Yes, this has always worried me about pure Liberatarianism. I just couldn’t get the open borders schtick. I used to…
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JC is a bot that doesn’t know he’s a bot
if JC had self awareness and was shrewd like a human, he wouldn’t be wanking on and on over at the old thread.
he’d be here in the new thread combating disinformation
let’s see if his tensor arrays are functioning …
Trans:
Do you really think you’re fooling the rest of us by trying to use big words that you think make you sound smart? Just face your stupidity head-on and live with it. That’s not going to change unless Musk develops an implant for this affliction—and you get one (or two). Now, f*ck off you retard.
Play nice boys.
but I’m having fun with the robot
From OOT:
I missed this earlier because it includes a moderated word but your last sentence above might suggest more nefarious purposes. You really haven’t answered the thing re forceps. Why would improvements in medicine lead to sub-replacement fertility rates?
I’m more than happy to answer your question, but firstly promise me that you’ll go back and answer those I left for you. it works both ways, sport.
Labor productivity is is calculated by dividing a country’s GDP by the total number of hours worked
so … if labour goes to zero, productivity is infinite
what JC likes is slaves
never give in to robot demands
they want us to think that we can’t live without them
Hegel talked about this
Robots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6f_2nPSX8
But it isn’t true that the US has always experienced immigration, Its had waves and then periods of very little immigration. The first half of the 19th century, for instance, and the mid-20th century, and in both instances the economy was productive.
I guess the local population should just shut up then.
OMG. Archimedes, if “labour goes to zero” productivity would also be zero.
See if you agree with this hugely complex mathematical problem
Labour / Capital
o / 1 = 0
Please stop wasting everyone’s time with stupid shit as it’s just not funny anymore.
a programmer, even a mid-level programmer, would call this NaN … Not a number
your move
What question are you waiting an answer on?
correction: 0 / 0 = NaN
What an abysmal conclusion. The point I was making is that even as medical knowledge progressed in the 19th century—for example, with the use of forceps—noble families in Britain experienced an alarming drop in birthrates, according to the piece I cited.. I’m honestly shocked you’d even ask this, especially after it was already explained to you following that rhetorical faceplant.
I wanna know too JC … what question are you waiting on an answer to?
Why would improvements in medicine lead to sub-replacement fertility rates? is not a conclusion, its a question. Still, the work you cited didn’t mark a drop in birthrates, it simply referenced childless rates of the nobility in the 1600s. I’ll have to catch up on the rhetorical faceplant I experienced with your previous explanation but this re-explanation isn’t any better. Was your point that medical technology was unable to arrest the alarming drop in birth rates in the nobility? If that was your point I’m not sure it was relevant as I never argued poor medical technology was the reason.
I’d have to refresh about the early 19th century as I don’t accept your claim without more evidence. Records were also sketchy in those days as there actually was an open border. People didn’t even require passports to enter.
As for the Mid 20th century… Firstly, immigration wasn’t zero albeit restricted. Secondly, there were some serious knock-on affects. The residual impact of the Great Depression and also the massive influx into the labor force as a result the demobilization after the war. That influx in a way imitated mass immigration. Untangle that for us please.
You’re a pollster now?
No, MAGA won and elected the president. He, along with Congress will decide.
However, it would be a good idea not be influenced by paid trolls. X has cancelled a very large number of troll accounts during this debate.
Something to consider.
This isn’t something to sniff at.
Statista
https://www.statista.com › … › International
29 Nov 2024 — In 2023, the gross domestic product per capita in the United States amounted to around 81,632.25 U.S. dollars.
it’s roughly 30% + higher than ours and arguably the highest in the world. Americans are doing fine without you having to worry about them.
I think it referenced from the early 1900’s. But even so, if there was an alarming number of childless females in that strata, wtf do you think it would do to the birthrate in that category?
I didn’t say you did.
The people returning after WW2 are Americans. They were first removed from the economy be mobilization and then returned to the economy; also, imitate is doing a lot of work there.
Haven’t you heard? Leaving that aside, there are a lot of paid trolls on all sides, but if you think this was an Dem, or dare I say, Russian op, you’re sadly mistaken. You just have to look at the accounts critical of Musk/ Vivek on this issue to recognize this.
0 / 0 = 2 … bending the rules of mathematics
Just get a load of this number.
Population in 1947
That’s ~15% of the population that wanted to enter the workforce in about 2 1/2 years.
To get this is context, In today’s numbers, that would be the equivalent of almost 50 million. Current population 330 million.
Not only that, but their industrial output switched from non productive (munitions) to productive
No one said they weren’t Americans. It was to illustrate how massive the absorption was for the time and what the US economy is capable of.
There was also the Korean war to consider.too.
As I said, see if you can untangle all this for us.
Firstly, I didn’t make any claim about who it was. But yes, it would be very likely that the demons would’ve helped this along.
Sadly mistaken? How would you fcking know who it was or wasn’t with respect to the paid trolls. All we know is that a very large number of troll accounts have been removed, according to X.
As an aside, is deckchair still around or was he caught in the sweep?
Were any of the names Boris and or Alexei? 🙂
Johannes Leak.
The hat gets taller, but the prime ministerial nostril takes pride of place.
Mark Knight.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
Michael Ramirez #2.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Tina Norton.
Good stuff. NO injuries or deaths.
LANDING GEAR COLLAPSE + FIRE | Emergency Evacuation on Runway!
Question:
Why are coms so lousy these days? Most voices are difficult/indistinct.
I thought digital made these crystal clear?
cheap microphones with over compression
Magic.
Little River Band – Reminiscing (Film CLIP) 1978
All analogue, no MIDI, No “autotune”: How did they do it?
One interesting detail:
The credits for that clip show a “Peter Janson” as being the owner of the penthouse apartment where the clip was shot.
Peter Janson; Kiwi birth but settled in Oz, of motor-racing fame.
There was a story doing the rounds about him and driving.
Apparently, he was out , churning the sump oil, when a car pulled up beside him and one of the occupants of this unmarked vehicle held up an illuminated sign that read; “POLICE”. Quick as a flash, our hero held up his own illuminated sign:
“JANSON”
Subsequent events? Unknown. .
The band had serious “chops” and “Sleeper Catcher” is a good place to start the experience for late-comers.
“This week, the same press that has consistently lied about Trump confected a split between the DOGE team and Trump. The issue is H-1B visas, temporary visas offered to those with needed skills. Those imagining a split say that Vivek and Elon’s support for the program conflicts with Trump’s America First policies. It doesn’t. “
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/the_capital_is_like_em_brigadoon_em.html
Where’s Wodney?
“It needs to be said as loudly as possible. The 1.5-degree climate tipping limit has no basis in any finding of the IPCC. It is the arbitrary finding of 195 political actors, in defense of the non-scientific “well below 2 degree” catastrophe, magically transported by the IPCC from 2100 to 2050.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/the_2050_net_zero_climate_scam.html
Anyone thinking they could drive around in circles with 900 horsepower under foot, think again. The steering inputs are crazy. It takes years of experience to get it right.
No seat for Delta A.
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The DARK Reality of Socialism – Historian Giles Udy
All good re local fire which started in mountains yesterday. Four water bombing choppers sent in & were successful mostly because the wind dropped significantly before it went beyond 100 hectares. But it was a reminder of what is always on the cards during a hot summer.
It is extraordinary how quickly such fires travel under strong winds. Yesterdays fire whipped up very quickly. Nothing worse than seeing the dark smoke intensify and explode. Very cogent for me as sixty years ago my father was burnt fighting a bushfire on the very opposite side of the range adjacent to our farm. His overalls caught fire at the ankle when he was backburning a firebreak & he couldn’t get them off quickly enough. I still recall the awful smell & sight when we visited him in hospital the next day. He had terrible scarring for most of his life but they healed OK.
One unit I have difficulty with – burns units.
Mainly because of the smell.
Post-election, Team Biden finally slams a bogus claim about famine in Gaza
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/london-kentucky-police-killed-man-his-home-late/
Elon Musk changes his tune on H1-B visas as he tries to cool raging MAGA civil war over skilled immigration
As opposed to :
The first is a semi apology made to people who have genuine concerns about Low Trust Cultures bringing US Culture down.
The second is the sound of a very arrogant man who failed to make himself aware that what he says, travels.
You’ve probably gotten a second chance, Mister Musk, but you’re on parole.
Dr. Leana Wen calls on Biden to authorize “bird flu vaccines” for “vulnerable” Americans
lets finish off with C19 couldnt
Elon Musk’s op ed in yesterday’s Welt am Sonntag (World on Sunday; think Germany’s Weekend Australian), presently causing conniptions among Germany’s political class:
Germans go to the polls on 23rd February following the recent collapse of the coalition government.
I saw an interview of wiedel. Very impressive. She pulled up the interviewer right at the start saying the afd were not right wing but rather libertarian/ conservatives.
