I’m sure the absence of paleosimian flags just means the pro-tranny mob forgot to negotiate a reciprocal protest agreement with…
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Peter, I’m disappointed you’ve fallen for the Fat Bastard’s trap: he’ using his mining millions to split the Stupid Frigging…
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Van Hollen Backtracks As El Salvador Stunt Backfires Spectacularly – PJ Media What a deadshit, what an effete twot
Putin is “devoutly Wussian Orthodox” the same way Joe Biden is a “devout Catholic”. Photo-opp Christians.
Anyone surprised Clammy is a anti-Semite nutbag.
Buller, Buller, buller…
https://x.com/i/status/1786303460675387652
(just went for a look to see if she twatted anything about being in Darwin)
https://x.com/i/status/1786303460675387652
More clammy clam
https://x.com/i/status/1819525496989946083
I note Officeworks still hasn’t sacked that bint Clammy’s getting all upset about.
Neither did it respond to my email stating that the small amount of dosh I spend there goes elsewhere till they sack her and a jibe at Westfarmers owners “social licence” being on shaky ground supporting such anti-Semitism.
Looks like she has had some filler in her top lip in that video. Hawt!!
The Green-induced economic malaise in Germany really is starting to bite
When your policies start to interfere with the ability to put food on the table, expect some push back.
Would any Liberal senator have dared publish this?
First they come for the far right. Then they come for your half track.
I’m not sure Lebanon is strictly Third World but many of them (or their parents) were Fraser’s efforts. Just check the Cabinet papers. We’ll have to wait 20 years for Albo’s Gazans.
Yes, I’d take issue with Roberts on that point. The Liberals have in fact been chiefly responsible for “third world” immigration. Labor have exploited it after the fact.
Citizens are sovereign, are they? That will come as news to the King.
Read it in context.
mUnturd requests that the government takes away all of his resources, and tells him how to live his life.
Except if it is a conservative government led by someone not of the UniParty. At that point, he becomes a “sovereign” citizen.
His super investments will certainly come in handy for a broke government further down the track we’re on.
And his investment houses/apartments can be commandeered to “accommodate” refugees from Gaza.
Flea.
Isn’t that anarchy?
The SJW wants to use a skewed version of “democracy” to forward meritless “levelling up”.
Totalitarianism.
Anarchy is a stateless/leaderless society.
The prog-left require a very powerful state to enforce their agenda, cf. Starmer’s UK.
But not including their own personal wealth.
You can recognise Clammie by the portrait of me on her left arm.
Doesn’t do me justice. I’d prefer the Right.
A cellist then?
Every time I see that creature, I want to dunk it headfirst into a tub of neat Chlorine.
International student numbers “capped” at 270 000 per year.
It’s one of our biggest “export” industries, we’re constantly told whenever questions are raised.
It’s the “import” part that creates the issues. Unless you are a Melbounibad dogbox developer or with the CFMEU.
It is all the dodgy private education providers creating useless courses that serve to justify immigration but the immigrant immediately gets a job. I catch cabs often enough and almost invariably sub-continent drivers. Nice people, had a great discussion about some jazz giants with one. Another told me how stringent the immigration process is. The last cabbie was Caucasian and he told me the immigrant drivers typically live piled up on one another in share accommodation and share bedding.
Kebab?
Surely the best way to make “education” an export industry is to export the responsible wackademics and administrators to the countries where the exports go?
No need then for expensive accommodation and teaching facilities here, build them (without CFMMEU input) there, at much lower cost.
We might need to find accommodation for the staff, but that is for a relatively small number. And they can pay market rent for it.
Except they never leave
https://www.timesofisrael.com/he-lost-his-soul-lapid-sees-sacred-cause-in-toppling-netanyahus-government/
“The thing that matters about Netanyahu is that he’s not working for the country.”
Who’d have thought!
Lapid is a nutty far-lefty.
The Israeli left has been Obama’s greatest success.
In what sense?
Here’s the link to the early hominid thread entitled ‘Fat of the Land’ which wasn’t working up above. Hope this one does:
We started a consulting job in Melbournibad with cold showers after the Longford gas non explosion in the early 90s, so they should be used to it.
Two nights ago there was a guest in Sky listing the destructive and treasonous actions of Merkle – the invasion, destruction of corporate initiative through green tape, selling Germany’s energy industry to her boyfriend Putin, destroying free speech, and lawfare, turning the EU into a German rrivh.
He subtly opined on how a person so physically and morally ugly could have gained unchecked power and the support of virtually all governments and media.
Ugly, destruction of industry, insane energy policies, contempt for the people, lawfare – um, um, um, could there be an Australian equivalent.
If for no other reason,Trump must be elected just so that we can watch the Stasi bitch squirm and splutter.
Wonderful line by some German: If you own an EV buy a dog so you don’t have to walk home alone.
Her line is also good: when the train is delayed I’m pleased because at least it is running.
This is time stamped at 184s. If I remove the stamp the link no workee. Another YT mystery.
Why I’m embarrassed to be German – YouTube
Don’t underestimate German self-hatred.
I think it explains much about the way she was received by the media & the public.
My surname is ancient German. In my youth I developed the rule that I must be my worst critic because most people are too kind\too scared\too polite to criticize me.
What I like about Hossenfelder is she is prepared to pop the bubble that physics has no problems and is just applying the finishing touches to the Standard Model.
And this…
On the upside…if we do get a Labor, Green, Teal government, it’s unlikely to go full term, as it would collapse under the weight of its own idiocy about 18 months in.
They won’t even notice its stillborn. We’re all so excited to have the reins of power each of us get a turn to pull. Which direction doesn’t matter.
One small thing in favour of Albanese…he personally despises the Greens, who have long been his political enemies in Grayndler.
I’m now stuck with a slack jawed beta male who’s friends with the coven of hospital wokery bureaucracy that have been visiting him. Late middle-aged cat ladies who are so sure of everything they say that by the time they leave he is already slipped down the scale of dicklessness. None of the nurses are woke until you get to the karen level, and they appear in need of a good seeing to. Not my payscale thank goodness.
Take one for the team and do what has to be done.
I’m past “close my eyes an think of England”
Beautifully said, Ranga. Hope your recovering nicely.
And yet Scholz has been far more disastrous for the German economy than Merkel ever was.
It’s all a game of one-upmanship.
I note the Greens are upping the anti on their death to Australia policies. On one hand I am genuinely concerned about their increased commitment to outright destruction of anything good about Australia, on the other hand I hope they have blown their cover and their intent is now out in the open. How TF anyone could still vote for them when they show a psychopathic contempt to their fellow Australian…beggars belief.
Yes Fair Shake, the danger is always worse from within than without. The good thing about the greenies is they’re so open about being totalitarian that if you can’t see it you’re one of them.
I really shouldn’t laugh, but it’s hard not to.
The Democratic convention’s surprise guest: Covid (27 Aug, via Instapundit)
The debate is on 10 September. What was the incubation period again?
I am amazed healthy people still test themselves for covid. A month ago I had a bad head cold that lingered for about 2 weeks. Got asked by friends if it was covid, reply don’t know don’t care. Stayed at home for the first 3 or 4 days, did not sleep with the missus etc. The usual precautions that people did pre covid.
Agree.
I have never tested for Covid. I have dopey friends who constantly test. sigh…
lol. Here is the perfect test sample of a highly mRNA vaccinated population (you can bet your life they all are, being true believers) being exposed at the same time, and a lot of them getting sick.
Hate to say it, but are we sure it’s not a big fake beat up, to explain why on the 10th poor sick Kamala who has Covid can’t front up to debate Trump?
They created a “superspreader” event – put ’em in gaol! 🙂
The most sensible policy for the Germans energy wise was to maintain or expand its nuclear generation, hold and improve the efficiency of its coal generation, and expand its gas usage if the economics of doing so made sense. And she should have been faithful to her ‘boyfriend Putin’ rather than rooting around with Obama, Trump, Poroshenko, Zelensky, as well, whenever she was in town because the Germans are being treated like the town bike by everyone. The Poles are ignoring existing arrest warrants issued by German prosecutors for alleged Nord Stream saboteurs.
Someone watching that new approach to hominid evolution talk which I put up has in the comments put up the ChatGPT version. It is really quite good, although it misses some of the importance of the cupped hand shape in human evolution, which allowed holding of a rounded rock to pound open the bone marrow of larger animals, either hunted down or found as carrion, where the meat would have been rotten but where the bone marrow was still sweet and sound.
