dover, I had that post that was moderated last week and before you released it, I could see it in…
Open Thread – Weekend 28 May 2022
- Bumtree #1
- Open Thread – Mon 29 April 2024
- Open Thread – Weekend 27 April 2024
- Nuclear power and the foundational lie
- Open Thread – Anzac Day 2024
Very strange that it would be visible while waiting for moderation.
How could anyone reply to a comment that was pending? today I saw at least one comment in the OT…
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I wonder if Albo can manage to do as much damage in 18 months as Slow Joe has?
Easily.
a bit of a science joke there for those who missed it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
Between them the two non-Labor Vietnamese candidates in Fowler got c. 48% of the primary vote.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/releases-updated-document-plan-plan-access-power-member-nations-international-emergencies/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=2022-05-29
“The New York Police Department tracked increases across every major crime category. The city recorded a 41% increase in overall major crime through the first months of 2022 compared to the same period last year, including a nearly 54% increase in robberies, a 56% increase in grand larceny incidents and a 22% increase in rape reports, the data shows.” CNN reported.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/man-stabbed-multiple-times-in-broad-daylight-attack-in-new-york-city-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-05-29
Why on earth would you live there?
Kristina Keneally says it out loud.
She lost because of lockdowns.
The seat she was going for, Fowler, had “a pox on both houses” as she described the turn from the majors.
She also claims to know she started to worry due to noticing the “Unusually high” UAP HTV cards being taken.
From a very reliable source, I know that it was over 65000 UAP HTV cards gone before prepolling requiring HQ to urgently print more, yet they got no votes!
Funny what outcomes can be achieved by our uncorruptable voting system , as a few here seem to think it is, when if you ask me, stopping the count before it’s finished and all going home for the night makes the system a complete joke.
And they’ve been doing it every night.
Somebody has the keys to the tally rooms.
Keneally link on last comment on page.
The executive of the government in a Westminster style constitutional monarchy doesn’t have the level of power that a POTUS does. (Which is more than a bit ironic when you think about it.)
Not that they can’t do a fair amount of wrecking if so inclined, as Whitlam showed. But we know how that ended.
In the early 1980’s, in an outback community in Western Australia, two of the youngfella’s sexually assaulted a young girl. When the local cops investigated, these two loudly declared that they didn’t recognise whitefella law, and would submit to tribal punishment.
With straight faces, the tribal elders announced that the attack was a serious breach of tribal law, and the word “Whistlecock” figured prominently in any tribal punishment. (They had been trying to oust these two for some time.)
Guess who was last seen, almost beating on the door of the local police station…
Maybe the Westminster system is better after all. 🙂
KK lost because, finally, a large group of Labor rustedons who have another, stronger, community bond, said enough of being taken for granted by the Labor party.
If Chinese voters in Chisholm turned on the liberal party for being unkind to China why wouldn’t Vietnamese Australians vote for Vietnamese candidates?
The word “chief” will no longer be used in reference to job titles in the San Francisco Unified School District in an effort, school officials said, to avoid the word’s connotation with Native Americans. A replacement term has not been determined.
If the schools were more dedicated to teaching their students Science, History, English Lit etc their students would learn that ‘chief’ has far wider usage than just in reference to Native American tribes. Who knows, they might even learn why the word chief was used instead of ‘king’ or ‘shaman’ or ‘god’*. Then they might learn some of the distinctions between types of social groups.
Nup. Much better to have them shaking with rage at the cultural appropriation of ‘Chief Executive Officer’, or those skirt-wearing blowhards in Scotland whose clans have had ‘chiefs’ before any of the Scots had even heard of America.
*I know the words are not synonymous. That is the point. They belong to different social dynamics.
Rogersays:
May 30, 2022 at 8:21 am
I’d say Keneally got stooged up in Fowler.
There’s no way the Vietnamese wouldn’t vote the Labor Candidate unless Labor fixers told them not to bother.
Between them the two non-Labor Vietnamese candidates in Fowler got c. 48% of the primary vote.
The Liars were beaten by intersectionality? The local Vietnamese preferred one of their “section” to some whitey blow-in with a strange accent (which also reminded them of the smell of napalm in the morning)?
Weren’t we taught as children that respect has to be earned unless you were a royal, then you are born with it. Are they now saying that all Aboriginals are born royal?
On top of that, our meritocratic elite are perfectly fine with the concept of someone being born with privileges that others don’t have.
Mark Speakman is a destructive psychopath and a dangerous idiot.
How low can the uniparty get the birth rate for net taxpayers?
I don’t want to leave Australia, but these lunatics are pushing me away.
How do these out of touch idiots think normal couples show affection to each other? It’s like he’s making everyone’s wives commodified like prostitutes.
I don’t want to live in a country where if say your wife intimates intimacy in the morning, then you take over “leading the dance”, you can go to goal for 25 years (NSW).
The current laws are fine and no one goes to gaol in that circumstance.
Keep in mind QLD has life sentences on the books for such “crimes”.
It’s difficult for me not to assume Speakman is an old pathetic SIMP who thinks in his subconscious that this misanthropic but in practice, chiefly midandrist law will get his smol pp touched by his good looking, young, fit, buxom, half Italian secretary.
Or least worst.
Coupla my Grandees were in Canberra for the “thugby” yesterday .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/sJBNgG5
No.
America still has the 1A and 2A.
The UK is now Airstrip One.
The word Chief is from Old French and adopted by Middle English.
It has zero to do with Native Americans, except as a descriptor by the settlers.
These people are insane. Let’s ban the word “feather” next, as they wear them in traditional headdress.
Current law –> formerly current law
Nolte: Masculine, Pro-American ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Blasts to $146M Opening, Towers over Woke Flops
Just to clarify BJ, the first two sentences are Ed’s.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/update-new-documents-confirm-former-obama-officials-including-john-kerry-meeting-secretly-iranian-officials-trump-administration/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=2022-05-28
How long before an ex-stewardess remembers Tom Cruise exposing himself to her in 1989?
The Oz’s front page story today:
I didn’t want dad jailed, but I was scared he would kill me
For testifying against a man who had mercilessly bashed and repeatedly raped his own daughter, Yuendumu woman Serita Ross was attacked with an axe. And, she says, it’s not over yet.
By KRISTIN SHORTEN
Today The Australian publishes the second in a three-part series revealing the effects of family violence in remote communities through the life of 21-year-old Ruby, who lived at Yuendumu in the same house for a time as Kumanjayi Walker, shot dead by police in 2019. It’s a confronting story but one that needs to be told.
Ruby was bloodied, badly bruised and could barely walk when she presented to the Yuendumu medical clinic after what would be the final brutal bashing and attempted rape by her father.
The remote area nurses notified local police, who took the teenager to Alice Springs to provide a formal statement.
Soon after – in January 2018 – Ruby’s father, Dean Wilson, was arrested, charged and taken into custody where he remained until his trial in the Supreme Court at Alice Springs in November 2019.
Ruby, two 13-year-old girls who had witnessed her repeated and protracted assaults, and her aunt Serita Ross all gave evidence.
Terrified of seeing her father, Ruby – then 17 – testified from a vulnerable witness box.
“It was really hard (to give evidence),” she said.
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Within a week of being released on parole, Dean Wilson was viciously beating and raping his teenage daughter in a similar way to that in which he had attacked his previous victim.
Where were elders’ voices amid this horror?
Some raw and unpleasant truths about what really happens in remote communities must be dragged out of the darkness and into the light.
“I couldn’t even face him. I didn’t want to see him. I didn’t even want to take a glance at him.”
On Saturday, The Weekend Australian revealed Ruby’s father had brutally bashed and raped her, when she was a teenager, after he was released from prison in September 2017 and moved into the Yuendumu home where she lived with her grandparents.
The 21-year-old this month told The Australian during an interview in far north Queensland – where she now lives – that she hadn’t wanted to send her father back to jail but feared that if he remained free, he would murder her.
“I couldn’t just let him get away with it,” she said.
“I was too scared, like I was really trapped. I couldn’t walk anywhere, not even to the shops or anything, without him coming with me.
“I didn’t want him in jail because he’s my dad and I just got him back but I was just too scared that one day he might kill me or something.”
During his trial, Wilson admitted to much of the physical violence but denied the sexual offending.
“It is likely you had mixed motivations for the physical assaults at the time,” judge Jenny Blokland said during sentencing.
“Overall, you have used what apparent discipline rights you thought you could exercise over your biological daughter to control her, or at least control elements of her lifestyle. There is a substantial deal of irony in your claims about your rights to discipline her, given you had so little to do with her upbringing.”
Speaking about one night when Wilson had assaulted Ruby at Yuendumu, Judge Blokland said the abuse had been protracted, prolonged and involved the use of weapons.
“After a terrifying drive home, you continued the assaults at (Ruby’s) home, compromising her safety and security, much of it in front of the two younger (girls),” she said.
“You showed no mercy when (Ruby) called for help or showed distress.
“The blows were directed to vulnerable parts of her body.
“She was your daughter and could have expected to be protected by you. This was the opposite of protection.”
Judge Blokland said Wilson’s final assault on Ruby, in bushland outside Alice Springs in early 2018, was “in the higher range of aggravated assaults that may be comprehended”.
“The use of the rock and a number of assaults … in an isolated area for the purpose of effecting a rape on your daughter means this must be regarded as a higher end level of assault,” she said.
“In terms of the attempted rape, it was – overall – a violent, indecent, frightening event which took place in an isolated area.
“(Ruby) had to fight you off and threaten to call the police before you would stop.”
Judge Blokland described Ruby as a “well-behaved, well-adapted young person” who – before the assaults – “was a happy girl with lots of friends” and wanted to be an artist or a nurse.