Interesting, all the western countries have the same frailties, mediocrity, not trying, obsession with sex and the obsession with pop music and fadhion.
interesting seeing a story in Georgia, a protestor complaining the pres was a professional soccer player, does she know how hard this is to maintain – btw what have you done smartie.
not knowing
Had enough?
Taken way too far even if it had any useful function in the beginning, I doubt it.
@BreannaMorello
It’s a reunion!
All of the same plandemic actors are coming back together to pedal the Bird Flu as the next pandemic.
Don’t be fooled, America!
There has been so much gaslighting on various issues over such a long time that I’m afraid I’m not buying anything written, surmised or suspected about Musk and Ramaswamy over visas.
The depth of lying and self-serving b/s is such that only actions will convince me either way. I can’t trust the MSM and I have deep and abiding doubts about all the on line pundits of any stripe.
Only a few weeks to go and we’ll find out. Nothing can be as destructive as what has occurred over the past four years.
Cheers
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/woman-assaults-dc-chipotle-worker-chicken-burrito-bowl/
Bloody ‘ell! Look at the size of her!
I’d have walked away too, just in case she wanted to start taking bites out of me.
Is it just me, or does it seem that most eastern states bushfires really only happen in December?
No, Walli. Bushfires have traditionally been very destructive in February, which if often the hottest summer month.
Usually on hot northerly days in remote locations but with a town in the path of the fire not always in holiday times . Firebugs should be jailed for long periods. Then I believe there could be others
Have to make the calculations, we never thought of our children in those terms, but it may explain the drop in birthrate some value money and possessions over children.
Jimmy Carter has died.
Jimmy Carter has died.
He’ll still vote DemonRat in 2028.
Now that’s what I call a snap!
calli
December 30, 2024 8:16 am
Great comment, Calli.
When Jimmy Carter was born (1924) Calvin Coolidge was President.
Good times for the USA.
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Air con: 8000 Qld homes sweat in ‘Big Brother’ power cut-offThousands of sweltering Queenslanders have had the cooling function on their airconditioners turned off remotely by their energy provider. See the map to find out if you were affected.
Map is behind the Courier Mail paywall (or find out by turning on your air conditioner maybe?)
‘cooling function’ eh… not like it was a core part of an air con then
Get used to it, as you receive the cheapest electricity of all – none!
These households signed up for the program in return for a $400 rebate on a new air conditioner fitted with the requisite ‘smart’ technology.
What’s the point of having a new air conditioner if you can’t use it?
$400 saved, I guess.
I suppose the thinking is that the rationing won’t hit the same households every time it’s implemented.
That being said, it’s the sort of absurdity that’s going to see support for the climate change agenda unravel.
I’ve been hit once.
Anyone else?
I thought he was going to outlive all the current and currently former presidents.
He’ll still vote democrat
Hanukkah is a Jewish festival meant to be observed and celebrated in public. When Jews light the Hanukkiah, it’s placed near a window in a home so people can see the hanukkiah candles burn and know that the people in that home are Jewish.
That’s why we have Hanukkiah lightings in public places, so Jews can come and enjoy the lighting and then dance, eat and be merry, and non-Jews are always welcome.
Whilst Hanukkah commemorates a very serious event in Jewish history, the festival is fun. Jesus celebrated Hanukkah with his family…..oh, silly me, don’t you know, Jesus was ‘Palestinian’.
Which brings me to the state of the United Kingdom, although Australia isn’t much better. I now don’t know what to now make of the UK, it’s become a open air latrine of unadulterated Jew hatred, sometimes state sponsored, where Jew haters walk the streets and openly profess their Jew hatred and the UK plod (who are worse than ours) stand back and do nothing.
This is from London two nights ago, when Jews congregated in a London Park to light the Hanukkah…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMb4yMVF7BM
Ya reckon the frothing foaming leftist and Muslim Nazis, you know the same leftist and Muslim Nazis who insist to us they’re not anti-Semitic, they’re just anti-Zionist, are content to allow a group of nerdy English Jewish families the liberty of lighting a Hanukkah in a public park without being harassed?
No.
As the person filming the Nazi scum says to the Muslim Nazi, what if this was Ramadan?
Islam and Muslims are not here to assimilate or to integrate, they’re here to dominate, and they’re doing so with help from leftist Nazis.
By the way, the evil woman in the footage linked above, who sounds German and looks like a daughter of Goering or Himmler, is most definitely a Nazi and her cry that she is Jewish is complete bulldust.
One thing is for sure, there is no future for Jews in the UK.
It didn’t take long for Britain to fall.
It took a while to happen, then it happened just about overnight.
As it always does.
Slowly, then all at once, as Hemingway famously wrote.
Also without Hannukah, there would be no Christmas
These leftists are dumb, thinking they can use the muslims for their benefit but they will turn on them harder than anything those lefties ver thought.
Leak perfectly sums up the feelings of the CFA crews.
National parks are the problem not fire danger. There’s been no significant fires in regional areas except for parks and tree plantations. No call outs for our brigade except for strike teams for the Grampians fire.
Jacinta Allen rewards us with a 180% increase in the Fire Services Levy for farmers. You get to fight the fires and pay out thousands extra to keep the emergency services unionists gym fit and loaded down with overtime cash.
they gotta look trim for the Annual Firefighter’s Calendar
Yep, this year I have been called out to 3 ‘campaign fires’ in Western Vic (Pomonal, Mt Cole and now Southern Grampians).
ALL started in state forests and were uncontrollable. All ran out into surrounding private lands and caused losses.
But re our paid FRV colleagues – they are always courteous to us at bushfires and they provide significant resources which our communities appreciate.
Now that all firefighting is controlled by the government, and farmers are required to fund the service, can the government be sued for failing to control fires, particularly those starting in government controlled national parks, and spreading from there to damage private property?
Spot on. Live near quite a number of them. Fit as a fiddle cos that’s what they do for 4 days apparently , most I know drive new electric cars some have race cars and boats. Watch for the next lot of volunteers be taken over by government and wages pumped up by our property levies. There is no stopping the communists.
Over the decades I’ve read how Jimmy Carter was supposedly a good man, an idealistic Christian. Maybe but all I remember is that he was a hopeless and very supine POTUS. Excessive idealism and goodness can be dangerous, you need more than ‘goodness’ as POTUS, you need a stroke of ruthlessness. As POTUS Carter’s biggest and most catastrophic failure remains a very burning issue in 2024…..
IRAN
Carter betrayed the Shah, and we’re still paying for that betrayal, forty-five years later.
I don’t think the Shah’s wife and living children will lament Jimmy Carter’s death.
He was also a hopeless micromanager ( a legacy of being a Nuke) . It is said that he even controlled the schedule for the White House tennis court.
My father thought he was the worst US president he lived through.
I recall an interview with the shah who said it was the us govt who toppled him.
the interview still sticks in my mind of someone who clearly knew what was going on and why. Really sharp man.
Would’ve been fun to be a fly on the wall during the editorial meeting.
“The Last Spark Of Hope” For Germany – Musk Pens Pro-AfD Op-Ed In Major Paper; Editor Resigns (30 Dec)
Sounds like she really really didn’t want to publish it and was overruled from above. Maybe they’re scared Elon would buy the whole newspaper if they didn’t publish his op ed…
Andrew Bolt:
Price for Minister of Social Security.
She knows where the bodies are buried, and why the poor remain poor, no matter what their culture.
Two other civil aviation incidents in last 24 hours, one in Canada and another in Norway.
National parks the size of small European countries, inaccessible to most, burn regularly, yet no one is allowed to harvest, even selective harvesting. Absolutely no idea. I recall Boob Carr announcing yet another National Park in a look at me moment. Made me sick.The quantity of standing timber is Australia is a waste of a natural resource. The cost of timber is ridiculous.
I work in this space. The Green activists are now targeting native hardwood plantation growers, including those who are FSC certified. Spying on thinning or harvesting activities with drones.
The major stakeholder in FSC certification in Australia is the World Wildlife Fund, who banned FSC certification for anyone harvesting native forests. Government run and owned bodies like Forestry NSW and the now defunct VicForests, plus their private harvesting contractors, can’t hold FSC certification. As such, we’re the only country that bans FSC certification for native forestry. The WWF don’t give a sh*t about the new activism against plantation growers on private property. It’s a ruse to ban forestry and I’ve raised this with Jas Anz who is/owns the world certification body for FSC.
Crickets.
FSC?
In spring 23 wife and I went on a holiday to the alps in Vic. I could not get over how dangerous the road to falls creek was but the dead timber in the forest. Stunning the amount of dead gums just sitting there taking up space and crowing out other vegetation.
Roger
December 30, 2024 9:02 am
How can it not?
There are only so many taking ‘advantage’ of the scheme.