– Jess Thompson expresses gratitude for the introduction and mentions her affiliation with ASU and IHO.
– She discusses her collaboration with Curtis Marion and her project in Malawi.
– The main focus of her talk is the origins of the human predatory pattern, particularly in Ethiopia.
– She emphasizes the importance of diet in human evolution, linking it to survival and cognitive development.
– Diet is crucial for understanding human evolution, as it influences survival and reproduction.
– Major milestones in human evolution, such as cooperation and weaponry, are linked to diet.
– Unique human traits like large brains, tool use, and bipedalism are connected to diet.
– The traditional narrative of human evolution involving tool making, meat eating, and the emergence of Homo is questioned.
– New evidence suggests that these behaviors did not occur simultaneously but have deeper roots in earlier species like Australopithecus.
– Lucy’s species, Australopithecus afarensis, exhibited flexibility in diet and environment, exploiting new resources.
– The geochemistry of Lucy’s teeth indicates a varied diet, not limited to trees or open spaces.
– The traditional story of sharp tools for meat cutting leading to Homo is challenged.
– The cost of a large brain is high, requiring an energy surplus, which could come from diet changes.
– The importance of fat in the diet is highlighted, as it provides a concentrated source of calories.
– Humans are unique in hunting large prey and using tools, unlike chimpanzees.
– The human predatory pattern involves hunting larger animals and consuming fat, not just meat.
– Early hominins like Lucy may have used simple tools like hammerstones to access bone marrow.
– Systematic fieldwork and new methodologies are needed to test these hypotheses.
– Main message: The origins of the human predatory pattern and the role of diet, particularly fat, in human evolution are more complex and rooted in earlier species like Australopithecus, challenging traditional narratives.
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As I pointed out here, the cupped hands make a good drinking utensil, which was probably important on the hard-to-access rocky pools of the savanah whereas, in the jungle. running streams and leaf dew were easily accessible. I’d like to suggest this to her and the team. They’ve considered food, but not water. Wonder if anyone else has/will.
Chat GPT also doesn’t mention the need she explains for a lot more field archaeology seeking bone shards to examine for evidence of hominids’ pounding, in contrast to the paleontologists who want to find whole bones.
I was thinking just now of the good sense in that argument about pounding being the first tools and heavy sticks being the first weapons. I mentioned it to Hairy and he said yep, 2001, remember the hominid ape picking up the first weapon. This made me think of the last time we’d seen man-the-toolmaker at work. It was during that film with Tom Hanks, Castaway, which we viewed on the cruise the night that we’d visited Castaway Island where it was made. Recall if you’ve seen it that shipwrecked Tom Hanks had a coconut and in desperation for a drink grabbed a heavy stone to open it, firstly smashing it, then realising later that if you took off the pliable top you had a gourd for drinking the contents and then storing water.
“Humans are unique in hunting large prey and using tools,…”
No.
Humans are unique in only one way – it’s NOT intelligence, nor the use of tools, nor language, nor even sentience, but rather technology. We are they ONLY species that has a written record of how to make our tools.
That allows us to create “second level” and onwards tools – tools made from other tools.
See the Harvard lecture video on language and symbols amongst Homo Erectus that I’ve also put up, Kneel. Writing is not the issue, that was very much later, the issue is symbolic cognitive capacity. Unique is not a good word to use and is used lightly in the popularising piece above. As the language article shows, all things in evolution exist on a continuum. It also suggests that big animal hunting (not just scavenging where it probably started) is actually uniquely human, but not uniquely Homo Sapiens, with Erectus using tools for butchering and group planning of hunts, involving a level of cognitive symbolising, which it is debatable that animals do, although they do communicate with signs – icon signs showing a visual resemblance, or index signs such as smoke indicating fire, or footprints or scat or scent indicating another animal’s recent presence. Birds communicate in complex songs which they can also manipulate.
Thanks for posting that Lizzie, I’ve just started watching it.
You might also be interested in this 2011 article, “Man the Fat Hunter: The Demise of Homo erectus and the Emergence of a New Hominin Lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant Miki Ben-Dor1 , Avi Gopher1 , Israel Hershkovitz2 , Ran Barkai1 *”
Yes, thanks, I’ll have a look at it with my lunch; Hairy is out for lunch, having his hair cut then shopping. Lol, so expensive now for so little hair left.
Just reading it now, inbetween the meat patty and cauliflower mozzarella cheese bites of my Keto program. Dairy fat allowed, lol. Interesting to see that in human evolution gut length is shortened and becomes, like the brain, highly metabolically active due to fat/protein diets, impacting synergystically on brain size given limits to the human metabolic rate (which I’d add relates to surface to volume ratio issues). So the evolution of the human gut has to come into the equation, a very valuable insight. Thanks. Some useful figures there too on calculations of calorific input/protein metabolic costs to unit of energy output as well.
Once against, although “new modelling” might make this seem like an unforeseen event, this is no surprise to industry.
The SWQ gas pipeline – which hauls gas from the Queensland CSG to The southern states – has a registered maximum capacity of ~400TJ/day. Changing that fixed capacity requires major engineering work, looping the line and installing new compression.
The gas supply from Moomba and Longford has been in decline for years – which has increased demand on Queensland production from the Surat and Bowen basins – and hence westwards pipeline capacity from the Wallumbilla hub.
On an annual average basis, on Canbra Excel spreadsheets, the pipeline can manage. So no problems.
However the build out of gas turbine generators to prop up unreliable renewables introduces large, transient, daily peak demands – which push the pipeline capacity to its limit. (Multiple open cycle gas turbines, turned on in NSW, Victoria, and SA at 6 minutes notice, almost instantly suck vast amounts of gas out of the system – gas which needs to be quickly replenished at rates that challenge the capacity of the SWQ line.)
This simple engineering reality has all been thoroughly explained (from 2013 onwards) to the Arts/Law energy Mandarins at AMEC, AEMO etc.
But it’s still a surprise that has come bursting out of the closet.
Be comforted. Top Men are working on this problem.
They should cut Victoria off from the supply. They don’t want to allow their own CSG, then fcuk them, they don’t get anyone else’s dirty planet killing CSG !
Queensland gas for Queenslanders!
I suspect this thinking will emerge at some point. This is why satire is dying.
A few gas turbines will do it. Perth almost ran out of gas when electricity demand stayed high overnight and they were forced to use them for longer during a multi day heatwave. Was around 26 or something as a minimum from memory.
The same top men who created it?
Or more their ilk, at least.
At a profound level I think she really was the face for the socialist future.
I mean, if any face was in dire need, and satisfying at the sight, of a boot stamping on it – forever, hers would have been it.
Did anyone catch ScoMo on Sharri Markson last night?
I found it interesting how last night in his interview with Markson, Morrison as a post-PM had more fight in him that for the whole time he was PM, he called out the vicious personal attacks on him from Labor and the left. However, when he was PM he was mute….but then again, so was Abbott.
I still despise the man though, he gifted us this atrocious far-left government.
It’s easy to forget that, when he was prime minister, Scott Morrison was Malcolm Turnbull’s designated successor and therefore refused to advocate any policy that would denigrate Turnbull’s place in the history books.
In other words, like the recently dispensed Joe Biden in the US, Scott Morrison was a puppet prime minister.
Now, like Tony Abbott, Morrison is freed of the self-imposed restraints that made him hopeless in office.
Exactly. SloMo was Lieboral leader because he wasn’t Spud. Albo is PM because he’s not SloMo.
Don’t forget loyal deputy and media favourite J Bish went out in the first round with 10 votes or something.
I despise him because he betrayed eveything the Liberals were meant to represent. And gifted us with a $40bn debt to boot.
I despise him because he foisted the “national cabinet” on us which in turn gave the state premiers ChiCom like powers.
I don’t despise him. Pity anyone leading a party of factions like the liberals. I’m glad he’s speaking out. He didn’t gift us Labor. The electorate voted for them. The febrile media hated him whatever he did. Wait till the next liberal PM gets in. It will be Scomo redux and then some.
He is much better, as Cassie notes, in recent times. I was impressed to see him, alone of all senior pollies, come and speaking strongly against anti-Semitism at the big rally in the Domain in Sydney organised by Christian groups. He is a committed Christian and I have always liked that aspect of him, refusing to stop his mode of praying open armed in church even when he copped ridicule for it.
I found this interesting snippet just now. France may want to rethink its treatment of Pavel Durov.
“@oksana311231
The UAE unilaterally suspended the contract for the purchase of 80 French fighter jets because of Durov’s arrest.
