I. The Steal Begins: Secret Service Put In Charge Of Counting Votes
Democrat efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election are very well documented. In key states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin, requirements that mail-in ballots have signatures on the ballot and the envelope that could be compared were ignored. Other mail-in ballots were discarded after supposedly being “counted” so that no paper trail existed.
Ballot harvesting from assisted living facilities and apartment buildings was conducted with no verification that any of the residents actually filled-in their ballots. Other supposed mail-in ballots appeared without creases (meaning they had never been mailed) with 95-1 pro-Biden ratios (statistically impossible).
A ‘water leak’ caused an evacuation of a large vote counting centre in Atlanta so that poll watchers were ejected while the counting went on without supervision. Mark Zuckerberg and his wife donated hundreds of millions of dollars to assist communities with vote counting efforts, but the money went overwhelmingly to Democratic districts. It took all of that and more for Biden to eke out a narrow victory.
The idea that the courts rejected the voter fraud claims is false. The courts refused to hear the cases based on procedural grounds such as standing, venue, jurisdiction and laches (waiting too long to bring the claim). That’s quite different from reaching the merits of the claims, which was never done. The Republicans have improved their game this time around. They have over 500 lawyers on call to deal in real time with fraud allegations, there is no pandemic excuse to deny poll watchers a chance to do their jobs and they’re getting better at ballot harvesting from their own districts. This has forced the Democrats to resort to even more desperate techniques to steal the 2024 election.
One plan is to declare Trump an ‘insurrectionist’ on 6 January 2025, so that his Electoral Votes can be disqualified even if he won the most on Election Day. To back up their 6 January plan, the Department of Homeland Security, (the same people who opened the border) has put the Secret Service in charge of the Electoral College vote count.
This means if Republicans object to certain Electoral Votes on the day they are counted in the Capitol Building (a perfectly legitimate process) the Secret Service can act as goon squads to suppress any objections as an effort to ‘overturn’ the election by ‘election deniers’.
The main job of the Secret Service today is to facilitate the assassination of Donald Trump. If Trump survives to 6 January 2025, their main job will be to help rig the vote at the finish line.
That gives new meaning to the phrase ‘ring my bell.’
Ah, Collette…
Bourne1879
September 25, 2024 5:12 pm
Vick,
Unfortunately the pharmacologist you mention did not get much mainstream media coverage. Even now would be lucky if 5% have heard his name. The reason being if many listened to his views they might become vaccine hesitant. Likewise if mainstream media early on had covered more on vaccine injuries would have created hesitancy.
AZ injuries and deaths became too obvious so they happily threw it under the bus as knew still had Pfizer. Weird how not one Pfizer death has been accepted in Australia.
I see Dr Nick Coatsworth has come out in Daily Mail to speak against the Misinformation Bill.
I don’t believe it. Only yesterday, he was flirting with removing sanctions from Russia and Iran to the Economics Club in NY because he says it hurts the US dollar as the reserve currency.
Not clear who is making the threats and who is taking the risks there, Ranga.
Black Ball
September 25, 2024 5:40 pm
Well I can start physiotherapy on this dodgy shoulder of mine. Have been doing light duties for a couple of weeks but felt good when the doc said no more sling. Which I haven’t used for a bit in any case.
So now off for a few frothies and chat with the boss about this new set of circumstances.
Some really thought-provoking insights on the Chinese and US economy here by @gave_vincent, the CEO of Gavekal.
For instance he explains why the stock market is really not that important in China, especially when compared with the US. This is because the Chinese economy is really not that financialized and only a tiny proportion of the Chinese, 10%, hold stocks as opposed to 70% of Americans: “So if tomorrow the US stock market goes down two-thirds, 70% of people feel very poor. In China, if the stock market goes down two-thirds, 90% of people don’t care.”
He also pinpoints a fascinating paradox, which is that there is much more competition between firms in the Chinese market, and many more bankruptcies than in the US: “I can name you 10 Chinese bankruptcies over the past three or four years of automakers, solar panel manufacturers, real estate developers, etc. Here we are in the Western world, whether in France, in the UK, in the US, and we pat ourselves on the back about how capitalist we are, about how we’re red-blooded capitalists, etc. Yet when was the last big bankruptcy? Are we capitalist if nobody ever goes bust? How does that work? How does capitalism work without bankruptcy?”
As he explains, the way the Chinese economy works is that there is stronger management of the market by the government but this paradoxically leads to a situation where the market works more dynamically in creating new companies, as well as destroying companies that don’t work anymore. Whereas in the US, where it is arguably the reverse situation with capital having more control of the government, monopolies are being created in most sectors and companies are bailed out by the government in myriads of ways to avoid bankruptcy.
So interestingly we’re arriving at a situation where “communist China” might be today the best example of free-market ‘creative destruction,’ whilst the “capitalist U.S.” seems to be calcifying into a form of corporate protectionism where big corporations are increasingly insulated from failure. This really raises fascinating questions on the role of government with regards to the economy… It sort of makes sense when you think about it that when you effectively let capital regulate itself, they’d want to move towards a situation where they can’t lose and establish monopolies. And that you paradoxically need a strong referee above capital in order to foster a truly dynamic economic system.
Here we are in the Western world, whether in France, in the UK, in the US, and we pat ourselves on the back about how capitalist we are, about how we’re red-blooded capitalists, etc.
Elon Musk has made his fortune selling glorified golf carts to severely educated simpletons.
I’m dying to find his exit strategy from dumbdom.
I like the idea that the ultra greens who have bought Teslas are now funding Musk’s excursions into space. The very fossil fuel hungry rockets must be pissing off the rich and smug greenies.
Top Ender
September 25, 2024 6:14 pm
COME ON DOWN BRITTANY HIGGINS!
State MP Gareth Ward turned up to parliament just after 4am on a Sunday morning wearing a “T-shirt, underwear, (and) socks,” with a gash on his head and smelling of alcohol, according to a secret security report – with Mr Ward claiming he walked to get a spare key after locking himself out of his apartment, and denying he was drunk.
The Daily Telegraph can now reveal bombshell allegations against the independent MP – who is due to face court next year over alleged sex offences – following a months-long investigation into an incident in the early hours of Sunday July 21.
On health matters, I am quite fond of The Glucose Goddess as a communicator about the complex biochemistry of insulin resistance, the cause of much obesity and type 2 diabetes in modern societies – she is a biochemist who can speak in good metaphors, as she does here in an interview on the basics of her approach.
Insulin resistance is a major health issue that we are going to hear a lot more about as the more usual dietetic approach to this illness is challenged.
Top Ender
September 25, 2024 6:20 pm
More on Gareth Ward MP for anyone who can’t get past the paywall, because this boy knows how to entertain the voters:
The July incident is the latest time Mr Ward has been caught in a compromising position.
Ok 1:
In 2020, the then-Families Minister was twice escorted home by police after being found sleepwalking naked.
In a statement at the time, NSW Police said officers had located “naked man standing in the doorway of another unit”.
“After determining that was his residence, (police) escorted him inside.” Mr Ward, who had earlier been admitted to hospital for a medical procedure, said he did not remember the incident.
“I had a general anaesthetic. I was fine after the operation but when you go to sleep these things hit,” he said.
After all, who hasn’t gone sleepwalking naked?
Ok 2:
In 2017, he was targeted in a blackmail scam in New York after ordering a massage to his hotel room.
Mr Ward said he paid $US100 via an online website for a “normal, standard massage” and denied that he ordered a “special massage”.
The then-Parliamentary Secretary said “very aggressive” African-American men arrived at his room at 10.30pm offering sexual services, demanding money.
They always do that. Nothing to see here.
Ok 3.
Mr Ward was suspended from parliament in 2022 after being charged with a string of offences including rape, indecent assault, and common assault.
Yes indeed. They don’t call him “The Member” for Kiama for nothing.
He was re-elected at the 2023 election.
caveman
September 25, 2024 6:34 pm
Who had Gene Simmons from Kiss and Twiggy Forest for September, Promoting a battery powered mining truck in LAs Vegas.
Like WTF?
Not that it matters since the morons in the msm are leading the alarmist charge to destroy the West but here is a great rebuttal of the greenhouse notion and it’s role in man made global boiling; by my old mate, Aleksandr Zhitomirskiy:
Elon Musk has made his fortune selling glorified golf carts to severely educated simpletons. I’m dying to find his exit strategy from dumbdom.
I think he used to believe the AGW bullshit. However he has been red pilled severely and I suspect no longer buys into that very much.
Tesla has been very innovative not just in the “electric car” aspect but, in an industry already noted for streamlined mass production, has re-invented design and manufacturing processes.
Musk does slowly sell Tesla shares. SpaceX is worth well north of USD 100 billion and Musk has just over 50% of the votes and has completely upset the old aerospace industry paradigm. While Falcon 9 is made in a former aircraft factory, have a look at Starship. Nothing like an aircraft factory. It is a SHIP YARD. “When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.” Johannes Kepler
So interestingly we’re arriving at a situation where “communist China” might be today the best example of free-market ‘creative destruction,’
Dover, Arnie appears to be on hallucinogens.
There are nearly a dozen cases of disappearance of top business executives in recent years. However, the most sensational case was of Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, China’s most famous and outspoken entrepreneur, who suddenly went out of public view in 2020 after a regulatory clampdown started on his business empire.
Compare that with Musk, hated by the left and continues to win.
He’s being severely monstered by the US Government and various of it’s constituent criminal gangs like the FAA, SEC, EPA etc. If they thought they could get away with it they would disappear him.
It appears there is a push to ban Kellie-Jay Keen from this country. It’s all emanating from the ‘usual suspects’. Keen is due to speak at CPAC late next week.
Those mysterious clean cut music hall Grampian Nazis did a sterling job in smearing people.
Further to the little Johnny Pesutto/Moira Deeming legal imbroglio, a friend has said it best, he emailed me today to say that, after listening to Pesutto on and off this week in the witness box, he’d prefer that the criminal ALP stay in power rather than wimpy Pesutto ever become premier. My friend said that Pesutto is using his incompetence as his defence.
What a shitshow.
I also believe that Jeff Kennett, Matthew Guy, Georgie Crozier and David Southwick along with Pesutto are also to blame for this train wreck.
At some stage they will go one step too far and people will start to wake up to the Leftist agenda.
A quiet populace has the habit of suddenly putting up red lines to politicians who haven’t been listening – a lot like parents with ten year old’s, who find themselves grounded and then it occurs to them that they’d been being warned for quite some time, but hadn’t been listening…
Just wait till the Tickle vs Giggle hits the next level of Courts. Women will pretty much cease to exist.
Roger
September 25, 2024 7:02 pm
In SFL news, Deeming-Pesutto defamation trial edition:
It was revealed in cross-examination of Pesutto today that Jeff Kennett had promised to deny pre-selection to Lib parliamentarians who provided affadavits as evidence in support of Deeming.
It was revealed in cross-examination of Pesutto today that Jeff Kennett had promised to deny pre-selection to Lib parliamentarians who provided affadavits as evidence in support of Deeming.
In the West, you get caught in a sting operation headed by Epstein or Diddy and then your owned by the Regime.
How about avoiding sex with underage girls?
The most prominent business exec has had several marriages and relationships, yet Musk has never been accused of abhorrent sexual behaviour .
That’s one of the lamest arguments I’ve seen you put forward.
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Steve trickler
September 25, 2024 7:46 pm
What a totally f8cked up situation. Images have to be pixelated on the tube, yet children are exposed to the raw images at school.
Sure, which is why Beijing came out with a large economic support package. That’s because the economy is booming.
Setting that aside, he’s summarising someone there and it’s a view I’ve heard before. Time will tell who’s right or not.
Compare Jack Ma to Elon Musk.
132andBush
September 25, 2024 7:54 pm
It is actually a very smart move by the Russians if it was them. You immobilize a carrier group at an important time by hovelling it’s oil refueller. You also increase its vulnerability. And you do this without bringing about a massive escalation.
And for exactly how long do you think this will be kept secret?
A torpedo suggests a rather large, mid sized or smallish “boom”, the crew would know what happened.
And for exactly how long do you think this will be kept secret?
A torpedo suggests a rather large, mid sized or smallish “boom”, the crew would know what happened.
As long as they need. It’s not like they haven’t kept any secrets regarding past incidents.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2024 8:10 pm
Mark Dreyfus to address Israeli counter-terror summit on October 7 anniversaryBen Packham
39 minutes ago.
Updated 7 minutes ago
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will represent the government in Israel on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 terror attack, as Australia’s Jewish community warns “depraved” protesters to stay away from local vigils.
Mr Dreyfus, Labor’s most senior Jewish MP, is scheduled to attend a major counter-terrorism summit at Israel’s Reichman University from October 6-8, delivering a keynote address.
Scott Morrison will also address the Shabtai Shavit summit, and Coalition frontbenchers Andrew Hastie and Claire Chandler will attend memorial services.
Mr Dreyfus was asked to attend the summit by Anthony Albanese but the Attorney-General’s office cautioned the trip would be dependent on updated security advice amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Lebanese-based Hezbollah militants.
The Jewish community in Australia is planning memorial events across the country on October 7, and a candle-lighting ceremony in Sydney the night before. Details of the events are tightly held amid fears pro-Palestine groups will seek to disrupt them.
Anti-Israel groups are planning national rallies this Sunday, with a “Protest 365 days of genocide” march scheduled for October 6 in Sydney. https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/79fd70729fb5dbbee7c51d3339584f57
A flyer for a planned anti-Israel protest on October 6, 2024
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the plans gave an insight “into the depraved mindset of the pro-Palestine movement”.
“These people responded to the invasion of Israel by a hybrid force of terrorists and Gazan civilians, and the slaughter, torture, plunder and abduction of every Jew they could find, with unbridled jubilation,” he said.
“Only those with no humanity and no decency could react to atrocities in such a way.
“This past year has been the most challenging in the history of our community, and any attempts to desecrate any ceremony where we honour our dead and call for the release of those still alive would be utterly shameful.”
His comments came after hundreds of protesters draped in Lebanese flags and Palestinian scarves chanted their support for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group outside Sydney Town Hall on Tuesday night. The Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network, which backs coming rallies, declined to comment.
I’m not accusing Musk of anything. I was alluding to how influential people are compromised in the West.
Why are you alluding to something that never occurred. I didn’t say you accused Musk of something. I brought up Musk to contrast against Ma as both have moved against the government of the day. I also said Musk hasn’t been accused of sexual abhorrent acts.
I just find it astonishing that you seem to believe China’s economy is in good shape and is performing specularly. It’s not. This doesn’t mean the US is performing well with a chronic deficit and debt problem made worse by Hiden, but it’s in better shape than China.
I don’t think they or I have argued that China isn’t facing difficulties or structural readjustments.
Who is “they”? Arnie Bertrand? Have you switched to different pronouns? 🙂
Let’s stay focused on the topic. Arnie presents a highly skewed view of China.
Arnie implies that because the Chinese stock market is smaller, it is less vulnerable in a downturn. He overlooks the fact that financial markets, regardless of size, are often indicators of economic health.
He also suggests that China’s business environment is more of a free market than the U.S., ignoring that the U.S. hosts the largest and most advanced capital markets in the world.
Businesses fail in the U.S. daily—just look at Boeing recently.
In contrast, not toeing the regime’s line in China can land you in jail without trial.