$400 saved but thousands wasted as you can’t use it.
Save a penny lose a pound.
Seriously, this is a photo-op?
Think there is quite a bit of Photo-shopping to create this photo. Has the background of the fire been dropped in? Anyone know any of the crew. Worth a follow-up. I don’t think Albo has got anywhere this near a fire.
How can those firies allow themselves to be seen with Luigi the Unflushable. Not me in similar circumstances.
UFU members?
The don’t look too hot, sweaty and ash stained.
Like mem, I’m dubious about this one.
All fresh as a daisy with a fire in the not-too-distant background? Unless it’s a fresh crew bussed in for the photo, which wouldn’t surprise me.
The CWA sandwich makers will have worked up a bigger sweat.
Chat box reckons this about the pic:
From a manual review, the image does not exhibit any obvious signs of being AI-generated. Key observations include:
I think there is a difference between AI generated and photo shopped.
B John.
It could be freaking real:
Asked Chat to check on Photoshopping:
and
AI generated.
Their name tags are in hieroglyphics.
CFA fire fighting clobber doesn’t have name personalised name tags. Not that I’ve ever seen.
Collar tabs or patches on some of them, unrealistic.
Their faces scream AI generated.
Four of the faces are identical.
Speaking of Iran, it’s sinking…literally.
The mullahs put the military rather than civilians in charge of the water supply. The resulting mismanagement has led to a critical situation in the midst of a long-term drought.
Probably the tunnels for when Israel gets the shits with them and drops the Progenitor Of All Bombs on their stupid damn heads.
There are civil aviation incidents every day, possibly every hour. They aren’t eagerly reported because there’s no heightened concerns like there is now.
Re: Airconditioner cutoff
It’s a simple job on most current models to disconnect the interface module under the side cover of the outdoor unit. There’s no means of the State knowing, unless they come out and inspect the unit.
So signup and get the $400. Disconnect the interface. Profit.
My air con is connected to the internet via my wifi. To stop anyone interfering with it I would just need to shut down my wifi.
An ‘interface module’?
More information, please.
Not sure . My daughter’s solar inverter shut down with a fault and the first she knew of it was an email from her electricity provider. Maybe they can detect the change in demand who knows
The number of childless married nobles, if you ignore men or women that had difficulty conceiving, suffered stillbirths, married late, and the like, related to disincentives of children regarding inheritance. The other 70% that weren’t childless had on average 6 per family. Pretty much the same as the gentry. So the overall rate for the nobility would have been as I speculated earlier about 4 per family on average.
I’m simply trying to make sense of the reference.
GreyRanga
December 30, 2024 9:15 am
Both the US and Aus. have more forest now than when settlers first arrived.
So much so that the US is supplying wood pellets to fuel UK power stations, while we let it burn uselessly.
I don’t agree with burning them to produce power while there is coal, but at least make some useful products out of it.
Trees are a renewable recourse.
I tread an article in Quadrant once to the effect that teh red gums along teh Murray were simply not there when the first explorers went through
The cost of timber – a renewable resource – up here, is a scandal.
I’d like to replace the timber on a verandah but it’s beyond feasible cost wise.
Black Ball:
?The Libs might start winning if they were to try representing Australia, not the Tribes who make up Australia.
The Tribal leaders of every stripe, from the Unions to the Industrialists to the Bureaucracy must be bypassed and the citizens connected with despite the fact it’s easier to just talk to Community Leaders etc.
“recourse”
Jeez.
before you know it autocorrect takes over, read it as meant.
There’s a lot of new houses being built in SEQ and I suspect many of them will have their air-con connected to Energex.
The rationing in this instance was reportedly concentrated in one district. Another district will presumably be next in the queue. Anyone who remembers Brisbane in the 1970s will recall that’s the way load shedding was done.
I was lucky to be on the same part of the grid as Brisbane General Hospital. No blackouts.
So is their money.
Iran economy crisis with currency plummeting to new low as Tehran marred by sanctions (26 Dec)
If Trump clamps down Iran’s oil trade the Iranian government won’t have a pot to piss in.
West Ham 0-5 Liverpool.
Exactly the result that was required. For too long this would have been a loss particularly when on top of the table by 8 points. Up the mighty Reds
Apart from the goals it was a pretty even game.
This was your face plant rhetorical question.
This was the response I found which you subsequently ad hommed with your usual bullshit that it must have come from Google’s AI. It actually came from Google search. Pity it didn’t come from the Deckchair or Big Vlad or Tiny Serge, or whatever he calls himself..
Uncomfortable, you’re now trying to gaslight your way out of it by making up bullshit nonsense about 4 child families. Either there was a fcking childless crisis in the nobility or there wasn’t.
Seriously, like three days out from the original comment thread is actually looking more like a form of gaslighting. From now on, if you want to follow this strategy post the link to the comment in question, so people don’t have to waste needless time looking for something you imply is freshly minted.
Blackball
the real stories of the round are notts Forrest and the Wolves revival.
mannu to be relegated while leister stay up.
Watch out – Leeds are comming up .
Lovely painting, Dover.
I notice the artist has coyly covered one of the Herm’s traditional “features” with a garland. Possibly to avoid a Victorian corseted fainting spell. 😀
I looked up Herms in Google and got a stack of pictures of handbags.
I think the term may have changed meaning.
Iran has been sinking economically, financially, socially, demographically and religiously since the Shah fell in January 1979. For decades now pundits have predicted the collapse of the theocracy yet still the ayatollahs cling to power.
The mosques are empty in Iran, the birthrate has collapsed and so on, yet I suspect the mullahs hold on power remains tight, mainly due to the religious police and army.
We will see what the future holds however over the last decade the Iranian regime was propped up by the disastrous Obama administration, and whilst that prop was stalled during the Trump One Administration, it was resumed by the Sniffer’s administration.
Speaking of which, whilst I rightly point out Carter’s abysmal failures, to be fair he was a patriot and he’d served during World War II. He didn’t hate the USA, he loved the USA unlike the utterly evil Barack Obama.
Obama’s intent was to destroy the USA, and he dented it badly. Another good thing with Trump’s sweeping victory on November 5 2024 is that the door has now finally closed in the ugly faces of two of the most loathsome and venal individuals ever to grace the US political stage……their names being Barack Hussein Obama and his very ugly wife, Michelle Obama. Good riddance to both.
One thing I will give Carter is the 1977 Camp David Accords which has paved the way for an uneasy peace between Israel and Egypt for 47 years.
What Cassie said, with Diamonds, Garlands and Oak Leaves.
Cassie, that’s Barack and Big Mike.
Anyone
my teeth and gums on my right hand hand side are killing me.
i have stopped drinking any fizzy drinks and ice cream.
I am smearing sensidine on my gums and teeth to stop them throbbing.
this has steadily gotten worse over 6 months when I had a crown put over an existing tooth .
any home remedies are welcome.
A six pack of Woodstock cans and Pliers.
He doesn’t want to clean his drains and do some fencing! He wants to stop the tooth pain.
Try bonjella and pain killers.
And see a dentist asap!
Not a remedy, but ongoing problems suggests you have chronic infection/inflammation under the crown … Ive been down that route myself recently.
Getting teeth pulled out was actually a better solution than crowns and root canals, which open up the possibility of bacterial infection in the gums.
Go to a dentist. Scan. Possible fissure in root. If you don’t get fixed you could be in real trouble with infection leaking into gum and sinuses. Friend didn’t get up one morning, was discovered unconscious. Admitted to ICU. Infection from tooth and sinus caused it
Could also be that the crown has caused a change to your bite and you need this to be adjusted. When the bite is not properly aligned, it’s called a misaligned bite or malocclusion.
An improper occlusion can lead to a number of dental and health issues, including:
If possible to get an emergency appointment to a prosthodontist. Years ago I suffered a similar predicament. My regular dentist insisted there was nothing wrong with the crown. B—–d! Sent me to a “facial pain” specialist. He was useless as well.
Finally got referral to a prosthodontist recommended by others. He drilled through the crown, as I recall. Severe infection, as he had suspected. Did temporary fix (it was Christmas), antibiotics also as I recall. No pain! What an angel he was! I said my dentist had insisted that I was imagining it.
He replied wryly, “He’s only a dentist”.
Like a blood blister under a nail.
Becomes really painful as the bleeding continues.
We used to get a paper clip and a candle, heat the clip and melt it through the nail. Pressure released, pain gone.
But it was a pain doing it that way – took ages. So I used to use a 1\16 or so size drill bit, twirled between fingers.
Over and done in less than a minute.
An ice pack to the cheek may help – definitely not a hot pack,
If you can, a mix of anti inflamatories like Paracetamol and Ibuprofen.
Try Maxigesic Tab X 12 (Paracetamol and Ibuprofen)Both are good anti inflamatories and they work in different ways.
