Just musing re. Cleo Smith. I wonder if we will ever know the truth. Was her ‘kidnap’ simply a rescue or was it a dispute over paternity?

JMH:

Just musing re. Cleo Smith. I wonder if we will ever know the truth. Was her ‘kidnap’ simply a rescue or was it a dispute over paternity?

Unless it can be shoehorned into the current media narrative – no, we’ll never know.

When are people going to learn. The little breeder is not Premier.
Photios’ annointed one is Matt Keane. No genuine political leader would put that loon in charge of the budget. It is a power move by the cronies.
The breeder is just the acceptable public face.

Sorry Tom How do you unclick that wretched report button.

Win:

Sorry Tom How do you unclick that wretched report button.

Win, you need to click it an uneven amount of times – Dover Beach recommends 11 or 23.

The French sub deal is so obscure and counterintuitive it is amazing that nobody has as yet dug into the background to learn what actually happened. Fear perhaps; certainly institutional, corporate and big media and union movement cover-up.
The eventual expose will read like a fantasy spy novel.
Admittedly nothing will come out until powerful pollies, public servants and cronies have departed the scene.
Tammany were amateurs compared to contemporary Australia.

Not sure if this one has been posted already, a brilliant article from Gerard Baker of the Wall Street Journal in today’s Australian.

For privileged progressives, ‘we’ means ‘you’
Gerard Baker

If there’s a defining feature of modern progressives’ self-image, it’s the idea that — by dint of their supposedly superior education, their association with like-minded members of global elites and their immersion in the various rites of the contemporary secular religion — they are more knowledgeable and virtuous than you, the inferior classes.

Democratic leaders, and the academic, corporate and media people who sustain them, nurture their luxury beliefs, comfortable in the conviction of their own moral supremacy.

We shouldn’t be surprised. There’s been a social revolution in this country and the wider West in the past 50 years in which, by a remarkable inversion, the left — which used to represent the interests of the outsiders, the disadvantaged — is in almost total control of the institutions of the establishment.

They are the masters now. And like masters through most of history — from tribal chiefs to Roman patricians, absolutist monarchs and totalitarian tyrants — their superiority is such that the rules they make don’t apply to them.

It’s been on display most clearly in the past year over Covid-19. A succession of Democratic leaders have sternly told us to stay home and masked while supping maskless in fancy restaurants, enjoying exclusive privileges in hair salons, or partying with fellow progressives in jazz clubs.

It’s been evident in the year of hectoring we’ve received from our leaders about the inherent racism of the American system.

When fabulously privileged white progressives talk about the evils of white privilege, don’t think they’re talking about themselves. They are morally excluded from such judgments because they subscribe to all the right nostrums about diversity, equity and inclusion. They mean you.

Giant companies run by white chief executives, who live in a luxury and security no colonist oppressor could have dreamed of, feel free to lecture Americans on their loathsome prejudices. Just don’t ask them to make way for any of the oppressed people they profess to champion.

Our masters’ doubletalk will be on full display in the next week or two at the COP26 climate summit, when politicians, chief executives and leaders of environmental groups will deliver their grave warnings about the sacrifices that must be made to save the planet from extinction.

You’ve seen it already in simple acts of hypocrisy such as President Biden driving through Rome last week in an 85-car motorcade to show up at the Vatican for a meeting in which he and Pope Francis solemnly pledged to fight the “climate crisis”.

Or in the spectacle of tens of thousands of people flying into Glasgow, staying for weeks in comfortably warm, well-lit hotels through a darkening autumn, sustained no doubt by a stream of finely produced victuals. Never in the field of human confabs was so much salmon smoked by so many for so few.

You’ve seen it too in a president who shuts down natural-gas pipelines in the US not long after his son, on the basis of no expertise whatever, has collected millions of dollars for attending the occasional board meeting of one of eastern Europe’s largest natural-gas companies.

That continuing assault on US fossil-fuel production happens at the same time as the Biden administration nods approvingly at a Russian pipeline that will supply gas to Europe.

