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I don’t eat it very much and am used to the indifference. However the size was noticeable. My mate had…
She was some bigwig at worleys. They used to be a down to earth engineering company. But they appear to…
Fun at the WACA. Nearly an hour left in the first day and 15 wickets have fallen so far. The…
Interesting comments Rockdoc. I know nothing about the serve size that you get at Maccas and KFC, but our service…
I don’t see us getting out of this. We are on a path , just as basket cases in Sth Am and the Med squander nations have taken. Not unless Govt slashes it’s size, reduces taxes, abandons the Green dream and states and councils walk back the massive burdens of fees, levies and restrictive regs. Corps like miners and banks will do ok, as usual.
I don’t see any Govt state or federal or council volunteering to reduce their confiscation of our money. So, we’ll continue to see less of it.
Correct me if I’m wrong, Sir Lawmaker, but are there not already laws against using a carriage service to promote such things?
Why…yes, there are!
So, just what is the agenda here?
“She probably had a Falafel sandwich”.
One of the finest anti-journalist, anti-Palestine rants I have heard.
https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1832201905985954262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1832201905985954262%7Ctwgr%5Ee7f7afcd106d294eccacd75358fb60f101042b00%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
The WEF says COVID was a test run to see what the bulk of the population would put up with in terms of restrictions on freedoms and imposition of dodgy remedies like masks and personal spacing. It was a success, of course.
But it wasn’t the first test. That was Global Warming then Climate Change with added Extreme Weather. That unholy propaganda, aimed at knobbling the west by restricting energy and imposing stupid rules on all manner of things (including eating red meat!) has been incredibly successful. It has only been possible with the poisonous combination of idiot or ill-intentioned politicians and complicit media.
World Economic Forum Finally Tells the Truth About Covid: It Was a ‘Test’ of Our Obedience to Rapidly Forming New World Order | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor
Calli,
as you enjoyed the voting pic in WIP so much, here’s an excellent, short tutorial on how to “volt” 😀
.https://x.com/OntWtf/status/1832202437660225935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1832202437660225935%7Ctwgr%5Ee7f7afcd106d294eccacd75358fb60f101042b00%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F
I note that the Murdochs are for Harris. They are not our friends. Remember Murdock backed bLIAR and was all in for the illegal invasion of Iraq.
I refuse to buy newspapers. It’s funny how they turn them upside down at the various roadhouses I frequent to stop you browsing.
@GuntherEagleman
Free speech protest in Brazil! LFG!
and
Meme
@catturd2
Of all the cringe fake staged things I’ve seen – this is the fakest, cringiest.
And talking of fake
Kamala Harris U-turns on woke eco ban (msn.com)
@TimRunsHisMouth
Correct.
People are waking up.
They were paid exorbitant amounts of money to run Russian propaganda in support of a war which involves rockets bought from Iran.
Either they (and you) are dumb as a pile of rocks, or they just don’t care who they associate with as long as the result is what they want. Which is it, Cranky? Useful idiot or amoral apparatchik?
People here would probably be familiar with all of these lies but it’s still shocking to have them demonstrated one by one.
@Sassafrass_84
Listen to this. Then bookmark it. Share this with libs when they’re being impossible and sprouting lies.
@ericmmatheny
Ezra Levant
Is Brazil rising up against censorship? I flew overnight to Brazil to find out
RFK Jr’s 12-part plan to make America Healthy again
Armed Venezuelan Gangs Steal Oil, Copper Wire, Assault Workers at Texas Oil Field
They’ve succeeded in turning their country into a war zone.
James O’Keefe Obtains U.S. Army Documents Exposing Violent Venezuelan Gang Threat in NYC — National Guard Reportedly on High Alert!
The Babylon Bee Has Finally Obtained The Harris-Walz Secret List Of Policies
Gotta luv media hype .. LOL! .. Western Sydney Wanderers have signed “former” superstar &, not quite legend, Juan Mata and the Oz sporting media is lauding it as the “2nd coming” ..
?Tho not really delving into the reality of the situation .. Sure, the bloke has been , once was, a very good “fitba” player BUT those dayz are gone he’s 36 years old (at least 2 years past his retirement cycle) and is arriving from a Japanese club where last season he played a grand total of 10 minutes, yes 10 minutes, coming on as a substitute in one game …!
Gotta luv media hype .. LOL! .. Western Sydney Wanderers have signed “former” superstar &, not quite legend, Juan Mata and the Oz sporting media is lauding it as the “2nd coming” ..
?Tho not really delving into the reality of the situation .. Sure, the bloke has been , once was, a very good “fitba” player BUT those dayz are gone he’s 36 years old (at least 2 years past his retirement cycle) and is arriving from a Japanese club where last season he played a grand total of 10 minutes, yes 10 minutes, coming on as a substitute in one game …
As usual Monty’s narrative is unraveling.
US Intel Undercuts DOJ’s “Foreign Interference” Claim Used To Smear Conservative Pundits (8 Sep)
So no the Russian money, if it ever existed, did not go to Pool and Rubin, it went to Lauren Chen, who is anti-Trump. She then paid these people salaries. I’m detecting a breadcrumb trail, and it’s leading to Garland and Putin – neither who want Trump to win.
Bab Bee has a docu-movie out about the deadliest day in human history.
Trailer.
Jan 6, The Most Deadliest Day.
Just turned over to Sky regional. Clennell love in with Kean. Zaaap.
Just what you need a Sunday morning – two ugly irredeemable imbeciles crapping on about gerbil worming.
Kean – snivelling turd.
AEMO’s ISP was manipulated to produce the necessary mechanism for the biggest theft of public money and assets by the corporate and investment sector.
Speaking of global warming, I finally found the evidence I was looking for, demonstrating that feedback from water vapour is negative, no positive, as clouds.
Water vapour alone is a greenhouse gas, implying that it’s increase creates a positive feedback loop, but increased water vapour creates more clouds, which reflects sunlight.
We see this in practice. El Nino is characterised by warmer waters in eastern Pacific and colder waters in the Western Pacific.
Well, guess what. Such colder waters produces less evaporation, hence less cloud. Australia gets oversaturated with direct sunlight creating hotter conditions and drought.
For the slow (I’m speaking to you, Muttley), colder water creates drier and hotter conditions. La Nina of course creates the opposite effect, with warmer waters creating cooler conditions through increased cloud which explains all the rain.
So the more temperatures increase, the more it gets absorbed in the oceans, the more rain we get. It’s a negative feedback, so the more it warms, the less it warms. The earth self-correcting.
Brice, feel free to correct or adjust where necessary.
https://x.com/shicks_sam/status/1745648556407464181?t=vwQKVo5iJnWj6WmZUbejpw&s=19
The US Navy has sacked the clown destroyer skipper who provided the photo op of himself shooting off his long gun with the scope on backwards.
Now the USN has busted a DEI hire fem skipper of a hi-tech stealth destroyer with an unauthorised tv satellite dish mounted on board. So every direct tv provider knows exactly where she is.
No wonder the Houthis have kicked the USN out of the Red Sea.
https://x.com/nypost/status/1832507537544896724
Long, rambling completely scattergun and absolutely hilarious. The man at his finest.
