Ah yes. My year at OCS Portsea. Ended the year on a search party looking for him. Was it really…
Open Thread – Mon 16 Dec 2024
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Matrix, AKA Dead Harry’s to many locals
The comment at the end of the article is telling: The only people who seem truly surprised by outcomes like…
Wally, the spuds were planted bySiL three years ago, so although they’re still doing well, we can’t claim them for…
Allan and the other grubs currently governing Victoria are probably aware of this near miss and so finally, after fourteen…
Was it warranted by real danger?
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WW2 RAF “Bathtub” key, As used in Lancaster bombers etc.
“The Bathtub Morse key gained its name from its shape and was used in WW2 for British bombers where it was thought high levels of fuel fumes could be ignited by unprotected sparks from Morse keys”
A line-up of Chevrolet cars outside J. McDonald Motor Garage, Warracknabeal.
1920s. Musuems Victoria
I can just make out the Pontiac and Oakland on the wall near main door
Oops.
The pic.
Electric cars are not new.
Been around longer than ICE cars.
Sweden had a sensible policy regarding covid, and is now looking at going back to nuclear in a big way. Meanwhile, we have Labor-Green voodoo economics, stupid net zero, and reckless high immigration – which has given us a group of non-assimilable troublemakers.
Major update on the Military spec transwing P-4 drones that are likely part of a Navy trial. To what purpose? Part 2 is not yet up.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/invasion-drones-breaking-truth-behind-mystery-drones-new/
Late at nite here, time for bed, making typing errors.
We are touring in Oman tomorrow, early.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
NEXT WIN: ENDING THE DEMENTED CLIMATE HOAX
TIM BLAIR
17 Dec 2024
Donald Trump is still a month away from being sworn in, but he’s already adding daily to what must be a world-record winning streak.
First, let’s once more review Trump’s astonishing election triumph, just for the fun of distressing our leftist friends.
Feel the joy! Former and future president Trump won the Electoral College count by 312 to 226. He won the popular vote by a margin of more than 2.2 million. He won every single crucial swing state.
Put those brilliant numbers aside and by any other measures this was an absolute election annihilation for Kamala Harris and her party of woke.
All 50 states plus Democrat-worshipping Washington DC swung in Trump’s direction relative to the outcome in 2020. Trump won last month’s election after surviving two literal assassination attempts, multiple political and financial assassination attempts by lawfare and almost hourly character assassination attempts by media.
Which he accomplished, by the way, without spending nearly as much as his cashed-up rival.
And the victories have continued with Trump’s cabinet picks and senior White House nominations. You can judge the worth of those decisions by the subsequent tonnage of lefty tears.
Trump’s latest win delivered a $US15m payout after he sued the American ABC News network and presenter George Stephanopoulos, who claimed in March that Trump had been found “liable for rape” in a sexual assault case.
Former Democrat staffer Stephanopoulos was wrong. Hilariously, Trump directed that ABC News pay that $15m towards construction of a “presidential foundation and museum”.
Even before he’s begun his second term, Trump’s media enemies are building his monument.
Beautiful.
Perhaps that monument will include a wing celebrating Trump’s demolition of weather mania. Temperature activists fear that Trump could chargrill the climate change cash cow.
“It’s so depressing,” one attendee at a US science conference told the Guardian last week. “Hopefully we will survive it all,” said another, obviously talking about funding rather than our planet. “We’ve been hearing a lot from scientists who are incredibly worried,” a climate lawyer whined to Politico.
Good. Panic means that the global cash-grab crowd is on the defensive – and maybe soon on the run.
Unlike most Australian conservatives, who are careful to not offend climate bullies, Trump stands up to them. Of particular interest to progress enthusiasts and jittery climate folk alike is a Trump speech from 2022, when he outlined his future administration’s philosophy on climate and energy.
“One of the most urgent tasks, not only for our movement but for our country, is to decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax,” Trump, who hadn’t announced his 2024 election bid, told a Florida audience.
“These people are crazy … they’re radical climate people,” Trump continued, accurately. Then he got to the heart of the matter.
“The radical left’s fearmongering about climate and our future is no longer just scaring American youth,” he said. “It’s destroying America’s economy, weakening our society and eviscerating our middle class. It’s really hurting us.”
Everything that Trump said is also true of Australia. Our economy has been damaged by climate activism. Our society is intellectually and morally weakened. Our middle class is down and hurting.
The likes of Chris Bowen are peeling money out of our wages and taking affordable power out of our futures. Our federal climate munchkin could really do some damage before he’s thrown out.
Trump routinely identifies solutions as well as problems. “Conservative leaders, think tanks and intellectuals must be fearless in calling out the lunacy of what you’re seeing and what you’re being led into,” he said in that speech. “The world is not ending. Our future is not dying. We have to defeat the climate hoaxsters once and for all.”
Yes, yes and yes. Our local conservatives would be wise to embrace all of these mighty truths – and soon, before the moment passes.
Trump has created a movement that extends far beyond the US. This should embolden Liberals to take similar stands, or encourage moderates to bugger off to the teals or Greens where they belong.
Meanwhile, Trump is outlining his next climate vision. He’s planning to bypass stupid environmental regulations for major investors.
“Any person or company investing ONE BILLION DOLLARS, OR MORE, in the United States of America, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but?in no way limited to, all environmental approvals,” Trump posted last week on social media.
“GET READY TO ROCK!!!”
We could use some of that.
If only the LNP would grow a backbone and cull the LINOs…sigh…
Today’s Tele:
FRIENDLY WORDS AND LARGE CHEQUES WON’T EASE HATRED
ROBERT GREGORY
17 Dec 2024
Throwing money at anti-Semitism won’t make the problem go away.
Days after it was torched in a terrorist arson attack, Anthony Albanese arrived at the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne, promising $32.5m for communal security.
After an anti-Semitic arson attack in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, the PM appeared at the Jewish Museum with a promise of $8.5m. But Labor’s splurge isn’t working.
The Jewish community is furious at this Labor government. We have spent 14 months asking Labor to take anti-Semitism seriously.
We don’t need the PM to show up at every anti-Semitic attack with his chequebook. We need his government to do what it can to stop the attacks from occurring.
We asked for a judicial inquiry into rampant anti-Semitism at universities. Labor refused. We asked the PM to rule out deals with the Greens, a party that peddles in anti-Jewish conspiracies. He refused.
Whether it’s rushed visas for Gazans or confronting radical preachers who spread anti-Jewish hate, Labor is deaf to the concerns of the Jewish community.
We asked the Albanese government to tone down its hateful rhetoric toward the Jewish state. Ministers responded by escalating their anti-Israel attacks. The foreign minister last week compared Israel unfavourably to Russia and China.
As the PM was heading to the Jewish Museum, audio leaked of him telling a Labor crowd: “Some people have got a bit upset. They’ll be more upset by Thursday.” Albanese was referring to the hurt his government caused by adopting yet another anti-Israel position at the UN.
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies President David Ossip told The Daily Telegraph: “I have only the greatest of respect for the office of Prime Minister and appreciate the donation to the Museum but I couldn’t bring myself to go and hear the Prime Minister talk about anti-Semitism whilst his government plots further policy moves against Israel.” Ossip received wide praise in the Jewish community.
Senior Rabbi Laibl Wolf implored communal organisations to refuse Labor’s funds until the government takes steps to confront anti-Semitism.
Rather than throwing money at the problem, Labor must commit to a serious inquiry into raging university anti-Semitism.
It must commit to carrying out adequate screening of immigrants from Gaza, to prevent importing hate.
And, very importantly, the Albanese Labor government must rule out any and all preference deals with the extremist and anti-Israel Greens.
Australia is burning. Jews are being targeted in arson attacks in multiple cities. This has become a major national political issue.
Ironically, in Labor’s desperation to maintain or win votes from anti-Israel communities, they are running the risk of costing themselves the next election.