“She feels great shame because you are her father, and you should not have offended against her,” she said.
“She now feels she cannot trust people and feels haunted by all of the circumstances which surrounded the offending and its consequences.”
The Supreme Court judge said Ruby now “feels trapped and feels she cannot go anywhere”.
“She cannot go back to Yuendumu where she grew up, as it no longer feels like home, and she has certain apprehensions about your family as well,” she said.
“Although the attitude of the family cannot be sheeted home to you in sentencing, it is a consequence of the offending that (Ruby) can no longer rely on parts of the extended family due to their mixed loyalties to you.”
Revenge mission
On December 3, 2019 – following his five-day trial – Wilson was found guilty on all six counts of physically and sexually assaulting his daughter, and attempting to rape her.
The next day, his brother Darren Wilson armed himself with an axe and “marched angrily down the main road at Yuendumu” looking for those who had “got my brother locked up”.
Specifically, Darren Wilson sought “payback” against Ruby’s aunt Serita, who had taken the teenager to receive medical treatment and supported her niece in speaking to police.
Serita’s aunt Teresa had also supported Serita and Ruby – telling both of the younger women “not to be afraid and to be strong” – in giving evidence at Dean Wilson’s trial.
So the day after his conviction – December 4, 2019 – Darren Wilson went straight to the Yuendumu Primary School where Serita worked and after finding her in the staff kitchen, kicked down the door and threatened to kill her with the axe.
Axe attack
Before Darren Wilson reached the school, Yuendumu resident Steven Kelly had spotted him storming down the street and yelled out, “Hey, are you all, right?”
“They put my brother in for 20 years,” Wilson shot back. “They told liar stories about him.
“I’m going to the school. I’m going to hit Serita,” he said before lifting his shirt to show Mr Kelly the axe tucked into his pants.
Mr Kelly – knowing Wilson’s violent history – immediately feared for Serita.
When Darren reached the primary school, he spotted the 32-year-old Serita in the breakfast room.
“Stand there. Wait,” he angrily yelled at her.
Terrified, she started banging on the door and begging her colleague – identified in court only as AB – to open it.
She then rushed into the adjoining room and tried to close the door behind her, but Wilson kicked it open.
“I’m going to kill you. You got my brother locked up,” he yelled as he pulled the axe out from under his shirt.
“My brother, he’s in jail. You mob been put him in jail for 20 years,” he accused her.
AB jumped in front of Serita to try to protect her while Wilson repeatedly threatened to kill her.
“I’m going to kill you,” he yelled. “I’m going to kill you right here.”
The 39-year-old – who has a lengthy criminal history for violent offences – then “forcefully swung the axe” over the top of AB and struck Serita on the back of the head with it.
As blood gushed from her wound, she pulled her mobile phone from her pocket to call the police.
Serita – terrified and screaming – then tried to block her face with her arms and mobile phone as Wilson again swung the axe, but this time towards her face.
He smashed her phone and Serita somehow escaped from the room.
Supreme Court documents say Serita “ran for her life” to the primary school’s main office while AB tried to block Wilson from chasing her.
A teacher gave Serita, who could not stop shaking, a towel to stem the bleeding from her head.
She took off her blood-soaked T-shirt and put on a clean one so as to not scare any students who saw her.
Wilson then left the school grounds in search of 62-year-old Teresa.
“Where’s Teresa?” he yelled.
“I’m gonna kill her.”
Serita’s daughter heard about what had happened and phoned Teresa to warn her that Wilson was on his way to her work.
Court documents reveal that Teresa was “frightened for her life”.
She immediately left work, collected her children and grandchildren, took them home and locked all of the doors.
Police arrested Wilson later that day.
After-effects
Court documents reveal Wilson made a “spontaneous admission” to police that he hit Serita on the head with an axe because she had accused his brother of rape.
However, he refused to tell police where the axe was because he was afraid they would obtain his fingerprints from it and charge him with other offences.
In 2020, Wilson pleaded guilty to causing harm to Serita, threatening to kill Teresa and possession of a controlled weapon in a public place.
Serita said, in her first written victim impact statement, that she was “so scared for my life”.
“I thought he was going to kill me for real,” she wrote.
Serita said she still “can’t stop shaking” from the incident and worrying about what would happen to her kids if he killed her.
“I’m scared, if he gets out, he will try to kill me again,” she said.
“He tried to kill me because I gave evidence against his brother, who raped his own daughter.
“He’s blaming me for Dean going to jail.”
In her second victim impact statement, Serita said she had lost a lot of blood and was still experiencing severe pain.
“My head is really sore,” she wrote.
“I have lots of pain when I lay down and the shower stings it.
“It’s paining all the time.”
She said the attack had left her fearful, shocked and unable to return to work.
“I can’t sleep, because I keep thinking, ‘What if he killed me? What would happen to my kids?’,” she wrote.
“I gave evidence to help my niece. I didn’t tell any lies about his brother, Dean.
“His brother did the wrong thing. Not my fault. He should get five years’ jail for trying to kill me.”
Unhealthy pattern
During sentencing judge Judith Kelly said Darren Wilson – who was “clearly a very dangerous person” due to his lengthy criminal history of violent offences – had intended to cause Serita life-threatening injuries or injuries that would be long-standing.
“These offences strike at the very heart of the administration of justice, because the reason that you were trying to seriously injure Serita and the reason you threatened to kill Teresa was because they had given evidence here, in a court of law, in the Supreme Court, under a subpoena,” Justice Kelly said.
“They were obliged to give that evidence and they gave truthful evidence.”
Justice Kelly said the offences were “made more serious” for a number of reasons, including that his victim, Serita, was female.
“This seems to be a pattern with you; assaulting women; a very unhealthy pattern,” she said.
“She is an extended family member of yours. You attacked her while she was at work.
“She was at work in a primary school on a school day. There were little kids around. They should not be exposed to that sort of thing.”
Justice Kelly said Wilson’s attack with a deadly weapon was “determined”.
“You kept going after her. You kicked the door down to get at her. You kept threatening her and you hit at her more than once with the axe,” she said.
“You aimed at a particularly vulnerable part of her body, like her head and face.
“Goodness knows what would have happened if that mobile phone had not got in the way.
“She thought she was going to die.”
Wilson’s threat to kill Teresa was also made more serious by a number of factors, Justice Kelly said.
“It is likely to have the effect of frightening people into not wanting to give evidence in serious sex offence cases against children, and possibly other violent offences as well,” she said.
“The threat to kill is made more serious, obviously, by the fact that you said it with an axe in your hand, after you had just used that axe to attack somebody else.
“And again, that it is that threat to the administration of justice.”
In November 2020, Justice Kelly sentenced Darren Wilson to a total term of imprisonment of 10 years with a non-parole period of five years for his attack on Serita and threat to kill Teresa.
Dean Wilson was sentenced last May to 18 years in prison with a non-parole period of 15 years for abusing his daughter Ruby.
Continuing threats
In an exclusive interview with incoming Alice Springs Country Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, for a documentary Senator Price is making called Yimi Junga, Serita said she felt safe now that Darren Wilson was locked up, but “his mother wants to fight me”.
“And many other people in his family were threatening to beat me up,” she said
“They are still threatening me at Yuendumu.”
Meanwhile, up in far north Queensland, Ruby’s life has spiralled out of control.
ON TUESDAY: CHAPTER 3
Eyriesays:
May 30, 2022 at 8:14 am
I wonder if Albo can manage to do as much damage in 18 months as Slow Joe has?
Easily.
$45bn Labor spree sparks ratings warning
Labor risks putting the country’s triple-A credit status in danger if it races to implement nearly $45bn in “off-balance-sheet” election promises, one of the top rating agencies warns.
The AFR View
Labor must reverse-engineer a mandate for fiscal repair
It will take much more than surprise, surprise post-election announcements of the dire budget outlook to properly repair Australia’s tattered fiscal policy.
The new Labor government has said mostly the right things on Australia’s fiscal challenge. In post-election mode, new Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher have switched to warning about the more “dire” position of the federal budget and the “huge” spending pressures – such as on health care, aged care, disability services and defence – building up over the rest of the decade. As urged by The Australian Financial Review, Anthony Albanese has recommitted his government to the Coalition’s legislated stage-three personal tax cuts that will leave most taxpayers paying no more than 30¢ in every extra dollar earned by mid-2024.
Nostalgic for Bill Shorten’s attacks on the big end of town, Labor true believers will damn this as just a tax break for the rich. But the less well-off will not be helped by piling more tax penalties on enterprise and aspiration as Australia seeks to compete in the post-pandemic world.
As well, Mr Albanese has ruled out mimicking the special tax on the “excess” profits of oil and gas companies by the supposedly Conservative government in the UK. If Labor is to turn from fiscal poacher into gamekeeper, it should avoid knee-jerk resort to cargo-cult nostalgia, such as thinking the budget problems would have been solved by the Rudd government’s “super-profits” mining tax. Instead, amid a global energy crisis, Australia has an opportunity to supply most of the extra gas that the world will demand on its low carbon transition.
Amid these correct calls on tax, however, it will take much more than surprise, surprise post-election announcements of the dire budget outlook to properly repair Australia’s tattered fiscal policy. The truth is that Labor must bear much of the responsibility for the quarter of a century of budget deficits that began under Treasurer Wayne Swan during the global financial crisis in 2008-09 and that are now projected to continue beyond 2032-33.
Fear of a “Mediscare”, or scaremongering about supposed “austerity”, was a major factor in the Coalition’s meek refusal under Scott Morrison and Josh Frybenberg to map out a credible plan for budget repair in the tradition of the Howard-Costello government. With no correction, Labor’s spending monuments – Gonski school funding and the out-of-control National Disability Insurance Scheme – have baked a structural budget deficit into the pandemic’s supposedly temporary fiscal expansion. Labor’s election promises in aged care and childcare have further inflated public expectations about the “free and universal” things that governments can provide voters.
