Once again the Oz, multi-layered, justice system at work .. it’s not what you do but who you know that…
Open Thread – Tues 19 July 2022
Thanks Tom.
Ben Garrison.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
Once again the Oz, multi-layered, justice system at work .. it’s not what you do but who you know that…
Thanks Tom.
Ben Garrison.
Tom Stiglich.
Gary Varvel.
He he, that’s me.
Zipster:
This will be what the laws introduced in Victoria were all about.
Coal, gas and electricity is taking us into new places.
Only an idiot, or a traitor, would surrender our greatest competitive advantage: cheap and abundant energy.
Alas, there’s been no shortage of either type on both sides of politics over recent decades.
Dayum.
Hit the button too quickly.
… Anyone want to bet which Religion/Lifestyle growers/abattoirs won’t be hit?
Just to prove that he’s an idiot, Prince Harry (the Ginge part of the Whinge and Ginge show) has denounced the US Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe Vs Wade as an attack on democracy. How does it supposedly undermine democracy? By returning to elected legislatures the law-making powers that an unelected and unaccountable judiciary had stolen from them by manufacturing so-called constitutional principles out of their fundaments.
You don’t end up with aluminium smelters on your doorstep without bloody cheap electricity at some point.
“You cannot be Sirius!!
It is a faithful recounting of contemporaneous letters, reports and speeches from the day.
FMD.
Of course some of the content might be racist. The war was fought, at least in part, over slavery, for fuck’s sake. Surely people in 2022 are capable of watching it without reaching for the white hood and wooden cross.”
Sadly I am. Apparently we’re not to be trusted because as we’re toxic whities be indeed reach for the white hood and wooden cross. General Robert E. Lee was a remarkable man, a very decent man, the epitome of southern chivalry. He was a Virginian before he was an American…..a firm believer in state rights. He personally knew slavery was wrong but the south was economically dependent on it.
Burns’ Civil War remains one of the my favourite historical series of all times, along with The World at War. A few years ago the History Channel repeated it but that was before the summer insurrection of 2020 so I suspect we won’t see it on our screens for a long time.
We live in sad times.
What’s that site again that gets around paywalls?
If you pile incompetence on top of self-hatred, you have a national economic crisis.
Australia has substituted engineers for ideologues. It’s no surprise we have no solution to our energy problems when we are expecting people who have achieved nothing in their lives to provide reliable electricity.
I think it’s this one Dover.
Have the whole series on DVD.
Can’t match Sir Laurence Olivier’s dulcet tone.
I preferred it when you switched on the lights without knowing what AEMO did. Or even that it existed.
The Australian Constitution was drawn by men who had seen a war fought over States Rights…
Like all recent change, it is an alliance between the elites – in this case ADF leadership and politicians – and the media, that is driving this self-defeating garbage. Don’t forget it was ADF itself that launched the ridiculous Brereton enquiry that has morphed into the Office of the Special Investigator. Set up by the SFLs, these arseholes have $40 mil and 80 ‘investigators’ looking into charging 19 warriors for doing their duty in Afghanistan, including BRS.
So far, after four years of Brereton and two years of the OSI, not one digger has been charged. Obviously they are waiting for BRS’s defamation trial to end before they make their next move. Regardless of how the judge rules in that case, I can’t see how they could get a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. That being said, look what happened to George Pell.
Disgraceful and sad times.
The ABC ran The World at War on Sunday nights when I were a young lad, a proper young lad. I remember watching it and going ‘fucking hell’ at the unsanitised* footage and stills, simultaneously developing a healthy respect for what people and industry can do once focused.
*Far more sanitised than some of the other footage would have been, but still remarkable for public TV at the time.
Thank you, Calli. That’s the one. However, it didn’t help. I’m trying to get a look at this story. British papers are running interference for two women that poisoned their child at 24 and 25 weeks that are currently being prosecuted. They are completely ignoring that children in their 7 month born premature are often the focus of extended and intensive care in hospitals. Beasts.
Calli:
They’ve taken a leaf out of the Islamist playbook.
Demand concessions because ‘special’. Then the demands never stop because the specialness doesn’t.
The decision to allow exceptions isn’t the end of it – it’s the first step on the way to the next round of demands.
Wodger:
I have a horrid feeling we are going to see cheating from the Democrats so blatant, and the response from the voters so violent as to allow the imposition of Martial Law.
Scary as.
“It might be time to give Ken Burn’s “The Civil War” a re-run.
Good film-making and story telling never suffers with age.”
…..
Last I heard it’s been cancelled. Sadly I doubt it will ever be re-run.
I think you can stream it directly from the PBS website.
Winston refer to my Arizona comments earlier today.
if they hadn’t stacked the military, a coup is in order
As a Westworld watcher, I’ve put up with some real shit.
After series one it’s been hit & miss.
But then boom, this week’s episode part way into series four is a cracker.
Pure Nolan.
The Australian Constitution was drawn by men who had seen a war fought over States Rights…
Looks like a better option give the current level of shitness.
Dr John Campbell has just posted a video that lacks all critical thinking.
In that case, he’s joined a big club.
Worksafe insider told me that they just had a “black tie” dinner for Melbourne based staff last week.
Open bar. Within 2 hours they had drunk all available spirits and the venue had to urgently order more.
They were all fucking maggotted and were a complete disgrace.
Animal Farm?
You’re fucking living in it!
And without thinking “Fuck! How much is this costing?”
“I say, Panzer?”
“Yes, old bean”
“Which catching pen is the gents this year?”
Worksafe are okay with employers holding work parties where everybody guzzles hard spirits & gets rolling drunk.
Useful info. Thanks.
‘Bern at 7:55.
Thanks for the tip.
Magistrate agrees that corrective services has hindered Aussie Cossack’s access to legal services…
(Yes, we’re a third world shit hole)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJjprqOVzE
“It might be time to give Ken Burn’s “The Civil War” a re-run.
Good film-making and story telling never suffers with age.”
….. Last I heard it’s been cancelled. Sadly I doubt it will ever be re-run.
It’s available on most of the “pirate” download sites .. LOL!
Ah the old ‘report the prediction as fact’ strategy … then never retract when it doesnt reach the number.
This is no B&S or ute muster.
Civilised facilities have been installed.
Most of my helo flights in the sandpit were with the doors back or off …. affording a pretty decent view out….
A canvas screen and a bowl of potpourri?
Nobody needs to know any more than this.