ANU revokes expulsion for student who supported HamasBy Paul SakkalSeptember 7, 2024 — 7.30pm
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The Australian National University has backed down on expelling a protest leader who declared Australians should support Hamas, according to the activist who is back on campus months after pro-Palestine tent protests sparked a ferocious debate on freedom of expression.
Beatrice Tucker was expelled and banned from stepping foot on the prestigious Canberra institution’s grounds after saying Hamas, which carried out the worst massacre of Jews since World War II, should not be condemned for the October 7 attacks.
The university believed the comments may have breached laws prohibiting support for terror groups. Its contentious call to kick Tucker off campus represented one of the toughest actions taken by universities as Coalition MPs and Jewish groups argued for the protesters to be booted off campuses, prompting civil libertarians to raise free-speech concerns.
“I actually say that Hamas deserve our unconditional support,” Tucker, a member of Students and Staff Against War ANU, said on ABC Radio in April.
“Not because I agree with their strategy. But the situation at hand is if you have no hope, if you are sanctioned every day of your life, if you’re told you’re not allowed to drive down a road because somebody who is Israeli gets to have preference and you sit there for 12 hours. [That’s] the reality of life in Palestine.”
Tucker, who was contacted for comment, wrote in social media posts this week: “My expulsion has been overturned babeeeyyyy!”
“Guess who got to step onto ANU campus today after 4 long fighting months.”
“Just wanna affirm that Palestini4ns have the right to res1st, by any means necessary as recognised under international law & we have to continue to fight to say so.”
“Gutless” and “Cowards” are words that spring to mind.
Comment awaiting approval.
The Australian National University has backed down on expelling a protest leader who declared Australians should support Hamas, according to the activist who is back on campus months after pro-Palestine tent protests sparked a ferocious debate on freedom of expression.
Beery – Willis Eisenbach had a good one last week also.
How Clouds Affect The Seasons (29 Aug)
Figure 5 is the key graph. It shows that water vapour and clouds represent a cooling influence above 17 C, which means global warming is impossible.
I would have thought having poisonous malefactors like Chaney attacking him would only boost his standing.
“Eighteen Days inn October” contains the statement that, on October 20th, 1973, an Israeli pilot named Giora Even notched his seventeenth kill, making him the worlds most successful ace of the modern jet fighter era.
A footnote notes, dryly, that the record for an American is Charles B DeBellvue, who recorded six kills in Vietnam.
The cope, it burns you so. You are reduced to feebly mewling the excuse that the Russians used a cut out so your boys are barley-cross-fingers. Pathetic.
The Feds have all the receipts. The money existed, it was paid in gargantuan amounts for services rendered. The supposed donor, “Eduard Grigoriann”, never existed. A classic GRU tactic which even idiots should have recognised, if they weren’t blinded by roubles.
No word on whether Pool, Rubin, Southern et al will donate their blood money to charity. Or perhaps an Ukraine war veteran fund? If there is any of it left after buying caviar and vodka.
For poll watchers:
Labor vote crashes in shock poll result for PM (Tele, paywalled)
I see m0ron deflecting again, throwing out distraction squirrels while his DEI deviant team continue to ruin our economy and civilization in general.
You lot have lost black America, m0ron. That’s how low you and your lot are viewed. Here slowly but surely enough Ozzies are waking up to the clusterfk Liars that even Tits Shorten is bailing. It’s a pity only dethronement awaits.
Difficult lessons here.
The departure of the repulsive Shorten is good news. Shorten with all the appeal of a turd in swimming will fit in well at the ‘university’ of canbra. Good that the oligarchs’ push to make Chiquita mushroom-Clean event Shorten PM didn’t come off.
The Commander in Chief has checked out. He’s now in Aged Care under commissar nurse Jill at the WH or lounging on some Virginia beach. The woke USN is rudderless. No wonder Putin is backing Kamala- no brainer.
Sky Outsiders has just reminded me I forgot to post the latest Please Explain cartoon on Friday. It’s very good. Sorry if already posted.
Fair whack of publicity in the media over Brucie (of Knickerless fame) claiming “dole” whilst Channel 7 paid big bucks for his dope, dolls & accomodation for 12 months ..
?I get the angst but wonder if folks ever think these, maybe, “dole” rorting games thru ..
?WE have this joint in Canberra, Parliament House, where, literally, 100s of ‘dole” bludgers work and get paid significantly more than a “genuine” dole recipient …..!
?MPs, Senators, their staffs, their “advisors” all on over $75K & upwards a year for doing, what in reality, is SFA yet we & the media whinge about the odd CentreLink rort as if it will send us broke .. FFS!
Muslim group targeting Labor seats launches campaign in BroadmeadowsThe Muslim Votes Matter group is aiming to win over Victorian Labor voters who are unhappy with the Albanese government’s response to the war in Gaza.
Also from the Tele.
Reality bites. Hun:
Just keep it going. Full stop.
Get out of the way D’Ambrosio and Bowen, you complete imbeciles.
Muslim group targeting Labor seats launches campaign in BroadmeadowsThe Muslim Votes Matter group is aiming to win over Victorian Labor voters who are unhappy with the Albanese government’s response to the war in Gaza.
Gotta hand it to this mob .. getting publicity left, right & centre from the Hamas Luvvin’ media even tho they’ve stated that despite forming a party and opposing sitting members around the country they ain’t putting any, actual, money into the effort …… Typical imported arab mindset .. let someone else pay cos we ain’t .. LOL!
Those aren’t the difficult lessons here, Makka. It isn’t DEI preventing the USN regaining control of the Red Sea. Naval power alone will never achieve that. Further, neither will air power. Same applies to Straits of Hormuz.
Biden’s astonishing vacation total revealed — prez took 48 years worth of leave in 4
Yeah Dover. The hootie tooties are now a major world power.
johanna
September 6, 2024 2:34 pm
Have you tried Aldi, Joh? To my untrained eye they appear to have a reasonable selection of cheese with a bit of European sensibility thrown in.
Just keep it going. Full stop.
Get out of the way D’Ambrosio and Bowen, you complete imbeciles.
This is what I don’t get about modern industrial society. People who know nothing of wealth creation (work in other words), physics, engineering or trades, who actually hold these things in contempt, are put in charge.
Fat man has an attack of the hysterics.
That’s exactly what it was, an experiment on the whole population, both medical and level of control.
IT WAS ALL A LIE: How your Government tricked you into taking part in a Deadly Experiment that killed Millions via Midazolam Poisoning & COVID Vaccination
This is the problem with even a “benevolent” dictatorship. No dictatorship would ever admit a mistake.
Singapore’s Ministry of Health is killing the people of Singapore
Monty
Hope you’re still obsessed with Russia Russia and US politics when the lights go off and the gas runs out in your own home courtesy of Vic & Fed Labor.
Dream on keyboard warrior.
Governments solution to anti-Semitism on campus. More toothless bureaucrats:
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/student-ombudsman-to-help-fight-antisemitism-at-universities-education-minister-clare-says/news-story/69f37a446f592d573842dc15228836ce
On clouds.