In addition, the UAE is considering a complete blockade of trade operations with France, including those related to the military-industrial complex.
Posted by: weft cut-loop”
Ron Coleman.
Boeing/NASA…
NASA’s DEI training under fire for linking ‘objectivity’ and ‘individualism’ to white supremacy (27 Aug)
Also Boeing/NASA…
Boeing employees ‘embarrassed’ as Elon Musk’s SpaceX tasked with saving stranded astronauts (Sky, 26 Aug)
You have to think DEI is one of the most toxic ideologies ever invented.
It is as it has replaced engineering in an aerospace corporation. Those embarassed Boeing employees need to be fired for their ineptitude and neglect. Let’s face it, if they were any good they would have been working for SpaceX.
They didn’t learn from Germany, it appears.
Rafale sales are second to F35, the rest a long way behind. Eurofighter, Gripen, Migs and Sukhoi, not selling to recoup development costs. 80 jets is a big hit but I wouldn’t be surprised that like the F35 production lines are already full pelt.
Mother Lode I have another just as a standby:
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Who or what is that?
We have a winner!
That is the face of the American left.
And its name just happens to be “Joy”.
Ironic.
Shit.
Tinta, my cuppa just curdled and there’s no milk in it!
Make me another.
…and a sammich.
Science!
Paper types ranked by likelihood of paper cuts (Phys.org, 27 Aug)
Got to watch those Post-It notes, they’re deadly.
Worst paper cut ever – copper foil paper cut. Hurts like a normal paper cut, then aches like a copper cut. Youch!
The problem with the Europeans is that they can’t see themselves as anything but an American appendage (notable exception, Hungary under Orban); the elites are absolutely stuck in a post-WW2 delirium They should have began a program of disengaging from the US at the security level in the early 90s. NATO should have been dissolved, US bases gradually drawn down, and this all should have been replaced by a European security architecture either under the auspices of the EU or running parallel. This would have been better for both the Europeans and the US.
They preferred a free ride.
As did we.
Btw, Hungary is fast becoming a Chinese appendage.
I don’t think the free ride argument explains much in this context. They could have spent as little as they purportedly did over the last three decades as they did over the same period without the US. The French and the UK have their own nukes so enjoy their own umbrella. The idea that they must spend 2 or 3% of GDP on defense is just a heuristic.
I also think this claim that the Hungarians have become or are becoming an appendage of the Chinese lacks substance.
Damn, Tints. I was not ready for that. Looks like the make up for a nightmare scene in a Hollywood movie.
Anyway…people, take note: When the Harris campaign chants on about ‘Joy’, remember that this is what joy looks like for the left.
Don’t run with scissors either.
Here on this august blog we have all known about the ‘long march through the institutions’. Be it in media, academia, judiciary, education, sporting codes, entertainment, science, medicine, charities, big tech, little tech, churches, childcare, government departments, armed forces, police and so on, the far-left has politicised everything. It goes on and on and on. Even the House of Windsor has fallen for progressivism. Nothing has escaped the acid that is ‘woke’. The analogy of woke to acid is apt, because woke, like acid, destroys everything.
To the left, ‘everything is political’. It’s worth nothing that the left have never hidden their intentions. Those on the left have long been honest about their intent to politicise everything, with the ultimate goal of corrupting, destroying and rebuilding, it’s called ‘revolution’, something at the very core of progressivism. Woke IS revolution. It’s no different to what Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot et al did but in the West they’ve done it slowly over decades, snail like, except now that long slow march has morphed into a gallop of catastrophic proportions.
Meanwhile, where has the right been? Well, most on the right have been asleep at the wheel, injected with a toxic and very fatal cocktail of cowardice, timidness, compassion, kindness, fear, gutlessness, apprehension, nervousness, a desire to be liked by their ideological enemies, and a big dollop of outright stupidity.
I write this because among the litany of woke disasters to befall the West and this country over the last few years, two things over the last few days captured my attention. Firstly, there one is the debacle that is engulfing the MSO, and secondly there is the looming capitulation of the NSW Education Department to permit ‘Palestinian’ children (which means anyone who identifies with the ‘struggle’) to don Palestinian symbols and insignia such as keffiyehs and badges with genocidal words such as “From the river to the sea’ in the classroom. This is despite the NSW Labor Minister for Education saying, only a few months ago, that the classroom was no place for political activism.
Now, we shouldn’t be surprised by a Labor government capitulating to this Greens/hard left activism over “Palestine’. I am not surprised. Unlike many, I’m not enamoured of Chris Minns, or as I prefer to call him, ‘Pretty Boy Minns’. He talks a good talk but he doesn’t walk the talk. He’s a soft face for a typically inept hard-left government, they only won last year because Minns is the pretty face. But where is the NSW opposition on this? Oh, that’s right, they are too busy engaged in factional fighting, torching conservatives in their midst and and running cover for Fatso Don Harwin, the yet to be harpooned whale. Note that Harwin remains in his role, he’s untouchable because the NSW Liberal left reign supreme. So, watch the inevitable happen, where children and adolescents will be able to attend state schools wearing keffiyehs, punching their arms into the air like a Nazi salute (which it is) and screaming genocide of the Jews.
Everything is now political, children are to be politicised in woke causes, even classical music is to be politicised into ‘woke’.
Further to the MSO, well I know a thing or two about the politics of the MSO, its management and the MD who’s now resigned. My best friend is a classical musician, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and over the last week she’s been in tears about what has ensued in Melbourne. From her I know titbits the issues between orchestra and management. However, as with the STC, poor management has led to this, poor management emboldened woke musicians and actors. Robust management should have laid down the law years ago about players and orchestra engaging in fashionable woke gunk.
The vibrancy and intellectual strength of the Australian classical music scene owes a huge debt to the Jewish men and women who fled Europe prior to and after World War II. Those men and women survived a real genocide. Many who arrived after World War II had been in camps. All were Zionists, all came to this country and helped build up institutions like SSO, the MSO, chamber music and such organisations as Musica Viva. Musica Viva was founded in Sydney in 1945 by violinist Richard Goldner, who had fled Nazi Germany in 1939. Goldner witnessed Kristellnacht.
In the meantime, as Johanna wrote yesterday, Melbourne’s Jews, who provide a lot of money to the MSO, should pull the dosh. I know the Gandel family are big donors to the MSO. Only this year they donated a big chunk of dosh to the MSO.
The left will only learn a thing or two when the money stops flowing. The STC got a big fright with cancelled subscriptions and donations and a board exodus. STC funding is now parlous, hence a new STC MD has been installed. Money talks. We on the right don’t have many tools to fight woke with but we still have one……dosh. Read my lips…..
THE DOSH MUST STOP
Popular state Labor governments like NSW and SA are now fronted by pretty boys. Federal Labor had no pretty boys, so we were lumbered with the ugly old face of Trotskyist Marxism, Albanese, the runner-up promoted to the parliamentary leadership after the previous leader Shorten lost the 2019 election.
Chris Minns and SA’s Peter Malinauskas are the new Labor template for fooling Labor into power: the pretty boy looks good to the electorate while the hard-core left of the party runs rampant through the legislative program.
That is the standard explanation. It might be correct but I humbly suggest political types develop other hypotheses to explore. For example, in domains of high uncertainty or high complexity the majority of humans tend to rely on intuition and feelings. The left is very good at exploiting that behavioral frailty. The right keeps insisting on a rational approach and fails to adequately account for that failing.
This reminder about the cultural influence of Jewish refugees reminded me – I remember declaiming to workmates back in the 1980s that if Australia had been politically and socially ready in the late 1930s to take not just a few “ Dunera Boys” but many Jewish refugees, maybe several hundred thousand, our economy and culture would have benefitted greatly.
They looked at me bemused.
I am still of the view that this was a great nation building opportunity missed.
“The vibrancy and intellectual strength of the Australian classical music scene owes a huge debt to the Jewish men and women who fled Europe prior to and after World War II.”
The Jewish people have enriched this country in many ways, quite right.
It was my privilege to transcribe a grandmother’s story, which started in Germany in well-to-do circumstances, going on to escape, then a stopover in Shanghai, and then onwards to Australia. Building a small business, possibly in the clothing trade, or whatever worked, and building a family.
Quite and Mother Lode, it’s quite ironic how many Demonrat supporting/suppurating creatures of the left have the name Joy – Joy Behar of The View, and Joy Reid from the televised mental institution MSNBC and funny that on The View we also have the obnoxious creature Sunny Hostin
While Boeing and NASA can’t launch two veteran astronauts without it becoming an embarrassing fiasco, Elon is today launching four space tourists. They’re due to do spacewalks too!
