine the national defense mobilization system. Reform of the defense-related science, technology, and industry systems will be deepened to upgrade the layout of these areas. We will refine the system for weaponry and equipment procurement, develop reward mechanisms for designing military products, and modernize our weaponry and equipment management system. We will improve the mechanisms for coordinating standards between the military and civilian sectors. We will better coordinate development and management in aerospace, military trade, and other fields. We will optimize the institutions and mechanisms for leading and managing border and coastal defense and improve mechanisms to enable the Party, the government, the military, the police force, and the people to work together on border governance.Reform of the militia system?will be furthered. The mechanisms for strengthening mutual support between civilian sectors and the military will be refined.

XV.?Improving the?Party’s Leadership

Leadership by the Party provides a fundamental guarantee for further deepening reform comprehensively toadvance Chinese modernization. We must acquire a deep understanding of the decisive significance of establishing Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We must be more conscious of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership. We must stay confident in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We must uphold Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and uphold the Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership.

Resolution of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, 2024.

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Crossie
Crossie
July 26, 2024 1:53 pm

Amnesty International spokesperson Ry Atkinson called on the government to increase its pressure in a bit to end the occupation.

Yet Amnesty International doesn’t seem to be even remotely interested in the hostages still remaining in Gaza. That omission strips them of any validity and makes them just another pro-terrorist group.

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
July 26, 2024 2:28 pm

http://www.journalof911studies.com/the-instantaneous-free-fall-of-wtc7/

This is rather long, but it shows how, ……., misleading, NIST was.
For those who don’t wish to read the detail, the conclusion is on page 38.

Essentially, NIST lied it arse off.
Anyone who watched this individual give the NIST assessment, knows full well he was under pressure. It is available still on YT.

Pogria
Pogria
July 26, 2024 2:48 pm

From Scummo down. Every State Premier, every f**king Doctor, Nurse, Ambulance Call Operator, and many more I am too bloody angry to type, deserves to be dragged by their feet behind a couple of horses, down a gravel road. No f**king exceptions.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13646613/Natalie-Boyce-death-Sad-text-Melbourne-woman-died-five-weeks-Moderna-vaccine-Covid-booster.html

Rufus T Firefly
Rufus T Firefly
July 26, 2024 2:51 pm
Zippster
Zippster
July 26, 2024 2:52 pm
Lysander
Lysander
July 26, 2024 2:56 pm
Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 3:13 pm
Reply to  Lysander

Classic unsustainable sugar high.

Give it a week’s worth of Kamala appearances and it’ll be a very open Dem convention.

Dr Faustus
Dr Faustus
July 26, 2024 3:02 pm

Trying the logic problem with ChatGPT:

Q: Alice has four brothers and one sister. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?

Chat GPT A: Alice has one sister. Since Alice’s brothers are her siblings, they each have one sister. Thus, each of Alice’s brothers has one sister.

So, ChatGPT makes the (heroic) assumption that Alice is female, but gets the logic wrong.

However, change the question slightly:

Q: Alice has four brothers and two sisters. How many sisters does her brother have?

A: Alice’s brothers have two sisters: Alice and her other sister. Thus, each of Alice’s brothers has two sisters.

This suggests that the logic engine is creating a set called Alice, and simultaneously applying the same variable name, Alice, to the (or one of the) sister(s) in the set.

This appears to be the dominant order of operations in the ChatGPT process, because the language engine correctly parses Alice as both female and sister.

Possibly this is similar for other AI bots.

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 26, 2024 4:23 pm
Reply to  Dr Faustus

Go with Perplixity Q Alice has four brothers and one sister. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?
A Therefore, Alice’s brothers have 2 sisters.This question is a good example of how family relationship problems can be tricky. The key is to remember that Alice herself counts as a sister to her brothers, in addition to the sister we were initially told about.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 3:08 pm

Three men accused of forcing teenagers into arranged marriage in first charge of its kind in WAEmily MoultonThe West Australian
Fri, 26 July 2024 12:25PM

Three men have appeared in court accused of forcing two teenagers into an arranged marriage — the first time anyone in WA has been charged with the offence by federal authorities.
The trio, two of whom are related to a boy and the other who is related to a girl, faced Perth Magistrates Court on Friday over allegations they made the pair enter into the matrimonial union last year for cultural reasons.
During their brief hearing, the men from Alexander Heights did not speak and were read the charges through an interpreter.

