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Jezza 
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Great to see Musk purchase Twitter, and lefties going into meltdown as a result.
It's become a cesspit in the last few years.
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Skids 
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stui magpie 
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Well done him, sounds like a great bloke but Emu Export? Seriously?That is horrible shit.
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Skids
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Well done him, sounds like a great bloke but Emu Export? Seriously?That is horrible shit. |
It is horrible... well it was last time I drank it, about 5 years ago.
Back in the 80's it was actually a good drop. Brewed at the old Swan Brewery on the Swan River, with an alcohol content of 5%. Mind you, there weren't many options back then.
I worked part time in a liquor store when I was 15, yep, selling grog and smokes... imagine that today, it'd be the lead story on the 6 o'clock whine.
Throwing cartons of steel cans around (gee, we punctured a few when the aluminium ones came out! The box is about 5kg lighter), there was;Emu export and Bitter, Swan Premium, Hannans Lager & Stout and the worst mid strength ever produced, Swan Gold.
We did have one fridge that had a few cans of; Fosters, VB and maybe West End, that was it.
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pietillidie
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This is interesting. Certainly its plausibility is increasing. In one fell swoop it would it would incentivise reform home and away, given all the tyrants, lobbies and parasites it funds.
One also suspects its growing realism is at least partly behind Putin's violent tantrum. Even tyrannies like Saudi Arabia have seen the writing on the wall with their efforts to develop new lines of revenue. Once the tipping point is reached, their power vanishes overnight.
Also, it's the best way for the US to use its rise in production. Some environmental cost now, but massive returns as that threshold nears and the entire investment ecosystem flips.
If you look at these transitions historically, they tend to happen far more quickly than even optimists anticipate. The collusion exception for oil has been there so long it's easy to forget that it is indeed still an exception to law. There is nothing rational whatsoever about it as a market entity, so when the tide finally turns the fury in applying the law will be swift.
It's possible this has been planned for some time now, anyhow, while Saudi Arabia recently snubbing US calls for easing, much like Putin's tantrum, has only infuriated. My guess is that they've calculated it's all over red rover and they might as well grab what they can now.
| Quote: | | For more than two decades, Congress has been considering a bill that would allow the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for violating antitrust law by colluding to control the supply and price of oil. |
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/03/opinion/gas-prices-russia-opec.html
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The thing that always astonishes me is how easy it is to con people into feverishly campaigning for something either (a) miles over their head, (b) they have never really been interested in, or (c) that is clearly of high risk to their own interest if they're wrong.
The Tory scramble to replace Johnson is a great case in point. Truss and Sunak are falling over themselves to triple down on Brexit, even though its cost and detriment is more obvious than ever before. The stronger the evidence, the stronger the denial, as the hole is dug ever deeper.
But my favourite example of free foot soldiering to one's own detriment has to be the pages and pages and hours and hours of amateur global warming denial from people with zero interest in science, let alone climatology. You'd think the minimal position would be disinterest or a mild scepticism or irritation. But no, it was a fevered taking up of arms.
We really are just idiotic apes who can be provoked into anything, making us easy game for narcissists, psychopaths and grifters.
| Quote: | Thirty years ago, a bold plan was cooked up to spread doubt and persuade the public that climate change was not a problem. The little-known meeting - between some of America's biggest industrial players and a PR genius - forged a devastatingly successful strategy that endured for years, and the consequences of which are all around us.
On an early autumn day in 1992, E Bruce Harrison, a man widely acknowledged as the father of environmental PR, stood up in a room full of business leaders and delivered a pitch like no other.
At stake was a contract worth half a million dollars a year - about £850,000 in today's money. The prospective client, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) - which represented the oil, coal, auto, utilities, steel, and rail industries - was looking for a communications partner to change the narrative on climate change.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62225696
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Skids
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Just reading in the George Floyd thread about the recent wrongful detention of a black man reminded me of an incident that happened to me in the 80's.
I was a third year apprentice, doing some fabrication work in the workshop one morning. I see my supervisor heading towards me with 2 guys in suits, obviously detectives.
They questioned me as to my whereabouts the night before, I was at home.
They had found a screwdriver, with my name engraved on the handle at a break and enter scene, a suspect was seen running away who 'fitted my description'.
I wasn't arrested, but they requested I accompany them to my residence. Escorted out of my workplace, into a cop car and driven home.
They searched my wardrobe, looking for a red/black flanno shirt... luckily I didn't have one and my then girlfriend confirmed I was at home all night.
Somebody had stolen my screwdriver and then used it in the robbery. It was a very strange experience to say the least, I wonder what would of happened had there been a red/black flanno in my wardrobe.
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| Jezza wrote: | Great to see Musk purchase Twitter, and lefties going into meltdown as a result.
It's become a cesspit in the last few years. |
Looks like the left (and, in particular, those expressing scepticism that the deal would ever get through) got the last laugh on that one:
https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/us-news/2022/08/05/twitter-elon-musk-lawsuits/
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| Skids wrote: | Just reading in the George Floyd thread about the recent wrongful detention of a black man reminded me of an incident that happened to me in the 80's.