UPCOMING LAUNCH – POLARIS DAWN (SpaceX website missions page)
For those who like such things there’s a ‘watch’ button for the coverage. I’m not sure of the timezones but the video page suggests coverage will start in about 2 hours time.
Oops, sadly SpaceX has just now stood the mission down because of bad weather.
Pls ignore my previous comment!
The counterargument to the ‘THE DOSH MUST STOP’ campaign is that it may reverberate more powerfully on the Jewish community than on those it sought to punish. Firstly, if it is actually strongly felt by these institutions, it will only play into existing suspicions about Jewish influence (sure, you might say, they will believe it anyway, but here you have gifted them a concrete example). Secondly, it may simply make them think it prudent over the medium to long term to diversify their sources of private funding and so make them less amenable to this sought of coercion. Moreover, since they are close to Labor governments who are actually in power, they may seek and very well receive emergency funding from those governments, blunting whatever effect may have been hoped.
Good luck with finding other sources of funding. Australians are not noted for philanthropy outside Gina and co.
Corporations.
This may be sadly so DB, but hard for anyone with integrity to keep funding the wokerati regardless of the shit sandwiches they keep serving up. I expect corporates will ultimately be far more fickle and requiring of quid pro quo. Government not so much, I accept.
Just watched this on the development of language in Homo Erectus, an ancestral line to Neanderthalensis and Homo Sapiens. Quite interesting too. Erectus lasted for a very long time and in its later iterations was a tool-making species, using fire and capable of symbolic representation.
First six minute is just introduction, which shortens the watch if you miss it.
I find looking at this sort of stuff is very relaxing as well as being intellectually stimulating. It is also pretty up-cheering to see that some decent investigative work is still going on in prehistoric archaeology and physical anthropolgy. Woke doesn’t cut it here, thank goodness. The above free lecture takes place at Harvard.
The Singing Neandertals by Steve Mithen was an interesting read. Dated. The problem with this subject bedevils nearly all paleoanthropology: very limited data. We don’t know, we’ll probably never know, and although cranial hints of neocortical structures can provide clues, we are missing vast amounts of the necessary information to create informed hypotheses. It’s fun though, a longstanding “night science” hobby of mine.
Homo Erectus – sounds like a club in Oxford Street.
Makes sense, that sloping forehead betraying a smaller prefrontal cortex. More impulsive, less co-operative, less creative.
Trouble at mill!
Finacial Review
Divided political parties fall.
A Labor government at war with its union financiers is a gift to the LNP.
The ALP’s business model – an extortion and racketeering outfit with a party-political front – is exposed.
An hour is a long time in the annals of SpaceX.
They’ve now posted links for the coverage of two Starlink missions launching this evening. Coverage for one goes live at 5pm and the other at 6pm Ncl time (assuming the timezones work out).
So he’s launching two orbital missions in the space of an hour…
“Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich implied on Monday that he believes blocking humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip is “justified and moral” even if it causes two million civilians to die of hunger, but the international community won’t allow that to happen.”
smotrich-it-may-be-justified-to-starve-2-million-gazans-but-world-wont-let-us
Reading the Times of Israel will rot your brain.
(17) Ukraine’s F-16s just scored their first intercepts of the war – YouTube
Probably the best way to use the F-16. Out of harm’s way, missile intercept capacity good and saves SAMs for aircraft targets.
I think they’re now launching glide bombs as well, from well behind the front line, which the Russians have been doing very effectively.
They won’t use F-16s to intercept those, too close to danger. The use of missiles allows much deeper penetration but is very expensive. That is why the failure to achieve air superiority is a serious failing. In the Iraq war F-16s were predominantly using dumb bombs. Much cheaper and with CCIP remarkably accurate(continuously computed impact point).
That’s not what I meant – they appear to be using the F-16s to launch glide bombs not intercept them.
That’s new. Russia has been using glide bombs very effectively for tactical support of the troops.
The difference with Iraq is that both sides have extremely deadly AA missile launchers, so the ordnance has to be launched from hundreds of km away – outside the range of the S-400s and Patriots.
I doubt it. s400 has a minimum 200km range, glide bombs must be released at high altitude. Too much risk. What they might be doing is tempting s400s to turn on their radar so HARMs can be launched. Another lesson of this war is that SAM battery self-defense is not as good as hoped. Russia has already lost some s400 units and those are not quickly replaced.
The Russians launch their glide bombs from about 70 km as I far as I can see. The point is that may be within air defense range, but as soon as a missile is launched the jet can turn around and skedaddle. That goes for both F-16s and Su-35s.
The other thing about it is the jets can launch their glide bombs from near operational ceiling – which makes it even harder for the intercepting missiles to get up that high.
A lot of lessons are being learned in this war – which the West isn’t really learning. Not fast enough at least.
It is the climb to altitude that is the problem. s400 are very fast missiles. An aircraft can’t outrun modern SAMs, the best it can hope for is go low and hope for ground masking, which is difficult given Ukraine’s geography. That is why any nation that can afford it is going stealth and why Russian aircraft are loathe to go deep into Ukraine. Ukraine would be foolish to use the F-16s that way, better to use HARMs and other long range stand-off missiles.
The West is learning plenty, hence all those surveillance aircraft over the Black Sea and Poland border. Mapping radar signatures of Russian aircraft for database inclusion is a valuable asset knowing the SAM frequencies, and realizing that all modern tanks have a serious weakness against drones.
Glide bombing means the Su-35s can be at ceiling ‘way behind the front line – then release their weapons and scoot.
From what I saw this week it looks like the Ukrainians want to do the same with the newly arrived F-16s.
There’s a desperate need on both sides for tactical air support. Unfortunately no aircraft can survive in the proximity of the front line, not even armoured Alligators. So the Russian glide bomb campaign has been a serious development.
Dover.
The counterargument to the ‘THE DOSH MUST STOP’ campaign is that it may reverberate more powerfully on the Jewish community than on those it sought to punish.
There is the other option..
You dont just withdraw funding, you attack and drain all their money.
Unemployed musicians dont have the time/inclination to support head hackers.
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/182951#google_vignette
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
“You must hammer the enemy so hard they take generations to stand up” some Russian General in the 19th century dealing with the Muz in the Caucasus. He knew.
40% corporate ptofit tax. That is the distraction squirrel that will be ‘reluctantly’ cast aside at the insistence of Labor.
What they really want is death duties. Labor will agree but neither Party will mention it until after the election.
I think they’ll settle for death duties (aka inheritance tax) and “just” a 25% profit tax … in the interests of fairness.
Death duties were official Greens Party policy for some time, in the early 2000’s.
Have to hurry. Boomers starting to drop off the twig.
Which explains why their policies are calibrated to increase death: People freezing in their homes in winter, too thinly rationed socialised healthcare, state euthanasia initiatives a la Canada*, and of course the general ineptitude of bureaucracy.
* Feeling bored? Miss the kids? Well, have you considered dying? Dying’s neat. All the coolest wrinklies are doing it! You don’t want to be a buuuuurden, do you?
In replies, Eddystone has suggested a complementary written article to the issues raised in the ‘fat based’ human nutritional evolution video I put up. It is well worth a read, raising issues of the co-dependent evolution of the highly metabolically active human brain with the fat-dietary requirement of a highly metabolically active (and shortened) human gut. In case people here these are interesting side issues not important to today, recall that Robert Kennedy is not in line to be able to change American diets to control the current obesity epidemic. He’ll be up against those who would make us have less or no meat and a plant-based diet. Here’s what Eddystone’s article has to say about that, and welcome to the current infertililty issues plaguing the west absent a good quality fat and meat diet:
Kennedy is NOW in line. Wretched predictive text.
Mole, that is never going to happen.
Withdrawing funding from organisations that hate you should be a no-brainer. Why pay danegeld?
The clowns who already think that debbildebbil Jews run the world aren’t going to change their minds.
Give your money to something more worthwhile than strummers and strutters.
“Mole, that is never going to happen.”
It’s called “aversion therapy” and it is well documented to work very well indeed.
The left (and those infected with their mind virus) will only stop when they experience real material losses. Sadly, this means some who perhaps do not deserve it, will also be affected. Sorry, but as the left themselves are fond of putting it, this is existential.
Ha! Just going through some of Dad’s paperwork and found an old newspaper. Daily Mirror, July 1984.
