No mention of climate dooming?
Open Thread – Weekend 11 Jun 2022
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Deport them to North Sudan.
No mention of immigration numbers? Perhaps they weren’t asked.
One of the Chaney family has been some use – Wesfarmers shares have paid their dividend!
Someone is shocked that the crocodile ate them out of turn – and not the peasants. Katie is spot on…
Yes
fact check: TRUE
Is it any coincidence that when students were no longer required to pay fees, they started to feel entitled to invade vice-chancellors’ offices and demand control of curricula?
This is from yesterday.
What are our so-called scientists at the CSIRO doing? Not only are they destroying the historical records they are now perverting the present data. The environment simply will not cooperate with their edicts.
We already don’t trust the medical profession now science is being corrupted. Yet these are the same people who sneer at the Catholic Church and its disagreements with Galileo.
With $10 lettuce you can’t afford to let them go black in the crisper like usual.
Charlie?
The other head-shaker for me is naturopathy.
I used to go to a cafe run by two girls who were studying naturopathy.
Both were as hot as, but I don’t think I could live with the batshit crazy stuff 24/7.
@ Crossie
I forget the exact quote but it basically goes along the lines that it is impossible to convince a man of the truth of a proposition if his livelihood depends on his not believing it.
5 o’clock Charlie (St ruth)
According to Latham drug dealers are now growing lettuces.
@Sancho Panzer
Surely you could have done whatever came naturopathically :).
Making money. I have direct experience of this with CSIRO. It’s sad.
Never before in the history of Australia has there ever been such a seam of pure unadulterated gold for scientists as the climate scam has been. I got sent the glossy from my old department after they somehow found me about 30 years after I finished postgrad (begging letters then followed). In the glossy it soon became apparent that almost the entire department is working on climate related crap projects. Chemistry, for heavens sake. None of it is based on reality.
@cohenite
So here we are. Punitive excise rates on tobacco which force people to buy contraband cigarettes have now enabled criminal crime gangs to take over the vegetable supply chain. Government intervention on display.
Ah, right.
No Sermon on the Mount today.
Crossie,
Did some personal research on climate last year and found a lot of records from areas I have lived were no longer available or in italics meaning they were “Not quality controlled” whatever that means. From what I have seen by others like Jennifer they are cooking the books and it is hard not to disagree. Something I am much more familiar with and qualified to comment on is the geological record, that tends to muddy the waters even more when CO2 levels are blamed for temperature increases.
Sancho Panzer says:
June 12, 2022 at 5:23 pm
I remember Peter Brock’s Energy Polariser, which was basically crystal healing for cars. I have no idea if he really believed it or not.
He did.
On climate scams.
I didn’t see Al Gore’s work of fiction, but I recall the promos had a scary hockey stick graph.
Where are we under that curve sixteen years later?
I thought so too Speedbox.
He used to arc up if anyone questioned it.
At least you got lettuce, the local woolies had none of any variety today.
venezuela here we come!
If anyone in the US is wondering where their jobs have gone, the answer is Russia.
Sign me up for some of these sanction thingos.
Half the crap they stock chemists with is new age twaddle, unless the science on ear candles is very convincing.
ah, but it’s politically correct!
Sky News does their weekly tithe to the Murdoch Jr deities.
‘Future of transport has arrived’: Car Next Door CEO discusses platform (12 Jun)
My climate bingo card went ping half way through. Car sharing is a holy doctrine to Gaia second only to very fast trains. Does Sky want no customers? Their self-harm reflex is very strange.
Google engineer warn the firm’s AI is sentient: Suspended employee claims computer programme acts ‘like a 7 or 8-year-old’ and reveals it told him shutting it off ‘would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot’
I don’t understand ear candling.
Do they stick unlit candles in your ears or hold burning ones to them?
Do not stop – is it not funny how you shine?
The goil, being a waterfall. 🙂
Uber is not as good as claimed.
I’ve heard stories about lots of faffing about in inner Melbourne and last minute cancellations, apparently to trigger surge pricing.
Miss Gretchen of the superlative superstructure … 🙂
Speaking of self harm.
Matt Kean questioned about state’s response to energy crisis (Sky News, 12 Jun)
Reading this one my hypocrisy bingo card melted. Amazing.