If Epstein and Diddy were named Wang and Hua and had close ties to the CCP, they would still be attending the CCP plenary.
Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
September 25, 2024 8:36 pm
This Sydney tradie told his wife they would visit family abroad. Instead, he allegedly abandoned her in PakistanBy Amber SchultzSeptember 25, 2024 — 7.50pm
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A Sydney tradie has been charged with human trafficking after allegedly tricking his wife into travelling to Pakistan and abandoning her there without her passport.
Ali Rahimi was arrested on Wednesday morning following a nine-month joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The 29-year-old has been charged with one count of exit trafficking, a form of modern slavery in which women are deceived or coerced into leaving Australia and prevented from returning, an offense which carries a maximum penalty of 12 years’ imprisonment.
Wearing a faded black jacket and grey shirt, the Auburn-based tiler was granted bail at Burwood Local Court on Wednesday afternoon.
Police will allege Rahimi told his wife Sohalia they were travelling to his home country Afghanistan and then on to her home country Pakistan to see family in July 2023, and retained control of the pair’s tickets, passports and visas during the trip.
Rahami then allegedly said he was going back to Afghanistan to visit friends, leaving her in Pakistan without her passport. She later discovered in September 2023 that he had returned to Australia alone, police say.
I should have included this in my 1981 Carnravon post. Wilson and his family fed my brother and I on multiple occasions … for free.
We were tucked in the back corner of the front bar at the Port Hotel.
His entire family are wonderful people. Mum was behind the bar serving drinks.
It’s been 20 plus years since I spoke to them. Wilson would probably remember me.
I was the young chap doing bombies in the pool and sending water everywhere.
I copped a monumental spray from Wilson. STOP IT!
Good times.
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Sancho Panzer
September 25, 2024 8:41 pm
NFA
September 25, 2024 2:55 pm
Leigh Lowe
Your face looks worse than if a cat shat on it.
Your a gormless f*ckwith.
Going to America to collect the reward for his death?
Be about your style
I couldn’t agree more.
Who does this LeeLow guy think he is?
Two questions:-
1. Have you perfect the fraud scheme on Aboriginal welfare schemes yet?
2. Did you daddy gag when he was … you know … “fishing with you”?
Muddy
September 25, 2024 8:41 pm
Steven Hayward over at Powerline has a post heading which includes the phrase ‘toxic elites.’
I love it.
It’s about time we utilised adjectives as much as our pro-poverty, extremist opponents.
Winston Smith
September 25, 2024 8:42 pm
Eyrie
September 25, 2024 4:30 pm
I reckon we are somewhere between 8 and 18 on the Kahn scale.
I don’t see any of these levels currently shown.
Mind you, one of the criticisms of Khans work was that it was subjective and difficult to quantify. No scenario was going to progress from step 1 to step 2, then 3. It would jump around a fair bit.
I think you may be mistaking political posturing for the real thing.
My response to 132andBush’s 7:30 p.m. post (itself a response to a Rabz comment), re the Greenfilth:
They believe in a Master Class. Not a master race, which is far too broad, but a Master Class: Themselves. A cadre of the ultimate moral humans, driving the unwashed, the unworthy, and the unacceptable to a pre-destined fate. A Dalekian fate.
It seems the Big Horn had been looking after two carrier strike groups up until very recently, in other words an unusually high tempo of operation.
I’m betting it was a breakdown and/or crew fatigue. It’s not the only USN ship to have a grounding in recent times.
It also wouldn’t be the first vessel to be damaged either.
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John H.
September 25, 2024 9:12 pm
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare
September 25, 2024 6:19 pm
On health matters, I am quite fond of The Glucose Goddess as a communicator about the complex biochemistry of insulin resistance, the cause of much obesity and type 2 diabetes in modern societies – she is a biochemist who can speak in good metaphors, as she does here in an interview on the basics of her approach.
Insulin resistance is a major health issue that we are going to hear a lot more about as the more usual dietetic approach to this illness is challenged.
I’ve read enough about insulin resistance. Unfortunately measuring insulin is not covered under a full blood count. Last week a surprising report regarding one cause: a “molecular mesh” that prevents insulin finding the receptor. A proxy for insulin resistance: fasting glucose challenge.
Yes, this young woman does speak of how to proxy insulin resistance with a simple blood glucose test or the new continuous monitors, but also and ideally with a fasting blood glucose challenge (I have had both tests more than a few times). Her blog is sweetly youthful in its style, messianic in its hope for food system improvement, but her metaphors re the complex cellular responses including GLP-1 and its use in Ozempic are good for all. She unpicks the various up and down regulation factors in a very clear and explanatory manner for non-scientists. The chat is an hour long but well worth listening to for that period if you suspect you have serious insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, or if female, PCOS or menopausal issues. She backs her material with mostly referreed genuinely scientific studies, often cutting edge ones, as well as her own findings, all discussed in her influential book. Avoiding insulin resistance of course underpins the success of popular dietary advices such as ‘carnivore’ or ‘keto’, but her methods also apply to any sort of diet people may choose to follow which result in ‘glucose spikes’ and which can be managed by simple procedural techniques without major dietary changes.
The oiler carries fuel for the aircraft, BoN. They go through a hell of a lot and a carrier is NOT the place to carry as much highly combustible fuel and explosives as possible. They carry what they need for the mission and rely on resupply.
It’s like the civil aircraft. A 747 can carry a lot more fuel than it does. Beyond its immediate needs, + a diversion supply, +a 10%? just in case supply, is all it carries.
A thousand tonnes of kero would be enough for something like twenty missions for the entire air wing. That amount of kerosene would be a drop in a bucket in a carrier.
On the other hand those carriers are at top alertness in case the Iranians launch a big strike, so having extra jet fuel for resupply would be a high priority.
In today’s Oz, Janet A has written a blistering piece excoriating the BCA and woke businesses and corporates. Whilst I enjoyed reading her piece, and of course I agreed with almost every word she wrote, there’s nothing in her piece that we here on the Cat, over the years, haven’t said about virtue signalling woke corporates and the BCA.
This blog is off the pace. As has been observed previously.
John H.
September 25, 2024 9:33 pm
132andBush
September 25, 2024 7:54 pm
It is actually a very smart move by the Russians if it was them. You immobilize a carrier group at an important time by hovelling it’s oil refueller. You also increase its vulnerability. And you do this without bringing about a massive escalation.
And for exactly how long do you think this will be kept secret?
A torpedo suggests a rather large, mid sized or smallish “boom”, the crew would know what happened.
Talk about cope.
It struck me as an incredulous idea. Modern torpedoes are designed to break the spine of the ship.
That particular type has a very obvious effect – that being the creation of an explosive vacuum under the keel centre, with the bow and stern supported. The ship breaks in two and sinks in less than a minute. Total destruction.
Acoustic torpedoes explode just behind the propellors and smash them and the drive shafts, leaving the vessel dead in the water. Perhaps it can be salvaged as the convoy continues on. Remember that the Germans and British created the technology in ’43 at the same time.
Probably even the Yemini Navy has a few.
With absolutely zero mil-value-add, this sounds like a massive systemic US logistical cockup. Like everyone else, I’ve no idea how the Big Horn rudder compartment was damaged, but, unless it was a sooper-special very, very gentle torpedo, nobody would be in any doubt that an explosion had occurred.
In other ArmChairPundit news:
The 2024 October Suprise (and revenge on Israel/Great Satan) may be Iran withdrawing from the NPT – blaming Israel and the US for their ‘horrible behaviours’, while offering to climb down as equals – and changing the ME nuclear calculus forever. With general quiet approval and tacit support of those who hate the West.
Looking at Iran’s nuclear program through an energy prism, there is zero technical reason for (massively expensively) enriching uranium to 60% U238 other than to present a threat of two weeks to Bomb Grade.
Time to shine, Ayatollahs; before your poxy proxies are turned to mince.
More from RFK
And this is what could get us to the golden age.
FMD I hope he wins.
At the end of 2016, the National Debt was $16 Trillion. As we near the end of 2024, it’s $35 Trillion. Are the streets and highways of America now paved with gold? Where did the extra $19 Trillion go? How many new hospitals did we build? How many new Schools? How many new state-of-the art food processing plants?
For more than three decades Washington has engaged in a series of open-ended conflicts with unattainable political-military objectives; armed struggles disguised as crusades for democracy that were designed to achieve American military hegemony. Thirty years later, the outcome is a world full of nations brimming with hatred for the American People, a ruined economy and a military establishment that American men refuse to join.
Former President Donald Trump recognizes the tragedy of the warfare state said so quite clearly: “The United States should not reject cooperating with Russia and China, Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump said. “Doing business with China is a good thing, but you need a fair deal. Doing business with Russia – they have so much raw minerals… We can do great business and keep everybody happy,” Trump said during a rally in Flint, Michigan. He reiterated that he had good relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. On September 16, Trump said in an interview that he does not consider Russia and China enemies of the United States. He promised to get along with these countries if he gets elected as a president.”
If President Trump pursues this path he will save America and win the Nobel Peace Prize!
Boambee John
September 25, 2024 10:13 pm
Re the USNS Big Horn, if it was hit by a torpedo, it must have been a very small torpedo. Those things are designed to sink ships, not put small holes in them.
I recall a description of one Soviet torpedo in the 1980s: “It’s a real ship killer.”
Re the USNS Big Horn, if it was hit by a torpedo, it must have been a very small torpedo. Those things are designed to sink ships, not put small holes in them.
It wouldn’t be the first time a torpedo hit disables but doesn’t sink a ship. Modern ships are not easy to sink.
Oiler/Replenishment vessels have great fire fighting capabilities, but the crew, IIRC, are civilians, are they not? I’m not sure on that one.
My firefighting capabilities would be how quickly can I get to the lifeboat with the fastest engine.
That’s why the Soviets developed that “ship killer” (in the 1980s, as I mentioned). An oiler would have lost more than a rudder and some engine room plating.
Steve trickler
September 26, 2024 12:32 am
I’m easily entertained. Smiles galore from people in the street.
BTW, the amusing thing about people’s incredulity regarding the torpedo speculation is the seeming credulity regarding it ‘running aground’ while at sea with the carrier group.
How does the Irish public elect such a foul government? The same way we do!
Steve trickler
September 26, 2024 5:07 am
How is this for a story. Mum and Dad got divorced and we moved to Perth to live with Oma. Mum enrolled me at the local school.
I opened the door and their she was. My teacher from Carnarvon! We hugged. She was my second mum.
Memories.
KevinM
September 26, 2024 5:21 am
Milton, read this link on your post, it’s even more disturbing.
Those bloody Israelis have just started yet another war. Or so I hear from journalists curdled by our toxic victim politics.
Much of the coverage is stunning in its ignorance – or omissions.
Exhibit A: The ABC announces “Israel unleashes heavy strikes on Lebanon”. No, this is not an attack on Lebanon. Israel is instead firing back at the Hezbollah terrorist army that’s overrun a third of that country.
Exhibit B: Sky News UK tweets that “Hezbollah has been provoked like never before by Israel and may be tempted to unleash its firepower”.
No, it’s exactly the other way around. Israel has been provoked by Hezbollah firing 8000 missiles and rockets in just the past year, and now unleashes its firepower.
But up bobs our Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, demanding Israel stop: “Escalation is in no one’s interest”.
Really? As I said seven months ago, after speaking to leading Israeli military experts and politicians, Israel would eventually hit back at Hezbollah because it has a country to save.
This war with Hezbollah didn’t start last week, when Israel detonated up to 5000 booby-trapped pagers which Hezbollah had issued to its fighters.
Hezbollah, funded by fascist Iran, has been attacking Israel for years – attacking Lebanese Christians, too, as it turned Beirut from the “Paris of the Middle East” to another Middle Eastern slum.
It’s built an army of up to 100,000 men, separate to the Lebanese army, and hidden an armoury of more than 120,000 missiles and rockets, all destined for Israeli targets.
Since October 7, it’s fired dozens of them almost daily into northern Israel, forcing 60,000 Israelis to flee their homes. One missile killed 12 Druze children in an Israeli playground.
But Israel’s leaders feared even worse. It knew Hezbollah also had plans to do its own October 7 on Israel, but bigger.
Was Israel meant to endure all this forever?
Wong says Israel should negotiate, as if it’s possible to make a genuine deal with Islamist terrorists who’ve vowed to wipe Israel off the map as an abomination.
Look what happened to the deal the United Nations reaffirmed in 2006 to keep southern Lebanon free of Hezbollah military and weapons up to the Litani river.
The UN even sent peacekeepers, yet that area now bristles with Hezbollah.
Not that many reporters see the con. TV reporters now groan that Israel is bombing homes of Lebanese civilians, without them notice something odd about the footage of several such attacks – footage I’ve shown on my Sky News Australia show.
There’s often the initial explosion from an Israeli missile, followed by a chain of explosions as Hezbollah missiles, rockets and bombs hidden inside go off.
Don’t these journalists wonder why Hezbollah would store explosives right next to people’s homes?
The answer is easy. Like Hamas, Hezbollah doesn’t mind Israel killing Muslim civilians. Hamas doesn’t even build bomb shelters for its people.
That’s because every dead civilian is terrorist propaganda to get western journalists and politicians to attack the wicked Jews.
So it’s Israel, not Hezbollah, that sends Lebanese civilians warnings on their phones to stay 1km away from Hezbollah sites.
Long lines of cars now snake out of Hezbollah strongholds. I’m sure Israel still accidentally kills civilian men, women and children, but do journalists actually check Hezbollah claims of war crimes?
America’s ABC, for instance, reports: “Lebanese journalist’s home hit by Israeli strike during news interview”. I’ve seen the footage of Fadi Boudaya being blown off his chair. Israel targeting a journalist!
What’s not reported is that Boudaya heads a Hezbollah propaganda arm. The Iranian regime’s official mouthpiece, the Islamic Republic News Agency, says his “Maraya international magazine takes steps in line with Resistance policies”.
This anti-Israel spin isn’t just ignorance. It’s also a product of the West’s cancerous culture of victimhood, where the poor are always the victim, never the authors of their misery. Israel, being rich and Western, must of course be the villain. That it’s clever and rich enough that it kills more fighters than it loses is seen as just more proof that it’s evil.
That’s why Israel cannot even be forgiven now for defending itself from an enemy that’s fired thousands of rockets into its towns.
As if. The only time the Left really sympathised with Israel was just after millions of Jews were slaughtered. When Jews fight back, not so much.
But Israel isn’t into being the victim any more. It would rather fight than die, whatever Penny Wong may say.
Israel latest p18-19
On point and in the print media.
Where it needs to be.
ACTIVISTS WANT BENEFITS WHILE DELIVERING ALL THE BLAME
Andrew Bolt 26 Sep 2024
Jim Everett is one of the Aboriginal activists who still don’t realise how things have changed since Australians voted No to the Voice.
Many Australians have had it with racial division, with chancers playing the race card. And now they say so.
Yet there’s Everett, poet and former Aboriginal Liaison Officer in Tasmania’s government, refusing this week to turn up to a court hearing on charges over an anti-logging protest.
This court had no say over Aborigines, declared Everett: “The colonial court of Tasmania has no jurisdiction over my actions to protect Palawa law in country”.
Everett has boasted he has an “Aboriginal passport”, issued by the so-called Aboriginal Provisional Government, but his rejection of our colonial system goes only so far.