The ultimate demonstration of the gulf between our leaders’ alarmist prescriptions and the reality of life for the rest of us can be witnessed in an energy crisis that is pushing up fuel bills for hard-pressed working people, thanks in large part to policies that have prematurely reduced gas production, inexplicably killed off nuclear power in countries like Germany, and made our fragile economy dependent on wind power when the wind doesn’t blow and solar power when the sun don’t shine.

The higher costs of energy fall disproportionately on the poor and middle class, for whom it represents a sizeable proportion of their total spending. For the laid-off coal miner in Appalachia or the family struggling to meet its heating bills in a freezing Midwestern winter, the climate demands we’ll hear so much about in the next few weeks have a much more immediate impact than for the proliferating crowd of well-heeled “ESG” investors.

“Folks, we all have that obligation — that obligation to our children and to our grandchildren,” Mr Biden said last week, addressing the climate crisis. But the words need careful parsing. In the newspeak of progressive sanctimony, pronouns are different. In this case, “we” means you.

Roughly translated, Mr Biden says: My obligation is to talk at length about moral imperatives, to cite ever more alarmist scenarios about the threat we face and to commit to ever grander projects and spending plans for which I get slapped on the back for my courage over lavish dinners in international hotels and blessed in papal palaces.

Your obligation is to pay for it.

Love the line “Never in the field of human confabs was so much salmon smoked by so many for so few.”

Copied from Concerned Lawyers Network:

So there are 40 MP’s in the Victorian upper house, listed here as FOR this disaster of a bill and AGAINST it:

FOR:
1. Mr Andy Meddick
2. Mr Mark Gepp
3. Ms Harriet Shing
4. The Hon. Jaala Pulford
5. The Hon. Gayle Tierney
6. The Hon. Shaun Leane
7. The Hon. Nazih Elasmar
8. The Hon. Jane Garrett
9. Mr Cesar Melhem
10. The Hon. Jaclyn Symes
11. Mr Lee Tarlamis
12. Dr Tien Kieu
13. Ms Ingrid Stitt
14. Ms Sonja Terpstra
15. Ms Nina Taylor
16. Mr Enver Erdogan
17. Ms Sheena Watt
18. Ms Fiona Patten
19. Dr Samantha Ratnam
20. Ms Kaushaliya Vaghela

AGAINST:
1. Mr Stuart Grimley
2. Ms Tania Maxwell
3. Dr Catherine Cumming
4. Mr Tim Quilty
5. Mr David Limbrick
6. Mr Bruce Atkinson
7. The Hon. Gordon Rich-Phillips
8. The Hon. Wendy Lovell
9. The Hon. Edward O’Donohue
10. Mr Bernie Finn
11. Mr Craig Ondarchie
12. Ms Georgie Crozier
13. Mrs Bev McArthur
14. Dr Matthew Bach
15. Mr Jeff Bourman
16. Mr Clifford Hayes
17. Ms Melina Bath
18. Mr Rodney Barton
19. The Hon. David Davis

As far as I know, this is the current for and against the bill but there are only 39 MP’s in that list.. and as far as I know that is because Adem Somyurek has abstained from attending parliment although he is still registered as an independent MP.. If he decides to come in and vote against the bill, it will be a tie and it will NOT PASS

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/about/people-in-parliament/members-search/list-all-legislative-council-members/details/22/43

Send him an email, call his office, reply to his tweets.. This appears to be our biggest chance at avoiding this shit

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au (https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/about/people-in-parliament/members-search/list-all-legislative-council-members/details/22/43)
Member Profile – The Hon. Adem Somyurek
Member profile for the The Hon. Adem Somyurek, member for South Eastern Metropolitan

Peter Smith in one of the dedicated threads:

We need Hayek’s model. No one under 50 years of age. Strict ten-year limit. Mind you, human nature being what it is, we’d still get mostly unprincipled tossers.

If the Democrats in the US see the return of Trump as inevitable / unstoppable, what’s the bet that they introduce an upper age qualification on the office of the President … say a year younger than Trump would be. [Coz Brandon and his all of a sudden steep mental decline]

The breeder is just the acceptable public face.