I was a third year apprentice, doing some fabrication work in the workshop one morning. I see my supervisor heading towards me with 2 guys in suits, obviously detectives.
They questioned me as to my whereabouts the night before, I was at home.
They had found a screwdriver, with my name engraved on the handle at a break and enter scene, a suspect was seen running away who 'fitted my description'.
I wasn't arrested, but they requested I accompany them to my residence. Escorted out of my workplace, into a cop car and driven home.
They searched my wardrobe, looking for a red/black flanno shirt... luckily I didn't have one and my then girlfriend confirmed I was at home all night.
Somebody had stolen my screwdriver and then used it in the robbery. It was a very strange experience to say the least, I wonder what would of happened had there been a red/black flanno in my wardrobe. |
It would have been the same as if you had a the screwdriver 🪛 You would have been totally screwed 🤪
Worse still if you had a red and black flanno, they would have arrested you for being an Essenscum feral running away from a typical burglary 😛
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Jezza
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Indeed.
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Slimy Sunak may have just had his Romney 47% moment:
https://mobile.twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1555476253045673987
What a repulsive scum bag of the classical conservative variety, glorying in taking from the poor and needy. All Truss needs to do is stand next to the tool and pretend she supports Brexit and she'll win.
(And you don't say something like that to people who won't appreciate it, just in case anyone is tempted to think that the similarly slimy elite might really be more pleasant than they're credited).
Meanwhile, drab dimwit Keir Starmer fails to declare a list of financial interests on time. Not the worst of offences, but way to add dumb and detached to thoroughly boring.
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I am guessing some of you know a lot more about this than me. Just noticed it:
| Quote: | Lachlan Murdoch is headed to Sydney’s federal court, launching a defamation action this week over a news article, not involving his considerable Australian media empire, but instead Fox News’s reportage of the febrile denouement to the Trump presidency and the January 6 insurrectionist storm of the US Capitol.
In what is being portrayed as a David and Goliath clash between the billionaire and Crikey, a small Australian independent news website, Murdoch’s 40-page statement of claim alleges Crikey has falsely impugned he had illegally conspired with the former US president Donald Trump to “incite a mob with murderous intent” to march on the US Capitol on 6 January, and that he should be indicted as a traitor. |
https://theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/27/what-game-is-he-playing-lachlan-murdoch-trumps-election-lies-and-the-legal-fight-against-a-small-australian-website
Crikey:
| Quote: | To understand the events of January 6 it’s crucial to understand the role of Fox News in spreading and amplifying the Big Lie. To understand the ongoing hold Donald Trump has on the Republican Party, it’s necessary to understand the continuing role of Fox News in feeding lies and propaganda to his supporters. And to understand that role requires understanding those who control Fox News — the Murdoch family.
To suggest that either the Murdochs do not have some responsibility for the events of January 6, or that making that suggestion should be punished in court, is an extraordinary denial of the public interest. Yet that is what Lachlan Murdoch is now pursuing in the Federal Court.
This is a matter of the highest public interest. The stability of the United States, as our most important ally and our security guarantor, is one of our most important strategic assumptions. But that assumption can no longer safely be made, and that is partly the result of the division, polarisation and hatred spread by Fox News: the possibility of widespread political violence, even of civil war, cannot be dismissed. The return to the presidency of Donald Trump — doubtless with the support of Fox News — cannot be dismissed. The election of a Trump-like figure of authoritarian populism like Ron DeSantis cannot be dismissed. |
https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/08/24/scrutinise-role-of-fox-and-the-murdochs/
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David
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One thing I find annoying is when newspapers report on someone saying something offensive and then (either because they don't know or don't want to cause further offence) don't print what it was:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/12/former-james-bond-star-george-lazenby-axed-from-national-music-tour-after-homophobic-comments
Surely I'm not the only one reading a piece like this wondering what he said and how bad it was, whether his bookers were overreacting or it genuinely was appalling, etc. Instead we just get vague allusions.
At least The Daily Mail goes into a little more detail...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11202923/Australian-James-Bond-star-George-Lazenby-axed-live-offensive-comments.html
| Quote: | | 'He spent all of the interview just talking basically about his sexual conquests, he swore, he certainly wasn't talking about his Bond movies, he downplayed the Queen, a day after she died,' the caller said. |
Heavens! 
| Quote: | | 'He named women he had slept with, and there were children in the audience, and a lot families who had brought their kids probably to their first classical music concert,' they continued. |
Another question that occurs: why the hell would you bring kids to an event like this? Either they've never watched the Bond films, and are just listening to some old guy talk for an hour without context – or they have watched them, in which case they've probably already been exposed to some pretty dated and, I would think by today's standards, sleazy and misogynistic content. So it's a pretty weird story, and not helped by the lack of detail!
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