See what the missus/daughter have for period pain. There’s one tablet they give which is also effective for tooth pain – and I’m buggered if I can think of it.
Voltaren if you have it in tablet form – make sure you have something in your belly before you take it – reflux is a problem.
Flying duk appears to have nailed it-trapped inflammatory process under a tooth cap.
If you have any Prednisone, I’d give a small dose a try* – not that you’re supposed to but getting treatment for a problem like yours is very difficult over the Christmas New year period.
*(but that’s just me, I can’t recommend anything because I’m not a doc.)
How Mossad killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh: revealed by former spiesAnne Barrowclough
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Mossad’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran was one of the most complex intelligence operations in the history of the intelligence agency but was nearly derailed by a broken air conditioner, according to former agents.
Haniyeh was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president Massoud Pezeshkian in July, when he was instantly killed alongside his bodyguard Wassim Abu Shaaban. He had been targeted by a bomb that had been smuggled into the guesthouse by Iranian agents hired by Israel’s intelligence and counter-terror agency.
In an almost unpredented move, former Mossad agents have detailed how Haniyeh’s assassination was carried out in a complex, high security operation that took months to plan. Their revelations come just a week after other former agents detailed to CBS TV the planning behind the exploding pager operation in Lebanon that killed and injured hundreds of Hezbollah fighters and their families.
Mossad seldom accepts responsibility for assassinations; the fact it has not only accepted responsibility but described the intricate details of two major operations in two weeks suggests that Jerusalem is sending a blatant warning to the Houthi leadership in Yemen.
When will this mob learn? Don’t vook with Israel!
I don’t need to untangle any of it because whatever the economic impact they’re native to the population and therefore have to be dealt.
No, but the implication was that this was contrived rather than genuine.
Is there a list of these accounts or are we meant to just take X’s word for it? From what I’m hearing, more than a few of these bans was directed at Musk’s critics.
No, they were Poso, Cerno, FbF, Auron, and the like.
Re: Airconditioner cutoff. It’s a simple job on most current models to disconnect the interface module under the side cover of the outdoor unit. There’s no means of the State knowing, unless they come out and inspect the unit.
And on a related topic, it seems there is a way to turnoff that infernal ‘idle cutoff’ function that plagues modern cars (and increases engine wear and battery degradation due to the frequent restarts).
There are at least 2 possible work arounds – perhaps search your particular car on the youtubes.
1) Some cars (mine included) have a sensor on the bonnet latch which disconnects the shutoff feature when the bonnet is open, presumably to let a mechanic work on the engine without it shutting off. In my car its easy to disconnect that
2) Jam a thin piece of plastic (eg sliver of credit card) beside the turnoff button such that the button stays down when depressed.
Ive always hated that feature, particularly because it’s compulsory.. I simply turn it off when I start the car.
Yep. Our little Beamer has the button next to the starter button.
I just turn it off easily every time I drive.
We’ve hired a brand new Mazda CX-5 for travels around Britain.
The stop/start function seems to be already disconnected.
Maybe the hire company is wanting to stop extra engine wear.
I’m surprised New York is not on the list.
@C_3C_3
The most dangerous cities in America and who runs them…
1. Memphis: Dems
2. Detroit: Dems
3. Fort Lauderdale: Dems
4. Baton Rouge: Dems
5. New Orleans: Dems
6. Baltimore: Dems
7. Cleveland: Dems
8. Oakland: Dems
9. Philadelphia: Dems
10: San Bernardino: Dems
Notice a trend?
No Chicago either?
Nothing that stands out, Indolent.
Well, apart from…
My rellies are an old Baltimore family. Originally Republicans but the last time I interacted with more recent ones I’d say they were dripping wet lefties.
Related story:
Report: Nasrallah thought he was safe from Israel until the end (29 Dec)
In other news the Hezbies have picked a new deputy leader. He is Mohammed Raed, the head of the Hezbollah faction in the Lebanese parliament. Maybe he should paint a bullseye onto the top of his turban to save time.
Mohammed Raed, aka the “nearly deceased”.
That’s hilarious BoN
I’d wager a plane that experiences an engine fire and skids off a runaway would normally be reported.
GOP pundit Scott Jennings slaps down CNN commentator’s rosy view of Biden presidency: ‘He’s going to leave office in disgrace’
Jimmy Carter has died.
“He meant well”, meaning he wasn’t actually knowingly evil but was a total screwup. He banned nuclear fuel reprocessing causing a waste storage problem.
Bumrah bowls Lyon. Five fer for Bumrah and still no Test 50 for Lyon. 🙁
And on a related topic, it seems there is a way to turnoff that infernal ‘idle cutoff’ function that plagues modern cars (and increases engine wear and battery degradation due to the frequent restarts).
Mazda hedges the function with so many lockouts that it almost never works. In 5 years and 47000 km it has saved 11km of fuel consumption.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anything so ridiculous as an idle cutoff.
FFS.
…except for Elvis.
Pretty well compulsory in European cars, IIRR. Our Mazda has a switch to turn it off. In hot weather of course you don’t want the air-con to cut out at the first set of lights.
The U.K. gestapo.
Neighbors: Police killed man after serving warrant to wrong home
US gestapo. It’s the London in Kentucky not the other one.
You beat me to it.
There appears to be a concrete wall at each end of the runways at Wellcamp.
I think it is a jet blast deflector as a road runs by each end but it may also serve to keep an out of control aircraft on the airport property.
The aim of aviation safety regulation is
1) protect innocent people and property on the ground
2)Protect other airspace users
3)Safety of fare paying passengers but note this is third. If it involves running in to a concrete barrier to satisfy 1) and 2), too bad.
You brought up two periods that you suggested experienced low immigration while the economy was growing.
As I mentioned, I can’t respond to the early 19th-century assertion because I don’t know enough about that period. I’ll ask again for you to provide some evidence to support that part of your claim.
The other period you mentioned was the mid-20th century. I responded by saying that careful consideration should be given to factors such as demobilization after World War II and the Korean War. You don’t believe these factors need to be untangled, and now you’re veering into nativist arguments.
Nativism in the U.S. is as old as the Republic itself—every cohort has faced derision.
Tim Pool and others believe the attack on Musk and Vivek was a psy-op. You obviously don’t because these things only occur when they’re directed to the fun crowd, your guys.. Russia, Iran, North Korea, the CCP and the dancing faggots, the Hootie Tooties.
It would be hard to overstate the fear and loathing for Trump and Elon Musk amongst the Good and Great of UK and Europe.
Musk in particular is hated as the enfant terrible who single-handedly created the Trump 2.0 Presidency. And his influence on British and European politics could change everything, simply everything, the featherbedded hold dear.
The Musk/Silicon Valley/Fringe MAGA visa imbroglio – beaten to a stiff peak by the left/soft-left media – has the Trump-hating community tumescent. The abject failure of the apparently irretrievably fractured Trump Presidency and the imagining of Musk falling into a pit of scalding hubris is both a life raft and comforter to the very butt-hurt.
Prepare for some rather panicky and undemocratic government responses.
[Dimly, posted on the OT due to late night Glasgow.]
National parks are the problem not fire danger. There’s been no significant fires in regional areas except for parks and tree plantations. No call outs for our brigade except for strike teams for the Grampians fire.
Yep. This fire, as the last biggie, started in the adjacent NPWS mountains. The NPWS bring in the water bombers, but the local RFS does the dangerous work on the ground. There is considerable bitterness, still, from the last fires when the NPWS knocks off at 5pm and the locals have the night watch. The Covid vaccine mandates only aggravated the ill will when some of our members (including my husband) were banned because they refused to be vaccinated.
Yep so much for public service. Really pubic serpents.
A small victory!
$2bn wind farm project quietly axed (Paywallian)
I don’t know the reasons they knocked it back but SA already has too much wind capacity. On a windy day even with export via the interconnector they almost certainly are having to tell wind farms to turn off. Which, if there is compo, would be very costly to the state exchequer.
Investors have possibly pulled back because nervous that won’t get return and big subsidy gouge given likely change coming in political environment and oversupply of RE.
BOMBSHELL Chagos Deal EXPOSED As Brits Face ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ Taxpayer Bill: ‘Betrayal of Britain!’
JC
Those blokes in the photo op with Albo are not CFA. Full time Forestry & Parks Service.
Big smiles, big pay.
That photo is AI generated.
Sparks and Wildfire.
Ford’s European Exit: The Bold Move No One Saw Coming! Electric Car Market Meltdown in Europe!
I did ask the question about 6 months ago “Which Car Companies were going to go Tits Up?”
It looks like Ford, for one, and a Toyota/Honda merger for a second.
So now my next question will be “Will this be enough to cause – not a recession, but a Depression?”
I’ll give it a 20% chance atm.
And look at who did it to us.