A duty lawyer acting on their behalf told the court the trio had each made Legal Aid applications and asked for their matters to be adjourned until late next month.
The Australian Federal Police allege one of the teens, who is aged between 13 and 15 years old and the other, who was 17, wanted to date each other, but their relatives told them they would have to be married for cultural reasons.
The men then allegedly facilitated the marriage of the children in a religious ceremony in 2023.
AFP Detective Superintendent Peter Chwal said the definition of forced marriage was when a person married without freely and fully consenting because they had been coerced, threatened, or deceived or because they were incapable of understanding the nature and effect of a marriage ceremony, for reasons including age or mental capacity.
“The legal age for marriage in Australia is 18, and while a child aged 16 to 18 can obtain permission from a court to marry, the person they wed must be an adult,” he said.
Det-Supt Chwal said forced marriage was a complex crime because it often involved family members as victims and perpetrators, and the number one priority for the AFP was the wellbeing and safety of victims.

shatterzzz
July 26, 2024 3:24 pm

So which family had the most goats/sheep/cows .. ? .
The whole episode reads like a “dowry” .litigation case .. LOL!

2dogs
July 26, 2024 3:50 pm

I’m not sure about this one. If the girl was 15 and the boy was 17, it was legal for them to have sex. There were put through what was called a “marriage” but had no legal effect. Why could they consent to sex but not this ritual that had no effect?

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 3:12 pm

I posted a video yesterday of several muslim criminals being arrested by the police.
https://x.com/Salwan_Momika1/status/1816165723691180213
Here’s the Chief Constables preliminary report:
https://x.com/gmpolice/status/1816195729527898134
Read it and see the problem…

cohenite
July 26, 2024 3:25 pm

BobtheBoozer
 July 26, 2024 3:12 pm

I posted a video yesterday of several muslim criminals being arrested by the police.
https://x.com/Salwan_Momika1/status/1816165723691180213
Here’s the Chief Constables preliminary report:
https://x.com/gmpolice/status/1816195729527898134
Read it and see the problem…

This: Assistant Chief Constable Wasim Chaudhry has issued a statement.

JC
JC
July 26, 2024 3:38 pm

Roger

At that time the ratio of incomes of the richest Romans to the poorest was about 20 times, a ratio that exploded to many thousands by the time the empire collapsed around AD400 and not far beyond what it is now in the US and Europe.

The part they’re not telling you with respect to the present day is how much of this income is tangled up in equity markets.

The Dow is trading on a multiple of almost 26 times earnings.
The S&P at 27.5
The Nasdaq is at 32 times

I’m pretty sure, that during Roman times the RSE (Roman Stock Exchange) wasn’t trading anywhere near these record levels. 🙂

Asset values are extraordinarily high in the present day.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 3:58 pm
Reply to  JC

That was Adam Creighton.

JC
JC
July 26, 2024 4:02 pm
Reply to  Roger

No problem.

Incomes are being royally impacted by high asset valuations, which in the US are at record levels.

Adam should know this. I’m surprised he missed it.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 4:11 pm
Reply to  JC

I think he was painting with a broad brush.

A couple of other points needed teasing out, too.

But I thought it was worth posting regardless.

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 3:38 pm

Democrats are upset that they didn’t get to participate in the Democratic process and choose their nominee. Plot twist: Turns out Democrats are the ‘threat to democracy’.

MSNBC’s focus group of Wisconsin progressives did not go as planned. Democrats feel like Joe Biden harmed the Democrat party by not allowing an actual primary, and feel trepidation about Kamala Harris as the nominee:

GreyRanga
GreyRanga
July 26, 2024 3:39 pm

I saw a few problems, useless plod kicking a bloke face down on the floor. There is time later for him to slip on the stairs resisting arrest. No need, no matter what he’s done. Easy to handcuff him straight away. Plod being more concerned about cameras than arresting suspects. Two female plod being of no use whatsoever. Assistant Chief Constable is a muzzie first, plod second. Plod didn’t have a clue.

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JC
JC
July 26, 2024 3:45 pm

Here’s a hypothetical example.

Musk sells US$ 2 billion worth of Tesla stock.

That will be counted as income when the sale is crystalized.

Telsa is trading at a very high multiple with the stock price taken there by investors who are very optimistic on the valuation. So Musk’s $2 billion income for that year is due to the valuation of the stock. Musk doesn’t take a salary for managing Tesla.

I’m not sure if his salary has changed in the past 20 odd years, but I doubt it. Warren Buffet’s salary for running “Berkshire Hunt” was/is $125,000. Stock valuation has Buffet’s net worth at around $100 billion plus, but Buffet is not a high salaried earner.

No one gets rich, rich, by earning a salary.