Robert Gregory is CEO of the Australian Jewish Association
Just when you think Airbus/Anal Sleazy could not get any lower after parachuting out of a snake’s arse…
I do despise the ground it walks on as well as a few others.
Softbank’s new $US100bill investment in the US is going to get the sceptics going and that’s justified.
The cliche is “will this fund another WeWork”.
That’s the talking point that every NPC on social media is posting.
The sceptics would be better off looking at the CHIPS act which is one of the biggest failures of the Biden administration.
This was meant to incentivise investment in semiconductors in the US with the aim of being 6% of global supply by 2030.
And then hopefully 30% plus by 2050.
Unfortunately, as at the end of the September quarter, less than 1% of the funds have been appropriated.
Meaning there is a real chance the Softbank investment over the next 4 years could be multiples of what the US taxpayer pumps into funding the CHIPS act.
Who said government intervention created value ?
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING; President Trump confirms the Biden Admin DOES KNOW what the drones are, but are hiding it
@GuntherEagleman
Why sow all the drone FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt)?
Request For Drone Detection System In New York And New Jersey To Address Mysterious Devices News
‘Senator Schumer’s Call for Drone Detection System
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has made a bold move in response to the recent surge of mysterious drones hovering over New York and New Jersey. After a series of disruptive incidents, including a temporary airport shutdown, Schumer urged the Department of Homeland Security to deploy a specialized drone detection system to address the growing concern.’
To reap this
https://www.robinradar.com
‘Detecting small objects is what we do, and it’s what we do best. Bird, bat, or drone, our 360° radar systems log thousands of observations, scanning every second to track and classify with precision.’
Small step from birds and bats to human surveillance and crowd control.
RAOFLMAO
I don’t know what he’s signing but it’s perfectly obvious that they’re doing everything possible to put obstacles in the new administration’s path.
@LexLitzen
Trump’s stunt at the Softbank announcement trying to get Masa to make it $US200bill should be seen for what it is, a stunt.
The IM for the $US100bill fund is already completed.
If that gets fully funded and they then increase to anything over $US100bill over the next 18months, I’ll believe it when I see it.
@liz_churchill10
We must save democracy by destroying democracy!
Keir Starmer branded ‘dictator’ as he delays 2025 local elections (16 Dec)
Labour’s hypocrisy and lying is off scale. On the other hand the voters won’t be fooled by this wheeze and will be even more disgusted with them.
Top Ender
December 16, 2024 10:43 pm
That article. Stevens doesn’t give an s, that’s all I can glean.
Second again judiciary fails the victims.
Judges want to pet hands then take discretion out of their hands and build bigger prisons. The results of throwing money and “understanding” is where we are at the moment.
Lia could start by reviewing sentencing guidelines. Can see why Darren Clark is frustrated, starting the change in sentencing guidelines day 1 would have been a step in the right direction.
Regrettably can say Chrisifulli has been no different, talked the talk but we’re yet to see the walk. Business as usual for the yoof so far.
Andrew Fox on gazan casualties
https://x.com/Mr_Andrew_Fox/status/1868216225072853209?t=LYye_zkHwbky5bZuPBWeFg&s=19
Today’s Paywallion:
Fake history is flourishing across the West. Just consider these three cases
Nigel Biggar
7 hours ago.
Updated 32 minutes ago
Throughout the English-speaking world elites are falling over themselves to believe the very worst of their own countries.
Let’s consider Canada. In May 2021 an Indian band in Kamloops, British Columbia claimed ground-penetrating radar had discovered “soil disturbances” that evidenced unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 “missing children” in land associated with an Indian Residential School.
The media quickly sexed up the story into one of “mass graves”, with all its connotation of murderous atrocity. On May 30 the Toronto Globe and Mail published an article under the title “The discovery of a mass gravesite at a former residential school in Kamloops is just the tip of the iceberg”. In it, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, professor of law at the University of British Columbia, wrote: “It is horrific. But it is not shocking. In fact, it is the opposite – a too-common unearthing of the legacy, and enduring reality, of colonialism in Canada.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered Canadian flags to be flown at half-mast on all federal buildings to honour the murdered children. Because the Kamloops school had been run by a Roman Catholic religious order, some zealous citizens took to burning and vandalising churches, 85 of them to date. The dreadful tale was eagerly broadcast worldwide by Al Jazeera.
Yet, more than three years later, not a single set of remains of a murdered Indian child in an unmarked grave has been found either in Kamloops or elsewhere in Canada. Indeed, not a single attempt to disinter an alleged grave has been made.
Judging by the evidence collected by Chris Champion and Tom Flanagan in their best-selling book, Grave Error: How the Media Misled us (and the Truth about the Residential Schools), it looks increasingly probable that the Kamloops story, and the ones that followed it, are myths.
Meanwhile, in Britain, the Church of England has committed itself to pour an initial £100m ($198.4m) of its assets into an investment fund for “black-led” businesses around the world. This was made “to address … past wrongs” in response to the discovery that the Queen Anne’s Bounty, a forerunner of the church’s endowment, had “links” with African chattel enslavement.
A document entitled Healing, Repair and Justice explains. “The immense wealth accrued by the church … has always been interwoven with the history of African chattel enslavement,” it tells us. “African chattel enslavement was central to the growth of the British economy of the 18th and 19th centuries and the nation’s wealth thereafter … The cruelty of a multinational white establishment … has continuing toxic consequences resulting from the denial of equal access to healthcare, education, employment, justice, and capital.” Every one of these claims, however, is either dubious or false. The Queen Anne’s Bounty was hardly involved in the evil of slave trading at all. Most economic historians reckon the contribution of slave trading and slavery to Britain’s economic development as somewhere between marginal and modest.
Slavery was perpetrated on black Africans by other black Africans long before it was perpetrated by white Europeans. And between abolition in 1834 and the present day multiple causes have intervened to complicate and diminish the effects of slavery.
Consonant with his church’s policy, then archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby preached a sermon in Christ Church Cathedral, Zanzibar on May 12, in which he criticised Christian missionaries for treating Africans as inferior and confessed that “we (British) must repent and look at what we did in Zanzibar”.
That is odd, since what the British did in Zanzibar during the second half of the 19th century was to force the sultan to end the slave trade. Indeed, the cathedral in which the archbishop was preaching was built over the former slave market.
And here’s what pioneering missionary David Livingstone wrote about black Africans in 1871: “I have no prejudice against (the Africans’) colour; indeed, anyone who lives long among them forgets that they are black and feels that they are just fellow men …. If a comparison were instituted, and Manyuema, taken at random, placed opposite say members of the Anthropological Society of London, clad like them in kilts of grass cloth, I should like to take my place among the Manyuema, on the principle of preferring the company of my betters.”
Australia’s equivalent is the extraordinary career of Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. Published in 2014, this argues that Aboriginal people, far from being primitive nomads, developed the first egalitarian society, invented democratic government, eschewed “imperial warfare”, pioneered complex fishing technology, and were sophisticated agriculturalists. Such was the morally superior civilisation that white colonisers trashed in their greed, racist contempt and relentless violence.
Dark Emu was named Book of the Year and received the Indigenous Writers’ Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. It has sold more than 360,000 copies and has been made the subject of an ABC documentary.
And yet, while enthusiastically praised for challenging conventional views about Aboriginal culture and popularising the topic, it has been widely criticised for being factually untrue. While not a professional academic, Peter O’Brien has forensically dismantled it in Bitter Harvest: The Illusion of Aboriginal Agriculture in Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu, systematically exposing the many gaps between claim and evidence.
And in Farmers or Hunter Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate, eminent anthropologist Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe, while vigorously rejecting the description of Aboriginal culture as “primitive”, nevertheless dismiss Pascoe’s claims for Aboriginal agriculture and aquaculture, and expose his editing of primary sources to make them appear to support his thesis. Reviewers have described their book variously as “rigorously researched”, “masterful”, and “measured”.