I had the same experience in the Canberra lockup … they give you a pamphlet advising you that you can meet with counsel anytime… then ban ftf visits due to ‘covid’ and also obstruct/ignore your requests to phone same. After my initial legal aid ‘representation’ on day 1, I didnt get to speak to a real lawyer until day 6 in solitary.
You wouldn’t understand without lived experience or Gender-Science qualifications
Yes. A rather large elephant wandering around bumping into things and it gets studiously ignored, although there was a little barb from him at the end re the ivermectin.
Apropos of Sancho’s despicable & downright slanderous remarks earlier.
For the information of Mr. Panzer Biggles Takes it Rough, the title of the 77th Biggles book published, may not be an accurate indication of the adventures depicted therein.
Reading the stuff on Ken Burn’s Civil War & mention of Robert E Lee reminded me of a Power Point presentation and a piece I wrote for a CW site a dozen years ago ….. can’t put the PP up (not sure how) and the original site is now gone but this is the written part of the finale ..
The Myth of the Lost Cause
Following the defeat of the Confederacy and to lift the morale of a shattered people momentum gathered to enshrine the Myth of the Lost Cause which would transform the Southern soldier living and dead, into a veritable hero. In order to come to terms with defeat and a look of failure in the eyes of God, Southerners mentally transformed their memories of the antebellum South. It became a superior civilization of great purity which had been cruelly brought down by the materialistic Yankees.
At the head of this revival was the memory of Stonewall Jackson, closely followed by Robert E. Lee (who would rise to the prominent position following his death in 1870). Other generals of the Confederacy who had died during the war followed, as did those who would pass on later.
D.H. Hill, a friend of Longstreet published LAND WE LOVE, a magazine devoted to Literature, Military History and Agriculture. In 1869 Hill sold out to a Baltimore periodical, NEW ECLECTIC, which in the same year became the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE, official organ of the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. In 1871 it changed its name to the SOUTHERN MAGAZINE and together with a later periodical, SOUTHERN BIVOUAC kept the memory of the War alive and fresh in the public mind. Filled with poems and stories of loyalty to the LOST CAUSE sent in by veterans. Hill was Stonewall Jackson’s brother in law and he filled the magazine with stories, anecdotes and poems of the now legendary
general. Other Confederate heroes received their share of attention from a flood of material supplied by readers commemorating Southern dead and using religion to explain the defeat. Book – writing was prolific in the ‘70s & ‘80s mainly from veterans but much on the romanticism of the Cause from women.
The most prominent of the writer of the period was John Esten Cooke, who was related by birth and marriage to virtually all the prominent families of Virginia he helped enshrine the Confederate dead into chivalric knights and symbols of the LOST CAUSE. Cooke’s impressive literary output polarized Southern perceptions of the War transforming the stigma of defeat into a badge of honour that Confederate veterans could wear proudly. His portrayal of the War as a wonderful adventure, in which participation was an honour.
When Lee died on 12 Oct. 1870 he was one of a significant number of Confederate heroes running second to Jackson. Lee’s prominence changed quickly though when a group of his former staff officers and subordinates set about enshrining his memory in Southern history. Lee’s admirers built up Lee by attacking Longstreet and implying that he (Lee) was Jackson’s closest friend. Once the faults and failures Lee had been criticised for during the war were shifted to Longstreet. Lee emerged as a sort of snow-white, pure hero that Southerners embracing the rationale of the LOST CAUSE had come to expect.
After Lee’s death an argument arose over possession of his remains and the glorification of his memory. The Lee Memorial Association of Lexington and the Lee Monument Association of Richmond fought publically for support. Jubal Early headed the Richmonders and Lexington was led by William Pender, Lee’s former artillery chief. By 1872 Pendleton
and Early began to cooperate and over the next 20 years they carried out a carefully planned character assassination of former Lieutenant General James Longstreet. By using this tactic they focused first the South and then national interest on the Battle of Gettysburg creating the myth that it was the turning point of the War. Early had failed as a soldier but was to prove the pen mightier than the sword. Early had fled to Canada following the surrender fearing Federal retaliation after ordering the burning of Chambersburg, PA during a raid. Returning to the USA in 1869 he headed the Lee Monument Association and in 1870 became president of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia. 1872 he became vice-president of both the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION and the
Confederate Burial and Memorial Association. SO following Lee’s death he now wielded great power and influence. Whilst Lee was alive this hadn’t been possible as Lee only knew him as a former subordinate and ignored him to a great extent as he (Lee) considered him a very mediocre soldier. Now Early was able to claim a non-existent friendship and men who during the war had little reason to rgard Early as nothing but a failure started to respect his outspoken
opinions on the defence of the South during Reconstruction. When he attacked Longstreet in an 1872 speech on Jan.19 ’72 to commemorate the 2nd anniverary of Lee’s birthday claiming that on the night of July 1st, 1863 in a conference with Ewell, Rhodes and Early, Lee had stated he intended to
attack at dawn with Longstreet’s Corps. Had longstreet attacked at the hour Lee stipulated, Lee would have won the battle and the South gained independence. Longstreet ignored this rubbish and remained silent. The South was crying out for vindication and a scapegoat and the dye was cast. Longstreet could not now defend himself without besmirching Lee. Lee was now attaining Messiah status in the South and any assault on his memory would be suicidal.
From this time on the SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION waged an unrelenting campaign to deify the South. In 1889 another former hero John B. Gordon took control of the ASSOCIATION and for 14 years wielded a power that was only second to that which Early had achieved. Gordon had founded the UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS ( UCV ) and by 1898 there were 1,084 chapters each named after a Confederate hero. At its apex in 1903 it had over 80,000 members, one third of all living Southern veterans and in conjunction with its sister organization, the UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE
CONFEDERACY published the CONFEDERATE VETERAN which printed the “’correct ‘ view of the history of the War for future generations. This view centred around Robert E. Lee. The SOUTHERN HISTORICAL PAPERS continued to be published until 1914 and followed the same vein of Southern Glory and Legend.
In 1918 the release of the movie BIRTH OF A NATION probably achieved more to aid the MYTH than even Jubal Early or John Gordon and over the intervening years the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE has assumed reality and is accepted as factnowadays.
The fact that the MYTH of the LOST CAUSE found its basis in Jubal Early’s ego which was to build him into something he wasn’t, A GOOD SOLDIER. Does not deter from the fact that he hit a nerve and used the pen to achieve success beyond his excessive imagination . As more and more organizations were formed in the South to extol the memory of the Confederacy the MYTH became fact and is now accepted. This is not to say that there is not a lot of truth in it, there is and the fact that it is more a matter of embellishment than fiction only serves to increase the belief.