Now that fiscal reality has begun to bite, Labor needs to re-anchor the budget expectations that have been completely unanchored by the massive pandemic spendathon.
With no credibility on budget responsibility and having run a small-target election campaign, reverse-engineering a Labor mandate for fiscal repair will not be easy to reconcile with new promises of relief for cost-of-living pressures. This must begin by constructing a fiscal framework – akin to the Hawke-Keating “trilogy” – to re-anchor expectations after the previous fiscal rule of balancing the budget over the course of the economic cycle was trashed by the pandemic. Labor has further regressed by rejecting the Coalition’s only remaining budget anchor: the 23.9 per cent tax to GDP cap.
To start to get things back on track, Labor’s line-item review by Treasury and the Department of Finance needs to be backed with robust cost-benefit analysis of new spending promises, including for its promised childcare subsidies. This must walk back the rhetoric that portrayed reining in the National Disability Insurance Scheme – set to cost $65 billion by the end of the decade – as an attack on the disabled. It must start to reduce spending now to stop further inflationary fiscal expansion colliding with the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy tightening.
Then Labor should support not only a tax cap, but commit to reversing the increase in government spending as a percentage of GDP. And it should commit during its first term to a credible plan for a return to surplus by the end of the decade to start rebuilding the nation’s fiscal buffers and to stop throwing more borrowed money on the nation’s public debt pile.
Affirmative consent laws are one of the worst manifestations of “social justice” drivel. You can just about guarantee it will be weaponised against men, and men only, doing nothing other than clog up the courts and drive more males away from society. It strikes me as pretty much a definitive example of a unworkable law.
That’s even if there’s a general awareness the law has been changed. I’d doubt a couple of drunks hooking up on a friday night are going to care to obey.
A real, nasty problem.
SWPL pussy boy Mark Speakman invented a first world problem, making relationships and raising children more problematic for normal people.
I truly hope Speakman’s descendants live in interesting times. I hope he comes to the attention of those in high places. Finally, let’s all hope he finds what he is looking for.
Basta!
Somebody mind explaining how a “voice” in Parliament, will solve any of this issue?
My advice is not to get married or have a serious relationship in NSW.
As for hooking up, record verbal consent and use documentary evidence (texts, messages). Even record your activities for the night but get written consent (you need sobriety here) for that and don’t shag anyone more drunk than you are, safer to both be sober. Netflix and chill. Don’t meet at the pub.
Calli
These people are insane.
Also extremely ignorant, despite their (often Ivy League) wackademic credentials.
Let’s see what the Greens have to say about that.
They’ve already flagged a levy on coal exports.
I suppose she has to do it for domestic political reasons, but Wong is wasting her time in the Pacific.
The China-Pacific Island Countries Climate Action Cooperation Center was officially launched at the end of April.
Hidden away in the CCP MiniTruth promise of Chinese altruism and free money lies an accidental truth about what the helpless little brown people can do for themselves:
Translation: Cash for Big Fellas, Chinese factory ships trawl every living thing off the reefs.
Traditional.
Burger Prices to Remain High as Cattle Ranchers Shrink Herds
Burgers and steaks are set to stay pricey as U.S. cattle ranchers shrink their herds, further constraining U.S. beef production in the months ahead.
Rising costs for feed and other expenses are leading ranchers to sell their calves into feedlots at a faster pace, according to federal data, leaving fewer cattle available for slaughter later this year and in 2023. . . Beef production in 2023 is expected to decline 7% and cattle prices are expected to increase to record highs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said this month.
If you have a freezer (and backup generation for the likely summer rolling blackouts coming our way), stock up on beef now.
Rogersays:
May 30, 2022 at 8:44 am
Just to clarify BJ, the first two sentences are Ed’s.
Understood.
No votes?
The AEC says 524,000 votes for UAP.
Oh, and a quick bit of advice. Citing the perennial whinger KKK as a reliable source probably won’t cut it around here.
A non-rampant poof is not much use to anybody. Unless the house needs vacuuming.
More educational opportunities than ever delivers us fewer knowledgeable people. It’s a mystery!
Vic beat NSW to it, the laws were amended last year (I think, might’ve been earlier).
A woke marxist review of TG Maverick from Maryanne Johanson, much loved at the BBC and PBS.
Of course it’s true that movies like this, in which Hollywood cheerleads for American imperialism, have always been problematic. (We could probably say much the same about Cruise’s Mission: Impossible movies, for starters.) But the world has changed, rapidly and almost beyond recognition, since this movie wrapped production, three years ago. (The coronavirus pandemic delayed it seeing the light of day.) Even just since its release was finally being arranged mere months ago. The United States blithely invading and attacking anyone it wants to on the flimsiest of provocations looks ever more obviously hypocritical when it condemns Russia for doing the same. (Of course I oppose the Russian attack on Ukraine. But I also opposed the US invasion of Afghanistan.) A celebration of way-cool tech, regardless of how deadly its sole purpose is, is incredibly difficult to swallow in the wake of two mass shootings in the US, the likes of which occur regularly solely because enough American politicians and their suck-up sycophants in the media are in the thrall of a powerful gun lobby and the bizarre notion that guns are awesome and manly and powerful.
There isn’t a single difference between celebrating a Super Hornet jet fighter the way Top Gun: Maverick does and celebrating an AR-15 the way the NRA does. And that should worry us profoundly.
Great movie which will make a pile of cash and leave Maryanne all sad that her years of corrosion have had little impact on what people like to watch. Win win.
“For the record, I have no class whatever.”
“We got no class, no taste,
no shirt and shit-faced”
Back when I were but a pup there was a faint mystique about Aborigines. We would go on school excursions and have thing pointed out on the way such as where paintings or carvings were found and such, we read in books about how they lived in pre-colonial times, we had visits to our school by a guy who told us about how they made things and did a bit of a display of boomerang throwing and didgeridoo playing (never stopped for a breath!) and so on.
Sadly, what I have seen since does not engender respect. More pity. Penned up in cages of ‘respect for their culture’ where the individuals are props so they can pretend it is a ‘living’ culture.
You have seen those people wringing their hands and bewailing the sad fate of animals in zoos – animals like lions, elephants, zebras – animals commanded by their very DNA to play out the ancient drama of struggle, survival, contest, birth, and death. Seeing them in small cages, hemmed in by concrete, treading a concrete floor, no need to strive, no chance to feel the rush of blood, never feasting, never hungry. Sickened. Self-harming. Miserable.
That is what our betters want for Aborigines. But they do it on purpose because the longer they linger in this wretched twilight of existence the more whitey can be cajoled into coughing up money for the elite few.
Screams out for a Intimate Consent Inspectorate.
Feeling frisky?
Dial 1800 CONSENSUAL and one of our certified inspectors will be round to supervise your safe and satisfying sexual experience.
Hey Zeus !
Where’s Metallica?
For Rabz:
Jackson Browne?
George Thorogood & The Destroyers?
Alice Cooper?
Led Zeppelin?
& ABBA?
Sounds like an NRL team bonding night.
Trust Muttley to use the left’s ultimate strawman.
Doc Faustus:
Yep. Welcome to the prawn buffet, Chinese style. Where you take what you can carry, not what you can eat and to hell with everyone else including the next generation.
The world’s tolerance of Chinese strip mining of the oceans is going to come back and bite our arses big time.
The AFR View
If only that were going to happen.
I think instead it’s going to be down the gurgler…
The Drinker agrees.
(Strong language warning. Or beckons. Depends on what you prefer.)
My daily Prayer of the Optine Elders not working too well ATM but ….
Zelensky Signals Donbas Could Soon Fall: “Indescribably Difficult” Russian Onslaught
In a Saturday night speech Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave his most dire assessment to date of the status of Ukraine forces in the eastern Donbas region, where for over at least the last two months Russia has concentrated its forces, following the Feb.24 invasion of the country. Saturday marked the 95th day of the conflict.
He described conditions there as “indescribably difficult” in what marks a notably pessimistic shift and negative tone for the Ukrainian leader, strongly suggesting the fall of Donbas – or at least whole regions such as Luhansk – could be imminent. He identified several intense ongoing battles in places with a large Russian force presence, including Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Bakhmut and Popasna. Sievierodonets in particular is scene of fierce up-close street battles.
Jim Rickards
@JamesGRickards
Americans have been fed a steady diet of propaganda about Ukraine “winning.” In fact, Russia has taken Lyman (a key logistics hub) and has encircled the Ukrainian army in Sievierodonetsk. I’m not pro-Russian. I am pro-American, and pro-sticking to facts.
Let me rephrase that:
The world’s cowardly refusal to sink the Chinese fishing fleets currently strip mining the Galapagos is going to come back and bite our arses big time.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17297/china-fishing-fleet
I used to worry watching Top Gun would make me gay and I’d have to move to Sydney. The traffic!
” If we can’t agree on pineapple, surely anchovies are a non-negotiable.”
Easy and tasty pasta “sauce” –
Olives, anchovies, capers, finely sliced garlic, chilies in olive oil.
Warm the oil, add anchovies, cook them until they break up, add rest and warm through, then add cooked and drained pasta and allow to coat / soak up some oil .
Serve with bread to soak up extra oil.
Simple, easy, and very tasty, if strong, flavors.
It’s Obama’s fault
Our current period of political turmoil can be considered to have begun with the presidential election of 2008. The meteoric rise of a virtual unknown from the Illinois state Senate to the White House is fairly unprecedented. Though he lacked any depth of understanding of why things are the way they are, Mr. Obama was gifted with a commanding stage presence. After all, superficial appeal invariably trumps substance among the political activist community.