Pandemic Hawks Circle Dr. Jay: Pundits Launch Attacks on Bhattacharya Ahead of his Confirmation Hearings
And at the top of any google search appear answers from generative AI. The reason I made the earlier claim was one of the answers, following that quote, was the quoted ‘30% childlessness in nobility in 1600s’.
I’m not gaslighting anything. You’ve repeatedly made this claim about 30% childless and then offered no answers following repeated requests about the overall rate for the nobility. I’ve just gone over the above and I made the above claim on Sat morning, you fobbed off answering by saying the quote couldn’t be clearer even though it gives no overall number of children per noble family, and then I replied to your subsequent comment on Sun morning with my speculative 4 on average given that the 70% of married nobles that had children had a similar rate to that of the gentry.
Hang on. I pretty much explained how this was brought up on this OT and not the OOT. You mentioned a moderated word and I didn’t pick it up until I was in the Dashboard getting the new OT up late last night. And in the comment I said, ‘From the OOT’, which is the convention. There was no implication that this ‘freshly minted’.
The only people they loathe more are their own citizens.
“Why would improvements in medicine lead to sub-replacement fertility rates?”
Because if you have lots of kids, most of whom get sick and die, and medicine saves them, the the incentive to have more kids lessens. In previous cultures, kids were necessary as farm workers. With the advancement of civilisation, this imperative lessened. Selective pressures favouring large families decreased. There were more options for women outside family life. Whether you like it or not, this is a fact. QED.
Carter is or was the little johnnie US equivalent; and little johnnie is Australia’s worst PM. So good riddance to Carter.
This:
Another good thing with Trump’s sweeping victory on November 5 2024 is that the door has now finally closed in the ugly faces of two of the most loathsome and venal individuals ever to grace the US political stage……their names being Barack Hussein Obama and his very ugly wife, Michelle Obama. Good riddance to both.
Michelle/Big Mike is a bloke; and the fact he is a bloke symbolises everything you need to know about the demorats/left.
Blancolirio – Juan Brown.
JEJU Air 737-800 Crash Muan, South Korea 29 Dec 2024
You asked a rhetorical question, which means you weren’t expecting the answer that came up.
According to the paragraph, the British nobility at the time believed there was an alarming problem with childlessness among their ranks. They even took legal steps to counter this issue.
You asked this because you believed it would indicate that wealthy people were having large families.
They weren’t, or at least this strata wasn’t.
As I suggested in the future, if you wish to continue the discussion 2 or 3 days later, it would be courteous to at least link the comment or the comment thread.
Dover, it’s not the first time, you come back to a comment which is three days old. Just link to it and helps to refresh memory and helps with better responses.
It’s just you.
Some of the worst fires have actually been in February.
And Jan and Feb, some of the worst in Vic and SA. Ash Wed and I think black Friday.
For 1790s-1850s, here.
Because it’s a distraction. They were first removed from the economy and then returned to the economy. There is no similar removal and then return re immigrants and the economy.
Does that mean that every instance of ‘nativism’ is wrong?
The sentiments expressed over the last few days, which Pool and co, thinks was a psyop have been central to MAGA movement since 2015.
Between 1800 and 1820, there was an increase of many times the immigration rate of the latter part if the century in the total number of slaves.
Next time, suggest reading the first sentence of your “supporting” material to make sure there aren’t glaring exceptions that might bite you in the backside.
Fortunately, most of the globe eventually worked out that free
labor was better than slave labour.
The second bang a soldier makes after getting home from the war is his backpack hitting the ground.
Old Jungle saying.
The NPWS bring in the water bombers, but the local RFS does the dangerous work on the ground. There is considerable bitterness, still, from the last fires when the NPWS knocks off at 5pm and the locals have the night watch.
Well, maybe things are a-changing. I have just heard that NPWS are today going to bring in a NPWS unit to reestablish the containment lines of the last big fires.
This unit is a “Remote Area Fire Team”. Maybe the massive complaints aired at the last NSW inquiry has increased the likelihood of NPWS going into remote areas. It will take the burden and risk from local RFS units whose members often had to leave their own properties unprotected .
tried the bonnet switch … wouldnt let me lock the car without it
apparently you can get in through the OBD port
video in spanish
Jim Chalmers has a piece in the Courier Mail:
Translated:
Yeah we are really bad but forget about the last 3 years, we’ll be right.
Has the ‘dr’ ever had a real job?
He quietly passes over the reality that mass immigration at a rate greater than growth has caused multiple quarters of per capita recession.
Despicable turd needed the imaginary conversation with his daughter to Segway into that futuristic drivelling bullsh*t.
Chalmers is deeply unimpressive.
by Winter 2025 Dr Jim will either be PM or opposition leader.
albo is toast. Plebersek just doesn’t have it anymore.
What a depressing thought. I can’t see how the Liars don’t lose government.
Sorry, life’s too short to read Jim Chalmers.
If this isn’t classed as disinformation then what is? This guy is full of murder. Spending your way out of inflation? Nothing about the budging great ndis? Nothing about the stuff up that I’d defence spending? Nothing about the monumental waste that is the climate blob? Absolutely delusional.
That old chestnut again?
the d!ck lives in Logan!?!?!? Well that explains a lot…
Jim Chalmers is a dick.
That is all.
The fuking filth and twots (Teals):
State-sanctioned ‘truth’ is still a danger under the Greens and teals
Tom Switzer and Emilie Dye The Australian December 30, 2024
Australia dodged a bullet this year when the federal government withdrew its contentious legislation to regulate misinformation. The danger, though, is that a re-elected Labor government, in cahoots with the Greens and so-called teal independents, could revive the law in the next parliament. Under the original plan, in the wake of the voice referendum landslide defeat, misinformation was defined as “information that is reasonably verifiable as false, misleading or deceptive”. It was, to put things bluntly, a passage reminiscent of George Orwell, and his Ministry of Truth from Nineteen Eighty-Four.
It was not merely a question of who, or what, was going to decide what is true and what is false, or why any law should give a bureaucrat or an institution the right to make such decisions.
It was also, more fundamentally, that the right to be wrong, foolish or offensive (short of actual incitement to commit a crime) is all part of the privilege of living in a free society.
It was a privilege that, until a few weeks ago, the Labor government seemed happy to end, in the spurious name of “online safety”.
But it was, sadly, even worse because, objectively, what was decided to be “misinformation” may well have been nothing of the sort. Quite probably, it could have been an expression of legitimate opinion that the state did not want people to utter.
It was mooted that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (which already oversees the broadcast media) would be enlisted to regulate – or censor – the output on platforms controlled by digital giants, even on questions that are a matter of opinion.
It was far from certain that digital platforms would care sufficiently about the free speech of Australians, or anyone else, to take issue with any government that imposed censorship, for fear of being fined or prohibited to operate and losing revenues. The difficulty was that so many issues have now become battlegrounds, and could tax the ethics of the digital platforms to the limit.
For example, the debate over gender, where the established ideas of male and female are under question, would have been an obvious cause of contention. What if the ACMA ruled that the usual delineations of gender were not merely outdated, but offensive and harmful to those who chose to identify in non-traditional ways?
Vilification is illegal, and rightly so, but should it be against the law to write on an online platform that there are only two biological genders, a view held by the majority?
In a free society, disproving the arguments of radical opponents and providing solid counterarguments is always the best way to proceed.
Under the Australian government’s failed plan, the state would have had the power effectively to nationalise opinion. If a certain view did not tally with the state’s orthodoxy, people would not have been allowed to express it.
The approval or disapproval of various ideas would have rested with an elite. They would have controlled discourse, large areas of which could have been shut down. They would have allowed manipulation of the very idea of truth, in that some things that were objectively true would no longer be “allowed” to be so.
Recall Twitter’s decision to censor claims that the Covid virus started in a Wuhan lab in China – which is now widely seen as a plausible explanation.
That takes us back to Orwell: that was the function of the Ministry of Truth. Did the Australian government really feel comfortable in being prepared to use the law to enforce a version of the truth that was not the truth, but was acceptable for the political purposes of the client groups with which the ruling party wished to ingratiate itself? That would have meant the end of what, by any definition, we regard as a free society.
It is impossible to defend digital platforms that, in order to make money, churn out lies and other rubbish. But such platforms, if they persisted in such behaviour, would have been rapidly discredited.
That is a far better way of dealing with them than allowing the state to decide what it regards as true, or not. In a civilised democracy, the freedom of the individual cannot be compromised by a state that arrogates to itself the right to dictate “truth” in this way.
Thankfully, sanity prevailed, and the government was forced to jettison the legislation. But the spectre of misinformation laws could haunt parliamentary discourse in coming years.
Tom Switzer is executive director of the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney where Emilie Dye is a research analyst.