Sounds right: with Photios pulling the strings, Perrottet is a Bidenesque puppet premier.

Where are the Sydney reporters investigating Photios’s corruption, enriching himself as his family with government energy policy enacted by his parliamentary puppets?

BREAKING: Researchers In Peer-Reviewed Study Call For “IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL of mRNA COVID Vaccines For Use in Pregnancy, Those Breastfeeding, Those Of Childbearing Age and Children”

This ‘peer reviewed’ report is just a rehash of the original Shimabukuro et al preliminary cohort study of 827 pregnancies of an enrolled cohort of 35,691. A breakdown on the sub-cohort of 827 suggests that, as only a small number of <20 weeks were included, the figure of 104 spontaneous abortions was therefore inexplicably present, was in error, and did not apply to the cohort. Thus all results presented suggesting spontaneous abortion at 81% at <20 weeks were unreliable and the figure of 104 spontaneous abortions was in fact incomplete against a wider denominator. The New England Journal of Medicine indicated in an editorial that this unreliability existed (egg on their peer-reviewing faces). A later examination of anothr sub-cohort of 1224 pregnancies innoculated at <20 weeks indicated a rate of sponataneous abortion commensurate with the natural population (the latter a difficult figure to determine absolutely anyway) but further studies are needed as this further information was still only a preliminary conclusion. Sloppy reportage by Shimabukuro et al has caused a lot of avoidable problems but the mistake has been admitted and the early high level of results re spontaneous abortion abstracted from their cohort data do not stand. Fortunately, other incoming studies do show a high level of safety.

The study linked above moves on to an examination of the blood-clotting issues associated with free spike proteins, and draws conclusions and hence recommendations about a biological pathway for sponataneous abortion and pregnancy foetal damage that others would dispute due to lack of confirming epidemiological evidence of damages. More data would always be welcome.

I've said enough on this previously. Not all epidemiology is good. But it is NOT PROVEN that there is a c 82% risk of spontaneous abortion in the <20 weeks gestational period. That is a figure abstracted from recognizably corrupted data.

Pingu – delightful and very funny and in no way woke

I have my little two and a half year old grandson here now, Tinta, and a show called Pokomelon is all the go for Netflix as far as he is concerned. It is about kindly grown-ups and happy little children doing things they like. No diversity stuff being pushed, just a normal range of kindy friends presented.

Rex Anger says:
November 3, 2021 at 1:16 am

Somewhat reformed under its new Master, Communism became a patriarchal, prosletysing faith. Finding traction amongst the rich and idle in the west, and even more murderous expression amongst its devotees and subjects in Eastern Europe. It fought off its competitors between 1941 and 45, obtained millions more followers and established outposts and missions worldwide.

Rex, are you familiar with the apparitions at Fatima just before WW I ?

Your words above are a slightly blunter version of the Blessed Mother’s.

She was pretty clear about what to do to combat this spread of error. I know I for one should be doing a lot more of it.

Just musing re. Cleo Smith. I wonder if we will ever know the truth. Was her ‘kidnap’ simply a rescue or was it a dispute over paternity?

Working on the premises that (as mentioned above) ‘paternity’ means ‘custody’, and also that the crook currently in the bin actually has no connection to the family, then probably not.

The family were camping and not otherwise connected to the area. For the disputed custody scenario to play out, either Mum or Dad would have to have:

1. Planned a fake abduction for some time;
2. Approached some random in a very small town – which comprises, in part at least, an enclave of 20 registered sex offenders – and arranged for the bloke to kidnap the child in the middle of the night;
3. Ensured the other parent was absolutely asleep and would not wake to the sound of weird noises or somesuch; and
4. At some future point faked their own death (having previously created a separate identity) and then recovered the child from said sex offender convention in a town halfway up the WA coast, because that is the only way that parent could expect to live with the child, who would also have to have a new identity created, without interference.

Or – or, that parent may just have expected to pop up, with the child in tow in a houso neighbourhood two months from now, and expecting life to go on as normal with no questions asked.

So, in all likelihood, no.