NOAA points out the inconvenient fact that the world’s stock of climate models do not model the underlying physics of cloud formation:
This is a fairly heroic understatement, given the significance of the transport of latent heat upwards in the atmosphere through evaporation and convection, its release via condensation, and the impact on the energy budget of the high atmosphere of water droplets freezing in stratospheric+ clouds.
All the models used in ‘climate science’ parameterise clouds*. That is, the clouds and associated energy transfers are ‘assumed’ by the modellers rather than based on explicit physical process. As the NOAA piece explains, this is a necessity because of the weak scientific understanding of the actual processes of cloud distribution and formation.
The end result is that almost everything ‘known’ about CO2 climate sensitivity is at best a rough guess. Done by people with a vested interest in the worst possible outcome.
But, hey, The Science Is In.
Bet your life on it.
*CMIP6: but only once you dig in.
LOL
A journey in numbers
FOUR months away…
TWENTY-THREE countries: Mauritius, South Africa, Namibia, Cape Verde, Las Palmas, Greece, Tunisia, Malta, Italy, Turkey, Crete, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, France, Switzerland, Scotland, England, Portugal, Spain, Japan.
Worst country = Tunisia – worth going but lots of dodgy areas and dubious public road transport. Also armoured cars on the streets of the capital Tunis makes one pause for thought. Best country Malta – a fascinating historical and architectural marvel with its own blended culture of thousands of years overlaid with the best of British.
TWENTY flights. Worst airport was Tunisia of course. Airlines were all pretty good except for two lost bag episodes – see below for a whinge. RyanAir can be very annoying with incessant announcements. None feature a “Welcome to Country” so there is that.
More train and bus rides than we can recall. Best train service from the Swiss – always on time, and excellent rolling stock. The British trains were also very good.
Worst minor transport service was Hellenic Ferries, staffed by sullen and uncooperative Greeks. Run on a principle of swarm on board a 500 passenger ferry, throw your bags in enormous store cabins down at the stern and fight for a a seat. Then again the ships were fast and on time and safe enough.
TWO best beggars. Aggressive begging in Europe seems to be a lot less than in Australia. Britain seems to have a lot, but the two standouts both were in Lisbon, Portugal, and both had a new angle. One tramp had a guinea pig, and another a rabbit, and they looked to be coining it due to people stopping to look at the animals. Personally speaking I would have thought they would be prevented from this rather harsh practice by the local plod but apparently not so.
THIRTY or so accommodations. Longest 19 days on the Africa cruise; shortest ones were a night here and there. Most interesting might be our eight day TrustedHousesitter.com stay in Romsey, a British village near Southhampton. We looked after two Jack Russell terriers; one morose cat we rarely saw, and a tank of fish. Nice house and garden with walks nearby.
ONE grumpy taxi driver. Pireus, the cruise port for Athens, is dominated by union-controlled taxis who have squashed Uber out. We got in for a two kilometre ride to the railway station, and asked the driver how much – 30 Euros/about $60 Aus, he said – an exceptional rip-off; they all want the trip to the airport for which they charge an even more outrageous sum. So we got out and a Chinese lady got in. One of several very courteous Greek policemen wandered over and asked why we got out. We told him; he ordered the driver to take us for E10, and we got back in. The driver was furious; took off at a rate of knots, and while speeding along put into Google Translate on his phone: “the police will now fine me 300 thanks to you my friend”. I disputed this as the policeman had not noted down his rego, and made sure we got our bags out before I paid him.
FIVE cruises. Three ocean liners as work cruises, one round Africa, and two in the Mediterranean. Two river cruises: Bucharest to Budapest with UniWorld, and up and down the Duoro River – Portugal with a bit of Spain – on board a TravelMarvel cruiser. Best food in the everyday dine-in restaurants was the new Princess Sun.
FIFTY entertainment pieces approx. Most unusual: the Romanian dancers on the UniWorld river cruise. Best overall: Princess consistently put on excellent singing and dancing shows, and unusual presentations too – one such was a “speed painter” who took requests and did big panels with brushes and spray cans to a three minute song.
TWO disasters. Two cases of delayed bags: one in Mauritius – went to the airport and found it after many excuses; and another when Scandinavian Air failed to deliver on a Saturday flight; also on a Sunday, and then delivered it halfway through a Monday.
Apart from that the towing handle fell off one suitcase. Power outage in the housesitting job, but managed to find out why and reset circuit breakers and freezer and so on. Not really disasters…
Now writing this from a beach in Kokomura, south-west of Tokyo, breaking the journey home via Japan Air Lines. They can keep those non-stop flights!
A gift, most likely, to be returned unopened … duuuuh!
Cope!
I never said it’s a major world power. You don’t need to be given that new tech gives smaller powers the capability of achieving what Yemen has over the last 9 or so months.
Interesting article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13825105/Former-RAF-engineer-nurse-wife-sign-British-couple-use-double-suicide-pod-Switzerland-dementia.html
from two points of view.
1) Aussie Dr Phil Nitschke, who at one stage was working in Darwin, has now pioneered some sort of death capsule where you climb in and die, and
2) one of the reasons the UK couple who have decided to die together is the shambles the British have made of their aged “care” system.
Harris Campaign Admits Tim Walz Was The Only Candidate That Answered Their Craigslist Ad
I LoLed
It is in part- absolutely. The lessons the US is learning once again, is that there must be both a will and ability at the top to complete win a kinetic confrontation. A will to withstand the media and political hysteria along with the tools (command) to accomplish defined goals no matter what. The CiC is a vegetable and the USN is infected by inept DEI hires at all levels. The asylum is in the hands of the m0rons.
If the Houthis tried this on Israel , hundreds of planes would appear over Yemen inside 24 hours to carpet bomb the Houthis. The Gaza treatment. The USN is running scared of confrontation in the Red Sea for fear of the embarrassing loss of a Billion$ warship and it’s crew to some ragheads. Sad doesn’t cover it.
Shatazzz
media hype – total bs on the news in adders last night – tickets for port Adelaide go on side on Monday at 9:30 – expected to sell out faster than the Geelong game, a bigger crowd expected , fans are going to get behind the team –
after last week same shit diff yr , go to big footy on line and read the comment from the demos, they are not turning up, coach has to do, 9 players not up to it playing a team who are red hot, being sold hope , club is called cowards by its fans.
next Macc caused this.
The Houthis have, they shut down their southern port. And they got that treatment earlier from the Saudis to no effect. The Houthis still got the Saudis to the negotiating table because the Houthis had the capability of effectively responding.
If only:
The Saudi’s haven’the stomache or inclination for a drawn out bloody war. They can easily buy their enemies off at any time and go back to whoring on the Riviera.
A few days ago, you incorrectly hit me with the accusation that I’m recycling phrases. Meanwhile, you’re clinging to the same two lines like they’re your emotional support blankie. .
“Cope”? Really? That’s more overused than my family Netflix subscription, Didn’t the Deck Chair War-Servant start this cope thing?
By the way, I was being sarcastic about the world power thing… which should’ve been as obvious as wearing sunnies at the airport at night (like I once saw Tony Jones doing).
The Red Sea and the Suez? Yeah, not exactly top-tier on America’s must-watch list.