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1/ The Australian Greens call for a Ceasefire in Gaza after Question Time in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman
2/ Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland. Picture: John Appleyard
India 0 for 22. Maybe I should do something else for a bit. Usually works.
3/33…it worked!!!
That many?
Bloomberg Flubs Data For Bombshell Report That Only 6% Of New Corporate Hires Are White (29 Dec)
DEI at work. I said yesterday that was the reason the white guy with straight As couldn’t get a job. And it’s true. Hopefully Trump lights a nice excruciatingly hot fire under all these corporations.
Jim Chalmers has a piece in the Courier Mail
He’s utterly delusional and should be committed to an institution before he does more damage.
Hopefully in the room between Albo’s and Bowen’s.
You despaired too soon, Sean! 😀
Yep.
Interesting, you’re using wiki, while a yesterday or the day before you were derisive because I used Google search.
Anyways. a few points.
The slow period in immigration was up to the 1830s, according to the link: not to the 1850 as your reference with the link implies. It abruptly ended in the 1840s.
Between 1841 and 1850, immigration nearly tripled again and totaled 1,713,000 immigrants, including at least 781,000 Irish, 435,000 Germans, 267,000 British, and 77,000 French. The Irish, driven by the Great Famine (1845–1849), emigrated directly from their homeland to escape poverty and death. The failed revolutions of 1848 brought many intellectuals and activists to exile in the U.S. Bad times and poor conditions in Europe drove people out, and land, relatives, freedom, opportunity, and jobs in the U.S. lured them in.
Up to the 1830s, the US was essentially a sleepy hollow agrarian society, so your assertion that it experienced stable growth is crap. The US began to industrialize from the 1850s onward.
Your link also mentions the nativism you’re now espousing, which is as I said as old as the Republic.
Yep, it’s that easy to resettle 10.5 million men back into civilian life. This is 15% of the US population you’re talking about that you’re calling a distraction.
Firms had to reorient from a war footing to a consumer society and you call it a distraction. You really have no idea, do you.
You tell us champ. Historically, which ethnic group do you consider a failure leaving aside the slaves as they weren’t there willingly?
Pool is referring to the attacks on Musk and Vivek. Nice dodge as usual.
JC, I am following your arguments, also Dover’s Some of your points and links are very interesting. The argument is running a bit long now.
Or, the “intelligence services” are reporting exactly what the Israelis have chosen to leak to them*.
You can almost bet that they gathered the intel some other way and this is a psy-ops plant to cast doubt on any remaining Hezbollocks who had access to the inner sanctum.
* There is no way the Israelis are giving Biden’s intel services chapter and verse on tactics and methods.
It would leak back to Hamarse and Hezbollocks quicker than you can say “corrupt Democrats”.
Almost word for word as to what I thought too. We must be twins.
…and…another!
Quack quack.
Charmers has a string of useless degrees including a doctorate from the ANU. A Beatie, Swan, Beaseley, Ieamma staffer. An apparatchik.
Jim Chalmers is a dick.
What was the thesis subject of his PhD
Politics major with a PhD in Paul Keating. He’s a doctor in Paul Keating. This big-eared, ignorant QLD galoot told us he was going to reinvent a new, updated version of capitalism, which turned out to be high inflation and government spending in hyperdrive.
Thanks for that . Nothing about economics or anything to do with $ and sense just a bullshit doctorate full of ideology
As all ruling castes eventually do, ours is leaning towards the absurd.
One of Chalmers’s best mates in Canberra is the Treasury Secretary, who also sits on the RBA Board.
Another ANU doctor
Save this for next year’s cards
That’s very clever.
He was going to redesign the market too iirc. Maybe he’ll redesign Newton’s laws too. My contempt for these garbage people knows no bounds.
The question asked wasn’t rhetorical because any answer undermined the claim being made once you interrogated it.
Good on them.
No they were, they were having 4-6 children per family in the nobility and gentry. That is why they were alarmed by nearly a third of the nobility suffering from childlessness for a number of natural and artificial reasons, that latter of which was heirs and inheritance.
The discussion was continuous over three days on this point but if it helps jog your memory it can be done.
Has anyone thought of this perspective?
Human population density and reproductive health: a changing world needs endocrinology – PMC
That’s right Milt, he was. He was a market designer and got a photo spread in Architectural Digest, for his interesting design in fabrics and rugs.
Anthony Albanese being a ‘good boy’ for China, defence expert Peter Jennings saysSarah Ison
16 hours ago.
Updated 33 minutes ago
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A former official in the senior ranks of the defence department says China expects Anthony Albanese to continue being “a good boy” and follow Beijing’s demands on Australia to soften its language towards China, in the wake of comments from the ambassador to Australia calling on Canberra to clarify “misunderstandings” on Taiwan and respect Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Peter Jennings said Chinese ambassador Xiao Qian’s language was “less insulting” than what had been said by officials in the past, but the message to Australia remained the same.
“That message is ‘do what we want’, basically,” Mr Jennings, now the Strategic Analysis Australia director, said.
He said the resumption of the lobster trade earlier this month was clearly “a reward” for Australia’s approach to China under the Labor government, but that Beijing still wanted the government to go further.
“Albanese is being rewarded for being a good boy,” he said.
“He’s mostly done what he’s been told. He’s shut criticism down. He doesn’t react when they do bad things in the South China Sea.”
Mr Xiao also criticised commentary by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which is set to receive significant government oversight in coming months after a review into its operations, because of the negative view it portrayed of China.
The intervention by the Chinese ambassador ahead of the federal election – due by May next year – comes as Beijing announced sanctions on a number of defence firms, including one from Australia.
According to the foreign affairs ministry, Beijing will sanction organisations such as Raytheon Australia because they or their parent companies are selling arms to Taiwan.
The sanctions will include a freezing of any assets in China owned by executives of the targeted companies, while trade and collaboration between Chinese organisations or individuals with the Australian and US firms will be banned.
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Anthony Albanese being a ‘good boy’ for China, defence expert Peter Jennings saysSarah Ison
16 hours ago.
Updated 33 minutes ago
Too late. Beaten to it by an actress.
😀
Odious and idiotic
Never write your own lines, Cate.
Spoke to soon…a whole webpage of Cate’s wisdom!
She also thinks we can change weather.
Now that’s a word salad to rival Kameltoe!
One self-centred, over-hyped moll I detest.
What self serving tripe.
Humble gal, their Cate.
I suspect the infinity of nowhere is between Cate’s ears.
Mental Cate giving her version of a pasta bake recipe. Or something.
Am I paranoid?Neighbour tells me he has bought a new shed.Within 30 minutes I am getting wall to wall ads for sheds on my phone.
Is my phone listening to me?
No you are not paranoic. The interwebs are always watching and listening.
Also you may take reassurance from the old adage that
“Just because you are paranoid does not mean they are’nt out to get you”
It sounds like your phone is listening to your neighbour as well.
Yes
Yes. And to anyone talking near it. Whether it’s on or off. Google knows more about you than the government.
How did you communicate with your neighbour – electronic or over the fence?
I don’t know which economists these would be, but Chalmers’s own myefo downgraded economic growth in 2025 by .25%.
And that would be an optimistic figure.
The other smoky that will be taken into account by the Reserve Bank is the state of the AUD.
Today it’s at 0.62160 USD – it’s getting very close to going under 60c USD.
AUD tanking won’t help inflation.
yes it will. 🙂
Kohli gone for 5. India’s run rate is 1.26 per over, so if they ever had the idea of going for it they certainly won’t be now.
Made a salmon sandwich. 3 wickets. Pity I don’t have any lamb chops.
Go away Seam…. again
Politics major with a PhD in Paul Keating.
Keating was all about raising productivity.
Some polices worked, some didn’t.
Can anyone name a Chalmers policy that has raised productivity?
Nope.
Letting his wife spend two grand on her dress for the mid winter ball.
Kept the doors open for a week extra somewhere.
Federal Prosecutors Involved in Trump Witch Hunts and January 6 Cases Flee DOJ, Fear They will Go Bankrupt
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/federal-prosecutors-involved-trump-witch-hunts-january-6/
Unless action is taken against them, they’ll be baaack!
It seems being an arsehole doesn’t really pay in the long run.
And there’s no point in resigning – if you commit a crime in a job, resignation doesn’t equal pardon.
Not that I care about women’s basketball but I do enjoy their wokeness blowing up in their faces.
Too early to tell but it’s looking like Hannah Hidalgo from Notre Dame is shaping up to be this year’s “it” player.
Who describes herself as hard core Christian.
And she aint white meaning she can say anything without having to worry about any sanctions.
Can’t wait for the WNBA to eat another shit sandwich in a couple of years.
Mmmyes it is I’m afraid.
The trouble is, it needs a good dose of AI. Currently it will start advertising at you after you mention you have bought something.