In Truthiness news:

Australia refuses to join global pledge led by US and EU to cut methane emissions

Australia joins China, Russia, India and Iran – some of the biggest methane emitters — as those who refused to join the global push.

Luckily, an adult is at hand to complain:

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said it was “a pity” the government did not sign up to the pact and described Australia’s position at COP26 as “disappointing”.

And Justin Trudeau is there to explain the horror consequences of Australian irresponsibility:

“It’s [methane] also an air pollutant that’s responsible globally for half a million deaths and hundreds of thousands of asthma-related hospitalizations annually,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. “That’s why Canada welcomes the Global Methane Pledge.”

So, poison gas.
Trudeau is going to have to school the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, who wrongly believe: “Low concentrations are not harmful.”

The Science.

To the surprise of no one, McAuliffe is currently ahead 52:47

Actually McAuliffe is behind by this much with 30% counted. [However … We are all expecting the polls to be suspended and a massive drop favouring him to happen giving him the win 🙂 ]

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said it was “a pity” the government did not sign up to the pact and described Australia’s position at COP26 as “disappointing”.

Turnbull should now put a cork in his bum. No buying fake methane offsets!

Youngkin now up by 7+. When do they unleash the fraudulent votes, the “lost” ballots, and the charges of GOP vote fraud (because you always accuse the enemy of what you are doing yourself)

When do they unleash the fraudulent votes, the “lost” ballots, and the charges of GOP vote fraud (because you always accuse the enemy of what you are doing yourself)

It’s always a Red Queen occasion when it comes to the GOP with ballots these days, Areff. They have to run to stand still, and to tip over a line takes an absolutely excessive effort agains the deluge of fakeness in the US electorial system these days.

hell, should proof read. Electoral

Multi-State Election Results and Open Discussion Thread – Virginia, New Jersey, New York and More
November 2, 2021 | Sundance

The off-year elections take place in various states and municipalities today. The Virginia and New Jersey governors races will be decided along with the New York City mayoral race and numerous other regional elections in FL, OH, MN, PA and MI.

Virginia will be the most watched race as polls close at 7:00pm ET.

Election Night in America: Watch CNN for real-time results and analysis

Youngkin now up by 7+.

I’m following the NYT coverage / count. With 43% counted Youngkin up by 12+

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/02/us/elections/results-virginia.html

Glenn Youngkin
Republican
772,053 55.8%
Terry McAuliffe
Democrat
602,538 43.5%

Son points out that the situation for Covid non-transfer will never be better than it is in Australia right now. High levels of vaccination with immunity not yet waning for most, not much Covid around, it’s summertime, and we’re an outdoor nation. Yet still the timid are masked and he has to get permission from his managers to call a face-to-face meeting on the few days he is allowed back in at work. This is called learning to live with it, he says cynically.

Wanna come see pee-pee, says my son heading for the bathroom, as they are in the process of training the little fellow to get out of nappies, and dad provides the exemplar of how to do it. Shrieks now because the ‘show’ is over. Lunch is done and my son is going to walk him in the stroller for his morning nap as there are signals of a tired child. Phew. It’s hard work, I say to Hairy, as we both breathe a sigh of relief and Attapuss comes out of hiding.

Another good Virginia vote totals website – https://pjmedia.com/columns/pjmedia-2/2021/11/02/live-virginia-election-results-n1529088

Don’t forget, New Jersey is in a tough gubernatorial election tonight as well. Also various interesting elections in many other States.

The polls have closed in VA and NJ now.

Yah. Here we go.

Apparently the postals and early votes were meant to be counted before the cut off time and the drop was meant to happen early in the count. Obviously not…

Yep. Also, VA State law says that people voting by mail-in ballot must include the last 4 digits of their social security number to prove ID. Fairfax County Dems went to a tame Judge the other day and got that waived somehow. With no time for the Reps to appeal of course.

Currently in Fairfax County:

Glenn Youngkin
Republican
42,374 27.7%
Terry McAuliffe
Democrat
109,945 71.8%

Shocked residents have described seeing their ‘quiet’ neighbour buying Kimbies brand nappies at Woolworths just two days before Cleo Smith was found alive inside his locked home.