He also keeps an Australian passport “so that I can get money, jobs, Centrelink, the age pension”.
So Everett doesn’t want colonial courts, but does want colonial money, colonial jobs and all the rest. He rejects our rule of law, but wants the riches it produces – including Aboriginal activists.
This is an important point, because Everett represents a wider faux-rejection of Australia and its Western civilisation.
States like Victoria even want to negotiate “treaties” with people identifying as “First Nations”, as if they, too, aren’t Australians. The Albanese government appointed a “First Nations Ambassador”, as if Aborigines now need their own diplomatic representation.
This is a dead-end movement fed by endless counting of scabs and scars, not blessings.
Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo was at it again yesterday, still blaming colonialism for all the dysfunction we see in Aboriginal communities: “These things are not to do with Indigenous culture”.
Really? None of the violence, domestic abuse and child neglect that’s worst in remote Aboriginal communities – where Aboriginal culture is strongest – has anything to do with Aboriginal culture?
This fashion of damning and rejecting colonial culture is a fraud. Many activists I see pushing the new separatist agenda seem to me to be enjoying the fruits of colonialism while hating the tree.
I see black-identifying academics in comfortable university jobs. I see the nattily-suited Mayo – actually with substantial Filipino, Dayak, Polish, Jewish and English ancestry as well – flogging his latest book. I see race-baiting Lidia Thorpe, paid well as a Senator, lolling in the Qantas chairman’s lounge. I see Everett, insisting on his right to welfare benefits no Aboriginal “nation” had.
None strike me as serious. They rage against society, but would do more good by giving thanks for the luxuries in which they now recline.
There are people in our world who would suck the blood from leeches, and hollow spectators who applaud the same as performance art.
KevinM
September 26, 2024 6:10 am
Quite rightly so.
Satin is made from synthetic fiber and is not breathable. Pure silk on the other hand is breathable and temperature regulating which means it would keep you cool on a hot night and warm on a cold one.
Biden’s UN curtain call lays bare his biggest foreign policy blunders Adam Creighton 26 Sep 2024
President Joe Biden’s swan song at the UN on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) amounted to little more than a futile attempt to dress up his foreign policy failures across the past few years.
The surge in international conflicts, of course, can’t all be sheeted home to the Biden administration, but the world has become an undeniably more dangerous place since he came to office.
America’s prestige has sunk, both inside and outside the country. The share of Americans who think the rest of the world looks on their country with optimism has halved from 79 per cent 20 years ago to 42 per cent this year, according to regular Gallup surveys.
In highly populous countries such as India, China and Bangladesh, most of Africa and the Middle East, most voters view Russia at least as favourably as the US, which is a shocking indictment given Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Prabowo Subianto, the incoming president of Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation, jetted off to Moscow in late July to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The central problem here for the US is its increasing hypocrisy on foreign policy issues, with the gap between the Biden administration’s rhetoric and its behaviour becoming wider and wider.
The Russia-Ukraine war has gone on much longer than the Middle East conflict, killed many more people and, arguably, presents a far greater risk of a nuclear confrontation. But apparently it is Israel that should make greater efforts to make a lasting peace with its neighbours.
As is the case with most US presidents, Biden’s UN speech sought to present his foreign policy decisions as motivated by the high principles of democracy, peace, sovereignty and the rule of law.
But even a cursory glance shows it is related far more to US self-interest. The US has no interest in a wider war in the Middle East into which it could be drawn to protect Israel. It does have an interest, however, in “weakening Russia to the point where it can’t do the things it has been doing”, as US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said. And what better way to do that than paying another country to do the fighting? This is brutal realpolitik; certainly not the actions of a selfless global power, concerned with the maintenance of liberal internationalism.
“Full-scale war (in the Middle East) is not in anyone’s interest. Even as the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible,” Biden said in his UN speech.
Earlier this month, former US State Department mandarin Victoria Nuland intimated what Ukrainian negotiators have already revealed: that the US and Britain pressured Ukraine to tear up a tentative April 2022 peace treaty with Russia on terms that, in hindsight, look favourable.
Of course this is how powerful nations behave. But genuine attempts for global peace surely would benefit if the US dialled down the hypocrisy, which can only infuriate its closest allies.
In 1972, when Biden entered the US Senate, the world had to put up with constant claims of America’s moral superiority. After all, the US was by far the richest and freest nation, comprising about a third of the global GDP in purchasing power terms.
Now that share has fallen to 15 per cent, while the stark ideological divisions of the Cold War have withered away. Indeed, the US is starting to look more like Europe, even China, with its burgeoning national security apparatus frequently found to be spying on citizens and foreigners alike.
Many US states, including the largest ones, sought to copy China’s totalitarian response to Covid-19. The free speech protections that so distinguished the US look set to be watered down in the event Kamala Harris wins the presidential election in November. Her vice-presidential running mate, Tim Walz, already has signalled a government crackdown on so-called misinformation.
This month, unnamed intelligence officials revealed that Washington was concerned about the possibility Russia could sever undersea cables, which must have triggered guffaws in Moscow. This, after the US had (at the very least) advance knowledge, according to The Wall Street Journal, of the biggest act of industrial sabotage ever – the blowing up the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines.
In what must have prompted further hilarity around the same time, Washington scolded Russia for interfering in US elections after the US Justice Department alleged a few so-called right-wing commentators had accepted a little under $US6m from state broadcaster Russia Today via another US media company.
Moscow’s purchase of a couple of hundred thousand dollars’ worth of Facebook ads ahead of the 2016 election was probably money better spent in a bid to influence a presidential election where the two major parties spend tens of billions of dollars.
Moscow’s and Beijing’s piddling, primitive efforts to influence the US election pale in comparison to American efforts across decades to influence other countries’ elections, extending to toppling democratically elected governments not to Washington’s taste.
The US has even admitted to spending $US5bn between 1991 and 2013 in Ukraine, an astonishing sum in local currency terms, for “building democracy”. In a famous 2018 interview on Fox News with Laura Ingraham, former CIA director James Woolsey flat out admitted the US meddled in other countries’ elections and continued to do so “only for a good cause”.
None of this is lost on the rest of the world. A Pew survey from June last year found 82 per cent of people in 23 nations thought the US interfered in the affairs of other countries.
In short, the US should stop insisting it’s the pope of all nations, and acknowledge that it is motivate by self interest. The moralising, supercilious US foreign policy establishment hated Trump as president because he sought to establish good personal relations with the leaders of Russia, North Korea and others. “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?” he said to a stunned Bill O’Reilly in 2017, refusing to insult Putin as president.
For all its faults, the US remains a benevolent empire. But, ironically, it could burnish its influence by dialling down the hypocrisy as it navigates an increasingly complex and dangerous 21st-century landscape.
A twisted killer who was serving a three-decade jail sentence for the violent slaying of a 16-year-old boy has been stabbed to death in prison.
Aymen Terkmani is understood to have been set upon by an attacker inside Lithgow Jail on Wednesday afternoon, who stabbed him with a sharp weapon.
Prison officers tried to perform first aid on Terkmani as he may bleeding in his cell, before an attempt was made to fly him to hospital in a helicopter but he died en route.
The 31-year-old was jailed for a minimum of 33 years for the horror murder of Mahmoud Hrouk in 2015, in which he lured his victim to a vacant home in Sydney’s west and sexually assaulted him, before bashing him to death.
I pray this bloke got a toaster cord up the date before he got shanked.
If memory serves the victim was a lad who went missing in Fairfield East (Villawood area) & discovered several dayz later in a, nearby, abandoned house ..
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Bruce of Newcastle
September 26, 2024 6:45 am
Speaking of ships damaging their rudder when going aground, this one is still trying to get to a port, any port. There just this tiny problem though.
An enormous damaged Russian cargo ship carrying 20,000 tonnes of highly explosive ammonium nitrate has ‘anchored’ off the Kent coast just miles from London and seemingly heading for the English Channel.
The MV Ruby, which was refused entry into the Baltic Sea by Danish authorities earlier this week, has travelled south and is now just a few miles from the English coast and the Thames Estuary. …
According to the Marine Traffic site, the Russian ship is now heading for Malta, but according to the newspaper Malta Today a spokesperson for the transport ministry said it would not be allowed to dock on the Mediterranean island if it is carrying the explosive cargo.
Confirming the Russian ship had asked for servicing help, they said: “The ship will only be allowed to port in Malta if it empties the cargo, if not, it will not be allowed to enter Maltese territorial waters.”
You can see why ports might be a tad leery of letting dock a ship loaded with enough ammonium nitrate to cause a nuclear-sized explosion…
The black market probably has links to the politicians who set excise to ridiculous levels.
Prohibition #2
Winston Smith
September 26, 2024 6:51 am
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2024 9:57 pm
A thousand tonnes of kero would be enough for something like twenty missions for the entire air wing. That amount of kerosene would be a drop in a bucket in a carrier.
It’s the fire risk – not the space available that is the first consideration.
IIRC, the USN lost a carrier during WW2 due to two factors. The overstocking of fuel for the aircraft, and the specialisation of the fire fighting teams. The ?Kamikaze took out the vast majority of the firefighters, and because it was assumed they’d deal with the fires, the crew weren’t trained up.
Scratch one flattop whose name escapes me even though I can see the photograph of the vessel burning in my memory.
Probably the USS Franklin, hit off Okinawa. Some 800 of the crew were killed, but the ship was saved and returned to the USA under he own power. The film of Franklin burning from bow to stern is dramatic.
She was scrapped, as the end of the war meant that repair was unnecessary.
USS Bunker Hill was also hit off Okinawa, losing around 400 dead. IIRC, she was repaired and brought back into service.
Another possible candidate was the USS Princeton, hit during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and later scuttled by her own crew.
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Vicki
September 26, 2024 7:03 am
Just a light drizzle out west here. BOM gets it wrong again. The BOM girlie on breakfast TV primarily talking about Sydney which is getting a bit of coastal drenching but contradictory report on what rural NSW can expect. Admittedly it can change rapidly & we use YR which is generally accurate.
Video Summary### Summary In the Lex Fridman Podcast episode featuring Vivek Ramaswamy, the conversation delves into a variety of pressing political topics, including conservatism, progressivism, government bureaucracy, foreign policy, and immigration. Ramaswamy emphasizes the need for a revitalized conservative vision in America, articulating criticisms of both the current political establishment and progressive ideologies. He discusses the challenge of political narratives and the role of government in people’s lives, advocating for a significant reduction in federal bureaucracy and the termination of what he refers to as the “Nanny State.” The dialogue also encompasses Ramaswamy’s perspectives on foreign relations, particularly regarding Russia and China, and highlights his approach to engaging in open debates with those who hold opposing views. ### Key Points by Sections **Introduction (0:00)** – Vivek Ramaswamy is introduced as a conservative politician and author. – He ran for president and aims to offer a vision for the future of conservatism in America. **Conservatism (2:02)** – Modern conservatism lacks a clear vision and focus on what it stands for. – Emphasizes key conservative ideals: meritocracy, free speech, self-governance, and rule of law. – Urges a revival of America’s foundational values and a national identity anchored in civic nationalism. **Progressivism (5:18)** – Acknowledges the progressive argument that American ideals have not been fully achieved due to historical injustices. – Offers a counterargument highlighting that pursuing progressive policies often rekindles the same problems they aim to solve. **Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (10:52)** – Ramaswamy critiques the DEI framework for sacrificing meritocracy and genuine diversity of thought. – Argues that DEI practices promote divisions rather than unity. **Bureaucracy (15:45)** – Views bureaucracy as a significant impediment to effective governance. – Proposes a drastic reduction (75%) of federal bureaucratic positions to restore self-governance. **Government Efficiency (22:36)** – Stresses the need for government efficiency and accountability, advocating for a substantial cut in government size. – Suggests sending bureaucrats home and rescinding unnecessary regulations. **Education (37:46)** – Calls for rethinking education policy, suggesting that state and local governments should handle it rather than the federal level. – Emphasizes the importance of educational choice. **Military-Industrial Complex (52:11)** – Critiques the current military spending levels and urges a shift towards defending the homeland rather than foreign engagements. – Advocates for a clear strategy to address threats posed by alliances like Russia and China. ### Other Notable Topics – Ramaswamy discusses the need for immigration reform based on honesty and rule of law. – He highlights the importance of rebuilding national identity and pride in American citizenship. – Addresses strategic considerations for U.S. foreign policy in light of global challenges posed by China and Russia. – Ramaswamy expresses optimism about the potential for future political endeavors, particularly if a conducive political landscape emerges. Overall, Vivek Ramaswamy’s conversation with Lex Fridman offers a comprehensive perspective on various issues facing America today, framing his arguments with a blend of critique, vision, and personal anecdotes that reflect his views on leadership and governance.
The Greens, which currently make up one third of the “traffic light” coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, have suffered a severe decline in popularity as the public’s attitude towards issues like mass migration and the green agenda have soured.
This trend has been particularly noticeable among young voters, with the Greens losing a staggering 74.1 per cent of its support among 16 to 24 year olds in Brandenburg, falling by 20 percentage points from 2019 to just seven per cent support among the age group. Meanwhile, the anti-mass migration populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) increased its vote share among young people by 14 points to 32 per cent.
The rampant antisemitism that Greens have revealed this year probably doesn’t help either.
The trend has been particularly noticeable among young voters, with the Greens losing a staggering 74.1 per cent of its support among 16 to 24 year olds
Would it be presumptuous to suggest that the young people have finally realised that their Euro elders mean them harm? Perhaps there’s hope for them yet.
Winston, would the USN passively detect a torpedo launch?
The oilers rely on other ships for defence – they carry very little defensive or offensive armament, and very little in the way of detection gear.
The oiler wouldn’t know Jack Shit until the torpedo exploded. But passive detection by the escorts? Depending where the escorts are, but yes if they were in a convoy formation, with a couple of subs in attendance, the sound of the torpedo bay being flooded and the opening of the hatch would stand out like the proverbial.
But if – as someone pointed out yesterday – she was between two Battle Groups, she would have been a sitting duck.
1735099
September 26, 2024 7:19 am
The Kamikaze took out the vast majority of the firefighters, and because it was assumed they’d deal with the fires, the crew weren’t trained up.
That culture (over specialisation) was a part of US military culture 54 years ago. I hadn’t realised it went back to WW2, although I remember my father (RAAF – PNG WW2) talking about it. As we stay in the classics, they had all the gear and no idea.
When expanding forces by orders of magnitude, generalist training for everyone takes too long. Specialisation produces personnel trained to do specific jobs to complement others trained for other specific jobs.
Simple example of which you should be aware. NS officers received six months training to become platoon commanders or equivalent.
Regular officers received either 12 months at Portsea or four years at Duntroon, because they were expected to carry out a wider range of duties, at higher ranks as they progressed in the Army.
Try not to let your rabid anti-Americanism blind you to reality.