So, prime ministers, archbishops, academics, editors and public broadcasters are all in the business of exaggerating the colonial sins of their own countries against noble (not-so-very) savages – from Vancouver to London to Sydney. Why?
The reasons are several, not least a well-meaning desire to raise respect for Indigenous cultures with a view to “healing” race relations. But that doesn’t explain the impatient brushing aside – even the aggressive suppression – of concerns about evidence and truth in the eager rush to irrational self-criticism.
One plausible explanation is the operation of a degenerate Christian sensibility. For Christians, the paradoxical mark of the genuinely righteous person is a profound awareness of their own unrighteousness. The saint is distinguished as the one who knows more deeply than others just what a sinner he really is.
There’s considerable virtue in this, of course, for it tempers self-righteousness with compassion for fellow sinners, forbidding the righteous to cast the unrighteous beyond the human pale.
Yet, like all virtue, it’s vulnerable to vice. For it can degenerate from genuine humility into a perverse bid for supreme self-righteousness, which exaggerates one’s sins and broadcasts the display of repentance: holier-than-thou because more-sinful-than-thou.
In The Tyranny of Guilt, French philosopher Pascal Bruckner captures this when he writes of contemporary, post-imperial Europe (and, by extension, the West): “This is the paternalism of the guilty conscience: seeing ourselves as the kings of infamy is still a way of staying on the crest of history.
“Since Freud we know that masochism is only a reversed sadism, a passion for domination turned against oneself. Europe is still messianic in a minor key … Barbarity is Europe’s great pride, which it acknowledges only in itself; it denies that others are barbarous, finding attenuating circumstances for them (which is a way of denying them all responsibility).”
In this display of virtue, the penitent hogs the stage: “By erecting lack of love for oneself into a leading principle, we lie to ourselves about ourselves and close ourselves to others … In Western self-hatred, the Other has no place. It is a narcissistic relationship in which the African, the Indian and Arab are brought in as extras.” Maybe Australia’s Aboriginal people, too.
Nigel Biggar is the regius professor emeritus of moral theology at the University of Oxford and author of the best-selling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.
I have a copy of Nigel’s book that I have yet to read.
This will be fun. They are trying to ban AfD but I don’t think there’s enough time for that before the election has to happen.
Germany Headed for the Polls as Chancellor Olaf Scholz Loses Confidence Vote (16 Dec)
Given the malaise that the red-green coalition has sunk Germany into I expect there will be baseball bats, lots of baseball bats.
Geez ..! The Broncos must have some pull with the media .. No mention, today, on any of the “news” sites I follow about the gentle lettuce leaf swishing that the judge gave Ezra Mam for drugs/unlicensed/injuring 3 folk in 2 other cars & leaving one a 4 years old girl with a broken hip .. $850 fine & 8 months driving ban …….
?Oz multi tiered justice its not what you do but who you know that matters ………..!
It’s interesting to hear that some Druze villages in Syria, near the Israel Golan border, are asking to be annexed by Israel. The Druze know the reality that has emerged since the collapse of the Assad regime, and they would have zero illusions about the nature of the Sunni rebels who’ve taken now Syria.
The Druze communities across the Syrian and Israeli Golan are closely related but have been separated since 1967 and many families were divided. Druze and Alawism, the sect the Assad family belonged to, are closely related, both obscure branches of Shiism. The history of Shiism is a fascinating subject in itself.
The Assad regime, whilst awful, did protect religious minorities, be they Christians and obscure Muslim sects.
Question for QLD Cats connected to the Ezra Mam situation.
He was unlicensed & therefore uninsured when he collected the Uber.
Inside the Uber was the driver, plus two passengers (mother & daughter).
In NSW one of the three levy’s you are charged when you use Uber goes to insurance (the other two are the taxi bail out & “temporary” fuel levy) meaning that no matter who causes an accident the passengers are covered.
Is that the situation in QLD?
Or will the mother & daughter have to pursue Mam for damages?
For those insisting flag tearing Maccabi fans were responsible for the Amsterdam razzia.
https://www.jns.org/trials-expose-logistics-planning-behind-amsterdam-pogrom/
Same in the UK.
Nigel Farage’s brutal response as milkshake attacker avoids jail (16 Dec)
Rosie
December 17, 2024 7:27 am
Andrew Fox on gazan casualties
https://x.com/Mr_Andrew_Fox/status/1868216225072853209?t=LYye_zkHwbky5bZuPBWeFg&s=19
Couple of things from Rosie’s linky:
Summary:
Questionable Counting: Analysing the Death Toll from the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in Gaza
and the full 40 page PDF report:
Questionable Counting: Analysing the Death Toll from the Hamas-Run Ministry of Health in Gaza
Interesting reading and Their GreensTealsALPBC gets a mention in the summary.
Eyrie
December 17, 2024 7:16 am
Reply to Indolent
Alternately, depending of the type and need for the job, they can simply get rid of the job.
Let’s face it, most (not all) public service jobs are a waste of resources.
Yeah well, at least the mamster didn’t quote any passages from the bible decrying various sinful activities. Which should be of some comfort for the mother and grievously injured kiddie.
What a joke.
Top Ender December 16, 2024 10:43 pm
Respected Alice Springs elder Benedict Stevens ‘beat partner with Aboriginal tool’.
Yeah that’s right – not your fault, it’s all the fault of Whitey who put that bottle in your hand and forced it down your throat.
See? Problem solved – just make Whitey stop making me drink.
I see the giant red smashy fist of Trump somewhere in this (the Tele):
Indolent
December 16, 2024 7:40 pm
Senator Rennick.
I say again; there will awards, eventually, for the investigative journalist who blows the lid on the corruption behind all this.
On a related topic I hear from a horses mouth source that the turbine monstrosity, subsidy hoovering “farm” north of Horsham is suffering a lot of premature blade and bearing failure. It’s only been operational for a couple of years!
This is a PSYOPS expert.
Planned Event? The Truth About NJ’s Drone ‘UFOs
What a bonus that would be.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau considers resigning over tariff threat: report
@nicksortor
New Must read book out from KDs favourite scribe…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/03/tim-winton-juice-book-interview
Concerns about Australia’s ‘excessive amount’ of renewable energy
Indolent
December 16, 2024 7:40 pm
Senator Rennick.
I say again; there will awards, eventually, for the investigative journalist who blows the lid on the corruption behind all this.
On a related topic I hear from a horses mouth source that the turbine monstrosity, subsidy hoovering “farm” north of Horsham is suffering a lot of premature blade and bearing failure. It’s only been operational for a couple of years!
This is an excerpt from a paywalled article in the UK Telegraph.
Donald Trump may just have toppled Justin Trudeau’s government
The final nail in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political coffin may have been delivered on Monday morning. The person holding the metaphorical hammer? Chrystia Freeland, who had been one of the most respected and trusted ministers in the Liberal government.
Freeland has been a loyal foot soldier and political confidant for Trudeau for nine years. She’s held several senior cabinet positions, serving most recently as deputy prime minister and the country’s first female finance minister. Her influence over communications, economic strategy and policy-making has been so emphatic that she was dubbed the “minister of everything”.
As it turned out, being involved in everything meant nothing to this PM.
“On Friday, you told me you no longer want me to serve as your finance minister and offered me another position in the Cabinet,” Freeland wrote in a resignation letter released this morning. “Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the Cabinet. To be effective, a minister must speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and with his full confidence. In making your decision, you made clear that I no longer credibly enjoy that confidence and possess the authority that comes with it.”
This passage is pretty stunning. It’s even more so when combined with what she wrote further down.
“For the past number of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for Canada,” she continued. This related to US president-elect Donald Trump’s impending 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods. She believed that Canada should be “pushing back against ‘America First’ economic nationalism”. It would also mean working with provinces and territories to build a “true Team Canada response”.