Front page – Mick Young steps down. The Paddington Bear Affair.
Small beer compared to Plibbers and her secret something business billion dollar mine closure.
Why is Albo not acting on this? It is based on an outragous fabrication and Plibbers should be down and out due to it.
Lizzie, the reason Albo is not acting is that, like the Slovenian Hag, he fears the Greens more than the wider Australian electorate, since the Greens are threatening to unseat both of them in their inner-Sydney electorates in 2025.
The Greens hate mining so whatever appeases the Filth is what they’ll do until the threat passes.
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Albo and Plibbers will probably be the last Liars to hold those electorates. Expect to see them both on the back bench after the next election.
Is there a Page 3 Girl, Calli?
Yes. Yes there is. 😀
Might well be the last time a Minister resigned. Responsible government has gone the way of the dodo.
I had the electric wireless on in the background and listened to Bandt’s address to the National Press Club.
Literally Marxism 101. Delivered with an undergraduate depth of certainty and understanding.
It’s tempting to snigger at the spectacle as the wheels fall off the Albanese Experiment. However, if this dreadful prick and his cuckoo menagerie become kingmakers to a minority Labor Government, Australia is in a terrible position.
Agreed most vehemently. However, the only realistic alternative appears to be the Lieborals – aka, Labor Lite – in the House of Reps. Unfortunately, I can’t see PHON being the balance of power in the Senate.
Sigh!
Comrade Bandt defends Comrade Hyphen’s presence at the CFMEU rally as support for due process:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-28/greens-leader-defends-mp-cfmeu-rally-attendance/104281238
The same due process they wanted when they tried to pass an act of attainder to cancel Hollingworth’s viceregal pension?
I don’t think the MSO hates Jews. It’s first response to Gilham’s on stage comments was to cancel his next performance. This caused a kerfuffle with MSO musicians and then the MSO started to waver but the performance never went ahead for ‘security’ reasons. It’s now instituted a review.
The MSO thing reminded me of the Sydney Theatre Company.
They went full antisemite and basically committed theatrical seppuku.
So their initial response was ‘full anti-Semite’?
Yep. It was amusing at the time since the donors exited stage right like fleeing rabbits.
I’m talking about the MSO’s response.
Squirming?
When I read about MSO bringing in Garrett, all I could think of was what happened to the STC. They will lose their patrons.
Dover I’m quite sure you won’t fund the “Get rid of doverblog” that I’m starting. Chickens for KFC, come to mind if you do. Jews and muzzies living next to each other can only occur with a major shift in muzzie thinking.
That occurred to me as I watched the bedouin security guard/hostage reunited with his family in Israel.
Equal Opportunity rescuers.
Wont happen. They are still arguing about olive trees from 800AD.
Translated:
Kick, as one would a Sherrin and intending to execute a 70 metre torp;
Nuts.
Repeat, until nuts protrude from earholes.
Mm Zactley.
Has anyone seen this?
Some politician dork in GB has threatened the ‘far right’ with abuse or worse in prison by the Muslim gangs that run them.
OK, It’s Sky News Crime Correspondent – not a politician.
Something tells me the conditions here are not the same as those required in aversion therapy.
I can see only three possible outcomes for Britain.
The last is the least likely. So it’s a toss up between 1 and 2.
Fourth is a terrible civil war and partition into various subnations.
#1 looks the most likely right now though.
I’m not so sure about that.
As ever, it’s the quiet ones you need to watch.
They get pushed until their fear of what will happen to their lifestyle if they engage in violence is overcome by the violence perpetrated on their own by the other side. Then they simply won’t stop, because what they cherish most (a peaceful life) has been denied them and the opposite forced on them – they have nothing to lose because they have already lost everything dear to them.
A “V for Vendetta” moment/movement, if you will.
Not saying it will happen, just noting that it is not unheard of.
How many Muslims in Britain? The riots revealed there are tipping points at which the silent majority starts screaming. European nations have already started dealing with the problem. They are expelling them.
There is a funny movie about home grown Muslim terrorists in Britain: Four Lions. Worth a look.
Four Lions – Official Trailer | Starring Riz Ahmed (youtube.com)
Houellebecq -“Submission”
Being realistic, anything like #2 isn’t ever going to happen.
After 10-years of Starmer, British urban centres are likely to resemble Beirut. Segregated, unstable, and largely ungovernable.
#2 Involves ethnic cleansing of the islamic invaders. The World will condemn the British.
#2 Also involves the Islamic Invaders cleansing GB of the British. The World will stand back and demand the British negotiate with the Muslims while they slaughter the English.
see WW2, the holocaust.
see also Israel vs Hamas
see also Israel vs Iran proxies.
Most likely is the UK becomes a divided nation with various the various religious minorities under a millet system.
It’s already there in a de facto fashion, hence the importance attached to “communities” led by elders who act as intermediaries between government and minority.
The Christians will have to learn to organise themselves thus if they’re to enjoy religious freedom.
Florida Mom Left with Catastrophic Head and Brain Injuries After Migrant Amazon Driver Creams Her and Her Little Baby – Judge Then Releases Migrant on Bond
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/horror-florida-mom-left-catastrophic-head-brain-injuries/
Doing what she was let into the country to do – terrorise the locals.
Bob, you enquired after the Page 3 girl from the 1984 Daily Mirror.
Took a screenshot for you.
Ah Samantha Fox, sigh.
The Mirror girl isn’t her of course, but Ms Fox was the quintessential Page 3 lady for a long long time.
Back in that time when newspapers had balls.
Where is the rest of her?
Do I take it it’s not a picture of yourself?
The young Calli??
Girl looks like she needs a good feed.
I was thinking along those lines meself, Arky.
I prefer not to imagine what she looks like now.
You know, it’s not so long ago, in the beef, brown bread and walk to work days, when all women had that body up until their 50s.
How could you go for an owl over this?
Calli, this is excellent cultural history posting. You are to be commended & should post more of this genre.
Wise words from Bettina. Never EVER talk to the police if someone is levelling false allegations againt you.
—–
Avi:
Bettina Arndt is hosting a pivotal conference this weekend, focusing on the alarming trend of false accusations and the erosion of the presumption of innocence in Australia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARRCp9MZLVo
I have myself – unfortunately – reached the same conclusion.
My interactions are now of the form:
If you have official business with me, then state it, otherwise leave the premises. Do not expect me to cooperate with you as alas your colleges have previously deliberately misled me and I don’t feel I can trust you – nothing personal, I’m sure you are a nice person doing your best, but experience has taught me to be wary.
Larry, you’ve got really bad breath.
This reminder about the cultural influence of Jewish refugees reminded me – I remember declaiming to workmates back in the 1980s that if Australia had been politically and socially ready in the late 1930s to take not just a few “ Dunera Boys” but many Jewish refugees, maybe several hundred thousand, our economy and culture would have benefitted greatly.
They looked at me bemused.
I am still of the view that this was a great nation building opportunity missed.
I knew a Dunera boy. The last time I saw him was at Rosh Hashanah in 2016. He died shortly after. A refugee from Vienna, he arrived in Britain in mid 1939, thinking he would be safe, only to be rounded up, interned, then plonked on a ship called Dunera that set sail for Australia.
On 10 July 1940, 2,542 detainees, all classified as “enemy aliens”, were embarked aboard Dunera at Liverpool. While the detainees included 200 Italian and 251 German POWs, as well as several dozen Nazi sympathisers, the majority were 2,036 Italian and German civilians who were anti-Nazi, most of them were Jewish refugees.
The conditions on the ship was appalling.
The ship was an overcrowded Hell-hole. Hammocks almost touched, many men had to sleep on the floor or on tables. There was only one piece of soap for twenty men, and one towel for ten men, water was rationed, and luggage was stowed away so there was no change of clothing. As a consequence, skin diseases were common. There was a hospital on board but no operating theatre. Toilet facilities were far from adequate, even with makeshift latrines erected on the deck and sewage flooded the decks. Dysentery ran through the ship. Blows with rifle butts and beatings from the soldiers were daily occurrences. One refugee tried to go to the latrines on deck during the night – which was out-of-bounds. He was bayoneted in the stomach by one of the guards and spent the rest of the voyage in the hospital..