Video Summary### Summary In this episode of Triggernometry featuring historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, the conversation addresses the politicization of history education, the myths surrounding British history, and the legacy of the British Empire. Heydel-Mankoo critiques contemporary narratives that portray the British as uniquely culpable for historical injustices, including slavery and colonialism, while arguing that the British Empire has also contributed positively to global development. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of accessing original historical sources and critical thinking to build a balanced understanding of history. Additionally, the discussion explores demographic changes in modern Britain and their implications for societal cohesion, alongside the challenges of integrating diverse communities. ### Key Points #### 1. **Corrupted, Politicized History Education (0:40)** – The current educational system promotes a biased narrative influenced by leftist ideologies. – Historians from conservative backgrounds are significantly underrepresented in academia. – The skewed perspectives in education hinder students’ ability to critically evaluate history. #### 2. **Seek Out Actual Historical Sources (4:00)** – To gain a more accurate understanding of history, one should read primary sources, memoirs, and diverse viewpoints. – It is crucial to balance historical narratives by exploring both left-leaning and alternative perspectives. #### 3. **Debunking Historical Myths (5:05)** – There are prevalent myths about British history that need to be challenged, such as the portrayal of Britain as solely culpable for colonialism and slavery. – Historical narratives should not be judged by contemporary standards but understood within their context. #### 4. **Why the British Empire Was Great (7:39)** – The British Empire, while imperfect, contributed positively to many societies, promoting democracy, infrastructure, and the abolition of slavery. – Comparatively, the British Empire was more benign than other empires in history. #### 5. **The Revolution Has Already Happened (11:00)** – Modern society has undergone a cultural revolution that complicates discussions about history and national identity. – Current norms in education and media reflect a shift towards critiquing traditional narratives and figures. #### 6. **Economic Impact of Ending Slavery (12:41)** – The British voluntarily impoverished themselves to abolish slavery, a morally significant but underappreciated act of courage. #### 7. **Surprising Historical Facts (13:24)** – Many students are shocked to learn about the wider context of slavery and the numerous instances of slavery occurring throughout human history. #### 8. **Demographic Changes and Their Effects (Final Section)** – The UK’s demographic shifts present challenges for national unity and integration. – Large-scale immigration has led to isolated communities, complicating societal cohesion. – The discussion calls for a reevaluation of how integration and community-building can be fostered amid increasing diversity. Overall, the episode presents a defense of British history against current critical narratives and a call to recognize both the positive and negative impacts of historical actions, emphasizing the need for balanced and informed discussions about the past.
Imagine the types of lies that Numbers inculcated in school kids during his time with Queensland education.
Diogenes
September 26, 2024 7:28 am
Scratch one flattop whose name escapes me even though I can see the photograph of the vessel burning in my memory.
Getting a few things muddled together. It was Battle of Coral Sea. The burnt out US carrier was Lexington. The DCO on Yorktown saw Lexington burning and realised why/how and suggested purging hanger fuel lines with CO2. Suggestion taken up by the time of Midway, US never lost a carrier thee same way through the war. Japs never caught on to the trick.
Scratch one flat top refers to the sinking of the Shoho.
On USn ships every sailor was trained in damage control. Not so the IJN.
Thanks for that, I was getting ready to post the same.
The Yanks losing the Lexington was a catalyst for a number of changes in ammo/ fuel handling in action.
Plus their ” every man a firefighter” approach to damage control was paradoxically better than a specialist team of lower numbers.
The fires on Lexington were nothing like the scale of those on Franklin and Bunker Hill.
132andBush
September 26, 2024 7:30 am
Big Horn would be near the carrier group. The carrier group would be some distance from the coast. Upon what exactly would it have ‘run aground’?
Why?
She’d be running between the fleet and a resup base.
Roger
September 26, 2024 7:34 am
RBA calls time on the headline inflation political racket
Simon Benson, The Australian, 24 2024
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers can forget about a pre-Christmas interest rate cut. Michele Bullock has reiterated everything the Albanese government doesn’t want to hear. Inflation is still running too hot. And it won’t be back into a sustainable band until 2026.
The RBA boss also made the subtle point that even if Wednesday’s monthly inflation data shows better headline inflation figures, it was unlikely to make any difference. In other words, the Treasurer can whinge and moan all he likes but unless the root cause of the problem is dealt with, mortgage holders are going to continue to cop it. And with Newspoll showing housing costs overwhelmingly dominating cost-of-living concerns, this is bad news for Labor.
Bullock has said it before and clearly believes it is worth repeating. It is the underlying inflation trend that needs to be brought under control. This doesn’t need much decoding.
When Bullock said she wasn’t buying into the politics – responding to Wayne Swan’s past commentary – you can bet she was also referring to the Albanese government’s attempts to buy itself better headline inflation numbers through energy subsidies. Bullock isn’t for turning on any of it. The board remained “resolute”, she said, in terms of the inflation problem. Headline inflation is tipped to dip below 3 per cent in Wednesday’s numbers, and well within the RBA’s 2-3 per cent target band.
While Chalmers has set this as the new political benchmark, it isn’t the benchmark that is going to tip an interest-rate cut.
Bullock continues to bell the cat on this political myth-making. “That is important because it’s reflecting cost-of-living relief, it is reflected in the prices that people are seeing,” she said. “It’s not really reflective of the underlying inflation pulse, which is more what are we observing happening with services, really, which is the crux of the matter. Progress in getting underlying inflation down has slowed, and it’s likely to have remained slow in the September quarter.”
Underlying all this is the productivity problem. Chalmers has said this couldn’t be solved quickly yet the government has not articulated a plan to lift it.
“Wages growth has passed its peak, but it remains high relative to productivity growth, which has been weak for some time,” Bullock says.
This is the key to lifting the living standards crisis. So what does this all mean for the political cycle? Even if a December election was still on the cards, it isn’t anymore. Labor will have to sweat on a lot of things going right post-January for a pre-election rate cut. Without one, its prospects will diminish more rapidly than they already are.
Ironically, to guarantee inflation and rates come down would require the government to do the exact opposite of what it is doing – spending. And with an election campaign to think of, the government is hardly likely to do that.
It’s the astronomical immigration which is putting all sorts of pressures on the economy. I’m thinking we may become the first country to go under while the GDP keeps going up.
Government spending/money creation and government interference in the price signal from the markets.
Along with excess immigration, these are the problems they refuse to deal with because it would mean they were wrong.
And that, my friend is just not on.
“If there’s anything more important than my ego on this ship, I want it caught and shot now.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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1735099
September 26, 2024 7:38 am
I found this oldish piece by Gerard hendeson, weitten at the time of the 50th anniversay of the end of Australia’s committment in Vietnam.
Gerard’s contributions are in italics – He set out to debunk myths, but created a few of his own –
“All Australian men and women who served in Vietnam arrived in that nation at ports or on airfields controlled by the anti-communist government in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City). There was no invasion.”
Depends what you mean by “invasion”, Gerard. When I arrived in Vietnam I disembarked from HMAS Sydney aboard a landing craft. Nobody was shooting at us, but to any dispassionate observer the activity would have looked very much like an invasion.
When I went out on operations with my infantry unit, we moved through country that was not controlled by the South Vietnamese government. That was why we were armed, patrolled without noise, and put out sentries at night. We behaved exactly like an invading army.
“The conflict between communist North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam was concluded in April 1975 when the North Vietnamese Army, with assistance of the Viet Cong in South Vietnam, who supported the Hanoi regime, conquered Saigon.”
To call North Vietnamese “Communist” and South Vietnam “Non – Communist” is a gross over-simplification. Vietnam was essentially a war of national liberation, a point made by our current Governor-General (who served in Vietnam as a platoon commander) when he was interviewed by the ABC on 19 March 2012. From the interview with Peter Cosgrove –
EPSTEIN: Does that mean that you think the war was fought tactically wrong or the perception that the perceived communist threat required an Australian response in Vietnam, was that perception incorrect?
COSGROVE: I don’t think the political environment inside South Vietnam was conducive to an enduring democratic state. I think the people in Vietnam across the board, ultimately seemed to prefer self-determination rather than the presence of a large number of foreign troops.
Obviously, Gerard has a different view of the history than someone who participated in it, and has an experience of the military reality.
“The star performer in the Ratcliffe package was Bowden. He complained that he could not get all his reports from Vietnam run on the public broadcaster at the time and provided the following explanation: “At that stage the (ABC) news executives were mostly old newspaper men, a lot of Catholics, and they saw the war as a holy crusade.”
What Bowden reports is accurate. Gerard has obviously forgotten B A Santamaria. Without the influence of the Movement, and the Catholic Right in the DLP, it is debatable whether the Coalition would have stayed in power long enough to send conscripts to a war in a foreign country in peacetime. Tell me, Gerard, when in our history has this been done before or since?
As for ” few, if any, supporters of Australia’s Vietnam commitment regarded it as a “holy crusade” Gerard was obviously not attending Sunday mass in a conservative diocese and listening to sermons about the evils of Communism as I was back then before I was called up.
“This focus on the Vietnam protest movement overlooks the fact most Australians supported the commitment.”
Again, a complete over simplification. There were two issues. One was sending troops to Vietnam, the other was conscription. Support for the commitment was initially strong, but began to wane during and after the Moratorium marches which took place in 1970, the year I was in Vietnam.
Support for conscription was never strong, and when the two issues became conflated, it became apparent very quickly, that community support for the troops was no longer there. That was an untenable situation, and Vietnam veterans suffered almost as much when they came home as they did in theatre. The government in power at the time bears as much responsibility for this situation as the anti war protestors. They conscripted us and sent us – not the protestors.
“As Edwards acknowledges, the US-led Vietnam commitment delayed a communist victory by 10 years — much to the benefit of nations such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. This was also to Australia’s advantage.”
There is another way of looking at this. The continued support of a series of corrupt “governments” in South Vietnam may have simple prolonged the agony, and contributed to the millions of civilian casualties, and the hundreds of thousands who fled the country in boats post the 1975 capitulation.
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History is sacred, Gerard, especially to those who lived it.
I get into the office this morning and the automatic news feed that every new has a Sky News story from 21 hours ago clamouring that a Reuters poll shows Kamala has increased her lead over Trump by a further 5% – putting her now at 46.1% and Trump at 40.5%.
Does this poll tell us about Trump and Harris? Or, as I see it, about Reuters?
Video Summary### Summary: In this episode of Nugget’s News, Dr. William Bay discusses his legal battle against the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) stemming from his criticism of COVID-19 vaccines and related government policies. He has faced suspension of his medical license for expressing these views, which he argues infringes upon free speech and undermines the medical profession’s integrity. Dr. Bay’s case is significant as it may influence the regulatory framework governing healthcare in Australia and aims to restore freedom of speech for medical practitioners. He expresses concern over the consolidation of regulatory power and advocates for a decentralized approach to healthcare governance, emphasizing the importance of allowing doctors to prioritize patient care above bureaucratic mandates. ### Key Points by Section: **Introduction:** – Introduction of Dr. William Bay, who has faced challenges within the healthcare system due to his outspoken views on COVID-19 vaccinations. – Importance of Dr. Bay’s legal case against AHPRA in the context of healthcare freedom in Australia. **Background:** – Dr. Bay’s current prosecution in the Queensland civil tribunal for criticizing government COVID-19 vaccine policies. – His medical license has been suspended for over two years due to allegations of threatening public health. – Details of his court case, including pre-trial and main trial dates, focusing on the legality of AHPRA’s actions. **Censorship and Healthcare Ethics:** – Reflection on the moral decline among healthcare professionals during the pandemic. – A personal anecdote highlighting the inability to speak freely about potential vaccine-related health issues in a clinical setting. – Formation of the Queensland People’s Protest to address concerns over vaccine safety and healthcare censorship. **Personal Journey and Skepticism:** – Dr. Bay’s skepticism of vaccines and government policies developed over time, influenced by significant events and exposure to alternative media. – Critique of the medical education system’s failure to adequately scrutinize vaccine efficacy and safety. – Discussion on the lack of opposing viewpoints in medical discourse. **Concerns about Regulatory Authority:** – Assertion that AHPRA’s regulatory framework is unconstitutional and lacks proper legal authority. – Allegations that government and regulatory bodies have prioritized public confidence over patient care. – Criticism of the healthcare system’s current structure and the impact on medical practitioners’ ability to advocate for their patients. **Future of Healthcare:** – Dr. Bay’s hopes for a shift towards decentralized medical governance and the restoration of free speech for healthcare professionals. – Emphasis on the need for individualized and localized healthcare solutions rather than blanket national policies. – Advocacy for returning to state-based medical boards to enhance accountability and patient-centered care. **Call to Action:** – Invitation for viewers to support Dr. Bay’s mission for decentralized healthcare and to challenge the current regulatory practices in Australia. – Final thoughts on the importance of free speech and the need for systemic change within the healthcare industry. This comprehensive overview of the conversation encapsulates Dr. Bay’s experiences and the broader implications for the healthcare system in Australia amidst ongoing debates surrounding vaccines and medical censorship.
Surely there needs to be a word to differentiate doctors who follow the Hippocratic oath and those who follow government mandates? Ala Doctors and Quacks
There are at least 15,000 Australians estimated to still be in Lebanon, with the federal government telling them to leave.
??How good are Oz welfare benefits if this many folk, most of whom would be on the “rorters” or OAP can retire to Lebanon .. They may have Oz passports but only a Labor gummint would claim they consider themselves Ozzies ………!
Bit like the indig activist in Tasmania who rejects “colonial courts”, but happily carries an Australian passport, accepts Australian social security and lifestyle.
You can see why ports might be a tad leery of letting dock a ship loaded with enough ammonium nitrate to cause a nuclear-sized explosion…
Exactly.
I read in a book (sadly I cannot remember the name of the book) that this particular explosion was used to help calculate the blast effects of the atomic bomb during its development:
There is a display in the museum, at Halifax, on the Halifax explosion. There is a copy of the last telegram, sent “Stop all trains, stop all trains. Ship on fire and drifting into port. Goodbye, boys, this is it.” The sender was killed in the explosion, but stopping the trains went some distance in minimizing the effects of the explosion.
See also the explosion of the ammunition ship Fort Stikine in Bombay harbour in 1944.
Roger
September 26, 2024 7:51 am
Interesting wording from Kim Williams overnight re the ABC’s inquiry into audio of five gunshots being ‘cut and pasted’ into video in a report on former commando Heston Russell.
Wiliams stated the inquiry will recommend “corrective action.”
Haha. The collective is daring the chairman to exert power over them.
The staff know Williams won’t dare.
Williams is a weak little man who just wanted “ABC chairman” on his CV. He is a powerless figurehead and he knows it — whatever he tells dinner party guests.
Yes, I meant someone below the journos in the collective’s class system.
Roger
September 26, 2024 7:55 am
There are at least 15,000 Australians estimated to still be in Lebanon, with the federal government telling them to leave.
The government has been telling them to leave since at least July.
If we have to send warships to evacuate them – like last time – can we at least bill them for the trouble and expense and deduct it from their pensions?
Jim Rickards provides another great analysis:
I. The Steal Begins: Secret Service Put In Charge Of Counting Votes
Democrat efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election are very well documented. In key states such as Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin, requirements that mail-in ballots have signatures on the ballot and the envelope that could be compared were ignored. Other mail-in ballots were discarded after supposedly being “counted” so that no paper trail existed.
Ballot harvesting from assisted living facilities and apartment buildings was conducted with no verification that any of the residents actually filled-in their ballots. Other supposed mail-in ballots appeared without creases (meaning they had never been mailed) with 95-1 pro-Biden ratios (statistically impossible).
A ‘water leak’ caused an evacuation of a large vote counting centre in Atlanta so that poll watchers were ejected while the counting went on without supervision.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife donated hundreds of millions of dollars to assist communities with vote counting efforts, but the money went overwhelmingly to Democratic districts.