A respected Alice Springs traditional owner and director of a community organisation tasked with stamping out domestic and youth violence in the crime-ravaged outback city beat his long-term partner in an alcohol-fuelled assault earlier this year.
So, despite unprecedented power and influence given to Elders past, present and emerging, the “organization” is burning money, all violence and crime is blooming, women and children most affected… and whiteman firewater is to blame.
The only solution is to take all money and alchohol away. It’s a return to traditional lifestyle too, innit?
I wonder.
Will Trump end the renewables and climate scam before the inauguration?
Watching Bolt last night on Sky. As in James McPherson. What a difference.
Chrystia Freeland, who had been one of the most respected and trusted ministers in the Liberal government.
‘respected and trusted‘……what a crock of shit.
She’s the granddaughter of a Nazi and that old adage applies….apples never fall far from the tree. She was behind the freezing of the trucker’s bank accounts.
She’s an obscenity who should be locked up. Both she and Turdeau have destroyed Canada.
Copped a friendly clip over the ear from Rowey Dean on last Sunday’s Outsiders for saying “we need to reduce emissions” or something similarly ridiculous while talking about Dr Mutton’s nook plants.
Very disappointing. As a certain erstwhile commenter here used to opine, you never legitimise the gerbil worming idiocy in any way shape or form.
The manner in which Aboriginal “elders” are treated as offenders is fundamental racist. In the past, racist policy worked against them, but for a few decades now, it favours them. Policy is enshrined in laws that restrict police investigation, and at the other end of the process require more lenient sentencing. In between, judges and magistrates exercise their discretionary powers favourably. The police are attacked when they seek to enforce the law.
There are countless examples.
The victims of these offenders are mainly defenceless Aboriginals. In their interests, as for the rest of us, one might hope that Dutton’s calling out the nonsense with flags, and some local councils jettisoning welcome events, gets a wrecking ball through all this crap.
https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-school-shooting-498c8ad26d299602553201ad639a4a5c
Another gun free zone?
AIs are now smearing righties with lies, and deleting them.
Ghosted By ChatGPT: How Jonathan Turley Was First Defamed & Then Deleted By AI (17 Dec)
We all know what Gates regards as misinformation: climate realism. So if Cats you get electronically disappeared by the AIs you will now know why.
That is, despised and distrusted in a similar way to the fat fool who’s just “closed the chequebook” and scurried away from the dumpster fire that is the Disasterstan economy.
Bass ackwards, as bloody usual.
It should be quite simple, compare the current year death statistics against that of previous years, that is deaths from all causes, the difference could then be attributed to the war. Sadly I expect Hamas have thought of that too and added a zero or two to all their current numbers.
Practices like these always end in disaster, the honest police and residents get discouraged and move away. With what’s left you get more concentrated injustice and eventually a failed state or a failed community. Equality for all is the only possible and viable way to go.
Today we begin the first day of the ‘O Antiphons’
in the Church’s liturgy in preparation for Christmas.
December 17 marks the beginning of the “O” Antiphons an ancient part of our liturgy, dating back to the fourth century, one for each day until Christmas Eve. These antiphons address Christ with seven magnificent Messianic titles, based on the Old Testament prophecies:
The verses of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” are taken from the seven ancient antiphons.
1. A new book on the Eatock v Bolt affair, Witness for the Prosecution is planned for release in early 2025.
From the “Dark Emu Exposed” website.
The manner in which Aboriginal “elders” are treated as offenders is fundamental racist.
Its worse than that.
The biggest victims of these people are those they are closest too, and can victimise the most.
Leaving a violent turd in his “community” in the name of racial justice is compounding injustice to everyone.
Victims learn that police/courts are largely ineffective for long term help (they might turn up and take the offender away, but only for a few days)
And the kids learn that impunity can be theirs if they are just violent enough.
Another task for Dr Mutton (h/t Rabz) if he gets over the line in next year’s federal election:
Even though the ABC primarily represents the Greens, that means everything it does is designed to benefit the fleas that ride on Labor’s back in government — and that means supporting the flea host.
Rowland is attempting to insulate the ABC from any sort of budget oversight because its political orientation is so strongly pro-Labor.
Male Cannabis Users Seem to Show Less Cognitive Decline, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
Prohibition is just another example of governments and bods working in collusion to stop some of us having a good time.
Bruce of Newcastle December 17, 2024 9:23 am
There was an SF short story many years ago about a man who was late returning a book entitled “Kidnapped” by Robert Louis Stevenson to the local library.
By the time the story ended, the AI that had run the case had turned it into a murder kidnap and the man was being executed in the morning because he had kidnapped and murdered Robert Louis Stevenson, whose body was never found.
It sent a bit of a shiver up my back as a teenager.
Today it frightens me.
Regarding the School shooting. The usual suspects are screaming about gun control.
Justine Bateman had a tweet yesterday stating that, with the murder of the CEO by the wog boy, not a PEEP about gun control. Nada, nyet, crickets.
Trump: “I think Turkey is the key to Syria… you haven’t heard that from anybody else”.
You would have if you read Catallaxy and my comment three days ago, Mr. Trump.
Well, if Trump doesn’t read Catallaxy, there are ideas whose time has come and he and we just worked through them independently.
Such as going back to the history of tariffs in the 1880s and 1890s and how it was Republicans who historically used tariffs and democrats who tried to dismantle them.
You will remember those discussions here from a few years ago.
Today’s the day Harold Holt went swimming with the fishes, almost 60 years ago.
That is some article. I stopped reading fiction about the time young Tim was earmarked as most likely to write the great
AustralianSandgroper novel – and know his work only by hearsay. But. I retained the quaint notion that he, or someone like him who stayed local had the best chance of articulating the flyblown Sandgroper soul because…terroir doesn’t travel.I mean. You could have been what Randolph Stow would have been had he hadn’t skedaddled. What is the point of staying put and writing parochial didactic pap, son?
Dunno what others think but I happen to think some societal prohibitions are both positive and necessary, like the prohibition against incest and the prohibition against pedophilia.
Including appointing a fellow traveler as the new boss.
Former Nine Entertainment CEO Hugh Marks appointed ABC Managing Director (Sky News, 17 Dec)
Fauxfacts to All Bloody Communists…I’m sure he’ll fit right in.
Trump says, given the drone situation “which the government isn’t telling us the truth about, I will be staying away from Bedminister” (where drones have been sighted.
dover0beach
December 16, 2024 11:19 pm
Completely flawed logic.
If you pass a site where there has been a controlled demolition of an apartment block, do you say, “Gee, 600 people lived in there. 20-30 people must have been killed in the demolition”.
Because that has what the IDF have been doing. If they suspect (or know) that the terrorists are using a building as a command post or weapons storage, they issue ample warning for civilians to GTF out then implode it.
And they have destroyed a lot of buildings to avoid them being used to pincer their advancing forces. But always doing their best to avoid civilian casualties.
Sure, there have been civilians caught up in it, but to swallow the Raghead Ministry of Troof’s numbers whole?
Don’t be Comical Ali.
It’s not a good look.
Josh Hazelwood has been getting attention from the Australian team physios. The Fox commentators reckon he’s not quite right.
In other words, he bullshitted his way through last week’s fitness tests and was always carrying an injury.
It’s a fool’s mission to take injured players into a footy grand final and you certainly can’t do it in Test cricket when it’s the world no.1 versus world no.2.
The great news is that Scott Boland will more than likely be back into the side for the Boxing Day test at the MCG where he took 6-7 against England in the 2021-22 Ashes series.
I think there’s a simpler explanation than those which Professor Biggar offers: cowardice.
Fear of the activists, certainly; but also fear of taking a principled stand based on facts rather than emotions and being ostracised from the circle of the great and the good for it.
Speaking of Aboriginal issues, has their been any progress on the Toodyay Waugal case? Or has it just been deferred yet again?
When WOKE winz …… FFS!