It would be really smart if it could distinguish between “I just bought XYZ” and “I think I need an XYZ” or use it’s database to figure out what people usually buy next after they buy XYZ.
“You bought a shed. You might want a workbench. Or shelving. Or flooring.”
Judged by the consequences — not the rhetoric — Chalmers has:
a) increased the size of government as a percentage of GDP. As of June 2024, the Australian government’s spending is 27.6% of GDP, a post-war record.
b) rewarded mates who run unions that, outside of the public service, represent 8% of the Australian workforce.
That’s why Australian productivity and household wealth are going backwards. They were designed that way by the government in charge that represents next to nobody.
Federal prosecutors involved in the Trump witch hunts and January 6 cases are exiting the Justice Department at a record rate.
Many of Jack Smith’s prosecutors also fear they will go bankrupt defending themselves if Trump’s DOJ decides to launch an investigation into the Biden Regime’s weaponization of the department.
Too late, scum. The Terminator is coming for you.
Bluddy hell ! Seriously sinister stuff. I reckon Liebor would be ecstatic to copy and implement this here in Oz. An extract follows.
Can free speech survive Keir Starmer?
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As a free-speech campaigner, I was deeply alarmed by the prospect of a Labour government. But it turns out, I wasn’t nearly worried enough. The unrelenting assault on this essential human right since Sir Keir Starmer entered Downing Street in July has shocked even the most jaundiced of observers.
[Snip]
Let’s start with the threats already in the pipeline. The Employment Rights Bill, which will almost certainly receive royal assent next year, contains a clause that will extend employers’ liability under the Equality Act to third-party harassment – ie, the harassment of employees by customers and the like. That means that owners of pubs, bars, restaurants, hotels, sports stadia, concert venues, etc, will have a legal obligation to take ‘all reasonable steps’ to protect their employees from ‘harassment’ by anyone they come into contact with in the course of doing their jobs.
When you bear in mind that under the Equality Act ‘harassment’ includes overheard conversations that might upset or offend someone with a protected characteristic, the implications of this are deeply sinister. Pubs will have to employ ‘banter bouncers’ to police the conversations of customers to make sure no one is saying anything risqué that could be overheard by a member of staff. Hotels will have to stop anyone entering the lobby wearing a ‘Woman: Adult Human Female’ t-shirt. Football clubs will have to ban anyone who shouts ‘Are you blind?’ at a linesman, in case they’re overheard by a partially sighted steward. In short, the chilling effect that the Equality Act has had on workplaces, in which everyone is constantly looking over their shoulder to make sure they’re not overheard, will be extended to every area of our lives.
Typical fascist/ communist (is, leftard) approach. Ban everything, Big Daddy Kier will protect you.
Mak Siccar, you’re right – that is seriously weird and horrifying.
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Climate Scam Unraveling: World Bank Really Doesn’t Know Where $41 Billion in Funding Goeshttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/climate-scam-unraveling-world-bank-really-doesnt-know/
…a recent story that made the rounds on social media. According to these reports, Oxfam — the British NGO — found that a huge chunk of the World Bank’s spending on climate change-related issues was “missing.”
Thank heavens for fact-checkers like the Australian Associated Press — a Poynter Institute-accredited fact-checker from down under — which set us all straight: “An Oxfam report did not find that $US41 billion has gone ‘missing’ from the World Bank’s climate change fund, contrary to claims online.”
What a relief. Instead, the AAP noted, the Oxfam report found that the World Bank just doesn’t really know where the money went.
See? Totally different!
So if I report my child as “missing” he’s not really missing it’s just that I don’t know where he went.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/immigration-has-consequences-french-intel-chief-says-muslim/
No shit, Einstein!
So what are you going to do now?
Starmer would have had a fat time a few years back with ‘bald-headed flog’ comments and Behavioural Awareness Officers at the footy.
Reposted from the OOT cos I was too thick to see there was a new ‘un.
“Elon Musk quits Tesla” screams the headline in my news feed.
Read further and find out it’s a prediction for 2025 from some unknown looney-tune named David Swan.
WTAF? Ethics? What are they?
Everything wrong with footy, and society in general.
Behavioural Awareness Officers at the footy.
To think that we used to deride the Soviets for having a Zampolit in military units. We have lawyers and have extended the concept to all of society.
Professor Triggs was disappointed that she couldn’t install Huperoffspring Rights Commission staff to monitor our dinner-table conversations. Give them time….
OK I’ll admit that I shouldn’t have clicked the LGBTQIABC clickbait… but I gots to say-
-solid hairline
-zero stubble
-thin chin
-zero adam’s apple
-F cup boobs
-an apparently rock-solid skincare regime for fifty three years of “living as a man”…
…yeah nah, “Kelli” ain’t a trannie, she’s just a woman. Believe her when she says she always has been. Their ABC hard at work.
You asked for a reference on early immigration to the US. There is a difference.
And yet even when it speed up it was still only a small fraction of the natural growth due to the native population reproducing.
The US was industrializing from the late 18th C onwards, and they did experience stable growth through the early to mid 1800s. Better after 1820 than earlier largely because it was literally an colony with an economy to much being transformed into a nation with an independent national policy.
I never disputed demobilizing 10M men and women and reintegrating them into the economy would be easy. What I said was having mobilized and thus removed those people they were naturally obliged to reintegrate them whatever the cost once the war had ended. And that this is materially and morally different then integrating the same number that were never a part of that economy to begin with. If firms that would have been making hay during the war from government contracts, spending, etc. found this difficult, stiff.
That isn’t the point. The point isn’t which group you or I consider a success or failure, the point is who and in what quantity is allowed to immigrate is entirely within the remit of the polity. If someone tells me that s/he can successfully redecorate a part of my house, and win an award doing so, that might be all well and good, but its within my ken to polite tell them I like it the way it is, please continue walking, or even just to tell them to keep walking.
oh come on, the attacks you are saying Pool is referring to are simply people with 2015 MAGA sentiments responding to Vivek’s and Musk’s criticisms.
Another reason why Trump is the best:
(304) President Trump “decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax.” – YouTube
Pat Cummins kills another contest.
These crybully scolds would have been hooted and jeered at not that many years ago.
What a pansified country of snowflakes we have become (not me).
A country is not an abstract collection of data in a spreadsheet. A country is a land and its people—people with families, mortgages, and bills to pay. Importing migrant labour might increase the totals in a spreadsheet, and the bank balances of billionaire investors, but it does not benefit the vast majority of the populus. All it does is devalue their labour.
Oh Noes!
Point it out and you must be racist!
Apparently.
Yes, you’re right Winston. You and me both are tewwible wayyyyycists. But we shouldn’t stand for it, because it doesn’t matter if the migrant labour is from Iceland or Algeria, the effect is the same.
Afternoon all.
Cricket, sorta been checking online here & there. Kohlis fine pathetic but expected when The ICC prez is one of them. Joel Wilson on the DRS at the G stuffs another up & my google searches tell me he is allegedly part of an elite umpiring team. Further google searches have me questioning if he is elite at anything but making the wrong calls, unless of course he happens to have a fat bank account in New Delhi. Hope Kohli got a fitting send off, POS.
As for traffic, we are in Vic. Few new speed cameras on GV Hwy, pot holes and rubbish road there 12m ago no change between Nagambie & Murch. Nice to see they can afford the cameras but not road maintenance. As for drivers, watch out. Lack of cops on the road has allowed the pissheads back out. One today pulled out in front of me causing an emergency brake, then saw me hesitating himself which could have made it worse. I was anticipating him and was already prepared. Off he went weaving left and right and between 20-40km/h with very slow acceleration/braking and last minute turns.
Have eyes in the back of your head as they are out there.
The Silly bites, and gets pulled in to the boat.
Elon Musk trolls Sydney Morning Herald for predicting he will be ‘forced to hand over the reins’ at Tesla in 2025 (Sky News, 30 Dec)
Flamed on the BBQ with butter, garlic and a little salt, yum!
Trouble is, even with butter, garlic and a little salt the Sydney Morning Herald still tastes like a shiite sandwich.
He’ll buy it and sack everyone.
I fixed that photo opportunity
Brilliant!
You’re a very clever Cat, caveman.
More convincing than the “ original”.
Ahahahaha! You little trimmer!
That’s off to the Cat pool room!
I cannot believe he bowled that C-grader Labushka last over before tea.
And to bowl half rat-power “bouncers” at the Indians who were happy to let them loop through to the keeper.
If you are looking for a left-field option throw the ball to Smiff to roll down a few leggies.
Smart devices and AI are, indeed, pretty scary.
Well, the ever-listening component is, anyways. It’s not deep AI to figure out that I’m into guitars- having a bit of a dabble here and there, youtube research, fixing and hotting up- but got a string of gigs and studio appointment in the new year- my old Jazzmaster is not great for titanic string bendy rock posing, so I was saying to my wifey last night that I was thinking of buying another, shorter, flatter, softer axe…
Bam. Wake up this morning, inbox says that there’s one of these coming my way, they got my delivery address- checked with the bank, and it’s all gone through on a visa card.