It took all of that and more for Biden to eke out a narrow victory.
The idea that the courts rejected the voter fraud claims is false. The courts refused to hear the cases based on procedural grounds such as standing, venue, jurisdiction and laches (waiting too long to bring the claim). That’s quite different from reaching the merits of the claims, which was never done.
The Republicans have improved their game this time around. They have over 500 lawyers on call to deal in real time with fraud allegations, there is no pandemic excuse to deny poll watchers a chance to do their jobs and they’re getting better at ballot harvesting from their own districts. This has forced the Democrats to resort to even more desperate techniques to steal the 2024 election.
One plan is to declare Trump an ‘insurrectionist’ on 6 January 2025, so that his Electoral Votes can be disqualified even if he won the most on Election Day. To back up their 6 January plan, the Department of Homeland Security, (the same people who opened the border) has put the Secret Service in charge of the Electoral College vote count.
This means if Republicans object to certain Electoral Votes on the day they are counted in the Capitol Building (a perfectly legitimate process) the Secret Service can act as goon squads to suppress any objections as an effort to ‘overturn’ the election by ‘election deniers’.
The main job of the Secret Service today is to facilitate the assassination of Donald Trump. If Trump survives to 6 January 2025, their main job will be to help rig the vote at the finish line.
or kill him in office
If they do that, they know they will get a very young, virgorous and vindictive JD Vance. They have to do it before then to succeed.
Thank God for Panadol.
Headache treatment in the early 1800s. CDC approved too , at the time. 🙂
OMG WTF is going on there? LOL
That gives new meaning to the phrase ‘ring my bell.’
Ah, Collette…
Vick,
Unfortunately the pharmacologist you mention did not get much mainstream media coverage. Even now would be lucky if 5% have heard his name. The reason being if many listened to his views they might become vaccine hesitant. Likewise if mainstream media early on had covered more on vaccine injuries would have created hesitancy.
AZ injuries and deaths became too obvious so they happily threw it under the bus as knew still had Pfizer. Weird how not one Pfizer death has been accepted in Australia.
I see Dr Nick Coatsworth has come out in Daily Mail to speak against the Misinformation Bill.
I don’t believe it. Only yesterday, he was flirting with removing sanctions from Russia and Iran to the Economics Club in NY because he says it hurts the US dollar as the reserve currency.
Making a threat and carrying it out are two differing things. Trump may see it worth the risk as there is very little risk.
Not clear who is making the threats and who is taking the risks there, Ranga.
Well I can start physiotherapy on this dodgy shoulder of mine. Have been doing light duties for a couple of weeks but felt good when the doc said no more sling. Which I haven’t used for a bit in any case.
So now off for a few frothies and chat with the boss about this new set of circumstances.
Journalism is BROKEN. He Lost His Job for Fact-Checking REUTERS. | Mick Hall
What has this dude been smoking?
Arnold is a bias looking for a cope.
Humans having nothing else that offers a better signal than financial markets even if one nation is far more dependent than another.
Bertrand seems to ignore the real estate markets in China which are in a severe downturn.
Yesterday’s economic support package isn’t enough.
I like the idea that the ultra greens who have bought Teslas are now funding Musk’s excursions into space. The very fossil fuel hungry rockets must be pissing off the rich and smug greenies.
COME ON DOWN BRITTANY HIGGINS!
State MP Gareth Ward turned up to parliament just after 4am on a Sunday morning wearing a “T-shirt, underwear, (and) socks,” with a gash on his head and smelling of alcohol, according to a secret security report – with Mr Ward claiming he walked to get a spare key after locking himself out of his apartment, and denying he was drunk.
The Daily Telegraph can now reveal bombshell allegations against the independent MP – who is due to face court next year over alleged sex offences – following a months-long investigation into an incident in the early hours of Sunday July 21.
What is it about Parliament Houses???
Daily Tele
Why does the image of Malcolm Fraser, minus his trousers in Memphis, spring to mind?
It isn’t the House – its the tenant.
On health matters, I am quite fond of The Glucose Goddess as a communicator about the complex biochemistry of insulin resistance, the cause of much obesity and type 2 diabetes in modern societies – she is a biochemist who can speak in good metaphors, as she does here in an interview on the basics of her approach.
Insulin resistance is a major health issue that we are going to hear a lot more about as the more usual dietetic approach to this illness is challenged.
More on Gareth Ward MP for anyone who can’t get past the paywall, because this boy knows how to entertain the voters:
The July incident is the latest time Mr Ward has been caught in a compromising position.
Ok 1:
In 2020, the then-Families Minister was twice escorted home by police after being found sleepwalking naked.
In a statement at the time, NSW Police said officers had located “naked man standing in the doorway of another unit”.
“After determining that was his residence, (police) escorted him inside.”
Mr Ward, who had earlier been admitted to hospital for a medical procedure, said he did not remember the incident.
“I had a general anaesthetic. I was fine after the operation but when you go to sleep these things hit,” he said.
After all, who hasn’t gone sleepwalking naked?
Ok 2:
In 2017, he was targeted in a blackmail scam in New York after ordering a massage to his hotel room.
Mr Ward said he paid $US100 via an online website for a “normal, standard massage” and denied that he ordered a “special massage”.
The then-Parliamentary Secretary said “very aggressive” African-American men arrived at his room at 10.30pm offering sexual services, demanding money.
They always do that. Nothing to see here.
Ok 3.
Mr Ward was suspended from parliament in 2022 after being charged with a string of offences including rape, indecent assault, and common assault.
Yes indeed. They don’t call him “The Member” for Kiama for nothing.
He was re-elected at the 2023 election.
Who had Gene Simmons from Kiss and Twiggy Forest for September, Promoting a battery powered mining truck in LAs Vegas.
Like WTF?
Not that it matters since the morons in the msm are leading the alarmist charge to destroy the West but here is a great rebuttal of the greenhouse notion and it’s role in man made global boiling; by my old mate, Aleksandr Zhitomirskiy:
(99+) About the Postulates of the Greenhouse Effect Theory | Aleksandr Zhitomirskiy – Academia.edu
Elon Musk has made his fortune selling glorified golf carts to severely educated simpletons.
I’m dying to find his exit strategy from dumbdom.
I think he used to believe the AGW bullshit. However he has been red pilled severely and I suspect no longer buys into that very much.
Tesla has been very innovative not just in the “electric car” aspect but, in an industry already noted for streamlined mass production, has re-invented design and manufacturing processes.
Musk does slowly sell Tesla shares. SpaceX is worth well north of USD 100 billion and Musk has just over 50% of the votes and has completely upset the old aerospace industry paradigm. While Falcon 9 is made in a former aircraft factory, have a look at Starship. Nothing like an aircraft factory. It is a SHIP YARD.
“When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.” Johannes Kepler
Elon is busy building those ships.
Dover, Arnie appears to be on hallucinogens.
The mystery behind disappearing business tycoons in China
Compare that with Musk, hated by the left and continues to win.
Seriously, Arnie is a typical frog leftist imbecile who ought to be foraging for snails and frogs..
The Globalist Liberal Order Will Lose…
Compare that with Musk, hated by the left and continues to win.
He’s being severely monstered by the US Government and various of it’s constituent criminal gangs like the FAA, SEC, EPA etc.
If they thought they could get away with it they would disappear him.
Andrew Lawrence
Two-tier Keir- Approval rating has plummeted…
It appears there is a push to ban Kellie-Jay Keen from this country. It’s all emanating from the ‘usual suspects’. Keen is due to speak at CPAC late next week.
Those mysterious clean cut music hall Grampian Nazis did a sterling job in smearing people.
Further to the little Johnny Pesutto/Moira Deeming legal imbroglio, a friend has said it best, he emailed me today to say that, after listening to Pesutto on and off this week in the witness box, he’d prefer that the criminal ALP stay in power rather than wimpy Pesutto ever become premier. My friend said that Pesutto is using his incompetence as his defence.
What a shitshow.
I also believe that Jeff Kennett, Matthew Guy, Georgie Crozier and David Southwick along with Pesutto are also to blame for this train wreck.
I place the biggest blame with Kennett as he is the most influential person on that list yet refuses to do anything to clear it up.
At some stage they will go one step too far and people will start to wake up to the Leftist agenda.
A quiet populace has the habit of suddenly putting up red lines to politicians who haven’t been listening – a lot like parents with ten year old’s, who find themselves grounded and then it occurs to them that they’d been being warned for quite some time, but hadn’t been listening…
Just wait till the Tickle vs Giggle hits the next level of Courts. Women will pretty much cease to exist.
In SFL news, Deeming-Pesutto defamation trial edition:
It was revealed in cross-examination of Pesutto today that Jeff Kennett had promised to deny pre-selection to Lib parliamentarians who provided affadavits as evidence in support of Deeming.
Wow. Kennet’s even worse than I thought.
Snap, Cassie.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/09/melbourne.html
It was revealed in cross-examination of Pesutto today that Jeff Kennett had promised to deny pre-selection to Lib parliamentarians who provided affadavits as evidence in support of Deeming.
Kennett is a thug.
A traitorous thug.
the whole Lib party in Vikko is rooted
these people disgusting … worse than Labor
Pesutto made a complete idiot of himself today
The Lieborals carry as much blame as Andrews for Victoriastan.
Twin pigs. Different coloured lipstick.
Ta-Dah!
I reckon that it more true of the China sceptics.
Setting that aside, he’s summarising someone there and it’s a view I’ve heard before. Time will tell who’s right or not.
Barrister: Mr Pessutto, are you going to take the word of a nazi?
Pesutto: Well, why would they lie?
Matrix: Mr Pesutto, are you retarded?
Bazinga: Mr Pesutto, why are you retarded?
I don’t understand what’s going on in Victoria. What has Pesutto got on these guys? Is there more to the Deeming story?
Why are they prepared to ruin their reputations over this?
If there’s more to the Deeming story it will come out.
In the meantime, it certainly looks as though the Liberals do have a problem with women.
And I’m hardly a man-bun sporting feminist.
I’m reminded of the sabotage of Deb Frecklington’s campaign in QLD in 2020.
I’ve been following the story since day 1 but thought I’d missed something. To me, none of it makes sense.
Cut the idiot loose and gain votes by keeping your reputation. They’re on a hiding to nothing.
Ego.
Pesutto is clearly Kennett’s man.
And there you have it.
In the West, you get caught in a sting operation headed by Epstein or Diddy and then your owned by the Regime.
And when it comes to Liberal Pary back-room boys at state level, he’s not Robinson Crusoe.
I don’t think they believe in humanity at all.
Le Noot Noot! 😀
https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/1838730134435631264
So does Kennett want a limp lettuce ‘opposition’ that no one with half a brain will ever vote into government? WTF?
This is exactly what they don’t even want you to hear about.
The Silenced Doctor Taking AHPRA To Court – Dr William Bay
How about avoiding sex with underage girls?
The most prominent business exec has had several marriages and relationships, yet Musk has never been accused of abhorrent sexual behaviour .
That’s one of the lamest arguments I’ve seen you put forward.
What a totally f8cked up situation. Images have to be pixelated on the tube, yet children are exposed to the raw images at school.
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Avi:
We have a CRISIS in our schools
Stop CENSORSHIP Now! Aussies FUMING Over Labor’s Plan to Control Their Self Expression
Sure, which is why Beijing came out with a large economic support package. That’s because the economy is booming.
Compare Jack Ma to Elon Musk.
And for exactly how long do you think this will be kept secret?
A torpedo suggests a rather large, mid sized or smallish “boom”, the crew would know what happened.
Talk about cope.
I’m not accusing Musk of anything. I was alluding to how influential people are compromised in the West.
You’ve convinced to check your reply to our Mon afternoon exchange.
Caught a bit of Blot earlier. He was rabbiting on about the three greatest leaders of our current time.
Javier Milei. check.
Giorgia Meloni. check.
Vlodomir Zelensky. W.T.F#CK!!!
Bolt is unfortunately, a fool.
As long as they need. It’s not like they haven’t kept any secrets regarding past incidents.
Mark Dreyfus to address Israeli counter-terror summit on October 7 anniversaryBen Packham
39 minutes ago.
Updated 7 minutes ago
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will represent the government in Israel on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 terror attack, as Australia’s Jewish community warns “depraved” protesters to stay away from local vigils.
Mr Dreyfus, Labor’s most senior Jewish MP, is scheduled to attend a major counter-terrorism summit at Israel’s Reichman University from October 6-8, delivering a keynote address.
Scott Morrison will also address the Shabtai Shavit summit, and Coalition frontbenchers Andrew Hastie and Claire Chandler will attend memorial services.
Mr Dreyfus was asked to attend the summit by Anthony Albanese but the Attorney-General’s office cautioned the trip would be dependent on updated security advice amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Lebanese-based Hezbollah militants.
The Jewish community in Australia is planning memorial events across the country on October 7, and a candle-lighting ceremony in Sydney the night before. Details of the events are tightly held amid fears pro-Palestine groups will seek to disrupt them.
Anti-Israel groups are planning national rallies this Sunday, with a “Protest 365 days of genocide” march scheduled for October 6 in Sydney.
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/79fd70729fb5dbbee7c51d3339584f57
A flyer for a planned anti-Israel protest on October 6, 2024
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the plans gave an insight “into the depraved mindset of the pro-Palestine movement”.
“These people responded to the invasion of Israel by a hybrid force of terrorists and Gazan civilians, and the slaughter, torture, plunder and abduction of every Jew they could find, with unbridled jubilation,” he said.
“Only those with no humanity and no decency could react to atrocities in such a way.
“This past year has been the most challenging in the history of our community, and any attempts to desecrate any ceremony where we honour our dead and call for the release of those still alive would be utterly shameful.”
His comments came after hundreds of protesters draped in Lebanese flags and Palestinian scarves chanted their support for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group outside Sydney Town Hall on Tuesday night. The Australian Palestinian Advocacy Network, which backs coming rallies, declined to comment.
Why are you alluding to something that never occurred. I didn’t say you accused Musk of something. I brought up Musk to contrast against Ma as both have moved against the government of the day. I also said Musk hasn’t been accused of sexual abhorrent acts.
I just find it astonishing that you seem to believe China’s economy is in good shape and is performing specularly. It’s not. This doesn’t mean the US is performing well with a chronic deficit and debt problem made worse by Hiden, but it’s in better shape than China.
I don’t think they or I have argued that China isn’t facing difficulties or structural readjustments.
I missed that satellite imagery you said you posted, can you re-post please?
Which is of course why China just pumped up their stockmarket today with an infusion of funny money. 😀
China Fires A Monetary Bazooka… It Won’t Be Enough (25 Sep)
What has never occurred?
See above.
Who is “they”? Arnie Bertrand? Have you switched to different pronouns? 🙂
Let’s stay focused on the topic. Arnie presents a highly skewed view of China.
Arnie implies that because the Chinese stock market is smaller, it is less vulnerable in a downturn. He overlooks the fact that financial markets, regardless of size, are often indicators of economic health.
He also suggests that China’s business environment is more of a free market than the U.S., ignoring that the U.S. hosts the largest and most advanced capital markets in the world.
Businesses fail in the U.S. daily—just look at Boeing recently.
In contrast, not toeing the regime’s line in China can land you in jail without trial.
If Epstein and Diddy were named Wang and Hua and had close ties to the CCP, they would still be attending the CCP plenary.