Tom, even if they manage to pass the law it can also be repealed by the next parliament that does not have the Greens casting the deciding vote. If Dutton campaigns on cutting ABC’s and the SBS funding he will get more votes than Labor and the Greens. Both of them are on the nose with voters over many issues and the greatest grudge they bear is over the economy.
Reducing funding to the low-rated ABC and SBS can be sold as being economically astute especially when you suggest they can show ads if they want more money. It needs to be pointed out to voters that it’s only fair all media can have what they earn, like everybody else.
Bass has been negative on China for over a decade now. The look-back is a stock market there that has been treading water for over a decade, so in some ways, he’s been right. Where he’s been wrong is in underestimating the size of the credit expansion that’s been allowed. At 350% of GDP, that bucket, as he suggests, “is now filled with concrete”.
The desperate regime is attempting to avoid the damage of a balance sheet recession, by trying to create income through exporting its way out their problems. We’ll see, however the bond market at 1.75% isn’t a good indicator.
Look at this lying POS; I bet he sucks Mr wong’s dick and vice versa. The comments are pretty good because I have not linked to the putrid abc.
Australian UNRWA head saw children in Gaza ‘rummaging through rubble’ for food
2h
Did he know the HAMAS butchers were among his middle east team?
1h
I wonder if he saw the butchered children on Oct 7th…All you are doing ABC is supporting this disgusting U.N. agency who actually took part in that massacre
1h
Australian UNRWA head. So it would be a safe bet that he had some inkling as to what was to happen on October 7th
The more the ALPBC’s audience shrinks, the more desperate and dangerous it becomes.
121 years ago today the Wright Brothers achieved powered, controlled flight.
Just finished the ancient Rome trilogy by Harry Sidebottom .. Throne of the Caesars …..
Tho much shorter and only covering one, specific, year AD238 (year of the 6 emperors) it rivals Colleen McCullough’s “First Man in Rome” sextet for detail & reading enjoyment …….
This study is counter intuitive only to those who haven’t played or observed others players video games. The working memory demands of some video games is substantial and challenging. WM is a key element of IQ
Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids’ IQ, Says Study : ScienceAlert
I see John Pesutto will have to face the Liberal Party on Friday morning to discuss the reinstatement of Moira Deeming. Don’t have access to articles. I also note that Pesutto gave a less than decisive response to to an interview on SBS when he was asked if he supported Dutton’s Energy Proposal which includes the introduction of nuclear as well as maintenance of other energy sources sufficient to stabilize the grid. Is Pesutto a snake in the grass when it comes to the climate change hoax and to the costly, damaging wind and solar debacle pursued by the Greens and Labor. I can’t find one instance where he calls out the huge burden of energy costs on Victorians. Is he compromised or stupid? My gut tells me yes on both fronts.
Watching Jagmeet Singh in the Canadian Parliament immediately calls Teals to mind. Social Democrats, the most dangerous snakes in politics. Authoritarian lefties pretending empathy. He supported all of Trudeau’s worst excesses. He is only calling for his resignation now because he senses an opportunity.
His true character is revealed whenever he discusses Trump. The TDS is bad in this one.
I wonder who wore these underpants last?
Japan Airlines’ pushes ‘rental clothes’ to travelers at their destination ‘to reduce the weight of baggage & reduce carbon emissions’ (15 Dec)
That’s fifty bucks Aussie for only two weeks? You could walk into Kmart and get a serviceable set of threads for that, and they wouldn’t have cooties.
Spare a moment on Tuesday for the 110th anniversary of the Christmas truce between the Scots, Germans and French in the trenches in WWI.
Eyrie
December 17, 2024 12:29 pm
And, inexplicably, after the 40 yard flight, Orville’s bag couldn’t be located.
One for Chris Bowen.
Sweden gov’t commission: ‘Developing offshore wind projects off Sweden’s coasts is not commercially viable’ – Instead wants to build 10 new nuclear power plants (15 Dec)
Weird. Sweden is regularly held up as the perfect socially progressive nation. Yet they think nuclear power is commercially viable and offshore windfarms aren’t.
The German Government Has Collapsed
December 16, 2024 | Sundance
Guardian Essential poll: Albanese disapproval at 50% as majority say Australia on the wrong track | Essential poll | The Guardian
Anthony Albanese has finished 2024 with his popularity in the doldrums but there is some hope for Labor’s political revival in the new year, with more Australians seeing better days ahead.
Those are the results of the final Guardian Essential poll of the year, in which many respondents confirmed that 2024 had been worse than they expected and they are worse off than three years ago, underscoring the difficulty for the federal government leading into an election year.
The poll of 1,151 voters found that the prime minister’s net approval rating is now -11, with 50% disapproving of the job he is doing (up three points since November) and 39% approving (down three).
Albanese’s rating is a bit better in his home state of New South Wales (minus 3), but worse in Queensland (minus 21), where Labor won just five seats at the 2022 election, and Western Australia (minus 17), which helped deliver Labor majority government with the pickup of four seats.
Have to laugh. Chalmers is trying the Medicare and pension scare. This is the man who wants to spend a trillion on net zero and $300 billion more than Dutton.
Chalmers is now able to tax unrealised gains of smsf and doubled the tax on them when he said he wouldn’t. My response is: where is my $ 275 saving on my power bill? Sleekit swine.
Reducing funding to the low-rated ABC and SBS can be sold as being economically astute especially when you suggest they can show ads if they want more money.
should be tied to this..
Chalmers is trying the Medicare and pension scare.
Do this Libs – just do it, rip off the bandaid covering the festering chancre that is the sheltered workshop of the ABCcess
“To ensure the long term sustainability and pay for the latest life saving drugs for orphaned indigenous trans asylum seekers the money spent on their ABCcess will be used as urgent funding… Only the most heartless of disgusting maggots crawling through the bowels of satan himself could oppose such a compassionate plan”….
It is very unlikely anything provided by a Japanese company would contain the merest trace of cooties.
Message to Jimbo, lying is more effective if it’s believeable.
Chalmers lashes ‘economic and fiscal absurdity’ of nuclear plan (Paywallian)
‘They’re coming after Medicare, medicines, pensions’: Chalmers goes on attack (Paywallian)
Dogs and cats will be living together! Mass hysteria!
Jock.
Err, wut?
When did this happen?
This may be the most spectacular reporting since “The Americans are nowhere near Baghdad””…
You want rock bottom of reporting, this will be hard to top.
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1868676010499326359/photo/1
Well, smack me in the gob. It’s only taken 14 months and a photo op at the synagogue to initiate some action. And, as if VicPlod would seriously enforce this
From the Oz.
Premier announces new protest laws in anti-Semitism crackdown
Red alert: earthquake M 7.3 in Vanuatu on 12/17/2024 1:47:25 AM
Luigi the CEO killer has a fan-bois following on social media.
Those who usually espouse “peaceful resolution” and scream “gun control” at the drop of a hat are wetting their pants at the prospect of this being the spark for a revolution.
Next time I see one I will remind them that, if it happens again, a new improved FBI will be trawling social media looking for suspects.
Phil
December 17, 2024 2:03 pm
Phhht.
Dutchsinse predicted this a week ago.
@LauraLoomer
The trans movement is really turning out to be a terrorist movement.
So, Luigi the CEO shooter was motivated by what?
I heard that he was turned down for some claim or procedure. Is that the case?
Victoria’s Labor government will move to ban terrorist flags and symbols in public, ban face coverings at protests, and introduce legislation to curb protests at places of worship.
This law will, of course, only be applied to people that Vikpol doesn’t like.
Does that mean Vikpol get a new uniform and badge?
Old man rants at sky.
Biden Orders Scientific Agency To Expand Use of ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ in Final Days (16 Dec)
NOAA already believes in climate fairies, so also believing in rainbow serpents would not be a stretch.
This is an interview with Neil Oliver who, unfortunately, has swallowed the evil Israel fable. MacGregor is impartial.