Then came the midterm elections of 2010. The vast public resentment for the Affordable Care Act (AKA “Obamacare”) led to a “shellacking” of epic proportions, causing Dan Balz of the Washington Post to declare that the Democrats no longer had a “bench” from which new political talent could rise.
When Obama was termed out going into the election of 2016, the Democrat establishment reached down to the bottom of the barrel and pulled out Hillary Clinton. She, along with the eminently forgettable Tim Kaine, lost to a total political novice who made little, if any, effort to control his public utterances.
Mr. Trump, however, knew very well why things were the way they were. He also was an experienced problem-solver and resource organizer. Thus began an extended hair-on-fire period for the minions of the progressive left, whom Obama brought into positions of power within his government.
In order to defeat Trump, the next time around, the progressive establishment had to further scrape out what was left of the barrel to acquire the archetypical empty suit. In order to protect Joe Biden from the 25th Amendment, they put an accomplished babbling fool on the ticket as well.
Doubts remain as to the authenticity of the election that put Biden and Harris in charge of the federal government. But rather than directly defend the mechanics of the balloting process or justify the slanted news coverage that suppressed anti-Biden information, Biden’s defenders continue with a strenuous effort to impose official censorship of those who publicly challenge Biden’s legitimacy. What cannot be censored is that, in the same election that put Biden and Harris in office, the Republicans picked up fourteen seats in the House of Representatives. Go figure.
My hope is that the new consent laws are well publicised, that young men are put on the alert that drunken hookups are more trouble than they are worth and there are far less he said she said cases before the courts.
I’m not going to be distressed that the era of the one night stand might be on its last legs.
Meanwhile the sensible ones are getting married and having families.
Funnily enough, trickle outwards economics is very big with Labor and leftists in general.
Remember that orgy of spending that was called a stimulus in the Krudd/Mallard years? All that money poured into the Edumacation Revolution (even though it was spent on buildings rather than the learning bit)? The idea was that all the money injected into construction would go into paypackets, or new orders to suppliers which would spill into paypackets. And bit by bit all the monies would spread through the economy until we were all standing in the slop?
Obama was not, and is not, a real person. He is a virtual person. He was made to appear a person by carefully crafted messaging, meticulously choreographed appearances, speeches written by a team of failed novelists, and a farcical backstory – remember what was meant to be a touching story of his and the scowling colossus sitting outside Baskin Robbins(?) eating ice cream? (Well, I can imagine him timidly eating an ice cream that had more personality than him. She would probably be better described as ‘encompassing’ hers ice creams.)
Turned out afterward that Mitt Romney’s firm had saved the ice cream company from bankruptcy. It is such a bitch when your feel-good story to show how nice you are relies upon the intervention of the person you wish to depict as the personification of evil.
“Liddell and Eraring will shut…”
Liddell is definitely old and well used, but Eraring is likely good for another 10-20 years yet, just to get it to Lidell’s current “old and worn” status! It would be a great waste of resources to shut Eraring at this time, IMO.
A seriously weird concept. I was puzzled by “monk station” signs in Thai bus and railway stations. That’s where a monk gets to sit and collect money. Great concept if you can swing it.
Star-gazing, sex and ‘hush money’ — a rather too enlightened monk
The handsome Buddhist monk had a huge social media following, a prodigious gift for fundraising and a clear path to becoming Thailand’s youngest abbot.
He also had a fateful secret plan to go star-gazing with a beautiful older woman.
The subsequent implosion of Pongsakorn Chankaew’s spiritual career amid lurid reports of sex trysts and embezzled hush money is now a national scandal.
It has fuelled calls for the reform of the country’s “rotten” clerical system as Thais have flocked to temples to celebrate the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha on one of their religion’s holiest days. The recently disrobed monk has been left trying to make ends meet by promoting traditional snacks online and hoping for a record contract.
“I accept the mistakes of my past, but am now just asking for the chance to make a living,” he said.
His disgrace is the latest in a string of episodes to shake the Thais’ faith in their supposedly celibate clergy’s willingness to remain aloof from worldly distractions. All Thai men are supposed to spend some time as monks and there are 300,000 clergy at any given time.
Unsurprisingly, not all display the highest moral rectitude. In the upper echelons of Thai society and business, it is not uncommon for men accused of wrongdoing to seek to escape attention and display penance by entering the monkhood and making appropriate donations.
Pongsakorn, 23, worked as a singer and puppeteer as a teenager before caring for his ill mother and taking monastic orders at 18 to honour her wishes after her death. He never lost his performing zeal.
Known by the religious title Phra (Venerable) Kato, he quickly built a national profile with his TikTok preaching, amusing demeanour, digital savvy and good looks. He became a money-raising machine in a country where donations to monks and temples are seen as part of the Buddhist concept of merit-making and treated by some Thais as down-payments for the afterlife.
Despite his youth in an institution dominated by elders, he was fast-tracked to acting abbot at a southern Thai temple and was on the verge of being permanently appointed to the position, which would have given him full legal control of the institution’s finances.
But in May he was summoned to a police station where he acknowledged a charge of removing about $25,000 from temple funds to secure the silence of an embittered former lover and a journalist aware of their liaisons.
Baitong Primvalin, 37, an actor and model, first contacted Phra Kato via social media to seek his pastoral advice. Earlier this year she travelled from Bangkok to his temple with her mother.
The two remained in contact and their relationship grew closer. On one visit, the monk apparently suggested a late-night trip to go star-gazing near a local dam.
There, in her car, she said he asked her for a shoulder massage to deal with his exhaustion. By her account, he assured her that laying hands on a monk in this context was acceptable. He has said she seduced him.
Following what has been reported as “two hours of intimate conversation”, they had sex. There was at least one more tryst but after two months the ardour turned to acrimony.
After recordings of their intimate moments were leaked to the media, senior monks tried to close ranks to protect their rising star, but as public indignation mounted he left the monkhood on April 30.
In response to the Phra Kato furore, the National Office of Buddhism, a government agency reporting to the prime minister, has announced that breaking celibacy vows will become a criminal offence, punishable with up to five years in jail for the monk and sexual partner.
Opponents of the plan say sexual liaisons should not be criminalised and that the move fails to address a much deeper problem – the lack of transparency over temple funds. The sums involved are often huge and donations are impossible to track as abbots and their assistants oversee the books. Research in 2012 estimated that 30,000 temples received pounds $4.9bn a year in donations.
The Sunday Times
Don’t give up on the we-wouldn’t-do-it-that-way-so-the-Russkies-must-be-losing thing just yet.
The Ukies very own Operation Spring Awakening is sure to throw the Orcs out.
Just like the Krauts’ Lake Balaton adventure.
This is what you get when you make an idol of consent.
Just returned from my morning walk, what happened to gerbil warming?
2.5C and not into winter yet, looks like we might have another coldest winter on record.
Anyway bloody cold out there in Perth.
The Ukies very own Operation Spring Awakening is sure to throw the Orcs out.
Steiner is coming!
No warmer up here in the Hills…
Runway cleared for Santos on Narrabri gas
Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher says the company for the first time has a “clean pathway” to proceed with its Narrabri coal seam gas project, where it expects to have no difficulty bringing in new partners amid soaring international prices for gas.
The deadline for an appeal to October’s decision in the NSW Land & Environment Court to dismiss a legal challenge to the approval for the project passed on Tuesday, allowing Santos to move forward with drilling needed ahead of a final investment decision.
The contentious project, which could supply up to half of NSW’s gas needs, has been more than 10 years in the making and cost about $1.5 billion of investment while never getting beyond the planning stage.
And while Santos revealed on Thursday that its 20 per cent partner in Narrabri gas, EnergyAustralia, had handed back its stake, Mr Gallagher anticipates keen interest from potential replacement partners, despite the controversy over the development, as the price for imported LNG goes through the roof.
“Gas is a good market to be in right now, right?” he told AFR Weekend.
“We can supply gas much cheaper than that from Narrabri, so I don’t think there’s going to be an awful lot of difficulty in finding partners who want to get into that project once that project is firmed up a bit.”
Spot gas prices in southern Australian markets have recently been trading at $10-$11 a gigajoule, which, while much higher than recent averages, is still well below the price that international gas would be available for through a NSW import terminal.
“You compare that to what you’re paying for gas if you’re buying it in the LNG market right now, which is more than $US20 ($27.80) per gigajoule,” Mr Gallagher said.
“If we were pumping gas into NSW through an import terminal, that’s what you would be paying when you pick it up, plus shipping, and then plus your transport to your customers, so for those people pushing that import terminal option for NSW, that is the alternative in a higher cost energy world.”
While Australia is one of the world’s biggest LNG exporters, as many as five groups are hoping to develop LNG import terminals around the south-east coast amid warnings from the Australian Energy Market Operator and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission of potential shortages in southern markets, starting about mid-decade.
The Narrabri venture has preliminary agreements to supply gas to manufacturers Brickworks and Perdaman Group, and to gas wholesaler Weston Energy.
EnergyAustralia, which wrote down the value of its stake in the Narrabri project several years ago, sold its 20 per cent holding back to Santos for a “nominal” sum, Mr Gallagher said, adding it was good to clear up a longstanding “misalignment” between the partners on the project.
With the possibility of a further legal challenge on approvals now put to bed, that clears the way forward on the project, he said.
“We’ve got a clean pathway now for the first time at Narrabri, and it’s time to get on with our appraisal process, which will be another 12 to 18 months,” he said.
The Narrabri project involves developing up to 850 gas wells, gas processing and water treatment facilities in the Pilliga region over a 25-year period.
“Or shredded dolphin meat.”
I only get Tuna friendly dolphin meat – it’s “the latest thing”, and we all support “the latest thing” right?