Rosie
Rosie
July 26, 2024 3:52 pm

Last night my landlady lent me a long listed for the booker book in 2022 written by a local author.
I’m leaving today but it was short enough for me to knock over in less than an hour and get back to something more palatable.
There was a dedication at the front to the Magdalene laundries victims so I was pretty sure I might not care for it.
Look it’s nicely enough written but there are holes.
The main character is a William Furlong (who will be played by cilian? Murphy in the upcoming movie) the illegitimate son of a 16 year catholic servant of a childless Protestant women who allows her to stay on as a single mother. There is also a manservant called Ned who is kind to mother and child. The mother dies when the boy is twelve and he stays on with the widow and kindly Ned, never knowing who his father is. Plot twist at the end a random woman assumes he is related to Ned because they look alike.
But no-one in the town of gossiping gossips in the forty years of his life ever makes this startling connection.
And why didn’t they marry, his parents? They got on, they were both Catholic, they had a child there were no impediments. But anyhow the author needs him to be a bustard, so a bustard he is.
Fast forward.
Thanks to the wealthy Protestant widow Furlong had a fuel business married with five daughters, one of his customers are the nuns that run the laundry, one busy cold winter in 1985 he’s so flat chat he has no choice but to deliver coal to the nuns on a Sunday morning and in the coal cellar he finds a young girl who asks him to take her to the river so she can drown herself, they’ve taken her baby. He returns her to the nuns puzzled and the mother superior gives him fifty pounds as a Christmas ‘bonus’.
The local Cafe owner Mrs Kehoe warns him his daughters will lose their place at the only good school if he says anything because even though it’s a different religious order at the school, all the towns religious and clergy are in on the secret of the laundries. It’s a mystery how Mrs Kehoe knows about his encounter but if there is a conspiracy of silence then she’s a part of it, everyone in the town except the innocent hero must know what goes on and do nothing. Right? Right Ms author?
The story ends with Furlong rescuing the girl from the coal cellar on Christmas morning.
Seems to me the book is celebrated and getting a movie because it continues a line about the church that resonates with the new secular Ireland. The church is bad and free from the shackles of Catholism Ireland will be that happy place.
At least the hero is a male, a white one at that.

Chris
Chris
July 26, 2024 4:09 pm
Reply to  Rosie

Thanks for sharing Rosie!

Rosie
Rosie
July 26, 2024 3:57 pm

Anyone with half a brain knowns tomatoes would likely cause damage.
Haven’t they seen those home cleaning tip videos using tomato sauce to remove stubborn stains?

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 4:01 pm

MSNBC’s focus group of Wisconsin progressives did not go as planned. Democrats feel like Joe Biden harmed the Democrat party by not allowing an actual primary, and feel trepidation about Kamala Harris as the nominee:

Heads up, folks…

It’s the ‘Democratic’ Party in much the same way that Soviet Socialist republics used to be called ‘Democratic.’

You are welcome!

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Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2024 4:05 pm

@newstart_2024
Reminder – It looks as though H5N1, also known as “bird flu,” might just be the next “pandemic” the globalists are planning to unleash – thanks, in part, to a $9.5 million grant the Gates Foundation awarded to the University of Wisconsin – Madison to make H5N1 transmissible to humans and other mammals.

The McCullough Foundation, a project of Dr. Peter McCullough, tweeted that the Gates Foundation gave the $9.5 million to UW-Madison and principal investigator Yoshihiro Kawaoka to modify, possibly through gain-of-function tampering, H5N1 so it will “preferentially recognize human-type receptors and transmit efficiently in mammals.”

Much like bat coronaviruses, which we now know were modified in a lab to jump from bats to humans, H5N1 infects birds in its natural state. Building upon the research of Ron Fouchier, who previously modified H5N1 to become airborne transmissible in ferrets, UW-Madison and Kawaoka’s research provides two additional mutations that are needed to make Egyptian H5N1 produce “variants” that have mammalian “transmissibility features.”

“This indicates that the @gatesfoundation funded bioterrorist-like activities involving H5N1, providing blueprints for other bad actors who may want to create a bioweapon,” tweeted the McCullough Foundation about these disturbing new revelations.”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTPgeihW8AA-HQ6?format=jpg&name=medium

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 4:18 pm
Reply to  Indolent

Do the aircrew, responsible for the crash of an aircraft, still have to pay for that aircraft?

Beertruk
July 26, 2024 5:48 pm

Be working more than a few years in the salt mine to pay that off.

A mate (a Corporal) rolled a Mack cargo truck and trailer with a bath unit and all of it was written off.