I have , deliberately I might say, not mentioned the emergence of the KKK in this story as that organization does not belong on this page but have to accept that it played a significant part in the glorification of the MYTH and will leave it at that.
On a brighter note, I have studied military history for a lot of years and can honestly say that in dozens of books and hundreds of references concerning the Civil War I have read, never have I come across a criticism of the character of Robert E. Lee. To have spent so much of his life and death in the spotlight and to seemingly have been liked by all,friend and foe, is possibly the most remarkable character reference I can imagine. I like thousands of others ( I suppose) have a tendency to side with the South in my reading and narratives and for that I don’t apologise for I prefer the MYTH to the possibility that it was just another war. I have no axe to grind with the Northern participants but, basically, find that the prose written by Southern influence to be more ……………enjoyable ?
A rello of mine runs various building and construction accreditation courses in our town.
He says the same.
There are several two day seminars in Melbourne every year under the guise of “safety”.
He tells me they are late starts, followed by a couple hours of union tub-thumping and then long lunches which turn into long evenings and inevitably end up at tittie bars.
No-one puts a hand in their pocket.
sounds like an excellent opportunity for a muck raking journalist, but we know how that game works don’t we?
Want one of these in my back yard!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evmuD06nlT0
Kickass effort! Excellent distance shots with a handgun.
Uvalde PD were unavailable for comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQXOHsHkJV4
I have a bad feeling they will concoct process crime charges out of this. What a vindictive exercise in mean girl stupidity.
The great British heatwave.
“The measures to prevent the emergency actually created a sense of an emergency.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqB1lJ0B7fs
Woof!
What jurisdiction do the US Marshals have over residents of States who are not fugitives, missing children, protected witnesses, Federal prisoners to be transported or to protect some Federal judges and officials???
Seizing assets of criminal enterprises. Um, what is going on here?
If you join the Australian military now, after seeing how you are treated by the higher ups, you are a chump.
Amish farmer breaches Federal food standards, by slaughtering cattle in the exact same manner done by his fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, & so on.
..er.. and selling the meat – to people who first put it in writing that they fully understand they are buying meat that has not been federally inspected & has not been
contaminated..er.. treated.. with federally mandated substances.As said above in comments, Amish (i.e. Christian fundys) are criminalized. What’s the chances of all religions being treated equally regards slaughtering practices?
Yet another nail in the coffin of traitor Morrison.
A true patriot would’ve swung the axe with zero notice on the basis that they’d achieved nothing and justice delayed is justice denied.
What’s next, regulating people fishing and cooking their fish caught, whilst camping?
I still don’t get why US marshals were executing the warrants unless it was made from a court order…?
Also note that these 80 ‘investigators’ are ‘investigating’ five days per week, 48 weeks per year, while being well paid by us, the taxpayers. After six years, you would think they have all the ‘evidence’ by now. What, exactly, do are they doing? No really, what does their working day look like?
In some ways it reminds me of the Essendon supplements saga. It started off with a pathetic political message designed to draw attention away from the incompetent Gillard government. Remember the ‘blackest day in Australian sport’. What a crock. Nevertheless, their investigative lackeys (ASADA) conducted a dodgy, unjust prosecution just to appease their political masters.
Here we had political announcements by SloMo and Linda Reynalds about “brutal truths”, “clear-cut murder” and an apology to the Taliban by the ridiculous Chief of the Defence Force. Now their lackeys will conduct a dodgy, unjust prosecution of 19 men, who are more upstanding Australians than any of the hacks harassing them, just so the elite class of politicians and their ADF toadies are spared embarrassment.
Don’t worry if you missed Kens civil war series
They are doing a remake soon.
Much more modern footage.
If you catch my drift
At this stage, only if they prepare (eg, fillet) the fish and then sell it.
Recreational fishing may be among the last to go, considering the sheer number of voters who fish.
“Military brotherhood” will be redefined onscreen in a manner not anticipated by the original participants?
Gay marriage was put to the people for a nationwide vote.
A similar vote on whether to prosecute or drop the action against the nineteen men… would likely be the most resounding “get stuffed” to the government ever seen at a ballot box.
If only it could happen.
Concrete jungle breaks temperature record
Actual temperatures hit 2? lower than forecast, so they use airport recordings to support the narrative. Fucking liars.
The farmer had been told by a court to stop his slaughtering & farm sales of uninspected/untreated meat.
He continued. This will his major crime.
Giving a middle finger to a court is about 9 million times more serious than ignoring food standards.
Their Honours will be red-faced with rage at being ignored by a semi-literate peasant.
I’m on the Amish farmer’s side, & would be pleased to see him continue his business.
So that’s 480 working years…
Another way of looking at it would be to put together the careers of 15 detectives who made detective at 25 and retired at 57. If they all over the course of their careers, could not even get a single arrest warrant or probable cause to place someone under arrest during an interrogation, it would be very alarming.
It would be so improbable, that it would be impossible.
I think the methodology of the RBA dickhead quoted, is thus: “People can use savings and cash reserves to make up payments when interest rates exceed their income – so no problem”
Oops, link at The Australian.
Jupes, I got thinking about that the other day in another context.
The setting up of ASADA with it’s extraordinary coercive powers to extract statements from people with threats of financial and reputational ruin hanging over them is corruption in and of itself. Because it quickly became obvious what needed to be in those statements to escape the wrath of ASADA.
And for what?
To stamp out performance enhancing drugs and match fixing?
Really?
Undesirable activities, to be sure, but do they warrant greater powers than fighting terrorists or organised crime?
But these extraordinary coercive powers in the hands of bureacrats were the pre-cursors to broader powers being exercised by CHOs.
…..
Incidentally, interesting to see that Karma finally caught up with a key player in the ASADA saga, Fat Andy Demetriou (then aspiring Labor candidate and uber-spiv).
Jupes, re ASADA.
We were assured at the time by Caro Wilson (and others “in the know”) that the samples taken from those players had been shipped to Germany for testing in the most advanced sports labs in the world.
With advances in testing we would know within 2-3 yeara what dastardly concoctions they had taken.
Nearly ten years on and … nothing.
VB, Carlton Draught, Sambucca, etc.