No Wonder We Never get anything done in Australia
The contentious project, which could supply up to half of NSW’s gas needs, has been more than 10 years in the making and cost about $1.5 billion of investment while never getting beyond the planning stage.
The Narrabri project involves developing up to 850 gas wells, gas processing and water treatment facilities in the Pilliga region over a 25-year period.
Opponents, including several local groups, have vowed to continue their campaign against it, while the escalation of climate concerns and ESG issues have also heightened risks around financing for the project, which Santos has estimated will cost $US650 million in the first phase.
Decisions are also needed for the route of a gas pipeline to transport the gas, a venture that is also fiercely opposed by several landowners and communities in the region.
The latest delay in the project suggests that a final investment decision on the first phase would come in 2023, subject to the results of the drilling.
add anchovies
Also, as an alternative, try adding Peck’s Anchovette paste. A jar added to a stock made from prawn heads and crayfish/lobster bits (now that they’re cheap) is one of the small steps towards a magnificent bisque.
Sorry (such a popular word these days), I have come late to this thread.
What a load of baloney. In pre settlement, traditional culture, Aborigines did not “inherit” land. By their own admission, “country” is not “owned” – one “belongs” to country. If Bennelong produced a document showing that was where he was born, thereby attempting (cleverly) to use white man’s laws – well good luck to him, though my understanding is that it did him no good.
Many years ago I knew a Yankunytjatjara man from central Australia who tried to set up a tourist business (good for him) on Sydney Harbour teaching whities about “bush tucker”. It was bitterly opposed by the local “mob” (Redfern, La Perouse, I guess) who threatened to spear him! I suspect that a different form of violence was contemplated, but it was enough to scare this enterprising Aboriginal man from starting viable business.
That explains all the anti gas signs along the Newell up that way.
I wondered why that particular region was so stirred up about evil fossil fuels.
The UK is in a death spiral
ie backdoor communism
it’s all about criminalising young white males and driving down an already low birth rate
Very difficult to pick out any signs of ‘winning’ on any side of the Ukrainian imbroglio. Although I guess if you are rooting for Team Poot, Russian advances in turning Donbas into a sea of mud and shattered concrete will be a bit of a trouser stiffener.
An expensive victory but.
Kneel,
I’m betting a complete refurbishment of Liddell would cost less in the long run than what is coming re electricity.
What’s wrong with it btw?
“The new NSW laws would mean all parties have to say or do something to give consent before any sexual activity.
This is what you get when you make an idol of consent.”
By law all females should carry a pussy idol and all males a phalus idol. Consent occurs when they reciprocate idols.
“All the while denying that his outfit is extremely … wink, nudge … “eclectic”.”
Ah Sancho – surely you forgot the silver glitter high heels, bright red lipstick, and blue eye shadow.
Strawberry blonde plaits, with dark roots showing.
Classy.
Technical Note: EnergyAustralia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Light and Power – a natural investor in the Australian domestic energy market.
How long before an ex-stewardess remembers Tom Cruise exposing himself to her in 1989?
If the complainant were to come from a steward, absolutely believable.
the problem they were trying to address is the very low conviction rate. which irritated the woke prosecutors the police force seems to be infested with.
seems they want to make technical “rapes” a severe crime designed to destroy young men’s lives and trivially easy to prosecute. these are by no means severe crimes or even crimes at all
islam was right about women
That’s my understanding, amongst the Noongars of Western Australia – they didn’t own the land, they were “of” the land.
If you’ve seen the UAF currently fighting in the Donbas you’d know any summer or spring offensive is a bust.
Jack Posobiec Retweeted
ELIJAH SCHAFFER @ElijahSchaffer · 7h
So @JackPosobiec gets detained by police covering the WEF summit
Undercover police criticized @AnonNews14’s coverage of the same event
& while traveling home from covering the same event, @OzraeliAvi
is detained by the border force & has his passport impounded,Are you awake?
See Vid clip of Klaus Schwab (1:31)
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1530966281708482560
This is pretty much any war fought and won since rifle and artillery and was already the case in the Donbas between 2014-22.
AGL proceeds rapidly along the “Go woke, go broke” path.
CEO, Chairman and four board members to leave.
Coal divestment put on hold. Likely acceleration of reliable energy closure. Whole company strategy to be reviewed. Cannon-Brookes to insist unicorn farts becomes central plank of green platform.
The fuktedness of this country hastens inexorably.
Towns like Walgett could progress with mining & energy.
Nope, gotta let them live in misery, that’s the right thing to do.
Should I buy shares in Santos?
I can’t see how consent laws are going to drive down the birthrate.
They might encourage more caution and prudence, they might even encourage more marriage.
Less why buy the cow thinking.
Barry at 11:11.
From the link.
0.36% shareholding.
FMD.
Here’s the thing.
If you don’t like what AGL is doing, sell.
I think it was Ms Blakely who was banging on last week about “AGL taking an entity level approach rather than addressing economy level issues”.
In other words the AGL board is looking out for AGL, not the rest of the world. Which is exactly what they should be doing. I am old enough to remember when it was an offence against Corporations Law for directors to damage shareholder value in pursuit of personal zealotry.
The choices were:-
.1 Spin off the filfy coal and gas assets into an entity which people could choose to own shares in or not; or
.2 Shut down an unfashionable income producing asset for no recompense.
Just on these “Consent” laws – the ACT town council has introduced the same – for protection of sheilas from domestic (male only) violence. More social engineering and virtue signalling that will have unfortunate consequences for blokes and enrich legal practitioners.
Then there’s the entrapment of blokes in a one night stand where the sheila has one aim only. To get up the duff, no intention of continuing the relationship, and become a single mother on benefits and the bloke is on the hook for child support for 18 years and demonised by the rabid females at the Childcare Support Agency.
Happened to a mate of mine. But because he’s a good bloke , his daughter, now 18, is closer to him than the mother.
In another case I am familiar with two lasses I worked with, aunt and her niece. Niece got up the duff after a one night stand. Aunt told me it was a planned effort as described above. Just before birth, niece resigned and moved to the coast as a single mother with all the perks and the young bloke, with limited income, is on the hook.
The “Consent” laws add another weapon to this predatory behaviour.
Seems to me men have a simple alternative to getting on the hook for child support after a ‘one night stand’.
Is that a yes or no Sancho?
I can’t see, even Labor going to rely on wind solar only in the foreseeable future.
Not to mention mining equals lots of lovely tax revenue.
Great article by Pedro Gonzales, Servant of the Corrupt:
RTWT.
simple alternative
Pre-root castration?
Disclaimer:-This is not advice.
I have a small number of AGL shares (about 1.5% of total holdings).
I reckon there will be a bit of a short term sugar hit because Messiah Mike the Saviour.
Then I sell.
Do I buy Santos.
Not so sure.
“Kneel,
I’m betting a complete refurbishment of Liddell would cost less in the long run than what is coming re electricity.
What’s wrong with it btw?”
It’s just old.
When I was there in the 80’s, they used to run it because it was one of the cheapest ones to run.
They ran it hard, and for as long as they could – even with steam leaks (parts barricaded and taped off with warning signs etc so people didn’t get burnt)
At some point, the concrete structure needs to be replaced, at it has literally been shaken to bits with 50Hz hum. Not sure where Liddell is on that side, but it can’t be too far away. At that point, it’s actually cheaper and better to knock it down and start again. One of the reasons they built Bayswater across the road was so they could decommission Liddell. But Bayswater (2.6GW) needs the coal washed and Liddell (2.0GW) doesn’t, so it costs more to run.
Gutfeld had a great segment a few days ago where a reporter went to a uni with clipboard, paper and pen and asked a whole bunch of uni students “how big a deal is climate change?”
100% of them agreed very important and existential.
She then asked if they’d like to “sign up to a plan” that committed them to no travel by plane or car and no meat (for the rest of their lives). 0% signed.
I think there’s something in that for Dutton… How much do you want to pay for climate? Don’t make it ethereal and about pixies and fairies and trading schemes. Ask the average person HOW MUCH would you pay to “fix” the climate? $100 per month? $200 per month? Sign em up to a plan! Those who do sign up can be “morally superior” 😛
And therefore sovereign over it, if you follow Noel Pearson’s rather tortuous reasoning, as expressed in the Uluru statement.
Dr Faustus says:
May 30, 2022 at 10:47 am
Americans have been fed a steady diet of propaganda about Ukraine “winning.”
Very difficult to pick out any signs of ‘winning’ on any side of the Ukrainian imbroglio. Although I guess if you are rooting for Team Poot, Russian advances in turning Donbas into a sea of mud and shattered concrete will be a bit of a trouser stiffener. An expensive victory but.
Yes, a dreadful mess that has caused much personal suffering not to mention the ruined homes and businesses. The economic cost must be (and will be) colossal for both Ukraine and Russia.
But, I must say I have also been pondering the propaganda aspect recently. Here in the west we have been fed a daily diet about the ‘brave Ukrainians’ defending their patch and inflicting huge losses on the Russian military with very little commentary about Ukrainian losses. Only today I read a report (ok, it was in news.com.au) that said the Russian forces had a mere 7-8 months of military capability available before their resources are exhausted. Complete nonsense, but atypical of MSM reporting.
Except, in the last few days, some small cracks in the very pro-Ukraine narrative are appearing.
President Zelensky commented a few days ago that Ukraine was losing about 100 soldiers per day and the rate of loss was a serious concern. Another report (aired by SBS) was speculating on the imminent fall of Ukrainian defense in a number of towns and painted an unusually grim picture. Yet another report said that Russia was now focussing on ‘grinding down’ Ukrainian forces with relentless (focussed) attacks rather than the former program which saw their military spread too thinly across a much larger area. The initial reporting glee showing destroyed Russian tanks and dead Russian soldiers appears far more subdued than previously.