Also, with the current administration, the US policy toward Israel is about as clear as driving through thick fog, so the US wants minimal interaction. The Israeli-Pali war is what got the Hooties busting out their dance moves like they’re auditioning for “Dancing with the Stars.” (The two on the left are ripped, Hootie Tootie special forces recruits).
Let’s be honest, if the US wanted to squash the Hooties, it would’ve done it pretty quickly.
In an air-conditioned conference room?
The Saudis at the negotiating table? Well, yeah, the Hooties figured out their secret weapon: turning off the Saudis A/C. The second the temperature starts climbing, the Saudis are like, “Alright, alright, let’s talk, we’re done here!”
Dover, the Saudi military can’t operate without cold air, as I’ve said before. 🙂
I think it is fairly safe to assume that most people with a large following on social media are selling their influence, and that it will be sold to the highest bidder, be that the devil himself.
From WIP:
Israeli women fight like men.
Muslim men fight like women.
RwxFrVi.png (835×1280) (powerlineblog.com)?
Peta Credlin:
Only in it for themselves, the actual business of you know, running the country coming a distant second.
One of the most ridiculous and offensive series in recent years has to be the “reimagining” of the Tudor Court. Or, as we like to call it, Black Anne Boleyn. That’s right, Netflix decided to really reimagine the downfall of Henry VIII’s second wife by casting dark-skinned black actress Jodie Turner Smith. Because we all know that black Africans were a huge part of early modern English life, and that Henry was an early proponent of interracial dating.
Bolding head prefect!
The worst example is when they started blackening our Jane. Just imagine Elizabeth Bennet in an afro telling tall dark and black Darcy: I ain’t no Jackamammy; how’s them apples nigger?!
For military Cats – “Eighteen Days in October” by Uri Kaufman, is highly recommended. Much new material on the Yom Kippur War – Israeli tank losses in the opening stages of the war were heavy, but, when the Israeli counter attack began, the Egyptians lost one third of their tanks in four days. There’s also a good account of dealing with some of the towering ego’s in the Israeli High Command. Good reading!
Chuckle.
When did Albanese ever shine?
He assumed the Labor leadership because the shine had well and truly worn off one time golden boy Bill Shorten.
And he just fell over the line in the 2022 election because the shine had well and truly worn off the odious Scott Morrison.
But Albanese? No shine. Ever.
[But thanks for posting, BB!]
Iran’s Mullahs Love Hiding Behind Their Proxies — It Is Time to Stop Letting Them
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20919/iran-proxies
Sandwiches are hard.
‘So much mental load’: Mothers speak about school lunches (MedXpress, 7 Sep)
No wonder kids are so neurotic these days.
(The author is a Canuck professor who pretty much is everything you would expect. No idea if she is married or if she has kids, even though I tried looking her up.)
That’s a lie. I have a decent head of hair. 🙂
Who could have guessed? Carbon-capture schemes a waste of money.The comments under the article a worth reading.
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/09/07/colossal-waste-of-money-climate-alarmists-turn-on-carbon-capture/
Just farewelled two American visitors who enjoyed a short stay at our farm. Both (a married couple, middle aged) are intelligent professionals – one a retired lawyer, and the other still teaching in the medical field. Both are committed Democrats, so our discussions on the US elections was in depth, but civil(!). It really was an exercise in good manners, but committed ideas. As it should be.
Neither thought the election result was predictable. I mentioned that the Rasmussen poll has just registered a roughly 60/40 result in favour of Trump – totally challenging the media polls supposedly registering a 50/50 split between Trump and the pretender, Kamala. They were surprised and had little to say in response.
BTW this couple, who we met through mutual Sydney friends, visit Oz every year. They have tried to emigrate here, but can’t even get a long visa because of their age. A pity, because they have ample financial security and would be good citizens.
Vicki
Has there been a Rassie poll that slanted?
You never used ‘time machine’ earlier when I raised Iraq and WMDs? Come on. But getting back to the issue, yes, ‘cope’ is particularly apt here. You used sarcasm as a way of handwaving away the reality of the last 9 months. The reasons that I gave that initiated your response were made 9 months earlier; that short of sending troops into Yemen or working out a compromise, the US couldn’t stop the blockade simply with air or naval assets.
Not without troops on the ground. They’ve effectively said that losing control of the Suez Canal/ Red Sea is less strategically costly than defending it. That is a win for the Houthis.
And neither does the US.
While the headline growth figure is still in positive territory – just, at 0.2 per cent – that’s only because the Albanese government is flooding the economy with taxpayers’ money; and because it’s also importing migrants at all-time record levels. If one or either of those things weren’t happening – the unsustainable spending or the high migration – we would have no growth at all and we’d be in official recession, not just per capita recession.
Glad to see that this is recognised. Government spending and over-the-top immigration is lazy economics – a seemingly easy fix to stagnant growth.
Mind you, the Morrison/Frydenberg combo were embarking upon the same course before they were chucked out.
No kidding, you could slap these ears on a futuristic Concorde and ditch the engines—they’d take off on their own and reach mach1 in seconds.
To set the record straight the Rasmussen poll reportElection 2024: Trump 47%, Harris 46% as at 5 Sept 2024.https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/election_2024_trump_47_harris_46
Sure I have, but what I said was that you’re acting like an historian with a time machine.
Two things.
The Red Sea/Suez combo is not a vital US interest.If they chose to, the US could stop those dancing faggots any time they wanted, but this is the Hiden Administration.
Yeah, it’s not a vital US interest.
Gosh. A couple of devon, cheese and lettuce sangers, an apple and an orange. Wolf it down and done! Lunch time is for play, not cuisine.
Re the Rasmussen poll – thanks Men – I was relaying an article on the questionable nature of the polls –
https://jupplandia.substack.com/p/what-the-polls-say-and-what-the-polls?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Who knows?
For Indolent, and all those who suspect that the bl—y spike protein has done more damage than we think:
The Whole World Has Been Poisoned
The spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 vaccines has diminished us all. JOHN LEAKE
SEP 7
Last night at dinner with Dr. McCullough, we talked about the test he is now using in his clinical practice to detect antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. He frequently detects very high spike protein antibody levels in patients, even in those who never received a vaccine and who have not had acute symptoms of COVID-19 for over a year.
All of us have been exposed to the toxic spike protein that Ralph Baric, Shi Zhengli, et al. developed in their laboratories. The only question is how long will it take our bodies to clear it. Dr. McCullough pointed out that the spike protein is, like the pathogens that cause syphilis, and Lyme Disease, able to resist being cleared from the body. Even if it does not cause obvious clinical diseases such as myocarditis, strokes, and blood clots, it is probably still affecting all of us to some degree in terms of diminished vitality.
We often think of poisons as substances that immediately result in spectacular distress and death—things like snake venom, ricin, botulinum, and cyanide. While the spike protein induced by the COVID-19 vaccines may indeed rapidly kill some people, for most of us, it is a “subtle thief of vitality” (to paraphrase Milton’s characterization of time as “a subtle thief of youth”).
Milton’s metaphor is useful because it appears that the spike protein is a poison that accelerates senescence, or aging. I currently know a lot of people in their seventies who were doing just fine until 2022, but experienced a sudden manifestation of diseases associated with aging—diseases such as Parkinson’s, dementia, and cancer—that seemed to advance at a terrifying rate.