When a Name Gives You Pause: Racialized Names and Time to Adoption in a County Dog Shelter
We find that dogs with White names are preferred relative to dogs with nonwhite names, presumably as a product of implicit racialized penalties and premiums. When a potential adopter observes that a dog has a consensually White-sounding name (e.g., Ben), their feelings toward that dog may be decidedly warmer than when they encounter a dog with a name that is less consistently perceived as White. These microlevel interactions may compound over time and across adopters, thus leading to the results we see here, such that dogs with consensually White-sounding names are adopted faster than other dogs. We further find that the effects of racialized names are concentrated among pit bulls—a breed that, according to prior research, is especially prone to racial fears. Among pit bulls, White-sounding names appear to assuage these racialized concerns, whereas Black- and (to a lesser extent) Hispanic-sounding names may stoke these biases. In addition, we find that dogs with consensually nonhuman names (e.g., Walrus) have relatively long times to adoption, perhaps because adopters feel less empathy toward dogs who do not have traditional human names.
The AFL’s preferred leaker.
That was a key problem with that whole thing.
Fat Andy inserted an AFL operative in the ASADA hearings (without any legislated right to do so).
Said operative promptly leaked slanted and selective stuff to Caro, who cited “sources close to” and went to print.
And the subjects of the leaks faced jail or monster fines if they corrected the record.
I seem to remember some at Sunc Cat dismissing it with a “Who cares? It’s just sport”.
Those very same people now bemoan the loss of freedoms.
First they came for the footballers, eh?
I talked the next generation of the clan out of enlisting.
The science is settled.
Biggles makes Liberacé look like Clint Eastwood.
Gay as.
Just in case anyone was wondering which way the authorities will go if you’re a “genuine” collector of historical artifacts & memorabilia.
Reading the wrong Commando comic on the train will be a crime. (unless you glue plain paper over the cover.)
Well, that’s at least two of Sancho’s first edition Biggles volumes confiscated by the Vikstasi.
The loss of those cherished tomes will be overshadowed by the $11,000 fine and the prison time.
As a thought-prisoner, Sancho can expect a particularly rough time in the Danistan Hoosegow.
A young couple in Perth, many years ago – an elderly relative moved in with them, and when he passed away, he left behind a trunk full of uniforms and memorabilia, relating to his service with the Foreign Legion, in Indochina?
Err, not quite correct.
Not even close.
The law deals with “deliberate public displays of the Nazi symbol”.
Not private collectibles.
From The Age …
Read carefully before panicking.
Nothing to worry about then. * phew *
You can trust the government.
Two things:-
.1 If the whole East Coast gas market is dependent upon the Iona storage reservoir, that is a worry;
.2 If Iona is running on empty in mid July, that is even more worrying.
…
Two more things:-
.1 Pumping into and out of storage reservoirs isn’t terribly efficient.
.2 Having a gas reservoir surrounded by untapped and unexplored onshore gas fields isn’t terribly clever.
No it’s not. I care about global history and Australia’s history, and I find a display of Nazi memorabilia merely weird. And I’d like the names and addresses of anyone buying them, to find out why. They might have good reasons. Or they might be neo-Nazi whackos. In which case I’d like pictures of them, please.
Just banning the things is stupid.
Roger et al:
The Civil War series is available at the Internet Archives site.
American voters know that Hunter Biden was involved in some shady business deals and they believe Joe Biden benefited from these deals. A survey coming out this morning at 11 am from Rasmussen Reports confirms America’s perceptions of the Bidens.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gazprom-declares-force-majeure-will-halt-gas-flows-germany-indefinitely?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=790
It seems the Europeans are in a bit of strife.
Joe Biden has the worst economy in decades. According to Mark Levin at FOX News, Biden’s actions to destroy the economy are from the Marxist playbook.
The Biden Economy is a total disaster. Last week inflation was reported at the highest level in more than 40 years and many believe it is actually higher.
John Spooner.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Steve Bright.
Michael Ramirez.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis.
Chip Bok.
Gary Varvel.
Lisa Benson.
Thanks Tom.
“Iran has the world’s second-largest gas reserves after Russia, but U.S. sanctions have prevented access to extraction technology and slowed development of gas exports”
Oh dear all our hard work saving the planet might be for nought.
.Gazprom, Iran Sign Tentative Energy Deal Worth $40 Billion
Winter is coming.
ICYMI – Russia’s Gazprom has told customers in Europe it cannot guarantee gas supplies
Climate emergency put on hold in Europe.
Australia; it’s up to you now.
What did Scholz say?
In the video message, the chancellor expressed regret that Germany is set to fire up 16 dormant fossil fuel power plants and extend the operating permission for 11 more.
Temporary for how long?
Til they can build a billion windmills?
France builds all her new nukes?
and how does it work if your heating and hot water is natural gas, do you build a fire in the middle of the lounge? According to this 2020 climate emergency doomsday site 40 million German homes use gas.
good point
It really is that bad.
At the weekend, heat will build in England again, with highs of 26? predicted in London and East Anglia on Saturday (23 July) and 27? across East Anglia on Sunday.
Median rents in Manhattan (excluding rent controlled places) has hit $US1k per week (or 4k per month as they quote it).
Apparently this is the first time it’s hit that mark.
From memory I think George Costanza was paying or looking to get an apartment for 800/m in the mid, later 90’s.
I would be curious too but if some Karen got hold of the names the condemnation will be indiscriminate.
I’m more interested in testimonials from the people that committed the atrocities and how they were gradually nudged into doing so.
Ted Nugent is 73 and is part way through a tour where he’s playing 33 gigs in just under 2 months across the US.
How many 73 year olds do you know that go out every second night let alone traveling every second day & putting on a gig.
No drinking, no smoking, no drugs is the secret to a long productive life.
Nugent was a “COVID skeptic”.
The howling & preemptive grave dancing was sickening when when he got COVID.
Considering his current tour it would show that he’s bounced back post COVID better than most.
I’d rather be dead.
Same.
AOC pretending to be hand cuffed when she was arrested today was some next level larping.
Most AOC thing EVER! LOL! AOC’s official account tweeting about her stunning and BRAVE ‘arrest’ does NOT go well, like at all
Sanctions are starting to bite.
The EU on the arse.
AOC arrest reminds me of when Killary came under fire in Bosnia.
This rewriting history in real time will not wash.
Lia Thomas?
I’d forgotten about that bloke.
Shows we’re dumber than Germans.
They mothball them, we blow them up.
At least they have some to restart.
Test
Genuine question, is there any issue on which the Victorian Liberals oppose and differentiate themselves from Victorian Labor? I know that the Liberals supported the Andrews’ government on abortion, conversion laws and lockdowns, I even suspect that if the Andrews’ government tomorrow outlawed opposition parties, Groundhog Guy and the Liberals would agree with it.