Arriving in Sydney, they were then sent to Hay, a place he said was like landing on another planet. The heat and flies were a nightmare. Despite speaking English, they found it difficult understanding the locals. They could not believe what they saw. But they knew it was better than the alternative, being stuck in Hitler’s Europe. When freed from the internment camp, he joined the ADF and fought for this country, a country he grew to love. After the war he married an Australian Jewish woman and they settled here in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Here’s a list of some of the Dunera boys this country took in…
Joseph Asher, rabbi
Kurt Baier and Peter Herbst, philosophers
Giovanni Baldelli, Italian anarchist theorist
Felix Behrend, mathematician
Boaz Bischofswerder, rabbi and composer, and his son Felix Werder, composer, critic, educator
Ulrich Boschwitz, author (pen name John Grane)
Hans Buchdahl, theoretical physicist, and his engineer (later philosopher) brother Gerd
F. W. Eirich, research scientist
Paul Eisenklam, engineering professor
Walter Freud, grandson of Sigmund Freud
Heinz Henghes, sculptor
Helmut Gernsheim, photographer
Alexander Gordon, born Abrascha Gorbulski
Fred Gruen, economist
Robert Hofmann (1889–1987), Austrian painter, naturalised Australian, moved to Syracuse, New York, in 1956
Walter Kaufmann, writer
Wolf Klaphake, the inventor of synthetic camphor
Ernst Kitzinger, art historian
Johannes Matthaeus Koelz / John Matthew Kelts, artist
Hans Kronberger, nuclear physicist
Erich Liffmann, tenor
Martin Löb, mathematician
Fred Lowen (born Fritz Karl Heinz Lowenstein)
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack, artist
Ray Martin (born Kurt Kohn), composer
Henry Mayer, author and professor of politics at the University of Sydney
Hans Joseph Meyer, teacher at Bunce Court School in Kent
Max-Peter Meyer (1892–1950)
Majer Ivan Pietruschka, Polish-born conductor and violinist, joined the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Richard Sonnenfeldt, German-born Jew, chief interpreter for the American prosecution at the post-war Nuremberg trials
Peter Stadlen, Austrian-born pianist and musicologist; returned to Britain
Franz Stampfl, later the athletics coach to the four-minute-mile runner Roger Bannister
Bert Stern, the father of economist Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford who travelled to Hay to see the camp
Henry Talbot, fashion photographer
Wilhelm Unger, writer
Count Oswald “Ossie” Veit von Wolfenstein and his brother Christopher
Hugo Wolfsohn
In 1940 this country took in people fleeing Nazism, in 2024 this country takes in real Nazis.
Dover, check your email.
dover0beach
August 28, 2024 2:12 pm
Mole, that is never going to happen.
It the exact approach which has seen the Blubbersack can the mine.
It doesnt matter how “worthy” the mine is, all that matters is bleeding the company time/money/approvals/appeals until it cant fight back.
The longnose tribe lady, it literally doesn’t matter if shes an albino Sweede by descent, shes bled the company some more. Shes just a mentally ill bullet to be fired to stop the mine.
Mining companies should be engaging in the most underhanded crap imaginable.
All to bleed the “green groups” coffers till they dont have the ability to fight anymore.
Tout for sexual harassment claims in green groups.
Harass with individual lawsuits over and over.
Personalise groups, find their most disreputable member and make them the figurehead of the movement.
Until they realise their core business in Australia isnt mining, its destroying those stopping it, they are open to being picked off by activist groups.
Its not the principle that matters anymore, its the end result.
You know, mole, you are probably damned right! I have just read the transcript of Tucker’s interview with RFK jnr. Been reminded about how disreputable the Left is, and how dirty they operate in the political domain.
While factions of conservatives should maintain the “high ground”, I reckon that in terms of fighting tactics, the Right – and particularly their hard nosed combatants in the mining sector – should fight to win…..
+1000
I’ve been saying similar in the circles I usually work in.
I am going to this very important conference – the fact that feminazis feminism is now leftism and the feminazis have been trying to eliminate the presumption of innocence has to be called out and stopped — the left destroys everything
reminder about the cultural influence of Jewish refugees reminded me – I remember declaiming to workmates back in the 1980s that if Australia had been politically and socially ready in the late 1930s to take not just a few “ Dunera Boys” but many Jewish refugees, maybe several hundred thousand, our economy and culture would have benefitted greatly.
They looked at me bemused.
I am still of the view that this was a great nation building opportunity missed.
I knew a Dunera boy. The last time I saw him was at Rosh Hashanah in 2016. He died shortly after. A refugee from Vienna, he arrived in Britain in mid 1939, thinking he would be safe, only to be rounded up, interned, then plonked on a ship called Dunera that set sail for Australia.
On 10 July 1940, 2,542 detainees, all classified as “enemy aliens”, were embarked aboard Dunera at Liverpool. While the detainees included 200 Italian and 251 German POWs, as well as several dozen Nazi sympathisers, the majority were 2,036 Italian and German civilians who were anti-Nazi, most of them were Jewish refugees.
The conditions on the ship was appalling.
The ship was an overcrowded Hell-hole. Hammocks almost touched, many men had to sleep on the floor or on tables. There was only one piece of soap for twenty men, and one towel for ten men, water was rationed, and luggage was stowed away so there was no change of clothing. As a consequence, skin diseases were common. There was a hospital on board but no operating theatre. Toilet facilities were far from adequate, even with makeshift latrines erected on the deck and sewage flooded the decks. Dysentery ran through the ship. Blows with rifle butts and beatings from the soldiers were daily occurrences. One refugee tried to go to the latrines on deck during the night – which was out-of-bounds. He was bayoneted in the stomach by one of the guards and spent the rest of the voyage in the hospital..
Arriving in Sydney, they were then sent to Hay, a place he said was like landing on another planet. The heat and flies were a nightmare. Despite speaking English, they found it difficult understanding the locals. They could not believe what they saw. But they knew it was better than the alternative, being stuck in Hitler’s Europe. When freed from the internment camp, he joined the ADF and fought for this country, a country he grew to love. After the war he married an Australian Jewish woman and they settled here in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Among the Dunera boys were rabbis, priests, scientists, painters, philosophers, musicologists, musicians, mathematicians, composers, psychiatrists, writers, poets, engineers, photographers, economists, nuclear physicists, political theorists, athletes, sculptors, historians and so on.
I wonder how many rabbis, priests, scientists, painters, philosophers, musicologists, musicians, mathematicians, composers, authors, engineers, photographers, economists, nuclear physicists, political theorists, writers, athletes, sculptors and historians will be among the 3000 Gazans this country is now taking in?
I think we know the answer to that. In 1940 this country took in people fleeing Nazis, in 2024 this country takes in actual Nazis.
Here is a little fact you may not know. When they rounded up the Germans in the 1939 in England,as you know, most were Jews and they sent them to Canada. The convoy for one of these ship was huge – why – because it secretly contained the UK gold reserves. They were sure the Germans would invade England. The Brits did the trick of using German refugees as human shields. This only came out fairly recently. I wonder where that gold is now?
Paul Kelly has a low quality article about Trump v Harris in the Oz. Seems not allowed to suggest it is not balanced as my comment below was rejected. Kelly can find no fault with Harris which is laughable.
“The lack of balance in this article is noteworthy and not what I would expect”.
Bourne, Paul Kelly suffers badly from Trump paranoia. So do many conservatives commentators. They are reading history badly.
Like many who pretend to be centre-right, Paul Kelly is old Labor.
He thinks that makes him a “conservative”, but he barracks for the left in whatever guise it presents itself. So he barracks for the loony left Albanese regime and the Trump Derangement branch of the Republican Party because his rabbit ears can’t hear what Trump is actually fighting for — democracy and voting without electoral cheating, the free market and an America that doesn’t start wars (unlike the warmongers of the Democratic Party).
Obeying Murdoch directives too I’d say (which I’m sure Kelly is happy to do anyway).
We are talking Paul “is wrong, again”* Kelly here.
*I’ve been referring to him as this ever since reading a funny exchange in the comments on one of Kelly’s turgid wafflings in the Oz – which needless to say wouldn’t get past the gatekeepers nowadays:
Commenter one: “What will you say when the exact opposite to what you’ve predicted inevitably happens?”
Commenter two (in reply): “I was wrong (again)”?
Rooster
Some people here don’t have a subscription to the Oz. Copy & Past the piece here or perhaps a link even?
I posted this on the piece, before your commentary, but they won’t publish it.
Speedbox’s Report from Moscow incoming.
Re the situation facing the UK, and – soon – other western countries that have been transformed by inappropriate and unrestrained immigration:
Affluence – post the last 2 world wars – has rendered the West flabby, inattentive, historically illiterate and complacent.