Never before in the history of Australia has there ever been such a seam of pure unadulterated gold for scientists as the climate scam has been. I got sent the glossy from my old department after they somehow found me about 30 years after I finished postgrad (begging letters then followed). In the glossy it soon became apparent that almost the entire department is working on climate related crap projects. Chemistry, for heavens sake. None of it is based on reality.
ARC grants to climate change over the last 15 years or so have been huge. Some examples:
https://joannenova.com.au/2012/05/700-thousand-dollars-for-believers-to-convert-skeptics-but-nothing-for-skeptical-science/
https://joannenova.com.au/2012/11/is-your-snout-in-the-trough-yet-2/
Complete climate change ARC grants from 2009:
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/money/Climate%20funding-2009.pdf
A great album cover would be the Zepparella ladies distributed over the Giant’s Causeway sans clothing.
Climate hysteria isn’t just anti-scientific bullshit. It’s about self-hatred.
Not just species self-hatred, but personal self-hatred.
Everyone who rejects the actual climate science is (usually a wealthy) self-hater ashamed of his/her good fortune in a wealthy Western society.
Such self-hatred doesn’t occur in Third World societies still primarily preoccupied with providing for its families.
It’s what happens after you stop believing in God and imagine that you yourself are a god. It’s ugly self-worship, better known as narcissism.
Charlie?
Also know as the Gianluca Vialli.
Is LaMDA Sentient? — an Interview
Sancho Panzer says:
June 12, 2022 at 6:26 pm
Brilliant driver but Peter certainly had some ‘oddities’ about him. I suppose we all do in one manner or other.
I have written about Peter’s death which was a singular example of the ‘Swiss cheese principle’ meeting unbridled belief in ones capability. The full story of Brocks tragic end is known to very few.
It has never been posted and perhaps one day I will ask Dover whether it is appropriate Cat material.
Panzer, please explain who these ‘cocksmokers’ are. I must have missed the relevant posts. I need to know if I should pray for their souls or not.
Plenty of atheists and agnostics don’t believe in ‘climate change’.
Where’s the money to build a Nuclear P:ower Industry coming from, Cohenite?
Rabz – a babe for you.
Sultans of Swing metal cover (2018)
On Inflation –
There was minimal money supply growth in the 1970s and 1980s but with high inflation/stagflation. So how come?
There has been a heck of a lot of money printing since the GFC in 2008 and there was NO inflation until recently. So how come?
This recent inflation is being caused by supply side issues (The Virus Lockdowns, killing of Small Business, Red tape, Green tape and Multi-Coloured tape) and not demand side issues. Raising the interest rate will not fix this inflation problem the way that Central Banks want it to. It will fix inflation but at the cost of wrecking the Economy with a Recession/Depression and millions of people out of work and having lost their Homes. Nice work Central Bankers and Policy Wonks.
Fix the supply side issues first. That means allowing the unvaccinated to work and allowing Energy Companies to get on with their work. No more “Ruinables” and then build more Power Stations powered by coal, gas and in time hopefully nuclear.
QED (Quite Easily Done)
The bagpipes be missing, but this is live …
Every single hope we had – shattered! 🙂
But the primary demographic of those who don’t “believe in” climate change is rich Westerners brought up as Christians who now loathe Christianity.
Atheists, in other words.
I’ll bet Klaus Schwab has a crisper full of the stuff.
This also from yesterday.
I can’t stand French toast with maple syrup, it’s just wrong.
I make it by mixing Tuscan seasoning with eggs, dip the bread, fry, eat. Heavenly.
I need to know if I should pray for their souls or not.
I always liked this one when the Vicar at Church says –
“And let’s pray for our soles. Our soles sang in a heavenly voice (arseholes)”…………..Well that’s what it sounded like to me……………..lol
I think Johnny Depp could do awesome Bowie.
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp (11 Jun)
He can sing very well and play the guitar. What more is there to ask of any man?
Are we stupid? Or are we just being treated as if we’re stupid? Which is it? asks Neil Oliver
NSW Treasurer and Energy Minister Matt Kean has been questioned about the state’s response to the energy crisis by Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.
When asked what the state government is doing about power prices, Mr Kean said, “we are speaking to the energy companies to turn the coal-fired power stations back on”.
“If we’re putting more coal into the system at the moment and relying less on gas, that will bring downward pressure on prices,” Mr Kean told Sky News Australia.
Reading this one my hypocrisy bingo card melted. Amazing.