To be clear, I am not cheering for the Russian military – but it seems to me that the sheer extent of resources the Kremlin is able to mount, in manpower if nothing else, means that a Russian ‘victory’ is inevitable. The west can keep funneling military aid, but that aid needs soldiers and the Ukrainian loss rate appears unsustainable in the long term.
Zelensky is undoubtedly winning the propaganda war and perhaps the Ukrainian forces will triumph. Never say never. But if that isn’t the case, how will the media pivot to reconcile the Ukrainian territory losses in direct contrast to everything they have been previously touting?
For Thorium and MSR aficionados. How the war is helping the nuclear case. 9 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkKDWCshDI
The media can turn on a dime.
Easy to do if you have no principles.
Same goes for the politicians.
Remember Merkel’s shock at Russia’s annexation of the Crimea? “You can’t do that”, she protested.
She then exploited loopholes in the subsequent arms embargo to sell Putin German weaponry.
As did France, incidentally.
It’s Diversity week at my workplace. Am off to my first indoctrination/ presentation this afternoon you filthy racists.
Apologies just practicing for when I get out the other side virtuous and enlightened.
hope you enjoy the anal sex appreciation lessons
“Ask the average person HOW MUCH would you pay to “fix” the climate? $100 per month? $200 per month? Sign em up to a plan! “
The plan should include them agreeing to having their power cut first when Scotty declares “she’s gonna blow”.
Calling a man bald can now be classed as sexual harassment, a U.K. employment tribunal judge has ruled.
Perhaps the “learned” judge thought it was spelled “balled”, and was therefore offensive to “men with a vagina”?
Thanks Kneel.
Dr F
turning Donbas into a sea of mud and shattered concrete will be a bit of a trouser stiffener.
An expensive victory but.
One more such victory, and we are ruined?
Golly, that’s totally weird. Not sacrificing anything at all themselves to save the world? How could anyone expect such a thing from virtuous people like that? Unthinkable!!!
Fortunately for them nothing much is happening except the natural cycles, which has climate propagandist Seth Borenstein confused today.
Weather’s unwanted guest: Nasty La Nina keeps popping up (Phys.org, 28 May)
If these clueless idiots had bothered to look at real climate data not the fake stuff that comes out of the models they’d realize that la Nina predominates during the down phase of the 60 year cycle. The PDO leads the AMO and the overall temperature cycle by about 15 years, which means we’re likely getting close to the end of the current AMO peak. The cooling will flummox the climateers since they ignore the cycle since it caused nearly half of the warming last century (the Sun having caused most of the rest).
Good thread that looks at at least the 10 Generals that Wiki is prepared to claim as provisional KIA. He finds only two confirmed KIAs, the rest either unconfirmed, or confirmed alive.
In Sense of Entitlement news, finally the story about Liz Cabbage’s* hissy fit before the Olympics last year.
Paywalled at the Oz and too long to post here.
Main points.
.1 Cabbage sooked non-stop about promo photos etc leading up to the ‘lympics (not enough POCs front and centre).
.2 Declared herself exempt from team rules. Basketball Straya and the AOC gave her a pass on that.
.3 Got angwy during a practice match against Nigeria in Las Vegas and elbowed a Nigerian player in the neck and head. Just looking at the close up of the injury I suspect sharp fingernails might also have been involved.
.4 More argy-bargy ensued, resulting in one of the Nigerians clocking Cabbage.
.5 Cabbage then launched into a tirade against the Nigerians, telling them to “go back to their third world shithole” and calling them “monkeys”.
.6 After days of damage control by Basketball Straya and the AOC, and a compliant media running dead on it, Cabbage “decided to withdraw from the ‘lympics” claiming she couldn’t have “proper support around her”.
The real story is the fact that this remained a non-story for 12 months. In fact, the only coverage was Cabbage (via their ABC) running off at the mouth with accusations of waaacism against others. It looks like Basketball Straya has belatedly decided to cut her loose, hence the avalanche of stories about her shitty behaviour.
* Basketballer and proud wymmins of colour.
No, I don’t even want to get married in this god forsaken country.
I am not going to gaol from a pissed off ex missus with an axe to grind, my future crime; reciprocating intimacy?
My advice:
Move to a good Catholic, Islam or Orthodox country not infected with woke BS.
Barnaby trumped by Littleproud.
The magnitude of dissonance will be unprecedented.
Ha ha.
I rarely go near an office anymore for the bits and pieces of work I do.
I used to tee up a Very Important Call to coincide with these things.
Some of it was online self-paced learnin’ and a few of us would compete to see who could get through it the quickest. I think my PB was 8 minutes for a scheduled 30 minute session, although some of them had time blockers which prevented you flipping through the “learning material” or video too fast.
The odd detail in this story is that Gambage’s father was Nigerian.
Not present in her life though.
Might be some unresolved “issues” there (not that that justifies her behaviour.)
This exactly. There is absolutely no incentive for a switched on bloke to get involved in a relationship in this country. That’s probably why most of the ones I’ve known have left, in addition to far better opportunities elsewhere.
So, as far as Climate Politics goes, they have replaced Closet Barnaby with Out ‘n Proud Littleproud?
Dutton’s got the job
Former leader Mr Joyce was previously a vocal opponent of a 2050 goal for net zero emissions, but led the Nationals into a net zero agreement with the Liberal Party.
Mr Littleproud said today’s leadership vote was not about “lurching” left or right, but finding the “sensible centre”, and he would uphold the net zero commitment.
“We have made a sensible decision to be part of the global community; the global community asked us to sign up to net zero by 2050,” he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-30/barnaby-joyce-out-david-littleproud-elected-to-lead-nationals/101109494
Barnaby trumped by Littleproud.
Pencil necked former banker.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Ian Plimer who has disproved the net zero bullshit should go and kick fucking littleproud in the nuts; except he has none.
Good news and bad news:
Littleproud trumps Barnaby as Nats’ new leader; Dutton new Libs’ leader
Queensland MP David Littleproud has emerged victorious from a three-way tussle for the National Party leadership, ousting former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce.
After a more than two-hour party room meeting in Canberra on Monday, Mr Littleproud secured the numbers in the room to win the leadership.
“This is the proudest day of my professional life,” Mr Littleproud said.
He said the party would work toward the 2025 election with a “vibrant team”.
“Today we start that journey … with the enthusiasm and energy of knowing that while we held all our seats, there are emerging threats, emerging challenges,” he said.
NSW Senator Perin Davey also won a three-way contest for the deputy Nationals leadership position.
Ms Davey said the new leadership were the “future” of the Nationals party.
“We’ve got three years to make sure we hold the new government to account and to make sure they don’t forget the regions,” she said.
“My focus with David is eyes on the future, with David.
New deputy… Nationals Senator Perin Davey. Picture: Richard Dobson
New deputy… Nationals Senator Perin Davey. Picture: Richard Dobson
“We are a diverse team, but the one thing we are all absolutely unanimous on is the regions are vital for Australia’s economic security going forward.”
Victorian Senator Bridget McKenzie has been re-elected Nationals leader in the Senate.
Former defence minister Peter Dutton was elected Liberal leader on Monday.
Farrer MP Sussan Ley is the new deputy Liberal leader. Earlier, former defence minister Peter Dutton was elected leader of the Liberal Party unopposed. The Queensland MP will be supported by former environment minister Sussan Ley, who was also been elected unopposed as the deputy leader of the Liberal Party.
Former prime minister Scott Morrison welcomed the new Liberal leadership team, describing them as “enormously experienced” and “deeply committed” to the “cause of the nation”.
“They are incredibly experienced, well versed, and are deeply committed Australians to both the Liberal cause and cause of the nation,” he said.
“I think they’ll do an outstanding job and I look forward to giving them my full support.”
Mr Morrison said the Liberal meeting was a “good opportunity” for him to thank his colleagues for their “great loyalty and support” over his time as leader and PM.
He said he also thanked the Liberal MPs and Senators on behalf of former treasurer Josh Frydenberg who was unable to attend having lost his seat of Kooyong at the election.
“We are all very sad couldn’t be with us today and there was a rousing cheer for Josh as their should be,” Mr Morrison said.
“So to him and all the Liberal Party supporters and those out there, thank you very much.
“It’s been a great privilege to lead the federal parliamentary Liberal Party and I handed over to Peter and Susan and wish them all the very best.”
Victorian MP Darren Chester also challenged but did not garner enough support from his colleagues.
On Monday ahead of the leadership meeting Nationals MP Michelle Landry, who’s seat of Capricornia takes in parts of Central Queensland, said she believed the party had “taken the Greens too lightly”.
“I think we really need to revisit our position on some of the key areas of policy and have good discussions with the Liberals on that,” she said.
“Because you can’t have people running off with different agendas, we all need to be on the same message.”
Liberals who lost their inner city seats at the election have argued comments made by several Nationals, including Senator Matt Canavan arguing net zero emissions was “dead” significantly hurt them in the campaign.
Capricornia MP Michelle Landry says the Nationals did not take the threat of the Greens seriously.
Capricornia MP Michelle Landry says the Nationals did not take the threat of the Greens seriously.
Ms Landry said she was also keen to look the women’s issues raised during the election, as she was worried about the increasing number of Australian women in poverty.
“There’s a new poor, women over 50 who have been married and divorced,” she said.
“I will really be fighting for that.”
Meanwhile, Labor will hash out the final details of the Albanese government frontbench, with ministers to be sworn in on Wednesday.
Key positions including treasury, finance and foreign affairs are already locked in, with Jim Chalmers, Katy Gallagher and Penny Wong respectively sworn in last week, but several roles remain unclear.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles is expected to be given the defence portfolio, leaving previous shadow Brendan O’Connor without a role.