However, this “affluence” has been most enjoyed by the educated “middle class”. While the less well-off have certainly enjoyed greater daily comforts than the pre war generations, they are increasingly left behind in the modern world. They are now competing with massive intakes of foreigners into their countries.
How what could be seen as an “under class” reacts to the loss of their national identity and place in society ….remains to be seen. But the recent uprising in the UK suggests that they will not take it lightly.
Rita Panahi:
Also the resident fat prick here with his Chicken Little proclamations of doom if Trump wins.
thefrollickingmole
August 28, 2024 4:30 pm
100% correct. A thousand thousand ticks. The left are empowered because the right sit back and do sweet f*ck all.
Peter Dutton has shown that abandoning the political playbook and speaking from the heart – however angrily – awakens the electorate. Favourably!
Labour knows this and Chalmers has stupidly responded with a personal diatribe against Dutton which will only further alienate the voters.
Pace Vicki, far from abandoning the political playbook, Dutton has embraced it by making the upcoming election about leadership.
Let’s hope the Liberals are working up some compelling policy alternatives in the meantime, else we’ll be getting a Labor-Teal-Green government.
Bant is a poisonous little dwarf.
Intellectually and with his concave chest and noodle arms.
https://x.com/i/status/1828656504045764944
“Robin hood reforms”…
“Its targeted at big corporations who are making excessive profits, beyond a normal return to shareholders… TURNOVER of $100million dollars… Taxing excess profits they make.. apply to Aussie and foreign corps.. Raise $296 billion over a decade
“To reduce the cost of living”.
Shouldn’t that be, to turn the country into a cross between a Stalininst gulag and a kinky knocking shop?
BeauGan,
The most likely outcome at present, I think, is that the UK becomes a divided nation with the various religious minorities – and that includes Hindus & Sikhs as well as Muslims – allowed to operate more or less autonomously under a millet system.
It’s already there in a de facto fashion, hence the importance attached by the authorities to “communities” led by elders who act as intermediaries between government and people. And Britain already has de facto sharia law in its Muslim communities.
Christians – and Jews? – will have to learn to organise themselves under this system if they’re to enjoy religious freedom. The last person to realise this will be the Archbishop of Canterbury, of course.
I should add that Christians and Jews will be at a disadvantage here as they don’t have a militant streak that strikes fear into governments.
This creature teaching anyones kids??
https://x.com/sophfyfe/status/1828257749643468957
But then..
I encouraged my students to leave my class to get a much better education on the streets. Only 1 complied.
The kids are alright.
?
Kids are much smarter than she is.
Bandt wants to stiff shareholders, mostly working people with superannuation.
Oh well.
leave my class to get a much better education
She’s got that figured.
I do hope her employer is encouraging her to beat it, too.
Drogheda.
I’m staying on another estate.
This one built in 2000, more upmarket than the one in Sligo with much bigger village greens and bigger houses, , some much bigger though all out of the same packet. Up the back, where I am, near the train line, they are more condos, generous room sizes, quality bathroom kitchens and brand appliances.
This one has been made into a three room guest house which is fraught but I paid extra for the original master bedroom (badly stained carpet) with ensuite for a bit more privacy and the only other guest is a young Irish paramedic doing a short course at the local college.
If the hot water worked it would be pretty good.
He was complaining about how expensive the housing market is.
I suggested he go west where there are many bargains to be had for young men who can invest a little sweat.
Much of a muchness re overcrowding in hospitals and failing infrastructure, all down to mass immigration, though he didn’t say that, I did, he just didn’t disagree.
Just like Australia really.
Given the gas situation we’ll be matching them on the variable supply of hot water before long. In the southern states, at least.
Let alone the biohazards surrounding the roadhouse.
A word of warning, those thongs stuck to the road. Leave them alone.
Was just watching the live SpaceX Starlink launch.
99.9% perfect!
One tiny little problem but…
When the booster landed on the recovery ship eee..eke..eee…and over it went into the sea.
I think one of the landing legs mustn’t’ve quite locked in place.
Rare failure for SpaceX.
Heh, 23rd launch? She was a granny. No wonder she wasn’t steady on her legs.
This is the first place in a residential settinf I’ve stayed with gas hot water and a gas stove.
Everywhere else has been instant hot water via a heat pump system with a button operated system installed in the shower and electric cookers. One had a portable induction two ring that plugged into a power point, which was pretty good, especially considering how much my daughter paid to get an induction stove installed.
Here, they have the hot water and the radiators on a timer.
I mentioned the hot water wasn’t working, mañana, but when I pointed out near ten pm the downstairs radiators were going full blast they were around like a shot.
I’ll give them today to get the hot water running, she’s put it back on a timer, possibly set for 2027 otherwise I will complain to the powersthatbe. It’s not an unreasonable thing to expect.
The Voice news (the Hun):
This is the bloke Lidia ‘Small Penis!’ Thorpe was rooting.
I wonder what ‘proof’ Mr Martin stumped up to avoid being deported to NZ, the country of his birth?
Ah. Tasmania, whose indig councils appear to have been recruiting heavily in recent times.
Not fooling anyone. Someone somewhere has a big brown paper bag full of folding cabbage that used to belong to Mr Martin.
As most excellently mentioned here the other day, this sort of shit is one of the primary reasons this Voice caper ended up down the shit chute.
More suss than an Ernie Dingo Welcome to Country.
I was at boarding school with Ernie Dingo in Feraldton in the early 1970’s.
The indigenous students received their education, paid for by the taxpayer, right down to school uniforms and pocket money….
Pacific Islands were on to this years ago. Wonder what the going rate is?
Biological descent is one of the HC criteria for aboriginality; once the pool of indigenous dna samples is large enough this loophole will not be able to be exploited so easily, although it will likely take a Coalition majority in both houses to legislate the HC’s opinion.
Another unclosed loophole caused by HC activism.
Besides wasn’t this grub lionised as having learned his lesson and turned a new leaf? BTW from my experience in life there’s no such thing as a former Bikie.
Que surprise the media sold the public another pup…
It appears that the person who wants the top job in the Oval Office can’t appear on a CNN interview without her babysitter Walz to assist.
Plenty of Strong Women around. Just not this one.
She’s 59; she doesn’t need a babysitter, although by the Democrats own admission she does need a coach. Batten down the hatches if she’s elected.
KevinM
August 28, 2024 3:35 am
Recognised the picture immediately, thanks to Jerry Harrison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbVco7T8Z7o&list=PL9rXF11pRvfuKB9J7w0nvXkCNSkNpP-D-&pp=iAQB8AUB
It doesn’t appear to be hurting her. One of her advisors is David Plouffe from the Obama days. He’s a pos with zero ethics, but he’s very, very good at his job and it’s quite concerning.
You seem very down beat these days JC. I know the rats will cheat like no tomorrow but maybe it won’t be enough?
Milt, I really, really hope I’m wrong. I’m really concerned that the cheat margin will be too big, and they have a thousand ways to cheat.
I listened to a podcast in the last few days, and it made me even more downbeat. Georgia. Someone was looking into the voter rolls and demanded non-citizens, dead folks, etc. needed to be scrubbed off the rolls. They were, but about a month later, these names reappeared. They also talked about “NGO’s,” whose entire mission is to fill in postal votes for names not voting.
I think the cheating is insurmountable. All they need to do is get the hyena to around 5 points below Trump in the battleground states; the cheating will take care of the rest.
Look, I don’t know if any of the above is true, but it sounds really plausible.
Milt
Red Texas apparently cleaned their rolls by removing something like a million freaking names of the vote register. This is a red state! One million freaking names that aren;t allowed to vote!!!Can you imagine what’s happening in blue states, or more importantly, marginal states like Pennsylvania , which has a demonrat governor and demonrat legislature?
The radio tells me there is a shortage of hotel accommodation in Dublin. Prices up to €800 for one night for next year’s Oasis concert
I’m very surprised.
Yes it’s rather frightening- the white anting and corruption of the electoral process. Unbelievable that those two vile creeps got up for the Senate in Georgia.
A pro abortion pastor or something- an oxymoron I would have thought
I should add that Christians and Jews will be at a disadvantage here as they don’t have a militant streak that strikes fear into governments
The Brit hero aggressive gene was wiped out in WW1 and 2. There are a few remnants left. Not enough to form a government. At least that what I saw while I lived there.
Mano Yogalingam: Tamil asylum seeker dies after setting himself alight in protest at federal government’s refugee policy
Daily Mail. Sorry, rather indifferent.