Putin HUMILIATED – Turkey Sides with Israel to DESTROY IRAN! – Douglas Macgregor
“So, Luigi the CEO shooter was motivated by what?
I heard that he was turned down for some claim or procedure. Is that the case?”
Apparently from a quite well off family, went to good university etc etc.
Typical radicalised leftist looking for his 15 minutes of fame, IMO.
Also said to have bad back pain etc etc, so bad he can’t have sex.
Oddly, he CAN grapple with police when they try to arrest him.
Who knows?
His lawyers say there is no evidence he did anything, and he was supposedly listed as a “person of interest” not a suspect per se, but they charged him anyway. Hmmm.
Better not to jump to conclusions at this point – let it play out a bit more first.
FURY: Starmer CANCELS elections as Labour TANKS in the polls: ‘Acting like a third world DICTATOR!’
I am SHOCKED by this U.S. GOVT HEALTH Message on their WEBSITE
Apologies for any occasional mispelling of Mayotte, the island that was in the eye of the cyclone we avoided.
We are presently sailing into Muscat at the top of Oman very near the entrance to the Straits of Hormuz, through which passes a major part of the world’s oil from the Persian Gulf countries. We will be visiting three cities of the United Arab Emirates now in a criss-crossing of this gulf. The countries in this region like the Emirates, that have diversified their economies from dependence on oil riches into financial hubs now welcome much of the world’s wealth for investment and safe keeping in tax havens.
Will report back more later. Right now want to enjoy passing by snaggle toothed mountains in a seried range right down to the sea as we enter port, with ancient forts on entry peaks and on a higher peak slightly more set back an amazing white but huge eggform of an Islamic religious building within the cup of which sits half a white domed ‘egg’, intercut with arches and other filigree architecture. Welcome to wealth, it says.
Ooops ..! time for a break .. temp just reached 52C in my computer den .. wee bit hot & I’m dripping everywhere ..!
?Gotta luv the “no batts or air con” houso lifestyle .. LOL!
What Keir Starmer REALLY Wants to Do with the Working Class! – Andrew Doyle
“We will also legislate to thwart protests and disturbances at synagogues, temples, mosques, anywhere in Victoria where Victorians are simply undertaking their fundamental right of religious freedom.”
Unless there is a bad cold going around, in which case you can’t go to your place of worship when until we say it;’s OK. And don’t even THINK about protesting about that – even on-line. We’ll arrest you for that (we’ve done it before, remember)
Further to the request by the Druze villages to join Israel:
Residents of Syrian Golan villages, rebels transfer Assad weapons to IDF – report (JPost, 16 Dec)
Unthinkable even a month ago, they would’ve been arrested and tortured.
Major update after baby’s skull bashed in alleged violent home invasionAlexandra FeiamNewsWire
Tue, 17 December 2024 10:59AM
There has been a major update on the condition of a baby whose skull was fractured during a violent home invasion in Alice Springs.
Nicole Siguenza was home with her five children and holding her two-month-old daughter, Antonia, on Wednesday December 11 when two teenagers allegedly broke into her house on Bokhara St in Alice Springs.
It’s understood one of the teenagers searched the house while another threatened the woman with a metal object before striking her and the newborn, fracturing the baby’s skull.
The baby was rushed to Alice Springs Hospital with a fractured skull and brain bleed before being flown down to Adelaide for further medical treatment.
The teenagers involved in the alleged home invasion, aged 16 and 17, were apprehended by NT Police a short time later, with one placed under arrest and the other allegedly fleeing in a car.
Following a short vehicle pursuit with police, the second teenager was arrested.
Both have been charged with aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, unlawfully cause serious harm, aggravated assault and theft.
Over the weekend, Antonia’s dad Marlon Siguenza flew to Adelaide to be with his wife and young daughter while their four children remain back in Alice Springs.
A week on from the horrific home invasion, Mr Siguenza shared a heartwarming update on the infant, whom he called a “little fighter”.
“The fracture itself that she received on the skull has gone in a couple of directions but the neurosurgeon is confident that over time she’ll make a great recovery because of her size and how young she is,” he said per the ABC.
Mr Siguenza added his daughter had been suffering seizures as a result of the fracture, though they hadn’t returned since Friday.
“(On Sunday) she smiled, reacted to sounds — it was wonderful to see,” he said.
While she’s “doing better”, there is still a long road to recovery for the two-month-old.
“She’s not in the clear just yet, but she is definitely taking steps forward, one at a time,” Mr Siguenza added.
Following the home invasion, a GoFundMe campaign was set up to support the family. It has since raised more than $50,000, more than doubling its initial $20,000 goal.
Mrs Piggy Howes really sticking her neck out as Myer CEO. I’m not sure I would be buying anything off Solly Lew. We’ll see.
@MikeBenzCyber
Reuters, the news agency that brings Americans so much of their news coverage about war, has a Palantir-like side business that receives $145 million in Pentagon contracts. At what point do we call Reuters a military contractor?
@MikeBenzCyber
If USAID is a charity doing humanitarian work, why was it backing a private for-profit gas company in Ukraine called Burisma?
@MikeBenzCyber
Reuters – between its newswire services, its network intelligence services & its data services – has received over $1.56 billion dollars in US government contracts.
Does Reuters’ customer relationship with government agencies taint its news coverage of government actions?
@robinmonotti
Trust “the science”!
Just like rats in a maze.
England’s Chief Medical Officer Advocates For ‘15-Minute Cities’
We’re (probably) doomed: Experts think the Sun may produce gigantic, electronics-destroying superflares much more often than we previously thought
Gonna get hotter? 😛
But, seriously, how to scientists push this line without acknowledging the sun is the single biggest driver of climate change, period. Like 99%!!!
Old man rants at sky.
Biden Orders Scientific Agency To Expand Use of ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ in Final Days (16 Dec)
A scientific agency with any integrity would tell him to jump on his head. He’s a silly ignorant old fool and shouldn’t be giving orders to anyone. This should be pointed out to him and all the pig-ignorant progressives.
What’s the bet the spin machines will be working non-stop over night and tomorrow it will be lies, lies, lies.
‘On the eve of Treasurer Jim Chalmers handing down what is expected to be a horror mid-financial year economic update, The Economist journal has delivered a scathing assessment of the government’s management of the Australian economy.
Australia isn’t ranked in the top 20 performing economies in the world in 2024, placing 21st out of 37 over the past two years after having previously been in the teens.
Australia sits well behind other OECD nations such as Spain, Italy, Greece and even Mexico.’
PETER VAN ONSELEN: The embarrassing list that Albanese and Chalmers do NOT want Aussies to see | Daily Mail Online
A little Musk will fix it!
socialism and islam are the parasites
“Education Minister Jason Clare says anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are both a “parasite that eats away” at Australian society…”
Well, yes, obviously.
Picking on Jews for all your ills is pointless and just rude.
Fearing Islam for no reason is also pointless and rude.
However, fearing islam because a large proportion of islamists will not condemn violence against the infidels is not a phobia of any description whatsoever – it is a fear well based in historical precedent and current events.
So minister, will you address this real fear? Will you put the fear of God into those who would kill and enslave us because we do not believe as they do? Or will you instead stick your head in the sand because you think it won;t happen on your watch, and it will be somebody else’s problem when it does happen?
I look forward to the new Victorian protest laws being selectively applied.
That fundamental right that governments across Australia, including Victoria, curtailed or banned just a couple of years ago.
I find it difficult not to regard these people with a deep disdain.
And that reminds me…where were the church leaders?
No wonder they were reluctant to say anything about the shooter.
Shooter at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin ID’d as 15-year-old Natalie ‘Samantha’ Rupnow (16 Dec)
FBI swatted her home today, and Madison is a “hot-bed of anti-Christian radicalism” apparently*. Starting to see a common thread here.
(* Breitbart mainpage headline.)