For most of us, the symptoms range from ringing ears and sleep disturbances to a generalize diminishment of vitality. We are more inclined to feel fatigue, lethargy, and a depression of spirits. We suffer brain fog, indecisiveness, and a depression of spirits. We don’t move as quickly, and we seem to experience aches and pains associated with inflammation.
“The whole world has been poisoned,” I thought as I went to bed last night. This morning, I read an essay by James Howard Kunstler that opens with the following quotation from my friend Ed Dowd.
In this context, Ed was referring to the poisoning of our minds, but I know from my conversations with him that he shares my perception that our bodies have also been poisoned by the spike protein. A weakened body is always accompanied by a weakened mind.
In spite of this essay’s gloom and doom, I see grounds for hope. While President Trump was duped by the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex in 2020, he expresses signs that he now understands that. Even more promising is his recently consummated alliance with RFK, Jr. Guys like Drs. Peter McCullough, Paul Marik, and Pierre Kory are working hard to discover antidotes to spike protein toxicity. We may be on the cusp of a new era of healing.
Do vaccines cause autism? Finally, a definitive answer!
m0nty
September 8, 2024 9:24 am
All very Cenk of you, comrade.
Except that’s not how things went down and you know it.
You are a habitual liar.
Kamala has lost the “hood”….
https://x.com/TONYxTWO/status/1832206044581314763
Vicki, this is an expanded view of your poisoning comment and link.
Dr. Richard Fleming: Bioweapons and eugenics, are we the next endangered species?
Thanks, Bruce. The silly thing is that THIS IS OBSERVABLE. Anyone on the NSW coast can see the stark contrast from the El Nino bushfires and the wet La N?na years. This is a mitigating effect both ways, reducing cooling AND warming. It takes something much bigger than human CO² to have a massive effect on the planet. The sun, of course, is king.
Historians are always looking backwards. The problem with your claim was that nothing Buchanan or I argued depends upon knowing something that was unknown in ’39 or ’40. It was simply a position argued from what was known then.
Just admit that the costs are greater than the benefits and those costs includes the loss of prestige.
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Okay, so you agree, they weren’t identical. Sheesh.
There would be no loss of prestige because if the US decided those dancing fags were a top-tier threat to national security, they wouldn’t be dancing at all!
Not wanting to invoke a Hay truck stop stoush, however here goes.
Via Blazing catfur. Subcontinentals are now in numbers in parts of Canada where they are flexing their muscles. It is noted that the Liberal party here is increasingly targeting this demographic so any hope they will crack down on the fake colleges and student visa rort is a forlorn hope IMO:
https://archive.md/DWcSc
Concede we hand out perm residency much easier though than Canada who by the looks forces them to return to country of origin to apply still.
Anyway hard to not see imported grievances and self interested pressure coming our way at some point if we continue the same track.
And neither does the US.
Drawn out wars (eg Israel/Hamas) are what you get when you let the media dictate tactics/policy …
Carpet bomb & glassing solves the problem very quickly .. Sad for the ‘civilians” but every war has casualties (eg Dresden) …..!
Dover
Why are you advertising that book Stalin’s War?
No less a personage than your valued contributor m0nty-fa has absolutely assured us that such revisionist histories are useless, because everything there is to know about WW II was known decades ago.
Article in the Oz.
Questions on sexual orientation, gender to be included in census
Does anyone here reckon my comment (below) awaiting approval will pass the child censors?
THIS WEEK IN CULTURE 202 (rumble.com)
Got through the lot. The usual featured.
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Who are you kidding? There is an immense loss of prestige atm. They cannot control a major international waterway because of the Houthis. That is a heavy blow for a hegemon. It basically signals its limits and vulnerability to every other major power and the danger of dependency to its allies and client states.
It actually doesn’t. It’s success in weakening the military is limited.
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WA’s $376k Agent General in line for pay cut, Premier says
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WA’s highly paid London-based agent general could be in line for a pay cut, with the Premier admitting the $376,000 salary does not meet public expectations.
Roger Cook’s confession came after The West revealed the generous details of John Langoulant’s contract, including a total of $800,000 in salary, allowances and rental assistance for a central London apartment.
Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Mr Cook said his decision to only appoint Angela Kelly — Mr Langoulant’s successor — for nine months was to avoid a lengthy pre-election appointment and review pay and conditions.
“This, obviously, is an opportunity for us to take a fresh look in terms of that role and make sure that it’s meeting our needs and community’s expectations,” he said.
“I want to review the conditions and the circumstances for the agent general to make sure they’re more in line with DFAT wages and conditions to make sure it better meets public expectations.
“It’s more appropriate in a post-election environment that we make these longer term appointments.”
Mr Cook has previously defended the spend on the Agent General position, saying the historic nature and seniority within the public servants justified the spend.
All pigs are equal…
Regardless, Handsome Boy will never be welcome at the Mardi Gras again.
“The incredible shrinking Prime Minister” someone dubbed him this week.
It’s Sunday so of course we have a woke sermon from the ABC. Today’s is on euthanasia ,and of course only from a supporter’s point of view:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-08/ros-worthington-chooses-voluntary-assisted-dying/104314116
Good thing the batteries aren’t particularly combustible – oh, wait …
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I see Netflix has a preview of a shoe called What’s Next will everybody’s favourite Billionaire Bill Gates.
I am by no means a fan but will watch to see what the propaganda says will be good for us.
The person who created Tenet was Lauren Chen (well, her and her husband). She is actually an anti-Trumper as she sees him as having betrayed true conservatism, such as his refusal to commit to a national abortion ban (which he insists is constitutionally a state matter) and his embracing certain Democrats like Tulsi and RFK Jr. She seems also to have lately been afflicted with figments of sinister Jewish cabals dancing in her field of vision.
Even the DOJ indictment makes it clear there is no evidence of deceptiveness by Pool and others. It seems that what Pool at least agreed to was to grant her limited license to one of his podcasts – whereby they could show it on their channel but the Beanie retained ownership and could show it where he wanted as well. It was not a political podcast. The first episode of the podcast was about skateboarding. His opinion on Russia and Ukraine has been consistent from day 1: America should not get involved and risk getting dragged into a more serious situation should it so evolve. He was also against Iraq for the same reasons. Is he supposed to be a Saddam Hussain shill too?
He thinks America has plenty of problems of its own at the moment.
For what it is worth his expectations for Trump are that he will keep America out of wars but manage to broker international peace without making the US the eternal guarantor. His economic management will be good and he will start to cut into the swamp. But Pool believes Trump is still only a human. Not winged Nemesis scything down all wrongdoers. He will be a great President – as Presidents go – and get done a lot of what America really needs now. As well as a flesh and blood human might.
Queering the census results.
Dover, in your last comment, you casually slipped this in.
Our point of discussion centered on Cooper’s assertions, not Buchanan, so why the casual switcheroo?
Yeah, because if you can’t control a waterway, how can you possibly call yourself a superpower?
Honestly, it’s like tripping over in the final of Dancing With The Stars competing against those feet tapping faggots. And in any event, what more “prestige” could the Hiden administration lose that would get them to zero, when it’s already there? Don’t be such a drama queen.