This Sydney tradie told his wife they would visit family abroad. Instead, he allegedly abandoned her in PakistanBy Amber SchultzSeptember 25, 2024 — 7.50pm
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A Sydney tradie has been charged with human trafficking after allegedly tricking his wife into travelling to Pakistan and abandoning her there without her passport.
Ali Rahimi was arrested on Wednesday morning following a nine-month joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Foreign Affairs.
The 29-year-old has been charged with one count of exit trafficking, a form of modern slavery in which women are deceived or coerced into leaving Australia and prevented from returning, an offense which carries a maximum penalty of 12 years’ imprisonment.
Wearing a faded black jacket and grey shirt, the Auburn-based tiler was granted bail at Burwood Local Court on Wednesday afternoon.
Police will allege Rahimi told his wife Sohalia they were travelling to his home country Afghanistan and then on to her home country Pakistan to see family in July 2023, and retained control of the pair’s tickets, passports and visas during the trip.
Rahami then allegedly said he was going back to Afghanistan to visit friends, leaving her in Pakistan without her passport. She later discovered in September 2023 that he had returned to Australia alone, police say.
so she is too stupid to get another passport. what a crock of shit
see above
I should have included this in my 1981 Carnravon post. Wilson and his family fed my brother and I on multiple occasions … for free.
We were tucked in the back corner of the front bar at the Port Hotel.
His entire family are wonderful people. Mum was behind the bar serving drinks.
It’s been 20 plus years since I spoke to them. Wilson would probably remember me.
I was the young chap doing bombies in the pool and sending water everywhere.
I copped a monumental spray from Wilson. STOP IT!
Good times.
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I couldn’t agree more.
Who does this LeeLow guy think he is?
Two questions:-
1. Have you perfect the fraud scheme on Aboriginal welfare schemes yet?
2. Did you daddy gag when he was … you know … “fishing with you”?
Steven Hayward over at Powerline has a post heading which includes the phrase ‘toxic elites.’
I love it.
It’s about time we utilised adjectives as much as our pro-poverty, extremist opponents.
Eyrie
8 – 18 levels:
I don’t see any of these levels currently shown.
Mind you, one of the criticisms of Khans work was that it was subjective and difficult to quantify. No scenario was going to progress from step 1 to step 2, then 3. It would jump around a fair bit.
I think you may be mistaking political posturing for the real thing.
Carnravon
…Carnarvon
The arrivals at Toropets and the aftereffects.
Ah yes.
Apologies, I thought you meant satellite shots of Big Horn.
I thought you were going to post photos of the oiler. That is what I was referring to.
All we have of the oiler is the flooded engine room.
It must have been a very small torpedo. Those things are designed to sink ships, not put small holes in them.
I recall a description of one Soviet torpedo in the 1980s: “It’s a real ship killer.”
It doesn’t help.
It seems the Big Horn had been looking after two carrier strike groups up until very recently, in other words an unusually high tempo of operation.
I’m betting it was a breakdown and/or crew fatigue. It’s not the only USN ship to have a grounding in recent times.
USN does have a very stretched ability to keep carrier strike groups fully supplied however.
Okay, but does the last comment help you to appreciate Arnie’s economic opinions have less value than used dental floss.
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Doris Day – Dream A Little Dream of Me
My response to 132andBush’s 7:30 p.m. post (itself a response to a Rabz comment), re the Greenfilth:
They believe in a Master Class. Not a master race, which is far too broad, but a Master Class: Themselves. A cadre of the ultimate moral humans, driving the unwashed, the unworthy, and the unacceptable to a pre-destined fate. A Dalekian fate.
JC, this started off with Arnaud summarising someone else’s opinion but you made it all about him.
It also wouldn’t be the first vessel to be damaged either.
I’ve read enough about insulin resistance. Unfortunately measuring insulin is not covered under a full blood count. Last week a surprising report regarding one cause: a “molecular mesh” that prevents insulin finding the receptor. A proxy for insulin resistance: fasting glucose challenge.
Yes, this young woman does speak of how to proxy insulin resistance with a simple blood glucose test or the new continuous monitors, but also and ideally with a fasting blood glucose challenge (I have had both tests more than a few times). Her blog is sweetly youthful in its style, messianic in its hope for food system improvement, but her metaphors re the complex cellular responses including GLP-1 and its use in Ozempic are good for all. She unpicks the various up and down regulation factors in a very clear and explanatory manner for non-scientists. The chat is an hour long but well worth listening to for that period if you suspect you have serious insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, or if female, PCOS or menopausal issues. She backs her material with mostly referreed genuinely scientific studies, often cutting edge ones, as well as her own findings, all discussed in her influential book. Avoiding insulin resistance of course underpins the success of popular dietary advices such as ‘carnivore’ or ‘keto’, but her methods also apply to any sort of diet people may choose to follow which result in ‘glucose spikes’ and which can be managed by simple procedural techniques without major dietary changes.
Big Horn would be near the carrier group. The carrier group would be some distance from the coast. Upon what exactly would it have ‘run aground’?
I’ve seen this argument before. Did Arnie say he disagreed with it or any part of it? In any event it’s crap anyway.
The oilier is unnecessary for the carrier of course, since USN carriers are nuclear. The support vessels aren’t though, especially the Arleigh-Burkes.
The oiler carries fuel for the aircraft, BoN. They go through a hell of a lot and a carrier is NOT the place to carry as much highly combustible fuel and explosives as possible. They carry what they need for the mission and rely on resupply.
It’s like the civil aircraft. A 747 can carry a lot more fuel than it does. Beyond its immediate needs, + a diversion supply, +a 10%? just in case supply, is all it carries.
Sounds a tad over the top.
A thousand tonnes of kero would be enough for something like twenty missions for the entire air wing. That amount of kerosene would be a drop in a bucket in a carrier.
On the other hand those carriers are at top alertness in case the Iranians launch a big strike, so having extra jet fuel for resupply would be a high priority.
In today’s Oz, Janet A has written a blistering piece excoriating the BCA and woke businesses and corporates. Whilst I enjoyed reading her piece, and of course I agreed with almost every word she wrote, there’s nothing in her piece that we here on the Cat, over the years, haven’t said about virtue signalling woke corporates and the BCA.
The Cat IS always ahead when it comes to opinion.
The Cat has a natural diversity (of backgrounds, skills, and opinions, revolving around an axis of shared values).
Well said, Muddy. All sorts of talents and experiences combine here.
This blog is off the pace. As has been observed previously.
It struck me as an incredulous idea. Modern torpedoes are designed to break the spine of the ship.
That particular type has a very obvious effect – that being the creation of an explosive vacuum under the keel centre, with the bow and stern supported. The ship breaks in two and sinks in less than a minute. Total destruction.
Acoustic torpedoes explode just behind the propellors and smash them and the drive shafts, leaving the vessel dead in the water. Perhaps it can be salvaged as the convoy continues on. Remember that the Germans and British created the technology in ’43 at the same time.
Probably even the Yemini Navy has a few.
Winston, would the USN passively detect a torpedo launch?
Yes.
And they’re going to be with the carrier. So what exactly did it run aground upon?
Not the first US Navy ship to run in to something. Could be bad luck, incompetence, fatigue – will be a while before the truth comes out.
Neil Oliver: …we’re being fed a diet of lies!
In USNS Big Horn news:
US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel
Apparently, the original news source.
With absolutely zero mil-value-add, this sounds like a massive systemic US logistical cockup. Like everyone else, I’ve no idea how the Big Horn rudder compartment was damaged, but, unless it was a sooper-special very, very gentle torpedo, nobody would be in any doubt that an explosion had occurred.
In other ArmChairPundit news:
The 2024 October Suprise (and revenge on Israel/Great Satan) may be Iran withdrawing from the NPT – blaming Israel and the US for their ‘horrible behaviours’, while offering to climb down as equals – and changing the ME nuclear calculus forever. With general quiet approval and tacit support of those who hate the West.
Looking at Iran’s nuclear program through an energy prism, there is zero technical reason for (massively expensively) enriching uranium to 60% U238 other than to present a threat of two weeks to Bomb Grade.
Time to shine, Ayatollahs; before your poxy proxies are turned to mince.
U235, not 238.
Indeed.
Pro Tip: Never post after a pissy dinner.
I’ll say this Dover. This is an interesting take from the dude Arnie linked to.
With Musk, Tulsi and RFK it will be a very different administration than the one we saw in his first term.
If there is another Mar a Lago summit with a solid agreement, it could also quieten shit down in the MidEast too.
And yet, to depress us, we see upthread concern still that the steal is definitely on.
More from RFK
And this is what could get us to the golden age.
FMD I hope he wins.
Re the USNS Big Horn, if it was hit by a torpedo, it must have been a very small torpedo. Those things are designed to sink ships, not put small holes in them.
I recall a description of one Soviet torpedo in the 1980s: “It’s a real ship killer.”
Was that the one on the Kursk?
Possibly, I heard about it in the context of sinking aircraft carriers.
Polling must have them worried. Kamaltoe is going on MSNBC for a one on one interview.
They must be hitting the cheat margin limit.
Soft ball interview no doubt.
With a teleprompter carefully hidden in the studio.
And just enough drinkies beforehand to allow her to function, but not to descend into cacklings.
So what could Trump offer Putin and Xi?
Boambee John
September 25, 2024 10:13 pm
Mr Allnut, can you make a torpedo?
Asked by Rose Sayer.
We watched The African Queen again recently.
That was an absolutely beautiful line. If ever ‘chemistry’ between two people counted in a movie, this was it.
Economists sceptical about China’s rate cuts, new stimulus measures – ABC News
It wouldn’t be the first time a torpedo hit disables but doesn’t sink a ship. Modern ships are not easy to sink.
Oiler/Replenishment vessels have great fire fighting capabilities, but the crew, IIRC, are civilians, are they not? I’m not sure on that one.
My firefighting capabilities would be how quickly can I get to the lifeboat with the fastest engine.
Big Horn is an older, single hull vessel.
That’s why the Soviets developed that “ship killer” (in the 1980s, as I mentioned). An oiler would have lost more than a rudder and some engine room plating.
I’m easily entertained. Smiles galore from people in the street.
Cash!
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Simi Valley Spring Street Fair 2024 (11 of 12)
BTW, the amusing thing about people’s incredulity regarding the torpedo speculation is the seeming credulity regarding it ‘running aground’ while at sea with the carrier group.
Repeat after me: I don’t know.
How’s the US$ going JC?
Germany has thrown in the towel.
I screwed that link up.
Cash.
Cash 2.0 Great Dane at the Simi Valley Spring Street Fair 2024 (11 of 12)
Johannes Leak. Kapow!
I don’t know how he does it, but Johannes Leak does whack-a-pollie perfectly, every single time.
Mark Knight.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel. Brilliant.
Coffee on keyboard funny.
Tom Stiglich.
Lisa Benson.
NFA
September 26, 2024 3:17 am
How so?
Why is Ireland’s president pushing an anti-Israel conspiracy theory? – spiked (spiked-online.com)
dirty old stink
How does the Irish public elect such a foul government? The same way we do!
How is this for a story. Mum and Dad got divorced and we moved to Perth to live with Oma. Mum enrolled me at the local school.
I opened the door and their she was. My teacher from Carnarvon! We hugged. She was my second mum.
Memories.
Milton, read this link on your post, it’s even more disturbing.
Yes. Sick sick sick
Today’s Tele from the Bolta:
ISRAEL AGAIN DEMONISED MERELY FOR SURVIVING
ANDREW BOLT
26 Sep 2024
Those bloody Israelis have just started yet another war. Or so I hear from journalists curdled by our toxic victim politics.
Much of the coverage is stunning in its ignorance – or omissions.
Exhibit A: The ABC announces “Israel unleashes heavy strikes on Lebanon”. No, this is not an attack on Lebanon. Israel is instead firing back at the Hezbollah terrorist army that’s overrun a third of that country.
Exhibit B: Sky News UK tweets that “Hezbollah has been provoked like never before by Israel and may be tempted to unleash its firepower”.
No, it’s exactly the other way around. Israel has been provoked by Hezbollah firing 8000 missiles and rockets in just the past year, and now unleashes its firepower.
But up bobs our Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, demanding Israel stop: “Escalation is in no one’s interest”.
Really? As I said seven months ago, after speaking to leading Israeli military experts and politicians, Israel would eventually hit back at Hezbollah because it has a country to save.
This war with Hezbollah didn’t start last week, when Israel detonated up to 5000 booby-trapped pagers which Hezbollah had issued to its fighters.
Hezbollah, funded by fascist Iran, has been attacking Israel for years – attacking Lebanese Christians, too, as it turned Beirut from the “Paris of the Middle East” to another Middle Eastern slum.
It’s built an army of up to 100,000 men, separate to the Lebanese army, and hidden an armoury of more than 120,000 missiles and rockets, all destined for Israeli targets.
Since October 7, it’s fired dozens of them almost daily into northern Israel, forcing 60,000 Israelis to flee their homes. One missile killed 12 Druze children in an Israeli playground.
But Israel’s leaders feared even worse. It knew Hezbollah also had plans to do its own October 7 on Israel, but bigger.
Was Israel meant to endure all this forever?
Wong says Israel should negotiate, as if it’s possible to make a genuine deal with Islamist terrorists who’ve vowed to wipe Israel off the map as an abomination.
Look what happened to the deal the United Nations reaffirmed in 2006 to keep southern Lebanon free of Hezbollah military and weapons up to the Litani river.
The UN even sent peacekeepers, yet that area now bristles with Hezbollah.
Not that many reporters see the con. TV reporters now groan that Israel is bombing homes of Lebanese civilians, without them notice something odd about the footage of several such attacks – footage I’ve shown on my Sky News Australia show.
There’s often the initial explosion from an Israeli missile, followed by a chain of explosions as Hezbollah missiles, rockets and bombs hidden inside go off.
Don’t these journalists wonder why Hezbollah would store explosives right next to people’s homes?
The answer is easy. Like Hamas, Hezbollah doesn’t mind Israel killing Muslim civilians. Hamas doesn’t even build bomb shelters for its people.
That’s because every dead civilian is terrorist propaganda to get western journalists and politicians to attack the wicked Jews.
So it’s Israel, not Hezbollah, that sends Lebanese civilians warnings on their phones to stay 1km away from Hezbollah sites.
Long lines of cars now snake out of Hezbollah strongholds. I’m sure Israel still accidentally kills civilian men, women and children, but do journalists actually check Hezbollah claims of war crimes?
America’s ABC, for instance, reports: “Lebanese journalist’s home hit by Israeli strike during news interview”. I’ve seen the footage of Fadi Boudaya being blown off his chair. Israel targeting a journalist!
What’s not reported is that Boudaya heads a Hezbollah propaganda arm. The Iranian regime’s official mouthpiece, the Islamic Republic News Agency, says his “Maraya international magazine takes steps in line with Resistance policies”.
This anti-Israel spin isn’t just ignorance. It’s also a product of the West’s cancerous culture of victimhood, where the poor are always the victim, never the authors of their misery. Israel, being rich and Western, must of course be the villain. That it’s clever and rich enough that it kills more fighters than it loses is seen as just more proof that it’s evil.
That’s why Israel cannot even be forgiven now for defending itself from an enemy that’s fired thousands of rockets into its towns.
As if. The only time the Left really sympathised with Israel was just after millions of Jews were slaughtered. When Jews fight back, not so much.