In Teh Paywallian Mavis runs the annual what are our pollies reading over Christmas. Tom Holland’s Dominion makes an appearance.
Just common sense.
Oh no, I’ve never doubted their motivation in that regard but are you suggesting that an Atlanticist think tank isn’t motivated to underestimate the casualty figures in Gaza?
Cats will recall when, during Trump’s first term, Trudeau designer and controller, the ‘widely respected’ Chrystia Freeland, often entered the US and partook in anti-Trump activities.
In most cases her outrages were under the cover of international events, but the commie hag was almost always off script and teamed up with the worst of the pussy hat frauds to cause trouble in someone else’s country. She also joined with catwalk dolly Merkel and the EU hate team to attack Trump at every opportunity.
What a pleasure it is to see Rainbow Sparkles rageing about Trump handing it back to Canada. “National soveriginity” apparently is important again.
As a slithering commie will not get what she deserves but it is a true joy watching her go down. Canada’s climb back will be traumatic.
Poilievre faces a much more difficult task than Trump. He must avoid the traps laid by the endless Human Rights gestapo, every professional body, corrupt police, communist provinces, rogue banks, US haters and terrorists imported by the Liberals. It is extraordinary that he remains so calm.
We are presently sailing into Muscat at the top of Oman very near the entrance to the Straits of Hormuz, through which passes a major part of the world’s oil from the Persian Gulf countries.
Lizzie, we love Oman! Years ago, on the recommendation of an airline pilot friend who travelled in his time off through Oman by car, we hired a Landcruiser in Muscat and drove down to Sur and back. The most adventurous was a late afternoon drive on a pretty average track into “The Empty Quarter” (aka the desert!) to a camp which accomodated tourists. Husband, who is used to outback conditions, nevertheless had, much to the enjoyment of the Omanis, great difficulty in negotiating the sand dune on which the camp was located. But it was an experience of a lifetime – especially watching sunset on the dune.
Our favourite Islamic country. They are “Ibadi” Muslims, as I recall, and are less doctrinaire than other Muslims, and very used to foreigners – no doubt because of their history as traders.
What the list usually reveals is that the members of our ruling caste are unimaginative, middlebrow trend followers.
A cynic might aver that that quality is what has got them to the top of the mountain of mediocrity that is Canberra.
Oops.
“On Tuesday afternoon there were more than 6,600 homes and businesses without power in NSW as the network struggled with 7 unplanned outages, according to Ausgrid.
The trouble was centred on Bankstown, southwest Sydney, where 3,500 customers were affected and at 2pm the temperature had hit 37C.
An Ausgrid spokesperson said the cause had yet to be identified, but ‘there’s certainly a higher chance of it occurring on a day like today, when we have higher demand across the network’.
In neighbouring Condell Park, there were 1,900 customers without power.
And in Denistone, northwest Sydney, where it was also 37C, there were 1,200 sites without power.”
Areas in vicco were also without power yesterday.
RE blackouts.
Get used to it Labor lovers. You voted for these dimwits that thought they could control climate by fiddling with the electricity supply. And also, (wink, wink) make a killing by investing in the subsidy harvesting game.
I mentioned the blackouts to a school teacher a few minutes ago.
Her instant reply was ” too many people using their air conditioners”.
The rot is soooo damn deep.
And, this is out in the bloody sticks. Sigh…
Wow, this is going to spook Pukin in a big way.
Just out.
Hazelwood out for the rest of this Test.
Very likely out for Boxing Day….
IF there is a “missing” warhead and it is in “the wrong hands” it may end up in a nondescript shipping container, “somewhere”, in the US, probably on the eastern seaboard and in or near the “golden triangle” containing New York and Washington. Check out the number of shipping containers moved or present EACH DAY in those ports.
Bear in mind that these devices require regular inspection for “stability” and “primary’ function” (Pre detonation). HOWEVER, if one is partially degraded, it may just “fizzle”, with the core melting from the initial heat generated as the material goes “critical”.
The bad news is that in this process, there WILL be a pulse of invisible, but very nasty radiation, similar to that which is emitted from EVERY Nuke, just before detonation. When the nazis “tested” their first “devices”, they deliberately set them up to do just this; LOTS of radiation, a bit of a flash of visible light, but NO BIG BANG. Several hundred “prisoners” were the “crash-test dummies”. Their bodies were rounded up and burnt TWICE. and “disappeared”. The actual site is still there, in a forest on a German Military testing (conventional only) area. THIS is why the two bombs dropped on Japan, were detonated at height above their targets The radiation pulse started the process by “snap-frying” everything within a few thousand metres. (Note the post action photos of “Shadows” of people on still standing walls, etc.)
What might motivate such a horrendous “revisiting” of those two grim days is up for any amount of wild speculation..
Clue: Who would stand to benefit / take advantage of such a thing? See: “Enemies foreign and domestic”. as referred to in the US Pledge of allegiance and the Congressional Oath of Office.
Yes, you do have to wonder what effect all those drugs have on people who are unstable to begin with.
Mentally unstable psychopath on puberty blockers, & hormones killed 5 children
Brits Used As ‘GUINEA PIGS For Frankenstein Foods’ As Eco-Warriors Risk Cows Milk With Chemical Mix
Well, this is a bit worrying Bruce:
Mystery as radioactive shipment goes missing in New Jersey amid drone invasion | Daily Mail Online
I mentioned the blackouts to a school teacher a few minutes ago.
Her instant reply was ” too many people using their air conditioners”.
Its all very tiresome in a Soviet “The people have failed the electricity grid” kind of way.
India need 21 runs, with one wicket in hand, to save their match.
Means Australia have to win last two tests to win back the Border Trophy.
The silence surrounding Molan’s sacking is frightening.
Who amongst the Jew haters engineered the coup.
Why is she silent. Silence over outrages is not in her nature.
I mentioned the blackouts to a school teacher a few minutes ago.
Her instant reply was ” too many people using their air conditioners”.
It’s a mistake to talk to most school teachers. They’ve done degrees in Education, the most useless subject on earth; their ignorance is almost total and their instruction consists of learning to say and write the “correct” things without bothering about whether they are true, false, or entirely devoid of meaning.
There are some honourable ones; they will confirm this judgment.
It’s a mistake to talk to most school teachers.
Pretty unimpressive in my experience- those who can do
True dat. Had the same comment in a staffroom ( too many ac). I suggested they turn the AC off in their classrooms for the rest of the day. Horrified looks and “but,but,but”.
“Like actors, most school teachers are stupid people.”
Nothing pops the self-congratulatory prize balloon of the virtue signaller like a bit of reality feedback.
School teaching is theoretically a very demanding job, and a very important one to get right. I admire those who take it seriously and do it conscientiously. Unfortunately it is controlled by educational types and the teacher’s union, people who have opted for being bureaucrats instead of good teachers. It being so much easier.
Yeah, yeah, teachers are an easy target, I get it. I have in times past made many similar comments about my past colleagues.
But in their defence reluctantly, I have to state that many people complaining about them wouldn’t last a week in the job, and many, many have a very unrealistic view of how their very own children behave at school.
I invite you to try it.
Go into a classroom and try to get and keep the attention of 25+ hormonal and immature human primate individuals long enough to teach them something.
Now try doing the same if you graduated from a university course with the lowest entry score anywhere or time in history, and you only have a sub 95 IQ.
It’s amazing they do as good as they do do.
Aircon?
You’re lucky your child’s teacher knows to turn it on it the first place and doesn’t just sit there like a frog in a pot. Or is able to trust the little monsters long enough to turn their attention momentarily to a thermostat at the risk of murder, rioting or arson.
Stop complaining.
The silence surrounding Molan’s sacking is frightening.
Who amongst the Jew haters engineered the coup.
There’s no anti-Semitic conspiracy. Molan had a show during a dead zone, it’s been axed. I hope they can find another role for her, meanwhile I suspect she’ll set up a Youtube channel. She’s already very popular overseas.