Ignorance meets reality and reality wins. This Kean Plonker has to go as he has NFI.
A taut tummy and magnifique cupcakes … 🙂
#beingabadpersonagain
being the reserve currency, inflation was caused by vast amounts of dollars returning to the US, something to do with the gold window closure from memory.
there has been inflation, primarily in institutional assets as that is where the money was pumped.
the current batch of inflation is being primed by money printing delivered to the general population. see M2
Justin Bieber Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, Haley’s Brain Clot, & The Question We Can’t Ask – Viva Clips
Viva CLIPS!
Owning the original album cover is the sort of thing that could put you on the nonces register these days. Mr Page not available for comment.
Are we stupid? Or are we just being treated as if we’re stupid? Which is it? asks Neil Oliver
John Sheldrick at 7.29 pm
If the NSW Libs wont jettison Turnbuckle – then they won’t touch the mongrel Green (oops – I mean Kean h/t Rowen Dean)
RowAn.
Ed Casesays:
June 12, 2022 at 7:07 pm
Where’s the money to build a Nuclear P:ower Industry coming from, Cohenite?
ARC “grants” for Klimate Change research should be enough to cover the design phase.
Perrottet will be right on to it.
Hey, Miss Planet!
You know I think that you just might happen to be one of the Hottest Bits O’ That in human history, but: The Game needs to be lifted.
Refining your dance moves while presiding over some middling disco reflects not just badly on your fans, but your sweet li’l self.
Lift, Squirette – stop residing in that centre lane.
You’re way so better than that 🙂
the current batch of inflation is being primed by money printing delivered to the general population. see M2
I do not agree with your comment, however, being part of the general population, I await with baited breath for the money printing to be delivered to my bank account.
Just taking a breather and starting to watch Outsiders – follically- challenged Shitlips (Matt Kean) copping shellacking, then up comes the ignoramus-in-chief Jim Chalmers – he soooo looks like Gomer Pyle but not as smart, what a surprise, surprise, surprise.
Rolling on from Sat night raunch to Sunday wholesomeness-
Applying the snog-marry-bury matrix, Emily Barker is a keeper.
Gorgeous song, gorgeous take. Swings the lyric melody and groovy restrained guitar.
Kamikaze (2000).
Live wires, the both of them.
Wally – seriously?
https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/109387/moogoo-natural-skin-milk-udder-cream-200g
China kept the lid on inflation for the last couple of decades. Certainly for most consumer and manufactured goods. That won’t be the case for the next couple going forward as most countries seek to decouple from Xi.
Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán blames financier Soros for Ukraine crisis — RT EN
Why am I not surprised.
Snicker. Those deportment classes was money well spent then.
Rabzsays:
June 12, 2022 at 7:50 pm
Wally – seriously?
Get thee behind me, disco chick-peddling temptation Satan
Not having it, Squire – time for some serious cuteness … 🙂
Havin’ it …
The disco chick du jour, Mizz Dua Lipa
Highly recommend the album, it leaves off all the cross-promotional “feats”, and is a disco banger tho it does close very badly with a “all men are rapists” brainfart.
She’s a snog… maybe a bury, there’s something unlovely with the Fran Drescher head and dead Elvis eyes. Great frame tho.
Actually listening to her track I thought it really needed big resonant guitar. Maybe, in another life, I could mix tracks for hot ladies.
Speaking of hot ladies, the hottest of them all doing her most eccentric single. Serious piano.
Yes, Anastasia (1994)
And, following one of my custom tangents-
John Squire, once of the Stone Roses. B-side, written after Hopper painting.
Ignore the croak, stay for the sublime riffy middle eight.
When not wanting a goil clad in a short skirt and a long jacket … 😕
Where’s the money to build a Nuclear P:ower Industry coming from, Cohenite?
From out of your arse and other leftie suppositories.
there’s no room left in my arse
it’s so chock full of green dollars
Tori trumps them all, Bruce.
That Toerags session was a single mic exercise for young Emily.
This is another, boozy portside murder ballad style.
If you are ever whithin cooee of seeing Emily Barker live, get there. Amazingly subtle and moving performer. If she was anything other that a folk wonk, she’d be famous.
took the shirt off his back
the eyes from his head
and left him for dead …
She’s hot and crazy alright. I was disappointed with the sound quality of that official track, so much so I went and found the CD and played it just now on my PC. Wasn’t age doing its thang on my ears, clearly better and crisper. YT music is awful quality, even from the artists themselves.