He could be made home affairs minister given Kristina Keneally lost her bid to move to the lower house in the seat of Fowler, though NSW frontbencher Jason Clare has also been touted as an option for the important portfolio.
Environment will also have to be filled as Queensland MP Terri Butler lost her seat of Griffith to the Greens.
Labor’s right faction in NSW is also under pressure to put more women into senior roles, with Senator Deb O’Neill a contender for a promotion.
‘Be careful’: Joyce’s warning to McGowan after leadership swipe
Former leader slams Joyce ahead of three-way fight for Nationals leadership
Labor remain just shy of a 76 seat majority as the count in Macnamara in Victoria and Gilmore in NSW continues, with Mr Albanese conceding the party would have to “learn lessons” after its failed bid to parachute former NSW premier Ms Keneally into the once-safe Western Sydney seat of Fowler.
“I think the lessons are very clear that the community sent a message,” he said on Sunday.
The Good News: Peter Dutton is Liberal leader.
The Bad News: David Littleproud is Nationals leader. (it coulda been worse, Darren ‘flaccid’ Chester had thrown his had into the ring)
Statements may be true or false, or socially acceptable or socially unacceptable. Deciding if a statement is true or false requires some work and thought, deciding if it is acceptable or not is much simpler, just ask your mates. The current preference is to stick to acceptable/unacceptable, probably because it’s much easier, and to pretend that acceptable = true. This is much easier in a culture which has never been exposed to the effort of determining truth. Arts graduates and the like.
In the end, truth will out, reality will kill you in a completely disinterested manner, just for being wrong. The gods of the copy book headings, et cetera.
Too many ppl cannot distinguish between social acceptability and truth.
Her behaviour is well known over a long period.
What interests me more is how the lid was kept on this for so long.
The final blow-up happened at a ‘closed session’ practice match.
But there would have been at least 50 people at this ‘closed session’. For twelve months there were only vague hints at what went on. Either fifty people were bludgeoned into silence and/or any on the record comments to the media were not only not reported, but fed back to Cabbage. She is renowned for campaigning behind the scenes to demolish careers of anyone who crossed her (either in reality or in her vivid imagination).
Equally intriguing is that the dam wall has suddenly broken and there are reports surfacing left, right and centre about what went on.
Someone has decided she needs to go under the bus.
And a few dozen vehicles, etc. lost too. Western reports of this war are now at the Comical Ali stage.
Just an example.
Cabbage went on a Twatter rampage last year and ended up getting an opposition coach suspended for one match and fined $10k for saying she weighs 300 pounds.
She weighs about 250 pounds.
Yes, really.
cohenitesays:
May 30, 2022 at 12:54 pm
Ian Plimer who has disproved the net zero bullshit should go and kick fucking littleproud in the nuts; except he has none.
Are you saying that Littleproud is not balled, and thus has little to be proud of?
7 Celsius at 1310, a lovely May afternoon.
Funny how some people say young men are doing this and that because scared of the government while I see lots of young people getting involved in long term relationships, getting married and having families.
I guess it depends on what circles you move in.
The cooling will flummox the climateers since they ignore the cycle since it caused nearly half of the warming last century (the Sun having caused most of the rest).
No, it will have been caused by Labor/Greens’ successful leadership of the planet.
notafan I was told since I started school what a piece of shit I am for being a white male.
You don’t get it.
The sad part of this story is that this war was totally unnecessary. Russia told the Ukraine that they could keep the Donbas and other eastern regions which were formerly part of Russia, just acknowledge Russian sovereignty over the Crimea. The Ukrainians responded by shelling the Russian towns and shooting ethnic Russians living in the former Russian territories, the Azov Battalion say they want to kill all the Russians then kill all the Jews, nice people we’re supporting.
This has been going on for over eight years, the Russians weren’t going to let it continue forever.
This war won’t end till the Ukrainians remove Zelensky and his US State Department sponsors. The Ukrainian Army will have to stage a coup to remove him and make a settlement with Russia. There may be plans for this to happen as it’s been reported that several senior Ukrainian Army officers have been arrested.
In further ALPBC Agitprop News:
Another half baked study riddled with hidden agendas and competing interests.
Will be shown unreproducible in good time, but not until after the parasites have pissed their hoped-for grant monies up against the wall..
“Just let them lie down and rape you”
You need to source this and compare it to the Wagner Group and Dugin.
This is a weird take.
Dot, just find yourself a Jewish only-child daughter whose father runs an orthotics fitting business. Promise to work for the rest of your life as the salesman, with a view to taking over when the old man dies.
You are guaranteed that the daughter will not run off, you will have the chance to father at least 10 children, and the old man has so much cash under the mattress from selling $900 orthotics to crippled grannies that he has to use a ladder to get into bed.
Opportunities are everywhere, you just need to look.
True story btw.
80th anniversary tomorrow of Japs’ attack on Sydney with 21 killed:
https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/underattack/bombed/sydney#:~:text=On%20the%20night%20of%2031,they%20could%20fire%20their%20torpedoes.
The self emasculation of Dutton begins, from the Australian. Perhaps I’m wrong and whenever a Liberal Leader is elected the party has the successful candidate castrated.
“‘I regret walking out of Stolen Generation apology’: Dutton”
“Dutton supports action on climate change ‘in a sensible way’”
Cooling is weather – properly ignored when appraising the need to wipe CO2 from the face of existence.
Warming is climate – key to arguing why we need to wipe CO2 from the face of existence.
What is particularly ludicrous is that there are people out there who still think the whole AGW campaign is about science and about preserving the species from a cataclysm, rather than politics, simply because that is what the AGW fiends are saying. It is like buying something from the supermarket because the wrapper says “Best Value” or “Recommended by 9 out of 10 Doctors”.
Warmies want a world where we all live in ideal little hippy communes.
What they will make is the Dark Ages.
Hmmmm.
Just saw some BBC tv in passing and one family was saying their usual Seventy-One Pound electricity bill was now Two Hundred and Twenty Pounds. Elderly gentleman on benefits in Plymouth gets Six Hundred Pounds a month and now pays Two Hundred Pounds a month electricity bill, bit concerned about being able to afford the rest of his life on the balance.
The Wagner Group is a PMC while Azov is the elite formation within the UAF. Wagner does whatever it is paid to do. Azov is a political grouping within Ukrainian politics. Bringing up Wagner as if it is similar to Azov falls apart once you inspect it.
That was a verbatim quote from a spokesperson for the Azov Battalion which was in the Oliver Stone documentary about the Ukraine.
BRADBURY’s legacy .. How to spend $A2.45million in seven seconds .. gotta luv having APM access FFS!
https://youtu.be/rNvibqG8a2g
Did he say this?
It doesn’t augur well.
Oliver Stone!
What else must we take at his word?!
David Littleproud bio from Wiki if that’s worth anything.
Some interesting points:
– no uni quals – could be a good thing
– voted against same sex marriage
– divorced in 2019; has three kids
It’s catchy, apparently:
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/west-coast-eagles-great-peter-matera-suffers-heart-attack-20220530-p5apm2.html
Littleproud is a weathervane NP wet. Poor fella our country.
Vicki, it’s at the top of the Australian Page.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/
““‘I regret walking out of Stolen Generation apology’: Dutton””
Why?
Upon my reading of their respective early lives, Dutton seems to be the most working class Liberal leader we’ve had in some time…?
Quick, tell Tanya.
On another issue, young Ruby needs to be stolen. Desperately. If she is given a safe home and opportunities she will thrive.
Dot, you must lose the chip. How others frame you isn’t you.
From the Oz.
Tanya and Barnaby were on Seven this morning assuring all of us that they were all “mates outside the Chamber”.
Yes. We guessed that.
Anyone who stayed in the liberal party over the last few years deserves jailing.
Here we see people starting to look at Dutton as the great white hope.
No wonder we are in the shit we are in.
…really should spend more time reading the backgrounds of MPs…
Our new Treasurer has an Arts degree and our Finance Minister was a social worker….
“There are little boys and girls in parts of our country in 2022, in this year, that slept in a shipping container last night to get through the hours of darkness in Indigenous communities, and it’s completely unacceptable.”
Well then the apology did nothing, it was just theatre and he was right to walk out. He’s walking back this and other things, won’t be long till he’s gone full leftard.
Roger:
The simple answer could be that she’s just a nasty little bitch?
Old bloke says:
May 30, 2022 at 1:28 pm
As you know, there have been numerous posts about the ’cause’ of the invasion on the Cat and most will be well aware of the assorted incidents since at least 2014 not to mention the original root causes dating back as far as ex-President Clinton.
But I have to say I just don’t see your comment as realistic. This war won’t end till the Ukrainians remove Zelensky and his US State Department sponsors. The Ukrainian Army will have to stage a coup to remove him…..
Zelensky is the darling of the west standing bravely against the evil Russian hordes – I touched on this issue in my post upthread with the MSM reporting.
What’s more, this is now a proxy war between Russia and USA/NATO and neither side can ‘afford’ to lose, from any perspective. Russia has been preparing for this conflict for years and, since Russia didn’t embrace western capitalism following the fall of the USSR, the west (USA) has been itching for a fight with Russia ever since – except not directly. This war in Ukraine suits the west in many respects – you have probably seen the expression about “fighting to the last Ukrainian” – and I expect the west will funnel arms and financial support to the Ukraine for as long as that takes.
Zelensky’s ability use social media and the MSM is undoubted and whilst some might be unhappy (inevitable), he is overwhelmingly popular and supported as the ‘brave saviour’ both within Ukraine and internationally. A coup against Zelensky is extremely unlikely.
Struth, for a person big on individual freedoms above all else – you make some silly comments.