I don’t think there’s many, if any, Jew haters at Sky Oz. Sky’s the home of Sharri Markson, Andrew Bolt, Peta Credlin, Chris Kenny, Rowan Dean, James Macpherson, James Morrow and Rita Panahi, ALL vociferous supporters of Australian Jews and Israel. Sky produced the excellent Frydenberg documentary on Jew hatred in this country earlier this year, Ruperdink visited the torched synagogue last week with his Jewish wife and pledged $150K to it’s rebuilding. I know that the Murdoch family have given over $2million to fighting Jew hatred since October 7.
I have opined on this before.
The people responsible for their child’s worldview, attitude towards life, development of actual life skills, behavioural issues and their problem solving abilities – let alone their individual ethics and moral compasses are not the teachers.
They are the parents. Any attempt to deflect otherwise – to use just one example, ‘My child believes in climate change because the teacher said so’ – needs to re-evaluate what they have done, and how invested they are in their child’s future.
Hint: It is not outsourcing it to 23 year old uni graduates.
I saw on the front of the Herald Sun that Pallas is doing a runner.
On a lighter note:
Best Man never counted himself a gardener until a (long time gardener) church buddy issued a challenge: best layout, best variation, best results. And all at once, he’s found his green thumb.
Harvested to date: cucumbers, zucchinis, cabbages, leeks, mini flavour-bomb tomatoes, rhubarb, cherries, apricots, cucumbers, zucchinis, capsicum, pumpkins, spinach, herbs and did I mention cucumbers and zucchinis?
Coming up: almonds, peaches, parsnips, corn, nectarines, raspberries, apples-apples-apples, beans, snow peas, plums, beetroot, radishes, grown-up-tomatoes and cucumbers and zucchinis.
My man is a winner!
The people responsible for their child’s worldview, attitude towards life, development of actual life skills, behavioural issues and their problem solving abilities – let alone their individual ethics and moral compasses are not the teachers.
They are the parents. Any attempt to deflect otherwise – to use just one example, ‘My child believes in climate change because the teacher said so’ – needs to re-evaluate what they have done, and how invested they are in their child’s future.
Amen. I wish I could like this comment 1000 times.
It was 43 degrees on our way out to the vineyards. The GPS decided to take us on the scenic (read where to dump a body) route.
Finally arrived at a really nice resort cum hotel. Happy Hour now over. I showed a couple of free range children how to play snooker without destroying the surface of the table. My good deed for the day is done.
A cool change at midnight should avert climageddon. At least for the next few days.
Doomlord reposted this.
A very good point being made.
Law already exists to prevent menacing places of worship.
There has been a deliberate choice made not to enforce it.
https://x.com/i/status/1868414512770269329
Tonight I am preparing for tomorrow’s Big Zucchini Relish Day, with much cutting and dicing and cucumber slicing in preparation for my famous Bread and Butter Pickle-Making Day.
Dear heaven, do these wretched cucumbers and zucchinis neverstop?
Stop complaining
I did say that the job is demanding. Perhaps I should have said very demanding. I also said it was very important. I am entitled to moan about the fact that it’s usually done abominably badly by the least competent graduates taught by the least competent academics. And organised by halfwits who pick up enthusiastically every moronic fashionable idea going, and butcher the syllabus out of massive ignorance.
I am not suggesting that people in Sky axed Molan for their own reasons, but I have seen a number of Liar commentators attacking her. Who knows what pressure was exerted?
Count me as one who’d last more than a week. I can hold my temper.
My arrest for knocking some little smart-arse into the next postcode wouldn’t occur until sometime during the third week.
Not quite.
One-all after two.
If they draw this one they only need to win one more to take the series.
But the 7-11s have avoided the follow on, so Straya would have to get the last wicket, knock up a quick target, declare and try to bowl the Injuns out. But what is a tough target in these days of T-20?
Particularly seeing as how they’ve carried an injury prone bowler into the game and he’s blown up.
And I don’t think the weather will be great either.
Delta, where’s the spuds???
Re the teaching discussion:
‘Multilevel classes’ aren’t equitable or excellent, say teachers. (13 Dec)
Ignore the headline, which is woke, and focus on the observation. In short we should go back to the old days of 4A, 4B and 4C, so that the poor teacher can actually teach to the ability of the class. That way the 4A’s can be mustang and the 4C’s can at least learn to read and write.
Hopefully Poilivere has opened the flood gates.
Contact between parliamentarians, public servants and associates of Government with the WEF will be banned.
The only better step would be to declare the WEF Nazis as a proscribed terrorist organisation.
It would be helpful however if he simplified the spelling of his name.
Ow boy there’s some hurt at smart alec Trudeau’s antics at Trump’s first term. Meh what goes around comes around:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/17/trump-snark-is-the-best-snark-canadian-edition/
Australia playing ‘Russian roulette’ with energy security
Bother. My Molan comment disappeared. I hope Erin gets a better slot. She’s worth a nightly gig.
Law already exists to prevent menacing places of worship.
There has been a deliberate choice made not to enforce it.
https://x.com/i/status/1868414512770269329
Menachen, standing with Avi, both Jews, confronted the slag Allan the day of the synagogue torching. She’d turned up for a cheap photo op. Her response to the questions from Avi and Menachem? She fled in terror. Allan’s a coward, a weasel, a grub.
As somebody wrote above, any new law will be applied selectively.
I caught up with a cousin from Melbourne. Her understanding is that the two Jews in the shul when it was torched are lucky to be alive.
Allan and the other grubs currently governing Victoria are probably aware of this near miss and so finally, after fourteen months, they’re shit scared any future attack will result in the deaths of Jews.
It was our first actual job. That’s why success is so unbelievably satisfying.
Lisa Wilkinson is finding out the hard way that you agree to costs before you start any litigation.
In writing so there is zero issues later.
Because she & Sue C’s firm couldn’t produce an executed cost agreement, Channel 10 are disputing everything.
She’s had an expensive week having to pick up all the costs (hers & Channel 10’s) for a federal court hearing related to the costs dispute with Channel 10.
Recently Lisa had a pay half of the costs for the external mediator.
And all her lawyers preparation & appearance fees for the mediation.
Bottom line, Channel 10 must hate her guts to haul her over the coals like this.
As Keating once said “I want to do you slowly”.
The common law is pretty clear.
No signed costs agreement, depending on how something turns out, it’s either the lawyers or client swinging in the wind.
the two Jews in the shul when it was torched are lucky to be alive.
From the footage of Sharri & Dutton, I’m surprised they let people walk through part of the inside.
I didn’t look all that safe.
Keating on Hewson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVuJLiuo5zc
Ahem, that would be the following rogues gallery:
Kroges, Kennotto, Ded Flailieu, “Hi Alan” Schlockdale and Denny Naptime.
Why they are doing this would be due to the fact that they no longer seek power, which at this stage would be little more than a poisoned chalice. The economy there is beyond resurrection, even with the inevitable taxpayer bailouts from other states – the allocation of which might be avoided if the gliberals win the next feral erection.
Anyway, time to turn off the “Grate Mass Debate” on Sky in the background, featuring Liz “Foghorn” Storer, Joe “I’m a labore shill” Hildebeast and some bimbo whose name I’m (thankfully) not aware of.
Oh – and thank goodness for cool changes – can now also turn off the aircon to “pwotect da gwid”.
In which case, applying any new law selectively wouldn’t be of any benefit to them politically. For that benefit to accrue they need to be seen to follow through without discrimination.
Further, but in the jurisdiction of NSW, have the protests in the vicinity of the Great Synagogue had court permits issued? If so, that would make it difficult for anyone participating to be charged under existing laws as they have a legal right to be there. That raises questions about NSW police not challenging the permits more vigorously. This may be the problem Minns is attempting to get around with new laws. I won’t, however, give him much credit for that. This issue has been festering for more than 12 months.