Yesterday, in the new Islamist hub of London, there was yet another huge pro-Hamas rally. What’s interesting and disturbing is that the politicised London plod and the Islamist mayor gave the Islamists and leftists the all clear to congregate and march but refused permission for a counter protests called ‘Stop the Hate” to proceed. Stop the Hate is an organisation made up of Jews and their friends to stand for Israel and Jewish communities. At the Islamist rally yesterday in Islamist London they carried banners with the Red Triangle, which is the new ‘swastika’. Do you know what this ‘Red Triangle’ is code for? It’s a Hamas sign to indicate their target for murder.
A question for our Nazi, as he’s clearly obsessed with money being channeled/funnelled from unsavoury sources to fund various groups here in the West, why isn’t he concerned about where the funding behind these pro-Hamas rallies is coming from? These ‘hate’ rallies/protests/ gatherings are very well funded. But curiously, oddly, weirdly, our Nazi just isn’t bothered by that funding. Wonder why? Oh I know, they’re not right-wing Youtubers.
https://thenightly.com.au/australia/final-report-by-royal-commission-into-defence-and-veteran-suicide-to-be-handed-down–c-15973059?utm_id=81383&sfmc_id=26562465
Be interesting to see if the Department of Veteran’s Affairs rates a mention.
Cooper’s assertion re Churchill and WW2 is the same as Buchanan’s. The ‘casual switcheroo’ is simply a way of focusing on the substance rather than banging on about Cooper.
Exactly. If you can’t control a major waterway – let’s not pretend that the Suez is unimportant – then your prestige as hegemon is significantly diminished. It is. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
Hundreds Attend Funeral for Slain Hostage Eden Yerushalmi in Petah Tikva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txvW80cKqH8
Eden was 24 years old. A beautiful young women. Starved by Hamas, she was only 36 kilos before she was murdered by Hamas scum who put a bullet into the back of her head.
The same Hamas scum that many in the West now extol and laud.
But hear this, we Jews will always stand for good, for life and for decency, even in the face of absolute evil.
Ask Adam Bandt.
Alarm at Greens’ ‘Hamas symbols’ (Paywallian)
C’mon Green peoples, surely it’s time for the twin silver lightning bolts.
Fair to say that the only similarity between the mens and ladies Aussie Rules top level is the shape of the ball.
The ladies is a disgraceful product which will never match the hype. Bit like the Carlton blokes. Absolutely putrid.
Reading the account of the Yom Kippur War – the organizers of the protests into the conduct of the war, which began weeks after the end of that war, asked that those personnel, wishing to join the protest, and arriving directly from active duty, NOT bring their weapons…
We were banging on about Cooper’s points. If they’re the same, then there’s no reason to go all Buchanan on me.
I never said the Suez/Red Sea was unimportant. I just said it’s not exactly a ‘red alert, DEFCON 1’ kind of deal for the US and probably never was. There’s a difference.
So then, American military prestige is now nestled somewhere between Luxembourg and Mauritania? I think you’re being over-dramatic.
Great move. While families struggle to their homes going, our Liar’s Govt deals with the really BIG issues. This will be very popular.
How much taxpayer dosh has been flushed down the toilet ejucating “Dr’ Chalmers? Lord Unis have a lot to answer for BIRM.
an Israeli pilot named Giora Even notched his seventeenth kill, making him the worlds most successful ace of the modern jet fighter era.
I have read a claim that at least one, possibly two, Russians, scored over 30 each in the Korean War.
Not sure what your point is here. If I remove Buchanan and sub Cooper back the point is the same: The problem with your claim was that nothing [Cooper} or I argued depends upon knowing something that was unknown in ’39 or ’40.
So what was meant by, Yeah, because if you can’t control a waterway, how can you possibly call yourself a superpower?, if not diminishing the importance of the Suez as a major waterway?
This just miss the point. No one is pretending that it’s inability to control the Suez is an existential threat to the US. What I argued was that it’s inability do so significantly diminishes is its status as hegemon.
It’s a difficult time for Jews, it’s a difficult time to have faith. I’ve joined a Jewish women’s study group. This morning the Rebbetzin (Rabbi’s wife) began our morning study session by talking about the six young Jews murdered in Gaza. Some of us sobbed at the table. She told us to be strong and to always have faith in Hashem. She spoke of the struggle between Isaac and Ishmael and the struggle between Jacob and Esau. Jewish history is replete with struggle however we Jews always persist. The Rebbetzin reminded us of the words from the Seder, the Passover meal…..
‘In each and every generation they rise up against us to destroy us. And the Holy One, blessed be He, rescues as from their hands”.
I do believe in Hashem. I have to believe in Hashem.
Soviet AcesSquadron leader Nikolaj Sutyagin is considered the top jet ace of all time. He served as a deputy squadron leader with the 17 IAP and earned his first victory on June 19, 1951. Just three days later, he had shot down two F-86s and increased his score to three. He continued to achieve victories regularly and had his best month in December 1951 when he reported destroying five enemy planes in the air. Overall, he had 22 confirmed kills in 149 sorties, with his victories including 15 F-86s, three F-84s, two F-80s, and two Meteors.
If it’s any comfort Cassie, I meet with some ladies on Friday mornings and we pray regularly for our country’s Jews and for the hostages.
We won’t be the only ones. Also, what Bruce said. One of my favourite stories (and I have many favourites). And also Psalm 91.
Just further to the Murdoch family. Whilst not perfect, they’re a helluva lot better than many other wealthy families. The problem with us on the right is that we expect, actually we demand perfection at all times. The left aren’t that fussy. Perhaps we should be a little more forgiving.
Murdoch newspapers are one of the few media outlets that allow and publish right of centre opinion. Take this country, without Murdoch’s News Corporation, particularly it’s print outlets such as The Australian and it’s broadcasting outlet, Sky News, we’d be bereft. What would we have? The Guardian, the SMH and The Age that’s what we’d be left with. Yuk, yuk, no thank you. In this weekend’s Australia, the Oz published the always superb Brendan O’Neill and his excoriating piece comparing the Jew hatred of Candace Owen and Chlamydia Ford. Ya reckon you’d see such a piece in the SMH or The Age? I don’t think so.
James Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch have different politics, I have different politics to my brother. So what?
Since October 7 2023, the Murdoch family have donated several million dollars to combat Jew hatred. Whilst the Soros family funds Jew hatred, the Murdoch family fights it.
So, who in the Labor Party thought it a brilliant idea to wheel out the Treasurer before the media today to announce…that they had capitulated to the alphabet people on the census sexuality question?
What a shambles of a government.
August 1789, the dirty French declare the Rights of Man, four years later they declare terror the order of the day, and massacre tens of thousands of their fellows, thus proving that those who bang on about rights should draw your cynicism, not your admiration.
The Rights of Man:
1. Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good.
2. The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
3. The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation. No body nor individual may exercise any authority which does not proceed directly from the nation.
4. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law.
5. Law can only prohibit such actions as are hurtful to society. Nothing may be prevented which is not forbidden by law, and no one may be forced to do anything not provided for by law.
6. Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has a right to participate personally, or through his representative, in its foundation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, are equally eligible to all dignities and to all public positions and occupations, according to their abilities, and without distinction except that of their virtues and talents.
7. No person shall be accused, arrested, or imprisoned except in the cases and according to the forms prescribed by law. Any one soliciting, transmitting, executing, or causing to be executed, any arbitrary order, shall be punished. But any citizen summoned or arrested in virtue of the law shall submit without delay, as resistance constitutes an offense.
8. The law shall provide for such punishments only as are strictly and obviously necessary, and no one shall suffer punishment except it be legally inflicted in virtue of a law passed and promulgated before the commission of the offense.
9. As all persons are held innocent until they shall have been declared guilty, if arrest shall be deemed indispensable, all harshness not essential to the securing of the prisoner’s person shall be severely repressed by law.
10. No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views, provided their manifestation does not disturb the public order established by law.
11. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
12. The security of the rights of man and of the citizen requires public military forces. These forces are, therefore, established for the good of all and not for the personal advantage of those to whom they shall be intrusted.
13. A common contribution is essential for the maintenance of the public forces and for the cost of administration. This should be equitably distributed among all the citizens in proportion to their means.
14. All the citizens have a right to decide, either personally or by their representatives, as to the necessity of the public contribution; to grant this freely; to know to what uses it is put; and to fix the proportion, the mode of assessment and of collection and the duration of the taxes.
15. Society has the right to require of every public agent an account of his administration.
16. A society in which the observance of the law is not assured, nor the separation of powers defined, has no constitution at all.
17. Since property is an inviolable and sacred right, no one shall be deprived thereof except where public necessity, legally determined, shall clearly demand it, and then only on condition that the owner shall have been previously and equitably indemnified.
How’s the greatest historian in the United States going?
“Are you a Zionist? Because really they’re the ONLY people having problems with that interview.”
The Telegraph (UK):
What is known is that the market rate for renting a flat in the area is AUS$727.75 a week/ $2910 a month.
A gob of spit in the face of the UK taxpayer and residents generally.
In 2023 the UK was identified as having the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world, by a mile (source: OECD).
Major. Yes well , other “major” reasons have to be ,while families do it very tough, they see this horrid Govt squandering THEIR hard earned on their vanity projects , blocking job creating mines, pandering to terrorist migrants and the parasitic indige industry.
Working taxpayer families,you get to the back of the queue and be thankful you have highly educated technocrats like Dr Jim to look after your future. It’s all good.
Spot on, Arky at 5.22pm.
The loony left in government here and overseas proclaims all sorts of radical “virtues”. Judge them not on their words, but on their actions and the consequences of their actions.
The current conflict in the West is between freedom and the tyranny of the fascists in power.
The only brake on the powerful is democracy.
In the USA, the powerful will do whatever electoral cheating is necessary to stay in power.
Australia’s only remaining virtue is that, for all sides of politics, electoral cheating is still frowned upon.
A gob of spit in the face of the UK taxpayer and residents generally.
In 2023 the UK was identified as having the highest rate of homelessness in the developed world, by a mile (source: OECD).
At war with their own people like most of the western political class. Again I ask what use are the Windsors now in the yookay?
Something I’ve learnt in the last 20 years or so is gubmints don’t create wealth but they sure can destroy it. Productive citizens create wealth. Anal and co have to go and it’s looking like most of my fellow Australians realize this.
I really can’t understand the mindset of poisonous wreckers like Blabbersack, Giles, Dreyfus, Chestyblond and Anal. They really must hate this country.
100% correct Makka- I couldn’t put it better.
Not to mention bought off. In the pay of the CCP, they are.
Traitors.
Keating comes to mind. What an abomination. In more ways than one.
The Whale Shark footage in this clip is EPIC.
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B2B Castaways (Strick and Fran)
Our NEW HOME on the Ocean (BOAT TOUR)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm_E0NLVhoU
Jason Clare…
Pre pandemic levels
Have a crack at uni
This guy is like a windup doll. He has used those phrases at least a dozen times in a soft interview with Clennell.
This weirdo wants a “crack” at the top job. He needs a better scriptwriter.
I was going to go with 99 Luftballoons but on second thought I will do Sky instead.
The Great Balloon Race (1985)
Seriously – what did that stinky li’l labore shit stain (BIRM) Dastyari sell this country out to the CCP for?
$10,000 and six months of free dinners at the Golden Orient in Haymarket.
Anyway, mention of these loathsome labore imbeciles is giving me the proverbials, so here’s some cute li’l rock ‘n’ roll bimbages … 🙂
More atmospheric music…
Breathe – Floyd (1973)
Glad you watch him Calli so I don’t have to. Pollimuppets aren’t normal people.
Aaaand…Kean’s phrase of the day is…
strong framework
This in response to the clear conflict of interest between his lobbying role and climate commission jerb. And he hides behind the fig leaf of the previous government.
We see you, you smooth faced grifter.
Nice bass sax.
AIR – Playground Love (2000)
Oh, bollocks you commie clown …
Let me get this straight: I point out that you morphed Cooper into Buchanan, and you’re just sitting there, scratching your head, wondering what my point is? You’ve basically said, “Cooper, Buchanan—same thing,” but you’ve yet to explain why they swapped places!
Known or unknown, it doesn’t change how people react when new info drops. I really hope you’re not about to suggest that everything you know now was common knowledge while history was busy happening. Hitler was out here breaking treaties like a kid breaking curfew, and now you’re supporting Cooper’s contention that he should’ve been trusted with a peace deal? That’s hilarious—what’s next, trusting a fox to watch over a bunch of chooks?
No it doesn’t. It just means the Hiden administration is basically useless and ineffectual.
In totally not surprising news.
Top story from Oz online first few paragraphs.
Renewable Energy Economy
Carbon offsets a waste of money that don’t cut emissions, says Fortescue
Despte touting green credentials, Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue no longer considers carbon offsets a worthwhile expense.
Iron ore giant Fortescue will no longer buy voluntary carbon offsets, citing doubts over their effectiveness in cutting emissions, in the latest backlash by an Australian corporate against the booming industry.
“Fortescue will no longer buy voluntary carbon offsets unless required by law, as offsets have been shown to be troubled by extensive concerns about quality, lack of additionality and an inability to deliver real reductions in emissions,’’ the company said in its annual report.
Fortescue’s shift, which has been underway since September last year, mirrors moves by other large corporates such as Telstra, which announced in June it would also stop using offsets in favour of direct action to reduce emissions”.
Bwahahaha so much for the up to 25,000 protesters against Land Forces Defence Exhibition media were parroting a day or 2 ago. They got 1200 and I’d say knowing the usual fish tales jismists come up with probably in the hundreds:
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/police-given-special-powers-as-huge-protest-expected-for-international-defence-exhibition-in-melbourne/news-story/5cb3da8079c587ac463c587bc1f6316f
Thank Goodness for Miss Sydney Sweeney – talk about an antidote to feminayzeeism.
The Stones’ latest li’l T & A.
Another day, another mass shooting in the land of the free.
I do rather like Ms Auf der Maur.
Hole – Celebrity Skin (1998)
Sunday night is a media desert if you’re interested in Australian politics.