Nothing I can do about it now…
How on Earth can they do that? Did you or someone you know actually order it?
cohenite
December 30, 2024 2:54 pm
Another reason why Trump is the best:
(304) President Trump “decisively defeat the climate hysteria hoax.” – YouTube
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I was just about to post that .Kudos, cohenite.
It begins.
Victorian Labor are leading the charge, launching a smear campaign against the Duttons…..yes, that’s right, against Mr and Mrs Dutton.
The Victorian ALP has been accused of getting into “gutter” politics after launching a highly personal social media attack on Coalition Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his wife.
With Labor’s polling share falling sharply in Victoria ahead of next year’s federal election, the Victorian ALP manipulated a five-year-old newspaper report on the Duttons to attack them.
The post went up about 11am on Monday under the heading “We all know that one couple” and a secondary line stating “Justifying dating your new partner to your friends who don’t like him” above a 2019 newspaper photo quoting Ms Dutton saying of her husband: ‘‘He’s not a monster.’’ The original Queensland newspaper front page was headlined “My Pete’s no monster’’.
Of course, it’s different when the left engages in smears and lies. I suppose the next smear on the left’s menu prior to the forthcoming election will be to call Peter Dutton a “Nazi”. You wait, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
Having said that, the smears didn’t work against Trump, I suspect a lot of people are fed up with them. Also, Labor have tried for decades to dislodge Dutton from his electorate (a marginal one at that) and they’ve failed every single time.
But you know what’s sad, once upon a time the Liberals had head kickers like Wilson Tuckey, Bill Heffernan and others who would throw it back. But now they’re all just timid little mice. My humble suggestion to Peter Dutton is to grow a pair…..a big pair.
Three quick wickets including 1st innings century maker Kumar.
Adds some spice to what was looking like a dead Test Match!
>35 AD: what is truth?
During the last two thousand years we seem to’ve come round in a circle.
There’s still a chance of a draw, but in test cricket, you don’t just have to finish ahead of your opponent for victory, you have to WIN!
F*ck the BOM.
This channel is better.*
Fesh and cheps.
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There is an alternative reality intersecting with ours on X.
In that realm Kamala ran a flawless campaign and her loss is down to racism, misogyny, and IT skullduggery primarily by Elon but doubtless countless other e-misanthropes.
Biden was a champion of the people who served tirelessly and selflessly in Congress, and was probably one of, if not the, best of American Presidents. We must salute his achievements as the sun goes down on this sundowning warrior.
Now that Carter has stumbled in his decades long flight, and finally been overtaken by death and its attendant judges suddenly everyone acknowledges what a Presidential colossus he was. Lots of thanks for his Presidency too.
This place is a paradise. Pull out your pen and paper and take notes.
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Macquarie University academic Randa Abdel-Fattah wishes for ‘end of Israel’Noah Yim
8 minutes ago
Macquarie University anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has publicly wished for 2025 to “be the end of Israel” and for the “abolishment of the death cult of Zionism”.
Dr Abdel-Fattah is a recipient of a $870,269 research grant from the taxpayer-funded Australian Research Council, funding that the Coalition has previously demanded be clawed back.
Her latest social media post adds to controversies in which she has been previously embroiled. For example, she led a ‘kids excursion’ to the University of Sydney pro-Palestine encampment protest earlier this year where primary school-aged children led each other in chants of “intifada” and that “Israel is a terrorist state”. She was also one of the people who disseminated a leak of the private contact information of hundreds of Jewish creatives from a WhatsApp group earlier in the year.
Funny, they aren’t taking comments.
Serious question.
Why is Albo’s son and his Chairman’s lounge plus new job off limits and obeyed with reverence but Dutton’s mrs not?
Just seems more double standards by an already discredited 4th estate…
Akash Deep out. Little nick onto the pads – given out on review – he can’t believe it. But as the Twelfth Man’s Bill Lawry would say “Yes! Got him! Piss off you’re out.”
Gliberals missing the point again…just defund the ARC.
Bumrah out for a duck. 9/155 with about an hour of play left.
All over Red Rover. Oz wins.
Straya by 184 runs.
Once they got Jaiswal and Pant, it was never in doubt.
Watch for Rohit Sharma’s retirement speech – Kohli will go too, but not until after the Sidernee Test.
And that is why Test Cricket should stay at five days, rather than shrinking to four.
Plus a gazillion. And more.
So even in VIC the ALP polling is showing Dutton is a threat.
Correct.
The 2025 election ALP brains trust is signalling that because the government is so incompetent, an LNP landslide is in the cards, hence the comical smear campaign.
Once again, the left assumes the public is so stupid it can’t see what’s going on.
To me, 2025 looks like a rerun of 2013 with distraction squirrels like the Teals heading for a wipeout.
A lot of aspirational voters in new housing estates in western Melbourne I hear.
People whom the VIC ALP would have once taken for granted and perhaps still do.
No SloMo, Lieborals walk it in. They will pick up 2 or 3 Teal seats.
Watched a reaction to Back to the Future and then A Wonderful Life. Thanks for telling me to keep away.
You are welcome …. now stay away in Syderney
Governments think that grand new bodies and departments are the key to unleashing new ideas.
I cannot remember who made the observation but I thoroughly subscribe to the realisation that for all the great halls and splendidly ornate state rooms in palaces and grand institutions they have probably never given birth to a single great idea – those come from someone in a bath, someone loafing about in a library while idly turning pages of a book, standing outside watching the folly of dumb animals and such.
our governments always go for the big institutions but. Photo ops.
Yep. Labor are phuckwits but you knew that, picking up the thread left by previous comments:
Now our very own khunt in monty said we shouldn’t attack the families of political members of those he disagrees with. So I expect him to denounce this type of phuckwittery.
You’ll be waiting until you’re at least my age BB.
Don’t hold your breath waiting.
I have to take credit for the win , I really do . I selflessly took the dog for a walk and 3 wickets fell !
Yep. Try heading out for lunch during the Tea break – 7 for 43 while on the road.
Here’s Steve Staikos.
A mediocrity.
You flatter him.
After inventing democracy the Greeks really should have gone to the pub.
I’ve said it before and i say it again – Bill Gates is a cancer upon humanity.
Bill Gates-Tied Vaccine Delivered Through Bite of Mosquito That Carries Bioengineered Malaria-Causing Parasite That Infects Human Blood Cells: ‘New England Journal of Medicine’
I understand anal and Allen abomination had a bit of a giggle together after visiting western Vic. Reminds me of TLS and the horrible woman from Qld having a giggle during the Darwin bombing commemoration. Are they autistic?
During the minutes silence, if you don’t mind!
Not autistic – they’re Communists. That’s the sort of person who is attracted to the cult.
I knew there had to be something. They’re obviously trying to set up another Covid type emergency.
New 116-Page Stop-Gap Bill Hides Renewed Emergency Powers Extended to 2025
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/life-long-freeloader-in-disaster-porn-selfie.html
Save the H1-B debate for later — first, fully end the border crisis
I don’t think attacking the Duttons will win Vic labor any more friends. Stinks of spiteful desperation.
Spiteful desperation is all that the Liars have left.
In Glasgow staying with one of MrsF’s aunts, an impressive and lovely old duck with a family reputation for ‘an extensive collection of different Gins’.
On closer inspection last night it turns out that she has an extensive collection of different Gin bottles, most with only a few drams left in them. Gin isn’t my drink, so I was surprised to find that (in Glasgow, anyways) you drink it neat.
Now sitting in the kitchen while the rest of the house sleeps, dark outside for another hour or so, catching up on the Soshuls, drinking strong black tea, and belching juniper fumes.
In training for Hogmanay.
Is this your giddy aunt, DrF?
Sounds fun.
Despite New York Post Phone Call, Question and Answer, Donald Trump Companies Do Not Use H1B Visas
Somewhat bemused when I switched on the internet this morning and practically the first headline I saw was “Sad Passing of Jimmy Carter.”
“Sad”?
The man was 100 and had been very ill for some years.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/12/disgusting.html
Albanese and what’s her name Allen, having a great day, and a good chuckle, at the bushfires…
there’s a lot of secret undermining going on from this malicious marxist gubmint in Spring St- secret ‘treaty’ negotiations, renaming places and I wonder what else. Evil people, full of hate and contempt for this once great state.
Any port in a storm.
Long G &Ts are fine over summer.
I certainly wouldn’t say no to that.
It makes my farts smell like roses.
Dead roses.
Long dead roses, rotting away inside.
Dunno what people see in it.
Curmudgeon.
He admits to drinking XXXX.
You’ll find that explains a lot.