By the way, last night on Sky, I think it was Credlin, it was mentioned that Victorian state Liberal MP, James Newbury, prior to the this latest suicide note from the state Liberals, had lunch with the sinister Svengali Simon aka the sinister Simon Holmes a Court. Is Svengali Simon now running the Victorian Liberal’s energy policy? Have the Victorian Liberals learnt anything from May’s federal election? As I’ve written before, Groundhog Guy is a tinpot, thin lipped nasty mediocrity who is leading the Victorian Liberals to another four more years of opposition. Actually, make that an eternity of opposition.
They will reap what they sow.
The ‘Tiser:
Another little girl that never stood a chance.
Malnourished and stick thin, finally dying in a stinking Adelaide houso flat in which she lived with her mother and five other kids. The father (of that particular girl) is in jail after repeatedly stabbing mummy 18 months ago, in that flat and in front of those kids.
The ‘residence’ was so cluttered and full of shit that the paramedics had to drag some of it to the front door and throw it outside so they could work on her. Four separate ‘support’ agencies had over 500 notations that the family was fucked, and were apparently gripped by paralysis and/or a belief that the other agencies were doing something.
The overwhelming odour, according to reports, in that place was of cat piss. It was also strewn with cat shit.
I will take a wild leap here, and suggest that the mother was drug-fucked because that’s the excuse they generally come up with later. Criminal neglect is now apparently in play.
Of course the agencies concerned are at fault. If you want to be a hand-patter, be prepared to do something about it if you actually joined those organisations because you care about people. If you just want to wave your occupational virtue around at social gatherings, fuck off and do something else.
The mother, though. That woman – whoever she is, because she is conveniently unnamed at present – has deliberately made a series of choices over quite some years that put her own children – regardless of who they were fathered by – her own children in positions where their lives were hanging by threads.
This particular thread, named Charlie, snapped. Every time this happens there is the usual circular firing squad among hand-patter agencies, and commentary similar to ‘slipped through the cracks’ and ‘safety net’ appears in the papers.
While all of that may be true, none of it is relevant because the blame for this must rest squarely at the feet of the person responsible for raising a healthy child in an environment as safe as possible, and who utterly – and deliberately – failed to do so.
There may be some discussion later about how terrible ‘addiction’ is, and how it creeps up raaaah rah rah not really their fault it’s society wah wah rah.
It really is this simple:
If you would rather get on the crystal pistol than feed and raise your child, your skin deserves to hang on display over the nearest Off Ya Tree shop as a warning to others. The rest of you may be conveniently ripped apart by dogs.
It’s about time these were taken off the road.
Those that collect them are a blight on our society (and traffic).
Guy and the Liberals are hoping to slide into power on Andrew’s unpopularity.
It’s as if they have chosen to not differentiate themselves from Labor but their appeal to voters is as a new team.
Just different faces.(It is Victoria.)
I visited Melbourne yesterday. The place is half dead and the roads were reminiscent of the early seventies, that quiet.
Even the seagulls have deserted the place.
Mask formation psychosis is abroad with M95 plague masks trending. It is a dismal climate of fear.
This is all fertile ground for a serious recession.
Not sure that they are ‘sowing’ anything, Cassie – that implies effort and purpose.
The only effort they seem to be interested in is internal manoevering for safe seats. Oh, and kicking out that dissident Bernie whatsisname, presumably because they imagine that his voters will automatically transfer to whichever favourite son/daughter/trannie that Head Office puts up.
There is no sign of purpose in the sense that a political party should have a purpose. Principles, schminciples, as some might say. Can anyone name a single principle relating to public policy that they adhere to?
They have been sitting in a target-rich environment while rolling over like King Charles Spaniels. Imagine what the original Jeff Kennet would have done? Let alone Henry Bolte. It would have been a bloodbath.
The World’s Most Liveable City (which I always thought was a crock) is crumbling before our eyes.
BTW.
Anyone who’s even done the most cursory reading about Soviet Russia would have similar feelings about the Hammer and Sickle, as that invoked by the Swastika.
Yet, we had a Labor Prime Minister running it up the flagpole of all Commonwealth buildings in this country, and we (even today) have that abomination rubbed in our faces on public streets.
I don’t support the ideology of the National Socialists anymore than the International Socialists, but do try to maintain some consistency whilst clutching the pearls.
For a refresher:
https://newcatallaxy.blog/2021/08/28/maters-musings-13-the-art-of-two-socialisms/
Yeah, KD, I commented on that yesterday – how there will be ‘learnings’ and so on, and nothing will change.
These sadly repetitive stories remind me of the pathology of the recent school shooting in the US. There were literally hundreds of law enforcement officers around the site, but no one would take charge and no one would take responsibility.
So the blame shifting and the myth of collective responsibility lives on to claim the next victim(s).
“A regional NSW collectables store selling Nazi memorabilia has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and ignited calls for a nationally consistent approach to outlawing the public display and sale of Nazi symbols as fears grow about the rise of white supremacism.”
Firstly, there’s that tedious canard “white supremacism“….if you didn’t laugh you’d cry. That’s just code for “the right”.
Secondly, Vic Alhadeff is someone who I and many others in the Jewish community have zero respect for and he does not speak for all Jews.
Thirdly, the growth of Jew hatred in this country isn’t coming from the far-right, it is coming from the far-left, the not so far-left and their buddies, but just remember, as that creature who frequents this site likes to so delicately and quaintly put it, those people have “legitimate grievances”.
Fourthly, if we’re going to outlaw the public display and sale of Nazi symbols, then we need to also outlaw the public display and sale of Communist and Socialist symbols such as the hammer and the sickle.
Finally, there’s going to be a big conundrum here, one of the favourite tools of the far-left and their religion of pieces buddies, whenever there’s a anti-Israel demonstration (protests that many Labor and Greens politicians like to attend), is to hold up placards and pictures of the Swastika superimposed over the Star of David…..a comparison which is utterly obscene and designed to deliberately insult and denigrate Jews and the state of Israel. I’ve never heard one Green complain about this. So I ask, next time this happens will the police move in and charge these people? Now why do I doubt it? I’ll tell you why, because charges will only ensue depending on WHO is holding the “hate symbol”.
Anyone in Brisbane this week might want to go see the docos that Peter Ridd and Jennifer Marohasy have put together. Sunday at 2pm. The details are at WUWT, I can’t link them as I’m getting internal service errored.
Trying a link:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/18/film-premiere-a-coral-bleaching-tragedy-in-brisbane-this-sunday/
I’m trying to recall seeing Nazi flags for sale at Campbells Stores – and believe me, I’m sensitised to this sh*t. It must have been a very small display, in conjunction with other war memorabilia from various lands.