Speedbox says:
June 12, 2022 at 7:04 pm
16th anniversary of Brock’s passing coming up this year, Speedbox. An appropriate opportunity to publish?
Ron DeSantis: ‘Bidenflation’ Report Is ‘Brutal’ for American Families
The New York Times turns on Biden
This is a fun topic. The Stone Roses are awesome. The thing though is the band is better than the artists who make it up. Mr Squire is OK, but not as good as the Stone Roses together.
One of my favourite tracks is Judith by A Perfect Circle. After the success of the track the lady bass player and the lead guitarist both did their own albums. Which are very ordinary. At least though, as a result of this single they got their chances, which is no bad thing.
A Perfect Circle – Judith (2000)
Bespoke:
They still transmit that stuff?
Something to warm your blood on a cold winter’s night. There have been many great versions of this song, but this is by far my favourite.
SHEIK OF ARABY by Eddie Condon with Jack Teagarden 1944
Django Reinhardt – The Sheik of Araby
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Bearesays:
June 12, 2022 at 4:12 pm
Very good post, Elizabeth.
Millennials won’t comprehend jazz at all, I suspect.
The January 6 Circus will help fix that.
https://chinadialogue.net/en/digest/wind-and-solar-projects-banned-from-freshwater-bodies/
Not so holy to the CCP.
Speedbox, I’d be very interested to read your Peter Brock essay. A gifted by rather quixotic character. I was always a fan of his great rival, Allan Moffat.
Around the time of the Polarizer controversy Bill Tuckey published “The Rise and Fall of Peter Brock”. Absolutely fascinating. Tucked often had inaccuracies in his books, bur he wrote beautifully.
“Tuckey” and “but”. He wrote beautifully, me not so much.
Paz Lenchantin.
Good get, Bruce.
Seventy years of bullshit, peoples.
.1 A new ice age
.2 Acid rain
.3Hole in the ozone layer
.4 Gerbil worming
Same as it ever was … 😕
Peter Brock was a god.
He was a Collingwood supporter.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/largest-us-pork-packer-closing-california-plant-citing-high-costs-and-red-tape_4527574.html?utm_source=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2022-06-12&utm_medium=email&est=BLpw1QBSAZGx0ue18QNc1hU3GcH6Y5zAPAWZLPn1sHc1oNmZgKkkQQb%2FsSBLzJ18
Really?
Most of the “oil shock” was plain old currency debasement.
If supply side issue make prices go up, it isn’t inflation.
It’s negative economic growth.
Peter Brock was a god.
He was a Collingwood supporter.
I’m from Sydney. What’s Collingwood?
Ducks, incoming…
I’m glad I WAS on a tractor in the freezing westerly wind today. 🙂
Who’s Peter Brack?
Charlie Christian – The Sheik of Araby
David Byrne is a sort of musical John Cleese.
I’ve been doing 13 minutes of a stainless steel National guitar and a mahogany Fender. The transition is magical, sibilant to honey. The guy can play.
The Sheik of Araby – Zez Confrey Piano Roll
BoN – the afghan hounds of guitars …
Roaring 20s: California Ramblers – Sheik Of Araby, 1921
With gorgeous drawings.
Someone’s already played the PJ Harvey card… scrummy chick, brainy enough to get down on a knee for.
Stomper. This was the moment that she invented the “vertical cleavage” that should have you re-thinking your Wolf Alice myopia, Rabz.
Handled a rosewood Tele once. Not a Telecaster fan at all, but the neck had been skinned a bit to reduce the weight, and it was a beauty.
Lusty.
Really?
Most of the “oil shock” was plain old currency debasement.
If supply side issue make prices go up, it isn’t inflation.
It’s negative economic growth.
It’s the old and still true simple supply and demand thingy. There is an Energy and Food shock happening right now. Prices of just about all commodities are going up faster than incomes. And it isn’t being caused by the growth of the money supply although that doesn’t help matters.
Not happy reading.
Developmental Disorders in Babies born to Vaccinated Mothers?