Would love to see a graphic of Australia gas and electricity prices with a timeline of energy policy developments.
If Cats are up Winton way…go to Lark Quarry. The dinosaur stampede is unique.
The conditions, wet but not too wet, soil type and weather were just right to preserve it. After the event, another flood occurred carrying ironstone in suspension. The ironstone particles dropped and formed a wafer thin coating over the tracks, allowing the layers to be pulled apart aeons later when a farmer started fossicking for opal.
What he found was far more precious than gaudy gems.
Indeed.
But leaving the immediate economic and human costs aside, the strategic costs and implications are huge for all the players.
I’d expect that Russia will end up hoofing out the Ukrainians and annexing the Donbas and the land bridge to the Crimea. Comrade Lavrov seems to be positioning that as the Russian military objective.
But the indirect invoices will keep rolling in for years after.
• Economic dislocation while the EU sorts its energy dependence issues;
• World commodity prices;
• Russia retains pariah status in the West and becomes a CCP client state;
• Increased Russian and NATO military spend on upgrades and replenishment;
• An enhanced arms race – based on faster and ‘better’ tactical nukes.
Emperor Xi and the US military complex might benefit; not so much anyone else.
DB – theirABC have a graphic as such:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-16/clean-energy-target-not-certain-to-lower-power-prices-accc/9052094
Look at the steep curve since Gerbil Warming was announced and the spike with Gillard’s “non” Carbon Tax.. 😛
(Prices fell dramatically under Abbott before taking off again)..
Dot I have several young adult males in my close family.
None of whom are terrified of living their lives, while being properly aware of the challenges of their male privilege.
Now very tempted to join the liberal party.
May God have mercy on the humiliation coming to him if Dutton is pretending to be somebody he is not. Surely Tania hasn’t castrated him that easily. People will trash Liberals further if he wants to fake an AnAL lite or Morrison copycat.
“There are little boys and girls in parts of our country in 2022, in this year, that slept in a shipping container last night to get through the hours of darkness in Indigenous communities, and it’s completely unacceptable.”
Geez, we’d better up the $A30billion .. fer starters, then!
Mother Lode:
They want to revert to a time when 50% of children died before their first birthday of diseases that are now nearly extinct.
What will the women say when the Shaman can’t cure their kids appendicitis and/or a broken leg?
How about Polio? You can bet it will resurface.
Black death?
These idiots have no idea of the disaster they would wish upon themselves just so they can feel good about their decisions.
May God have mercy on the humiliation coming to him if Dutton is pretending to be somebody he is not.
Poor bloke! .. overcome wiv emotion after waiting sooooooo long! .. He’ll be over it by Thursday .. LOL!
That’s nice.
Now tell Jack de Belin he has nothing to worry about.
how will the media pivot to reconcile the Ukrainian territory losses in direct contrast to everything they have been previously touting?
The same way they went from declaring megadeath imminent when a couple of people got the sniffles to blithely reporting the scores of daily deaths reported today
Dutton apparently proceeded to regret (which we all do) the fact that Aboriginal children are unsafe in their own communities.
How many times do we have to say…that “apologies” for supposedly “stealing” children have absolutely nothing concrete to contribute to solving this situation. Nor does acquiescing to an Aboriginal independent “voice” to Parliament?
Yes – much of the appalling situation in remote communities is the product of “whitey” policy. But it was the product of the idiot, guilt-ridden, and totally erroneous policy of Nugget Coombes and his ilk in the 1970s/80s to “return them to country”. This policy created the vile situation of places like Yuendumu and, from what I can see – Wadeye – and many remote Aboriginal communitites like them. They are festering, appalling places of child abuse and useless, aimless lives.
Sorry to be extreme. But it has always broken my heart.
Before I went to law school I personally knew three men who were falsely accused.
One was a step dad. Judge dismissed prosecution mid trial, after the voir dire.
Two was a young guy who wanted a lot of hot young women. A dad and boyfriend found out, no charges, but multiple interviews under caution.
The other bloke was stitched up in a bogus historical child abuse thing, the woman later apologised and went on meds. She had just declared bankruptcy or similar beforehand.
“Just live your life”
Okay, but why are the villagers making that extremely large cane effigy of a man?
And TB, never far away.
Met a couple last week at a scenic lookout (just after spotting a lyrebird on the roadside too !), chatted for 30 minutes, quite fascinating. Bloke was Irish immigrant 60 years ago, best thing he ever did he said. His family was riddled with TB and his own health affected by the calcified lesions in his lungs which were detected because of current cancer treatment.
Even worse, I have heard reported, and in one case said in person to me, older female part-aboriginal women say how pleased they were in retrospect that they were brought up in white care, where they got to learn to read and write and keep house so they have the ability to raise their grandchildren.
That is often the way for those who behave badly.
The “not present” bit I mean. Not “Nigerian” although that also has some correlation.
Wait for the outrage…
Dutton’s press conference accepting Lib leadership had only one flag behind him – the Australian flag.
Do we think David Littleproud is … dare I say it … Ootentially Great?
Doh.
P.
Potentially Great.
que? some people seem to love to make cheap homes out of shipping containers, there’s an entire industry around it. looxury!
Cos Nancy was too smashed herself?
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/29/politics/paul-pelosi-arrested-dui/index.html
God Emporator Xi is up for the challenge!
I didn’t realise that Japan’s (US authored) Constitution forbids the country from offensive wars, and military funds can only be spent on defence!!!
That might be changing soon!
Anal sez, “if it was good enuf for BRADBURY then it’s good enuf for me”
more military aid for Ukraine .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/wM4zfZ2
“““‘I regret walking out of Stolen Generation apology’: Dutton””
Why?”
There was a kick-arse party afterwards?
WOW! There is nothing there that will rally Liberal’s forgotten supporters. Dutton is just a frightened rabbit appeasing leftists.
“Dutton apparently proceeded to regret (which we all do) the fact that Aboriginal children are unsafe in their own communities.”
I don’t feel regret and no one should. I feel anger, we should be angry, about the empty virtue signalling, about the hollow words, about the ridiculous “voice”, about the nonsense about “treaties”, about the endless apologies….meanwhile nothing changes……..3 year old indigenous girls are raped, young indigenous women are bashed black and blue. The reality of indigenous communities, despite the billions of dollars thrown at them, is that they are pictures of squalor and hell.
Where’s the outrage? Oh that’s right, it doesn’t suit the progressive narrative, because you know what, they don’t give a toss about violence in indigenous communities. Just like last year, during the week when some privileged white women were gathering in Canberra to target the Liberal government, trying to politicise the Brittany allegations and planning the Porter allegations, Jacinta Price and some other indigenous women arrived in Canberra to talk about the endemic violence in Aboriginal communities and NO ONE on the left or at their ABC could be bothered talking to these indigenous women.
Aboriginal kids from communities are bloody nocturnal.
None of them sleep at night.
That’s when all the crime happens.
But again, it shows you just how out of touch with the real issues these bleeding heart townies are.
Yep pretty stupid to want the party in government that stole my individual freedoms punished.
Totally hysterical…,what was I thinking?
Dutton stayed in a government and party that imprisoned 26 million people, killed people, with many more deaths to come, destroyed lives, jobs families, restricted movement, and pushed the states to lockdown behingd the scenes.
They shat all over the constitution.
Dutton will be letting you down before long, as he’s already doing with the apology for not apologising….he’s not bright, and he was willing to stay in that party when others like Christensen were not.
They all share the guilt of not opposing what happened and is still happening.
Fucking denialism.
Glyn Conrad Davis
Albo’s first appointment.
One thing is for certain dot you know nothing about my family’s experiences with this and that, and yet as I said, we live our lives.
Dutton is quite right in acknowledging that he should have been better aware of aboriginal disadvantage which is being perpetrated by progressives.
The article top ender shared this morning and the one written by Jacinta Price shared yesterday only reminds us of how horrific life must be growing up in Aboriginal communities, for everyone.
For a fascinating (if disturbing) afternoon read – it is cold and wet here on the farm- the latest contribution in Quadrant:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/05/globalising-elites-and-the-withering-of-democracy/#comment-130952
Rosie, your positive anecdotes about young men are undoubtedly true.
However many negative anecdotes also exist, and young men need to be made explicitly aware of the pitfalls others have faced.
Bettina Arndt is very good at following some of the individual stories of nasty women and institutions attacking young men without just cause.
My anecdote – a young man I knew saw his wife get out of their marriage by filing untrue DV allegations and getting a AVO against him.
He committed suicide after she reported him for breaching the AVO.
He had simply posted a birthday card to his daughter.
Please don’t try and persuade us that because there are some good people, no-one has to worry about the anti-male cloud hanging over society.
I make no benefit in that these laws are anti male, anti human, anti natalist and anti family.
Any man who has no fear at all in these affirmative consent laws must know for certain their wives will never divorce them.
How many marriages end in divorce? How often do men never expect to get divorced to begin with.
Believe me. This will be absolutely rorted with Kennon adjustments.
Like I said. The day will come when ex wives are paid compensation for their former husband’s asking them out on a date, it will be declared sexual harrassment which will be conflated with abuse.
Keep in mind Queensland has life sentences for rape.
Imagine that. Reciprocate your wife’s affection and you can spend the rest of your life behind bars, like the sexual abuser and murderer of Daniel Morcombe.
Australia is a joke of a country and my own sanity prevents me from wanting to live here. Only being deeply rooted in my kith and kin holds me here (thus far).
There is no benefit to these laws. They will not encourage men to marry. That’s absurd. That may be the intent, but if that’s so my lord they duffed that completely.
Lysander, I found out why Nancy’s husband was drunk:
Paul Pelosi, a native of San Francisco, has been married to Nancy Pelosi since 1963