Mack: 150K
Trailer: 8k
Bath unit: 250K

After running the shower for one of the infantry battalions at Shoal Water Bay while on the ex, he decided to sneak off the reservation to get a hamburger at one of the servos on the highway.
On the way back to the reservation, the accident happened.
However, a mechanical fault was found on the trailer which caused the accident.
If he had been in SWBTA and the accident happened, everything would have been fine, but being caught out where he should not have been…tsk tsk tsk… 🙂
After the trial, which got kicked up to the Defence Force Magistrate, he got a severe reprimand and a 2k fine.
And he stayed in the Army.

‘Tassie, pretty expensive hamburger.’
‘Beertruk ya smartarse…yair…based on price I’m not not recommending that place…lol’

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Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2024 4:10 pm

Of course. Telling people what to do is at the core of the totalitarian mindset.

Kamala to Double Down on Biden’s EV Mandate

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 26, 2024 4:26 pm

Sky News reporter just referred to Gladys as “the Premier who got us through COVID”. WTF?

She hid behind the “Health Advice” which was wrong.
She imposed measures that were, while not in the same league as Despot Dan, included:
Compulsory vaccines that were dodgy if not harmful, proved to be useless.
5km limit for personal travel.
Must wear masks that were no use at all.
Closed Schools unnecessarily.
Made us all have a “tracking app” on our phones which we were obliged to use at shops to prove we were “vaccinated” at least twice!
The “Health Advice” went on to try and get us to take third or fourth useless and possibly harmful vaccines.
Allowed ridiculous fines to be imposed.
Made it impossible for me to take my wife along when travelling to the country to do maintenance on second property.
There’s more, but that will do for now.

Bruce of Newcastle
Bruce of Newcastle
July 26, 2024 5:20 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

Well she certainly got us.

Indolent
Indolent
July 26, 2024 5:24 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

And it was all to cover her personal misconduct. She knew very well it was all rubbish.

BobtheBoozer
BobtheBoozer
July 26, 2024 8:06 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

They truly have no idea of the resentment that is building within the Australian community.

John H.
John H.
July 26, 2024 4:29 pm

US election live updates: Kamala Harris taunts Donald Trump for ‘backpedaling’ on debate | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

Mr Vance’s previously stated view – albeit one that was quietly scrubbed from his website when he became the vice presidential nominee – is that abortion should be illegal nationally, even in cases of rape or incest.

A vote killing position. Attacking Harris as a stepmother is a dumb idea.

Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 4:49 pm
Reply to  John H.

“Mr Vance’s previously stated view – albeit one that was quietly scrubbed from his website when he became the vice presidential nominee – is that abortion should be illegal nationally, even in cases of rape or incest.”

And no progressive thought to screen-save it? In other words, they don’t have a quote of him saying that, but we can trust them. Yeah, nah.

“Attacking Harris as a stepmother is a dumb idea.”

He said parents’ votes should hold more power, that parents should have a larger voice than people who had no kids. Think what you want of that idea, but he said nothing about Kamala, no matter how ridiculously they stretch that.

JC
JC
July 26, 2024 4:33 pm

Isn’t he lovable. He just rips into these clowns with no mercy.

@realDonaldTrump

FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet (the FBI never even checked!), but he was sure that Crooked Joe Biden was physically and cognitively “uneventful” – Wrong! That’s why he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels. His only focus is destroying J6 Patriots, Raiding Mar-a-Lago, and saving Radical Left Lunatics, like the ones now in D.C. burning American flags and spray painting over our great National Monuments – with zero retribution. No, it was, unfortunately, a bullet that hit my ear, and hit it hard. There was no glass, there was no shrapnel. The hospital called it a “bullet wound to the ear,” and that is what it was. No wonder the once storied FBI has lost the confidence of America!

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Zatara
Zatara
July 26, 2024 5:03 pm
Reply to  JC

“FBI Director Christopher Wray told Congress yesterday that he wasn’t sure if I was hit by shrapnel, glass, or a bullet”

Really? Did the FBI find any object between Trump’s head and the shooter that might have been the source of any shrapnel or glass? Yeah, didn’t think so.

Given Trump appointed him, Wray should serve as yet another object lesson for Trump – Be absolutely ruthless and uncompromising in vetting any future appointments.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 4:36 pm

Xword said…
Dear posters who use lower case only,
I am the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse or helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Yours faithfully
Capital Letters

H/T Michael Smith.