Rabz – I was given an acoustic when I was about 13, by a step-mother. A princely gift. She and I fell out later unfortunately. But then that guitar didn’t gel for me, it was like a beautiful painting. To be admired but not thought of as a tool. Perhaps it was because ours was never a musical household, we never had the radio on. While it was something I had a bit of a gift in myself it didn’t go anywhere, and I had no one to explain to me or teach me what to do with this six-stringed magical creature, and I had no music surrounding me to be attracted to.
Looking back to those days it’s like describing a blind man who can now see. Today I’m too old to want to do the hard work, though I have the time. A lost chance. It’s why I like this sort of music though.
This one’s for Western Australian Cats,
Carmen Lawrence – remember her? – has just been given a award in the Queens Birthday Honors list….
June 12th.
On this day in 2016, an FBI informant killed 49 people in a night club in Florida.
There was not a single congressional hearing into the FBI’s connection to the perpetrator.
There is no justice in this world
Penny Easton was unavailable for comment.
Wally – that’s a seriously aesthetically pleasing Tele, Squire
Yes, Wally – she be very scrumptious. The translucent skin, the jet black hair, the micro minis while wielding a B&W Tele, got me every time.
Very unusual looks to boot. No wonder the Cave wrote a whole album of songs about her.
The SRC at Sydney Uni had a wizard on the staff. Can’t remember his name. 1970 or thereabouts. That was about when the rot set in for education. Gone downhill ever since.
Was he/she/it the Pinball Wizard?
https://youtu.be/4AKbUm8GrbM
Surrogacy just is the commodification of poor women and children.
.5 cut yr dick off
.6 eat the bugs
.7 peace on earth
.8 repeat
Rabz, I’ve always loved the quirkiness of PJ. Is this Desire and the Stories albums are also outstanding.
Matrix, you forgot live in a pod and you will own nothing.
exist in a pod
own nothing
and be happy, or else …
I just loved the sexiness, Squire.
#beingabadpersonagain
dover, I already live in a pod
and I noted carefully what you said about beveled tiles
We are discoursing about Glittering Prizes
Again. 🙂
turns out that I’ve pissed off the lesbians
today was a Mushroom tour in Moorooduc followed by a luncheon
last night I got the sms from the daughterer about respect my pronouns
I may have been abrupt in response
so they didnt come
$260 of fuck you too
never negotiate with terrorists
The instrumental – for when you just have to don a white Levi’s jacket and the matching boxing boots … 🙂
turns out that I’ve pissed off the lesbians
The Latin name for a Lesbian is “StrapADickToMe”
“Surrogacy just is the commodification of poor women and children.”
Yes.
Bill Tuckey was a great motoring writer, but was overshadowed by Romsey Quints. 🙂
Wish I still had my Dad’s copy of The Rise and Fall of Peter Brock. Would be worth rereading. Booko.com.au reports used copies starting from $30.00.
Caught Money for Nothing on the wireless this afternoon. Given it’s pride month, I hoped they would play the original edit, but they didn’t. The lyrics had a certain accuracy.
(Not talking about the Momma, got it stickin’ in the camera line…)
never negotiate with mcterrorists …
Peter Brock also made it into golfing lexicon.
When your pill lands right next to a tree – I mean touching it – and said tree is between you and the hole, allowing you absolutely nowhere to go, you are said to have completed a Brocky.
Brocky = dead, up against a tree.
Not that there’s anything wrong with bundles of wood.
“In religion the ego manifests as the devil, and of course no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.” -Dr. Deepak Chopra M.D.
I imagine such sentiments are, er, polarising for Brock fans, KD?
Sacré bleu- someone find me the nearest bunch of McTerrorists, quick smart 😕
Well – potentially, but it is what it is. Maybe his crystals burned out.
unless they’re trustees, your children are all terrorists
I really wasn’t bagging Peter Brock.
He was an unusual cat, no doubt about it.
I do wonder whether his balls to the wall style which served him so well on the track ultimately killed him in free-range rally driving.
So many more unpredictable variables which maybe requires the driver to take the edge off just a bit.
sancho, that’s the shittest car story you ever constructed.
one of the Hottest Bits O’ That in human history 🙂
Yo!
Grate – it’s Pupkin time!
Miss Laydee …
Soviet Grey Levi’s Jacket Time …
There’s a song playing
on the radio …
The greatest guitarist of his generation, expounding …
The 355 …
Walmarts reporting that it has an inventory glut and will take a few quarters to clear. How’s that impact inflation then if inflation is a phenomena of too much money chasing too few goods?
John Spooner.