But Israel isn’t into being the victim any more. It would rather fight than die, whatever Penny Wong may say.
Israel latest p18-19
On point and in the print media.
Where it needs to be.
Bolta in today’s Tele continued:
ACTIVISTS WANT BENEFITS WHILE DELIVERING ALL THE BLAME
Andrew Bolt
26 Sep 2024
Jim Everett is one of the Aboriginal activists who still don’t realise how things have changed since Australians voted No to the Voice.
Many Australians have had it with racial division, with chancers playing the race card. And now they say so.
Yet there’s Everett, poet and former Aboriginal Liaison Officer in Tasmania’s government, refusing this week to turn up to a court hearing on charges over an anti-logging protest.
This court had no say over Aborigines, declared Everett: “The colonial court of Tasmania has no jurisdiction over my actions to protect Palawa law in country”.
Everett has boasted he has an “Aboriginal passport”, issued by the so-called Aboriginal Provisional Government, but his rejection of our colonial system goes only so far.
He also keeps an Australian passport “so that I can get money, jobs, Centrelink, the age pension”.
So Everett doesn’t want colonial courts, but does want colonial money, colonial jobs and all the rest. He rejects our rule of law, but wants the riches it produces – including Aboriginal activists.
This is an important point, because Everett represents a wider faux-rejection of Australia and its Western civilisation.
States like Victoria even want to negotiate “treaties” with people identifying as “First Nations”, as if they, too, aren’t Australians. The Albanese government appointed a “First Nations Ambassador”, as if Aborigines now need their own diplomatic representation.
This is a dead-end movement fed by endless counting of scabs and scars, not blessings.
Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo was at it again yesterday, still blaming colonialism for all the dysfunction we see in Aboriginal communities: “These things are not to do with Indigenous culture”.
Really? None of the violence, domestic abuse and child neglect that’s worst in remote Aboriginal communities – where Aboriginal culture is strongest – has anything to do with Aboriginal culture?
This fashion of damning and rejecting colonial culture is a fraud. Many activists I see pushing the new separatist agenda seem to me to be enjoying the fruits of colonialism while hating the tree.
I see black-identifying academics in comfortable university jobs. I see the nattily-suited Mayo – actually with substantial Filipino, Dayak, Polish, Jewish and English ancestry as well – flogging his latest book. I see race-baiting Lidia Thorpe, paid well as a Senator, lolling in the Qantas chairman’s lounge. I see Everett, insisting on his right to welfare benefits no Aboriginal “nation” had.
None strike me as serious. They rage against society, but would do more good by giving thanks for the luxuries in which they now recline.
How I loathe these posturing grifters but even moreso the fools that think they have something to say.
There are people in our world who would suck the blood from leeches, and hollow spectators who applaud the same as performance art.
Quite rightly so.
Satin is made from synthetic fiber and is not breathable. Pure silk on the other hand is breathable and temperature regulating which means it would keep you cool on a hot night and warm on a cold one.
Errr … no.
Satin refers to the way a fabric is woven, not what it is made of.
Prior to the invention of synthetic fibres, satin was commonly made from silk.
What a bloody clown show.
The Paywallion today:
Biden’s UN curtain call lays bare his biggest foreign policy blunders
Adam Creighton
26 Sep 2024
President Joe Biden’s swan song at the UN on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) amounted to little more than a futile attempt to dress up his foreign policy failures across the past few years.
The surge in international conflicts, of course, can’t all be sheeted home to the Biden administration, but the world has become an undeniably more dangerous place since he came to office.
America’s prestige has sunk, both inside and outside the country. The share of Americans who think the rest of the world looks on their country with optimism has halved from 79 per cent 20 years ago to 42 per cent this year, according to regular Gallup surveys.
In highly populous countries such as India, China and Bangladesh, most of Africa and the Middle East, most voters view Russia at least as favourably as the US, which is a shocking indictment given Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Prabowo Subianto, the incoming president of Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation, jetted off to Moscow in late July to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The central problem here for the US is its increasing hypocrisy on foreign policy issues, with the gap between the Biden administration’s rhetoric and its behaviour becoming wider and wider.
In his farewell address to the UN, Biden urged Israel to negotiate a ceasefire with its enemies in the Middle East, at the same time calling on the world to keep backing Ukraine in its war against Russia. Setting aside the fact the Biden administration is providing the Israeli and Ukrainian governments with vast and seemingly uncapped quantities of ammunition, how can it sustain this apparent double standard?
The Russia-Ukraine war has gone on much longer than the Middle East conflict, killed many more people and, arguably, presents a far greater risk of a nuclear confrontation. But apparently it is Israel that should make greater efforts to make a lasting peace with its neighbours.
As is the case with most US presidents, Biden’s UN speech sought to present his foreign policy decisions as motivated by the high principles of democracy, peace, sovereignty and the rule of law.
But even a cursory glance shows it is related far more to US self-interest. The US has no interest in a wider war in the Middle East into which it could be drawn to protect Israel. It does have an interest, however, in “weakening Russia to the point where it can’t do the things it has been doing”, as US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said. And what better way to do that than paying another country to do the fighting? This is brutal realpolitik; certainly not the actions of a selfless global power, concerned with the maintenance of liberal internationalism.
“Full-scale war (in the Middle East) is not in anyone’s interest. Even as the situation has escalated, a diplomatic solution is still possible,” Biden said in his UN speech.
Earlier this month, former US State Department mandarin Victoria Nuland intimated what Ukrainian negotiators have already revealed: that the US and Britain pressured Ukraine to tear up a tentative April 2022 peace treaty with Russia on terms that, in hindsight, look favourable.
Of course this is how powerful nations behave. But genuine attempts for global peace surely would benefit if the US dialled down the hypocrisy, which can only infuriate its closest allies.
In 1972, when Biden entered the US Senate, the world had to put up with constant claims of America’s moral superiority. After all, the US was by far the richest and freest nation, comprising about a third of the global GDP in purchasing power terms.
Now that share has fallen to 15 per cent, while the stark ideological divisions of the Cold War have withered away. Indeed, the US is starting to look more like Europe, even China, with its burgeoning national security apparatus frequently found to be spying on citizens and foreigners alike.
Many US states, including the largest ones, sought to copy China’s totalitarian response to Covid-19. The free speech protections that so distinguished the US look set to be watered down in the event Kamala Harris wins the presidential election in November. Her vice-presidential running mate, Tim Walz, already has signalled a government crackdown on so-called misinformation.
This month, unnamed intelligence officials revealed that Washington was concerned about the possibility Russia could sever undersea cables, which must have triggered guffaws in Moscow. This, after the US had (at the very least) advance knowledge, according to The Wall Street Journal, of the biggest act of industrial sabotage ever – the blowing up the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines.
In what must have prompted further hilarity around the same time, Washington scolded Russia for interfering in US elections after the US Justice Department alleged a few so-called right-wing commentators had accepted a little under $US6m from state broadcaster Russia Today via another US media company.
Moscow’s purchase of a couple of hundred thousand dollars’ worth of Facebook ads ahead of the 2016 election was probably money better spent in a bid to influence a presidential election where the two major parties spend tens of billions of dollars.
Moscow’s and Beijing’s piddling, primitive efforts to influence the US election pale in comparison to American efforts across decades to influence other countries’ elections, extending to toppling democratically elected governments not to Washington’s taste.
The US has even admitted to spending $US5bn between 1991 and 2013 in Ukraine, an astonishing sum in local currency terms, for “building democracy”. In a famous 2018 interview on Fox News with Laura Ingraham, former CIA director James Woolsey flat out admitted the US meddled in other countries’ elections and continued to do so “only for a good cause”.
None of this is lost on the rest of the world. A Pew survey from June last year found 82 per cent of people in 23 nations thought the US interfered in the affairs of other countries.
In short, the US should stop insisting it’s the pope of all nations, and acknowledge that it is motivate by self interest. The moralising, supercilious US foreign policy establishment hated Trump as president because he sought to establish good personal relations with the leaders of Russia, North Korea and others. “There are a lot of killers. You think our country’s so innocent?” he said to a stunned Bill O’Reilly in 2017, refusing to insult Putin as president.
For all its faults, the US remains a benevolent empire. But, ironically, it could burnish its influence by dialling down the hypocrisy as it navigates an increasingly complex and dangerous 21st-century landscape.
Poetic.
https://x.com/amjadt25/status/1839007043522322507?t=eekXTEJClTcgFaDj9mDKBw&s=19
It certainly is.
destruction flows through your hands, not creation
A perfect call. Hezzies, begone.
Be gone Satin. You have no power here.
God bless those faithful Polyesterbeterians.
Fancy Iranian home decor.
https://x.com/TheMossadIL/status/1838946353805685151?t=xVmJH8KYY4efiTyY4UnVbg&s=19
So much winning.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1838905688602411443?t=5aARfSsbzBu4Moffzd5wRA&s=19
Heartening stuff.
“There are people in our world who would suck the blood from leeches, and hollow spectators who applaud the same as performance art.“
Damn! Muddy. That is one of the greatest one-liners I have ever read or heard.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-breakthrough-israeli-researchers-detect-parkinsons-markers-15-years-before-symptoms/
Thoughts and prayers news (the Tele):
I pray this bloke got a toaster cord up the date before he got shanked.
My thanks to the shanker.
Most likely a relative of the dead boy, or someone doing a service for the family.
Either way, a good result.
A Toaster cord up the date?
Haven’t heard that one before.
Can you expand please?
I too am wondering about a toaster cord.
If memory serves the victim was a lad who went missing in Fairfield East (Villawood area) & discovered several dayz later in a, nearby, abandoned house ..
Speaking of ships damaging their rudder when going aground, this one is still trying to get to a port, any port. There just this tiny problem though.
Massive Russian ship packed with explosive cargo closes in on London (25 Sep)
You can see why ports might be a tad leery of letting dock a ship loaded with enough ammonium nitrate to cause a nuclear-sized explosion…
The ship appears to be riding very high in the water for a cargo of 20,000 tons.
Odd.
“Syria under Assad and Lebanon under Hezbollah have become two of the world’s biggest drug trafficking dictatorships “-
Two links
https://x.com/SpencerJJoseph/status/1838942790983524537?t=XcL0d8LMMDKOyvw4P_WqMw&s=19
https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/hezbollah-a-worldwide-criminal-organization
Any bets Australian black market cigarette trading and the mysterious fires at tobacco shops have links to southern Lebanon and or the Bekaa?
The black market probably has links to the politicians who set excise to ridiculous levels.
Prohibition #2
Bruce of Newcastle
September 25, 2024 9:57 pm
It’s the fire risk – not the space available that is the first consideration.
IIRC, the USN lost a carrier during WW2 due to two factors. The overstocking of fuel for the aircraft, and the specialisation of the fire fighting teams. The ?Kamikaze took out the vast majority of the firefighters, and because it was assumed they’d deal with the fires, the crew weren’t trained up.
Scratch one flattop whose name escapes me even though I can see the photograph of the vessel burning in my memory.
Probably the USS Franklin, hit off Okinawa. Some 800 of the crew were killed, but the ship was saved and returned to the USA under he own power. The film of Franklin burning from bow to stern is dramatic.
She was scrapped, as the end of the war meant that repair was unnecessary.
USS Bunker Hill was also hit off Okinawa, losing around 400 dead. IIRC, she was repaired and brought back into service.
Another possible candidate was the USS Princeton, hit during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and later scuttled by her own crew.
Just a light drizzle out west here. BOM gets it wrong again. The BOM girlie on breakfast TV primarily talking about Sydney which is getting a bit of coastal drenching but contradictory report on what rural NSW can expect. Admittedly it can change rapidly & we use YR which is generally accurate.
Vicki,
it has been raining here since late afternoon, yesterday. Inside work only today. It is also windy and freezing. 😀
Winston Smith
September 26, 2024 6:51 am
Scratch one flattop whose name escapes me even though I can see the photograph of the vessel burning in my memory.
Winston, here?:
Scratch one flattop
Sorry Matey, I was having TOO MUCH fun… 🙂
I do have a few of these.
Denominational map of Lebanon
https://x.com/VerminusM/status/1838990639347679338?t=DtgBCJour69-_2LbG4ekxw&s=19
No wonder they have so much internal problems .. FFS!
Vivek Ramaswamy: Trump, Conservatism, Nationalism, Immigration, and War | Lex Fridman Podcast #445
Lex Fridman
Video Summary### Summary In the Lex Fridman Podcast episode featuring Vivek Ramaswamy, the conversation delves into a variety of pressing political topics, including conservatism, progressivism, government bureaucracy, foreign policy, and immigration. Ramaswamy emphasizes the need for a revitalized conservative vision in America, articulating criticisms of both the current political establishment and progressive ideologies. He discusses the challenge of political narratives and the role of government in people’s lives, advocating for a significant reduction in federal bureaucracy and the termination of what he refers to as the “Nanny State.” The dialogue also encompasses Ramaswamy’s perspectives on foreign relations, particularly regarding Russia and China, and highlights his approach to engaging in open debates with those who hold opposing views. ### Key Points by Sections **Introduction (0:00)** – Vivek Ramaswamy is introduced as a conservative politician and author. – He ran for president and aims to offer a vision for the future of conservatism in America. **Conservatism (2:02)** – Modern conservatism lacks a clear vision and focus on what it stands for. – Emphasizes key conservative ideals: meritocracy, free speech, self-governance, and rule of law. – Urges a revival of America’s foundational values and a national identity anchored in civic nationalism. **Progressivism (5:18)** – Acknowledges the progressive argument that American ideals have not been fully achieved due to historical injustices. – Offers a counterargument highlighting that pursuing progressive policies often rekindles the same problems they aim to solve. **Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (10:52)** – Ramaswamy critiques the DEI framework for sacrificing meritocracy and genuine diversity of thought. – Argues that DEI practices promote divisions rather than unity. **Bureaucracy (15:45)** – Views bureaucracy as a significant impediment to effective governance. – Proposes a drastic reduction (75%) of federal bureaucratic positions to restore self-governance. **Government Efficiency (22:36)** – Stresses the need for government efficiency and accountability, advocating for a substantial cut in government size. – Suggests sending bureaucrats home and rescinding unnecessary regulations. **Education (37:46)** – Calls for rethinking education policy, suggesting that state and local governments should handle it rather than the federal level. – Emphasizes the importance of educational choice. **Military-Industrial Complex (52:11)** – Critiques the current military spending levels and urges a shift towards defending the homeland rather than foreign engagements. – Advocates for a clear strategy to address threats posed by alliances like Russia and China. ### Other Notable Topics – Ramaswamy discusses the need for immigration reform based on honesty and rule of law. – He highlights the importance of rebuilding national identity and pride in American citizenship. – Addresses strategic considerations for U.S. foreign policy in light of global challenges posed by China and Russia. – Ramaswamy expresses optimism about the potential for future political endeavors, particularly if a conducive political landscape emerges. Overall, Vivek Ramaswamy’s conversation with Lex Fridman offers a comprehensive perspective on various issues facing America today, framing his arguments with a blend of critique, vision, and personal anecdotes that reflect his views on leadership and governance.
Good to know that Vivek is in the background for Trump as well as JD. That’s two who would step up and lead if they attack and disable or kill Trump.
What a nice headline!