It’s one of those “full of stuff” shops, from silver forks and buttons to spools of old lace and doilies.
Morpeth has morphed from a sleepy little riverside town into a rural “suburb” full of human warehouses. Shops range from cafés and pubs to dress shops selling linen lagenlook for larger trendy arty females. Campbells and the bakery are worth a look because they’re old originals.
Oh and the outlawing/banning and criminalising of this stuff just sends it underground.
And we all know the next thing on the list, the outlawing/banning and criminalising of speech.
BTW, the Weimar Republic had strong laws against “hate speech”. Fat of lot of good that did.
Continually making bad life decisions doesn’t make a victim, it makes a fool of immeasurable proportion. Today claimed victimhood is worn as a badge of honour. These people have never grown up and will be coddled forever. I cannot contemplate nor imagine not being responsible for my actions little holding others to blame for my self-induced incompetence. But here we are with a disease of the psyche.
I think a Greens placard with the swastika on it would drive the scum nuts, but after all isn’t that where the green movement came from?
This happened last month, not last year. According to the article, they were let in by Adam Schiff.
Trump Responds To Charges Against Colbert Staffers Being Dropped – “Were Treated So Differently”
I bet they didn’t spend a single night in prison, while the tourists from January last year are still locked up with access to any legal process.
Without access
Ron DeSantis: Parents Aren’t Buying the Biden Administration’s Push for Child Vaccines
No!
Gallup: Americans’ Confidence in News Media Drops to Low Point
Your pain is not in vain.
Buttigieg: ‘The More Pain’ You Feel at the Gas Pump, the Higher the Benefit of an EV
Like everything else, this is being done to us deliberately.
Biden Poised To Declare Climate Emergency To Ram Through Green Agenda: REPORT
Let the vicious infighting begin!
Ownership of Sydney Harbour’s historic Goat Island is about to be handed to the “wrong” Aboriginal people, many of whom come from western NSW and have no cultural connection to the area, descendants of the harbour’s original inhabitants say.
It would be culturally offensive for Goat Island, or Me-Mel, to be awarded to the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council “because it is controlled by foreigners”, said Ash Walker, a member of the La Perouse Aboriginal community.
“There’s a large population of people who are descended from the traditional owners of coastal Sydney who are the rightful owners of Goat Island,” he said.
Oz – and so on for many many paragraphs
The possible implications are terrifying.
Small explosion at the Hoover Dam in Nevada
Shows how she thinks it works. The Supreme Court is there to ensure the constitution is adhered to – not to proclaim that it says things which it does not.
There is simply no right to an abortion in the Constitution.
But AOC thinks if she shouts loud enough, and if enough progressives intimidate Supreme Court justices, then she can get her way. The Constitution is an impediment to her agenda.
Many leftists think that way.
Cassie, I reckon about the only real difference between the Vic libs and labor is the complete lack of a spine. Same policies with different faces, but labor make pronouncements and have a like it or lump it attitude.
Liberals? Oh no! Someone who’d never vote for us was critical, we’d better bend over backwards to accommodate them!
Unless it’s one of their own showing some principles of course.
This has already been largely covered. They knew what they were doing.
FOIA reveals Pfizer & Medicine Regulators hid dangers of COVID Vaccination during Pregnancy after Study found it increases risk of Birth Defects & Infertility
More and more such things are coming to light but, as far as I can see, not only is nothing being done about it but it’s not even getting any widespread coverage.
Hypocrite Harry’s clueless speech reveals he really is the wokest link
Never fear, the private jet loving Prince Harry is here to tell us about climate change and abortion while revealing a few things about a certain elite mindset along the way, writes James Morrow.
James Morrow
Prince Harry says “our world is on fire” in an address at the United Nations in New York for Nelson Mandela Day. “As we sit here today, our world is on fire, again,…
You have to hand it to old mate Harry, Duke of Sussex.
Not everyone can win the lottery of life that is being born a literal prince and parlay it into a gig as a sort of B-list celebrity wokester trolling for gushy headlines and his wife’s approval.
If you think this is a bit over the top, consider Prince Harry’s latest foray into the public debate.
Speaking at the United Nations (of course), Harry decided it was his place as an English royal to hop in to every lefty cause from climate change to abortion, referring to “the rolling back of constitutional rights right here in the United States” as being part of “a global assault on democracy and freedom.”
Obviously an Eton education is not what it used to be; barely two weeks ago Americans ate hot dogs and shot off fireworks from sea to shining sea in celebration of their right not to be tut-tutted to by English prats.
And as far as democracy is concerned, perhaps the Prince has been downloading too much content from the ABC.
The “constitutional right” to abortion he referred to was made up out of whole cloth by an activist Supreme Court in the 1970s and the only thing that’s changed is that rules governing the procedure are now a matter for America’s state legislatures.
Pretty much like it is in Australia but never mind.
Of course the Prince didn’t just have nasty Bible-bashing Republicans in his sights.
“Big oil companies” who were “wreaking havoc” on the planet also made Harry’s naughty list.
Again, curious for someone who has reportedly taken at least 20 private jet trips and lives in a nine-bedroom California mansion that cost well over $20 million.
“Right now, water is rising all around us, quite literally,” he said, perhaps quoting himself on the phone to the pool guy when the overflow drain clogged that one time.
About the only thing that was missing was a call for a global mask mandate (though you know there are probably some neurotic lunatics out there working on it).
Nominally the speech was given to commemorate the life of Nelson Mandela but Harry had much grander visions in mind than just honouring the man who basically ended apartheid.
The Prince demanded “daring transformative decisions to save humanity,” saying, “the right thing to do is up for debate.”
And what celebrity’s charge into politics would be complete without a word salad sounding like it was composed by Vice President Kamala Harris’s chef, er, speechwriter.
“Reject old ideas and past prejudices, [and] heal from the past and build resilience for the present and future,” he said.
“Legacy does not belong to the self, it belongs to those it impacts”.
Deep.
One really has to wonder what the end game for the Prince is here.
Some have speculated that this is all in service of setting up his American actor wife, Meghan Markle, up for – and this really is last days of Rome stuff – a tilt at some sort of elected office in Washington.
Readers would also be forgiven for thinking Harry was just trying to get a good audition tape together for a fill-in spot on The Project, now that Lisa Wilkinson appears to have been benched for the time being.