Mark Knight on the inflation dragon.
Warren Brown.
David Rowe.
Culture of violence in remote communities drives attacks on Indigenous women
ROSEMARY NEILL
A high-profile crown prosecutor says a major factor in the domestic violence epidemic afflicting Northern Territory Indigenous women is an “enculturation of violence” on remote communities.
In a rare and candid interview, Victorian Senior Crown Prosecutor Nanette Rogers, one of the nation’s most experienced criminal barristers, said resolving the Territory’s family violence crisis required “profound change’’ to address such violence, which was “predominantly male-on-female”.
“It’s really trying to change that enculturation of violence; that culture of entitlement to assault or using violence on any person.’’
Ms Rogers also said some “remote communities tend to be very punitive towards a victim or someone who has helped a victim or sought help from the police’’.
On such communities, victims of domestic abuse had sometimes “been punished by their family members as well as the perpetrator’s family members” for reporting such crimes.
Ms Rogers is the former Central Australian prosecutor who stunned the nation in 2006 when she spoke out about horrific cases of physical and sexual abuse of Aboriginal children and women. She also spoke about how a male-dominated Indigenous culture and kinship connections had helped to create a conspiracy of silence.
Her revelations led to the 2007 report Little Children Are Sacred, which was followed by the Howard government’s contentious NT Intervention.
Ms Rogers, who left the NT almost nine years ago, said she was shocked by how little things had changed for Indigenous women from remote Territory communities in recent decades.
“What is disappointing for me is that nothing’s changed,’’ she said. “That is the takeaway point for me. I find it shocking that nothing has changed.
“… My understanding is that the violence towards Aboriginal women and children by Aboriginal men continues unabated.’’
Remote communities, Ms Rogers said, could be “extremely unsafe” for Indigenous women.
She was responding to comments by NT Supreme Court judge Judith Kelly, who said last week that Aboriginal women in remote communities remain trapped in an epidemic of violence caused by disadvantage and intergenerational abuse, and a culture that privileges the rights of perpetrators over those of victims.
Justice Kelly wept as she described cases in which women who had tried to flee violence were effectively kidnapped and endured beatings and rape on outstations.
“I just want people to know what’s happening to Aboriginal women,’’ she said, as she argued they were bearing the “absolutely dreadful” brunt of society’s failure to address high levels of welfare dependency, substance abuse and other problems on far-flung Indigenous communities.
Ms Rogers agreed that better education and more jobs for men and women on remote communities were needed to help build individuals’ self-esteem. She added: “On top of that you’ve got this enculturation of violence that is predominantly male-on-female.’’
Ms Rogers has conducted successful prosecutions against Victorian murderer Adrian Basham, who killed his estranged wife in 2018, and sexual sadist Jaymes Todd, who raped and murdered aspiring comedian Eurydice Dix-on in Melbourne in the same year.
Ms Rogers said that since she left the Territory, she had noticed a change in “the judicial language” used there, with some judges and magistrates more likely to call out “toxic” relationships between perpetrators and victims, especially if a perpetrator had abused his partner for years before severely injuring her. “Judicial officers are much more prepared to say it doesn’t matter whether you are an Aboriginal person or not; this is unacceptable,’’ she said.
“It must be really soul-destroying as a judge from the bench to see time and time again these horrific acts of violence that never stop.’’ She said that for such judicial officers “there must be a point at which you go ‘This is outrageous, no matter how liberal my attitude is towards Indigenous people and the Indigenous cause’.’’
According to a 2017 NT government report, Indigenous women in the Territory are 40 times more likely than non-Indigenous women to be hospitalised following family violence assaults. The same report quotes an NPY Women’s Council estimate that Aboriginal women from the NT, South Australia and Western Australia border region are about 60 times more likely to be murdered than non-Aboriginal women.
In a three-part series, The Australian recently revealed how a young Aboriginal woman, Ruby, was raped and bashed by her father in Yuendumu in Central Australia, and then forced to leave the desert town after he was jailed.
Last year, another NT Supreme Court judge, Justice Jenny Blokland, called on the NT government to address a potential, emerging pattern of sexual assault victims “being incidentally punished in their home communities through a form of banishment’’.
She made this remark while sentencing 32-year-old Simeon Riley, who pleaded guilty to raping an adolescent girl he had kidnapped and kept as a sex slave for several weeks in 2005. During that time, the girl, then aged 13 or 14, was kept in one room, sexually assaulted and forced to urinate and defecate through a hole in the floorboards.