A 36-year-old man was arrested at the home and taken into custody to be questioned by detectives. He has no connection to the family.

WA is a few hours behind the rest of Oz. Should be time to be awake now and answering a few questions….

Police teams found the four-year-old girl inside a Carnarvon home about 1am on Wednesday – 18 days after she vanished from her family’s Blowholes campsite.

One can only hope the little tot is not too traumatised.

For those unfamiliar with it, Fairfax County is in far north Va and is basically the bedroom of the swamp.

If there is anywhere in the US that is the epitome of wealth inequity, that’s it. Everyone there is on a US Govt check. For some it’s a paycheck, for the rest it’s a handout of some sort from the Feds.

GOP should insist on holding those ballots over for a challenge to that decision.

LOL … In the Nov presidential election, Justice Alito ruled the same on the late Pennsylvania votes. BZZZT – they were intermingled with the others and that was the end of that. [No one was held accountable … of course]

Turnbull calls Morrison a liar

Canavan calls Malcolm “a tosser”.

‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’:
Greta Thunberg sings at Cop26

Red meat lovers might enjoy the Freepers’ take on Virginia’s ongoing count:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4009176/posts?q=1&amp;;page=21

Using the 2020 presidential election as a guide, the cheating in the Virginia governor’s election with suitcases full of fake ballots won’t start until around 10pm

I was looking for the election night graph from 2020. Google is unhelpful.

Trump as ahead by lots through the evening … up to midnight when a big drop came in and reversed a similar lead that Youngkin has at the moment.

Still early days

Youngkin needs to instantly declare an emergency and then make it so that all Democrat voters need to be injected with various chemicals each day before they are allowed to work or leave the house.

Dana Rubinstein 3m ago

The polls have closed in New York City. We will know the outcome of the mayor’s race, and several down-ballot races, soon.

MacAuliffe needs 58.4% of the remaining 40% of ballots to win.

As a comparison with current Fairfax county votes:

Glenn Youngkin
Republican
98,359 33.6%
Terry McAuliffe
Democrat
192,805 65.9%

Donald Trump
168,401 28.03%
Joe Biden
419,943 69.89%

So there is room there to find another 200K votes

I’d be impressed, and not in a good way.

at the last elections, I said to myself: “self surely they wouldn’t be so brazen to try and rig it from here. Surely …”

Get ready to be impressed.

Current vote count @69% counted

Glenn Youngkin
Republican
1,224,089 54.6%
Terry McAuliffe
Democrat
1,001,380 44.7

MacAuliffe needs 61.8% of uncounted votes now.

@ Jorge

Rex, en passant, I thought your post at 1.16 was a gem of conciseness and truth.

You’re welcome. Just imagine how good it would have been if I was fully awake and had edited it better… 🙂

Reminding those using their Nazi passes just what they are , has people actually pointing their fingers back at the non compliant and saying ….but…..but…..but…er…but…um…..you’re working!
Pathetic

So if it’s so pathetic Struth-And-Reconciliator, why are you squirming?

Am I over the target again?

Unemployment For Thee, But Not For Me or you’re all Nastis and not Resisting Hard Enough! Eh?

Why, Chad Thunderbrain?

Disease and wellness are all in the mind, aren’t they?

In which case, why do they need help?

Do you even know what you’re responding to? I get that you’re a fool with zero insights but why do you feel the need to advertise that here?

And in Fairfax County, the vote count has apparently stopped. No updates in over an hour.

Mother Lodesays:
November 3, 2021 at 12:26 pm
With 60% votes counted the Democrats still say they are in the race with the remaining 80% of votes to be counted.

Or simply put: “The fix is in”

Democrat counting.

One for you.
Two for me.
…

WOW!

Unbelievable as it sounds, from 1982 until 2017 the Republican Party was forbidden by law from poll-watching or contesting any elections due to suspected vote fraud.

Having a look, it appears that the core “crime” was

The RNC created a voter challenge list by mailing sample ballots to individuals in precincts with a high percentage of racial or ethnic minority registered voters. Then the RNC put the names of individuals whose postcards were returned as undeliverable on a list of voters to challenge at the polls.