But while the speech was just a catalogue of trendy fluff, dig a bit and there is a lot to dissect here that tells us a lot about just how awful the attitudes of those believe they run the world really are.
That he pulled off this speech at that great respecter of human rights and women’s bodily autonomy, the United Nations, whose current human rights council includes such bastions of liberty as Cuba, Kazakhstan, and Iraq is telling.
After all the very thought of honouring Mandela at a joint that also thinks Havana should have a seat at the table to discuss human rights is about as off as, well, lecturing the world about carbon emissions when you use Gulfstreams like Ubers.
Hypocrisy may be the tribute that vice pays to virtue, as the old saying goes.
But listening to the Prince wrap Ukraine, climate change, and how America deals with abortion up with a pretty pink bow and lump them all together as global assault on freedom, you begin to think he means it.
Having been marinated for years now in the intellectual puddle of Hollywood thanks to the good offices his wife, and not – let’s be frank – being clever enough to read the room, he has given us all a window into the remake of George Orwell’s 1984 a certain sort of so-called “elite” has in mind for us.
Private jets fight climate change, democratic legislatures are anti-freedom, and shut up and don’t debate, because it’s not We the People but We the Harry’s know what’s best for you.
God help us all.
She was not arrested of course. She was escorted away from an area. You see as much at football games.
Her fans consider that it is still, essentially, indistinguishable from being arrested.
And she a member of Congress! (Who seems not to understand separation of powers.)
Lucky every one I have is a Sauwastika
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#:~:text=The%20term%20sauwastika%20is%20used,turned%20in%20the%20other%20direction.%22
I’ll go further: the 21st century left is the modern home of racist bigotry that begets violence. And, though it’s a mental illness, leftism is very popular, so it’s very easy to be a parrot for the latest fashionable bigotry.
I’m speaking from experience, especially on Jews. Despite its history of death, violence and genocide, anti-semitism has become an essential marker of your political fashionability. I thank God I escaped the tribe of hate that is leftism.
They’ll have to burn the illustrated 1st editions of the Just So Stories, then.
The ironing will be lost on them though.
From the article Top Ender linked to.
Good luck in sorting out any “Voice” to Parliament…
what the hell is a “custodian of the land”, classic woke hyperbole.
the woke must be relegated as nothing more than a foot of insanity in the history books
footnote
“daring transformative decisions to save humanity ”
From itself?
I’m getting a hint that he wants things like ICE cars, air travel for the great unwashed, gas heating just banned , forthwith.
Perhaps compulsory abortion is also in his mind of mix.
All hail Caesar Sparkle
‘Which Uses More Electricity…A Refrigerator When It’s Running Or Electric Car When It’s Charging?’
I like the way Matthew Guy styles himself Leader in his email.
His canned reply is from ‘office of the leader’
we love the leader
Cassie
There’s no such thing as the far right in the context you suggested. It’s just a form of leftism. Go the far right on the political spectrum and you end up with ultra libertarianism with people wanting no government.
It’s not a full circle, it’s a straight line.
Antisemitism, racism is all on the left. Show me an example of anyone on the so-called far right who doesn’t support more freedoms.
war is inevitable
Facing unprecedented economic difficulties, China Textile Industry Orders flow to Vietnam, India…
China Insights
China’s textile and apparel industry is not only highly labor-intensive but also heavily dependent on foreign countries. This industry is crucial to ensuring China’s foreign exchange reserves and solving employment problems in society.
The scale of China’s textile industry is the largest in the world, with annual fiber production alone accounting for more than 50% of global output; textile and apparel exports amount to US$316 billion, accounting for more than one-third of total global exports.
Now with a large number of orders moving out of China, the textile and apparel industry in China is experiencing unprecedented challenges in more than 20 years.
The Planned Gas Collapse; Panama Shutdown Signals Beginning of International Unrest | Crossroads
Eight and a half hours SYD-LAX (including a fuel stop en route): delivery from the tyranny of distance is at hand:
you end up with ultra libertarianism with people wanting no government.
I have a mighty erection.
From twitter & the LA Times, a lady called Ciara Walter (33) got herself sterilised (paywalled so I don’t know what doctors did) after the Dobbs decision was leaked.
Doctors operating on the mentally ill is so England one hundred years ago & so Germany eighty years ago.
This!
Yep!
…and I’ll show you a leftist!
Eaton will develop fuel distribution
We did a presentation to Eaton ground fuelling yesterday on our new test device.
This!
Yep.
…and I’ll show you a leftist.
We did a presentation to Eaton ground fuelling yesterday on our new test device.
Hopefully it started with a welcome to country.
And taking a knee.
AOC FAKES Being Handcuffed, Gets ARRESTED Protesting SCOTUS As Democrats Push Bill To Pack Court
Tim Pool
Jab………………………………
In April of this year, TrialSite reported that Taiwan’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) awarded a woman in Taiwan the largest non-death-related payout due to a COVID-19 vaccine related injury. The woman received $85,730 in compensation due to the suffering of a blood-clotting disorder caused by the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. Now, VICP has awarded $116,877 (NT$3.5m) to the family of a deceased woman from the city of Tainan—the death was linked to a COVID-19 vaccine. Specifically, this person based in Tainan died due to intracerebral hemorrhage after just one dose of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.
https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/healthy-womans-death-linked-to-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-taiwans-vicp-awards-116.8k-to-family-b8ea172c
I forgot to add that Boom Supersonic has done all of its market modelling based on business class-equivalent fares — i.e., SYD-LAX $15K return.
Tax them, tax them so hard.
Energy boom is smashing Australian house prices, food costs
As everyday Australians struggle to pay their bills and see their house prices drop, one type of company is riding record profits
I am not well read on the constitutional conventions but I have read parts primarily promoted by Michael Malice.
There’s no denying parts of the US constitution isn’t all that enlightened but that’s why they set a process in place for changing the thing.
But large parts of it show how smart they were with framing the thing.
Please understand.
All white people are to be suspected of being Nastis.
But they have nothing to do with the white people who defeated the Nastis.
Gonzalo Lira is holding regular Roundtables with different guests. Today’s is mainly on the situation in Europe plus the UK leadership contest.
Roundtable #2: Dubovikova, Kurten, Szamuely
Bah. I didn’t even get that.
God help me, but I’m giving serious through to voting Labor next state election. Before you all attack me with pitchforks let me explain.
Anyone with a brain can see the disaster coming home to roost of energy policies, amongst all the other rubbish Andrews has foisted on us. The Liberals are in no way equipped to even make an attempt to change that, even if they weren’t opting to do the same things but harder.