The judge added that the victim of this “chilling” crime, who came forward to police in 2018, had been further punished as she felt she could not return home. The judge urged leaders from the girl’s otherwise “well-functioning” community to “seriously” reflect on that.
Justice Kelly also described a culture within some remote Indigenous communities that protected perpetrators of violence rather than their victims, and Ms Rogers said this was a longstanding problem. She said courts had traditionally assumed that when a victim of violence left the NT “that it’s a choice’’. But she said often, “their lives have been made so unlivable’’ and so “horrible and difficult” they have no choice “but to leave”.
In the wake of Justice Kelly’s remarks, Indigenous academic Marcia Langton called for a permanent group of experts to advise the federal government on how to improve safety for Indigenous women and children. Professor Langton argued that “lives are being lost while people in the women’s safety sector dither about irrelevant issues’’.
Ms Rogers said that like abuse victims in the wider community, some Indigenous women were torn between love and hate for an abuser. They could also have mixed feelings about their own relatives, whom they loved but who might have banished them for reporting abuse.
“It’s a double burden for those who have to leave,’’ she said, as they dealt with their violence-related trauma and being exiled from close relatives – sometimes including a mother or grandmother. “It’s an enduring situation – the woman has to leave, never the man … in that way, it’s not unlike any other culture.’’
Ms Rogers said domestic violence on remote NT communities was often intergenerational, with a father being sentenced for acts of violence and his son coming before the same judge for similar crimes 15 years later.
She said the unacceptably high levels of abuse endured by Indigenous women on such communities was not adequately acknowledged by the wider community.
Most people who live in Sydney or Melbourne “have never been to the Northern Territory. Most people have never been to a remote community. Most people have never met an Aboriginal person.’’
Oz
Bob Moran.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
No chance the Rats rigged the 20 election. None, Zero, zilch.
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll
Depends on the goods stored, maybe nobody wants them.
That’s what I don’t understand about the Says’ (spell) law/principle some economists are pushing.
Fine, you have to have goods to sell before people can buy, but if you produce unwanted crap, what good is it?
Good market research is most important.
LOL!
Thanks Tom
Sure it depends on the goods. But I’m not a magician, but I can say that Walmart is a pretty decent marker for how the average consumer is doing. It’s not perfect, but it’s decent. Walmart also said the glut was broad based.
Rent-a-uterus.
Big industry in Ukraine, along with Organ “donation”, so i’ve read.
Yeah, retailers aren’t moving stock because consumers are either holding on to their money or the bank is getting it by way of mortgages.
The rassie suff is here.
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1528755758338293762
Also, if fatboy says there’s no legal proof of any cheating then show the donut eating imbecile this.
No legal evidence of any cheating? See here
https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1532360212224647175
Okay, Mr. Ed. So where is the inflation rate heading then?
You mean goods are getting dearer, right?
I’d say the price of everything outside of Meat/Bread/Milk has at least doubled in the last ten years.
The only thing left is remove the welfare and step back. All other interventions will only prolong the agony.
Trump led his supporters up the garden path, then left them for dead.
Many are rotting in jail awaiting Trial.
His 3 Supreme Court Nominees are duds, he spent $100 million promoting LGBTI+ in Africa and the reality of the steal is that Biden’s guys stole more than Trump’s guys.
Every Election since 1980 has been a joke anyway, when Reagan stole the Election from Carter with the help of the Deep State and America started to be dismantled.
95 meat, egg and milk processing plants burnt down this year, some clown last night was asking for more evidence before any conclusions are arrived at.
There’s no agony, you clown.
The State has declared War on the Aboriginal Family, they’re going after Aboriginal men.
Some stupid bitch says no other Culture banishes people who have gone to the cops over sexual abuse.
I could think of a couple off the top of my head.
Grader.
bespoke says:
June 13, 2022 at 4:56 am
You are scraping.
Running out of food?
“Killer Whales” Killer whales spotted for the first time killing blue whales
This from a commenter on Andrei Martanyov’s blog:
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With all the horrendous violence against women and children in remote aboriginal communities you would think the feminist collective would be springing into action to demand changes but their focus and actions are aimed in a different direction. We must all acknowledge and bow to this superior culture. We must put a panel of professional aborigines in parliament to advise and override the parliament.