MatrixTransform
July 26, 2024 5:42 pm

a hyphen would clear that up

JC
JC
July 26, 2024 4:37 pm

John H

That’s fake news. Vance has categorically stated that he supports the campaign’s position that the issue of abortion belongs to the states now.

Roger
Roger
July 26, 2024 4:40 pm

There’s more, but that will do for now.

If you missed it, see the piece by Adam Creighton I posted this morning.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 26, 2024 4:41 pm

Penny Wrong is helping maintain the idea that the West Bank is “occupied” by Israelis, not “part of Israel”. Jordan took that bit by force after the declaration of the state of Israel when the west bank was part of Israel.
Israel took it back as part of the 1967 Six Day War. That should be end of the story, just as numerous other takeovers have been accepted over many years. West Irian anyone? It was taken by Indonesia solely under the fig leaf that it had been a Dutch protectorate after WW1, just as the Eastern Half (PNG) was an Australian protectorate, taking over from the Germans.
History is not a strong point of either the left media or left politicians!
When will Penny go the biff with China over their “occupations” of various places, or Russia?

Beertruk
July 26, 2024 5:06 pm
Reply to  Bungonia Bee

The Wong Chap has selective brain cells.

cohenite
July 26, 2024 4:56 pm

Energy news; who’s passing wind and who’s not!

RealClearEnergy – Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls

johnjjj
johnjjj
July 26, 2024 5:15 pm

Comrades! Don’t miss Robert Barnes on The Duran two hours Youtube

Steve trickler
Steve trickler
July 26, 2024 5:28 pm

Another classic from Danger.

—-

Danger Dan Reviews:

I’ve been so busy! Joe Biden Linda Burney Albanese

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX9-gm_7hdI

Zippster
Zippster
July 26, 2024 5:38 pm
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cohenite
July 26, 2024 5:55 pm

I don’t know if any of you layabouts have not signed this petition, but if you haven’t, you should:

REGIONAL AUST HAS HAD ENOUGH – GOVTS WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO RUIN OUR LIVES AND ENVIRONMENT
There, is a huge amount of anger, frustration and depression gripping Regional Communities across Australia, against the mindless delusion being pursued by those ramming the Transition to Renewables on Regional Communities. This ramming is polluting vast areas of agricultural land, raising the wildfire danger to extreme levels. Tens of thousands of ‘killing mills’ will devastate our bird life to the point of extinction and ruin the peaceful and scenic countryside, that Rural Australians love and millions of tourists come to visit.

Petition update · REGIONAL AUST HAS HAD ENOUGH – GOVTS WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO RUIN OUR LIVES AND ENVIRONMENT · Change.org · Change.org

Cassie of Sydney
July 26, 2024 5:56 pm

Back in the 1990s, a halcyon time which now seems like another universe away, Bill Clinton said that that abortion should be…

Safe, legal and rare

Those exact words were later repeated by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

I happen to agree with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Mrs Clinton and others. I also suspect many in the GOP, and that includes Trump, Vance, Cruz, DeSantis and others agree with those words. Trump is most certainly a moderate on the abortion issue. He believes it should be a state issue.

But given the out of control woke world we live in, I suppose any politician who would dare now repeat Bill Clinton’s words that abortion should be ‘safe, legal and rare’ would be smacked down, castigated and be accused of holding a “vote killing position‘.

Personally, I think abortion should be legal in the first trimester but most definitely not after that unless there are sound medical and/or psychological reasons. And that was and is the position of most reasonable and sane people but that reasonable and sane view is no longer good enough for the insane progressive left. No, no, no, they now glorify abortion, they now celebrate abortion, they now sanctify abortion. It is a central tenet of progressive ideology, even terminating a pregnancy at nine months. This is obscene, but then again we live in obscene times.

Hear this, I believe abortion should be safe, legal and rare, but we are now living in a West where there is too much abortion.

Bungonia Bee
Bungonia Bee
July 26, 2024 7:14 pm

Quite right Cassie. I think Tony Abbott also used those same words.

MatrixTransform
July 26, 2024 5:58 pm

wot .. no phone records?

Dan, you sneaky clown

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 26, 2024 6:01 pm

Abortion to the western left is akin to pre-Christian child sacrifice.

Miltonf
Miltonf
July 26, 2024 6:03 pm

Repulsive, slippery, slimy person is Andrews. Why they would allow him in a Synagogue is beyond me.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
July 26, 2024 6:06 pm
  1. My meds are prescribed for six months except the heavy duty painkillers which are two monthly but not on PBS…

  2. Lovely evening in Perth. Missus watched MAFS (no idea why)> I copied my CDs to an SSD. Slowly decluttering.

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