Came out on a boat from India. Already in a safe haven so bickies.
I feel sorry for him that his mental illness (Most likely caused from the constant set backs despite being told he is in like Flynn by advocate grubs) was used to further a cause. He was used.
Where my pure contempt and rage is directed is the Tamil Refugee Council and bottom feeding low lives like the spokesman Rathy Barthlote. Also the whole apparatus set up to entertain these people.
The process should be quick with limited right to appeal and HC written out of it.
Rockdoctor
The High Court has come up with an interpretation of the Constitution such that it can’t be written out of a jurisdiction to review executive and administrative decisions. Not, generally speaking, a bad result. The principles the court applies, such a right to procedural fairness, are politically conservative.
On an allied matter, the Court has in effect written into the Consitution a
right to political free speech. Of course, who can afford to protect their right? Some came can.
The continual complaints about the impotence of the Right. Barren, empty rhetoric. Ironically the right commands welfare recipients to exercise their free will to improve their lot but don’t heed their own advice. If all the right can do is lament their lack of will and impotence nothing will change.
at least your gibber is consistent
Fastest lip on a building site. Ask him, he’ll tell you.
Somewhere in the vicinity of Busselton in Western Australia is the production powerhouse of one of the nation’s lesser known export industries.
In this top secret location, where visitors drive in blindfolded with smartphones turned off, an ASX-listed company is growing marijuana.
From the Oz – comment in moderation.
My ex BiL was growing it there 40 years ago.
Megyn Kelly had on historian Victor David Hanson to discuss Trump and RFK Jr. I have known for a long time that Hanson does most of his interviews from his farm in California (been in the family since 1870’s).
However what was interesting was his views on use of chemicals in farming. He lost his daughter at 26 and mother and two other relatives to cancer/leukemia and puts it down to chemicals used in faming which says strongly encouraged to use. He points out relatives in previous generations lived to a much older age.
For the mentally challenged (ie. JC) Megyn Kelly’s episodes can all be seen on Youtube.
RFK also lost many relatives due to snorting shit up their noses, screwing whores, and being whores themselves to power.
These aren’t innocent people. These people are total and utter narcissists. He just got shoved to the side. And it tells.
RFK is so “bitter and twisted” about his entitlement, he wants revenge.
If anything, it’s sad. But if he wants to reek his $millions on others, so be it. As will his “relatives” in reverse.
Roger @ 5:15: (and earlier)
I’m not keen in getting into a historical or religious argument (particularly not with you) but, as I understand it, the millet system was the Ottoman Empire’s approach to pacifying and controlling the religious reality of its conquests.
I certainly don’t see any prospect of a similar strategic decision by a UK government. Instead I see a series of organic devolutions into internal division – with borders, and local control, and strongman ‘government’ claimed by ‘communities’ – acceded to by Westminster for political and practical convenience.
As I mentioned above at Dr BG’s 3:19 post, my pick is that in +/-10 years, the urban parts of the UK will significantly resemble modern Beirut. Warlords and enforcers and all.
It’s actually well advanced right now – and appears to be consistent with the current narrative of the Establishment.
(Obviously this comment marks me out as a paid-up member of the Far Right. I guess I’ll have to buy some tight black shorts.)
Join me here, Doc. What size black shorts?
I hope you understand that the society you describe above is just a staging post to Islamification of GB?
And a black bucket hat.
Obviously.
Rooster
Megyn Kelly has 871 episodes of her show on you tube. Would it really kill you to post the link?
It’s like twitter is reading my comments at the cat.
https://x.com/Sacha_Lord/status/1828525083582963768?t=jzKF4mJCm-eIhqGBMybgRA&s=19
Unfortunately not a solution in Australia.
Interesting that Spike Island was known as Joyriders Jail in the 1980s because a big percentage were incarcerated for stealing cars for non commercial reasons.
no learning from that by governments apparently.
https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1828417880771137883?t=KywUvwZbbMz6sC_h8M_vDw&s=19
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/08/therapeutic-albanese-on-the-importance-of-thai-massages.html
I’ll have to buy some tight black shorts
Obviously time for a resurrection of the organisation PG Wodehouse created to satirise the Nazis:
“Don’t you ever read the papers? Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the Saviours of Britain, a Fascist organization better known as the Black Shorts. His general idea, if he doesn’t get knocked on the head with a bottle in one of the frequent brawls in which he and his followers indulge, is to make himself a Dictator.”
“Well, I’m blowed!”
I was astounded at my keenness of perception. The moment I had set eyes on Spode, if you remember, I had said to myself “What ho! A Dictator!” and a Dictator he had proved to be.
I couldn’t have made a better shot if I had been one of those detectives who sees a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham.
“Well, I’m dashed! I thought he was something of that sort. That chin . . . Those eyes. . . And for the matter of that, that moustache. By the way, when you say “shorts,” you mean “shirts,” of course.”
“No. By the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.”
“Footer bags, you mean?”
“Yes.”
“How perfectly foul.”
“Bare knees?”
“Bare knees.”
“Golly!”
“Yes.”
Zuckerbucks will be missed from this election, so that will impact the vote harvesting in swing States. It really came down to less than 20,000 votes last election, so even with Zuckerbucks they can easily swing counts – Trump needs a big margin to beat this.
Cute owl looking for a masculine man. Cronkers in with a chance here I think..
That’s just terrible.
Looks like the UAE story earlier was an elaborate disinformation operation.
Qatar.
ZK2A- hmmmm. Interestement. I think I may well know someone who knows someone, if you know what I mean.
Can’t access the Oz paywall- does it name the ASX listed co?
…and thereby we can find out the company board names?
…might one of them be…
…Delroy?
…it would explain what happened after the $220M sale of the avocado empire…
…hmmmm…
Of course it’s one of the Delroy’s. Probably more likely close advisors. Why wouldn’t it be? Grifters grift. It’s like a magnet.
It’s a barnacle, and it sucks. Like most politicians. Fancy words and all the rest. Celebrities get “attached”, and get control, and get controlled. It’s a vicious circle, money and power.
It’s incredibly hard for people to get out of that cycle. Few do.
Righto then.
It’s been a while. Things change. Apparently.
Whats the go with the “Open Forum”?
Do you need a magical password to get through? The “old threads” used to be just “comment”. Now, it’s like “Reply”. But to whom?
It seems that there’s no point sledging someone when no one else can hear. It makes zero sense. Like a tree falling in the forrest.
In essence, “Reply” should be “Comment”. And mOnster should be routinely mocked for his retarded leftist views.
Everyone has seen his “fat version” of playing golf. Pretty sure he was angling at transitioning and winning the Women’s PGA.
Hope they can do something with those cankles.
Bear. What happened to the “Open Forum”? It looks like they are trying (and succeeding) in limiting free speech. Bit by bit. And I don’t mean the blog site owners. This is the Government doing it by stealth.
“succeeding” wasn’t misspelled.
This is a feature, not a bug. It reduces the quality of the chatflow, however it has pretty much eliminated the shitposting by the small coterie who are unable to control their manners or their impulses.
As ye say, when nobody sees their abusive comments, it is as if such comments never happened.
How the hell do you get “latest comment first”?
Dillo, you put your comment into the comment box at the top of the page – you have to go to the bother of scrolling up to it. Then you can get it to the bottom of the thread if you press your ‘refresh’ symbol. It goes down to the bottom only when the next person makes a comment unless you press ‘refresh’. The only comment you can make and get up immediately is in this reply box, like this one I’m making here.
We’ve all complained and want the comment box at the bottom but apparently it is set in stone at the top of the thread.
Good to see you back, just as I have to pedal back due to family issues, will drop in and out when I can.
Don’t agree, ‘dillo.
I know the bloke a bit- he’s a doer. I’d be very surprised if medicinal mull is the only product of the venture.
Err….just found the “Do you care, put it on record” button.
I want to make a complaint. An obscure complaint. About as obscure as the button is. It’s a shit button. It should be RED.
*but, I’m getting ahead of myself.
Who knows, really.
There’s another bloke who has been growing and pushing- ahem- hemp seed oil as a topical therapeutic, but he’s a bit of a mug, for instance had his APVMA approval for dog meds retracted after field tests failed.
But, he is a blowhard, and his gig is all about medicinal, which is of course a stalking horse for recreational marijuana. How he thinks he’ll ever compete with the black market is beyond me.
He’ll be spitting chips after this comes out- I have absolutely no doubt that he has no clue about it. I might try to bump into him with the Oz tomorrow…