The Australian hasn’t yet put together its Monday morning line-up but, in any case, the Paywallian has become little more than an Australian politics gossip rag that doesn’t do any of the hard work of breaking stories.
Likewise, Sky News has a succession of weak opinion shows not designed to provide any light on the heat of political argument.
So I’m watching a Rick Stein food doco on Cadiz on the Spanish south coast – one of the few places in Europe I’d like to visit. At least Stein is telling me stuff I don’t know.
Back when I read the Australian (early Krudd area) there was an obnoxious little column called ‘capital hill’. Smug and odious.
My comment on Pete Smits article, Hydrocarbons are not dispensable” on a separate thread are still in moderation. so I have re-posted my response here in the hope it may be published.Pete if is a good thinker and writer too. He should be cherished. My response:
Pete, I fear that many people don’t know what Hydrocarbons are, and what their importance is to our modern day life. Let’s start small – sneakers, rain hoodies, coverings for mobiles and laptops, synthetic clothing, much of the stuff in your kitchen, microwave components, cell phones, computers etc. Then the big stuff, building materials, fuel for your car, your lawn mower, your power boat, the very road you drive on daily, our defence equipment, satellites and international communications equipment. And don’t forget the many and essential uses in our medical system. From masks to gowns, to cleansing materials to operating equipment and in my case a plastic shunt in my brain that keeps me alive.
Hydrocarbon, any of a class of organic chemical compounds composed only of the elements carbon (C) and hydrogen (H). The carbon atoms join together to form the framework of the compound, and the hydrogen atoms attach to them in many different configurations. Hydrocarbons are the principal constituents of petroleum and natural gas. They serve as fuels and lubricants as well as raw materials for the production of plastics, fibres, rubbers, solvents, explosives, and industrial chemicals.
Oh and I forgot, breast implants, penile implants and lots of other paraphernalia essential to the LGBTQ fraternity.
Long live hydrocarbons!
Amy Pond.
Happy Idiot – TV On The Radio (2014)
(Extra credit to Cats who get it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A
Tom Petty – “Free Falling.”
As for the future of News Ltd I’m not seeing anyone up and coming who I would consider a Blair or younger Bolt or anyone that is likely to startle the horses. None of the younger ones I find engaging, Shari’s good on Israel but that conflict will end.
I think the future of journalism should be citizen journalism. I find the knowledge and insights of people here generally superior to anything I’d read in a paper or hear on TV/Radio.
Gave rise to one of the most amazing collaborations.
The Traveling Wilburys – End Of The Line (1989)
From the wiki:
If they’d added Dave Gilmour or Mark Knopfler the planet would have imploded from sheer musical gravity.
‘Hamas rape hoax’ academic’s $240k grant furoreA professor, disciplined by the University of Sydney for calling Hamas’s rapes and sexual violence a ‘hoax’, is the beneficiary of a $240,800 taxpayer-funded grant, drawing the ire of female Jewish leaders and the Coalition.
From the Oz. For some reason, I can’t access the article.
I’d certainly like to “get” Amy Pond.
Please fill us in, Bruce.
Did you miss: The ‘casual switcheroo’ is simply a way of focusing on the substance rather than banging on about Cooper.
The points raised by Cooper or Buchanan were known to the principals. There is no ‘new info’ that could have been heeded by them. The further point I’ll leave for an upcoming post.
It does. I know you like to avoid the US’s problems by placing them in the lap of the Dems but they’re owned by them both.
Watch JP tonight on channel 7. I was in rehab with him.
“The Spy” is on NFLX. It stars Sascha Baron Cohen as Elihu Cohen the Mossad spy who infiltrates the Syrian government.
“We Should Fear Trump As President” – Civil War, Assassination, DEI & Islam Takeover | Gad Saad
Tom Bilyeu
Which Amy Pond?
Amy Meets Amy (2011)
I’m sad that the series has now died of woke, since it had been so good.
Respect to Stevo for editing out the b word. Class act.
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Steve Inman:
Attack of the Carp
https://rumble.com/v5e0dat-attack-of-the-carp.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Veterans support group ‘stands ready’ to help roll out royal commission recommendationsJoseph Olbrycht-PalmerNewsWire
Sun, 8 September 2024 11:21AM
A leading veterans support group says it “stands ready” to help implement key recommendations of a major royal commission report into suicides among current and former defence personnel.
The Royal Commision into Defence and Veteran Suicide will hand over its highly anticipated final report to Governor-General Sam Mostyn on Monday.
Little is known about what will be in the document, but Soldier On chief executive Amy Cooper told NewsWire her organisation had worked closely with the commissioners and she was “hopeful”.
She hailed the interim report’s 13 key recommendations as “short and sharp”.
“I think the royal commissioners will likewise be making some good, clear and concise recommendations, and that they expect further momentum and traction from government,” she said.
Lib’s just threw their candidate for Chisolm a local councillor under a bus to be replaced by the dripping wet Katie Allen.
We’re meant to believe that the Victorian branch will sort out NSW’s problems in the Fed takeover?
One more from the channel.
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Steve Inman:
He should have just walked away, but he didn’t…
https://rumble.com/v5e2rzx-he-should-have-just-walked-away-but-he-didnt….html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Tom, check out “Cats Of Cadiz.”
Winston Smith
Update on that John Campbell video I was talking about.
No new video on his channel to explain why. Was it an embarassing fraud or was it too correct for youtube? We may never know.
Activists hope Plibersek goldmine ban will be good sign in saving Burrup rock artPaul Garvey and Paige Talor
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Tanya Plibersek’s decision against the $1bn Blayney goldmine in NSW’s central west has raised hopes inside the campaign to slow or stall Woodside Energy’s multibillion-dollar gas projects on the rock-art rich Burrup using the same cultural heritage laws.
Benjamin Smith, a University of Western Australia professor of archaeology who has long been associated with efforts against the pace of development on the Burrup, told The Australian that the Burrup was home to far more sites of cultural significance than the area protected by the Environment Minister’s decision to knock back a tailings dam proposed as part of Regis Resources’ Blayney gold project.
“[Ms Plibersek’s decision] gave me hope,” Professor Smith said.
“Clearly the Burrup case has vastly more evidence of cultural significance … It’s been put forward as a World Heritage site. No one’s contesting it. So a World Heritage site surely deserves that same level of intervention, probably more.”
A few scratchings on rocks – this is Australia, in the twenty first century…words fail me, the honestly do!
My word Bruce, have a bit of self respect.
The indictment cites private messages between Lauren Chen and her husband.
You fail the most basic reading comprehension test on a daily basis, Bruce.
General Monty, busy fighting the last war.
Do not disturb
Slowly but surely moves are taking place.
I’m so old I remember when Paul Keating disapproved of such things as the “bottom of the Harbour schemes”. How things have changed for the ruling class, now fleecing the taxpayers for private gain is all the rage.
In Vilnius. Wonderful weather, friendly people. Lots of churches. Mostly Caucasian and tall. Can access Bannon’s warroom here but not in France nor Dubai due to Gov censorship.
Yeah, I missed it because it makes no sense.
It does. I know you like to avoid the US’s problems by placing them in the lap of the Dems but they’re owned by them both.