Entire German Green Party Leadership Resigns over Election Failures as Public Rejects Mass Migration, Climate Hysteria (26 Sep)
The rampant antisemitism that Greens have revealed this year probably doesn’t help either.
Would it be presumptuous to suggest that the young people have finally realised that their Euro elders mean them harm? Perhaps there’s hope for them yet.
John H.
September 25, 2024 9:47 pm
The oilers rely on other ships for defence – they carry very little defensive or offensive armament, and very little in the way of detection gear.
The oiler wouldn’t know Jack Shit until the torpedo exploded. But passive detection by the escorts? Depending where the escorts are, but yes if they were in a convoy formation, with a couple of subs in attendance, the sound of the torpedo bay being flooded and the opening of the hatch would stand out like the proverbial.
But if – as someone pointed out yesterday – she was between two Battle Groups, she would have been a sitting duck.
The Kamikaze took out the vast majority of the firefighters, and because it was assumed they’d deal with the fires, the crew weren’t trained up.
That culture (over specialisation) was a part of US military culture 54 years ago.
I hadn’t realised it went back to WW2, although I remember my father (RAAF – PNG WW2) talking about it.
As we stay in the classics, they had all the gear and no idea.
When expanding forces by orders of magnitude, generalist training for everyone takes too long. Specialisation produces personnel trained to do specific jobs to complement others trained for other specific jobs.
Simple example of which you should be aware. NS officers received six months training to become platoon commanders or equivalent.
Regular officers received either 12 months at Portsea or four years at Duntroon, because they were expected to carry out a wider range of duties, at higher ranks as they progressed in the Army.
Try not to let your rabid anti-Americanism blind you to reality.
“They’re Lying About Your History” – Rafe Heydel-Mankoo
Triggernometry
Video Summary### Summary In this episode of Triggernometry featuring historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, the conversation addresses the politicization of history education, the myths surrounding British history, and the legacy of the British Empire. Heydel-Mankoo critiques contemporary narratives that portray the British as uniquely culpable for historical injustices, including slavery and colonialism, while arguing that the British Empire has also contributed positively to global development. The dialogue emphasizes the importance of accessing original historical sources and critical thinking to build a balanced understanding of history. Additionally, the discussion explores demographic changes in modern Britain and their implications for societal cohesion, alongside the challenges of integrating diverse communities. ### Key Points #### 1. **Corrupted, Politicized History Education (0:40)** – The current educational system promotes a biased narrative influenced by leftist ideologies. – Historians from conservative backgrounds are significantly underrepresented in academia. – The skewed perspectives in education hinder students’ ability to critically evaluate history. #### 2. **Seek Out Actual Historical Sources (4:00)** – To gain a more accurate understanding of history, one should read primary sources, memoirs, and diverse viewpoints. – It is crucial to balance historical narratives by exploring both left-leaning and alternative perspectives. #### 3. **Debunking Historical Myths (5:05)** – There are prevalent myths about British history that need to be challenged, such as the portrayal of Britain as solely culpable for colonialism and slavery. – Historical narratives should not be judged by contemporary standards but understood within their context. #### 4. **Why the British Empire Was Great (7:39)** – The British Empire, while imperfect, contributed positively to many societies, promoting democracy, infrastructure, and the abolition of slavery. – Comparatively, the British Empire was more benign than other empires in history. #### 5. **The Revolution Has Already Happened (11:00)** – Modern society has undergone a cultural revolution that complicates discussions about history and national identity. – Current norms in education and media reflect a shift towards critiquing traditional narratives and figures. #### 6. **Economic Impact of Ending Slavery (12:41)** – The British voluntarily impoverished themselves to abolish slavery, a morally significant but underappreciated act of courage. #### 7. **Surprising Historical Facts (13:24)** – Many students are shocked to learn about the wider context of slavery and the numerous instances of slavery occurring throughout human history. #### 8. **Demographic Changes and Their Effects (Final Section)** – The UK’s demographic shifts present challenges for national unity and integration. – Large-scale immigration has led to isolated communities, complicating societal cohesion. – The discussion calls for a reevaluation of how integration and community-building can be fostered amid increasing diversity. Overall, the episode presents a defense of British history against current critical narratives and a call to recognize both the positive and negative impacts of historical actions, emphasizing the need for balanced and informed discussions about the past.
Imagine the types of lies that Numbers inculcated in school kids during his time with Queensland education.
Getting a few things muddled together. It was Battle of Coral Sea. The burnt out US carrier was Lexington. The DCO on Yorktown saw Lexington burning and realised why/how and suggested purging hanger fuel lines with CO2. Suggestion taken up by the time of Midway, US never lost a carrier thee same way through the war. Japs never caught on to the trick.
Scratch one flat top refers to the sinking of the Shoho.
On USn ships every sailor was trained in damage control. Not so the IJN.
Thanks for that, I was getting ready to post the same.
The Yanks losing the Lexington was a catalyst for a number of changes in ammo/ fuel handling in action.
Plus their ” every man a firefighter” approach to damage control was paradoxically better than a specialist team of lower numbers.
The fires on Lexington were nothing like the scale of those on Franklin and Bunker Hill.
Why?
She’d be running between the fleet and a resup base.
It’s government spending, stupid!
It’s the astronomical immigration which is putting all sorts of pressures on the economy. I’m thinking we may become the first country to go under while the GDP keeps going up.
Government spending/money creation and government interference in the price signal from the markets.
Along with excess immigration, these are the problems they refuse to deal with because it would mean they were wrong.
And that, my friend is just not on.
“If there’s anything more important than my ego on this ship, I want it caught and shot now.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
I found this oldish piece by Gerard hendeson, weitten at the time of the 50th anniversay of the end of Australia’s committment in Vietnam.
Gerard’s contributions are in italics –
He set out to debunk myths, but created a few of his own –
“All Australian men and women who served in Vietnam arrived in that nation at ports or on airfields controlled by the anti-communist government in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh City). There was no invasion.”
Depends what you mean by “invasion”, Gerard. When I arrived in Vietnam I disembarked from HMAS Sydney aboard a landing craft. Nobody was shooting at us, but to any dispassionate observer the activity would have looked very much like an invasion.
When I went out on operations with my infantry unit, we moved through country that was not controlled by the South Vietnamese government. That was why we were armed, patrolled without noise, and put out sentries at night. We behaved exactly like an invading army.
“The conflict between communist North Vietnam and non-communist South Vietnam was concluded in April 1975 when the North Vietnamese Army, with assistance of the Viet Cong in South Vietnam, who supported the Hanoi regime, conquered Saigon.”
To call North Vietnamese “Communist” and South Vietnam “Non – Communist” is a gross over-simplification. Vietnam was essentially a war of national liberation, a point made by our current Governor-General (who served in Vietnam as a platoon commander) when he was interviewed by the ABC on 19 March 2012. From the interview with Peter Cosgrove –
EPSTEIN: Does that mean that you think the war was fought tactically wrong or the perception that the perceived communist threat required an Australian response in Vietnam, was that perception incorrect?
COSGROVE: I don’t think the political environment inside South Vietnam was conducive to an enduring democratic state. I think the people in Vietnam across the board, ultimately seemed to prefer self-determination rather than the presence of a large number of foreign troops.
Obviously, Gerard has a different view of the history than someone who participated in it, and has an experience of the military reality.
“The star performer in the Ratcliffe package was Bowden. He complained that he could not get all his reports from Vietnam run on the public broadcaster at the time and provided the following explanation: “At that stage the (ABC) news executives were mostly old newspaper men, a lot of Catholics, and they saw the war as a holy crusade.”
What Bowden reports is accurate. Gerard has obviously forgotten B A Santamaria. Without the influence of the Movement, and the Catholic Right in the DLP, it is debatable whether the Coalition would have stayed in power long enough to send conscripts to a war in a foreign country in peacetime. Tell me, Gerard, when in our history has this been done before or since?
As for ” few, if any, supporters of Australia’s Vietnam commitment regarded it as a “holy crusade” Gerard was obviously not attending Sunday mass in a conservative diocese and listening to sermons about the evils of Communism as I was back then before I was called up.
“This focus on the Vietnam protest movement overlooks the fact most Australians supported the commitment.”
Again, a complete over simplification. There were two issues. One was sending troops to Vietnam, the other was conscription. Support for the commitment was initially strong, but began to wane during and after the Moratorium marches which took place in 1970, the year I was in Vietnam.
Support for conscription was never strong, and when the two issues became conflated, it became apparent very quickly, that community support for the troops was no longer there. That was an untenable situation, and Vietnam veterans suffered almost as much when they came home as they did in theatre. The government in power at the time bears as much responsibility for this situation as the anti war protestors. They conscripted us and sent us – not the protestors.
“As Edwards acknowledges, the US-led Vietnam commitment delayed a communist victory by 10 years — much to the benefit of nations such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. This was also to Australia’s advantage.”
There is another way of looking at this. The continued support of a series of corrupt “governments” in South Vietnam may have simple prolonged the agony, and contributed to the millions of civilian casualties, and the hundreds of thousands who fled the country in boats post the 1975 capitulation.
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History is sacred, Gerard, especially to those who lived it.
Don’t rewrite it.
The perseveration remains strong in this one.
“Don’t rewrite it.” Advice you should follow.
I get into the office this morning and the automatic news feed that every new has a Sky News story from 21 hours ago clamouring that a Reuters poll shows Kamala has increased her lead over Trump by a further 5% – putting her now at 46.1% and Trump at 40.5%.
Does this poll tell us about Trump and Harris? Or, as I see it, about Reuters?
Reuters are just doing their bit to set the stage for the big steal.
I dunno, maybe Reuters polled the SS who are counting the votes
The Silenced Doctor Taking AHPRA To Court – Dr William Bay
Video Summary### Summary: In this episode of Nugget’s News, Dr. William Bay discusses his legal battle against the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) stemming from his criticism of COVID-19 vaccines and related government policies. He has faced suspension of his medical license for expressing these views, which he argues infringes upon free speech and undermines the medical profession’s integrity. Dr. Bay’s case is significant as it may influence the regulatory framework governing healthcare in Australia and aims to restore freedom of speech for medical practitioners. He expresses concern over the consolidation of regulatory power and advocates for a decentralized approach to healthcare governance, emphasizing the importance of allowing doctors to prioritize patient care above bureaucratic mandates. ### Key Points by Section: **Introduction:** – Introduction of Dr. William Bay, who has faced challenges within the healthcare system due to his outspoken views on COVID-19 vaccinations. – Importance of Dr. Bay’s legal case against AHPRA in the context of healthcare freedom in Australia. **Background:** – Dr. Bay’s current prosecution in the Queensland civil tribunal for criticizing government COVID-19 vaccine policies. – His medical license has been suspended for over two years due to allegations of threatening public health. – Details of his court case, including pre-trial and main trial dates, focusing on the legality of AHPRA’s actions. **Censorship and Healthcare Ethics:** – Reflection on the moral decline among healthcare professionals during the pandemic. – A personal anecdote highlighting the inability to speak freely about potential vaccine-related health issues in a clinical setting. – Formation of the Queensland People’s Protest to address concerns over vaccine safety and healthcare censorship. **Personal Journey and Skepticism:** – Dr. Bay’s skepticism of vaccines and government policies developed over time, influenced by significant events and exposure to alternative media. – Critique of the medical education system’s failure to adequately scrutinize vaccine efficacy and safety. – Discussion on the lack of opposing viewpoints in medical discourse. **Concerns about Regulatory Authority:** – Assertion that AHPRA’s regulatory framework is unconstitutional and lacks proper legal authority. – Allegations that government and regulatory bodies have prioritized public confidence over patient care. – Criticism of the healthcare system’s current structure and the impact on medical practitioners’ ability to advocate for their patients. **Future of Healthcare:** – Dr. Bay’s hopes for a shift towards decentralized medical governance and the restoration of free speech for healthcare professionals. – Emphasis on the need for individualized and localized healthcare solutions rather than blanket national policies. – Advocacy for returning to state-based medical boards to enhance accountability and patient-centered care. **Call to Action:** – Invitation for viewers to support Dr. Bay’s mission for decentralized healthcare and to challenge the current regulatory practices in Australia. – Final thoughts on the importance of free speech and the need for systemic change within the healthcare industry. This comprehensive overview of the conversation encapsulates Dr. Bay’s experiences and the broader implications for the healthcare system in Australia amidst ongoing debates surrounding vaccines and medical censorship.
Surely there needs to be a word to differentiate doctors who follow the Hippocratic oath and those who follow government mandates? Ala Doctors and Quacks
Lee with some very insightful commentary about Islam.
https://x.com/leekern13/status/1838926814502092874?t=Qwm7rsEC8cCrx4YJ-2S3Gg&s=19
That was great! Also, true.
There are at least 15,000 Australians estimated to still be in Lebanon, with the federal government telling them to leave.
? ?How good are Oz welfare benefits if this many folk, most of whom would be on the “rorters” or OAP can retire to Lebanon .. They may have Oz passports but only a Labor gummint would claim they consider themselves Ozzies ………!
Bit like the indig activist in Tasmania who rejects “colonial courts”, but happily carries an Australian passport, accepts Australian social security and lifestyle.
Ah yes, “”Australians” in Lebanon. Another UniParty oxymoron. Bring them home. The Centrelink payments of course.
Bruce of Newcastle
September 26, 2024 6:45 am
You can see why ports might be a tad leery of letting dock a ship loaded with enough ammonium nitrate to cause a nuclear-sized explosion…
Exactly.
I read in a book (sadly I cannot remember the name of the book) that this particular explosion was used to help calculate the blast effects of the atomic bomb during its development:
Halifax Explosion
There is a display in the museum, at Halifax, on the Halifax explosion. There is a copy of the last telegram, sent “Stop all trains, stop all trains. Ship on fire and drifting into port. Goodbye, boys, this is it.” The sender was killed in the explosion, but stopping the trains went some distance in minimizing the effects of the explosion.
See also the explosion of the ammunition ship Fort Stikine in Bombay harbour in 1944.
Interesting wording from Kim Williams overnight re the ABC’s inquiry into audio of five gunshots being ‘cut and pasted’ into video in a report on former commando Heston Russell.
Wiliams stated the inquiry will recommend “corrective action.”
Does that preclude disciplinary action?
Wiliams stated the inquiry will recommend “corrective action.”
Does that preclude disciplinary action?
Means ‘do not get caught next time.’
I expect they will switch the doctored clip for one that isn’t and pretend there’s nothing to see there.
I believe that’s already happened.
Of course there will be no disciplinary action, Their ABC if perfect.
Still very much a question mark against Williams IMO. Can’t be worse than Ita but who could?
Haha. The collective is daring the chairman to exert power over them.
The staff know Williams won’t dare.
Williams is a weak little man who just wanted “ABC chairman” on his CV. He is a powerless figurehead and he knows it — whatever he tells dinner party guests.
I suspect you’re right. Neither he or the UniParty have the stomach for Total War with the staff co-op.
If the co-op defends this they prove themselves to be morally bankrupt.
They can never be allowed to assume the high ground again.
That being said, I suspect a lowly scapegoat will be found.
That is not the ALPBC way. You can be assured the 3 j’ismists will walk though.
Yes, I meant someone below the journos in the collective’s class system.
The government has been telling them to leave since at least July.
If we have to send warships to evacuate them – like last time – can we at least bill them for the trouble and expense and deduct it from their pensions?
We can call it “corrective action.”