Therefor, I’m thinking it’s far better to make Labor wear the problems they’ve created, rather than letting them slip out from under and pin it on someone else.
Maybe, just maybe, if we go full accelerationist there might be enough pain for a change in course.
My gut says I’m too optimistic though, and Victoria will be more like a permanently failed state where Labor don’t care so long as they’re top of the heap.
TheirABC has lined up a bunch of the usual suspects to talk down the Betaloo Basin gas reserve:
So far, so good.
But, the rest of the article (which is many times longer than the introduction) is all about why this is a bad idea.
For example:
That ‘stranded asset’ thing again, like how coal would be dead by 2030. Wishful thinking where fact is completely the opposite.
A lot of it is about how governments (they hope) will ensure that gas projects can never make money, like:
There follows the usual list of grifters, superstitionists and virtue signallers.
Does anyone in TheirABC realise where the wealth that pays their well padded bills comes from?
Boom Supersonic might get to sell a few aircraft for the elites to travel in and the cost won’t matter because only the poor bloody taxpayers will be paying.
The new design is now aerodynamically quite different from their XB-1 demonstrator.
With the economic problems coming largely caused by green and woke ideologies I can’t see there being any mass air travel in 2029 anyway.
My prediction is that they will run out of money before flying the full scale prototype.
Coal is dead……………
Europe should burn more coal and oil for power generation now so that it can conserve gas in case Russia cuts off supplies this winter, the International Energy Agency has said.
Immediate action is needed to cut gas demand so that storage facilities can be filled to reduce the risk of rationing over winter months, Fatih Birol, the agency’s executive director, warned.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/758baaf6-06cc-11ed-a986-fc91b4ad48f0?mc_cid=1181b1174e&mc_eid=30fe4a4429
The poor man’s Ponds Institute.
bilateral salpingectomy with bonus free lobotomy.
Waiting for Nord Stream like a little kid on Christmas Day …
Let’s hope batteries are included.
A good read, no paywall.
Does that seem somehow persuasive to you? If so, you might consider looking at the most recent report of the global satellite temperatures from UAH, which shows that the overall temperature anomaly for the most recent month (June) was +0.06 deg C, barely above the 1991-2020 average, and significantly down from a most recent peak of +0.7 deg C back in 2016. If we are having unusually hot weather in Texas and California, yet the overall world temperature is just about average, then clearly it must be well below average somewhere else. And sure enough it is. From Roy Spencer at UAH:
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-7-17-when-will-they-figure-out-that-reducing-us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-is-pointless?mc_cid=1181b1174e&mc_eid=30fe
‘Tyrant Trudeau’: Rogan urges Canadians to dump their PM
Just like renewables then.
Top Ender any chance posting this OZ article by James Kirby
So exactly how much super did you say I needed?
Universal calculations for how much is required to retire are misleading – how you steer between the government pension and self supporting super may be much more important.
I think it is probably a reaction to the AFR Article that I posted here yesterday
As youngest daughter is back at work and kids at school – have to go downstairs and babysit 15 Month Neurotic Female Beagle. who does not want to be outside in Cold and Rain, and disgraced herself by eating small hole in lounge (as daughter said 11 years old and will in the end get rid of that lounge – other OK) – so will protect rest of room – Take turns with Wife, Dog Sitting
10 Year Old wants to get a Snake – we have said “No way Jose” – I am happy playing with Funnel Webs but Snakes freak me out
Speaking of Cold Daughter in Melbourne sent photo showing Malvern 0.9C feels like -2,8C – today Min 1C Max 14C
Whilst Son is on Grand European Tour with Eldest Grandson and Eldest GrandDaughter and could not have picked better weather
How to Transition a Rooster to a Hen!
AwakenWithJP
Come to my neck of the woods.
Meanwhile, English climate scientist interviewed by ABC:
“The fingerprints of global warming are all over this extreme weather.”
Well…he would say that, wouldn’t he?
Australia has one of the longest coastlines in the world, yet the price of seafood is astronomical and the quality often dubious as a result.
More “marine parks” will make seafood only affordable to the elites, which no doubt is the game plan.
the federal gov is too busy sucking little chinese dicks
With hunting and fishing rights exclusively for the indigenous.
Happy with that…as long as it’s limited to traditional weapons.
No nylon fishing line, rifles, or anything else made of metal.
given most city property barely ekes out 2-3%, which is 20-30k/million. its not hard to work out that a million in retirement is a recipe for retirement poverty and an enforced spend down plan.
What traditional tucker they hunt for?
Deer, goat, water buffalo, pig, camel, horse, that kind of thing?
What no tinnies with outboards? No fish finders with sat nav? no 30 caliber rifles?
No nylon nets with styrofoam floats and lead sinkers?
Why do I identify as Aboriginal if I cant use them?
Hypocrisy of African Americans
CANCEL CULTURE COMES TO ANCIENT EGYPT
Angel Blue is an African-American opera singer, who I assume is very good. She made news a few days ago when she walked out on a production of La Traviata being staged by the Verona Theater because–not in her opera, but in a different production at the same theater, Aida–a Russian singer was slated to play the title role in “blackface” makeup. The Telegraph reports:
Well. Aida is one of the world’s popular operas. It is set in ancient Egypt, and the title character is an Ethiopian princess. Her racial heritage, as of 5,000 years ago, is unclear. I believe that Ethiopians today are largely semitic, but 5,000 years ago, who knows? The tradition has been to portray Aida in some kind of makeup. This is how the Russian singer who will play the part in Verona looks, assuming she is not canceled:
And how about this: Angel Blue wasn’t contracted to perform in Aida, she had the prized role of Violetta in La Traviata. But wait! Is Violetta black? No! She is a courtesan in 19th century French society. Violetta is French and, as best I can tell, white. So it is fine for a black soprano to play a white Frenchwoman, but horrifically exploitative for a white actress to play an ancient Ethiopian princess?
Sorry, but this makes no sense.
Think of it as a workplace demarcation dispute.
Based on what? Have any of the pressitutes asked them? What is magical about 30%? More importantly, at what election did they ask voters to potentially lose 30% of GDP?
I well remember the consequences of Carr in NSW and his photo ops where more and more of the State was declared parkland or nature reserve. Undergrowth just waiting for a spark, wild pigs rampant, feral cats and dogs, yada yada.
They don’t have a clue about ‘the environment.’
Just as its fingerprints are all over this extremely cold winter in Sydney.
There will never be enough pretentious dishonest pseudo-intellectual knobheads on this planet for the ALPBC.