None of our betters care a whit about suffering indigenous women and children, their aim is power over the rest of us. It seems the indigenous women and children are not only deemed disposable by their monstrous menfolk but by the inner city feminists as well.
Ergo, feminists are the same as violent men, results of both groups’ actions and inactions are injured and/or dead women and children.
We mustn’t talk about any of this or it will ruin everything.
WordPress eats up YouTube shows from Belgium.
Very odd.
We have had a lot of bleating about The Stolen Generations yet victims of indigenous male violence are exiled from their communities to protect the perpetrators. How will these victims be known in future? The Expelled Generations?
“My understanding is that the violence towards Aboriginal women and children by Aboriginal men continues unabated.’’”
A resident expert will be along shortly to tell us the real problem is female on female violence in Aboriginal communities.
Barring currency debasement, it is negative economic growth.
Let’s say you were abducted by perverted left wing professors as an adolescent and actually believe in demand pull and cost push inflation.
What causes the shifts in demand and supply?
Something like the Ukraine war means the production function for all goods globally is temporarily and permanently constrained. That means there is negative economic growth.
Does Russia and Ukraine not planting a major agricultural commodity with no close substitute* (industrially, it is the best food oil for food preparation) temporarily and permanently lower global GDP?
Yes.
Does it look like inflation and happen at the same time?
Yes.
Can the fall in supply increase demand for the commodity and substitutes? Yes.
Is that inflation? No, it is a decline in real wages due to lost and future permanently lower production.
As for gluts, sure, you can have them if people stop spending discretionary income and there has been malinvestment.
Malinvestment can permanently lower GDP. You cannot always recover land a useless factory has been built on without intensive redesign or demolition work.
The idea we didn’t see inflation until March is dubious, asset price inflation was at least keeping up with CPI and commodities already were high, tin reached an (at the time) all time high about a year ago. Yes it is probably also indicative of a commodity shortage of sorts but why do metal prices increase anyway? Why does investment in productive sectors fall?
Easy credit vis a vis cheap money and currency debasement both increases the nominal value of real assets and diverts production away from capital goods. Capital goods (capital which produces capital) drive the ability of the whole economy to continually maintain and increase real wages.
Sorry, I am not nit picking. This is extremely important. 🙂
How can you create real jobs in very remote communities?
Mining, agriculture, tourism?
I’m not seeing any real solution outside closing then down, that is government refusing to underwrite the continuation of their miserable existence.
He’s being a shit. He knows there is mountains of evidence.
Produce a probanda and he will call it a conspiracy theory.
I hope society rots on this CIA planted garbage.
*Hahaha, this NFT isn’t worthless, that’s just a conspiracy!*
*Hahahaha, I haven’t joined a cult, that’s just a conspiracy!*
And I’d like Aboriginal men dealing with the appalling situation in their own communities before telling the rest of us what to do.
‘The Voice’
Serious question.
Can I clean enamel bakeware with baked on, carbonised lamb fat and spices?*
Sorry, my white Anglo Saxon Christian heroes.
It was ethnic slop (a rack of lamb smothered in harissa).
*Without effectively destroying it.
Poland is having a slight problem with banning Russian coal imports.
Admits, it was a premature and rush decision and now they permit gathering wood in state forests for domestic and some industrial use.
Going back to the dark ages are we?
Where is that mining engineer guy working in Poland?
Shed some light on this.
What’s “enamel bakeware”?
Dot says:
June 13, 2022 at 6:09 am
To try.
Then buy a new one.
That would be a compound rise of 7%. I doubt it Mr. Ed.
Fucking unbelievable. The demented pig got away with it.
Georgia was straight out fraud.
Inventories are a pickle aren’t they JC.
Within two years we’ve gone from just in time fulfilment with global supply chains (thanks BCG & McKinsey) to corporates punting on what inventories to overstock until they can diversify or localise more production.
Went for a walk in the forest yesterday evening. Quite a few Murray pines down due to a wind storm, most tipped over roots and all, some snapped off part way up the trunk.
Next weekend Little Johnny and I are going logging! Anyone know how much excess length I should leave on floorboards? eg. If I’m shooting for 3.2m or 3.6m lengths, how much to I add on?
Also, any experience with end grain sealers?
Try soaking it in clothes washing detergent rather than kitchen detergent.