This was categorised as [minority] voter intimidation [Coz democrat areas with most fraud tend to have a “high percentage of racial or ethnic minority registered voters”]. And the RNC settled this!!! FFS – a case study on how to lose every election!!!

And the RNC settled this!!! FFS – a case study on how to lose every election!!!

If their defense, they only thought it applied for one year. It was a time of innocence when nobody could imagine a corrupt Judge would keep renewing it year after year until the worms got him.

It was a time of innocence …

I wuz once an innocent Viktoristani.
I have now been rogered by Dan the deathpickable and trust no one in matters electoral.

In Liberal ‘we must burn the village to save the village’ news.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/nov/03/coalition-split-over-religious-discrimination-bill-with-one-mp-having-serious-concerns-over-folau-clause

Cash, who took over the bill’s progress from Christian Porter when she became attorney general in March, is now consulting on a third iteration of the draft legislation in an attempt to overcome internal resistance and fulfil an election promise.

Other MPs and senators, including Andrew Bragg, Dean Smith, Tim Wilson and Dave Sharma are understood to hold similar reservations.

In the gruinaid world this is seen as indefensible.
a provision that would legally protect an individual from having their employment terminated as a result of them expressing their religious views

Do you even know what you’re responding to?

I do, Chad Thunderbrain.

You’re talking about poisoning Class Enemies.

Only a stooge or a leftwit wearing a skinsuit pretends like that.

And besides, if you are so unimpeachably right and correct, why are you flinching so violently?

You’re talking about poisoning Class Enemies.

I’m talking about Republicans doing to Democrats *exactly* what Democrats have done to everybody.

It’s called justice you moron.

More from the Oz on the WA details:

While the exact information within the tip off that led to the arrest is not yet known, neighbours have shared details of what they had witnessed leading up to the arrest.

“We stood back and waited but after that, we saw someone, on the detective’s shoulder. We thought it might be the little girl, which it was. I went closer to the detective’s car and I saw her in the back of the car with the Detective, he was holding her,” he said.

Youngkin’s won. He’s too far ahead to lose from here. There’s only so many votes Fairfax can ‘find’. For Fairfax alone to put McAuliffe over, they’ll have to submit hundreds of thousands more votes than there are registered voters in that county and this just won’t fly. So why the pause? Well, I’m sure they’re all desperately calling all of the other shady Dem operatives in other counties to see if there is any viable path to victory they can cobble together. It’s worth a try but Rosie O’Donnell’s taking a deep breath.

If Murphy loses (I doubt he will) then the Dems need to stop panicking and bite down hard on their cyanide ampules, because it’s bunker time.

Youngkin’s won. He’s too far ahead to lose from here.

How much would you bet?

How much would you bet?

What odds are you offering?

Fox on Virginia – 89% of the vote in
Politico (leftie site) on Virginia – 89% of expected vote in

Just gotta love that slowing the counting and working out how many more votes you need?

Betfair is now offering $75 for a McAuliffe win. Easy money for you if you think the fix is in. Go take it.

A check of the Eastern US newspapers’ coverage of Virginia. Virtually every rag was heavily anti-GOP packed with “retired educator who was a lifelong GOP member now working for the Democrats because Trump and GOP threat to the education agenda”.
Upstanding and ubiquitous citizens these aged chalkies – union status not revealed however.

Couple of uncharacteristic outbursts yesterday that would have only be heard by people close has me believing COVID is bringing out the worst in us.

Canavan calls Malcolm “a tosser”.

Fact check. True.

Queensland Senator Matt Canavan has since hit back at the former PM Turnbull.

‘I thought Malcolm Turnbull went halfway around the world to save the planet, but apparently he’s gone to just grind more axes’,’ the Senator told the Today show on Wednesday.

I said to Hairy this is not a man who thinks he is going to lose.

I think it’s a man who believes he may not yet lose, and – more importantly – he wants to project this. There are a lot of people currently seeing how many votes they can get away with finessing into closing his deficit. If he comes out looking all defeated, they stop and then it really is all over.